The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1872, Page 6

vw NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly eealed. Volume XXXV seeeeeeeeee NOs 6 AMUSEMENTS. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WOOD'R MUSEUM, Broadway, corner $3th st. —Perform: ‘ances afternoon and evening.—O0T OF THE FIRE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. — Tux New Drama OF Drvowor.—Murinee ‘at 1. aa) WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Joun Gatu. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Bi.ack CROOK. Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—| _ amuian Bayo bla dnc top OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur BALLRT PAN- TOMIME OF HUMPTY DuMptr. Matinee at 2. BOOTA'S THEATRE, Twenty-t! —— JULIUS CASAR. Matinee Ge De nes tt? Corner Sizth ay, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. i Tu® CoLLErN Baws. Matinee at 2. coon AIMEE'S OPF: BOUF! rh MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Monte Cristo. 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RomsGn Awe Aue UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— LEAVITT ART ROOMS, Ni road —! a m10N oF PatNtiNas MY NO 817 Brosdway.—Exutnt DR, KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, - SOENOR AND ART, Saridchembtr ae TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, January 6, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD, Paar, my I— Advertisements, —Advertisomenta, fe Complications with Spain; ‘Ironclads Mean War”— Belligerent ights for Cuba: The Case of the Fiorida—The Pigeon Sweep- stakes Postponed—Bergl’s New Departure— Connolly's Cause : Arguments of Counsel for Gnd against the Order of Arrtes—Tweed’s 4@—European Mail Details: The Spanish Press on the Course of the United states Towards Cuba; Terrible Things Threatened; Toe Pope, Frauce and Italy—Cuva: Valmaseda’s Latest Proclamation—More Distress 1n the Smallpox Hospital—The Opthaimic Instiiute—Political— ‘The Fate of Bulkley—The Erie War—Reddy the Biacksmith’s Tenants—The Late Rutua Ripiey. S—The Custom House Committee: Another Taree Hours’ Exammation of Mr. Lindsay; ‘Where ere is Money To Be Maae Men Wil Make It; Specific Cases of Corruption—Missionury Meetlng—the Bank Not Broken ie Panic at the Third Avenne Savings Ban ‘he Munici- | Contusion—Art Notes—ihe Harbor Master lnquiry—Tne Consolidation scheme in Hovo- keu—Chamber of Commerce Relief Fund. G@—Editoriais: Leading Article, “Our Relations with Spain—tiow Are we Drifting into Warr’— Aluusement Announcements. 2—European News from England, Germany ana Franve--Inreresting from Austriasia—The War in Mexico—Casey’s Coup a’Etat: The Federal Faction Fight in New Orleans—The Navai Bail ai Annapolis—Movements of the Grand uke Alexis—Misceilaneous Tele- Se gy aed Notices, S—The Chicago Fire: General Sheridan’s OMictal rt to ine Secretary of War—Brooklyn Al- urs—A Kaid on @ Peanut Stand—Extension ot the Central Ratlroad—Greek Catnolic Christmas—The Treasury Ring: History and Events of its Financial Operations with the People’s Money; Its Profits, Dire:t and Indt- rect—The Hunter's Point Bivie War. 9—The Tackiebury Arson Case: A Jealous Woman Attempts “suttee” in a Crockery Score; the Police Save Her from the Funeral Pyre—City Intelligence—Western Railroad Biockade— Fatal Casualty at a Circus—Foreign Miscel- laneous Items—Fivancial and Comwercial Re- Co glare tea and Deaths, (0—Tbe Trial of Mrs, Wharton at Annapolis—Sink the track: Mass Meeting of the Twelfth snd Nineteenth Ward Ratiroad and Reform Asso- clationg—The Theatrical Check Swindier— Shipping Intelligence—Aadvertisements, (1—The Courts : Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts; Criminal Trials id the United States Courts—Alieged Mutiny and Revolt at Sea; The Case of the Cuban General Jordan; Another Counterfeit- y usiness in the Oyer and Terminer; ion of James M, Sweeny as Clerk Uperior Court; Trials in the General mn ne Fisk-Mansfeld-siokes Litiga- tion: The lajunction Restraining tne Publica- Uon of Fisk's Biliets-Doux to Helen Josephine Sustainea by Judge Brady—Accident at the New Orleans Opera House—Execution of & Boy in Canada—What They Do With Bad Bovs—Stabbed in the Face—Buryiary in Ninth Avenve—A Promising Young Boy—Charged with Stealing a Watch—Disnonest Domestic— Marder in Buffalo—A_ Battie im Mexico, 12—The London Stage—Musical and Theatrical Noves—Dead and Alive—Advertisements. INEXPLICABLY Mixep Up—The complica- tions of our municipal muddle here and at Albany, and they give us a cheering prospect at both ends of confusion worse confounded. Biogz Laws 1 MassacHuseTTs.