New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-12

| the public is by no means exhausted, and we
need only remind benevolent persons that in
this particular instance there is especial force
in the proverb that "He gives double who
"gives quickly II is especially gratifying
that, even before this call Is made, the dollar
subscription should have suddenly revived.
| Our receipts yesterday amounted TO over SoV'
An extraordinary concurrence OF important
events in various quarters compels the publ
cation this morning of more fresh news than
we like to visit upon the readers OF THE
TRIBUNE in q single issue. Elsewhere. in the
sixteen pages of to-days paper, we print
verbatim report of so much OF the opening
| argument in the great Beecher-1ilton triai
| as was yesterday delivered, verbatim report
| of Senator Schurz's great speech IN ar
raignment of the Louisiana outrage YER
batim report of the proceedings at the great
| Cooper Institute meeting, the details OF the
last Pacific Mail revolution and of yesterdays
resu,ts in the Pacific Mail investigation, the
latest foreign correspondence the latest de-
tails of the contests for the Michigan and
Pennsylvania Scholarships, and full literary.
| scientific and artistic departments. We give
| besides, WIN our usual lullHtSS VI 8ii
the general current news of the day.
| We have taken small interest, as our read
ers will have noticed, in the quarrels in the
Pacific Mail Company itself. TO us the i'm
portant matter has seemed to be to discover
whether this corporation really used over a
million dollars of its money to bride Con-
gressmen into voting it subsidy. In spite
of the care taken to cover up all tracks, we
believe that q considerable portion OF the
money did go into the pockets of Congress
men and of other high officials, ana
trust this may yet be made plain. Meantime,
we confess that the last revolution IN the
Company itself wholly discourages us from
| any present attempt to understand what It's
| Directors mean, or what they want to nave
| the public think Next to the bewildcrlng
folly of putting persons like Stockwell and
Rufus Hatch successfully in charge of steam
ship company, we have seen nothing more
inexplicable, OH any ordinary business prlncl-
pie, than the restoration of Mr. Russell Sage
The precise point of the interesting card
elsewhere printed from Gen. f. A. Merritt.
former Naval Officer of this port, and now one
|
building. is that while the cost of this struc-
ture far outruns the original four million es-
innate, they are not to be held Responsible ior
| it, Gen. Merritt claims that thor plans were
| SO changed after the contracts for four millions
| which Mr. Gilman cited had been offered, that
tho necessary cost of the building was IN
creased to eight or ten millions, that the Leg
islature was duly informed OF tins increase,
and that. with the facts before 1t, that Dody
authorized the beginning OF tho work on the
new plans. There can be no doubt OF Gen.
| Merritt's entire candOr in these statements,
mr. of tho absolute honesty with which, he
has DISCHARGED his duties. But the people Will
still entertain gave doubts as to the wisdom
of the changes, or the economy with which
| they have been conducted.
Mr.. Charles Reade has addressed to THE
TRIBUNE a condensation of a somewhat longer
statement simultaneously addressed to The PaH
| Mall Gazette, replying to the attacks upon his
remarkable story, "A Hero and Martyr"
which we lately had the pleasure of publish
ing. Mr.. Reade's card is printed this morning
on our thirteenth page, and will be found in Its
way as clear and clean-cut piece of work as
the original narrative. 1t will be observed
| that he answers somewhat explicitly the ques-
ton which has also been raised on this side
| the Atlantic-whether his narrative Is In all
respects literally true. Mr.. Reade quietly
SAYS, that inasmuch as he has invited sub
scrptiOn for his herO's benefit, and has pro-
fessed to be writing the literal truth, he
should consider it diShOnOrable if he had done
otherwise. He then enters upon an explana-
| t;on which literary men will specially value,
of the method he pursued in getting Lambert's
story.
When Messrs. Foster, Phelps and Potter
were appointed Subcommittee for the in
vestigation of the reported Outrages in Lou
isiana, there was q general feeling of relief
throughout the country, for it was known
that each of these gentlemen was loyal, able,
honest, and Independent. Their unanimous
report will therefore be received with atten-
ton and command confidence. This report is
to the effect that the election which took
place in Louisiana last Fall was exceptionally
fair and honest and resulted in a COnserva-
tive victory; that there was no intimidation
of colored voters, but that o large number of
that class voted with the whites from choice !;
TINT many of the acts of the Returning Board
were illegal, and deprived legally elected MEN,
beers of the Legislature of their seats; and
that the White League is not secret, revolu-
tionary, or dangerous, but is composed of men
who would not cOuntenance lawlessness Of any
| kind The people may contrast this well-cOn-
sidered statement based on testimony with
Gen. Sherdan's hasty judgment, inspired. by
secondhand stories gathered during days