Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1876, Page 12

12 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. e FOREIGN. A Turkish Vietory Reported in Herzegovina, The Retreating Insurgents Burn Hine Villages, Spanish Delinquencies Commented on by the London Times, Eenor Oastelar's Views on the Cuban Ques- tion. TURKEY- AX INSURGENT BETREAT. Ragrsa, Jan. 29.—The inenrgents are march- iog north of Trebigne, pursued by the Turks. The insurrectionista have burnt nine villages. ENGLAND AND THE ANDRASSAT NOTE. ViENNS, Jan. 20.—Ttis said thet instractions are on the way from the British Government to its Ambaseador at Constautineple, directing him to givea full support to Count Andrassay’s note, ®ud that there 18 no doubt the Porte will accept the note. MONTENEGEO. St. PETERSRURG, Jan. 29.—It is thought here that Tarkey hes determined not to_declare war agzanst Montevegro, the Sublime Porte bavinz o wigh to add to the existing embarrassments. —_— SPAIN. THE BECENT FIGHTING. AMasrrp, Jan. 29.—The Alphensist Gen. Que- s2ds Les occapied Ville Real, on the frontiersof :he Proviaces of Alava and Guipuzcoa, defended 55 five battakions. four guo, 2nd Eomo cavalry, fhe Royalists captured the artillervmes, two guns, and all their matenst. The Carhiets also lost heavily in killed ana wounded. The Alphonsist Gen. Maldonado simalta- aeously occupicd the heights of Artatan, meei- mg with only a slight rezistance. Gan. Maoures has occupied Zaros, threatening ‘he Carlist rear. Tte Carlists have suspended the bombardment »f BSap Sebastian, sud are withdrawing their aege artillery. THE ELICTIONS. 1t now seems that but one Republicsn (Cas- wlor) was returned to the new Cortes, and but e Regdicel (Angeleds). The Marquis of Sadoal, an extreme Monarch- »t. will fead 1he gronp of eix or seven Deputies. Ibe Copstitutionalists, or Sagastaisis, number diirty-pix. Very few Moderadoa, or partieans of ihe religious unity, bave been returned. The Mlections to the Senate will probably be favora- »le to the Government. TOST-MORTEM PUNISHMENT. CoLoGNE, Jan. 20.—The Gazelte's 3Iadrid cor- +espondent writes that, by order of the Spanish dishops. the bodiea of all persons who died srior to the 9th of February, 1875, who were 1oly civilly married, be exbumed and removed ‘rom consécrated ground. Oue decicion of the piritual Court relstiog to a csse of this kind 2u6 already been approved by the Minister of Pubhc Worship. Sax_ Seeastiay, Jen. 20.—Heavy masketry Sriog in the San Cristobal Valley was Lieard yea- lerdiy. The Alphonsist troops Lase several Carligt positions commanding the mouth of the Biver Trota. THE THCNDERER ON SPANTSH DELINQUENCIES. Lamdon Tames, Jan. 10. An official notico in the last number of tho London Gazelle respenting the Cerlist batteries on the northern coast of Spain will sugrest thae pur Goverumeunt is treating a serious wa:ter too lghtly. Dritish vessels are warned tust thoy rannot enter the porta on the Biscayan coast mithout running a risk of beiog fired at by the Cariist batteries, which aim ot everything within reach. The Gazelle gives the mames of the places which are most dsogerous, and it ronsiderately andds toat ‘‘the whole of the Spanieh coast {0 the eastward of Bilbao ebould be avoided.” The notico is as matier- of-fact as if it referred to mome sunken roels discoverad off the coast of Spain and noi yat Isiddown in the Admirslty charts; but we fancy that thefact itself will appear in & very different light to those of our countrsmen who trade with the Discay ports. Being at peece wittrSpain, we Liave a right to buy and gell in anv part of her territors. She has not reccg- mized the belligerencr of the Carlists, and there 18 not cven a paper blockade of ihe consis par- tially under their arms. Guetaria, San Sebas- tian, Pasages, and Motrico—the places men- tioned in the Gazetle—are legally as open to our ships a8 Antwerp or New York. Mence the Government of Spain is bound to protect the property of our countrsmen when it comes within 2 miles of her cossts. Were suy of ourseamen o be murdered by any of hers in one of ner hartors, we should insist that tho criminals sbonld receive the legal punichment of their guilt. Wero any of cur ships to be willfully burnt in such 8 position we should require the Hpanieh Government to give cotmnensation for the damsage, and bring the offendera to trial. The Government mizht plead that it was too wesk to cootrol its unruly subjects, and too poor to pay compensation. 1If such an excuse were falee, we ehiould invite the Goverament either todoa pisin nct of justico or prepare for Te- prisala, which would smouut to a declaration of war. If the Government were roally powerless, we should have & right to take its place, and de- fend tho lives and property of our own subjects. Thesa elementary facts suffice to ehow the rights and the auties of our own Government in the present case. We have no political relations with the Carlists. If any Brtish ship should be iojured by the Carliets, we must look for redrees to Madrid. We have as much rigbt to demand reparation from King Alfonso a8 if they wero tho most loyal of his snbjects. Either ha or wo must assumo the police of Lis own coasts. ilis Micisters would. of course, indigususty refuse to admit that thev could not protect any part of tho Biscayan comst; toad we are certainly not disposed to puc ourselves to the trooble of silencing the Carlist batteries. The plain doty of BSpain to - Eagland, then, ie to place such a fleet off the coast a8 wil gilence the Carlist batterica. If the Gov- ernment of 3adrid will not thus protect its own =oasts, it muet pay for any damage that may be 3one by its rebellious sabjects. The Germans peremptorily insieted on that clear nccessity when the Carlists fired on 3 Germsn ship. No doubt ir would be often injudicious to press 1u- teroatiousl, or, iudecd, any other rights to their extreme limits. Governments 88 well as private persons ought often to forbear with each oiher. But we fail to seo why Spain shou!d be treed from the elementary duty of guarding [ife end propaify on her own coasts. Sho bas so iarge snd powerful a wuavy that, if her dispute with the United ~ States respect- iog Cuba weie to end in war, she would Lave s great advantage in tha first part of the strugele. Sne assumes {uat she is powerful enough to gourd Cuba 28 well 2s Spain, and, in- deed, she kecps & conaiderable number of gun- boats nfioat for tuat purpose. At least one of ber ironciads is €0 powerful that It would ap- precizbiy 2dd to tho naval sirencth of suy netiop, snd seven otuers are formidable in their own way. She has, besides, about a dozen serviceable nteam frigates. more than a score of pnddle-steamers, and & good msuy pEuuboats, Such 2 pasy would be more than sufficient to protect every inch of the Bircayan comst if it tero mansged with passable vigor and skill, What hae become of all theee vessels? We occasionally hear that some of them bave chelled ths Carlist baiteries in a desultory fashion; but Senor Canovas del Castillo will scarcely pretend that taey mako a serions effort to frotect foreign sbips. Others may be statiosed off the coast of Cubs 10 prevent the rebels from obtaining supplies. That is an arrangoment with which we cannot seucern oursclves. If Spain iosists on having the luxary of rebellious colonies at & time when she berself is wasted by civil war at home, she must take the consequences. Ta let her neglect she plain duty of mumntaining an adequate forco of police on ber coasts because she caooses to Leep up & larger Empirc than sho can manage would be fclly equal to herown. We refrain from sopgesting other and less croditable ex- lapations of the impunity with which tho Car- ts fire upon trading vessels. At all eventa, ‘we must assumo that Spain 18 perfect!ly well able