Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1874 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, MA11CH 31, 1874.

TUESDAY, MARCH 31.

It is not wonderful, coueerning the disgraceful conduct of tbo Marion county commissioners in the Clem case, to find the press of the country alluding to Indiana as a state f inoperative laws. It is bardly -fair, however, to make us responsible for sins that aro not really ours, as the New York Times doe wbn it puts the guilt of the Secore lynching upon Indiana. The tacts in that atro- ioutj butchery were related in the Sentinel tho other day, and it was apropos ot the murderer's confession that the Time made the crihclsm. In the case in point, a girl living in Ohio, was seized, outraged and butchered. A ferocious crowd suspected two men identified with the victirr in some way and disregarding their terror-stricken pleas lor delay, butchered them in the most shocking manner. Two years afterwards the real culprit confessas on his death bed, and reveals tho crime. The incident furnishes a good theme for a sermon against lynching and tho Times, in discussing the subject, make? a strong point that lynchere are always ready to make away wi'.h culprits whom the law has caught, but are never willing to take the risk of capturing them. This Is illustrated very pointedly in the case of the Missouri desperadoes. Four or five men have been stampeding a dozaa counties, robbing and plundering at discretion and it never occurs to the lynchers to take the capture in hand. If howevar the forces called out by the government shall succeed, these lynchers will come out in force and make way with the robbers. As a general thing lynchers are worse thn the original ruffians, for the one breaki the law with the expectation of punishment and the ether in contempt of it. That obstinate modesty which impelled congress to bold bnck on the investigation of the District of Columbia, is now explained. Kilbourn who was called to the stand Tuesdav made the point quite plain. lie was ready enough to answer such question as involved only vague responses, but asked whether any congressmen or senators were in the ring which has been fattening on tEe city and the government, he refused poict blank to make known that the ring was run by Henry D. Cooko, General Grant's Governor and that Jay Cooke fc Co. advanced money to the ring pool. That a vast fund wa? extracted from the city and this was shared by the conspirators Cooke, Kilbourn, Shepherd and others whom the committee are trying to uncover. The question was asked tho witness quite directly, whether any member of the last or present congress was concerned in this business. He wouldn't answer. This implies that General Butler and Senator Stewart have secured themselves from exposure, and perhaps other congressmen equally as guilty. The witness was further asked it any military officers were involved in this disgraceful work. This again he refused to make answer to, and thereby saved the president's friends, Babcock, Porter and the military clique, who have made fortunes in a few years at the capital. This ad mis sion, by implication the reformers regard as a triumph and they are prcssirfg the scheme with renewed vigor. A new memorial has been sent in, showing further illegal expenditures on the part of the ring. Squandering of the congress appropriation, and a general state of corruption hardly exceeded by the Tweed enormities. The ring organs are groaning in spirit, because of the "injury" that the developments are likely to "do the city, and the party organs deplore such scandalous "sensationalism." At a late banquet given to the Hon. John W. Foster in the City of Mexico, a most bril.liant display of rhetorical rockets wai let off in honor oi the "bird," or rather, the birds of freedom. For as Bishop Simpson, who was present said, the victorious Mexican eagle "has a right to fly as high as ours." Dr. Julius A. Skelton, the consul general, and by the way, who t scaped the low diet ol Latin and Greek roots at the Wesleyan university, cf Middletown, Connecticut, in l.52, with the customary sheepskin, presided at the banquet. There wa a formidable array of official gilt and gold lace present, with unpronounceableHpanishand Italian names, and some sixty. Americans. To sum up six columns of a report in one Eentence, every body was duly toasted, and everybody responded with supreme felicity. .Even the good Bishop Simpson, whose speech was singularly brilliant, condescended to some very lecklesa punning about sitting beside a skeleton (Skelton) and bcingasured that "all our interests will be most Bliss-fully Foster ed," alluding to Minister Foster and the Secretary of the Legation, Mr. Bliss. Sr. Nunez Ortega, the only Mexican who could speak English was forcod to respond to several toasts in succession, and Minister Tester made repeated speeches to hold the program level. The occasion was evidently delightful in all respects, and must have been especially so to General Foster, who soems to have been well received and to have already won the popular esteem. If be shall be as fortunate a bis predecessor. General Nelson, in promoting the mutual interests and friendship of the two republics, not only he will have occasion for pleasure, but the state of Indiana will be doubly proud in beiig twice so worthily represented abroad. It is conceded, though the least possible i said about it, that Chicago has outgrown herself in some directions. She has too much for grandeur and too little lor use. It is a characteristic vice ot the ambitious city. In the first pTace she has the finest school ho ii es in the nation, but cannot furnish seats for much mora than half her children. The money to build with is used up on costly structures. Next, it is stated that the new trade palaces erected fcince the fire d;" not find tenants. They are too grand and expensive. Merchants who would do a modest business cannot pay the rent, nor, if they could do that, could they carry the stocks to

