The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1875, Page 6

6 BISMARCK AND THE HERALD, The Chancellor’s Attack on the New York Herald Through His Press Organ. GERMAN IDEAS OF JOURNALISM. Fun for the Million---The Herald, the Pope and the Amim Trial. THE CORRESPONDENT’S REPLY. A Scathing Roland for the Chancellor’s Oliver. DOINGS IN BERLIN Count Arnim’s Judge in Jeopardy. Lonpon, Jan. 7, 1875. ‘The readers of the HERALD will not need to be feminded of the manner in which, owing to the exertions of your spectal correspondents, you Were enabied to lay before them from day to day the history of tne progress made in the recent prosecution of the Count Von Arnim, aud to sup- plement that history by the publication of facts snd documents procurable by the HERALD alone, and ior furnishing them with copies oi which you received the thavks of the leading European con- temporaries. It was not likely that enterprise as this, which respected no courtly no princely preceaents, and which sim- ply strove to set ‘orth facts as they were, withont an idea of “making them Pleasant’ to any particalar party, would have escaped the notice of the Kanzler-Priag who rules Germany with so hign @ band as to have obtained for himself the sobriquet of the “Bully op! Burope.’? Neizher the facts turpished by your sorrespondents nor the comments which were made upon them could possibly be wholly pleas- ing to Prince Bismarck, who, as soon as he was informed by nis emissaries of what the HBRALD was doing, resorted to his usual tactics, The movements of your corfespendents were Watched, their letters were opened, their tele- grams detained. No douot stronger measures would have been resorted to, bul, 60 lar as en- dangering lile and liperty 1s concerned, even Prince Bismarck 1s stiilamenable to the iaw, and the Republic of which the HERALD ts the leading jour- nal has a trustworthy and capable representative at tue German Court. Moreover,jthe corresponda- enis of this journal are not, a8 can be readily imagined, men who are often caught napping, aud while the Berlin detectives, in their dull Teutonic Way, were hunting for the daring scrive whose lucubrations had caused so much annoyance, that gentieman was salély across the Irontier and anotuer HEtaLp representative had arrived in his place. Tbus balked of his prey, Prince Bismarck’s vengeance jound another outlet. On the 30tn of last month the orddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the semi-oMicial gazette of the German govern- ment, contained a prominent eaitoriai article, which I now reproduce {or pudlication in Amer- loa: PRINCE™ BISMARCK’S meres ON THE NEW YORK ALD. Itis one of the functions, even of the better pertions of the press, to create excitement. To Qttract attention of course augments the re- sources of every literary undertaking. It is im- possible to pretend tuattne press is a higher being, which lives only on nectar and ambrosia; the conditions of 1ts existence are material. But the lime which separates the respectable organs of public opinion irom the dernéi-onde of newspa- perdom is very sharp and distinct. The last named has for its object sengation and Its lucrative consequences, and it is mot very sensitive in the choice of its means, In Europe we may say witu- cut boasting that journalistic demi-mondeism 1s an exception to the rule, but even the exception in tals country only imitates customs and usages of transatlantic sharpness, This sharpness, on ac- count of which the respectable American papers appear sO mucu more praiseworthy, culminates, tw the best of* our knowledge, im one of the most popular New York papers. This journal, which has recently caused so much talk, 1s the New Yor« HeraLp, which enjoyed the privilege ofassisiing His Excellency the i’rivy Counsellor Count Arnim. it was this journal waich, on the 27th ana 29th of Octover, puviished tn colamns of special cable despatches, bought witd large sums of money, the German tex. of the correspondence between the Secretary of Foreign Affairs aud the former Ambassador which bzlonged to the papers in Court. And this | ume ihey had real cable telegrams, and not (+8 lust year) letters witch came by mail and bad been transiormed into cable despatches from Ber- told Auerbach ana Mrs, Mublbacn, of the Vienna Exposition. Count Arnim cost, indeed, the New Youk HERALD an estate or vice versa. The NEW YORK HERALD Das at its disposal large sums of money. These, and the large circulation whica | the paper nas obtained in America, it owes to the refinement with which its talented leaders know | how to satisfy every day the people who are | craving lor news. It is im @ condition to keep feporters wherever it sees ft to do 80, without asking for the expenses, to get tue best material for letters, and to work it up ina popular manner, Of such an indosiry | «6 this we have hardly @ conception, and to the | honor of the American press be it said there is bardiy a second example ofit over ere. We see, however, that the HERALD bas made recruits in our press of certain journals, whose well-deserved misfortunes have reduced them to this levei, and who, in their anxiety to earn their money, often | putstrip their employers in the sensational char- | acter of their news. Under a tasteiul draping of elegant impartiality | the HERALD understands how to treat pending | matters from diferent points of view according to | the fasoion of the da: It wa upon the public to-day with this and to-morrow with | that. Its political opinions are tevtered by no moral bond, owe no allegiance to truth. It sails under any coivr; it makes one prize alter the | other. That was o big prize, having hardly \te-equai, when the HeaLD on the Sth of Uck ber got the news that the former Ambassa- for of the GermAn Emperor in Paris had been im- prisoned jor embezzling despatches. Iwo days Biterward, naturally without knowing anything About the matter, tue same joarnal published th first, and on every succeeding day a new vituper. tive article, with the most harrowing reports abo she sufferings of the “wrongfully incarcera’ When, in the adsence of real facts, matter threatened torun dry, the proprietor of \ue Henaty | instructed his reporter in Washington to seek 1 formation tuere about Count Arnim. This iojor, mation seems to have been but sligntiy avorabie jo he former Ambassador; at any rate the wonderiul fact occurred that the Hemanp published in its columns articles ‘avorabie to the German government. [his aver ration, however, lasted no longer than twenty-four hours. It did not sit the business of the HERALD. Vurivus hints with rich material were offered {rom #Hurope and gladly received. From that moment the paper was constantly the champion of Arnim. To him and to the HERALD were wade serviceable the seasational cable ue- spatches which Were manufactured in Mascopie. But are we to believe that humbug is the only god of this paper, so largely circulating in Americat And was the common «ant o1 réciame the only te between tue New YORK UikeaLp and its German client? ‘The most interesting part of tis connect.on be- tween (he two we have yet to make Kudwn to our | Sources of the Nile than | Allgemeine Zeitung. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. readers, Ohangeable as the Henan is, there is one question in which tt is always cunsistent. Since the German victories over France it has been hostile toward Germany. But this is merely a secondary matter, consequent on @ better and lasting reason. Everywhere in America where the interests of the Irish Catholics are concerned the HERALD takes their part seriously and constantly. The New YORK HERa.p ts the organ of ultramentan- ism. We know from experience how frivolous tists, Sometimes high conservative, sometimes democratic, sometimes radical, German as well as anti-German, not less than French, Polish, Danish, Just as if cuits their purposes. But, undoubtedly, everything suits the well-known programme, not of religion, not even of the Romisn Church and the hierarchy of the Pope, but of the Jesuits: Therelore it 1s that the sensational, impudent New York paper follows blindly the teydeacy of Jesuitism, of which very little is known up to this time im Europe, but which, of course, de- serves the attention of everybody, The /ounder of the New York HeRatp, the late Mr. James Gordon Bennett, was a Scocchinan, and there- fore @ fanatical Catholic. His son, the pres- ent proprietor, also belongs to the Romish Church, and ali well-known editors of this paper frequently go to mass. Of course, in real piety the New Yorx HeRaLD has beaten the other papers in America, bit the political in. terests of the Vatican, or rather of the Al Jesu, as Archbishop Manning knows [0 appreciate, find no better champions than the Germania, the Monde, L’Univers and this New York paper. To attack the German Empire as the arch enemy of the Catholic religion is, there- fore, 1ts business, That dates trom the time when the German armies still stood in France ana the Italian army at Kome, while there was yet no Prussian Chureb, no German Parilament, Prince Bismarck a8 yet had done nothing which could be interpreted as hostile to the Jesuits. Then the enmity of the New York HERALD toward the new Empire—vhe transatlantic war of the ultra- montanes against the German Chancellor—began, Ana this is a very interesting contrioution to the question asto who commenced the battle, who was the aggressor aud who the defender. In America the order to begin the war was first given, We can, therefore, tell with certainty @t what time the war commenced. We wil! not jose sight of the New YoRK HzRALD. To its con- spiracy with Count Arnim we owe our knowledge, thatin the champion of the 1ormer Ambassador we see a peculiar and dangerous enemy to the German Empire, even, perhaps, making it possi- ble to procure him several hundreds o! sub- scribers. We denounce it as the mighty rival of the Germania, and leave it to our readers to judge how far the aberrations of egotism, vanity and vengeance reach when even a German high functionary seeks his reiuge in thas transatlantic Jesuit paper, and when he did not refuse such a weapon. A HERALD CORRESPONDENT REPLIES TO THE CHAN- CELLOR, The azeusation herein brought egainst the HERALD !s one which probably, in the opinion or your readers, you might have passed over with silent contempt. They know toat the charge ia as groundless ss the malignity by which it is inspired is base. But there is among the staf of the HERALD an esprit de corps, a spirit of loyalty such as animates every student of Harvard or Oxford toward bis Alma Mater; and impelied by these sentiments Mr, Jonn P. Jackson, who at the time was representing the HERALD in Berlin, published in the columns of the Vossische Zeitung an indig- Rant reply to the article in the Norddeutsche, of which the following is a transiation :— THE NEW YORK HERALD AND THE NORDDEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of the 30th of December contains an exceedingly violent astack upon the New York HERALD, which ts so thoroughly untrue and contradictory that I, as the Berlin correspondent of tha LiERALp, teel bound to request the insertion of tue following REPLY. It can hardly be believed that the article in question was writien vy a professional Journalist, considering its numerous contradictions, For instance, it accuses tue Henatp in the same breath with want of principle and of fanatical | ultramontanism, beside showing, in reference to | Atcerican journalism, manners and religion, the | amusing ignorance which causes it to apply a German standard to these matters, If it were true that the said arvicie co’ procure jor the | HERALD several hondreds of subscribers from the reauers 0! the Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung the last mentioned wonld certainly be able to see | the difference between the two papers and would | become convinced that it is possible to publish a great politicdl newspaper without continually vi- tuperating the opposing political and religious parties of which a great Commonwealth consists. Besides, calumnlations do not belong to the pro- fesstonal tools of @ great political newspaper. The official organ of Prince Bismarck, declaring the Nrw York HERALD to be the organ of ultramon- tanism, overlooks the tact that ultramontanism, as such, is entirely unknown in the United States, We have Catholics and Protestants, and they live | as peaceluliy with each other as is possidie in the | present excited times, Politics and reiigion with us are quite separated. A political ultramuntane party 1s notin existence in America; and ultra, montanism 18 just a3 foreign to us as the tdea of “muckerthums,” for which our language does not contain an expression, With us the theory pre- vails that not only statesmen, put also great political papers, ought to be above the small squabbles of parties or sects, and our Commonwealth has nothing to fear from the arro- gance and overbearing of religious parties. Catho- lics and Protestants in our country are fortunate enough *to be allowed to care for their spiritual | welfare according to their own ways of thinking, Without being subject to the gaidance and super- intendence of government. In contradiction to these actual facts, the Nord. deutsche Aligemeine Zeitung not only knows that the HzRacp is the organ of the Jesuits, but also that all its chief editors frequently attend mass, Perhaps it was the bidden