Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1874 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY AUGUST lb 1874.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18.

"Every year the question comes up: What languasols destined to become the universal speech of the world? John Swinton has eet ibrth the claims ot English lor supremacy in a paper read at the late meeting ot the .American philologist at Hartford. The Eist oJ his argument Is that our language was spoken by scarcely ten millions of people a reutnry ao, and now Is the mcther -tongue of a hundred millions of peoplo, scattered to tb four quarters of the globe. Ot course, considered in a scientific point or view English has no claim to be the universal speech, . Its prevalence depends upon the energy of the men wko speak it, and the magnificence ot the civilization which it represents. It Is a "mongrel of a hundred "breeds a conglomerate of many languages, formed without system, aod possessing In itself no source of ever fresh and -flowing expression lite the Greek or German. "Take a word into your mouth, chew it and spit It out," said Heine, "and that Is English." It is a curious fact that this powerful tongue has apparently neither harmony, grace or native -strength, and yet "its adaptability is 6uch that modern thooght and discovery can not outgrow it, and ft has served the purposes of the richest literature in th world, l-.vcn the works of Grecian and Italian genius could be better spared by humanity than those which have been embodied in our -tranze too'n. After" all the language of the men who have invented the team -engine, fceBteamshlp, the railway and the telegraph tho language of Shakespeare, TJnrke arrd Washington has a right to sovereignty beyond that bestowed by in tricate declensions or any capacity ior word building, depending on the transposition of separable particles. That the certainty rather than the severity ot punishment gives it eflect in the preven tion of crime is a well established tact. No matter how terrible a nominal penalty may be, if the chances are largely in la vor of Im punity, it will fall to deter the bold criminal from his deeds. Recent investigations and collations of facta show, that in the punish ment ot the highest -crimes, this fundamen tal law violated, and the consequence is seen in the alarming increase or murder. In their last annual report, the State Prison Association of New York, deduce that the average duration of life sentences in "New York is onlv seven and one-half years. This applies to those who obtain re-1 lease by escapes and deaths of the life convicis. Of the pardoned prisoners who were convicted for life, the awrage teroi of service has been only six and one-half years. This makes the penalty lor murder p radically much lighter, even in the case of those convicted, than it is for the lesser misdemeanors of theft, arson, bur jjlary, forgery and similar crimes, oner sentenced for ten or twenty A prisvears, is more likely to serve out his term than he who is sentenced for the term of life. This theory has been suggested before, but the facta are established by the researches of the Association and are therefore placed beyond the region of loose conjecture. Now, it is to be presumed that, as a rule, the desperate criminals are better advised on these practical matters of so much interest to them, than the general public. This aspect of impunity for murder is in their view the least important one, appalling as it is to unprotected society. The strong ground of uncertainty is in the court room where conviction is next to impossible for a really great crime. Murder in the first degree is practically abolished under the interpretation of the New York law. The most that can be expected in any easels a-conviction of murder in the I second degree. But, by the plea of insanity, I -or the corruption of juries, tke murderer I knows welt that h'ta chances are good to es-1 -cape any punishment at all. Kat,H punished, I atatistlcs prove that the worst feenteire is I Ihe bent, in view of the certainty I of an early reprieve. Herein lies the inefli -dency of the law to restrain 4 he crime of murder. The man-killer has little fear of what Is to follow. .The trouble and cost of a trial is a cheap eperse for gratifying his deadly paswion. Oat of this known uncertainty grows the dangerous -and reprehensible acts of lynch law, which must and always will step in when the constituted authority utterly fails. It can not be denied that there is a degree ot -defiant crime that justifies summary justice At the kands ot an outraged publie. The trouble is to re train popular impetuosity until that point is reached. The wild mb fails to recogalze reason and to be governed by judgment. The remedy J to execute promptly and certainly well -considered jawa. Justice in human government baa no right to hold .osnsultatkjna -with mercy. &epher vena judge M Uhu The Troy Times lias geeerally heen con-1 4sidered ose of the fairest, and raost inde-l pendent of tie admkiistratio papers in the) fKate of New York; but sin the appoint-1 znent of its editor, the Elon. John M. I'ran-1 is, as minister tp Greeee, the paper seems I to have becomeeven more subservient than J iU fellow. Tke companionship of Mr. I Francis with , the president and his friends I has grown a? clo, that hit paper venture I to defend tae purity of Boss Shepherd. I and attack in the meanest manner the able and bonast 11193 wüu oonductrd the investigation into the District ot Cjlutnria frauds. S Ion r as fce Tlmos connnrd t'seif merely to ine vindication of it friends, m ich mbt ba excused u ac- I connt of its generous zaal an 1 mistaken loya!ty, but wbe 1, to save telr soiled reprvta-1

