Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1875, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Sundays Excepted. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsylvania Aveune, cor. Lith St. BY The Evening Star Wi Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t. —— EVENING STA ts x2, at Tes Ces rrr served by carriers to Vt, 45—N®. 6,864. AMUSEMENTS. IN4TIOR4e THEATER, GREAT DOUBLE BILL BENEFIT OF MR. A. W. AIRE Wwhington, anew mititied the «KOSS OF GOLD: Or, The Huguenot Captain ‘Trap-lated from the French of Alexander Damas. To conclude with the Play of the WITCHES OF NEW YORK! FAMILY MATINEE ON SATURDAY, Ar2 Px. Admission only 50 cent and % cents. ohare eyed seni No oxtra wards FORD'S OFERA HOUSE. 7 BING DONG—PING DONG—DING DONG. THE WORLD RENOWNED MAJZJILTONS! And their Great Grotesque Company, in the glori ourly fanny comedy, DING DONG; Or, the Pretty Laundresses ! Incinding < SPLENDID DANCING, BRIGHT FUN STIRRING MUSIC AND DELIGHTFUL SONGS Te be followed by the screaming Farce of THE LAUGHING HYENA. “DING DONG” MATINEE SATURDAY. MONDAY EVENING, March 29. martif ( BOSS & DIXIE’S MINSTR' (PREATER ‘OomMreU paler wuthor and Act nights and. m: entitled Engagement of the r. Charles Foster, at *Trmnas ine Lillie Francis intreduce eong= Rade act, Mr. Sam E Rrau Altyne, W.G. Greyston, Jake Bud 7 mammoth company. it of the season. ances ell. Lew. Spencer and « the Firet appearance for cial rbting: Tica's greater Pearl, Mi rw of Williams aud Reynolds, Ethiopian and Speci: Artists from the western pntipurd success of Harrie and Ellis, in Comicalities , ). the Man Monkey ATIONAL THEATER. — THE PARIS AND NE YORK § 1875. GIROFLE-GIROFL Commencing MONDAY EVENING, March 29, for six nights and one matinee only, first production im Washington of Lecocy s last aud most succrssful Opera Boutte, GIROFLE-GIROFLA, the reigning sensation of sixty European cities and the great musical event of the year, which will be produced with entirely new costumes, properties, gorgeous mise en-scene. and the identical New York Cast, presenting for the first time in Washington MLLE CORALIE GEOFFROY, Prima Donn from the leading Parisian theaters M'LLE LEONTINE MINELLI, Milles Kid. Dorel, Vandamme, Perraut, Julien Clanc, MONS. G. DE QUEROY, Principal Tenor from the Parisian Opera Comiqne Mesers. Valeire. Valter. Genot, Salvator. Davali CCESS OF » compete mers, under the direction of MONS. C_VAN GHELE. GIROFLE-GIROFLA will be presented with the same completeness of all detail ax characterized its FIFTY consecutive rep Tesentations in New York. jon $1. Reserved seats 30 cents extra. Gallery 50 cents. Sate commences Thursday at box office. marz2-6t NS. BARLOW BEGS LEAVE TO CALL Sttention of and ore and members of large collection ef PAINTINGS, EN IGS. Rc. which he offers at reduced prices. fine opportunity to perecus fear ties orennce. a hin atc ia the largest ever seen ington. ked with the Paintings Srabow S GALLERY OF At 1225 Penusyivania aven ON EXHIBITION axp SALE} New No ia SMARKRITER'S, Tru Sr deers D and E ‘doors asove Odd Fellows" Hat 9 oe ase ‘Please remember Name and Number. jel-ly 1875 1875 SPRIWVG! FIRST INSTALMENT or SPRING STYLES IN MENS, YOUTHS, AND BOYS’ CLOTHING! LARGER STOCK, GREATER ASSORTMENT, BETTER STYLES, LOWER PRICES THAN EVER OFFERED BEFORE [N THIS MARKET. An Examination Will Convinced A, STRAUS, 3011 PENNstLvaNta AVENTE, morll-te Between 10th and lth streets BB svaixe striezs NOW READY. seine Fifth Avenue style Gentiemen'’s Sees fine Soft and Stiff FELT HATS of the most ed patterns lish BILK CMBRELLAS from $4.50 np. SUN UMBRELL racine CN LLAS HATS ALTEKEV AND REPAIRED wt notice, KER & GRE OFF*3, 807 3F ix POWERFUL, complete assortment at very lew prices. SST eae “eas MELEE ER, Monee psc. B. = SUSBoeteus HATTER. 2237, Fevers vais Avance, DRESS MATS: eee levites TLEME: to 0 OL GEXTLEMEN'S Di ‘Broadway. Youmans’, Dun! | iy Spring — + and lap eee ited to the $5 and $6 | Bie Sr and Sut Nutria Feit Hats nee BT Hats Renovated : Ppatest arsortment of sizes in stock. Also,lower | A toll priced Crutches. ws some reall, TEPER to Spring Styles ELASTIC CRUTCH, THE BEST IN USE. Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipts from this source to-day amount to $197 030.96. THE RECEIPTS from eustoms to-day at the Treasury department were $684,002. Frest CONTROLLER of the ,R W. Taylor, is confined to his room by ill- ness. THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENE- RAL BARBER to-day returned to his duties after a week's iliness. Jupee J. J. MARTIN, late Sixth Anditor, jeft with his family for Montgomery, Ala., to-day to assume his new duties as postmas- ter at that place. GinoFLE-GIROFLA, the lively new French opera by Lecocq, to be produced here next week, will be likely todraw. In fifty nights’ performance in New York the receipts were $2,000. CAPTAIN FRANK T. BENNETT, 9th cav- alry, has been ordered to report to the super- intendent of the mounted recruiting service at Louis, Mo., for duty in connection with that service. , PERSONAL._Mr. Wim. B. Shaw, of this city, was at the National Hotel, Jackson- on the 2, -**-Ex-President heen invited to hold a reception home. AT THE WHITE Hovse.—Among those who had interviews with the President to- How. 8S. B. INS, the ex-delegate to Congress from New Mexico, will be married in April to Miss Haltie Davis, the daughter of Senator Davis, of West Virginia. They will sail in May for Europe to spend the full and summer in traveling. THE SUMNER HovsE.—Mr. W. W. Corco- ran has leased the Sumner house to Mr. S. B. Chittenden, of New York, who will make it the residence of his family during the ses- i of the present Cong®ess.