The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1875, Page 6

are NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . JAMES GORDON BENN PROPRIETOR, > NOTICE TO stUhs* RISERS —Oa and after January 1, 1875, the deily and weekly @ditions of the New Youn Henap will be sent free of postace. ————— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Your cents per copy. An- Baal subscription price Sha. All business or news letiers and telegraphic vETT, despatches must be addressed New Yor« | Bena. Rejected communications will not be re- | tarned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received und forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL. AMUSEME $ TO-NIGHT. STEINWAY HALL, Pourteenth street. —OPui US CLUB ater. M BOOTL mer of Twenty-thir Sixth avenne.— ENRY V., ats P.M. 5 Mr. Hignoid. SAN FR corner RINSTELL SY" ateP. 3 TIVOLI THEA a bth street. between Secon | w BIETY, at P. 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M.; Lewis, Miss Davenport, Mire PARK THEATRE, adway.—DAVY CROCKETI, at 8 P.M; 0PM. dir. Mayo. GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE, Pe Brosdway.—VAMIETY, ats P. M.; closes at 10:45 closes at BOWERY THEATRE, Bowers. —AROUSD THE WORLD IN EIGHTY Days, ata. GRAND OPERA ROUSP, Eighth avenue and Iwenty-tuird street.—-AHMED, at& TRIPLE. rat EE T. NEW YORK, TUESDAY. MARC H 30. 1875, ie — = NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing:to the pressure of advertisements on the columns of our Sunday editions we are obliged to request advertisers to send in ad- | vertisements intended for the Sunday Henarp during the week and early on Saturdays, thereby insuring a proper classification. From our reports this morning the probabilities we that the weather to-day will be clear and Cte—NEGRO | | Yesterday this number increased. | ing to kill ‘‘bear.’’ closes at 10:45 | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 3), Big Bonanzas in Wall Street. The activity in Wall street will be accepted as a cheerful indication of the Easter busi- ness, We dislike to say anything to interfere with the rosy anticipations of the gentlemen | | who are tumbling stocks up and down Wall street in this active fashion. Of course it | would afford us the highest gratification if we could see in the movements of the street the | evidences of that serene and wholesome activity which attends true business pros- perity, and which we have long waited to see. All the indications of the past few weeks lead us to anticipate a business spring of exceed- ing promise and value, The winter has been unusually hard, The depression ‘Phat came with the panic was too serious in its character to any longer affect the nerves of a people as elastic and enterprising as our own. The de- | mands for new supplies from various parts of the country, the necessity for construct- | ing railways and other large industries, | the anticipations of rich harvests and the fact that while Congress has done nothing | | speciatly advantageous in strengthening the | finances it still abstained from any violent | interference with commerce, all tended to | encourage our peoplo and to lead to the opening of a prosperous and wholesome | Spring. Our only fear in giving expression to | these anticipations has beon that the clique | of desperate speculators and gamblers in Wall | Street would take advantage of the situation | and profit by this activity and this natural | and wholesome growth of trade for their own -| gain. Thorefore, while directing the atten- tion of our merchants to the true processes of business advantage, we have steadily warned | them against dealing in the Big Bonanza | shares which for two or three months past | have oecupied the attention ot Wall street. The wisdom of this advice will be seen, we | think, in studying the history of the market ond the past few days. During the last week | the number of shares sold in the street aver- | aged three hundred and fifty thousand a day. There was a sudden rise in values, attended with rumors that one specalator had been caught in a “corner” and that another was punishing him for his temerity. All business interests responded in sympathy to this feeling. The gold market was unsettled, foreign exchange | was in a feverish and excited condition, all the relations of commerce were interrupted, | and Wail street, instead of being, as it should be, a natural channel of necessary and healthy business, was gorged with masses of specu- lative interests, ‘‘puts” and ‘‘calis,"’ ‘bear’’ struggling with ‘‘bull” and “bull” endeavor- One rumor succeeds another, shares go up and down ina myste- rious way, desperation, distrust, dishonesty is the rule, and behind