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Governor Tildcn's Precedent.

We have rumor that in the case of the
appointment of civil justice to take the place
Of "Stemmler, deceased" the latter gentleman
has concluded to abandon all claims to the
Office. He has been advised, we are informed,
by eminent lawyers that the recital of his
death by Governor Tilden in an instrument
under official seal is conclusive that he is
as dead ia the eyes of the la W as if his body
were actually entombed in Greenwood Gene
terry His attorneys have prepared an elab-
quote the language Of Jack Cade to Dick the
Butcher, in the play of King Henry Wills
not this lamentablo thing, that the skin
Of an innocent lamb should be made parch-
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Bonanza" shares. As We have had occasion to
point out, there is nothing more incumbent
upon our people than to avoid religiously the
temptation to seek fortunes in these foolish
enterprises. Wall street is now, as it has
been at nearly every period of its career,
a gambling den for INSCRIPTIONS spectators.
Activity in Wall street, such ''activity" as we
have had for ten days, is no more an evidence
OF wholesome business life than that the fever
or the energy that comes with delrium indi-
Gates sound physical health. Therefore our
prudent people should draw rigid line be-
tween the business advantages that will come
naturally, honestly and properly from the
wants of the country, from the cheerful enter
prise and energy of the merchants, and the
speculative advantages" which are offered
by the shrewd men who manipulate Wall
street for their own gain. If our friends have
money to invest let them invest it in good
honest bonds, government city or State, the
bonds and stock of railroads that pay divi-
bends, bank shares, shares of corporations of
accredited reputation. There are thousands
of such investments which we cannot too ear
nestly recommend. What we must avoid are
railroads that have been robbed by in
side Credit MobiEer corporations, which
propose to pay dividends by cheating
the government, railroads that have been
stripped by cliques of adventurers, and
which are now drifting into bankruptcy,
covered with four or five mortgages; corpora
tions whose names have become scandal and
a pest. These are the investments that have
no real value, because they represent audacious
gambling with public confidence, not business
Our readers should beware of
this, for any tendency to stimulate this form
of activity will only lead to reaction, un-
doing all we have done by patience and labor
in the winter, and losing all we have won by
our prudence courage and cheerfulness dur
ing this long period of depression and bust
ness anxiety.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-15
The Middle of tho Ececher Trial.

The most wearisome mess of worthless tit
tle-tattle ever inflicted on the patience of
long suffering public is presented in the trivial
and prolix testimony of the minor witnesses
in the Beecher trial. 1t does not exemplify
the beautiful language of the poet for
although there is ''many winding bout" it
is not exactly Of 'linked sweetness long
drawn out" Long drawn out it is unques-
tionably, but the sweetness reminds one of
assafostida, and if there be any links of con-
nectlon between this maze of twaddle and
the guilt or innocence of Mr.. Beecher the pub
lie does not readily perceive it. The testi-
mony on Friday was rather more surcharged
than usual with dreadfully boring imperti-
nence. OF what consequence is it to the pur-
pose of the trial with whom Oliver johnson
went to hear Tilton's political speech at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, or what places
he visited on his way home, or what Albert
Brisbane said at Mrs. Woodhull's
house about national finance and his
scheme of a pneumatic tunnel between New
York and Washington, or whether Miss
Oakley did or did not recollect Mrs. Tilton's
bad English in a conversation in the presence
of her children at her table? We do not
know what may at last be fished out of this
infinite sea Of irrelevancy, but II looks too
much as if there is purpose to protract the
trial until some one of the jurymen is utterly
broken in health in order that it may end with
out verdict If such result should happen
just at the point where Mr.. Beecher has com
ple.ed his direct testimony and before he is
subjected to the ordeal of o cross-examination
it would have most unhappy effect on public
opinion. II is for his interest that his co,,n-
sci should protect him against such conse-
qucnces before the sick juror is utterly dis
abled by the vitiated air of the court room.
