Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1874, Page 1

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The Public Waiting for Moul- ton's Second State- ment, Comments of the Press on Mr, Beecher’s Statement, Beecherian Surmises as to Moul- ton’s Long Siatement, Hr, Beecher's Humorous Talk to the Reporters, Tributes to the Eularprlse of The | Chicago Tribune. MOULTON'S LONG STATEMENT. WHAT IT 18 BUPPOSED DY' MR, VEEOMER'S FRIXNDS TO CONTAIN, From the Neto York World (Beccher partisan), Aup, 14, Thoso of Mr, Becchor's trionds who have aron his statoment pronounced themselyos entiroly satinfied with it. Tt ia belioved by them that it will havo tho effect of briuging boforoe the publio tho Jong statoment whizh Mr, Moulton prepared but did hot present. This long document con- tuing, it Is Bid, about thirty lotters writton by Ar. Docehier, und of the samo charactor as thoso which fornied o part of Mr. 'Tilton’s statemont, and with tho letters which aro signed by Mr, Boecher aro somo unsigned, which aro mero notes, or short and fragmontary letters. All of thoeo neod verification beforo their uuthonticity is admitted, though tho genulne character of &' large numbor of them ia admitted. A long lotter from Thomas K, Decchor to Ars. Isnbolla B, Hooker, n part of which was quoted In Mr. Tikon's statoment, and which admits tho truth of (ko aceusation brought by Mr. Til- ton, form, it is belioved, ouo of tho prominent fontures of the loug statement, and nnother is a lottor from Mrs, Tilton to Mr. Teecher, which, from exprossions it contaiue, bears out tho churgos brought ngaiust Mr. Becohor. Tho authontioity of tho lattor written by Mr. T, K. Beechor is not deniod by the frionds of the Plywmouth pastor, and it _Ia snid to bo ono of tho family rensons which have mado Mr, Becchor anxious to avold A publio dofonse, Mrs, Til tou's lottor is snid to bo oithor n forgory, or olgo writton under cumynl«lon. Bosides thoso documents tho statomen| givos, it in thonght, the conversutions botwoon Mr. Bocohor and Mr. Moulton, which aro alluded fo and partially quoted in “ Gath's™ lotter to Tnr Citicaad ‘Lnmune. Theso convorsations, which Mr. Moulton alleges ho has had with M, Booecheor aro of anoxtremely gross chnrnctor, and, it is bolieved, cau bo very readily proved by in tornal ovidonce to be not only at varlanco " with known fucts, but uttorly improbablo i tio n- turc of things. Among .those conversations which Mr. Moulton roports, aro said to bo the frequent confessiona which aro #paken of m tho | Wostern paper already alluded to, A number of minor facts in the Yeruounl aud family history of Mr. Boechier and Mr. ‘Filton duriug the last four yonrs, aud in partionar soma irrogular fucts iu rogard to a domestio in Mr. Tilton's family, With whom it is uuderstood Mr. Tilton has endenvored to connect Mr. Beocher, also take up a largo amount of spaco, if 18 thougsht, in Mr, Moulton's recitnl of tho events of tno veriod in- cluded in the inquiry just completed, el HOW BEECHER INDULGES IN HU- MOROUS TALK, From the New York Herald, Aug, 14, When the membors of the Committeo Toft Br, Beccher, and Mr. Blearman appeared ou the stops of tho houso, tho roportors immedintoly surrounded them, and, na Mr. Boochor greeted thom cordially, the Herald reporter, as spokes- mun of tho party, procoeded to interviow bim, r. Beccher did not look 8o well ns ho did on tho previous day, but looked rather caroworn, which, however, did not dotract from his pleas- ant brightness of mauner, Reportor—This is tho firat intorviow you have accorded to the roporters, Mr, Beechor—\Well, I hope it will be 80 frusttul in %nod rosults that thoy will all in the futuro {eol the necosrity of coming to mo for news when auything i# going on. 1 like tho reportors 80 much that I hope thoy may bo changed in the next World, in acoordunco with Darwin's theory, into corkscrews—very good corkscrows—so that ;I.\u‘:'l may even open a bottloand seo what's nside, Dir. Beackor laughed heartily as ho said this, aud tho 1eportor liughod too. Mr. Beecher (warmly)—I am suro thoro is no olass of gontlonien wliom I liko bettor. I pitied them last night whon I saw thom Tushing for- ward evory timo & wagon drove up to the lougo, However,” I must intorviow you, goutlomen, What is the naws you ean give mo?’ Reporter—Quly that you will be acquitted, Mr, Beechor, and that is no nows, Mr. Boeohor (joculntly)—Wolt, what chances should Tlinvo us candidato ‘for tho Prosi dency? What is the opluion of tho pross on that ubjoct ? Roporior—It ia bolievod that your ch ances would ho much bettor than those of Mr, T ilton, Mr. Baccher laughod hentily, aud Mr. Shonr- man obsorved that evon ho, ho thonght, would havo a bottor chanco than 3ir. Tilton, Roporter—May I ask whollior you have road tho last statoment copied from™ Tue Cutcsuo TRIBUNG? Alr. Boeclior (nesuming » droll nlz?—WnlI, I think Jupitor wa a noblo god, u groaf god. 'So was Mars. Reporter—Ifow abont Frani Moulton 2 Mr. Bocchor (lnughing)—Wall, I think that Gen. Washington waus ouo. of thy greatest and Abralam Liucoln ouo of the bost mon thiy (i:uuulry has produced, That is wy eandid opine jon. Lteportor—Do you know, Mr, Bocchor, whether the Commnutten will moot again in reforonce to s subject ? MM, Boocher (still in the bost of humor)—I and the Cummitteo are two, Mr. Shearman—Tho Committee nro six, Mr. Bocebor—Yes, thut's true, You're right, Shearman, Thore was A&n}uae, and 08 8 now toplo of in- quiry prosoutod itsal? which was_mot, undor tyg | ciroumatances, beyond the bounds of roportoriul dolicacy, the reportor ventured to ask tho novel aud decidedly original question, * 3r, Boeecher, hosw do you feel " Mr, Bocchor did not hesitato & moment to an. #wor this momentous aud important query, 4 Woll," hio roplied, with bis heurly lnugh, #1 foel proud, for I'vo got u new veat on;” und with this b earried his bund ovor bis eplondid vost of tmowy whito, Reporter—Do you intond golug out of town soon, Mr. Bocehor? ; Mr, Boconer (rather moro nmousl_v)—ll really Lave not decided that as f'ul, and my wife hus not mado up her mind, cithor. By the way, how if I should nak all tha reportora to come up to Peckukill snd ont Peokstill pears