Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1874, Page 8

1 7 i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1874. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. cn). SATES OF STBECEIPTION (PATARLE IS ADY 1oal.....§12.00 | Sandss. P s 001 ek “Parts o1 3 yeat at the samoTate. o proveat delay aod mstaker, b mare sod give Post “idres in fall, including State and Cosntr- O tances may be mado either br draft, exrreas, Post Ofice ovder, or 1 registered lotters. &t our Twk. TERME 70 GITY FUBSCRIDENS. . Daily, deliversd, Sunday excepted 5 cente per woe P Geliverod, Busday included, % cents per woek- Adéress THE TRIB! Corner Madison and Uearbor TO-MORROW'S AMUE! o0 Mad- EATY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, betwesn hn‘ncn:gllnnm. Kngagement of Oliver Doud Byron. * Donald MeKar.’ M'VICKKR'S THEATRE—Madison Dearborn and State. Engagement of E **Hamlot.™ street, between dwin Adsms. e SOCIETY MEETINGS. tation st as carly & day b thav any_lsrothor, as le. Toe provisions ary suc e o B Eover his circumstancss may be, ca mako praviint y 1 Tor the comfort of his taimily i ca-0 of Ceat onons sanually, paid in small ln-tatimonte, Wil G ¢ want. ApDli el ore A TS RATR L fho omee of the Soclatr's Agnt, 8 Sludisensiy NRFEY R, CABEREY, Agont. CATETT! R, NO_2 . A. M.--Hall. 73 loge ‘_m’z.fil’, x:l:-oé‘uan Stunday eoing Ave B4R Midei, for bnvinoss aud work. A fuli and proiny G requested. Iy urder OBy TUCKER, Soc- - and sistor lodges will plesso tako 3 i e er acettazs of souih Yark Lodze e horeatter be hold every Wodues: A4 or- of TourdR AN i, Soor EUSINESS NOTICES. R OF CLARK AND inest and best fall “set en or munes refund The Chicagy Cribune, Sunday Morning, August 23, 1874. MR, MOULTON’S EVIDENCE. So far as the public is concerned, the Beecher- Tilton case is all made up. There has been no trisl, not even an investigation; for the case long since passed out of the hands of the Com- mittee which Mr. Beecher called together. They may make a report to Plymouth Church or not; it will not affect the public verdict one way or the other. Their conduct of the case and their treatment of the evidence before them have been euck a8 to deprive them of the right to reuder judgment. By a curious combination of circumstunces, the case is public property, and every mas muet make up his own verdict. i 10 unfortunate that it is so. It would have been better if we could have had a thorough and iwpariial investigation. 1t will be well, per- haps, for Mr. Tilton to carry the cage into the courts, as he seems determined to do. We msy then again suspend judg- ment, with a charity that every fair-minded man would be glad to sccord to this termible ac- cusation, until the courts decideit. But, if the case bo rested here, the public must pass judg- ment. We have Liad the accusation, the answer, and, in Mr. Moulton’s statement, the only evi- dence to which either the prosceution or the de- fense bas referred. That evidence sustains the prosccution. ‘Without trying to follow the labyrinth of doo- ‘uments, conferences, letters, agreements, etc., whici Mfr, Moulton found it necessary to pro- duce, his eiatement may be comprolended in threa points. 1. Afr. Moulton and Mr. Beecher.—Mr. Moul- ton ‘produces tbe originals of the Beecher letters quoted by My Tilton. He tes- tifies thai Deecher * admitted, with grief and gorrow, the fact of bis sexual relations with Mrs. Tilton,” He testifies that Beecher dictsted the ‘‘apology,” after expressing grest grief at the wrong he had done Tilton. He testifies thst this “*apology™ Lnd roference to nothiog else than the sexual intercourse be- tween Beecher and Mie. Tilton. He testifies that, in subsequent interviews, Beecher “un- qualifiedly confessed thet he bud been guilty of adultery with Ars. Tuton.” Fac-similes of the Beecher letters which Shearman, Beecher's coun- sel, denounced as forgerics, are n part of Moul- 1on's statement, having been reproduced from the onginals by the process of photo-lithog- rapby. Mr. AMonlton produces letters from Beecher to him even as late as March 4 aud July 13 of this year. Inthe former, referring to s charge of Mr. Shearman's that Mr. apnd Mrs, Tilton were ‘both insume, Beecher says: +‘I would rather have had a javelin launched sgainst me a hundred times tnan sgsinss those that have saffered <0 much ”; and, also: “I am sick, hesd, heart, and body, but must move on. I feel this morning liko letting things go by the rin." In a letter of July13, but s Lutle more than one month ago, Beecher wgid to Moulton : am sshamed to put a straw more upon you, and bave but a single consolation—that the matter cannot distress you long, a it must soon end. That s, thero will be 20 more unxiety about the future, whatover re- E7ets there may be 1 the past. 1f thess letters mean anything, they are an ad- mission on the part of Mr. Beecher, oven since ‘Tiltou’s accusation, that Mouiton was the pos- seesor of some great secret, and that he had guarded it faithfully and at great sacritice to himself, 2. Mr. Moulion and Mrs. Tillon.—Xir. Honl- . ton testifies that ke saw Mrs, Tilton's confossion of adultery with Beecher. He testifies that Beecher expressed astonishment and sor- row that Mrs. Tilton had made a con- Tesslon without forewarning him. He shows that ho is the possessor of Mre. Tilion's rocan- tation, and =is0 of the retraction of that recan- tation, in which she recites that it was written at Beecher's dictstion, and given to him for the purpose of protecting him 18 against oll others 6076 ber busvand. Mr. Moulton also produces afetter from Mra. Tilton to him, in which she says: “Rather than mske others suffer as I nfw do, Imust lie, foritisa physical impossi- bility for me to tell the truth.” The vacillating courss of Are. Tilton, and the contradictions of ber own letters, weaken the value of her evi- ?uca on either side ; buc Ar. Moulton B8YB: Mre. Tilton h_nmnra than once admitted to me, lnd £o snother person whom I do not care to bring into this controversy, the fact of her pared for & purpose,”—that purposo being to bush up the ecandsl Moulton aaas: ** The factof such eriminal intercourse boing well e derstood by Boecher, Tilton, and Mrs, Tilton, to bave taken place, my wholo action in the matter a8 based upon the existence of that faes, and w28 an endeavor, faithfully carried out by mein every way pousible, to protect the familiss of both parties from the consequences of publio disclogure of Mre. Tilton's infidatities to her busband.” 