Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1874, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PEBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Exeepted, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsylvania Avyeuue, cor. Lith St. B ir SHR EVENING STA NEWSPAPER COMPANY, 8. H. KAUFFMAN , Prev't. THE EVENING STAKE {5 served by carriers to helt subscribers at Tew Cexrs PER were, ox | Lia R CENTS PER u op tl cuntF Two Cuts each. By malixthree months, | 81.50; six months, $3.00; one year, $5. LY STAR—Published Friday—@1 so SEE or ckis ty abvenety to ro lg per sent longer than paid for, | BI Bates of advertising farnished on spritcation. AMUSEMENTS. VYoMrat E-stuMen THEATER. AUGUST 10- Every Nicht. Wodnesday and Saturtey M Production for the first t Nautical Drams,i» two te. entitied the PISA EE'S | LEGACY, On. THE WRECKEU's FATS Engagement of tebrated Soag and ance Artists, the TUBNBR BROTHERS. Sai 5 Kobinson Family. Christie, Low 8 ein Weshing'on of the favorit « ong. On Rxnibitle = MARKRITER’S, + DvD snd 15 streets, eight s all, Also, Shatcs, sels, kings, OF Travs On<k. BS Picase remember Name snd Number. jel-iy™ LL EIRDS OF GENTLEMEN'S CAST-OFF JA West Soar De eoid © feet 61 ¥ commencirg 7, XC CE 4 The sevent SUNDAY S°TE EXC be given by the STEAMES LADY OF THE LAX®, SUNDAY EVENING, Angust 16-n, wharf, foot of éth street, at 2.30 o’clock he river as far as (Quaatico aud return, Giymont. Tickets 59 cents _sugh ‘A. 0. PLANT, Acent. UST ezand Pio Nto WAVERLY MASQUERADEES, AtGEEENSP RIN GSSOHU ET? EN PASK MONDAY, Awcust With, Wis, Committee—J. G Killian, J. EB.’ Ehrmsnstraut, Tickets, admitting = gentleman and ladies, fifty cents. eugil 4 5 NOs EXPR HAS THE B FOR PICNICS AND TH ST FACILITIES EXCURSION PARTIES & CITY, FoR LEONAEDTOWS, PINEY POINT, SHALLS ASD POINT LOUKOUT. ™MAB- ‘These Excursions, s popuiar the Oseasons, will be. resumed on SATUSDA Sune 13th The spleniid steamer Georgiann: Wili leave the 7th street wharf at 6 p.m. EV BATUBDAY during tne season, and retarning S et == Sunday, arriving at Wee! \ cuday. Boom tickets for sale at office of W_ 0. V M.& G 8. Railroad, No. 603 Pennsylvania ave. Round Trip Tickels, $2.60 For sale ouly at the E. NIGHTENGALE, Agent, _jel-Sn 7th street Wharf, T= STEAMER COLUMBIA ¥ LEAVES COMMERCE STRSET WHARF, BALTIMORE, FoR HINGTON, ON EVERY SATURDAY P M., ARKIY- 1NG HERE AT MSU. i TURNING, LEAVES a z 7 F, FOOT OF SEVENTH STRBST. DA¥ A P.M ARKIVING IN 5S M. THURSDAY. Either of these tri tunity to e peake be: Ssterooms may be engaged in advance by eu to the agents. The ste rom this city # of each week at reasonable rat STEPHENSON & BROTHE Fe CHARTER, The elegant and commodicns Ircn Steamer PILOT Boy. WM. H. BYLES, 5 6ch Street Weart Jef Apply to apie sel STEAM YACHT WANDEBER can ve ebartered by smal! parties for Bxcar. sions to CHAIN BRIDGB, or other point ou the Potemac, setts avente Apply st 949 Massac! BATHING. POINT LOOKOCT HOTSL, MD, SURF Is well known a the m mer Kesort on the Ch For heslih ard station it has no ey » sdvevtages of Surf Bathi ger. Perens seeking health will find it to virit this point, Table well supplied. t pleasant Su peake Bay. per day. or day, Fy the week. 8) & ver day ¥ the month >. P. MOBGA Baltimore, Manager. ss J, 3. MILBUBN & BBO., Proprietors, SiS2e° Point Lookout, St. Mary’. co., Md. E SULPHUR SILPHEVSOR'S DEPOT P Puerenicx County, Va. Pampbiets for gistribution. Stes iw B. 0. 30! RINGS, MERCHANT TAILORS. SITs MEKCHANT TAILOR, F Srausr, Orrosits Patext OFrice 7 jashington, D. U. 8; apai-h F J. BEIBERGES. 5 (Successor to BH. CITIZENS, ARMY AND NA MERCHANT item Hotel, (late Brown's, 364 Pent 's sre. Wasabi Louden & Oo.) 241L08, TLUPORTANT VOTICE: OWiN@ TO THS ADVANCED SEASO. 4ND HAVING A MUCH LARGER STOCK OF \d Boys’ Clothing THAN USUAL,) HAVB DETEKMINBU TO FORCE SALES BY M&KING THE FOLLOWING IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES: All Wool Cheviot Suits, from._........... $5 to 98 All Wool Cassimere Sutts, from.... Se 7 Bussels Casstmere Suits, from................. 19 to § 1Zto le woe M4 to 22 16 to 13 Dudley Suits, from....... Diagonal Suits, from... Diagonal Check Suits, from—....cwe- 17 tole Worsted Besket Suits, from............. 1S to1s Pmported Cassimere Guits, from... BU to 16 Fine Drese Suits, from ........ 25 to 90 And other Goods at Similar Reductions, In YOUTHS’ and BOTS’ CLOTHING the assort- ment i very full. and will Deoffered ae propeetnet: Stely low prices in onder to close out my siotke AN IMMEDIATE CALL SOLICITED at 1011... PENNSYLVANIA AVENUB.... Between lth and lth streets, ff. pr . STRAUS. NOpats SARt ine oL 44—N-. 6,675. Che nening Star, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1874. TWO CENTS. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. InTERNat REVSNUR—The receipts from this fource to-day were 4297.6 Liset. Ws. P. Rawat, has been detached from the Canaudsigua on tae ith instant and placed on sick leave. Gvacrs ArromTe, —D. G Ganoe, Sam’! | O. MeCardy and Geo. K. Campbell have been appointed internal revenue guagers im the 13th Pennsylvania district. Joux M. Baxcray, Esq., journal clerk of the Houre of Representatives, returned this morn- ing from a three-weéks excarsion on the New Ergland coast, looking reinvigorated and reju- verated by the trip. PrRorosats for furnishing stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers during the next four years were opened by the Postwaster General at noon to-day. The lowest bidder was the Morgan envelope company, of Springtield, Maes., who are now furnishing the postal cards. George H. Keay, of New York, the mat con- tractor for turniebing the stamped envelopes, was the next lowest bidder; aud George F. Nes- bitt & Co., of New York, the third. The award will be made in a few THe TROUPLE ON THE MexIcan Feontrar. ‘The Attorney General has received a communi- cation from Gov. Coke, of Texas, in answer to one addressed to him touching his order to Capt. Benavides, commanding a company of minute men, requiring him when in close pureuit