Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 January 1875 — Page 4

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ON MONDAY,

JANUARY 4th, 1875,

Hoberg, Root & Co.

Will Inaugurate a

SPECIAL. SALE OF

DRY GOODS,

Which will be worthy attention of all CLOSE CASH BinKlti*.

r-Determined to close out our entire ^VMRter iVttif tmrtlM will find be

Deferral nea to ciw Stock Regardless of Cost, parties will atthteHaleHOIIIP IUIV Bai-gains never fO!OOff«red in this elty.

This is a Cash Sale.

Your motiev will bear you good interest to keep the goods over to next Season a» these prices-

Silks, Dress Goods, Shawls Cloaks. rs, Woolen Goods, Houaekeeping Joods, Flannels, Cloaking*, Skirts, Underwear, Gloves, Hosier), Fancy Goods. Laces, Embroideries, Calicoes, Ginghams, Muslins, Sheetings,

WILL ALL BK OFFERED AT A

GREAT REDUCTION,

HOBEItCii. HOOT A «•©. Opera Ilouse Corner.

Wanted.

WANTED—A

111. Good

pose of ofSewinj

GOOD GIRL—GERMAN

ore/erred—can obtain a good situation In

a OTiftM

family—no children—in Paris,

wages. Enquire atRz

Wfitting

WANTED—THE

FJUFlorida

TEKKE HAUTE,

A r0's,

Opera llouse Bazar.

ANTED-FARMERS A?* TLAMstere to know that they can get Ithe best and cheapest Horse Collars at MILLER A ARLETirS collar factory, south Fourth street.

LADIES TO BRING

their combings and have them made into switches, curia and putts, at Mrs. Chrisher's. She has also just received from NTnv York an elegant stock of stamps for bKdSd embroidery. She would like the ladles to give her a call and examine her itoeh?before^going forget the place, Ohio street, opposite the Court House. ai»-»i.

For Sale.

™OR KALR-A BOULTING CHEST, FOR Flourins Mill, containing two reels, 10 feet long by 30 Indies in diameter, with ffo&rinc and cloths nil complotc and nil new, built on the most improved plan for country work can be easily removed will sell it cheap for cash, or good paper on time. Coll and see it, or address McClure & Co., Staunton, Ind.

HALE-EIGIITY-FIVE ACRES OF laud, In Parke county, soutliwest corner of township—Co acres under cultivation, balance timber—half mile of railroad station. School house on land. Enquire of .1. N. WALKER, near the land, or address him at Atherton, Ind. nov21-2m

Lost.

LOST—MONEY,

BY NOT

BTJYrNG

OOL-

lars at MILLER & ARLETH'H Horse Collar Factory, soul li Fourth street.

Found.

CK)UNI—THAT

MILLER & ARLETH

t" sell the best fitting Horse Collars at their factory, south Fourth street.

Fthe

lUND-TIIAT WITH ONESTROKEOF pen you can reach, with an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Mail, almost every reading family in this city, as well as the residents of the towns and country surrounding Terre Haute.

Society Meetings.

O. U. A. M.—Franklin Council, No. 10, Order of United American Mechanics meets every Monday ovening in American

Mechanics Half, northwest corner of Fifth and Main streets, at 8 ®'clock. All members and visiting members are cordially Invited to attend our meetings.

T. E.KNOX, C.

L. K. STOCK, R. S. 1ulyl8-3m

OMETHING OF INTEREST.

Parties having Sewing Machines of any kind needing repairs, can savo money by having their old machines made as good as new with but llttte expense. B.C. Bledsoe and Jos. Folk have permanently located at 197 Main street, over Tutt's Boot and Shoe Store, opposite Opera House, for the pur if Repatrlntr nnd Adlustlnn? all kir ing in the abov

epnlrlng and Adjusting all kinds Machines. All persons interested we enterprise would do well to

give It their patronage, and not trust their machine* in the hands of strangers, representing themselves to be Sewing Machine Repairers and Adjusters.

They also keep on hand a good assortment of the host quality of needle? for all leading Machines, and the finest quality of Pure Sperm 11, which will be sold as cheap us can oe had in the market.

