The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1875, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY 4ND ANN STREET, a GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR JAMES —o NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekty editions of the New Yors Henarp will be tent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic seinen despatches must be addressed New Youre HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. os LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms SEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHERT. The Escape of Tweed. The escape of William M. Tweed from prison yesterday is the crowning shame of a long series of disgraces. Nothing new could excel this in infamy but the failure of the police to retake him. That, fortu- nately, seems to be # humiliation too great for this city to endure. Tweed must be re- taken or American justice will be the laugh- ing stoek of the world. The manner in which this malefactor escaped is described in our local columns, and the first thought that will oceur to every ‘citizen will be one of indignation that our prison discipline is so lax that an escape of the kind was possible. It has been known for a long while, and the fact has been published repeatedly, that Tweed's imprisonment in Ludlow Street Jail was merely nominal. He had the freedom of the city just like any other citizen. He could drive out in the morning, with a keeper for his coach- man and a warden for his footman, and dined at his own house, with a bailiff for a butler, There was no real attempt to de- prive him of his liberty, as the law required. The law! But what is the law in New York, as in New York. eee Ss TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue RIETY, at 8 P.M. RE, T,at 8 P.M. James BOWERY TH Bowery,—THROUGH BY DAY AM. Ward, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Montague street.—German Upera—IL TROVATOKE, at 8 P.M. “Wachtel. GLOBE THEATRE, Nos, 728 and 730 Broadway,—VARIETY, at 8 P.M COLOSSEUM, Thirty fourth street and Broadway. —PRUSSIAN SIEGE OF FARIS. Open from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M, and from 7 P. M. to oP, OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. WALLA HEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sueet.—CASTE, at 8 P. M.; closes 1045 YM, Mr, Harry Beckett, Miss Ada Dyas, PARISIAN VARIETIES, Sixteenth street, near Broadway —VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street, Brooklyn.—THE TWO ORPHANS, at 8 eal. QUARE THEATRE, th street.—ROSK MICHEL, at 8 THEATRE, COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P.M. BOOTHS THEATRE, fwonty-third street and Sixth avenue.—GUY MANNERING, uSP.M. Mrs, Emma Walker. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- LAR, at 5 P.M. Mr, and Ars. Florence. FIFTH A Cwenty-eighth street, ne P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P. UE THEATRE r Broadway.—OUR BOYS, at 8 RAGLE TH Sroadway and Thirty-third street. TRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Yow Overe House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, “ 2 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street.—RUBE, at 8 P. M.; sloses at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. F. S. Chanfrau. ‘ONY PASTOR’ Tv EW THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway. RIBTY, at 8P)M. Ly Fourteenth street and Fechter. Third avenne. betwee: MINSTRELSY and V QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and doudy, with rain. Tux Hznaxp py Fast Mau, Trarxs.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, ‘the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central [ailroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Toe Henarp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wat Sraeer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was without feature. Gold declined from 114 3-4 to 114 3-8. Money on call was freely supplied at 4 and 5 per cent. ‘Tue Senate Commirrze on City Affairs had an interesting time yesterday examining the Sheriff's office. General Porter and Sheriff Conner were among the witnesses called. The Assembly Committee on Crime also held a session, and some interesting facts were developed. Judge Morgan testified that seventy per cent of crime in this city is the result of rum. Proressor Proctor is anxious that the pub- lie should not remain under the belief that he is about to take the chair of astronomy in the new Catholic University at Kensington, England. He will not, we are glad to know, give toasingle college what he means for mankind. The Professor, at the same time, administers a rebuke to certain professing Christians who take umbrage at what they | consider the infidel tendency of portions of | his public utterances. An interesting card | on these points will be found elsewhere. | Tax Loxpon Money Manxer.