—Governor Washburn, in his Message to the Massachu- setts Legislature, comes out flat-footed in favor of the old Probibition or Maine Liquor law. Make liquor selling a hanging or burning at the stake offence at once and have done with it. Great CoMMOoTION was occasioned in the Grocers’ Board yesterday, by a report circulat- ed by certain wags, that several leading mem- bers of the trade had been arrested on com- plaint of Mr. Bergh, who charged the parties implicated with cruelty to animals in having bottled catsup after previous boiling! Smattrox in Loypon carried off eight thousand of the inhabitants of the English capital during the past year. The ravages of the disease were at times frightful, and always alarming. The mortality records of the city show that the yearly average of deaths from the disease during thirty-one years before was six hundred, The observance of sanitary pre- cautions is inculcated with much force by the medical journals and scientists. New York should take warning, and read the lessons at- tentively. Tue Granp Dugg ALEXIs A Goop Ssot.— The Cincinnati Times of the 8d instant says:—‘The Grand Dake, among bis other accomplishments, is a very fair shot. It would trouble most of our amateurs to kill twenty-one birds out of thirty sprung from 4 trap at tweuty-one paces distance. Mr. Bergh will regret very much that he was not present,” NEW YOKK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. @ur Relations with Spain—How Are We Drifting into Wart Our relations with Spain are peculiarly delicate, and war may be the work of any hour, While this is true, we may steer clear of any struggle with that Power and adjust all our difficulties without the intervention of arms. Those who see in the warlike rumors which are rife on every hand only a stock jobbing operation intended to influence prices in Wall street little understand the relations of the two countries and the desires and in- terests which control their rulers, Spain is jealous of the United States, The President's allusion in his Message to the possible neces- sity of intervention agitated the Spaniards in every part of the Castilian dominions, and re- acted back upon us to make us more cautious in our war policy, evenif it did not make us less determined. Our navy is in a woful condition and hardly able to cope with a Power so well armed in this respect as Spain. But Yankee pluck and courage goa great way, especially when they are supported by interest and the traditional faith of the American people in the destiny of their republic. If a struggle ensues it will not be a long one, but it will be fraught with the most important consequences and will largely extend our commercial and mari- time interests. Reacting back upon our indus- tries, and especially upon productiveness and labor in the South, the destruction of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico will have a wonder- fully revivifying influence, and a new era will begin for the United States as well as the West Indies. Spain is not satisfied with the course of our government, nor with the declared sympathies of General Grant in reference to Cuban affairs ; while, on the other hand, the American people are anything but satisfied with what they con- sider the temporizing and humiliating peace policy of Mr. Fish in his dealings with the insolent demands end pretensions of Spain. The Spanish cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea assume the right to. search United States trading ves- sels, England claimed and began to exercise this right in 1811; but her presumptioa, her intolerable insolence, resulted in our war with her of 1812, and that war resulted in the ex- emption of our trading ships from England’s right of search. The war, in short, estab- lished for us the principle of equal rights upon the high seas. Now, poor and weak, but proud and insolent Spain undertakes to play the bully with us. A Spanish vessel of war blockades for a considerable time an American trading vessel in a neutral port (neutral as be- tween Spain and the Cuban insurgents), fol- lows her when she leaves, brings her to upon the high seas with a warning round shot, and then, after searching her, graciously permits her to pass on, but only to be blockaded again at the next friendly port at which she touches, This is the case, the case of the Florida, which, as it appears, is almost too much even for the pacific Mr. Fish, the case which the Jersey Blue Secretary Robeson of the Navy thinks a casus belli. The energetic action of the Secretary of the Navy, asit is reported this morning, and his determined refnsal to change the officers or- dered to command the iron clads fitted out for Havana, is a sure indication of the spirit with which he is acting. He is ready for war, so far as a warlike spirit can make him ready, and the American navy is expected to do its duty. Careful as he has been of expense, and economical as he has shown himself, he is un- willing at this moment to save money at the cost of American supremacy. In this he will be upheld by the country, and unless Mr. Fish can put himself in sympathy with the movement he will be compelled