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The New York herald., 1876-02-05
The Eccentric weather.
decency.

few days ago the innocent crocuses we're
blooming in the neighborhood of New York
and the imprudent young shrubs had
budded into delicate green. The air was
soft and bland and the spring seemed to
have come up from the islands of the Carib-
bean Sea- 1t is no wonder that the crocuses
and the buds, poor victims of misplaced
confidence in Spring, should have trusted
this gentle wooing. But Spring is the Iago
of the year-superfcially mild. balmy and
ethereal, but at heart treacherous, vindic-
tive, dabolical. No sooner had this malig-
nant season succeeded in its base deception
of Nature than it disappeared. Winslow
did not take his departure for Europe more
abruptly than spring did for parts unknown
The world woke up to find it gone, and in
stead of it the dynamite fend, Winter, ex-
ploding his wrath. The wind which had
been zephyr became gale, sweep
ing the city with a velocity of sixty
six miles an hour, and playing havoc
with roofs chimneys, steeples and
the shipping. The thermometer, after
acting all winter like an insane acrobat,
now sank into a hopeless decline. The
climate realized the Swedenborgian idea of
hell, which is that the wicked are alternately
plunged into the extremes of heat and cold,
and the whole community was obliged to
take kind of internal Turkish bath. The
next day it grew warmer; but Winter had not
exhausted his resources. On single night
snow fell in this region to the depth of
seven inches-a wet snow, which soon be-
comes mud, and then water and then ice,
and then slush, but through all its evolutions
never changes the fundamental basis of a
nuisance. Tomorrow it will probably thaw
or freeze, or we might have thunder storm
In the afternoon, and then fog and few
cases of sunstroke to wind up with.
Yet they call all these things Probabilities
In the old time, when the four seasons were
steady, they would have been called impos-
sibilities. Then Spring was Spring and Sum-
mer was summer, and people knew what to
expect of them. Painters and poets were
safe in their descriptions. They could
truthfully portray Spring garlanded with
blossoms, Summer crowned with flowers,
Autumn burdeped with fruit and Winter
clad in furs. But now the artist who would
depict Nature as she is, not as she ought to
be, must paint Spring in an overcoat, with a
cold in her nose Winter in straw hat and
white breeches, Autumn with an umbrella
and Summer ON skates. In truth, there are
no longer only four seasons-there are FIVE;
the fifth includes all the vices and mono of
the virtues of the others, and it lasts all the
year round. Next to Spring we believe this
new season to be the worst of the whole
lot; but for devilish malignity, Mephis-
tophelian ingenuity and general cussedness
Spring cannot be beaten, as this year she
will prove.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
More Union Soldiers Turned Out.


What has become of the brains of the
democratic party2 They have handsome
majority in the House of Representatives in
this year of Presidential election. They
ought to be conscious that the country is
watching them carefully to see by what
spirit they are animated. In one matter
they had really great opportunity to gain
the confidence and good will of the people
of all sections, but they have miserably
thrown it away.
There are a considerable number of petty
offices about the House, such as doorkeepers,
post Office attendants, document folders, &c.
These places involve slight labor, and are
well fitted for the support of soldiers dis
abled in the late war, where on moderate
pay. they could feed and clothe their little
families. The republicans of the House
never in spite of their pretences of love for
the Union soldiers, gave all these places to
such poor fellows. They always reserved
considerable number for favorites who had
not served in the Union armies, and for this
they were often justly reproached.
But what have the democrats done? They
no sooner get into power than they kick out
these poor Union soldiers and fill their places
with men many of whom are mere politicians.
We published last Friday list showing
that in the House post Office alone ten Union
soldiers. nine of them crippled by their
wounds, had been thus flung out. We have
since then received from the same corre-
spondent who sent US the previous list
another, which shows that in the Clerks
Office eight more Union soldiers have been
turned out, and in the Doorkeeper's Office
twenty-three others have been dismissed.
One wonders at the folly or stupidity of
the democratic leaders who permit such
things to be DONE especially when they had
before them o course in this matter which
had they pursued it, would have enabled
them to enact really fine stroke Of
policy. Many of these petty places were
filled by the republicans with mere politi-
cal hangers-on who had no claims as
soldiers. Suppose Speaker Kerr and Mr.
Morrison, the leaders of their party, had
given orders that no Union soldier appointed
by the republicans must be disturbed, but
that the places held by men who had not
served in the Union armies should be va
Gated and filled with disabled soldiers of the
Confederate armies. That would have been
truly centennial policy. 1t would have
shown sound sense and patriotism. 1t
would have appealed to the good feeling of
the whole country, and the men who fought,
on both sides, would have been pleased. In
stead of that the democrats kick out the
Union soldiers and put in their places, in
many cases, parcel of mere political favor
ties, who have no claim whatever, except
that they are some Congressman's friends.
tits not easy to have patience with party
whose leaders have so little tact and so little
decency.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
Blood Stains.