—Onr special cable despatches from London to-day show that the purchase of the Suez Canal has been @ principal element of great financial dis- turbances. The Stock Exchange yesterday was the scene of excitement, and Turkish and Egyptian securities were depreciated in value and subjected to extensive fluctuations, Something of this kind was to be expected from the alarm which naturally followed the news of the sale by the Khedive, as the transfer of such a vast number of shares | could not but affect the finances if not the politics of Europe. The markets were firm at the close. As Mr. Kean has been chosen Speaker, because of his peculiar honesty, he will have difficulty in selecting his chairmanships of | important committees, Of course he must | put honest men in these places. The argu- | ments which defeated Mr. Wood and Mr. Randall will make it impossible for Mr. Kerr, | if he is consistent, to name them upon any | committees except, perhaps, Revolutionary | Pensions, Mr. Cox has earned different treatment, and it might be well to make him chairman of all she important committees. This will show that the new Speaker is con- when the criminal is rich? Because Tweed was rich the jail was only a lodging house to him, and that he inhabited it at all was simply a prudent compliance with certain formalities. Other criminals could hardly put their noses through the bars, but this millionnaire of a public robber had the doors of the jail obsequiously unlocked for him whenever he chose to order, Justice, in fact, was his valet. It was New York justice, however, not the beautiful abstraction whose existence we believe in upon the theory that faith is the evidence of things that are not seen, Everything unites to make Tweed’s escape inexcusable. In the first place it was a crime to allow him the freedom which was denied to other convicts. It was to give him every day the chance of escaping, and there is no doubt that he could have used it long ago had he chosen. He had the opportunity of consulting fully and freely with his friends; of arranging his disguises; of planning his methods ; of facilitating his flight in a hun- dred ways which would have been impos- sible had he remained secure in prison, To yield him his virtual freedom was, therefore, to prt the temptation and the means of escape perpetually before him. Who could expect that he would not use this chance when the time came? And the time had come. His jailers knew that he was to be tried again on Monday ; that all his schem- ing and plotting and bribing had failed, and that he would go into court without a case, and with almost the certainty of irretrievable defeat. This fact, which should have caused him toe guarded more jealously than ever, was entirely disregarded. No extra precautions were taken. He was driven from the jail to his house—after dark, it must also be remembered—and permitted to remain there alone. Could his keepers be surprised when they found that he had gone? Why, they had opened the door of the cage for the bird, and it was natural that he should spread his wings and fly. Another point which darkens the suspi- cions which must inevitably attend the escape of so great and wealthy a criminal as William M. Tweed is this, that his escape was precisely that of another one of the great Tammany thieves—Harry Genet. Genet, like Tweed, was driven to his house by a deputy sheriff, asked permission to see his yfe, left the deputy cooling his heels in the parlor and walked off, too safe to run. This example, one would think, would have been in the minds of Warden Dun- ham and Keeper Hagan when Tweed made the pretext for leaving them. It was the Harry Genet case over again—a palpable trick by which an ordinary policeman would be ashamed to be deceived. Taken altogether this escape is almost unpar- alleled in the annals of clever crime and stupid justice, and that is saying a great deal. If Tweed should escape entirely— which seems incredible—the triumph of the rogue, the disgrace of the law, will be per- fect. There is still another thought involved in this nefarious transaction. The escape of Tweed is the end of the old Tammany Ring. None of the men now remain who were once powerful in this city for good and for evil except the few who hang around the dark lantern Know Nothing lodge on Fourteenth street and follow the fortunes of John Kelly. All that we have of ‘the old Empire” is lost in the new Tammany. But its spirit still lives. The mere satisfaction of hold- ing afelon like Tweed in custody, a man who has forfeited not only his power but even the respect of those who once served him is in itself a small circumstance. So far as mere punishment could reach him no one desired either cruelty or vengeance. He had fallen from his imperial state, his property had been largely sacrificed in his haste to carry it away or squandered upon lawyers and blackmailers, or had gone to swell the fortunes of adventurers who were only too glad to fatten like vam- pires upon his fallen greatness. His col- ‘| leagues in power and his vassals in infamy | are either refugees in foreign dands or in prison, or they have made terms with Kelly, or wander about the streets like Garvey and Ingersoll, not alone criminals, but informers. The anger which the people of New York will feeljat the sapere Tweed, the miscarriage of justice wi it represents, and in the “painful fact that is now made more than ever apparent when it attempts to deal with men who have held political power and who were once enabled to control legislation, and justice, and the treasury, are now practi- cally free from punishment. Now that Tweed is a refugee, let there be an end of his system. We have said over and over again, with