The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND D ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, puhished every | ‘day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- qual subscription price $12, ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youre Henan. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | 80 much blood, so much effort, so many ex- _ sew YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Let Us Be Just and Brave with the Seuth—The Proposed National Con- vention. The principal thought in the minds of the Northern people, so far as the South is con- cerned, at least since the close of the war, has | been one of self-preservation. We have been | anxious to preserve the fruits of that struggle without risk or peradventure, This was a natural, prudent anxiety. So much treasure, traordinary and unparelleled sacrifices, the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, the addition of thousands of millions to the national debt, all had been freely given for union and emancipation. Were we to 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. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- | serted in the WEEKLY HwaaLp and the European | Edition. JOB PRINTING af every description, also Stereo | typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe | cuted atthe lowest rates. «No. 250 | TO-NIGHT. Volume XXXIX.. Sooo MUSEMENTS OLYMPIC THEATRE, oj’ Broadway —VARLETY, at 62. M.; closes at 10:45 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. THE FAST FAMILY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. wie Ada Dyas, Miss Sara Jewett, Lewis James, D. HU. LYCEUM THEATRE, ourteenth, street and Sixth avenue.—LA TIMBALE "ARGENT. at 5 P. M.; closesat lu: P.M. Mile. Aimee, | power of the leaders of the rebellion ? © Fears | like these have always disturbed the judgment | of the calmest statesmen in the republican | Content because they had not been hanged. nullify all by surrendering union and eman- cipation, or by what would have been their virtual surrender—the premature return to party. Behind them also was a truculent public feeling which had not forgotten the war, and, remembering only the anger and | apprehension of that time, insisted that the leaders of the rebellion should be grateful and This feeling paralyzed the reconstruction policy of Mr. Johnson, drove him to the verge of impeachment, and thus far has prevented any measure of substantial justice to the South. Consequently we have had a timid, hesita- ting policy in dealing with the South. We | have taken counsel of our fears, and our fears have generally been stimulated by bold men in the Confederacy who gloried in disturb- ance. Whenever a generous sentiment toward the South blossomed into life some angry, cruel secession wind would be sure to kill it, President Lincoln would have carried out a policy of reconstruction, singularly liberal and comprehensive if he had not been murdered. | President Johnson would have succeeded in Alle. Minelly. THEATRE ey ve poss Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P, M.; closes at 1030. | BOOTH’S THEATRE, orner, of Twent-third, street and St BLLE LAMAR, at 8 P. ‘McCullough and Miss K. Rogers Randolph, NIBLO’S GARDEN, avenue.— -M. John Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets, —THE PEeiee. avs P.M ; closes at 10:45 P. M. The Kiralty ‘ail WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—OUR CLERKS, ICL ON PARLE FRAN. Cal. and OFF THE LINE, at 6 P. M. ; closes at li P.M. J. L, Toole. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. QUIN, THE ACTOR, and "SLANDER; OR, IS SHE GUILTY? atS P.M. Dominick Murray. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner ot ‘Thirtieth street —FOUL PLAY: at M.; closes at 1030 ¥. M. Louis Alarich and Miss Bophis Miles. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 565 Broadway.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at 8 P. M. BRYANI’S OPERA HOUSE, | West Twenty-third street near Sixth ayenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ato P.M. Den Bryant | GLOBE THEATRE, To, 78 Broadway. AHL TY, at 3/P.M.; closes at10 | SAN PRANCI-CO MINSTRELS, Broad ay, corner of Tweuty-ninth street-—NEGRO Y, P.M. Fifty-ninth st THOMAS’ Con. CuRT, ats P. Thirty-Atth street and Broadwi TRIPLE SHEET. 1874, .