ocr. RT eae An THE EXAMINER 18 PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY PORENOON, | BY THE Ryaminer Printing & Publishing Co. OFFICE: Corner Queen and King Streets. TERMS—Per Annum, § within the year--$1.82, postage not paid within the year CLUB RATES. Tar Examiner will be aid; $2 if forwarded to Clubs at the following rates per year—pay went strictly in advance 5 copies one address, - § 7.00 10 * es 17.00 — 17.00 7 * 20.00 Clubs may be made up at any time, but not for a shorter period than ove year The Ch'town, August 24, 1S74. Civic THe City Council of Halifax is not | much better than our own. the “ Aldermen " have unseemly disputes ; and very often their meetings are characterized by a great deal of talk and very little work, A few years ago they were talking away very uusatisfactorily, when ove of the practical men of their number startled them into an hour’s work by the terse saying, sense and proceed to business.” ‘Let us quit non- This short sententious expression is now pro- verbial in Halifax. It. is often repeat- ed—not always, we fear, with the extreme- ly satisfactory effect of its first utterance | —when the worthy Aldermen fritter their time away severance. We rest ‘quit nonsense and proceed to business,’ to the attention of the City Council of ectfully commend the saying, Charlottetown. We trust they may bear it in mind and profit by it. We are quite certain that no Corporation in North America could more advantageous- ly carry the precept into practice. No City or Town Council throughout the} when a squall struck and capsized the | Bowen. ind the ; si | getting upon the bottom of the boat, and | I visited her. whole extent of the United States Dominion has been more uniformly non- sensical. In no other City or Town Coun- | ei] is there such an absolute necessity for | workers. Charlottetown is at least fifty years behind the age. It has no water works and no sewers—none of the modern conveniences of town life; and few of the ornaments which should belong to the City. And yet our Councillors waste their time in party strife and bickering. Instead of unitedly working for the ad- vancement of the city, they retard the In- : Cost, civic business by unseemly disputes stead of procuring estimates of t! aud the opinions of practica ing the digging ot ] men concern- and the means of pure, fresh water, they do nothing but talk complain- ingly sbout taxes. the few ornaments whieh the city posses- es, and adding others to them, they talk, till they allow the ornaments to become any- thing but ornamental. a journal published in that exquisitely elean, well kept, orderly, and delightfully beautiful town of Summerside, had the impudence to taunt Charlottetown about its dirty streets and the disgraceful state of Hillsborough Square, and to declare that our citizens did not deserve a public Park because they fail | to take proper | eare of the places of recreation they al- | j sewers of obtaining a large supply Instead of preserving Two Weeks ago ready possess. What could the journal- ists of Charlottetown reply? Although | sincerely desirous of defending their city, and of obtaining, for all time to com, the | Park tothe use and benefit of the citizens —they could and did answer nothing. They felt and knew that the taunt was merited. Now, we do trust that our City Council will take seriously to heart the admonition to ‘ to business.’ They may perhaps be stinctively aware that there is neither in- them work ding quit nonsense and proceed | in- | dividual nor collective ability among sufficient to consummate the great ofintroducing pure water and prov sewers. But let them do what they Other City Councils possessing little ability,are,we observe, working for the can. more good | of theirconstituents. Within the last two | years Halifax has procured a fine Park— a Park, which when properly laid out, and beautifiel, will be the envy of all the cities in America. It already has beauti- fal public gardens ; and its City Council is | now negotiating for the purchase of the Horticultural Gardens. Our City Council. | lors can at least imitate the City Council- | lors of Halifax ; for they are not very much lower in the scale of intelligence and taste They ean improve Hillsborough Square. They can improve the streets. They might try a public garden, They could | use their influence to procure the Park. Gentlemen, “quit nonsense and proceed to business.” { Sittin THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. ia Alabama Claims THe famous ” have been almost as great a source of con‘en- tion among certain interested parties in the United States, as the King of Egy pt’s | present of wheat was to the Athenians. It is hoped that an Act passed by ‘on gress near the end of the late ses-ion, and assented to by the President, wil! be nearly if not altogether final in the mat ter. The Act provides :— First, for the payment of the claims upo: the award which are un lis, ited the d struction of property by the “ Florida * Alabama,’ and ‘** Shenandoah,” thet vessels named at the Geneva Conference Judemnities are not to be paid except when afier a close Scrutiny actuai joss is disco ver- ed to have been sustained. A Board of Com- missioners is to be appointed, in lieu of a| Court to adjudicate these undisputed claims The provision of the Senate bill that th demnity should be calcuiated in gold was | stricken out as impracticable, The demand iti- of the house that there should be a check | upow tiaim agents was acceded to by t! adoption of a provision declaring that a fees and contracts for fees shall be passed upon by this commission, and shall be made & part of the judgment on the award in ca case. Acontymporary thinks that the alop- tion of this report by both houses, ana its enusc! ment into 4 law tia! defeat of the insurance companies is true that it was urged that the undisputed claims would, at the utmost, aggregate #10- acerued interest. These five millions, it was thought, would be suflicient to satisfy the jast claims of the insurance companies, a: of the war premium claimants upon th award, the determination of whose right to the award is by the report postponed unt)! the next session. It is, however, said (jal @9 io the case of the Preuch spo.iation clams the smount of this award not distributed by the bill may, perhaps, remain in the Trea- sary fora new generation of ¢jgimant: to 1.62, if paid} Naminer,, Occasionally | with more than ordinary per- ; probably, committed suicide. | truction | | giants compared with which the thoughts ' | His every task is something that ordinary | men would shrink from, yet their vastness is continent of Africa. | which will result from the consummation of | will prove a substan: | jam easy access, as will abundantly repay | the French Government for the outlay with 606,000, ieaving five and a half millions, wiih | s) — - ] , ~~ FATAL ACCIDENTS MR. BEECHER'S STATEMENT. —— A YOUNG MAN DRAGGED 10 