Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1874, Page 10

10 whoas woalth above such tomptation,—that this ehargo s the _FALSE DEFENSE OF A DESPERATE MAX who, In thus basoly protonding that his best friond bisckmatlod bim, theroby tunconsclously confasos tho guilt whioh would bave mud blackmailing possible, Whorofore, ns tho Committos diamissed tho shergo of blackmail from their verdiot, so Idis- i i horo. XV. Mr, Docohar anys that I have “garbled Eitll l;:nnru." Iprevouted tn my sworn statomont ilo EXL.403d ¥ROM I8 LETTERY i alinply baoauso I hind nos naceens to the lotters tompioto, But tho lottors completo bear more #ovoroly against Liim than the [ragmonta swhich [ quoted. I now nek tho public to judgo him by his complote lotters, hot by my oxtracts, for ho will thua fall tnio greator condomnation, When $nmy Bacon lotter I quoted o fow lucs of Alr. Doccher's apology, it waanaid thnt it 1 had added the yomnindor of that apology the socond part would havo oxplainod. away ‘the first, Dub it was found aftorward that tho entire spology, whon _printed, waa ten-fold weightior thau the fow lines in my firat estract. in liko mannor the briof pheasod and paragceaphs which I gavo in my sworn sistemont from hia lotters, were nob afterward softenod, but intensilled, by tho publication of the letters in full. Tha briet ox- tracts wore the wind—tho completo lelters woro the whirlwind. Ino more garblod Mr, Boechior's lattors by making from them thoe extracta which T did, than I would garblo the decaloguo by quoting to Lim trom It thosinglo comumaudmont, **‘T'hou shalt not commit adultery,” Neverthotoss, it is truo, as Mr.,” Beochor says, 1hat his lotters have beon * garblod.” Ils goou B0 fAr a8 to eay that they bave boen * wickeliy garbled;" and this, too, cannot bo' donied, Dut 1t {8 not I who bavo garblod Mr. Beochor's lot~ tors ; it 1s Mt, Beochior himself, Ior I maintain that thulamenmled oxplanations which he liag givon of them—agaimt their plain meaning— agamst what he knows to bo the facts to which thoy rofor—pnd aguinat the common Aouso of nu intelllgent pubtic ; ali*thinia gurvling of & hoin~ ous kind, 3r. Boochor is the man who has garbled his lottors. It 1s ho who has tried to tnko ont of them their mnanifest meaning, It in ho who has pervorted thewr plain phrases into doubtful intorprotation. Mr. Beecher aaw at » glace that his latters, on Driug roud 1 & strayghiforward manner by tho public, CONVICTED 1IN OF ADULTERY, Tio know thas unloss thoes lotiers could bo ox- plained {nto nometling which vhoy did not mean, 0 would stand seil-condomnod—put to death by tho poiut of his own pen, Itls iho partof o brave man when bo spezksto abido by his words, AMr. Booehor's behavior toward his own lettors proves him to bo that moat mtiable of all cow- ardu—a man who dares not tace his own hand- \rriun(fl His dofenso Is that thoso letters wore written 10 expross his romorne for baving given to M, Tilton bad advico, I bave aiceady proven by tho Written testimony of Mrs. ‘Lilton's mother that Alr, Beechor novor gave any such advico to Llizu- both, but gave just tho opposite, Liut even hiad ke given 6uch advice—nawiely, that Mcs. Tillon should soparate from her husband—I hold thay such advico, given on tha theory thut her uu- bond had deprived her af food, fuol, aud por- yonal liborty, would nothiave boatt bnd, but gaod; snd the giver of such advico wowd never noed 0 hinve reponted of giving it Tut 1 will go furthor, aud say that, granting guch adyico to' have boon given, and to have beon b, yot muce Mrs. Tiiton did not ncceph thug advice, but rejected it,—sinco nhe did not soparato from her husbaod aud bome, but ro- muofvod with ler faunly ss before,—in othor wordy, since Mr. Beecher's bad advice way uot followed by il consoquonces, but no harm what- ever came of iti—it 18 a mackory of human reason to gay that Lio spent four yoars of romorso in coutomplating the giving of bLad advico which was nover taken aud which produced uo effeas of Darm or il Such an explanation of Mr. Beechor's lottors 48 *¢ garbling " indesd ! * Had Mr, Beocher's alleged advico ever boon vivon, a8 1 believe it was ot Liad this sdvico goun followed by M1, TILTON'S SEPARATION FROM IIER IUSDAND ot thab time, thougk uo such separation thou en- sued; bod o perimanont sundering actunlly talien Place bolweon husband aud wife, nduced with- out other cause-than gimply a clorgyman’s bad adyico—involving the scatlering ol a family of ohildron mado fatherless and motherless by that worst of all orphanage, whicn comes by tho di- 'yorco of parents ; had Mr, Beocher soen all this during tho prat four yoars sshe will seo it during tho nost four ; ho miggt well havo had occasion o mourn tho jiving of nueh advice; but 1 ropeat that tho advice which ba pretends to have given was not followed ; aud thero is the best ovidenco that WE NEVER GAVE ANY SUCIT ADYICE % oll, nor over wrote ono of lus luiters for any Buch resson, 1t is he, then, who has garbled awny the mean- fog from his lottors, glr. Beeeber's adroit effort to persuade the Imb"a to accepe o false fnterprotation of thoso ottera is vain, Thoy buve s pliin meuning which no countor-oxplaunation cun ever blot out. They are all BABED ON THE CENTRAL FACT, a criminal futimacy betwoon Jmeelf and Mrs, “Lilton, which had bosu confessed by botn pm to ber husband and to Mr, Moulton. This sime plo factis tha Loy which unlocks all tho msu- torios of theso lotters—if myuterios thuy con- inin, Al theso lotters, notes, and memorands refer tothe crime of adullery, to the fear of disclosure, and to the consequaut ** devices™ for $ho safety of the participuts, When Mrs, Tilton mudo to me her confesslon of July 8, 1670, 1t was &_confession of aduitery. Whoun'in her note of Dee. 30, following, eho gaid, “I guve a lottor implicating my - Honrv Ward Boochor,” it was an implication of adultery. When in ber second voto of tho same ovening sho said that Alr. Buecher had visited her bedside and reproached her for havigs “gtruck him dead,” It was becauso she had dn& closed his adultery, Whon Mr. Boochior cust Limaol? upon Blr, Moultow's strong und fasthful Emlnctmn, it was because the wroiched man bad cen detected iu his adultery. When, during the four yeors that followed tho 1st of Janunty, 1871, hardly a month or week passed which did not wituess Mr. Beccber in some consulation with Mr, Moulton, cithor by latter or in person, it was to concoct mussures for concealing this aluitery, VWfen Mr. Beechor, conscious of hus suilt and feafihg dotection, foll_often into hopo. egs gloom ab tho prospect of disclosure, it was bocause the crime to bo disclosed was ADULTERY, When from tho beginning te tho end of Mr. Boulton’s relstionship wich r. Boecher, thoso lwo men pursued a common plan—in wlnch.l, too, participated—this plan ‘was to guard twvo Tamilicu of children from the consaquonces of Ihig adaltery, Whon Alr. Boecbhor wroto to mo hiy letter of contrition, 1t wau becauso he sought to placato mo into forpivences of his adultery, Whon bo asked me to remember “all the other hearts that would acho,” it was becanso of tha misery which two housoholds uud their wide conncctions . would wuffer by tho dis- covery of s adultery. When be wrote to Mrg, Tilton that M. Moulton bad **tied up the ptorm which was ready o burst upon their Doads,” it was because Alr. Moulton liad skillful- 1y hold back Mr. Bowou’s meditaled pracoedings against Mr. Leecher for aduitery. When Mr, Lcochor wrote that it woaold: “kill him if Mr, Moulton wero not a friend to Ms. Lilton's hons or," lie meant that this ludy’s ** honor," like ov- ory othor “lady’s honor," wag her reputation for clingtity, and hio rolied on Mr, Moulton to koep iho world from Luowing that this lady's pastor Tiad soiled hor *honor " by ndultery. When Mr. Beecher roquestod Mrs. Morse to ol him hor ¥rson,” which she did, and when sho begged bim to cowno aud #oo her, pledging herself not to ul- Jude to her *‘daughtor’s secret,” it way Lcenuso +this mothor know that this ** son™ and daughter had committed aduitery. When this mothor gave this *son™ tho troublesome information 1hat * twelve persons” had beon put in posnos- giou of this secrat, it was Ltho guilly aud ynmauu socret of ndultery, When Mr, Beecher shudder- cd at tho lilicliiood that Mr. Bowen hod commu- nioated to Mr, Claflin *'tho bottotn facts,” it was hecauso Lho chiof fact lying ab tho bottom of all was adultery, - When Hr. Boocher saidto My, PMoulton, “Can’t we hit npon somo 'pl.