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T H U R S D A Y , A U G . 27, 1874.

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,-;"' r THE LATES f NET^S. A fire took place at 1South'Betid,, Iiid

oij. Monday which di stroygd property tit the amount of'$30',000. •! t On Tuesday af tenn on the Reeijl e k 4 yntor;,fronting on W J ter street, itl Buf­falo,: together with ''3,000, bushels of Siain, was destroyoi,. The hiuhiing jva.s valued at |lo»,00(. . ' '-.', i Michael KaneJ of ( xstli'tqn,'w-cW-io A l b p y , the other day and'"fell -among yii(«veW," They wen nut memlHfrs- of. Ihe Legislature, hut I y m p h s ifu ijtave. *jli' wati rithhed of eighty dollars. , ISmi-glars entered h e residence of

Reynolds Brothers i. I U t k a on Mon-

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j t ay night , and c a r d ! tli.-uiw^id stud A'aluet jfold iwafcch anil-chain

ty worth $4.'50. A .letter was maile

( f a t ly , for Brazil, wlu pjvpaid with twelve

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d off a-soltaire at $2,000, apid a sml cithttr {irop-

ecntJ and rell. , , : •

five 3' coift

at I thaca He postage

cent, ,fout SI' jwas

15 tamps, $1.36 in

Hist hundred and forty-two harrelsof potatoes- : were ' shippci to>- J£ew \ ,ork •frrtifi' T roy , Monday. Prices on jthe dock- w©fcj?l(« 1.2"> ft r Ear ly Rose, a doclihe of o"ne shil l ing per barrel sipeo Saturday. " i -\

A hoy ten yo.-iTs old, |on of Rev. Mr.' Day, of Toronto, Out. , in the absehcc of hik-fiU'her, ble W^oir. (the .braftiij of his sister,, acred. twoiitj? giip dn the 20th in.st. was wholly iininteiitiojnal, being <jhe Fci|ilt 'of jparelessncs.

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:ive eonsii lerahlif s p a c e i s sue to t h e puhl ica t io : nvemt of Mr. Mnultou i Ti lbn- i i ives t igat ion; ijn readers m a y hear both qnestion before malcinp; fjiet. T h e s t a t e m e n t eh&rgvsi m a d e b y T i l t h u s j t d f u r n i s h e s

additional letters bear! ease, from Beecher and who have been mixed up deni t is t h e b l a c k m a i l i n g t h e l a s t l e t t e r i n t h e a f a t ? m e n t , clatejl J u l y 13|:1874, ani^ address ed to "Bfajr F r a h l t " hj Beech'er doqs lot look as -* h e tin In considered Moujton gui l ty 'o | lilaekniaii.. W e hope fhts irfithelasj .of these statements," aAd that th< case -vyiil"' now be. brougpt before] c*oifrt of competent jtirisd ietioia, ari(t projier! verdict arrived a;. W e hav^ never expected a verdict : rom jBweh-J, e r ' s coipniittee tha t wOul I satisfy t h 'eligious world. . Volume i of contra lictory'eyiaencp have been produced oino of the principal aeton have take:

ja t r ip to iilurope to avoid appearing, and :publle opinion is dvr'<Ied. The, Plymouth. Cbmmittee arei unanimous' Tor an: acquittal of Beechei', and their [yrdict wil l be given to a vote of the L'luii^ch on Fr iday n e x t Til ton has

|omi | ienced an action agaii st .Beeeher I K the ,Oity Court of . ftV; toklyh 7o'r

100,000 d a n i a g e s . T h i s s u i t w i l l u n -

oubtedly, bring out/the fuets in the isp.-'itfetoake a fetWftrl ox rib'it of the ottean'osH'of B r o o k l y n Hoc i e ty . T h e

;*Verdict .of a c o m m i t t e e a p p o i n t e d t o 1 i x t o l this v i r t u e s , of Beec l e r a n i l d e -

•troy' t W : reputation of TUton m a y

ilitisfy ttfc 'members of Plymouth j h u r e b j '&( which Beeeheivis t he bodly

f4iid b r a i n s ; ' b u t i t w i l l -not satisfy t h e i t s i d e j w o r l d . .StaiKling u p i m t h e p i n -

aelepf fame'Ss a pulpit orator,' BeeCh-jtfc-has many friends who yill turn a jtRJaf ear to the charges firouj lit against ' !l |m ; bu t if he is guil ty of 1 ypoeraey, lhey.4 cannot save li-im. Before the MawritVni law lie s tands nj oil. a level wi th other,citizefls, and a dei isioh will

arrriveil at in accordant I with the ideiivee presented in-the case.

catastrophe. I t sti'uel? by light-

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THE FORMOSA TRQUULES., he State depar tment ha? more de i

tsijpwl information relative Jo the J a -Ijiime^ expedition to F'ormoss ; t han hasf mt been made i"»uhjic. Ttaiiwcars tha t "tjlte t r ni ted States u'av.il p&lccr, who I joined the expdrtitron with tl

% i fotcek, had leave of absent e for one e Japan-

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y«ar, and- tha t he jpjned thi tjf n on hks;.own *e,sp'onsibir ppisular oYRcer was also c W h e n - t h e fact became kn twn the dlilineso government remons rated to o u | minis ter a 't Pekin againsi the ac-tM' ,o f Jtlife^two -ofUeers of tlw United Sfcites in joi'iiing the Japanese force^ aol:cla(Smed tha t their act is a" ^iolatien of l int^rnat ional law. .The Chinese arahorities mainta in tha t s l thougli cja &a is a non-Christ ian najioh, t he cij? I z e d eoiintries must maintf i n their

. n<Ji b a H t y laws',with China s< long as. thie hn lnc ip lo of ex-territoriality in CK fea fjigrantied to . t he civilized pow-ers; [ Th this sense China rajuntahis t h a i the action of these officjer-s is a .vr|>litii>n of the neutral i ty la^vj^. m is nojt lonydered by ourgove rnn t tn t . and hajsmotjlteen considei'ed by otliL-r civil-|zef| nations ^that t he particlps tiori by. ci'ttraima in the wars of other ei runtries i's'iJ'tyi'olation of internation, iJ law.

• Dilr u g our late war nearly %ll the Eiir, ipean jmwers had officers t ngagetl eitlift* w one side or the o t t e r , and licit ier the United Htates nor he Eu-

. .rojeiin bowers made any rcmon ^trance agf ilist .such action. I t will be the puiTOsetof our government, however, .to ]>#y°'nt a»y l *eaeh of good eeling, if ^oksLitle, between •Chinaiand this

p r y , and tq' | |roteet to thp f reatest I t possible iffe growing i n t 'rest of

our aommcre.e M China waters, I t is fcai cfe'that the dffflicnTty between Chi-iuTi did J apan will hot be easily nettled, as fflpere' Iras long, been ill-feeli ng .be-t w e e i t b e two countries, and tl e For-mosfii ' difficulties furnish at '. east k t e c l t t c a l pretext for a trial of str ?ngth., I t itileli'cved £hat the home pnlicy of Chiep will chiefly ileteiinine w lether t he i^wiH be a war between the two coiinfkesf Id&\itenant Ciuwd's leave of al^ence^luis been revoked \>y our govopiment , anil ho will, thereft re, re­turn' | p lys tluty, and leave Ch ina ahd Japail-to set t le tlieir own.difflculties.,

Moulton's s ta tement opens with an introduction/in whichf he says he first became acquainted with the offence against Mr. Til ton by M r . Seedier , in 1K7Q„ wljich he eouaideifed so grave tha t if ntade public a g rea t .na t iona l ca-.lamity would ensue. I H e determined to try and aver t i t , amc has htbored as­siduously for nearly four years to t ha t end. T h e failure of Ilia efforts is n o fault! of his. Ho worked dal ly under the ilwlviee and: direction 6f Beecher untili as lie thit iks, in) an evil hour, Beecher took other ndiviserij., By the publication of Beechei , 's accusations against h im, he now feels tha t Ids own self-respect demands trait "the truth, the \vhole*ti'Uth, and nothing but the truthj" sliould be deolafred. Ho then proceeds wi th his s tatement , \vhicli, he says, Is the same, without t he altera-, tiora Of a word, t h a t hcpriglnally; pre-, pared for the committeej

