The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1874, Page 3

NEW YUKK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULES JANIN. | A Visit to the House of Mourning. Anecdotes of the Great Gossiper. —e———— THE FUNERAL. Edmond About on Dead Critic. the Pais, June 21, 1874. Jules Janin, prince of dramatic critics, king of “she yewilleton, expired on Friday alternoon at the ‘house No, 11 Rue de la Pompe, in the suburb of Passy, whero he had passed the last fifteen years of bis life. I went to his house yesterday, accom- panied by a friend, a young Parisian journalist, to ‘Whom, as to all others of the profession, the dead Man had shown kinduess, “/2 était si bon pour mot,” said my iriend, with tears in his eyes. Such & pretty house, built in the style of a Swiss chalet, Sud standing in the midst of a garden lull of Waving trees, veivet turf and sweet smelling flowers! In this garden Janin used, in the sum- mer, to receive his friends, members of the literary world, so proud to pay homage to their Diustrions confrére. Amid the tron work of ita outer gate is worked the monogram “J. J.,”’ inl- tlais so eagerly looked for in the Journal des Dévats every Sunday for forty years. We sent in our cards, and a gentleman came out of the house to receive us—a type of a certain class of French- men, small, gray, self-possessed, dressed tn biack, j ‘With the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor in his buttonhole. In answer to our interrogatories, | having first announced himself as Dr. Villette, the | family physician, he told us that M. Janin had ex- pired very peacefully and without a struggle. For ‘weeks past his corpulency had been so enormous | shat he haa been unable to move himself, but had to be carried by his servants from place to place. On this Friday afternoon he had eaten rather | more dinner than usual, a little boudllon, instead | of the cup of milk which had recently sufliced for his meal, and feeling fatigued desired a servant to help him to bed. As he reached the couch he gave one long sigh and It was all over. The ramor that he had been for some time out of his mind had, the doctor declared, no real toundation. ‘The knowledge that he had iost forever the power of locomotion affected him Very much. Not long before bis death he saygto some friends :—‘T sap- pose I am celebrated; I am a great writer; lam But when & demigod is dead and buried, when his bust is plated in the national atrium, tnter signa majorwm, it a not only impiety, but the height of impfadence, to demand that bis bust should be removed to the garreta. Why make the collection Jess complete? The dead bave no enemies, they make noboay jealous, they are even useful at times, for tueir reputation, henceforth unquestioned, may werve to diminish the merits ofthe living. I snould, then, have the best possibie grounds for singing the praises of the old Academician who has just done dying. If! prefer to teil you frankly what | think of hit, it is because, in an age of free trade and international coi) , It seems to me dishonest to give foreigners a copper-silt counter for 4 twenty frane piece. Dame £uro} who 1s ever fond of pitying us, and finds it to interest to do 80, 18 already purchasing tmmor- telles, and I hear her cry with arrant compassion, “Poor France! Alter so Many disasters, only this was wanting, that she should lose Jules Janin.” Many thanks for your pity, my dear camarades de pension; but really it 18 @ misfortune of bo coR- sequence—a child’s balioon which has broken its string and got spiked on the garden railings. The explosion tovk you by surprise. Calm yourselves and resume your usval perecien, 48 we did ours on the very day of the accident. The originality of Jules Janin and his chief merit can be explained in a few words. He was the first journalist who introduced bavardage into crili- ‘cism. Thrown by a siroke of good luck among dis- Unguished writers who were fastidious, correct and dull, who used to weigh tragedies and, li need be, vaudevilles in the scales of AMacus and Khada- manthus, he took a gay View of the sacred proies- sion, gave reins to his fancy, and put into his Jeuilletons everything that came into his head, ‘This game astonished the pablic without offendag 4%, and people acquired a taste for rambling arti- cles, Which were one series of parentheses, where the topics that ought to have been subordinate were the run Of ihe principal theme, and the sub- ject was lost among @ heap of paroles toufues. Like those talkers of the saione ‘whoahine at smail cost use they pick neither words nor ideas, he achieved'by a stratagem the character of awit. He used and he abused his reputation, tor good, lor bad, encouraging and GRE OFSgID® true merit, exalting the true and the talse, accord. ing to the wind that blew, His eniogiums, which few readers took seriously, were greatly sougut auter by artists, for he borrowed irom the Journal des some portion of its great and legitimate influence. For over thirty years Janin taiked sense and nonsense, quite at his ease, before the most select public of France and ot toreign coua- tries. He spoke about everything under the sun, propos of the stage, caressed his friends, worried his tows, told all bis ittle affairs, even his mar- riage, with great minnteness, quoted Horace in season and out of season, and took liber- ties with the Latin tongue, bis of which was but indifferent. Thanks to ail of this he could proclaim himself the prince of critics without exciting any great storm. Fortune smiled on the native vanity which had entire possession of him. This great spoiled | cand, to whom ail was forgiven, was one of tue happiest men of the Gay. tis importance pufted htm out visibly like La Fontaine’s trog. ‘to the last year of his life ne reigned absolute; he re- ceived embassies, he perused petitions nd suppil- cations, a8 he lay on the sofa to which gout and obesity bad nailed him. Authors journeyed to Passy to read him their pieces, actors to spout their parts before him, The French Academy came to seek him in 1870, after having long and justly closed its doorto him. The indulgence of the public allowed him to criticize new works, with- out quitting bis villa, upon the reports of certain aides-de-camp whom he used to send to the thea- tre. It was oniy last year that the editor of the Débats put him on the retired hist in consequence of the unanimous remonetrances of the sub- serivers. The most patient gave up deciphering that senile drivel. member of the Academy! Zh bien, I would re- | mounce all that glory to walk, to walk round this | room without assistance!” Aud he was epecelly, | frritatea by the compassionate looks with whic | visitors would regard him, They did not like to | openly express their pity, bat they looked it. | Jania, with his quick appreciation, recognized | what was meant and suffered under It horribly, | but in silence. Jt was irom this, Dr. Villette menses, that the idea of his dementia nad first arisen. en. At the doctor’s invitation we walked into the CHAMBER OF DEATH where the body then lay. !t wasa large dining room, (on the second floor, painted in gay colors, with & large open fireplace