The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD) ANN STREET, BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yor Hznaxp will be | vent free of postage. | OTM AAAS as THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nzw Youu Henan. 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. sreceeesseeeeeeeeeNO, 40 VOLUME XL AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT. ee GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.—VARITY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:90 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaaway.—TH! SHAUGHRAUS, at SP. M.; closes at | 1040 P.M. Mr. Boucicault BROOKLYN THEATRE, ington street. —'TWT. gaat ae ‘CROWN, at 8P. he c.oses at 10:45 P.M. 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Stocks dull. | ‘Tuz Rervpiicans have won another election | ‘n France, their candidate in the Seine-et-Oise having been returned to the he Assembly. YORK, TU aSDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1873, Tur Excusi Government will try to pre- | vent the introduction of the potato beetle into | Ireland. The Chief Secretary for Ireland announced in the House of Commons yester- day that the danger was believed to be exag- | gerated. Ruope Istanp Weavers have indulged in | that very expensive luxury-—a strike, and all because of back pay ; not in the Congressional sense of the word, however, but on account of | ante-dating on the part of the millowners. A rather injudicious season of the year to select for a strike. Tur Spanish War.—The capture of Estella is denied in despatches from Spain, and the | Carlists claim that they have regained their | losses. There is a direct contradiction in the | Spanish reports to-day, both parties claiming to have won victories. King Alfonso is to | return to Madrid, and General Jovellar will | take command of | the Army of the North. Tae Mernopist Cavncy obtained its great power in this country through its itinerant | sysiem, and some of its preachers fear, as will | be seen in our report, that the evasions of the | system will make the Church weaker. The | question was debated yesterday, and will be | considered again at the meeting of the preach- ers next week. Wnheruzn tae Episcopan Cuvrcn is de- creasing in the United States was an im- | portant religions question discussed yesterday by the Rev. Hugh M. Thompson before a con- ference. His address, which contains start- ling statements in reference to the decline of Episcopalianism, is reported elsewhere. Tur Lovrsiana SenaTorsnrp.—The resolu- tion submitted to the Senate by Mr. Morton, | declaring that Mr. Pinchback should be ad- mitted to that body upon the certificate of Kellogg, was anticipated. When adopted it | will be a recognition of the Kellogg govern- | ment, notwithstanding that the accompanying | report says that the manner of Pinchback's election and the legality of the Legislature of | 1872 is a matter for after investigation. It is | the policy of the administration to secure any | recognition of Kellogg, even if Pinchback has | to be swallowed as a distasteful dose. We do | not know which is the more to be admired— the stubbornness of Pinchback, or the grace- ful manner in which his republican rivals have surrendered. | voleanic and blazing since the war—would | | There would have been a sharp, prolonged | | conflict between the North and the South. | can well resist, would have had its sweep- | | triumph of the third term, the foundation of a | | property in New York as in these more grace- | | Emory. | sonal adventure to serve the ambition of | But it bangs over us like a cloud, dark and | that spirit of American independence which, | after all, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET, The Resignation of Grant-How to Avoid a Rebellion and a Foreign War. Two years have passed since the Hznarp first called attention to the schemes of some ot the supporters of the President to secure his election for a third term. We showed how the growth of political patronage had given unusual strength to any administration in power; how the republican party had be- come the vassal of the President; how mili- tary influence had a preponderating power in legislation; how from causes naturally re- sulting from the war the government had be- come as strongly consolidated as the govern- ments of France and Spain. We showed that the effect of this centralizing influence was to throw the government into the hands of the man who might be in possession of the White House; that thus it had become very much what we see in France or Spain. When a Napoleon declares a coup d'état and shoots down citizens on the boulevards, when an Alfonso is brought back by bayonets over the prostrate body of «@ be- trayed republic, it is only necessary for the home ministry to telegraph to every department and commune that “order reigns,"’ that ‘the country welcomes the new régime," to secure acquiescence in the usurpation. The same spirit of discipline and obedience and the same control of public opinion by government influences have arisen in the United States. This is the spirit we characterized as Cmsarism. Although the efforts of the Henaxp to atiract attention to this phase of our politics were called ‘‘sensa- tional,’’ it was soon shown that our “senso- tions’ were prophecies, and that our fears were not lost upon the country. The admin- istration party went down before the public opinion then created with a defeat as humili- ating and complete as any known in our po- litical history. It is one of the best attributes in General Grant's character, to which he largely owes his success as a soldier, that he never surren- ders, The last election proved to him that he could not control the country by the machinery of the republican organization; that the people were, after all, superior to a party. Nothing remained to him but the expedients of a rebellion in the South or a foreign war. If we look at the situation of affairs in many of the Southern States, and the action of the government in these States, it only becomes in- telligible to us on one theory—namely, that the President meant to secure an election for a third term by reviving the rebellion. We note the steady processes of aggravated tyranny and injustice by which Louisiana was driven into the McEnery movement in Sep- tember. We remember that after that peaceful revolution, which overturned the usurping Kellogg as though his govern- ment were a child’s house of cards and rein- stated the deposed McEnery, that the Presi- dent, with swiftness and anger, threw his whole power upon Louisiana, It was his hope and expectation, as well as of those sur- rounding him, that this burning coal would | kindle into a fire, that the inflammable South— | burst forth into a new fury. This would have been his opportunity. The spirit of Fort Sumter would have been again aroused. | The old war feeling, which no Saxon blood | ing will. The end would have been the | military republic, practically an empiro in its powers and responsibility. This failed through the wisdom and forbearance of the | people of Louisiana. Then came General Sheridan’s sudden errand to New Orleans, and the invasion of | the Legislature by the troops of General | But even this did not provoke the | people. They saw that what was an injustice | to them was the pretext for a still greater in- | justice to the country. Nothing would serve | them worse than to resist the power which, | after all, had behind it the people of the | United States. Consequently the effort to | jj revive the rebellion failed, and there now | only remains a foreign war. Unfortunately | there are abundant pretexts for sucha war. | | We have the Spanish question, as we have | had it fora hundred years. We have strug- gling Cuba to excite our sympathies. Mexico | gives a reckless Chief Magistrate daily temp- | | tations toward new adventures. Our policy | with Spain has always been irritating and | restless. How else could it be with the | “manifest destiny,” which, step by step, has | driven Spain from so large and fair and rich | a part of her old dominions, and which will | é not pause until the American flag floats over | the Isthmus of Panama? How else could it | be with these constant uprisings in Peru, Buenos Ayres, Mexico and Cuba, one colony | affer another striking off the yoke of the | motber land, and the United States always in | sympathy with rebellion? But our relations | with Spain are no more critical than they | were in the time of Jefferson and Monroe | and Jackson. Patience and forbearance | guided our policy, for these statesmen saw | that time and progress and the superior alert- ness and enterprise of our people were slowly, | surely settling all questions, and that peace would gain conquests no less valuable than those of war. A warwith Spain upon any pretext that could possibly be advanced would be madness and crime. The honor of the country does not seek it; no national inter- ests would be served by it; it would bea per- | | | Grant and the necessity of his followers. threatening, and which can only be dispelled by the resignation of the President. Thanks to the good sense of our people and has not been destroyed by party | passion, these are schemes which have only to be seen to be destroyed. President | Grant is an ambitious man, fighting a des- perate game. ‘The country sees that the | scheme for the third term is trifling with one | of the most sacred traditions—a tradition that | may be called a part of the constitution. The time has come for the republican party to act, The leaders of that organization must show whether they are the masters or the slaves of | the President. It cannot survive the enormity of the blunders he constantly commits. His Arkansas Message is an illustration of his policy. He has no right to order Congress to | interfere with the affairs of that State, as he | interfere if Congress chooses to disobey. This Message is a menace, which Congress, if it had any self-respect, would promptly resent. It should compel him to resign. His resigna- tion of the office of the Presidency would give the republican party new life. It would destroy schemes that make the country uneasy, paralyze business and retard national prog- ress. It would leave the Presidency in the hands of Mr. Wilson, whose recent letter shows him to be a statesman, knowing the people, in full sympathy with the best ideas of the republican party, and respecting the laws as well as the traditions of the constitution. If the President is not amenable to this advice, but