Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1875 — Page 1

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ISLIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 1875. VOL. XX1Y-KQ 28. WHOLE :NTJMBER 1,789

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GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

FUSE AND LOSS OF LIFE. A MttT UlREtrr. POSTOFEICK AND f ANOXIC Kall BCR5ED I vkeD:rRCRO three OHlLttEN PERISH IN TBE FLAM rÄ By Telegraph to tUe SentlneU VfsoeusüUR, Ind., Feb. 21.-Li evening, tout 10 o'clock, a fire broke out in tho yatr.i. store and residence of Henry Eister. rrke b.ülding was a light irafae, and was otra enveloped In flames, wfcrleh coruniuulcaVed to the postofBce and Masonlo Hall, joining the north, -both of which T7er consatneii. Elster and wife left their house about ?i30 to go to their slaughter house, east of the town, leaviog their throe little children, two girls and a boy, aged respectively nine, five and two years, alone in the house. These chil dren rwisned in the flames. The fire was under soch headway when discovered that it was impossible to rescue them. It will Trntvthlv never be known how the. tire originated. Mr. and Mrs. Eister lost one cbiM this winter by suffocation. The sad affair oi last nicht complete th9 destruc tion of their little family. There is no in iKirance on' the property destroyed. The mails sad fixtures of the postoface were rated. WASHINGTON'. AN APPEAL TO THE SOUTH. tk VIERY SOUTHRON ÜROED TO CCRB HIS ARDOR REPRESENTATIVES BEG HIM T-OfSESS HIS SOUL IN PATIENC K AND io WAIT FOR TEE GOOD TIM E COM1XO. Washington, D. C, Feb. 18. The follow ing address has just been prepared by the democratic members of the South and Southwest: Tn tii Pnl of the Southern States: You have confided to the undersigned in this conjunction of affairs the de'.ieate and difficult tnk of guarding in the lederal conirre.H vour public interest, your rizhts and reputation. You will, therefore, pardon the flibortv we take of addressing you at a period so -critical upon a matter affecting vour dstinv, and that of your posterity, You can not'have failed to observe Ihn pe rifcistent efforts of some o! the leaders of the republican party to revive the anirnonities of the lr'o W3r. wnicn. nappiiy, are last giving placeto a pirit of concord and unity in every -section of oar common country, it is im possible to predict certainlv the effect of thee anneals to passions. We believe that thrcuzh tbe honest representations of a few upriaht acd conscientious federal officers and agent?, an independent and able public press, and of many citizens witnont regira to party tbe true condition of the Southern states and tbe real sentiment of the Southern people aro being gradually made known to our lellow citizens of tbe North. We hope for their favorable decision when fully ap prised of 11 the facts. Tbe great ends of ;irood eovernment will be reached when the ieoDle of 11 sections foriret that we have. ever been enemies and come together again as in tbe earlvdavs ol the republic, emulat in z each other only in devotion to the best interests cf the whole country. With thiä exaited purpose in ' there is nothing inconsistent the honor and manhood of a people to resolve to suffer with view with brave heroic patience, whatever be their provocation aud wrorgs, looking through the fearful present to a hopeful future, and repelling unjust epithets and gratuitous insults with tiigni I lied moderation. Let every white man io every neighborhood in the whole South re : gard hiuislf as a commissioner of the peace, . maintaining tho kindliest relations toward the bHek iran, remembericg that the responsibility for the extreme poverty to which we have been redueed, and tne cor rupt coveriKnent to which his vote has sub jected us, rests not so euch upon him as upon -the bad men, who, with the as-urance of federal sup port. have. by appeals to his wor&t ra-"sious. sought to make blm our enemy, wbilf we labor by all honest means to convince him of tbe truth that our interest and bis aro identical, and that both must lo preserve i by good government, and that those who stir up strife between us are the xjsv:mies of bote races. Let ns at the same time see that he .is fully protected in bio guaranteed rights to vote as he plstses in all elections. Let us continue to deal with hixi honestly and fairly and let us continue cordially to invite to our midst those who, of acy political paxty,either seek to know the tnath or to find homes upon our soil. We do not exaggerate when we admonish ya of tbe disheartening fact that every Btrerf. disturbance, -every boalcide ol every