The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-15


international highway. Tho Panama stock,
moreover, is largely held in England. The
efforts OF JAY GoULD's Tribune to create the
Impression that the Colombian Government Is
considering the withdrawal Of the charter Of
the road, ore simply specimen OF its stock
jobbine maneuvrings. The talk is all moon
shine. We regret to say that JAY GOULD and
his stool pigeon were able to get a gentleman OF
previous good reputation to act as their ennis
sary to Panama. II is only a servile pen that
sells Itself for such uses.
When 1t is considered that the testimony
thus far taken by the two House committees
that engaged in investigating the manage
ment Of the Post Office Department fully sus-
tains the statements which have been made In
THE SuN regarding J. Al. CREswELL and the stu
pendous frauds Of the Postal Ring, the impropri-
ETY. OF his appointment and continuance in Office
as the first Of the three commissioners to wind
no the affairs Of the Freedman's Savings Bank
becomes obvious. There Is no reason whatever
for having three we'll paid commissioners, or re-
ceivers. instead Of one, to settle tho Affairs OF
the defunct institution, unless II is for the pur-
pose OF putting money in the pockets OF some
Of the Presidents friends and II there was,
there are many reasons why CREswELL should
not be one Of them-among these. the fact that
ht uucs not ueNOtc MS time TO tue buhluets Oh
the bank, being employed as counsel for the set
Element Of the Alabama claims-another sop
from GRANr-bcsides being President OF a bank
In Washington by the last report Of the Freed
mans Bank Commissioners II will be seen that
the expense account Is rapidly eating into the
available assets Of the conccrn-there is one
item Of general expense account amounting
to S20,6Ss-and II Is inexcusable extravaganza to
pay three men salaries for one mans work.
We were Informed yesterday that in the
beginning Of June Mr. LOUIS j. JENNINGS will
withdraw from the post he has so long and so
efficiently occupied chief editor of the Tfmcs.
and viii sail for Europe with the intention of
remaining there indefinitely. This event will,
we think, be public misfortune. Tn the few
years that he has been at the head of the Times,
MIR. Jennings has given it higher standing and
a more influential character than It had even
while 1t was under the control OF the late Ar.
RAYMONp. He has made IL bolder. more indepen-
dent, and more consistent as well as more varied
In the range Of its discussions and its informa-
ton. Whoever his successor may be. he Will
aud it difficult to render the Times more able,
more useful, or more respected than 1t has been
in the hands Of MIR. Jennings.
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WINsLow. the clerical fugitive forger Of
Boston, held and preached those rel eious doc
trines that are considered sound aud orthodox
by the Methodist denomi nation. His sermons
were not only theoretically correct, but they
were full Of fine sentiment and pious junction.
The one which he delivered from the pulpit on
the Sunday before his eight with his plumber,
was unusually sound and sweet, and was greatly
admired bv his auditors. The reverend for-er'
religion WAS made up oi just that sort Of thing .
dogma and rapture. lie neither preached nor
prActsad that great feature 81 all genuine relis-
ion which is called righteousness. He carried
on his dcviltrios while lac held on to his creed,
and SAW no Inconsistency between his evil ways
and his Sunday sermons. There are not many
clcr-yu ell who practise forgery IN the WISsLOw
style. but there are great many Of them who
are jIst as negligent as he was In regard to the
inseparable relation between genuine religion
aud practical righteousness They never Iro-
claim or enforce the Scriptural laws this sub
ject. Perhaps they think that, by doing so, they
would offend some OF their hearers, who would
| rather listen to lnch-toned discourses ON dog
mates than submit to the application Of those
stern commands which are laid down for the
government OF their life and conduct, and
which are announced with ~ much emphasis IN
the New Testament as In the Old. II WESTON
were tho only crooked rcligionist Of his kind
these observations would BE- unnec essary.
| 1t il announced that Boss SHEPHERD has
gone West, ostensbly to hunt bur,lo, but it is
believed In reality to comfort with the light o
his countenance his friend and former lightning
calculator Gen. BAuCoCK. IN the hour OF III,
| latter tii and tTlbulaton. SHEPHERD and Ban
COCK have been fast friends evers since the lutte
took up his abode In Washington; and If the
House Of Representatives would only order an In
vestgation into BABCoCK's accounts rs Commits
| soner OF Public Buildings and Grounds from the
! time he assumed the duties OF that ONCE, they
would probably be astonshcd 70 ind how large
| a proportion OF the money passing through his
hands went directly into the pockets OF SHEP
HERD or Of his confoderates. BABCoCK has
been allowed in his reports to tumble his ac
| counts in manner which is not permitted "a
| officers enjoying less favor at the White House
and 1t Is difficult. therefore, to discover from
| them the precise disposition made of the fund:
he has handled. This matter should be looked
into at once and the results made public.
If the spectroscope is valuable ana eiii-
Client in matters celestial IL Is not less in tho-,
| Of terrestrial nature. For tests and aialy use,
as laboratory instrument, 1t becomes every da'
more seryice,blc. one If lis applications is vel
| worth notice, namely. In testing the quality o
| water. In some places water Is to he found in
| furious To health, owing perhaps, to lis bein-
contaminated 10y inntratiou from sewer o
! ccsspou The spectroscope furnishes the mean
! Of discovering such nhltratiou. Thus a guam
! tty of salt of lithium is thrown into the scwe
or &c. spool. and, aftcra time. tAc drinking waite
! !, examined by this wonderful instrument. Il
| the lthium line appears in the spectrum. II II d
! IrOof that some port ION ol the l.tlium sail
! THROWN into the sewer has found hs way int,
the drinking water. and that Che latter j. conse