earnestness, that the system which Tweed controlled, and of which Kelly is master to-day, is @ system so thoroughly at variance with our republican institutions that it has never succeeded in New York except at the expense of the pub- lic virtue and the public treasury. If we trace the history of this dark lantern lodge from the beginning down to the’ reign of the man whose adventures to-day will fill | the minds of the people of the United States, we will find that it has never reigned but to destroy. It was when Aaron Burr was its chosen champion that by its aid sistent and grateful, to say the least. he endeavored to drive Jefferson from the Presideney through dark in- trigue, and, failing in his bold ambition, boldly planned disunion and treason and war. Wor seventy years we have suf- fered from Tammany Hall. The monu- mental scoundrel who is to-day a fugitive from the justice which he has bullied and bought is only a result of the Tammany system. Whether he is captured or not; whether opnot we succeed in obtaining his property; whether the men who are his comfederates in crime are brought to justice or not, we still have before us the duty of destroying the system which produced Tweed by destroying Tam- many Hall. This event, therefore—painful though it is—only makes plainer the duty of the democratic party of this city. Tweed's escape is the last argument in the contro- versy. With the old leader of Tammany Hall a fugitive from justice and the city suffer- ing from the system which he strengthened and by which he profited, no citizen can escape from the duty more and more incum- bent upon us—the rooting out of the Tam- many organization and driving from our pol- ities this dark lantern, Know Nothing secret lodge, which has never triumphed but to bring disgrace upon the community, and whose continued existence only means a re- turn to the nefarious system which culmi- nates to-day in the flight of Tweed. Drawing the Old World Close to the New. To those who have not had the benefit of foreign travel the budget of sparkling gossip which comes to usin the cable letter from our Paris Bureau will be astonishing, as showing the art-energy which that splendid metropolis displays from day to day. It is, indeed, to-day the magnetic pole of art, as Rome. was in the time of Augustus and Athens in the time of Pericles. ‘See Naples and die,” is a hyperbolic way of saying that a knowledge of the beautiful in nature is in- complete until the glorious bay dominated by Vesuvius has met the gaze, and, apply- ing this, we may say that he has no knowl- edge of art life who is not cognizant of the dreamings and doings of Paris in the cause of art. Yesterday, we learn, the obsequies of Mlle. Déjazet took place before a great and distinguished throng. Eighty years of histrionic art were among her monfners, although to mortal vision nothing more than living sentient Paris followed her to her resting place at Pére la Chaise. She had danced before the allied sovereigns in 1815, when the grisettes of Bé- ranger sang ‘‘Nos amis, les ennemis,” and probably would have sung ‘‘Lisette” before Emperor William if he had ventured to oc- cupy the city in 1870, In her flitting, vola- tile way she was a type of Paris, and in her indifference to the auditory, whether Chris- tian or Paynim, Gallic or Teutonic, she typi- fied art, which is for all men and all time. We cannot comment on all the art items which come to us in our cable letter ; but it will be gratifying to Americans to learn that the musicians of Europe are deeply interested in the Centennial at Phila- delphia, and that if we are not to have the German Crown Prince, the crowned prince of German musicians, Wagner, may visit our shores. Offenbach will bring opéra bouffe with him, and we shall have his sparkling family of gay heroes and heroines, and if he can induce Judic to accompany him he will be doubly welcome. Nilsson, we see, has turned a chilly shoulder to Bordeaux, be- cause her manager found that all the civic and military authorities wanted to occupy seats without paying forthem. We applaud the manager, as we can fancy the plight of Maretzek, for instance, it he found that Mayor Wickham, General Porter, Commissioner Matsell, Commissioner Bailey, the Board of Aldermen and the General Committee of Tammany Hall, flanked by Collector Arthur, Postmaster James and the Judges of the United States, Police and State Courts, led by Judge Davis and Judge Brady, were drawn up in file before Steinway Hall when he opened the doors for aconcert. Each country has its usages, and even in New York we find that the shareholders at the Academy of Music fill the place of the civic and military incubus that frightened Ull- man away from Bordeaux. So through painting, sculpture and literature we have word of the latest works from the brushes of Gérome and Meissonier, the mask from the face of the dead Carpeaux, and the latest important publications. All this nerve force sends out its pulsa- tions over the civilized world, and if we make the cable its neurometer we are only fulfilling our duty to the public. It has long been known that the compass of art pointed its needle Parisward, and, knowing that so many of our fellow countrymen had sought art and pleasure at the shrine itself, we opened our