The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. -———— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR as THE DAILY HERALD, published every | wuexpected light, His admirers have always | } Supposed him to possess strong faculties and. ® day in the year, Four centy per copy. Ane nual subscription price $12, le se) All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. —_—_+—_ | Singularities of Mr. Beecher’s Defence. On the publication of Mr. Beecher’s state- ment the public mind was so occupied with its bearing on the main question, upon which the general verdict is favorable, that few were struck with the amazing self-portraiture by whith Mr. Beocher’s character is placed in an resolute courage; aud when their first effars vescence of joy over his defenge ins had time | to subside they will be mortifiéd and aston- | ished at Mr. Beecher’s utter and abject weak- | ness in those parts of his character in which his strength was thought to lie. This man of pre-eminent sense and vigor suddenly presents | himself to the public view as having, for the | last four years, acted the part of a dupe, a | coward, the terror-stricken slave of a false | and faithless man, who held him in pusillani- LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | mous moral subjection by brandishing over HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. No. 232 ea iepeaerer ios ae AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston streets.— | GPFITH GAUNT. at 8 P. Mo; closes at 1045 PLM | Joseph Wheelock and Miss Hem tia Irving. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, OLIVE: OS, THE MYSTERY, at 8 P.M. Miss Lillie Eldridge. WALLACK’S THEATRE, | roadway —WIG AND GOWN, at 8 P.'M.; closes at Il M. J. L. Toole. WOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth ° street.—PUSS IN ROOTS, at 2 V.M.; closes at 4P. M. THE DWARF'S DULL, at SP. M.: "closes at 10:30 P.M. Louis Aldrich and Miss Sophie Miles | BOOTH'S THEATRE, } corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— | BeLLE LAMAR, ats P.M. joses at 10307. M. John McCullough aud Miss K. Rogers Randolph. | GLOBE Bo. 728 Broadway.—VARL PM. POLITAN THEATRE, isian Caucan Dancers, at 8 P. M. TRE, | t 3% M.; closes at 10 | ME’ No, 585 Broadwa, TREATS TE, } fo,fl4 Broadway Vax . M.; closes at 10:30 | RE, No. 6% Broadway.—VAttl M.; closes at 10:49 P.M Tony Pastor's Troupe. c Fifty-ninth stree CERI, at 5 P. New York, Thursday, August 20, 1874. To NEwspEALEES AND THE Pusiic:— | The New Youre 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 | AM, for the purpose of supplying the | Sunpay Hzraup along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders | to the Heraxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities Gre that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wart Srazer Yesterpay.—Stocks were generally firm, moderately active and closed strong. Gold advanced to 109} and closed at 1093. Inpun Aczxcy Fravps.—We publish a despatch received from Prescott, Arizona, in relation to irauds alleged to be practised by the agent in charge of the Colorado River reservation. The despatch does not reach us from our regular correspondent, but as it touches on a matter of vital importance to the citizens we publish it. It may be that the person who sent the despatch is animated by personal feeling, but the charges of fraud are clearly made in detail, and it may be desirable that the authorities should inquire into their truth. Tae Formosa Wan.—China and Japan, if the cable despatch is based on fact, seem likely to come to blows over the For- mosan expedition. Under the impression that Japan had no serious intention of under- taking the war to punish the savage tribes China gave her consent to the expedi- tion; but since it has been under- taken she has grown jealous, and the telegraph informs us demands that the Japan- ese will at once respondence from the Japanese camp will be | read with in’ are as good-hearted as they are brave and in- | telligent, serve for Japan. st. It shows that the islanders | did no harm, as she had already gone back to live with her husband. Tae Poricr Justice Law.