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4 of Meckienberg repented of their bold “Deelarue | thon of tndepemtience,” before two weeks rolled over their heads; that they “backed down,” “ate Meir Words” and coaid not have been the imfext- die heroes that all of us believe them to have | been, SYURTOUSNESS OF THE DOCUMENT ESTABLISHED, But why assume, even for arzument’s sake, that the declaranon of May 20is genuine when its suthor certifies that if is mot genuine? His cer- \ifleate has been before tue people of North Caro- ne for nearly twenty-two years, and yet not one of the defenders of the “McKoits” invention bas | ever notic'd it. It was published in the North | Carolina University Magazine in May, 1863, and is embraced in an able and impartial review of the controversy, understood. to be from the pen oi Professor Vharies Puiliips, then of the University, | and now of Davidson College, situated in Meck- lenburg county, Ex-Governor Swain was, in 1853, Presiden: of the University. No man in the | State, or oat of it, perbaps, bad given more at- | tention to the history of tis Mecklenburg move- Went; and, while Governor, from 1832 to 1835, he was in charge of the “Davie copy” to which Mr, Alexander’s certificate was appended. It was | uirectly trom Governor Swain, therefore, the cus- jodian of the document, that his colleague in the | Paculty of the University derived the certificate, ( will add that Professor Phillips ts at once dis- unguished Presbyterian divine of the higuest | character and as a mathematician. In the Rewiew | feferred to he says:— “The oldest edition of the ‘Davie copy’ was fur- | nished by Joun McKnitt Alexander to General Davie, then a resident of South Carolina, The _ ¢ and degree of reverence to be given to its con- , tegts are unanswerably paid by the conciusion to | the manuscript.” He then gives the certificate as follows:— it may be worthy of notice here to obser that the foregoing statement (embracing Declaration and proceedings of May 20. though fundamentally correct, yet may not literaliy correspoad Witn tne origimal record of the trans- Actions of said delegation aud Court of Iuquiry, as all those records and papers were burnt with the house, on April 6, 1800; put previous to that time of 1800 & full Copy of said records, at the request of br. Hugh Williamson, then of New York, but formerly a represen ative in Co gress from this Slate, Was lorwarded to bim vy Colonel William Polk, im order that those early transactions might Oll their proper place in a history of this State then writimg by the said Dr. lilamson in New | ‘Certified to the best of my recollection and be- lief, this 3d day of September, 1500, by J. McK, ALEXANDER, Mecklenburg county, N. C. Dr, Phillipa remarks upon this certificate, “lt ts clear that Mr. Alexander never intenuea to set forta the ‘Davie copy’ as containing any more than the substance of what was resolved in Onar- lotte in May, 1775.” Im the same connection he remarks that ‘Judge Martin’s history of North Carolina was published in 1829, and bis copy is evidently a polished edition of the ‘Davie copy’— polished because its guarvlans knew that this was not an extract from original records, and therelore felt no particular reverence ior it.’’ Dr. Phillips might pave udded—and no particular | reverence for the trath of history, To the mind bi every disint a and candid reader this {rank confession of Mr. Alexander must settle the controversy. For no man of ordinary intelligence will pretend to say that Mr. Alexander’s memory | Was infailible—and nothing short of infallibtlity of memory would enable him to reproduce the pro- _ ceedings of a public meeting, contaiming a mant- esto or series of resolutions, with the circcm- Mtances attending their adoption twenty-five years alter the event took piace. AN ANALYSIS OF MR. ALEXANDER’S MEMORY. And as it regards Mr, Alexander, so far from bis possessed an ordinarily good memory, bis of proceedings snows bim to e been for- of woat most men would bi remembered, s@ names of all except two of the many \ent citizens who participated in them. ames we derive from other sources, At me time he was so forgetful of tae part be aying a8 @ Narrator of events, which tran- May 19 and 20, 1775, that be is betrayed into us of what occurred during the whole of the war, and even refers to the war it- d its incidents as things lopg passed away. his report of proceedings in the usual Nortn Carolina, Mecklenburg county, May ,” ea if be wrote on that day, he begins by | that “In the sprimg of 1775, the leading county, stmulated,” * © At length ‘“Uolonel T. Polk, through tion, issued an order to eaca cap- | company,” &c, to elect delegates, | “lp conformity to said order. on the 198n 1776, the said delegation met in Charlotte, with unifmited powers, at Which time om™- vs by express arrived of the battie of Lex- a that day of the preceding month,” &c. | ace. @@er Will at once recognize this as the style of the historian, or chronicler, and not that of th reporter, in like manuer ihe “Declaration” itself ls written im the past tense, and declares that whoever “abettea,” &c. The absurdity of this poraseology Was so manifest (hat Martin took the liberty of remodelling the document, as has been noticed, and his emendations have been generally accepted by its defenders. It is a triding anacbroa- iam that Mr. Alexander undertakes to state the resuit of Captain Jack's mission to Polladelpbia, Walther he was sens, “in @ few days," as an ex- press messenger, to bear the resolutions, apd must have beem gone quire a month. The report | “wext gives several important /acts, of which t joarnal of Congress furcisnes no correspond: prool, and in regard to which the memories of | dedersun, Adams, and all their living colleagues ‘a 1819 were at fault—such t, “On the return of Captain Jack the delegation learned that their proceedings were individually approved by the members of Congress, but that | it Was deemed premature to lay them before the House,” and that “a joint letter from said three Members of Congress—Casweill, Hooper and He wes—was aiso received (but of wbicu no tract ean be found) complimentary of tne zeal im ti common cause, and recommending perseverance, order andenergy.” It is due to Captain Jack tosay | ‘shat bis certificate, which is one of those procured | and published by the Legisiatare, in support of the “Declaration” is entirely silent as to these fruits of his mission, He merely says that he delivered the “Deciaration of Independence of May, 1775, to | Richard Uaswell and William Hooper. the dele- | gates to Congress irom ‘the State of North Caro- | una." This report, dated May 20, 1775, concludes with the statement that “the subseqaent har- | Mony, ananimity and exertion