The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR elem Letters and packages should be properly sealed. pean 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. + No, 234 Volume XXXIX, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNGON AND EVENING WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth str WR DWARFS DUEL, at 2 Y. M. and at 8 P. > at 10.30 P.M. Louis Aldrich and Miss Sop! | BOOTH | corner of Twenty-thir Sixth avenue.— HeLLb LAMAR, ats PF. M.: wP.M. Jobo M i yiph, Matinee at Ullough and “Miss K. Rogers Kay MM, NIBLO’S GARDEN . Matinee | WALL —WIG AND Yoole. Matinee ati :30 S THEATRE WN. at 3 P closes at IL Broad way. rw M. MIQUE, | THEATRE 06 VARIETY, at sl’, Wy closes at 10:30 OLYMPIC THEATRE | No. 6% Broadway.—VARIETY, at3 PM. closes at 10:9 FM. Tomy Pasior’s Troupe. Matinee at? UM GLOBE THEATRE, No. 7% Broadway.—VARIETY, “ut 82, M.; closes at 10 POM. Matinee at 2 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATER No, 585 Broadway.—Parisian Caucan Dancers, at 8 P.M. Malinee at 2 P. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN Fifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue.—CHOMAS’ CON- CERI, at $ P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, August 22, 1874 | anaes on an = THE HERALD FOR THE SUNMER RESORTS. ‘To NEWsPrALERS AND THE Pusuic: — | The New York Heraxp 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 Henavp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Henaxp office as early as possible. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with rain areas. Wat Srrrer YesTexpay.—Stocks were ani- | mated but unsettled and closed off. Gold | reached 110, but closed at 1093. | Tue Memaers of Plymouth Church think it | disgraceful that reporters should attend their | prayer meetings. But what the reporters | think of it is too awtul to be said. | Frencu Porrrics are intelligently reviewed | by our Paris correspondent to-day, and the | latest gossip of the politica! recess entertain- ingly reported. Ix Avousta, Ga, another instance of the increasing hostility of the whites and blacks is furnished. A negro who had killed | @ white man on a street car was taken out of jail by a mob and riddled with bullets. The negro was the first offender, having insulted the wife of the man he murdered. ‘Two Mone charming excursions have been | made on the Sound by’the barge New Balti- | more, and fourteen hundred children and | mothers have felt and seen the beauty of the | summer and breathed the pure air of the | sea. The tenth excursion is announced for Tuesday. The blessings of this charity are so great that it is strange New York was 60 | long without them. Tue Prrmovra Cuvncu prayer meeting last | night was more in the frame of mind to swear a little than to supplicate. There was astrong | feeling in favor of receiving the report of | the committee in private, but Professor Ray- mond suggested that the amateur religious reporters might misrepresent the proceedings, and his superior wisdom was acknowledged. | Nothing was said of Mr. Moulton’s statement, but it does not appear to have shaken the faith | | nent | of belief. | | speaking of the occasion when he demanded | Nii Mr. Moulton’s Statement. The statement of Mr. Frank Moulton, which he originally intended for presentation to the committee of investigation charged with the inquiry into the Beecher-Tilton scandal, and which was suppressed at the last | moment, is published this morning. It bears no internal indications of being anything else than it pretends to be, and we think it may be accepted as the evidence upon knowl- edge of the most important witness in the case. That the testimony was prepared pre- | vious to Mr. Beecher’s statement is an im- portant point in determining the credibility of the witness and the weight of the evidence, for it is ‘ll imputation of passion. Had the state- been prepared under the heat and excitement occasioned by Mr. Beecher’s charges of blackmail—charges which it was impossible for Mr. Moulton to overlook—it would thereby have been materially weak- ened. As uothing but the truth is to be sought for in this case, and as Moulton’s tredibility is the test by which Tilton’s charges are to be tried, it will be seen how , | very important is the fact that the statement | | Was prepared before a uew element of hatred | and ill will had been introduced into the con- | troversy. With these premises clearly under- | | earlier phases of Beecher'’s confidence in | statement in order to ascertain if Mr. Moulton | Moulton our readers are already familiar. It | stcod we can enter into an examination of the has settled the point at issue. Every reader who undertakes the study of Mr. Moulton’s statement this morning will ex- ' amine it with a single question in his mind— | Does it establish the guilt