The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, EE ————— Volume XXXIX Rites =—_— “= METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 5S brondw:y.—Parisian Cancam Vaucers, at 8 P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN etween frince and Houston streets— VANGh. THE BELLE OP ACADIA, at PM; ‘lowe at W043 P.M, Mr, Joseph Wheelock ani Miss .one Burke. TERRACE GARDEN TAKATRR. Concert and Uperatic Pertormance, at8 P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, roadway, coruer Thirtieth street.-THE DEAD WIT- Nos at.'P. My closes at 4:30 POM. THE =TREETS for NEW YORK, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:50 P.M. ais ‘Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERIAINMENT, a: 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fitty-ninth street ant Seven'h avenue.—CHOMAS? CON- CeaT, ab 8 P.M. ; closes at lu:30 P.M. COLOSSEUM Broadway, corner of i birty-( NIGHT. at 1 POM; closes at 5 P.M closes at 1) P. My Street. LONDON BY Same at7 P.O; Maaiso BoA Miremey saan street GRAND adison avenue and. Iwenty-sixth ‘street —GR4 PAGHANT—COAGKESS OF NATIONS, at 130 P.M. and are M. y, July 26, 1874. New York, Su THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. aes To NEwsDEALERS AND THE PuBLIC:— The New York 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., pnd arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock a M, for the purpose of supplying the Eunpay Henaxp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders bo the Hxranp office as early as possible. From our reports tas morning the probabilities ave that the weather to-day will be clear and warm, Wat Street Yesrenpay.—Stocks were ex- tremely dull. Gold closed at 1093. ‘The total sales of stocks were less than 21,000 shares. Tux Srory or raz Arg Voyace with the dar- ing Donaldson, as told by our correspondent in to-day's Henaxp, will be read with interest. | The balloon ascended from the Hippodrome last Friday, and as newspaper correspondents go everywhere, of course the press of New York was liberally represented. It reads like @ romance or a fairy tale, this record of a day and a night among the clouds, with its well painted pictures of the grand Panorama passing beneath the eyes of the aéronauts. The trip was, however, o reality and a success, and it will add to the reputation of the agronaut by whom it was conducted. Sram axp Gzumany.—The imperial gov- ernment of Germany is, it is said, making strenuous ¢fforts to prevent the sale and con- veyance of war materials to the Carlists. It is added that the imperial gov- ernment has addressed the govern- ment at Versailles on the subject. This will be regarded by many as a proof that the Hohenzollern candidature for the | throne of Spain has been revived. We are not yet willing to believe that the Serrano government has obtained Bismarck’s consent to this wild course. It could do no good. It might do much harm | Tae Mormon Cevepnation at Sart Laxe | Crry.—The twenty-seventh anniversary of the | ister to his childish ailings, to rescue ond NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, | The New Crim | Probably no event has made euch an im- | | pression upon the domestic side of our society | | as the extracrdinary narrative we have printed | | from Philadelphia and which we continue this | morning. So far as we understand this story | | it seems that company of ruffians, anxious | for gain, contrived a plot and took forcible | possession of an infant child, the only son of | a citizen of that community. The child was | too young to betray its captors or even to give | | an idea of its home or associations. After the | capture an intimation was sent to the father | to the effect that if he would pay twenty thou- | | sand dollars the child would be restored to him. This payment was to be made under | circumstances that would make detection or | capture of the kidnappers impossible, at mid- | night, on a wide open plain, where there could | not be an ambush of policemen. The father | has announced his willingness to make this _ payment, but there is the constant fear of dis- | covery on the part of the criminals, and it has | not yet been done. In the meantime the theory has been advanced and plausibly de- fended that the whole story of the kid- napping isa plan to extort money from the | | authorities in the shape of a reward or from | sympathizing citizens in the shape of sub- scriptions. We must confess we have all | along had a suspicion of this kind, but cir- cumstances seem to leave no more room for donbt, Our suspicion arose trom peculiar | circumstances that came to light during the | | | | | investigations, and from the incredible char- | acter of the crime and the impossiLility that | it should ever be practised in America. In | one of Macaulay's essays he speaks of an | attempt to assassinate the Prince