fill such houses. Rent of medium dimensions are scarce, while the gorgeous rooms stand empty and idle. Again, the hotels are too great and too grand for the compensations of business. Ihey are overdone in plan and costliness. In short, Chicago has a whole menagerie of elephants on her bands that will be an awkward burden for some time to coaie. It will be hard to carry and will encumber her progress for a time. By and by the volume ol business will rise to the anticipated mark ar.d make the immense investments remun orative. But the mistake is plain enough to be avoided by th;s and other cities. Medium dwellings should be in excess, if anything Vust business structures should come slower Indianapolis is not . subject to criticism on the point of overbuilding lor business. Certain branches of her trade are notable in lack of pretensions. For instance.her grocery trade is comparatively modest and limited. Smaller towns of the state excel this. But it is an error on the safe side to wait for business to come to the builders. On the other hand, rooms for the people, houses for families should be plenty and cheap.

Simmons appointment, and the subsequent revelations, suggest to the Nation a very pointed article, which it puts forth this week, under the caption of, " The President and his Wicked Partners. The idea li worked out in brilliant cmphasb. Reviewing the first promises of General Grant in civil service reform and other needed mendings the Nation makes these pointed strictures, which Mr. Morton's organ may find worth pondering. Says the Nation: His supporters presented h'.m to the public In the character, now so well known In tbe jow comedy of our day, of 44the truly good man" beset by "wicked partners," and whom it lathe duty of tbe public to support and encourage In bis struggle wiih evil. Our one hope of re farm, it was baid, lay In Gen. Grant, lie was represented as carrying on a deadly s.ruggle with. 'onkling, and Morton, and Houtwell, and Butler, and the other bad men of tbe party; and our true policy was to stand by Dim, bear with him, and finally tore-elect him, which we did. The finishing touch was given to the larce for farce we now see it to have been by putting a strong civil-service-reform plank In tue Philadelphia platform. That the president has been "badly advised" li, under the American syntern of government, not a defense but a charge, it is bis business to avoid oau auvio. or not to heed It. It Is for this he U chosen and paid. To say that he Is In the hands o bad men, and act under their instigation. Is to accuse him of a grave misdemeanor; to ay that he does not know a good adviser from a bad one, is to accuse him of gross incompetency. Instead of se til ng slit rper under our indulgence, ho grows duiler. His advuers. in stead of growing belter, are growing worse, ills uutortunate capacity ror being; mnuenceu by those arouud him. of which we hear so much. ought surely to put him qjw and then in the hauds ot good meu; Instead or wnicü, the bad men stem to have it all their own way with him, until finally he has, In defiance of all the usages or the government and the traditions of party politics, and In violation of one of hisown pretended reforms, taken the greatest rascal in the country as his principal counsellor. The America u people ought not to be asked to stultify itself to the point of treating these things as the acts of a simpleton, and we warn all con cerned that no such folly cauiti our day be perpetrated with impunity. The Nation put considerable trust in General Grant, and even fore bore uttering disagreeable truths about his advisers. It now makes his evil advisers responsible for the amazing scandals and follies of his second term. This part of the charge concerns us at home here. We have a mighty man at Washington, who is popularly reported to be a decisive guide to the chief magistrate. One whom the president never presumes to displease. One whose advice is eagerly courted at the white house, Mr. Morton. If this is true, and there are good reasons for supposing it is, then Morton ism is Butlerism one a'nd indivisible. It is Morton who is responsible for the audacious misdeeds that have affronted the country, and we must accept him as the wicked partner who makes reform impossible to the president. General Coburn. has made a very good record in his several terms of congress service, lie has in almost all cases been found voting on the side which represented the real interests of the people when he was not, it is pretty safe to Say that, his mistake was one of judgment, not intention, lie placed himself in a trying - place on the restitution of the franking swindle, but it is only fair to credit him with a good intention, as he presumed that he was working in the interests of the press in advocating a measure which gave it certain-privileges apparently necessary to its widest usefulness'. In that he misjudged, but his error was by no means a flagrant