of Mr. Bzecher? If Moulton is to be believed the truth of the | Beecher bewails the conduct of the inter- charges is unquestionsble. The new element in the case, then, is Moulton’s credibility, and | Upon this the whole issue turns. But before we seek more tully to satisty ourselves on this point it is mecessary to ascertain exactly what Mr. Moulton’s testimony, assuming it to be worthy of credit, proves. It will be remem- bered that in the earlier stages of the case it | was apparent that the testimony of both Mr. and Mrs. Tilton would have to be ruled out altogether. This lett only Mr. Beecher’s letters to be explained. These letters were singu- larly extravagant in tone and seemed to point to some very grave offence. Mr. Beecher’s | words were full of wild despair, and the rugged edges of lite were to him so rough that he gave frequent forebodings of sudden death. He often kissed the hand that struck | him, and to Moulton, whom he acknowledged as the man by whose endeavors the most ter- rible blow of all had been averted, he wrote epistles of the most passionate gratitude. Macaulay's picture of John Bunyan writhing under the conviction of sin in the extreme agonies of a vivid imagination was not more terrible. than Mr. Beecher’s condition as he paints it himself. When Mr. Beecher undertook to explain the causes of the wretchedness he had 60 often acknowledged in such extravagant phrase- ology the circumstances to which these outbursts were attributed were found to be so trivial that the expressions of contrition bor- dered on burlesque. It required an effort of the will to believe that it was nothing more than some bad advice that bad occasioned all | this misery, contrition and apology. The tion before it could be accepted as satisfactory. Their true meaning remained as much in doubt as before, and there was only one man | | who was in a position to unravel the mystery. That man was Frank Moulton. This man is | the only real witness in the case, and he has | now told us exactly what was the offence with which Mr. Beecher was charged and to which he referred in his letters—it was adultery. On this point Mr. Moulton’s testimony is proof unless it is shown that he is unworthy “At that interview,'’ says Moulton, | and obtained Mrs. Tilton’s retraction from | Mr. Beecher, “he admitted, with grief and | sorrow, the fact of his sexual relations with Mrs. Tilton, expressed some indignation that she had not told him that she had told her husband, and that in consequence of being in | ignorance of that fact he had been walking | upon a volcano—referring to what he had | done in connection with Bowen and with | reference to Tilton’s family.’ Moulton , | | is equally explicit with regard to the famous | letter of contrition. ‘‘This,” he says, ‘‘was intrusted to me in confidence, to be shown only to Tilton, which I did. It had reference | to no other fact or act than the confession of which the church reposes in Mr. Beecher. Tux Western GrassHoprers.—An intelli- | gent correspondent who has lately visited a | district in Kansas infested by the grasshop- pers recommendé the English sparrow for | their destruction. But the English sparrow | is also a grain eater, and a sufficient army of | these sparrows to overcome and keep down | those Western clouds of grasshoppers would | fequire immense quantities of grain for their support through the winter. Besides, they | would probably be destroyed in the North- west in a single night in one of those fierce prairie snow storms, with the temperature at from twenty to thirty degrees below zero, Turkeys, guinea fowls and chickens, on the other hand, can do the work and can be turned into a cash article in supplying the Eastern markets in winter with cheap poultry, Tur Mospy-Parye Dvet.—The people at Washington appear to be greatly excited over what they call the Mosby-Payne duel, al- though no duel between these gallant repre- sentatives of the chivalry has yet been fought. Indeed, the would-be combatants have been | put ander bonds not to fight in Virginia or in the District of Columbia. It is therefore doubtful whether the duel will ever be a duel at all. It would be an easy matter, it is true, for the two angry gentlemen to jump ona train of cars, get off in ‘Maryland, | my Maryland,” or on any other hos- | pitable soil, make an excursion into | the woods or fields and fire off their | Pistols in accordance with the code, without | being interfered with or interrupted until one | or both had received satisfaction in the shape of an ounce of lead. But somehow these | duellists, whose little affairs are heralded in | advance, are seldom practical enough for these commonplace proceedings, and so prob- ably the Mosby-Payne duel will end without a waste of bullets. Four Statements have been made in the Brooklyn scandal—those