ylloo, it assaus suca ineu as Judge il-ou' I

of jtbM sti coaluc: doeres the bever- is

es rfp trn. E?en past goo i characterol

an iut . t;e sliiel J of such rascality. The Whiug'ion corresponded of the Tim-, in hi nxiety Ut explain away the clnro aja ns; bsoberd a id hi3 adbordi-ruie-.e iten iutj'ecrec history of the iu-

vestigation. lie assert j that the democratic members of thecomorjttee entered npen the examination of tb affairs of the District mainly for the pu rpose of -making political capital out of thfj olScial frauds which they

might discover. With the design of more thoroughly securing this end, Je wet t, of Ohio, maneouvered to delay a report until euch time as al remcdial'lcgislatlon would be impossible so that the administration party might b-ave to go into the campaign with the burden, of an anretormed evil on its shoulders. Sach a motive In a matter dealing with private reputation and affecting public property was mean enough, but that at tnbuted to Mr, Wilson is still more despi cable. A sinclc quotation will tell the story: "Wilson, of Indiana, who was ap pointed on the committee as a 4 Republican he being the mover of the resolution in the House sudported Jewett in his attitude, though not ' from t,he same motives. His trouble was that of personal spleen aud bitter prejudice, which developed early in the investigation, and grew so rapidly and shamelessly hat it became the scandal ot the caie. But this virtually enabled Jewett to control the action of the committee, and it was not until nearly a week had passed in acrimonious discassion that in a sixteen hours' continuous session at Senator Allison's headquarters, at Wormley'a Hotel, Senator Thunnan finally yielded the point of a recognition of "the indebtedness, and agreed that there should le reported a scheme fjr funding the same. The same causes operated on every important phase of the case Jewett trom political and Wilson from personal motl vej,refusing their consent to anything in bill or report that did not indict." It is a favorite cryjwith these gentlemen who have been put upon their defense during the past two years that their opponents attack the most worthy men with reckless audacity and ruin their characters by means of a thousand imputations, and without a single proof. Here is certainly a fine specimen of the same style of warfare. Tbereport which the Times attacks ban been praised throughout the country for its Impartiality, and the extreme good temper shown in it. It was merely an array of facts which cannot be disputed. It dealt in no vituperation. It made charges against no particular persons. The exposure was complete and no impartial man can avoid, on reading It, the conviction that the management of District affairs was one continued piece of villainy. This attempt of the knaves who have been impli-1 eated to explain away the scathing array of facta in the report bv malicninz the I motives of one of the members of the committee, who was too honorable to I allow party affiliations to lead him into comI plicity with rogues, is perhaps the most im I pudent action that has taken place in this I ace of brass. When a man discovers that more than 1S,000,000 have been fraudulently squandered, it is no ue to say that he was actuated by "personal Fpleen and bitter prejudice in his investigation." No matter what motives were at the bottom of his conduct, the re-U question becomes; What was done with the money J and who stole it? Heretofore it has been! Kaid that, for his upright and noble course of! conduct in public, Judge Wilson was cn-1 during a sort of social and politic il ostracism I at Washington, and that his position was I made so unpleasant to him that he has de-1 tcrmined to leave tho public service. The attack in the Times indicates thtt the hatred which tie provoked among the rssJcally retainers of the admiuistatien was not overrated. H-o must condole himself for their enmity however, with the admiration and esteem of all men who like a brave and hosest ourse of onduct. What a comnaentarv it is upon the republican pretenses in regard to reSormthat the man who tok a leading bare in the investigation of the great evils of the day the Credit Mobilier irauds, the Louisiana usurpation and the lUstrict f Columbia ring robberies should be driven from publie life by his party associates. They can not forgive the band that applied, the lash even thougk they cringed before public opinion and meekly took the whip-i ping. Sir. Seener Btaleaaeat. The psblic is now in possession cf Mr. Beecher's defense. Its effect may be suenmed ; np ah follows: Tlioe who have never lost faith in the great preacher consider the document a triumphant vindication, and cot a few vrbo have wavered in their opinions are now confident of Mr. Beecher's innocence nuiBywjpruuuui, .rr, P"11 ri i it f I succees. The fcentlnel can not come to tue conviction that the defense is perfectly ßatis facto rv. It must be remembered, i a' considering tbe argument whereby the pastur of Plymouth Church endeavors to restore his fair fame, that theaccusation made agaiiLst him is one which takes easy lodztaent in tbe minds of tuen, and which It is almost Impossible to remove. Tbe impression is uade in water and held in wax. The evidence on which the opinions ot tbe people had been formed were the testimony of Theodore Tilton, the innendoew of Frank Moulton, tbe inoonsitencieaof Tilton'a wife, the letters of Mr. Beecher, and the coarse of conduct which he has pursued since the scandal llrst wa bioached. A far a Mr. Tilton' accusation was con corned it would have been worthies against Mr. Jleocbers plain denial. To render Til ton' word of less account, aod so belittle his character as to make it credible that be would resort to tho meanest and mostdisreputable lying, bullying and blackmailing. an elaborate attack on his whole career is mado. The onslaught is a bitter and powerfill one, but und r the analysis of a s cool judgment pessessfs one fault. It is too litrce to ba effective. For ln stance, tho effort made by Tilton to induce Bowen to pay him the V7,G00 fairly du3 for breach of contract, I 1 .1 spoken of throughout as If It were a piece rascality, whereas it was a mere matter of I tho justice. However, it may be admitted that of it only this single point be involved, Mr. Beclier has succeeded in ruining Tilton's J cbar tcr effectually, and presenting him to tbe publio a pitiable rascal. It is a little I