on condition that thoy refrain from writing a filllfilfl word? A, Boccher appenred ay though Lo wore capi. tating and setthug thy question fn hin mind, 'Ol no," ho thon uddec, * of course that would bo imposeible, Thoy should hava to writosome. thing," And thua tho intorviewwont on, Mr. Beochor “chalfing” the ru[.ol‘tun and plersuntly and skilfully parrying all thol: questions of any real- Iy pracileat pirport, Lo tho quostion wiother ho utill chorishod friondly feclings for Mr, Til- ton, bo rep'icd, Inughingly, thut hio was porfeotly nou-commitial on that swject, And with chis My, Boacher ran into tho louso to join his famie 1y, whio biad evidently boot satoulehod that the noted pronchor lind consontod to convorso so long with any newspapor man, ——— PRESS COMMENTS OW BEECRER'S BTATEMENT, ** DOES NOT AOCOUNT Fon 1118 coNpuor.” F'ron: the New York T'imes, It [Mr. Beachor's oxplanation) does not ue- count for his conduct in way that mon of tho world will gencrally accopt ns conolusive. It diacloses & curions amount of moral cowardico and & groat donl of irrational bebavior, It ro- voals Mr. Becchor's oharnctor aa ontiroly differ- ont from what it has genorally boen supposed to bo, - But wo bellove (ha tmprossion will bo gon- eral that, conceding Mr. Tecchor's character to bo what ho paints it, his story iy not inconaistent' with funocence. ‘! THE PUNLIO WILL NOT ACEEPT IT AB A FINAL DIBPOSITION OF TN CARY, Erom the New York Heraud, It [Beachor's statement] is strong, and per- hapss witl bo accoptad by Afr. Becohor's frionda nas his vindication. DBut the Imbl(c, whilo hoping for tho beat, will not accopt it au o final disposic dton of iho case, Mr. Moulton's full statoment haw yet to bo mado, tio Committen haa yot to ro- nort, No ono bas o right to decido wpou Lo in hoeenco of Mr. Boecher ull the vordict of Plym- outh Church lus boen formally roudered nnd tho tostimony published iu full ; whilo oven thon it may bo necessary to suspond Indgment until the question is triéd Leforo that highar tribunal before which Mr. Tilton anuounces fia s resolyod to bring it ‘“THE VIOYIN OF A MONBTROUS CONBPIRAGY." Lrom tie New York I'ribine, Mr. Beecher bns spoken. If tho Atatemont wo _print this morning had been given to the world within a yeasonabla time after Mr, ‘Tilton's clinrgas tho seandal would now bo doad. Dolay bos mado tho tnsk of Iilling the poironous growth immeasnrably bardor; but wo Loliovo that candid readors’ will still rino from e, Bocehor's norvous recital with tho - convietion that bo hos boon tho victim of a monstrous con- as:lmcy. .« o Tho statomont will moasura- bly clear awny the clouds that have been dark aud thick nbout Mr. Boocher's namo, It it had conie sooner it wonld in all probability Luvo ond- od tho scandal, For that wo must look now to tho _cross-oxamination, which cannot yot bo weighcd, to collatornl proofs, and to tho. calm and luto judgment of & peoplo nlways oxacting in such cages, but_goneratly furo. tn the ond to bo just. Thoy will probably regard his courda 84 unwiso, his friendships as unworthy, hin henl od langunge in critical momenty an unsnfe, and Lis courso through the whola migarablo busivess 88 woak but not wicked. ** BESCUED NINSETY FROM IS ONLY PERIL." Lrom the New Yort: IFortd, r, Beechor haw rescucd Mimeclf from bis only pertl, Ho hins staled tho history of his 1olutions withs (bo Tiltons and with Moulton, without re- sorve. Ihio charges of Triton Lave beon sup- perted by no proof, ‘e garbled extracts from Alx, Beechior's own lotiers wers, in our Judgment at least, inconsiutent with the truth of Tillon's charge, But thoy wero auch lottrs as to noed oxplanation. Mr. Boecher bas wade tunt ox- blanation, eparing uo ouo, noither Tilton, nor Moulton, nor humsolf, Thuwat lant proving thas he has nothing noweto concoal, dlr. Beecher dig- pels tho vuly shadow of cistrast whicls may have cropt over his good namne among fair-minded and pure-minded mon. *' A DETERNINATION 7O FIGNT TOR 1S Ligs." Jrom the New York Sun, Now at least Uiore in readon to Liopo that tho wholo truth of this distressiog affair will bo brought out ; o that no pordon conneeted with it, who is in any mauner gnilty, can oscapo tho condomnation which bolongs £ his guilt, Alr. Becohor shows conrago and d dotorminntion to fizht for his lifo, 1 tho sbip must sink, bettor lot hier o dewn in tho oxploion of battla aml at i!oumlny, than bo seattlod privately in tho twi- ight, i IRRECONCILABLE WITIE REASON AND THUTIL" Frowm the st, Lot Globe, Now JMr. Beecher comes up:on the sceue with a tale, wealor and lesu thiiliiug than thoso tunt havo beon told befors, but uot fosy itraconcilablo with renson and truth. , . . Iu ull his droary, long-winded slatement, ho doos nob toll us whie ho menvt, nor to what Le referred in thi ono damuing lottor, but leaves it unoxplained, wiile bo wanders off to tell us of Tilton’s iusuilerablo vanity, Loylsh impationce, overmastering ogotism, and evon llis}:l‘clmm!mm tobe ngreater mou than Buccber, ko asks us to Iaugh with bim at the silliness of this sido of Tillow's char- acier, and ho omulates the best dosctiptive paw- er of Dickous in doscribing Low ho “*went forth, liko a sleop-walier, whilo clouds wero flying in tho sky,” and })lmmg beforo w8 the imago of Mys. Tilton, * lying tpon hor bod, s whito oy marble, with closed oyes, a8 it in o trance, and with Lor hauds upon “hot bosom, pultn to palim, like ono in prayer;™ but from ull this wo burn witl impntionce nnd with contempt, to nuk onr- #olves again, ** Can the mau whom the world hins known us ‘Houry Wud Doechor bo guilty of thig ein?" and thow wo ask in tnro, “Can - tho man_ who hos' put forth this = statemont bo innccont 7" If Beccher worn iunocent, could ho have yielded 80 basoly, and acquitted Limuolf so focbly and inconelusivoly? And on the othor land, isthero anything in Lis_conduct, nccording to his own showing, inconsistant with tho theory of his £uilt? "1t is snfa to say, that while ho lias actod as 10 on would expoct aninnocont maa to act, thero is nothing that ho has dono that o guilly mna would not have beon likely to do; and if it is improbable that he sl:ould bave beon guilry, it is even mora hmprobabloe that Lo