The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1874, Page 8

CO __... eee NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yoru Hunaw. 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. Subseriptions ond Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. EMENTS To-mORROW. (1S eS WoOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirticth stree.—FOUL PLAY, at 5 F. M.: Closes at 10:30 P.M. Louis Alarich and Miss | Sophie Miles. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bo, fit Broadway. VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. THE FAST FAMILY. at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Sara Jewett, Lewis James, D. H. Markings. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA TIMBALE | D'ARGENT, at 8 P. M. ; closesat 10:30P.M. Mile. Aimee, Mile. Minelly. THEATRE COMIQUE, Zoe ican —VARIBTY, at 8 P, M.; closes at 10:30 | BOOTHS THEATRE, corner of Twent\-third street and Sixth avenue.— BELLE LAMAR, at§ M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. John | MeOullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph, | passion and inadequate Professer Tyndall’s Gratuitous Attack om Religion. The astounding boldness of this eminent physicist in his remarkable address as Presi- dent of the British Association at its meeting in Belfast provokes, as it could not fail to do, unmeasured comment in all the organs of English opinion published at intervals short enough for 80 prompt a discussion. The in- | commotion it has caused cannot be transient; it is certain to produce, within the ensuing year or two, a literature of excited controversy in which the acatest religious and of the Atlantic will bear a part Professor Tyndall has thrown down gauntlet which the defenders of religion cannot decline to take up. The reciprocation of argument be- tween two great schools of thought will be impetuous and vehement, but we hope not acrimonious. If the controversy which Pro- | fessor Tyndall has precipitated could be kept within the higher intellectual circles in which it is started it could do no harm, and might result in settling more distinct boundaries than have hitherto existed between the prov- | ince of science and that of theology. But, un- fortunately, it cannot be so confined. The subject is one in which, on one side of it at least, trained and untrained mizds feel an equal interest; it touches the profoundest and most cherished sentiments of the human heart; multitudes will discuss it with deep intelligence; the | effect on the general mind will be to disturb but not enlighten. There ig no reason aside from his impulsive, intrepid temper why Professor Tyndall should have flung this firebrand among the combus- tible elements which it is sure to kindle. We do not see what good a man of genius and sci- | ence can do to himself or to anybody by | standing forth as the champion and apostle of | atheistic materialism. The excuse he offers is not valid. ‘I have touched,’’ he says, ‘‘on NIBLO'S GARDEN, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE” at 8 P.M; closes at 10:49 P.M. ‘The Kiralty | Broadway, DELUG Family WALLAC! Broadway.—OUR Clik! Cals and OFF THE LIN J. L. ‘Toole THEATRE, ‘PARLE FR. AN. | j closes at 1 PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. QUIN, THE ACTOR, and SLANDER; OR, 18 SHE GUILTY: at8 P.M. Dominick c Murray. SAN PRANCI CO “MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninih street—NEGRO | MINSTRELSY, ats P.M | METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 58 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at $P. M. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, até P.M. Dan Bryant. GLOBE THEATRE, No, 728 Broadway.—VARILTY, at 6'P, M.; closes at 10 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ninth street and Seventh avenue, —THOMAS’ CON- Fit CERT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. COLOSSEUM, Thity-At fitth street and Broadway.—PARIS IN FLAMES, QA DATEL SHEET New York, 8 many, Sept, 6, 1874. “yeas our eae his morning a is aba | are that the weather to-day will be parlly cloudy, | with local rains. Watt Srreet Yestexpay.—The stock mar- ket showed the usual realizations, with, how- ever, & more confident tone. at 1093 a 1094. Tue CENTENNIAL Awnrvensany of the first | | opinions. They must, of course, expect to | at Philadelphia by the Carpenters’ Associa- | a gto on Gad sae oe Centennial Congress was celebrated yesterday tion, in Carpenters’ Hall, the ancient building | in which the delegates trom the colonies met and prepared the way for the greater Congress which assembled in 1776. Our ConresPoNDENT, ‘‘PRUDENTIUS,"’ reviews Professor Tyndall's address from a strictly re- ligious point of view, but with philosophical calmness. It is only in this temperate spirit that such important questions should be treated, and those who are incapable of doing so are not competent for the argument. A CavncH Sensation 1x Enoianp.