The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR | tessions and all political parties on the pros- 7 fresh Opinions on the Political Situ- ation, We print this morning quite a number of interviews with leading men of various pro- pects and possibilities of the ensuing canvass, | ministration of the government. To what more faithful hands could his policy be bequeathed than those of Governor Dix? Whose well-tried firmness and honesty could be more securely trusted for efficient administration in the interests of the people? The recent statements of the Davidson’s troops and the Oconees, Kiowas and Comanches in the Indian Territory. Such journalistic events give a glimpse of the vast field of labor in which a representative | newspaper is engaged and of the overwhelm- | ing power wielded by the press at the present | day. The Financial Question im This Year's Politics. Tt is too evident from the party platforms, of which a great number have been put forth this week, that the financial question will not weigh a straw iu the approaching elections on one side or the other. If party lines could be meeting, for if he expected his personal char- acter to be attacked by the committee he had better opportunities of defending it The speakers, however, were equally foolish in ex- citing the passions of the crowd (we presume it hardly claims now to have been a prayer meeting) and precipitating the row. The | more especially in relation to the gubernato- President, published in the Hzranp yesterday, ‘THE DAILY HERALD, published every rial contest in this State, the Mayoralty of this | city, the third term aspirations of General | in which he declared his hostility to such a The Beecher Judgment. Before the ordinary courts of justice charges | drawn with reference to differing views on | ene was disgraceful to Plymouth church, the most important question of the time we | 924 revives, in a new form, the scandal which day in the year. Four Ome DR CORT. AA Grant and the Presidential prospects of other | anal subscription price $12, candidates. There is, on many points, eel | All business or news letters and telegraphic | great a diversity in the opinions uri i ust be addressed New Yonx | i the pursuits and party standpoints of the Gaapatches tm | gentlemen interviewed. Nor dowe think their Henarp. pba E | sentiments less valuable and instructive on | Rejected communications will not be re- | this account, While opinions are as yet un- | ticket as Cornell for Governor and Fenton for made against a culprit must be sustained by evidence or he is held guiltless and goes free. In the common phrase he is innocent until he is proved guilty. He is innocent—that is to | say, in the eye of the law, but it may be only in the eye of the law. Justice cannot impose , upon him any penalties, only because it has Lieutenant Governor, saying that if he were a | citizen of New York he would vote against it, cannot be understood otherwise than as favor- | ing the renomination ot Dix for Governor. If after his election he should also conclude to favor his nomination by the republicans for turned. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK settled, and public sentiment is in the first stages of formation in relation to this inter- esting canvass, it is of some use to watch the } i ies out of which clearness, | Seep has ene will be evolved | li¢ service would have the torce of a com- unity and concentration | in the two political parties as the time ap- | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. . | proaches for arraying themselves against each | mand and secure general obedience. | the Presidency, he could easily bring that re- sult to pass. The slightest intimation of his wishes to the hosts of active politicians whom he has placed in positions of trust in the pub- | This | failed by inadequate processes to associate the | man with the criminal act. Every person who knows the man and knows of the cireum- | stances in which the offence is charged against | him may be morally convinced of his guilt. Nay, the fact of a man’s guilt may be inta- should have a great resumption party and a Great inflation party arrayed against each other in aggressive hostility. But actual party lines, instead of remaining parallel with this great division of public opinion cut directly across it. There are zealous in- flationists in both organizations and zealous resumptionists in both, in about the same proportions, so that neither party can expect to gain any advantage by its declarations on this subject. In the great State of Ohio the Democratic Convention adopted an inflation the report was expected to suppress. _ The Great Swimming Match. After three postponements had wearied the patience of the publio the international swim- ming match took place near Long Branch yesterday. How great an interest was felt in the contest is shown by the fact that notwith- standing the edge of curiosity