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VOLUME X.
NUMBER 25.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telesrams of Accompanjin; Dates.
Monday, Sept. rt. A recent cable dis
patch state that the Carliats had fired into two
German men-of-war from Gueterari, near San
Sebastian. The Germans replied by shelling
the town The order removing the head
quarters of the army to St. Louis in October
ha been recentlypromulgatcd.. JlSioux City
(Iowa) apcciul says that, in consequence of Gen.
Sheridan's prohibitory orders against infring
ing on Indian reservations, the Black Hills
expedition organized in that city has post
poned its contemplated efforts to penetrate
the Black Hills country until Government
permission is obtained.... Prof. King, ac
companied by five persons, representa
tives of the press, made an ascension
in his mammoth balloon "Buffalo," at
Cleveland, on the 4th. After an interesting
voyage of nearly 5H) miles in twenty-four
hours the party effected a landing near Smith's
Creek, ten miles from Port Huron, Mich....
A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the 5th says a
message haa been sent to President Grant,
signed by the leading men of that city, deny
ing that any resident of that parish had par
ticipated in the Coushatta affair, and asking
that a commission of fair-minded men be ap
pointed to visit the State and ascertain the
truth. The Democratic, and Conservative
State Central Committee has issued an ad
dress to the country asserting that the recent
acts of violence in Louisiana had been insti
gated by Gov. Kellogg and his coadjutors,
and that the disorders that had occurred had
been magnified by the Radical leaders in or
der to "forge lightning that there may be
thunder at the North." A special from New
Orleans of the 5th says the man Abney, whose
letter denying that the people of Shreveport
had iK'cn concerned in the Coush tta affair
had been published, was a prominent member
of the White League, and had previously in
dulged in threatening remarks. It was feared
that twenty-live colored men held by the
Coushatta mob had been killed. An attempt
was made on the night of the 4th to burn
the State House. The private office of the
Attorney -General was broken open, the papers,
chairs and books- piled on the floor,
saturated with oil and set on lire. Owing to
haste and a lack of air the lire did not spread
to any extent. A Washington telegram of the
5th says that the places in Louisiana desig
nated for troops to prevent outrages are New
Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexan
dria, Monroe, Harrisburg and St. Martins
ville.... The Democrats of the Twelfth Mis
souri District have nominated J. W. Glover
for re-election to Congress.
Tuesday, Sept. 8. A recent fire in
Meiningen, Germany, destroyed nearly half
of the town, inflicting a loss of 3,000,000 thal
ers, and rendering 700 families homeless....
Notice has been issued that the Arabian ports
on the Red Sea are infested with the plague
....The answer of Henry Ward Beecher to
the complaint of Theodore Tilton has been re
ceived in New York and served on the plaintiff,
with a notice of trial for the term of court be
ginning the third Monday of September. . . .
The members of Plymouth Church are con
tributing to a fund for the relief of Mrs. Til
ton, and (1,700 have so far been collected..
A Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch saj's the Su
preme Court will not deliver its decision
until the 15th on the application for an in
junction to compel railroads to obey the
Potter law Allert Keep, President of the
C. it N. W. R. R., has addressed a letter to the
Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners in reply to
a statement made in a recent speech by Gov.
Taylor that the Commissioners had paid that
under the Potter law the railroads would lose
less than 5 ier cent, of their gross (turnings
while doing the same amount of business as last
year. Mr. Keep says his company would,
under those circumstances, lose at least 25
per cent, of its gross earnings.... Indian cut
rages are reported in the upper Missouri
country. Three wood-choppers were mur
dered at the mouth of the Muscle Shell a few
days ago, one of them, Dutch Chris., being
burned at the stake.
Wednesday, Sept. 9. An open letter
to persons contemplating an invasion of the
Sioux Indian Reservation has been published
by the Interior Department. It recites the
treaty stipulations with the Indians, and
says that the Interior Department has no
discretion but to obey the directions of Con
gress. All expeditions to the Black Hills
are therefore forbidden until the country shall
Iks thrown open to settlement by Congress.
..A call has been issued, under the auspices
of the Republican Congressional Committee,
for a convention of Southern Republicans to
tc held at Chattanooga (not Atlanta, as first
announced) on the ISth of Octotcr. The
call sets forth that it is for the purpose of con
sidering the condition of affairs in the recon
structed States and the issuing of an address
to the people of the nation concerning the
same. It was rumored in Washington on the
8th that a similar gathering of Southern Dem
ocrats would lie provided for, to disclaim all
sympathy on the part of the Democrats
with recent outrages. ..Congressional nom
inations on the 8th: Republican Third
Ohio District, J. Q. Smith, renominated;
Fourteenth Ohio, Win. W. Armstrong; Sev
enth Illinois, Franklin Corwin, renominated;
Ninth Tennessee, Barbour Ijwis, renomi
nated. Democratic Tenth Ohio, G. E. Seney.
....The Missouri Republican State Conven
tion is called to meet at Jefferson City on the
23d hist.
Thcrsday, Sept. 10. The Democrats
of Massachusetts have nominated William
Gaston for Governor and William S. Smith
for Lieutenant-Governor The Republican
State Convention of Minnesota has nominated
S. J. R. McMillan, the present incumbent, for
Chief-Justice, and F. R. E. Cornell for Associate-Justice.
On the question of finance the
resolutions adopted declare that the preserva
tion of a sound currency against anv ruinous
inflation inspired by speculative interests may
be hailed as a sure guaranty of the earliest pos
sible return to specie payments consistent
with the just rights of the debtor and credit
classes of the people.... The Michigan State
Reform Convention was held at Jackson on
the lth. Henry Chamberlain was nominated
for Governor; for Lieutenant-Governor, Je
rome W. Turner; Secretary of State, George
II. House; Treasurer, William F. Hewitt;
Auditor-General, F. M. Holloway; Com
missioner of the State Land-Office,
Chauncey W. Greene; Attorney -General,
Andrew T. McReynolds; Superin
tendent of Fublic Instruction, Duane Doty;
State Board of Education, Carroll S. Frazer.
