The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1874, Page 8

6 \NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Marshal Basaine’s Letter. The letter of Marshal Bazaine to the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. | Marshal Bazaine’s denial that he is a politi- cian is just. If he were a politician he would Henatp, published in our columns to-day, is | 20t in this bitter way attack the man to whom the most important declaration of his inno- | he owes his life, nor denounce him as one of cence which that distinguished soldier has | made since his conviction at Versailles. It 1s | the principal authors of the disaster. His- tory will assign to the great captains of the also his first full explanation of his course | war the blame or praise they have deserved, | Race Troubles in the South—The Cause and the Remedy. A recent admirable leader in the Sun, in which our lively and always readable contem- porary rises to the robust moral earnestness which befits sincere conviction on a great subject, lays open, as with a scalpel in skil- THE DAILY HERALD, yublished 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 York Hana. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | Letters and packages should be properly _ sealed. | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. | Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | during the trial and his first direct accusation | of Marshal MacMahon as one of the chic’ authors of the overthrow of France. Thus i is a valuable contribution to the history o! the war with Germany, for the determinatio of Marshal Bazaine’s position in that great | a contest will be one of the principal duties the | “T™nce just historian must hereafter perform. t public act of Marshal Bazaine peat ee Ste. Marguerite | claim him as its agent. He belongs to the Re- after his escape from the Isle of and present recriminations are idle. If f | Bazaine concedes that MacMahon honestly t | did all he could for France, as he seems to ¢ | admit, criticism of his military actions might n | 88 well be left to others. Marshal Mac- Mahon now holds the government of in trust for the people. He | bas shown integrity and faithfulness amid great temptations, No party can justly should be to thank the Hrnanp for the im- | Publicas it is, not, perhaps, to the Republic as partiality with which it has treated him, and seg. hrough its agency a definite state | maintain that government till the people to give t ment of the position he claims to hold, is but | one proof among many of the value of really independent journalism. We have done no should they similarly object— cer- more for this soldier than we do for his foes were placed, and have had but one the discovery of the truth. This _ | tainly entitles the Hrracp to no personal | gratitude, and it is, doubtless, the conscious- | ness that he would be treated without preju- | dice for or against him that induced Marshal | Bazaine to appeal to the world through our | columns, Neither partisan nor enemy, the Hupatp has become a court of appeal from | courts which wrongly condemn or acquit. The Caesar at Washington, and the | black Cwsar of the South (called P.M, Mas after a conqueror, as Cooper said in dadrich and Misa Sophie Miles, one of his novels, as if in derision of his de- OLYMPIC THEATRE, — en | ed condition) are to us equally indifferent AT ie caneen aaa psy 8 sacred. It is because this abso- lute independence is understood that such men as Marshal Bazaine seek the Hynatp as | a medium of communication with the world. Don Carlos did so when he gave to our repre- sentative at Biarritz his manifesto to the European nations, This mark of confidence the contestant for the Spanish throne repeated, | when he first published in our columns of yesterday his definition of the policy he in- tends to pursue if he wins the crown by the | sword and his intentions in regard to Cuba. The latter announcement is of extreme interest | to the people of this country, no matter what | effect it may have upon the policy of their * ARDE: nd Houston streets.—THE DeeeT eae v.M, The Kirauty raunily. Macon WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strect.—OUR CLERKS, ICT ON PARLE FRANCAIS, and OFF THE LINE, at’ 8 P. M.; closes at LP. M. J. L. oole. Matine: 230 P.M et: —FOUL FLAY, at 10:30 P.M. Lo} at wis and at 8 P. M.: clos FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, | THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, at SP. M.; closes at Il | P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Jewett, Lewis James, Charles Fisher. Matinee at 1:30 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, aa Fonrteenth street and Sixth aveuue.—LA PRINCESSE DB TREBIZON DE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mie. ‘Aimee, Mile. Minelly. Matinee at 1:30 P. Mt. THEATRE COMIQOE, No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P. M.: closes at 10:20 ¥.M. Matinee at2 P.M. BOOTH’S ATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth ayenne.