in the style of the- renais- ance anit with windows opening on to the garden. | Owing to its easiness of access M. Janin had for some time used it as his dwelling room, and there he died on @ couch on which Kéranger had also breathed his last, At a table in a corner sat a | Priest, an old lady and two old gentiemen. ‘ihe old lady bad a long list before her irom which she read aloud various names, and the old gentlemen aud the priest put cards into envelopes which they addressed. These cards were the invitations | to yatre part, as It is called here, to take parc in the funeral ceremony. They looked around for 3 moment as we entered but immediately returned | t their business, which they carried out, I am | bound to say, without apparently the smailest ap- | preciation of the surrounding circumstances, And yet one might have thought that even the most | careless would have been impressed; for there, on | @ low bed in the middle of the room, lay the re- | —— of one, who for a quar@r of a century nad M one of the most shining lights of nch roalism and who bad won for hi Mt @ world- de reputation. ‘The expression on the hairless face was mild and childlike, as na the seventy ra’ contest With the worid had left no impres.. sion on it, calm and imnocert, as of a happy old man in a peaceful slumber. Peace to nis mutnes, ‘The doctor accompanied ns through THK HOUSE, | Behind the mortuary chamber 1s the kitchen, | bright and glistening with its batterie de cutsine, its spining pots and stew pans. The broad stair- | case leading to the frst Noor is bung with rare en- | gravings alter the ancient masters. At the top of | the staircase is the smnall winter dining room, and leading out of it a huge chamber, used indiscrim- imately as dining-room and library. In each of the | four corners of this room is an enormous bookcase | in biack oak, filled witu Aldines and Elzevirs, rare | editions of rare works. Above the white marble | mantelpiece with its Louis Seize clock ts a portrait of Madame Janin, In fiont of the window on a | column pedestal is a marble bust of Janin, and close Sf is bis desk covered with papers written over ta blue ink. There enveloped in a dressing gown and | ‘With asilk traveiling cap on his head he used to | work. Here he passed the last fiteen years of his life; here he wrote nts translation of Horace, his “Neveu de Rameau,” his holiday jeuiiletons for ine Dévats, ANECDOTES. | His handwriting was very bad, a very nightmare for a printer, so illegible that only two composi- tors Out of the whole staff of the Lébats were able | to translate it. When he contributed to any other | | octtarei he always dictated uis work to Mme. janin, who writes an excellent hand. One day he | wrote a letter to 8 friend, who after much troume | boat Aga two or three words which made Aun | think his correspondent must be Janin. He imme- ey started for Passy, ‘Al, liere you are!’? cried Janin on secing hiv “you bave read my | letter 7” “Not at all,” replied the friend, “I | have received it, and [’ve brought it here for you | to read it to me.” “Weil,” said Janin, much cust down, “I'll try.” Javin was not malicious, but occasionally he Would say a bitter vaifg. A rich but hard-nearted man, Who Inde sad havoc of the French language, eailed on him oneday, Alter listening and sufer- Ang for some time, Janin spoke to hia visttur in Latin, The man was astonished. ‘f don’t under. | staud you, M. Janin” he said after a pause, “I don’t speak Latin.” “Try, sir, try!’ cried the great critic, “you could not speak it so badly us you do French,’ r Monnay, Jane 22, 1874. THE FUNERAL, I have just returned irom the first suneral ceremony in the parish church of Passy. The in- terment will not take piace till to-morrow, The | streets of the suburb were kept by a number of sergents de ville, and, the deceased having been an Academician, a guard of hon r ol mlantry was pr ent. Among those assembled in the garden of tt house I saw Emile Girardin, in bis short coat and ‘with his pince-nez; Dumas ills, whose hair hag | a gray, and who is becomimug more and more ike his iather; John Lemoine, @ sinall Kngish- Jooking man; swarthy Heuri de Péne, with his ae fixed in his eyé; gray, stout M. de Lesseps; iingue, the famous actor, tae original Buridan in the “Tour de Nesie’; Arsene Houssaye, Nedar, the photographer and Aiberic Second, 1 was standing by a table on which were several sheets or now inseribed with the names of the visitors, An old gentleman with & white head and a short- cut white beard, # red, vicasant jace, dressed in an alpaca jacket and carrying a straw hat jn jis hand, came op to inscrire and gave me a kindly bow asi made way fortum, As he leit Looked down carefully at the paper to see what his nan might be, and nearly collapsed gs 1 read ‘words, “Victor Hugo.” Edmond About on Jules Janin. [From the London Athenwum.) Tne death of Jules Janin and the commotion tt has caused not in France only, but also, and in even a greater degree, abroad, remind me of an Italian proverb, “Io endure is to win the game.” Happy the writer who reaches seventy; whatever faults he may have been guilty of, Whatever the inconsistencies of his life and the changeableness of his politics and criticisms, even ti he hae dad the migfortune to outlive tus talents, he can say, on quitting the scene, “Victory! IL have won the gaine.” His opponents, his seconds, his judges, are dead, or routed, or worn ont, The generation that buries him has read only fragments of his j ‘writings; its acquaintance with him is founded on | Semall number of anecaotes; it knows litte of Jim bat nis name, and as the name has male | Some stir im the world the world pronounces it } With @ certain respect. it 19 litte short of a Miracle if, among the crowd, a sumgie person, More impurtiat or less prejudiced phan tue rest, takes the trouble to werh the merits | of the pappy defunct. Why seck tor the | troth or tell it? Is not the pubic, lke others ereigns, indifferent to justice und trutn? It pi | fers of all 1t8 advisers those who say it 14 right aod | applaud even its errors, It sometimes approves | of the critte who 13 suMciently bold to attack, | openly a living and working cemigod. Si pbul- Misons please it, Decanwe they ueip to consvie tha * mediocre Majority, who feel” humiliated by Ue | Si ‘The true critic does not wholly die—witness jainte-beuve. who has lett strong and lasting work. And the poet, too, who, like Théophile Gautier, bas abandoned his true vocation and writes a dramatic /euilleton, still leaves some un- aying pases which outlive the men and works whom he criticizes. But what survives of bavar- dage, even the most happy, the most admired, the most famous? The echoofaname. The heirs of the name of Janin are quite rich enough to reprint the thousands of feuiUetons that he scribbled ; they cannot get them read, Even his books, and Gow knows he published dozens, will not ve re- perused, for they are not written, Une owes the truth to the dead and the whole truth. Iwill therefore not conclude this sincere and severe judgment without doing homage to the qualities of the man. This critic Without capacity, this writer without