all two or three auda- cious speculators, who pull the wires for their own advantage and prey upon the street, and through the street upon mercantile in- terests, for their own gain. If we look back at the history of Wall street since the begin- ning of the year we find a desperate purpose | on the part of certain operators to give a false value to stocks that have long been justly under suspicion. The ‘Big Bonanza” specu- ba lation, as it was called, in Nevada, came from the ingenious efforts of the owners of acertain | | mine to give it an incredible value. To this end stories were slowly and steadily put in | circulation describing new “discoveries,” and | finally leading the imagination of the people up to the point of believing tbat within this inine there was enough money to pay the | national debt; in other words, that it con- tained gold worth thousands of millions. | There is nothing easier than to lead the popu- | lar imagination in matters of this kind, as | those who haye made a study of the history of these schemes can testify. There was the South Sea bubble, the Tulipomania, the Mis- | sissippi scheme of Law, the Northern Pacific | | Railway and thousands of others we could mention to show what, by dint of steady as- surance and the publication of highly colored, attractive stories, people can be induced to bay with their money for the gain of specula- tors and reckless operators. The same policy which gives a quack medicine world-wide repu- | tation as the curer of every ill of the human | system and enables its owner to amass an | for this | the Easter holidays have passed away. can finance; we read ‘eo its name the type of repudiation, buying and selling justice, of shameful violation of vested and corporate rights, of the worst excesses of the worst days of the Tammany Ring. terests that a large part of the business in Wall street represents to-day. Who could call a purchase of any sbares of this kind a gennine transaction? What prudent busi- ness man can feel that‘in buying one of these shares he makes an honest purchase? The men who control these speculations on both sides are men whose names have become in- ijamous in the history of American business and finance. It would have been far better government to have paid five hundred thousand dollars to foreign capitalists than to have had many things done by the men who have now fanned Wall s:reet into a fury, and who would have us believe that this feverish excitement of the stock gamblers is an evidence of healthy trade. Our advice to the people who really have money and wish to invest it ina prudent way | is to avoid Wall street, or rather to avoid | dealing in those shares which now represent so large a part of its business. If our citi- zens desire to make investments in stocks the list is filled with interests they may cheerfully accept—government bonds, bonds of New York city or State, trust shares, first mort- gage bonds, shares in old established and pra- dently managed railroads, the bonds of most of our States—these ai® investments that may be accepted to-morrow with per tect confidence. If we couh! see business transactions like these in volunes as lerge as those which we record to-day we should teel that we were in the full tide of \bat busi- ness prosperity which we hope to se» before We sincerely trust the people will leave the speculators to fight this baitle out alone. So far as “bulls” or ‘bears’? are concerned we may say, like Iago, that “Whether Cassio kill Roderigo, or Roderigo | kill Cassio, or each do kill the other,’’ It | concerns the public very litile. So long as the people keep out of these speculations it is of comparatively minor consequence who rises or falls. These men who reign para- mount in Wall street are gamblers, enemies to our business success, and so long as they de- stroy each other we can feel about them very much as we feel when we read of two Indian tribes warring in the country of the Black Hills. The danger is, however, thatan excitement of this kind, nursed, asitis, with so much ability and address and sustained by so many flattering stories of possible gain in the rise of stocks, will induce many of our people to rush in, hoping to share in the spoils. The aim of the stock gambler has always been to make the people his victims. The part of wisdom, however, is to look upon the excite- ment in Wall street as simply a wild, scramb- ling tussle between gamblers, and to avoid the “shares’’ in which they deal as they would the Big Bonanza stocks of Nevada, to find other investments in genuine property, and not to be led into transactions which will be of advantage to no one but the gamblers them- selves, and which may, in