—It is rumored that Judge Rapello is writing the opinion on | the decision of the Conrt of Appeals on the Police Justice law of 1873, by which the old | Justices were turned ont of office and the | present Justices appointed as their successors. | From this it is conjectured that the decision will be adverse to the constitutionality of the | new law. We must confess that we are una- ble to see how the writing of the opinion by Judge Rapallo, if the rumor be really well founded, can be regarded as an indication of what the decision will be. from this city, and it is natural enough that he should deliver the opinion, whether it de- | stroys or maintains the law. The case will, no doubt, be decided as sogn as the Court of Ap- | . peals renssembles, and from the importance of the interests involved it is desirable that the question should be settled as soon as pos- bible. Tur Story comes from Montgomery, Ala., that United States District Judge Dick Bus- | teed, while a passenger on the Western Railroad, in that State, “incited a negro riot” on the cars. The conductor ordered a negro out of the ladies’ car, in which he had no right to a seat, when the gallant Busteed took the side of the ‘‘cullud pusson,”’ insisted on civil rights, and, with pistol drawn, atthe head of fifteen or twenty blacks gathered on the train, invaded the ladies’ car in defiance of one white man and three or four terrified females. We can scarcely credit the story, The idea of Dick Busteed, with a jonded re- | volver, leading anything, sounds absurd to — New Yorkers. When Busteed wos made a | political “General’’ during the war he in- quired of a friend what the people of New York said about his military promotion. Say?" was the § ‘they don't ‘say’ pistol but.a ‘nacket pistol’ ia a huge ioke, | bis inexpressible wretchedness. There is yeta bright future in re- | Judge Rapallo is | | his head a false accusation! History may | perhaps furnish more deplorable examples of human weakness; but none, we dare say, in which the victim was credited by his contem- poraries with so much sense and character. It should be evident to everybody now that the judicious part of the public press which told Mr. Beecher that his long silence was ill-advised gave him good counsel. It now appears that his stubborn reserve and ap- parent apathy were the work of the artful Moulton, into whose hands he had blindly surrendered himself. Mr. Beecher had de- cided to make a clean breast to the public as | early as June, 1873; but Mr. Moulton dissuaded | him and prevailed on him against his own judgment ‘to patch up another hollow peace’ with Mr. Tilton. When Mr. Beecher paid the last five thousand dollars of hush money Mr. Moulton told him it was the best investment he ever made in his life. Subsequently he | told him that he had better give his whole fortune rather than allow Mr. Tilton to come before the public with his disclosures. Mr. Beecher is sensible that he ‘grievously erred in judgment”’ in his long and cowardly skulk- ing from publicity. ‘I chose the wrong path,” he says, ‘and accepted a disastrous gnidance in the beginning, and have, indeed, travelled on a rough and ragged edge in my prolonged efforts to suppress this scandal,” which is an implied acknowledgment that public journals like the Hznaup gave him sound advice. At any rate, it is the very opposite of that he received from the alleged blackmailers who traded on his silence and fears, and misled him into believing that con- cealment was his only protection from ruin. It is evident from Mr. Beecher’s statement that compunction for having advised Mr. Bowen to dismiss Mr. Tilton from his edito- rial employment, and for having advised Mrs. Tilton to separate from her husband, formed but a small part of Mr. Beecher’s bitter anguish. There is, indeed, a broad and strongly marked inconsistency between the parts of his statement in which he dwells upon and exaggerates these topics and the expres- sions in which he discloses the real cause of But Mr. Til- ton accused him on these heads and of as- | sailing the chastity of his wife in the same \ memorable interview at Mr. Moulton’s house, | of which Mr. Beecher presents so graphic a | picture. The compurative importance he at- | taches to the two kinds of accusation appears | in his own recital Mr. Tilton stood up be- fore him, he says, and made ‘‘a set oration.” While Mr. Tilton was going through with the | Bowen employments and the advice of sepa- | ration Mr. Beecher states that he ‘‘listened witb some contempt.’” Mr. Tilton accused him of improper bebavior to his wife, and said that she had confessed it, Mr. Beecher says that he was “shocked” and “absolutely thunderstruck.” -No reader can have forgotten that remarkable | piece of description in which he states his feelings as he set forth on that bleak December night to verify from Mrs. Tilton’s own lips the fact of her having made such a confession. ‘i went forth like a sleep-walker, while clouds were flying in the sky. The | leafless trees, but all this was peace compared with my mood within.” Nor is it any wonder that tbis took such a deep and sudden hold on him, while to the other charges he ‘‘listened | with some ex ntempt.”’ | absurd way he exaggerates them in parts of | his statement those other charges were really | trivial. Mr. Bowen would have equally dis- vacuate the island. Our cor- | miesed Mr. Tilton whether Mr, Beecher had | advised it or not, and the advice to Mrs. Tilton | There was nothing in and despair. What made Mr. Beecher so supremely miserable was Mrs. Tilton’s con- | fession to her husband of an assault on her virtue. His exaggeration of the other topics | can make no impression on discriminating readers. But what he says of the graver charge has an air of reality: —‘From the anger and fury of Mr. Tilton I apprehended that this charge, made by him and supported | by the accusation of his wife, was to be | at once publicly pressed against me, | and if it was I had nothing but my simple | word of denial to interpose against it.” was doubtless an ugly situation for an inno- cent man to be placed in, for the confession ofa wife would be pretty apt to be believed, | even against a clergyman. But the helpless abjectness of Mr. Beecher | in this trying situation is » miracle of mental and moral imbecility. Accused of a disgrace- | ful offence, of which he knew himself inno- cent, and having obtained from Mrs. Tilton a written statement vindicating him from the charge, he allowed himself to be bullied and frightened by a display of firearms in his bed- thus enforced his demand by laying a pistol on the bureau near which he stood was soon after taken into Mr. Beecher'’s confidence as his closest and most trusted friend! What utter scorn any man of spirit would have felt apartment on such an errand! And this bully practised this violence to fasten upon Mr. Beccher an infamous charge of which he was | innocent; yet he not only forgave him the | outrage but made him his bosom coun- sellor and put his reputation in that miscreant’s keeping! A man of courage and spirit would have died a thousand deaths sooner than call such a man his friend and put himself in his power. Mr. Beecher's unmanly fears and craven conduct can be ex- | plained, though never justified. He was made lea helfavd that Moulton alone conld control NEW YORK HERALD, But the moment that | winds were out and whistling through the | Notwithstanding the | either to justify nn agony of terror, remorse | This | | chamber into giving it up. And the man who | for a bully who bad come to his sleeping | THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1874—TRIPLE SHERT, and restrain ‘Tilton, and that Tilton had un- limited power to procure confessions from his wife. Mr. Beecher should have indignantly defied Moulton and driven him from his house the moment he displayed the pistol. If Tilton had then publicly accused him he had Mrs. Tilton’s written statement to show. If her husband had induged her to recant it she eee fas could have &n sxaihimed before the church ;28 the presence of Mr, Beecher, and would probably have told the trath. But a high toned man would not have stopped to weigh consequences. His indignant resistance to a false and infamous charge would have precipi- tated the matter to a crisis at once, leaving consequences to take care of themselves. , The most surprising part of this strange history consists in the fact that all Mr. Beecber’s letters of remorse, contrition, | humiliation, despondency and despair were written subsequent to Tilton’s accusation that he had made indecent and infamous proposals to his wife. It seems inconceivable that in the face of charges so infamous and ruinous & sane and innocent man should have written letters to his accusers deploring his guilt and abjectly suing for forgiveness, without explicitly discriminating between what he meant to acknowledge and what he meant to deny. Tae fact that a false and in- famous charge had been made, infinitely ex- ceeding in turpitude anything he had ever done, should have caused indignant denial and denunciation to take the place of so much self-abasing confession and remorse in those very remarkable letters, which are all the more extraordinary as having been written subsequent to and to the very persons mak- ing the most atrocions charges against Mr. \ Beecher's moral character. Aman of spirit, strong in conscious innocence, should have indignantly refused to make any kind of con- fession at all to those parties until the in- famous false accusation had been with- drawn. The 4 Grasshopper Plague in the West—Remedies Saggested. The grasshopper plague in the Northwestern States of the Mississippi basin is approaching the dimensions of a national ealamity, threat- ening nothing less than general ruin to mill- ions of industrious and prosperous people. | Last year, from the destructive ravages of these grasshoppers or prairie locusts in half a dozen counties of Towa, a large body of homestead settlers therein were reduced to destitution, and most of them in the winter would have died of starvation or | of sickness resulting