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~ THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGEB." “THE LOST CAUSE. L S Se Interviews with Prominént FParties in the Brooklyn Scandal, Beecher Says that Time Will Hake His Innocence ippear Clearly. More Expericnces Related by the “Reficent” Jurors. Facts and Rumors Relating to the Loader-Price Story. How Mrs. Beecher Looked and Acted in Court. Comments ot the Bress on the Trial.’ | receive congratuiations of visitors, and foundation for the report that meascres would be taken for the arrest of Moulton in connection with the Loeder-Price afidarits. MB. BEACH says: * The disagreement 1s as good as a ver- dict for G cents, which was all that we eve ed at, 1nasmnuch as it shows Tilton Las relieved lumeelf of tho calumuy and sepersion that i found early vent in Plymouth Chureh circles, 1o iuvestigating committees, and in Bacon letters. MR. DEECHER o looks upon the result of the trial as giving him all the vindication it was_in the powar of the court to give. Forhis chief vitdication helooks to the future. **I am,” gaid be. *good for twenty vears’ work yet. and befora that is dove malice will bave spent 1tself, 1znorance will have be- come 1nformed, and misconceptions of character will ba corrected. s Being arked what be thongbt of the malignity dispiaved by some of bis mipisterial brethren, Peechier made many excuses for their conduct, Lut added: “IfI strike back, I shall never but once. I don't want to quarrel, and Ishao’t if I can avoid it, but 1 do not by any means pro- pose to bo led like a lamb to the slaoghter.” _ .. MR. AND MDS. BEEOBER % were at their home on Columbia Beights this morning. As early a8 B they wers reqmre:n:fi lunch time thero was little intermisgion of hand- shaking and friendly talk. Mn8. BEECHEE. + New York Sun, June 2, Precisely at 12 o'clock Mrs. Beecher, attended by Mra. Murray, entercd the court-room. and was condncted to the seat she so regularly filled during sll the weary months of the trial. Her appearance evoked an outbreak of symoathetic applause, which wss promptly checked. Mre. Beccher wore a brown silk dress, with a plaid- figured, browo overdress, and 3 black hat re- lieved with 8 blue bow in front. She was envel- oped in a light blue shawl, and carried some ad- ditional wrappings in her hand. Tho expres- &ion of her face was painful in the extremes, in- dicating heavy sorrow, great anxiety, and s do- Tee of weariness that was almost unbearablo. g'ha pleasant smilo with which ehe was wont. during the trial, to greet all hor friends on her Reaction Against “ Transcendental | daily entrance, was whotly wanting yesterdsy. Foois* and “ That Horribie Gospel of Gush.,” Tilton's * Conduct Infamous,” and Beecher “ Under a Dark and Polluting Cloud.” A Baptist View: Beecher Never a Great Christian Teacker,” but a ** Spokesman for Liber- als and Loose. Livers.” An English View : “ Sickly and Unnat. wral Emotionalism* of the Whole Crowd. INCIDENTALS. II® WHEREADOUTS OF GEETAIN PEOPLE, Srecial Dispateh to The Chicago Iribune. KNew Yorg, July 8.—Nothing of the elightest interest has been enucted in the supplementary proceedings of the Beecher case. E. W.Conner, witness for Price and Loader, has been released from arrest on habeas corpus. . Chester Carpenter was in the court to«dsy to stand examination about his property. He is supposed to be bankrupt. Francis D. Moulton called at the District At- torney's offica to-day. Only s deputy was on band, and Mr. Moulton wslked out sgain and went toward Montague stroet. He was tushed snd nervous. Mr. and Mra. Beocher wers st home this morn- ing. As early as 8 o'clock they were reqnired to reccive the congratulations of visitors, and untit lunch time there was littla intermieeicn of hand- ehaking aud friendly talk. Minwters. lawyers, phyeicians, and laymen passed in rapid sacces- sion througk the parlors, Speaking of BOWEN'@ TESTIMONY, Juror McMurn says : *“We came to the conolu- sion that 1t was not to b believed. It was plain he mado uss of Tilton in the first place to strike Afr. Beecher, and then, finding it was getting too hat, he drew ocu.” THE JURORS. Later information sbont the jury shows that Carpenter from the moment hs went into the Jury room with the case uutil he camo ont was #s solid as adamant for Beecher. He was for Beecher first, second, last, and siways. He belonged to the extrome wing of Mr. Beecher's . adherents. He wonld say **My opinion is fixed gentlemen. Tam fully convioced that it is my duty to bring In a verdict for Mr. Boecher.” Another time he said “Mr. Beocher explained his letters to my eutire satsfaction.” He thought it wis not probable that Mr. Beecher would be suilty of such ctime, and bhe made frequent sppeals for . Beecher on the ground of sympathy. GRIPFIN D. HALSTEAD, liberal minded aud fair, always good natured, debated very much, and was one of the leaders n the argminent. Hs said he saw inconsisten- cies on both sides. He did not take the view that it was imposeible for Afr. Beecher o com- xit the offenss charged. Al times he voted gvith the Tilton men. EAMUEL YLATE, > & quick and docisive man, voted for defendsot oo unimportant points. He thought that ther evidenoe showed thres sworn witnesses sgsinst the eworn denisl of one ruan. He said he pre- ferred to belisve three witncsses to one. HENRY THYEL. a nervous character, spoke rapidly when he did speak. He g2id: **Theodore Tilton is a strange man o live with his wife four vexrs ufter ho claimed to snow Bescher had sedused her. I dou’t take sny stock in #uch a man. I'm very sare he is 0o man at sll." JOHX M'NURN was “sure Mr. Deecher was not guilty.” His ‘vote ebowed that he retained this feith from firat last, SEQRGE NULL dilated on the improbability of Alr, Boecher's guilt. He thought Mra. Moulton wss mirtaken. He would say. * Well, gentlemen, Mr. Beecher esys 80 and 80, and what Lave you got to dis- prove it ?. The letters don't prove adaltery. There was not & word sabout adultery in the letters.” - WILLIAK X DAVIS talked more for pisintif than sny one on his sido. He is a positive man, is views were uot =aonounced for some time. but when it beoame necessary for him to show his hand be came ot squarely for Tilton. Davis is an excitable mau, and his debates wera earneat and sometimes heazted. e insiated from first to last that the 1ses was na:rowed down to Tulton, Moulton, sad Ars. Moulton on the ons side, snd Beechier on tho other. CRRISTOPHER FILTER ‘would prefer o st ten rogues escape than have one Lonest man convicted. He is very sensi- tive, aud made 2 strong plec for sympathy for Doeckor. He would argue slowly, but did not go decply into the merits of the cass. EDWARD WRELAN debated cn both sides, and was very fair. He many times expressod regret that the parties should be 1nvalved in such a lamentable com- piication. Ha said he was unprojudiced. vut he thought Tilton had acted very utraugely in call- g his wie s white-souled woman, He thought it was his duty o vote for acquital. A B CASE voted with plaintif'a jurors eeveral times. He « wae disposed to go with the majority. Mr. Case could not sustain long debate. He nsed 10 walk 7 the floar for houra eugaged in deap thought. 30N ¥. TAYLOR talkod & great desl and gouerally out of erder. He was eart and soul for Beecher. He said 1t ¥as » mixed-ap thing, & plan te draw Mr, Beoclier into & sorape. WILLIAX T. JEFFRET 'was very indeperdent, aad, like Juryman Davis, did not care for the opinion of ** The jury of the wicinage.” He sud be judged Henry Ward Boecter aa he would any other man. He weighed the evidencs on both sides in s business- like manner. 70 ths Aswociated Press.) A YEW INQUIRIES. o Nrw Yoz, July 3.—In regard to the Tilton- Beecher trial, Mr. Pearsall, of connsol far Tilton, to-day sud he conld give Do information 1n re- gard 1o further movements 1n the case, aud re- surnad the same answer to & gpecific inquiry as to the truth of the report tha: so attempt would be made by Mr. Tilton to have Gen. in~ dioted for perjurs. 