The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1875, Page 6

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M., for the purpose of | mpplying the Suxpay Heravp along the line | of the Hudson River, New York Central and | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. Strife ef the Factions-Tho Real Act- ors Behind the Scenes. Every day the municipal political campaign grows in earnestness. New York is in the throes of one of those annual revolutions set of office-holders to bring in another. An ingenious English writer compared the Revo- lution in France to the custom of the Arab, who, when his burnonus became infested with Arabian insects, quietly placed it on the ground 80 that insects of some other species might take possession and drive the intruders away. Universal suffrage, so far as New York city is concerned, has fallen into this Arabian indif- ference. What we know surely is that no matter which “hall” is triamphant or which party in the hall secures the nominations, we, | the people, are surely to be plucked. That is the foreordained condition of citizenship in New York. Sooner or later we must pay the bills. Every year shows a steady increase in our debt, a sure advance in our rate of taxation. Every year shows the class of politicians who crept into power at the last election retiring rich in spoils to give way to a more successful reformers. sensitive people may mourn. But why not, like philosophers, accept the inevitable? We have fallen under the domination of political intrigue. We might as well bear our heavy burden as easily as we may. Amid the noise and clatter of municipal controversies we find pre-eminently in the foreground those descendants of the Irish kings who are now masters of our homes and our fortunes. Here are the Beaf Eaters under control of Boss O'Murphy, lineal descendant ot Heremon, son of Miletius, the great monarch of Armagh in the good times when saints flourished in Erin. The Beef Eaters believe in the third term, Cesarism, back pay, Indian rings, salary grabs and all the other accomplishments of this thnfty and many-sided administration. They live on the Custom House drippings, on the resources of the Post Office, and although they have rather a dark prospect ahead, still, from what we can learn, they are busy with preparation. We have the Swallow Tails, under the leadership of the great O'Kelly, descendant of Brian Boroihme, that mighty monarch of Limerick, who now rests with God. We have the Short Hairs, under the powerful muscular control of the O' Morrissey, descendant of Tipton Slasher, whose dynasty ruled in Donnybrovk for so many generations. We have the O’Creamer, descendant of the O’Gradys, a valiant race of warriors of, the past, whose mottu, ‘“‘Shannett a boo,’’ means, according to ex-Assistant District Attorney Nolan, the best living authority on Celtic no questions.’’ The fact that there is a con- O’Morrissey and the partisans of the O’Creamer only shows that the fight is be- words of the O’Creamer himself, addressed to Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. | Newsdealers and others are notified to send | in their orders to the Heraxp office as early as | possible, For further particulars see time | tuble. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warmer and | partly cloudy, with local rains. Persons going out of town for ihe summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt Srezez Yestenpar.—The market | was dull and without feature. Stocks were | lower. Gold was steady at 112] a 113. Srx Morrus Aco they were “bosom friends,” end now behold them! Broorityy Wants More Porice.—We can | spare a few. Tae Srcrer Szrvice men of the general government seem to have discovered the | source of much counterfeit coin. Tue Triax of Captain Allaire for not en- torcing the police ordinances is interesting, not merely as news, but in the hope that it will be a precedent. | Tue Deatn of Hans Christian Andersen is | like a star fading out of the sky, and many fresh young hearts will grow sad over the disappearance. Wovunp it not be well to wait and see whether | Barry Sullivan is really ‘‘the world’s greatest tragedian” before we begin to carry torches in his honor? Tur InTennationat Prison Concress has | adjourned to next year, to the disappointment | of Prince Harry Genet and Falstaff Tom Fields, Tammany delegates at large. | | — | Tax Bisnor or Papernory, a German prel- | ate under the sentence of German courts for contumacy, prefers to undergo his punish- | ment in a more tranquil climate, Accordingly ho has left Germany. Tux Coyvicts in the New Jersey Peniten- tiary have mutinied because they could not have three meals a day. They should have thought of this before they went into train- ing for the icimemanemenisel Aw InteREstiNo Lerrer from London tells us how the Heratp obtained the news of the Wimbledon rifle match and flashed it over the | sea so that next morning we were enabled to print the diagrams. chapter in journalism. We have a pleasant record of the achievements of our riflemen in the famous shooting ground of England. O’Kenry (quoting): Each spoke words