The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOYICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hxnzatp will be gent free oi postage. published every | THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic vust be addressed Nuw York Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters sealed. ia LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 ¥LEET STREET. Subscriptions sud advertisements will be forwarded on the same terms and packages should be properly received und as in New York. VOLUME Xfj-.-.2.0ceresevese corner of eae ned’ Sixth avenie,— HENKY V sloses at 11 P.M. Ar. kagnold. Matinee at 1 FRANC rner of Y, ato P.M; et —NEGRO Matinee at ‘closes at DP.” TIVOLL THEATRE by Second and ‘Third avenues.— ; closes at le P. Fighth street VaRIET’, acs HEATRE, UN, at 8'P. jatinee atl Broadway.— Wowk. 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Fourseen IE A} Brondway closes at ¢ Tew WITH SUPPLEMENT. of adver pressure colamns of our Sunday edi- tion heir own inter- ests and proper classi- fication will hereafter send in advertise intended for the Sunday Herarp ug the week and early on Satarday» From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that wealher to-day will be clear and warmer Tue ( *.—-We publish in another colomn a series of in ews with General Dix aud other leading citizens on this important question, which will be interest by the public. Escare or French Comm of the nists confined in New Caledo- ected their escape, in boats, under ip of Dr. Rastroul. They built their own boats and trusted to their good fortune re ont all right. Tor } pb Warn.—The struggle be- tween th yus railroad companies still continu 6 a beneficial effect on the public interest. The rates on frei and pas senger wafli v an they ever w it is to be hoped sincerely that th v porations will « 2 to disu that the rates down. Ove of the great danger: the prose perity of nited States i c ility that a com on of monopolists may seize on the railroad system and proceed to levy blackmuil on the industry of the couniry., If a law could be passed to prevent any further amalgamation of great publ: rival lines it would be a nefit. Jous Mircuei Panape—The Police Com- tnissioners | decided that the proposed parade on Sunday in honor of the late Mr. Join Mitchel is contrary to the Jaw, and have therefore forbidden it. Their view is supported by the legal advice of Corporation Attorney Smith, and, though the reasons for applying the law in the present case are not very clear, the gentlemen having the demon- stration in charge will, no doubt, submit to the decision of the Commissioners with a good grace. Any attempt to disregard the decision of the authorities, however impolitic it may have been, would be very unwise, and likely to fead to scenes of disorder which would bring disgrace on the memory of the patriot whom the Irishmen of this city desire to honor. ‘This consideration alone will be Sufficient to check any disposition to dis- | Tegard the decision of the Police Commis- | Sivners, Four cents per copy. An- | |: closes at | PM. 2 closes at 10:45 | NDERIS | read with | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1875.—W1ITH SUPPLEMENT. | oF Governor Tilden and the Canal Hing. It was a wise suggestion of an ispired | writer, “Let not him that girdeth on his armor boast himself as he that putteth it off.” Governor ‘Tilden has girded on his armor against the Canal Ring with great éclat and applause, but it still remains to be seen | whether he can uproot the frauds which he exposes and denounces. If he fails he will be still entitled to the credit of good inten- tions, but he will have no solid claim to pub- lic gratitude unless he succeeds in extirpating the flagrant corruption against which he makes so earnest a protest, Everybody who takes an interest in State affairs has known for years and years that the management of the canals is rotten to the core, andif our new Governor succeeds in forcing a remedy he will deserve well of his fellow-citizens. Bat he must not expect to be crowned with laurels for an unsuccessful attempt. Pope, | Hooker and Burnside attacked the Confed- | erates with great courage and vigor, but as each of them got terribly worsted | in the contest the country does not award them a high place on the roll of military | merit. ‘Nothing succeeds like success,” and if our worthy Governor secures such legisla- tion before the session closes as will protect the State Treasury against the Canal Ring cor- morants he will have gained an enviable stand- | ing in the long list of able men who have done good service as Governors of New York. 5 | But it does not always happen in human affairs that the vigor of the man comes up to the pomp of the manifesto. If Governor Tilden’s bold attack on the Canal Ring should | lead to no resuits he will be weakened in pub- | lic estimation by an abortive attempt. We do not at all sympathize with the line of criticism against the Governor which as- «discovered nothing new,'and that the corrup- tion of the Canal Ring was as well known to his predecessors as to himself. They knew it; but why did they bear it? They had the same cards in their hands as Governor Tilden, but they