of Mr. Tilton, Mrs. , Tilton, Mr. Beecher and Mr. Moulton. The | cold, colorless method of the latter singnlarly | contrasts with the passion and recrimination of the others. sexual intercourse between Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, which he at that interview confessed, and denied not, but confessed.” Mr. Beecher | has given us one version of the way in which that letter was prepared; Mr. Moulton gives | us another. According to Beecher, it was memoranda of no very grave import; accord- | ing to Moulton, it was dictation referring solely to Mr. Beecher's acts of adul- tery with Mrs. Tilton. There is a discrepancy here, but the words admitted to be in Mr. | Beecher’s bandwriting, ‘I have trusted this to Moulton in confidence,” seem to sustain Moul- ton’s declarations on this point. Strangely enough a letter is printed from Samuel Wil- keson corroborating Moulton on the more material point—the nature of the offence. Wilkeson appears to have been a sort of unfrocked Jesse Rural in the case. He it was who made Mr. Beecher ridiculous by saying if the truth came out “it would knock the ‘Life of Christ’ higher than a kite.” He it was also who published the ‘‘tripartite covenant” and so opened the old wounds anew. It is not to be wondered at that such an injudicions friend should write to Moul- ton, ‘‘Let Theodore pass into your hand the written apology which he holds for the im- | proper advances, and do you pass it into the flames of the friendly fire in your room of reconciliation.”’ is vital in Mr. Moulton’s statement. The rest is part of the res gesta, as the lawyers say, and goes to sustain the credibility of the witness. Moulton’s credibility is the only point left in the controversy, and Mr. Beecher must be re- garded as guilty unless Moulton's reputation for veracity can be successfully impeached. As a matter of course, if Moulton and Tilton have been blackmailing Mr. Beecher, the whole story falls to pieces. of money by Mr. Beecher will not be sufficient to discredit Moulton, for Beecher says it was long after the money was paid that he began | to regard it as blackmail. There were money | transactions, undoubtedly; Moulton account- ing for the use that was made of Beecher’s five thousand dollars, We can see no reason thus free from | | the later stages of the controversy. “This letters seemed to require a different explana- | of the liberal programme of last year on the | anticipate some glorious results from our | noised abroad that Mr. Fenton, by‘and with | | the advice and consent of the President, will | will only help Mr. Conkling to carry the State | publican Senator. This, it strikes us, is all that | But the black- | | mailing must be proved. The mere payment for doubting Moulton’s statement in this matter, principally because Beecher was 50 slow in suspecting blackmail, and, in any event, Moulton’s version of the transaction is more creditable to Mr. Beecher than his own, There would have been something noble in | | Mr. Beecher—and ho certainly is capable of | very noble actions—quietly assisting the man | whom he had injured; it would have been | ignoble to have paid money to conceal that | which never occurred. It was long after the | charge of adultery had been made and con- | doned that this money was paid, and! there were no longer any transactions | with Bowen to give color to the idea that it | was because of Tilton’s loss on the Independ- | ent that Beecher contributed to the Golden Age. We have referred to these things as an i element in determining Moulton’s credibility, ; for on its face Monlton’s version of the “blackmail” story is more consonant with reason and common sense than Beecher'’s. | The discrepancy is explained, perhaps, in the fact that one view is that of a clergyman, the | other of a man of business, and it is not | strange that the man of business should pre- | sent the more credible statement. Another point which argues very strongly in favor of Moulton’s credibility is the esteem in which he was held by Beecher. With tho is interesting to note the manner in which Mr. Beecher treated the alleged blackmailer in point is illustrated by the very remarkable | letter written in March last, in which Mr. | meddling Shearman. As late as the 13th | of July he says he was ashamed to put a straw more on Moulton, at the same | time saying to his ‘‘Dear Frank’’ that he has “but a single consolation—that the matter cannot distress you long, as it must soon end; that is, there will be no more anxiety about the future, whatever regrets there may be for the past.’’ All this is very strong endorse- ment of Moulton, and in itself it will have great weight in sustaining the direct testimony of the witness on the | paintul subject of Mr. Beecher's guilt. We fain would have believed the great clergyman had never fallen. We would fain believe it now, if we could see any possible way by which he could escape out of the meshes which bind him. Moulton, pressed to | speak by the onslaughts of Mr. Beecher and Mr. Beecher’s friends, has spoken at last, and, pained as we are at the result, we cannot dis- regard the fact that the Plymouth pastor is crushed, unless this terrible witness against him can be shown to be a monster of villany, duplicity and falsehodd. ; The Empire State—Senator Fenton and the Liberal Balance of Power. The powerfal oratorical proclamation to the liberal republicans of the Empire State recently issued by General John Cochrane will, we are inclined to think, bear the inter- pretation that his party is not to be sold out, disbanded and dispersed, as were the Know Nothings, for a mess of pottage, but that the liberals are still to hold the field as a distinct organization, which, though small in num- bers, stands as a balance of power, in full view of the millenniam. In short, the success State ticket encouraged General Cochrane to November State election this year to the liberals as a balance of power. And why not? The liberals may, perhaps, by swinging to the right or left, elect the Governor, and by out- ting in or cutting out, in this or that Con- gtessional district, they may determine the | majority of our State delegation in the next | House of Representatives. Best of all, by adroit engineering and ac- + tive work they may secure such a balance of power in our next State Assembly as will ena- ble them to control the Legislature in the important matter of the election of a United States Senator in place of Mr. Fenton, whose term is drawing to a close. And here Senator Kgnton comes to the front again as one of the most important men in the State. The repubjicans are apprehensive that in our coming Legislature Senator Fenton may hold | the winning hand, and they are said to be | coquetting with him in order to bring him back into -the party fold, with or without the consent of Senator Conkling. Expelled from | the fat pickings of the: Custom House, it is be admitted again to the inner temple if he | for the administration and to carry in a re- But it further appears that though ap- proached from Long Branch with these afore- said flattering overtures Mr. Fenton still ‘looks to the Senate.’’ Consequently there is a hitch in these negotiations, and so it is possible that the ostracized Senator, against | | the Custom House, against his powerful col- | league and against the administration, may | obtain ample satisfaction. ‘Time at last makes all things even.’’ Unquestionably the | position of Senator Fenton at this time is | anything but that of a politician lett high and | dry beyond the reach of the changing tide. The triangular, or rather the quadrangular | game, including the temperance party, es- pecially for the Governor and the Legislature | in our November election, will, doubtless, be one of the most exciting, interesting and com- plicated contests of many years; and Senator | Fenton, according to the results of onr last | November struggle, will hold the balance of | power, and for Fenton. Private Charity and Professional Phi- ianthropy. Owing to the dulness in business and the searcity of labor there is more suffering in this city at the present time than was ever known | before. Many of the working women are without employment and stout and active young men by the bundred apply for sny vacancy that may occur. This is a bad out- look for the winter, and there will be mach want in the metropolis unless timely measures are taken to provide work for the unemployed and food and shelter for the unfortunate. It is very easy to say to the beggar, “Go to work,” but it isa kind of advice that is hard to follow when there is no work to be had. The most | beneficent charity, then, for the winter of | 1874-5 will be to find employment for the | unemployed. To do this work efficiently organization will be necessary, and the sooner Ww YUKK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, | it is begun the more effective it can be made. | the oblivi One of the reasons for beginning thus early is the fact that professional philanthropy has proved a failure. With the exception of St. John’s Guild and one or two other similar societies the charitable institutions of the metropolis are sinecures for officials, but practically useless for the purposes for which they were founded. They profess to fulfil a great public end, but merely absorb private charity. At the same time many of them can be made exceedingly useful in aiding a great and necessary work ; but before they can be of any use there must be satisfactory evidence that they are not mere money-making schemea for the benefit of their projectors. | It will thus be seen that