Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TATES OF BUDECRIPTION (FATARLE IN ADYANCE). Daily, by mal i.gg Tri- Waokly, b X Partani syearattos Ty yrovent delay and mii Ofi.ce address In full, including Stato and County, Romittances may ba mad elther by dratt, oxprosy, Ofbce ordor, o in registered loiters. at oursiak, CEIMA TO CITY RUBRCRIBENS, Daily, deliverod, unday sxcopiod 3 ceute bor :::: . verod, Sunday included, 3 P THE TRIBUNR OOMPANY, Coruer Madison and 4.0 Ubloago, e ure and glve Post Post e et TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, it MUSIO—HHalstad stroat, batwoen Mad. e oo o o Ligard Goibias- ton, ' La Tontation,' LEY'S THEATRE-Randatoh atreot, betwaen OOty Syntier Tlio Tanglod Chalns ¢ g EATRI—Madlson streot, hstwoen DO dageanent of Jotepl Jofforson. **RIp Van Winklo," RRA-HOUSE—Clark sirest, opposito BN e Ay & s Sinatre. XPOSITION BUILDING—Lakoshors, foot of Adems wiroot. 1ONAT, OI{URON—~Corer Ann CHEH BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. MCCHESNEY, CORNER OF OLARK AND pli-sta., wareants tho finost and best [ull set of Tandoluliaia.y earennle, e oh e ooy refundod: The Chicags Teibune, Phuradey Morning, Soptembor 24, 1874. Poatmaster-Goneral Jowoll has thus far in his official carcor justificd tho great expectations which hLis appointmont created. Ho is ouo of the honest men accidentally chosen by President Grant as an adviser, counsellor, and fricud, Tho Republican Convention in Missour] yos- terday indorsod tho candidates and platform of tho Roformers. 'Thia action uvites all the elo- ments of opposition to tho Domocratic party. Tho coslition s atrong and virtnous, It de- sorvos to succeod § and, whother it succeods or not, will have the satisfaction of knowing that it has not wanted good senso and honost purposes. . Aron Audorson, the nlleged ivcondinsy, was on trial bofore the Crimiual Court ‘yosterday. Tho evideuce for the prosccution is all in, and Anderaon’s counsol has shown that his client bo- longed to a Biblo-class, and therafore could not havo set fire to his house, Seriously speaking, the defoneo is making out o good case, and Andergon is likely to bo a freo mau beforo night- fall to-day. o Newspapers correspondonts write that there {8 somo prospect of another insurrcetion in Now Orleans, the dosperato spirits designivg in this way to forco the ostablishmont of n military rulo. The desporato spirits muy aa well con- sider that a now rovolt will bave no sympathy in tho North, and it will moat cortainly imperil many precious lives. Tho leaders of auch an entorpriso must bo propared to tako thoir lives in thoir hands and offer them up freely as 8 eacrifica to tho genius of anarchy, Charles S8wamn, on Euvglish minor poot of somo celebrity, died yesterday, aged 71 years. As early as 1818 he bocamo o mombor of & firm of engravera in Jlanchester, and conducted 8 branch of that business to the day of his denth. Tho firat literary production from his pen to at~ tract genoral attention wus & contributjen to o pariodical publication, and most of his subsequont efforta were in the aamo fleld. Tho first volumes of his works woro composed of phosophical poems, 1o doparted from this strain later in lifo, and dovoted Liwsel! to Iyric poetry, in which class woro the ** Lnglish Melodies,” published in 1844, nud tho “Letters of Loura d'Auverne,” ete., published iu 1863, Many of his versea havo beon ndapted to music. ilis poems bave beon raprinted fu tho United States, Frauce, and Ger- many. Tho people of Terro Bonno Parish in Louisi- nua have concoived a very reasonublo accommo- dation of the difculties occasioned by politicul disputes. It {s o division of tho local oftices be- tween the two partios in proportion to the votes cast nt provious elections. Tho Now Orleans Picayune inguires: *'Is it not probable toat Terro Bonno hes struck out the coursas which shallllend ua from the wilderness ?” We fear not, Nomen orsetof men has tho right or powar to apportion office in any such way, and furtbermore, there 18 no recent voto which will be gonerally nccopted throughout the State as n fair gaugo,of purty strength, The schomo con- templuted would load to worso evila than any Irom which the people of Lousiana now suffor. As n temporary oxpediont, in isolated casos, the comprowmise-niessure may answer vory well; bat It willnot even be tried in tho Stato av largo. Connoissours of art in this city and the Weat will observe by au udvortisenent olsewheroin our columus that nearly all the pictures in the large and maguificent gallery at tho Exposition build- ing aro for snle. Thore are two vory good rea- sons why the salo ebould meet with s large pat- ronago, First, it is raro that a buyer will have such an opportunity for choico a8 is prosonted here. Second, if] artista find that they can sell their pictures liece, it will oncourage them to ‘mako liberal contributions iu future. There aro many goms upon the walls of this gallory which ought to remain here. They have beon hero long enough to have their morits fixed bayond any uostion, so that buyers need hardly hesi- tato in making their chojco, It is the only col- lection which hasbeen offered for sale here sinco the firo which hes boen worthy of publio atton- tion, —— Mr, Horace Maynard has vontured something upon tho durk and tempestuous en of independ- ent politics, with which he hay horetofore beon scarcoly acquainted, by approving and promising to support unoquivocally the new Civil-Rights bill, The Convention which nominated him svoided this isauo. Ho iy, thorefore, in advanco of his party, and may oxpect to bo sccused of {roachory by his party nssociatos. We rejoivo that he has como down from tho fonce; tho ovent will show whothor ho hau como down on the wrong sido for political preferment. Tho suspiclon in Washington is - that ho doos not ex- pect to bo clectad Governor, but s making a hold attempt upon the Ropublican nomination for Vice-Drosidous in 1870, It is absurd, of courso, to suppose that Mr. Muyuard has beon botruyed by honost convictious Into political suicide, Tho Chicago produce markats woro quist and foverish yosterdsy. Mows pork was dull and ouslor, at $22.70 cnsh, $22.25 for Octobor, and $18,16@18.17}¢ weller the yenr, Lard wu quiet nud unchanged, st 14}4@1he por b cash, and 115{0 pollor the yoar, Moals wero quiot and tame, al 0}(@0%0 for shouldors, 135¢@140 for short mddles, and 13}4@180 for sweet- pleklod hams, Mighwines woro quist and atrong, et $1.08 por geilon, Lako frolghta THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1874, woro dull and weak, at 8o for whoat to BufTalo, Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat wan trrogular and wenk, nt a slight advance, cloging ot 8100 