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6 NEW YORK HERALD SEE Nr CESS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 6 Abo JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, _—— All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York Henavp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 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. Volume XXXIX NTS TO-MORROW, car LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avevue.—LA TIMBALE | D ARGENT, at8 P.M. Mile. Aimee, Mile, Mimelly, | \ | BOOTH’ ATRE, corner of Twenty-third t and Sixth avenue.— BELLE LAMAR, at 5 P. M. at 1900 P.M. Jolin McCullough and ‘Miss K. Rogers Randolph. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Souston streets. — Tuk BRIDE OF ABYDOS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:49 2. M, Joseph Wheelock and Miss avike, EATRE, , at 3 P.M; closes at WALLAC Broadway.—WIG AND GOW. P.M. J. L, Toole. 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Beecher, Tilton | and Moulton are not the worst products of our | civilization, and indeed the famous pulpit j orator seems to carry himself in the whole transaction with more decency and dignity | and with more of all the good qualities of | humanity than some of the innocent ones | whose sensibilities are outraged at his offence. | His attempt to strike down Moulton at the last is in the passion of the story; for it is a | fight for life and he must perish or ruin that witness. And if he is guilty, if he has yielded | | to temptation as Grandfather Adam did, it | was a natural temptation, and though to fall in that way be unpreacher-like it is not inhu- | man; while some in the story who are not on | | trial must fall as Satan did, never to rise again, | because their sin is that they nursed and | encouraged in their hearts a fiendish malig- nity. How innocent, relieved by such a vice, chatters with so little restraint about her | “love babe !’ Not the least remarkable of the figures in | the story are Messrs. Bowen and Storrs, whom we class together not because there is | any natural resemblance between them, but | because they equally deprecated exposure and equally seem animated by an interest that may perhaps not unfairly be described as malevolent. Beecher gives the portrait of Mr. Storrs. He calls him “hollow and faith- less’’—a man who makes “‘tactical’’ expres- sions of affection; but who has a “game,’’ which is to force Tilton and Beecher into con- GLOBE THEATRE, Bo, 738 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3P, M.; closes atl0 MBTROPOLIT. No, 585 Broadway.—Parisian HEATR«s can Dancers, at 8 P. M, THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at3 I. M.; closes at 10:30 YM. | CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue,—CHOMAS’ CON- CERI, al M.j 0 FE ™, clo SHEET. 1874. | RIPLE New York, Sunday, August 23 THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, | To NEWSDEALERS AND THE PuBLIc: — The New York Henraxp 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 Herarp along the line. Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hzzaxp office as early as possible. From our reports th is morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear or partly | cloudy. — } Watt Srreer Yestrrpay.—Stocks were | quiet but firm, and closed strong. Gold sold at 1093 and closed at 110. | an excursion on the East River. Eighteen hundred poor little boys and girls have had at | | least one happy day. Mz. Toots has expressed his opinion upon | the Moulton statement very fully in the Bos- ton papers. Mr. Toots says ‘‘it’s of no conse- quence;”’ and he is thought to be a very intel- | ligent young man—by the committee. Sr. Jony’s Gurup needs funds to properly continue its invaluable services to the sick children of New York. The Floating Hes- pital in nine excursions has carried 7,441 per- sons, and the medical testimony is direct as to the immense good that has been done. The next excursion will take place on Tuesday, and it is to he hoped that the means will be provided to thoroughly carry out the programme for the rest of the summer. The work of the Guild is too great to be conducted without | assistance from the public. Tuere ts 4 Wet Kxown Traprtion that the wife of one of the early printers of the Bible, just before the sacred volume went to press, removed the ‘‘not” from the seventh commandment. Some modern clergymen seem to have a similar dislike to the negative, | come on the same platform and introduce : és ‘ 4 | her, commend her, vouch for her, her point from their profession, It isa great pity that | will be gained, her doctrine will be examined and have dropped it from their practice if not the Bible was revealed to the Jews; if the Americans had written it religion would be so much easier. Ispuys Catcurxe Invians.