— BELLE LAMAR, at 8 P. M.; closes at10:30 P.M. John MgOullongh and Miss K. Rogers Kandolpa. Matinee at METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Wo. 585 Broadwsy.—Parisian Cancan Dancers, at8 P. M. Matinee at 2 P.M. RORIN ON HALL, government. The King of Denmark 1s hour of disgrace than anything he has said | party meee a ea nee ata ae een another monarch who has expressed his | here, and, altogether, the tone of his letter is | BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, | policy through the Hxraxp, and this | honorable and manly. He has the right to ‘West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NRGRO | MINSTRELSY, at 8 F M"Dan Dryanc Matince at2 | Wa8 also the case with the King of Swe- den and Norway, who, about a year ago, | frankly discussed with our correspondent at | Stockholm the proposed reforms in those | countries, Gambetta, the leader of the French Riese ees 2M, Matinee at? Pe republicans, and Guizot, the Nestor of France, | " ESTE a | are amoug the distinguished European crand Seventh avenue THOMAS? CON- | statesmen who have fully declared their oh Spee enero a | views through the agency of this journal. | After he had lost his throne Louis Napoleon, | | and subsequently the Prince Napoleon, gave | their views upon the future of France to our correspondents. The Czar expressed his | — : — | opinions upon Russia in a similar way, and | New York, Saturday, Sept. 12, 1874. | Von Beust and even Bismarck, one of the | = Sewer —— | most reticent of statesmen, spoke freely of the | From our reports this morning the probabilities | condition of Austria and the purposes of Ger- are that the weather to-day will be clear. | many. It is notable that these eminent men THEATRE, GLO} E, Y, at 3P. No. 728 Broadway.—V A. P.M. Matinee at2P. M. M.; closes at 10 SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of Twenty-ninth street-—NEGRO Fifty-ninth st: CERT, at 5 P. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue, between >ixty-third and Sixty-fourth Streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. TRIPLE § | silence, and, in loyalty to that great memory, | The words near the close of his letter are | orable consideration | knapsack he carried when the marshal’s baton | opting Reps ie | should choose an American journal for the ‘Wan Srazer Yzsterpay.—The stock mar- | publication of their opinions, passing by all the European papers, but it is not altogether strange, tor itis in this country that journalism has reached its highest development, both in enterprise and independence. Nor does the Henavp hold a less important place in the esti- mation of the public in America. It will be | remembered that when Utah and the United | States were involved in a dispute which | threatened very serious results Brigham Young | officially explained his position as the Mormon ruler in 4 letter to us, while the two Gov- ernors of Arkansas, Baxter and Brooks, submitted their rival claims to our decision, which anticipated, in every im- portant particular, the action of the general | government. In fact, the thorough revelation of affairs in Arkansas, given by the Henan, made it impossible for the President to take any other course. But it is unnecessary to further recapitulate the evidences of the | power of independent journalism. The news- paper now supersedes the old system of | ket, while irregular, shows the same disposi- tion to higher prices. Gold was steady at | 1093. Gk aaa hes Tae Inrerxationan Law AssoctaTion has tlosed its proceedings at Geneva. Its object was to obviate the necessity of war, yet stand- ing armies were never as large in Europe. Axotuzr Ramnoap Disaster has occurred | in England, on the Great Eastern Railroad, ‘by which twenty persons were killed and fifty wounded. The rate of speed at which English trains are run makes collisions more destruc- | tive than they are in America, and they seem to be more frequent now in Great Britain than at any previous time. Game m tHe Rocky Movntars.—Else- where this morning we publish a letter from our correspondent who is “‘roughing it’ in the Rocky Mountains. He treats of a sub- _ject of universal interest; for hunting, as therein detailed, is not merely an idle sport, appealing to our spirit of adventure alone, | but a sanitary pursuit, having the best effect upon body and mind. Governor Drx is seriously ill at his resi- ‘dence at West Hampton, but we are glad to | say not dangerously. He is poisoned by wild ivy, a disease which causes much suffering, and an attack of erysipelas, probably induced by tho poisoning, has been checked. The ftrongest political opponents of Governor | Dix hope equally with his friends for his | Bpeedy and complete restoration to health. Govennor Baxter Cries, ‘‘Hotp! Exovan!’’ Though unanimously nominated by the late Democratic State Convention for re-election as Governor of Arkansas, he positively declines the honor. He has had enough of it and of the amusements of mounted riflemen, bushwhackers, ‘belligerent niggers” and civil war, and he gracefully retires, thankful that he is atill in the land of the living. Wise man, that Governor Baxter. Tae Drovent—Siens or Raty.—The fearful and disastrous drought, which we may say has dried up all the land from the great plains to the Atlantic coast, and from the Gulf of Mex- ico far into the interior of the New Dominion, is, we hope and believe, now rapidly coming to an end. The signs of rain are thickening from day to day, and the widely extended July temperature, of the last two days particu- Jarly, must surely, we think, bring about a speedy and far extending atmospheric reac- tion, with bountiful rains. ‘Tae Tamp Txnm i tae Sourn.—There ‘was recently an extensive movement among diplomacy. Official gazettes and administra- | tion ‘organs’ have passed away as mediums of communication with the people, and cor- respondents fulfil the trusts which were once imposed only on ambassadors. Newspaper watchfulness and energy do more for the public good than parliamentary or Congres- sional investigations, and the London Times has more than once of late years destroyed national evils which the government had afterwards only to bury. But this power of journalism is not derived from enterprise and popularity only; it must rest upon the world’s confidence in the accuracy with which a great newspaper reports facts, and the absolute im- partiality with which it does justice to all men. Marshal Bazaine comes to us in the frank, blunt spirit of a soldier with the story of his wrongs. He is unquestionably right in claim- sins of others, and is offered up as an atone- ment to the indignation of France. That he was not judged by his peers is, naturally, to him sufficient to justify his escape, and ho arraigna the Duc d’Aumale as, in o military point of view, his inferior, and therefore an incompetent judge. Though the Duke might be regarded as almost an old man Marshal Bazaine calls bim a young soldier, sneers at his exploits in carrying off a few | womenand some cattle in Algeria and denies his | ability to judge of the military course adopted | at Metz. But it seems to us that, putting aside any discussion of the military compe- | tency of the President of the Council, the question of the peerage of the prisoner and his judges might be waived by the Marshal | in his eppeal to the higher verdict j of the people. Technicalities are use-, | Mr. Seward, and largely influenced the diplo- | ; ment in another form. We do not question | thousand millions of dollars was | guished, and the men who owned that prop- | ing that he was made the scapegoat for the | Southern conservatives from Virginia to Geor- | ful in tribanals, but the people have gia in favor of General Grant for a third Pres- | little respect for them. It is not the consti- idential term. But if since his recent letter to | tution of the court that they care for, but the Attorney General Williams, which was a carte | nature of the evidence presented, and in his- blanche touching the employment of United | tory Bazaine will not be exonerated because States troops tor the suppression of Southern | of the incapacity of his judges. More im- | outrages—if since this official proclamation the portant than this point in his letter is the | Southern conservatives are still in favor of an- | attack it contains upon Marshal MacMahon's | other verm to General Grant, they must surely | conduct of his part of the war—the evacua- | be if favor of the restoration of the blessings | tion of Alsace, his desertion of the Vosges and of martial law. We dare say, however, that | failure to utilize the railroads, his impradence even (feneral Toombs is no longer a fire-eater | and presumption in accepting battle when as in support of the dangerous proposition of | a general he should have taken no risks. This ning lo te Provident o third term. criticiam i# wanecessary now and abows that | it may become, and is, we believe, resolved to | themselves reclaim the power they have dele- gated, by constitutional methods which no faction ean control. Whether he fought wisely or unwisely in Alsace is not the ques- tion now, nor would the proof of his error | exonerate Marshal Bazaine. Bazaine must | look mgher when he would find the author of the ruin for which he claims, and not without truth, that he has been made the scapegoat. Let him go to the Emperor. Beside the marble tomb at Chiselhurst he may stand in utter none of those just reproaches which would be wasted on the dull, cold ear of death. That his duty to the Napoleonic dynasty did not end with the Emperor's death is evidently the conviction of Marshal Bazaine. a menace to the Republic and to President MacMahon:—‘I do not look upon my military career as onded. Some duties remain to. be fulfilled, and I shall fulfil them when the time comes.” There can be but one interpretation of these sentences, and that is that Marshal Bazaine is resolved to be as faithful to the son as he was to the sire. We regret this devoted but useless passion for the Empire, which was always an evil to France. But that which entitles Marshal Bazaine to hon- in all that he may say is that fate has made him the sui- ferer. He is banished from his country, de- prived of his rank, stigmatized as unfaithful. Much more could be excused to him in this | make the proud boast that ‘MacMahon and I were sometimes unhappy, but never ridicu- lous. No German could afford to laugh when attacked by me.”’ The spectacle of a heroic spirit surrounded by misfortune commands | admiration, and this old soldier of France bears his burden as bravely as if it were the | was no more to him than a glittering distant | dream. Mr.., Weed and the Proposed Conven- tion. The veteran Thurlow Weed has expressed | certain views on the proposed convention of | peace and reconstruction which our readers | will find elsewhere. They are worthy of the | respect that should always be paid to experi- | | ence and patriotism. Probably no man now | living is as familiar with the inside of our war | history as Mr, Weed; for during the war he possessed the confidence of Mr. Lincoln and matic result by his counsels and his influence. Mr. Weed, we observe, takes issue with the | HerawD upon our argument that emancipa- | tion was a “fine.” He rogards it as ‘a | penalty,” which the South invited by enter- | ing into a causeless war. We do not differ with Mr, Weed. He merely states our argu- the wisdom, the justice or the statesman- ship of emancipation. We entirely agree that the Southern leaders invited it | and should not complain. But what | we say is this, that in considering the results of the war, so far as they tend to | the present unhappy condition of affairs in | the South, we must estimate the act of eman- cipation as a financial question. By this act | property to the amount, let us say, of two extin- | erty were so much poorer. Instead of being | @ fine imposed upon the Commonwealth, as | Germany with France, and paid by a system of general taxation, it was the amereement of | the slaveholding classes, in many instances to the extent of their whole possessions. In this respect it resembled more the policy. of | Henry VIII. in seizing the lands of the Church, or the policy of the French Conven- tion in confiscating the lands of the émigrés. We recite this military view of emancipa- tion, not as a special grievance that should be remedied, for we do not admit it to be a grievance, but rather as an illustration of the severity of the war upon the South. And, while we do not recognize any claim on the part of the slaveholders for compen- sation, we do say that in dealing with reconstruction we should consider this extraordinary amercement, and aid | the Southern people in some way to bear it. | We should do this the more because in look- | ing at the question from a high point of view | we must admit that slavery was an instijution which we in the North cherished for two cen- turies, and which Mr. Lincoln would not have abolished had it not been to his mind a war measure. It was therefore a fine, or, if Mr. Weed prefers the word, a self-invited “penalty,” imposed upon the South, And we do not see how there can be any generous and abiding plan of reconstruction that does not so consider it. | In the main the views of Mr. Weed are | statesmanlike and brave. If the Northern | people would only enter npon the question of | reconstruction in this spirit there would soon | bean end. Is it not time to put away hatred | and seek trath and fraternity? Geyerat Mnigs’ Inpian Camparon.—Gen- eral Miles, after pursuing a large body of war- like Indians, from the great plains west of the Indian Territory down to Texas, over- hauled them, gave them a sound thrashing and routed them, and from our latest advices from his command was still on the warpath in hot pursuit of the retreating redskins. For ‘bad Indians” this is a far better policy than high feeding and gilt-edged hymn books, and even for ‘good Indians’ meditating a holiday excursion this warning from General Miles will be better than a raver meeting. ful hands, the motives and origin of the re- cent Southern disturbances, which the 4dmin- istration has exaggerated and seized upon as @ pretext for subjecting wide sections to mili- tary terrorism. The political sagacity, just- ness of view and vigor of statement which mark the efforts of the Sun on this and the like occasions are not only creditable to itself, but reflect honor on the really independent and intrepid journalism of which our contempo- rary affords a genuine specimen. While cor- dially indorsing the views of the Sun as to the causes of the existing troubles we should be glad of its efficient co-operation in urging upon public attention the proper remedies. The Sun hasa clear perception of the occasion and excesses of the monstrous abuses of fede- ral power in the