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4 St sn NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY A AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON “BENNETT, RRORSIATO™ ALD, published every An- THE DAILY ” HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herat, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. <I LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. seeeeeeNOe 227 Volume XXXIX...... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING NIBLO’S GARDEN, between Prince and Alouston streets. Rival GAUNT, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1045 P. M Joweph Wheelock and ‘SUss itenriette irvibg. Matines at BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street amd Sixth ayvenne,— BELLE LAMAR, ats P. M.: closes at 10:30 P.M. Jobn MeCulloagh and Miss K. Rogers Randolph. 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M. till dusk: WITH ‘SUPPLEMENT. ‘New rock, Saturday, August 15, 1874. HE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. | To NEwsDEALERS AND THE Pustiic:— The New Yore Henaxp 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 o’clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the Suxpax Hzraxp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their orders | to the Hzratn office as early as possible. From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with possibly light rains. Watt, Srancr Yestznpar.—Another dull day, stocks maintaining themselves, however. Gold 1094. Tze Boston Pness is unanimously for Mr. Beecher. There is no need of any further discussion. Ar Saratoca yesterday Gray Planet, Mr. Belmont’s horse, made a mile in 1:424, the best time on record. THe GovERNMENT or Mexico continues its | praiseworthy efforts for the development of | the great internal judustrial resources of the Republic and for the regulation of the coast- | ing trade on an equitable and profitable basis. This is excellent work tor Mexico. AnoTHER or THOSE domestic tragedies which are due to jealousy, intensified by intoxica- tion, occurred in this city last evening, when a German named Brandstine shot his wife, attempted to murder a policeman, and then blew out his own brains. No law can prevent such horrors, which continually appear in a xorrupt condition of society. Tre Froarixa Hosprrat.— Yesterday an- other excursion was made upon the barge of | so little from | 4 | even to have been so unconscious of the closes at ie M. | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Mr. Seecher’s Statement. Mr. Beecher has presented his case at its best, and we cannot doubt but his statement | Telieved the minds of the vast majority of | those who read it almost as it the whole | burden of reproach were lifted away. It has | cleared the air wonderfully, and if some mists remain this much is truae—with Mr. Beecher’s | absolute denial of the charges made we are under obligation to weigh statement and counter-statement by the relative credibility of the persons from whom they come, unless | intrinsically there are contradictions and in- consistencies which invalidate either state- | ment, or unless the statements are invalidated by the incompatibility of their general declara- | tion with facts they admit. ' Against Mr. Beecher we have first the state- | ment of Tilton, who is clearly not entitled to be believed unless what he says is well sup- ported. There are the declarations of Mrs. Tilton that the charges against Mr. Tilton | | were true, and her still more vigorous and | frequent declarations that they were not true. It seems certainly impossible that a sane woman could admit her own guilt in such a } ; case unless she were indeed guilty and | | erushed by the sense of it, while it is quite | | possible and quite according to the ways of | women, as well as men, that she should vehemently deny her guilt in any case; so | that this woman’s declarations in one sense | appear worthy far more consideration than the contrary declarations; yet she seems to have created for herself an atmos- phere so unreal, to have reasoned | ordinary standards, and possible effect of very plain words, that she is entitled to only the smallest possible degree | of credit. Shesis to be believed only where | it is impossible not to believe hér. Could this woman have falsely impugned her own virtue ; and assailed the character of the man who was her loftiest ideal of moral grandeur and purity? It seems to us that she could. Evi- dently the Tiltons lived in a kind of morbid : world and talked a language peculiar to the | classes of which they are the type—a sort of | biblical slang. Just such a case of ‘‘self-sac- | rifice’ as that which her husband is said to | have imagined tor her, as recited by Mr. Beecher, would be sufficient to determine