shonld linve been iunocent, **ALL DROSS." Trom tho St. Lows Republican, Why did Becehor wait till tho Woodtmll pnck wers out of his way, and Moulton's oxplanation of the correspondence supprossed before ho cumo ont with that statement which ho originally promisod should bo defuyed only long enongl to cnable bim to proparo i&? , . , o Mr. il ton's. poiut-blani spocitications bo opposes a oueral doninl, Mo tho eatogorical charges fin replies in bulk by evading them in soveralty. Awn to oxplain awny the damuntory lettors and oxpressions whoso authonticity he does not impoach, he DPloads in somo instances ** playfulness and in oviher instances ** great excitowent.” We repeut, wo havo no dosiro to make a caso for Tilton by duuwllnhlnf tho case Icecher tries to mako for himsolf, But lenving Tilton out of tho mattor und reduclng the Boccher statoment in the cruciblo of unimpassioned nud cold-bloodud Judgmont, wo flad it all dvous, with ot b Hlnglo globulo of pure metnl romaluing alter tho tost, Tho_improtsion mado upon tho Republican by AIr. Beechor's statomont iy that ho imngiues Lho 1montal and moral vision of the whole communily to bo dlutorted by gazing througl tho mlformey spectacles of Bocchioriam ; thut ho fancies his statomout to the world wi upon_the ssmo intellectual soil thut receives his H‘:irihml soed- sowing from tho pulpit ot Plymouth Cuireh ; in a word, that lio drenme of the universal domin- fou of his own peenliar cant, whoreos its actunl #way io bounded by four churchi-walls sud tho sound of hin own miuistering voloo. Mr, Tieecher tatks of blackmail JmH to Tilton, We huyo honrd and road & good doal abous blacke mul, But wo havo yot to Lear or rend of L3 wholly innocout man submitting to tho extortion of bload-monoy, Mr, Boachor §s not n child, Cluldren do not find jucomes of £40,000 n year in pulpits, Tather in ho n mnu of the world ¢lnd for tho timo boing iu tho livary of heaven; n vory, ]yramuhla livory in lus caso, Now, no mnn Who knows onough to make 740,000 u your cun bo blackmniiod to tho tune of £7,000 if his solf- cousclousnoss ba nob among hly ncousors, As for tho bulauce of the Ieccher Htatomont, wo lave but u short eriticism to pass upon it 1t wight have answored 1ty purposs admivably had it Loon addressed to u elags-mocting i Plymonth Church, But the 1oading and thinking publio js not & class-mooting, 5 INBANF, OIt 1A ACCOUNT FALSE. Fron the St, Lowis Demoerat, Acandid reador, who compares Mr. Boechor's stutemont with tho_lotters which Mr, ‘Tilton Auotos, and which Mr, Moulton hus anthentic. ated, can only eay that oithor Mr, Boeolior and s, Pilton have boeh hoep inanne for 0urs, or Ale. Leocher's account of ils sad nifair \s ausone. tiully false. o ., It is Posslble that Mr, Boconor may, I o it of tomporary isanity, bLiave signed and given to Moulton napor which ho iad “not rend; but it utterly impossible thot Lo ghould have writton, throo yoats aftor- wards, such lotters g thoso of Jund, 1874—bo- Avcching Lilton to “dismies all pirposo and thought of injuring tho man oho has outraged yow" and eaviig, *You cannol, paiut too binge 1y the wrongs you havo sufteredv-it all tho while Mr, Deachor kuew that tha diflicully origiuntod suloly In au accnsation uttorly talse, whi‘uh Til- tot had oxtortod from a bulf-crazed wifo! Thin explanation of Mg, Beocher cun e doomed truthful only on tho mupposition that he hag Laon insana sinco Docembor, 1870, v, Booohor's oross-vxanuuation doos not re- mova the uufavorsblo improssion produded by 2 hia formal statoment, and indesd soma parts of it will only injuro him_ in nopular ostima~ ton, , . % Tho cnse has many phoses of ronlly pathotio intorost, and much allowance must be mado for Mr: Beechor's moods, but, wo vory mnch foar it lag not yet boon his mood to toll all that ho knows about tho mattor, UNAATIOFAGTORY. Fyou the St. Louis Time, Mr. Booclior’s statoment, though oxplleit in denial, is unsatisfactory. There 18 too mueh of tho platform * gush " about it. The public did not waut an avalanche of platitudos and deduc- tions, but a plaly statoment of facts, . , . 1lis emotionnl oxplanation of his relation to tho woman doos not satisfy tho Judgmont, becanso 10 oxplanntton of thodenial of a simplo statoment of auserted fack in at all NECOASDLY, o o . Wo do not boliove that Mr, Becolior's bost 1rlonds will bo satistled with his ntntomont, bo- cauno o has treatod omotlonally o mubjoot which had legitimatoly passod from tho domain of tho affactions into” tho atern, uvidesl fleld of fuct. . . . Not oven Lis own brothor will bo eat- isfled with what hio has suld, Ilow, thon, can tho publie bo his apologlat? , . . iis array of witnessos inving teatifiod to no purposo before tho Committoo, "thoso gontlomon ought to por- celvo that thoy aro poworless to olicit tho tritth, ‘'boy should 10w leave the mutter to tho courts, for thero it muat como, NO CONVINGING OR REASONATLE THEORY. - Hrom the St. raut Pioneer, Ho [Boccher] bas givou bo tho publio no con- vineing or 1ensonnblo theory upon which to buso n sosible aud unquostioning Judgment in his favor. IL it tho old, old story, upon tho strongth of which the pouplo had nfrondy pronounced axniust him. “tHis Iottors, his confeasion his nppenls, his protestations,—ull thewo ho adwns to bo gunuitto, and to have come, ing fuct, from tho doptha of bis Forcly af- flicted hoart, . . .. Itroquires s heavy draft upon human roason, and a blind 1esigoation to stultifyig credulity, to aceapt Mr. Boochor's e nowed asgovorationjihnt all theso things worosnid and done only bocause ho ndvised Mr. Bowon todis- mise a man from the head of a gront roligious orgau who waa brouthing fnto its columns tho ot nud noxivus brenth of unrestriotod lust, and. bocauso he advised the wife of this viper to quib, his sldo for putting in practico tho damnablo doetrines with which he innoculated tho minds of Lis readors. , . .. Blr. locchier hns invited the nppoaranco of every witnoss aud the pro- duction of ovory docimont that can toslify nguinst bim. Lot him demand thom upoy iho anthority of tuo law, and his vindieation wall already bavo buen more thau half socured ! **TUE SITUATION BUNSTANTIALLY UNCHANGED,” From the Jocheater (N, ¥.) Union, Our