this critical period | of our business success, lead to a reaction that will be more disastrous in its effects and lasting in its consequences than any panic we have known since the war. ‘here never was atime when prudence was more necessary than now. The Mexican Raids—What’s in the ‘Wind. The raids of Mexican freebooters into Texas, reported in cur telegraph columns, must not be permitted to pass without remark, because such raids and robbe- ries open to President Gront an easy way for embroiling the country in a foreign war on a plausible pretext, if he thinks such awar would promote his personal objects, It has been widely-suspected for the last | eighteen months that if he should find his aspirations for a third term blocked by the failure of his Southern policy he would pre- cipitate the country into a foreign war and thereby attempt to rally popular passion to his support. Pretexts for a war with Spain have been removed by the recent setulement enormous fortune from its sale is the policy | which made the success of the Big Bonanza in Nevada. The shares were sold, the owners | | of the mine reaped large gaims, and the people | | who have bought these shares have been lett | warmer. Watt Srrret Yestenpay. prevailed and stocks fluctuated widely. moved up to i117, loans advanced to 1-16 and 1-32 per diem, Massrs. Moopy ax cEY do not mect with entire approval in their revival labors. The London Atheneum says there Much excitement Gold SA enriosity than religion in the crowds they | attract, and compares Mr. Sankey’s to a costermonger's cries. Tux Spanien Govennuent refuses to allow the Duke de Montpensier to return to Spain, In order to keep the ex-Queen Isabella out of the country. As it cannot admit the one without the other it excludes both. This consistency is hard upon the Duke; but how much more severe i on the Queen | France is resolved to be worthily repre. sented in the Centennial International Exhi- bition. This purpose was announced yester- day in the Assembly by the Due Decazes, and is one of the evidences of encouraging Euro- pean interest in this great enterprise. Ameri- tan States should not be less active European nations. Tue Escars rrom tue Ice.—There are few narratives more interesting than those of harde | ships at sea, and one of the most exciting of the class is printed in our columns this morning, It is the fall story of the ten men who were cast away on the ice off the Banks of New- foundland, and rescued after enduring terri- ble suffering and bebolding many of their companions perish from hung ser and cold. Mr. Beecnen 10 Take THE Sraxp.—The excitement attendant on the Beecher trial will rise to an unprecedented height if the report be correct that Mr, Beecher is to appear upon the witness stand to-day. This step is said to have been decided upon by his counsel yesterday even- ing, and cannot be long delayed, even if it | should be reconsidered now. Yesterday the testimony was principally intended to prove | and money rates on call | is more | than | to mourn the folly which led them to invest | | their money upon the fraudulent misrepresen- | tations of dishonest, gambling adventurers. Notbing can be more deplorable in its re- | | sults than for people to be led by the same | influeaces in } York to commit the same | folly. As we have said, nothing would gratify | us more than to regard the operations in Wall street for the last few days as an indication of a heavy advance in trade. But we do not see | the relation between a large part of the busi- ness done in Wall street and the natural oper- | ations of commerce. We find thonsands of | shares—or what are supposed to be shares— sold in the way of ‘‘puts’’ and ‘cails” for professedly gambling purposes. We find that the newspapers have been steadily filled with stories calculated to affect the value of these shares which, on their face, are unirue. We find that all the ingenious machinery of Wail roet has been devoted to giving them a fever- ish value. if we look behind the in- terests which are thus dmven on in this mad way, what do we find? Are thes | the shares that an honest business man would purchase if he were investing trust funds committed to his keeping? Are they stocks which any prudent president would accept on making a loan on collateral? Would any thrifty citizen buy these invest. for his family? They are admitted to be ‘ancy stocks,’’ and by ‘‘faney stocks’’ we mean, to use a Wall street phrase, to indie | cate a class of shares that are under a cloud; that represent interests that have been badly that are not esteemed alt her Yet, bank ments managed; tustworthy pieces of property. at is a railroad that has 1c adal to the government, that