from want of food but for the timely supplies of subsistence sent over to them. Those settlers, knowing that | the grasshoppers would be again upon them | with the return of the summer, petitioned Congress for the privilege of abandoning their | homesteads and of seeking a living elsewhere | for a year or two, hoping that then they might safely return to the cultivation of thelr fields | with the removal of the nuisance. Congress | | granted the prayer of the memorialists, and | most of them are now supposed to be working | in the gold and silver mines of the Rocky Mountains. Now, we apprehend that Congress, at its | coming session, will have to extend this privi- | lege of absenteeism to other large bodies of | homestead settlers, not only in Iowa, but in | ] Montana, Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and | | Kansas, for in all these States and Territories to a considerable extent the grasshopper has | | despoiled the farmer of his growing crops | and laid waste his fields as by a consuming fire. We cannotimagine, however, that, from the remaining bountiful supplies of food of the great Northwest there will be any slack- ness in measures of relief to the unfortu- nate people who now have to depend tor the winter upon the generosity of their more lucky fellow citizens. This immediate difficulty, without any serious embarrassment to any | one of the States or Territories concerned, can | and will be promptly overcome ; but the more important questions, “What is the prospect against the grasshopper for the people of this infested section?” “Is the farmer and his family or is the grasshopper and his numer- ous progeny to be expelled?’ still remain unanswered. From a simple arithmetical calculation it is apparent that if these Western grasshoppers | go on increasing for even two years more as | they have increased within the last two years | most of the lands under cultivation in Minne- sota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas will be | swept clean of their growing crops, and those | States will be permanently abandoned by thousands of their best people, while thou- sands of immigrants will be diverted to other sections of the country to escape this plague | of grasshoppers. | We believe, however, that these insects may be so far destroyed and kept down as to be | rendered comparatively harmless. They have several times threatened to eat out the Mor- mons in Utah, but the Saints, by rollers, by | fire and water and other appliances, have in- variably come off the conquerors. By fire or by quicklime the grasshoppers’ eggs may be destroyed, and they are generally so thickly laid, over small areas of ground, as to be con- venient for wholesale roasting. After they are | hatched, and while they yet move feebly over the ground in a dense mass, they may be destroyed as the Mormons destroy them. When thus reduced to comparatively harmless | numbers, let the farmers concerned keep on | hand large flocks of turkeys, guinea fowls and | chickens, and they will turn the grasshopper toa good account. But if the place where a cloud of grasshoppers have settled and de- posited their eggs is known and marked the | destrnction of the next brood, before the hatching or before the fledging, may be easily | accomplished | The Cuban Insurrection. The news from Cuba shows considerable activity on the part of the insurgents. Even the neglect of their compatriots, who might afford them important assistance, seems not to discourage the brave men who fight so un- flinchingly against overwhelming odds. The spreading of the insurrection westward, as proved by the attack on Santi Espiritu and the numerous engagements in the Cinco | Villas, is of the utmost importance to in. Should the iusurrectionary flame spread beyond the Cinco Villas dis- trict into the cultivated and thickly populated western district Spanish do- minion will be doomed, A servile revolt would deprive the island of all valne, and there would be nothing for the planters to do | except to escane with as much of their wealth as they could carry away. The manner in which the war is carried on renders a repeti- tion of the St. Domingo horrors almost in- evitable. Spanish pride will continue the struggle until the people of the country are wholly demoralized and ruined. The Quix- otes will then retire, having wasted their last Goll us tattered their last coat, ‘They will have the satisfaction of leaving behind them ‘a desert and knowing that all_the blood and | treasure they have wasted bas beer wasted in voin, cn A Casas Belli. The reported transaction between Spain and Germany which was to give the latter Power a foothold in America has called forth | @ strong expression of public disapproval in this country. Whether