own view is, that cho ‘siluntion s ube stautinlly uuchanged ; that Mr. Boechor now simply_olaboraton i first donial and protost tion of fnnoconcs without carryiug conviction ; that bis. thread of fact does not hintmonizo with the letters produced by Tilton and certifiod ne auchontic by Moulton; and that his talk of blaokmgil has the apponranca of ficrthought, or, i 1t bo considered othorwise, thut it may bo poricelly consistent with tho truth of Fiiton's charges, On this Intter point it may ho obsory- ed taat if thero wau nothing to bass n domand for blaczmail upon, it was alinost incredible that amnu inhis (Beccher's) position would havo cuccumbed to it ; and (hat if Mr. Beceher hnd at tho vutset mot it with refussl and exposuro, ugon the nggrosvivo, iustoad of at tho hool o tho hunt, upon tho defousive, the plea of black- il would ‘then have had more weight tian it cin now poesibly attain, INCONCLUSIVE, Lrom the Plawlelphis Preas, Mr. Beecher's long-oxpoclad aud doloyed state- mont is Inid befors our rendors this morning, Uuliapply, it does not end tho onso, ns most of us had hoped it would. It is w donial of an al- logation, and n denist no slronger nor more con- vinemg than the brlef ono which Alr, Bocchar put forth weolin ngo. "It s i attack by onry Ward Beechor on ‘t'heodoro Tilton's honesty and yoracity, as foretblo—and no more—as Lhoddolo. Tilton's assault upon Hewry Ward Deccher's bonor and oharactor as o Clivistin. Both uro eyually inconclusive. Ono is tho ibdictmont of ‘tho prosocutor; the othaz, the roply of tho de- fovse. With n desire to do oxnct justice tn both parties—to decido tius Frnvo mnttor iu tha trtor- st of truth nud morality—tho grent Jury into which tho Amotican people bins resolved itsclt will await tho ovidence before pronouncing ity vordict, That ovidonce must cono from the lips of Francir D, Moulton, and he must be made to unseal them in o coure of law. *¢A COMPLETE VINDIOATION," Fhrom the Losion Gobe, It [Bocchor's statement] s n cimplete vindi- cation of hig charactor fram tho ingeuious wob of wlander which lay been so wickedly woven abouthim. . . . Wooun meeno reison why this deplorablo and mischiovons ecandal shoukl o eottiol auy farther by & judicial investigation. Tho-world has sufiicient ground on which to Jjudgo betweon Baechor and itton, T'ho pastor of Plymouth Church is vindicaled, and should stand all the highor in tho -world's' csteom for tho pemscoution and cuffering whieh ho has bornio ko loug in silenco, in_the hopo of provent- ing vevelations which would wmjure oluors far moro than himgolf ; whila Thoodoroe Tilton sliould iecoiva tho roprobation dueto n beartlsss and cruol husband, o falko friond, il n porjurod doramor. Tlo groatast merey thas ha can’hopo for i to bo loft in tho obsemivy of » socral out~ cast, TED Af A CONFESJION," eid {111 Beuister, ut ntatomont ho (Beechor) can wuko, it ean only be sccopled as i confoss sion, . . . Wolnd suppoxed the Committon would find him not gitey, and that tho Chuven would sustain the vordict, but in face of thiy statement wo do not bulieve they can do ko, ' A BTRONG DLPENBE." From the Clevetand Plain-raler, ‘Taking into necount tho poculr cireumstances of the Vlymouth pustor and his incentives to aotion, his oxceptional tomperament and tho -charactor of the man with whom ho has had pacticularly to do, wo think thai Mr. Bscohor hus presented o strong dofouso, *{ HIS VINDICATION NOT YET ACHIEVED," L'rom the Mibrzatctee Sentinel; It must bo admitted thae thoro s Romothing unsatisfactory in all this, But lot us cling to tho hope that from some source thoro will come a dlood of light in which every stazemont of Mr, Beochor will ctand forth an_ established fact, Christirnity aud humanity—-if the exprossion bo not redundant—can better spumo a_thousund Theodoro ‘Liltons thau ona Honry Ward Beochor, I'hough the Sentinel iu compelle d to say thet his vindieation is not yet achioved, it nbates no purt of the desire that it bus fait from tho firet, thnt ho may yot command n verdict of aequittal from no loss o jury than Chnistendom, and that his tenchingn, which ard in themsolven u gospol, iy lose no fraction of their forco in i exuwmplo, ' NOTIISG IN 1T Lraw the Toledo Btade, Wa nre disposed to beliove that public sonti- mant will andorgo littlo chango us tho rosult of tho jublication of this statomenl, "Whero in nothdng T i, excopt the unsuvported oasertion of Nr. Beeelier, having tho least weight in his favor. It mny Do unfust, but the world expects the man who bas been gmilly of tho ofonsa with which ho stands oharged to deny it,—to deny it uuder oath and at all times and places, ‘Lhis fact cannot fall to datract vory matorinlly from tho Importauco of Mr, Baoclior's unsup- ported statemonts, A “‘HCATHING RETORT." From the Hugule kxpress, Tha “brave silence,” for which Mr, Bocohor L Leon ko grossly censured by o lurgs n por- tlon of tho pross, is now offcetually broion, and tho scathing rotort which ho Foturms upon bis cowardly nesnilants will disabuso the minds of thoso wiio huve attributed his silonco to foar, or an inward consclousncss of guil, Ho has beon Victimized by his extraordinary forbearanco with tho insufferable ogobism and crazy whima of o disappointed vimonaly, who has boon building ridiculons castles iu {bio nir at (ho oxpense of bl luda-urcdulunu friend, whom ko lias Lusely bo- trayod, £ CATRYING CONVIOTION OF INNOOENOE. Lrom the Inaiunapolls News, Tha document is ono that will carey conviction of tha innaconca of tho anthor from the damun- bio chiargo of Mr, Liltan, to ol miuds not irie- \'?