o protect our traders it she cares to trv. She has certsinly no reason to complsin that she Lias been treated with any want of forbear- ance by foreign Siates during the pastfew veam. No country.bas tried their patiencce €o sorely, and no other Europesn nation would kave beea aliowed to escapo eo casily. She has pushed ber waritime rights to an excess that woald Lo intolerablo if she were not weak, and she bas uystematically refased to grant redress untif she has felt the epur of compulsion. The case of the Virgipius was typical; the ebooting of the crew and passengors was an act of mexcusa- blo savagery, and to this day mo panieh- mert bas oyertaken the chief author of the crime. We - believe that he 1is still in a position of commard, and be is sard to h;ra “i"&“fi DME ur};\ifl ‘-::. prised that zu English diplomatist we n - ahauine official jes with him. The trash is that, when dealing with the rights of foyeign- ers, the Spaniards are misled by a quality’ good in itself. and bad only when carried to oxcoss. They areproud, justly proud, of their groat his- tory. In mpite of civil wars, the loss of colo- nies,the accueations of;the Spanish bondholders, and an emnty exchequer, they refuso to bo- lieve that they have lost the greatness which they did not nead to assert in tha time of Charles V.or Philp 1L It would be ungenerousto quarrel with so0 natural & fecling, and A npustake to forget that it may help Spain to pull herself out of tha mire winch is visible to all eves .but her own. Nor cen we blame her dislike to foreign inter- ferenco with her domestic affairs, altiough no couutry sayve Turkey has had 1o bear it eo often. When a pation loses its senso of self-respect it loses much else. But. 28 that of Spain springs in a preat degree from bher ignorauce of other countries, it ia veryinconvenicnt whon their rights cowe into conflict with here. No pation, as we hiave said, is so feverishly cagor to assert iis maritime rights, sad hence the apparently endless series of squabbles between its cruisers aud those merchant ships which it suspects to bo smugglers. Such n State as Hoiland. for example, does mnot give one-tenth part so much trouble, although her traditions of maritima glory aro inferior ouls to our own. Enotirely in the sume spiritis tho negleet of Spain to protect our traders from tho Carlist batteries. She has never learut the daties shé owes to cther nstions. They, in their turn, have done injury to her by their mistaken forbear- ance. e eho once was great and now is feeble, 8 sentiment of pity sometimea prompts them to let her off eacily when she does things that wouid be intolerable if committed by power- fulStates. The resuli1s that oven her respousible statesmen preaame on the contrunance of a fool- ish and treacherous umpnni ad that their snb- ordinates gat ioto the habit of acting with a rocklessoeas which would insure dismisal into private ifa if they were tho servants of any otier State. It wonld bo far better for Spain heiself, as well as for the world generally, if sho ware to be held es accountable as tho greatast of Powers. ‘The United States might set & good example by ipsisting that Cuba eball not be allowed to be- come tue plagne mstead of the pearl of the An- tilles ; and we may fitly insist that the Biscayan por.s ghall be_guarded - by a suficient force of manitime police. Were® tho Cabwmet of Madrid pelitelsy but firmlv told thet it would be beld =cccountable for every shilling of damago inflicted by Cariist stells on Enghsh ships, thero would at firat, no deubt, bo a foud outery; but afser a littls blus- ter the vimlacco of the Spamsh cruisers wonld, we &re eure, be marveloasly quickened, and whst bad been rheterically pronounced impessi- ble would practically ve found easv. Spam ber- self would profic by such an apolication of & little wholesome justice. She would more clesrly see iho danger of dallying with & civil war, whicl, if it should last much longer. will put the embarrassment of hor finances bavond the hops of amendment_during auy period with which it is wortb the wiils of Spamsh Kings or statos- men 1o reckon. —— CERMANY. CHUTCH AND STATE. Beruiy. Jan. 29.—The rejection by the Reich- etag of additions {o the panal code for further re- gtricting the clergy by prohibiting the posting of objectionsble commuctications on the doors of churches occzsions genaral surpri 1t was in- tended as a suoplement to the previous bill pro- viding ageinet abusa of the pulpit. The Iatter bill was evsded by placardicg objectionable communications on church doors, or by pamphiet pastcrais, and tha propozed clzuses would have spplied the pulpit laws to those communications. TUZ ABNIN CASE. A comvromise has been reacked by the ma- jority of the Reichstag, including the National iberals and Liberal Conservatives, regarding tho vroposed Arnim clansos to- thie penal cods, that in order to make a dinlomsticservant punishable the intention to offend must Le proved. Beowry, Jan, 29.—The Reichstag to-dsy con- cludad the second reading of the supplementary Pedal Code bill. The so-calied Arnim clause was sdopted—179 to 120. —— GREAT BRITAIN, THE GNIVERSITY LOAT-RACE. Loxpox, Jan. 29.—The regular annual Uni- versity ooat-raco between the Cambridge and Oxford crews has beea fixed for Saturdsy, tho 8tk of April. TUE GROCEY TZADE. During the past week Ilincing Lane hzs baen dull and unsettling, wita o downward tendon: Sugzar declined 1s 6d per 100 pounds on crystai- lized Demainra. The coffee market was woll sunplied with foreign sorts. Maoy npounds re- maio uosold. Numerous cargoes of rice arrived off the coist, and few were »old &t barely former terms. There wera a number of minor failures thronghout the countsy during the week. —— HUNCARY- TUE DEAD STATESMAN, Bupa-Pesta, Jan. 20.—The Hungarian Diet bas sdopted 2 resointion that Deak's funeral shall be at the expenee of the country, and grest proparations are being made. The House of Rep- resentatives will adjourn over the day of the fumeral, which is fixed for the 3d of Februars. The body will lie in state in the vestibule of the Academical Palsce. —_—— FRANCE. THE LENATRIE OBSEQUIES. Pagis, Jan. 29.—The remains of Lematrie, tho actor, were buried to-dav at Montmarire. The funeral was attended by an immense aud some- what noisy crowd. Victor Hugo aelivered the oulczy at the grave. Sr. PETERSBUERG, Jan. 23.—The estimates for the carrent year are : Total revenne, 570,000,000 Toubles ; expenditures, 569,914,000 roubles. DICD. Prince Bagratian Mouchrausky is desd. —_—— E THE CUBAN QUESTION. VIEWS OF SENOR CASTELAR. Senor Castelar, in addressing the electors of Darcelons and Valencis, expresses his viows upon the war now raging in Cuba, as follows: Spatn is engeged In two wars at the present mo- ment—tbie war 1u Cubs and that in the north of Spain, 1f we gave our attention to tho sar in Caba, it will bo st once evident that reforms, and not arms alone. are necessary to end it. Ouo of our most glorious polit- jcal scts was the sbolition of elavery in Porto Rico, It was passed unanimously by that glcrions Assembly, whote memors will _never fade in the remembrsace of good men, and wliose exsmple will Berva sa a lesson for future generstions. The abolition of slevery in Yorto Rico implies its abolition in Cuba. To yreparc tho way for this, our Minister of Forelgn Affairs has set out for that distant ferritory; acd since the samo Capain General who was éent out by our Government, and who announced, in obedience to his orders, that servilo labor could no longer exist, ia now sbout 1o take the command, the coming Leg- islature must prepars a project for emzncipa- tion. BSorcs like mlavery caunot be treated except by entire removal; zad, as long ns we delay to rémove this sorv, solong will the war con- tinuo; and with sisvery toe present indefensiblo mili- tary sbeolctism and really abeolute and irresponsible sdministrations mus slso be removed. All Europe and America will refuse us the moral support meces- sars to maintain our feritory in the New World an Jong ss they ree it stained by the worse crime and most us institutions that past centuries have Dbequeathed to our aga. A achems of reform is in- dispenssble and urgent if we do not wish to find our- selves eoon in ihe presence of ad irreparable catastroghe, BCESIAN OPPORITION TO THE AMEBICAN TLAY, Berlin Correspondence New York Herald. While the German press approviogly discusses the American plan [in regard to Cuba], that of Ruseia criticises it very sharply. Foremost stands the Journal de Saint Pelershurg. the rec- oguized organ of Prince Gortarhakofl and the Ruseian Foreign Office, which writes as follows : ~*Europe sympathizes too highly with the oxertions made by the young King of Spain and his Government this last Fear o xestore permunent order in Lis coustry, not to wish his being eparod from foreign' complications, which would - only promoto the intercets of the cnemies of the prealen: HBcoosiitutional monarchy.” 