Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1874 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, JULY 2tf 1871.

TUESDAY, JULY 28.

The London corresnon Jent of the New York TrtboDO says that the Lincolu Cower of which tho crur sione was recently Uid with so much gush, is a clever device ol Nwman Hall to get hi church finished, irh Arnroi lar:re ontribution from .-v.ritablaand DOlitical parties to finish the building all through the beloved name of the ex-president. Tb9 whole Dusinwa 1 i ,-ononneed somewhat disreputable. The Tribune says that there were two cle of American sympathies in England dcring ihrtwar "one which Sicruiceu mucu nu another which grained something, and the Rev. Newman Hill hardly belongs to the former." i . . - - Under date of July lMb St. Paul TiaVfctch r-Mived special telegrams from sixtyone counties of Minnesota on the condition x.i tha frlM. Whila this was a stroke of croditabl enterprise, the information ob tained is of uroAt ireneral interest to me chantry at this time. At the date named, the barley, which is a loading product in many part of the stato and very profitable, was harvested, or the cutting w.?a coins on. Tbo winter wheat vi iIm read 7 for harvest. Cut the ereat btaple is spring wheat, which in from two to three weeks beh'.nd the winter wheat. The spring wheat harvest will begin io earnest about August 1. The CO rep.rts are remarkable for their uniformity, there being but few exceptions to the genenl statement oi excellent crops, such as to justify the expectation of morethaa an average in the agnregate. A Urge number of tbe reports say the prc-poct for g"od crops w a utvar baiter. In some cases the heat .ield is predicted ton per cent, above that oi ,-, year, and in one instance the yield is placed as high as 30 bushels per acre. Minnesota can therefore be counted onto furnish its fall share of breadstuff to the world frrlS7C. A few localities have been viaiiod by the grasshopper scourxe and tie crops cteanel out, Only seven of the reports com plain of eerions damage from this cause, and however serious their work of desti uctiou in whore it falls, the calamity considered in a general view, U insigaiticant. Other crops than wheat aro also in a good condition. Corn, where it is grown, give good promises as also oats and flx. The immense harvest in this vast wheat field nyw going on is a wane bordering ou the sublime. By the aid of modern machinery the work is quickly done. But tha grand a shan't and sweep of the army of harvesters to reap the fruit of the year in a single week is an event which to the State of Minnesota derves tobe wound up with a grand celebration. In view of the certain market for breadstu Ga in Europe and of fair prices for tho grain oi the United States, the news from Minnesota is especially cheering to the whole country. S j:ne p3ople in considering the great scandal seem to imagine that the character ol Theodoro Tiiton is at stake rather than that of Henry Ward Beecher. They take especial sati-facticn in dwelling on his infamy, and repeating tho charges m ide against his purity. To a mind disposed to hold fast to the real point at issu?, such a course is inexplicable. What ditlerenc3 does 0 make whether Theodore Tiiton has baen an adulterer or a spiritless coward? IC is the character of s much more important man that is in mestion, and blackening Tiiton will ngt certain ly make his enemy white. What stake has the American people or any great section of it in Theodore liltou ? For the last few years he has been known a a nan of great catly promise, who for somo reason bid broken down ip hU career, had become tainted with free lore doctrines, had been victimized by the most notorious woman of the country, and was running a moderately successful weekly newspaper iu Xew York. He might havo dropped out tf existence any day and he would not have been missed. Ilia already damaged reputation might have become utterly dilapidated, and few, cave bis intimate frier's, wculdtave ßtopped to moralize over the ruins. It is a harsh thing to bay, but the fact is that the general public don't care a rush about Mr. Tilton's character. Mr. Beecber's champioca are evidently attempting to destroy it with the hope of proving the innocence or the ace tsed by means ot the general rascality of the accuser. The brutal examination of Tilton by Tracy belore the investigating cornmit tee as given elsewhere, is a specimen of this kind of business, and certainly the unfortunate author oi Tempest Tossed must Ira among the most meek and humble ot men.or eh he would not have endured such impertinence. This kind of attack on Tilton can not be needed to discredit his testimony because it is not his own testimony, which gives weight to his charges, but the co-operative evidences adduced. It would appear rather as if an enormous po ver were pursuing hini in this tierce style through a hundred d'fferent avenues to drive him to silence cr recantation. Tho wbolo terrors of the New York and