8. 16~ Moullon and Mr. TiZton.—Mr. Moulton sustelng Mr. Tflton's ohargo fa full sud with speciBontion. 1 produces We origioals of all the documents and letters cited by Tilton, and still others having the same bearing ontho case. Among the Iatter aro letters from Tilton to Moulton which indicato that it was understood between them throughvut that the chargesgainat 3Ir. Beecher was that of aduliory with Mrs. Til- ton. The lettor written on thecars in 1871, when 3frs. Beccher was mtting near Mr. Tilton, msy bo i taken us & sample of theso, Inthat letter, Til- ton writes : Tam unusually hesvy-hearted this morning. My sullen neighbor [Mrs. Beccher] keeps the dark and Jurid past vividly before my mind, 1fsheactually knew the conduct which her priestly husband has been guilty of, I believe she would shed his blood ; or, per- hape, sparing him, she would wreak her wrath on bis victim, There is a look of desperation in ber eye to- day, 88 If she were competent to ansthing bitter of re- vengeful ; but, perhaps, I misjudge ber mind. I hope Ido. Mr. Moulton also sustains the explanation ad- vanced by Mr. Tiltonas to his relations with Mrs. Woodhull, snd citos lettorsand circumstances to prove that Tilton's association with thiy woman was tothe end that she might be silonced. Mr. Moulton also testifics that Mr. Beecher's payment of $2,000 was for the support of the girl who had become possessed of the secret, and the 5,000 were given Moulton to put into the Golden Age, with the understanding betwween him and Beecher that Tilton should naver know the source whence it camo. oulton slso says that this monoy was given as a partial restitu- | tiou for the money which Beocher deprived Mr. Tilton of by forcing him out of his positions, but that Tilfon would not have taken it had he known that it came from Beecher. Moulton furtber declares that, whenever he hinted to Til- ton that Beecher was willing to help bhim with | moneg, Titton indignantly rejectod the proposal. These three points wo may take as the som and substance of Mr. Moulton's statement strongthened by collateral evidence drawn from various letters which he produces from different people, including members of Mr. Beecher's family. Itisall the evidence there is in the case a3 presented to the public. If the case is closed now—and we must believe it to be closed uuless it is taken into the courts—Mr.Tilton may end it whero ho began it nearly four yoars ago, withtho following demand : BroosLry, Dec. 26, 1870, Henry Ward Deecher : Sin: I demand that, for reasons which you explie- itly understand, you immediately cease from the min- istry of Piymouth Church, aud that you quit the city of Brooklyn as a residence, (Sigued) TrEODORE TILTON, FALSE LAND-CONVEYANCES. The disclosures of tho last few weeks show the facility with which forged conveyances of land msy be exccuted in this city, snd the suc- cess which may attend the eommisgion of such crimes. Our system of converances, and of ro- cording the same, and our system of buying and gelling land by abstracts of recorded title, fur- nish an almost unlimited menns of perpetrating frauds. Thus, where A is the owner of a Llock of ground, and B places on file in the record ofice a conveyance thereof to B, the record title, upon which property alone is kold in this city, passes to B, and, in the case of the death of A before tho fraud is discov- ered, Bor his assignecs would bave a titular claim npon the property which it would be diffi- cult to dislodge. Persous holding property rarely, if over, have thcir abstracts of title brought down, oxcept in caso of a sale, ad & fraudulent conveyanco of the property might be on record forten years or more and the real owner would not bLe swere of the fact. If this kind of conveyance' canm be = ex- ecuted in cases where the owner resides in this city, and the fraud successfully escape detection for years, how much more readily can the frond be practiced in cases where the owner is & non-rezident ? Property thus fraudulently conveyed may upon record pass through s doz- e fictitious nawes, or even through the hands of several bona fide purchasers, without discov- ory. In case the owner, whether non-resident ar otherwise, ie, the record exhibits at least a pri- ma facie title sgninst the estate, and it may be exwemely difficult for the hoirs to es- tablish their title, or to disprove the fraud- ulent one. Inthe particular case now brought to light, the fraud was detected in the life-time of therenl owner; yet on the abatract of the record tho fraudulent conveyances appear, to all intents and purposes as valid as if there were no question of their gennineness. When the matter is looked at calmly and considerately the wonder is, perbaps, not that such frands bavo been per- petrated or atiempted, but that they havo not beon more commonly practiced. As the great majority of the land sales are mado through professional agents, and without any personal intercourse betweon purchaser aod seller, the opportunitics for making the sale upon a mere exhibit of tho abstract are ample. To the success of euch & scheme it {a hardly neceseary that there ahould bo even an accessory, savo those requiste to personats tho grantors in the conveyance. These can posibly be hired for & comparatively smsll sum, and may go through their part of the performance without any par- ticular knowledge of the principals in the fraud. The Notary Publie, such is the univertal loose- ness of the practice in takiog acknowledg- ments, may certify to the execmtion of the deed without the elightest suspicion of fraud, or intention to share therein. The rest of the business is amooth gailing. The original of the forged paper onco on record is destroyed, aud the falso title is supported by the record. Thenceforth, on the chain of title stands the paper, to be claimed