The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK NERALD| BROADWAY AND ANS STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR i All business or news letters and telegraphic 4 hes must be addressed Naw Youk Hany : Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Big ede 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. Voitume XXXIX ~~ | distorted notions of right and wrong smuseE 8 TO-MOBBOW. 1.4 clovated what the world regards | hayes }as yulgar crimes into the highest baa philosophy of which Mr. Beecher was the high corner of twenty iia’ at cal kc pyebpae | priest, though full of Christian aspiration, eecullough wad Mise KC. Meat“ 9°" | practically broke down the barriers which so- wooo's KUM, | Broadway, corner of Thirtieth ‘street—PUSS 'N 8008S, at 2 P.M; closes at 4PM. THE DWARFS | PUBL, at 82. Mo: closes at 10302. M. Lous Aldrich aud Miss soplie Miles. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.— GRIFFITH GAUNT, at 8 BP. M.; Closes w¢ 1045 P. a. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Uenrietia Lrving. | vulgarity; but, if Mr. Boecher is to be be- | fashioned notions of virtue to this peculiar ‘and luxuriant growth. NEW YORK HERALD, SU ‘Tne Soctal and Worai aspects of the | Beecher Oase. That is indeed » marvellous development of social life where any part of these Brooklyn revelations can be enacted. Every feature of the case is dark and sombre, and the whole | story seems like proof of the moral rotienness of the society where these things are possible. | There is a literary glamour about it all which saves it from the bare exposure of its innate | lieved, it is after all only the panel game in | Plymonth parish, Stripped of all verbiage | Mr. Beecher’s connter accusations amount to this, that Tilton used his wife to make up an | apparent case of seduction and criminality, | and then sent his confederates—Moulton and Carpenter—to extort money from the clergy- | man by working upon his fears, The woman is at once the instrument and the victim of both the accuser and the accused. If they | | are to be scorned she is to be pitied; if they | are not to be scorned it is because the impure | | atmosphere in which they lived gave them ciety and religion had set up, and sanctity and sin became so mixed that people of sim- ple faith know not how to apply their old- | It is transcendental- ism engrafted upon Christianity, the subtleties | THEATR No. 5l4 Broadway.—VARIETY, YM OMIQUE at oF. ML; oloses at 10:59 | | vulgarest of offences with a glamour euperior to Christian purity and hope. | If we would measure these people it must | be by the standard they apply to themselves, | but not to each other. Viewed from his own | | standpoint, Mr. Beecher is @ spiritual guide | and pastor who became almost as familiar | | with the children and homes of his people as | | he was in his own house. Ordinary people | | would regard this extreme familiarity as ill | judged and unnecessary, and will not be sur- prised that such social and moral condit ons | should lead to just such scandals as were pro- duced in this case. The people of Plymouth church, including Mr. Tilton, did not share such a belief, and were proud of their pas- | tor and his visits, especially at the time Mr. Beecher was most emi- nently worshipped. ‘During these early years," says Mrs. Tilton in one of her letters to her husband, ‘‘the mention of his name, to OLYMPIC THEATR No 624 Brondway.—VAUIBTY, at 8 P. P.M. Tony Pastor's frou GLOBE THEATRE, No. 728 Broadway.—VABIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at l0 PM. METROPOLITAN THEATRE. No. 585 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P.M. | TORS OPERA HOUSE, yY ENTERTAINMENT, af 8 P. M.; Rowery. closes at 10220 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, th street, beiween Broadway and Fifth avenue.— nean, and Female Minstrels, at§ P. M.; closes ut CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. -ninth street and Seventh avenue,—THOMAS’ CON- Me; Cioses at 10:90 PL Mi vit OBR: ats COLOSSEOM, Broadway, corner of ‘Ihirty-fiith sireet OLD LONDON BY DAY. ‘Open trom 10 A. M. ill dusk. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, August 16, 1874. Ss THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To Newspraers AND THE Pusric:— The New York 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 Sunpay Hxnaxp along the line. and others are notified to send in their orders to the Heranp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be fair, with northeast to northwest winds. Watt Sracet Yxsrerpay.—Stocks were dull, but generally firmer and closed strong. Gold vibrated between 109} and 109§, and | closed at the lower figure. Tse Saratoca Races.