—The Marquis of Ripon, lately Grand Master of the Freemasons of England, has joined the Catholic Church. The event has produced great excitement. He, a short time since, | resigned his position among the brethren of | the mystic tie and called on the Prince of | Wales to temporarily discharge the duties of | the office. Such is the latest sensation in the religio-political world. Sznaton Browsiow, ox tae Crvm Rucats | Brit, has written a long and a very strong | letter to the venerable Truman Smith against that offensive measure to the whole white pop- ulation of the South. The substance of this | letter may be stated in asingle sentence ex- tracted from it—to wit, that the effect of this bill, whatever the motive behind it, ‘is the destruction of the republican party in the South and the certain injury of the colored people."’ Let the republicans carry it into a law and attempt its enforcement in the South- ern public schools, if they desire to prove the truth or falsity of Senator Brownlow’s opinion. Tae Inpians on THE Ku Kivx—Tae West- zen Wares on Sournern Buacks—Waicu?— General Sherman, it appears, has expressed ‘West are needed there for the pacification of the Indians, and that there is not an available man that can be added to the soldiers already in the South. It seems, too, that he does not believe that the reported atrocities in the | South are half as black as they are painted by the carpet-baggers. But what does General Sherman's opinion amount to, when the authority over the army, not only of the Gen- eral-in-Chief, but of the Commander-in-Chief, has been turned over to a lawyer, the head of the Department of Justice? Jopex Potayn’s Derzat, as the regular re- publican candidate for Congress in his dis- trict, is very decisive, His total vote is 5,749, against 7,099 for Denison, bolting republican; 2,022 for Davenport, democrat, and 931 for Mead, the granger candidate, and other out- Gold was dull | debatable questions and led you over danger- ous ground, and this partly with a view of telling you, and through you the word, that as regards these questions science claimed an unrestricted right of search. It is not to the point to say that the views of Lucretius and Bruno, of Darwin and Spencer, may be wrong. I concede the possibility, deeming it indeed certain that these views will undergo modification. But the point is, that whether | right or wrong, we claim the freedom to dis- cuss them.” This is rather pretext than a rea- | sonable apology. There is no such formidable opposition in this age to the freest scientific investigation and discussion as to call for any such defiant and polemic assertion of the right. Science had her martyrs in days less enlightened, but that time has gone by. No English philosopher has anything worse to fear than public criticism as the consequence of | propagating any kind of opinions. Professor Tyndall asserts a right that nobody denies with an air of challenge which would have been heroic in poor Galileo, in the Italy of the sixteenth century, but borders on the | ridiculous in the England of the nineteenth. | A brave attitude is cheap and liable to be laughed at as histrionio, in the manifest ab- sence of any danger. The victorious con- tests of science, firston the disputed ground of astronomy, and more recently on that of geology, have given it so strong a presump- tive right to be heard that its votaries can safely announce the most novel and startling controversy, for this is but an exercise on the part of others of the same right which they | claim for themselves. They have no title toa monopoly of the privilege of bold, free discussion. The rights of argumentative attack and defence are equal and mu- tual between themselves and those who dis- agree with them. When Professor Tyndoll shocked the religious world two years ago by publishing his whimsical proposition of 2 “prayer gauge,” he was assailed by noth more injurious than legitimate public criti- cism, softened, in most cases, by a full recog- nition of his scientific eminence. Having made a great sensation then he seems willing to make a greater one now, and the personal gratification of being the theme of so many tongues and pens is perhaps s more prevailing motive with him than the affected and chi- merical fear that the right of scientific discus- | sion is in such peril as to require a defensive manifesto. The objection to his open avowal of mate- | rialistic atheism may be made with as much | force from the scientific as from the religious side. He exposes himself to the same kind of criticism that would be employed against an orator intrusted with the advocacy of an im- portant cause who should shut the minds of