investigation must | pfecede usefulness. There is too much sus- | picion in the public mind «o coxtmand private j charity for these institutions until it is shown that they are worthy dispensers of the money which they receive. This investigation and reform are also a part of the preliminary | work which must be accomplished before the days are shortened and the nights become bleak and cold. The first duty is to find work for the idle and the next to succor the | unemployed and the starving. This must be done by better hands than those to which the greater part of the work is at present com- mitted, and private charity must know it is not taxed for the mere benefit of protessional philanthropists. The Wars of Bowley and Jones. The extreme mockery of republicanism is found in Sonth Carolina to-day under negro rule. The vivid account of the riots in Georgetown which our correspondent gives to-day is not exaggerated, for no writer could adequately describe the fearful condition of that society. The whitemen who have led the negroes into these excesses remind us of those pirates who become chiefs of African tribes, and in order to maintain their authority are compelled to be more brutal than the savages they command. The negroes themselves re- semble gorillas who have been elected to the Legislature more than ordinary human beings.. The story of this horrible orgie which has been held in a county cut off from communication with the rest of the State is grotesque even in its terrors. The rivalry between the negro Senator Jones and the negro Senator Bowley burlesques the conflict between Brooks and Baxter. So monkeys, which have seen a barber shop, butcher each other in the vain attempt to shave. Senator Jones calls out the militia and Bowley organ- izes an army. Bowley bombards Jones’ house all night with sixteen-shooters. Jones barri- cades himself with legislative reports, made bullet proof by negro speeches, The militia drive the trocps of Bowley out of town, and then Jones besieges Bowley. Bowley takes refuge (where he ought to be now) in _ jail. Jones _ threatens to burn the town in order to make a confla- gration of Bowley’s house, like the Chinese, who, when they wanted roast pig, set fire to the sty. ‘Thus the hideous work goes on night and day, men, women and children en- | gaged in bloody war; and the result would have been still more terrible had not a United States revenue cutter from Charleston steamed | up to the town one fine day, and, with three cannon and thirty men, frightened the: con- | tending armies into the swamps and woods. This conflict was entirely confined to the blacks. It could hardly be otherwise in a county in which there are 13,388 negroes and only 2,738 whites, and in which the former have absolute rule. White emigration from Georgetown would soon | make the population of one color, if the whites bad any place to emigrate to or | any money to go with. But one part of South | Carolina is likely to be almost as bad as | the others. The negroes govern the whole | State, and some of these days, unless such | great statesmen as Bowley and Jones lose their influence, there may be a carnival of blood which will make the rest of the Union shudder. There is no dere in the North to undo the | work of emancipation nor to suppress the political equality which the logic of freedom compels. But there is a growing determina- tion that such scenes as those in Georgetown shall be made impossible, for the sake of humanity and the honor of the nation. Jones | and Bowley, by their monkey-like imita- | tions of the “great wars which make am- | bition virtue,’ are degrading American ! civilization and outraging the moral sense of | { | the nation, and they must be suppressed. | The intelligent colored man looks upon them | with disgust, and it is for his sake, as well as , for that of the whites, that Congress will take South Carolina in hand. It is very hard to | find a remedy for these evils ; but one thing | is certain, that the American people will not consent to see a sovereign State abandoned to | massacre, plunder and all manner of crime. | | The negro population of South Carolina is | like a mutinous crew, who have fired the richly-freighted bark they wish to plunder, | nd who are perishing in flames they are un- able to extinguish. ‘i Prymovta Cxurcu praying for Mr. Tilton is the most touching instance of magna- nimity we have heard of since Miss Squeers forgave Nicholas Nickleby. Another French Blunder. It appears now that it was not our English cousins who were guilty of the attempt to gag the press attributed to them by the cable, John Mitchel may write if he likes on condi- | tion that he respects the British unities, but his name at the end of a communication will not of itself expose the publisher to pains and penalties. This