1t seema 28 thougn m St. Petersburg 1lio opportunit: will be embraced = to- give vent Ly the repressed =nger amainst the United States. © Since the Catacszy affair, the refusal of the Unitea States to take part in the Internatiosal Coogress in Brusscls reepecting war-usages propozed by the Emperor Alexander, and Schusler's. diepateh on® Gontre] Asia, Rusaian official circles are so embittered sgainst the United States that for some tims it wag even doubtful if Russian merchants and manufacturers wonld receive permission to par- ticipata in the Philadelphia Exhibition. e FORTUARY. Norwicw, Conn. Jan. 20.—The remsins of Congressman Starkweather arrived bere this af- ternoon, and were taken to his late residence on Laure! Hill, fccompanied by & Cobgrsssional delegation, Postmaster-Geueral Jewell, and s larga pumber of ciuzens, The funeral takes place Monday ezt CRIME. A Posthunious Letter by Crain, the Williamson County Assassin, Baker, an Alleged Confederate, Con- victed on Parjured Testimony. Murder and Lynch Law in West Virginia. Additional Particulars of the Northamp- ton Bank Robbery. “HARK FROM THE TOMSS.” Special Disateh to The Careado Tribune. CARBONDALE, Iil., Jen 29.—Below I give you verbatim a copy of s letter written by Marshali 7 Crain, the executed assassin, to Ailon Bal who is now serving a tarm in tho State Peniten- tiary ot Jotiet, for complicity in the killing of Geo. W. Sispey last summer. It is gener- ally thought that this letter may leaa to & reprisve of Bzlker for s pew trisl, he baving been swora faleely against by Crain, one of tho leading prosecuting witnesses in the Bulliner-Baker trial at Murpbysboro last October. 1t will readiiy be seen that Crain had endeavored to scresn big own guilt, and swore falsely agaiust Bakerin ordec to mako his own coawktion wmore insecure. Public opinion was strong ngainst Baker last fall, but now, a8 the trutb is eivg gotten at it, is turming in Bakes's favor. The letter was written by Crain a few davs after his laet attempt to escape from the Aarion Jail, and is a8 follows : 3farioy, IIL, Jan. 5th, I876.—Mr. Allen Baker. Desm sk : Having recaived 3 few lines from you usk- ing wme that you wished me o tell tho truth before i e, § will 525 to you as one ihat loves you that i ox- pect to tell the trath when on the galiows in wnat { have to ssy which will be but few words there has nlready tin- enough said sbout this trouble, allen, 1 am burt verry much about swearing falsely on vou § new that was doing rong but it wag all 1 thought in my favor. allen { Do that you are perfectly Clear of Lilling georze stemey. 1 far 83 i no you had nothing to do with thelkiline of George slsney and if there is any ono that orlo be repleived znd have their liberty it is vou, for as furas i 1o you hiad nothing to do with it, only the night yon ond me went to capture Tom Rusel, which that kad nothing to do with the kifting of Sisney. § am hail and_hearty, and patiently awaiting my esecution, hoping you s enjoying yourse!f 2a well a3 you can uuder your present coudition, Allen, i am truly sorrow that § have bin tho cause of your troublo and distress, Allen; it troubles me to think i have ruined =n inisent man.’ it would ov Din herder on- you Allen it i bad a told tho truth on Jokn - Bulliner, or a told al i no on him which you both would a Lung sure, but a8 3t was § screened tho guilty and swore falsely amainst the ini- sent, you_ know nothing about mine and Johu's troubles, john Bulliner bas bin the causeof my last troubio with Sisney. i have aiways thought he either liad some one to ehnot ittomy house or done it him- 31if to get me into it again. Jobu nowes Le paid me $137.75 cta, after goorge Sisney was shot the firat and Inst time, and when he comes cut of the penitentiary i Do he is guilty of 5 times more than § told on bim, for he nowes that he is guilty of the charges, i have noth- ing ginst Jokn 10 make mo mad at him; his brother rhoe (onros) says i told him' that Joha was perfectly inniscaf, and that he had nothing to do with Killing george sisney i never told Raoe Bulliner no suchia thing. roe noesthat i did not tellhim. John was clear. Joba is guilty and ho noes it slien i pray o god for you to havo lberts, There i3 8 prizoners in Jail here. i will tell you their Dames : flrst Sam Music, Jim gore, William Warren, Heury coo's, Lily Rends, Marion Young, and Jsmes porris, who 1 think is Clear of the charges against ‘alter your pardoning me for ruining you by swearing agaiust you falsaly { will die better satisfied. 80 o 170re for this time, and probably for ever. Yours truly. write to me agaln soom, to allen baker, From Marshall T. Crain. Allen, iam well and ot perfect esse, only i am chained down for cuttiug through the jail. igot fur enough through to see the sky above. ifihadahad 10 or 15 minutes longer i would a bin out a walking about, but all alone by my self probiy. AursmaLy T. CRAIN. It will be seen how cool he felt awaiting bis execution, and how lie took his unsuccessful at- tempt to escape. The neople should be wilhng to bavo Baker roprieved for & new trisl, as this letter gives good evidence that he wia convicted on false testimony. THE CRAIN TRIAL. Special Insvateh to The Chicago Tribune, Camo, I, Jan. 29.—~Tho trial of the Crains in the Circuis Court excites much attention. The testimony of Sam Music, & member of the gang, who turned State’s evidence, the hearing of which and examivation of whom occupied vesterday afternoon and most of to-day, lends directly to connect tho defendants with the mur- der of Spence in Craiaville, in July. At tho time of adjournment this afterncon Joun Ditmore was on the atend, whose testi- monv thus far confirms to a groat oxtent that of_Masic. It is understood that the defense will endeavor to impeach the testimony gf Music by proving him to have boen a gaerrilla duriog the War,and n man whose word is not believed by those who kuow him best. MURCER AND LYNCH LAW IN WEST VIRGINIA. Corvesvondence tncinnati Enquirer. BarnouvrsviLLe, CuneLL Cousty, W. Va., Jan. 24,—The usual quietude of this peacesful village was disturbed on last Friday, by a painful rumor that Cherles F. Meabling, who lived about 3 miles {rom here on the Guyandotte River road, had been misging frem his home since the previous Saturday. Meelling was o man of 30 years of age, sud an industrions and honest farmer of German birth. He married a woman named Magys, and three bogs aud one girl wero the re- sult of their marriage. e owned a small farm. of about 100 acres, where he lived, which he purchaced aboui threo years since, and upoa wuicn be had built & comfortable cabin, stable, and otner outhouses; and, to a