In another column will be found an article
in which the authorities are presented on
either side of the argument in regard to
''blood stains" as these come up in murder
cases. Naturally this subject is of great in
terest in the presence of the Rubenstein
trial. By the use of the microscope and
otherwise a scientific gentleman has in this
case done a great deal to further the cause
of justice for the discovery on the prison
er's boot of soil proved to be identical with
the soil of the field in which the murdered
body was found, the discovery of fbres like
those from the woman's shawl, clotted in
blood, on the same boot, and the finding of
corn husks like those in the same field
these facts, aside from any other testimony,
are, perhaps enough to hang the man.
Fortunately, therefore, though the testimony
in regard to blood is of interest in this case,
it does not depend upon such testimony;
and we cannot be charged with putting
feather in the scale for or against the
prisoner when our article shows that no
person can be safely hanged on testimony
in regard to blood alone Upon the first
ODSeTNdJlOuS Ol DlOOu udu0 Dy Ju6 mlCrO-
scope it was thought that by the use of that
instrument human blood could always be
distinguished from other blood. Nay, it has
even been gravely argued that much finer
distinctions than this could be made in re-
gard to blood. Such o discovery became
very important in crimin4l Jurisprudence;
and many man has been hanged upon the
positive testimony of experts that certain
stains were caused by human blood when
but for such testimony he would have es-
capped. But further inquiry made experts
more careful; and the final opinion of scien-
tifc men is that the blood of certain animals
so nearly resembles human blood that the
microscope cannot distinguish between them.
No man now, therefore, can be hanged merely
on declaration that a certain stain is made
by human blood but this declaration may
still be an important circumstance in the
case
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

dent Grant and Senator Conkling can invent
at their leisure between this time and the
14th of June, and hold in reserve for the
Pierce in 1852.
Under any possible circumstances, there
fore, the part which Senator Conkling can
play with the seventy votes Of New York in
the Republican National Convention is the
part of a Warwick, and it may be the part of
Napoleon. If he does not set the crown
on his own head like the French Emperor,
he may select the head to be crowned, like
the English Earl Justly conscious though
the Senator is of his own merits and abili-
ties, the association of his name with those
illustrious historical characters cannot fail to
please him. 1t always has afforded us
pleasure to observe the consistency of the
Senator's career to his sense of duty. Inde-
pendence of partisan obligations always was
crime in his eyes. Sumner, Trumbull
Schurz and Cox committed what he esteemed
not mere blunder, but a positive sin.
Such an unfaltering faith in the discipline
of his communion would entitle its possessor
to the highest honors OF the Church. Why
should it not reap corresponding honors in
the State If the Senator'S theory is correct,
that the political regeneration of the United
States is to be achieved through tightening
the girths of the republican party, there is
no good reason why he should not be the
candidate of that party for President in pref
erence to Blaine, Morton, Bristow, Fish,
Hartranft, Hayes or any other competitors.
We therefore observe with tender interest
the struggle for the control of the New York
delegation in which he is so ardently en-
gagged, and none of the little devices by
which he prosecutes his lofty purpose sur
prise us, although their ingenuity disturbs
even the composure of SO serene q soul as
Thurlow Weed.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
The Lands Cnse.

