The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1874, Page 3

WOLF OR SHEPHERD? The Latest Cuesses at the Brooklyn Query. COMMENTS OF THE WISE AND FOOLISH, A Bohemiae Comes for News and Leaves His Umbrel'a. 1s THERE AN INNER PLYMOUTH SECT? A Pacific Sloper on Mr. Beecher’s “Esoterics.” BOWEN’S GRECIAN FACE. A Cremation City Insurance Man on the Scandal. Tne committee %ave no statement ready for publication at present. A representative of the HERALD called at the residence of Mr, Raymond, tm Henry street, yesterday, as that gentle- man usnally revises whatever matter is to be given to the press, but he was out of town, a8 were also several other members of the com- mittee, The subject of the scandal was, as might be expected, uppermosts in the mind of the people, and formed the principal topic of conversation. There were no arrests on the charge of conspiracy yesterday. The published articles touching the alleged insanity in the family of Mr. Tilton gave Tise to a new ground of argument in the case, and there were many who accepied the insanity theory &s genuine, and the real cause of Mr. Tilton’s attack on the pastor of Plymouth church, There were Others, however, who contend that this discovery comes too late to be of any avail in the case, no one ever having heretofore questioned the sanity of the editor of the Golden Age. He has always developed more or less eccentricities of manner, but no one has ever yet called him a madman. Mr. Tilton naturally feels greatly annoyed at the Taking over of the charnal house of intellect in his family and regards the exvedient as despicable on the part o! those who pretend to be the friends ol Mr. Beecher, A LUNATIC VISITS MR. TILTON, A humorous phase of the case 1s recorded upon the return from the Ninth precinct police yester- a The item is headed, ‘Abandoned Property,” and sets forth that Mr. Tilton left at the station honse a silk umbrella and pair of overshoes, which anintruder abandoned at his house in Livingston Street. Last Friday aiternoon, it will be remem- bered, a flashily dressed young man drove up to his door in acoach and asked fo see Mr. Tilton. He was invited in, and be told Mr. Tiiton that he | was a brother of tne proprietor of the HERALD; that Mrs, Tilton had written a number of letters to the New York HERALD which reflected severely on him, and he thought he would call and ask him if he did not wish them suppressed. Mr. Tilton told him that he had better go and publish them, and showed the impostor out. The young man then went to the house of Mr. Ovington where he requested to see Mrs, Tilton, stating that ne was the proprietor of the NEw York HERaxp and say- | ing that Mr. Tilton bad written a number of letters to the paper concerning her. He was demied the privilege of seeing Mrs. Tilton, and he then leit. On Saturday evening, when Mr. Tilton returned to his house, he saw his parlors lit up, a carriage in front of his door and heard some one performing on his plano, On ehtering his house he found the young man who had called on him on Friday night. He asked | him who he was, saying that he knew the states | nent Of relationshiy to be untrue. The young man then told him that his name was Porter, and that he was a nephew of the proprietor of the™ HERALD, Mr. Tilton took him by the arm and Dbustied him out upon the sidewalk, Porter asked him what he was going to do, and Mr, Tilton told bim that he must get in the carriage in which he came, as he wag foing to take him to the station house. The young man Btrugglea and succecded in ie irom his grasp and fled the street as fast as he could ag it, In the hall the young | Man left na sk ambrella and overshoes. Mr. Tilton took these, got into the carriage and drove to the Nintk precinct station house, where he left them ag abandoned property. Mr. Rudd, the owner o/ tRe carriage, said he did not know | anything about the young tan further than that he gave bis name as Porter and had hired the | him that I had read the letter that had been pub- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. sought to see him, not only from personal motives but also on the ground that I was a Congrega- tonalist, feeling a strong interest in anythtp: taining to the denomination. I was excite this matter, and when I got into the In cashier's desk. per- over ofice 1 saw Bowen at the bade ” and & He re few moments. n one of the clerks to see what I owed me meantime I went up ] the paper, and to settie up accounts. While he was looking up the account | gave expression to sev- eral remarks, In & tone Of badinage, I said to him, “A nice kind of Congregationahsts you are in this part of the country, Charging each other with com. | mitting gaultery and 1 don’t know what, It’s a nice thing to take a newspaper under such infu- ences, What is the meaning of ali this I see in the papers about Lilton and Bowen ana Beecher? A very pretty state of affairs!” {| talked pretty loud, Jeeling warmly on the subject, but yet I was speak- ing ip a light way. A gentleman whom I had not noticed, standing behind me, here joined witn the remark, ‘That 18 the way | feel about it.” 1 con- tinued, have come down to see Bowen about this thing; tO see What truth there 1s in this story.” “tnavs just what [ have come here for, too,’ addea the gentleman, “WHO ARE YOU, SIR ?? Tasked, not Knowing tne man, ‘My name is F. B, Carpenter.” £ immediately recollected Mr. Car- pepter a8 aD artist and literary man, and pro- ceeded to talk with him. He astonished me by saying that he was surprised at ‘Tilton havin; writen such @ letter after the whole thing had | been ciosed up. “What,” said 1, “the letter has only just appeared,” “Oh, it is duted in 1871, and there has been an agreement between the three arties, retracting everything, sizned since then.’ saw then that I had wade a mistake through not having noticed the date of the letter, which I had foolishty supposed must have been written quite recently. RerokTER—Dia you see Mr. Bowen? Mr. HoLToN—Just as We were talking together Bowen, who had finished his business, came up, ana asked us to step irom the front office into his pack room, When we entered he lockea the door and motioned us to seats, Aiter a iew words I was 80 ull that I had to speak rignt out, 1 said to iisied@ by Tilton, and im which he was alleged to bave said that Beecver had been guilty of adultery with certain members of his congregation. 1 said to Bowen :— “DID YOU SAY THAT, BOWEN ?”