casual observer, it would seem that ho hived there a hapuy sud contented life with bis wife and children. But tho sequel will show otherwisa. Edward Williams, 8 maa of about 22 summers, had been working on the farm, and lived with the famuly. For two years past it was generslly reported nnd believed in the mneighbor- bood that an improper intimacy existed between Williams and Mechling's wife, and that these two men bhad Beveral quarrels on ac- count of this rumor. Dark suspicions took hold of the minds of the citizens that Meehling had met with a violent death; o warrant was issued upon complaint of ofd mau Meohling for the ap- prebeusion of Willizms and Meebling’s wife, end they wero arrestod on last Friday and lodzed in jail, saspected of having mado away with young feebliog. They both denied any koowledze of the whereabonts of the missing man, but his wife said that she and ber husband had quar- roled ou the preceding Sunday, acd that he had gono off, and said be would not return fora month, and perbaps never. On the next day after their arrest, Saturday, tho Jifeless body of young Meehling was found buried in Lis stable, near his house, in the ma- nure. His clothes were laid first on the grouud, and tien ho was placed op them, with his face upward, and the manure then thrown over iim. Horees and mules hiad been turned i the stablo to tramplo down the ground to make1t level. His remaine presented a most ehocking sight. Hig head was mashed in, and his throat cut from ear to car. The manuroe bad turned his faco and feet perfectly white, A Coroner'’s inquest was then held about 3 o'clock of the same day, and Meehling's boy, shout 6 yesrs of ago, was examined, and testic tied that he was afraid to divulge avything be- fore, 23 his mother had threatened tobeat bim if he did ;_that he saw William strike s father in the head with an ax, on Suoday night before the arrest, threo times while he was sitting before the fire reading hia Bible, and then cut his throat with & butcher-knife. Williams and the boy's wother then carried his body to the stable, and buried it _in the manure, as beforo stated. His mother also ecoured tho blood from the floor. The jury then found a verdict in accordanco with these facts., 'I'he simple manver in which the little boy gave in bLia testimony affected all Ereaont to tears, and ho was crying &ll the time 0 was telling tho ead story of his father's un- happy fato. T'hat samo evening, about twenty citizens who fesided in the vicinty of tho homicide, rode into this place. where large accessions were soon made to their forco. At100'clock of that night, when neither moon nor stars gave any light to dispol the gloom and darkuness thac hang Jike a heavy pall oser the townm, the crowd, theu numbering over 100 men, whose feelings had been wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement by this atrocions and bioodv butchery of a peacefal and unoffend- ing_citizen of their county, assembled togetuer in the Court-House yard, and slowly, earoeacly, and resolvedly decided to avenge this brutal homicide by s awift and speedy pu-ishment of tho criminsls. Bat, as deepls as theae men wers moved to action by tiis horrible traneaction, they ent for & minister of the Goepel to pray for” tho guilte pair. For this purposo the Rev, Mr, Young, of the M. E. Church South, was permitted to enter their cell, and converse snd pray with them for thirty minutes, Vain and aboriive were the af- forts of the holy man to persaade this inforiated populace to stay their hands and let the law take its’ course. Detormination and fixed resolve could be read in their uplifted conntensuces, for not ouo of them waa jn auy manoer disguised. Ontothe jail the minigter went, aud thero he informed tha prisoners that the crowd had de- termined to heog them in_ vne-half hour, which was allowed them for prayer. They then_ coufessed - therr guili for tho finet time, which wss substentialic as related by the Loy, with the exception that Willisms stated that Meehling’a wife bad urged him on that day to commit the act. e farther stated that ho made four motious to hit the deceased with his ax be- fora he could strike the fatal blow,—his’ heart, as bo saud, failing him three times, when Mechl- ing tooked tp prteously at him and begged Lim not to Lill lum. Tlo farther sated that be bad bought poison twice befure this, which he gave 10 Meebling's wife. who administered it to bim, but withour fatal rosults. . = It may bo stuted ore that Meehling was sick at the time from the effects of tho poison which Lad been given to him, gnd Dr. Bosrdsly. his physician, says thet ho coald pot have survived the offects of it for more than ten days at the furthoat. The minister and the guilte ones then kuelt down, avd Alr. Young caruestly sud fervontly prayed that God wonld wipo out the guilty sfains a0d make them s pure as lambs washed iu tho atoning blood of Christ. L While all this was goiug o inside of the jail, tho crowd outside. who lad contituted them- sclven jurors. judges, and exocutioners, tho half- honr being pase, entered the jail and demanded the keys to tho ceil where the prisoners were, of the Jailor, who gave them up under protest. T'he trembling man was then taken out in front of the Couri-House, on “the groen, where = seaffold nbad boen radely coustructed. which consisted of =& scantling placed between two trees about 12 feet spert, and s barrel _nnder the ecant- linv. Upon this barrel Willizms was placed, with one end of 2 rope around s necs and ths other end fastoned over the scantling, He then made a speach to the crowd, confessing his goilt, saying that be stood at the point of death; that love for a womau was the cause that mado him commit the act ; that he had asked God to forgive him, and that it was granted him, aud that he would meot Aleehling in Heavon. He coacladod by warning all pezaons from foliowing bis exsmple in committing crime, sayiog that ho dessrved death. The prosecuting-attorney, who was an eye-witness to the proceeding. appeared upon the scene, and urged the crowd to let the Iaw take its course, and that be would puarantee that the prisoner should havo o specdy tnal; but they refused to liglen to his wiser counsel. They knocked the barrel from under tho doomed man, and, the rope -being too long, he lit with his feet on the ground. Here . some of tho crowd rolented and proposed to re- turn him to tho jail, inasmuch as ko had magle & confession, but the majority cried out, “*Hang him!"” and Williams was then replaced upon the barrel, the rove shortened, and again the barrel was forcod from under him. and the soul of Edward Wiltinms was then and there ushered into the prosenceof his Maker. The wife of the murdered man was then broughe from the Jail, and compolled to look npon the faco of her guifty loyer, who bad go desrly paid the penaity of his crime,while a lantern was held to his faco s he bung lifeless in the nir. She also con- fessed her connection with tho tragedy, and would also have been hung bad not the brothor- in-law of Meehling interfered 1n her behalf. * So, she was remanded to jail by Judgo Lynch and bis Court. Here the sceno closes over tho lifa- 1psa remaing of the only man ever hung in this county for crime. A life had hoen {aken fora life, the crowd werd now entisfied, and, quiesly as they came, returned to their homes, and gen- tle Peace once moro sprerd her wings over the town. TRE NORTHAMPTON BANK ROBBERY. Dispatch to New York Herzid, SpRINGFIELD, Miass., Jav. 27.