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

8 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Heaatp will be pent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- geal subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Youre Bsa. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly wealed LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Gubseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms The Highway to the Pole We print to-day s letter from Dr. Hayes upon the muckh-discussed question as to the practicability of reaching the North Pole by what is known as the ‘American route’ —tbat pursued by Kane, Hayes and Hall, through Baffin’s Bay and Smith Sound, where the most important achievements, results of re- | cent Arctic exploration, have been accom- | | The discussion of this subject has recently excited much attention in Europe, and the Royal Geographical Society has so strongly | Tepresented the matter to the British | resolved upon at the national expense, | and to sail under the command of Cap- | tain Nares, R. N., of Challenger fame. | There are to be two steamships, built ex- pressly for ice navigation, and everything will | be furnished which experience can suggest. It will, no doubt, be the best equipped expedi- tion of its character ever sent from any country. Although heartily glad, in the interests of science, that such a resolution has been taken by the British government, we must, never- | theless, ackziowledge that it is to us something | of a national humiliation that no similar steps have been taken in our own country | government that an expedition has been | | country might supply. This would serve not | only the purpose of the great scientific work | but it wonld thoroughly satisfy the temper | and co-operative disposition of the people; for, although we are naturally energetic | and enterprising, we are not jealous. It is | charged against Americans that they are too much given to mere material gain and disre- | gard the msthetic aspects of life; but we | present a fine array of scientific work done | for its own sake, and many of the most re- | nowned scientists of the world are to-day | Americans. Who does not recall with satis- faction the famous Wilkes Expedition around | the world, the perilous journeys of Lewis | and Clark, Fremont and Wheeler and Hayden in the Far West, and the discovery by Dr. Kane | of the open Polar Sea; and who will not hail | with the loudest plaudits the American citi- | zen who plants the American flag at the North Pole? Such an event would shed not only lustre upon the scientific achievements of our country and fame upon the actors but glory | upon every one who had a hand in promoting the enterprise. And who would not feel a sense of mortification if, after so many years of toil and privation by our ex- | plorers during the past twenty years, | another nation quietly slips in and | plucks the apple which has ripened under our as in New York. for the sending of another expedition a | to & quarter which Americans have ex- VOLUME Klee tsssscescssseseseesseseseseeeseeNO, 56 | Plored and which the English uow come =—=— | to claim and so reap the reward of our ex- AMUSEMENTS T10-NIGHT. | Becstceonsee eras aronre: Tae Gotan eee ANIA THEATRE, 2b seen TE KRANKEN DOCTOREN, at 8 j Closes at 1U:48 YM. PARK THEATRE, French Upera Bouffe—GIROFLE-GIROFLA, yoloses at 1045 P.M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy. bs Broatw: eteP. bois NIBLO'S, y.<UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, at 8 P. M.; closes at M. Edwin F. Thorne | and people seem to have become alarmed b; the disastrous results of the Polaris Expedi- tion, without remembering, at the same time, | its important achievement, for tho Pola penetrated nearer to the Pole than any former | ship, so far as certainly known. The Polaris | was not constructed for this kind of service, and, although admirably strengthened, when | cultivation? For all are now agreed that the | American highway to the North Pole is the | true way. It has been accepted with reluct- | ance, but the fact is none the less true that it | bas been approved. With respect to its ad- | vantages Dr. Hayes has done much in the way of proof; for he it was who first dis- covered the real bearing of the currents ris | "POD the navigation of the Smith Sound | route, when ha went there with his little schooner, and paved the way for the remark- able success of Captain Hall, We are by no means envious of the English ; and, after all, notwithstanding every effort, Smith Sound, caught by the ice and severely nipped, had little chance of escape trom a situation which occurs not unfrequently to every vessel that penetrates the Arctic regions in the seal and whale fisheries. These vessels are constructed upon a peculiar model, with a good deal of dead rise, which enables the ice to cou y and Thirty Bre rwoexnibitious aa BOOTH'S THEATRE, eorne: Twenty-‘bird street and Sixth avenue.