this woman to any act whatever, and it would be accident and not intention which would decide | whether the course were toward heroism or infamy. The account given of how she came to make her confession is like a photograph of the intellectual operations of these kind of people, and not like an invention of the | broader, healthier-minded preacher. Furthermore, we have against Mr. Beecher | the testimon# of Mr. Moulton, implied, not | declared, that the documents inserted in Til- | ton’s statement as the letters of Mr. Beecher | | are authentic, while in favor we have the equally clear implication that this gentleman has not ventured to sustain the other declara- tions of Tilton, but has evaded the trial and taken refuge in a convenient silence. De non apparentibus et non existentibus eadem est ratio. Ifhe does not sustain the words of Tilton it | must be assumed that he cannot, for the case | has got beyond the sentimental notion of sup- pressing disclosures to spare reputations. Mr. Beecher’s good name and credibility | stand on such sure foundations that, as \ against Tilton’s story, supported by the maun- derings of the woman whom he has made so wretched, a mere denial is enough. If, there- | fore, the pastor's declaration does not seem | to all men thoroughly satisfactory, the reason must be sought in its intrinsic inconsisten- cies—in the point especially that its denials are not readily to be reconciled with the facts it admits. Tilton is swept away; his wife | | may be overlooked; Moulton has shirked the ordeal; but Beecher's own letters remain, and | Some that he admits are very difficult, indeed, | to get over. In regard to that important let- | ter, so called, in which he ‘humbled himself | | before Theodore Tilton as before his God,”’ his | explanation is thoroughly satisfactory. He | has completely destroyed that collection of sentences as a valid piece of evidence. Inthe | absence of any denial from Moulton of Mr. | | Beecher’s account of that ‘‘letter,"’ the letter | hes no more value in the case than it would | have if it were in whole, as it is in part, a | To assail a man with charges | the mere whisper of which is injurious | whether they be true or false; to persistently | | and in some degree skilfully torture his con- science with well contrived pictures of the ruin he is said to have wrought; to catch him | | with his imagination in a blaze on this subject, | and to prate sympathy and charity and friend- | ship, and then to gather up his ejaculations, fabrication. Beecher’s friends that these extravagant phrases in his letters were his expressions of | ing a republic among a people so tenacious of remorse at the harm he might have done in advising Mrs, Tilton to leave her husband, and thereby contributing to destroy that do- | mestic circle. Although the words seem over- wrought for the subject, commonplace people did not care to reject that theory. It is cer- | tain that in our everyday way of talking we do not give ourselves up to these sort of in- tellectual tortures for a piece of very ordinary advice, even though it turns out to be very | bad advice; but there was a common recog- nition that it might be otherwise with people whose professions led them to cultivate a more than commonly deli- cate sensibility of conscience. That defence therefore stood with some deference paid to it till now; but it is inconsistent with Mr. Beecher’s own statement. As he now shows us, the charge that he had made improper pro- posals to Mrs. Tilton was communicated to him by Mr. Moulton, December 30, 1870, and that charge and charges of that nature are thereafter the constant subject of the thoughts of all these parties; and as we are thus informed of the topic that was the staple of all these negotiations it cannot be be- | lieved that these violent words refer to a topic that must in 1872 or 1873 have seemed in any mind pitiable in the comparison. When Mr. Beecher says in 1873 that Tilton had ‘‘con- doned his wife’s fault,’’ is it conceivable that this could refer to the thought of divorce rather than to the fact of adultery, whea both wero in the record? Certainly Mr. Beecher presents himself very much in the light in which Hamlet scorned to be contemplated. He appears asa pipe on whom Tilton and Moulton play any stop they please. Hamlet was, of course, not a preacher. His impulses were more naturally human. He was not restrained by the limitations of the Christian discipline and the assumptions of self-sacrifice and self- humiliation that are part of the conception of the pastoral character. In this picture the pastor is not worldly wise—not shrewd. Nay, be seems notcommonly intelligent. He steps into the places prepared for him with a facility which he presents as the consequence of sheer