—Three good races were run at Saratoga yesterday, and there has been fine weather for the second summer meeting. Picolo, Catesby and George West were the winners. Mr. Moviton is at Portland, Me.; Mr. Beecher is at Peekskill for his holiday, Mr Tilton is in Brooklyn, and Mrs. Tilton has disappeared. There has been quite a scatter- ing, and it suggests the inquiry, ‘‘When shall | these four meet again ?”’ Tae Porice Reoatra did not come off yesterday, the crew of the Twenty-third pre- cinet failing to pdt in an appearance. The First precinct crew then went over the course, making about five miles in thirty-four minutes and three seconds, and claim the champion- | ship. We are glad the police of the Twenty- ‘M.; closes at 10:40 Newsdealers | of the literary mind making refined vice pref- | erable to rustic virtue, and even clothing the | | sidered the scandal in unhealthy convocation. At last everything was ripe for exposure, and Theodore Tilton published the story and ver- ified it with his solemn oath. To complete this strange history Mr. Beecher retorts by a specific denial of all the allegations, and as explicitly charges Tilton and Moulton with pursuing him all these long years for the purposes of blackmail. This charge, like the others, is not without evidences of its truth, and so we are left in bewilderment and doubt as to what should be | the verdict in the case. For the present we | shall have to be content with a judgment something like the old Scotch verdict, ‘not proven,'’ and wait for time to set the matter at rest. Happily, the verdict has become of | little real importance, for the wrong is no longer in the crime ch.rged against Mr. Beecher, but in the moral and social ethics which could make such a charge credible. We may be surprised that such a man would sub- mit to blackmail for an instant if he was in- | nocent, but we are even moro surprised that he should make other people’s houses 80 much his own aa to give an excuse for it. From such a state of social life as is re- vealed in these aspects of the great Brooklyn scandal it is impossible to draw any deduc- tions, It is a story that carries with it its own moral. Men sat themselves up as gods and society worshipped them. Outside of the God of the Bible the divinities have always quarrelled among themselves, and Mr. Boecher, in his description of Tilton, has given usan amusing instance of one phase of the struggle between the modern Jupiter and Apollo. ‘When he was but a boy,” says Mr. Beacher, ‘‘he looked up to mo with affection- ate admiration, After some years he felt him- - | meet him, or, better still, » visit from hiza— | my cheek would flush with pleasure—an ex- perience common to all his parishioners of | both sexes.’’ The next sentence betrays the | danger. “It is not strange, then, darling," | she says, ‘‘that ona more intimate acquaint- ance my delight and pleasure should in- | crease.’’ It is only in an exceptional society which is guided by exceptional notions in | religion that such sentiments can become the commonplace utterances of wives to their hus- bands, But it is just such utterances as these | which prepare us for the extraordinary avowal | in the famous ‘Catherine Gaunt” letter. It | was nearly five years later that the poor | afflicted woman wrote—‘‘To-day, through the | ministry of Catherine Gaunt, a character of fiction, my eyes have been opened for the first time in my experience, so that I see clearly | my sin. It was when I knew that I was loved | to suffer it to grow toa passion. A virtuous woman should check instantly an absorbing | love." The one sentiment could not follow the other unless these ideas of love, so different from those taught in the | Scriptures, had their foundation in a religious fervor which false teachings had kindled and fostered. Therefore what would be won- drously unnatural in another is natural in this woman, and we are scarcely shocked that she should ask her husband, ‘‘Don’t you know the peculiar phase of Christ's character as a lover is 80 precious to me because of my consecra- | tion and devotion to you?” Here is a woman | who identifies her love of her Saviour with that | of her husband, saying “I couple you with | Him,” and then confesses to an absorbing passion for another, who is in fact the teacher of religion by whom she had been imbued with these peculiar views, This is the most | Startling revelation of Christian ethics impreg- | nating a whole society of the professed fol- third preoinct are good at putting down dis- | lowers of Christ ever promulgated by the order, but are sorry they suppressed this row. | fonnder of a new sect. FR AE Ae | Our Retatioxs wrra Mexico would prob- | But when wo turn from tho peculiar ably be critical if there were any such thing | social and moral ethics of these People to in that country as a central authority capable | their worldly practices wo are surprised at the of asserting its existence; but if there were | transformation. Theodore