of In- clans, marauders, of cattle thieves, to recover property taken by them from citizens of Texas, to cross the Rio Grande, if necessary, into Mexi- co. The governor represents that constant depredations are made by Indians from eae upon the people of Texas; that many person! are murdered by them, and quantities of property stolen and carrii away; that the forces of the United States stationed along the frontier are total'y inadequate to protect the I le, aud that it is absolutely necessary for heir own preservation that they should protect themselves. The communication is long and fail of interesting details as to the condition of affairs upon the Kio Grande. THE PUBLIC HOOLS. Interview between District Com- missioners and the School T: MIXBD SCHOOLS NOT INTENDED. According to previous appointment, the new Board ef School Trustees met at the office of the District Commission this morning at 1 o’clock, for the purpose of being aualified, and receive their commissions; also, to confer with the District Commissioners as to the condition of the schoois, and to receive instructions as to their duties. Of the new board there were pre- sent Messrs. Anthony Hyde, Edward F. French, Henry Johnson, Wm. KR. Woodward, G. F. Mc- Lellan, Jebn H. Brooks, Solomon G. Brown, George W. Dyer, C. B. Smith, W. W. Curtiss, and B. F. Licyd. After the introductions were over and the members of the new board had b en sworn in by Mr. John F. Cook, justice of the peace, ex-Governor Dennison “stated that when himself and colleagues of the Dis- trict Commission entered upon the considera- tion of the public sehool system they were im- pressed with the necessity for making it less cumbrous. They-conciuted with some reluc tance that the efficiency would be greatly ro- moted by the sizpplification consejuent upon a consolidation of the four boards of trustees They thought they discovered a laxity of nec easy discipline and were of opinion they could improve this condition of things, which 1n their op:mion arose from diverse machinery, and they made the consolidation only to facilitate admin- istration, with the hope that the new plan will prove tobe more economical. It was not the object to deprive the system of any of its proper limitations, nor to impair it in any way, but to cilitate administration. The change does n contemplate the lessening of the number of teachers, or in avy manner clang the internal management of the schools. They thongnt y would resalt in the puschase of schoo ; the erection and repairs of school- furnishing of school books, &c., at cost than formerly. It was the single purpose of the Commissioners to lend their powers ear aesily and vigorously to build up the schoo! em of this District, and they would feel gratilied if this shall become the model one for the United States. In relation to the sugges- tions and comments of the press upon the sub- jet of wixed schools, the Commissionera wi: their position to be distinctly understood. T had no purpose to encourage anything in th natore of mixed schools, and they discount snce any proposition Joking tothisend. After a full and thorough understerding of the cass. unanimously opposed to such a chang nt system, and it would be very of fepsiye to them should such a proposition be en- tertained or in any way enter into the delibera- tions of the new Board of Trustees, and any suggestions of euch a policy on the part of the trustees would be not only @ violation ot the purpose of the Commissioners, but extremsly Offensive to them, They do not desire to reflect in any manner on the action of the old Board of Trustees, either personally or officially, in their ment of theschool interests. They can see how the gentlemen who had occupied posi- tons on the old Board of ‘Trustees might think that their summary removal reflects on them. Nothing of the kind had been intended, and they desired it to be understood that the action taken in reorganizing this system was prompted on the grounds of economy, and met the hearty concurrence of the absent Commisstoner—Mr. Blow. They desired these changes solely on the score of economy and to promote co-operation and harmony. Mr. Dyer inquired how there was to be a ma- terial saving to be made of £100,000? H. the Commissioners given this matter such attention #8 will enable them to indicate where the gav- ing ca ade? M They ppose that a diminution of expenses would materially follow simplicity of system.” Mr. Dyer inquired whether there was any means available for the erectivn of new school buildings. Mr. Dennison said this was a question for future consideration. Mr. Dyer said there were many scholara in unilt leased buildings, and it was very desira- bie, if possible, to have new schoo! houses. Mr. Dennison remarked that they are only provisional officers, and they would very relnc- tantly make any extensive improvements in this direction not absolutely necessary, but prefer Not particularly. that this shall be left until the establishment of the future District government. Mr. Brown asked whether or not it isin the power of the new board to make changes in the teachers of the schools. Mr. Dennison replied that the Commissioners have no desire to interfere with the appoint- ment of the teachers. Mr. Brooks calied attention to the law about the colored school appropriations. and desired to know whether or not the funds of the schools are to be kept separate, according to the pro- pertion of white and colored popuiation. 