the report has any foundation or not the spirit shows by the press will not be without its effect. It is evi- dent that popular faith in the Monroe doctrine subsists as strong as ever, and that any at- tempt to plant any foreign flag on American soil would be resisted by the whole power of the American people. It is just as well, per- haps, that ambitious statesmen in Europe should know this. Unfortunately the mere broaching of the question in this country is likely to lead to very serious results. As will be seen in the graphic and characteristic interview between our Washington correspond- ent and Secretary Fish the worthy states- man at the head of the State Department in- dulged in some very strong and somewhat undiplomatic language. It is a matter of notoriety that the information in reference to the agreement between Serrano and Bismarck came from the editor of the Freeman’ s Journal, the recognized plenipotentiary of Don Carlos in this country. It is probable that Minister Fish forgot this fact when he blurted out his opinion that only a ‘damned fool” would have written it. We cannot for a moment imagime that our Minister would have spoken with so little diplomatic reserve of the repre- sentative of the Carlist King. The story of the intended cession of Porto Rico appears to our well informed Minister of State a rather clumsy fabrication; but then the Minister is by no means infallible. On the contrary, we should not be astonished if it should tarn out that there was some foundation in the rumor. Mr. Fish is not always weil informed of matters of the greatest interest to his de- partment. He feels inclined to imitate Dis- raeli’s rudeness to the press, but he should re- member that on more than one occasion ho has been beholden to the newspapers for very important information. More than once has | the press managed to get its information be- fore even the Secretary of State—notably the | Henaww in the Alabama case. It may be, therefore, that the learned and devout editor of the Freeman's Journal may have better and more reliable means of information on this subject than even Mr. Fish. As the matter in question affects so closely the interest of Don Carlos it may be that His Majesty has com- municated special information to his repre- sentative in the United States. Should this turn out to be the case we should be alarmed for the result of the hasty words spoken by the Secretary of State. Mr. Fish ought to have remembered the consequences which followed from the Emperor William's gruff reply to Benedetti. His Germanic Majesty did not go quite so far as to call the Frenchman a fool (without the adjective), and yet the insult brought war with all its horrors in its train. We can scarcely hope that Castilian pride should tamely submit to the outrage put upon the representative of royalty, and, should Don Carlos ever get the means of fitting out an ex- pedition, we may look forward to the destruc- tion of the White House as inevitable—that is, if the warlike soul of the martial Abbé McMasters will allow him to await a declaration of war. What we dread most is that the redoubtable champion of Carlism may make it a personal question with the republican Minister. In such an event there may be soon @ vacancy in the Cabinet, for in the hands of the Abbé pistols would be dan- gerous playtoys. Something of the inviola- bility that hedges a king guarantees his min- ister, and we doubt not a democratic bullet would be turned aside by some potent charm from the defender of divine right. The for- midable cane, or crozicr, which the Abbé carries might, at a pinch, prove a dan- gerous weapon of offence. We hope, however, that both distinguished diplomats | will confine their war to words. The hasty expressions of Mr. Fish are, no doubt, capa- ble of being explained away. He probably only applied ‘damned fool’ to the worthy Abbé in a Pickwickian sense, and will be ready to withdraw the injurious expression as soon as he recovers his usual diplomatic frame of mind. We hope s0, at least, for we do not wish to expose ourselves to the danger of a foreign war through an over bluntness of speech in our leading diplomat. The Torpedo Trials, The expernments made at Nowport in pres- ence of the Senate Naval Committee give reason to hope that the difficulty of convert- ing the torpedo into a weapon of offence has been practically overcome. The importance of this result is scarcely affected by the imper- fections that may exist in the present torpedo boat. If any defects have been noted they will, no doubt, be remedied, but the real point of interest has been to convert the tor- pedo froma purely defensive to a powerful offensive agent. We, perhaps, of all civilized peoples, are most interested in the result. Our