Public opinion will be mora influenced by
Mr.. Beecher's cross-examination than by any
other feature of the trial. If his direct tcsti-
mony is strictly truthful it will be impossible for
his keen inqusitors to shake him or entanglc
him in a web of contradictions and if he
runs that gauntlet unframed there will be q
strong presumption in favor Of his innocence
Truth is always consistent with itself, and q
witness who swears to nothing but facts in
his recollection can never be seriously dam
aged by cross examination. But when O
witness Invents, or prevaricates or colors
from that moment he is lost, if skilful,
searching inQpisitoE stands ready to put him
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-15
Father Walkers Attack ON the Pub.
lie schools.


Among the sermons which we publish to-
day is one which will attract particular notice,
because of its strong contrast with the moder-
alton and intelligence which is Characteristic
of the enlightened clergy of the metropolis
It is the Intolerant and unjust attack which
the Rev. Father Walker made yesterday upon
the public school system, which is one of the
noblest achievements Of our civilization.
Nothing that is true of the evils inseparable
from that system, nothing that has been
asserted as to the injustice done the Catholic
Church by its management, can in the least
degree justify the violent abuse of which
Father Walker has been guilty. To intimate
that Catholic parents tho send their children
to the public schools are in danger of dam
nation; to declare that he would as
soon administer the sacramento to a
dog as to such Catholics; to deny
that such parents are truly Catholics, or
at the best merely those Of the pothouse
politician stripe to describe the system by
which alone the children of the poor are
rescued from ignorance and enabled to be-
come intelligent members of society as the
instrument of the devil-this is to preach
bigotry, barbarism, darkness, nothing that
Christianity is, and everything that it is not
Whatever may be thought of the injustice or
the impolicy of taxing Catholics for the sup
port of schools they do not use, priest has
no authority to make damnation the penalty
Of mere submission to wrong. If Catholics
L L Al ~
object, for similar preferences exist in Protes-
tant sects; but no intelligent citizen, whatever
his religious faith, can hear without indigna-
ton the great plan of popular secular educa-
ton denounced as the browning work of the
enemy of man.
1t would be condescension to which we
are not inclined to defend the public schools
from the fury of Father Walker as it would be
unpleasant to describe his sermon in the
terms it deserves. Argument to defend the
one or language to reprobate the other. are
equally unnecessary. We only desire to ex-
press our belief that while such sermons can
not njure the schools they are calculated to
do great harm to the Catholic Church in Amer
lea. No Church can hope to prosper, no Church
should prosper, that places itself as an obsa-
Gle to the education of the young by the Com
monvealih.
It is our duty to acquit the Church of au-
thorizing preaching so repugnant to every in
stinct of decency, and to express the convic-
ton that Cardinal McCloskey would be wise
to censure the new doctrine that parents who
send their children TO the public schools de-
serve to be denied the sacraments in this life
and to be damned in the next. Father Wal.
ker might be good missionary to convert the
caunbals, but bis usefulness in the churches
of New York was ended by his extraordinary
performance of yesterday.
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ment? That parchment, being scribbled
Ger, should undo man? Some say the bee
stings; but I say the beeswax; for did
but seal once to thing and I was never mine
own man since" This certainly makes it
clear that Stsmmler is dead, and that the Gov
ernor, in the exercise Of bis high authority,
did not make blunder, as many needless
journalists imagine, but founded solemn
precedent
BY this precedent the Governor shows us
the way to remove Green. He has simply to
issue an instrument under seal reciting his
death, and there Will be an end of the
COMPTROLLER
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on the rack. The fact that one Of the jury.
men is in so precarious condition that he Is
compelled to take hourly doses of medicine
in the court room and is liable to fall out Of
the case on any day should admonish tho
counsel of Mr.. Beecher to bring him at once on
the stand, and make sure that his whole testi-
mony is given and sifted before any unfortu-
nate accident puts sudden termination to the
trial.
A bill has been presented in the State
Senate to enable wife to be witness for
the defendant in an action for criminal con-
versation. The purpose of this bill is to enable
Mrs Tilton to testify in the present case. It
is SO consistent with equity that we hope it
will be promptly passed.