had been dulled by previous disappointments over five thou- sand persons were prosent. A fleet of small boats attended the bold swimmers over the course, and the two Leanders when they platform, apparently by unanimous consent, subject will be well worth the President's Subscriptions and Advertisements will be other in the conflict for victory. We will try meditation when Governor Dix shall have | given a new proof of his great popularity in | man go scathless, because the fact of his guilt | mously familiar to a whole city, and yet the | mittee on resolutions or the Convention itself. received and forwarded on the same terms | ¢, p.duce this mixed mass of seething opinions as in New York. | into some sort of intelligible order by sifting | ee | out and separating the most important topics | | and noting the most pointed things said upon | each. | Beginning, then, with the Governorship, it | EUM. | will be found on reading the interviews that LARSt THE GOLDEN | among the republican gentlemen called on M. Louis Alarich and Miss there is a pretty uniform drift of opinion in Ba Er em | favor of the renomination of Governor Dix No, 64 Broadway. aeeEe OrDAY, at be Mj clowesat | a8 the strongest republican candidate, and that BG Be Me Mis Sara Montage Maumee’ ** | the most undoubting confidence is expressed | Fourteenth street and. sixth avenné.—LA TIMBALE | in his triumphant re-election against any nomi- | DARGENT ats ?. Mj clovesat uP. M. Mile. Aimee, | nee the democrats can put into the field. Most Mile. Minelly. Matinee at2 P. M. - | of the democratic gentlemen whose views | are given concur in this estimate of Governor | | Dix’s strength in his own party, although they | | profess to believe that he may be easily beaten Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTER ae woop’s Broadway, corner ot thir BUTTERELY, at2 P.M. 8 closes at 12:30" P. sophie Miles. FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE, WHAT SHOULD 5HB DO? OR, JEALOUSY, at & P. ‘M.: closes atll P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara 2 eyrert ofr. C. Fisher and Mr. James Lewis ‘Matinee at wr. HEATRE COMIQU | cannot be made to appear when the issue is | | tried in the special manner and with the par- | ticular restrictions that the courts require. There is areal guilt as separated {rom the guilt of courts of justice—the guilt that is es- tablished when the facts are examined with legal limitations. It is, indeed, in the terri- | tory which lies between these two that the | adroit lawyers find their El Dorado. By guid- rapt ss | ing guilt safely through the labyrinths of jus- Politician, who 1s inside of Tammany, bie hg | tice *nalf the ” ipa pai ond great aha least aecare A Vey careful reading of the in- | have been made since the fabric of civil society terview with Mr. Wickham. That gentleman | was framed. regards it Hiei foregone conclusion’? eat Is it satisfactory to have a case like that of = Sigentbstiar asi ty beta aie | Mr. Beecher determined upon this same stand- | k . pias ; z pein ha bass mados" endigtiing faves iene ard of justice by which so many guilty men r : escape? In our opinion it is not satisfactory. entirely free from doubt, ‘the will be elected.” | 1 Hee tk t appears to us that the tor of a Christi Are we not, therefore, justified in imferring PP’ * "ai ee hei ines another successful and triumphant State canvass. The third topic of interest, which is more slightly touched in these interviews, is the question of the Mayoralty, in which we find only one decided opinion expressed—that of Mr. Algernon S. Sullivan—thatthe democratic candidate will certainly be William H. Wick- ham. This confident opinion by a well posted | cratic conventions of Indiana and Tennessee, v vB, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at8P. M.; closes at 10 30 | P.M Matinee atz P.M. BOOTH'S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— BBLLE LAMAR, at8 PF, M.; closes at 10:30PM. John | sioullensh and Miss K. Rogers Randolph, Matinee at we. M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, (Broadway. between Prince and. ‘Houston streeta— THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS, at# P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. | tive of the reformers, by agood democratic candidate. This opinion | of Dix’s ascendancy in his own party is also shared by Mayor Havemeyer, the representa- the leader of the liberal republicans. So far, | therefore, as these interviews may be taken to | | represent general public sentiment—and they 3, Jorgoh Wheviock aud ‘Mise Tone Burke. Matinee at | are of sufficient variety to include almost every WALLACK’S THEATRE, $ Broadway.—HANDY ANDY, and THE IRISH EMI- GRAN, ath PM. ; closes atil®. M. Dan Bryant Mat- dnee at 1 30 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broad way.