Try them, as they are experienced workmen in their line ef boslnesas. AI«L WORK

WAKRASTRn.

00KS AND STATIONERY.

X. E. ACKER,

(Successor to

Denio Bros.)

404 MAIN STREET, TBMB HAIJTB, Has a full stock of

Mlsrellaaeoua, Stkeel

mm*

BlMk

BOOKS.

STATIONERY

ing

of every description. Writ

IVwk*. Albums, Card

Olms,

great variety.

EMOVAL

Games

mL •vt*

Toy and Holiday StoolcsT

For old and young, an** fall line of Anna* ii and Perpetual Disriec With gtnid goods and rranonable prioes, a or patronage is soltattad.

THE

SavingxFund

NOTION STORE

fimm Removed toSS North Fourth Street, opposite City School. Where can

found a full Stock of

JIA3 TERRK

ITHE MAIL

A PAPER FOR HIE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

fJAN.

9, 187n

A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. A good earnest Methodist keeping up a fusilade of hearty amens to the prayer of a Universalist minister is a little out of the ordinary course of events, and a few years since would havo been thought very strange. Yet this might have beeii heard on several mornings of this week at the morning prayer meetings. It only two or three years since tho unioii meetings with which it is customary to observe tho first week in the new yeai were abandoned in consequence of an arrangement having been made to re oognizo the Universalists during th( Week of Prayer by appointing one ol their members to lead one of the meet ings in this city. Some of the clergy men were then strongly in favor of in eluding this church in their arrangements, but others, both of clergy and laity, wore so strongly opposed to it that, for the sake of peace, no

meetings

were held. But last Wednesday morning one of the Union Prayer Meetings was held in the Universalist church. It was led by a good Methodist, and all the clergy, and an unusually large number of the laity, of the "orthodox" churches were present, and the meeting was not easily to be distinguished from the others of the week. This is as it should bo, and marks progress. There is, in these days, a strong tendency to union among Christians. This Union Prayer meeting in that church was largely the result of this increased feeling ol unity. It is probable, however, that the temperance movement of the past year hastened tho consummation. In the raid mado against liquor selling and liquor drinking, clergymen and laity of ail the churches and some persons oi no church, worked and prayed together. If any were ready for prayer and work, or either, they were cordially received and no questions asked. It would have been a dull intellect, indeed, that could not see that, if working and praying with Universalists during fifty-one weeks of the year, and in reference to one good cause concerning which they were agreed, were proper, that it would bo decidedly improper not to continue the praying and working during one week more, and in reference to othe: good causes concerning which they were in agreement. This may be called the logic of events. A few honest souls, very likely are aggrieved by this action, and perhaps will regard every failure in religious work during the year to come as a direct manifestation of divine wrath on account of this meeting but we are glad to know that the great mass of Christian people feel very differently and are glad that another barrier has been removed. While the one class, who are entitled to respectful consideration, feel that, by thus uniting with the Universalists in prayer and work, they are giving countenanco to their peculiar doctrine, the other, and larger class, feet that thi^ is by no means the case. And, by thf way, this is the ground upon which union heretofore has been refused. Th Express, which either knows very little of the opinions and motives of those in the churches, or else takes particular pains to misrepresent them, says, in alluding to the meeting held in that church:

It has been finally decided by the association of the orthodox Protestant churches of this city that one. may be

Christian, and yet not believe in hell." The fact is that it would have been impossible to find a clergyman, or a Christian of ordinary intelligence in the city, who would not have readily admitted that "one may be a Christian and yet not believe in hell." They believed, however, that this disbelief in future punishment tended so directly and strongly to keep men men iron) becoming Christians, that they could not countenance the doctrine by any sort ol co-operation with those who hold it. This, we believe, Is illogical, but is a very different thing from denying that a Universalist Could be a Christian. Each church, of oouree, believes itself right and the others wrong. Each church believes that other churches hold seriouterror. The Methodist believes that election" is little if any better than &- talism. The Presbyterian believes that falling from grace" is not only a bad doctrine to practice, but a dangerous one to hold. The Baptist thinksthat sprinkling ia a direct violation, or evasion, oi an important requirement pf Christ. To the Christians of other churches "clooe communion" seems contrary to the very spirit of the Gospel. Bat with these dii Iterances there is much that is common, much more upon which they agree than concerning which they differ. So they work on this common ground, and for common objects, and never think ol sanctioning what they regard as fault* in each other's creeds. How they extend the same logio to Universalists. The Universalists of the city, on the en» band, do not approvdfcbe doctrine of endless future punishment by uniting with those who h*ld it. Neither, on the other hand, do those who hold it, sanction the doctrine of univenal salvation. They differ, and agree to differ, But in the great