Brooklyn press have baen turned on him -for the last few weeks, and taken in connec tion with the family and social influeuce brought to bear, it is a wonder that Le has not given away. Even yet he may bs l:l lied out of his position. Greater men have yielded to less pressure. If, in the end, Theodore Tiiton should prove to be a wrouged man, it will becomo metropolitan journals to repent in sackcloth and ashes for tho course they have taken. If Mr. 1 Bacher be guilty they most have known :tb fact for months, and have chosen the -.II of respectability, high standing and genius, againat a heart broken and oppressed in m. To cover up a areat scandal for motives aS-ctln? tha purity of public tnorabj might bo tbo part ct bigh-toued journals, but aftor the question became one involving the infamy of either of the two men nothing can excuse their course to Tiiton except a conviction of his worthlessneas on grounds that the out sitle public can know nothing of. They have pursued him with a virulence that

i very rarely exhibited by a virtuous public even to the undermost dog in the fight. He bas'had no fair play at their bands, and nnlfss they prove him an outlaw, there can bo no excuse for their persecution of him. TCoiuea and Minister. ' In all the comments of the press upon the Beecher-Tilton scandal, the Journal of this city stands alone In its endeavor to torn the odium arising out of the sin attributed to tbe pastor of Plymouth Church onto clergymen as a class. It is alone, too, in rebuking the woman of the country as partakers in the supposed weakness and criminality of Mr. Tiiton. The most reckless papers, such as the Chicago Times, while assuming the guilt of the accused parties, never allow the shadow of their sin to darken others. Tho lesson which tho Journal draws from

the conrao ot the scandal is certainly a re rnarkable specimen of low minded ennning applied to the consideration of noble things In plain words it maintains that American ministers are not, as a class, fit to be trusted with the privilege of paying what are called pastoral visits at the hoose3 of their parish ioners, and that American women are not, as a class, fit to be trusted with the oppor tunity of receiving them. "Whatever,' says the Journal, "may be the facts or the ultimate verdict of the public, concerning tho 'great scandal, which is now convulsing American society, the general Judgment will 'demand a modification of the social relations which fashion hai established between Tro 'testant clerymen and the female members 'of their congregatiens. The pastoral visits 'exacted from ministers of fashionable con'gregations In large cities are productive of 'incalculable harm, and the good they ac com pi is h is so little in comparison that no 'sound reason can be nrged in their favor. It goes oa to dsclare that ministers retain the passions of ordinary men, notwithstand ing their aacred calling, and that their op oportunitiea for sin are multiplied appar ently without any added grace to resist temptation. The result is seen in innumer able church scandals in all great cities. The clergyman should have, therefore, the Journal hold, precisely the same social privileges as any other reputable member of his congregation ; and if he desires to converse with any woman on religious subjects, be should procure the company of . some discreet third person to be present with him during the visit. In fine, concludes this pare and liberal censor: "If sociability 'must be cultivated, let the congregation 'have it social meeting, where all who choose can go; where the minister can meet 'all the members of the church; and if he 'andhiawifa choose to establish more intimate social relations with the parishoners, 'let them do as others do; but there is no v nse, there is no propriety in a custom which gives a clergyman a license to enter every household of his congregation with the opportunity oi establishing dangerous intimacies with its female inmates." Such a doctrine as this is a n insult to every minister in the community, and what is far more contemptable, an insult to every woman in the community. It pre-snpposes in the first place a sly and peculiar intercourse in the guise of pastoral calls, which in reality has no exist ence. Ministerial visits are rarely loss for mal or more intimate than those of ordinary acquaintances. Granting that.they are, and we are aaked to believe that the class of men, who are chosen out to bo In their lower function teachers of morals and in their tigher calling ministers of God, are not wor thy to tie trusted with free entrance into a household unless the head of the family is present to watch over the visitor's conduct. We are told that men who have been speciGcally educated to virtue, purity and rectitude, are not worthy of the confi dence that is accorded to ordinary friendship. It is gravely claimed that those who have, as it were, b eu consecrated to all good "works are ready on all favorable occasions to make use of their opportunities