to resign. The pressure already has been strong upon him, and his conservative tendencies must give way. Even he cannot fail to see that the presence of so many iron-clads in the harbor of Havana is the forerunner of the struggle which is the desire of the American people and will prove to be the chief glory of Presi- dent Grant’s administration. A war with Spain at this time would be a natural event. Day by day we are drifting into it, just as France and Prussia drifted into war. Spain is seeking it, and the administra- tion at Washington contemplates it as one of the events of the near future. The HrraLp was the first paper in the country to indicate its extreme probability, and to welcome it as a necessary measure for American supremacy in America. Since then preparation has gone on apace; our navy has been put in better condition, so far as that was possible; our fleet in Cuba has been and is being strength- ened. We have not courted, neither have we sought to avert a war. When it comes it will come as a great necessity both for us and for humanity. The rights of American citizens are constantly out- raged by the Spaniards. Cuba is a menace and an insult tous. Sooner or later we must free ourselves from the complications which spring almost daily from our relations with that island. The acquisition of the Spanish-Amer- ican countries is fast becoming desirable, and we are nearly ready to take Cuba, not as a gift, but by force and from necessity. Con- stant insult from the second hand Spanish hidalgos of the West Indies and incessant trouble through their presumption and arro- gance are forcing it on us, A war willchange all this and leave us free from outside inter- ferences and at liberty to pursue our own des- tiny in our own way. When the Herat first announced the prob- ability of a war with Spain, the extended com- ments of the press showed how much it was desired by the people, while they indicated how little the people were prepared for the an- nouncement, The facts contained in that an- nouncement have since been printed piece- meal in other journals as news, and everybody recognizes in the end that the Heratp was right !2 the begioning. But who knows whether war shall become an accomplished fact even pow? Nobody can explain the pro- cesses by which the war rumors have thickened till they have become a cloud in density. Sec- retary Fish is as conservative now as ever, and yet the Navy Department pauses not in its preparations and continues to strengthen the West India fleet, Our naval officers are talking war, and the Spaniards in Spain and in Cuba are breathing back defiance. In some unaccountable way the administration bas changed its Cuban policy, and, while speaking of peace, has shown that it meant war. Even the President could scarcely explain how this was brought about. It is doubtful whether Napoleon III. could trace the steps by which he was brought face to face with the Prussians on the Rhine. The two countries were drifted by the force of events into a struggle which they both courted and desired, and which neither took any active step to bring about. In the same way our war with Spain is coming. It is not a matter to be scouted or to be laughed at, but a subject for calm and deliberate consider- ation. The active preparations of the Navy Department must go forward, and Congress must come to the aid of the Secretary of the Navy. These things are necessary whether we are to have war with Spain or not, At any moment the struggle may begin, The commander of the Terror may inaugurate it this very day. The instructions to our naval officers now in Cuban waters are broad enough for this; and, while the admin- istration desires it, this is precisely what is feared. There is something anomalous in this, but the probabilities of the future are war, When it comes we shall realize the fact, just as we have been forced to contem- plate the possibility; we may even recognize the spark which kindled the flame, but the gradual steps by which it was reached will be matters for philosophical deduction rather than historical record. The delicacy of our relations with Spain is all that is now on the surface, but the first gun may be fired before we begin to understand how we drifted into the war. New Loan—The Rothschilds Want Six Hundred Million Dollars of It. A cable despatch from London states that the Messrs. Rothschild, conjointly with the London house of Jay Cooke, MoCulloch & Oo., have forwarded to Secretary Boutwell a propo- sition to take six hundred million dollars of the new loan, and, although the telegram gives only the above meagre outline of the offer, the inference is drawo that the. bonds wanted are the remaining three hundred million dollars of the five per cents and the entire three hun- dred millions of four and a half per cents, The other terms on which the subscription is offered were not