THE THREE GREAT OPPOSITION SEN ATORS. SUMNER, TRUMBULL AND SCHURZ OUR BURKE, FOX AND SHERIDAN. Their Origin, Talents and Motives. WHAT THEY WAIST. AneodotoM Illiixti'iitivo of tlio Men. Washington, Her. sa, 18TL A sketch of the positive people iu congress and out of it opposing General Grant's renominatton, republicans cuiefly and many or them prominent abolitionists In times past?before many leading republicans of the present party dared to look into the face of the slavery question at all?will satlsly the lnqutsltiveness of u large number or your read ers. The data appended are derived from per sonal knowledge and reliable testimony. WHO LEAP THE OPPOSITION TO GRANT. The President's foremost adversaries belong to three classes. First, members of the senate who have appre hended the tremendous advances of the Executive oitlce upon that prouilucui body of the Legislature, wheedling It. bribing it. or making It seem to see t iat the country can better be run by concordance at all times between the Executive and the Senute than by any emulauen of opposition between the beuaie, as a sympathetic body of the I-egislature, and the Executive office us the light ami of the Legislature; in short, those Independent {senators, who do not like to see the Senate made a branch of the Executive arm. Next, the scholarly lolks, who appreciate dignity in office, and many of whom control tlie reviews, weekly, mouthly and quarterly; specialists, like the sous of Churies Francis Adams, who bear down upon particular evils aud hud them to be parts of the general tyranny or the civil service; the old fashioned student of history, like Groesbeek and others, who at last recognize that commercial politics and the Executive patronage are eating us all up. Thus It happens that thai portion of liio republican pany which lias attested its power to outlive mere party popuiari y and political indigna tion is universally arrayed against the President's rencniinaiiou.. Grant is not the choice of uls own supporters In the republican party, but he will be renominated by political gravity and the tremendous pressure of the Executive putrouaae hi tlie rear. When we make a new President ou mo present terms we presuppose )us reuomiuailou tl tie works in harmony with the Senate. Thus it happens that tne .Senate has come to be by far the overawing body or the Legislature, and people seldom inquire what this or that poten tial representative says, lor his Senator leads the way. As the public is now meditating upon me few men?mainly Senators?in the opposition. 1 will sketch them at once. TV.IT M B I'LL RKPROPCCKO. It is apnareut toeverybodv in Washington that Lyman Trumbull lias gravitated to the head ol the anil-Grant republican party. Tins place he has taken bv political talent, by large, consistent and prolonged political unity of purpose, by great dis cretion extended over many years, and, at times, rising to nearly a sublime Independence. Trumbuil delers lo no man. President or Senator, tu his propositions of government, and he Is never so weak or so alfcctloua e as to no embraced in any other person s platiorin. Uls posiions are his own, and his dearest friends can not count upon litm to come into their coalitions. It singularly appears that even the glittering diadem or lue Presidency is as cold an object or purpose to this curious charac ter as the favor of his stale constituency or liie re gard of the makers of opinion within the republican ranks. HIS LIFE. Lyman Trnmbali burners upon sixty years ot age, aud comes ol thai celebrated JTumbuli family tu Connecticut which has given America In foreign countries ihe name of Brotuer Jonathan?Jonathan lielug Washington's genial appellation of Jonathan Trumbull, Governor ol Connecticut In Kcvoluuonary times. Trumbull left his home in the Nutmeg Male very early In llle to go lo Georgia and teach school, to make his own livlug. ltie Irninoulls had been all persevering, speculating, Intellectual men. Let any man read ti.e life ol Trumbull, the painter, whose handiwork Is now a pari of the orna mentation of the Capitol, and explore hLs assiduous successes over John Haudulpu and the censorious Southern critics of tnat day, and see his patient, laborious pertinacity lo collecting the portraits of many commonplace people ol the Revolutionary time. In a larger sense Lvtnan Trumbull has all tne power iu detail and in generalities that the pal nun had. Connecticut men have told me of the sieue tn his native town when he resolved to go to' Georgia, an t the people gathered around the stage coach to see the most promising boy in that part or Connecticut quit his kindred. Then, as now. he was tniu and cool, tall and well-regulated, and he left nis native village without outward tears, although regretted there as the model boy of tne country. Perfectly self-con centrated, without seiilshness. and yet wiihout ver dancy, this spare rib of a youngster took his way lo the distant fields or Georgia, and was a tutor there for some time; and iu the portion of tne Slate where ae resided his cool power and insensibility to ccal or partisan passion is si Hi remembered. Being cow a man well along in days.it is not reui in hered mat tntrty-ouo years ago lie was a mem ber ol tne Legislature ol the young Mate oi Illinois, w.icre he emigrate j wuiic mill a stripling. The next year be was secretary of suite there, and lor five years, begin ning in iS4s, tie was Justice o. the supreme Court oi tne State. He wan elected to the lower House or Congress, but before taking his seat he wa- chosen