Resolutions were adopted advocating the
election of all Federal officers by the people;
speedy return to specie basis; free banking; a
tariff for re venue.... The Democrats of Ar
kansas have nominated Elisha Baxter, pres
ent incumbent, for Governor. They invite all
persons in the State, regardless of past
issues and differences, to unite to secure
the equality of all men before the law;
the speedy and just punishment of
every crime; the purity and freedom of the
ballot; the advancement and preservation of
the public credit, etc At a recent meeting
of the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Association
resolutions were adopted setting forth that
the temperance question would never be
solved until woman had the ballot The
Nebraska Independent Convention, at Lin
coln on the 9th, nominated J. F. Gardner
for Governor, Henry Weib for Secretary of
State and J. W. Davis for Congressman. The
platform adopted favors the resumption of
specie payments as 6oon as possible, as also
cheap transportation; opposes further land
granU to railroads; favors a reduction of
taxes and tariff for revenue, etc. ...The
Liberal State Convention of New York met
at Albany on the 9th and adopted a platform
and adjourned, without making any nomina
tion, to the 29th. The resolutions declare
against a third term for the Presidency,
and that sound policy requires that
no President should be re-electc" , that the
return of the country to a specie basis is of
paramount importance, and that the business
interests of the country require that a free
banking system should be established....
Thomas M. Pattcraon (Democrat) has been
elected Delegate to Congress from Colorado
by between 1,000 and 2,000 majority over
Jerome B. Chaffee, present Delegate....
The wife of Wm. Stonehouse, of Grand
Rapids, Ohio, attempted to hurry up a
smoldering fire with a dose of kerosene. She
survived the experiment two hours.. ..Rose
Dennis, of Sterling, III., was recently kindling
a fire with kerosene, when the can exploded
and the unfortunate girl was soon enveloped
in a mass of flames. Mrs. Dennis tried to
assist her daughter, and was herself fright
fully burned. The girl lived only two hours.
Mrs. Dennis died a few hours after
Congressional nominations on the 0th:
Democratic Gen. John B. Clark, Eleventh
Missouri District, renominated; Hon. Milton
Sayler, First Ohio District, renominated; Gen.
Henry B. Banning, Second Ohio District, re
nominated; Col. H. Casey Young, Tenth Ten
nessee District. Reform and Liberal E. St.
Julien Cox, Second Minnesota District; Prof.
D.G. Pinckney, Fifth Illinois District; Free
man Kelly, Seventh Indiana District.
Fkiday, Sept. 11. Prof. Winchell,
State Geologist of Minnesota, who accompa
nied the Custer expedition to the Black Hills,
in his official report says he saw none of the
gold reported to have been found by the
miners accompanying the expedition, nor did
he see any of the auriferous quartz. He takes
the gold reports with a large grain of allow
ance. Prof. Donaldson, who also accompa
nied the expedition, entirely coincides
with Mr. Winchell on the gold question ....
The Nebraska Democrats have nominated
A. Tuxbury for Governor; John Atherly for
Secretary of State; R. C. Jordan for Attorney
General, and J. W. Savage for Congressman.
The resolutions favor the adoption of gold
and silver as the basis of currency, and the
resumption of specie pa3-ments as soon as
possible without disaster to the business in
terests of the country; the right and duty of
the State to protect its citizens from extortion
and unjust discrimination by chartered
monopolies, etc.... Congressional nomina
tions on the 10th: Republican Lloyd
Lowndes, Sixth Maryland District, renomi
nated; Wm. S. King, Third Minnesota; H.
B. Strait, Second Minnesota, renominated;
Stephen A. Hurlbut, Fourth Illinois, renomi
nated. Democratic Henry Boyle, Sixteenth
Ohio; W. A. J. Sparks, Sixteenth Illi
nois. Reform and Independent Col. Jef
ferson A. Seay, Fifth Missouri; A.
V. Pendleton, Sixth Indiana; A. G. Cook,
Second Wisconsin; Alexander Campbell,
Seventh Illinois.... The Michigan Democratic
State Convention met at Kalamazoo on the
10th and made the following nominations:
For Governor, Henry Chamberlain; Lieutenant-Governor,
Frederick Hall; Secretary
of State, George H. House; State Treas
urer, Joseph M. Sterling; Auditor
General, John H. Graus; Commissioner
State Land Office, Chauncy W. Green;
Attorney-General, Martin V. Montgomery;
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane
Doty; Member of the State Board of Educa
tion, E. W. Andrews. The resolutions de
mand the abandonment of all efforts to rule
States for corrupt party purposes; the re
peal of the law increasing salaries, and
the "gag law;" a reservation of the public
lands for the benefit of the Union soldier and
sailor and of the actual settler; the repeal of
the Legal-Tender act, and a specie basis and
free banks with a secured currency, etc
The Prohibition State Convention of Nebras
ka has nominated: For Governor, J. S.
Church; Secretary of State, W. G. Olionger;
Treasurer, Thompson Bissel; Vttorney -General,
p;escnt incumbent, J. R. Webster; Su
perintendent of Public Instruction, J. N.
McKenzie; Prison Inspector, C. B. Par
ker; Congressman, J. G. Mil'.er; Contingent-Congressman,
J. A. Fairbanks....
Gov. Baxter, of Arkansas, has peremptorily
declined the nomination tendered him by the
Democrats of that State, and A. H. Garland
has been placed on the ticket in his stead....
The President of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad Company has been notified
that five suits have been entered at Burlington
against the road on the charge of violating
the State law and for the ejectment of passen
gers from trains.
THE MARKETS.
September 11, 1874.
NEW YORK.
Cottoh. Middling npland, 17175c.
Lite Stock. Beef Cattle $10.73313.0O. rios
Dressed, $8.50!).;. Sheep Live, $4.0iK&.no.
BxiAUHTDrrK. Floor Good to choice, $5.W)
5.85; white wheat extra, fo.8jffje.40. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.13&1.17tf ; Iowa spring, fl.lW31.lH;
No. i Milwaukee spring, $1.21Q1.23. Rye West
ern and State, 8f,!!4c. Karley ... &....
Corn Mixed Western afloat, fti!Wc. Oats
New Western, W7c.
Provisions. rorkNew Mess, fiJ.0na2i.25.
Lard 14414'4c Cheese 10'43-13?4C.
Wool. Common to extra, 45(&G6c.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves -Choice, $5.00Q.6.40;
good, f5.2j5.75; medium, $4.505.33; butch
ers' stock, fi.50a4.00; stock cattle, $2.-25
3.75. Hogs Live, $6.757.50. Sheep Good
to choice, $3.754.62',4.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 2833c. Eggs
Fresh, 1516c. Cheese New York factory,
13V414c; Western.tJilSWic. Pork New Mess,
$ii.75ii.00. Lard 14V414c.
Breadstcits. Flour White winter extra,
f5.505i7.50; spring extra, $4.755.50. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, 9595!4c. Corn No. 2, 76
7t'c. Oats No. 2, 48484c. Barley No. 3,
S9c&$1.00. Rye No. 2, 81I&8-JC.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4555c. ; fleece, washed,
4048c.; fleece, unwashed, 2735c.