wonderful that he and others should have so long considered as an angel the man whom they now paint as a sneaking villain. It is also necessary to Mr. Beecher's vindication -that the character ot Frank Moulton should be destroyed and assuming, as in the case of Tilton,

tf . . . A. 1 . t aiouuon a own conuuet ana aeciarauons to be the only evidences in the case, Mr. Beecher's statement might be said to efioctually dispose of the honor, integrity and dis - interested ness ot the gentleman known as the "mutual friend." There is this weak - neas, however, in the attack on Moulton No sufficient motive is alleged for the perfidy laid to Lis charge, and if ho be pronounced guilty he must be set down as an example of the truth of the doctrine oi total depravity. In his treatment of Mrs. Tilton, Mr. Eeecher is very considerate and at the same time very skillful. He Has succeeded without aiming any direct blow at her self esteem to confirm the character of her, which her husband's estimates, her own letters and her printed testimony had already suggested to the public. She is painted as a weak woman, in feeble health, who could be driven into making any sort of acknowl edgments; and such a character is necessary to explain the course of the scandil on the theory of, Mr. Beecher's innocence. It was not essential to destroy her trustworthiness so far as any statements she has made may bo concerned.. Her own con duct has done this effectually. The contradictions between her sworn testimony and her leiters, and the facility with which she was accustomed to make confessions and retractions, have broken down faith in her veracity, and another statement from her, on cither side, would have no more effect than the rustling of leaves In the wind. The great task which Mr. Beecher had to perlorm In drawing up his defense was not to overthrow the accusations of bis enemies. but to explain bis own words and conduct. It may be safely said that no man ever pronounced him guilty who did not do so on the strength of his own letters, or because it seemed impossible to explain his course of action on any theory consistent with his soundness of mind and his Innocence. The defense appears to a cool critic a fail a re on these vital points. It is abfe and consistent, and from the very beginning or It every word U written with a consciousnesi of the trouble to be overcome, and a definite idea o f the ily plan by which it Is possible to overcome it. Through the whole work "one J increasing purpose runs." It is essential I to establish In the minds of men a new and peculiar conception of Mr. Beecher's own mental and physical character, lie is rep resented not as the hale, hearty man he is commonly supposed to be, strong in health and eunny in disposition, but as a sort of hypochondriac haunted with adreadof parolysis, given to gloomy anticipations and sighlog for the relief of death on every trivial occasion like a moonstruck boy. He who is accustomed to have his words caught from I his lips by short-hand reportersand scattered through the count ry, and who has won a reputation rarely surpassed for clear and elegant diction, is, we are to. believe, prone to wild and senseless talk, using extravagant expressions, gushing with contrition about a mero nothing. and tearing a passion to tatters at all times. It is related of Mrs. Sidcicrns that she was accustomed to ask the waiter to pass the bread in such a tragic tone that he commonly dropped the plate iu a fright, and we are to remodel all our previous conceptions, and kftld that tae wise, witty, common sense lienry V ard Beecner is perpetually guilty of the same extravagances. From other Ep3 than Lis such a slander would not be received with patience. All xien knew, of course, that 'he was intensely sympathetic and emotional, but few would have dretmed that he was sentimental to the verge oi weakness a he himself declares. Representing himself as careless in business matters, wild in tcdihod of speech, emothnal to the very -edge of folly, sad, in fact, almost putting in the plea of irresponsibility 1or bis actions andutterterancee, Mr. Beecher tates up the letters that htve been publfcked, and Kpalns them, tor the iiresent the reader inst etndy the commentary in connection with Ihe text, and decide as suits his own .pxdgnent. The SenUael regretfully puts fejrtb the opirion that the force of the letters is not jet destroyed. Neither can Mr. Beecbecfs story of his coarse in connection witn the various parties to trv scandai. be Drasouncei-ns entire! v vitdi cated. It ifl not a tuflicieat explanation to say that a mere mioconceion in regard to the Ied to the gltence aRer tbe WoodbcU publication, ihe payment of blackmail, tie drawing up of the tripartite agreement, the ceatinual by-play with Moulton, the avoidance of staking a direct issue in tureing Tilton out of Plymoutb tkat in which. rrlvoa'a xpulChurch. Suck a ace&e as when the question or Triton's exp sion came up previous to the calling of the couecil, the aoeused man arose and asked Mr. Beecher If he had everelanderei him and received for an answer a guis denial, is not very easy to reoincile with the ehat acter of this defense. Nor is the readines aud even airoitns displayed iu the cross-exaoiinatioa at all consistent with tb imbecility which Mr. Beecher wishes the world to consider as his chief ckaractertetic. . , On tie whole the strongest thing that Mr. Beecher has yet said or done in his own dofen.-, a is the simple declaration, Ail am not guilty." Gen. Cutter' report lrom the Black Hills expedition udnor date of Harney's Peak, Aug. 2, has been published, and, at was to be expected, Is an interesting pioc9 of liter ary work. The general's experience and I kill as a writer enables him to throw a ro-1 mantle interest about the expedition, by I moans of vivid descriptions of the beautiful