—PARIS IN FLAMES, “New York, Monday, Sept. 7, From our reports this morning | the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy or clear. Is Ir Cuantzy Ross—The boy who was brought from Cuba, and found under suspi- cious circumstances in Goshen the other day ? Dz. L IL Hayes contributes another Ice- landic letter to our columns to-day contain- ing a remarkable description of the Geysers and the lava lands. Cuma AND Japan have settled their difficul- ties, according to our Shanghae despatches, and it is fortunate for American interests that this far away war cloud has disappeared. A Vicrory of some importance is claimed by the Carlists in Catalonia, in which the republicans are said to have met with very heavy losses. On the other hand, the repub- licans report that the Carlists have been re- pulsed thrice in their attack on Castro Urdiales. Tue O’Ketxy and other eminent chieftains give their political opinions very fully to-day in regard to the Governorship, the third term movement and other matters. Those who run of course may read, but as The O'Kelly has his war paint on some of those who read may ran. Tue Canuists have presumed to fire upon German men-of-war, and, in answer, the Ger- mans threw twenty-four shells into the city of San Sebastian. Ina military point of view this affair is of slight importance now, for it would be as difficult for the Germans to punish the Carlists as it is for the American troops to find the Apache Indians, but it will have a diplomatic effect, by which Don Carlos will not profit. Tae Disrvnpances at Meze and in other parts of France, on September 4, the anniver- sary of the Republic, will, of course, be attributed to the republicans, yet it is prob- able that they were caused by conservative intrigues. It has always been the policy of the party in power in France to provoke slight disorders as an excuse tor disabling their enemies by stringent measures, and this may be an instance. Kxpnarrrxa is a crime which is so easily committed with impunity that its appear- ance in any city causes unusual alarm. The abduction of Mary Grover from this city fourteen years ago is one of the mysteries like that of Charley Ross, but it seems at last to have been solved. The discovery of the girl in Iowa is detailed elsewhere, and there is reason to hope that she will soon be restored to her unhappy mother. Gzemany anv Porto Rico.—The assertion that Germany has no desire to obtain pos- sessions in the West Indies is emphatically contradicted by the facts in our Washington The efforts of Germany to es- tablish a depot and naval station in Costa Rica, and afterwards to assume a protectorate of St. Domingo, are shown by the official cor- | respondence of the United States government. These facts sustain the reoent reports concerning the transfer of Fem feet Gamers by Spain, and do not jastify the ineredulity which Mr. Fish has thought praver to express, his generous plan but for the massacre at New Orleans in 1866. The murder of Lincoln and | the massacre of Dostie and his associates have from time to time been followed by acts of kindred violence, all contributing to the un- | rest of the South. Only the other day we , had Governor Ames, of Missiseipy, asking | for troops to protect the negroes‘in Vicksburg | from the whites. The letters we print from Tennessee show that even in that State there | | is no peace. We have conquered the armies | | of the South, we have dissolved the once | | mighty Confederacy, we have driven its flag | | from the land and the ocean; there is but one authority in this land, the authority of the | constitution; we have sent into retirement and exile the leaders of secession; but there still is no peace, only trouble, sorrow, crime, dis- turbance, murder everywhere. Anarchy in Arkansas, repudiation in Louisiana, confisca- tion in South Carolina! Wherever we look there is chaos. We do not overdraw this picture. The telegraph sadly enough gives us newer and darker tints trom hourto hour. Our corre- spondents confirm the news in painful, gloomy letters. Nothing is clearer to every patriotic mind than that the problem should be solved. Every day it seems as if we were about to solve it, when the memory of some fear rises and affrights us. There 1s no feeling towards the Suuth in the innermost Northern heart but one of kind- | ness. The bitterness of the war no longer remains. Nothing would more gratify New York than to see Virginia again the Old Dominion and New Orleans once more the metropolis of the Gulf of Mexico. But how is it to be done? Some Southern men tell us that there can be no reconstruction that does not assert the dominance of the white over the black. To this it is wisely answered that no law can establish such a dominance—that it must come from superior energy, enterprise and thrift. Some tell us that civil rights to the negro means a war of races. The answer is that to deny the negro civil rights, which are inherent in the proclamation of emancipation, isto declare such a war. Yet all thistime, while we linger between two opinions, the Southern country drifts into that strife which history never records without shuddering—a strife of race with race. The doctrine of repudia- tion rapidly becomes a question of public and accepted policy in many sovereign Southern States. States like Massachusetts and New York, whose credit is untainted and whose honor is dear to every citizen, find them- selves bound to other States who declare