Lumber. First Clear, f50.0O53.0O; Second
Clear, f 47.00(49.50; Common Boards, $10.50
12.00; Fencing, $10.5O&12.00; A" Shingles,
f3.003.50; Lath, f 2.002.25.
CINCINNATI.
BRKADSTrrrs. Flour f5.155.35. Wheat Red,
$1.10. Corn 79&S0C. Rye 90c. Oats 4t352c.
Barley $1.051.10.
Provisions. Pork f 23.0023.50. Lard
14(315c.
ST. LOUIS.
Lrv Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4.00
6.00. Hogs Live, f 5.75a7.50.
BRKADSTCTr. Flour XX Fall, $4.254.75.
Wheat No. S Red Fall, $1.151.16. Corn No.
2, 7575V4c. Oata No. 2, 5050!4c. Rye No. 2,
89.0c. Barley $l.ai.l5.
Provisions." Pork Mess, $24.00.24.10. Lard
14?,l5c.
MILWAUKEE.
BaBADSTurrs. Flour Spring XX. f 5.25Q.5.50.
Wheat Spring No. 1. $1.02&1.03; No. 2, 97
9Sc. Corn No. 2, 67674c. Oats No. 2, 46Vi3
47c. Rye No. 1, 84aS5c. Barley No. 2, $1.00
$1.02.
DETROIT.
Breadstttts. Wheat Extra, $1.201.2O!4
Corn 79aOc Oats 85'4c.
TOLEDO.
Breadstuffs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.09
1.08; No. 2 Red. $1.07l.O8. Corn
Mixed, 7980c. Oats 5152c.
CLEVELAND.
Breadstuffs Wheat No. 1 Ked. $M11.12;
No. 2 Red, $1.07l.OS. Corn 2&$3c. Oats
4950c.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Beeves 5.006.40. Hogs
Live, $5.757.50. Sheep $4.404.50.
EAST LIBERTY.
Lrrx Stock. Beeves Best, $6.256.75: me
dium. $5.506.00. Hogs Yorkers, $6.50
7.10; Philadelphia, $S.258.40. Sheep Beat,
5.00&5.25; medium, $4.O04-75.
Another Statement by Mr. Moulton.
The New York Graphic of the 11th contains
another leusthy statement by Frank V. Moul
ton relative to the charges against Mr. Beecher
and In rcplv to the explanation made hy the lat
ter before the Plymouth Investigating Commit
tee. This Ktatement was begun immediately
after the reading in Plymouth Church of the
committee's report, and after its completion was
submitted to Mr. Butler, who insisted upon its
modification in many particulars, bernie it was
so violent In laii'n'ac. The statement was re
modeled accordingly-
Mr. Motilton recounts in detail how strenuous
ly he labored to prevent the exposure beiii! made
before the committee by Mr. Tilton; and how he
and Mr. Tracy Mr. Beecher" counsel acted tv
;rethtr to this end ; but owing to their inability to
prevent the nun-ting of the committee on the ap
olnted eveninz their effort was a failure Mr.
Tilton having promised that if the committee was
not prepared to receive his statement on that par
ticular evening he would defer making it for the
time being.
With regard to Mr. Beecher's statement that
theonlycopy of Mrs. Tilton's confession was
torn in piercx in his own presence on
the night or the 30th of December, 1STO,
Mr. Motilton reiterates his assertion that the
document was held hy him and returned to Mr.
Tirum after the tripartite agreement, to be re
turned to Mrs. Tilton that she might destroy it.
Mrs. Tilton's letter requesting this return is
again published. With regard to the interview
at the time Mr. Beecher gave up the confession
Mr. Motilton says:
"When I demanded the refraction from him,
he axked me. ' What will you do with it if I give
it up?' I answered: ' I will keep it as I keep
the confession, if yon act honorably. I will pro
tect it with my life, as I would protect the other
with my life.' I may be allowed to say here that at
this remark I made" reference to the pistol in my
overcoat pocker. which I always carried in the
night, as emphasizing the extremity of my de
fense of the papers. Yet Mr. Beecher says: 'He
made no verbal threats, but opened his overcoat,
and, w ith some emphatic remark, he showed mc
a pistol.' Why misrepresent ? Is it possible that
he gave his coiitldence at once to a man who ex
torted the paper from him with a pistol. Yet
Beecher's committee make a point of this prevar
ication in their argument for the acensed."
With regard to Mr. Beecher's letter of con
trition, Mr. Motilton explains at length the cir
cumstances under which it was written. He
says, us before stated, that it was written out
according to the dictation of Mr. Beecher; and
that the exact language of Mr. Beecher was used
in the letter. He ( Motilton) was not in the habit
of using such language, and could hardly have
composed the letter in question. He says:
"I should not have used the phrase 'Humble
myself before him as I do before my God.' I was
not used to that kind of expression; nor the
phrase 'Toward the poor child lying there pray
ing with folded hands.' I never called a woman
of nearly forty years old a 'poor child' in my life.
I did not know she 'was lying' anywhere with
folded hands. Beecher did", because he says in
his statement to the committee that ' She
lay there, white as marble, like a statue
oflhe Old World, palm to palm, like one pr.iv
ing.' thus reproducing four years afterward al
most the identical phrase and picture which lie
conveyed to me. and which I put in the ' letter of
contrition.' 1 could not have used the phrase ' I
have her forgiveness,' because I did not know
whether he had it or not. except as he told me.
and if I had acted niton my belief in the matter
I should suppose that he had not. This letter,
after being prepared by me. was read by him lie
fore he put his signature to it. The ex
planation put. by Beecher in his statement that
this paper was a mere memorandum of points
to be used by him (me) in setting forth
mv (his) feelings; . . . hilt they were put
into the sentences by him (ne) expressed as he
(1 1 understood them, not as mv (his) words, but
as hints of my (his) figures and letters, to be nsed
by him iu conversing with Tilton. It is
a mere string of hints, hastily made by an un
practiced writer, as helps to hfs memory" in rep
resenting to Mr. Tilton how I felt toward his
family.' All this explanation is a mere after
thought made up for the purpose of explanation
merely. Beecher always treated this letter as his
own iii all the alter conversations upon the sub
ject with Mr. Samuel Wilkeson, Mr. Beecher's
friend."
In a subsequent conversation with Mr. Motilton
Mr. Beecher had alluded to the document in
question as his (Beecher's) letter to Mr. Tilton,
and asked Mr. M. : "Can't we hit upon some plan
to break the force ofmv letter to Tilton!'" etc.