his audience by needlessly crossing their habitual tone of sentiment. Why should science waste its strength in rowing against the stream? The wisest course for its votaries is to confine themselves to their own proper fields of investigation with a well founded confidence that no scientific truth established by adequate evidence can ever be shaken, and that the more silently and unobtrusively it gains admission to the popular mind the more certain it is to hasten the modification of every the Ib SE ik ote. vagnlad teocys in the | theological belief that is really inconsistent with it, Error—and especially religious error—is seldom uprooted by directly grap- pling with itand attempting to pluck it out by main force. The human mind may admit | two sets of opinions without for a long while perceiving their contrariety; and where new truth is thus planted in the same soil side by side with old error it imperceptibly draws the greater part of the nutriment to itself, until the other becomes feeble and stunted, and gradually withers and dies, Astronomy and geology are not best taught by attacks on the old interpretations of the book of Genesis, but by presenting these sciences on their own proper evidence and keeping out of view their supposed conflict with any set of biblical in- terpretations. When the science has been fully accepted nothing is more certain than that the exposition of particular texts of siders. Two years ago the vote cast for | Scripture will be made to conform to it, and Poland in the same district was 11,079. | the receiving mind be brought into complete Whence this dreadful falling off in 1874? It | harmony with itself as well as with science. may be charged to the facts that Judge Poland | But if this method were reversed, and the was the regular administration ring candidate, } fancied conflict between geology and Scfip- and blindly going with the administration | ture kept constantly in the foreground, mul- clique, right.or wrong, third term or no third | titudes .of devout minds would regard the term, and for that back pay and other cor- | scionce as rank heresy and reject it without rapt schemes of a corrupt Oongress, 60 much | examination. for Vermont in September, and we shall have more of this mutizogs music fom other States in October and ‘ Professor Tyndall is putting the same kind scientific intellects of the time on both sides | | dice. specting the origin of life, the zoological pedi- gree of the human race and the physical nature of thought and intelligence. It is not prudent for the, advocates of these doctrines to stir up a theological opposition. In their own interest the discussion should be kept as long as posaible on strictly scientific ground. The criticisms of theists who are also scientists are the only criticisms from the theistic side to which they should make any reply. Unless important scientifio flaws can life—which in truth are merely conjectural and hardly admit of verification—will find an increasing circle of proselytes, and it will then be the business of theologians and meta- not inconsistent with the main essentials of religion. But to precipitate the theological controversy while as yet the new views have | and must still go through a sifting ordeal of purely scientific inquiry, is neither giving science a tree course and fair play nor per- mitting theology to stand aloof and await settled scientific results before examining whether it is called upon to yield or rectify any part of its doctrines, Professor Tyndall should not be insensible that’ by flinging immature resulta of science into the arena of popular religious debate he is exposing his views to inevitable gross mis- conceptions, which will harden ip the com- mon religious mind into ineradicable preju- When he avows himself ‘a materialist he cannot expect the mass even of intelligent men to comprehend his ideas of matter. He regards it as a congeries of infinitely fine, mys- terious, ever active play of subtle forces in a state of constant undulation and ever giving birth, by the polarity.of its atoms and its in- herent tendencies toward particular forms, to order, beauty, life, intelligence and utility. It is only the élite of the scientific world that can realize his refined and almost spiritual conception of matter. His materialism is cer- tain to be misunderstood to the disadvantage of science and the gratuitous disturbance of consoling cherished beliefs. His bold declara- tions will cause his views to be caricatured in the popular mind to the equal detriment of | both seience and religion. Did Bacon Write Shakespeare’s Plays? So little is known of Shakespeare, and that little is so unsatisfactory as to his character, that in this sceptical and inquisitive age many of the plays which for nearly three hundred years have borne his