of t high disdain And insuit to his heart's best brother; But never ettner found another To free the hollow heart from patn. Uwsper tur New Constirvrion Protestants will enjoy religious freedom in Spain. They will ’be put on the same footing as the Catho- lics in England—that is, they will be allowed to erect churches and attend religious wor- | ship, but the State will not contribute to the | support of Protestant pastors or churches, The Roman Catholic Church will continue the | Btate religion. O’Mornissry (quoting): — To be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain, Ty Tus Wearuen continues we shall have to send a correspondent to find Mount Ararat | relationship exists. Tilden owes to him his office, while there is | This is an interesting | the other evening, ‘it is war to the knife and the knife to the bilt.”’ But behind all these contending armies, with their princely royal leaders, the real | Masters of the controversy are Governoi Tilden and Comptroller Green. these two public functionaries o mysterious If we can believe Green no doubt that but for the intervention of Til- | den Green would now be an ex-office-holder, | without visible means of support. Tilden | and Green are the Faust and Mephistopheles | | of the New York democracy. In many | respects our rejuvenated Governor reminds | us of Faust. Faust was an oldman, worn with | study, who had only seen the world through | the dusty windows of his library, and to | whom youth and opportunity and pleasure were given by the acceptance of a contract, the nature of which is not to be hastily men- | tioned in the hearing of Cbristian men. That contract once signed, and the wrinkled scholar | became a buoyant, bright, pleasure loving youth. Upon him the sun again shone with all the freshness of our boyhood days. Women smiled upon him, the haggard | face unfolded into rosy and wiuning youth. | The patient Tilden, who, for we will not | say how many years, wrapped himself in the | | solitude of his library until he became the | care-worn, silent, venerable stateswan, has | suddenly loomed into one of the youngest, | most active and most efficient of our public | men, unless we except Centennial Dix. No one could fail to see the effects of this change _ who looks upon the manly form of our Goy- ernor as he prances along in the early morn- | ing, mounted upon a fiery steed, through the embowered avenues of our Central Park. It | was Mephistopheles who had the strange power to bring youth again to the body of the worn-out scholar. -Green is the Mephis- topheles who has given new life to Tilden’s cppressed frame. Behind all this clatter and noise, this beating of the drums, this blowing | ot the bugles, this ‘summoning of the clans,"’ | | this shouting and trumpet eqlling ; behind this comedy of agitation which is meant for the people, the real rulers of New York are our Faust who lives in Albany and our | Mephistopheles who reigns in New York. Faust was invincible in fence, in parry and | thrust. Behind him was the hand of Mephis- | | topheles, who palsied the arm of the opponent. Behind Tilden we have Green. there is mischief Green commands, Wherever | there are controversies the genius of Green dictates their duration and their fury. So | they go on in their mad way from success to success. But the end will come, even as it came to the heroes of the poem, and the nature of it is not for us to dwell upon rashly or without sorrow. But while Faust and Mephistophiles them- sclves control the destinies of this great city, andthe still greater State, and while they amuse | the people with their Punch and Judy show of | | smuggler to escape when they catch him in | That | | puppets, who claim to control conventions | and to fight with furious energy for reform, | they should not throw away all their oppor- tuni‘ies in a single summer's day. Mephis- topheles will naturally enough give his pupil » but as it'is part of his con- him a President ho should | be more nl of the company into which | he leads him and of the alliances he permits | Faust Tilden is Governor of | New York, and it is not pleasant for his liege- | some latitude | tract to m ca | him to form. intercourse with the O’Morrissey, leader of the Short Hairs, For, while the Short Hairs may | which generally end in the turning out of one } class, while the defeated assume the réles of | These are things over which | literature, ‘‘Take all you can get and answer | templated union between the followers of the | coming more and more direct ;* that, in the | a multitude of followers at Cooper Institute | Between | Wherever | man to see him in constant and confidential | be necessary to his peculiar combinations, it is not wise or prudent for the Governor of this State of New York to be consorting with an avowed and conspicuous gambler. The O' Morrissey, with the honesty that belongs to his race and his rank, frankly avows that his | function is to amass wealth in defiance of the | solemn oath to observe these laws and enforce them. How can he do it when we find him | from day to day in the companionhip of the most distinguished gambler in the