or fital one. In the late appointment of a district collector, however, the General ha3 come squarely in contact with the deepseated convictions of the people of this district. The General has been in Washington so long4 and has become so accustomed to the tacit ignoring of the civil service rules on the part of the administration, that it is hardly surprising that he should forget the homo sentiment on the subject. In appointiu Mr. Bag?s to the office, which by the rule of the Eervice should have been filled by the next ia rank, General Coburn has demonstrated anew the utter hollowness of tho republican platform, which explicitly promised this greatly needed reform. Of his mistake the general will receive many reminder bafore the subject is forgotten, but it is doubtful whether a more significant. reproach could be made,than that contained eLse where in the resolution of the veteran soldiers The gentleman overlooked in the appointment of Mr. Baggs, was not only qualified for the office, and entitled to it under the civil service rules, but had the record of a good soldier to present as a claim. This, General Coburn should have appreciated, lie is a soldier and should have remembered his old comrade and given him a chance, if he was ic other respects fitted for the place. On Thursday afternoon last theatrical performances were held in the chief theatres of New York city, for the purpose of giving the proceeds to the poor. Five places ot amusement were thus advertised, and each of them was crowded to overflowing, while hundreds were turnedaway. Thegioss receipts of the benefits will amonnt to $30,000. This is only another evidence ot the hearty sympathy which is felt in our large cities for the suffering poorer classes, and such opportunities to show their sympathy ara always eagerly sought. This is a most commendable means for aiding such a charity, and it should be repeated in all our large cities.

THE CONGREGATIO NALISTS.

THE LAST OF THE COUNCIL. THX TEXT OF THE VERDICT A REVIEW r THE WHOLE MATTER. New Yobkt, March 26. Tbe following is the text of the derision rendered by tbo Congregational council, after a secret session lasting two days and a half: This council has listened carefully to the committees of the churches by which it was convened, and has received from them a clear and earnest statement of the aims and principles which have determined the action ot the churches in the proceedings which they ask us to review. Wo have also received from Plymouth church a communication declining an invitation from this council as well as from these two churches to, appear, by its pastor and a committee, and assist in the presentation and discussion of the qustions before us, but at the same time offering suggestions and arguments which we have carefully and candidly considered. We cannot doubt the right ol these two churches to ask advice ot us concerning tbe regularity of christian character of what they have done in their dealing with Plymouth Church. No church is beyond the reach of tbe public opinion ot other churches, expressed Indirectly or through an ecclesiastical council. Any church in its essential and inalienable independence may be in the exercise of reasonable discretion to consider the public action of one church, may in proper methods express its approval, and may make that public action the subject of friendly correspondence and remonstrance, or, if it need be, the grouud of temporary or permanent cessation of acts of inter-communion. There has been laid before us a series of letters that have passed between these two churches and Plymouth church. On that correspondence it is our unquestionable right to have an opinion, and to express it. Though we have no right to try Plymouth church as a party before us, we have aright to say then that the letter of remonstrance and admonition, with which the correspondence began, was not uncalled for. The churches throughout the United States, and tbe general public also, felt a painful anxiety in the question, imminent and urgent in the city of Brooklyn, and involving the honor, not of Congregational churches only, but of Christianity itselt. Without any more explicit reference to the question, it will be . suffice to say that iu Plymouth church a complaint was brought against a member that he had circulated and promoted scandals derogatory to the christian integrity ol the pastor, ana injurious to the reputation of the church. The person complained of appeared in the church meeting and declared that four years before that time he had, by his own volition, terminated his connection with the church, and therefore his name was, by the vote of the whole church, dropped from the catalogue of its members. What action of Plymouth church was the occasion In which these twochurches interposed with a remonstrance and with a request for a friendly conference. In this act they represented the interests of the lraternity of Congregational churches whose principles of discipline and whoso fair christain lame wete endangered by the course which Plymouth church seemed to be pursuing. For this moral heroism they deserve thanks, evea should ERRORS OF Jl'DOMEVT be traceable in some of the details of their procedure. In our consideration of the letter then addressed to Plymouth church, ws find that the impression made by it in some measure diflered from what was intended by its authors, written underthe pressure of apprehension and anxieties long suppressed. Ik seems to have