did not know how to play them. It is creditable to our present Governor that he is skilful enough to put down his tramp at the right stage of | the game ; but, if he should be beaten after | all, the mortification will be in proportion to the greatness of the stake. Mr. Tilden has ventured all his future political hopes on the success of this bold coup. If the Canal Ring should foil him he will stand in the position of a beaten and bumiliated man who at- tempted more thin he conld accomplish. Governor Tilden cannot afford to fail in the contest he has precipitated. That he will be warmly supporied by an honest public | opinion is already past doubt; but his success | depends on tye one hundred and sixty mem- | bers of the Lot | the influence, money or intrigues of the Canal | Ring may be powerful enough to thwart him | in one or the other branch of the Legislature. Had Andrew Johnson succeeded in his bold | conflict with Congress he would have become the most popular man in the country, but his | failure was a fatal blow to his influence for the H time being. And, in like manner, if Gov- ernor Tilden carries the Legislature | with him in his intrepid onslaught upon the Canal Ring he will be the most | applauded man in the State; but if he fails, after munaging his assault with so keen an eye to stage effect, he will be treated with the | same kind of derision which overtook the mountain in labor, when the multitudes who had assem’ led to witness the birth of an in- | fant mountain were regaled by seeing a mouse’ run out of a hole. We sincerely hope that | Governor Tilden’s grand coup way not prove a new exemplification of this old fable. The fact that the tendency of the Legisla- | ture is toward committees or commissions of investigation If, as the | champions of the Canal Ring allege, the | nothing new in Governor Tilden’s revela- tions, it it be true that these abuses have long been known, of what practical use is a tedious investigation? Why should not the L ture proceed at onee to enact laws wh preciude the possibility of after, le: mercies of the our part, | dollar of thi | is not encouraging. is will such frauds here- w Civil Remedies law? For do not believe that a quanderedymoney will ever be investi ns in that view. For all purposes of legislation the present information is | ample. It is confessed to be ample even by the champions and apologists of the Canal Ring, who belittle Governor Tilden’s Mes- | sage by asserting that it reveals nothing new. We, therefore, look with distrust upon the | schemes of investigation which have passed | the Assembly. The proper thing for the Legislature to do is to pass a law which will shut and lock the door against such swindles hereafter, and, as they have already informa- tion enough to guide such legisiation, we regard these projected investigations as a juggle of the Canal Ring to gain time and stave off the passage of laws which would stop their dishonest gains. ‘The action ot the Assembly on this subject is ridiculous, Ut is preposterous, in the first place, to assume that any additional informa- tion is necessary, when the champions of the Canal Ring belittle the Governor's Mes- sage by asserting that he has told nothing was not well known before. If the truth of his charges is admitted r ine necessary for ena- apply effective rame- umption of time in needless which substantial no furth y can be bling the Leg: ature to dies. The ¢ investigations is so obviously in the interest of the Canal Ring that we fear the Governor will encounter a formidable opposition. The | provision tor two separate investigations is ridiculous. The Assembly has provided fora cowmittee of investigation to be appointed by Speaker MeGui nd also for » commission of investigation to be appointed by the Gov- If the committee deserve confidence there can be no need of the commission ; and, on the other hand, if the commission to be appointed by the Governor can be trusted ad of the a double ernor, there is parade of taining the device tor a legislative of the session. By passing these resolutions for a double in- vestigation the Assembly has declared, @® the face of the Governor, that they do not accept the statemenis of his Message aos | but only as a presentment of which deserve examination. By appoi @ commitice of their owa to inquire into the same subject which they are willing to have no & This ascer- acts looks too much like a ay and a means of staving off tion until the close committee, investigation for true, serts—truly enough, no doubt—that he has | ature, and it is possible that | st offenders to the tender | recovered, and itis preposterous to institate | investigated by a commission dssathie’ by the Governor they declare their distrust of an examination conducted under his auspices. Neither the committee nor the commission can be ready to report before the close of the session, and if legislative action is to depend on their reports the Canal Ring will shove it off and postpone it until next year; and such & postponement would be a virtual defeat of Mr. Tilden. It is by no means clear that victory in this contest will perch on the ban- ner of the Governor, and if the Canal Ring should foil him it will