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BEEGHER'S TROUBLE. The Plymouth Pastor Re- plies to Tilton. A GENERAL DENIAL. Tilton’s Particular Allegations Declared False. a HE CRY OF THE PRESS. Brooklyn in High Fever Over the Scandal. MR. BEECHER’S STATEMENT. 1 do not propose at this time a detailed examin- ation of the remarkable statement of Mr. Theodore Tilton, made before the committee of investiga- tion, and which appeared in the Brooklyn Argus of July 21, 1874, which make it of transcendent importance to myself, the Church, and the cause of public morality, that I shall give a full answer to the charges against me. But having requested the committee of investigation to search this matter tothe bottom, it isto them that I must look for my vindication. ButI cannot delay for an hour to defend the reputation of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, upon whose Dame, in connection with mine, her husband has attempted to pour shame. One less deserying of such disgrace I never knew. From childhood she has been under my eye, and since reaching womanhood she has had my sincere admiration and affection. I cherish tor her @ pure ijeeling, such as a gentleman might honorably offer toa Christian woman, and which | she might receive and reciprocate without moral scruple. tion which reflects upon her honor or my own. My regard for Mra. Tilton was perfectly wel Known to my family. When serious difiicnities bprang up in her household it was to my wile that She resorted for counsel; and both of us, acting from sympathy, and, as it subsequently appeared, without full knowledge, gave unadvised counsel Which tended to harm, I recognize the many reasons | | letters of the parties concerned, Lreject with indignation every tmputa- | | She will not perjure hersell, and, of course, upon | May oe worse for some matrons whose names have Lhave no doubt that Mr. Tilton found that his | | once become thoroughly impregnated by the nl- wife’s confidence and reliance upon my judgment had greatly increased, while his influence had @muinished, in consequence of a marked cnange in his religious and social views which was taking | press representative yesterday, exclaimed, | Dave place during those years, Her mind was greatly | exercised lest her children should be harmed by views which she deemed vitally false and dan- gerons, I was suddenly and rudely aroused to the reality of impending danger by the disclosure of domestic Gistress, of sickness, perhaps unto death, of the Wkellhood of separation and the scattering of a family, every member of which 1 had tenderly loved, The effect upon me of the discovery of the state of Mr. Tilton’s jeelings and the condition of bis family surpassed in sorrow and excitement @nything that I had ever experienced in my life. That my presence, influence and counsel ‘nad bronght to @ beloved family sorrow and alienation + gave, in my then state of mind, a polgnancy to my suffering which I hope no other man may ever feel. Even to be suspected of having offered, under the privileges of a pecultarly sacred relation, an indecorum to a wife and mother conid not but Geeply wound any oue who is sensitive to the honor of womanhood. There were peculiar reasons for alarm in this cage on other grounds, inasmuch as 1 was then subject to certain malignant rumors, and a fla- grant outbreak in thia ‘amily would bring upon them an added tnjury, derived from these shame- less falsehoods. Believing at the time that my presence and counsels had tended, however unconsciously, to produce a social catastrophe, represented us immi- ment, | gave expression to my feelings in an interview with a mutual friend, not in cold and cautious self-defending words, but eagerly tak- ing blame upon myself, and pouring out my heart to my triend in the strongest janguage, overburdened With the exaggerations of impassioned sorrow. mad been the evil man Mr, Tilton now repre- sents I should have been calmer and more pru- dent. It was my horror of the evil imputed that flied me with morbid intensity at the very shadow of it. Not only was my friend affected generously, but he assured me that such expressions, if conveyed to Mr. Tilton, would soo.he wounded feeling, allay apger and heal the whole trouble. down sentences and fragments of what I had been saying, to use them a8 @ mediator, A ull Statement of the circumstances under which this memorandum was made I shall give to the inves- tigating committee. ‘That these apologies were more than ample to | Meet the facts of the case is evident, in that they were accepted, that our intercourse resumed its friendliness, that Mr. Tilton subsequently ratitied it im writiug and that he has continued for four years and until within two weeks to live with his wife, i Is it conceivable, if tne original charge had been hat is now alleged, tuat he would have condoned the olfence, not only with the mother of his chil- Grea, but with him whom he believed to have wronged them? Tne absurdity as well as the Jalsity of this story 18 apparent, when it le considered that Mr. Tilton now alieges that he carned this guilty secret of his wife’s inf. delity {or six months locked up breast, and that then he divulged it to me only that there might be a reconciliation with me! Mr. Tilton has since, in every form of language and to @ multitude of witnesses, ornily, in written statements and in printed documents, declared bis faith in bis wife's purity. Altor the reconciliation of Mr. Tilton with me every consideration of propriety and honor de- to his own | | orably with Mrs, Elizabeth R, Tilton, or which in | H any wise would impugn the honor ana purity of | long enough m the dark. | do otherwis: time the extraordinary paper of Mr. Tilton; but there are two allegations which I cannot permit to Pass without special notice. They refer to the only two Incidents which Mr, Tilton pretends to have witnessed personally—the one an alleged scene in my house while looking over engravings, and the other a chamber scene in his own house, His statements concerning tuese are absolutely | laise. Nothing of the kind ever occurred nor any sembiance of any such things, ‘They are now | brought to my notice for the first time. To every statement which connects me dishon- tnts beloved Christian woman, I give the most ex- | plicit, compreheasive and solemn denial, HENRY WARD BEECHER, BROOKLYN, July 22, 1874, THE GENERAL SENTIMENT IN BROOKLYN. a: In Brovkiyn, where for upward of a quarter | of a century Ke\. Henry Ward Beecher nas occupied the highest pedestal of pulpit fame, | and has wielded an influence second to but jew men