infringed more painfully than was intended on the sensibilities ot those to whom it was addressed. To many, the letter seems entirely unexceptionable in matter and in manner, and entirely appropriate tc tbe occasion, while toothers its seems unnecessarily severe in the tone of its cm. demnatiou of the proceeding complained of. In their second letter of complaint, the churches having formed what impression they made by the remonstrance, offered an explanation, which we trust was not unacceptable. Concerning the reply of Plymouth church to that letter, we say nothing more than that an ingenuous explanation ol the reasons which had prompted Plymouth church to rid itselt of an offending member, bv an exceptional method, might have brought the correspondence to an early and happy termination. We can see no significant reason why the request of the complaining churches for a lraternal conference should not have been granted. In the subsequent correspondence we see, on the part of the complaining churches, an expression of their desire to unite with Plymouth church in referring to the points of the difference to the advice of a council. We find on the part of Plymouth church no definite expression either of consent or refusal, yet inasmuch as Plymouth church did no, directly refuse to unite in a reference to the council. We cannot but regret that the complaining churches did not urge their request till a refusal or an evasion should have become unequivocal. We are not invited nor do we take it upon ourselves te advise Plymouth church concerning its methods oi dealing with offenders, but wo are invited to advise these two churches on certain questions. Therefore, we say distinctly, that the idea of membership in a Congregational church is the idea of a convenant between the individual member and the church; that by virtue of that convenant, the member , is responresponsiblo to the church lor his conformity to the law Of Christ, and tho church is reI sponsible lor hlin and that his responsibility does not cease tin me cnurcn, oy some lormal and corporate act, declares tbe dissolution of the covenant. This covenant may be broken by the member, lie may offend and when duly admonished may give no satisfactory evidence f repentance. In that case be is cut off from communion. The church having given its testimony, is no longer responsible for him, nd he can be restored only by the removal of the censure The voluntary absence of a resident member from the communion of the church and from its public worship does not dissolve tbe covenant, but is a reasonable ground ol admonition, and if persisted in, of OFFICIAL CENSURE. When a regular complaint is made against such a member that, in some other respect he violates the law of Christ, and especially wben the complaint is that he has circulated and promoted scandals derogatory to the christian integrity -of the pastor and injurious to the reputation of the church. The consideration that ho has long ago forsaken the church is only an aggregation of his alleged fault. In regard to the future relations between these churches and Plymouth church we express our hope that ! the very extraordinary proceeding which gave occsasion for the correspondence aud for this council will not be a precedent ior the guidance of that church hereafter. Coulu we suppose that such proceedings would be repeated we should feel that the disregard of the first, principles involved in the idea of church membership and the idea of the fellowship of the churches with each other, would require . the strongest possible E rötest, . but ' the . communication om Plymouth church to this council makes professions and declarations which luatifv the hope that such a deviation from the orderly course of discipline will not be repealed. The accused person In the case

had not been retained in the church, nor

commenaea to any other church. We recite some such affectionate and reasonable inquiry as shall show that the evil is real, that the causes of it are within tbe control of tbe church, that the flvil n tint tranaiAnt evil, sach as may befall any church, but is iiuiBuouk ana tending to increase rather mau w aiminisn, wnne it is not to be forgotten that this communication from Plymouth church is entirely subsequent to the case, as it stood upon the convening of this council. When Plymouth church, by its action of the fifth, had declared itself responsible for no other church, and no other church for it, in respect to doctrine, order and discipline, which action interpreted in the circumstances then existing, implied a withdrawal to tbe ground of total indifference, yei what church is to be fraternally judged by its latest utterance. These professions on the part of Plymouth church may be accepted by other churches as indicating its intention to maintain an efficient dissipline, and to regard the mutual responsibility of churches. At the same time the council feels constrained to declare that these declarations seem to us inconsistent with the resolution ol interpretation adopted by Plymouth church on December 5th, 1S74, and with other acts and statements appearing in the published documents. We trust thst the action of that church, as presented in these documents, if unmodifiorf tify these churches in withdrawing fellow"'t j "wumuu as x lymoum cnurcn seems to us to admit in its communications to use the CONOUEOATIONAL PRIXCirLlS of discipline and fellowship, we advise churches convening at this council to maintain