immense seacoast, practically undefended, offers strong temptation to attack, and, with- out the aid of the torpedo, it ever, the attack on our coasts becomes very serious matter indeed, and one that will demand caution and boldness combined on the part of an aggressor. The respect im- posed by torpedo defences is greater than can | be obtained by any other system, This arises | from the fact that it takes its enemy unawares | and that what it strikes it destroys. Once within its reach escape is impossible. The strongest armor-plated war ship and the smallest gunboat must go down when struck by this terrible engine of destruction like a | hhonse of cards betore a puff of wind. Hence | the care with which the bravest men avoid them. When first clumsy, unmanageable things, but the applica- tion of electricity now renders them as cartain would | have to remain practically without defence | except at a few important points. At least | such would inevitably be our position should | a war break out with any Power strong at sea. | With the success of the torpedo boat, how- | introduced they were | | should be performed with some semblance of and reliable as the Intest small arm, 80 Tar, at least, as exploding them is concerned. Steam has been successfully applied to their direc- tion, and instead of being obliged to wait the approach of an enemy the torpedo hes ac- quired the power of searching him out and striking him at the most unexpected moments. This new invention rendez; the Mocxade of ports practically mm seipfe, No fleet would date ‘3 semiain where a boat might steal out in the night and deal destruction to the strongest ships practically without risk. We hope the Senate Naval Committee will be suf- ficiently impressed with tho importance of per- fecting this cheap and reliable method of coast defence. Even Congress, which displays such direful animosity against the navy, will hardly refuse to develop a system of defence which has the two strong recommendations of being cheap and effective. Ring Suits and Pet Lawyers. The people of New York do not know how much of their money is expended under Comptroller Green’s management in the luxury of law. They are aware that Dexter A. Hawkins was paid by Mr. Green for services at Albany, during the session of the Legis- lature last year, one hundred dollars a day fee, work or play, and from nine to twelve dollars a day for hotel expenses, and that the bill of this lawyer alone amounted to more than seven thousand dollars for about one half the session. From this they may form some idea of the liberality practised toward those who use their legal talents in the service of the Comptroller and his friends. But they would probably be startled to learn exactly how much money is expended annually in litigation and legal advice. As the Comp- troller refuses information in regard to out- standing claims against the city, and con- ceals—as far as possible—the amounts paid to lawyers, exclusive of the regular expenses of the Law Department, it is difficult to arrive at the correct sum. The costs in actions against the city are seldom stated separately and hence cannot be readily ascer- tained. But glancing over the warrants drawn in October, November and December, 1873, which are the last published by the Comptroller up to this time, we find one hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars paid out for interest, costs and judgments in those three months alone, besides such ‘‘re- tainers’’ and fees for ‘professional services” as the following, in the month of December alone: — Henry L. Cunton, retainer... E. L. Paris, prolessional servi Lyman Tremain, proiessional ser J. U, Carter, projessional services. Martin & Smith, projessional service James M. Smith, professional services. Wullam Barnes, revaier,.........+ So here is a total, in one month, of nearly thirty thousand dollars, or at the rate of three | hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, | paid out to pet lawyers for retaincrs and fees, in additicn to the one hundred and seventy- one thousand dollars paid for judgments and | costs in suits within three months. These facts naturally induce the taxpayers to demand that no further useless litigation | shall be invited on the part of the city for the | purpose of supplying favorite lawyers with | fees at the expense of the public treasury. The | report that suits have been commenced against | the Broadway Bank to recover six million dol- lars paid on warrants, the signatures to which } were forged, may be only an electioneering | trick to revive an excitement over the old ring frauds and cover up the new ring iniqui- | ties. But if the suit is really contemp'aied | the ground upon which the city stands should | be examined