'r. Dennison said that would be done by the Controller. Mr. Brooks asked if the yay pe aorger asfuel, books, and stationery, are to be kept separate? . Dennison —— tbat the accounts and expenditures should be kept separate, but the estimates bide Commissioners will, upon advertised through the public press, furnish all the supplies. e derive fi mol pare aye} BEECHER’S STATEMENT. HIS DENIAL OF TILTON’S CHARGES HIS EXPLANATION OR THEM. The following is the statement of Henry Ward Beecher made to the investigating committee of Plymouth Church yesterday: Gentlemen of the Committee: In the statement addressed to the pubiic on the 22d of July last I Rave an explicit. comprehensive, and solemn denial to the charges made by Theodore Tilton against me. ‘That denial [now repeat and re- affirm. I also stated in that communication that [ should appear before your committee with a more detailed statement and explanation of thefactsin the case. For this the time has now come. TILTON'’S FALL. Four years ago Theodore Tilton fell from one of the proudest editorial chairs in America. where he represented the cause of religion, humanity, and patriotism, and tn a few months thereatter became the associate and represen- tative of Victoria Woodhull and friend of her strange cause. By his follies he was bankrnpt in reputation, in occupation, and In resources. The interior history, of which I am now to give a brief outlive, is a bistory of his attempts to so employ me as'to reinstate him in business, re- store his reputation, and place him again upon the eminence from which he had tallen. It isa sad history, to the full meaning of which I have buc recently awakened. Entangled in the — of complications, I followed until lately A PALSE THEORY AND DELUSIVE HOFR, believing that the friend who assured me of bi termination and ability to control the pas- sionate v: ies of Mr. Tilton, to restore his household, to rebuild his fortunes, and vindi- cate me, would be equal to that promise. His eelf-confessed failure has made clear to me what for a long time I did not suspect—the real motive of Tilton. My narration does not rep. resent the single — = as regards my opinion of Theodore Tilton. It begins at my cordial intimacy with him tn his earlier career, shows my lamentation and sorrowful but hope- ful affection for him during the period of his initial wanderings from truth and virtue. It de- seribes a over the evils befalling him, of which I was made to believe myse!f the cause; my persevering and friendly but despsir- ingefforts to eave him and his family by any sacrifice of myseif not absolutely dishonorable and my growing conviction that his perpetual follies and blunders rendered his recovery im- ible. I can now see that heis, and has been trom the beginning of this difficulty, 8, plots and lies, to which my own innoceut words and acts—nay, even my thoughts of kindness toward him—have been made tocontribute. These successive views of him must be kept in view to explain my course through the last four years. That I was blind solong to the real motiveof intrigue going on around me was due partly to his own over- whelming public engagements, partly to my complete surrender of the aifair, and all papers and questions connected witn it, into the hands of Mr. Moulton, who was intensely confident that he could beersoe 4 itsuccessfully. Isuttered much, but inquired little. Moulton was chary to me of Tilton’s coutidences to him, reporting to me occasionally in a general way Tilton’s words and outbreaks of passion only as elements of trouble which he was able to control, and as addition proofs of the wisdom of leaving it to him. His command of the situation seemed to me at the time complete, immersed as I was ip incessant cares and duties, and only too glad to be relieved from considering details of wretched complications, the origin aud tact of which re- main, in spite of all friendly intervention, » [Ag mod burden to my soul. I would not read in the papers about it. I made Moulton for long period my confidant and my only chaune! ot information. TILTON'S OFJECT PILTRY LUCRE. From time to time saspicions were aroused in me by the indications that ‘Tilton was ac the part of an enemy, but these suapicio were rapidly allayed by his own behavior toward me in other moods, and by assurances of Moulton, who ascribed the circumstances to misunderstanding, or to malice on the part of others. It is plain tome now that it was not until Tilton bad fallen into disgrace and lost his salary that he thought it necessary to azsail me with the charges which he pretended to have bad in mind for six months. ‘The domestic offense which he alleged was very quickly and easily put aside, but yet in such a way a3 to keep my feelings stirred up, in order that 1 might, through my friends, be used to extract from Mr. Bowen $7,000, the amount of the c’aim in diepute between them. Check for that eum in hand, Tilton signed the agroemen of peace aud concord, not drawn by me, bu accepted by me as sincere. The Golden’ Ag bad been started. He had capital to carry it cn; for while he was sure that be was to head » great social ravolution, with returning pros perity he bad apparently no grie(s which could not be covered by his signature to the artic!es of peace; yet the changes in that covenant, made by him before signing it and represented to me a® necessary merely to relieve him from the imputation of having originated and circulat. certain old and shameless slanders about me, were really made, as now appears, to leave hin frce for future operations vpon me and against me. TILTONIAN Atns. So long as he was, or fpr be was,on the road to new success, his conduct toward me was as friendly as he knew how to make it. His as- sumption of superiority and magnanimity and bis patronizing manner were trifies at which | could afford to smile, and which I bore with — humility since 1 stili retained the pro- found impression made upon me, as explained in the fol wider | narrative, that I had been the cause of overwhelming disaster to him, and that bis —o restoration to public standing and household happiness was a reparation justly re- quirea of me, and the only one which [ could make; but with peculiar genius for blanders he fell almost at every step into new complizations and difficulties, and in every such instance it was his policy to bring coercion to bear upon my honor, my conscience, and my affections, for the purpose of procuring his extrication at my expense. WORKING ON BEECHER’S SYMPATHETIC SIDE. Theodore Tilton knew me well. He has said again and