The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK an ss | confirm his statement, He deciared that ali that | intruder, and, dually, the straggie ina hysteric IN $ T A TU QU Oo fe had meus St present was the statement wmch | nature between her pastor, who had put ner soul | the reporter Sat to him that’by this course | 1 leading-strings, and the «Tom of her youth, represen' | te Miseoit pen. to the serious yp Ed | Was perfectly visible.’ a . ons resolution was it 2 | tnd ae ueeepiene as ee » Said to Judge Morris: ‘“Giwe me these letters. N New v ments TH TBD HOM! They are needful that the world may understand ° ve Dev elop on! | PoP eter ofthe Hunaup rrr) Mesterday ~ the | you both, 1 will print them in & distant city, 30 OSE e home. ide but low wooden house Yesterday. ip Livingston ‘attest which once rescunded wits | wat svey may slowly Sind thelr way, heck bere, the merry peal of the children’s voices aud with | with such delay as not tO affect the main iasae on the loving tings of husband and yom, soe | the spot.’ a a Nobody was iG fOr Mr. von | Judge Morris, Mr, Tilton’s counsel, favored revurn tl Friday. aohar asrange memories the request. I secured the whole of that re- of golden hours and moments of sad-' markable correspondence. Not Abelard or ness cluster round this modest little wooden | péjoise ever wrote such letters, They are the house 80 neglected and trowzy in its exterior, but | ae ‘ooufortable, pant roe ors Within? Alas! wo- | quintessence of love. As literary compositions man’s gracious hand 1s missing, and DO longer | shey are no less valuable than as perfect expo- adorns the windows with Rowers and Bb Mol - ; nents of the two sad actors in this damnable play. scatters round the spacious par! | Seribable ttle touches of wompniy tenderness and | Subsequently Mr. Moniton was Visita, aad is taste. Here are still the buge old-fashioned chairs, | represented as saying of Mr. Beeei, “He may bas they are cepersed here pk bern e escape the penalties, but not thy Ascts, I think jctures On the walls, bat Powa upon the visiter_-everything has an air of | this Council will whitewash him, and that Plymouth desolation and sadness. When Mrs, Tilton lived | cuurch will take him back.” with her husband there was no end tote fowers | Lasked Mr. Moulton, “Will you put these stories | aud oyous and knicknacks geen chi | wp your evidence!" i dren u ned a hi | « Mr. Beecher in a Comfortable | soenian oh sei domestic Joys, Due wow the flowers “Not a line,’ satd Moulton, ‘except the letters Frame of Mind. are withered and the little gewgaws have all been | Hearing on the Beecher-Tilton I pray the Sesto Niet | restored to their individual owners. was | Lordi may never be put through this orgeal in THE FINAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE, A WESTERN REVELATION ‘Curious Addenda to the Thrice Told Tale. WHAT THE PRINCIPALS SAID. | Ph Lot | Mr. THton, beiore leaving towa yesterday, busy writing letteis and reading the HeRaLD. He | any other case. Why, I have fed tne city, hidden | is stid tn correspondence with bis children, who | myself, labored to the last minute to get these ‘are with their uncle (Mrs, Tilton’s brother) at 9 Montelair, Nd. bs The Cidess of Mr. Tilton’s chil- | people to stand aloof and save the world a horror; | dren, Miss Florence, penaianut girl hr pay and, when I am catching it on every side for this aS |, BADE OUESER Pme. SO-SeRLUe be Ar Decnels LO sacrifice, Mr. Beecher writes me a letter and makes | she is stil devotedly attached, regulariy, and, | nen THE COMMITTEE'S COMING REPORT, during the last two Weeks, he has Sometimes re- | MY answer public im order to appear to establish a —-+ ce:ved & letter al a es fe aap | Point for him. That resolved me to make my budding into womanhvod, at un al mil eee 4 Tt may already be positively stated that the re- | rows like these are felt most acutely DY sensitive | pent cg ele muptio. PFs yr ia port of the Investigating Committee is tm reality a minds. She, of course, sides with neither party, | will I see him further trample on Theodore Tilton, “1 e} C chermhing equal adection jor her father as well as | foregone conclusion. It wiil acquit Mr, Beecher tor her pan en ‘One wiois well acquainted with the ee has dragged through the fires of hell triumphantly. In order to ascertain the probable characters aud temperaments of the children said | i manner in which the report will be disposed of by yesterday, thay he had soon Shem istely end | na < hey still entertain tond hope: \. the chureu the reporter o1 the HBKALD called upon They ‘are not allowed to Tead the papers and are Mr. Halliday, the assistant pastor of Plymouth aly informed of such bits of pews as will be sure eburch, He Snid that, as far as he had heard, there was but one supposition avout the final re- WHAT MOULTON SAYS. Sata Moulton, “They call me a conspirator against Beecuer, [ can’t be @ fool, bes iy Lhave the papers by which I know where the guilt is, They cali me a blackmailer. What nas Beecher to give me? [ am a member of a ie business house, and I have continually given to Plymouth church as liberally as any man there. I would have sparea Mr, Beecher with money or blood, bot when ne defies me to produce these letters, supposing I will not, and that he will get a poiat on me and a new one on Theodore, he has played it too fine.” MR, MOULTON is a wealthy merchant, probably about thirty-eight years old. He has red hair and light skin, » mna- tache, anda bold, prompt way of speech. He is tne | physical antipodes of Tilton, who is a tall, strange, | Unworldly ooking man, lke @ great Sunday oy. Moulton is rough and ready. These two men think highly of each other, and Moulton says that Tilton’s house was a periect rose garden, and when he heard of tue skejeton in it be was more staggered than ever in not to open anew the terrible wound from whicn their hearts are bleeding. The reporter’s intor- mant also stated that there was nota morning | sult, and that everybody anticipated Mr. Beecher’s | when the daughters did not pray for &@ happy solu- acquittal He was asked whether the members o¢ wind problem anda grocer gp 1 the committee were net Mr. Beecher’s friends, | Of {hel ree aria bap Seater and replied, ‘Oi coarse they are. You don’t think Every article belonging to them has been sent he would appoint his enemies on the committee | Saanica enone a toacininstcnens aomeaes darts | Walch 18 to decide opon @ question shat Ti'the'mont trying period of their lives. It 16 | is to him one of life and death”’ Mr. easy to imagine how painfully the thoughts of { Halliday added that it was an error to suppose | ere Pos mees tee bar bree or ane that Mr, Beecher himself had appointed the com- | Sirege where they wore obwe so happy. ee mittee. The real facts of the case were these:— | ‘The Examining Committee, at the desire of the THE MMITTEE’ LAST church, appomted Messrs. Sage and Cleveland | co: EE'S DOINGS two of their members, on the committee of inves- | NIGHT. pay se erltioa hie aaa HA tigation, and requested thei to call to their assist- aE thinks, too, that