character, ly whomsoever committed, by LAcck or white, republican or .democrat, such a as are incident to. every , commuuCly upon earth, is perverted into . evidences? aspUof lawlessness and-.vio vlence, &Dd a purpose to accoeiI plisb t political ends. We well know the gr injustice of -auoh i charges which by weight only where igno rance of ocr true condition prevails. Stren uous effortc are now being made by those who misrepresent you to induce tbe passage by congress of the most dangerous measures in- order to irritate ocr people, to drive them to cepair, fco provoke them to -rioient out bru k. in order tc furnish an excuse for applyiarr for ciilltary rtterfsrence. Wexpress the hope that a majority of the present congi ess will cot be found ready to .a-ictlon safc legislation. If it be accomplislatdit will.be again: the protect not only of the democrtts but of iho moral worth and statesmanship here of the party ic power, .and 05? such republicans as JiryaLt, Jivarta, Charles Francis dams arnl ethen, whose j)atriotkm rnd sense ol nstieo axq kcown to lie whole eaantry, W-e may, however, mistake. Most extreme, Oppressive acd unconstitutional zneaaures may be ümposed upon yoc. In sacii an vfctit we would appeal tto the wUidom and patriotism of a long sudor-' Ing peopia by every hope of the futa for cntinue forbeara&ce and hopeful rdian coupon the virtue And sensof iostics of tbe American people for the ultimate vindication of our rights, the protection oi our liberties and the safety of -ur repablicaa form of government. Signed by Senators Ooldthwaite, Stevenson, Nor-j wood, Cooper, Gordon, Kansom, McCrary, Bogy, Johnson and Merrimon, and signed by the following membors of the f Ioue: Kepresentativea Cook, CaidwelJ, Bell, Promberg. Atkins. Waddell, Old dings, Herndon, Hancock, Crittenden, Brown, narris. Young Hills, WUlie, John Young ol Georgia. Wuitthorne, Bright, . Croadand. Bowen, Beck, Bland, A2ms, Clark, Arthur, Comingo, Durham, liinton. Hatcher, Gunter, Glover, McLean, Vanco, Bobbins, Blount, Harris, Whitehead, Ktandiford, Stone, Sloss, Young of Kentucky, Welld of Missouri, Millikn, Ilead and" Lamar. PR0P03ED LOUISIANA COMPROMISE. PE' AND OTHERS ATTEM PTIIf Q TO EFFECT AN AKBANOEMEST ITS BASIS. WinrTT-VfVmitf T O. Vi V OA TKä l,.a!a rt

: tha new propoeition for a compromise of tho

Louisiana difficulties, which Lieut-Governor Tenn and other prominent Louidana-

lans have come to to effect, and which Washington will i pres0utej to tbo president on Monday next, li substantiantially as follows: The con servatives object to tbs congressional committfe'3 nssurcing jurisdiction concerning the election of 1S72. That election and mat rf 1874 were separate and entirely dißerent. It is agreed that the memuers or tne legis lature elected in 1S74 can give pledges ana guarantee, the most ample ana positive. lor their own iuture and tbe people wiH assent to let Kellogz alone, obsy the laws and aecora tne de facto torernment recognition as long as the president sustains the Kellogg party In office. If, on the other hand, the conserva tives can not get the results oi or so innch as ' he eongresional committee aeciae that they are legally entitled to, they will not admit the legality oi the Kellogg election, nrvr will thev consent to express doubts as to what are, they believe, the legal resnlts of 1872. Bat as the question has perpiexeu me president and congress and both the executive and the legislative branches of the government hesitate to act upon it, it is not iust to exnect tbe cauccs of conservative memners ol tne Lionisiana state iegis:i.ur . . . to settle it. Tbe conservatives further claim that thev should not be required to recoenizs the illeeal ".nahn House oreahization and thus indorse or ac quiesce in the acts of the 4th of January. As a further actor good iaun toe conserve tivesaaree not to press the Y iltz organlza tion upon the republicans, but are willing that neither should be insisted upon, and to lptthfl msmbers declare by arb;tration. or reoreanize the house. The Iouisiana con gressional delegation, with the exception of Senator Wett, have approved tne prepares compromise. SPECIAL SENATE SESSION. THE PRESIDENT ISSUES HIS PROCLAMATION. Washington, D. C, Feb. IS. The follow ing was issued this afternoon. Ev the Presfdent of "the United State of America, a nociamaiiou: Whereas, Objects of intero-: to tbo United States renuiro that tbj Senate should be convened at 12 o'clock on the ;:h day of March next, to re ceive and act upon sr.ch communications as may bo made to it on tho part ol the cx ecutive: now. therefore. I, Ulysses S. Grant, president of the Lnited states, nav imr -oi.sidered it to be my duty to issue this, my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of tha United States to convene for the transaction of business at the capitol In the city of Washington, on the 5th day of March next, at 12 o'clock at uoou on that day of March, all who shall at that time be en titled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my band and the seal ci tne united bcates at Washinaton, the seventeenth day ol February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eieht hundred and seventy-five and of the independence of the United States of America, the ninety ninth. By the president. U. S. Grant. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. A RAILROAD UNPLEASANTNESS. PRESIDENT SCOTT PATS HIS RESPECTS TO PRESIDENT GARRETT. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 16. Thos. Scott president of tbe Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has written a letter in repl v to tbe telegram of President Garrett, of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. After accusing Garrett of demagosism and acting in bad faith toward the officers of the other trunk lines in regard to rates. Col. Scott goes on to say: As far as this company is con cerned, you may rely upon It that we will protect the business of Philadelphia, and place Baltimore, Jsew ork, and other points acc?ssible by our lines on an equita ble and fair business basis, in.all matters re lating to transportation over our own road hue we desin moderate rales for service performed, believing that it is best lor the public and lor the interest of railway prosperity that this should be the case, we fchall alwavs be ready to take care of our share of the business of the country with rates and facilities equal to those oi inv other company. The lines from Wasb-it-gion and Baltimore, to and lrom New York, over one road, shall be made quite as perleet lor tbe C3nvenlenc9 of the public, from this date.as they have ever been at any time In the past. There shall be no in convenience whateyer to the public by reason of your effort to destroy tbe railway propeityof any other parties. The Northern Central Railroad Company will, during the present year, per fect its terminal facilities at .Baltimore, so an to place that city on a full equality with the others on the seaboard and it will be tbe duty and interest ol tue company wnose line terminates here to give to Baltimore a liae in every respect, equal, both as to rates and facilities, to any that the Baltimore ct Ohio may be ablato offer. It seems to me most unfair that you should attempt by the course indi cated'in your message tocoerce other parties into a policy that might result in great in jury to the property they represent. If the measures to b adopted by the Bal t im ore &. Ohio Railroad Company should produce tbe results that you anticipated, there will be no difficulty in uncerstanding the motives which prompted auca a coarse, and I behevo the railway officers and stockholders that may bo ln)urd will hold you, as president of the E. fc O. road, responsible f jr this policy, ol destruction, so far as thi.s conipauy Is con cec-ned it is abundantly a bio to take care of its interests and its stockholders. Chicago, Feb. 10. Tho Inter-Oceaa to morrow will state that the Baltimore Ohio railroai will, unices a coaipromke is f fleeted witt the Pennsylvania railroad before U o'clock to-morrow, reduce its passenger rates both eastward and westward. It will aiso redaeo its freight rates from west to east as they have been reduced from east to west. This wilt involve all the other trunk lines running from the Mississippi valley t the e?t. This determination oi the Baltknore & Ohio is the result of tbe correspondence between President Ö arret! acd Colonel Scott yesterday and to-day. Creo. Grancis A. Walker, of Yale College, late aperiötendaat of the United States census, says that the cenuses taken by the half way between those taken by the general government every decade are of the utmost value to the United States census officers, as showing tha causes of the movements cf the population. "I am not an alarmist," he says, "aad have no fear that our country is about to decline in wealth and population, or, indeed, that it will cease to grow in both elements of greatness; but my own observations and fcuiaies have convinced me that very powerful causes are at work among us, the effects of which ought to be as carel'uly and frequeott measured and registered as possible." The Oh.'o law granting second triads without show cf oinse fcas just been repOaled, aftar a trial cf fifteen years.

A SCANDAL. SENSATION.