known in financial circles last evening, but it was intimated that they would not defeat the nego- tiation, the chief obstacle being the quasi con- tract on the part of Mr, Boutwell with the subscribers to the first instalment of two hun- dyed millions of dollars of five per cents, that future subscribers to the new loan should be made to take a proportion of the four per cents, It will be remembered that we called attention at the time to the loose wording of the original Treasury circular on this point, which was differently viewed as a contract and again asa mere possible contingency, to be enforced or not in future negotiations. The plump offer of the Rothschilds to take so large an amount of the new loan is indicative of the wonderful appreciation of American credit abroad, especially in England, where the diffusion of a better knowledge of this country bas uprooted old prejudices against us and bestirred the universal John Bull to think whether there is not a better investment than his time-honored three per cents and as stable a government as that which rules the destinies of his tight little island. The General Sheridan and His Alleged Usur- pations. : The report of General Sheridan to the War Department, in relation to events in Chicago after the great fire in that city, is a calm and deliberate statement of a case which has ex- cited much public interest. All the orders which emanated from the Military Headquar- ters of the Division of the Missouri are given in full, and these, together with the careful history of the action of General Sheridan, re- flect credit rather than discredit on that dis- tinguished officer. ‘I was as purein my mo- tives,” says General Sheridan, in concluding his report, ‘‘as are those of the whole world who are now sending their charities here to relieve the distressed.” The report clearly proves this, and the subsequent action of Gov- ernor Palmer, it is plainly discernible, was not only an efterthought, but a piece of per- sonal or partisan ill-will. In regard to Gov- eroor Palmer General Sheridan says:—“If His Excellency Governor Palmer had, on the 11th of October, when I telegraphed him, or on the 12th, when I saw him personally, inti- mated that my course was distusteful to him, I would have accepted any wise suggestions which he might have made to satisfy the de- mands of a people prostrated and sick at heart from the loss of a ‘very large part of their beautiful city.” These few words are Sheridan’s best defence, and they leave his record even brighter than before. Mince Meat in THE Figis.—The Fiji Islanders appear to be nationally and person- ally averse to the new system of a modified slave trade which has been carried on for some time past along the shores of their ter- ritory by white men coming in the garb of labor employment agents. The latest reports from the islands inform us that six white men, with a recreant native, had just been mur- dered there, The bodies of four of the white men were hacked to small pleces with hatchets, making a horrible mince meat, the odor of which will, we fear, have a very de- moralizing effect on missionary enterprise in the district, and may, perhaps, provoke a serious feeling of nausea and for retaliation against our ally of the Treaty Tooth at the antipodes. Ovr Spanish CorREsPONDENCE—TuE Map- rip Press.—The letter of the Herarn's cor- respondent from the Spanish capital, which we print ia another column this morning, gives us a taste of the quality of the Madrid press on the Cuban question. If we may judge from the tone of the extracts furnished Spain is full of fight. Not content with the war in Cuba on her hands, she wants now to try conclusions with the United States. With her navy she is going to sweep American commerce from the seas. She threatens terrible things if we do not bebave ourselves and permit her sol- diers and volunteers in Cuba to go on in their wholesale butcheries in the Gem of the Antilles, Iu fact, there are dreadful calamities in store for us if we do not mend our ways to suit her. Tux OLp Sror¥ Over Acain—The story of the inside machinery and mysteries of the Custom House. We have had it told ao often that it has become as stupid as the latest Mexican revolution, Bergh as Dom Quixete—A Chance at the | with rifles and Grand Duke and General Sheridau—New | by General Sheridan and sabred horse- Fields of Reform. History, and even fiction, repeat themselves. Centuries have passed since the famous Don Quixote, the Knight of La Mancha, rested bis spear and rode into the darkness with his com- rades, biographers and friends. All that we have is their memory. Like other memories, it comes to life every now and then in war, society and politics. Sometimes we have a Don Quixote like John Thomas Jenkins, of the noble family of Yellowplush— Cheap Jack of education, and cradled in Bethnal Green, who suddenly comes among