Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY JULY 28, 1874.

want another long separation. "While we are in the flesh let us abide together. Wednesday Mobsiso, March, 1SG3. Oh, how almost perfectly could I minister to vou this wintry day. My heart glows so perpetually. I aoi conscious of a great inward awakening towarii yon. If I live I shall teach my children to begin their loves -where now I am. I can't conceive of anything more delicious than a life consecrated toaTalthfnllove. I insist that I miss you more than von do me, but soon I shall see my beloved. Signed " ' Your ow Dear W ife. ' In addition to the above many other letters by Mrs, Tilton to her husband prior to her corruption by Mr. Beecher, served to show that a christian wife, loving her husband to the extreme degree above set forth, conld only have been severed trom the path of rectitude by artful and powerful persuasions, clothed In phrases ct religion and enforced by strong appeals from her hief christian teacher and guide.

eighteenth. That the story purporting to explain Beecher's apoloey as bavin been wi-itten becau-e he had offended Mr. Tilton by engaging his wife In the project ot a Separation from her husband is false, as will be seen bv the following letter, written only three days after the date of the apology: MUS. TILTON TO MR. MOULTON. ' 174 Livingston street, Brooklyn. January 4, 1S71. 3fR. Francis I. Moulton: My dear friend: In regard to your question whether I have ever sougnt a separation trom my husband, I indignantly deny that such was ever the fact, as I have denied it nunureua of times before. The story that I wanted a separation was a deliberate falsehood coined by mv poor mother, who said she wonld ber the responsibility ot this and other statements she might make and communicate to my husband's enemy, Mr. II. "W. Beecb?r, and by her communicated to Ttnwen. I feel outraged by the whole prorAfi.Hntr. and I am now suffering in consethan I am able to bear. I am yours very truly, Elizabeth It. Tilton. Nineteenth, that during the first week in January, 1S71, a few days after the apology was written. Beecher communicated to Tilton.tbrongh Moulton, an earnest wish that he (Mr. Tilton) would take bis lamily to Europe and reside mere ior a 'term 01 jkio ntwr. Beecher's expense. Similar - oilers Lave been since repeated by Beecher to Tilton through the same channel. A message of kindred tenor was broueht from Beecher to Tilton last summer by F. B. Carpenter, as will appear from the following affidavit: IIomer, N. Y., July 18, 1S74. On Sunday, June 1. 1873, two days alter the surreptitious publication of the tripartite covenant between u II. C. Bowen and W. Beecher. !

Theodore lil-;me

ton I walked with Mr. tseecner from Plymouth cnurcn to me resiaeuce oi 1 D. Monlton on Bernsen street. On the way to Moulton' house, Beecher said to me that if Tilton would stand by him he would share his fame, his fortune and everything he rjosxe3d. with him, (Tilton.) Oigned.) F. B. Carpenter. Swrn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of July, 1S74. (Signed.) Wm. T. Hicocrc, Notary Public. ' Mr. Carpenter in communicating to Tilton the above affidavit says in a letter accompanying it: ; I have no hesitation In giving yon the statement as I understood at the time it was for me to repeat in substance to you, and I did so repeat it. It was at this interview that Beecher spoke to me of his apology to you. The charge that Tilton even attempted to levy black mail on Beecher is false. . On the contrary, Tilton has always resented every attempt by Beecher to put him under pecuniary obligations. , 20. That not long after the scandal became public, Mrs. Tilton wrcte on a slip of paper and left on her husband's writing desk the following words: "Now that exposure has come, my whole nature revolts from joining with yon or standing with vou." Through the influence of Beecher's lriendä the opinion has long been diligently propagated that the scandal was due to Tilton, and that the alleged facts were malicious inventions by him to revenge himself for supposed wrongs done to him by Beecher. Many words were spoken from time to time by Mrs. T. to the praise and eulogy of Beecher, which, being extensively quoted through his congregation, brightened impression that Tilton was Beecher's slanderer, Mrs. T. being herself authority tor the statement. In this way Mrs. T. and one of her relatives have been the chief causes ot the great difficulty of suppressing the scaudaL Theynye bad a habit oi saying tha) Mr. Tilton believes such and such things, and their naming of these things by way of denial has been a mischievous way of CIRCULATING THEM BROADCAST. In this way Tilton has been made to appear a defamer, whereas he has made every eflort in his power to suppress the improper tales which he has been charged with propocaling. On all occasions he has sys tematically referred to his wife in terms favorable to her character. Further, Tilton "would not have communicated to the committee the facts contained In this statement except for the perverse course of the Ilev. H. W. Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth Ii. Tilton to degrade and ' destroy him in public estimation, iwenty-nrst, that, one evening, about two weeks after the publica tion of Tilton's letter to Dr. Bacon, Airs. T. on coming home at a late hour, informed Tilton that she bad been visited at a friend's house by a committee of investigation, and bad given sweeping evidence acquit ting Beecher of every charge. This was the first intimation which Tilton received that any sujh committee was then In existence, Furthermore, Mrs. T. stated that she had done this by the advice of a lawyer whom Beecher had sent to her and who in advance of her appearing before the committee arranged with her the questions and answers which were to constitute her testimony in Beecher's behalf. Oa the next day after giving the natrus testimony before the committee, she spent many hours of extreme suffering and pangs of "conscience at having testified falsely. She expressed to her husband the hope that God would forgive her perjury, but that the motive was to save Beecher and her husband, and also to remove all ' reproach trom the cause of religion. She also expres&ed similar contrition to one of her intimate friends, Finally, that in addition to the foregoing facts and evidences, other confirmations conld l9 adduced if needed to prove the fol lowing RECAPITULATED STATEMENT, namely, that tne uev. n. v. lieeciier as pastor and friend of Mr. Tilton andhis family, trespassed upon the sanctity oi friend-ih'p and hospitality in a long endeavor to , seduce Mr?. Kliza betb It. Tilt.cn, tbat by an artful ue of blpriestlv authority with her, she being hipnnil in relicrjon. he accomplished this seduction. That for a period of a year aud a half or thereabout he maintained criminal intercourse with her, overcoming her previous modest scrnoles against such conduct by investing It with a false justification, as sanctioned by love and religion. That ho then participated In a conspiracy to degrade Theodore Tilton before the public by the loss of his peace, buaiae33 and repute: that he abased Mr,

Tilton's forgiveness and pledge of protec

tion by thereafter authorizing a series oi measures by Plvmouth Church, having tor their object the putting of a stigma uroi Tilton before the church and also - r . a. f i : 1 before an eeciesiasucau i-uuucji, in bo much that the moderator of that coun cil interpreling these acts or beecher m his church, declared publicly that they showed Beecher to be the most magnani mous of men, and Tilton to be a knave ana a dog; mat wnen iiuuu u.eitautr, uuim malice, but for self-protection, wrote a letter to Dr. Bacon, alluding therein to an oQense and an apology by the Uev. Henry . Ward Beecher, ha (Mr. Beecher) defiantly appointed a committee of his church members to inquire into the ir-jury done him 'to Mr. Tilton by the aforesaid allusion, and implying that be f Mr. Beecher) had never been the author or such an Offense ana apoiogy, anu mm, Mr. Tilton was a slanderer; that to make this inquiry bear griev ously against Mr. Tilton Mr. Beecher nreviouslv connived with Mrs. I.. It. 'Iliton to trive false testimony In bis (Mr. Beecher's) tahalf: that Mr. Beecher's course towards Mr. Tilton and family has at last resulted in the open destruction of Mr. Tilton's household and home, and the desolation of his heart and life. tSizned.) Theopore Tilton Sworn to before me this 20th dy of July, 1374. Theodore Bcrgmeyfr, Notary Public. Genile.menof the Committee: Having laid before you the above sworn statement, which I have publicly restricted to the relations of Mr. Baecher with Mrs. Tilton only, and with no other persons, I wish to add an explanation due to yourselves. In the Ciolden Age, lately edited by me, a suggestion was made, rot with my knowledge or consent, that your committee, in order to be justly constituted, should comprise, in addition to the six members appointed by Mr. Beecher, nix others appointed by myself. To no such purpose would I have consented, ior I have never wanted any tribunal whatever for the investigation of , this subject. Neither your committee, as at present constituted, nor an enlarged committee on the plan just mentioned, nor any other commute ot any kind could, in and of itself, have persuaded or compelled me to lav before vou the facts contained in the pre ceding statement. Distinctly be it understood that these facts have not boen evoked by your committee, because of any authority which I recognize in you as a tribunal of inquiry. Nor would they have been yielded to any other committee or board of reference, however constituted, except a court of law. Bat, on the contrary, I have divulged the above solely because of the openly published demands for it made directly to me by the Itev. II. W. Beecher, aided and abetted by Mrs. E. It. Tilton. These two parties, these alone, and not your committee. have by their action prevailed with No other authority or Inflaence, excspt a court oi law, couiu nave uoen power ful enough to have extorted from me the above. For the sake of one of these parties gladly would I have continued to hide these facts in the future as I have incessantly striven to do in the past. But by the joint action of Mr. Beecher and Mm. Tilton, I can withhold the truth only at the price ot perpetual Infamy to my name, in addition to the penalty which I already sut ler in the destruction ot a home once as phasant as any in which you yourselves dwell. Itespectfuiiy, Theodore Tilton. BEECHER'S REPLIES. HE FURNISHES A MEMORANDUM FOR I'URTICATI0N TUE CHARGE DENIED II 19 EX PLANATI ON. New York, July 22. This evening several of the deacons of Plymouth Church, with Mr. Shearman, Mr. Ross and Gen. Tracy, met at Mr. Beecher's house, and, alter