? He did not reply tor a moment or so, but held his hand up to his head, He looked deeply impressed, His fine Grecian 1ace—have you ever seen Mr, Bowen? ReErorTER—Yes, sir. Mr. HoLron—Weil, yon will then understand how impressive the whoie thing Was, He looked very solemn, and, atter a pause, exclaimed :—Mr. Car- penter there knows thac I know how to be silent when it 13 necessary.” Mr. Carpenter did not say anything, and I continued:—*mr, Uarpenter,” said 1, “has told me that since the letter was written a tripartite agreement bas been entered into, by winch you all have tully retracted everything that bad been said beiore; that you have taken it all back, Is that so?” I asked Bowen. Mr, Bowen, Who was sitting m his armchair, was silent ior o Jew seconds, and at length, in the most impres- sive tone, said, “Mr, Carpenter is mistaken.”” RepoRTER—Did Mr. Carpenter say anything? Mr. HoLtoN—No; he merely made some unim- portant remark, and | left. Rerorter—Do you think this matter will COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ? Mr. HOLTON—It has nothing to do with the mat- ter into winch they are inquiring at the present time, Butif the matter does come up the truth ought to be told. REPORTER—What do you think of the present status of the case ? Mr. HOLTON —Ido not think that the case against Mr. Beecher 1s very clear as yet. 1 bave yet jaith that he will COME OUT ALL RIGHT. ‘The temptation to which he has been exposed has beyond doubt been tremendous, Half the women of his congregation were prepared to hang upon his neck, and if he has not jailen bis name will shine with tar greater brightness than has ever et encircled it, He may yet do greater work for is Master if he wills. KEPORTER—Don’t you think this scandal will in- Juriously affect the entire Christian community ¢ Mr, HoLvon—I think that the newspapers make agreat mistake here. ‘they look at Beecher and forget the power of that Oliristianity wich is be- hind him. Woy, there have been OTHER APOSTATES IN THE CHURCH before to-day, and_ yet she bas gone on prospering and to prosper. No maa 1s 80 great that he cau- not be done without. Further, the higher tne Church the stricter should be the walk of its mem- bers, Lhe same rule should be applied to Beecher as toany other minister. The fact 1s, the whole polity of the Congregational Church. turps upon the question of personal character. It is just as precious in the case of Beecher as in that of the preacher in Iowa or Vermont. He should be sub- ject to the same Giscipline. The Congregational system of polity establishes itseif on tue pure democratic idea!, It is the Church to which all persons, notably Episcopalians and Methodists, ‘wao are oppressed py ti€ action of bishops and other cicrical dignitaries,naturally come. Beecher’s chureh did wrong in allowing Tilton to take up his hat and go; and une ference that was called on the quesiion §6 decided, REPORTER—The affair is AN UNFORTUNATE ONE, Mr. Houron—I am sorry to see tne daily news- papers deluged with such a mess of stuff that ought not to be published. Much of it only appeals to the prurient, and 1s calculated to do nothing but excite the worst passions. ‘yhe reporter was proceeding with other ques- tions, when Mr. Holton, who seemed somewhat alarmed lest his views shouid be published at | length, said, “I have told you just @ plain state- ment of sacts. "nd | have done so With pleasure. But you will see thatthe matter to which they refer 18 so remote in its connection with the present iuquiry that there is not any reason why my statement should ve pubushed, It is uot worth it.” Mr. Holton, who makes a splendid vice-president and manager of a fire insurance company, is, how- ever, a poor judge of the value of news. The Times gives the above interview a place in its columns, confident that, among the many that have been published, it 1s far trom being the least interesting. Mr. Holton will think so hunself wheao coach, Mr. S. V. Sage, the Druid member of the Com- Mittee of Investigation, said yesterday that they expected to get tirough thetr labors this week, Tney hoped to have Mr. Moulton up_ beore them, and then they would cali on Mr. Beecher. He knew nothing of any intention on the part of the committee to make public any testimony of Mrs. Tilton until all the testimony shall have been | received. ‘AN INTERVIEW WITH E. D. HOLTON. Salhi a All About Tilton’s Letter to Bowen—Mr. Holton’s Interview with Bowen and Carpenter, and What He Reports Them. | as Saying. From an interview between the correspondent of the Chicago Times und E. D. Holton, President of the Northwestern Fire Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, we extract: pat te le was Tilton’s first letter pub- ed? Mr. Houron—It was in the, spring of 1872. If Fou recollect, THE WOODHULL PEOPLE Bad published a statement in the fall previous, but @% Was not noticed very much by respectable People. Of course it was at once seized on by low, prurient people, saloon keepers, and so forth; but among the really Christian class it had no effect. Some better evidence was required before any bad could possibly be believed abont Mr. Beecver, Lt was followed, as I say, by tis first letter of Tilton. REpoRTEU—W here 01d you first see it ? Mr, Hovron—I was in Hartford at the time. I came down one morning to breakiast and picked up a paper, and there I was thunderstruck to read Tilton’s statement. Here, I thought, was such evi- dence that it had to be considered. Tilton had deen a member of the church, and there Were such other names introduced that I did not see how it ‘Was possible jor the letter to be passed in silence. One 0} the allegations contained in the letter was that Bowen hada told Tilton that Beecher had been GUITY OF ADULTERY with members of his congregation. tion starticd me greatly, Now, I had known Beecher tor years when 1 was living East, RerorreR—Did you ever attend Mr. Beecher’s church ? i Mr. Houton—No, but I was weli acquainted with | him. He used to visit my house and 1 was a tre- quent visitor at his, We hunted and fished to- getuer and were oid friends, 1 was thunderstrack to see the things stated in that letter o; Tilton’s, What is more, there appeared to me to have been | Q great want o! judgment, a lack of appeal to the established rules of procedure common ia Congre- gational bodies in the matter. THE PROPER WAY. ReErorteR—W hat should have been done ? Mr, HoLron—The proper course of action to have been taken was that Mr. Tilton, if he said that Bowen bad told him such things respecting their Pad should have come at once to the stand, ‘iiton shouid have been brought a up to the ring. Lf, when he was charged with slander, he had said, “Mr. Bowen told me these things,’ then the ecclesiastical court oi the church would have been through with Mr. Tilton, aud the order ‘would have teen to cail up Mr. Bowen. ‘They should have said to him, “Mr. Bowen, did you Say these things; and ti 80, bring forward your roof.’ The course of the church was plain under he circumstances, If the charges had been proved true, then Mr. Beecuer must have been treated with the same discipline as the poorest minister Out on the prairies oi lowa or in the hills of New Hampsnire would have received. And if the charge was hot systained, then Bowen ougit to have been excominunicated with disgrace. The duty of the church was simple. REPORTER—What followed? Mr. Honron—Atter [ read the paper 1 travelled about the Kast for five or six days, The subject | ‘was working within me all the ume. TI felt that Sues ein Settled one way or the . soon fully made up my mind that when I reached New York | would, uf The informa- GO AND SER BOWEN, to learn from his own lips whether he had ever made any such statement as that which Tilton had put into his mouth. About six days after reading the payer I got to New York. I went to the Independent oMice to see what, if anything, I | uve, without one pretence of honor—by lies; by a was owing it, and also to see Bowen, You mast Know tbat J was acquainted with Rowen, and 1 he reads it over. MR. BEECAER ON “THE CRIME.” A resident