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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 187-1.
NUMBER 23.
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Lounges, Tables, Bedsteads,
ETC.. ETC., ETC.,
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MEDICINES
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On Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.
Wholesale attl Retail Dealer in
Drugs and Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Patent Medicines,
Toilet Articles, etc., etc.
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all hour, day and night. 35-ly
J. VV. SHANNON'S
Teed, Sale and Livery
STABLE,
Main Street, Plattsmouth, . Neb.
1 am prepared to accommodate the public with
Carriages, Buggies, Wagons,
AND
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On Short Notice and Reasonable Terms.
A HACK
Will Run to the Steamboat Land
ing, Depot, and all parts of
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Of Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
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John K. Clark...
T. W. Evans
President.
, . . . Vice-President.
Cashier.
.Assistant Cashier.
This Bank is now open for business at their new
room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre
pared to trausacl a general
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, Bonds, Gold. Government
and Lrocal Securities
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits Received and Interest Al
lowed on Time Certificates.
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TOYS, CONFECTIONERY,
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Newspapers, Novels,
Song Books, etc., etc.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telesrams of Aom$anjin; Sates.
Monday, Aug. 24. The Austrian War
Department has contracted for 1:10,000 Amer
ican breech-loading rifles. . . .The Spanish ( Jov-
ernment indignantly denies the report that
the island of Porto Rico lias lcen offered to
Germany in consideration for the recognition
by the latter Government of the Spanish Ke-
public lU-eent dispatches say that Russia
lias reconsidered its former decision, and
concluded not to recognize the Spanish Repub
lic at present.. ..In recent dispatches Gen.
Custer gives a plowing account of the Black
Hills country visited by his expedition. Gold
and other valuable metals were found in
large quantities. Building materials are
abundant, and as a grazing country the
General says it Is one of extraordinary rich
ness.... The great Osac land cases have been
decided in the United States Circuit Court at
Parsons, Kan., in favor of the settlers....
The Alabama Republican State Convention
lias renominated Alexander White and C. C.
Sheats for Congrcssmen-at-Large. A full
State ticket was also nominated. The reso
lutions adopted declare unshaken confidence
and unalterable devotion to the great princi
ples of human liberty, viz.: the civil and
political equality of all men, without distinc
tion of race or color; disavow all claim or
desire for the social equality of the different'
races, and reject the Issue of race against
race "tendered by the Democratic party, and
which, if persisted in by that party, will
plunge us again into war with the Govern
ment of the United States;" only equal ad
vantages for the colored race are asked for
in matters of public and common rights....
For several days previous to the 2:kl, accord
ing to dispatches from Louisville, Ky., open
war had been waged between two factions
at Lancaster, Ky., the one composed of whites
and the other of negroes, under the
command of one Sellers. On the 22d Sellers'
house, in which a number of negroes, were
stationed, was burned to the ground, and had
it not been for the presence of United States
troops all of the inmates would have been
burned to death. Several had been killed on
both sides. At last accounts the militia from
the neighboring towns Lave reached Lancas
ter and captured from thirty to forty colored
Tuesday, Aug. 25. Spanish advices,
by way of Paris, report a Ministerial crisis at
Madrid; also that the inhabitants of
that city have refused to submit to
a fresh conscription and that disturbances are
imminent. The formal recognition of Spain
by Sweden has been announced A
Washington dispatch states that it has
been ascertained from a reliable source
that Spain, instead of investigating the
conduct of those of its authorities who
had infringed on Spanish laws or treaty obli
gations, with a view to the punishing of
those who may have offended, has made a
demand of indemnity in the affair of the Vir
ginius and for other alleged wrongs suffered
by Spain owing to filibustering expedi
tions fitted out in this country and
landing or attempting to land men
and munitions of war on the Spanish
American coast. To this demand our Gov
ernment has replied in firm but courteous
terms, asserting the untenableness of the po
sition of the Spanish Government, and re
minding it of its remissness or inexcusable
delay in making reparation for the wrongs
suffered by American citizens in jhtsou and
property. The latest information from Minis
ter Cushing is that he is still pressing our
demands on Spain The Brooklyn
Kaijle of the 23d publishes the evi
dence given by Tilton's adopted daughter
Bessie before the Investigating Committee,in
which she accuses Tilton with attempting her
ruin. She also speaks of Mrs. Tilton as being
a lovely Christian woman and a devoted wife
and mother. In the course of her statement
she says she once caught Susan B. Anthony
on Mr. Tilton's lap. Miss Anthony has
since indignantly denied the truth of the
story, regarding it as too absurd to be worthy
of further notice Henry Ward Beecher has
signed and swore to a paper explicitly deny
ing all charges made in the allegation of the
complaint brought against him by Theodore
Tilton, except the specification that he (Mr.
Tilton) had been married to Elizabeth
Richards, now Elizabeth R. Tilton Hon.
J. W. Barnes has written a letter formally
declining the candidacy for State Treasurer
on the Iowa Anti-Monopoly ticket, because
Ins private and personal affairs demand his
entire attention. He susriresH that the State
Central Committee fill the vacancy thus
caused in the ticket, and says that the ticket
selected shall receive from him such active
and hearty support as he may be able to give
it.... Geo. C. Harding, editor of the Indianap
olis (Ind.) Sunday Jeratil, recently shot Joel
Moritz, a prominent merchant of that city.
for the alletred betrayal of his (Harding's)
daughter, who had just committed suicide.
Mr. Harding was put under 1 10,000 bonds to
await the results of Moritz' wounds, which
would probably not prove fatal A part of
the large manufacturing establishment of the
Studebaker Brothers, at South Bend, Ind.,
was destroyed by fire on the morning of the
34th. The damage was estimated at :i()0.0(I0
..The Rcpuhlican&tof the First Michigan
District have renominated Moses W. Field
for Congress .... It is 6tated that
the decision in the railway-injunction
case in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
will be again postponed, the Judges not hav
ing had sufficient time to examine the argu
ments. The calendar will be first disposed
of, whic h w ill occupy about ten days, when
the expected verdict will be rendered A
recent Omaha dispatch says Gov. Furnas
states in a circular that the information
from various counties in Nebraska, to
gether with personal observation, warranted
the assertion that while the crops are shorter
than for several years there is by no means a
failure. Small grains show an average; corn
from one-half to no crop; roots very short;
fruit more in quantity and inferior in quality.
No cases of immediate need were yet re
ported. At quite a number ofpointa on the
extreme borders help would be required
soon, and must be extended through the
winter.
Wednesday, Aug. 26. Germany has
notified the powers of Europe that it will not
interfere in the internal affairs of Spain
Congressional nominations on the 25th:
Republican Second Michigan District. H.
Waldron, renominated; Third Michigan,
Geo. Willard. renominated ; Sixth Michigan.
Josiah Begole, renominated ;Eighth Michigan,
N. 15. Bradley, renominated: Eighth Ohio.
Wm. Lawrence, renominated; Eighteenth
Ohio, Jas. Monroe, renominated: Sixth Penn
sylvania, Washington Townsend, renomi-
ated: Fourteenth Illinois. Josenh CI. Can.
non, renominated. Democratic and Conserva
tive First Indiana. Benonis Fuller: Twelfth
Illinois, Wm. M. Springer; First Louisiana,
Randall Gibson Second; Louisiana, E. J.
Ellis; Third Louisiana, J. R. Breaux; Fourth
Louisiana, W. M. Levy; Fifth Louisiana, -B.