in the cause of independence, evidently resuiti } (rom these regulations, and the continued exer- | tion of sald delegation, apparently tranquilized } this section of the State and met with the concur. fence and high approbation of tue Council of | Safety, who held their sessions at Newbern and | Wilmiagton, alternately, and who confirmed the | nomination aud acts of the delegation in their | oM@cial capacity." } Otuer happy effects of the government estab- | lished on the 20th are given, which we know to ve | purely imaginary, siace that government was en- tirely superseded on tue Slat of May, ifitever had | Bn existence. | 1 thus given, it may be thought, an unmec- essarily minute statement of the contents of the teport, in order that the reader may see fer him- self that it bas no claims to génuinemess; that it Was written long after the events it relates, as | the supposed certificate of Mr. Aiexender admit and thas it furnishes the strongest possibie inter. | Gai evidence o/ the genuiaeness 0! bis certificate, ifany one should presume to question it, Thus far Bo one nas done so puviic!, a it is sate to predict that no one will be able to raise so muca Mo dou0t Of its genuineness, THB Witsegans TO THE MBCELENDORO DBOLARA- 1ON, We lave (he certificates and statements of four - teen persona Wo were present woen a deciara- | Yon of some sort was m Of tuexe three way | that Mr. Jono McKnitt Alexander was the secre- tary. Toose ty include himse! aad nis futare son-in-law, General Josepa Graham, who at the me Was jos) fiiteen and @ hall years old; aod tue.) Rev. Humphrey Huater, then tweaty, who says _ iat Mr, Alexander and Dr. Eporaim brevard | were th@ secretaries. Five others assert p ively that Brevara wae the sole secretary. Amoug these Ove is (be came of Genera, George Graham, an elder brother of Joseph, with four others, vouched | the latter named genuleman. | McKnict Alexan | ceding. | poraneous jacts which are utterly incungruous | Mint for all who choose to pay for toe design and | to verify anything connected with the legend | business transaction only. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 38, 1875,—TRIPLE for as highly respectable, and ail of them older than | one other gentie- man, Colonel William Polk, statea to Mr, Gales, of | the Register, that the facts statea in the Alexan- | der report were tn the main true, “th ugn he thought there were errors as to the name oO! tne secretary,” &¢,, and said (hat he should “probably be able to correct these,” 4 He accordingly wrote to his frienas in Mecklenburg, aud obtained the statements of the five who declare that Bre vard was the secretary, to the exclusion of Alex- ander. And hereby hangs a tale. TAMPERING WITH "HR DOCUMENT. J have assumed all along that tne so-called re- port of Mr. Alexander, as it comes aown to us in & pampniet pudlished by order oi the Legislature in 1881, under the supervision of Governor Stokes and a committee of that body, is identical witn the paper which appeared in the Raleigh Register April 80, 1819. 1t purports to be so. At its head stands the reference to that journal in the usual form. And yeteven here 1 find that there has been an unwarrantable liberty taken, to call it vy no harsher name, which of ttself would destroy the confidence of ail fair-minded men in the genu- ineness of the pretended report. As published in 1819 the report was shorn, as we have seen, of the important certificate made by its author, Jonn to the fact that he wrote it from memory in September, 1800, the original record having been destroyed by fire in April pre- It was thus made vy tt# manipulavors to appear, at least to careless readers, a8 a genuine contemporaneous report, written, as well as dated, May 20,1775, But this suppression was not the | only alteration that the document underwent for, as 1t appeared in the Hegister, is was Colonel Adam Alexander, and not Qvionel T. Polk, who | “through solicitation issued an order to | nh captain’s company” in the county to lect delegates to the Convention, &e In the pamphlet the name of Colonel T. Polk appears in place of Colonel Adam Alexander. No explana- tien is given of this alteration of an ofciai report of the proceedings fifty-Gve years alter the date 1% bears, and no mention made of it, Can it ve believed that those who took the liberty of sab- stituting the name of Polk for that of Alexander, regarded the reportas genuine? ‘his alteration must have been made by Governor Stokes, or by the Legislative Committee; and we are forced to conclude that there was outside testimony on which more reliance was to be piaced than on the pretended record, And iu a word, as 1 learn from @ highly respectable suurce, the change o! names was made on the demaad of Colonel William Polk, of Raleigh, who insisted on having justize done to the memory of his father, He was less tenacious about the secretaryship, but produced, as we | have seen, abundant testimony to the fact that Dr. Brevard, and not John McKnitt Alexander, filled that place. Have we not here another con- ciusive proof that the pretended report of May 20 18 spurious, and in its present suape no better | than a jorgery? Of the fourteen witnesses addaced who say they were present, and doubtless were, at some one of the meetings which took place in the | spring of 1775, seven, just half, reaember that the | eVeut occurred, as stated in the report, on May | 20. Buvof this number Mr. Alexander himself 18 | one, and ali the other six had seen his statement, | | | and non? of trem were delegates, Of the other seven eye- witnesses six remember that the event | oceurred in May, 1775, or, a8 two of them say, Quring that year. One of thei, and one of t Bost intelligent, was a delegate aod @ colleague from the same captain’s company with Mr. Alex- | ander, and yet he neither remembers the aate nor Mr, Alexander's secretaryspip, Another of tue fourteen, Colonel Wiliam Poik, gave no cer- tdcate, or, more accurately, none has been pub- lished. Leould add an indefinito number of contem- with the assumed reality of this “Mecklenburg Declaration of ludependence” of May 20, But I should trespass too far on the patience of my readers /f 1 were to state tuem, 1 tnerefore de- sist, being conscious that this controversy upon a matter of local Revolauonary history has far less interest for the great majority o1 the country than it bas for the people of Nor rolina. DANIEL B. GOODLUE, Warrenton, N. C. THE MECKLENBURG MEDAL. WasHINGTON, May 7, 1875. In striking off the Mecklenourg medal, and ix- ing the date at May 20, 1775, imstead of May 51, , ‘he government is not to be understood as having assumeu the correctness of the former aa Medais are struck off at the Pniladelphia dies, and the Director of tue Mint is