purpose of the Nord: deutsche Allgemeine to prepare an agreeable New Year's surpr to the Jesuite and to His Holl- ness tne Pope. If so, it ought to have gone further in its joke, ana ould have added that there is im the palace ofthe HenaLn at New York a magnificent chapel, | that an especial Jesuit is retained there, not only to read mass every day, Dut also to make his iu- fluence felt wherever the connections oi the | HERALD reach; nay, that tiere is even a reason- able presumption that the latest expedition of the | New York Herstp to Central Africa, under the well-known HERALD correspoudent, Mr. Stanley, ismuch less meant for for the joundation of an Ultramontane Chureh among tne Centrai | Airican = tribes, «But even withent such | further amentai notions the = @uda- | cious assertion respecting j ism and | religion remains the great idea of the Nordeursche | O! course this idea produces only nonsense. How fiercely would the aliezed clerical editors of the HexaLp grind their teeth | | when they saw their paper last year open its co!- | umns, not only for Arch bop Manning, as the Nordeutache Allgemeine Zeitung so weil knows how to teil its readers, but ‘0 the arch heretic Doliinger, which latter iact tne Vordeutsche so discreetly keeps back; and if it be trie that tu proper e68 of the HERA D CONSIsts in attacd- ing the German Empire as the arch enemy of the Catholic religton, then the Nordeutsche aligemetne | Zeitung unknowingly discovered the traii o! a World-wide plot, for to the editors of the HenaLp belong Catholics and Protestan istians and Jews, Turks and Mouammedans, all cording to the opinion of the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zoi | ence o! tne the exploration of the | ) money powers have been acquired, and also in the ways in which they have been used, The means of the HERALD are the income of a New York busi- ness man, well acquired in two generations, Whereas the Reptiie ‘und consists of the revenues ofa German King, who has been deprived of nis throne and the use of his for- tune. The HERALD not only uses its means Jor journalistic purposes, but also for scientific explorations and humanistic purposes of the most varied kinds, whereas the Reptile fund 18 exclu- sively used In inQduencing pubite opinion. THE VON ARNIM CASE, So far as the alleged connection of the New York Henatp with Count Von Arnim 1s con- cerned, thereis no ground for the assertion that aby connection exists between them. The side taken by the HeRaLD with Count aroim simply finds its explanation in the numane cnar- acteristic of the Anglo-Saxon face to as- sist the weak and oppressed. ‘The JNord- deutsche Aligemeine Zeitung need not go to New York to find an active sympathy with Count Arnim. It only requires 10 peruse such inde- pendent foreign papers as are not kept alive out ofthe reptile 1und by it through cash payments or officious correspondents. Tne New York HERALD has received no presents from Count Arnim and the latter has given no obligations against the HExaLD. The HERALD is rich enough to pay for cable telegrams even to the value “of nobieman’s estate out of its own means, The correspondents of the HERALD are sufficiently salaried to be enabled to fuifll their duties without asking for souvenirs. The HERALD Of the 14th of December, theretore, is per- fectly correct in saying:—“The connections be- tween the HERALD and Couat Arnim are those of @ cosmopolitan paper whicn looks for news and a Statesman whose acts and fortane are interesting to everybody; who, moreover, has done nothing incompatibie with his honor or duty as a nubleman of tne German Empire.” JOUN P. JACKSON, . Correspondent of the New York Herala. BERLIN, January 2, 1875. FIRST EFFECT OF THE WAR. Mr. Jackson’s cynical trankn and his boldness in picking up and returning the gage flung down by Prince Bismarck has created an immense sen- sation. The fact was considered of sufficient im- portance to warrant the Berlin correspondent of the London Times—a gentleman who usually errs in being too reticent rather than too communi- cative—in telegraphing tue following despatch to his journal:— THE NEW YORK HERALD. {By telegraph from our Prussian correspondent.} BERLIN, Jan. 5. Mr. John P. Jaoxson, the Berlin correspondent of the New York HERALD, in a letter to the Vos- sische Zeitung, ridicules the semi-official Nord. deutsche Zeitung for representing his journal as the American organ of ultramontanisin, He says:— Politics and relicion are separate things in America. ‘The American government allows all sects to look after their own religious interests, without presuming to watch and direct their course. ’ The connection between Count Arnim and the New York Heraty is | merely that between a remarkable and —honor- able statesman and a Cosmopolitan paper ex to secure interesting intelligence. is ere but one similarity between the New Yor« Hxratp and the government. The pecunlary means of the former are at least as large as the sequestered property of the King ot Hanover—the so-called “reptile tund,’? cin. ployed to jufluence public opinion tn tavor of Bismarck policy, The Ilcnaxp is rich enough to receive cable grains at a tremendous expense, and its correspondents are well enough paid to dispense with souvenirs. The above letter, which is written in a very contemp*uous tone, 13 ure to excite a good deul of attention. The term “souvenir,” in the last sentence, refers to a well known incident in the Arnim trial. THE GERMAN CAPITAL. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE JUDGE WHO SEN- TENCED ARNIM—IMPERIAL OUTLOOK—BIS- MARCE’S REPTILE FUND—WHAT THE FRENCH CALL THE PRINCE CHANCELLOR. BERLIN, Jan. 3, 187: Alullis perceptible just now in the Bismarck- Arnim process, and we are having now some curiously interesting aiter-play. A few days ago a telegraphic agent named Hirsch was suminoned by the Criminal Court to give information a3 to who gave him the news of the Arnim sentence some hours before its delivery. M. Hirsen of course refused to say how he got the news. It ap- pears that he sent it to the Vienna New Free Press, and that it Was published in that paper ubout four o’clock in the afternoon, while the Court did not pass sentence until after six. The same news was published in the NEw YoRK Hrrap, however, on the morning before the delivery of the sentence! But what 1s most surprising of ail, is the assertion that disciplinary proceedings are to be instituted against Director Reich, the Chief Judge of the Berlin Central Criminal Court, before whom the case was tried, for revealing (or rather permitting to be revealed) | the sentence betore the actual delivery. Oi course, r one believes for a moment that President | Reich favored any newspaper