to commit the meanest sins. If this degraded estimate bo set upon the clerical character if ministers are rea'ly men unlit to be trusted into the homes of their parishioners then religion is a miserable farce, and its servants a set of hypocrites. The Sentinel Is not the champion of any class of men save these who happen to be unjustly attacked, but in this case it pro-1 tests against those insinuations as not merely an outrage on the clerical character but upon all honorable manhood. The course of the Journal might be attributed to thoughtless ness rather than malice had it cot given previous indications ot the same spirit of hostility to religion. But a paper which withiu the present month has spoken of the ordinary American discharging "his old minister and employing a new one with as little restraint as be wonld experience in renting a house or hiring a man of all work" which declared In regard to the purposes of those founding a church that no "greater care for tha public good la visible in their Impelling motive than .in the establishment of a pork bouse or a machine shop' which has averted that "Kingan's pork house and machine shops have kept down more outbreaking mischief and immorality than all the preachers bo tween Irvington and Mount Jackson." a paper which his adopted this style of discussion has not aimed its last shaft at random. The women of the community, howeyer, have a right to feel even stronger indignation than the ministers at the theories of the Journal. The intimation is clear that they can not be trnsted to guard their own honor. It is hinted that their safety lies not in there own virtue- and discretion but In keeping away ministerial visitors! They are told that they are not fit to recelvvisits ot clergy men unless ander the surveillance of their husbands or fathers, and. by much stronger inference,it runxt be considered that they are unfit to meet comiuou men uu watched They can not check presumption or resist desire and like the ladies of a Turkish seraglio their only security is a lock and key. It our Tomen were really as reckless,weak and unprincipled as this writer supposes what a useless task that which he has proposed would prove! All precautions would be vain to restrain her whom her now

sense of m propriety could not control. The Journare editorial will certainly berve to throw an air of suspicion and contralnt over the future social intercourse of tho ministen of this city and tie ladies of their congregations. It has tainted the whole airwlih suspicion. As a beliover In the vlrtne of woman and tho honor of mau, whether minister or not, the Sentinel trusts that the evil influence will soon clear away and leave that feeling of healthy and hodtst confidence that ought to prevail in all social re lat ions. Charles Stade In Lack. It is said to be an ill wind that blows no body good, and even such a great public calamity as the Beecber scandal la not without advantage to at least one man. The person to whom this illest of winds blows good la uo other than Charles Reade.the novelist. Of late years, Reade's reputation which had

risen to great popularity was failing rapidly. The variety and ingenuity of bis plots bad ceased to surprise tho public Ilia stalwart heroes versed in all manly exercises, skilled in all fair accomplishments and gifted with all honorable virtues had grown a little tiresome. Even his wonderful heroines fair combinations of saint and sinner, lithe in motion, incomprehensible in motive sunshine and shadow pearl and peacock's feathers wild cat and angel even those wonderful productions, foi the manufacture of which Reado alone possessed the receipt, failed to prove as interesting as of old. People finally grew to such a dUgusting point of indifference that they ceased to care whether the anthor of "Love mo Little, Love me Long," stole bis plots from the French or not. Mr. Keade, however, in his later novels, hit upon a means of securing public attention which has rarely failed of success. He introduced Into bis stories, either unconsciously or with malice prepense, a faint tinge ot gentlemacly immorality. By continually verging upon delicate ground he could Interest many readers, even those who were only curious to see how near such a skillful mani-uverer could co to the verge of indecency without trans(trcssing. It took the American people some time to find out that the celebrated Char.es Reade really was writing dangerous stories. The discovery was made when "Griffith Gaunt" was running as a serial in the Atlantic Monthly. All prudish New England hailed the opening chapters with delight. but began to draw down the corners of its solemn mouth as the tale progressed. It be gan to be whispered that all was not perfectly proper in the great novel, that Griffith, Kate, Father Leonard, and even Mercy Vint wre behaving themselves in a way not at all suited to a Masr cbusetts au dience. The Immaculate Atlantic Monthly had an elephant on its bauds before the serial was finished. On