of his day and generation, the senti- ment attendant upon the explosion of Theodore Tilton’s terribie tauuderbolt woult be dificuit to analyze. The sworn statement of the awlul accu- ser, replete with tersely interwoven autographic wedged and clinched by sledgehammer logic and rhetoric un- surpassed in any arrangement of character within the scope of this generation, had an effect strange and anomalous. There were thousands who read and re-read and careiully weighed each sentence published in the HERALD, and, having done s0, de- ciared that naught but superhuman effrontery and adamantine indifference to what men thought could prevail upon the accused pastor of Plymouth church to ascend tne rostrum again in the capacity of shepherd of the fold. As against this divis- jon of sentiment was arrayed many thou- sands who contended that Mr. Beecher had been mahgnead most ‘heartlessly and un- seroponmy vy the avie and wily ‘iilion, who bad ingeniously contorted facts ahd misconstrued writiugs ior the sudservience of his netarious and revengefal designs agaiust Mr. Beecner. T'ms division held taat their chosen pastor would emerge from the darkness o! slander and calumny into the sunight of truth and vindication with w character unsullied and worthy the prestige which | he had won in the eyes of the world ere the Tilton blight fell upon him. “4 Tilton,” remarked an aamirer of Mr. Beecher, “is a lady in every way | worthy of the utmost credence, and her testimony | acquits the pastor of Plymouth of all criminait Fa her testimony the committee must acquit Mr. Beecue! “fhere ig one thing that strikes me, exciaimed a disinterested citizen, “about 8 scandal, which Is new. It appears to me that every other man in Brooklyn has been em- pioyed by Plymouth church to assist in whitewash- ing the pastor and smearing lampolack and coal tar over Tilton. It is a pretty piece of carrion jor the character valtures to préy on, how- ever, and I suppose the ‘good work’ (whatever | that may mean) will bave to goon. Should Tilton ve driven to the wali ultimately in tmis nght it not yet been broached, and the atmosphere, having odors of scandal, there is no telling where the epi- | demic will terminate, should Tilton persist in dig- ging the graves.” ‘ The Mayor o1 the city, when approached by i i nothing to say to-day. | am thinking of | nothing part.cu'ar, Let me alone; for heaven's | sake have not the papers got enough to write about in the Beecher-Ti!ton scandal?” So it was through all the offices of the City Hail and County Court House, in the shops, saioons, street cars, pariors, kitchens, highup aod low down. It was nothing but Beecher and ‘tilton, Tilton and Beecher, the livelong day and Jar into the night. THE PRESS ON THE SCANDAL. The Arraignment of Mr. Beecher. [From the New York Tribune.] The sorrowiul controversy by which Plymouth church has been so longgagitated has ceas2a to ve ® private quarrel or o mere congregation scandal, As long as it could be so considered we held aloof from all discussion of af, only printing what seemoa due to our readers Jegttimate and important news. But when Mr. Beecher publicly demanded an investigation of the charges against | him we glad:y hailed the occasion of what we trusted would prove his complete vindication, and from that honr it appeared that the cause of re- ligion and decency would be best subserved by calling public attention to the flnal disposition now to be made of a disgusting scandal which had livea It was announced that Mr. ‘ilton nad gone before the committee and brought forward nothing; that Mr. Moulton nad merely proposed a compromise, and that Mrs, Til- | ton had put to rest the vague insinuations con- tained in ner husvand’s recent letter by declaring tuat there had never been the slightest suggestion ol impropriety between her and Mr. Beecuer. All these statements we published, being gratified bed tne miserable contest was drawing near its close. On Monday night Mr. Tilton read to the commit- tee a julland unreserved statement, We print it tnis morning. We have no right or inclination to This case now transcends the power of ecclesiastical conferences or of well meamng Marplots to settie or conceal it, Unless this fright- jul exposition ig answered promptly and tully the most famous pulpit the world has ever seen since Paul preached on the Hul oi Mars ts silenced, | the life of the greatest preacher in the world is | ended. | Of a spotless and glorious career, | longer salety or dignity in the proud silence which He took £ Manded that the family trouvie should be kept in | that seclusion which domestic affairs have a right to claim as a sanctuary, and to that seclusion 1 | Was determined that it should be confined. Every | fa. | ty line Gad word of roy private and cont | One Onis, Dut npON the Very ides uf nome tee! fr | not upon Ais own wiie Only, but upon womanhood dential letters which have been published is in harmony with the statements which 1 now make, My pubiisued correspondence on this subject com- prises but two elements—the expression of my grief and that of my desire to shield the honor of | & pure and innocent Woman, Joenes purpose to Seniyze and contest | | Qurselvas, it is useless to lall back upon the record There is no would have so well become the great pastor if there were no words oJ his own to be explained. | No man living, least of all his currish asatiants, | would have the right to make him open his lps in contradiction i his own hand was not there to bear witness against him. ven yet te thou- sands who for so many years have known and honored him and the vaster constituency to | whom, over the whole Continent, his name has stood a8 a symbol of genius, very and every lib- | eral aspiration will wait ior his word to give | them icave to trust him as of old. atwiil ve an easy task i he should undertake it. If there be any explanation, apart from the reyolt- ing one given by Mr. Tilton, which will either make clear the faisity of these letters or mterpret their humimMation and remozse, the better sort of people in this country will hail it as tidings of reat Joy. | ‘The commanding personality of Mr. Beecher so | dwarts every other figure in this melancholy drama that it is hardly worth while to waste ume in dweiling upon tie peculiarities of Mr. Tilton’s extraordinary statement, ‘The feverish and un- Wholesome atmosphere of emotion in waich the lesser personages live and move renders their written and their oral assertions equally doubtint and untrustworthy. Upon any theory of the matter it is Inexpressibly mourniul to see amid what a poisonous cloud