correspondent with | advance copies; bus he is nevertheless responsible for what did occur. It is thought that tne new trial of the Arnim case will not be called before May. AnewS'ate Attorney bas the matter tn hand, and Bismarck says he intends to go deeper | into certain maiters time than the last. The Chancellor has so far only published one of the ecclesiastical documents; the making pubic of this was simply a challenge to the HERALD, which was suspected of belag in possession of the entire series, to begin the publication. Tne idea so recently expressed by the Norddeutsche Alige- meine Zeitung, the organ of Prince Bismarck, that THE HERALD AND COUST ARNIM were concocting a plot for the overthrow of the German Empire was too ridiculous for earnest consideration, 1 am happy to say that the otber | Berlin journals passed tue Norddeutsche editorial without notice; though {it 1s remarkable that on the very roing when the saia editorial appeared there wae published a very similar article, and evidently written by the same hand, in the col- umps of the Weser Zeitung of Bremen. You see that the atrack was a@ meditated one, and must have been concocted and carried out by the press Cossacks connected with the Foreign office, ana ted from THE REPTILE FUND. ‘ Ihave already told you in one of my recent letters something about this peculiar fund, amounting to 19,000,000 tha'ers, once appor- tioned to blind King George of Hanover tor his lost dominions, the interest of which, amountiag to over $500,000 annually, 1s disposed of privately by Prince Lismarck im guiding ani feeding the very moral press oi Germany, France and Eng- land. The world would be startled to hear what papers are directly or inuire elunas at the p Te the names om tis source, ry recel mor Suglisht tly with meutions & purnals fed r Mirectly vy Ing and printing Written in the Ofelia: rrussini ress A wise Mution Was made a few days ago that this AVISabl member of the should be avolished, ib wou ever, veore so doing, for Prince bisuiarck to ap- portion a gvod sum to t igemeine, | in orger that he may na ressed ia | a better style toan f against (he JIRRALD was able to do, BI & AND THE PAPAL FL. Prince varck's circular Gespatch relating to the Papal election has calied forth an interesting je article CTION, polemic iu the Catholic journuis, Tae Chauceilur is inormed taat he a’ no right to mix tu the coming CO that Germany wili pot be trouoled in the matter, and that the elected Pope 2 the true head of the Catholic Churea, with | ut the recogrition of the German govern. couatries—Au. the right or naming one rep- ( College of Carainals, Some | yubt whether countries Will en- exercise their coming | vut, on the c Count Au- | drassy declared in April, 187 ore the Austrian Revchistath delegation, that he would not ad. Is 2 yeror to give up any rignts lection. ted in 1620 the Pope Gregory XV. ex- right Of these turee | joueur; le copiste; ce rémard en politique; ogre | terrivie de Berl.n; l'homme épouvantabie; le plus | redoutable homme d'état au dix-neuvieme st0cle ; | ports of brandy from rose Lneir right; but tac impression tung—tanatically wnitea in one consptracy, viz,, | * win ground here thas to extinguish the German Emplie. Yet, among | 1X. HAS THR METHOD oF ail this nonsense, one grain of truth may de found, | The Germanta write ; positively on this | namely, the acknowledgment tuat the New Yorg | POint:— | acknowie the Pope elected | HERALD commands enormous wealth, oy the ald of Which the richest material is gatherea without t necessity of any consideration of cost or expen That is true, The means of the New York | HERALD Amount to at leest as much as the entire | German Reptile Fund; but there is a great ditfer- ence in the modes by which these respective y the ¢ yy Cardinals, oo is irenas do, tter what Prince Tae cardinas will o the ecclesiastical laws reguiat- election: aud among these jaws wil Hdouvvediy, & coustiiucon emanatiug trom our gorious reigning Pope, Mus 1X., which whl CONTIN Teguiatious having special erence to | the presen: diiticuit state of thiaga.” The Nation? Zevnng CHiNKs bois is the Most inpertant admission ever made by the Catholic press of Germany, | a rising tendency from £2 to £6 15 Germania calls attention to the very interesting faet that y Epablianed OY of the Vatican to accep’ Hohenione as Ambassador tothe Papal See was disenssed in the Reichstag. Bismarck fancied that by naving a Cardinal in Rome he could easiiy exert the influence in tue Fapal elections he #0 much desired, But the Vatican saw through Lhe Chancellor's cunning, and reiused to accept the honor, No wonder that Bismarck got angry and wrote despatcbes which he desires to keep 80 secret from the worid ! THB SPANISH COUP D’BTAT. The changes iu the alfairs of Spain have been warmly welcomed in Bertin, the newspapers iol- towing the tendency struck by Prince Bismarck’s North German Gazette. “Lhe new state of aifal 1n Spain,” say's this journal, “did not come uuex: pectediy,"” and goes ou to show tow Prince Bis- Marck, in bis speech of the 4th of December in the Reicastag, nud always entertained the view that the Republic in Spain was only a temporary athur, Which he acknowledged in order to lessen the horrors of civil wariare, but that ue had ota- erwise fouowed tie principle of permitting Spain to work out her own sulvauon, fhe North German Gazette says that the present coup @état tuifils the Premier's expecta- tious, and expresses the hope that tne Spanish government will now become con- sulldated, “wiih we same respect for the Ireedom of the decisions Came to by the Spanish Dation as ever. There isin Germany the hea: tielt wish Lbat wus hope may be inigiled.” The German govern. Ment has, indeed, had many unpleasantnesses With Don Carlos, irom (ie suvoting of Al. Schimdt to the arte | upon ber sips, and, very naturally, hails Don Alfonso’s government with greater pleasure than she would have done that of Don Carlos. THE SITUATION AT NEW YEAR, The New Year's receptions at tne Berlin Courtdo not furnish me with much to comment upon. Field Marshal Wrangel, in the name of the gen- erals, wished the Kaiser might be permitted to live “many, many years longer,” and the Emperor replied by expressing bis gratitude to God that he stil enjoyed health and strength, and was abie to tuiul tae duties of iis high station, New Year's Eve on the streets of Beriuu Was not quite as noisy as 10 previous years. Ihe old custom of kuocking in the stovepipe hats has been pul down by the police, and the hatmakers are compiaining of a baa New Year's trade, ‘ With the lst oi January two great changes were accomplisued in Germany—one irom the tna:er, guiden, groschen and kreuzer currency to the marks and piennigs, and