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. RouBOBoi an, omo. THURSDAY, - - AUGUST 20, 1874. NEWS SUMMARY. The East. - The dry goods firm of Patton A Co., New York, hu suspended. Workmen at -- the Vulcan Iron Works, ilkesbarre, Pa., are again on a strike. The Philadelphia Chief of Police invites information as to the whereabouts of the abducted child Ross, and says tne police will lay b claim to any part of the $20,000 re ward offered. A PURSE of $1,000 is offered, by the Rochester, N. Y., Association, to the horse that will beat Goldsmith Maid's time. The Main is to be entered for the race. SPECIAL dispatch from Bennington.Vt., announces the arrest of a woman who has a child in charge answering the description of Charley Boss. The child was taken to the telegraph office and questions were asked dictated from Philadelphia. He answered a number of these eorrectly, and at the con- clusion fame a telegram fram Philadelphia, instructing the Chief of Police to detain the woman and child. The boy says he has two names, Charley Boss and Charles Augustus Hamiltou. Eev. John Cowan, once Chaplain of the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, has been held to answer the charge of conspiring to defraud the United States of $1,000. Cowan recently wrote to the State Department that on the 21st of July last he fell from a street car and his wallet was crushed. He enclosed a frag stent of a $1,000 bond, saying that was all that was saved from his wallet, and prayed the department to give him a duplicate $1,000 bond. An examiner found on the fragment that Rev. Mr. Cowan had enclosed to the Treasury the words, " Pres't Dela," showing it was the bond of one of the South Ameri- can Republics. ' Tins Sound steamer, City of Boston, on the way to New York, ran down a schooner, few days ago, and a portion of the crew of the latter were drowned. At the Rochester races, on Wednesday, Goldsmith Maid beat her former time, and secured the extra $1,000 prize offered for the beat. Her time in this race was 2:14. Mr. Moulton's statement has been made public, and amounts virtually to no statement at all, being simply an authentication of the letters embodied in Tilton's original state- ment. He maintains that the confidential trust reposed in him can not be broken, even at their urgent request. The West. Navigation on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which was suspended for several days in consequence of a break, has been resumed. Seveitty-TW- car-loa- of tea, from Japan, passed through St. Joseph, Mo., the other day. . A DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed through Dixon, 111., Monday night, and did great damage to the crops, fences, and other property in the vicinity. The little mill between Collyer and Ed- wards came off according to programme near the line between Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It lasted twenty minutes, and was not finished decisively. The referee's opinion is still withheld. The South. A SPECIAL from Helena, Ark., to the Mem- phis Appro!, dated the 10th inst.says. "The steamer Trader was met y at O. K. Landing by a mob of armed negroes, who informed C. ptain Smith that he could take his .boat to Austin, but that he could cot return. Captain Smith deemed it most prudent to turn back at once, li is reported from over the river that a fight occurred at Austin this morning, and the negroes were repulsed. They have sent a messenger to Coahoma County, Mississippi, and this place, to get all the recruits possible. It is also stated that the negroes will attack Austin The Republicans at Selma, Ala., after a four days' session, and two hundred and forty-nin- e ballots, have nominated Jere. Haratson, colored. Washington. A DEMAND is to be made at once on Pacific .railroads delinquent to the Gevernment for the payment of five per cent of their net earnings, and if not complied with within sixty days, legal proceedings will be com- menced against them. A Board of Officers has been designated by the Secretary of War to meet at Wash- ington, on the 15th of September, to exam- ine West Point graduates who have been se- lected for appointment to Second Lieuten- ancies in the army. THE President of Uruguay has sent a dis- patch to President Grant, congratulating him on the establishment of telegraphic between the two countries. The President of the railroad between Philadelphia and Port Deposit has notified the Post-offic- e Department that he will cease carrying the mails over his road nnless ad- ditional compensation is given. The heads of the several Executive De- partments of the Government have called upon their chiefs of bureaus and divisions for information and data relating to the business of each. The material obtained ia this way will form the basis of the Depart- ment reports to Congress next December. Bt a circular just issued, National banks are prohibited, in making returns of semi- annual duty to the United States Treasury, from deducting from their average deposits for duty the five per centum of their circu- lation held as a reserve and for the redemp- tion of bank notes. Crimes, Fires and Casualties. The steamer Henry Ames was snagged and sank, near Waterproof, in the Lower Mississippi, one night last week, and the boat and cargo are a total loss. Three lives were lost two women and one child. The boat was insured in Cincinnati and Wheeling offices for $25,000. Ox Sunday, Montreal was visited by a con- flagration lasting five hours. Property to the value of $250,000 was destroyed, and one life lost A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, Sat- urday night, said that as the tugboat Fawn was leaving tte canal at Carleton, last night, with two American barges, she burst her boiler, tearing her forward deck and wheel-hous-e to pieces, but fortunately no one was seriously injured. Tiie engineer and several others were slightly scalded. A FIRE at Ellsworth, Kansas, a few days ince, destroyed thirty buildings, including the postoffiee, Episcopal Church, and stores. Loss about $30,000. In Woodbury, Marion County, Ky., a few nights since, Watkin's large tobacco factory was burned to the ground, with thirty thou- sand pounds of tobacco. Loss, $80,000; in- sured for about $60,000. The brig James Leeds came in collision with the steamship Norman on the St- - Law- rence river, a few days since, drowning the Captain and five of the crew. HoYT & Son's paper mill, at Costellio, Ohio, was reoently entirely destroyed by fire. Mrs. Dr. IIcmelseim, i( Cumberland City, Maryland, whilst on a visit to friends in Vboster, Ohio, fell down a cellar-wa- y and was killed. A MAX named Hazel, residing in Guelph, Canada, recently mistook a Miss Colver for his daughter, walking with a forbidden per- son, and shot them both before discovering his mistake. Hazel immediately fled. A large number of deaths are occuring through the country from the hot weather. Personal. John Stanton Gocld the scientist, died at Hudson, N. Y., a few days since, of conges- tion of the lungs, in the sixty-thir- d year of his age. John T. Tpllet, a well-know- n New York detective is dead. THE Bight Rev?-n- Henry J. Wliitc-hons- e, Bishop of u.e Diocese of Illinois, died at his residence in Chicago, a few days since. Foreign. The Daily Telegraph says it is reported that Russia has consented to resognize the Bepnblic of Spain, and all other powers will follow. General Dorkegaray, commanding the Carlist army, has resumed the offensive in Navarre. He has captured the town of through treachery of the inhabi- tants, and is now advancing on Pueblo, with the object of cutting the railway between Miranda and Logrono. Some of his men recently fired on a railroad train and severly wounded the engine driver, who is an Englishman. . The Republican General Blanco, with eight battalions and twelve pieces of artil- lery, is advancing to retake Laguardia. Prixcb Hohenlohe, the German Min- ister, has informed Duke De Cozes, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Germany intends to recognise the Spanish Republic. Disastrous floods have occurred in Upper Scinde, Several towns have been washed away. Marshal Bazaine escaped from the Island of SL Marguerite some time during Sunday night. The details of the manner in which he succeeded in getting away are unknown, except that he used a rope ladder and got on board a vessel bound for Italy. The night was dark one? stormy. The journals declare that the government will act promptly and energetically in punishing all who eonnived at his flight The Morning Post announces that negotia- tions between the powers for the recognition of Spain have been completed. The consent of Great Britain has removed the last ob- stacle.' The rebel General Pancho Vega was Killed in a skirmish at Fray Cenito en the 1st inst Dispatches from Calcutta announce that the floods in Scinde are subsiding. The sale of the Ticbborne claimants' jewelry and other effects, for the benefit of creditors, brought large prices. It has been ascertained that the plan of Marshal Bazaine's escape from the Island of Sainte Marguerite was arranged six weeks ago. It was entirely the work of Madame Bazaine. The Times' Madrid correspondent posi- tively confirms the reports of the recognition of Spain by England, France, and Germany. The announcement caused a general rejoic- ing in the capital. The escaped French Marshal, Bazaine, has arrived at Mayenoe from Basle, and will go to Brussels. France will make no de- mand for his extradition. H. C. ShaFEH, of the Bosto3 Bed' Stock- ings, was struck in the face by a hard hit ball, while playing near London, and is thought to have his jaw broken. The War of Races in Tennessee. Memphis, August 11. A special to the Appeal, from Helena, Arkansas, received at half-pas- t eight o'clock this morning, says: At eleven o'clock last night three ladies and two gentlemen arrived here from AunHti, in a skiff, and report considerable fighting late yesterday evening. The commander of the post, whose name we did not learn, dis- patched a scout of twenty-fiv- e men on the road to Coldwater Station, on the Missis- sippi and Tennessee Railroad, and captured a picket of twenty negroes, who were sta- tioned a few miles from the town, and brought them in as prisoners, and disarmed them. One of them, as they were being put into the court-hous-e yard, tried to make his escape, when he was'fired upon and killed ; and in the melee which ensued, another ne- gro was wounded, but not fatally. Later in the evening, a large body cf negroes ad- vanced from the south and attacked the town, driving in the white skirmishers to the court-hous- where the main body of the whites were stationed. A charge was made by the whites and the negroes were repulsed with loss, and several killed and wounded. Fighting was going on when our informants left, and they were fired upon as they crossed oyer to Ship Island. 'Mayor Horn Chalmers, cf Hernando, has just arrived here for the purpose of charter- ing a boat to take men to the assistance of the whites in Austin. He says a courier ar- rived at Hernando at daylight, stating that the town was surrounded by about one thou- sand negroes, and asking for help. About two hundred men from Hernando and vicinity will be here at two o'clock, and the com pan v, with volunteers from this city, will start at four for Austin. Dr. Smith,who is the unfortunate cause of the troubles there, reached here last night Somt three weeks since he was attacked in the streets of Austin by a negro, and, draw- ing a pistol, fired at the negro, but missed him and killed a little negro girl standing by, which exasperated the negroes to such an extent that they collected a mob and took Dr. Smith to the woods to hang him, which they would have done but for the entreaties of Mayor Woodson and the Doctor's wife. Since that time he has been a voluntary in- mate of the jail to prevent being mobbed, until last Friday, when some friends came and carried him to Hernando. On learning this, the negroes collected in large numbers and notified the Mayor that unless Dr. Smith was brought back and put in jail they would burn the town. The steamer White left this afternoon at five o'clock,with about three hundred armed men, and supplies;under commanTo? Coi. Morgan, of Hernando, Miss., about half of whom are from Mississippi, and among whom are some twenty negroes, who say thev want this foolishness stopped. The remainder are Irom this city. Large numbers of men have gone bv land, and if the whites can hold the Court-hous-e till midnight, reinforcements in sufficient numbers will have arrived to relieve them. Memphis, August 12. Three hundred and seventy-fiv- e armed men left here on the steamer last night for Austin, Miss.; nearly a third of whom came by rail and on foot and horseback from Mississippi, and all of whom will tender their services to the Sher- iff on arrival. The latest news from the scene of the riot is to the effect that the ne- groes attacked the town the third time yes- terday and drove the whites ten miles through the swamps to Coldwater. The latter made a stand, and the negroes, numbering two thousand, then returned and sacked the stores and dwellings, getting considerable whisky, npon which a hundred or more got gloriously drunk. The whites had removed all their families from the place, and the negroes threatened to burn it if an attempt was made to take it from them. The people in that (Tuuica County) as well as the other counties bordering, are leaving their homes and seeking safety here, or at Helena. About thirty families came up this morning on the steamer St Francis. Some of them state that leading negroes are visiting all the plantations within a radius of thirty miles, and taking negro laborers from the plantations to reinforce the rioters, and a courier just in states that there are no negroes on any plantation within twenty-fiv- e miles of Austin, all having joined tlie rioters. He also says that the negroes were fortify- ing the place, and that the Deputy Sheriff had summoned as one of his posse General Chalmers, who would take command of the expedition from this city, and land them a mile below town, and that the attack was to have been made at daylight this morning, with infantry as well as caralry, which to the number of a hundred or more had or- ganized in adjoining counties, and had re- ported to the Sheriff, and been sworn in as a posse. Bumor has it that in the attacks made thus far ten negroes have been killed and three whites wounded. That however, lacks con- firmation. Although insignificant as it may seem, this riot may lead to a war of races in Mississippi, nnless the Government stations Federal troops in different sections of that State, where the negroes outnumber the whites twenty to one. The AppeaCs Helena special says: Mr. Sebastian, just arrived from Austin) makes the following statement: Between three hun- dred and four hundred men from Memphis, landed at Shoo Flv, five miles below Austin, at eight o'clock this morning, and marched into the town without opposition at three o'clock. The citizens had abandoned the place the previous evening, and the colored men, after holding the place a few hours and sacking it left for their homes. The latest reports from Austin state that the improvised troops had disbanded and gone home, and peace is restored. The im- pression prevails here that a few determined men could have prevented the whole affair at the outset by meeting the negroes before summoning help from elsewhere. Anecdote of Sydney Smith. The following is related of Sydney Smith, and that it is founded on fact there can be but little doubt, exemplify- ing, as it does, that peculiar and match- less humor for which Sydney was so re- markable. The thing occurred in Edinburgh, when Jeffrey, Brougham, Sydney, and the rest of that brilliant constellation of men of genius, were shedding so great a lustre upon "Auld Reekie" and the world. There was, at the time, a literary pre- tender and bore "in Edinburgh, whose everlasting subject of discourse was " The North Pole," and whose delight it was to inflict his theme upon every patient listener. He met Jeffrey in the street one day, and, after the usual salu- tation, at once introduced his favorite subject. "Blast the North Pole," vociferated Jeffrev. and extricating himself from the bore's grasp, pursued the even tenor of his way. The former, wincing under Jeffrey's abrupt treatment, also went his way, when, encountering the good-natur- Sydney, he related to the latter, with much chagrin and disgust, what Jeffrey had said. "Ah!" says Sydney, "I wouldn't mind it. We all know Jeffrey. You'll hardly believe it, but in a conversation I had with Jeffrey, the other day, he ac- tually spoke ' disrespectfully of the Equator. THE PLYMOUTH INVESTIGATION. Beecher's Statement. OeKtlemen ofthe Committee: In the statement addressed to the public on the 22d of July last, I gave an explicit, comprehen- sive, and solemn denial to the charges made by Theodore Tilton against mc. That denial I now repeat and reaffirm, i also stated in that roimnmi illation that I should appear before your Committee with a more detailed statement, and explanation of the facts in the case. Four Tears ago, Theodore Tilton fell from one of the proud- est editorial chairs in America, where he represented the cause of religion, humanity and prosperity, and in a few months there after, became the advocate urn) representa- tive of Victoria Woodhtitl. and the fricrid of her strange cause. Bv his follies he was bankrupt ia reputation, in occupation) and in resources-- . The interior historv-- , of which I am now to give a brief outline, is a history of his attempts to w employ me as to reinstate him in business, restore his reputation, and place him again upon the eminence from which he had fallen. It is a sad history, to the full meaning of which I have but re- cently awakened. Entangled in a wilder- ness of complications, 1 followed, until lately, a fulse theory and a delusive hope, believing that the friend who assured me of his determination and abilitv to control the Eassionnte vagaries of Mr. Tilton, to restore to rebuild his fortunes, and to vindicate me, would be eraual to that promise. His failure has made clear to me, what fr a long time I did not suspect, the real motive of Mr. Tilton. Mr. Tilton was first known to me as a re- porter of my sermons. He was then a youth, iust from school, and working then on the YorK Observer, and from this paper he passed to the Independent and became a great favorite with Mr. Bowen. When, about 1861, Drs. Bacon, Storrs and Thompson resigned their places, I became editor of the Imteptndent, to which I had been from its start a contributor. One of the inducements' held out to me was that Tilton should be my assistant and relieve me whollv from the routine office work. In this relation I became very much attached to him. We used to stroll to the galleries and paint shops and dine often together. His mi,nd was opening freshly and with en- thusiasm upon all questions. I used to pour out my ideas of civil affairs, public policy, religion and philanthropy. Of this he has often spoken with grateful appreciation, and mourned at a later day over its cessation. August was my vacation month, but my family repaired to my farm in June or July, and remained there during September and October. My labors confining me to the city, I took my meals in the families of friends, and from year to year I became so familiar with their children and houses, that I went in and out daily almost as in my own house. Mr. Tilton often alluded to this habit, and urged me to do the same by his house. He would often speak in extravagant terms of his wife's esteem and affection for me. After I began to visit his house he sought to make it attractive. He urged me to bring my pa- pers down there and to use the study to do my writing in, as it was not pleasant to write at the office of tde Independent. When I went to England, in 1863, Mr. Tilton took temporary charge of it, my name remaining for a year and then he becoming the respon- sible editor. Friendly relations continued until 1866, wheu the violent assaults made upon me by Tilton in the Independent on ac- count of my Cleveland letters, and my tem- porary discontinuation of the publication of my sermons in that paper, broke off my con- nection with it. Although Mr. Tilton and I remained personally on good terms, yet there was a coolness between us in all mutters of fiolities. Our social relations were very as late as 1868-- at his request, I sat to Page some fifty times for a portrait. It was here that I first met and talked with Moulton, whose wife was a member of Ply- mouth Church, though he was not a member, nor even a regular attendant. During the whole period I never received from Mr. Tilton or any member of his fam- ily, the slightest hint that there was any dissatisfaction with my familiar relations to his household. As late, I think, as the win- ter of 169, when going upon an extended lecturing tour, he said, " 1 wish you would look in and see that Libby is not lonesome, or does not want anything," or words to that effect. Never, by sign or word, did Mr. Tilton complain of my visits in his family until af- ter he began to feel that the Independent would be taken from him ; or did he break out into violence until on the eve of dispos- session from both the papers, the Independent and the Brooklyn Union, owned by Mr. Bowen. During these years of iutiinacy in Tilton's family I was treated as a father or elder brother. Children were born, children deid. They learned to love me and to frolic with me as if I were one of themselves. I love them, aud I had for Mrs. Tilton a true and honest regard. She seemed to me an affectionate mother and a devoted wife, looking up to her hus- band as far above the common race of men, and turning to me with artless familiarity, and with entire confidtice. Childish in sh6 was childlike in nature, anu I would as soon have misconceived the confi- dence oi the little girls as the unstudied af- fection which she showed me. Delicate in health, with cheerful air, she was boundless in her sympathy for those in trouble, and la- bored beyond her strength for the poor. She had the charge one time of the married women's class at the Bethel's Mission School and they perfectly worshipped her there. I gave Mrs. Tilton copies of my books when published. I sometimes sent down farm flowers to be distributed among a dozen or more families, and she occasionally shared. The only present of value I ever gave her was on my return from Europe in 1864, when I distributed souvenirs of my journey to some fifty or mare persons, and to her I gave a simple brooch, of little in- trinsic value. So far from supposing that my presence and influence was alienating Mrs. Tilton from her family relations, I thought, on the contrary, that it was giving her strength and encouraging her to hold fast upon a man ev- idently sliding into dangerous associations and liable to be reversed by unexampled I regarded Mr. Tilton as iu a very critical period of his life, and nsed to think it fortunate that he had good home in- fluences about him. During the late years of our friendship, Mrs. Tilton spoke very mournfully to me about the tendency of her husband to great laxity of doctrines in religion and morals. She gave me to understand that he denied the divinity of Christ, the inspire ion of Scripture, and most of the articles of orthor dox faith, while his views as to the sanctity of the marriage relations were undergoing constant change in the direction of free-lov- e. In the latter part of July, 1870, Mrs. Tilton was Sick, md at her request I visited her. She seemed much depressed, but gave me no hint of any trouble having reference to me. I cheered her as best I could, and prayed with her just before leaving.. This was our last interview before the trouble broke out in the family. I describe it be- cause it was the last, and its character has a bearing upon the latter part of my story. CONCERNING ALL MY OTHER VISITS. It is sufficient to say that at no interview which ever toot place between Airs, in ton and myself did anything occur which might not have occurred with perfect propriety between a brother and a sister, between a father and child, or between the man of honor and the wife of his dearest friend, nor did anything ever happen which she or I sought to conceal from her husband. I (Some years before an open trouble between Mr. Tilton and myself, his doctrines as set forth in the leaders of the Independent, aroused a storm of indignation among repre- sentative CongrcgatiooalisU in the A est, and as the paper was still very largely sup- posed to be my organ, I was written to on the subject. In reply, I indignantly dis- claimed all responsibility for the views ex- pressed by Mr. Tilton. My brother Kdward, then living in Illinois, was prominent in re- monstrances addressed to Bowen, concerning the course of his paper under Mr Tilton's management. It was understood that Mr. Bowen agreed that in consequence of the proceedings arising out of this remonstrance, to remove Mr. Tilton, or suppress his peculiar views; but instead of that, Theodore seemed firmer in the saddle than before, and his loose notions of marriage and divorce began to be shadowed editorially. This led to the starting of the Advance in Chicago, to super- sede the Independent in the Northwest, and Mr. Bowen was made to feel that Tilton's management was seriously injuring the busi- ness, and Tilton may have felt that his posi- tion was being undermined by the opponents of his views, with whom he subsequently pretended to believe I was leagued. Vague intimations of his feeling hard to- ward me, I ascribed to this misconception, I bad really taken no step to harm him. After Mrs. Tilton's return from the west, in December, 1870, a young girl, whom Mr. Tilton had taken into' the family, educated and treated like an own child, (her testi- mony, I understand, is before the Commit- tee,) was sent to me with an urgent request that I would visit Mrs. Tilton at her mother's. She said that Mrs. Tilton had left her house and gone to her mother's, in consequ of ill treatment of her husband. She th gave an account of what she had seen o h cruelty and abuse on the part of her hus- band. That shocked me, and yet more when, with downcast loot, she said that Mr. Tilton had visited her chamber at night, sought her consent to his wishes. I immedi- ately visited Mrs. Tilton at her mother's res- idence, ajid received an account of her home life, and of the despotism of her husband, and of the management of a woman, whom he had made housekeeper, which seems like a nightmare dream. The question was whether she would go back or separate for- ever from her husband. I asked permission to bring niy wife to see them, whose judg- ment in all domestic relations I thought better than my own, and accordingly a sec- ond visit was made. The result of the interview was that my wife was extremely indignant toward Mr. Tilton, and declared that no consideration on earth would induce her to remain an hour with a man who had treated her with a hundredth part of such insult and cruelty. I felt as strongly as she did, but hesitated, as I always do in giving advice in favor of a separation. It was agreed that my wife should give her final advice at another visit the next day. When ready to go she wished a final wordj but there was companv and the children were present, and as "i wfore on a scrap of paper, "I incline to think that your view is right, and that a sep- aration and settlement of a support will be wisest, and that in his present desperate state, his presence near her is more likely to produce hatred than his absence." Mrs. Tilton did not tell me that her presence had anything to do with this trouble, nor did she let me know that on the July previous he had extorted front her a Confession of excessive affection fof irie. On the evening of December 27, 1870, Mr. Bowen on his way home, called at mv house and handed me a letter from Mr. "Tilton. It was as nearly as I can remember in the following terms : ".H?,". WAed Bcechir For resnnns which Ton explicitly know, and which I forbear to state I that jrou withdraw from the pulpit, and quit Brooklyn as a residence. Theodore Tiltoic." I read it over twice, and turned to Bowen and said, "This man is crazv; this is sheer Insanity," and other like words. Mr. Bowen professed to be ignorant of the contents and handed him the letter to read. lie at once- - fell into conversation about Tilton. He gave me some account of reasons why he had reduced him from the editorship of the Independent to the subordinate posi- tion of contributor, viz. : That Mr. Tilton's religious and social views were ruining the paper, but he said that as soon as it was known that he had so far broken with