The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIRTOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hxrawp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | tarned. a LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | ambition of the leaders of contending parties | Character in the novel of Charles Reade. This | us to believe that in the course of life he has NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘The Brooklyn Sorrow. | and power. These are precisely the lolters | The publication made elsewhere is the close | that would be written by such a man and | sacrifice friends and principles to his own of the controversy between Mr. Beecher and | 80¢cha woman. The more closely we study | aggrandizement, and exposes the hollowness Mr. Tilton. The long expected thunderbolt | them the more we are convinced that their re- | and worthlessness of this bombastic descend- has fallen. Mr. Tilton submits his case to the | lations were not incompatible with those of a | ant of Quixote. American people. If it were the case of two | true wife to her husband. In one letter dated | eager politicians anxious to determine the re- | % Schoharie, June 29, 1871, Mrs. Tilton makes lation of one party to another, if it were the | ® Temarkable reference to Catherine Gaunt, a The Financial Condition of the City. Comptroller Green asserts that it is a ‘gross and deliberate misrepresentation” to putdown we linia a ismias it with | #lusion, which seems to have impressed itself | the amount of the city and county debt on pry ade ee re seg — vasa yal | upon Mr. Tilton’s mind as an ssa con- January 1 of the present year at $131, 000,000, iiiie: 1iig‘an tives coene fo an fiore dag to dag. fession of crime, is really incompatible with | and declares that the yearly increase of the But in this matter the gravest issues are to be | crime. “That the love,” says Mrs: Tilton, “I | debt, under his management, has been only considered, and we have no right to pass any | felt and received could harm no one, not even | four millions of dollars. The subject of our judgment until we bave considered every you, {have believed unfalteringly until four | increasing debt and taxation is of so mach aspect of the case. On one side wo havo | o'clock this afternoon, when the heavenly | importance that we can no longer suffer the Mr. Tilton, » yonng man of wide | Vision dawned upon me.” “Oh, my dear Comptroller's false figures to pass unexposed. promiae ian reasonable fulfilment, who | Theodore, though your opinions are not restful We repeat the statement of our financtal con- has made a reputation ouch ag has | congenial to my soul, yet my own integrity | dition trom 1863 up to the present time, be- fallen to few men so young, but who has | 22d purity areasacred thing tome.” Thoseare | catise it cannot be too frequently placed be- been clamorous for a long time in his entrea- | Ot the words of an adulterous woman. ‘They | donee vegan: ob pur. citisnne.,. "Then anunal ties to the American people. He has asked | are rather the words of one who has sought | “Ppropriations have been as follows: — | love on the domestic hearth and failed to find | [27 ARO ore to lead Mr. Beecher to dictate a letter which received an injury from Mr. Beecher. The | it, and who has preserved her honor, her love, | 1864 906, 264 | P this inj ient | her hope and her purity before the ashes of a 1208 u 100 nature of this injury was certainly sufficient | her hope and her purity before the ashes of a | iy55 2 blackened fireside. For she adds, as ifin 1867 1868, . Mayor Havemeyer. Governor Dix will no doubt examine fairly and dispassionately the charges of official mis- conduct made against Mayor Havemeyer, and his final decision will be uninfluenced by any considerations except those of duty. ‘The power of removal is a high prorogative,”’ says the Governor, ‘‘and ought not to be exercised but for grave causes.’’ Persons may disap- prove of the Mayor’s conduct, may be dissat- isfied with his appointments, may regard him as stupid, self-willed, easily gulled by design- ing men and utterly incompetent to fill the office he holds ; but these opinions are not sufficient ground for his removal. The an- swer to them is that the people should have been satisfied as to his capacity before they elected him, and that there may be a differ- enoe of opinion as to his appointments... His appointees and their immediate friends, at least, would regard them as unexceptionable. The Mayor might produce quite an army of indorsers, who would be ready to jus- tify him on all these points. Sternbach, who furnishes dry goods to his brother's But his manifesto shows that he is willing to| The Power of