of Minneapolis picked up an old scrap book created in his hours of boyish leisure filteen or twenty years ago, and found therein a sermon on “The Seducer and iis Victim,’ which | was delivered by Henry Ward Beecher in Brook- lyn in the year 1856, The Minneapolis gentleman | copied the sermon and sent it tothe St. Paul Pioneer. We extract the following significant in- dictment of the seducer:— The seducer! Playiug upon the most sacred | passions he betrays innocence. How? By its tenderest faculties, by its trast, by its unsuspect- ing faith, by its honor. The victim often and often 18 not the accomplice so much as the sufferer, betrayed by an exorcism which bewitched her nobiest affections and became the suivide of her virtue, The betrayer, for the most intense selfishness, without one noble mo- devilish juggiery of fraud; by blinding the eye, confusing the conscience, misleading the judgment and instilling the dew of sorcery upon every flower of sweet affection—deliverately, heartiessly damns the confiding victim! is there one shade of good intention, one glimmering trace af light? Not one. ‘here was not the most shadowy, tremulous intention of honor. It wus sheer, premeditated, wholesale ruin irom beginning to end. The ac- cursed sorcerer opens the door of the world to push her orth, She looks oat all shuddering; lor there is shame, and sharp-toothed hatred, aud | chattering slander, and malignant envy, and tri- umphing jealousy, and murderous ‘revenge— from uncontrollable circumstances, to end most uisastrously for those who least deserve Re spectiully yours, n JENNIE JUNE. Truly Charitable. To THe Epiror or THE HERA For some time past the Beecher-Tilton aimculty bas been Ladeed the staple of newspaper matter throughout the length and breadth of the land. Many are the opinions given in relation to the scundal; and all who are in any way connected with It have received their justification or con- demnation according to the bias or different stand- points from which the people judged them. there are, however, wno have reserved their de- cision, Waiting patiently till the first excitement Shall have passed away, and when “sober, second though,” untrammelied by cliques or creeds or party spirit, will allow pood sense and justice to rige Superior to passion and prejudice, Wishing to have the appreciation of his clerical brethren, and panstoniagly oO; those who hold and teach a creed different irom that promulgated by the P.ymoutn pastor, | consulted several religious journals, and. strange to say, not unfrequently found that men ui Mr. Beeciier’s cloth have been the most unsparing in their denunciations of him, There are, however, some honorable exceptions, and it is o! these { would speak particularly. Few among the Catholic papers commentea ‘on the all absorbing topic, while it is a most notable ana praiseworthy fact, tiat two of the leading Cathoile journals, published in New York city, mage hot eve the slightest —_ allusion to the scandal, 1 cannot but commend tueir charity, which prompted them to refrain from giv- ing lurther publicity to this sad story; also their high sense of justice whica forbade the condemna- tion of a Christian minister betore he nad tue op- eatetgae | of vindicating his vocation and his | n onor, ‘Truly the spirit which prompted this con- duct is one of charity; moreover the religion which teaches this terovarance is weil worthy the attentive consideration o1 ail men, but purticu- Jarly of those whose names ond families have been held up, perhaps to lasting shame, disgrace and ignominy, NAIVE AMERICAN, BROOKLYN, July 29, 1874. BEECHER’S ESOLERIC DOCTRINES. An Old Member of Plymouth Charch In- terviewed in Calitornia—Mr. Beecher Should Have Made a Full Confession. The San Francisco Chronicle gives what pro- fesses to be an interview with a member of Ply- mouth church, recently arrived in that city. Itis as follows:— Revorter—You have known Mr. Beecher for a long wie ? Tr. A.—Yes; ever since he accepted the call of the Oranberry street church in Brooklyn, which was over thirty years ago—somewhere about 1842 or 1843, | think; but my memory is not very good for dates. REvoRtTER—W hat do you think of this affair r Do you believe him guilty as charged by Tilton? Mr. A.—Beiore answering that question, I must ask Whether our conversation 18 private. 1 have no objection to expressing my opmion; but 1 would not like to have it puolished in connection with my name, lor reasons which you will easily understand, Revorrer—I give you my promise not to make ‘use of your name. Mr. A.—Well, then, I am free to say that IT have Not a doubt of the substantial truth of Tilton’s charges. THE “ESOTERIC” DOCTRINE. Beecher has for the iast twenty-five years hela certain views both in regard ‘o religion and the relafions of the sexes, which he cousidered “too gdvanced”’? to be openly prociaimed in the pres- ent state of public opinion. He believed that the public teacher has @ fright to practice a certain judicious reticence in prociaiming the tratn, He thought shat Men who were “ar advanced,” and come into reater liverty Of faith, might still, while teachers in churches that were in the rudiments, and slaves to rigid dogmas, continue to preach in coniormity to the accepted belieiy and to retrain from preach- ing truths that would shock his hearers and de- stroy his own influence. { have often beard nim quote the saying of Christ, “1 have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear thei now,” in connection With the apothegm, “Milk for babes and meat tor strong men.” I have heard him justily the course of teachers who speak in one set of terms to the multitude and in another to the in- telligent ape thoughtful when they meet in secret ‘onfidential Communion, He had given up the old fashioned view of the inspiration ot the Bible, even before Bisuop — Colenso’s book on the Pentateuch appeared; but for many years aiter he had come to that conclusion, and Ireely communicated it to contidential friends, he continued in the pulpit to talk about the Scrip- tures in the old way. Weill, he had ‘advanced doctrines” on social ‘as well as theological ques- tions. In regard to marriage, polygamy and the relations of the sexes he has tor many years en- tertained views hostuie to the Congregational ones, Ihave believed for more than five years that Mr. Beecher’s real belief in regard to tne relation of the sexes did not differ materially irom the tree- love doctrine as expounded by its must mielligent advocatés, KEPORTER—I begin to see the drift of what you say. ‘The idea is that Mr, Beecner has only been practising what he has long secretly believed. Mr. A.—When Tilton’s statement appeared I saw no why o! getting round it. There was Beecher’s abject apology, 1uil of remorse and fear and seli- humiliation, to account tor which his explanation is utterly inadequate. Andthe whole thing hangs together periectly. Then it had been long known that ‘Tilton had some secret affecting Beecher, which the friends of the Jutter feared he would ventilate. 1 have no doubt that the secret is out now. But] am utterly disappointed and iuexpres- sibly grieved at the course Beecher has taken. HIS TERRIBLE MISTAKF: RerontEr—To what do you allude? Mr. A.