— Wesh. Ow, N. . Times. SomE OF THE SENATORS avho were among the first invited and whoaccepted invitations to accompany Senator Cameron's party to Mexico have withdrawn their accept: not caring to subject themselves to the =m of going on @ political mission.— Cor. N. ¥. Post. LOBBYISTS IN BAD Rerute.—The United States Supreme Court has rendered an in- portant decision in respect toclaims for lobby services. The action was to recover for ser- viees rendered in procuring action by Con- gress on @ claim for compensation for the mh tiation of the a of Gaudaloupe-Hi- @algo. The point decided is that claims for lobby service are not founded in good morals and cannot be maintained in the courts. NAVAL ORDERS—Lieutenant Comman- der Charles C. J. Barelay, to the Dictator, at Key West, Florida, per steamer, 3d of April. Lieutenant B. F. Tilley, to the receiving ship New Hampsh Assistant Surgeon Ed’w H. Green, to the naval hospital at New Yo: Passed Assistant Paymaster H. . C. Machette to the Canonicus, 3ist. Detached—Lieuten- ant Commander B. P. Lamberton, from the Dictator and ordered to return home and re- xt arrival. Assistant Paymaster W. W. ry, from the Canonicus and ordered to settle accounts. CONFIRMATIONS.—The Senate, before ad- Journing sini die yestenlay. confirmed the fol- lowing nominations in addition to those printed in Tux Stax last evening: Frederick uell, to be collector of internal revenue for the 36th district of New York, vice Geo. R. Kibbe. removed; Thos. J. Jefferds, Indian agent for the Cherieahua agency. Arizona. Postmasters—Wm. H. P. Steere ‘at Olney- vile, R. La reappointment; Asa W. Smith Woodstock, Il, vice W. E. Smith, resig. ). C. 8. Wintersmith, Elizabethtow:! “ reappointment; @tto Funke, Lineol vice Cyrns F. Baird, not confirmed: Alexan- cer Cree, Georgetown. Col., vice J. F. McKen- removed; F. M_ Shander, Dennison City, re Floyd P. B: FAILED OF CoNPIRMATION.—The follow- ing nominations failed of confirmation, and expired at the close of the special session of the Senate yesterday: Charles A. Nolen, of Connecticut. to be United States Pat to be removed; ¢ » to be postmaster at Fulton, N. Y., vice Charles W. Cheesebro, whose commission expired on the 13th in: Clark and Cheesebro will ain in office. Nor did the Senate confirm the nominations of Wm. M. Maynadier, of Ma ryland, and Cassius K. Breneman, of Texas, to be paymasters in the army, under the law passed last month authorizing new appoiut- ments in the paymaster’ er, removed $xuminer in Chief of the Jepartment SPENCER, OF ALABAMA, ON THE RAGGED EpGk.—A Washington special to the Phila- delphia Timex says;—On the isth instant the Alabama legislatur® raised a joint committes of five. two senators and three representa- tives. to investigate the el tending the election of George E. Sper the United States Senate in 172. Those who are acquainted with the facts assert that it Will be clearly pyoven that money was used t control certain members of the legislature who were opposed to Spencer, and in addition t> this, other damaging effects relative to the election wil! bedeveloped. The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail, in speaking of this Inves- ligation, says: “If there is any sense ag jus- tice in the mi rity in the United States Sen- ate. such ev Will be laid before them as Will induce them to promptly unseat Sena- tor Spencer. INVITED To Str DOWN AND OuT.—An inspection clerk in the Post Office depart- ment has been requested by the Postmaster General to tender his resignation, because of the fact that he had neglected to'n0'2. that & in railroad that &<> Yeing paid for a percrmAnée 0: postal service six times a ! week had for the past ten quarters re- ported service as performed only three times per week, thus receiving pay through the carelessness of the clerk for twice the amount of service rendered. The clerk who has thus been invited to re- im wats appointed trom New Jersey in 1865, and has consequently been an official in the iepartment for about nine years. is not It believed that he was in collusion with the rallroad company, but his mistake (which involved an over-poyment of about $5,700) Was one which really amounted, without any wrong intentions on i inal carelessness. S part On the discove: him and informed him that as a officer he did not think he woul justifiel in overlooking so flagrant ablic be a b The repentant clerk therefore re- signed at onee. The government will lose nothing by the error. as the amount ove rpaid will be withheld froin fature payments. “DON PARDRE” was the subject of a five hours’ discussion by the Senate in executive session yesterday. Speeches were made by a of Mr. West's speee: Mr. Edmunds moved to lay the nomination on the table, agreed to by a vote of 25 position for which was ted will necessarily remain vacant until the next session of Congress, as ccmber,at which date session three days. The | vomination places litigation } Siiage ate has Soieaiction in bonne ct and admiralty cases. There is now Th tie Rriccaei eee wr eeeoras | sum of about ‘e2,bo0. Other salts inheane ~ invol $200,000, Shel wii have to await the sppointasene ces successor to Judge Durell. unconditionally withdra: | ered the annual | toconvene April sidered embrace Che Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875. KEW PUBLICATIONS. Choate & Co.) A series of essays upon “ Nature and her Lessons;” ‘Woman and her Sphere;” « a- cation and its Errors;” “America and her Puture;” “Life and its Aspirations.” KATERFELTO: A Story of Exmoor. By G. J. ‘Whyte Melville. Philae!phia: Porter & Contos. [Through James Bellew. Perhaps the best of the Whyte-Melville Stories. Katerfelto, the hero of the story, is @ wonderful horse, whose performances sur- pass those of Dick Turpin’s “Black Bess.” KR OLANDE! 