us with his cart, resolved to overturn all society. Sometimes we have a political Don Quixote—like the venerable and beloved Horace Greeley—who feels impelled to ride down all kinds of Custom House wind- mills in the interest of reform and office. Then we have the humane Don Quixote, whose heart is heavy over the wrongs of all animate and inanimate creation, and who, in spite of ridicule or reason, keeps. up incessant agitation. Those of our readers who have seen Don Quixote as drawn by Doré will remember his tall, lank form; his sombre, quizzical countenance ; his grotesque, irrepressible, chivalric bear- ing—something between that of a pugilist and an undertaker, This creation is the counter- part of our famed townsman, Bergh, and any one looking at his rueful and never-to-be-for- gotten features would believe that Doré’s Don Quixote had taken body and modern appa- rel and was walking down Broadway. Our Don Quixote Bergh has long pondered over the matter, and is grieved at the treat- ment society bestows upon its animals— especially pigeons and turtles, and oysters and dogs. After much thought he finds that pigeons are actually slain and transformed into pie; that turtles are ruthlessly dragged from their resting place under the coral reef and distilled into soup; that oysters are wrenched out of their comfortable and inalien- able shells and treated horribly—roasted alive, rolled in ‘Meal an roiled, or highly spiced and resolved into soup, or even eaten alive after being tortured by cay- enne pepper and radish, The horse, that very noble animal, is clipped of his hairy coat and sent to shiver on the avenues and in the parks by cruel owners; while the dog, especially the winsome, artless and useful poodle, has his ears bored and his tail docked by wicked and unfeeling owners. All of these things Bergh has long observed and dwelt upon. With the decisive and rigid intellect of a great mind he has given his whole soul to this question. No call of social duty; no tempta- tion to ambitious renown; no overwhelming succession of events here or in Europe; the wars on the Continent, or our war of the rebellion ; earthquake, pestilence, famine; not even the downfall of Tammany, or the Heratp’s great achievement in penetrating Africa, has been permitted to direct his marvellous mind from these great themes. All this time he has only thought of the flattering pigeon dissolving into pie; the lively oyster suffering from flame and fire; the trimmed poodle and the slowly reddening lobster. In vain rude and coarse men have urged that men must eat and pigeons and lobsters must die; that civilization has tastes and craves the paté and the salad. In vain those who know the horse tell him that clipping is a comfort to it, induces ‘ cleanliness, speed and health. In vaia Miss Flora MoFlim- sey clasps her adored poodle, and, with bended knees and streaming eyes, urges’ upon Don Quixote Bergh that little Gippie or Towser looks so cunning with his trimmed ears and shortened tail—that he is proud of it himself, and is never the worse for it beyond a salve or a powder. Don Quixote knows better. His mighty and mas- sive mind has searched those grave questions, and all that remains for him to do is to mount his Rosinante and level his spear, and set out to do battle for the oppressed oyster and the downtrodden pigeon. In vain men say to him, ‘Wise and brave Don Quixote, thou son of valor and chivalry, behold our wants! We must eat or die, Are there to be no more chops or tenderloins or porterhouse steaks; no more coils of savory sausage or sugar- cured ham? Are we to be deprived of our omelettes because the egg may contain the germ of unknown life? Shall the keen Yankee be torn from his codfish, or the frugal Jer- seyman from his clams and crabs, or the industrious Knickerbocker from his Sunday pigeon pie. Speak thou inscrutable and hu- mane friend of beasts, whose gigantic mind fathoms the unfathomed world, are we to have nothing but cakes and ale?” Don Quixote points to other lands and says: —‘‘Thou raven- ous and blood-lapping generation, look at China, where the Mongolian lives on rice. Canst thou not live as the Mongols do? Look at Arabia, where the devout Mussulman wor ships the prophet and subsists on figs. Go to Africa, where the swarthy and valiant Moor grows lusty on his native dates. I give you corn in America and wheat in Europe, eat of that and live! My astonishing mind has read these things. I know what the world wants. You can do asthe Mongols, the Arabs and the Moors, and although the chosen people may, as is written in sacred books, have offered up doves and goats and kine as burnt-offerings to the Lord, 1am the apostle of @ new dispensation, and I prophesy to you figs and dates and rice pudding. My name is Bergh. I am bidden forth to this work, and my gospel shall be yours, come what nfay.” Let us not suppose that Don