its publication in book form the critics attacked tho fctory with great venom from that high moral standpoint upon which the indignant cri'ic is so frequently compelled to place himself. "Griffith Gaunt" was denounced as danger ous in its tendencies. Charles Reado was altogether too good a literary jockey to lose this opportunity to keep bis book beiore the public. He shortly began a libel suit against some of his American censors which had the effect merely of creat ing a good sale for tho slandered novel. The case was carried on in a New York court and as the book had to be read publicly in order to present its merit and defaults to -he jury, the celebrated reader Vandenhoff was hired to give the perusal of the work due dramatic lorce. The scene in court during the artist's perusal of the story was one of those whimsical ones which would render any case memorable. And now, v. heu tho sale of "Griffith Gaunt" had ceased, and its lndelieacies had been . forgotten in the more glowing ones of "A Terrible Temptation" there comes up Mrs. Tilton's reference to the story ot Catherine Gaunt and her comparison of her own lot with that of Reade's heroine. Veriiy the Ingenious Charles is a fortunate man! Already extracts ot hi maligned work are appearing In all the papers of the country, which thus advertise "Griffith Gaunt." in a style resembling that affected by Bonner ten years ago. Interest is kindled in the half forgotten novel and a casual allusion to it by a romantic woman gives it a notoriety which no other book could pur chase for twenty thousand dollars. The story which the American people were too squeamish to read three or four years ago can now be introduced into all honseholds under the shadow oi this scandal which deals with fully as indelicate matters, and treats of them in a style compared to which Charles Reade's is cold and pure. Atter all perhaps this tolerance of the dangerous reality when the daagerous i fiction was ostracised is natural enough. The troubles of life we have to face, no matter what guise they coma in, but the works of the imagination we can vbut our doors on if they be unwelcome guests. "Griffith Gaunt" having now got back to good society, will doubtless prove harmless enough. It is a plain spoken, dramatic, highly sensational novel a mixture of clay and gold. Charles Merriam writes an elaborate argu ment to the Springfield Republicau in favor of the future life and Immortality of dumb animals. Perhaps bis strongest support Is the late Prof. Agassi., of whom it is asserted that he often expressed a belief in the im mortality of the lower orders of creation. As it is a field of pure speculation in which no conclusive evidence Is attainable, the opinions on that subject will always be largely dependent on the peculiar mental constitution of those who hold them. In many instances tbe assurance ef such a truth would be exceedingly congenial. To bslieve that the favorite dog or horse over whose death the family shod their tears in genuine sorrow and affection, will awake to another life and meet their friendly recognition again 5s a pleasing aud harmless indulgence whether true or not. It is hard to deny ourselves the natural consoltion that springs from a such conceit. The evidences that some of the dumb ani mals possess in less degree all tho the mental qualities and traits which be long to man, is a plausible argument that if

man is immortal, the intelligent animal also

shares the lofty estate. But it must be re membered that outside of the assertions of the Bible, all the doctrines of man's immortality are purely speculative. There is no positive proof. They who decline to accept tho Bible as a final authority, have no evidence of a future life. Their belief init,i they indulge any, is of that vague and unsupported character which Is ra'her a caprice than an opinion. The divine revelation asserts man's immortality, declares the resurrection from the dead, and tho release from its power. But this authority does nothing for the doctrine of Mr. Merriam. Iiis silent in regard to the existence of the lower orders of animals alter death. But If the reasonings from analo gies and probabilities and fitness are somewhat plausible when applied to some class of dumb an im alp, are they to reach all forms and grades of animal lif Is the ephemeral insect whose entire history of living existence is comprehended In a dsy to be re awakened to an immortal life? Are all the noxious reptiles and ser pents and disgusting things of earth to live forever, because they have been created and creation is eternal, as Mr. Merriam argues? Are the animate creations, which are made and used for tha food ot mm, t? b3 plain, is the pig to be made immortal and b? rooting around the golden sidewalks of the New Jerusalem? And if not, pray where is the line to be drawn between the creatures immortal and extinct? If tbo horses and dogs have a heaven for them, how about the everyday, but no less meritorious cow. If caU are to purr around