guilelessness and his enemies as the evidence of guilt. Tilton and Moulton seem to have the tact and skill of Mephistopheles, and Beecher to be in their hands as the clay in the hands of the potter. It is not easy to believe this man so wanting in ordinary perception of the relations of facts to one another and so incapable of the common sense appreciation of | the possible applications of the words he freely putson paper. Still less does it seem con- sistent with what we would like to believe of him that he pays money to secure silence, He paid two thousand dollars at one time and five thousand dollars at another. If this had been the carelessly thrown out contribution of the millionnaire, if these thousands had been casually drawn from s box in which there were many more thousands, it might still be. But five thousand dollars obtained by a mort- gage on one’s residence is different, It is scarcely necessary to say that the stage now awaits Mr. Moulton. He was to open his mouth if his personal honor were assailed. Here he is distinctly presented as a black- mailer and as the confederate and colleague of the man for whom the money was extorted. He cannot rest under this imputation, Mr. Beecher has, to put the results atthe least, greatly attenuated the threads of that net in which the conspirators seemed to have caught him. He has made gossamer of a great part of the fabric—and yet even gos- samer is something. Men and women whose faith in their pastor is resolute scarcely needed to have even this much doue to be confident that his enemies could not tie down their giant; but the less sympathetic world will require, before they will assent that a preacher’s roputation is made perfectly clear, | that even a film of gossamer should not appear between it aud their eyes. The Recognition of the Spanish Re- public. Tardily and unwillingly the great Powers of Europe recognize the Spanish Republic. During the briet period of its checkered exist- ence they hoped vainly that the struggle of the reactionary factions would end in the triumph of some one of the royal pretenders. It has been the aim of the statesmen of the different courts to represent the Republic as an acci- dent, a curious vagary of a people really de- | voted to monarchical principles, and certain, | sooner or later, to return to their first love. | But though neither France nor England have St. John’s Guild, but no more than six or | his extravagant phrases, his overflow of sym- | contented themselves with affording moral aid seven hundred sick children were on board, vwing to the threatening weather. An inter- esting account of this beautiful charity is pub- lished to-day. Next week several more ex- | cursions Delage take iS ea Rosstax Pessoa: belonging to the Men- nonite body, are pouring through Berlin on their way to America. They will find a hearty welcome on our soil and enjoy a complete freedom in the practice of their religion. Work and prayer, or prayer and work, just as it may be, are about all that the people re- quire. Everything else will follow in due time. Yacurma.—The cruise of the New York Yacht Club came to a brilliant end yesterday, | In a fine sernb race from Brenton’s Reef Light- Bhip to Vineyard Haven. The Dauntless won in 4h. 48m. 30s., winning the prize for schooners, and the Vindex gained the prize for sloops. The regatta on the Hudson was also a magnificent display of fine sailing, the Lorelei and the Annie being the victors. Tre Quakes An act of the Legislature provides fully for the suppression of quack doctors of medicine, and recent occurrences have directed the atiention of the Board of Health to the importance of enforcing it. A quack doctor i : but a murderer in disguise, and mor: in truth, than pn ordinary assussiv. Phe one kills pur- posely ; the other kilts in an ignorant effort to cure. Puymovrn Cavncn.—A pr held at Plymouth church | thanks for Mr. Beecher's was much enthusiasm, speakers were appli recognized as ‘the pro the nineteenth century,’ and general fe tions were exchanged. Neither Mr. nor Mr. Moulton was present, T meeting was night to give statement. There of the r was lov and Mr f G many } ret 0 Tilton | pathetic delirium, and to set this all down and | | describe it as his “fetter,” issimply a despica- | | ble piece of chicanery. As we read Mr. | | Beecher’s statement this is what was done. | He did not compose that letter. Its ‘‘compo- | sition” is placed at Mr. Moulton’s door, and it is a grave charge. It is evident he spoke ex- travagantly on the occasion referred to, but eqnally evident that with only a sentence here | and there taken up at random that document | | does not present his state of mind on that oc- | | ecasion, and is dishonestly presented in the | charge against him. But as to some other of the documents Mr. Beecher’s explanation is less satisfactory. In the letter of February 5, 1872, are these words, addressed to Monultor and referring to Til- | ton :—‘‘Sf my destruction would place him all right, that shall not stand in the way. Jam | | willing to step down and out. No one can offer more than that. That I do offer. Sacri- | fice me withont hesitation if you can clearly see your way to his happiness and safety thereby. Ido not think that anything would be gained by it. Ishould be destroyed but he would not be saved, and the children won!ld have their future clouded.’’ And further, in the | same letter, these: —‘‘Lite would be pleasant if | I could see that rebuilt which is shattered ; but | to live on the sharp and rugged edge ot | | anxiety, remorse, fear, despair, and yet to put | on all the appearances of serenity and happi- | ness, canuot be endured much longer.” Andin ! the letter dated June 1, 1873, are these words: — “[ have determined to make no more resist- odore’s temperament is such that even if temporarily earned, would | filled with abrupt | inble at any hour ify all the devices | ay From what » saved oursely On points like not sufficiently explicit. ance. the tuture, be absolutely Ir wort less, charges a ndering me liged to si b or day to by was it tha this Mr. Beecher is which xd oursel | Hitherto it bas been the theory of Mr. | to the reactionary party in Spain, both see themselves compelled to abandon the position they have up to the present held, and ac- knowledge at last that the Republic is defi- nitely established in Spain. Itis not to be ex- pected that this formality will much change the feelings of either country toward the new | Republic, but it will compel them to have their own neutrality laws respected. Had the governments of France and England not winked at open violations of their laws the | Carlist insurrection could never have reached the importance it has acquired. The change in the policy adopted towards the Spanish Republic is only another illustration of the value to honest men of quarrels among thieves. It certainly is not due to any love of republi- canism that autocratic Germany has resolved | to protect Spain from the unfriendly designs of her neighbors. The opportunity of check- mating the traditional policy of France in | Northern Spain, and at the same time secur- ing the friendship and alliance of the Iberian | people, were the canses that have directly led to the change of policy toward the govern- ment of Madrid. also with an opportunity of displaying her con- trolling influence over Europe, and her states- men, with that wisdom which has characterized them in this generation, have promptly seized on and used the opportunity. It is only a few days since the sovereign of England an | nounced that her resentations of Germany seem to have worked wonders in converting Disraeli and his fol- lowers to a tardy Russia alone of the great Powers is disposed to hold back. She fears that the permanent establishment of the Republic in Spain may tend to the spread of republicanism in Europe. Not having the | same reasons for winning the friendship of t of justice, | Spain as Germany has, her rulers look at the question merely from a monazehical stand- It has furnished Germany | government would not | recognize the Spanish Republic, but the rep- | point, and, perceiving the danger of implant- their rights as are the Spaniards, hesitate to ; become parties to the new departure of the Ber- lin statesmen. The action of Russia will have, however, no influence in Spain. As we have pointed out, the chief value of this recognition will consist in the facilities it will give the government for cutting off supplies from the Carliste. And as the supplies are chiefly it not wholly derived from France and England the refusal of Russia to join in the recog- nition will not influence perceptibly the affairs of the Peninsula, After passing through many trials the Spanish Republic now enters a period of recognized existence, and there is reason to hope that the moral effect of the recognition of the new form of government will have a favorable effect in bringing the civil war to aclose. It may have the effect of persuading such persons as are not enamored of fighting for fighting’s sake of the uselessness of continuing in arms for the cause of Don Carlos. Never was sword drawn for a more hopeless cause. As well might the few scattered clansmen who in the Scottish Highlands still preserve a traditional love for the memory of Prince Charlie hope to win back the crown for the Stuarts by aid of their broadswords as for these Biscayan peas- ants to think of placing Don Carlos on the throne of Spain. While we admire their gal- lantry and devotion it is impossible not to