— PERL RE tices ac BM. Mr. Riga San FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner of enty-ninth street—NEGRO STL Path ve loses at 10 P.M. MINSTXEL Fixteenth street he Ot Dene CARE, at 8 P. eenth st — BEG! if . atl «oP. M. Mr. Maccabe. ACADEMY OF DESIGN, if nty-third street and Fourth avenue,—EX- HiEthOs OF wa TER COLOR PAINTINGS. Open from 9 4. M. to SY. M. and from 6 P. M. to9 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street. between Second and Third avenues.— VARIETY, at 12 P. M.; closes at 2:30 A. M, Broatway.-THE SHA GHRAU way. — SHAUG x 10407. M. Mr. Boucicauit MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Fg Ang Aid ea at8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P, T. Lester Wallack. TRE. at SP. M.; closes at Mw WOOD'S MUSEU: , corner of Thirtieth street.—STREETS OF K,at2 P.M. DIZDRICH, at 8P. M.; closes at Broadwi NEW Yo 1045 P.M. STADT THEATRE, os AUXE RS, atS P.M. Miss Lina jayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Hott Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 ¥. M. ; Closes at 10:45 ROMAN HIPPODROME, ‘Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue. —Afternoon evening. at2 and & THEATRE COMIQUE. Pm Broadway.—VaRiETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 1045 and FIFTH AVESUE TI TRE, Iwe hth street ani Broadway.--THE BIG BO- BANZA, at 4 P.M.; closes at lv) P.M. Mr. Lewis, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Gilvert. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Pee —: IETY, at $ P.M; closes at 1045 rr uy sims aed Wale axeoae PICKWICK and ‘and Si: ve =! & DODGER, atSP.M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Mi ‘ole. BROOKLYN P. Baers J syenue.—VARIETY, at 345 P.M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOCUS! iz, Twenty-tbird street, near Sixth gvenue.—NEGRO TRELSY, ac. at 8P. By closes at 10 PM. Dan THEATRE, 2 and 8 P.M; closesat West MINSIR Bryant . J. | made of any appropriation of the public | lip beneath them, thus saving their timbers | | from the powerful pressure, and, generally, | | from disaster. Of this class the Tigress, re- | | cently in the possession of the government, | | and sent out to search for the Polaris party, | | is a fine sample, and it is unfortunate thatshe | was not retained for another expedition. The | | Polaris was built for the navigation of shoal | waters, with bulging sides and flat bottom, | | and was, naturally enough, destroyed by the | first serious “nip.” Vessels of the class of | the Tigress can be had in Newfoundland at any time, and the English have gone there | for one of them, the Bloodhound. We do not think that any better use could | be made of the public money, or one which would be more popular with the people, than | | the organization of an expedition to tue North Pole ; for, in an enterprise of that character, | there is something peculiarly touching to | American spirit, and, in schemes of an adven- turous nature, there is something in which | Americans are always ready to take | | pride. There is but one objection | generally raised to the proposition to ex- | | pend money for such s purpose—namely, | the danger which it involves. That this is purely imaginary we have already taken occa- | sion to show. Who ever heard of a complaint | money for substantial scientific investigation? Between two and three hundred thousand dollars would, indeed, be required to thor- | oughly equip and organize an expedition to | lke all routes hitherto attempted, may prove | posed an arrangement which would merely citements, avd the suffering that so frequently happened «ith the collapse of petroleum wells | and fanciful gold mining stocks. The Louisiana Compromise. We rejoice to be able to state that the con- servative caucus at New Orleans decided yes- terday to accede to the Wheeler compromise, | and that there is at last a prospect of a quiet settlement of the political controversy which has so long agitated an important State and | created anxiety and alarm throughout the country. We had no preference for the par- ticular form or basis of compromise to which the name of Mr. Wheeler is attached. In goed truth we think it rather hard and exacting, and believe that it does | Louisiana less than justice. But in a | choice of evils it is wise to choose the least, and the compromise which has been accepted is altogether preferable to leaving the State to flounder on two years longer in the turmoil which has so long prevailed. The paramount need of the State is tran- quillity, and the difference between the two proposed forms of compromise is not important enough to