to the Senate at Washington, and tnciciore he has never had any term ol pro. anon in Hie lower House. Ilia education has been chiefly judicial aud his pub lic Ule Senatorial. TRt MRCLL TO LOOK AT. To look upon, at present, irumbuli Is tall, modc ra'eiy Hun, well-regulated, respectably apparehed, with a nigh forehead and in in lower face, dark hair without a gray anaud in it, dark dresa. gold spectacles, aud somewhat of the took of a doctor ol divinity. He is a widower, with children grown up to ine age of citizenship. Although a:u-ged in cer tain circles to ne dispaeslouate, and some say "a cohi-tu-aried man." he is known to nave been cue ?1 the most ldo.airous husuaud.i an I lathers within the province of tne legislative government. It was when lie took tne strong and curious stand of oppo sition to Johnson's conviction under the terms of impeachment thai his devoted mm died nnder the eiiadow oi trie Capitol. Trumbnn loved his wire as few men tn public lite regard those who take their name. One or tne last acts this wlie presumed to do?AN rn was as nnre strained and as independent as himself?wan 'o write a letier to tne newspapers, showing up the base conduct ol a clergy man w ho at .emote I to give himself wordly importance bv attacking ui- parL-b loner and supporter, the fen a tor from il.htott. Mm. 'Jriuubuirs death was hEfeteucti b) the uncivil and impious row over the impea< iitneui matter, and, v.bti ail liie resentment ot tne atnicsmeu ot that period, Truinbud has never made a s; eecn referring to hla conduct at that time, although the repuolican party now applauds him for toe no-iGon he assumed ami the scene he apaied me country, of riotous parly greed. i-citator Trumbull is atiout alx feet high, nioder crately thin aud Ins address is gentle, Without being Impawn, ieiirunn, white ?hi pMttttiMlN is eminently a reflective person and his conduct is auided ny his thought. There is a great deal of mean, nioordlna'.e IUe lit Washington, out Trum t uii joins no coadtion and takes nobody's opinions. Ins presutnpUon of patriotism appears to is.- that, under the luruiaof modern development, many in to Unite tlinn's ought to tat assumed by the federal (state, anile the public conscience i ?nouid be made to know that the highest form of national government is uisli.bntlve, aud that a Mate well animated t.y love of country ia better than a Mate supine at the leet of federal dlctatiou; in snort, that our L Dion is a s rouges one tor hav ing every (state, every county and every voter moderately independent than lo see party spirit temporarily directing everything by lores and prescribing exactly what patriotism .-nouid bo In every part ot the turn. it is almost impossible in social intercourse to know rr uubu.i as ne is. He doe- m>t antagonize luni -sif with people; on tin- contrary, lie listens to iceut, Vj'it nla reflective opacities waster his do a >h?i i alive ones, and his t?e.-i friends sometimes iHiiioni tuai with nla t?pe of lace aud lulu i he is 'pj'a, w jVor aims around Trumbull is to ex i? dense of (Hock as when Ro)?ert Niorria slappod George Washington the back and Sum* h.iii '?oldleitow;" yet irumbuil won diousiy desirous ot good fellowship. W hoevertia ?Leu bim on Capitol Bill, in ?he open^ square. niu\inu croanet Willi his young odildreu. plating oroaoel Willi liw young Saucedhtm in New York. ruuNlu^^und suiong 1m thSaSS witn th. Hu^pubiuttosotn youug buy out oi col.ege and permuted to see i Knd sympathize wnii his man notion of]public;P>"f Ills i old resolution never lo be on plo ye< to* P'1 use? w *11# he makes a part ol the l^rmaueu gov eroment ol the ouintry. There Is no man. in P" uc lite wno?e family discipline is so jf ?"l^lnutill(.an gentle. Hla position ai present in the repuo. party is mat of a mall who means toaiayt not to had any new departures. He lews the whole, his .e.siauve ,,,^1-11^.^ rem reseniauve ol what the republican v crea iiave been, and ne does not ?e*? JB 'm WKe urn tures of circumstance wimm ih*t Ijw^f jom )1(J uon. points in TstTMBtn-L's urn. _ iia "TtSfii S?UK?AS"S man. Is n^er wdllM toj^m eleoled Abraham Ess 1H=4E= r'as a W^between* Trumbull and any other candidate1 cannot have choice. Let all my friends support lu lie will U? giving of a corn mNc.n11her to make a statue or Mr. cm coin, and cubed lier a little half-Dutch girl irom Wlscnus"1 and Kansas. Trumbull was a njiglibor on Capitol lliil or tnuie heam, not particularly well juioruied hIioul her but he resented the couledeiated dispo sition to put her down, and oue night, of nts own volition? appeared at ner fatuer'8 house aud gave her uu support. He voted lor the appropriation to her and w lien she was seut abroad, lamenting her helplessness and youlh, he endeavored witu ali his lorce to havo ucr lather get some government posi tion so that tne girl's character could ue supported l?y the lauiily contact aud she relieved irom leeding her lather aud mother. Few persons know how oiten i'nuuouU Is seen lu matters ol this sort, as a generous advocate, aud in proportion to his advo cacy or helpless ca-cs seems to be his opposition to large, organized parly movemenls against ludivId TBCMBn-C'S CIRCUMSTANCK8. He has sold his house on Capitol Hill to Mr. w il ium M. Evans, ol New York city, aud now occupies verv plain and cheap quancM ui tnc second oi n smnil three story brick house tn tne rear oi the Kirkivotil Hotel. The cierk ol uls committee in Hie .semue w "is nephew, and his companion la Urn lod^tnffs is his soli, Doth lull grown young hien. Truinuuil is by iar the duel personage