ot Orange, | and in discoursing the causes of its failure proceeds to show that nations have their char- acteristic crimes just as they have their cus- | toms, legends and traditions, and that assas- | sination could never be an Englishcrime. We | cau understand how kidnapping and bandit- | ism, the poisoncd cup at the feast or the stiletto at the masked ball might be common | in other countries, where secrecy and passion | and revenge scem to follow warm skies and | tropical associations. But these could never | be American crimes, no more than kidnapping | or assassination. It is very certain that the | authors of this offence learned their trade in | other lands. The horror which has fallen upon the com- munity in consequence of its apparent success ; cannot well be exaggerated. Tor this is a crime that strikes at once upon the holiest and most beautiful emotions in our nature. There is not a mother who clasps her first- born to her bosom and prays for the guardian- | ship of Heaven over his young budding life who does not feel that she would rather see him dead than submitted to the fate that has | fallen upon little Charley Ross. The imagina- tion surrounds the victim with terrors com- | pared to which death wonld be a blessing. | Death, imprisonment, starvation, stripes, neglect, lonely weeping througa the long night watches, no love to caress him, to min-, | would be that they had swift and speedy | | than for the officers to make such terms with | | impunity. | compelling the fleet to dritt with the flood justes in England when the practice of gar- roting came into vogue there was no law that could in apy way arrest it, We are quite sure be arrested, and within twenty-four hours of their condemnation taken out and hanged to @ tree, the universal sense of the community justice. If there were any possible case in | which wo should bo disposed to regard Lynch law as o “higher law’? in criminal juris- prudence it would bo in that of these nefari- ous men in Philadeiphia. But as that is not to be considered, then we should take a lesson | from the English. As soon as it was found that there were villains capable of assaulting peaceable men on the highway for pur- poses of robbery o law was passed | declaring that all prisoners convicted | of the offence should, in addition | to imprisonment, be flogged. The ro- | sult of the law has been that the crime is almost extinct, Experience shows that flogging is the one punishment that the crim- inal dreads. Wo should be far from welcom- ing the return of this custom, or of anything | that looked like the pillory or the whipping | post, but a law flogging men found guilty of | kidnapping, and in addition imposing upon them a long term of imprisonment at hard labor, would do more to suppress the crime | than any other expedient. We think also that | nothing should be done in Philadelphia to in- terfere with justice. The first duty of the officers of the law is to discover these offenders and punish them. However painful it may be | to the fumily, nothing could be more unwise the kidnappers that they could escape with | If this is once demonstrated then | no child in the community is safe. Let every | effort be made to restore the boy, but none that will in any way compromise the crime | or permit immunity to the merciless scoun- drels who have committed it. Yacht Clubs=Tho | Newport. The Cruises of the Corinthian Race at ‘Lhe cruising season has, thus far, afforded | our yachtsmen good sport and an en- | joyable time. The run of the Brook- lyon Yacht Club since the rendezvous up to tho time of reaching Green- port is graphically sketched by our corre- | spondent with the ficet, and the excitement of | the friendly contests that enlivened the way | from Morris Cove to Greenport recompensed | for the il!l-natured trick of the windin dying | entirely away near the end of the run, and | tide to their anchorage. Greenport gave a hearty welcome to the fleet, and the only mis- hap was an injury tothe White Wing’s centre- | board, which obliged her to goon the ways for repairs. To-morrow morning the Brook- lynites will be up and away for New London | at an early hour. There seems to be a promise | of fair weather and a welcome breeze during | the week. On the 4th of August the rendezvous of the New York and the Eastern Yacht clubs is nourish him; the very unceriainty whether he is alive or dead—all combine to increase the agony of the bereaved parents | and the sympathy of the community. For | there is nothing that appeals to our sympathies | | so readily as the sorrows of children, Wo | read without a sentiment, except perhaps one of martial exaltation, of hundreds of tsbas| sands of stalwart, noble men, in the hope and | expectancy of manhood, stricken down in the | channelled fields of Austertitz, Waterloo and | Gettysburg; but we never cease to mourn | Fy over the little Dauphin starving in the Tower and Marie Antoine‘te dragged trom her chil- dren to the axe. In our religion we note as a distinguishing trait of that charity and love arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the moun- | which separates Christianity from other sys- tains of Utah was celebrated in grand style by | tems of faith that the Master loved the chil- | their polygamic descendants on Friday last. dren and bade then come to him, and found Brigham Young's big tabernacle in Salt Lake | in a little child the highest type of faith, truth City was crowded, and ail Mormondom was | and purity. So it is that no one event will be enthusiastic ond happy. When polygamy | more dwelt upon in our homes to-day than shows such significant signs of vitality, it | this extraordinary affair in Philadelphia, and would appear as if the efforts of the national | to no woman will tho prayers and sympathies government against ‘‘the twin relic of barbar- | of mothers go forth more earnestly than tho ism” have so tar proved futile. This demon- siration, the Beecher-Tilton scandal and the steady emigration from Europe to the land of many wives are very consoling to the prophet and his multitudinous family of saints. Congress must try another plan to put down the patriarch of Salt Lake City or his doctrines may reach those eastern communities where free-lovism prevails and violations of the | tenth commandment occupy public attention, Sexorz Arpama oy Copan BeuticEnency.— Sefior Aldama, the distinguished Cuban pa- triot, has written an appeal to the Hzratp in behalf of Cuban independence which we print this morning. In glowing words he sets forth the achievements of the patriots from the be- ginning of the struggle, and seems to predict ® last but desperate effort on the part of Spain to recover her supremacy over theisland. But the appeal is more an appeal to the American people than to the press whose influence it invokes. Having besought Congress and the edministration in vain for the recognition of Cuban belligerency, he now beseeches the people through their political and other con- ventions, and by resolution and otherwise, to instruct Congress and the administration in its duty. It is o novel method of attaining an, end the Cubans have long and ardently de- sired, but it is the true one, as it reaches the source of all powerin the Republic. If recog- nition cannot be obtained in this way it can- not be obtained at all. Warn Mayor Havermeyen made his at- tempt to conceal, by a fictitious ‘‘investiga- tion,” the illegal purchases of dry goods made by Commissioner Stern, he stated that | bereaved mother whose son is in tho hands of ruffians. | We have spoken of this as a new crime, and it is certainly new lo America, But it is o | | new chapter in an old, old story. We find in the Scriptures no incident more sad than that | | of Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brethren. In the past we had those who made a trade of stealing children, oud still another horrible band who made a trade of mutilation. | As an illustrious writer who has studied the subject remarks, ‘They made children toys.” The seventeenth century gave us the men who | , did this, just as it gave us Vincent de Paul, | whose love and tenderness for the young have | made him one of the most attractive saints in | the calendar. We read of dwarfs educated to | be the companions of dogs, just ns we read the | other day of a combat in an English town be- tween a dwarf anda bulldog. So that if we go back to the seventeenth century in Phila- | delphia, they go back also in England. Sell- ing men is not altogether on obsolete crime. Swiss were sold to be soldiers to the Bourbons and to be massacred in the Louvre courtyard. Hessians were sold to die on American soil | under the English standards. We do not know how many thousands of various races England purchased to fight Napoleon, as England never sends her own sons into the front until she fails to hire other nationalities | totake their place. It is not very long, as many of us who are young enough remember, since the constitution of the United States | had no higher object than to protect a large number of our fellow citizens in the right to | take and sell from their mothers’ arms chil- dren who were as dear to the mother as this the Commissioners of Accounts had made | poor little Charley Ross is dear to the unhappy a statement to him, which showed that | woman who mourns in Philadelphia. In the the purchases were made at honest prices | time of James IL, according to some histo- ond that the department was now more eco- nomically run than by the old commission, There is reason to believe the Mayor's asser- | tion was untrue, and that no report of that or | any other description has been made by the | Commissioners of Accounts to the Mayor; that, in