Mr. Motilton again brings forward his proofs
that Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton renewed their
intimacy after the confession was made, and after
both had given assurance to Tilton that they
would not meet excejit through him. After again
printing Mrs. Tilton s note to Mr. Beecher. con
cluding with the expression "Of course, I should
like to share with you my joy." Mr. Motilton
produces another letter from Mr. Beecher to Mrs.
Tilton, which is as follows:
" The blessing of God rest upon you. Every
spark of light and warmth in your own house
w ill be a star and a sun in my'dwclling. Your
note broke like spring (sic) upon winter, and
gave me an inward rebound toward life. No one
can ever know, none hut God, through what a
dreary wilderness I have wandered. There was
Mount Sinai; there was the barren waste, and
there was the alternation of hope and despair
that marked the pilgrimage of old. If only it
might lead to the promised land! Or, like Moses,
shall I die on the border? Your hope and courage
are alike amazing. Could God inspire you to re
store and rebuild at home, and, while doing
it, to cheer and sustain outside of it another who
sorely needs help in heart and spirit, it will prove
a life so noble as few are able to live, and in an
other world the emancipated soul may ntter
thanks. If it would be of comfort to you now
and then to send me a letter of true inwardness
(sic), the outcome of your inner life, it would he
safe, for 1 am now at home here with my sister,
and it is permitted to you (sic) and will he an ex
ceeding refreshment to me, for your heart-experiences
are often like bread from Heaven to the
hungry. God has enriched your moral nature
may not others partake?"
"This." says Mr. Motilton, " is in Beecher's
handwriting, but without direction or signature,
but the note inclosed in pencil tells us the direc
tion of it, as the words 'Your note broke like
spring upon winter' tell also to what note it was
in reply, because that quotes the words of Mrs.
Tilton,' Spring has conic,' asking him to 'share
her joy,' she being ' all right' now. The inelosure
is on a slip of paper marked 'O,' hut which I do
not produce here, reserving it for preseutat'nui
before another tribunal. Was there ever a plain
er case of renewal of intimacv, to say the least,
than this? Mark, also, amid the prayers to God
contained in the longer note, Beecher's sugges
tion that Elizabeth can write him now with safe,
ty, because he is living at home with his sister,
i. e , his wife is away."'
Mr. Moulton then gives in detail Beecher's al
leged confessions to him of his adultery with Mrs.
Tilton. lie says: " It has been said that, being
a man of the w:orld, I drew inferences from his
tlteecher'si pure and unguarded expressions
which they did not. authorize, and therefore as
to these letters I have left inferences to be drawn
by those who read them in a light which
dates and facts have now thrown upon them.
But to answer this criticism in another
direction, and to show the impossibility
that 1 could lie mistaken, not seek
ing to shelter mvself under any supposed
misunderstanding, hut taking all the burden of
veracity between Beecher. Tilton and myself. 1
now proceed ti give such portions as are neces
sary of some few of the conversations in which
Beecher made confession of adultery. I have be
fore stated that the first confession was made on
the night I went for the ' retraction' of Mrs. Til
ton; that I there told him: 'Mr. Beecher,
vou have had criminal intercourse with
Mrs. Tilton, and you have done great
injury to Tilton otherwise,' and 1 say
further in my published statement 'that he con
fessed and denied not, but confessed,' as he did
not deny this charge so explicitly made by me.
Whatever inferences I have made from his words
at other times, he certainly could not have mis
taken mine at this time. When speaking of the
relations of man and woman, 'criminal inter
course' has but one legal or literal meaning, even
to clergymen. It. however, seems necessarv
that I should go still further, which I do, and 1
say that on that evening he confessed to me his
relations with Mrs. Tilton in language so vivid
that I could not possibly mistake or forget it.
He said: "My acts of intercourse with that wom
an were as natural and sincere in the impres
sion of my love for her as the words of endear
ment which I addressed to her. There seemed to
be nothing iu what we did together that I could
not justify to myself on the ground of our love
for each other, and I think God will not blame
me for my acts with her. I know that at present
it would "he utterly impossible for me to justify
mvself before man."
Mr. Moulton then calls attention to the asser
tion made in his former statement that in the
presence of himself and another witness, whom
he stiil feels reluctant to bring forward (of
course, not Mr. Tilton), both Mrs. Tilton and Mr.
Beecher admitted, in language not to be mis
taken, the truth of the charges against them, and
asked advice as to the course to be taken by
them.
With regard to the question of blackmail. Mr.
Moulton says it had never occurred to him that
the procedure br which money was ob
tained for Mr. Beecher was an extortion.
He (Motilton) himself, his business partners
and others were subscribing money toward sus
taining the Golden Age, and he had no thought
that Beecher was doing anything other and
difl'crent from what the rest were doing, except
that he (Beecher) had. perhaps, an additional per
sonal motive to sustain an enterprise which all
favored, and the results of which wen; looked
npon as an honor to journalism. A careful
examination of Mr. Beecher's statement will
show that the suggested payment of f.YOUO first
came to him (Moulton) fnini Mr. Beecher, and
was not made by Mr. Moulton to Mr.
Beecher. He (Moulton) told Mr. Beecher Mr.
Tiltoo would not receive the nionev if he knew it
came from Mr. B.. and therefoie it was arranged
between them that it should be given to Mr. Til
ton in small sums, as coming from Mr. Moulton.
The letter of Mrs. Morse Ohrs. Tilton's mother)
to Mr. Beecher, in which the addresses him
as her sou and signs herself " Moth
er." is given in full. After stating her pecun
iary difficulties, she writes: "Do come and see
me. I will promise that the ' secret of her life,'
as she calls it. shall not be mentioned. I know
it's hard to bring it np. as you must have suffered
intensely, and we all will. I fear, until released
by death. Do you pray lor me ? If not. pray do.
I never felt more rebellious than now;
more need of God's and human help.
Do vou know I think it strange you
should ask me to call you 'son? I have told
darling I felt If you could, in safety to yourself
and all concerned, you would be to me all this
endearing name. Am I mtofcaken!" Mr. Moul
ton then says : " This letter hears date Oct. 24. 1
fix the date'to be in 1871. because it was at that
time that Mrs. Morse had the house, for w hich she
was paying $l.Atk rent, and in the time w hen Til
ton w as allow ing his wife $40er week for house
hold expenses. This letter was given me by
Beecher as written, by Mrs. Morse, Elizabeth's
mother, and is a call on him for money, which
may explain the necessity for mortgaging his
house otherwise than by paying .),(JU to me. It
is the outside family that is always the most
onerous to a man. The trouble is,
Beecher mistakes the persons who blackmailed
him. It was Mrs. Morse and Bessie, and nobody
else, and thev are now repaying him hy testifying
in his behalf"."