country through which it is passing. Thereleason

were no exciting incidents to add a charm to l .......... story. Tbe unexplored portion j tbe Black Hills' country is j described as a serifs cf beautiful parks and I valb-y, through which flows a clear, cold I ftreaui of water. Th place is compared to the celebrated bluo gras region of Kec-jat

tacky, for Its fertilityx and the open andtim

bered spaces aro so 'divided that it would ap pear as if nature had made ready the coun try forthe husbandman. Fromthegeneral's glowing account of fertile soil, magnificent scenery, and superabundance of wild fruits, the ordinary reader will turn with interes 4 A. a . . -m- a i to mis simple declaration: "i nave upon I my 1 table forty or fifty small particles I of pure gold of the size of a small pin head, 1 and most of it obtained to-day from one panfull of earth." Nor will the following kinldred statement be "lsa eazerlv ieruscd. "Veins of lead and btrong indications of the existence of silver have beea found. Until farther examination is made regarding the richness of the gold, no opinion should be formed. Veins of what geologists term gold bearing quartz'crop out in almost every hillside." Even from the newspaper advices already received and from the preliminary report of the commander of the expedition, it is plain what the result ot this exploration must be. The country will be found altogether too good for an Indian reservation, and ones more the poor natives will be ordered away from their pleasant homc3 to some western region that they have never seen, and in which they will have to dread not merely the hostility of the white man but oi other Indian tribes. Thus the faith of the government is broken year I after year with the aborigeneos and they aro I driven into resistance, and finally to exterinitiation. Whv do we deal so differently nivu tut iiiuisn ana me negro r - Death or Superintendent Hopkins. Like a stroke of ljghtning the telegraph let fall upon tbe press the announcement that State Superintendent Milton B. Hopkins died at his residence in Kokomo last night, at eleven o'cloek. Tbe dispatch gave no particulars as to the cause ot bis death, nor was it known to tbe Sentinel that he had been indisposed. Not many days have passed since he was in his office in this city, having returned from a long and laborious trip through the southern part of tho State, where be bad been on official business, earnestly engaged in bringing to a close his term of service as superintendent of public instruction, and preparing to make his final report. As If by a presentiment that his labors for the State in the cause ol education were finished, Mr. Hopkins had steadily and firmly declined to accept a renomination for office, although often and almost continually solicited to do so. He had fixed bis- mind upoa a season of rest. At first he cherished a plan for a year of travel on the Pacific coast which was afterwards mod ified by the solicitations of an old friend to tho idea of an extended visit to Scotland. But bis rest has come and he has departed to the unknown shore. Few men, if any, were so well known in the SUte of Indiana as Milton B. Hopkins. Long tini9 an ablo preacher of the Christian church,he has been known in the pulpit of every considerable town ami neighborhood. His sermons commanded rofound attention for their breadth of thought, pathos and power. Great crowds gathered wheit he was expected to preach, and within twelve months past correspond ence of the Sentinel and local State papers have often borne testimony to the grandeur and . eloquence of his sermons. But bis "history in educational mattera stands forth more conspicuously. In Kokouro, where be has lived witli lis family ior many years, ne esiamifmea ima car ried on the Normtl College for a long time.' The Influence of this school in the new county of Howard and that part of the State was so prominent as to ffive Lim a leading reputation as an ed-ncrior. To him and "his ' labors the "Northwestern UhnsTian university 01 trns city owes much of its strength and influ ence to-day. On the 11th -oT October, 1870, hetw&a elected w his first term as state superintendent, since wbidi time the undivided enerrr-es of Iiis life have been devoted, to the successful promotinn of free education in fhe State. He brought to the discharge of bis duties 1 clear comprehension of what the State reQcired, and worked wvth singleness ef purpose aud unstinted zeal to carry out his k?ea of eystem, efficiency and ecorotcy in tho important trutft. His first term was devoted more especially to getting in hand, simplifying and rendering eeture a farad exceel-ing-H,00O,O(M,"the largest school rand of acy Stile in tee Union. It was in a complicated, broken, and, to -86016 extent an reproductive condition. "lie soa&bt out all 'the loose ends and collected the fragments-and then by his ixrlueneo la the legislature, eecured such banges im tho fending as made it clear, -manageable andaubservient to its purpose. Meantime he wcrked incessantly among -tke schools,; lecturrn the people, teaching tLe teaoherg, explaoinK laW "d .rinPnK order out ot compatKive cnaos in the iext bocSkS, the grades and the methods. But the crowcing wrk of his official fife was achieved 3 a his second term with the last Legislature. Mi. Hopkius knew the whole situation, He ha studied It for two years. He understood where the defects -of the law vrere, tbe fatal in&rmities of the township law as it stood, afid the difflcaltie of a broken and disjoinled oünty system. He prepared such Amendments as in his judgment the case required, and then went to the almost hopeless task of winning to it the endorsement of a legislature who could not see what he saw. How be stood in those ' halls with trombliag and fear, how be argued, persuaded, and besought; how he snatched victory often out of defeat, how his IdW friends stood by him, bow he went in agony to urge the Governor's signature, all that of anxiety amounting to distress but few . know, they only who watched b im, or heard the ttory from his own lips when bis countenance beamed with tne joy 01 success, not ior nimseir, dui for the cause of his care, for the state. He I has gone gone, with the weapons dropped bis feet witü which he was renewing tbe