desire

£&

Notions & Fancy Goods,

Lutterftck and Oomestlc

fttaffiprtfc. Braiding

aad

to Wvn

Hmbroldering

to get men out of tin,

to save them from it and from its punishment, however long or short they may regard it, they are united, and they agree to pray together for this. This is as it Should be, and the Christian churches of thb city st high' in the regard of thinkin.'and reasonable men within and without them, or the course adopt* ed during this week.

THE abolition of the gallows is to be reagitated in Maine.

THERE appears to be an epidemic of spiritualistic exposure.

OF late Sau Francisco has bad a murder nearly every Sunday.

GEN. SHERIDAN says ho will shortly orward a list of murders in LouUana, ind that they will number up in the thousands.

THE rental ol tlio pews in Beecher's church foot up some seventy thousand llars for tho current year, and yet people are howling for inflation ®f the currency.

FORTY-EIGHT Young Men's Christian Associations own buildings to the value )f two million dollars. There are nine hundred and forty Young Men's Christian Associations in this country,

A JURY in the civil suit for damages brought by Tilton agaiust Beecher, was unpanneled this week and sworn in, and tho earnest work of the trial is to commence on Monday. Its progress will be watched with widespread and intense interest.

THERE is a bright light ahead. We are wiping out tho national debt rapidly. During the year 1874 tne debt was reduced $489,939 14. As the national debt is but $2,142,598,302.02, at this rapid rate of paying it we will succeed in satisfying nil our creditors at the end of about five thousand years.

ONE of the most, readable letters we have seen from tho Tilton-Beeclier seat of war, is printed on this page from correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. Now that Tilton's civil suit against Beecher, for damages, has actually commenced in the Brooklyn courts, the letter will he read with peculiar interest.

THE Indiana Senator, to succeed Mr. Pratt, is as yet unborn—at least the name has not been determined. Enough, however, is known that Mr. Voorhees is not the coming man. The democratic caucus has been set for next Tuesday ovening. McDonald's chances seem hest but Holman may be tho winning man ~'-1-

THE State Legislature was set to •rrinding on Thursday, without an3' trouble. Hon. David Turpie, Democrat, was elected Speaker of the House. Our Representative, Ben Havens, is taking an active part, and seems to be striking out for the leadership. One of his first moves was to introduce a bill to repeal the Baxter law and substitute therefor a license law.

GERMANS are generally reported, by the politicians, as hard money men. There is a Milwaukee man, of that nationality, whose nose can now certainly be counted upon for the hard money party. He would like a little specie basis now. Last week Herr. Grote's little girl, after the manner of most German iiirla while their good little brothers sleep, arose early to build the fire. Paper for kindling was scarce, but she managed, by use of a $1,100 roll of greenbacks, that she found in a drawer, to get ihat breakfast in time. Herr. Grote bund it out a couple of hours later. He searched the stove but the money had been inflated beyond redemption.

DON'T go in debt during the year 1875 if you can possibly avoid it, and you can, in most instances, if you make the effort. If we could do away with this credit business, panics would bo unknown. Buy for cash and you will not only buy to more advantage, .but you will carry with you always a feeling of independence that can never be enjoyed by the man whose shoulders are burthened by debt, If you have not the money with which to purchase an article, make an effort to do withaut that article until you can pay down the cash for it. These simple suggestions, old as the hills though they are—faithfully carried out, will enable many a man who finds it difficult to make both ends meet to have a snug little sum liud by at the end of the year for a rainy day.