In the report of the Vineland trial it is
said that the friends of the accused are of
opinion that the Judges charge was against
him :" but the friends of any gentleman on
trial for murder are, perhaps difficult to
please on point like this From the out
line of the charge that has come to hand it
seems to us very fair; and in its relations to
the medical aspect of the case it is as
plain for acquittal as words can make it.
Perhaps the discrepancy between opinion
here and opinion at Bridgeton may be due
to the fact that the charge has got little
blurred in telegraphing for in subjects of
this nature, where the insertion or omission
of particle may alter the sense of whole
passage, this is apt to happen. AS reported,
the Judge said that if the abscesses to which
death was directly due were caused by the
wound which Lands gave then Landis
was responsible for the death, and
no failure of the doctors to deal
properly with the assesses removed
or lightened that responsibility. But there
was one aspect of the case in which Lands
could not be regarded as responsible for
Carruth's death, and that was in case the
effective agent for evil was the probe of the
doctors and not the bullet of the assassin.
If the assesses resulted from the injury
caused by the bullet Lands is responsible ;
if the assesses resulted from injuries caused
by probes and not by the bullet Lands is
not responsible. Now, on this very point
the evidence is as clear as daylight. Those
who assisted at the autopsy were unanimous
in their testimony that all injury done by
the bullet had healed that the brain was in
50 process of healthy repair" in the track Of
the bullet, and that the bullet itself was
guarded against as an intruder by the bar
riers that nature makes in such cases. 1t
was testified with equal clearness that the
assesses were at those parts of the brain
into which probes had been thrust and as
nothing but the probes had touched those
points these instruments were the only con-
ceivable causes of the assesses. Upon the
charge as reported, and in view of the testi-
mony as thus given, it is difficult to see how a
jury can do otherwise than acquit but juries
have ways of their own especially in New
Jersey, where there is an old fashioned preju-
dice in favor of hanging somebody when q
man has been killed.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
PERSONAL INTELLIGEN CE.

Mr. Ida Greeley Smith looks like Edwin Booth
stedman, poet has returned from Panama in good
health
Two hundred and ten thousand more males than fe.
males the Pacific Slope
And Jimmy Blanchard proposes 70 become q
witness in the new Beccher case.
Ex-senator Carpenter and ex-CongTessman Butler
are practising law in Washington.
Meissonier, tho French painter parades himself
with ribbons and crosses on his
Bret Harte received three invitations to be dined by
the Arcadan Club, and he did not reply TO them.
Strauss recently In a Iady's album, Love ia
the exchange OF quadrles and the contact OF two
waltzes."
General Charley Van wyck, once popular Congress
man from orange county, New York. is now improving
a farm in Nebraska
Congressman Lucus O. C. Lamar. Of Mississippi. ar.
rived in the city yesterday from Washington and is At
the New York Hotel
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson has accepted an invitation
TO address the literary societies OF the University OF
Virginia on the 10th OF June
cable telegram from Lisbon under date OF the 4th
inst, that Baron de SAINT Anna the Porru
guese Minister at Washington, has been nominated
Centennial Commissioner
The World, ofFebruary T. speaking or European
scandal says OF the gentleman :-"Re is said to bnvs
lavshed 5000 900 10 900 roubes upou this ladv
during as many years" couple of million years
don't make much difference in a mans age
Macaulay could repeat all Demosthenes by heart all
Milton, great part OF the Bible IN English aud tho
New Testament in Greek He took great delight in tho
Bible and there we're few better biblical scholars than
he. And yet he couldn't shovel the snow or a SIDE.
walk without putting his foot in IL
Hon John Elwyn OF New Hampshire, Just dead, at
the age Of seventy-threc years was wealthy and q
great scholar He would never ride He sometimes
walked from Portsmouth to Philadelphia and once re-
turned The whole distance foot get shirt he had
forgotten. II Is unnecessary TO SAY that be was
dam0crAL
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
The Four Cambridge vOIunteers-GivS
Them an American Reception.