reading room in Paris, that those who were dazzled by the attractions of the beautiful city might turn toa place where, amid every surrounding conducive of comfort, the American abroad might read his home newspapers and recall that a mighty nation across the sea was rapidly rising to that empire of knowledge and resources which would in the travail of time develop an art centre like Paris is to-day. ‘The success of our reading room has been complete, and, coupled with our Paris cable letter, it enables us to feel a sense of gratifi- cation, in which Americans must share, that we have thus brought the Old World closer to the New _ the ¥ $0 the Old. The to the British Uni- versity. The unanimous resolve of our student oarsmen to adopt the suggestion in Mon- day's Henanp, and ask the famous British University men to join them in their racing next July, does credit at once to their pluck and promptness. But they impose one con- dition nearly sure to prove fatal—namely, that the race be in six-oars, a style of craft unknown in England. It should be borne steadily in mind that the visitors, not the chal- lengers, make the terms, and the only one we should think of suggesting is that our guests steer as Captain Gulston does. This they will likely accede to out of courtesy, in return for the graceful concessions of Har- vard in 1869, in adopting a method of steer- ing and style of boat as new to her as were the swirls and eddies of the swift Thames, We are fortunate in having on Saratoga Lake a course alike free from current, tide er steamer swash, where, with lanes broad, straight and well defined, the absolute fair- ness of the contest is apparent at a glance. Not a day should be lost in getting the sig- natures of the captains and forwarding the notes of invitation; for much, if not all, of the interval will be needed for the proper arranging of preliminaries. If the time does not suit our guests, a change even of a whole month should not stand in the way, and every effort should be made to render their visit one to be long and most pleas- antly remembered, We must not, at least by any fault of ours, lose this best of oppor- tunities to show that we are fully sensible of the treatment our rifle team received at British hands and homes. The Speakership—“The Restoration of the Bourbons.” The democratic caucus assembled yester- day afternoon and after three ballots nom- inated Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, The vote on these ballots shows that Mr. Kerr's strength from the beginning made him the prominent candidate, and that Mr. Cox, of New York, held the balance of power. Mr. Randall's vote did not exceed sixty-three, and the friends of Mr, Cox at the end of the second ballot, finding it impossible to disturb the support of Mr. Kerr or Mr. Randall, went almost in a body to the support of the gentle- man from Indiana, The election of Mr. Kerr places in the Speaker's chair a gentle- man of character, who will no doubt perform the duties of that office with dignity and fairness. The elements which elected him, however, are not calculated tostrengthen the party throughout the country. From the very beginning Mr. Kerr has been sup- ported by the Bourbons of the de- mocracy. He represents that element which has labored since the begin- ning of the war to return the democratic party to the position it occupied under Buchanan. His success as Speaker is vir- tually a repetition of the policy which made Cockrell Senator from Missouri, Wallace from Pennsylvania and Eaton from Connec- ticut. It shows that the leaders of the demo- cratic party have learned nothing from the results of the war. They are as stiff-necked in accepting the consequences of that great event as Pharaoh when he held the people of Israel and would not let them go. The success of Mr. Kerr is also an im- putation upon a large part of the democratic party now in Congress. So far as it affects the Presidency it is the success of the friends of Mr. Tilden, aided by Mr. Cox. They have succeeded in throwing aside the just ambition of every Eastern man, of Mr. Wood, Mr. Randall and many others perfect- ly competent to fill the office of Speaker, to make way for Tilden’s chances before the next Democratic Convention. We question whether an act so selfish as this will carry with it the rank and file of the democracy, even in New York. If the democratic party exists only to elevate Mr. Tilden, if all his reform plans in New York are noth- ing more than Tammany schemes for the Presidential nomination, and if the secret, dark lantern, Know Nothing policy of Tam- many is to be transferred to the country then we understand the fall meaning of Mr. Kerr’s election and the danger that it will bring to the democratic party through- out the States. The democracy would have found them- selves in a much better position, so far as the country is concerned, and especially so far as the South and East are concerned, if they had taken # candidate like Mr. Ran- dall, who represents the backbone of the party, who is thoroughly fit for the Speaker- ship, and whose efficiency in the House on the great’ occasion of the Force bill cam- paign, pointed to him as the competent man to hold this high office. Nor do we think the democratic party will be aided by the fact that