with it the relations of fellowship as heretofore in the hope that Plymouth church may satisfy these churches of its acceptance of tbe principles which it has been supposed to disavow. We also desire in this connection to reaffirm and emphasize the doctrines lal down in all our platforms ot the obligations of fellowship. The duty applies to all chri 'ian churches. In the case of those nstitutdd and united in accordap't. with the Congregational polit. involves that more intimate comma jion which is exercised in asking and giving counsel, In giving and receiving admonition and other acts relating to the doctrines, order and discipline. Thi3 mutual responslbilty of the Congregregational churches has characterized their systems lrom the beginning, distinguishing it from the simple independency with autonomy of the local church. It is one of the formative and essential principles of Congregationalism. Without it we have no basis in our polity for that system oi cooperative effort to which our churches are pledged. We regard, therefore, the principles of fellowship which the pastors and churches concerning us have so earnestly maintained, to be those which wo have received from our fathers, and the word of God. We appreciate and honor their fidelity to those principles, under circumstances of a peculiar and severe trial, and we offer our earnest prayer to the great head of the church that He may bestow upon them, and the pastor and church with which they have been in correspondence, wisdom and grace; that lie may guide them in all their actions, and that He may quicken, in all our churches, through these painful trials, a spirit of renewed fidelity to the sacred obligations of our covenants and on church communions and we pray that He to whom all power in heaven and on earth is given, and who has promised to be with His church always, even to tbe end of the world, and who under the inspiration of His spirit and His truth, has joined these churches in a grand and memorable past, stauding shoulder to shoulder in the great moral and spiritual battles of the age, may again unite them in the future conflicts of the kingdom.Clifton avenue Congregational church, Brooklyn, March 28th, 1874. Signed, ' Leonard Bacon, J. C. Meserve, C. S. Walker, a. H. Quint. Moderators. Scribes. It was stated from reliable authority that the final vote giving the deliberations of the council was as follows: 87 voted lor the result as it stands, eight voted against and 23 refused to vote at all. In Plymouth church, while its members regard much of the council's final vote as not sound. Yet, in general, they consider It an entire vindication of tt he liberty of Plymouth church, and they are greatly rejoiced over it. After the morning services at the Clinton ayenue church, the Rev. Leonard Bacon, the moderator of the late council, read its decision to the congregation ; but in Plymouth church, where the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached, not the slightest allusion was made to it. THE COST OP LIVING IN EUROPE. A correspondent writing from Dresden gives some interesting facts concerning the cost of living in Germanv: The meals at the " restorations" are a fair sample of the cost of living here. Every beer saloon is a "restoration," and a "spiece kash" is found on the tables. All day long the people pour into these houses, drink a glass of beer, and get something to eat. The dishes vary from seven or eight cents to twenty-five. These eating bar-rooms are all of about equal rank, and the prices do not vary three cents in any of them. So well do they know how much everything should cost that anything like a variation frcm the regular prices would insure a total desertion lrom cus tomers. Indeed, so low and regular are th: E rices at the eating-houses that near one alf of the population of tho cities take al' their meals in them. Tbey can eat at an hour of the day they choose, and for ang sum of money, however small. This rega larit y of prices is found in almost every thing. The poorest man can ride in a car riage when he wishes, or when he arrives at a city in which he is unacquainted and wishes to be taken to a certain hotel. The ride only costs him from 10 to 15 cents. This cheap carriage has increased the num ber of hacks and business. It is a myatery to us bow the keepers of restaurants can pay double as much for the meats of all kinds here as we do in tbe United States, and then furnish vou at the table for onethird the same price. By the same rule if the meats cost three times as much as wltn us, they should charge three times as much In tbe restaurants. ANOTHER BOAT EXPLOSION. TWO MEN DEAD AND OTHERS INJURED. Memphis. Tennessee. 30. The steamer Sam J. Hale from Cincinnati for New Orleans burst her steam pipe one hundred and twen tv-five miles above here last night at. 11 o'clock. Tbe following are the casualties: P. Wanner, second engineer, slightly scalded, Kicnaru Leonaru, accK sanu, severely injured and has since died, Frank Stewart, deck . W 1 T J 1 ,1 . . . . . , ,1 i . i i overboard; Charles Jones, colored fireman, killed. Captain J. L. Carter bad a narrow but was unhurt. The City of Vicksburs overtooK tne uaie noaimx uown tnia a . v f At J a. 1 A. m. and towed her to the bank and brought me wounaeu uero. iun uuv u umujuiw save her burstea pipe. . . . A mass meeting of the colored citizens of New York city was neia at uooper institute to-night in memory of Cbas.' Sumner. The hall was crowded to the doors.

