The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | Let Us Have the End of It. We had hoped when we came to this Sab- pet eee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | minds. It is well enough for those extremely PROPRIETOR | Proper journalists, whose minds are not of tho | hae earth, to inculcate upon us the wisdom of | silence as regards the controversy between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton. But noone event has made a deeper impression upon the people | Since the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. It | usurps the n¥wspapers, it burdens the tele- | graph, it asserts its dominance in every dis- cussion; and in the hearts of the millions | who will to-day invoke tho mercy and bless- | ings of God there will be a thought tor Mr. | | Beecher and his trials. Some of our | rural contemporaries speak in wonder and others in reproach of the attitude of | the metropolitan press on this subject. | We are told by some that the press has been \ | ‘subsidized’? by the friends ot Mr. Beecher. | . ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youx LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Advertisements will be Subseriptions and received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.. NIBLO’ RDEN, Others are profoundly grateful for the pa- | ee Oot en, SS | tience and consideration shown to him. | FM. Mr. Joseph Wheelock and Miss 100 | Some of our Western friends, who are disposed | | to mistake brutality for independence, argue WOOD's MUS! that Mr. Tilton must be destroyed and Mr. Broadway, corner of thirtieth RIDING HOOD, at2 P.M: close —LITTLE RED MVE A ea Aaa 14; j loses at 10:20 Louis Aldrich | Beecher saved, no matter at what sacrifice of 4nd Mis3 Sophie Mile 3 ays [aaanmaagae truth and justice, and that this is tho METROPOLITAN THEATRE, : . 7, No, 58 Broadw.y.—Var.sian Cancan Dancers, ats’ M. | animating purpose of the New York TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, | press. When we read these comments Sowers {VARIETY ENicBIAINMENT, at 8 P.M; we are sometimes disposed to suggest | sloses int 10%: : A Marea that it would be well for the journalists in Pitty ninth street and seventh arene HOMAS' CON- | New York to subscribe money enough to CERT, ats P.M; 0 = 4 af | induce one of these editors of independenco Broadway. corner of sireet—LONDON py | ud granite virtue to remove here, and be big DAY. Open from 10 4 moritor of journalism, that we might all sit GLOBE. RE, | at his feet and learn the secrot of those grace- te 728 Broadway.—V At M.; closes at 10 P. | ful amenities, that modesty, culture and fra- F oa ae | ternity which are distinguishing traits in the T R I P ¥ E S H K KE ‘TD: journalism of the Western States. Sees a | The truth, so far as the metropolitan press | is concerned, is simply that, without any = — =. | desire to shield Mr. Beecher or do injustice to THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, | bis antagonist, there has been the wish to givo —_—_— @ clergyman of world-wide fame for genius To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PubLiIc:— | and virtue ‘‘the benefit of the doubt” until cir- The New York Henaup will run a special | cumstances no longer admitted of doubt. So train between New York, Saratoga and Luke | long as it was believed that Mr. Beecher hada George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- | case, so long as his friends assured us that he ing the season at half-past three o’clock A. M., | was ready and willing to explain every allega- and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock | tion affecting his character as a divine and a A. M., for the purpose of supplying the | teacher of morals, it was our duty to wait. Sunpay Henarp along the line. Newsdealers | So far as there has been any sympathy in the and others are notified to send in their orders | matter it has gone out towards Mr. Beecher. to the Hxraxp office as early as possible. | We feel assured that if we could announce = ES TRO IN abs this morning that the trial of the great cler- From our reports this morning the provaliiics | gyman was at an end and that he had been are that the weather to-day will be clear, fresh | found. dimpoentiot ail ibianiayaheramenaids| oiemer | be more joy in every Christian household Wart Srrerr, Yxstenpay.—Stocks were | than this generation has ever seen, For, dull, but closed firm. Gold opened and closed | whatever we may think on points of doctrine as 109% and sold at 109§ and 109}. | or creed, whether we aro Protestant or Cath- i New York, Sunday, August 2, 1874. Pacitn: RATURE.