the winged feet of angels, will the sheep browse ou the meadows by the river of life? None can know, and each may indulge the fancy that suits him best. There is surely no harm to come of thinking that the dead pet has gone to happier fields. It might make some who are now cruel more considerate of tho brutes if they could suppose them destined to a future life. There Is need enough of greater kindness to the subordinate kingdom. If investing the brutes with the dignity of another liio will make men treat thcra better, let tbe doctrine spread. Red Cloud would see m to be a more respectable candidate for the society of immortals than some biped brutes that roam the streets and whip their wives. L .. . I. . . I J- J .INDIANA POLITICS. THE PLATFORM OXCE MORE. TUE PLYMOrTU DEMOCRAT. The platform, . aside from being too lengthy, and demanding a repeal of tbe county school superintendeucv law, suits us. The resolution demanding .tho repeal of the Baxter law is just what the people expected, and the convention could not, in justice to the sentiments of the people who sent them, do anything less than demand the unconditional repeal of the Baxter law. COUNTY Sri'EniSTENCY. While the democratic press of tbe .State indorse the party platfqrua of tha onvention with general unanimity, some papers cricise lit financial utterances, but stjli tuoie of the leading aud progressive journals disapprove the the thrust at the school .system which seem to have been smuggled in by some one not well aware of the prevailing sentiment on that subject. Tbe following extracts Indicate the leeling of intelligent democratic papers in regard to tLe county superintendency of schools-: flic I.loUTE AP.rit'S. We are also opposed to the resolution which calls for the abolition of the othoe of county school superintendent. We believe the present plan is a good one, and all that is needed for it to be topular with tho people is time to develop its good qualities. Abide from theso two features we give tbe platform our hearty indorsement. Platforms are from necessity made In the spirit of compromlso and tor the purpose of harmonizing tho minor ditlerences of men who agreo on the majority of important questions. It can not "be expected that all DiOn can be suited on all points at issue, and perhaps it is better that they should not be. On the question ot the currency we know that a very large majority of the convention favored a hard money plank but for the iff od of the whole the point was compromised. THE TERU REPCP.UCAX (NOT DEMOCRAT). The democratic convention certainly blundered in declaring in favor ot abolishing tbe office of county superintendent of schools. All the educators of any prominence or ability iu the State worked for such a law, or at least advocated its passage. Foremost in the contest for it was the IIon.M. B, Hopkins, the present able and efficient State superintendent. Prof. J. II. Smart, ot Fort Vayne, the present democratic candidate, also favored the law. It has been in operation only one year, in all those counties whero the incumbent of the office has been capable the wisdom of the law has been proved and vindicated; to abolish the office and repeal the law now, would be a step backward toward barbarism. TUB JASPER COURIER. The resolution in regard to the abolition of the office of oounty superintendent we believe injudicious, as nothing better is presented in its stead, and we think a democratic Legislature will "epllt" upon that part of the platform. In this county the superintendents oilico has baen productive oi au advancement of the interests of education more than commensurate with his salary, to say nothing of the actual amount of money saved to the school fund by his sunervisonof justices and court dockets. If in some counties they have had an incompetent person for superintendent, they had bettor try a competent oincer betöre ask ing for a repeal of the law. This resolution was put in by representatives from some of the uortbern radical counties, where it was almost impossible to secure an officer whose chief aim was not to make the most money out of the ofik-e, regardless of tho interests of education. THE nation's onxiox. The New York Nation gives the following keen summary In regard to tbe platform: Tho Indiana democrats appear on the surface to have givoa displeasure to many outsido democrats and to have correspondingly pleased the infidel and the alien. They avowed, for instance, that they thought paying tbe bonds in greenbacks to be no more than what Justice requires, and thus revived the Pendietonism of six years ago a proceeding which nobody at the East approves, no matter ot what party. But with that squint to leeward which all Western conventions now eivo when these financial breakers come in sight, the convention in the same breath resolved that it was in favor of a

return to specie payments as soon as possible; though, still, it thought that meantime there should be a judicious, not too bast V. rpcrnlatinn nf t La .......