m-w ui the <5Pim e He is* the coolest aud best debater there, iiHv'ns* in earnest aud yet never at fault, and lie now stands iu line rarvon with Hie able men of tbe Semite w ho Hew off from his suggestion in the uu neuchmcut trial. Air. simmer tuiuks ingnly oi htiu. ?mil ail seem to acknowledge itiai he Is a man not to be i u aside, either by passion, interest or ambition, ami who will sit in the scat w hich he occupies and drive his icaul towards what lie wishes, aud even 11 su Veiae power He in me way will not deviate iron. 1,oV,r Sect S, niuo? ol ~u.rf.pcct. he will mlve over it. In snort. Trumbull is a jurist. looking ivithin himsed lor motives, aud believing iliai oj a hitfii grade ol public charaeier, oonsuiu* enclcs may oe raised to a level with their staicsuitu, ?tid ihui this is easier aud nobior tnan to reduce one's soil to ue a demagogue aud lead tne constitu ency by uuworthy means. CAUL SCH0K7.. The noblest adventurer In this country Is the great Herman who o.itue to the senate upon tne mr-.tortuues o. John U. .Henderson, Ttore never wis a more gallant splrH in congress thai. Uender Km, una he deliberately voted away iiw fume while lu the prime of llle ramer tuuu break Ills oath aud .-ease of responsibility before tne country and posterity. Carl Hchurz did not treat Henderson well, l here are things on record which he had to say about mat victim of purty ru^e, wnich. ior bcliurz'a Iame. lt is to be hoped, aio uow '".iehurz is a man to be treated and considered ai to^einer under his intellectual aspects. While a gentle considerate aud reliable lather and hu? b tnd he is m great part a seU'sti man, llvlug upon I his talents, and allhougn lie lias neon all his days Id e nil nod wit h democrats and republicans of all nations, he is lu heart and lu teeling un arislocraL lie is in short, oue oi Hie very ocst types ol modern Ccrnans, mnd of tne ribbon in the buttonhole, a nuvoied student, aua taking to revoluuon as the mora legitimate lorui of intellectual dominion. The element of resistance is powerful lu r i,11 a uuimstrauona, dynasties, aud, lit fact, *h? j whole planeot political life he considers as ohitffy Lie to make line dramaUc points uponilmm. I since Albt-ri Gatluiin we have never had any niau in \merica. born abroad, who dlsiiuguisued luni 2if M *eiU^ Although represeuiing Missouri, Schniz 13 iu deep sympathy with the Eastern Stales, ?mi nip r Iiiodes ot tuought and processes of liie. He earfy apprehended ihe scholarship aud loity dis ..fI'harifK Humuer. and cast, hunsejf tone nimricud. These two men nave had a mutual ln hiieuce upon each other, hchurz has made e>umner, ior tne hrst time lu his llie, a revolutionist against iSfrWBoverornent, while Nchurz derives his mam nfJimcuon in toe seuate from Sumner's supporu At one u ue Drake, aud the strict party folks, meant to imve read HcUurz out of the republican caucus, tn Whichcue he would have beeu thrown back cnce lintU A? r3saiss. xrssr>jst now tne liveliest ions in the senate. s. iuir/ is ouly forty-two years old?one of the vounuest (Senators, lie is in the prime oi vigorous Flie very tall, broad-shoutdcred, spare and graceful, inn he mav be likened in appearance to a due slag. e lives hke a gentleman, urmks a botue of good wme a t his dinner, sees well to nts apparel, dressing ior the most part in Hue Engl.sii browns, roans or blues, aud he wears gbhf ^ecia^es. i vear. His wlie u probably oue oi the very huest urici'imeiis of German women In America, the dni hler il Is satJ. of a Hamburg banker; snc met Kclmrz in tho oily of Loudon wheu ho was a poor exile incre llvlug upou remittances irom home aud from correspondence from tils peu to Uonnan jour ii us and site sympathized wuh him aud lovi.d hnn. ?i'm Hchurz is a dark-uaired. dark-eyedI woman of i.ciiitnul llgure ami a tuud and delightful expres HK?n ol coiiuieuauce. bchurz and herself are very luucn iu love with each other audtuey koep ..I.', 0r company in Washington. Hotti ol thtin t earnest and strong In their attachment to German manners and the Uciman conutrj. Mri isiiiurz appreciates the fact mat our republic 'iiiitrtlts tier tue i>??i (liauce for a higu cireer but she and he prefer to give their children a gi vmau eancaiiou. aud they like to be well on sklered and reiuci.ib rcl by the North German statesmen" W neu sehurz ran ior the Senate against S and lieu Loan, old baron Gerolt, the ?rusilan Minister, ai.peare.l for the only tune in tils I lie Lu newspaper row, sanguine to get points in onus friend. Scliurz is on good terms with Msmsrck; and l.ts enemies here lave alleged mat nA t.ana to return to Germany and take part in Jmn government; on the otnor hand lie has re- i afv imdVwItii emphasis, mat tills Is Ills couu i.y, and that nts whoie future la comprised iu j America. SCBCR7.'s FOWER AKAI.TZKt). In considering Sctiurz it I* never to he forgotten ilut tie Li a mun of great boldness of character, bucked by toe nnest talents. He is not without humor, but it is of the grim, severe sort, chiefly exercised iu satire. He belongs to the class of hcrul er'a young Herman patriots, versed both in me book and the foil, soldiers and scholars at once; end aitDough he did not distinguish himself in our late war, there was no man In it of more ambi tion and personal valor. As an orator be belongs to me grave, eplgraraattc, finely-cut scnool, his br iIn directing the charge and his heart kept well lu reserve, liis tace, whicn Is long In the hose and jaw. ami rather Meplilstopntleaa wnen hrst looked at, grows alter a lime to be a rather soit, gen