The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1874, Page 3

Our leave. \ WAS SUARESPARE A “DUMMY?” ‘ Opiniony of Live Dramatic Authori- / ties on the Subject, BCONIANS RATHER RARE. Was the Bard of Avon a Genius, a Plagiarist or a Boucicault ? DIOWS THEORY FROM EXPERIENCE. The Press and Public Taking Up the Discussion. BOUCICAULT’S AND BRET HARTE'S BELIEF. Wending our way to where Fifteenth street jos Union square we entered a snug house between ‘Tufuny's store and the Manhattan Clov and ad- dressing an agreeab ¢ French assistant at the door ‘mquired t/ Mr. Boucicault were at home. “Out, @fonsieur, montez,”” and we mounted. On enter- (mg the two adjacent rooms, forming study and Ubrary on the second Noor we found them occupied by three gentlemen. in the first who rose to meet ‘Wa We recognized the Shakespearean get up of Mr! Boucicauit, The two other gentlemen who were @eated in the room did look so very darkly upon ‘Ws, Wo began to feel they were witnesses brought in ‘Wo protect the dramatist irom misrepresentation. We bowed toward a dejected figure who was @oaceaied behind a big cigar, and turned to be- stow a similar greeting on a severe visage, witha Penetrating eye and mourniul mustache, who glared steadily at us froin a corner of the sola, “Mr. Bret Harte, Mr. Howard Paul,” said my host, {indicating the two gentiemen. ‘Champagne cock- tail,” he added, in the same tone, indicating aglasa Jag on the tavie. ; “Sir,” said we, “Iam deputed to callon you to get your opinion on the question now agitating the lecture world—who wrote Shakespeare; was % Bacon?” “Bacon !’ cried Mr. Paul; ‘no, sir. There is the an who wrote it. There he sita; look at him.” “What!” we replied, “you do not mean to assert ‘seriously that Mr. Bouctcault wrote Shakespeare?” Byery line of 1% 1 was present wnen he aid $8,” said Bret Harte, with the gravity of profound tonviouion. “He was assisted by Mr. Colley Cibber, but they only allowed Shakespeare's name to go Bp. He was a sham.’ “Will you be good enough to speak seriously. The question is an important one, and many serious minds have been engaged upon it, Have You read the article in Fraser's Magaztne?” “Ihave read,” replied Mr. Boucicault, “as much of it as appeared in the HERALD; and se- miously, I thougat it was not wortn thinking about, The internal evidences of the playa of Shakespeare being the work of just such an untu- Yored mind, such ® barbaric genius as Shakes- peare’s, are to be found in every page and inevery Une. Doyou think that @ mind like that of Bacon, ®Shaped in classical mould by the exercise and education of the period, could bave conceived or Father heaped together such a mass of glorious tmoongruity asthe ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream?’ ‘Where Bottom and his fellows, all Stratford tradea- folk, are brought into contact wita Theseus, Deme- ‘rius, Lysander, Helena and the Queen of the Amazons ina wood near Athens, and mixed up When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin, Who would tardels bear, ‘Yo grunt and sweat under a weary lite, Who but Shakespeare would nave dared to charge Ris aneer with the cant expression of ‘making & | p imctneit talk of ‘grunting and sweating,’ and jescend to the ridiculous figure of ‘a bod«in’ to nder the sublime meditation the more intense? is the handwriting of shakespeare; that apy an swear to, It cannot be imitated, @ philosopher, a mind o! analytical wer, one which investigated, wok to piec nd jubjected all matters to reason. Shakespeare's mind was diametrically opposed to that of Bacon; Ris was the mind of @ poet, on’ of syntuetic wer, one Which created, put tozether and con- mplated all things from an esinetic point of wiew.' “But how do you account for his extraordinary salormation on all suojecta? Wuere did he get 1 “ Sir,” said Bret Harte, “ he adapted st from the Prenco. some day when Ihave ume to go over (here, I sbali show the hole where he got it out, and it wili be found to fit the hole exactly.” “Seriously, Mr. Harte, seriously, sit,’ we im- | lored, “‘ wuere do you think he obtained it all? | Was @ little of everything,” idier, sailor, apothecary, * ‘linker, tailor, joughboy, thiel—especially distinguished tn the | i$ business,” dra out Howard Paul. “He jade everything sublime, even theft. If he had en alive now he is capabie, sir, of taking ¢ Belle Lamar’ and makiog @ fine play of it! wonderful |” We jouked hopelessly and helplessly to the ramatist ior assistance, but he nodded to Mr. ret Harte to answer my question. “You thust know,’ said the novelist, “that in NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. that ne did than that James Gordon Bennett founded the HmwaLD, that Horace Greeley ever edited the Tribune, or wrote a lead article ior ‘bat jouroal within ten years. Why, dear sir, Delia Bacon—wno afterwards died in the Insane Asyium—wrote @ ponderous octavo work, weigh- ing about a ton—intellectually and otherwise—to prove that Shakespeare Was not the author of his Plays, and actually sat upon the poet’s tomb ai Of one night, thinking, I suppose, that ne woul arice and vindicate himself, Archbishop Whately wrote a work to prove that Napoleon |. never ex- isted, but | think it ts pretty clear there was such @man. To your question of How was it possible for @ man of Wul Shakespeare’s education and station in Ile to step into London us one who had mastered all the things and relations of thia world, and at the age of twenty-three, to produce bis matchless works of art, his tragedies, surpas- sing the Greeks; his philosophies the most pro- jound, and nis knowledge of the human heart and human emotions, second only to the Divine Creator ?’—to all this I have only one reply—he was William £bakespeare. Call it what you will, Inspiration, or, as Ben Jonson said, ‘the most wonderiul genius to write, 80 that nig ideas were flowing £0 jast that his pen could not transcribe brain, wero produced with the Newal of moh care, Among the most riect im constyuctis although differing intellectual Pkg “Othello,” “Twellth ight,” “King Lear, ‘ortolanus,” “Much Ado bout Nothing.” “Measure for Measure,” “Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Merchant of Ventce,” “As You Like It,” ‘Taming of the Shrew,” “King Jonn,” “King Henry Vili,” “King Henry IV,” first and second parts; aeape 9 Henry V.,” “Ricnard II, Richard IL,’ “Coriolanus,” “Julius Cesar,” ntony and Cleopatra,” “Romeo and Juuet,” “Hamlet” and “Macbeth.” Some of these were undoubtedly early written plays, revised in later years, Io thas analyzing the character of Shake- — works in their progressive order we see early that in bis early writings he labored under eare’s Bee the dificuity of insufficient mental training, qe i having the advantages of @ bright genius and a sound moral judgment. Nowhere does Shake- faise doctrines, But he telis us that ‘8 crescent does not grow alone Tp thews and bulk; but as this temple waxex ‘the inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal. FRANKLIN, them.’ Srill, that he did write them, I think is indisputabie.” NYM CRINKELE’S VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT. Nym Crinkle (nom de plume ot Mr. A. O. Wheeler, an eminent Shakesperian critic) expressed yes- terday to @ HERALD representative his belief in the views set forth doubting thas the ‘divine William ” was the real author of Shakespeare's Plays. ‘‘It ta imposaibie,” he says, “to believe that such an intimate acquaintance with every subject—jurisprudence, theology, domestic econ- omy, bistory, politics, military and nautical affairs, the Court, sporting, botany, huabandry, and even the language and art of the lignt fingered proies- sion—could be acquired by Shakespeare, as his biography will show, It will Le found, too, that great minds DEO Hoe he, Schiller and Schlegel en- \ertained grave doubts about it. I think that the article In Fraser's Magazine bears upon it the si mp of truth and conviction, If Shakespeare ha shown such knowledge in one or more branches the fact might be easily exp! ined, but that he sbould know everytbing, an thoroughly too, with the circumstances under which he was piaced, strikes me a8 nothin: sbors of a miracie. I am of opinion that this c-ntroversy will have the effect, although it is not anew theme, of throwing much light on a subject of Vital interest.” MR. LESTER WALLACK’S OPINION. » A HERALD representative called upon Mr. Lester Wallack yesterday, and found the distinguished manager in his cosey little senctum at his theatre. In reply to questions relating to the sub- ject of the authorship of Shakespeare's plays Mr. Wallack very emphatically pro- nounced his disbelief in the theory advanced in the article trom Fraser's Magazine, and very dis- tinctly announced bis entire taith in the justice of the claims of the divine Bard of Avon as the sole creator of those wondrous works, The question, How can it be that in those works such aciose acquaintance with a variety of sub- Jects of a nature inconsistent with the means of knowledge st the dramatist’s command 1s shown? was explained by Mr. Wallack in this manner :—‘There 18 no reason why Shakespeare should nos have had an opportunity of consulting the best authorities on technical points of sup- jects with which, we will suppose, he was not Brastiosily conversant. ‘Ihe legal lore displayed in some of his works, the wonderful familiarity with the arcana o! tne medical art, and the proois ol the dramatist’s acquaintance with husbandry, farming, politics and otner subjects, do not show anything beyond the jact that for information on points with which he was not familiar there were abungant sources of intormation jor Shakespeare, and genius suggested the proper use of this in- jormauon, “Why,” said Mr, Wallack, “the explanation is pertectiy plain. 11 a dramatist of the present day, or even @ novelist, wishes to make a technical point in relation tosome subject, whether it be legal, medical or othe! if 1 desired, ior instance, to introduce @ knotty point o! law 10 a scene tor effect, 1 should consult my friend, Recorder Hackett, for the legal correct- ness of my views, and tue same might said reierence to other suojects.”” Mr. Wallack suid that in the attempt to reconcti @pparent contradictions between the great learn- ing displayed in Shakespeare’s wor! id the ac- counts given o! his lite, those who entertain doubts of his being the author forget the claims of gen- ius. The plodding people of the world cannot un- derstand the soaring fights of such a mind as that of Shakespeare, nor its intuitive power of arrang- ing acquired knowledge in an artistic manner, alculated to lead one to suppose that nothin, hort of actual experience and familiarity wit! such subjects could produce an effect so marvel- jous, Finally, Mr. Wailack desired to enter his protest in against the ridiculous statement that Shakespeare | did not write tne immortal plays ascribed to him, WHO WROTE BACON? To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— Iread with interest the argument set forth by the Hon. Nathaniel Holmes, the Harvard Profes- sor of Law, as commented on by Fraser's Miga- zine, abd republished in the HERALD, Witnoat cons.dering the few points of similarny between Bacon and Shakespeare—‘“‘the text is old, the ora- tor (myself) too green”’—I ask leave to proponnd the question, if Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, who wrote Bacon's essays? It is too much to sup- | pose that one person wrote both. The distinction between tho poet and the essayist is consttu- tional—each choosing the mode of expression which 1s easiest to him, were both natural philosophers, a fact not incon- sistent with their differing forms of constructing language, or with a sometimes similar style. Yet Our degeuerate times the dives aud drinking Saloons oj tie city have come down to politics and | eurvstone speculation. But in those of Snake- | @peare the Bow!ing Green and Peuri street were Studded with inns, Where the choicest wits, poets And philosophers o! the day were wont to drink | their cocktails. ‘The conveisation was a jeweller’s | shop 0! wit, ana all the stock ol A. ‘, Stewart | can’t pretend to figure the variety and richness of | She iniormation and opinion that flowed sponta. | Neously, gushed and tumoied around. hat was | She schoul where Shakespeare learned. In that school, sir, nothing came vut bat the choicest bits © each man’s mind, the most valuable and most curious iniormation. It was & mother lode.” “But, sir, he had read the Greek and Latin clas- sies, some ol which had never been translated,” wes pled. fir. bret Harte banded me back to Mr. Bouci- cault. A FINE THEORY. “Sir, he read nothing of the sort. Dozens of Manuscript plays were sent into the theatre of Which Shakespeare was the reader. Shakespeare | selected those he thought had some govd in them, | just as Dumxs, Scribe, fom Taylor atd and do in | his day ol ours, The’ author gets aiew pounds; | ‘We cut up bis work, remake it, refashion, rewrite, | retain as much as may be good. ‘Ihe orizinal work peers torough the vew iorm, and thus a dozen minds co-operate. Shakespeare plucked as he read se works all the flowers and odd tit bits, and these went pell mell into the inmense store | house o/ tits mind, irom whence they were poured out, their only real valuo being the marvellous manner in which he applied them; but he some- times applied them wrong, which Bacon never | Would have done..”’ . “You think then,” we said, “that Bacon could ive writren a@ play if he had tried ¢? am_sure he could have written a p Howard Paul, thougntfally and slowly, and { am equally gure it would have becn a very stupid one.” “Just anch 4 play,” suggested Boucicault, ‘as Professor Tyidall would write.” “Or,” sald Howard Paul, “the Century Club,” “No,” sald Bret Harte, dejectedly, “just such a Play as | am writing.” At this momenta kind of melancholy seemed ‘to pervade the group, and so We arouse and twok y,’? said Mr. Paul followed us to the staircase, and suggested that we might mention promiscuously that be had just. come over from Engiaud and was here, generously ollering to do as much for us an- other Ume, ME. RICHARD GRANT WHITE'S OPINION. Ao order to hear what # student of Shake- Speare had to say on the great question a repre- sentative of the Heracp paid a visit to Mr. Richard Grant White, whose thoughtfal work on “The Life and Gentua of Shakespeare” is recognized vothin England and America asa valuable con- tribution to our common literature. Mr. White's oMce in the Custom House was deserted, but in the evening he was found at home, and gladly entered into the subject of the authorship of Shakespeare's works. Ho said, in substance :— “I saw the interesting articie in tne HERALD | nt on Shakespeare, but I had Previously ai the paper in Fraser's Magazine, and the very clever and scholarly work of Protessor Nathaniel Holmes, of Harvard, on tne ‘Authorship of Bhakespeare,’ witch formed thg basis of the ar- ment in tue Fraser article. 