—We print this morn | olic or without a professed faith, we all see Lire: -— s - | ing some brief but interesting notices of re- | phan Mans aeh th ee) cent productions in French literature, In | been a teacher of morals, and that no clergy- spite of all her troubles France is intellec- | cea eee, hee anes os nO B reed, dually; Gall cf activity) Whe" Henimn’ this | prouda station. If he is to be dismissed morniug is a map of the times, and not the | aie ve hmm a ee a pa least interesting feature is the account of sande mee seugag ate nak cietearaaca Gronck Aisalnre. lieved, to his virtues, if he is to be dishonored ETE | and degraded as a vulgar adulterer, and sent Sorgowrut.—A careful writer informs us | forth like a leper into an angry and shudder- that about ninety railway companies in the | ing world, it will be a terrible blow to Chris- United States have suspended payment of in- | tianity. There is probably no gentleman in terest on their bonds, and that the total | this community who does not carnestly wish amount of bonds thus dishonored amotints to | for the acquittal of such a man and the avoid- nearly three hundred and fifty millions of dol- | ance of the misery that his conviction would lars. Is itany wonder that American credit | gause, abroad is no better than that of Turkey or | Brazil? : Tae Inpians.—It will be seen from our news columns of this morning that the gov- ernment has adopted, with success, severe measures toward the Indians. Captain Bates’ expedition has done good work in Wyoming Territory. This policy must be main‘ained antil the Indians ara everywhere taught to comply with law. If the Indians should perish to a man the settlers must be pro- tected. ing to be harsh to Mr. Tilton, and giving him Tae Raw Srorm oy Moravia. —According credit for all the noble qualities that excite to the correspondence of the London Daily | the admiration of his friends, he has certainly News the damage done by the recent storms in | earned @ name of unenviable reproach. Moravia has been much greater than was at | About Mr. Tilton we are atraid there is but first supposed. Eleven villages and two towns | 0né opinion in this community. Sorrow and have been devastated. Such is the disorder | Sympathy have passed into contempt. We and confusion, not to speak of suffering, that | have never seen such a perverse and con- the government has found it necessary to send | tinued defiance of all the laws of honor, troops to relieve the inhabitants, The comet | uth and charity as this young man does seom to have brought trouble in its tail, | has manifested. It would be a most wel- c ; Ea a Eh | one eae to all ie ioral in tis nee _ Gann METEUCTION.— e value of human nature if we could accept the better n fro Sov publicati is i 0] 7 ste Sulveten clone foo shes aa Sin'| Rieagey aaa ee-ene oe saan greens will produce this year between five and six THIRST has ahaa ta pian 4 hundred thousand bales of cotton, The editor | jetters, In these we discover the highest order Hiei lettacad angsote cal es ow Geni a caotere’ oo ures neat os eas } - | bea problem to us how so much talent could leans nine-tenths of the crop will come to its | pe tans to a nature that seems dead to honor, port for shipment. We trust his anticipations mercy, friendship and love. As Dr. Bacon ‘may be realized. Texas must become a great | showed clearly in a conversation with a cor- Btate, and it would not Surprise us to see her | respondent, the alleged “provocation’’ on his attain » prominence, as a rich, inviting and | part to Mr. Tilton had no existence. ‘There fertile Commonwealth, as marked as that of | wag no motive for the war upon Mr, For ourselves, we are proud to feel that this sentiment of manly generosity animates the | press and public of New York, There would be little to tempt, any one to a life of effort | and self-denial if in a day, by unfounded ac- cusations, by successful slander or persistent calumny, the results of such a life could be overthrown. In the case of Mr. Beecher there was everything in the character and career of his assailant to add to this feeling of confidence and sympathy. Without wish- | bath, the day of rest, that there would be an | after “consultation,” one eminent advocate | | end of the one affair which dwolls in all men’s | | or speak it in such a way that it cannot bo | silly twaddle. California, Texas suffered very little from the | war. In fact the war was reuily a benefit to | her, just as it was to California, True recon- struction will come with such crops of cotton as the Civilian reports. The hoe and the plough are of more value now as elements of political renovation than the rifle or the ballot or the Ku Klux mask. This has been learned in Texas, and we wish it could be imitated in the Carolinas and Arkansas. “A Fme Bovxevarp.”