the abolition of French terms in the Gerinan postal service. U! the former change We percelve little or notning at present except im the increase of prices all round to cor- Tespond with this advance of German civilization. A glass Oo beer or a cup O! coffee, costing hitherto in South Germany six kreuzers, 13 Low seven or twenty pfennigs; a table @hote, which a month ago in Berlin cost @ thaler, or three marks, is how suddeniy raisea to four, and 18 no better tor all tat In South Germany most articles that cost hitherto a florin (170 pienmigs) are now ticketed at 200 pleunigs, or two marks. ‘The banis4ument of French terms trom the Ger- man postal service 1s not an irrational act, thougao cervainly itis pushing Germanization somewhat far. During the war taere wasagreat outcry against the use of French words iu the German language, but it cid no good; and they have since then been adopted and Germun-silvered by the score, Count Moltke and the editors of the *Mill- tary gistory of the War," by the Prussian General Staff, nade the first iearned attempt to purify the language in the late numoers of that Work by using good German equivelents ior the French military terms, belore used exciusively in military ser vice, Post Director stephan is now tollowing Count Moltke’s exampie. Instead ol send- ing a registered letter with the in- scription ‘recommandiite,” we have now the word “eingeschrieten” or “registered.” Instead ol post couvert (envelope) we have Briefumschlige, a letter envelope; imstead of directing to tre “poste restante” now We bave to say “postia- gernd,”? which means remaining at the post; in- stead of “Passagier billet,” or passenger's ticket, we nave the word “fahrschein” which, being yansiated, literally means @ travelling card. ‘Vivat progress,” says the Kladderadatsch, ‘the Post nas made a beginning—verstandez vous?” ‘This is Post Director Stephain’s metiod of paving the way to International postal intercourse, A S'rasbourg correspoudent ot the berlin Gegen- wart has been at & Vast amount of trouble to bring together all the appeilations given by the French neWspapers to Prince Bismarck. A selection of the iost characteristic may at least intecest your readers. Monsieur de Bismarck; Prince de Bismarck; Prince chancelier; illustre chancelier; arcni- chanceiler; chancelier berlinots; chancelier de Jer; jormidabie chancelier; redoutable chatice- her; lé déienseur des itées aristoc:atiques; aud again champion cu libéralisme mouerne et ue la Tatson liumuiue; or even apdtre da liwcralisme; Millustre diplomate; ’homine de Biariitz; habe diplomate; le passe-par-tout; ia main-partout; implacable cnancetier Allemand; Vhomme de la jorce primant le droit; auteur céitore de cette politique de fer et de sang; le macchiavélique chancelter; ’éi@ve de Maccmavel; homme des hovles nicweurs et de ia crainte de Dieu; ce Béelzebuta (clerical); le pivot de la société; ce Richelieu de la Prusse: Polignac en politique; Polignac réussi; 'audacieox et puissant Ministre ; empire athée de M, de Bismaick; le terrible Cela Wilkelmsstrasse (Monde); ce Dionyse; hom. me de !"Europe le pius universellement «'Gresté; | maitre de sAllemagne; ce nouveau tyran (Uni- | vers); grand ponule de la révolation (Union); | Vhomme du siecle; le créateur de la puissance ailemande; artisan de la virgincité nouvelle de la Gormane (a witueism of the Univers); ibomme a’une induence presque Gla. bohque; le champion du_ Protestantisme; ce courreau = du Catholicisme —_(Veuiliot) ; Vhomme je plus détesté aece temps; cet mtrépid: Teuton; Ce majordomus de son souveruin; ie ter: rible mmistre; l’axe dun monde nouveau; ce brutal; cette incarnation du mal; le dieu Bis- marek (Monier); Jujiter tonnant ve Ja sprée (Monde); ce jouenr audacicux, téméraire pariots, | mais toujours servi par la lortune; ce Néron; Iin- satiabie vainqueur; Mhonorable ‘prince de Bis- marck (irooicully—Un-vers); ce terrible et bizarre | personnage (Univers); Vaomme d'une humeur tracassitre; le duc d'aide; le grand-di- recteur de Ja politique Allemande (Débats); le terrible ermite de Varzin; redvutaocle prince de erg un véritable hoinme u'état (Gazette de France); le grand homie allemand; homme Vaomme du progres; le chef de la civilization mo- derhet une maniére de Louyois, Visant au Ricae- leu, brutal, {utolérant, brisant toutes les résis- tances; homme du mauvais destin ae l’Allema- ghe (Union); VAgamemnon des rots (Réputtique Frangcise); la seutineiie sur nos irentbgres; Vhomme de lutte, ‘homme de combat. A ROYAL INVITATION TO ASTRON MER: At the meeting of the Royal Astronomical So- ciety, in London, January 8, the following letter was read from the private secretary of the King of Siam,agentieman signing “Shashakarawongse,” addressed to the society through tue Siamese Con. sul in London:— ‘Tne Roya. Pataca, Bancxox, Oct. 9, 1874. Mr Dean Sin—I have inucn’ pleasure’ in informing you that I have received the commands of ils Majesty 10 Tequest you to inform the astronomical society yal thatit it will appoint men ot sclence to abserve the tural eclipse of A his Majesty will be happy to con her ate guests ducing their visit, and ake their eutertainment, and provide | ul With transport tor themseives and their 1 | Kok to the will ercet d for them and ir ass his eect will be mf&de by fas Jency the Minister tor Foreign Affairs to British Consul General hers reaching the gentiemnen interest address this tot struments trom Ban ction selected by th teniporary build. happy to re of the society name vi heimselves of Ils Majesty's mvitation ts ot the provabic the station or stat equired tor tus! intended tor ont propose to 1 should r of party or parties, and the foundations in tae ol 1 submit observatory lis’ “Majesty's topozrapher, WH be happy will willingly 1 8 for ts purpos: believe ine, my SE, sty’s Private Secretary. rv invitation had been assurance of nm + Your most faitht His Serene ) Mr. De ta Rue said a sin Seut to the Royal Suciety, Who bad taken action upon itand appointed a comunittee, the object being to make w speciiic series of ovservations of the sun suc as had never veen attempted veiore, He aaied that the time was so short that itmight be dificult for persons to go out irom England unless already prepared; but pertiaps some ot the geutiemen now tm India wita Colone, Tennent mnigat go. ft lt was resojved to leave the matter with the council to make any Selection of persons volun- teeving to accept the King's invitation, THE FRENCH BRANDY TRADE, Awriterin the London 7Zimes saysi—The ex- the River Charente have about quadrupled In the past twelve years. I take jrom statistics supplied to the Frenen government period as jollows: annual average 4, July 1, 1860, to June 40, 1963, 606 gallons; July 