not required | offered jor the design. Their preparation was & THE COSTA CALAMITY. INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE SCOW CHARLES M'MANUS AND THE CITY OF HARTFORD. The Board of Steamboat Inspectors began an in- Vestigation yest»rday to discover the causes uf the recent collision at pier 23 East River, between the steamboat City of Hartford and a scow, oy which the latter Was capsized @nd@ the four Costa onil- dren were drowned. Tne only witnesses of the disaster woo were examined were Captain William Minor, of the City of Hartford, and Heary B. Strick- land, tue pilot of the same vessel. Captain Minor testified that when the City of Hartford was brought opposiie to her pier the Wind was blowing ® heavy gale from the north- west, which some t affected the working of the Vessel, and thas there were also two opposing currents, one of Which affected the stem ana t other the stern ot his these influences w aii in operation upon the vessel when be noticed | | | the #cow lying Oulside a cadal boat, which was Moored to the side of @ ship; he then saw | that bis vessel must strike t scow; he! spoke to Pilot Strickiand, Who said, in ie Was airaid tue Cily of Ha:tiord would hit t scow;” the tide Was upusuall Tents or evdies from the doc! n 0) the steamer that she wou bot helm ;hbe ana the plot did ali in ta prevent acollisiou; when the contact vetween the Vesseis took place he saw bat one person o fom Bix, and the cul ‘ad such control scow; be Was ® boy, who ped the canal boat, and so escaped t ow Was turning over, saw a man suddenly rise from and descend into its cabin, {ro in ly reappeared with a wo: Man lost nis hold upon the e Out of the Water, ho er eavily loaded witn stone that its urck More than eight or ten inches above the water Henry B. Strickiand. the pilot of the y of Hartiord, corroborated Uaptain Minor’s ‘esti- mony. He said, im additi that at the time of the collision tere Were three persous aiding him at the wheel. The imvestigation was adjourned until after the Coroner’s inquest on Monday. THE JOHN MITCHEL BENEFIT. At @ meeting held at Deimonico’s, on Wednes- | day last, in relation to the JoNu Mitchel fund, Mr. Richard O'Gorman was cnosen president, Luge: treasurer, and Jobo Muilaly, secretary. the scow Was 60 mot A O'Conor, express- ing the warmest interest in the movement and enclosing a check Jor $100. Ihe letter sa L, Maxwell, of Brovkiyn, a gramddaughter of Woif coutributed $200; Rickard O'Gurman von- tributed $100; nine aam, Ol M tene!’s uofiinch: ing gahantry, $100 casa; J.J. O'Donon $ W.luams, $100, Mr, Malialey aonounced 0; St. Patrick that their vseription list was uiready over $500, SUICIDE AT WHITE PLAINS. A Gecided sensation was occasioned at White Piains, Westchester county, yesterday morning, by the ammouncement taat Chari Russell, druggist, doing business in that village, had iaken his own ie. Deceased, wO0 Was about twenty-six years old aod unmarried, retired to fis rovm, in the couse where be boarded on Thursday evening | thout, attracting any upusdal observation on the part of his iriends, About seven A. M. yester- Gey oue of his acquaintances eptered the apurt- Ment occapied by Kusseli, and was dort! at fudiog Gim extended on toe biood stained ved Clotuing, quite cead, Woe a revolver lay witha Gusy reach of the right hund of the suicide. De- ceased haa svot himeel tne times in the leit side before be succeeued in putimg one of the Duilets Lorouge Hie heart, No cause can be as- signed for the ral it, ashe was doing @ good | business, and, ally o vod, Was, ! is W ave beeo married ja afew day: THE BROOKLYN TRIAL, fare Bical Another Day Lost by Adjourn- | ment to Monday. THE CROWD IN THE COURT ROOM. | Gossip About the Witnesses and ' the Verdict. ‘The Brooklyn City Court opened yesterday morning at the usual hour, and the court room and corridors were crowded to excess long before | the arrival of Jude Netlson. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, accompanied by Mrs, Beecher, entered the court room about five minutes past eleven. His face was radiant with smiles; in fact, he ap- | peared so happy that his jovialty became the topic of general conversation. “Do you think he feels as Lappy as he looks, or is he only shamming?”’ | was asked by a cynical opserver, but he received no answ Mrs. Beecher appeared yesterday much older and worn than usual, being apparently in de- pressed spirits—the result of her invalid conal- tion and long waiting on these tiresome legal proceedings. happy, Jor her countenance was as radiant as her | husband's, The crowd of curious peuple which fillea the court room, althougn packed rather closely, preserved good order. Bowen, who had been placed on tne stand @ witness for the plaintut on Wednesday, and who had undergone five hours’ examination, bad iatled so far to satiate thew thirst for revelations. Nothing short of startling testimony would or could sar- isiy them. They had come on Wednesday pre- pared to hear revelations {rom tne mouth of Henry C. Bowen, a narrative o/ facts which would gratily their morbid appetite, and in the main they had been disappojnted. Buta few years ago the name of Bowen aéted as an incentive among the faitnful to obtain subscribers for a religious journal, and yet to-day we find the same name Serving as an inducement for scanaalmongers to crowd the City Court room, “Bowen will testify to-day’? was passed along the line as though that gemtieman was going to afford them such a treat as they had so lar been denied, Jt was also rumored that the “Woodhull” would be called ‘pon yesterday morning to testify on behall of the She was, however, apparently quite — SHEET ton at the outset tn quest of redress for his own | grievances her fault was then ‘condemned’ by him to save something out of the wreek ol house treasures, which he clung to with ail ‘the greed of a selfish man; she was then spurned by a gaping public tor | having surreputiously made deminds apoa Mr, Beecher’s love, upon which charge society and seil-respecting Women stood aghust, On eirher | side sué@ tas been hupelessiy consigned by hasband and lover (7) to notiinzvess, Should fue veriicy be empbaticaliy pronounced, “Not guilty,” no | Woman with keen sensivlitties, sacrificed as Mrs, | Vito bas been im tus contiet oO! che passions, | and rage for power of these wo men, could taink | © re-enteriog ibe desolate bome, which wust re- | Inain desolate sorever, She can never be lifted irom | this degradation except bv seeking red) ess at the | hands o1 unjust laws, which have so degraded her, | aud terauing her plea, which, because it failed with Judge Nellson, goal! not necessarily fat! the | second time, or the third or the fourth, or until | tus wrong is righted. By her great sorrow, we