The interview with Cambridge graduate,
which we publish this morning, throws light
on the second of the only two points raised
by Cambridge in the way of accepting the
American challenge. The first, as will be
remembered, was that they could not ON
account of their June engagement at Henley,
row here as asked about July 20; but if the
date were delayed few weeks, this diff
Guilty would be met The plan, which we
have steadily urged, of making the new in
vitation for fours and at their own date, in
late August or early September, thus meets
their views exactly; and we trust that
the committee will leave no stone unturned
to accomplish this end. On the second
point, and that to which we would mainly
call attention now-namely, the allowing the
crew to be made up in part of graduates,
we are able this morning to furnish much
light. From the interview with the gentle
man referred to it will be seen that an un-
dergraduate at Cambridge or Oxford means,
not as here, one studying only for the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, but who, instead of as
with us, waiting till he has first secured
that, and then singing out his profession
and studying directly for it, takes up
course Of study at once on entering the
university at eighteen or nineteen, and APP
plies himself to it all the way. Thus about
everybody there, except the Fellows and
other officers of the institution, is an under
graduate. The rules of the Rowing Associa-
ton here bar all men studying divinity, law
or medicine, thus cutting off large number
who would there be eligible for the univer-
sity boat. But what Cambridge asks is if
we will consent to graduates-men who
are now through cambridge and scattered
everywhere-pulling in the same boat.
Happily our plan above mentioned meets
this case completely; for when volunteers
were asked by the HERALD correspondent at
the Cambridge meeting yesterday four at
once arose and offered to find two more if
cheered for their pluck. But by making the
race for fours there is no need of the addi-
tional two, and thus four men actually stand
ready to come once they are asked The
asking should be done in the very promptest
way Let the Regatta Committee see to this,
and if these four gentlemen do not have rea-
son before they leave this land to be de-
lighted at their manly step then we do not
know the temper of the American people.
That the plan will equally insure Oxford's
coming is self-evident, SO that if both are not
here it will be our own fault.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

ANGLICAN RITUALIsTs have a singular
faculty for creating much unnecessary theo-
logical discussion. These high churchmen
have strong tendencies toward sensational
ism, and their sensations generally end in
nothing A short time ago they were re-
ported as anxious to go over to Rome in
body, and now that the Vatican has declared
this to be impossible they say there can be
no basis for any such negotiations unless
the Vatican DEGREES are retracted- This
whole business is an absurdity, and we hope
we have heard the last of it, though we
doubt not there will be fresh agitation over
Hbtd Penzance's decision reported by cable
bfkis morning.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05
Local Legislation at Albany.

That the Legislature at Albany is only
sort of common council tor this city was well
illustrated in the work of yesterday. Mr..
Morrisseys S Labor bill, and Mr.. Bixby's bill,
allowing dollar day for every days con-
finement of person imprisoned for nom
payment of fines, passed the Senate. Mr..
Rogers introduced bill making it o misde-
meanor for an officer of the New York city
government to enter into collusion with par
ties to o contract for city work and forbid
ding assessments for political purposes.
Mr. Princes bill to prohibit the dumping of
ashes and garbage into Long Island Sound
was formally reported. In the Assembly Mr..
Carly introduced bill to reduce the rate of
fare on the Eighth Avenue Railroad, and Mr..
Peabody a resolution requiring the New York
gas companies to report full account of their
business within thirty days A resolution
was also introduced calling for detailed
statement from the Police Commissioners of
the city relative to the arrest and detention
of Mrs. Mackenzie and Others, and of the
rules and regulations authoring such arrest.
In all this there seems to be a zeal for the
welfare of the metropolis which has the look
of being overzealous, and before long it
will be necessary to inquire what these ten
denotes mean.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

AND so BATTENBERG is not to marry
Beatrice after all. 1t is not said whether the
Princes misfortune while engaged in pig
sticking in India has anything to do with the
mater. However this may be, there is COM
for. in knowing that there are a hundred
moT1 equally eligible princes in Germany
vii ag to FIJI the position OF. husband to the
only remaining manageable English prin-
cess, and the girls mother can have her pick
of the lot
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