THE LAST WITNESS. MRS. FRANK P. MOCLTON TELLS WHAT SHE KNEW ABOUT THE BKECHEIt BCSINESS AS-; TOÜDINO REVELATIONS BEECHER'S CONFESSIONS TO HER A VERY DAMAGING WITNESS. The Chicago Tribune of the 20th inst. con tains a 1c u thy report by telegraph of toe testimony cf Mrs. F. D. Moulton, from which the following extract is taken: Q. When did you have your first conver sation with Mr. Beecher in regard to any difficulty that ho spoke ol? A. I don't re member whether it was before or alter my return from the South, bot it was in the spring of 1871, I think. Q. What was it he said to you when ms troubles were the subject of conversation? A. He was waiting in the parlor for Mr. Moulton, and, as 1 went into the room, he took my band and said: "Do you know anything about this great sorrow of my life?" I said ' Yes," and he Baid: "Frank has told you the fact, has he?" I said "Yea." He said: "I am very glad he has. I am very glad there is one woman in this world to whom I can go TO TALK OF MY TROrBLES without reserve." As near I can remember that was all of tha conversation at that time. Q. Do you recollect having any further conversation with him? A. Yes, air: he would often speak to me about it. Q. What would he say? A. He would ask me if Mr. Moulton was still hopeful that this story might be kept quiet; also the condition of Mr. Moulton's mind toward him. If he was friendly, or annoyed, or irritated generally seme questions of that kind. The next conversation that I can recall with Mr. Beecher Q. State, if you please, when it was, and what was said between you. A. Th9 next conversation which I " remember of any length was in '73. Q. What did you say to Mr. Beecher, or what did ho Eay to you? A. Mr. Beecher said to me that, if Mr. Tilton published the "letter of apology," he felt that it would be useless trying any longer to Hve"thi3 down." He came In on Monday morning. Mr. Moulton was still in the house, and, after a conversation with him a few moment?, he said, "I would boo your wits." O. Whom did ho address? A. Mr. Moul ton; and, alter a short conversation, Mr. Moulton went to his business, and Mr. Beecher laid down on the lounge, and he said: "ibis is probably my last conversation with you. I feel that, if Mr. Tilton publishes my letter of apo"."sy, it is useless f r me to try any longer to live this down. I have nover felt that I had much to hope for from Theodore. He is faithless und seems to lo.se sight ot tbe fact that, if this, letter is published, be strikes his wile even more than me." I said: Mr. Beecher, I do not think that is tbe way to look at it. I think you should go down to your church aud confess your crime. They will forgive you"; and ho said: Vn T fan tint An tho t I nan Tint Hr thnt For the sake of the woman WHO GAVE MB HER LOVE, for the sake of my children, for the sake of my church, lor the sake of my influence, I shall not confess. I will die before I will confess It." I said: "You should go down and confers it, and I am sure they will forgive it." He said: "No, that I can not Jo; tbey would despise me; 1 could not go back to my home, and my church would not forgive me. They would not feel with xe as yon do. My work would be done; it would bo better that I should go out ot life." I said: "You could write for your paper, and you could go up to your tarm." He said: "No, they would not read anything I should write, and there would be nothing left for me. I have resolved to take my lüe. I have prepared a powder which I have at home on my library table, which I shall take, and sink quietly out ol life." I said: "Why should you do that?" and he said: "I feel as if I had no hope, and if I published any card in the Eagle it would only be a temporary relief. Mr. Tilton is likely to drag up the case, and I shall probably never see him or see you again." I said: "Mr. Moulton will still stand by you, and, no matter whafcomes, I will always be your friend, but I am convinced that the" only way out of this trouble is to tell tho truth." He said he would co mo to see me the day following, as he had some git'ts to distribute and mementoes to leave, and there was something he wanted to convey to Elizabeth. Laughter. It was a long interview. Mr. Beecher was very much excited, and told me, with tears running down his face, that he was very much excited, and said that he had suffered the torments of the damned, and that 1 was the only peraau be could )u fid 9 in. Q. What took place when you next Baw him? A. He told me he was very much depressed on that day, but be felt more hopeluL Q. Did he ever speak to you in regard to Mrs. Tilton? A. Ye9, sir. Q. State what he said to you in regard to her at any time? A. He always spoke to me of HIS LOVE FOR HER, and he wanted me to respect and have re gard for her. He wanted me to go and see her, and to try and comfort her and console her in her sorrow. He said that I. being a woman, knew what to Eay to a woman under suc h circumstances. tj. Did you eyer carry any messages from him to her? A. Yes, sir. Q. Aud from her to him? A. Yes. ßir. Q. State what those messages were. A. I related to Mr. Beecher conversations 1 had had with Mrs. Tilton. She said she felt very sorry for bim even more sympathy for him than for herself. 