The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HE RALD| —e BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XNXIX,. AMESEMENTS TO-NOBROW. & SCOUTS OF same ars BROOKLYN THEATRE, 3, ML: closes at l:to P.M, Broadway, betwe TWO sb TERS ai ut P.M. Mr, Joseph THEA No. 5M Broadway AVOMAN'S WiLL, « Lie. WALLA cae Broadwoy and Thre I LYNNE, ats P.M; closes at LP. a 2 Clereg EN, Fi TOMAS’ CON. « COLO-SEUM, roadway, corner ot ih rty-itth street.—LONDON BY WAT, at LB. M 5 . Same at7 P.M; ploses at 101", 3 E, Madison ave ‘Street. —GRAND Pr \GEANT—CC at Lv P.M. and u7 PM UADRUPLES New York, Sunday, SHEET. 2s, 1874, June From our reports this morning the probabilities are that ihe weather to-day will be clear. Tue Lonpon 7 ‘aph announces that Mr. and Mrs. Baneroit, upon retiring from the Berlin mission, ‘reccived a number of im- perial presents of great beauty and value.’ Has it beeome customary for American Minis- ters to aceept ‘‘presents of great beauty and value’ from fore; Our Panis, Lerrens to-day will create 2 sen- sation. Politics and Spanish rumors from the French capital, i ently discussed, must always be of interest, and cremation, miracles and a new mass by Verdi will attract general attention. But what shall we say of a revolution in opera—of a _ perfect and glorious tenor worked by steam, to be fol- lowed, no doubt, by a rich and glorious basso | And all this the | and by a divine contralto? work of a Yankee. The substance of Capoul and Nilsson and the shade of Lablache will be gence, Formosa. —It will be seen from our news of | this morning that the Japanese government has successfully carried out its purpose in the | ter of chastising the pirates of For- The Japanese troops have been successfully landed; and in an engagement which has already taken place the Japanese have been successful. China is in full sympathy with Japan, and the presnmp- tion is that the Island of Formosa will be | divided between them. Japan is giving good | proof that she has caught the spirit of modern civilization. Buenos Ayne fhe Atlantic cabl fruit. —Already the | latest laid of | brings forth ils proper ington. have known the fact for weeks to come. The ocean cables, utilized as they are by the newspapers, are doing much to make the world a unit. Every new cable is a positive gain to the cause of modern civilization. Tur Cuvrcn Question 1x Gurmayy.—Time is not healing the ecclesiastical difficulty in Germany. The “blood and iron’’ policy bas | lup to the expectation of its | Fulda bishops adhere to their | not been success: author. The old platform ; and we have the promise of a document which may give Bismarck some trouble. The Bavarians cling to their old love, and indications are not wanting that the policy of persecution is defeating its purpose and strengthening, rather than weakening, the Catholic cause throughout the recon- structed Exupii Asotnzr Inxcypation TureaTrENep.—We call attention to an article which will be found lsewhere in these columns this morning indi- cating the possibility of a disaster in our im- mediate neighborkood not unlike that which recently brought abc fering and so much destruction of property in Massachusetts. It will be a lasting disgrace to New York city if the Croton Aqueduct should give way. ‘‘Astitch in timo saves nine,” is | an old saying. A word in time should bea warning, and an effectual warning, to our city authorities. ing will not be allowed to go unheeded. A Rosstan Prtnce Basisuep ror Lirz— The Grand Duke Nicholas, son of the Grand Duke Constantine and nephew to the Emperor | of all the Russias, who lately figured in the newspapers in connection with the loss of hia has been tried, found guilty and sentenced to banishment for life in the Cancasns, done in Russia, It was not soin France un- der the Empire. It is not so now in England or America. Russ Russia is right, empires built up. mother's diamonds, So, and not otherwise, are Canapuan Tnotiorar S French Canadians have jome patriotic ducing the Canadians who have found a home in the United States to return to their native land. Strong inducements were held out, but our naturalized citizens felt themselves too well off in the enjoyment of liberty to return to a land where 9 man may not express freely his opinions. Under these cir- cumstances the Convention came to nn end without practical result. If the French @anadians are really desirous of keeping their friends at home there is a very simple means at hand. Let them come into the Union. We shall be delighted to have them, and then | it concerns his honor a3 well as hers to have their young men will not be forced to aban- don their homes in order to enjoy liberty ander the Stars aud Stripes equally agitated by the startling intelli- | Sefior Sarmiente, who has