Bowen Has SPOKEN Mt last not rs to his
Mr.. Beecher's guilt declaring it as his opin-
ion that the distinguished pastor sis guilty
of the awful crimes of adultery, perjury and
hypocrisy" His reply to Mr.. s. V. White
will be found in another column, and it is as
remarkable as anything in the literature Of
the scandal. 1t is, however only another
illustration Of the folly of agitating case
that only grows more sorrowful at every
step.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

ecclesiastical laws has just been made pub
lie at Berlin in pamphlet by Herr Reichen-
sperger. The rigor of Bismarck is creating
Its own reaction, and if it is maintained in
the future as it has been in the past the sta
bility of the Empire itself will be seriously
threatened. In the end these ecclesiastical
troubles must, at least, result in the separa-
lion of Church and State.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. Stocks were
active and irregular. bearish feeling pre-
vailed. a considerable short interest was
also made. Gold opened and closed at
liz 7-S. Money was freely supplied at four
and five per cent on call loans.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

THE GERMAN Government has been thank
Ing the British Foreign Office for the protec.
lion afforded to German subjects by English
ships during the recent disturbances in
Peru. These little courtesies cost nothing
and do much to promote good feeling be-
tween the nations
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

The WHIsKEY FRAUDS in the West are still
productive of crimes. Now it is charged that
two Chicago Aldermen conspired to destroy
q public building in Milwaukee in order to
obliterate proofs of these frauds. The report
Is q startling one, but not surprising in view
of she Generalization which was the result
of the widespread conspiracies 70 defraud the
revenue in most of the Western cities.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

THE ENGLISH CAPITALISTS in Egypt have
40 longer anything to fear from their French
rivals. We cannot forget, however, in con-
nection with this announcement, that the
English did everything in their power to
defeat the Suez Canal project, and that had
ship channel across the isthmus.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

DoN CARLOS is again reported defeated and
flying. Though slow to accept these reports
it would not be surprising that they should
be true, if the promises of the Spanish gov
ernment to end the war had any meaning.
We can hope at least that this Carlist strug-
gle is over.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

In HERZEGOVINA the insurgents have greater
faith in themselves than in the policy of the
great Powers They seem to recognize the
fact that it is only by fighting that nations
become free
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

CAPTAIN DIGBY has been elected to Parlia-
ment from Dorsetshire The new statesman
Is the son of lord, and so, as we cannot see
anything else of importance in this election,
we try to find in it the dignity of English
politics.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

The CABLE REPoRTs business in the great
European centres as dull, there being stag
nation even in speculation. For speculative
purposes Spanish stocks just now are the
tavorites with fancy buyers.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

The INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH is by no
means certain, but we trust that there will
be no break in the negotiations
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

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The New York herald., 1876-02-05

From ottr reports this morning The probabilities
are that The aoeather to-day ,cM be partly cloudy
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

NEW YORK SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1876.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

THR IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE HAWKINS is
the latest sensation in New Orleans.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

VOLUME xLI....................... SO
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GERMANIA THEATRE.
iRETCHEN'S POLTERAi END, at SIP NJ
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THEATRE COMIQUE.
VARIETY. at 2. NJ Matinee at > L. VI.
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THIRD AVENUE THEATRE.
VARIETY. at I. NJ. Matinee AZ . Z. ".
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BOOTHS THEATRE.
JULIUS CESAR. ut r NJ Mr. Lawrence Barrett Matt.
at 30 L. NJ
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WALLACK'S THEATRE
MARRIED IN HASTE at SP NJ Mr. Lester Wslack.
Matinee at 80 Z. NJ
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GLOBE THEATRE.
VARIETY. at 8 P. NJ. Matinee at2 z. N.
The New York herald., 1876-02-05

WOODS MUSEUM.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT at 8 p N. Oliver Doud
Byron. Matinee at . p. VI.