a8 conclusive proof of ab- solute title, or as a clond upon that title, to be removed oaly by purchase, While it standa, there can be no eale of the premises. It acts like & prohibition, enabling the holder of the claim uuder the forged paper to dictate his own The Iaw—nnd ws believe tho only law provid- found in Sec. 122 of the Criminal Code of this State, which reads: Every person who sl be & party to any fraudulent converunce of linds, tenements, or lercdituments, R00ds, or chiattels, or any right or intercet issuing out of the same, or to any bond, sult, judgment, or execu- tion, contract, or conveyance had, mede, or contrived, with fntentto decoive and defrsud others, or to de- feat, hinder, or delsy creditors or others of their just debts, damsges, or demands ; or who, being a party 18 aforesaid. at any time shall wittingly and willingly put in, use, avow, maintaln, justify, or defend the same, or any of them, as true, snd done, bad, & made in good faith, or upon good consideration, or sball sell, alfen, or ssaign any of the lan1s, ote., to him con- veyed as aforesald, or sny part thereof, shall be Sined Dot exceeding $1,000, The next section provides for the imprisonment in the Penitentiary, from one to five years, of any officeg who shall falsely certify to an me- Inowledgment of a deed * with intent to injure or defraud.” ‘We supposo the placing on record of & deed of converanco of real estato, the same falsely pur- porting to have been executed by the persons whore oames are forged thereto, would fall mn- der the definition of uttering and publishing & false sud forged inatrumont, aud hence be ing pensities for an offense of this kind—is forgery; for which crime the person convicted | may bo imprisoned from ono to fourtcen years. Tho provisions of law for tho punishmes: of this crime are mot as effectivo in its preventiou 28 would be some provision to protect the pablic records from the facilities with which they can now be abused. As it is, n hundrod forged pa- 1mal couverances may be to men of straw, and from these thero can be conveyances to the real criminals, who thus can claim to be *‘innocent purchasers.” The title toall tho land in the city is thus at the hazard of succes=ful forgeries, and there should be eome attention given to the protection of titles against these forged inatru- ments, which can be put on record without & question as to their genuineness. *“GATH'S” INVESTIGATION. We publish this morving the result of a fall and frauk conversation between Mr. 3loulton and our correspondont, r. Townsend, Two weeks ago, wo published the facts clicited by Bfr. Townsend in an interview the day previous with Mr. Moulton, and ‘every poity mewepaper that bad been anticipatedin the facts denounced our correspoudent a8 a fabricator and liar. We were eatisfied that he was right in his facts, though perbaps be was not fuily suthorized to publish themat that time. Alr. Mouiton has since pub- lished the wholo statement, part of which was sent to us by Mr. Townsend, and that statement proves that *‘Gath™ bad been ex- tromely careful and merciful to Ar. Beecher in what he had forwarded. On Friday, Mr. Moulton placod at our disposal, to bo telegiaphed here exclusively to Tur Cm- cAGo TRIBUNE, a copy of Lis full statement, that it might be issued byus in Chicago simultane- ously with its appearance in New York. Though | we did not avail ourselves of this to issue an extra, wo were ablo to present our readers with many mora colamns of tho statemont than the Associated Press seut over the wires, and more than appeared in auy other paper west of New York. Agreonbly to appoiutment, as soon a4 the statement bad gone to press in New York, our correspoudent went to Mr. Moulton's house in ‘Brooklyn, on Friday morning, and there, thetwo men being together, was reduced to writing the remarkavle and fearless revelations which we print this morning. In Mr. Moulton's public statement are given certain love-letters of Mns. Tilton, written after the grand trouble had be- gun ; these letters Beocher had handed over to oulton, pledgine bis word that he bad not an- awered them. Mr. Moulton, in bis statemant, expressed the conviction that Beecher had truth- fully assorted that ho had had no correspond- ence with Ler. It now appears that, after she left her husband's house, Tiltos bad found,ina presentation copy of the Life of Christ, several letters from Beecher to Mrs. Tilton, written in secret, and in the face of Beecher’s stern denial that bo was having any correspondenco with her. Mr. Moulton, who feels no longer under auy restraint of secrecy to the man who has de- nounced bim as a blackmailer, reveals not only tho fact of Beecher's confession of adultery, but his explanation if not defence of it. He declares that Beecher represented his own home as a sost of hetl, and Tilton's & bower of peace and bliss. At home thero was jealousy and want of appreciztion ; st Tilton's admiration, apprecio~ tion, and generous criticism. He fell medly in love with Elizabeth, and, commending them- selves in prayerful appeal for guidanco, they, in the very exaltation of pioty, abandoned them- selves to love, conscious of no ein and of no offcnse against Heaven. Any one who reads Beecher's explanation and defense of his rela~ tions with Mrs. Tilton will understand much of that inconsistency shown by the latter, who, while confessing the physical adultery, refased to understaud or comprehend how it could be sinful. Mr. 3foulton, froed from the relations of a ‘mutual frieud, turns upon the accusing Beecher with a vebemence hitherto unknown in his part of the transactions. He applics to Mr. Boecher epithets which fitly describe s person gilty of what he holds Beecher to be convicted. Hesup- plies the gap in the testimony so Jong open, and that was, 1f the accusation from the begwning wag an sdulterous relotion, what oxplanation or extennation did the man of Plymoath Chureh offer for his conduct? It now sppearsthat at 20 time, between Beecher, Tilton, Moulton, snd alrs, Tilton, was there any other crimo mention- ed than the one. Thoinjury of having advised a separation seems never to have been