was robbed by a Orédit Mobilier Rin: tions of ant governinent, to the nd which now stands in relae to the of the retusing to pay its obligations while it sonism interest ul ‘Treasury, ’ prom- ises to dividends to its ywhers, | We pass to another comy nd we find that only tliree months twas in. vestigated by @ committee of Congress and proved to be utterly rotteu and corrupt. We Mexico might suit him equally well. | bining political with military objects. ot the Virginius difficulty; but a war with He un- derstands that country, having served with General Scott in his brilliant Mexican cam- paign, It is well known that at the close of our civil war General Grant thought it would be a good stroke of | policy for our government to send an army to the Mexican capital and dethrone poor Max- imilian. By allowing Confederate officers and soldiers to participate in the campaign and fight under onr flag he thought the animosi- ties of the civil war would be effaced, and that such an invesion in assertion of the Monroe doctrine would do more than any- | thing else to tranquillize our sectional diff culties. The fact that General Grant formed such a conception attests his aptitude for com- It is not incredible, therefore, that he may again desire a war with Mexico for political pur- poses. We have no doubt that it is just as easy to getup Mexican raids as White Leagne out- rages in pursuance of party or personal aims. The President, if so inclined, could easily cultivate a great crop of troubles on the Mexi- can frontier; and if, after a while, they should be thought unendurable, he could pursue the raiders across the Rio Grande and provoke a war with Mexico. The following extract from the leading editorial in President Grant's confidential organ in this city yesterday is very sug- gestive :—The United States government is bound to give help and protection to all its citizens, no matter how far away and isolated may be their settlements on the soil of the Republic ; and ench a protection will be fully extended to our counirymen inhabiting the borders of the Rio Grande. Even at a great expense the administration will kaow how to protest them. Mr. Mariscal will be the first to understand that if Jeside Mexico is un- able, aceording to his own saying, to maintain tranguillity in its Rio Grande provinces, and prevent the bandits of these provinces from raiding on American territory, it will be, in the end, cheaper for Mexico to get rid of those provinces and to turn them 1 States.” pence and over to the Unite Tar Mr Troveies have again begun in Pennsylvania, and the Governor has been NO Theso are the in- | the me cattiacion: we have news of an | actual outbreak, which is said to have been | subdued. The Canal Controversy and Party G Politics. If the republicans of the Legislature wish to prevent the democratic party, and Governor Tilden as an aspiring Presidential candidate of that party, from reaping any political ad- vantage from his assault on the Canal Ring, the tactics they ought to adopt are exceed- ingly plain and simple. We do not merely ; Mean that they must zealously support the Governor in this reform movement. hat is so obvious that they cannot miss it. The problem for ther1 to solve is how to support the Governor in the public interest without assisting to make political capital for him and his party. To this end they must discrimi- nate between what sound morals and the in- terests of the State require and what the sup- | posed ambition of Governor Tilden requires. If the republicans are shrewd they will give | their strenuous support to the cause of reform, without lending themselves to subserve the personal aspirations of a democratic chief. It is the interest of Governor Tilden to keep this controversy open; but it is the interest of the republican party to close it as speedily as possible by the adop_ tion of efficient remedies. None but political simpletons or political charlatans or political gamesters will pretend that the Legislature is not already in possession of sufficient infor-, mation both as to the magnitude and the methods of canal frauds to enable it to pass proper laws for their suppression. The pub- lie interest and the interest of the republican perty require that remedies be applied at once without unnecessary delay. But the interest of Governor Tilden his in a different direction, A great protracted struggle against the Canal ting, running through the year and extend- ing into the next Legislature, would keep him conspicuously before the country as a cham- | pion of reform, and the longer the contest | lasts the more political capital he will make out of it. If the Legislature should end the controversy