F. Spencer; Sixth Louisiana, J. M. Moore..
The Conservative State Convention of Louis
iana has nominated J. C. Moneure for State
Treasurer. The platform adopted declares
that the existing State Government orig
inated in, and has been maintained by,
force and fraud, iu opposition to the will
of a large majority of the voters of the
State, in opposition to the principles of the
Constitution of the United States, and in
violation of every principle of justice and
liberty; that the dominant faction of the
Radical party in the State has by false and
fraudulent representations inflamed the
passions and prejudices of the negroes as a
race against the whites, and has thereby
made it necessary for the white people to
unite and act together in self-defense and for
the preservation of white civilization; that
the rights of all men under the Constitution
and laws of the land must be respected
and preserved inviolate, irrespective of
race, color, or previous condition; de
nies that Congress can constitutionally
enact laws to force the two races into
social union or equality; declares that the
white people of Louisiana have no desire to
deprive the colored people of any rights to
which they are entitled, but expresses the
conviction that a reform is imperatively de
manded, which can be effected only by elect
ing to office white men of known capacity
and integrity.
Thursday, Aug. 27. The Republicans
of Kansas have renominated Thos. A. Osboru
for Governor. Their resolutions favor free
banking based upon a policy of specie re
sumption at such time as is consistent with
the industrial interests of the country; de
clare that all railroad corporations of the
State are the creatures of its Legislature,
and it is the duty of that body to sub
ject them to such wise and impartial en
actments as will protect the people of the
State from extortion and will secure the
transportation of merchandise and passen
gers ut reasonable rates; favor the trans
ferring of the Indian Bureau to the control
of the War Department; favor an amendment
to the national Constitution which shall for
ever prohibit any Congress from settling its
own compensation; favor such legislation,
both general and local, as experience shall
show to be most effectual in destroying the
evil of intemperance; declare that the prece
dent set by Washington in declining a re
election to a third term of the Presidency
ought never to be deviated from; that the
public lands of the United States be sacredly
held for the use and benefit of actual settlers,
and condemn and disapprove of any further
grants of the public domain to railroad or
other corporations. .. .The recent Opjosition
State Convention of Illinois nominated: For
State Treasurer, Charles Carroll; School
Superintendent, S. M. Etter. The plat
form adopted declares in favor of the re
sumption of specie payments as soon as pos
sible without disaster to the business in
terests of the country, by steadily opposing
inflation and by the payment of the national
indebtedness in the money of the civilized
world ; in favor of free commerce, and no
tariff except for revenue; affirms the right
and duty of the State to protect its citizens
from extortion and unjust discrimination by
chartered monopolies; demands that all the
jn-nsions of crippled soldiers shall be so in
creased as to shield every one of them from
daily want without compelling them to take
refuge in a so-called Soldiers' Home The
Michigan Republican State Convention has
renominated John T. Bagley for Governor and
Henry II. Holt for Lieutenant-Governor; E.
G. D. Holden was nominated for Secretary
of State; Wm. B. McCreery for Treasurer;
Ralph Ely for Auditor; D. B. Briggs (present
incumbent) for Attorney-General. The reso
lutions adopted challenge comparison be
tween the financial record of the Republican
party and that of any other party which ever
held power; demand that in all financial legis
lation Congress shall keep steadily in view
the resumption of specie payment to the end
that at the earliest practicable day the paper
currency of the country may be at par with
coin; declare in favor of free banking under
a well-guarded national system; that it is the
high duty of the General Government to pro
tect the colored people of the South in the
rights and privileges of their citizenship....
The Ohio Democracy have nominated: For
Secretary of State, Wm. Bell; School Commis
sioner, C. S. Smart; Judge of Supreme Court,
W. J. Gilmore; Clerk of Supreme Court, Ar
nold Green; Member of Board of Public
Works, Martin Schiller. The platform adopt
ed declares that the Democratic party of Ohio
adheres to its ancient principles of securing
equal rights and exact justice to all men, and
to all the States and communities of the
American people, and of maintaining the in
dependence of the co-ordinate departments of
the Federal Government, the Legislative, the
Executive and the Judicial, and resisting
every attempt to usurp any of the powers re
served by the Constitution to the States re-
spectively, and to the people thereof; favors
such an increase of the circulating medium
as the business interests of the country may
from time to time require, and declares that
sound policy and justice require that not less
than one-half of the customs duties should
be payable in the legal-tender notes of the
United States commonly called greenbacks;
favors the abolishing of the franchise of the
National Banks to issue a paper currency as
soon as the same can safely and prudently be
done, and advocates that the notes so with
drawn by the banks be substituted by the
Government with a legal-tender currency;
declares that the 5-20 bonds, by the letter and
spirit of the law and the general understand
ing of the community, were payable in legal-
tender notes, and that the act of March, ;
IS0!, which pledged the nation to their
payment in coin was an unnecessary
and wicked sacrifice of the interests of
the tax-paying lalorers for the benefit of the
non-tax-paying bondholders; favors a rev
enue tariff; opposes grants of public lands to
railroad corporations, etc., etc Congres
sional nominations on the 20th: Republican
Fifth Illinois District, Hon. II. C. Burchard,
renominated; Sixteenth Ohio District, Hon.
L. Dan forth, renominated; Fifteenth Ohio
District, N. II. Van Voorhees. Democratic
Richmond (Va.) District, ex-Gov. S. C. Walker.
..A Nashville dispatch of the 26th says the
negroes at Pickettsville had threatened riot
on account of some supposed wrong done
them, and had manifested a strong intention
to kill two or three citizens and fire and sack
the town. On the 25th sixteen of the ring
leaders were arrested and placed in Trenton
jail for safe keeping. On the morning of the
26th fromseventv-fivetoone hundred masked
men entered Trenton, rode up to the jail and
compelled the Sheriff to deliver the keys to
them. They then took the sixteen negroes
and killed six of them at the edge of the town.
The masked men then rode off with the other
ten, and it was thought at last accounts that
they had killed them. Whites and blacks
were said to be arming.
Friday, Aug. 28. Henry C. Bowen, of
the New York Independent, has sued the edit
ors of the Brooklyn Eagle and the Brooklyn
Arfus for libel The Republicans of New
Jersey have nominated George A. Halsey for
Governor. They resolved that President
Grant deserves their unabated confidence; that
they are in favor of such national legislation
as will maintain inflexibly the faith of the
Government to its creditors and secure the
speedy resumption of specie payments....
The Democrats of Pennsylvania held a State
Convention at Pittsburgh on the 27th, and
nominated Warren J. Woodward for Supreme
Judge, John Lat.a for Lieutenant-Governor
and J. F. Temple for Auditor. Their resolu
tions declare opposition to Government grants
of public lands to corporations; that a steady
effort should be made to bring the Govern
ment notes to par with gold, and to secure a
return to specie payment at the earliest possi
ble period that resumption can be effected
with-safety; denounce the Civil-Rights bill of
the last Congress as a gross invasion of the
right of the States to control their own do
mestic concerns; declare against the estab
lishing of mixed schools by law.... At
their recent State Convention the Mis
souri Democracy nominated: For Governor,
Charles H. Ilarlin; Lieutenant-Governor,
Norman J. Colman; Secretary of State, M. K.
McGrath; Auditor, Thomas Halladay; Treas
urer, Joseph W. Mercer; Register of Lands,
Oscar Kochlitsky. The platform adopted de
clares that the 5-20 bonds are distinctly, by
their terms, made payable iu legal-tender
notes or greenbacks; favors a repeal of the
National Banking law and the substitution of
greenbacks to the extent of the National Bank
currency, if the policy of issuing a national
paper currency is to be jersistcd in; that the
legal-tender notes should be made receivable
for duties on imports; that railroad and all
other corporations created for gain or profit
should be rendered subservient to the public
good by such legislation upon the subject.
both State and National, as will effectually
secure the'industrial and producing interests
of the country against all forms of corporate
monopoly and taxation ... .Gen. Sheridan has
issued an order forbidding private parties to
visit the Black Hills unless under authority of
Congress or the Secretary of the Interior..