THE TERRELL TRAJ3ELY-

THE FATAL ENCOUNTER. " . THE BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE TH DI . VORCB SUIT AND THE KXASFERATT7VO QCE9 TION COL. TERRELL'S RELATIONS WTTH HW VICTIM THE SCENE OF THE 6HOO'fINO TESTIMONY AT THE CORONER'S ISyCEsT. A terrible tragedy occurred in Covington, Kentucky, on Saturday, the 2Sth instant, the scene of the shooting taking place in the of fice of Stevenson, Myers &. Co. From tbe Cincinnati Commercial's statement f th affair, and also from tbe testimony elicited at tbe coroner's inquest, we obtained the following facts: During last December, wail Col. W. G. Terrell was acting as the Covington reporter of the Commercial, he wa staDDed by a young man named Francis. from the effects of which he had not fully recovered at tbe time of committing this crime. Col. Terrell says that he has been exceedingly ill ever since he was stabbed bv young Francis. His physicians have been of the opinion that there was an abscess form ing in his liver, which was probably scraped by the knife. He has been unable for more than a month to lie in bed, and could sleep uuiy i li a cuair. There has been, since 1870, a suit for di vorce, brought by his wife. Concerning this suit Colonel Terrell has been very sensitive and reticent. He has believed that the lawyers of his wife were protracting the matter maliciously, and he has blamed them for the failure to settle the case, which grew out of infirmities of temper on his part, and tbe displeasure of his stepson at tbe disposition of some property which belonged to his mother. Tbe stepson is Mr. John M. Thornton. At tbe time that Colonel Terrell was in peril ot his life, after being stabbed by Jrrancis, there was a hope of RECONCILIATION WITH HIS WIFE, And he received evidences of sympathy from his stepson. He thought he had reason to believe that the attorneys of his wife (Harvey Myers and Oliver Root) were responsible for the continuance of the proceedings. Terrell had personal difficulties at different times with both Myers and Root. One difficulty with Myers occurred some years since. but tiiat was settled. Atrain he had snm difficulty with Myers, and talk of a duel was had, and finally tbe matter was settled by agreeing to 'decide their trouble by the code n such cases, and after they had come to the understanding that they woulÄ settle this difficulty between them under the code. Ter rell had constantly treated Myers with the greatest courtesy. He considered, that owing to the engagement between them, it was necessary and becoming that they should recognize each other as gentlemen. Myers had, he considered, so recognized him, in agreeing to give him satisfaction in a gentlemanly way lor the grievance that he had caused him. Owing to the extreme delicacy of his health and his great sufferings. Colonel Terrell had made arrangements to leave the city last evening. He intended to j?o to Brookville, Ind., thence to Indianapolis. aud thence to Greencastle, 'proposing to thus break the journey to Greencastle, be cause be feared that be might not be able to ride that far continuously. It was Import ant for him to finish taking a deposition yesterday. He was very anxious to get it done before he left for Indiana, feeling that there was some uncertainty about his return. During the time that CoL Terrell bad exhibited the infirmities of temper that, in connection with other causes, led to the divorce suit, he had suffered terribly from neuralgic disease, and in the examination of a medical expert called in the case, be had had the question asked as to tbe tendency ot neuralgic disease to produce irritability, and cause unpleasant exhibitions of leinper. On looking at the questions yesterday morning, prepared for the cross-examination of this medical expert, Terrell found, written in the handwriting of Myers, an inquiry it it was not the tendency ot syphilis to produce these neuralgic disorders that resulted in this loss of command over the temper. This was an inquiry that was ' EXTREMELY EXASPERATING To Terrell, for it was evidently meant to insinuate that he had been a sufferer from syphilis. Tbe extreme irritability of Terrell on this subject arises In part from the fact that be bas, for some years, had a personal deformity in his face, the result of a cancer ous affection of the nose. Terrell was exceedingly wrought up, by his sense of -wrong, towards the attorneys of his wife. He be lieved that he would have been reconciled to her and that all would have been well again in his family relations if it had not been. for them. He thought also, considering the re lations between himself and Myers. which we have detailed, that as they expected to meet on the field of honor, tbe insinuation conveyed in the question was "gratuitous and wanton, as well as false." He therefore determined, as he was on the eye of leaving the city, that ne would canon Myers and demand to know of him what he meant by iL He had made up his mind exactly what to say to Myers, and