jus- tify a sacrifice of internal peace and‘ civil order, This is primarily s Louisiana question and only secondarily a national ques- tion. The important thing is to satisfy and tranquillize the people of the State, and not to keep alive an inflammatory controversy for the electioneering advantage of the democratic party of the country. The difference between the two plans of compromise is of little practical consequence, however important political partisans may deem it in theory. It is sim- ply a question between recognizing | and barely submitting to the authority of Kellogg. On either plan Kellogg would con- tinue to act as Governor until the expiration | of the regular term. The conservatives pro- to be impracticable ; but, since the English | are going there in any event, should we not | be in, if it must be so, at the death? | It will be a crying shame if we | | calmly fold our hands and quietly wait | | for others to gain the prize, or even to prove | there is no prize to be won there. Dr. Hayes announces his willingness to conduct another | expedition into a region of which he knows more than any living man, having been there | twice; or, in the event of a naval expedition being decided upon, he suggests the names of several naval officers, qualified by their ex- perience for such an undertaking. When we consider what great things have been done with little means we cannot think Congress | | | will be backward in taking the matter up and acting upon it promptly. It should be a | matter of national pride. The entire cost of the Kane Expedition did not exceed twenty- | five thousand dollars; that of Hayes was even | less, and Hall’s was fitted out under a gov- | ernment appropriation of only fifty thousand. | The country will, we are convinced, be heart- ily glad to see a finely equipped expedition sent to co-operate with the English and Ger- mans in honorable rivalry for one of the very few geographical trophies remaining to be won. It was different in the days of Colum- bus; but, now that we have nearly completed the survey of the earth, let America have her fair share in making it perfect. The Arabian Ni; s Again. | We took occasion, not long since, when the journals were filled with stories of “the great mining discoveries” in Nevada, of the fortunes that were made every hour in San Francisco, the announcements that mines had been opened “rich enough to pay the national | the Pole—a sum largely exceeded by the total | debt,” with the names of fortunate ad- But now that the election of 1874 is he is supported by the President, and the other side proposed that he should be squarely recognized as t@e legitimate Governor, with- out any reservation, for the remnant of the four years. The distinction is a mere punctilio, because nobody doubts that Grant will continue to uphold Kellogg. The continu- ance of Kellogg as Governor until January, 1877, would be alike inevitable under either form of compromise, and if you are obliged toeat the devil it is not worth while quar- relling about the sauce with which he is dressed. Something is gained for the senti- ment of stability in accepting him, once for | all, as the legitimate Governor until his term expires, because it relieves the citizens from apprehensions of change by violence and fixes public expectation upon the election of 1876 as the only means of redressing griev- ances, | eyes of the law Mrs. Tilton is not ‘‘a party.” itis infinitely better that political wrongs be remedied through the peaceful agency of the ballot, even though it necessitates some delay, than either to run the risk of changes by the rude hand of violence or to invite the interference of Congress. Congressional inter- position in the affairs of a State is only to be justified when all other remedies prove un- availing. So long as any hope remains of rec- tifying abuses through the regular means of | elections no other remedy should be resorted to, The worst feature of the Louisiana difi- culty has heretofore -been that the people | seemed deprived of any chance of fair elec- | tions. It the frauds of the late Returning | Board had stood, and the conservatives had | been permanently cheated out of their victory in 1874, they would have had reason to de | spair of elections as a means of redress. mot one hundred thousand dollars of Mr. | counsel for the plaintiff about ‘damages.’’ | This suit is to prove the crime of Mrs, | for money, the most important witness in | the witness stand. On the other hand, ; Mr. Tilton, who knows nothing of the expenditures for the observation of the transit of Venus, for which the country would have cheerfully acquiesced in the appropriation of a STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street —Miss ANNA BOCK’S CONCERT, at8 | P. M.; closes at 10: P. M. venturers who had grown rich suddenly—bar- | conceded to them they may fairly expect to keepers yesterday, to-day millionnaires and | recover the State in the next trial of strength; candidates forthe Senate—to warn our readers and, 60 long as they can entertaia tais hope, | case except by hearsay, ‘‘conféssion,” sus- From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and | partly cloudy. Watt Srezet YesTerpay.