Removal—The Case of | becoming dangerously frequent in the South, and shows a tendency toward centralization of Power not in accordance with the true spirit of republican institutions. It is the natural result of the criminal and bungling system pursued by the Washington authorities to- ward the South since the war, and serves te destroy every vestige of legislative freedom im that portion of the great Republic. Whos the Governor of a State is obliged to call upom federal troops to guard against an anticipated riot in a mere local election the corruption or weakness of the State government must be sippi are brilliant examples of the reconstruo- tion policy of the present administration, not to speak of South Carolina and its reputable Moses. The Indian Troubles. The government at Washington seems at last to have awakened to the necessity of using the army for something besides garrison- ing old forts and protecting dishonest traders. General Sheridan’s demand to be allowed to act offensively having met with a favorable as in New York. e : Pla le ae | is very difticuls of explanation. Such a letter | *rrible confirmation of this theory: “Now I THe WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five | ftom a cold-blooded man of the world would | feel quite prepared to renew my marriage vow | 30, 131,963 34,822,301 | response, that active soldier will now be at | Meanwhile | be one thing ; from Mr. Boecher it is another, .. $2 for he is a man of generous nature, of ex- 5 | wberant rhetoric, disposed to exaggeration. CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price :— One Copy.. Three Copie! : 8 , a Five-Capten:.. _.. g | The ordinary sins of a man of the world, the | ten’ Géyhen:. _as Yenial sins which are committed and fon- | ; three months. 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Same at7 P.M; wloges at LO P.M ROMAN HIPPODROME, Madison averne and Twenty-sixth street GRAND PAGKANT—CONGRESS OF NATIONS. at 1:30 P.M. To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC: — The New Yorge Heratp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | ing the season at half-past three o'clock A. M., | and arriving at Saratoga at nine | given every day, would in the case of a man | like Mr. Beecher, especially when he was in a | mood of contrition or reproach, become the | | gravest offences in the decalogue. ibe at | bound, therefore, to consider his declarations | in this spirit. | cite elsewhere, soliloquies, not the measured statements, of | “I ask, through you, | o'clock | but myself shall be inculpated."’ And we are What, then, is the expressed offence against Mr. Tilton? Let us look at the ‘etter of con- trition’’ about which so much has been said, which was dictated to Mr. Moulton under such extraordinary circumstances, and which is really the keystone of the case, We are | certainly bound to weigh every word of this | letter, and to remember, as our reporters re- that they are the hurried Henry Ward Beecher. Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness, and I humble myself before him, as I do before my God."’ ‘This is a strong sentence, but it reads like the opening of the average morning prayer of | Plymouth church, and might refer to an error in paying a bill, or the repeating of some hasty ill-considered scandal that one hears in the best governed churches. ‘He would have | been a better man in my circumstances than I have been.’’ This is simply an appeal to the | mercy of a young man not free from vanity, and, it is hoped, open to mercy. “I can ask | nothing except that he will remember all the other hearts that will ache,” which is | only another phrase of Beecher rhetoric. | 2 ee a we | Such also, in a highly exaggerated form, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMNER RESORTS. | are the following sentences:—‘I will not | | plead for myself; I even wish that I were | dead.’’ At this point the letter as originally quoted by Mr. Tiltonended. Now, we come to | the suppressed sentences, which are before us | for the first time. ‘But others must live to | suffer. I will die before any one Thera is a | A. M., for the purpose of supplying the | Pathos in these expressions which grows Sunpay Heratp along the line. Newsdealers | Sttonger and becomes painfully intelligible and others are notified to send in their orders | When we note the delicate hints of our reporter | | that no explanation of Mr. Beecher’s conduct | Ae OE iF is | is complete that does not involve his own home. From our reports this morning the probabilities | How naturally bis thoughts pass from his own | are that the weather to-day will be clear. | household, from those he is bound to protect | ic Deilte ae ae | even with his own life, to the others who would | Wai Srreer Yesrerpay.