name. Those who deny his authorship have been required to find some mind of the Elizabethan period great enough to have produced those immortal works, and they have inevitably turned to Francis Bacon, the founder of modern philoso- phy. A claim put forth for any other historic personage of the time would be dismissed as worthless, and it is agreed upon both sides of the great controversy that if Shakespeare did not write the plays then Bacon must have written them, and thatif the argument for Bacon fails Shakespeare must forever reign as their undisputed author. The inquiry has, of late years, been ably conducted, especially by the champions of Bacon, upon whom the burden of proof has rested, and a new interest has been given to it by the remarkable article we republish to- day from Fraser's Magazine. This clear state- ment of the evidence in favor of the Baconian theory is principally based upon ‘The Author- ship of Shakespeare,”’ a work written by an American author, the Hon. Nathaniel Holmes, Professor of Law in Harvard University. The question is not one which the world of intel- lect can afford to dismiss with ridicule. It is far more important to literature than the ques- tion of the identity of Junius or whether Homer is a myth. On the one hand we are asked to consign to obscurity a name “familiar in our mouths as household words.” Gentle Will Shakespeare is, after three hundred years, to | have the laurel taken. from his brow, and to be dismissed as the greatest literary impostor of all time. On the other hand, we are asked to do late justice to Francis Bacon as one of ‘the inheritors of unfulfilled re- nown’’ whom fate has defrauded of his right- ful glory. More than sentiment is involved in the answer, for if Bacon is the creator of Hamlet and Lear and Imogen, then a new and wonderful proof of intellectual power is discovered. We think that the conclusion would be irresistible that Bacon was infinitely the greatest of allmen. If Bacon and Shake- speare are one, if these two stately phantoms are to mingle, they will form a vision of in- tellectual splendor almost too beautiful and bright for earth.’ The world has not dared to suppose that one mortal could achieve so much. Bacon’s authorship of the plays, it will be seen, is supported by two arguments; the first assuming to show by the facts in Shake- speare’s life that he could not have had the knowledge necessary to produce such works, while Bacon possessed all the qualifications of intellect, education, culture and experience of the world. The second argument depends upon documentary evidence and comparison of the plays with Bacon’s authenticated writings. Thus Shakespeare's early life in Stratford is said to have been without educational opportunities; his career is described as in strong contrast with his works; the dramas are full of classical allusions and translations trom Latin and Greek, languages of which he knew little; they show extensive knowledge of law and medicine, sciences which he had not studied; he never formally claimed nor collected his plays. But Bacon was lawyer, etudent of medi- cine, scholar, courtier, philosopher. Then come citations from the works of Shake- speare and Bacon which show o remarke able resemblance. Finally, the letters of Bacon and «6 mysterious epistle from his friend, Sir Tobie Matthew, are quoted in support of the theory. The argument based upon these facts is ingeniously con- stracted, but it is to be admitted that some of the missing links are neatly supplied by con- jecture. It is not our purpose to enter the discussion here ; but as the evidence in favor of Lord Verulam is so fully presented we may ‘state briefly some of the difficulties his advo- cates must overcome. The first inquiry is, naturally, why did not Bacon acknowledge the plays if he wrote them? The answer is, that in the time of Queen Elizabeth playwrights were of low repute, and Bacon's professional interests would have of obstructions im the way of whatever truth | suffered from @ confession. But this is not there may be im the new scientific dicta ra» entirely trae, Lord Sackville hed written be discovered, their views of the origin of | physical philosopher? to show that they are { not gained universal scientifio recognition, | persons have refused to believe him the author | plays before Shakespeare. Individual authors might have been despised by the Court, yet authorship was honored. Spenser, Sidney, Raleigh were poets if not playwriters. Again, the plays were produced during a period of thirty years, and how could Bacon have so long kept hidden their authorship from his keen contemporaries, and why did ho continue labors of which he was ashamedand by which he could not expect ever to be known? The necessity of making money by play- writing did not continue for thirty