Tilton then shows such an authority, to put the case Hiberni- | that he can be bed jealous as Griffith Gaunt cally, our relations with that country might | and as unrelenting as Roger Chillingworth. not be critical, because the events that tend to | Henry Ward Beecher cowers like the wretched embroil the relations could not then oceur, | ©letgyman Hawthorne depicted with such From Mexico to Texas and from Texas to | Weird and wonderful power. ‘The poor Mexico there seems to bea constant circula- | Woman breaks down aaltogother, and tion of armed partics. Indians from Mexico | 04 and heart both give way. Out of all come over to Texas and rob and murder, and | this misery, so wsthetic and so highly colored parties in pursuit of them go into Mexico, if in its causes, there springs so much of the necessary, to overtake them. If thers were a | ugliness of humanity that Caliban becomes a Mexican government to resist the invasions | ety model of boauty. As there have been from Texas there would be a Mexican govern- | Yeats of mawkish and sentimental devotion, ment to which we might protest against the | 8° ow there are years of huckstering in a invasion from Mexico. As there are no an- Woman's reputation. The husband charges thorities on the Mexican side, and as the the clergyman with the seduction of his wife. posts of United States troops are too infre- | The wife both affirms and denies the charge. quent to be of any consequence, Texas must | Money passes betweon the parties, A con- continue to help herself. | venient friend is found who acts as the go- | between for these mon, one of whom is de- | A Sonprer Paestpgnt.—Genoral Hancock's | manding hush-money and the other paying it. refusal to be a candidate for the demo- cratic nomination for the Presidency has | moved the Baltimore Gazelle to protest against all military aspirants for office. It thinks that the country does | not want another soldier President, and that | the honest republicans ‘“‘never dreamed that when they elected Grant only the bad and | none of the good traits of the military char- acter would be developed in him.” The habit of command, it says, is a dangerous | element in office, and Grant has military self- will of the lowest type. Washington and Jackson had military self-will of the higher type, but it is not a statesmanlike quality. The Gazetie, therefore, kindly advises the re- publicans to nominate their most capable, | most representative statesman, and says “the | democracy of 1876 has no more idea of nom- | inating ® military man than it bas of nom. | inating Grant or Butler.” This resolution, | of course, will not prevent the democracy from nominating 4 colonel, os the party is | that | It is a disgusting exhibition apart from its criminality. At length Mr. Beecher becomes | | tired of paying and he resolves to waste no more energy on a hopeless task. Previous to this, however, the story had been percolating through » handred channels. The Woman's | Suffrage Association, like so many birds of ill | omen, had settled down upon the scan- | dal, Mrs, Stanton heard the story from Theodore Tilton, who impudently re- lated it as a phase of social life; and as such we are led to infer, from her manner of talking about it, she was immensely delighted with it. Miss Anthony heard it the samo day from Mrs. Tilton and at once rushed | off to Tenafly to confide it to Mrs. Stanton. Mrs. Paulina Wright Davis raised hor motherly hands over it with a sort of chuck- ling horror. Another woman, who sh¢l be nameless, as being too base to name with these, published it to the world, and nobody believed it, because it was this creature who had told it Then two eminent Brooklyn righ in officers of that rank who have nover succeeded in finding a raviment. clergymen trailed their hands in the impure ‘waters. and the Congregational Chnrch con- | self my equal and was very companionable, and when he had outgrown me and reached the position of the first man of tho age, he still was kind and patronizing.” Thisisa very bitter romark for one god to make of another, | and we are not sure that the sarcasm would bave been less appropriate or less deserved if Tilton had uttered it instead of Beecher. So there is o dilemma whichever way we turn. Under such circumstances the only safety isin rejecting these men as gods altogother, and pursuing a different social and domestic life than that which seems to be laid down in tho Plymouth ethics, This Brooklyn scandal is unhealthy in every way, but in nothing more han its moral and social aspects. A Warning to Surf Bathers. The sad accidents at Long Branch and Coney Island beach yesterday ought to teech our surf bathers a useful lesson. Surf bathing is healthful and invigorating, and with ordinary prudence is as safe as a bath tub. With a good beach and a strong rope any danger