absurdity is reserved for France. The government at Paris fears the attacks of Rochefort and Grousset, and under the law which prevents men deprived of civil | rights contributing over their own names to the | press it is sought to prevent their attacking the government. If Rochefort or any of his condemned friends desire to write attacks on | the government they will very easily evade j this law, and the government will have ex- | posed itself to ridicule without deriving any | advantage from their wonderful proc: | lamatione This decree was just what| Rochefort required to make his Lan- ferne burn more brightly than ever. He has something to say which the government | desires to prevent his saying. All France | will therefore feel compelled to read the at- | tacks of the exiled Communist on MacMahon | and his government. By the blunders of the | veonle in power Rochefort is called an from ( | could uso the earth's swiftly revolving sat- | groupof the Black Hills, lying partly in the | and by its sparkling brook of cool and deli- ion into which he had fallen, and may become a power again in French politics. Had he been left alone it is probable that he would soon have disappeared from the politi- cal field Looking over the policy of the existing government for the last six months it is impossible to feel astonished at any vagary that may be committed by the people in power. Their whole course has been little better than a succession of blunders. The Transit of Venus and the Im- provement of Navigation. Among the most interesting and important practical results to be reached by the transit of Venus observations is the perfection of the nautical tables required for safe navigation. While the splendid and costly equipments for the various observing expeditions are being lavished on science it is well that hor enthu- siastic votaries should take steps to secure the highest utilitarian benefits derivable from their labors. Few problems more deeply concern mankind in general than that for determining the exact position of a ship at sea, and errors, apparently insignificant, in determin- ing a ship's longitude lead to the most disas- trous consequences. In the practical solution of this last named problem the moon and stars, when their motions and positions are accurately ascer- tained, servo the purposes of the minute and second hands of a gigantic celestial clock. The greatest nicety in ascertaining the time requisite on the vessel at sea is obvious, when we reflect that an error of half a minute in longitude puts the navigator four or five miles away from the point at which he supposes himself to be, and such an error is sufficient to cast him on many a dangerous coast. The difficulty of approaching shore in security and confidence has never yet been surmounted by nautical science, and never will be until mgans are devised for determining exactly the true time. To show the value of such exact- ness it is only necessary to recur toa cele- brated incident in the history of the Great Eastern. On one occasion, when laying the Atlantic cable, and when, of course, in telegraphic communication with Valentia, her captain wished to search for a buoy, which had been anchored at a par- ticular spot known to him. He was then re- ceiving by the cable he was paying out the true Greenwich time to within a second, and gave directions for finding the buoy accord- ingly. At the calculated time when he ex- pected to reach the spot sought for, and was going on deck hoping to sight the object of his search, the ship’s side was struck by the buoy, showing how perfectly the true time | flashed to him ‘from Valentin had rendered his reckoning. : If the lunar tables in nautical almanacs were absolutely correct the observer, by watch- | ing the instant the moon comes to the posi- tion of a star, and knowing the exact Green- | wich time at which she reaches that position, receives an intimation of absolute time. Were the tables of the moon, by which the mariner computes his position, absolutely perfect (as they are in fact by no means perfect), he | ellite as a huge chronometer, visible frou every part of the navigable oceans. As, how- ever, the lunar motions are irregular, owing to the enormous disturbing attraction of the | sun, and as these irregularities cannot be fixed till the sun's distance is determined, the forth- coming transit observations are essential and | will be looked for eagerly by nautical philoso- phers. Arrangements have been made for observing | the transit of Venus from about seventy-five stations. But although the great event occurs on the 8th of December, 1874, it will probably be late in 1875 before the grand result an- nouncing the sun’s distance can be reached. Many of the observers will remain at their | respective stations for thres months to perfect