country? The thought arises that our municipal Mephistopheles, who was mischievous at all times, even in his merriest moods, may have a sinister purpose in permitting his pupil to form these friendships. If Mephis- topheles Green wishes to have the contract with Faust end before its time, if he real:y means that there shall be that sudden desceut into the regions from which there is no re- turn, then he is taking the proper method of doing it by allowing his Faust Tilden to be- come a frequenter of the Q’Morrissey’s much too famous resort in Saratoga. Unless Faust Tilden bas bound himselt so irretrievably that he cannot escape it would be far better for him to throw away his youth, his pleas- ant hours, his genius for merriment® and gayety, and resume that steady reserve and quiet, studious life that was once his giory, that led to bis being selected as Governor, It would be more fitting as the Governor of the State and an aspirant for the Presidency of the nation than associations which lead Caris- tian men to look upon him with sorrow. The Closing of Parliament. The dinner of the Lord Mayor to the Min- istry, which took place last evening, is a social custom which, in England, has a political sig- nificance as marking the close of the session of Parliament, Mr. Disraeli delivered a speech, in which he reviewed the conduct of public af- fairs during the last session, and congratu- lated England and the world upon the fact that the nations were at peace and that he believed peace would be maintained for a long time. This the Premier attributed largely to the diplomacy of his government, which had been moderate, prudent and firm. As was natural ina Prime Minister at the end of an arduous term of service, Mr. Disraeli con- tended that the results of the session thus far had justified the promise upon which he had obtainéd power. The incident ot the astonishment of the world, was dismissed in a manner characteristic of Mr. Disraeli. In- stead of admitting that his government had been forced into passing this measure he said that it had merely been “assisted” by public opinion. In other words, the humiliating | surrender to the courage and energy of a pri- | vate member was easily explained as an act of people. The manner in which Mr. Disraeli regards relies upon his stalwart, confiding majority, and quietly assures the country that what in Mr. | Disraeli closes the present session, his reputa- | tion sadly shorn and his influence shattered. | His elevation came from the fact that he was | defeat was simply a trifling incident. | believed to be the best tactician in English \ public life. The blunders he has made would have been unworthy of the merest tyro fresh | | from the university. from ill health or a wearing out of the brain | that has been almost supernaturally active for ., the last half century, or whetber Mr. Disraeli | possesses not the qualities to govern, but only those necessary to lead an opposition, ars | questions that are now exciting the public attention in England. They must belong to | history. ‘We are glad to know that the Prime | Minister leaves his country at peace with all the world. This is something to be said to the honor of any Minister, and we are glad to feel that it belongs to Mr. Disraeli. We Wonpver, as Faust Tilden gayly ambles | through the gambling houses of Saratoga, | whether he thinks of the happy days over his | books in that vast library. | j | | | | } | of suppressing the Cuban insurrection are evidently as small as were his predecessors’, Notwithstanding the extent of his prepara- tions months have passed by and as yet the | Cuban raiders have not even been driven | across the trocha. Whenever any war news leaks out it shows that the rebels are active and enterprising and more than a match for their adversaries. Valmaseda’s return to Havana is a virtual confession of defeat. And yet we believe that if the insurrection | could be suppressed he is just the man to ac- | complish it; butit cannot. Under these cir- | cumstances it would be sound policy on the part of Spain to make peace with the Cubans and retire. Why cannot Valmaseda make terms with the insurgents and put an end to | | the war? It would be some atonement for the crimes he has committed against hu- manity in his efforts to secure Spanish power | in the “Ever Faithful Isle.” | Hox. Rican O'Gonmay delivered an ad- | dress in Brooklyn last evening on the genius | and character of O'Connell. We print a full report elsewhere. It will be found to justify the fame of the eloquent orator and every way worthy of the illustrious man it honored. Our Dublin correspondence gives details of the preparations for celebrating the anni- versary. To-morrow will be a memorable day in Ireland. Our hope is that the celebra- | tion will be worthy of the man and of the | great people from whom hecime and for whom | he gave the tend years of a Jong life. Way Do “REVENvE, Orricens permit a | the act of cheating the customs? is the question suggested by the story of the seizure of a quantity of cigars in the Bay by revenue officers—a seizure that reflects credit on the pluck and energy of the officers en- gaged in it. | smuggler as well as of his goods? Tux Corresponpant who craves to know whether Faust ‘Tilden’s favorite color is green or red is respectfully requested to address Saratoga. Faust Trvpsn (musing at Saratoga), “I will stand the hazard of the die,” laws of this State. Faust Tilden has taken o | Merchants’ Shipping bill, which was an event | so dramatic in its character as to excite the | politica] condescension to the majesty of the | | the Plimsoll incident will give a fair illustra- | tion of the character of his Premiership. Con- derned by pubiic opinion as having failed in | most of the essentials of a Prime Minister, he | Le eyes of every English politician was a | Whether this comes | Tar War ix Cvupa.