by competent lawyers, in order | that it may be ascertained whether an action against the bank can be maintained. The case made out by the political prompters of the suit makes it clear that if the city can maintain an action at all the proper defendants are the City Chamberlain and the Comptroller in office when the frauds were committed, and not the banks of deposit. The specimen case cited is sufficient to satisfy any lawyer of this fact. One million two hundred thousand dollars, we are told, was due to Keyser, but warrants for two million dollars were drawn, eight hundred thousand dollars more than Keyser knew of or ever saw. The warrants were regular in all respects, so far as the signatures of the Mayor, Comptrol- ler, Auditor, &¢., were concerned; but in order to obtain the money without Keyser’s | knowledge his name was forged, and the | money was paid by the bank of deposit. Be- j fore a hundred thousand dollars or there- abouts of the people’s money is paid out to pet lawyers to prosecute this suit it will be well to take competent legal advice as to the probability of recovering the amount from the bank. If the portion of the money which was stolen by the raising of the warrants can be recovered from any person by all means let us | have a “vigorous prosecution’’ of a suit for its recovery. But the people do not want any | more political actions or any more bogus suits concocted for the purpose of bleeding the public treasury. : 1,336 More About the Scandal. Plot and counter plot still mark the prog- ress of the Beecher scandal. In the struggle to win public sympathy neither party exhibits much delicacy or scruple, nor, indeed, any very close adherence to the truth. The latest example of this interminable misrepresenta- tion is furnished by the lawyers. Mr. Beecher’s legal advisers publish a card re- questing Mr. Tilton’s lawyers to furnish them with legal papers. This demand is put for- | ward with a flourish of trumpets showing Mr. Beecher like an Ajax defying the lightning | shafts of scandal. ‘The heroic picture is some- what damaged by the statement of Mr. Tilton | that Mr. Beecher has been notified for some days to name his legal seconds in the Court | duel to which he is summoned, Had Mr. | Beecher taken the Ajax position a little earlier | in the controversy its moral effect would have | been much greater on the community. It | argues a want of sonse of the ridiculous for a man who has been dragged into court by the coattails to strike magnificent attitudes. We have had too mach humbug and chicane in this business already. It is time for the bur- lesque to be brought to an end. The public is pretty well disgusted with the performance. I: is now here it can be best settled, in the courts of law, and the less harlequinizing there is on cither side the more the public will be pleased. Some one must be morally buried, and decency demands ‘that the rite | seduction. | denning Miss Pomeroy distinctly intimated | tempt” jor Pere Hyacintne, disnity. Pennsylvania Republican Convention, ‘The Pennsylvania republicans have met in convention at Harrisburg and sounded the first war-note of the opening campaign, Not that the proceedings were marked by any very” striking origine\\y, put because they fur ius “Indications of what the action of the party is likely to be on the’ question which has so long occupied publio attention—Grant’s third term. It interests’ the public very little to be informed that the Convention voted in favor of protection, de- manded civil rights in order to please the colored people and charged all the villany of the republican carpet-baggers on the demo- cratic party. All this and more was expected, but people were anxious to know whether Cwsarism has really taken deep root among the rankand file, That question Pennsylvania has answered in 9 way not to be misunder- stood. Whatever Custom House officials and Post Office employés may think about subverting the constitutional tradi- tions handed down to us the rank and file will stand no tampering with them. They will not have Cmsar—they prefer any other man, and as if to mark the extentof their opposition, they nominate for our next President Governor Hartranft. There is something sublime in this nomination; at another time it would be ridiculous, but as exhibiting the willingness of Pennsylvania to accept any one rather than Grant this nomination is a sterling exhibition of political good sense, The Glendenning Scandal. The scandal which brought Miss Mary E. Pomeroy and the reverend Gilendenning prominently before the public has ended in the death of the unfortunate young lady. The history of her relations with her pastor ore remarkably sad, and show an amount of heart- lessness on the part of the shepherd of the