-m to broak the forco of my letter to Tilton?'" it was Decauso the lottor Whose forco ho wished to Droak was hls letter of coutrition for his adul- tery, When in his dospuir hio wrote s ¢ Would to God 'Theodore, Llizalioth, and' I could . bo taiondy againi—1Thoodoro would hava the hnrd- o8t tosk in such u cawe,™ It was because this s hardest task " would consist of forgiving » wifo_and ‘her parwmonr for thelr sdul- tory., - When Dlrs, ‘Lilton wroto. implor. ingly both to Mr, Moulton aud to Mr, Bocoher Lhat */tho papors should be dostroyed,” it was becauso Lhose papors wero rovotds of wdultory, When fn brokeuness of spirie Mrs. Lilton wrote to ask her soducer’s forgivences, t was because of her womunly distrors ab savine betrayed biw for his adultpry. When in one of Lor claudestine notes to i she roforred jo her * nest-hidiug,” it was a moans of mora pleasantly temindiug bim of his own pootio ox- pression for their udultery, Whon hor destroyer wroto to Mr. Monlton, Fab, §, 1872, eayings I would not bellove that any oue could Layo pasyod hrough my oxperionce eid be alivo or aang,” he ooufessed tho agony of living on the verge of v, publle punishment for ndultery, Whon ho said ' {0, Mir, Moulion, * You aro hitorally all . miy stay ! end gemfort," it wus becuyso this brayp gy{q tc‘r adr Llond Wew the bamdor bgtiyequ i A THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1874, tho publie snd the knowlodge of a oler- gymaL's adultery, whas noyor tirod of sonding to thin friend such lovo-lotter as n mnn soldom writes to & man, said to him: I would havo fallan on the way but_for tho courago with which you indpired mo,” it wna his over gratoful acknowiadgmant 10 ono who was saving him from tho falo whioh mmmlma clergymion for adultory, When he wailod the koon suaplclons with which ho waa {ummud." theso weore tho dangor ous nBuspicions of n congrogation to whom {mhl]o rumor hud - carrfod s horriblo iint of their pastor's adullory. Whon ho foared an ** appoal to tho Chutrels, aud then a Couneil,” and prognostionted thoraby n ¥ conflagration,” it wns beewuso hio foresaw hiow tho public mind would bo Influonced by the knowledyo of his adultery, Wiien hie portrayed himsol as stand- ing in dally droad of those porsonal frionds who woro msking o ** rulnous dofonse™ of him, it wad becawio he foarod that their clamorous Atatomunis of his Innccenco would blundoringly load to THE DETECTION OF WIS ADULTERY, Whon he ctiod oul that hs was * suffering tho tormonts of tho damnod,”. ke was pouring out | hiis heart's anguish to the only'man to whom ho bad liborty to unburdon his roworse for his adultory, * When ho sald that ho conld mot carry this burden to his wifo and cluldron, 1t waa because ho was ashamed to acknowlodge to them liis adultory, When ho wroto to Moul- ton, saying, **Bacrifica o without hesitation if yon can clearly sce your way td his (Mr. Til- ton's) mafoly and Lappinces thereby, ho al- luded to tho macrifico of his good name in oxpiation of his sadultery. When ho smd ot bimaelf I shonld be des{royod, but ho (Atr, Til- ton) would not Lo saved,” it wad bocauso all that wag noeded for his destruction was simply that tho world should be told of his adultory. ~When ho said © Elizaboth and hor chlldren would have thoir fuluro slouded,” be say kaoging over this ruinod mothor and hor brood the black and ow- ful clond which haugs over overy matron gullty of adultory,” Whou ko wrota **Lifo would ba pleasant if T could ros that robuilt which is shat- tored,” ho roforsed to the moral impossibiity of reconstrueting & homo onus broken by aduliery, Whou ho comparod himsel? to * Bsan who sold his birthright and found no place for repent- atice, though ho sought it carelully with tenrs,” it wne Decause ‘the unpardonable” crime which this ministor had committgd wag edultery, ‘When be spoke in eulogy of Mr. Moulton's wile asroviving *hig waning falth in womanbood,” it wne beeanse lis thoughts wero then of an- othor And weaker womnn, whoso moral nature he kad ovetcome, and who afterwards had bo- troyod himy for Lin adultery, When tho an‘; woman who thna resiored ‘‘his wauing falth i womnnhood,” counsolled him to make *‘n frank and manly’ confcssion of his sin, asking 1unn's forglvoness for it, as o oxpocted God's,” ond whon ho aftorward wrote that **lhor clear trutlifulnoss Iafd bim fat "—all this showa how 1¥ QUAILED DEFORE A VINTUOUS WOMAN'S IENURKE for his adultery. Whon ho seid of me that I “ould have been » better man than ho in sueh clreumstauces,” ho meant that I would have dis- dined to stoop to tho erimo of sedncing tho wife of an jnthnate friond, or of wuing um]m\vnr of n clorgymnan to corrupt a trusting parishionor into adultery. When ho said of me that I had *con- doned my wifu's fault,” pointing me to this con- donation w4 constituting on my part a plodge of forgivonesan toward lim, ho wroto fo that word ** condona tho plninost possible confeesion of hig adultery. In liko mauner, all Mr. Boecher's lottors, when read in view of tho one sad nud |);:umy face which is tho koy-noto to their tragic meaning, constituto a four years' history of, a miud atiietod with **anxiety, remorso, foar, and despatr "—all In consequonce of & discovored adultery. = If I havoe been thus explicit in reiterating Mr. Beeclior’s ornno, it is not for the sake of proving it from his lotters, for I havo suliciently proved it withont bolp from thedo, but only to show that I did not garble theso lettors when 1 pointed to them as proofs of adultory; and I ropeat tlhat, If Bacchor's lotters havo been (as ho Mn'ul% ] wlckedl{yfinrhlnd.“ it 1s hio who hns garble them—it is I who havoe rostorod them to their truo moaning. TILE PACON LETTTR. XVL—I rovort now to a lotter of my own—tho Dacon lotter. Why did L writo it 2 Lot the tacts spoak, I wish to be candidly judged by the following statemont Ever rincs 1870, whon I quitted Plymouth Chureh becauno of its pastor's crime ugainst my fawily, T lind been, yesr after your, TERSECHTED by certain mombers and ofticers of that church; & porsecution whick 1ts pastor might and ought 10 hinvo provented, and for which [ alwaya held bim l‘unlpuuulhlu; & parsecntion fucinding the in- troduction of charges against me for slandoring him, whoreas the so-called siandors, instead of bowg false, were truo: a porseeution including the dropping of my namo from the roll in a man- nor craftily designed to ecast opprobium upon me, under an nppoarancs of ottficial faurness by the chweh; & porso. cution _iuvolving “a_public insult to wmy family by AMr. T, G. Shearman, Clork of tis Chureb, for which bio was compolled to apol- ogizo : a persocution including tho preaentation 1o the Brooklyn Council of & dosument in which AMr, Beocher and his church defended themsolves bofore that tribunal on the ground that I had peen dropped for * bringiung dishenor on the Christing tanie,” wheroas L hiad been droppesl becauso Mr. Beechor himsell was tho man who bad ‘ brought dishonoron the Clnistian name ;" & porsocation culminatiug ot lavt iv » pnblio im- plication cast upon wmo by the Modorator of that Counel, the TIE NEV. LEOXARD BACON, D. D, who, after carefiilly stadyug the records ‘of Ply mouth Churel in my cave, decided from these that T was proven o ¥ kuave and dog,” and that Dir. Beecher's behavior toward me ‘sbowed him 1o bo ** the most maynanimons of men.” Thia accuruulation of wrongs I resolvod no longer to boar, I snuounced this to Mr, Besch- er, and told him that eithor ho or T must correot Dr. Bacon's misreprosentations of my conduct, sinco thoso would ruin moe before the world, I provided y AN EASY WAY ¥ by which Mr. Docchior, without a confenslon of his guilt, and ovon without » bumiliation to his Teotings, could assuro Dr. Bacon—aud Dr, Dacon the publio—that I Lind acted toward Mr, Boccher thie patt of a fair and bouorablo man. I walted threo mouths for Alr. Boacher to put this plau (or somo otbor) into effect. But he did not choose to embrace ihé opportunity. o neglected—porbaps digdainad it, I thon rosolved—against Mr, Moulton's expos- tulationn, but at the diotato of my solf-rospect— to rescue myrel! irom tho falso position iu which Plymonth Church and its pastor hnd placed me, und o make & strugzle Lo regain my good namo, which I bad dono nothing to forfait, £ “‘T'he bust mothod of vindieation which sug- gosted Itaelf to mo was to write a public letter to Dr. Bacon, giving the truo reason of my retire- mont from Plymouth Church ; which was that o wrong liad been committed against mo by the Runtor. in evidenco of which I quoted a fow nes from his apology. 