—Chicago, which seems disposed to learn by the experience of two great fires, now proposes to bnild what is called a fire boulevard. The suggestion, as explained by the Chicago Tribune, is “that a belt of ter- | ritory of the width of a block, running west from the lake to Ashland avenue, and thence north, should be purchased by the city and set apart as a people’s park and boulevard, forming at the same time one of the greatest possible protections against and preventives of the spread of fire that can be devised.”’ Such a boulevard, the Tribune says, will be built in twenty years. It will form a barrier beyond which fire could not extend, and, more than all, the editor adds :—‘It will penetrate the most thickly settled portions of the city, giv- ing breatbing space and relaxation to wulti- tudes who are now confined to the crowded tenements and narrow streets where they live, In a few years tuia park, planted with trees, will be not only @ place of healthfal recrea- | tion, but will be an ornament to the city | beyond comparison with auy other public im- provement, In point of necessity as a sanitary measure, and as an aill-sufficient barrier against fire, its value is mot to be computed in Gollars and conta, Beecher but his own cold, deliberate purposo to destroy a man whom he regarded as his enemy. For even if the offence he now charges against Mr. Beecher is true Mr. Tilton condoned it, accepted apology and contrition, and, as a man of honor, could no longer kave init a motive for strife. But he began the strife, and to make the work of destruction as | | elaborate and cruel as the tortures of the early | Spanish Inquisition, and in order that nothing should be wanting in the tragedy, he must | add his own hopes and fame, the honor and peace of his wife and the lifelong happiness | of his children. If it were only Mr. Tilton who accnsed Mr. | Beecher this controversy would have been | brief. Truly enough, it is nothing this young | man could say that would undo the famous clergyman. What the country asks, and what | it has never ceased to ask with carnest patience, | is, not that Mr. Beecher would deny the | charges of Mr. Tilton, but that he would | explain his own self-condemning letters, | These letters stand in the way of any belief in | Mr. Beecher’s innocence. We study them | and analyze their shades of meaning, and apply all the tests of rhetoric, and construct hypotheses upon which he may be acquitted; but they all fall before the cold voice of reason. | Henry Ward Beecher is the only commenta- | tor who can explain the meaning of Henry Ward Beeecher. Every day of delay in making that explanation only weakens the | | public confidence in his innocence, It is in- credible that this should not have been seen | from the beginning! What the country wants is a plain, brief, manly statement, that will well the tout bsiefly aud so that there shall \ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1874—TRI be no doubt of the trath. What the country | sees is a gathering of lawyers, “consultation” called in after another, a secret, irresponsible | tribunal in session, the affectation of extraor- dinary secrecy, as though the American | people were the enemies of Mr. Beecher and anxious for his destraction. Now, with all respect to the Bar, the public mind is not dis- posed to Jook with enthusiasm upon any case that requires half dozen lawyers to con- struct. If Mr..Beecher’s statement is of such a character that ‘‘the best legal talent’ of | New York and Brooklyn is necessary to perfect it then it will never satisfy the people, There has never been a time since God made truth- telling the supreme commandment when truth speaking was more necessary than in the case of Mr. Beecher. He knows the truth, No | man on this earth knows better how to write mistaken. By the truth he must stand or fall. Why, then, does he not speak? The country grows impatient with this sut- ject, not merely because it is an offence to the | moral sense, but because the investigation does not lead to the discovery of the truth. In this, as in all things, the simplest way is the easiest and most direct. Ii Mr. Tilton wants to establish his case why does he not enter upon some legal proceeding that will en- able him to do so? The public wearies of these charges and counter charges. We do not want to hear what one side or the other will say. We revolt from the carrion feast to which Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her flock of ravens are hurrying, We are impatient with the fragmentary ‘interviews’’ of eager reporters. Let the matter go into court and not crowd into the papers through columns of If this is not done then we should be disposed to consider Mr. Beecher as the victim of a conspiracy to blackmail, and advise that Mr. Tilton be arrested for defamation of character. If Mr. Til- ton does not bring his suit then Mr. Beecher has no resource but to have him arrested for defamation. It is no longer a church scandal, the quarrel