discussed a4 nll, and tho suggostion that the offenso was an improper overture to Mrs. Tilton was a simple invention to satisfy the curiosity of other parties, and, by diverting attention, enable the parties the better to preserve the secret of tho great and onty offense. Bereaftor, itis not likely that AIr. Townsepd's interviews with Mr. Moulton will be questioned. . TEE PERFIDY OF BOWEN., The tangled record of the Beecher scandal, which Mr. Moulton has now o completely un- raveled, containg & history of personal perfidy within itself, spurt from the record of the princips] actors in the drama. However com- plicated this record has been, into whatever devious paths it bas led, however much doubt may havo grisen from timo, to time in the pablic mind, however mauy lies may bavo been told (and their number seems to have been legion), the story of ono man's perfidy Las boen clear and uumistaksble from the beginning. Every letter and document points to him. Mr. Tilton's charges, Mrs. Tilton’s statemeut, Mr. Beecher's statoment, and Ar. Moulton's statement; the letters of the various partics ; the testimony of witnesses, bowever much they may differ on other points, all bear directly or indircctly on the conduct of this man. Whatever doubts may havo existed upon the part of Tilton's friends as to Beacher, or of Boecher's friends 23 to Tilton, or of both as to Moulton, there has never been a doubt on the part of snyof them as to tbe role which this double-faced partner in the scandal played. His name is Heory C. Bowen, proprietor of the Now: York Independent—a name Which henceforth should ba the synonym for all that is meap, treacherous, and contemptible in human natare. This man Bowen set the gcandal on foot, and then commenced bLis infamous intrigues. At s time when Mr. Tilton was aware of Mr. Boecher's improper advances to 3frs, Tilton, Bowen came to him snd poured into his ear certain other ac- cusations. Hethen brought to himaletter which he bad written, the purport of which was a do- mand that Beecher should quit preaching snd leave Plymouth Church, and induced Tilton to sign 1t, giving his word that ho would sustain snd prove the accusations against Beecher, being st the ssme timo aware of Mr. Tilton's own charges agamnst Beecher. This letter Bowen took to Beecher. The latter was alarmed, and eaid Tilton must be arazy; but the crafty Bowen, who had just bsen divatzing cars pers may be put on record every day; the orig- | tain storics of Beecher's inf cies to Tilton, comforted him with tho assurance tbat he would Ve a friend to him. His noxt move was to mform Tilton, who was on his way to see Beecher, that, if he intimated to DBeecher any of the stories which he (Bowen) had told him, he would dismiss bim from the Independent and the Union. Tilton replied he was not in tho habit of being influenced by threats, and Bowen, for once at least, kept his word, broke his con- tracts with Tilton and dischsrged him, and in this action Beecher acquiesced ; indeed, hewrote to Bowon beforehand counseling it. Mr. Tilton being out of the way, Bowen was profuse in Iis sympathies with Beecher, and took occasion to fill his not uowilling ears with stories of Tilton’s amours—a confidenco which Beecher return ed by also telling Bowen charges which he bad heard, and which he sub- sequently, in s Jetter to Bowen, declared were false. By and by, it became evident to Beeclior that Bowen had boen busy with his reputation, and this resultedin & conference, which led to an affectionate reconciliation between them. Beecher was never to tell wrong stories about Bowen, and Bowen was nover to tell wrong stories about Beecher. Bowen had already de- ceived and played false with Tilton. How did he keep his contract with Beccher? In less than fortv-eight bours after the reconciliation, Bowen was closeted with Joe Howard, a gossip- ing Bobemian, and bossting to him that he knew of things egainst Beecher that would drive him out of Brooklyn, if they were mado public. Menawhile, Tilton had commenced suit against Bowen to recover the money that was rightfully due him. Moulton, fearing that such a course would reopen all the family troubles and maxe tho scandal public, commenced negotiations with Bowen for & private sottlemont. Bowen mountoed bis hirh horse snd would not listen to anything of the sort, and tried intimidation, Moulton, however, is not one of the kind who are intimidated. He boldly denounced Boweu a8 perfidious to every one, and notified him he was awaro thas he (Bowen), within forty-eight hours of his protended reconciliation with Beechor, had been zetailing scandals abont the Intter, not only to Howard, but also to Oliver Jolnson, and that Johnson had come to him (onlton) with Bowen's worda: *I cannot stand it any longer. Yonsud I owe aduty to society in this matter. That msn ought not to stay another weok m his pulpit. It is not safe for our famlies to bhave him in this city.” The yosult of Mr Moulton's diplomacy was the” aibitration of Tilton's claim, its decision in his favor, the prompt payment of the claim in full, and an edi- torial disclaimor on Bowen's part that he had ever known of snything affecting Tilton's char- acter. Then followed the memorable tripartite treaty signed by Beecher, Bowen, and Tilton, and all was quiet for a time, until Bowen was again at his game of retailing scanaals, which shortly led to the explosion in the columns of rs. Woodbuil's paper, which in turn precipitat- ed the svalanche. Bowen had worked his pur- pose, and, from the time the ‘avalanche com- menced moving until now, he has not opened his mouth. Henry C. Bowen now keeps himaelf in obscari- t5, probably enjoying the ruin ho has csused. Ho diligently prevared the way for this scandal; and when the time wasripe set it afloat. Hehas been unremitting in his detormination to keep it alive. \Whenever the fire has burned low, he has added fresh fuel and fanned it into a blszo again. Ho has played false with both Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton. Under the guise of friendship aod the' cloak of religion, he has craftily kept this scandsl alive until it bas brought about the