a bather encounters must be of his own seeking. But persons will persist in ven- turing out until they can just touch bottom, believing themselves safe so long as they are not out of their depth. They do not consider the force with which the waves roll in, ncr the fact that a succession of heavy breakers may suddenly increase the depth of the water where they stand. In the cace of ordinary swimmers the same imprudence is often manifested. They swim out too great a distance, forgetting that on their return it may require considera- blo exertion to get freo from the surf and the in-rolling waves, owing to the strength of the undercurrent, before they feel bottom securely beneath their feet. Taney are also apt to mis- calculate the force of the waves until they get fairly into them and feel the effect of their blows. It requires an expert and powerful swimmer to buffet the waves as they break on the shore roll after roll, rising on the crest of this one, diving under that and rolled over and over by the next, until the smoother water beyond is reached. When the breaking waves are passed the swimming is compara- tively easy. But moderately good swimmers hesitate to venture out so far, hence they swim in just that part of the water where swimming is the most difficult and requires the greatest amount of exertion. This was just the case with poor Schilling yesterday. He was moderately good swim- mer and a strong man. No doubt he felt perfect confidence in his ability to breast the waves in safety. But the s:a was heavy and deceptive. Johnson, we are told, the cham- pion swimmer, who undertook to cross the Channel from England to France, and Trautze, who is pitted against him for a grand swimming match at Long Branch on Thursday next, from the Ocean Hotel to the point at the west end and | back, found it no easy task to force their way through the breakers to smooth water. Schil- ling was swimming at what he supposed to be a secure distance from the outer stake, to which the bathers’ rope is attached, opposite the Mansion House. It is supposed that he was suddenly seized with cramps, and he struggled to get back to the shore and shouted for help, but the waves were too strong for him, and the bathers seemed to be panic stricken. Only one swimmer made an at- tempt to reach the poor fellow, but he became alarmed at the strength of the waves and the prospect of being clutched by the drowning man, and returned to the post, himself in an exhausted condition. At the moment of the accident, when the whole beach was in a state of wild excitement, Johnson and his trainer ap- peared on the steps opposite the Ocean House, Taking in the situation in on instant, he threw off his shoes and hat prepared for an at- tempt at rescue. Unhappily the people on the shore, who knéW that a» man was drowning, but did not know where, pointed toaswimmer who was struggling with the waves off the Ocean bathing ground, siip- posing him to be the person in peril. In rushed the gallant English swimmer with all clothes on, and with astonishing rapidity and giant strength he dashed through the break- ers and over the tops of the rolling waves and seized the supposed drowning man, but found him able to reach the shore without help. Before Johnson's return it was all over with poor Schilling. He had disappeared, and the affrighted crowd on shore stood looking at the spot at which he had gone down. None but expert and powerful swimmers should venture out at all in surf bathing, and persons who cannot swim should never go beyond the white froth of the broken waves when the sea is heavy. With these precautions, which or- dinary prudence dictates, surf bathing is as | safe as it is healthful and enjoyable, Saprxr, the English rowing champion, bas accepted Brown's challenge, and the race will take place in Coleraine, Ireland, some time in October. Sanctity in Camp. This is the season for religious rhapsodies by seaside and in the wood. The astonishing growth of the church which sprang from the ministrations of John Wesley was never more apparent than to-day. From Maine to Georgia resound the voices of praise, prayer and exhortation, and under the open sky there seems an influence more favorable to tho propagation of piety than all the gorgeous interiors of cathedrals and temples which stand as monuments of older times. Tho gentle presence of nature seems to manifest God supplementing at every step the advence of the Christian spirit in its journeying to 4 “higher life.’ Thera is no doubt that in minds which are not absolutely enthralled by that incurable vulgarity that sees no purpose in nature beyond sensuous pleasure she im- presses the simple lessons of religion far more deeply than ever has been done by human eloquence. To know, then, that the out-door worship of the present time excites such great and widespread interest, and really moves to thoir deepest depths hearts which have never beon moved before, is but a con- firmation of history, In ‘God's first temple” it is easy to find man in his sottened moods, where, lolling in the lap of Mother Earth, in respite from his toil, he will acknowledge himself once again a child of Nature. And religion rightly seeks above all else to capture him in such a mood. The mingling of the most beautiful features of nature with what are called the dearest gifts of grace does not seem at all incongruous, if one would but think upon it foratime. It is logical that these two most lovely types of the extremes of matter, material and spiritual, should be subjective of much the same ideas. However ignorant we are we always seek to look beyond Nature and above. And because she suggests so much more of majesty and glory than we see, so are songs of praise more fitly sung under her hoary arches, through which glimmers of the greater Beyond break soitly frem above. The camp meetings at Ocean Grove, in Maine, in Virginia and elsewhere, which are described in other columns, attract to their umbrageous tents multitudes of worshippers from all portions of the country, and piety seems to expand and flourish within the ha!- lowed precincts with remarkable vigor. Al- though the brethren and sisters are fond of singing their hymns and saying their prayers in the woods, they still hold firmly to the sanctity of the Sabbath and permit no shooting of bird or hooking of any of the finny triby on the day of rest. Those restrictions grate harshly on the ears of the worldly and may have crushed many o complacent hope in a religion of the future that would not let tradition interfere with the rational enjoyment of angling. But it must be remembered that the faithful esteem the work of fishing for men of the greater im- portance, and disconsolate maiden hearts would ache if they were denied it. In Virginia a camp meeting seems to be the cause of quits a religious commotion on the island of Chincoteague. If the reports of the moral condition of the inhabitants are true there is no doubt a necessity for a thorough reform, and it is hopeful that the fight with the unclean spirits will go bravely on until they flee from one after another of their fleshly strongholds. A movement of such ao sort is not wholly unneeded in other quarters of the globe, and the natives of Chincoteague even express a willingness to give a home to one of the contestants in the Brooklyn scan- dal, provided it becomes too uncomfortable for him to remain here. Their readiness to welcome such an exile is an exponent of their own character and makes it doubtful if he would experience much spiritual good in their midst. The worthy Chincoteagueans ot course take it for granted that ho is guilty ot the offences charged against him. Medical Manslaughter, Schieferdecker, the man whose water cura establishment was recently under investiga- tion by the Coroner, in consequence of the death of a patient, apparently through mal- practice, will probably escape the operation of the law against unlicensed practitioners on the ground that he does not practise medicine or surgery or midwifery, but is merely the keeper of an establishment fitted up specially for the application of the theories of a so-called system of medicine; is, in fact, the mere governor of a water cure hospital. He pre- tends to cure diseases, and, therofore, is un- doubtedly o physician, but his medical ad- vice, if we are correctly informed as to his establishmest, is not the basis of his claim for remuneration. He charges for the board of patients and for the material services rendered in the application of a given line of treatment according to the cold water insanity. Our police justices would be more likely to assimilate him to a hotel keeper than to a doctor. But the fact that that statute will not apply is no reason why he should escape the punishment he richly merits. Our very liberal law has always accorded to the people the right to have their diseases treated by whom they might select, learned or ignorant; but where death occurs under treatment the case is different. Then the diploma from a learned faculty protects the practitioner, but the man not so protected is liable to indictment for manslaughter. But even mor: definitely than this, that body of legislation on which the Board of Health stands has given that com- mission a general authority over institutions of this sort, and it has power to close them up and to bring offenders to justice. It has neglected its duty under the first of these powers, and it is to be hoped it will not repeat that offence in regard to the second. A Dinner Scenz.—Cousin Joe, when he was first kicked down stairs by bis host and then invited to dine, accepted the humiliating proposal. ‘For,’ said he, “if I can’t be revenged on him, I'll be revenged on his victuals.’ But in the Marine Court yester- day the reverse of this scene was illustrated, when Mr, Dinustaded brought suit for being kicked and not getting his dinner afterwards. He was standing bythe stove in an eating saloon, when the saloon keeper, thinking him beggar, because he was badly dressed (in this country the worst beggars aro well dressed) kicked him out. Mr. Dinustaded, in his testimony about his dinner, stated theso facts, and the jury awarded him three hundred and sixty dollars. ‘This will buy a good many meals, and hungry and impecunioas individuals will do well to trv Mr. Dinu- staded’s exveriment. NDAY, AUGUST 16, 1874—TRIPLE SHEEY. “Sow” anil “Jesuit.” As the newspapers have it in their powgr to control toa great extent tho application of certain words which have acquired a meaning apart from their original signification, it would be well, perhaps, for the leading journals to discountenance their use. For instance, the same page of the dictionary contains two words which have acquired a secondary mean- ing that is very offensive to large bodies of people. One of these is “Jesuit,” defined as ‘a crafty person and intriguer,” and the other is “Jew,” used as a verb, and signifying ‘‘to cheat or defraud ; to swindle.’’ The popular use of the latier word, however, is ‘‘to beat down the price of an article.’ We learn from the Jewish Messenger that, through the efforts of Mr. A. §. Solomons, of Washington, the publishers of ‘Wobster’s Dictionary” have agreed to discontinue the opprobrious use of the word ‘Jew,"’ but that ‘they have positively turned a deaf ear to the immenso Catholic influence brought to bear upon them in the endeavor to induca them to alter their definition of the word ‘Jesuitical.’"" This the Messenger thinks o simple act of justice, ‘more especially” as they have refused to the Catholics what they accorded to the Jews; but the truth is that both words stand in exactly the same category. They had their opprobrious origin in factious bitterness and prejudices; but there is no longer any exouse for their use. There is no need to offend sensitive Catholics by saying that o man is ‘Jesuitical” when he can be better described as crafty or cunning, nor is there any reason for using the term “Jew'’ when there are two or three better words to convey its implied meaning. The use of opprobrious opithets is very com- mon in every language. Generally they have little real application to the persons or things to which they are applied. Protestants speak of the Catholic Church as Romish and of Catholics as Papisis, while Catholics are very apt to talk of ‘‘canting hypocrites’’ when they only mean a differenco in religious belief. At one time the Mohammedan talked about ‘dog of a Christian,’ and the Christian about ‘‘dog of a Jew.’’ Much of this bitterness has passed away, but there are occasional traces of it in current speech. If a German is brought be- fore a police court the world is almost sure to hear of him a3 o “Dutchman,” and if the offender happens to be a Hebrew the reporter seldom fails to mention that he is a Jew. No- body ever thinks of remarking that the cul- prit was an Irishman, a Frenchman ora Span- iard in an opprobrious sense. We believe it was never remarked by any of the papers that a Catholic, a Presbyterian or 8 Metho- dist was arraigned at the Tombs, the only object of the remark being to call attention to the prisoner's religion. Why, then, should the Jews be treated differently? Maccaroni is a term of contempt among the Italians, but we have not the word-in our dictionaries in its contemptuous sense. The Spanish language is full of terms of reproach, but we have not naturalized any of them for common speech. We can speak of the French and the Scotch without reference to the supposed frog eating propensities of the one or the bibulous quali- ties of the other. Even the cant word “Frenchy,” meaning the same thing ag that other cant word ‘‘fast,’’ does not appear in the dictionaries or the newspapers. Why, then, should other terms equally objectionable be held sacred because they have been long in use? We make these remarks because re- form in this direction is necessary, and it is to the press and not to the compilers of ab- surd American dictionarics that we must look for it. Palpit Topics To-Day. The pulpit topics to-day are of a quiet re- ligious order, as becomes the heated term. Tae chief pastors are out of town on their va- cation, and their places are occupied by others, The Rov. Mr. Sabine, who is away in the West on business connected with the Re- formed Episcopal Church, has left his pulpit to be supplied by the Rev. Mason Gallagher, who to-day will give a historical sketch of the old Prayer Book and its revision in 1662. He will show how modiwval theology was in- troduced