—Stocks were | Suffer in any stain upon his fame! ‘‘All my dull, except Lake Shore. Market heavy. | thoughts are running towards my friends ; | Gold, 110} to 110}. | towards the poor child who is lying there and | pe praying with her folded hands.” Certainly | Tae St. Louis Democrat nominates: Chief this means asin, or it would mean a sin or | Justice Waite for the Presidency. This is a | the knowledge of sin in the minds | grave error. The Supreme Bench should be of both if we did not read on to this re- above the atmosphere of politics, The nom- markable, exonerating and _providential | ination of a Chief Justice for the Presidency sentence: —‘‘She is guiltless, sinned against, | would be worse than the nomination of Grant | bearing the transgression of another.” Now, | for a third term. whatever this may mean, it certainly shows | to the Henaxp office as early as possible. | that there was no crime of adultery in the | | mind of Mr. Beecher, no contrition for such a | | crime. When he spoke of her innocence he | meant that there had been no violation of the | | sacred laws of marriage and home, and the | | thought is strengthened by the succeeding | Sentence, ‘‘Her forgiveness I have.’' ‘‘For- giveness” for whit? If it was for the crime | | of adultery, then it is the first time in the his- | | tory of language that one who thns sinned had ' asked pardon from his partner in the crime. | It is very clear, then, so clear that it is almost a travesty of logic to follow it any far- ther, that this famous “letter of contrition’ is | in fact an exoneration from the crime of adul- , | tery. Yet this is the gravamen of Mr. Tilton’s | | charge. Upon what then does it rest? In the | first place, npon Mr. Tilton’s own statements | Conoress or Ancurrects.—There will be | of verbal confessions made to him by his wite. | congress of French architects under the presi- | Now, with all respect for Mr. Tilton, he must dency of M. Henri Labronste, which will | excuse us for saying that in a matter affecting ataong other things discnss the responsibilities | Tue Latest News rrom France indicates that the Assembly is going to cling to exist- ence in the future with all the tenacity ex- hibited in the past. Instead of being pro- rogued till November that body ought to be dissolved. Every day that the Assembly keeps together only adds to the dangers of the Republic. A Lerrer 1s Pusuissep from Mr. Chase to Mr. Greeley at the time of the latter's nom- ination for the Presidency, in which he alludes to the democratic action making Mr. Greeley's election ‘almost a certainty.” It is odd how widely from the truth were the prophecies of these great men. American poli- tics are as uncertain as horse racing. not only the honor and virtue of woman | | ward. | of a captain. | a veritable descendant of Don Quixote. Don with you, to keep it as the Saviour requireth, | who looketh at the eye and the heart, Never | before could I say this. When you yearn , toward me with true feeling be assured of the | tried, purified and restored love of Elizabeth.” | wife of Cwsar without inspiring a thought of suspicion. It is our duty to await the statement of Mr. Beecher before we pass final judgment. There most terrible that has ever befallen a public man. Dimmesdoll, when he went into the let Letter,’’ suffered no such agony as we find | here recorded in the history of Henry Ward Beecher. What days of sorrow, humiliation | and abasement, pursued by a fury as relent- | less and unpausing as Nemesis! Mr. Tilton, whatever the offence, has assuredly revenged it. sessed—moving towards never escapes and never deceives him. Mr. Beecher is always the suppliant, Mrs. Tilton the intercessor. Mr. Tilton, hard, pitiless, mind, and compelling every fact and senti- | ment to bend to it. Mr. Beecher’s letters of sorrow, his wife's earnest notes of repent- ance, Mr. Johnson's record of his prayers and his tears—nay, even the tender (and one would which a hopeful wife and mother sees the measure of a husband’s love, in the love she bears to her Saviour and her God. It is almost too painful to dwell on these things, but our main thought goes out to the great and noble soul who is the illustrious accused. We are proud to feel that thus far he comes out of his trial a magnanimons, brave, sorely-stricken soul, who has suffered unspeakable sorrows, but who shows himself in no way unworthy of his genius, his fame lite. * The Brady Salvage Case. Judge Cadwalader has awarded salvage to | Captain Brady for having taken charge of the | steamship Pennsylvania after the first and | The Judge de- | second officers had ‘been lost. cided that the service rendered was clearly sal- vage service, and entitled the Captain to re- | He, however, blamed Captain | subsequent conduct in retain- | ing command of the ship at the | request of the passengers, who, Judge says, had no rights in the matter. This may be excellent law, but ifso it is an in- , stance where law and sense come into col- | lision. In o trying moment the surviving | Brady's | officers of the Pennsylvania showed want of | nerve and presence of mind. Had it not | been for the prompt action of Captain Brady | | in taking command when the decks were left | without an officer, and the ship abandoned to | the fury of the storm, it is probable both | ship and passengers might have gone to the | bottom. When the danger was passed the | third officer wished to resume command, but | the passengers requested Captain Brady to | bring the ship into port, as they had no con- | fidence in the ship's officer. Their lives were | at stake, which they naturally supposed gave them some interest and right in the selection | Judge Cadwalader, however, de- cides against this theory. ‘I'he law says the lives of people who go to sea in ships are of | no conueqnence. Shipowners must be pro- tected from salvage claims at whatever risk to the lives of mere passengers. The Spanish Pretender on His High Horse. It is really amusing to meet in real life with Carlos, the Spanish pretender, must certainly ‘These words might have been written by the | is no doubt that this misfortune is one of the | pillory, in Hawthorne’s romance of the ‘‘Scar- | Wherever he appears in this | sad narrative he is cool, resolute, self-pos- | a@ purpose which | inexorable, with a preconceived purpose in his | certainly think almost sacred letters) in | and the forty years of his blameless Christian | the | * The increase during Mr. Green’s two tull | years of office in debt and taxation has been as follows :— Gross debt January 1, 1873 Gross debt January 1, 1872. $118,815,229 93, 607,708 Increase during Mr. Green’s first com- plete year. see Gross debt January 1. 1574. Gross debt January 1, 1873 $25,207,521 $131,880,571 148,81 Increase during Mr. Green’s second | Increase in two Annual appropriations for 187 Anpuail appropriations tor 187 Increase in taxation 1874 over Annual appropriations for 187 134,822, 391 Annual appropriations for 187% 30,131,967 | — Increase In taxation this year over TABE.. 6.000... e vee. eee ee cece Seeeeeeeee $4,690,424 In addition to the debt of 1874, as above | the city the amount of which the Comp- troller refuses to disclose. The Commissioners of Accounts are understood to have made a report of this floating debt so ‘far as they could wring information from the Comptrol- ler’s office, but the report has been sup- | pressed. The amount is supposed to be about $20,000,000. As the funded and bonded debt had increased to $136,000,000 on March 31 last the total debt was then about $156,000,000. These are facta that no ingenious sophistry can explain away. The taxpayers of New York possess intelli- gence, and can easily verify the figures for themselves. It is of little advantage now to waste time in inquiring for exactly how much of this increase the old ring was responsible, and what precise proportion is due to the opera- | tions of the new ring. It is very certain that we should not go on recklessly bridging over and rolling up debt while our annual ex- | penses are also largely increasing. The peo- | ple are more interested in inquiring how we can safely reduce our expenses without detri- ment to the city’s growth and prosperity, and how we can lighten the heavy burden of debt on which we are paying the extreme rate of in- | terest, than in ascertaining the average rate of salary paid in the different city departments, or in poring over intricate calculations de- signed to prove that the difference between $93,000, 000 and $131,000,000 is only $4,000,000. | There is no question that with capable financial management in place of financial quackery our condition could be speedily and greatly improved. We have no right to pay seven per cent interest on city securities when any responsible business man can borrow money af five per cent. The amount of our present debt should be positively ascertained and an attempt should be made to fund it at a lower rate of interest. and ruinous policy adopted by Mr. Green of “bridging over” trom year to year should be abandoned, our expenses should be reduced and we should endeavor in future to ‘pay as we go,’’ and to provide for the gradual re- demption ofthe debt. We cannot hope tor stated, there is a floating debt hanging over | our finances are now miserably managed, or | Then the reckless | | i} | terested political adventurers is as shallow as | itis dangerous. To admit such a plea would | any such wise and prudent policy while the | genius of the Finance Department expends it- self on deceptive statements, petty intrigues and the gratification of personal spite and malignity. New York isa rich and flourish- ing city, and we need only good business | background the motives that had caused their | | | sense and honesty of purpose in our public | officers to enable us to move onward rapidly | found guilty was an offence against the whole | in a career which has only been temporarily | people. There can at least be no partisanship | tors and clerks who make a living or realize | Matsell, Charlick, Gardner and a host of his | ous appointments were the more reprehen- profits out of the departments would doubt- less testify to the capacity, honesty and ex- cellent qualities of the Mayor. So would old chums, to whom his Mayoralty has proved | a blessing. The mere popular contempt for Mr. Havemeyer ought not to occasion his re- moval, and if his ignorance, obstinacy and | blunders were all the charges brought against him we might consider the Governor's de- cision as certain, however gratified the people of New York might be to see the present Mayoralty term shortened even by a single month, Bat there are official misdeeds of which the Governor is bound to take cognizance, and which he cannot overlook without evasion of the duties he is sworn to faithfully perform. The “high prerogative’ of removal is placed in his hands for the protection of the people. If the Mayor of New York wilfully violates the law, or if he does acts in defiance of law, against the interests of the people, dangerous to the public peace and security, and calcu- lated to bring scandal and disgrace upon the city, there is ‘‘grave cause’’ for his removal, and the Governor becomes an accomplice in the offences if he fails to exercise the “high prerogative” accorded to him by the law. The present charges against Mr. Havemeyer are that, in the reappointment of Gardner and Charlick as Commissioners of Police after they had been stripped of their offices by the | penalty of the law, he committed such an act of official misconduct. The fact that he | sought to fortify himself in his wrongdoing by @ so-called legal opinion; that he ordered | that opinion in advance of the pretended resignation of the convicted Commissioners ; | that he resorted to the unbecoming trick of | shifting cach appointee into the place pre- viously held by the other, is only corrobora- tive testimony that he knew the illegality of his action and was endeavoring to evade the punishment due to his offence. The result proved the dangerous character of his act. The Police Board, before broken and inhar- monious, became so utterly demoralized through the attempt of the Mayor to force the | two convicted Commissioners back into their | old positions of Treasurer and President that | the discipline of the force and the public peace were sorely jeopardized. The scandal- sible and lawless since other indictments for violations of their oath of office were hanging | over the heads of the convicted Commis- | sioners, and the clear provision of the charter rendered them inoligible to any office under the city government. The pretence that the action of the Mayor the gross debt has increased at | father-in-law, Commissioner Stern; the liberty to punieh any tribe guilty of making the following rate ; — Mayor's son, who sells tea to the Department | raidg on the settlements or of Gutirbing the , i ross Devt. | of Charities and Correction; hi : ; Fer 1 SRM TER an, 1. Greets | Of Chaitin and Correction; his other son, | peace of the frontir, We have every 0D: 1 42,581,724 1870, Jan, 1... “08,040,063 who helps to swell the list of Park engineers; | fidence that Goneral Sheridan will use wisely anTie 182 Jam: 1, sseor tos | D8 son-in-law, who supplies butter to the | ang with discretion this extraordinary. power. 