This publication, he s t e , " to which Beecher forces mo , rentiers fruitless four years of cons tant aiid sincere ef­forts to sa^ve lUm. I t leaves h im and Mrs. Til ton iit almost t h e same posi­tion IA which I found tlfem, except, in so far as their own disingenuous un­truthfulness in their f i b l e m n state­ments mayiowei ' them In the estima­tion of the world ." 1 J

On the 26th of December, 1870, he" says Til ton came to lum-wi th au open letter to Beeeher, which] Bowon had instructed h im t<» wxite, of which the following is'a copjy: ' i

BKOOKIiYN; Dec. 20, 1870. HEN|BvWARI)BEECHp3B:—Sir,.I de­

mand t ha t fqr reasons Nyhleh you ex­plicitly unifei'atand, you ,immediately cease from t h e minis t ry of Plymouth. Chnr rh , and tha t you quit; t h e city of BrookJ|yii as a rog|Cleuf. I '

'• TittEODORE TlMON. Two days afterward I p w e n appa­

rently repented of the letter he had dictated to Tiltou, and .feiireatelied to 'j-Cmove Tilton from thot Indeijendent and Union - if he ever iejieatetf ^he statometnts hiade by h im (Bowen) about Beecher. — I

On the 3011a of December Tiltou came to Mouliton and announced his inten­tion ofMhowing to IJeeehojr the confes­sion of 'his .wife about her int imacy with him, Which he (Tiltou) had never up to that time mentioned to Beecher, Tilton' did not tell Moul |on how his wife came to make the j confession, wliicfa, h o said. Was dbn<j;six mon ths previously,jantl he never asked. H e went a n d invited Beecher to his house a t Tiltoni's request. J \

On the i r Way to the liouse Beecher ' said, " W h a t /-an I do? W h a t can I d o ? " ' . . 1

I said, " Mr. Beecher, I a m not a Christ ian, but if yoit wish ,p will sliow you how a heathen can serye y o u . "

W e then w e n t to .may hpiise a n d into the chamber over the pajrlor, \yhere TiIton.-w4ssleft wi th them,logether.

In about a n liourj3eeehor|caine down and-asked m e if I had seen the confes­sion of Elizabeth.; Said yes. Said he, " This will kill m e / ' and jjsked me to walk out with him. D|l so, and we walked to Til tou's hou^o together, and he went in. -6f t the way h e said " T h i s is I a terribli ' " " " conies uprfn me as i fling." H e went i and I returned lioim

Within an hour house and [we left my house again to geth'er, anfl I walked with fiim to his house. i ' t

Tilton remained a t my h§use whHe Beecher was absent afyTilton's house,, and whtn he jeturnjed thefre was no conversation betweeU: them;. When we nrrivell at Beeeher's house .he wanted rute to s tand by h im in fliis emergency and procure a i'ecoucilia-tion, if possible. Told h im jl would, becatise the interests of women, Chil­dren, arid families were involved, if for ho other reasqii. That ejidod the .interview that night. j ; ,

During this evening noth ing was isaid by Bieeher- as t o t h e ' t r u t h or (falsity of Mrs. Tilton'a confes|3ion, nor fdi'd lie infoijm me tha t he hadfobtajined from her dny recantation 6f the con­fession, which I'afterwaTtls learned ho jhad done. • L- 1

Returned to my house and had some rhversation wi th Tilton, in \vhich he

told me tha t he had recited to^Beecher :he details of the. confession of his jwife'sadulWries, and the rema|k which ""eecher riiade \eivs,"This is all |i dream, Theodore;"; met thatl was all the answer beecher m a ce to h im: ' 1

I then ad «sed Tilton tha t ! for the alee of his wife arijd family, ^ n d for h e sake o£ Bpecherls family, tjhe mat­er should Lo lkept quiet and {hushed :p. "*-" •*• 1 , l Nex t mbri iiig, as II was leaving home

[or business, Ti l ton eanae to rnvhousc, n d wi th grc at anger sa^d tha t Beecher lad cloneja mean act,- t ha t ho! had gone

i torn the interview of last n igh t to his 1 ouseand pr<|citredfrom Elizabeth a r e -•cantation anil rptraction of her? confes­sion. Hesa id fo r tha tac thewQt i ldsmi te Him, tha t there could be noipeaee. H e shiil, " You dee t ha t w h a t I have to |d Mou of the .'meanness of tha t m a n m riowjfcvMewt. ' Ti l ton^aid t ha t Beech-el , a t the: intfeiwjew of last n igh t , had afalted his permission t o go a h a see Blizabeth,-ankl h e told h i m hel m igh t go, w'hich'Statemont vraB confirmed by Beecher himself. Beecher left liim for that purpdse. t THE KETEAt'TION OBTAIN.ED \ FBOM

BEEfHER. , J I said to M i . Til ton, " N o w d d h ' t g e t

aiigi'y. Lot us see if even this Cannot be arranged. I will go down afid get tha t retractioik from him*" - jr

T h a t evenihg I j saw 'Mr . Beecher. ar d toloT h i m j tha t I thought He had be<m doing a Very mean and trelacher-oug act—treadherous first toward me , from whom he wanted help, in fihathe did no£ tell m e on our way to hiajhouse last nighf w h a t he had procured from Mi's. Tilton, and t h a t he could ifot ex-pebt m y friendship in th is mat te r un-i lesis he acted Wuthfuliy amd honorably s

tojrards me. i j I! further sajd, " Mr. Beecheh you

have had cr iminal intercourse} wi th More. Til ton, You have done gr^at in-j i t ly t o . T i l t o n •otherwise, and now, WMen you are (Sonfronted wi th it, you BM; permission of the m a n to {again vis|ilt h is houseJ and you ge£ fijoiii t ha t woman who lias confessed t ha t you ha"e ruined hei-, a recantation fand re­traction of tuejruth for your nieijOpor-sorjal safety. Tjhat won ' t save^yciu."

I pEECBIKlli'S CONFESSION. I A t t h a t imterlview h e a d m i t t e d ! w i t h

griSf and sorrow the fact of his several rolations wi th Mrs. Til ton, expressed somje indignation tha t she; had not told bin i| t ha t she had told he r husimirtf, a m , t ha t in cbpsequenea: of being im ign i rance 'of t ha t fact, h e had jbeen wal k i n g upon A voleano. Referr^ig to wh; lit he h&\\ done in connectionjwith Bowen, ajid wi th reference to Ti l ton 's family, lie said Ohat h e had sympa|thiz-ed wi th Bowen, and had taken pides wi th h im as against: Tilton, in c|)nse-queplce of stories which were in qircu-lati<j>ndn regard (to h im, and espedially of o|nespecific cise where h e h a d h e e n informed tha t Stilton had had improp­er'relations wi th a nvoman.whom ho uamjed, and to w bora a letter from hid wife; will makej a part of this s|tate-

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merit, ,and had iSb stated to Bowen. 5

A n d he told me tha t hte would write to Bowen aftd withdraw! those charges, and gave ' the rough draft of a letfer which h a V r o t g arid .sent to Bowen.!