of mean passions, temptations, jealousies, and even devotions as injurious as hatreds, this great orator and teacher habitually walked, In a iew days we shall leatn what answer he has to make to these grave accusations. If he can disprove them his position will be stronger than ever jor this trial and triumph, If he jalis it ts not too much to say tuat all Christendom will depiore a loss hardiy to be measured by words, and in our own counwy hia iapse will be regarded as a well nign irrepara- ble cisaster, It is not only his eloquence, his iame, is Christian eharacter and example that are nere assalied; we should lose in him the eminent preacher whom every one knows and admires, and the ripe and liberal thinker whose value 18 only just beginning to be recognized by cultivated and thoughtful men. If he should come alive out of this ordeal he will be prized more than ever. if Not the pistol shot of Booth caused a national sorrow no deeper and not so hopeless, “Naked, Shameless and Unabashed.” {From the New York World.) It grieves us to couple in one sentence two such names as those of Ars. Victoria Woodhull and of Dr. Leonard Bacon, But it is tle pleasure of Mr. | Theodore Tilton that we should be compelled to do so. Two years ego Mrs, Woodhull published Mr. | Tilton to the world aga cuckold, Two months ago Dr. Bacon, «8 Mr. Tilton can never have done with telling us, published Mr. filton to the world as “a dog and a knave.” And now comes Mr, ‘Tilton himself beiore an investigating committee in Brookiyn to prove himself a cuckold, with the shumelessness of a dog and with ne cunning of a knave, These are plain words, Dean Swit woud have used them in a less im- perative cuse, But mo case more imperative ever passed beveath the remorseless scourge of that stern executioner, The statement Low mace pubiic by Mr, Tilton of his domestic lite and trouvies is simply au outrage not upon his own and the marriage bond. Plain mon reaaing {t will tempted to esteem Danie! E. Sickles in the con is0n With this mana gentleman and a man of onor, and to regard adultery as a venal offence in comparison with this tnan's leprous and loata- some vindication of his conjugal rights. With the nomiual subject matter of this revoit- ing paper We do Dut propose just now to concern The gugations. f Mrs. Titon’s guilt or | aad’ ar, t'8 gUUt OF innocence | | demned upo whole truth, and when justice will be done, though - ) has been tully heard, | Tilton have now for the first time been distinctly raised by this statement in such wise as to make it imperative that vg should be settled, But this, not because Mr. Tilton now for the first time, aiter montos und years of dark innuendo and malignant insinnation, plainly charges Mr. Beecuer with the seducuon of lis wile, First hand witness to the charge though he claims to be, Mr. ‘Lilton is a Wortniess witness, for Mr. Tilton has written himself down a dog. Nothing can be entertained, hothing can be believed, nothing can be affirmed or denied on the evidence of a man who exults to show that with him nothiog is sacred, neither his plighted word nor his professed religion, hor his self-respect as a man, nor the | nuptial chamber of his wedded wife. He claims, indeed, like Mr. Sickles, to have wrung trom his amie @ conlession of her guilt—a claim which his and repels. But it is not recorded that Mr. Sickles, aiter extracting & confession from his wile, fell upon woe neck Of her seducer, and with Christian tears and tenderness forgave ana embraced him as & preliminary to pistolling him suddenly to death in the public streets on the Sapbatn aiter- noon. ‘The charge now made against Mr. Beecher rests, , So lar as Mr, Tilton’s statement enables us to as: sign to it any foundation at ail, upon the alleged knowledge had of tnis charge and the alleged ac- tion taken in consequence of it by senate thira 4 parties, and botably by Mr. Monitan, ter and Mr. Oliver Johnson, It is but iy just, by the way, to Say that a letter given in this Statement as written by Mr. Oliver Jounson to Mr. ‘Titon on this subject 1s absolutely the one oasis of | maniiness and right feeling which shes this else desert. waste of sentimentali: pruriency, cowardice and filth, When Mr. Beecher shall have been confronted witn these third parties, and | Mr. Beecher’s testimony can be weighed with or against theirs, it will be in order to form a fina! judgiment as to tne truth or Jalsenood of the charge which, so jar as it resta on anything now withim the range vi vision of the Pablic, rests alone upon them and upon their tes- tunony. But as to Mr. Tilton we need no further evidence than msown, He stands before us now by bis own act, naked, shameless and unabashed, | Or rather 'e does not stand, for that is the char- acteristic attitude of manhood; but sqnats belore | us, a leering, Obscene shape, coprophagous and foul, beslobbering with tears of dramatic seif- adulation, the letters of the woman he had sworn to love, honor and cherish, and spelling out with gieeiul, gloating empnasis to the ribald crowd the | syllables of @ woman's whispered tenderness, to enhance the picture he would patot of his own Magnanimons moral beauty and of that woman's wretched lapse irom loyalty to bim and his great heart, It is simply horrible. Let Us Have the Whole Truth. {From the Boston Advertiser. [ At 1s only common fairness to remember that Mr. Tilton is the accuser, and that, as yet, he is the only witness the public have had a chance to hear—he and his dreadful letters, Now that the appeal has been taken from Mr. Beecher’a church to the Ree ut large, it is of the first importance, not to Mr. Beecher, whom nothing can now shield | from the results of this inquisition, whatever Shey ah may be, but to publte virtue and the cause whic! his pulpit represents, that he shonid nut be con- n this evidence. Let us have the the heavens fa}l. A Scandal That [s a Moral Pest. {From the Boston Globe.