in his efforts to shake off the coil ance Messrs, Storrs, Winslow, Claflin and White. The avnouncement tnat Mr. Beecher woutd | Of guilt which has so long efveloped him Mr. Halliday thought it periectly ludicrous to appear before the committee to give his testimony | speak of a compromise. He was tn position, he drew quite a large crowd to Monroe place last | said, to assure the reporter that If any such propo- pignt, Tnere were numbers of quidnuncs and sals looking to a compromise had been made they | idters who were standing patiently in front of Mr. | certainly came trom parties outside of Plymouth, | siorrs’ residence, where the committee are in the | church, Mr, Beecher would and could never con- | padit of meeung. They were doomed to disap- } sent to a compromise of any kind whatsoever, aud ointment, however, for no Mr. Beecher appeared, even if he and the committee were inclined to githough every approaching figure undistinguish- take this ruinous course the church would never | able im the darkness elicited the ex- | consent to it—never. cited observation, “Here he is! Here 1s | Mr. Halliday also thought the report of the In- | Beecher!” Mr, Beecher was meanwhile sitting vestigating Committee would probably come up | on the steps of his handsome residence chatting bef ire the congregation at the prayer meeting tc- | and joxing with a number of young ladies and morrow week. According to the rules of the | witha few male visitors luke Mr. Halliday. They church the committee would have toreport, not | must have enjoyed themselves immensely, for to the congregation, but 10 the Examining Com- | ineir laughter was 80 load, and even boisterous, that melancholy has epshrouded bim and he nas become ungracious, evasive, cratty and desperate. Alter leaving Moulton, Tilton, Judge Morris and I went to dine at a restaurant opposite the Academy of Music, and there I noticed that Mr. Tilton re- tarned @ bow {rom a rather fine-looking, red- haired man, who sat with @ lad at a ‘tabie. “Strange that We should meet here,” said Mr. Tilton; THAT'S OVINGTON, to whose house my wife was lured. He has done 48 Much to stir up this strife a8 any man, but Probably from no malice.” While on the.way to Coney Island, going through | the park, I said to Judge Morris, Mr, itlton’s coun- sel, “Are yougotng to show character on Beecu- er’s trial, no matter whom it concerns ?”” “Yes, sir; they have tried to drive my client out of society. Let soctety take its share. Mr. Tilton | has suffered in this case and yet kept up his head | a8 no man of his age ever did. He has been in peril imittee, which consists of twenty-three per- | that it could be heard for quite a distance. Mr. | of assassination. Everything vile bas been im- sons (deacons, &c.); six of the mem-| Beecher. was probably the jolliest man in this | Pured to nim, I go Inv foleihedtt poilndhe oy bers belong to the fair sex, The Examin-| merry group. His sonorons voice could be dis- | ‘Tne people look upon this secret church investi- ing Committee would then report to the tinctly heard by the reporters, who were gation with disgust.” church, transmitting the decision of the Investi- | sitting on the steps of the adjacent house. gating Commitiee, who would have to shoulder | Several people who passed by remarked, the entire resvonsibility for the report. TheEX- | “Well, Beecher seems to take it pretiy amining Committee would probably oot in the | pire Fa ape Pe oben Wael evored om | Monroe place 3 e - least interfere with the report. At the prayer | Gent that the committee would come to their pas- | meeting resolutions would be offered, in all proba- | tor’s house to hear hus statement read. At Mr. | bility, and, as Mr. Halliday thought, the action of | Storrs’ house ae peauad to be Congas the church by vote would be perfectly harmoni- | Were was no sign of any of the memoers of tae ous. All of which means that if Mr. Halliday is | committee. Mr, Storrs was seen leaving his house | trea rate er a se right, the congregation will unanimously approve | 2#lf au hour previous to the Lour appomted tor | ght of a soctel club. ey are generally worldly <i teaatibccnelg te oerctine uitting Mr. Beecher, | the opening of the session, The reporters waitea | Men, who like Beecher and the snappy, smartisi MM AND MES, AEECHEN DURING THE TRIAL. | Patlently, and up toa late hour the only persous | things he has to say, us humor and Lis’ company, It has been generally noticed during the slow | WHO were seen to enter Mr. Beecher’s house | 8nd they put up their money, rejoice in the insti- and frequenuy’ dull ogress of this controversy Were General Tracy and Mr. Hill, and their | tullon, and otherwise PB gry ode: A how. iree--comparatively speuking—-Mr. Beecher | £€cretary. hey Seen nee. nthe house the entre | prema hill oatiinee ula cones cpecentent “ . evening, en: ed, a8 it was believed, on a revision p * \* hasbeen trom the onslaughts of the irrepressible | €Y nt cenee Statement, They were subse. | tes of people, and a Vast Inasa of Women go there there prior to the published croas-exammation, in which she spoke honorably of me. They dared not let 15 go oat.” “What is PLYMOUTH CHURCH, any way 7” said L. “Well,” said ‘fiton, “it isa kind of club house, with jemale attendants. ‘here are about 2,200 | members. ‘there are also about fiity very rich and cordiai men im the church, who look on 1¢ in the interviewers. Some of the otuer parties to this hel! 0 is quently joiued by Mr. W. O. Bartlett, who is aiso | ler their souls to be comforted and made good. Sisventensre Bary aud exceptional crave oF face. one of Mr. Beecher’s counsel. At about nine | Now. put these two elements togetuer—the xtraordivary Pi § - | o'clock @ carriage pulled up at the door and Mr. | Warmth ana beiief of all these women, the wealth “Why is it,’ they have asked, “that all the re- | ters are able to interview Mr. Mcuiton and Mr. ton and Mr. Shearman, and so forth, apd that Mr. Beecher defies them! Well, there is no mys- tery about this singular circumstance. Any one Hill and a stranger, a tall, dark-faced man, were | and pubiic spirit of those men—and you can make, whirled away rapidiy. One of the reporters, wno | 10 a detached, dultish town like Brooklyn, an in- was determined to ascertain whither they went, | Stitatiou equal to @ inerchanis’ exchange, There ran aiter the carriage; but the driver nad | are vienty of men belonging to Plymouth church e evidently received orders not to 38} | who do not care whether Beecher is a debaucher ee eee eee veut or ime | the whip, and the carriage soon rolied out of sight, | OF NOt.” F BS il sec at once why it 18 that | Mt. Halliday then bade Mr. Beecher good night | | ‘‘Ithink not,” said the Judge; “that ts I do not formation will see at on hy think Beecher, if jound guilty, will be sustained by and Went home, and at about half-past ten the merry party on the steps of Mr. dence broke up, The neighbors, of course, were | 0 successfully baffles | all agog ana dying with curiosity to see all that | e newspapers. In the Will, under no circum. | the noted preache; the