retired from | the presidency of the Argentine Confeder- | stion, has been appointed Minister to Wash- | But fr the new cable we should not | ut so much personal suf- | We hope that our word of warn- | This is the way things are | ja reads the world a lesson. | veld a convention at | Montreal with the avowed intention of in- | » desire | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1874—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. Mr. Beecher and His Accuser. | exereise of candor, humanity and justice as | that which has been brought into fresh pub- | Leaty by the impradence of Mr. Tilton. The greater portion of the respectablo press of this | city has practised the considerate forbeurance | which is due to the genius, eminence and character of the most gifted popular preacher who has adorned the American pulpit in our generation, But the press elsewhere has been less cautious, and has indulged in hasty judg- ments which the facts, so tar as they are yet developed, do not warrant. The Pailadelphia | Press, for example, declares that the noto- | rious charges against Mr. Beecher are ‘now confirmed beyond all doubt if Mr. Tilton’s statements and extracts from letters are au- thentio, and it is hardly possible to think they are not;'’ and the Press goes on to say There has never arisen in the social Life of | this country a case which required so wise an | H | great offence has been committed. A man far more honorable and manly part than his accuser. We of course intend this remark to apply to their conduct since the offence, if who accepts or gains the kind of favors to which allusion 1s hero made, who induces a woman to place her reputation in his keeping, | is bound to guard and shield her at every pos- | sible hazard to himself. A man who acts | otherwise renders himself infamous irrespec- tive of his profession. This obligation holds | | even if there has been no more serious | fault on either side than mere indis- cretion. The periectly innocent Cassio and the purely innocent Desdemona, in the | great play which so powertully depicts | the passion of jealousy, would have owed it to | | possible, because no innocence could have | Re P ‘ kuown eccentricity and unscrupulousness of that “the Beecher scandal became such public | | | property that silenco is impossible. It | , |is the unfortunate event of the age. It crags down to the mire a man whose ability was akin to genius. He was the foremost preacher of the day, and now he is found guilty of the most heinous of crimes, made more so from the fact of his calling and bis place in the public esteem." The Albany Journal says, with more reserve, that it publishes the substance of Mr. Tilton’s statement gives us, as it wll give thousands of others.”’ We will not multiply examples of ‘he effect of | Mr. Tilton’s unwiso letter on the country | press and the fatal impression it is producing onthe public mind. Greatly as the revival of this scandal is tu be deprecated it has passed toa stage where the most quieting and ju- dicious thing is such an investigation as will | elicit the precise facts and place them in clear | evidence. Meanwhile the public ought to suspend its judgment and consider how little has yet been proved. Be the real facts what they may, no right judging man should hesi- tate to censure Mr. Tilton. Tae inconsiderate part of the press is discussing this matter as if it concerned only Mr. | cuser. scandal cannot be iguored in a fair examina- “simply to indicate the pain it | Beecher and his ae- | * This is too narrow a view. There isa | ay third person whose relation to this unfortunate | facts, He [ tion, and something is certainly due to her | | sex, wounded in its most sensitive point, and to her utter helplessness in such a con- troversy as this, in which her own husband is | the accusing party. In any supposable or | leged confession, but the garbled extract which | i | any possible state of the facts it isa piece of ; unfeeling barbarity to torture her by a public exposure at this late stage of the question. By Mr. Tilton’s own statement the offence more than four years ago and was confessed in writing by Mr. Beecher on the 1st of Jan- uary, 1871. As Mr. Tilton has continued to live with his wife it is to be presumed that | he forgave her at the time, if she had done | anything requiring forgiveness, When the | facts first came to his knowledge he had two | courses open to him—separation or forgive- | ness. By bestowing the latter he bound him- | | meanness of dragging her before the public and covering her and his children with shame after the lapse of so many years. By coutin- uing to live with her he made a virtual pledge | of his honor as @ man and a busband to shield | }eayen and to seck God at some time in his | | | | against