a council lasting about three hours, drew up the following statement of Mr. Beecher for publication: "I do not prepare at this time a detailed examination of the re markable statement of T. Tilton made before the committee of investigation, and which appeared In print July 21, ls74. I recognize the many reasons which make it of transcendant importance to myself, the church and the cause of public morality that I shall give a full answer to the charges anlinst me. But having re quested the committee or Investigation to search this matter to the bottom it is to them that I must look for vindication. But I could not delay for an hour to defend the reputation of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, uion whose name in, connection with" mine her husband has at tempted to pour shame. One less deserving of such disgrace I never knew. From child hood she has been under my eye, and since reaching womanhood she has had my sincere admiration and afTtction. I cherish lor her a pure feeling, such as a gentleman might honorably offer to a christian woman, and which she might receive and reciprocate without moral scruple. I reject with indignation every imputation which reflects upon her honor or ray own. My regard lor Mrs. T. was perfectly well known to my family. When serious difficulties sprang up in her household it was to my wife that she resorted for counsel, and both of ns acting from sympa thy, aud as it subsequently appeared, WITHOUT FULL KNOWLEDGE, gave unadvised counsel which tended to harm. I have no doubt tbat Mr. Tilton found that his wife's confidence and reliance upon my judgment had greatly increased while his . inflaence had diminished In consoi uence of a marked change in her religious and social views which ' was taking place during those years, her mind was greatly exercised lest her children should be harmed by the views which she deemed virtually false and dangerous. I was suddenly and rudely aroused to the reality of the impending danger by the disclosure of the domestic dis tress, ot the sickness, perhaps unto death, of the likelihood ot separation and scattering of a family, every member ot which I had tenderly loved. The etiects upon me of the discovery of this state of Mr. T.'s feeling and the condition of his family surpassed in sorrow and excitement anything I had ever experienced in my lile. Tbat my presence, influence and counsel had brougut to a beloved family sorrow and alienation, gave in my then state of mind a - poignancy to my suffering which I hope no other man may ever feel. Even to be suspected of having offered under the privileges of peculiarly sacred relation an indecorum to a wife and mother, could not but deeply wound one who is sen sitive to the honor of womanhood. There were peculiar reasons for alarm in this case, on other grounds, inasmuch as I was then subject to certain malignant threats and a flagrant outbreak in this family would bring upon them an added injury deiived from these shameless fal ehoous. Believing at the time that my presence and counsels bad tended, however unconsciously, to produce a social catastrophe, represented us imminent, 1 gave eipression to my feelings in an interview with a mutual friend, not in cold and cautious, self-defending words, but eagerly taking blame upon myself, and pouring out my heart to my friend iu the strongest lansuage overburdened with the exaggerations of impassioned sorrow. Had 1 been the evil man Mr. Tilton now represents, I should have been calmer and more prudent. It was my horror of this evil imputed that filled me with morbid Intensity at the very shadow of it. Not only was my friend affected generously, but he assured me that such expressions if conveyed to

Mr. Tilton would soothe the wounded feel

ings ahay anger and heal the whole trouble. He took down the sentences and fragments of what I had been saying to use tbem as a mediatot. a iull statement of the circumstances under which this memorandum was made I shall give to the committee. That these apologias were more than ample to meet the facta in the case la evident, or mat tbey were accented that our intercourse resumed its friend liness, that Mr. T. e subsequently ratified that he has conit In writing, and tinued for four years and until within two weeks to live with his wife. Is it conceivable, If the original charge bad been what is now alleged, that he would have condoned the offense, not only with the mother ot his children, but with him whom he believed to have wronged them? The absurdity as well as the falsity of this story is apparent, when it is considered tbat Mr. Tilton now alleges tbat be carried this guilty secret of his wife's Infidelity for six months, locked up in his own breast, and that then he divulged it to me, only that there might be a reconciliation with me. Mr. Tilton has since, in every form of language, and to a multitude of witnesses, orally, in written statements aud in printed documents, de dared his faith in his wife's purity. , i : l l. .l...., .1 . ti -. F tÄÄra which domestic a Hairs have a right to claim that seclusion as a security, ana to It was determined that it should be confined. Every line and word of my private and confidential letters which rave been published is in harmony with the statements whicii I now make Mv pub lished correspondence on this subject comprises but two elements, viz: the expression of my grief, that of my desire