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There is great variety in our reports of the
sermons delivered yesterday in this city and
Brooklyn. The reasons why everybody should
join the Church, which Mr.. Hepworth gave in
his eloquent sermon, are not to be disputed
but he omitted one very good reason--the
intellect OF the New York pulpit generally.
Religion appeals not only TO the heart. but
to tie head, and even that large class which
supposes that nothing is needed for it's moral
Improvement can find intellectual inspiration
in the discourses of our thoughtful clergy,
and thus IN time be brought to more serious
reflections upon life. No intelligent person
could fail to derive profit from Mr.. Frothng-
hams sermon upon the infnitude of mortal
existence paradoxical as the terms may seem.
Another notable address was that of the Rev.
Mr.. Lyford, Of Utah, upon Mormonism,
subject OF which he is entitled to speak
by personal experience, though he was
certainly very bitter in his censure
England was described by the Rev. Nh.
Draper, and Mr.. Marley, one of the leaders
in that work which Messrs. Sankey and
Moody are continuing with increased success,
preached TO twenty thousand persons in the
Hppodrome. Bishop Andrews preached at
the opening Of tue new Methodist Episcopal
church in Six,y-fr.t street, and Mr.. Beecher
explained the methods o growth in Christian
character. These aud other discourses are
carefully reported in our religious columns
today.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-15

TIE Mormon MASSACRE. facts Of the
notorious Mountain Meadows massacre have
long been known to the public and are now
to be established by process of law. Our
letter from Salt Lake City contains a full ac-
count of the scope and purpose of the judicial
investigation which is to be begun next month
at Beaver, Utah. The removal of the case
from the Mormon capital should give salts
faction to both sides, and will add to the like
ihood of ON impartial trial
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RANDALL's ISLAND is a place of interest to
great many citizens who are not likely to visit
It, and our account of its scenes will be in
structive to the reader. Appended to this re-
port are some valuable comments upon the
brutal treatment of the late Mr.. Stockvis
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The ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES Boat RACE
takes place on the Thames On the Goth inst,
and we print to-day complete account of the
nval crews of Cambridge and Oxford and
their training.
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IT APPEARS from our cable dispatches that
the usual etiquette in the comforting of the
cardinalate at Rome wilt not be dispensed
with in the case of Cardinal McCloskey.
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The RESIGNATION Of Baron Schwarz-Sen-
born, the Austrian Minister at Washington, is
denied. The Baron was the director of the
Vienna Exposition, and his residence in this
country is much desired by the friends of our
(Jentennial
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An EXHAUSTIVE ARTICLE upon the Harbor
of New York and the dangers TO which it is
exposed will be found upon another page
The necessity Of legislative interference is
clearly proved.
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The CENTENNIAL. regulations for the
governmental display at the Centennial Exhi-
bition, and an analysis OF the classiticatlons
in the ten great departments, will be found
elsewhere. There are two hundred thousand
dollars now at the disposal of the national
rom m iacIop.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-15

Our LITERARY DEPARTMENT to-day contains
an excellent article on the influence of music
on health and lite and the latest news of
books and authors.
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From our reports This morning the probabilities
Gre that the heather today ,ciH be ,carner and
cloudy, Nth rain or snor.
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Nh. P1NcHBAcKs CASE is likely to be de-
cided to-day, as it is thought that Senator
johnson will not deliver his proposed speech.
The vote is expected to be close.
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The FITz PoRTERs of the Manhattan
Club announce that they will give a recep-
ton to the democratic Senator's of the present
Congress. This is to be another champagne
and trufles glorifcation. We have no doubt
the Senators will be glad to meet the brilliant
gentlemen who form the Manhattan Club. At
the head of them will be that glorious old
statesman, Uncle Dick, whose silence at the
last session was more eloquent than the
oratory of Clay or Webster Uncle Dick re-
mains in Washington for the purpose Of
bringing on the Senators, and they will be re-
ceived in grand procession, the comrade o.