1 said 1 bad lost faith in Mr. Beecher because I was unable any longer to attend church. She asked me to go back to church. I said: "Elizabeth, how can you &ak me to i o back to church, to take eotnmumon iron) ms nands Know log what I do about his rets?" and she said: "I want you to believe in him; be is a good man; it was not his fault ; ha Is not re sponsible for tbe crime: I am the one to blame;" and I said I thought I could hear Mr. Beecher preach and perhaps derive some benefit from bis words, but I could not have the same fa:tn In him which load cad in earlier years. Q, Did you repeat that conversation to Mr. JJeecher? A. I did. Q. Had you any other conversation with Elizabeth that you reported to Mr. Beecher? A. I Cid. Q. StAtewhat it was. A. I Ibinkitwas about tfce time Mr. Tilton appeared at the church tuat I called to see EPzibetb. I said to her: 'I see you are called böfore the church. What are you going tods to save Mr. Beecher?" Saesaid: "I shalleacrince mv husband and deny everything." I said: "Will you allow vour husband fto go down with the truth?" She said: "Ithlnkl should be JÜSTIFED IN" STATING FALSELY under the circumstances. I think every thing of Mr. Beecher, and for the sake of

his influence on the world, for my own

sake, and for my children's sak, It is my (. You reported this to Mr. Beecher? A. I did. Q. Whit replv did he make? A. lie sa'd: "Poor child, Hb has tried to. repair ft; the wrong she has done is confessing her t id, and it is too late." Q. IVd hi say anvthinst to you In res pect Of the time tluring which she had permitted him to be in ignorance of the fact that she had conteseed. A. He did. Q. What? A. In talkinz with me, once, he said it was very cruel that Elizabeth should have confessed it all. It was verv unjust to him that she should have allowed him to visit her for six months after she had confessed to her husband, suhjecting him to unpleasant I greetings from Theodore; that he could not understand why she allowed him to visit tbe house without having told him that she had confessed to her husband. Q. Did you ever say anything to Mr. Beecher about turning to his church? A. I did. t Q. What? A. I told him bow much I had missed the church, and the influence of his sermon?; that I had been a member ot bis church for many years; I had been taught to believe in him, and it was very bard to be disturbed In it; that I could not go back very well, knowing what I did. He would ask me to go back to church. He said. "It you knew what comfort it was for me to see yon oncelu tbe congregation, you would come." He said he had repented of bis sin, and BAD BEEN FORGIVEN, and he was better fitted now than ever in his Ufa to do great good.. I once said: "I don't see how you can stand in your pulpit and preach gainst the sin of adultery to young men, 'when you are implicated in it yourself." lie said: "Having suffered what I have, and passed through the experience, I feel more fit for it than ever before." Q. Did he'i in conversation with you, say anything about Elizabeth's tendency to talk about this thing? A. He did say Elizabeth wa3 continually making mistakes: that she meant well, but she had no judgment or discretion; that. sh9 allowed everybody to talk with her about it ; If she conld go away, or if Borna plan could bo adopted by which Elizabeth could be kept away not be allowed to talk with everybody about it he thought she could net speak to everybody; and he often told me when I saw Elizabeth to tell her not to speak to anybody about this case. Q. Did he ever send any messages by you to her as to how she should do in her Louse? A. Yes. Q. State what that was? A. I onoe reported to Mr. Beecher a conversation I had had with Mrs. Tilton when she lelt she could no longer remain with Theodore ; that he was always referring to this sin she had committed, and she felt she could not live with him any longer; that she was going home to live with her mother. Mr. Beecher said: "Tell Elizabeth, for mo, that for my sake she must continue to live with Theodore and make a good wife. I knew she has much to endure, but, for my sake, and for her own, and for the children's sake, to 6o it. I have a family : she has nothing to hope for lrom me, and the only way in which she can ever see me is to live with Theodore. being to him a true and good wife." Q. If, in any conversation with Mr. Beecher respecting this trouble, he took the blame upon himself in any way, you may relate it. A. When I relate-J to him my conversation with Mrs. Tilton, when she said it was not Mr. Beecher 's fault, buthei own, he said: 'ft was not her fault, but i was my lault.f I am to blame. She is a coot. woman. I wmtyou alwavs to love her and respect her." Mr. Beecher always spoke to meoi lis love icr j-izaoetn. FIVE TIMES MARRIED. A WISCONSIN BIGAMIST PREACHING ' THE GOSPEL DOF.S KOT PREVENT A RKVEREND W7AMP FROM MARRYING FIVE WOMEN. The LaCrossa Democrat gives the follow ing as the record of a reverend pretender in that state: The Rev. Mr. Jones, alias Bonesteel, an Advent minister, who has been doing some pretty tall preaching this winter up at the Corners, in the town of Farmington, this county, is wanted by the father of his last wife. In fact, he is wanted so badly that tho sheriO and under sheriff ol Trempelcau county, our own sheriff and two deputies