cauh, 0% sollor tho month, and 940 soller Octobor, Corn was loss active, and waal, closing at 820 easly, 81Xfo sollor the month, and 794¢e for Octobor., Onts wero active in op- tions, and 340 lowor, closing at 51}¢o cash, and 49cYg for Octobor, Tiyo was quict and oaslor, ot 0lo, Barloy was activa and 2@8c lower, clos- ngat 8104 for Soptombor, and 98%{@0a for Octobor, }ogs woro modoratoly active, with common and medimn solling lowor. Bales at 85.60@7.80. Cattle woro active at caslor prices. Bhoop were lowor, [ S A — Now that tho pronccunn.fi of Mr. Boocher hns ‘beon romoved from the occloslastical sud popus lar tribunals to tho lnw-conrts, tho mannor of Lis trial fs oxciting much attontlon. Yirat of all arisea tho inquirs, 1fow can o jury bo choson ? ‘Whoro can bo fonnd twelve good men and truo who iave not formed an fuflexible opinion in ro- gard to tho guilt or jnnocesco of tho acensod? The Now York papors aro much perploxed Dy tho dificultica of the situntion, Wo upprehend no troublo, Who cauo s just now in such a slage that Lalf tho honest men in Now York do ot know what to believe. The porsintont ndvoency of Mr. Boochor's causo by the New York pross must cortainly have ralvod up & Amalt army of doubters, aud we are willing to trust the evidenco thus far submitted for liaving at lonst prevantod a goneral conviction of Mr. Beocher's innocenco. Asit is, the half of tho honeat men who are not in doubt boliove that Mr. Boocher iy guilty. Tho Now York Ropublicans on joyed to the full yesterday an opportunity, of which not many biavo come in their way, of reasonsbly praising o Stato Administration for which thoy are ro- spongibla, Gov, Dix i thelr mau. The good which ho did was lsrgoly in epito of the Repub-~ lican party, but wo undorstund the party woll enough to know that, it will appropriate tho credit of its own coufusion with ontire com- placency. Of coursa the Couvention nominated Dix and Robinson. It would efso bave inviled cortaln dofogt; but, If thelr pawt rocord has been correctly roported, the maongers had no occasion to refoice, as thoy pretonded to do, over tho oveut, Tho plat- form of the Convention reads well, oxcept that part which charges that Ku-Kilux assassinations Luvo been encouraged by rocent Democratio sue- cesses, Vermont aud Maluo gave Ropublican mnjoritios ; and we uro not informed tnat tho Ku-Klux heve boon much affected, a8 they logically woald be, if tho Now York Re- publicans wore Lonest, by the results in those States. Iudeed, the Ropublicans have not boen willing to sdwmit before that thera hava boen any Democratic succosses, Wo commend to the consideration of students in biology Mr. Conkling’s oplondid oratorical effort in tho presouco of the Convention. A DASTARDLY BLOW. About two months ago the Nutional Board of TUuderwriters ndopted six resolutions in refer- ence to fire rieks in Chicago, embodying cortain demands which thoy mado upon our city author- ities. These were: 1. That the permanent fire limits should bo mada coextensiva with tho city limite. 2. That a Building law sbould bo adopted, tho same fn substance as the New York Building law. 8. That thore should be a completo reorganiza~ tion of the Fire Depurtmuent. 4. That water-maivs of & cortain sizo should be lnid fu cortain districte. 6. Thbat provision should be mads by Inw for an investigation of tho cuuses of all fires, with a viow to proventing incendiurism. 6. That all lumber-yardsaud other inflammable things should bo romoved from the sounthwest- orn district of the city. The first roquiremont of the list has alrendy Dbeen complied with, and tho fourth is being com- plied with as rapidly a8 possible. The thira and fifth cannot bo complied with until the noxt meoting of tho Btaro Legtelatare, As tothe second, however desirable it may bo, it is well Lnown that two years of inceesant offort was re- quited, togother with . the oxpenditure of $20,000 in monoy, to procuro tho passsgo of the New Yok Bulding law, which we .wero expected to. mature aud pass in two monthy. The sixth is simply impossiblo of exccution, and must have been known to be so whou put in the schedule. It isa requircinont not made or enforced in any other oityin the United Btates. It must Lave been Lknown to those who adopted it thut thore is no logal pro- cas by which o lumber-yard—much logs o balte dozen milos of lumber-yards—can be moved without the conscut of tho owners. ‘The City of Ulucago having failed to comply with four roquiremonts which it was known that it would bo physically impossible to comply with in that time, the Lxecoutiva Committeo of tho Nutional Bonrd of Undorwriters, sitting in New York, yostorday resolved to withdvaw na many ingurance compaunlen as they could influance from Chiesgo, refusing to writo new policlos or to reuaw those expiring. Thisoruel snd dostardly blow was struok at the credit of Chicago under the circumstances wo Lave named—that is, with tho full knowledgo that, whether right or wrong, whethier just or unjust, the demands mado upon us could not bo complied with in the time given. Whon we say thmt this wasa cruol and das- tardly blow, wo do not question the right of these insuranco companios, or any othors thub thoy o influence, to go away. Insurance I8 a trade, a vw.nuon. pursued for galn, like any other trado or vocation, If those:companies fiud it not to tholr profit to stay hero, 1t iy proper for thom to retire, The decont and business-like way for any of thom to pro- ceed, if desiring to witbdraw, would bo to privatoly ivotruct their ngents to writo no moro policles horo, aud to noufy thelr oustomers, go that thoy might got other in- surance, Wo sy that this would hsve boen the decont courdo to purauc, Instozd of this, thoy have takon a courso und pursucd a policy caleu- culated to produce n panjo and to impair the credit of this clty in tho farehest cornor of Chris- tondom, Moroovor, they have tukon s comso implylug Wt tholr own mombers canuot bo {fully relied on to carry out tho agrosment unless itis procinimod from tho housetops,~—an appro- hansion which we ueliove fs justified ne yogards goms of tho best companies in Iartford and Dhiladelpbla, ‘I'sse TRIBUNE hiss, up to this timo, sustalned tho domuuds of the Natloual Board of Undor~ wiivers, sud urged upon the olty suthoritios & epoedy complinuco with thom 8o far as thoy wora roasonrblo and just. Wo havo gone further, and urged complisuce with domands mada upon citl- zons in their private capuelty,~somo of which hava boon tytanvioal and idiotlo. Bat we go no farther, ''lio Natlonal Board of Undorwritors Lins dono ita worst, It Lios doto thab worat In o moah Aplrit, Wae have no respect for it or o Lixeentivo Commitiee. We do not bolleve it ean control its