2. Shasrmian said he balisved thers was ne She bowed politely to those sho recognized, but it was merely a formal, ceremonious ealutation. Fler beart was to heavy for_furthor demonstra~ tious of civility. As she took her seat her thin, emaciated hands involuntarily sought her whit~ cped forehead, as if to press back the agony that poasessed her. Ouly when Judge Porter entered the room and greeted her was she observed to smile. Col. Henry Boecher to & reporter that Brother Murray bad promised the provious ight_to send his carriage in the morning for Mrs. Beecher. * This morniag,” continued Col. Beecher, “mother was ready at 8 o'clock, and stationed herself gat & front window watching for Mr. Murrav's carriage. Wo all knew that the carrisge would not be due for two hours, and tried to divert mother’s attention from the subject; but she would not talk or think of nothing but the trial, and was unable to restrain her impatience to get to the Court-Hounse. 8he worried and fretted continually because the carriage did not come, and even wanted auother one called. Finally my wife spoke to her, tolling ber thatif the jury should coms in to-dsv thero would be a grest crowd present, and that the reporters would all note ber appearance; and a8 she had dressed every day in the same suit, proposed to her & change of toilet. 3lother yiolded to this, and went to heg room and dressed as yon bhave veen her in cdurt to-day. This little diversion filled up the time until the car:1age arrived. and shoe went awsy with Mrs. Murray befors 10 o'clock.”, On arriviog at the Court-Honse Mrs. Beecher ‘was told that there were no tidings as yet from the jury, whereunon she quietlv withdrew to the carrisge on Livingston street, and remained there alone with her book until nearly 12. Then the nows of the jury's speedv coming wos brought to her, and she was conducted into the eourt-room a8 above stated, accompsnied by Mra. Murray. She brought with her the book she had been reading in the carriage—a pam- phiet—and frequently opeued its pages and read or seemed to read in a mechanical way; but the offort was as often broken by the salutationas of her husband's flock or by her illconcealed anxi- ety. Her son, Col. Henry Barton Beecher, was soated in frout of har. aud his wife oo ber nght hend, and many times the pcor lady lesned for- ward, piaced ber handon her son's shonlder, and drew what comfort sho could from his cheery words. During the moment or iutenso silence which precoded the entrance of the jury, tho anxiety of Mrs. Beecher became most mani- fest. She foided her arms almost convulsively, and then, a fittle later, changing her position, sho beld ber hands in ber lap, fighsly clasped, while her pale, haggard face was turned to the jury box. \When the twelve men eatered and ook their seats, shoe rested her laft arm on her son's shoulder, and her hexd upon her left hand, and remaired nnmoved, Listeming intently to every word that the Jadze and the husky-voiced Carpenter exchanged. she sat when the jury wera once moro sent oat, and it needed the worda of frienda to arouse her. ¥ A BEECHERITE STORY. . New York Tribune, Julyd. A remarkable story was published recently in the Brooklyn Eagle, charging that ex-Judge Georgo G. Barnard, who was impesched and removad from the Supreme Court Bench in 1871, bad publicly declsred that he had personally induced ooe of the jurors in the Beecher case to stand out against Mr. Beecher. The story was 80 improbable that the T'ribune declined to pub- lirh it without further mvestigation. Tho ex- Judge was always a loose and irrespousible talker, particalarly when inflamed with drink, and it was presumed that ho had been wildly making deciarations of acts which be had not done. But tue informant of the Tribune, who was the gentleman to whem Barnard made the assertions. says that the iatter was sober at the time, acd calmly and deliberately made the sssertions alluded to. He states that while in the cars travelmng throngh Westchestor County a short time ago, the ex-Judge entered ioto conversation with him upon the subject of the Beecher cuss. Barnard said that he did not resd much of the evidence; that he didnt cars anything abont it; bat Beocher had been his ocuemy, had proached sgainst him for three years, and he waa bound to be re- veuged upon him. ~He declsred openiy that ha had personally “fized the jury,” and had ob- tained & promise from one of them that nnder 1o circummstances shoald a verdict ever be ren- dered in favor of Mr. Beecher. He felt per- fectly sure that the juror wonld keep his prom- ise. Ho said that his brother was tha Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court in the Second District, ihat the case would probably be re- moved from the City Conrt to the Supreme Court, and the place of trial chaoged on the applica- tion of plaintifi's couneel. ~ It would bs kept within the Socond Judicial District, and very likely tried in Westchester County, and Beecher ‘would certainly be couvictod on a new trial there before his brother ; ho would attend 1o that him- self. Being asked if, on the evidence itaolf. he believed Alr. Beecher guilty, he said. ‘‘be didn't cace for that ¥ if he was a juror ho should stand by his friends aud go for his enemies; when ho was & Judge be had always found his friends wero in the right, and guessed it was sbout the samdon & jury. Inguiry is making in this mat- ter by Mr. Bascher's lawvers, with & view to fu- ture action if the ex-Judge should be found to have violated any law. MOLE SIGNALING, New York Herala, July 2. A ounous incident happened in the morning that & fow people observed. Judge Neilson came intothe court-room to look after some of his law books locked up in a desk on the bench. As he turned to go back to his private room he obsarved Usher Marray waving his hand apward toward the window of "the room twhere the jury was confined. On closer approach the Judge perceived that ho was signaling to Chester Car- penter, who stood in the npper story window | amiling very broadly to his friend Murray. The Judgs took in the situation st a glance, and tap- ping Mr. Marrsy, who was unconscious of His Honor's closs neigaborhood, eaid to the over- zealous nsher, * Come, now, I want none of that sort of thing hers.” —_— LOADER=PRICE. THEIR BTORY, New York Graphte, The story told by Loader and Price was bronght to our knowledge—aa it probably was to that of most of the other reputable newspapers —a fortnight before it wszs published in the { Herald. It wss intrinsically improbabie, and we | rofused to have anything to do with it. Its pub- lication in . the Herald wes simply ont- Tageons ; and it is not very creditable to the'pro- fessional sharpness of one or two of Mr. Tilton's counsal that the true natare of the story should not have been at once suspected. Loader evidently concocted the story in order to black- mall Beecher's lawyer's, and it is probably dus to the advertisement given to him by the Herald that he was induced to try to eel] his falsshood te the otherside. He had evidently no thought of 80 doing, or else he would have called on Mr. Tilton's lawyers before the case was closed. *€0ING IO *‘SEB EIM THEOUGH.” New York World, Juiy 1. Jastics Riley notified Price that he intended to ; make him & defendant also, and told him 1o get | counsel to defond him. With conmderabls s | surance Price replied that be expected M Leccier's counrel * to sce him thioush.” He a5 Jocked p in the Conaty Juil autil vo-day. 2 WHAT LOADER TOLD HAMILTON. New Yors Trivune, Juty 1. Mr. Loader L:aving, as atated, made tho asser- | tion that Lo toid his utory eeveral yea:s ago b a | paper-hanger by the pamo of Willlam Hamiltos, 1 now residing