years, and, besides, there came. a period in Bacon’s life when all his honors were stripped from him and he was banished from the Court, What motive had he for further concealment in the five years which were spent in retirement from 1621, when he was convicted of corruption, to 1626, when he died? Is it not probable that he would then havo claimed the fruits of thirty years of toil? Yet, if it be said that he had still the hope of regaining royal favor, and therefore prudently suppressed his name as the author of plays, why did he fail to make provision for the revelation after his death? The Baconian champions have fallen into a singular inconsistency. They cite the fact that Shakespeare never collected and revised the plays as evidence that he did not write them, but they forget that Bacon died without in the slightest way providing for his fame. Perhaps he was so great that he did not care for fame, but could not the same excuse be made for the indifference of Shakespeare? The fact that Bacon never, by word or sign, nor after his death by will or testament, claimed the authorship of the plays is an obstacle at the very beginning of the theory, and we have yet to see satisfactory reasons for the long concealment. But we leave the question upon the threshold. It is not one to be treated with passion or preju- dice. We ask only for the truth, and are ready to discrown Shakespeare if it be found that not he but Bacon has so long ruled the world of modern thought, not in his philos- ophy alone, but also from the throne of | poetry. The Gathering of the Flocks. The yeer is passing into the longer shadows. | With September we have the richer tints of foliage, the trees darkening as though they had been steeped in wine, the coming of our foreign wanderers, with their English clothes and French ways, and thé return home of | Saratoga dowagers, happy or sad according as | they may have found the matrimonial cam- paign, General Babcock has gone to Wash- ington, and it is believed the President will soon follow his secretary. The new Postmas- ter General is showing what a new broom can do in our post offices. Mr. Beecher is finish- ing that three weeks’ game of croquet. Good men and women resume the contemplation of an oyster feast withimmunity. Mr. Tilden, happy in that small, zephyr-like voice from Ithaca, is patiently listening to the autumn winds to hear whispers of the Gov- ernorship. Havemeyer rejoices in the long nights, that he may smoke his pipe and renew his reminiscences of the Stuyvesant admiration for the in- struction of his Matsell and his Disbecker. Governor Dix is banging away at the snipe down in Long Island. The negro minstrels have put on their paint and begin to skip over benches. Our advertising columns already riso in the never-failing autumn tide, and visions of quadruple and quintuple sheets begin to float over our composing room. With September we have also earnest work among the politicians. In the republican camp there is silence. The leaders of that distracted organization are sorely troubled. They gather around the sphinx as it sits on its Long Branch cliff, but it will not speak. Who can read the mystery? Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia all speaking on the one ques- tion, but the only voice that can answer it— silent ! So we have foolish rumors about Mr. Cornell and Mr. Fenton, but—silence on the one theme! The only republican statesman who seems to possess the confidence of the sphinx is the Hon. Hugh J. Hastings, but he also is silent and will not speak. In Tam- many we hear the busy notes of preparation and discord, all the tokens of furious war. The O'Kelly, king of Tammany and chief of the Emerald Ring, is eagerly sharpening his wea- pons and taking the dust and mould out of the feathers and paint. For to-morrow the bat- tle may begin, and the braves must be ready. And if our readers really care toknow the objects for which this battle is to be waged let them read our preliminary narrative else- where. It sounds like the opening chapter of Kinglake’s ‘Invasion of the Crimea” or Na- pier’s ‘‘History of the Peninsular War.”’ The trophies are varied and rich. There is a Governorship, in the place of Dix, if man can be found worthy to succeed that old Ro- man, Thero is a Lieutenant Governorship, in the place of General Robinson; a Canal Com- missionership, which is said not tobe without succulent properties ; an Inspectorship of Pris- ons, an Office that no Tammany chief should slight, considering all that has come to pass in Tammany dynasties ; Judgeships, various seats in Congress, twenty-one Assembly places, the Registership, a rich, fat, plump, juicy place, out of which Sigel has made consid- erable beer money and upon which many strained eyes are looking in hungry hope. There are sundry little Aldermanships, and, above all, the Mayoralty. Our readers who take an interest in the mere personal contests for these smaller trophies will find it all writ- ten elsewhere. The two over which the bat- tle will be waged are the Governorship and the Mayoralty. It is proposed, as we now understand this campaign, to nominate Mr. Tilden as a kind of Tammany peace offering to the democracy of the State. By supporting Tilden, the destroyer of Tweed, it will be said that the skirts of the old mother are cleansed of Tweed- ism and are once more snow white and pure. But, as we have endeavored to show The O’Kelly and his counsellors, the question is not what would be the best thing for Tam- many but what would be the best thing for the State. The democratic party in New York cannot sacrifice its fair hopes of leading the way toward a national reaction to enable Tammany to redeem its local record. Tho | thing to be done is to defeat John A. Dix, and that the domocrats will find no easy task. \ General Dix has grown into the hearts of tho people of this Commonwealth until he has be. come like one of our rugged Adirondack hills, the type of strength, will, and courage, He believes in hanging mur- derers, as he did believe in shooting any man who meddled with the flag. And we are now coming into centennial times and celebration of the events and the men who lived in the days that tried men’s souls, and we shall have an auroral meteoric season of patriotism. How naturally we should turn to the fine old centennial patriarch, Governor Dix, who fought for the Union sixty years ago, and who stands aloft in our political forest likes gnarled, leafy, spreading oak, under whose branches our grandfathers danced their wed- ding measures! ‘Centennial Dix,” as our people will soon begin to fondly call him, cannot be chopped down and taken away to make room for a mere modern scholar, lawyer and statesman like Tilden. We can find Tildens in our universities. They come in crops with every commencement harvest. But @ Dix only comes once a century. How, then, to beat Dix? ‘Think well of that problem, gentlemen! You cannot do it by making Tammany as close a corporation as it was under Tweed, nor by selecting a can- didate who simply appeals to the philosophi- cal classes, Is there no man in the ranks who will appeal to the sentiment that now sustains Governor Dix? Is there no merchant, banker, ironmaster or public spirited citizen in whom the people believed as they did in Edwin D. Morgan, who can be called upon to lead the canvass? With such a candidate Dix can be beaten. But as yet no one has named him, and no men seem to be os far from a true appreciation of the necessity of such a choice as The O'Kelly and his tribe of painted Tammany warriors, who evidently care nothing about the party in the county or the State, so long as they can have undis- turbed Possession of the spoils in the city. The Happy Family. We knew it all the time! We were con- vinced that behind the cloud there was the | rainbow of hope, that the dark masses of scandal would lift, and we would see the sil- ver lining illuminating the sorrow-laden | groves of Brooklyn Heights. We felt sure | that Theodore’s beaming face would emerge wreathed with smiles, breathing ‘‘grace, mercy | and peace ;’’ that Moulton, without his pistol, would cling to Beecher as the apple of his eye; that Elizabeth would be solicited to resume those grotesque apostrophes to her husband, as one of the persons in the holy trinity; ‘and that the beatific Carpenter would paint the whole scene after the style of the frescoes of the Transfiguration. The Comedy of Wrath and Scandal would surely be fol- | lowed by the Comedy of Love. Here it comes from Boston, from Lowell, from the sea-washed shores of Gloucester, where that descendant of all the Adamses and Otises, Benjamin F. Butler, contemplates eternity and the Governorship of Massachu- setts. The gospel of this reconciliation is written by Mr. Redpath, who seems to be a kind of Boston mutual friend, but of a milder | type than Moulton, evidently not given to | pistols, but with a Niagara Falls capacity tor talk. According to Redpath, Moulton, at work with steel instruments and chemicals upon a “new statement,” is in Lowell, at the feet of the saint-like Butler. Although fresh from the three thousand Ply- mouth sheep, who followed him like wolves up Hicks strect, Moulton, when found, was full of tenderness, ‘‘actually weeping’ over Beecher, ‘‘and still loving him.’’ Beecher, also away up in the New Hampshire hills, was supposed to be in high spirits over an endless game of croquet, and we have had daily bulletins of his jokes, his merriment, his kid-like gambols, his sweet pastoral pleasures. But this is error, for Redpath found him ‘grieved in heart at Moulton and still loving him.’’ Then Redpath, in the true apostolic spirit, gives us his beatitudes: — “{ think Bacon is either a snake in the grass | or a slanderer. No man has done more to hound Beecher. Judas did not kiss more ten- derly. Frank Moulton is one of the best friends Mr. Beecher ever had and has, for he loves him yet.” jhe is a brave fellow and an honest man.’ dollars which Beecher raised by a mortgage on his house, and which Theodore has not yet repaid by a mortgage on his house, “it was a good investment. I think the trouble in all this affair has been that Beecher, Tilton and the rest have made too many half confidences.” “Mr. Beecher,”’ rash man, ‘‘totally miscon- strued Moulton’s refusal to deliver up the documents,"’ and accordingly “struck one of the tendcrest and strongest hearts that ever stood around him.’ “It is the devil's own muddle.” Moulton has made many interesting ap- pearances in the course of this drama; but this is the first time we find him in tears. We like him better.in his pistol scene with Beecher, and in his grand assault upon young Raymond in the face of the three thousand wolf-like sheep of Plymouth church. But, now that he has come to tears and sorrow, we are disposed to believe that he has no more letters. If this Brooklyn Damon had any more notes from Mrs. Tilton, or business messages from Wilkeson, or sacred letters from ao brother to a sister, or mournful, dis- tracted soliloquies of a poor, old, ‘stricken mother like Mrs. Morse—their bad spelling cruelly and carefully preserved—or confes- sions from Mr. Beecher or mischievous notes about Dr. Storrs, he would not be crying on the shoulder of Redpath about his ‘love for Beecher.” It really looks as if the comedy were about to close. Theodore is not insensi- ble to ‘grace, mercy and peace.'’ Beecher does not want to straddle that ‘ragged edge’’ upon which Frank Moulton lovingly galloped him for four years, and Elizabeth, poor soul, can always find rest between the graves of | her two children on the lonely, shuddering | heights of Greenwood. But what is to be done with Carpenter? He was last seen “twenty miles from civilization,” in the woods ot Northern New York, the place that as gentle aman as this perplexed artist would be apt to seek after seeing how he had been dandled and fondled and bidden to fetch and carry by his Brooklyn friends. And Bowen! He must not be forgotten. What is to be done with the three hundred and fifty libel suits that gentleman finds expedient for the vindi- cation of his character ? It there is to be peace—real peace—tet it be generous and full. Plymouth church would hardly seem to be large enongh for Moulton and Raymond, but these brethren can come together. As this trouble began ‘because fortitude | Plymouth church preferred the worship of Beecher to tho worshio of Obrish and | studied. As to the five thousand | as necessarily such divinities azose, let them all be harmonized. Let us have fous Beechers, four pulpits in Plymouth church, four pastors, Let Beecher have one pulpit and Tilton the second. Let the other two be filled by Bowen and Moulton, who, when he is away in New England, could be supplied by Baymond or Shearman. Let the fous pulpits be occupied at the same time. Ply- mauth, having passed through this dark valley of the shadow of scandal, would once more emerge into the blessed day with four pastors instead of one. Think of Moulton and Theo- dore, Bowen and Beecher preaching at the same time on “grace, mercy and peace.” There would be one happy soul in the con- gregation, our lovely, absent, wandering, sadly fooled Carpenter, happy at the blessed consummation ! As for Elizabeth, we see no place for hor in any reconciliation, but those tiny knolls on Greenwood heights, to which she has so often crept for sympathy and peace, The Herald To-Day. The wonderful recuperative powers of our city have often been shown after periods of commercial depression, but never more promptly than now. Notwithstanding the in- fluence of the panic and the fears of a dull season this fall, business activity has been re- sumed with an energy which is sure to command success. The pages of the Hznanp to-day are a remarkable evidence of this tact. We print nearly sixty columns of ad- vertisements, many columns more than we have ever before printed at this time of the year, and that, too, when thousands of our citizens have not returned from their sum- mer holidays. As we observed a few days ago, such promptness in seeking the advan- tages of advertising has always been an un- failing indication of s prosperous season, and we are only surprised that this business re- vival in New York has come so early in Sep- tember. All branches of trade are repre- sented in the columns of the HERALD to- day, and they form a mirror in which the features of a great city may be One of the unmistakable