(!l:l_hly mads up (o beliove nothing oxculptory of him, ‘*AND YET WE OANNOT," Fromtha liocheater (N, Y.) Democrat, “Thoadoro ‘Lilton.in the worst of lurs, or Henry Ward Beechor is tho worat of men ; aud wo con- fons that, freals from tho perunnl of this stato~ mont of Mr, Booolior it i s dilionlt ag ever to dotermino tho status of onch. Wo want Lo be- lievo Mr, Ilecchior, nnd yot wo caunot. Wo aro hardly expocted ta do this ovon by himsolf, oluo had fie uot writton tha deprocatory words to whiah wo biavo alvomly ulludod, {%1 find mysolf in a positiou whore I know my innocence without boing nblo ta prove it” p “WILL QUESTION THE BUFFIOIENQY, Fyom tha Cincinnati Commercial, Wo foar tho public will quostion the snfliclonoy of Mr, D.'s defonso, “Tho publio fy prépated to bollove N, Tliton & very bad menj 0y are CHICAGO, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1874, moro anxions to know whothor Mr, Boachor is & very good one. —— nonobut/ = on1a” Monton ionld have farnished. If Mr. goodchy 5 ¥ coucaption of the valuo of g Do would know that no ono can THE OHIOAGO TRIBUNE'S ENTER. afford b ™7 Buoh statomonts nd ho mado to PRISE, . Mr, Toy © unlosa ho i propared to staud up ''THE VENY DEST PAPER IN TIE UNITED BTATES totle ? fofuwod to mako thom boforo f From the Terre Haute (Tnd.) Gazelte, lfigg‘l‘;k & :{:Ll'l:l“gh‘;f 1'_II'1|llry. Ho choso to Ti Onntcaao Trinune, through the agenoy of thont &5 ¥ from g Srg b JOTApanar, - and €5 2 oxplosion, That v its incomparabla corrospoudent, Goorgo Alfred | tho gim~ acoward; and wo might eall 1t Townsoud (' Gath"), has socurod, and publish- | oven & %, TN W od yostorday, six pages of corrcspondenco boe 4 Lrom the New Fork Expresy, tweon Tilton and his wite, welttan durlng tho i Jx. Moulton's doubla, part witt My, sovoral youra Inst pnat, It s, looked at from n Jouranlistio standpoint, o splendid atroko of on- his. rodord “witn Lnisung, it hio can hida himaalt from himsolf, 00U o frionds and Mr. Tilton's friondg, aud Townsond, of Tu Ciroaco torpriso upon {ho part of Tiz Tnnuse, which }‘:,;“é'linfity“(‘r‘,‘:"g tho Tout "’"t“fl“f ol uam, e UppoRe nt nresent that * Gaty thus agnin bas givon ovidonco that in not only | It 4 cliarly Into Moulton's mouth which ho the vory best paper in tho Wost, b {“DEATEN ALL THE NEW YONK AKD DNOOKLYN York and Brooklyn papers sud giving to the varnoious pubtio corrospon- enco on the Boochor seandal, of accommodate the voluminousnoss of this corros spondencoe. - » *WALRED AWAY wiTn THE PALM FOR ENTER- copies of tho much-nought-for Tillon lottoru,— tha lettors of. lova and confldonco whicl pasaed b and narly down to the ttmo slio mado n confoy- sion of guilt, Thoy fill {hirty-uix colmns of flno typo in Tnr Tuivung, and bave produced a deaided sousation throughout tho country, East s woll as West, Tux’ Cutcado Tummuni hay valked away with tho Pnlm for entorpriso in this W respeet, aud obtamed markablo lotlers betoro United States, to contiibuto one of tho most intoreating startling pages of the Boechor-Tillon seandal. Wuilo the Plymouth Church b fucts, and thoproes of New York has boon en- gaged in misloading and decelviug the publio by suppressions of tho truth and suggestions of I falsehoods ng bost Oi0100 Uninuye haa inndo s bold dash at the b of It i to Breoklyn aud got ail the information ha PO~ sibly could statoment, and the Llfm snlistaction of firut publishing' a sories o fail to havo n marked influenco on opinion, On Tucadsy an outlive of Moulton's first statemont, in which Lo mudo positivo charges of guilty conducs agaiust DIr. Beocher, markably cireumstuantial u » with Wi TRIBUNE in its stalomont that, *ng tween” this now unfortunato eonplo: will rank amoug tho celobratod love-lotlers of the world,"” i ton and his w selection jua v l{qrm! but a part of the mass of lotlers printed U yost : A frod oy was reproducod i our curiously supplonents the Becohor'sinctunl guilt or inuocouco which M, Moulton ia siaid to have maiutuived when bofore tho Commutteo, a four=pago supploment filled with lottors from Mra, Tiltou to hor husband, and from M. Litvon to his wifo, during n period coveriug, we boliov, moro thau four yonrs. Wo bLave this grent moss What seem to us to bo tho most dutoresting of the opistles, in_to-dwy's @lobe, columns of the lotters, in fino typo.] cotradpondouca between Theodore Tilton and s wio, 'iE TRINUNE of stailmont of stnrliing information, ombracluy %llw privato correspondenco ‘betweon Mr. pnd Mrs. lottors fill about Ininune, but the very o8t in the United Statos, PAPERS,” Irom the Duluque ITetepraph, "I'ite Ouieaco Tainue bos boaton all the New In bringing to light Tite TRInuNg way | grp bilgod to lssue a supplament on Thursday to T n s PRISE, From the Rock Island (Ill.) Araus, Trie Ciiicaco Twipuse of Thursday contatned | O cbwaon Tilton nud Lis wifo for somo yonrs past | 20 and published thogo ro- any other paper in the cou ** AN ADMIRATILE, STROKE O¥ ENTERFRISE."” From the Indiunapolis Journal, Tt hias beon resorved for & Western no\mpnpml- and Comtmitteo hun oon oxpending its energies in covering up tho , Sl sulted shelr purposo, Tz oart of Lo mattor. and_by o admirablo sirolio | 91 [ entorprino has brought out a gorics of facls itlo loss than stunniog in thoir charactor, Hay- 1z commissioned o specinl corrospondont to g did ac about tal Moulton's supprossed | cato gonerally, it hap paty focts aud of lotters which eannot Tur Tnipuse published aud supported thom by ro- statoments, . ., yontordny contnins a socond in- “Lilton_during tho lnst ciaht-years, Tho | 1O thirty-five columns of Mg .-« . No sueh letters havo boon ublinhed in modory timon, Wo entirely ngreo terary productiol tho correspondonco bo- “ THIE MABS OF LETTERS.” From the Dudiunapotis Sentinel, The Scntinel of this morning contains solece o [rum thoe correspoudonce’ of ‘Uheodoro Tt~ i ‘The rondor will say that tho tty oxtousivo ono, and yot it nol ing y'd CutoAGo TUInune. **THE EXTNAORDINARY LuTTER.” . ‘rows the New York Grajite, Tha oxtraordinary lettor from Mr, Goorgo Al- ud Lo Tie Uiticaao 'TRiouNE, which Iato” editious yustorduy, silonce a8 to Mr. ton {THIS OREAT JrAsy." From the St, Lonis Globe, - THE Cimoago 'MMBUNE of yosterday contained uolected from | Pul Lhoy will bo fonud [Tho Glabe: publishes eight BEMARKAULE THIDUYES OF LOVE AND CONEI- DENGE, From the Louisvilie Courier-Tournal, con Wo print, this morning, fult extracts from the {ra which fllied over forty columus of yos- novor uttared, but road or to juswer, ho must tuko tho cog. quonces of the Jtbol, it {t bo oo, MOULTON INTERVIBWED AS T0 1% BTATEMENTS W k A Times roporter caliod upon M. Moulton, at his residenco 1 Remaon for tho purpose of - mxltlnng whethor tho roporl of . St 2C0r: with of an interviow plied that ha hiad 1iot, cern himeolf about iho statements which might varianeo