him, whatever it was, was perpetrated | | Aud yet, we cannot see on what hypothesis, self to silence, and nothing can extenuate the | a | he investig ition. her reputation and to protect her, as far as | possible, from every public consequence of her | heaven nor when to seek God. It will be the It is not easy to conceive of a | province of Rev. Mr. Pratt to-day to tell his | transgression. | more imexcusable, a more despicable mean- ness, than dragging her faults into pub- | lic view years after he had thus condoned them. The flimsy apology he makes he has been accused of ‘slandering Mr. Beecher and that he owes it to his character | to prove the accusation false. It is not easy to express in temperate language the senti- ments which such an excuse is calculated to | excite. What can be said of a man who sets | a higher value on his own reputation for truth | | than upon that of his wife for chastity? We cannot understand the sense of honor which thinks it a greater stain to have given way to rash and mistaken jealousy than to live with a wife who has been un‘aithful. The more fully | the public comes to believe that Mr. Tilton’s | jealousy was unfounded the more effectually would the reputation of his wife have been protected against suspicions which cannot touch her without, at the same time, wound- ing him and bringing disgrace upon his chil- | dren. Supposing the accusation true, there | was a time when he might with honor have exposed and abandoned her, but that time | passed when he consented to an act of forgive- ness, If he should hereafter say that his letter was not meant to brand her, the public will re- | gard itas a weak and cowardly subterfuge. It is true that no specific charges are made in the letter against her or Mr. Beecher. But Mr. Tilton knew perfectly how the letter would be understood. Public rumor has long been definite enough on this painful sube | ject, and Mr. Tilton was aware that his letter would be interpreted ccordance with the notorious story, unless he stated a different | ground of complaint. He chose to leave the s pags , And faith in God brings peace to the soul— will explode as soon as it is touched, He says | | the character of Doubting Thomas. | awkward to explain, and which justify Mr. | But this unfortunate affair has now reached ; distempered faucies he is each other to couceal the inculpating fact of the handkerchief so long as concealment was | shielded them from the injurious suspicions | | which such a tact was calculated to engender. There may be circemstances in the present case which it would be equally difficult or Beecher's reticence, al.hough the real truth may be consistent with his Cliristian character. such a pass that the whole truth, whatever it is, ought to come out, since nothing can le more damaging than the prevailing suspicions. Fairness to Mr. Beecher requires that due allewance be made for the character and pas sions of his accuser. Of all the passions to | which human nature is subject none so tor- | tures the heart or so distorts the judgment as jealousy. In its jaundiced eyes ‘‘trifles light as air” are regarded as irrefragable proofs. Nothing is so utterly untrustworthy as the epinion of a jealous man on the agonizing topic. If Mr. ‘fulton's jealousy has not warped his judgment and filled his mind with an exception to the ordinary rule But this man, whose intellect is crazed with jealousy, is Mr. Beecher's only accuser. The beliefs and assertions of a jealous man should go for | nothing except so far as they are supported by facts and proofs, of which cooler men can . But Mr. T.lton presents no tangible | does not even state the nature of | the wrong which he thinks he has suffered, and nobody can judge of the bearing of facts on an unknown accusation. There is an al- be publishes does not show what is confessed. | What is given tallies well enough with the | common rumor, but it is equally consistent | with improper {freedoms not reaching the last stage of guilt, and may, for aught we know, be also consistent with a wrong of an entirely different nature. Mr. Tilton should kave printed the whole of that confession or none of it. The suppressed context might have given it a totally different face. His treatment of | his wife in this matter has been so utterly heartless, crucl and indefensible as to permit the supposition that be has dealt foul blows at one who has not her title to forbearance. consistent with innocence, Mr. Beecher and | his church can now afford to parry a full pub- Pulpit Topics To-Day. It is the aim of every man who calls him- self a Christian to enter the kingdom of hfe. But all men do not know how to enter congregation how and when to do both of those things. Fuith is the door by which we | enter into the one and