The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-19

what public rumor Is rght.n Bad as some members
Of congress may be, this was hardly deserved,
coming as 1t did from person VINO hung around
the lobby the greater part Of last session, button
holing and smiling on members to try and induce
them to vote for yearly haul Of nearly half mil
lion as a subsidy for his Brazilian line of steam
ships, and it is said that he even approached some
members and offered to aid them In their elections
with money, but justiying it at the same time by
saying that OF course he knew they would not be
Influenced by pecuniary considerations. How
much his failure to secure this large subsidy for
ten years influenced his opinion it Is hard to tell
Caldwell, of Kansas, Admits Paying
Carney $4,000.
The revelations OF Governor Carney to-day be-
fore the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons confirm the rumor that Caldwell paid him
$4,000 to withdraw from the Senatorial contest.
al admit it," says Caldwell; 'but what Senator
mas not seen that rival candidates who withdrew at
the proper time had foreign missions cOnsulatcs
or Indian agencies. Let the senator who has no
glass in his own electoral house throw the first
stone.n
The SANTANA Bay Speculation.
Secretary Fish remarked to-day, with regard to
the acquisition OF SANTANA Ba. an American coui-
Pany :-'Tt is merely a private speculation. The
government has not been advised consulted in
the transaction, and has nothing to do with it, The
first news received OF the contamination OF the
purchase was through the newspapers" When
asked whether he knew Of any scheme on the part
of the company to sell SANTANA Bay to the govern
ment Mr.. Fish replied know OF such
scheme"
Passage in the House OF the Iowa Lands
Bill.
Alter che discussion of some trining matters the
House this morning took up and passed the
Iowa Lands bill, by "a yeas to 70 nays. 1t
provides that the title to the lands in the State OF
Iowa heretofore approved and testified by the De-
partment of the Interior for railroad purposes, to
aid in the construction of railroad from the city
OF Davenport via Iowa City to Council Bluffs, under
the grants made by Congress according to the ad-
justments thereof made at the General Land ONCE,
shall be confirmed to the Mississippi and
Missouri Railroad Company, and the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad Company; and their
assigns, the corporations to whom the lands were
certified This act is to be construed as conveying
only any reversionary or other interest which the
United States may have in the lands, and all lands
settled upon in good faith and now occupied by
homesteads or presumption settlers are to be cx-
cluded from its operations.
Agitating the Goat Island Job.
A special meeting OF the Senate Committee on
Leland Stanford, President of the Central Pacific
Railroad, presented arguments of the corporation
in support of the bill, which proposes to relin-
qush part OF Goat Island, in San Francisco har-
Dor, to the company for railroad purposes Hon.
b. C. McRuer, of San Francisco made an argument
in reply opposing the bill Senators Casserly and
Cole and Representative Sargent, of California,
and Senator stewart, of Nevada, were also pres
ent and took part in the general informal discus
sion of the question. The committee took no &C.
ton, this meeting being merely preliminary to a
fuller examination of the subject.
The Discovery OF the Bones OF the ApOs-
ties st. Philip and st. James-Whnt
Does 1t Meant
The attention of an eminent Catholic prelate,
who is In Washington, and who is well ac-
quanted with Rome, was yesterday called to the
telegram from Rome to the effect that the Pope
told some visitors that he. believed the bodies
Of the Apostles Philip and James were discovered
on Wednesday in the Church of the Apostles. He
says this is not impossible since they were buried
there. st. Philip suffered martyrdOm at Hierapo-
lis in Phrygia, where he was crucifed and
stoned for the faith. His body was buried
there, but afterwards translated to Rome. st.
James suffered martyrdom at Jerusalem, where he
was thrown down from the battlements of the
Temple, stoned and struck the head with full
ler's club. He was buried near the Temple but his
body was afterwards translated to ConstantinOple
and thence to Rome Now 1t may be asked why
these sacred relics have remained undiscovered
for centuriesS But we must take into account the
length Of time that has elapsed since they were
placed where they have just been discovered
the changes, the revolutions the sackings the pre-
sence Of hostile armies and the thousand and one
changes that have happened in Rome within that
thousand years-and we will not be astOnshed that
these precious bodies were not discovered sooner,
but rather thank the pety Of the archaologist and
the antiquarian as well as the munifcence of
Plus the NINTH who has all along encouraged the
undertakers of so many sacred discoveries. In
deed, it could not have been otherwise than it
was experience testified. The discovery
OF these sacred bodies at this late day,
and particularly at this time, seems to have
been intended by Divine Providence. 1t would
seem as If the very bones OF the Apostles arise now
to rebuke the sacrilegious invaders OF their last
resting place, and protest against the indignities
offered to the Prince of Apostles in the person of
his successor. And as Hierapolis was indebted to
to the relics of st. Philip for its preservation by
continual miracles, so will Rome be indebted in
great measure to the same relics, and those of
countless martyrs, and confessors and holy virgins
for It's preservation and deiverance from the men
who, in the name of liberty and equality, now de-
secrate her holy places.
New Work for Old Probabilities.
The late foods and ice freshets IN the Schuylkil
Susquehanna, Delaware and other rivers along the
seaboard took every one by surprise. The dissolu
ton of the snow and ice In the upper courses of
these streams was not made known from the
mount famous regions Of Pennsylvania and New
York, where the breakup began. This fact
strongly suggests additional work in the future fer
the Signal ONCE. AS 1t is now equipped its slender
pecuniary means entirely preclude the possibility
OF planting stations in the gorges OF the Alle-
ghanies for observing the descent OF such ice foods
as have recently swept these river valleys with
such great damage to bridges railroads
and other property. The river reports, as
they are called, are now extended only at rare
intervals on the Ohio, Missouri and Misss-
sppI rivers, but it is thought they might he
of great utility in ice freshets and Spring