The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1874, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD Dr. Hayos EROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Al ness or news letters and telegraphic despatches wust be addressed New Youk Henarp. see | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. snd Advertisements Bubscriptions will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, +-No. 2377 Volume XXXIX,......... cc cre eee eee AMUSEMENTS TO-NORROW. enmnniien hag tetris A FLASH OF Broadway, corner ol Th h street ASH O POMS Nder se PM or M. Mr. Letting at S P.M; closes wt 10:30 P. a. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 0% Broadway.—VARIATY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 PM, LYCEUM THEATRE, nth street und Six La FILLE DE AN P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. Four MoD AM aunce, Mile é COMIQUE, Y, at SV. Si; closes at 10:20 and Twenty Broadwa se streeis. Mr. John dh mond ixth avenue.— www PM. 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Kreadway NIGHI, at 7 QUINTUPLE New York, sireet.-PARIS BY Sunday, October 4, 1874 From our reports ‘his morning the probabilities are thal the weather be cool and partiy cloudy or clear. to- will Acarn we hear from Londoz rumors of in- ereasing disaffection among the Carlists in Spain. ATHLET rsey Ath- letic Association held its fall meeting yester- day at Ridgewood, and the contests and the winners are fully reported elsewhere. Mexico, 2 few years ago, eonld only study the movements of the red planet Mars. her government has both the time and the inclination to send @ commission to observe | the transit of Venus. Cartary Genera Concua demands of the Cuban planters their assessment of five per cent upon their capital in support of the war, and will not permit a new valuation of prop- erty. This oncrous tax must ultimately be for the advantage of the revolution. A Hanpsomz Kecoesrtiox.—The Austrian Emperor has decorated all the returning mem- bers of his late Arctic expedition—officers, sail- orsandall. This isa good step toward the success of the new expedition which he is or- ganizing to send out in the ses Tur Verpict of the Coroner's jury upon the Granite Mill fire is presented to the pnt to-cay, and will t of the style of Jnit States. But if the matter is to end with the censure of the jury where shall the protection of the operatives begin? ‘Tho verdict no one ; itsimply eriticises a system. Surely, we need ‘no ghost come from the grave to teil us this.” Dr. O'Lram, of Manhatten College, con- tributes to our coharans to-day his opinions upon the materilistie theory of Professor Tyndall. He thinis this new or old phil- osophy “madiess of method,’ but couches his criticise ju that courtesy which found a sweey a is, unfortunately, net always remembered. In these discussions tt ntleman should always precede the the % Tur Bio Hons Exrryr of the United States troops, under Captan Mills, hag re- turned from an extensive t in Northern Wyoming to the Union Pacitic Railway, with the report that the numerous | of hos Indians lately on the warpath: inthe country traversed have returned to their re. rvations. Thus the peace policy of the ermy is again proved to be the only policy of pea red brethren of the West. Tay Graxp Juny of Kings connty con. gratulates the citizens of Brooklyn upon kL ing such an institution as the Penitentiary which we take to be an unintentional piece ot sarcasm. They are told “it is a model of meatness, system and order,’ which must be quite consoling to @ number of gentlemen who havo personal reasons for talking an in- terest in its management. But the Grand Jury also says of the jail:—*The apartments wth our for witnesses aro wretched end the treatment of witnesses confined is a burning shame.” ‘This is SHEET. | Now | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, CCTOBEK 4, 1874—QUINTU and tho North Pole—A Proposition. Tt 1s announced from Europs that tho Aus- trian government inten Is sending out an ex- pedition next year to continus their recent brilliant exploration in the Arctic Seas. The new land which the Germans discovered and | named Francis Joseph Land, after their | Emperor, is to bo sought again with the view of ascertaining whether it 1s an island or part | | of the mainland. And not only has it been | determined to send an expedition direct to | this land north from Nova Zembla, but an- other is proposed by way of Greenland, with the view of getting on tho north side of that j land if possible. We learn also that the Eu | lish are moving in the same matter; and a strong effort is being made to have a govern- | ment expedition attempt to reach the North | Pole by way of Smith Sound. In a | recent letter to