of mutual admira- tion fanatics and enthusiasts, but a subject affecting sociery and mora's, and interesting 1o every citizen who cares for the good name of his fellow citizens, and who sees no disturb- ance of the peace so grave a8 a controversy like this, which brings sorrow to millions, leads to reproach upon Christianity, destroys | faith in human nature and justifies the scorn { and contumely of the wicked, who would tell us that in this world there is neither honor, virtue nor charity. We trust when another Sunday comes we shall have an end of the present suspense and sorrow. If Mr. Beecher is innocent then let that fact be made manifest. If he is guilty we cannot know the sad truth toosoon, This suspense and uncertainty is a cruel injustice to him and to all who hope, even against hope, that the truth may bring him a joyous vindication, Our Special Sunday Train. The special train to Saratoga and the North, which will carry this morning's edition of the Heratp to the thousands of our readers who are away from home, seems to attract unusual attention throughout the country. It is ouly, however, a new feature in the history of modern enterprise, and enterprise is only an- other name for growth and progress. In our modern world of steam and electricity, when | the nations seem to come closer together in | the realization of that brotherhood which is the | dream of philosophers and prophets, the news- paper seems to be the bond of sympathy, Science, it may be said, has shown us how to make a newspaper the cheapest created article in the world As an example of workmanship the damp, fresh journal that lies on the breakfast table is the highest type of what capital, industry and skill can produce in the way of cheap- ness. The needle, the common pin, the stee pen, in their way show a similar result. But it would be far easier for the unskilled person to make a needle, a pin or a pen than to compose a newspaper. In one we see what the perfection of machinery will do in the way of fineness and cheapness of work- manship. But the newspaper represents the achievements of machinery and the results of energy and patient thought combined. For less than the cost of a cigar, a loaf of bread ora cup of coffee, the journalist sells the com- bined efforts of handreds of men. To enable him to make his newspaper his ministers go to all quarters of the world. And so perfect has the relation between the true journal and the people become that a great newspaper is no more and no less than a great common- wealth. It has the responsibility and many of the attributes of sovereignty. There is no such power for good or evil as now rests in the hands of the journalist. Every day he scatters his sheets broadcast to the four winds, to fall like seed upon barren and stony as well as upon fertile ground, to bear fruit which may be wheat and may be tares. We do not say that in all cases this labor is honestly, carefully done. We are well aware that thousands of tares are sown every day—slan- ders, falsehoods, disparagements, reckless statements that bring forth sorrow and heart- burning. But we do feel that every year there { is less and less of this, that journalism is becoming more and more a profession, that the true editor feels that he is in some sense a judge, and that it will be woe unto him if he deals unjustly. So that in a moral sense, ag ® mighty influence acting directly and inces- santly upon public opinion, as well as ina social and business sense, as the instrument of news and business ‘affairs, the newspaper takes every day a higher and higher station. It is in obedience to the duty of our calling— for the Herat would illy serve its purpose if. it did not see duty among its highest aims— that we take pride in enterprises like our special train to Saratoga. It enables us to bind more closely the Hera.n and its readers, It makes them feel that although among new scenes and in a brighter, easier and more tranquil life home influences follow them. A summer day, and more especially a Sanday summer day, has more interest to the idling citizen, when he can feel before he | begins it that he knows the history of the world, the price of gold and stocks, the mar- riages and deaths, what Bismarck and the | Pope are doing, the President's recreations at | Long Branch, the races at Saratoga, what ships have sailed as well as what have come | home, the latest news from little Charley Ross; and if he is not of a skipping turn of | mind, (he latest vhase of the painful coutro- | versy in Brooklyn. There is no roason why people should not live an intelligent life when away from home; and, as we have said, it is not only our duty but our pride to carry the latest intelligence as swift as steam will war- rant, in search of friends wherever friends may be found. An