representatives first place, Mr. Bee the community. Why, they are already droppin; away from him in this city, among his own people,”’ ME. TILTON’S THEORY ABOUT MES. TILTON, echer’s resi- atances, come to th Nor does the pretty | #! “Mp ” | was going on, and so this part of Co- r. Tuton,” said 1, approaching this aeucate ee a ee dee pelt, No, & | Tambia’ street was alive with people tor | question aiter a pause, “now can you make the statety aud dignited lads, elegantly attired, ap- | yours and until midnigat. The general con- , World understand that curious theory that your pears. If she had opened the door the reporter might have seen alarge and extremely pleasant face, with bright bine re uteuapes slightly | streaked with silver, and a well-sha) mouth, which las a remarkably determined expression, 8!V¥é Mr. Beecher a chance to modlty aud enlarge his statement as he might deem best. It was pre- bmrotageed eae rouimiently wide to dvclose her | sumed tat the committee had retired to come " ri jk the matzer over, and their countenance. The reporter tuen states his mis- Private nook to tal . sion, requests an Interview, which is courteously | Conduct ia thus Hiding er ee and thus ini- retused by the lady, and’ she gently duc frmiy | {ating a vecond kind of “nest aiding,” as some- shuts the door. And ‘this ends the “interview.” | body put it, was gener ly deemed highly repre- Mrs, Beecher has thus valorously thrown herselt | hensibie. in'o the breach and saved Mr. Beecher all trouble. ; Her name has become a terror to the representa. | THE FEELING IN BROOKLYN. | {hey byeathe the volce of passion and religion in- tives of the press. ‘There’s no use going to | | separably. Upon my word, I sometimes think that Beecher’s house, ‘for we'll encounter Mrs. | | those two people hs oa ell such a thing as ” rg i] La iS SIN. Beecher," is What they say. A HERALD reporter The sitaation in Brookiyn with regard to the | peecher was in love with Elizabeth as he never Beecher-Titton scandal remained unchanged. determined yesterday to tae teas ae ake | was with any other woman. They grew together | wale could surrender to the embraces of another aud still be pure at heart t”” “Because,” said Tilton, “I know it from knowing ber; irom her letters which you have seen; from the absolute possession of her wuole nature by | the religious affections. To her Heury Ward Beecher was Christ. Now, can’t you concelve that | the Man of Nazareth might have m ade it @ part of | His Gospel to teach women to com mit error with Him? To Elizaveth Henry Ward Beecher was the very saviour of men. Look at the letters written aiter ner confession and his remorse, and see how clusion which was then come to was that the publication of Gath’s account had impelled the committee to postpone their meeting in order to the lioness—in_ her den. : enough, Mrs. Beecher opened the door, looxing ‘ihere were xo developments to chronicle. The | 12 spiritual a dia ieee per bright and pieasant, as usual. | subject was discussed with considerabie warmth why Yaar that my wile kept her purity of beart pate reporter inquired If he could see Mr. | by tue people, however, whose interest was some- Mrs. Beecher, who recognized an oid acquaint- | What sharpened by the publication of the record | ance, replied that individually Mr. Beecher would of the case alleged to have been procured from de glad to see the reporter, but reportorially Dé | wr, Moulton and Mr. Tilton by a correspondent of would not. The reporter queried whether Mrs. Beecher | a Western journal. The friends of. Mr. Beecher | — be good oe vidinchag tne al are indignant st the charges in question. irs, Beecher said that speaking individually she would be giad to take a mescage, but that speak- Moulton stood upon his statement made before ing oMeiaily and Petes | she would needs nave the committee and would neither say yea nor | to decline to disturb Mr. Beecher’s repose. | may as to the truth or falsity of any of the Town- ‘oom Pepate aa peony Beccnee’s /quaremens send statements. ‘Tilton took his departure from Mrs. Beecner, with her pieasautest smile, as- town early in the day for the purpose of keeping sared her interlocutor that Mr. Beecher bad noth- | out of the reach of the members of the press, He ing whatever todo with it. He leit the matter Of wont to Long Bravch, publication entirely to the committee, e Long le The reporter desired to know the main drift of MONAHAN ON THE MOULTON STATEMNNT. Mr. Beecher’s statement? A humorous man is Tom Monahan, the stenog- rapher who assists Ellenwood, the official shorc- a reporter said gees found that she gen- | hand man of the Beecher Investigating Commit- erally knew a great deal. | 4 “No,” replica Mrs. Beecher, with her most gra- | te TBough cautious in bis responses to the im- cious manner, “I assure you that { am positively | portuning seekers after information, he is very | ventured to inquire how Mr. beecter feit. | prevarication and curtosities in the way of truth- “He feels very happy,” Mrs. Beecher declared in | ful contortion of facts, Yesterday a reporter met @ tone which: seemed to say that it was the con- | Monahan at Mr. Shearman’s house and proceeded sctausness of her husband's happiness which ren- | to “interview” him touching the statement which looked as bale and hearty as durtug those brighter | the press next day. He said:—“All I can 1s that days when not @ shadow clouded the brilliant | the abstract which was published in the HERALD lendor of tis fame. He was questioned about | yesterday was correct and must have come irom . Moulton's statement, as reported by Gath,’ iniormation furnished by Moulton. Mr. Winslow Mr. Beecher, with his usual kindly manner, de- oi introduction to the letters which are appended. clined to answer any such attack upon his veracity ‘The committee will soon wind up now, a8 | pelleve andcharacter. that Mr. Beecher will be ‘what the shoemaker MR. TILTON’S BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OP THE SITUATION. | struck his wife with—the last.’ Ido not ti while breaking her vows." i then put a question quite personal :—*‘Mr. Ti- ton, May Not that confusion oi the spiritual and the carnal have been encouraged by some similar | theories of yours as to the ireedom of inter- course ?”" “No; J Dever held free love doctrines; 1 was ination of those questions of female sufrage, toe wife’s right to property, and so forth, merely as a literary excursion, | one day critucise my offence in that way. HOW HE LOST MKS, TILTON’S ESTEEM, | 1 wilt tell you how J lost some of Elizabeth’s esteem, | That to her was sinfal, and she had the proof | sheets of the ‘Life of Christ’ read to her by Mr. Beecher. He always had the advantage of me by believing nearest her faith.” eee said 1, “you did write the Woodhall’s 1 did,” said Mr. Tilton, “to keep off the im- putation from my family. I hud never seen Mrs, Woodhull but once, but soon alter that she came to my office and snowed me @ paragraph relati! Ww a clergyman Who was the seducer of his friend’ wile, She said:—‘Do you knuw who 1s the woman referred to in that paragraph?’ ‘How should I know?’ said L ‘Why,’ she said, ‘that is your own wife, and you know it.’ ” _ PRYING TO HIDE HIS FAMILY DISGRACE, “Then I began to use every means in my power, myself and my friends, to keep that woman from publishing that story. J praised ber wisdom and son and staved off the explosion for a year. They knew my weakness and demanded more Finally, Colonel Blood came to me with a biog- rapby of Mrs. Woodhull. 1 had to consent (and [ regret it), and publighed it in the Golden Age. It awoke a tempest and pat me under the public ban, but you Know what | nad to do it for.” Said 1, “Mr, Tilton, can you say ina courtof Mrs. Beecher samled and shook her head. “I am @ perfect know-nothing, [ don’t know anything,” an idiot, [don’t know anytuing.* anxious to avoid giving the impression that he There was a short pause, and then the reporter | has fallen into the ways of the committee—i, e., dered her so cheerful, Mr. Beectier himself was was made by Moulton beiore the committee on seen during the aiternoon by the reporter. He Monday iast and which was to have been given of the Chicago Tribune, to the effect that he (Mr. | has charge of the document, which wil) make Beecher) had been guilty of flagrant taisehoods. about one culumn, or about’ une half column Mr. ‘ilton was at his house at an early hour yes- that he will pres w Justice that none of those scandais about you per- terday morning making hasty preparations for nis simply prepared" toediomor eat and = sonally are trae?” departure. A reporter endeavored to sound him answer such questions aé may be put tohim. It Not one,” he answered. on the subject of the astounding revelations made | js not tobe expected that @ great man such as Mr, , i his Hg an MA a by George Alired lownsena. Mr. Tilton, although eecher would have prepared a statement. he ‘I was called on by an old acquaintance the other evidently unwilling to commit himseli tn @ decided — has a good memory and wiil be able to repiy witn- 44Y, W0O said, “'peodore, I have a detective to do manner, gave the reporter to understand, in a out committing the subject w r.” Mr. Tracy, , °ccasional work for me, and he says he has been general way, that it was not for him to confirm or counsel for Beecher, remark jd the action of cMered $500 to get, Winsted, Conn., the proof to contradict the statement made by “Gath.” He | the committee in withholding the statement trom ‘®t you occupied the same room with a certain young lady.’ Now,’ continued Mr, Tilton, “that young lady was tne daughter ofa ljormer great could only answer for bimself and not for anybody — pupit on Was cont t and * else’s statements. He also quoted General Butier , Lager ng iee ten oemee ~ Ahn grave and serious mistake.” Moulton at first tn- as having said that Mr. Moulton’s statement, as tended to incorporate all his letters and docu- #ti-Slavery Congressman, and she was stopping Made belore the committee, “would kill Henry | ments bearing ‘ou the case ot Beecher and Tilton, | ®t, my. house. asked my whe to go up to ‘Ward Beecher.” but Generai Butler convinced tim of the tnad- {hat lonesome country town with me She said, ‘I can’t leave home; take your guest with you.’ At Winsted we had two rooms. There was a fire built in mine, and it was cold. 1 her vo sit in there and a warm, and that is the extent of this scandal, m regard to the examination by Mr, Winslow of the originais of the letters in the possession of Mr. Moulton, Mr. Tilton said that Mr. Winslow, | yesterday that he had known ail of Mr. Beecher’s aiter savistying himsell of the correctness of the | eave trom the first and never had a thougnt of published extracts, significautly exclaimed, ‘Why withdrawing from it, sensational stories vo tle Missibility of such @ course and prevailed upcn him to acquiesce in his opinion, Mr. Tracy said did Mr. Beecher write those letters?! Mr. Tilton | contrary notwithstanding. now, and my wife loves her till this day.” at the same time complained of tue abuse whica | " see" ge Mei gl ct ene ited Caan ea Teen the press of the country wd heaped upon him, and | “4 “ : stoutly asserted his confidence “in the power of VIEWS AND 4 Tilton} they are baseless all through, Theodore the trath.’”’ He was then questioned in pi ard to | inrEe LETTERS ‘Tilton is as welcome to my house and family aa any man in Brookiyn.” THE GIST OF MOULTON'S STATRMENT. Jadge Morris knows nothing of Moultou’s state- ment, but! do, The statement wili show by Mrs., Tilton’s own letters that she was not wholly averse to veing misicd, ana also that Beecher’s apology Was the work of Moulton, his attorney, on whom he reled, signed by bimseif., He sought Mouiton’s stronger nature to bear him through, @nd Mouiton never said & word against Beecher until the jatter tried by his subtie tactics to de- the probabilities of & compromise, but declared . that he had pever given the suggestion of & com- | The Chicago Daily Trihune of August 10 con. promise # thought. As iar as could be judged ° . from his manner and language he appearen ity tains along, {/ not sensational, account o1 an inter. some Indian chet Who was more ready tw acquire | View between George Allsed Townsend, the writer, new £¢a\ps than to wed those be had. | and Mr. Theodore Tilton, during which, as is PRANK MOULTON’S ALLZORD DUPLICITY, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Moulton were reported to Sleged, the latter made several revelations that have leit Brooklyn yesterday morning jor Narra- add interest to this extraordinary case. The cor- | respondent also had an tuterviéw with Judge Morris, by whom, he says, ‘‘I Was shown by Mr. giroy the custodian of ihe secrets or torce Him to sett Pier. The spacious and elegant house was leserted in the aiternoon, the bousekeeper veing the only person who was to be found on the prem- ses, Tilton’s counsel the correspondence between the give up the pepers, Thea Moulton spoke, sad 1 wife and husband from 1866 down nearly to the | Phin we believed, notwitnatanding the at tempts alread, Gate of the discovery of the adultery. I read it | pimPl™ Already begun wo excite a prejudice against NEWSPAPER ATTACKS ON MOULTON. re fine ae fi hag 5 with sensibility, admiration and wonder. That or (alone ee ee as Se joulton empnaticall u ply to any | home was truly ideal. The insidious entry of | loward, whose {ath ment in the pudlic press affecting his char- leader tn Plymouth chureh, denounced Moalton ia ane. ‘He ald he did not intend to anpencn Mr, | Beecher into it, the husband’s apprehension, the | his to-day aa follows. tae Townsend's veraciey, neither did be propose to | wile’s lulatuation, their correspondence as to this “Lt i intimated that Moulton. who asserts that reporter ascertained, however, that Mr. Moulton had returned in the siternoon, and he calied his attention w the extraordinary para- graphs in the Chicago 7rivune, in which he | ton) charged Mr. Beecher with lying. Mr. cher’ rped ; Pee Ui arn it ne ; | ferent to the workl, Dut not living for if. Tne men bb “Yes,” said Tilton, “my wife made a statement | editing @ liberal paper, devoted to the