catastrophe; and he now steps one sido and from some snug retreat writes articles for the Independent, enjoining upon its readers the duties aud besuties of leading cor- rect lives. That catastropbe has broken up Mr. Tilton's home, has clouded his whole life, has exposed his wife 28 8 weak, falss woman, and has stamped guilt upon Mr. Beecher's forebead. The condition of either ons of the three, piti- ablo as it is, is preferable to that of the Meph- istophelea of this seandal. THE MUSICAL SEASON. The summer vscations are nearly over. The musicians are returnng to their duties again. Thoe managers aro alroady busy over thoir pros- pectuses, and some have sent them out. The preliminary work has been 8o far sccomplished, that we can now take a general outlook over the field and seo the character of the musical hosts advanciug to storm the public pocket. The n- dications are now that the musical season of 18745 will be fully up to the average of, and perhaps more prolific in, attractions of all kinds than last sesson, There will be at least a8 many musical performances as people will find time to attend or money to pay for. Z0¢ opera there will bo fonr seasons,—one of Itahan, one of English, one of opera bouffe in French, and one of opera bouffe in English. The Italian troupe is, of course, under the man- sgement of Max Strakosch, and comménces its season in New York, Sept. 23, with * La Travi- ata,* which has doue duty 8o often at oponings. Tho troupe will comprise Mlle. Albani, the ac- complisbed artiste of Mr. Gye's Royal Italiso Opers, London, who s been yery successfal in Europe; Mlle. Heilbron, who was tho prima donna of the last Paris scagon ; Mile. Potoatini and Mlle. Maresi, prime donne soprani; Miss Anna Lonise Cary, prims donna contralto; M. Caslo Carpi, Debassini, and Devillier, primi tenori; Signors Taglispetra and Del Paente, primi baritoni; Signors Fiarini and Scolars, primi bassi The dircctor of orchestrs will bo Signor Muzio, the sble leader of last goason, assisted by Mr. Behrens. “Aida” and “Lohengrin™ will be reproduced. In addition to these, snd the well-known standard operas, “The Star of the North,” *“The Flying Dutch- man,” * Ruy Blas,"” “Romeo and Juliet” (Gounod), *William Tell,” and Verdi's ** Requi- em ™ aro announced—announcements, however, which should ba taken at the castomary operatic discount. It is also promised that the chorus and orchestra will be strengthened—which will ‘bo neceesary if some of the last-named works are to bo given. We have not yet received the proepectus of the English troape, which will bo under the managoment of Afr. C. D, Hess, and commenco {ts season in this city Oect. 5. It will be s grateful sonouncement, however, to the mugical public that, in sddition to Miss Kellogg, who is still at the head of the troupe, thoso ald favorites, Mr. Campbell.and Mr. Costle, who have o long besn absent in Europe, have joned it. We have notyet been apprised of the repertoire, but from the fact that Miss Kellogg is now studying the role of Edifh Plantagenet in Balfe's **Talieman,” we msy bo sssured of at least one novelty. The opers boufts sessons’ will bo two in num- ber, The Aimee (Freach) troupe has boen thoroughly reorganized, and the selections from ¢he French theatres hsto bsek mads with she view of having the cnsemble as perfect as pos: ble. The new comers aro Mifes. Minelly, Gan- don, and Kid, and MM. Dubouchet, De Beer, Genot, Guyot, sud Leonard, all of whom have acquired local celebrity in Paris. The troupe opens under the management of Messrs. Grau & Chizzola, in New York, on Sopt. 24, the inau- gural cpers being “La Timbale d'Argent,” to be followed by ¢ La Princesse de TJrebizonde and * La Jolie Parfumeuse,” all of which are new here. The otber troupe, under the sams management, is an English one, headed by Miss Emily Soldeoe, and known s the Soldene Troupe, but, 25 it has not yet finished its ssason in Englsnd, no details of its plsns have been mado public. : The concert attractions promise to be quito as strong as the operatic. Mr. De Vivo has organ- 1zed a troupe which will begin operations in New York on the 21st of September. It includes’ Mlle. Di Mureks, whom Mr. Maretzek did not bring hore last Season ; Signor Ferranti, the fa- vorite buffo; Signor Della Rocea, tenor; Signor Draga, ’cellist; M. Sauret, violin- ist, and Toiesa Careno (Mme. Sauret), pianist. Thie is oneof the most effective concert com- binations ever made in the country. Three Boston instrumental clubs will also favor us with a call, 88 follows: Tho Mendelssohn Quintetto, William Schultze, first violin ; Carl Hamm, second; Thomas Ryan, viola and clano- not; Edward Heindl, flute aud viola; and Ru- dolph Hennig, "cello. The Philbarmonic Club, Bornhard Listomann, first violin; Fritz Liste- maup, second violin; Emil Gramm, first viola; AL Adolph Belz, second: Rudolph Hartdegen, ‘cello; and Engeno Woiner, flute; aod the Beothoven Quintette Club, who will bo accom- panied by Mrs. J. M. Osgood, ouo of the rising young singers of Boston. In addition to these clubs, Mastor Walker, tno piano prodigy,.who was in this country last winter with Mrs. Scott-Siddons, will give concerts here in October. As yet, it is too early to indicate the music that will bo furnished by our home talent, bat both the Apollo Club and the Bocthoven Society witl be in the field again. Tho chinks in the season wa may expoct will be filled up with the Turner Hall and parlor and church concers, Whose number, 25 usnal, will be legion. y Tho above ennmeration comprises all the im- portant music we shall bave, and probably in these hard and dull times most people will think it amply sufficient. While we do not snticipate that any of tbe managers will enrich themsolves, yet thero is & prospect, if the attractions aro as strong ss proiised, that they will do a fair busi- ness. This is not only true of this city, but of the whole country. It ia not probable that the season will prove & golden ono to managers. MOULTON'S MOTIVES. Now that Moulton has Jaid his statement be- foro the American people, and 80, we suppose, terminated his connection with the Beecher- Tilton scandal, it may not be