that they will not only repudiate their own debts, but do what lies in their power toward the repudiation of the national debt. The in- tegrity of the Union, therefore, once assailed by secession, is now more seriously menaced by repudiation and aSt. Domingo war between men of different blood. There is surely a remedy for all this, but our statesmen are not brave enough to grasp it. We should either regard the South asa military conquest and govern it by proconsuls, or as a sovereign element of the Union and worthy of fraternal sovereign rights. If we cannot trast the Southern States let us restore the military departments and send our gene- rals down to command them. Such a change would be welcome in some respects, for there would certainly be no war between races, no legislative repudiation. If, on the con- trary, we can trust the Southern States as sister sovereign commonwealths, then we must show a fraternal and courageous feeling. | It will not do to say that reconstruction began upon the theory that the utmost mercy was shown to the rebels when we did not hang them. That did well enough in war ballads, but we want something else than a ballad chorus now. We begin reconstruction when we ask the South seriously what the war has imposed upon its people, and how can we help them to meet and remove its burdens. We recognize two inevitable facts, direct fruits of the war, the integrity of the Union and the emancipation of the slaves. We regard slavery as a crime, and as a crime happily atoned and condoned. But how far are we responsible for this crime, and in justly declaring it to be a crime can we waive our share of its respon- sibility and throw it on the South? We have regarded it as a crime for ten years, but for | two hundred years we sustained it as an insti- tution, Our armies protected it, our states- | en defended it, our laws hallowed it, our | tree Northern soil was made the hunting ground of the slavecatcher. We sharedin its wealth, and even now many of us are rich with the earnings of the bondman. We abolished slavery as a war measure. No one regrets that act. But in dealing with re- construction we are bound to ask the question, Did we abolish it ina manly way? The abo- lition of slavery was virtually imposing upon the Southern States a war indemnity twice, or, according to some calculations, four times as large as the fine imposed by Germany upon France. Was it wise to inflict this upon o people who could only pay it by their ruin? France paid her indemnity by an act of finan- cial negotiation, No French citizen felt it ex- cept as a slight increase in his tax list, But the Southern States paid their indemnity by uni- versal bankruptcy. France was compelled to accept her burden from an alien enemy, the Southern States were compelled to accept theirs from ‘brother commonwealths,”’ fined France as an act of punishment, the North ruined the South in the spirit of ‘broth- erly love.” We abolished slavery as a sin, and yet whatever the sin it was ours no less than that of the South. Its restoration is impos- sible. But is it impossible to consider the dreadful burdens imposed upon the South by the war, and especially by this war fine of emancipation, and to ask ourselves whether we cannot in some way assuage them? We do not contemplate any indemnity to the old slave masters, for that would be impossible and impracticable. But is there nothing else we can do? In answering this question lies the courage of reconstruction. Let our people dismiss that unmanly thought of self-preservation which has animated every relation towards theSouth since the war ended. For wo now see where these timid counsels lead. We refuse to deal with the South in a spirit of generous statesmanship, we cloud ourselves in fears of a new rebellion or of the return of Mr. Davis and his friends to power; we pro- fess to dread the ghost of secession. But we see what is of more terrible import to the peace of the Republic—repudiation and a St. Domingo war of races. If this is all that ten years of reconstruction have brought us, then better that Grant had surrendered to Lee | under the shades of Appomattox. Let us look at the question bravely. Let us ask the Southern States, rebels and all, into a fraternal discussion of the war, its issues, causes, burdens and respontibilities. Let us consider gravely the whole slavery question and ask ourselves whether we cannot earn some of the glory of emancipation by helping the South to share some of the burdens that act imposed upon its people, burdens from which it has not been able to rise. Let us have a national convention of peace and reconstruction. Let us consider whether we do not owe the South something more than easy phrases in the inter- est of peace. Let us give its people some earnest, fraternal, generous aid in the work of recon- struction. The Union can never be built upon the ruin of a group