style, was a man of letters to the tips of his fingers, and that in the most nobie sense of the word. lic \oved reading, he adored books, he had a passion tor les choses de Vesprit, he toiled without ceasing, like a man to whom litera- ture is ali in ail. If be was ied astray, and even got into the mire at times by meddling witn politics, he acted trom entirely disinterested motives, and he had @ proiound contempt for places, pensions ani sinecures, His likings were sincere, his hatreds no less so. He did good and evil indiscriminutely, but ever conscientiously. All who enjoyed nis intimacy mourn in him the best of men and the most devoted of iriends. His door was ever open to the young. He cucouraged Ponsard and aided him during is life, took him to his house and com- forted nim to the ou of his death. If he created @iaise school of writing and leaves in his 200 vol- umes only models to be avoided, it Is none the less | true that his life did honor to our professton. EDMOND ABOUT, MZ. MACGA‘:'?'8 TRIP TO KHIVA. pt 1 OE EL (From the Athenwum.,] ‘The author, with excellent good sense, refrains from repeating the threadbare arguments which are used on one side and the other about the Cen- tral Astan question, which chiefly exists in the imagination of a lew peopie, whose taterest it is to set us by the ears and to see that the quarrel does not die out, judiciously rubbing the sore with & pamphlet whenever it seems in a fair way of healtug up. It is not in Central Asia that we shall ever come in contact with the power with which we have lately been exchanging courtesies which seem likely to ermoitter our relations rather than to render them more triendly, Mr. MacGahan’s book is 80 goud that it could afford to have polt- ties in it; Daving none, it is better. A book more freshly written, and with more interesting mat- ter, both general and personal, is seldom to be found, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. is CER a2 Mr. Case’s “Materials for the History of the Atnenian Democracy from Solon to Pericles’ (James Parker & Co., 1874), gives in the space of a knowledge | | | Majority of Cuban exiles agree. fame more op’ tess legitimate of some few persons. | valuable addttion to its stores, in the shape of a hitherto unpublished correspondence between Schiller and his sister Christoptine and her hus- band Reinwaki, which has been left by Sclilier’s last daugbter with a view to its publication. Prorgssor VON Host has written an able and learned work on the “History and Constitation of the United States,”’ which 1s just published at Dis seldor!, He draws from American experience, with tne federal syetem, some pertinent applica- tions to modern German politics, ‘THE GERMANS are still busy writing on the unity of the human race. The latest book is that of Dr. Leo Reinisch, who, following the unsvientific method of she origin of mankind at a definite Place, brings the human race out of the heart of Africa, We have it on good authority tnat M. Victor Hugo will publish in a month or two, previous to the issue of the second part of ‘Quatre-vingt- treize,” a collection of miscellaneous poems, Ar- rangements are being made for the translation of this work into English verse, to appear shortly after the publication of the French text. Mr. Swinburne was at first to have supplied the Eng- lash rendering, but it has been since decided to entrust the translation of the poems to a number of diferent hands, BOOKS RECEIVED. ee Cg “The Middle States.” A handbook for travel- Jers, a guide to the chie/ cities and popular resorts of the Middle States, and to their scenery and at- tractions. Bosto. james R. Osgood & Co. “Wealth and Wine.” By Miss M. D. Chellis. New York: National Temperance society and Pub- lication House, “So Fair yet False; or, Pourquoi?’ By Engene Chavet. Translated irom the French by 0, Vibeur. New York: G. W. Carieton & Co. “Tables of Arbitrations of Exchanges.” By Jonn Howard Latham. New York: Charles H. Clay- | tun & Co, “A Dangerons Game”? ton: William F, Gull & Co. “fhe Autobiography of Edward Westley Mon- tayn.”” With a preface by R. Shelton Mackenzie, LL, D., literary editor o1 the Philadelphia Press. Philsuvipnia: J. B. Peterson & Brothers. “Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science.’’ Volume XII. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co: “Brookley Moor.” <A novel. York: D, Appleton & Co. “Old Wells Dug Out: By Edmund Yates. Bos- By JM. L. New Being a Third Series of Sermons,” By T. DeWitt Taunage. New York: Harper & Brothers. “Taken at the Flood.” A novel. By Miss M. E. Braddon. New York: Harper & Brothers, “The Brooklyn Council of 1874.” Letter missive, statement and documents, New York: Walk worth & Graham. “The Second Wie.” A romance from the Ger- man of E. Marlitt, By Mrs, A. L, Wister. Phila- deiphia: J, B. Lippincott & Co, “Syrian Home Life.” Compiled by Rev. Isaac Riley trom materials furnished by Rey. Henry Harris Jessup, D. D., of Beirut, Syria. New York: Dodd & Mead, “Abridgement of Elementary Law.” By Dunlap & Blickensderfer, Erie, Pa. ~The Model Landlord.” By Mrs. M. A. Holt, New York: National Temperance Society and Pub- lication House. “fhe Great Presbyterian Conflict.” Potter vs. Swing. Chicago: George Macdonald & Co, “Doctor Ox, and Other Stories.” Translated | from the French of Jules Verne by George M. Tarle, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. “The Flying Kiss; or, Our Destiny.” A novel. By Moritz Loth, New York: G. W. Carleton & Co. “Barnaby Rudge.” By Charles Dickens. New York: Harper & Brothers. “Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Vampaigns in Africa.” By Henry M. Stan- ley, gold medallist of the Royal Geographical So- ciety, author of ‘‘How I Found Livingstone.” With numerous illustrations from drawings by Melton Priss, special *rtist in Ashantee of the Illustrated London News, and other artists, and two maps, New York: Harper & Brovhers, “From the Clouds to the Mountains: Compris- ing Narratives of Strange Adventures by Air, Land and Water.” By Jules Verne. Translated by A.L. Alger. Boston: William F. Gill & Co. “Casket of Reminiscences.”” By Henry 5, Foote, Washington, D.C.: Chronicie Publishing Company. “The Lake Side Annuai.” Directory of the city of Chicago, Chicago: Williams, Donnelly & Company. CUBA. The Cuban Agent Denies the Extstence of a Conspiracy to Sell the Patriot Cause. As might justly be expected, the letter pnb ished in yesterday’s HERALD charging President Santa Lucia and Mr, Aldama with an attempt to the friends and sympathizers witn their cause. ‘There are two points, however, upon which the The first is thas | there can be no doubt at all of the existence of a ; Most serious misunderstanding between Santa Lucia and General Maximo Gomez, and secondly, | that while it is a tact that Mr. Aldama, the present short pamphiet the original statements of Greek | authors with regard to those politcal changes upou which so many pages have been written vy historians, THE Saturday Review saya that a verbatim re- port of the debates iu Parliameut would be some- thing too terrible to contemplate, Members who | want to see their speeches in fll murht club to. gether and issue them, vut to get people to read them would be an impossibility. Not even an act ol Parliament, says the Review, would ever induce Englishmen to read what they don’t want to read. ‘THE GERMAN Socrery tor the exploration of Equa- , tortal Africa has pablished the ‘Travels of Dr. Bas- tian aud Dr. P. Gissfeidt.'