tie and interesting face; his hair Is of a brownish au >uru, Ins beard is also brown and his eyes aro a strong ifraj. He composes with facility. Is a constant reader, and yet none of the wrinkles of the student appear in uN lace, which Is of a tine, healthy color, somewhat inclined at times to be saiiow. hue open-hearted aud boyish at Ins house wi n those he like*, at the senate he Is lorinal and win seldom go the aoor to see anybodr, but hits visitors invited to the Senate parlor, where he pre sently appears. He hus nothing to do with Jobs or oihce getting, ana subsists solely upon his pride of conscious talent. It lias been thought ihut iu many respects, Hcnurz Is the counterpart of Hntniet, Siiakspeare's creation, saving the melancholy, w hico he compensates for by a certain gnmuess. HlliLRZS LIS K. The life sf thi* man in any country bat ours would have been considered versatile and adventurous, lie was well educated at Cologne ami Bonn, und became an editor prior to the revolution of IMS. w inch made hun popular in Uerraanv and forced him luto the besieged town of Kastadt. Wbeu the Herman republic broke op he became a roingee In btvitzeriand, Paris and London, whence he wrote for the newspapers at home, and laugnt languages, Ac., lu the private schools, only nineteen years ago he caine to America, satisfled that the large Herman population here would be willing to appre ciate him, und allured also by the courteous char h icr ol our laws, which permitted easy naturultza tlou aud even high distinction tu Hie guVcruiiienl. He had married well iu London, aud while very poor. The Hermans In this country knew turn Instantly; lor thousands had fled Iroin their 1'atherlaud on the fatiurc of the Revolution, ami tuey were well Informed ou the points of Scour/.'* llle; how he had, ai the peril of Ins neck, ingru nated himself into a fortress cear Berlin, with the ronuiiils-iiulioti of getting out his old college ptm r< sor and chum, art 1 all knew luui he had suc ceeded in his ta?k und crossed the Noun Sea to m 'Aland with a price on his head. Hclturr. figured as un opponent 01 siavery among the Hermans, and Le was hi.tr lavoriie stump speaker. In rteferenco to lUe U'-rm irj v p.- Mr. 1-lUvOUi tu (lid, nu'y ume yean after his arrival in this country, sent htm M Minis ter to Bpain. After long exposure tit the war, where ioruine was against him, Mchura tamed up in Washington at its close as merely aconespoadent, and he was probably the finest specimen of that genus ever sent here, not in performance but in general graces. From that vocation can pronably be traced Ins present altitude in politics?indepen dent all the time. From Washington he went to Detroit to edit an Kngush psper there; bnt Detroit being a conservative, dull city, he tailed. Tnen he weul to St. Louis and took a German paper; and the Germans of M. Loula having been electrified by the Blairs, Gratz Brown and others, so as to be aware ot their importance m politics, resolved to have one 01 their number in the Senate, and they took up schurs. scnritz ix prsat*. Scnurz. has no equal in the senate In dtreot, poiuted attack, skiltui auu grace.ui voticnieiice and rare scholarship, which seeui* to bo as perfect tn our history as in that or Germany or Krauoe. No body dare meet mm In debate; for all feel that he hAs reservations o( cruel lorce, which to tempt would not be ugreo.iiile. He Is, however, a man or cold tempernmeuk respectable rather than hearty, and he always finds his chiel admirers to be men of his own class?those who adore laculty, knowledge and chivalry, fichurz despises the administration. It is honest coutempu-tiiat or a scholar for a fort ui. tous oitlcial creation, The processes of Bchura's mind are logical, sequential and endorsed by the highest advices, wuiie the President guesxos around, showing the usual luck of a genuine Amer ican, who does not seem to require to be wise In order to be successful. CUA.RI.kS Sl'MNKR DKPKTRD. Nearly sixty one years old, Charles Buraner Is the representative scholar of the beoate. lie has made alt hia points in life by scholarship, iie began by being one of the finest students at Har vard and at the Cambridge Law be boot. Then he travelled abroad on erraud9 of scholarship. Af terwards he was reporter lor the Untied i$taie Circuit Court m the Boston circuit. Then he was a lecturer at the Cainuridge Law School, and afterward* edited a law puoiicatToa and utauy legal works. At the ago ot torty ue came to the Seuaie, sent mero by the scholars and students or Massa chusetts, who demanded that one ot tuemselves should be recognized. In many respects be is one 01 the ablest men wno have sat in the Senate, and in other respects be is a specific creation of books. SL'MNKK TO LOOK AT. Look at Sumucr, and you will apprehend htm at a giunce. In the first place sue Ills col. ssal body six lcet three tuches high, weighing, at ordinary tunes, '.