the Tribune Dr. Hayes, our own | well known Arctic explorer, says: —‘‘After | having recently conversed with several Arctic | explorers in London, I feel almost sure they | will sneceed in carrying out their desire for an expedition in that direction,"’ aud he further assures us that there are plenty of Americans willing and competent to forestall the English | in this the American quarter, concluding with | this declaration, “As for myself, my going back to the scene of my old contests has been, | 88 those interested in Arctic explorations well | know, merely a question of mouey. That forthcoming, I shall lose no time in leading an expedition into Smith Sound."” The connection of Dr. Hayes wiih the | progress of Arctic discovery is generally well | known. His first essay in that direction was with Dr. Kane in 1853, when a youth of but twenty-one, fresh from college. During that memorable expedition he made several jour- neys, principal among which was one across | the then ice-covered Smith Sound with dog- sleige, in the spring of 1854. This journey | was both difficulé and dangerous-—difficult {in consequence of the great roughness | of the ice, and dangerous as shown by the fact | that two persons had lost their lives and two | parties had previously failed in @ sim lar at- | empt, as is shown by Dr. Kane's narrative, ‘This journey resulted in the discovery of | Grinnell Land, which was reached near lati- | tude eighty degrees, where the American flag was planted ona discarded whip stock. This | land was very mountainous, was covered with | snow and ice and appeared to be of great ex- , tent. When approaching it the young ex- plorer knew well that he was approaching land nearer the North Pole than any land at that time known, and we can, therefore, well | understand why he persevered in his deter- mination to rei | even to the remonstrances of his companion, | who seemed to think that, from day to day, + the chances of success were more and more | hopel “Tam here to go ahead, not to go back,’’ was his resolute answer, and ahead be went until the land was reached, and two days | were ocenpied with its exploration. The work which he did during this voyage clearly indicated to the friends of Arctic ex- ploration that Dr. Hayes was the man tor such adventurous undertakings, and accord- ingly, in 1560, be was intrusted with the eom- mand of an expedition tor scientific explora- tion to the same quarter, the hope of success being founded upon the discovery of a smooth belt of ice along Grinnell Land, from which | it was argued that the current, setting south, carried with it the ice and left an open bay to _ the north and west at the close of the season. The causes of Dr. Hayes’ failure in 1860 to | reach this bay are set forth in his “Open | Polar Sea.”’ His vessel was a schooner of | only a hundred and thirty tons, and without | steam he could not make headway against the | heavy and loose ice which he | encountered. Boing finally entangled among | the latter the schooner, now nearly a wreck, was forced into winter quarters on the Greon- land side of Smith Sound, ia latitude 78 deg, {17min. From this point Dr. Hiyes made giles | another toilsome journey of sixty days’ dura- | tion amid the rough ice during the following | spring to Grinnell Land, and on that laad ho reached latitude 81 deg. 87 min. Beyond this he travelled over the ice a day’s journey, when he met open water, which he looked | upon as the open Polar Sea that one of Dr. | Kane's parties had previously sighted from the opposite side of the Sound latituds 8) | deg. 50 min. Oa this, as on the former jour- ey, Dr. Hiyes founda smooth belt of ico near the land, and declared his opiuion en ning home that a steamer could pene- trate Smith Sound without si > And the correctness of this conclusion was fully shown by the subsequent experience of Captain Hall in the Polaris, which, as is well known, steamed to latitude 82 deg. 16 min., nearer the Pole probably thau any ship had ever gone beiore without encountering | any serions obstacle whatever. Tne highest point of land sighted by Dr. Hayes was about latitude 82 deg. 45 min., beyond which Cap- | tain Hall traced the coast to somewhere be- tween latitude 83 deg. and 84 deg., considera- | bly nearer the Pole than the northernmost by Payer and Weyprecht on their vered Francis Joseph Land. ‘Thus, tious difficu | point seen | newly di America remains still ahead, so far as regards | the northernmost land yet seen, Dr. Hayes now once + anotmees his “0 ess to extend thes: discover Te firmly believes in the open Polar & He | believes that it enn be reached by steamer he Polaris sledge, ir through Smith Sonnd, as dit in 1872, and he, with dog 1861; and, further, that the North Pole