at No, 837 Dean street, rooxiyn, a | reporter of the Tribune called nion dir. Ham. | ton yesterday, to obtain his version of the mai- i ter.” He staied that ho Lad no: yet been sub- peenaed su the case agaiust Loader, as publish- ed. but supposed ho would be, and thereforo he preferrod eayicg nothing fur- ther about what Loader had ssia to bim notil he shonld eav it ontbo witncss staund. He afterward added, however, that anythiog he knew about the case agaivst 3ir. Bescher conld not bo used by any means injuriously against any ooe. * From what Loader said to me, I know," he said, * that he did not have a very good opinion of Mr. Beecuer, but I have been Jjomging my brain recently and 1- caunot recollect that he said . anything about soeing Mr. Beecher and _Mrs. Tilton together uctil last spring.. What he then said, as 1 have remarked, 1 do not wish to state at pres- entif Iam to becalled on 88 a witness, botit was nothing that could bo takon a8 evidenca of the uilt of tho persons, Yon know people say a groat many things about their neighpors of whom they happen to have a poor opinion, mich of which might better go unsaid; but he never detailed anything to me that ocould be construed in any way indicating crimi- nality. I caonot understand why they wish to subpmos me, as I really koow nothing of importance to tho case. I have never yet told any one what Loader zaid to me, the most that I havo 8aid being that I knew a person who pretended to koow s great deal about Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. “Loader charged me with having misused the contdence he had given me by telling the story to Judge Morris, which has been published. T was, therefors, in- duced to go down to Alr. Morris' office and, in the presence of Loader, asked bim if I had told bim anything about it: Morris replied that 1 bad not: that he was only sorry I had not told bim in time for him to use it as evidouce; and it now turns out thst Mr. Dana was the one who communicated the story to him. Whilo in the office I did say that Loador had something to me about what he had seen in Mra. Tilton's house, but I gave no detailed statemeut of what that was, and, I repeat, Loader has never told me anything that could be taken as implying criminality on ths part of exther«Mr. Beecher or Mrs. Tilton." WHAT BEACH SAYS, Aew York Sun, July 2. Mr. Beach has intimated that next week there will be u more earnes: offort made to get at the bottom of the Losder-Price conspiracy. He told Mr. Shearman on Wednesday that he would be called on to testify s 1o his connection with the case. It was asserted last night that Mr. John D. Townsond, of New York, would appear to de- fend Loader next week. WHAT TILTON SAYS. . Mr. Tilton ssid last evening that he was not in the room when the aftidavits wers made, and that he never uttered a syllable of instruction to Price a8 to what he should or should not ey when he was called on to testify. He bolieves that his lawyers wers oxtra cautions in sounding the two men, aud thinks that Loader, though a weak man, intended to be truthful. He speaks of Price a8 & worthless scamp, whom he hopes to sce pnnished. ONE OF THE WITNESSER AGAINST LOADER ARRPST- ED FOR BIGAMY. Officer Noonan, of Justice Morse's Court, ar- rested Edward Conner in_Justice Riley's court- room yesterday. Conner is the yonug man who went to Mr. Shearman’s house with Price, and suggosted to Mr, Shearman that, for 3 they would not reply to the subpeens of Morris & Peareall, Mr. Shearman told Conner that he hed better obey the aubpena, and Conner told Mr. Shearman that he was & damned fool for not buying them off. Tho officer served two warrants on Conner, one for bigamy, the other for aban- donment, both onthe complaint of Jane Conner, bis wife. Conncr's part n the Loader conspiracy was, 28 ho related to a lawyer vesterday, and as he expected to testify, to swear that he bheard Price and Loader talk over the gighta they pre- tended to have seen in the Tilton home in s Fulion streetsaloon. Counor went into a law-' Yer'a oftic in Court street on the day that be wna with Price and reprosented that ho had Just received “*a stake,” snd ssked the lawyer, with whom he had bad some trouble, to go with bim and end it in a bottle of wine. The lawyer, to whom he detdiled his connection with the Loader-Price affair, says_that Coouner told him that he was emploved by Mr. 3lorris to get Price to swear to a corroboration of Loader's story, sad that he met Morrisaad Moulton in the Wash- ington Hotel in New York, where they agroed on the plan. PRICE'S BMARTNESS. Mr. Jackson B. Schultz says that Price ia & smart follow, He accompanied Mr. Poarsall to Whitastone to serve s subpcena on Leys, tne dr gist, who.says that he sold poison to Bzecl and’ Leys being invimble, he suggosted that Alr. Pearsall writes out some hieroglyphics in imitation of a ‘prescription, and hand it inat the store as s ruse to draw the druggist from lus biding-place. ‘This was done, and the boy, sup- posiog that it was a case of urgency, immadi- ately called Leys down stairs, when the subpwena was served. THE BEV. DR..BUDINGTON. The Rev. Dr. Budington is very indignant at & statement in & Drooklyn paper conaecting him with the Loader snd Price matter, and character- 1zes the attack on him a8 unziud and gratuitous, and due to the part he bad in calling the Brook- lyn Council inreferenceto Plymouth Church. He adds: *The Councd loft Plymonth Church on pro- bation of'membership. The fellowahip of the churches depends on whether Plymoath Church shiall satisfy the charches convening the Council of their sincere repudiation of the acts com- plained of. The matters submitted to the Coun-: cil were distinct from the question of Baocher's guult or innocenco anbmitted to the jury.” —_—— PRESS COMMENTS, THE END OF PAROXYSMAL RANT. The New York Tribune, the special organ of Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church, thus discuss- es tho future condition of Plymoutt Charch, sod the changes the trial is likely to producs in its conduct and emotions. The article appeared the day before the jury was discharged : But, if Mr. Beecher is neither convicted nor sbaolutely vindicated, there are some respects in winch the trisl has hed a practical issue. We bave ho doubt it has bxukyn up that mischievons little coterie of transcedental fools of which Theodore Tilton was the effulgent centre. It has exposed to the world the hideous selfishness and esseutial immorality of those everlasting chaiterboxes who have been poisoning tbe Iyceum wnd the press with an idiotic travesty of philosophy, avd gdressing up lost in the robea of religion. If it hal torn away the veil which deceuoy draws over a certain clzss of subjects, it bas partly made amends for this by turning out of the domestic circle a set of mua and svomen who wonld have taught society that the family 18 ouly & rélic of servitude, and tho home virtaes are the fictions of suporstition. There i8 0o place for these people any more in respocta- ble hoases. And on the other side it Las perhaps set afoot » much needed reform in Plymouih Church. We shall hear less henceforth of that horrible Gospel of Gush to which so much of the i of thia case is directly traceable. Wa shall hear leas of the rant about true inward- ness, and 800ge 1n the Leart, aud all the other mueby emotions which with this new school of lusty mystios usurp the placa of the old-fash- ioned virtues of faith, hope, and charity. It will not be esteemed the eseéence of religion to love somebody. and ladies and gentlemen, we hope, will not go about kissing one auother indiscrim- inately, either in the paroxysmal or in any other style. A grest resction against the old Plymouth pattern of shnctity 1s inevita- ble, aud we shall not be surprised if RIr. Beecher himself take the lead init. Heis un- douotedly & man of strong feslings, of warm fancy, aod, in & certain way, of refined poatical appiehonsions. We eay nothing of the errors in10 which he may bave been led by these dsn- gerons gifts, but he can see for himself what hie pootry has done for o certaio sct among the coogrezation. What ie sentiment in the pastor degenerates into slobber in the parishioner ;and hoalthy religiqus feeling, bonest, practical, manly life, realization’of the hard aaily dusy of the Chbristian. aro too nearly lost in the misty con- templations of love-sick dovotees who wrap thomeelves in the luxury of their own emotions. Of course we do not mean to say that this is tle characteristic of all plymouth Charch, or aven of the groater part of it; bat that tho ;;rucbu— bas managed to involve himself with a ttle get of most unwholesome pietists it hardly needed tne revelations of this scandal to prove ; and it seems to be a good time now for them m«?