—Thers is nato- rally much speculation 88 to how ths burglars succeeded so easily in effecting an entrance to the vaalt with only the combination and one of the four keys supposed to bo obsolutely neces- sary for that purpuse. The opioion is strong among the bank officisls ana others that the burglars had previous accurate knowledge of the four parts of the key, or perizps even dupricate keys obtained direstly from the factory where the lock was made, and that some of tho recently discharged men from the factory were themaslves among the burglars. The lock wagono of Dextor's double-dial combioation, with Herring's patent for dieconnecting the tumblers from tho epindle, was patented by Oscar Yale last April, and put on this bank only last October for safety. It was accounted fullv equal to, if not better, than the chronometer- lock, but the burglars evidently knew all tho ine and outs of the lock: indeed, when the Casbier, Mr. Whittlesey, told them that they could not enter with but one of the four keys required, they responded, **\Ve kuow more about bank-locks than yondo.” Tt is cortain that all the vault-doors of the bank wera opened with the greatest vase and celerity after the Cashier had been forced to give the combina- tion. Thero ig some indication, however. that the burglers dié not need aoy key 2t all, but ooly tha combination, owing to the carslessuess of bank officials or ignorance on their part of tho nature of the lock. dy the coustruction of the lock the dial used shonld be disconnected from the spindle” on locking up at night, and then tho four parts of the key will be necassary to connect tho dial with the spindle, and after that the combination comes in plav. Now, the first uestion naturally asked by Mr. Delin, the New York expert who csme to open tho vanlt-door, wag, “ Did you disconnect that disl from tho spindle2” and the clerk interrogated could not tell. and a question to anotber person connected with the bank brought the same answer, 8o also a third question : nd Delin says it may be that tho burplare needed no key at all, but only the combination, which they received from the Cashier, THE DEFALCATION "AT NEW BRUNSWICK, New York Times, Jan. 23, New Bruoswick (N. J.) wes excited yesterday 1n consequence of & rumor which was freely cir- calated about tuo city that Jonathan Earie, the Treasurer of the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company, was a heavy defaultor. Great difticulty was encountored in ascertsining the facts, s the officers of the Company were very reticent and desired to keep tho matter secret. It was fionlly ascortained, howaver that at o meeting of the Company, beld Wednesday ufternoon, the President, Mr. Lucius P. Porter, made a statement thata heavy defalcation had occurred. e seid that thenst earnings of the Company during Inst year wero $70.000. and that the increase in sales of manufactured goods was £100,000 over the pre- vious year. The defalcation, which amounts to 8142,000, bas been known to Mr. Porterfor some months, but he deemed it best not to divulge it until tho Company Lad beon secured against loss, which has been accomplisbed. Tho real defsuiter i3 Goorge Earle, a son of the Treasurer, who acted as bookkeeper for hie father. In that capacity he conducted a great part of the business of tha New York of- fice. His father was in the habit of giving him checks signed in blauk, to be used as they were needed, and the young man used tho monoy thus obtained for the purpose of speculating in Wall street. As in all other cases of a similar char- acter, he commenced with small sums at first, and then became more deeply involved with 8 view to retrieving his losses. "In this way he had squandered $142,000 before his father be- came aware of what Le was doing. When Mr. Earlo did mako tho astonnding discovery ho communicated the facts to Mr. Portor and the otber Directors, at the same time doclaring his abtlity and willingness to secure the Com- pany against ali loss. Mo is the ownerof o cotton mill at Burlington. Vt.,, valued at $200,- 000, real estato in New Brunswick, £10,000, and real estato in Brooklyn valued at£12,000. On theee there are incumbrances amaunting o #31.000. He also owns 340,000 of stock in the Hosiery Company. acd his son $10,000. The Company will not sufler any embarrassment, bus will be nble to meet all ita_obligations and contipup 1n operation. This beiug tho case, thero will be no occasion to force a sala of Mr. Eario's assets, and. consequently; no reduction in their value, a8 would be_the case if a forced sale wero made. Mr. Eatle, in secunug tho Compauy against loes, insisted uron a promiso that the defanlter ehould not be prosecuted, to which condition the Company readily agrood. a8 they did not recognize young Earls in any ofti- cial capacity, and in Do Way responsible to ihem. Mr. Earle focls bis sou's dercliction very keenly. He resigned his position, and Alr. Johnson Let- son waa appoimted to Gl the vacancy, - ALLEGED MAIL ROBBERY, Borraro, Jan. 20.—Harvey D. Windsor, of Deotroit, was arrested hero to day by Deputy United States Marshal Simpson. of Milwaokes, on a charge of roobing the mail thirteen yeara ago, while emrlored in the Post-Ofice. Wind- sor Atates that be was a:Tested at the time and admitted to bail, aud, failine to appear for tris his bail was forfeited. Windsor may b remembéred as the starter of larga mining companies, raising the Cumber- land eafe, and standing prosecution for sllegad forgerios in Detrait, states that he hag n s suit charging false imprisonment and EI‘:ndar against nfizsg at whose instance he was arrested ; that be was allowod to go free after tostilying againat the parties concerned in tho crimo, and that the preseat prosecusion is insti- tuted by thosc agsinst whom hi ,uit i8 entered. THE MINNEAPOLIS MURDER. Special Dispateh to The Chicaao Tribuns, MixsEAPoLIs, Minn., Jan. 20.—Swan Liod- quist, arrested oo suspicion a8 being 20 accom- plice to the recent murder in this city of Gus Willson, had his proliminary trial before tho Municipal Court to-day, and was held over for trial at the March term of the Court of Common Pless, Ile confesaes that s man named Frank Johuson committed the deed, but that he (Lind- quist) belpea decoy the msn into the marsh, knowing tiat tho deed was to bo committed. He further states that the mardered man had mado attempta to take tue lifo of Johnson pre- viously. Jobuson is yet ac large, although bo isknown tohave beenin St. Paul ‘oo Friday mizht, [lo was o rosidont of Hastings, bought tho kmfein that city, and camo lero for the ex- ‘press purpose of committing the murder. Johu- son is five foat eight or nine inches high, heavy- set, esndy complexion, light gray eyes.light red- dish mustache, and frecklod face. He returned to Hastings after committing the murdor, and azain feff, saying to his laudlady that Lo wWay going tolllinois to see his cousin. When heo went away be wore black pants and coat, black felt hat, and carried with bim acommon glazed valige, FORGERY. Special Dispaich to The Chicago Tribune, Kaxsas Crry, Mo., Jan. 29.—For some time tho section of country sdjacent to the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroed, south of this city, bzs been infested by a gang of thieves, who have swindled fermers and tradesmen in many different ways. Yesterday a man giving tho name of R. P. Cox was arrested ot a station celled Baroott, for passing a forged draft on the Tirst Natiooal Bank of thiscity. o only secured about £100, ttough the drait was for 500. When brought before & magistrate be pleaded guilty, but seid he was from Chicago, and had intluentinl frieads who would get bim out. FATALLY SHOT. LovisviLLe, Ky, Jao, 29.—Ten days ago Henry Harris, while in company with Xollio Adriane, an actress in the Vaudeville line. was approgched by W. G. Sharp, anold friend and paramour of the womszn. Sharp was mntoxicated, andin his drunken stupidity imagined Harris wa3 endeavoring to, establish himself in the favor of Adriave. Whilo laboring under this belief, he sbot 1Iarris in the stomach, and then locked up the womag, sprang iato his buggv, and escaped. Ho was snbsoquently captured, and 1a now 1o jail. Harris lived in great agony until last nignt, when his death occurrad. - ASADCASE Des Morxes, Ia., Jan. 29.