—Stocks were somewhat firmer. Gold declined to 114. Foreign exchange was steady and money on call unchanged. Artes the ice and snow we have the fog and mist. Tae For Mars of the Arctic regions we print this morning are full of interest and value. A Br bas been introduced into the New Jersey Legislature, providing for a Centennial Board, to be composed cf five commissioners, who will represent the interests of New Jer- sey at the Centennial celebration. Why does fiot New York take some action on this sub- ject? Even Belgium and Sweden have made all their arrangements. But New York has done and said nothing. Tae Apsisston of New Mexico and Colo- tado as States is a mistake. The Senate has already too much preponderance, on ac- count of so many ‘“‘rotten boroughs’’ in the shape of wilderness States. Wo want Com- monwealths in the Union that represent men and women, not Indians, buffaloes and prairie wolves, Governor Bicuer has returned from Phila- delphia, where be has been to look after the Centennial. The Governor speaks with con- | fidence and enthusiasm of the work that bas thus far been done on the Exhibition | buildings. The Governor, properly enongh, reproached New York with being iaggard, not having done as much as Idaho. He informs us that Germany and other toreign countries show especial interest in the celebration. Tex Rervsric m Francr.—The alliance | between the republicans and the constitutional monarchists in France continues. A Senate bas been created, the powers of the Marshal have been confirmed, and the Republic has been definitely proclaimed by a vote of 433 yeas to 262 nays. The Bonapartists and the legitimists opposed it, but the allianve triumphed. This is a most gratifying event. The new Repnb- lic is very conservative, not much more than a monarchy. But the principle is saved, and it can only be destroyed by a revolution. It is twenty-seven years since France formally by ler Assembly proclaimed a Republic. Let us trust that this creation will be happy and prosperous, and that France will enter upon 4 sew and splendid career. worthy of her genius and her civilization. much larger amount had it been at all neces- | sary. But the scientific results to be obtained | | important a character and have as close a bearing upon the questions now agitating the | scientific world as the enterprise for the ob- servation of the transit of Venus. The ex- | ploration of our Western country bas always | been, in a scientific point of view, far in ad- | needs for information; and 0, in- | | deed, it is with discovery every- | where. To show how wide the range is only to enumerate the currents and temper- | ature of the sea and its depth, and the currents, | | temperatare and pressure of the air, while in | | geography, in every department of natural | history, in geology, in mineralogy, informa- | | tion is much needed for the completion of those generalizations which scientists have begun recently to make, not merely for the | | gratification of their own fancies but for the | | general good of mankind. | In this connection it is worth while to note | with what enthusiastic interest the recent im- | portant discoveries of the Austrians and Ger- | mans were received by the whole world; and | the Germans, proud of the achievements of their seamen and men of science in the icy | regions, are about to equip another and more important expedition at a cost of more than | two hundred thousand dollars. This is to | | follow the line of the Greenland coast, on the | east side, while the English are to operate | throngh Smith Sound, on the west side. The suggestion has been made that these two expeditions, each comprising two powerful steamers, should co-operate ; but, as it is not likely that the German expedition will be organized the present season, it is fur- | ther proposed that the English defer | their departure for year. The pro- priety of this will be very readily ap- parent, and we hope our English friends may seriously entertain the proposition. By this co-operation, and a temporary postponement, a more thoroughly organized scientific corps, acting in perfect accord, throngh previous arrangement, would be brought into the field apd more thorough results thereby attained. And, besides this, there is a question of safety involved ; for in the event of these expedi- tions pushing northward to a given point, say