are now ruttin in all the spare time they have In looking lor bim, but so far the search has been in vain. If our information is correct, this Rev Adventis is a muchly married man. Itseemsth.it a year ago he used to live in Hanover, N. Y., where he married his first wife. He soon abandoned her and moved to Andover, in the same state, where be soon married another wife, and yet the first one was living. He soon became tired of No. 2, and came West to grow up with the country, and settled in Wincna, Minn. Here he married a girl, which was wife No. 3, and she soon died. He wasiegitimately widowed that time, but soon had married another wife No, 4. a daughter of Mr. Wilsey, of that place. Still bolng of a r iving disposition he left her and came over to Wisconsin. In Winona he preached under the name ol the Rev. Jones, but once on this side ot the river he addressed his followers under THE NAUR OF REV. B0NE3TEEL. He soon married sgiin wile No. 6, a daughter ot Mr. Hardie, living six miles above Galesburgh. abd went op to the Corners, in Farmington, and has been preaching there regularly this winter. In the meantime Mr. liar die lound out something of the reverend gentleman's history, swore out a warrant, and put the officers after him, but the wily husband of five wives, four or whom are now living, "stopped down and out" of bis pulpit at the Corners last week, and hos not been seen since, and in consequence there waa no meeting held at the above place last Sabbath. We have no doubt that while he is sitting on tbe "ragged edge" he wishes "himself dead" by this time, and is perhaps soliloquizing that be may have preached bis last sermon. If he Is found there will not be mnch diäkulty in proving tbe charges, as the two last wives are living within 20 miles of each other. His advent in any new locality was generally signalized by taking unto himselt a new wife, until now he flees from all, and may yet be heard of in new "fields and pastures green," when it would seem No. 6 will be in order. Thus has another shiolrjg light been estiozulsbed.and we have no idea that even a Brooklyn jury would, when he's brought to trial, acquit him. It is indeed too bad, and wo retrain from further remarks this time. A Boston correspondent, writing of Lester Wallack's present engagement in that city, says: Lesier Wallack is drawing well at the Boston. JJe Is less a good actor with advancing years, because he is more selfconscious. It la hard to say where this will end If he continue to act. The Advertiser's critio makes a palpable hit, in criticising him as a lover, when it says it is impossible J to conceive so very cOoi a-gentleman as li? 'lave with anybody but himself.

THE CRIME OF SEDUCTION.

THK KILLING OF A SEDUCER JlTSTlFirn A CALIFORNIA JURY THINKS THAT MUYBRIDOE SERVED LARKYN RIGHT A REMARKABLE SENSATION IN COURT. The correspondent of the New Yorlc Sun, writing from Napa, Cal., gives the following account ot a remarkable trial in that state: The closing scenes oi tbe trial of Muybndce for the murder of Harry Lrkyns were of a remarkable character. The jury retired at 11 o'clock last night. It was the generil expectation that they would return with a verdict of acquittal within an hour, and the spectators who had thronged the court room all day waited to hear it; but as the hours rolled on, and the sound o f loud and earnest discussion continued in the jury room, they slowly departed to their comes, and Mnybrldge was tken back to jail for the night. On retiring to their room the jury stood five for conviction and seven lor acquittal. This morning a second ballot was taken, with tbe same result. The dif ference between them was on tbe question of insanity. Few, if any, believed Muybridge insane, but the majority contended that sane or insane he was justified in killing Larkvns tor having seduced his wife. On this broad ground they finally all met, and then tbe only quarrel was in regard to tbe form of the verdict, whether it snocld be simply "Not guilty," or "Not guilty on account" of insanity." Upon this they differed longest, the majority contending that Muvbridge was not insan9. They finally carried their point,and at noon to-day a verdict was reached. The sheriff was apprised of the fact, and he secretly notified the judge and counsel. Muybridge was then taken into court, and tbe ury having resumed their seats, the cJerk called their names and then inquired, "Gentlemen of tbe jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" The foreman arose and replied, "We have," at the same time passing to the clerk a sliD ot paper. The clerk unfolded it amid a silence like the stillness oi death, aod,read its contents. Then he passed it to the judge, who read it, and returning it to the clerk. said, "Gentlemen ot the jury, is that your verdiut?" The Foreman Ir. Is. The Judge (to the clerk) Record the ver dict, Mr. Clerk. The pen ol the clerk flew nervously over the paper for a tew moments, while all eyea were fastened upon him, tbe prisoner SITTING LIKE A STATUE, bis eyes fixed in a stony stare, and not a muscle moving under the tension of excitement. Suddenly the pen ot the clerk ceased moving, and. arising, tbe scribe said, reading from the book, "Gentlemen of the jury, listen to your verdict as it stands recorded: "People