Til- ton, there came pouring in upon him so many stories of Tilton's private life and habits that he was overwhelmed, and that he was now considering whether he could con- sistently retain him on the Brooklyn Union, or as chief contributor to the Independent. He narrated the story of the affair at Win-ste- Ct ; some like stories from the North- west, and the charges brought against Tilton in his own office. Without doubt he believed these allegations, and so did I. The other facts previously stated to me seemed a full corroboration. We conversed, some time, Mr. Bowen wishing my opinion. It was frankly given. I did not see how he could maintain the former relations with Mr. Tilton. The sub- stance of the full conversation was that Tilton's inordinate vanity, his fatal facility, for blundering, for which he had a genius, of the ostentatious independence in his own opinions, and general inpracticableness, would keep the Union at a disagreement with the political party for whose service it was published, and now, added to all the revelations of these promiscuous immorali- ties, would make his connection with either Jiaper fatal to its interests. I spoke emphatically under the great provo- cation of his threatening to me, and the revelations I had just had concerning his domestic affairs. Mr. Bowen derided the letter of Tilton, which he had brought to me, and said, ear- nestly, that if trouble came of it, I might rely on his friendship. I learned afterward, that, in the further quarrel, ending in Tilton's peremptory ex- pulsion from Bowen's service, this conver- sation was told to Mr. Tilton. I believe that Mr. Bowen had an interview and received some further information about Mr. Tilton from my wife, to whom I had referred him. Although I have no doubt that Mr. Tilton would have lost his place at any rate, I have, also, no doubt that mv influence was deci- sive, and precipitated his final overthrow. When I came to think it all over, I felt very unhappy at the contemplation of Mr. Til- ton's impending disaster. I had loved him much, and at one time he seemed like a son to me. My influence had come just at the time of his first unfolding, and had much to do with his early development I had aided him externally to bring him before the pub- lic. We had been together in the great con- troversies of the day, until afterward our social intercourse had been intimate. It is true, that his nature always exagger- ated his own excellencies. When he was a boy he looked up to me with affectionate admiration. After some years he felt him- self my equal, and was very companionable; and when he had outgrown me, and reached the position of the first man of the age, he was still kind and patronizing. I had al- ways smiled at these weaknesses of vanity, and had believed that a larger experience, with some knocks among strong men, and by sorrows that temper the soul, he would yet fulfill a useful and brilliant career ; but now all looked dark. He was to be cast forth from his eminent position, and his affairs did not promise that sympathy and strength which make one's house, as mine hm been in times of adversity, a refuge from the storm and a tower of defense. Beside a generous suffering, I should have had a sel- fish reason for such, if I had dreamed that I was about to become the instrument by which Mr. Tilton meant to fight his way back to the prosperity which he had for- feited. It now appears that on the 29th of Decem ber, lfl7V Miv- - Tiltci having-kaiaetL.t- I replied to his threatening letter by express ing such an opinion of him as to set Mr. Bowen finally airainst him. and brine: him face to face with immediate ruin, extorted from his wife, then suffering from a severe illness, a document criminating me, and pre- pared an elaborate attack upon me. On Tuesday evening, December, 1870, about 7 o'clock, Francis D. Moulton called at my house, and with intense earnestness said, " I wish you to go with me to see Mr. Tilton." I replied that I could not then, as I was just going to my prayer-meetin- With the most positive manner, he said, "You must go, somebody else will take care of the meeting." I went with him, not knowing what trouble had agitated him, but vaguely thinking I might learn the solution of the recent threatening letter. On the way I asked what was the 'reason of .this visit, to which he replied that Mr. Tilton would inform me, or words to that effect. On entering his house Mr. Moulton locked the door, 6aying something about not being interrupted. He requested me to go into the front chamber over the parlor. I was under the impression that Mr. Tilton was going to pour out upon me his anger for colleaguing with Bowen, and for the advice of separation given to his wife. I wished Mr. Moulton to be with me as a witness, but he insisted that I should go by myself. Mr. Tilton received me coldly but calmly. After a word or two standing in front of me with a memorandum in his hand, he be- gan an oration, in an unfriendly spirit, that I had sought his downfall, and spread in- jurious rumors about him, was using my place and influence to undermine him, had advised Mr. Bowen to dismiss him, and much more that I can't remember, and he then de- clared that I had injured him in his family relations, had joined with his mother-in-la- in producing discord in his house, had ad- vised a separation, had alienated his wife's affections from him, had led her to love me more than any living being, had corrupted her moral nature, aud taught her to be in- sincere, lying, and hypocritical, and ended by charging that I had made improper pro- posals to her. Until he reached this I had listened with some contempt, under the impression that he was attempting to bully me, but with the last charge he produced a paper purporting to be a certified statement of a previous con- fession made to hiin by his wife of her love for me, and that I had made proposals to her of an improper nature. He said that this confession had been made to him in July, six weeks previous, that his sense of honor and affection would not permit any sneh document to remain in existence; that he had burned the original and should now de- stroy the only copy, and he then tore the paper into small pieces. If I had been shocked at such astatement, I was absolutely thunderstruck when he closed the interview by requesting me to repair at once to his house, where he said Elizabeth was waiting for me, and learn from her lips the truth of his stories in so far as they concerned her. This fell like a thunderbolt on me. Could it be possible that his wife, whom I had re- garded as a type of moral goodness, should have made Ruch false and atrocious state- ments. And yet if she had not, how would he dare to send me to her for confirmation of his charges. I went forth like a sleep- walker. The housekeeper, the same woman of whom Mr. Tilton had complained, seemed to have been instructed bv him, for she evi dently expected me, and showed me at once up to Mrs. Tilton's room. Mrs. Tilton lav upon her bed, white as marble, with closed eyes, as in a trance, and with her hands upon her bosom, pulm to palm, like one in prayer. As I look back upon it, the picture is like some forms carved in marble that I had seen upon monuments in Europe. She made no motion and gave no sign of recognition of my presence. I sat down near her and said, " Elizabeth, Theodore has been making very serious charges against mc, and sends me to yon for confirmation." She made no replv or sign. Yet it was plain that she was conscious and listening. I re peated some of his statements that I had brought discord to the family, had alienated her from him, had sought to break up the family, and usurped his influence, and then, as well us I could, I added that he said I made improper suggestions to her, and that she had admitted this fact to him last July. I said, " Elizabeth, have you made such statements to him?" She made no answer, and I repeated the question. Tears ran down her cheeks, and shivering slightly, she bowed her head in acquiescence. I said, "you can not mean that you have stated all that he has chnrged ? " She opened her eyes, and began in a slow and feeble way to explain how sick she had been; how wearied out with importunity; that he had confessed his own alien loves, and said (hat he could not bear to think that she was latter than he; that she might win him to reformation if she would con- fess that she had loved me more than him, and that they could repent and go on with future concord. I can not give her language, but only the tenor of her representations, i received them impatiently. I spoke to her in the strong- - est language of her course. I said to her: " Have I ever made any improper advances to you?" She said "No." Then I asked her, "Why did you say so to ydttr htisband ?" She seemed ddeplv distressed. " My friend, (by that designation she most always called me), I am sorry, but I could not help it. What can I do?" I told her she could state in writing what she had now told me. She beckoned for her writing materials, which I handed her from her secretary standing near by, and she sat up in bed and wrote a brief connter-statemen- ti In a sort of postcript she denied ex- plicitly that t had ever offered any im- proper Solicitations to her; that being the only charge niade against me bv Mr. Tilton, or sustained by the statement about the con- fession, which" he read to me. I returned like one in a dream to Mr. Moulton's house, where I said very little, and soon went home. It has been said that I confessed guilt and expressed remorse. This is utterly false. Is it likely that with Mrs. Tilton's retraction in my pocket I should have thus stultified myself? On the next dav. In the evening, Mr. Moulton called at my house and came up to my bedroom. He said that Mrs. Tilton, on her husband's return to her after our inter- view, had informed him what she had done, and that I had her retraction. Moulton ex- postulated with me; said that the retraction under the circumstances would not mend matters, but only awaken fresh discord be- tween husband and wife, anddogreat injury to Mrs. Tilton without helping me. Mrs. Tilton, he said, had already recanted the writing of the retraction made to me, and, of course, there might be no end to such contradictions. Meanwhile, Mr. Tilton had destroyed his wife's first letter acknowledging the confes- sion, aud Mr. Moulton claimed that I had taken a mean advantage and made dishonor- able use of Theodore's request that I should visit her, in obtaining from her a written contradiction to a document not in exist- ence. He said that all difficulties could be settled without such papers, and that I ought to give it up. He was under great excite- ment. He made no verbal threats, but he opened his overcoat and with.some epithetic remarks showed a pistol, which afterward he took out and laid on the bureau, near which he stood. I gave the paper to him, and after a few moments talk he left. Within a day or two after this Mr. Moul- ton made me the third visit, and this time we repaired to my study, in the third story of my house. He seemed convinced, however, that I had been seeking Tilton's downfall, that I had leagued with Mr. Bowen against him, and that he had, by mv advice, come near to destroying his family. It did not need any argument or persuasion to do and snv anything to remedy the injury of which 1 then believed I had certainly been the oc- casion, if not the active cause; but Moulton urged that, having wronged Tilton so, the wrong meant his means of support suddenly taken away, his reputation gone, his family destroyed, and that I had done it. He as- sured me of his own knowledge that the stories which I had heard of Mr. Tilton's impurities of life, and which I had believed and reported to Bowen, were all false, and that Tilton had always been faithful to his wife. I was persuaded into the belief of what he said, and felt convicted of slander in its meanest form. He drew the picture of Tilton wronged in reputation, in position, iu business, shattered in his family, where he would otherwise have found a reiuge, and at the same time looking upon me out of his deep distress, while I was ahouuding in friends, most popular, and with ample means, tie drew that picture my prosper- ity overflowing and abounding, and Tilton's degradation. I was most intensely excited. Indeed, I felt that my mind was in danger of giving way. I walked up and down the room pouring forth my heart in the most unrestrained grief and bitterness of telling what my ideas were of the obligations of friendship and of the sacredness of the household, denying, how ever, an intentional wrong. Saying that if I had been the cause, however innocently, of that which I then beheld, I never could forgive myself, and heaping all the blame on my head. The case, as it then appeared to mv eves, was strongly against me. M v old friend and fellow worker had been dispos- sessed of his eminent place and influence, and I had counselled it. His family had been well nigh broken up, and I advised it. His wife had been long sick and broken in health and body, and, as I fully believed, I had been the cause of all this by continuing the blind heedlessness and friendship which bad beguiled her heart and had roused her husband into a fury of jealousy, although not caused by any intentional act of mine, and should I coldly defend myself? Should I pour indignation upon this lady? Should I hold her up for contempt as having thrust her affections upon mc, unsought? Should I tread upon the man and his household in their great adversity? I gave vent to mv feelings without measure. I disclaimed, with great earnestness, any intent to harm Theodore, in his home or business, and with inexplicable sorrow, I both blamed and de fended MrVHitblUll oiiexrenui... -. Mr. Moulton was apparently affeeted-- iit for it was rather that than conversation, He said that if Tilton could really be per- suaded of the friendliness of niy feelings to ward him, he was sure there would be no trouble in procuring a reconciliation. I gave him leave to state to Theodore my feelings. He proposed that I should write a letter. I declined, but said that he could report our interview, lie then proposed to matce memorandum of the talk, and sat down at my table and took down, as I supposed, a condensed report ot mv talK, tor l went on still pointing out my wounded feelings for this great desolation in Tilton's family. It rwas not a dictation of sentence after sen tence he a mere amanuensis, and I compos ing for him. Mr. Moulton was putting into his own shape parts of what I was saying, in mv own manner, with profuse explanations. This paper of Moulton's was a mere memor andum ot the points to be used by mm in setting torth my teelmgs. That it contains matters and points derived from ine is without doub But they were put into sentences by him and expressed as he understood them not as my words, but as hints of my figures and letters to be used by him in conversing with Tilton. He did not read the paper to me, nor did I read it, nor have 1 ever seen it or heard it read, that l remember, until the publication of Tilton's recent documents, and now reading it, I see in it thoughts that point to the matter of my discourse, but it is not my paper, nor are those my sentences, nor is it a correct report of what I said. It is a mere string of hints made by an unpracticed writer as helps to his memory, in representing to Tilton how I felt toward his family. If more than this be claimed, if it be set forth as in any proper sense my letter, I then disown it and de- nounce it. Some of its sentences, and parti- cularly that in which I am made to say that I had obtained Mrs. Tilton's forgiveness, I never could have said, even in substance. I had not obtained nor asked any forgiveness from her, and nobody pretended that I had done so. Neither could I ever have said that I humbled myself before Tilton s before God, except in the sense that both to God, and to the man I thought I had deeply in- jured, I humbled myself, as I certainly "did, but it is useless to analyze a paper prepared as this was. The remainder of my plain statement concerning it will be its comment. This document was written upon three separate half-shee- of large letter paper. After it was finished, Moulton asked me if I would sign it. I said no, it was not my letter. He replied that it would have more weight if I would in some way indicate that he was au- thorized to explain my sentiments. I took my pen, and nt some distance below the writing, and upon the lower margin, I indi- cated that I had committed the document in trust to Moulton, and I signed the line thus written by me. A few words more as to its further fate. Mr. Moulton, of his own accord, said that, after using it, he would, in two or three days, bring the memorandum back to me, and he cautioned me about disclosing, in any way, that there was a difficulty between Mr. Tilton and me, as it would be injurious to Mr. Tilton to have it known that I had quarreled with him, as well as to me to have the ru- mors set afloat. I did not trouble myself about it until more than a year afterward, when Tilton be- gun to write up his case (of which here- after) and was looking up documents. I wondered what was in the old memorandum, and desired to see it, for greater certainty ; so one day I suddenly asked Mr. Moulton for that memorandum, and said, "you promised to return it to me." He seemed confused for a moment, nnd said, " Did I ?" " Certainly," I answered. He replied that the paper had been de- stroyed. On my putting the question again he said: "That paper was burned up long ago," and during the next two years, in va- rious conversations, of his own accord, he spoke of it as destroyed. I had never asked for nor authorized the destruction of this paper. But I was not allowed to know that tiie document was in existence, uutil a distinguished editor in New York, within a few weeUspast, assured me that Mr. Moulton had shown him the original, and that he had examined my sig- nature, to be sure of its genuineness. I knew that there was a copy of it since this statement was in preparation. While I re- jected this memorandum as my work, or an accurate condensation of my statement, it does undoubtedly correctly represent that I was in profound sorrow, and that I blamed myself with great severity for the disasters of the Tilton fnmily. I had not then tiie light that I now have. There was much then that weighed heavily upon my heart and conscience which now weighs only on my heart. I had not the light which analyzes and disseminates things. By one blow there opened before me a revelation full of an- guish. An agonized family, whose inmates 5iad been my friends, greatiy beloved, the husband ruined in wordly prospects, the household crumbling to pieces, the woman by long sickness and suffering either corrupt ed by deceit as her husband alleged; or so broken in mind as to be irresponsible, and either way, it was her enthusiasm for her pastor, as I was made to believe, that was the germ and beginning of the trouble. It was ior me to have forestalled and prevented that mischief. My age and ex perience in the world should have put me on my guard. I could not at that time, tell what was true and what not true of all the considerations urged upon me by Tilton and Moulton. There was grief before me in which lay those who had been warm friends, aud they alleged that I had helped to plunge them therein. That seenied enough to fill my soul with sorrow and anguish. No mother who has lost a child but will under- stand the wild that grief pro- duced, against all reason blaming herself for what she neglected to do, charging upon her- self by her neglect or heedlessness, the death of the child, while, ordinarily, every one Knows that she had worn herself out with her assiduities. Soon- - after this I met Mr. Tilton at Mr. Moulton's house: either Mr. Moulton was sick, or was very late in rising, for he was in bed. Ihe subject of my feelings and con- duct toward Tilton was introduced. I made a statement of the motives under which I had acted in counseling Bowen, of my feei ng m regard to niton's tamily, disclaiming with horror the thought of wrong, and ex- pressing the desire to do whatever lay in hu- man power to remedy anv evil I had occa- sioned, and to reunite his family. niton was silent and sullen, lie played the part of an injured man, but Moulton said to Tilton with intense earnestness: "That is all that a centleman can say. and you ought to accept it, as an honorable basis ot reconciliation." lie repeated this two or three times, and Mr. Tilton's countenance cheered up under Moulton's strong talk. We shook hands and parted in a friendly way. Not very long afterward lilton asked me to his house and s.'id that he should be lad to have the good old times renewed. Moulton lost no occasion of presenting to me the kindest view of Tilton's character and conduct. On the other hand, he com- - ilained that Mrs. Tilton did not trust her lusband or him, and did not assist him in his efforts to assist Theodore. I knew that she distrusteJ Moulton, and felt bitterly hurt by the treatment of her husband. 1 was urged to use my influence with her to inspire confidence in Moulton, and to lead her to take a kinder view of Theodore. Accordinalv, at the instance of Mr. Moul ton, three letters were written on the same day (February 17, 1871,) on one common purpose to be shown to Mrs. Tilton, and to reconcile her to her husband, and my letter to her of that date was designed to ettect the furtheror collateral purpose of gaining her confidence in Mr. Moulton. Ihis will be obvious from the reading of the letters. The following is the full text of my letters of that date, from a copy verified by one of your Committee, and I nave not to this hour been permitted to see the originals of either of them, or of any other papers which lhad deposited with Moulton for safe keeping, "Brooklyx, February 7, 1S71. Mr Pear Friend In several conversations with you, you have asked alKmt my leeliiiss toward Beccher. and yesterday you said the time had come when you would like to receive from me an express- ion of this kind in writine. I eay. therefore, very cheerfully, that, notwithstanding theureat suffering which he has caused to cnzaiielli and tuyseii, i bear him no malice, shall do him no wron?. shall dis countenance every project, ly whomsoever proposed for my exposure o! his secret to the public, and n l know myself at all. shall endeavor to act toward Mr ltiecheras 1 would have him. in similar circum stances, act toward me. 1 on Kiit to add that your own Rood offices in this case have led me to a hmher moral leelinjr than 1 might have otherwise reacneu, .ver yours altJctlonately. "February 7. 1871 . My Pear Friend Moulton i am elaJ to send yon a book, Jtc. Jlauy, many irienus nts i,ou raiseu up i me, nni to nn one of them has He ever siven the oDDortunitr and the wisdom to serve me as you have. You have also proved Theodore's friend and fclizalieth's. Does liod look down from heaven on three unhappier creatures that more need a friend than these? Is it not an intimation ot lod s intent or mercy to all, that each one of these has in you a true and proved friend? But only in yonare we thus united. Would to God, who orders all hearts, that by liis kind mod- eration Theodore. Kli.nleth and I could be made friends a?aiu. Ihcodorewill have the hardest task in such a case, but has he not proved himself capable of tiie noblest thincs? I wonder if Klizala'th knows bow ffcnerouslv he has carried himself toward me. Of course 1 can never speak with her affain without her permission, aud 1 uo not knovr that even then it would be best." "Brooklyn February 7, 1871. "My Dear Mrs. Tilton When I saw yon last, I diil not expect ever to see yon again, or to be alive many days. God was kinder to me than niy own thoughts. The friend whom Jod sent to me, Moulton, has proved, above all friends that 1 ever had, able and willing to help in this terrible emer- gency of my lite. His hand it was that tied up the storm that was ready to burst upon our heads. Yon have no friend, Theodore excepted, who has it in his power to serve yon so vitally, ami who will do it with such delicacy and honor. It does my heart stood to see in Moulton an unfeigned respect and honor firr you. It would kill me if 1 thought otherwise. He will be as true a frieud to your honor and happiness as a brother could be to a sister, and in him we have a common ground. You and 1 may meet in him. The past is indeed, but is there no future, no wiser, higher, holier future? May not this friend stand ns a priest in the new sanctuary of reconciliation, and mediate and bless Theodore and my most unhappy self? to not let my earnestness fail of itB end. You believe in my judgment. I have put nivself wholly and gladly in Moulon's hand, and there 1 must meet yon. This is sent with Theodore's consent, but he has not read it. Will yon return it to me by his own hand? I am very earnest iu this wish for all our sake, a letter ought not to besubject to even a chuuee of a miscarrigc. "Your unhappv friend, "H. W. Beecher." I have no recollection of seeing, or hearing read the letter of Mr. Tilton of the same date. In mv lifter Lttt JIrs. Tilton I alluded to the faetthatIdicV"fiot ex pect, whfn 1 saw tier jaat-- ft oe alive many days. That staiSB!SJ)t stands connected with s series of syniptoms whieh I last experienced in 156. I went through the Fremont campaign, speaking in the open air three hours at it time, three days in the week. On reviewing my literarv labors, I felt I must have given way. I very seriously thought that I was going to have apoplexy'or paralysis, or something of the kind. On two or three occasions while preaching I should have fallen in the pulpit if I had not held on to the table. Very ften I came near falling in the streeis. During the last fifteen years I have gone into the pulpit I suppose one hundred times with a strong im- pression that I should never come out alive. 1 nave preached more sermons than any human being would believe, when I felt all the while that whatever I had got to say to my people, I must say it then or I never would naveanother chance to say it. If I had consulted a physician, his first advice would have been, " you must stop work," but I was in such a situadou that I could not stop work. I read the best medical books on the symptoms of nervous prostra- tion and over-wo- rk and paralysis, formed my own judgment of my case. The three points I remarked were. I must liave good digestion, good sleep, aud 1 must go working. These three things were to be re conciled, and in regard to iy diet ana stimulants, and medicines I made most thorough and searching trial, and. a result, mangacd mv body so that I could get the most work out of it wihtout essentially im pairing it. If 1 had said a word alwut this to my family, it would have brought such distress aud anxiety on the part of my wife as I could not bear. I have for so nianr vears so steadily taxed my mind to the ut most, that there have been periods when I could not attord to have people expresseven sympatny wim me. To have my wife or friends anxious about it, and showing it t me. would lie iust the drop too much. In 1Ho3 I came again into the same condition, just before going to England, and it was one of these rea- sons why 1 was wishing to go. The war was at its height, I had the Imlrpmilenl in charge, and was working, preaching and lecturing constantly, lknew I was likely to be prostrated again. In December, 1870, the sudden shock of these troubles brought on again these symptoms in a more violent form. I was very much deiiressed in mAid. and all the more because it was one of those things that I could not say any- thing about. 