—Well-fcunded re- ports are current hare that Mrs. Eilen S. Tupper, tho well-known bee culturist, has commutted poveral forgeries on varions banks in this Stato, using the names of Gen. Hodgdon, Platt Smith, Senstor Harlan, and others. The manner in wiich sho bas done this leads to the conclusion thbat sbe id inszne. Last evening a warrant wag miven to an otticer here for her arrest on the charge of committing a $2.000 forgery on tho Monticello Bank. The warrant was not served, shio being absent from the city. A DEFAULTING CITY TREASURER. Civcrsyate, O., Jan. 29.—The disappearance of Smith N. Hawes, who retired from the office of City-Treasurer in Cosington, K., last month, aud thesubsequent discovery of s deficitin his ac- counts of some 216,000, has caused quite a sen- sation in that city. Mr. Hawes stood very high in sociaty, and many doubted the truth of the reported defaleation. until the reception of an undated letter, signod by lim, acknowledging his crime, and stating that the mooney had been speut in drinking and gambling. The city will not suffer, as his sureties are amplo. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. New Yorw, Jan, 29.—W. Simmons, of Deerley, Conp., for some time pzst employed in the wag- o mennfacturing establishment in Brooklyn, E.D., bas been missing sinca Thursday last. This afternoon, lus bead, partly wraoped in a piece of newepaper and severed from the body, was found lying between s lumber pile and & fence in that city. Physicians say the man was murdored at least twelve hours previous to the head bewg found, and that an hour elapsed from the time of the murder till it was severed from the bodv. The polica aro now looking for the missing body and murderer. UNPROVOKED MURDER. Nisovitre, Tenn., Jan. 29.—At McEwin Station, Humphrey County, to-day, an old man named Jackeon was doliberately murdered by a saloon-keeper named A. J. Pemberton. As far 88 isknown thers was po provocation for the bloody deed. Pemberton was arrested aud jail- ed. Threats of lynching wero indulged, which may yot be carriea out. THE DENVER BUTCHERY. Dexver, Col., Jan. 29.—The Grand Jary to- day roturned to the District Court. indictments for murder against eight of the Italians who are believed to hava butchered four of their fellow- conntrymen in this city last fall. The nccused will be arraignad Monday next, and the trial of all will be concluded within o week or ten days., It is believed that seven will be convicted of marder. GOODS IN TRANSIT STOLEN. FEr1zapery, N. J., Jan. 20.—A freizht-train on the Pennsylvania Ruilrosd was robbed last night of aquantity of goods destined for Western firms. Bales and boxes were switched from the train by the thieves, who got aboard at Jersey City. The same train was robbed few nights ag0. One man has been arrosted. —_—— THE FLOODS. LovisviLLg, Ky., Jau.29.—The Ohio River at this pornt, in consequence of heavy and general rains throughout the entire valley, has been as- suming & very largo size for the past twenty- fourhours. Since yesterday it has beon swell- ingnt the rato of 3 inches an hour. The resi- dences, stores, etc., slong the levee aro filling, and their occupants havo almost all flea else- where for safcty. The rise still continues, and it is feared will causo great damage to the river- property. Tho canal, hero shows a depth of 313¢ fect now. A barge, containing 11,000 bushels of coal, consigned by O'Neil, of Louiswille, to parties in Evansville, was sunk on tho falls this morning while being towed over by a big boat. No loss of life is_reported, either from the ac- cident or the overflow. LitrLe Rocs, Ark., Jan. 29.—The river con- tinues to rise. It is now 32 feet by the gaugo, 2ud an overtlow is imminent. The Cairo, Ar~ kansas & Texas Ruilroad between Cairo and Poptar Bluffs, Mo., is under water, and no traing are now runnin, —_—— BOYTON'S LAST SWIN. Sr. Louis, Jan. 20.—Capt. Paul Boyton swam from Alton, IIL,, to this city to-day, a distance of 25 miles, in his life-saving apparatus, and the stoamer Dosmet, with o large excursion party on board, met him 10 miles above tho city, and sccompenied bim from that point, affording those ou board an opporinnity of seeing the practieal workings of his invention. The Cap- ain loft Altor at 5:30 a. m., and arrived hore sbout 3 p. m. Animmense crowd ssscmbled on the bridge and levee to witness his arcival. —_—— Lighthouse-Building under Difficule Van Nostrand's Eclectic Magazine, A celebrated French lighthouse 1s that of Fleaux do Brehat, a recent erection, based upon a hnge and treacherous porphyry rosk, for ages a torror of every seaman who approzched the Brittany coast. Its architect had to encounter every species of obstaclo during his work, but, above all, incessant races and eddios of the sea among the neighboring sandbanks. The founda- tions fiad to be sousht for far baneath low-water ; an ertificial port had to be created ; tho neceesary stonework was tiewn and shaped on the Island of Prebat, 7 milos distan:. Even when the founda~- tions had appeared above the water the lower walls of tho lower stery were submerged twice s day, leaving heavy deposita of manne plants, shells, and seaweed. The workmen lived in huts upon & reef, to which they retired when the tide rose; aad thus they pufhefl on their labors, uarTying and squaring al aoo time, srrangin, 3.,.: fixing at another, Thoixa wasa mu&rl; AE most witbout mortar. The blocks were graoved. and literaily dovetailed together, the conras being connected, a8 it were, by cogs, 80 that every part relied upon every otner, the resnlt being, as unearly a8 possible, an abeolate cobesion. In spite of this happy issue the reporting architacts would not recommend similar expanments in the be- | future CASUALTIES. A Farmer and His Wife Frozen to Death Near Rock- ford, 11l Terrific Havoe Caused by a Dynamite Explosion in Baltimore. Yesterday's Record of Minor Acci- dents. FROZEN TO DEATH. Special Dixpalch to The Chicago Tridune. Rocxrogo, IlL., Jan. 20.—Our entire comrauni- ty were shocked to hear this morping thata farmer named Patrick Gartland, living 5 miles south of Rockford, and Lis wife, had deen found frozen to death on the road between hore and their farm-house. The facts, as gathered by your correspondent, ¥ho was among the first on the spot, are as follows: Gartland was danciog on the pavement in front of a saloon in South Rockford at about £:40 p. m. tridsy afterncon. 1o was subsequently seen alive, sccompanied by his wife, at 5 o'clock. They wero in o lomber-wagon, driving furiously in the direction of their, home. The womaun was found this morning about & mile from her residence, frozen in the road, with Ler face complesely buried in the flint-liko mud. Patrick Gartland was found dead near a hog-pen in his own barnvard. ‘The finding of the bodies wag poculiarly distressing. Their son and daughter weroe lef: in the house alone, and. thinking their parents had concluded to stay out all mght, retired to bed. This morning, on awaking and going out, the sop, 2 boy of 4l years of eage, found his fother's corpse near the hog-pen. He went to a neighbor for help, who snugested that ho should go and obtaiu further nssistauce at the next neighbor’s, & mile farther down the road. On his way to tbis place the poor little follow fouod the corpse of his mother in the horridle condition above describea. What his feelings were can hardly be imagined. There are many different stories afloat 88 to how the snd affair happeoed. There csn_be no doubt that Gartland was intoxicated, and thero is & strong probability that s wife wag under the ioflience of liquor. It is evident that Gartland was drunk, fora South Rociiford man usmed H. P. Howe, who saw him, is willing to swear to that fact. The greatest excitement is manifest here, as the couplo are well known in RRockford, DYNAMITE WILL EXPLODE. Barivorg, Md., Jan. 29.