—To his denial. I expected and conf- dently predicted that now, since the biow had fallen, be would have come out with an honest, manuiul contession. Iexpected that he would say to the worid, in substance :—‘This story is true. I am ashamed of the concealment and deceit in- volved in the business, of all that seems sneaking and underhanded and treacherous. But, so far as the most intimate association between any man and any woman who really and truly love eacu other, I have long believed that there is nothing wrong in that, 1 thought the time for declaring: that beliet had not yet come, and I _ kept silent. But now this exposure compels me to declare my views,” ITexpected something like this trom him. Had he taken this course he would have ceased to be pastor of Plymouth church, but he would have become the head of quite a large society of *ad- vanced reformers.” As it 1s he wil be crushed, Tuton will peove nis case if it ever gets in a shape to be legally investigared, and then Beecher’s career Will be ended forever, at least on this earch. There are multitudes of his friends aud admirers who would have forgiven the offence chargea by Tilton had he made a frank confession, but who will not be able to forgive him now that he has undertaken to Jalsify the truth. This course of his bas changed the entire situation. If after this solemn denial he is proved guilty, his sin is greater than David's. THE PRESS ON THE SCANDAL. ee Ua A Word for Tilton. [From the St. Louis Globe.] Ten years ago Theodore Tilton was unquestion- ably the most popular young man in America. He bad won for himself a name and influence hardly rivalled by any other. As editor, author, lecturer, poet, he was the pet of the literary and the Chris- tian public. His lecture tours were ovations. His these ure seen rising beiore her; clouds full of fire, that burn but will not kill, And | there is for her want and poverty and | gaunt jamine. There is the world pores | out. She sees father and mother heartlessly | abandoning her; a brotaer’s shame, a@ sister's anguish. It is a vision of desolation, a plundered | home, an altar where honor and purity and vir- tue and peace have beeu insidiously, sacrificed to | the toul Moloch. All 18 cheerlessness to the eye, and her ear catches the sound of sighing and mourning, wails and laments; ana lar down, at | the horizon of the vision, the murky cloud for a'| moment liits, and she sees the very bottom ol in- famy, the ghastiiness of death, the last spasm of lor- rible departure, the awiul thunder of tinal doom. All this the trembling, betrayed creature sees | through tue open door of the juture, and, with a | voice that might move the dead, she turns and | clasps tis Knees in awlul agony, “Leave me not! | Oh! spare me—save me—cast me not away!’ Poor thing—she is dealing with a demon! spare her? save her? ‘The polisied scoundrel betrayed her to abandon her, and walks the street to boast his | hellish deed, It becomes him as a reputation! Surely soctety will crush him! They will smite the wol! and seek out the bleeding lamb. Ob, my soul, | believe it not! What sight is thaty The drooping victim 18 worse used than the infernal destroyer! He {8 tondied, courted, passed from honor to honor, and she ts crushed and mangled under the | Invuriate tramp of puolic indignation. On her mangled corpse they stand to put the laurels on her murderer’s brow! When I see such things as these 1 thank God that there is a judgment and that there is @ hell! WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. Jennie June a Know Nothing. No. 162 EAST THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET, August 1, 1874, } TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— A number of Western papers have in a singular manner associated my name with the great Brook- iyn scandal. Will you, in your widely read col- umns, allow me to say that I know nothing of the matter, have neither said nor written one word for the public in regard to it, have only slight ac- quaintance with any of the parties concerned, and never discussed them or heard their names mentioned to my knowledge by either Mrs, Stanton or Miss Anthony. From what I do know I consider the whole affair miserable gossip, which originated 10 @ misunderstanding, grown out of ail Prey, tons srom the positiqns of the vartics, and iy, editorials were read and copied from end to end | of the land, His opinion was gospel with Young “America of the philanthropic and religious sort. | His pen was unquestionably brilliant; his words cut deep grooves, He was dashing, fearless, trenchant, clear visioned and not a theological slave. He began his eaitorial career in the Jndepend- ent when sects Were strong, when denominations supposed they ownea all the churches and the re- ligious press. Each sect had its organ. it was vhe duty of their editors to grind them. Allota sudden, about eight years or more ago, the Inde- pendent organ played a new tune. We must con- tess it Was @ grand one, but then it was new. It declared in plain terms that we, Theodore Tilton, shai) henceiorth publish this paper in the interests of Christianity, and not of the Congregationalist sect. In these days nobody would be startied at such an announcement. But the world bas rolled over very fast of late. At that date men were amazed. The party who were supposed to own the Jndependent and its editor were simply en- raged. Mr. ‘iilton ant his sympathizers were denounced as traitors. He was villitied by all the petty whipper-snappers of the denomination. The Advance, 01 Chicago, now a broad and Vatho- lic journal, owed its origin 10 part to a desire to cripple Tiiton, but so lopg as bowen sustained his editor the battle was a brave one. It was in some respects injudicious, but it was plucky and manly, anu it stuck out some truths of vast importance But finally the pressure became too strong. Bowen suddenly cancelled his engagements wit ‘Titon—Nung Dim off helpless, and without an or- fan through which to meet his enemies, ‘This left im almost penniless, and possibly almost iriendless. His 10es3 were jubilant. They could say and they did say whatthey chose of Mr. Triton. They villified him without stint. They cir- culated outrageous and baseless charges, Most men Would have been utterly crushed. ‘Tilton at once started the Golden Age. What tovlish Ll he inay have said or done 18 not to our purpose discuss, Whether in the dispnte with Beecher he {8 right or wrong must be settied by testimony. But this we remember of Theodore Tilton, that he it was who first unmuzzied the religious press from its party and sect bigotry, and opened the campaign for religious good:ellowshtp., Sects to- day are comparatively nothing. Christianity 18 vastly more important tan the petty barnactes for which each keel Was quarrelling. [f Tiitoa be & devil, and the present controversy prove him so to be, yet give even the devil its due, Macaulay’s View. {From the Chicago Tribune.) J know a wap of ppriedt jife. looked upon by Some | t } of our civilization is our jurisprudence. | Nevertheless one cannot help pitying a man who, | sooner the public eye is removed the better. those who are best qualified to judge as an exem- plary Christian, who neyertheless in moments of contrition will berate himself to such an extent that a stranger