Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-05-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1872.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL CIVIL SERVICE
REPORT.

The executive order published yester-
day authorizing notifications to the rule:
heretofore announced, and stating that
fidelity and diligence will be required Of
officers in every branch of the civil SER
vice, forbidding political assessments
etc, appears to be well received by the
general public. The President accord:
the right Of the elective franchise and Tho
privilege of participating in politics by
all persons in or out of Office, and de-
clares that honesty and efficiency, not po
litical acting, will determine the tenure
of office. No one can find fault with thi'
announcement of the position which The
executive has held since his Inauguration
whatever rival interests may say to the
contrary.
The Regulations appended to the order
make some important changes in the
original rules Of the Commission. Among
these are placed first among the require
ments of candidqcy to appointment proof
of fidelity to the Union and the Constitu-
| ton second, character. These condi-
tions precedent to designations for ap.
pointment have been especially and freely
advocated in this correspondence. The
regulations show that the Commission
have, in theirreconsideration of the sub
ject, looked at the requirements Of our
own country rather than those Of mon
arches in Europe.
On the whole, it is perhaps as good a
system for making Improvements in the
management Of appointments to subor-
dinate officers as we have right to ex-
pect. Many of the palpable evils Of the
former report have been SO modified that
there will be comparatively little opposi-
ton to the execution of the reform under
the new regulations by those who earn
estly believe in reforming the service at
all. AT least n trial will doubtless be
made, and, as in every reformation of
past customs, such difficulties as present
themselves will either be surmounted by
the new regulations or by new modifica-
tiOns of them. There is no doubt Of the
earnest desire Of the Commission and of
| the President to meet all reasonable de-
mands for improving our present system,
and if it does not work to perfection, the
will must be taken for the deed, and
clamor on this subject must end until the
test Of experience shall decide upon the
efficiency of the new regulations by show
ing the fruits of their applications.
THE LOOMS AERIAL TELEGRAPH.
Some of the friends of science here are
expressing anxiety to see that the pro-
posed corporation for experimenting in
aerial telegraphy be favorably reported
by the Committee having the bill in
charge, and passed by Congress. 1t will
cost the Government nothing and if it is
opposed by other telegraphic interests,
that is the best reason why it should re-
ceive legislative support. Few pretend
to know anything of the merits of tcle
graphing without wire or cable, but
whether it can be accomplished or not,
the fact that learned scientists have laid
down general principles showing it to be
possible at least, makes it the true inter-
est OF progress that it should not be al
lowed to drag through two sessions of
Congress without being even reported.
| If unsuccessful, it costs nothing to any
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successful, it is the grandest triumph OF
science over time and space that the
world has yet discovered. Let it have a
chance to work out the faith of its author,
DR.. Mahlon Loomis, and his disciples in
electrical science. Will the Committee
rise and explain.
ANOTHER LUCRETIA DORGIA.
The Leesburg, Va, murder case bids
fair to outdo in horrible detail the cele-
brated Wharton trial. From the state
ment made by Mrs. Lloyd, the alleged
murderess, her servants and others, it APP
pears that she is charged with the terri
bic crimes of poisoning her husband, an
aged aunt, and four beautiful children by
administering arsenic, on which charge
she has been lodged in Jail to await the
action of the Grand Jury. The verdict
of the jury was based upon the circum-
stances of the sudden manner in which
all the deceased were carried off, that a
druggist had sold her arsenic previous to
the death of several and that in the stom
ach Of the last daughter, Prof. Young, Of
Baltimore, found grain and half OF
arsenic.
THE MORSE MEMORIAL.
The memorial services held in the Hal
of the House of Representatives on Tues
day evening last, in honor of the grea
inventor of the Telegraph, was able ant
appropriate and the kindly words which
continued to arrive during the service,
from all parts of the world by telegraph
received and written out from the Speak.
er's desk, was an interesting feature of the
great occasion. At Or. NJ. an answer tC
a message sent to London, England, wa
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