“ to come to their sensea or else step down and ous. SUMMING UP THR OASE. New York Herald. A Among the * hearts that will acha " at ths i~ ability of the jury to find a verdict of acquittal isthat of poor Mrs. Tilton, who, if she has sinned. suffers beyond the measure of her guilt. Even il the worst be trus that bas beeu alleged sgaiost hor she deserves commiseration. Hed sho been destitute of conscience she would nover have mads the confosalon oul of whish all this great tronble has arisen. Ever supposing | months ago, and whi the worst to be true which has beea alleged in ber busband. If ehe had smothered ber con- scieace and kept silence, the guli which ebe is 8sid to have confossed could mever bave becn detected. At the very worst ehe is the victim of ber houest frankness; and as she made the confession on the condition that her busband should never arraign her seducor, aad 88 ho consented to reccive tho camfession on that condition, and thought it cowsistent with his honor to live with her as a wile for four years afterward, no correct mind caa justify him in putting her to shame by revealink the secret. As s man of honor, he wns bound te sunder his conjugul relationa &t once, or else, having con- %flnsd tho offenge, to have forever ifter hald his eece. There is no pretenco on the part of Tilton that the adultery was renevod after the confession, and it was inexcusably infamous for him to bring it into exposure aid institute 3 suit after an act of forgiveness md four yesrs of subsequent cohabitation. It is 1mpossible for any honorable mind to foel jympathy with Tilton, or to regrat, on his accant, that the jury does not find a verdict aminst ‘Béecher. In every wview Tilton's coadict in_bring- ing this suit is infamons. Hid ho bronght it in 1870, immediately aiter the alleged confes- sion, many would have justifiel him, notwith- standing tho pledge he made t¢ his mife before receiving her statements. But, 1aving forgiven her then, he bound himself tc enbsocquent si- lence unlees she should repeat ior offense, which is not pretended. Nobody, thacfore, can feel auy regrots at the disappointoent of Tdtonin -not getting a verdict azainst tle invader of his home. In tho public judgmett Tilton's wronga are not considered, the whol interest of the caso being centered in Mr. Becher. The only point inwhich the millions whchave been watch- ing this case feol any intereatis the acquitial or coudemnostion of the Plymoati pastor. Nobody cares anything for Tilton, becauss, on every piinciple which governs ihe condact of honor- able men, he bound himsell to everlasting si- lonce by continuing to live vith his mfe safter hor confession, unless she ‘enewed her guilty intercourae, aud he does not assers tbat she did ronow it. P : But the just contempt waich is felt for Til- ton, and his inexcusable_bacness in bringing 3 forgiven offense into publicty, cannot affect the bearing of these exposureson the character of Mr, Beacher. If heis guity it is & monstrous insult tp Christianity forhim to continue to preach, and it is unfortunas that tho jury can- not agree in acquitting hiz. The failure of the jury to vindicate him 3aves an ineffaceable atain on his character whih cen never be wiped ont. At best his innoonce is not clear, but doubtful; and a clergymn of doubtful charac- ter for moral purity isan eegle with clipped wings. With snch a realt of the trial as now soems probable, Mr. Becher will be, for the Test of his life, unders dark and polluting clond. Plymouth Chuch may. continue to stana by him him for & tile, but his former as- cendant moral influens will wilt into con- tempt. The great avd pspectable denomination of Congregutioualists with which Plymouth Church is connected cnnot afford to counte- nance & church which sstains a pastor of doubt- ful morals, and, if aconcil of that denomination pronounces a sentencao! disfellowship against Plymouth Chureh, it il be cut off from the sympathy of the relious world, and must wither hike a branch sparated from its parent tree. If tho Congreationalists disfellowship and cast off PlymouttChureh, it will rest under & ban of moral condemation which will rednce it to the condition of mere place of ecclesias- tical smusement, whes crowds may assemble to Witness the antics of :disgracea pasior. THE LESSONS OFTHE GREAT SCANDAL. Philadphia Timeas, The Tilton-Beeche trial will be memarabls mainly as the great egal battle of tho age. It will never bo referrd to as having established a single truth or dissizted o uingle falsehood. It will bo the text of l¢al students for generations to study the boundlis sinuosities of the law for defeating justice, ad there its great lesson wilt end. All its matalvad eloquence will go for naught, save as it callenges admiration because it is matchlesa. Tb great trial mll te-ch noth- ing more in its leal sspects, and it will pass into history as theaost brilliant failure record- ed in our judicial .mnals. Stripped of its ever- sparkling but nonding technical battles, what have we 8 the froits of the great trial? Before itreached the temple of jus- tico, wa had MMr.Tilton's statemen!, and Mr. Beecher's statepnt, and Alr. Tiltou's supple- mental statomen'and Alr. Moulton's statement, and Mr. Beochor statement beforo his church Committee, andNrs. Tilton’s statement, and Miss Proctor’s itatement, through a referee; and with them 4 we had Mr. Beecher's letters, and Mr. Tilton’stters, and Mra. Tilton's lettars, and Mrs. Morse letters, and a flood of like dis- gusting literatre, all of which, even in their softest touch, ere “smart a8 lizarda’ stings,” and ‘like ‘bong screecn-owls” they ‘‘made their concerts 21l." And what mors have we now? We Ive had Beecher over again under the solanity of an oath, and wo have had Tilton rasbed in like manner, and we have hod . Titon in_several dramatic side scenes, s we huve Moulton afirming Moniton, and © have Mrs. Moulton sustaining Mr. Mounlzonbut it was the old, old story, simply growirin vehomence snd recklessness as the play piressed, until the sanctily of an oath seomed i fade into romznce beforo Judge, counsel, witises, and jurors. Never belore in the history «any great trial was perjury eo palpable, ‘sounblushing, (80 utterly reckless. Every possib ground for mistake was confess- edly romovecand bold blasphemy and appalling perjury rao 5t in the terple of justice, We do not accueindividuals in presenting this re- volting picre of guilt; but the intelligont judgment othe worid is that no one side was entirely blaeless. It was this horrible spectre of systemsat and unfaltering falsehood, main- tained uond solemn oath befors the God of truth, that rst led the public to turn to the fountains vence came these putrid streams to spread theifeetid currents in the fairest and holicut plas. They found not truth, but the miost porfe organization of lying at the altar of juatice, anthose who dought to - attain s just judgment are compelled to look boyond all thp