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. Matinee atl’. M G HEATRE, ‘No. 728 Broadway. TY, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10 ¥.M. Matinee ai 2 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CERT, ats P. loses at 1030 P. M. type of it—we are warranted in inferring that | ¢). attention of miners in the neighboring sumed to be one of especial purity. It has hap- | that Tilden and Wickham are on the same | Tammany slate ? and by John Cochrane, | Tne Black Hills—A Timely Caution. | that his case is to be viewed from a widely The discovery of gold washings in some of | the streams of that remarkable group of the Black Hills recently explored by General | Custer and his command wili doubtless attract congregation, charged with immorality and hypocrisy, isin a position so different from that of a culprit bofore the ordinary tribunals different standpoint. It is not merely that one is @ case in morals and the other a case in law, but it is also that one is in the common world and the other in a circle that is as- | General Dix will certainly lead the republican | States and Territories, and the fascinating pened that parsons charged with crimes have canvass and be supported by the party with | great unanimity and enthusiasm. But when we turn to the democratic side of these inter- views, we find no such uniform drift of prefer- ence as to a candidate for the Governorship. Mr. Tilden is mentioned in all, and by some with strong expressions of approval; but descriptions of those new gold washings from the prospectors accompanying Genera! Custer may induce bands of adventurous gold seek- | ers to undertake a journey there. General | Sheridan, however, has warned all such bold pioneers against adventuring to those Black | Hills, and for the simple reason that they are been tried inthe courts and acquitted, and have then been dismissed from their ecclesias- | tical functions because, though enough was | not proved for the coarse processes of the jns- | | | tice of the land, enough was shown of an im- pure life to render them unfit for the sacred duties of wn altar. They might be fit to live, there is no concord on this subject, | in the reservation of the Sioux Indians, and or fit to go free and associate with men at TRIPLE SHEET. phatically dissent from the expediency of his | nomination, Great respect is expressed for | | Mr, Tilden’s personal character, but it is | believed that he would be a weak candidate. | | Mr. William Butler Duncan, who is refresh- | New York, Saturday, August 29, 1874. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. ‘To NEWSDEALERS AND THE Prsiic:— The New Yorx Henatp 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 Sunpax Henan along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hrraxp office as early as possible. are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wart Srnger Yesrerpay.—Stocks were dull and unsettled. Gold 109}. Foreign exchange steady. Taz Pore has made a new Bishop in Canada, and no doubt, when he has more fully examined the needs of the Church in America, he will create a Cardinal. Tue Canriists have again been impeded in that march to Madrid which Don Carlos has described as certain. They have met with another repulse at Puigcerda, where the republican troops displayed much bravery. Tue Cupan Insvreection and the Beecher scandal are two things which have been en- tirely suppressed, so it is said, dozens of times. Yet the Plymouth church is only at | the beginning of its troubles and the Spaniards | have lost twelve men in another battle with | the patriots at Bueyabajo. Antrax Fever.—Connecticut has a new cattle disease, which the experts declare to be anthrax fever. Unless the animals attacked | are promptly and skilfully treated they suc- eumb. The nature of this disease is not as well understood by the ofdinary practitioners as its dangerous character would render de- sirable. Saratoca had beautiful weather for the | first day of the international regatta; and | there were two good races. Charles Courte- nay is now the champion of this State, and the New York Athletic Club won the doubie | scull race and the handsome Interlaken Cup. Icetamp ExpPERIENcEs are again described | by Dr. L L Hayes. in a letter to the Herazn, | supplementary to his account of the ceremo- | nies of the thousandth anniversary at Thing- valla. The incidents of the journey into the interior of the island, the queer ponies, the strange scenery, and the singular inhabitants, | | gentlemen interviewed. He said: —‘‘I do not | I certainly hope, for our own sakes, he will | didate in whose success most confidence is felt | affairs, but hardly a match for Governor Dix. | question and possible candidates for the who do not want to come to America, are de- picted with » master hand. The love of the | Icelanders for their bleak and barren rocks | illustrates the trath ‘‘that the first, best coun- | try ever is at home."’ The Icelander will not | emigrate because he is free ; the millions of | the people of continental Europe have crossed the sea because they were oppressed. Tyrants | have nearly always been the indirect founders | of colonies, and Iceland herself was first set- tled by fugitives from their wrath. Ovr Omcrswatt Visrrons.—It is to be regretted that, through municipal blunder- ing, something like a want of courtesy has | been shown to the Mayor and city officials of | Cincinnati, who are now visiting this city. Our own officials seem desirous of removing ingly frank and outspoken on every subject he touches, says:—‘“‘It is not necessary that we | should all pin our faith to Sam Tilden. I recognize that there are objections against him, serious ones; but is he the only man in | the democratic party who is available for Governor?’’ Among these serious objections to Tilden Mr. Duncan mentions only one— his wish to make the Governorship the ladder | . oo sch for gold in those Black Hills there are tion of the human mind, which necessarily | | and several of the democratic gontlemen em- | white gold hunters therein will be unlawful trespassers; that before they can rightfully enter. this forbidden region they must get the required authority from the government. Meantime such trespassers will bé apt to | have “their hair lifted’’ by the Indians, for those warlike Sioux, the most poweriul of all our Indian tribes, have been aggravated by Custer's trespass to the mood jor killing and scalping, and they only permitted the inva- | sion of Custer as an exploration because his armed force was too strong to be resisted. But even with the consent of the govern- ment and of the Indians to miners to go and toa higher station. ‘‘We don’t want a man," \ reasons Which should deter them from the he says, “whose object in becoming Governor | jazardous and doubtful adventure. First, large, but not fit to stand above others as the interpreters of the Divine will. | may lay aside as the notion of antiquity that | an ideally pure character is to be required, | yet we must accept as on a level with the com- mon sense views of the people universally that the pastor of a Christian congregation should bea person of stainless reputation; not merely one who can go safely through the processes of the courts. \ Morals, moreover, and lay are in differ- ' ; ent spheres of thought; and in morals the | notions in regard to guilt are the reverse of | those in law. They flow from the coustitu- | Although we i believes in guilt when gross imputations haye i ‘been made and have not beeti satisfactorily | is to subsequently become President. There | those Black Hills, surrounded by a desolate met and swept away. Here it is not a case of is where the snag is that we must guard against.’’ Ex-Senator Johnson, of Seneca county, while expressing the highest esteem | for Mr. Tilden, says:—‘‘I am afraid he | would not be a very strong man to run well.’’ He refers, first, to the enemies Mr. Tilden made during the Tammany excitement, but considers this a minor objection. He goes on | to say:—‘‘But a still more potent reason is this—You know that we have throughout the State organizations known as the granges. The men who compose these complain, with { reason, of the railroad monopolies. Now, it | is well known that in several capacities Mr. | Tilden has been interested with these railroad magnates whom the grangers detest so cor- dially. He has been, I believe, in an official { capacity engaged in several railroad compa- | nies. Now, rightly or wrongly, the grangers would think that a Governor who had been | in business relations with the railroad men would not do them justice. It | would at all events furnish a powerful weapon to the opponents of Mr. Tilden in the canvass. We cannot afford to run a candidate who has | such a party against him.” Ex-Prison In- spector Laflin was also one of the democratic | favor Mr. Tilden for the nomination, for I do not think he would be a strong candidate. Tilden is, in fact, weak in a good many ways asa candidate and fora good many reasons, not receive the nomination."’ Next to Judge | Church, who peremptorily declines, the can- by the rural democracy is Judge Allen, of the Court of Appeals—certainly a respectable and competent man of much experience in State The topic of these interviews which ranks next in general interest is the third term | Presidency. The preponderance of opinion | on all sides is that Grant has no possible | chance of another election, however much he may desire it. Some of the speakers, like Mr. | Duncan and Lieutenant Governor Robinson, scout the whole idea of a third term as utterly | preposterous and chimerical. For our part, we have no doubt that the public sentiment of | the country, which has been so fully awakened | to this danger by the timely warnings of the press, will rule him out, and that he will soon be brought to see that he has no possible | chance. When this conviction is forced upon him could he do a wiser or