re- gret that their energy and courage should be wasted in a hopeless cause, and in one which, could it succsed, would be fruitful of misery and evil to themselves and their children. During all the years that kings have reigned over Spain they have done little except to de- grade and rob the people. With the perma- nent establishment of the Republic will come peace, education and contentment. When | the inhabitants of the northern provinces have once enjoyed the freedom that will be secured to them by republican institutions they will become as firm defenders of the new order of things as they are now sturdy and | persistent enemies of the Re public. Sheridan on _ the Question. What General Sheridan does not know of the Indians it is likely they do not know them- selves, and a practical opinion from him upon’ the great problem of their proper manage- | ment is worth a thousand theories of those who reason about the Comanches and Cheyennes upon the abstract principles of government. How to act with justice to the Indian and safety to ourselves is certainly a national question, but one which has never been fully answered, The course of our government from the first has oscillated between bribery and butchery till the condition of affairs on the Plains has become so bad that many per- sons believe it incurable. Yet there must be some remedy for the evils which threaten to | blot out of existence the aboriginal American race, and which perceptibly check the ad- vance of American civilization west of the Mississippi. The opinions of General Sheri- dan, a8 expressed in the interview reported to-day by a Chicago correspondent of the HeEnaxp, are therefore of unusual importance, and they are given with a clearness and force which show the gallant soldier to be as quick and bold in thought as he is in action. The reservation system General Sheridan holds to be the only one by which the Indi- | ans can be ruled, but he considers it imper- tect. He has little confidence in the present Indian Department and in the peace policy of the Quaker commissioners, and in this he is fully justified by the facts. Vast reservations are provided for the tribes, and agents are ap- pointed to distribute among them food and | clothing, yet it is impossible to keep them in bounds. Every summer bands of young war- riors go off on plundering expeditions, and although a general Indian war is impossible these annual incursions prevent the settle- ment of the country. A few hundred | mounted Indians can ravage a whole frontier, | and immense regions on both sides of the | Rocky Mountains are without white popula- | tion because of this perpetual danger. Gen- eral Sheridan thinks the reservations are too large, and that within smaller limits the In- dians would have greater inducements to | labor; and in this he is no doubt right. Ten | thousand acres for one Pawnee is a waste of | land. Buta deeper reason than this for the annual disturbance he believes to be the in- | competency of civil rule. | The army is General Sheridan’s remedy. | | He is firmly convinced that not till the Indians | | are placed under military authority can per- manent peace be secured, and he justifies this | by strong arguments. The Indians, he avers, respect the army and submit to it more readily | than they do to civilians, and he denies that | the military government treats them with | cruelty. Had the Indians been under army | ‘ control there would never have been ao war; but, on the contrary, he insists that the soldier should always, in dealing with these savage tribes, precede the missionary. A minister ot | | the Gospel is always more useful when he | | preaches in the neighborhood of a bayonet. | These views may starile some people, but | they are advanced by a man who has studied the Indians as carefully as Agassiz studied | gecloay, and wko knows more about their than Proctor does of | General Indian | merits and faults | astronomy. We do not agree with General Sheridan that it is absolutely necessary to have exclusive | military rule of the Indians, but believe that | its yet possible for a statesman to devise o method more in consonance with the spirit of | | our institutions. Ina tree country, as far as | | possible, the army should execute, not govern, | and this is the objection to o surrender of the | | | | | | wards of the nation to its soldiers. If our Congressmen, instead of giving most of their time to partisan politics and ambitious schemes, would seriously examine the Indian question, | a thorough and permanent plan of government | | might be devised; and if any public man | could solve the problem which has been neg- lected by all our national administrations he | would earn no minor place in American his- tory. In the meanwhile divided