and that the demands of yL bonld alwava he wfun- ti,. , .vr-n, ub uiauuvi HI all this portion of the platform, as well as the manner and substance of all tbe rest of it. seems to show that ith tv. aud the displeasure of which we have antlrAn a. . . , j , " prooaoiy neen indulged withont TlfWeifir T n -J i .. t . i. home oi Senator Morton, who has certain it j " i preswenej', ana also f Gov. Llenancks, whom the democrats may probably push foiward as a candidate Icr that DO&ltlon. Oftn ha. u.. K . of con tests of these two capable leaders. Only " " "H" aosione was leit unturned bv eliher party, the one seeking to return Morton to the Senate, the oilier to securo the governorship as a pon sto for Mr. Uen?SCM;rtitr.m.aDJ b?!aia tbat bol& succeeded Ski. 22 Kahis legislature, and HenoriCÄS in governeretip. It- therefore appeus this year, as we understand matters, that national questions are dealt with by the democrats much as the republicans dealt with them the ot;er day that is, everything said in platform and speech is said with a view to this an -tumn s campaign (when only minor officers are to bo eiectt-d), and, ot course, with a view also to Morton's prestige and to Ilenonck'a in 170. It is mainly a State affair; andwesuspeci. much of tho current comment is wasted on a platiorm tfieiuexpe dient features of which may well be withdrawn by the year after next, If such bo the Will Of thfl tl At 1(1111 vr.iTiinfin swl . K; end Gov. Hendricks' careful speech seems to r"u""u numcientaisiincine&s. We may add that, considering the Morton convention's financial utterances, the republican press has some impudence to lling mud at those ollJov. Hendricks' convention. BEECIIEIt TILTON JUDGMENTS. The Chicago Inter-Ocean attempts tobe calmly impartial: The testimony is not all over yet. At present the evidence Is fright fully mixed and conflicting. Candor compels a suspension of judgement, and patient waiting until other witnesses have told what they know, and all tbe testimony dnly 6if ted and weighed. And even then there may be remain no little difDcultv in arriv Ing Rt a cleajr decision. The harm to the public sense of morality, which can not but result from filling every mind with thines so ioui anu ne, is parity cuet Dy tbe expressed abhorrence of vice, and the impression made of the infinitely lamentable rodKequonees of it. At all events, it is the scandal of this generation. The New York Tribune is hopeful for tue best: The explicit and manly defense of Mrs. Tiiton which Mr. Beech er addresses to the public will be receive! with unalloyed delight. Tbe denial of Mr. Tilton's allegations isj unequivocal, direct and absolute; and both Mr. and Mrs. Beecber appear as the defenders of the assailed wife. The explanation of Mr. Ueecber's own letters which alone have harmed him is hinted st rather than detailed; and it would be a serious mistake for the committee to act on the theory which Mr. Ueecher soems to have adopted, that tbe full explanations need not reach tbe public t the earliest moment. Meantime decent people will rejoice at the great encouragement given by Mr. Beecber's preliminary statement. The New York Herald epeaks seriously of it: The anxiety in reference to thisaiTair has been so long continued, the interests involved are so delicate and widespread, and the wholo story itself is so much a comment upon our domestic and religious life, that we can not exaggerate the impression it has made. We can recall no one even since the murder of Lincoln that has so moved the people as this question whether Uenry W ard Beecher is the basest ot men. ir the storv of Mr. Tilton is true, then neither history nor fiction shows a character so dark. It is certainly a noble trait in our people that they have resolved to stand by Mr. Dee eher with the largest and noblest charity and confidence. to teiieve that he has done no wrong until the evidence comes in such a shape as to leave no room for doubt. The Brooklyn Eagle pats itself on cord thus: We believe Mr. Beecher is disposed to confess & much to the church and to the world as be did to the man who has made so base a use of his sclf-inciApatory admissions. When it is said that Mr. Beecher saw a filial and strong religious affection, bordering on and probably entering in upon the domaiu where a husband' infiuence should be supreme, and failed to recognize at once the danger to which he . was exposing others, if Dot himself, the extent of the oifense which has been magnified into so great a scandal is, we believe, summed up. The Eagle reiterates its conclusions that Mr. Beecher, as a man, will fully vindicate himself, and that as a clergyman, he will stand In the futnre higher than ever before in the confidence of enristian men and women, unless the name christian has a different meaning now from that which the Master intended it should bear. The New York Tribune is calm and considerate: The