46,977,474 1873, Jan. 118,815,229 | islands and institutions; the flour dealers, | tno knowledge that they have to deal with a 49,746,030 1874, Jan. 131,809,571 botchers, milkmen, coal merchants, contrac- man who will stand no nonsense must havea deterrent effect on the unruly tribes; and if any exceedingly bloodthirsty brave should undertake to break the peace General Sheridan will know how to administer such punish- ment as will cure bad Indians of any desire to repeat the offence for some time at least. This is the only reasonable | mode of dealing with savages who only re- spect force. It should, however, be accom- panied and tempered by fair and just treat- ment. It is cowardly as well as cruel to pro- voke by acts of injustice the passions of rude, untutored tribes because we feel that we have the material power to crush any attempt they may make to avenge their wrongs. The whole system of dealing with the Indian tribes is radically wrong and exists only for the benefit of a corrupt and infamous ring. It is diff- cult to say whether the nation or the Indians suffer most from the present system. But it is evident that so long as we shall continue to maintain large bodies of men in idleness for a portion of the year and supply them with arms and ammunition to enable them to plun- der when the insufficient supplies furnished them by dishonest officials are exhausted, we cannot hope for peace or security on our ox- posed frontiers. A Temperance Lecture. The death yesterday of a young man name@ Powers, from drinking some poisonous 4tuff sold under the guise of liquor, shows the necessity that exists for some law to prevent the adulteration of liquors practised by low rumsellers in this city. In France the police Protect the public from the fraudulent prac- tices of traders, and there is no reasom why something should not be done in this city to check this evil. The poor are the chief sufferers, and it is only when some startling incident like the case of Powers oo eurs that public attention is drawn to the dangerous practices of unscrupulous men, who do not hesitate to destroy even life for sake of slight additional profit. It is to be regretted that a good deal of obscurity hangs round the present case. There is » much uncertainty as to where Powers and his sister, who also suffers from the effect of the poisonous stuff, were given the drink which destroyed one life and endangers a second; but if our police were worthy of the name there could be no difficulty in procuring am- ple evidence against the guilty parties. It is pity that the philanthropists who waste their energies in endeavoring to save worthless curs from the executioner do not turn their atten- | tion to the protection of human beings, and | endeavor to suppress the system of adultera- tion which robs the poor of their means aad their health. — was excusable because the prosecution of the Police Commissioners was pressed by in- be to defeat justice forever. ‘T'weed’s prison | doors might be opened on the same grounds, | and the Governor's pardon might be claimed for Ingersoll! and his associate. ‘The conviction of Charlick and Gardner aiter a fair trial pushed into the | indictment. The offence of which they were ' checked by stupidity, obstinacy and prejudice. | in the demand for the removal of the Mayor, These faults would block the prosperity of | as his successor would be Alderman Vance, a | any private enterprise, and it is not surprising that they operate injuriously on the city's interests. It is fortunate that a change in the municipal government mnst soon take place, of architects. These conferences of scientific who is his wife and the mother of his chil- | stanch and consistent republican. Besides, there are other charges against the Mayor in- | volving gross violations of the law, and these will be likely to be pressed if on PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ERRMSG TS, Yale's goose 13 Cook-ea. About the transit of Venus ask Roddy. Columbia reigns and Yale has mizzied. Cannot they train Chinamen to eat grasshop- pers? “My friend, Macaulay,’ was what George called | bim at Berlin. Isn't it about time for strikes in the Pennsyt- | vania coal mines ? Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, 1s residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain J. H. Upshur, United States Nevy, ts quartered at the Everett House. General Thomas G. Pitoher, United States Army, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Secretary Robeson arrived trom Washington last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. M. Oscar de Lafayette, in the French Assembly, opposes the change in the law of suffrage. General Joe Hooker arrived in Toronto, Ontario, on Monday, and is staying at the Queen’s Hotel, Captain ©. P. Patterson, of the United States belong to the family of the renowned Knight and professional men go far towards simpli- fying professional duties and obligations and adding to their usefulness, dren, and whom he only yesterday certified to | of La Mancha. He has all the pompous | the world as a woman of devout and blameless | grandeur of that enthusiast and not a few If the reform should be hastened by the ac- tion of the Governor the people will be grate- ful for the relief. any technical ground he should escape | | Coust Survey, is registered at the Everett House. removal