make a great difference in his political standing before the country. The Koman Campagna. The well considered letter which we publish from our correspondent in Italy sketches the history of the Agro Romano from the earhest efforts of the popes to improve its condition down to the present time. The chief obstacle they had to encounter arose from the fact that two-thirds of the Campagna belonged to noble families, on whom until recently the estates were restrained by nostatute of mortmain from the acquisition of ever extending domains. It may be supposed, too, that the absence of free municipalities within the pontifical terri- tory tended to check local enterprise, while the government which existed urbi et orbi was more often occupied with the affairs of the world than the city. This was the opinion of the late Baron Bunsen, who, when Prussian Minister at Rome, recommended a scheme of municipal self-government as the best method of meeting the wishes of liberal reformers. Certain it is that one pontiff after another failed in the attempt to reclaim the marshy soil. Statesmen like Leo X. and Sixtus V. had no better success than simple, worthy priests of the type of Pius VL and his imme- diate successors. Napoleon applied himself to the task which Cwsar had essayed some eighteen hundred years before, but the career of the one conqueror, as of the other, was cnt could be accomplished. At length the labor which grave politicians and skilful financiers have contented themselves with talking about for centuries is likely to be accomplished by a brave old soldier, who still loves his country after he has sheathed the sword with which he freed her, and who, by the pure honesty of his intentions, is enabled to overcome dif- ficutties which would have overwhelmed men less whole-hearted than he. The hero of a school girl’s romance turns out to be more practical than some men who have won special reputations for knowledge of business. Should the plans of Garibaldi be realized they will be no unworthy crown of his mili- tary triumphs. To reclaim to cultivation to waste and pestilence ; to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before ; to create new harbors on the fairest coastlund of Europe and attract to them the navies of | were strictly entailed, or to the clergy, whe | | the testimony relating to the conduct of Til- | aspect in which their testimony is really im- The Three Colored Witnesses. The last three witnesses examined in the Beecher trial are of more value to the defence than all the others who have yet testified on that side, They doa great deal more than to blacken the domestic and social life of the plaintiff. If it should be established ever so conclusively that Tilton was addicted to licentious amours, we do not see that the defence would have advanced a single step to- ward clearing Mr. Beecher. If Tilton’s con- jugal infidelities began before the alleged adultery and were known to his wife they would help explain it. She might have been persuaded to think his breach of the marriage contract freed her from its obligation, or at least extenuated the surrender of her chastity. A married woman whose husband is known to her to have been ‘unfaithful would natu- rally be an easier victim for a seducer than one whose husband had given her no provocation. On the other hand, if it were proved that Tilton’s liasons com- menced after his alleged discovery of his wife’s aduliery, they might be explained on a similar ground. Tilton’s ac- quaintance with the Woodhull woman did actually begin subsequent to the date of Mrs. Tilton’s alleged confession, and his intimacy with her has no tendency to prove Mr. Beecher's innocence. The greater part of ton is, therefore, irrelevant and worthless, because it has no real bearing on the fact charged against the defendant. The same remark applies with equal force to that part of the testimony of Mrs. Wood- | hull’s three colored servants, which merely goes to convict Tilton of undue intimacy or improper familarities with that woman. The portant, and tends to break down the case of short ere the most beneficent of his works | | credited, Tilton must have sworn to a known land which for ages has been abandoned | , Tilton’s confession to her husband. There | were no eye-witnesses, and if the erring wife many countries ; to restore to the gaze oi a | wondering world the treasures of the past which may lie under the Tiber near the | Eternal City, the witness of so many sudden and violent changes—to do all this at a com- paratively trifling cost is surely the mark of genius, if genius may be recognized by the small means. It is strange that while in Scotland or North Germany men will give fabulous sums for a few square yards of ungrateful soil which will require the incessant labor of their lives to force it to yield its produce land is to be ob- | tained in the garden of the world ata cheap | raté which if reclaimed would be fertile irom | the long rest of centuries. Deserts chased for much money and a rich virgin soil lying close to the capital of Christendom is d. This state of things cannot long coatinne. Land is still, as in the days of Lord Manstield, the most productive menis, and sites in the