A State Council of Michigan Grangers was
held at Detroit on the 27th and was largely
attended. The Chairman, Mr. Whitney,
stated that there are 500 Granges in the State,
comprising a membership of 40,000. .. .The
following nominations for Congress were
made on the 27th: Democratic Eleventh
Indiana District, J. D. Cox. Independent
Reform Sixteenth Illinois, Holla B. Henry.
A nti-Monojoly Second Iowa, J. L. Sheean.
Republican Fourth Ohio, Lewis B. Gunckel,
renominated. g
THE MARKETS.
August 28, 1871.
NEW YORK.
Cotton. Middling upland, 17fcl?!-aC.
Lite Stock. lieef Cattle $11.2Ti(i,l:j.ij. nogs
Dressed, $8.DOa.50. Sheep Live, $4.23afi.25.
Bkeadhtuffs. Flour Good to choice, $5.40
5.75; white wheat extra, fS.T.'XSfi.ao. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, fl.NXai.13; Iowa spring, $1.11.1.15;
No.Milwaukeaspring. $1. 16(5.1. 1H. Rye West
ern and State, 90c&$1.00. Barley...
Corn Mixed Western afloat, SlK&Slc. Oats
New Western, 4i;&Xi,,4c.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, $i!.50ii.75.
Lard 1 Hi&15c. Cheese 10134c
Wool. Common to extra, AoQJViC.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $6.O0(gii.25;
good, $5.255.75; medium, $4.25tf4.75; butch
ers' stock, $:i.jl4.00; stock cattle, $2.5fKfJ
3.75. Hogs Live, $7.007.75. Sheep Good
to choice, $4.004.50.
Provisions. Batter Choice, Eggs
Fresh, V&2ic. Cheese New York factory.
l:513V4c; Western, 12l:5c. Pork New Mess,
$iJ.0Oii.lO. Lard $14.7515.00.
Bbeaustuffs. Flour White winter extra.
$5.503,7.50; spring extra, $1.7535.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, Drxfc'Kic. Corn No. 2, 67
&7?jc. Oats No. 2, 4-li.Uc. Barley No. 2,
iS7j,'.Kic. Rye No. 2, 7K5.75C.
Wool. Tub-washed, 45i5.lc.; fleece, washed.
l41c. ; fleece, unwashed, 2733c; pulled,
37a3Dc.
LuaBEn. First Clear. $50.00Ct."J.OO; Second
Clear, $ 7.00&l!l.50; Common Boards, $10.50
13.U1; Fencing, $10.5(X12.00; "A" Shingles,
$3.0O3.50; Lath, $2.(1012.25.
CINCINNATI.
Breadstuffs. Flour $5.005.15. Wheat Red,
$1.03. Corn !&71c. Rye 83c. Oats 11248c.
Barley $1.15S1.20.
Provisions. Pork $23.00S23.50. Lard
1415c.
ST. LOL1S.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.00
5.75. Hogs Live, $5.750.75.
Breapstuffs. Flour XX Fall, $4.25 1.75.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.12'il.l 1. Corn No.
2, 08ii!tc. Oats No. 2, 4 1 15c. Rye No. 2,
H5cS.$1.00. Barley $1.051. 10.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $23.7521.00. Lard
14?.iai3?4C.
-MILWAUKEE.
Brbaistvffs. Flour Spring XX, $5.7o5?-5.on.
Wheat Spring No. 1, cT $1.00; No. 2, W
!M4c. Corn No. 2, (;'ifMi7c. Onts No. 2, :.Kb
40c. Rye No. 1, 81S,82c. Barley No. 2, H0&
2c.
DETROIT.
BRBAnsTUFFs. Wheat Extra, $1,1851.20.
Corn 7:i.7i74c. Oats 14y;.15c.
TOLEDO.
Breadstuffs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.08
l.Oli; No. 2 Red, $1.0S&1.0!). Corn
Mixed, 7070'ic. Oats 4:',&llc.
CLEVELAND.
Breadstuffs Wheat No. 1 Red, $1.0ti.1.10;
No. 2 Red, $l.Ot;1.07. Corn 71(S.75c. Oats
45aiC.
ULitALO.
Live Stock. Beeves $5.0Ofi.35. Hogs
Live, $6.30(3.7.50. Sheen S4.40&4.75.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best. $6.12' JGfi.75; me
dium, $5.2.Vy.00. Hogs Yorkers, $6.W
6.25; Philadelphia, $8.008.55. Sheep Best,
5.(Kit5.25; medium, $1.0Oa4.75.
Coming Fairs.
STATEFAIRS AN1 EXPOSITIONS.
Wis. Industrial Ass'n. . .Mineral Point. .Sept. 1-4
New England Providence Sept. 1-4
Rhode Island Providence Sept. 1-4
Cincinnati Exposition. .Cincinnati. Sept. 2-Oet. 3
Ohio Columbus Sept. 7-11
Kansas Leaven wort h . . Sept. 7-1 1
Wisconsin Milwaukee Sept. 7-12
Indiana State Fair and
Exposition Inuiannp In Sept. 7-30 (Is
Minnesota St. Paul Sept. 8-12
American Institute New York Sept. S-Nov. 14
Northeastern Iowa I'ostvlllc scpt. H-ll
New Jersey .Waverly Station. Sept. 11
Northern Ohio Cleveland ept. 1MB
Illinois Peoria Sept. 14-19
Kansas City Exposition. Kansas City.. Sept. ll-l!l
Montana Helena Sept. 14-21
Northern Iowa Cleveland S-pt. 1 1-1S
New York Rochester St-pt. 14-1H
Michigan State fc Porno. East Saginaw Striit. 14-111
California Sacramento. .Sept. 21-2H
Iowa Keokuk Sept. 22-26
Colorado Denver Sept. 22-26
Maine I.ewiston Sept 22-25
Maine Pomological Portland Sept. 22-25
West Virginia Clarksburg Sept. 22-21
Northern Wisconsin Oshkosh-.Sept. 2S-Oct. 2
Nebraska. Omaha. ...Sept. 2"-Oct. 2
Pennsvlvania Easton Sept. 2!Mict. 2
New Hampshire Manchester.Sep.2!l-Ort. 2
Nova Scotia Halifax Oct. 5-10
St. Louis Fair St. Louis Oct. 5-10
Marvland Baltimore Oct. 6-10
North Carolina Raleigh Oct. 10-19
Georgia Atlanta Oct. 19-21
Mississippi Jackson Oct. 2t
Virginia Richmond Oct. 27-iil
HORTICULTURAL and topological exhibitions.
California Bay Dist., San Fraucisco.Aug.18-Sep.ll
Concord (N. H. I Horticultural Sept. 6-8
ermantown. Pa.. Germantown t.Sept. :i-io
Maine Pomological. Portland Sept. 22-25
Maryland Horticultural. Baltimore Sept. 9-11
Massachusetts Horticultural. Boston. -Sept.
Michigan Pomological. East Saginaw. Sept. 14-19
NewnurgBay Horticultural, Newburg.Sept. 22-24
j-eansyivania. I'miaueipma eept. ij-i
Potomac Pomological. Washington
Worcester Horticultural, Worcester. .Sept. 8-Oct.6
TOULTRT SHOWS.