1 need not say that differ in toto with everybody who thinks shakes- are did not write the works which peur his | fected and mannerly and the second as this much for Shakespeare, he was @ man of all styles, though perhaps not successiul in ail, In addition to the heritage of @ well balanced mind, Shakespeare doubtless sideraole knowledge by reading, obser- vation and inquiry, A large capacity tg the reservoir of the intellect, which, if not fiiled by collegiate instruction, due diligence and 6 retentive memory will gradually supply. It is not probable. that Shakespeare’s limited schooling was sufficient to fit him for nis future literary vocation. His must have been a mind of untiring study in the leisure intervais from work. A love of reading 13 the youthtul peginning of every literary scholar. I have often thought that Shakespeare kept two scrap books, one contain- ing varied cullings from his readings ana the other @ memoranda of original suggestions, which he used whenever the occasion was presented. He had @ rare gilt for the beautiful, alike ina moral and a physical sense, and this he cultivated, I desire to show that Shakespeare’s progress in Knowledge and years marks the ascending scale of bis works, . Beginning his career as author at a very early period in life, the firstlings of nis genius were characterized by many defects of style, the chief fault being proginess. Witness the long and labored speeches in his “Troilus and Cressida,” a piay which is throughoat an exhibition of native genius struggling with inexperience; yet some of M8 passazes aro Dot excelled by anything he wrote at ariper age. Again, his “Love's Labor's Lost’? abounds in much that must bave been considered Irivolous stu? when it was first written and best understood, yet what can equal for poetic fire a few passages therein on the general theme of love ¢ Let us consider “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,’ @ play In Shakspeare’s vein, notwithstanding his authorship has been doubted, Although the gen- eral drut of the plot and some of its characters bar {t from stage presentation, a pure moral un- dercurrent carries off the sewage. It was doubt- less intended as @ moral spectacle, the dénoue- ment of which is expressed in a couplet— Virtue presery'd from fell destruction’s blast, Led on by Heaven, and crown’d with Joy at Inst As the stage and its patrons became more re- fined Shakespeare avoided the 1ij-considered slang which is to be found in this and a few other O1 his plays; yet, with ail the faults of “Pericles,” I venture to say its closing suene is the most emo- tional of any that can be found inthe range of dramatic literature. I would not class “Titas Andronicus” as among | the earliest effusions of Shakespeare, owing to Its completeness in poetical construction, The yGomedy of Errors” and ‘Two Gentiemen of Verona” are light and airyin quality, and were probably dashed off ina hurry to supply a waut of the Globe Theatre tor something fresh. Pernaps the least meritorious in point of ability ia “King Henry VL, ist Part.” I can well imagine that Shakespeare was yet in his teens when he wrote it. “King Henry Vi, 2d Part,” and “King Henry VI, 3d Part,” rewritten by Shakespeare irom old lays, with improvements peculiarly his own, are etver, but yet (to use his own description) are “like thé forced gait of a shuMing nag." It 18 not safe to enumerate any more under this category, for my opinions are founded on conjec- tures, and conjecture has no barrier strong'‘enough to lock itself up irom assault, If 1 were to say I consider “Macbeth” a play sn- perior to “Hamlet!’—whicli privately I do, in point of dignity and style—I cou! find many to take issne with me. yetl regard she first gg | ag al. | Ine and | SHAKESPEARE AS A SIAGE MAN- AGER. (From the Brooklyn Eagie.} Not one actor of this or any other generation would ever believe that a mere philosophic thinker } and iliustrious lawyer could write “Othello” or | “Macbeth.” A-man acquainted with the effect of acting by practical connection with the stage could alone mode! their scenes and shape tneir dialogues. To @ stage manager there ts tnde- scribabie but indestractible intrinsic evidence in every scene of “Otoello” and of “Macbeth” that the greatest poet who ever sang, the man of Widest sympathies who ever felt, and the most complete master of English who ever wrote was a Practical actor and a@ practical stage manager. Mr, Holmes’ book 18 amusing, but it is nothing more, He.does not make out for Bacon half as good a claim to Shakespeare's plays as Putnam's | Magazine made out for Waiter leigh some yexrs ; 8x0. Raleigh was a soldier, @ practical sailor, a | courtier of the very first water, a poet and a his- torian. In hi e, studies and temperament he ely to have blossomed into a espeare than tne advocate and misnamed verer Of the inductive philosophy. Bacon Was @ mean man. been the author of | Shakespeare’s works he was not the man to hide | the fact when he saw royalty itself ac- knowledge their grandeur and honor their author, As the ciaim for Raleigh has been jaughea out of court so will the claim tor Bacon be. Shakespeare is @ mystery, as all otner | wonderful phenomena of heaven's providing for men’s good gre found to be mysteries, when finally probed. But the mystery of bis work ts | not to be solved by merely changing the tdentity of the author, everently and thanklully we sbouid accept in this man an evidence of heaven's good will toward men. He, like his works, was phenomenal. if we consider merely the subtlety of construction, the jorce of imagination, the per- lect energy and elegance of expre: mn, if we look at Shakespeare merely as an intellectual marvel, We may account for bim in some degree as for other marvels—as for a Owsar or @ Napoleon, LET SHAKESPEARE ALONE, PREECE eos (From the Philadeipnta Press.) ‘Whoever wrote the plays stole many of the plots and often whole pages of the dialogue, and it is very likely that he borrowed his knowledge as many modern writers’ do, Everybody knows that in the “ Winter’s Tale” a sea and a shipwreck a located in Bohemia, and a few close readers that in “Troilus and Cressida” that our poet makes Ulysses quote an axiom from Aristotle. The ques- | tion is not whether Shakespeare did these things, | but whether Bacon would have done them. | And here we leave the matter, with | | the single assertion that it {8 not only | | possib! ut exceedingly probable that Wil- | | method, SECRET SERVI Order from th. eretary of the Trea: ury for the Reorganization of the Di- vision—Regignation of the Chief of the Bureau—A Letter of Explanation. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 1874 Secretary Bristow has approved the recommen- dations of Solicttor Wilson in regard to the Secret Service Division of the Treasury, and directea that steps be taken at once for the reorganization of that branch of the service, and what all papers and evidence in relation to the secret service in the hands of the Solicitor be turned over to the Site ney General, Colonel Whitiey bas tendered his resignation as Chief of that bureau, which was this morning accepted by the secretary; but bis successor Das not been designated, New York, Sept. 4, 1874 | To THR EDITOR OF THE H¥RALD:— For some time past the management of the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Depart- ment has been the subject of newspaper criticisms, favorabie and otherwise, and I have been in re- ceipt of numerous letters from all parts of the country asking if it were true that the secret ser- vice 18 to be abolished and supplanted by a system of rewards, and requesting my views iu the matter. Finding it inexpedient even to attempt to reply to 80 many correspondents, I have thought that one letter addressed to a journal of wide circulation like the HERALD would be the best and most expe- ditious mode of answering all inquires, It hus been stated that an effort would be made to have the secret service abolished for the pur- | pose of establishing in its stead @ system of re- wards contingent upon the conviction of persons | found gullty of the crime of counterfeiting, and that the results produced by the service as now Managed were not commensurate with its expen- ditares, These statements have been made with- out an accurate knowledge of the facts as set forth in the official records of the Secret Service Division | Jor the past five years. Personally 1 care but littie about the matter; but my interest in this branch | of the pudlic service ag a powerful vindicator of the laws and a terror to the criminal classes com- pels me to say that there is no tenable ground upon which such statements can be based. As to THE SYSTEM OF REWARDS, that system had been tried for years previous to the organization of the secret service, and had | Letter from Colonel Whitley. BRANCH OFFICE, SECRET SERVICE DIVISION, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, NO. 56 BLEECKER 8T, not only failed in the detection of counterfeiters in | had never stated (as charged by Mr. Tilton) that | church, and & very great degree, but had become sucha stench | in the nostrils of the people that public opinion, | and a due regard for the proper administration of | justice, compelled judges to charge against prose- cutions instigated In the hope of a reward, while jurors steadily refused to convict in all cases where the witnesses where to be compensated by | the blood money accruing to them as the resuit of such convictions; and it was for the purpose of ridding the country of a sys- tem that become absolutely in: ous, that the secret service wus organized. crime of counterieiting, unlike most others, is cunfeder- ated aud national in ita character; ramifying irom one end of the land to the other, and em- ploying men of tue most ingenious and subtie | minds, whose experience in this most intricate and closely studied ‘fraud of frauds’ is such as to almost dely detection, at least by any ordinary An equally ramilyiog organization, com- | posed of men working in the interest of law aud | order, having an enlarged experience in the ways | of criminals, permeating ali parts of the country | and yet having a central head to which taey are responsible, is alone able to cope successfully with | this, the most complicated of ail crimes, in other frauds upon the government, such ag ey iam Shakespeare wrote all the plays ascribed , violations or evasions of the customs and internal | tohim. lt is easier to prove what @ mano is not | revenue laws, where the offences begin and end in | toan what he is. Mr. Story, in his poem iilustrat- | the same district, local forces or forces wording | Mr. Beecher’s Formal Answer Served at Last. The Trial Put Down for October—The | Evidence Foreshadowed, Judge Neilson, of the City Court, to Try the Case. “Mr. Beecher’s Triumph Certain in Any Case.” Mr. Theodore Tilton remained yesterday in Brooklyn, He was at his residence during the greater part of the day, working onthe prepara tion of his new statement, which he states is to bea “regular crusher.” It will cover 250 pages of foolscap, and Mr, Tilton is confident that its effect on the public will scarcely be less than was that of his first famous onslaught. He declined to state how soon it would be completed and when it would be given tothe press, He was met by a | HERALD reporter near the Court House. When asked whether he intended to remain in town for some time he replied, buoyantly, “Uh, I am alwaye in town, a8 you know.” He said he did not know whether his counsel, Judge Morris, had received Mr. Beecher’s answer, Mr, Tilton looked very well indeed. j In conversation with @ reporter Mr. Ovington ated yeaterday that Mrs. Ovington’s visit to Mr. | | mains with her father, e case. “When will the case be probably tried 7” “Perhaps in November, may be uot until ber. I think the trial will be very long. Tilton’si and Moulton’s cross-examination will probably 4 the most interesting features of the trial, shoula not wonder if General Butier woulda be on@ of Tilton’s counsel, alihough ms relations with Mr. Beecher were always extremely cordial, General Tracy bas not been formall Tetained as Mr. Beecner’s counsel and it not impossible that some eminent lawyer lig O'Conor or Evarts may be engaged by e!ther of the parties, Moreover, 1am stillor the opinion saat ‘the case will never be tried at ali—tbhat Tilton withdraw the suit.’ “Could he afford to do that!” BEECHER’S TRIUMPH IN ANY CASB. “Well, he could better afford todo that than %6 be defeated, as he certainly will be. Beecher’s triump | is certain in any case. What Tilton wants 4s to Grive Beecher from the puipit of Plymouth church, but even if the jury should fnd @ verdict Jor the plaintiff, Plymouth cyurch will undoubte edly cling to Beecher as tenaciously as ever. have no doubt that a few will leave the chureb, but their places will soon be filled.’ Mr. Moulton had not returned to Brooklyn yes ferday and the inmates of the nouse did not know When to expect him. Miss Florence Tilton still re- MARY POMEROY’S MEMORY VINDICATED, Indignation in Jersey City—Young Nutter’s Affidavit Exposing the Con- spiracy=The Whole C: To Be Laid Bare Within a Few Weeks. The whole previous history of the Glendenning- Pomeroy case, painful. as it is, pales in the light thrown upon the melancholy drama by the latest revelations, It ig ramored throughout Jersey City that Glendenning bas no defence to make, but the advice given him by some of his zealous iriends Prompts him to take advantage of every subter- fuge by wnich he may gain time. His frst policy was thatof masterly inactivity, and to this ne was aavised by two trustees of the church. The out- burst of indignation at the mass meeting on the Heights forced a change of base, while at the same time the death of the chief witness in the case, Tilton’s house was prompted by the necessity of sending Mr. Tilton’s children, Alice and Carroll, to School, and it became necessary to make certain arrangements. After recciving Mr. Tilton’s letter denying the interview which she had requested sbe called upon him, but he would not allow her to speak on the subject. Mr. Ovington, in alluding to @ passage in Mr. Tilton’s letter, denied that Mrs, Ovington had been instrumental in Mrs, Til- ton’s desertion of her home, He declared that he the latter had invaded his (Mr. Ovington’s) house and endeavored to force his way into Mrs, Tilton’s keep them