ctors in ¢ judicial farce, to the causes and in- spirations hich brought them together in such unnaturabrife. And tumilrom trial that had become but a mockeryf both truth and justice, what safe 1andmanedave we to guide tho unbiased mind to o just dgment ? This 18 a grave inquiry. If Mr. Besch were bt 8 common man, be and his cause, wi all its bewildering scandals, could be dismissedithoat decisions. Ho could stand or fall unndted and unfelt. But Mr. Beecher is the greafs moral and social teacher of his generatit Since St. Paul taught, none has preachedmore eloguently, nor motded the convictié aod purposes of such multitudes. The worjwill, in the absenocs of the whole truth, jwe'lr, Beocher by the measure of his responsjlity for its suppression. Threo wit- nesges §nd to-day as they did the duy the trial commegd, most conspicuous as sources of the hidden }d controiling facts bearing upon the guilt ofinocencs of Mr. Beecher, and thsir lipa aro gtijealed. Why the sullen and at times al- most Yken silence of Mr. Bowen? And why did varts rush to the front with lus ever ready [ object” whenever the testimony of Mr. Bowerpached tho line of the strictest rales of sxelush? And why was Alra. Woodhull rejected a8 a wiosa? Consultation aftgr consnltation waa held, it only by counsel. but with her in pros- ence d her counsel, to dull the edges of ber storys she would have told iz, but siie was not calle, Jt will not do to say that she is s moral outla? If wbe is, she was nevertheless at times the adciate of both Tilton and Baecher, and 1f she It done great violence to truth she counld have escaped exposure. Both Tilton sud jpcher feared ber as they did Bowen, and she {8 left with her socrets unrevealed. And Misgkocter was a witnoss of the utmost im- porgre to an innocent defepdant, for upen her stog rould have hung many facts of the most seatlng natare, which could not bhave beel ‘hidden had she spoken all she knows. The lailure* to call these, and every other witles who coumld throw light upon Mr. Bekkr's real life, caunot be accepted as a ey bler, for Mr. Beechar's counsel were el neftt wise; but it will stand out sa an unan- awrbls imputation acainst the conscious inno- cefc of Xr. Boccher himself. Whon Mr. Beaer closed the lips of Mr. Bowen, and Aliss Pgcor, and Mre. Woodbull, and failed to pur- 8¢ hie testimouy of Mr. Richards to all posaible :;\:I. he gave a coafessiou of weakaess in his that dethrones bim a8 tne grost teacher, ax must make his futare ministrationa *ng swdicg bress or & tinking cywbal® in ths stization of the Chnstisu world. Granted tiatic leaves his ;unocence possible, neveirthe- ket will always stand as a famiog sword of ¢remnstion to confront him as he teaches Jot things 1o a fallen race. & TIE TICHBORNE AND TILTON CASES. i New York Herald, | B some respects the Tilton case has a singn- farosemblance to the Tichborns trial, the grest iae which was tried ia Englaud soms sightemn . this trial, it was her conscienco aud ber truh- | Ti fulness which brought it to the kaowledge of | we had the Government oa one side znd an ad- from being a ple sue of perjury, has becoms one of the politioal jssues of that conntry. In the Tichborne case venturer who claimed tho estates of the Baron on the other. The Court before which it was tried was composed of the Lora Chief-Juatics of Englaod and two distinguished collosgues. Ths cotnsel oa esch side were permitted to addres! the jury for weeks. The Lord Cbief-Juetico, unlike our Chie’~Justice .in Brooklyn, gave twenty-two days to delivering his charge. The verdiot of the jury was returned in less than half an hour, and upon that verdict the claimant was sent ta prison for fourteen years. ke the Tichborne case, has had its extraordivary incidents, and none more more 8o than the attempt of Loader and Price to destroy Mr. Beecher by perjury. During the process of the Tichborne trial a Swedish sailor, who took the name of Jean Luie, reade his ap- pearauco before the counsel of the claimant, and told them how he had been at 863 when the ship in which the real Tichborne had embarked was a floating wreck, how Lo bad taken Tichborne on board hia vessel and attended him, and how he had seen him afterward in Australia. Asthe claim of the prosecution of Tichboroe was that the real beir to the Baronetcy bad been drowned st ses, the story of Lute, i wuncontradict- ed, would have given the verdict to the plaintiff. Thoe Swede, imperfectly acquainted with the English langucgs, went mpon the witness- stand and told his story. He so impressed the friends of the claimsut that as respcctablo a gootleman as Mr. Whalley, M. P., and a_friend of the claimaat, took the trouble to visit New York to ascertain if his story conld be corrobo- rated. The distinguished counsel for the Gov- ernment, headed by Mr. Hawkins, cross-exam- ined Luie at great length, but they failed to shake his story. He wen: from the stand ap- parently s creditable witness. The Lord Chief- Justice did not aak bail for his resppearance. It happened that in the excitemest of ths trial photographa of Luie were sold at the stores. A strauger passing & wincow one day bappened to sea one of these pictures, and remarked to a friend that he had koown that face under an- other name in another city. This idle remark, droppod in_hasiy conversation, was conveyed to the counsel for tho Government. This stranger visited the court next morning and recognized Luie as & Swede who b formerly been known as Lundgren and who had been sent to prison for felony. Investigation proved the truth of this storv; that Luio was really Luod- gren that he was ' s tickot-of-leave-man ; that is whole story was an outrageous perjury, fab- ricated without'motive, friom a prurient desire for notoriety or the lust for lying which isin many a discase. He was committed to prison by the Lord Chief-Juatice on the charge of per- jury. and a few weeks afterwards was found guilty of the crime and sontenced to prison, whors he now remaina, The intrusion of Lauie into the Tichborne case was o phenomenon. Its moral effoct npon the jury was fatally detrimental to tha clsimant. In the Beecher case Price and Loader make their appearance after the svidence had been submit- ted to the jury. The story thay told was not, as some of oor contemporaries would have ts be- liove, on its face an improbable story. It hadas nouch thé sembtance of truth as the statements of Tilton or the evidence of Moulton. The abeence of any apparons motive on the part of these two wretched men is not remark- ahle to those who study human nature. A pro- rient love of motoriety, tbe lust for lying, are moral diseases, Tha wender ia that we have not had them, a8 in tha Tichborne case, at an earlior stage of the case. The fact that in the two mest celebrated cases of modern jurisprudence—the Tichborne case 1n England and the Beecher caze in America—there should have becn'phepomensa 80 aurikingly similar a8 the perjury of Jesn Luis in favor of the claimant and the perjury of Loader and Price in favor of r. Tilton,'is a peculiar phuse of this wonderful trial. e trust that the perjuries of these ‘“upholsterers,” as well as that of other aod mors conspicuous wit- nosaes, will be_punished 83 sevorely as English Justice punished Jean Luie. HOLDING THE BCALES EVEN. . New York Witness (Evangelical). We freoly concede tbat Tilton's evidence agminst Mr. Beocher is worthless on sccount of the double .part which he avowedly played 80 long, and of his contaminating free-love doo- trined; ‘o8 showed in his declaring his wife to be pure as snow at the very time when he was chargiog ber with long—continned treachery and infidclity. Whoeever has escaped a slaughtersd roputation in this trial it is not Theodore Tilton. Alr. Moulton's avowed lying for years.to save Alr. Beecher also neutrzlizes his evideuce against bim, and the low nurse brought forward