within the ensuing two weeks by passing a sound, stringent law for the pre- vention of canal frauds, it would be at once apparent that ‘‘Othello’s occupation ’s gone,” and general public attention would be no more directed to Mr. Tilden than to any other Governor of a State, This line of remark bears particularly on the proposed lumbering vestigations. Au investigation by the Governor or Attorney General for the purpose of bringing individ- ual thieves to justice would be intelligible and proper ; but for the guidance of the Legisla- ture no protracted investigation is needed. There is not an intelligent citizen of the State who does not perfectly understand the nature of the evils which ought to be eradicated. This Legislature is as wel! qualified to act on the subject at once as the next Logislature will be after commissions and committees for new proofs of facts which are notorious. If the republicans of the Legislature are not dupes or confederates of the Canal Ring they should insist on shutting down the gates on canal frauds at once by the passage of wise laws. If they do not wish a democratic Gov- ernor to make party and personal capital by keeping open a controversy which makes him so conspicuous they should cut it short by insisting on prompt legislative remedies for evils whose nature is as perfectly understood now as it will ever be. If they want to give Governor Tilden a great political boost they will favor a useless consumption of tine in ostentatious investi- gations, which will keep him in the public eyeasahero of reform. Their surest way to prevent him from becoming formidable is to give him at once the reforms he desires and let him sink out of sight. The longer he can keep this controversy open the more he will gein by it, and it is not strange that he favors the investigations which he cannot but know are needless for any rational purpose of legis- lation. | The course of Frederick W. Seward deserves great commendation. Without any ostenta- tion or smart tricks to gain notoricty he the session, an amendment to the State end to the kind of canal frauds the same amendment which was presented by Constitutional Convention of 1872, and which has been twice defeated in the State by demo- cratic opposition. The republican Senate | would do well to pass that amendment and give Mr. Seward an opportunity to press it | again in the Assembly under more favorable auspices. As Mr. Seward said in his speech “The amendment could be adopted at this session of the Legislature, ratified at the | next and submitted to the people for approval, all within a twelvemonth. itis the work of neither political party, but of both combined, will still further commend it to popular favor.’’ Meanwhile, Mr. Seward would have such laws immediately passed as the Governor asks to arrest the further prog- ress of the frauds, The Hyde Park Meeting. this country, and therefore the British people. | toeracy and stability give us most of our opinions of English society. have spent nine or ten months in searching | offered in the Assembly, on the first day of | constitution whose adoption would put an | on the Governor's Message the other day, | | loss alone | fifty ‘1875, —-TRIPLE SHEET. Pe SIU a ALN Se cee 80 far from ending, added to the excitement and indignation of the working classes, and we seo the proof of this in the Hyde Park meeting, which a hundred thousand persons are said to have attended. In London no one will be surprised at such a demonstration ; in America, because of the want of knowledge of the situation, many persons will be astonished at this stariling revival of a question which was supposed to have been finally set at rest. But the truth is that the claimant of the Tich- borne title and property is but beginning to be dangerous. If he had succeeded ho would have been dropped by his own party; but when he failed he became a martyr. The Deadlock in the City. Instead of inserting the following advertise- ment under its appropriate head, as duly in- dexed in our ‘Directory for Advertisers” on the first page, we prefer to give it a gratuitous insertion in a more conspicuous place; and we hereby inform the sender that he will re- ceive his money back by applying at our busi- ness counter and proving his identity: — OST—THE HOME RULE PLANK OF THE SYRA-" cuse Platform. When fast seen it was in the pos- session of Mayor Wickham; but what has since become of ithas not been ascertained. If a distinguished tune tionary at Albany has disposed ot it by 0 know as @ pocket veto or has hidden it ud traud documents, he will receive a suitable ho auestions asked It he will restore tt to the 2 tts disconsolate NW. We condole with the city an neesee