inapproprizte to review his career since he firat became a party to it. Moulton had been, as he staies himself, Tilton's friend for twenty years previous to the time that ho first heard of the scapdal. He had been personally acquainted with Mr. Beecher for only one year. In 1870, he became scquainted with the circumstances of Beecher's criminal relations with Mrs. Tilton, From the first, be foresaw that there was great danger of the scandsl’s becoming public, and from the first ho did everything to keep Tilton (over whom, as his lifolong friend, he had vory great influence), from making the re- volting history public. He saw that, whils Beecher's offense was s great injuty o his friend Tilton, the publication of it could effect 0o good end. It would bo a reflection on Til- ton's children. It would be & reflection on Beech- er's children. It would destroy Beechers - fluence for good, and so0 assume the proportions of a national calamity. Impelled by these con- siderations, he assumed to act as 8 mediator between his friend Tilton and the offender Beecher. Without any motive but to save the character of his friend and the good name of his friend's children, and to gave the cause of public morality, be has been to infinite pains during four years, only to see his efforts at the end unavailing, and to be stigmatised by one whom be had dono everything to serve 28 5 blackmailer. His courae throughout has been most honorable. Of all the parties to the con- troversy bo is the only one whose reputa- tion has not suffered by tho investigation. Beecher, snd Mrs, Tilton, and Bowen do mot stand 28 well in tho eyes of the American poople as they did when the Committeo began its mittings. Moulton, on the otker hand, who until about that time was scarcely knowa to the country, has made o very pleasing and fav- orablo impression upon public opinion. He checked for four long years the storm which threatened ‘Tilton, Beccher, and their familics. He bogged Tilton mot tomako any charges againat Beecher, and, after they wero made, he besought tho Committeo who were in- vestigating them not to proceed with their ex- aminstion. Ho has done everything to smother up the affair, and uttered not one word that might fan the flame. He hzs been true to Til- ton, but he has been equally true to Beecher. ‘When he made his first statement he presented only just enough evidonce to eupport the ve- racity of Tilton’s oath. He endeavored to in- jure Beecher just as little a8 he conld, and sup- pressod most of the evidence which: ap- peared in his sccond statement be- causo it was not absolutely demanded. He has known throughont how to keep his own coun- sel, and has not dropped 2" word which was not wrung from him by circumstances over which he had no control. When finally he published his entire statement, it waa only because his own good mame imperatively demanded it, and be- cause the whole country cried out for it. Beecher khimself, &l be discovered that Moulton conld not be influenced to serve him at Tilton's expense, expressed tho highest regard for Moul- ton. He said that Alonlton’s kindness to him could never be repaid; that God had raised up many friends to him, but that Moulton had served him in o way that no other man ever bad sa opportunity to serve him. He trusted him implicitly. He had been a friend to all—to Mr. Tiltoo, Mrs. Tilton, and to himself. The public have now ample proof that the praise of Beecher was not at all unmerited. When Moul- ton divulged the secrets confided to him, it was only after the parties between’ whom he had so long scted a8 mediator forced him to do so. Deecher now accuses him of blackmail, fust as he accuses Tilton of slandor, There are many who may believe Tilton capable of slander who will not think Moulton cspable of blsckmailing. Tilton might have possibiy some inducement to slander Beecher; but what inducement can Moulton have to sitack = gisat in influcnce to preserve s pigmy in influence? ‘Wero there any selfishness in Monlton's natare, he could have served his own cause by siding with Dacchez, against Tilton. Plymouth Churah, Beecher, and his friends would have taken him to their bosom. He would have shared their in- fucnceand their protection. But we find him siding with Tilton ruined in hix home, his busi- ness, and his prospects, with no possible motive for his siding with him but the desire to see jnstics done to all. Moulton is the light in & picture othorwise all darkness. ‘WOMER AS VOTERS. The friends of woman-suffrage ara apt to think that so enumeration of the legal and socisl disabulities of women, with a few jingling phrases about the tyrant sex, is sufficient proof that tho ballot should be the freewoman’s, as well as the freeman's, birthright. They are, or they pretend to be, unaware that the real gues- tion on which woman-suffrage hingesis: Will good government be promoted by the admission of woman to the franchise? If not, the imsgi- nary legal and the real social dieabilites of the sex will be no good reason for giving it anything to do with government. We have in previous articles shown that the effect of woman-suffrage upon liquor legislation would bo in the highest degree projudicial to the bept interests of the commonwealth. What would be the effect of such an innovation in incressing the number of ignorsut voters? Our figures are takea from the consus of 1870. There were, in 1870, 18,740,869 white and col- ored temalos in the States of the Union, The general ratio of one adult to ome-and-three- fourths children would make 6,814,861 of these persons over twenty-one. These figures, then, represent the number of new voters who would be created by » woman-suffrage constitutional amendment. Neaily one-third of them can neither read nor write. By the census, 2,035,707 white and colored women over 21 years of age are in this pitisble condition. It must be re- membered, too, that these illiterate women would be, a8 class, far more apt to poll a full vote than their better-educated sisters. Itis so with mon. The iowest classes vote iudefatigably. 