own mombers i tho promises; but, whethor It can or not, wo_ want no more of ita insolont dictation,—tho product of combinod ignoranco and josultinm, If 1t onn find o bottor markot for its waroa, lot it talio Lhom thither forthwith. Chicago Ia nok going out of busness by rosson of tho withdrawal of the Natidual Bonrd of Undor- writors, even supposiug all its mowmbora go. Thoy number fifty of the seventy companics do~ Ing businoss ore, but now companios will come in when theso go out. Now compaulos will bo orgauized horo,. aud the riik of firo will ba vastly diminished when fivo-sovanths of tho {nsuranco is withdrawn, And In tho ond thoso componios will come straggling back. Mean- whilo thoy havo dono us all the harm they cau,— have dono it with ovident malico,—and wo noither nak nor oxpect favors from them. The anlmus of thelr conduct toward us is to vo sought for in the City of Now York. THE BURDENS OF. THE S0UTH, Tho leading ciilzens of Solmn, Als, have jolued in o strong and stirring apponl to the Presidont of tho United Blates, in answer to cor- taln charges mado In tho New York Zimes by the Tlon. Alexandor White, Congrossmnn-at-Largo from that Stato, alleging tho inkecurity of lite to Htepablicans and tho danger of expreesing soutl- monts loyal {o the Government. Tho appeal not only completoly rofutes tho sonsatlonal charges of Mr. Whito, but it throws n flood of light upon tho political situation i Alabama, and incidentslly diecloscs tho ressons for tho discontent of the white pooplo of that State nud the grounds for their protest wgainst the oxisting condition of things, 1tis but a fow days ago that wo gave tho substanco of o similar address from tho white poople of Claiborne County, Miss., apporliug for thio removal of thoir intolorable burdens. Tho two appeals aro almost identical in tho facts which are prosented, Loaving out the rofuta- tion of Alr. White's stories of murder, and blood- shod, and persecution of pograes in that vicinity, which aro shown to bo false, we como fo the more gensral and important facts of tho appeal, which discloso sufficiont cause for the uusettlod condition of Bouthern socloty. Testimony from other sources and localitics showa that tho condition of Dallag County, in which Selina ia located, may be taken as o fair samplo of nil tho other districts in which earpot- bag influonce is suprome. Thoso facts aro simply damning, and that they bavo not led to thoe most tucbulout disorders snd general anarchy is & proof of the patience and law- abiding disposition of the people. Prior to tho War, tho annual county ex- pansed were $10,000; mnow they exceed 248,000 Prior to the War, the prop- erty, exclusive of glavos, was worth three times ny much as it is now, Tho taxes Tiave quadrupled, and have not been honestly applied. Tho present Tax Collector i8 under an indictment for perjury and embozzloment of county fuuds, found by a Graud Jury, the ma- Jority of whom were Ropublicans, and yot he has juat boen renominated for the samo offica by, & majority of the Republican Convention, The nomjnee of that Convention for Judgo of tha COriminal Court i8 & negro who has nover prac- ticed law, never hms had & caso, and is under indictment for larceny. Tbo County So- licitor, & whito Ropubiican, bas been convicted of brabery and corruption, and is now under in- dictment for a now trial. Tho nomines for Coroner, & nogro, was convicted of larcony a fow duys ago by the Ropublican Mayor of the oity, Tho present incumbont of tho Cireuit Court, a life-long lopublican and honest man, Lias beon dofoated by an iguorant and corruptb uegro. low thoso disgraceful results wero se- cured they show Ly documentary ovidenco of a charactor which ought to ba couclusive to the President, asthedocumentscome from prominont Ropublicans themselves, Their united testi- mony shows that this Conveution was never vegularly organized at i, but woe only a meb of tho office-lolders and thelr nogro hirelings, whick got together for the purpose of cantinu- ing each otberin offico ; and numorous sgreo- ‘ments of tho most corrupt description betwoen candidates sro printed, showing a dogroe of fraud and dishoneaty which would not bo tol- crated o singlo day in a Northern Btate. s to tho charges of intimidation imme- diately proceding olections, the siguers of tho appeal make a complote and crueh- iug roply. They show that in the eight counties adjoining Dallas tho whito population fa 66,339, and the blnck 186,760. The voto in 1870 was 14,123 Democratie, and 85,271 Repub- Nlean; in 1872 it was 18,580 Demooratic, and 95,631 Nopublicsn. Tho largo vote of the ne- groca 1 proportion to their population clearly omdugh shows that, 1f there was any iutimida- tion, it was nok successful, aud tho romargable disproportion of tho whita to the black popula- tion, joined to the fact that tho whole black pop- ulation goes armod, shows that the very idea of intimidation is absurd on the fuce of it. What wonder that tho white poople of the Bouth complain of theso burdens, and aro dis- contented ? What wonder that choy scok to rid themsolves of this barbarism (for it is nothing loss), this corruption, aud dishonosty ? Undor tho rule of theso oficials the aununl expsuscs of tho Stato Governmont of Alabamy bave been - creased from $400,000 to upwards of $1,600,000 ; tho State dobt hae boen increasod from £5,000,000 to 40,000,000; aud, nothwith- staudlng tho collection of the immenso and ruinous taxos, tho Btate cannot meot tho intor ost on its bondgd dobt, What hopa of the fu- turo ean the whito people of Alabamn bave when theso same usurpors and thiaves are forcod upon them your sfter yoar by tho most unblush- ing and outragoous frauds, and whon avy ate tompt of theirs to secure an honest governmont is mado the ocoasion for the display of Foderal ‘bayonets? What other outlook it thero to tho siturcion thun that of bankruptey and utter ruin? What hopo is there that tho mauly and dignified remongtranca which tho peoplo of Dal- la4 County have made to tho Prostdont, although sustaiuod by unimpeachable Republican testi- mouy, will meot with any attention or oven pe- rusal at Washington ? A Conventlon of Reformers, composed of Liberal Ropublicans aud Democrats, was held in Bt. Paul yosterday, It was & largo and respocta~ blo gathering, somo of the bost citlzons of the Btate—mon who have not herotofore beon prom- inout In politice—boing in attondance. The Btato offcors to bo choson this yoar in Min- negotn arc Ollof Justice nnd Associate Justice of the Bupremo Court. Tho caudidates put for ward by the Ropublicans rosido in Bt, taul and Miunoapolls. Tho Reformers yostorday nom- inated for Chlof Justioo, Westcott Wilkin, of 8¢, Taul, aud for Associnto Juatioo, Witliam