Quixote will content himself with ruthless attacks upon the windmills and pigeon traps of Jerome Park. Do not believe it, The great Bergh means to reach higher game. Not many weeks since the Grand Duke came among us. There to meet him was our valiant Don Q:ixote, grim, sombre and grotesque as ever, in solemn at- tendance, profuse in courtesy, sitting at dizners of cruelly slain cattle and danc- ing to sweet music by performers who have not as yet received their money. We are told that Don Quixote and his friends forgot their creed about cruelty to animals in ruffling the young bear and that they tortured him more persistently than ever unhappy pigeon was tortured by the rufflans and monsters at Jerome Park. Be this as it may— behold the Grand Duke himself in the very sight of Don Quixote, sallyiog forth men, and a tribe of whooping Indians headed by Spotted Tail himself, to murder the peaceful buffalo and take the life of the gentle antelope. Talk of the company of overworked and harmless gentlemen, with their shotguns, winging a flock of pigeons in Jerome Park. Here is such cruelty to animals as was never known before. But, thank Heaven, our valiant Don Quixote is equal to the occasion. His soul is not to be overawed by any Grand Dake or terrified by the martial glance of Sheridan. He will pursue them to the very heart of the Plains. The conqueror of Ira Paine will soon measure canes with the Grand Duke. If that illustrious Prince imagines that he can invade our prairies and molest the harmless buffalo, he little knows the mighty and intrepid soul of Don Quixote Bergb. Armed with his cane, succored by his Sancho Panza from the police station, and with a reti- nue of constables Don Quixote will go forth to vindicate his great theories of animal life. It will be a noble sight, It is the middle of the prairie. The Grand Duke and his party have ridden down a herd and attacked @ young bull. The Indians are whoop- ing around and shooting their arrows. The chase is at its height. Suddenly a vision comes over the horizon. ‘It is a mirage,” says the Grand Duke, ‘‘and the vision recalls my early readings in the immortal page of Cervantes.” ‘‘No,” says Sheridan, as the vision approaches and the Knight of the Rue- ful Countenance gallops up on bis Rosinante, “it is Bergh. The protector of pigeons has: come to save the buffalo, Grand Duke, we must surrender!” And home again, Don Quixote leading and the royal party in trail; the whole party are marched into the presence of a magistrate and put in bonds; the buffalo are unmolested, happy; justice is vindicated, and a Russian Prince learns that there are fools in America, who when they mean to show what folly can really do surpass anything known a the civilized o1 agivilized world, Medical Experts in the Whartoy Trial. The great Wharton trial still drags its weary length along, illustrating in a striking manner the uncertainty as to results or facts obtain- able from the evidence of medical experts. It would seem as if the advance in the exact sciences tended more and more to prove the danger of implicitly relying on medical testi- mony alone in criminal trials. Mrs. Ellen G. Wharton is accused of poisoning General Ketchum with tartar emetic for the purpose of relieving herself of an indebtedness of two thousand six hundred dollars. The case for the prosecution, when presented alone, seemed a mountain of proof in itself, under which the prisoner was crushed beyond deliverance. The circumstantial .. evidence seemed to point conclusively that Mrs. Whar- ton had administered the poison, which Dr. Aiken and Professor Tonry swore they found in the stomach of the deceased. The symp- toms of the moribund were stated to have been those of one intoxicated with antimony, and Dr. P. C. Williams, who attended him, declared that upon these symptoms and some sediment in a tumbler he first founded his sus- picion of foul play. The case at this stage looked black indeed for the refined lady against whom all these aptly joined conclu- sions and damning spots were found. The ingenuity with which the prosecution had joined all the links of information together was regarded as creditable to their sagacity and diligent labor in the people’s cause. Nineteen days had they labored to weave the web around her, and when on the 27th of December last Attorney General Syester rested his case there appeared to be small room for Mrs. Wharton's escape from the meshes which would hold her until the gallows claimed its own, The defence arose to its herculean task, and during the last eight days have done such serious damage tothe case for the prosecution that it seems no longer tenable, And the most curious thing is that it has been almost wholly by purely circumstantial evidence that this has been brought about. Drs. Aiken and Tonry professed to have found poison. Professors McCulloch, Genth and Reese testified and