His seif!-eondemi|a!ti6n a t the ruin ho had wrought undeBsuch circumstances -was full ajnd eompk?te,Jand at . t imes h e was so bo*wtJd_s.low%av|th grief in con­sequence of the yt'*ong he* had dope t h a t he threatened to ijut an end to Ijis life, ! . ' t

H e also gave t o m e th > letter the first draft of wliich, marke^l " A " is aboi'e given, in reference to whicii he said t h a t Bowen had given! it to h im, that ho had told Bowen tl iat Til ton must be crazy fci? wri te such a letter as t h a t ; that he did no t unders tand it, a n d t h a t Bowen said to h im , " I will bo ypi i r friend in fliis mat te r . " Ho-thon made a s ta tement , whicii Tilfon had made to me a t ray house, of the charge t h a t Bowen had made to h im . Beecher said tha t Bowen had be«n very treach­erous toward Til ton as Well as toward himself, because ho, Beecher, lrad had a reconciliation wi th Bowen, of which he told me. the terms.anU tha t Bowen had never in his [Beeclier 's] presence spoken of, or referred to, a n y allega­tion of e n m o or wrongldbing on h i s p a r t wi th a n y woman whatever . H e gave mo in general terras tho reeoucili-wtlon. and afterward gavd me two mem­oranda which I hero produce, which show the terms of t h e reconciliation. T h e first \s in the handwr i t ing of Bowen, containing five litems, which Beecher assured m e wore the terms which Bowen elalmod s lould bo t h e basis of reconciliation. I t is as follows:

Firs t . Report a n d pui lish sermons aind lecture room talks.

Second. New edition of Plymouth collections arid Preel imd' i interest.

' Thi rd . Explanat ions to tho Church . Four th . Wril;e 'me;alot;oi\

- Fif th. Betract i h e very puartor wha t has been said to m y injuiy.

Tlie second paper-is a pencil memo­randum of the reeoiioUIatWn witli.Bow-em in Bcecher'e handwri t ing , g iv ing aji account of itheaffiilr. i .

itEooNcii.rA'iadN' \yif if BOWEN. About February, 1870, a t a lohg in­

terview Mt Mr. Freeland^s house, for ttiie purpose of' hav ing a full and final reconciliation between jBoweh a n d Bipecher, Bowen stated hh grievances, wliich wei'e air either of a hiiMness nature, or ray treatment pf himjpor-soidally, as per memorandum iy his writ ing. After hours of] conference evorything was adjusted. , W e shook hands, -We-pledged each other to work henceforth wi thout j a r < r break. • I said tO|him, "Mr. Bowen, if you hear anything of mo not in accordance with-

this agreement of harmony, do not let it rest. Come s t ra ight to]mo a t once, anoi I- will do the sftnie bv you . " H e agreed. In the lecture room I btated thflit all our dilFerences weyo over, and that wo were friends again This pub­lic recognition ho [Moulton] was pres-. ent a h d heard, and expressed himself as great ly pleased wi th . It_lwas after all th is t ha t I asked Mr. Howard t o he lp m e carry out th is reconciliation, amf to call on Bowen,' and j to rcriiove t h e littlb differences between them. Howard; called, expressed p i s gratifi­cation. Then i t was that , wi thout a n y proTocatioin, h e Boweh r told Howard that this reconciliation did not inc lude one matter , t ha t h e [Bowei*.] k n e w tha t about Beecher; which, if Ijio should speak iti would drive Beecher out of Brooklyn. Howard protested wi th

.horror against sueh a s tatement , say­ing, "Mr . Bowen, . this is terj-lhlev Isro m a n should inake sucli j i s t a t emen t unless he has th© most absolute evi­dence ." To this Bowen re jliadj tha t he-liad such evidence, and'said;posi-tively tliat lie [Howard] might ao to Beecher, and th&t Beecher Mould never give his consent '^hat ihe [Bow-eii] should tell Howard this pejeret. B,oW;en, a t no time^ had oyer made known to Beecher what this secret was, and the hints which Beecher had had of it, led h im to ljhink tha t i t was another matter , and not y n r slander which h e now find^ft^to be. I

After giving an account o' the Set­tlement between Tilton a.nd Bowen, Moulton continues.: I had an inter­view with Oliver Johnson in tthe pres­ence of Tilton, when the whole matter w a s d i scussed a n d a m e r u o n ndfum o f O l i v e r J o h n s o n ' s s t a t e m e n t , . n W h i c h he gaive his recollection of t ie inter­view of Deeenfber 20,. when Tilton and Johnson, were present, was taken down by Ti (ton in short-hand in m y pres­ence, and copied; out a t ' t ha t [ t ime in JoliAison's presence, which memoran-duim lhas been in m y possession ever sintte, and / r o m which '1^ rend each statement, ohc after the otlieii, to^Mr. Bowen, I hero produce iit:

OLIVER JOHNSON'fii STATEMENT. A t the interview of Dece.mb;er 2Cth,

a t "Willow street. No . .00.; Bowen yol-untarilypledged his word toMiv John­son that ne/H. C. Jloweni, would take no further measures in regard to Tilton without consultation -jvith Johnson;

"Bowen likewise had said substantial ly t h e saime th ing to Johnson previously dur ing pr ivate convoi-sations between these itwo persons. There was, no ob-ligatotjt-eonfidence imposed oni a n y of t h e bjii'ties, concerning any th ing said a t th is interview, save a special pledge mutua l ly given, tha t no th ing Murald be sajd eoncenning Beecher ' s / t emon-stBatious toward Mrs. Til ton. 0^ J o h n ­son-says t h a t Bowen 's s ta tements in regard' to H e n r y Ward Beeches were not totllmations of H e n i y Ward Beeeh­er 's .adiiiltcwqs, bu t plain and straight­forward charges of the same. H7 C. Bowen states t ha t he k n e w fourprfivc cases of BeecheVs intercourse wi th women. O. Johpson says t h a t l H . C. Bowen a t th is jinterview plainly de­clared ithat H e n r y Ward Beecher had confessed his giijlt to H . C. Bowph.

H . C. Bowen-f" I>frcan no t s tand i t a n y longer. You and I o'we a du ty to society iln this matter . T h a t m a n ough t not tc; s tay anothjer week in h i s pulpi t . I t is riolt safe foil ou£ families to h a v e h i m in ithis city.! ' • - |

An allusion tol the widow wasjniade by Til ton, and H . C. Bowen stfuMie had no doubt t ha t he r husband's-death was caused by h is , knowledge Of h e r improper in t imacy vrithJK.. W . Beech­er. "X have doulit about it whatever ."

After t he tr ipart i te covenant .was signed, It came ito the /knowledge of Beecher, as ho informed m^, thatlBow-en \vas still spreading scandal about b i u v a t which fio.wo^ angered, and propose*! to wri te Bowen a Tetter stat­ing the points tha t had been settled in their reconciliation .and agreement; and . t he reason w h y Bowen's njouth should be dosed in regard to such slanders. I find f among" my papers a pencil and inlr memorandum of the-statemenits interiided to be embodied in tha t tetter, w p h was submittied'to m y judgmen t by Beecher. I t is in his handwriting, andl is ptochicod, msjrked "M," and is as follows V . ;

First . Tha t he allowed, hhnsejlf to listen to tthe unfounded ruhjors. j

Second. T h a t h smever broughtfihe*m either to me, nor i idany proper m a n n e r to t h e C h u r c h : t ha t h e only whispered them, and t h a t o n l y when h e had Homo business «snd in'vijew. i

Thi rd . T h a t h e did not himself be­lieve any th ing had occurred which unfitted m e for the utibost t rus t shefwn, 1, by cont inuing for twelve to fi years a conspicuous a t t endan t a t mouth c h u r c h ; 2, by contracts me as editor of the" I n d e p e n d e n t ; continued publication of m y sermbns, & c , m a k i n g the privilege of doing so even as late as the interview a t Ecree-land 's , one of these points nf •

m e n t ; 4, b y a se t t l ement of a: I diflt-cu l t h s a t F r e e l a n d ' s a n d a T e c i n c i l i a i tiou vbich was. to lead us t a v, o tk to4

fethe i', in which (there was no t A single h i t if a n y present immoral i ty , but

every i t e m was business. ' F o u r t h , A s a result of such! agree-;

menti-1, I wa& to resume m y old fa­milial i ty a t h is house ; 2, to wri te him; a leitt v t h a t h e could give h i s family to she w t h a t I had restored h i m to confidence: 3, to endeavor to remove from 1dm t h e coldness and frowns in the pa rish aso l ie w h o had injured me; 4, a ea rd to bo published, and which waspi Wished, g iv ing h i m t h e r igh t to put in thp independent sermons and 1( cfcuri -room talks, &e.: -5,1 was'.iu-v;t<?d . acgoto^Voodstock and be his

