The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1975, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yous Henarp will be vent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy, An- mal subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Youxe Hexaup. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly ecaled, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. — ooo YOLUME XL.- Lessersotunasannes Ney 08 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THLATRE COMIQUE, Fiz S16 Broadway. POVARIETY. at SP. ML; closes at 1048 ETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, West Fourwenth street.—Open trom J0 4. M. to P. M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh streot,—CIRCUS, EROTTING AND MENAGERIE, atternoon and evening, atiand BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, Feiton avenue.—VARIEIY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 a USE, Sixth avenue.—NEGRO los w P.M. Dan | rant GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street—GIRUFLE.GIROFLA, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45. M. Lina Mayr. THE Li way.—RORY 0” wo Re, and NG OF MAGIC, at 6 P. M.; closes at 10 Bey TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, I Sad Bowery.—VARIETY, ats P. Mj closes at 10:45 Pett TH SHE. ATRE agro THE BIG BO- Bas Grey . Mr. Fisher, Mr. 308 Lewis, Miss erence sNrs Gilbert. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avyenue,-MEDEA, at 8 P.M. Mme. Kistori. PARK THEATRE, Broadway. —French Opera Bouffe--GIROFLE-GIROFLA, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P, M. Mile. Coralie Geoffroy. TEAL THEATRE, M.: closes at 10:45 GRAND CE Be Broadway.—VAKI BOOTH'S THEATRE, ‘Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— atsy. 1P.M. Mr. Rignold. jorner of ENRY V., SAN FRA? roadwar. corner of INSTRELSY, at8 P. M.; cl STRELS, ‘nth street.—NEGRO Sat lop. M. TIVO! Fighth street, between ARIETY, at 8 P. M.; TR: ant Tatra avenues. — loses at 12 P. WALLACK’S THEATRE —THE SHACGHRAUN, at&b, Mr. Boucicauit COLOS: Freeeeet, and Thirty-tourth Two exhibitions daily, at 2 aud Bsrrw: M.; closes at er eed BY NIGHT. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN ae .—THE MAN 0’ AIRLIE, at8 P. Progklyn ATT clones at 30 P.M. Mr. Lawrence Barrett woop’ v! Bron dws , corner Tnirtieth —MONTE CHRISTO, asp. $a5-Sa CUs, 8 closes at 10:45 P. OLYMPIC THEATRE, 0,02 Broadway. VARIETY, at © 1. M.; closes at 1045 KOBINSON HALL, Gixteenth street and Broadwey.—-CALLENDER'S eeoncta MINSTRELs, joses at 10 P. M. MONDAY, MARCH From our reports this morning the probabilities | e@rethat the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with rain or snow. Over Lrrenary Deparrsent to-day contains | an excellent article on the influence of music on health and lite, and the latest news of books and authors. Mz. Prxcneacn’s Case is likely to: be de- cided to-day, as it is thought that Senator Johnson will not deliver his proposed speech. The vote is expected to be close. Ir Apreans from our ate despatches that | the usual etiquette in the conferring of the cardinalate at Rome wilt not be dispensed with in the case of Cardinal 1 Mot ‘loskey. Aw Exnavstrve of New York and the dangers to which it is exposed will be found upon another page. The necessity of legislative interference is clearly proved. Tae Encuish Unrversirms Boat Race takes place on the Thames on the 20th inst., and we priat to-day a complete account of the rival crews of Cambridge and Oxford and their training. Tue Restenation of Baron Schwarz-Sen- born, the Austrian Minister at Washington, is denied. The Baron was the director of the Vienna Exposition, and his residence in this country is much desired by the friends of our Centennial, Rawvatr’s Istanp is a place of interest to a freat many citizens who are not likely to visit it, and our account of its scenes will be in- structive to the reader. Appended to this re- portare some valuable coraments upon the brutal treatment of the late Mr. Stockvis. THe Olevia. hs regulations for the governmental display at the Centennial Exhi- bition, and an analysis of the classifications in the ten great departments, will be found elsewhere. There are two hundred thousand dollars now at the disposal of the national Tae Mormon Massacke.— notorious Mountain Meadows massacre have long been known to the public and are now to be established by process of law. letter from Salt Lake City contains a full ac- count of the scope and purpose of the judicial investigation which is to be begun next month | at Beaver, Utah. The removal of the case from the Mormon capital should give satis. faction to both sides, and will add to the like- libood of an impartial trial, Anricye upon the Harbor | The facts of the | Our | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Opening of Spring: The universal hope that spring would open | brilliantly, with every prospect of business | prosperity, seems to be realized. The linger- | ing winter, which has been more severe than we have known for many years, has at Jast | yielded to the gentle influences of nature, and even the long, bleak and bitter weeks which | have postponed so many enterprises, the natural operations of business, commerce and agriculture, give the spring unusual activity. As we are late in everything, as we have been debarred from many duties by the snow, the | ice and the rain, now that there is seemingly | an