Bucks County, Pa Doylestown Dec 8-11
Central New York I'tica Jan. 6-13
Connecticut. Hartford Dec. 15-11
Eastern Pennsylvania. . .Doylestown Dec. 8-19
Illinois Peoria Sept. 14-18
Iowa Dubuuue Dec. 15-18
Lehigh Valley, Pa Jan. 5-8
Maine Portland Jan. 12-1j
Maryland Baltimore Jan. 5-8
Massachusetts Boston Jan 2-Feb. 4
New England Worcester, Mass. Dec. 1-4
Western New York Buffalo Feb. 10-17
A lecturer on natural history was
called upon the other dav to pay for a
live rabbit he had in a basket in a rail
way carriage, and which the ticket-collector
said would be charged the same as
a dog. The lecturer vainly explained
that he-was going to use the rabbit in
illustration of a lecture he was going to
give in a provincial town ; and indignant
ly taking a small live tortoise from his
pocket said: "You will be telling me
next that this is a dog and that I must pay
for it also." The ticket-taker went for
superior orders and on his return deliv
ered this lecture in natural history:
" Cats is aogs ana rabbits is dogs, nut a
tortoise is a hinsect."
If an edge tool is so hard as to crum
ble, grind it on a dry stone until the edge
turns blue; it will then cease to break,
and the temper will generally prove to
ue auoui ngui.
THE BEECHER INVESTIGATION.
ICeport ofllie fonmilttff-Mr, Heeelier
Pronounced Innocent or Charge
?ladP Against Him.
1'lvmouth Church (Hrooklyn) was
densely packed on the evening of the
28th to listen to the report of the Beecher
Investigating Committee, which was
read, in substance as follows:
In conducting the investigation Hie committee
state that thev had faithfully endeavored to makt
it thorough and impartial, and to obtain such
facts as were relevant to the inquiry from all
attainable sources or evidence, tor this purpose
they requested the attendance of a large nuinher
ot wituesses, most of whom had testified netore
the committee, one notable exception being Sir.
Francis B. Carpenter.
Mr. Moulton had promised to testify fully, but
had tailed to do so. lie had summttcd three
short statements in writing to the committee,
consisting chiefly of the reasons why he declined
to testify at thtt call if the rttmniittee.
In addition lo the evidence of the persons who
had testified, they had examined a number of let
ters and other doenmentarv evidence which were
supposed to relate to the subject matter of the in
qmrv.
The committee state that the offense as alleged
by Mr. Tilton during some four years, and until
recently, to numerous persons, in writing and
otherwise, was an impropersuggestion or solici
tation by Mr. Beecher to Mrs. Tilton. but as time
passed and purposes matured this charge was en
larged to that of adultery.
The committee state that, after bnving given
the evidence the most careful consideration, they
find therefrom that in 1S61 Mr. Beecher became
editor and Mr. Tilton assistant editor of
the Jixleiifmlriit, and during this relation were
warm and intimate friends. Mr. Tilton urging
Mr. Beecher to visit, his house. A very
lnendly relation sprang up between the
wife and family of Mr. Tilton and Mr. Beecher,
continuing down to December. 1870. These
friendly relations were understood and cordially
approved ol oy -Mr. niton, home years netore
auy open trouble appeared between Messrs.
Beecher and Tilton, the latter's doctrines as set
forth in the Iiitheiilnt, of which be had become
editor, aroused so much indignation and opposi
tion iu the West as to lead to the starting of the
A'ltnttce newspaper in Chicago. He tTilmul had
come to deny the inspiration of the Scriptures
and the divinity of Christ, and his social views
had changed in the direction of free love, these
religious and social changes on the part of her
husband being sources of great grief and sorrow
to Mrs. Tilton. Mrs. Tilton voluntarily sought
her pastor for counsel and sympathy," and set
forth iu strong terms the suffering her husband's
course was causing her. It appears that during
these years Mrs. T. had become strongly attached
to Mr. Beecher, and in July, 1870. confessed to her
husband au over-shadowing utl'ectiou lor her
pastor.
On or about the 10th of December, 1870, Mrs.
Tilton separated from her husband, going with
her children to her mother s house, sue sent
for Mr. Beecher. and made to him a statement of
her sufferings, and the abuse which she had re
ceived at tin' hands of her husband, which great
ly shocked Mr. Beecher. lie asked and received
permission to semi to .Mrs. 1 uton his wile, whose
judgment in such matters he considered better
than his own. Subsequently he agreed in advis
ing with his wife that it was desirable that Mrs.
Tilton should separate from her husband. Mr.
Tilton. however, subsequently forced his wife to
return to his house by sending for. and obtaining
possession of, their youngest i hild, who was sick
with the croup, during Mrs. niton s temporary
absence from her mother's house. The next day
after herretnrn, on the 24th, she suffered a miscar
riage, which resulted iu a serious illness, contin
uing until after the 1st of January, her physieiau
being In daily attendance on her from the 24th to
the 30ih of December inclusive. Early in Decem
ber, this year, owiug to the marked change in Mr.
Tilton's religious and social views. Mr. Boen
felt constrained to give him notice that his serv
ices as editor of the I wit icmlfiit would terminate
at a day named in the notice. Subsequently to
this notice, and on or about the 20th of December.
Mr. Bowen entered iuto a contract with Mr. Til
ton. by which he was to be the editor of the
Brooklyn tailu Vnion and chief contributor of
the Imleprnilfif for five years: but within a few
days after making this contract Mr. Bowen re
ceived such information of Tilton's immorality
as alarmed him and led to an interview between
himself. Tilton and Oliver Johnson, at the house
of Mr. Bowen. on the 26th day of December, 1S70.
At this interview Mr. Tilton sought to retain his
nlace and Mr. Bowen's confidence bv offering lo
join Bowen in an attack on Mr. Beecher. This
interview resulted in the letter written and signed
by Mr. Tilton demanding that Mr. Beecher
leave I'lvmoutn pulpit and lirooKivn. uu
reading this letter, wliieh was delivered by
Mr. Bowen. Mr. Beecher expressed his as
tonishment at the receipt of such a letter, and
denounced the writer. Mr. Bowen then derided
the letter, and gave him some account of the rea
sons why he had reduced Tilton from the editor
ship of the Initt ieinlnit to the subordinate posi
tion of contributor, saying that Mr. Tilton's
religious and social views were ruining the
paper, and that be was now considering whether
he could consistently retain him as editor of the
Brooklyn Union or chief contributor ol the Ii-
ilffietitleitt.
They conversed lor some time, .ir. iowcti
wishing Mr. Beechcr's opinion, which was freely
given. Mr. Beecher sum he did not see how Mr.
Bowen could retain his relations with Ir. lilton.
Mr. Beecher spoke strongly of the threatening
letter and the revelation he had just had con
cerning Mr. Tilton's domestic affairs.
Mr. Bowen read the threatening letter and said
hi- would stnnd hv Mr. Beecher. and he told Mr.
Tilton the next day of the conversation he had
hud with Mr. Beecher and of his ( Bowen s i inten
tion to stand by Mr. Beecher.
Mr. Beecher. though he had no doubt that I u-
ton would have lost his place, saw that bis influ
ence was decisive and anticipated Tilton's overthrow.
It now appears that on the 2fth of December.
1870, Mr. Tilton having learned the advice Mr.
