The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1875, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ZAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hump will be went free of postage. _ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- gual subscription price $i2, All business or news letters and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed Nzw Your | Rejected communications will not be re- | surned. | Letters and packages should be properly pealed. ZONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. WABIS OFFICE—NO. 3 RUE SCRIBE. | Bubscriptions and advertisements will be | seceived und forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. WOLUME XL ~....ccrseserescereecssereces NOs 124 | AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. | ‘COLUM THEATRE, sect bene Sixth ayente.—-RENATA Di | atSP.M. Mme. Ristori. j N FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, ray, nee ‘of Twenty-ninth street—NEGRO Ot P. M.; clos it 10 P. 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NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1875.—TRIPLE SHUET, to honor its representative journal even to | is clearly a Tiltonian encyclical. It is the Legislatare-Rapid Transit. | Wedo not think that we exaggerate in the | least the importance of the subject when we | | say that the adjournment of the present Legis- | | lature without the adoption of a measure of rapid transit satisfactory to the community | would be a calamity. We think it was Earl | | Russell who said that it took about seven years | | for any necessary measure to pass Parliament. | Seven years were necessary to inform the | people, to educate the members up to the | duty of appreciating the importance of the question, to win the attention of membere, to overcome the necessary obstacles in the way of legislation, to carry the measure through the two houses of Parliament. We may say | |The Daty ef the same in reference to the passage | of bills im our own Legislatures— State and national. It is one of} the phenomena of free government that Legislatures are a long time making up their | minds. When we thoroughly believe in a measure—and as a general thing we have al- ways some fayorite scheme in which we do believe—these lets and stops and hindrances fret us. Nobody is more impatient than 4 person who has an idea, who seesa certain | star in the far depths of the heavens and mar- vels that it is not seen by alleyes, After all, this is perhaps for the best. Debate is to satisfy many minds, to find the truth and make it manifest. When any Legislature reaches a conclusion it is morally certain to be the wisest expression of tho thonght of the generation. We do not know how many years we have been demanding rapid transit. A dozen Leg- islatures have certainly met and adjourned | since the projeet of a steam railway betweon the Battery and Harlem was broached. When the Tweed party was in power Mr. Sweeny had conceived a dezzling scheme | that was to benefit the city, Bill after bill | was introduced. Some passed, to perish in | swaddling clothes. Some were vetoed. Others passed one branch to die in another. | Some were mock bills in the interests of the street railways, granting charters to persons who never meant to use them. There was a charter, we believe, granted to Mr Vanderbilt, and it was thought that perhaps in remem- brance of the county which paid for half of the | Fourth avenue improvement he would build us a steam road to the Battery. But nothing has come of this charter, although the Com- modore may change his mind and conclude to carry out its provisions, Then we hadan | Although rapid transit may be dismissed by ostentatious proffer of shares in a new cle- vated road, which was to be built without de- lay. The people were publicly summoned to go to Wall streetand buy the shares of the new company. But the advertisements were | suddenly withdrawn, the project passed into | silence and we hear nothing more of it. Every year bad its rapid transit measures its new scheme or series of schemes—under- ‘ON HA aN QUIET FAMILY, at 8 P.M. RO} West Sixteenth street. i BOOTH’S TREATR®, rd street and Sixth avenne.—@MY | ‘Miss Neilson. closes at 1 P.M. TRIPL NEW YORK, TU | ——oe — = = — From our reports this morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be cool and Boudy, possibly with rain. ‘Estempar.—Stocks were dull and generally lower. Gold declined to 115. Money on call was abundant at 2} to 3 per cent, and foreign exchange firm. | Suenrrr Corner is still in charge of Ludlow Btreet Jail and its emoluments, the Legisla- jure baving refused to deprive him of such a Big Bonanza. ASegnrovs Murty is reported to have oc- | earred on an American schooner during a voyage from New Orleans to London. The two mates were killei and two sailors wounded. Taz New Toxxez of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad through Bergen Hill peems to have a hard time. It has already eaused the death of several of the workmen and now there is a full fledged strike in progress, Govenyor Tixves is guillo‘ining many of the | Dills of the Legislature lately. placed before him without mercy. Two bills introduced by “Old Salt” Alvorl have shared the tate of ‘several others, and the veteran statesman is indignant in consequence. | Maszrp Batis.