continues to drive on and on, risking rebellion in the interest of his ambition, then we cannot too soon prepare for a struggle that will invotve the safety and honor of this country. The Beginning of the Canvass The reception of Governor Tilden at Al- bany last night, an account of which is else- where published, has a value outside of its social character and the compliment paid to Mr. Bryant. Governor Tilden is the begin- ning of a new régime. He represents in American politics what the old dukes of the brilliant days of the Bourbons represented when they came with the Restoration. He isa democrat of the finest and rarest type. He is the conqueror of Tweed and the regenerator of Tammany Hall. He brings to the office of the Governorship the best idea of the devotion to public welfare. He has a large personal fortune and scholarly tastes, and is the suc- cessor of Silas Wright and Martin Van Buren. We mark this festivity at Albany as the begin- ning of a new régime in more senses than one, as the return of the democrats to power and the advent of a candidate for the Presidency. Governor Tilden knows that nothing is more efficient than a hearty smile and a grate- ful glass of wine. Consequently, when he draws the wit, the wisdom, the dignity and the mercantile strength of New York about | him, into his parlors, the influence will not be transitory. Those of our readers who imagined that one of the misfortunes of Governor Tilden’s life, his bachelorhood, would be an obstacle to his success in the ad- ministration of the Governorship will see their fears dispelled. Our bachelor Governor begins his administration os brilliantly as our bachelor President, the last of the demo- cratic dynasty. This would be a misfortune if he should become President, for no well- ordered society can afford to place too high an esteem upon those members who fail to discharge the first duties and obliga- tions of a citizn to the Common- wealth, the obligation of founding a family. However, the domestic as- pect of this festivity is the least important phase. Our correspondents, who give us the narrative of what took place, really write the opening chapter of the campaign ‘for the Presidency. The men who assembled at Albany last night are not affrighted with the ghost of the third term. The new administration thus far strengthens Governor Tilden in the affections of his purty and the respect of the people. Thus far he has made no blunders. Some |of us may think that he hesitates too long about compelling a change of the Comptrollership in New York, and that he might crystallize the rapid transit move- ment by identifying his administration more closely with it. We must give him time. If he only succeeds as brilliantly in his political adventures and in reviving the interests of ful phases of his administration New York's opening of the campaign for the Presidency will practically be the close. The Missing Statcsman. We have received the following advertise- | ment, with a request that it be published in | the Personal column of the Heraip: — HE MISSING STATESMAN.—THE SERGEANT-AT- Arms of the House ot dena (otis ed of the United States of America will pay a liberal reward for the pro- duction betore the Com mittee of Ways and Means of the Hon, Wilham 8. King, commoniy eallea “Bil? King, Congressman-elect from Minnesota, and one of the most digunguisned Christian statesmen of modern times. Bill ® years of axe: 9 lect 4 inches in Belehts pounds: has brown hair, slightly hair thin and falling iow on the foré- ‘ally gray cyes, with a chubby, fat, corpnient, gs, thick neck. full ace, double Ot bristian benevolence. (Tigre hg William long and an expressiot Bilt King resembles inp H. Kemble, of Pennsyivant ackus, the ais- ungi ’ minstrel; Peni bama ; Colonel George H, Butler, ‘ajor Gen. eral tom Uctiliree, © ‘ublican; Colonel te St rot the New York Tribune, at banjo player 1 not 4 drinsing man. not free with his money. a good business man and agreat admirer of the Hon. Schuyler + oltax. Wher last heard from Bill King was sald to be on a stock arm in Canada, seeking to purchase a famous Dur- F Al), aud bad on his person $10,000 with which to pay for tis bulk There are grave tears that be has been Joully tampered with. Thereiore, a large reward will be ais return to this country or for any iniormation lead to his Teturn, Address SER- Nr. VAt-ARtS Rouse of Representatives, Washing- ct We gladly publish this advertisement with- out expense as our contribution toward the Pacific Mail investigation. We have already shown our earnestness in this matter by offer- ing to defray the cost of an expedition to find Bill King. Thus far we have not been able to discover the person combining all the faculties necessary to successfully conduct so gigantic an enterprise. Mr. Stanley's ab- sence in Africa, the fact that Mr. O'Kelly, Mr. MacGaban and Mr. Fox are otherwise em- | ployed, limits us in our choice. If our Wash- ington correspondents can find any ex-Con- gressman or member of the Third House or “parliamentary lawyer”—such a man, for in- | stance, as the Hon. Sam Ward—who will take charge of the Hrratp expedition, we will equip it immediately. The mysterious disappearance from the United States of Bill King is a reflec- tion on justice. Any one who knows this