might suppose him guilty of mur- der. Macaulay adverts to this disposition in his essay on the “Life and Character of John Bunyan,” | and shows conclusively that Bunyan’s biographers have, through a lack of discrimination on this point, assigned to the immortal dreamer @ char- acter in early life wiich was not really his. “There cannot be @ greater mistake,” says Ma- caulay, “than to infer, rom the strong expressions in which a ‘devout man bemoans his exceeding sintuiness, that he has led a worse life than his neighbors, Maaoy excellent persons, whose | moral character from boyhood to old age has been free trom any stain discernible to their fellow creatures, have, in their autobiographies and | diaries, applied to themselves, and doubtless with sincerity, epithets as severe as coula be applied to Titus Oates or Mrs. Brownrigg. itis quite certain that Bunyan was, at eighteen, what, in any but | the most austerejy-Puritanical circles, would have been considered’ as a young man of singular gravity and innocence. * * * A rector of the | scnoot of Laud would have held such a young man up to the whole parish as model. But Bunyan’s | notions of good and evil had been jearned In a very different school; and he was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples.’ Unless we recognize this tendency on the part of men of @ sensitive conscience, the language of Jonathan Edwards, whose pure lue and fervent | piety were scarcely inferior to bis greatness Of in- teliect, would oiten utterly mislead us. | “Let It Go to the Courts!” {From the Milwaukee Sentinel.) if . If they are not the best agency for settling ques- | tions of fact, then our civilizauuon is considerably | behind our boasts; ‘or perhaps the ripest product | But, in | fact, the courts are the very best machinery at the | command of society for probing a matter of this kind. Then let them be brought into use at once, ‘rhere ts no occasion (or deiay. The verdict of the present committee or of any like tribunal will sat- isfy nobody, Let the Plymouth church commission | adjourn, or If it is determined to execute its office, | let Mr, Beecher write its verdict forthwith and Peet ogue it. Then let the trialof Mr, Tilton for ibe] belore Some competent court go on apace, So | shall the public Know the truth, and be ready for | some more savory topic for the street, the purior and the press, | A Question of Character. To THE EpiToR or THE Utica OBSERVER:— \ A brief word to my friends i Utica. Letters | from several of them awaited me at the ofiice this morning, all concerning what the Associated | Press has sent broaacast over the country from Boston personal to me. I have taken no notice of the liber elsewhere, but please say to my friends in Urica that it contains not one sentence of truth, My character is now what it was wheu I lived in their midst. W. J. GAYNOK. BROOKLYN, July 31, 1874. The Whole Truth. {From the Petersburg Index and Appeal.) The HrRraLy’s comments on the meaning of the late “Brooklyn Blight,’ as it aptly entities the re- cent scandals and exposures, seems tO us very pointed and truthful, 1t says:— Here, perhaps, is the key of the whole trouble. Areligion like Plymouth church, that seems to bave ignored the old Jandmarks of faith and ortho- doxy, that rested simply on the eloquence and the genius of one man, that adored Henry Wara Beecher instead of Jesus Christ, could only result in this downfall. We do not believe that any plain, old fashioned orthodox religious paper in Virginia could have plerced the heart of the matter and exposed its significance with more directness and emphasis, ‘vhe whole trouble lies in the nutsnell to which the wit of the HERALD confines it: these people wor: shipped Beecher and not the God of whom he pre- tended to be the prophet and servant. And they have found out that they bowed down to a wortao- less and wooden Idol. Popular Verdict Against Beecher. {From the Chicago Tribune.) Looking at the case from an unbiassed stand- point, 1t must be confessed that the popular ver- dict will be against Beecher. His statement and that of Mrs. Tilton, unless corroborated by other testimony, are entitlea to no more eredeuce than the statements of accused criminals in their own defence. The public will demand more proor of the falsity of the charges than the sim- ple unsupported word of the accused. With the committee before which tie case is | being heard it may be different. It is composed of avowed partisans of Mr. Beecher, each one of whom Worship him as an idol—a being | Who can do no wrong. Conviction belore such & committee 1s highly improbable; whitewashing is aimost a foregone conclusion, Those Ugly Documents, {From the Chicago Times.) IfTilton has been misled then the documents which he has quoted have certainly furnished suf- cient cause for his error, and they muss be ex- plained to the full satisfaction of impartial spec- tators before he can reasonably be expected to hold whem harmless. Thus far neither the state- ment of Mr. Beecher nor that of Mrs. Tilton jur- | We read the statement of Mr. Tilton. | Judgment. | absolute. | buke! in the society of bis wife. Again, innocent as Mr. Boschar clsima to ne it is ap overwhelming blow ame and fame and will scarcely efface. ee Beecher’s Aiterthought. {From tne Cincinnati Enquirer.) It 18 singular that Mr. Beecher in all bis letters to Tilton farrating his distress of mind in conse- quence of @ great injury which he had done him should never once have made allusion to what he now says was the cause—viz., advice to Mrs. Til- ton to procure @ divorce from her husband! That is undoubtedly an aiterthought, and @ poor one at that, to which few wili attach any credit, No one would wish he was dead, or say he was suffering the tortures of the damned because, forsooth, he might have honestly given wrong advice on a divorce question, Why Not Make Affidavits? [From the Utica Observer.} 1t should be remembered in this connection that Mr. Tilton is the only party to this controversy who has made apy statement under oath. He swears to the truth of his charges against Beecher and is met by an unattested denial. Great Wrong Has Been Done, [From the Binghamton Republican.) We do not conceai the amazement with which If it restea upon his unsupported word we should reject it at once as incredible, But the letters tiat are pub- lished make it certain, if they are genuine, thata gem wrong has been done by Mr. Beecher. hether that wrong amounts to a crime or not we cannot undertake to say until Mr, Beecher and Mrs, Tulton’s case is presented. Overwhelming and Crashing as the Evidence Appears. {From the Albany Journal.) And [tis our tirst duty to urge that all should | await Mr. Beecher’s reply before pronouncing The other side of the story is yet to be presented, Mr, Beecher denies the accusation of criminal wrong. Mrs. Tilton denies it, The proof | against them offered by Mr, Tilton ts not directand Jt consists of his own allegation and of @ series of letters which nowhere distinctly define the wrong, and which leave it to be injerred trom their tone and nature. Under these circum- stances—overwhelming and crushing as the evi- dence appears, dificult as it seems to put more than the one awiul construction upon tie Jetters—it Is still only the