struggle to keep Intact the work of his love and pride. Mr. Hopkins was no self-seeker. He was modest, but firm and faithful. Let Indiana weep. Let her officers of State bear to the grave one who stood worthily by the fide of the noblest of them. Let them lay gently the turf upon the bosom of a true man and a good and faithful servant, who has gone ta his reward crowned with honor and tbe gratitude of the good who Know his life and his work. Tbe Fort Wayne Sentinel in an article on the congressional nominations speaks with especial praise of the democratic nominee in the Third District-tbo Hon. M. C. Kerr. The strong points of that gentleman's character are thus strongly put: In the Third District tho Hon. M. C. Kerr has been again railed out by his neighbors. Mr Kerr has already achieved a national reputation, lie Is one or the ablest of Indiana state smen Among the mighty men of th national assembly Mr. Kerr la found wielding an Influence second to none, m the dark days of the Credit Mobilier and Salary Grab, Mr. Kerr's honesty was unchallenged. None thougbt of charging him with dishonesty. Throughout all.be stood up manfully for the rinnt. nd for tbe interests of tbe people of the whole couutry. Mr. Kerr is a man of exceptional ability. He Is particularly lnci1 In his analysis of a unbject. however difflcult and compücat-d. Ills notions of flnauce are exce-dinly sound. A (together Mr. Kerr ha ability of a very high order. He is mtrictly and