of its commonwealths. We see nothing but ruin to the Southern com- monwealths now, and no way out of it except what may be prompted by the wisdom of a national convention, which should be sum- moned without delay. Mil& tor the Babes. We think it was John Swinton, the cel- ebrated Commune leader, who presented the theory that the more advanced our civiliza- tion the more newspapers we should have, and that a city like New York should support at least two hundred daily journals. One of the melancholy chapters in Mr. Hudson’s ad- mirable ‘History of Journalism” is the nar- rative of the dead newspapers of the past generation. Mr. Greeley on one occasion said that “Vol. L—No. 1” on the title page of the new journal made him feel like walking through a graveyard. But Mr. Greeley was not without his sad moods, and while Mr. Swinton has an enthusiastic temperament when discussing property questions, he is conserva- tive about newspapers. We are more disposed to accept his view of their value than that of our lamented and illustrious contemporary. We believe in a multitude of newspapers, and our chief regret in reading Mr. Hudson's book is that all the journals whose memory he so tenderly cherishes are not alive to-day. We are informed that on Monday, the 21st of September, we shall havea new daily news- paper in New York, called The Republic, a “first class morning newspaper, double sheet, devoted to the general news of the day, and the review and discussion of the various financial, political and literary events of the time.” It will be published under ‘‘joint stock owner- ship,” and the trustees whose names are signed to the circular which has been sent to us are C. C. Norvell, E. B. Wesley and T. C. Platt. They are the trustees of ‘The New York Republican Newspaper Association,” “incorporated under the general manutactur- ing laws of New York, with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars, divided into five hundred shares of one thousand dollars each,” subscriptions to which may be made at No. 14 Wall street. These trustees are men of character and experience. Mr. Nor- vell was for many years associated with Mr. Raymond as the financial editor of his jour- nal. Mr. Wesley was concerned with Mr. Raymond in the founding of the paper and was for years his partner in business, Mr. Platt is a bright, lively politician, and all we know against him is that he is a member of Congress. We do not know two men in jour- nalism who can do more witha half million of dollars than Mr. Norvell and Mr, Wesley. The circular does not go beyond the cold financial narrative here recited. But the ap- pearance of the Republic betokens something more than a mere newspaper publication. For some time the administration party in New York has been sadly in want of an organ. Since Mr. Nast took to caricaturing the Presi- dent that illustrious public functionary has actually been without any newspaper to read. The Hon. Hugh J. Hastings has been his only resource; but Mr. Hastings’ combative nows- paper only appears in the evening, and it is in the morning that newspaper mischief is mainly done. The Tribune has abandoned politics for journalism, and the voice which once summoned ‘Men and brethren” to “arouse!” is hushed. The World is loyal to the principles of 1798 (we think this is the date), and to the memory of Jefferson (if we remember the name correctly), and to the good old democratic party, which would have died out on the highway, an abandoned out- cast, if Mr. Marble had not taken it to his arms and given it new life. The Evening Post confines itself to ancient ballads and Massa- chusetts politics, while the Sun “shines for all,’ excepting the administration. The Star sits in sackcloth and ashes over the sepulchre of the Ring and will not be consoled. The He- press is an exponent of ecclesiastical demoo- acy. The administration orman, since Mr. Germany | Kaymond’s death, has undergone so many vicissitudes that no one knows where it now stands. It has passed into the hands of ‘managers’ who discuss foreign politics and print stories of a questionable character about gamblers and improper females. It is no longer ‘loyal to the admin- istration,”’ but gives the political babes of the to their needs. This want the Republic will supply. The administration babes that have long been famishing for want of milk will see that the time has come for nourishment with wholesome food, and not acrid hash and bitter beer. We have no fear that Mr. Norvell and Mr. Wesley will crawl at the feet of General Grant; but they will not petu- lantly quarrel with him. They will print a gentlemanly, decorous newspaper, having among other attributes the immense advan- tage of knowing about the country and its institutions, tor it is rather depressing to the mind of the average Custom House politician to be instructed upon ‘Endowment bills’ | and “Established Church