DERATH-—TWO MEN ae Beecher-Tilton Seandal has reached DROWNED—AND TWO MEN FALL INTO Al gerisis. On the 13th inst., Mr. Beecher ' COAL PIT A DISTANCR OF NINE HUNDRED The tide of this FEET | On Saturday evening, the 15th instant, young Seymour Hayden, of Vernon River, left home tor the purpose of transacting some business at a place about three miles With him he took a horse and sulky, the and sulky | away. |In the night horse re> | turned; but the young man did not come | | into the house as usual. Wondering what could detain him, his mother (who was sit- ting up waiting his arrival) went out into | the yard. There, horror-stricken, she found the dead body of her son hanging to the sulky—his arm and leg both broken, } and his head shockingly bruised. | been literally dragged to death. [is | had caught in the spring, and his head and | body had been dragged, evidently at great leg distance. Young Hayden is described by lthe Argus as a “smart, intelligent young man, only 19 years of age, and son of James He had j }associate and representative of Victoria | speed, along the ground for a considerable | made his ‘‘ statement.’ “open pool of corruption "- himself terms it—will now gradually sub- -as Beecher side. The ‘deadly vapors’ and the moral atmosphere around Brook lyn will become clearer and more wholes some. Mr. Beecher commenced his ‘statement’ by reaffirming the explicit and comprehen- sive denial of criminality which he had bes fore given. Hethen went on to say that ‘ Four years ago Theodore Tilton fell from one of the proudest editorial chairs in America, where he represented the cause of religion, humanity and patriotism, and months thereafter became the in a few Woodhull and her strange cause.’ He epitomises Tilton’s life, from his cardinal intimacy with him at the commencement iof his career, and tells of his (Beecher’s) | ‘lamentation and sorrowful, but hopeful affection for him during the period of his Hayden, Esq , Merchant, of Vernon River.”’ | initial wanderings from truth and virtue,’ the body on the 16th inst adduced showed that the deceased left } J. R. Bourke, Esq., held an inquest on | and of his growing conviction that his pers The evidence petual blunders gendered his recovery ims possible. Mr. Beecher declares—* I can home on Saturday about 6 o’clock in the | now see he is and has been, from the be- | afternoon, in a sulky, for the purpose of | ginning of this difficulty, a selfish and recks purchasing some goods at the store of} less schemer, pursuing a plan of mingled | Murdoch McLeod, of Orwell, where he res | good and hatred, and weaving about me a | mained until about 84 o'clock. When on | network of suspicions, misunderstandings, his way home he was pitched off his seat in | plots and lies to which my own innocent 7 j consequence of a deep ditch or rut in the | words and acts—-nay, even my thoughts of . . . . ' ° ° | road, and his legs getting jammed in the | kindness toward him have been made to spring, they being elliptic, under the sulky, the horse took fright, and he was dragged some two miles, his clothes | having been literally torn from his body | the back of his head beaten in, and his | shoulders broken. When the horse reach- 'ed home, his mother was the first to dis- | cover him on the sulky with his legs fas~ tened in the spring, which required the | efforts of two men to extricate him, but The Verdict of the Jury | Wis accidental death. We that the funeral of young Hayden was, per- haps, the most largely attended of any that | life was extinct. are informed | ever took place in Vernon River. | On Wednesday last a fatal accident oc- eceurred in Charlottetown harbor. Mr Owen P. Trainor—of the Post eflice— with two companions, was out sailing, and falling | contribute.” It appears that the close friendship of Beecher and Tilton was first interrupted in 1866—when the latter made a series of violent attacks upon the former through the columns of the Jadependent newspaper, of Tiltow Their relations, however, continued which was editor. social Beecher to visit his house, saying—‘ 1 wish you would look in and see that Libby is not lonesome or does not want anything,” or words to that effect. Never by word or sign (says Mr. Beecher) did Tilton coms plain of my visits in his family until after he began to fear that the Jad lent woul be taken from him, nor did he break out in violence until the evening of his dispos- session from both papers, the Jidependent and the Brooklyn / ; Mr. owned by boat. were, shortly after the accident, rescued ard was drowned. His body was not re- covered till this morning. James Merry (a boatman) and another were. about halfe past eight o'clock, rowing in the harbor when they saw it floating down stream. They drew it into their boat, and brought | it to Queen's wharf. It was conveyed to! Mr. Trainor’s house in Pownal Street. where Beer. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental } drowning. an inquest was held by Coroner The deceased was the son of Mr. Michael Preventive officer at this port. Trainor, He was one of the most popular assistants | « in the Post Office, and he was greatly be- friends. His } amiable and obliging manners renderec him a general favorite. Early on Saturday morning Marshal—and one loved by his relatives and ~ the Police or two assistants —in search of the body of poor Trainor—picked up the body of James McCulloch, a truck- man, generally known by the nickname of Jack of Clubs. The unfortunate man had, For several months he has been in low spirits, and more | than once was heard to threaten self-des- An inquest was held, and a ver- dict of “Found drowned’’ rendered. We regret to report a most disgraceful occur- rence in connection with this sad The body was allowed to lay upon the wharf exposed to the sun, and to the gaze of all who happened to be in the vicinity from half-past eight in the morning till half-past one in the afternoon. It might have remained longer, had not one or two case. disgusted citizens protested against the scandalous outrage. On Saturday, the 15th inst , two men named, respectively, John Potts and John Jackson, fell from the shaft of Foord Pit Albioa Mines, Pictou, a distance of nine hundred feet. Tke mutilated bodies were brought to the surface in the evening. An of inquest was held, and a verdict accidental death rendered, {f WONDERFUL ENTERPRISE. The name of M. Lesseps, made famous by the gratifying success which followed the great undertaking of cutting a channel from the waters of the Mediterraneum to those of the Red Sea, thus rendering unnecessary the long and dangerous voyage round the Cape of Good Hope, and shortening the road to India, bids fair to achieve a still | | but he, poor fellow, got caught under her, | having reference to me. In the latter part of July, 1870, Trainor’s companions succeeded in Mrs. Tilton was sick, and at her request She seemed much depress- no hint of ed, but gave me any trouble 1 cheered her as Just before leaving—this was our last interview before the trouble broke out in the family; I describe it it was the last its character has a bearing upon a later best | could, and prayed with her. because part of my story. visits, it is sufficient to say that a/ Concerning all my other riew whicAa 4 A pia My, - 7 fon } , pat) } aii in / t fCRINYG .. 