neighborhood ot Rome must ultimately attain to quite artificial values, neglee' capacity for accomplishing great ends with | are pur- | invest- | whether they be covered with fields of waving | corn or trim villas, which shall recall the siately luxury of the Augustan age: — Vos sapere et saios aio bene vivere, quorum Conspicivur bitidis !undata pecunia vilis. Such was the advice of Horace to capi- talists. Heat and Ventilation in the Schools. Dr. Morris’ communication in regard to the heating and ventilation of public school No. 18 is of general interest to the public. Far too little thought is given by parents 10 the physical conditions to which children are subjected in the schools to which they are seut, and if No. 18isa fair example none at all is given by the school authorities. body makes some personal effort to regulate the temperature of his domicile, warm as need be, and to keep the air pure if he happens to know the importance of pure air. People in downtown offices concern themselves as to the state of the rooms they pass the day in; and workmen in the ries give the same subject perhaps undue attention: Yet all send their boy to the public schools and for five or six hcurs a day leave those in whose welfare they have the est interest exposed to the mercies of the in nt servants of an indifferent corpora- tion, It is to be hoped that the picture pre- eented by Dr. Morris of the roasting stove in one part of the room and the trees windows in another will call attenti ct sufficiently to induce some pr: g open 1 to the sure of public opinion upon the proper authorities, | ton’s testimony if | deserve belief. | with the jury. If the jufy should come | to this conclusion the only thing that ,can embarrass them in finding a | verdict for Every- | to keep it as | facto- | and girls | Disnonest Practices in THE ‘Tlomps.— The story told in another column of the manner in which person. fortunate enough | to become domiciled in the abs are treated resembles very closely the account of Spanish prisons given us by the ever-to-le-remem- bered Gil Blas. It appears, from the experi- ence of Dr. Jacoby, thata regular system of oppression and extortion existe, aud is not uuknown to the authorities, who, how- ever, seem unable or unwilling to remedy the abuses of our city prison. It would be difficult to the influences for ill which such practices as those alleged must exercise on the minds of the criminal! classes in less for the law and those char, tion. be proved thore is certainly need of some action on the part of the higher authorities to overestimate | ning their respect | oJ with its execu- | If the charges made by Dr. Jacoby can | put an end to a state of affairs which is a dis- | ization. the very stronghold of the grace to our civ law to be dese- We cannot permit | | erated by extortioners, who are more crim- | inal than the thieves upon whom they prey | in the name of justice and society. | the complainant, consists in the blow itstrikes | at his veracity. When Tilton was on the | | stand he swore most positively as to the infre- \ quency of his visits to the house where the Woodhull woman resided, and as to the num- ber of times he had gone up stairs to the sec- ond story. According to his own statements he never went up sfairs but once, and then | on the invitation of his hostess to see | for himself that the rumors that she kept an improper house were untrue. He swore that he found the upper part of the house bare and the rooms destitute of beds in the only visit in which he ever ascended above the first floor. Now, if the three negro servants are to | and deliberate falsehood when he testified that he was never up stairs in that house but once. His relations with the Woodhull woman are of little consequence; but if he deliberately | perjured himself im his testimony he has knocked out the main prop of his case. us try to explain how this follows. The proof | of the alleged adultery rests chiefly on Mrs. Let | had not made a voluntary confession, her guilt and that of her paramour would never | have come to light. Itis affirmed that the confession was afterward put in writing by | Mrs. Tilton; but that writing has been de- stroyed, and the only knowledge of its con- | tents is derived from the statements of the hus- | band. There is no direct testimony but his that it was a confession of downright adultery and not of some minor offence. Mr. Tilton’s | oath is, therefore, the main piv of the accu- sation. Its effect on the jury must depend on their belief in his veracity, and if this should be broken down the real nature of Mrs. Til- ton’s confession becomes a matter of inference and conjecture. It is, therefore, easy to see the great importance of these three negro witnesses. It is not that they testify to dis- | reputable familiarities between Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull, but that, if they have | told the truth, they convict Tilton of having sworn to deliberate ialsehoods on his cross- examination. The established maxim in the ! law of evidence, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, or, in plain Engli “a man who swears | to one known falsehood can be believed in | nothing,’’ has a