} Of the merits of this case, a3 set forth by Mr. Tilton, we have nothing to say at present. His is an ex parte statement, and the public willdo well to suspend its judgment until Mr, Tf the accusations of Mr. are true, it is sad indeed, and griev- ously will the pastor of ilymouth churen have to answer it belore the world. Ifit is not trae, | as we sincerely hope and trust will speedily be shown, if 18 still a sad exhibition of the wicked malice of a misguided man, who will have given | himself over to the righteous reprovation of his fellow men. In either case it were weil that tne matter be as quickiy as possible disposed of in ac- cordance with the demands of the strictest justice and trutn, and tne puolic relieved of a scandal whose very exigence 18 @ moral pest, and whose © continuance in any form is to be deplored by ail good peuple. Extravagancies, Inconsistencies, Self- Stultification and Absurditt {From the Providence Journal.) While the statement is manilestly characterized by extravagances, inconsistencies, self-stultifica- tious and absurdities—presenting under oath as facts what he haa repeatedly as solemnly denied— there is, nevertheless, embodied in this indictment @ Mass of Correspondence which certainly needs to | be very clearly explained or utterly disavowed: by Mr. Beecher and the unhappy woman whose hus- band, Lee ashe says, condoning so much, has | turned so flercely upon he: We Print it Without Comment, {From the Springtield (Mass.) Republican.) We print Mr. Tilton’s statemeat as it comes to | Rai us; it isthe most important news going and the pudlic is clearly entitled to it. We print it with- out comment, portunity to reply. & ht A Sad and Distasteful Task. {From tne Hartford Courant.) The Courant has never been required to perform &@ sadder or more distasteful task than the pubiica- tion this morning of Toneodore Tilton’s astonishing statement concerning the Rev. Henry Wara Beecher. Mr. Beecher has been such a power | in the country, great and in his influence the main so has been so good, that his downfall, if it must be aamitted, can only | be regarded as a national calamity. The story issad, strange and incomprehensible. ‘the evidence furnished by Mr. Tilton seems mexplicable upon any theory ot Mr, Beecher’s innocence, and yet it must be remembered that only one side has been heard, and that judgment should be suspended until the other side has been presented. For the present We refrain from extended comments. We can neither condemn Mr. Beecher uor Mr. Tilton until all the facts are known. Mr. Beecner's friends still assert that everything can be ex- plained sausfactorily, and it such proves to be the case it will be the most acceptable néws the coun- try can receive. The whole truth must now be known, and any attempts a: equivocation or deceit | will prove futile and will damage those who make them, Mr. Beecher Must Deny or Confess. [From the Worcester (Mass,) Press.) As the case now stands Mr. Beecher 1s either | the most deiamed man on the face of the earth and Mr, Tilton the most deceived or the greatest liar, or else Mr. Beecher is the greatest rascal that ever wore the cloth and Mr. Tilton the most in- jured man altve. Beecher to do but to deny or confess, If he shall deny the burden of proof will then be thrown upon Mr. Tilton, and he willeither have to prove himself not a ilar or the terrible cloud of sus- picion will be removed from Mr, Beecher. In either case it 18 to be hoped there will be an end of this the worst scandal of this scandalous age. Not Yet Time To Judge. (From the Worcester Spy.) A great part of our space this morning is occu- pied with the details of a terrible accusation. it is not yet time to judge, for the accused must be heard; but the iull development o: tois most de- plorable scandal is near. A Very Ugly Look tor Mr. Beecher. (From the Washington Republican.) We print this morning the sworn statement of Mr. Theodore Tilton detailing circumstautially the charges against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher whico have of late occupied so much public attention. | This statement is lortified by letters of Mr. Beecher and Mrs, ‘iilton, which gtve it a very ugly look tor Mr. Beecher. ir, Beecher will undouptealy reply to Mr. ‘Tilton’s damaging statement, When the pub- lec will be enabled to form fair and intelligent co: oar in regard to the guilt or innocence of the parties, Circumstantiality of Detail as to Almost | Force Conviction. (From the Baltimore Gazette.} There are those who will protest that the public prints ought not to have given currency to this great scandal; that although it jormed for years the staple of the most piquant gossip of Brooklyn, and kept spreading ouf in ever widening circies, it should bave been either resolutely patio tneen or suffered to live and die in tue city of its birth. But the trouble is that every attempi that has been made to silence it has failed. it would not down at any miu's bidding, 1t even defied tne whole power o1 ’symouth church, and grew darker and more portetitous irom the hour that a com- | nilitee of that congregation made strenuous erforts | to exorcise 1t, And now, With such circumstantial- ity ef deta: as to aimost force convicrioy, the shameful story is told, and, whether it be wholly true or only true in part, it blasts henceforth and | forever the character of two men—oue the most eminent preacher of his time, tue otner a writer Ol no little pubic repute, Mr. Beecher Has the Floor. (From the Washington Chronicle.) We present a juli despatch this morning of the long-looked for statement of Theodore Tilton, He gives the public the entire history of a transaction that has excited public attention lor years, A prir vate despatch received atalate hour this morn- ing iniorms us that Mr. Beecier and Mrs, ‘viiton are preparing a counter statemenc, received wo have no comment to make. Certainly, 7 the case now stands, Mr. Beecner has the joor. Turn with Loathing from the Wretched Egotist. (From the Baltimore American.) Theodore iilton's long-promised statement bh boon mauve at last, GRU A Rorrivle story is is, We be it remembered, most strenuously rebuts | Beecher | it. Beecher has not yet had an op- Nothing now remaius jor Mr. | Untii that is | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. | shan express no opinion as to whether it is true or | | false. Every decent man or woman who reads it | will turn with joaihing from the wretched egoust who could write the story of mis wiie’s seduction and ruin io a style that rivals the worst of sensational ‘novels. ‘Tilton 18 4 Man Of unclean imagination, and he seems to revel in the pruriency of these suamesul revela- tions. Even if they are true noching but sheer madness could have prompted their publication. | It will be noticed that the alleged immorahties | began six years ago and ceased three ycars ago. | Why should Tilton bave deterred telling his wrongs and sorrows to the worid su long? It there ever | could have been any excuse for such an exposure it Would have been when the injury Was tresh. A dark cloud hangs over Mr. Beecher. He may emerge from it and again take his place as the most | clung to bim most devotedly scarcely iope (nat he | will come out of the feariul ordeal unscatned. He | has promised to make a statement on Thursday, and ull then all who desire to be just will suspend | judgment, CREEDMOOR. ae | The Third Match Under the Auspices of the Amateur Rifle Club, tor the Pur- pose of Selecting um American Team, it is greatly to be regretted that the call of the Amateur Rifle Club, issued alter their acceptance of the Irish chailenge, is not meeting with a more hearty response. of Unis association are to have ali the work on their own shoulders, They have invited American born marksmen {rom all parts of the country to come forward and contest the honor of participat- , img in the now not far of international match; yet none of the States seem to take | any tmterest tn this truly important matter. | It cannot be possible that there are not even large ; Rumbers of gentiemen in almost every State | throughout the Union who might be able to | enter the lists now open to American riflemen, | Butif the Amateur Kitle Club are to do ail the Work certainly they saould bave the honor which popular preacher in America, put those who have | Fost, Yonkers; then posta from Passaic, New Brunswick, Burlington, Newark and Trenton. Then came Butler Post of Trenton, 200 strong, the orphans folowing ina decorated wagon. Then Company G, of the Fourth N: Jersey National Guard, and tase of all, jour fine posts irom Jersey City. bumbering 200 m ONE CONTINUO! greeted the procession OVATION as it passed through the streets. On arrival at ‘Temperance Isiandr a liberal collauion was lound awaiting the entire 3,000 men who had participated in tne march, and here, amid the shade, the veterans forgot tor a wale the burden and heat of their wari day's march. ¥ THE WIGWAM M was presided over t Yownsena welcomed the distingu: behalf of the city, teresting STAI SOF NEW JERSEY TROL showing that the State had turnished $5,005 men to | the service during the rebellion, or 20,057 in ex- | showed the vari It Seems as if the leading spirits | | will naturally accrue from the bold stand which | they have taken, apart trom the chances of a vic- | tory. Ihe best score made a week ago yesterday | Was that of General Dakin, who acmeved tho fine record of 169 pomts. On Saturday last Mr. Ballard headed the score witn 155 points, and yesterday | Captain Bodine was at the top of the list with the | reasonable good showing 0: 143 points, outol a | possibie 200, ‘Ths shows @ falling off of 16 points | a8 compared with the first maten. There are several ways to account tor this, | good reason may be jound in tae extremely heavy rges of powder used. Ine men of the Amateur , Club, and, indeed, others who siioot what are called sporting rides, use powder enough to ulsio- cate their shoulders Without improving in results as compared to what might be doue with lower charges. From 80 to 100 grains of fine-grained rifle powder are employed to carry a cylindro-coul- cal bull over a distance of 1,000 yards, when the same work might ve done with seventy grains of | @ reasonably good article. ‘Ihe cry is, that the quicker a bail travels over its trajectory the better | Jor tae marksman. ‘This is true to a ltmited de- | gree only, Leta man consult “Gibbon’s Artiller- | ists’ Manual,” “Benton's Ordnance and Gunnery,"’ | the works of Sir Howard Douglas, Majors Griftin | and Strath, or any otver emineut aurhority on ; the subject, and ‘it will be found that guns oi certain) makes can chamber and burn a given quantity of powder and | bo more, the surplus being pushed out of the muz- zie, Unigniied, alter the bali. 1t is also well Know. | that when a heavier charge than necessary | used 1t Only influences the initial velocity oi the | projectile jor but a lew hundred yards alter lea | Ing the ptece, when the veiocity comes uown to a good meaium of, say 1,400 feet per second, which might be obtain: with a much lignter charge. ‘The amount of powder employed bend a projec- trajectory. ‘Lis depends npon the make of the | arm, such as the riffing of the bore aud the form of the bail. But it would take more space than can be now devoted to this interesting subject to show that there {3 no need ior the American rifle- ; Men to disjoimt their limbs from the heavy recoil | of enormous charges, when just a8 good shooting | can be done with much less powder and hardly any fatigue, | tt was observed yesterday, and on other occa- tile has nothing todo with the curvature of its | cess of the number called tor, THE ADDRESS BY CONGRESSMAN PHELPS was the oratorical feature oj the day, his subject “Ine Value of Peace,” the speaker us motives which impelled nations to warlare, the successive stages througn which they pass in approaching the civilization whic Setiles its quarrels by aroitration, paid a ha some tribute to the triumph of peace in the Geneva Award, and ended by warning his hearers of the lesson taught by our present prostratio! at war, no matcer how loug its cost may b red by statesimanship, must in the end be paid for, Secretary Kobeson spoke with inuch feeling of the memories which the day evoked; and the President being loudly called for, gave one of his customary laconic speeches:—*“I would not make @ speech if I couid, and I could not if 1 would,” THE RECEPTION AT WASHINGTON HALL in the evening Was largely attended, and eauded in appropriate enjoyments ‘a day unequalled tor en- tuusiasm in the histury of Paterson. ARREST OF A GERMAN FORGER. {i Drafts for 100,000 Thalers Forged—The Capture at a Yonkers Hotel—Clever and Commendable Police Work. About four months ago Captain Irving, of the Central Oitice detective force, received tntel- ligence, through the medium of the German Min- ister in this country, that one Joseph schwick, aged thirty-six, unmarried, a merchant lately resident in the town of Munster, in Pruss.a, had committed a series of heavy Jorgeries upon the | leading commercial men of that city and had taken flight, presumably for the United States. Shortly | alter this a full description of the forger in ques. One | | With a heavy | and cabin passengers on board the vessels in ques- | tion, till one day, the 10th of May, he received a | head. sions, that, in order to deaden the shock of tne | recoil, neurly ali the men shooting used pads or cushions {n one Way or another. They also nad | the tangent scales of their rifles either wound round wivh a handkerchief or provided with a | leather strip to protect the sight. pillows, and ia one case a Mattress, Was used to | te upon in order to steady the aim. Gentlemen showid practise without any of these accessories, lor assuredly they will not be allowed in the com- | ing international match—a circumstance that | aught vastly bother the Americans unless they WwW commence to accustom themselves todo things. THE SCORES. g 3 cue Com com com cue Gam Smet ae, 3 ong eee Bouen pre Bim Sat, MOS eeu Cae Serre worse” Peete CCE eek omens! enc Cum wee ey eww ey wee ce? 