'%• test, is t was a t Gran t ' s reception. 't FiftJL Of the set t lement by a com­mit tee whose record is wi th Olaflin, I have /no th ing to say. I d id ' n o r see Bpweii dur ing the whole process, no r do I remember to have spoken to h i m since, t

p ix t l . N o w , the force of the state­m e n t t lat h e did not himself believe t h a t I had. done a n y t h i n g immoral w i i e l i should aflect m y s tand ing as a m m , a citizen, aqd a minister , I l lus ­trated iy the foregoing facts, i s den> onktrat' sd by his cdnduct when h e did believe t ha t Theodore Til ton com­mit ted j immoral i ty , h is disposaeesion of (the Independent , h i s ignominious expulsion from t h e BrooKlyn Union, hif refusal to pay h im the salary and foijfeit of t h e contract. As a par t of th is transaction Beecher sont m e the foljo%ving note, marked " N . : "

• i • \ M O N D A Y . lil \-"l>EAa PBIBND—-Called last n igh t

as lagreejd, biit you had stepped out . On tho Tjpay to church, last evening, I meiMr.|Claflhi. He i8ayB,'Bowen de-nie jany fauch treacherous whisperings a n d is | n a fight state. I mentioned myl proposed letter.- H e l iked the idea. Bead h im t h e draft of i t in the lecture roojn. He drew back and said, "Bet­ter ixot send it." ABkgd him if Bowen' hnti bvoriraade him a statement of the veiy bottom facts, if there were any charges I did not know. H e evaded, and! fntimate'd tha t , if h e h a d , h e hardiy" would ho r ight in tel l ing me . T h i n k he wouldi be right in telling you and oiigpt to. Have not sont any not© and havp des iroyed tlmt prepared. The reappoint to avoid is au appeal to the Chujrchaijid then to a council. I t would he a) Conflagration and give every pos-. sibl4 chan,ee for part ies tor h id ings and evasions, and increase a n hundred fold fchistjcahdal without healing anything,, ShaUseoyouassoonaalreturn. Mean­time, I coiifide everything to your wis­dom .as I always have, and with such 8ucc ?ss hi therto, t ha t I have full t rus t tor t le future. Don ' t fail toseeClaflin and have a full and confidential ta lk .

Yours, over. fi. W. B. •

Moulton says : Beecher met me , in pursuance to agreement made, and pro­duced to m e a mesM>randura,of a card . whicjh he.proposed to publish; in the Eagle, a n d which ho submit ted to m y judgment , and gave m e Jeave to a l ter the same as I thought fit, That roper ishefewfth produced, marked " N o , 4 " : •

i j I B B O O K L Y N , June,, 1873. I have seen in t h e m o r n i n g papers

t h a t application has been made to Mrs. Victoria Woodhul l . for certain letters of mine supposed, to contain 'informa­tion inspecting certain in famous stories agaiwst mo. She has two business let-tors, ijtne decl ining pn invitat ion to a suffrage meeting, and t h e other de-ellnlijg tt> fiilve he r assistance Solicited. These, and^a l l let ters of mine in t he ( hands of a n y other persons, they have my cordial consent to'publish. I will oniy add, ill th is connection, t ha t the stories amP- rumors which have for a t ime pbeoh* circulated about m e a r e grossly unt rue , and I s t amp them in

f;euer|u ahd in part icular as ut ter ly alse. I

I sa|w the editor of the Brooklyn Eagleiat h is office, and after consulted tion With h im , t h e card was •published as folipws: ^ «--To the cjlltor of tno BrooklJ-n Eosle:

SiK-l-ln a loug and active* life in BrooWlyn, it litis rarely Ijappencd that tho Eilglo and myself h a v e been in ac­cord op questions of common concern to oun fellows-citizens. I am , fttr th is reason! compelled to acknowledge- the unsolicited confidence and regard of which the columns of tho Eagle of late bear testimony. I have just returned to the city to learn that application has be ;n made to Mrs. Victoria Wood-hul l for letters of m i n e supposed to contain, information respecting certain infamous stories against me. I have no objection to have the Eagle state, in any way it deems/fit, that Mrs. Woodhull or a n y other person or per­sons, who m a y have letters of mine in the i r possession, have m y cordial eon-sent to publish them. I n th is connec­t ion, a id a t th is t ime, J will only add t ha t t i e stories and rumors which hfljvc fo r some t ime past been circulated about-r iBAro untrue , and I s tamp them in gencjraland in part icular as ut ter ly unjtrue. Respectfully,

H. w . BEECHER. I woi iM have submit ted th is cnr.d to

Beecher before publication, but h e was absent . Fo r obvious reasons I held myself excepted from th is call for pub­lication, as was well understood by Beeche r. I k n o w no th ing further of the relations of Bowen andfBeeeher in this cb anection, which is of import­ance to th is mquiry . j I h a v e traced t h e m thus far, because t h a t eontro-* versy. i t each stage of it, continually threate: led tho peaceful set t lement of the trot bles of Til ton and Beecher, a n account of w h i c h I n o w resume.

Anotl ier curious complication of t h e relations of t h e parties arose from the publiea ion" by Mrs. Woodhul l of t h e story in he r journa l . I t is a ma t t e r of publie notoriety t h a t Mrs . Isabella Beecher Hooker , t he sister of Beecher, had esp iused the cause of Mrs. Wood-hul l on t h e question of woman suf­frage, a i d had been accused still fur­t h e r of adopt ing h e r social tenets . Mr. Beechei 's relations, to Mi's. Til ton had been co) nmunicated to her . Th i s had been niaue a subjeetwf communicat ion from Mi's. Hooker t o he r brother, and after t h e publication b y Mrs. Wood* hull , MJ H. H o o k e r addressed the fol­lowing i 10'te to h e r brother, which- con­ta ins so full and clear an exposi t ion of a l l t h e f icts a n d circumstances t ha t I need n o . add la word of explanat ion. I produce Mrs. Hooker ' s let ter to Beech­er, under date of November 1,1872:

I H A B T F O I R D , N O V . 1,1872. D B A B I BKOTHEK-H-Ih reply to your

,words, if you still believe in ' t ha t wo-haan, &«., let mo say that from her. personally, I have never heard a word on th is subject, and , w h e n nearly a year age, I heard tha t , w h e n here in this city!, she .said she had expected you to introduce her at Steinwayj I wrote h>r a most indignant and re­buking ;etter, to which she replied in a mannc r t ha t astounded m e , by i ts calm assArtidn t h a t she considered you as t rue a friend to he r as I myself. I inclose th is let ter to Til ton, a sk ing h i m show i t tb you, if h e thought best, and to wr i te m e w h a t i t all infant.. H e never'replied nor returned t h e let ter to m e as I requested, but I have a copy of i t a t ybur service. I n t h e m o n t h of February , after tha t , on re tu rn ing from Washington , I w e n t to Mrs. S tan ton ' s to apendi Sunday , a t Jersey City. I met-Mrs.iWoodhull, w h o had come on

' in thCssauie t ra in wi th me, i t seemed f and who urged .me in a has ty way to br ing Mis . Stanton over on Monday for or suf]«$ge consultation as to tlie spr ing co: ivenfion. Remember ing h e r