? ‘Tas New UNITED STATES Copr, or revision of all laws and treatics in force in December, 1873, will be issued from the government printing office in two large octavo volumes, ‘They will be sold to the public at abont cost—probably $5 the set, or less. ‘This publication marks an era in our legislative hisory, and is a great boon to thi untry. WHEN THACKERAY contributed serial stortes to Fraser's Magazine ie was paid 128, 6d (less than $2) a page, in double columns. Alter Vanity Fair had made him somewhat famous, he asked leave of Fraser's publishers to reprint for his own profit some of the sketches he had contributed to the magazine, It was granted withont hesitation, and thus a matter which is now causing a copy- right lawsuit between Mr. Joseph Hatton, antnor | of “Olytie,” and the Gentleman's Magazine, in whica the story first appeared, was amicably ad- Justed, Mr. MCnRayY has in preparation “The Ecclesi- astical and Secular Architecrnre of Scotlana: the Abbeys, Churches, Casties and Mansions,” by Mr. Thomas Arnoiad. A Coustry Mixerr of the Karly English Text Society is reprinting a pleasant old book, “Apophthegmes, that is to sate, prompie, auic: Witte and sentencious saiynges of certain Em- perours, Kynges, Capitaines, Philosophiers, and Oratours, as weil Grekes, as Romaines, boll veraye Pleasaunt and proatable to reade, partely for man- Per of persons, aud especially Gentlemen, First gathered and comptied in Latine by the ryght famous clerke, Maister Erasmus, of Roteysdame, and now trausiated into Englyshe by Nicholas Vaal,” 1542, Dn. D. RK, Rowe's “Adventures in Moroce Just out in London, is a book of new and lively in- terest. Mk. Anwor's “Concordance to Pope,’ which is now ready jor the press, brings out the curious Jact that this great master of English has nowhere iu iS Works used the word ‘also,’ nor the word “towards.” BLACK WOOP & SONS are abont to publish a vol ume entitied ‘arenes for Summer’? by Mr. OC. Home Douglas, It Variotts places of bealth resort, including Algiers, Malaga, &c., whic the writer has visited. ” as. ‘Tne Livesaky WoRLD will, according to the | | Weunar Gazette, shovily be 1y possession of a most | partment, where the working stat numbers 12,000, Will give descriptions of the | | \ | | Dative of Cuba, can never fill the Presidency agent of the Cuban Republic. 1s a millionnatre, it 1s equally trne that since is ingress to office, in 1 cember last, but littie has been done w aid the patriots in the field, Whether this be trne or not Mr. Aldama, who saw a representative of the HERALD yesterday, cones to the tront and declares the whole story a fabrication from bottom to top, and says that it is ® transparent tissue of lies concocted by well known parties to iyure the Cuban cause by calumniating the President of the Republic and its representatives abroad. Toe Cuban gentiemen who have been spoken With on the subject tank that, while they regret even the very existence of the ugly rumors that were published yesterday, it is better that their truth or falsity should pe probed to the very bui- tom inorder to aflord the parties implicated a fair opportunity of meeting and refuting them, The public are told nothing about the two Vene- zuelan gentlemen mentioned in yesterday's letter, nor does Mr, Alduma explain tho reason of the | fight between Santa Lucia and Maximo Gomez, | Isis well known that this General, who ts not a | jnor does he aspire to place himself at che head of auirs, a8 the constitution forbids it, Whit, then, is the Matter between those two leaders ? CENTRAL PARK, The usua! Saturday afternoon concert took plaice in Central Park yesterday. ‘The Mall was thronged by crowds of promenaders who had escaped for a | To rag Eprror or THE HERALD:— JULY 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE BROOKLYN QUERY. How the Beecher-Tilton Scandal Develops. Statements, Comments, Whispers, Mrs. Tilton’s Statement. {Prom the Brooklyn Eagle of last evening.) ‘This morning an Hagle reporer was told by a gentleman who appears to be in a posttion to speak with authority, but for whose accuracy the Eagle does not vouch, that Mrs, Tilton has already been before the Committee of Investigation, and has denied in the most positive manner that there | ever Was the slightest impropriety in the conduct of Mr. Beecher toward her. The reason assigned by Mrs, Tilton for the strange conduct of ner hus- band is that when bis intimacy with Mrs. Wood- hull was at its height she called apon Mr, Beecher, as her pastor, and asked him for his advice, Her feelings bad been terribly outraged in consequeuce of her husband running after strange women, and publicly announcing that be had become « convert to the doctrine of free love, It was at thai time Mrs. Tilton asked Mr. Beecher for Xs advice, and, according to her statement, he advised her to leave her husband. With the lapse of time ‘Theodore ‘ilton's iree love fever covled and he learned of the advice Mr. Beecher had given to his | Wile, and to that circumstance ail the present trouble and mystery are due. Mrs, Tilton tw unable to assign any other reason for her hus- band’s conaucr, as she denies ever having told anything which would Jead him or anybody else to suppose that Mr. Beecher bad treated or attempted to treat her improperly. BEFORE THE COMMITTER. Iv is stated that Mr. Tilton aupeared before the investigating committee lastnight. He was asked to teilallhe knew. He said he had no desire to injure Mr. Beecher; tat he did not mean to teil any More than was necessary for lis own vindica- tion, and he supposed he had done that already. ‘To tais speech the Chairman of the committee re- plied, by saying that the patron? of the committee | was to ascertain all the facts, and that they | deemed tt Mr. Tilton’s duty to speak without res- ervation. To this Mr. Tiiton’s only rejoinder wa that he could tell some things greatly to Mr. Beecher’s injury, but said that, for the present, he must decline to speak in detatl, | What is Known of Mrs. Tilton’s State- ment. The alleged statement of Mrs. Tilton, as given | above, occasioned considerable discussion last evening in circles likely to be well informed in the Beecher and Tilton case. A reporter of the | HERALD conversed with several prominent Brook- | lyn citizens on this subject immediately after the | appearance of the statement, and all confirmed its | substantial truth. WHAT MR. HALLIDAY SAID. The Rev. 8. B. Halliday, assistant pastor of Piy- mouth charch, said that he did not know anything of the proceedings beiore the investigating com- mittee; but he had no doubt, from what he knew of the that the statement of Mrs. Tilton was substantially correct. It revealed nothing more than what Mrs. Tilton had said long ago to promi- nent and reliable persons in #rooklyn, on | whose confidence she had relied and whose | advice @he had solicited. In reference | to what Mrs, Tilton said of her relationship to Mr. Beecher, Mr, Tilton had on more than one occasion in his (Mr. Halliday’s) presence, and in the hear- Ing of other persons, declared his invincible coni- dence in Mrs. Tilton’s constancy and purity, He | had also several times told Mr. Tilton that he owed | it to the community, to Christianity and to | Plymonth church to bring charges against Mr. Beecher, or henceforth to hold his peace, | Mit, OVINGTON’S STATEMENT, Mr. Ovington, o1 the firm of Ovington Bros., dealer in fancy china and glassware, Fulton street, Brooklyn, was interviewed by a reporter of tae HERALD yesterday evening at his house in Henry Street, in reference to the statement oi Mrs. Tilton, He said that bis wife and Mrs. Lilton were very in- timate, and bad been so jor many years. He spoke in the highest terms of Mrs, Tilton’s amiability of | disposition and force of character. fle could not say that the statement published in the £ugle of last | evening, Day porting, to be what Mrs, Tilton had said, was correct, He was inclined to think that { in some Fespects it was untrue. But, he said, he had not & particle of hesitation in saying that the declaration of Mrs. Tilton that Mr. Beecher haa not suggested to her, either vy word or deed, any- thing that was improper or that was in the sligut- est degree immoral, was a declaration that Mrs, Tuton had made to himself and wite not once, but several times. He knew something of the proceed- ings of the Investigating Committee, he said, and he knew that the inv 400 was in every re- rt nh and ‘Wiaiso tam that tho reidit would be a complete vinureation. a1 Mey Beecher. i} | i | | good portion of her iuture life in Calitormia; fur- | thermore, that she would soon deliver her only uo- delivered lecture, and give ubose who came an- othef instalment of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. THE DOG WAR. Another Batett of Dogs Destroyed-=2ne Why Not Apply the Common Sense Test? Fear of Hydrophobia Augmenting. | love would speedily triumph. 3 their hair in the middie and were fashionnbly ! Tanderagee if T don’t have that tank there heyant aressed, Aman who sat Dear the reporter of the Chron- fcle, and seemed not to have ever gazed on the | Woodhull in the flesh, remarked audibly, “Tuey do say as how she’s lightnin’ when she really do | fet warmed up.” To which @ gray-haired free over sitting by emphatically assented. Then the | COBVersstion Was directed toward the topic of the hour, ‘have no doubt,” remarked the speaker just quoted, ‘that he’s a thunderin’ old hypocrite, f@ny way.” *Yes,” was the reply, “and @ dis ace to his cloth, if half that is said 'ts true.” “We'll have something better tha ool for Scan- dal’ to-night, shan's wet” “Yea, indeed; and the best thing abouc it all will be that tt will be true,’ “Certainly; but don’t you think she might have selected @ better title for her lecture? Supposing she had called it, ‘God's Trath,’ or ‘The Whole Truth,’ or ‘Ie Honest Truth |’ But ‘The Naked | Truth!’ Ido think, now, that seems to be rather bare.”? ‘At this juncture the noise of feet and canes upon | the floor drowned the collogny. ‘The prurient were getting impatient for the expected least of scandal. At a quarter-past elght o’clock precisely the Woodhull appeared upon the stage. She brought with her the usual tremendous roll of manuscript, She glanced doubtfully at ber audience as ff she were not at all sure of the kind of reception in | store jor her. The greeting of the audience was | Kindly. It was plain trom the first that the assem- blage was composed of people charitably if not kindly disposed toward her, Her vo faltered a little at first; but she struck out boldly, beginning witb a somewhat extended preface of generalities, It may not be amiss to say here that ‘The Naked Truth” is NOT A NEW LECTURE ol Mra, Woodhuli’s, but has been many times, and under many auspices that were melancholy to its author, delivered in cities east of the Rocky Moun- tains, Her mauuscript showed that some recent interpolations had been made, The preface was not oright with promise for those who bad come solely (0 hear the truth, the naked trath and noth- ing Dut the truth in regard to the Beecher-Tilton compitcation. The Woodbull told bow Jor turee years past the world had waged a continual war- jare upon her and calied her alt manner of bad names because of her peculiar theories, She was glad that it was a wariare of the world upon her, instead of a warfare of herself upon the world, because she was thereby enabled to do an infinite amount of forgiving, and was thereby lifted into the “grander ana nobler life.” She spoke of the original article on the scandal, alluded to her intimate relations to all parties im- plicated in it, and gave the history of the causes | getting rid of dogs ever devised. | station of that led to its publi: Beecher, she said, had shown that he was a graud and noble character by refraining from a positive denial of the story, and had thereby lent his great infue: to the cause advocated by the Woodhull, In fact, there had been a great deal of grandeur and nobility wasted tu and about Brook- lyn, for not only had the church, by its silence, | endorsed free love, but the press of that city and | New York, by their defence of Beecher, had also | rendered a verdict in its favor. A still broader | sweep was given to this logic by the assertion that | the attitude of the press and people of the whoe country, in their attempt to find excuses ior the | Brooklyn divine, snowed that the doctrines of iree Interwoven with this was an appeal for the right of free love in Beecher’ cage, and in all cases, based on the right which was insisted on by all Americans in re- ligious matters, Never had there existed so grand and noble & man as Beecher seemed to be in the estimation of the Woodhull, the truth of all tue allegations against him being admitted. THE PLAIN PURPOSE OF THE WHOLE DISCOURSE, it was evident, was to lilt free love Into view on the shoulders of Mr. Beecher’s presumed license in love matters. It was rot bis iault, bat toat of the social aespotisms in which he tound himself, Her quarrel! was not with Beecher on account of his relations to Mrs. Tilton, but from another cause. Although this cause was not elavorately ©: piained, it appeared to be that Beecher had al- lowed the Woodhull to be treated with indignity on account ol her instrumentuity in bringing the scandal to the public Knowledge. She seemed to think there were two Beechers—one ‘grand aud noble,” and the other quite weak and extraordt- arly human. The “sublime silence of Beecher'’ and the “sublime reticence of bis congregation’? recurred at intervals during the lecture with the | regularity of & refrain to a song. Contemptuous re- marks Were Made about the temperance women, which met with great favor. These women, sie said, would try in time to interdict the use of to- bacco, The story of the etfort to buy her of when in Ludiow Street Jail with $100,000 from pursuing the Beecher matter was rehearsed with all the energy that would nave been inspired by wounded pride and injured virtue. People