1 was silent with everybody. The officcrsof the church sought to investigate into Mr. Tilton's reliihous views aud moral conduct, aud on the latter point I had been deceived into the be- lief that he was not in fault. As to the religious views, I still hoped for a change for the better. As it was proposed to drop him from the list of members for and as be asserted to me his withdrawal, this might have been done, but his wife still attended church and hoped for his restoration. I recalled haviug with him a conversation in which he dimly intimated to me that he thought it not un- likely that he might go back into his old position. He seemed to be in a mood to regret his past, and so when I was urged by the Examining Committee to take some steps, I said I was not without some hones, that bv natienee and kindness Tilton would come back again into his old church work, and be one of us again. I, therefore, delayed a decision upon this point for a long time. Many of our members were anxious and impatient, and there were many tokens of trouble from this quarter. Meanwhile one wing of the female suffrage party had got hold of the story in a distorted and exag gerated lorni, such as had never ueen lntimatea to me by Mr. Tilton or his friends. I did not then suspect what I now know, that these atrociously fale rumors originated with Mr. Tilton himself. I only saw the coil growing instead of diminishing, and" perceived that while I was pledged to silence, anil therefore could not sneak in mv own defense, some one was forever lersevering in ialsehood, which was growing continually in dimensions, and these ditiiculties were immensely increased by the affilia tion of Mr. Tilton with the vvoodhuil clique. In Mav. 1871. Mrs. Woodhull advertised a forth coming article shadowing an account of the dis turbance in Mr. Tilton't taniily, but without using names. It was delayed ostensibly by Mr. Tilton's influence with Mrs. Woodhull, "until November, 1H72. During the suspension of her publication she be- came the heroine of Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton. She was made welcome in both homes, with tlie tol- eration, but not the cordial consent, of their wives. I heard the most extravagant eulogies upon her. She was represented as a genius, bom ant! reared among rude influences, but only needed to be surrounded by refined society to tho'w a noble and commanding nature. I did not know much about her, and though mv impressions were unfavorable, her real charac ter was not then really known to the world. I met her three times. At the first interview she was gracious, at the second she was cold aud haughty, but at the third she was anarv aud threatening, for had refused to preside at the lecture she was aooul touenver at Meinway xi.au. i ne uiosi strenuous efforts had lieeu made by both Tilton and Moultou to induce me to preside at this lecture, to identify nivself publicly with Mrs. Woodhull. It was represented tome that" I need not in so doing ex pressly give assent lo uer eirvi.iujr m,m regard to the marriage relation, upon which point she was beginning to lie more explicit in opposition to the views which I, in common with all Christian men entertained, but it was plausibly urged that could nreside at the lecture and introduce her uiion the simple ground of advocating free speech, and lib erty ot debate; but as 1 unuersioou mat sue was alioitt to avow the doctrines which I abhor. 1 would not be induced by this plausible argument to give her public countenance, and after continuing to urge me un to the dav of meeting, without any distinct threats, but with the obvious intention that my per- sonal safely would lie better secured by taking this advice, Mr. 1 llton himselt went over to Jew l ork and presided at the meeting, where Mrs. Woodhull gave, as I understand, for the first time in public, full exnosiiion of her free love dietrine. The very thought that I should have been asked, under anv circumstances and unon any excuse, to nreside or le nresent at such a meeting, was inex- urei-ibl- v Balling to me. Whatever my astonish ment might have been, the motives of Tilton and Moulton iu asking such a tiling, as to which I had not at the time as clear a perception as I now have, the rcnuest was. nevertheless, a humiliating one. At alsmt the same time I found that the circle of which Mrs.;Woodhull formed a part, was the centre of loathsome scandals, organized, classified, and perpetrated with greedy and unclean upiwtite for everything that was foiil and vile. I would not as sociate with these nennle. vet Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton had some strange theory concerning the management of this particular affair, which always lcaie it necessary, m their jiiogmeni, tor ineui w maintain friendly relations with a group of human hyenas. From this circle and from Mr. Tilton, who stands in intimate associations with it, came rumors, and suspicions arose among my own congregatioilwhieh led them to presume with questions, anil to originate Investigations, and especially into the atliiirs ol Mrs. Tilton, from whom alone, as they generally believed, the rumors against me originated. In this I was constantly and vehemently assured by Mr. Moulton mat tney were mistaken. Mr. Beecber here details his efforts to prevent the scandal being made public, which was threatened by the trial of Tilton by the church, and says ot lilton: " I was so determined to carry out my pledges to Moulton for him and do all in human power to save him even from myself that I was ready to resign, if that would stop the scandal. I wrote a letter of resignation. not referring to thecharges against me.but declaring that I had striven for yean to maintain se crecy concerning a scanaal anecung a iuiuhj m iw Church, and that as I had failed, 1 herewith resigned. This letter was never sent. A little calmer thought showed me how futile it would be to stop the trouble; a mere useless But I showed it to Mr. Moulton, and possibly he copied it. I nave iouna the original of it in my house." If I could at this moment remember any of the other letters which I have written to Mr. Moulton, I would do so. If he has reserved all my enusions of feeling he must have a large collection. I wished mm to bring tnem an neiore i nc uiiuum w. o be glad to get such hints as they may contain to re- fresh my recollection of facts and sequences. I have no fears of their full and fair publication, for though thev would doubtless make a sad exposure of my weakness, grief and despondency, they do not contain a line confessing such guilt as has been charged upon me nor a word inconsistent with my innocence, nor any other spirit than that of a gener- ous remorse over a great and more irreparable evil. But, however intense and numerous may be these expressions of grief, they can not possible ever state meanxieiy wnicn iconsiauuy icii i"i perils of which it ia now clear I did not exaggerate, nnr th sorrow and remorse which I felt originally On account of the injury which I aupposed I had done to a beloved family, and after ward for the crreatpst iniurr which I became satisfied 1 had done by my unwise, blind and useless etlorts to remedy that injury only as it proveu, m me ex- pense of my own name, the happiness of my own family, and tne peace ot mv own cnurcn. tientlemen nf the Committee, in the note re- - nnentinv vnur nnnnintment. T asked that VOU should make a full investigation of all the sources of in- formation. You are witnesseses that I have in no way influenced or interfered with your proceedings ings or duties. I have wished the investigation to be so searching that nothing could unsettle its results. I have nothing to gain by any policy of suppres- sion or compromise. For tour years I have borne and suffered enough, and I will not go a step further. I will be free. I will not walk under a rod or yoke. If any man would do me a favor, let him tell all he knows now. It is not mine to lav down the law of honor in regard to the use of other persons' conf- idential communications. But in so far as my own writings are concerned, there is not a let ter nor document which 1 am afraid to have exhibited, and I authorize anv and all., npon any living person to produce and print forthwith, what ever writings they have of any source whatever. It is time, for the sake of decency and public morals. that this matter should be brought to an end. It is an open nool of corruption, exhaling deadly vapors. For six weeks the nation has risen up and sat aown unon scandal. Not a great war nor a revolution could more have rilled the newspapers than this question of domestic trouble, magnined a thousand fold, and, like a sore spot on the human body, draw- ing to itself every morbid humor in the blood. Whoever is buried with it. it is time that this abom ination be buried below all touch or power of res urrection. OHIO NEWS. Chillicothe is building a street rail road. It cost $9,040 to advertise the new constitution. JIabsillox ia terribly annoyed with burglars, as many as ten house-breakin- having occurred in a single nigni, The Council of the village of Athens, last week, repealed the McConnelsville ordinance, by a vote ot lour to five. Mr. Johs Whetstone, the oldest but one of Cincinnati's pioneers, died, at his home in that city, on Monday night, in his eighty-sixt- h year. The body of Charles Eagan, an em- ploye of the Cleveland postoffiee, was found in the river at that place, a few days ago. lie had been missing several days. The Rev. William Simmons, who died in Xenia. on Thursday, aged seventy-six- , was the senior minister of the Cincinnati Conference, having preached fifty-fo- years. John MoosHorKA, a Bohemian, who was imprisoned in the police station at Cleveland, for abuse of his family, com- mitted suicide by jumping from the gallery of the third tier of cells to the stone floor, twenty feet be ow. Db. Isaac "Steese, President of the First National Bank of Massillon, died, a few days since, at the age of sixty-fiv-e years. He had been identified with the banking and commercial interests of that section for nearly thirty years. Theodobe Kinney, a workman in Arney's foundry, at Laneaster, was caught in the machinery, a few days since, and horribly mangled. His body was bruised and gashed in several places, and his left arm broken in three places. An elevator in the store of Tolle, Holton & Co., of Cincinnati, gave way, a few days ago, between the second and third stories, and fell to the r, Three men were upon the elevator at the time, all ot wnom were seriously injured. George Shaw, of Eaton, was shot and instantly killed, a day or two ago, by Elnitr Thomas, who hred two shots at him, the first iust crazing the top of his head, and the second taking effect in the left breast near the heart. Ihomas was drunk at the time. Daniel Kinnave, a prominent dry goods man of Lancaster, died, last week, of hemorrhage of the lungs. Mr. Kin-nav-e was one of the passengers of the ill-fat- Atlantic, to whose rigging he clung during all that terrible storm, tracting the disease tiiat has terminated in his death. D. M. Harkness, of Bellevue, re- covered goods stolen from his house, last week, through being a subscriber to the local paper. The burglar was taken up in Toledo, by the police, as a customer, and among his effects were found a couple of silk dresses and other valuables wrapped up in a copy of the Bellevue Gazette, with the name of Mr. Harkness on the margin. The burglar has been lodged in the Huron countyjail. The twelfth anniversary of the battle of Antietarn will be celebrated at Cald- well, Ohio, by a grand encampment of the veterans of the war. They go into camp in a woodland tract of some one hundred acres on ihe 12th of September, and will remain theie "a few days." Among the distinguished soldiers ex- pected to be present and address the file, are Generals Morgan, Logan, Burnside, McClellan, Sherman, Sheridan, Leggett, Comly, Garfield and Butler. Senators Thurman and Sherman are also among the invited. Private Dalzell is to deliver the welcoming address and Colonel Barnes will read the celebrating ode. Better than Whisky. "Bill Arp" writes: "Gentlemen, there is one thing about drinking. I al- most wish every man was a reformed drunkard. No man who has never drank liquor knows what a luxury cold water is. I have got up in the night, after had been sprecing around, and gone to the pump burning with thirst, lceling as if the gallows and tlie infernal regions were too good for me, and when I took up the bucket in my hands, with my eyes shaking like the shaking ague, and put the water to my lips, it was the most delicious draught that ever went down my throat. I have stood there and drank until I could drink no more, and gone to bed thanking God for the pure, innocent, and cooling beverage, r nd curs- ing myself from the utmost . for ever touching the accursed whisky. In my torment of mind and body I have made vows and promises, and broken them within a day. But if you want to know the luxury of cold water, get druuk and keep at it "until you are on fire, and then try a bucketful at the pump in the night. You want a gourd full you'll feel like the bucket aiu't big enough, and when you begin to drink, an earthquake couldn't stop you. I know men who will swear to the truth of what I say; but you see it's a thing they don't mean to talk about; it's too humiliating." What a Lawyer Was Selling. A member of the Saginaw County bar was recently in one of our thriving in- terior towns on professional business. In the office of the hotel he was accosted by a very agreeable gentleman, evidently of the genus "drummer, who wanted 10 know " where he was from ?" The legal gentleman, not exactly relishing the idea of tlie stranger's familiarity, answered, shortly, "From Detroit." The next question was, " For what house are you traveling?" " For my own." "You are? May I ask your name?" "You mav." Pause enjovable to the lawyer, embarrassing to the other. " AVell," des- perately, " what is vour name?" "Jones." "What line are you in?" ' I don't un- derstand you, sir." " What are you sell- ing?" impatiently. " Brains," coolly. The drummer saw his opportunity, and looking at the other from head to foot, ho sniti. nWlr. "Well, vou npwar to carry a douce'd small line . i of . samples." l Blackstone iaVS lie OWeS Utai Uliuumer one. GRANGE MATTERS. The first Grangers' store in Missouri is located at Windsor, Henry county, with a capital of ten thousand dollar. General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, favors the apparent objects of the Gran gers, but objects to the secrecy and to the introduction of women into its member- ship. The Kansas Executive Committee warn those who organize Granges in oc- cupied territory that in future they will have to consolidate with other Granges or surrender their charter. The Kansas Farmer objects to the Grange taking so much money out of the . . . n ,i il i " l" 1 .1 ' " Btate, ana snows uai n me uispeiisauou fee were five dollars, instead of fifteen dollars, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars would have Deen reiainea in Kansas. The Marion county, Indiana, Patrons are to have a great picnic at the Btate Fair erounds. near Indianapolis, on the 6th of August. The Grangers and their friends are all invited to come wun wen- - fllled baskets, for a grand harvest feast, nd are requested to appear in the full uniform of the uraer. Toward the close of the; last session Congress received a petition from the colored citizens of Georgia, asking for an organized militia and arms, coupled with the complaint that there is a secret soci- ety known as the " Patrons of Husband ry," which they lear intends to Dear op- pressively on them. The South is rivaling; the Jorth and West in the number and strength of .her Granges. -- The members of these Granges, wherever located, are brethren. Ihey dou't ask each other whether a decade ago they wore the grey or the blue. They only want to Know mat tney are Ameri- can citizens, and working for the same laudable object. The Grange movement has been more successful in California than elsewhere. Not content with the success already achieved, the Patrons are starting a bank of their own, with a capital of five mil- lion dollars, in fifty thousand one hun- dred dollar shares. The Patrons have been enabled to charter fifty vessels themselves this year, and are confident that facilities will be ample in future to take all their grain to market A California Patron says of the re- sults of the organization in his neighbor hood: "The discussion of questions of practical interest to Matrons, which forms a feature of our Grange, is having a ten- dency to develop not only a better man ner of expressing ourselves, but a greater willingness to make the effort. Great improvement has already been observed in even the little practice we have thus tar had. M. L. Eeitzel, in the 'Indiana Farmer, says of the Grange movement in Hen dricks county : "Ihe Grange movement seems to have eclipsed everything else, and is constantly increasing. Uld poll ticians and wireworkers are looking down their noses with a doleful expression. The farmers and laboring people of the country are being more strongly united than ever, because their interests are identical. ' In union there is strength,' and, being a free people, with the ballot, we expect to right all our political wrongs. TJnadilla Grange. Ann Arbor, Michisran, thinkintr. that wages of twenty dollars a month was too high for hired men, sent an agent to JNew York to capture forty newly arrived Germans, and engaged them for the season. After two weeks' work he secured his men, and paid their fares West. Arriving at Chelsea, Michigan, all but eight refused to disembark, and went further West, while six of the eight hired themselves to countrymen who were not Patrons. The Grange is out about one thousand dol lars by the attempt to import cheap Ger man labor. A Fable for Grangers. In a certain zoological garden two bears were chained several rods apart. which were fed each with a certain kind of fruit. Now there were in the same garden a half dozen monkeys who thought it would be nice if they could manage to get a portion of these luscious fruits for themselves. Accordingly they persuaded the bears that, variety being the spice of life, it would not only be grateiui to their palates, but conducive to healthy di gestion, it tney would exenange wun eacu other a portion of these fruits at each meal. But the chains being too short for the bears to come in a convenient dis- tance of each other the exchange could be effected only through the kind offices of the six monkeys aforesaid. Ac- cordingly the fruit was passed by No. 1 to the first money, who passed it to the next, and so to the last, who delivered it to bear No. 2. The fruit in exchange passed back to bear No. 1 in lik manner. Now each monkey through whose paws the fruit passed throught a few bites was no more than a just compensation for his services, and it happened when the fruit reached its destination little more of it was left than the cores. So both bears grew lean in spite of improved digestion, and the monkeys grew fat, and put on many airs, and winked at each other as they passed the hungry bears in the course of their enjoyment. The keeper of the gardens seeing this, and ascertaining the cause, lengthened the chains of the bears, and so the services ofthe monkeys with, and the bears grew fat again. But the monkeys set up a howl at be- ing deprived of their legitimate employ- ment, and berated the bears for their in- gratitude The Fellow that Looks Like Me. Max Adder, who writes for a Phila- delphia paper, has a friend named Slim- mer, who deserves pity. He was going up to Reading not long since, and when reaching thedepot he happened to look in the lady's room. A woman sat there with a lot of baggage and three children, and when she saw Slimmer she rushed toward him, and before he could defend himself she threw her arms about his neck, nestled her head upon his breast, and burst into tears. Blimmer wasl amazed, indignant, confounded-- ; and ere he could find utterance for his feelings, she exclaimed "O, Henry, dear Henry! we are united I at last. Are vou well? Is Aunt Martha still alive! Haven't you longed to see your own Louisa?" And she looked into Summer's face and smiled through her tears. " Madam," said he, solemnly, " if am the person alluded to as Henry, per- mit me to say that you have made a mis- take. My name is Lemuel, I have no Aunt Martha, and I don't own a solitary Louisa. Oblige me by letting go my coat ; it excites remark." Then she buried her bonnet deeper into his waistcoat, and began to cry harder than ever, and said " O, Henry, how can you treat me so How can you pretend that you are not my husband ?" '" Madam," screamed Slimmer, " if yon don't cease slopping my shirt bosom, and remove your umbrella from my corn, shall be obl:ged to call the police. Let me go, I say." " The children are here," she persisted. "They recognize their dear father; don't you, children?" " Yes, yes," they exelaimed, " it s pa it's our own dear pa." And then they grabbed Slimmer by his trowser legs and hung to his coat tail. " Woman !" he shrieked, " this is get- ting serious. Unhand me, I say." And he tried to disengage himself from her embrace while all the brakemen and the baggage master, and the news- boys stood around, and said his conduct was infamous. In the midst of the struggle a stranger entered with a carpet-ba- g. He looked exactly like Slimmer and when he saw his wife in Slimmer's arms, he became excited, and floored Slimmer with that carpet-ba- g and sat on him, and smote his nose, and caromed on his head, and asked him what he meant. Slimmer was on a stretcher, and the enemy went off with his wife and family in a cab. He called next day to apologize. His wife had made the mistake because of Slimmer's likeness to him. And now Slimmer wishes he may soon be kicked in the face by a mule, so that he will 1.1.. . . . 1 .. l.m.1.11! l,rmcr in the no iriiivi world. ENGAGED. Full well I know the meaning of that word ; Its joyful, solemn import fills my heart; It means that we have taken each lor life. That we are pledged to be of each a part. We are engaged to love to satisfy The noble cravings of an earnest soul ; To grow the passion to holy height. And feel the rapture of its sweet control. We are ea gaged to counsel and direct. Not with the stem, fierce heat of battle-fiel- d ; But kindly offering to each our thoughts. The wrong to right will soon aud gladly yield. We are engaged to love each other well, To try to read each other as a book. To offer sunshine when there is a cloud. And guide our every motion, tone and look: We are engaged to have our honeymoon A fount perpetual from year to year j The careful elegance of wooing t'me Must never wane to bring the sorrow-tea- r. We are engaged to teach and entertain Each in the sphere where special love may shin. To sow the garden of the soul with seed That yields a fruitage useful as divine. We are engaged to havem worthy aim,. A lofty standard looking to some end. We are not to gamer for ourselves alone. But to share the treasures with a needing friend. We are engaged to love our future home, To cluster round it every hallowed tie ; To make it paradise by every means Delightful to the mind, the ear and eye. We are engaged to see how muck of bliss Two splendid natures can evolve from life : I'm engaged to be a model husband. You're engaged to De a mouei wne. This ia engaging in the sacred tense. From such hign purpose may we never stray. Here is the ring. When two engage as we. 1 here s glory in tne name ot weauing-oa- y. SENSE AND NONSENSE. The most important needle work ever done in the world ia supposed to have been done by the mariner s compass. " Are there any fools in this town V asked a stranger ot a newsboy. " I don t know," replied the boy ; why ; are you lonesome? A New York company will insure poodle does, but won't take a cent's risk on babies They know which receives the most care. The season approaches when it will be, perhaps, well enough to remember that the scratch of a yellow cat is good for mosquito bites. An old gander was recently killed in Virginia at the age of ninety. The name ofthe fortunate boarding house that drew the prize is not given. In St. Louis everybody is considerate, and therefore a daily paper remarks: " Two gentlemen and a lady left for the penitentiary last evening." Lady Visitor (in the country) " Dear me ! Mrs. Scrubb, your boy seems to want a lot of whipping !" Mrs. S. " Well, he's it, ain't he?" A BAD little boy in Aberdeen rubbed cayenne pepper dust all over the back of his jacket. Ihe school-mast- er tnrasned him briskly, but dismissed the school im mediately to run to the nearest chemist for eye-wate-r. An unfortunate man. in Indianapolis, who lost several toes by a car wheel, was consoled by an Irishman near with, Whist, there ; you're making more noise than many a man I've seen with his head cut off." Potato bugs must be immortal. A man has kept some corked up in a bottle without air, food or drink for a year, and they are as lively as ever. He proposes if he lives long enough, to see how long they can stand it. Many adults possess a spirit very much like that of the timid little boy who was recently overheard to say while alone in a dark room, "O Lord, don't let any one hurt me, and I'll go to church next Sunday and give you some money!" How doth the little crocodile Imprave his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale ! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws. And welcome the little fishes in With gen He smiling jaws! A dissipated young spendthrift, when remonstrated with by his wife, replied, " I am like the Prodigal Son, and shall repent " Yes," said the bet- ter half, "and I am like the Prodigal Son, too; for I will arise and go to my father." A Scotchman went to a lawyer once for sdvice and detailed the circumstances of the case. " Have you told me the facts precisely as they occurred V asked the lawyer. ' Oh ! aye, sir!" replied he; " I tell ye the plain trtith. Ye can put the lies into it yourself I" In an Illinois village, during service on a sultry Sabbath morning, the pastor's little girl of nearly three summers be came somewhat weanea ai we lengin of the sermon, and in rather a low tone of voice, but earnestly, said, to the amusement of those who sat near, "Come, papa, that's enough ; let's go home." TnEY tell a queer story about the doc- tors in a certain Texas town, who all went last summer to attend a medical convention. They were absent about two months, and on their return found all their patients had recovered, the drug stores had closed, the nurses opened dancing-school- s, the cemetery was cut up into building lots, the undertakers had gone to making fiddles, and the hearse had been painted and sold for a circus wagon. An Artfully Artless Dodge. A " Smuggler " relates the following : " We shall be, my dear madam," said I to a fellow-passeng- er in the Dieppe boat, taking out my watch, but keeping my eyes steadily upon her, " we shall be in less than ten minutes at the custom- house." A spasm a flicker from the guilt within a glance from her countenance. "You look very good-nature- d, sir," stammered she. I bowed, and looked considerably more so to invite her confidence. " If I was to tell you a secret, which is too much for me to keep myself, oh ! would you keep it inviolable?" " I know it, my dear madam I know it already," said I smilingly " it is lace, is it not?" ' Sha uttered a little shriek, and yes, she had- - got it there among the crinoline. She thought it had been sticking out, you see, unknown to her. , J "Oh, sir," cried she, "it isronly 10 worth ; please forgive, and.ril never do it again. As it is, I think I shall expire." " My dear madam," replied I, sternly but kindly, " here is the pier, and the officer, has fixed his eyes upon us. I must do my duty.' I rushed np the ladder like a lamp- lighter; I pointed out the woman to a legitimate authority; I accompanied her I upon her way, in custody to the searching-hous- e. I did not see her searched, but I saw her fined and dismissed with ignominy. Then, having generously given up my emoluments as informer to the subordi- nate officials, I hurried off in search of the betrayed woman to her hotel. I gave her lace twice the value of that she lost, paid her fine, and explained : "You, madam, had 10 worth of ? smuggled goods about your person ; I had nearly fifty times that amount. I turned informer, madam, let me convince you, for the sake of both of us. You have too expressive a countenance, believe me, I and the officer would have found you out at all events, even as I did myself. Are you satisfied, my dear madam ? If you feel aggrieved by me in any way, pray take more lace ; here is lots of it" When I finished my explanation the ; lady seemed perfectly satisfied with my little stroke of diplomacy, thongh she would have doubtless preferred a little less prominent part in it. Worthy of Attention A large increase in the number of nearsighted persons has been observed in Germany, and is believed to be due in large measure to the unnatural positions children are compelled to assume by rea- son of the awkward construction of the desks and seats, and to the imperfect lighting of school buildings. The same increase has been noticed in English schools, and has just been brought to the attention of Parliament, where it will be investigated. There is no doubt at all that a large number, if not the majority, of American school buildings are very imperfect in lighting and seating arrange- ments, and it is not unlikely that these imperfections are producing the same re- sults here as in Europe. The matter is worthy of special attention from school officers. The annual meeting of the Unitarians is to be keld at Saratoga, September loth.