Jm

assertion of t h e friendship between you, and of h e r meet ing you occasioa-a l l y a t M o u l t o i i ' s hojise, I t h i n k this is t he name, I thought I would p u t th is to test, and replied t h a t if I could be sure of seeing you lat t h e same-time I would come. S h e pj omiBed to secure you, if possible, ancf [ fully meant | 6 keep m y appointme'ni;, but on Sunday, I remembered a n app ni i tment a t N e w Haven , which I should miss jf I stopped in New York, and so I passed by, dropping- he r , a le l t e r by t h e way. Curiously enough, sister Catharine, who was s taying a t yc ur house a t i b i s t ime, said t o m e here casually, t he lat ter par t of t h e sam> w e e k : "Belle, H e n r y w e n t over to N e w York to see you last Monday, but couldn ' t find you . " Of course my inference was tha t Mrs. Woodhul l ei ther had power, over yJSu, or you were i secretly friends. During tha t Sunday , & rs. S tan ton to ld

; m e precisely what Till on had said to her , when in, t he rage of discovery, M

l ied-to t h e house of Mis . , and be4 fore them both ' narrated the story of his own infidelities as confessed to his wife, and of hers as co afessed to him.-

S h e added t h a t n o t Ion;' after she w e n t t o Moulton's a n d m i t you coming down the front steps, and in entering, met Til ton and Moulton, who sa id : " W e have j u s t had P lymouth Church a t our feet, and here is h i s confession," showing a manuscr ipt . She added tha t Mrs. Til ton b a a made a similar s ta tement to Miss Antln my, and I have since received from Miss A. a corrobo­ration of this , a l though she refuses to give me t h e particular*, being bound rn confidence she th in ly . F rom tha t day to-this I have carried a heavy IOad you may be sure, I cou Id not share i t With my huBbanay because he was al­ready overburdened and. alarmingly affected brainwise, but I resolved that if hfii went aboard, as he probably must , I would not go with luni , leav­ing you alone as it were to' bear what­ever m i g h t come of t h e revelation. I withstood the entreaties of my hus­band to the last and sen i Mary in my stead, and , a t t he last ' . noment , eon-"; fided to h e r all t ha t I l^new, and felt and feared tha t she migh t he prepared to sustain her father should trial over­take him. From tlie day these letters!

canio, the matter has iic t been out of my thoughte. an hour, it seems tome, and an unceasing prayer has ascended t ha t T m i g h t be guided b- f wisdom and t ru th . But wha t is'. th« t ru th I am farther from unders tanding fchjsmofn-j ing, than ever. The tale, as published, is essentially the same as told to me, injfact i t is impossible but t h a t Tilton is ; t h e author i ty for it, aince I recog­nize a veri-similitude, and a s I under­stand it, Mrs. Til ton was t h e sole reve--later. T h e only reply 1 1 lade to Mrs. Stanton was thai, if true, you hada ; philosophy of the relation of the sexes so far ahead of the time that you dared not announce it, though. y< >u consented < to 1'ive b y it, t h a t th is was, in m y judg­ment , wrong, a n d God wo lid bringj all secret th ings to l igh t i n Bus own tame and fasjthion, and I could o nly wait. I added i h a t I had come to see tha t hu­man laws were an iniper iinenee, bu t could get no further, though I could see possible new glinrpses of a possible new science of life tha t , a t present, was revol t ing ' to m y feelin j s ' and m y judgment; that. I should leep myself open toconvietion,howevor ,and should converse wi th men, and especially wo­men on the whole subject, pnd a s tost as I k n e w t h e t r u th I should stand, by it, wi th n o a t t emp t a t concealment. ' I t h ink tha t Dr . C h a i w i n g probably agrees with you in theory, hut he had the courage to announce his convic­tion^ before acting upon thim. He re­fused intercourse with an u icongenial wifelfor a long t ime, a n d "tl en left he r trnd/married a -njoman whe m h e still loves, leaving a darling clau jhter with her hiotlier, and to-day lie pays photo­graphers to keep him supplied with her Jpictures as often as they can be procured. T h e t ime has come.for you to give t h e world , through your own paper, the conclusions you have reach­ed an t your reasons therefo r. If you choose, I will then reply to e ich letter, giving tho woman ' s view, f w there is surely a man ' s and a womar 's side to th is beyond every where els e, and by this means at tent ion will be diverted from personalities concentrated on so­cial phylosophy, the one sul >ject- that now ought to occupy all thinking minds. I t seems to me thatl God has been prepar ing rae for th is work, and you also for years a n d years. I wish you would come here in th< evening some t i m e to t he Burton Cot age , or I will meet you anywhere in New York you may appoint, and at any time.

E v e r yours , I J E L L E .

Read t h e letters of J o h n and Mary in t h e order I have plaeed ;hem. I will send these now,, a n d > t i e o ther document I have mentioned another day, waiting till I know whether yon Will meet me. '' .

On t h e 3d of t h e safiie rnor th , Mrs . Hooker addressed a let ter to hi ;r broth­er, t he Bev. 'Thomas K . Beeche r, wh ich I produce, marked "No. 6."

Please re turn th is le t te r to me when you have done wi th U: '

, H A E T F O R D , Sunday , N O V . 3,1872. D E A B B R O T H E R T O M : — T i e blow

has fallen, and J hope you are better prepared for i t t h a n y o u ^ i g p t have been, but for our interview, j l wrote H e n r y ! a single l ine las t week, t h u s : "Can T h e l p y o u ? " and here is h i s re­p l y :

I f you still believe i n t ha t woman, you cannot he lp me . I f you t h i n k of ner as I do, you can, perhaps, though: I do no t need m u c h help". I t r sad t h e falsehoods in to t h e dirt from vhence they spring, and go on .my vay re­joicing. M y pepple aire thus fa- • heroic and would give their lives ior me. .Their love and confidence woul 1 m a k e m e wil l ing to bear .far more t han I have . Meant ime, t h e Lord has a pa-vlllion in which H e hides in0 unt i l t he storm be over-past. I abide in peace, commit t ing myself to H i m who gave Himself for mo. I t rust you give nei ther confidence no r credence to t h e abominable coinage t ha t has been p u t afloat. Tho specks of t ru th arfe mere mere spangles upon a ga rment or false­hood. T h e t r u t h itself is madd to lie. T h a n k you for love, and t ru th , and si lence; but t h i n k of t h e barbapity of dragging a poor, dear child of a woman intothis-s lough. Yotirs, t ru ly .

N o w , Tom, so far as I can sele, i t is he who has dragged t h e dear child in­to t h e slough and left he r ther^, and who is now sending another v oman to prison, who.is innocent of a l l cr ime but a fanatacism for the truth as re-

cept upon! suffK? sympathy ' wi th and I are f ea re r our family. I eaiJ now. I a m clear:

vealed to her , and I, by m y silence, a m consenting in he r death, the l i t t le no te she sent m e long ago, when, in; a burs t of enthusiasm over a puhlic letter of hers which sdemed wonderful to me, I told her how it af­fected me,- and mark its prophetic words : " - I

O N E W Y O R K , Augus t 8,1871. ' " M Y D E A R F R I E N D : ! was heyer

more h a p p y in all m y life t h a n I a m th i s morning , and made so by yon, wjiom I have learned t o toveso much . F r o m you, from whom I have expected censure, Lreeefye. t h e first deep pure words of approval a n d love, I J mow m y course h a s often been contra ry to your wishes, and i t has been m y | reat­est grief to know, tha t i t was so, since you have so nobly been m y defender. But al l t h e t ime I k n e w i t was no t I for w h o m you spoke, bu t all woman­hood, a n d I w a a t j i e more proud o' you t h a t your love wais general and no1 p e r ­sonal. I a m often compelled t o / d o

th ings from tohieh m y sensitive soul shr inks , tod for which I endure t h e censure of muSst of m y friends. B u t I obey a p o w e r which knows better t h a n they or Ilcanl know, and which has never-, left m£ straniled and wi thout hope. I should be a faithless servant indeed were J*to falter how when re­quired to do wha t I cannot fully un­derstand, ye t m t h e issue of which I have full faith. None of t h e scenes in which I have enacted a part were what I would have selfishly chosen for m y own happiness. I love m y home, m y children, i n y husband, and could live a sanctified life wi th them, and never desire contact, w i th t h e wide wbrld, B u t such is no t to be m y mis­sion. I knowivh&t is to come, though I cannot y e t jdivulge it . M y daily prayer is t ha t heaven may1 vouchsafe me s t rength to meet everything which I know mus t be encountered and oyer- , . come. My hear t is, however, too fulh; -££ to wr i te you aji I wish . I see the near approach of the 'grandest revelatton t h e world has jket touo^ra, ;and for t h e part you shall p lay in i t thousands will rise u p and call you blessed. I t was no t for, no th ing tha t you »nd f Ineet so singularly. L e i us watch and pray, t ha t w e faint not by the wayside before we reach theconsuminat ion. Weshall: then look • back] wi th exceeding great joy to all we have been called upon to suffer for the sake of a cause more holy than has ye t co ihe upon'earth. Again I bless you for your letter. Affection­ately and faithfully yours,