dictate of common jus- tice to wait for such explanations as may be presented before declaring a veruict, —— Beecher a Doomed Man, [From the Kansas Clty (Mo.) ‘Times.] As the matter now stands the public look with sorrow and disgust upon Beecher as a doomed man. The bare thought is painful; buteven such a fail will teach its needed lesson and work out its salutary part in the great plan. If forty years of brilliant Christian ministry nad not cooied his blood and disciplined his passions, we must lear that Mrs. Tilton is not the only victim, amd that other households have been | * * by the hellish “pnilosophy” of free love which his brother accuses him of having always taugnt in his pastoral visite, Tilton Unworthy of Belief. (From the Hartford Courant.) Mr. Tilton has proved so thoroughly untrnst- worthy that it seems unnecessary longer to tele- graph to the country what he says. No depend- ence can be placed on his statements, If he bas any substantial proof to offer, let him at once put it belore the public, who have had enough of bis unsupported assertions, and have learned more of his character than Js pleasant to know. A White Livered Sneak. [From the Cincinnati Gazette.) In nis sixth charge agalnst Beecher Tilton says that nis wife declared that she encouraged Mr. Beecher’s attentions in order to show him that she could resist his solicitations! And Tilton, bus- band and father as he was, stood by caimly and saw this acquaintance progress for more than two years! Saw it without a word of indignant re- And alterwards this self-acknowledged cuckold alleges that he discovered Mr. Beecher in his wile’s bedroom, the door locked) and that Mrs. ‘Tilton was able to satisly him with her “plausipie explanations!” For two years Tilton knew, he Bays, that Mr. Beecher was pursuing his wife with amorous pleas, and ie neither raised nis hand to | strike Beecher dead, nor did he attempt to exert his marital authority to prevent this outrage on the sanctity and purity of home. Would any one have believed so white livered a sneak lived i the | sneak had not himsel! proclaimed it ? The Tilton Conspiracy. [From the Boston Woman’s Journal.) During the past three years @ wicked attempt has been persistently made by the advovates of ‘free love to destroy the reputation of an estimable lady and av emiment Christian minister. Detrac- nishes such an explanation. Mrs, Tilton’s sfrong- |*tion, like death, loves a shining mark, and those est plea is her weakness, and her weakness in tnis | case is the poorest plea that could be put Jorth tor Mr. Beecher, They Culminate in Death. {From the Indianapolis Journal.) Whether Beecher 1s ruined or not Tilton un- doubtedly is, His course has been weak, vacillat- ing, cowardly and base from beginning to end. when asked where he would reside hereafter, said, “Nowhere. Henceforth | have no life, This is the end of all tragedies. They culminate in death.” Beecher Stands Before the World as a | Dunghill Covered with Flowers. {From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) The dreadful, dismal, nasty and revolting domes- tic revelation which 18 laid before the readers of | the Courier-Journal this morning calls for no par- ticular comment. Every reader will judge it and | the parties to it for himself, The mass of evidence, positive and circumstantial, 1s overwhelming against the pastor of Plymouth church. For weeks it has been evident that exiraorainary efforts to | shield him from a great impending shame were | being made by the leaders of his congregation. Had he been innocent there would have been no shuMing. had he been innocent he and nis friends would have nade no fight for time. He and they would have been prompt, eager to throw open the doors and defy the world, the Mesh and the devil, no matter what shape they might assume. There was no escape, and the crash 1s all the worse for their tactics, We have itnot in our heart to inveigh against Mr. Beecher. He stands before the world as a dunghill covered with flowers, irom eee 18 beside the purpose that other men are no purer than he. If we are not to give over the scheme of morality under which we live, and establish open); the doctrine that men may violate the sevent commandmett with impunity, there should be dis- played tn the case of this false shepherd the most certain and unequivocal testimony that we are not ready to become a nation of cuckolds and strum- pets, raking icense for ourselves by the offenses of sinners m¢re mischievous, brilliant and con- spicuous, “Nine Men Out of Every Ten Pronounce Mr. Beecher Guilty.” {From the Cincinnati Gazette.) A member oj the Investizating Committee is re- ported in the New York 7imes to have said that as matters now slood the committee would bring in averdict of atquittal. Such a verdict would not be in accordante with that which the majority of the pubiic is t)-aay rendering. We judge simply from what we tear on the streets and see {n our exchanges, Nhe men out of every ten pronounce Mr. Beecher gulty. Mr. Beecher’s frends hold their judgment*in suspense.” They are anxious to have bim jroved innocent. They are looking and praying fa such @ vindication as will force the conclusion fiat he has lived a spotless life, Frank Moulton can do more to establish Mr. Beecher’s inn@ence than any other man, as the evidence now slands, He should be called to tes- tiy, by all meats, Beechir Tested by Beecher, | {From the Cincinuall Commercial.) * * * Leavt out the fact that antil his wife left nis house aid openly arrayed herself on the side of her pator, he never committed to paper any charge aginst heror any evidence ofthe real nature of hb accusations against Mr. Beecher, save the single Bde hae of @ passage from the latter's letter @ apology; leave out all this, and all the statements of others, ayd the thousand and one rumors to tte newspapers, and weighing the | case of Mr. Beecler by Mr. Beecher, upon evidence | furnished by er and with due allowance fer his own mental jerturbation and moral sensitive- ness, and alt tha, and yet can any man aay can- didly that the explanation furnished by Mr. Beecher is at il adequate to account tor the tremendous aprehensions of grave consequences Bitte coer i] ee ae watch he and his | cons ur, the dark } oblivion struggi¢into igh, ribet He Youa @ Tilton Go. {From te Pittston (Pa.) Comet.