may be able to reach the unveiling o! the ndden horrors of a system which, according | to statute, consigns her to the place of @ helpless, | flekle. passionate cangeling; the common level, in jact, o: all women, despised and forsaken in | every extremity, ignored and passed by because | they are women! Will Plymouth church and the Beecher part of the bation syinpatbize with more than a single in- dividua if the Beecher side wins? Will Mrs. Til- ton share in another mob-party at Plymouth church, aud be vociierously applauded and honor- | ed? No, They will overlook her, or following like good sheep after their shepverd, will privately | | denounce her lor giving him the apple to cat. In | every Beecher circle she is condemoed aiready, or Worse than condemned, by betny * consixned | | vo obilvion, Mrs, Cady Stanton’s burning words, | published In most leading Dapers, in September Jast, on ‘Beecher’s Bratality,”” stuoned the great | public tor an instant and brougatit face to face | wita the fact that not @ whisper had come from | the uncovered side of Mrs. ‘Titon’s soul. She points to the woman whois entitied to no place in this afuir, except as an affectionate, maguant- | mons, and forgiving creature, to be disposed of ag the law shall decide Jor plaintiff or defendant, whether the scales go upor down, Here Is @ spec- | tacle of a woman pleading tora chance to speak, | and is denied, Justice demands that she shall speak, 11 she senda herself and ner fam‘ty headiong io perdition, ‘The unearthing of the reasons jor the denial will yet have to come, ana before it | ends we will have to inhale the miasms of the | charnel house, | The existing marriage laws sink the existence | of the woman out of sight, It 18 strongly and | forcioiy exemplified in this case, and tn tne vol- canic heav'ngs and erraptions graves of buried wrongs will be opened and their ghests will stalk turvugh the streets aud in the iight ofday. Sbail meno be any longer trusted with & woman’s lie and honor and be allowed to witbhold ner testi- mony in her own defence ? CHARLOTTE BARBOUR, Motner of daughters, PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. THE LIABILITY OF CHRISTIANS TO BECOME IMITA- TORS—THE TWO PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF A TRUE CHBISTIAN LIFE. | | | | | FH SCAFFOLD, | ——- © | Hanging of Sturtevant, the Halifax Murderer. DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. - An Unrepentant, Blaspheming Criminal. | { | | | | | PLyuoutH, Mass., May 7, 1875. The terrors of the scaifold were realized here to- day by the young man, William H. Sturtevant, | who murdered an old woman anda couple of his | uncles in the neighboring town of Halifax @ year | ago last February. Inasmuch as an execution is | an extraordinary event in this Pilgeim locality, | the circumstance was regarded almost tn the light of @ gala occasion, and the very best citizens from the surrounding country were cordially in- vited to participate, The ceremonies were | also graced ana dignified by the presence of | @ commissioner from the Legislature, and there | was also present an array of distinguished law- | yers, jadges of the smiller courts, the District Attorney, sheriffs from otver counties and an | abundance of poltricians, Indeed, the occasion Was quite entertaining to all save thé uniortupate | wretch who had so richly earned the penalty | which he #0 bravely suffered, THE LAST HOURS, There was nothing very remarkable in the con- duct of the condemned as the final hour ap- proached, He maintained his usual indifference and slept as sound last night as he did any nigat during his eighteen montis of condne- ment in jail, Yesterday afternoon he re- ceived a visit) from his wife, who had | not seen him before for several months, Mrs. Sturtevant, on her arrival, proceeded to the cell room, but was not allowed to approach nearer than within four feet of the cell aoor, nor to shake hands witn her husband. On her first ap- proaching her husband he was much affected, and he controlled bis emotion witn visible effort, It | was some minutes before either spoke, and it | seemed almost Impossible to commence a conver- | | | i She replied, asking him if he had drawn any pic- | tures lately; that she was very mnch pleased with those he bad recently sent her, alluding to some he | | lands or irom the product o their sation, He spoke first and sala, “Don’t cry, Abby.” h ———$—$ portant witness against him. Thus, to the very end pturtevaut entertained bitter feeling agains: chose who were instrumental im securiag MMs conviction, and would not reieut th the \east, albough urged to voso0b those having only the most Kindly jeeliave to #ard niu, THE TRAGEDY Was In every feature ove of those shocking affairt | Which canges udiaan nature to ivowntary ery for justice, i! nor for aownright revenge. On the date be ore specified the three inmates of a farm- er’s dweiling tu Halifax, Mase,, were most atro- qous.y wurdered by beng beaten on the head wiit a heavy cart stake. Two of the victims were aged farmers, the proprievors o: the bouse aad farm where the deed was dune, Toey were peculiar im their habits, aud, ‘hough quite wealthy, bad no transactio: with bunks, but —alwava hoarded their money in their own dwelling, or at least @ | very large part of It, the »ccumulations of many Bets The currency of different issues received y them from year to year irom the sale of their rms tney placed for safe keeping im trunks or bureau dra’ ers. Teis tact was well known Rovangnonk the | neighborhood, and anfortunately w: nown to their neprew, Willlam KE. Starter » the con demned, He was ua young man, small of stature, Who had served during the war both i the army and navy—deserting trom the latter to join the jormer, He bore a bad reputation in the commu- nity and circumstances pointed to his con- nection witn certain robberies ana burglaries in the viemnity. He was an employé in @ snoe lac. tory, but from thriftiessness and disstvation bad became reduced in circumstances, so that he wag quite without means of supporting himselt and jamuy, and tn the prospect of 4 deficiency of Work he seeuis to have become desperate, and, in that concition of mind, to have thought of the po: bility Of possessing himselfof some of the treas- ures boarded in the Sturtevant mansion, Un- doubtedly he migut have accomplished his purpose in this regard without the snedding of olood bj tue exercise of his skill in thteving, which he ha before shown himseli possessed of ; but HIS BUFFIANLY NATURE made his first tmoulse that of murder, but altpough he had never received any injury from either of his two uncies or thew housekeeper, und Cherished no malice agaiast them, yet be suddenly formed and executed the wicked purpose or Kill. ing