may be rcached. The question will the country, whose tlag he bas already so much honored, give him the opportunity? For ourselves, we | advocate it in the interests of science and the arises, national renown. By all means let us have another Arctic expedition, and let it go by this, trnly the American route, and under the leaderstap of one who is already so familiar with the region, and who has shown his fit- | ness as well for scientific exploration and capacity for endurance as for the higher qua.i tions of command—a quality peculiarly uty in such an enterprise as this. For, under circumstances of great trial and danger, men qrickly become demoral.zed, grow quar- | relsome and work to cross purposes unless nec ch it, despite every obstacle, ; fulness of our rows from remote places, and by such enterprises as our expedition into Africa in search of Livingstone, by our reports irom Cuba, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Asia, and recently by our repor's from Iceland, wherein Dr. Hayes has shown himself to be as strongly imbued with the instinets of journalism as with love of scientific discovery. We bave ever striven to edvance journalism to its true | and proper dignity, knowing that it would | become the great power in the world. There should be nothing narrow or petty in its range, There should be a genuine rivalry in promoting useful public aims; but it should be the purpose of the press to foresee what is demanded by the pubic intelligence and to | | promote it. And, viewing the present state of | Arctic exploration, we believe the press | has a distinct duty to fulfil in pushing | the Polar problem to a solution. Irrespec- | tive of any value attaching to such an enter- | prise, all the world wants to know more of , the mysterions regions about the North Pole. | Curious as man has been about the North at | all times since the Greek poets first sang of | Hyperborea, that curiosity has taken the form | of a fixed determination, and it has now be- come a question of rivalry among the nations. It is, however, a peaceful rivalry, that is pro- | ductive of good, and we hold it to be the duty | of the press always to encourage every move- | ment tending tosuch an end, and theretore we say let us by all means have a popular ex- | pedition to the North Pole, with Dr. | Hayes, the man of all others best | qualified, to lead it; and not only do we advocate it in the public interest, but in the interest of true journalism. Tho press ot the y might indeed almost | make it their own and reap the reward. Among | them it would be like the contest between the | American and Irish teams at Creedmoor, ' where all would win honor; or, as we have | recently seen, like Dr. Hayes, Bayard Taylor and Murai Haistead, the representatives of s, writing together in the count | | three leading journ: | dential organ of the President and the Custom | and died and gone to rest ina silent paper eabin of the same ship which they have mutu- | ally chartered, without jealousy, but in manly | rivalry as to who should best describe an event | in which the country took a deep interest, aud | for information concerning which the journal was their only reliance. brothers of the press, and to the country at large, let us have the expedition, and in proot of our sincerity the Henarp will pledge itself to pay one-fourth of the entire cost of an enterprise so commendable, and which is sure to reflect credit upon American journal- ism and American pluck. The Fall Meeting at Jerome Park. The races at Jerome Park have had the ad- vantage of charming weather and of large and fashionable attendance. No more popular course than this is known to the American turf, and it has in the time of its meetings and the character of its management special advantages. The races ran yesterday were fuil of interest and briliancy. There were five horses who started in the first race, three We repeat to our ; | more easy than to edit a newspaper, journal- , cushioned chair, our tea and toast and mod- quarters of a mile, and the favorile, Haury B tt, was defeated, Countess winning finely in Im. 16}s. In . the two mile race Acrobat won by four > lengths, in 3m. and 37}s. Here is another evidence of how the aspiring blood of Lexing- ton will not sink in the ground. In nine years of the Jerome Stakes the children of Lexington have been five times victorious. The third race yesterday was for the Nursery Stakes, aud six two-year-clis started for the one mile dash, Olitipa winning easily and dis- playing maguificent qualities. ‘Tae Manhat- tan handicap was won by Mate, and the filth race by Mary Buckley. ‘The first day of the fall meeting at Jerome Park was thus in every respect a complete success, All of the five evenis were