1B MARRIAGE. By Mi Pe a ey EiianaA .. Philetelphia: B. Bros. Thies Jor, Suitington | A dew novel by the prolific author of “The Gipsy’s Warning,” “The Cancetled Will,” “The Mysterious Guest,” and some twenty other tales of love and mystery. THE FORUM LAW REVIEW. January, 2875. Rew Nork: Diosey & Company. [Through tne A good number of this publication, con- taining among other features of interest an article (with portrait) of Wm. M. Evarts. From this it appears that Mr. Bvarts was born in Boston in 181, and he is consequently abouts7 Papoed of age. Another article of local interest is that upon the powers of boards of health in cities, with special reference to the powers of our Washington board. WASHINGTON IN EMBRYO: Or, The National Capital from 1791 to 1800. Prepared with the Sscixtance of Brainard H. Warner, by E. F. M. Faehts and F.W. Pratt. ‘This undertakes to provide an exhanstive manual of the origin of all the rights and titles to property in Washington, D.C. The compilers have had the aid, in their im- rtant work, of Messrs. B. H. Warner, Wm. . Ward, and Dr. Jos. M. Toner, ot_ this eity, and Mr. Henry Brooke, of Matl- borough, Md. +22: IMPORTANT ARREST OF FORGERS OF PEN- SION PAPERS.—The number of frauds perpe- trated on the Pension bureau of the goveri- ment in all parts of the United States is very great. The method of eperationsof the class Of swindlers who perpetrate the frauds is to get possession of Unite! States army dis charge papers, the rightfal owners of which are dead, go before a justice of the peace, and they are the parties entitled to the and get two of their co affidavit, and the pension is to them. A number of these rosues I been caught by government detecti ferent parts of the country, and a just been “worked up” in this city t service men, assist of this city and th > culminating the arrest of Barney McQu — Bartlett, James Kel bach. The latter has turned state's evide and his testimony, in addition to ano whelming array ob y the detectives before making the arrests, will probably make aclear case against the others. The prisoners will be taken to Raltimore this morning.—Cumberland (Md.) News, March 2d. ARREST OF COUNTERFEITERS IN Boston. The officers of the secret service are after an- other gang of counterfeiters. Between Sun- @ay and Tuesday this week, John D. Long, a erg man of doubtful reputation as a billiard sharper and a gamester; Daniel F. Long. his brother, and Charles B. Gorham, who sometimes zoes by the name of Charles Bradley, and is a brother-in-law of Ike Marsh, the noted New York burglar, have been arrested in Boston. On the person of Long were found @ memorandum book, con- taining the names of a number of profes- sional burglars and thieves in New York, well known to the police, and a letter from Judéon’s wife. known in New York as Mrs. Kate Wells. Long has confesse1, and impli- cated Gorham and a party in New York, who is now under arrest. Detective Kent, of the secret service, who, with the assist- ance of local detectives, made the arrest, thinks these parties have undoubtedly been tting out be gegen money pretty freely for e last week or two. This crowd has no connection with the Wrentham ang. « their “ queer” comes solely from New Yori, where the secret servic» has already ferretad out the ringleaders. THE WHISKY AND STATES-RIGHTS Mc p- DLE IN RuoDE IsLaAnp.—In the General A sembly of Rhode Island yesterday a report was made from the special committee on the recent conflict of authority between the U.S. marshal and the state constables over the wholesale stock of liquors attached by the marshal and afterwards seized the state constables because sales were mavle from the stock in violation of the state law. The com- mittee say the state constables acted only tn the strict discharge ot 4 lawfal duty in making the seizure, and in refusing to recog- nize the marshal as being in possession of the liquors which the owner was selling in flagrant violation of the law, and in calling for aid from the police of Providence. The committee censure the chief of police of Providence for refusing to obey the state constables, but aiding instead ‘the United States marshal. and the committee recom- mend the adoption of # resolution submit- Ung to the President of the United States « statement of the fi THE SYNDICATE'S AIM ON JAY COOKE & Co.—In the matter of Jay Cooke & Co., the order made in Philadelphia by the gourt on Tuesday was yesterday qualified thus by Judge Cadwalider im the United States dis- triet court:—The register is instructed that the court’s oiler of yesterday does not si Hon an absolute allow: of proof to the amount of $146,276.15 independently of the question of equalization or aljustment that may arise upon examining the final of every one of the several forms of wh so-cal syndi © counts with one count of bankrupt nother and with tinal ac Ge. MCDOWELL IN RICHMOND.—General Irwin McDowell, U.S. army. state capitol at Richmond Tu ed to privileged seats in the house of tes and senate chamber. He after- wards, in company with Miss McDowell, paid his respects to Gov. Kemper, and speat some time with bis excellency in agreeable converse. During the day th® genéral vis- ited the studio of the seulptor Valentine and xamined bis recumbent figure of Gen. Lae, yatended for the monumedt at Lerinetsi” Va.. with Wndse portraiture and execution he expressed himself highly pleased. Gen. Lee and himself were comrades in the old army. SCHOONER SuNK AND THREE DROWNED.—The schooner Little Join, Cap- tain James W. Bvans, bound from Smith's to Baltimore, with « cargo of oysters, psized and sunk in Chesapeake bay on fternoon, in a heavy squall, Her entire crew, consisting of three men, were drowned. Captain Evans, after floating on the chain box for several hours, was rescue by the schooner William E. Moone; AN AMERICAN PIRATE MURDERED IN Japan.