conscientiously honest, ills life, both public and private, is unblemished bv nsincria iiain In the general corruption of public men he U of iiiaisuian minority wmcii has remained unconuiimnau:u. INDIANA KQUINE3 ABKOa!). THEIR nOIXOS AT ILLINOIS RACES THE 4UKUK 1MJ1ASA TROrTEIt A BAD Tnnow. The following account of tho doings of several Indiana horses at the Watseka, 111., races, Fridiy last, wiU interest many here, who are acquainted with the animals, their records, capabilities, etc,: Two races were on tbe programme a pacing race and a 2:30 trotting race. The first was a regular sham; thr?e horses ent are J, but only two started Iloosler Dick, of Logansport, and Joe Copperhoitom, of Crete, 111. Copperbottom was evidently in bad trim, and Hoosier Dick played with him. Tbe latter horse, with a record below 2:30, won the heat in 3:15. The second heat was a lazy one, and thehorsps cams in like a vokeof oxer. Hoosier Dick took the heat in the back-horse time of 3:25. It was evident that Hoosier Dick could with ease distance Copperbot tom, but that he would rot do it. To see a little fast time, the judges dropped tho distance for tbe last race and made Hoosier Dick put in good licas. He pa?sed under tbe wire in 2:10, and then did not seem to be making his best time. In the 2:30 trt tting race there was no fooling. Cf six hors s entered. Dolly, ot Anderson, Ind., Itib Ridley, ot India nola, 111 ; Professor, of Logansport, Ind.; Young Wilkes and Peavine, of Chicago, started. Betting was in favor of Professor. THE INDIANA HORSE THE FAVORITE. The first heat was won by Dolly in 2:42, which made her a favorite, and the almost universal favorite at the pools. She was closely followed by Bob Ridley and Peavine, with Professor and Wilkes in che rear. The second heat was won by Bob Ridlev, in 2:42), followed by Dolly, Professor, Peavine, and Wilkes, in the order named. Dolly was still the favorite, with Bob Ridley's stock rising. Two lengths ahead of young Wilkes Bob Ridley took tbe pool on the third beat ia 2: W, and close behind were Wilkes. Professor, and Peavine. Wilkes showed mt-tal and speed, while Ridley looked tired, causing the pools to run largely in favor of Wilkes. A dozen starts were made before the hortes were off. when, on the first rod, Wilkes shot ahead of Ridley a lull length, and, doubling in on him at tho first curve. iea Biiiiuyaicrgin. un me secona curve Ridley regained bis position, and lei the horses by two lengths, maintaining his posi tion throughout. A HAD THROW. At the tbreo-quarler pole Dolly was rapid idly closing in on Wilkes, with Professor going hub te bub, aad Peavine in the rear. A-j they neared the rurve, at tbe three quarter pole. Wilkes drove in 0 Dolly, who had toe inside, catching her right foot in tbe buggy, injuring several spokes in Wilkes' ulky and turowing Dolly nat on her side. wicn ner onver sprawling in tae miadle of the track. Peavine, close behrad, ran over Dolly's driver, and was brought to a stand. As Wirdes turned tbe last quar ter tbe buggy gave out, and the driver "vvaa landed oil the feat. Wilkes broke into a full run, and, with tbe iragmencs 01 ineeiir oemnd tile, ran down the home tretch. Kidloy passxi under the wire and off the track In bore time to save himself -frem a collision with the almost crazed animal, who went tearing around the itngat a fearful gait: hats, sticks, coat t ails, etc., were haken at him only to excite him tili. ruore. At the second-round he was brought to a stand by the aid ot blankets thrown over his bead. The xcited crowd ran to the rr.en who had la lienor! their gigs, out mey -were uainjurcu. two broken sulkoes was the extent of tne damage. .KEuey wcu ueciarea winnercx the fourth beat and race. TK.IE OF FAST HQESES. THTC RECORO OF CELEBRATED 2IORSS AN IUAJSTRIOUS LIST OF AH EE IC AN" HTOHFLTEnS. The following list include the time of the most celebrated time-beaters on tbe American. turf, corrected to date: Goldsmith M.id...2:I4K7hicaso w .1 1 .11.1 5tv . . . . . uiosH-..;..., r..-. 2:17 jdy Blanhard..2a ran Girl 2:174 sleepy John ..2:2t', . 2:17VJara - ?' Anjeriran loxtr Judge h u nerton 2:1 jisusie -.2a lied Cloud 2-18 Uom. VandrbUt.2si Ha-ly -Shorn V :ltsi t-ron 2 :25 Lucy. -.... .....2:11Jje............2ri")i Mora Temple 2:19' JöJiwn Prince .2:25 tJeorge i'aimer.Jiili'Kaanie Alica...2.-25;i lienry 2:a14a 25. Leow 22i Camon. JlrH Kthan Alien Mountain Koy..2:Wi Nonesuch 2äj Gazelle 2:21 rhoxnas Jeffiiwonri'iV; Jaff (ion) 4 Ueorge Wilkes, J. J. -Krad If y 2r-'-Col. Ii4iHell. 2: e.t. James -t ;22 ucroy M Weepy George.. Lady Maud .... llodJoe Harry ILarley- aa-Vjj ee n x a mi nr su z .- -iü2Vi surprise , , fiuntress. Jennie.... rSSii Bay Wbaicbonti--'2:2,i Flora Belle ...i:z.-vurina uuicnew.z:Jb1 iau 2:23 ! I. ydia Thompson- :2ti . 2:23 Cnarley iireen.-.X'.ml Kubiira Jl Joe Brown Wra. II. Allen '1:W4 Ben Flagler ÜrZli-.ltlnrrlKHfV HoiKpur........,.2 Sensal ion v.. tjiieen of the WestÄ'-i Jim irving t lowest uaicaman z::iv um isar H. W. GeneU... lioyal John ...... Mohawk, Jr.....2:24 Major Al en 2:2J!f tteppo....-...... .....2 :24J J Gräfte Betram 2:ilri 2t tf,J Lac4lie.. Myron Terry .......Jr.'l'.vl'ocalioatas...., Toronto Chief. 2:24;t5eal trkin i'iiot rempie 2:11 The New York Graphic says Miss Morris sails on her return to this country about tbe last of the present month. There is no con firmation of the rum r that she ill be married quietly to Mr. linrnotc bef-ra ber re turn, aud it is probable that that ''tar engaemout" will not culminate until . next year. Bayard Taylor and other distinguished persons were obliged to register a regular seamen when they went on the Aloion to celand.