1 woll knew that I conld thus make tho world 500 at a glance (which it did) that I wan leas the croature of Mr. Beechor's lnagoanimily than he was of mine, 1 soughtand accomplished this purpose, nnd this only, by the Dacon letter— and I did it eololy in self-dofenso. Now, In so doing, 1 not only had no wish to compromise my wife, but, on” tho contrary, I pought, while reeufying my {mflition to do the samo by hers. To thia end I Introduced into tho Bacon Intter AR, SUEARNAN'S APOLOGY TO MRS, TILTON, together with a enloglstio refercuco to lior In my own ywords, a8 * a lady of devout roligions faith and life,” The Bacon lettor wan thus n tributo to, not an attack upon, Mrs, Litton. Mr. Deocher kaw by this tribute (and by othora which T hubitually paid to my wifo), that how- over willing I miglt bo to cope with kin, 1. was nover willing to endanger ier, No othor man in tho world know #o woll a8 Mr. Beachor did how ateong o affoction £ have always hold—and shal! alwayz hold—for my wife, * 1o had seon, by long obnorvation of my sympathy for hor, that lis safout vrotection againet any pomsible vesontmont of mine was atways in my unwithng. ness to cowpromivo this tender mnd wounded woman, - Accordingly, on the appoarance of tho Bacon lotier, Mr, Docchior, aftor ‘contriving vanons mothods of meoting it g\vhlah Mr, Moulton hag doseribod), finally sdoptad the bold and wicked cximdhmt of appointing » Committeo fo 'inJ:gire iulo the acts of a lady whom he first led into uduucrq. and twhom ho then deifcered up fo a tribunal for exanination into her,crime! Novor can I forjgel my BICKENING ASTONISIMENT, on hor account on the day when, by publio proc- lamntion from Mr, Baccher's pon, and smid tho [mb“»hnd clamor of ks partisans, lio callad all o world to wituoss that Lo had commissionod Bix commitios-maen to inquire into his offense,— Lin ofMenso bolng ulno era; 8o that an inguiry into it involyod oqually the ruin of Loth,—but especially (us in all such enso) tho woman, albeit tho lessor offendor. On that ominous morping I shuddored for tha fato of the woman whom Mr, Boochor was thuy ruthlossly exposiug to the hazard of pnblic ghumo. Mr. Boochor's design in ¢his publie inquiry into his * offouse * and “*upology™ wus to mako a bold pretonso that ho had navorcommitiod any Hoffento,” nor over offarcd any ** apblogy.” T'o make this prolonse of innocence the more plausibla to the pubille, his sgents bad provipusly anouged that ou thie samo day Mrw Uliton should take flight from hor iome, to jolnTasoh- Whon Mr., Beecher, who | orinls attack on mo; snd ahio hns nover ro- crossod my thieshold sinco that hour. DI4TINOTLY S1OULD IT HE HORNE IN BIND TIAT M, DEECHER'S PUNLICATION OF HI8 OHALLENOE, AND Mus. TILTON'S DEATUTION TO HIM TO AUH- TAIN IT, OCCUNRED ON TIR EAME MORNING, Hatme- lys July 11, 1874, On that mornlng at 6 o'elock BNLE QUITTED TIE HOUSE, not to raturn to it nud au hour afterwardthe dally papers woro ' furnishod_to me, containing, under Daming head-linos, Mr: Bocchor's come wiisslon to his Commitia of Inyestigation ! Theso two acts—ono by Mrs, Tiltun, the other by Mr. Docchor—wore parts of one and tlho #nmo ovont : a jolnt attack on’ mo~the two a4 sailnnts atriking thelr oponing blows ab the samo mumont. Mr, Boechor's asault was the more public of tho two, for it renchod mo through afl the newh- apers on that first morning ; but fu order that ro, Tilton’s act toward me might luse no forco through lack of prompt publicity, Mr. Oviugton hasatenod to publish & card w the Brooklyn Argus announcing that Mrs. Tilton, on the previous Saturday,, bod *purtod from hor husband for- evor” ‘That oventful Saturday mornlog, the 1ith of July, fonnd me TIE STRANOEST SITUATION OF MY WITOLE LIFE —nsituation which I Liad not foresson, aud which I could with difliculty ronlize—n situation cou-- sistiug of tho following olomonts : Firat, 1 had beon publicly challowged by Mr. HBecolor to divalge to s Chureh Committee tho story of his criminality with MIrs, Tilton ; aud, necond, Mra. Tilton hersolf, by hor opsu_dosortion to her paramonr, bad publicly secondod him 1n this au- dacious demand, What should I do? Attor two_days of roflec- tion—tho most agoulzing which Ievor endured 1 folt it my duty to nccopt this ctntlonge; aud In ong weok attorward, I 1ald the facts baloro tho Cowunittea in a documont now kuown a4 my Bworn Statomont. * It will thun be soon that my Sworn Statoment waa not givon to tho Committeo until the ninth day after Ara. Tillon's desertion framn her hus- band, snd after her publicly joining his onomioes, who were seeking by their powerful ecclealns tical enginery to crush out his littlo romnan of a brokon name. %> Had brs, ‘Tilton romainod with mo, my sworn statoment would novor have beou mado 3 nor did the thonght of malivg auch a siatomont entor my mind uatil aftor hor desertion ; but at last, whon Mr. Beechor and Mrs, Tiltongubllcly turn- ed upon mo and demandod that I should oxpodo thom, Lhad , » NO COURAE OTEN 7O ME but to state tho plain truth, and to ot all the pariioy abide by tho consoquonces, Mr, Moultou kiss shown how groat waa my de- glro, during tho oarlier sessions of tho Com- nuttes, {o shiold my wifo; in othor words, how littlo I domauded from tho Committeo tn my oion bohalt and how much in kers, My pro- osed form for their report (as quoted Ly Mr. S‘[oulhm) conoluded na follows: “The Cummittee cannnt forbear to atate that tho Rov. Honry Ward Boecler, Mr. Theodore ‘Tiiton, and My, Tilton (and in an especial man- nor the latter) morit and abould recetve the sympathy snd rospoct of Plymonth Churoh sud congrogation,” ¢ It way on tho vory next morning after I wroto the shove proposod kindly and charitable report for tho Committes to ndopt,'and showed it to my wife, who not only approyed it, but oxpressed with toars her marvel that I should huve do- manded moso for her good namo than I had douo for niine; it was, I sny, on the very next morn- ing nftor my writing tha nbove rufiort that Mrs, Tilton, in obedienco to Mr, Beocher's advisors, desorted the homo to which sho bas nover sinco roturned. I repeat, tharoforo, that the exvosure which T mado to the Committee and to tha public wau no suggostion of mine, bub was brought about by Mr. Beocher and Mrs. Tilton, who united in demanding it at my handa, and who, by this do- mand, loft mo no altornative but to comply or to reiuse ; my compliznce boing ristn to theni ; my rofusal, ruin to myself, Torced to make choico botween these two alternatives,—hoth almast «q‘lmlly borrible to my feolings,—I at Inst deter- minod not to be thus brow-beaton by two per- wons who, having rocolved my_past pardon aud continuous forbearance, semed at loat avtacking my very life. 3 1 ank tho public, thorotore, to weigh the ono oot whicl I havo thus rot forth, nmmnaly: ‘Chat tho responsibility for tho rovelatiops ~which I hiavo made rests, not on me, but on Mr. Boochoer and Mrs, Tilton. Iwash my handd ofit, - XVI. This rokosrgal of ovents will now eunblo mo to answor two points which hayve beon mada against no. Ono js this—[ awm asked froquont~ ly: ** M, Tilton, now could you, after condon- ing your wifo's fault four years ago, praclaim it at 60 Iato aday " ~ My anwwor bas boon just foreahadowed,” and it {s tiis: I mada this ox- posure, not of my free will, but from comnul- s#ion ; I mundo it becauso Mr. Deocher and ta, Tilton . COMPELLED ME TO MAKE IT, I did pot yolunfeor jt. L would gladiy havo con- tinued to shield both partiea for thie sake ot one. Dut when Mr., Bescher and M, Tiltun made n public lengio against mo, and, in tho face of the whola community, delled mo to tell the facts, T was eithor forced: to accopt their joint challouge, or, by doclining it, to desarvo the con- temnt of mankind. 