If to obtain advantage to one's self hy using
the unfortunate situation of another is black
mail, then Beecher himself was a blackmailer.
He protected himself from Bowen by using Tillon
to get the tripartite covenant out of him, and yet
he puts the facts in a light exactly contrary to the
truth. Beecher in fact used Tilton's position
with Bowen to extort from Bowen a certificate of
good character after he had preferred several
grave charges against him, one of them being de
scribed as brutal rape.
It was not Tilton s accusations hut Bowen's
that Moulton had in charge, and the real point
was to avoid "an appeal to the church
and then to the couucil." Moulton then
gives the charge of rape as contained in Tilton's
letter recapitulating Boweu's cause of offense
against Beecher. and then significantly asks:
"Could an innocent clergyman have allowed
such a charge to be made, and more than once
reiterated, however guardedly, by a leading mem
ber ol his church, and rest content until his inno
cence was fu Hy and clearly established, if in no
other way, in a court of justice ?"' Mr. Moulton
said that," iu his former statement, he endeavored
state the facts of that brutal offense with as much
delicacy as their wickedness would allow, but
that his very reticence had been made the
ground of accusation that he had mistaken the
purport of what Mr. Beecher had said,
or that, if ho were telling the truth,
he would give his exact words. He
was therefore compelled in relating the cir
cumstances attending the affair, to ovurstep the
bounds within which he had set himself In his
former statement; and if something was pub
lished w hich ought not to be published, it was
not his fault, but a uecessity made by Beecher
and his friends Tor his (Moulton's) ow n vindica
tion. Exactly how the matter came about was as
follows: He showed to Mr. Beecher the letter of
Tilton to Bowen, bearing date Jan. 1, 1871, con
taining the charges alleged to have been made by
Bowen in the presence of Tilton and Oliver John
son, and Beecher deemed it necessary to tell
Moulton the truth concerning his adulterv with
the woman to whom he supposed Bowen
referred. Mr. Moulton here gives Beecher's
confession or narrative of the atHiir, which,
in the interest of decency, is here sup
pressed. He suggested that unless Beecher
obtained a retraction of the story from the
woman he would some day find himself at
Bowen's mercy. Such a paper he obtained on
the loth of January, 1S71, but it was not so direct
or satisfactory as the retraction he obtained from
Mrs. Tilton. Beecher denied the allegation of
rape, hut did not denv the fact of adultery. Mr.
Moulton also stated that that connection and in
timacy was still continued, as he believed, but
declines to give either her name or copies of her
letters in his hands, because he did not wish
needlessly to involve a reputation which had
thns far escaped public mention by any of the
parties to the controversy. The last episode of
crime had been related to him iu the presence of
witnesses.
In relation to Beecher's proposed suicide. Mr.
Moulton states that Mr. Beecher told him.
and showed to another in his presence,
that he had within reach in his own study
a poison which he would take if ever the story of
his crime with Mrs. Tilton should become public,
lie told him of a visit he had made to a photog
rapher's gallery, when he learned that one of the
employes had mistaken a glass of poison for a
glass of water, and, having taken and drank it,
had fallen dead with scarcely time to drop the
glass. Mr. Beecher said that was what he wanted
tor himself, and, under the plea of making some
photographic experiments, he procured some of
this same poison from the photographer, which
he told Moulton he intended to use if an intima
tion of his crime should be made, and then he
said: " It would be simply reported that. Beecher
died of apoplexy, but God, and you and 1 will
know what caused my death." If those
who blamed Moulton could have looked
into Mr. Beecher's grief-stricken race, and
listened to the tones of his voice in
great emergencies, in which he said there was
no refuge for him but in death, they would have
felt impelled to do as generous and open-hearted
a service as he (Moulton) had practiced toward
him. It would have taken a harder heart than
his, hein" witness of Mr. Beecher's sorrows, not
to forget nis sins.
The remainder of the long statement is only
interesting not important personal matters.
State Elections,
State elections occur in the order and
for the purposes stated in the following
table. The highest State officer to be
elected is named, and the asterisk
denotes Legislatures that will elect
United States Senators:
Sec. St Congress
Sec. St. Leg. Congress
Sec. St. . . . Congress
Gov. Leg. Congress
Leg.
Leg. Congress
Treas. Leg. Congress
Gov. Leg. Congress
Gov. Leg. Congress
Gov. Leg. Congress
Leg. Congress
Oct. 13. Ohio,
" Indiana,
" Iowa,
" Nebraska,
Oct. 14. Georgia.
Oct. 22. W. Virginia,
Nov. 2. Louisiana,
Nov. 3. Alabama,
" Arkansas,
" Delaware,
Honda,
Georgia,
Illinois, Treas.
Kansas, Gov.
Keiituckv,
Maryland,
Mass'ch nsctts.Gov.
Michigan, Gov
Congress
Leg. Congress
Leg. Congress
Congress
Congress
Leg. Congress
Leg. Congress
Minnesota, Sup. J. Leg. Congress
Missouri, Gov. Leg. Congress
Nevada, Gov. Leg. Congress
" New Jersey, Gov. Leg. Congress
" New York, Gov. Leg. Congress
" ' Pennsylvania, Lt.-Gov. Leg. Congress
" S. Carolina, Gov. Leg. Congress
" Tennessee, Gov. Leg. Congress
" Texas, Congress
" Virginia. Congress
" Wisconsin, Leg. Congress
The ArMinsas Constitutional Conven
tion (now in session) has provided for
an election of Crovernor if the new con
stitution be adopted; otherwise Gov.
Baxter holds for two years longer.
The California election of Congress
men has been postponed to September
of next year, when si Governor, Legisla
ture, etc., will lie chosen. llie .Missis
sippi election of Congressmen has like
wise been postponed to November of
next year, when a Legislature will be
chosen. The New Hampshire, lihode
Island, and Connecticut elections of Con
gressmen occur at the regular spring
elections next year. Chictigo Tribune.
The White Man's Tarty.
The Democratic party, prior to the
war, under the leadership of Jeff. Davis,
Vallandigham, and that class of pro
slaveryites, resolved and re-resolved that
" this is the White Man's Government."
This was the motto upon all their ban
ners and the watchword at all their gath
erings. Those who declared that human
slavery should not be extended into ter
ritory then free were branded as " negro
worshipers," ' amalgamationists," etc.,
and the Democracy declared their deter
mination to assert and maintain the su
periority of the white race, and its right
to make servants of colored races,
whether from Africa, China, Japan or the
forests of America.