signs of vitality is the fact that we print more than an entire page of amusement advertisements. Our theatrical managers have prepared for brilliant winter and evidently count upon redping a large share of the prosperity to which they so largely contribute. The privi- | lege of spending money in rational methods | of enjoyment is as essential to a great city as the opportunities of making it. The Henatp, in all these departments of business, as well as in its vast collection of news, will, we think, repay the study of intelligent readers, for advertisements are, indeed, news of the highest value, and hundreds of thou- sands of people are variously represented in our pages to-day. Mr. Bergh on Vivisection. Mr. Bergh’s letter to Dr. Flint on the sub- ject of vivisection will naturally suggest the | inquiries whether the President of the Society who was believed to be in Brooklyn | for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been made a censor over the course of instwuc- tion in our medical colleges, and whether or not the warrant of a law made ostensibly to protect animals, but really to protect the sen- sibilities of the people from the infliction of barbarous spectacles in the streets, can by any means be tortured to cover an authority to dictate in what especial manner gentlemen | shall be tanght an important useful science. | Mr. Bergh presumes to an authority no less than this when he demands to know how cer- tain lessons in physiology are given—assuming of course behind the demand a purpose to do what he may to prevent the continuance of these lessons if they are given in a way that seems to him obnoxious. Nobody but Mr. Bergh will question that the purpose of the law on which he acts wap to prevent the wan- ton and unnecessary killing or maiming ef animals, and any act that is necessary or is of great public utility is no more within the sphere of his society than the transit of Venus, | For this reason alone the physiological lessons | given in colleges are beyond his reach. They | aro of such pre-eminent utility to the publio that it is no exaggeration to say that any ani- mal killed ina physiological experiment before a Class of students has lived to better purpose than Mr. Bergh himself, because he has di- rectly increased the capacity of man to deal with human maladies. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General George S. Batcheller, of Saratoga, is registered at the Gilsey House. Dr. L I, Hayes arrived yesterday on the Java, and 1s stopping at the Albemarle House. Mr. Alexander 8. Harvey, of the British Consular Service, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bazaine, while at Milan, wrote to Prince Hum- bert, which the Italians consider an tmpertinence, Mr. Charles E. K. Kortright, British Consul at Philadelphia, has apartments at the Brevoort House. “Rectification” is reported to be so extensive tm the Rhine wine district that natural wine ia scarcely known. Right Rev. W. G. Tozer, of London, formerly Missionary Bishop of Zanzibar, is residing at the Albemarle Hotel. At Richmond, near London, the ants, red ana black, and without wings, have suddenly assumed the character of a plague. The King of Bavaria, on his visit to Paris, stopped with Count Hobenlohe, the German Am- bassador, who was formerly Bavarian Prime Min- ister. The Italian government proposes, if Garibaldi will consent, to lay a telegraph cable to Caprera and keep an operator permanently on duty there at the General’s service, Two rich ladies had estadWshed for themselves a sort of fashionable drive on the outskirts of Oon- stantinople, which became much frequented, and now the Mintater of Police forbids this enjoyment, The verdict of “Not guilty, but don’t do tt again,” is slightly varied in the Beecher case, It is “Not guilty, but what steps shall churches take to prevent the recurrence of these lamentable?” &0., &0. Aubusson, in France, seems to be a sort of French New Je! . They have not yet heard of the fall oi the Emperor. Some official papers were recently signed by the Prefect, “in the name of the Emperor.” William Geary, am engineer tn the office of the Philadelphia Democrat, has had his right hand | crushed, so as to require amputation, by the same printing press from which the inventor Bullock, received a fatal injury. Rev. arthur Watson, chaplain in the Royal Navy, was in the pit of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublia, aad there persistently and frequently declared that.tne opera performers were “damned impostors,”” ar. thur was fined forty shillings. On the railway between Ballyshannon and Port- rush, in Ireland, a gentieman logt his laggage. [¢ contained, among other valnabies, the body of his brother, who died three yesrs ago tn Onlifornia, and whom he hopes to burein “acm (f oe cam fad Liste