The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-21

squandered."
The Marquis de Potestad- Fornari Of Spain. is at
the Brevoort House.
NJ. dc Pestel, Minister of the Netherlands. sailed
for Europe yesterday.
Senator William Pinkney Whyte, of Maryland is
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
| Fechter used to drink mixture of brandy and
champagne, Boucicault says.
| M. de Lesseps has written to a gentleman in San
Francisco that he will visit that city when lie visits
America next autumn.
''The of trumps." says the editor of the
Louisville CoerJournal. ''beats three Fights out OF
four" whatever that may mean.
The Okolona Miss.) States says that Sherman. as
General OF the Army, must retire and that the
mander must be grand old Confederate.
Senator David Davis must not be blamed for being
democrat one day and republican another day.
1t takes long for kind of politics to get all
him that another kind gets hold before he is
aware of it.
The social sensation of fashionable London is the
elopement Of Kate Vaughan, the beautiful and
graceful dancer with Colonel Wellesley son Of Lord
Cowley aud military attache of the English Embassy
at st. Petersburg. The Colonel leaves y wife aud
two children.
Among the departures for Europe yesterday were
Congressman Randall l.. Gibson, of Louisiana; Mr.
Edwin M. Felt. General Telvik and General Ii. L.
Burnett. the Scytha. and Mr.. Rudolph de Pestel.
the Dutch Minister ct Washington Miss Jane Hos
mer. Mrs. Admiral Howell and Miss Howell. tho
Amerique.
John Huah, LII. D.. the English musician. who
has done more to popularize music in England than
any other man, has visited the schools of the Coni-
nent and he says that while the system of teaching
music in the primary schools in Holland is excellent
and in Belgium is good. the boosted popular system
OF Germany is worse than worthless.
New York TrtLune:-Is it not high time for an end
to this business of trying to ght the political bat
ties Of great State over the quvering body Of
woman and the heads of her defenceless children?
The news Of the strengthening scandal was long
since exhausted. Can there be any motive but polt-
ical malice for warming the nasty mess and
parading it on the table again every morning?
We have not been much in the way OF defending
Mr.. Conkling, and it is hardly likely now that we
shall learn the habit. For that matter we do not
see that he needs any particular defence For fifty
years his private character has stood in the ercest
light without STAIN To-day no man brings
tangible accusation against him. His most voiuble
assailans stop short of that Even Governor Sprague
makes charge. He goes further. and declares
that he has charge to make. Plainly Mr.. Conk-
ling has little in the long to fear from attacks
But to the hapless woman in the they
ruin Do the journals that rake Rhode Island daily for
scandal intend that? Do they imagine a fair-mnded
people will permit it? Bear in mind there is abso
lutely no shred of proof Of any crimlnality any
where in the case or even charge Of it. Nothing
is proved but lli-temper and bad manners Are the
good name, the happiness the whole life of
man to be recklessly destroyed, with greater
warrant than that? Mrs. Sprague has some right
to generous treatment from the American public.
She is the daughter Of man who did the country
great SERVICE and whose name is justly cherished
part of the national renown. The very friendship
which is now tortured to her discredit formed
under her fathers roof. and because she was her
fathers daughter Her habits, her associations. the
fatal prominence given to her great gifts and beauty
are all the direct result of her fathers devotion to
the public duties that were laid upon him. She has
the right to look to her countrymen now for
kindly judgment. and protection from the reck-
less. incessant repetition of deadly SANDER that
nobody fathers and nobody believes.
Governor Sprague, too, has done the State some
service. and may well claim the charity Of silence.
He is man Of many generous impulses, and the
misfortune which has led him into more than one
unlucky public appearance entities him at least to
DO let alone. What the matter with him the
other day everybody knows, and 1t is surely not u
thing engross the attention Of the continent for
fortnight.
We reproduced recently from the HERALD grave
and weghty protest against the Needless publication
Of improved family scandals. We could wish that
largo part of the press. which learned its ideas Of
enterprise from the HERALD, could get this idea OF
decency in news from the Same quarter.
We believe those newspapers mistake the public
taste which continue striving to expand and
prolong this pitiful business. We those
make fatal mistake which suppose it can be profit
ably handled as political weapon. We these
people that this un-American crime of slanderng q
woman in order to destroy politician may lead to
reaction thoy little expect wish. 1t is not going
to defeat anybody for the Governorship of New
York; but If they keep it up long enough. it may
elect some one.
Meantime. we ask those who have sinister
tives to consider IL the time has not come
when in common fairness to helpless woman and
in the interest of decency and public morality. this
whole matter should to offend the public nos.