—An American named Pease his heen murdered by his companions in Bonin island, Yeddo bay. Pease was reported to be @ pirate, and to have carried on the slave trade on a small scale among the Eastern islands. The case is undergoing investiga- tion by the United States consul general. TRACKING A MURDERER.—Tue Boston police have obtained a clue to the murderer of Mrs. Bingham. Full description of the man is in possession of the police, and it is thought at he cannot escape. He was ‘ked to the depot in Salem on Tuesday ight, when he purchased a ticket for Glou- cester. THE CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CONFER- ENCE of the M. E. Church, in session at Huntingdon, Pa., voted on Tuesday by yeas one hundred’ and Ofteea, nays thirty-three, in favor of election of presiding elders by the members of each conference. change cffects the organization of the church, and requires the assent of the general conference. TUE MARYLAND EDITORIAL ASSOCIA- TION bad thelr annual meeting and dinner yesteiday at Guy’s hotel. Baltimore. L. V. yughman, of Frederick Citizen, deliv- Hon. George W. George's Gazetts, was MEN Wilson, of the Prince re-clected president. 1 eaita seanton ofthe Lacisines tostbetate, a tra ion ~ 4. ‘The subjects to be con? ‘the political state revenues, financial condition of thé city of New Orleansand merece. the reliefof its com- TWO CENTS. TILTON vs. BEECHER. Bessie Finishes Her Story. Other Witmesses fer Defence. After our telegraphic report of the Tilton- Beecher trial closed yesterday the cross-ex- amination of Bessie Turner was further con- tinued. She testified that on the oecasion when Mrs. Morse was on the stairs in Til- ton’s house, two or three steps above her, (Bessie,) Mr. Tilton came out of the parlor with Mrs. Tilton on his arm, and he looked up and said, “Good evening, grandma,” and she said, “I'll grandma you, you infernal scoundrel; you perfidious wretch, I'll publish you from Dan to Beersheba.” iriiton then said, “why, you ir excited, grand- and abs replied , “Til excite te, you pdrel.” He then went away with Mrs. Tilton, and shortly after arriving home Mrs. Tilton retired to bed. Iwas in the room with Tilton aboutan hour after she retired. Tilton repeated his eouversation, and said PAUL WAS NOT HIS CHILD. He claimed none of them except Florence; he said he had seen Mrs. Tilton and Beecher time and again having sexual intereourse on the red lounge. He also named two other entlemen with whom she had improper re- ations. He never spoke tome of Mrs. Til- ton having confessed tohim of her sexual iwtercourse with Beecher. On my leaving the room after this conversation I went to Mrs. Tilton’s bedroom. ¢ room in which Tilton locked his wife was the front bed- room. I could not say if they always slept in this room; I could not say if it was on more than the three oecasions that I have mentioned he locked her in this room; I am sure those folding doors locked and were locked on these occasions. I think Mrs. Til- ton went to New Brunswick in November before this. On ber return she brought Flor- ence with her; I told Tilton he should treat his wife kindly, as she was always crying, and he said she was WEEPING FOR HER SINS WITH BEECHER. It wason Friday evening, December 39, that I saw Beecher there. I saw him inTilton’s room, talking to Mrs. Tilton; she was half reclining on the pillows; I do not remember what was said; wherI was between four and five years old I went to visit Mrs. Abram Jones in New York; I have lived with Mrs. Libby; a leaving Mrs. Jones I went to Mrs. Hagger I ran away from there and went to } Libby's; ‘they lived in New Jersey, and [ went there because I was lonely; I hai a friend, Mrs. St. Clair, who persuaded me to leaye Mrs. Haggerty’s; she lived in Jersoy City; I was in Mrs. Jacque's house; wife of a lawyer, after leaving Mr. Libby's; I was ir house in Broadway before 1 went to Mr. ton’s, two or three months; the store was owned by Elias Brothers; I was not accused of anything when I left; this was the dollar store in Lroadway; I have no recollection as to how I got the position; I weat to Mr. Til- ton’s in 1s64, and was not there since January, 1871; a8 there off and on for about ten years; I left Mr. Tilton’s two ov three times, but I cannot tell the occasion when I weat to the dollar store; I think it was before I went to Mr. David Dow's; I was also in Mr. Ovington’s store during the holidays; I was at a Mr. Jones’, but Ido not remember the year; when I first wrote the letter at the dic- tation of Mr. Tilton it was before I wrote the letter for Mrs. Tilton; I TOLD TILTON ABOUT MRS. TILTON having told Mrs. Morse about his charges against her, and that Mrs. Morse had prom- ised me something nice to go around and tell Beecher; Tilton asked me to sign my name to this letter, and I did so; I made certain statements to him about Mrs. Morse, and he wanted me to put on paper what he dictated; it was with regard to the conversation I had with him; I cannot recollect if Tilton dic- tated what I had tok him about Mrs. Morse correctly; in aie, his repetition of it I cannot remember if he made any mistakes. Idoenot remember any mistakes or errors that he made in repetition of it. If he had made any error, or told falseiood 1 do not think I would have put it down. He dictated itso rapidly that I did not take time to ob- serve. It seems to me he dictated faster than 1 could write, and he had to stop two or turee times. I think I told him he was dictating too fast. I wrote all that he dictated. Frd- lerton read a seu’ * from the letter of Jan- uary 10, 1871, statirg that MRS. MORSE had repeatedly offered Bessie presents to tell stories about Tilton, and that the writer had been persuaded that kind attentions showa by Tilton to her were untrue. The witness siated this was not trae. Mr. Fullerton read that the writer did not want to be used by Mrs. se to bring trouble on her two best friends—Mrs. Tillon and her husband—and she was asked if that was true. The witness replied: That was Mr. Tilton’s dictation and her writing. The conversation about my going to school was after this. I think I went to school on the 17th of Febra- ary. The conversation was had about my going on a Sunday, and I went on the suc- ceeding Thursday or Friday. At the time of signing this letter I did not think anything about the truth of these statements. ‘The witness was shown an erasure on the letter, but could not tell what was written there; she did not know how the erasure came to be made. Witness continued:—I wrote another letter for Mrs. Tilton. 