conspicuous ior a splendid display of speed, and the American | advertisements, and which can only find ex- | _ Our obligation to the advertisers interferes, for the blacks by oppressing and plundering the whites, And thus the mind of polities and morals, practical life and speculative theology, will be traversed to-day by the pastors aud preachers of this city and vicinity. Our Coming Guest. The pleasant though brief term of service which the Hznatp has enjoyed as the confi- House will come to an end to-morrow by the appearance of The Republic. ‘This journal comes into life uuder the auspices of certain brave and public-spirited gentlemen who have lamented the want of nourishment Which has befallen the administration babes and suck- lings in the way of sound doctrines. This want the Henanp has supplied since its recent recognition as the official organ, our terms being twelve dollars a year, ‘invariably in advance.’ But the President and the Hernaup are so much alike in independence of opinion and in having their own way that there is no knowing when the entente cordiale may coma toan end. Consequently we retire from the field with alacrity and call upon the post- masters, and storekeepers, and internal revenue inspectors to ‘‘rally around"’ the new organ. Some gloomy people look with apprehen- sion upon the prospects of a new paper, and we hear dreary vaticinations as to the fate of The Republic. Mr. Hudson, in his admirable “History of Journalism,”’ prints the names of some hundreds of newspapers that have lived mill. And we confess that, as president of a savings bank or a trust company, we should prefer some other investment than newspaper stock ; or, to be more clear in | meaning, stock in a new newspaper. But all the same, we believe in new journals. We should like to see two hundred daily morning papers in this metropolis. Think what a good time public opinion would have undergoing the process of education from two hundred teachers! In fact, we do not sea in our prog- | ress of invention why every large firma, every dealer in patent medicines, every politician and opera manager should not have his own newspaper. It isa great discipline to a man to be compelled to sit down and colily put his thoughts into print. Then he can always do himself justice. Nothing, as all men know, is ism being the profession to which every American is born. So that, so far from there being no room fer The Republic, there is room for « hundred journals like it. The Herarp, as our readers well know, is no longer a fighting paper, but a journal long since passed ito its decadence, edited by Irishmen, who are all either secret members of | the Society of Jesus or under the pay of the Pope. Speaking of the Pope, we regret to learn that his remittances come very irregu- larly, and we presume the venerable Pontiff has too many cares to think always of finan- cial matters. As it is, we take tranquil vie’ of the world, and instead of quarreling with our contemporaries we encourage them and | cheer them up. We prefer tho fire, the erate, cheerful reading, like the Nation, the Evening Post and the “Anstomy of Melan- choly.”” We have that tranqaillity of mind which comes from over sixty-five columns of oression in a paper of twenty pages; and whenever we read a spiteful article about ourselves our impulse is to send the journal a half a dozen columns of advertisements. somehow they pay their money for the Heratp ,and demand our columns, But thers is no Jockey Club must be congratulated upon such | a briliiant inauguration of the scason. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The pulpit to-day is pretty evenly di in its choice of topics of thought between | for Plymouth church. harm, however, in alluding to the matter, as an indication of how we feel to press breth- ren and how it is that we give this new-comer a welcoming hand; and it cold days come we promise it a seat by the stove. We might give its editors a great deal of nd- vice, but we are afraid it would be like send- ing coals to Neweastle or writing a statement | We can sum up all we | have to say in this one maxim;—‘‘Little chil- ided | things tuat relate to this life ani those that relate to the lite to come. he practical, however, overbalances the theoretical and the speculative. For instance, Dr. Holme will enforce the apostolic injunction in all things | to be willing to live hones!ly. T, ot men are willing to bo honest in that do not af their own pocke’ ests ; but whe be how often Co we seo the wrigsling and twisting to escape speaking cith the falsehood, cr doing that whica is absolutely just and right or that which is morally, if not majority 1 things is or inter- those are touched or likely to | r the truth or , | be, the