with the viously assumed in rogasd to Afr. this Mr. the report of tho intetview roferrod to, and did not intend to read mitted o statoment to the Committco, which shonld bo rogarded as the only one he deslired to porter represont to him that Dbl | it e g serions chargo of due Dlicits. Mr. dloulton's resolution was ifloxiblo, My tallc with 3, Moulton was held it have vrept’ futo thu tolographlc trr namivaion, Interview was ax printod; several thic gs besug 1ot ont by mio ou judgwment. Notblug was_ pervorted, nothe of your agenta to do s, Wi dues not.” Mo will not, unolLer burnt-oficring to B Complnints Agninse ing themsclves to o foaled by ecltish, a8 BIr. Moulton rofusos to 10 “aarir, From the New §' Tines, Yostorday evening eot, Lrooklyn, aninterview him which nopeared in ip Cntoaao UNE of Mondny last was corroct, 0 reportor inqulred if ho hind rond che account ith him which appenied fn Tue 10AGO 'LRIDUNE, lo which Mr. Moulton re. o gatd ho did not con- made {n the newspapors. 1Is had boon iy~ Topresontod by govoral jourunle, but Lo had Lulll(luu o troublo to contradict tho W subject of tho_inquiry beforo tho Lovostigating Conimitteo. The roporter thon obsiorvod that tho utatomonts ntiributed to him by the corre- poudent of tho journal nunod appeared to bo the moat important Iolsehoods ol ind beoa cirenlatod in connectiot with tho which had yet boon macle in imection with the cano, and " wera wholly at position wiich ho hnd pro- Becchor, To Moulton roplied that ho hud not rond it. Mo smd ho had sub- ko in conncotion with tho subject, From the New York World, A roportor micortuinod that Ar. Monltan haa roturned in tho aftornoon, nnd ho eatled his ate tention 1o tho oxtraordinfey paragraphy in Tirs 1CAGO TRIBUNE, In which ho (Moultan) charged - Beecher with Iylug. Mr. Monlton omphit- ieally declined to roply to any statoment 1 (hg public prosy alfecting his haracter, 1o snid ho Alr, Townsend's ve- pPropose to confirm lus not_intond to impeach ty, noither did ho tomont. 16 doclared do bofore Lk Committco, In yain did tho ro- by this courso ho lently took his departuro, **0ATI'S " NEWH * GENUINE, " Drookiun Disvateh to the Utica (¥, 1) Obscrer, Tho lotter frowm Goorga Alfrad Toirnsond, pib- lisied in 'I'ng Curcago account of an wtervigw with Moulton, la gonu- Tunuyg, and giving an . Your coirespondent was with Townsen:l at Mouiton's houso whon tho Bocchor-filton letters \vc‘ru given him to rend. 3 Townsend's statoment, Toulton does not dony tha correctnogs of AT FUOM MR, TOWNSEND, ‘Lho following appoars in the Now Yort paporn: Gooryo Alfred Townsund tol img eavd to tho Asuociated Lrosy sraphy tho fuilov- Banatoaa, N, Y., Aug, 1, Satuirduy, Lrrors mag Tho Sundsy, moruing nt 11 or 12 o%clack, colored, 1 did my duty, no'yon would oxpaet ono Yhy do yoit not got Mol to dony that intervicw beforo you discredit it ? Ho 11 unct. Nor will I bo e, Gronz A 'DED TOWNBEND, WASIINGTON. 10 Mnirict Coma minstoners—Mincolianeoun, Speciul Dispateh to The Chicago Lribune, Wasitizazos, D, 0., Aug. 16.~The District Commissiouers® reply to tho Committco of Tax- payers, ralutive to tho continunnco or ronward- itgs of tha coutracts mado by tho lato Board of blio Works, does not plense thoo o whom it was direoted, 'I'lio organ of this dissatisfiod nud dinplensod elomont of eit mmssionors to muke haste in putting the dovil e~ hind thom and comu down from the mountuin thoy hiave been lod to, ons, adyises the Come 1t elso charges thas in usolidating tho soveral sopurato Seliool Boards inco ono Board, tho Commiseionors hayo porpe tod an outrage upon the_community by wllow- designing torday's Cutoxto Pnnuse, Thoso woro Dbavrtics, for, says the papor mentioned, “at tho tho lcttors which Judgo Morcis, Tiltows | bottom of tho y el l[luxu,v i 0 job, and tho pub- couusel, gave to Georgo Alfrea Yown- ki, if not the Commiesionurs, seo through jc." toud, 'Tug Trinuse's correspoudent. 'Lhay BPEAKER DLAINE'S MIES, gover tio poriod of five yours beforo 3 About _tho only pronottnved opponout of Tilton's confession of guilt—the period during | Speakor Blaino hng just beon defeatod for ro- whieh, as sho asserted in hor toatimony, hor | election to tho llouso of Toprosontativos. hmsband treated hor with cruolty and negloct. | Glinton L. Cobb, presont Ropresentative of the ho lettors which aro publishiod” this moruing | First North Garaiin. Dialrict, is the gontleman aro sulticiont refutation of thin otatemont. Thoy alluded to. Unploasantucs exista” bobwoon aro mutually very remarkable tributes of love Colb and Bluine, or rathar Cublh don't like aud confldenco, Blzino. 'Iho North Carolinian's displonsuro is tavazely denounces * Gath, traordinary statoments published in Tug Crire 0Ado Trinuse congorning Moulton’s admission of Rocchor's confession’ to him of with Tlizaboth,” 1 W is & ““prosumption of their falsohood, nrising “asT.” From the New York Graphie. The World, in its frouziod defonso of Boecher, " who maddo the px- “Couliory Of this correspondont the Vorld snys that he *is o notoriously untriwt- orthy porson,” and of his avermeuts that thoro 1w las already House, and bo feolf that Lo desorved grentor considoration than weems Lo havo beon necorded bim, 1t g heon said by Cobl's friends taat, attributed to fooling that Blaine has slighted him in making up.tho furl Blaino loolied wpun im as . bog. 33 yonrs of ago, is rathar small in Ind faco nnd genoral appo aravce aro those of n House Committeos, nnd tha story has reashod Cobu's oars' that Cobb is only stabure, and ther, u ton yoars younyor chan ho roally i, but h sorved noarly thrso terms' in tho out ot tha charactor of tho corrospondont who ghould he bo rowrned (o the woxb mziced them.” An interosting comment upon Congross, ho would makto Blalne reuhian the authority with which this critioism is uttevad thet the boy lms many fricnds, and lho is found in_"the z spondent's assertion, comparo Mr. Moulton's reputation for truthful- nows with thet of “Gath," and this 18 bad for ‘ Gath,’ who Ifl"n_xuucintcd in tuo public mind Wi TOW NEW YORK PAPENS ACCOUNT FOR TIE ¥ACT m8 Lo exprensed 1L, to linvo them {tlio lottors] privted ot all, concluded flunlly not to furnish th A ters wore delivorad to Georgo Alfrod Townsond, and sont to L'ue Outorgo whoro they wero to n[vpunr {o-day or to-morrow. 