exactly when to stop. Owing to his difficulties with Francis and others, Colonel Terrell has habitually gone armed, carrying a large Derringer pistol in his pocket, which is, unfortunately, too much the habit in Covington. He carried this as regularly as bis pocket knife. He went into tbe front office of Stevenson &. Myers, where there was a young man sitting, and inquired for Myers, and was told be was in a private room. He walked then to the door, and said to Myers, he saw a question there this morning that conveyed an insinuation, and wanted to know'what was meant by it. Myers immediately sprang up in a state of great ex asperation and said to him, "O d d n you, leave my omce.': lerrsu turnea aoout to go, when suddenly Myers caught mm by the collar, and shoved him violently through the front office, then out into tbe hall and along the length of the hall,and at last thrust him against tne wall at tbe head of tbe stairway. Terrell had said to Myers, as be caught him by the collar and was shoving him out, " You know I am a sick man." But he was hustled forward with increasing violence, when, at tbe brink ot the stairway, thinking he was to be thrown down, he got his pistol out and fired. The distance from where be was first taken by tbe collar to the point where he fired is about forty feet. Terrell protests that he bad no thought whatever ot a difficulty on this occasion. He says that he bad expected a difficulty some daja ago with Oliver Root. But it was Terrell's desire to avoid a personal struggle. Terrell says there was no thought, ot the remotest Eind, in his mind, that the interview with Myers would result In any collision or altercation. He only desired .to demand why such an insinuation had been made, and also to protest, in tbe name of bis ebil dren. against what he deemed tue ' GREATEST POSSIBLE OUTRAGE. A difficulty would have been impossible If he had not been seized by Mr. Myers, i very powerful man, and if he had not con sidered himself in mortal peril; of being tkrown down tbe stairway, which. In his invalid condition, would probably have terminated his lile. A Jury was immedi ately sworn, and after having viewed the body they returned to the office of Stevenson fc Myers, where testimony was taken. Nicholas Corcoran, a law student in the office of Stevenson & Myers, testified , that ' Messrs. Wright . and Russell having gone out, Colonel Terrell opened the door and asked if Mr. Myers was in. I said I thought he was in this room (where the Jury were then sitting). f Terrell hand his right had in his coat pocket) I He went to Mr. Myers and asked him come-

thing inferencto some questions which S?Si.Ä. ;n?w ha had

njjillbeard Mr Myers order him out of the OhC' , Terrell refused to go, and talked in s blasTrins' manner. Mr. Mj era then took hold of hn to put him out. I saw Colonel Terrell thrn trying to pull his hand out of bis pocket. They ad closed the door. I could not open the door, and learing there would be trouble, I ran round to that door, and just as I opensd it I heard tbe pistol shot. I saw Mr. Myers come in holding bis bauds to bis body, and I saw Colonel Terrell standing there with the pistol in his hand and the smoke round him. Mr. Mvpnt said, "Go for tbe doctor, he 6bot me." I started lor a doctor, and met Dor-tor to)d him Mr. Myers had been KYnt n:i that lie should go down. I told him that ierren had done it. He told meto go foDr. Thomas. I saw Dr. Thomas' son, who Said hi fut hör voa In lrnt).1. Ttl... T L . - .mui. nH iu aivuuiia MUCH X Fgot back to tbe office Mr. Myers opened mis "es "u oia some one to go ror bis wife. When Mr,Myeream in he said, "Corcoran, la shot; oh, Niek, I am shot." Terrell manner vtm violent. When speaking ot Mr. Myers or .Mr. Oliver Root, he weuld denounce them as hi bitterest enemies. When be came in, He was blustering, and his mannerI?TrC ATEVKLENCE. He came with his band in his pocket, and asked roughly, if Myers was in. He kept his hand in his pocket till be got out. He then tried to pull it out. I thought he had a weapojH I have previously heard him threaten Mr. Myers. I recollect once when bis daughter, Miss Augusta Terrell, was brought here to give her evidence, I was taking the deposition, and Colonel Terrell became very much exercised and violent; he threatened be would have satisfaction from Mr. Myers; that he would fight him a duel, or else have a street fight. Ibis was last, fall. At another time, when some depositions were to be taken in the Terrell case, Mr. Myers was at Frankfort. I went to : Rankin t Whittaker's office to see about I the matter. Tbe exanäner said the deposi,i i j i . . muus u&u ueen tauen, tne a ay Deiore: afterwards CK W. Root and Dr. Thornton came in, and I told thein what had been told to me, and we left the office. A few days after I met Terrell. He asked was my name Corcoran, and what statements I had made in reference to the depositions. He then talked of Mr. Myers and Mr. Root, and called them dogs. He said Myers had made a brutal