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. RouBOBoi an, omo.THURSDAY, - - AUGUST 20, 1874.

NEWS SUMMARY.The East.

- The dry goods firm of Patton A Co., NewYork, hu suspended.

Workmen at --the Vulcan Iron Works,ilkesbarre, Pa., are again on a strike.The Philadelphia Chief of Police invites

information as to the whereabouts of theabducted child Ross, and says tne police willlay b claim to any part of the $20,000 reward offered.

A PURSE of $1,000 is offered, by theRochester, N. Y., Association, to the horsethat will beat Goldsmith Maid's time. TheMain is to be entered for the race.

SPECIAL dispatch from Bennington.Vt.,announces the arrest of a woman who has achild in charge answering the description ofCharley Boss. The child was taken to thetelegraph office and questions were askeddictated from Philadelphia. He answered anumber of these eorrectly, and at the con-

clusion fame a telegram fram Philadelphia,instructing the Chief of Police to detainthe woman and child. The boy says he hastwo names, Charley Boss and CharlesAugustus Hamiltou.

Eev. John Cowan, once Chaplain of theSixth New York Heavy Artillery, has beenheld to answer the charge of conspiring todefraud the United States of $1,000. Cowanrecently wrote to the State Department thaton the 21st of July last he fell from a streetcar and his wallet was crushed. He encloseda frag stent of a $1,000 bond, saying that wasall that was saved from his wallet, and prayedthe department to give him a duplicate $1,000bond. An examiner found on the fragmentthat Rev. Mr. Cowan had enclosed to theTreasury the words, " Pres't Dela," showingit was the bond of one of the South Ameri-can Republics. '

Tins Sound steamer, City of Boston, onthe way to New York, ran down a schooner,

few days ago, and a portion of the crew ofthe latter were drowned.

At the Rochester races, on Wednesday,Goldsmith Maid beat her former time, andsecured the extra $1,000 prize offered for thebeat. Her time in this race was 2:14.

Mr. Moulton's statement has been madepublic, and amounts virtually to no statementat all, being simply an authentication of theletters embodied in Tilton's original state-ment. He maintains that the confidentialtrust reposed in him can not be broken, evenat their urgent request.