authority | | should cease. rigid responsibility | | tor Indian affairs should be enforced, tor the | | country is weary of seeing the Western tribes’ | firet demoralized by Quaker weakness and then whipped by Sheridan's cavalry. William | Penn did very well with his beads two hun- dred years ago on the Delaware, but the old | gentleman would have a hard time now if he ' could try the same experiment with the Sioux | | among the Black Hills of Wyoming, Some more , and his own by his bargaining and letter The Victim It seems as if it was Brooklyn, and not Qui- quendone, which was the scene of Dr. Ox's celebrated experiment with oxyhydric gas. All the world knows that the Flemings area patient people, who do everything with such extreme deliberation that they can scarcely accomplish in a week what anybody else | would do in an hour, The population of Quiquendone were model Flemings till Dr. Ox, on the pretence of lighting the town, saturated the atmosphere with pure oxygen, and so set everybody frantic. According to that veracious historian, Jules Verne, it was not possible to sing more than a single act of | an opera in an evening and, at the same time, satisfy Quiquendonian taste, At the theatre | the vivaces lagged like real adagios, and the allegros were slower than the andentes in | other countries; but on the night when Dr. | Ox tried his first experiment the fourth act of ‘Les Huguenots,”’ which formerly Insted six hours, was sung in eighteen minutes of frantic | melody. Soon the once quiet town was wild with excitement, andeven the animal and vegetable kingdoms were subjected to the | mysterious influence. The condition of the People was one of half-rabid intoxication, | from which there was no relief till Dr. Ox's gas works blew up, when all things resumed their old proportions and men and women got back their pblegmatic habits. If Brook- | lyn is the real Quiquendone, Plymouth church was the oxyhydric laboratory. Mr. Beecher was the original Dr. Ox, and, like the hero of | the story, became infected with his own | oxygen. Poor Mrs. Tilton was the Tatané- | manee, but she centred her affections upon | the chemist, rather than upon Passauf, the commiszary of police. And Theodore Tilton was Dr. Ox’s assistant, Gédéon Ygéne, who | helped to prepare the gas, and then blew up the gas works. The parallel is complete, but the fantastic catastrophe of the fiction has be- come a real tragedy, and, though the men suffer in reputation and the good opinion of | their fellows, it is the woman who is the real victim. H In all the history of misfortune we never | read a more plaintive story than Mrs. Til- ton’s. Between these two men, each of whom moulded her to his will, she was as plastic as clay. As she has described herself, she was a terribly unhappy woman. Her husband made her home a blight. Her | spiritual guide and pastor, knowingly or un- | knowingly, made the blight a curse. She | lived in an atmosphere of pure oxygen, in | which there was not an atom of hydrogenic | comfort and beauty. Even if she fell, it was only as an angel might fall; but whatever be | the truth in that regard she has, indeed, been | compelled ‘‘to live on the sharp and rugged edge of anxiety, remorse, fear, despair."’ She was not so much as allowed to put on the appearance of serenityand happiness. At one time her husband stood by her bedside ex- torting from her a confession of criminality. Another man, if he had believed what she | wrote, would have killed her seducer. Then came Mr. Beecher, who found her ‘upon her bed, white as marble, with closed eyes, as in a | trance, and with her hands upon her bosom, palm to palm, like one in prayer.” ‘As I | look back upon it,” somewhat flippantly says | Mr. Beecher, ‘‘the picture is like some forms carved in marble that I had seen upon monu- ments in Europe.” It was o picture of a wo- | man wronged and suffering as no woman had ever suffered before, and her childish moan, “What can I do?” is the condemnation of both these men. They tossed her breaking | heart between them as a football in their play. It was Antenor and Agamemnon outwitting each other, but carefully stipulating that the one should be saved and the other profited, whatever became of the wretched Holen. What right had these two msn to stand sepa- rately by the bedside of that feeble woman, | crazed in the immensity of their quarrel and | her own weakness, and demand, each in his | turn, the written testimony which was to de- | stroy her? Itwas a wrong to tura frailty into a virtue and make us feel the profoundest compassion for the victim of the contest be- tween these powerful combatants. Mrs. Til- ton must, indeed, have been a good woman, | or she could not have so acted as to injure herself and wrong others while two fierce men quarrelled over her misfortune. So far as she is concerned it is the saddest theme of which poet ever sung or composer set the melodies of sorrow. Looking back over this domestic tragedy by | | the aid of all the light that has been shed upon it we can see no sign of brightness and beauty except in the sufferings of the woman. The mad scenes of which we get glimpses ou | the lyric and dramatic stage are but tinselled grief to hers, even when the imagination makes the illusion completest. It is only since Mr. Beecher’s statement was published that we are able to realize what was meant by the allusion to “the poor child lying there and praying with her folded hands.’’ If she was guilty of all that her husband charges her with he made her not less miserable than if he-had placed a scarlet letter on her bosom to proclaim her an adulteress to all the world. If | she was innocent we have no words to con- | | demn the crime of her husband; but even | then Mr. Beecher has trifled with her honor | | | writing and, worst of all, by his payments of money to conceal what never occurred. It | may not be possible ever to know fully and | completely the right and the wrong of this matter, but, whatever the truth, Elizabeth Tilton has been sacrificed, to the shame of humanity and the wonder of the world, | There is a crime in this case which is new to | criminal literature, and it can be accounted | for upon none of the ordinary theories of | criminality. It would be fantastic to say that | its causes are to be found in the atmosphere, | and yot it is almost impossible to escape the | conclusion that there is a moral oxygen in the | air of Plymouth parish which distorts every | impression that is wrought upon the eye, the | heart or the brain of its bios victim, Junex.Hoar, in dbolining a renomination | in the Seventh Massachusetts district, pays a | high compliment to the present Congress, | declaring it ‘on the whole to have been a | thoroughly honest body, composed in the | main of upright and able men who sought the | public welfare, were opposed to corrupt and | mercenary schemes and fairly represented their constituents.” If this were really the character of Congress we could wish it in ses- sion all the year round ; but Judge Hoar, we | fear, is a little too enthusiastic, | for a consideration, aeenetatieemneemtiitinl >So The Tilton Correspondemes, The correspondence between Mr. and Mra Tilton, which occupies so much of our spaa to-day, was never intended to be published In reading it this should be remembered, for all letters of love are written in an unknown language to the stranger's eye. This revele tion, therefore, should be delicately received ; it would be a cruel hand which would disturb with tod rough a touch these dead blossoms from a withered bough. The publication of these letters Mr. Tilton states is due to the demand of his counsel, Judge Morris, who insisted upon it as the best answer under the circumstances to Mra. | Tilton’s recent statement. In that document she said that Mr. Tilton’s cruelty had made her life unhappy; that he bad introduced into her house strange women; that he had | deprived her of the means to sup port a household, and that she bad taken refuge from his unkindness upon the graves of her children. Her letters are produced now in answer to these charges, They extend over a long period of years, during which this cruelty is said to have been committed, and yet they breathe of nothing but love. The contradiction of Mrs. Tilton’s letters to her husband and her statement ta the committee is unquestionably absolute, and it affects not only what she has said, but what has been charged by Mr. Beecher in his recent testimony. Mr. Beecher is the sub- ject of many of the epistles. He is the sub- ject of frequent discussion and seems to make the only discord in the harmonious duet of affection. They are strange letters and have an important connection with the pres ent unfortunate scandal. Bazarne’s Escarz.—It is now pretty evi dent that the Metz traitor was allowed to escape by some fellow traitor among the prison officials. Suspicion points strongly to the Governor, who has evidently deceived the government by stating that Bazaine was in bed at ten o'clock on the night of his escape. Judged by the time of his arrival at Genoa he must have left the Isle Sainte Marguerite before nine o'clock at night. This would seem to implicate the Governor, but it is pos- sible that others behind the scenes are mixed up in this disgraceful business. The gentle- | nen who guard traitors in France seem to be not unworthy to rank in rascality with our {own more democratic officials, who allow | well-te-do convicts to escape from Sing Sing end, as the convict | Bazaine was wealthy, he was able to purchase the sympathy of his keepers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. 