Southern States which grew out of unguarded defects in the reconstruc- tion measures adopted with precipitate heat amid the unextinguished passions which were the natural legacy of a great civil war. In the Hrratp's opinion what was then done with blind and passionate precipitation, while the caldron of sectional animosities was still boiling by the fierce fires. of the war and fanned into fresh intensity by the deptorable assassination of President Lincoln, requires revision and rectification by cooler and wiser statesmanship. We would deprive the negro of none of his newly acquired rights; we would not impair the perfect equality of the two races; but we would erect an insur- mountable barrier against those abuses of federal authority which the Sun deprecates and denounces, and to which the incautious reconstruction measures opened the way. These lamentable evils admit of a perfect remedy without surrendering any valuable result of the war, without shocking public opinion in the rational state to which it is re- turning, and without giving up any security either for the perpetuity of the Union or the rights of the colored race. The text of the Sun’s article is a statement by Mr. Hays, a member of Congress from Alabama on his way to Washington to petition for troops, that two years ago he was elected by five thou- sand majority, but that if the election were to be held now he would be beaten. Hereupon the Sun says, with the energy of deep convic- tion: — Here is the key to the war, which is the excuse for pouring blue coats and bayonets inio recon- Biructed States that have had buck and bali in surieit, Radical members of Congress are to be returned, and voluntary pular support falling, the persuasions of breech-loaders are to ve evoked. There has been nowhere South anything so alarm- ing to tranquillity as in Kentucky and ‘tennessee, aud they have not had any help irom the military arm, aud need none. This whole trumpeting of danger is nothing but what we had betore the 1e- bDellion, and shall have in the luture until these States are repopulaied, ‘The substance of this is that if Alabama were left free to conduct her own elections, without federal interference, she could rectify her internal disorders and send to Congress representatives who would be exponents of the real public sentiment of the State. The Sun charges that the administration fears the loss of its majority in the House, and is putting the South under military terrorism to influence | the elections and ward off the “fearful look- ing forot judgment and fiery indignation” which would come with an opposition ma- jority in Congress. It says:— This nefarious plot to frighten the people has | an immediate and a remote object. It 18 not solely a strategic movement of the third term. ‘The in- dications oi an opposition House are growing tast | drom probability to certainty, and this must be 1m- peded at all hazards and at any cost, Nothing can be mo.e fatal. With.an adverse majority in | the lower branch of the Legislature will come in- vestigations and deep provings. Corruption the most astounding, ail forms of malversation and musrule, trauds unknown and villapy hidden, wilt | come to the suriace and sunsiine. The miserabie scheming for a third election will be blown to the winds aud the head conspirators go into tne pil- lory of history. To uvert this disaster now de- mands ail o1 the energy of the administration, and its full vigor wiil be exercised wituin or withous the consutution and laws, The way in which the negro mind has here- tofore been worked upon, misguided and seduced with false hopes and hollow promises, whose disappointment now provokes a reac- tion, ig set forth by the Sun in these scathing sentences: — From the assumption and exercise of the right | to vote by the late vassal there has been one un- varying and upintermitted system of deceit aud | mendacity in tmtercourse, been that of children im their simplicity and ca- price. vromises of impossibie things tave been made to them, and their jears have nad the terrors Their treatments has | of fancied wrong and illusion} and now, when sucn | Juifilment is demanded and iails, come the resent- ment and withdrawal of support. ‘Ihe very con- vention which had these mucuinists at work among Its cogs and wheels gave no sign of appro- Val of the Civil Rignts bill, now the unreal ana Jan- tastic dream of the Alrican. Jt 18 these things which are no real grievance, and are nothing but an alicnation from the men and party who nave cheated them, The votes of four millions of peo- pile are now the heavy dice which these gambiers in politics are throwing, reckless of the peace of their own section or quietude in states outside ot | the institutions which are to ve convulsed by the | revival of Old questions settled already by a waste o! treasure and blood unknown hitherto in the worid’s history. Nor do we see tne end. Now, in view of this state of things, we appeal to the clear sagacity, good