Beecher cave Mr. Bowen. and which was likely to
bring him face to face with loss of place and po
sition, extorted from his wile, then King ill of
miscarriage, a document Implicating -Mr. Beecher
a document evincing her love for her pastor and
accusing him of having made an improper solicita
tion. On the following day he sent Moulton to
Beecher. reonestingan interview with Mr. needier
at Mr. Monlton's house that evening. Mr. Beecher
accordingly met Tilton at Moultou's house. Til
ton received him with a memorandum in bis
hand and proceeded to charge Mr. Beecher with
being unfriendly to him. with seeking bis
downfall, spreading injurious rumors about him.
undermining him. and advising isowen to dis
miss him : ininring him in his family relations.
joining his (Tilton's) mother-in-law in producing
discord in ins nouse, auvisuig a separation,
alienating his wife's affection from him. with
gaining her love more than any living being, w it li
corrupting her moral virtue, with teaching her to
be insincere, lving and hypocritical, and ending
by charging that he had made w icked proposals
to tier, i mon men proum-eu a written paper
purporting to be a memorandum of a confession
made in July previous to him by his wife of her
love for Mr. Beecher, and that he had made pro
posals to her of an impure nature.
The committee say it is clear that on the 29th"
dav of December, when the so-called memoran
dum of confession was procured from Mrs.
Tilton. the chief inciting cause of that step
on Tilton's part was his belief that Mr.
Beecher had caused him the loss of place,
business and repute. Mr. Beecher says this
charge of impure proposals fell npon him like a
thunderbolt. At Mr. Tilton's request Mr. Beech
er repaired with him to his house, where Eliza
beth was waiting for him. and learned from her
lips the truth of the stories so far as they con
cerned her. This interview resulted in a written
retraction of the charges by Mrs. Tilton. who. in
a sort of a postscript to the" retraction, denied ex
plicitly tnat -ir. iseecner naa everonereii any im
proper solicitations to ner. i lie next evening
Sir. Moulton called at Mr. Beecher's house and
expostulated with him for having obtained the
retraction, saying it was an unfriendly act, and
that Mrs. T. had already recanted the retraction,
and that Mr. T. had destroyed his wife's first pa
per of confession. Mr. Moulton claimed that all
difficulties could be settled without such papers,
aud that Mr. Beecher ought to give up the one he
had. He (Moulton) made uo threats, but dis
played a pistol and laid it on the bureau near
which he stood. The paper was given up.
Mr. Beecher saw the peri! of being even falsely
accused. While in a morbid state of mind pro
duced by these distressing difficulties Moulton
again called on him, and. though his manner was
kind and conciliatory, professed to believe that
Mr. Beecher had been seeking Mr. Tilton's down
fall; had leagued with Mr. Bowen against him.
Mr. Beecher expressed many regrets at the mis
fortunes of Mr. Tilton's family, aud Mr. Moulton
caught up some of these expressions and wrote
them down, saying that if Tilton could see them
there would be no trouble in proenring a recon
ciliation. This paper, which is dated Jan. 1.
171. was intrusted by .Mr. needier to .vonnon s
keeping, without reading it. nor was it read to
him. This paper, sometimes called " the apolo
gy."' and sometimes " the confession,"' is in no
proper sense Mr. Beecher's production or a cor
rect report of what he said. No man will be
lieve, for instance, that Beecher said: ' I hum
ble mvself before him tTiltou) as I do before my
tiod." Another sentence: "Her forgiveness I
have." Mr. Beecher states it was not it, nor the
eemblance of it.
The committee now proceed to phow fromlthe
evidence before them that the original charge wa
improper advances, and that as time passed and
the conspiracy deepened it was enlarged into
adultery. The statement that the charge in the
first instance was adultery and that Mrs. Tilton s
original confession was to that effect, is denied
by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. The statement
that Mr. Beecher confessed the fact of adultery is
also denied, and such alleged confession is incon
sistent with Mrs. Tilton's written retraction
given to Mr. Beecher. If Mr. Beecher had already
confessed to the charge of adultery, w hat service
could the retraction do him. and w hy procure one
at all? The retraction procured referred to im
proper advances and nothing t Nc. Is it likely,
if the main offense had been charged. Mr. Beecher
would have been satisfied with auvlhiug short of
a retraction of that?
The committee say further on this point that
Mr. Tilton in the last four years has many limes
said, rerballv aud in writing", that the charge was
the lesser offense. This is important under the
rnletlTat where a complainant has made different
and inconsistent ttatements of an offense w hich
he alleges, his credibility is damaged, and in
most cases destroyed. In it manuscript prepared
by Mr. Tilton. which he colled the "true story."
and which he was in the habit of reading to
newspaper men, personal friends, and to others.
without, it would seem, much discrimination
considering how auxious he professed himself to
be not to iimke known his secret, the offense was
stated to be improper advances. 1 lie runner lat i
that Tilton treated the matter during four years
as an offense which could !e properly apologized
for and forgiven is wholly inconsistent with the
charge iu its present form. Mr. Tilton. iu his
written statement, complains that Mr. Beecher
abused his (Tilton's) forgiveness. It is believed
that no case of atluiterv on record can be pro
.lnred where an injured husband, upon learning
of his wife's infidelity, kept the fact to himself
for six months and then, atter private complaint
to the offending party, received and accepted au
apologv for the offense and declared it forgiven,
and this followed hv a restoration of courtesies
ana of Iriendsnip. That the so-called apol
ogy was not for Hie main otteuse ol adultery
the committee say Tilton clearly proves in
liis cross-examination when he states that
the dav alter the apology was procured,
when be met Mr. Beecher at Mr. Moultou's room.
he (Beecher) "burst out in an expression ufagreat
sorrow to me and said he hoped the communica
tion which he had sent me by by .Mr. .Moulton
w.i HMtisfuctorv to me. He tneu and there
told Mr. Moulton he had done wrong, but not so
much as some others had reierring lo nis w lie
u ho hiwl iiimle statements to Mr. Bowen t ha
ought to be unmade and he there volunteered to
write a letter to Mr. isowen correcting me incia
w hich be bad misstated."' Here, say the commit
tee is dear light as to what the apology does not
refer to. It disposes of the apology forever as a
paper referring to adultery. It refers to nothing
oft lie kind. 11 ine wrong uoue to wiiii ii ,ii r.
Beecher refers was adultery, how could these
words be used hi reference to it : " He had done
wrong, not so much as some others'" Those
wonts and the apology are susceptible of but one
construction they refer, as Mr. Beecher says, to
his deep regret for statements which he
ami bis wife had, under certain informa
tion, r few davs before made to Mr. Boweu
w hich led him to execute a purpose already en
tertained of removing lilton lrointtie irooKiyn
nml the luih-itntilfuf. It appears alsothat
the next dav Mr. Beecher did write a letter to
Mr. Bowen. "which Tilton says he volunteered to
write, ami which is referred to in Tilton's busi
ness troubles with Bowen. Next consider Moul
tou's course with a view of still further testing
what was in his mind, as well as in Tilton's, as
to the character of the offense. If Moulton un
derstood the charge to be adultery, then he is en
titled to the credit of invention or discovery that
this crime could be the subject of au apology and
a ready forgiveness or conciliation on the part
of the ollender and the injured husband. '1 hat
Moulton Hiil not believe or understand that the
offense was adultery is shown by the same class
of evidence that has been stated in reference to
Tilton. . .
In reply to Mr. Beecher s letter ot dune l. is..i.
In uftii-h'he snvs his mind was clear, and that he
should write 'for the public a statement that
would bear the light of the judgment day. Mr.
Moulton first wrote these words: "If the truth
must be spoken, let it he. I know you can stand
if the whole case was published to-morrow. '
Apparent W rearing this might rather lend to de
termine .Sir. Beecher to publish the whole case
iliun otherwise, he crossed out these and other
lines with a pencil and commenced anew. In
this new effort on the same pajicr these wortls
occur: " You can stand U the whole case were
published to-morrow.'' ...