fact, all they have yet done has been to compare certain figures rent them by the Mayor, with certain other figures kept in the Department of Charities and Correction and to return them to the Mayor. If this is true, then Mr. William A. Looth and his nssociate indorser of the Muyor's statement have certified to an un- truth, Will they, in justice to then inquise into this watter? rians, the child stealers were permitted in | England, and not until William LIL. were they severely punished. So that from being a new crime it is really an old one. The difference, so far as we see it, is that there is no motive in this offence but the obtaining of money. In ‘the olden times a sentiment surrounded the crime, and, as we see so often in history, atoned for its existence, just as, in our own country, sentiment, custom and law atoved forthe kidnapping of children and sending | them into slavery. ‘There comes also a very serious qnostion as | to what is best to be done repress | | this new crime. We have no law on oar | | statute books commensurate with tue offence, | to called, the one at Glen Cove and the other at Holmes’ Hole, and the two clubs will meet at Newport, The races that are then to take | place will be the feature of the present season. Not the least interesting of them will be the | Corinthian race of the Seawanhaka Yatht Club, whick is to be run on the 8th of August, and the rules of which are published in the | Henaup to-day. An invitation of the club | was issued in April last to the owners of | schooner yachts, belonging to regulurly organ- | ed yacht clubs in the United States, to join in this struggle for prize offered by the club. Before July 1 ten yachts had been entered, the | minimum number to bind the race having been fixed at five. A much larger number will no doubt start. The interest of the race centres in the strict enforcement of the rule that the yachts shall be sailed, and, as far as possible, steered by their owners; that they shall be | manned by amateurs, and the ‘professionals’ on board are to be restricted to a sailing mas- ter or local pilot, a steward and a cook. But neither of these is to be permitted to direct or assist in any way in the management of the vessel or to work as one of the crew. We do not see why the steward and cook should not have been amatenrs also, for it is certain that these places could have been very well filled | from the ranks of the yachtsmen and their friends. However, the rules are to be strictly enforced, and the committee reserve the right to expunge from the list of the racing crows any person whom they may consider a pros fessional. Hence the race will be one of un- usual interest and will fully test the mettle of our amateur sailors. The regulations as to allowance of men, sails, signals, course and all other details will be found elsewhere, This Corinthian race will, however, be only one of the attractions of the August gathering of the yachts at Newport. Other interesting races have already been arranged, and many spontaneous contests will spring up during the reunion to add to the excitement and pleasure of the event. The Newport seasou will be at its height, and the double attraction will, no doubt, draw together a large number of visitors. It is to be hoped that the weather will be favorable and that our amateur yachts- men will have a fair opportunity to prove their seamanship. Tho judges in the Corinthian race are the Commodores of the New York and Seawanhaka Yackt clubs and the Vice Com- modore of the Eastern Club; and tho wish of everybody will be that the best yacht and the best crew may win. Tar Mayor Has Nor yet put in his defence called for by Governor Dix. It is barely pos- sible that the Mayor, who has pronounced the Governor—well, something which the Mayor is and the Governor is not—will end by treating the charges with contempt and neglecting to reply tothem at all. Atleast itis certain that he would take such a course, if fear did not restrain him. But he is in no hurry about his answer any way. Tue Inpians.—We print this morning some very interesting correspondence between high officials on the Indian question. The corre- spondence speaks for itself. Gencrals Sherman and Sheridan and all the other officials men- tioned in the correspondence secm to be of one mind. The feeling of all sensible men is in favor of punishing the Indians and of makin; vere examples whenever and where- ever occasion culls tor it. The still finds friends, but the seve be adopted, “Enterprise” and “Exped: Our sprightly and always entertaining con- | temporary, the Evening Mail, alluded the that if the kidnappers of Charley Ross could | other day to a republication in the Hnaup from the London Telegraph of the details of the proposed expedition to Africa, under the command of Mr. Stanley, in search of the sources of the Nile and the