1 wrote a copy of it pre- red by Mr. Tilton. She handed me the copy of it. It wasin her handwriting. She was standing by the chatr where I was sit- ting when she gave it to me. [Handed the letter.) This is in my handwriting. letter was dated January 1. 171, stating that the story that Tilton hau carried her in his arms to screaming was a wicked lie. It was signed Bessie T.) This was the first time I saw the story in this form. He never carried me to his bed screaming. He had ATTEMPTED TO VIOLATE MY PERSON, because Mrs. Tilton had told me so. The witness was asked on what occasion, and this question gave rise to a long argu- ment between the counsel. I do not think I could truthfully say,of my ) &ge of a thousand dollars. own view, that Tilton had arog Ag to vio- eo jate my confers When I wrote letter 1 thought he had made the attempt, but do not remember if this was my view. Itis true that he carried me from my bed to his own, out not screaming. I was not awake when he lifted me, nor did I awaken until I was in his room, and he was standing over me. I signed this pay because I loved Mrs. Til- ton, and my signature would get Mr. Tilton out of all his troubles with Henry C. Bowen. i did it to please Mrs. Tilton, who had asked, me to. the reslirect examination was then begun mM Porter. The witness replied: I was teaching school at Beaver. ‘This was all Mr. Porter had to ask. ‘To Mr. Fullerton: The witness said she had to leave there because of the notoriety she had obtaiued in connection with the scandal. Here Bessie was allowed to leave the stand. The defence then called GEORGE L, PERKINS, ¥ who testified thatabout the 4th of June, 1875, he saw Beecher and Mrs. Beecher on a train on the Bosion and Albany railroad. They got off at Worcester. TILTON BECWEEN WOODHULL AND CLAF- LIN IN THE ROSSEL PROCESSION. George 8. Sedgwick testified: 1 am a law- yer at No.7 Pide street; I was acierk in the district attorney’s office in L869and 70, and Was an assistant in the United States attor- ney’s office in 1870. I was in office at the time of the Woodbull & Claflin case. I knew Mr. Tilton, Miss Claflin and Mrs. Woodhull then. He was marching between them, and I think carried a banner; the ladies, J think, carried the tassels. I wason the corner of Waverly and University Place. The pro- cession was going towards 5th avenue. [ Watched it until it went by. Cross-exam- ined: [am not mistaken in the identity of these women or Mr. Tilton. As my lee tion now serves me I will positively swear that I saw them there. They walked behind the catafalque, and I remember seeing a col- ored man with them. To the best of my ree- ollection he carried a flag. This fini Mr. Sedgwick’s testimony, and Mr. Evarts called Cecil Campbell Hig- ins, a New York lawyer, who testified to e Same effect. JOHN C. SOUTHWICK TESTIFIED: I reside in New York, and have been a part- ner of Mr. Jackson 8. Schultz for twoor three years; I resided in Brookl; twenty-oae years. I have known Franklin af about sixteen years, and Tilt it twenty in the carly part plied to ime to help him in ‘Woodruff was with him when he came in, and said: “John, I wish you and loan him $1,500.” I said ee money if Mr. Schultz would. Tiltoy _ <* out plan for carrying on the _— the second interview Mr. E would the money if] ih HD it z Clafiin not to put any money in the Golden Age. This conversation occurred before the Golden Age was started. The first number came out on March 1, 1871. Mr. Schultz and I subscribed $1,500 each. I met Mr. Tilton after the publication of THE WOODHULL BIOGRAPHY, and spoke to him aboutit. He said he had known Mrs. Woodhull for along time, and that she was a fine woman. He gioried in having written her life. he said, aad asked me what Schultz, or Woodruff, or m: ft knew about her. I remember the publica- tion of the Woodhull scandal. I met Tilton after it. He said he could not deny it; it was a wheei within awheel. [asked him If there was a word of truth in thestory that Beecher bad committed adultery with Mrs. Tilton, and he said there was nota word of trath in it. He also denied that Moulton had puta isto] to Beecher’s head. I saw Tilton on the st of January, 1873, at Mr. Moulton’s bouse. l was speaking of Mr. Beecher’s speech to the New England Society, and Tilton came in @nd stated he understood that ee got had called him a blackmailer. 