close application to Mr. Til- these negro witnesses If they have told the truth Tilton is a perjurer,and nothing that he swore to ought to have the slightest weight the defendant will be his own damaging letters. He will go on the stand to explain them under great advantages if the jury shall Lave been first convinced that Til- ton 1s a wilful perjurer utterly unworthy of belief. This argument has proceeded on the as- sumption that the colored servants of the woman Woodhull have told the truth. If their veracity can be successfully impeached, | if it can be proved that they have sworn | falsely, it will then follow that the defence has made a mistake in introducing their testimony. For if it be shown that these poor creatures | have sworn falsely it will be hard for the jury | to resist the conclusion that they have been bribed and suborned, which would be fatal to | the defendant's case. Grocery Gains. Persons who bay a pound of tea will see | the grocer put the tea in a paper bag and then put it on the seale, bag all, o that he sells paper at the price of tea. This is a trifle on one purchase, but if a flourishing grocer | buys a ton of wrapping paper in a year at the | price of paper and sells il to his customers at the price of tea and cofiee and sugar and fine groceries generally he makes a goodly gain. But humanity, even in the jorm of grocers, is never content. Jt appears that this little game of selling paper at the price of more | precious commodities is widely extended, a | peculiarity of the trade at every point to which the civilization of fine groceries has ex- tended ; but it has been reserved for the acute policeof Paris to discover an important | addition to the burden of which buyers must beware. In that city of ingenious people the | grocers have a special paper—not handsome, | not more tenacious nor more delicate than other paper, only heavier. It is made with china clay and similar substances, which make it white, but make it also weighty. One épicier furnished with this special paper will improve his profits by the consumption of two or three times the quantity of paper, tried | in the scales, that would be used by one who | servés ordinary paper. Over there the police disapprove of the practice. Have our groeets | also an unnecessarily heavy paper, and if they have how do the customers like it¢ and Playing with Fire. A brief despatch from England in a recent edition of the Heraty, which was probably overlooked by our readers in their eagerness to read about the Beecher trial and the canal controversy, possesses an importance that cannot be overestimated. From this de- spatch we learn that the cotton masters of North Lancashire have held a meeting and re- solved “on a general lockout unless the opera- tives of Pickering’s mill, in Blackburn, who are now on strike, returned to work uncondi- tionally.” The despatch does not give us the details of the difficulties between the opera- tives and the cotton masters. We presume, however, that it is the old story of contests as to the power of labor and wages, the rights of capital agd labor, which now agitates Eng- lish politics, As to the merits of the quarrel we are not in a position to speak, and ihe proba- bility is that there is mght as well as wrong on both sides, The cotton masters have not considered the feclings of their employés, and the employés, strong in their compact organi- zation, have not been disposed to conciliate those for whom they work. ‘The grave point in this despatch is that there should be such a state of feeling between the cotton masters and the operatives that the former are compelled to unite to punish the latter. Taken as a question of duty between man and man it is hard that the operatives in all the mills of North Lancashire should be turned out of employment in these cold winter months simply because those who work in Pickering’s factory will not consent to the terms imposed upon them. We can sce no justice in such a resolution; but we sce in- finite danger in this policy of retaliation. It is the arraying of class against class, which was seen in France before the Revolution, and | which was among the impelling causes of that tremendous movement. When capital com- bines for the offensive or defensive against labor it brings an issue so terrible, so pain- ful, fraught with so many disastrous conse- quences, that we cannot think of it without the utmost concern. If English politics is to become a question between the higher classes, the aristocracy, those in power, the rich mill owners and land owners and the geople, then;we are on the eve of events of momentous impor- tance. people and the ruling classes. ‘here is no longer in the mind of the English peasant that respect for the Crown and the Church and the Bar and the Peerage that once was the boast of Englishmen. This was seen in the election of Dr. Kenealy to Parliament. This is one of the most extraordinary events | in English politics for the last twenty-five years; for the meaning of this election was that an English constituency, composed of laboring men, populous and courageous even to turbulency, publicly declared that the Lord | Chief Justice of England was a tyrant, that English law