again to his friends that if they wished to gain any influence over me they must work on the sympathetic side of my nature. To this he has addressed himself steadily for four years, using as @ lever, without scruple, my at- tachment to my friends, to my family, to his own household, and even my old attachment for himeelf. Not blind to his faults, but resolved to look on him as favorably and’ hopefully as possible, and ignorant of his — malice, f abored earnestly, even desperately, for his sal- vation. For four years I have been trying to feed the insatiable egotism, to make the man as great as he conceived himself to be, to restore tom erity and a confidence one who, in the midst of any efforts in his behalf, patronized disreputable people and doctrines, refused when I besought him to separate himself from them, and ascribed to niy agency the increasing ruin which he was ently bringing upon him- self, and which I was doing my utmost to avert. It was hard to do anything for such a man; I might as well have d to fill a si with water. In the letter stages of the history he actually created and incited difficulties, appar- than to drive me to 1 refused to indorse his wild and to friend Teepoas Be mule seer oe tee ‘was to be done s0 as to peace and harmony to Tilton’s bome, toa aS ever he Wished ine to G51 aid, unless ty scone only clement that eomed secure, Ia tut ose 2 con- Of tormenting perplexities to him I wrote | Ki i fe E ie ft sale gs F s ‘and ‘ is tion frem which I bad sought to save the family | Mr. Bowen ceed! was likely to be expended on other families, the church. and the commurity, with infinite hor- Tor of woe for me; that my own innocence was buried under heaps and heaps of rubbish, and nobody but my professed friend—“if even he” — could save us, to his assurances that he could stilldo £01 gave at least so much faith as to maintain, under these terrible trials, the silence he enjoined. Not until Tilton, having attempt- ed through Frank Carpenter’ to r: from my friends, rc assailed me in to Dr. Bacon, did 1 break that silence, save by @ simple denial of slanderous rumors against mea year before. When, on the appearance of THE FIRST OPEN ATTACK PROM TILTON, I immediately, without consulting Moulton, called for a thorough investigation with a com- mittee of my church. I am not responsible tor the delay of the publicity or details of that in- vestigation. All harm which I have so long dreaced, and have so earnestly striven to avoid, bas come te pase. I could not further prevent it without a fall surrender of honor and truth. The time has arrived when I can speak freely in vindication ot myself. 1 labor under great Focmitngery in making A statement. My memory of the status of the matter is clear and —.” better than my memory of datesand letails. During four troubled years, in all of which 1 bave been singularly burdened with public labor, having established and conducted the Christian Union, delivered courses of lectures, reached before the theological seminary of le College, written the ‘Lite of Christ,” de- ered each win' ese duties, with the care ofa great church and its outlying schools and chapels, and miscellaneous bustness which a @ clergyman more than other ‘apna men, I have kept in regard, and now, with the neces- sity ofexplaining actions and letters resulting from complex influences, apparent at the time, I find myself in a position where 1 KNOW MY INNOCENCE without being able to prove it with detailed ex- lanations. I am one upon whom trouble works inwardly, mak! me outwardly silent but re- verberating in the chambers of my soal, and when at length I do speak it is a pent-up flood, and pours without measure or moderation. I inherita tendency to sadness, the remains in me of positive hypochrondria in my father and ‘andfather, and in certain moods of reaction the world becomes black and I see very despair- ingly. FF% were in such moods to speak as I feel I should give false colors and exaggerated pro- —— to everything. This manitestation is in such contrast to the hopefulneas and courage which I experience in ordinary times, that none but those intimate with me would suspect me, so full of overflowing spirit and eager giad- fomeners, to have within me a care of gioom. Some of my letters to Mr. Moulton retiect this morbid feeling. He understood it, and at times earnestly reproved me for indulging it. With thie preliminary review I proceed to my narra. tive. BEECHER’S PIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH TILTON Mr. Tilton was first known to me as reporter of my sermons. He was then a youth jast froai school, and working on the New York Observer, and from this paper he passed to the Ind-pen2 ent, and became a great favorite with Bowen. When, about 1861, Drs. Bacon, Storrs, and Thompson resigned their places, 1 became ed- itor of the Independent, to which I had been from its start a contributer. One of the induce- ments held out to me was that Tilton should be my asistant, and relieve me wholly from the routine of office-work. In this relation I became very much attached to him. We used to stroll to the galleries and print shops, and dine often together. His mind was opening freshly and with enthusiasm. Upon all questions I used to pour out my ideas of civil affairs, public policy, religion, and philanthrophy. Of this he has often spoken with gratetul appreciation, and mourned at a later day over its cessation, GROWING INTIMACY. August was my vacation month, but my fam- ily repaired to my farm in June and July, and remained there during September and October, y labors confining me to the city. I took my meals in the families of friends, and from year to year I became so familiar with their children and houses that I went in and out, daily almost, as in my own house. Tilton often alluded to this habit, and urged me to do the same by his house. He would often speak in extravagant terms of bis wife’s esteem and affection for me. After I began to visit his house he sought to make it attractive. He urged me