judgment and sound patriotism of the Sun for its co- operation in the only scheme of reform which ean rectify the abuses which it depicts in such vivid and truthful colors. A mere change of administration is no effectual rem- edy. It would only lop off the branches of an evil which ought to be plucked up by the roots. The Sun's patriotism and the patriot- ism of any virtuous citizen should be alarmed and astounded at the bare possibility of such evils as it exposes being perpetrated under color of legal authority conferred by the re- construction acts. The yery possibility of such abuses should be shut out by aiiend- ments of tho federal constitution. The Sun concedes that the third term folly lies at the root of this military interference in the South as its prompting motive, and that the powers conferred on the President by the reconstruction acts are its pretext. amendment of the constitution limiting the President toa single term would extinguish the motive and another amendment would destroy the pretext. Too much is left under our present system to the play of party pas- sions and the promptings of Presideutial am- bition. A wise revision of the constitution would render such evils impossible. We agitating for a national convention tu engraft such reforms in the fundamental law as will protect and pacify the country, Tur Pork Packens have held their national convention at Louisville, Ky., and, as will be seen elsewhere, gave their answer as to “who wrote Shakespeare” by declaring unani- mously in favor of Bacon. A banquet in honor of Lard Verulam was given last evening. An | therefore invite the Sun to unite with us in | Mr. Moulton’s Third Statement. All of Mr. Moulton’s statement which is essential to a {urther understanding of the Beecher scandal is published in our columns to-day. That which has been printed re- peatedly before is omitted, except where it is necessary to the continuity of the narrative, and this is done because we believe the public is disgusted with the affair and weary of superfluous reiteration, But while it is dis- gusted the public has not lost its interest in, the cage, but, on the contrary, is more de- sirous to have the facts established and to get ridot the discussion forever. Nothing less will satisfy the millions of readers whose anxiety the Plymouth church investigation only served to increase, and for that reason we do not hesitate to print passages in the testimony of Mr. Moulton which otherwise could never have admission to this paper. The scandal has gone so far that nothing is to be gained by attempting to suppress what cannot be hidden; the truth is of more im- portance to the public now than delicacy, and, indeed, the limits of delicacy have been al- ready so far overstepped that any further license makes no practical difference. Mr. Moulton, if his charges are true, is for the same reason justified in telling the story plainly, and placing the responsibility, whero it rightly belongs, upon the facts. Some of these facts are new, and in the shape of documentary evidence—letters from Mrs. Morse, Mr. Beecher and Mrs, Tilton. They are strange letters, breathing of mystery, sorrow, fear and hinting, it may be presumed, of sin. The new letters of Mr. Beecher him- self are as difficult to explain upon the pre- sumption of his innocence as those which have been published, and fit almost as awkwardly into his version of the causes of his trouble. But that which is most startling in the statement is Mr. Moul- ton’s direct personal testimony. This is to the effect that Mr. Beecher confessed to him not only his adultery with Mrs. Tilton, but also his criminal connection with other women, and the details of this confession form the most disgusting portions of the document. The credibility of Mr. Moulton is, of course, to be mensured against the credibility of Mr. Beecher in the light of the admitted facts. Here it is that the strong element of Mr. Moulton’s statement is found. He has compared dates, contrasted language, analyzed circumstances, and thus framed an | argument which is damaging to the theory of Mr. Beecher’s innocence. It will not do, therefore, for the champions of that theory to say that Mr. Moulton is not worthy of belief; that isa course which they might profitably adopt if he came before the public with an unsupported assertion. But it is not unsup- ported ; he sustains it with documentary evi- dence, and the assertion, the facts, the logic, must all be judged together. To the charge of blackmailing preferred by Mr. Beecher a full reply is made by Mr. Moul- ton, and this is the feast interesting portion | of the statement, for the reason that the charge never had much weight with the pub- lic. Mr. Beecher’s attitude toward Mr. Moul- ton up to last July is inconsistent with a knowl- edge of blackmailing, and many friends of the pastor have been unable to resist this con- clusion. But as a false charge of blackmail- ing would be as damaging to Mr. Beecher