Loch. ron, of Miouonpolla, T.oowl projudices are thun Lulanced betweon the two tidkols, aud the op. peatug candidatos will stand squaroly on tholr motita in tho two aitios. Tho proapecin of an oxclting eanvaus and o full vote in Minneapoliy and 8t Paul aro oxcellont. Tho Reform candi- dntos have the advaniage of good principles. Thelr platform is one of the best framed in the Wost thia yoar, Tt domands a speedy roturn to speoio, & fariff for revonue, the oxpulsion of thioving officiula from tho Southorn Biates, honte-rule, n free pross, and Stato control of rallronda, It opponos the pasange of sumptuary taws, Tho Uonvontion deolded to iguore provi- ous political conncetions. Tt will bo strango if ita tickot doow not carry the Stato with the as- sistanco of mon who havo boon taught by Moll- rath and the Rtiug to distrust tho Republican pavty, ey INDIANA POLITICS. Wo have alremdy called atlontion to the won- derful aud wide-spread offect produced upon po- litiesl partios by tho lonest, straightforward ‘doclaration made by tho Opposition Convention hold in this Btate on tho 26th of August, That Convontion doclsrod in favor of specio pay- monty, and the paymont of the national debit in gold. 'Uhis deolaration, which was considored 80 haznrdous, and from which all tho politicinns have beon ulirinking, was no sooner mads than it was nccepied and avowed by hundreds of pa- pers i this and other Blates that had not dared ta avow it before. In Michigau, Nebrasks, Towa, Minnosots, and Wisconsin, it hay become the popular doctrine, thonyh eixty days bfore not o couvention, Iarge or ymall, daro avow it. Dut the most striking effect has beou produced in Indiana, The Demo- eratio Corvontion in that Btato, in an offort to ontbid Ropublicans, declared in favor of nu- limited grooubnoks, and the paymont of tho 5-20 bonde i paper. Not e man in the Convention daro riso up and opposo this opon avowal of re- pudiation. Stuce the Ilinais Couventian, how- ever, thero bas beon s striking change. Tha Hon., Josoph- E. McDonnld, Ohairman of tho Demoeratic State Comimittoo, has kicked over the Indiann platform, and bas boon making specchios in favor of specio , pay- monta and honest dealings with the publio croditors, The poople ‘have everywhere greoted bim with their cordial approval. Can- didates, emboldencd by his succoss, have taken tho same course, and last but not loast, Gov. Hendricks, ot a specinl meoting held at In- diauapolis, has followed McDouald, and now re- pudintes tho repudiating platform of tho party. The Hon. . 0. Kerr Ling won now distinction in Indiana as a man of ability and integrity by a foarloss opposition to inflation, and advocacy of an honest payment of tho publio debt., Dan Voorhees i foft almost alone in tho support of the groenback aud ropudintion platform of which he boasts bo ia the author, So great has Leen the change that in fact the Democratic condidates in Indiaua are now ruuning for aflica on the Illinois platform, tho Indiana fraud hav- fug boen practicaily abaudoned. . BOGY AND BOGYISM. The Democrata of Missouri bave a candidate for tho Presidency in the person of Scnator Bogy, and have abandoned all the uotions of po- litical cconomy aver heard of mmong civilized peoplos to adopt those of Bogy. Benator Logan hos oxtravagaut nottons about financial quos- tious; Lo goos far boyond Senator Morton§ but Logan is coosorvatism itsolt compared with Bogy. DBogy made soveral spocches in the Bon- ato at the laat session. The great burden of his complaint wns that thore was more money in Now York than there was in 8t. Louis, aud moro capital in Now England than tiiero was in Mis- sourl, and his romody was to print nfoney to an indetinito smount until overy man in his sectiou hiad a8 much s Lo wanted. Bogy thought thero ought to bo more baoks in Missouri, and ho could not be porsunded that, ‘¢ Congross reducod tho ,number of banks in Now. England, the banks of Migsouri would not nocesssarlly incresse, Bogy understood {bat if o man was not allowed to have o National Bank in Providence, or Boston, or Now York, ho must of necessity atart it in Missouri, and that, if the banks of Missouri were increased, the amount of currency among the peoplo of that Stato would also be incroased. His ilen vas thnt the abundancy and searcity of currency wero govered by the proximity of the institutious by which it was issued, overlooling the fact that though all the greenbacks are fssued at Wash- ington, and most of tho gold coin from tho ‘mint at San Francisco, monoy is no more plentifnl fn those places than clsewhere. Nor could 3r. Bogy be mado to undorstsud that capital was ossontisl to the orgonization of Na- tionul Banks, and that tho roason why banks wore organizod in cortain localitics in proference to othors was that thoy wero established whoro there was tho largest smount of accumulstod woslth. But Bogy was most profound on the paymont of tho natioual dobt, He discounted Pondieton, and Kelley, and Logan, and Voorbecs, aud El- dredgo, snd Bon Butlor, The debb did not troublo Bogy in the least; lio wonld meroly print 08 many greenbacks as there wero bonds, and, if the creditors would not accept them, then tho creditors could go without auything. Bogy was 0 dolighted with reading his own spoccnes that ho reachea the conclusion that he ought to bs Prosidont; that, as he was the ouly man in the United States who thoroughly understood financo, ko was the most suitablo man to admin- istor tho finnnces, The Demacratio party of Miseour, at their Convention, made Bogy's spaoches thelr plat- torm, 'Thoy said nothing agaiugt the third term, because who could toil but a gratoful couutry might want Bogy, not only for a third torm, but for half-a-dozen tormu? DBut it ap- pears now that the Domocracy of Migsourl are not o unit on tho Bogy plau of finance, As in Indiana, so in Missour, thore nro Domocrate who nre not ropudiators, aud Domocrats who thluk o rostoration of an houost currency would bo s good thing to bave, Thero 1, thoroforo, & rovolt agalnst Bogylsm in Missowr, and all tho oloments af oppoeition in that Btate havo united in tho support of o ticket hoadod by Ma)® Gentry, s Domoorat, for Govornor, Mr, James 0. Broaduiead, o distinguishod loador of tho party In St. Louls, hus doclined an {uvitation to stump tho §tate for tho Democtatio tickot, aud doclaroy for Gontry, ond 1 his lotter thuys dis- oloses tho animns of tho Bogy systom of financo ¢ Aove all things the countsy nteds repossand order, and, 1¢ tho pooplo would ueck thelr truo tuterests, they should avold Radfealism of bolls oxtrome, but Mig- sonr} Democracy 18 drifting fnto tho worst kind of Tudicallsm, Ite dootring ontlio currency quoetlon Ieuds to repudiation, und springs maiuly from the fact that the Governuient bouds were {seiod to rales mouns 1o carry on the Warj and ite hosillity to Unfon mon ‘shows that it atll} harbora kit * yearning fur ravengo™ that must fnovilably culminate in a lawlcasness and Qiuorder which will parwlyze the fudustry of our Btato aud drive emigration from its borders, Tho rosult is that the Domooratic party in Mige soutl, which might have cmriod tho State on an Honost plstform by 60,000 mujority, {s in daugor of bolug crushod undos tho wolght of Bugyism, BEECHER AND BROOKLYN. A Bohemian's Roview of the Cireat Investigation, How the Reportors Fought, Bled, and Died. Scones and Unseens at the Storrs Mansion, Tilton's Last Statement, and What Brook- Iyn People Think of It. A Chango Comes O’er the Spirit of Their Dream. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, BROOKLYSN, Sopt, 19, 1874, I think that no Chiongo reportor, tint even in gatharing up tho dotails of the Groat Firo, kss over folt the burden of his professlon to Lo so much like the grent earth on tho shouldors of Atlas ng onr Now York aud Brooklyn Bohomians have done under tho suporincumvent woighe of thio Boecher seandal, Bhall wo over forgot the summor-nighta whon wo usod to hung ovor the raitiugs of the bistoric residouco of Augastns Storrs, on Monros place, during tho Beasiona of the Invostigaung Com- mitteo? Can our eara over forget the rumblings of tho stately cmriago-wheols of the ponderons Mr. Bage, Choirtan, lunberman, aud whitowasher ? Sboll wa over lose from our faucy the domuro and downcast look, sud fanereal and uncortuin tread, of District-Attorney Winglow,—tho most timid and characterless mau to whom Naturo ever gave a Roman noso ? Can it bo possible thot Horaco B. Clnflin's beawny oyes and egg-shapod hoad shall evor fado from the eamera-plato of our endurng recolloc~ tlon? Tuit within tho scope of probability that the slock, oily, well-fod uud Alderman-waistod Au- gustus Storrd shall bocome, iv due time, to our Jjournalistic momory, a mero tilmy aud forgotton thing? Shall wo ever ceaso to lingor fondly over our choriahied recollections— Doar as remombered kisses after death— ovary member, of the Commitiee,—evon that cheorful nonentity who constitutes Mr. Boocher's busiucss-partuer, monthplace, lackey, and servaut-of-all-work,—that ideal dry-goods clork,—Honry M. Cleveland ? They woro a little Leglslaturo of wiso heads, that Liliputian Committee of great men! Thoy bogan their ovenings with ** veiled ladios,” ‘and onded them with cake aud lemonade. No atrong .teatimony or strong liquor wss allowed. Tho Committeo would meot enrly, just at suosets the “yoiled fadies™ would entor; the rotund Mr. Augustus, TORD OF THE MANSION, would saluto them at tho door with the airof o Catholio pricst: the reporters would poer in over thie pinzza, through the slondor balf-inch between {ho window-curtain and the window-sill ; the pur- suit of journalistic kuowledge would bo contin- ued under difieulties; Blr. Storrs would catch a glimpso of tho open crovice through which the #ocret proceedings were leaking, and would draw down the curtain in disgust; thoro would baa yawn among tweuty reportors, who wero thus ex- cluded from every avenno of information; and the solemn proceedingu would go on within, whtlln sverything would be left toconjeoture with- out. And what conjectures wo used to make! Who was the witness that just went in? It was, of course, 8 *‘veiled lady.” It was evidently s young oue, for, in coming up tho stona steps, auo ran lightly. That greon veil must have bi tho face of Bespio urnor., i Or porhapa the mystorivus figure wasa fat woman, cumbrous with tho woight of years,— her youth gone, hor stop unsteady, and tho loast trifle of 4 noso—a dwarfed fonturo in so groat & parsonago,—showing itself benoatl: the black sereon with wireh she citrtained horsoll against our serutinizing eyes, Al, yos |—alrs, Morse,— the fumous MOTHER-IN-LAW,— and po mistake! What would woe not have givou on that night to have known what she eaid! We strainod our fancy; we bribed Mr, Btorra’ servants; wo cajoled his couchman ; wo interviewed his brotlicr; wo gave cigars to his chiof clorl ; wo hired the distiiot-telograph boya to send in messages which we kad wrolo ou cards, ~—all to got & Jittle scrap of Information from tho ponderous motber of the potite Elizaboth,~the thronteuing mother-in-law of the long-sutfering Theodore. She camo and went. The sum-total of her testimouy, a8 it mow appowrs, was, that Eliza- beth, hor daughtor, was ug chaste as the Virgin Mary, That was all the mother said. Then, with bold step, cumo a lady WITHOUT A VEIL. Hor snowy locks aro well known in theso parta, Whis was the woman who providos for Mr. Beecher, according to bis testimony, “a xsfufiu from the storm,” yot who, necording to Mr, Til- ton's recent statement, is ‘‘mora ofton the storm itself,” There was a grimness in her smilo, such a8 one would imagine in & tonder thunder-storm, "Llhen came the oxcitable John W. Harman,— always believing right,yot always acting wrong, —ouo of the mout houest, rash, and foolish of mon,—giving his testimony, like Shakepoarc's ghost, in * such o (ém.uhouuhlu shinpe ™ that ho was quoted by tho Committeoon thoside ngainst which his beart inclined him ; for I bave beard him say thet be rogards Deocher as ono of the worst, and he knows '[roodore to bo one of the best, men in Brooklyn, What & timo we used to have—we twenty differont ropresontatives of the ommipotent yross—discussing with each other tho merits of tho great controversy. The opinions of the average roportor aro of value,—not through auy {uherent diguity iu hia mina, for (with the excoption of mysolf and » few othors) he is genorally a scapesrace and yagabond ; but ho is unbinsed ; he don't care for one man or guother ; he thinks no wmore of Boecher than of Tilton,—no less of Tiltou than of Beecher ; that i to say, ho cares for nothing oxcapt to make & point agalust his comrade, and to steal or invent & pieco of exclusive news for bis own journal, T think tho roporters—E moan the groat clus- tor who, like bees swarming on a branch, used to Luzz about the railings of Mr. Bton»‘{luuun— 1 think most of theso wore at firat % ON 2R, BEECUEN'S SIDE, Ho used to cater tous, und we liked him ; wharens Mr. Tilton was somowhat prond an rosorved, Anybody can ‘“‘cut up Jaok™ with Henry Ward Boeclier, but nobudy can take liberty with Theodore "Tiltun, Brs. Morso was right when who said that Mr, Bosclior was “alwnys craoking biy jokes," Nr, Tilton, on tho otl:er hatd, never mado & protonse that the mattor in hand was not serious, solomu, and awful. But thon, to be sure, the question at jusuo was the reputation of s woman whom one wman