had condemned the heir to a | baronetcy toa prison, that the Peerage, the | Bench, the Parliament, and even the Throne were a conspiracy to deprive the citizen of his just rights, and thet Arthur Orton, con- demned by the law asa swindling butcher, | was in truth the heir to the ancient house of | Tichborne. As itis there can be no more distinct illustration of that dividing of inter- ests and sympathy which arrays class against class, and which cannot be too strongly de- | plored. The Heratp said many months ago that the Tichborne case might in its results be as im- portant an event in the political history of | England as the diamond necklace case in the | history of France. For this we were taunted | But when an English Kenealy to Parlia- by the English press. constituency sends Dr. ment, a man who was believed by every gen- i tleman in England to be as much of a scamp as Ougliostro, 1t shows the existence of a feel- ing in the English mind as intense and res- olute as that which was disclosed by the dia- mond necklace case in France. And, there- fore, we think that with this public feeling in the laboring classes in England any event like this combination of the cotton masters against the cotton operatives tends to widen the breach, 1s fraught -with most disastrous consequences and is playing with fire ina wanton manner. A Max Name Georce Pumprnron has been | arrested at Boston for the murder of Mrs. Bingham. The circumstantial evidence against him is very strong. He has been recognized as the man who sold the murdered woman’s rings, and a peari-handled knife | belonging to the victim was found in his possession. crime ; but the evidence scems to be accumu- lating against him. Tho man Pemberton has already been soveral times in prison for rob- | bery and other offences. The police seem to have displayed quite unusual tact in following up the slight clew which enabled them to arrest the suspected man. Tur Ice Gorcrs in the Delaware and Sus- quehanna rivers give indications that they are about to break up. Considerable uneasiness is felt by those living along their banks in view of the damage done by the overflow at Port Jervis. The waters are said to be rising fast and there is ho doubt good ground for apprehension. We notice that the Ene Railway is now run- ning trains over its new bridge at Port Jervis. The rapidity with which tho work has been done is creditable, but it would have been better to have adopted measures to render the | damage to the old bridge impossible. Buupre Asse simone. Odlotel McClure’s paper, the Philadelphia Zimes, states that building associations have been very success- ful in that city, and that any workingman who earns a thousand dollars a year can in a few years have a house of his own. that ‘if the New York workingmen desire to form them they should be encouraged by all | This is very well, but how can we | means.” hope for anything of this kind so long as rapid transit is denicd? The want of it is in every way an obstacle to prosperity and progress. People do not want houses that they cannot reach. Goon Fripay.—Services ywere day in all the principal churches in the city, and the day was generally observed as a holi- day. Business in Wall strect was all but sus- pended. In England the day was observed | as a yeneral holiday, and business was com } pletely suspended, The tendency of affairs in England | has been to widen the breach between the | Good Feeling. It is impossible not to smile at what we may call tho naivelé of Senator Garland and Representative Lamar, who have returned to Washington, and who “speak in the most flattering terms of their reception by the New England people.’? They have been, they assure us, ‘hospitably received by all classes, and most notably by the ex-federal officers, who greoted them warmly everywhere." We wish that every Southern Representative and Senator could make a similar pilgrimage. We have never yet heard of a Southern man vis- iting the North, no matter how conspicuous he may have been during the rebellion, who did not receive the highest friendship, sym- pathy and respect. If any sentiment reigned in the mind of the Northern people at the close of the war it was that the victory for the Union imposed upon them the duty of assisting the reconstruction ot the South. Therefore the best wishes of the Northern people have been that the Southern people should recover as promptly as possible from the material losses of the war, that the old Commonwealth should be rebuilt upon surer foundations than the crumbling corner stone of slavery, that Vir- ginia should be again the “Old Dominion,” and that Louisiana should be the imperial Commonwealth of the Southwest. We wish we could feel that this sentiment on the part of the honest men of the North had , been reciprocated by the South. For ten years the North has been holding out the olive branch, and for ten years it has been spurned. When love is combined with patience it is sure to win in the end. So our hope has been and is now that the South may begin td really know the North; that the issues of the war will be buried under the green fields that now cover the scenes of the former strife; that the bitterness of the contest will only be remembered as Englishmen remember the wars of the Cavaliers and the Round- heads, of the Jacobins and the Hanoverians— for the romance, chivalry, pootry of the times, and not as provocative of present dis- sension and hatred. Every Southerner like Garland and Lamar who comes to the North on a political errand, every Southerner like | the thousands who came to live here and to make their homes with us is a missionary of peace and conciliation. Therefore we welcome them, feeling assured that they will carry good feeling back with them when they return, and “speak in the most flattering terms of their reception.” Woopnunt on Conorep Evmence.