commanding personality oi Mr. Beecher so dwarfs every other figure in this melancholy drama, that it is hardly worth while to waste timo in dwelling upon the peculiarities of Mr. Tilton's extraordinary statement. The feverish and unwholesomo atmosphere of emotion in which tbe lesser personages live and move, renders their written and their . oral assertions equally doubtiul and untrustworthy. Upon any theory of the matter it is inexpressibly mournful to see amid what a poisonous cloud of mean passion?, temptations, jealonsles, and even devotions as injurious as hatreds, this great orator and teacher habitually walked. In a few days we shall learn what answer he has to make to theso grave accusations. If he can disprove them, his position will bo stronger than ever for this trial and triumph. If he fails, it is not too much to say that all Christendom will deplore a losshardly to be measured by words, and in our own country his lapse will be regarded as a well-nigh irreparable disaster. It be should come alive out of this ordeal, he will be prized more than ever. If not, the pistol shot of Booth caused a national sorrow no deeper and not so hopeless. The Chicago Tribune is critical and logical as follows: It is so hard to comprehend that any man, much less a man holding Tilton's high place before his fellowcountrymen, should deliberately shatter his own borne, malign bis own wife, blast his own future, and disgrace his own children without cause, that, with all due respect to a woman battling in her own defense, Mrs. Tilton's statement must be regarded as tho most inconsistent ol all the inconsistent utterances accredited to bei. To admit that Tiiton did all this, as bis wife now charges, with the desire to ruin Mr. Beecher, and from jealousy cf Mr. Beecber's greater success in life, is to call Tiltou a devil incarnate, tu whom nothing on the earth below or in the heavens above ever was or ever can be sacred. Iiis character would be a thousand times worse than the character of tbe hideous libertine Lovelace which Richardson drew. There is as yet no place for such a character. If Tiiton has been misled, then tbe documents which he has quoted have certainly furnished efficiont cause for his error; and they mudt be explained to the full satisfaction of impartial spectators before he can reasonably be expected to hold them barm

it v 111118 fAr' nfth- tbe statement of Mr. Beecher, nor that cf Mrs. Tiiton furnishes such an explanation. Mrs. Tilton's strong- , a i9 bfr wenew, and hr w aknM 2 ,tn rarest plea that ould be put iorth for Mr. Beecher.

DEATH OF A FLYINO fV TUE ''FLVhlQ MAX" AND IIIS S.ACHKB-A MMlLASD AX rXsreCKSSFUL JTJGHT LAST FATAL EXPERIMENT. The London Daily Telega nh of ihn mtu inst. contains the account of the last ascen sion or the M. de Groof : It was announced yesterday that at 7:30 p. m. m. de Groof. the r lying Man," would repeat at the Cromome Gardens "his astounding performance of flying through the air a distauce of five thousand feet." Trne to th?s announcement, the '-Flying Mao" did endeavor to repeat the exploit which he had accomplished in safety ten days before, and perched in tbe attempt. M. de Groof was ft Belgian, who had expended years in constructing for himselfau apparatns with which he believed it possible to imitate the flight or a b.rd. The general outline ol this apparatus was Jn Imitation cf a ba-.'s wir, tbe frame-work being made of caiic. and the intervening membrane of stoat waterproof silk. The wings were in all thirty-seven feet lone, with an average breadth ot four feet, while the tail was eighteen feet by three. These wings were inserted Into two hinged .rames that were attached to ft wooden stand upon which the aeronaut took his place. Here he had three leavers, which he worked by hand to give bis machine propulsion or guidance as might t required, bis theory being that having started from a given bight he could manage his descent ko as to reach the earth by ft sort of Inclined swooping motion, without risk of concussion. About a vear ago M. de Groof made an attempt, cf which our correspondent at the time telegraphed the particulars, to descend from ft great hight on the Grande Place at Brüssel The effort was a failure, but l'Homme Volant, as he was then called, escaped unhurt, though his network was afterward torn in pieces by the crowd. On Mondav, the 29th ult., however, M. de Groo! repeated bis experiment at Cremorne Gardens with succors. Mr. Baum, tbe proprietor of tho gardens, had, it seems, after making an engagement with him, felt some uneasiness as to tbe result, and at first reused to allow the trial to be made. Tbe "FJying Man" protested the absolute feasibility of his scheme, and insisted on the contract being carried out; and this was done. The wings and stand were attached to a balloon guided by Mr. Simmons, who, after drifting over London toward Brandon, In