had mado tho sport of an idle passion, and whom the othor man had loved as o mau loves the womun he chooses frem all the world to bo hils wite, 3 We pll thought at first that Mr, Tilton was attacking his wifo, and that Mr, Boocher was defouding hor; but it soon turned out that wo woro wistakan, Iam tho intimate companion of twenty re- portors of the New York prows, most of whom hogan our midsummor dancing of actondance in Monroo Placo on the Investigating Committoe, with a foohng of batred towards ‘Thoadoro Tilton for jeapurdizing tho reputation of his wifo. How did wo come to OUANGE OUR MINDS? Ono reason way, Mr, Tilton alwsys told ua the tiuth, Wo had to Interview him every dsy; he always rocolved us courtoously; gonoratly gave us notbing; but, whon he did opon his mouth to suy suything, the information which ho gave gro\-nc\ raliablo; ho ?lnvud no tricks, as ‘Lom hourman and tho rost of Bocchor's advisors did for tholr cliont, Ank MoAllister, of the Eagle; ‘Chayer, of tho Tribune; Wilson, of tho Herald; Williaws, of the Worid; 0'Grady, of the Times; Hondricks, of tho Bun; Guoon, of tho Union; “fl{- of the Argus ;—ask auy repoitor who has had ‘occosion to vialt My, Tilton, and ho will toll flou thet “*Thoodore,” like Mr, Moulton, was & ard man to interview,—gonorally dovlining to u?onh; but, when o did speak, wo all built npou his word as upon tho eulid rook. M Tilton mndenfireui roputation with us sll for tolllug tho truth, On tle othor hand, X spoak witliu bounds when 1 sny that not oo of onr snored enling | who worshiped like koeoling dorvishos at the afrine of Augustus Htovrs' doorstops, and who 1sed to go from the mootings'of the Committeo to tho liouso of Mr. Bhearmuon, oxpactad to be told _anything but some h;gonfanu fiction. It whs Mr. Bhearman who invented tha idea that Jim Fisk was s saint and Tillon a forgaer. 1t wau this samo dappor littlo Shearmat,—0 potito that he is calied NINHiH,— #o dwarf-liko that wo marvet how ho ean ropre- #ent a great man Jiko Booclior,—s0 wiso bohiud his apactacles that BN the woniler grown How ouo small head conld earry all ho knows,"— o thm on prayer-mooling nights, aud 80 world- kyl urbg tho rosl of thio week,—1t was B, lioatmian,—tho greutost of small mon and tho smallest of great,—it wns this clover rogua who uned to glve to e, nieht after night, at his resi- donco on tho corner of Orange ana llency stroots, tha proper shaping of our roports on Mr. Bocchor's uaso for vur next morning's pa- pers. Mr, Shoarman was the man who always know everything, When Mr. Tilton mlbll»hon( hia fleat siatomont, 1t was not new to Mr. Bhearman, When Mr. Moulton followed, bie contributed nothing to Mr. Bhearman's kuowledge. No re. portor on the Now York pross hias evor yot dia- covored o ploco of information unkuown to Mr, Bhearmun, In thin omnisclonce his only competitor has bren Gou, Tracy, This gontleman knows that Mr. Beecher is guilty or not guilty, Fow mon have hiad equal vpportunition for knowledgrs, Ho counolod with Mr. Youltons counsoled with M. Tilton ; connwelod with Mra. Tiltou; coun solod with Mr, Beechor; and ho can muke an oxcol- lent and convinelug argument on the innocence or guilt of any of theeo porsons, aln moment's warning, Two years agn Mr, Moulton took Lracy fnto couneel, showed Lim somo of tho pepors in thin enso, including Mr. Boochers apology, and summonod Mr, Tdion to adviko with him. Mr, Tilton, who wai in Mr, Moulton'y hands, assented roluctavtly, nfter oxacting from Gon, Tracy the pledgo, that, if evor the cnue passed from compromizo to battie, ho (Gen. Tracy) wounld not act as counsol for Mr. Beocher aguinst Mr, Tilton, Franklin Woodruft—foundor ofthe Mercantilo Library of Brooklvn, Chair- man of the Committes of Fifty, and hoad of tho Louse of Woudimff & Robiusoh—iras a wituess to thiy intorview, and tostifles that Gon, ‘Lracy gavo Nr. Tilton this pledgo. Tow woll he kept this lodgo,. all the world knows, Many mombers of [’Im Brookiyn Bar go a groat dsal farthor thau A, Tilton doea fn CRITICIAING UEN, TRAGY for thue chavging sides again«t bis plighted word, Gen, Tracy, howsvor, could not forgot that Mars, whosoe helm aud sbield bo bore during the recont civil strife, owed o dobt to Vonus; and tho Gonoral folt personally impelied to take {ho side of his pustor, who through lovo had come 10 war, Mr, Boocher and Mr. Tilton are unlike in ono’ respoct. Mr,-Beorher fium Bhoarmuau and Traoy to npank for him ; Mr, Tilton stlows no ouo_to. speal for Lim,. except himsolf. . I'robably, if Mr. Boccher spoke on his own roeponwibility, ho. would not' fudulge in the vagaries with which Mr. Suearman snd Gen. Tracy huve deludod the re~ porters. Mr. Tilton, on the other hand, is a man with such a conecientions regard to particulais (bat, though he succoeded as an editor, Lo wonld havo failed 28 a roporter, Mr. Tilton said, early during tha controversy, in nu interview with Mr, Briggs, of the Brookiyn Union, that he declinod to be judged for anything which the reportors put into lfi: mounth, © Judge me,” ho said, “by what I write and sign my nsme to,” There s sowething square in this, Mr, Beecher ex~ plaing away his Inttors ; repudintes them; denics tbom; bedevils them. ~ Mr. Lilton, on the other Tand, aticks liko & man to whet he writos aud sigus, 5T F\\'n ‘Bohomians wore rathor slow in finding out thst Shearmon was befooling us, Tracy bam- Bazzhun us, aud Tilton tolling tho truth to us; ut we ' YOUND IT OUT AT LAST. And, out of a bundred and twenty roporters on tho Now York press, I do ot know of threo who, whatavor thoir opinfons woro at first, do not now bolieve the truth of Theodore Tillon's charges agaist Henry Ward Bacchor, “This man Theodore is a strenge follow,—fa- miliav, yor unfamiliar,—companionable, yot dts- tant,—lovable, yut austoro.o Wo all call him *'Thotdore” famillarly, yob not ona of us would duro wsake o vulgar remark in his prosonce, nor toll a story such ns ladies might not hear, nor in any,wise'offond the most serupulous tasto in thoughit or word, On theother hand, although none of us would think of saluting: Mr. Beecher a8 ** Henry,"” you we could all go to him with tho Iast now siory,~—cortain that, though broador than tho ¢ Broad Church,” o would be sure to give it a wolcowme ; for tho groat pastor's geniua s, after all, of tho eurth earthy, —and 80 are hiy tastos, 1t has beon o common remark among us, that Mr, Tiltou has done nothing to *influenco” the local press of theso bwo citica in bis favor. Ho bns nover seut a wossngo requesting any of the oditors to do anything for bim in this emergen- cy. Ho hias made 10 gifts to any of tho roport- ors, nor used any persoual persussion, diroctly or indirectly, to suborn that groat Rhadamanthus wha dictates