*08 pounds, and measuring around the chest torty tuches. and arouud tne bead twentT three. The man's name shows that he la ot legal descent, it meaning a summouer?that sort of an oiilcer which in old baxon days cited delinquents to the Ecclesiastical Courts, and Is tuus reierred to in Chancer:? And loumunour was tber with us In that plane. That haide a lire-red, cberulilnnes faoe; For sausetlemn he was wlih Iron emu narwe. As bote be was like rouse as a spar we, With (railed Crowes, blake and phled herd, Of his Tissue children were eore aferd. In tne "Coventry Mysteries" one Somncr is told? In liaste to wend bis wajr, Ami bid Joseph an 1 Ills wife To appear at court this day 1 Cliurles Suiuner is ot pure English doseeut. Ills fattier was bhert.T of Boston. Although he dislikes Gram very much, yet they resemble each otner, bom being imperious spirits, unwilling to admit anybody 10 tonus of equality with themselves un less there are certain points of detereuce admitted. Grant was originally a democrat ol a very shallow and narrow school, and be got to dislike Miuincr under the currcut name of funa>ie. The President, In those days, probably looked at no question with a thinking muni, ami ten imo the general current ol cousert alive lee'lug, waicll was mat every abolitionist must necessarily be some sort of a convict. The President nas grown lnio ilie apprehension of freedom lute a pum-itu, and as such Minnie, despises mm. SCMNKK AS A KltlKND. Sumner is a very dltl'ercui man. in tact, from what Ue is supposed to be in Massachusetts. In the first place he Is a voluptuary. He lines a good dinner, varied in its courses, washed UoWu witti good wines and cheered up by gemlo company around ilie board. Next, be is a social character in the luliest seu.se. ills heart warms up to youug company wno can appreciate tiiiu. aim la whose laughter and sallies lie becomes young again. To tbose persons wiiom he honors wuii fits con fidence lie is the sincerest friend, rea ly to go miles out of li s way any time to belriend them, lie is not like Scliurz, merely an intellectual person, out a warm, xiudly and impulsive man, who will write u letter to a newspaper reporter, praisiug something that nas struck turn, or stand up in the lace ol powerful executive patronage, even although his beloved State of Massachusetts re buke lam lor nls temerity. Oa the other hand, he is un ungenerous enemy, according little or nothing to tne advetsary, aud it he nsd be m a soldier he would have taken no prisoners on the field, lie is a shaggy, leonine sort of a man to look at, dressing generally in grayish English clothes; and while ue is a consiltutiuual luwyer of very High character, lus notion of government is the reverse ui constitu tional, and Is bused upon his temporary allectioa or repulsion. Mental boldness ho lias to the highest extent, aud ue toves true men and nates sualiow ones, iie is just now engaged In pushing what he calls the .supplementary civil Itiguts bill?a bill re pulsive to iuosl ol lis, aud yei. on the tvnoie, a proper sort of bill, if we took ut it on tne groundwork or rights only. This bid provides luat iioteis, schools, errs, Ac., suall exercise no di-ciimuiaiions in tuo matter of accuiuniodaUoDsJ We have not yet ensue to that stage wuca wo 0411 rid ourselves of all our prejudices in the matter; out that some general Ion will come to this stage aud applaud bnmner icr his boldness in Hie proposition mere can bo no douot. HIS UAKHIAliK A.VP CAKE til. Mr. Bnmner never married until late in life?too late, perhaps, to understand tiiut in married mat ters there can be no one will, but two together must direct. Ue did, however, marry a lady who solic ited lum, and who was the suitor and the courtier. There was no fonder or prouder wife in Washing ton. When the causes of tne separation whicn en sued come to be known they will be found to do no large discredit to the Sen ator lroin Massachusetts, who enjoys to this day the fullest confidence and affection ol his wile's con nections, and his beautuul house in W'asnington was presented to hun by the latner In-law ol his wile?lion, bamuel Hooper, the member from Bos ton. Mrs. Buuiner'a first husband was Hooper's son. What a varied career has this man lived Once Iterated by that old incarnation of affectation, Jatues M. Mason, as not a gentleman, and yet, to day. one 01 the idols of tdo southern people, whom lie icscmbles very mucD in pride of character, vun eratlou aud houor! Then see him, struck down in the Beuate lor someone of those tremendous personal ities in which he is uever deficient, and yet, to-day, as highly regarded in south Coroliua as Calhoun himself 1 Again, see him move on General Btoue and other folks of the war with the furious ardor of a public defender upon ttio mere soldier, and yet, on the other hand, observe with what scrupulous devotion he supports every approved institution or the countrr, the army and the uavy, the diplomatic service aud the coast survey, and whatever becomes us. Again, sec tins man nourishing the party Whip during the luipeacinueot trial, telling Mr. Trumbull that he had made bis bed anu must lie In it." and voting guiiivouull the articles; aud yet, observe him to day 111 heartv adlllatlou with the independent spirit* ol Hie benatc, and perhaps Hie most terrible opponent of purtv government that exists in the country. These tilings, alter all, teach us mat Mr. Simmer Is a tine Incarnation of nuolc selfishness and resilve independence; tuat he believes in Hie l olled States and himself, and nothing between. Those of 11s who understand human nature sufficient ly to upprcciu.e this flue character of man will be Borry when the day comes that lie withdraws him self irom public lite and moulders in the mighty fabric of the country which lie has helped to dig nify an l elevate. NEW YORK CITY. y, _ The Comptroller yesterday succeeded in raisin* flu,ww wherewith to pajr oil the streel cleaners. The boiler used In t'ho YorkvlUe Court House yes* terday sprung a leas, ami necessitated ttie ad journment ot both the civil aud criminal courts until to-uay, wben ibe work ot repairing will Uuve been perlected. Professor Rood, of Columbia College, will