} who advocate license seck to prove that all men and women are licentivus, Meanwhile the Woman's Journal has remained silent; not be- cause we have feared to speak, but because we did not choose to increase the circulation of a Scandal, promulgated by & woman of infamous character, in the interest of immorality. Only twice have we made any exception to this rule of silence; once to express our disgust at tue un- manly conduct of Mr. Tilton in silently permitting his wife to be thus slaudered, when it was in his power to have vindicated her good name; again to publish Mr. Beecher’s letter to the Brooklyn Eagle, which explicitly contradicted the charges made against him. ‘The gross and indecent arraignment now pub- licly made by Mr. Tilton changes the situation and | makes 1t proper for us to speak. We out ss jor the replies of Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher. Having known them both personally tor mauy years, we will frankly say that if they shouid admit the ‘truth of Mr. Tilton’s statement, we snould find it dificult to believe, out that unl they do so we find itimpossible. Knowing Mr. Tul- do so, with- ton aiso, we should require collateral evidence at | every step betore accepting any of his statements. ‘The man and woman who are accused have behind them the consistent record of private and pubiic worth; the man who accuses them has no such record, What have these three people being doing dur- ing the past seven years? Mrs. Tilton has been a | fed loving, devoted wife and mother, endur- ing nameless wrongs in silence. Mr. Beecher has been active in good works, devoting his leisure hours in writting @ ife of Christ. Mr. Tilton has been advocating “free divorce,” and writing the biography of Victorta Woodhull. sharp one and tells the whole story. A Man Who Believes Every Word of It. (From the St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.) As the case stands to-day we believe every word of Theodore Tilton’s statement is the trutn. | He will be pronounced a simpleton by men of the world for living so long witha woman who was in hiseyes no better than a prostitute. Mra, Til- ton’s story of “religious love” for Beecher, and “thinking Lhere was no barm” in such & ¢onsum- mation 01 it, will be justly termed “bosh” by every sensible maa and woman, Mr, Beecher’s term “mest-hiding” gi stick to him through life and last as long as tl pose in the public press. Meanwhile, we may well ask, is thisa sample of our ministers? with some of our old Aminidab Sieeks near homet Beecher His Own Accuser. (From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) Whether we believe Tilton individually or not We shall; nevertheless, find it dificult to discredit his story, corroborated, as it 1s, by Beecher’s ad- missions, The apology (the force of which Beecher strives to break by the explanation that it was written after dark) and his letter intended to be shown Tilton, tn which occur allusions to the hell- like tortures of the writer, the appalling appre- hensions of discovery ever gnawing at his heart, as, Without seeming 80 to do, he daily applies him- sel! to check imdiscreet iriends from attempted involve pub- the letter vindication, when such efforts hieity, and publicity is ruin, and hint of suicide with which another closes—these documents, if genuine, only mean guilt. It is useless in the their admitted execution to prove Tilton character. ltis mere trifing to urge that tt is more consistent with the motives which affect the actions 01 Men to believe that Beecher’s agonies of remorse suppose that Tilton would pardon even partially the offence he charges, We kuow that there have been men base enough to even traffic and grow Tich apon the shame of their wives, and why may Dot @ brilliant ass, especially if none too clean himself, behave as ‘Tilton tells us be has done? He cither tells the truth or be lies, and tf he can lie avout such a matter he is capable of doing it. Beecher wrote the papers in question because he ‘elt the sting of a great guilt. Even if we can suppose that he would s@ humble himself in apoi- ogy lor having given hasty advice upon mistaken judgment—and we must credit him with exag- gerated sentimentality and & most plentiful lack Of wit to suppose it—there remains the greater diMculty of believing that he would 8 lear to have the world know of a thing so trivial, and It must de a fetrtul task for @ man to be forced, as Tilton alleges he was, to make @ long affidavit against the chadity of the woman he lived with. | Kyey Wile be Wa preparing tue atatemens Le wad , The contrast is & | 6r6 are lecherous divines to ex- i How 3 it | pioecs from a very venial fault than to | ft. And it Mr. Beecher is so little master of himself ‘tatter dark” as to write or dictate matter which Jn broad di ht he feels he must disavow, isn't it possible t) during the same ‘witching hours,’? he may do things which next day he will have of necessity to deny? There are tricks of expre: sion—unmistakable ‘*Beecherisms”—in these ments which are strong intrinsic proot of their genuineness; but they are admitted, and there is no need to prove them. Mrs. Tilton’s testimony 1s, unfortunately, open to the objection that ane ia something more than a@ party 10 interest, She is one of the accused, and, if the charges be sus- | tained, an accomplice in the crime, Unnecessary Delays. {From the Hartford Times.] The mysterious delay of Mr. Beecher in making nis statement is attributed by the Associated Press report to the objections of Tracy, his over- zealous lawyer. Whoever may be the objecting party Mr. Beecher owes it to himself and to the public to put an end to this damaging hesitation and delay. It isannounced that bis starement is all ready, but that it is kept pack because Mr. Moulton has not yet given hus testimony. This is scarcely asuilicient reason, Mr. Beecher’s jurors were selected by himsell; they hold their sessions with closed doors; the two lawyers who stand at their elbows (and with whom the members bold protracted interviews outside the regular pro- ceedings) are Mr. Beecher’s lawyers; tue other side (g0 lar as tits investigation goes) seems to have no lawyer, and altogether it wears the appear ance of a somewhat one-sided inyestigation—not that the members o! the committee are not honest } And good men, but they must necessarily Jel, im such a situation as their=, a kind of tacit obliga- tion to do the best that can be dove for the great preacher, It is at least a lenient and kindly court—such as it 18. Now, if Mr. Beecher’) state- ment is completed, why delay it? One would think it might have been made @ week or two ago, but, being made, if it is only the simple truth, why the necessity of waiting to hear trom Mouiton ? Mr. Tiiton’s allegations are specific. They are ot such @ nature as to absolutely require an answer, Spiritual Affection. [From the Palmer (Mass.) Journal.] | This “spiritual affection” which Henry Ward Beecher speaks of 1n his relation to Mra, Tilton is rather a dangerous thing. It is an affection Which seems to exist only between brethren and sisters of the church, and in this case seems to have led to deplorable resuits. We doubt, how- ever, Whether this “spiritual affection” differs very much from the affection of comimon sinners, | or, at least, whether it is of such a nature as to be a safe luxury to indulge in. We suspect that the Rev. Mr. Gendenny, & Presbytertan minister of Jersey City, and Miss Julia Poineroy, his organist, have indulged in this same “spiritual affection,’ for the lady has just given birth to a child, and, swears that ber pastor is the lather of it. lt may be difficult to discrimimate between “spiritual affection” and that which is hot “spiritual,” and Jor this reason clergymen had better not recom- Inend the former unless they can point outa way to prevent it from degenerating into a sensual love and creating great scandal, A Sensible View. {From the St. Paul (Minn.) Despatch]. It is creditable to human nature that so many are loath to believe the serious charges against Henry Ward Beecher, It is creditable that the public should be slow to accept as true scandal relative toa man Who has so long occupied the Joremost position