tho judgmonts of the Metropolitan press, Ho is o solf-contained man, dowpising outside atde, indifferout to public opinion, liviug in tho cloister of his empty house, resting on Lig own resources, aud fighting his battlo with- out ndvico from othors (excopl u_its mere logal sspects), and with his own unuidod pen. The ZHerald soid that he was ‘4 TIE CALMEST MAN . connected with the controvorsy,” I know this to bo truo. o riuos at 6, goos” down to bis dins ing-room, moots his aged housckeopar ** Katy,” roceives from her an ogg and a cup of cofleo, shunks ber os If he wore her Bishop absolviug her siny, goos to bLis writing-dosk, aud works steadily till noon, i ‘Ho allows nothing to flurry or fluster him ; bis sorrows he keops to himself,—ns 8 stronjs men always docs. Ho conducts his controversy with tho quiotudo of a man who is cultivating roses in his garden; he has not beon hoard to kuy sn angry word against any of his onomics; he wastea nono of Lis norve in useloss oxcitomonts ; ho nets liko & man who expects & long fight, and who menns to endure to the ond of it. T'no only trace of emotion visible in bis man- Tty g Dwight Jonnson, Jonoph Flotchor, and othor well-known eltizons, both togal and iny, Tk in the aplulon also curront in the nowspapor-ofiices, nobwithsianding the editorial uttorancos of some " to the contrary. Goto the Kaglo ofico, tho Union ofco, anit l.l]uln Argus_ofico, and nindtoen out of twnn't,v of all tho umg oyes of thona ostablishmenta will tofl ou that N, Tilton bua proved bia onse, 8o too with most of our oloray, in thoir privato tolk, & eannot vpeak for Sorra, Tallmadge, or Cuylar, with whum I havs not convorsed ; but Icould nemo the namon of cortsin othior c]lnr[mnou in Brooklyn (who forbid me to rofor to tiom ox~ copt thus Indofinitely) who do not hasitato to say in private—and who, perhiaps, by-and-by, will_sayin publio—tunt, Willo thoy resnoctol Nr. Becchor's original denial, and put faith in it, yot his subsequent inadoquate oxplanations of Lin lottera shuok this first (aith, and Mr, Tilbun's final slatemont has destroyed it nitogotlior, EVEN PLYMOUTIL Clunoi, like Waller's cottage of tho woul, Lot In now light ‘Through chiuks that timo lina made, Capt, Duncan, formor Huperintondont of thn Sundng-seliool, sud always n L And honely friond of the pastor, says opeuly, in the siroots, ihat Mr, Boochor ia provon guilty, Staphen Griawol, without saying this, eays thal alr, Beccher has failed to prave himeclf Innocent,— whicli, i this cave, I8 the same thing, Other mombers of the Cliurch sigh and monn in prie ¥ate over tho millstono which Mr, Tilton hug h\llng round their pastor’s neck. ‘Thse oftect of Mx, Miltou's statomout on tho public apnreciation of the Committen of Bix 1 alnost Indicroud, As usus]in such casos, it i imposnible to 'fix ‘the rosponmibility on ovory mowbor; 8o & ncapogoat ju choson. John Winslow, tha author of the Committec's roport, Is tho muffering victim In this instance. M. Winslow is a lawyor, and bin bretbron of tho Lar F\vu him By polies of fun at the clover manucr b which Mr. Tilton destroyed Mr. Winslow's ro- port,—nartieularly by quoting the Church's doo- umonts sgainst the Chinrel's verdiot, Mr, Kinkelin, whom Mr, Tilton touched on tho raw, doclines to roply, under protonuo of .voing out of town. All round tha aircle Mr, Tilton's atatement wra A surprise, for oven his intimate frionds did nob oxpect from him o powarinl o document. “ What do you think of It 7" I naktod our dolid morchants on tho Heights, ** Well,” uaid ho, thougbttulty, “I am now rondy to boliave that Mr, U'ilion f. a forger,” “ Why eo7 " 4 Bocnuao ho has forged a thunderbolt,” Bowsagar, ono of —_—— BEECIERIANA, Beecher’s Fall, From the Interior, Wo did not share in tho uatisfaction with ¥hicl sa many of our contemporaries recoived Mr. Bocchor's ntatomont. Wo felt that hin {rienda * wore altogether rrumnmru m their re- Jolcinga over his vindication, Though ready to ause bofore uuminE to o deciaion, we wero far rom thinking that ho bad succossfully anawored tho clinrgos, or that o had given a satinfsctory explanation of hin.own lettors, Mr. Beochor's conduct, from the bogluping, has hardly beon compatiblo with his professions of innocence, A guilty man wonld, iu ‘all probability, endoavor toavold investigation, paticutnrly Tt e wore Btrouys in popular favor, and could appent o his past lifo and public services. Mlis M. Becchior ias dono. Most men wvould consider thommelves , highly favored if_thoy could have the choice of tho Jury by which thoy wore to Lo tried, In so- locting” bis Iuvostizating Committeo, Mr. Bouchier did what overy criminal would do, if ho wora allowed. It would be strango if Mr, Beech- or's goniua should {ymve unequal to the task of composing areudubloand plausmble answerto e, ‘T'ilton’s cliarges ; and it would retlect tittlo crodib upon the logul attuinments of hia counsel if thoy could mot lut upon a theory which would seem at Joast to oxplain tho frets, and without sullying tho roputation of' 3ir. Boocher. Therofors, whou we read tho rhietorical dofense which Jir, Boechor mude of himself, we were far from sote asfled. Thero was too much evidencae in it of tho muanufacturo on s part of abnormal subjective stntos; there was too nbsurd an attempt to exe pintn the oxtromo lauguage of ponitenco by say- ing that e had given impmdent advice, Mr. ‘llilton's second statomont liay wiuce beon pube liskiod. It is tho most important documont which bas yot rppeared in connoction with this unhape py mattor. For cxquisite carg in the uso of worda; for judicial calmmesn in woighing ovie donco i for keon insight into the fallacies of his oppenenta ; for masterly urray of facts in sup. Em of biy position; for relentless logio; for ceen and polished sarcasm ; for cuitn solf-con- trol under circumstances of uunusual wrritation ; and above all, for aifection Le still has for tho wifo who hias brought him ruin, Mr, Tiltou is a marvel. His statomont is a mastorpices, and M, Boochor is ruingd, Lovcher at Twin Monntain, Tuin Huuntain Correspondence of the New York Sun, Lnst night M. Becchor said, in soswor toa Tomutk of the Sun correspondent : have nevor heard atiy of tho great, popular political oratora of our day, nor have I evor soon or hostd uny of the great actors or actrosses —neithor Forrest, lean, Doou, Nistori, nor Rachel. Never'saw a pluy, nor heard an opera nuver playad a gawmo of chrds nor billinrds. I road nnd study goveral hours overy duy. But my oducation hos been more among mon thon booke, I learnod more amid the garnest, active Jifo Tled a8 » minister inthe Weat then any- rhoro else.” He puused s fow minutes. A very sad look cama juto the lines of his face, aud bo ndded, agif to himsclf: “I havo lost flvo childrom.” Ife caught o look of sympathy fn the oyo of o Iady of the party, Instautly bis fingera twitched convulsively, and his color changod. It is that quick rousibility that aids him in winning frionds and uymgnthizum. o is cheer~ ful most of tho time.” Occasionally ho becomos norvous, and loaks as if heshuuned obaervation. Ho plays croquet, and is in tho parlor almost ev- ory ovoning, soeming to enjoy luoking ot tha dancors, Ho dresses well, but with no clorical dandyism. Ho woars black, but.his hnt isa white straw, tho brim lined with greon silk, IHo is not a handsome man ; don't luok the loast lika & lady-Kkillor, and ho is ovidently moro ambitious ner is when somo one makes on ullusion to Eliz- .abeth, Ho speaks of hor invariably in private in tho snmo terma of reapect and good-will which gavo such o eingular gllding to his examination bofore tho Committce, and to his two publighed stutemonts. NER PORTRAIT BY PACE biangs on tho wall of his study, ana his favorito photograph of ler, taken vears ago, hofore the troubles camo, stands at his elbow, a8 if'to lead Lum baclk, trom the woman who botrayed him, to the wifo of bis youth. \Whea hia childron come to seo him—ad thoy fraquently do, from tho country, whore they aro staying—he makes no atlusion to the oxisting sadness, but spoaks of their mother g if alio ware moroly away on o visit to sowe friend, Tho kindly opinion which this man entertains of hig wife has not beon ob- literated eithor by her origiual erimo or subse- quent falsohoods agaiust him, “ Human uature is wonk,” ho says, ** even in tho strongest, and Elizabeth, iftor ull, {8 above tho average. Sho is bettor than most of her critics. As hor groat fault is known to tho world, so I feel bound to add to this disclosuro my coustant testimony to bor groat morits, * Even her failings lesn to virtuo's eido, A 1t hus excited our Bobemian wonder to witness tho evennoss of tone in all My, Tilton's remarka about this controversy and ita actors, and espo- cially about his wife. M. Tilton's statement has produced s groat 1mprossion in his own city, It hns deoided tho waveriug, and mado thom his friends, It bos ATAGOERED AND DEWILDERXD many of his stanch opponents, who would not bolieve Mr, Boocher guilty oxucf:t by such ovi- donco ay the lottors of Mrs. Morso and hor danghter contain, One of the most omiuent Inwyors of our local Bar enid to me to-day, in tha City-1all, “Mr. Tilton ought to have beon A lawyer; he has handled his caso with maatorly ability. Tho passage in which ho sualyzos Mv, Boooher's tettors, showing how thoy all point to tho crimoe of adultery, would produce an ovor~ whelming effect if deliverad to u jury.” One of our Judges said, ** Alr. "Lilton has loft nothing for his Inwyers to do ho has donoe 1¢ all himsolr.” You probably do not know Judgo Greenwood. Ria reputation has not cropt Westward, but it is of tho firsc rank hero. Ilo mays that argumont ia unansworavlo,—declaring that it ia raro, in any public controversy, to sco o "“{‘“ 80 logioal, 80 tomperato, 60 delioate, and yet, at the same gmn,fl g0 ovorwholming, as Mr, Tiltun bae pro- ucad, My, Tilton’s two lawyers,—Judgo Morria and Gen, Pryor,—kuowing that he had boon for some thne engaged In prepariug tho statomont, folt somo_auxioty 08 to its tone and charactor, On the duy beforo itu publication, he iuvited thom to liston to a readingof it Thoe' wore surprised and dolightod, aud- declared it to bo tho caps shoaf of the coniroversy, Judgo Morris sald, #Thore {8not suother man in Brooklyn who could havo written it," T was prosent yestorday at p little chitchat at tho Court-Houge, whoro & kuot of attornoys wag gathered, and thore was but one oplnion ex- pressod, pamoly: that Mr. Tilton's dooument wan CONOLUBIYR AND FINAL, Thia 18 the opinion of snch mon_oes Judgo, Aldan_Bpooner, Mt, P'earssll, Frodotla Oul. Lausing, Usvvoy Loohls, Troy, Wad, Ablsh Thorua, aud proud than vain. He is unaifected in cons vorsation, and has inimiteble tact. Moocher at a Vormont Eair. 87. Jouxsuuny, Vt,, Sopt, 23, —Tho Hov. Hom Ward Beechor mude a speech at the Calodonit County Fair, held in_this placo, to over 8,000 eraous, yosterday, Iis subjoct was : * What 1 ou't Know About Farming,” Ho was brought on tho fair-gronnd in an open phaoton, and looked splendidly as he drove up to tho sonud of martial music, He was greeted with loud cheors by the assomblod thousands. His opecch was froquently intorrupted with loud choors and hearty luughter. At the close of the uddrees ho was driven ta the railroad depot. Ho was quite fatigned, and, to cacapo couversation and curiosity, mado his way to tho locowotive and rode with the en- gineer to the Wells River Junction. —_—_— LIBEL SUIT. Mexrins, Tenn,, Bopt, 23.—Panl A. Olealla, Aldormun_of tho Bixth Ward of this city, aud who_acted Mayor during tho yeilow-fevor epi= demic lngt yoar, instituted o suit to-day in tha Becond Circuit Court to vooover $a0,000 damaysea againgt Col, Michnol Magovenoy, 8r., for uttor- ing and causing to be published in tho dppeal, Nov. 1, 1879, a dofumatory and_libollous &pooch, aud resolutions adopted on the samo dmet tha Citizons’ Roliof Committoo of this city, While Acting-Mayor, Cioxlla was charged with tho forgory of "an ordor for provisions, and stoaling the same, which were intrusted to him, nnd giving thom toa widow and oight fatherloss ahildren. At the timo, Cicatla'was expelled from the Board of Aldermen, but was relustated by procoss_of law. He now sooks to roaover dowuged, L0.0.F. ATLANTA, Ga,, Sopt, 23, —Tho Grand Lodgo of 10,0, F, sftor considorablo dixcussion, re- solved that all wplrituous, vinous, and malt liquors shall be kopt from the lodgo-roows, and anto-rooms of the halls conncated with or ad« joining theroto, whora under control of any sub- ordinato or degreo lodlm or oneampmiont of tulg ordor. The Lodge also adopted & now funeral nud anniveraary ceromony, The Grand Lodge woro givon s banquot to- night at the H, I, Rimball Houso. THE FALL RIVER DISASTER. Faur, Riven, Mnes,, Sopt. 23.—Tho inquest {n'the Fall Rivor disastor was continued to-day. A number of firomen testifled to facts and iucis donts_nlrendy known. Tho Chiof Engincor of tho Fire Departmant teatifled that thoro was but one laddor in tho equipmoat of the dopart- mont above 35 foot lo;ux, This ono way 05 taot loug, en extaudion ladder, and tao woak ta bo uuunh. ‘Iho inquest adjourned to Friduy, —————— ACCIDENT ON THE CENTRAL PACIFIC, Sax Franoisco, Bopt, 23,—A dispatch from Emigrant Gap esys i “An accldent ocomrved this foronoon on tho Contral Paoltlo Iiailroad, by swhich Dan Gwyor, a biakemau, was killod, Moe Qlune, euginoor, Fravk Chinn aud \William mmuarpuulm, Waio sovessly, It nod futally