exam- | the diversity oi the laws of divorce, and that was | it was by abjaring the divinity of Christ. | ‘ere is no purer woman , | of the matter so Jately enacted in this house. As to | children to save; let me bring you together, or |; and moment of the year. and, | d | Under my window a se 1% I arose at five o’olock to write, and s8 I passed down the stairs and through the bouse | was strack with the resembiance of the place in pro- fusion of engra' to the residence o! the late Charlies Sumner. , Yet one ting strangely affected ine. About a dogen of me engravings were priests, ‘The priest was the monarco of the dwelling. In one room there was Schaeffer's picture of a devil insidiously bidding a white-robed Christ throw himself down from the height, At bend was “Adieu au Monae,” a young priest led to the clola- ter, Coming lor the last time at the picture o: nis love. Opposite this was necling Dun, by Gérard. Just in view was portrait of Mrs, Tilton, @ round-headed, aark curled little woman, sort of Little Dorms. Over the mantel was Page’s ‘Suakespeare.” Next to it a ine Portrait of Wendell Phillips. A Paul Delaroche ertisys Pe qaite reached across the dining room, je “Grave Digger and Hamlet Lookm; Down on Ophelia’s Cottin” was ln @ corner wit ‘Titlan’s *‘Duchess of Modena.” The ‘Madonna de Ja Sisto” was over Mr. Tilton’s desk, Kauibach’s “Venus Listening Amorousiy to Leal AY crowned With laurel, was on the floor. On une of the parlor mantels re Rubens’ ‘Descent irom the Cross,’ Titian’s “Christ Tempted with Owsar’s Coin,” and David’s “Napoleon in the Imperial Robes.” Over the piano were Page's curious ou painting of “Christ” and engravings of Jobo Mu- ton and Sir Poilip Sidney. Over the daughter orence’s beautiful carved writing case was her Jather’s oil portrait, Over Mrs, Tilton’s household organ, which she played sweetly, was @ large crayon oi Horace Greeley. Over the bookcase waa what | took to be another priest watching in a dark archway two figures kissing in @ san-lighted court, 1 never saw so many pictures emotional THE DAUGHTER FLORENOB, above referred to, she is the idol of her father and in {ull sympathy with Dim. He says that spe ig the embodiment of more talent, tenderness and real womanhood than any person be ever knew. ‘The night we came in we found that she had been | there and departed, leaving bim a little note, which brought tears to my eyes when it said, “My dear papa, shall we not all come together again? My heart is with your sufferings.” Such a family 1 hever saw for bigh pride of character, not tndt(- AS TENDER OF HIS WIFE'S NAME now as before he was compelied to traduce it with this tragedy. He did it wheo he found that Beecher, in his effort to make her the victim of his dreadful secret, was overthrowing her character, leading ber into decett and poisoning her mind more than he had defied her body. He never spoke to Beecher aiter the confession, for good or ih, until December 29, six months after Eilzabeth’s conession; and then, presuming that. she had told Beecher of that coniession, toia her to notify him that they understood each other. He had com- manded her to do that. She said she had obeyed, but she feared Beecher’s upbraidal. When ‘ilton jound sunt Beecher was still gotng on unblushingly he tool AN IMMEDIATE LINB OF ACTION He went straignt to the elegant residence of his loulton, and told him the story of the carried in his bosom all those months. Prior to that time only old Mrs. Morse and Oliver Johngon knew ot it. Jolnson knew of 1¢ ag Tilton’s workmate, whom every day he ad- vised to beware of Beecher. He has since had the ingratitude to stick to his bread and batter rather than to the truth. Old Mrs, Morse got it from her daughter, and knew Mouiton was to receive it ag an official part of the work to be put upon him as second or smbassador. Tilton, quiet as ne always grows at decisive times, said without a futter:— “Frank Moulton, { want you to go straight to | Piymouth church and demand Mr. Beecher to come to this house and face me.’ It was snow- ing. Montton met Beecher just going into the chapel, touched him on the arm end said:— | “Theodore Tilton is at my house in a strange state of] mind. He knows of your affair with bis wife. He has her confession in writing. You had better come with me.’ Like one para- lyzed first and automatic aiterward, Beecher walked away. He entered the room where Tilton gat, and ‘Tilton locked the door. There was no violence. With iow, deliberate speech Mr. Tuton ave Mr. Beecher an account of the wrong he had one him, prool by prool, incisive and cumulative, Mr. Beecher sat there like a stone, despair and | silence opon him. When Tilton finished he waved Dis band and said :— “THIS IS A DREAM, THEODORE.’? After a while ne said louder, and with a sigh that | seewed to come !rom remorse and terror:—‘You have a right to kill me; I have iorfeiteu my life to } you. Take it.’ “No, said Tilton, “but you shall Dot walk merrily over this town, while | go tomy work with sorrow and a@ sore heart every day. 1 | will compel you to kuow that you are discovered, | Mr. Beecher.” | i He unlocked the door and let the priest go out. Beecher walked away With Moulton, and the latter said:—“Mr, Beecver, you two men have your work to keep this secret down. “I do not want to | see youruined. His children are dear ‘ome, bot | be careful how you follow Theodore, own misery will pash him far enough. [i you add any- | thing to it you will pull this city down.” “Has Theodore got that contession ?’ asked Beecher. “He has, and | have seen it,”’ said Moalton. “Oh, my God !? said Beecher, ‘‘where can I go? ‘What shail 1 do” Yet Mr. Beecher did know where to go. He Went that night tothe house of Mrs. Tilton, and | got from her @ written retraction. The same night | Mrs, Tilton told her husband that she had given | the retraction, and again Moulton was called in. | He went, as I have described above, to Mr, Beecher, and compelled bim to give the paper up. From that time forward, Moulton, certain thav Beecher would play fickle, kept all the documents, and that is why he has them. THE LETTERS, Iventure to telegraph you some of Mrs. Tilton’s letters to her bfisband to disprove the recent charges 01 neglect, hargh: DY Sfarvation. i mi aes iweer dome ‘Hi He writes trom St. Louis, December 81, 1864:— Mr Dranty Bsioven Wire—It 1s midnight, the lasthour T am sitting alone in my room me and iull of homesickness. | ding baud is playing ‘‘liome, Sweet Home,” in honor ot-a military officer here. I teel an if they were playing it in mockery ot * * 4 Al ready my date of 1804 is wrong ; I ought now to say 1865, I think of one year of tamily history full ot small, vet important events—the growth ot the children at’ the ripening of our own minds, the growing affection be- tween us all ripening with time, the goodness of God in sparing our lives, the daily’ discipline of cares, trials, sorrows, joys—all the changes of life fashioning us as under the moiding of Providence into con- stantly new creatures, and, I trust, ito higher and better lives. * * * Ihave seen ti my daily visits to the new cities and among familics of every town many sweet and pleasant ladies and children, but none that I would exchange for my own. I suspect that at this hour you are all aved and asivep. 