THE BEECHER STATEMENT.

Conrlii.Jcd from third jve. often carried In years before this tronh! Kut hi, wife stiA atttended ehaVh and toSSSt for his re8t4,railn. 1 recollect bavin with him thousht it not unlikely that he miht Ket back mto his old position. H seemed to be in mood to regret the pit, and so when Iwas urged by the examinier com -.to kc Fome .steps. I said I was not TU ion woo Id come back asraln to h! oM church work, and be one of n apain. I therelore delayed a decision upon this point for a lone time. Many of our members were anxious and Impatient, and there were many takers or trouble from this quarter. Meanwhile one wine 2,e. W2msm p"rKe Party had got hold of ihe story in adiHtorted and exszgeratert form, such m had never been intimated to me by Tilton oi his friends. I did not then Btispect what I now know, that these ATROCIOUSLY FALSK HUMORS originated with Mr. Tilton himself. I o?ily niw that the evil was growing Instead or diminishing, and perceived that I was pledged to Kilenee, and therefore could not speak in my own defense. Some one was forever perhninsr iu the falsehood, which was rrowingcon'lnual!y in df- -mension, and these dinicalties were immensely Increased bv the affiliation of Tilton with the Woodhnll clique. In May, 1ST1, Mrs. Woodhull advertised a forthcoming article, t-hadowin" an account of the disturbance itt r. T funTilv but without using nam. Itwns delevr-d bv Mr.T.'s intluen-e wlih Mrs. Woodhn.l until NÖverabef, 1X12. Uuring this Ruspenttion of her publicatiou she lecame the heroineof Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton. She was made welcome to both houses, with the toleration, but not the cordial consent of ttieir wives. 1 heard tl-e mo extravagant euiORies on her. She was represented as a genius torn and reared amon rude iutluenccs, but only needed to be surrounded by refined society to show a noble and communing nature. I did not know much about her, and, though mv impressions were unfavorable, her teal character was not then known to the world. I met her three times. At the first Interview she was gracious. At the second nhe was cold and hanghty, but ab the third was angry and threatening, ior I hail premptorily refused to preside at a lecture Mi was about uiving at Steinway Hall. The most strenuous efforts had been made bv both Tilton and Moulton to Induce me to president this lecture, and to Identify myself publicly with Mrs Woodhull. It wo represented to me that I need not, in ho doing, exureaMy give assent to her doctrines, especially with regard to the marring relation, on which point she was beginning to be more explicit in opposition to the views of which I, in common with all christian men, entertained. But It was plau-i-oiy urged mat i could preside at the lecture.aud introduce heron theslmplegroundof advocating free speech anu noerty of del 'bate. But, as it was nnderstood that she was about show the doctrines which 1 abhor, 1 would not be Induced by this plausible argument to give her public countenance; and. after continuing to arge me up to the day of the meeting without any threats, but with the obvious intention that MY PERSONAL SAFETY would be better secured by taking this advice. Mr. T. himself went over to New York and pre sided at the meeting, where Mrs. Woodhull gave as I understand, for the first time in public a fall exposition of her free love doctrines. The very thought that I should have been asked under any circumstances, and upon any excuse, to preside or bo present at such a meeting wan inexpressibly galling to me. Whatever my astonishment might have been, the motive of Mr. T. and Moulton in asking such a thing, as l which 1 bad not at the time as clear a perception as I have now, the request was, nevertheless, a humiliating one. At about the same time I found the circle of which Mrs. W. formed a part was fhe center of loathsome scandals, organized, class! tied, and perpetuated with greedy and unclean appetite for everything that was foul and vile. I would not associate with these people. Yet Messrs. T. and Moulton had some strange theory concerning the management of this particular affair which always inaJe it, in their judgment, nt-effcH.it v for them to maintain friendly relations with the group of human hyeanas. From this cir cle, and from Mr. Tilton'a standpoint ff intimate associations with it, came rumors. Suspicions arose among my own congregation which led them to presume with quest ous, and to originate investigations, especially into, the case of Mrs. T., from whom a one, as they generally believed, the rumors against me originated. In this sense