apart, As to Mr. Tilton’s allegation | that his daughter had been dented access to her Jt mother, tt was void of all foundation, for Miss | Florence had been repeatedly asked by them to | | visit their house and see her grief-stricken mother, Mrs, Tilton went of her own motion bvefore the committee, and Mr. or Mrs. Ovington didin no Manner induce her to take that step. Both Mr, and Mrs, Ovington expressed their most proiound regret that tuis unimportant matter, so thoroughly rivate and domestic in its character, should nave | Bea deemed by Mr, lilton worthy oi publication, Mrs. Uvington, in giving an account of her inter- : view with Mr. Tilton, said that, although he per- sistently refused to aliow her to speak about the matter, bis monner was as considerate snd courteous as usual, MK. BERCHER'S ANSWER, At about five o'clock yesterday evening & clerk of Shearman & Sterling served Mr. Beecher’s an- | poor Mary Pomeroy, inspired the accused pastor | witha feellng of security against consequences, | But the desperate straits in which Glendenning | Onds himself can best be judged from the con- | splracy mentioned in yesterday's HeRALD, The | following affidavits give the entire explanation of this iniamous attempt to throw a dark shadow oD | the memory of the dead :— State of New Jersey, Ludaon Fi A | atte Katt, rite .crets Leimy fay Rata —I had been to @ choir meeting at the Method: on my Way home called at a friend’s Rouse, and while proceeding to my father's: house, about te8 o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the oth day of Sep- tember, 18/4, when deponent was decosted on ihe street sald to | | presence. If Mrs, Tiltou’s whereapouts were kept | h2utir his mame wes Mr. Ruvter, asia "Seat ie as secret i met it wae gunn Wer ee f je sald pene 7] ad some formation for me il would step across the Ff WAS AT HER EXPRESS REQUBOT, |. street, which I did, and entered the house of Johu Gor- | and not because Mr. and Mrs, Ovington tried to | d 4 who was bail on ihe bastardy sta n (same mal Y against Kev. John S Glendenning), and was receiv: ; by nim (Gordom) and usheres into @ pari. he gas was-imimediately lighted, Shortly after Jam r. ‘They then commenced other trifli Martin commenced to converse | about th oft Mrs. Gordon. . About this tune de- | ponent he carriage ride up in front of the house hen \he door bell rang, and Mr. Martin said he would like to get a drink of water, and proceeded to the entry. Presently Mr. Gordon came down stairs. Asie did so the bei) rang again, He opened the door and siepped outsi to hold some conversation with the party who rang the doorbell. shorty atter he came in and Mr. Martin went gue and soon afer revurned to the parlor. | Ha. (Mag ts He was caljed), proceeded to snut the parlor door, three of us—Dunn, Martin and myselt—being ail (hat were then. present. The coach, with one or more persons outsido, Was about this time removed to the opposite side of the street. Then Mr. Martin said to Mr, Dunn, “Will you DU! the case to Mr. Nutter, or shall Ido it?” Mr. Dina replied, “You had better doit.” He (Martin) calied de- fonans to one corner of the parlor. near a writing aesk. Je then said, “Mr. Nutter, I wish to make a staement to you, and 1'don’t wish you to interrapt me tntil Tam | Dunn entered the par! and tw Bacon and Shakespeare | acquired con- | | ing the power of argument, made outa powerful | Cage jor Judas Iscariot, and showed that the be- trayer of our Saviour was @ much abused man, to whom history bas tered Beas injustice, and otuer | persons have exculpated almost equally objecHon. | abie individuals, At this iate day it would seem | to be charity, if not justice, 3 | alone. But tue literary wor! R has 11s ghouls, and they must feed their appetites. THE PROPOS NATIONAL CONVENTION. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your article of the 4th, entitied “Peace and Re- constraction—Both Sides of the Southern Ques- tion,” appeals to the patriotism and common | | sense of the North and South alike, As 4 South- | ern man I feel its force—Rem tetigit acta The imposition of a tax on the slaveholders of the South of $2,000,000,000 by the emancipation of | | 4,000,000 slaves, of the vaine of $500 each, has been a burten most grievous, and far beyond the | exaction made by conquering Germany of pros- | | trate France, But this, in itself, has been nothing | to the ulcerous sore established and constantly | irritated by party nacks for partisan purposes, ‘The emancipation of the slaves was a subversion | of social conditions in the South, but it was simply | | @ trangier of the property irom the master to tne | slave. The value still rematned to the country— | for the slaves were here, though emancipated—tr | the government had been contented with the lt ansier; but it was not, It was not satisfied with | | the emancipation of the slaves, nor even with this | accompanied by @ dangerous concession to an | | ignorant and improvident constituency of political « | power. The government, directed by the repub- | lican party, also demanded tha’ this new political | force should be appropriated to the sole and ex- clusive benefit o1 the republican party. Does not every man of sense recognize tnis tact, and is not this tie source of all our woes? { Allow us to proceed with our republican consti. | tutional government, with the institution of slavery eliminated, and we would not suffer as | France did. But the misfortune is that the repub- -lican party will not allow this. They insist that it | ig 80 unnatural that the negro should confide in any | other agency than the republican party; that nis | straying Irom its fold is evidence per se of duress, | a8 tue lawyers would say, aud when this becumes imminent our paternal government calis the | | army to its aid. Who now are the true repubil- ; cans? Those who would allow the negro to vote as he wills, or those who call force to their aid to | mfuence nis voie? Ah, Mr. Editor, you of ; the North little know how many hearts | | there are among the men of the Soath | that long to ieel that they too have a | portion in the country. How many there are wno | would brave all aangers and submit ‘10 all sacri- | fices to sustain by their blood and their treasure | the honor of the flag and the true glory of their country, if you would only allow them to stand by | your side es equals! They may have been mis- taken, but they showed their taith by their self denial, No man hath greater love for and faith in a cause than he that is Wilting to die for it, Give them, then, @ part with you in the ye ment; repudiate the carpet baggers, the real | cause of ail our ills, and you unite with the true patriots of the North all toe men of the South who followed Lee and Johnston, With such men united in hearty good will who can estimate the power of the United States, not | only as @ military Power, but as apeople capable of any self denial and of all sacrifices tor true re- publican liberty? Yours sincerely, A SON OF A PATRIOT OF 1798, New Yorg, Sept. 6, 18 | THE ICELAND EXPEDITION, {From the Halifax Evening Express.) The New York HgRatp of the 27th contains one of its accustomed pieces of enterprise, namely, a map of Iceland, and long letters giving full par- | ticulars of the celebration, with translations of , the Icelandic hymna and advertisements, . the King’s speech and his