The West.Navigation on the Chesapeake and Ohio

Canal, which was suspended for several daysin consequence of a break, has been resumed.

Seveitty-TW- car-loa- of tea, from Japan,passed through St. Joseph, Mo., the otherday. .

A DESTRUCTIVE tornado passed throughDixon, 111., Monday night, and did greatdamage to the crops, fences, and otherproperty in the vicinity.

The little mill between Collyer and Ed-

wards came off according to programmenear the line between Pennsylvania andWest Virginia. It lasted twenty minutes,and was not finished decisively. Thereferee's opinion is still withheld.

The South.A SPECIAL from Helena, Ark., to the Mem-

phis Appro!, dated the 10th inst.says. "Thesteamer Trader was met y at O. K.Landing by a mob of armed negroes, whoinformed C. ptain Smith that he could takehis .boat to Austin, but that he could cotreturn. Captain Smith deemed it mostprudent to turn back at once, li is reportedfrom over the river that a fight occurred atAustin this morning, and the negroes wererepulsed. They have sent a messenger toCoahoma County, Mississippi, and thisplace, to get all the recruits possible. It isalso stated that the negroes will attackAustin

The Republicans at Selma, Ala., after afour days' session, and two hundred andforty-nin- e ballots, have nominated Jere.Haratson, colored.

Washington.A DEMAND is to be made at once on Pacific

.railroads delinquent to the Gevernment forthe payment of five per cent of their netearnings, and if not complied with withinsixty days, legal proceedings will be com-menced against them.

A Board of Officers has been designatedby the Secretary of War to meet at Wash-ington, on the 15th of September, to exam-ine West Point graduates who have been se-

lected for appointment to Second Lieuten-ancies in the army.

THE President of Uruguay has sent a dis-patch to President Grant, congratulatinghim on the establishment of telegraphic

between the two countries.The President of the railroad between

Philadelphia and Port Deposit has notifiedthe Post-offic- e Department that he will ceasecarrying the mails over his road nnless ad-ditional compensation is given.

The heads of the several Executive De-partments of the Government have calledupon their chiefs of bureaus and divisionsfor information and data relating to thebusiness of each. The material obtained iathis way will form the basis of the Depart-ment reports to Congress next December.

Bt a circular just issued, National banksare prohibited, in making returns of semi-annual duty to the United States Treasury,from deducting from their average depositsfor duty the five per centum of their circu-lation held as a reserve and for the redemp-tion of bank notes.

Crimes, Fires and Casualties.The steamer Henry Ames was snagged

and sank, near Waterproof, in the LowerMississippi, one night last week, and theboat and cargo are a total loss. Three liveswere lost two women and one child. Theboat was insured in Cincinnati and Wheelingoffices for $25,000.

Ox Sunday, Montreal was visited by a con-flagration lasting five hours. Property tothe value of $250,000 was destroyed, and onelife lost

A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, Sat-urday night, said that as the tugboat Fawnwas leaving tte canal at Carleton, last night,with two American barges, she burst herboiler, tearing her forward deck and wheel-hous-e

to pieces, but fortunately no one wasseriously injured. Tiie engineer and severalothers were slightly scalded.

A FIRE at Ellsworth, Kansas, a few daysince, destroyed thirty buildings, including

the postoffiee, Episcopal Church, and stores.Loss about $30,000.

In Woodbury, Marion County, Ky., a fewnights since, Watkin's large tobacco factorywas burned to the ground, with thirty thou-sand pounds of tobacco. Loss, $80,000; in-

sured for about $60,000.The brig James Leeds came in collision

with the steamship Norman on the St-- Law-rence river, a few days since, drowning theCaptain and five of the crew.

HoYT & Son's paper mill, at Costellio,Ohio, was reoently entirely destroyed by fire.

Mrs. Dr. IIcmelseim, i( CumberlandCity, Maryland, whilst on a visit to friends inVboster, Ohio, fell down a cellar-wa- y andwas killed.

A MAX named Hazel, residing in Guelph,Canada, recently mistook a Miss Colver forhis daughter, walking with a forbidden per-son, and shot them both before discoveringhis mistake. Hazel immediately fled.

A large number of deaths are occuringthrough the country from the hot weather.

Personal.John Stanton Gocld the scientist, died

at Hudson, N. Y., a few days since, of conges-tion of the lungs, in the sixty-thir- d year ofhis age.

John T. Tpllet, a well-know- n New Yorkdetective is dead.

THE Bight Rev?-n- Henry J. Wliitc-hons- e,

Bishop of u.e Diocese of Illinois,died at his residence in Chicago, a few dayssince.

Foreign.The Daily Telegraph says it is reported

that Russia has consented to resognize theBepnblic of Spain, and all other powerswill follow.

General Dorkegaray, commanding theCarlist army, has resumed the offensive inNavarre. He has captured the town of

through treachery of the inhabi-

tants, and is now advancing on Pueblo, withthe object of cutting the railway betweenMiranda and Logrono. Some of his menrecently fired on a railroad train and severly

wounded the engine driver, who is anEnglishman. .

The Republican General Blanco, witheight battalions and twelve pieces of artil-lery, is advancing to retake Laguardia.

Prixcb Hohenlohe, the German Min-

ister, has informed Duke De Cozes, Ministerof Foreign Affairs, that Germany intends torecognise the Spanish Republic.

Disastrous floods have occurred in UpperScinde, Several towns have been washedaway.

Marshal Bazaine escaped from theIsland of SL Marguerite some time duringSunday night. The details of the mannerin which he succeeded in getting away areunknown, except that he used a rope ladderand got on board a vessel bound for Italy.The night was dark one? stormy. Thejournals declare that the government willact promptly and energetically in punishingall who eonnived at his flight

The Morning Post announces that negotia-tions between the powers for the recognitionof Spain have been completed. The consentof Great Britain has removed the last ob-

stacle.'The rebel General Pancho Vega was Killed

in a skirmish at Fray Cenito en the 1st instDispatches from Calcutta announce that

the floods in Scinde are subsiding.The sale of the Ticbborne claimants'

jewelry and other effects, for the benefit ofcreditors, brought large prices.

It has been ascertained that the plan ofMarshal Bazaine's escape from the Islandof Sainte Marguerite was arranged sixweeks ago. It was entirely the work ofMadame Bazaine.

The Times' Madrid correspondent posi-

tively confirms the reports of the recognitionof Spain by England, France, and Germany.The announcement caused a general rejoic-ing in the capital.

The escaped French Marshal, Bazaine,has arrived at Mayenoe from Basle, and willgo to Brussels. France will make no de-

mand for his extradition.H. C. ShaFEH, of the Bosto3 Bed' Stock-

ings, was struck in the face by a hard hitball, while playing near London, and isthought to have his jaw broken.

The War of Races in Tennessee.Memphis, August 11. A special to the

Appeal, from Helena, Arkansas, received athalf-pas- t eight o'clock this morning, says:At eleven o'clock last night three ladies andtwo gentlemen arrived here from AunHti, ina skiff, and report considerable fighting lateyesterday evening. The commander of thepost, whose name we did not learn, dis-patched a scout of twenty-fiv- e men on theroad to Coldwater Station, on the Missis-sippi and Tennessee Railroad, and captureda picket of twenty negroes, who were sta-tioned a few miles from the town, andbrought them in as prisoners, and disarmedthem. One of them, as they were being putinto the court-hous-e yard, tried to make hisescape, when he was'fired upon and killed ;

and in the melee which ensued, another ne-gro was wounded, but not fatally. Later inthe evening, a large body cf negroes ad-vanced from the south and attacked thetown, driving in the white skirmishers tothe court-hous- where the main body of thewhites were stationed. A charge was madeby the whites and the negroes were repulsedwith loss, and several killed and wounded.Fighting was going on when our informantsleft, and they were fired upon as they crossedoyer to Ship Island.

'Mayor Horn Chalmers, cf Hernando, hasjust arrived here for the purpose of charter-ing a boat to take men to the assistance ofthe whites in Austin. He says a courier ar-rived at Hernando at daylight, stating thatthe town was surrounded by about one thou-sand negroes, and asking for help. Abouttwo hundred men from Hernando andvicinity will be here at two o'clock, and thecom pan v, with volunteers from this city, willstart at four for Austin.

Dr. Smith,who is the unfortunate cause ofthe troubles there, reached here last nightSomt three weeks since he was attacked inthe streets of Austin by a negro, and, draw-ing a pistol, fired at the negro, but missedhim and killed a little negro girl standing by,which exasperated the negroes to such anextent that they collected a mob and tookDr. Smith to the woods to hang him, whichthey would have done but for the entreatiesof Mayor Woodson and the Doctor's wife.Since that time he has been a voluntary in-

mate of the jail to prevent being mobbed,until last Friday, when some friends cameand carried him to Hernando. On learningthis, the negroes collected in large numbersand notified the Mayor that unless Dr. Smithwas brought back and put in jail they wouldburn the town.

The steamer White left this afternoon atfive o'clock,with about three hundred armedmen, and supplies;under commanTo? Coi.Morgan, of Hernando, Miss., about half ofwhom are from Mississippi, and among whomare some twenty negroes, who say thev wantthis foolishness stopped. The remainder areIrom this city.

Large numbers of men have gone bv land,and if the whites can hold the Court-hous-e

till midnight, reinforcements in sufficientnumbers will have arrived to relieve them.

Memphis, August 12. Three hundred andseventy-fiv- e armed men left here on thesteamer last night for Austin, Miss.; nearlya third of whom came by rail and on footand horseback from Mississippi, and all ofwhom will tender their services to the Sher-iff on arrival. The latest news from thescene of the riot is to the effect that the ne-groes attacked the town the third time yes-terday and drove the whites ten milesthrough the swamps to Coldwater.

The latter made a stand, and the negroes,numbering two thousand, then returnedand sacked the stores and dwellings, gettingconsiderable whisky, npon which a hundredor more got gloriously drunk. The whiteshad removed all their families from theplace, and the negroes threatened to burn itif an attempt was made to take it from them.The people in that (Tuuica County) as wellas the other counties bordering, are leavingtheir homes and seeking safety here, or atHelena. About thirty families came upthis morning on the steamer St Francis.Some of them state that leading negroes arevisiting all the plantations within a radiusof thirty miles, and taking negro laborersfrom the plantations to reinforce the rioters,and a courier just in states that there are nonegroes on any plantation within twenty-fiv- e

miles of Austin, all having joined tlierioters.

He also says that the negroes were fortify-ing the place, and that the Deputy Sheriffhad summoned as one of his posse GeneralChalmers, who would take command of theexpedition from this city, and land them amile below town, and that the attack was tohave been made at daylight this morning,with infantry as well as caralry, which tothe number of a hundred or more had or-ganized in adjoining counties, and had re-ported to the Sheriff, and been sworn in as aposse.

Bumor has it that in the attacks made thusfar ten negroes have been killed and threewhites wounded. That however, lacks con-firmation. Although insignificant as it mayseem, this riot may lead to a war of races inMississippi, nnless the Government stationsFederal troops in different sections of thatState, where the negroes outnumber thewhites twenty to one.

The AppeaCs Helena special says: Mr.Sebastian, just arrived from Austin) makesthe following statement: Between three hun-dred and four hundred men from Memphis,landed at Shoo Flv, five miles below Austin,at eight o'clock this morning, and marchedinto the town without opposition at threeo'clock. The citizens had abandoned theplace the previous evening, and the coloredmen, after holding the place a few hoursand sacking it left for their homes.

The latest reports from Austin state thatthe improvised troops had disbanded andgone home, and peace is restored. The im-pression prevails here that a few determinedmen could have prevented the whole affairat the outset by meeting the negroes beforesummoning help from elsewhere.

Anecdote of Sydney Smith.The following is related of Sydney

Smith, and that it is founded on factthere can be but little doubt, exemplify-ing, as it does, that peculiar and match-less humor for which Sydney was so re-

markable.The thing occurred in Edinburgh,

when Jeffrey, Brougham, Sydney, and therest of that brilliant constellation of menof genius, were shedding so great a lustreupon "Auld Reekie" and the world.There was, at the time, a literary pre-tender and bore "in Edinburgh, whoseeverlasting subject of discourse was" The North Pole," and whose delight itwas to inflict his theme upon everypatient listener. He met Jeffrey in thestreet one day, and, after the usual salu-

tation, at once introduced his favoritesubject.

"Blast the North Pole," vociferatedJeffrev. and extricating himself from thebore's grasp, pursued the even tenor ofhis way.

The former, wincing under Jeffrey'sabrupt treatment, also went his way,when, encountering the good-natur-

Sydney, he related to the latter, withmuch chagrin and disgust, what Jeffreyhad said.

"Ah!" says Sydney, "I wouldn'tmind it. We all know Jeffrey. You'llhardly believe it, but in a conversation Ihad with Jeffrey, the other day, he ac-

tually spoke ' disrespectfully of theEquator.

THE PLYMOUTH INVESTIGATION.

Beecher's Statement.OeKtlemen ofthe Committee: In the

statement addressed to the public on the 22dof July last, I gave an explicit, comprehen-sive, and solemn denial to the charges madeby Theodore Tilton against mc.

That denial I now repeat and reaffirm, ialso stated in that roimnmi illation that Ishould appear before your Committee witha more detailed statement, and explanationof the facts in the case. Four Tears ago,Theodore Tilton fell from one of the proud-est editorial chairs in America, where herepresented the cause of religion, humanityand prosperity, and in a few months thereafter, became the advocate urn) representa-tive of Victoria Woodhtitl. and the fricrid ofher strange cause. Bv his follies he wasbankrupt ia reputation, in occupation) andin resources-- .

The interior historv--, of which I am nowto give a brief outline, is a history of hisattempts to w employ me as to reinstatehim in business, restore his reputation, andplace him again upon the eminence fromwhich he had fallen. It is a sad history, tothe full meaning of which I have but re-cently awakened. Entangled in a wilder-ness of complications, 1 followed, untillately, a fulse theory and a delusive hope,believing that the friend who assured me ofhis determination and abilitv to control theEassionnte vagaries of Mr. Tilton, to restore

to rebuild his fortunes, andto vindicate me, would be eraual to thatpromise. His failure has madeclear to me, what fr a long time I did notsuspect, the real motive of Mr. Tilton.

Mr. Tilton was first known to me as a re-porter of my sermons. He was then a youth,iust from school, and working then on the

YorK Observer, and from this paper hepassed to the Independent and became a greatfavorite with Mr. Bowen.

When, about 1861, Drs. Bacon, Storrs andThompson resigned their places, I becameeditor of the Imteptndent, to which I hadbeen from its start a contributor. One ofthe inducements' held out to me was thatTilton should be my assistant and relieveme whollv from the routine office work. Inthis relation I became very much attachedto him. We used to stroll to the galleriesand paint shops and dine often together.His mi,nd was opening freshly and with en-thusiasm upon all questions. I used to pourout my ideas of civil affairs, public policy,religion and philanthropy. Of this he hasoften spoken with grateful appreciation, andmourned at a later day over its cessation.

August was my vacation month, but myfamily repaired to my farm in June or July,and remained there during September andOctober. My labors confining me to the city,I took my meals in the families of friends,and from year to year I became so familiarwith their children and houses, that I wentin and out daily almost as in my own house.Mr. Tilton often alluded to this habit, andurged me to do the same by his house. Hewould often speak in extravagant terms ofhis wife's esteem and affection for me. AfterI began to visit his house he sought to makeit attractive. He urged me to bring my pa-pers down there and to use the study to domy writing in, as it was not pleasant towrite at the office of tde Independent. WhenI went to England, in 1863, Mr. Tilton tooktemporary charge of it, my name remainingfor a year and then he becoming the respon-sible editor. Friendly relations continueduntil 1866, wheu the violent assaults madeupon me by Tilton in the Independent on ac-

count of my Cleveland letters, and my tem-porary discontinuation of the publication ofmy sermons in that paper, broke off my con-nection with it. Although Mr. Tilton and Iremained personally on good terms, yet therewas a coolness between us in all mutters offiolities. Our social relations were very

as late as 1868-- at his request, I satto Page some fifty times for a portrait.

It was here that I first met and talked withMoulton, whose wife was a member of Ply-mouth Church, though he was not a member,nor even a regular attendant.

During the whole period I never receivedfrom Mr. Tilton or any member of his fam-ily, the slightest hint that there was anydissatisfaction with my familiar relations tohis household. As late, I think, as the win-ter of 169, when going upon an extendedlecturing tour, he said, " 1 wish you wouldlook in and see that Libby is not lonesome,or does not want anything," or words to thateffect. Never, by sign or word, did Mr. Tiltoncomplain of my visits in his family until af-

ter he began to feel that the Independentwould be taken from him ; or did he breakout into violence until on the eve of dispos-session from both the papers, the Independentand the Brooklyn Union, owned by Mr.Bowen. During these years of iutiinacy inTilton's family I was treated as a father orelder brother. Children were born, childrendeid. They learned to love me and to frolicwith me as if I were one of themselves. Ilove them, aud I had for Mrs. Tilton a trueand honest regard.

She seemed to me an affectionate motherand a devoted wife, looking up to her hus-band as far above the common race of men,and turning to me with artless familiarity,and with entire confidtice. Childish in

sh6 was childlike in nature, anu Iwould as soon have misconceived the confi-dence oi the little girls as the unstudied af-

fection which she showed me. Delicate inhealth, with cheerful air, she was boundlessin her sympathy for those in trouble, and la-

bored beyond her strength for the poor.She had the charge one time of the marriedwomen's class at the Bethel's Mission Schooland they perfectly worshipped her there.

I gave Mrs. Tilton copies of my bookswhen published. I sometimes sent downfarm flowers to be distributed among a dozenor more families, and she occasionallyshared. The only present of value I evergave her was on my return from Europe in1864, when I distributed souvenirs of myjourney to some fifty or mare persons, andto her I gave a simple brooch, of little in-

trinsic value.So far from supposing that my presence

and influence was alienating Mrs. Tiltonfrom her family relations, I thought, on thecontrary, that it was giving her strength andencouraging her to hold fast upon a man ev-

idently sliding into dangerous associationsand liable to be reversed by unexampled

I regarded Mr. Tilton as iu avery critical period of his life, and nsed tothink it fortunate that he had good home in-

fluences about him.During the late years of our friendship,

Mrs. Tilton spoke very mournfully to meabout the tendency of her husband to greatlaxity of doctrines in religion and morals.She gave me to understand that he deniedthe divinity of Christ, the inspire ion ofScripture, and most of the articles of orthordox faith, while his views as to the sanctityof the marriage relations were undergoingconstant change in the direction of free-lov- e.