to shield the honor of a pure and Innocent woman. I do not propose to analyze and contest at this time the extraordinary paper ot Mr. Tilton, but there are TWO ALLEGATIONS which I can'not permit to pass without special notice. They refer to the only two incidents which Mr. Tilton pretends to have witnessed personally. The one an alleged scene in my house while lookinz over some engravings, and the other a chamber scene in bis own house. His statements concerning these are absolutely false. Nothing ot the kind ever .occurred nor any semblance of any such thing. They are now brought to my notice for the" first time. To every statement which connects ine dishonorablv with Mrs. E. K. Tilton or which in any wise would impugn the honor of this beloved Christian woman I give the moit explicit, comprehensive and solemn denial. Signed II enry Ward Beecher. Brooklyn, July 22, 1874. The statement of Mrs. Tilton will lie made public to-morrow and it is understood that it will be a complete denial of the charge made azainst Mr. Beecher and herself by her husbard. Mr. Beecher will prepare a more full and concise reply, to be submitted to the investigating commit tee at as early a date as possible. THE ACT OF MAVERICK. TILTON'S STATEMENT TUBUSnED WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE MAVERICK'S EXPLANATION KEECHER'S LOVB LETTERS A NICE PICKI.E FOR THE METROPOLITAN LADIES MRS. BEECHER'S FAITH. New York. July 23. Theodors Tilton says of the publication of his statement: "I would not have had it published for one hundred thousand dollars. Augustus Maverick, a friend of mine, helped me to copy the original, and made a second copy of it while I was befoie the committee. Jle print ed it out of friendship for me. When I heard of it I went to my room in the Astor House and threw myself on my bed in despair." Maverick is editor of a Brooklyn paper in which the statement first appeared. and received yesterday the following note: Wednesday, July 22. "My Dear Maverick : From no other person save either yourself. As my copyist, or from the committee's shnrt-bani writer, or from some member of the committee, could my sworn statement have got into print. My heart is bowed and bleeding at seeing these facts spread before the world. Tell me how could you have taken "iuch a fearful. ' dreadful, horrible responsibility, without consulting me in advance? There now remains no possibility of peace or silence nothing but everlasting woe. Explain yourself. You must do it loth to me aud to the public. Yours in grief, "TU EODORE Tl LTON." Maverick publishes this note, and adds, in the course or a short explanation addressed to Tilton and the public: "As one of his (Tilton's) staunch friends, loving and knowing him to be a long abused man, and tbat he still shrunk from hurting others in order to shield himself, I resolved that this defense should be published, and I published it. I did so . : without ms knowledge or consent, and I did right, and stand by the act as an act ot . justice to a man who has been wronged, and a community that has a right to know all the facts." A gentleman whose official bus iness bat led him to receive and open much of Beecher's correspondence, said last evening: In Beecher's love letters you would be surprised to know . how foolishly same women write to him. Eyery "onee. in a while a woman gets a little crazy and writes to Beecher to tell him how much she adores him. The letters used to go to the Independ ent office, and Tilton, under orders from Beecher, opened them. He made copies of and to-day has manuscripts, and names and copies of letters", all connected with respectable ladies, who have loolisbly written to Beecher all their love for him. He receives love letters bv the ream and cord; and the joke of it is that, a his wife takes care of all the letters that come to him, she reads his love letters before he sees them. Mrs. Tilton's letters to Beecher were very affectionate and enthusiastic, and expressed a deop pervading love for him. Mrs. Beecher read them all before he saw tbem. They are ail in her possession now. When the scandal was first noised about, Mrs. Beecher looked up the letters, and, at Mrs. Tilton's request, has preserved them for her. You can't convince Mrs. Beecher that her husband is guilty of anything that Tilton charges. She says that if all the women in creation were to swear that Beecher had been unfaithful, she would not believe them. ECCE FEM INA. THE WOMAN'S STORY SHE DENIES THE CHARGE AND GIVES HER EXPLANATION SHE SIGNED LETTERS WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THEY CONTAINED HER II US HA X A MONSTER IIIS DEIUX FOR YEARS HAS KEEN TO RCIN REECHEU. 2Nev York, July 23. The following is the statement of Jlrs. Elizabeth K. Tilton: To pick up anew tho sorrows of the last ten years, the stings and pains I had dally schooled myself to bury and forgive, makes this imperative duty, as called forth by the malicious statement of my husband, the saddest act ot my life. Beside my thought of following the Master contradicts this act of my pen and a sense of the provisions of my life, faith almost compels mo now to stand asido till Uod himself believes. Yet I see in this wanton act

an urgent call and privilege from which