their computations of longitude. We may ex- pect this large band of scientists to bring home with them rich harvests of knowledge from the varied scenes of their labors. The Floral Valley of the, HillsOne of Many. The Black Hills are the outlying pickets of | the great Rocky Mountain chain on its eastern front. They are broken up into various groups. The Union Pacific Railway crosses | one of these groups, at the highest pass of | which, at Sherman station, the road attains an elevation of eight thousand feet above the sea. Some two hundred and fifty miles north of Sherman, between the forty-third and forty- fifth degrees, north latitude, there is another Black southwestern corner of Dakota and partly in the northeastern corner of Wyoming Terri- tory. This cluster of mountains, covering an area of from fitty to seventy miles in diameter, is drained into two branches of the Big Chey- | enne or Good River, one branch winding | around the north side of the mountains and the other around the south side, each being the recipient from the mountains of numerous tributaries of cool, sweet, sparkling water. The general elevation of these mountain val- leys is seven thousand feet above the sea; the | general altitude of the mountains does not, | perhaps, exceed two thousand, though some | ridges or peaks may rise to three thousand feet above the valleys. General Custer, with his well equipped little army, for fighting or for the purposes of | exploration, recently, from the western side, penetrated this labyrinth of mountains and | |‘mountain streams, cutting his way through a | dense forest to gain the crest of the outside ridge, and then descending (with the aid of ropes to his wagons) with his pioneers, his cavalry, provision train and infantry, into the first interior valley. This valley, for some fif- teen miles 1n its length and with a general width of two or three miles, is described as a perfect | Garden of Eden in its floral loveliness and profusion, including roses, lilies, blue bells, violets, asters, geraniums, primroses, sun- flowers and numerous other flowers in bloom, intermingled with the ripened fruit of straw- berries, gooseberries, raspberries and junk- berries. The valley is further enhanced in its attractions by its lovely groves of aspens and other trees, and by the luxuriant pine forests which clothe the mountain sides, | | cious water, abounding in trout. The moun- | tains contain, moreover, immense quarries of | marble and granite, to say nothing of their suggestive veins of quartz or of the profitable gold washings in the streams. General Custer has named this lovely vale ‘Floral Valley," and from the general accounts given of it wa can- | | tem explored by General Custer. Nos CARR eNeeL YEAS not doubt that it is, indeed, a vale in whick the Goddess of Flowers has established her summer headquarters. But as the traveller, im search of the enchanting scene, from the near- est point on the Union Pacific Railway will have to trust to luck against hostile Indians, in a journey on mule or horseback, or on foot, of some two hundred and fifty miles or more, Over mountains, and across the mauvaises terres, or bad lands, one of the most sterile and desolate regions on the Continent, it will yet be some years before the Floral Valley cam become a fashionable summer resort. We have no doubt, however, that witha thorough exploration of this interesting group of the Black Hills the interior valleys of most of the numerous streams issuing from them will be found to resemble in their floral and other natural attractions the first of tho sys- If so it will become the duty of the government.to save those beautiful valleys from swift destrac- tion by unscrupulous adventurers and specu- lators, and to preserve this group of Black Hills as the property of the whole people of the United States. The valloys of those hills, seven thousand feet above the sea, are, it ap- pears, subject to sharp frosts even in July, so that they cannot be profitably enltivated; but from their wholesome water and salubrious air what a delightful home they would make for some thousands of the wornout old gol- diers under the charge of the government { Tae Last Arrempt.—Up to July 13 Mr Beecher was on the most friendly terms with Mr, Moulton, and on that date, in @ note ap- pointing an interview, signed himself “truly yours and ever.” On August 13, in his state- ment before the committee, Mr. Beecher ac- cused Mr. Moulton of having been in a con- spiracy to blackmail. How can this be ex- plained? Only upon the theory that Mr. Beecher, foreseeing that Mr. Moulton's testi- mony must in the end be published, resolved as his last resort to break down the witness im advance, A Srarriinc Conresston.