1t would be g0 with women. It is eaid that every Southern negro must vote at every election or be ostracised by his fellows. Thus the full black vote is always poiled; the fall white voto, never, The 935,436 illiterate negreeses over 21 would presont themselves st the polls with un- Tailing regularity. ~ When such gross illiteracy has been sllowed for, the tale of ignorance Las been by no means fully told. Women who can read and write arenot rescued from ntter political ignorance by those sccomplishments, The weaker sex does not read the newspapers, does not read the books of the day—unless they happen to be novels. It is utterly ignorant of the topics of the time. Thero are brilliant exceptions to this rule, no doubt. We canno: too gladly recognize that fact. Bat the briiliant exceptious only throw iuto deepor darkneas the political childishness of the average woman. Tt is true that her exclusion from poli- tics has partly kept her ignorant of them. And it 1may be true that that exclugion has been unjust. But all this does not alter the fact of ignorance. That remains. Until it can be removed, womaa- suffrage will but carry ‘on the debasing process which the votes of illiterate men have begun. It must strike an observer as the height of folly that 7,000,000 adalt persons, not one in s hun- dred of whom can give an intelligible sketch of the system of government under which most of them bLave passed their whole lives, should clamor for the power to help administer that government. This great objection to woman-suffrage can be greatly weakened by education. Let women get koowledge. They will soon find that it is power. ‘While they remain in childish ignorance, they must expect to ba treated as children. RITUALISM BEFORE PARLIAMERT. Both Houses of the British Parliament have agreed to & bill, which is best described, in the words of Prime Minister Diaraeli, as a bill to put down Ritoalism. It has been discovered, however, by the Lords and Commons, thet put- ting down Rituslism does not mean anything whatever 8o long as there is not so much as s definition of Ritualiem. And so it happens that the bill is not to become & law until after sn- otber Parlisment shall have met snd defined what Ritualism is; what practices are included under the name, and what are not; what cere- monies may be innocently indulged in in English churches, and what it would be illegal and heretical to tolerate. On the definition which the next Parliament shall make of Ritual- ism, & great desl will depend. Should Ritualism be g0 defined a8 to make offensesof what a largo portion of the English Church consider at most essentials of their religion, a secession from the Established Church may be looked for. The Commons were disposed to be even more stringent against the Ritualists than the Lords. 1t is well known that soveral of the Bishops are ritualistically inclined, while the two Archbishops of the Kingdom are strictly Low Charch. Consid- ering their lesnings, it was feared that the Bishops might reject the complaints made against ritualistic ministers by their parishion- ers, The Commcns proposed as an smendment to the original bill that, in caso of such refusal, the latter shonld have an appesl to the Archbishops. The bill came back to the Lords with the amend- ment ; but 8o great wa3 tho opposition of the Bishops that the smendment wss lost. The Dishops of Winchester and Lincoln were espe- cially violent in their opposition to it. The former would not hear of an Archbishop's usurp- ing authority in his diocese. There was, he claimed, a8 Btrong scriptaral suthority for the government of & Bishop in his diocese a3 there was historical authority for the fact that Cmear governed Rome. The episcopacy, Iy assorted, was & divine institution, and if he did not be- liove that it was he would trample his robe on the ground. The foundation of the episcopacy wag that the Bishop was the ruler and judge of his diocese. Archbishops were not 88 ancient as Bishops. They were only the Presi- dents of Councils. Bishops were Bishops by Divine ordinance. Archbishops or metropoli- tans were such by human ordinance. Chief- Justice Holt has settlod that matter in the caso of Long ve. Watson, in which he held that Bishops were Bishops jure divino not jure hu- mano. The Bishop of Lincoln was equally laudatory of the rights of his order. He in- quired whether the Lords were going to estab- lish a Papacy in Canterbury, and whether they wers going to bave an anti-Pope at York To avoid the Beylla of Puoritanism and the Charybdis of Romanism, it was necessary to gteer midway between the two and not Jeave everything to the decision of & metropoli- tan, who might be incompetent or prejudiced. Bir William Harcourt, the grest Protestant lesd- er, did not approve of the action of the Lords oa the amendment to tho bill. The Bishops, too, received rather rough handling at his hands. He could s08 nothing diving in the right by which they bhald their affices, They wwre Biak* oia ops, 1ot by the grace of God, but by the fayey of a Prince or Prime Minister. Thers was Just 88 much 0 be gaid for the divino right of Hy. opa as for the divine right of Kings, and justay little. Ho thought that the axis of the worg was turoed backward when tho Bishop of Wig. choster quoted Lord Holt in supporg o tho proposition thst Jjurisdiction of fhe Bishops is jure divino. There WS ng divino right in tho occuvation by & roverend geutloman of Fsrabam Palace. It was notby divine right that the Dishops had seats in the House of Lords. They sat thers by barony, ngt by divine right. The richest part of the whols discussion was that taken by Disracli, in Which, the good Israelite showed 20 much solicitade fop the wolfare of the Church of Eogland, aaq spoke of the Ritualists as 3 pernicious sect, To ordinary minds Ritualiam sppears a rather harm. less thing. If thero are mon and women in the Church of England 80 very fond of Wax candles, flowers, and incense, why shomid they not be pormitted to indulge their harmlesy tastes? Che Church of England, if 1tis Wise, will allow the Ritualists to go their way, aug not endanger the peace and unity by oppasitia to candlo-sticks and flower-pota. — THE GROWTH OF MOHAMMEDAR®Y, The popular ides that the religiou of