apprehend the other. the peace of God, about which Mr. Corbit will | speak this morning. Tho result of unbelief | will be illustrated by him in the evening in | Worship is of two kinds, formal and spiritual, that which is rendered with the lips and that which springs from the heart. The | object and aim of worship must be to bring | pleasure and glory to God and profit | to ourselves, and how to effect such results will be the topic of Mr. Cudworth’s discourse this morning. In the evening he will let his people into ono of the seereis of | Church success. We have no doubt that one | of the secrets is, as Dr. Deems will show, that none in the Church should be neutral. Professor Haskcll, of Colcrado, will show | how God is manifested in creation and in | Christ, and will ulso present some medita- tions about God. Mr. Platt will at tho same time set forth God as a sun, and will present the Bible view of heavenly recognition—a theme interesting to all men everywhere, Some of the pastors will deal with Old Tes- tament characters and symbols, such as Jacob’s ladder, from which Dr. Holme will draw o new lesson; Abraham’s vision at Beersheba, of which Mr. Hepworth will speak, and Moses’ monument and epitaph, concerning which Mr. Pendleton will give his views. Of course he cannot have any marble monument to set before his people nor any | chiseled epitaph transcribed therefrom to} presemt. Dr. Wakeley will show his people | bthe “Balm of Gilead’’ this morning, and | then, current rumor uncontradicted, and by ad- | ducing proofs that Mr. Beecher had griey- ously wronged him in some way he has caused the public to believe that it was in possession of the real accusation and that the indefiniteness of his letter was owing to the | indelicacy of a subject upon which precision of statement would offend public propriety. If the fault complained of is less than or dif- | ferent from what general rnmor has made it, it was a clear duty which Mr. Tilton owed to his wife to decisively prevent the public from | supposing greater guilt than has been in- | curred. The effect of his letter on the | country press is a perfectly natural imopres- | sion which he must have foreseen and | intended when he published it. If | nothing has taken place beyond cen- | surable freedom of caresses or improper advances, which were repelled, Mr. Tilton has most cruelly and wantonly wounded the reputation of his wife. Even supposing the worst that has been surmised, it was inexcusable and infamous to make her a public spectacle after consenting to live with her. For her sake and the sake of his chil- dren he ought to have been glad to have it | Supposed that unfounded jealousy had car- | Tied hin beyond the bounds of reason, since | | the current story disbelieved. Even supposing the worst—of which there js no proof at vll—BMr, Beecher bas acted a | up of those cellars and sub-cellars whore hu- | deeds and made restitution. | appearance after His return from the Wilder- | city pulpits to-day. | dered with alarming rapidity. in the evening, will leave them to answer the question, ‘Why is not the health of the danghter of my people recov- ered?’’ Dr, Fulton will apply the law of for- giveness to recent exposures, we suppose, of | office-holders here and in Brooklyn. If the law of forgiveness reachcs those men at all it should be aiter they have repented of their The Doctor will | also show his people in word painting Christ's | ness, where he had undergone temptation and a fast of forty days and nights. Mr. Hep- worth will set forth the same Christ as our example. Such are some of the topics, theo- logical and practical, speculative and doc- trinal, which will occupy the thought of our A Necessary Sanitary Raid. The Board of Heal‘h, inspired by true sani- tary ideas, has made a descent upon those infamous underground tenements in the Fourth ward where hundreds of families en- deavor to drag out a life of semi-asphyxiation, and where diseases of all kinds are engen- ‘The law regu- lating such nuisances seems not to be suffi- | | ciently stringent in ite provisions, especially | in regard to the owners of those pest dens. A comparatively light fine will not bring such unconscionable wretches to terms. Imprison- ment for the owners and the complete closing | Mayor, who, thanks to Mr. Gardner's friends, | ignominiously fail | ous for the kind-hearted members of the | man beings have been so long penned up, _ that a repetition of this outrage on civilization may be rendered impossible, will prove a sure remedy, As the law now stands we can only depend upon the vigilance and perseverance of the health authorities to root wut this evil by giving uo rest to the underground popula- tion, but using the means at their disposal to.