V I C T O R I A C. W A O D H U L L . Oh, m y dear brother, I fear t he aw­

ful struggle to Jlive according to law has wrought an '-absolute demoraliza­tion as to truthfulness, and so he can talk about." spapgles on a garnient of falsehood," when the garment is truth a n d t h e specks are the falsehood. .

His first letter,to m e was so differ­ent from this . I read i t to you, but will copy it, lest you have forgotten itsh character: f APEIL. 25,1872.

MY DEAR BELLE : I was soriy when X met you at Bridgeport not to have •had a longer talk- with you about the meet ing in May. I do not in tend to make ^iny spfeeches on a n y topic dnring anniversary: week. Indeecl I shall be oil of tojwn. I do not want you'totakf any_ ground this yearex-

ge. ..You know my iyou. Probably JTOU together than a n y .of not.giye .tjihe reason still you will follow

your own jydginbnt. Thank you for your letter, Of some things I neither talk nor will be talked with. Fpr loye and sympa thy f a m deeply thankful . T n e only he lp t h a t can be grateful to m« or useful is silence and a 6ileneing influence bn all pthfirs," A day may come for iconyerse. It is not now. Liv ing or dead, m y dear sister Belle, love" me , and do no t t a lk about hie o r suffer others to in your presence; God-love and keep you; Good keep us all. You r loving brothfer. H . W . B.

The underacpring is his own, and when I read in that horrible story that he begged a few hours ' notice, t h a t h e | m igh t ki l l himself] m y m i n d flew back to tnj»*sentence, wMch suggested sui­cide to m e the momen t I read i t : "xLiving'or dead, m y dear sister Belle, love me , " a n d .ewenj .that.

Now, Tom, can'tjyou go to b r o t h e r .Edward a t once and give h i m these let­ters of mine , and tell h i m w h a t I told you. I t looks as if h e hoped to buy m y silence wi th m y love. A t present, of course, I shal l keep silence, but t r u th is dearer than all th ings else, and if he will not speak i t in some way i can­not a lways s tand as consenting to a lie. " G o d he lp us a l l . " I

Yours in loye| B E L L E . I f you cannot come to m e send Edr

ward, i am utterly alone, and my heart aches for that woman feven as for my own flesh and blood., i know her always to befriend! t h e poor a n d out-, cast, if you see Henfcy tell h i in of this . ' T h e reply to thisjletter by t h e Rev. Thomas K . Beecher. is as follows:

ELMIRA, Nov. 5,' 1872. DEAR BELLE: T6 allow the devil-

himself to be crushed for speaking the t ru th is unspeakably eowardly and contemptible. I respect, as a t present advised, Mrs . Woodhull , whi le i ab-h o r h e r philosophy., She only carries out Henry's philosophy, against which I recorded my protest over twenty years ago, a n d parted (lovingly and achingly) from h im, Saying, " W e can­not work together ." | H e .has drifted, and i have hardenedijlike a crystal till i a m sharp-cornered apd exacting. I p my judgment Henry is following his slippery doctrines of expediency, and in h i s cry of progress] and t h e npble-ness of h u m a n Mature has sacrificed clear, exact, ideal integri ty. H a n d s off; unt i l h e is down, ancfthen m y pul­pit , m y home, m y church,' and m*y' purse "and hear t are at[ h i s service, Of t h e two, Woodhul l is m y hero and H e n r y m y coward, a s ' a t present ad­vised. Don ' t wri te toime. Follow the ' t ru th , and when you need me, cry Out. * Yours, lovingly, j T O M . ,

P . S.—I unseal m y letter to inclose p r in t and a d d : You have n o proof a s yet of a n y offence on H e n r y ' s par t . Your test imony would be allowed in no court. Tilton, wife, Moulton•& Co are witnesses. E v e n " only declare hearsay remember tha t you an certain information, probably ever get tl

§Iad of it- if_.Mri.an rought into Court no th ing will be re-

. vealed. Per jury for good reason is w i th advanced thinkeife no sin.

I t will be observed in t h e lef ter of Mrs-. Hooker t h a t shesjbeaks of hav ing refused to go to Europd- wi th he r hus­band, and tha t she remained a t home in order to protect he r brother i n t^his emergency of h is life.

Beecher was exceedingly anxious t ha t Til ton should repudiate t h e state­m e n t published b y Woodhul l , and de­nounce he r for i t i publication,, and he drew up, npon m y memorandum book, t h e form of a card to b4 published by Tilton, over his s igna ture ; and as,ked m e to submi t i t to h i m for tha t pur­pose, which i here produce, marked * « N 1 0 V : 1

THE PROPOSED ICARD.. .' I n an unguarded enthusiasm i hoped

well and m u c h of one w h o has proved ut ter ly unprincipled, jl shall never1

again notice Ker stories,J and now ut­terly repudiate,, he r statements made concerning m e # n d minf. • .

Beeehfer told 'me to sayito Tilton, sub­s tan t i a l ly : "Theodore&may for his purpose, if he choosa. say thataill his misfortune has come up<}n h im , on ac­count of h i s dismissal from t h e Union

,and t h e Independent , and on account of t h e Offence which i committed against him. He may tjake the posi­tion against nnv and Bowen that he does: yet the fact is than the advocacy of Woodhul l and h e r theories h a s done h i m t h e injury which prevents h i s rising. Now," in order tovget suppor t from me and from P lymou th -Church,' iftnd i n order t o obtain t h i syihnat t iyof the whole communi ty , I l ish this ca rd ; and unlesi canno t r i se ." H e also t h i n g t c -T i l t on i n ' m y Ithis Til ton answered, injsubstance, to Beecher : " Y o u know w h y i sought Mrs. Woodhul l ' s acquaintance. I t was to save m y family and yours from the consequences ofyour tacts," the facts about wh ich . had become known to her. They haye now befn published, and I wil l no t Renounce i t h a t woman to save you froni t he ctthsequences of w h a t you yourself have gone ,"

Irs. Stanton can | So if you move, ^standing on un-

id we shall not facts, and I 'm

liMrs. Tilton are

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i^sume: After Mr. T Jton t h e paper had »e ference t o Mr. ry , an 1 had received all between Tilton, ai

Soon whih Feb* te r f r

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ier m u s t pub i heJdoes i the :

lid t h e same bresence. To

rried to of apolo iy which BeecherTs adulte-assurance# t ha t i Beecher should

be kejjpjt quiet, i imm'ej'diately conveyed tha t H formation to Beecher. ! H e Was profup ( in h is professions of thankful-Tulnesf and grat i tude Ito m e ^pr w h a t h e saic were m y exertions in hfebehalf.

i fter that i wasi taken sick, and on m y sick- bfedy on t h e 7th of

x ry, i received t h e following Iet->i s Beecher, marked "Oj . " .

BEECHEB TO M O U L T O N J . • \: . F E B R U A K Y 7i 1871.