opinions on the celebration, ‘1o-morrow we will avail ourselves of tne HERALD’S gilt to present some portion of the briliuant de- scriptions to our readers, “AHEAD OP ANYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY.” {From the Danville (Va.) Times.] The. enterprise of the proprietor of the HERALD {8 ahead of anything in this country, The reader 18 aware it has a lightning express on the New York Central for the delivery ofits own papers, This train last Sunday made 400 miles in twelve hours and delivered over 25,000 hang of the Sunday daily between the city of New York and Saratoga, ee hours in advance of any other New York ally. AN OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE. Gilbert H. Comstock, aged forty-six years, resia- ing at No. 12 Livingstone place, died suddenly | yesterday afternoon under suspicions circum- stances, having gone to bed the night before ap- parently in good health, Not appearing yesterday morning, it was supposed by his family that he was not feeling well; 80 no attention was paid to him, At about three o’ciock in the aiternoon, becoming uneasy at his proionged sleep, an attempt was made to awaken him, when it was discovered that ne was dead, At first suicide was the only hypothesis fur his death, vdut no evidence could be found to substantiate it, as there were no maiks of violence or traces of | oison discernible. At last {t was remembered | hat, when suffering from rheumatism, an alling to which he was subject, he frequentiy took mor- hing, and it is presumed that he had, the might tedious, 1 do not place eiMner one of them ag among Shakespeare's very jarest productions, ‘The Winter's Tale” and “Cxmbeline," among the earilest, are fnety conceived, but lacking in | jolish, Probably they were nover revised by | hakespeare. “The Tempest” and “Midsummer | ame Jam certain it is far more oaay to prove | Nighi’s Dream,” both pure creawons of Baake- | eiore, probably while undergoing aM attack of illness, taken an overdose of the drug. This sup- | Position was verified soon after by the finding of An empty bottie of morphine, which was known to , ni been recently filled, The reek, wae taken to | ¢ Morgue aud the Caraner notifie | Against che United States laws, disconnectedly can be made available, but in sup- ressing the crime of counterleiting, which, eginning in one district, may enter into and cor- rapt every other, nothing short of a system by which it can be followed irom place to place until overtaken and utterly destroyed can be of any | service. As to the statement that | THE RESULTS PRODUCED by the labors of thisservice have not been com- mensurate with the expenditure, the records of the division will bear me out in the assertion that | More has been accomplished in this direction | for the same amount of money tnan in | any other branch of the puoiio service, These facts are amply supported by the figures. | In the Southern district of New York alone there | have been made since the month of May, 1869, when [ assumed charge of the force, 549 arrests, by officers of this service, of offenders of ali classes During the same length of time the officers have made more than | 150 seizures of smuggied goods, also two steam. ships ior violations of the customs laws, and gev- eral breweries and illicit stills jor violations of the , internal revenue jaws, More than a miillon repre- sentative dollars in counterfeit money bavi also tured, together with 150 sets of atee! Plates, di iy re and lithographic ones, presses aud other material ior manufacturing counterfeit money. Investigations have also been made 1n upwaras OF 1,000 cases of suspected fraud | upon the Treasury im the matter 1 faise and Iraud- ulent pensions and bounties, and decailed reports made to the department in each case. During one year alone dishonest bounty agents were com- Pelled by officers of this service to return upwards of $20,000 to soldiers of the army whom they (the agents) had defrauded out o1 it, The above results are for this one district. The | Tecords of the work accomplisned in other dis | tricts make an equally good showing, the whole forming an array of {acts whicn suggest the most roiound consideration of any recommendation looking to the abolishment of ‘the unostentativus but effective machinery by which such important results have been produced. 1am aware that the determined and uncompromising stand which I have taken agatnst crime and criminals, and which bas been sBepreyaliing policy of this service | since I have had it im charge, has called forth the bitterest enmity of the violaters of law | everywhere, and it is not unfatr to presume that they have been working covertly to assist to destroy @ power which they could uot control and which they feit must eventually aestroy them. ! My integral jaith that the right wili ultimately prevall and that all schemes concocted for tae Mere purpose of injury and whicu have their bases in perjury and subornation of perjury must {fall to | the ground, is the.most desirabie evidence to me j that the machinations o/. the criminals avove al- luded to will also fat, Very respeciiuliy, H. U. WHITLEY, Chief Secret Service Division, 4 PROBABLE HOMICIDE, A German Saloon Keeper Inflicts a Very | Dangerous Wound with a Beer Glass | on the Head of a Customer. H At about hali-past seven o’clock last night an affray occurred in the lager beer saloon No. 530 East Fourteenth street, kept by Casper Chamburn, which is likely to terminate fatally. It appears | that at about the time mentioned Florin Bush, a German, residing in the same house, entered Chamburn’s saloon and called for a drink of beer, | » Chamburn, who stood bebind the bar, in reply | demanded the payment of $5, whicn he claimea | Bush owed him, * Bush responded angrily, denying | | the debt, and hot words ensued, which soon brought on blows. Bush siruck Caamburn on the head with a heavy flat tile, @ loot in length, inflict- ing &@ slight scalp wound, from which the blood flowed. Chamburn, maddened at the blow and infuriated at the wight of the blood, seized | anempty beer mug, made of thick glass, waich | stood on the counter, and with all his might | brought it down on the head of bis antagonist, in- stantly felling him to the floor and renderiug him unconscious, The fracas attracting the aitention of passers-by, au oMcer was notified, who promptly arrested Chamburn and ordered an ambulance for the injured man. Tue prisoner was taken to the Eighteenth precinct station huuse, where he was locked up for examination, and the unconscious man was conveyed to Kelievue Hospital, where an examination of lis wouod revealed a most ugly ash on the top of the head. It was nearly three inches in lengtn and was infitcted evidently by the | edge of the giass, The attending physician thought | the wound highly dangerous, but would express no opifion as to the probability of the man’s re- covery OBUEL SWINDLE ON LABORING MEN, Yesterday afternoon Ofticers Clapp and Walling, of the Central Oiiice, arrested Arthur McKenzie, of | No. 619 Broadway, for detrauding poor laborera, | The prisoner published an advertisement in one of | the morning papers caling tor 200 laborers to go to Brazil, Early in the morning a crowd gathered around the door of No, 619, aud the poitce, in their inquiry a8 to the character of the place, toand it was @ base fraud, as McKenzie was collecting $2 from each man who came to be eimp.oyed. As they found his plan was to leave town at night | with the money collected they arrested him, and | he was bronght to the tombs, where Judge Flammer committed him for examination. te THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding day of last | year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s | Pharmacy, baad Building :— By 1874, | 1874, 1873, va + 69 67 8:30 P, M...... 70 84 | va. at 63 PLM 60 10 da, M % 13 9P.M.. 68 8 2M, 10 80 1 Pi Mi svevve, 8. 