| follow up the raid of yesterday until the cel- lars aro left to their legitimate inhabitants, the rats, A New Surprise from the Mayor. That funny old gentleman, Mayor Have- Funny | meyer, we are informed, has a new surprise in store for the people of New York. If the information did not come from a reliable source we should be disposed to treat the re- port as a hoax, notwithstanding the well the venerable joker. The story is that the | two Police Commissioners who have been con- victed of a wilful violation of the Election law and fined for the offence, and who yesterday resigned their offices, have already been or are to-morrow morning to be reappointed by the has the power to fill a.vacancy without the confirmation of the Board of Aldermen. In other words, an attempt is to be made to cheat the law, which imposes the penalty of a torfeiture of office for the offence of which Messrs. Gardner and Charlick have been | found guilty, by the acceptance of their resig- | nations and their reappointment before the formal notice ot the existence of the vacan- cies caused by the conviction is received from Governor Dix. No person is surprised to find the reform ranters striving to excuse the offence of which these men have been convicted. One of them is at the head of a political organization that has been boisterous in its professions of indig- nation against ballot box stuffing and elec- tion frauds, and that has claimed especial eredit for having passed aun election law calcu- lated to secure an honest vote and a fair canvass, It has an awkward look, the specta- | cle of the Chairman of the Republican Central Committee standing at the bar of a criminal court to receive sentence for the first viola- tion of this very law. It is natural that the | whole reform pack should join in the cry that the offence was only ‘technical’? and should | seek to make it appear that guilt is not guilt, despite the verdict of a jury. All this the people can endure with entire good | | mature. But if the Mayor of the ity, | T work, the strict discipline in regard to the who is even now attempting to cover up gross frauds and malteasances in an- other department of the city government, should make an effort to cheat the law by keeping in the Police Board, through a trick, | two convicted Commissioners, the public pa- tience would be exhausted, and the Mayor would probably follow his appointees out of office. Besides, the disgraceful juggle would Messrs. Charlick and Gardner have not the power to resign, since they were out of office the moment the verdict of “guilty” was rendered agaiust them. The conviction works a forfeiture of office, and the notice to be given by the Governor is simply a notice of the existence of the vacancy. | Neither could the convicted men, under any circumstances, be reappointed. The law says they shall forfeit their office, and a reappoint- | ment for the same term to the came office would not be a forfeiture at all, and would be in clear violation ot the law. Should the rumored indecent attempt to thrust Messrs. Gardner and Charlick upon the | community be persisted in, it can only lead to unpleasant criticism of their whole official conduct, Many acts of questionable legality have been done by the Police Board which no one will care now to discuss, provided we are well rid of the old commission. There is great doubt as to the power of the Board to give out contracts to friends and favorites at their will, without inviting proposals as re- quired by the charter, where the amounts in- volved are over o thousend dollars, Under the old law such power may have existed so far as the street cleaning is concerned; but the charter takes away the ‘‘regulating” of the | street cleaning from the Police Board and gives it to the Common Council, and hence | the general limitation as to expenditures | | without inviting bids seems to apply to the | street cleaning as well as to all other work. At all events, the people would not look with favor upon the giving out of a building job to | the amount of seven or eight thousand dollars without even the formality of a formal order of the Board, especial'y when the recipient of the favor is the son-in-law of one of the Com- missioners. Mayor Havemeyer had better re- consider his intended ‘‘surprise,’’ and let the law take its course with the convicted Police Commissioners. The Dogs’ Euthanasy. The new system of killing suggested by the philanthropists was yesterday tried on some sixty unlucky dogs. The result must have disturbed even the tranquil conscience of Bergh. So far from preventing the torture of the unfortunate victims the new system of slay- | ing prolonged their sufferings for hours, In | the darkness of the stifling pound the poor | victims of medd!ing philanthropy must have | prayed—if dogs