4 d ? t the t if mi vu of 4 tween a man of | 0) md / weit fh ; id, ’ Fv thy gy ; *¢ AappeR which sh i ‘ ‘ ? thy} t¢ ton { from he hush ti 2 After giving reasons for the removal of Tilton from the editorial chair of the Jiade- pendent, Mr. Beecher proceeds : After Mrs. Tilton’s return from the West in December, 1870, a young girl whom Mrs I n had taken into the family, educated and treated lik 1, was sent to ntr I would visit ier She said that Mrs. Tilton had left her home and gone toher mother’s in consequence of he ill-treatment of he vean account of what had seen of elty and abuse on the part of the husband that shocked me, and yet more when, downcast look, she said that Mr; Tilton had visited her chamber in the night and sought her consent to his wishes. I immediately visited Mrs. Tilton at her mother’s, and re account of her home | the despotism of she ceived an husband, manag nt ofa woman whom he jream. The q Liol whe should go back or separate for husband. I asked permission t ti mestic relations I thought better my} own, and accordingly a second visit was was extremeiy ‘i nd declared that no tion o earth would induce her t en an hou with a man who had treated | with an hundreth part of su sult and cruel I felt as strongly as she did, but } tale a I always do, at giving advi 1 fav fa separation. It was agreed that my wife jal word and the Jaren ona scrap of paper, nur lat your view is right, and that a separation and set- tlement of support will be wisest, and that in his present desperate state her presence n¢ him is far more likely to pred li than her absen Mrs. Tiltor ; me that my presence had an with this trout n lid she ton the J previous he ra confession of ey « On the evening of Dec : | 1870, Mr. Bowen, on his way ! greater lustre from the other great enter~ | at my house and handed m prises, with which, from time to time, it is | Mr. Tilt It was, as nea associated. The energy and ability which | °™' siglo , — r | ‘ ENnRY Warp fECHER, — F< easons must have been required to carry through | _“‘ Hexxy Wanro Bercner, — For reason oe " - | which you explicitly know, and which I for- to a successful completion a work pronouns | pear to state, | demand that you withdraw ced impracticable by an engineer of such | from th? pulpit and quit Brooklyn as a resis eminence as Stephenson, could not long | @&"Ce - . ial (signed rest content with the laurels won by one | scatabite great achievement. It is characteristic of | THEODORE TILTON, the man, too, that every scheme which has { read itovertwice and turned to Bowen emanated from him, has been built on the | #4 s4i4, “This man is crazy ; this is sheer : : : al Sine teen f i j insanity, and other like words Bowen same rn ene e,. 1€ . eas iormed in | profe ssed to be ignorant of the contents, and the brain of this wonderful Frenchman, are | I handed him the letterto read. We at once Were he to it would be a St. of other men are as pigmies. build a church Peter's. not their best feature. The latest project which M. Lesseps has given to the world is nothing less than adding a new sea to the It has been tolerably | certain that the vast deserts which disfigure | the interior of Algeria, were atsome distan; period covered by the waters of the Medi- terranean, i ] In along course of years, by gradual accretion, the channels through | which the waters were supplied became choked up, and the intense heat of the sun together with the peculiar character of the soil, speedily changed the aspect of the country to what it now presents. The proposition of M. Lessep’s, which is endorsed by the Geographical Society of France, is to re-open one of those long closed channels, a work of a much less ons orous nature than the construction of the Suez Canal, and of comparatively trifling ex- pense, and to allow the waters to flow in again over their old bed. The benefits this project it is difficult to foresee. It is believed, however, that the connecting of these great deserts into an inland sea, will have such an effect upon the productives ness of the place to which its waters will give which it will be attended. The lack of any means Of access to navigable waters in the interior of Africa has long becn recognized as the principal obstacle which stands in the way of the opening up of that country “f the trade and civilizing influences of Eu. rope. If M. Lesseps has devised a means | of overcoming this difficulty, and of opening | up a new field for commercial enterprise, | as well as of solving many old geographical problems, he will have earned the gratitude ‘of the whole human race,— Halifax Cilizen, | calmly. | frunt of his house, he began a set oration. He fell into a conversation about Mr. Tilton, | Juring which Bowea-said Tilton had been | reduced from the position of editor of the} Independent to that of a contributor because | his religious views were ruining the paper, the conversation resulting in the opinion that Bowen could not retain relations with t Tilton, Bowen derided Tilton’s letter and | ‘omised his friendship to me, and Til on | was subsequently removed from the Union. Mr. Beecher goes on to say that he felt unhappy at Tilton’s disaster, ‘ as his affairs | | did not promise that sympathy and strength | which makes one’s house, as mine has been | | in times of adversity, arefuge and a tower | of defence,’ Mr. Beecher continues— “On the 29th of December, 1870, Mr. Til- ton having learned that I had replied to bis threatening letter by expressing such an opinion of him as to set Mr. Bowen finally against him, and bring him face to face with immediate ruin, extorted from his wife, then suffering from a severe iliness, a document in- criminating me, and prepared an elaborate attack on me. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 30, 1870, about 7 o'clock, Mr. Francis D, Moul- ton called at my house, and with earnestness said: ‘‘ 1 wish you to go with me to see Mr. Tilton.” [replied that I could not then, as I was just going tomy prayer meeting. With the most positive manner he said, ‘* You must gu. Somebody else will take care of the meeting.” I went with him, not knowing what trouble agitated him, but vaguely think- ing that I might now learn the solution of the recent threatening letter. Qn the way I ask- ed what was the reason of this visit, to which he replied that Mr. Tilton would inform me, or words to that effect. Onentering his house Moulton locked the door, saying something about not being interrupted. He requested me to go into the front chamber over the par- lour. I was under the impression that Mr. Tilton was going to pour out upon me his anger for colleaguing with Bowen, and for the advice of separation given to his wife. I wished Mr. Moulton to be with me, as a witness, but he insisted thatI should go bv myself. Mr. Tilton received me coldly but After a word or two, standing in charged me, in substance, with acting for a long time in an unfriendly spirit, that I had sought his downfall, and spread injurious ru- mors about him, was using my place and in- will disperse ‘ kindly; and as late as 1869 Tilton invited | and | husband. She then | | and faithfulness to his wife. | deston to undermine him, had advised Mr Bowen to dismiss him, and much more that I leannot remember. He then declared that I i} had injured him in his family relations, had | joined with his mother-in-law in producing i discord in his house, had advised a separa-| | tion, had alineated his wife’s affections | him, had led her to love me more than any living being, had corrupted her moral! nature, and taught her to be from | insincere, lying, and | | hypocritical, and he ended by charging that | I had made he had reac | contempt, under the impression that he was attempting to bullyme. On making the‘ast charge, he sals to her, wicked prop | made to him by his wife of her love for me, and th had made proposals to her of an impure nature; he said that this confession had been made to him in July, six months previous, that his sense of honor and affec tion would not permit any such document to remain in existence, that he had burned the original and should now destroy the oaly copy, and he then tore the paper into small pieces. If I had been shocked at such a state- ment,! was absolutely thunderstruck when he closed the interview by requesting me to re- pair at once to his house, where he said Eliz- abeth was waiting for me, and learn from her lips the truth of his stories in so far as they concerned her. This fell like a thunderbolt upon me. Could it be possible that his wife, whom I regarded as the type of moral good- ness, should have mode such false and atro- cious statements? And yet, it she had noi, how would he dare to send to her for cor- tirmation of his charges? I went forth likea night-walker. IL believe that Moulton went with me to the door of Tilton’s house. The housekeeper, the same woman of whom Mrs. lilton had complained, seemed to have been instructed by him, for she evidently expected me—showed me at once to Mrs. Tilton’s room Mrs. Tilton lay upon her bed, white as mar- ble, with closed eyes as ina trance, and with her hands upon her bosom palm to palm, like one in prayer. She made no motion, and gave no sign of recognition of my presence, I sat down near her, and said: ‘* Elizabeth, Theo- dore has been making very serious charges against me, and sent me to you for confirme ation.’ She made no reply or sign; yet it was plain she was conscious and listening. I repeated some of his statements—-that I had brought discord to the family, had alienated her from him, had sought to break up the family, had usurped his influences, and then, as wellas I could, | added that he had ssid that I had made improper suggestions tosier, and thatshe had admitted this fact to him last July. I said, “ Elizabeth, have you made such statements?’ She made no answer, | repeated the question, Tears ran dowr her cheeks and she very slightly bowed her 1ead in aequiescence. I said, “‘ You cannot nean that you have stated ali that he has charged?” She opened her eyes, and began in aslov and feeble way to explain how sick she had been, hew wearied out with importunity, that he had confessed his own alien loves, and said that he id not bear to think that she was better than he, that she might win him to reformation if she would confess that she had loved me more than him, and that they would repent and soon, with future concord, etc. I canno! give her language, but only the tenor of her representations. I received them impatiently spoxe lo her in the shortest language of her course. I said to her, ‘* have l ever made any improper advances to yeu?” She said, “No,” Then I asked, *« Why did you say so to your husband?” She seemed deeply distressed and said, ‘* My friend,”’— by that designation she almost always cal- led me—‘‘I amsorry, but I could not help it; | what can | do?” J told het d state in writing what had now told me. he SuC ¢ } ] she Until | hed this { had listened with some | | produced a paper purporting to be | } a certified statement of a previous confession : ; ; | few words more as to ils further fate. } So one day J suddenly asked Moulton for the the same manl thought f had deeply injured, I hum- bled myself, as I certainly did; but it is use- less to analyze a paper prepared, as this was. | | The remainder of my plain statement con- | ‘ cerning it will be its comment, This docu- ment was written upon three separale half- | sheets of letter paper. After it was t nished Mr. Moulton asked me if I would sign it “No, it isnot my letter.’ He replied that it | vould have more weight if I would in some way indicate that he was authorized to ex- plain my sentiments. I took my pen and at) some distance below the writing, and upon the lower margin, I indicated that I had com- mitted the document in trust to Mr. Moulton, and I signed the line thus written by me. A Mr, Moulton, of his own accord, said that after using it he would in two or three day bring the memorandum back to me, and he caution- ed me about disclosing in any way that there was a difliculty between Mr. Tilton and me, as it would be injurious to Tilton to have it known that I had quarreiled with him, as well as to me to have rumors set afloat, 1 did not trouble myse!f about it until more than a year afterwards. When Tilton began to write up his case, of which hereafter, and was looking up documents, I wondered what was in the old memorandum, and desired to see it for greater certainty. memorandum, and said “ You promised to return it to me.’ He seemed confused for a moment, and said, “Did 1?” “ Certainly,’ Il answered. He replied that the paper had been destroyed. On my putting the ques- tion again, ** That paper was burnt up long ago,’ he said; and during the next two years, in various conversations, of his own accord he spoke of it as destroyed., I had never asked for or authorized the destruction of this paper; but I was not allowed to know that the do¢ument was in existence until a distinguished editor in New York, within afew years past, assured me that Mr. Moulton had shown him the original, and that he had examined my signature to be sure Of its genuineness. I know there was a copy of it since this statement was in pre- paration, While I rejected this memoran- dum as my work, or an accurate condensa~ tion of my statements, it does undoubtedly correctly represent that I was in profound sorrow, and that I blamed myself with great sense that, both to God and to the | influence and in my charch, I could never free myself from a certain degree of respon- sibility for his misdoings, such as visits a father. Mr. Beecher then gives the action of the | church relative to the proceedings of the Investigating Committee. He states he wrote a letter of resignation, but did not send it in, as he considered it a self sacrifice which would not stop the trouble. He showed it, however, to Moulton, and thinks that possibly Moulton copied it. Beecher still has the original. Mr. Beecher concludes as follows :— Gentlemen of the Committee, in the note requesting your appointment, 1 asked that vou should make a full investigation of all sources of information You are witnesses that I have in no way influenced or inter- fered with your proceedings of duties. 