—Valmaseda’s chances | But why not take care of the | The Lightning Mail Train, The Post Office Department of the country, which is conducted with singular judgment and advantage to the people, is about to make @ new step in the delivery of the -mails. On the Ist of October the government mail train will leave New York for the purpose ot mak- ing a more rapid connection with the West, enabling us to deliver mails to our Western and Southern States a day earlier than now. This experiment will be welcomed not only by the people of the East, but of the West. It is simply carrying out tho private enter- prise of the Henarp in running a tast train on Sundays from New York to Niagara Falls, so as to enable us to make a swift connection with the Western train and deliver our jour- nal on the same day of its publication throughout the State and twenty-four hours earlier to the Western States. The govern- ment authorities will see the working of the lightning mail by taking advantage of the Hlenaxp train which will leave on next Sun- day morning. We have placed our train at the service of the Post Office Department, and on next Sunday morning the Postmaster of the city and the Superintendent of the United States Railway Postal Service will accom- pany it and seo the practical effect of the proposed service. We bave extended an invitation to the Postmaster General to join in the expedition. Governor Jowell has shown such a practical interest in the workings of the postal service and has ananifested so much common sense m the per- formance of his duties that we have little doubt that he will bring this proposed fast mail service to a satisfactory conclusion. This expermment shows two things—First, that our governmeft is taking advantage of all the achievements of science and enterprise to bind the sections of the nation closer and closer together. In the second place, it shows that even governments as governments are only too glad to avail themselves of the suc- cers of private enterprises. The Henarp's lightning train is the precursor of the fast mail service, just as the Hxraup, by its achievements in the past, was the precur- | sor of many other improvements in modern _ life. This postal train will contiin a thousand pigeonholes for dis- tributing the letter mail while the cars are in motion and accommodations for the newspaper service also. It is believed that between New York and Chicago twenty tons of letters can be distributed ready for imme- | diate delivery upon the arrival of the trains | at either city. The train will arrive in Buf- talo in eleven hours, in Cleveland in fifteen, in Toledo in eighteen, in Chicago in twenty- six, leaving and taking the mail at every sta- tuon. If will stop only for wood and water and at railway junctions, and will carry neither passengers nor express matter, nor an average of eight, and the Lower Missis- sippiand the southern portion of the Ohio Valley had only three. It will be observed that the principal sources of the present great floods in the West are the severe rain storms that have visited the Upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys. These regions appear to possess an attraction for the masses of vapor that on condensation discharge the vast bodies of water when brought in contact with cold cur- rents. Thero is nothing abnormal in our present rainy weather when it is considered that nature always balances her accounts, 80 as to return in the shape of rain what she has taken by evaporation. Something Too Much of This: Suddenly, as though it were a midsummer storm, the announcement has been made that the counsel of Mr, Theodore Tilton have served notice on Mr. Beecher demanding a new trial of the case which only a few weeks ago terminated in Brooklyn, Judge Morris ex- presses an intention to begin the trial in Sep- tember. If Mr. Tilton is still disposed to exhaust the resources of the law no one can deny the right which, 1 common with every other citizen, he possesses, At the same time, there are other rights to be considered; and, accordingly, we read with somo interest what the attorneys of Mr. Tilton tell us as to their motives in reopening tho Beecher case. Judge Morris thinks the case could be tried in ten days or a fortnight. Hoe has some ‘‘testi- mony of the gravest importance;’’ but he would not say anything about its character, except that “it will undoubtedly