'That is my auswor; and ;M‘tdld mon aud women will scknowledgo it to be ust. > Noxt, Thave an equally plain answer to thoze eritien " who condemn me for having commitied, a3 they say, a Linader in CONDONING MY WIFE'S PAULT AT FINST. And my answer is: I am perfoctly willing to acoept this condemuation from atl “who chonse to offer it,—whethor from foos or friends, ‘Beforo God, I hold that I did right, and not wrong, in forgiving sn orrivg womsn who went astray through a powerful femptation. No ro- gret boclonds my mund for this forgives noes of my wife,~rhich, I am wsure, ahall look brek to from my dying bed with ploaaure, mob with pain, I foriave this goutlo wonan bocanse I loved hor ; I'for gavo hor for hor chiddren's anko; I forgave her becanse I dospise tho publis sontiment which condones suchi faulis in mon, and then compols mon fo punish them in womon ; I forgave her bocause, oven after Lor grievous error, sho still romained o woman, loving right rath wrong, aud secking' good rathor than ovils forgeve her becanso I tonderly rememberod thaé "Christ Himwolf forgave n similar fault in 8 moro wicked womau—and whe was I to acorn tho law of IIig graat example? No critivistn of ‘my forgivenness of Mry, Tilton can prick mo with any ping, Ifsll the acts of my lito had boou as rizhtoous as this' goud deod of charity,—alboit toWard = woman who has sinco but poorly roquitod nio for it,~I would now bo & batter man than I s, b Sl XVIL I bavo only toadd that I know no worde of mensured modoration in which to abaractarize fitly Xr. Decchor’s recont troatmonut of this brokou-boarted lady, whom . NE JAS FLUNG agninat the wall or Plymouth Church and dashed to piccen. First, ho jvstituted o publio commit- toe to inquire into hor adultery with him, where- us ho ought to have protected her sgafuss thia oxposuro ; then ha beckoued heraway from her husband’s house, makiug her very flight bear “witness to hor ;inm; then bo #nborned ber to ;il»-u faldo tostimony ssaluet hor husband, with a viow to destroy him befors tho world ; then, with unparallcled bLasenoss, . lie turned upon the comanuXau of hia crimo and aceused hor of hiavlng been tho templer rattiar than the tomptod—decluring that sho had * thrust hor nffactions upon him unsought;” then he vari- ously Indicted her for what ho eallod * hornoed- Toss tronchoery to hor friond and pastor,” express- ing bt doutite whethor to call her (a4 ho nuys) 5 mpint or the ehifef of sinnors," argning (a8 bo snys again) that she must be oilher * core rupted to docait or so broken in mind a to o irresponwible,” dobating with limself (a8 ho ways Btill furthor) whether ho should mot” Fnur out hin indiguation upon her and hold her up to contompt ;" snd thon, after making all those contomntuous: ref- eroucea to bor {u bis published atatement, ha promptad hls Commitioa to rendoer o vardict agalnat hor in which they deelare Lior conduct toward .Mr. Boochor, evon on their awn theor of her innocanco, to be ‘“utterly indofousible ;™ and last of all ho pormittad his awn journal, the Christian Unim, to stigmatizo hor aaa “poor, wenk womsn," whosn tostimony wos of no yalua either for or against the man who had Lempted her to uttor Ler falsetoods in his own bebalr! All this baso and brutal conduct by Me, Boech ot lowardy Mrs, Tilton prompts mo to_spoak o hilm fu fleroo and burning worda, But I forbear. **Vengeanvo {8 mino, nud I will repay, salth tho Tiord,” L huve bocoma so used Lo sorrawy {n wmy own lifo that I eannob ‘wish for their-infliction upou saatior man, nob oven on my worut euc- my, I will not nak.the publio to visit upon Mr, ‘Baocher any groster condemnation for tive doxolation - whioh “ho has brought upon thoso who loved, trusted, and rorvod him, thau I havo in past timos woon him suffer from his own solf-inticted tortures in contomplntion of the vory aruno for which ho hus now beon exposed to tho soorn and r“y of the warld, I Lnow _well onotiggh now his own thoughts have bawed him fu agony to tho dust; nnd tlys is enough, Whorefors, fu contemplating my owpty house, jy soattorod childrou, and my broken homo, I thank Houvou that I am sparad tho pang of this man’s vomomn for having wrought n ruln which not even Almichty Gac onn rapair! 2 Lnooxex, Bept, 16, 1476, er than. THE FAIRY OI;' THE CASTLE. A Hungarian Story. Thad fulfllied my youthful droam, and become posseanod of un old oxstle and Iargo ostats in Hungary, 5 1t waa at somo distance from Posth, and T had not visited the proporty previous to purchasing, for tho Tawyor's ‘roprosontations convinosd mo that it was a bargain, oven with tho tncumbrancos, which consisted of an adopted daughior -aud #ome favorite servauts of the late Count, Thesa wore all, however, provided with annuitics by i will, 8o that ft only ronialued to endure thoir presonce in tho castle, sud, It they shonld prove, to bo sorricoable, I should alrondy bo provided with servauts aceustomed to thelr routine of du- thea, : From the lawyer's manner on discovering that I mysolf intonded to renide ln tho caatle, T aon- cluded that it bore thoe reputution of befng haunted, and ratber rovoled in the anticipation of bringing to light tho sccret torrors of the placo. Iwroto to tho steward to sond & cacringo lo meet mo at the nearest alation. This I found in waitig, with & prim coacliniag, In deop mourn- ing, which I at firsb supposed to be for the'lato Count, ' o man undoratood hig business., Hin driv- ing wos teultloss. Dut bis continual wghs and -moans, allernated with weoping ontright, at Inst ted mo to quontions, which resultod in his con- fiding to me that ho wus mourning for Lis sin in baving murdored bis younger brother. I was somowhat startlod. But in epite of bis violont griot bio drove woll, and soon brouglt me to Lho villago, in o atate of bowildorment both as to his actions nud my duty in tho caso, L Homo timo bofore wo reacliodthe castle wa gaw the porter posted on a lurge wtono, ia mitary sttitude, and shouldering & long stick, us if jt wero n riflo. As wa nppronchod, ho shricked, in » foarful tono, ** Prosent nrma!” and bogau to imitato the sounds of tho drutn’ and trumpet, while with his stick he went through the eighl movoments of tho Austrian parado regulations, oafter which be jumpod down from tho stone, mounted tho stick as if it were o horse, and gal- loped befora tho carriago like an outrider, all tha time ahouting, **A master is mastor even in hell!” Whon wo renched the gate tho porter dismounted, and stood liko a post, saluting mo s Ieprang from tho wagon, aud rotuinfug. the most preciso mwilitary attitude. I looked at him sharply. 1o had au honeat, opun countenauco, stomped with faithfulsoss and loyalty, Lufs nau was not deunk, but, 1t would ‘scern, gomo- what out of his head. I noxt oncountered ths gamckocper, who speechlenaly turned bis back in answor to mv in- quiries, butlus momontibioranppoared the valet, aguy fellow of ovor 40, with biy faco wrinkte into tho most comical oxpressions Ly liabitual langhter, Ho wns communicative, and well trained in g duties, While asssthig we off with my overcont, Louls .informed me thas the three servants 1 had proviously eucountered were all mad. By the, time he had shown mo the stoward’s aperimonta it wus putliciently apparent that ho uimself was equally so, though his way perhiaps o less disngreoadble monomatia. The prospect was vot cheoring, * T was thankful to Iind tho stoward, ab teast, a rational man, - He was remarkably well informadewith regard to bis duties, altbough lus ‘appearance woild rather have indieatad n public ofilcer than a furm stoward. After 'a long conversation, durning which ho Informed mo that the aduptod danghtor swas ulxo insane, I akked him for a pen and ink, in ordor to wrile to tho lawyor from whom I L made the purchase. 1le-policely showed me his writing-desi, and then hrought mo a lump simi- Inr to tho Davy-Jamp used by miners, I .wroto somowhat nhurply to the lawyer, winding up by saving that tio ouly redeoning feutury in this bedlsm was the finding of o re- muarkably sonzible und woll-educatod stoward, ' Having (hished, I nsked tho sloward for a light and’ seuling-wax, Ho bogeod mo to-uso wiafors, aud upon oy atill proforring wax, in- Bletad that T should ot weat it in his yoom. He beggod to ba pardoned, sud turned vale as be soid ¢ T must tell you, sir, that L auilor from peculiar malady, . Thealrin my Jungs chianges quickly into hydrogen, 50 that tho room in which T am gradually bocomes filied with hydro- gen gas, snd 11 any ons shonld enter with a Jight the gasvous ‘vapors would explodo, and wonld net 1he house on fire.” I fell buok in 'ty chair. Good heavens! this mun wos tho wost iukano of all. I was hero with six mad people, aud was mysolf tho sov- enth; for I hod bought this splendid company? I tore up the lotter, and despaiiingly sought my room. Huving locked the door afcer the valat, [ noticod that thie fire was bucning brightly, and {hat the mppor stood upon the table, and could not but wouder what wadmau had cooked it. I conld not sleep Iturned over in my mind scoves of plans for getting rid of the propotty or for lowsitigs it, but fions weomod practicavlo Thore was only the ouo thing -cartuin=-that I niust gov awny Excitemont playod tricks with my imagiuation: tho old Count soemed to do- scond frowm bis frame ou tho wall and approach me, murwuring, “‘Now I have anothor fool;" an old olock bogan to striko, sud kept on into the hundreds; tho bed was tucomfortable; thoe moon shonon and tormented me, till I curtalued it out, leat I too should go mnd, ay was ovory- thiug olwd,—servants, pictures, clucks, beds, and woonlight, Ispiang up in a rago, resolved that tho morning should rid me of my tormentora. Suddenly somothing began 10 steul over mo which quicted thotght. What was it, song or music?