had blamed her jor deiending Beecher, and asked her why sue did it. No man or woman had any business to say anything against him, He had acted according to his instincis, The allusions to Tilton during the progress of the lecture were not numerous, His conduct was neither excused nor condemned, and as for an ex- planation of his present attitude toward the scan- dal there was nothing o1 it. ‘dhia caused u great deat of dizappoimtment on the part of many au- ators, Mrs, Woodhull stated, in closing her discourse, that she had recovered from her alarm caused by 1 wonder why it is that no one has applied to this matter the test ofcommon sense, why it nas not been dealt with as men deal with the common affairs of everyday life? \ Judged of by that test, dealt with in that way, what is there that calls on Mr. Beecher tor , an answer? A flithy insinuation in a disreputabie publication, the malevolent attack of a vindictive } | and disappointe 1 ¥ nothing | surrender the cause of their country created quite | See a aren ny cones Sas URL S sensation among many Cubans in this city 4nd | snycning dare not speak out. Mr. Beecher has at against the object of his attack, or if he knows length, I think very unnecessarily, asked for an inquiry, He appears to be puzzled as to what in- structions he should give his investigating com, mittee, He thinks it due, he says, to his friends, | &c., to have some proper investigation made of the | tion made by Mr. | brief hour from the tophet of the town to rest | beneath the shadows of the t Groups strolled | through Arcadian grottoes near the lake, the gay\y , the merry songs of birds, painted bowts fall OL passengers shot over the placid bosom of the water, the music of the band mingled with the happy laughter of children and It was an attractive scene, and it is no wonder that our beautiful breathing spot looks 30 gay on Wednesday and Saturday aiternvons wheo the “bund veging to | play.’ THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERTS, Yesterday afternoon Theodore Thomas gave his third grand concert at the Schnetzen Park, Union Hil, Hoboken, to a large and appreciative audt- euce, The programme, which was admirably va- ried in its character, contained, among other se- lections, the overtures to “Der Tretschutz” and “Taanhaeuser,” Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the “Midsummer Night's Dream,” Andante from Beethoven's Fitta Symphony and selections from “Wilham Te'l,’? besides compositions by Strauss, Liszt, Gounod and Ambroise Thomas. It ts almost unnecessary to say that the execution of the Various nuinbers Was marked by that wonder+ ful precision of movement and correctness of ex- pression for which Theodore Thomas’ orchestra Nas obtained such 4 well-earned reputation, These concerts are evidently appreciated by onr neigh- bors in Jersey, and many New Yorkers avail theia- selves of the opportunity they furnish of enjoying good tnasic and breathing tae fresh country air at the game time, DEBPARTUBE OF AN ERIE RAILWAY EXPERT. Captain ‘Tyler, who came to this city from Eng- land some weeks ago to investigate the manage. | Worked, who has tanght what he has taught, should ment and condition of the Erie Ratlway, sailed for | Engiand yesterday by the steamship City of Mon. treai ofthe Inman line, He was accompanied to the Erie Railway, and Superintendent Brown These gentlemen say Captain ‘tyler expressed Nis satisfaction with the present management of the road, and he should go report to the Knglish stock- hokiers, He aiso added that he was agrocabiy Snrprised at the discipline maintained in every de+ ) the pier by Mr, J. ©, Clarke, General Manager of | | | rumors, insinuations or charges made respecting his conduct a8 compromised by the late pubdlica- | Tiiton, What charge has Mr, Tilton made? Lt venture to say none; insinua- | tions, no doubt, Mr. Tilton is one of those un- happy men who tries to make every one believe what he would rather die than believe, What there may be at the bottom of ali these | rumors and insinuations I do not pretend to know but [do know this, that to quote the single para- graph in Mr. Beecher’s letter and collocate it with areference to the publication I have vefore re- ferred to was the essence of cowardice—cowardly as regards Mr. Beecher, but much more so as | agaiust the woman Mr. Tilton was bound to pro- tect. It reminds one of the lines im Tennyson's | “The Grandmother? — And the parson mad And he said likewi That a lie which is partly ever the blackest of That a He which is all a ti | May be met and fougiie with ontright, | new lie Which ty part of a truth | Is a difficult matter to fight, | To revert to my first proposition, test this case by common scose and I say that Mr. Tilton bas not le it his text that week, | put record any charge that would call for an answer from the meanest pimp or the lowest harlot. Yet the pubic, the press and, above all, the proprictors of gingham umbrelias, want an | answer from Mr. Beecher. Answer to what, gentiemenr Can Mr. Beecher get up and aay, “My — friends, I have not broken the seventh commandment’? Suppose there were the same rumors about the integrity of agreat merchant or about that of the humblest | clerk in @ store, would you call on him—would any human being venture to cali for an answer (rom | that merchant, that clerk? Mr, Becneer has lived , among us twenty-five years and upwards in “the flerce light” that beats anout a popular clergyman, | especially one so eminent as Mir, Beecher, as it does avout a throne, and I have heard of no one who could jay his finger on a single act of Mr. Beecher’s life that was unbecoming a Christian gentieman. On! shame that this shouid be! Suame, that &@ man who has lived among us a blameless life, who has worked among Us a3 he bas | be called on to answer a charge that no man—not even Mr, Tilton bi i—has ventured to make, LA ton make @ specific charge; let him | make tt in n language ; iet him, it ne will, state lat facts; let he , fhe will, paolish documents, not garbled extracts. Then jet Mr. Beecher ve calied on for an answer; but don't let us assist Mr. Tilton to drag an honored name through mure on insinu- ations or rumors, Don’t let us stab in the dark. It in the open face of day, in @ fair fieid, Mr. | Beocher cannot clear himself against any argze | Mr. Tilton can make, then let those reivice who, under the guise of friendship and brotuerly iove, Would gloat over the downfall of one who has ven- tured fo Walk on @ higner path through thts world | than they have walked; ay, and who has to teach others 80 to Walk; Dut let them even in that case remember the lesson which the Saviour intended to teach to such aa they when fle said “Let bim woo 1s withont sid among you cast tne first stone.” | Respectmuily, L, We Naw Youk, July 11, 1874, Mri. Woodhall Affirms Wer Charge Against Mr. Beecher. {From the San Francisco Chronicle.) The announcement that the Woodhull would lec. ture on the Beecher-Tilton scandal drew a large concourse of the prurient to Platt’s Hall last even- ing. The seats on the floor and in the gallery were all occupied, and a fringe of perspiring humanity | extended entirely