Thomas Jefferson, the correspondent of Ma.
poleon, the originator of the Crane
Alaska, Honduras and Patagonia Rail
road Company at their bead. But would
it not be well for the democratie
Senators to have a reception also from the
Fitz Kellys? There ore not more than one
hundred OF the Fitz Porters, and they only
vote when it does not rain. There are
eighty thousand of the Fitz Kellys, who
vote through rain and storm. Why not
have reception in the Fourth avenue i'm.
proyement on the part of the Fitz Kellys2
The Senators would learn more true democ
racy from the horny-handed iaborers who do
not drink champagne than from the curled
darlings of Fifteenth street and Fifth avenue.
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YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
70. ~ sso.dwayA7AhfEr9 at II. n closes at ic:S
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
west Fourteenth street-Open from 10 A ~ 10 > r. M.
ROMAN HIpPoDRoME.
s aoTfsS AND aEsAGEEIE afternoon and evening
Att and S.
r.se. s4sE Close. at
BEYANT's OPERA HOUSE,
fs s fsf A Dan
Bryant
GERMANIA THEATRE
so.ss at i S Miss Lima Sasf
N1BLos.
siSs 81 MAGIC, at f? n closes al 10
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
70 2ol OVERWHELMINGLY at p NJ; closes at lo'iS
FIFTH Av I'VE gIs, THEATRE !itp RIG no
Lewis, Miss Davenport, Mrs Gilbert.
LYCEUM THEATRE,
fourteenth street. near Sixth avenue. MEDIA, At
Broadway.-French Opera ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
ats NJ closes at l0:45 z. NJ. Mile. Corae Geofiroy
GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE,
No. 5s5 Broadway.-VARIETY, at p NJ. closes at l0:E
BOOTHS THEATRE
corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue
HENRY v, at T. NJ. closes at ii p. NJ Mr.. Rignold
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELs
Broadway. corner OF Twenty ninth srect-NEGEO
GINS1RELSY, at 8 p NJ; closes at 10 T. NJ
TIvOLI THEATRE,
Eighth street between second and Third avenues
VARIETY, at 8 p. NJ. closes at II p n.
wALLACK's THEATRE
Broadway.-THE SHACGHRAUN, at 8 P NJ closes at
10 IS P. n. Mr.. Bouccault
COLOSSEUM
Broadway and Thirty fourth streeE-PARIS BY NIGHT.
Two exhibitions daily. at and T. NJ
MRS. CONwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
0Yooklyn.-THE MAN o. AiRLlE, at S P. NJ closes At
1850 P. N. Mr. Lawrence Barrett
WOODS MUSEUM,
roadway, corner Thirtieth street-MOSTE CHRIsTO
at2P n. SAS-SA Gus ats r " closes at 10 As z. n.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Fo 6A Broadway.-VARIETY, at z. NJ closes at 10 Is
ROBINSON BALL,
Sixteenth street and Broad wey.-CALLENDEk'S
GEORGIA MINSrRELs, at s p. NJ closes at 10 P. NJ
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TRIPLE S III e E T.

NEW YORK. MONDAY. MARCH Is. 1878.
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART.
west Fcurreenth street. Open from 10 A u. 10 r. NJ
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OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Fo. 6A Broadway.-VARIETY, at Z. N. closes at 10 ~
p. N.
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ROMAN HIPPODROME
Fourth avenue ana Twenty-seventh streot-ClkCUs,
fROTTING AND MENAGERIE, afternoon and evening"
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ROBINSON HALL
Sixteenth street and Broad wey.-CALLENDEK'S
GEORGIA MINSrRELs, at P. NJ closes at 10 P. NJ.
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BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE.
Fulton avenue.-VARIEIY at 8 r. VI. closes At IL As
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THEATRE COMIQUE,
70 ia broadway-VARIETY. at r. NJ closes ~ 10 -
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BEYANT'S OPERA HOUSE.
West Twenty third street, near Sixth avenue NEGRO
NINsTRELSY, &c, at Z +. NJ; closes ut ~ +. NJ Dan
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GERMANIA THEATRE
Fourteenth street. GlROFLE GIROFLA, at 3 T. ". /;
closes at 10 As +. NJ. Miss Lima Mayr.