—n tong escaped from the harmouy of tho spheros? I kuow not whonve it camao; but it was cuchanting, and oxerted a wouderful in- fluence. It censod in o fow motents, evon be- foro 1 could bo cortain what it was, + 1 forgot ny nusoyaunces, oponed the window, sud leaved out in the moonlight, listoning, But tho wludow apenad ou the cotirt-yard, und thero o 0o sound bub the low burking of & dog. I went out into the ball. The song bogan agai and soowed as if it wero undor me, Itw deepty melaucholy—yet wot & song, only al{+ dreamy, rhymeless - melody, like tho notes of forest-bird, but so charming and besutiful that I stood enchawted, forgettul of my surroundiugs, As ft ceasod [ wondored if this could ba the ingone gitt whom tho stowurd lad waid had no languago but sone. 1 tool alight and started in search of some position whore L could hear bot~ tor; but the old castle seomed to havs baen built o frowm s Iabyrinttine model. I wont through the firat wtory, and up ond down stairs, and along Ju- numarable bally, till at lrse 1 opened a doar which scomed familinr, and fopnd myself agsin in wy own room, without knowing how 1 yob thera, 1noticed that my bed was remade, the five roplenished, and that a thick grosn cur{ain way drawn ovor the Count's pieturo ut tho foot of the bod. Home ono liad boon here! While L vomained, listoning, the song secom- mencad, but this tima it eeemod to be uhove mo. I Iny down agam, sud foll inuto a sleep, from which I awoko iu wdifforent frumo of nud, I renolved to Kty hero, to coutinne the Connt's good work, and to unravel tho riddle of the uoo- turnal songutross, Aftor a rosidouco of balf & yoar I had dincov- ered yorious moeaus of dealing with and ovon dos creasing somo of the poculisrittos of wy tier- vauta, ‘The honest and sleeplensly vigilaot por- ter, althougls most foolish, gave me loast uarc of all. he puor dunce hed only one ardent wish— to wear ared coat, such a8 ho had oucs yen on s fox-huntor, Aftor that, I believe the nlrondy devoted.follow was ruudy to go through fire und water for me. My gamokeoper, though almost dangorous if any oug olse presumed to order him,—the King of Laplaud, a8 ho imaginod Lunmcit' to bo,—yot howmrln humblo subinission botore me, whom I mudo him boliova to bo tho Ozav of Ruskia, My stoward was such s loarued aud useful man that I resolved on a heroic cuve of his wmopomania, 1 brought gus-pipes from Pesth, and endeavored to bergain with him to sunply tho castle with gas from his broath, ‘Tho shock oceantoped by my proposition threw hiw into & sovoro illnoss, b he wroso from it au entirely BANO WAL, s Y Tuere wero only two romaining iu the bhouse who had not bueu, al loast in & meanure, bong- fited by my systomof curo: ouo was my invisible slron, and tho other was tayualf, who was in lovo with hor. As soon a4 duvlight wag fone hor song Logan, —n song of the lark from buman lips s it came and wont, somotimes southig o to sloop, and sowetimus walking me, but L conld nover dise «covor whonco it camo, Nuy, moro—when I'nlopt alio camo and wont Iumy roow, often romuining hours, 1 had woy- oral meaus of kuowlng this s I always lott a lamp burning ou my tablo, When I woke it wan nl‘. ways oxtingulihod, and boing turnced down fu- sroad of blawn out, had evidently been touched by a hiwan band, Luls was to provont iny sce. fug bor_ should I suddenly awake, Aguln, there wau # olook nenr my bod ;° this L wonnd up my- selt baforo rotiring. If I foy asloap at 18 o'clock and gwaoko ab 4 or 0, the clogk would stand at 1 Tusonoux Lirsoy, - ,&w m?\l ~ob it went corrcctly fn the duy-timp, i My lovi aillo oallor atoppod tho olook, po thatits striking should not awaken me, aud startod it Again whon aho loft. Iy thia moans L could tell how long slio remalned. And yot I cotild find no trace of hor mosns of gaining ndminston, I mywelf looked tho doora, and Jeft tho koys in tho locks on the inside, My windows woro protected with 'irou grating. Thnra could bo no trap-door In tho flaor, “for tlie carpot was of one piece. and nailod down arannd tho edgon of tho wall. I triod the walls, too, Lut nowliere was any traco of n hidden dvor. "I toolc down the plcture, but was rewarded with nothing but cobwoba, Thon I examined the rodf of tho’ castlo, but found only an fmmenso quantily of wood-corn aYmnd out directly over my room. Nuithor could I discover any door loading to tha part of tho castlo which sha ocoupled, and hor windowa wero douply seonred with lron gratings, What did thin llu.uEu creature ont and drink 7 18 sho roally a spirit that oxiuts without food o raimont ? < 1 quostioned my mervants, excopt tho porter, who 1 kno' beforo hiand would only snswer, * A mastor [s mantor ovon in holl,” whereas I vas not master in my own house, Thn stoward lenew nothing of thie socrot, but ho alded msa 1u miy reserrchics, and wan ns much astonisbod as mysolf ug_what Troluced, 'ho conclimay crosss ed himanlf, toll o atory of & ghost, and praved I would allow masios to bo said for tho rapose of her sonl, ¥ Sp My valob, Lonls, nid it was o wondortully Jbeatiful enchanted ghil, . drosged ' [n gold and sllvor, who drank only dow, and lived on the necur of ‘lowers, hke a bultarly, At hor will sho can chango luto nir, end pws Invisibly tirough tha - doors, Whan' it shotld coma winter I must dotivo tho frost-pietires on my windows, 1f Ishould find a round, meltod spot among tho lowors, that would ba the noint tbrough which sho bnd vanishel. Mo hnd, at toast, & poaticst ldoa of the mntles. Nat 5o the littlo gnome-like’ gamo-leaper, who dealarod it to ba 1o good apirit. At nightphe changed into a woro-wolf, and ate littla children. 1Te elaimod to have ot her oftou in thoforest, aud tried to shoot hor, but slic soomed bllst-proof. I valu I teied feiguing sleap, She sacmed to undorstand my stratazon, 44d I contd ovon hoar hor In?ghmg, somowhoro nonr mo, surely, but whoto ; < T piceurnd hor tall and grasoful, with blondo hair roachiuz Lo the floo: and’glittaring ltko gold in tho sunshine, comploxion. Lranaparent, long black oyelaslios, nnd relancholy, lustrous knp- phire eves, sad tho delicalo Iips marked with a faint line af.pinlk, My daya woro spect in tho caro of my estato, but thoy wera tiltad with 'lnpsationce for tho re- turn of ‘evoning and my fair enchantross, At lagt T droamed of sitting with her undortha #hado of a {mmv;mlmlu‘lmn, whito -tho #mn, microred fn the lake beforo us, threw ita rellec- tion upon hor angolio face. In ny drenm I gave her auo of tho upples, which ehio pronouncad sour. I thon took ono mysolf, and putting it botswaen my lips, told her it was atect, and that shio must tako a bito of-it. O, tho absurdidoas wo'biavo in dreams! Bho leanod over, smiling, looked at me with her glorious. bluo oyos, an camo noarer aud nenror to take tho rod” kornel, Thon uunldenli' alo passionately prossad hor lips to mino, not Hke 2 epirit or droam-preture, but 18 p rosl haman bolog, Iosido mynelf with un- spaakablo rapturo, I quickly throw both arms- aroumd lior—and at tho instant o sbarp outory awolo me. No, all that could not bo meraly & dream, It was 8 humnn king, u renl cmbiace, & living ont- ery. And yobthiers was no one fu tho room | A thought camo into my nead. 1 aprang up and rusiied to the chimnoy, Thenwas ashamed 1o havo imagined that my fairy conld have como through thi tlue | And to render tho idea uttor- Iy nosurd, tho grate was shll-ull of glowing cludors, aud it was, bosides, shut in witk fron bara, My heart was atill boating and ‘my lips burning £rom tno lass, As Drelightod wy Jenp, snd foverishly bogsn to aco up and down tho raém, o strauge object suddenly met my sight—n tin ‘y ombroiderad stip- Lmr, 16 fino and dolieave that it might woll bave con worn by no eacthly foot, At Inat 1 had proof that u{m had boon it iny roony, bad sat by mo, and iled in liaste, losing tha alipper, which #he lind 10 bame to pick up, - I'dushed a ' pitchor of. cold wator over my hiead in order to muko ss-- snranca doubly sure, vnd thqu Ilocked this won- dorln 1ittle slinper in a drawér, still feeling that it would not bo thero in the morning, for men oftou dream that they have found irensures of zold, and have. locked it in nn iron chest, to flud, onawalioning, that it was only a tantaliz- ng dream, Thon I wont to bed agaln and slept lator iban my custom. As soon a3 T wan fairly awalko in tho morning, 1 pulled ont tho draer of ny wiitmg-dosk, in ordor to nssuro mysolf that the last icht's expe- rience was oithor o ronhity or a dresnw . Lho slippor still lay thoro just the same, of whilo Incs and rod ribbons, and a Juhan flower aud buttorily m tho finest cmbroidery. 