lecture Una evening, at tbe Academy of Music, on a topic of very general Interest, namely "sound tne Voice and tbe Ear," and will illustrate bis subject by magnificent experiments, sucb us bavc never been seen beiofc by a large audience. On tne night, of tbe 4th tnat. Eugene M alloy, of s? Monroe street, and John R. Baker occupied a room together. Malloy charges that during the night Baker got up. took $Sl in money from Ills pants' pocket and left tbe place. He was arrested by udicer Barry, of the Fifteenth precinct, and yester day upon being arraigned at Jefferson Mantel was luliy commuted lor trial. Coroner Young was yesterday called to bold an Inquest on toe body of John Dillon, fifty vears of age, and born in Irelaud, who died In Bedevue Hospital from the effeets of Injuries rccelveu seven weeks ago bv being kicked by a horse at the depot of the Bleecker Mrect Kail road Company. Deceased lived at lih Tenth avenue, wtiliher tae remains were removed. After an absence of two years Judge Thomas A. l/edwitti made bis reappearance at Jefferson Market Court yesterday. Judge biiandley, wbo formerly sat at Jefferson Market, came to Essex Market, wiieru be will dispense justice for the future. The subject has been mooted ever since lasi election, ami was ueclucd upon last, baiurd.tv. As eacli of tlieui will noirbe 111 the district in ivuich they reside tbe cbauge is mutually satisfactory. The Board of Eire Commissioners held their regular weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, the President, Mr. Illtcbmun, in the chair. A number of coinplaluU were received against certain firemen Wbo bad violated the ruler.. They were all disposed ot In the usual Way. beverai gentlemen belonging to the Boston Eire Depart in -tit paid u visir during tin* nay at tbe headquarter* uud were snowu through 1 lie building. The Board went into execu tive session sboriiy nfier tiansae..lug the usual routliio business of unerring it number of com uiumcattou* to tuo auprounatu oui mi to POLffiCil ?OVEM28T8 ADD VIEWS. The New City charter m4 b Republican Otiim'i Vlewi Tbrreon. [From tfcg Albany Journal (republican), !>eo. 36.) The work Is clearly Uie result of careful study and of honest purposes. it baa evutonuy been framed wftn a sincere eflbrt to provide the best and most efficient administration. No ulterior design or un worthy object appears upon its face. II men differ as to Uie practical working of some of its features they will at least oonenr la awarding its framers tue full credit or honest endeavor. Thta sincerity 01 purpose appears In the entire absence of anr provi sions designed in the interest of a particular party. The object has been to aecuro the best popular gov ernment without leiorence to party advantage?an object dominating the whole iramework and worthy of all aoproval. Indeed, this design has Induced the committee to adopt the principle of minority representation, more properly called complete representation, which is based upon the Idea of giving every party an influence just proportionate to Its strength. No provision appears which gives the slightest color to any imputation or political blaa The government as hero arranged is not one having lis centre in Albany, not one completely un der the control of any single party, but a local gov ernment of the whole people, with a majority still having the greater power and the minority having a voice commensurate with their numbers. A New (England ".Hunger" Journal on the Washington Treaty. [From the Boston Advertiser (Sumner republican), Dec. 27.) Clearly defined as these duties have been again and again, and especially by English writers and statesmen alter the breaking out of the war of 1870 between France and Oermany, It seems Incredible that an effort will be seriously made to reconcile the conduct of the British government toward the rebel cruisers, one and all of them, with those international obligations to which ureat Britain has of late professed a more than religious fidelity. If this view of the case were to be in sisted upon, against wrongs like those which the United States suffered, and sustained by the tribunal as quite consistent with the duties wntch one nation owes to another, it might welt be said that the rules or the Treaty of Washington can have blue effective force, and that there win be Utile inducement lor nations in future to adopt the peace,ut met nod of arbitration for the settlement of their differences. If Ueorgtas, Alabama*, Florldas and Snenanuoahs may go out from neutral ports ana prey upon the commerce of lnemliy na tions, without violation of international duty; and If it r>e no offence to recruit men lor them, ana sup ply them with arms and provisions irom neutral soli, certainly the United States, with her extended frontier on both oceans, has more interest than any other maritime Power in recognizing that lact. The Alleged Indian Pension Frauds?Letter front Senator Iliirlmi, ot Iowa. (From ttie Burlington (Iowa) Hawkevo. Dec. 44.] SENATOR HARLAN'S LKTltlt. Washington, D. Dec. 18, 1S71. General J. A. Williamson, Des Monies, Iowa:? Dkar Sir?in rererence to my connectlou with the payment ol Indiaa pensions the material facts were these:?In the spring of 1806 uiy utten turn was called to claims hied by attorneys, cluetty i by a man uumed John W. Wright, lor Indian claim ants for pensions. When I entered tue department I found him with others as recognised attorners in the tiliferent departments lor suen ch eats as chose to employ him. I knew of no suitlcicut reason lor debarring him or re .luslng to consider claims merely because people chose to trust him with tneir business. 