on one side mav be fairly pitted against Deasis Turner an tho otber. JMrs. Moulton's evidence atands on a different footing, for, however unfortanats in her surroundiogs, she appears to be 2 sincere and consisteat witness. It is Mr. Beecher's own letters, however, which are the greav bar to belief in lus innocence. Like the **damned spot™” on her hand, wiuch Lady Macbeth was continually washing. - sleeping or waking, they *‘will not ‘out,” and whoever can reconcile those letters with consciousness of rectitude, must have a Plymouth Church turn of miod. Of guilt to some extent theie lettars and the evidence leave no doubt, but to what extent must, 80 far aa this trial goes, remain & secrot between tho parties concerned and the Bearcher of Hearts. A BAPTIST VIEW. Chicago Standard (Bavtist organ) Mr. Beecher himself, 1n his testimony, repu- diated the conspiracy theory. He admitted a wrong to My, Tilton, or what he st the time be- lioved to be such, and made his keen and re- morseful sense of this his explanation of the re- markable langnage used by him in his letters, now so familiar to the public. Wo are compelled to say, io all honesty, that this does not fully meot the case, but leaves in the mind a painfal conviction that even so much of & wrong toward dir. Tilton as Mr. Baecher admits cannot have baen all that he was conscious of when he wrote the letters. Especinlly does it fail to explain Mr, Moulton’s connection with the cage, as well a8 the endless expedients used by him, by Air. Beecher, aod by others, to cover up ‘“the scan- dal” Layiog sside the theory of comspiracy, how could there have been a “scandal” at ail, if there wers nothing more than what Mr. Boecher admits? To this must be addsd the policy of conceal- ment pursued, not ouly befors the trial, but during it ; the often desperate expedients in re- moving wituesses, and employing ail the techni- cal chicanery of the law in the mothods of de- fense., If Mr. Beecher has been defending him- solf, not against conepirators, but simply sgainst 8u injured person, howevar mach tfinz person may have overestimated the amount of che wrong, or grown in the process of the trouble into s vindictive enemy, his trus defense, and onsthat should have been resorted to long ago, was gimply to give the whole truth of the story keopiog nothiug back. As it stands, the case is an intense avd tremendous scruggle between two men with their saveral rotainers, who have called into service all legal arts, all social influences, the whols power of the press, each seeking to conceal what concerns himself and drag his ad- versary into the light, with a result which leaves candid observers throughont the conntxy just a3 much in the dark as ever. It seoms to us peffectly evident that back in that time when Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church were on the high tide o -osperity, when, 28 an “advanced thinker,” lfl- Bescher wag #pokesman for liberals and loose-livers throughout the conntry, when he was the demi- god of the daily press, and iith busy hand was pullivg down in all directions what faithful men woro laboring with all their might to build up— io that porilous time for him and for allin- timately asgocizted with him, there were things in the Plymouth Church circle, snd in Mr. Beecuer's own more intimate relations, which many persons besides himsel? are interested to conceul. What these amount to it is impossible to tell. Whatever thoy were, wa beliave Alr, Tilton to have been as deeply implicated as any one, and that the scenes of the last two are but the patural and n out- tho retribution’ with which Providence roaner or lator always visits the wrong. With unequaled power in setting forth forms of Christian senximent, 3(r. Beecher haa naver been s great Christisn tescher, With personal fascioationa almost irresistible, aud a power of personal influenca seldom seen, he has always lacied steadfast honesty of mind and gout which staads nigidly by the right. For years his teach- ing wes ons of the puroicions and threstening facte in our American life, sod we think it ought to be said and maintaioed without flinching that s groat trouble has manifestly beou allowed to come upon him in order that tondencies which were carrying ue awittly ou io a fatal direction might 80 receivo an effectus! check. things are to be lamented in this who'e maitor, bat we believe God is brivging good out of it, wlich perbaps Mr. Boeck- : aimsolf will yet live to sea and to coafess. HOW THE BEXCHER TRIAL LOOKS IX EFGLISH EYES. London Saturday Reeiew, June12. the trial of 2echer, at New York, could possibly occur. We are not now concerned with the immediate issue of the inquiry.” How far the specific charges azainat the defendsut have bean substantiated is in itsalf a question of very littlo consequence, and ane into which we are wertainly not disposed to enter. Whatover may bo the truth as to particalar incidents, Mr Beecher's own sccount of himsel? is sufficient to show what sort of a man’ be is, and whatis the nature of the religious influence which he disseminates 2mong his flock ; sod it is nnec- esaary to follow out the subject in all its details. It is more important to obgerve the light which the case throws on some pecaliarities of American temperament and foeling, 8s displayed in the mannor of the trial and the attitude of tho public iz rogard to it. The point at iseue is in itself s very simrle one, and the (ulimn:g bearing on it might have been easily compressed within & small compass; bat then everybody had agreed that this was tobe a great trial, and thas the utmost amount of dis- play and excitement must be got out of it. The public expected to have its curiositv well tickled, and the performers in the case, on their part, were determined to lose no opporiunity of show- ing thomselves off to the greatest advantage. Accordingly tho examination of witnesses, in- stead of being strictly confined to the facts of the case, has been made to include almost every- thing under the sun. Most Americans in the course of their lives pass through a variety of occapations, and when their private life is minately gone into, as it was in this case, they bave a good deal to tell. Witnessen were also exhaustively probed as to their religions opin- ions, and indeed a considerable part of the evi- danco is made up of thaological specalations. It would appearthat public opinion on the whole, though it has had fluctuations, is on the side of Mr. Bescher ; not that he is generally believed to be innocent, but simply because peo- ple aro tickled by his bistrionic offrontery, and by the way in which he makes himself interest- iog ; and his counsel has also helpsd him in this respect by recalling the dark days of the Wi when Beecher grapplea with an infuriated aris- on its own £0il. It does not appaar that anybody takes what he savs very seriously, bnt his smartness is irresistible. Since the scan- dal arose the sttendance at Plymouth Church on Sandays and on lecturo nights has immensely increaced, and the preacher is almost buried in gifts of flowers for his platform. Whenover there has been any particularly suggestive evi- dence in court there has been a rush to church to see how the pastor took it. Afier Mrs. Monl- ton’s disclosures, for instance, Mr. Bescher proached on meekness, and the crowd not only tilled the church, but bloczed the surrounding streets. He read, we are told, the ‘hirty-seventh Paalm, " investing it withall the charma of studisd elocution, and placiog a significant inflection upon every “sentencs that seemed to ralata to his own troubles; and then he went on to im- Prove the occasion with groasy unction, argning of course that chastening was a sign of Divine love. All these lectures and sermons are now Many | reported at full length in the papers, along with the proceedings of the trial; and. in