tobring my papers down there and use his study to do my writing in, as it was not pleasant to write at the office of the Ind When I went to England, in 1863, Tilton took temporary charge of the Independent. On my return I paved the » to take Sole charge of it, ay nam for a year, and then he becoming t responsibic editor. Friend)y relations contioued to the violent assauits upon me by Tilton in the Independent on account of my Cleveland letter and the tem- porary discontinuation of the publication of m: ermons in that paper, | broke off my conne m with Although Tilton and i remained TsonAlly On good terms, yet there was a cool- ness between us in all matters of politics. Oar rial relations were very kindly, and as late as at his request. I sat to Page some Sitty times for a portrait. It was here that [ tirst met and talked with Moulton, whose wife was a member of Plymouth church, thongh he was not a member, por even a regular attendant. During this whole period I never received from Tilton, or any other member of his family, the slightest Lint that there was any dissatisfaction with my familiar relations to his household. As late, 1 think, as the winter of 1369, when going upon an extended lecturing tour, he sail: I wish you would look in often and see that Livby is not lonesome, or does not want anything; or words to that effect. Never, by sign or word, did Mr. Tilton complain of my visits in his family until after he began to fear that the Independent would be taken from him; nor did be break out into violence until on the eve of the dt ion from the papers—the Independent and Brooklyn Union—owned by Mr. Bowen. During these years of intimacy in Tilton’s family I was treated as a father or elder brother. Children were born; children died; they learned to love me, and to frolic with meas if I was one of themselves. I loved them, and [ had for Mrs.Tilton a true and honest r |. She seemed to me an affectionate mother, a devoted wife, looking up to her husband as one far above the common race of men, and turning to me with artless familiarity, and with entire contidence. Childish in appearance, she was childlike in bature, and I would as soon have misconceived confidence of the little girls as the unstudied affection which she showed me. Dolicate in heaith, with a self cheerful, she was boundless in her sympathy for those in trouble, and lab- ered beyond her strength for the poor. She had cbarge one time of the marriod women’s class at Bethel Mission school, and they perfectly worshiped her there. I gave Mrs. Tilton copies of my books when published. [ sometimes sent down from the farm flowers to be distributed —— a dozen or more families, and she occa- sionally shared. The only present of vaiue I ever gave her was on my return from Europ: ip 1863, when I distributed souvenirs of my jour- ney torome fifty or more persons, and to her I é@ simple brooch, of little intrinsic value. far from supposing that my presence and in- fluence was alienating Mrs. Tilton from her family relations, [ thought, on the contrary, that it was ving her strength and heresy nd her to hold fast upon the man evidently sliding into Se associations, and liable to be inom ‘by unexampled self-conceit. TILTON FALLING PROM GRACE. irded Tilton asin a I rej s pallies agreed that, in consequence of pro- arising out of this remonstrance, to re- move Mr. Tilton or suppress his peculiar views; but instead of that Theodore seemed firmer in the saddie than before, and his loose notions of marriage and diverce began to be shadowed editoriaily. This led to the starting of the 17- rance in Chicago to supersede the Independent in the northwest, and Mr. Bowen was made to feel that Tilton’s m: ment was seriously injuring the business, and Mr. Tilton may have felt that his position was being undermined by opponents of his views, with whom he subse- quently pretended to believe I was in league. Vague intimations of his ‘feeling hard” toward me I ascribed to this misconception, I ahd in reality taken no step to harm him. WHY BEECERR ADVISED MRS. TILTON TO LEAVE HER HUSBAND. After Mrs. Tilton returned from the west in December, 1870, a young girl whom Mrs. Tiiton had taxen into the family, educated, and treated her like her own child, (her testimony, I under- stand, is before the committee,) way sent to me with an urgent request that I would visit Mrs. Tilton st her mother’s. She said that Mrs. Til- ton hac left her home and gone to her mother's in consequence of ill-treatmen* of her husband. She then gave an account of what she had seen of cruelty and ili-u the part of the hus band that shocked me, and yet more when, with downcast looks, she said that Mr. Tilton had sought ber chamber inthe pight and sought her consent to bis wishes. { immediately visited Mrs. Tilton at her mother’s, and received au account ot her home life, and of the despotism of her husband, and of the management of a woman whom he had made housekeeper, which seemed like a nightmare dream. The question was whether she should go back or separate forever from her husband. I asked permission to bring my wife to see them, whose judgm-nt iu ali domestic relations I thought better than my own, and aap gg A @ second visit was mace. The result of the interview was that my wife was extremely indignant toward Mr.Tilton, and declared that no consideration on earth would induce her to remain an honr with a man who had treated her with a hundredth part of such insult and cruelty. I felt as strongly as she did, but hesitated, as I always do, at giving advice in favor of jon. It was agreed that my wife should give ber final advice at another visit. The next day, when ready to go, she whed a final word, bat there was company, and the children were present, and I wrote on a scrap of paper: “I in- cline to think your view is right, and that a sep- aration and a settlement of support will be the wisest, and that in his present desperate state her presence near bim is far more likely to pro duce hatred than her absence.” TILTON INVITES BEECHER TO “STEP DowN AND ovr.” Mrs. Tilton did not tell me that my presence bad anything todo with this trouble, nor did she let me know that in July previous he had ex- tracted from her @ co: mn of excessive atlec- tion forme. On the ning of December 7. 