into that book, and the necessity that now exists for its elimination if peace would be secured to the Protestant Episcopal Church. The controversy which exists be- tween it and the Refurmed Episcopal Church is but another phase of ‘The Eternal War Between Right and Wrong,” of which Rey, Mr. Bennett will speak this morning, and to conduet and settle which we need ‘‘the Spirit in the Church."”” And with this Spirit we shall be more likely to ‘‘seek those things that are above’ and to follow after “righteous- ness and temperance,” and keep our eye and our thought upon the ‘judgment to come,” about which things the Rev. Mr. Hallam and Dr. Deems will discourse to-day, If false prophets have manful histories it is only fair that the world should know them. Mr. Bennett has such a history in his posses- sion, which he proposes to reveal this evening to his Baptist hearers and to sct forth in og true colors as possible the relation of his hero to history and to the world. Mr. Kennedy will bring his people to the edge of the crystal sea before the throne and will show them how the hundred and forty and four thousand who stand there gained their position, so that others following their example and washing their robes white in the blood of the Lamb may also stand on ‘‘the sea of glass before the throne.’’ ippi Protest. Strong indignation has moved the Colum- bus (Miss.) Index because the Heraup has criticised the recent disturbances in that State. It has asked us o great many conundrums, such as, ‘Can the HrnaLp suppose that we prefer war to peace?’ “Must we stagger along under a grievous burden of stagna- tion?” ‘Does the Hunatp suppose that money and values go utterly for nothing among us?" To all of which wo suppose the right answer is, “No.” “No,” therefore, we reply. We do not want Mississippi or any Southern State to be bankrupted by the ignorance of the negroes and the rascality of carpet- boggers, bat we think that the way to avoid this calamity is not through vio- lence and blood. ‘The Hxnaup,” says the Index, “has no conception of what Southern men and women have borne and do now have to bear, nor of the long and patient efforts made to conciliate and live in peace with the negroes, and until it does know of these things it is no At iudge of the iustica eet | or expedioncy or necessity of Southern ao- tion.” On the contrary, we have a very clear conception of the wrongs which have been heaped upon 6 high-minded people, and be- cause we have we are sorry to see a policy adopted which perpetuates them. Mississippi has escaped the hard fate of South Carolina and Louisiana, but she is bad enough off What aro we to think of the condition of » State which consoles itself that it is saved from ruin by the loss of its credit? Yet the Index rejoices that the famous repudiation of Mississippi is still remembered, and that its ralers have no money to steal because they can find nobody to lend it. ~ The Clergy on Mr. Beecher. This being the season when clergymen are generally out of town—and surely these hard working men deserve a holiday, no matter how wicked we may become when doprived of their counsel—the reporters of the Herap could not obtain the fall clerical opinion of Brooklyn on the Beecher case. They suc- ceeded, nevertheless, in subjecting somo of the most eminent divines to an examination, the interesting results of which appear in our columns to-day. It is delightful to see with what kindness ond sympathy his clerical brethren of other sects speak of Mr. Beecher in his great hour of trouble. There is no evi- dence of exultation that a Congregationalist has proved to be less prudent than a Catholie or a Baptist; and, though Mr. Beecher has preached latitudinarian doctrines, which the orthodox abhor, they do not think that he has exemplified in his own acts the dangerous tendencies of his creed. They show true Christianity in this course, nor would it be just to attribute it to o desire to stand by their cloth. Surely our clergymen ought to be above these mean suspicions, and nothing is more contemptible than to suppose that they are anxious to condone offences commit- ted in their own profession. That his fel low qlergymen are so firmly cone vinced of Mr. Becchor’s innocence is strong presumption in his favor. We havo heard from the Presbyterians in the persons of the Rev. Dr. Duryea, and the Rev, Dr. Freeman, of the colored branch; from the Methodist Episcopal Church, as represented by the Rev. Dr. Steel and the Rev. George Taylor, and from the Catholics by a clergy- man who is too modest to give his name, but has no reason to be ashamed of his opinions. It is to be observed, however, that none of these sects seem to think as much of Mr. Beecher as Plymouth church prayer meoting does, and that no clergyman indorsed Profes- sor Raymond's high compliment, that ‘Mr, Beecher is the prophet of God’s Gospel in the nineteenth century, and those who strike as him are striking against tho: throno of God itself."