in view of their apparently irreparable loss. We are afflicted with painful doubts as to whether the ‘distinguished functionary at Albany’’ will acknowledge or repent of his larceny. He has so eclipsed and obscured home rule in the bright effulgence of his grand coup against the Canal Ring that the missing plank is dwarfed into so small a matter that it will re- quire a powerful microscope to make it again visible to the cunning gubernatorial eye, We are truly sorry to seo our worthy Mayor and the great city which, by a courteous fiction, he is supposed to govern, diminished in the Governor's view as if he were looking at them through the wrong end of a telescope. When Mayor Wickham calls on Governor Tilden to come down and assist him in reforming the government of the city the Governor virtually replies as Nehemiah did to Sanballat of old, “I am doing o great work, so that I cannot come down ; why should the work cease whilo I leave it and come down to you?’’ Nehemiah was then devoted, as assiduously as Governor Tilden is now, to a great work of internal improvement, and our municipal Sanballat will find it difficult to get any share of his at- tention. ‘I am doing a great work; why should Icome down to you? Tho removal of head city officers will not surround and illuminate me with a great blaze of. political gaslights, and the lost plank cannot be even worked into mud scow for clearing out the canal."” So Tildon’s friend Green is secure ; Coun- sel Corporation Smith is not disturbed; the accused Fire Commissioners have their mal- yersations virtually condoned, and the Have- meyer régime is perpetuated in the city in spite of the splendid home rule majority in the last election. We advise the inculpated city officers to come out at once and zealously in support of the Governor's Canal Message. It is a perfectly safe thing to do, because the Message is clearly right; and when the Gov- | ernor can exercise a sort of pardoning power by mere inaction he will not be disposed to take a harsh view of the peccadilloes of bis warm supporters. plank bas been cast into the “raging canal,’’ where it is likely to get water-logged and to sink with other rubbish to the bottom. We fear the advertiser has a slim chance of ever recovering his lost and damaged property. Cur Emigration. the controversy which every day or two comes to the surface in reference to the management of the Commissioners of Emigration, nor do | we propose to discuss the difficulties which seem to tax the temper of Mr. Lynch and his colleagues of that body. But there is one | general fact on this subject that should not be forgotten. An important source of the gran- deur of America is the emigration to this country of the Germans, the English, the Irish, the Swedes and the other nationalities who come and found cities and Common- wealths under our flag. For some time past, exposed in Governor Tilden’s Message. It is | partly because of the depression in business, | and largely, perhaps, eer | f E the Constitutional Convention of 1967 and the | interference of European governments, this becanse of the direct emigration he’s received a sudden and marked | check, We are not exactly sure about the figures, but we think it will be seen that | during the last year alone it fell per cent, Now, if we were to make a calculation as to the resulting from this would startle our readers. No doubt there are causes leading to it which we cannot con- | trol, and we mast accept it as we accept the And the fact that , The British press is imperfectly known in | Yhe journals which speak for capital, aris- | But there isa | press with millions of constituents which | leads the unresting, angry spirit of English | {and every comfort that can be given to revolution, If such journals as LReynolds’ | Newspaper and Mr. Bradlaugh’s were known | here such a meeting as that held in Hyde Park yesterday would be better stood. These radical organs advocate the workingmen’s rights, attack the aristocracy, ridicule the throne, and some of them cham- pioned the Tichborne claimant till they made his personal cause a national one in the eyes of the people The subscriptions they collected enabled the claimant to pay his great logal expenses, and the money was not given in pounds, but in shillings and sixpences, and even farthings, from laborers, mechani small tradesmen, ‘navvies,”” costermor and innumerable local political clubs. claimant was made a modern Jack Cade, The and itis unnecessary to say that there are hun- | dreds of thousands of Englishmen who regard | him with more affection than they do the Queen, His conviction for perjury only an alibi so far as some of Mrs. Moulton’s | pass to another, and