in the American pulpit. While all this fs commendable it 18 neither just nor proper for Christian men and women to blind their eyes to facts and refuse to recetve or consider any evidence except in iavor of tne accused. If Henry Ward Beecher is guilty and is not tudorsed by the church the stigma rests upon him alone, but if the church, in the face of positive proof, endeavors to Shield him, then the church becomes particeps criminis, and the shock to religion and morality involved in Mr. Beecher’s fall is as nothing in com- parison with the shock which the cause of Christ would suffer at the hands of its professed iriends. SCANDAL IN WESTPORT. Tribulations of a New York Million- naire and His Family. Mr. Stephen H. Alden ts a New York banker and broker, who has a handsome resideace and grounds in Westport, known as Compo. A year ago, says the New Haven Aegister, probably his financa standing would have entitled him to the term “millionnaire.” His age is nearly seventy, while that of his last wife 1s probably torty years less, He had been divorced irom a former wife, and the common report that their ile was anything but harmonious 18s coutirmed by the fact that on March 28, 1873, he was divorced by the Superior Court, sitting in Bridgeport, trom his second wife. No opposition was made vo the suit for a divorce by the respondent, and the Court awarded to Mrs, Alden $60,000 alimony. Alter the separation the teeling of unpleasantness between the lately married pair grew into a decided animosity. Mrs. Alden built and occupied a sma! house in Westport, and when- ever herself and Mr, Alden happenea to meet their mutual enmity found expression in bitter words and such ridiculous acts as making con- temptuous gestures with their several) hands placed in connection with their respective noses. As the breach between Mr. Alden and nis late wife grew wider his daughter, Mrs. Ada Trubee, of Fairfield, wite of Mr. Samuel ©. Trubee, hersel! a party ina prolonged divorce suit with her hus- band, seemed to grow in his regard. In February, 1873, Mr, Alden conveyed to her his personal prop- erty in Westport, and in the following Octo- ber he transferred to her his residence | and other real estate in that town. This | property was valued at from $75,000 to | £100,000, and the transier was made with all due legaliormaiittes. In the panic excitement of last | fall Mr. Alden Jost about $400,000 in stock specula- | tons, He claimed that fraudulent measures had been used in depriving him of this sum and brought suit against certain parties to recover, It happened, however, that the divorced wile, who | seems to have been a woman of considerable busi- ness propensities, Was an important witness in the suits from the fact of her familiarity with his Papers and his transacttons. The importance of her testimony was the cause of a partial recon- ciliation between herself and her late husband. | Very soon they were to all appearance established. in their former friendly relations, as she went to his. Westport residence, where the legally severed pair have since continued to reside in | the same house. In tact, there was so com- eke a return of Mr. <Aiden’s regard for | his wife that on April 2, 1874, he conveyed to her the identical property that he had previously | conveyed to his daughter, this conveyance, like the other, being made with all the forms of law. Of course Mrs. ‘'rubee did not propose to quietly see the property spirited from her possession in this manner, and remain Sheriff Saniord, of Newtown, and City Sheriff Whiting, of Bridgeport, | went to Westport to attach all the property in dis- pute, on a suit to estavlish her title to the same, She also brought suit against the jormer Mra, Alden, to recover $6,000 damages for slander. The officers, Who went prepared to execute their mis- sion with all necessary iorce, executed their in- structions with no serious opposition, although considerable excitement was aroused by their visit. The divorced wile Selograpbea to Stratford and New York for her counsel, and tagt AN gave bonds to answer to the suit for slander. ‘The other property was attached and receipted according to form. The controversy, we suppose, will now be | carried into the courts, where we may expect to see @ very spicy and interesting contest. HOW 10:REDUOE fH PRICE OF aas. {From the Glasgow Herald.) America is the celebrated land of inventions, and We usually expect something startling from our transatlantic cousins. The manager of the Dum- fries Gas Works, in Scotland, has made a great bit | in the manufacture of gas, and the Scotch papers are very jubilant over it, At a meeting in Glasgow Mr, Malam read a paper on the subject, irom which it appeared that he has devised a system of distil- | ling ae! coal by which he can avalt himaelf of very high temperatures, and thereby convert what | would otherwise be liquid hydro-carvon compounds | into permanent illuminating gas. Of course, by such an arrangement, he gets a less quantity of tarry matter, and what he does obtain Is less rich in What are generally termed the secondary or in- cidental products of the manufacture; that, however, 18 practically of litte or no tmportance | in a commercial point of view. Tne broad fact | seems to be that he Is able to take from three or three and a hal! to four thousand ieet of illuminate | ing gas out of a ton of coal more than ts extracted | by any other system of carbonizing coal that 1s in | general practice amoug gas Managers, And let | it be understood that the gas produced does not | owe its increase in volume to any increase in the | ordinary dilutents, such as carbonte acid, carbonic bad | oxide or hydrogen gas, for the tiluminating. ohh | of the very complex product known 9# coc. | In no way dimintshed. By his pew system of work- | ing be still gets seventecu-candle gas {rom New- castle gas co#!, aad twenty-elght-candle gas from Scotch Geanel coal, while the actual yield of the | marketable commodity is brought up to eleven million cubic feet per ton of raw mineral in the former case, and to nearly fifteen million cubio feet per ton in tie latter. Already the Dumfries Gaslight Company have begun to get the benefit of Mr. Malam’s new system of carbonizing. ‘They have certified within the last lew days that previous to the reconstruction of their works ac- cording to the new system tn ith hey had very great dimicuity in furnishing a 5 iclent supply of gas in the winter, whereas nothing of the Kind was experienced during the past season, and in- deed, some of the “benches” of retorts were not kindied at ail. There was @ saving of 986 tons of coal during the year, which was equal to thirty per cent, a8 compared with the previous year which could in no way injure his fame, A man under the ordinar: king, This say~ not likely to suffer “the tortures of the damned" { ing has enabled Re: usual di because In a moment of sympathy he bas advised | dend, which otherwise, with tue high B @ good wile to ieave @ bad husband. Nor | they could t hay Youe. The does he preter death by suicide to the pub- | Company and tn niows Heation Of & mere indiscretion, especially | therefore, to have 0’ most important quéese Whe the party agaticved W already taformed of | tion. “How to redace the orice af