more patriotic thing than to favor the nomination of Governor Dtx as his successor ? The active interest he has for ddfme time taken in New York politics has made him fully ac- any impression that want of courtesy was | quainted with the great merits of the Gov- intended, and we hope our distinguished ! ernor as & wise and firm executive officer, and | himself as such by divine right—in issuing @ | announced himself as a candidate for re-clec- visitors will consent to forget any unpleasant- | the generous and noble way in which General | most important proclamation, ness that may have been caused them through , Dix came to his support when he was with- inadvertence on the part of our municipal standing the inflation folly of Congress by a | world, selects as his mouthpiece the corré- | this that he has abandoned the gubernatorial officers. They must remember that we live in | strong public indorsement of his veto, should ® Rip Van Winkle period, and that the ancient | Kniokerbockers are seated in the City Hall. convince bim that his own policy on that all- important subject would be intrepidly carried tory of Dakota, hundreds of miles from any store of provisions or base of supplies; and | they lie as far north’as Nova Scotia, and the general level of their streams is some seven country, lie on the western side of the Terri- innocence till guilt is proved, but of guilt until the imputation of guilt is so reduced to a groundless charge that right thinking per- | sons cannot believe in it. Fora man to es- | tablish his innocence by showing that he did not commit a certain act is surrounded with | out of the platform was negatived by a major- ' agreeing conspicuously with Congress, the re- | as no dissent is reported either in the com- General Ewing, its President, introduced himself by an inflation speech which was warmly applauded. The resolutions favor ‘‘an increase of the circulating medium,” the sub- stitution of greenbacks for national bank. notes, retaining the legal tender feature, which dispenses with any necessity for re- sumption, and the collection of one-halt the customs revenue in greenbacks, which would diminish the use of gold in the same propor- tion. Besides committing itself to inflation | the Ohio Democratic Convention reaffirmed | the old Pendleton heresey of the justice of pay- ing the national debt in greenbacks. This heresy had already been revived by demo- and it infects a large proportion of the demo- crats of Illinois, In the Democratic Conven- | tion of that State on Wednesday there was a | long acrimonions debate on this question, and | & proposal to drop gold payment of the bonds | ity of only seventy in a total vote | of five hundred and fifty-two. <A party so divided in opinion can, of course, | have no moral or political strength on this | class of questions. It is only by doctrines | upon which the great body of its members | thoroughly agree and are prepared for a reso- lute fight, not with one another but against the common enemy, that a political party can make proselytes or command respect. The republicans are no better off in this | respect than the democrats, the President dis- | pubtican members of Congress with one an- | other, and their party conventions making discordant declarations. In the Republican | emerged from the water were welcomed as heroes by the crowd. It was evidently a well contested race, Johnson, the English cham- pion, swimming the three miles in one hour, ten minutes and thirty seconds, making one minute and fifty-two seconds better time than Trautz. The Englishman reserved his power till the last, permitting his opponent to lead six lengths, on the last mile till he was within one hundred yards of the stake. Then he in- creased the power and rapidity of his stroke and came in the winner by fifty feet. But while the skill and strength dis. played justified the enthusiasm of the spec. tators it must be conceded tha: the race did not take place according to the original condi- tions. Pleasure Bay is an inlet where the water is comparatively still. The transfer of the contest from the ocean, therefore, entirely changed its character, and made the perform- ance much easier. The result is, for this reason, unsatisfactory. Old Ocean was the appointed place, and its billows alone could present the difficulties which these great swimmers were expected to overcome. No doubt at Pleasure Bay a better view could be had of the men than from the bluff at Long Branch; but the convenience of the public was not the main purpose of the race. Johnson and Trautg were announced to swim from a stakeboat three miles out at sea to the shore, and theiz failure to do this unquestionably diminishes the importance of the event. Inrrenratism does not seem to slumber quietly in France. M. Berger, who has always been suspected of fidelity-to the Empire, has issued an address to the electors of the Depart- ment of the Marne-et-Loire, avowing