on the present charges. Whatever | Major Peter C. Hains, of the Engineer Corpa, decision the Governor may reach it is certain | gnitea staves Army, has quarters at the Brevoort | character, but as also affecting the honor of | | the first clergyman of his generation—gray | in years and influence and dignity, illus- trious with the unstained years of | a Christian life, of no less a man | than our incomparable Henry Ward Beecher— | | | Ayorusr Diate bas occurred because of the exposed condition of the Fourth Avenne im- provement. Jt is always thus. No amount of urging is effective upon great corporations ‘whan the officers whose daty it is to care for | in a matter like this we must have something the public interests neglect their duties. For- more then his averments. This ti tunately actions for damages lie in such cases, ‘ signe nt pi ot though a verdict is but poor recompense f larly, when we have the evidence of Samuel . ens® Tor | Wilkeson that these averments ‘he death of a father, son or brother, nts arose from a Saha a sense of anger and fancied wrong; when we | Important Decisox.—Judge Drummond. | have the reluctant evidence of Mr. Bowen that of the United States Circuit Court, has settled | Mt Tilton was not incapable of writing a along mooted question by declaring in » de- | menacing letter to Mr. Beecher—a letter cision, which we publish elsewhere, that rail- which would have been the subject of an in- roads are not military and post roads in the | dictment hud it reached an intelligent Grand sense which will authorize telegraph com- | Jury—simply to minister to the business panies ander the act of Congress of July 24, | ee nOren ee Ble Propnewr Hel | 1866, to erect their lines on the private prop- | rival newspaper, It may be ungracious to | erty of railway corporations without compen- , recall these circumstances now, and we would per they ’ not, perhaps, were it not that we were denling | | with such a man as Mr. Beecher. | Having dismissed Mr. Tilton from this case Smargey Appears Acatn before the people of New York. Not that the detectives have found the escaped murderer. Oh, no! Nothing of the kind! But Sharkey’s lawyers have ob- tained a writ of mandamus from the Sopreme Court to compel the Clerk of General Ses- sions to make a return to a writ of certiorari which had been refused because Sharkey, hay- Court. Reason: When the case was called no one answered for the District Attorney, and 80 Sharkey won by default of the prosecuting officer. Fortunate Sharkey. as an act of justice to his great antagonist we come to the evidence contained in the letters ot Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. We find | many of them marked with feeling, anxiety, care—indicating a condition of life that could | not be regarded as happy. We find no letter the crime of adultery. We see the letters of awoman described by Mr. Tilton a6 of ‘‘na- | tive delicacy and extreme sensibility,’’ and ® man who i¢ known to all the world a4 ® clerevman of extraordinary eloquence | of his other distinguishing qualities. In a manifesto addressed to the Spanish people this leader of a band of fanatics informs the “rebels’’ that unless they lay down their arms and allow the puissant and divinely appointed King Carlos to walk over their bowed necks to the Escurial he will reduce them to obe- dience by the virtue that lies in artillery, All this is very pompous and very ridiculous when it is considered that this person who threatens so mightily has been for some years skulking in the mountains of Biscay and Navarre, never daring to meet the republican troops in anything like a fair fight, unless when he had overwhelming odds in his favor. With that treachery and ingratitude which have ever been distingnishing traits in the stock from which he claims deseent he now de- clares that if the repablicans will give him the crown he will allow the Church property to remain in the hands of the present pos- sessors and will accept representative govern- ment—for the sake of a crown, This selling out of his party and principle shows the would-be King to be unworthy of sympathy. He is simply a selfish adventurer, working on | inhabitants of the | Northern provinces of Spain for his own ad- | | vantage, without any real attachment to the | that can be construed into the admission of | ing escaped from jail, is in contempt of | the fanaticism of the principles he professes. As the champion and protéyé of the Charch he onght not to consent to the confiscation of ecclesiastical property. If he be a king by divine right he onght to accept no compromise with suoh sbominations a4 representative assemblies, Reunion of the Methodist Chureh, One by