1 Mayor D, M. Halbert, of Binghamton, 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bishop John F, Young, of Florida, ts residing as the Coleman House. Ex Congressman E. C. Ingersoll, of Mlinois, is staying at the Hoffman House. Dr. Joseph Taylor, United States Navy, has quare ters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Paymaster 8. D. Hurlbut, United States Navy, is quartered at the Everett House, Moulton has no peer in this neighborhood, and that’s why be goes to Narragansett. Secretary Bristow leaves Washington to-day for Cape May, where nis family is stopping. Ex-Oongressman Stephen Sanlord, of Amster dam, N. ¥., 18 sojourning at the Gilsey House, Colonel Henry B, Carringtov, United States army, 18 registerea at the Metropolitan Hotel, Rev, Dr. William C. Cattell, President of Lae fayette College, has apartments at the St. Nicholag | Hotel. Mr. Gustavus V. Fox, formerly Assistant Secre tary of the Navy, yesterday arrived at the Everets House. Gold, gold, gold, gold. Honiton, melted nemmered and rolled. It’s becanse he’s molten that he runs, ‘They had a seal at the Garden of Acclimation in Paris, recently carght on the coast, but it would not eat and was lil:ely to starve. At last some one thought of giving it milk, which they did from an infant’s feeding bottie, and now it is happy. It was a baby. At Carthagena, Spain, they regard the rigits of fishermen, Nets are now placed for the tunny | fishery, and it 1s announced that navigation is ciosed in all that part o/ the waters occupied by the nets—violation at the peril of the navigators. Baron d’lvry, o: the French Navy, was out shoot ing and accidentally Killed ‘an official of the third class.’’ He was sentenced bya court martial to imprisonment for five years, and Marshal Mao Mahon has just remitted what remains of the term. Baron von Schloyer, formerly Minister of the German Empire to the Republic of Mexico, aud for three years Minister at Washington, arrived in this ctry yesterday, from Hamourgz, on board the steamer Porerania, after an absence of three months, principaily spent at the Gorman watering places. Jn Bucharest a Jew was hard on his debtor and the debtor stabbed him tothe heart. Another Jew, a neighbor, rushed to seize the debtor and the debtor stabbed him. The wounded man seized a hatchet, killed the debtor with a single blow and {eli dead himself. Here is another chance for Bouctcault to make @ new American drama, The Brusseis Nord says that the reason why the United States was invited to the congress on ine ternational war usages in Europe held in that city is that our government was tne first to estab- lish acode for the regulation of its armies during war. Lteber’s Code, by the way, was translated by Bluntschli, and now they cail it Bluntschil’s Code over there. There was a grand dinner at the President's house at Versailles, which, unfortunately, coin- cided with the day on which the Union newspaper was suspended for publishing Chambord’s procla- mation. So many regrets were sent to that din- ner that it is said to have affected the Marshal's political ideas and put him against Casimite Périer’s proposition. He said, “To accept the Rew public ig to shut one’s self out of the Faubourg St | Germain.” Mr. Thomas Murphy gave, last evening, a dinner to Senator J. P. Jones, of Nevada, at the Union League Club House. Among the invited guests were William B. Dinsmore, Wiliiam Orton, Joho Hoey, Henry Clews, Isaac H. Bailey, General Por ter, George H. Puliman, General Hillhouse and General Sharp. This dinner was given to Senator Jones—who leaves for Nevada this week—as a compliment on the occasion of his purchase from Mr. Murphy 01a plot of ground “on the beach at | Long Branch,” with a view to building a house thereon and of living therein during the summer season. The house will be next door but one to the President’s cottage. One Cobbet*, a friend of Orton, tried to address the Loras Justices of Appeal in Chancery. Vice. Chancellor Malins, a peppery fellow, ordered hit tositdown. Cobbett persisted. Then the mild “Lord Justice James’ interviewed him as fol lows:--The Lord Justice—Are you a member of the | Bar? Mr. Cobbet: ‘Oo. The Lord sustice youa solicitor? Mr. Coobett—No, The | tiee—Are yon a party to any snit belore this Court? Mr. Cobbett—No. The Lord Justice—Then sitdown. Mr. Cobbett was then understood to complain that less hberty of speccl was accorded to him tuan would have been granted to a pris oner, Whereupon veing asked if he was a prisoner seeking his discharge, he answored in the nega tive, and the ordcr to sit down was repeated with marked emphasis, and Vobbett sat down, TRe | Cobbetts were always cantankerous people,