assault on bim (in the Terrell case) and thai the first time he saw Mr. Myers he would demand an explanation of bian, and that he would shoot bim. He said be would not shoot Oliver Root; that be was not worth shooting. He said be would make Mr. Myers fight him outide of the state. I heard him once say, "Blood, blood, WoGd ;" that he was going to have somebody 's blood. That he would have a street tight, if not a duel. He told me he would shoot Mr. Myers. I told Mr. Myers of these threats and advised him to be careful. Wright sworn I saw Mr. Myers in his office this morning. He remained a short time and went out, telling me he would be engaged all day in taking depositions in tbe Terrell case at Rankin fc Whittaker's office, and then left, and shortly afttr he came back. I went out for a while, and when I got back I heard of tbe shooting. I was not present at it. I came into tbe room, and saw Dr. Wise at Mr. Myers'' right side. I kneeled ' down to take hü hand: my other hand was under his head. He threw his arms round as though to throw off the coat which was over him. He said: "I must die; I am dying." Dr. Wise asked him to take some stimulants and keep quiet. Some one asked Mr. Myers, HOW IT HAP OCCURRED, and Mr. Myers said: " He (Terred) followed me to my office armed ; I was at my desk, when he came in and insulted me; (in reference to some questio n) I ordered him. oat, and be refused to go; I got up to put him out, when be drew a pistol; I endeavored to prevent him shooting me, but he got the advantage of me, and shot me in the abdomen." He died about twenty minutes afterwards. He repeated, 44 1 am dying. I must diew My poor wife and children." After his wife and son came he told his boy. frequently that he must be a good boy; and' " V hat will become of my poor wife and children. I am not afraid to die, but what will beconae of them ?" A short time after th close of the testimony, the jury returned tbe following VERDICT. "We, the jury, sworn and Impaneled to Inquire into and report as to the cause ot the death of Harvey Myers, find, from the testimony adduced, that at about the hour of 10:15 A. M., on the 2Sth day of March, 1874, said Harvey Myers came to his death by a pistol shot, said pistol being at said time in the hands of and fired by W. G. Terrell, no one being present but said parties, and the said W. G. Terrell is culpable ol the deed ; and further, that said shot was Used In tbe hall near the door of said Myers oSSce." Colonel W. G. Terrell is the eon of the late Dr. Williamson Terrell, a preacher formerly connected with tbe southern Indiana conference of tbe Methodist Episcopal chureh, wbo died a little more than a year since. Colonel Terrell, when a vounjr man. was a teacher in or near Brook ville, Ind., where he became acquainted ' with his wire.. Immediately afterther mar riage in Newport, November. 155 Mr. and Mrs. Terrell went to Louisville to reside. that he might prosecute tbe 6tudy of the law. It is well known, even down to very small detail, that from the hoar of their marriage all expenditures were made from Mrs. Terrell's estate. After remaining a time in Louisville, and again, at Madiaon. Indiana, Mr. Terrell finally bought tbe Lafavette Journal or at least an interest in it. At a later date, after repeated importunities on bin part, she consented to convey to bim half of her estate, that " he might have fi nancial staBding and credit, and thereby be the better enabled to transact business." To accomplish this, Mr. and M.rs.TerrtU visited Newport, with a Lafayette man, who was to receive the title from Mr. Terrell. and immediately transfer the- aame to him. All this was done, Mrs. Terrell havincr carefully read the papers wbn presented to her. Months, or possmiy years afterward, he, in the meantime having become mos and more dessolute. Mrs. Terrell discovered, that a deep and dark fraud had been practiced on her, nnd she had conveyed ber all into his hands. After tiring of his promise to rectify to some extent the wrong done her and her oldest child, and finding it impossible to live longer with him, the reluctantly told her sorrows to her lriends, and sought the advice of able counsel, one of whom was Mr. Myers. Suits were brought s nd continued as long as possible by Terrell, when finally he conveyed the property to his wife; hut he failed to comply with hor desires in regard to ths disposition ol tha property, and thus she was compelled to apply ior a divorce. Not commendatory of the council are the words ot the Brooklyn Eagle; Tbe point be fore the council now is one more abstract than practical, but that thera Is any point at all is due to the fact that aa attack, gross as systematic, waa made upon Mr. lieecher, and which remains now as a shade ot the past, because of what the ministers who called the council contrived to do. All through this affair, desperate efforts have been made to ctfliceal the cloven foot, but It has kept protruding until every person i now familiar with its shape.