10 | Average temperature yesterday... . 3% Average “inperature lor corresponding ‘date last Vear., | city of Brooklyn, Kings , the alleged contessions of Mr. Beecher. swer, Which had just arrived, upon the Cliei Clerk | through, We wro aware of your gonnections with at Judge Morria’ oftice, The following is the an- | eed Sea then eta Wales ho taeabe ewer:— ofriah (6, understand yout firgt remark.” es The (ty Court of Brootlyn:—Theodore Tilton, platntim, | “Certainly,” and repeate en he droppe: ncuingt Henry ’Ward eecher, detendant—Answer. sub,ect and said that he knew of a certain ‘She detendunt answers to the complain 1. that each and every a’ contained (except that man living in house rgen, now employed in a hardware in Duane’ street, New York; that said man had becn Cer some goods M. hichards were married on uctober +, 1855, and lived | Gid not belong to himself. He mentioned Mr, together as husband and wife up to 18/4), is utterly false, | Hughes on Bergen avenue as having some “fr That this derendant never had, at any time or af | €00ds. Deponent interrupted and asked him from any place, fauy uncvaste or improper’ relations with the wie e pla indi, and never attempted or sought to | @ an; ich relation: Lah credneiges SHEARMAN & STERLING, Attorneys for deiendant: State of New Hampshire, County of “Gra/ton, o,—Henry Ward Beecher being duly sworn, say: 1. that he ts the defendant heres, and, resides in the unty, New York, but is tem. ing at the Twih Mountain House, Coos mpahire x poeny, resi County, New figures in this document account for the delay tn | sending the answer irom there to Brooklyn. If Mr. Beecher had been in Brooklyn this delay could have been avoided and the answer might have | been received two or three days sooner. Juage Morris's representative handed the Learer of this missive at once a notice of trial, hereby faciittating matters and waiving all tor- malities, This notice reads as tullow:— City Court of Brooklyn~theodore Hits ity Court m—Theodore Tilton, plaintiff, va. Henry Wal Beecher, detendant—Notice” al Please to take notice that the issue of tact in this action will be brought to trial and an inquest taken therein at the next term of the City Court of brooklyn, appointed to be held at the County Court House, in’ the city of Brooklyn, oa the first Monday of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, or as soon wh tt as counsel can ve heard, Dated the 7h day of September, 1874. MORKIS & PEARSALL, Attorneys for Pinintif?, To SuRARMAN AXD STERLING, Ksq., Atiorneys tor De- fendant, As the defendant Is also requirea to give a simi- lar notice of trial, Mr. Shearman’s clerk was re- quested to make one out on the spot, which he did. He was tnus saved the trouvie of coming again to the office of Morris. & Pearsall and serving tus formal notice upon them. Judge Morris’ | clerk asked that this notice be made out at once | cheerfully bears testimony to he: in order to give the other side no reason for any further delay. The case will now be put on the | calendar jor October, Judge Morris, Who seems very sanguine of suc- cess, yestercay told & HkRALD reporter that he had important evidence in his possession which had never been published and would have a de- cided bearing upon the case. When asked whether tuere was now even a shadow of possi- ility of Mr, Tilton's withdrawing the case Judgo | Morris laughed and replied that all suc state. | ments “were periect nonsense.” Nothing, he | deciared, could be more absurd than to talk of any | compromise, THE TRIAL FORESHADOWED, General Tracy, Mr. Beccher's counsel, was also called upon, bat he was uot in his office. General Catlin, General Tracy’s partner, was asked by the reporter to foresnudow, as far as possibie, the evidence that could ve adduced at tue tri General CarLin—Well, lec me see what would be legal evidence. ‘Ihe allegation ts that Mr. Beecher was guilty of crim nal conversation. Now the other side will probavly try to prove this by | The so- | cailed apology will provably be* introduced for the | urpose of corroborating the letters of Mr. Beecher 0 Mir, Moulton, Tilton will presumably be a wit- ness in hisown benail, He will swear that Beecher coniesased the crime to him. The various letters of remorse, &c,, Will be oered in evidence upon this question, Moulton wiil awear tuat Beecher confessed the crime to him also, “Are the letters of Mr, Beecher admissible as al evidence?” “No; (ney will probably be objected to and ex- cluded on tae ground that they in no wise reter to aduitery, Un the part o( Beecher there will -be-— first, his own denial (and explanation of the let ters, I! toey should be admitted) ; then there will be ‘Iiiton’s and Moulton’s cross-examination, and | they will be asked whether they aid not express to such and such persons at such and such places their belie! that there was nothing whatever in this charge against Mr. Beecher,” MR. BRECHER'S STRONG POINTS, winea there be any strong testimony on this poin “Yes, Indeed, There ara any number of persons to whom bath have frankly avowed this convio- tion, Mr. Halliday was one of them; but there are many Others, whose names [ am not at liberty to divulge. Moulton’s letter saying that Beecher ‘could stand if the whole truth were known,’ will here be offered in evidence.’? “How about Mrs, Tilton’s testimony ?” “Well, Mra, Tilton will probaoly be called a8 & witness, although it is doubtiul whether she the wile of the piaintiif will ve allowed to testity. If she is she wili undoubtedly deny the allegations in toto, Judge Morris, as you are aware, asserts that he has evidence which will not be mado known until the trial, That may be, but so far as the evidence 18 now known I don’t belleve there ts @ jury in this city woo would leave their seats in order to arrive at a verdict for the deiendant,”” JUDGE NEILSON (0 TRY THR Case. “Before what Judge will the case be probably tried »” | “Probably before Judge Nelison, of the City | Court, for the reason tuat Judge Reynoids was once employed by fiiton to prosecute bowen for the $7,000 claimed by bin, and that Judge McCue, asl have been informed, bas been outspoken in his syinpathies with Kercuer, sudwe Nelison. know. | Electricity was What authority he got that He sail he could take me within a few steps of the “Five Corners,” where there Jeweller that had some of the same gooda He ihe owners had been over and identified the goods. also eid they were searching thelr books, and & map had been dogging me for some time and had everyth in black and white. They (meaning himseif and Dunn! had it in their power not to have the matter go any tur- | ther, and wanted deponent to tell the truth about it Hi (Martin) then arose and asced ine whatI intended toda. 4 “Gentlemen, take your course.” He (Martin) then ‘It will come out anyhow, but it would take more saia, * That hi ne years of age and his occupation | time and cost more.” — Deponent, then said, “{ unde x i J ‘ Fe is that of @ ciergym: | stand you are t to rope me into something, but 1 That the soregoing answer ts true of his own knowl | Gon't scare worth aeent-™ f anid 1 was willing te'meke edge. HMNRY WARD BEECHER. | | q statement at any time hereafter, but not to-night. | sworn and subscribed before me this day of | Martin said, .