I shrink not to reply in detail to twenty-two articles of arrtienment. I shall not attempt. at present, yet If ca! led upon to test if to each and all of them I shall not hesitate to do so. Suffice it for mv purpose now thatl reply to one or more of the most elowine charges touching the feigued sorrow of mv husband's compulsory revelations. I solemnly avow that long'before the Woodhnll puDiicatlon, l knew him. bv insinuation and direct statement, to have repeated to my very near relatives and friends the substance of these Accusations, wbich shake the in or ml sense of the entire community to-dav. Many times when her.ring that cer tain persons had spoken ill of him he has sent me to chide them for so do Ing, and then and there I learned (hat he had been before me with his calumnies against myself.so that I was speechless. The reiteration in his statement tbat be had persistently strived to hide" these so called facts, is utterly false, as his hatred to Mr. Beecber has existed these many years, and the determination to ruin Mr. Beecher has been the one aim of his life. Again the perlidy with which the holiest love a wife ever offered has been recklessly discovered in this publication reaches well nigh to sacrilege, and added to this the endeavor like the early Bcandal of Mrs. Woodhull to make MY OWS WORDS condemn me, has no parallel, most conspic uously my letter quoting the reading of Had Mr. Tilton read the personal cnaracter of Catherine, he would have seen that I lifted myself beside it as near as auy numan being mav effect an Ideal. But it was her character and not the incidents of fiction surrounding it to which l reierreu.. Jier's was no tin of criminal act or thought. A like confession with her's I had made to Mr. Tilton. in . telllne of mv love to my friend and pastor.one year before, and I now add that notwithstanding all the misrepresentations and anguish of soul I owe to my acquaintance and friendship with Mr. Beecher, as to no other human in strumentality, it is that encouragement in my mental life and that growth toward di vine nature which enables me to walk daily in a lively hope of the lite beyond. The shameless charges in articles seven, eiaht and nine, are fearfully false in each and every particular. The letter referred to in Mr. Tilton's tenth paragraph was obtained from me by importunity and by representations mat it was necessary for him to use In his men pendinz diuiculties with Mr. Bowen I wa3 then sick, nigh unto death, having suffered a miscarriage onlv four davs btiore. l signeu wnatever be required with out knowing or understanding its impoit. i ne paperi nave never seen, and do not know what statements it contained. In cuarge 18 a letter ot mine, addressed to Mr. Francis Moulton, is quoted te prove that I never desired a separation, or was advised by Mr. or Mrs. Beecher to leave my hus band. I reply that the letter was of Mr. Tilton's own concoctina:, which he induced me to copy and sign as my own, an act which, in mv weakness and mistaken thought to help him, I have done too often ü u ring . THESE UNHAPPY YEARS. The implication that the harmony of my home was unbroken until Mr. Beecher entered it as a frequent guest aud friend, is a lamentable satire upon the household where be, himself, years, before laid the corner stone of free love and desecrated its altars. I'p to the time of my departure tbat atmosphere was not only homeless but Impure for my children, and in this effort and throe of agony I would fain lift my daughters and all womanhood from the insidious and dia 1 if 1 a I T 1 a W ' uoiicai leacuings oi tuese latter uays. u'.a frequent efforts to prove roe Insane, weak minded, insignificant and of mean present, all rank in the category ot heartlessness, selfishness and falsehood, having its climax in his present endeavor to convince the world tbat I am, or even have been, unable to distinguish between an innocent and a guilty love. In summing up the whole matter I affirm myself before Cod to be Innocent of the crimes laid upon me; that never have I been guiltyof adultery with H. W. Beecher in thought or deed, nor has be ever offered to me an indecorous or improper proposal. To the further charge that I was led away from my home by Mr. Beecher's friends and by the advice öf a lawyer whom Mr. B9echer had sent to me, and who, in absence of my appearance before the committee, arranged with me the questions and answers which are to constitute my testimony in Mr. Beecher's behalf, I answer tbat this is again untrue, having never seen the lawyer until introduced to bun, A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE the arrival of the committee, by my step father, Judge Morse, and in further reply I submit th6 following statement of my ac tion before the committe9, and separation from my husband : The publication of Mr. Tilton's letter In answer to Dr. Bjcon I had not known of nor suspected, when on Wednesday evening he brought home the Golden Age, banding it tome to read. Look ing down its columns I saw weli nigh with blushing eyes that be had put into executiion the almost daily threat of his life, that he would live to crush out Mr. Beecher, that the cod or battles was in mm, tbat be bad al ways been Mr. Beecher's superior and all that lay in his path, wife and cbildren or rep utation if need be, should . fall before this purpose. I did not read it; I saw enough without reading. My spirit' rose within me as never before? "Theodore," I said, "tell me wnat means tnis quotation from Mr. iieecner. iwo years ago you came to me at ' midnicbt sav saying, "Elizabeth, all the letters