can pray—for delivery from | the kindness of their friends. Under the olde fashioned system of removing canine vagrants | into the land of forgetfulness they would sim- | ply have been plunged into water and their voyage to the dogs’ resting place would have been accomplished in a few minutes. This expeditious mode, however, looked too barbar- Society for the Prevention of Crnelty to Animals, Now, these good-natured people insist on a process by which the death agony of the luckless dogs is prolonged dur- ing hours. And even then the guardians of the pound must arm themselves with clubs to brain any stout-lunged animal that resists the two hours’ suffocation. With these fats before us it may be questioned whether the interference of Mr. Bergh has been of any real benefit to the dogs. We entertain a strong belief that if they could speak they would, with universal yelp, request Mr. Bergh to go home and allow them to be killed with- out two hours’ torture. At present the work of destruction goes on very slowly. Consider- ing the extremely datgerous nature of this vagabond dog nuisance the public have a right to complain that no sufficient measures have been taken to bring it to on end. It is not generally known timt nearly ten thousand worthless curs roam - about this city. Until this tribe has been destroyed the danger trom hydrophobia must continue, Richard Wagner's Model Opera House. The growing interest in the public mind in the ideas and plans of the remarkable German composer, critic, reformer, philosopher, or whatever other title the versatile genius of Richard Wagner may entitle him to, attracts the attention of all musicians to the little town of Baireuth, which has suddenly become famous as the chosen ficld whereon the battle between the old and new schools—the veterans Gluck, Weber, Meyerbecr, and the entire race of Italian and French writers, against the young, ardent, revolutionary adherents of the Ton-Kunst apostle—shall! be fought. We pub- lish to-day another of those interesting and graphic letters from our correspondent at Baireuth, in which the new opera house, which, by all accounts, must necessarily be- come a model one, is minutely described. Tho innovations in every departinent of an opera house introduced by Wagner in this model building are of the most startling kind. The enormous size of the stage first attracts attention, A width at the proscenium of ninety-five feet, and a depth, including the space of the additional stage at the rear, of one hundred and nineteen fect certainly of- ford ample room for scenic, processional and panoramic display of the most unbounded kind. The absence of those insurmountable obstacles to acoustics, stage boxes, ard the amphitheatrical form of the auditorium should have a beneficial effect, as far as sound is con- cerned. The invisible orchestra forms another novel feature in the new theatre. The body of instrumentalists, one hundred and six in number, placed beneath the level of the audi- torium, cannot interfere with o full, unob- structed view of the stage, to which end the absence of prompter’s box and footlights will also conduce. The “mystic abyss,” as Wag- ner fancifully calls the space reserved for the orchestra, will be the Delphic oracle for the audience, speaking ‘‘a high, invisible lan- guage, appealing constantly, revealing, recall- ing, expounding.’’ One entire performance of the “Ring of the Nibelungen’’ will last four days, commencing at four in the after- noon and closing at eleven each evening, the entr’actes being an hour each in duration. It will be given positively in the summer of 1876. The other features of Wagner's system of opera, which will be brought out in strong relief on this occasion, such as the natural training. of singers for sach o stunendoug overweening pretensions of stars, the suppres- sion of the mania for applause with which operatic artists have been from time immemo- rial afflicted, and the entire annihilation of individual excellence, so as to place everything on the same plane, indicate the approach of an operatic millennium and o Walhalla of composers and impresarii, The theory is certainly faultlese, but to reduce it to prac- tice—nous verrons. Picnics for Poor Children. Mr. George F. Williams, the journalist, who | last year and the year before organized a series of picnics to give the poor children of our city streets a glimpse of the green fields and blue skies, is again active in his admirable charity. By the announcement given elsewhere of | ‘the managers of the fund collected for this purpose, our readers will be in- formed where to make contributions if the appeal touches their generous impulses, and we sincerely hope it may. Itis difficult to imagine a field in which more genuine good may be done