1 was in loruicd by tue pension clerks thai tue evidence pro duced in favor ol many of these Indians seemed to be conclusive, and tnat It was sustained b, the records oi the War Department. It the business bad proceeded in the usual mode those sustained by tins proul, in tue absence or rebutting evidence, wouid have been allowed, tne names would have been en rolled and the pension certlticates Issued as a matter ol course. But, distrusting t he reliabuny ol evidence lakou ex parte Ui the Indian country ami the pro priety of issutug certlticates to Indians to be col lected by attorneys, fearlug that tUe tumts might not reach the Indians, 1 determined to have these cases re-examined on the ground, in the presence of an officer of tne department, and, where louud valid, payment made to the Indians in person. Hence, 1 ordered tneir names to be enrolled temporarily and I appointed Hon, Goorge 0. Whiting Special I'eu sion Agent for For' Gibson, and sent mm out to per forin this service, instructing him to see the Indians, examine each case, take down tne sunstanoe oi tne new evidence in writing, pay those who were round to be legally entitled, take their receipts in in due form, aud report those not louud entitled to pensions under tne law, to be stricken from the rolls, lie gave bond aud securiiy us any other pen sion agent, drew the amount ot money deemed ne cessary oy tUe Commissioner to pay them, and pro ceeded to mc ludlau country, lie started some time about April or May, aad before he made his report 1 had retired from the depart ment. tins is the whoie case, so lar us 1 had unv connection with It. Here my oincial action ended. made an honest effort to guard tne rignts of the Indians and at the samo time the Treasury of the United Ntates. The man I sent was at the time principal appeal pension clerk lu the Secretary'* office, had served some years as Commissioner of Pensions, as cbiei clerk oi tue department, and as Acting Secretary of tue Interior. His capacity and lauihiarity with the pension laws and modes or proof were undoubted, and bis Integrity tins not oeen questioned. But suppose W tilling ?hud been a rogue and participated lairauds, tie and his bouds men would be responsible, aud not tne Secretary. His accounts, however, have been adjusted by tue proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department, and not one voucher has been ttirown out for illegality or Insufficiency or proof. His re fort wfa4 taadd January 15, 1867, lour moutns alter had resigned. But 1 have examined it on the mcs, and his account stands thus:?He is charged with requisition $75,000, the aiuoii.-u supposed to be necessary to pay the honest claimants, ami $4>0, lound by bltn in the hands of his predecessor, mak ing in all $75,480. He Is credited in his report with something over $64,000, returned to mo Treasury?a littlo less tliau $.'>,0?o, paid out to pensioners, including $500 or $400 commission. Anu all or this has been approved by the Audi tor and Comptroller as legal and correct ex cept $1,049, suspeuded 4,lor luforinalliy," want of proof oi "muster In as officer," or someuiing oi that sort. But these slanderers say Judge Wngiu has been arrested for trauu connected witu this matter, lie says In a published card that he has not oueu. But suppose he bus been, aud suppose he is guilty, how does that affect me r 1 did not put uuy money Into his hands nor irust to the sufficiency ot ins evi dence. Pr?vo him guilty and you justify ray cau tion in not trusting mm with mouey or-pension cer tlticates, and in not relying on the evidence Lied by him. Because I exercised this caution in cases presented by a man who they say Is a scamp, and reiused to trust either him or his work, J am de nounced lor his supposed crimes. Tours, truly. JAMKS 11 AULAS". General J. A. Williamson, Des Moiues, lowa. THE llt.FGRH DEWHKUY. Activity of the Apollo Hull |??rty? Heavy Lnroluieut of Voter* in tltu Various A-seui bly District*. The Apollo Uall democracy are now engaged In enrolling the names or all the legal voters or the city with a view of securing, if possible, more purity at future elections, and ascertaining their probable strength. They invite all voters, Irrespec tive of party, to enroll their names, and, to lacili tate tne work, twenty-one Supervisors of election' have been appointed In each Assembly dis trict and books opened under their supervision at some central potnt In each district. The enrolmcut commenced on Tuesday, and the books will be open from ten A. M. until ten P. M. dally until Saturday next. In these books the names of all who preseut themselves are entered alpha betically, with the residence ana occupation of the voter, who, however, is not pledged to vote for any particular party. Kach name Is numbered. To secure fairness at the primaries, where heretofore there have been such grave abuses and irauds, such voter, on recording ins name, is supplied with a tn ket numbered to correspond to that opposite his name on the roll. This ticker, u his passport to the primary elections, uad without it he cannot vote or participate In anv manner in the organiza tion oi the partv. When the enrolment shall have beeu completed a general canvass of the respective districts will be made, and all non-voters whose names have been entered on the roll will be stricken off. The next atep to be taken, after the completion of tho enrolment, will be to call a meeting of all whoso names are recorded, wlib