distinguished statesman can understand his anxiety to appear before the House of Representatives, and especially before the | Senate and House of his State, who have asked for him in a series of imploring resolu- tions. As the matter now stands his mys- terious removal from public and social life is only equalled by the abduction of Charley Ross or the extraordinary disappearance of the anti-Mason Morga an fitty years ago. Crime 18 Bop and reckless in Brooklyn, as the story of an attempt to rob a pawn office last evening shows. A more daring attempt | at plunder has not been of late recorded. Tur Lone Istaxp Rarunoap Disaster, which | proved such a lamentable tragedy a few days | ago, is now under investigation by a coroner's jury. The travelling public in that vicinity | are very anxious to know how a track can be washed away anda locomotive be exploded even if the fall of zain in the vicinity be virtually does, and no right to say that he will | hoavier than usual, chin | He talks well. is | Prosident Grant’s Ark Message. The closing sentence of this extraordinary document conveys a clear intimation or threat that if Congress should follow the advice of the committee sent to investigate the condi- tion of things in Arkansas and let the State alone, the President will interfere on. his own authority to upset the State government, de- pose Garland and install Brooks as Governor. This is the boldest menace, and its fulfilment would be the most daring act ever ventured upon even by General Grant. ‘I earnestly ask,” he says, ‘that Congress will take defi- nite action in the matter to relieve the Ex- ecutive from acting upon the question which should be decided by the legislative branch of the government.’’ He too evidently means, if Congress does not. act, to adopt # course parallel to that which he has pursued in Louisiana, construing the silence of tbat body as a permission to follow his own judgment as to who is the righttul Governor, and to put him in office and maintain him in office by mili- tary force. The demand that Congress act on the subject in disregard of the advice of one of its own committees who have visited the State and inquired into its affairs is ab- surd. If, as the committee think, the new constitution and the Garland government are supported by a large majority of the people and are legally valid, what occasion is there for Congress to ‘take definite action in the matter,” or to act upon it at all? He might as reasonably ask Congress to decide whether Mr. Tilden is the legal Governor of New York, with an implied threat of ousting him if Congress declined to go beyond its author- ity and pass upon his claims. It is a subject in which Congress has no right to intermed- dle, and its forbearance to act can give the President no shadow of an excuse to over- throw the State government and put Brooks in office. According to the President’s Message he has much stronger grounds for supporting the claim of Bxgoks than he ever had for support- ing that of Kellogg. He does not pretend that Kellogg was legally elected, and he has recently stated, in a Message to Congress, his opinion that the Louisiana election of 1872 was “a gigantic fraud,’’ and that he sustained Kellogg because, between two invalid claims to the Governorship, he thought Kellogg’s the least objectionable, But he has no misgivings respecting the claims of Brooks, He asserts that gentleman's title to the office of Governor in the strongest possible language, and if he follows the precedent he set for himself in Louisiana General Grant, as soon as the ses- sion closes, will send the army to Arkansas to revolutionize its government. By declaring his belief that Brooks is the legiti- mate Governor he has invited him to make an application for federal assistance in putting down opposition to his authority ; and it is plain from this amazing Message that the President intends to comply with such a re- quest when it is made, unless Congress ties up his hands. We warn him that this will stir up a greater commotion than was caused | even by the military interferonce with the Louisiana Legislature. We will not discuss the Arkansas constitu- tion now, for the deliberate judgment of | Judge Poland’s committee, formed after care- fal investigation, renders such a discussion unnecessary. Suffice it to say, that the alleged irregularity is merely technical, and | is mo greater than has happened in many other States. in adopting new constitutions, |The present constitution of New York was framed and adopted in 1846, in disregard of the provisions of the constitution that pre- ceded it, it being held here, as it has been held elsewhere, that the permis- sion of the Legislature and ratification by a majority of the people was a sufficient war- rant. Grant bas just as much legal authority to reinstate the old constitution of New York as he has to send an army to revive the dead and discarded constitution of Arkansas after the people, acting under the authority of the Legislature, have established another. | The Transit of Venus. The letters which we publish to-day from our special correspondents attached to the | scientific expeditions in Australasia constitute | a valuable acquisition to the history of the : | grand astronomical event of 1874. They