haunts of the slave trade, and commended what it was pleased to call the reserve and modesty of the Henaup in not making mention of the subject be- fore its London ally and contemporary. So far as this commendation is concerned it is hardly merited, tor the policy of the Hzratp has always been to do things and then say what is proper to be said after they have been done. So far as America is concerned we should have remained silent about the present expedition until Mr. Stanley had again reached Ujiji; but there were undoubtedly in- terests to be remembered in London which made the publication necessary. When Mr. Stanley started on his first expedition, in which he achieved a marvellous successand 9 world-wide renown, his errand was only known to two persons—Mr. Stanley himself and the Heratp. Tho third person to enter into that confidence was Dr. Livingstone. This reserve was proper in moro aspects than one. When no hopes are inspired there are no disappoint ments, The enterprisa to relieve Livingstone was what the London Times called firing at Africa for a target and striking the bull’s eye. There was only one chance in a thousand of success, There was the uncertainty of Living- stone's whereabouts, of his being alive, of his route, the almost utter ignorance of the strange, mysterious continent in which he had buried himself. Any enticipatory proclama- | tion of our purposo would have added nothing to Mr. Stanley’s success, but would have made his failure a calamity, exciting hopes that would only have been cruelly disap- pointed. A journal is of all influences in the world the least afraid of the pubhie. An editor soon learns to despiso mystery. This world is a | very good world in its way—trank, candid, indulgent, and rarely abuses the confidence bestowed upon it. Sometimes it has its tem- pers, like the best of us, disappointments, invitation, anger; round ani we have little to complain. So far as the Hrratp is concerned we have no secrets from it, and would as soon print from day to daya full history of our plans and purposes. But no good can come from it, just as none would have come from the publi- cation of Mr. Stanley’s mission when he first set out on his lonely, silent errand; and as none, so far as New York is concerned, will | come from the publications now made when he goes forth the ambassador of two great powers, representing the journalism of England and America, and in command of an expedition more numerous and better appointed than any that has ever entered Atrica on an errand of exploration. The but take it all the year | thought arises that, in expeditions of this | | kind, journalism is showing a’wisdom that the nations might imitate. The nations send out armies to conquer territory—to subdue and destroy all who will not accept their dominion. The journals send out armios of peace and light. Some will succeed and others will fail, but the spirit of true en- terprise always in the end makes courage suc- cess. Nor do we agree with tho Sun, which thinks that thers should have been no alliance between the Heratp and the Telegraph. We acknowledge the force of the arzuments it presents, but there are other considerations it has overlooked. Tho TJribune made an alliance with the London News, which was an event in journalistic history. This was during the German war, avd we remember that during that war the Sun mado a brilliant coup in se- curing the services of the celebrated Dr. W. H. Russell, and thus became aon ally of the London Times. So that we are simply tollow- ing the example of the Sun and the Tribune, quite content if our succe:s equals the expec- tations ot the one and the realizations of the other. In addition to Mr. Stanley’s mission, we note also that some of our contemporaries are commenting upon our expedition to Iceland. This expedition gathers its interest from the fact that it is commanded by Dr. I. L Hayes, the celebrated Arctic explorer, who goes, out | as the Hrraup representative to -take part in the millennial celebration of the independence of this interesting and isolated dominion. Dr. Hayes has made many contributions to science. But the opportunity which now opens to him is unusually attractive. We know littlo of Iceland, except in a kind ot poetic, dreamy way, and o study of its char- acter, its soil, its volcanocs and its history will go far towards solving many of tie problems that now centre around the Arctic regions. While dweliing on these expeditions as illustrating the larger idea of journalism, wo are reminded of the enterpriso of the Chicago Times, which announces that it will run a special train from Chicago to Mil- waukee on Sunday morning for the purpose of circulating the Sunday edition of the Times. This is a commendable enterprise and shows how prompt our Chicago {friends are to follow New York in its new undertakings. The ac- tion