Tin. ti mi hi i 1 1 ce snv Moulton was right in this
statement, and that the pity is that Mr. Beecher
did not publish such statement at once.
Thecomniittee here state their conclusion that,
in view or the fads anil circumstances before
them, the original charge of impure advances
w as fn 1st thou-h it had been dropped by the ac
cusers and adultery had been substituted as an
afterthought. The committee brand this perform
ance as a fraud that ought to end all controversy
as to the innocence of Mr. leecher.
Mr. Beecher believed that for reasons of malice
and revenge Mr. Tilton was preparing to make a
deadly assault upon him. and it was his supreme
duty to prevent it by all possible honorable
means. -Moulton proiessen lo uepreciuu i mon s
purpose, and declared if Mr. Beecher would trust
lii in lie could and would prevent it, and so now
bean n series of letters and steps, ninler the di
rection and advice of the diplomatic and mutual
friend, having for their object, as Mr. needier be
lieved, the suppression of the scandal and the
restoration in some measure, if practicable, of
Tilton to a position of employment.
Speaking ol Mr. Beecher's letters the commit
tee sav much has been said, and not witiiotit
some justice, of their extraordinary words and
tenor, but in interpreting the letters it must be
remembered that Mr. Beecher, under the excite
ment of deep feeling, uses strong words anil emo
tional expressions, and that, iu this sore trouble.
he was dealing Willi .Mr. I mon, wno nau siiomm
himself at times tickle, malicious, revengeful and
mercenary. In the light or these facts there is
not a letter from Mr. Beecher nor an act of hi-,
i.,.u..t'.-r ill-iinb'eil. through these four years of
anxiety and grief that cannot be accounted for
upon t he plain theory that lie was lighting lo sup
press an outrageous "scandal, which consisted of
a false accusation against him, made by a reputa
ble woman ; and further, that he was endeavoring
to help a man w hom he felt he had unduly injured
in business matters upon representations w hich
he was made to believe, chielly by Moulton, wcie
not well founded.
The roimiiiitee here alluded to the fact that
Mr. Tilton. as her domestic troubles came on. be
gan to look more than ever to her pastor for sym
pathy anil advice, and consider it not unlikely
tli:it her fei'lin.'s toward Mr. Beecher became so
strong as to diminish the proper inlliieiiee that
beloii"s to every good husband.
The committee express regret at two errors
into which it is apparent Mr. Beecher fell. They
feel that iu his threatened ttouoies me pasior
should have sought counsel from Christian men
of his own brotherhood rather than rely upon
the counsel of a man of whom he knew so little,
and whose character, as the sequel proved, he so
sadlv misjudged. They also think that in view
of the surrounding circumstances Mr. Beecher
erred iu not guarding so closely his relations
with the faini!v of Mr. Tilton that there could
be no possibility for fear in his own mind
evcu of au undue affection by Mrs. Tilton for him
through anv heedless friendship or agency of his.
The committee allude to Mr. Tilton's .statement
before them that his home was one of unusual
harmony, and sav that on his cross-examination
it clearly appears that it was anything but a happy
or harmonious home. They then cite Mrs. Tilton's
evidence on this point, and say her account of the
domestic misery in the Tilton family is corrobo
rated bv the testimony ol several witnesses, ami
very fully bv Miss Elizabeth A. Turner, who is
now twentv-three years of age and was an inmate
or the family eight years. 4k
The comjinttee then ask: ill Innocent men,
and especially clergymen, fight as for their lives
to sniinress ah injurious scandal, even though it
be born of extort ion, falsehood and revenger
This question had been too otten answered by
history in the affirmative. It was easy to wonder
that Mr. Beecher should trust such men as 1 il-
ton and Moulton. now that their characters are
known, and the committee felt like visiting the
severest censure upon Mr. Beecher for imperiling
the precious interests confided to him through
the confidence reposed in inem.
The ch:ir'e made bv the acenser is easily pre-
ferred and not easily disproved. It is not enough
for the accuser to say: "I make this charge:
now let it be disproved or taken as confessed."
All tribunals have required, in determining the
truth or falsity of such charges, such proof or
facts aud circumstances as point unmistakably
to the guilt of the accused as are not con
sistent with any theory or innocence. The com
mittee then cite "tireenlear oil bvidence to
substantiate the proposition, and then go on
lo sav mat mere is nouiing w unicn-i wnnrru
bv the evidence that proves that the ac
cused parties have ver been round together un
der suspicious circumstances, such as in some
unusual house or place, or consulting together iu
some secret way, to avoid exposure aud observa
tion. There was no proor or clandestine corre
spondence. Mr. Beecher's w ire testified that she
opened, arranged and read all letters that came
to her husband, except those that came to the
( hrittian Union office and the church, and those
were opened by others, and hence conclude that
the usual facts and circumstances indicative of
wrong-doing are utterly wanting in this case. The
case then rests upon mere words and assertions
supported by no cirenmstances whatever that are
the usual indications of adultery.
Tilton says he knows the fact from his wife's
confession and from her subsequent confession to
Moulton and her-mother. But Mrs. Tilton says
this confession was extorted from her by an im
perious, malicious husband, and by fraudulent
means, the pretense being that she must say
something iu order to extricate him from bis
business perplexities. She w as made lo believe
that there was some conspiracy hatching against
her husband. The fact that she withdrew the
charge when Mr. Beecher fir-t confronted her. on
the evening of Dec. :. together with the further
fact that she has ever since denied the truth of
the charge when free from the dominating in
fluence of her husband, was referred to and
specially commented upon by the committee.
The source of the scandal was the alleged words
of Mrs. Tilton. which she explains iu such a man
ner as to deprive the allegation of all force and
credit.
Then comes Mr. Beecher. who solemnly de
clares that whatever words, by whatever means,
had been drawn from Mrs. Tilton by her husband,
lie is innocent of any and all impropriety tow aril
her. whether relating to improper advances or
adultery.
The committee did not propose to defend the
course of Mrs. Tilton. On any theory of human
responsibility it was indefensible. The testimony
showed thatunder the influence of a designing
husbaud.w hen iu acondition of mental aberration,
she had at least passively made charges of im
proper advances by Mr. Beecher, but when her
attention hud been called to the great wrong she
had done she quickly retracted them in sorrow
and penitence. Eminent physicians appearing
before the committee had testified that such con
duct ou the part of Mrs. Tilton. being subjected
to the influence referred to. was not inconsistent
with an honest mind. As illustrative of this
latter proposition the committee refer to th;
letter published by Mr. Moulton. purporting to
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nave neen w ritten oy .urs. iiioii. iu hilii ru:
savs she is a perfect coward in Tilton's presence,
and that "it is a physical impossibility to tell the
trnth :"' aud also to a subsequent letter
iu which she savs: "With all my woman's
soul I am innocent or the crime or im
pure conduct alleged against me." In the state
ment, also, which was prepared under the direc
tion of Mr. Tilton and Mr. Carpenter, and taken
to Dr. Storrs in lsV-i. Mrs. Tilton shows fhat she
was made to believe that a conspiracy had been
formed against her husband. Subsequently, in a
letter, she is fonnd asking the forgiveness of Mr.
Beecher for the sufferings she had caused him.
The committee had heard much from Tilton of
conTessions made bv his wife to him. but they
were obliged to receive his statement on
thjs point without corroboration. Ou
one occasion, according to the testimony of Miss
Turner, she told her husband that ft was a lie
that she had confessed to hi in her intimacy with
Mr. Beecher. This witness was the same person
w ho. it was said by Tilton and Moulton, was sent
to a hoarding-school to get rid of her. bccausii
she had heard Tilton make charges against her.