as a confession of adultery, and, in fact, under his circumstances would imply such a confession, they have explained it by a reciprocal misun- derstanding. Thus:—Moulton, wrongly be- lieving Beecher guilty, accuses him; Beecher, conscious of his own innocence, can only ex- plain such an attack by supposing Moulton to have been a mercenary wretch. But while such a theory is necessary to those who are convinced of Mr. Beecher’s innocence, and at the same time certain of Mr. Moulton’s disin- terestedness, it can be dismissed from a calm consideration of the facts. Those facts, with- out reference to their consequences, clearly prove to us that Mr. Moulton did not blackmail Mr. Beecher, but was actuated in these business matters by ordmary motives of kindness to both the men between whom he stood as a friend. Nor do we find in this statement evidence that Mr. Moulton has betrayed Mr. Beecher's confidence, for the publication of all these letters is justified by Mr. Beecher’s attempt to ruin Mr. Moulton’s reputation. We may say, therefore, that we consider that by the production of Mr. Beecher’s own written words Mr. Moulton has cleared his character of the imputations of his opponents, and that any further defence on his part is, at this stage of the developments, unnecessary. The question is entirely as to Mr. Beecher’s innocence, and the new charges require an answer. But it is useless now to make that answer out of court. Mr. Beecher can afford to wait till the suit which Mr. Tilton has brought against him is tried, and till then neither Tilton nor Moulton should say another word. The climax of the scandal appears to have been reached, and a legal decision is all that the public at present desires, Art in Cincinnati. We publish in another column an interest- ing and thoughtful letter on the Art Exposi- tion in Cincinnati. That Western centre of trade is beginning to devote its attention to wsthetic subjects, and will, no doubt, derive much help in its educational march from the presence of the many gems that have been gathered into the art departments of the Exposition. The sight of the artistic produc tions of foreign nations must exercise a stimulating éffect on the minds of men ab- sorbed in employments as useful, though scarcely so elevating, as is art work, and exert a healthful influence in setting up cor- rect standards of public taste. We are | glad to see the West beginning to take an interest in the marvels of production. No country can ever be truly great whose people do not possess high me- chanical and artistic skill, and some influence is needed in the West to counteract the ten- dency toward agricultural and pastoral pur- } suits, to the exclusion of manufacturing in- dustries. The problem of inducing the West to enter the industrial field and compete with the East in’ manufactures is of importance to the whole country, and whatever tends to turn the attention of the people into artistic and industrial channels deserves consideration and support. Tue Sournenn Srrvation.—Troops are already being distributed throughout the South, especially in South Carolina, although no distnrhances are reported in that State. Our correspondent in Nashville sends an able letter concerning the operations of the White League in Tennessee, and, we regret to add, affirms the resurrec- tion of the Ku Klux. Nothing could be more injurious to the South than the re- vival of the bloody spirit of that secret order. On the other hand the United States troops have arrested persons supposed to be guilty of complicity in the murder of negro prison- ers in the ‘Trenton jail, and their trial at Memphis is expected to take place atonce. The punishment of these murderers now would be better for Tennessee than if the gold mines of the Black Hills were set down among her mountains. The whites have nothing to do but to maintain order and law to become masters of the situation and to in- sure the defeat of any outrages by misguided blacks. The Sportsmen’s Convention—The Pro tection of Fish, Game and Usefal Birds. The late Sportsmen’s Convention at Niagara Falls having effected a permanent national organization, before adjourning sine die on Thursday last adopted a series of reso- lutions declaring the objects of the association. They are:—First, the protection of game and fish in all the States and Territories in the passage of national and local laws prohibiting the destruction of fish and game during the breeding, nesting and spawning seasons, and for a reasonable time preceding and following such seasons ; and prohibiting the destruc- tion of certain game birds by nets and traps at all times ; and prohibitingin our rivers and lakes the destruction of fish by nets, traps, dams and chemicals. Second, to insure the enforcement of these laws, Third, to estab- lish the right of property in useful hunting dogs. Fourth, to secure the passage of laws prohibiting at all times the destruction of all song and useful birds that