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Extensive arrange- ments had been made for his reception, and the | decorations were general and elaborate. Nor were they made in vain. The President reached this joined by Secretary Robeson, Governor Parker, and the committee of reception, consisting o! ex- Mayor Tuttle, Dr. Wartier and Mr. E. I. Bell, and at once crossing the Cortlandt street ferry, took | the Pullman car which was in walting to convey City. The run to Hackensack was made in the sur- | prisingly short time of sixteen minutes, and on ar- | rival at the depot in that village a stup of a quarter | of an hour was decided upon to engble the Presi. dent to visit the points of revolutionary imterest it contains, | CONGRESSMAN PHELPS | stepped on board the car as soon as the train | came to a standstill, and was tnstantly recognized | oy Genera! Grant, who salated him warmly. “How | do you do, Mr. President?” said Mr. Pheips; “am | glad to welcome you to Hackensack.” Carriages were in waiting, a long cavalcade was formed, and Lill went the distinguished guests througn the jaded streets o1 wis good old Jersey town. The city by the morning boat from Long Branch, was | Cushions or , tion was received, the most notable features being that he had lost a linger and was marked ur on ls forehead, Provided with this information and a photograph Detective Van Gerichten was sent down to the Quaranune tion, where, through the courtesy of Heaith Officer Dr. Vanderpoel, he was allowed to board all the incoming European steamers im search of the fugitive from justice. Van Gerichten remained at his post, examining scrupulously all the steerage despatch trom Police Headquarters ordering him back to the city to attend to another case, on which Captain Irving had decided to place him, On the 2ist of May, eleven days after his being called away from Quarantine, Joseph Schwick, the torger, arrived by the French Transatlantic Com- Pany’s steamer Ville de Paris under the alias of Johann Schulz. Th: forger had taken up his abode in this city, having hired a small bedroom in the house of Mrs. Shaw, at No, 345 Sixth avenue. He seemed to Mrs. Shaw to be In a nervous condition and apparently apprehensive oi some impending misfortune. ROBBING MRS, SHAW’S HAIR. About a fortnight ago a burglary occurred at Mrs. Shaw’s house, between Saturday and Monday, and upwards of $500 worth of ambrosial locks, the stock in trade, were removed. Captain Irving ordered Detective M.Clapp to work up the case. Mrs. shaw, while tulking Over the case with Mr, Clapp, gave a full description of her lodger, who the time was out of town. She described his loss ot @ finger and the deep gash on the forehead, and told of his eccentric manners. Clapp knowing that this description somewhat tallied with that of the man that Van Gerichten had been endeavoring to meet, alter comparing notes they came to the conclusion that the man in question was the torger from Minster. The next thing done by Clapp was to endeavor to find out where Schwick was stopping. After some trouble he located him at the Libby House, at Yonkers, on the Hudson, Last Monday moraoing Clapp went up there and lounged about the hotel piazza, ana awaited the arrival of the German criminal. ‘foward evening he was seen lounging toward the hotel, with a cigar in his mouth, aud enjoying ap- parently the cool breeze blowing xcross the Tiver, AS soon as lie reached the piazza the heavy hund of Clapp was on him, and he Was iniormed that he was a prisoner, seemed as if thunderstruck, 80 thorouguly was he taken aback. Clapp then led his prisoner from the river side up to the Yonkers street police station. As soon as he entered the place and saw the unliorms of the police he became fearfully ex- cited, and maintained that he was a good and | honorable man and had not stolen any of Mrs. Shaw's hair, Beads o1 perspiration rolled dowao irom his brow, and his face became white as mar- ble. He protested and protested; but Ulapp felt that his prisoner was the much wanted lorger. He told Scuwick to take the matter coolly and not get mad with excitement, and if he was innocent of the burglary at Mrs. Shaw's he would uot ve punished tor it. TUR TRLL-TALR INDICATIONS. Schwick’s leit hand, whica was gloved (as it sub sequentiy transpired it was invariably while in ublic), Was iound to be minus the little finger. The finger of the glove Was tound padded with wool, and attached by sewing to the third finger ofthe glove. ‘the scar on tne forehead was also distinctly visible. Being thus assured of the iden- uty cf his man, Clapp biought his prisoner down to Police Headquarters in New York, “and locked him up on Monaay night. YESTERDAY'S DEVELOPMENTS, Yesterday morning Detective Von Gerichten Paid Schwick a visit in bis cell and showed him his photograph, on which the scar ou the forehead is distinctly visible. Von Gerichten asked him in German, ‘Is toat your portrait?” to which he re- plied, “On, nein; ‘oh, nein.” The resembiance, + however, 1s most strikingly irrefutable, although the photograph shows a beard, which the prisoner haa shaved of while passing through Paris on his | way to the Cnited States, and previous to hls di parture for Havre, where he took the French sveamer Ville de Paris for this city WHAT RE IS ACCUSED OF FORGING. Fifty thousand thalers on —-—-, of Munster, in January, 1874. Fiiteen thousand thalers on 15th January, 1874, on Liedenkautt & Aliers, of Munster. Twenty-seven thousand thalers in the end of January, on anotner firm in Munster, and several other forgeries, making a grand total of over 100,000 thaiers. The police authorities decline making public, for the present, what money they have recovered or | hope to recover, but it is beileved that he has a him over the New Jersey Midland to the Cataract | | walking down Fourth avenue, near 12lst strect, | with a razor in his hand, gesriculating rather wildly, Jarge amount placed Somewuere in this city, which they trust to get possession of, He has been living, while in this country, at Mrs. Shaw's, where be had @ bedroom, and at Long Branch and | Yonkers. He was at the latter place on the date when tne burglary at Mrs. Shaw’s took place, and he ts thereiore heid innocent of the participation in the burglary of human hair trom Mrs, Suaw’s store. Whue he was living in her house