VISITING at best is precarious business. Country people in homespun should fight shy of visits to said city cousins, for said city oousins are apt to take on queer notions of gentility, and to forget that their fathers chopped wood, and their mothers wove rag carpets to buy patches fortheir tattered garments. City friends should learn that going into the country to see country cousins for the busy months of the fkrm year, is a matter calculated to make the former and his family

Mtwice

glad." Lovers should

learn that visits long drawn out or too frequent, end in disgust. In short, too much visiting is fraught with many ill results. Bat there is now a case in the papers that should have its warning to all visiting relatives and friends. A Pennsylvania man has actually committed suicide in order to rid himself of the frequent and prolonged vtaltp of his wife's relations. The poor man bore it for many years, but at last succumbed.

THE House, *a Thursday, by a vote of 196 to 96 passed the Senate finance bill, and it goes to the President for his rignature. The points of the bill are these: 1. That specie payments be resumed Jan. 1,1879—four years hence. 2. Free banking, abolishing the exist-

(The retirement of the fractional currency, and substitution therefor of small silver coinage. 4. The retirement of greenbacks in the proportion of 80 per cent, of the additional national bank currency as til the aggregate Is reduced to ^00,000,^.°l5o*SSS£ry of the Treasury use surplus specie in the treasury, or to *11 bonds, to reduce the Treasury notes to {300,000,000.

HAUTE SATURJMV WRNIN(.I MAIL

A TEST of a juryman's fitness to try the ease of Tilton vs. Beecher, was made on his ability to define tho meaning of the word "condone." The sensible but not over intelligent Gorman failed, the smart lawyers thought it very Amny, and amid laughter the candidate was rejected. We doubt if more than one in ten of the average jurymen can tell the meaning of the word.

THE passage of the Senate Finance Bill by the House on Thursday, it is to be hoped will remove this question from Congress for some years to come. It is this financial tinkering that more than anything else has stagnated business. If tho majority of these currencj' tinkors in Congress and in editorial chairs would devote as much time to subjects with which they are familiar, and leave finances alone, the country would not be a loser by the change.

THERE is a terrible muddle in affairs down in Louisiana, and me conflicting reports of the Associated Press agent and of General Phil Sheridan, cause a greater muddle in the minds of the northern readers. Perhaps with a change of Associated Press agents we would be able to get a clearer statement of things down there. That affairs are in a deplorable condition, and that the difficulties are such as to cause great fears of bloodshed, and perhaps civil war, there can be no doubt. If Sheridan is given free rein, somebody will get hurt, or else there will be peace.

DURING the past week business men havo been taking observation of their stock, their books and their trade, and it is gratifying to learn that they begin the new year in a more hopeful mood than the}7 anticipated. Some, to be sure, have no cause for gratulation, but, taken as a whole, business wears a more cheerful aspect than for months past, and in summing up the work for the twelvemonth just ended, there is found to be far less cause for complaint than many may suppose.

It is well to be able to enter upon the new year with such cheering indications. The bottom of the panic has evidently been reached, and the worst is over. What now remains to be done is, to go work with the determination to overcome every obstacle that is not absolutely insurmountable. Tho recuperative powers of the country are so immense that people need not be surprised to find the spring trade opening with all the briskness and activity of olden times.

Aw attempt is being made to induce Congress to extend a patent which will give the companies a longer lease upon the monopoly which they have enjoyed for so many years. This is all wrong. Since the invention of sewing machines they have been sold at an average of three and four times their actual cest, and millions of dollars have been made out of them. Machines made in this country are shipped to Europe and sold there for half the price at which they are sold here. A large portion of this immense profit comes out of the poorer classes of society, who make their living by sewing and also by this high price, many who most need the machines are prevented from buying them. The true motto for Congress is "Down with this monopoly." In fact our patent laws ought to be so changed that, when a patent is granted, any parties should b« allowed to manufacture and sell it, by paying to the patentee a certain per cent, upon actual cost. This would secure the inventor the Just reward for his skill and labor and secure to the public the benefits of the invention at a reasonable price. In this case the man applies for an extension of the patent on the ground that he has not received a fair compensation, having sold the patent for $150, 000, or, in plain English, because he made a bad bargain. There is neither sense nor justice in granting this, request.