In the latter part of July, 1870, Mrs.Tilton was Sick, md at her request I visitedher. She seemed much depressed, but gaveme no hint of any trouble having referenceto me. I cheered her as best I could, andprayed with her just before leaving.. Thiswas our last interview before the troublebroke out in the family. I describe it be-cause it was the last, and its character has abearing upon the latter part of my story.

CONCERNING ALL MY OTHER VISITS.

It is sufficient to say that at no interviewwhich ever toot place between Airs, in tonand myself did anything occur which mightnot have occurred with perfect proprietybetween a brother and a sister, between afather and child, or between the man of honorand the wife of his dearest friend, nor didanything ever happen which she or I soughtto conceal from her husband.I (Some years before an open trouble betweenMr. Tilton and myself, his doctrines as setforth in the leaders of the Independent,aroused a storm of indignation among repre-sentative CongrcgatiooalisU in the A est,and as the paper was still very largely sup-posed to be my organ, I was written to onthe subject. In reply, I indignantly dis-claimed all responsibility for the views ex-

pressed by Mr. Tilton. My brother Kdward,then living in Illinois, was prominent in re-

monstrances addressed to Bowen, concerningthe course of his paper under Mr Tilton'smanagement. It was understood that Mr.Bowen agreed that in consequence of theproceedings arising out of this remonstrance,to remove Mr. Tilton, or suppress his peculiarviews; but instead of that, Theodore seemedfirmer in the saddle than before, and hisloose notions of marriage and divorce beganto be shadowed editorially. This led to thestarting of the Advance in Chicago, to super-sede the Independent in the Northwest, andMr. Bowen was made to feel that Tilton'smanagement was seriously injuring the busi-ness, and Tilton may have felt that his posi-tion was being undermined by the opponentsof his views, with whom he subsequentlypretended to believe I was leagued.

Vague intimations of his feeling hard to-

ward me, I ascribed to this misconception, Ibad really taken no step to harm him.

After Mrs. Tilton's return from the west,in December, 1870, a young girl, whom Mr.Tilton had taken into' the family, educatedand treated like an own child, (her testi-mony, I understand, is before the Commit-tee,) was sent to me with an urgent requestthat I would visit Mrs. Tilton at her mother's.She said that Mrs. Tilton had left her houseand gone to her mother's, in consequof ill treatment of her husband. She thgave an account of what she had seen o h

cruelty and abuse on the part of her hus-band. That shocked me, and yet morewhen, with downcast loot, she said thatMr. Tilton had visited her chamber at night,sought her consent to his wishes. I immedi-ately visited Mrs. Tilton at her mother's res-

idence, ajid received an account of her homelife, and of the despotism of her husband,and of the management of a woman, whomhe had made housekeeper, which seems likea nightmare dream. The question waswhether she would go back or separate for-

ever from her husband. I asked permissionto bring niy wife to see them, whose judg-ment in all domestic relations I thoughtbetter than my own, and accordingly a sec-ond visit was made.

The result of the interview was that mywife was extremely indignant toward Mr.Tilton, and declared that no considerationon earth would induce her to remain anhour with a man who had treated her with

a hundredth part of such insult and cruelty.I felt as strongly as she did, but hesitated,as I always do in giving advice in favor of aseparation. It was agreed that my wifeshould give her final advice at anothervisit the next day. When ready to go shewished a final wordj but there was companvand the children were present, and as "i

wfore on a scrap of paper, "I incline tothink that your view is right, and that a sep-aration and settlement of a support will bewisest, and that in his present desperatestate, his presence near her is more likelyto produce hatred than his absence." Mrs.Tilton did not tell me that her presence hadanything to do with this trouble, nor didshe let me know that on the July previoushe had extorted front her a Confession ofexcessive affection fof irie.

On the evening of December 27, 1870, Mr.Bowen on his way home, called at mv houseand handed me a letter from Mr. "Tilton.It was as nearly as I can remember in thefollowing terms :

".H?,". WAed Bcechir For resnnns which Tonexplicitly know, and which I forbear to state Ithat jrou withdraw from the pulpit, and quitBrooklyn as a residence.Theodore Tiltoic."

I read it over twice, and turned to Bowenand said, "This man is crazv; this is sheerInsanity," and other like words. Mr. Bowenprofessed to be ignorant of the contents andhanded him the letter to read.

lie at once- - fell into conversation aboutTilton. He gave me some account of reasonswhy he had reduced him from the editorshipof the Independent to the subordinate posi-tion of contributor, viz. : That Mr. Tilton'sreligious and social views were ruining thepaper, but he said that as soon as it wasknown that he had so far broken with Til-ton, there came pouring in upon him somany stories of Tilton's private life andhabits that he was overwhelmed, and that hewas now considering whether he could con-sistently retain him on the Brooklyn Union,or as chief contributor to the Independent.He narrated the story of the affair at Win-ste-

Ct ; some like stories from the North-west, and the charges brought against Tiltonin his own office. Without doubt he believedthese allegations, and so did I. The otherfacts previously stated to me seemed a fullcorroboration.

We conversed, some time, Mr. Bowenwishing my opinion. It was frankly given.

I did not see how he could maintain theformer relations with Mr. Tilton. The sub-stance of the full conversation was thatTilton's inordinate vanity, his fatal facility,for blundering, for which he had a genius,of the ostentatious independence in his ownopinions, and general inpracticableness,would keep the Union at a disagreementwith the political party for whose serviceit was published, and now, added to all therevelations of these promiscuous immorali-ties, would make his connection with eitherJiaper fatal to its interests. I spoke

emphatically under the great provo-cation of his threatening to me, and therevelations I had just had concerning hisdomestic affairs.

Mr. Bowen derided the letter of Tilton,which he had brought to me, and said, ear-nestly, that if trouble came of it, I mightrely on his friendship.

I learned afterward, that, in the furtherquarrel, ending in Tilton's peremptory ex-pulsion from Bowen's service, this conver-sation was told to Mr. Tilton. I believe thatMr. Bowen had an interview and receivedsome further information about Mr. Tiltonfrom my wife, to whom I had referred him.

Although I have no doubt that Mr. Tiltonwould have lost his place at any rate, I have,also, no doubt that mv influence was deci-sive, and precipitated his final overthrow.When I came to think it all over, I felt veryunhappy at the contemplation of Mr. Til-ton's impending disaster. I had loved himmuch, and at one time he seemed like a sonto me. My influence had come just at thetime of his first unfolding, and had much todo with his early development I had aidedhim externally to bring him before the pub-lic. We had been together in the great con-troversies of the day, until afterward oursocial intercourse had been intimate.

It is true, that his nature always exagger-ated his own excellencies. When he was aboy he looked up to me with affectionateadmiration. After some years he felt him-self my equal, and was very companionable;and when he had outgrown me, and reachedthe position of the first man of the age, hewas still kind and patronizing. I had al-

ways smiled at these weaknesses of vanity,and had believed that a larger experience,with some knocks among strong men, and bysorrows that temper the soul, he would yetfulfill a useful and brilliant career ; but nowall looked dark. He was to be cast forthfrom his eminent position, and his affairs didnot promise that sympathy and strengthwhich make one's house, as mine hm beenin times of adversity, a refuge from thestorm and a tower of defense. Beside agenerous suffering, I should have had a sel-fish reason for such, if I had dreamed that Iwas about to become the instrument bywhich Mr. Tilton meant to fight his wayback to the prosperity which he had for-feited.

It now appears that on the 29th of December, lfl7V Miv- - Tiltci having-kaiaetL.t- Ireplied to his threatening letter by expressing such an opinion of him as to set Mr.Bowen finally airainst him. and brine: himface to face with immediate ruin, extortedfrom his wife, then suffering from a severeillness, a document criminating me, and pre-pared an elaborate attack upon me. OnTuesday evening, December, 1870, about 7o'clock, Francis D. Moulton called at myhouse, and with intense earnestness said, " Iwish you to go with me to see Mr. Tilton."I replied that I could not then, as I was justgoing to my prayer-meetin- With the mostpositive manner, he said, "You must go,somebody else will take care of the meeting."I went with him, not knowing what troublehad agitated him, but vaguely thinking Imight learn the solution of the recentthreatening letter. On the way I askedwhat was the 'reason of .this visit, to whichhe replied that Mr. Tilton would inform me,or words to that effect. On entering hishouse Mr. Moulton locked the door, 6ayingsomething about not being interrupted.

He requested me to go into the frontchamber over the parlor. I was under theimpression that Mr. Tilton was going to pourout upon me his anger for colleaguing withBowen, and for the advice of separationgiven to his wife. I wished Mr. Moulton tobe with me as a witness, but he insisted thatI should go by myself. Mr. Tilton receivedme coldly but calmly.

After a word or two standing in front ofme with a memorandum in his hand, he be-gan an oration, in an unfriendly spirit, thatI had sought his downfall, and spread in-

jurious rumors about him, was using myplace and influence to undermine him, hadadvised Mr. Bowen to dismiss him, and muchmore that I can't remember, and he then de-clared that I had injured him in his familyrelations, had joined with his mother-in-la-

in producing discord in his house, had ad-vised a separation, had alienated his wife'saffections from him, had led her to love memore than any living being, had corruptedher moral nature, aud taught her to be in-

sincere, lying, and hypocritical, and endedby charging that I had made improper pro-posals to her.

Until he reached this I had listened withsome contempt, under the impression thathe was attempting to bully me, but with thelast charge he produced a paper purportingto be a certified statement of a previous con-fession made to hiin by his wife of her lovefor me, and that I had made proposals to herof an improper nature. He said that thisconfession had been made to him in July,six weeks previous, that his sense of honorand affection would not permit any snehdocument to remain in existence; that hehad burned the original and should now de-

stroy the only copy, and he then tore thepaper into small pieces. If I had beenshocked at such astatement, I was absolutelythunderstruck when he closed the interviewby requesting me to repair at once to hishouse, where he said Elizabeth was waitingfor me, and learn from her lips the truth ofhis stories in so far as they concerned her.This fell like a thunderbolt on me. Couldit be possible that his wife, whom I had re-

garded as a type of moral goodness, shouldhave made Ruch false and atrocious state-ments. And yet if she had not, how wouldhe dare to send me to her for confirmationof his charges. I went forth like a sleep-walker.

The housekeeper, the same woman ofwhom Mr. Tilton had complained, seemedto have been instructed bv him, for she evidently expected me, and showed me at onceup to Mrs. Tilton's room. Mrs. Tilton lavupon her bed, white as marble, with closedeyes, as in a trance, and with her handsupon her bosom, pulm to palm, like one inprayer. As I look back upon it, the pictureis like some forms carved in marble that Ihad seen upon monuments in Europe.

She made no motion and gave no sign ofrecognition of my presence. I sat downnear her and said, " Elizabeth, Theodore hasbeen making very serious charges againstmc, and sends me to yon for confirmation."She made no replv or sign. Yet it was plainthat she was conscious and listening. I repeated some of his statements that I hadbrought discord to the family, had alienatedher from him, had sought to break up thefamily, and usurped his influence, and then,as well us I could, I added that he said Imade improper suggestions to her, and thatshe had admitted this fact to him last July.

I said, " Elizabeth, have you made suchstatements to him?"

She made no answer, and I repeated thequestion. Tears ran down her cheeks, andshivering slightly, she bowed her head inacquiescence. I said, "you can not meanthat you have stated all that he haschnrged ? "

She opened her eyes, and began in a slowand feeble way to explain how sick she hadbeen; how wearied out with importunity;that he had confessed his own alien loves,and said (hat he could not bear to thinkthat she was latter than he; that she mightwin him to reformation if she would con-fess that she had loved me more than him,and that they could repent and go on withfuture concord.

I can not give her language, but only thetenor of her representations, i received themimpatiently. I spoke to her in the strong- -

est language of her course. I said to her:" Have I ever made any improper advancesto you?" She said "No." Then I askedher, "Why did you say so to ydttr htisband ?"She seemed ddeplv distressed. " My friend,(by that designation she most always calledme), I am sorry, but I could not help it.What can I do?" I told her she could statein writing what she had now told me. Shebeckoned for her writing materials, which Ihanded her from her secretary standing nearby, and she sat up in bed and wrote a briefconnter-statemen- ti

In a sort of postcript she denied ex-plicitly that t had ever offered any im-proper Solicitations to her; that being theonly charge niade against me bv Mr. Tilton,or sustained by the statement about the con-fession, which" he read to me.

I returned like one in a dream to Mr.Moulton's house, where I said very little,and soon went home. It has been said thatI confessed guilt and expressed remorse.This is utterly false. Is it likely that withMrs. Tilton's retraction in my pocket I shouldhave thus stultified myself?

On the next dav. In the evening, Mr.Moulton called at my house and came up tomy bedroom. He said that Mrs. Tilton, onher husband's return to her after our inter-view, had informed him what she had done,and that I had her retraction. Moulton ex-postulated with me; said that the retractionunder the circumstances would not mendmatters, but only awaken fresh discord be-tween husband and wife, anddogreat injuryto Mrs. Tilton without helping me. Mrs.Tilton, he said, had already recanted thewriting of the retraction made to me, and,of course, there might be no end to suchcontradictions.

Meanwhile, Mr. Tilton had destroyed hiswife's first letter acknowledging the confes-sion, aud Mr. Moulton claimed that I hadtaken a mean advantage and made dishonor-able use of Theodore's request that I shouldvisit her, in obtaining from her a writtencontradiction to a document not in exist-ence. He said that all difficulties could besettled without such papers, and that I oughtto give it up. He was under great excite-ment. He made no verbal threats, but heopened his overcoat and with.some epitheticremarks showed a pistol, which afterward hetook out and laid on the bureau, near whichhe stood. I gave the paper to him, and aftera few moments talk he left.

Within a day or two after this Mr. Moul-ton made me the third visit, and this timewe repaired to my study, in the third storyof my house.

He seemed convinced, however, that Ihad been seeking Tilton's downfall, that Ihad leagued with Mr. Bowen against him,and that he had, by mv advice, come nearto destroying his family. It did not needany argument or persuasion to do and snvanything to remedy the injury of which 1

then believed I had certainly been the oc-

casion, if not the active cause; but Moultonurged that, having wronged Tilton so, thewrong meant his means of support suddenlytaken away, his reputation gone, his familydestroyed, and that I had done it. He as-

sured me of his own knowledge that thestories which I had heard of Mr. Tilton'simpurities of life, and which I had believedand reported to Bowen, were all false, andthat Tilton had always been faithful to hiswife. I was persuaded into the belief ofwhat he said, and felt convicted of slanderin its meanest form. He drew the pictureof Tilton wronged in reputation, in position,iu business, shattered in his family, wherehe would otherwise have found a reiuge,and at the same time looking upon me outof his deep distress, while I was ahouudingin friends, most popular, and with amplemeans, tie drew that picture my prosper-ity overflowing and abounding, and Tilton'sdegradation. I was most intensely excited.Indeed, I felt that my mind was in dangerof giving way. I walked up and down theroom pouring forth my heart in the mostunrestrained grief and bitterness of

telling what my ideas were ofthe obligations of friendship and of thesacredness of the household, denying, however, an intentional wrong. Saying that ifI had been the cause, however innocently,of that which I then beheld, I never couldforgive myself, and heaping all the blameon my head. The case, as it then appearedto mv eves, was strongly against me. M v oldfriend and fellow worker had been dispos-sessed of his eminent place and influence,and I had counselled it. His family hadbeen well nigh broken up, and I advised it.His wife had been long sick and broken inhealth and body, and, as I fully believed, Ihad been the cause of all this by continuingthe blind heedlessness and friendship whichbad beguiled her heart and had roused herhusband into a fury of jealousy, althoughnot caused by any intentional act of mine,and should I coldly defend myself? ShouldI pour indignation upon this lady? ShouldI hold her up for contempt as having thrusther affections upon mc, unsought? ShouldI tread upon the man and his household intheir great adversity? I gave vent to mvfeelings without measure. I disclaimed,with great earnestness, any intent to harmTheodore, in his home or business, and withinexplicable sorrow, I both blamed and defended MrVHitblUll oiiexrenui...

-. Mr. Moulton was apparently affeeted-- iit

for it was rather that thanconversation,

He said that if Tilton could really be per-suaded of the friendliness of niy feelings toward him, he was sure there would be notrouble in procuring a reconciliation. I gavehim leave to state to Theodore my feelings.He proposed that I should write a letter. Ideclined, but said that he could report ourinterview, lie then proposed to matcememorandum of the talk, and sat down atmy table and took down, as I supposed, acondensed report ot mv talK, tor l went onstill pointing out my wounded feelings forthis great desolation in Tilton's family. It

rwas not a dictation of sentence after sentence he a mere amanuensis, and I composing for him. Mr. Moulton was putting intohis own shape parts of what I was saying, inmv own manner, with profuse explanations.This paper of Moulton's was a mere memorandum ot the points to be used by mm insetting torth my teelmgs.

That it contains matters and points derivedfrom ine is without doub But they wereput into sentences by him and expressed ashe understood them not as my words, but ashints of my figures and letters to be used byhim in conversing with Tilton. He did notread the paper to me, nor did I read it, norhave 1 ever seen it or heard it read, that lremember, until the publication of Tilton'srecent documents, and now reading it, I seein it thoughts that point to the matter of mydiscourse, but it is not my paper, nor arethose my sentences, nor is it a correct reportof what I said. It is a mere string of hintsmade by an unpracticed writer as helps tohis memory, in representing to Tilton how Ifelt toward his family. If more than this beclaimed, if it be set forth as in any propersense my letter, I then disown it and de-

nounce it. Some of its sentences, and parti-cularly that in which I am made to say thatI had obtained Mrs. Tilton's forgiveness, Inever could have said, even in substance. Ihad not obtained nor asked any forgivenessfrom her, and nobody pretended that I haddone so. Neither could I ever have said thatI humbled myself before Tilton s beforeGod, except in the sense that both to God,and to the man I thought I had deeply in-

jured, I humbled myself, as I certainly "did,but it is useless to analyze a paper preparedas this was.