the extreme north coast of Greenland, they would very likely come within supporting distance of each other. To this German and English arrangement we would propose a thirdparty, and suggest that an understanding to this effect should be come to torough official channels; and this third party is the United States, Let the gov- | ernment ascertain at once what are the plans | and purposes of the English and Germans, | and whatever may seem deficient therein our against the dangers which these stories always brought in their train. We warned them The ‘Big Bonanza,” os it was called, seems to have been a bubble. Thousands of shares of stock in gold mines have been sold to all classes—women, labor- ing men, merchants in moderate circum- stances. The bubble breaks like ten thou- | vance of the material growth or practical | sand bubbles before, and Nevada mourns her | misfortune. The scheme seems to have been an ingenious effort on the part of specula- tors to give a mine a false value, sell the wherein observations are necessary we have | shares and to retire from the market with their | gains. It is the old story over again, which we find every day in Wall street. We can only azain say that there is no trust- ing these Arabian Night fables trom California and the West. When people find gold mines they keep them, and do not rush to the Stock Exchange to sell. Gold mines do not succeed so well in companies as in private enterprises. The purchase of shares in any ‘‘mine” is always a hazardous ex- periment. It is because successful mining is so much a matter of honest management, judgment and industry that it is almost im- possible to find a company which will serve | its stockholders, and not its officers, exclu- sively. The best mines in California origi- nally belonged to stockholders. As soon as | their value became known they were confiscated by their officers through what is called a “freezing out’’ process. That is to say, the officers, discovering that the mine was good, | immediately began to depreciate its value, to circulate reports about its poverty, to incfeage the expenses and levy assessments. As soon as the stock had fallen sufficiently in conse- quence of the alarms thus dishonestly created the officers bought the sltares for a nominal sum and kept the mine. Our readers will find it a good rule to re- | member the words of Emerson, that they | can find gold wherever they choose to dig for it. There have, no doubt, been many cases in the rise of the petroleum, coal, gold, silver, copper and other industries where fortunate speculators have become suddenly rich. If people go into the purchase of mining stocks and other “property” as a specniation they must not complain if they fail. It is gambling. All gambling is based on chance. If people gamble and lose it is their own fault, committed with open eyes, The true way is, after all, to dig tor gold and find it wherever fate places us; to dig tor it by industry, thrift, economy, patience and good humor; not to bay what we do not want; not to sell what we do not have ; not to purchase property on @ margin in the hope that it months. These simple rules underlying the snecess of our richest men will, if followed | prudently, prevent these ‘Big Bonanza’ ex- will be worth so much more within six | they had better submit to some temporary evils rather than have recourse to irregular | from the North Pole are unquestionably of as not to allow their imaginations to be in- | and extraordinary methods of relief, espe- | | flamed. | cially as other remedies might prove to be al- | most as bad as the disease. Under the accepted compromise the people of Louisiana will merely submit to an ob- struction which is incident to the very nature | of our institutions. Redress through the bal- | lot box imposes a necessity of waiting. Elec- | tions occur only at stated periods, and how- | ever grievously the people may suffer during | | the intervals they must remain under a discipline of patience until the time comes round for peacefully depos- | ing their rulers. The democratic party | of the country demonstrated its strength in the elections of last’ autumn, but two years must, nevertheless, elapse before it can get control of the government. Grant is as firmly established as Kellogg, and the country can no more get rid of him by one election than the people of Louisiana can oust Kellogg by one election. There is a close parallel between the two cases, The people of Louisiana, like the people of the United States, have won the | lower house of this Legislature, but must await the result of another election to chango the Senate and the Executive. It is as wise for the people cf Louisiana as it is for the people of the Union to look forward ia quiet expectation until 1876 for an