vs. Muybridge We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty." At the sound of the last momentous words a convulsive gssp escaped the prisoner's lips, and he sank forward lrom his chair. The mental and nervous tension that sustained him for days ot uncertain fate was removed in an instant, and he became as helpless as a newborn babe. Mr. Pendereast caught him in his arms and thus prevented his falling to the floor, but his body was limp as a wet cloth. His emotion becama convulsive and frightful. His eyes were glassy, his jaws set, and his face livid. The veins ol his hands and loreherd swelled out like whip cord, lie moaned ana wept convulsively, but uttered no word of pain or rejoicing. Such a display of over powering emotion has seldom, if ever, been witnessed In a court of iust ice. The floodgate of feeling seamed suddenly to bave been lifted and the long pent up tor rent of emotion to have burst upon tbe man, sweeping an Deiore it. lie rocked to and fro iu his chair. His fa?.) wai absolutely horrifying in its contortions es convulsion suceeded convulsion. The Judge discharged the iury and hastily left the court room, unable to bear the sight, and it became neccessary to recall him subsequently to ' finish the proceediugs. The cierk hid his face in his handkerchief while the prosecuting attorney and some of the jurors hurried away to avoid the spectacle. Others gathered around to calm tho prisoner, and all of them were moved to tears. Muybridge at last, b J a powerml enort, controlled his emotion. and in fifteen minutes was abletogoupon tho 6trcet. The iudg? was then recalled to the bench, and on motion cf counsel for the defense, Muybridge v. as formally discharged trom custody, in tbe meantime the NEWS OF THE ACQUITTAL had reacted the street, where it spread rapidly. A large crowd gathered in front of the court room, and as Muybridge descended the steps a lree man, they cheered vociferously and long. He was surrounded by the crowd, every man oi wnicn seemed anxioos to con cratulate him first. Then thev went off to find tbe jurymen and congratulate them. The town was never before in 6uch astate of feverish excitement. Nothing but the verdict was discussed. The satisfachod wim tue veraiet ws very nearly unanimous; but ' a few, while admitting that Muybridge should not be severely punished, contended that his ac quittal was in defiance of law, and would encourage others to deeds ot blood. A sort of provincial pride on their side was involved in the matter, ard tor the good name of the county they paid they felt eorrv to see bomicido go unpunished, but these were in an insigniscant miiririty. The verdict is a sort of new departure in such cases, an abandonment of the insanity theory, under the disguise of which homicide for tbe cause assigned In this Ci?e has si often been justified by American juries. Oa retiring to their room the Jury were given fourtormsof verdict by the judge. One was guilty of muroer in the first degree, punishable by aeatn, ana anoiner fixing the penalty as lm prisonment for lite, a third of not gnilty, and the last, not guilty because of defendant's insanity. They werd very pointedly in structed by the judge that, it Larkvns se duced defendant's wife, tbe delendant was not justified in taking tbo law into his own hands and slaying the seducer. The defense, recognizing this as good law, set np the theory that defendant was acting under an irresistible passion or Insane impulse arising from tbe discovery of his wife's infidelity. The Jury discarded entirely the theory of Insanity, and meeting the case on the bare Issue left, acquitted tbe defendant on the ground that he was justified in killing Larkvns for seducing his wife. They say that if their verdict was uot in accord with the law ot tbe books, it is with the law of human nature; that, in short, under Bimilar circumstances, they would have done as Muybridge did, and they could not conscientiously punish bim for doing what they would have done, themselves. DOWN TO DEATH. AN AWFUL LEAP A JUMP FROM THE DOME OF THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON THE HORRIBLE MANGLING OF THE BODY. The Washington Chronicla of the ISth inst. gives the particulars of a terrible tragedy mentioned by telegraph a few days ago: The most frightful suicide which has ever occurred ' within the District limits took place yesterday at tho capiiol bnildins,

and, etrnnge to say.butfaw were awire ol tbe presence of tha victim, the circum- tscces ct hisUkinccfi.or the ftal results, until the sad news was noised iu tbe building and surroundings. The only proposition on record to jump from tho dome oi the cvpitol was made during the famou Maou-Mo-Carly duel, which afterward resulted fatally to Mason, at B.adensburg, and whervin one cl tbe participants previously offered to the othor to "tie bands together and jamp from the dome of the capitol at Washington." iaitors crowded tbe dome yesterday, as usual, and about 1:30 p.m. some ol the drivers of the numerous equipages in waiting in front of the building saw what they thought the form ot a man come from the top to the base of the dome. A man passing along First street east thought some one on the inside ol tho railing encircling the base ofthostatue ot Liberty had thrown nvr m.