they fastened upon 1 wii h even more destructive eflect upon its members than I then feared. I wrote a letter to Moulton, of which Tilton has given extracts, even more icked!y . garbled than his other quotations, for he lias represented two extracts from this letter as constituting parts of two separate letter. and has artfully given the irapres-lon that they wer writtenin, or after Jane, 187, whereas th t letter was dated Feb., 172. He further savs thitthis letter was written tor the purpoceof beingliown to bim. I had not any idea of such a thing being done, as the letter shows plainly on Us lace,, and did not authorize any such use of that letter, which was supposed by me to be written and received in the most sacred confidence. Thin letler is as follows, as I am informed. An Inspection of the original, would doabtle-w refrh my memory concerning the circumstances, but this Moulton denies to me: BEIX'HEB TO MOULTON. Monday, Feb. 6, l72. My Dear Friend: I leave town to-dy, and expect to pass through from Philadelphia to New Haven. I shall not be here until Friday. About three weeks ago I met T." in the cars going to "B." He was kind, and touched me. much. He told me to go on with my work without the least anxiety In so far as bis feenngs and actions were tbe occasion of apprehension. On returning home from Kew Haven, w here 1 am three nays in tbe week delivering a course of lectures to the theological luden s, I found a note from 44 E." saying that "T." lelt hard toward me, and was going to see me before leaving for the West, and she kindly added, "Be not cast down by this; I bearthis almost always, but the Uod in whom we trust will deliver n all safely. I know you do and are willing abundantly to help him, and I also know yourembarrassmenta." There were added words ot warning but also of consolation, tor I be ieve 1-1 is beloved of God, and that her prayers for me are sooner heard than mine for myself or for her. But it seems that a changehas come to T. since I saw him In the cars. Indeed, even fi nee be has felt more Intense ly theforce of feeling in society, and the humiliations which environ bis enterprise, he has erowlDgly fell that Iliads power to help which 1 ll not develop, and I believe that you have participated in this feel i n 5. It la natural that you should; T. is dearer to you than I can be. lie is with you. All his trials lie open to your eye daily, but I nee you but seldom, and nay persoual relations, environment, necessities, limitations, dangers and perplexities yoa can not seenor imagine. If I had not cone tUrouh this great year of sorrow, 1 would not uave believed that anyone could pa&s throcgb my experience and be alive or sane. I have been: the ecu ter of three distinct circles, each of whc required clear mindedness and peculiarly inventive or originating power, vli: Kirt. tii peat church; second, the newspaper; third, the book. The first 1 could neither eet out of alight. The sensitiveness of so many of my people would have made an annearance of tmnhi.. or any remission of force an occasion of alarmaud notice, aud have excited where it ww Important that, rumors should die and everrthinene onieted. The newrnaner 1 tirt mil un doing but little except to give general directionan J in so doing I was continually spurred nnii. !,r. ?d by those Interested. It could not be l.e ped. The Ufo of Christ, long delated, had locked np the capital of the firm and was likelv to sink them, l inlshed it most be. Was ever a book BORX OP SUCH SORROW? That was the interior history of it. Will it never be written? During all thU time yon literally were all my stay and comfort. I should have fallen on the way bnt for the coarage which yoa inspired and the hope which you breathed. My vacation was profitable. I came back hoping that the bi ternes of death was passed. Bnt it troubles brought back clouds wi h even severer suff.H-in.fs, for all this fdl and winter I have lelt that you were not aatisned with mi and that I seemed both to yoa nrf Mr. lllton as contenting myself with acautious or sluggish policy, willing to tave myself but not to rik any thln2 for T. 1 have S fÄ?1", ,f -JLui,ea.rt 10 ? whether lgwas with his been su-.picion.W anx-ell , cr , ireskintr . . , 1 , : .1 . . ' ppea. would brek out into a ruinous ripn... JZ. ,..". .,u them without Urning to do It ; to prCent any ol!siK.q,a".Kni,D,f:,?mwtand Bli- Prejudicea which had It heirbeginning year- before; to keeo seieneasifl was not alarmed or .t,...VZ, . .? be clieerful at home and among friends when r Wbs BUfTeilue the torment 1 th. vet v wiuo up wesa ana full

U unequivocal ttxn&