them ali at once, ‘This design was carried out with @ coolness. considering te atrocity of the act, whict 1s almost beyond belief, and many of the steps whicn fe took to conceal his crime and prevent suspicion trom successiuliy fasten. ibe upon himself also showed remarkable crattiness, Bat althouga ne seems to ha’ Leea laboring under very little excitement when he had finished hig sangutnary work, and t¢ have patiently and cunningly removed many traces Which might point to himselt as the perpe- trator, there Were some points which neg- lected, and in which his vigilance was fault, Among (he money which he obtained (which was only a lew hundred dollars, although there | were some thousands in the nouse, which eltner through haste or ignorance he did not obtain) there was some tractional carrency of the issue of 1803, which Was peculiar im its cnaracter and totally different from that 1o circulation at the vesent me. The vills were new and crisp ones, just as they bad left the government printing press, and had lain unused for upward of tea years in the house of the Sturtevants. With A SINGULAR FOLLY AND FATALITY, oul reflecting (nut these would be certain he, with plaintiff, This rumor tended to increase the ex- had drawn, framed and sent to her about ten days | instruments of his detection, passed a few of them | Mr, Evarts, cliement, so that wen the Judge’s gavel de- scended upon the desk, indicating that stlence was needed in order to carry om tne proceedings, there was not a single vacant seat in the room, Mry Tilton had not as yet appeared, and usual, entered the court room avout twenty minutes past eleven, smiling and nodding right and lef: as he elbowed his way through the throng to the enclosure set apart ior the counsel, Mr. H. A, Bowen, the nephew of the witness, entered about the same time and took a seat near Tilton’s counsel. AN ADJOURNMENT. At half-past eleven the tall form of Mr. Evarts ‘was seen to rise and timmediately the ham of the conversation ceased and the atiention of every one present was concentrated upon the senior counsel for the defendant, Mr. Evarts, facing Juage Neilson, addressed the Court as ivliow: if Your Honor please, we are aware on Loth sides th pulsorily and inevitably prevented from hte to court to-day, and I am advised oy my learne: friends on the ote: that we are getting very bear (he close of rhe case, and it may terminate bstantially very soou, If this interval of to-d: ta ‘There ure some reasons why we desire on our part that this snouid ne. ‘The Court—Tne couasel are engaged in cases in New York city? Mr. Evarts—Absolutely. By the Court—T'hen we must adjourn. Clerk Maliison—The court stanas adjourned till Monday morning next at eleven o'clock. Toe jury then leit the Court room, As soon was announced by Clerk Mallison that the stood adjourned uotil Monday morning & loo disappointment was visible on the laces. of ta spectators, (he geutiemen Who occupied the rear seats in particular giving Vent (o Lneir feel. ings in janguage more expressive than elegant, “What a geil,” “Soold Bowen iso™% going ou the stand to-day after ali,” greeted the ear on all sides, ‘Tue adjournment was explained uy the lwtt that Messrs. Beach apd Siearmau attended be.ore | duage Curtis in the Superior Court im the city yes- | terday, and secured ap adjournment, to the fi ‘s' week of June, ol the case oi: Browa va. Fox, Jr., in which they are opposing counsel, Another version was io (ne efect that Tilton’s junior counsel could DO: agree about callag Victoria Wovdnull as 4 witness ip the abseuce of Mr. Beach, MOULTON UN BOWEN. in connection with the testimony which ha: ‘hus far beea rendered by Mr. Bowen, that gen- | Ueman hus testived su poritively in contradiction of the stavements @. mage by Messrs. Beecher and Ciafin, ybat it may be interesting to KDOow What Frank Moulton has to say abou! tae last witness jor tue plaintifl. A reporter of (he Brookiya Argus erday interviewed the “mutual iriepd,” who, ing in regard to toe conierence of arb.tra- tom between Mr. Beecher aud Mr. Tilton, said:— Tue conference toox place at my house, I represented Mr. Tiiton, Mr. Bowen represented himsell, aud the aroitrators were Messrs. H. B. Claflin, Charles Storr. aang Freeland. | read the iesiimony Of tne otuer geniiemen this pot, and I am compelled to siate that Mistaken. the terms of tae een Tilton and Bowen previded for toe lt was simply @ business tragsaction, and tl eXisied bu necessity ever of bringing 1 ther matiers. Mr. Bow: Know, 1s perectly rivht mm stat Gal Was DOt Mentioned in Lis p: ce On that oc. casion.”” it will be seen by the foregoing tyat Mr. bowel ie Dacked up ip un by Messrs, Claflin aba Storrs. MRS. TILTON’S PURPOSE, rumor svout town yesterday that ovaged in framing a statement jor There wa: Mrs. Tilton the pudlic, in Whick soe Will give such acts a8 she had intended to rela‘e Upon the witness S.e bas taken copioas no! of al, aod ake | a law, has studied ail Will make pon: tim ber bevai! be.ore the puabilc. || be apt to supervise the production, Tilton’s most Jai‘bful and untering being @ lady of litera:y taste, THE END OMTHE TRIAL. as she ls Iriend, besid Mr. Beach aud Mr, Shearman are com- | * | @ sanguime, nervous temperament, and all the | ial of the statements made Plymouth lecture room was only comfortably | occupied last evening. Mr. Beecher came in five minutes late, accompanied by his daughter, who | took @ seat on the platform behind him, After | two unusually short prayers, and the supplemen- | tary bymns, Mr. Beecher »egan nis remarks | vy saying:—One of the mistakes which people fallinto when entering upon a4 Onristian life is that of imitation, It is matural that you should | look up to persons around you who best repre- sent your idea of Christian life, and it 1s quite | natural that, aside from any purpose of imitation, | you should fallinto that habit insensibly, and at last that these limitations should take the form of dutiee, and the example of @ single person should come to | STAND FOR A PRINCIPLE. Thus, in Dr. Payson’s time, it was natural for people to feel that religion required them not only | to be in earnest, but to b @ zeal that glowed and corruscated all the time. Now, it is not for | me to say that these things are not right; but, be- son’s genius developed itself in thas not fullowthat mine should, When if ke the Caries in himseif, qualities manifested whole race to set fortn th in God, Now, anaiygze for & moment. Suppose man 1s of comparatively slender brown hair and gray blue ey 8 a tive nervous system, So that he goes into raptures | aud truth stands out to him | LIKE A PORM, But the man who sits beuind him ig obese, has pallid skin, Watery eyes and slow digestion; he | | hever understands a joke until every