de- | scribe the observations which the telegraph either failed to communicate or summarized | in meagre terms. The astronomers and sci- | entists of the earth will rejoice to learn that, in despite of numerous obstacles and bad weather, the general result of the observations | in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania is | highly gratifying. In some instances’ only | one of the planet’s contacts was observed, | while in several others all the contacts were hidden by clouds. At most of the sta- tions, however, the position of the morn- ing star upon the solar disk, during some one stage of the transit, was mapped with precision on the photographic plates. | water clouds during the decisive moments of ! Venus’ collision with his rim, but shortly burst through the masses of vapor and un- folded the tiny orb creeping slowly over his | face. Heavy rains again came, and hid the | closing phenomena from view. All over Tas- mania the transit was eagerly scanned under | the same palpitating circumstances. The American astronomers seem to have been the only successful observers at Queenstown, New Zealand; a victory which is mainly due to their sagacity in selecting a lofty position. It is gratifying to know that the equip- ments and calculations of our own astronomers have in no way been in- ferior to those of other countries. Tho most | brilliant success has been achieved at Sydney, where the sky was clear, and Venus was scru- tinized with marvellous care. A flood of light has thus been poured on many questions here- tofore involved in much obscurity, We are told that the planet was encircled by a pale, luminous aurora, about one second in width. it This confirms the supposition of a dense at- | mosphere enveloping Venus, and the height ascribed to it by the Sydney observers cor- responds toa distance of one hundred and | thirty miles. This atmospheric volume may hence play an important part in equalizing | the dreadful extremes of heat and cold to which the polar regions of the planet are al- | ternately exposed in summer and winter. No | “black drop" was observable, and no traces of a satellite have appeared; so that we may safely infer that the strange phenomena of the | Inst century were due to imperfections in the | At Hobart Town the sun was immersed in | afterwards the beams of the great luminary | instruments of that period. We have, there- fore, every reason for congratulation on the vast strides which astronomical science has made within the past century, though we may be wide of the mark in our conclusions respecting the distance of thesun. It may not be too soon to suggest to the star gazers that close observations be made in the meantime of the apparent posi- tions of Jupiter and Neptune among the stars, with the diameter of tho earth's orbit as a base line, in order that the result of the present observations may be verified by com- paring the estimate of their distances 80 de- termined with their distances as derived from Kepler’s laws. It would not be surprising in the end to find that the solar distance, as cal- culated on the lunar theories, would prove more correct than that resulting from the transit observations. The experiments of Arago and Fizeau on the velocity of light could be repeated at a comparatively trifling expense, and they would, if well conducted, furnish an estimate more trustworthy, per- haps, than any other. This, however, could not detract from the importance of the present expeditions, whose exploits will go down to posterity as the most substantial monuments of the astronomical genius of the age. Those Ghosts. For the last twenty years or so that curious anomaly which is called Spiritualism has resembled a sick volcano, remaining quiescent for a while, and then belching forth its thun- ders and cinders until half the world looked on with awe and the other half with disgust. In the next century it will be looked upon and written about os one of those social curi- osities which Mackay and Disraeli have dis- coursed so charmingly, In its power of at- tracting public attention and of gaining adherents it is to be put into the same cata- logue with other sublime humbugs which have fascinated whole generations and then died a natural death. Tho columns of the Henaxp, which are always open to the free and honest discussion of any subject, political or ecclesiastical, which engages the mind of the public, have of late contained the most formidable statements of both parties. That those who allege and those who deny are equally honest is patent to the most casual reader; that the affirmations of both parties are equally true will hardly be admitted by any critic. Nothing is more evident than that some people are egregiously gulled or that some others are determined not to be con- vinced on any grounds, As Stephen Black- pool sagely remarks, ‘It's aw a muddle.” There are scores on scores of small fry who exercise their mediumistic powers undis- turbed, and pocket their regular fee for pro- ducing the phenomena of unhappy tables and chairs which waltz about the room with a somewhat uncertain gait. The three bright particular stars in the dusky firmament of Spiritualism, however, have lately undergone a scrutiny which will have an appalling effect on their cash receipts. If they