—An explosion of dyuamite, or * safety powder,” followed by fire, occurrad yesterday afterncon in n factory at Biddle and Stillmen streets, in a thickly-settled neighborhood. -About 300 caus, containing 12 ponnds_of powder esch, exploded in volleya. continuing for half zn hour. The building was shattered, the walls crumbling in with tho last volley, and injuring six firemen, but none seri- ously. During the explosion the grestest con- sterpation prevailed, and several families pro- cured wagons and moved away from the neigh- borhood. HITRO-GLYCERINE EXPLOSION. Diepateh to Boston Adrertiser. Nonte Apaws, Mass,, Jan. 26.—A frightfal explosion bLappeued in the nitro-glycarine man- ufactory of Prof. Aowbray, aithe west end of the Hoosae Tunnel, this afternoon at 2 o'clack, killing two workmen, utterly destroying the fac- tory, and seriously damaging the adjacent build- ings, one of the’latter being completely nn- roofed. There were 400 pounds of ni- tro-glycerine in process of manu- facture. The Superintendent believes the explosion was cansed by tho pulling out of the plug from the tank, and that the plugz was probably frozen, the ice furnishing the solid body necessary to explode. The names of the unfortunate men are Benjamin Cook, aged 25, and John Collen, 24, both of this willage, and unwmarried. They were blowa to atoms and frighctulls mangled, nothing being recognizable but their hair. John Wallace, the Superintend- ent, wasabout to enter the ill-fated bailding when the catastrophe occurred. Ho escaped with slight injury caused by the flying misailes. No other person was present except the engineer, who received no injury. The explosion was ?elirg for miles around, and the shock distinctly 6lt here. MET A BUGGY. CreveLayp, O., Jan. 29.—Wednesday night aboat 10 o'clock, while Jobn James and William Widders, of West Cleveland, were roturning bome, walking the road. they were struck by a borse snd _buggy and both seriously injured. Wiaders will probably die. The night was dark and rainy, so they did not hear or see the ap- proach of the vehicle. SUFFOCATED BY GAS. Coruupl, Pa., Jan. 29. -Four men, while fill- ing o lime-kiln this morning, wers overcome by zfie and fell into the pit. Only one was roscued alive. THE DAPTIST COMMUNION CONTRO- YERSY. ‘Withdrawal of a Prominent Preacher from the Denomination. The Rsv. Dr. Behrends, pastor of the First Baptist Charth of Cleveland, O., announced his resignation of that position last Sunday, and his withdrawal from the Baptist denomination. The reasons which tnduced him to take this course are given by him as follows: ¢ **1. I bave found myself growing more and more out of sympathy with the prevailing and dominant policy of tho Commanion question, by which dissent is ireated as serious disloyalty, and a fair public hearing is empbatically and universally refused, until my eelf-imposed si- lence, in the faco of unrestrained assault upon my brotbren and myself in public gatherings, at social feasts, in ministerial conferences, on the platform, and through the press, has become practically unendurablo aod almost & wrong at the bar of my conscience. *“Ido. not impoach my brethren as guilty of conscious and desigued intolerance ; I belicve them to be honest 1a the advacacy of their prin- ciples as necessary to o maintonance of their Apostolic orders; bot Iam equally free to say that withont calling in guestion the Baptistic clam of jwmersion as essential to the validity of Christian baptism, tho policy of restricted commanion appears to me not only uncalled for and unwise, but positively unscriptaral and wrong. I am satistied thac the public advoca- cv of such a position would be emphatically re- sented by the denomination, and I have no de- 8iro to play the part of o disturber of the peace. ‘They who cannot agree, or amicably discuss their duferonces, should quietly part. *¢2. The more scrious reason remaing to be 4dded. So faraal know, I am more radical in my diszent tuan any present open communion advocates in the denomination. The exciusive attitude of tho devomination on the baptismal question I em unable any longer to maintain. I shall not presums to present the argument, but content myself with a suminary of tho resalt to which a fresh and painstakiug review, especially of the Scriptures, las led me, a4 all that 19 per- tinent here. ‘Granting that immersion was the practico of the Apostles and the usage of the early church, it caunot bo showu from the New Testament thet immersion is 8o reiated to the design or symboliem of Christisn baptism 28, in its ab- seuce, to destroy the integrity or validity of the ordinauce. Immersion is baptism. and, as it seems to me, by the preponderanco of critical and historical ‘evidence, the primitive bap- tism; bur that immerson only is vakd Christian baptism, 1 deem incapable of proof, whether the appeal be to phi- lology, to Listory, or tothe doctrinal significance of te ordinance. It may bo wige and desirable tbat immersion should retain prominence of practical recognition iu the Christisn church, or that it should resume its ancient prevalence ; but that such a return to ancient usage is neces- sary to the rescue and restoration of Christian baptism is a_claim I find it impossidble to main- tain. I believo in_ open charch-membership, therefore no less than in free Christian com- munion." His resignation wag_accepted by the Church, and he will preach bia farewall eormon mosh Suuday. Dr. Behrends was callod to Clevolsnd tbree years ago from Yonkers. N.Y. He is com- paratively a yonng man. and bas schieved a. high repusation. His ministry in Cleveland has boon very successful, and on the first Sunday in this month he received thirts-eight persons to mem- bership. Itis bisintentiun to join either the Presbyterian or Congregational denomination. —_— An Unfortunate Family. Spencer County (Ky.) Journal, On last é!anda'y, Frank Courad. aged 12 years, waa wrestiing with another boy near the school- house of Alra. Lula ‘Thomss, aud, throwing the bov. youog Conrad remarked: * Now I have thrown you,” and in a few moments had breathed his last, A cornor’s jury was summon- 8d and the fact devsloped thas tho little fellow's meck was broke, and 2 verdist w: accordauca wt, tho sbove facts, - "oderad 'he famiiy of the unfartunate yo . ed, six months zz0. of six mefng::.s—crms m mothor, two duughters, and two nogy 1ol the sons was drowaed near six monthg 5 Gk afterward tho two danglters died with d}:f;m rin. The father dicd 5000 afsarmar frontit- shock caused by the deathof his gog .nfi' o daughters, sod now we chronicls the “dé"' death of the othor son. The mother alogg mains. * THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL, LETTER FROM PROF. MOSES COIT Ty, ANN Anpog, Mich., Jan. 24.—To te Edit;-l the New York Sun: I bave acen sou " of Jaa. 20, containing 2n article entitieq “Mo Scandal Testimony,” and professing to zive. l;: substance of some statements madp bymajy private conversation With two. friesds fy s, York on Sunday, Jan. 2. I uppesd g yo courtesy to allow me room in your colamng g, say a few words in comment apoa the Article . ferred to. 1. Whatever I said was said in = 8trictly pr: vate talk, and the publication of sny pars gr was not “allowod™ bymo, but bas girey ot great aurprise and vexation, = 2. 1 care less for that, however, than for thy extreme inaccurcey of your report. The atay, ments made by 1o have expanded snd mar plied themselves wonderfully ou theyr Journy to your oflize, 80 that your report hag lum" anitem that is exactly true, while a gresy 4 of its items ero totally falss. ' Iu shof, pores standing your well-known 1ove of the trath, yp. bave been seriously imposed upon in thig iy stance. 