round the lower part of tne hall, There was a large admixture of the feminine element present, which monopolized all the best places, thrusting into the back ground more modest, but eqnally anxious manhood. Many of the male auditors seemed to have lately come from @ mining settlement In Nevada. A few parted There has been another canine funeral frem the establishment of Mr. Marriott in West Thirty seventh street, About 180 dogs of various ages and sizes suffered the death penalty by the most approved methods of suffocation. As the Pound- master and his assistants unloosed each dog pre- paratory to conducting him to the death tank the face of (the animal, way seen to beam with joy. Bright visions of old associates and thoughts of home doubtiess found their way into his mind. The heart of each dog seemed to rejole because of the supposed liverty which was agatn to be enjoyed, Bat when the assistants turned the animal's head in the di-. rection of the terrible box all hope of release | 4 seemed gone and the brute frequeutly struggled violently. to avoid his doom, These efforts proving in all instances abortive, the jong, despairing howl of abandoned and despairing brate nature was heard, Mr. Marriott passed in the animals one by one, In a Way that would have done credit to the good old Noah. ‘the door was then closed, the trap on the top of the tank was let down and the men began their work at the air pumps. When the atmosphere had been largely with- drawn, the deadly gas was let in, The struggies of the animals could not be seen, The interior of the tank was unlighted by aatmgie ray of light, and, in a darkness that could be felt, the ilves of these unhappy canines flickered and went out forever. ‘The carcasses were then Joaded into carts and taken to the awfnl offal dock, at the foot of | Fortieth street, whence, after various transmuta- tions, they will return in the shape of soap and carved toota-brush handles. The hydrophobic excitement Was largely ang- Mented yesterday by the report in the morning newspapers of the death of @ boy irom the dread: her first ruae reception, and intended to spend & | ml distemper, The horrors of one such a death fil | the breast of every citizen of the tnetropous with dread and terror. The playful lapdog whicn has for years been the joy of every Member of a family is Suddenly regarded with fear, and at a quiet conclave, composed of the older members o/ the family, after the children have gone to ved, the death of their playtetlow ts decreed, The grief of the children on the tollowing morning, when their brute companion is missed, is soon assuaged by promises of vonbons, and soon poor Tray ts \or- go.ten, RUMORED REMOVAL OF THR POUND, It was generally asserted yesterday aiternoon in the vicinity of the pound that the institution was to be removed early this week, The pound was closed and empty, and it was generally understood that no more dogs would be received at preseat, ‘The close proximity of the pound to a public school building has been the canse of many complaints, and i$ 18 highly probable that ihe rumored change will be made, Mad Dogs Killed Yesterday. A mad dog was shot by Oficer Schenck, of the Second precinct, yesterday morning, at pier Xo. 23 East River, Officer Irving, of the Second precinct, shot a mad dog yesterday, at No. 48 Beekman street. A rabid dog was Killed yesterday morning by OMcer Gorrey, of the Fiteenth procinct, at Nu. 68 West Fourth street. OMcer English, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, shot a mad dog at the corner of Forticth street and Sixth avenue, at twenty minutes past elyht o'viock yesterday morning. A mad dog was killed yeaterday by OMeor Gory, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, at No. is2 West Kighs teenth strect, Arabid dog was snot yesterday afternoon by William Knobb, in Fighteenth street, near Bighth avenue. A mad dog was shot yesterday, by an oMcer of the Eighteenth precinct, wt tue corner of Sixteenth street and Irving place, OMcer Quigley, of the Fighteenth precinct, killed | @ mad dog yesterday alternoon at No. 220 hast Six- teenta street, | The War on Dogs—A Bright Day Dawn- | ing For the Jersey City Poundmaster, The bitter refections of Mickey Free, Pound: master of Jersey City, 98 published in the HERALD | ® few days ago, aroused the commiseration of | Mayor Traphagen, who now comes ont with his | proclamation regarding dogs. No canine found , running at large will be entered on the books of any insurance company.o{ Not on'y the Pound- master, but every citizen, ‘is authorized to destroy the unfortunate ‘canine which 1 so imprudent as to wander trom his home, “When will you commence the slaughtering pro- eoss, Mickey?” asked & HERALD reporter yester- day. “oh, then may J never travel from Ballinafaa to full np by Monday mornicg,” was the Dear'less re- sponse, “But surely you would not go on with such # | business on the Sabbath *' Was the next question, Mickey drew himself up and, placing Ms Ronde in his pocke' ve one Oo: those giances which were. once, Senoribed a8 a comprom: 4 tween @grinand arebuke. He ‘hen broke 01 | “Now, see here, my dacent young dou’t come here im such tard times Lo take te by out of @ poor man’s mouth. What the aivii on aoes it make whether a dog bas bis windpipe closed Sunday or Monday if nove of the penn ra can hear bis grow!?’ Mickey turned away in dis- | gust and put an end ro cue interview, nol, how~ ever, till he muttered that he would bring up we Mayor and saow huo the “purtiest’’ mothod of Owners of dogs in Jersey City will do well to take notice that | Mickey has now hoisted tue black flag. A Care. To THR EDITOR oF THR FERALD:— We have bad in our family a recetpt for the enre Or prevention of hydrophobia for more than twenty years My father and myself have cared hundreds, I can give testimonials from many who have been cured by me; but it brings me in & very handsome profit, Still, 1 will gtve the receips to any medical institution u upon investigatio! they pronounce in its favor and the goveromen pay, me the sum ol $10.00), alter they are sat- sfied it {8 & #pecific against the bite of any venemoas animal. lt is only a trial awk and am perfectly satistied the result will show that hydrophobia cannot manifest itself alter a trea. meat with my receipt. it is a weil known remedy in England, and 1 am in treaty with the War Office Secretary to supply it to thé hospitals of any the British army and also to tie British navy. I am traveiling in Canada, and will watcn fora reply in your paper, Iam, sir, yours truly, GEO. WARK, ‘ToKoNTO, July 8, 1874. THE SUMMER CAPITAL. eee A Dull Opening of the Season and the Reasons Yheretor—Grant No Longer Drawing Full Houses—Futare Move- ments of the President—Bergh About to Initiate a War on the Races. Lone Branca, July 11, 1874. We are near the imiddle of July; we have the President of the United States established among usin his “cottage by the sea,” and we are in the midst of the excitements and fascinations of the Monmouth Park races, and yet, excepting the Ocean Hotel at the north end, and the West End House, which is at the south end of ‘the shore,”* one would judge from the