New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-05

promise to put it at the head of the Mall,
dominating all the other statuary, until they
have seen what it is to be-. The Commits
sioners of course must be governed by strict
rules in the management of the Park, and we
trust that Mr.. Burnham will generously with
draw the conditions which interfere with the
acceptance of his munifcent offer.
In another column an account will he found
of the reopening of churches closed during
the Summer vacation in this city and Brook
Ign. The list is a long one, and indicates
that the custom of giving pastors an oppor-
tunity to recuperate is every year coming
more and more into favor. We may also re-
mark that we hear less about clerical bronchitis
and ministers breaking down with hard work
than formerly. Which is as it should be.
1t is to be hoped that all the Beecher family
will not feel impelled to explain their letters.
The Rev. Thomas X. Beecher's commentary
on his famous epistle to Mrs. Hooker is such
curious study in self analysis that we print it
in full this morning, although we had skele-
ton of it by telegraph yesterday. To the elu-
cidation of the Great Scandal it contributes
nothing. Mr.. Thomas Beecher only says that
he knows of no reason why he should not
believe in his brother-which OF course we
are very happy to hear.
The Secretary of the Treasury pursues the
delinquent Secret Service officers with such
exemplary zeal that we have hope the slim
illus of his example may give somebody cour-
IN CHI or fow Dfn District
officers concerned with Whitley and Nettle-
ship in the conspiracy which brought those
virtuous detectives to grief. The scene In
court on Thursday, when the invalid burglar
Benton did not appear for trial, was enough
to make any honest citizen blush. Is there
no punishment for Acting Assistant District
Attorneys
The Republican leaders are determined to
press the financial issue as sharply as they
dare in the Ohio campaign. Senator Sherman
and Gen. Garfield both made it the bur-
den of their observations before the COlum-
bus Convention, Mr.. Garfield remarking that
1--WE have entered upon the business career
I" of American politics" (Which is truer than
he suppOses), and the Senator praising the
Republican party for supplying the country
with clean, new bank-nOtes, and praying,
trembling yet with hope, that it might go one
step further and make them as good as gold
There is nothing consolatory in the circum-
stance that Marshal Zabala has been succeeded
at the head of the Spanish Ministry by Senior
Sagasta. With the former in authority. the
paramount necessity of gaining some advan-
tage over the Carlists was indicated by the
selection of a military officer of no great
genius in bis profession. Sagasta, however,
was concerned in some of the most disreputa-
BILE acts Of the Regency, and his influence,
whatever it may be, will tend to the promo
ton of sordid personal aims, through I'M
principled devices.
We continue to-day our survey OF the
Autumn trade prospects, giving the result OF
inquiries by our reporters among the grocers,
furniture-makers, and iron-workers. The
grocers report safe and quiet trade, smaller
than in former years, but not without some
encouraging circumstances; butt in the other
two branches of business to which our atten-
ton is devoted this morning there is little to
relieve the gloom. The general disposition
towards economy has played havoc with the
dealers in costly furniture, while the prostra-
ton of the building interest has had serious
effect upon the iron works. There must be
many idle laborers this Winter, and charity
we fear may be heavily taxed; but every
body looks forward to bright Spring, and
the present partial depression has its uses in
checking speculation and extravaganza credits.
The Arctic search expedition whose prepa
ration we announced month ago is rendered
unnecessary by the return of the Austrian
party under Weyprecht and Payer, whose
long absence occasioned so much anxiety.
They sailed in the discovery ship Tegetthoff
more than two years ago. hoping to pass
around the northern end of Nova Zembla,
and push through the Arctic Sea to the Pa
cifc. Their ship was last seen off the coasts
of Nova Zembla in violent storm in August,
1872, and from that time nothing was heard
of the voyagers until they arrived the other
day, after a seven months sledge journey, at
the northernmost fortified place in Europe, the
Island of WardOe, at the extreme northeastern
point of Norway. The narrative of their ad-
ventures will be awaited with impatient
curiosity.
The controversy on the morality of vivi-
section, which has ragged so fercely of late in
England, is likely to be transferred to the
United States. Mr.. Bergh has written forci-
BILE letter to DR.. Austin Flint, ir, touching the
fortunes alleged to be inflicted upon animals
at Bellevue Hospital; and though the statutes
prohibit Mr.. Bergh's Society from interfering
with "properly conducted scientific expert
"ments" performed under the authority of the