we read in its name an called upon for troops, to suppress an ox- | raised him in their estimation and increased statements are concerned. | emblem of the darkest achievements of Ameri- , pected riot, This is im the West, and from | their hatred of the aristocracy: His sentence, undere | | into New Yo national debt and other matters that, twenty years aga, would have looked appalling if we The famous home rule | off | | of Tipperary money | avenue, Brookiyn, New York, U. Ss Ay decrease it | could have seen them in the vista of our his- | tory. But while weare suffering from the falling off in emigration it is unwise to enter into a wrangle as to the monagement of Castle | au soris of merenandise at elgnt cents a pound, lt would be wise for New York | Garden, State, or for the general government, to take | hold of this arrange it upon scientific principles. The whole emigration question and | Mormon Church has established the best | pian of emigration in the world. overations of Brigham Young a Mormon proselyte is taken from his Welsh or English By the | home, caught upin the arms of the Church | and safely deposited im Utah—his way protected, his course clearly marked, a traveller bestowed upon him. But by our system of emigration the practical effect has been that in thousands of cases emigrants who come to America to unite their fortunes with ours through citizenship are dropped plundered by runners and and allowed to find their way as best they can where they may. instead of wrangling over heal money and , the tear of officers, and twenty other trifling | questions that every day come bubbling up to us from Castle Garden that have no possible importance to the emigrant, why should not this whole system be reorganized? Emigra- tion is, atter all, a national matter, and to us there is no qnestion more important. We think the time has come for our Stats or for the national authorities to take hold of this question, to do away with the scandals that now surround it and to give us a system ticket swindle Now, and geucrous countsy, Mrs, Woodhull's Letter. We give another contribution to the Beecher business this morning by publishing ancther letter from Mrs, Woodhull and addressed to Theodore Tilton on the occasion of his evi dence in the present controversy. This letter was to have been published at the time Tilton closed his testimony, but it has not seen the light until to-day. It will be scen that the tone of Mrs. Woodhull’s mind when she wrote this communication was far different from that which inspired the letter of last Satur- day. It would be interesting to know by what processes of mind she passed from the condi- tion of fierce anger in which this letter is written to the sympathetic and courteous tone of her letter of Saturday. Perusal of Mrs. Wood hull’s letter only convinces us that the truth will only be known when she is brought upon the stand. We trust that when she does ‘ appear Tilton’s lawyers will handle her better than they did Bessie Turner or the colored witnesses. It makes us lose much of our faith in the cross-examination as a means of justice when we find that all the acnteness of this brilliant array of counsel is insufficient to destroy tho evidence of a witness whose story falls at once if Mrs. Woodhull’s letter is true, By all means let Mrs. Woodhull go upon the stand. Gznerat Srinvex has at last fulfilled his threat and resigned the office of United States Treasurer, which he bas held for thirteen years, The resignation is not to take effect until July 1, but the President has already appointed Mr. John C. New, who is new to the public, in substance as wellas name. He is cashier of a national bank in Indianapolis. Senator Mortoy is said to have a high opinion of his financial ability ; but this will not harm Mr. New unless he should hold a similar opin ion of Senator Morton. Tur Betxevez Hosrrran Deatu.—The facts in the case of Elizabeth Stearn, who died while being removed from Bellevue Hospital to Blackwell’s Island, are given fully in our local department to-day. They show, almost as startlingly as did the case of Mr. Stockvis, ignorance, red tape, and carelessness on the part of the officials whose business and duty it is to care for sick and helpless persons. An emergency ward 18 now to be established, but with Elizabeth Stearn the emergency is un fortunately over. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Professor E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass., i sojourning at the Albemarie Hotel. Commander John Scnouler, United States Army, 1s quartered at the St. James Hotel. Congressman John 0, Whitehouse, of Pough- keepsie, is staying at the Albemarle Hotel, Captain Charles H, Baldwin, United States Navy, 18 registered at the Hoffinan House. Captain William Wallace, of the United Stateg Marine Corps, is stopping at the St. Denis Hotel. Generali Wiliam J. Palmer, of Colorado, uw among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Senator Jona A. Logan, of Mlinots, arrived from Washington last evening at the Filth Avenue Tlorel. Mr. George S. Bangs, Superintendent of the | Railway Postal Service, is at the Fifth Avenue dotel. Kev. E. P. Roe has another of his religious romances on the anvil, entitled “From Jest to Earnest.” Congressman Alexander Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee and St, Paul Railway Company, has arrived at tie Hoffman House, George K. ‘lyson, sormerly assistant navigator onthe steamer Polaris, has been appointed cap- tain of the watch at the Navy Department, Wash. ington, Secretary Robeson, who has been residing with some friends on Long Island during the past week, arrived in this city yesterday, and 1s at the Fifty Avenue Hotel. ‘The new ite of Isaac Casaubon has drawn atten- tion to the character of that name in George hows “Middiemarcn.’’ The character of dction + x | ig a sharp caricature of the actual Casaubon. We shall not enter into the details of | +4 Brigadier Genera: Christopher ©. Augur, United States Army, who Will assume command of the | Department of the Gulf, and Lieutenant Colon Augur, Second cavalry, aid-de-camp, arrived 1p New Orleans last Thursday from Texas, Poetic justice! Isavelle, the Mower girl of the Paris Jockey Club, who was sued py her mother for support, has lost in consequence her lacrative post at the club, whose flower girl must evidently be above the suspicion of want of filia! affection, Koya-Inmasamora, King of the Cannibal Islands, died in Paris the otner day. Some years ago the English turned him out of nis Polynesian monarchy, and ever since he has exhibited nim. | seit; but, unfortunately, became civilized in the process. The unending criticism of Shakespeare has pro duced as 1t8 latest book Proiessor Edward Dow deus “shakespeure: A Critical Stady ot iis Mind and Art,” which the Academy pronounces the pest work of the kind that has been written in out language. ‘The London Gazette contains the following pub Heation:—“Crown Ofice, March 15, Memoer re- turned to serve ia the present Parliament, County ohn Mitcuel, of No. 505 Clinton gentle- man.”” How heroes carry off heroines is mentioned by the Court Journal with this note:-—"At Vienna we saw @ little tenor struggling to carry off a tat soprano to the amusement of the house, which she made stentorian mirth by turning around, whipping up the tenor and making her exit wit him Kicking uuder her arm. ‘The recent doubling of the postage on books is another proof of the unwWisdom o1 Congress. Six- teen cents @ pound 18 an onerous postage, and whiie it Was Wise to stop loading the inatls wita the dufusion of intelligence (which is the primary object of a péstal system) should have kept up the cheap postage on newspapers, magazines and books. Smugglers used to get imto the train at Geneva for Lyons with their valises lull of cigars and their pockets full of dirty linen, Generally they got a C0} wtmenut W ® they were one. Belore they reached the frontier tuey opened the custiona Oi the railway carriaye, took out some of the curled hatr, put in theic cigars and then filied thetr valises with the dirty haen, and in thas shape passed the Custom House authorities; but | they were caught, and now the cars are recon ture in th worthy of the subject and worthy of a free stairs and phi the tem siructed, ‘the Pope's encyclical letter of February 3, 1875, joms likely to divide the German Catholics, wha have hitnerto sapported the Pope in his con fet with their government. Ten Catholic Depue ties publish their protests against the assumpiton of the Pope to declare invalid and oulitly “lawe constitutionally enacted.” Indeed, as this pre tence justifies the ground take against the Popo by the Berlin government, it 1s likely to do the Church great harm, All te people in a Parts house were startied one night by a tremendous noise made in an nppor apartment. Rashing to the doors tney saw aman coming down four steps at a time. He was arrested, naif dead with fear was a thie, had made his , and recling his Way about the aperiments from room to room to find valua upon some strange, soft, movadl ia the middie of a room, fle tei of it, ed his hand higher and higher and fet a fa Id a8 ice. Irigntenca eager to escape, he could nok find his way to the door, and in his fight upset every article of turmt ‘partment, Then they all went up jan; of the fourth door Upright thi pas Banged in his room,