The Democratic party is the same to
day that it was before the M ar. Its prin
ciples have not changed. In the Demo
cratic Convention of Louisiana on the
23th inst., the declaration was sent forth
that the Democratic party is the " "White
Man's Party." That is to be the watch
word of the party hereafter, just as
"this is the White Man's Government"
was its motto prior to the war. It repre
sents that prejudice against the colored
race which ever characterizes conceited
ignorance, and the party, in adopting this
motto, plants itself squarely in the midst
of the lowest and most gross elements of
society. " The White Man's Party!" A
party which makes merit of color, and as
sumes that the Creator, in giv ing a dark
skin to some of His children, designated
them as inferior beings, only fit to be the
slaves of His white children.
The day for such obnoxious doctrines
has passed. When slavery was in the
height of its prosperity and power
when the people were blinded
by prejudice and custom this war
fare against the colored race was
popular; but tolay such an effort to
trample upon human rights and liberties
in the -persons of colored men, women
and children will be rebuked by every
intelligent person throughout the North
ern States, and every true Republican at
the South. The people of this countrv
have declared that all men are created
free and equal, and they have sealed that
vow with their blood and treasure. The'
old, fossilized pro-slaveryites of the
South, and their dough-faced allies at
the North, like Frank Ilurd & Co., may
emblazon upon their banners that theirs
is a " White Man's Party." but the intelli
gent people of the country cannot be in
duced to lock arms with, rebels in a war
fare against loyal colored people. Toledo
BUule.
Affairs at the South.
Special Telegram to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Nbw Orleans, Sept. 5.
The man T. W. Abney, whose letter is
quoted in the press dispatches from
Shreveport yesterday, is the most promi
nent member of the White League in
Ked Kiver Parish.
In a letter from Sheriff Egerton,
written a few hours before his murder,
to Senator Twitchell, he says: "Abney
and Pierson are back from Natchitoches,
and say they arc for war. Pierson says
we are staking our all. If we win, we
will gain what we want; if we lose, we
lose all. If the negroes vote for or at
tempt to sustain any Republican in office
it will cost them their lives." In another
letter Egerton writes: " If the Govern
ment wants cases of murder to act upon,
there are plenty in De Soto, where they
have murdered seven colored men just to
see them kick."
One of the last victims at Coushatta
was the Postmaster, Andrew Rosier. It
is feared that the twenty-five colored
men held by the mob have also been
killed. Thus far twenty-one deaths are
reported. A school-teacher from Compte,
by the name of Vundusen, has disappeared
at Alexandria, and is doubtless murdered.
His life had been threatened several
times. The telegraph office at Shreveport
is still blockaded by the White League
Superintendent and President.
A desperate attempt was made to burn
the State House last night. The private
office of the Attorney-General was broken
open, the papers, chairs and books piled
on the floor, saturated with oil, and set
on fire. Owing to haste and a lack of
air, the fire did not spread to any extent.
Gov. Kellogg has appointed, according
to promise, one clerk from the opposition
to each of the registration precincts, and
says that there shall be a fair election in
this State. He has no fears as to the
result.
Yesterday an Intcr-Ckenn. reporter had
an interview with an Arkansas official,
who is here on a visit to a prominent cit
izen. This gentleman is in a position to
know exactly how things stand, and he
freely gave expression to his views on
the Southern question. He says it is the
general opinion in Arkansas that the
White Leaguers have for their sole object
the defeat of the Republicans at the
coming elections. To attain that end
they will employ every means in their
power, and will not hesitate at the " re
moval " of a few negroes. Their chief
card is to intimidate the colored people
and keep them from the polls. The Con
gressional Committee appointed to in
vestigate Arkansas affairs lias had a de
terrent effect upon the White Leaguers
in that State. They fear theWnterference
of Congress, and are working less openly
than in the other States. No doubt, how
ever, is entertained of the strength of
the organization. Incidents are constant
ly occurring which prove the bitter feel
ing against the "despised" race.
In Pulaski County grave appre
hensions exist aB to the influences
brought to bear on the Grand
Jury, which meets to-day. The Judge
is a favorite of Baxter and the jury is
considered a packed one. An indictment
of all the officials is looked for. Other
counties are also at the mercy of Demo
cratic Judges, and the people rely upon
Presidential interposition to save them
from disaster. The reporter was in
formed the gravity of the situation
could not be over-estimated and the col
ored people are anxious to tide over the
crisis in a peaceable spirit. On their
part there is no desire for a "war of
races." Their orderly, law-abiding hab
its are misconstrued into acts of aggres
sion. The whole body of Democrats
seem united against them, and the dis
patches to the newspapers are either
exaggerated or colored to their detri
ment, so that popular sentiment may be
misdirected. "What the result may be,"
said this official, "God only knows; but
of one thing I am certain: the negro is
free from the animus imputed to him
and wishes only that the cause of good
government may prevail." These, in
brief, are the facts communicated at the
interview. Inter-Ocean, Sept. 7.
Partridge's Mistake.
I iiave before mentioned the fact that it
is a common practice in Philadelphia to
build thirty or forty houses all precisely
alike in a row, so that a man who lives
in the middle has to begin at the corner
and count in order to tell when he reach
es his residence. My friend Par
tridge, who occupies one of these houses,
has been spending the summer in the
country, his residence beingclosed mean
time. A few nights ago he happened to
be in-.town, and passing by his dwelling
he saw lights in the second story. He
knew at once that burglars were engaged
in routing out his valuables, and he in
stantly Hew to the jiolice station and ob
tained a squad of policemen to capture
them. Two officers were sent around
into the back yard and the others pried
open the front window-shutter, and to
gether with Partridge entered the parlor
softly with the intention to surprise the
burglars. The parlor and hall were
dark and the squad proceeded quietly
up-stairs, feeling that that they had ev
erything in their own hands. Just as
they reached the first landing they met
one of the burglars coming down in the
darkness. They grabbed him, and as he
yelled a good deal they knocked him on
the head a few times," and after man
acling him laid him out in the entry.
Proceeding to the front room they broke
the door open and found nobody there
but a woman who was scared half to
death. The officers were about to seize
her when Partridge came in and recog
nized her as Mrs. Kellogg, the wife of
the man who lives two doors below him.