1, 1863, to June 30, 1866, annual average 9,377,916 gal. jons; July 1, 4866, to June 30, 1969, annual average 11,715,750 gallons; July 1, 1869, to June BO, 18) annual average 14,008,333 alions, in 1873 there was a small decrease in exports more than compefsated by enhanced prices; and, juug- jug trom pine mouths’ trade of this year, bt autiCci pate a turther diminution in exports and value, Duting the past twelve years the ma ket prices of brandy in the producing districts have varied with 4% necronire Of bweuty-two gallops (ree Oo! cask, bottling or packing). Asstiming the invoice price 1 the last three yeara mennoned to pave been £5 for twenty. two gallons teluding packing (a moderate esi mate), (he @nnual trade jrom this one locality in | An uperiied reputation I if oss oe was do fal if hi the average produce of each triennial of that | UME Of N18 lungs was attected, i Navies bie | and the | dire those years ts not lees than £5,097,460, and of this amount jaily ninety per coat is paid ia the Orst | imstance by british merchan “THE CONTINUED SCANDAL, What Has Been Done in the Beecher Trial. THE BOUQUET BUSINESS. The Brooklyn trial has now been full three weeks before the City Court, Chief Justice Neil- son presiding. Ejfteen days have veen absorbed, of which nine have been given to the evidence, and the only witness before the counsél—one per- son excepted, who testified to the marriage of Theodore ana Elizabeth Tilton—has been Franc’ D, Moulton, the most renowned of mutual iriends. If we admit that seven hundred people are daily present—generally @ new audience every day— there have beef about eleven thousand persons looking at the scene, and among them have been in all about thirty women, some of them wives of lawyers, a few newspapey writers, so said, and others, friends, family members or protégés of politicians, MRS. TILTON has been the most conspicuous lady in conrt, and her flanking friends—always two and some- times three—make a group that gives color to the scene in the court room. They come very promptly, leave the room at recess, and return again in the afternoon, By the fact that both ‘racy and Shearman, Beecher’s law- yers, have presented in the sight of the Court papers to Mrs. Tilton to identify, and by the public reception given to her early In the trial by Mr. and Mrs. Beecher, it is evident that she 1s the partisan ol Mr. Beecher in the case and means to be under- stood as denying, by her presence ana aMiliation, the imputetion her husband has put upon her. Had this position been allowed to stand out seli-sup- ported it woula have been more consistent, in- stead of applauded, as it has been, by the rather shallow presentation and acceptance of bouquets and formal indorsement of handsnaking and pow- wowing in the presence of the reporters. As a study in etiquette this has been sald by the leaders to be THE CORRECT THING, First—It Mrs. Tilton resolved, for the sake of her children and for her pride of conscious purity, to face all who accused her of adultery, that nothing might be said in court she shouid not hear, she should have maintained her position with as little communication with Mr. Beecuer us possibie, None at ali would have been the proper quantum. Second—Mr. Beecher, avowing his sympathy ior the misled husband and setting down on paper the impropriety of his seeing the wife again, should have Kept in view his position of detendant all the time, aud not have complicated it with reviving, publicly, his familiar (rienaship for the wife. Ii he be imnocen’ sie is justly culled by him ‘the chief of sinners,” for she did accuse him in writing to Dr. Storrs and others. It Mr. Beecher's attitude is tne nonest actitude the Tiltons, im all ther kin and counections, have been the worst Iriends the Rees of Plymouth courch ever nad. For them e has mortgaged his house, discouated his pri- vate paper, Increased his mental toil, been suo- jected to ioaus and to bullying, and twice, not once only, has tne plaintiff's wile entrapped him into gorrespondence. ‘The three or jour letters, cireting about tue celeprated nest-nidiug letters, were # d.stinct batch, the sequel to a sympathy or inti- Macy whicn had been vale by Beecner’s de- sire’ and, accorving to Moniton, stopped alto. evner, io any view, therefore, of Mr. Beecher’s luture repose and salety, he should have put on the frigidity of a man net thrice to be annoyed by the same general gilaxy o1 people. THE BOUQUET BUSINE: That was a piece ol ignorance which educated people could never nave been gutity of, and, therelore, the story that Mr. sbearman, one oi Mr. Beecher’s lawyers, bud an interest in a forist’s pares to the amount o1 $12,000, and that this garden was an appendage of the court room, must ve dismissed irom every choritabie mind, ‘The general nuisance of the bouquet business was apparent When anoaymous partisans began to seud them to filton, In tissue paper and brown paper, in pressed paper aud in band-boxes the vouquets arrived in mid-court, Wlile the procecd- ings were golng on, to add their dyes to the mockery o! a heart already claimed to be bleeding and a youth claimed to be withered and trodden under 1001. . THE ROSES. Nothing ts so unjust a8 the raliying partisanship around a delicate cause, The greatest wars of Eugiand were the wars of only the Roses—w hite orred, The effort to ornament a scandal trial with the blooms of the garden and flank with flowers the degradation of several joity or, at least, Virtuous names, 1s only another proof o1 the violence of rage When ‘expressed vy large, orgunized bodies and carried ito the court of public opinion iu advance oi un examimation by luw. No case has occuired in movern society where the press was su directly and immediately brought into a social, civil and crimival contest. Several ol the jawyers io the case were first re- tained as atiorneys, not at law, but attorneys at rumor. Iu tue city o: Brooklyn there was an in- stant division O! the press, and this extended to ew York city and tv the country at large. | Frightfui 1beis were bandied to ans Iro, and every euergy Was applied to non-sulting the contestants, severally, belure they appeared, The purptt rushed 1 with a great deal of exhortation tat was nardly tre product of men inspired to preach, Jurists tuok up the case and analyzed it beiore the public as cunousiy us they would dissect the legend o! ‘lhe Man in tue lrou Mask,” and bence a batcn Of hbei suits preceded and surrounded the isste at law, which lise.f meanwhie was myste- riqusly drawn back and Kept In abeyance, so that we have had tue witness Moulton asked auring tne past Week Whatuer ie has not had to pay the cost of deiending a libel suit. In short, the trials sougnt to be crowded in