“We want It to-night.” ‘Then he satdowm, August, 1874—Hanny Bivouam, Justice of the Peace, Nir. Nutter, there are only four or five persone Sate of, New, Hampshire, County o/ Gra/ton, august 28, | tual kngw anything in regard to this matter, and they 1874.—I hereby certily that I am Clerk of ‘the Circuit | do hot know you." I said, “Take your course.” Mi Court of the said qd that Warry Bingham fo. | Dunn said, *Mr. Nutter, the word ‘roping-in,’ which you sides therein, and at the ot use, we don’t understand; we merely want your statc- foregoing a Justice of the Pi houg | ment and the truth.” Mr. Martin said he wanted it in the said State, and duly authorized black and white, ang that ne could tell whether it was to tace the sald anidavit, aud that ain well acquainted | the truth or uot,'as he had papers to show. Deponent with the hanawriting of the said y Hingham and . gaid, “What slatement do you wish me. to maker nature to the jurat of the And’ he said, “We want your statement of your ‘and that said atidavit purports | relations and connections with Mary Pomeroy.” I Said, to be taken in all respects as required by the laws of the | ‘I will give you my statement,” and we left the housa, Siate of New Hampshire. Went outside and saw a coach. pped back and said, In testimony whereot I have nereunto set my hand | “Where do you intend to take mi this states and attixed wie official seal of the said Court, the date | ment” They said. “fo Mr. Dixoi e proceeded above written, C. A. DOLE, | Across the streot to the carriage; my mother und sister Clerk of the Circuit Court for Gratton O'ounty, | were at the time sitting on the front stoop of our house, {Seal} New Uampspire. Which js nearly opposite Gordom’s house. J then stared, The formalities necessary for the verification of | f%iny faiher was away, I would speak to. my mother the signature of the Justice of the Peace wno {uit the lower nt To ean day Roing. | We then went 0 most unusual thing tot parties to come to fake me at o la hour Saturday hight to a lawyer's office to make ment, and te Pay No atiention to them unless they produced a warrant @r some authority to tuke me away, The patties nd the carriage all the time, and it | haa 0 bo haif-past eleven o'ciock. UR , returning to the street they urgéd Seponent to o with | them tn the carriage, which he declined to do. My, | Dunn, being very urgent to have me go, I still refused | and returned to my home. Veponent says as to their retended charge or intimation that he had done wrong in the matter of the goods they talked about, tsa matte having nothing todo with Miss Pomeroy, but was w: toscare deponent into making sot wrong or false statement or affidavit as he believes. This matter hav- ing been alluded to in connection with M: Pomeroy, he believes it was done so by them with the a told me to go home, as it wa: frightening him into the making of some false statemen’ j Pie himself with ay, Pdheroy such @ way | as to shield Johu 8. Glendenning; that ‘to deponent thi | scheme = was apparent when they mixed up her | name with it, They also said any statement I made would not publicly be used, but would be destroyed, | _ They ais is they eame to me as friends (deponend | never ‘havin, C t before) that If he would do as | they wished and make a statement they would siand oy im, Deponent further savs that he never visited Mar! Pomeroy, and was never in her presence slope. he met her on two or three occasions at sociabl | in the company of a great many other has partie rs0ns, an r ladylike condue: modest bearing, and upon’ his oath says that he neve saw anything improper in word or act upon her part and never heard a reflection upoo her character unt {his unfortunate aGair with John 8, Glendenning. JOHN L. NUTTER. | Subscribed and sworn to befere me, this 7th day of September, 1874.—Josura H. AupRipas, Notary Public, Jersey City, county and State atoresa! ‘State of Neve Jersey, Hudson County e:—Before me person- ally appeared Uscat F. Bucken, a member of the police force ou the Heights, and says he was on duty on Sum- mit avenue on Saturday night last, ria and noticing a fe in front of John Gordon's, on the opposite side. of et, when two men crossed over trom th 0 the lots alongside of Mr. Gordon's tence, Movements seeming suspicious to de; and the carriage remaining some tine, to @ late the night, I kept a watch on It, suspecting somethin, was wrong. It was a part of my bd to do £0. OSCAR F. BUCKEN, Sworn and subseribed to before me at Jersey City, N. .. september 7, 1874—Josxra H. ALDRIDGE, Notary Pub lic in the city ol Jersey City, county and State aforesaid. Mrs. Miller and her legal advisers are busy in the preparation of documents which they assert will be strong against Glendenning, Some Of these will be presented to the Presbytery at tue investigation, while all will be given to the Grand Jury. artling rumor was afloat Mg nai re~ lative to one of the trustees of the ctiurcn, which, if substantiated, wili create a profound seusation. The unpleasant fact is now being recognized om all sides that the entire case will be laid bare with> in a few weeks. NEW YORK WEUROLOGIOAL SOCIETY, The third regular meeting of the Neurologicat Society was heid at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue, last evening, The report of the committee on physiological progress was received and read, and tended to show that during the year ending July, 1874, not as much advancement in this department of the science had been accomplished as in former years. The report of the Council wis read, and beveral gentlemen elected to membership, ‘The subject of the essay and discussion of the evening was “Certain Nervous Affections of the Throat.” Mr. Clinton Wagner, M. D., read the essay, and quoted numerous interestin; Joss of voice and recovery, were interesting, from the thas the lose of voice in some cases was oss Instantanc- ous, while in others i¢ was gradual, As the different eases were enumerated by the essayist they were accompanied by reports of thi diagnosis made by the physicians under whosq notice the cases came, as well a8 @ report of the | wreatment adopted aud the progress wna fuel noe suit of the case—iniormation which was chiefly in- teresting to physicians only. It was escablished ag & tact that in nearly all cases where the loss of the Voice Was instantaneous a low morbid condition Of the patient was observed. At the conclusion of the reading of the essay re- Marks on the subject were iu order and were In- duigea tn by several of the gentlemen present. judged to be the sheet anchor, When all other remedies had fatled of their ovjeot, in certain cases of the loss of voice, Manipulation of the larynx in cases of paralysia has proved very | effectual. Large doses of tron and morph! ve been prescribed with success in paralysis be laryox. Alter the transaction of routine business \ the meeting adjourned unsi) October.