the election of Mr. Kerr was intended to be a rebuke to the aspirations of “dishonest democrats.” The fact that the caucus of the democratic party is willing to signify that it elects Mr. Kerr because it was afraid to intrust power to democrats as prominent as himself in the confidence of the party will not be without its effect upon the country. Altogether the event is de- plorable, looking at it from a democratic point of view, and it seems the democrats will never learn wisdom. This House, which came into power to reform the country, to overthrow Bourbonism, to free the party from the malign influ- ence of Tammany Hall seems to begin in the old, old way. This election gives the repub- licans another chance. If Grant will only rise to the dignity of the situation and step aside from all tempting ambitions, and in imitation of Washington, or even of our own Recorder Hackett write a letter making his determination clear, he will give the republicans an opportunity to sweep the country like a prairie fire. This opportunity they will only be too glad to accept. Let Grant waive his ambition and unite heartily with the better sense of his party, and it may be that in electing Kerr as the repre- sentative of Tammany’s baneful policy and Tilden’s selfish ambition the democrats have abandoned the fruits of the ‘‘tidal wave” tri- umph and made a republican success possi- ble next November. Views of the Religious Press. It is rarely that we find so many and differ- ent topics in one week's issue of the religious press as we find this week. The Catholic papers ha oh ke say + Gujbord’s Pee carnins petehs ctory, since his remains have been laid in unconse- crated earth. And the interference of an English court of high or low degree was simply an impertinence in the case; for to bury an excommunicated person in a Cath- olic graveyard is as gross an outrage and as absurd a triumph as to march him living to the altar, while a file of soldiers with fixed bayonets compel the bishop to give him the sacrament. Instead, therefore, of o triumph of the law being effected, an out- rage in the name of the law has been com- mitted on the Catholics of Montreal. The Cardinal's return and certain phases of the school and Bible question are also con- sidered by the journals of this denomina- tion. Some of our Protestant contemporaries are engaged in giving preparatory advice to Con- gress, or warning it against the errors of its predecessors and the dangers that lie ahead in its own path, xney express a ettid of ¢h- forced pleasure at the #etnocratic complexion of the House of Repr4wentatives. It is bet- ter that that party should come to the con- trol of one House of Congress in 1875 than that without any trial im recent years it should come to full control of the nation in 1877. Unfortunately there is not much that Congress can do, and still more unfortu- nately these legislators have not the power morally to do the little that is possible—to cut down taxation, reduce expenses and pre- Pare the nation for prosperity. The repub- licans will have amajority in the Senate, and it is feared that a split may be caused among them in the attempt to supersede Senator Ferry, who is an inflationist, by a hard money man; while if Mr. Ferry is retained and the democrats should elect an inflationist Speaker the Senate would not be im a condition to rebuke them. In looking at the future of America and judging of it by the past one cannot but be struck, say these journals, with the extent to which questions, not in themselves political and yet in their practical bearing very momentous, seem entering into the politics of the country. The next great issue here is likely to be one involving the principles of religious liberty, as, for instance, the Sun- day question and the Bible in the schools. It is deemed probable that in a large ma- jority of the evangelical pulpits on Thanks- giving Day the latter question was discussed. M. Jouin, 8. J., an officer or teacher in the Catholic Protectory, having written in Latin a book advocating the most ultramontane ideas on the school question, is rather roughly handled by one of our contemporaries, which wants to know who shall take care of those who aspire to take care of us, and de- clares that the question is not one of the Bible in the schools or no, but the straight issue of school or no school. The Gray Nuns legislation, the death of Vice President Wilson and the expulsion of students from Princeton also receive attention from our Protestant contemporaries, The Hebrew journals condemn the attempt to rake up the Beecher scandal again, and declare that no pen is able to compute the amount of evil which the discussion has brought upin our day and generation. It should be kept out of conversation in re- spectable society. Denominational topics also receive editorial attention and com- ment. Chief Justice Daly's sketch of the settlement of the Jews in North America takes the place of editorial comment in the Times and forms an interesting and readable chapter. Advice to Mr. Beecher. We have given little attention to the unfor- tunate Brooklyn scandal since the close of the trial, beyond the publication of the current news. We have felt that, so faras the par- ties in interest were concerned, the trial ended it. We