1t Is nid hy somo ol th with him that ho felt undor obligation to furnisiy » li portance. It was undoerstood yestorduy that tho correspondonce botwesn AMr. “and from 1864 to 1871 would bo inall probubility pub- i soom rathor strange that this cor: shonld not have heon first given to somo New Y taris oxpluned by tho fuct that Tus Curicado L'nivoNE hns beon his steady and persovering Iriond, dofonding Lis courso and upholding hin charaotor* tl thinks ho lins rovonged himsolf on tha Now Yorlk m torly complatuoed, following sontonco from tho ** In ostimating the value of tho corro- thiorofore, one i obligad to 'ineg : ith tho 1Vorld, THAT THEY DI GET THE LUTTERG. . F'ram the New York Trivune, Mr, Tilton, feoling it n sacrifice of good tasto, hom to auy liome papor, hut to send them Woat., c:ordingly upward of 200 foolsonp pnros of lote Purnune on Bunday, Mr. Tilton's friends that ho sentimant of the West has boon ko strougl portion of his dovunentary ovidence for pub- icution thero hofore offering it in New Yori, From the New York Herald, v, Tilton's last coup is ono of no littlo im- the Mra, Tilton Mill Itwould uhod to-day in 'U'ne Ciroaco I'rinux pondonco ork papor, but M, Lilton's uction 1 this mat~ Mr. Tilton, In glving w copy of hiss_correapondenca fivst to a Chicago papor, ress, of whoso advorse ‘nmmdn Lo hay go bit- s means that Tue Cnicaco Tamuse has not should feol induonce nud obetructivenoss in the r. Lo (Bluino) will hinyo to run for ro -elcetion to tha Spoakoership of tho nost Houss. ik postal cards of 4 of uis and thow tho which wolght BIDY YOI STAMPED ENVELOPES, 0On account of a serious hiteh, tho contract for « supplying tho Govornment with eavolopay Tor four yeury, Lids for which wero opened on Fri- day lust, nay not bo nwardod for soveral days, und it is probabblo thiat, in ordor to overooms some of the objeq prosent thems: will doont it udvisablo and oxpodiont to roject ull of tho recnt bids aud ndvortivo for now pro- posals, 1t sooms that tho Morgan Envelope Compuny of Springficld, Mass, X bidder in the lot opoued last lv'rl'fluy. bus its bids ora in tuch involved, irvogular, nud unsatisfio- tory shepes that tho Depavtmoent iy disinelinod to necapt them, tional one thut his company han failed from the ions and diffieulties which now ves, the Dostmnstor-Genernl i tho loweat "o this objection is tho nddi- first to fully cmu‘)l_v with ity contract to fur- 0 quality agraed upon, PERIONAL, Ex-Gov, and Mrs. Shepliord have gono 1o Long Deauch; also Supromo Conre Ausociato Justico lor und wifo, Gon. Bion Lufover, ox-Uniled States Conaul at Nurcmberg, who is' woll-known 1u {his oity, is contesting tho Domacratic numination for Gon- Brosa in tho Fifth Ohio Distri e — FiRES, AL 8t, Bowds, " 87, Louts, Aug, 16,—There was & fire in the wholesnlo boot and shoo houso of Cutney, Storr & Co., No, 814 North Main ubrcot, nbont 1 o'elock this moraiug, dam; mainly by wator, sing tho stock about 15,000, "'ho ontlro stodk in the houso denotiiced Cfilton a8 lumloror ner necapted was iod at 8160,000; insured for B125,000, ay caiflu“:fli.fifl.fi uefthier of which it wiil do till the L"‘"‘ ) "-‘lm? ;”K)h‘ui" d’llm!’!‘lx nud“l(m'lw, ¥ | Now York, and tho North British and ) eroan- HAVAQE AMSAULTH UPOX MOULTON o s Dis- | SIB000 fn tho Royal of Livorpont; ton suld to the Committeo that honor would nob allow bim to tell what ho know, he had told it to & nowspaper correnpondont, and it was evou thon hawked abour tho stroots of Ohicago aud flylng on tho wires to fho romotest pirts of tho continent ? 1o had ymlml Into the var ot tho roprescutative of vy the wholo story of his connection with the il tou affair, 1o had desoribed ITonry Ward Boeche or a8 o lin, o traltor, an adultorer, o lech-r, Dlasphiomor, Awd whon ho waa confronted with the Chicago papor containing this minted proof ot his fusincority, the peacomuker ap tin retused Lo suy onw word, snd went off ynchting, Wo mighit doubt whother tho lotter was'n correct mrorz of Mr. Monlton's langnago, but it bears into by oould CLONURES 'TO_GATI, From the Now York Tribune, Will It bo Lelioved that whon Iruncis D, Moul- alroady | BiC Tuxe Cnrosao* I'ninuxe tual avidonce of nuthenticity. It {s full of nssagos which nobody hut Moulton and 'Litto, !Tmla Insplrod; fell of docuwmonts: whiel v and T'ho fire was the work of wn 1meendin OANTON, Bisn,, Aug, the Publio Squaro burnod nst originatad in %mvu been eanad by tihe explosion of u cox amp, £ 210,000 each in tho Liverpool, London, & Glbb, tho Imperinl, of Londou, tho North Amorlea, of Dhiladolphin, and the Tiartfor of Iartford ; , of Now York, of Bpringfield, Muxs, 1 85,000 aach in the Manhtt the Firo & Marine, At Canton, Misw, ho north sldo of night, The fira and 18 uuppunm} hly larp's stota, -0l Loss estimntod at 100,000 ; insuranes, OCEAM STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yorxk, Aug, 16,—~Arrivod, stonmships Col- tio and Qity of Lrussols, from Liverpool, Livenrooy, Aug, 16, —Btenmehips State of No- vada, Austria, and Baltie, fiom New York, ur- od out, that all that concorned ! Lim at prosont was tho statoment which ho lad $® NUMBER 359, BISHOP WHITEHOUSE, Memorial Services in the Episcopal Churches, 'llericws.of the Lifo and Lahors of the Dead Prelate, ' His Intimate Rglations with Presbyters of His Diocese, Sermons by Drs, Locks, Sullivan, i Powers, and Others, The Rev. Dr, De Koven, of Racine, Preaches at St James Chureh, Remarks of M. W, Fuller. In viewof the recont donth of the Bishop of Diinols tho scrvicos in the Episcopnl Chureh in thigcity wero communerative of thalata diocesan, aud the spaco nsually dovotod to sermons ia sur- ronderod oxolusivoly to thom, GRACE, Hermonby the Rey. Dy, YLocko, Tho Rectoz of Graco Ohurel proached yostor- dns morniog {o an unuwually Inrge congregation, Lo chusdh was heavily, droped with mourning, rolioved by n rieh*profusion of flowors, "I'he wormon ws as follows : oA workman that noedoth 1ok to be sehamod,—17, Tam,, i, 15, SincoIlast stood in this pulpit o gront and solomn change hos passed upon Lthis diogeye. In the midst of my holiday, by. the sun-kissed Jraves of Lake Geneva, the startling nows camo flashing to mo that my Bishop was doad. I any wino, in & pooulinr souno, for, With tho oxcoption of a fow months in my Deaconuto, I havo novor had any othor ecclesinstical Lend, o ordained me Pricst ; I have occupied for many years my close ofticial relutions with him, and with bim is bound up the whole conrse of my ministry, 1t wauld then be not only o doroliotion in my duty as the hend of a large parigh, but also un- natural for me to allow even ono Suuday to pnsa nwuy without a roforouco to tho Jife and charag- tor of ‘him who for twonty-three years wore thio mitro und wiolded the crosior in this great Dio- coso of Illinols. 