end of it, we naturally hurry along to re- | | gain what we have lost. | | or the energy that comes with delirium indi- | tween the business advantages that will coms Bonanza” shares. As we have had occasion to point out, there is nothing more incumbent upon our people than to avoid religiously the temptation to seek fortunes in these foolish | enterprises, Wall street is now, as it has | been at nearly every period of its career, | @ gambling den for unscrupulous speculators. Activity in Wall street, such ‘‘activity” as we | have had for ten days, is no more an evidence ot wholesome business life than that the fever cates sound physical health. Therefore our prudent people should draw a rigid line be- naturally, honestly and properly from the wants of the country, from the cheerful enter- In estimating the prospects of the spring | the surest criterion is that which we find in our | | own experience. The Hxraup is so repre- | | sentative in its character that its col- | |umns have become the mirtor of each | | day’s business, information and de- | sires. The true journal is that which | prints all the news and all the advertise- ments. Custom has made the advertise- ment, through the universal publicity of the leading newspapers, the medium of communi- cation between man and man. There is | nothing less interesting to the ordinary reader | | than advertisements which concern otber people. There is nothing more interesting to | him than those which concern himself. What affects one class of readers to-day will interest | another class to-morrow ; so that the interest changes from day to day and never dies, | Consequently, the newspaper which would | claim to be leading, without publishing the necessary advertisements of daily life, would | be like the man who would insist upon cut- ting off his right leg because he preferred to | use the left one. There are many able jour- nals—daily, weekly and monthly—which do not print advertisements; some be- | cause they do not want them; others | for more suggesttve reasons. Our wish | is that every journal published in New | York accepting advertisements would contain | as many as it could accommodate. We ‘have | | observed that in journalism, like all other | callings, the more competition in business | the more prosperous business becomes. It | would be better for the Hreranp, even consid- | ering the point from our own selfish interest, | | if there were fifty journals in this city, each | | crammed full with advertisements. | | But there is no controlling public taste. | The common sense of the multitude arrives at | | just conclusions quicker than the genius of its most accomplished individual member. In | | the growth of our journalism it has come to | be believed by the majority ot the people that | the Heratp is the one newspaper which all | | | | | classes must seek, not only when they wish to read the news, but when they have an errand with the public. Consequently there is no | better criterion, no more accurate barometer | | of business prosperity, than the advertising | pages ot the Henaxp. Yesterday, forinstance, we published a quadruple sheet, containing | | sixty-three columns of advertisements. | | We printed a circulation of one hundred | and sixty thousand copies, This is only | an ordinary transcript of our daily business. ,; Our circulation did not exceed the average and our business merely responded to the prosperity of the time—a prosperity that will | no doubt increase until we have eighty col- | umns of advertisements and quintuple sheets. Of course newspapers will more or less answer to special influences, A scandal case, a peculiar sensation, certain aptness in edi- torial power or specialties in news topics will, trom time to time, give journals a valuable | prominence. But when this influence dies | away the prosperity which results from it dies with it. We, of course, like our contempo- raries, feel these influences, but generally speaking—aud this is the result of long expe- rience and has been observed by us season | after season—the advertising columns of the Herarp and ovr circulation represent the | | business prosperity of the hour and ¢re not really affected by auy other cause. Accord- ingly we congratulate our readers by present- | ing them the evidence that the prospects ot | | the spring are better than they have been i prise and energy of the merchants, and the | propose to pay dividends by | a pest. | the Rev. Father Walker made yesterday upon | which alone the children of the poor are | speculative ‘advantages’ which are offered by the shrewd men who manipulate Wall street for their own gaio. If our friends have | money to invest let them invest it in good honest bonds, government, city or State, the | bonds and stock of railroads that pay divi- dends, bank shares, shares of corporations of accredited reputation. There are thousands of such investments which we cannot too ear- nestly recommend. What we must avoid are railroads that have been robbed by in- side Crédit Mobilier corporations, which cheating the government, railroads that have been stripped by cliques of adventurers, and which are now drifting into bankruptcy, covered with four or five mortgages ; corpora- tions whose names have become a scandal and These are the investments that have noreal value, because they represent audacious gambling with public confidence, not business prosperity. Our