show Mr. Beecher up in his true colors.” These facts, the Judge thinks, ‘leave no loophole of escape for Mr. Beecher.” We infer from what one of the colleagues of Judge Morris says that this evidence 1s that of Mr. Leys, the druggist ; Henry ©. Bowen and Joseph Richards. Furthermore, says Judge Morris, ‘Beecher is aruined man; the country has put its foot upon him, bis theology and his publications.”” If, as Judge Morris says, Mr. Beocher is a ruined man, with ‘the foot of the country upon him,” this proposed trial is a cruelty. But the affectation cf anger on the part of Judge Morris, this surprise of Mr. Tilton’s at the action of his counsel, this mysterious in- dication of new evidence which will offer ‘no loophole of escape,” is only a repetition of the nasty drama which for months and months has occupied the attontion of the country, Morally the jary decided the question of the inno- cence or the guilt of Mr. Beecher andrhis fit- ness for the office of o Christian minister. This whole Tilton business has been a sham from beginning to end. Tilton was a sham plaintiff striving for a sham verdict. He sued tor damages which he did not want, to prove the guilt of a wife whose faults, which, even if tbey were of the gravest character, he had con- doned, to vindicate a reputation which any other business but what is directiy con- nected with the mail service. At Albany it will reach the mail for New England; at Buf- | | falo it will: connect with the West. It will | arrive at Louisville in time to reach all that section south of the Ohio River, and at Chi- | cago it will connect with Milwaukee and the | | great Western States beyond. It will arrive | | at Omaha on the morning of the second day | from New Ycrk, and in the afternoon at Kan- sas City and St. Paul, making through Pacific coast connections. We congratulate the Post Office Depart- ment upon this achievement. It will bea great accoramodation to the people. It will enable the government to do in the general | letter service what the Henaro, by its light- | ning express train, has done for its sub- | scribers. Beyond all, it will bind all sections: of the Union in more intimate relations, It isa step in that progress which we trust will make New York and San Francisco as much neighbors as New York and Philadelphia were a hundred years ago. Is Ir Wont Wuttx to seck the Presidency in the whirling wheel of roulette? The Western Deluge. | The latest telegrams trom the West _give do- tails of tne rapid development of the inunda- | tions resulting from the unseasonable rain | storms that bave visited portions of the Mis- | sissippt Valley. The Ohio, Wabash, Mo- nongahela and other rivers of the storm- washed States give unmistakable evi- | dences of the severity of ths deluge, | and the farmers along the river sides | | are bewailing their losses in crops and other | | property. Already the anticipations ot the | most taint hearted are being realized, and we | read of railroad embankments and bridges | | being washed away by the swollen rivers, and | canal banks bursting and adding their quota | | of waters to the general rush of the angry | | fidods. The Arkansas rection of the Mississippi | Valley has also been the scene of violent rain | storms and in undations, and the River Ar- kansas has already overflowed its banks and carried destruction to the adjoining | lowlands, Notwithstanding the wide | range of these aqueous meteors the | strange phenomenon presents itself of | areas untouched by the storms lying between | the stricken sections; for, although the Arkan- sas and Upper Mississippi regions are sufter- ing from the extraordinary rainfall, the ad- joining territories of the Red River and Lower Missouri have not experienced any of the visitations. Advices from all parts of the globe inform us of the universal prevalence of violent | storms of rain accompanied by disastrous | inundations in the lowlands of the water. | sheds of the great river systems. This almost | simultaneous visitation of storms over an un- precedented area of the earth's surface | disturbs some of our theories of | the rotation of air currents and areas of low barometer so familiar to our | ears, and to which so much importance is* attached by our scientific guides. The movement of storm centres over tho surtace of the United States exhibits a marked change when a comparison is made between | several climatic parallels that belt the country | ‘from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. | | | i | | | 1 Taking 9 period of two years— | 1872—'74—the records of the Signal Service | Bur-an show the iollowing resul -Over the | region of the great lakes—thnt is, embracing | | the section of the valley of the St. Lawrence | the Canadas—an average number of storm centres have passed time, while over the upper and nineteen | within that Mississippt Valley and part of Missouri the | average number decreases to thirteen, The unner section of the Ohio Valley was visited by | | an antagonist wit! | covered evidence.” | of perjury. | dence” that he is certain not to be perjury he | Mr. Beecher’s position cannot be injured | court