Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-10
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
REJOICING OVER THE END OF
THE DI CESNOLA TRIAL.

IdE HI OEsSNOlIA IkIAL.
Langtry at Down Town Theatre at
Popular Prices-The True Inwardness
of the Gebhardt ScandaI-Mo onsIgnor
Capel Pitted in Argument Against
PrOtestantism, Judaism and AgnOsti-
cism.
Correspondence of the Morning Meas.
NEW YORK, Feb. This may be the
worst possible world, but the wind is
generally tempered TO the shorn lamb
Except in Wall street), and New Workers
have at least one thing to be grateful for
the Feuardent-Di Cesnola trial has at
last endedi 1t has ended, too, in the
practical triumph of Seen" Cesnola and
the Central Park collection of alleged
antiquities. The General scored "a points
in a possible SO. To make this, borrow
ing the language of CreedmOor, palmer,
let me briefly review the trial and its
antecedents: Di Cesnela, be he General
or simple SignOr, obtained for the city of
New York a collection, which, whatever
its drawbacks, was. earnestly desired by
the British Museum, and could even now
be disposed Of to any foreign nation for
more than it cost us. NJ. Feuardent,
rival collector of antiquities, gratified
private but professional grudge which he
had against Cesnola by attacking the
authenticity Of many Of the objects of
bigotry and virtu in the Central Park
collection. He enlisted in the warfare
against the antiquities Clarence Cook and
other critics, as well as several rich men
who are to suffer for their enthusiasm by
paying half the expenses of one of the
most expensive bits of litigation on
record.
Di Cesnola, attacked in his tenderest
point, finally, when patience had ceased
to be virtue, struck back, and, if he did
not call Feuardent, in the language of
Horace Greeley, liar and horse thief,
he said In equally unmiStakable although
pOliter language, that he was delusion
and a snare. ThereupOn Feuardent sued
him for libel, demanding $25, 600 damages,
and the trial, which ended after fifty-five
days duration last Saturday, was the re-
suit OF his suit. Although during the
long drawn trial the genuineness of sew
eral of the sculptures in the Central Park
collection was successfully impeached,
the result, as / said is that CesnOla scored
34 points in a possible sc. For on two of
the three counts the twelve iurymen
agreed that Cesnola had committed no
libel, and they stood ten to two on the
third in favor of Cesnola, and 12x2x10-34
Q. f. d.
The only point which Feuandent salts
factOrily proved, perhaps, is that CesnOla
has no right to the military title which
commonly precedes his name. 1t IS not
for native born Americans, however to
reproach our distinguished Italian fellow
citizen for this. Who that is without sin
amongst us in this respect, let HIM cast
the first stone The stone thus cast would.
according to Feuardent, do the General
but little harm, for he would at once have
it chiseled into shape, and it would pres
emily appear in the c. p. collection as the
newly unearthed production of a Greek
sculptor who died at least 8, 600 years agOl
The expenses of the trial have been com
puted at nearly $1,000 day, including
counsel fees, so that the aggregate cannot
be far from $4,000. This amount is to be
divided equally between the two litigants.
or, rather, their hackers, who are said to
include ID. o. Mills ON one side and Cor
nelIus Vanderbilt on the other.
MRS. LANGTRY HAS NO CAUSE TO RE-
GRET
her condescending to appear at a down.
town theatre at popular prices. Crowded
houses have greeted her thus far at Nj
| bios Garden, and seats are engaged for a
fortnight ahead. The foregoing is not an
advertisement, but is merely an introduc-
tion to some gossip which / have heard
about her lately. The gossip is favorable
or, of course, would not repeat it. She
is said to have broken off entirely with
| Gebhardt, and his intimacy with her is
declared by one who knows her init
mately, and who is man of the world
! enough not to be easily deceived, not to
have been OF kind to encourage a sue
cessor. My informant declares that Geb-
hardt wasted his time and his money in
prosecution of designs upon Mrs. Lang
| try, which were presumably not partic-
ularly moral, and that he was only sue
| cessful in attaining notoriety. Mrs. Lang
! try accepted his attentions and his pres
| ents, but laughed at his love making.
She is conscious now that she made a
mistake in doing so much as this. and
regrets that she had anything to do with
! him at all, for there is no doubt but that
/ she would have been generally received
/ in society here if she had not so soon
! sullied her good name by an intimacy
/ with fast man, which was imprudent, If
/ nothing worse. Several persons notable
/ in society are mentioned as having in
! tended to entertain her had she not made
/ herself so shamefully conspicuous. Ifshe
/ be innocent of wrong-dOing she is almost
! as much to be pitied as if guilty. for she
4 ~
can only associate with men. When she
! gives a dinner party or goes to one she
! is generally almost the only lady present.
/ and the unseemly struggle which is the
/ chief feature of "a Wne's Peril" the
/ play in which she is now acting, between
/ her as "Lady OrmOnd' and Capt. Brad
/ ford," is not calculated to rehabilitate her
! character in the minds of mO~alists.
| Henry Ward Beecher, by the wav. hav-
| ing been announced to be one of the au
! dience at NiblO's Garden on Tuesday
! evening, many people went there as much
! to see him as to see the Jersey Lily. Sew
/ eral members of his family attended the
| performance, but Mr.. Beecher, apparently
| disgusted by the publicity which had been
given his intention, failed to appear, and
went to Boston instead. Several neWsDa-
| pers, nevertheless, reported him as pre-
! sent.
"Alpine Roses" the play at the Madi-
son Square Theatre, by Prof. BOyeson,
whose first two names, Hjalman Hjarth.
are considered unpronouncable by the
average American, has been generally
condemned by the critics, but is neyerthe-
less advertised by the management as an
Immense success" When il is remem-
bered that nearly every play at this thea
tire at first failed to please the newspapers.
but, with one exception, held the stage
for many months in spite of the fact, the
management may be justified in consider
ing "Alpine Roses" a success.
HEARD M0NSIGNOR CAPEL MAKE AN
ARGUMENT
in behalf Of the Roman Catholic Church
before the Nineteenth Century club at
the house Of Mr.. CORTLAND Palmer on
Tuesday evening. He was replied to by
Rev. DIR. Pullman, as the representative
of Professionalism, the Rabbi Gottheil. as
the spokesman for Judaism. and T. B.
Wakeman, as the advocate of agnosticism.
The MOnsignor had much the best of tie
argument. DR.. Pullman, who, to begin
with, being Universalist, was hardly a
fair representative of Professionalism, CON
fined himself to assertions which were
dOgmatic, without being well founded,
and the Rabbi, from the nature of his
creed, necessarily talked to deaf ears. He
made a better showing in my opinion.
however, than Mr.. Wakeman, who merely
gave vent to the glitteTing generalities of
his kind about the religion of
humanity. Serious as the discus
sion was, it was listened to with
apparent attention by a number
of ultra fashionable people, including
many recognized bellies who, doubtless.
went to ball, or reception, after the feast
Of reason and flow Of soul was ended. At
least, one or two l subsequently met at
the reception of Judge and Mrs. Peabody