laws” and ‘English watering places’’ when his soul is burning for news about the home issues. The appearance of the new paper is asso- ciated with a rumor that it will support the third term. Upon this interesting point the circular is silent. We wish the Republic abundant success, and trust its founders will realize all of their expectations, and that the President will at last have a newspaper which will deserve the government advertisements and be a comfort to him. The Desecration of the Siage. Shakespeare or Bacon, we are not sure which, tells us in ‘‘Hamlet’’ that guilty crea- tures, sitting ata play, have been so moved by the very cunning of the scene that they have risen and proclaimed their malefactions. For fear of such an event we advise Mr. Beecher, Mr. Tilton, Mr. Moulton and the Brooklyn crowd generally to keep away from the Bowery Theatre. To-night, unless tne police interfere, all of the heroes of the Ply- month church revival are to be represented in a Brooklyn society drama, written by Mr. Frederick Stinson, Messrs. Bronson, Camp- bell, Daly and all other native dramatists must retire before the genius of Mr. Stinson, who conceived the idea of grouping these people upon the stage, and thus becomes the author of the first American play. It would be a refreshing sight to see the actors in the real drama as spectators of this similitude, though, of course, they could not go to the theatre together. Mr. Beecher, who is now in a box, would naturally take another; Mrs. Tilton would certainly go as near to heaven as the galleries allow; Mr. Moulton would get behind the scenes, and Mr. Tilton by many persons would be expected to takea place in the pit. But as the plot ot ‘Passion’s Perils’ closely follows the testimony in the Brooklyn affair; though with interesting varia- tions, the performance would be at times em- barrassing to the prototypes of the characters. “Statements’’ and explanations would fre- quently interrupt the play. How could Mr. Beecher remain quiet when his double on the stage kisses Mrs. Tilton? or how could Mr. Tilton either? What would Mrs, Tilton do if she saw Theodore embracing Tennie Claflin? If there isany truth in Hamlet’s theory we think the Bowery audience would be a great deal more interesting than even the Bowery actors. What the literary merit of this play may be we do not know, but the managers admit that it depends for success upon the fact that the characters are the real persons in the life drama under assumed names. Mr. Beecher is the Rev. Joel James Bayham, the saint, and Mr. Tilton Frederick Thornton, the sinner. Moulton, Mrs. Tilton and the Wood- hulls are plainly indicated. But it is claimed that as the play represents all these people as innocent, with the exception of Victoria and Tennie, it cannot be offensive or immoral. We are afraid this claim cannot be admitted. A play that pro- poses to put a disgusting reality before the public in the disguise of art cannot but offend good taste. The public has been told that the Rev. Mr. Beecher kissed Mrs. Tilton, and its morality cannot be improved by the spectacle of dn actor made up like Mr. Beecher repeat- ing the performance. We should look with much more complacency upon a representa- tion of Mr. Tilton dandling Susan B, Anthony on his knee, for in that there is nothing which tends to the overthrow of virtue. It would be a pastoral picture of the innocence of the Golden Age. But os the stage is said to be the great teacher‘ of mankind, we think it would be much better employed than in embodying in form and motion the scandals of this shameful story. ‘Passion’s Perils’ in Boston was withdrawn by order of the authorities; but here we trust that public opinion and the sober second thought of the management will accomplish a similar result. The Bowery has always been the home of virtue, and should not be permitted to fall to the level of the Broadway theatres, where French morality sits enthroned. When we go to the Bowery we expect to see a noble sailor rescue a lovely maid from a dozen or so of pirates, and it would bea pity to have such instructive pieces replaced by the modern horrors of a Brooklyn society drama. The prejudice against all’ theatres is certainly strong enough without making them more odious by an unnecessary-imitation of the Church. Yet much as we must disapprove of, the Beecher scandal as a subject for dramatic per- formance, there is greater reason to condemn the opéra bouffe as at present conducted at the Lyceum Theatre. ‘Passion’s Perils” is coarseness unconcealed, but “La Timbale d’ Argent’ is obscenity disguised in the most attractive garb. Brilliant music and fine act- ing are employed to exalt a subject which is gimply infamous. For the very reasons that the open vulgarity of Fielding, or Smol- lett, or even Rabelais himself, is less dis- gusting to the fastidious mind than the lasciviousness of Swinburne