1 would like to catch & glimpse of all your faces and to steal a kiss from all Shocks. ‘This would be nore cotntort than wil the p ant attentions I ain receiving. Mr. Tilton had then peen nine years married, and even then Beecher was THE SNAKE IN THE HOUSE, as the following letter, written three days before tne above by her, will show. She says:- Fripay Nigut, Dec. 28, 1966. My Own Trot Mate—I have been thinking of my love for Mr. B. consterably of late, and those thoughts you shall bave now. {think I have lived a richer, hap- ier life since | have known him; and have you not more ardently since you saw that another hiyh nature appreciated me? Certain it is I | never in all my life had such rapture of en- thusiasm in my love for you. Something akin to the birth of another babe, a new fountain opened, enriching ali, It is not possibie tor any buman creature to supersede you in my heart, Above all, you rise, ia! highest, best. But ta return to Mr. B.” He has of our youth, and, vptilthe three last ial rs, when our confidence was shaken in him, | ul im as no other human being. During these ention of his name, to meet him, or, at the hotel, thinking of ‘ou early years the met pee still, a visit from him, my cheek would flush with egnre. It is not strange. then, darling, that, ou a more {atimate should ine doth to me i Oh, {ail this promise to me, my lord and m ling husband, I have endeavored to express out cant or any such thing, my tue teclings xs they ap- pear tome. BLIZABETH, That Mr. Tilton did not reduce | HIS WIFE'S SKLY-LOVE toa from this letter, dated January 7, 866 :— My bump of approbativeness is thoroughly satisfied when yon praise me. Though it be true or not I go sing- ing and light hearted about ny work. Every difficulty is straightened, and life issweet. Whatae blessing you are tome in every way! Once more 1 btess you lor your delicious letters. Thes wilt be a legacy” to my children when J am No iouger here to preserve them. Mrs. Tilton wrote, Sunday evening, January 15, 1867 :— My Deanust—Pardon me if so many of my letters are filled with accountsof the pastor's visits. Yesterday he | made uso very happy visit. Te came in about halt. past cleven, bringing Howers as usual. He foslowed me Up stairs, where be for one full hour, played with the children detigntuiy. Ader this he ‘invited ine to we y him to Mr. Ovington’s. This ts the only time I deen out with him since your absence. It was an view of tire to us both. He has areal high, status of Gcquaintance, my ‘delight ‘ind pleasure f course, ‘I realize what atwacts you if you two dear men were once | in trne nd more reunited in perfect sympathy — CONFESSIONS. Mrs. Tilton wrote two wecks afterward:— My Becoven—During the early part of your absence it wag well enougn to suiler you to believe in my pertoc- tion; but, as you near home, I inust apprise you that you jstaken. I am frailty and weakness itselt. Again Mrs. Tilton wrote, January 28, 1667: Mg, B, called Saturday. He said I had the most calm- g and peaceful inflaence over him—more go than any one he ever kuew. He brought me two pretty towers | the office |’ Coroner Eickhof held an morning in the case of Mrs. Mary Gramigan, who | REST Pekasnansmeatons “wt + prety hou She wrote, Pebraary 11, 1867:— more and Gisatisfied to have for your life's ra. ra The Independent’ Power Wealone it ty au ‘’ d the ad’ ta, IPS eae lpi anata taco geuiun, im the best part of your fife. ide, Can Zasional (eomewhere’ and rid yourvalt of the fo- sponalbilities of the detalls of'a great. paper!” Then the nee 688: ‘micuedevote to reading. writ for pout storlem and. in short iad @ purely liter- again, February 13, 1867 :— Tam more and inelined (i the ‘Tndependons, and lead As We approach the period of the criminal in- timacy wiih Beecher, the letters grow short and bitter. A few specimens are presented :— SHE WILL CHERISH HIS 1OUa FEAPeTUALLy. ‘moRsDay, Jan. My Dusm Hossamp—I do not at all realize ibat my winter's cor: r FFom the Nabit of daity writhae vsoatse 1° the frequent home t for me to give 1 You you to have your neck loose @ more periect iiterary it to-day, and 1 sorrowed for in vietory. * rp tat Frill cheat Zour love and memory per- ve! A ik of you our darlings, and reward pay arduous labors to be a financier. The te of saving I never really Knew before, and, unlike other tastes, It Hngers in t, it i) Tneifieor ast week's Hevalibn Do'not lorget me it your prayers, CRAVING 8: SENTIMENT. Tuvaspar Kveniwo, Jan. 13, 1970. My Dzan Hossanv—You once said, and have often acted, that I was always cravingsentiment. It 1s verily true, Iam what! am, relore to such a nature as atabiyprecigta katy Garba nieg {9 ete Lol iy cleave to the root oath ia Tail w Dear testimony to His uncha ngo- Mme yesterday. How it { You are well beloved by ‘our Hghtened my day like a oue in, and, therefore, {sis love struggling and un- pes |. I do not, hi ver, comfort myself in my ity—rathor, whenever I'am victor over it Oh, how slow is the warfare! * * Today has been ir. her called; hi ine spirits, making calls. He devotes Wed! id Tharsdays wor! to make; twenty to-day; enjoys i faasscnsely.” ie called on the ry d them ali around, Lizzie Wi tach oar tle am hat” Alice “had Ramed her doll’ Rose Wentworth. Thus ends another of My Matter-of fact epteties, Dut so endetn not the Love of your darling wife and tour preciot hiidren. SHE BENEWS HER LOVE AND HOPE. ‘Sarugpay Monmxo, Jan. 16, 1870. My Duantx Baiovsp—I feel the old-time delight. to that you are lonesome and am_ grate! yea, happy. renews my hope. “Last night ‘I went to prayer meeting. taKaiuet public live'and city. lie ts ‘deprived of their right to their They each ove send much love to their dear page Tread your letters to them. Byby, my own dar- ing. Lam, yours, BLIZABETH, STEPPING SEAVENWARD. Tuxspay Nicut, Feb. 1, 1870. My Betovan—We are having # cold spell of weather. ‘The wina whisues wildly down the chimney of our sit- ting room, where I write. I am reading “Stepping Heavepward"’ to aunty. fears are trickling down her tace all the while. I have said at other absences I should be happy when you got home, ap you have sen ow I iailed to prove to you the fact: Still 1t does seam me we shal 8) @ trath this return. night, darling, [ rr tad YOUR OWN WIFE. SOME NOTES. Wepnuavay Arrernoon, Feb. 2, 1370. My Dean Hussaxv—I find you in haste, as ever, sur- rounded with people. 80 is my life. Ido not believe it right in either of us.’ Concentration of one’s affectior upon one’s duties is impossible. I ask your love and coi fidence. Good night (OUR DARLING. Tuurspay, Feb, $—Night. (Probably 1870.) My, Danuna—I have joined the Women’s Club in Brooklyn and paid my fee, o! $3. You are pro) as honorary member and will be accepted, no doubt. Good night, beloved. I am YOUR OWN DEAR WIFR. SUBSEQUENT LETTERS. These extracts from Mrs. ‘tilton’s letters end here, Subsequent letters to her husband are of a differen’ character. They were written after her confession to her intimacy witn Mr. Beecher. This Confession was made July 3, 1870, The character Ot the subsequent letters may be judged from the jew already publisbed in Tilton’s sworn state- ment, such as the “Catherine Gaunt!’ letter, and others in @ simtiar vein, A WIOKED HOAX. A Dispatch Extra Announcing the Sui- cide of Beecher. ASt. Paul Dispatch extra, says the Minneopolis Tribune of Sunday, with great head lines, an- nouncing the “suicide of Henry Ward Beecher,” the dangerous condition of Mrs. Tilton and arrest of Ossian B. Dodge, was circulated throughout the city “yesterday and created s-profound sensation. The inquiry everywhere was, “Have you beard the news? “Can it be true?’ People were ex- cited ana the community correspondingly dis- sted when they learned it was @ hoax. it Was pronounced cruel and wicked in the extreme. {t was well calculated to de- ceive. Tne toh in its regular edition de- nounced the extra as “the groesest fraud ever sad rrtericnne On this or any other public,” issned by luntington & Winne, photographers. ‘The mo- ment the publisher of the Dispatch became aware of tue fraud he called upon Mayor Stewart and tae Mayor pronuny, accompanied him to the place of business Of the firm issutng the sheet and ordered its suppression. The Chief of Police was called upon and he promptly visited the job office where they were being printed and confiscated all that had not gone upon the street. “The stupidity of it as an advertising medium ought to have suggested to its authors its useless- ness even lor the medium they desired.’* NEW YORK CITY. PRcaett btaa Rosanna Rooney, who, on Thursday week, fell out of a window at No. 538 West Fifty-fourth mtrest, died yesterday morning at Rooseveit Hos pital. While suffering with a fit of delirium tremens, yesterday morning, Margaret Kelly, of No. 848 First avenue, jumped out of a third story window, and was instantly killed. The steamship Granada, Captain Cavarly, arrived at Panama August 5, from San Francisco, and on | August 11 arrived at same port, from same place, steamship Arizona, Captain Seabury. The death of Mr. John Mason, sormerly of this city, and a director of the North American Insn- rance Company and of the Merchants’ Fund, is announced in the Philadelphia papers. The clothing bouse of Isaac Hartz, on the fourth floor of No, 74 Murray street, was entered by sneak thieves on Monday night, and property valued at saree stolen. No ciew to the thieves could be joun' At half-past one o'clock yesterday morning Wil- iam Gruber, of No. 65 Ridge street, and John Kline epgaged in an altercation, during which Gruber was stabbed in the arm, causing @ severe wound. Kline escaped. The officers of the Peabody Home and Reformed Rehef Association inform their outdoor benefi- ciaries that orders for a weekly allowance of pread | can be had at the residence of the Treasurer, M. N. | Baker, M. D., No. 303 East Eighteenth street, or at of the association, corner Thirty-third street and Lexington avenue, Louis Bollen, of No. 16 Walker street, reported | tothe police of the Fifth precinct yesterday that Leonard Bernbum, who was employed by him as messenger, was sent to the Shoe anu Leather Bank on Monday with a check for $350, He received the 101 it’ will be very sweet story and swee: 3 i Titi oak Wil i istan to youre, ihe hard bat ced | | | | | | money at the bank and has not been seen since. The police are now looking for him, Six giraffes arrived on Tuesday at Philadetphia, | E | sent via New York from Africa. They were con- veyed directly to the Zoological Gardens, where they now afford the latest object of attraction. So Jresh and lively was the action of the camelopards on terra firma that it took all the exertions of Nearly a score of men to hold them ander control. The Bavarians and Suavians of this city mvend to have @ grand festival at Jones’ Wood Colosseum on the 15th, 16th and 17th of next month, The | amusements will consist of five festivals, em- | bracing @ variety entertainment of dancing, music, athictics and historical representations in medieval dress and character. Tevegraphic information has been just received that eighty car loads of teas aud silks are now on their way from San Francisco to New Yor«. The firet instalment, consisting of eighteen cars, passed Hannibal on the oth inst, The cargo amounts to 800 tons, and is the first full one of the | sort that has passed from the Paciflc to the Atlantic coast by the overland route, Serious complaints are made agatnst the author. ities of the New Jersey Central Ratlroad because of their lack of facilities in aiding passengers to ascend and alight trom their cara at the Jersey end of the road. Several serious injurtes have oc- | curred to both sexes, requiring the attendance of | peat pa 8 & consequence of the long step re- quired to reach the platform of both cars and de- pot. The means of relieving this diMeulty are so simple and economical and the road is otherwise | coolness 01 the man amazing the so well managed that it seems strange a slight | oversight of this character has escaped bbe atien- tion of oMciais. A few pine movable platiorms would cure the ovil. inquest yi sterday was ron over and almost instantly killed on the evening of August 6, by an engine of the Hudson River Railroad Company. The testhmony showed that she was waiking across the swewalk 10 & carcless manner, with ber bead down; that the Nagman caught hold of her and tried to puil ner back, but her cloak gave way and she was knocked down and run over. The engine was backing out of tne yard slowly, and the mean had no 8, ‘The jury rendered # verdios of accidental death, but thonght the flagmen negtigent in not having their fags. BROOKLYN. Yesterday Jonn Anderson, of No. 138 Sackett street, who had his leg crushed bv a car on Fur- man street, had to undergo toe peTniie fs eo weak, however, the limp had been taken off. Yesterday morning the bondsmen of James Borke fully quaitfied in $2,500 each at the Oor- Oner’s office, and Burke was released to answer for the kiltt James Kilidud, on Friday Iast, whenever oon His sureties were Owen Gal- lagher and Edward Murvagb. Jacob Phillipa, painter, residing on the corner of Cedar street and Evergreen avenue, walle af work on a scaffold in front of No. 335 South Fifth Street, by the breaking of the supporters, was thrown to the ground, sustaining a fracture of the Tight leg. He was taken home in the ambulance, Catharine McGuinnes, a domestic, charged with Stealing several small articles, valued at $3, frou her emp!oyer, Peter Paynter, of No. 877 Myrtle av enue, was honorably discharged by Justice Ethott yeaterday morning, the girl proving that th Were not in ber bundle when she tied it up, w! Paynter stated that he found them tn the bundle when he took is away from her and opened tt Tne Justice regretted that be couldn’t punish mter for his malicious attempt to ruin the girl's character because she wanted to leave with- out warning. Yesterday morning Henry Dingnan, of Fourth street, Was set on by a