3. It ia true, however, and Tam sorry ty it, that I have had 50omo scqusintence wiy o) wost misorablo business ever since Deey 1870 ; but my knowledgo of it involves tey;. mony far leas decisive than your articla implies, Howerer, that testimony, be it decisive or othe erwise, 18 not ye for the public. It -woald quito immodest in me, With my incomple, Enowledzo of tho esss, to tako the floor o g, vance of more highly qualified persons, who byzy thus far been kept 10 the backgronnd. Mosks Corr Tyreg, PLYMOUTH'S FISHT WITH BOWEN, New Yort: Sun, Jan, 23 Heary C. Bowen's reply to tho statemen of grievances made by S. V. White i3 not set ey, plete. Ar. Bowen yesterday thought that py might not submit it to the Committes ntil wesk after next. e intends to tako ample ting 4y prepare his answer. Mr. White’s grievances contain no provoetion for an exposure of secrats, if Mr. Dowen holgs any, and it is thought that, while his reply wij not conceal tho fact that he koows certain faety dzrogatory to Mr. Beecher, it will be mors agpa. cially a defonse of hus attitude of silecce. Tny gravest ellegation in the statoment 1, that st the firat interview with Mr. Bowen, Edward Bow. en, his gon, eaid that he had lost all patiencs with Plymouth Church, and that he wondersd that God didn't strike Mr. Beecher dead for his hvpocrisy and blaaphemy, and that Mr. Bowsa made no reply to the remark. In that fist jo. terview, Mr. White said that he had gona to Mr. Beecher about Ar. Bowen's knowledZe of ficts, and that he had obtained no satisfaction. Ha thought thera was one too many in Plrmonth Church, and if Mr. Bowen had facta injuriousto Mr, Beecher in his possession, he should maks them known, g0 that he (Mr. Beecher) conid bo sont away from the church; and that if he refused to mske them Imown, he (3r. Bowen) should leave. Mr. White said that, it Mr. Bowen made koowa tbe facts, ha (Mr. ‘White) would see that Mr. Beecher was brought face to face with them. Mr. Bowen, the state- ment forther says, refased to satisfy Mr. Whita that he had any knowledge on the subjoct, sad ssid that some three years ago, when it was ramored in the Church that be beld damaging facts sgainst Mr. Beecher, he began to recsiva ;be ]:(:n!d shoulder from both the pastor snd the lock. Alr. Bowen, for the first time in hiscourss with Plymouth Charch, has refused to copauls counsel. The delay in the settlement of the difficnlty is likely to delay the callingof the Council, a8 it ia thewishof_the church to endits quarrel with Mr. Bowen before that body con- venes. The Council is called for Feb. 15. The Examining Commities have appointd Hesars. Tilney and Blair as a Sub-Committes o report on ex-Deacon West's case. Therr instre- tions are to labor with the younz ex-Desson As the Committee have been inatructed by thi charch to take summary measures in regard o him, he will doubtless be expelled. If no other Council succeeds, Mr. West menans to ronew bis demand for a Council to bs called by the shurch. Prof. Smythe, of Andover College, a high anthor- ity in the Church, has expressed an opinion thst & Mutual Council cannot be called by a membero? the church and the chureh until after the mem- ber has asked the church to call 2 Couneil, and it has declined. Then & Matnal Conncil may b asked for to consider the reasons given by the church for declining. and, if this is in turn de- clined. and ex-parte Council may follow. This opinion is hikely to control all fature steps taken toward calling Councils for the church. A number of ministers in Brooklyn alresdy think that the Advisory Conacil will ba a failure, frow the refusal of a iarge number of churches to gather in such a body to adjudicate on so del- icate a subject. e The indepeadent position that M. S. V. White has taken 1o reforence to the scandal ig said to o not at all favored by AMr. Boecher. Mr. Whits alone, of all the members of the Iavestizating Committee. put pertinent questions to the wit- nesgeg, based even on a suspicion of Ar. Beecd- er'’s guilt. Mr. White expects, it is ssid, to work faithfally until ho becomes convincad of JMr. Beecher’s entire innocence, and until thers is peacelin the church. Mr White. when asked sbout his baliet in Mr. Beecher. said that he was not prepared to think that his pastor waa the most wicked man that evor lived. = _ S e o ‘Turkish Outrages upon Christians iz Bulgaria. Correspondence London Times. g A letter from Eeki-Zaghra, in the largs, io: dustrions, and comparativelv inoffensive Prov- 1nce of Bulgaria, tells uas that at Solmuchl, 8 village of that district, ** the Turks hava brokar into the houses of the Bulcarians. whers they violatea half a score of young girls and thrse young married women. They killed twelve Buk garians add wounded eight; then, as they with drow, thav took away with them the corn, tht lighter farniture, and all tte portablo propert] of the Christian inbabitants. “In the Villsge of Cazanka, the rural guard with two policemen and other Turks, an fifteen Bulgariane, shut them up in a hat. s0d, putting Loives to their throats, extorted 46 Tur kish lire (tho lira is equal to 183 2d). Inth district of Kezanlick, Koustchi Aghs, at tht head of a band of Mussulmang, travelsd from village to village demarding mob#) from the iohabitants, and threatening them with arrest in refusal. HE thus eucceeded in plundet of 560 lire. At Gurutche, while the willagers were s\way conveving goods to tho station, thf Mussulnans robbed the honses and ill-trested their defenseless women and children. Af Koshuja, . the Turks brose at night into tht bouso of Hadji Todoro, o Bulganzn, torsared him with red hot irons, and, sf:er plandering bim of 20.000 piastres, stabbed him with theil kuives. His son-in-law was cudgeled seversly Ly them as they wore leaving the house with tht plunder. Robberies and murders are matters of fre quent occarronce in the Village of Terfisli. Tw¢ young peasants have been slmn by Muassulms? a8sassins. A priest Las baon robbed on the batween Soublari and Kavakli; his wite has bee? violated in hia breseace, and himsell stripped # the skin, his very beard berng cut off {rom! face. The priests of the Villaze of Kara-Tnsi were tied to o country cart and dragged sbod all might, beaton and wounded, aud wer only reloased upon payment of 1254 lire wl The Bulgarian Bishop of Sliven was attack in tho ‘Town of Vamboli by thirty or forl Mussulmang, and though he was himself rescutt by the police, his servants were subjected (o {0 most severs ill-treatment. A boy of Kadi-Ke 15 years old, on hia way to Sliven, was by some Turkish soldiers, who hewed him da': with tbeir knives; he was bronght to the Gfl. emnment Lonse, bloeding from the throst. 3! by him Sent backstms sT¥aRv~n3, 7i0F H-" without further inquiry. At Elkovo five lu&l going home from market were attacked by o Turks, who demonded their mooey. Ooe d them tried to escape, but was shot dead on & spot. ‘The others savod their lives by daliverisl their purses.” s The tortures by which money is extorted maiD 1y consist in burning tha victim with ed B irons, piercing their tongues with sharp daggerd compelling them to tread barefooted on hes% of thorns, etc. * Sadick Bev, with sore others went from village to village vinlating Bulg? girla. M ore than 100 bave been ravi Eavari SEC Ao Survival of the Weakeste Prof. Haeckel, writing of German war-ivil} zation. says : *The stronger. heslthier, snd mo? spinted n youth is, the groater is Lis prod ”“b" being killed by needle-guns, cannons, snd otht instrumenta of civilization. The mors uselest Weaker, or infirmer the yonth is, the meste in the prospeat of ezcaping the T [ and founding s family, ’ case of secaring & i 4