veiore this one are made parts o1 the record against their defendants, So red Hot are the parties to the suit that it is now charged that MISS PROCTOR went out of court ou the cunsctentious advice of one 01 lier Most esteemed ineuds, living distant from the scene Of hostiliues, to the following effect :— “You are being used to pull other people’s chest- nuts ouc of the fire. The attitude of all parties tuwaid you at pres-utis your vindication. Neitner side is incensed against you. Take this guod opimion aud costs and retire.” There are uone Who cau question the good sense of this advice, and Migs Proctor Is hot only Bt rest, but sne nas tue protection 01 the Judge iu this case, who wilt not iet her name appear, None 0! the parties to the suit can lay any claim to courtesy. On both sides taere is a reckiess dis- position to pnii off other people's ds to make inissiies of them. Ju this Way Dr, Patton, of Chi- cago, Was diagged in by the Tiltou party, ana Mr. Smith, of Clicago, was made to repori a tale whict led to the suit against the Brooklyn Argus. The arust Carpenter is almost a8 much venounced as Mr, Muulton, before .e bas testitied anything, und itis even said that if Mrs. Mouton remem- bers anything prejudicial she will uot be spared. is the most desperate resistant ‘the world. Like Sit Edward Morti- mer, m the “lon Chest,’ it will sacrifice the recipieats of 1t8 secrets Irom the mere tact of possessing them. ‘The prisouer in the Isle de Ste, Marguerite had for associates only those Who had identified him. OPINIONS OP THE PUBLIO, As the trial progresses and the evidences given to the public the intense interest that 1s taken in the case vy the irieuds and parcdsans of botn sides becomes move, apparent, as turnishing & tupi¢ ot geueral couver-auion, In the notels, the clubs and in the street the aifferent theories jormed by interested pai ties are promulgated and discussea, ‘The iriends 0. Beecher are stil! con. fident that he will come out with clean skirts and in re. Uttal Of the strong circumstantial evidence that appears in the written Gocumeats state that all his Writings are diifused with a poetical tone that been interpreted by the general pub lic. They say like all great men, Beecher experi euces nvmeits When it Was a rellel and pleasure to sit down aud coudde to some lotimate fread the Wany thougtits and jancies that lasved througn nis brain, His affection jor Mrs. Til.on was shat ol a deur CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND, that sympathized with berin ber troubles and aiso asked her consideration when burdened by hisown, They denounce Moulton aud ‘Tilton as two unscrupulous and janatcal believers in th free love doctrine, i at, iiing to lorce the Ply- mouth church pastor ito advocating their theories of the proper relations between man and woman, determined to crush oim, ag he prov- ably knew too tnuch of their private affairs, and then jaid the train to the mine Which has since exploded. TO-DAY, at eleven A. M., the cross-examination of Francis D, moaiton will be resumed, Juage Porter said yesterday that ne hoped to get to Court, but, as Would be suflicientiy recovered to risk leaving his house, In case ue should be present it will ve a matter Of discussion as to Who soull continue the cross-eXamination, a8 the cougsel Jor the )lamtutt Will object to any More changes, In the opiniwn Ol many prominent memvers of the Bar te coun- sel jor tie detence have been gt considerable jatitude in their concuct Of the cross-examina- tion, Judge Neilson has, determined, how ever, to relleve tue Witness as soon as possible from the trying ordeal that he has been subjected to during the past week, deience will have to cluse the cross- examinat on some time during tae day. The re- mination o; Mr. error Wit nen be 1 by Jad; ullerton and will occupy ri ee ee The next comn about three or four nyurs wt Me Most. witness Will be ele THEODORE . and mis examination will commence either Tues. Ouy aiternoon or Weduesaay morning. ively time t+ anticipated wnen ‘Theodore Tiiton 1s called As a witness, a8 cotn sides ciaim to have impor. tant reasons and arguments to illustrate the legal 5 | cation, but was discharged and returned to bh: Strength of their conduct, If the objection ts made by the deience, the a bed will prone occupy the greater part Of a sessicn. 1s Tur frered that Frank Carpenter will bo called alver on. ° A MYSTERIOUS MATTER, Among the many rumors necesvarily afloat in & case like the great scandal suit is one whtcn, if true, reflects no little discredit upon a sworm juror aud one of ti ounsel. It vppears that Que day last week a gentieman slightly intoxicated visited a barber's shop in Brooklyn. He reqiested to be shaved, stating that he was ina great hurry. Further conversetion ensued between tim and the barber, in which (be gentleman was a juror in the Veecher-Tilton Was necessary jor itm to reach the court room by ten A. M. He also stated belore icaving the shop that he had spent the previous niznt with one of the counsel, and that they had been drinking to. ether. It was also rumored that Judge Morris, of ur. Tilton’s counsel, had @ long luierview with the burber on Saturday jast, and that several genrie- man of Plymouch church had aiso caued upon him, ‘To sit the truth of these reports, which may have af important bearing upon che issue Of toe gull, @ HERALD reporter calied yesterday at tage shop in question and was told by the barber that the rumors were substantially correct. He ad. mitted that such language was used, but he uid not know the gentleman’s nawe nor coud he describe him. He said that Judge Morris haa since visited his shop, but was enurely reticent regarding What transpired during bis presence, Several other gentiemen had alse recently called, but he did not Know them and to all he gave t same answers as to the HERALD reporter, Sw is the barber's statement, The next interview was with General Pryor, who disclaimed any knowledge whatever of tha circumstance and stated that ne had ucver heard of it, Judge Morris was then visited, and he de- clined to say anything on the subject. To ull questions asked by the reporter be simply answered, “1 am nor at. liberty to siy anything’ on the subject.” if “any one knows the truth of the matter itis Judge Morris, and ug tt 1s cearly shown that ne visited tie bare ber’s shop and had a long interview with the pro prietor, itis at icust plausible that he Knows the facts. He made no disclaimer ilke the other gen. tlemen, Assistant paster Halliday, of Piymouth chtrcn was theo ca!led upon and he expressed great surprise at the rumor, ‘As far as | Know,” said Mr, Halliday, “no members of Plymouth chureh pave taken apy steps in the matter, In tact, | never