5 From this timo on it sacmed impossible for mo to stuy in the houge. Day and night with ovory thought tntont on kolving a riddlo to which thete reomed no key, I should soon be as erazy as the roat of tho houseliold ud over beon. No, thoro must bo an oud of it 1 Idealistic droams nre vory boautifal, but thoy did not suit my conatitution, A rosolved to quit the eastlo aud roturn to Pesth, and cither rent the estats or leave itinthe hands of the stoward. Accordingly I called tho norvants togother and told thom my plan. Fora yenr after iy departure 1 would coutinne thoir Wvagos in addition (o the allowance mude them by the witl of tho Into Count. I thon dismssed them uncercmoniously, fur I way gotung.into that state of mind in which [ did not wish to soo any faco about md, All doparted excopt tho Toolish doorkeeper, OF course ho was going to tell mo that A maater is mastet even in Loil I" Yo my grest surpriso -tho mun put'off s mili- tary munner, approachod e, lissod my haad, and began to spuak v’ an ontiroly cuanged an unaceustomed vaice, > = * “{¥ny will you leave thisplaco? Does the poor gitl anoy you?" - I was astoniuhed boyond mensure. The man, then, was uot mad} {3 ‘It sceny to me that s gront chango has come ovor you," Ieturnoil. #Yeu, alr. I wish to tell yon everything, and you will then understaud muck that up to this tine must have suomed strango; and thew, I think, you will ol leavo tho castlo." : His “mnnuer, langnago, -and oxprossion wore sueh that 1 inrotuntarily nvirod Lim to eit dowu, which be did.; I was now. convinced that ho ooy tho secrets of the castle, and anxiously swaited hisdovelopmon! Thp doceased Count," ho said, .* bad an no- forlunato soerot alliauce. Wishing to muko rep- nration to his child, who was mothorless from Lier birth, ho brought berhoroin aidur to educato aud Inwinlly adopt her. But he was not permut- tod to mako fall reparation an enrth, Tho girl grow very beautiful, but voverlearned to spe: Bho ia not deat and dumb, for she sings and no ticos the shightent sound. But she naover spenks n word ; she only. siugs. Like a forsub bird, she has ditTorent tounes, with which shio niakos known her pleasures or griofs to those who understand lor specch. Tho poor Couns and -I learned this munic-laugusgo, aud I undorstand her, I wan the Count’s ouly confidaut. Ife onee kaid to ma; * It 1 should dio, loaving testimony that thiu child was mino, what would bappon to hor? People would certainly connidor hr erazy, which s is not, - Blie has undorstandig, » good hoart, nat- ural aiTection, und comprebiends human thought, tall they wonld put hor in soma inssno asylum, und o 108ko lier really idiotio, Iow sball I provont this?* Then the Count had tho strauge thought to make uu asylur out of his own castle Tfor the eako of tho child. From fur and near in the vicinity he brought together the village dunces, and the ‘siwward ho brought direotly from an jusane asvlum, 1 waa tho only one of all who was [0 possossion of wy five souses, but I proleuded tho woray madnoss of all, 80 that the affair should bocome notovions, — Whou the Count zuve Wtmusll up to the vare of the unlor- tunates with ceasaless paticnce, und gradnaily mudo docile, quiot human boings of thom, till at Iant ho hiud no sorvants that ho lisd not purtinlly cured from rome moantal disease, Mis objeck in dolng this, and leaving thom n howme bero for Jife, was ta provent his hoirs from either living i or snlling tho castle, for he thought no ono would buy an ostato under steh condittons, I confusr, sit, that when you first camo I counted on your not ropuaining moro than two mouths fn tlhe'onstle. Itls biily with seorot passagos bue twoon oll tho roomy, I myscll do not know how they aro urranged. Viola alouo pgssessos tho socrek,” Viola! Thoname startled me, Aud yeb It would well suib my fanoy pioturo. “In this way Viols comos down te the hull ovary night, whera I have hor food propared, 1f I should dis, tho steward would varo for bor, On theys oceaslony 1 ofton #polia to her of you, und was surprised te find - thus tho poor girl, in. stoad of botng ateaid of the stranger who, hud bought her (ather's caallo, waa so wuch ploased viith you that she sighs aud blushos at the nion- tion of yourname, Yos, sho evon lot mo kuow tnat sho was acoustomad to sit by you while you siopt, nnd guard your dresmy, You Liave por- haps pot known that before? " Oly, 1 kno it vory wall, “'e opnld is nob inang ; but i go-away now, sho certaiuly would bovoms wo, Mo-tay sho caute to ms we:fiuur. 1 could not imagine what had bhapponet, As sho bocame sumowbat csluter sbo mado mo undorntand that whilo you wore ssleop she hud again stolen to your room, aud—hnd ovon kissed you. I cannat Ueneribe the tendor, modest smile with which sho aoknowledged Ity , T, feightunsd, sho coverad Liov face audl feil Upon Ler kuoos, wildgiug bov from tho embrace, on should hiands, with & bosoeching look, and the tones of a woundeil bird eutroating the hunter not to kill or taprgon it. -Viola prays that yon will not be angry with hor. She will not disturb you aznly, | nofaven with hor singing, Bho will be atill'in thé houso, You uhall not even bo consoloun of hier exiatenco 3 only pardon hor this, But I pray you, sir, not to loave tho castle. You kunow ita fecrota now, Wo' who are hore love you 8o m1ohl No ona but ‘you could’ so well manago ttose poor unfortunaton, I really do not bolleve thut Viola will viu(t you again; biat 1f you ehould sccidontnlly moot flor, you will act” with that thoughtfulnens whinl ovary prosporous human belng owew to the unfortunnate.” 1 bocamo snddonly aware of the fack that my portor and I wore sliaking hands in o friendly way; but 1 bad already grown ncountomod to 0x- truordinary procosdings, v Having nasurod bim that T would romain, snd that I'was not angry with Viols, I begpad ho would no longer keep up tho rolo of an 1diot in my proonuo. Nor two montha I nover once hoard the olcs of my fairy, Iwas liko ono who lian loat & friond, whora o uightly dranme ia alive agaln, and wio ponders how atrango it I4 that auybody can be allve who I8 cortainly doad.. 3 Abont his time o'bold band of rabbera hogan to spread terror throughout the noighborhood ; they Liad brokon luto many of the newghboring caytlos, committing tobbories, and shooting who- ovor opposed tham, My noighbots adviscd 10 to be on my flmrd, for n goutlomsn, happenin, to pass my viljage, hnd been taken for me and robbed on tho highwag, and 1t ssemed Jretey cor- taln that my turu would come, Buc I was too much taken np with my aroams to pay much at- tontion to tha warning. One November ovening—it was slootlug bit- ' torly—1 aat aloue by my grate, piling atiel afier alick of yood on tho fire, aud watehing tho glow- ing, whistling Rpirit forms into wijeh tho oo became transformoed, when suddenly I was aroused by o loud shout, which was quickly fol- lowed by s shot, K Lo #pring up, snatch my rovolver, and rush into the hall way the work of an Instant. In tha oppoyite door appesred -two masked figures. I recelved them. with bwo shits. ‘Ouo of thom re- turned my lire withont offcet, the other foll, ap- ‘mmntlv badly wonndnd, and was.drsgged out by its cotnrade, who again