and papers concerning my diincuities with Mr. Beecher and Mr. Bowen are burned and destroyed, now don't you betray me tor i bave nothing to defend myself with." "Did you be liee that?" said he. "I certainly did im pllcitly," I said, "wen, let me tell you that all live; not one Is destroyed." If this was said to intimidate me, it had quite THE CONTRARY EFFECT. I had never been so fearless, nor seen . so clearly before, with whom I was dealing Coming to me a little later, he said, "I want you to read it. You will find it a yindica tion of yourself. You have not stood before the community for fivo- years as you do now." Housed still further by the wicked ness hid behind so false a mask, I replied, 'Theodore, understand me, this is the last time you shall call me publicly to -walk through this filth. My character needs no vindication at this late hour from you. There was a time when, had you spoken out clearly, truthfully and man fully lor me, I would have been grateful lint now I shall speak and act for myself. Know, also, that if in the future I see a scrap of paper referring to any human be inc. nowever remote, wuien it seems to me you migbt use or pervert for your own ends, I will destroy it." "This means battle on your part then," paid he. ''Just bo far," I replied. ' I write this lecause these words oi mine he baa since used to my harm. The next morning I went to my brother and told him that now I had decided to act in the matter; that 1 had been treatod by my husband as a nonentity from the beginning; a plaything to bv used or let alone at will that it had always seemed to ma that I was a party not a little concerned. I then showed him a card I had made lor publication. He respected the motive, but Btill advised silence on my part. I yielded to him, so far as to appearing in (he public prints, but, counselling with myself,

and no other, it occurred to me that amor? the brethern of my own communion

I MIGHT BE HEARD. Not knowing of any church committee, I asked the privilege of sach an interview in the parlor of those who had always been ou r mutual friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ovington. I then learned for the first time thai the com mittee would meet that night, and I was advised to see those gentlemen as perhaps the goodliest persons I could select. This I accordingly did. There lone I pleaded the cause of my husband and my children, the resun being that their hari were- 1 moved in sympathy ' for my .family, a- feeling 'their pastor hhd shared for years and for which be was sullering. On going home, I found my husband reading In bed. I had told him where I had been, and tbat I did not conceal anythiug from him as his habit was from me. He asked who the sentleman were and said no more, bnt rose, dressed himself and bade me eol bye forever. The midnight following I was awakened bvmv husbands standing by my bed. Ina very tender as d kind voice he said be wished to see me. I rose Instantly, followed him into his room anu sitting on me bedside he drew me into his lap and said he was proud of me, iovea me, ana mat coming ever gave him sucb real peace and satisfaction as to hear me well spoken of; that meeting a number of ine-committee he had learned that he had been mistaken as to my motives in t ceinc the committee and bad hastened to assure me that he had been thoroughly wretched since bis rasa treatment ol me the night be rore, etc men and there we covenanted 6acredly our hearts and lives, I most utterly renewing my trust in the one human neart I loved. The next dav how harrjv we were. Theodore wrote a statement to present to the committee when thev should call unon Dim. to all of which I heartilv acredf!i This document, Ood knows, was A TRUE HISTORY ' oi una anair, completely vindicating my f A M ..... honor and the honor of my pastor. In the afternoon ho left to show it to his friends. He returned home early in the evening, as suring me that there was no rest for him away from me. So, in grateful love to the dear Father, I slept. Oh, that the end had then come. I would not then receive the cruel blow that made a woman mad out right. The next morning he called upon our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Oviuston. and there with a shocking bravado began a wicked tirade, adding . with an oath and violence the shameless slanders against Mr. Beecher of which I now believe him to be the author. This fearful scene I learned the next day. In the after noon he showed me his invitation from the committee to meet them that eveuinc. I lid not then shew my hurt, but carried St. heavily within but calmly without, all cigh; till early morning. Iteflection upon i scene at Mr. Ovington's convinced me that, notwithstanding my husband's recent proiessions to me, nis lormer spirit was un changed ; that his declarations of repentance and affection were only for the purpose of gaining my assistance to accomplish his wariare upon- Mr. Beeoner, in the light of these conclusions, my duty appeared plain. I rose quietly, and having dressed, roused him only to say: "lueoaore, i win never taue anotner step He followed me to Mrs. Ovington's to break fast, saying I was unduly excited, and that he had been misrepresented perhaps but leaving me determined as before. To ac count for the change which 24 hours had been capable cf working in his mind, I leave for the eternities with their mysteries to re veal. That he is an unreliable