—The bill repealing the absurd old-fashioned law probibiting masked * balls in this State has been reported favorably in the Legislature from the committee to whose care it was intrusted. It is time that gach ridiculous laws were removed from our Btatute book. Tue Canguists.—If the Spanish government ean do no better with the Carlists than it has accomplished in Cuba the sooner it retires from the scene the better. The adherents of Don Carlos report great victories for their pause in Barcelona and Aragon. At homeand abroad the Spanish government appears to be singularly unsuccessful. Coyenessman Witits writes to the Hrnitp bo say that he will leave the selection of the gandidate for admission to the Military Academy at West Point trom the Eleventh dis- trict in the hands of a competent commitice and the choice will be made by competitive SZamination. This plan has already been wdopted in a number of instances in this city, tad we sball look with interest for the resnit pf the contest. Srazet Crzaxinc in New York has been so long maiter of theory alone that it must surprise many people to learn that the Police Commissioners have a bill before the Legisla- dure asking permission for them to sublet their contract. Considerin they do not trouble themselves in the hy degree sbout the filthy condition of onr streets QD arrangement would seem supertiuons, such Tax Impux Acuxciwe.—'The rey of Colonel Hatch and General Pope to the War Department, elsewhere published, show bad management at the Fort Sill and Wachila agencies, General Popo’s warning, that if the g@tarving Indians commit depredations the military will not consent to be held responsi- ble, should arouse the government to the fact that ite wards are being abominably swindied. ‘Wo cannet expect peace if we brook faite wih ‘the Indian tribes. | lite is an argument in its favor. ground, elevated, arcade, surface, All this time some influence was potent enough to de- stroy them all. Sometimes it was politics ; sometimes the opposition of large property owners on Broadway; sometimes it was money. We are far from saying that | every vote against rapid transit in the Legislature was purchased, but we ques- tion if any sincerely honest vote was ever cast against it. All this time the measure has been growing, because every day of our city’s Every citi- zen who has business below Union square, every poor man who is compelled to labor our city limits and live in the tenement , isan apostle of repid transit. The has come to a standstill. That steady m3 ot progress which has marked New York for a half century has become a halt. | Our neighbors over the rivers have rushed far Worse than all, the reproach bas cowe upon us of being the city without houses tor t We make efforts to supply the want by introducing the French apartment ahead, poor. system, and in some respects this has been a but very few of us have been to Paris how the matter really is, and how com- ortable and respectable and proper we may be up three pair of stairs. The American | mind craves its own doorstep, and a taste for | honses in slices or layers is like a taste for | s and horse steaks—good enough for n, but not easily acquired in a free Sexon land. So ell this time, and in spite of every ob- | stacle and disheartening failure, the demand | for ropid transit has been growing. Ithascer- | had its seven years of that legislative life which Lord Russell gives to every necessary measure. Upon no question have the people become so earnest as rapid transit. There is no special interest in one plan or another— all that is wanted is something—elevated, underground, surfuce or arcade ; let it take shape and it will be welcome. With this feeling public opinion has turned with un- varying confidence to Governor Tilden, Mayor Wickham and Mr. Kelly. These mea, it says, are the masters of the democratic party, h now master of the city and State. have the power to pass any bill for the They have only to agree upon a plan to secure its success. They Th people’s welfare, are above the influence of rings, of | railway lobbies, of corrupt combina- tions. If rapid transit is achieved with them will be the honor [It it fails upon them will be the responsibility, and | country will not be easily satisfied with lanation. The criticism will be that e because of the indifference of nor and Mayor and the impotency of Mr. Kelly. Mr. Tilden, it will be said, has been too anxious for the Presidency and Mr. Wickham too zealous for the Governor- to permit them to think for a of New Yoré. Their ombition has been in other directions and New York ship moment L thing could be said asa prophe New York it is that or the men who have the power and ne rapid transit will never again ranchise of this metropolis. The party which holds this power is the democ- and the men who control it are Tilden, cham and Kelly. » our minds the surest way to achieve rapid transit is to pass the bill which has been sent to the Legislature by the city authorities, This bill enables the Mayor to appoint three cowmiasioners of rapid transit. These com. missioners, acting with the Mayor, shall have power to designate the routes for steam or other motive power; to acquire the right of is coucerned, i ’ | opportunities for yachtsmen than perhaps any way necessary for the railway; to grant the franchise to the proper parties efter due in- quiry and advertisement; to see that all bids or proposals are genuine; to arrange the fares and the manner of operating the road, and to build a necessary bridge. This act forbids a railroad along Broadway and Fifth avenue. This, as our readers will see, is a general measure. It does nothing so far as accepting any of the proposed plans and methods is concerned. It does not commit the State to | any special scheme or to any one plan. It transfers the power where it belongs—to the Mayor and Councils, Under this bill there is no reason why we should not have a measure of rapid transit that will satisfy all the wants of the people. It might | be better in some respects to have a private | company take charge of this enterprise, to manage it upon the same principles that govern the other roads in and around New York. But the misfortune is that in conduct- ing all these minor enterprises private interests clash and lead to bitterness and controversy and failure. As a general thing we should prefer not to have a road of any kind under the control of our city authorities The mis- fortune of the government of New York, as with the city and country, is that too much patronage is in the hands of officers elected by the people and in many respects by cor- rupt franchise. If Tummany Hall had given us a sound civil service system there would be no reason for fearing a bill like that before | the Legislature, but in the present condition of politics we either must take what is offered by the bill of the Common Council or | postpone rapid transit to another season. As we have said, to postpone rapid transit | is the virtual abandonment by the democratic | The High Tide. A careful calculation of the exact increase in business and circulation of most of the jouroals in this city, as recorded in their columns, satisfies us that each of them must print over a million of copies daily and earn an income of two or three millions a year. So far from envying this prosperity we rejoice in it, We have our own consolations, We donot speak of tho Henaxp, but permit it to speak for itself. Many of our recent issues have been so burdened with advertisements that, although we printed a twenty-page paper, we have found it a task to print all the news. The Henratp of a recent date printed the largest number of advertisements ever pub- lished in its columns, and larger than in any newspaper in the country. There were three thousand four hundred distinct advertisements, embracing eighty-four columns, or fourteen pages of this journal. This is the highest point of our spring business tide, and it is curious as showing how a business of this peculiar character and magnitude should re- spond to unerring laws. It was about this time last year and the year before that wo reached our maximum. Thus:— 878—HERALD printed adversisementa.-s3 April l 22 in . ant Fes 1874—HERALD printed advertisements, .80 April 11, 1875—HERALD printed advertisements, 84 The last paper here cited shows the follow- ing curious classification of advertisements :— Advertisements. 0 lets ... 770 526 party of its power in this city and this State. The necessity for a measure of this kind is as great as that which prompted the opening of | the Erie Canal. filling the Erie Canal, gave an impetus to the | growth of New York and to the permanence of his own fame that Governor Tilden might well envy. We are anxious that our Governor — should justify the expectations formed of him | by his friends, and that the party of which he is the natural leader sbould not throw away its opportunities in the city and in the nation. some of our sentimental politicians as @ matter concerning only the interests of New York, it is mot too much to say that no party born as the democracy is in New York can neglect the interests of the city and expect to win the tavor of the nation. Therefore the duty of our politicians and of all our citizens who are not insensible to the opportunity of the hour, to the demand which all classes make upon the government for the perfection of a rapid transit system, is to ac- cept the bill sent to Albany by our Mayor and Common Council, and compel its adop-— tion by every influence in their power. This | bill means rapid transit, and every member | who votes against it accepts the odium that | justly falls upon those who claim to represent the people, and who prove themselves un- worthy of their confidence and esteem. The Yachting Season. The coming spring brings with it the open- ing of perhaps the most attractive season in the American Calendar. New York, sur- rounded by the most beautiful bay in the world, with Long Island Sound hovering upon its borders, and the magnificent Hudson, | open to navigation for the most attractive part ot its distance, the Upper and Lower bays, and the broad sea within easy journey, ofiers more other metropolis in the world. Although spring has been late and we have had stories of oppressive ice formation in the North Atlantic seas, and nearly every steamer that bas come to our, port has brought with it some dreadtul tales of disasters in different latitudes, there is still room for believing that the spring will bring with it genial skies and afford an un- usually attractive season for the yachtsmen and these who follow the water asa matter of pleasure and excitement. The New York Yacht Club and the sister clubs who, under other names, have their place upon the waters surrounding New York, have arranged for a programme of more than usual interest. The New York Club has reorganized by choosing officers whose merit and service will do much toward maintaining the prestige of that famous organization. Mr. Kingsland, although | a young map, is one of the oldest officers of | the club. Mr. Garner is a gentleman ap- | preciating the value of yachting, and he | proves his faith by building one of the largest centreboard schooners which has ever been built in our waters. Mr. Kane isa graduate of Annapolis, who served with credit in the United States Navy, and he brings into his gentler vocation the mpe ex- perience of tried naval officer. In fact, we think the club was never in better condition | than at present ; never under the administra- | tion of gentlemen more worthy of the confi- | dence and respect of our people. There is no | reason why the season of 1875 should not | be equal in every respect to the many bril- | liant seasons that have gone before. ‘Tue East Riven Catamrry.—The utmost | care will not always prevent accidents such as that on the East River yesterday, when the City of Hartford ran into a small scow and four of the eight persons on board of the | latter were drowned. The facts, as gathered yesterday. of the collision, seem to indicate | that the usual care was taken by the captain of the Hartford in approaching the pier, but that the stromg current made the boat un- manageable for the time. The result here, however, was appalling, no matter what may have been the canse, and the poor Portuguese sailor who suddenly lost four of his children will receive the general sympathy of the eom- munity. Tue New Porsce Tees on Mr. Voorhis urged General W. F. Smith, the new Police Commissioner, to reconsider his refusal to accept the office of Treasurerof the Board, he did well. But his arguments were almost as bad as his object was worthy. The respon sibilities of the treasurership ought to be great and the details ought not to be all at tended to by subordinates, It is to be hoped that General Smith will retain his own view of the serious duties of the office and give to its details the personal attention they demand The great Governor of New | x | York, De Witt Clinton, in conceiving and ful- | Houses, room: 101 Boarders 370 Pemate situat 286 Mate situacton: . 165 For saies..... 2 "96 Horses and carriages, oh ae Business opportunities, - Dry goods and mulline: 88 | Deatos and ma 69 Amusement 13 43 4. 4 43 BL 28 | 21 | 32 OS pry of it a Sundry other heads. TOLL. sse.sseeeeereeeee seereesesssseeess 3,400 If this were Obristmas advertising, or postal routes, or corporation notices, or patent rat-traps, it could be explained. But it is the advertising of the people. The people crowd into our columns with thoir business and de- sires, and the story they tell, or rather their thousands of stories, are as interesting as ro- mances, and many of them, perhaps, romantic enough if the truth would only appear in the cold lines 6f the advertisement. As to the advertisements, there is a new canon in journalism, advocated largely by newspapers with space enough for the dis- cussion of the widest themes, to the effect that there should not be advertisements. It is hard for a journal with fourteen pages of ad- vertisements to comprehend this proposition, just as we presume it would be impossible for Mr. Delmonico, when he makes up _ his carte du jour, to understand how the Roman | Princess died tne other day because she had come to the conclusion that food was un- healthy and would not eat it, In the interest of good feeling and harmony—for with our limited circulation we are naturally open to such considerations—we should be happy to send a page of advertisements to each of our contemporaries that print them. Itwould bea great accommodation to us. Weshould much rather print a twenty-page paper with ten pages of advertisements than with fourteen, as wis the case on Sunday. ‘This would give us four pages more of room, and if our readers Imew the agony of our book critics, our musical and dramatic writers, oar statesmen, not to speak of our special corps of Jesuits and Irishmen, who write about the Pope and Fenianism, because they cannot “have anythingin the paper,” they would understand this feeling. The long columns of eloquence and feeling and truth that are locked up in dusty galleys would then see sunshine. But as it is these columns are only known to our proof-readers, who are consequently the best informed men in the community. We have sometimes thought we would proclaim a Heratp Jubilee and printa special edition containmng the standing matter. But here we are met by the difiiculty which prevents our sending around a page of advertisements to each of our contemporaries. The people advertise in the Henany and pay their money for admission, and when they buy the paper they seek the news, and not literature and history. The Philadelphia Press, in regarding the | Heratp as the greatest newspaper in the world, makes some ingenious speculations on the future of journalism. It wonders what we are coming to, with our quin- tuple and sextuple shects, and fears that the | moraing newspaper will become a daily burden and not a daily blessing. Well, it isa problem ; but why should it be more so than the Bible or the dictionary? Every man reads his Bible daily, and his dictionary, perhaps, a dozen times a day. But he does not read them through. He looks into them for comfort and information, edification and peace. The true newspaper will have something for every one, and, instead of reading it all, the reader will find what that. The citizen who wants a house, the servant who seeks employment, the friend who has lost a friend, will turn to the advertisements. The mer- | chant who bas argosies on the seas, and the wife whose darling sea boy clings to the bend- ing yards will look at once to the shipping | news, and read in one line their joy or their despair. The politicians will sco the manauvres of (oir class and rend defeat or triumph in the long lines of election returns, | The statesman finds information and sugges- tions—by the cablo flash he sces whether there will be pence or war—and the eunning | les gold and stocks on Wali glimmer of gain or loss s that have only on idle mean- r world, So that the journal manager who h street in des} ing (o the o of the presen! and a welcome for every one—-the day’ s history told from day to day. our contemporaries will learn many things not without interest and advantage. They will see how to gather the news and how to print it; how the expenditure of great sums will bring o eure reward. he wants and rest with | and the futura will have a voice | In its columns even | They will see | how it is possible to discuss current events | from day to day with manliness, courtesy by an admurer, Heaven forbid th t we should the extent of thirty-four hundred of advertise- ments, Is Mecklenburg a Myth? Some of our Southern contemporaries sirangely misconceiye the purpose of the Hznatp in bringing the genuineness of the Mecklenburg Declaration into the arena of popular discussion. They seem to regard it as an illiberal and invidious attempt to de- prive the Southern States of their due credit for the patriotic part they acted in the Revo- Jution. We ure astonished at so unjust and wild an inference. The illustrious services of the South can never be disputed. The author of the national Declaration of Inde- pendence was a Southern citizen; the Com- mander-in-Ohief of cur armies in that heroic war, the most resplendent name in our kis- tory, was also a Southern citizen. Patrick Henry, ‘the forest born Demosthenes,’? whose eloquence has never perhaps been equalled in modern times, and who was the first to de- clare, with the winged words of a soul on fire, “We must fight!” was also o Southerner. The crowning event ot the war, the surrender of Cornwallis, took place in a Southern town, The most im- portant battles in the earlier years of the war were fought in the Northern States; but, with the exception of Bunker HiJl and Saratoga, those battles were fought on our side by troops under the immediate command of Washington, a Southern general. The series of battles, by which the war was brought to its glorious close were fought on Southern soil. These great and conspicuous facts, which can never be disputed or belitiled, take out of our hands and out of everybody’s hands the question whether the South didits full share of effi- cient service in “the times which tried men’s souls.” Weare amazed that any Southern journal can suppose the Hxraxp is disposed | to undervalue the services of the South in the | Revolution. It is our wish, on the contrary, | to make the Centennial Celebration a means of reviving in this section of the country a sense of indebtedness to Southern patriotism and zeal, and to obliterate the recent alienation by a mutual appreciation between the South and the North of the noble deeds performed by each when they struggled together for the in- dependence of the country. The chief aim of what the Huraxp is doing | in connection with these centennials is to popularize and stir up a widespread interest in them by discussion fitted to enlist publio attention. We had no predilections for either Concord or Lexington in the recent rivalry between those patriotic towns. By making the controversy as lively and instructive as possible we helped both celebrations, and ac- complished the more important object of in- teresting the whole country in that part of our Revolutionary history. We have no different aim in bringing able writers into the arena on both sides of the long-pending Mecklenburg dispute. The critics in the Southern press who so strangely that nothing could so advertise and magnify the Mecklenburg Celebration as this discussion which the Hzranp has set in motion and which will grow in interest until the occasion is over. Let the controversy be decided as it may it will not affect the credit and patriotism | of North Carolina, So far as itis a mere | question of date the trifling difference of eleven days does not undermine, does not even touch, the claim of the Mecklenburg | patriots to priority. Between May 20 and May 31, 1775, nothing was done elsewhere which can be put in competition with | the Mecklenburg manifesto. So far | as the question of priority is concerned it is a | question between the Mecklenburg Declaration | and the Philadelphia Declaration, which did | not take place until July 4 in the following | year. This trivial matter of eleven days is | connected, however, with a point of more interest. It concerns the genuineness of a | document; for the Declaration of May 20 is by no means the same as the undisputed reso- lutions ot May 31. If the two documents | were identical the controversy would never | have excited so much feeling. Buteven if the | one of earlier date be apochryphal the claim | of North Carolina will still hold good that it took the first step toward independence. We are not sorry that the discussion excites so much feeling, because the arguments will be examined with more interest than could other- wise attend them. We publish this morning an interesting | letter from Charlotte, describing the prepara- tions for the celebration and setting torth the local view of the controversy. Mrs. Tilton’s Mysterious Letter, The Brooklyn trial, in itself a perpetual as- | tonishment, is full of minor surprises, like an old-fashioned pantomime, in which Harlequin jumps through the face of the clock, and the | Clown, in close pursuit, is knocked out of | time by the hands. | Mr. Evarts had declined the offer of Mr. | Beach, that Mrs. Tilton, like Lady Teazle's | honor, was to be left out of the discussion; | but yesterday this lady made her personal ap- | | pearance in the trial, of which previously she ‘had been merely a spectator. When Mrs. Tilton, rising in court, handed Judge Neil- son & communication, with the request that ‘he would read it to the jury or have it | published, everybody was astounded with the misunderstand us, ought to admit on reflection | We had supposed, after | | | | | { | | | | | | | | probable exceptions of the defendant and his | counsel. It is unlikely that she took such an important step without first informing those gentlemen. It was an irrogular proceeding, and so recognized by Judge Neilson, who desired Mr. Evarts to see to the matter. Mr. Eivarts accepted the responsibility by taking | the communication and passing it to the | Bench. Mrs. Tilton’s action has, therefore, | treasurer.” | the consent, even if not the approval, of Mr. | Beceber’s lawyers. The Judge postponed the | expected scene, when, after reading the letter, he announced that the matter would have his deliberate consideration. pray His Honor not to let the anxious public burst in ignorance because of any “waste of unnecessary time.” Tke time re- quired for deliberate consideration is indef- inite. It may be a week or a day, and tho public does not want to waita week. It feels that it has an interest in this letter; for although it is addressed to Judge Neilson Mrs. ‘Cilton’s request informs us that it was meant for the jury and the public. If this were only a billet dour sent to Judge Neilson ‘but in court she can supposed to contain some astounding fast, and while His Honor has the legal right to withhold it altogether if he wishes, he is dramatically bound to give it to the world. His Honor has, probably, in the intervals of legal study, sought mental recre- ation in reading serial stories, and remembers how, at the end of a chapter, the Indian buried his blood-stained hand among thos golden locks, the tomahawk flashed in the air, when, suddenly, the maiden screamed—‘'To be continued in our next.’ Lot him recall the distress ho then felt, and sympathize with that of the public now. The contents ot this mysterious letter can be only conjectured, but as there is always reason to believe that the maiden was not scalped, so we aro justified in supposing that Mrs. Tilion declared her willingness to appear asa witness. If this be the case, then her ace tion is intendod as a parry to the home thrust which Mr, Beach delivered on Friday, when he said that the plaintiff would not object te her appearance on the stand. But the parry comes too late, after the man has been run through. It is not the mere readiness of Mra, Tilton to testify that the public cares for, but the willingness of Mr. Beecher’s lawyers to produce her, Mr. Evarts has refused to de this because of moral reasons and legal im possibilities, and after that final act a proposi- tion from Mrs. Tilton could have no stand ing in cour!. Wecan well understand the anxiety of the lady to tell her story, and have advocated her right to do so Out of court this is her privilege, only appear ag & witness, and, if this letter to the Judge should be an attempt to influence the jury by an ex parte statement, we think it will prove to bea grave mistake. If any one of the lawyers for the defendant has approved ‘such an attempt he has wronged his asso- ciates by exposing them to unjust suspicion as being in collusion with .a trick, The only honorable way in which Mrs. Tilton can be come an active party in the trial is by taking an oath as ao witness, and, as she ison the side of the defendant, she should not even express her willingness to the Court after the counsel for the defendant have declared that they will not summon ber. But it is to be hoped that there is nothing in this mysterious letter that is objectionable. We have notattempted, even, to peep into the en velope, like the postmistress in “Waverley,” but have simply commented upon its probable contents, as inferred from the situation and from Mrs. Tilton’s remarks to a reporter for the Hmnanp. The matter may be very safely left to Judge Neilson, who will certainly not read to the jury any proposition or statement of a person disqualified asa witness. = =~ A Hint to the Park Commissioners, The metropolis of America has every reason to be proud of Central Park, a delightful re sort, in which the closely confined denizens of this great city can always find health and enjoyment. Nature and art combine in making our beautiful Park everything that can be desired, and it orly remains for the Commissioners in whose hands it is placed to fulfil all the necessities and wants of their numerous patrons. Therois a lake, a very acceptable sheet of water for rowing matches, where the bono and muscle of our athictio oarsmen might be shown to advantage; croquet grounds, from which gentlemen are unjustifiably excluded; plenty of room for a race track and ample accommodations for walking and running matches, and yet the Park Commissioners make no provisions to encourage such manly exercises. Rowdyism, the bugbear that is supposed to be an inevi- table appendage to such‘ sports, can very easily be excluded by the perfect discipline and complete arrangements of the Park police. The Park should not be merely a promenade, but the citizens of New York look forward to find its sphere of usefulness ex tended to its proper limits. The Commission- ers should do all in their power to encourage athletic sports, and should not be frightened by the silly idea of possible rowdyism when they have such ample police materials at theiz command. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, mecca panei Miss Annie Louise Cary has apartments at the | Everett House, Mrs. Tilton has written another letter—this time to Judge Netison. Mr. James Harlan, of Washington, is stayiog at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Galusha A, Grow, of Texas, is residing tem porarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. J. D. Cameron, of Harrisburg, 1s among the late arrivals at the Brevoort liouse. . Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of Baltt- more, is sojourning at the New York Liotei. Adjotant General Frarnktin Townsend arrived from Albany last evening at the St. James Hotel, Right Rev. Wiliam H. Hare, Bishop of Niotrara, | has taken up pis residence at the Coleman House, The tabie on which Pemberton signed the capit ulation of Vicksburg is now doing duty in a beet saloon. The Richmond £nqutrer says some ciris woula be dear at any price, though they were worth @ million. ‘ General Sheridan {s again announced as about to be married ; this time to a daughter of General D. H, Rucker. It was Mr. Pancks who rode home with Wood+ hull, and he only did it to avord boring his friends with a speech. When they call Miss Emily Soldene the Amazon in New Orleans, they are comparing her with the Tiver of that name. Mr. Joun M. Wilson, United States Consui at Bremen, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. He will sail tor his post on Saturday next, Alexander Winetell, of Syracuse, N. Y,, was elected Protessor of Nataral History in Vanderbiis University, Nashville, Tenn., yesterday. A Mississippi man puis tt thus:—“At the earnest solicitation of those to whom lowe money | bave consented to become a candidate for County Alarge piece of ground on Noge Hil, « native suburb of Yokohama, has been purchased, with the fotention of vullding a manston for the occasiona use of the Emperor of Japan. Gonerai Hawley studied for the Methodist min istry at Cazenovia, and he ts to deliver tue oratior at the coming celebration of the semt-centennig of the New York Central Seminary, Vice President Wilson retutned trom Loxington last night and will remain io the city several days He will probably zo from there to Nasuville ané Memphis before proceediag on his Western tour, The Governor General of Canada bas postponee his ceparture from Ottawa unt something | aennite is recetved about the steamer Polynesiag and the date fixea for her sailing on her nex trip. A cable telegram from Belgrade reports, unde date of yesterday, the 3d inst., that M. Schichkin, late Russian diplomatic agent iu Servia, who nas | beon appointed Minister at Wastington, has lett and frau’ indepondeace, and, above all, they | ask to read it. That would be am act of | te Danubian territory to tenven inaees to the | will learn that New York city is always ready | which no gentleman could be guilty, But it | American capital,