smail bodies of visitors at the hotels that the summer campaign at the seaside bad hardly commenced. You ask the hotek people why the tide has not set in, and they wilk answer you that the season is backward, bu¢ that a few days more of good roasting weacner im the cities will bring down “the = rush’? of our summer birds of passage. Bus there are other reasons for this delay in the anticipated “rush? to the sea- side, the mountains and the springs (for they are all behind hand); reasons, too, which cannot b@ ignored. The panic of September, 1873, is still lel very widely this month of July, 1874; the European steamers andthe tour of Europe from year to year more and more divert over summer travel Jers across the sea, and then again, many of our people in shortening the season of their summer frolicking bave discovered that they shorten the bill of its expenses, And yetagain, within the lat flve years, our summer caravansaries at the seaside, at the springs and in the mountains, north, south, ev#t and West, have been so greatly increased as seriously io affect this season the most popular and prosperous establishinents im times gone by. For these weighty reasuns tie “geason” this year is pack ward at Long Branch, as it is at Suratoge and Newport, and will perhaps in the end be set down as anything bat a season of flush tmies and general extravagances. YHE PRESIDENITAL PRESENCE. The King’s name ts a tower of strength even af & Inshiouable sammer resort, aud so President Grant is unquestionably a great attraction ta Long Branch. From the railway company and the hotel proprietor to the boorbiack, all parties iInter+ ested Inthe prosperity of this settlement recoze nize this uportant ‘They ail have jearned ta regard General thot Only asa desirable hon, but as a public elactor, WHOS® presence 1K df souree of general promt to the community, and without any cost or trou Bat even General Grant has ceased to draw the multe tudes of followers wuo have pursued and. a , tenaed him heretolore ai this place, In 18] ior 6Xample, the = professional == polutieiand of his party ny nim and —svasited | him nere in nee to their litte ar Tangemenis for the Presidential campaign of 1872, being well assured that General Grant was to. be the republican standard bearer in vat con test. Again, in 1872, as the Presidential candle date and embodiment of the repubiican party, it¢ leaders and Managers irom all quarters ou, him out, even at Long Branch, to consult m upon the affairs of the campaign in tits Sate, tuat State or the otuer, in which they wera acitvely aad directiy Interested. And then, fn the summer of 1873, wuen (here were still many de: sirable offices, home and avroad, to be dis: trinuted by the “Commander of the Faitu:al,” the Saithiul gatbered around ms cottage here to push their respective Claims. But all tis 18 now over, neral Grant, im the second year of his secon Presicential term, is relieved of the pressure o! the politictans—tirst, because he has no mora oices bo give them; secondiy, because whether he 1s or is bot destined to be the republican candt- date ‘or 1876 13 a question Which nobody expects ta be settied in 1874; and, thirdly, because the local arrangements in the severa! States for their ap. ing Congressional elections tave not set nm made, Soitis that the proiessional polttt+ clans dropping in at Long Branch this season thua lar have been ‘ike angeia’ visits, few and tar ve- tween,” and so it is that even General Grant, ag the lion of Long Branch, has ceased to araw full houses, 1. 1s given out that he jeaves here for A RUN TO STONINGTON nd that ne wil thence go to Worcess to assist in the unveiling there on Monday, ter, Mu. on the 19th of a pretty monument erected to the memory of the Worcester ‘boys in biue” who rhe 1m the Gause of the Union. It has also been hinte: to your correspondent that at Saratoga an efort will doubtless be made by certain ieading repablie cans to indne neat Grant to speak a good word ww epublican party of New the York im venalf of General Dix for anotner term as our Governor. The temperance people, incensed by his veto of the Local” Option ill, ~— have resolved te muke an example, if they can, of Governor Dix. Hence they are early in the field, with Myron H. Clark as their candidate. This early movement 19 intended as a rebuke and a warning to Governor Dix, and it may be that General Grant has becm invited to Saratoga for the purpose oi strengthens tog the Goveruor as tle regular republicau nomi nee lor another term. Should the President be reported among the arrivals at Saratoga on Mon+ day evening bext, and shonid Senator Conkling be reported a3 amoag the distusguisied vistors there at the same ttine, you thay sately conclude thag the Senator has business with the President int & erence to the Governor and in reiation to (he Seas ator to be elected as the successor to Mr. Fenton. Next, the President in going to Wo ter, » May rely upon it, will noc fall mio the hands of the Puritans, 1 General butler can help at, and Baties 43 a power In the land, us the Puritans discover in the appointment of tie present Collector of Boston. This evening there will be the nsnal Saturday night hopateach of the horels, and the usual ile terchange of visits from the guests of the several houses along the whole line, a Very pleasant sovke Able arrangement. BERGH AT CHR BRANCH. Among the jatest notabilities here entitled toa I paragraph is our favorite humanitarian, Mr. Bergh. [tis sald that be comes to study trom personal observation the cruelty to animals ite Voived iN these horse races, and that a scathing ree port trom him on the barburity of this amnseweug ol liorse racing May be expected tn a few aays. TWO MEN SUFPOCATED IN A VAT. Albert Berzler, aged thirty-one years, of No. 449 West Thirty-sixth street, empioyed tn the Howard brewery, in Thirty-third street, bewween Eleventy and Twelfth avenues, went down into @ fermente ing tank jast night for the purpose of cleaning it, He no sooner reached the bottom of the ladder bye | which he had descended than he jell forward inta the tank suffocated by the Sas Aagustus Zung» ling, who had remauived standing on the fou above, fearing sometitng had happened to his tele low workman, as le gave no answer to his ques« tions, followed down the ladder to se@ what owas tl mutter and shared = 1 same fate, That both men were in dango! soon became known throughout the buildings and one of she brewers volunteered to go into the tank and render the unfortunate men all the use sistance in his power. A rope was tled round lint and he went down, vat before he got to where th others lay he, too, was stricken by the gas, an but tor the care taken by those at the other em of the rope he would have died, On being pull out of the tank it was found the greatest caunion and attention was nec-ssary to save his Alte! @ time he recovered aud was pronounced out o! danger. The Coroner was no'ified of what ti happened and an examination will be held to-day, * DONATION TO A RAILROAD, ‘a TNOUNNATL, Oto, July U1, 1874. A telegram from Chattanooga to-night says thaf the city voted to donste $100,000 to te Cinciay hati Southern Katirona,