one the traces of our civil strife are happily disappearing. The issues between legacy of division which affected even the religious associations of our people. An to reunite the seciions of their Church which broke ssander on the question of slavery. To | this end an invitation has been given to the | copal Cnurch, South, to participate | the opening services at the Sea Cliff Taber- nacle. In order to mark the more strongly the desire of the Northern section of the Oburch for reunion a grand reception will be offered to such Sonthern bishops and minis- ters as may attend. ‘This conduct does honor | to the Northern Methodists and shows that the modern Church, political issues which divided our people are now irrevocably settled, good sense as well as Christian feeling should induce the vitation of their Northern brothers, and show an example of Christian forgiveness by aiding the healing up of the heartburnings and | hatreds of the civil war. We sincerely hope that the camp at Sea Cliff will be attended by large numbers of Southerners, and that peace and concord in the Church organizations may be the forerunners of a perfect reconciliation between the veaale of the South and North North and Sonth, settled by the war, lefta | effort is about to be made by the Methodists | | bishops and ministers of the Methodist Epis- | in| that he will not be deterred from doing jus- tice to the people by the plea used in some | quarters of the dangerous character of the precedent the removal of the Mayor would | establish. The law provides for the removal | of an unfaithful and mischievous Mayor, and | if the power cannot be justly exercised on Mr. | Havemeyer we should like to know under | what circumstances it could be invoked, It would be, indeed, a dangerous precedent if a Governor, convinced of the misconduct of a Mayor, of his wilfal defiance of law and his disregard for the public interests, should | shrink from the responsibility of removing | executive would then be destroyed, and the | law which extends that protection would be- the true spirit of Christianity has not deserted | As the social and | Southern Methodists to accept the kindly in- | him from office. The only protection afforded to the people against an unfaithful municipal come a mockery. The Mississippi Muddle. ‘The beauty of our reconstruction policy | in the Southern States is shown in its | true light in the reqnest of the Acting Governor of Mississippi to President Grant, asking for United States troops to be sent to Vicksburg to guard the polls at the election which will take place there ina fortnight hence. He says that, owing to the present unorganized condition of the militia in his State, he is unable to preserve the peace in case of an outbreak or riot, and therefore prays the President for protection. This ous- tom of calling upon the United States govern- ment Mm Slocece ca ouraty State affairs is House. Mr. Butler B, Strang, Speaker of the Penasylva- | nia House of Representatives, is sojourning at the | Grand Central Hotel. They are pulling down the Duke of Branawick’e house at Paris, and they expect to find plenty of diamonds bidden away in secret places in the walis. . Mommsen said to George, at that dinaer in Ber- lin, that the most formidable enemy equally of the American Republic and the German Empire was King Mop. Butler takes the public taco his confidence and informs it that he bas investigated ali the charges made against him these many years, and finds ' them all false, Alas for Hooker. Ben Butler pities, Bat Butier might pity Alexander the Great, for that matter, since the living animal is enormously superior to the dead one, even if the dead one was a lion, Sefor Don Francisco Lainflesta, Under Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala, who has been sent by his government on 4 political Mission to the United States aua Karope, has apartments at the New York Hotel, Mademoiselle K., @ young Russian lady, is spoken of by the Monde Russe asa linguist of re- markable talent, who ts at present engaged upon | @ treatise grouping the Sansorit, Greek and Latin | langaeges in their relation to the Slavic tongae. | anattempt to arrest at Corfu seven Italian fu | gittves from justice that they might be returned to Italy, in aecordance with the terms of the extradt | tion treaty with the Greek government, provoked | an insurrection that required to be suppressed by | the military. | AtSt. Petersburg, June 11, the Caarevitch, the Cearevna and other members of the impertal family, presided at the ceremony of Jaunching some bosts constracted for the rescue and assist ance of those in danger from the waters of the Neva. There wad a croat (qstwal,