M Y I >E»Aij M B . M O U L T O N : I a m glad to senc you a book w h i c h . y p u will relish, >r which a m a n on a s>ek bed Ought" a relish. I wish I ha!d more l ike it, m d tha t I could send yoa one every doty, not as a repayment (of your . jndneis to me,1 for tha t can never be repaid, not even b y love, Whieh I give yoii fre sly. Many,' m a h y friends has1

God rai sed up to me, but to nq one Of t hem has H e ever given the! oppor-; t u n i t y a n d t h e wisdom-, so to sfjrye m e as you iiave. M y t rus t i n y o u is im­plicit. iTou have1 a lways i»oved your­self The idore's M e n d .and El izabeth 's . Does Gfi d look 4<*wn -ftom Hearken ion three ui ihappier. Jareafires jthalt mpre^ -need a fi i end thap ; th,ese I? I s it| notlan int imat ion of Godte Intent of mfeyey to all t ha t each of these-has i n youla tried a n d proved friend?. B u t on ly in you are We tihree united.". 'Would to God, w h o orders a l l hearts^ t ha t by youj-kind mediatieii Theodore, El izabeth Tand I could be made fr|ends again. | Theo­dore wi l l have the hardes t task ibsuch^ a case, but has he not; proved hjimseif capable qf the noWesfc things ?

. I wonder if Elizabeth knows how generously h e has carried fiims|elf to­ward meJ Of course I can neyerispeab w i th herTagain except wi th h i s per^ mission— and I do not knoWithat even then, it v;0Uld he.best. • My,e|irnest> longing is p) see her in full sympathy .of he r nat ure, a t rest i n h im and | to see h i m once: nore t rns t ing he r a,nd lioving hetf wi th i ven abe t te r than t h e old love I a m alwe ys sad lii such thought^ . I s there airy way outofj this.night? May not a day-star arise ? , ; ; *j •

Truly y mrs, always, and with trust and love, '. H. W. BEECHiEn.-

O n ' t h e s a m e d a y there? w a s c o n v e y e d to m e fron i B e e c h e r a r e q u e s t to T i l t o n t ha t h e m- g h t wr i te to Mrs. Til ton, be­cause all parties had then come to t h e conclusion t ha t there should be n p e o h v rauurcatio x. between Belcher and Til­ton ;gr M*s. Til ton, except , wi th-my knowledge . and / consent, and i had exacted a I promise from Beecher tha t h e would not communicate wi th Mrs. TUton, orj allow her to communicate with h im , kinljess i saw the communi ­cat ion, which promise, i beheve, jwas, on h i s partL faithfully kept , but , I as i sc%n foundj, was not on t h e p a r t o f Mrs . Tilton, 1 " *" . " j "

Permissi ' m ^was gkven Beecher to wri te to M; s. Til ton, and the following is h is ISttei, produced, l

m P ^ e d . " P: :" B R O O K L Y N , F e b . 7,1871.

M Y D E A J J M R S . T I L T O N : W h e n I saw you l a s ; i did not expect to see; you again, or lie alive ma]ny days. iGod was k inder to m e than -were m y bwn thoughts . The friend whom God sent to m e (Moulton) has pi-ove'd, above all friends that -ever I had, . able and. Wil­l ing to help n i e i n th i s ferjrible emer­gency of n y life. H i s hand It was tha t tied up t h e storm thttt Was ready to burst o n , >ur heads, i a m ' n o t t h e less disposei It jtc-.trustpiim ^ o m finding tha t h e has your welfare most deeply and tenderly a t heart . ' You have; no friend,- (Theodore excepted) who jhas i t in h i s power to serve you so vitallyj a n d who wil l do i t w i th so much, deli­cacy an d^hbhor.- i beseech of youj, if my wished Ijaye yet any 'influence,! let m y deliberate j u d g m e n t in t h i s master tweigh w i t h ; roll.' rib doesmy sore hear t good to see i: I Moulton an unfeigsed respect and (fionor for you. r t wohld kil l me if he t hought otherwise. H e Will be as t 'ue a friend to your hofor and happiness as a brother eould be to a sister's, i n hinx we have a common ground- You an'dti inay meet in h im. The past is emded, \ Bu t is there no fu­ture?—no wiser, h igher , holier future? May no t this friend s tand as a priest in the new sabetuary of reconciliation, and meditate and'bless you, Theodore, and m y most u n h a p p y Self? Do not let m y earnesfeness fail of Its e n d ; you believe i n myj judgment . I have"1 ptit myself wholly a n d g l a d l y in Moultonl's hands , and m e r e I mus t meet yob* This sent with Theodore's "consent, but he has not read it. Will you, rfe surn i t to m e fty his hands? f a m ver^ earnest in t h ikwi sh for all our sakes; as such a letter lOught-mot to be sub to even a chan ce of miscarriage.

Y o u » u n h a p p y friend, " (Signed) •. H . W . B B E C B E K

„ This was a I jtter of commendation so tha t Mrs. T I ton-might t rust me, aSi between he r and he r husband,-as fully as Beecher did; . ' " . . '

The first con tmunication I had'from Mrs. Tilton af ier I had read he r eo) fession on t h e F r i d a y evening, asi fore stated, waft on t h e nex t morninj the 3ist of Dee< mber, 1870; the date bi ihg fixed by t h e fact cited . in her! lei ter showing t h i t she gave he r re t ra tion to Beechei* on t h e leveningsprevi-f ©us. T h e letter from her is as followi ° marked "CC

ATORL^AY M O R N I N G , M Y D E A B FBICEND, F R A N K ' : I w a h t

you to do me the greatest possible fa t vor. My letter [which, you have , a n d the ope I gave Mr . Beecheii a t h is d i e tatiori last evening, Ought both to be destroyed. I -

both to m e and I will jow th i s ' np t e ' t o Theo eeher. T h e y will see this request'

Yours truly, E . B . T I L T O N .

course accede to* this-ilton, because I ' had

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jne side, and her eon fession to Tilton on the other—which are-the papers.slie refers to as " m y let­ter wh ich you hs ye, a n d t h e one I gave' Mr. Beecher"-rsttipuld no t be given up , bu t should b e h r l d for^fche protection of ei ther as ttgau s,t the other.

I have already stated t h a t I had , as a nepessary preci n t ion to the peace of the family and tl le part ies interested, interdicted al l t h s partiestfrom hav ing communication wi th each other—rex-cept t he husbai id . and wife-^-un^ess that communicat ion was known to me, and-the letters sent through me of shown to me; Mr. Til ton and Mr. Beecher, as-I h a \ e before stated, 'both faithfully compli id wi th their premise in tha t regard, 119,far as. I know. I was away.sick i 1 the spring of I87I7:. as before s,tated, a nd wen t to Florida. Soon after m y re ;urn Beecher placed-in m y hands an u nsigned let ter from, Mrs. Tilton, ipji it handwrit ing^ un ­dated, bu t marked in h i s handwr i t ing , "Receive'd Marcl 8, 1871." • I here produce it , markc d " F F " ; . :

WJED?{Bfei>A.Y. M Y D E A R F R I E N D : Does your hear t

bound towards a l l as i t used ? So does m i n e ! I am mysjelf«gain, I did riot

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Tcov'eh.anted wi th _ . cave. "Spr ing h a s come."1* Because I thought i t Would gladden you to k n >w this; bu t not to trouble or emharai S you in a h y way, I now write. OfcOj irse I would l ike to share wi th you mj} joy ; but can Wait for t h e h e y o n d !

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'. Wlhen dear Frank says I may once a g a i n go to old Plynloxrtht I wi l l t h a n k j the dear Fa ther . ' j V S u p h ' a commimieat ion from Mrs . pPflton to he r pastor, under thecireujn-stanees and he r promise, seemed to m e to be a breach of good faith. B u t de­sirous tOihave the peace kept , and lmp-iri£ ifjunanswe'red i t m igh t ho t be re­peated, I d i d n o t show i t to Tilton, or Inform M m of i t s existence.