1t isnot my purposo to entor fnto uny longhtened eulogium, for tho compliment bus been f2id mo by my brothren of o roques to furuish & momorial sormon at tho oponiug of the next Convention, and I want to resorvo til then the full measuro of whnt my limited ability can furnish In genpinge tho wido rango of gift aud gruco which churactotized our late Dige conn, I pald oulogium, for g0 T moany this morning's nddress to bo. 1 am not hera to raktoup old yuarrely, to refer to buricd dissen® elons, 10 oxpress tho points of difference which * may havo existed botween men in tho post, Lot theso bo covered with tho purplo pall of tha Bishop'a coltinn. Whon the very most is made of them, thoy touch no point of personalcharacter ; they show no weaknesy of undorstanding : they concorn uo privaio advantage, They occurred in tho ofticial ‘tenuro of the Dishop of 1llinols. ‘Lhioy form no part of the innerlife und tho man- ifuld ncts of Honry J. Whitoloueo, Suraly thoro I8 not kuch & doarlh of materiul in tho carcor of 3 the dead pretato thut wo need apoak of his Dlamishos, for never was thore opened bofore a spenket o richor treasuro of grand endowmont, and varied acquiromont than reveals iteelf inevon o cursory roview of him who has now returnod unto the Shopherd and Uishop of his soul. Known far aud wido,—iu_tho distant Russias, iho fuvorad guest of the Motropolitan, who do-, Jightod to plucoe him in tho seat of houor in his #otgeous Cathodral sud amd his splendid hiop areliy: in’ Buglud, prooted with upplause af Lamuoth and Oxford, and gracod withs tho high. ait honow Luut ronowned iniversity could con- fer; at Lome, adimired ovon by thoso who wern Liis opon enemies as a profound sobolar, a noble oxeentivo, & high-brod gontlomon, sud & spotloss Clristian, Ho' wasn ‘man of whom a grander domnin than this might woll Luvo beon proud nay, I have otton thought his propor placo would havo boen at tho head of a wore imwmenss nud well-ordered diaccso of anciout datn and sottled rocodont. Thero ho would bavo shone with villiancy bo novor, from the necossity of things, coald lisve hioro aciained. Lot wa seleot u fow points, not perhaps so prominont to the world ab Iarge, and 11 Whidh Ly stands out warkedly, Aud, tirat, bis marvelous industry, 'he Bishop of a large diocoso cannog indeed well bo an - idlo man. ‘I'ho routine duties of i allico, liko tho evor-ranuing. stops of tho trendmill, onforco o stoady murch, but, if ho go incline, Lio ean conflne himself to that work, and -oxcuso it woll to Lis couscienco by pleadiug its all-suiforiug, Dut Bishop Whitzlouso was no anel more routivo worker. Up to the day of lug doath, o was anintousa und aolivo etudont, During tho last wintor he gave bis city clorgy toguler lecburas in tho Groek Testamout, tia proparation of which alono wonld have boon considered nmplo literary work, Lo was woll ap in tho litoraturo of tho day. Ilis besutiful similo in the laut address from * Tho Parisiaus," showed that oven modorn fletion mok in him'n warin admirer, Ifo g lolt fnmenso quantitics of notes on all wnbjoets, Ho wns ovon in the habit of writing out couversations on ime purtant topics, and the mero sound of “his _normons, his loclures, his long and brilliant couversations, lusting somae tmes two and threo hours, wasastonishing, Il diceeo wan thoroughly visited ovory voar. 1lo spont un_enormous umonut of timo on tho road and awny from lome, so that one wondoers how it could ‘bo posivls fora wan so uucensingly aceuniod to huvo found time even to glance at tho beoks whioh hoso thoroughly mastored, ‘fhe buicst Proabytors of tho diocoso, voung, strong, hearty mon, folt ashamed and almost dig- hourtened when they compared their efforts with tho overy-tay achiovments of this old man,—this untiring vetoran, who scomed to have revorsod the ordinary ile of humanity, and to goin by Yery ago u power of eroator work, for cortainly hisTabiors huvo novor Leen 60 froquont ay in Lis Inst youron enttn, » Think of hiy varied accomplishments. 1lo was ouo ot tho moat thorough aud ncouento classical seholnes of tho day, Inover board hia uttor a falso quantity in lis omploymont of profuse Latin and Greok illustrations.” 1o spoke Frencl boautitully. e read Uorman and Italian as woll ss English. glish, 1o s thorouglily votsed in urt, aud hiwsolf handled tho poncil with nomeen sulll. 1lo wasu compotont archivect, and do- signod overything comnectod with tho Cuthedral, sl guyo mout valuable uug(qcugmm; intho build- ing of many ehurohes in his diocoso. 1o was a thoroughly educatod lawyer, aud could give yon tho yolumo uud the paye of tho most important lognl devisions. Ilo was a thoologian of tha flrnt vank, and, asun expositor of tho Scrip- turos, 1 do mot kmow his equal, Iudood, I cnnnot think of any departmont of knowledge whoro ho was an entiro strangor, and a tannor told mo thut bo wns thundorstruck st tho knowledgo the Bishop onco displayed jn a converantion of his obseura trado. iis Intollcotunl ondowinents wore of that pro-ominenco that fn suy dopartmont ha would ]m\'u boun conspicuous. As s diplomat, 58 a wtatosnnn, ne aJudgo of the Buptomo Court, as a soldior, Lam contidons o would havo shona diminguishod. o bud a forvant and brillians imagination, and though tho genoral and the truo_oviticism on his séyle would bo that it way fuvolved and somotimen bowildoring yot the thoughe was always grand, tho sinilios” lways- striking, the loglo always unaneworable, 1fjg head was clewr aud eool. The rivor of his thought fowed ealuly, strongly onj the winds