one elge has got througo laughing. Tis man sees the man in Iront of bim go inte @ rapturous state of religious | feeling—scintiliating faitn—ana —T can | never feel as that man does; ls religion | then | baye no relizion.” Well, jat follow ¥ | | It is @ good thing to be a ; DUE Cannota | man be @ good iarmer and no pvett So a man of cold temperament can never foliow | trouble to a0 so 18 only. waste of time. If men | should seek to mould tiémseives to one idea the Church would be impoverisued, for when tne tree | Degins to grow it grows one central stem, but if | It shvald continue tu Ww io tQac way it would | ago. One of them was a bust, copied from a maga- zine, One, sent to bis boy about two and a haif years old, represented juvenile soldiers. For his year old baby was @ representation of children blowing buboles. She asked him what she should ao with the children, He did not know, but would like her to keep them together if she could. He made general inquiries about certain friends and relations, but the conversation was very commonplace. ‘he interview terminated in to a close, as Mrs. Sturtevant was seized with nervous spasms, upon which it was found neces- sary to remove her. Mr. and Mrs. Dow, with their two little girls, accompanied Mrs. Sturtevant in this interview. Mrs, Dow is sister to the pris oner’s father. William made some remarks to the little girls ana to his own baby, who was also led Mrs. Sturtevant toward the entrance hall and vhe others retired, As she drew near the door she said, “Goodby, Wille,” and with a repetition of these adieus this interview was ended. Mr. Dow having placed Mrs. Sturtevant in care of sympathetic parties returned and asked Sturtevant if he had any messages to send to friends, ‘Not a word,” he re- plied. “Anything for your sick father 7” was asked. The prisoner replied that ho neither whole of the interview Mrs, Startevant sved tears freely, and her husband had hard work to control Bis feelings. At all tneir interviews they have shown affection and eXtreme sympathy, and, though evidently ataloss to express their feel- inxs, have impressed all with a sense of their pleasant relations. THE PRELIMINARIES. It was a dark and stormy morning and all na- ture seemed to add gloom to the mournful occa- sion, There was @ large crowd outside tne jal, in spite of the storm; but only those pro- vided with tickets were admitted within the yard. | be a long, unwieldy pole. It wants a branch on | thie side and anovher on that. It is tue vast spread of diversity which makes the tree beautitul; | go it is of the Chureh, Again, some think ta in religion it i necessary to | b @ great deal of prayer. Aii men | | are not gifted alike in the matter of praver. Is | prayera gift? Yes, some nave it by birthrignt, | Consiver prayer in 118 laTgest (ispensatiog, as | commanion ana owship with God, Inthe first | pace there 18 a Vast difference in the manner ta | | which diderent people comprehend the invisinie. | It 1s natural to some op pray couripuaiy, ant ti itis not natura; do you suppose God keeps &u account of credit? 1018 an prayed tour hours, | u one thr hours, the ove hour | and the tourna mingtes, Some mi More in teo minutes re jour ours. Now, far rayer, Leay strive for tt. berty. ayer is not the coadivion y ceptance by the Lord Jesus Obriat. A mau may be a good Christian ,and not accuse his at he does pot pray as often as some | Otaers, There are certain great elements you | shouid all strive The first is @ true se of | ‘orist preseat ud the relationship of | ove and | sre entering } BEST BRING IN THR UNIVERSE. i His fulness against your emp'iness, ibe sense of | Christ present ig the primal con- sideration ora It does pot whether you get it out of the bibie, or t works. The method dves not matter, It does | joc not matter that you should hold to a special trine of Christ. You are cailed to be fri “Henceiorth I call ye not ser- | JOF servants kDOW not what the master doetu.’” Haif an hour or s before the execution the prisoner was conducted from his cell to tne cor- Tiaor, wuere tie chaplain of the jail waa in Walling. Startevaot seated himself in a chair, where he lipped bac< and surveyed feit little Concerned about his approaching end. Aitereverythiux was in readiness the chaplain advance: towards Sturtevant and spoked woras of consolation, assuring him that the zeal he manifested in Dis beoalf was for his good, aud witn the hope that it migut have helped him to repare jor the | change that awaited im. Aopropriate seiectious of Scripture were tnen read, rWiies Mr. Hathaway ma emarks, in which ne endeav- some Very impr t, but he ored to arouse the feeiungs of sturteva | rewained Unmoved and was (he moss unconcerned of those present, The allusion to the situation of the condemned as one wao had "een aniortunate in the batsie of lie Was beautifully expressed and enlisted yhe sympathy of its nearer, ana in con- clusion tie speaker reminded them that whatever ® man underwok in ife ue was sure to ‘il unless the biessing of od at- tended him. A Jetvent prayer was tuned Offered tnat Startevant might be prepared for rge that awaited nim, and that whate ly feelincs he bad toward bis feliow men, mieht be soitened, and tuat he migot meet his end witpout biter thougnts toward an; one. During all tnese exercises the congemn man seemea Wholly indifferent as to what was going on, or the terrible fa'e which awaites him, NO CONFESSION. Just before leaving the jail Sturtevant informed the Sherif that be should nor have anything to gay at the gallows, and desired that the ceremony be as short as possible. He had no confession to make, ho informed a friend on Thursday, and pre- about halfan nour, and was abruptly brought | with them, After tne attack of iliness Mr. Dow | asked to see him nor to send to him. During the | the jew | | apectators witv entire indiderence aud spear | to the Halifax storekeepers the very next day | after committiog the crime. ‘taese were perhape | the prime:pal means by which actention’ was at | tracted to him as tne probable assassin, and whea | he began to ve watcned by the netgnbors und de- tectives, airhough in some matters evinciug mach skill in ooliteraling What might attract suspicion, | he was eitner too much pressed for time or tuo | deficient in cunning to prevent the obtaining by | the police of a good many matters of eviuence | against bim, which, when taken together, served to establish ‘the fact of his guile, THE TRIAL | at the time was regarded as one of the most im teresting and careiully conducted murder trials | that bad taken piace in New England for a long | time. The case Was interesting, not ouly trow the strange story which it revealed, tie great number of witne-ses, the eminent counsel em- | ployed and the