In fact it was Kellogg's house, and Kel
logg was lying below in the entry with
chains on his legs and a lump as big as
an egg-plant on his head, and mad be
sides. Partridge's house was as safe as
ever. Then the policemen swore some
and went home and Partridge remained
to sooth the Kelloggs. It cost him $ 400
in cash, and even then they were down
on him. He is going to move. He wants
to find a pink house with a green cupola
in the center of a thirty-acre field. He
wants a conspicuous house that he can
recognize at a distance. Max Adder, in
Dtinbury New.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man, says: "We moved into a frame
house, about two years old, and my con
sternation was very great to find it thor
oughly stocked with bed-bugs; there was
not a crack or crevice that was free; they
were under the base-boards and over
them. After fighting them eight years I
learned from a girl that had served as a
chambermaid in a large boarding-house
that bugs can be entirely exterminated
for all time. I immediately followed her
directions, which was to take grease that
was cooked out of salt pork, to melt it,
and to keep it melted (the vessel can be
kept in a pan of coals) and to put it with
the feather end of a quill in every place
I could find a bug. It is necessary to see
that the bed cords are entirely free from
the pests, and I will warrant there will
be no more trouble. It is more than
thirty years since a bug has been seen in
my house."
MY LITTLE ONE.
A I.1TTI.E hand warm, dimpled, velvety,
Slipped rrom my own.
A star-like luce, rose-Hushed and petirl, shines
fair
lp in the other home.
The restless feet so small thev both could nestle
Kosebnds, iu a mother's hand.
With their light touch will scarcely bend the
flowers
In that celestial land.
The rippling melody of the little voice
Is unshed and still.
No more the music of her broken words my
.Empty heart w ill till.
"Oh, 'tis not well," I cried hen sorely lttcn
Itv Ills just rod.
"To take from me my darling pure from Heaven
My gift from God! "
But after many days II peace came to me.
So deep and still
That patient and meek my stricken heart made
answer.
"Thine be the w ill."'
It Is well with her, the little one I cherished.
In that fair land.
The baby lingers slipped from my own into
Her Father's hand.
Gariift Alymtr.
" J MIGHT HA YE DOXE."
Is there a sadder word than this!
I might have done!
I might have tilled life's cup of blisn
At least for one !
I might have done! I might have ma
One life so fair
It eft from iis robe of somber shade
Kach thread of care.
I might have done! So simple joy.
Love's word, or wile,
Bobs life of hair its sail alloy.
Makes life a smile.
I might have done ! While young life strewed
Her prescient seeds;
Each folded germ with life endued
To bloom in deeds.
Oh, love-fraught hours, sail mutely on.
Die one by one !
'Tis life to sigh when all are gone,
" I might have done."
Mary CUmiiter Anu. . iJUicvjo A1 ranee.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Kickino babies are rebels in arms.
Sklk is a poor center for a man's ac
tions. The best thing to take before singing
Breath.
Wooden necklaces (Swiss goods) are
fashionable.
Thev ar so eusy in Kansas that they
spell it 11 worth.
Fans arc universally worn dangling
from the waist.
Dcty ox Duy Goons That of bus
bands to buv them.
A TiiuEK-MONTiis old oyster is about
the size of a split pea.
Milwai kek styles Chicago her "run-
fingrationary suburb."
The Journal of lliuilth says it is wrong
to get up before you feel like it.
A Belfast (Me.) girl was seized with
spinal meningitis on her wedding day.
" The silent majority" is Junius Henry
Browne's expressive designation for the
dead.
It is a curious fact that the color of
the eyes of newly-born infants is invari
ably blue.
NoTE-siiAVEits succeed financially be
cause they " take so much interest" in
their business.
A Veumontkk advertises "unprece
dented, unparalleled, unapproachable,
unadulterated confectionery.
Black silk walking-dresses with stripes
of beads down the front width instead
of velvet, as was the rage last winter,
will be in favor in the autumn.
A Sahatooa belle was thrown into con
vulsions and her health seriously im
paired because her beau wanted to dance
with her without wearing gloves.
A FitENcif scientist claims to have dis
covered an insect which makes its home
in the middle of cigars. That insect is
morally certain of being smoked out.
The people of Carthage, N. V., un
mindful of the fact that courting is very
solemn business, object to the young
people carrying it on in the village ceme
tery. An enterprising reporter in Arkansas,
who was recently sentenced to the State
prison for horse stealing, applied to his
employers to be continued on the journal
as Penitentiary correspondent.
A ' tiihee-cakd-montk" expert is re
ported to have offered the Directors of
the Union Pacific Railroad a bonus of
$10,000 per annum for the exclusive
right to play his little game in their
sleeping-cars.
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into a horse's mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity of T-uch was fully
satisfied.
The age of miracles has not passed.
An editor has just died in Vermont
whose estate amounts to M)0,0O0.H7.
PitUburnh Vmnmerrial. Throw off the
first six figures, please. Why be ridicu
lous? liwhexter JJetn'H-rnt.
A doc. belonging to Thomas C. Folsom,
of West Epping, was recently shut up in
a room for eighteen days without food
and drink, but when found had strength
enough to stagger out, and by careful
nursing his life was saved.
Tiiehe is one recent decision of the
Treasury Department in which a thank
ful public, or the adult portion of it at
least, will readily acquiesce. It is that
children's whistles, tin horns, etc., etc.,
are "not musical instruments."
The Excelxior Magazine, a very choice
and entertaining monthly, is published
at $3.50 a year. Every effort is being
made, by securing the services of the
most brilliant contributors to periodical
literature and the best art critics and es
sayists, to furnish a highly desirable
family paper. A handsomely illustrated
fashion and etiquette supplement acconi
panics it. Subscribers are very easily
obtained, and rare inducements in money
or prizes are ofiered to getters up of
clubs. Sample copies twenty -five cents.
Office, Rooru 59, No. 157 La Salle street,
Chicago, 111.
Two oentlemen residing in Sacra
mento, Cal., were startled a few nights
ago by loud screams proceeding from a
room occupied by a ladv member of the
family. Inquiry elicited the information
that " there was a centipede on her bed."
The gas was at the time turned down
quite low, but the men could see the
insect on the bed, and, doubling a towel
several times, one of them cast it over
the centipede, and clutched it tightly to
prevent its escape. One of the gentle
men was somewhat of an amateur scien
tist, and desired ardently to preserve the
centipede as a specimen. Accordingly,
the captured insect was carried in the
towel to a drug store. The druggist
poured chloroform on the towel to stupefy
the creature and to prevent the possibil
ity of its escape, and one of the clerks
stood by with an uplifted club, to strike
it should it attempt to get off. The towel
was opened, and the expectant lookers
on were astonished to find that all the
fuss had been made over a little strip of
calico.