shot ab. me throngh tho half-vpen door, Ipartly covered mysell with my own door, aud atood “rendy to meet another attack, At tho momont I Leeame aware that otliers wore endeavoriug to force au entranco nt the opposito door of my room. 1 was sttacked on both sides, In thisemergonoy I thought how fortunnto it would have boon i’ the firo wora Durning less brightly. As it was, I prosonted a distinet mark ror the robbora’ aim, % Bearcely bud this thought passed thiough my mind when the room bocamodark, and, as I look- ed in astonislinout townrd the chiruoy, I way startled to ses that the grate aud the firo had vanished, and in their place stood s pale whito~ robed figure, with a lamp in one trembling band, and shaiog {ts tlama with tho othor. She wag the cmbodied pictute of my dreams | After o uccond'’s hositation my falry ran to mo, soized my hand, and drow o toward tho opon spaco in the chimuoy, when the anchanted. floor instantly bagan to descend. Hero, thon, way the koy tu tho imystory. Tho whole founda- tion of the chimuoy, With the fire-grate, ascend- od iuto the fiuo, leavivg boneath it sn oponing which tool us lalf & story lowar. Detweon tho ground-fluor and that apove it was n space high onough for & grown porson to stand upnight, and wiiieh wos vou not discoverails oither from with- out or within. . When wo reachod o corner wall my sirange rescuer again drew mo to her, aud pushed back wbat in the wall, whou the equare on which' wo stood quickly sscended. Iere, also, sy in my room, \ay the seerst outlet nuder the chimney, through which I was now so magically lad, I folt as it wakea from o dreain. A moment be~ fore in mortal davger, und now arfe in this quict wpot viith wy fairy, >, 1+ Hero was the apperition of my drenm|! This was the belug’ who bad kissed me undor tho pomegranate-treo ! Tho same countonaice, the #amo cyes, tho samo silent lips—and now also again the sawe’ sudden diswpposrsuce! On looking avound I could soo hor nowhoro. But thi tima what Thind scen. was na dream ; for in o few momenty I heard tho alarm-boll sound from, the cuatle-tower, Tha' outrance to this towor also 1 had uever beon able to fiud, It too, hion, ws only to be renched frons Viola's room. DPoor child! au soon as shoe Liad imegived from tho sbooting that my fife was in daagor sho hor- self disclosed the protecting secrat in order to roeouo me, and aftorward hasionod to elgnal the dangor fo the iutibitanty. Iu'ashort time Lheard the people nolsily ap- proaching my residenco, ‘Iia was followed by & sbarp skivimish ou the vorunds, onding with o sliout of victory from my good poople, ‘Iho robbers had fled, taking with them the daugorously wounded man who had boon bit b; my bullot. - Anather Iny dead in the courteyard. The gamokeovor had stabbed binm with his butchor-knife. The rotber bad venturad to op- poss the King of Lapland, who had burried np to the support of fus mighty triond tho Czar. Tho rownindor of the band wero tuken Logather within the year, ¥ Dut tho faithful portor had boen killod, As the sorvants bronght lamus, aud by their lght e rased from the ground the blending body of tho wan who had so devotedly offered himsolf, Viola bogan to lamont kiko »,young bird stolan from its neat, Bue threw Lerself ot 'the ground, and wont into such paroxyuins of grief that i bopan to foar for ber reason. Raising ter tonderly, I assured hor I would now take the place of (he protoctor sho had lost. At this ste cast ber cyes down tremulous- ly, but tha teats rotled from undor tha long, half-closed lashies. Sho bad, then, understood e words, Whoaver can undorstand words can coztainly loarn to upeaic thoi! A mouth has passed sinco this ocourrence,, and during this timo I have tusked'wysolf “with toactung our mortal Isugungo to s fairy, My in- structionn have not basn without result. an now toaching hor that shbrt sentence of our arriage servico which ends with, the words, *Ag God is my belp—Amon,” Whon she can #ay this soutenco correctly, Viola and I will atand side by side at tho altsr, and repoat it in tarn,— Larpar‘'s Weekly, L ——— ORLY. And this 18 the end of 1t alll it rounds’ the year's com= . Dictenesn ; 3 3 . Ouly o waik 10 the atile, through fields nfosm with BWeOIO8H} ' Only fio sunset-light, pusplonnd red on tho river, And o fingering low gosd-ulght, that meaus good-by 10:0vur. 5oLe 1t} ond Godl bo with youl Ithad beon porbapa mare kiud Had you sovncr (pardon Ujp word) been auro of tnow. fug your mind. : Wo can hear o ek in youthe-who carea for'a awitt, wliarp patn ¥ And tho two-adged sivord of truth culy. deep, but it Teaves no stuln} Ishall Just go back to my work—to my lttle honso- ol cares, ‘That nuver tinkd any show, By tmo perbaps, inmy prayers, T may Uik of youl Tor tho Test, on thla way we've trodden togothr, 20y foot wumll fall us Nghlly as if my hoart wors a feather, And not & woman'e hoatt, strong to liava aud o koop, Yatiens when chlldren ey, 50ft to Jull thom Lo sloop, Midiug its secrets clode, gud when suother's haud Flody for itsolf @ gew wiore liers found only sand, ‘Goud-by! Tho year haa beeu bright! Asoftes the blognous came, The peach whili ilts Waxon pink, tho waving siow of 1ho pltis, 1 shiall ihiuk how T ased to watel, 50 Lappy ta &ve you rans I donl&nlmoflt klsy tho priut of your oot on the dawy rass, i Iam not asuamed of my love! YetI would not have YU oW, ‘Though {uu lald'it down at my foct, T could notatoop Holow, . Alove s but balf & love that contents Itaclf with lum Thaw Juve's utniost fulth uud truth uud unwaverig tenderueys, Onty t\l}l walk to the stileg this parting. word by the viver, & ‘st flowd ko quict and cold, ebbing and flowing for- urer, “Good-by 1" Lot mo walt to hear tho last, last sound of ul§ feet} 2 Almo] but I think I thig /ifo of ours tho bitter out~ weigiha tha Bweat, - —~2he Argosy. —_—— AFTER THE BURIAL, In the broaklog gults of Sorrom, < Wuon the hoipioss feat stretch out, And fudd 10 tho docps of durkucss No footiug &o solid as doabt, Then bottor ouo spar of Memory, Une broken plunk of the L'asty Phut our hunian heart mey elid to, “hutgh hopelcds of shoto ub ladt, | T'o tha eplrlt ita eplendia conjecturea; To tha fesh {ts swyeet depair,— te teurs o'er tho thin, worn Jocko! Withs {iy snguish of dusthloss hafel . . Canole, 1 you will; Tean bear it; *l u ‘wellsmeant uline of breatls § But not ull Biu preaching slncy Adam aw miasle Desth othor thau Death | —James hussels Lowell, ES . A Cano of Consclonce. A conntrywoman went into & sfore on Iane oyer wireot, Buston, thoe othor day, sud, putting four dallary on the ugunios, vamarked 40 & oleth) P " nftor nH, mora to tho pendant than was the King, !'Thoras fourioon yoars ago,,"twill bo fifteon £his fall, T bought somothing next daor and gava thom. _doflar Li¥l, but thoy coulin't give mo changos go thoy mobit a boy Into the mozt shop, and e brought mo baek the chango for five dols ::g’fl“mnfm‘l u{ um: "n'lmi I "imk ll:lbut "talng o L't agolng to keop it any longer; so thora it fa. all Wik agaln,” anid heforo tho e tonishod clork had timoe Lo maka any {uquiriey 8ho was gono, A LUCKY LORD. “ Oomiug of Age—gnrl Grosvenor's Eete~Eaton Mty JLondon Correspondence of the loston Poal, That lucky youn fallow, Earl CGirosvenor, tha eldost non of tho Duke of Weatlustor, is on tho {mmt of recelviug n serion of nylnnui&f avations, 0 cclobrato the dvent of hia 3lat yoar. -lo way “I indeod, Jast Aprit: but ae it is tha propor thing for auch foatlvities o take placo nt tho pn- coutral countrs-sont, and us tho ducal family have boen busy diaponsing gorgoous b mpitalicies In London up to tho closa of tho Pailinmentary 3¢ seeslon, tho oocasion was doferred till now, - It 3} i3 ecorcely nocossary to may that it will tako | vlaco nt Enton 1Ml mob s great woy oub J of tho auctont City of Cuestar, which is, with § thio excoption of the Duko of Dovoumtea's pale '3+ acent Chatiworth, tho noblost of all Bugiih | country houses, Thia celebration of thn hoic's i coming of agois ouo of tho most onciont aud 4 pleluresquo of Engzhish oustoms. Do you rermome ; bertho picturo by ouo of tho ntodorn Engliuh - artists onutlod * Qoming of Aze"? Itlsonaat {- the most striking sconca evor put on eanvas, aud given tho vivident idos of whatutich ocenniony renlly wero in the madioval times, The pconn 1 i3 i} | : is tiio quadrangle of n'hoary old castle, with {ts | battlomonts, turrots, donjon, and pointol wie dows. o _holr, huudsoms