room. | his pame and who are to bear it in infamy | | tee that there could be no more degrading ; mon decency and to public propriety, to his | he himself had destroyed and to overthrow th whom he had entered into a solemn league and covenant of peace. Now we are to have this miserable comedy over again. As to the ‘‘newiy discovered evi- dence’ about which Judge Morris is so wyste- rious we have no confidence in it whatever, | Is it the evidenco of Mr. Bowen? Mr. Bowen was on the stayd with abuodant op- portunity to unbosom himself, but he told the country nothing. Nor must the counsel of Mr. Tilton be surprised if the country will look with diffidence upon their ‘newly dis- We remember that their | | last experiments in this direction were the affidavits of men now in prison on the charge If Judge Morris has any ‘‘evi- could serve his clientin no better way than by simply giving it to the public. Otherwise.the public will believe, as they have every reason | to believe, that this movement of Judge Morris is only another act in this comedy of shams. Mr. Beecher's innocence or guilt is entirely out of the question. The opinion of the country cannot be changed by another trial. morg than it bas been, and certainly Mr. Tilton’s cannot be advanced. After six months of investigation, the ablest lawyers at the Bar on either side, a judge of high | character and prudence on the Bench, with every opportunity of proving the iruth, the investigation open to the eyes of the world, the result was that nine jurymen believed Tilton and his witaesses to be perjurers, while | three of them believed they told the truth. This was the end of the most extraordinary | cause in American jurispradence. How can the result be changed? What can Mr. Tilton | gain by another trial? His position is so un- | fortunate that the warmest office that friend- | ship can bestow isto keep him out of the | He isa young man of ability, with years, we trust, before him and oppor- tunities to vindicate the confidence of his frieads. But does he not see that there can be no position more degrading thon for | a man of so much power to spend months and months in the presence of a jury asking ‘‘vindication” at the expense | of a wife whose offences he had pardoned and | of the children she had borne him, who bear and shame through their young lives, simply to gratify his ambition or his revenge? Does not Mr. Tilton know that as a plaint:ff his position is that of a beggar; that even lis defence came as alms to him? Does he not position for a prond man to occupy? Mrz. Til- | | unfortunate for its historical Patrick Henry and the Troth @ History. We publish in anuther column a letter from William Wirt Henry, of Richmond, Va., it reference to the story embodied in the Henarp's review of the “Memoirs of Johs Quivcy.Adams.’’ Our readers will rememba that Mr. Adams in his diary related a story te the effect that, in a conversation with Johs Taylor, of Caroline, which took place on the 2ist of March, 1824, Taylor told Adams that in the Revolutionary campaign of 1781 Patrick Henry had proposed that Virginie should be the first to submit to Great Britain in order to obtain the most favorable terms ; and, furthermore, that he supported this mo- tion in an eloquent speech, and that, in the opinion of Taylor, Henry ‘had a much less efficient agency in the Revolution than many 5 othors.” Mr. Henry favors us with an elaborate and interesting discussion of the probable truth of this narrative. He shows that Colonel Taylor at the time he told the story was seventy-two years of age, and that he was at the point of dying and did die within six months; that the story he told was in refer ence to an event that had taken place forty. three years antecedent, when Taylor was @ young man, and that it was inconsistent with the character of Patrick Henry. He further- more reminds us that John Taylor during the life of Patrick Henry was his political oppo- nent, belonging to the aristocratic party in Virginia, which Henry opposed; that they differed on the adoption of tho federal consti- tution, Taylor avowing himself a disunionist, while Henry, although opposed to the consti- tution, loyally accepted its provisions; that the passage of the famous resolutions of 1798, as they ure known, by the Legislatare of Vir- ginia was owing to Mr. Taylor, and so alarmed Henry that he resolved to return to public life, but died before he could take his seat in the Legislature. He reminds us that Hevry was assailed with peculiar bitterness by Taylor and his party, and that, therefore, any testimony against the character of the great orator of the Revolution from even so eminent a manas Taylor should be weighed scrupulously. The period when Patrick Henry is said to have proposed submission to Great Britain was just before the surrender ot Cornwallis, in June, 1781. Our correspondent has exam: ined closely the journal of the House and finds no trace of the motion which Colonel Taylor attributed to Patrick Henry. There was no motion to go into secret session what- ever, and in this essential point the story of Taylor is contradicted. Nor is there any