are humbugs no fate is too bad for them, and the sooner they are exposed the better. Let them be visited with the unspeakable contempt of a community which will not tolerate trifling with the fundamental facts of religion and which visits a condign punishment upon the charlatan who produces a counterfeit present- ment of our ancestors at the ridiculously small price of five dollars per head. If, on the other hand, these gentlemen are possessed of an ability, or control a force, not yet calcu- lated or catalogued by science, let them sub- mit to such honest tests as will at once disabuse the public mind of a suspicion of collusion and trickery. These ghostly visitors who walk the earth both when we wake and when we sleep seem to be acting too much on the sly, and are so coy and hard to please that they are apt to impose condi- tions which ordinary science knows nothing about, but which are suspiciously favorable to an escape from detection. Can it, oh, can it be true, that Mansfield finds it impossible to answer a question which we put to the misjudged and misrepresented spirit of our mother-in-law unless he is facing the strong light and unless the question is written on very thin paper? Good profes- sors of the occult science in which the Witch of Endor was a proficient, can’t even the dead Indian, who seems to be the special protégé of Spiritualism, see that thicker paper would be more satisfactory to the pale face? Try commercial note for once, so thick that even a stroke of lightning would not pene- trate its mysteries, and, while it rests in your magnetic hands and your little finger thrums its telegraphic tune, sit with your back to the light and tell us what the red man says in an- swer to our query. And is it true of Foster that, with his deft digits, he can unroll our paper messages be- fore our very eyes, and then—and only then— giveus ananswer. Can he give us the date of some one’s death after we have written it on a slip and placed it in o little bundle of other slips, which are almost like it, but not quite? It seems too good to be true. It is too much for ordinary comprehension. And when you think of the spiritual good that results from these delicate attentions on the part of those who take a long journey either up or down to communicate such facts, our bowels of com- passion increase to such an extent that the paltry five dollars seem as nothing. And is it possible—this time our inquiry is impelled by horror—that our ancestors do really resemble the phosphorescent and india- rubber flatnesses which Mr. Slade produces? How doubly precious this life becomes after one has looked upon the dead as they reappear at the Doctor's séances! What o dreadful thing it must be to go to any summer land when the climate so disagrees with us that our complexion is actually spoiled ! Better put up with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for a thousand years than to look like that. Alas, poor Yorick! Our advice to the dead is to stay dead and not attempt the present imperfect processes of materialization. Woit patiently until some new methods are devised, for anything more ghastly than a face composed of gutta percha | and phosphorus cannot be conceived. Even | Darwin, with his long list of graduative exist- ences, reaching from the tadpole to Minerva, would despair of finding a suitable niche for such productions, Heaven help us when such jugglery be- comes a form of religion! We must be in | great straits for a new sensation when we can | enjoy such trickery and soberly offirm that it does us good. Give us truth, and if there is | a single scintilla of actual fact connected with this new dispensation let all honest men jetz hands to detect and punish humbug, that whatever will bear investigation may be brought into the clearer light. Tae Cznrennuut Movement.—The address of Director General Goshorn to Governor Tilden, calling the attention of the Governor to the coming Centennial Celebration in Phila- delphia, is a document of interest and im- portance. We are glad to know that the Governor has expressed a deep interest in this celebration. He sees, what many of our best citizens have failed to see, that even in its most selfish aspect, apart from any national value, New York will make ten dollars through the Centennial for every one that is made in Philadelphia. In other words, the Centen- nial Exhibition is practically held in New York, and our State should promptly take an active part in the movement. Pennsylvania has done nobly her share, New Jersey has followed. Why should New York be laggard in a good work in which the fame of the State is not alone concerned, but the interests of her citizens? We trust the Governor will promptly consider the appeal of General Goshorn, and that our Legislature will make & response worthy of the enterprise and gene erosity of New York. Tux Bzrcuer Casr.—The reading of the poetry and letters of Mr. Tilton having been finished the cross-examination passed yesters day from his literature to his finances. His relations with Mr. Bowen were made the sub- ject of inquiry, with the view, probably, to elicit facts upon which the defence can base the theory that the plaintiff succeeded in blackmailing Mr. Beecher. To prove the pecuniary difficulties of Mr. Tilton would, it is supposed, be to show a possible motive for such a proceeding. A strong point in the trial yesterday was Mr. Tilton’s explanation that when he wrote to Mr, Beecher demand. ing his resignation of the pastorate of Ply- mouth church he meant to smite him to the heart, To-day the plaintiff will again be put upon the witness stand, but it is evident that his examination will soon be completed. Rarm Taraysrr.