heard of the report before,” General ‘tracy, of Mr. Beecner’s counsel, laughed very much about the matter and stated that he had heard the ree port afew days ago, but did not consider it worthy of investigation, No other facts could be elicited from any one regarding the affair, At present Judge Morris holas the only key to its solution, and itis belleved by some that reference to the alleged tampering With a juryman will ve made in tne Court to-day, NEW YORK CITY. The police sky was like the firmament out of doors yesterday, severe and threatening. Ageneral dispersing of sergeants is said to be contemplated by the Board of Police. Tne “black lust’”’ ig 16 be presented for discussion next week, Randall O'Connor, who was stabbed on Sunday morning by William McManus, tn a liquor store in Spring street, was still alive at a late hour last night, but tas condition is in no way improved, William Jones, of 105th street, a machinist eme ployed on the Harlem Bride, ielifrom the scah Jold into the river yesterday morning and wag drowned, He leaves a wife and four cmidren, ‘The Coroner has been notified to noid an Inquess, Fire was discovered last evening, about nine o'clock, in the three story brick butiding, No. 189 Eighth avenue, occupied by G. Harris as a clothing store, and was not extingagished uotil damage ta the extent of $6,600 lad been aone the stock and building: Two thieves broke into the billlard saloon No 614 Broadway at a lete hour last night and stole two sets of billiard balls and two valu. able revolvers. Roundsman Stewart, of the Four. teenth precinct, discovered the thieves as they were escaping by the roo! witn their plunder, ous could not succeed in effecting their arrest. BROOKLYN. There are 671 persons in the Kings County Pent tentiary. Tbe annual ball of the Emerald Assoctation, in aid of the Roman Catholic orphan asylums o/ Brooklyn, will take place at the Academy o! Musie to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. This evening tne ball of the Knights Templars Will be bela at the Academy of Masic. Prominent members of the traternity trom various parts of the country will be in atrendance. Syivester Early was arrested at his residence, No, 121 Colyer street, yesterday, on a warrant issued by Justice Elliott, on compiaint of George W. Bisch, of No. 49 Woodhull street, who accused him of having stolen a gold watch, vained at $75, from his pocket on the hight of January 15. ‘This forenoon, at eleven o'clock, the Inquest touching the causes which led to the destruction of the lives of the McCormicks and John Flood, in- mates of the tenement house which was burned on Tuesday evening, at the corner of Pacific and Hoyt streérs, will bs commenced before Coroner Simms. He inrends to aiscover, If possidle, Whetner these hives were sacrificed by reason 0} | anv negiect on the part of persons responsible t¢ provide the means of escape. Bernard Smith, a grocer, doing business at the corner of Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue, was arrested at a late hour on Saturday night, on acharge of feloniously assaulting James Dolan, aged nineteen years, residing in Fourteenta street, near Second avenue. It seems that on Friday night last Dulan and a young man named George Flood were in Smith’s stable and com meuced toabuse fis horse, by striking it witha heavy whip. ‘The accused took the witp away from the boys and struck them with it about tha nead, Dolan was subsequently arrested Jor 1ntoxe house, ‘where ne seon alter became ugconscious, Surgical aid was summoned and it was found that his skull had been iractuted. He is now lying io a critical condition im the Long Island College Hospital. LONG ISLAND. Mr. Scudder Smith has been appointed Post master at Fresh Pond, town of Smitutown, is Place of Mr. A. G. Mitford, resigned. Diphtheria and scarict fever, among adults as well as children, are prevatling to an alarming ex+ tent In Various parts of Suffolk county. A petition tj being circulated for signatures 1n Patchogut javor Oi a law allowing oysters t¢ be planted in the bay under somewhat different regulai1ons irom those Low In furce. The farmers of Huntington and vicinity, who are dissatisiiéd with the freight charges on the sailing packets, have a project on foot for the organiza tion of a stock company, with $20,000 capital in $5u snares, the purpose being to buy and runa suitable ireight steamboat bewween Huatingtop und New York, The committee of prohibitionists of Su‘foly county, recently in session at Riverhead, passed a resolution recommending the voters of the several towns of the county in favor of prohibition to meet at their respective town halis ou the first Tuesday in March, tor the purpo: of making nominations tur town olticers, to voted for al the coming town inzetings. Acetermined movement 1s now being made at Sayville, Patchogue and ovner points on the Great South Bay, to procure the enactment of a law af the present session of the Legisiature providing for the election of special constabies 10 the towns ol Brookhaven, Islip and Baby: jon, with powers and duties necessary for the eniorcement of the laws regarding the regulation and preservation of tie fisheries in the bay. The measure to be drawn some. what on the plan of the act fur tne election of game constables, but modified so as to meet tha requirements of a bay police, with powers and pay adequate to sectire the Iaithful entorcement of all the laws relating to this important imterest. STATEN ISLAND. James Cole, # veteran of 1812, died at bis rem dence in Egbertville last week, aged ninety-seven years. The trustees of the Church of the Redeemer, at New Brighton, have paid off the balance of tne debt wane encumbered their church property. The scholars of the Kingsley Methodist Eptsco- pal church will give an entertainment on Wednes- day evening next for the benefit of the Sabbath school. Dr. Carroil will deliver the next in the course o: free lectures velore the Young Men’s Christian Association, at the hail in Stapleton, his subject being ‘Preventable Sickness.” ‘The “Ladies! Stariight Social Club" has been or- ganized at Stapleton. They will nave a ball at Klein's National Hali on the evening o1 Feo ruury 8 ‘The annuai meeting of the local visiting commit tee for the Richmond county insti/utions will be heid at three o'clock P, M. on the 27th inst., in the Young Men's Christian Association rooms, at Fae toryville. Aspecial committes of the Board of Trustees 0} Edgewater will meet at the village hall, Staple ton, this evening, to investivate the charge pros ferred by ex-Chief Engineer Brown agaiust the members oi Rescue Bugins Company, No, 9, vor veiusing to give tho ose of thew hose ata fire ua Tompkiusyville some weeks ago,