American Pope. An ingenious correspondent addresses us a letter, which we print elsewhere, in which he offers us “a radical and equitable solution of the Roman question,’’ The coasiderations advanced by our correspondent are novel, and certainly deserve attention. He sees in the strifes that now vex the Continont of Europe, the struggles of one nation for supremacy over another, the contest between France and Germany, Which dwaris all other quarrois, and the jealousy which animates the policy of Rus- sia and Austria, the existence of reasons which make it impossible that there should be that absolute freedom in the choice of o Pope that is necessary to the dignity and honor of the Holy See. He sees how these struggling forces, representing the ambition ud the pride of the great nations, may make it impossible to choose a Pope who will really be free in the exercise of his high duties and encourage the belief of the Catholic world in his intallibility. For if the dogma of infalli- bility, upon which so much of the discipline and the influence of the Romap Church now rest, should be successfully assailed it will bo a serious blow to the Papacy. Certainly, ifa Pope should be elected under duress or by misrepresentation or by force—if, for in- stance, Bismarck, by some combination with the other Powers, succeed in electing a Pope of his own choosing—no possible argument could make the Catholic world believe in his infallibility. There would come popes and auti-popes, scandals, strifes and grave divis- ions. Our correspondent, foreshadowing these difficulties, takes courage from the remarka- able declaration of the Pope that in America his power alone is free. From this he argues that the new Pope should come from the United States, and that His Holiness should encourage the probability of the choice by the nomination of an American prelate to the office and dignity of Cardinal, The Liverpool Post, alluding to the chance of such a nom- ination, does not think it at all impos- sible, ag_the_ Popo ig ne of the Kindliest men, and that where he can do a favor ho 18 always ready to oblige even a heretic.” At the same time the Post seos an obstacle to this appointment in ‘“‘the political and social creed” of the Americans, which frowns upon titles and dignities.” This ob- jection, however, would be overcome by the passion of the Americans ‘‘for the ornamental side of society,"’ and that therefore the Pope would be doing the Americans ‘a real kind- ness’’ if he were to ‘‘give them a Cardinal.’’ Furthermore, it says that “there are a good many hats now vacant, and as the ornament has lost much of its old value’ in Europe His Holiness could not do better than send at least one to the United States,” There is an irreverenco of tone in these suggestions characteristic of the English mind in dealing with questions affecting other interests than their own, a spirit that per- vades some of our Enghsh contemporaries in New York, who would introduce into America the spirit of lttleness and depreciation which injures the otherwise generous and manly journalism of Great Britain. It is of minor consequence to us who may be Pope. It is an office that derives very little of its importance from the mere man who fills it. Coming down to us {rom centuries, hedged in by traditions and customs, regarded by millions of souls as the earthly representative of Christ, inherently, perhaps, the most powerful function held by any living man, it would be difficult for any incumbent to depart materially from the laws and customs of past ages. But in the great change which begins to manifest itself in modern society, in that ‘great crisis’ which, according to a mind as subtle as that of Mr. Disraeli, is about to appear in the world, it is of the utmost concern who should be Pope. We see, for instance, the growth of republican sentiment in the older countries, Tere is not o nation | in Europe in which democracy is not a strong | and growing inflience. The principal an- tagonism the Catholic Church has received is from the monarchical Powers like Germany. The only country in which te Pope is free is America. The essence of democracy, as His Holiness must see, is absolute independence of Church and State. Why, then, may not some Pope, in the exercise of that infallible wisdom which in the eyes of the faith- fal is now one of the accepted attributes of the office, see that the dignity and great- ness of Catholicism can only be found in arepublic? Let such a declaration once be | made; let all the tremendous engines of the | Papacy—the religious orders, the secular priests and the higher branches of the hierarchy—become the champions of democ- racy, and how long would monarchy continue in Europe? Here, then, are the outlines of a new de- parture in modern political action, the im- portance