—Dying confes- sions are likely to be true, and, therefore, the statement of James H. Reed, the Texas rob- ber, will be generally believed. This man was shot in Lamar county on the 6th inst., by a deputy sheriff named Morris, and before his his death he had time to tell the story of hia crimes. ‘I cannot believe that one so brave as Reed was,” says Mr. Morris, ‘“‘would speak anything but the truth when he was positive that he had only a few minutes to live.’* Reed confessed himself the leader of the Iowa train robbery, the Ste. Genevieve and Gads- hill robberies, and declared to the last that McCoy, the James and the Younger brothers had no part in those crimes. This informa. tion wassent to Missouri and is likely to change public opinion in regard to these men. They are fortunate that Reed lived long enough to reveal their innocence to the officer who was forced to kill him. Trevanp has received in very different ways visits from two of her prominent sons. The reception of the ex-revolutionist Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, who is now pensioned by the British government, was a strong contrast to the enthusiastic welcome of John Mitchel. The Irish always remember their friends and it is seldom that they-forget their foes. Tse New Lerrers included in Mr. Mouk ton’s statement throw additional light upon the acknowledged facts, and those are not the least important in which Mr. Beecher urges his friends to suppress discussion, and be comes furious and alarmed because of their dangerous agitation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ' Poor summer in Switzerland—not many Amert- cans. The Paris Post Office has just sold tis old balloon material Postmaster John F.. Smyth, of Albany, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, has ar- rived at the Windsor Hotel. General Silas Casey, United States Army, is quar- tered at the St. Dents Hotel. Senator Thomas M. Norwood, of Georgia, is re- siding at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Thiers wanted to go to Switzerland, out ole | doctor insisted on the Pyrenees, Professor F. H. Hedge, of Harvard College, is so- ourning at the Sturtevant House. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, ig registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Secretaries Fisn and Bristow are the only two members of the Cabinet in Washington, Chicago wants to see them, ana will give $75,000 each for Henry and Theodore for fifty nights, In France they have ‘co-operative batcnertes,” | which are nog ntutnal murderings, but meat clabs Deaths in St. Petersburg in 1873, only 32 out of 000, and they have cholera and smallpox all the time. Ip Switzerland they give the soldiers chocolate cartridges, One “cartridge” serves for two breax- fasts, Sefior Don Emilio Benard, Minister from Nica- Traugaa at Washington, is staying at the Clarendon: Hotel. ‘Two men, three children and half the dogs in Geneva were recently vitten by the mad dog of the period. Mr. Washington Booth, Collector of the Port of Baltimore, is among the recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. At Neufenatel, Switzerland, they farm out the pauper babtes for $20; food, clothing and instruc- tion included. Attorney General Williams left Washington yes- terday morning for Atiantic City and wiil retura | early next week. ‘The archives.of Lorraine and Alsace, which are the property of those provinces, are at Paria, and the Germants want them. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Texas, formerly Speaker of the House of Represeniatives, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. War between China and Kachgar will begin at once, “without prejudice’ to the right of Russia to make war on either or both. Sefior Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, son of Admiral Polo, and Seiior Luis de Potestad, of the Spantam Legation, are at the Albemarle Hotel. Messrs. John P. Bigelow and George B. Mo- Cartee, of the Treasury Department, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, 8. T. Bigelow, Chief of the Loan Division of the Treasury Department, left Washington for this city Thursday night, and wili sat! to-day for Kurope in connection with the delivery of the bonds of the uew loan. St appears the French pilgrims sing in chorus “Save Rome and France,” and the Italian Ambas- sador represents to the French Ministry that this inference that Rome needs saving is offensive te his government, Mosby has given to Grant for the third term the allegiance of the whole south. [f Mosby should now fail to carry his own Congressional district tm | Virginia {t would be one of the most shocging events of modern times, People of the United States—We have to commu Nicate the most lamentable piece of intelligence thatever saddened the nearts of a sensitive gen- eration. The tenth volume of George Bancroiv@ “Hiavory” will be gublianed ia Saptemper.