Islam reached its climax long ago, and has since beeq in & stato ‘of slow dzcay, is very mnfoanded, The sway of this faith is not limited to Western Asia and Northern Africa. It hus mastered Tar- tary. It has spresd from India into the Indian Archipelago sad over China. It prosolytes vigorously in Afrca. It has traveled up the Nile. Tribes from Sierrs Leono to Zanzibar profess it. It has gained a footing in South America. Thousands of persons in Trinidsd and Guiana adhere to it. 1t is giving battle slong the wholo line. It i growing along the whole line. To a few people the growth of any other than Christianity is matter of grief. But ‘most porsons will see & substantial gain in the replacoment of bloody and barbarous faitbs by Islamism. The religion of Molhammed has been corrupted. S0, for that matter, has Christisaity, “Islsm " is from a root that significs **submis- sion to God aud faith in Him." It is counected with ¢ Salam "—* peace,” and “Salym”— bealthy. The origial creed contained thre central truths,—the unity of God, His completa righteousness and mervy, and the true mission of Mohammed The old faiths which Islamism has supplanted have endowed it with some of their dogmas, good sod bad. The Moslex has come in this way to believe in the resurrection, tho fature life, the existeace of angels, and tho dubies of almsgiving, festing, and pilgrim- ago. The fatalism usually aitributed to him belongs to his natare rather than hia faith. It is taught but indirectly in the Koran, as it is in the Epistles of Paul. Mohammed alloved polyzamy and slavery, because e fonad them already existing. So did Christianity. ‘Tho sensual Paradise of the Moslem is the invention of later days. The Prophet wroto in Oriental hyperbolo. Hie followers interpreted Literally. Such a religion, despite its shortcomings. brings its votaries nesrer to civilization than the do- grading forms of faith once current in their countries. The fact that it has overcomethess creeds shows that it is beiter adapted than they for the Oriental mind. Relgion is apt to be & matter of the survival of the fittest. Tho corrupt Christisnity of the Eastern Empire yielded st once before the al- ternative of the Koran or the sword. Itacor- ruption had destroyed the fervor of its believers. It was but & Torm when Mohammedanism sup- plapted it. A recent writer—Mr. R. Bosworth Smith—argues that Islamism should ba consid~ ered rather as Christisnity's weaker sister than 88 its enemy. He believes that it embodies as much trath as the Orient can grasp mow, and that Christianity cannot expel it. This msy ba an extreme view ; but the fact remaina that one of the great causes of civilization now at work in the world is the faith which we aro wont t0 consider dying and almost dead. During the past week ord blackmail bas been bandied about with anwarrantable freedom. A story of blackmail comes from Toledo which is of double interest as s contrast with that which called out tae word in Brooklyn. The story ia this: A week or two ago, while am anxious public was awsiting & “defense,” the widow of ex-Senator Hall, of Toledo, received a dirty letter, written in' a°dirty misture of bad Eoglish snd worse German. The writer threstened to burn down her bouse if she did not without dalsy deliver to him in s mannar specified the sum of $5,000. Mzs. Hall did not mortgage her house to raise 35,000, She oaght perhaps to bave done 80, to prove her ionocencs. On tho contrary, she handed the lotter to tho police, and & trap waa immediately set for tho blackmailers. The lotter directed Ler to drive out alone to s secluded spot and deposit the money in & Litle box, wiich she was instructed to cover with dirt. (Observe the- parallel) A « mutual friend” wonld take the box, snd the ‘blessing of Heaven would reward her. Tie trap was get. Mrs. Hall drove out, preceded by & disguised detective. Sho deposited the mones, but nothing being developed, took it back sgain, aud returned to tho city. Thea came another blackmailing letter, threatening to kidnsp ber gon if shedid not instantly obey the direchioms of the writer She instantly obesed as before, and nothing came of it. A third letter threat- ened her with all sorts of tortare, and again tho gnare was laid. So far mothiug has resulted. By appealing to the police Mrs. Ilall has beett spared the mortification of sitting on the **rag- ged odgo™ of anythiog but sdventure; tho blackmailers have made nothing out of ber. The New York Sun claims to have irradiated 2 6pot 1 the onlightencd Commonwealtl of Massschusetts heretofore obscured by tho msts of superstition. It is known astbe Bailing Summit Lake, situated in Berkshire County. This laie was long considered unfathomable, and the unit- ed wisdom of Berkshirs County concluded thatit was tho crater of an extinguisbed volcano. Nob long ago this wonderfa! lake, 80 tho stcry went, was violently agitated with subterranean beat. It was suddenly transformed into » maturil ssucepsn, in which millions of eager pickerol 2nd unsanced trout were prepared for tho credu- lous people of Berkshire County axid clouda of steam and parboiled v:gel:-'mm. The story continues tbat after the poiling had con; tinued for soms time the water disappearcd. a0 then reappeared minus the fsh, all of which u;\;q people of Berkshire County believed and re ishe ed. The Sun sent & reporter to this lake. the plenipotentiary found the boiled pickerel swimming unconcernsdly about, and the troot leaping after astonished flies in the maunet of ordinary fishes. Aod now the Sun, which pub- lished the originsl story, concludes that it was alla hoax, especially simca the lskeis 25 faet deep in the deapeat part. Buspicion was averted by the fact that the people who corroborated tha - stary were peoDls of Massschusosts, whose repue tation for wisdom and veracity has bean un~ equaled exoept by their credulity. s Semuliuram o ) r.8. V. Riley, of Mineral, IiL, amd party weze traveliog a yesr ago o the road to Prince ton, The party decided to pay only * legal fare, with the exception of Mr. Riley, who, being sl | and snxious bo avaid » distarbance conseqeed B B 7 1 A B A RS RS2 L 3 T it o Je 80 th