Miss Turner and Mr. Tilton both agree in saying
that it was Tilton s plan to have her go
awav. because she had stated to her
friends that Tilton had twice attempted
intimate relations with her during the absence
of Mrs. Tilton in the conntry. Tilton was fat
losiii" place and position becausu of his social
views and practices, and feared the publicity of
this ''iri s statement. The sum of S2.(l was In
vested lo pav her expenses while at school, but
the committee say the absurdity of supposing
that Mr. Beecher would invest unit sum ti gei
persons to leave town, to w hom Mr. Tilton had
been peddling his scandal, was transparent.
Persons to whom Tilton had talked in some form
of the scandal were too numerous to justify an
investment of $2.oo0 on each of them by any
body whose wealth could not be counted bv mill
ions. Just as Miss Turner was leaving for
school Mr. Tilton procured from her, with tin
aid of his wife, a letter deuying the reports of
improper liberties. Here .Mr. lilton shone
conspicuously as a manufacturer or evidence.
Mr. Tilton. when before the committee, when
reference was made lo the "Oritiith Oaiinl" let
ter, seemed to think that the offense or tirimth
Uaunt was adultery, and accordingly relied upon
the letter as incontrovertible evidence of his,
charge. In this he is mistaken.
It was a principle ol common law that a mar
ried woman cannot commit or be held to commit
a crime perpetrated in the presence or tier hus
band, and tins upon the idea that the husbands
presence and inllueuce amount to duress, axil
that she is. then-fore, not responsible. Whether
or not it was necessary to invoke tins rule oi law
to excuse Mrs. Tilton. it could be seen In what
Mr. Tiltou was able to extort from her without
her volition or real assent something of the rea
sons which moved the early expounder of the
English commou law to assert the doctrine re
ferred to.
The committee having reviewed the evidence
proceed to contrast the characters of Mr. Tilton
and Mr. Beecher. In respect to the former, the
committee ask: Who is this accuser that hi;
makes so bold a face? He had lately become a
very different man from what he was formerly re
ported to be. Signs of degeneracy have set in
which make him a discredited ina'u iu the com
munity. After his espousal of the new marital
philosophy his downfall was rapid and complete.
In sketching his career an able writer says: "In
process of time he conies before the world as the
liidorser or Victoria C. Woodhnll. and lends his
name to a biography of her which would have
sunk anv man's reputation anywhere for common
sense. Such a book is a tomb from which no
author rises again." Such is the accuser.
The accused is Henry Ward Beecher, the pastor
of Plymouth Church, who has been a clergyman
with 'harness on lor forty years. He has been
living in the clear light "of noonday, before his
people and all men, a life of great Christian use
fulness and incessant work. Those who have
been most intimate with him, at home and
abroad, report nothing of his lire or conversation
but what comes of puritv of soul.
We are asked bv Tilton and Moulton to believe
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and high character lo sustain tim. is unworthy
of couiidence, regard or respect. Christian char
acter and great services, which are usually con
sidered a tower of strength and defense, when
one is assailed, are to go for naught, according lo
Mr. Tiltou. We are invited to give up this man
and send him ami his good name and family to
the vortex T moral destruction. We are to do
this iinon what? I'poii some wild, absurd and
contradictory assertions of Mr. Tiltou. who iu all
Ihis work does not succeed in disguising Ins
malicious and revengeful designs. No tribunal
lininistering justicwever held a charge or adul
tery proved bv mere alleged words, written or
spoken, that are denied and not connected w ith
circumstances and appearances pointing unmis
takably to l he guilt ol the accused. .
I' pon a review of all the evidence relied on by
the accuser, the committee conclude that he ut
terly fails to sustain the charges made, and make
the following statement of conclusions:
1. We lind from the evidence that Kev. Henry
Ward Beecher did not commit adultery with Mrs.
Klixnhcth It. Til toil, ei ther at t he 1 1 me or 1 1 s.
or at the place or places, set forth in the third and
, l i- ! .i e If- 'I'll ..
IOIirill Sllllllll 1SIOIIS 111 .ill. 1 limn B ria,.iin u v,
nor at any other time or place w hatever.
2. We find from the evidence that Mr. Beecher
has never committed any unchaste or improper
act. with Mrs. Tilton. nor made any unchaste or
improper remark, proffer, or solicitation to her,
of any kind or description w hatever.
1. If this were a question of error fit judg
ment on the Part of needier, iiwoum ne easy 10
criticise, especially in the light or recent events.
J n such criticism, even In I no extent oi regrei
and censure, we are sure no man would joiu
more sincerely than Mr. Beecher himscir.
1. We li tkI nothing w halever in the evidence
that should impair the perfect confidence of Ply
mouth Church or the world in the Christ iau char
acter and integrity of Henry Ward Beecher.
And now let the peace ol t.od, mat. pa-sein an
iiiiib-rstainlini'. rest and abide with Plymouth
Church and its beloved and eminent pastor, so
much aud so long alluded.
HKN-nr w. sa;k,
Al'lil'STlS Stoiius,
llKNUY M. Cl.KVKI.ANI,
HoIIAI'R B. CLAKLIS,
John Winslow,
S. V. Whitk,
Committee of Investigation.
Brooklyn, Ati. 27. 1871.
Sl'IlSEtJL'ENT riWK.'EEDINtSS.
The Associated Press dispatch says that
the report of the committee when pre
sented was received with great acclaim.
The following resolutions were ot-
fcrcd:
Rexi.tretl. That the evidence laid before the
Examining Committee not only docs not afford
anv foundation lor pulling i tie pasior oi un
church, Itcv. Henry Ward Beecher, upon trial.
but, on the contrary, establishes lo the periect
satisfaction of this'church his entire innocence
and absolute personal purity w ith respect to all
charges now or hereafter made against him by
Theodore Tilton.
I!,ntilml. That our confidence and love for our
pastor, so far from being diminished, are height
ened and deepened by the unmerited sufferings
which he has so long norne, ami mat we wel
come him, with a sympathy more tender and a
trust more unbounded than we ever felt lielore,
lo his public, labors among us. to our church, our
families, our homes and our hearts.
Here Mr. Moulton entered the room.
Several addresses followed, among them
one by Mr. ltossiter W. Raymond, who
recapitulated some iwmions oi me evi
dence, and in referring to Moulton's part
in the atlair said: "Mr. Jrrancis 1).
Moulton has tried to poison the minds of J
men against -Mr. ueecner. i ins scvincu
to raise .Mr. .Moulton a ire, anil, stanuing
erect, he glared at the speaker and ex
claimed twice, .in a loud voice: " You're
a liar, sir! l ou're a liar, sir!" Instantly
all was confusion. Men and women rose
to their feet, the latter mounting on seats
and joining in the cry of "Put him out!"
"Shame, sir," etc., mingled with loud and
prolonged hissing, in the midst of which
Mr. Ilalliday came forward, and, making
himself heard above the din, partially
restored order, saying: "Gentlemen,
let him sit still and hear the truth."
Iiut Moulton still remained on his feet,
saving: " I dare you to put me out." A
collide of police officers put in an appear
ance behind Mr. Moulton, and he re
sumed his seat.
The report was adopted and the resolu
tions passed, Mr. Moulton giving the only
negative vote, for which he was loudly
hissed.