THE "UPPER TEN." (N. Y. Dispatch.]

Tilton's suit against Beecher beginson Monday. Won't there be a crush of "respectable" ladies and gentlemen to listen to the testimony We dont exactly understand bow it is. but when there is a chance for any obscenity in the courts then they are always crowded w. th the "upper ten." They find such a matter more interesting than even Talmage's sermons.

MUST FORGET HE'S A CLERGYMAN.

[From the New York Btar.]

To wlh, he must fight. To fight effectually he must forget for a few days that he is a clergyman. Let him take that long-haired, long-legged Tilton by the throat and throttle him. L^t him take that miserable simulation Moulton by the neck and ahake him. Tilton is a liar. Moulton is worse. Let Beecher meet these poltroons on a fair field, and shake the Devil out of them.

"WHITE man's mighty uncortain," said the Indian. The Indian was correct. It will be remembered that Senator Ringo, of Clay county, at a Temperance meeting in this city recently, pledged himself to stand by the Baxter law, and now word comes from Indianapolis that he will vote to modify the same. When the time comes he will doubtless vote square agaiust it.

AN Indian's skull is worth a dollar and a quarter in tho West for combs and tho thigh of the red man makes knife handles that are equal to ivory in appearance. Hence it is that the hunting of Indian skulls and thigh-bones on the plains has become a profitable business tho hunters sometimes not being at all particular whether the bones belong to a living Lo, or lie scattered over the hm*# "K ""pg •y?. lonely waste. 1 ''s.

SHOW PEOPLE.

The Boston Transcript observes that "short wait" is never complained of at the theaters.

If a shipwreck does not prevent, Lydia Thompson will soon be back with some of the London symmetries of the season.

The M^jiltons loft New York this week for another tour. Annie Kemp Bowles and her sister have been added to the company.

Madame Janauschek is said to own a pint of diamonds, emeralds and rubies, in addition to a: considerable fortune loss romantically invested.

The most promising young actress in America to-day commenced by being a nurse-niaid." That accounts for her being such a spanking actress.

The death is announced at Providence, R. I., on Friday of last week, of Sam Sharpley, one of tho wittiest and most talented artists in tho minstrel profession.

The managers of the new theater at Tucson forgot to put up any racks to hold shot-guns, and those of the audience who bring them have to rest them across tho backs of the seats.

Little Lena Harold, "a child actress of rare promise" (which phrase is almost equivalent to an epitaph), died in Philadelphia December 24, after an illness of .only one day.

Clara Morris says that her husband lets her do just as she wants to. Why cannot other husbands imitate ibis man's example? Then should wo have no horrid scandals and no divorce suits.

Love, says Swinburne, is more cruel than just. But it is more wayward and unaccountable than either. A young lady, said to be the most beautiful in Chicago—a lady who but one short year ago took the premium at a prize fair for lovely women, has just given her heart and hand to a cross-eyed, pug-nosed, freckle-faced, bandy-legged, retail bailmerchant of that city.

Mr. Toole, who is now playing in Indiana, will doubtless be surprised to read this from tho last London Court Journal: "Thousands will rejoice to hear that Mr. J. L. Toole has returned from America, although we can hardly credit the report that he has come back with §14,000 in his pocket. If he did so, he must have gone out with a large sum in it. However, successful or not, we welcome Mr. Toole baok, and shall be glad to hear the old familiar 'Here we are a^ain,' as soon as he likes."—[Arcadian.

TIL TON-BEECHER. ,y

[Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.] 4SN

\?F

Steecher

I BROOKLYN, Jan. 2,1875.