of which cannot be exaggerated. Our English contemporaries, whose political vision does not extend beyond Long Branch | and the City Hall, may affect to scoffatit. But | in any crisis in the world’s affairs the Roman Catholic Church must wield transcendent in- | fluence. And certainly, with an American prelate in the chair of St. Peter, it would not surprise us to see Catholicism preaching those doctrines of liberty, equality and fraternity which are held by some to be doctrines of | revolution and overthrow; but which, when all is said, have never been preached so elo- quently by any teacher as Jesus Christ him- sel when He walked on earth, the leader of | poor fishermen, and commended all men to do unto others what they would have others do unto them. Picxtcs ror tae Poos.—It will be seen from our columns this morning that the New York public is not flayving in its interest in the poor. The chiliron of the Eleventh ward had a splendid trip to Oriental Grove. The good ship Chicago never had on board 1 happier crowd; and, thanks to the excollent management of Mr. Williams, the entire affair was a complete success. The Christian public of New York never did nobler thing than they are now doing in aiding Mr. Williams in carrying out “rather | | exultant allusion to the policy of the con- PLE SHEET. Germany, France and Spain. Our special despatches from London this morning confirm the news that has been already printed in reference toa misunder- standing between France and Germany so far as Spain is concerned. The Germans, a8 our readers know, have taken offence at the sum- mary execution of a German correspondent by the troops of Don Carlos. They propose to show their resentment, and, if possible, to punish the offenders, But as a naval cam- paign against the Carlists, who are intrenched in the rugged, inaccessible hills of Biscay, would be as absurd and impossible a proceed- ing as a campaign against the Apaches with gunbosts, the Berlin government naturally and instinctively turns to France. The French can, if they choose, punish the Carlists, because the frontier is under French control, and has been practically a base of sup- plies for Don Carlos. Now the Germans insist that because the Carlists have killed a German the French shall punish them. They also give Serrano and his illegal government as- surances of sympathy, and urge him to make a demonstration against France, and propose, a8 a correspondent says, to have the Brussels Conference unite in favor of a general recog- nition of the Spanish Republic by the Euro- pean Powers. This is certainly keen diplomacy! Bis- marck’s murdered German becomes of great useto him. He hasa pretext which he finds convenient, although he does not always pause to find one when he has something to gain. Ho not only kills one bird with one stone, but has a good chance at a whole flock of them. He humiliates France, which is always a pleas- ant thing to do, He annoys the legitimists, who believe in the Pope and Don Carlos. He flatters the Spanish rulers, who will deal more strenuously with France now that they have behind them the powerful German Minister. He sows. distrust between France and Spain and destroys the natural alliance that sympathy in religion and lan- guage and customs would establish. Having alienated Italy on one side of France and Belgium on the other, he now solicits Spain. In the event of another war with Germany an alliance between Prussia and Spain, or even a good understanding, would render a French army necessary to watch the Pyrenees. That, | at least, would be one army less to fight—not an unimportant consideration either when tho battle really comes. It is urged that, France should recognize Spain, and thus anticipate Bismarck and in some way keep his influence out of Madrid. | This may be done. We can well understand how France would resent German influence in Spain. Nothing could be more galling to French pride than the policy which Bismarck has suddenly pressed upon MacMahon, for all the traditions of France since | Louis XIV. are opposed to it. There has not been a time within two hundred years when a poticy like Bismarck’s would not have been fol- lowed by a French army over the Rhine. But there will be no war! Poor France has had to submit to affronts far more serious than this Spanish intrigue. Her rulers feel that for this year and many years perhaps their duty is to submit in silence to whatever affront Germany puts upon them. In this they show great wis- dom and add another to the already long list of wrongs which, when the tims comes, will justify France in resenting, and compelling Germany to undo at the risk of another war. This is our reading of the Spanish-German problem. France means to fight when she is ready, not when Bismarck is ready. Bismarck is very ready