appear to have proved-that no antimony had been found by the tests at all. They showed conclusively that the results obtained in the experiments could have been produced by the action of the reagents employed by Aiken and Tonry upon the medicine administered be- fore General Ketchum’s death, and left it open to serious doubt but that the poison, if any, was contained in the reagents themselves. The discredit thus thrown upon the so-called analyses startled the untechnical, who had taken the prosecuting professors at their word. The most fatal objection to the chemi- cal testimony came from Professor Genth. It may be summarized in one of his replies, as follows :—‘‘Whenever a substance is to be treated for the presence of any poison—anti- mony, for instance—it is necessary under all circumstances to use the best methods known, and which are not liable to error ; and in case of metallic poisons to produce the metal, and to produce the metal ia such a quantity that by a subsequent investigation of that metal no doubt at all can be left as to its nature.” The professors had not produced their anti- mony. After thus nullifying the analyses, the defence proceeded to throw doubt upon the medical testimony as to the cause of death. Dr. Warren, of Baltimore, declared the symptoms to be those of a disease well known in that city as malignant purpuric fever, or, technically, epidemic cerebro—spinal men- ingitis. Turning a moment from the medical evi- dence it may be noticed that another impor- tant line taken up by the defence is indicated in the evidence of young Mrs. Cottman, who testified to finding tora strips of paper after Mrs, Wharton having an interview with Gen- eral Ketchum at the house of Mrs, Chubb. The defence evidently intend to support Mrs. Wharton's statement that the note for two thousand six hundred dollars was destroyed there after being banded to her by the de- ceased, It will be seen, then, that the defence, as far as developed, sustains more or lees strongly, first, that if antimony were found it should have been presented; second, that no anti- mony was found; third, that he did not die of antimonial poisoning, but of purpuric fever; fourth, that he took no antimony ; fifth, that Mrs. Wharton owed nothing save good will to a a cig em te ae eR Ir —_————— General Ketcham at the time of his decease. It is a complete reductio ad absurdum of the theory of the prosecution, which places its allegations in an ordet exactly inverse to those gives. Many more days must elapse before the case goes to the jury; but the impression that the Case for the prosecution bas broken down takes away much speculation on the result. Now, what is painfully apparent throughout this trial is the woful incompetency of the medical men engaged to analyze the contents of the stomach in the first instance, For the accused woman whose life is in jeopardy we have profound sympathy that her chances of a shameful death rested on the fallacious and careless conclusions of such disgraces to a profession which is nothing if not exact and absolute, The failure of the analyses will — uni leave a painful gap which it will be foundim- possible to fill. It may be proven that anti- mony was not found; but it cannot be now declared with certainty that it could not have been. This is extremely regrettable, as much for Mrs, Wharton’s sake as in the pure inter- ests of justice. It teaches a lesson thaf when searches and analyses of this kind are required to be made none but the highest obtain- able science should be used, as none other is anything better than farcical and criminal. The public will watch the remaining days of this extraordinary trial with intense interest. Tre Risinc Croup on Tae Spanish Hori- ZON.—The United States once had a diff. culty with the Spanish government in regard to an American citizen, resident in Havana, named Thrasher. When the question of the time was put—‘‘What shall we do with Spain?” echo answered, ‘‘Thrash-her.” That was probably the best answer echo ever made in that connection, The blackand ominous cloud that is now rising upon our relations with Spain bespeaks anything but a long con- tinuance of friendly relations with that Power. Where is Minister Sickles? What Can The general tenor of ye we WO invariably receive from oe ony phi Re can be almost anticipated. It is of never-ceasing pronunciamentos, of marchitig and counter- matching, of small battles and doubtful vic- tories, of revolutionists defeated in one part of the country and triumphant in another, of forced contributions, general insecurity and robberies by banditti Such is the budget of news presented thig morning by our latest despatch from the Mexican capital. And yet, in spite of this gloomy state of affairs, the government of Juarez is sanguine of ultimate success; so are the revolutionists, and with equal show of good reasons. Some years ago, when