readers should beware of this, forany tendency to stimulate this form of “activity” will only lead to reaction, un- doing all we have done by patience and labor in the winter, and losing all we have won by our prudence, courage and cheerfulness dur- ing this long period of depression and busi- ness anxiety. Father Walker’s Attack on the Pub- lic Schools. Among the sermons which we publish to- day is one which will attract particular notice, because of its strong contrast with the moder- ation and intelligence which is characteristic of the enlightened clergy of the metropolis. It is the intolerant and unjust attack which the public school system, which is one of the noblest achievements of our civilization. Nothing that is trne of the evils inseparable from that system, nothing that has been asserted as to the injustice done the Catholic Church by its management, can in the least degree justify the violent abuse of which Father Walker has been guilty. To intimate that Catholic parents who send their children | to the public schools are in danger of dam- | nation; to declare that he would as soon administer the sacraments to a | dog as to such Catholics; to deny | that such parents are truly Catholics, or | | at the best merely those of the pothouse politieian stripe ; to describe the system by | resened from ignorance and enabled to be- | come intelligent members of society as the instrument of the devil—this is to preach bigotry, barbarism, darkness, nothing that Christianity is, and everything that it is not. Whatever may be thought of the injustice or the impolicy of taxing Cutholics for the sup- port of schools they do not use, # priest has no authority to make damnation the penalty of mere submission to wrong. If Catholics wish to have schools of their own no one will object, for similar preferences exist in Protes- tant sects; but no intelligent citizen, whatever his religious faith, can hear without indigna- tion the great plan of popular secular educa- tion denounced as the crowning work of the enemy of man, It would bea condescension to which we are not inclined to defend the public schools from the tury of Father Walker, as it would be unpleasant to describe his sermon in the terms it deserves. Argument to defend the one, or language to reprobate the other, are | since the end of the long, dead winter, and the panic which threw over our business life the | Arctic shadows of depression and despair. The | prosperity in which the Henaxp rejoices is not | | suaply our own, but that of the people; for so | intimately are we connected in our social re- | lations that what benefits the richest mer- | | chant in New York is an advantage to the poorest *orkman who serves him. In other | words, prosperity is like the sunshine, which | falls upon the lofty and the lowly, the rich and the poor, and bathes the world in a uni- versal glow. | There is not an industry which does not | show evidences of activity. The farmer be- gins to arrange his crops and to rejoice in the torrents that come sweeping from the hill- | sides bearing their fertilizing volume. The merchant 1s busy receiving and fulfilling | orders from sii parts of the country. Our railroads are taxed to carry the freights that | have been accumulating for weeks past. A | walk up Broadway or through some of the | business streets of the lower part of the city will show the plethora of industry and | | enterprise. Instead of the silent, al- most abandoned, highway which might have been seen during the early part of the year, Broadway is now a teeming, rushing, roaring avenaoe of trade; for this | great highway of the metropolis, like the great metropolitan journal, shows at once the | indications of business revivel and prosper- ity. There is no reason why we should not realize all the pleasing hopes that come with the spring. Congress has adjourned, and we dread no foolish legislation from Washing- ton. There is nothing the President ean do | that he has not done, unless, perhaps, war | with Caba, which would be an act of moral reason impossible even with Grant. Al- h affairs in Europe are uneasy there is any object to be gained by # war. France is neither willing nor ready. There is nobody for Bismarck to fight but the Pope, who will confine and bulls ot there his hostilities to allocutions excommunication Mithough are uneasy rumors from th vuth these are confined to the intrigues « iti | cians, Every indication shows that the peo- | ple are steadily at work retrieving and con- | solidating their fortunes. The only disheartening symptom is the ten- dency to speculation in Wali street which we have observed within the last few weeks, a disposition on the part of foolish, heedless peo- | | | ple to seek fortunes by investments in “Big | | monwealth, | and to be damned in the next. Father Wal- | conld fail to derive profit from Mr, Frothing- equally unnecessary. We only desire to ex- | press our belief that while such sermons can- not injure the schools they are calculated to do great harm to the Catholic Church in Amer- ica. No Church can hope to prosper, no Church should. prosper, tMat places itself as an obsta- cle to the education of the young by the Com- It is our duty to acquit the Church of an- thorizing preaching so repugnant to every in- | stinet of decency, and to express the convic- tion that Cardinal McCloskey would be wise to censure the new doctrine that parents who send