now, and so France submits, protests and waits. Palpit Topics To-Day. There is a religiousness about the topics chosen for consideration in the pulpits this day that is not alwaysso apparent. Dr. Deems, who is always on the Gospel track, takes up this morning the subject of conversation—not the frivolous or filthy conversation that so many indulge in and which is condemned in the Scriptures—not that, but conversation that becometh the Gospel of Clist. There can be no question that if such conversation should become largely prevalent among us the tone of society would be greatly improved. And if Dr. Deems can so change or modily the thought of the community in this regard he will render a great servico to it, But such change or modification can come mainly, if not only, through a contemplation of Christ in all the characteristics of His varied experi- ence and life. Two of those characteristics will be considered to-day by Dr. Samson, of Harlem—namely, Christ's humility and His greatness—and it will be shown also by the Doctor that the claims of Christ were just, ard that Nicodemus recognized them im his conversation with Jesus, The rejection of Christ and its consequences will be considered this morning by Dr. Ful- ton, of Brooklyn, who will in the evening elucidate the doctrine of the modern Jezebel and describe its fascination and its peril. What the peculiar doctrine is to which the Doctor may speak must be gathered from the discourse rather than from the Ser'pture history of that bad woman who was both a covetous person and a murderess, anda good many doctrines or traths might be drawn from her history and character. Dr. D. H. Miller, whose life was so recently jeopardized for his defence of the Bible asa schoolbook, is to speak this morning in sup- port of a free pulpit and a free press. Dr. MeGlynn’s lecture in Yonkers, on the “Philosophy and Poetry of the Confessional,” will, no doubt, be one well worth listening to, considering the ability of the lecturer and the importance of his theme, Morton in Indiana. Mr. Morton is so distinguished a leader in the republican party that when he delivers a speech as careiully prepared as the one he recently made at ‘Terre Haute we naturally look to it for indications of encouragement and instruction to the party, But what do we find? Old issues discussed in a cold, half hearted way; a good deal about tariff and “the jargon of irce trade ;’’ an arraignment of the democracy as the authors of all the misfortunes and sins since the time of Eve; a defence of the Civil Rights bill and an tractionists in the last Congress. ‘The re- publican party,” he says in the conclading burst of oratory, “has never proved false to any great principle nor cowardly in the presence of any great question,” If this this work, ‘Thoy will oll have their reward. EE oo Eo oOo Ce icine exultant eloquence. But there are three great questions that cannot be put down, that as- sert themselves in every section of the conn~ try, and will have a dominant influence on the next canvass for the Presidency. These three questions are the finances, reconstruction and the third term. Let us see how far Senator Morton is false or true to “the great principle’ involved in them, oF whether he is cowardly in their presence. On the finanees he favors inflation, which is only the alphabet of repudiation, and de- nounces free trade, which is as necessary im time to our greatness as freedom of speech, On reconstruction he says harshly that if the white men in the South complain of the negroes they must remember that the negroes are what they have made them. Tho mie government of the Southern States is not to be compared to the miseries of slavery. In other words, because the white men owned the negroes before the war, the negroes have a right to rob the white men now, and not merely rob them, but bring dishonor to the American name by shameless and fre- quent acts of repudiation, Upon the third term Mr. Morton is silent. In the presence of the finances he has only a demagogue’s proposition that would bring measureless mis- fortune to the country, and he is ‘false to the great principle’ of national honesty and scru- pulous regard for the obligations of the publie debt, In the presence of reconstruction he is brutal, and before the third term ‘‘cowardly’” and silent. Senator Morton is a distinguished republican, and as brave as any of the leaders in that party. His “cowardice” and silence are only so many new indications that the day of the party usefulness is coming to an end, and that its best and boldest men cannot save it. The Religious Press Returns to the Brooklyn Scandal. The religious press having waited a week or two for something to turn up that would give them a better insight to the secrets of this now notorious topic which engrosses