opportu- nity to make a complete change of rulers. So long as the peaceful revolution of the bal- lot box is possible it is political madness to seek any other. We regret to learn that McEnery is exert- ing himself to upset the compromise which was assented to by the conservative caucus yesterday. There is absolutely no possibility | of bis discharging the functions of Governor except through a new election in 1876, and he | will forteit the favorable opinion the country | has formed of him if he stands as an obstacle to the restoration of order and quiet. The steady influence he has heretofore exerted | in restraining an excited people from violent opposition to the federal authority has given | | the public a high opinion of his moderation | and wisdom, and he ought not to blot so fair arecord. He must not put his personal pride | in competition with the welfare of the State. | It is better that Louisiana should be tranquil- lized, even at the’ expense of some conces- | | sions; and we should be sincerely sorry to | see Mr. McEnery exchange the part of a | patriot and pacificator for that of an agitating demagogue. Itis on all accounts desirable that the quarrel with Kellogg be adjourned | until it can be peaceably settled through | that potent and invincible agency of free- men, the ballot» box. | carried Louisiana in 1874 need bave no fears ; able man; that he were governed by ambi- | qualities which sometimes exercise a control- | ting his crime in his genius, glorying in his | victed by the acquittal of Mr. Beecher, then | that he has done Mr. Beecher an injustice; | never die so long as American jurisprudence | irretrievably and forever. | country, in the sacred presence of the law, The party which | that it will not be completely successful in 1876 SEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY’ 25, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET, The Beecher Case=Give the Woman & Chance! General Tracy opened the defence for Mr. Beecher yesterday, and elsewhere we print a full report of his speech. It was reported that Mr. Beecher’s counsel would move to dis- miss the suit on account of the failure of Mr. Tilton to present » case worthy even of the considerati8n of the jury. This is an in- credible story; but the Brooklyn Hagle an- ounces, on what seems to be official authority, that Mr. Beecher absolutely forbade this action. Any termination of the trial other than verdict by the jury upon the fullest evidence would be a verdict of guilty, 80 faras Mr. Beecher is concerned. In the meantime the relation of Mrs. Tilton to the case, as presented by the Hzrazp, has at- tracted unusual attention. One of our cor- respondents, representing ‘‘many readers,” in a letter published in the Hznaxp recently, says:—‘‘As you say, there cannot be any justice in the law thatallows a man to swear his wife into infamy while it prevents her from opening her mouth. Why not pe- tition the Legislature to so amend the law that the wife may have the same latitude it already accords to our worst criminals, allow- ing them to testify in their own behalf?’’ This correspondent further says that, if a petition were presented to the Legislature asking for an amendment to the law in this respect it would receive ‘‘the signature of every rep- utable firm in this city.” Nothing could be more pernicious than the policy of changing statute laws to meet the exigencies of any particular case. The laws of this Commonwealth are made for the peo- ple, not alone for Henry Ward Beecher or Theodore Tilton. A petition to the Legisla- ture asking to bave the law of evidence so amended that Mrs, Tilton can go upon the stand would be improper. But the real mean- ; ing of our laws may be gathered from a trial | bind them to acknowledge Kellogg so long as | like this in Brooklyn. It is a hardship that Mr. Tilton should be allowed to testify to the crimes charged against his wife while she should be prohibited from asserting her own innocence. The argument upon which Mrs. Tilton is ruled out is practically a falso pretence. The theory of the law is that fn actions for criminal conversations the wife shall not be o witness because it might be possible—and there undoubtedly would be such cases—that between hus- band ond wife there would be col- lusion for purposes of blackmail. In the She 1s not “concerned in the issue.” Mr. Tilton brivgs o suit against Mr. Beecher for ‘‘money.” It is a civil proceeding, and theoretically does not involve Mrs. Tilton whatever. This is the law, but it is essentially false. Even the presentation of it reads like a grotesque paraphrase of jus- tice. Mr. Tilton sues for “money” which he has publicly proclaimed he would not accept and does not want. This fact is honorable to him, because it proves that he does not seck