ua Adonty, with pitmed cap aud ologant doublot nud hoso, atsas midwa, Hily on the #iops leading Into tho gn::\lr Tho old Lord and hia wifo are nes whilo in the courtyard are the nnuntm‘;n:rnlx)n! tho tonants, eash paying homaga iu, his way tq the youth who is i duo time to becomo thaiz ranster. The wholo is suggestive of tho pairis | archal charnctor of the foudal. nubllity and of || the aplendor injvineh they livad. Tho Lord was, ‘Iho peasnot folt the. power aud the graciousne of tho Baron:more than thoso of the monarch, “Lho coming of ngo of the hoir of tho groathoise - of ‘Westminstor ia.as much of au ovout to tho Chesliiro poasantry as would be tho coronation of a now King of Bngland; sud the Soad of that | houso Ju of scarcely loss importance now, to the }, vast rogion whoro he is lord of the manar, than | o noble of simiinr sminence was four costurion ago, Ilo I8 etill fouaal and , supremo 3 and | howover. much oarnest {hivkoers mysy doprocate & Atale of things loopa tho rural magsosin ignorance, wut and political death, thera {5 somethiug sivgulnrly Inycinating, to those who have any fano: all, iu the rolations botweon such a’noblo' as tho Duke of_Wontmiuster and his thousands of tone antry. Itissaid that tho Duke will rovivo, at Enton, many of tho old bistorio sports, sliows, nnd pastimes which Taado tho coming of ngo of the Leir such » masquorado end gala io thaotdon 't time. -Eatun, to bo nro, is not iu o very perfoct ,* condition for loativities, Thoso who hnve visitod ,{ it 10 racont yoars hava remarked the vast ropnirs - that huve boou going on upon it; and those nre vory far from belug complata, It is waid thes the Duke jutonds to spond half o million stors ling ugon it, and thus to mako-it outrival mag-| nificent Chataworth ttwolf The patt of tha | odtlica vot undar ropair, however, 18 oxtensiva onough to shelter in fino stylo tho soveral'; hundred blua-blovdad gueats who are to be tires= '+ out at tho fostivition. Think of tho brilliant |, balls which will take place in tha loug drawing= I rooms on tho late summer evenings, whop the rapresoututives, malo aud female, of o host of noble fanulies ‘will form tha cotillons, waltzon, sud galops; think of the aplondid feasts which ! will ‘bo partaken of in the big onk-paveled di ing-room, whero oro now Kings havo fensted ; think of the gatherings of the poasanfry on tho ! broad, closg-cut lawns, whore the Duke and | Duchess will foin their ‘himblo revels, and | provido' a surfoit of rousiod oxen and oxcel- | lout beor; .think of- tho masquersdos au ' carriago cortegos, tho speechos aud coremo« : nios, tho floral archen and decorations, tha', wusic of Welsh bards, and Scottish pipers, ¢ and famons ariists from town. Tho young Larl, too, will have with him tha fair aud Leauti= ful young girl who s to_liaro Liu soronor, and ! in time to bo Duchess of ' Westininstor, who wilt | now sharo in tho joys of the festiviby in Lonor * of hor botrothed, aud be at-his side to hoightan, + oach ond nll of thom, Tor though Earl : .Grosvenor is but 21, ho hashad bislove romanco, and {8 Lappy 1o bis choice, _ Nor noed 1t be sur~ | mised that tho lovely Lady Sibyl has chosen him for tho grandeur of hid titlo aud tho magnifi- couco of his woalth; for he iy really a handsome, bright, amiable follow, full of hoalth, smiles,and | good spirits, and ono of the most vromising and virtuous of the younger Euglish nobiity ; and, a4 far ns ths outer world can judge, the mateh was one of thio most genuino attaira of mutuul alfection which high socioty has witacssed for waay s dey. : I fmva called Earl Grosvenor a lucky young fellow: and is honot? Endowed with's strong | constitution, good temper, and a suony disposi- tion, Lo Liaa nothing to d but to enjoy life with fovely bride and paterunl woaith whioh knowsy * no bound¢. Ho i heir toa ducal coronet, and to castlos, palnces, aud estates wbich Roymty itsalf might fairly onvy. Ho is among the bluost - of the bluo-blooded. ~ Fow.of tho noblost fami- liea cun trace their linenge to a respoctubility so remoto, Tho Talbots and Herberts, aud ovon | tho Howards, ore recont in comparison to the Grosvenors, Cho Iatter date as Koights back into Normandy before tho Conqueat ; thoy wera | nobles there a contury znd n balf bofore Willium, | the Normnn 8o uvmercifully mauled tho Saxon Larold ot Hostiugs; that is faily as lopg ago as' 000 A. D, Their anccstor ‘“‘eamo over with the Conqueror,” and Gilbort fo Grosvonor was a ncphow of William's uncle. 'The family mamo itself indi- cates nohility, 28 nobility was 1n, that remotg tinie. Grosvenor moaua, roughly, ** Big Huuter,” and a man could not huve boon a big huntor in Normaudy of that date without also bowng an arintocrat, 'Tho Grosvenors woro groatChoshira gentlemen and Kunights from tho tiine of the Con queror down ; it is lutorasting that whero Gilbert sottled whon ho first **camo over ™ his doscend- uuts atill live and Lold feudal state, The family became noblo about' a coutury sgo, when Hir Richard Grosvenor, twantieth in descent from Gilbort, was rained to the Peerage by tho titlas of* Buron Grosvounor, Viscount Dalgrave, aad Earl Groavenor of Chester. His son Hobert vad crealed Murquis of Wostminster in 1831, ‘throe of bis sons ouly quito recontly eat in the Huuso of Peera togather,—his aldest aa Alarquis of Westminstor, and two youngor sous, the presont Liarl of Wilton and tho vresent Lord sbury Tho former, second Marquis, who died live or six yoars uyo, was u vingulor oharactor. Althougli ab vich as rich can be, with an incomos of wora than £300,000 n yoar, ho was cxceeding~ l{‘mlmrlx. Ttsve been told by s clergymun of the Onuroh -of Luglaud, who "kuow him wall, that ho used to go uvout {le streots of Clester Ho shnbbily dressod that poople woro ashewed to bo seen walking with hun, Ho looked hke a soedy old man who had lost all his money and hin frisnds too. Ilo usod to make a show placa of Eaton 1Tall, charging every ooe who visited it 2 aixpouce, and Lkeoping tho utrictest laok-out ta be suro that Lie gat ull tho mouey thus acquired. 1fe was porpetually quarralng. with his domess ties, fed thom meanly, and disponsed with all ho possibly could. e kept hin son, Eurl Grosven= ror (the prosont Duke), on a very shiabby allow- ance, und all iy nlue childean wers conatantly Tept'in mind of bis miserly disposition, Whon In town, ho vory rarely opotied Lis houwa to con~ peny, bitt kopt shut up in it {n glaomy solitudo, 1o was s perfect torment to kis tenants, wha could not persuade him to make the most necea« sary ropaivs, aud wore alwaya in dangor of hav- ing thow routy roisod over their heads, i The Ezmoun Liond of the house, who has ro- cently been raised from the Marquivate to a | Dukodom, s a ve difierent porson from his povurions old fathor. and is a8 gnpnl-u- with the tenunts as lus predecessor way oared and disliked And that muoh doponds | uYou tho. cluef of the Grosyenors i evidout, whon you cousider the vast uxtout of .their pos- Bessions, Bosides four wagnificont couutry palaces,—Eaton Hall, Holkin Custlo in Flint- &hire, Motcomb Housu in Dursotshure, aud Fout- Jull in Wilts,—each of which 18 surroundad L, villages and’ thounand of plontifully-yicluing acros owned by the Duke, ho possusios s vast ataa of blooks of statoly Lonses iu tho very hoart of rashignuble London. Belgrave Bquare, tho atatolicst, most onvied, most spaelony, aud most thoroughly aristooratio of all London squarcs, whorv, if 0no rents o Louss thero, ho in protiy guro to have at lesst an Ewmlon one sito and a Baron on the other, i8. big ; 40 is the ouly losa nigh-toned Baton Squaro, and numbetlous strooty of the highest character in thoir vicinity. ‘I'ha ground-rantu of thouo honues huve boon falling 1n of lato years, mora than trobling tho ulready enormous wealth of the Woutminstor family 3 for wutil then ihoy only owued tho Lousos, whereas now thoy own tho’ laud and tho houses too, T'ho Duke's woslth s only to bo l{mmxh matoly patimated by taking a stroll througl Tjolgravin, and obsorving tho long lines of raully statoly mansians whick may Lo soon thero hy the quarter of a mile, ~ All thin is eventually ¢ becaie the property of the bright youth whoy wisjority 18 the oocasion of wuch joyfnl fostivit in Cheshira 3 unloss, tndoed, bofors Lo kucoeud ‘?)‘i' oi Nnluaky fend revolyrion tiiruy (TR abolieh ull tetidal propusilos wiisisoeyer. 1 i i waich |} poverty, i<