2 said Beecher would write Mr. Schultz a letter, and he would retract this expression. I said I thonght not, for Schultz would not call any person by that name without proot for it. ‘he terms of our loan were that Mr. Tilton was to be loaned $1,500 for seven per cent. in- terest. I paid the first part of my subscrip- tion ($750) on the ith of September, 1571. All the subscribers paid their half of what they agreed; a chanze was le in the Golden Age contracts after this; we were to give up the security of the money we had paid to be released from any further pay- ments. Woodruff said we must get out of this Golden Age business, and said Tilton had not conducted the paper a& he ought to have done; he had written the life Mrs. ‘Woodbull and run the paper in the interests of Mr. Greeley. Mr. Woodruff said that ever ce he (Tilton) had slandered a gentleman in Brooklyn he could never trust him. Wood- ruff advised me to give up these notes, make @ present of them, and release myself from the obligation. Wehad a conversation some weeks afterwards, which led to the surren- der of the notes. The Vineland Tragedy. THE PROVOCATION FOR THE SHOOTING The particulars of the shooting at Vine- land, N. J.,on Friday last,of Uri editor of the Independent, by Chark Landis, the founder of Vineland, already been published. The annexed st ment is furnished by tion: “As lon, tome I fcit li knows that if he cau stand pounding he tire out the enemy; and I knew that if Teonld not outlive his scurrility I did not desire to ped; but when he began to at pd children it was a fardifferent m: ter. Not only was it my duty to protect them at all hazards, but my wife is of avery excitable nature; msanity is in her blood, and these allusions to her actually drove her mad. Copies of these articles were thrust under the™loor or thrown into the wii spite of all precautions, and she finally came so violent that she was dangerous, # Ihad often to call the servants to hel hold her. On the day before Carruth’s article appeared I urged Dr. Lane to give her anodyne. She talked continually of the arti- cles in the Independent. She was enciente, and there was a certainty, this the doctor assured her, that her reason would be per- manently overthrown unless the excitement was removed. He said that if he gave her an opiate it would endanger life, and the only remedy was to remove the exciting cause. She had often been insane for a week at a time after a slanderous article in the Inde- pendent. On the morning of the shooting I went to my office early, leaving her a little quieter than she had been. At half-past 9, I returned home and found her ina state of violent and seo excitement, with the slip from the Independent in her hand. Some one had sent it toher. Ido not know who; I never could keep them out of the house; she showed ittome. I saw her condition. I re- membered the doctor's words. I knew the danger to her reason and her life. I saw the folly of the efforts I had made for years to keep these articles from her knowledze- ———. and the assault on Car- 'y followed.” it two or three years Mr. Landis, through his Weekly, and Mr.Carruth,throuzh the Independent, have been engaged ina bit- ter warfare.and personalities were vigor- ously indulged in. CARRUTH'S CONDITION. A dispatch from Vineland last nixht says: Mr. Carruth’s bores was more broken and restless than last night, pulse 56, natural, no pain except a little throbbing in the wound, appetite good, skin soft, with a little perspi- ration at times. His family physician fecls encouraged with the progress his patient has made. Carruth has not been raised from a horizontal position, and is yet in @ very critical condition, notwithstanding all fav- orable symptoms. Landis as the provoc ROBRERY AT THE First NATIONAL BANK In BALTIMORE.— Yesterday a hold robbery of $1,000 took place at the First National Bank, on South Gay street, near Baltimore, under the following cireumstances:—A bout 2:45 p. in. Mr. Whiteraft, a clerk of the North- ern Central railroad company, went to the bank to make a deposit of $3,600 in bonds ax checks, and also to draw 000 in curren: The money paid him by the teller consisted of two packages of $1,000 each, and $3,000 in loose notes. He placed the money on the rail- of the aperture, behind which the ts his business, first placing one of the packages of a thousand dollars, then the loose money, and on top the other pack- t this moment a man to his right showed him a check and asked him if he knew the party whose name was attached to the check, and was answered in the negative, and Mr. Whiteraft then pro- ceeded bad goenel his money in his bank book, | and found that the top package of a thousand | dollars had disappeared, and on turning | round he discovered that the man to his | right, together with & man who stood at his | back, and a third man who stood at his left. had left the bank. He proceeded to the street, but they were not in sight, and the inference is that when his attention was called to the check by the party to his right, the party to his left seiz @ package ofa thousand dol- Jars, and the trio made off together. The po- lice authorities were notified, and every exer- tion is being made for the detection of the robbers, but the task is a difficult one, as_ne one noticed the men particularly, and Mr. iterar: cous se¥e HO description gi Wagm. | Balt. Gazette, %th. New York Dry Goops MARKET.—Cotton goods present the same remarkable steadi- ness in value which has been their charac- teristic for many weeks past. There were | very few price flactuations during the week, but a few ular brands of brown and | bleached cottons were rene oye ed by the agents, and the general line wa Uonally firm. There was a fair package de- mand for heavy standard and low fine brown sheetings, which continue closely goid_up to receipts, and agents find no iitfle difieulty in supplying the trade with the leading brands of these goods, which are in many cases held “at value” for future delivery. Bleached shirtings of medium and fine qual- ittes of acknow!eized reputation found ready buyers, but holders of less-known and out- side makes experienced some trouble in placing these goods. Colored cottons moved steadily in moderate embers and an in- crea demand for cheviots and brown ducks and drills was noticed. Cottonades lacked —— and — nat Ceo of these goods dragged considerably, althouz! prices were unel Woolen goods showed no ever, no giving way in fabries—N. Y. Bulletin, $23 S00 agatast Lucy D. Bis: atrafatetrauere f the estate of Col. Ja on two |. Fisk. a Fisk, jr., | sary lo zo out of her course and pass around TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR. A SEA OF ICE. ATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS DELAYED THE PENNSYLVANIA ICE GORGES. TRYING TO SAVE WILLIAMSPORT. THE BEECHER TRIAL. Tilton’s Intimacy with Woodhall. A Colored Witness. RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICANS, THE CONVENTION TO-DAY. TILTON-REECHER TRIAL. What Mrs. Weedhbull’s Colored Man Knows About Tilten. Nrw_ York. March 25.