their children to the publie schools de- serve to be denied the sacraments in this life ker might be a good missionary to convert the caunibals, but his usefuiness in the eburches | of New York was ended by his extraordinary performance of yesterday. | The Pulpit Yesterday, | There is great variety in our reports of the sermons delivered yesterday in this city and | 3rooklyn. The reasons why everybody should | join the Church, which Mr. Hepworth gave in | his eloquent sermon, are not to be disputed ; bnt he omitted one very good reason—the intellect of the New York pulpit generally. nm appeals not only to the heari, but to the head, and even that large class which supposes that nothing is needed for its morat improvement can find intellectual inspiration in the discourses of our thoughtful clergy, and thns in time be brought to more serious reflections upon life. No intelligent person ham’s sermon upon the infinitude of mortal existence, paradoxical as the terms may seem. Another notable address was that of the Rey. Mr. Lyford, of Utah, upon Mormonism, a subject of which he is entitled to speak | by personal experien though he was certainly very bitter in his censure he great Mormon leader. he revival in England was described by the Rev. Mr. Draper, and Mr. Varley, one of the leaders in that work which Messrs. Sankey and Mo » continuing with increased success, to twenty thousand persons in the Hippodrome, Bishop Andrews preached at the the new Methodist Episcopal | church in Sixty-tirst street, and Mr. Beecher | preache ning of explaimed the methods 0) growth in Christian | character. ese aud other discourses are | carefully reported in our religions columns | | to-day. The Spring Elections. New Hampshire was a drawn battle. Every- body expected it to go democratic and be carried off in the tidal wave which swept the country last fall. Even this uncertain result has had the moral effect of a republican victory. New Hampshire, even in the palmiest days of the republican supremacy, was always a doubtful State. In the olden times the cry was ‘‘As Maine goes so goes New England."” But Maine has grown more and more republican, and we may say now, “As New Hampshire goes so goes New Eng- land.” In New Hampshire and others of the New England States the party lines were not strongly drawn. The introduction of temper- ance and other questions into the canvass prevented the republicans from polling their full vote. We presume that so long as minor questions are allowed to intrude upon a can- vass there will always be an edge of the annoyance to the calculating politicians, and even at times—as when Birney defeated Olay—destroying the result of a Presidential election. But there isno party who should study the election in New Hampshire more carefully than the democracy. To them it means everything. If there is any per- manency in’ the remarkable results of last fall, if ‘the defeat of the republican party really came from the tidal wave of political opposition, then New Hampshire should have responded to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But the fact is the democracy is very much like the Confederates at the battle of Win- chester, they have thrown away their victory before they have earned it, Coming into power asa probationary party their first act, in many cases, was to destroy the confidence which success had inspired. The defeat of Schurz in Missouri, the intemperance of many leaders in the South, the election of hack politicians to the Senate, the failure to realize | the expectations of reform promised, in New York especially; the appointment of General Porter to the most important office under Tammany Hall and the surrender of the city and State to Tammany dictation, a!l these have naturally tended to deaden the confi- dence of the general public in the sincerity of the democrats. These are the elements which contributed to arrest the sweep of the democratic victory in New Hampshire. On the other hand, the republicans, although wise in some things, have not been in others. If, for instance, leaders like Mr. Blaine, Senator Edmunds and Mr. Wilson had frankly expressed them- selves as dissatisfied with the administration and with the tendency of General Grant and his followers to drift into Omsarism, we be- | lieve that New Hampshire could have been carried by the republicans by a small but de- cisive majority. But upon this issue the leaders of the republican party have been afraid to act. They rest under the spell of executive patronage. They have the courage to complain but not to mutiny. They have never yet seen that great as the President is by his office the people are far greater. They have never had the confidence in the republi- can party which the memories of its history should inspire. They could not see that this | was the party that drove Lincoln to emanci- | pation, and which, if properly conducted, would drive Grant out of Cesarism. We be- lieve that if the trua members of the party—the men who hold the rela- tion to it now that Greeley and Chase and Ste- vens did ten years ago—bad really made up their minds that the republican organization was something more than a mere bodyguard to its military chief, they might have forced the President into a position in harmony with the popular sense of its members, just as they forced Lincoln to proclaim emancipation after he had publicly derided the wisdom or value of sucha