TWO UNEXPECTED THINGS. "Two things," said Theodore Tilton,' some time ago,—"Two things I never expected, or I never should have got into this trouble. I never thought my wife would desert me, and I never supposed that Beecher would bring tho thing to trial before a church court." Tilton, it appears, could not see why, if he was willing to live with his wife, while he charged her with having played fftiso to the marriage vow, she should not bo willing to live with him, oven though sho denied the charge and could not hold up her head in face of it. He could not understand why Beecher should refuse to acknowledge his guilt before the church, give up the pulpit which he unworthily occupied, justify Tilton's conduct in the matter, free him from the imputations to which he had been subjected, and make such reparation as was in his power by sustaining the Golden Age. This was certainly asking ft good deal of Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher, under the circumstances, and particularly in view of the fact that that they had both declared themselves guiltless of the wrongs with which he charged them. But he had no thought tbatTt was asking too much from either of them. It seemed to him that it was her duty to sustain him in thisexigenoy. He felt that she had outraged him grossly, in her adulterous intercourse with Beecher, and the least that she could possibly do was to assist him in the

unishment of Beecher. He felt that bad wronged him dreadfully, and that the least that Beecher could possibly do was to humble himself under the condemnation which he deserved, and thenoeforth hold himself as an outcast on the way

hell, living onlv to

comfort the heart which he had bruised. Ulton, as he says, had no expectation when he wrote nis letter to Di. Bacon, that his wife would leave him, take ground against him, testify against him, and affirm the falsity and cruelty of bis stories. He had no expectation that Beecher would turn around and protest his innocence, refuse to accept the terms offered, assume an attitude of defiance, bring the accusation before the church for investigation, demand tne evidence

which they were based, obtain a verdict exonerating him from the charges of guilt, and continue in his pulpit the same as ever. It he had foreseen these things, as he says, he would never have got into this trouble. He was not asked what his course would have been: but I presume that be would have continued to "condone," as he had previously condoned, his wife's alleged adultery, be would still have lived with her as be bad lived from the time that be had suspected her, and would, above all, have refrained from forcing Beecher into a position where he must necessarily ask the judgment of his church about the matter.

These were certainly very queer notions of Theodore 'Hiton. He must entertain strange view# of womanhood and his wife, and nearly as strange views of Beecher and his career. But I guess there is not much use arguing these points with a man possessed of a mind that can bold such ideas. I have known some queer people in the course of a lifetime—queer men and queer women, queer husbands and wives, queer saints, sinners and philosophers. I suspect it must have been Shakspeare who ought to have said, "This ia a strange world my masters."

As there is pretty good reason for believing that, at least, the Beecher-Tilton trial is about to begin in the oourt selected for it, on the eivil

suit,

it to better

not to indulge in much more talk about the thing as it stands. I am not displeased with the action of the ^ourt in denying the demand of Beecher couneel for a bill of particulars, and in tberebv permitting Tilton to offer all such evidence as may be available In support of the general charge. If Beecher is cleared under these circumstances the verdict will be more satisfactory to the

public than it would have been otherwise. This is a trial in which peoplo had better "prepare for the unexpected." Havknovt

wife to be innocent, or that he has been laboring under a delusion, or that he has taken part in a conspiracy, or that he has been under the instigation of the devil, or that he had used Oriental language In an Occidental sense, or that he was ready to settle the whole case on condition of his wife returning to him, I should not be in tho least bit astounded. After one has had occasion to understand tho nature and workings of Tilton's mind, Tilton has ceased to possess the power of surprising him.

There is not to bo much that is now in tho nature of evidence on the trial. People aro already familiar with all the documentary evidence. They have had the testimony of Mr. Beecher and of Mrs. Tilton. They have had tho successive statements of Tilton and of Moulton. The most important novel points will be the sworn evidence of Beecher, Tilton, and Moulton and his wife. We shall doubtless have some light thrown on the cause and meaning of Beecher's so-call-ed "confession," and of Mrs. Tilton's socalled "confession." Though the church tribunal received these documents, it exculpated Beecher but they will be put to a severer test this timo.