coat, or lost some other garment, a prey to lutj wmus. x-arues in tne wings or the building, looking toward the center nortioo. saw a man disappear from the railing above mentioned, and the various rumors drawing the attention of the Capitol police, upon an inspection of the roof over the eastern portico the dead body of a man was found, and it was at one re move 1 to the room of the Canitol elec. trician in the third stcrv cf tfce north wing of the center building, where Coroner Patterson held an inquest, with the followlcgjury: S.S.Smoot, foreman; A. L Gobrigbt, James F. Dooley. E. N. Atherton. C. M. Ford. Charles s. Draoer. Howard French, F. A. Ward. C. M. Lew. P. H. Allebach, J. W. Westlall, and E J." Parker. The body, attired in plain but comlortarle clothing, was mangled ALMCST ETtYOND RECOGNITION. Ihe front cf the skull was crushed over the rear portion and the lower jawbone jammed up into the brain, leaving the gums witn the teeth attached, protruding. Blood and gore covered the upper portion of the body, which was apparently brofcea in sev eral places, although no examination was mad 3. By juuicicus handling on the part of tho physicians present the fuatures were so arranged as to bi recognized by an acquaintance. Oa his person was found fifty certs in currency and a pawn ticket r igned by Heldenheimer, corner Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth street, from whom some clue was ascertained as to the name of the deceased. Finally the father of the decsa-ed, a man about sixty yeara old, appeared, and recognized the body as that of his son, and betrayed terrible mental ucerla;r. He said that his soa, James McMahcn, was about twenty-five years old, had been ttudyinj tor the Catholic ministry In Baltimore up to last August, when be returned here on ac count of Lis health, and has since been working at the carpenter's trade. He went to work yesterday morning as canal, returned home at 9 o'clock, and shortly after left with a bundle, since when nothing was heard of him until the fatal occurrenca. The testimony of the other wilnee.se?, Lewis Burns, Mrs. L. Wailicgford. and K. Walton. referred entirely to the circumstances of HOW THE FATAL LEAP was made, as follows: The deceased, who ascended the various flights leading ' to the too of the dome, was unnoticed in the general throng, and when he reached the railing surrounding the tholus, on which is the statue of Liberty, he quietly scaled the railing lookingover the east portico, and sprang forward. In a second almost the body wa lifeless on the ridge cf the pediment of the east portico, 185 leet belou, mangled as described above. The courss ot Us descent was marked with blood, and it was so rapid that no one who saw the occurence could say positively what balustrades, railings, Or pr jections the body struck, and it was evident that the deceased intended to clear the pediment on which he fell, in whica case, it ne had succeeded, ho would have fallen about three hundred feet, and landed in about the soot historic with presidential inaugurations. The jury rendered a verdict that deceased "came to his death by jumping from the railing surrounding tbe tuolus ol the domecf tbe capitol while laboring under temporary aberration' of mind," after which the body was tnrned over to relatives for burial. Deceased was well known in this city lor the past few months as an industrious mechanic, residing with his father on N, between Fourth and Fifth streets norlhweM,. 11 is two brothers, who are clerks in governmental departments, are well known in Catholic literary circles of the District, and are universally respected. Deceased wssot a quiet turn of mind and of perfectly sober habits, which confirms the belief that his tragic death wa? the result of temporary insanity. His funeral will take pi lmorrow. A REMARKABLE CASE. A LADY MANAGES TO LIVE TWENTY -TH EE E YEARS WITH THREE PINS IN HER BODY. ; The Louisiana Press gives the following as authentic: One of the most remarkable cases VjQ remember to have ever real or heard of came under our ohäervatiobn Saturday, which we shall here proceed to rdatc: Twenty-three years ago the wife of Mr. E. P. Brown, of tbe firm ol Weir A Brown, th?n a child of seven years ct age, swallowed throe pins by accident. For the last fifteen years she has suffered the most excruciating pains, and last summer her lifo was despaired of, but by care and the best ot nodical attention she partially recovered. Some six weeVs ago a small sore appeared on her right aid) just above the upper bip-point, from wHca matter commenced running occasionally. Last Saturday morning upon getting out of bed she felt what seemed to bo the poiut of some instrument prolrudiDg. Mr. Brown, her husband, examined it and discovered the end of a dark-colorrd substance. He immediately summcrad Dr. Stewart, who upon his arrival applied a pair of small pinchers to the point and drew out one of tbe identical pics Mrs. Brown had swollowed twenty-three years ago. The pin was covered with a kind of bony substance, and with the "exception of being discolored was otherwise tbe same as when first swallowed. Mrs. Brown has a very vivid recollection of swallowing the pins, one ot which was perfectly straight and the other two crooked. Since writing the above we learn that Dr. Stewart.in probing the wound made by the pin which has been recovered, discovered one other of the pins some two inches beneath tbe surface, but wis unable to extrac it with his Instruments, and will have to, in all probability, cut into where It lies. Mrs. Brown, under the circumstances attending these painful operation", is doing remarkably well, and we trost will eutirtly recover. "Inielicia." You are probably rigbtln your cbservation tha: "for two men to kips each other is perfectly disgusting." It stamps you as a woman of genuine esthetic taste. And yet there can be no harm in tlo practice, so long as their intentions are honorable. The osculatory salutation in such a case is note ven prima Jacie evidence of guilt, and no court would admit it. Nevertheless, you would be justitied in interposing a barrier to this indulgence, if you think the barrier could stand it. Brooklin Argus.