emolument, but the vindication of his good name. In other words, the issue is Beecher's property, but whether he himself is aslanderer. The whole trial turnson this point. We have not heard a word from the Tilton—no more and no less. Yet, upon the theory of the law that it is a suit the case, the one person in the world who knows whether she is guilty or inno- cent, sinning or sinless, is debarred from picion, ‘‘stetements’’ and inference, who, we repeat, knows absolutely nothing of his own knowledge of this crime, is allowed to testity for days and days, to fortify his evidence by his opinions, his emo- tions, his letters to his wife, the letters of his wite to himself; the whispered conferences of the fireside, his remembrances of the most ten- der and sacred relations of the family life. Let us suppose that Mr. Tilton were not an honor- tion, or anger, or revenge, or any one of those ling influence over human actions; that, like other men of genius—Shelley, Byron, Dickens—he had become tired ot his wife and sought more congenial associ- ations; that, like other men of power, he had fallen into hatred and resolved to destroy a rival—what would prevent him from swear- ing to every possible phase and token of guilt to accomplish his aim, to gratify his ambi- tion or satisfy his revenge? Where would be the redress? The one witness who can contradict Mr. Tilton on the vital points of his testimony is his wife. The one human being whose honor is most in question is his wife. And yet the law rules her from the witness stand. If Mr. Beecher is convicted he resigns his Christian office and sinks back into the sym- pathy of his thousands of friends, who will support him whether right or wrong, forget- repentance and remembering that David wrote the Psalms, even if he violated the hearth- stone of his friend. If Mr. Tilton is con- it will be said that he was ‘under an hallu- cination;” that he has made a great mistake; and the offices of some good friend, like Mr. Moulton, will probably bring about a reconciliation between the two teachers. But if Mrs. Tilton should be con- victed what is to become of her? Her name will be infamous. Her children will be stained. She will pass into a history that will | has a record. For her thers is no refuge, no atonem*nt, no circle of enthuriastic friends, resting under the spell of her genins and her life, to support her right or wrong. She falls She falls without the opportunity of saying before God and her whether she has sinned or is sinless, Crry Arrams become more and more in- teresting. Mr. Palmer, the old Chamberlain, has brought a suit against Comptroller Green, charging him with libel. Application was made to Judge Davis for an order of arrest, which was denied, the Judge saying that Mr. Green is not a ‘transient person,” and will be always amenable to the Court. The case now goes on the calendar, The action of the Judge | is in harmony with the practice of the courts in dealing with citizens as well known as the Comptroller. At the same time the ques tion might well arise whether the judges shoulé have discretion in causes where the statute provides for an arrest. The Return of Concha to Spain. It is ovly a few weeks since Captain Gem eral Concha left Havana with a great flourish of trum pets to annihilate the insurgent forces that had dared to cross the celebrated trocha ‘The organs of the Spanish party foretold the immediate destruction of the venturesome troopers commanded by Maximo Gomez. Volunteers and regulars were rapidly concen- trated to sustain the campaign undertaken by Concha, and even the sympathizers with the insurrection held their breath in expectation of the vigorous measures which were to drive the insurgents out of the Cinco Villas back into the devastated plains of Camaguey. But the days passed witbout bringing news of the promised victories. Alarming rumors, on the contrary, have continued to spread about the destruction of the sugar plantations, which the government forces seem unable to pre- vent. The haste with which General Concha abandons the fight in the Cinco Villas and hurries away to Spain proves that he found the driving of the insur- gents across the trocha a much more diffi. cult operation than he had counted upon. I it had been otherwise he would, no doubt, have remained in the hope of handing over the island to his successor with the Cinco Villas pacified, and his hasty retreat must be as- cribed to the strength of Maximo Gomez's forces. It is pretty evident that what the Cap- tain General failed to acomplish will not be accomplished by the efforts of the subordinate generals. The news of Valmaseda’s returr must also havethe effect of strengthening the insurgent cause. Thousands of surrendered rebels, remembering his former bloodthirsty policy, will probably prefer the risks of open warfare to submitting again to a rule of terror. ism which will place the life of every sus- pected man at the mercy of the volunteers, Valmaseda will also find himself confronted by a different class of men to those he swepi* before him in the earlier period of the insur. rection. “Varicantam.’’