believed that a controversy tried beforea distinguished and painstaking judge, conducted on both sides by advocates of commanding ability and representing the highest legal talent, lasting through months and months, necessarily exhausted itself. We were only too happy to have it pushed forever out of sight. The result of ‘the trial may be summed up in the Scotch form of “not proven,” although a jury which stands nine to three may safely be understood as showing that the pre- ponderance of public opinion was in behalf of the party who had convinced nine jurors of his innocence, But the scan- dal does not seem disposed to die. The men who prosecuted Mr. Beecher for the crime of adultery are not disposed to accept the verdict of the Brooklyn jury. They entered into this work for the purpose of de- stroying Mr. Beecher, not only as a minister of the Gospel, but as 8 man. Many in- fluences combined to this destruction. There was the enmity arising out of Mr. Tilton’s sense of personal wrongs. ‘There were Mr. Moulton and his friends, who writhed under the imputation of perjury which nine jury- men imposed upon him. There were the clergymen in Brooklyn who, for a quarter of a centary, have been jealous of Mr. Beecher’s world-wide fame. Be- yond all this there was that grovelling sentiment which rejoices in the wounding of a high spirit and the degradation of a noble name. In the meantime the plaintiff in the trial, Mr. Tilton, has been receiving what we suppose we may call ‘‘ovations” in his lec- turing tour. He has made a great deal of money and become the recipient of wide attentions. He went into the controversy without a friend and has come out of it with a strong party. - We think that Mr. Beecher’s true course in this complication would be to retire from the pulpit. He is making an uneven war. .He is one against ten thousand. The ten thou- sand who are fighting him would have con- tinued the controversy even if he had re- ceived a unanimous verdict from the jury. Apart from any conscientious belief in Mr. Beecher’s guilt, which, no doubt, is shared by a large portion of the community, many of the men who oppose him do so with the instinct of self-preservation. Mr. Tilton has so managed his controversy that anybody who took part in it would come to sure de- struction. The only way for Mr. Moulton and those who took sides with him in the trial to remove from their names the stain is to destroy Mr, Beecher by another trial or by fanning public opinion to such an extent that he will stand condemned without a trial. Now, a clergyman, like a judge, should not only be guiltless, but above even the suspicion of guilt, Even Rumor should not assail him. Scandal always tarnishes the sacred office. No clergyman can fulfil his function when his character is at all in ques- tion. Mr. Beecher’s character is certainly in question Even if innocent of the grave charge alleged against him, he is guilty, as shown by his letters, of weakness, heedless- ness, the absence of true dignity and a care- lessness in his pastoral relations which make any further performance of the sacred office a reflection upon the true spirit of Christian religion. Mr. Beecher owes it to religion to with- draw from it the calumnies that sre heaped upon it through him. He has known much suffering. Evenif guilty he has been punished beyond precedent, and his punish- ment continues from day to day. The scandal can only end by abandoning the sacred gfive and svondipe the re- cies ~ mamder of his days ag PMvate citizen. So much is to be gained in’ the interest of morality by this act, and %° much is lost every day of his continuange in the sacred office, that in the kindliest and x<iendliest spirit we think his duty is clear’ and Inime- diate: He'said in one of his letters to Mr. Mouiton that he was willing to ‘step down and out” if it would satisfy his antagonist. He can now satisfy public opinion and bring the painful episode to an end by following the course he then proposed. Pulpit Topics To-Day. After another week of study and prepara. tion the pastors will come forth to-day laden with the good things of the kingdom, to impart to those who shall wait on their ministry. Mr. Harris will extract from the lite and death of the late Vice President such lessons as he deems useful to his congrega- tion. Mr. Lightbourn will set the advantages of regeneration over against the folly and absurdity of procrastination, and urge his hearers to accept salvation at once. Mr. Lloyd will take up and elaborate the central question in modern religious thought, and educe from nature and from revelation the doctrine of immortality. The highest resolve which man can make will be set forth by Mr. Johns, who will also paint Satan’s palace for the benefit of his congrega- tio, and Mr, Willis will manifest the Lord as a strong tower and utter some practical thoughts on a subject with which every one of us is more or less familiar—winter, Mr. Knapp will give the word of salvation to seekers and water to the thirsty, while Mr. Leavell, who has a superabundance, will give an invitation and offer an inducement to his people to accept salvation. Dr. Armi- tage will take up a handful of arrows and hurl them at the hard hearts of his hearers with a view to divide amd break and evolve therefrom