ne represented himseil as very Bean vutit appears that whie living at Long Branch and yonkers he lived somewhat extravagantly. Mr. Kircheis, of Tryon row. Messrs. Solomon & Burke, of Wail street, will appear at the examination next Week as counsel for the German government and demand Sciwick’s extradition, When at Mrs. Shaw’s he went under the alias of John Schulz. Schwick was taken yesterday morning beiore United States Commissioner Shields, and remanded to Ludiow Street Jail under the Extradition Treaty. AN ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Yesterday alternoon an elderly man was seen | His actions attracted the atiention of several rock- decorations were proiuse, the Visit having evi- | dently been anticipated, havn't had @ live President to their midst since the days of George Wastington, were WILD WITH ENTHUSIASM. | A numerous delegation of Huckensack notables, | including Mr. Vhelps, accompanied the Presi- dential party the rest of the journey to Paterson, | where the train arrived suortly ‘betore noon. Broadway and the open space about the Midland depot Were jound s0 densely packed with yelling humanity that it Was with the greatest ditticulty | that the Presidential party coud elvow its way | to the carriages. SECRETARY ROBESON was seen to seize by the nape of the neck a small | boy who had hollered “Hi, ni!” and trou on his | corns, and to eject him irom nis path with the | same stalwart vigor he displayed in getting our monitors ready jor Ouban waters, ihen vegan | the pageant tnrough the streets of Paterson. | Through Broadway, Carroll, Willis and Market | streets the long line of carriages moved to the | Hamuiton House, where the President alighted to await the | STARTING OF THE PROCESSION. | | After some little delay the line was set in motion, | First came the Second regiment (Colonel Allen), | of Newark, and the Ninth (Colonel Hart), of Ho- | boken, Then Farragut Host o: Paterson; then @ | carriage with the President, Secretary, Governor | and Mayor; then # how of lesser digniiaries in car- riages; then in order the City Biues, delegations trom Lincoln and Dabigr Fonte New York, Tha | fora vosts, stooniyn; Sits Pos Newsurgs Kitahen and the populace, who | ; Schlo men on Vanderbilt’s Fourth avenue improve* ment, who followed him at a distance to a vacant lot, Where the unfortunate man attemptea to | commit suicide by cutting his throat, but the prompt interference of the workmen prevented | the consummation of the awful deed, not, how- ever, before he had perpetrated upon himseif several severe and painful injuries. It was ascertained that his name was Ferdinand B, Schloesser, and that he lives in Poughkeepsic. He was connected witn the artillery during the War, and received a wound trom a piece o1 exploded shell on the side of his face and head that for many months paralyzed his braiu. He recovered his health and strength, but pertodically suiers fits Of Insanity caused by the Injury above stated. t Was at one of these unfortunate moments that er atiempted bis rash act. A physician was summoned, who prescribed quteting medl- cine, and late last nignt he was accompanied to his home in Poughkeepsie. NEWSPAPER CARRIER ASSAULTED. Between five and six o’clock yesterday morning James Stevenson, turning the corner of Eighth avenue and Forty- 1, Was set upon oy a gan, of young ramMans. hey first knocked him own un smeared bis tuce with mud, then they toox away te aud decam pea. He looked around far ae ae eiioer, , DUS Boge Was iu sight, Governor Parker gave some in- | Choosing as | Schwick | One of the first things he did upon | his arrival here was to secure the legal services of | @ newspaper carrier, while | PHILADELPHIA'S CRIMES, | A Discharged Workman Horrib!y Muti- | lates His Wife and Kills Himself. A CHAPTER GF HORROR A Peaceful Home Destroyed in an Instant— | An Infant Quietly Sleeping. PHILADELPHIA, July 22, 1874. Within the brief period of @ month there has occurred in the city of Puijadelpbia a succession Of erimes, each of which bas been of such an unusual and exaggerated nature that it has been samcient’ to startle the community aud centre upon this Single Commonwealth the eyes of the entire country. And now Lam calied upon to record am additional one, which, im intensity of horror, sur- passes them all. THE DETAULS Of this last example of human depravity are a@ follows :--In this city, located at No. 1,839 North Ninth street, stands a@ little two storied brick structure, which this morning was the scene of the borr: ble incidents of the seque!. The bouse ts neat, | cosey and quiet, replete with all the appointments ofa plain but comfortable home. The name of the party who owned the house is George W. Hoff. | man, and he has paid for it out of the earnings of many years of toil. Hoffman was thirty-eignt years of age, and was bright, industrious, intelli gent and sober, With him resided a mother, aged seventy-two, and a beautiful wife, aged twenty- eight years, with one child, five months old. By occupation Hoffman is a carriage blacksmith, very adroit in his line, the admiration of bis employ- ers and among the very foremost of his trade, | He had been tor some time without work, and all his efforts to obtain it had proved unsuccessful. Great mental depression had resulted, and he seve | eral times stated to his wife that nothing but death remained to him. This morning he arose from his bed at seven o'clock and passed into an adjoining apartment | and attempted to kindie the fire. His wife arose and ioilowed him into the same room, Im stirring the embers of the already kindling fame Hotiman used a very heavy poker. Upon theend of {2 Was a ponderous brass knob. Without a mo« ment’s warning—without, indeed, betraying any consciousness of his wiie’s presence—ne grasped | the heavy iron bar, and, turning about, suddenl! | confronted her, In an imstant the weapon [ell with a crushing blow in the direction of his wife's She uttered a terrible cry and instinctively | raised her arm, She sustained a terriple bruise, | and the poker, being red hot, burned the par where it iell to a crisp, struck at her thug three times, and in each instance she managed ta ward off the biows. Suddenly tae husband dropped Uhe poker and put one hand benind him. The poor wife, bruised and terror stricken, talls upon her knees, clasps her hands ana asks him, in the pame of Heaven, what he means, The next instant the | blade of a razor flashes ia mid aw and a moment | later 1 is din her head, cu A DEEP, HORRIBLE GASH down her leit temple and through her jeitear. In | p | vain the woman places her