Qn Fr iday, A p r U ^ i , 1871, Mr. Beech/ er received another let ter of^that date unsigned, froni Mrs.•Tilton*, which h e gave to me. I t i s here produceld, m a r k ­ed " G G . , " =88 follows k

- F B I D A Y , Aprit21,1871.. M B , B E E C H E R = 'As Mr . MOiilton has

returned, will you- use your influence, tcfha've the papers in h i s possession de­s t royed? My heart; bleeds n igh t and day a t t h e injustice of the i r existence. ' 'As I could noTconiply w i th th is rer

^(uest, for reasons before stated, I d id not show this let ter to Til ton, nor did I call Mrs. Til ton's a t tent ion to it . . ,

;On the 3d of May Mr. Beecher h a n d ­ed- me still anothei; letter., unsigned, but in M ^ . Ti l ton 's handwr i t ing , of t ha t date, which is here produced, marked ''HjEf." • '

BnooKiA-N, May 3, 1871. M B , BIEECEPEB: Myfujture .either for\

life or death would pe happ ie r cpuld I bu t feel t ha t yonforgaye whife you toi't got me. In ajjjthe sad complications of the past year niy' .endeayoi-'was to> entirely keep frpm-ydp all' "suffering; to bear-myself alone, leaving -you fox^ ever ignorant 6£ it . My; weapons Were'f IbVe^a large uh t i r ing generosity, and nesfrdiiding! That I failed Utterly We ' both: know. But. now I "ask forgive­ness. .' '• " W j >'The.qontents of this letter „were sir remarkable jthat-1 queried" wi th in iny OWh m i n ^ w h e t h e r 1 ought not to,. show i t to'T|ilton ; bu t a s J was assured. by Beeqher, and .verily *,elieye,d\ ahd nowbeheVe, that they Were unanswer­ed by hjni, I thought it best to retain i t in m y own possession, as I ' h a v e done unt i l now. B u t fronrthe hour of • i ts reception w h a t remained of faitl i in Mrs. Tuton's character for truth or propriety of conduct was wholly lost; ^hdjroijtt that time forth'. I had no thoiightiQi' care for her reputation only so far as i t affected tha t of herehildrren.

After tlie s igning of the " t r ipar t i te covenant ," Aprils 2, 1872, Til ton desil> fed tha t I should re turn h i m t h e paper . containing his wife's confession, in order, a&hesaid, to relieve h e r anxiety as to . its, possibly falling into Wrong hands , and she was Very desirous that th is i p a p e r s h o u l d b e d e s t r o y e d ^ A s I h e l d i t s o l e l y for h e r p r o t e c t i o n , a n d under pledge to h im , r g a v e i t to h im attd h e told m e afterward t h a t h e gave i t i n t o he r hands , and t h a t she destroy­ed i t . She also confirmed, th is state­men t . . - . ' -''

Some t ime after that -^ i t is impossi­ble for m<e to fix t h e date preeisely^-I learnedi from Beecher t h a t Mrs. Til­ton had tpld h i m t h a t when she m a d e her confession po he r husband of he r infidelity With Him JjBeecher] he r husband 'had made a like confession tb he r of h is oWn infidelities witli

^several other women. Th i s b e i n g ^ n entirely new statement-of fact to niej and tieyer haying heard Mrs. Tilton, in all "niy. cpnyei«ations with her," air though she had admit ted freely; her' owri.Sexual intercourse wi th Beecher,; m a k e a n y c la ims t ha t he r husbahd had confessed h i s infidelity,for t ha t h e .had beennnfai thful to her , I Was consider-

.ably'surpSLsedat this ' int imation made a t so late a period, and I brought it to, the at tention of Til ton i n t h e form of-a-verjJ- s t rpng criticism of h i s cpiirse

• toward me , thai h e had j t ep t ' back so impor tan t I a fact, Which* migh t have ^mad.e'4 great difference as to th« coarse thatoughtb betaken. Tilton promptly and wi th much feeling denied tha t h e had' ever made a n y such confession, pv tha,t h i s wife ever claijned t h a t lie had , and desired m e to Se6 Mrs . Tilton and satisfy myself upon th"a point: and he Went' immediately with hie to his" house tha t I n i%h t see Mrs. Til ton be­fore hey should have the opportunity to seeher after h e had learned t h e alleged fact. "We wen t to t h e honse -together and found ljier in t h e back parlor. On our way to the house Tilton said.to nie: "Frank:, what is the use,of my frying to keep the family; together when this sor t of t h i n g is being all t he t ime said against ime? Ifeou are all" t h e t ime tel l ­i n g m e -that I mus t keep t h e peace.and forget and forgive, while these stories are being ciij'cuiatea to m y prejudice ?" On;arrivihg| at i the house I asked Mrs.; Til ton to step I n t o t h e front parlor, where we two : Were alone/ i t hen pu t t h e question tp h e r : -" JElizabeth, did you telinBeeeher t h a t when you made your-eonfession to yoUr husband of your infidelity wi th Beecher ,your hus^ band a t t h e s a m e t ime made a confes­sion -to y p u of h is own infidelity wi th other w o m e n ? ' I w a n t to k n o w if th is is t rue for m y own satisfaction." She *-answered;: " Yes. " I then stepped, wi th he r into..thei back. 'parjor, where h e r husband was wai t ing, and said to h i m : "Your Wife says she did tell Beecher thatyonconfessed yourirffidelity wi th Other women at the t ime she made, h e r , confession to you . " Blizaheth imme­diately sa id : " W h y , no, f d idn ' t t te l l ^ypu so> I could ho t have understood yonrquest ioni because i t i sn ' t t rue that Theodore, ever made a n y such eonfesr sion, a n d T didn ' t , state it to Beechei-, because i t is no t . t rue . "

I was shocked and surprised a t the ' denial> bu t of course could say no th ing more, and left^and went home. The n e x t m o r n i n g I received thejfollowing letter from Mrs . Tilton, wi thout date, and a m therefore unable, to give t h e exact date Of this transaction ;• but i t was after the tr ipart i te covenant. T h e letter is here produced, marked* f ' J J ' ' V

D E A R F R A N C I S :—I did tel l twofalsev hoddsa t ypur last visit . A t first I e n -tirely'misUuderstood your,; question, t h i n k i n g you had reference to the in* . terview at your house th^ day.before ; h u t when l in te l l igen t ly replied to you, I replied falsely. Wi l l now p u t myself on reeord^ruthfully.

'[-' Told Mr. B . t ha t a t t he t i m e of m y iconfessioh T had made similar cohfes-JsiOHs to m e of hiinself, but nodeyelopr Iments as to persons. W h e n you then jasked, for.your own satisfaction, " W a s lit So?" I i o l d m y second lie. After you had left I said to T., " Y o u know '1 was obliged to l ie to F r a n k , and now say ra ther than^niake btherssuffef as I now do; I mus t l i e ; for I t is h o w a p h j > sical impossibility for me to tejf t he truth.'-' • ' * Ye t I dO' th ink, ,Francis ,hadi lo tT. ' s angry, troubled 'face been before me, I ^rould have told you t h e t ru th . ! A m a perfect coward i n his presence^ hot from any%ult of his, perhaps, but

torn long y e a * of. t imidi ty . -, I implore you, as th is is a side issue,

tip .he careful no t te lead m e in to fur­t he r temptat ion, • , • I Y o u i h a y show this, to T; Or B . or a n y

o-rie. AA effort made for t ru th . {••; Wretchedly^ E M Z A B E T H .

T h i s let ter waSAvholly unsatisfactory to me , because iliothihg had occurred t h e day previous to which she coultf ppssiblyhave referred. About the 16th of December, 1872, Mr . Carpenter and Dr. Storrs undertook to l o o k u p t h e re­ports, w i th t h e intention, as I under­stood, of advising! some public state­ment , or as IbeingMJoneerned in some investigation of t h e matter,- and Mrs. „ TOton wrote; for them t h e following

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