New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-09

Whoever wants stirring incident, or dram.B.
situations, must go to the courts nowadays, instead
of to fiction. We take it In turn with our Eng,;.h
brethren to furnish each other weekly with tras.
dies, and abnormal developments Of human passio,
and crime, which thrill the blood with the mott
delightful horror, and make the flesh Green 10 an,
entire yirtu0us satisfaction. AS for novels they ar,
tame and meaningless beside such histories AZ tb.,
Of Fisk's career OF the Wharton trial Enpli.b
publishers send over. monthly shoals Of Braddop',
and Trollope's and Blacks imaginings, which ar.
reported as strong wine at home, but which, by thu
time they reach u.s. are stale and fiat enough Which
Of them ever contained plot like that Of the Itch
borne trali The gigantic fraud, the host OF wiss
duped by the butcher, the savage revenge which
he dealt on noble women or innocent girls who
stood in his way as remOrselessy though, ceayer
in hand, he were at work with the beasts in hi,
saughter-yard We are debtors to Arthur Orion
for prolonged tiDgle of sensation; and
tho moment the curtain falls upon him
en- grand tabiedu at Newgate, the Russian, Bauer
kindly takes his place. Mr. Bauer mysteriously
disappears in London, in daylight. Letters Of deep
and terrible portent are received, one from himself
bidding pathetic farewell to bis friends and
betrothed, stating that he is in the power of certain
league Of devils, aud has chosen death rather than
obedience to them another from the League in
forming his employers that he is dead. Which tals
is credited by all the English press from The Tna
down and dark glimpses are opened to us on every
side of nameless societies, invisible Bandersnatchss.
that from the days of the saints until now have
dwelt apart in Europe sucking mems blood, and
grinding their bones to make their bread. We can
now settle down with gusto to the refreshment Of
;cf trina ha oil Rauer
also writes a letter stating that his son has the
" wander-fever," and ran away before, and
limiting that he would probably turn up all right
before long. But we will have none of the elder
Bauer. He is an impracticable old gradgrind.
destitute Of imagination. We prefer to stand with
The Times and Spectator in Open-mOuthed horror OF
the Bandersnatch We shall be disappointed il
hair or bone of the lost Bauer is left on the earth
And if he ventures to turn up again all right, Wa
feel that we have just ground to sue for damages.
Great are the troubles of clergymeu, and constant
as they are great. Here is Methodist preacher OF
Waltham Mass. who, being widOwer took into bis
house to keep it. woman named Annie Mathew
son. In time, he married again; and forthwith An
ME began 10 circulate stories of her seduction by the
widowcr under promise of marriage. This accuser
had everything her own way, as Is usual in such
cases. and lost nothing by not making her charges
broad and miscellaneous enough. A church commit
tee has been investigating them with the accustomed
regard for the law of evidence exhibited by such
committees; and the whole matter has been
referred to the New-England Conference, to
which, il seems to Us, it should have orig
inay gone, if it was to go anywhere We
have no confidence in the judicial ability of self
constituted Church Committees. Meanwhile the
parishoners of this unfortunate pastor have full
faith in the purity of his character and no faith at all
in the purity of the wOmans character They regard
the whole transaction a bit of matchmaking, ana
their pastor a martyr. so he may DE. he II
forced to respond to charges easy to make and hard
to disprove; and though he may be continent
Scipio, the comfort OF his life is gone. plenty of
gossip-mongers will believe him guilty, and will
not willingly lei the scandal die. He must live
before the eyes of men, or give up his
profession. He cannot be lost in the multiudin0u
and unclassied crowd. If he were carpenter he
might still comfortably and proiitably build houses
if he were a cobber he might sill sole and heel
boots; but being preacher of the Gospel. and by
the condition Of his ordination a peripatetic
preacher, once III one or two years he must engage
in the Sysiphus labor OF building mp a character
and of locally living down the old lie. Society re-
auires hun to he like C;esars wife, not only without
ciety. with its usual charming consistency, persists
unreasonably in suspecting him. Under any other
than our voluntary and Congregational system, he
might laugh at his backbiters and draw his salary
with periodical punctualty: but the liberty which
has made his parishoners religious DemOcrats,has In
a certain sense made him their slave
We observe that several Protestant religious news
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ing of Roman Catholic missionaries from England
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