1 have wished the investigation to be so search- ing that nothing could unsettle its results. [have nothing to gain by any policy of sups pression or compromise. For four years I have borne and suffered eneugh, and I will not go a step further; I will be free. I will not walk under arod or yoke. If any man would do me a favor, let him tell all he knows now. It is not mine to lay down the law of honor in regard to the use of other persons’ confidential communications; but, in so far as my own writings are concerned, there is not a letter or document which f am afraid to have exhibited, and I authorize any, and call upon any living person tu pro- duce and present forthwith whatever writ- ‘ings they have of whatever source whatever. It is true, for the sake of decency and public morals, that this matter should be brought toanend. U is an open pool of corruption, exhaling deadly vapors. For six weeks the nation has risen up and sat down upou scan- dal. Net a great war or revolution could have filled the newspapers more than this question of domestic trouble magnified a thousandfold, and, like a sore spot on the human body, drawing to itself every morbid humor in the blood. Whoever is buried with it, it is time that this abomination should be buried below all touch or power of resurrection. (Signed) severity for the disasters of Tilton’s family, | l had not then the light that I now have. | There was much then that weighed heavily | on my heart and conscience which now Weighs only on my heart. Soon after this J met Tilton at Moulton’s house. Either Mouls | ton was sick or was very late in rising, for | he was in bed. The subject of my feelings | and conduct tewards Tilton was introduced | made a statement of the motives under | which I acted in counselling Bowen, of my feelings in regard to Tiiton’s family, disclaim- | ing with horror the thought of wrong, and | expressing a desire to do whatever lay in | human power to remedy any evil | had occa- and to reunite his family. Tilton } Was sullen and silent. He played the part | of an injured man; but Moulton said to Mr. | Tilton, with intense emphasis, ‘‘ That is all | sioned, that gentlemen can say, and you ought to accept it. Itis an honorable basis of recon- | ciliation This he repeated two or three | times, and Tilton’s countenance cheered up! under Moulton’s strong talk We shook hands, and parted in a friendly way. Not } this under his roof, but I certainly was in- very long afterwards Tilton asked me to his bouse, and said he should be glad to have 1 do not re~ a meal after renewed. ever took old times whether | the goc 1 member vited by him to renew my visits as formerly. I never resumed my intimacy with the family, but once or twice [ went there soon after my Henry Wakp Brecuer. In his crosssexamination, Mr. Beecher gave an emphatic denial to the charge that he had been found, with a flushed face, in Mrs. Tilton’s bedroom, He declared that he had never admitted to Moulton, or Til- ton, or to any other person, that he had ever held any relations with Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, or ever committed any act to, or with, or said any word to her, which would be unfit for a Christian to hoid, do or say to the wife of his friend, or for a father to hold do or say to his daughter, or a brother with asister. In answer to a question concern- ing his philosophy in the matter of mars riage, Mr. Beecher said :-— I am not versed in the philosophy and cauistry of free love. I stand on the New England doctrine, in which I was brought up, that it is best fora man to have one wife, and that he stand by her, and that he do not meddle with his neighbors’ wives. I abhor every manifestation of the free love doctrine that I have seen in the theory, and I abhor every advocate of the free love doctrine that I have known Mr Beecher after the statement declared beckoned for her writing materials, which reconciliation with Mr. Tilton, and at his that he felt as if a load had been taken off ban ied her from the secretaire standing rly puest j}his mind. He has gone to the White reds rll brent: xe a sort : fy oe Mr. Beecher gives an account of a recon- | Mountains, ” drive ad a'l his troubles. | Script she denied explicitly that I had ever | ciliatory scene at Tilton’s house in the pre- ; The public will, we think, judge his states pei / re Bars, al gpa: 58 soggy | sence of Tilton’s wife, which Mr. Beecher ment a satisfactory wy Mr. — itr. Tilton. or ga ee “hia saad ment | BOW think swas for effect, in order that he | explanation of his letters as published, Mrs. | about the confession which | e hed read to vg | (Beecher)could be used to get money out of | Tilton’s recantation of the confession to her i” a pohang wors A : at th it time. | Bowen for Tilton, which the latter claimed | husband, the proved untruthfulness of Mr. Gente ns Be T she ald bh eve Bi pe a was due him, Moulton lost no opportunity | Moulton s declarations that Beecher had lied myself? On the next day, at evenmg, | to present the kindest views of Tilton, but confessed the crime—are three strong links Mr. M yult 4 ~d at “33 house, and ¢/ complained that Mrs. Tilton did not trust | in the evidence ; and the people of his Up into m eaTroon. said Mrs. Mrs. Tilton, he said, had already r ting the retractation made to might be no end to i Meanwhile Tilton had destroy e's first letler, acknowledg- ing the confession, and Mr. Moulton claimed | that I had taken a mean advantage and made a dishonorable use of Theodore’s request that I should visit her, in obtaining from her a | written contradiction to a document notin | existence. He said that all difficulties could | be settled without any such papers. That | ought to give itup. He was under great ex tement. tle made no verbal threat, but he | opened his overcoat, and with some emphatic j remarks showed a pistol, which afterwards whi stood. I gave the paper to him posed that she had been overborn with sick- | } ness, shattered in mind, and no longer re sponsible for to her in pity. prudence and want of foresight, for he thought it was the result of her undue fection for him, and he could have borne any punishment if that poor child could but emerge from this cloud. He judged from Tilton’s anger and fury that the charge made by him, and supported by the accus-! ation of his wife, was to be publicly pressed | against him, which might result in great | \ disaster, if not absolute ruin. He consider- ed his name, his church, and everything connected with him involved. He says, | “My earnest desire to avoid public accus- | n, and the evils necessa ily flowing from | at) ALAC ril leadin it has been one of the g motive that | must explain my action during those three or four years.”’ | Mr. Moulton visited Beecher at this time, finding him in a sore distressed condition. | Moulton seemed convinced that Beecher had been seeking Tilton’= downfall, had with Bowen against him, and by his advice, had nearly destroyed his family. Mr. Beech er says he needed arguments to induce him to do or say anything to remedy the injury | | he believe he had been the active cause of. | Moulton assured Beecher of Tilton’s purity Beeclrer ace cordingly felt convicted of slander in its) meanest form, become terribly excited, felt his mind in danger of giving way, poured) forth his heart in unrestrained grief and bits} terness of self-accusation, but denying any intentional wrong. Moulton suid if Tilton could feel assured of Beecher’s friendlis! ness, there would be no trouble in making a reconciliation. Mr, Beecher says: I gave him leave to state to Theodore my feelings. He proposed that 1 should write a letter. I declined; but said thathe could re- |} port ourinterview. He then prepared to make a memorandum of the talk, and sat down at my table and took down, as] supposed, a condensed report of my talk, for I went on slill pouring out my wounded feelings over this great desolation in Tilton’s family. It was not a dictation of sentence after sentence —he a mere amanuensis, and I composing | for him. Mr. Moulton was putting ioto his own shape part of that which I was saying in my own manner with profuse explanation. This paper of Mr. Moulton’s was a mere me- morandum of points to be used by him in set-} ting forth my feelings. That it contained matter and points derived from me, is with- out doubt, but they were put with sentences by him and exprefifed as he understood them, not as my words, but as hints of my figureg and letters to be used by him in conversing with Mr. Tilton. He did not read the paper to me, nor did I read it, nor have I ever seen it or heard it read, that | remember, until the publication of Mr. Tilton’s recent documents, and now reading il I see in it thoughts that point to the matter of my discourse, but it is not my paper, nor are those my sentences, nor is it a correct report of what I said. It is a mere string of hints hastily made by an un- practised writer, as helps.to his memory in representing to Mr. Tilton how I felt towards his family. If more than this be claimed—if it be set forth asin any proper sense my let- ter—I then disown it and denounce it, Some of its sentences, and particularly that in which I am made to say that I had obtain- ed Mrs. Tilton’s forgiveness, I never could | have said even in substance. I had not ob-| tained, nor asked, any forgiveness from her, and nobody pretended that I had done so. Neither could I ever have said that I humbled myself before Tilton as before God, except in ‘| her husband or Moulton, and the latter }apoplexy at any time during i her acts, His soul went out Iw soittveitt ‘ ¢ .! 4A He blamed himself for im-| 04 yim because | ;e il yecause he at- both Tilton and Moulton made the most ,and he persistently resisted all efforts to tripartite treaty of concord, peace and amity, | says he has been printed by Tilton in garbs ‘In this respect | appeal to you, and to all . i rev age . ia ling this time both Mou!ton and Tilton made 1iton s conduct in us matter: but he sup- i urged Beecher to inspire confidence in Mrs. | | Tilton in Moulton, and lead her to take kin. dred views of Theodore. A letter with such intent was accordingly written to her on | ‘ February 17th, 1871, of which acopy was | furnished to the Committee. Mr. Beecher said he had no recollection | | of seeing or hearing read the letter of Tilx | ton, of February 7th, 1875. In explanation of saying in his letter to | Mrs. Tilton that he did not expect to be | alive many days, Mr. Beecher states that he has felt as if he might be struck with | fifteen years, | Mr. Beecher then details the action of the Church relative to expunging Tilton’s name | from the rolls, and said the Woodhulls ad, | vertise@ in May, 187], an article shadowing | an account of a disturbance in Tilton’s fami. ly ; but this was delayed till November, 1872, ostensibly by Tilton’s influence: Dur- Mrs. ler to thei: houses. Mr. a heroine of Woodhull, and invited with , at the last of which she threaten» Beecher had three interviews declined to preside at one of her lectures at Steinway Hell, and to induce Beecher to Mrs. Woodhull } Mr. strenuous exertions identify himself with her. is denounced heartily by the centre of everyting that was foul or vile, Peecher as identify himself with her, Mr. Beecher says he gave a letter to Moul ton whick Mrs. Tilton wrote him, in which that her husband and herself were going west. and expressed the hope that a proposed interview between Tilton ind Beecher would be productive of good, (his letter Moulton has not allowed Beech- she states to sec Mr. Beecher next gives an account of the Jowen paying Tilton the $7,000 claimed. Subsequently, after that Mrs, Woodhull had endeavoured to obtain money out of Beech- | er and his wife; that woman published her version of the Jilton scandal, to which Til- ton was believed to be in connivance. Mr. Beecher refers to letters written by him, one of which was to Mr. Moulton, in which he refers to approaching death. He led form. The tripartite treaty was against Beechs er’s judgment, and a patched up peace. He continues : That I have | grievously erred in judgment with this perplexed case, no one is more conscious than 1am. 1 took the wrong path, and accepted a digastrous guidance in the beginning, and have indeed travelled on | a rough and ragged edge in my prolonged | efforts to suppress this scandal, which has at last spread so much desolation through the land; but I cannot admit that I erred in desiring to keep these matters out of sight. Christian men, to judge whether almost any personal sacrifice ought not to have been made rather than to suffer the morals of an | enure community, and especially of the | young, to be corrupted by the filthy details | of scandalous falsehoods, daily iterated and | amplified for ‘he gratification of impure curi- | osity, and the demoralization of every child | who is old enough to read, The full truth of this history requires that } one more fact should be told, especially as} Mr. Tilton has invited It. Money has been | obtained from me in the cause of these affairs | in considerable sums, but I did not at first look upon the suggestions