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WOODS MUSEUM,
0roadwny, corner Thirticth street-MOSTE CHRISTIE,
at2P. N. SASSA Gus, ats r " closes at 10 As p. NJ
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
Twenty eighth stree and Broadway.-fHE BIG BO-
MANIA, at r. NJ. closes 10 80 P. NJ. M Fisher Mr..
Lewis Miss Davenport. Mrs Gilbert.
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NIBLO's,
Broadway RORY O'MORE, and HERRMANN, TIE
KING OF MAGIC, at +. NJ closes at 10 45 T. NJ
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
Eo. 20l Bowery.-VARlETY at p. NJ closes at 10:i
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LYCEUM THEATRE,
Fourteenth street. Sixth avenue. MEDIA, At
p. NJ Mmc. kistor.
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An Interesting Letter from Thurlow
Weed.

We welcome this astute politician, veteran
journalist and respected citizen again to our
columns, although his communication, which
we print this morning, seems to prove that
the HERALD was not quite right in dissenting
from the letter on the civil service reform
question which he sent US more than two
years ago. Mr.. Weed claims, and justly
claims, that his prediction then has become
history now. But whether the failure
of the civil service movement, which
he SO confidently foretod in our col
umns is creditable or dlscreditable to
the administration is different question,
which we will not go into at present. Mr..
Weed is fairly entitled to the praise of saga
city in foreseeng so clearly that it would prove
bootess and abortive agitation. But we
respectfully suggest that his too well fulfilled
prediction was founded rather on his intimate
and accurate knowledge of the ways of politi.
clans than on his perception of popular senti.
ment. The people, from beginning to end,
looked with great favor on the attempted re.
form in the civil service; it was the politi.
clans who stabbed it under the fifth rib while
putting their arms endearingy around its
neck and pretending to support it, Even if
Mr.. Weed was correct in predicting in 1872
that, if it were established, 'at least two
sbarpers for one honest man would pass the
examinations" the government would still
have had every means Of ascertaining honesty
which it possessed before, and would have
been under no obligation to bestow offices
upon knaves But this is dead question,
and we are quite willing that Mr.. Weed
should write its epitaph, although it would
fare hardly with most of us if epitaphs were
to be written by enemies
Mr.. Weed, having demonstrated the truth
of his former prediction, makes another and
in the new case we see no reason to doubt his
foresight. He thinks the Civil Rights bill
will turn out to be as egresious failure az
the civil service reform. We call attention
to his astute observations ON this subject
"The Civil Rights law he says, "will bring
nothing but disappointment and vexation to
the colored men, After few abortivo
attempts to enforce it things will settle down
in the old way, leaving questions Of social
equality to regulate themselves. The best
that can be hoped is that the law will becoms
q dead letter. We have no doubt that time
will establish the correctness of this view.
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PARK THEATRE,
Broadway.-French Opera OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
ATS p NJ. closes at l045 NJ. Mile. Coralie Geofroy
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MRS. CoNwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE,
0Yookyn.-THE MAN o. AIRLlE, at r. N. closes !
10 80 P. N. Mr. Lawrence Barrett
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COLOSSEUM
Broadway and Thirty fourth streeG-PARIS BY NIGHT.
Two exhibitions daily. at aud 7. NJ.
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wALLACK'S THEATRE,
Broadway.-TuE SHACGHRAUN, ats p. NJ; closes at
10 IS p n Mr.. Boueicault-
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TIVOII THEATRE,
Eighth street between second and Third avenues
VARIETY. at 6 p. NJ closes at IL 2. n.
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NOTICE TO sUBscRIBERs.-on and

AL business or news letters and telegraphio
dispatches must be addressed New York
HERALD.
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Letters and packages should be properly
eealed.
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SAN FRANCISCO MISSTRELs,
Broadway, corner OF Twenty-uinth strect-NEGEO
GINSTRELSY, at 8 P. NJ. closes at 10 2. NJ.
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GRAND CENTRAL THEATRE,
No. 5S5 Broadway.-VARETY, at p NJ: closes at 10 ~
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BOOTHS THEATRE,
corner of Twentv-third street and Sixth avenue
HENRY v, at Z. NJ closes at ii p. NJ Mr.. Rignold.