joyful hearts. Dr. Patton will de- monstrate that in God’s one way of salvation there is success for the few or the many, and Mr. Jutten will hold up for our encourage- ment the fortitude of Jesus in prospect of His sufferings. Dr, Tiffany will exhibit Abra- ham’s great trait as a man of faith, and Mr. Phelps will show up a captured thief. Dr. Talmage will take a sweeping view of Bible and school questions this morn- ing, and show what the result of the expul- sion of the Bible from the schools would be, aswellas what the moral standing of the teachers of Brooklyn is. He has quite a big job on hand for one sermon. Mr. Merritt will hold up Joshua as a model for his hear- ers, and Mr, McCarthy will discuss whether the forbidden fruit was a vegetable produc- tion or a spiritual and mental quality. Mr. Alger will compare and contrast liberal Christianity with Catholicism and orthodoxy, and show who holds the counterfeit keys of the kingdom and who the true, Dr. Preston will deliver his second lecture on the mys- teries of the eucharist embracing the nature of the Christian sacrifice, and Bishop Snow will discuss the parable of the ten virgins, and show when and how it hasbeen or is to be fulfilled, while Mr. Giles will explain how people should hear the truth, These are in the main interesting and important topics for this day's pulpit consideration. Ir rae War between the Cable companies results in the reduction of rates the public will not be anxious for peace. ‘‘Let us have war” will then be the motto of all who desire cheap telegraphic communication with Europe. Is rr His Hanpwarrive?—The fac-simile of the telegraphic despatch attributed to General Babcock, published to-day, will attract attention, as upon their authenticity depends largely his innocence or guilt. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Scientifically on dit, that Iceland ts getting to be iced in. The Vicksburg Herald man !s James H. Sullivan, of Memphis. i Jacob Abbott has written 150 books, and St. Mark wrote only one. Mrs. Livermore says girls are not particular enough about the men they marry. Paul Boyton is coming home soon to display an inven- tion to preserve the lives of skaters, General Benjamin F. Butler arrived in the city yes- terday, and isat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. John Norris, only survivor of Perry's battle of Lake Erie, lives at Petersburg, Ky., and is eighty-four. Senator James E. English, of Connecticut, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening on his way to Washing- ton. General John C. Fremont has boughta house on Madison avenue, New York, and will live in this eity hereafter. Wendel! Phillips says that the republican party of Massachusetts with the reformers left out would be in & minority. Judge David Davis, {tis said, ts secretly working up a ‘movement’ in his own behalf, with a view to the White House. Senators Burnside and Anthony, of Rhode Ii and Henry Cooper, of Tennessee, left the city last even- ing for Washington. Professor Goldwin Smith will, it is rumored, parcbase the Toronto Mail, and conduct it as an advocate of Canadian independence. It is claimed that Governor Hendricks has been suc. cessful in securing the support of the Michigan delega- tion in the next Democratic National Convention, ‘The grangers of California are circulating a petition praying the next Legislature to pass a bill ‘fixing the rate of attorneys’ and Jawyers’ fees where no special contract is made, ”* : As the new constitution of Missouri is now officially in effect the city of St. Louis will not be permitted to spend more than $1,600,000 for current expenses during the coming twelve months, A little girl named Sammerhizer, in Jowa City, swal- Jowed a tin whistle one day Jast week, Her parents are dreadfully annoyed, because with every breath she takes the poor child wakens the baby, and whenever she has # coughing spell she whistles all the dogs tn the neighborhood into the house, Senator Wright, of lowa, in @ recently reported in torview, says he talked with the President frequently at Des Moines, and feels ‘perfectly satisfled not only that he does not desire té'be, but also that he will not be, a candidate fora third term.” The republican party will not nominate him under the circumstances; tho anti-third-term cry is so popalar ‘‘it would kill a saint.” _ Jennie June describes Miss Alcott as a tall, slender woman, who looks as if she might have been handsome in her youth, and still preserves a striking appearance, rendered interesting by her beautiful brown eyes and short but abundant Yrowa curly hair. She is some- what reserved, 208 ¢ say brusque, in her manner, and does not aways, therefore, produce the favorable al pression upon strangers which her genuine goodheart-t edess and trath deserves. General Sherman, in a recent letter, says of General McPherson, whom he has been charged with misrepre- senting :—‘In recording the event about Resaca I could not help stating, what he himself often did, that he there had the best opportunity ever offered to achieve for himself brilliant success. Jam sorry his friends think I did this from sinister motives. No general can achieve fame without some, mishaps, dofeata, and mie takes. No general can be a man withoyt the acob danse of manhggd.”