that I should con- tribute to Mr. Tilton’s pecuniary wants as savouring of blackmail. This did not occur to me until I had paid perhaps $2,000. Afiers wards I contributed at one time $5,000. After the money had been paid over in five $1,000 bills, to raise which I mortgaged the house Llivein, | felt very much dissatistied with myself about it. Finally a square des mand and a threat were made to me by my confidential friend that if $5,000 more were not paid Tilton’s charges would be laid be~ fore the public. This, 1 saw at once, was blackmail in its boldest form, and I never paid a cent of it, but challenged and request- ed the fullest exposure. After the summer of 1873, I became ins wardly satisfied that Tillon was inherently and inevitably a ruined man. I no longer trusted either his wordor his honor. I came to feel that his kindness was but a snare. and his professions of friendship treacheries. He did not mean well by me, nor by his own household; but I suffered all the more on this account. Ashe had grown upunder my | than has hitherto been attempted. ' | their attention by the medical officer and | | Church and of America, will, we believe, acquit the great preacher ofthe crime chargs ed against him. INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, WE trust that the following Appeal of the Directors of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Halifax, will be handsomely re- sponded to by the citizens of Charlottetown. Mr. Hutros, Superintendent of the In- stitution, will be here in a few days to so- licit contributions. He has special claims | upon us, for our deaf mutes have largely benefitted by his training. During the past year four deaf mutes from Charlotte- town, and several from other parts of the Island were under Mr, Hvutron’s care. APPEAL TO THE FRIENDS OF DEAF MUTE EDUCA= CATION, BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, HALIFAX, SEVENTEEN years have passed away since the Halifax Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in the obscurity and feebleness of an*infant cause, made its first appeal to the sympathy and liberality of the public, in behaif of the benighted deaf mutes of these Provinces, for whose intellectual and moral] training no pro- vision previously existed. Encouraged at that time by a generous response both from private and Legislative bounty, the Directors, trusting in the guidance of an over-ruling Providence, assumed the responsibility of purchasing suitable premises and making ars rangements for the establishment and main- tenance of an efficient Institution. Without any extraordinary or special ef- forts to secure funds, the stream of voluntary liberality and legislative bounty has con- tinued to flow towards its support down to the present time, if not in volume adequate to all the necessities of tha work, yet sufficient to make the history of the Institution, dur- ing the last sixteen years, one of quiet but of steady and progressive usefulness, its fruits being visible in almost every part of our own and neighbouring Provinces, in scores of deaf mutes brought from a state of practical hea~ thenism, from mental and moral darkness, to the position of intelligent, virtuous, happy and useful members of society. Twice in the history of the Institution, in 1859 and 1863, it was found necessary to enlarge our accomo- dations, for which the needful means were not Wanting inresponse to the proper appeal. Eleven years ago the Directors expended a | large sum in additions and alterations re~ } quired by the growth of the Institution. And | now the time has again arrived when the sanitary and general welfare of the establish- ment committed to their care, cails for im- proved accommodations on a larger scale For some years past, the Institution, while enjoying a degree of freedom from serious sickness rarely experienced in such institut- ions,/assuffered from the'effects off overcrowd- ing and the lack of hospital accommodations. As the consequence of this, when last spring acase ortwo of diptheria appeared among the pups, in order to secure the proper ins solation and treatment of the disease, and preventits spreading, it was found necessary to break up the school and send the pupils to their homes, to the interruption of their studies and the deteriment of the Institution. | The matter has been earnestly pressed on | Principal of the Institution, and the Direct- ors feel that no time should be lost in pros viding’ as far as possible for future emergen- cies of a similar kind that may arise. j They have accordingly resolved to pro-} ceed at once with the needful buildings. | taken for the extension and elevation of the wings of the present building to the height} uniform with the centre, including several | other important alterations indispensible to the efliciency of the institution. The cost of | the work, which is to be finished by the first of September next, will be about Five Thou- sand Dollars. | The Directors have not the funds in hand, to meet the heavy expense of this undertak- ing, but, convinced of its necessity, and trust- ing in Him who has the hearts of all men in his Dands, and who has thus far blessed their efforts they confidently appeal to the Christi- an community throughout Nova Scotia and the other Provinces, which have shared in the benefits of the Institution during the last seventeen years, to provide the means now required thus to extend and perpetuate the blessing of education to the “ children of silence ’ within our borders. Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Dr. Parker, Chairman of the Board; Geo. H. Star. Esq., Treasurer; the Secretary ; and Mr, Hutton, Principal of the Institution. At the request of the Directors, Mr. Hutton will shortiy undertake a personal canvas for subscriptions in the principal towns of the Province; and with the experience of the past in view, the Directors feel that it is quite superfluous to bespeak for him a courteous | and liberal reception. D. McN, PARKER, M. D. Chairman. J, C. COCHRAN, D. D, Sec’y of the Board- August, {874, Tins Black PEPPER, VEW ADVERTISEMENTS. — MARKET HALL FOR A SHORT SEASON, COMMENCING Tuesday Ev’ng, Aug. 29. |THE GREAT EUROPEAN SENSATION, MOLLE ~ The Psychological Star, Pronounced by the Public and Press of Great Britain, the Canadas and United States, to be the Most Renowned LADY ELECTRO- BIOLOGIST of the age, in her numerous striking and BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS, FEATS AND WONDERS IN Psychology aud Mental Magnetism. Admission, 25 cents; Reserved Seats, 50 cents. For fall particulars and ** Opinions of the Press,” see our Jaily Paper. ALF. J. RIEL, Agent. A REGATTA, under the auspices of the ++ Hillsborough Boating Club, will come off in Charlottetown Harbor, about the middle of SEPTEMBER, prox., when, in addition to PRIZES for all the usual Races, the MEDAL offered by the Gover- nor General will be competed for. Full particulars and Prize List will be published early next week. By order, J. E. HASZARD, Secretary, H. B. C. Ch'town, August 24, 1874. all city papers li. NOTICG E. To Merchants and Importers. ly making out entries for the Customs, all and currency, and the duty at each rate ad- ded up, and a grand tota! made of the whole, both sterling, currency, and duty, collectors will please note this regulation. D. CURRIE, Collector. Customs, Ch’town, Aug. 24. 