The remainder of my plain statementconcerning it will be its comment. Thisdocument was written upon three separatehalf-shee- of large letter paper. After itwas finished, Moulton asked me if I wouldsign it. I said no, it was not my letter. Hereplied that it would have more weight if Iwould in some way indicate that he was au-thorized to explain my sentiments. I tookmy pen, and nt some distance below thewriting, and upon the lower margin, I indi-cated that I had committed the document intrust to Moulton, and I signed the line thuswritten by me.

A few words more as to its further fate.Mr. Moulton, of his own accord, said that,after using it, he would, in two or three days,bring the memorandum back to me, and hecautioned me about disclosing, in any way,that there was a difficulty between Mr. Tiltonand me, as it would be injurious to Mr. Tiltonto have it known that I had quarreledwith him, as well as to me to have the ru-mors set afloat.

I did not trouble myself about it untilmore than a year afterward, when Tilton be-gun to write up his case (of which here-after) and was looking up documents. Iwondered what was in the old memorandum,and desired to see it, for greater certainty ;

so one day I suddenly asked Mr. Moulton forthat memorandum, and said, "you promisedto return it to me."

He seemed confused for a moment, nndsaid, " Did I ?"

" Certainly," I answered.He replied that the paper had been de-

stroyed. On my putting the question againhe said: "That paper was burned up longago," and during the next two years, in va-rious conversations, of his own accord, hespoke of it as destroyed.

I had never asked for nor authorized thedestruction of this paper. But I was notallowed to know that tiie document was inexistence, uutil a distinguished editor inNew York, within a few weeUspast, assuredme that Mr. Moulton had shown him theoriginal, and that he had examined my sig-nature, to be sure of its genuineness. Iknew that there was a copy of it since thisstatement was in preparation. While I re-

jected this memorandum as my work, or anaccurate condensation of my statement, itdoes undoubtedly correctly represent that Iwas in profound sorrow, and that I blamedmyself with great severity for the disastersof the Tilton fnmily.

I had not then tiie light that I now have.There was much then that weighed heavilyupon my heart and conscience which nowweighs only on my heart.

I had not the light which analyzes anddisseminates things. By one blow thereopened before me a revelation full of an-guish. An agonized family, whose inmates5iad been my friends, greatiy beloved, thehusband ruined in wordly prospects, thehousehold crumbling to pieces, the womanby long sickness and suffering either corrupt

ed by deceit as her husband alleged; or sobroken in mind as to be irresponsible, andeither way, it was her enthusiasm for herpastor, as I was made to believe, that was thegerm and beginning of the trouble. Itwas ior me to have forestalled andprevented that mischief. My age and experience in the world should have put meon my guard. I could not at that time, tellwhat was true and what not true of all theconsiderations urged upon me by Tilton andMoulton. There was grief before me in whichlay those who had been warm friends, audthey alleged that I had helped to plungethem therein. That seenied enough to fillmy soul with sorrow and anguish. Nomother who has lost a child but will under-stand the wild that grief pro-duced, against all reason blaming herself forwhat she neglected to do, charging upon her-self by her neglect or heedlessness, the deathof the child, while, ordinarily, every oneKnows that she had worn herself out withher assiduities.

Soon- - after this I met Mr. Tilton at Mr.Moulton's house: either Mr. Moulton wassick, or was very late in rising, for he was inbed. Ihe subject of my feelings and con-duct toward Tilton was introduced. I madea statement of the motives under which Ihad acted in counseling Bowen, of my feeing m regard to niton's tamily, disclaiming

with horror the thought of wrong, and ex-pressing the desire to do whatever lay in hu-man power to remedy anv evil I had occa-sioned, and to reunite his family.

niton was silent and sullen, lie playedthe part of an injured man, but Moultonsaid to Tilton with intense earnestness:"That is all that a centleman can say. andyou ought to accept it, as an honorable basisot reconciliation." lie repeated this two orthree times, and Mr. Tilton's countenancecheered up under Moulton's strong talk.We shook hands and parted in a friendlyway. Not very long afterward lilton askedme to his house and s.'id that he should be

lad to have the good old times renewed.Moulton lost no occasion of presenting to

me the kindest view of Tilton's characterand conduct. On the other hand, he com- -

ilained that Mrs. Tilton did not trust herlusband or him, and did not assist him in

his efforts to assist Theodore. I knew thatshe distrusteJ Moulton, and felt bitterlyhurt by the treatment of her husband. 1

was urged to use my influence with her toinspire confidence in Moulton, and to leadher to take a kinder view of Theodore.

Accordinalv, at the instance of Mr. Moulton, three letters were written on the sameday (February 17, 1871,) on one commonpurpose to be shown to Mrs. Tilton, and toreconcile her to her husband, and my letterto her of that date was designed to ettectthe furtheror collateral purpose of gainingher confidence in Mr. Moulton. Ihis willbe obvious from the reading of the letters.The following is the full text of my lettersof that date, from a copy verified by one ofyour Committee, and I nave not to this hourbeen permitted to see the originals of eitherof them, or of any other papers which lhaddeposited with Moulton for safe keeping,

"Brooklyx, February 7, 1S71.

Mr Pear Friend In several conversations withyou, you have asked alKmt my leeliiiss towardBeccher. and yesterday you said the time had comewhen you would like to receive from me an express-ion of this kind in writine. I eay. therefore, verycheerfully, that, notwithstanding theureat sufferingwhich he has caused to cnzaiielli and tuyseii, i bearhim no malice, shall do him no wron?. shall discountenance every project, ly whomsoever proposedfor my exposure o! his secret to the public, and n lknow myself at all. shall endeavor to act toward Mrltiecheras 1 would have him. in similar circumstances, act toward me. 1 on Kiit to add that yourown Rood offices in this case have led me to a hmhermoral leelinjr than 1 might have otherwise reacneu,

.ver yours altJctlonately."February 7. 1871 .

My Pear Friend Moulton i am elaJ to sendyon a book, Jtc.

Jlauy, many irienus nts i,ou raiseu up i me, nnito nn one of them has He ever siven the oDDortunitrand the wisdom to serve me as you have. You havealso proved Theodore's friend and fclizalieth's. Doesliod look down from heaven on three unhappiercreatures that more need a friend than these? Is itnot an intimation ot lod s intent or mercy to all,that each one of these has in you a true and provedfriend? But only in yonare we thus united. Would toGod, who orders all hearts, that by liis kind mod-eration Theodore. Kli.nleth and I could be madefriends a?aiu. Ihcodorewill have the hardest taskin such a case, but has he not proved himself capableof tiie noblest thincs? I wonder if Klizala'th knowsbow ffcnerouslv he has carried himself toward me.Of course 1 can never speak with her affain withouther permission, aud 1 uo not knovr that even then itwould be best."

"Brooklyn February 7, 1871.

"My Dear Mrs. Tilton When I saw yon last,I diil not expect ever to see yon again, or tobe alive many days. God was kinder to me thanniy own thoughts. The friend whom Jod sent to me,Moulton, has proved, above all friends that 1 everhad, able and willing to help in this terrible emer-gency of my lite. His hand it was that tied up thestorm that was ready to burst upon our heads. Yonhave no friend, Theodore excepted, who has it in hispower to serve yon so vitally, ami who will do it withsuch delicacy and honor. It does my heart stood tosee in Moulton an unfeigned respect and honor firryou. It would kill me if 1 thought otherwise. Hewill be as true a frieud to your honor and happinessas a brother could be to a sister, and in him we havea common ground. You and 1 may meet in him.The past is indeed, but is there no future, no wiser,higher, holier future? May not this friend stand nsa priest in the new sanctuary of reconciliation, andmediate and bless Theodore and my most unhappyself? to not let my earnestness fail of itB end. Youbelieve in my judgment. I have put nivself whollyand gladly in Moulon's hand, and there 1 must meetyon. This is sent with Theodore's consent, but hehas not read it. Will yon return it to me by his ownhand? I am very earnest iu this wish for all oursake, a letter ought not to besubject to evena chuuee of a miscarrigc.

"Your unhappv friend,"H. W. Beecher."

I have no recollection of seeing, or hearing read theletter of Mr. Tilton of the same date. In mv lifter

Lttt JIrs. Tilton I alluded to the faetthatIdicV"fiot expect, whfn 1 saw tier jaat-- ft oe alive many days.That staiSB!SJ)t stands connected with s series ofsyniptoms whieh I last experienced in 156. I wentthrough the Fremont campaign, speaking in theopen air three hours at it time, three days in theweek. On reviewing my literarv labors, I felt I musthave given way. I very seriously thought that I wasgoing to have apoplexy'or paralysis, or something ofthe kind. On two or three occasions while preachingI should have fallen in the pulpit if I had not heldon to the table. Very ften I came near falling inthe streeis.

During the last fifteen years I have gone into thepulpit I suppose one hundred times with a strong im-

pression that I should never come out alive. 1 navepreached more sermons than any human being wouldbelieve, when I felt all the while that whatever Ihad got to say to my people, I must say it then or Inever would naveanother chance to say it. If I hadconsulted a physician, his first advice would havebeen, " you must stop work," but I was in such asituadou that I could not stop work. I read the bestmedical books on the symptoms of nervous prostra-tion and over-wo- rk and paralysis, formed my ownjudgment of my case. The three points I remarkedwere. I must liave good digestion, good sleep, aud 1

must go working. These three things were to be reconciled, and in regard to iy diet ana stimulants,and medicines I made most thorough and searchingtrial, and. a result, mangacd mv body so that I couldget the most work out of it wihtout essentially impairing it.

If 1 had said a word alwut this to my family, itwould have brought such distress aud anxiety on thepart of my wife as I could not bear. I have for sonianr vears so steadily taxed my mind to the utmost, that there have been periods when I could notattord to have people expresseven sympatny wim me.To have my wife or friends anxious about it, andshowing it t me. would lie iust the drop too much.

In 1Ho3 I came again into the same condition, justbefore going to England, and it was one of these rea-sons why 1 was wishing to go. The war was at itsheight, I had the Imlrpmilenl in charge, and wasworking, preaching and lecturing constantly, lknewI was likely to be prostrated again. In December, 1870,

the sudden shock of these troubles brought on againthese symptoms in a more violent form. I was verymuch deiiressed in mAid. and all the more becauseit was one of those things that I could not say any-thing about. 1 was silent with everybody.

The officcrsof the church sought to investigate intoMr. Tilton's reliihous views aud moral conduct, audon the latter point I had been deceived into the be-

lief that he was not in fault. As to the religiousviews, I still hoped for a change for the better. Asit was proposed to drop him from the list of membersfor and as be asserted to me hiswithdrawal, this might have been done, but his wifestill attended church and hoped for his restoration.I recalled haviug with him a conversation in whichhe dimly intimated to me that he thought it not un-likely that he might go back into his old position.He seemed to be in a mood to regret his past, and sowhen I was urged by the Examining Committee totake some steps, I said I was not without somehones, that bv natienee and kindness Tilton wouldcome back again into his old church work, and beone of us again. I, therefore, delayed a decision uponthis point for a long time. Many of our memberswere anxious and impatient, and there were manytokens of trouble from this quarter.

Meanwhile one wing of the female suffrage partyhad got hold of the story in a distorted and exaggerated lorni, such as had never ueen lntimatea tome by Mr. Tilton or his friends. I did not thensuspect what I now know, that these atrociouslyfale rumors originated with Mr. Tilton himself. Ionly saw the coil growing instead of diminishing,and" perceived that while I was pledged to silence,anil therefore could not sneak in mv own defense,some one was forever lersevering in ialsehood, whichwas growing continually in dimensions, and theseditiiculties were immensely increased by the affiliation of Mr. Tilton with the vvoodhuil clique.

In Mav. 1871. Mrs. Woodhull advertised a forthcoming article shadowing an account of the disturbance in Mr. Tilton't taniily, but without usingnames. It was delayed ostensibly by Mr. Tilton'sinfluence with Mrs. Woodhull, "until November,1H72.

During the suspension of her publication she be-

came the heroine of Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton.She was made welcome in both homes, with tlie tol-

eration, but not the cordial consent, of their wives.I heard the most extravagant eulogies upon her. Shewas represented as a genius, bom ant! reared amongrude influences, but only needed to be surroundedby refined society to tho'w a noble and commandingnature. I did not know much about her, and thoughmv impressions were unfavorable, her real character was not then really known to the world. I mether three times. At the first interview she wasgracious, at the second she was cold aud haughty,but at the third she was anarv aud threatening, forhad refused to preside at the lectureshe was aooul touenver at Meinway xi.au. i ne uiosistrenuous efforts had lieeu made by both Tilton andMoultou to induce me to preside at this lecture, toidentify nivself publicly with Mrs. Woodhull. It wasrepresented tome that" I need not in so doing expressly give assent lo uer eirvi.iujr m,mregard to the marriage relation, upon which pointshe was beginning to lie more explicit in oppositionto the views which I, in common with all Christianmen entertained, but it was plausibly urged thatcould nreside at the lecture and introduce her uiionthe simple ground of advocating free speech, and liberty ot debate; but as 1 unuersioou mat sue wasalioitt to avow the doctrines which I abhor. 1 wouldnot be induced by this plausible argument to giveher public countenance, and after continuing to urgeme un to the dav of meeting, without any distinctthreats, but with the obvious intention that my per-

sonal safely would lie better secured by taking thisadvice, Mr. 1 llton himselt went over to Jew l orkand presided at the meeting, where Mrs. Woodhullgave, as I understand, for the first time in public,full exnosiiion of her free love dietrine.

The very thought that I should have been asked,under anv circumstances and unon any excuse, tonreside or le nresent at such a meeting, was inex-urei-ibl- v Balling to me. Whatever my astonishment might have been, the motives of Tilton andMoulton iu asking such a tiling, as to which I hadnot at the time as clear a perception as I now have,the rcnuest was. nevertheless, a humiliating one.

At alsmt the same time I found that the circle ofwhich Mrs.;Woodhull formed a part, was the centreof loathsome scandals, organized, classified, andperpetrated with greedy and unclean upiwtite foreverything that was foiil and vile. I would not associate with these nennle. vet Mr. Tilton and Mr.Moulton had some strange theory concerning themanagement of this particular affair, which alwayslcaie it necessary, m their jiiogmeni, tor ineui wmaintain friendly relations with a group of humanhyenas.

From this circle and from Mr. Tilton, who standsin intimate associations with it, came rumors, andsuspicions arose among my own congregatioilwhiehled them to presume with questions, anil to originateInvestigations, and especially into the atliiirs ol Mrs.

Tilton, from whom alone, as they generally believed,the rumors against me originated. In this I wasconstantly and vehemently assured by Mr. Moultonmat tney were mistaken.

Mr. Beecber here details his efforts to prevent thescandal being made public, which was threatened bythe trial of Tilton by the church, and says ot lilton:" I was so determined to carry out my pledges toMoulton for him and do all in human power to savehim even from myself that I was ready to resign, ifthat would stop the scandal. I wrote a letter ofresignation. not referring to thecharges against me.butdeclaring that I had striven for yean to maintain secrecy concerning a scanaal anecung a iuiuhj m iwChurch, and that as I had failed, 1 herewith resigned.This letter was never sent. A little calmer thoughtshowed me how futile it would be to stop the trouble;a mere useless But I showed it to Mr.Moulton, and possibly he copied it. I nave iounathe original of it in my house."

If I could at this moment remember any of theother letters which I have written to Mr. Moulton,I would do so. If he has reserved all my enusionsof feeling he must have a large collection. I wishedmm to bring tnem an neiore i nc uiiuum w. o

be glad to get such hints as they may contain to re-

fresh my recollection of facts and sequences.I have no fears of their full and fair publication,

for though thev would doubtless make a sad exposureof my weakness, grief and despondency, they do notcontain a line confessing such guilt as has beencharged upon me nor a word inconsistent with myinnocence, nor any other spirit than that of a gener-ous remorse over a great and more irreparable evil.

But, however intense and numerous may be theseexpressions of grief, they can not possible ever statemeanxieiy wnicn iconsiauuy icii i"iperils of which it ia now clear I did not exaggerate,nnr th sorrow and remorse which I felt originally On

account of the injury which I aupposed I haddone to a beloved family, and after

ward for the crreatpst iniurr which I became satisfied1 had done by my unwise, blind and useless etlortsto remedy that injury only as it proveu, m me ex-

pense of my own name, the happiness of my ownfamily, and tne peace ot mv own cnurcn.

tientlemen nf the Committee, in the note re--nnentinv vnur nnnnintment. T asked that VOU shouldmake a full investigation of all the sources of in-

formation. You are witnesseses that I have in noway influenced or interfered with your proceedingsings or duties.

I have wished the investigation to be so searchingthat nothing could unsettle its results.

I have nothing to gain by any policy of suppres-sion or compromise. For tour years I have borneand suffered enough, and I will not go a step further.I will be free. I will not walk under a rod or yoke.If any man would do me a favor, let him tell all heknows now. It is not mine to lav down the law ofhonor in regard to the use of other persons' conf-idential communications. But in so far as myown writings are concerned, there is not a letter nor document which 1 am afraid to haveexhibited, and I authorize anv and all., npon anyliving person to produce and print forthwith, whatever writings they have of any source whatever. Itis time, for the sake of decency and public morals.that this matter should be brought to an end. It isan open nool of corruption, exhaling deadly vapors.For six weeks the nation has risen up and sat aownunon scandal. Not a great war nor a revolutioncould more have rilled the newspapers than thisquestion of domestic trouble, magnined a thousandfold, and, like a sore spot on the human body, draw-ing to itself every morbid humor in the blood.Whoever is buried with it. it is time that this abomination be buried below all touch or power of resurrection.

OHIO NEWS.

Chillicothe is building a street railroad.

It cost $9,040 to advertise the newconstitution.

JIabsillox ia terribly annoyed withburglars, as many as ten house-breakin-

having occurred in a single nigni,

The Council of the village of Athens,last week, repealed the McConnelsvilleordinance, by a vote ot lour to five.

Mr. Johs Whetstone, the oldest butone of Cincinnati's pioneers, died, at hishome in that city, on Monday night, inhis eighty-sixt- h year.