* gt Ne WE Re PS PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The pen is mightier than the pistol. The Duke de Montpeasier ia at Lucvon, Tilton has gone away ‘‘to bury @ friend.” The “fairest of the rural maids" is the fastest also. Not so much fight in Henry as we would have given him credit for. ‘The Empress of Austria occupied thirty rooms at Frascati’ Hotel, Havre. In England they are going to eat peat if it does Not pail on the appetite. Rev. C. C. Pinckney, of Charleston, S. C., is staye ing at the Hoffman House. Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, is residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. State Senator F. W. Tobey, of Port Honry, N. ¥., is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General Benjamin Le Fevro, of Ohio, is amoag the recent arriva 3 at the Homan House, Ifthe edge was “ragged,” tt is evident that is not the place where “the enemy sewed tares,"’ Sargeon General Joseph Beale, United States Navy, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The mother of Kuliman, the man who sngt at Bismarck, ts an incurable lunatic confined ia aa” asylum. If anybody wants to sing the Tilton lettors, the proper accompaniment will be “the lascivious musings of a lute.” General B, R. Cowan returned to Washington yesterday and resumed his duties as Acting Secre- tary of the Interior. It is better to be reported a mean and con- temptible wretch out of State Prison than to bea convicted scoundrel in State Prison, In the Island of Tenedos there were 800 houses, and a fire bas just destroyed 740, with all the wine presses and the materia! .or wine making, wuich 1s the only industry of the people. All the swindlers im France are now living on the vine growers, to whom they address them- selves with projects for the destruction of the phylloxeia—the insect which Kills the vines, Rev. Dr, Samuel Chase, Rev. J. L, Knowles and Messrs, L. B, Otis and G, R. Chittenden, the com- mittee who escorted the remains of the late sishop Whitehouse irom Chicago to this city, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, . ‘Thirty thousand portraits of the Prince Imporial, made by @ new process, have been seized in Parw, They were printed on cards which seemed to ve biank; but if the cards were wet with water a photograph of the Prince became apparent in a few seconds, a George Francis Train has been heard from. He wants to know how it ts that the Associated Press and all the newspaper people are at large. He was putin the Tombs for printing the allegations of the Beecher scandal, and now there is nething else in the papers, yet everybody goes free, He inquires the mysterious reason of this. Fashion at the French seaside rigorously ro quires :—Firat, a beach dress; seound, a breakinet dress; third, a morning dress; fourth, an evening dress; and as @ lady cannot wear the same dress every morning and evening, there must be several of each sort except the beach dress. At least thirty for a monta’s stay, and not more than taree in @ trunk. “They parted in sorrow, they parted in toars.” The husband was to remain at Bordeaux, for he had a situation there; the wife was to go to Lon- don as @ governess, and they filled the railway station with the noise aud sorrow o/ their parting. “Do not cease to love me, and do not forget that you are the wife of a decent man,” said the has- band, “Never, nover," said the wife, and she pulled out ber handkerchief and tied @ knot ta tt, that she might remember. Colonei Colley, of the British Army, who distia- guished himself greatly by bis gailant conduct in the Ashantee war, arrived in this city yesterday from Europe by the Scotia, and became the gi Mr. W. B, Duncan, of Staten Island, who boarded the steamer in question at Quarantine. Lord Cal- ville, Chamberlain to the Prince of Wales and Master of the Royal Buckhounds, accompanica by bis son, who iain the Grenadier Guards, also ar rived by the same vessel, and, likewise, are guests ist of the delegates to the Brus- 13 as follows :— France.—Baron Baude ana General Arnauaesu. Itaiy.—Baron Bianoe and Ovlore! Lavza. Kussta.— Baron Jomint and General de Keer, Engiand.— General Sir Alired Horsiord and Major Hale. Ger- many.—General Voights-Rhetz and Professor Bluntschi. Austria.—Connt Chotek and General dé scha@nield. Spain.—ihe Duke de Tecuan, Gen- eral Servet y Famagalli and Aamiral ae is Pozzu- cha, Hoiland.—M. de Lansverg and General Van der Schrick. Beigium.—Baron Lambermont, Coto nel Mockel and M. Faider, Attorney General at iho Court of Cassation. Greece,—Colonel Portugal—M. dAntas and General Paimering, Sweden.—Colonet Stra, Switazerland,—volouet Hammer. Turkey,—Kienne Caratagouore Kdtanad and Kiham kaw Uvanos.