sign of faltering. ‘The journal,” writes Mr. Henry, ‘shows the most determined spirit of resistance in the measures proposed and adopted, and Mr. Henry appears foremost in them all.” Our correspondent makes a strong point when he shows that if Patrick Henry had committed the blunder charged by Taylor it would have been used against him during his life, and especially in 1788, when he led the opposition to the federal constitution and it became all important to break his influence. Although he was assailed by lead- ers as competent and well informed on Revo- lutionary matters as Henry Lee and Edmund Randolph neither of them ever charged Patrick Henry with a desire to surrender to the British. It is shown also that the time selected by Taylor for this alleged motion is truth, as it was in ao bright season of the war and not during the dark hours. The independence of | the States was an accomplished fact, and, ag our correspondent well remarks, ‘it would | have seemed, therefore, the height of folly for Virginia to have proposed submission.’’ The historical value-of this discussion will not be doubted. Patric Henry, however, was too, great a man, and his fame is too precious in the eyes of Americans for us to accept upon the sole authority of a political opponent a story that would take from him much of the lustre With which posterity sur- rouads his nan. Faust Trpen’s visits to Morrissey are said to be of a zoological character. He is study: ing the natural history of the tiger. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, Isfesiding at the Lrevoort House, Rey. Richard Temple, of Troy, 18 regtstered at | the Westminster Hotel. Count de Premio Real, of Sp.in, bas apartments at the Hovel Brunswick. State senator x. 3. Lowery, of Utica, is staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Sceretary Delano left Wasnington for Orlo last night to spend a few weeks. Bishop Jona J, Conroy, of Albany, arrived last evening at tne Gilsey House. * Rev. J. M. C, Backus, of Baltimore, ts among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel, Indian Commissionse Snutu js expected to re turn to the national capital to-day. United States Marshal B. H. Campbell, of Chicago, nas arrived at the Filth Avenue Horel. Assemblyman Wilard Jonnson, of Fatton, N. Y., is Stopping at the ‘detropoutan Hotel, ‘The Saitan o1 Zanztbar !s happy Lo Paris, where there are no anti-slavery deputations, Mr. George 5. Bangs, Superintendent of the Rauway Postal Service, 1s at the St. James Hotel In a Scotch Court a witness swore to the iden tity of a coicken “from its resemblamce to its mother.”” The latest proposition in France ts to give ta every oue drowned out by the inundations a Jarne in Algeria. Mr. James M. True, United States Consul at Kingston, Canada, 1s sojoucning at the Metro. politan Hotel. ton’s true course is to throw aside the whole business, to feel content with the punishment. | he has already inflicted on Mr. Beecher—the | misery and degradation of public arraign- | ment, the months of anxiety, the crippling of | his personal fortune, the expenditure of | large sums of money. Surely Mr. Tilton’s | appetite for vengeance must be imsatiate if | this will not satisfy him, and if he does not | now feel that, having given years to vengeance, he owes something to com- own reputation, which was once so high, and which may, by courage and industry, be ro- | deemed ; to those friends whom he bas saeri- | ficed in the controversy, to the pardoned | wife whom he has sworn to be ‘as white a souled woman as ever lived,’’ and to the cbil- dren who bear his ram | A Cysican Conntsronpent attributes the | wenther to a divine interposition against the Beecher cas Better by tar the cca Perrr B. thinks he will ¢ wait until the floods are over before he comes home. Peter Rochetori’s last production 18 entitled “The Passion of Our Lord MacMahon, according to Jean Brunet.” Strange that the first real hero they ever had ta Cincinnati snout be a jackass. But he ts likely ta become a bore. Sefior Don Luts Polo de Bernaté, of the Spantsn Legation, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel yester- day trom Washiagtor. President Grant kas written to Mr. Morton, at Newport, that he will not be able to make his ex- pected visit to New England, Mr. William Gladstone, eldest son of ‘the peopie’s Willa,” is to marry Hon. Gertrude Stoart, youngest daughter of Lord Blantyre. Yule and Harvard, it is hinted, wilt in jutare be satisfied With beating one another in poat races and not weste their energy against small estab Leomeats ike Columbia and Cornel, lion, Jesse O, Norton, formerly a memper of Conaress and @ prominent puolic man ta the State of Dlinots, died at hls residence in Chicago | during the night of the 34 Inst. His legal col- | leagnes met last might and passed resolutions of | rogret. ‘The disarmament of Europe has begun. John IL, sovereign prince of Lichtenstein, has set the notle exampie, In accordance with the advice of the five wise men who constitute the Parliament he has dismisse1 his army, consisting of ninety B, never liked rainy weather. carbineers and a trumpeter,