measure. The burden of tho re- publican party is more seriously felt in Con- necticut. Here we are to have another election, and sagacious men like Governor Hawley see | the incubus that rests upon the campaign in this idea of the third term. Connecticut is a more doubtful State than New Hampshire, but there is no reason why the republicans should not carry it if they mean to do so. Gov- ernor Hawley has pointed out the way, but if he is not sustained by the men to whom the party has a right to look with confidence for counsel and leadership, then the republicans will have either a barren victory or an over- | whelming defeat. There is no reason why the selfishness of one man should be allowed to put a great party in peril. have had oecasion, again and again, to cen. sure the republicans, and although we believe that the good of the country would be served by a change in the adininistration, still we know that. representative government also requires not only a parly in power but a party in opposition. No party can govern a country with due regard to the best interests of the people unless its opponents are strong enongh to criticise its acts and compact enough to prevent its adoption of extreme and violent measures. This is the value of parties as we see them in the House of Commons, and we welcome every change in our politics that promises to bring the same influences into Congress. But the republican party can never exercise its true functions, either as a party in power or as an opposition, so long as it is eaten by the cancer of the third term. This must be extirpated. If the President will per- sist in burdening the party, then let it discard the President and rise to the level of its an- cient glory, when it fought successfully the war for the Union and proclaimed the eman cipation, Connectient will show us how sin: For ourselves, although we | cere the leaders of tho republican party are in | their efforts to regain the public confidence; and Connecticut, like New Hampshire, will be | won or lost upon the issue of the third term. Governor Tilden’s Precedent. We have a rumor that in the case appointment of a civil justice to take the place ‘Stemmler, deceased,” the latter gentleman has concluded to abandon all claims to the office. He has been advised, we are informed, by eminent lawyers that the recital of his death by Governor Tilden in an instrument under official seal is conclusive that he is as dead in the eyes of the law as if his body were actually entombed in Greenwood Ceme- tery. His attorneys have prepared an elab- orate opinion, in the course of which they quote the language of Jack Cade to Dick the Butcher, in the play of King Henry VI: not this a lamentable thing, that the skin | of an innocent lamb should be made parch- “by the courls in so doing. ment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings; but I say the beeswax; for I did but seal once to a thing and I was never mine own man since.” This certainly makes it clear that Stemmler is dead, and that the Gov- ernor, in the exercise of his high authority, did not make a blunder, as many heedless journalists imagine, but founded a solemn precedent. By this precedent the Governor shows us the way to remove Green, He has simply to issue an instrument under seal reciting his death, and there will be an end of the Comptroller. The Church Disaster—An Investigation by the Mayor. The Mayor has notified the head of the Building Department to appear before him on the 18th inst., to answer the charge of viola- Pacha at iited guaeancicermaanby odustne! | tion of official duty implied in the verdict of f ” the jury in the St. Andrew's church disaster. There are four charges of criminal official neglect against the Superintendent—(1) That he failed to order the pulling down of the dangerous wall of the Shaw building when its condition, as officially docketed, required its removal; (2) That he failed to ascertain that the work of making ‘safe and secure” was properly done; (3) That he neglected to notify the persons in the neighborhood of the peril; and (4) That he failed to enforce the law in relation to the arrangement and con- dition of the stairways and doors of the church, and to see that they were such as to facilitate egress in case of an accident or a panic. The more recent falling of the roof of the building used by the Twenty-second regi- ment as an armory points the importance of prompt action on these charges. ‘There seems to be an impression that the present law does not empower the Building Department to provide against the unsafe condition of doors and stairways in buildings used for public purposes. This is an error. Section 29 of chap- ter 625 of the Laws of 1871 provides that | inalt buildings of a public character then erected or thereafter to be built, ‘‘such as hotels, churches, theatres, schoolhouses, res- taurants, railroad depots, public halls and other buildings used or intended to be used for pur- poses of public amusement or instruction, the ! halls, doors, stairways, seats and aisles shall be so arranged as to facilitate egress in cases of fire or accident, and io afford the requisite and proper accommodation for the public protection in such cases,” &c. In the same section the head of the Building Department is empowered to enforce these provisions. Notices may be served by the head of the department on persons violating these or any other provision of the law, and a neglect or refusal to comply with the require- ments of the law is mado a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Sec- tion 46 provides:—‘‘Ihis act is hereby de- clared to bea public act, and shall be con- | strued liberally, and all courts and tribunals, or any judge or justice thereof, shall take cognizance thereot and give force and effect | to the purposes and objects thereby sought to | be promoted.’’ More emphatic language than this could scarcely be used. It was the intention of tha have ample power to enforce all the pro- visions looking to the public protection, and that they should be specially countenanced The Coroner's jury find that there was at St. Andrew's church “inadequate provision for the sate exit of the congregation;”’ that the “stairways | were too narrow and crooked ;’’ that the “‘out- side doors were hung to open inward.” All this was in direct violation of the law now in ex- istence, and which it was the duty of the head of the Building Department to enforce. In having neglected to do so he is as responsible for the three lives which two of the jurymen declare were sacrificed to thése defects in the building as he is for the two lives that wero crushed out by the falling of the dangerously sprung and bulged wall he failed to remove. The Muddie of the Eeecher Trial, The most wearisome mess of worthless tit- tlestattle ever inflicted on the patience of a | long suffering public is presented in the trivial and prolix testimony of the minor witnesses in the Beecher trial. It does not exemplify the beautiful language of the poet, for although there is “many a winding bout,’’ it is not exactly of “linked sweetness long drawn out.” Long drawn out it is unques- tionably, but the sweetness reminds one of assafostida, and if there be any links of con- nection between this maze of twaddle and the guilt or innocence of Mr. Beecher the pub- lic does not readily perceive it. The testi- mony on Friday was rather more surcharged than usual with dreadfully boring imperti- nence. Of what consequence is it to the pur- pose of the trial with whom Oliver Johnson went to hear ilton’s political speech at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, or what places he visited on his way home, or what Albert | Brisbane said at Mrs. Woodhull’s house about national scheme of a pneumatic tunnel between New York and Washington, or whether Miss Oakley did or did not recollect Mrs. Tilton’s bad English in a conversation in tlie presence of her children at her table? We do not know what may at last be fished out of this infinite sea of irrelevancy, but 1t looks too much as if there isa purpose to protract the trial until some one of the jurymen is utterly broken in health in order that it may end with- oat a verdict. If such a result should happen ust at the point where Mr. Beecher has com- pleted his direct testimony and before he is subjected to the ordeal of a cross-examination it would bave a most unhappy effect on public | opinion. It is for his interest that his coun- | sel should protect him against such conse- of the | quences before the sick juror is utterly dis- abled by the vitiated air of the court room. Public opinion will be more influenced by Mr. Beccher’s cross-oxamination than by any other feature of the trial. If his direct testi- mony is strictly truthful it will be impossible for his keen inqnisitors to shake him or entangle him in a web of contradictions, and if he runs that guantlet unharmed there will bea strong presumption in favor of his innocence. { Prnth is always consistent with itself, and a j aged by a cross-examination. "Ts | witness who swears to nothing but facts in his recollection ean never be seriously dam- But when a witness invents, or prevaricates, or colors, from that moment he is lost, if a skilful, searching ingnisitos stands ready to put him finance and his | the colored men. onthe rack. The fact that one of the jury. men is inso precarious a condition that he is compelled to take hourly doses of medicine in the court room and is liable to fall out of the case on any @ay should admonish the counsel of Mr. Beecher to bring him at once on the stand, and make sure that his whole testi- mony is given and sifted before any unfortue nate accident puts a sudden termination to the trial. A bill has been presented in the State Senate to enable a wife to be a witness for the defendant in an action for criminal con- versation. The purpose of this bill isto enable Mrs Tilton to testify in the present case. It is so consistent with equity that we hope it will be Promptly passed, Am Interesting Letter from Thurlow Weed, We welcome this astute politician, veteran journalist and respected citizen again to our columns, altbough his communication, which we print this morning, scems to prove that the Hrratp was not quite right in dissenting from the letter on the civil service reform question which he sent us more than two years ago, Myr. Weed claims, and justly claims, that his prediction then has become history now, But whether the failure of the civil service movement, which he so confidently foretold in our cok umns, is creditable or disereditable to | the administration is a different question, which we will not go into at present. Mr. Weed is fairly entitled to the praise of saga- city in foreseeing so clearly that it would prove a bootless and abortive agitation. But we