1874. lin ‘TO THE TRADE! lowing GOODS, which they offer to the Trade in bond or duty paid, for Cash or approved Credit— Chests Superior Black TEA, Half-chests do do do, Boxes do do do, Casks Port & Sherry WINE, Casks Hennessey’s BRANDY, Casks Pinette, Castillion & Co., do, Casks Campbeltown’s WHISHEY, Casks Old Rye WHISKEY, Cases Old Tom GIN, Cases SCOTCH WHISKEY, Cases Hennessey’s BRANDY, Cases Martell’s do, Cases CHAMPAGNE, Cases GINGERETTE, Cases RASPBERRY SYRUP, Barrels WALNUT, Barrels Washing SODA, Barrels CURRANTS, Barrels Crushed SUGAR, Barrels FLOUR, Kegs Baking SODA, Kegs CREAM TARTER, Kegs Cohan’s STARCH, | Kegs White and Bleak LEAD, Kegs NAILS, Tins Ground CLOVES, Tins Ground GINGER, Tins BAKING POWDER, Boxes Liverpool SOAP, Boxes Canadian SOAP, Boxes TOBACCO, | Boxes Valentia RAISINS, Boxes COFFEE, Roast and Ground, Boxes T. D. PIPES, Boxes CANDLES. Bags RICE, Crates Earthenware (assorted,) Puncheons MOLASSES, | Puns RUM, Casks Kerosene OIL, Corn BROOMS, PAILS, Nixey’s Black LEAD, Shoe BLACKING, CIGARS, ! Tons of IRON, assorted sizes, Agents for Intercolonial CUAL Miaing Company, Pictou, N. 8. MCDONALD & OWEN. August 15,—4i ANNIE DE MONTEORD goods paying the same rate of duty are to | be classified together, the values in sterling | Outport | HE Subscribers have in Stock the fol- | |G. R. Garret, | Bridge, with Alex. McMillan, Esq. YEW ADVERTISEMENTS, Another Land Sal I WILLSe!! at Public Aurct) DAY, the FIRST of day SEPTEMBRRCS at 2 o'clock, p. m., commeneing Den, In the Field East of the Cop: 50 BUILDING Lor in different parts of the tow i r the no side. Sn nme, ™? 7 Jans ma seen ¢ , gh yay een at miy Office, There is no Mortgage or incum of any kind on these lots, bern, Terms liberal. be RICHARD August 24, 1874,—till sale | HUNT, 3 ia | WANTED, A SITUATON as SALESMAN OR BOOKK Can secure for employer a . i ? n } country patronage, Please address | Box 184. +0, } 3 (ANE: 2h a Postponed Time for Receivin Wotk. Tenders for Gov't N account of making alterations ; following contracts, the time - ceiving Tenders will be uxtended till ge “4 day,§the 12th September, noon, for § : Crooked Creek, Found’s and DeSable Be on 24, 1874. ht. WEES, 8. P. w, - PRESSES, TYPE, PRINTINE | MATERIALS, &c., &. JOR SALE at a GREAT BAaRGaln,the of the Presses, Types, Parsmmme ye | TERIALS, &., &c., formerly belonging tom, ISLANDER OFFICE, and now in the posses sion of the undersigned. The above will disposed of at a very moderate . the premises on which they are now . ; ed are required for another Purpose, JOHN IN | Water Street. Aus. 17, wa Tea, Flour, &c, | WUST RECEIVED from Lendon | James i ncan— : 7 Per Bhip 53 chests TEA very Superior, In Store, 500 bbls very Choice Family FLop 40 kegs Twist TOBACCO, ” oR, 75 boxes Cavendish do, J. & T. MORRIS. 2in Mackerel Wanted. _ WILL pay the highest price fop quantity of MACKEREL, delivered ) Charlottetown. Aug. 17, 1874, P. S. MACGOWAN, 51 Water Street, August 12, 1874, <4 | | TENDERS. SEALED TENDERS will be received the Secretary of the Board of Works | Saturday the 29th inst., from parties Willing to contract with the Government to Pownal Bay Wharf. The completion of thy | contract to extend to the first day of Sep | tember, i875 ALSO. Tenders will be received by the samepa ty till same date, from persons willing t | contract with the Government to make m pairs on Stanley Bridge. ALSO. For repairing Crooked Creek Bridge, Rus tico. Specifications will be left as follows: Pe Pownal Bay Wharf, with J. R. Moore Commissioner. For Stanley Bridge, with Esq. For Crooked Creek The signatures of two responsible pep sons willing to become bound for the faith | ful performance of the work to accompany | each tender. | the lowest or any tender. Soard is net bound to accept RICHARD WEEKS, 8. 2%. Wy, Ch’town, Aug. 17, 1874. WANTED, Two Thousand five Hundred Persoy witll Good Appetites and Ro bust Constitutions Eat, Drink & be Merry MONTAGUE TEA PARTY On Tuesday, 25th inst. THE young Ladies and Gents of Monte | gue and vicinity say that their motto is NOTICE. Executive Counc. OFFICE, August 14th, 1874. ARTIES not applying personally for Warrants or Cheques at this office are requested to furnish WrirTEN ORDERS to their Agents, as, under no circumstances, | will payment be made without such Wrir- | TEN Orper. The attention of Teachers, | whose parents are in the habit, of calling for their Cheques, is particularly requested to this notice. WILLIAM C. DESBRISAY. August 17, 1874. 2in Wool Wanted, ¢ WENTY-FIVE TONS, for which I will ~ pay the highest Market rate. G. C. CARMAN, 11 Exchange Building, Queen St., Ch’town. | __ 2in Aug. 17, 1874, ae FEATHERS WANTED !! THE highest Cash price given for any quantity of good FEA TH- | ERS, at BUTCHERS Ware- roonss, {Aug. 17, 1874.—3m] QUEEN SQUARE TALLORING DEPOT! ee ee Notice to Customers ! 0 | Plans have been prepared and the contract | The subscriber having secured the ser~ | vices of MR. CHISHOLM, late of Halifax, N. S., is prepared to fur- nish, as usual, at the sbortest notice, Gentlemen’s & Youths CLOTHING Of Every Description, IN THE NEWEST STYLES, GOOD FIT | | AND | Satisfaction Guaranteed TO ALL. OM EZADTD, | A STOCK OF THE MOST Fashiouable and Desirable Goods ! IN THE MARKET. JOS. A. McDONALD. | Ch’town, Aug. 3, 1874,—4i **Welcome to ail,” and that this Tea is going to surpass all others hitherto given. The **OLD FOLKS AT HOME” say the same. Should any person ask where you a going on the 25th inst., don't be backwaml in telling them— “T0 THE MONTAGUE TEA PARTY Hurrah for a Good Time! Auc. Mcl xis, Secy Montague Bridge, Aug. 10,—3i THE ONDE LIVERPOOL & LONDOS AND CLOBE INSURLNCE COMPLNE Invested Funds, Ist Jai'y., 1874, $21,628,356 Deposited with Receiver Gerer- al of Canada, 162,800 Other Investments in Dominion of Canada, 367,08! FAIR RATES. Prompt & Liberal Settlements. Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- vate Residences, Household Furniture snd Farm Properties, for One, Three or more years, At Reduced Rates, Office—Great Street, Charlotte George | Lown, Y.-S R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent Wa. DUNLOP, Special Agest own, July 27, 1874.—6m NEW GOODS AT THE BRITISH WAREHOUSE, Queen Square. Ch’t The Subscribers have received per Steam- er Prince Edward, A WEW SUPPLY OF British & Foreig" MERCHANDIZE! Now inane: — and will be ready for inspection in a fe" days, and offered for sale at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. W. & A. BROWN. CLOCKS, A Creat Variety at . WELLNER'S. Aug, 17, 1874. Gin