—We have the intormation from Arizona that twenty-two Apache Indian scouts of the San Ca Reservation had returned to Camp McDowell with Delche, the guerilla Apache chief, and | twelve Tonto-Apaches as prisoners. There | were no white men in the party. Here is a case, then, which shows that good Indians may be turned to profitable work, and work exactly in their line, in hunting up, running down and bringing in bad Indians. In the same way the Warm Spring Indians of McKay's band brought the Modoc war to an end in the capture of Captain Jack and his fellow fugitives. General Custer has also been using his good Indian scouts successfully | in the Black Hills. This policy, then, of em- ploying godd Indians against bad Indians, being everywhere successful where tried, should be adopted as the general Indian peace policy of the government. Me. Beecher on THE Movunvarns.—Mr. Beecher's arrival at Lwin Mountain created almost as much excitement as if an earth- quake had occurred, hotels thronged to see the celebrated preacher who is either the most remarkable sinner of the day or the most calnmniated man in America. Our correspondent describes the state of public feeling upon the subject and the various incidents of the scene. The ex- citement was intensified by the announcement that Mr. Beecher would preach this morning, and if he does he wili have an attentive congregation, He once said that the minister wag always to blame for a sleepy audience, but we trust that he is not to blame now if everybody is preternaturally wide awake. It was always difficult to stnra- ber under Mr, Beecher’s eloquen impossible, Tilton has cried, amore!” to all the Louse. ; now it is | Grecian tragedy. | exists, should not gloat in its triumph too ob- | ous, we cannot suppose that he can be pleased | Ifyou have bad a quarrel with a distinguished Tue Cumpren of the Thirteeoth ward had | writer, in which he accuses you of endeavor- | uses her knowledge of this secret to force the | preacher to her level. | while when it did come out her platform was ‘a very bad vantage ground from which to | she caught the feeble Tilton. The visitors at the | | crushed to her, and she has no heroic fury to flict that they may destroy one another, while all the time he seems actively eager to prevent the conflict. He will use Tilton as a flail to strike at Beecher. Do they have these kind of men and hold them in high honor in the churches? Storrs, it seems, knew this whole story through and through—knew all the secret, and was the rival preacher of a rival | church ; and he is evidently contemplated by Beecher as a man who was resolved not to lose so grand an opportunity to remove from | the field a man by whose transcending genius for the pulpit he was himself utterly over- shadowed and nullified. Here is a figure that gives the story one of the elements of the But this lofty hate, if it viously ; for other offences are denounced in the Decalogue as well as adultery. If Beecher was in apy manner whatever in Storrs’ way, and if Storrs has any reason to feel satisfied with the general results of the exposure, this cannot be true of Bowen; for though we may, in the light of all the facts, conceive him as well satisfied that Beecher's reputation should be damaged, because Beecher's talents as a writer and the éciat of his name made other men’s papers prosper- to have had the story go so faras to show his own proportions in it. Not Mrs. Tilton, not | even Shearman, has less reason’ to be satisfied with the figure they cut than this man Bowen. | ing to wrong him in your accounts, and thenceforth refuses to contribute the articles | that made your paper salable—if, in the bitter- | ness of resentment at his accusations and the impending ruin of your paper, you accuse him savagely of immoral practices, and then, when brought face to face, sneak away with infinite cowardice, or try to lick the hand that spurns you, whoever you may be you may surely count that thenceforward all men and women | who love uprightness, boldness and generosity | will turn away from your very name with loathing. Woodhull, the profane priestess of an un- | clean doctrine, is one of those who appear in the story as eager only to profit by the posses- sion of the secret. With her it is traffic. She has wares to sell, and she wants the endorse- ment of ao man whose name is well known to the effect that the wares are good and service- able to his certain knowledge. She is regarded askance by the decent world, and how shall she overcome that? Ah, if she can get this Beecher, this man whose name isa tower of strength in all the moralities, who can darken the common sense counsel of the popular mind | with the brilliancy of peculiar knowledge, to on fair terms, her wares will have a ready market, and with this purpose in view she If he comes down she will hold her tongue; if he does not come down she will blurt it all out. These are the terms, clear and simple. But he was the stronger; for he could see that to come to her level was just as bad as to have it all out, fight the consequences of such a story. But He had the common aversion, too; but upon personal acquaintance she impressed and conquered him. How this points with fresh circum. stance the old moral that we ‘‘first endure, then pity, then embrace !’’ Then there is the spasmodic Sam Wilkeson, who pops up with a grand remedy, which in- cludes Jay Cooke and the Northern Pacific Railroad, of course. Tilton is annibilated as a writer for the religious press, but he shall | take the platform. A national debt may bea | national blessing or it may not; but if Tilton goes on the platform and lectures on the | glories of the Northern Pacifie Railroad and is paid both by the public and by Jay Cooke, his time is coming and a “good time.’’ How the blue fire burns in his fancy with pink edges ! | "There is the mother-in-law of the case in characteristic outline—less outraged, appar- ently, at the ruin wrought by the fall from virtue than at the miseries traced to the con- duct of the husband. Her daughter is not fulminate against the seducer; but her daugh- ter is in want and the husband is to blame. How picturesque is the contrast with the gen- eral tone of the story of this woman's queru- lous complaint that her danghter has been left without servants, “for the last three weeks with one indifferent girl!’ Yet with what uncon- scious pathos and force she turns suddenly trom her homely queriloasness to the main pomt im these words to Boecher:—‘Do you know when I hear of your eracking your jokes from Sunday to Sunday, and think of the misery you have brought upon us, I think with the Psalmist, there is no God?" How this touches the chord of the common thought! And even here the touch is charac- teristic. It is not the offence that overcomes | her patience, but the fact that the offender has the heart to laugh after it; and, with all this, | “I thought the least you could do was to put your name to a paper to help reinstate my brother,”’ who, it seems, had been turned out of the Custom House, That service will go a great ways as balm to her wounds; and, in giving this poor woman's letter, a malicious pleasure seems to have been felt in retaining her slips in orthography, as if the only notice it was worth while to take of her was to say that she could not spell correctly. If those who spell better had thought and felt as well— as near to the line of homely everyday duties—how many pangs would have been spared! % Then there are the two other Beechers, | Mrs. Isabella Beecher-Hooker and Mr, Thomas | K. Beecher, and the husband of the former. is the mind of this poor erring woman, who | The invalid husband is afraid the world will not like his wife's letting him go abroad alone, and is concerned to put the subject in @ good light and tells how it may be done, and the wife believes that the most important thing in the world is for her brother Henry to declare for free love if he believes in it, and | she has a plan by which that may be done, and so they move all through, each with his own impulse. But the strongest figure in the whole gal- lery is this ‘‘Dear Tom,” who told them twenty years ago they were all wrong, and who pro- tests ‘against the whole batch and all its be- longings.” Here is a man who has preserved the Puritan downright honesty:—‘In my judgment Henry is following his slippery doctrines of expediency, and, in his cry of progress and the nobleness of human nature, has sacrificed clear, exact, ideal integrity.” And this man, who abbors the doctrines of Woodhull, prefers her to his brother, as a hero to a coward, because she preaches what she practises and he does not. In his view | hypocrisy is the one great sin, and sincerity and outspoken honesty the noblest virtues of life; ‘and this we take itis pretty good gospel. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The evangelization of the colored people of the South is a subject that is riveting the attention of the different denominations in the North, and each one vies with its neighbor for priority or ascendancy. What the needs | and claims of that section for religious instruc- tion are we have heard time and again from the lips of white missionaries; but to-day a colored clergyman from Georgia will present @ statement of those needs from the Episcopal standpoint, and, being one of the people, will doubtless speak with more authority because of his knowledge of and greater sympathy with those for whom he pleads. Individuals and communities are ‘Nothing Without Christ,” as Dr. Deems will demon- strate this morning, and hence the demand is imperative upon us not only to give the Gospel to the blacks of the South, but to black and white the world over. Our obligation cannot be can- celled until the Gospel is preached to every creature and the Lord is known from the rising to the setting of the sun. But some persons are continually asking what profit they shall have if they become Christians, and after weighing both sides they conclude that religion requires too much of its votaries, and consequently they ignore its claims altogether. Now, such persons should go to Lefferts | Park, Brooklyn, this afternoon, and hear the reasons that Mr. Hagerman will adduce for his being a Christian. The halting and vacil- lating ones may possibly find in some of them just what they need to produce healthy action. And as Mr. Platt, of that city, will give an additional reason, drawn from Scripture, in the evening, they must find motive enough somewhere for the acceptance of religion. Then, putting all things together, Mr. Esray will set forth Christianity as a social force. So that in this one day Christianity will be presented by its teachers in its individual and collective relations and in its social and re- ligious aspects. It is not often that such a breadth of view of this subject can be had so easily and conveniently, and the oppor- tunity offered to-day should not be lost. The culture of the emotions is a good and proper work, provided it is properly done. But there is manifestly a false culture of the emotional faculties that does more harm than good, and which should be guarded against. Mr. Pentecost will give some advice on this subject this morning, and then this evening Mr. Kennedy will take his hearersin imagina- tion up to the throne of the Most High and show them the seven lamps that burn there perpetually. Some may desire to stay there, but doubtless many more will prefer to stay on earth another while and fulfil whatever of life’s duties that remain yet to be fulfilled. Mr. Bennett willillustrate the final triumph of righteousness and show the condemna- tion of the ungodly. And thus a fair day's work will be done to-day by our local pastors. The Luther Festival at Sonneberg. ‘The account which we print this morning of the singular festival in the Thuringien vil- lage of Sonneberg will be found as interesting as itis novel. Musical and dramatic art has been cultivated in Germany to that dangerous limit that an American amateur is phlegmatio in his enthusiasm compared with the vivacious Germans, As our correspondent points out the petty German potentates have no other oc- cupation than to cultivate music and the drama. It is no wonder, then, that the people of Meiningen should share the de- yotion of Duke George, whose company of actors recently made such a great sensation at Berlin, and that even their religious festivals should be dramatic in ‘form and method. It is to this peculiar growth of German hie, this desire to give dramatic color to the past by its reproduction, even to the minutest details, that led to the recent Luther festival at Sonne- berg. Luther was not in any peculiar way identified with the Thuringian town. It is true he had passed through it on several occa- sions, but on none of these had he performed any act of historic interest. But the people of Sonneberg wanted a festival, and a Luther festival was one that would enable them to introduce into it more dramatic and local de- tail than any other. Accordingly a Luther festival was held. uot so rack to celebrate the ! Reformation as to allow an intensely artistic people to reproduce the life costumes and in- cidents of the reformation era. In the hands of any other people than the Germansthe fes- tival at Sonneberg would have been a bur- lesque. Under the direction of Herr Fleich- man, it will be seen from our correspondent’s letter, it was a great success. This was solely owing to the fact that the Germans have be- come a nation of stage carpenters and of actors, and this latest representation is es- pecially significant as showing the extreme development which the dramatic idea may attain among an artistic people. Poor Mary Pomeroy! There are some sorrows which are lost in indignation, and even the pity for the hard fate of poor Mary Pomeroy is transformed into a sterner feeling when the author of her wrongs is remembered. Hor life was pure and peacetul, her home was happy, and the future seemed as bright as the past. The seducer came and all the rest is known; the temptation, the fall, the anguish of remorse, the fear of exposure, the threats of the be- trayer and the hopeless misery of the be- trayed. Then followed sharp-eyed suspicion and burning shame, illness and resignation, and, at last, an early grave, where the broken heart beats no more. It is a sad story, and none the less sad that it has been told again and again since the beginning of the world. Yet there are stories far sadder than this, and it may be for the best that dishonor and déath came hand in hand to this ruined girl, and that the cold world which pauses for one moment at her grave can say “Poor Mary Pomeroy!’ without a shudder or a sneer. But it must be remembered that had it not been for the Rev. John S. Glendenning Mary Pomeroy might now be living and happy. This was not one of the common cases of seduction in which the woman tempts the man and the burden of guilt is borne by both. From an open and coarse temptation she would have escaped. But she was ap- proached by the man in whom, according to the dangerous teachings of our society, she had the most reason to trust. The Rev. Mr. Glendenning was the pastor of her church, her spiritual guide, admitted to her confidence, and naturally permitted by her family to have opportunities to win her affec- tions which would not have been granted to another. He was admitted into this unsus- pecting family in double trust—first, as her lover, who was to shield her from harm, and, second, as the servant of God. Because he was a clergyman she could not’‘suspect his de- signs. Those arts which would be detected at once in a carnal layman when practised by a priest are not so easily perceived. Godly men have this advantage over ordinary rakes— that the liberties they take with young women are apt to be attributed to an inno- cent playfulness. A Wall street broker might arouse jealousy by simply squeez- ing | woman's hand; but, as we have been told, ao great clergyman may clasp an ankle without exciting anything more than temporary uneasiness. The Rev. Mr. Glendenning knew this great advantage which he had by reason of his profession, and un- scrupulously used it. While with one hand he pointed the upraised eyes of poor Mary Pomeroy to heaven, with the other he was gradually drawing her along ‘‘the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.” The clerical seducer is for these reasons the most contemptible of criminals, and the Rev. Mr. Glendenning appears to be one of the worst of the infamous tribe. It was easy tor Mary Pomeroy to believe in the promise of marriage which he gave, for how could one so ignorant of the world imagine that a clergy- man could lie? Itis possible to understand that when he made that promise he had little thought of the sorrow and evil he would create by breaking it. But the more carefully his conduct is examined the baser it appears. Crime accumulates upon crime. The seduc- tion could have been forgiven had he offered to repair it. Even the desertion might have been atoned had he not attempted to blast the reputation of the woman he had killed. Here was the crowning act of heartless eruelty—that he should declare to his church that Mary Pomeroy was a woman of noto- riously bad character, who conspired to ruin his clerical career. The grave has received his victim; but even now he would blacken the memory forever of the woman he de- stroyed and disown the child that the dying mother unthinkingly disgraced with his name. The citizens of Jersey City could not properly permit this crime to pass unnoticed, and the action of the indignation meeting held last night was as just as it was emphatic, Many of the leading men of the community were present, and the char- acter of the resolutions and the manner of their adoption show how pro- foundly the public has been moved. The Rev. Mr. Glendenning is ordered to abandon the city as his residence, and warned that a refusal will be considered a defiance to society. There is little danger that he will disregard this ‘just sentence. He bas stepped down and out, and it is to be hoped will never enter a Christian pulpit again. Yet if the Rey. Mr. Glenden- ning should ever insult humanity and religion by resuming the holy office he has betrayed we will give him this text for his sermon: — “Jt is impossible but that offences will come ; but woe unto him through whom they come! It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”” And when he has uttered these words let him remember how he wronged sermon if he can. Tae Svurerrivovs Commrrrzz.—The folly of appointing a committee from Plymouth church to investigate the charges against its pastor, the blunder of selecting only Mr. Beecher's frietids to serve upon it, is clearly. demonstrated. Tho opinion is universal that the committee can decide nothing, and the fact that the nature of its verdict is already known has largely decreased the interest in the formal report it is to make. It is plain now that the public will attach less value to the report than it does to the statements, and that it will accept nothing as final but the de- cision of the courts, Orr ror THE Transit or VeENnvs.