—Upon resumption of the Tilton- Beecher trial to-day, Mr. Shear- man called James B. Woodley, @ colored man, who testified, in answer to Mr. Evarts 1 live in Brooklyn; was born in Virginia in August, 145; I was asiave; leame north in 1868, have been south at various times; I know Tilton, and also Beecher by sight, I belong to the _— church; when I car I procured a situation with Mr. J. Beach in New Jersey; 1 was with Mrs. Wood- hull when the scandal was published, and I was arrested at the post office for mailing some of the papers; my employment te nated after my arrest; I was first empl as waiter at their house, No. 15 east 38th street, but was afterwards employed in the » town office, wrapping up and mailing the papers; I distributed THE LIFE OF MES. WOODHULL for Mr. Tilton among the news dealers, and handed the money to Miss Annie Tilton, who was t urer. I was introdaced to Tilton by Mrs. Woothull in her downa-town office. Mrs. Woodhull said he had done a good deal for the people at the south, and was then edi- tor of the Brooklyn Union. He asked me if 1 had been a siave,and how I was getting along. This was in the year 1871. The life of Victoria Woodhull was published in Sep- tember, 1871. I donot remember the mouth the Steinway meeting was, but it was in the same year. I remember A CONVERSATION ABOUT PREE-LOVE between Woodhall, Claflin and Tilton in their office. Mrs. Woedhull asked me ii I was a free-lover, and I said J ¢ not know what free-love was. She asked me if Ik: Henry Ward Beecherand I said I did. asked me if] ever heard him preach and I i her I ha She then said was one of Teatest 9 that ever lived and that he wasa free-lover. She then spoke to Tilton and asked me if 1 knew what free-love was and explined tome its meaning. 4 told her that the Scriptures said, “What God hath joined let no man put asunder.” Tilton Was very often at the down-town office dur- ing that summer. Tilton very frequently took lunch there that year. After I went to the office I did not lve at the 38th-street house but boarded in Brooklyn. I saw Tilton at the 38th-street house sometimes as late as 12 and lo'clock. He was SOMETIMES IN MES. WOOPEULL'S ROOM and sometimes in Miss Claflin’s, gener writing. Either one of the ladies or Colonel Blood would be with him. They had refresh- ments served up in these rooms to them. They went from 38th street to Zid street and kept house; when I sometimes went there I saw Mr. Tilton. The house was kept by a sister of Mrs. Woodull’s. They then removed to Irving Place, where the house was kept by Mrs. Miles. Mr. Tilton visited here also. Before my arrest F been sick for two or th.ee weeks and was just out for two or three days; I was seriously ill after the con- finement. I knew of Mr. Tilton in the polit- ical campaign of 1872; 1 was preseat on one occasion at Mrs. Woodhuil’s when Tilton Was there and conversation turned on the PUBLICATION OF THE WOODHULL SCAN- DAL. Tilton said she ought to publish this, as he couki not do it. They would crush him. He said that Plymouth church was a rich body. and would pay to have it stopped. Col. Blood was unwilling to do it, for fear he would get into trouble. It was stated by Tilton that PLYMOUTH CHURCH WOULD PAY $100,000 to have it s After lunch, Tilton and Col. Blood were ta! iz about it, but I could not hear what was said. Col. Blood went away the next day after another interview. I saw Mr. Tilton at the breakfast tavle early one morning at the 38th street house, and I supposed he was there al] night. At the interview next day Colonel Blood said he would nothing to do with the publication ve and then he went away; I was in Ludlow street jail, detained as a witness, for 15 days; at the time. of this conversation the proofs were all set up ready to be used: [ was familiar with proofs and printed slips then; I had printed slips in my hands at the time of this conversation, but did not know they were connected with this scandal; I did not read the Woodhull or Challis article, but | heard people talk about them; I saw TILTON AND MRS. WOODHULL. sitting together often with theirarmns around each other but I thought this was perfectly natural. This conversation was about four or five weeks before the publication. —eo— ICE FIELDS THE ATLANTIC, Steamships Delayed. New York, Mai 23.—Steamships which urrived here yesterday brought reports of ran gone of ice in mid-ovcean. Holsatia, from Hamburg, when in latitude 48 and longitude 40, passed two immense ice- bergs, and was three hours in forcing a~ sage through large fields of drift ice. e steamer Cimbria, (rom Havre, met with a similar experience. but found greater diffi- culty in avoiding the obstructions. On March 19th, when in latitude 45 and longitude 86 the vessel passed a short distance from an immense iceberg, and about midnight came into an immeuse field of drift tee, through which the steamer could not force a passage. No opening appeared, and it was found neces- the field. The steamer L. Amerique, from Havre, also encountered ice fields on March 20 when in latitude 43 and longitude 51. —_—e—— EUROPE. A Carlist General tr; BAYONNE, March 5 The Carlist General Mendiri has entered France. He Takes it Hard. DUBLIN, March 25.