his pur- pose to be its restoration and advocating the Convention of Michigan, on Wednesday, a | plébiscite. Bazaine's escape has evidently aided resolution indorsing Grant’s veto message | in emboldening the Napoleonista. was contemptuously voted down by an over- whelming majority, while in Vermont the veto PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. «¢ | thousand feet above the sea, so that they are " i 4 . | probably deep in snow from October to June. all the usual difficulties of proving a nega- | the return trip against the danger of starva~ Next, as this isolated group of mountains are | side to the other in any direction, and as the | | gold bearing rocks cover, as it appears, only a small portion of this area, the field is too limited to promise even a hundred miners any washings that will pay their expenses, judg- ing from the average yield of the gold wash- ings of California. But against those fighting Sioux no company of miners less than a thou- sand strong, and well armed, will be safe. We do not think that gold in any quanti- ties, from the streams or the rocks, in those obtaining it, because the upheaval of the group has not been sufficient to bring up the precious metal in any great quantities from the bowels of the earth. We apprehend, how- ever, that an expedition of adventurous miners will undertake the difficult journey to those | Black Hills, andif they do the only warnings that will be of any value to them will be, first, to provide against a movement upon their } works of hundreds, or it may be of thousands, of Indian warriors, and, next, to provide for tion. Journalistic ‘Triumphs. The mission of the press at the present day is of such an extended and varied character | that nothing is left untouched by it. The | most remote regions of the earth are visited by its representatives, and subjects which were once jealously guarded as the exclusive, | property of a few favored individuals are now discussed at length in its columns, The Heraxp has always appreciated the vast im- portance of the mission of a journal in this progressive age, and has omitted no oppor- tunity to make its columns a faithful mirror ; of the world’s history from day to day; A striking evidence of this was recently shown | in the publication of the address of Don | Carlos of Spain to the Christian Powers, | which address he intrusted to a Heraxp oor- | respondent as the best medium for making it | known. The entire London press, to whom | only some sixty or seventy miles from one | Black Hills, can be found to pay expenses of | tive ; but to hold innocence as established be- cause an offensive affirmative has not been | proved to the satisfaction of the immediate friends and ardent admirers of the incrimi- nated person is to rest on slippery founda- tions. In support of the charges against Mr. Beecher there is the testimony of Mr. Beecher | himself, of Mr. Moulton, of Mr’ Tilton and Mrs. Tilton. In answer there are tho allega- | ; tions of Mr. Beecher and of Mrs. Tilton, Mr. 4 | Beecher’s word is entitled to great weight, but | } are the other persons of such infamous lives | that their words are entitled to no weight | whatever as against him? Is the committee | justified in its assumption that the word of ‘had 60 was strongly indorsed. Michigan will elect inflationists and Vermont anti-inflationists to the next Congress, and their conflicting finan- | cial views will not have the slightest effect on the eleotions in either State. Here, in New | York, the two parties will vie with each other in giving the strongest possible expression to anti-inflation views; but we do not see how either republicans or democrats can gain by it, since 1 Ty not & Gonvested question in thig 5 ae ORO SS, State. President Grant's veto"aud Governor l Dix’s vigorous letter supporting it have put it | out of the power of the New York democrats | to make political capital of the financial | question. It is in no sense a national party issue in the elections of this year. Like the tariff question in the Greeley platform it is remitted for settlement to the separate Oon- gressional districts, entirely outside of party lines. The Scene at Plymouth Church. Plymouth church last evening was again in ite glory; for had not the committee acquitted Mr. Beecher of all the charges against him, and only expressed its inclination to severely | censure him for not sooner communicating to his pious brethren the persecutions he long endured? The enthusiasm, congratulations, thanksgivings and embrac- ings which followed the reading of the report of the Investigating Committee were wonder- ful, and if they are only repeated by the pub- lic outside of the church all will be well. But this peace, which was invoked upon the church by the committee, did not long con-- this one man is to be taken on any fact to any | tinue, The appearance of Mr. Frank Moulton degree, while we are utterly to