F.ssex, released hii companion at a considerable height three or four hundred feet, it is said and THE KLTIXO APPARATUS was immediately set in motion. "For s time," It is stated, "it was a race between tha tcronaut and the flyer, De Groof winning by two fields' lengths, and attaining ground in perfect safety." How the accident occurred last night can not be clearly ascertained. The at paratu3, previous to tbe ascent, seemed In satisfactory order, and De Groof though according to custom be took an affectionate farewell of his wife appeared fully confident of making a succossml ascent. About 7:45 o'clock the balloon was cut loose and rose slowly in tbe air, bearing with it the flying man and his gear. There was hardly a breath of air, a circums&nco which might have been supposed to ba favorable to the performance of an aeronautical feat of the kind. Be this as it may, however, when the balloon had attained a height ot three or four hundred feet tbe unfortunate performer seemed either to mistrust his own powers or the capability ol his apparatus, for ne was heard by th spectators below shoutiug to the man in the balloon to bring him nearer the earth. This request was complied with, and the balloon descended slowly toward Itobert fctreet, which lies a quarter of a mile or so to the north ol Cremorne Gardens. Ou approaching St. Luke's Church, Mr. Himmons, tbe balloonist, was heard to nay: "You must cut loose now or you'll comb on tbe church roof." The aaswer was: "Yes, let me drop into the churchyard," and Miese were, no doubt, the la&t words Da Grooff uttered. He cut the rope when about eighty feet from the ground, but, to the horror ot the spectators, who must have numbered many thousand.-!, the apparatus, instead ofinllating with the pressure of the air, collapsed, and, turniLg round and round in its decent, fell with great violence in itobert street, a yard or two from the curbstone. Assistance to the unfortunate man was instantly forthcoming. Although Mill breathing, he was inseusiule; but the dispatch with which he was extricated from the wreck of his apparatus and conveyed to Chelsea Infirmary proved in vain. He never recovered consciousness, and on his arrival at the hospital the surgeon pro nounced mm dead. Madame lh) Groof, who witnessed her husband's lall, fainted at the eight, and a still more painful scene took place a snort time later at tbe hospital, when she learned the wholo bad truth. Tho apparatus was carried off in shreds by the crowd before the police could secure it. MURDER IN NEWTON COUNTY. WEDDING, DANCE, ROW AND k'lLUNQ KOB A CLIMAX. The Kentland Gazette gives the follow ing, which seems to have attracted litt! attention, probably because the parties were iu low life and a hard crowd: On the 17th inst., Isaac Worden, living in the northwest part of this county, was murdered by Luden Jones. Jones was arrested and brought to this place, when we called upon him and received the following statement. Isaac worden, for some cause, cave one Peter Johnson a span of horses, wagon, harness and $300 to marry a woman. The marriage took place on the 16th inst., and in the evening a dance took place at John Coskey P. While the dance was going on Wordell and Charles Bard well came and commenced to break windows, doors, etc.. with clabs. one ot which struck a woman and lojured her. Thev also fired shots into tbe house and made it so hot that the dancing party remainea m me uoose uu nearly aay-iignt. At this time the bombardment bad ceased goods had been stolen and some of tbe narty went to the neighbors and procured. guns, and went in search of tbe stoleo goods. About daylight they came across w o retell and Bard well on tbe highway, seated by and on the keg of beer, and told them that he had come to arrest them and take stolen goods tbere found. Wordelland Bardwell posted, aaying that they would kill the one that attempted their arrext. Wordell and Bardwell assaulted one Snyder and were fast using him up, when eome one felled Barkwell to tbe ground by a stroke on the bead with a gun. At this juncture Wordell mounted his horso aud circling tbe crowd commenced pelting them with a large endgel, when L. Jones came up and enatchin a gun irom one oi tne party, fi.ed at him, lodging a charge - of goose shot in the' small of Wordell's back, from the eflVcts of which the died in about two hour?. Jones then gave himself up. In the absence of the coroner Require Silas Sink summoned a jury and aeld the Inquest the jury finding from tbe evidence that Isaac Wordell came to his death from a gun-shot at the hands of Lucien Jones. Esquire Sink then issued his warrant for Jones' arrest, and after preliminary trial fonnd him guilty of manslaughter, and fixed bis bail at $1,1)00. Jones failing to give bail was brought to Kentland by Constable Guilford, and on Mondav last lA.Snvderand John Koska appeared and went his Dan, wnen jonea was released.