—-Mra. Victoria C. Woodbull is evidently dissatisfied with the story told by the colored gentleman who officiated as witness in the Brooklym Court on Thursday. In her letter, which will ) be found in another column, she takes excop- | tion to almost every important state- ment made by Mr. Woodley, of Vir- | ginia. The question of credibility now comes up, and it may be that He denies all knowledge of the It says | ‘ie id yester= | Mrs. Woodhull may be called upon to tell her | version of the story. There is a charming | frankness about this lady, who at least has the | courage of her convictions, and with the aid of a skilful cross-examiner she might be made to contribute much spicy matter to this Brook- lyn scandal. In view of the charges she | brings against the colored witness she cannot well be left out of the case much longer. By and by we’ll get at the bottom. INTELLIGENCE, | | PERSONAL | ! Mr, Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is sojourning at , the Windsor Hotel, | Mr. J. R, Osgood, of Boston, is among the late arrivals at the Albetmarie Sorel. Professor Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, las apartments at the Everett House, Mr. Samue! Bow.es, of the Springfield Republi- can, Was arrived at the Brevoort House. Senator Willlam W. ton, of Connecticnt, is re- siding temporariiy at tae New York ilotel. Mr. W. ft. Greg's thoughttul book, “Enigmas of Lie,” has already reached an eigath edition. Senator Roscoe Conkling arrived at the Fite Avenue Hotel last evening from Washington, Mr. Robert &. Carr, President of the Kansas Pacifle Railway Company, is at tne Holimam | House. ‘Yhe President will leave Washington next week for a briei visit to New York with members of his family. London has @ cremation society, which ts con- structing {uruaces and a clapel for funeral cere- ron Von Scblizer, the German Minister at nington, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House. Assemblymen Thomas G. Alvord and F. W. Vos- burg arrived from Albany last evening at the Met- ropolitam Hotel. Fischtetto pictares. little Alfunso “playing horse,” and his big sister, the Countess Girgenti, holding the reins, Oscar, of Sweaen, will go to St, Petersburg im April, If the ice is gone by that time; otherwise he will go in June. Thomas Arnold nas im the press of Murray ® book on “fhe Heclesiastical and Secular Archt- tecture of Wagland.’? Offenbach gave, March 14, ® performance of “Genevieve de Brabant) e to all tie printers em- ployed on the Paris newspapers and their families. ! tn the middle of Marca it was lively at Monaco, and the leading Josers were the Princess Gortcha- kotf, Mme. Ratazz!, Amadeus, once of Spain, and the Baron Krupp. . Cominodore Wilkes will be looking up in iiter- ature, No other book sold oat of Guizot's library brought so higi a price as his ‘Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.” Irving's “Life of Washington,” which has out. sold ali bis books except the “Sketch Book,’ hus been newly brought out in two octavo volumes, ' 100,000 copies of the Washington have been » Minister of Justice in Mace tt three every morning and goes a He once accepted an tue vitation to a vail, and Went,to lt, tokeep his word, for half an bour after he got up next morning. announcement that Lreutenant Colonel F, Dy Grant 18 about to be officially ordered on duty is premature. ‘This gentleman still remains in Wash- ington, @ social ornament in the White House, and draws his pay With gallantry and promptitude, George Sintth has found tn bis Assyrian tablets a history of the creation and the fallor man ea- senually the same as that of Genesis, bat longer and fuller. It gives espectatly a more particular account of Satan and of his bistory before the cre- tion of the world, The King of Sweden has transmitred to tne Riksdag a proposition, asking for 490,000 Swed- isi kronor, or about $130,000, for the worthy rep- sesentation of that country at the exhipition in Philadelphia next year. Last year the Riksdag ordered avout $20,000 to be paid out for the same purpose. General Shiras, Commissary General of the United States Army, is dangerously tl at his resi- dence in Washington, and it is doubtful, the physt- | clans say, if he recover. Erysipelas complicates ‘his complaint, It was tuought some time ago that be would be put om the retired list, but lis long career ag a faithfui Vficer indneed His Excoliency the President not to fetire him, [is successor, tm any event, will be the next in rank, Assistant | Gommussary General Beck Wit, M. Dufanre, Mahon's