Let mo hore say that, to my mind, tho verdict that was delivered by the Church Court, and the attitude that has been assumed toward Beecher by the body of the church, are things of deep significance which have not always been duly appreciated. There aro people who say that the chttrch was bound to exonerate him in any event. But can any man of senso who* knows that Beecher church is at least a highly intelligent and respectable body of people, really suppose that they desired him to be pronounced innocent if he wore guilty? They were interested in their very hearts in getting at the truth. For can it be supposed that these members are desirous that their children should bo baptised by an adulturer, that their daughters should be married by a seducer, and that the consolations of religion should bo administered to them at the hour of death by a hypocrite and perjurer? Even il

they wished to hear a fornicating fraud every Sunday, they can hardly DO supposed to wish these other things. Instead of being their interest to find him innocent against the facts, it is their supreme and solomn intorest to find him guilty, if he be so.

Tilton still retains his desire to "make1 up" with his wife, and has frequently renewed his attempts to do so. Doesn't this look as though he were a lialf-crazy man? He would be reconciled to her, and still go on, just as ho went on while formerly living with her, arguing that she had prostituted her person, defiled her marriage bed, and outraged her oflspring. He would resumo his old relations with her, and keep them up, by day and night, even while he persisted in doing all he could to make hor name infamous, and to show that she had testified falsely. But this is no more surprising than his expectation that sho would cling to him when ho put out those newspaper statomonts about her which did not begin with the Bacon letter. Was there ever before such fatuousness? By the way, Tilton has never yet given up to her tho house iu which they lived, and though ho announced long ago, with a flourish of trumpets and tho?. atrical gestures that he would do so.

Tilton asked one of his acquaintances how it was that, while many men were on his side, all the women seemed to be dewn on him. This was a point ho could not understand, for he thought he ought to havo the sympathy of women. He could hardly find a single one on bis side. In reply, he was told that there were many reasons, only one of which would bo mentioned. It was that no woman would be safe, or consider her good name safe, if women were to be accused as ho had accused Ills wife, or were to be held guilty on such evidence as he had brought up against her. Many women felt this, women of the highest virtue, women who wore as prudent a* his wife had been imprudent. It was Hamlet who said to Ophelia: "If thou dost marry, I'll give tlico this plague for thy dowry: Bo thou ns chnste as Ice as pure as snow, thou shalt uotescape calumny."

In more ways than one have the legal proceedings in the matter borne hard on all of Beeclier's throe original accusors— Tilton, Moulton and Carpenter. If Tilton docs not get the damages for which he is suing, I apprehend his lawyers will havo to whistle for their fees. Moulton's direct losses have been large, and the indirect losses of the firm to which he belongs have been very heavy. In the collateral suit of Miss Proctor against him for slander, his expenses were about ten thousand dollars, nearly half of which went as damages to tho plaintiff. Carpenter, as a luckless artist, had but little to lose but I know that his connection with the business has lost him commissions for pictures that would have been advantageous to him.

In writing the foregoing paragraph, I wished to see precisely how much Moulton had to pay Miss Proctor in damages, and so I looked up and read the decision in the case which was given on the 15tli of last month. How exceedingly dam-

against the lady,

jure Beecher. "I find," (this is the fearful language of the referee on which judgment was based,)—"I find by the defendant's (Moulton's) admissions that his imputations and statements made npon the character and conduct of the plaintiff are wholly and absolutely untrue and that the defendant admitted the untruth of such imputations and statements," Isn't the language, even thoueh condensed, rather plain? Could anything be more damaging to the reliability and honor of the man who has all along been held up, and, I suppose, is to appear as the chief witness against Beecher In his "statement" or accusation against Beecher bo implicated the lady above named as a co-adulterer with Beecher, and, as soon as tho eme is brought into Court, ho admits the untruth of his allegations. The main accusation against Beecher was made in the document which bo has thus declared to be at least partly ffclse, and the falsehood was asseverated and reiterated by him up to the timo he found himself confronted by a dreaded punishment. It would have l*en humiliating to any decent man to bo compelled thus to brand himself but I presume that, having admitted bis falsehood on one point, he is ready to make the same admission in regard to the other, when he finds that the continued asseveration of it puts him in the way of dangers he is not prepared to men. I should think his confession, thus published to the world in legal form, must invalidate all the testimony in regard to the matter that he may give on his own responsi-

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the case will presently be before the Court, and all the evidence will be before the Jury and the public, nnlesK some now meaner of staving ofr tfte trial be found.

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