of the Hxratp in running its Sunday train to Saratoga has proved a revolution in its way in journalism. Steam now waits upon the newspaper instead of the newspaper wait- ing upon steam. And in this relation we have also a humorous side to the Hzratp ente:prise as crisply told elsewhere in an article we re- print from our alle and courageous contem- porary the Commercial Advertiser. This narra- tive tells us how one of our city journals which prints a story paper on Sunday morn- ing, has instivuted also its Saturday night “Sunday express.” The process is a simple one, and shows how easy and cheap it is to imitate genuine enterprise. Instead of printing o journal in the morning and send- ing it by special train it prints one the day before and sends it up by Saturday evening train. Even this is not without its value, and shows the presence of an enterprising spirit, for our contemporary could just as well print an edition a week ahead and send it by the slow freight lines. The fact that it really waits for the midnight express and pays the passage of an attcndant to carry the premature edition to Saratoga and bring again is in itself worthy of commendation, and our contemporary, the Commercial, which, ise just if at times o severe paper, should naker policy | have drawn attention to this circumstance. re policy must | It shows that the Zimes is advancing in the ‘Lhe settlers must be protected. | trae road, and we do oot know but that as our it back | i} mite of encouragement we would not be will- ing to give its edition a place in our own train free of expense, not only as far as Saratoga, but also back again to New York. The Beecher ndal—The Truth Must be Told. The great Brooklyn scandal has assumed a phase which now demands the most rigid scrutiny, not by a self-constituted committee merely, but by an authority able to sift evi- dence and competent to arrive at a fair and impartial judgment. The letters embraced in Mr. Tilton’s arraignment and the subsequent statement of Mrs. Tilton have created a wide- spread and almost overwhelming sentiment against Mr. Beecher. This sentiment is not one of condemnation so much as of sorrow, and there would be joy everywhert if the Ply- mouth pastor could explain away his words and the deep contrition which his words im- ply. Few men will believe that so much grief could come out of anything not in itself sin- ful. Arthur Dimmesdale would not have stood in tbe pillory with Hester Prynne and the child of their sorrowful love,.even in darkness offence which was so sternly punished in the woman. Henry Ward Beecher would not have stood in the pillory of his own choosing, side by side with Elizabeth Tilton, when she found her own passion idealized in Catherine Gaunt, it he had not shared that passion, whatever it was. Such is the phase this case has as- sumed, and it will require something more than o mere denial, high as is Mr. Beecher's character for veracity, to avert the rnin that seems impending over him. In a calamity like this, so terrible in the fate that seems impending over more than one | household, so awful in the punishment that | at the crisis of their lives, that grand picture of grief and guilt and tho steadfastness of despair which Hawthorne drew from the weird recesses of his imagination, stands out ina glaring and almost garish light to illu:- | trate and intensiiy this actual tragedy. Hoster | Prynne stood on the platform of the pillory | holding her babe to her bosom with a convul- sive force. Governor Bellingham was there surrounded by men to whom the forms of | authority had the sacredness of divine institu- | tions. John Wilson, the eldest clergyman ot Boston, a great scholar anda man of kind and genial spirit, was invoking the pale, childlike Master Dimmesdale to press the | poor creature in the pillory to denounce her | partner in guilt. And at last the young clerzy- | man spoke to her, saying, “I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow sinner and | fellow sufferer. Be not silent from any mi | taken pity and tonderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a and stand there beside pedestal of shame, yet better were it so than to hide » guilty heart through life.’’ an awful scene—a scene that was almost sublime in its heroism—but the woman stood | there with glazed eyes and an air of weary in- | difference and opened not her month. And | then came the seven years of punishment for one and of agony for the other, till confession and death intervened in a scene so agonizing that it is possibls nowhere, let us hope, except in the realms of romance. We would not be understood as implying that Mr. Beecher's case is in any way nearly akin to this; but his own words show an affinity. Beecher to Mrs. Tilton, “I did not expect ever In his apology he said:—‘I will die before any one but myself shall be inculpated. All my thoughts are running out toward my friends and toward the poor child lying thera and praying with her folded hands. She is gression of another.”’ At another time:—“I have a strong feeling upon me, and it brings great peace, that I am spending my last Sunday and preaching my sermon.”’ These are strong, bitter, de- spairing words, and that they have reference to some offence which bears heavily upon his conscience is plain even to the nature of the offence itself when he tells how grinding it is pressing him, each one with hiskeen suspicion or anxiety or zeal; to see the tendencies | which, if not stopped, would break out into a | ruinous defence of bim ; or when he declares that Tilton had condoned his wife's fault, adding that very remarkable phrase :—‘He | had enjoined upon me with the utmost ear- nestness and solemnity not to betray his wife nor leave his children to a blight.’ These words certainly had been strong enough for Arthur Dimmesdale—strong enough for Ar- thur Dimmesdale’s crime even. We need not put him in Arthur Dimmesdale’s place ; for, fortunately, Mrs. Til on’s allusion to Catherine Gaunt explains away the grosser qualities of Mr. Beecher's sin. Though Mr. Beecher speaks with tho intensity of Dimmesdale, it was, we are fain to beiieve, only the sin of Brother Leonard. It was the warm affection of a hungry heart absorbing the strong pas- sion of an emotional woman. Anything less than this Mr. Tilton could not have “condoned,” for anything less was in- capable of condonement. Anything more has not been proved and proof must go before belief or acceptance. Bosides, this theory is consistent with Mrs, Tilton’s ideal and her Inter declarations in explanation of that ideal, and not inconsistent with Mr. Beecher's utter- ances from the beginning of this sorrowful controversy up to the present moment. There must be truth in this matter somewhere short of Mr. Tilton’s accusations, but implying o sin greater than that implied in the explana- tion of pastoral interference in the family dif- ferences of the Tiltons, We have Mr. Beecher's testimony in his letters that there was such an offence, and Mrs. Tilton’s allu- sion to Catherine Gaunt seems to fix its nature. Unless all the charges are absolutely disproved, which we hardly think possible under the circumstances, the nature of this offence must be clearly and unmistakably defined. If Mr. Beecher, like poor Dimmes- dale, lacks the courage to do this, it must be done either in the courls or by a committee which shall have the force of a judicial author- ity. Since the matter has gone so far the whole trath must come out as a lesson to the generations which are to come after us, and | even now this much at least is due to public opinion. | Tue Conorrssionan anarrEes coptinues | its inve! ion of the Arkansas troubles at | Little Rock, and it is very evident that the and solitude, if he had not shored in the | awaits one or the other of the gifted men now | high place | thee on thy | It was | “When I saw you last,’”’ wrote Mr. | to see you again or to be alive many days.” | guiltless, sinned against, bearing the trans- | last | to have hundreds and thousands of men | — testimony will be at least ‘conflicting,’ what. ever other character it may bear. Brooks men are ready to testify by the score to ths brutulities practised by the Baxter men, and the latter, in their turn, are propared in equal numbers to prove the savage conduct of the Brooksites. On this point wo would advise the committee to decide that the battle is adrawn one. The editor of the Little Rock Gazette testified to the intention displayed by Governor Baxter to act for the best interest of the people, and referred to the Governor's statement to the Herarp as giving a full and correct account of the split in the Brooks | party. The testimony was generally unim- portant, and the committee will soon adjourn until September. Pulpit Toptes To-Day. There is evidence in the announcements to- day that the Brooklya sorrow is about to re- ceive some attention in at least two of the pulpits of this city and Brooklyn, One would have supposed that such a theme would find its proper sphere somewhere else. It cannot be touched at any point, however tenderly, without bringing up the whole scandal before the minds of all who have read its details, and we presume there are few on this Conti- nent who have not, by this time, acquainted themselves with all that has been published proand con about it. Dr. Martin will this afternoon discuss the ‘Duty Respecting Scandal,’’ and will apply the lesson to the Beecher-Tilton case, Dr. Fulton, of Brook- lyn, will most likely also refer to this now famous ease, for he has chosen for his morning theme “The Temptations and Trials of Ministerial Life." Ho has been long | enough in the ministry, and bag had o faie share, of trials and temptations, so that he can’ bo supposed to be capable cf judging intel ligently of the power of resistance to those | trials which ordinary men possess. He will probably point the moral of man's fallibility | by his portraiture this evening of ‘The Stain- j tess Life of Jesus.’” And yot even He was | maligned aud slandered and misunderstood, just as His followers aro to-day, | Mr. Barrett, of Boston, will spoak of the | effects of ‘touching Jesus” by faith, and Dr. | Deems will deal with ‘The Blossed Dead” | this morning, and picture their state in heaven ‘and their nearness and relation to mortals here below. Tae Frenca Assempiy.