1870, Mr. Bowen, on his way home, called at my house, and handed me a letter from Mr. Tilton. It was, as nearly as 1 can remember, in the fol- lowing terms: Henry Ward Beecher:—For reasons which you explicitly know, and which I forbear to state, I demand that you withdraw from the pulpit aud quit Brooklyn as your residence. THeoporE TILTON. ‘THIS MAN 1S CRAZY.” 1 read it over twice and turned to Bowen and said,**Tbhis maniscrazy. This is sheer insant- ty.” and other like wor rotesse! to anded bia the letter toread. We at once fell into conver- bout Tilton. He gave me some account of the reasons why he had redaced him from the editorship of the /ndependent to the subord inate position of contributor, viz: ‘That Til- ton’s religious and social views were ruining the paper.” Hut he said that as soon as it nown that he had so far broken with Tilton there came pouring in npon him somany stor! of Tilton’s private life and habits that he wa overwhelired, and said that he was now consid ering whether he conla consistently retain him on the Brookiyn Union, or as chiet contriba tor to the — Indep He narrated story of an aflair sted, Conn., some like stories from orth west, aud charges brougbt against Tilton in his own office. Without doubt he believed tacse allegations, and so did I. The other facts previ ously s:ated to me seemed a full corroboration ‘We conversed for some time, Bowen wishing my opinien It was frankly given. I did not see how he could maintain relations with Tilton. ‘Tue substance of the full conversation was that Til ton’s inordinate vanity, his fatal feci i blandering, tor which he had a gentus, tentatious independence in his own opi general impracticablenese would keep th a At disagreement with the political party tor whore service it was published; and, added to all, the revelations of these promiscuons imino ralities would make his connection with eituer paper fatal to its interests. 1 spoke strong!» and emphatically, under great provocat his threatening to me, and the reve just bad concerning his domestic aifairs. Bower derided the letter of Tilton’s which he brought to me, and said earnestly that if trout): came of it I re rely on his friendship. 1 learned afterward that in further ;uarrels, end ing in Tilton’s peremptory expulsion from Bow- en’s service, this conversation was told to Til- ton. I believe that Bowen had an interview. and received some further information about Tilton from my wife, to whom 1 had referred him, although I have no doubt that Tilton would have lost his place at any rate. I have alo no doubt that my iniduence was de- cisive, and precipitated his final overthrow. ‘When I came to think it allover I felt very unbappy at the contemplation of Tilton’s im- pending disaster. I bad loved him much, and atone time he seemed like ason tome.’ My influence had come just at the time of his first unfolding, and bat much to do with his early development. I had aided him externally to bring him before the public. Wehad been to- ether on the great controversies of the day. Entit after tho war our social intercourse bad deen intimate. It is true that his natare always exaggerated hisown excellencies. When he was but a boy he looked up to me with affectionate admiration. After some years he felt himselt my equal, and was very companionable, and when be had outgrown me, and reached the position of first man of the age, he still was kind and patronizing. I had alw: miled at these weaknesses of vanity, and believed that Jarger experience, with some knocks among strong men, by sorrows that temper souls, he would yet fufills useful and brilliant career. But now ail looked dark; he was to be cast forth from bis eminent position, and his affairs did not promise that sympathy and strength which makes one’s housé—as mine has been in times of adversity—a refuge from the storm and a tower of defense. = Besides a generous omen, F should have had a selfish reason for such if { had dreamt that [ was about to become the instrument by Which Mr. Tilton meant to fight bis way bac to the prosperity which he had forfeited. it now ng that on the thof December, 1570, Mr. Tilton baving learned that [ had replied to his threatening letter by expressing such an opinion of him as to s2t Mr. Bowen oy sgainst him and bring him face to face wi immediate ruin, he extorted from his wife, then suffering froma severe iliness,a document in- criminating me, and prepared an elaborate at- tack upon me. MUTUAL MOULTON COMES UPON THR SCENE. On Tuesday evening, December 30, 1870, about T o’clock, Mr. Francis D. Moulton called at m: house, and with intense earnestness said: + wish you to go with me to see Mr. Tilton.” I MR. TILTON FIRST MA‘ CHARGES TO Mr. Tiltor. received me , but calmly. mace to him in July, six months previous; that his sense of honor and affection would not per- mit any such documents to remain in existence; that he had burned the inal, and should now paper into small pieces. shock. at such a statement I was absolutely thunder- strack when he closed the interview by rej uest- ‘Img me to repair at once to his house, where he Elizabeth waiting for me, and learn from her lips the trath of his stories so far as they concerned be: TRIS FELL LIKE A THUNDERSTROKE upon me. Could it be possible that his wife, whom I had regarded as a t: of morai good- nese, should have made such false and atrocious statements; and yet, if abe had not, how would he dare to send me to her for confirmation of his charges’ I went forth like a sleep-waiker. White clouds were fiying in the sky. There had been a spow-storm, which was breaking away, the by od by Bd and whistitng thro: the trees, but all this was peace compared to m: mood witbin. I believe that Moulton went with me to the door of Tilton’s house. The house keeper, the same woman of whom Mrs. Tilton has complained, seemed to instructed by jhim, for she evidently expect’ me, and showed me at once to Mrs. Tilton's room. £ upon her m, palm to palm, like one in preset As I look back upon it the picture is ike some forms carved in marble that I had seen upon monuments in Europe. She made no motion, and gave no sign of ition presence. [ sat Cown near her and said: EI abeth, Theodore bas been making very serious charges against me, and sent me to for confirmation.”’ She made no reply or sign, yet it was plain that she was conscious and listening. I repeated some of his statements—that I had brought discord to the family; that I had alien- ated her from him; had sought to break up the family; had usu his influence, and then, as I could, I added that he said that { she had admitted this part to him last July. I said: “Elizabeth, have youever made such statements to him?” She made no answer. | re! the question; tears ran down her cheeks, and ehe very slightly lowered her head in acquiescencs. { said, ** cannot mean that you bave stated ali that he bas charged” She opened her eyes and began ina slow and feeble way to explain how sick she had been;- how wearied out with importunity; that he had confessed his own alien love, and said that he could not bear to think that she was better than he; that she might if she would confess thi more than him, and that they would repent and oon with future accord. I cannot give her language, but only the tenor of her representa- tions. J received them impartially. I spoke to her in the shortest language of her course. I said to her, Hi Lever made any improper advances to yo She said, “No. ‘hen 1 asked her, “Why did you say #0 to your hus band?” She seemed deeply distressed. “My friend,” by that designation she always called me, ‘*[ am sorry, but I could not help it. What can Ido?” I told her she could state in writing what she had now told me. She beckoned for ber writing material, which I handed her from the secretary standing near. She sat up in bed and wrote a biief counter-statement in u sort or postscript. She denied explicitly that I had ever offered any improper solicitations to her, that being the ouly charge made against mo by Tilton, or sustained by the stasement about the confession which he had read to me. I dreamed of no worte charge. At that time that was horrible enough; the mere thought that he could make it, and could have extorted any evidence on which to base it, was enough to take away my Senses. Neither my conscioasnes of ite utter falsehood, nor Mrs. Tilton’s re- traction of her part in it, could remove the shock from my beart and head. Indeed, her admission to me that she had stated, under any circumstances, to her husband 80 WICKED A PALSESOOD was the crowning biow of all. It seemed to me as if she was guing to die; that her mind was overthrown, and that I was in some dreadta! Way mixed up in it, and might be left, by by death, with this terrible accusation Langir over me. I returned, like one in a dresm, to & Mou'ton’s house, where [ said very little, at soon went home. it has been said that I con fessed guilt and expressed remorse. Thi utterly talee. Is it likely that, with Mrs. Tilt retraction In my pocket, 1 should have thus stultified myself? On the next day, in the eve ning, Mouiton called at my house and ca: ap into my bedroom. He said that Mrs. Tiltor on ber busband’s return to her after our inter what she had done, anc ion. Moulton exp3stu lated with me, and said the retraction, und the circumstances, would not mend matters but only awaken fresh discord between husbaw: and wite, and do great injary to Sirs. Tutto: witbout helping me. Mrs. Tilton, b had already recanted in writing the retraction mad to me, ard, of course, there might be NO END TO TRESE CONTRADICTIONS. Meanwhile Tilton had destroyed his wife's first letter acknowledging the confession, aud Mr. Moulten claimed that J had taken # men advantage and made a dishonorable use of ‘Theodore’s request that I should visit her and obtain from her a written contradiction to a documens not in existence. He said that all aif- ficulties could be settled without any such pa- pers,and that I ought to give itup. He was under great excitement. He made no verbal threats, but be opened his overcoat, and, with some emphatic remarks, showed a pistol, which afterward he took out and left on the bureau, near which he stood. I gave the p r to him, and atter a few moments’ stay he - Within ingof this interview it is with regret that I should allude to the suffering through which | had gone during the previous days, the cause of which was A STRANGE CHANGE IN MES, TILTON. Nothing had seemed to me more certain, du- ring all my acquaintance with her, than that she was singular simple, trathful, and honor- able. Deceit seemed absolutely foreign to her nature, and yet she bad stated to her husband those strange and awfa! falsehoods. Ste had not, when Gaily I called and prayed with ber, given the slightest hint, I will not say of such ‘sccusation-, but even that there was any se: rious family difficulty. She had suddenly, in December, cailed me and my wife to aconsulta- tion as to a ible sep: from her bus- band, still leaving me ignorant that she had just put into his hands the weapon ag me. 1 was bewildered with the double consciousness of a saintly woman communicating a very need- less treachery of her friend and pastor. My distress was boundless. I did not for a moment feel, however, that she was to blame entirely, as would ordinarily be thought, but eapposed that she had been overborne by sickness and shattered in mind until she scarcely knew what she did, and was no longer musibie for her acts. My soul went out toher tr ty. Lblamed t, for haye been » from the and fury a acer lied; Of mit os opendent" open we the ‘Uy book which I own immediate fam- > now in the might of some slight de- gree Se egy Senet _ shove EN jones ts mo Gee life-work ‘and in disaster. My ‘socusation rane’ aaocnatiy try hes woe motives that must ex- ? Should Lhoki ber up to contempt as having Ubrust her affections me unsought Should I tread upon the man and his be: in their great adversity? feelings without measure. I disclaimed, with the greatest earnestness, any intent to harm Theodore in his home or his business, and, w inexpressible sorrow, 1 both biamed and fended Mrs. Tilton in one breath. MOULTON AS MEDIATOR. Mr. Moulton was apparently afected by my soliloquy, for it was that rather than a conver- old I gave veut to my 5 said thatsf Mr. Tilton could really be persuaded of the friendliness of my feelings toward him be was sare that there would be no trouble in procart & reconciliation. I we him leave to state to Theodore my feelings. He eee that I should write « letter. ined, a prepared dum of the talk, and sat down at took down, as 1 supposed, a condevsed report of my talk, for I went on still pouring out my wounded feelings over thie great desolation in Mr. Tilton’s family. It was not a dictation of sentence after sentence, he a mere and I composing for him. Mr. patting into his own parts of that was Saying in my Own manner. with profase expianations. This paper of Mr. Moulton's wat S mere Metorandum of points to be ased by bin. in setting forth my feelings. That it contains matter and pointe derived from me is without doubt, but they were put intosentences by him and e: as he understood them, not as my, but as hintsof my, figures and letters, to be used by him tm conversing with Mr. Tilton. THE “WISH 1 WAS DREAD” Lert * He did not read the p read it; nor have I ever those my sentences, nor is it what [ said. It is @ mere string of hints, hasti- ly made up by an unpracticed writer as tobis memory, in representing to Mr. bow I felt toward his family. "fe more than this be claimed; if it be set forth as in any proper sense my letter, I then disown it and unce it. Some of its sentences, and particularly that in whieh | am made tosay | obtained Mrs. T.l- ton’s forgiveness, I never could heave said in substance. Ihed not obtained nor asked an forgiveness from her, and noboly pretende: that I had done so. Nither could I ever have said that | bumbled myself before Tilton as be- fore God, except in the sense that both to God and te the man | thought I had di y ‘as I certainly ds 4 injured, 1 humbled myseii This document was written upon three separ- ate half ebeets of large letter paper. Atter it was finished Moulton asked me if [ would sign it. 1 said no, it was He replied that it would bave more w: would in some way indicate that he was au- thorized toexplain my sentiments. { took my pen, and st some distance below the writing, and'upon the lower margin, I indicated that i committed the cocument in trust to Mr. Moul- ton, and 1 signed the line thus written by me. A few words more as to its further fate. Mr. Moulton, of his own accord, said that, afte- using it, he would, in two or three days...ng the memorandum back to ms, and ue cau- tioned me about disclosing in’ any way thas there was a diftculty between Mr. Tilton and myself, as it would be injurious to Tilton to bave it known that I bad quarreled with him, a well af tome to have rumors set afloat. I did not trouble myself about it until more began to write up hts case, » am) was looking up dc was iv the old see it for greater certainty. Soon denly asked Moulton for ute, | wondered what 4 desired to day I sud- that memoranda: 2 Oa my putting the question again be said that the Paper was burnt up long ago; and during the next two years, in various conversations, of * own record. he spoke of it as destroyed. had never asked for nor authori ction of this paper, but Iwas not allowed to know that the document was ip existence until a distinguitbed editor in New York, within a few weeks past, aseured me that Mr. onlteon bad shown him the original, asd that e bad exam:ned my siguatute to be sare of ite genuiness, J know there was a copy of it since this statement was in preparation. While Ir ected this memorandum & my work, or an ae- curate condensation of my etatement,|t does un doubted!y correctly represent that 1 was in pro= found sorrow, and that I blamed myself with great soverity be disaster of the Ti i had not then the light thst 1 here was much then that weighed hea py a sxes and discriminates. By one biow there opened before me a revelation full of angaish; an agonized family, whose inmates bad been my friends, greatly beloved, ruined in worldly prospects, the household crumbling to pieces, the woman by long sickness and suffering ei*her corrupted to deceit, as her husband alleged, or s0 broken in mind as to be irresponsibie, and either way it was her enthusiasm for ber pastor, as 1 was made to believe, that was the germ avd beginning of the trouble. It was for me tohave forestalied and prevented that mischief. My age and experience in the world should have put me on my guard. I would not, at that time, tell what was true of ali considerations urged upon me by Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moalton. THERE WAS AGULF HEPORE NE iu which lay those who had been warm friends and they alleged that I had belped to plunge them therein. That seemed enough to fill my mother soul with surrow and =~] no who has lost a child but will understand the broduced, wild self-accusation that * all reason blaming herself for such thi: Soon after thie I met Tilton at Moulton’s house. Hither Moulton was sick seling Bowen; of my feelii tou’s family, disclaiming with horror the thought of wrong, and expressing a desire to do wht- ever lay ip human gor fo rom any evil had . to reunite bis Tomnty. Ti ton was silent and sullen. He part of an injured man, but Moulton sald to Tilton, with intense empharis, “That ts ail a gentleman can say; you ought to accept it; it san honor- abie basis of reconciliation.”” RECONCILIATION. ‘This he repeated two or three times, and Til- ton’s countenance cheering up under Moulton's stropg talk we shook way. hands and parted in a Not afterward T) geekt cue