third Washington. legally wrong! Mr. Sweetser wil show | his people the open door through | which, possibly, some may enter in! and see Jesus, of whom r Kennard will speak, and of whose saerificial life Dr. Hawthorne will have something to say. The sacrificial death of Christ is a theme that preachers very frequently dwell upon, but the example of His sacrificial life is little, if at all, noticed; aud yet the life of Christ 13 as im- portant as His death, 1f not more so. Every man can understand his relation to every man, and sinners may understand their rela- tion to Christ as a man, and by the presenta- tion which Mr. Hepworth will make to-day sinners may Jearn what is their relation to | Butler and Havemeyer. Him as @ Saviour, and may understand some- | thing of God's love to the world in providing such a Saviour for the 2 That men are, or were, created by God at all is offen questioned, and that we are cre- ated in His image has been frequently denied, so that the arguments to be used in support of this doctrine by Mr. Prllman will doubt- | less be pertinent to the materialistie ten- dencies ot the age. Dr. Deems will drawa picture, faintly though it may be, of the glory | of the heavenly inheritance, and Mr, Kennard will answer tho question which he pro- pounds:—‘Who are tho Blessed?” Mn Roosevelt, who is not a theologian, will, | nevetholess, talk about theology, and Dr. | Rylance wiil discuss two topics of cuypent and | pressing interest to the Protestant Episeopal Church—namely, ‘The Real Presence’’ in the Eucharist and ‘“Oburch Congresses.” The Rev. John Parker calls the Liquor Dealers’ Con- & peculiar Controle bya strong will, a calm judgment | yention twenty-five thonsand leagned enemies contrast; the criminal is lodged ina place | and grest wif rediames—qualities which Dr. of the State, against whom he intends to draw which is a model of neatness, and the inno- cert wituess is consigned to a loathsomo ceil, In Brooklyn it is clearly more comfortable to bea murferer than to detect one. sister city. It is no | wonder that innocence is at a discount ia our | nor bas it ever \Xn backward in survisuing | aml will, we suppose, in rome way justity the | Hayes has proved bimself to possess in an eminent dogrse, | The Henan has never hesitated to advo- cate such entir)\ es as the ove vow pro; osed; the sinews of w\ as is evideneed bv the | Up an indictment this eveuing. Dr. Garnet will indict the White Leagues and the Ku | Kiux and other secret soc.eties of the South for their persecntion of the colored people, | carpet-bag governments. which seek to elevate dren, love one another.” Do not call names. Do not say a rival editor is a pig. It does no good, and, after ail, a pig is a useful animal, and with reserved qualities in the way of hams and spareribs that few administration | organs possess. Be courteous. Because a | mun is a democrat it does not follow that he is dam: Look alter subscribers and ad- Be just to all me Ny espe ber always that he is President, the source of all wisdom and authority, and praise him. Always allude to him as the second or, it ms Sapport the Cus- Way may good things come. Do nol discuss questions of emigration and the English Charch to the exclusion of American themes. Ii it is necessary to be independent abuse General This is always a safe topic, becaus: if they do not deserve it at the time they wil! in a little while. Do not take sides in the Brooklyn scandal. It wiil be like making a round of visits to hornets’ nests. Do not print letters on currency and protec- tion, By following these points closely The Republic may have its days long in the land, and in time possess its own editorial sea- | coal fire, and (ea and toast, with sixty-five | columns of advertisements to comfort it and teach it patience, love and consideration for all the worid. tom House, By that The Rifle Matenes at Creedmoor, | 'The rifle matches at Creedmoor have come to a close, aud, wthough the weather was | at times rainy and blustery, a finer dis play of skill and resolution was never scen upon any ground. The seoring of the princi- pal riflemen, both upon tie American and Trish sides, was unequalled in accuracy, and the averages made by both teams are not likely to be equalled soon. The Irish team, although defeated in the grand match for the international championship, fairly obtained the advantage in the long range contests of Friday and Saturday. Yesterday the important match was that be- | tween the muzzle-loading and the breech. | loading rifles. The contestants on the Irish | side were Messrs. Rigby, Hamilton, Wilson and Johnson, and ou the American side | Measrs. Gilderslceve, Collins, Dakin and | Yale, The result, as our account shows, was | anfavorable to