thorougnness of the investization, | but especially #0 from tue peculiarly tragte nature of the deed, the you.h ol the prisoner and the singuiar and intricate WEB OF CIRCUMSTANCES by which it was discovered tuat he was the trae | assassin, Toe sudtic, ingeuious and avie dere waich was made ior him by nis counsel, and tae janations which were turoisaed tor 4 referred to, Were not suiicient to avail bim and outweigh in the miads Of the jury the damning proof which the government bad to | offer. The one inducement which had, per- | haps, the strongest induence in convin | allwho heard the testimony of the prisoner’ uiit was that of three one-nundred-dollar | Bis being taken from his person at two ‘tl while ne Was wader tne Whue be was tempt ta ia a roll oi biils in woich there e denominauon of $100. On being he obtained tuts he, without mach aid that itwas his bounty money, which he hed Tece.ved from the government; out he was considerably disconcer whea it wad gnown to ulm that the bill nad been issued, as snowed on 18 face, long suosequent to | close oj the war. In another instance, wnea apprenended tuat an office: | bim into custoly, be was d | drop & roil of bilis by the | barb at the sturcevant i two wills of tae denomination of $100. wellknown im the netwliburhood that up to the | night of tae murder he bad been in very revuced circumstances, and it Was proved at tue trial that he did not have money enouga to pay for a small codtisn whicn he needed for food—neuce tn | session Of this Vast amount of money was dee @ Very Strong corroborative plec: of CONDEMNING EViDE His hat, coat and some otner arricies of cloth Were ound to have blood stains apon then, wa be accounted for in certain piansibie ways. Bul the dried dlood was scraped of aud subm.tted te @ coemical and microscopic examimation by @ prolessor of enemistry in Harvard University, Who at once pronounced it to be human piood, ‘& FOOTPRINT IN SOFT GROUND. evidently made oy the assassin in bis fig! found oo Ccowparison to colrespond with the shoes worn by Sturtevant on the day o/ (be murder. rhe large curt Stake which was exnioited io court, and whic) there was not the siigates' doubt was the instrument of murder, was identified ua vay. ing veen taken from the premises near where the prisouer ved, adistance of four miles from the hesitation, r was uboat to take | THE PUGLIO FRELING THEN AND NOW. Notwitastandiug tae streugto of the evidence against tim there was a large party in the com. d him innocent previous to tae rh poo government the decision by tne Jury Was generally arrived at by in and 0-day tnere is scarce y maa, Ww cuiid in Plymouth county but rejoices ia | cution. OUR MODEL POLICE. | THE JERSEY CITY FERRY RIOTS—OUTRAGE ON A | NEWARK GENTLEMAN. | Mr. James B. Erris, a wealtny and respectaole | resiaent of Market street, Newark, was brougat up at toe Tombs Police Court yesterday morning | mock, was anor It is now confidently expected that ali the evi- The second eie et re of dence wiii be in and che closing addresses ofcoun- | of the Sremonts which’ mole caret Meet | sel made by the loth of Juoe. [i tus expectation | He is—not the power to raise whe dead, is fuifiled the charge ol Juuge Neilson will proba- but those dispositions out of which come biy be closed by the 16th, on which Gate the jury the beatitnaes, “Blessed be the pure in will be permitied t retire and deuberace feart; blessed be the persecuted upon their verdict. Under these circumstances the | utterances. Here, then, are the ' two suit of Theodvre Tilton against Henry Ward | elements of @ Caristian lie, Cnrist Beecher will disappear trom tie puolic View, 80 | likeness, and thougn you may use nA miecns Of far aS its legal aspect is concerued. ‘ine Im- | pooxs and prayer you are not bound to them. pression is gaining stroug ground thatthe jury | Tue insiruments by waica the irame of mind is ‘Will agree to disagree, as 4 careful cauvass of the | produced are not unimportant, but they are not tweive ‘‘arbitrators” has been made by those | your masters: and when you have these two eie- Most interested in the trial, gud they ments your ilie becomes comparatively victorious appear to be confident that "no verdict every day Oat of these two tain, 4 flow spon- will be rendered. The assertion 18 taneously all Cristian life, and the it way is to made that out of the twelve jorors at east two are cisposed to be favorable vo the defendant, though, of course, 1c is ail mere speculation, | based on the religious opinions und views of the | jurors mm quneswon. Ardent admire of Mfr. | Beecher seem to be confident tat he will be tris P antiy acquitted. despite tne evidence of | scrike at the bigoer at once. A CONVENTION OF BANKERS. A MEETING AT SARATOGA PROPOSED—SHALL IT eury ©. Bowen. On the otuer hand, ad- BE A BANQUET OR A CLAMBAKE? erente to tee piainums side of the case express equal ‘conidence that a verdice A project of holding & convention of bank presi | wilt be Drought in for Tilton. Nuw t tbe dents, casmiers and bankers at Saratoga on the paver | gg = acted in this most 2th of July bas emanated from some St, Louis murkable 0 modern civil sui Manilesied in the proceedings and banks and met with favor among the bank officers in this city and throughout the country. A circular bas been issued, sianed by the cashiers of the First National Bank, the Dry Goods Bank and National entire pavuc, is being amused by Shove and Leatuer Bank, in this city, and vy those atious aud starting surprisesgiven 0! | a picagy, St. Louis, Boston, Cincinnati, adowed. Cleve} 5 New Orieans and ia in yesterday's HERALD an erroneous sta ovher cities, ‘The cts of the proposed conven- Was made, to the effect that Messrs. Bows Ub, 80 lar a8 could be ascertained yesterday, are, on the pre- | frst, to enjoy wuat ed ned that the ood tine ;? and second, to promot seen shaking hands witn Mr. + @ithough he resembvied Mr. Bowen very on the question at issue is growing mot i, 80 dramatic are the the ausience, whicn ment friendly relations among t th rogramme iooks to &taree days’ session. ry ratday a permanent organization ia to be tormed, Which shall meetevery summer in some pi of summer resort; on the second, su: suggestions in regard to banking or fluancial qu tous a8 May come Up shall be discussed, and on the third @ grand banquet is to cunciude the ex- A MOTHER'S VIEWs ON MRS. TIL- TON'S POSITION, To THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD:-~ ‘And @ voice said, behold the tears of such as ercises, One of the prominent cashiers in tu are oppressed, aud On tue side o/ choir oppressors City, 1D writing of the proposed conve: there Was power.” tion, speaks thus jocuiarly of his own 1d) concerning the execution of the programm: “Lec the ‘meet’ be called for