—Without entering into many of the ingenious calculations that have bean made os to the amount of money necessary to secure a proper scheme of rapid transit, as to the capi- tal required to build the road and the prob- able interest upon the capital invested, there is one fact, more pregnant than all, that can- not be too often repeated, and which is com clusive as an argument: How much has New York to pay for not having rapid transit? What are the taxes that are imposed upon our people by the absence of quick communica- tion? How much is lost by the owners of real estate? What is the value of time wasted by business men morning and even. ing? What is the actual, absolute pecuniary waste in the movement of property over to New Jersey and Kings—the withdrawal of capital, the shrinking of values, the isolation and the stifling of New York? Acalculation of this kind would be startling in its results, It would show that we are really squandering every year a sum of money infinitely larger than the amount necessary to give us a double. track railway from the Battery to New Ro- chelle and Yonkers, belting the whole island, Aw Attack on Inorvensive Inprans is ree ported to have taken place in New Mexico, the aggressors being Mexican and American residents. The agent of the government at that point furnishes many generalities, withe out giving any particulars. The border isa rather peculiar place for tragedies, even if poor Lo is not personally concerned in them, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Congressman-elect Cnaries H. Adams, of Cohoes, N. Y., 16 sojourning at the New York Hotel, Commodore Francis B. ellison, United States Navy. is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, State Senator Nathaniel Wheeler, of Connecti. cut, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. R. B. Angus, Manager of tho Bank of Mou- treal, has taken up his residence at the Brevoors House. Professor Spencer F. Baird and Mr. J. Hubley Ashton arrived irom Washington yesterday a: the Fifth Avenue Hotel. An oration over the tomb of General Robert E, Lee ts to ve delivered by Jefferson Davis, at Lexe ington, Va., in October, The mysterious Postmaster W. S. King, has been found on a stock farm in Canada, That it is only a Pacific Mati stock farm there is reason to believe. Tilton wrote in 1866 that he did not think Beecher as morally great as he had thought him once, and now bis opinion is doubtless still more | emphatic. The Governor General of Canada has added new laurels to his crown. He was the winner ina recent curling match on the ice for @ cup pre- sented by the Countess of Dufferin. It is the Chief Justice of Knode Island who asks the Legislature to reduce bis salary, because it 1s too high. His name is Thomas Duriee, and he deserves to huve his salary doubled. More people nave been irozen to death this winter in the United States shan are likely to be struck by lightning tms year. Twenty deaths from cold are reported from Kansas alone. A Philadelphia painter, Hazelton, is said to have & finer studio than any other American artist in Rome, it is not the beauty of the studio, bus of the pictures that the public cares for. Genera! Schenck has introduced poker Into Eng+ lish society, to indicate republicanism. He wants to show that with a full hand, of Little Emma, for instance, @ good player can beat queens or kings, and that one knave may sometimes bium off even @ royal flush. The report that Worth, the man milliner, of Paris, the architect of Jeminine extravagance, the terror of husbands and fathers, conyemplates re tiring upon his gains, is now believed to be @ strategic Movement of bis own. It is like the resignation of Richelieu, intended to confirm hig rue. The iurniture sold yesterday at tie Astor House was rich in historical reminiscences, There were the chairs that Clay and Webster had sat tn, the beds that great statesman had slept in, and even the sacred glasses from which thousands of the most remarkable men in America had drunk their toddy, An oMcer of the First Empire, aged seventy. eight, who has for forty-one years been living on the modest pension of 800 francs @ year, was re. cently compelled to enter the Hospital Necker, and was there discovered to be & woman, Het name is De Senkeisen, ana the secret being out she readily related her history. She was fourteen years old when her father, Colonei Von Senkeison, died, and her grandiather, wno commanded @ Bavarian corps in the French service, irom some inexplicable caprice, compelled her to enter one of the regiments of his division, She served in uermany and in Spain, and at Waterloo received two somewhat severe wounds. In 1833 she became @ naturalized Frenchman, and obtained a retiring pension, She has congratulatory letters irom Marshais Berthier, Augereau and Suchet, and irom General Dupont, testifying to her bravery and mood services.