or Byron, is such an opera as ‘La Timbale d’ Argent” more hideous than the common cancan or indecent songs of the music hall. It is like Massinger’s wonderful description of a prosti- | tute—a splendid sin, a dazzling pestilence, an outeast clothed in glittering diamonds and costly raiment, There was a time when the opéra bouffe professed to give harmless amusement to those who like the light and now its aims are very different. It was never a modest entertainment. but ita indecoram Custom House articles painfully inadequate | lively melodies of the Offenbach school, but | Was that of 8 romp whose improprieties are pardoned for her high spirits. Now the opéra bouffe comes as a painted, licentious creature, who can only amuse by indecency. When operas like ‘La Timbale d’Argent’’ are pro- duced it is time for the institution to be aban- doned by the respectable public, which has hitherto sustained it, Vice is not so danger- ous when it is confined to those who are vicious, but when {t invades the higher so- ciety, under the pretence of being innocent art, itshould be thrust back into the slums and gutters where it belongs. “Grace, Mercy and Peace.” Our Boston despatches confirm the stery printed the other day that the friends of Mr. Beecher are seeking reconciliation. It seems that another ‘‘mutual friend’’ in the person of James Redpath has come upon the scene. Mr. Redpath isa mild, busy, talkative person of the fungus type, who began his career as a parasite of John Brown in Kansas, and has been more or less in this relation to the lead- ing men of New England ever since. He isa more tranquil spirit than Moulton, with ex- traordinary capacity for talk, and with even less discretion. Redpath as the ‘mutual friend” will bea blessing to the Boston re- porters and distil his interviews like oracles all over New England. It seems from what our correspondent gathers that Moulton is now in Boston to consult with General Butler as to his proposed statement, and that by the good offices of Mr. Redpath an ambassador from Mr. Beecher has arrived in the person of Mr. Cleveland. The purpose of Mr. Cleve- land is to suppress the proposed statement, to prevent the trial and allow the whole mat- ter to end as it is at present. There are some ways, of course, in which this scandal could be brought to an end. Mr. Beecher's house is only mortgaged for five thousand dollars, and there is, we believe, no mortgage upon Plymouth church. A good deal of ‘grace, mercy and peace’’ could be realized out of these two pieces of property, and in such business transactions Mr. Moul- ton has experience. He has compelled Mr. Bowen and Mr. Beecher to pay already, and any triumph over Mr. Bowen in a money question shows’ the highest genius. Further- more Moulton, in imitation of that other great diplomatist Bismarck, could deal with Plym- outh church as the German Chancellor dealt with France, namely, punish the congregation for its animosity by imposing a fine upon the members. If the three thousand lambs could suddenly become ravening wolves and hunt Mr. Moulton down Hicks street because they loved Beecher, what money could they not be induced to pay for ‘grace, mercy and peace.’’ Bismarck squeezed five milliards out of France, and Moulton with his revolver could neta pretty sum out of the congregation. So that with the two mortgages—a second on Mr. Beecher’s house and a first upon the church building—with the fine and another subscription from Mr. Bowen, who will be soon in possession of the available resources of Brooklyn journalism, this whole scandal might become’ one of the most profitable trausactions our community has known since Jay Gould had his settlement with the Erie Railway. The impression conveyed by our correspondent that some arrangement is in progress is confirmed by the silence that has tallen upon Brooklyn. Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton have been all the week waiting like loaded blunderbusses, ready to go off with new ‘‘statements.”” Mr. Moulton was par- ticularly full of new letters which were to be of the ‘most damaging” character. Whether he had any trom the poor old lady Mrs, Morse or from, Mrs. Hooker to her brother wedo not know. But he was understood to be in a condition of spontaneous combustion. Mr. Tilton’s statement was also of a thunder and lightning character. But nothing has been heard of either. If this compromise con- tinues Mr. Maverick will be our only hope for their publication. Upon what reasonable basis can there be “grace, mercy and peace?’’ And in any ne- gotiation who will control Mr. Tilton? Mr. Tilton has been the master of this controversy trom the beginning, and hoe is the master now. He has used Mr. Moulton, Mr. Carpenter, all who, have come into relations with him, like so many gloves. Ho has had a direct purposo from the outset, has never abandoned it, nor swerved trom it, nor been influenced by any one, except so far as it pleased him. He meant to destroy Mr. Beecher, and to do it by a pro- cess of vivisection. Whatever his motive he has certainly submitted his gitted and ven- erable antagonist to four years of exquisite torture. Mr. Moulton and Mr. Carpenter have merely aided him to work the rack and screws. When Mr. Tilton thinks the torture is complete he will cease, but until he does so it is the merest moonshine to deal with Mr. Moulton. Mr. Tilton showed in his letter to Dr. Bacon that he had power enough over Moulton to obtain control of documents intrusted to him in confidence and the integrity of which, as a gentleman, he should have cherished with his life—that Moulton was his creature and his vassal. So he is to-day. Mr. Beecher cannot buy Tilton, he has not yet frightened him, and any ter- mination of this affair short of the whole truth will be a misfortune to society and re- ligion and a prolongation of the four years of misery he has undergone. Better let the truth come, even if Mr. Beecher walks into the East River to hide his shame. For there can be no compromise that will not leave him in a position compared with which suicide would bea blessing. Mr. Beecher has been assailed as no man of this country has been assailed; he has been menaced with the worst form of de- struction; he has placed himself in 4 position that would have terminated in igno- muny the career of any other clergyman, but he has been sustained by his church with singular, extraordinary and beautiful affec- tion, His church has only clung closer and closer to him, and it will love him even as David was loved after his sins against Uriah, no matter what the finale may be. Mr. Beecher owes to Plymonth church the utmost truth, the same confidence it has given him, and, above all, no compromise with his an- | tagonists. There would be no harm in pray- ing for Tilton and Moulton when the proper time comes—and Mr. Beecher has charity enough for the office. But before these prayers for ‘‘grace, mercy and peace,’’ let us have the truth. Compromise is cowardice and crime. We are persuaded that Mr. Beecher does not fear the truth. and he must not allow SN ee ee eI ESSE EEIENNENEE enn ee the Redpaths and Moultons who cling around him to make it appear otherwise. The Return of the Shepherds, At this season both the shepherd and the sheep return after their brief separation from the fold. The clergyman comes back from Paris and London, and the congregation from the Saratoga races, Long Branch, or the camp meeting at Martha’s Vineyard. Wo trust that all are refreshed by the holiday ex- periences, and are strengthened to take up again the labors they relinquished. We have never agreed with those who think a clergy- man should never leave the pulpit. On the contrary, we hold that preachers should have a rest, and so should the congregations. The value of a short respite from toil and anxiety is, we think, shown in the sermons which we print to-day, It may bo in our imagination, yet we think itis not; but cer- tainly it seems that never before did we pub- lish so many brilliant discourses in one day. ‘There seems a new power, an energy, a vivid- ness of illustration, an earnest zeal for which we did not look at the beginning of summer. Precisely which of these clergymen whose ob- servations we have the honor to print have been out of town we do not know, but the public can easily determine by the sermons themselves, It will be found, with a few ex- ceptions, that the best preaching has been done by those who have spent the summer away from the city. Rev. Dr. Cheney, the Very Rev. Vicar General Quinn, Dr. Armi- tage, Dr. Deems, Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, of Kentucky ; Rev. Mr. Talmage, Dr. Chapin and Rev. Mr. Halliday are some of the dis. tinguished divines represented in our columns to-day, and the perusal of so many different views will be found unusually profitable. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir Samuel Hayes, of London, has apartments at the Gilsey House. Alexander Dumas will be received by the French Academy in February, 1875, Atad/ian Khan, younger brother of the Knan of Khiva, isin Constantinople, Secretary Bristow arrived from Washington yes- terday at the Filth Avenue Hotel, General Wiliam Hofman, United States Army, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Lieutenant Colonel Dowling, of the British Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General D. B. Warner, United States Vonsul at St. John, N. B., is staying at the Gilsey House, Vice President Henry Wiison arrived in this city last evening, and 1s at the Astor House. The Paris Amertcan Register was sold August 20, It was bought by Dr. Evans, the dentist, ior 171,200f, or $34,240, A boy, aged thirteen, swimming in the lake at Neufchatel, Switzerland, was seized by a mon- strous pike, but got away