respectfully suggest that his too well fulfilled prediction was founded rather on his intimate and accurate knowledge of the ways of politi- cians than on his perception of popular senti- ment. Tho people, from beginning to end, looked with great favor on the attempted re form in tne civil eervice; it was the politi- cians who stabbed it under the fifth rib while putiing their arms endearingly around its | neck and pretending to supportit. Even if Mr. Weed was correct in predicting in 1872 that, if it were established, ‘at least two sbarpers for one honest man would pass the examinations,” the government would still have had every means of ascertaining honesty which it possessed before, and would have been under no obligation to bestow offices upon knaves. But this is a dead question, and we are quite willing that Mr. Weed should write its epitaph, although it would fare hardly with most of us if epitaphs were to be written by enemies. Mr. Weed, having demonstrated the truth of his former prediction, makes another; and in the new case we see no reason to doubt hia foresight. He thinks the Civil Rights bill will turn out to be as egregious a failure aa the civil service reform. We call attention to his astute observations on this subject “The Civil Rights law,’’ he says, “will bring nothing but disappointment and vexation to After a few abortive attempts to enforce it things will settle down in the old way, leaving questions of social equality to regulate themselves. The best | that can be hoped is that the law will become | a dead letter.” | will establish the correctness ot this view. law that the Building Department should | aco ee | We have no doubt that time Tuz Fiz Porrers of the Manhattan Club announce that they will give a recep- tion to the democratic Senators of the present Congress. This is to be another champagne aad trufiles glorification. We have no doubt the Senators will be glad to meet the brilliant gentlemen who form the Manhattan Club. At the head of them will be that glorious old | statesman, Uncle Dick, whose silence at the | the lauy! 1t was her beats bonnet, last session was more eloquent than the oratory of Clay or Webster. Uncle Dick re- mains in Washington for the purpose of bringing on the Seuators, and they will be re ceived in grind procession, the comrade of Thomas Jefferson, the correspondent of Na poleon, the originator of the Gran¢ Alaska, Honduras and Patagonia Rail- roxd Company at their bead. But would it not be well for the democratic Senators to have a reception also from the Fitz Kellys? There are not more than one hundred of the Fitz Porters, and they only vote when it does not rain. There are eighty thousand of the Fitz Kellys, who vote through rain and storm, Why not have a reception in the Fourth avenue im. provement on the part of the’ Fitz Kellys? The Senators would learn more true demoo racy from the horny-handed faborers who do not drink champagne than from the curled darlings of Fifteenth street and Filth avenue, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Jumes Batley, of Utica, is staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Adoiph Sutro, of Nevada, is among the late arrivals at the Gilsey House. Kenealy recetvea 6,110 votes. There were 8,068 votes divided between two otier candidates, The First Secretary of the Spanish Legation tn Washington, Sefhor Potestaa, will soon visit Spain with his family on a leave o1 absence, All the tools of workmen or other implements of labor deposited wita the pawnorokers of Parts have been redeemed and handed over to thet owners by the Dacness of Magenta with the pro- ceeds of a charity festival placed at her disposal, One of the best ideas of the period, Turkey will not take any notice of pour Iltule Cousin Alfonso till he apologizes for having. in- formed Charles of Roumanta of his accession to the throne; for the Sultan ts of opinion that all infor- mation of that sort should go to Charles by way ot Constantinople. Senator Conkling’s opposition defeated the Tele. graph bill, and Senator Conkling is the counsel of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Wasn't there # case In the courts not long since in which the position of this Senator brought up rather sharply the legislative capacity of the counsels for great corporations ? At )ast nere is a new fancy in the prestidigita tion line, He borrowed a ponnet irom a lady in the audience, and as he was about to return it 19 cangit fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on in With both fer to extinguish the flume, Misery of Then he fred a pistol, anda bonnet just like it fell trom the chandelier in the middie of the theatre, There has been found in an old palace at Pisa a Jong-iost Work of Michael Angelomthe statne of St. John sculptured for Lorenzo di Medic. 1s waa in the Pesctolini Palace, ioug abandoned and un Jaliabited, but recenély sold to the Count Rossa. onini, and therefore vieaned out. Thougn the presence there of & beautiful siatue was kuown, it Was commonly suppued to be by Donatello, And now comes out plainiy enough t the Engii#h major who cheatod at card He was the Major of the regimont in which the Duke of Connaught, une of the Queen's song, ts captain, He is thus rejerred tom the beau ital brevity of a general order:—“fhe Hon, Mujor Waiter Harbord, of the Seventn Hussars, is dis. missed from the army, Her Majesty having ne lurtber need Of nis services,”