by a little money. Al! the little ones who, by the poverty or even the vice of parents, are shut out from the purest and yet | cheapest pleasure in the world—the simple chance for a romp under the trees and in the green fields—aro in the hands of the public and should be well remembered. Acknowl- edgment will be publicly made of whatever money is given, down to the sum of fifty cenis; but the gift of one hundred dollars will entitlo the donor to the honor of o full picnic. Here is an admirable chance for some inexpensive and rather pretty fame. How pretty it will sound in the admiring circle to say ‘the Jones Picnic’ or “the Brown Picnic” or ‘the Robinson Picnic !” and Brown, Jones and Robinson will be only a hundred dollars out respectively, and many hundred dollars richer in fame andin the consciousness of having made so many pairs of sad little eyes sparkle for one day with genuine pleasure. No doubt “the Original Jacobs” may have a pic- nic, too, if he will pay, and even ‘‘the Real Original Jacobs.” For our part, we will give five hundred dollars to the fund. Not that we want our five picnics; on the contrary, we | give it on the express condition that that part of the plan shall not be acted upon—at least not in our favor; but if the managers know of any deserving person whose prospects in life will be improved by his having picnics of his own they may give him the honor of the whole five. The Statue to Bunyan. The day of wonders has not ceased when Eng- land erects a statue to the great dissenter, John Bunyan. History, it is said, repeats itself ; but how strangely it contradicts itself when an English cleric, as the Dean of Westminster, joins tho admirers of Bunyan to do him honor! Classical writers tell us that seven cities, among whom Homer, when liy- ing, had vainly songht protection, contended for the honor of giving him birth. So, had the circumstances been similar in the lives of the two, it might, with a slight alteration cf the poet, be said :— Seven cities fought for Bunyan dead Where Bunyan living vainly begged his bread, But it is human nature to award honor to | men whose names are immortal and in the re- flected lustre of whose fame they may them- selves hope to shine. Eminently is this reflection appropriate in a scene in which the English Dean, the facile instrument of an establishment which, when it had the power, dragooned and imprisoned every faithful Gos- pel witness like Bunyan, lends the dignity of his presence to the inauguration of Bunyan’s statue at Bedford. “The seventeenth century,” said Macaulay, “produced but two men of original genius— John Milton and John Bunyan; the author of ‘Paradise Lost? ond tho author of ‘Pilgrim's Progress.’” But the great essayist might have added that the “Pilgrim’s Progress’’ is read a hundred times to every single perusal of the grand epic poem. In Bunyan's early | history we have a man, the embodied product, of that ploomy and legalistic religion which the Dark Ages had entailed on the world, and whose conscientious votary was the necessary victim of “the Slough of Despond” or the captive of “Giant Despair.” Such o victim and such a captive had been the groat tinker preacher before the Church ot England sent him to Bedford Jail. But he had burst the spiritual bonds and stood forth a spiritua freeman (as we see from his great theological papers, especially “‘Grace Abounding fcr the Chief of Sinners”), and liberty made him bold. The grand old writer of “Pilgrim's Progress’ necds none of the late and long- postponed honors Dean Stanley and his countrymen would now offer him. Their statue may serve to remind the traveller of after ages that in the dark hour of bitter per- secution the dungeon of Bedford Jail irra- diated all England with o light they hated but could not quench, and that it held one of whom the kingdom was not worthy, Bun- yan’s name may reflect glory on those who commemorate it; they cannot shed any upon his. Daring Professional Burglara About. The attempt by burglars to get into the New York Savings Bank, on the corner of Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue, on Fri- day night, and the robbery in Captain Jacok H. Vanderbilt's house, Staten Island, yester- day, show that there area numbor of bold and skilful burglars about, and that both the people and the police should be on the alert. Fortunatcly the police heard the robbers at work trying to open a way through the wall into the savings bank, and, after surrounding the premises, captured three of them. The wall at which the burglars were hammering is in the cellar of a restaurant adjoining the bank. They had got so faras to tear down part of the wall and to remove a block of granite in the rear of the bank safe, There was a small steam boiler against the