and unsafe guide whose idea of truth-loving is self-lov ing, it is my mislortnne in this late sad hour to discover. . -Luzabei h k. jilton July 23, 1871. THE LATEST. A MEETING OF THE COM MITTE PEOPLE WHO WILL SWEAR THEY SAW THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT. .new iORK,Juiyi. ihej;ecner inves tigating committee met this evening at the residence of Agustus Storrs at Brooklyn It was 6tated by one of the members of the committee that no witnesses were examined, but that the original letters copied in Tilton's statement were submitted to the committee for examination. The committee will meet again to-morrow even ing, when it is believed that Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Tilton will submit full statements. Frank Moulton would not say whether he had prepared any statement for publica tion. An intimate friend and adviser of Beecher said that tnere are several parties who had seen and received the original statement made by -Tilton exculpating Beecher from all the charges latterly pre ferred against him by Tilton, and that they were prepared ir summoned beiore the cm mittee to swear to that fact. -. A WHOLE FAMILY BURNED. THE FIRE CAIX3HT FROM THE BURNING WOODS THE CHARRED REMAINS. The Manistee (Mich.) Times of the 15th Inst, says: On Monday morning, June 29, at 2:40, there occurred the most terrible and heartrending calamity that has ever hap period in this -part of the country. An en tire family, consisting of Mr. James Uleason, his wife, and child, were burned to death. The circumstances in the case are as follows: During the entire day on Sunday the fire had been raging in the woods, near the MeFarlan Brothers' mill, on the south side of the river, but it had been closely watched, and no especial danger was apprehended, aitnougn quite a mgn wind was blow ing at the time. Daring the evening the tire had been nearly subdued, and most per sons had retired, being worn out bv the exertions of the day and evening. Jleason and his wife did not retire till after 1 o'clock. At 2:40 in the morn ing, a lamily living close by were awakened by the crackling of flames, and on going to the door saw Gleason's home on fire. The alarm was immediately : raided and the door was broken open, but owing to tbe intensity ot the heat nothing couid be dona, and those present were forced to real ize the appalling fact tbat all three that were in the house must have perished in the flames. As soon as possible the flames were extinguished, and search was made for the bodies, which were quickly found, as the house had b9en entirely consumed. The body of Mr. Gleason was found in a natural position, just where the bed had stood, burned to a crisp. His left arm was burned partially off, and the top of his bead was burned away.- The body of Mrs. Gleason was found in A small excavation that bad been used lor a cellar. Her left leg was burned off, and was louni near. The whole body was crisped with the exception of a portion of tbe breast. The child, a little ein of perhaps one year or more, vras terribly burned, almost bej'ond recognition as a human being, both leirs beinc partially oft. ono arm entirely, and tho top of the Lead burned oil. The event has cast a giOOM and sadness over the whole community. A Paterson jeweler has secured from a Holland woman what he believes to be the oldest timepiece in America. On the face and in tha works is Btarnped "Quare, London, A. D. MDCX," making the watch 204 years old. The outside case is of tortoise shell curiously ornamented, and the watch is nearly an Inch and a hall thick,

UYDKOPUOBIA.

A FATAL CASE AT LAPOItTK TIT E ATTACK OF A SMALL TERRIER ON AN IRISH WOMAN THE WOODS AND THEIR TREATMENT SYMPTOMS DEVELOPED AND THE TERMINATION OF THE MsEASE TREATMENT Oi" VHE CA-E. A special to the Chicago Times of the iM from Laporte gives the following pais ml facts connected M'itb the fir-tt cuse of hydro-. phobia occurring in this State this season: That fell disease, hydror hobia. lias at lat found a victim in our city. Three weeks ago to-day, a small English bull terriermade a savage attack on Mrs. Catherine Regan, a worthy Irish lady, livmg at the corner of Monroe and Washington streets, inflicting no less than five distinct wounds ou her lxxlv. One, apparently the most serious. was a lacerated wound about two iuehes in length, running traverser across the irV.de of the wrist; another' and smaller one. di rectly opposite, on the back of the wrist: an other in the thick muscles of the arm, below tbe elbow. Besides these, there was a wound on her left cheek just below the eye, aud ( tie at the angle ot the left eye, the lormer almt an inch long, and the latter a mere putict ure. Physicians were called lniuiediatelv; thev excised the arm wounds, scarified them and anplied cups wherever they would iiiw. thus exhausting the small bloodvessels sur rounding tbem. Iodine was tlifn used ior cauterization and a suture put iu the wound lirst named, tbat leing the onlv suture ma le. Mrs. Began was .V. years ol age, ot a nervous, sanguine temperament, aud was of course extremly agitated and nervous im mediately alter being bitten, being impressed with the idea that the dog was rabid. Cvcry eflort was made to convince Ler that suen was not the case, and the efforts were to all appearances successful, since she never mentioned the subject directly again, une of the wounds healed by tbe iirst attention, end all