tne view of per fecting an Assembly Democratic Ileiorm Asset anon In each district. These organizations once enectcd primary elecilops will be held to elect three de'e f ates from each election diatrloi, wno snail form he General committee for tue onsnlug yesr. This General committee will have the direction of t no organization as a whole. The committee, lu their address, declare:? Tli* necessity 'or this action Is apparent to every demo crat. Th?? hare H now In their power to bulla up an organi sation which ataall revive the tradition* of (be Uernucraua partv and relieve It from the odium which unwnrthv trailers have so long oaat upon It. and the committee fee. con olent that none who are In tavor of thla being oono, will tali to lend their aid by coming forward to enroll their uaiuee in tuelr respective Assembly districts. During the pant two days the work of enrolment has been progressing and lu many of trie oNHeiuoly districts hundreds of republican* have had tneir name* placed upon the roils, in some dtstrtow tho enrolment has been light, owing to the neglect ol the committee to glvo sufficient puhiiciiy to the enrolling places. Tun German reformers have a separate organization throughout the city, but many ol tlmm are enrolling under the banner of I ho Apollo Hall democracy, and it is conUdenUy ex pected that eventually these two poweriui organiza tion* will he consolidated uoon sonio generally accepted tnaUoiuw TROTTING. Mwtlm of the National Association for Che Promotion or the Interest* of the American Trouinc Tarf. A special meeting or the Board of Appeals wm held yesterday at the Everett House, liuiou square, commencing at teu o'clock in the morning uud con tinuing until a late hour in the night. About thirty protests and appeals were laid be fore tue Board, a dozen or more of which were con sidered and persons and papers examined, de cisions in all cases being reserved until all the cases presented shall tie fairly investigated. Among the uuiuher of cases before the Board yes terday afternoon was a resolution lrom the Prospect Park Assoctatioa asking for an opinion on the subject of conditional entries to purses. It appears from me resolution offered tnat drivers hnve been allowed by several associations through oat the oousury to enter horses, with the under standing that If tbej did not wish to start their horses In the race lor which they have been entered they would not be compelled to pay entrance money. The proprietors of Prospect Park, having been ap proached by some drivers last fall asking lor like privileges, called a meeting and passed the reso lution which was submitted to the Board last even ing, asking that body to euact a rule properly Uehu ing the duties of associations in regard to entries lor parses, and to enact punishments for violations, should uuy Uerealter occur. Another case laid beiore the Board was a protest against Kingston and mate wluiung the last race they had with Honest Allen and ruuntug mate at Prospect Park Fair Grouuda. J. u. Martin drove Kingston aud mate In tnis lace, and as Mr. Ulartln had been ruled off the Fleetwood Park course a year previously and had not been reinstated by the Board, it is urged that he could uot win any race uuder the circumstances. Testimony was exhausted aud con., wuen me affair wan laid aside lor luture decision. The cause of Mr. Martin's being ruled off the Fleetwood Park, it wtu be reinemuerod, was lor uot suffering his noise Johnny neb to be driven by auotner person, wueu me judges suspected air. Martin, me driver, of throwing the race. Alter MiuUu lost Hie race me judges uuclared all bets off auu ruleu Martin off tue track, lie trotted his horses, Kingston ana mute, against Honest Allen aud mate at Fleetwood, aud men at prospect Park lair i.miauls lost la.l, out George Carpenter drove tue iirsl race uud 'lorn Carpenter the second, una noimug was said uiioui mm or ms horses. Tne third race the teams trotted air. Martin lorgot him seli auu uis expulsion and drove the race, giviug his opponents mi the advantage they wanted, mat beiug tue supposition that tuey uiiaht win and couiu not lose, ine case was minutely investigated by iuo Beard aud tue case laid aside lor judgment, fuc next case was mat 01 'lunulas P. Wallace's appeal iruui tue uecisiou oi ibe juuges ol the race at 1'iect wood Park, vvnen ms horse J as. u. Coiouiau won a heat, wn.cti was supsenueaily declared no heat by two ol me judges. The facts of tue case were those:?On the horses beiug called for tue second ucut ol the race, there beiug nearly u dozen in it, nicy scurea tiutii ihc pa>ieiiceol Uie judges was nearly exhausted, t tie bell being pulled ueariy all the time lor tne horses 10 go puck aud get in uuc. At length tue l'tesidcut 01 the uss..ciaiuii, Mr. Vuu couruaud, the starter, seeing idem as close together as Ue thought it possible to got tuem, gave Uic word "go," aud away they went in a straggling uiuuuer. A lew moments afterwards nanus fali uiau, tue superintendent 01 the course, cuiied to Harry liaier, oue ol the Judges, to ring the bell uud call the horses buck. Mr. Van Courtlaud insisted that there could be uo re call aud foroaue Hitler to ring the boll. Hater, however, commenced ringing, and Mr. Van Couruaud luit the stand in disgust. When the drivers ol tne Horses heard tue ban toiling some of taem began >o pull up, aliuough the majority of them were well on to the quarter pole. They all liuuliy stopped, with tue exception of James If. Coiemau uud Charley croon/who had a head and head contest all tue way aruun