The proceedings were terminated with
singing the Poxology. Mr. Moulton here
arose from his seat and pushed his way
toward the door through the surging
crowd w hich blocked the passage. During
his route he was hustled on every side,
and when he reached the hallway many
hands were outstretched as if to wreak
vengeance upon him: but the crowd was
kept oil' by police officers who hurried
him down the alleyway to where a car
riage was in waiting, into w hich he was
pushed rather than helped, and, with a
police officer standing em each step of
the vehicle, it was drawn rapidly away.
The audience then quietly dispersed.
An investigation made by a Berlin
physician, of the data relating to human
longevity, shows the average age of cler
crymen to be ; of merchants, 02; clerks
and farmers, 61 ; military men, .VJ; law
yers, 5; artists, 57, and medical men, 58.
The medium duration of life in IJ jssia is
about 21 vears; in Prussia, 2!) ; in Swit
zerland, 34 ; in France. 35 ; in Belgium, 30 ;
in England, 38. Medical men 6tand high
in the scale otlongevity. Of twenty-eight
physicians who died there last year, the
youngest was si), the oldest 93; two oth
ers were f2 and 8'J respectively; three
were 87, and four were 80 each.
The first nugget ef Georgia gold was
found in a stream known as Duke's
Creek in 1829, and weighed three ounces.
It is believed that the mines of Georgia
yielded about $18,000 bofore the estab
lishment of the United States Jlint at
Dahloneara in 1838, and the mint coined
$6,0rw,000 before it was closed, at the
breaking out of the war. Since the war
gedd mining has been almost neglected.
MISCELLAN K0LS 1TOS.
When is an car like a sardine? When
is is boxed.
Why is your shadow like false friends?
Because it follows you only in sunshine.
The man who doesn't hang tint bin
shingle and advertise dies and leaves no
sign.
When is a loaf of bread said to be in
habited? When there 'tt a little Indian
in it.
A lock of hair from a young woman's
head is often a key to a young man's
heart.
GoKTHEonce said that without excep
tion the most dreadful wild beasts in the
world are boys.
An old maid, speakingof marriage, says
it's like any other disease while there is
life there is hope.
In- Paris street-dresses if anything are
worn shorter in front and are just a trifle
longer at the back.
Don't take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors. Six percent,
will do. JhiiJury A't'trx.
How mast troubles might mankind be
scared if they would only stop to hear
each other's explanations.
When a Detroit man drew up nineteen
rules to govern his w ife she had a lawyer
draw up a plea for a divorce.
Ik a bird in the hand is worth two iu
the bush, it is no less true that a thorn iu
the bush is worth two in the hand.
A new definition A veil Is a lady's
protection from the too earnest gaze of
the sun of heaven and the sons of man.
Pkhsons intrusted willi the work of
burying paupers in Baltimore have been
discovered in the act of interring them
without colllus.
Potatoes contain, when sound and
ripe, 20 per cent, of starch, wheat t on
tains about 00, while w beaten Hour con
tains about 70 and rico about 80 per
cent.
A MASSACiirsETT merchant has been
in business forty-seven years and never
mlvertised. and never means to. lie com
menced on a capital of IpS(M), and has run
it up to su..
Tub first banks were established iu
Ttnlv in 80S. bv the Lombard .lews; of
whom some settled Fh Lombard street,
London, where many bankers have ever
since resided.
A nv wbo resiwcls hist wife and
family will never tell a lie when anyone
asks him how he got that scar on his
nose, but will explain how "a stic k of
wood flew up, you know."
Stones were first used for bullets; iron
ones are first mentioned in 1550. Lead
bullets were made before the close of the
sixteenth century. Stone cannon balls
are still used in the r.ast.
At Hip unnniBcli of dentil llie thumbs
of the dying, as if impelled by some
vague fear, seek refuge under the lingers,
andvhen thus fouid are an almost cer
tain announcement of the end.
ITxiiv.k the iirriinircnicnts of the Postal
convention with Prance Hie postage on
letters to that country will iiereauer ne
nine cents for each half ounce.
Tun- viirinim flnvi'mmpnt lillll alU nr.
generally adopting a machine which
prints all letters instead or writing int in,
and which can print, it is claimed, much
faster than a person can M nte.
A ci.KK'iYM A v. advocating corporal
tiiiniKhiiif-nt. fore liildt'cn. said : "The child.
uln'n i.iii-o stnrfeil iii ii course of ev il con
duct, is like a locoinolive on the wrong
track it takes the switch to get it oil."
A t i niors typogi apliit al error recent ly
!imw:ir-il in adailv Paper. In giving an
account of an inquest, it was Hated:
"The deceased bore an accidental char
acter, and the iurv returned a verdict of
excellent death."
Tiif. nnrtv who started the slorv that
150 more had been contributed toward
the completion of the Washington Mon
ument has been arrested for trilling with
the feelings of a great people. UnmUin
Ar'jv.
Tt U not hifh crimes, such as robbery
and murder, which destroy the peace; of
society. Jbe village gossip, lamny quar
rels, jealousies and bickerings between
neighbors, meddlesomeness and tattling.
are the worms w hich etit Into all social
happiness.
Chimes and disasters seem to be cpi-
leinie There are seasons of tires, of
railroad disasters, of bank robberies, of
murders, etc., etc., ami since me disap
pearance of little Charley Koss cases of
child stealing are reported from all parts
of the country.
A Boston writer remarks that " August
is one of the months that has strangely
been neglected by the poets," and therein
shows his ignorance of belles let tres ; for
during tlie Elizabethan age every bard
ileilieiited nt least two thirds of his pas
torals to his August Mistress.
A handsome ladv entered a dry goods
house and inquired for a " bow." The
r.nlite clerk threw himself back, and
remarked that he was at her service.
"Yes, but I want a bull, not a green one,"
was the reply. The young man went n
measuring goods immediately.
Hearing that his pastor intended to
preach on the recognition of friends in
heaven, a parishioner suggested that he.
should preach on the recognition of
friends on earth, since he had beer: sit
ting in his pew twenty years without r
ing recognized by the occupant of the
next.
Old age, says the provero, is a rourt
lor. b knock-. MTiun and airain at the
window and the door, and makes us
everywhere conscious of his presence.
Woe to the man who becomes old with
out becoming wise; woe to him if this
world shuts the door without the future
having opened its portals to him.
The world generally takes men attiieir
own apparent estimate of themselves.
Hence, modest men never attain the
same consideration which bustling, for
ward men do. It ha9 not time or patience
to inquire rigidly, and it is partly im
posed upon and carried away by the
man who vigorously claims its regards.
A fool and a lazv man stand a worse
chance to succeed as farmers than in
any either department of life.' To be a
good farmer a man must have good
common sense, and he must reduce the
facts that nature reveals to him to prac
tice. He must follow nature, not force
her. He must be obedient to her man
dates.
It is pretty difficult to libel New Jer
sey but think of the Tribune deliberate
ly saying of her: "On the slumberous
outline of the coast she lay like a dimpled
babe, her feet dipped lazily in the
wrinkled waters of her low-lying beach,
the dreamy smile of Long Branch on her
lips, her eyelids closed in the siesta of
the seasons," etc, etc., ad naueam.
Daily Graphic.
Satckday morning there came over
the Great Western Road, on its way
West, a trunk which made the hair of the
baggage-smashers stand right up. It
was thirty-four inches long, tliree feet
wide, and was made of solid boiler-iron,
an eighth of an inch thick. The handles
were of iron, riveted on with great bolts,
and the lid was fastened down with an
immense padlock. On the end o 1 the
trunk was painted the words " She can
stand it!" and on the other, "More crm
inc'" The railroad men groaned aloud .s
they walked around "them trunk" and
viewed it from every angle, and two
omnibus men who thought the owner was
going to stop over made tracks out of
the depot. Detroit Free rres.