fold one would scarcely find except among the most dangerous class of wolves. If such revelations of church life continue people who desire to preserve their homes pure will think seriously before admitting clergymen into their families. Certainly re- cent events would justify much circumspec-~ tion, as the wolves seem to hire themselves out as shepherds, devouring the flock with greater ease and security. It is really very much to be regretted that there is no law to punish suffi- ciently a man who under the guise of religion. violates the sanctity of home and makes use of his supposed holiness for the purposo of In the case of the reverend Glen- that he had obtained from her papers of a compromising character through threats of violence. As these declarations were made in the presence of death they have an owfal | solemnity, and it is to be hoped that the law- yers will find some way of punishing so great a crimo against morality and the commom rights of humanity. Waar Dogs Ir Mxan?—Governor Mosea a few days since made a public speech in which he elaborately defended and justified. his administration. When he had concluded, a young negro orator who had been one of his office-holders rose and replied, denouncing the Governor's corruptions, or, as they would be called here, “irregularities,” and demanding the nomination of pure and honest men for office. Now, 9 member of the Louisiana carpet-bag government threatens to resign be~ cause a corrupt and disreputable State officer has been renominated. This is the pot calling the kettle black with a vengeance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Did Moulton get a moiety? “Wan Lee, the pagan,” is exquisitely well done, Postmaster General Jeweli arrived on the Bothnia iast night. “ola rye” is the grain that is nearest the grangers’ neart. “Fresh fleids and pastures new” is the little game of the Colorado “ten liner.’” Have acare fora young girl who never saya dreadiu! tuings: she understands them. Moulton wants to be “chased by atanner’s dog around the ragged ramparts of d—nution.”” Another parson and avother ruin; anothe pistol and more “‘statements’’ and counter state- ments. When will the investigating committee fourist its ladla and anuounce tuat the brimstone ts ready? Mackey, Judge, in South Carolina, wears a silken gown, and goes to and from Court preceded by the Sherif, carrying a drawn sword, Don Salustiano de Gomevar y Apareni de Im Torre, Comte de Mastos, Marquis de Vorralba, was arrested in Paris lately picking pockets in the Palais Royal. Brooklyn and Jersey City together would seen: to argue in favor of the priestly obligation to cetibacy ; but the men who will vidlate one obliga- tion Will not respect another. Cluseret says he “bas the most profound con- Hyacinthe says of Cluseret:—"He a general? Who named him such? Amob of drunken vagabonds,” Indifferent to us which waips. Duke de Montpensier and family are at the Chateau de Randau, near Vichy, and three times week they all drive to Vichy to get breakfast at one of the hotels, Eveua duke may ve dissatisied with his domestic cuisine. Seven thousand dollars 1s not dear for three such comforts as “grace, mercy and peace,” bus it should bave been $4,000 or $9,000, so as to save the distracting cipherimg that ts now necessary to find out how much they were apiece. Recently a sigit-scer in Paris asked a Parisian what the Kepublic nad done in continuation of the great embellishments of the Empire. It was ) pointed out to tnis heathen that the Republic had | caused to be written ob ail the great edifices the words, “Liberté, Egalité, Pratermité.” People who have to write “Post OMice money or- ders” agreat many times every day propose to condense the initials of the four words Ito the | one word “pomo,” and to have that word accepted as signifying the paper named. Only Pomona and the pomological societies will object, and they, perhaps, not strenuously. flere ts @ man who made a declaration of love, even at the marriage festival, to—his mother-ine law! “He followed her from the parlor into the garden, seized her around the waist, and sang rather hoarsely— Vhich » Nothwithstaading bis (mpromput they oalled the police, All this was in France, M. Le Provost de Launay, now Bonapartige Deputy from Calvados, rises to explain, The Figaro wants to know Why the plain H, Movant of 1840 was in 1874 M. Le Provowt oe Launey, Hap pears the gentionan’s father was Hern te bia, woen the authorities droyved #1 arisiaeraye eae ditions to names, and the regisier af Hie Hith called him Provost, and tilt name wae Horne Wy bis family Ul) Within @ few years bark, when claimed the right to tein name as it etood Helore the great Revolntion, whieh rial! waa alinwon he the courts, with the object of