the Americans. Mr. Yale re- | tired before firing all the shots he was entitled to, and the highest score made by the others | was less by one than tye lowest score of the | » . But itis an error to suppose that this tmatnh was ouo of men four of the | to the | the yabli ‘lation PLE SHEET. best members of the imsh team were matched against four of the Ameri- cans who are inferior riflemen to either Lieutenant Fulton or Colonel Bodine. It was to be expected that the Americans would be defeated. But the Sharpe rifles, we think, were not. The score shows that our men, not their guns, were at fault. This great meeting of the riflemen will long be remembered, and its brilhaucy increases the interest in the beautiful and useful sport. The country is thoroughly pleased that the challenge of the Irish team for a second inter-. national match at Dublin has been accepted, and, whoever wing next June, the noble amusement cannot lose the sudden and sur- prising reputation it has gained. The Grand Jury and the Commis- sionezs of Charities and Correction. The Grand Jury have had under investiga- tion the charges against the Commissioners of Charities and Correction embraced in the official report of the Commissioners of Ac- counts, made after a full investigation of the books and accounts of the department, and have thought fit to make a presentment to the Court on the subject of their inquiry. Fourteen of the jurymen pronounce the opinion that the investigation has proved that “the Commissioners have endeavored to per- form their onerous duties faithfully and for the best interests of the public.” Six of the Grand Jurors regret that they ‘cannot conscientiously indorse” this statement; or, in other words, they declare thnt the evidence convinces them that the Commissioners of Emigration have not performed their duties faithfully and for the best interests of the public. The differ- ence of opinion isa wide one and requires explanation ; but, so far as the publi terests and the vindication of the law are cerned, it is fortunate that the charges agai the Commissioners can be considered by another Grand Jury, which will probably be more harmonious in its judgment. There are circumstances attending this in- vestigation which reflect seriously upon the Grand Jury s: The charges of violation of law and official misdeweanor made again: the Commissioners are very clear, and cow from a source authorized by the charter to | make investigation of the management of the | several city departments and to report delin- quencies. The report of the Commissioners of | Accounts shows, not on supposition but by | direct proof, that purchases of dry goods and flour have been continuously made by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction in | direct violation of law, and that invoices have been altered and falsified and untruthful en- tries have been made in their bocks in order to cover up these illegal acts. The goods thus illegally purchased have been shown to have cost the city an unjust and exorbitant price. The purchases are proved to have been made, in some instances at least, of close relatives of tem, that the Commissioners, contrary to rule and spirit of the Iaw, took the purchasing business into their own hands. The official report of the Commissioners of Accounts was verified before the Grand Jury by oath. Certainly if a case ever was taken into a Grand Jury room that demanded | an indictment and a trial ina court of justice this was one. But the Grand Jury thought proper to visit the institutions under control of the Commissioners of Charities and Correc- tion pending the investigation and to unite the question of the condition of those institu- tions with the question of the official honesty or dishonesty of the Commissioners. ‘They also saw fit, it is said, to take the testimony of i the accused parties and to admit their evi- | dence in their own behalf. If parties accused | of indictable offences are to be allowed to give | evidence on their own behalf and to entertain | the jurors the Grand Inquest will become a mere farce. Suppose the Grand Jury that indicted Will- iam M. ‘Tweed had united with their inquiry | into his official acis an examination into the | condition of the public works of the city? Suppose they had summoned the great Ring | leader before them, with all his friends, and | accepted his and their testimony in his Suppose the result had been a hing presentment declaring that Mr. Tweed had endeavored to perform | his various and onerous duties faith. | fully und for the best interests of ? Would there haye been two opinions as to the character of the jury and as tothe honesty of their presentment? This is precisely what the majority of the present Grand Jury have