—According to our latest news the French Assembly has come te | the conclusion that it cannot do better than ; adjourn. It has not done much this session, | if we except the vote in favor of the Septen- | nate, and it is still questionable whether the | Septennate is nota living source of trouble. MacMahon does well—does his very best; but somehow his best does not help towards a solution of existing difficulties. As the report from the Committee of Thirty, which promises to live in history | as one of the fruitless institutions of the nineteenth century, has not proved acceptable, the government has, we think, done well im consenting to a recess. France is allowed time | to think, and it is to be hoped that when the | Assembly resumes its sittings something prac- tical will be laid before the country. For the time peace is preserved. But who looks for trouble before December ? | | Deceptive Ficures.—When Comptroller Green, usurping the powers and duties of the Board of Apportionment, made the final estimate for the present year before the meeting of the State Legislature, he put into | the appropriations nine huncred thousand dollars more for payment of interest om the city and county debt than was required, and he stated the amount to be derived from city and county revenues for the year, and deducted from the estimate, at one million dollars loss than the revenues would yicld. When he made the revised estimate, authorized by the special law of last session, he took off the amount in excess of the intcrest and added on the amount by which the revenues bad been previously understated. He then cluimed to have ‘re- duced taxation” by one million nine hundred thousand. dollars. The action of Messrs. Vance and Wheeler in the Board of Appor- | ttonment exposed and defeated such charlatan tricks, and secured a small but a real saving to the taxpayers. Tre OpEeNino or TEE Sanatoca Races yes- day gives promise of s grand success for the scason, Splendid weather, with a large and fashionable assemblage and a good attendance of horses, are the elements that speak succesa, | and the events that are on the card are a guar- | antee that the interest shown on the opening | day will last until the close, Tho three races yesterday were all well contested, and the de- tails, as given by our correspondent, will be found fully up to the expectations of all the lovers of the noble sport. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Butfalo, is staying a& the Astor House, The Boston “boy fiend” has been suggested as an Indian fighter. General John E, Multord, of Richmond, 18 resid. ing at the Grand Centrai Hotel, Fare to Liverpool $15. Now is the time for the parties to the great scandai to “step out.’ Charity Ann Burden, of Indianapolis, has gone into the Divorce Court to get rid of her Burden, Elizabeth Cady Stanton has an agricultural turm of mind certainly, as she was recently stumping in Michigan, Can the owner of that Nashville mill tn whice Richard Oats was crushed to death be held for Allicit stilling ? 4 Colonel Barton 8, Alexander, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, 1s registered at the New York Hotel. We knew that Cook had overdone {t by his pre fanity. The religious papers want the coilege re- gattas disconunued, General B. F. Batler arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington, and icit last evening for his home in Massachusetts, Niobe won fame by si.edding tears, but a Caro- lina snuff dipper has won greater fame by shed- ding her Onger nails every month, and heroically refuses to drop a tear over their loss, ‘The fact that the wife of Captain Irey has founded a wood yard at New Orleans suggests the thought that she may be anxious to cremate the Spaniards whom our government failed to checkmate, Secretary Bristow arrived in this city yesterday morning from Long Branch, remained at tne Filth Avenue Hotel during the day, and left for Washing. ton lastevening in company With Solicitor Wilson. Colonel Carlos Cespedes, the son of the iate President of the Cuban Republic, sailed yesterday | on the City of Austin for Key West, to visit bis | Wile, Whom he has not seen lor 1x years, He wit revurn at an carly date to Join the figtiung vaio 110 Guba Livre,