The body of Charles Eagan, an em-

ploye of the Cleveland postoffiee, wasfound in the river at that place, a fewdays ago. lie had been missing severaldays.

The Rev. William Simmons, who diedin Xenia. on Thursday, aged seventy-six- ,was the senior minister of the CincinnatiConference, having preached fifty-fo-

years.John MoosHorKA, a Bohemian, who

was imprisoned in the police station atCleveland, for abuse of his family, com-mitted suicide by jumping from thegallery of the third tier of cells to thestone floor, twenty feet be ow.

Db. Isaac "Steese, President of theFirst National Bank of Massillon, died, afew days since, at the age of sixty-fiv-e

years. He had been identified with thebanking and commercial interests of thatsection for nearly thirty years.

Theodobe Kinney, a workman inArney's foundry, at Laneaster, wascaught in the machinery, a few days since,and horribly mangled. His body wasbruised and gashed in several places, andhis left arm broken in three places.

An elevator in the store of Tolle,Holton & Co., of Cincinnati, gave way, afew days ago, between the second andthird stories, and fell to the r,

Three men were upon theelevator at the time, all ot wnom wereseriously injured.

George Shaw, of Eaton, was shot andinstantly killed, a day or two ago, byElnitr Thomas, who hred two shots athim, the first iust crazing the top of hishead, and the second taking effect in theleft breast near the heart. Ihomas wasdrunk at the time.

Daniel Kinnave, a prominent drygoods man of Lancaster, died, last week,of hemorrhage of the lungs. Mr. Kin-nav-e

was one of the passengers of theill-fat- Atlantic, to whose rigging heclung during all that terrible storm,tracting the disease tiiat has terminatedin his death.

D. M. Harkness, of Bellevue, re-

covered goods stolen from his house, lastweek, through being a subscriber to thelocal paper. The burglar was taken upin Toledo, by the police, as a

customer, and among his effectswere found a couple of silk dresses andother valuables wrapped up in a copy ofthe Bellevue Gazette, with the name ofMr. Harkness on the margin. Theburglar has been lodged in the Huroncountyjail.

The twelfth anniversary of the battleof Antietarn will be celebrated at Cald-

well, Ohio, by a grand encampment ofthe veterans of the war. They go intocamp in a woodland tract of some onehundred acres on ihe 12th of September,and will remain theie "a few days."Among the distinguished soldiers ex-

pected to be present and address the file,are Generals Morgan, Logan, Burnside,McClellan, Sherman, Sheridan, Leggett,Comly, Garfield and Butler. SenatorsThurman and Sherman are also amongthe invited. Private Dalzell is to deliverthe welcoming address and ColonelBarnes will read the celebrating ode.

Better than Whisky."Bill Arp" writes: "Gentlemen,

there is one thing about drinking. I al-

most wish every man was a reformeddrunkard. No man who has never drankliquor knows what a luxury cold wateris. I have got up in the night, afterhad been sprecing around, and gone tothe pump burning with thirst, lceling asif the gallows and tlie infernal regionswere too good for me, and when I tookup the bucket in my hands, with myeyes shaking like the shaking ague, andput the water to my lips, it was the mostdelicious draught that ever went downmy throat. I have stood there anddrank until I could drink no more, andgone to bed thanking God for the pure,innocent, and cooling beverage, r nd curs-

ing myself from the utmost . for evertouching the accursed whisky. In mytorment of mind and body I have madevows and promises, and broken themwithin a day. But if you want to knowthe luxury of cold water, get druuk andkeep at it "until you are on fire, and thentry a bucketful at the pump in the night.You want a gourd full you'll feel likethe bucket aiu't big enough, and whenyou begin to drink, an earthquakecouldn't stop you. I know men whowill swear to the truth of what I say;but you see it's a thing they don't meanto talk about; it's too humiliating."

What a Lawyer Was Selling.

A member of the Saginaw County barwas recently in one of our thriving in-

terior towns on professional business. Inthe office of the hotel he was accosted bya very agreeable gentleman, evidently ofthe genus "drummer, who wanted 10know " where he was from ?" The legalgentleman, not exactly relishing the ideaof tlie stranger's familiarity, answered,shortly, "From Detroit." The nextquestion was, " For what house are youtraveling?" " For my own." "Youare? May I ask your name?" "Youmav." Pause enjovable to the lawyer,embarrassing to the other. " AVell," des-

perately, " what is vour name?" "Jones.""What line are you in?" ' I don't un-

derstand you, sir." " What are you sell-

ing?" impatiently. " Brains," coolly.The drummer saw his opportunity, andlooking at the other from head to foot,ho sniti. nWlr. "Well, vou npwar tocarry a douce'd small line

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.samples."l

Blackstone iaVS lie OWeS Utai Uliuumerone.

GRANGE MATTERS.

The first Grangers' store in Missouriis located at Windsor, Henry county,with a capital of ten thousand dollar.

General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,favors the apparent objects of the Grangers, but objects to the secrecy and to theintroduction of women into its member-ship.

The Kansas Executive Committeewarn those who organize Granges in oc-

cupied territory that in future they willhave to consolidate with other Grangesor surrender their charter.

The Kansas Farmer objects to theGrange taking so much money out of the. . .n ,i il i " l" 1 .1 ' "

Btate, ana snows uai n me uispeiisauoufee were five dollars, instead of fifteendollars, the sum of fourteen thousanddollars would have Deen reiainea inKansas.

The Marion county, Indiana, Patronsare to have a great picnic at the BtateFair erounds. near Indianapolis, on the6th ofAugust. The Grangers and theirfriends are all invited to come wun wen- -

fllled baskets, for a grand harvest feast,nd are requested to appear in the full

uniform of the uraer.Toward the close of the; last session

Congress received a petition from thecolored citizens of Georgia, asking for anorganized militia and arms, coupled withthe complaint that there is a secret soci-

ety known as the " Patrons of Husbandry," which they lear intends to Dear op-

pressively on them.The South is rivaling; the Jorth and

West in the number and strength of .herGranges. --The members of these Granges,wherever located, are brethren. Iheydou't ask each other whether a decadeago they wore the grey or the blue. Theyonly want to Know mat tney are Ameri-can citizens, and working for the samelaudable object.

The Grange movement has been moresuccessful in California than elsewhere.Not content with the success alreadyachieved, the Patrons are starting a bankof their own, with a capital of five mil-lion dollars, in fifty thousand one hun-dred dollar shares. The Patrons havebeen enabled to charter fifty vesselsthemselves this year, and are confidentthat facilities will be ample in future totake all their grain to market

A California Patron says of the re-

sults of the organization in his neighborhood: "The discussion of questions ofpractical interest to Matrons, which formsa feature of our Grange, is having a ten-dency to develop not only a better manner of expressing ourselves, but a greaterwillingness to make the effort. Greatimprovement has already been observedin even the little practice we have thustar had.

M. L. Eeitzel, in the 'Indiana Farmer,says of the Grange movement in Hendricks county : "Ihe Grange movementseems to have eclipsed everything else,and is constantly increasing. Uld pollticians and wireworkers are looking downtheir noses with a doleful expression.The farmers and laboring people of thecountry are being more strongly unitedthan ever, because their interests areidentical. ' In union there is strength,'and, being a free people, with the ballot,we expect to right all our politicalwrongs.

TJnadilla Grange. Ann Arbor,Michisran, thinkintr. that wages of twentydollars a month was too high for hiredmen, sent an agent to JNew York tocapture forty newly arrived Germans,and engaged them for the season. Aftertwo weeks' work he secured his men, andpaid their fares West. Arriving atChelsea, Michigan, all but eight refusedto disembark, and went further West,while six of the eight hired themselves tocountrymen who were not Patrons. TheGrange is out about one thousand dollars by the attempt to import cheap German labor.

A Fable for Grangers.In a certain zoological garden two

bears were chained several rods apart.which were fed each with a certain kindof fruit.

Now there were in the same garden ahalf dozen monkeys who thought itwould be nice if they could manage toget a portion of these luscious fruits forthemselves. Accordingly they persuadedthe bears that, variety being the spice oflife, it would not only be grateiui totheir palates, but conducive to healthy digestion, it tney would exenange wun eacuother a portion of these fruits at eachmeal. But the chains being too short forthe bears to come in a convenient dis-

tance of each other the exchange couldbe effected only through the kind officesof the six monkeys aforesaid. Ac-

cordingly the fruit was passed by No. 1

to the first money, who passed it to thenext, and so to the last, who delivered itto bear No. 2. The fruit in exchangepassed back to bear No. 1 in lik manner.

Now each monkey through whose pawsthe fruit passed throught a few bites wasno more than a just compensation for hisservices, and it happened when the fruitreached its destination little more of itwas left than the cores. So both bearsgrew lean in spite of improved digestion,and the monkeys grew fat, and put onmany airs, and winked at each other asthey passed the hungry bears in thecourse of their enjoyment.

The keeper of the gardens seeing this,and ascertaining the cause, lengthenedthe chains of the bears, and so the servicesofthe monkeys with, andthe bears grew fat again.

But the monkeys set up a howl at be-

ing deprived of their legitimate employ-ment, and berated the bears for their in-

gratitude

The Fellow that Looks Like Me.

Max Adder, who writes for a Phila-delphia paper, has a friend named Slim-

mer, who deserves pity. He was goingup to Reading not long since, and whenreaching thedepot he happened to lookin the lady's room. A woman sat therewith a lot of baggage and three children,and when she saw Slimmer she rushedtoward him, and before he could defendhimself she threw her arms about hisneck, nestled her head upon his breast,and burst into tears. Blimmer waslamazed, indignant, confounded-- ; and erehe could find utterance for his feelings,she exclaimed

"O, Henry, dear Henry! we are unitedI at last. Are vou well? Is Aunt Martha

still alive! Haven't you longed to seeyour own Louisa?"

And she looked into Summer's face andsmiled through her tears.

" Madam," said he, solemnly, " ifam the person alluded to as Henry, per-

mit me to say that you have made a mis-

take. My name is Lemuel, I have noAunt Martha, and I don't own a solitaryLouisa. Oblige me by letting go mycoat ; it excites remark."

Then she buried her bonnet deeper intohis waistcoat, and began to cry harderthan ever, and said

" O, Henry, how can you treat me so

How can you pretend that you are notmy husband ?"

'" Madam," screamed Slimmer, " if yondon't cease slopping my shirt bosom, andremove your umbrella from my corn,shall be obl:ged to call the police. Letme go, I say."

" The children are here," she persisted."They recognize their dear father; don'tyou, children?"

" Yes, yes," they exelaimed, " it s pait's our own dear pa."

And then they grabbed Slimmer byhis trowser legs and hung to his coattail.

" Woman !" he shrieked, " this is get-

ting serious. Unhand me, I say."And he tried to disengage himself from

her embrace while all the brakemenand the baggage master, and the news-

boys stood around, and said his conductwas infamous.

In the midst of the struggle a strangerentered with a carpet-ba- g. He lookedexactly like Slimmer and when he saw

his wife in Slimmer's arms, he becameexcited, and floored Slimmer with thatcarpet-ba- g and sat on him, and smote hisnose, and caromed on his head, and asked

him what he meant. Slimmer wason a stretcher, and the enemy

went off with his wife and family in acab. He called next day to apologize.His wife had made the mistake becauseof Slimmer's likeness to him. And now

Slimmer wishes he may soon be kickedin the face by a mule, so that he will

1.1.. . . . 1 . . l.m.1.11! l,rmcr in theno iriiiviworld.

ENGAGED.Full well I know the meaning of that word ;

Its joyful, solemn import fills my heart;It means that we have taken each lor life.

That we are pledged to be of each a part.

We are engaged to love to satisfyThe noble cravings of an earnest soul ;

To grow the passion to holy height.And feel the rapture of its sweet control.

We are ea gaged to counsel and direct.Not with the stem, fierce heat of battle-fiel- d ;

But kindly offering to each our thoughts.The wrong to right will soon aud gladly yield.

We are engaged to love each other well,To try to read each other as a book.

To offer sunshine when there is a cloud.And guide our every motion, tone and look:

We are engaged to have our honeymoonA fount perpetual from year to year j

The careful elegance of wooing t'meMust never wane to bring the sorrow-tea- r.

We are engaged to teach and entertainEach in the sphere where special love may shin.

To sow the garden of the soul with seedThat yields a fruitage useful as divine.

We are engaged to havem worthy aim,.A lofty standard looking to some end.

We are not to gamer for ourselves alone.But to share the treasures with a needing friend.

We are engaged to love our future home,To cluster round it every hallowed tie ;

To make it paradise by every meansDelightful to the mind, the ear and eye.

We are engaged to see how muck of blissTwo splendid natures can evolve from life :

I'm engaged to be a model husband.You're engaged to De a mouei wne.

This ia engaging in the sacred tense.From such hign purpose may we never stray.

Here is the ring. When two engage as we.1 here s glory in tne name ot weauing-oa- y.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.

The most important needle work everdone in the world ia supposed to havebeen done by the mariner s compass.

" Are there any fools in this town Vasked a stranger ot a newsboy. " I don tknow," replied the boy ; why ; are youlonesome?

A New York company will insurepoodle does, but won't take a cent's riskon babies They know which receivesthe most care.

The season approaches when it will be,perhaps, well enough to remember thatthe scratch of a yellow cat is good formosquito bites.

An old gander was recently killed inVirginia at the age of ninety. The nameofthe fortunate boarding house that drewthe prize is not given.

In St. Louis everybody is considerate,and therefore a daily paper remarks:" Two gentlemen and a lady left for thepenitentiary last evening."

Lady Visitor (in the country)" Dear me ! Mrs. Scrubb, your boy seemsto want a lot of whipping !" Mrs. S." Well, he's it, ain't he?"

A BAD little boy in Aberdeen rubbedcayenne pepper dust all over the back ofhis jacket. Ihe school-mast- er tnrasnedhim briskly, but dismissed the school immediately to run to the nearest chemistfor eye-wate-r.

An unfortunate man. in Indianapolis,who lost several toes by a car wheel, wasconsoled by an Irishman near with,

Whist, there ; you're making morenoise than many a man I've seen withhis head cut off."

Potato bugs must be immortal. Aman has kept some corked up in a bottlewithout air, food or drink for a year, andthey are as lively as ever. He proposesif he lives long enough, to see how longthey can stand it.

Many adults possess a spirit verymuch like that of the timid little boywho was recently overheard to say whilealone in a dark room, "O Lord, don't letany one hurt me, and I'll go to churchnext Sunday and give you some money!"

How doth the little crocodileImprave his shining tail,

And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale !

How cheerfully he seems to grin,How neatly spreads his claws.

And welcome the little fishes inWith gen He smiling jaws!

A dissipated young spendthrift, whenremonstrated with by his wife, replied," I am like the Prodigal Son, and shallrepent " Yes," said the bet-

ter half, "and I am like the ProdigalSon, too; for I will arise and go to myfather."

A Scotchman went to a lawyer oncefor sdvice and detailed the circumstancesof the case. " Have you told me thefacts precisely as they occurred V askedthe lawyer. ' Oh ! aye, sir!" replied he;" I tell ye the plain trtith. Ye can putthe lies into it yourself I"

In an Illinois village, during serviceon a sultry Sabbath morning, the pastor'slittle girl of nearly three summers became somewhat weanea ai we lenginof the sermon, and in rather a low toneof voice, but earnestly, said, to theamusement of those who sat near, "Come,papa, that's enough ; let's go home."

TnEY tell a queer story about the doc-

tors in a certain Texas town, who allwent last summer to attend a medicalconvention. They were absent about twomonths, and on their return found alltheir patients had recovered, the drugstores had closed, the nurses openeddancing-school- s, the cemetery was cutup into building lots, the undertakershad gone to making fiddles, and thehearse had been painted and sold for acircus wagon.

An Artfully Artless Dodge.

A " Smuggler " relates the following :

" We shall be, my dear madam," said Ito a fellow-passeng- er in the Dieppe boat,taking out my watch, but keeping myeyes steadily upon her, " we shall be inless than ten minutes at the custom-

house." A spasm a flicker from the guiltwithin a glance from her countenance.

"You look very good-nature- d, sir,"stammered she.

I bowed, and looked considerably moreso to invite her confidence.

" If I was to tell you a secret, which istoo much for me to keep myself, oh !

would you keep it inviolable?"" I know it, my dear madam I know

it already," said I smilingly " it is lace,is it not?"' Sha uttered a little shriek, and yes,she had- - got it there among the crinoline.She thought it had been sticking out,you see, unknown to her. ,J

"Oh, sir," cried she, "it isronly 10

worth ; please forgive, and.ril never doit again. As it is, I think I shall expire."

" My dear madam," replied I, sternlybut kindly, " here is the pier, and theofficer, has fixed his eyes upon us. I mustdo my duty.'

I rushed np the ladder like a lamp-lighter; I pointed out the woman to alegitimate authority; I accompanied her

I upon her way, in custody to the searching-hous- e.

I did not see her searched, but I sawher fined and dismissed with ignominy.Then, having generously given up myemoluments as informer to the subordi-nate officials, I hurried off in search of

the betrayed woman to her hotel. I gave

her lace twice the value of that she lost,paid her fine, and explained :

"You, madam, had 10 worth of? smuggled goods about your person ; I had

nearly fifty times that amount. I turnedinformer, madam, let me convince you,for the sake of both of us. You have tooexpressive a countenance, believe me,

I and the officer would have found you outat all events, even as I did myself. Areyou satisfied, my dear madam ? If youfeel aggrieved by me in any way, praytake more lace ; here is lots of it"

When I finished my explanation the; lady seemed perfectly satisfied with my

little stroke of diplomacy, thongh she

would have doubtless preferred a littleless prominent part in it.

Worthy of AttentionA large increase in the number of

nearsighted persons has been observed inGermany, and is believed to be due inlarge measure to the unnatural positionschildren are compelled to assume by rea-

son of the awkward construction of thedesks and seats, and to the imperfectlighting of school buildings. The sameincrease has been noticed in Englishschools, and has just been brought to theattention of Parliament, where it will beinvestigated. There is no doubt at allthat a large number, if not the majority,of American school buildings are veryimperfect in lighting and seating arrange-ments, and it is not unlikely that theseimperfections are producing the same re-

sults here as in Europe. The matter isworthy of special attention from schoolofficers.

The annual meeting of the Unitariansis to be keld at Saratoga, September loth.

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