—Mr, Gladstone seems reso- lute upon ecclesiastical controversy. He has written another pamphlet, called by the fe- licitous title of ‘‘Vaticanism,’’ affirming the points of his former manifesto. It is notice- able for its reference to Dr. Newman, whose withdrawal from the Church of England he regards as the greatest loss it has sustained since the secession of Wesley. This is a com. pliment with a double meaning. It is a just appreciation of the genius of Dr. Newman and a disparagement of Archbishop Manning, who also left the Protestant faith. We donot see that any good can come from these con troversies. A retired statesman must dosome thing else than chop wood, and in England it is always safe to assail the Pope. Rarm Taxansrr finds a new argument in the fogs which yesterday fell upon our rivers. With masses of floating ice impeding naviga- tion, the shrouding mist darkening the skieg, and the discomfort us well as the danger at- tending the ferry travel, it seems incredible that any one should live across the rivers and have business or desires in New York. What New York needs for the development of her greatness are three things: —First, an east side and west side rapid transit steam railway; second, the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and a steam line from the City Hall over thie bridge; third, a tunnel under the Hudson. Then our citizen could live where he pleased, and go home without caring for tbe ice o1 enow orfog. We want steam travel and dry land. “‘Mawstavcutzs.”—In the case of O'Toole, the murderer, tried yesterday, the Court ac- cepted a plea of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. The Judge, in passing sen- tence, said the jury would have been justified in finding O'Toole guilty of murder in the first or second degree. The prisoner was sen- tenced to ten years’ imprisonment. The ques- tion will be asked, Why, in a case which, in the opinion of the Judge, would “undoubt- edly” have been regarded by the jury as mur- der in the first or second degree, the District Attorney should have accepted a plea of guilty of manslaughter merely? It is always a delicate and never a welcome matter to criticise the administration of justice, but this will not pass without comment. Is Ir Nor rather a small business for the great Senate of the United States to boggle over the admission into the country of the diamonds presented by the Khedive to the daughter of General Sherman on the occasion of her marriage ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Viscount Milton, of Engiand, has apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. John S. Clarke, the comedian, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel. Captain Edwin R. Ames, United States army, ie quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge UD. F. Fleming, of Charleston, 8. C., hes taken up his residence at the Filth avenue Hotel. It 18 reported by cable that Count Corti, the Italian Minister at Washington, ts to be trans- | ferred to London. Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon, who has been travelling im the West for several months past, arrived in this city last evening, and is at the Brevoort House. He will sail for Englana on Satarday in the steamship Adriatic. “Clandestine matches” are common in Paris now. Recently, in order to collect the tax on matches, the Manufacture of these articles was mage a State monopoly. The State makes them 80 poorly that they will not strike a light, so everybody buys the contraband article. A honter in the forest, near Wittenburg, wag surprised at the rush toward him, through the undergrowth, of a wild boar, but satisfied tc see in @ moment more that the boar was closely followed by two wolves, whe brought it to bay against «rocky wall. Thereupon the hunter shot it and the wolves retired. “Hard labor for twenty years” for Juile Lefevre, now twenty years ofage. She asked an old lady to lend her five francs, and, as the old person refused, the gentle Juite choked her till all was atill, and then helped herself to what she could find—seventy irancs; and so Julie, who perhaps is handsome, will come ont of prison aged torty. Decorations are pientifulin Berlin. The German Crowa Prince has no less than fifty-eight stare and crosses which he 1s entitled to wear; Prince no less than forty; Counts Moitke thirty-nine each. It isa little oda t aien shonid care for such trash, it to the people of whose mert there is no other evidence,