the at- tention of all the people of the land from Maine to Texas, but having waited in vain, they return this week to a consideration of certain lessons which this great trouble may have in it for the benefit of others who may yet stand on slippery places. It is strange how differently the denominational press look at this scandal and how varied are the lessons they draw therofrom. For instance, the Observer reads a sermon to its patrons on the mawkish sentimentality that prevails among religious women toward clergymen. It cen- sures ministers who encourage women to come to them with family matters. It reiterates the thought that the alleged ‘drawing out of soal’’ toward a pastor is carnal and of the earth earthy. God is not in it. Itis simply the lower tee OLN ee ASI another. “It is a travesty of the Gospel,"* says the Observer, ‘to hold that this ‘yearning after an affinity’ which sacrifices the obliga- tion of society, family and honor, is anything even akin to love.” It is an insult to every pure emotion to call it by that name. Lust is not love. Love is of God, for Godis love, and | religion is not a passion, but a principle—am intelligent belief of truth that leads to right doing. The Evangelist zefers to the scandal to show that the pivot on which the whole controversy revolves in the public mind is the reconcilia- tion of Mr. Beecher’s humble pie letters to Tilton and Moulton with the theory of perfect innocence. If it were simply a question of veracity between Theodore Tilton and Mr. Beecher and Mrs, Tilton the matter would have been settled by the public verdict long ago in favor of the latter. Even the theory of an unwarranted interference in the domestie affairs of Tilton’s household by his pastor, the Evangelist thinks, does not warrant the in- tensity of language used by Mr. Beecher in these epistles. But the Hvangelist takes heart from the darkness of the present hour that it is only the precursor of the day, and hopes that Mr. Beecher will be able fully to explain himself to the public mind and conscience. The Methodist makes the scandal its text for a discourse on “The Value of Character,” and pays the secular press the merited com- pliment of giving the lie to the charge against it of a disposition to promote scandals against good men, and particularly to cherish those in which clergymen are involved. It cites the almost universal position of the secular press on Mr. Beecher’s side aga proof that character is an element of strength to the man who possesses it. It stands him as a de fence against irrosponsible persons, and com- mands the forbearance of the public against the one-sided disclosures of responsible men. It receives sympathy in the hour of trial, and is worth working for and living for. It is, therefore, more than ever incumbent on good men to take care of this gem of character. A few journals treat the matter indifforently or base an assumption of guilt upon Mr, Beecher’s correspondence; but there is noth- ing of particular moment or stirring interest in those journals, Jewish or Christian, local or distant. They look after matters of political | or religions or commonplace gossip, which they treat in an ordina! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. —-——_ + That venerable old lady, Susan B., is as speechless as Moult The sof the interview” are not drawn in pleasant places, ‘The Rey. Mr. Dandy, of Chicago, ts still in quod for chewing his quid, Victor Emmanuei is entitied to the knife as the ugliest man in the world, Hartford 1s preparing to give Governor Jewell @ grand reception on his return home. General Custer has been compelled to sacrifice his golden curls leac the Kiowas may get them, A French critic has made a mot concerning Verdi's funeral mass :—“A requiem suitable for @ civil interment.” Twelve English lords, who have come to thus blawated country “to ‘unt, you know,” passed through Kansas City a few days ago. George Castolon, 4 citizen of Hagerstown, Md, aicd there Juiy 25, aged 109 years and 11 moatha, He was born in Pennsylvania Angust 2, 1764 Galignani’s Messenger Rays ihat General Mere- ditn Kead, not being able to obtain the full amount of accommodation he required for himself ana Jamily iu the packet to the United States which leit Havre recently, deferred his departure to Fri- day, July 31, when he would leave in the North German Lioyd’s steamer the Deutschland. Governor Bramlette has just postponed the Library drawing, whereat the Chicago Times pare- phrases :— ‘There was a man in oar town, And he was wondrous wise; He jumped into a Bramiette bush And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his ort was gone, With ali his mignt and main, were (rue it would be worthy of the Senator's Re jumped into the same old bush— Sut wituout auy improvement to ls daxrkeped arts