from nim. At Marseilles, while the custodian of a public picture gallery went to his dinner, a visitor cute valuable canvas out of its frame and took It with him. That American aloe at Kew is @ fine plant. I¢ has a circamference of thirty feet around the points of the leaves, and the blooms are twenty- two feet high. Jobn Paul Alexander Sapieha, a British subject, has received from the Emperor of Russia authority to bear in Rassla the title of prince, whicn be- longed to nis ancestors. The Marquis de Covodongs, Printe of the Astu- rias, is visiting England. Thisis the young gen- tleman in whose favor his mother, Isabella of Spain, abdicated the Spanish throne. It 1s thought he may enter the military school at Woolwich. Henry Wara Beecher 1s passionately fond of cro- quet, and plays with the ladies, Wonder if Tilton will embody this charge in his next statement? Does the Hon. Christopher Columbus Ryan know? Despite tne vigilance of the authorities the Lan- terne ia extensively circulated in France, I[t is very minute in size, being reduced by photography, and is prouounced by impartial persons very dull. From the report in the Swiss papers of a trans- action in the Bernese Jura, it would appear that the priests ther¢abouts supply absolution through the post office, upon receiving @ written account of the sins to be forgiven. Count de Jarnac, named for the new French Amoassador at London, was First Secretary of Embassy at London under Louis Philippe, and went to Dover to meet His Majesty when he crossed over 10 1848, on account of a little revolu- tion. ‘Was it the destiny of all the men of the Mexi- can expedition to he ruined by their wives? There was Napoleon and Maximilian. Must we ada Bazaine? If it was really his wife who secured tor him the command to which he was so ridiculously unequal she it was who made his ruin inevitavie. Two years ago Mr. Jacobson, a Jew, was elected @ justice of the peace at Sebassopol in Russia. Some of the people, irm in the faitn of religious Intolerance, sent their protestations to the Minis- ter of Justice at St. Petersburg and no more was heard of it, But now Jacobson has been thanked tor the manner in which he discharged his duties, His Majesty the Czar of all the Russias wrote with his own hand to invite Louls, who was once baptized in fire, to goto Russia and witness the autumn mancuvres; but Louis excused himeell on account of school at Woolwich. Is the Czar’s courtesy political or is it procured as a personal gratification by the Russian Grand Duchess Marta, who had a tender place in her heart ior this voy’s father? Queen Victoria has gone to Balmoral, where she will remain till November. She left Osborne, of Wight, on the 20th alt., in the royal yacht Al- berta, crossed to Portsmouth, which she left by special train in the evening, and, travelling through, reached Balmoral the next night. There was some excitement at Perth, because the pub- lic, contrary to the usual custom, were excludea from the railway station by “the peremptory order of Her Majesty.” Prussia proposed at Brussels that the people ot any country found in arms and not regularly en- rolled in the military force should be treated aa criminais; also that they should be similarly treated if they refuse to assist the invaders when called upon. The congress rejected the proposi- tion. In 1813 the Prussian government called upon the people to become a “land storm’ and rush upon the invaders with any arms they could seize, Then tt was the other man’s ox that was gored. Amonroux, aged twenty, and Rollin, aged twen- ty-nine, studepts in Paris, induced Jeanne Druel, dressmaker, aged twenty-two, to make a little ex- cursion on the Seine in what they call acanoe over there, They were all run down by asteamboat, Both the students swam ashore, but Jeanne, girl like, didn’t know how, and was in @ fair way to drown, Bicard, a brave dyer, wason shore. He careiully put off several of his garments, jumped in and saved the pretty grisette, Four persons already inthis drama. Then came the heavy villain, name unknown, He saw Bicard put down his clothes, ana tn the excitemeat fliched the brave dyer’s pock- ets of fourteen francs, and “soixante-quinze cen- times.” And they say the French have the senti- ment of admiration for generous acts, But per- baps he was a foreigner. THE SENEGA LAKE Emin, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1874, Great interest {3 manilested in the regatta on Seneca Lake, woich ts to come off on the 9th, 10th and 11th inst, A large number of entries have been made for both rowing and a Cornell University will enter a F cewe probably the same —_ rowed at sare, Ge BOAT RAGE | ‘AT -“ HALIPAX, Hauirax, N. S., Sept. 6, 1874, The boat race fixed for Tuesday next at Bed ford Basin, between Logan’s crew, of St. John, and Ross Foley's, of Halifax, excites but 4 terest among boat ou tues rons the stakes being only