dog, near No. 111 Vancott avenue, and, being somewhat nervous on the score of hydrophobia, drew a revolver and shot at the animal, missing it, but very nearly hitting its owner, Alexander Johnson, Johnson an} asked him what he did that for, and the wi that followed caused a second prodaction of the pistol and the arrest of Dingnan for felonious as sawt, Johnson refused to prosecute, however, and the man was discharged. LONG ISLAND. ee The number of deaths reported to the Sanitary Bureau of Long [sland City, August 12, was five. The Oshing company of Warner & Co., at Pon juogue, on Tuesday last captured, near the light- Set turtle weigting inwards of 1,000 pounds, Mr. William Burling, a weaithy farmer, residing at Babylon, was found dead in his bed on Tuesday evening last. He retired about eight o'clock on the above evening in apparently good health. A cage of smalipox has been reported to the | Sanitary Bureau of Long Island City in the person of a child residing with ite parents at the corner oe High th street and Central avenue, Hunter’a ni WESTCHESTER. Sede Another case of smallpox developed Ithelf yester- day at Yonkers tn the person of a married woman, named Anderson, living in East Main street, » In Sing Sing Village, on Tuesday, a proposition to erect @ fire engmme house north of the Kill, ata Cont Of $3,000, was voted down at a special eleo- 01 ‘The New York Tombs has furnished twenty-one convicts to the male prison at Sing Sing during the past week. They were nearly all of the ciass de- Domtnated ‘4ow thieves,” the longest period of sentence not exceeding five years. Aspecial meeting of the Board of State Prison Inspectors was held at Sing Sing Prison yesterday, and will probably be continued to-day. It is under- stood that the meeting has been convened for the purpose of considering some alleged abuses in the management. The residents of Yonkers are again congratulat- {ng themaetves on the inauguration of another new ferry, by which a swift steamer makes three trips a day between that city and the Metropolis, In the abennce of rapid transit the penne seeare with gratification every additional tacility offered for placing them in direct communication with the lower portion of Manhattan Island. Judging from the lively appearance presented by the streets of Sing Sing just now tne camp meeting which convenes near that place on Tues- day next will be even more numerously attended than on any former occasion, Nearly every steam- boat, barge and suiling cratt arriving at the dook discharges large quantities of freight, embracing tents, furnitore, culoary do- mestic . utensils, together with huge piles of provisions, all destined for the umbrage- ous grove whose venerable oaks will again look down upon the thousands of prayerful devotees, who annuaily seek spiritual comfort be neath their sheltering foliay Already numerous families are domicited in the cottages and tents upon the eons, of the Camp Meeting tion, which is omitting no efforts to secure the comfort of ail who may take part in the exercises or visit the grove. In accordance with an estab- lished custom, notices are already liberaily posted throughout the vicinity apprising curiosity bunt- ers that no visitors will be admitted to Sing Sing Prison during camp meeting time. NEW JERSEY. President Harrison, of the Board of Aldermen, Jersey City, 19 lying seriously tl, The city physicians of Jersey City have been ‘walled upon by the Board of Health to furnish re- ports of the sanitary condition of their respective districts. Rudolph, the notorious convict, who escaped from the Hudson County Penitentiary, and was re- captured, is now confined entirely to his cell on account of his threat that he will again escape. The Directors of tne West Side Racing ground intend to enlarge the track to one mile, instead of half a mile as tt now stands. A horse ratiroad is to be constructed from the Jersey City ferry lead- ing to the track, Proceedings were begun in Trenton yesterday by B. B, Halstead and W. A. Murphy against the Belvidere branch of the-Pennsylvania Railroad for overcharging freight, contrary to the act passed ora 1, 1872, The case was adjourned to the 20th Ds ‘The Auditor of the Pennsylvania Ratirodu has been sent from Philadelphia by Tom Scott to ex- amine the books of the Erie Rallway, with a view to Introduce the Pennsyivanian system of keeping accounts into, the Erie oMfces. No further changes 01 officers wili be made for the pfresent. The gang of Weehawken ruMans who perpe- trated an outrage on a New York woman 8 few weeks ago are again on the warpath. Yestorday morning they attacked & man named Charles King, who had crossed from Forty-seventn street, knocked him down and robbed him of his watca and pocketbook, the latter containing about $9. A movement is now on foot to organize a vigilance committee. Justice Dwyer says that it is almost impossible to make the gang amenable to justice. The Board of Chosen Freedholders of Mercer county met at Trenton yesterday, at whicn the Finance Committee submitted the following estimate for the ensuing yea r:— Fy For Court Ho: Girls’ Industri Insane Aglun ere Nm se Beecees & Sazees SSaesss & eseasz NOME Sse8 ers vedeseece ony $37.21 8 This was subsequently increased by an estimate 20,000 for bridge repairs and $4,500 for heating ty buildings. In addition a resolution was passed that $24,888 be raised by assessment to pay rifcipal and juterest of volunteer bounty bonds. (be bill ot ex-Judge Reed for per alem wi jor services as County Judge, amounting to $1, was Po cag on the ground that claimant drew a salary of $1,300 per year. is DEFYING HYDROPHOBIA IN NEWARK. The oficial dog catchers of Newark bave no safe or easy job of Itt, was instanced in the case of two of them yesterday, who were severely bitten by animals while trying to ensnare them. Officer Joon Palk seized a huge mastiff, bat the mastift turned and seized Jonn by the arm, inflicting severe wounds, A comrade at once, as a matter of expected business, cauterized the wound, the azing crowd on the atreet, Charlies Seibel was also badly bitten on the con and nose. Half a dozen times before he was bitten, Of hydrophobla these men have no fear. ANOTHER SUIOIDE If JERSEY, A New Yorker Crosses the River, Lays Himself Down and Dies. ‘The body of 4 man in an advanced stage of de- composition was found in the bushes near the Paterson plank road, not far from the line of the Midiand Railroad, on Tuesday evening, County Physician Stout made & post-mortem examination yesterday, and granted a permit for burial, havin, been satisfied that it was @ clear ‘case of suicide by poison. The man was about thirty-five years of » and of reapectable appearance. On one leaf of a memorandum book in his pessession was written the following ——"L have been well raised and oared for, Fatiuro im business is the cause of by I came from New York to seek this spot, { do not feei much ike writing, for head ta cont Poe tof me. "Parowell in ini wong ans dod fee Krom all appearances the body bad atu there about two wee! it was gi Hoboken, for buriai, Given (© Mr, Crane, of