cast away as | at the meeting was an unfortunate event, which worthless the words of several persons who, led to unpleasant and unexpected scenes. Wo till within o short time, stood in the light of , must be pardoned by the church if we are re- his countenance and were his most trusted familioars? Whatis there against Mr. Moul- ton to invalidate his testimony? Only the | Single fact that Mr. Beecher makes against him the charge of blackmail; and in support of this ag A there is Mr, Beecher’s state- ment only. word is not only sufficient to stand alone, but if any witness should rise up against him it is only necessary for him to say that suck witness , and itis impossible not to look upon Mr, it appears that Mr. Beecher’s | No one who has read the chapter ,in which old Mr. Weller appears at the temperance tea drinking can fail is a rogue, and forthwith the witness is ruled , out of the Plymouth Court. This is conven- ient for incriminated pastors; but it looks so much like idolatry thit it cannot be justice, As for those famous letters, they are the testi- mony of Mr. Beecher against his own inno- | dyin’, cence. He has not explained them on any | theory inconsistent with his innocence. are mere ravings, and they are to be construed ‘They « in a way consistent with the known sanity of | the writer. We recognize the difficulty of the case the | Plymouth church committee had to deal with. It had to retain Mr. Beecher in the Plymouth pulpit, because the congregation was ready to condone any offence rather than lose the most eloquent and most popular preacher in America; and it wished to make minded by it of Emanuel chapel, which is so graphically described by Dickens in the “Pickwick Papers,”” Professor Raymond will please excuse us if we compare him to Mr. Stiggins, the shepherd, Moulton as the Tony Weller of Brooklyn. to see the resemblance to the Plymouth meet- ing. “Where is the sinner? where is the mis'’rable sinner?” said Mr. Stiggins; “upon which,” says Mr. Weller, ‘all the women be- gan to look at me and groan, as if they was | ’,"" “Where is the sinner? where is the | mis’rable sinner?” again inquired the red- nosed shepherd, “and a the women pai again ten times louder than afore.” “I got | rather wild at this," observed old Mr, | Weller, ‘so I says, ‘My friend, did you apply that ‘ere obserwation to me?’ ‘Stead of beggin’ my pardon, as any gen’!’m’n would | ha’ done, he got more abusive than ever, | called me ,a wessel, Sammy—a wessel of | | Wrath—and all sorts of names. 80, my blood copies of this important document were sent | this course consistent with the defence of the | by our representative at the British capital, | high moral standards of Christianity in the | Yeartily Ammewledged the courtesy and bore | face of grave charges that it was only possiblo | testimony to this Titmaph of American Four. todeny. It has refained the pastor, but on nolism. It is, indeed, a “fiat gemarkable | the other point it is less successful. instance of the power of & | when a king—for Don Catlos considers Dors Hx Give Ir Ur ?—General Butler has | | nothing short | tion to Congress from the Sixth Massachusetts | of the vindication of himself before the whole | Congressional district. Are we to infer from spondent of an American journal. The frank- field? Such appears to be the impression in | ness and polite acknowledgment of the Lon- | the “Old Bay State;” and the straitlaced don press in this matter might be profitably | Puritans, who look upon Butler as a sort Mt takes that wonderful race a long time to | out by such ® successor. When President | imitated nearer home. While attending to , of political Mambo Jumbo or bad medicine wake up. Probably Mayor Johnston was not | Grant gives ap his third term aspirations he | the Oarlist war and its many vicissitudes the | man, are apparently happy at the thought aware of this fact; but we may promise the | can no longer have any motive than the honor, Worshipful Mayor that if he will visit us next | prosperity and welfare of the country, and his | | Henatp has been equally vigilant in noting | that they will have to fight him no more. the outbreak of hostilities on our own frontier, | But let them not whistlo before they are out year he will be entertained by the representa- | interest will naturally be concentrated on the | giving on Wednesday last an exclusive account | of the woods, for there is no telling what may | tive of a evrightlier generation. continuance of his policy and an upright ad- of the desmerate battle between General | happen even in the briaf interval to November. press lq , But the general resemblance is remarkable, being regularly up, I first gave him two or | three for himself, and then two or three | to hand over to the man with the! red nose and walked off. I wish ycu could | ha’ heard how the women screamed, Sammy, | ven they picked up the shepherd from under the table.” The parallel does not go | uite so far as this, though Mr. Moul- | ton called Professor Raymond a liar and the Professor called him a dog. and we even have an old lady in the gallery, who cried out in a shrill voice, ‘Iago!’ The “Doxology'' was sung, and then the trouble began. The boys went tor Moulton to the tune | of “Old Hundred” in waltz time, and there was | 4 lively row between the Christians and the police, while the organ played the hymn of praise. Then Mr. Weller went home in a car- riage, with groans and execrations from the mob. It was unwise in Mr. Monltan to attend this | “Belle Lamar” was evidently Boucicault’s own, lilinois 1s sinking, It's trying to get down to Logan. Parts is reported to have 30,000 believers tm Spiritualism. Senator George R. Dennis, of Maryland, is at the 8t. Nicholas Hotel. 4 Indge E. E. Williams, of Australia, ts stopping at the Windsor Hotel. Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, is residing at the Breyoort House. Sener f. P. Walker, of Alabama, 1s sojourning at the Pifth Avenue ffoter, \ Major V. Sanchez, of the Spanish Army, is regis tered at the Hoifman House. Mr. Herbert Praed, M. P., of London, has apart- ments at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor Leland Stanford, of California, is staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Coione! T. J. Treadwell, United States Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Toole, by too much “usance” of @ lame ankle, has dalled the edge of his husbandry. Congressman Charies O'Neill, of Philadelphiag has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rear Admiral Charles 8, Boggs, Untied States Navy, has quarters at the Everett House, Using & kite for the motive power of a boat ts simply adjusting a sail with 9 new apparatus. Judge B. Platt Carpenter, of Poughkeepsie, ts among the recent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Longfellow has written up a hanging; but Par- ton’s opinion of his accuracy is not yet made public. ' General Sherman, who has been away from: Washington for a few days, returned yesterday morning. Forster is coming over. One more man who ex- pects to make fame ont of the fact that he was acquainted with Dickens, The reports of Garibaldi’s {!l-bealth were exag- gerated. The General was only slightly tndis- posed. He has personally telegraphed to the Roman’ municipality, thanking them for their in- quiries, and assuring them that he is in pretty good health. Jean Ourvin, resident of Epinal, in France, was born July 3, 1774, and has consequently entered upon his 101st year. He served in the campaigns of 1703 and the seven succeeding years, and from 1906 to 1809, He made the Russian campaign and was wounded at Wagram. Will the marriage of the double woman, calle@ the Two Headed Nightingale, be a bigamy? This ig the startling conundrum that the Mayor of Avignon, France, has laid before the jurisconsalts of the Court of ALx, and, as the marriage ts to take place at Avignon, it is important for the Mayor to know. ‘ There 1s @ regular decrease year by yeat in thé quantity of wine taken into Paris, which {s sup posed to be @ consequence of the high duties, Cider, on the contrary, is taken in constantiy greater quantities, and the proportion for 1874 is eight times greater than for 1873, Mr, Id, neAg of the ne Order Depart nent, and Mr, Had fair, head of the Foreign Mat Departmedt, bave been appointed by Postmaster General Jewell 4s délegates to the Postal Congress, at Berne, Switzerland, It is to be hoped these gentlemen are both familiar with the French lan- uage. King Coffee Caicalll istn trouble, Ais vassals will not obey him, He has sent an ambassador to Cape Coast Castle entreating that the Kings of Djuabin and Becqua may be reprimanded by the British government for neglecting to obey his summons to be present on the occasion of bis re- turn to his capital. Spurgeon says he never had the ability te Manage @ small church. They canoes on the Thames—yon mui or the other, or do this thing or that thing, lest you should be upset. His church 1s like a big steamboat, and he can walk here or there witnoas any danger of upsetting {t. Ata prayer meeting beld at @ well known first class clab at Whitehall Gardens a reverend gentie- man prayed earnestly for Mr. Gladstone that he might be turned into che way of truth, and ior Mr. Disraeli! that he might be continued therein ta connection with the Public Worship bill, Three times over he used the pet name of Dizzy, Dofia Bianca, the wife of Prince Alfonso, whois 80 often spoken of in the intelligence concerning the present Carlist war, is on her mother’s side @ German. She was born and grew up in Germany, and even her Marriage with Don Alonso was celee brated on German soil. Her fatuer was the ex- King Dom Miguel, who, after his expulsion from Portugal, married the Princess Adelheid yon Low- enstein, in Kleinheabach (in the Bavariam cirale of Unteriranken), and died in 1866, p: