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

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1875—TRIPLE SHuwWr, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the“daily and weekly editions of the New Youx Hunatp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Herat. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. | Panny nt veeeeie LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York, FIFTH AVES Twenty-etghth street and Broa NANZA, ate P. M.; closes at 10:00 P. TRAL PARK GARDEN, The Beecher Case Given to Jury—Waiting for the Verdict. Judge Neilson’s charge, brief in propor- | tion to the vast extent of the evidence and the wearisome arguments of counsel, occu- | | | pied only a part of the usual morning session | of the Court yesterday,and after its conclu- sion the jury were put in charge of officers | specially sworn to prevent all conversation between them and other persons. Since they are locked up to deliberate on their verdict, and nothing that may be said in the press can reach or influence them, there might be no objection to comments; but it is safer to | withhold expressions of opinion on the merits | of the case until the verdict shall have been | rendered. We shall probably know in the course of the day whether the jury are able to agree, Itis a coincidence which the friends of Mr. Beecher will be apt to interpret as of | happy augury that this case is given to the jury on the anniversary of his birthday, and his cheerful and even jovial demeanor in the court room in this supreme crisis of his repu- tation would seem to indicate that he accepts the omen ina favorable sense. Had the jury returned a favorable verdict yesterday it would have been the most satisfactory birth- day present he ever had. Judge Neilson’s charge is a model of im- partiality, and seems to have been accepted as such by the counsel on both sides, It is impossible to detect in it the opinion of the presiding magistrate on the central question, which is the pith and pivot of the case—the question whether Mr. Beecher committed adultery with Mrs. Tilton. But, without usurping or trenching upon the prerogative | of the jury to weigh the evidence and deter- | mine its bearing and value, Judge Neilson does not hesitate to guard them against the | extravagant and unwarranted assumptions of cEN THEODORE THOMAY’ CONULR:, at 8 BM ROBINSON MALL, | street, English ‘Opera—GIROFLE.- | M. ‘West Sixteenth GIROFLA, at 5 P. y | woop" | Broadway, cor N&OK, ato P.M; 7ARDEN, | RAND POPULAR CON. | Ml. Ladies’ and chil. | GILMORE late Barnum’s iy CERT, at 8P. M.: dren's matinee aid OLYMPTO No, 6% Broadway.—VARITY, at PM sW YORK, FRIDAY, J JHE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NEWsDEALERS AND THE Pusrac :—- Tue New York Henatp will run a special irain every Sunday during the season, com- mencing July 4, between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake George, Sharon and Riebfield Springs, leaving New York at half- | past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Ningara Falls at | a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpax Hznatp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Heraxp office as early as possible, | From our rerorts this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be a littte cooler | and clear or partly cloudy. Persons going out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Henaxp mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Street Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket was comparatively dull and prices were generally steady. Gold was firm at 117}. | Money rated as usual. France is suffering severely from those river floods which have so long been con- sidered as the especial characteristic of our Western country. The Garonne now enters into competition with t ssissippi. A Commountcation from Commissioner Porter was sent to the Aldermen yesterday relating to the Harlem flats nuisance, asking such full autbority as the Finance Department | cannot dispute or cavil over for filling the | sunken land with wholesome, clean earth. As Fitz John Porter is under a cloud with the | Aldermen his communication was laid over, | in spite of its importance. | that Moulton was holding a pen, counsel, He does not comment on the evi~ dence, but thinks it his duty to put the jury on their guard against misleading comments by counsel on either side. It fares hard, in Judge Neilson’s charge, with some of the prominent arguments, both for the plaintiff and the defendant ; but the counsel for neither have thought it prudent to wince under the judicial dissecting knife which cuts away these excrescences. We will direct attention to some points in the charge which demon- | strate a prodigious waste of labor on the part of counsel. It was strenuously maintained by the de- fence that the memorandum or letter of con- trition was the production of Moulton, for which Mr. Beecher cannot be held respon- sible. Judge Neilson brushes away this pre- tence by a vigorous application of common sense. Attaching Ittle importance to the discrepancies between Beecher’s and Moul- ton’s accounts of the composition of that docu- ment, and, thinking it unlikely that it was a literal transcript of what Beecher said, he discredits the idea that it was an invention of Moulton. It is in uncontradicted evidence Beecher’s consent, and was supposed by Beecher to be writing down the substance of what he said. Even if Beecher did not ex- amine it, Moulton could not bave known, while writing, that he would not, and would not have been likely to take liberties or make misrepresentations which might have been immediately detected. On this important point we will insert Judge Neilson’s own | language:—‘‘While Mr. Beecher was speak- ing Mr. Moulton was writing, and with his assent. It may well be that in the absence of a deliberate course of dictation he could only note, in a burried and imperfect manner, de- | tached and striking expressions. You will consider whether he did so in good faith or not, and with what degree of success. But, if the circumstances were not favorable to tha making of a correct report, had the writer wished to make it, neither were they favor- able to the invention of what was written.”’ But if Moulton did not invent the language of that astonishing memorandum, but tried to | reproduce the language of Beecher, the at- tempts of counsel to impeach its genuineness fail to the ground, and Mr, Beecher is fairly chargeable with all its implications, Judge Neilson’s charge equally brushes with | concealment to which Mr. Beecher was o porty their assertions to outside persons white pursuing such a policy do not discredit | this evidence given in court. In speaking of Moulton’s testimony the Judge says: —‘If you shall be of opinion that he intended to state the truth in his examination here, and that his previous declarations were inspired by a | spirit of loyalty to the defendant’s reputation | and to that of Mrs. Tilton, and from an ear- nest wish to divert the minds of others from the subject, in carrying out the policy of sap- pression adopted, you are at liberty to make such allowance for that as shall seem proper.” ‘This, as we understand it, is an instruction to the jury that they are to disregard the vehe- ment arguments of counsel that those denials, made while carrying out the policy of sup- pression to which Mr. Beecher was a party, do not necessarily discredit the testimony of these men given underoath in court, The jury are at liberty to decide for themselves what weight they will give to this testimony in view of all the circumstances. Mrs. Monl- ton is treated with respect in the cbarge. The jury are instructed that the attempted alibi, the discrepancies respecting the duration of the memorable interview or even a mistake in its date is not fatal to the general truth of her testimony. But, with the discriminating im- partiality which pervades the charge, Judge Neilson cautions the jury against a possible misunderstanding on the part of Mrs. Moul- ton. If she had been led to believe that Mr. Beecher’s offence was adultery and his mind was burdened by the consciousness of a dif- ferent wrong, she might innocently have understood him ‘to be codfessing a different offence from the one he intended. If the | jury should adopt this view they can give a verdict for Beecher without impeaching the veracity of Mrs. Moulton. Judge Neilson utterly discredits the charge of conspiracy and blackmail, which has been one of the main pillars in the theory of the defence. He shows as little tenderness to the other side, in defending Mr. Tracy against the fierce assaults and denunciations | of the counsel for the plaintiff. He shows that Tracy learned nothing from Tilton which he did not previously know from other | sources, and thinks that the advice and sanc- tion of the eminent counsel associated with him was a sufficient warrant for his course. Judge Neilson goes further, and states that, | in his own opinion, the conduct of Mr. Tracy has been entirely consistent with pro- | fessional honor ‘This clears away a great mass of vituperation, in which Tilton’s coun- | sel have indulged to no purpose. On the great question of all, that of adul- tery—the question which alone gives the plaintiff any standing in court—Judge Neilson is studiously non-committal, limiting himself | to instructing the jury to disregard the argu- ments of the defendant’s counsel that the oral | evidence on this point deserves no considera- | tion. He instructs them to fairly weigh it all, and tells them that they are not to throw | out without examination the testimony of Mr. | Richards nor even that ot Mrs. Carey. The | charge is eminently fair and impartial, and | directs the attention of the jurors to the | points on which the case really hinges. It is | the general sentiment both of the legal pro- | fession and the community that Judge Neilson, has borne himself throughout this protracted | trial with the firmness, independence, impar- tiality and considerateness which befit his | office, and with an unruffled courtesy and wisdom that will reflect permanent lustre on | his judicial character. The Threatened Indian War, Prompt measures should beat once adopted to secure the frontier settlements from the attacks of the numerous Sioux and Chey- enne war parties said to have left their | reservations. The fact that the tribes sup- posed to be under the care and supervision of | the government are permitted to have the means of engaging in war is in itself a crush- | ing proof of the rottenness of the present reservation system. The reservation, to be useful, should fulfil the functions of a training school where the wild Indian would gradually | be transformed into a farmer or a shepherd. | away the elaborate cobwebs of subtle argu- | we have evidences enough in what bas been ‘Tux Ixtemyatioxan Ruruz Matca.—A pre- | ment by which Mr. Evarts maintained that | accomphshed by the Spaniards that this trans- Tir bet contest for the grand deciding match his client’s self-inculpatory letters were in- formation is quite possible if only some tact n the representatives sent from this consistent with and excluded the hypothesis | 46 shown in the treatment of the savages. city as riflemen and the sharpshooters of the | of his guilt. Those letters are full of remorse | put go long as dishonest rings are permitted m Isle took place yesterday at Dolly. mount, near Dublin. According to our despatches the result was so close in regard | termine what that great wrong was, he thinks | ynaian question will be as far away as it ap- | to the marksmanship of both parties that no them perfectly consistent with the supposi- | pears to be now. The kind of statesmanship | claims of either. against each uperiority can be indulged in by other, will leave but a slender margin for those inclined to wager money on | the letters of remorse do not conclusively j tended civilization. prove the great offence to have been adultery the result. Tue Ermersc or Crom.—Tragedies seem to be now the order of the day, and, as the law seems to be unusually lenient with the offenders, there is little lope at present of a cessation in crime. Murder is served up in the daily papers im a variety of form akin to romance or dime novel. ‘The latest instance is that of a father taking an erting daughter out on the river fora row for some great wrong, and while Judge Neil- son tells the jury that it is for them to de- tion that it was adultery. ‘If the wrong was followed is easy.’’ That isto say, that while they tally with that hypothesis, a conclusion which upsets a great deal of Mr. Evarts’ most refined and ingenious reasoning. But, though tallying with adultery, the letters of remorse do not of themselves prove it, for expressions consciousness of a different wrong. If the jury should conclude that the offence which he so bitterly deplored was im- to make fortunes ont of the troubles they do not hesitate to foment the settlement of this which can find nothing better to do with the deutly the teams, when pitted , the adultery,” he says, ‘the solution of what [ndian than to kill him is as stupid as it is | brutal, and is a disgrace to our pre- What is necessary lin dealing with wild tribes is firm- | ness and justice. Could these elements | be infused into our Indian policy we would | soon hear the end of Indian wars, and the members ot the Indian Ring would be com- A pelled to turn their talents for jobbery into | equally remorseful might have sprung from | some channel where they would be less likely | to endanger the lives of innocent people, though they might still be used in preying gn the public treasury. The present system not and convincing her of the error of her ways | Proper proposals and not actual adultery | only ig bad in its moral effects, both on the by three shots from a revolver. As a logical the language of the letters could be accounted | white and the red man, but it renders life and acting in good faith in a conjoint policy of | for, and the jury would be obliged to render | property on our exposed frontiers so unsafe a verdict for the defendant. The memoran- | 94 to materinily check the growth of the | dum of contrition and letters of remorse are | western settlements. Public opinion has | consistent with either charge; but while | already condemned the dishonesty and trick- there is little difference in the moral guilt of | gry used in dealing with the Indian tribes, the two they ars totally unlike in their legal | an4 it is time that the evils of the present | consequences, Unsuccessful solicitation is | ., 0 Prussia, He-has been convicted and sentended:| foe actionable tira pourt of jantics, and: it tbe | 7m woes teckes_ | 0 imprisonment, not of the Tweed consecu- | jetters should be interpreted by the jury on | Sconcurxe Wearner.—The thermometer tive kind, but long enongh--nine months—to | the theory that this was Mr. Beecher’s offence, | took an unexpected upward turn yesterday humiliate him to the uttermost degre. But | ¢heir verdict would necessarily be in his in this city, reaching ninety-five degrees in when tne French “La revanche!” erycomesina | syor, Whence it follows that a favorable practical shape, more than one insulted Von | yerdict does not necessarily clear his repu- sequence the paternal adviser killed himself. Pausstan Justice.—Count Von Arnim, an old and well tried representative of the Court of Berlin, has been unable, despite his rank, es and influence, to combetsuc- cesstully the present mania of Bismarckism in descent, serv | corresponding day a yearago. The sudden | Arnim may be ready to clasp bands with the invaders, in government is dangerous in this enlightened age. An iron heel Mvsic ix toe Parx.—It will soon be mid- summer, and yet thers have been no free concerts in Central Park, as was the cus- Indeed, we have not f any preparations tor music im om in former years, pleasure ground this season, For more than a month our sister city of n has been giving free concerts in Y arday afternoon, Im- Mediate arr of a like character should be made itral I , and, as tho best is always the cheape pable aod well-teained band should be engaged, so that the highest class of music may be heard by all the people tation. On the question whether the offence in | view of which Mr. Beecher wrote those sur- prising letters, and which he took such in- finite pains to suppress and conceal, was really adultery, Judge Neilson carefully and properly refrains from giving any intimation of his ‘opinion. It is a question for the jury exclusively, to be decided accordiug to their best judgment, after canvassing and weighing all tne evidence. But it requires other evi- dence thun the mere letters to prove adultery. Judge Neilson accordingly instructs the jury in relation to the oral testimony. He cantions them against bustify rejecting it on the ground that Moulton and Tilton repeatedly asserted in conversation and in writing that this crime | have proved, under official investigation, to | attention of Governor Tildea, who has solong | the‘occasim. No casualties occurred, and | If they were | | did not amount to adultery. | change was anything but agreeable to the | pedestrians on Broadway, the patrons of our illy ventilated cars and those who stay at home to take care of the children and the washing. The lovely Garden of Eden over which Disbecker presides, the Harlem flats, was particularly redolent of smells yesterday, and the passer-by encountered such an ordeal for human nostrils as may not be equalled even in this progressive age. A few days | more of such weather and even Disbecker may acknowledge that the Harlem flats are productive of deadly diseases. Tar New Jnusey I'navps which have lately been brought into public notice in regard to the management of the Hudson County dail, be viler than they were first considered. Ohio’s Alternative: In Ohio the democracy have presen'ed a platform which operates somewhat ‘“‘lke to the lightning in the collied night,’’ giving a glimpse of light which enables the wayfarer to see the chasm that yawns in his path, and leaving him in the gloom, troubled with won- der how he may get safely over or around the danger. Can we get away from Grantism only by moving on the road that leads ulti- mately to financial calamity, repudiation and dishonor? Is the democracy, upon which the country counted for the overthrow of the corrupt party now in power, disposed to ren- der this service only ata price at which the country caunot afford to take it? Must we accept the republicans for four years longer, third term and all, unless we are prepared to give place to a party which avows its purpose to cast down the pillars of the temple and bring upon us a financial catastrophe that will leave of our whole commercial and indus- trial fabric and our national credit only a ruin, a rubbish heap for beggars to grub in? This is the dilemma in which the Ohio plat- form places the country, There is a possibil- ity that the sky may clear a little when the Ohio conflict is over. It is probable that on their inflation doctrines the demo- erats will carry Ohio, With that State in their favor their cbances are greatly strongthoned everywhere, and it is possible that ina general democratic rally, and in a generalization of democratic force the country over, there may be enough politi- cal virtue to put down these Ohio paper makers, the good may outweigh the bad, and we may get a Presidential candidate whose name and record will be a guarantee against the things threatened in this Ohio platform, than which we do not doubt the country would rather have all the corruption of the republicans. But if it does not turn out in this way there may arise out of the conflict another issue, that of the restoration of the old system by which the States and not the nation regulated the banks and their issues. If the Obio people want to multiply dollar bills till they are worth about two cents a piece the people of this State have not the same desire. And if out of thirty-seven States nineteen or twenty should sympathize with Ohio the people of the other States would become very restive under the loss that this would inflict, and they would moralize with energy upon the system that thus de- termined their comparatively, local concerns to suit the fancies of the sparse inhabitants of the lands in which the love of wild cat cur- rency is endemic, It would bea great mis- hap to fall again into our old system of State currencies; but it would be a smaller calamity than what the democrats threaten, and perhaps preferable to the continuation of republican rule. The Rival Temmany Braves. It is now an admitted fact that the two Tammany Johns—the Siamese twins of last year's political campaign—are at enmity and engaged in a desperate struggle for supremacy in Tammany Hall. Jobn Kelly has allied himself with the Swallow-tail democracy and stands by Mayor Wickham and his Manhattan Club and New Jersey appointments. John Morrissey ranges himself stanchly at the side of the Short Hairs, where he belongs, and denounces ‘Billy Wickham’’ as a misera- ble failure. Affairs have come to a crisis be- tween the rival braves. There can be no compromise and no surrender. Kelly ap- proves the action of “my candidate” in {ill- ing the city departments with silk stocking democrats, some of whom never cast a vote in the city of New York, and scarcely one of whom was ever known to spend an hour at the polls, while Morrissey declares that the hardworking demo- crats who have labored early and adversity as in prosperity—who are the repro- sentative men of the democratic masses— should have received some consideration from the Mayor they put in office. The issue is well defined. The only question is, How can it be settled in a manner to prevent a com- plete disruption of the democratic party ? The fight being at present confined to the leaders several propositions made with a view of a speedy settlement that shall involve the question of leadership only and not threaten the existence of the democracy ; for Morrissey intends to make the war inside Tammany Hall and to conquer or perish within the sacred precincts ot the Wigwam. He will not allow a hundred Kellys to drive him out, as he regards the struggle as one only for thd leadership, and insists that Kelly and Wickham are the men wi should be led to the door, and not himself and his friends. Some of the rank and file have indulged the hope that the quarrel might be characteristically settled in a seven-foot ring, after the fashion of Morrissey’s disputes with Yankee Sullivan and Heenan. But this would not be fair to Kelly. Morrissey outweighs him, and would knock him out of time in the first round. A delegate from the neighborhood of the Hoff- man House has suggested a contest at cards— draw poker, seven up or some such game, But this, again, would be overmatching Kelly, who knows nothing about stacking, dealing from the bottom, slips and short packs. A gentleman from the Manhattan Club, wearing a swallow-tail coat and n white necktie, has proposed to test the merits of the contestants by a trial of their respective statistical ab advantage, and would be altogether in favor him when Sheriff to calculate how largely the Irish predominate over all other races the shade, far beyond the temperature of the | in criminal commitments. On the whole, probably a spelling match between the rival | champions would be the fairest and most peaceable way of deciding who shall be here- after the Tammany ‘‘Boss.’’ We might havo a list of words carefully prepared from the | dictionaries of the sporting fraternity and the | political ward colleges. To render the chances | even a few Latin and Freneh words might be thrown in, which would make up to Kelly any late for the party—who have been faithful in | have been | ties. But this would put Morrissey at a dis- | | of Kelly, whose familiarity with figures enabled | advantage Morrissey might bave throngh his | | greater fumiliarity with sporting terms. Tne Evivexce i Svurront of the charges | upon which Mayor Wickham attempted to remove the Fire Commissioners last Janu- | ary was first laid before the Ald | official form yesterday, and is published with | their proceedings. We commend it to tne ermen inan | neglected the charces, The Attempt to Disorga the City Government—The Bolting Aldermen. The Rejected Evidences Judge Neilson decided not to reopen th The republican members of the Board of | scandal case for the admission of the new evs Aldermen continued yesterday their disor- ganizing conduct by absenting themselves from the meeting of the Board. Their action 1s likely to bring the minority representation principle into disrepute and is entirely un- worthy the chatacter of such citizens as Aldermen Vance and Morris, These gentle- men are very well aware that the authority of the Board to which they belong must be en- forced and its dignity respected if it is to be of any service in the city government. No political rowdy from the alums of the city who might chance to be elected to the Alder- manic body could do more to bring it into contempt then these republican. Aldermen are doing. They are at once defying the rules they have helped to make and the law they have sworn to obey. Their first contumacious refusal to vote on a question before the Board, after the majority had declined to excuse them, was o breach of their own rules, made in con- formity with the power conferred on the Board by the charter. Their subsequent revo- lutionary conduct im absenting themselves from their post of duty, for the purpose of obstructing the public business, 1s a mal- feasance which ought to be and must be punishable by the Jaw. The democratic Al- dermen lack one of a two-third vote of the whole Board, otherwise they could expel the contumacious members under the provision of the charter. It is the knowledge that the democratic Aldermen do not possess that power which encourages the republican bolt- ers in their lawless course. But there must be some other way of reaching the offenders; and unless we are to do away with all order and submit to a reign of anarchy their inex- cusable violation of law should be punished as it deserves to be. The majority of the Board fail in their duty to the city if they do not exhaust all the means at their command to compel the attendance of the bolters, They have the power under the law to ‘compel the attendance of absent members.” Unless they exercise this power, especially when the absence is admittedly for the purpose of disorganizing the legislative branch of the city government, they are not fit to hold their present positions. They should order the arrest of the bolters by their ser- geant-at-arms, and, if he should not be able to carry out the order, they should apply to the courts. It was an unworthy act for the republican Aldermen to dodge the vote on the reduction of the city laborers’ wages; but when they wilfully violate their own rules of order, defy the authority of the majority of their body and then endeavor to break up the legislative branch of the government by ab- senting themselves from the duties they have sworn to perform, they set a precedent of rowdyism and lawlessness which all good citizens must condemn. Vicz Preswent Wuson, according to a letter which we -publish to-day, gives his ideas on his recent tour through the South on political affairs and other interesting ques- tions in a very terse and uncompromising manner, The letter will be read with inter- est and profit by those who wish to learn the lightful position in which the powers that be have placed themselves. Comprronizn Green CauneD THE ATTEN- tion gf the Board of Apportionment yester- day to the fact that certain bills contracted | in the Park Department while Mr. Wales was | its president are not paid by him ‘because they were incurred when there was no ap- propriation to meet them, although that course was contrary to law.’’ This was in- tended as a hit at Mr. Wales. But, then, has it not been customary for the Park De- partment to spend money without an ap- propriation? We believe a “deficiency’’ item of nearly forty thousand dollars was asked for by the Park Department in the estimates for the present year. Then, again, there was no “appropriation” for the back pay voted to Park Commissioner Green by the “Ring” Commissioner Tom Fields in 1870, nor for the expenses of Park Commis- | sioner Green’s European trip, also paid out | ee | Washington, has apartments at the Windsor Hote. of the Park funds through the friendly aid of the same Thomas ©. Fields. The influences around the Park Department have been per- nicious, and have been deplored by Mr. Wales | and some of his successors; but now these are in a measure destroyed we may hope that there will be no more expenditures unauthor- ized by law. Cowmropore Vaxpennitt Now Dectanres that ifthe city had passed his Harlem Railroad | present situation of the South and the de- tyre dence, and announced his decision yesterday morning without any statement of reasons It is not difficult to conjecture what hia reasons were, In the first place, the counsel for the plaintiff, who offered the affidavits and made the motion, did not press their application. They signified to the Court that they would not be unwilling to see it put aside, and Judge Neilson would hardly have been justified in reopening this pro tracted and wearisome ease unless it was strongly insisted on by one or the other party tothe suit. The plaintiff could not afford to give the new evidence so great a degree of importance as would be implied in urging a reopening of the case to admit it, because it would be a confession that on the origi« nal evidence his case was weak, There was no justification for his coming into court at all unless when he commenced the suit he was in possession of proofs sufficient, in the judgment of good lawyers, to support bis accusation. As he knew nothing of Leys os Loader or Price until after his evidence waa closed there would be a fatal presumption against him if he insisted on a reopening of the case to submit their testimony. He had no moral night to begin the suit without suffi. cient evidence to carry it through; and whena trial has lasted for six months there is na reason why the patience of jurors should be further tried with new witnesses to support a case which was not originally strong enough to justify the consumption of so much tima, After this new evidence was discovered and made public the defendant had more interest in refuting it than the plaintiff bad in bringing it into court ; and when neither plaintiff nor defendant pressed its introduction the Judge very properly declined to reopen so long and fatiguing a case. But, although the defence did not care to meet and refute it in court, they have evinced their sense of its damaging character by procuring and publishing a counter affi- davit from Mrs. Tilton. She, of course, con- tradicts it, as she was under a necessity of doing after denying all charges of im- proper intimacy with Mr, Beecher, But the motives of Loader and Price are not very intelligible if they have sworn to a false- hood. They cannot have been bribed, for Tilton has no money even to pay his lawyers. So faras appears they are both respectable men of their rank in life, and the difficulty which was encountered in yliciting their statements proves that they were not volun- teers and that they shunned any connection with the case. What possible motive can they have hed for falsehood and perjury? If their affidavits were worth contradicting at all they should have been contradicted in court, where their evidence could have been subjected to legal tests. Tux AuprrMEN Have Assumep the authority to fix the pay of the city laborers, and have adopted a resolution to thateffect. Exactly where this power is bestowed on the Board has not been pointed out; but, according to Alderman Reilly, ‘eminent legal authority” has assured him that it is to be found in the The departments will probably take their own course and pay no heed to this ac- tion of the Board, and this may lead to a de cision of the question by the courts. Mean- while the city laborers continue to receive one dollar and sixty cents for a day’s work of eight hours. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Silas Seymour, of Quebec, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. £. M. P, Wells, of Boston, is among the late arrivais at the Albemarle Hote. Attorney General Pierrepont and Secretary Bris- tow have returned to Washington, Paymaster George E. Hendee, United States Navy, 18 quartered at the Gilsey House. M. Oliivier’s account of his Ministry 1s published under the title of “Principes et Conduite.” State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., has arrived at the Metropoltan Hotel, Senator Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts, are rived jast eveoing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Surgeon J. Walker, of the British Army, bag taken up lis quarters at the Fifth Avenue Ho! Baron de Sant’ Anna, Portuguese Minister at Rev. Dr. Kk, B. Fairbairn, of St. Stephen’s Col- lege, has taken up his residence at the St. James Hotel. A billis before the Congress of Peru asking for ‘a million of dollars to promote immigration from | Europe. Mr. W. J, Magrath, President of the South Caro. | ina Roitroad Company, is stopping at the New Extension bill two years ago and given him | the City Hall as a depot, be should have be- stowed the road, when completed, on the city as a gift. It is indeed unfortunate that the city lost this munificent present through a silly prejudice against monopolies. We can readily see that some little difficulties might have been connected with the great Vander- | pilt benetaction, arising from the questions | as to how much use the city should make of | the road and how much of its capacity should | be taken up by the Vanderbilt roads, Still it is to be regretted that -the city, through its distrust of monopolies, foolishly threw away a good thing, of which, however, it was hap- pily ignorant until this disclosure. Now, | however, we have a rapid transit law, and can build a rapid transit road where it ought to be built, along the Third avenue. Commodore Vanderbilt has a chance to display his muni- ficence by aiding in the construction of this road. ; Yacntrxa.—The ocean schooner race of the York Hotel. Assistant Quartermaster General Langdon ©, Easton, United States Army, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Nobody biys the Lanterne any more, and Roche- fort has written “Les Dépravés,” a novel of con+ temporary manners, Mr. J. L. Paniza, tried for the killing, in Pana- ma, of Mr. Leopoldo Cocheco, on the 12th of March last, has been acquitted, Mr. J. N. McCullough, Vice President of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayhe and Onicago Railroad Com- pany, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Much regret has been felt im the American colony at Lima, Peru, for the death of James Fauikner, Jr,, a nephew of Mr. Jonn G, Meigga, Rear Admiral Gustavus H. Scott, United States Navy, returned trom Earope in the steamer Russia yesterday, and is at the Fitth Avenue Aotel. Protessor O. ©. Marsh, of Yale College—knows to the Intertor Department as ‘‘a Mr. Marsh arrived in this city yesterday and is atthe Hom man House. Adespatch was received at the Post OMice De. partment yestercay from the Postmaster General at Columbus, Ohio, saying that he would arrive ig Washington this morning, ‘The Paris Figaro Says the only chocolate sold in | that city Which is made of cacao without aduiter Seawanliaka Yacht Club took place yesterday, | and resulted in the Palmer and Peerless car- rying off the prizes, notwithstanding a beat to windward under lower sails. June is nota favorable month for yacht races, as the weather is very uncertain, and frequently a drifting contest is the result. A few months later, when there is some excitement amid the waters of the Bay, sport can be ensily attained. Tar Poraperpata Cenrennsat.—The Phil- ation is the chocolate of six francs a pound, o8 $120, How, then, is it here? Where arte ali those centenarians? Jaques de Lakis, now in Paris, claims that he was born in 1620, ‘and that he is consequentiy 255 years old, Ali the people do not believe him, however, A cable telegram from London, under date of yesterday, 24th dust., says itis reported that the Marquis of Lorne and bis wife (the Princess Louise of Bngiand) intend making a tour of the Unite States. M Bres, who recently read @ thesis before the Paris Faculty of Medicine and obtained a doctor's degree, 18 reported to have been ape | pointed physictan to the Sultan's harem at vom adelphians exptured a Big Bonanza yesterday | toward their forthcoming centennial celebra- tion of the first Declaration of Independence, Three hundred bankers, with their satellites, visited the proposed Centennial grounds yes+ terday, and 500,000,000 wore represented on | profaises and good fevling were abundant, stantinople, The Paris Opinion Nationale announces th death of a person named Andriew, whose fatnes was, it js said, the first passenger who ever went on # steambeat, having retarned from Albany with Robert Fulton, Postmaster General Jowell arrivea at Colambesa, Onto, yesterday, Last evening he was serenaded anadescorted to the residence of General Vomieg, editor of the Ohio State Journal, where an elegamt reception was given him,