are not game birds, and to establish clubs and associations throughout the country for the promotion of the objects indicated. We commend these objects to the general at. tention and support of the American people, because they are objects which, if faithfully and generally carried out, considered in a financial view, will be the gaining and saving annually of millions of dollars to the country. The fish of our rivers and lakes and the game of all kinda of our forests, mountains and prairies are rapidly disappearing, and unless the work of destruction be speedily checked there will soon be neither game for the hunter nor fish for the angler of any value within the limits ot the United States. On the other hand, with proper and universally enforced laws for the protection .of fish and game we may within a few years, and throughout the coun- try, have an abundance of game, and we may so far restock our lakes and rivers and brooka with excellent fish as to bring even fresh sal- mon, shad, bass and trout in their season ta the tables of the humblest classes of our people. Again, in the protection and increase of out useful birds we know, from the saving of our city parks by the English sparrows, that we may, in the preservation of our fields and gardens from destructive insects, save millions of money from year to year. Of the numer- ous scientific conventions connected with the Vienna World’s Fair the Convention upon the Protection of Useful Birds was of the highest practical importance to the people of the States of Europe and of our own country. The proceedings of that Convention, pub- lished in the Hxratp in our special reporta from Vienna at the time of the Fair, will doubtless be remembered by our readers in- terested in the preservation of our crops from destructive insects as of the greatest value to our gardeners, farmers and planters. In short, we consider the general objects of our Sportsmen’s National Association as the ob- jects of public benefactors, and challenging the support of all sections of our country and all classes of our people. Tux Froatine Hosrrran made its sixteenth cruise yesterday, and the eight hundred sick children and mothers who enjoyed the pure salt air were fortunate to escape the stifling atmosphere of.the city. The next excursion will take place on Tuesday, and contributions to the fund are needed and earnestly desired. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. M. Coundouriotis is the new Minister of Greeee in Paris. In Paris they call gray hair “a little dust from the road of life.” Mr. Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg, has arrived at the St. James Hotel. Juage Josian G. Abbott, of Boston, has apart- ments at the Brevoort House. Very amiable expressions of sympathy for Mr. Ten Broeck ia the English papers. General Peter V. Hagner, United States Army, ts quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, 18 staying at the New York Hotel. Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), of Hart ford, is sojourning at the Hoffman House, If Bacon didn’t write Shakespeare it must be ad- mitted he is tne author of Beecher’s woes, Mr. Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of State of New Jersey, is residing at the Metropolitan Hofel. His Royal Highness*the Prince of Wates attended a dog show at Piymouth and bought a bull pup. +. General Stephen V. Benét, of the Ordinance Depariment, United States Army, is registered at the Grand Hotel. : Hyacinthe lett his church at Geneva because he does not believe the people are infallible any more than the Pope. M, Paraf, of the College of France, proposes a plan for doing without rain and getting good crops, Now is your time, Paraf, Stoemmelin, @ European inventor, is manu- facturiug India rubber in a jorm that author- izes the name ol vegetable leather. 3 J. D. Aristarch Bey, Turkisn Ambassador at Washington, dined with Lord Dufferin, at Rideaa Hall, Guelph, Ont., on Thursday evening. When Mrs, McGlashan was giving evidence in the case of a Woman charged with thelt, she said she was “a decent, honest, drunken creature.” In the aquarium at Havre they organize for the delectation of the public battles between devil fish | and conger eels, and the eels are the victors, Major General Shelby Smith, an oMcer of dis- tinction in the Imperial army, has been appointed | Major General commanding the militia foree of Canada. Robert Watts, Professor of Systematic Theology, wants to “argy the pint” with Huxley “before an Ulster aadience.” He knows who Ulster be- lteves in. “an are ye Mra, McLood?” said a Highland mon, on being introduced to @ certain lady of thay name. “Ye’re no an ill-iookin’ woman ava, if ye hadna been sae awiully pittit wi’ the small pox.” Leonardo da Vinci had been buried 356 years, and ‘when they uncovered his face the other day they could recognize it from bis portraits, and he wae not embalmed either—-only saut in a stouc gotim, ‘Vet the cremationiste talk of decay, &c,