Mrs. Fannie Baldwin, a poor but re
spectable woman, residing at the foot of
Blue Ridge Mountain, in Oconee County,
S. C, recently walked from her home to
the residence of her father, near Pendle
ton, a distance of thirty-f our miles, carry
ing her babj', six months old, weighing
twenty-one pounds, in her arms. She
left home at about six o'clock in the
morning and reached her father's at five
o'clock in the afternoon, making an aver
age of a little over three miles an hour,
lor eleven consecutive hours, over a
mountainous, hilly and rough road, with
the thermometer standing ninety six de
grees most of the time. Nootlier motive
induced the walk than parental affection
the pleasure of seeing her parent.
Considering the sex of the performer, the.
weight carried, the distance, the time,
the nature of the road, the temperature
of the weather, and the absence of un
exciting motive, this walk has scarcely a
parallel in the history of pedestrianism.
Mrs. Baldwin is about twenty-six years
of age, rather below the medium height,
though thick set, and the mother of four
children.
The Celebrated Spouting: Sprlngn of
Iceland.
Bavahd Tayiih writes as follows to
the New York Tribune from Iceland:
We all fell into a condition of nervous
expectancy which could not be escaped,
comical as were some of its features.
There was a pile of turf perhaps a cart
load beside the Strokr, which lay just
below our tent, find we were told that
the caldron would be compelled to spout
for the King as soon as he had finished
his breakfast; so we sat down contented
to the second plover-stew which Mr.
Gladstone and Dr. Hayes had provided
for us. The farmer from whom wc had
procured fuel sent us several bottles of
delicious cream, and a large salmon for
dinner. The Strokr is a pit about five
feet in diameter, and eight feet deep to
the ordinary level of the water, which
is always iu a furious boiling state. Prof.
Stccnstrtip assured me that it is not con
nected with the tireat Geyser, as the
analysis of the water shows a difference ;
but the people are equally convinced
that it is, and that to provoke its activity
diminishes the chances of the former
spouting. However this may be, the
royal command was given. The jile of
turf was pitched Into the hole, and all
gathered around, at a safe distance,
waiting to see what would follow. For
ten minutes we noticed nothing except
a diminution of steam; then the water
gushed up to the level of the soil in u
slate of violent agitation; subsided,
rose again, spouted the full breadth of
the hole to a height of fifteen or twenty
feet, sank back, and finally, after another
moment of quiet, shot a hundred feet
into the air. The boiled turf, reduced lo
the consistency of gravel, filled the jet,
and darkened its central shaft, but I did
not find that it diminished the beauty of
the phenomenon.
Jet after jet followed, sending jiiume
like tufts from the summit and sides of
the main column, around which the nar
row drifts of steam whirled and eddied
wilh a grace so swift that tin; eye could
scarcely seize it. At such moments the
base was hidden, and t Me form or the
fountain was like a bunch of the Pampas
grass in blossom a cluster of feathery
panicles ot spray.
The performance lasted nearly ten
minutes, anl was resumed again two or
three times after it seemed to have
ceased. Two or three of the last spout
ings were the highest, and some esti
mated them at fully l'.'O feet. Finally,
the indignant caldron threw out the last
of its unclean emetic, and sank to its
normal level. The King, who had turned
aside to salute our company, was in the
act of expressing to me his admiration of
the scene, when the Little Geyser gave
sudden signs of action. There was a
rush of the whole party; his Majesty
turned find ran like a boy, jumping over
the gullies and stories with mi agility
which must have bewildered the heavy
officials. It was a false alarm. The Lit
tle Geyser let off a few sharp discharges
of steam, as if merely to test the press
ure, and then, as if satisfied, resumed its
indolent, smoky habit. The cone of the
Great Geyser is not more than twenty
feet high, and appears to have been
gradually formed by the deposit of the
silicious particles which the water holds
in solution. The top is like a shallow
wash-bowl, thirty feet in diameter, full
to the brim, ami slowly overflowing on
the eastern side. In the center of this
bowl there is a well, indicated by the in
tense blue-green of the water, and ap
parently eight or ten feet in diameter.
It has been sounded, and bottom or at
least a change of direction reached at
the depth of eighty-five feet. At the
edge, where the water is shallow, one
can dip his fingers in quickly without
being scalded. Small particles placed
in the overflow are completely incrustcd
with transparent silex in a day or two.
Prof. Steenslrup informed me that the
water has important healing properties.
The steam has an odor of sulphuretted
hydrogen, but the taste thereof is so
soon lost that where the stream becomes
cold we used it for drinking and making
coffee.
Peace at Home.
It is just as possible to keep a calm
house as a clean house, an orderly house
as a furnished house, if the heads set
themselves to do so. Where is the diffi
culty of consulting each other's weak
ness, as well as each other's wants each
other's tempers sis each other's wants? It
is by leaving the peace at home to
chance, instead of pursuing it by a sys
tem, that so many homes are unhappy.
It deserves notice, also, that anyone can
be patient and courteous in a neighbor's
house. If anything goes wrong, or is out
of time, or is disagreeable there, it is
made the best of, not the worst; every
effort is made to excuse it, and to tdiow
(liiif it iu not fi-lt or if felt it in nttrih-
uted to accident, not to design; and
tins is not oniy easy, out natural in me
house of a friend. We will not, there
fore, believe that what is so natural in
the house of another is impossible at
home, but maintain, without fear, that
all the courtesies of social life may be,
upheld in domestic societies. A husband
as willing to be pleased at home and as
anxious to please as in his neighbor's
house, and a wife as intent unmaking
things as comfortable every day to her
family as on set days to her guests,
could not fail to make the ir own home
happy. The sweetest, most clinging af
fection is often shaken by the slightest
breath of unkindness, as the delicate
rings and tendrils of the vine are agi
tated by the faintest air that blows in
summer. An unkind word from one be
loved often draws blood from many a
heart which would defy the battle-ax of
hatred or the keenest edge of vindictive
satire. Now, the fchade, the gloom of
the face, familiar and dear, awaken
grief and pain. These, in the elegant
words of the preacher, Read, are the lit
tle thorns which, though men of rougher
form make their way through them w ith
out feeling much, extremely incommode
persons of a more refined turn in their
journey through life, and make their
traveling irksome and unpleasant. Jlow
careful ought we to be not to darken and
mutilate the sweet imaces of hone and
joy and peace that might gild the cur
tains oi our companion s me iy sum-ring
these spots to mingle with them
these shadows of upas leaves to be col
lected in the stream. Of all cruel words
or deeds those that would darken hope
are the most cruel.
The word " penny," as applied to nails,
is supposed to be a corruption for the
wor1 " pound." An eightpenny nail was
a nail of such a size that 1,000 of them
would weigh eight pounds, a tenpenny of
such a size that 1,000 would weigh ten
pounds, and so on. It is nut known who
originated the method of description.