Fire Isiana beach, and the programme be made to consist of ag od clambaxe with binefish troliing and the panying side dishes which prevail io (allusion to @ hoveikeeper) domin- How 18 Mrs. Tiiton ever to be vindicated? Have you ever thougut of that? Suppose the evidence turns sharply at last against the Beecher side, and the verdict be “guilty of aduiter Mr. Tie ton has “condoned” his wile's fault, and it follows jong aad it algo be Unaerstoud thatthe first thut the only charge ne cau make in the men who shop oF 1s caught reading money articie shal be Incontinentiy sen me.” | final issue is the sin of Mr. Heecher’s lov “|: is expected whut several handred oi the most ing another man's wife. But Mr, Beecher prominent bank officers irom ail parts of country will attend the conveution, aad, although its tone will be a decidedly social t may yet be productive of Ca results, io cultivating cor- fe importans | Class of the oo hoped that some tangible reiorms in the conduct o: the banks ing business may, (hrougd muta@i enligatenment, ve brougat about in time. said teat Was throst upon him, in tom Case | She is Virtually gality of Dotning; but society con- demns @ woman for something woich is nothin but this “nothing” is the joss of her very identity, Beno d bow ane is cast down int jatter! 0 wWhelmed With the vociferous charges of Mr, ferred that bis children should have the benefit of tae dount of his guilt ra'her than acknowledge that he commitved the crime. In striking contrast to his statement was one made to the chaplain to-~lay, just before bis cell for the scaffold, when Sturtevant sa! ‘amas innocent o: this crime as [ was tive years ago.” Just as the clock was striking ten the jail door opened, and Sherif , followed by Sturtevant and Deputy Sherifts | Wheeler and Torrey upon each ol the con- demoed, walked quietly down the concrete walk and fined $20 for disorderly condact at the Cort- Jandt street ferry. Mr. Erris passed into the ferry entrance, paying his fare, but inasmuch as he did not wait to obtain @ ticket and band it to another collector a few feet fartuer on he was not allowed to pass, Mr. Erris insisted on going through, as he bad paid bis fare, and calied on Officer Brosnan, of the Twenty-sevento pre cinct to protect him, The officer declined to im terlere till he saw the collector, a man named Wallace, grasp the gentieman, and he then ar to the gailows. and Sturtevant stepped upon rhe | out @ tremor and tvok his place h was joosened trom j lack 4 | Demeath the latal rope, w above and let down to hi »Ol fol avi t } jail ons the strape, sotensd, nuows HY porto 4 rested both and conveyed them to the station just above knees, while both hands were Sergeant U'Rorke, however, reiused to entertain | pinioned. He shook “hands with the chaplain, the cnarge of a It and battery against Waliace, | puties Wheeler and Torrey, with t. | but held Mr. Erris on the charge of atsorderly con- | tendants, but did not mantiest ast of uct and consigned him to a cell for the gee | feeling. He naa previously. thanked the oMcers | Th!s ts the ond time within taree days Mr. for the Kindness ihey nad show him, and bad | Bris has ok gen | bade the Sueriff and others farewell. Mr, Ertis aot rend | "At three minutes past ten Sheriff Bates com- | gant to the ad up — menced to read tie death warrant, and the cool. Of twenty gentiemen have voluntee their mony, as they consider t Serweant's col outrage. Toe passengers on tne Jersey City ferry are determined to test the question waether after baving paid their fare they can be al driven ont by ferrpmasters, Scarcely & Passes without some outoreak, President Marinas, of the Jersey City Police Commiss oners, has given orders to the ofticers | stationed y to arrest any ferrymaster who will ¢: id the re ness he exhipited was only equalled by the won- derful nerve displayed by Sturtevant. During the reaving of the Warrant he surveyed the spectators as coolly as thou,h he was apout to deiivera stump speech, and did not fincu in the least. He occasionaily glanced at the Sherif to see how much more Was to be read, and seemed to be re- lieved when it was finished. : THE FiNAL SCENE. Deputy Sherif Wheeler then placed the rope around Sturtevan.’s neck, with the knot about = /ar fare. midway between the ears, on the back par! of tne Public aga pecs. The bia kK cap Was drawa iy over tie je “Al ri he straps were tightened aad everything way being in readiness, sherin Bares, in avery ciear 8€y City to emorce rights of om gg re voice, said:--Wiiliam E, Startevant, in obedience | Jefries. Several gentlemen inte appeal te the Grand Jury, now! 101 jn. to this Warrant | now proceed to execute tne ‘Gon 18 also to. be made to the Com. AD appire. same, and my prayer ior you is the promise of our m Saviour ‘when He the croes. He oat missioners of the Sinking Fuad of New York re snait thou be with me in Parad avrogate the lease granted to the Pennsyivants Ratiroaa Company on account of the insolent man ner in wien the Yravelling padilc are treated. ——— THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. At a short session of the Board of Police Commis slouers yesterday afternoon @ trausfer was made of the force of the Thirtieth precinct from the od station house, on the southeast corner of Lawrence street and Broudway, te the new premises, re- cently leased and fitted up by tne department, on reet, betweeu Broadway aad Tenta better lo ceased speaking the Sheriff, at ergot n ten o'clock, touched tne lever, and tne weignt | dropped irom the unfasteved pla, tne body ot | Wihaw F, Sturtevaut saot into the air. The | Movement was so easy that there was not the | involuntary exclamation irom the spectators that | weneraily Occurred under the old system of hang | mg, and the dreave | before it conla be reauzed, Sturtevant was urawa up about A feet, and death must nave oeen | heariy instantaneous, There was haraiy the | | Usual twitching of the muscles that take place in | such cases. Jue body swang around twice, afier which it remained pertectly still, with the excep- tion of an asiooai Contraction Of the muscies. | avende. Alter remaining suapendea about hall aa hour) cared and m vacated. | the body was cut down aad delivered to tne | than those ju | Iriends of the deceased. Previous to the execution, Toe annua! drilling he police force com- | Sturtevant inquired o: Charies H. Paine, Ubair.an | menced yesterday in Tompkins square, Taree oft County Commissioners, a8 to woo would ahons, nh comprising Ge deny 4 have charge of bis body, and Mr. Paine informed are at lall-paxt one o'clock P, nim tha would. On asking If Starcevant nad nd of Drili Captat La any req disposition th i ter replied, * DeOo! it if you dot mit | o Dan Bi | Dawe 8 On Hole Of Sturrevant al On)