the question ‘‘How to remove the grievances of Ireland” came up in the British Parliament, an insolent member proposed asthe most effective remedy for Irish grievances ‘‘To put Ireland for twenty- four hours under water.” This remark would be to the point and of useful application as re gards Mexico, for the salvation of that chaotic country lies either in mutual annihilation of the contending parties or in speedy armed intervention by the United States government. Tue Wasnineton Republican publishes the following :— Mr. George M. Van Nort, Commissioner of Pubite Works, is one 01 the haudsomest men in New York, age’ full 61x feet in his socks, and moulded like @ .ercules, Mr. Van Nort is hardly a Hercules in stature, but he is doing the work of a Hercules in his efforts to cleanse the Augean stables called the Department of Public Works, JOHN THOMAS, (From the New York Tripune.) “ve always haa genimnily tastes through itfe,” said Yellowpiusb, “and have no doubt that 1 come of a genimunly origum.” 1t is probably with a simi- lar reflection that John Thomas bends over the pantry table and composes those sarcastic essays upon New York society which have lately added so much terror to the columns of the “Cheap Jack Morning Chimes.” The season of balls and recep- tions having now succeeded the opera, and the Legislature being comfortably organized, he re- minds us that the first duty of all persons of rank and culture should be ‘to get the right persons, to avoid ineligibles, and in other ways to maintain or acquire position in the social scale; and he pro- poses, therefore, tu set on foot a thorough reorgani- gation of the incongruous elements which con- stitute the fashionable life of our cily. Social standing is no longer defined as it used to be. Upstarts and parvenus and stock- brokers, and vulgar parties of that sort, have got among the aristocracy, and though there ts a great “variety and ricnuess of color in our social circies”’ it must be contessed that they are not at all select. Society must be purged, just as we have purged poliucs. We must make use of the “genimnly tastes’ of Jonn Thomas, just as we have made use of the accounts of Hon, Jamea O'Brien. Our condition, to teil the truth, is pretty bad. The managing committees of the most fashionable balls, the best boxes at the opera, the finest houses on the best avenues, the parlors of the choicest clubs, the grand stand at the races, are all filled with “frauds.” John ‘thomas knows them at a glance, “When we come to examine these sccial potentates,” says he, “what do we find? Well, not to be too censorious, a very coarse and very dirty kind of clay, scanty and smatcering edu- cation, undérbred manners, infinite sel{-assertion, almost absolute unscrupalousness in their deal- ings—especially avout money,’” So terrible, according to this fashionable chron- icler, has the irruption of valgar upstaris become that one does not see exactly how to get rid of them. without obliterating the very landmarks of society and bringing on a sort of primeval chaos, Fortun- ately, however, in the work of social regeneration we shail have the assistance of this most genteel person, who sucked refinement with his mother’s milk, and to whom good breeding 1s @ second na- ture, When a iady whose ambition surpasses the limits of her visiting list gives a grand party sne employs the celebrated Mr. Brown to furnish ascore or so of guests to order; and 80 when we vegin to reform our society we shall call upon John ‘Thomas to say whom we must recognize as a bow- ing acquaintance, Wao shail be admntted to the in+ timacy of the dinner table or ve accounted eligibie for the German, and who finally are to be followed as leaders of the haur ton Tv 18 not enough as he told us last Sunday, ‘nat @ leader of society shall have “money and good clothes” Such a being: must have “pare social tact”—for instance, must never rush, shouting and kicking, into the midst of @ party of tashionable ladies and gentlemen, and tell them they are all vulgar trauds—“llberal culture, ele- ganuly refined tasies, captivating personal presence, fine breeding aud a mice apprectation of the re- quirements and necesstttes or particular situa. tions.” Is there no one who comb ines all these bright qualities’ No modern Adonis in boots and pantaloons whose form aud features are the marvel of the metropoits? No Crichton whose cx. tensive culture and delicate refinement are tne glory of his sex? No wise, modest, elegant, con- siderate gentleman, smooth of speech and pradent of counsel, to Whom We may look up as our model of ail the manly virtucs and socal accomplish- ments? Ah, yes; Providence has given us such a man, who will iead us oat of this rabble of parvenus and teach us, by his own shining example, how wo be genteel, Surely it is unnecessary to name tm, tinsoing Joan Tuomas, stand forth t Be Done For Mexioo?~ © +r