teeble strength against the brutal and trenzied determination of the man, | Eleven times the razor rises and sails. each time | upon the head and lace of the poor woman, until | her countenance ts literally cut to pieces, while from itthe blood rushed in streams. Again the | husband pauses for a moment, while his wife, with outstretched arms, biindly staggers toward bim. ‘Throsting her aside he tightens his grasp upon the | razor: he draws it across his own throat three | times and severs the jugular vein. Tae wife, dis- | regarding her own wounds, wildiy shrieks he | recognizes his intent, and, catching her husband a ie | Strives to master him, not knowing tb e | already mortally wounded himself and that he is | rapidly dylug. ‘The blood from the eleven wounda of the wile mingled in the stream which flows frona the three gashes across the throat of the has. band, and When the noise of the terrible struggle had brought in the neighbors they 1ound both lyin; | upon the floor, the husband dead, in a pool of lp. | and the wife ina state of unconsciousness beside | him, | THE WIFE WAS REVIVED sufficiently to commiunicate the above, and was at The little iniapt — en, | once taken to a hospital. found quietly sleeping up stairs, and: bei up in the arms of a kind neighbor was iD to het home for protection. It ie impossible to de- ser! THE CONDITION OF THE APARTMENT in which this horrible scene was enacted, The | walls, the carpet and the furniture were all s' with blood, while the body of the suiciae was moat terrible to view. ‘Ihe relatives of both parties did | ot arrive until about nine o'clock A. M., and their | grief can betrer be 1magiued than described. The wounds upon each were of a most sickening | nature, the blood clotted within the ugly gushes adding to the horror of the spectacie. The affair 19 all the more sad irom.the fact that the would. ; be murderer and suicide was a sober, industrious and upright man, & worthy member of the church, and was driven to commit his crime because he | and his family were starving. |, 2nis case bears a strong resemblance to tha, | Blackstone murder, committed here about five. years ago, the two houses being of the same - | eral model, and the husband killed bis wile whue, | she was kindling tne fire, Killed his coildren and | then Killed himseli, The circumstance hus cre- atea great popular excitement, and 1s one of the | Dioodiest ones that Nas ever occurrea in the history of the city. THE STOLEN CHILD. | | A Reward of $20,000 Offered for the Capture of | the Abductors — The Mayor’s Proclamation. PHILADELPHIA, July 22, 1874, | ‘The Mayor has issued the following proclamation offering a reward of $20,000 tor the capture of the abductors of the child Charley Brewster Ross, and the restoration of the child:— Mayon’s Orvicx, City or PurLapecenta, July 22, 1874, At the Instance of the citizens of Philadelphia T hereby | offer a reward of $20,000 for the arrest and conviction of the abductors of Charies Brewster Ross, the son of Chris- | tian K. Ross, ot Phiiadeiphia and the restoration of that child to his parents. ‘Ihe child was stolen trom Wash- | ington lane, near Chew street, Germantown, in the sub- urbs of Philadetphia, on the afternoon ot the Ist of July. | last At the time the child was stolen he answered | to the “following descriptiot C, | dressea in a brown linen kilt suit with @ short sxirt, a road brimi¢ned unbleached Panama hat with a black | band, laced shoes and blue and white striped stockit | 4ne Boy bas long flaxen curly hair, hazel eyes, clear skin, round full tace, and no marks except thoe by Vaccination onthe arm. His appearamee as above described may have been greatly changed by | cutting off bis hair or changing Nis dress | t that of a girl, or in some other wa, The eblld was ved by two men inte &” fallin top yacht-bodied baggy, painted dark all over ai lined) with dark material, drawn ts Day or. brown horse about 15% hands high, driven, at, is believed, without a check’ rei, by: nearly as can be ascertained. answi description, ¥ 0. 1 was a man only seen sitting ; his age as bell five to forty-five years; has a mustache and full beard or whiskers, rather tong on the chin, of a brown or ndy color, and brown hair. He wore a ring on the little Ang ‘ight hand. Namber two @ man tive feet eight or ten inches Nish, about twenty-fh r thirty years of ave, of light or with a tendency to sandy complexion, sandy mustache and a red nose and tace, having the appearance of a drinking man. Gne ot the men Wore a broad brimmed straw hat, looking as it it had been worn a season or t nd inuch sunbrowned. The other wore a high | crowned dark colored ‘aw hat. One wore a linen | duster and the otnera gray alpaca duster. One of the | men wore large eyeglasses or goggles, ot @ dark color, probably as a dissuise. W. S, STOKLEY, Mayor ot Philadelphia, In the cause of humanity, as well as for thein- | terests of justice, it 13 earnestly requested that the loregoing be given the widest pubiicity in | every newspaper in the United States and Canade. | ‘The report tnat Wooster was released to-day ie | unfounded. | THE MORRISTOWN HOMICIDE. | Verdict of the Coroner's Jury Against Guerin—Indignation Against His Com- panions. ‘The inquest on the body of Monahan, who was killed by the stab of apitenfork at Morristown, was | concluded yesteraay and the jury retarned @ vere | dict that the deceased came to his death from a | wound inflicted by a pitchtork in the hands of Jona Guerin. The verdict also sets forth thatthe two witnesses o/ the deed deserve the severest cen- | sure of the jury for their intumanity in permitting | the dying man to remain exposed to the atinos phere in @ lonely place without sum- moning medical aid. There is an intense | feeling of indignation against the actors | in this terribie —aiair, The friends of the deceased man threaten io be avenged if the | law does not press heavily on those who caused | his death. Guerin lias as yet consuited no lawyer. | He remaiked on being committed to jail that if he | ve placed on the stand he will place the whole case belore the Court in such a hght as to mitigate the public feeling against him. se 1eela satisfied thac | @ verdict of mausiaugnter will be the jerest result of the trial, When asked if his two com- Panions took any part in the tragedy, except as , Spectators, ae declined to answer, They were | equany reticent tii the Coroner threatened them | With imprisonment It they reused to answer the | Questions put to them, ey then ylelued | testified ao clearly to sh ietion Of tl A | wound that the jury were ‘afew minutes