wall, which, it is believed, the robbers intended te use for running a steam drill. The bank had @ narrow escape, and the polico must hava the credit of being efficient on this occasion. The burglars who entered Captain’ Vander- bilt’s house got away with their plunder, es timated at over a thousand dollars, and have not been captured. Bauk officers and house holders cannot be too careful, for it is evident there are bands of professional thieves in and around New York. The Season at Ems—A Pleasant Pico P, ture. Our foreign correspondence to-day will be found as sparkling and pungent as champagne, and will be read with much interest. Many a wish for tho cap bestowed by the Sultan on Fortunatus will no doubt be incited by our letter from Ems, picturing the water springing up from the earth pure as crystal and mixed with little bubbles of carbonic acid gas; the moderate heat, agreeably tempered by soft southerly breezes; the shady, pleasant walks in all directions; the covered promenades for wet weather, where silks and musling may defy the rain; tho splendid baths, with their wonderfully recuperative properties; the healthtul diet, the attractive excursions, the emperors, kings, princes, counts, colonels, princesses, countesses, bar- ons and baronesses one meets at every turn. To be sure, some might hesitate to breathe the wish for rapid transit, even if they possessed the magic travelling cap, upon dis- covering that the innkeepers at Ems swindle the visitors to the extent of their for- midable power; that milk costs half o dollar a glass, and stronger drinks, no doubt, in pro- portion; that there is a tax upon every con- ceivable thing, and that the whole local popu- lation is greedy and rapacious. But they would, no doubt, remember our own summer resort practices, and console themselves with the reflection that they would be better off im these respects at the German Saratoga than at home. Tue Wax toe Winp Brows Porrricarrs tn France.—According to the old saying, “straws show the way the wind blows,” aud we think the reappearance of two suspended republican newspapers, one conservative and the other radical, in Paris, whilo the governe ment is putting its grip on the Bonapartis® journals, indicates the drift of politics in France just now. If MacMahon will give the Republic o fair chance and the republicans will be moderate, the imperialists as well as the royalists may be kept in the background, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The great thing on foot at Bedford is Bunyan, Courbet has the Vendome Column—on ts mind. It is madness in any dog to be in the street in these times, Governor M. L. Stearns, of Florida, 13 staying at the Astor House. Senator George Goldthwaite, of Alabama, ia at the Fiith Avenue Hotei. Ja it probably worse than the story Mrs. Beecher Stowe toid avout Byron? “Carpenters are known by their chips’— cially Beecher’s carpenter, Creswell, probably, was not soand on the theory and practice of the tiird term, Senator Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Paymaster 8, T. Brown, United States Navy, is quartered at the New York Hotel, Count de Licntervelde, of the Belgian Legauon, has apartments at the Brevoort House, kx-Congressman D. J. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, is sojourning at the Filth Avenue Hotel, John Horner is cand.date for the State Conven- tion in Arkansas, He also wants a plum, ‘Tne St. Louis 7imes says Senator Carpenter ts “pot adownriht jackass.” What kind, then? Seflor Don Luis de Potestad, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, 1s residing at the Clarendom Hotel. André’s pocketbook has been placed beside Ar- nold’s watch in the cabinet of the Connecticus Historical Society. President J. M. Walker, of the Chicago, Burling ton and Quincy Ratiroad Company, ts registered ab the Windsor Hotel. General Burnside will visit Knoxvilie,-Teon., om the Fourtn of July and deliver an address before the Typographical Union of tat city, G. A. Thomson, United States Consni at Stetrin,, and H. Schuber, United States Consul at Panama, are on duty at the Sturtevant iiouse. Sir Edward Thornton, arrived at the Astor House yesterday morning from Washington, and leit in the aiternoom for Boston. Pennsy!vania weeps that another opportunity te give hera place in the Cabinet has passed away, as the paluce in Pandemonium arose, like an ex- Hale-ation, General Butler, so the Cleveland Herald says, haw purchased an interest tn the Wasuington National Republican, Now there may be reason for the herd names he has given the press. Miss Anna Berger leads the band at Fint Citys Mich, She plays the cornet. The youths who de the rest of the tooteng flud that their hearts are Uddje strings, and sae piays on them alae espe the British Minister,’