The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-02

Hepworth-Its Effect upon Untta.
| rIanism.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
New YoRK, December 80.
The Presidents organ In this city has
opened Its guns on Senator schurz. Nothing
could so clearly mark the wide divergence
of the Administration and the Reformed Re.
publIcans than the acrimony which charac
terized the Times article. 1t showed that the
President has no longer any expectation that
the breach In the Republican ranks can be
healed, and that he is prepared henceforth to
treat schurz and his companions in the Senate
as enemies. How the senator can persist In
regarding himself as inside the party, when
he has been deliberately put out oy Its legiti-
| mate authorities, remains to be seen. he
certainly has nothing now In common with
the Republican party Of which Grant Is the
chief, and very little in difference with the
Democratic party.
The insults which the Presidents organ in
New York heaps upon the great leader OF the
Western Germans are In effect. that he is
mere adventurer, person OF neither capacity
nor honesty, failure as general In the war,
failure in diplomacy ana statesmanship, a
wordy. windy declaimer. and fraud" gene
rally He is accused of having been an uncon-
scionable seeker Of government patronage, ,and
an enemy OF civil service reform, until the
President removed his brother.in.law from the
collectorship of Chicago. To all of this the
senator will doubtless reply In the Senate, as
soon as the recess Is over; and so the war Will
go on.
A curious letter, written by Mr.. Greeley,
relative to the next Presidency, has Just
seen the light. The writer republtshes il in
his own paper with the intimatlon that 1t was
intended to be private, but since'the recipient
has given it to the public. there Is no reason
to exclude it from the columns okthe Tribune.
The letter cannot fail to eXasperate the ad-
miuistratlonlsts still further with Mr.. Greeley,
for he uneQuivocaliy expresses the opinion
that If the Democrats will nominate Gratz
Brown, Trumbull or eX-Secretary Cox tor the
Presidency against Grant, they can elect
either, and that it would be better for the
country If they should succeed. He says that
he believes the Democrats could have sue
ceeded with Chief Justice Chase In 1868, and
that as the result, ''genulne peace and thrift
would have been promoted" This giving Of
the opponents of the Republican party, GER
tainly looks like high treason, and logically
should subject the offender to expulsion.
Where will the Tribune stand after Grant is
nominated by the National Convention
"Pity the sorrows OF o poor old man.
Tweeds condition Is indeed pitiabIe. His
bonds were made right again yesterday, and
present at the sherIf's office IN the morning,
but refused to 60 into the room where Ter
ence Farley, the treacherous friend and re.
creant bondsnan. was waiting to get his re-
lease from the security. After the business
had been transacted, the fallen dictator walk
Just to show the world that he was out. he
had none of the old jaunty air; the relentless
war of the State authorities, under the lead OF
Charles O'Conor, the loss OF position. power
aud wealth, the disgrace Of arrest, and the me-
cessity of skulking from the officers of the
law, and, worse than all, The treachery of old
friends, and the ingratitude OF men whom ne
has picked out OF the gutter to make rich,
combined to break down his spirits and lower
his mien. He was grave, though az Quiet and
polite as ever.
His fate seems to be assured. The State
Senate will expel him. though ne Will DOUBT
less attempt to save himself by sounding the
purchasable senators with money. ANY Re-
publican senator who wants to play the role
of Winaus Ia the last Assembly can get hftv
thousand dollars for the service. Outside OF
the Senate, Tweed will be repeatedly indicted
and arrested, and, If he escapes conviction on
one trial, he must run the risk OF 1t on O new
charge, and thus the persecution Will be con-
tinued until he will fairly crave to go to Sling
chances of escape from the country now ap-
pear to be futile, for. In additloa to the re-
straint of his bonds, he Is watched by hun
dred pairs Of sharp eyes.
On all sides the props to the Ring are falling.
Tweed has Just resigned his position at The
head Of the department of public works, and
his dictatorship In the Erie Railroad. 4 COM
have requested him to retire from the office
of grand sachem, and last night the Tammany
general committee passed resolutions repudl.
ating him. His late associates are involved
In the general ruin. Connolly is In jail; Mayor
Hall Is 10 be indicted and arrested as soon as
the new acknowledgement OF the State assumes
office; Gould and Jim Fisk are in fresh
trouble, and warrants are out for their arrest.
The Legislature will destroy their connection
with the Erie Railroad, and bring them to
Justice Ingersoll, Garvey. and Sweeneys
brother, James, have fed from the country.
Tom Fields Is awaiting trial. Even the banks
and savings institutions In which the Ring
members were directors have died from the
blight.
over the apostacy of Rev. George H. Hep
worth, from Unitarianism. Mr.. Hepworth
was regarded as shining light In a denomi-
nauon which has always been able to boast OF
many brilliant preachers. He was exceeding
ly popular in Boston, and great was the
WOuEuluS
cali from the church of the Messiah in this city.
He was quite the rage when he first came
here. People talked of going to hear Hep.
worth with as much interest as they talk Of
going to hear Beecher.
The society to which he was called to minis
ter is unfortunate, Its former pastor, Rev;
DR.. Osgood, abandoned Unitarlanism and
went over to Episcopacy. Like Mr.. Hunting
ton, who also became an Eplscopalian, DR..
Brownson, who went further still and became
Roman Catholic, Mr.. Hepworth seems to
have arrived at the conclusion that there Is
not Christianity enough In 1.-THE Broad
Church." as DR.. Bellows calls It,. to save its
adherents from the fire. In his sermon to his
congregation on Christmas day, Mr.. Hep:
worth described the mental sufferings he had
undergone, and confessed that his mind had
reached change. He professed bis willing
ness to sever his connection with them rather
than give up his ''bellef In the divine eharac-
ter and mission of Christ" One Of the sec
ular journals commenting on Mr.: Hepworth's
course, sees In it another proof of the dlsinte-
Grafton ooinp on in the church founded with