thought proper to do in the case of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, while they have neglected to pro- | eure evidence as to the quality of the flour and the character of the meat purchased by the department, as weil to the alieged misrepresentation as to the popu- in the institutions under charge of the tainted department. he six jurors | who refuse to unite in this whitewash. | ing and questionable presentment are Shep- herd Knapp, Jr.; E. Colgate, E. du Viner, Robert Morrison, John W. Campbell and A. J. Haines. It is only justice to these gentie- men to put their names on record. The peo- | ple will form their own jodgment as, to the | action of the other jurymen. It is satisfactory to remomber that another Grand Jury will soon be in session and will have an oppor- | tunity to make a new and, it is to be hoped, | a more satisfactory investigation of these | charges. | as Mr. Parton and the Monument to | Burr, | One of our correspondents recently visited | Princeton, N.J., and, having read in Mr. Parton's “Life of Aaron Burr’’ o romantic | story about tho manner in which a tombstone | was erected over the grave of that celebrated mon, made a careful investigation of the facts. Mr, Parton had alleged that tho stone | was placed over the grave at midnight by nn- tribute of a woman. Our eorrespondent pub- | lished the testimony of the old man who pnt | up the stone at noonday, without any pre- | tence of secrecy, and of Professor Mart and others, to the effect that the monument was | ordered by the relatives of Burr. In refer. | ence to these facts Mr. Parton has addressed | us the following letter :— H To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD!— No one is more obliged to you thon Lam for ex. piodiog that ridiculous story ab ul (he erecuon of The monument to Aaron Burr tu the cemetery at A great nuimbe, of absurd and ruman- es gather aboul the eof every person Who is long Conspicuvus in bie puvile e, in pre- baring ta write the We of Aaron Warr many years | | spondents | Swas: ! investigation.” , tired of et ae , alarms, tired of going constantly armed, tired | the Commissioners, and it is further proved ' | ready to blaze ago Theard, read, exomined, consitered and re~ jected Gily even anecdotes as the one dewohshed your correspon@ene ertheless, 1 did not always avoid being nisled im watters of detarl and tam giad to be enadied to pure ty text of an erroneous statemsut, however WOolmportant 1s may be. At distance of time | capbot remem ber from wiom { derived tie part oi tue story bow shown to ve untrue, During my Stay as Princeton I conversed with all sorts and Conule Mons of peopie, from the President o1 the college to the porter of the hovel, and found tne tale of the secreily erected monumnt to be a piece of Well-estabiished Rossip, which there seemed De reason to doubt, and which was nut important enough to require much investiva‘ion, Kespect- fully yours, JAMES PARTON. We are glad to find that Mr. Parton so promptly repudiates his romantic story, now that it is proved to be entirely without foun- dation. But it would be wrong in us not to recall, in this connection, the sweeping charges he made a few months ago against newspaper correspondents and reporters, in one of his brilliant contributions to current literature. Mr. Parton accused these gentle- men generally of making statements without due investigation, and sometimes, unquestion- ably, they may. But where will he find greater accuracy thin in newspapers? The error which one makes is very speedily corrected by the others, and in this age of inquiry and debate, if Truth ever emerges from the well in which she is said to abide, it is toclothe herself in print, At the time we believed that Mr. Parton had gone too far in disparaging the accuracy of journalism. We believe it the more earnestly now that Mr. Parton finds his own criticism to resemble those “bloody in- structions, which, being taught, retura to plagne the inventor."’ Without malice we commend to him the study of his own books, He alludes to his ‘ridiculous story’’ as some- thing unimportant. But it was important enough to bo given as truth in his ‘Life of Aoron Burr.” He says that it was ‘a piece of well established gossip.’’ But it is for printing gossip that he blames tho corre- of newspapers. He says it not important enough to require much inyestigation.’’ But the neglect to investigate is the great sin he imputes to journalists. My, Parton should learn by this to be charitable. He did not have to tele- graph his life of Burr trom New Orleans or Japan. He did not have to write it in a day. All the time he desired was granted him to discover the truth, yet ko solemnly printed » “ridiculous stor, and says now that it “was not important enough to require much This excuse is not to-be ac- cepted as easily and coolly as it is offered. Mr. Parton was not justified in publishing this “gossip” as {rath in his biography of Aaron Burr, and the careful historian must admit that it is to the newspaper correspondent that ‘he owes the opportunity of purging of error his picturesque and lively page. He has gracetully admitted the obligation, and we trust he will improve the moral. Tux Cotumpus (Miss) Jndee makes thia earnest appeal: —“We are tired—tired of war, tired of these constant’ violence of standing always on guard to protect our. selves, tired of being plundered and robbed."* This seems to be the voice of the South, In time the North must heed it, especially if foolish men like those in Louisiana do not arouso the war spirit which blazed so fiercely through years of war and which is only too PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE ie eA Does Cushing get retainers at Madrid? The Creedmoor conundrum is—“Wuat's in an aim?” Butler caliea for $5,000 and got $1,000, but never went into Court. Ex-Goveruor U. J, Jenkins of Georgia, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hocel. Coionel James P. Martin, United States Army, Ls quartered at the Astor House. Assemblyman F, A, Alberger, of Buffalo, is stop. ping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Garibaldi is at the gate with “Date ovolum Beli- sario” written in the rim of his hat. Rev. Dr. Dalzell, of Shreveport, La, is among | the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Mr. Mortimer D. Leggett, United States Com, missioner of Patents, is at the Astor House. Lieutenant Governor Charles C. Van Zandt, of | Rhode Isiand, is residing at tue Windsor Hotel. Mr. W. Sangsier, Jv, of London, recentiy on a visit here, went home by the Cceunte yesterday. Marquis de Clermont-Tonucre, of the French Legauion, has apartments at the Brevoort Honse, As for those Irish sharpshooters, it may be the inferiority of our whiskey, or have tuey broughe their own. Charles S. Mills, an American arttst, has been ad- mitted to menmbersiuy in the London Nationat Academy 01 Arts -Governor Oden Bowle, of Maryland, and Mr. Washington Booth, Collector of tue port of Baltl- more, are at the Filth avenue Hotel. If Cushing is collecting private claims at Madrid and taking # percentage, the President showid know it, Bat what would the President care Bisuop Josepa C. Talbot, of Indiana; Rev, Dr gis, of Nova Scotla, and Rey. Dr. Wingileld, of sterday arrived at the St. James Calornia, y' Hotel. If people are going to condemn poor, innocent Ren butler on account of a fellow named Sun- mons it 1s ridiculous to stop to Inquire what sim. mons it 18. Baron Von Schwarz-Senborn, Austrian Minister at Washington, is staying at the residence of his brothertn-law, Dr. Bernack!, im West Twenty- eighth street. Richard O'Gorman denies the soft impeachment, He says he ig not in the field sor Congressional honors. Count himout, So much we better for poor Richard, Philip ium, at Prague, nas poisoned his wife. a daughter aged sixteen, a son tourteen and an- other. He 1s @ brother of (ke Blum whom Win- dischgratz shot. Beecher declares himself filled wita “a Osposi- tion to spend and be spent for ste development of the divine element that isin every human soui,? Not unitke Walt Whitman, The German Minister at Brussels | os beey dt rected to express to the suthorities there the “gurprive’ of bis government at the toleration of the sale of arms to Don Varios. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Dublia and Alderman Manning, who have been on a visit to Niagara Fails, arrived im this city from Alcany last evening and are at the Windsor Hotel, All that at Plymourh church very reireshing, natural, touching and so on, Was tt an evidence that they believed him innocent, or that they are bound to stand by him, Ingocent or guilty? Dr, Kdmunds 18 very positive agatost the dietetic value of alcohol, and on these abstruse | points men are apt to be positive generally we | known hands, and intimated that it wos tho — proportion to the insuMlciency ef these kuowl+ anyone wonders why the Paris press 18 80 tn erior te the press elsewhere, lec bim notice how precarious a picee of property a newspaper 1, where ils very existence is Absolutely sulject to the whims of authority, Beovsher informod the congregation thas he has “no new Gospel and no new peomtses,” and taat he is the game man Le was, 1 », this 1s pad or good, 1 General Wiha herman arvived to Chis city yesterday moran aud proced foto the Poth Avenue Hotel, woere Nid DeWiy Marner daugater ts temporartiy resiting, Ue reaatacd there we the day, aad Je.t lor Washimgtoa last eventing. uit cording as 1s unuersioe i