—Jobn Mart of Parliament for Meath, is ina state of health in consequence of produced by the death and fanc Mitchell. RHODE ISLAND CROWDED. excitement al of John | vention. Apgar nny a L. ee gts publican state’ convention in Seutatives Hall, in the State House, this &. More Fires. Faut River, March 25.—Pire last night partially destroyed fourteen tenement houses on Pleasant sireet owned by James Dailey, Lows $40,000. Coxcorp, N. H., Mareh 23—Mill No 1, of the Winnipiscogee Paper Works, at Frank- A New Station. PortTsmoura, ent hcaren 2.—The chief signal officer of the War riment has heen nested to engege the Faraday to the cable from Portsmouth to the Isle of or a contemplated signal station, on her re- urn this sprin fr pers indicate that there is cousiderable feeling just now in that ani to the management of 1 1 Obie canal, as it affects the prospects of the coal trade and resumption of business on the canal. The railrowishave reduced the freigkt on coal twenty-five cents per ton, and it aj the canal managers propose # reduction of eight cents on toll and whartage. which is not regarded as sufficient and the prospect is noi deemed good for the coming season Th 5 nd News says :—The cleaning y repairs of the canalbay- eled, water was let in all the day Last, and it is announced will be ready for navigation on which day also Co! Weber, of this port, has been directed to repared to issue way bill We are in- ned, however, that the Cumberland di- Vision Will not have been filled with water before Monday next, Itis doabtful if even at that date any shipments will be main, A News reporter visited a sumber of ageots of the different coal a at this city for the pu: of ascertaining what arrange- ments hal been made for the opening of the shipping season. The reporter was informed that nothing had been done, owing to the | Unsettied state of affairs, but that no ship- | ments would be made this mouth at least The representative of a company which is now shipping about three hundred tons by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad that unléss some relief was afforded by anal company, other than that of th duction of cicht cents on toll and wharf posed, no shipments of eval could be wm ) canal. On Tnesday the New Centra’ pany commenced the shipment of four wired tons of coal perday by the Pennsy! vania railroad to New York, and are ship- ping in addition about five hundred tons per day by the Baltimore and Ohio to Locast Point. Another coal company is now shi ping four hundred tons per day by the Ball more and Obio failroad, and on Taextay commenced shipping to (ll @ contract for coal which was to have been delivered at Alexandria. The agent for this y could not give any definite information as to the resumption of sh' t was of opinion that « xrester reduction in canal tolls than that already @anounced, woul haveto be made. The gloomy of the canal trade are exciting considerable comment here, and a number of| in- terested in the business of the canal as affect- ing our community have issued a call for a public meeting to bebeld on Friday after- b oon The Cumberiand Times also has an article on the sulject,.giving it a litical bearing, and »pitching” into | man and Bannon” ae director of | the canal respectively) for “trifling with Tvnthices teat bring the best interests” of the people. those caral men will “sogner or later ruin and disgrace upon thé democratic party and the state.” A SOCIAL SENSATIO! LEAVES- WORTE—A_ Promment rauing the Seducery His Daughter. ‘City Times’ special from Leavenworth bas metion Of @ social scandal @mong n= le there, sr he & western Brooklyn. It says Mr. ane} peemeens banker, shot one Pen- dery, a ling lawyer, for bl tion of his daughter. The substance of Mr. Hensley's statement: a daughter, who was married a number years since to Mr. MeRaliag They ™, to Caltfornia, where ‘MeNults i my daughter a widow tin t dren, a boy and girl. 1 bronght Mrs. McNulty home and gave her a home adjoining my Own. For some months back visits of this man Pendery fa bave been of such frequency as to arouse my suspicions that all was not as it be between him and my daughter, Me. Nulty. A few weeks since my were confirmed by receiving a m of letters from my grandson, which be his mother had received from Pendery. a reading the letters I discovered that hey were in the handwriting of Pe: * their contents confirmed my worst @ars. I wrot: aietter to Mr. Pendery. demanding that he make some reparation for the inju which he had done, and that he cease his Visits and attention to my danghter. In I received a very insulting letter, me with crime in obtaining the letters, demanding that they be returned to ir rightful owner within five days. were written from Washington, D.C., and cover a space of several weeks. In the efen- ing, after dusk, I learned that be was daughter's house. I watched at the lending to shoot him when he came out. He was considerably frightened; would come to the door, stick out his and then baex. Finally he concluded that the wag clear and ventured out. He started ona I pulled on him. The bis plug hat. He disappeared in a going on all rs. The affair has a excitement, and no telligg what will follow. A RAILROAD RESPONSIBLE TO A PASSENG ER. —George L. Dale a verdict for #2,000 dam against the Del- aware, a a cnn company, the supreme before Judge Lawrence and a jury, day. Plaintiff wasa passenger ding portion of defendant's road, whieh had been “originally constructed on the aoe od ~~ toned & bales gauge; in passing over a bad been constructed for the narrow cars the broad gauge cars in which riding rubbed so close to the sides of the bridge that some loose boards on the latter were caught in the window at which he was sit- ling. and inflicted serious and girl