Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-04

u appears to be understood or assumed that
England will not withdraw from the Geneva
conference, but put in an answer to cur case, on
theIl2th of April, under strong protest against
consequential damages" and allow the arbitra-
tion to 20 forward. Earl Granvie's second
dispatch has been received at Washington and
read at a cabinet meeting. 1t concludes moth
ing, it is said, and adds nothing to what was
said in the first dispatch. That is to say, the
English government does not withdraw, nor
even suggest or hint the possibility of doing SO.
The English furry over our case was really
stupidity, and the English ministry feel this
probably; but of course, we cannot expect Earl
Granville to say so. Our government, we pre-
sumo, does not expect to get Consequential
damages" but it is important to get a deci-
sion OF this point, which can be used hereafter
TO regulate international relations so far as con-
Germs questions Of this kind. In the future, we
are likely to need the authority of such pre-
cedent oftener than England. In this considera-
ton we see the chief reason why our govern
ment should adhere to its position and press
this point to decision. Doubtless, we should
in the end gain more by having the decision
against us than by having it for us. The Amer
lean people have no desire to quarrel with En-
gland, but they desire just settlement of the
Alabama controversy; and just settlement
will take distinct account of the fact that En-
gland wronged us during the rebellion, being
moved to do so by her belief that the republic
would never again be strong enough to call her
to an account.
Nobody will be more astonished probably
than the author Of that impudent imposture, the
Cardiff giant, to learn that a New Haven scbol-
ar has come forward as his champion, and I'M
dertakes to prove that cold Cardiff is the
statue of Phenician divinity brought to this
country many centuries ago. Alexander Mac
Whorter is the name of this learned gentleman.
He graduated at Yale in 1872, aud has since en-
Joyed the inestimable privilege of residing in
New Haven, where he has absorbed great deal
of learning, and apparently lost his wits. His
conviction Of the antiquity of the figure is based
upon the character of the stone, on the repcti-
ton Of certain lines and angles, on the type Of
che face, and more than all else, on certain in
scriptions, which he alone has discovered on it,
and which he pronounces to be Pho nician. The
facts that the whole imposture has been com
pletely exposed; that the quarry from which the
block was taken, the building in which it
was shaped, the man who cut it, he who con-
veyed it TO 0nondaga county and buried it, and
the times and circumstances of these transac-
tions are well known, have no weight with Mr.
Mac Whorter in comparison with his discovery
of the Phoenician characters Much learning,
we fear, has made Mr., Mac Whorter mad, and
we are sure change of reading would be good
quarry " and the opening chapters of the Pickwick
papers. 1t is hardly necessary to say that it is
not proposed to place "Cardiff" in the Yale art
gallery, and that none of the professors have
yet given in their adhesion to the Mac Whorter
theory.