were healed within lo days, during which time tbey had been dressed three times. She seemed to recover fully, and in answer to the inquiries of her phvsioiau, said tuat she was entirely well, and was JfOTHVEX XEItVOrs any longer. .sue perrormed ber uuai amount of labor, and she was a hardwor kin woman too, without any trouble whatever. On last Sunday eveniug, being 17 days alter she was bitten, she complained of a feeling, of chilliness, headache, etc , but nothing was thought of that particularly. About mid night she woke up and sprang out ot teJ, terribly agitated and frightened. She had dr3aind that her son was shot and other horrible things; but, being reassured, fought her couch again. Toward morningand during Monday, she would be troubled while at work by nervous agitation, and would frtart up terrified, without any apparent caue. and thesvmptom was entire' Inexplicable called to see another patient in the sauie houie, she going to the door to answer the knock. As she opened it, a current cf air struck her, producing a paroxysm somet hiuz akin to chokies, and a distinctive symptom ot hydrophobia. The doctor, not knowing who she was, asked her it she was frightened. and what ailed her. She explained her fright the preceding night, and said that something telt like coming up from the pit of the stomach to the throat, producir a choking sensation. She asked for a prescription, which was given to her, but was n6vertaken. Daring tue night ner condition gradually became worse. Her muscles would contract violently, and tbe lcdy would be flexed or curved backward : every muscle In her whole body would twitch aud jerk, and a white mucus gather around the gains. These paroxysms occurred every 15 minutes, on an average, and lasted alout three minutes each time. She requested her husband to HOLD UER WRISTS, as it afforded her some relief, and it va? diso done as a precautionary measure, U a certain extent. At this stage the spasms excited by the effort to swallow water were developed; she would nervously attempt to swallow a drink preclpitantly, and immediately the utmost terror and distress was depi-te 1 oa her countenance, aud the water would be forcibly ejected again. Alter a time the mere sight of water, or eveuot the vessels in which it was Kept, excited the same series of facts; a bright lighting cf the room, even by pushing aside the window curtain, or the unexpected entrance of a person, would prcduce tbe tame effect. In this connection, Ik may be noted that she took small pieces of ice without any trouble and would drink lemonade. Tuesday morning found her suffering terribly, with all symptoms worse. The wounds on tbe wrist, tho igh healed, were reddebed, and the -kin abraded by the constant holding of the wrists, to which she subjected herself. The paroxysms occurred at shorter intervals, and were more violent; inducing strabismus and increased renex action of the muscles. An attempt was made to give morphia and aconite, which wa riily partially successful. At 10 o'clock an ejection of chloroform and morphine were given without any perceptible effect. After 11 she sunk rapidly. At 12:30 : the last paroxysm . took , plce. and at 12:45 she died, as if suffocat ing, but foaming at the mouth. It is the prevailing opinion among our medical men that imagination had not the slightest thing to do wilh the development of this disease, but there is no doubt It was communicated ' by the dog, and gradually developed itself. All the distinctive features of ' ; . I" THIS HORRIBLE DISEASE were present, even to the foaming at theraouth, audit was unquestionably merciful that ehe was taken away before worse features, if such a thing were possible, could be 'developed. The efforts ol Ibe physicians in attendance were directed to palliating the symptoms, and alleviating the sufferings ot the poor creature efforts, it is true, that were scarcely successful. Sbe was fully conscious up to the moment ot her death. What she suffered can only be imagined by ns, and i only known to her Maker and. herself. There 6eems to be but little doubt that tbe dog was rabid . He was killed by a foundryman near by with a single stroke of a sledge hammer, and although a broiling day the carcase stiffened and became perfectly rigid within 10 minutes after death, and saliva was seen at his mouth. A general extermination of unmuzz!ed dogs was determined upon, and probably not less than two hundred have bitten the dust since the Ist inst. This war of extermination will be mrsned with vigor, and every L.aportein will wish the authorities God speed in their work. . i f The Commercial and Herald, of San I raucis?o, siatason authentic information that the Mexican government has made over tures to cede all Mexican territory north of aline of latitude drawn directly from tLe mouth of the Rio Grande to the Par I tie Ocean. The point of character or amount of consideration is not yet settled. Heavy capital ists have recently been nurc-lmsin" mines lyicg in tbe proposed ceded territory". It' s;icb a ceion is earned out, tha Unit JI Sv.ates wiil acoaire Naeva, CoahuiU, l.ein Chihuahua. Ixiwer California and portions of Sinaloa and Durango. It is probable lhat the postponement of the final decisions bv Mex ico and the the American joint comruisaicri were based upon considerations connected with this proposition. Eleven thousand pounds sterling have been raised for the Wilberforce msmoriai und,