—The United States steamship Monongahela, or- dered to Kerguelen and Crozet islands, in poor Mary Pomeroy, and then preach his Parties who have gone down there to observe the transit of Venus over the sun’s disc, will leave Rio Janeiro in season to reach said islands on December 1, As the transit will come off the 34, parties going ont by the Mononga- hela will have an opportunity to assist in the observations. The steamer South America, meantime, will leave her pier, 43 North River, on Monday, 24th instant, to convey several officers, bound for Kerguelen, to the Monongahela, to transship at Rio Janeiro, and this will bea good opportunity for letters to friends on the route of the two vessels. A Remarkable Family. Ninety-nine years ago there was born in New Haven, Conn., a child who was des- tined to become one of the foremost preach- ers of his day and the father of a numerous progeny, many of whom are no less distin- guished than he was himself. Out of the thirteen children of Dr. Lyman Beecher—one of whom died in infancy, and another, the Rev. George Beecher, was killed by the acci- dental discharge of his own gun while still a young man—eight are well known all over the country. The most eminent member of the family is the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whose unfortunate complication with the Tiitons is now the source of so much scandal. It is unnecessary to review his public career, even for the purpose of contrasting it with that of the other Beechers; but we must be excused for remarking that, as Livingston stréet was his Golgotha, so has there been a place of skeletons for nearly every one of the eminent Beechers. The father's peculiarity of playing ‘‘Auld Lang Syne” on his fiddle or dancing the ‘‘double shuffle” after a ser- mon seems to have been transmitted in’ one form or another to each of his children, and nearly all of them have at some time acquired notoriety by a freak characteristic of this re- markably family. After Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe is the most eminent of old Dr. Beecher’s children. Married early in life she was gt first absorbed in her domestic affairs, and she showed no decided literary genius till when everybody believed that slavery agita- tion was ended by the repeal of the Missouri compromise, she gave abolitionism a new im- story of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’’ The success of that novel was simply marvellous, and the story still remains unsurpassed as a picture of the old slave life in the South. In her subse- quent works, however, Mrs. Stowe has showed only mediocre talent, and she has fatally blurred her reputatioh by her famous vindica- tion of Lady Byron. As a vindication it can only be called Beecherion, and it was, in fact, only a relation of the gossip she had gathered from the woman Lord Byron once called his wife. The Beecher sisters have a singular knack of dealing with the domestic affairs of others, and even Miss Catherine Beecher once wrote a book called ‘Truth Stranger Than Fiction,” in which she gave an account of an infelicitons complication in which some of her friends were involved. A more remark- able illustration of this singular faculty than either of these is found in the condact of Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker in regard to the calamity which had overtaken her brother. According to the letters exhibited as a part of the Moulton statement Mrs. Hooker sent her enfeebled husband abroad, possibly to die, while she remained behind to save her brother Henry and vindicate that fragrant essence of womanhood, Mrs. Victoria Woodhull, for her was not more astounding than the method by which such wonderful results were to be achieved. ‘But if it is essentially true,” says Mrs. Hooker to Mr. Beecher, speaking of the story about which we have recently had so much testimony, ‘‘there is but one honorable way to meet it, in my judgment, and the pre- cise method occurred to me in bed this mora- ing, and I was about writing you to suggest it when your letter came. I will write you a sis- terly letter, expressing my deep conviction that this whole subject needs the most earnest and chaste discussion; that my own mind has long been occupied with it, but is still in doubt on many points; that I have observed for years that your reading and thinking have been profound on this and kindred subjects, and now the time has come for you to give the world, through your own paper, the conclusions you have reached and the