fact, Mr. Beocher bas never filled the stage to ths samo ee a8 during the last few months. he genoral drift of Mr. Beecner's Gospel 8eems to be that it does not much mattor what & man does as loog s he is full of spiritual fervor and love for hia fellow-creatures: and in his own ca3a her certainly appears to havs carried charity to its extreme limits in his intercourse with the persons whom he accuses of conspiring to ruin him. It waa at the end of 1870 that Til- ton wrate to him requiring, *for reasons of wiich he was_explicitly aware,” to resgn ths pastorship of Plymouth Church; but down to just bofore the rocent explosion he remained on not only friendly, but evan affectionate. torms with bis accusers, Tilton and Moulton. Ha calls Mouitoa's conduct ** god-like,” aund Til- ton *one of the most deli and generous of meo,” and there is not the aligntest traca in bis interviews with them of 20y indigoation at tha imputation of infamous condnet, or even any at- temot to deny it. All he asksis thas the story shall be kept secret; and it is only after he finds that Tilton and others have been tattling, and that there'is no longer any chance of ita being suppressed, that ho sssumes the high morsi tous. No adequate explanation has bzen given of tho fone of _hopeless despair in which he plesded for hushing up the scandal; but still more _signifi- cant is his fondling of his traducers. One day he embraced Tilton and kissed him on the mouth; another time they “ fell into an easy and unbusi- nesshike chat,” and Beeclier savs he sat down on ‘Tilton’s kmees *‘to mako tha appesl cloger,” and Mrs. Tilton comiog in, they kissed ail round. It i8 gifficalt to imagine anything more revolting to & hea'thy mind than suca endearments hetween geap!ein such peculisr relations to each otber; ut the ssme sickly a4 unnatural emotionalism characterizes theic wbole intercourse. 3Mr. and Mre. Tilion, it should be rememberad, iere both pet pupils of Mr. Beecher, and appropriate fruita of his teaching and example. LITTLE l;BEECflES OUTDONE. How a Port Jervis Youngster $trayed 01t Starved for Three Days,and Was Scooped in from n Ruttlesnake’s Den. 4 Port Jervis (N. Y.) Union. In Blooming Grove, Pike County, Pa., lives the family of a man named Charles Dunning, consisting of himself, his wife, and three chiq- dreu, aged G, 4, and 2)¢ years. On Mondsy of last Wweal the children went out to play in the fields. After being sbsent some time the two oldest returned weeping to the house, and szid they had loat their little brother in tho woods. Mrs. Duoning, thinkiog ehe could find the cmid without difficulty, went ont into the we. i3 and looked for some distance around, calling bim by name. Being unabls to dizcover any trace of him, she became alarmed and hastened back to the village, and spreac the news of the child's loss. Blooming Groveis composed mainly of the dwellings of the cmployca of Jacob Klien- han's tannery, and when the uews of the little boy's loss became general ths greatest azcite- mont prevailed. Business waa stopped at the tan- pery, and forty mea started to acour tha woods in gearch of the child. All the rest of the day they tramped through the woods without finding any trace of the missing little one, and all night pine torches flashad through the forest alsles, frightoning from their perches myriads of night birds, which answered with their shrill cries the shouts of the men calling to the child. During the night a catamount was shot, but ‘morning dawned upon an uusacccasful party of sad-hearted villagers. Afterashort rest the hunt wan again commenced, and all day Taesday snd all Tuesday nignt was prosecuted diligontly, but with no better result. The opinion now was geoeral that the child had been killed and eaten by wild beasts, which still haunt the Pike County wildarneas. The seuarch was continued, however, st the ur- gent appeal of the mother of the boy. Toward noon on Wednesday ons of the party started awav in a direction which had not been investi- gated as yet. Passing about s hundred yards turonglt a lauvel swamp, 2 miles from the vil- lage, be came ont in an open space about 30 feet square. The opening was walled in on every side by a thick growth of lanrel, and was weil filled with large rocks, marked with crevices and largs seams, resembling an abandoned quarry. The instaot the man stepped into the place, he was atartled by the sound of & rattlesnake, giv- ing him warning to pause. Looking down, he saw the snake coiled up, about four fest away, in readiness to spring at the first provocation. The backwoodsman had seen sach thinga before, and, picking up s clab, dispatched the snake at one blow. He was not prepared for the develop- ments thet followed, howevor. Glancing about him, he made the nnpleasant discovery that ha had intruded in a placo pre-empted by a colony of rattiesnakes; in short, ho was in & den of deadly reptiles, From crevices and crezses on the rocks and on the ground he saw numbers of them lying in varions positions, batbing their slum proportions in the sunshine, The man made up hig mind that the place had no particalar charm for him, and waa sboat to beat 3 hasiy rotreat, when his eyes fell on s scene that transfized him with horror. On a low, flst rock not mora than six feet from where tho man stood, lay the apparently lifelesa form of the little boy they had boen lookiug for so long. Stretched by his side, not more than throe inches AWAy {from him, was & hn?n Tattie- suake. while near his feet tvo more Iay coiled up, all evidently undistarbed by the presence of the child. While the msn mnul suppose for an instant the boy was alive, determined to rescue tho bodv from so harrible s sepulchre, and with wall-directod blows from his clab killed the thres snaken tha: held pozsecssion of the child. Every blow wau responded to by the blood-cardling din of rattlea from the soakes that Isy near the rock. While bo was examin- ing the ground betwesn him and the cn?ld to see if anr of the reptiles lay on that side, Lo was startled to nee the mupposcd dead Infaot risa with an effort to a sitting postare, stare wildly about wita a crazed. haggard look, and then sink back upon the rock. - Tho naxt Inacant tho stout-hearted woodman bad sprung upon tha rock, and, #:izinz tho cnild, bore him sway quickly from the L:achdome deon, and in & faw minutes pisced him in tha arma of his dis- motler, amid the goveral rejoicing of the day It may be safely agsumed that there is only one country in the world in which such an amaz. ing exhibition as thas which has baen prasanted whole village. Ths child 488 unconscious, and 18 vet lyiog in & critioal condition, being delirions ship and privation ha suffered i ey dyyy wandering slona in the forast w:lx‘u ‘whigh stont-hearted hunter would have quailad, ‘e —_—— o 1 THE FRENCH ASSEMELY, A Few Personal Ske Paru Toston Spupme The Assembly is delightfuly inf, sometimes reminds oce of » New England luho‘?l in sommer whan the teacher's back is If the members did not know that it i; Quuign, fied to make 7aces at the honorable Preeiy when he is not looking, I fear they would doig The bovish maoner in which thay Tevaly againat his sttempts to preserve silence iy . eame as of old. Nothing has been gaired in ¢y corum since the Assembly left Bordesux, m: Father Thiers comes in, swinging down o sisle, or sliding in by » side doar ity fl familiar sbuffling gait, and stays Ds an boar or aa hour daily. at this Depaty, !hlku.;l hands with that verses a moment with a third, snab; chats with the Cabinet Misistan hapist ;.7 whisper Ihfew wo‘;dl to the Duke Paaquier, who presides, and then, an}, is an important vote, xoes home. ’.l'h::::hn‘: a more democratic, unassuming man in Earopy or Americs than Thiers. Andrew Johnsag w perhaps rank next, if he did not oftan 8ppesy sell-conscious, and 24 if he were laying thy role of humility. Around the trlgum from which the members speak ons may, ona day, get glimpses of mady men Who have yery prominent during the last faw ysg:g L Prevy, long President of the Asse his bald hesd and gonial face daily, little a0d works much. He waa tho enly mey who ever succeeded in absolutsly ocontrolling 5 Fronch Assewbly ; the Duke d’Audiffrot Pay quier, although a fine orator and & man of much magnetism, caonot do it. Jules Favre's inmip. ous festures are often seen in the {front of the bouse; he ETOW™ gTBY end old, and looks sad and weary. Pimd 28 jovial, genial, and matiric ay gye even when he is serioms people bolj their breaths, as if they expsctsd tolzagh. Ry i large and portly, although short of statare, Hia face, seamed and wriokled with lines of. thought, is really fine when lighted up with ‘humor or rendered thoughtfal with athos, 04 Wallon’s benevolent countenanca besms froms conspicaous position now and then, ‘Whenevar there is any talk on educational measures, orca that portion of the Constitation which he had the honor of framing. Wallon looks liks anvthing but & man capable of oniginating a project of law; he might easily be mistakes Py most useful, perhaps influential. men in Franey t. He is Miniater of Public Instraction; y at the improvement cf education. al facilities in the provinces; hears a thouasad cooflicting opinions daly; lops from hig Ministry to the Assembly and back sgain at hot- test speed ; gives receptions and audiences iste in the safternoon, and grand parties in the evenings, and is withsl 80 overcrowlad that he is a perpetual wonder :0 Iazy men. Hs has always been s mman of sternest priaciplsin politics, and in May of 1350, when the Assambly restricted universal suffrace, he resigned. In 1843 he was mauch interested in the movemeat for the abolition of slavery, and has ever sises taken active interest in’ a!l humane messures. Raonl Daval, who seems likely, from present indications, to be the most promument representative of the ‘*young Imperisl igt” oparty, 18 & fine-lookiong msn of 43 years of age; vigorous in speech and aggressive in domeanor. He has beao 3 magis- trate since 1352, and is & succesafal man in the worldly sense. Not long azo he wrots & public latter announciog the imperfect indifferencs of all parties ; but there is no doubt that he ia fair- iy accused of Imperialistic sym, The Bonapartists bave felt, since Rouber & yesr or two gince received such a terrible scorchivg from. the Duke d’Audiffret Pasquier, that they must bave able men in the Assembly, and they make Gesperate efforts to get them. The Duke Decazes, who has the most impor tant postin the Government, ia & quet. English- looking gentleman, now nearing 60. Hats seen bat little in the Assembly, as moss of his work is in the private cabinet, whers the German reprs- sentative comes from time to time to hint at fresh hgmiliations in atore for Fraace. & deciaive temper and s firm will ; is not easily frightened ; suaps his fingers in public opinion's face, and laughs to scorn thoss who wpresd rumors sbout him. He ia cantions in his diplo~ matic relations, and seems inclined to conceds mach more to Germany than one would d posaible. FITCH-SHERMAN. Gen. Shermaun’s Son-in-Law in the Penitentiary of Miswourl— While Thero Fie Receives News of the $3irth of the General’s Grandson, Correspundence of Gravhic, JEFFERSON CrrY, Mo.. June 24.—To-dav was of great svont to the family of Gen, She/man. His son-in-law, late Naval Officer Thomas W. Fitch. who married his second daught>r, Minais Ygerman, Oct. 1, 1874, visitad Jefferson City, the State Capital of “Missouri, to compal an exe= cution on the property of the bankrupt Missour Hardware Company in the State Peniteotiary the previous dav. Last night as I retaroea from 1eto at the State-Housa Mr. Fitch said to me: “ Mighty glad to see romebody I kmovw. get up at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning and show you somo fun. I have been here all dsy arranging to break into this Penitentiary aud get out some property. I nave my poseo snd the Bheriff ready, and we go i betimas.” Fitch 18 a Sfl k-spoken young man of & round- ish body, healthy and sthletic, with a light black " Minnis has » son, with fovor broaglt on by ths auparali bard- c] h; mustache and guk Drown eves,.and very con- siderable oase and decision of character. He ‘was sn apprentice 1o the Neptune Iron Come pany in Now York in 1859, and in 1563, a fin- ished mechanic, he entered the navy, whers he romained uotil six months befors his marriage, October 1, 1874, At that time he went inta the Harrison Wire Company's shops as St Louis, and worked in & subordinate capacity to test the coat of the product and sse if the work would bo profitable. This company uses blooms, scrap, billet, and charcoal iron, and runa the wire through a rolling-mill; jtis the only wire-mill west of Cleveland. Batisfying himself that there was money in it Mr. Fitch re« turned to Washiogton and wedded Mise Shermaa at St. Aloysius Church. Ho then plunged into the ‘wire company’s business and was elected a Direct- or and fioally President. The magnificant pres~ ent of the Khedive to Mrs. Fitch did not disturd his equanimity. Gen. Snerman grow very proud of hia diligence, thoroughness, and practicabili- ty. and said that work of that kind was beitar for young men than soldiering, This morning I went to the Missouri Stats Penitentiary with Mr. Fitch and the Saeriff of the county, Mvers. Half adozen workuen asd some wagons followed. The Warden, Sesbres, standing at the graat arched gate, raceived the BSheriff, who pre sented his writ. *‘Can't lot you in. sir.” “ Then I'll break in,” said the Sheriff. "}):} you mean to say you'll use fores, sir?® «T do The Warden then ordared the door to be opened. Fitch whispered to the gang of men: ‘“Do not apsak sload nor excite the convictd March 1o line righi after the Sheriff aaa mel” Passing through the guard-room, the tambzl 0 second was revolved to sdmit us, File right 1" gaid Fitch. Here the greas Waddy Thompson looked o8 disgusted. s hardwars company’s shops ':!: to the left, but Fitch know thst lesseos had hiddon the goods under the cooper-shop. There ws found. hundre of ~ barrels and boxes filled with hinges, bolts, valves, handles, clothes-pegs. whatever comprises hardware. The sgent of the bankrupt Company was along to check off what was amongst thelr assets. Daring that day Mr. Fitch recovered in srticlea nsarly the whole of the 310,000 dae his hause, He showed great dacision sagacity, and josr withal. Just after Sheriff Myers shook adien wish Mr. Fitch and myself, snd we had retired to my room in the Madison Hotel to take brassh befors dinner, a servant boy came to the door with & despatch, asying, **fs Mr. Fitch bere 7" *“Yes, o cpaned th His black sves 8 open: the talegraph. lo;nhx- nr sod he m.d,,pucmn God! Bes ase. rdio-nd to take the dispatch for s minute I8 rea Thomas W. Piteh, of 8t. Louts: and is reported doing wall, W T, Buraxix, Geaeml, ‘Woe both jumpsd up and sbook haads scross my writing-table, and without furthar remarks proceeded to the bar. «1¢'ll pleaso the General,” said Filch, “asit’® his first ifd” 1 Thsn be stoppod and said ¢ ‘“1t {sn't very creditable that the dsy my was born Lis {ather was [n the Pe Jeffasson Qity.” ADVANCE IN RAILROAD FARES, Bavrneors, Jaly 8.—Io comformity with arrangement be:iween the Pennavivanis Bakimoro & Ohuo Roads, the cars of the latter will be run between Washington asd Now York, and the sales of through tickats and checking of baggage fullv resumed. Rates of fare tothe Weat from Baltimore are adyancod aa follawsl. Chicago, from §10 to $16.50; vau(nnd.flfl 810 to $2.26; t. Louls, from §15 (o §18, aad 08, & aimilar basls io otuer poluts o L hobblag g Audift | You' ", v m— Hs winks knn'hl;,u' : for a country schoolmaster. Yet his is one of the . _— i SRR ¥