reasons therefor. If you choose, I will then reply to each letter, giving the woman’s view—for there is surely a man’s and a woman’s side to this beyond everywhere else—and by this means attention will be di- verted from personalities and concentrated on social philosophy—the one subject that now ought to occupy all thinking minds.” This was sisterly as no sister ever wrote toa brother before, and people must belong toa very re- markable family, indeed, where one can rec- ommend such a course to another in a mat- ter of such great moment, The youngest of the Beechers, cast in the shade as he is by his more eminent brothers and sisters, seems to have monopolized the common sense of the family. This is the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher. Henry tells his sister Belle that they are nearer together than any of their brothers and sisters. About the same time Belle writes to her brother Tom, speak- ing of Mrs. Tilton, that it was Henry “who has dragged the dear child into the slough and left her there, and who is now sending another woman to prison who is innocent of all crime but a fanaticism for the truth as revealed to her, and I, by my silence, am consenting unto her death.” other woman was Mrs. Woodhull, for whom Mrs. Hooker declares her heart bleeds as for her own flesh and blood. But Tom is of the sturdy sort. He is evidently a man who sees the hard corners of truth very plainly and ex- presses what he thinks very clearly. ‘In my judgment,” he says, “Henry is following his slippery doctrines of expediency, and, in his nature, has sacrificed clear, exact, ideal integ- rity.” And so he comes to declare that Wood- hull is his hero and Henry his coward, ‘as at present advised.”’ He disbelieves in their philosophy, but he believes in courage in maintaining one’s beliefs, whatever they are. ‘This man is indeed a very remarkable Beecher; he is all the more remarkable because he is utterly unlike the rest of this remarkable family. Oxe or van Masters of the Plymouth | Church Investigating Committee bas informed she was forty years of age. But in 1852, | petus by the publication of her remarkable ! assaults upon his character. This proposition | The | cry of progress and the nobleness of human | utterly harmless; we are perfectly satisfiod with the case.” Wecannot help being re- minded of the old antediluvian who swam up to Father Noah in his ark, and told the old gentleman “it was nothing but a shower.” But he was drowned. Our Democratic State Convention, The Democratic Central Committee of this State, from their council on the subject ab Saratoga, have issued a call for a Democratic- Liberal Convention, and the place named for the meeting is Syracuse, and the time the 16th of September next. In the call the demo- cratic and liberal republican electors of the State, and all others who desire to co-operate with them, are requested to elect three dele- gates from each Assembly district to represeut said parties in the Convention. The business of this Convention will be the nomination of the State ticket of the party or parties repre- sented, the main question being the candidata for Governor. ‘There are two points in this call which will attract the attention of our political readers. Heretofore the full name which the democrats have officially given their party has been tho comprehensive designation of the ‘Demo- cratic Republican Party.” Now it appears wo are to have a Democratic-Liberal Convention— that is, a convention of democrats and liberal republicans. It is by no means certain, how- ever, that the liberal republicans will respond to this call. Assuming that they are in the market, they may accept the invitation from the regular republicans, as promising a better bargain than a coalition with the democrats. According to General Cochrane, however, the liberals are notin the market, but intend t hold the field on their own account as a., independent party, and to cut in right and lett between the republicans and the demo- crats. What the liberals will do we shall probably learn from Syracuse on or about the 16th of September. The second point of particular interest to the politicians in this democratic call is that it names the day for the proposed coalition convention a week in advance of the day chosen for the regular republican convention at Utica. Why so? Heretofore the demo- crats have always waited for the republicans first to show their hand. Why this change of tactics? It is hinted that the object of meet- ing in advance of the republican regulars isi to head them off in the purchase of the. liberals. The idea is that, as between oum two great parties, these liberals hold the: balance of power, as demonstrated in our last November election. But are they in the mar- ket? We cannot tell, but it has grown to ba @ maxim among our politicians of all parties that every man has his price. A Woman’s State Temperance ConveNTION has been called in Indiana, to meet in Indian- apolis on the 2d of September. This form of the women’s temperance agitation, we dara say, will prove more effective for the cause than their late profitless crusades, whicly appear to have passed away like a nine day’a wonder. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. « Right Hon. A.S. Ayrton, member of Her Ma- jesty’s Privy Council, has arrived at Ottawa, and: will remain some days. For want of customers North Carolina proposem to burn her own turpentine in a grand torchligha procession on the 27th inst. ‘The Earl of Hardwicke recently sold some of his superfluous lands, Two thousand three hundred acres brought $352,600, or a trife under $200 am acre. ‘The Central Committee of German Republicans, is to make it clear at Utica that German interests; must be looked after, which, perhaps, means “irea lager.” Theirs congratulates himself on the possession of @ broncuitis—the only thing that ever kept hiuw silent, and thereby kept him from getting on thea wrong side. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Dean Stanley and Pere, Hyacinthe jointly sign a circular printea im Geneva, recommending a book on “The Celibacy of} Pricsts.”” A tourist in the Pyrenees, while heated with. exercise, drank of the ice cold water of the Lag du Gaube and diea betore they couid get him inte ' a neighboring hotel. Boston colored people, gratzful to Henry Ward: | Beecher for services to their race, propose to raise | money and establish @ Beecher scholarstup. For instruction in what ? The Journal Gu Havre has been suppressed for publishing an offensive article entitled “Tue Empress of Austria” while the Empress was at the Hotel Frascati, in Havre. Aman from the West nas taken the trouble to | tell the people of Plymouth church who want to | go to heaven hanging on Mr. Beecher’s skirts, | “you can’t get to heaven in that way.’ Since the development of the relations of Ger- many to the Madrid government it seems just pos-. sible that Schmidt, whom the Cariists shot as a spy, Was really there in the interest of his govera- ment, and not of a newspaper. One crore of rupees ts $5,000,000—and there’s a, person in India who wants to lend somebody nine: crores, If this makes a ran on the cable company: and they have to raise the prices, they can send | our share to Williams lor his poor picnics. Miss Gactano, so appreciatively attended to tn our Paris letter the other day, is @ New Orleans lady, and it was the cruel war that compelled her to endeavor to utilize her exquisite voice. Long may she waive the propositions of her ardent admirers, ‘The Paris Siflet reports that in a recent fearful thunder storm the electric flaid descended into the office of a great financial establishment in that city; but the cashler was not touched, as he had just lett tor Belgium with all the available funds of the company. ‘The Princess Blanche, of Bourbon-Orieans, daughter of the Duke of Nemours, ts just seven- teen, and Prince Pascal de Bourbon, Count of Batr, whom she is to marry, is twenty-two, He is of the Naples Bourbons, The marriage wili take piace at Cannes. The Memorial Diplomatique says there ts a cool- ness between Berlin and London, or more accu- } rately between Bismarck and the tory Ministry. | These tortes, you kaow, still delleve in the good oll doctrine that it is Engiand’s duty to keep Ku- rope inorder. ‘They belleve that Napoleon is sti at St. Helena and may escape. Fine idea that about the Duke of Abercorn, He had to pay for the stamps on the commission he received to hold @ lucrative oMice—$5,000, No stamps, no eommission ; good little ruse to cover the sale of offices, those stamps, Might make new appointments once @ month Or a8 s00n as one ia cumbent had amxed his stamps to the paper, ‘Au eptzooty has raged in the hunting parks near Potsdam to such a degree that in the Park of Grane. wald not more than 200 full grown deer are teit alive, Professor Virchow has investigated the pathology of this dikease, and pronounces it a game grenous inflammation of the spleen, the conse. quence of the production of bacteria in that organ, Inthe French penal code it is provided inat any person Or persons who shall combine to raise or depress the price of articles of tood above or below what it would be in the natural state ef trade at the time shall suffer two montis’ fmprigons ment and pay & fine of nof less than #20 nor more than $400. They propose to operate with this agains’ dea WoO ate making ~cornets*’ oa tho South Seas. to bring home our scientific | the world that “Moulton’s sjatquept i | uray,