NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FRIDAY, Sept. 18.—The Septembei re
turns of the Department of Agriculture in
dicate an average condition of the wheat
crop of 93, against 95 in September, 1873.
The average of the crop is seven per cent,
greater than last year, hiuh would bring
the aggregate yield to nearly 1a*t years
.verage Attorney General Williams
jas received a large number of letters
from U.S. marshals, representing a terri
ble state of affairs in some of the Southern
States During a gale on tie 5th and
6th inst. the custom house and light house
at Brazees, Santiago, Texas, were entirely
swept away with the records and papers.
It is not known whether any lives were
lent The Curat Court of Gibson
county/fenn., has tunnel forty indictments
against guilty parties. Nine were released on
bail of $10,000 each Miss Hackenburg
and Sadie Bohn were killed at Altoona,
Pa., yesterday, By the upsetting of a hack
... X'has. 11. Ballard pleaded not guilty
in the case of the BoyIston bank robbery,
and was remanded in default ol $100,000
bail The Army of the Cumberland
banquetted last night at Columbus, O.
Toasts were responded to by Ex
Oov. Noyes, Oeu. Sherman ardOen. Gar
field .... The New York Democrats nomi
nated Samuel J. Tilden for Governor. The
resolutions favor specie payments, reve
nue lelbrin, honest payment of the pub
lic debt coin, free press, economy in
public expenses, etc....The Prahie Du
Chien division, which was exempted by
the Wisconsin Supreme Court from the
working of the Potter law, is found out to
be not exempt after all. .Mayor Havemey
er replies in a letter to Hon. John Ke'ly's
charged, lie asserts that Kelly deliauded
the city out of $10,000 while sheriff....
Colonel Villette was sentenced to six
months impiisoiiment for being an accesso
iv to Marshal Bazaine's escape... .The
Carlists have been defeated in several un
important engagements. The feeling of
confident'i' continues to strengthen in
Madrid.
SATURDAY, Sept. 19—A supply train
for Gen. Miles' expedition was corralled
on the Wichita river on the 9th inst., by
600 Comanches and Kiowas, who were re
pulsed alter five days' fighting with a loss
of thirty killed. Two soldiers were killed
and six wounded... .Major Price, of the
eighth cavalry, defeated a large party of
Comanches on the 17th inst., killing sev
eial. Lieut. Baldwin and three scouts
lioni General Miles' command, with dis
patches for supplies, got through after des
perate fighting, killing five and capturing
one renegade. On the 12th six couriers
weie surprised by 125 Comanches on the
Wichita, and repulsed them with a loss ot
12 killed. All but two of the scouts were
wounded.... A stage was overhauled and
the passengers robbed between Malvern
and Hot Springs, Ark., Thursday even
ing Tilton's long statement has ap
peared ... All is quiet in New Orleans.
Kellogg's government is to be restored to
day. .. .Albert Curse, of the U. S. secret
service, one of the Washington safe burg
lars, surrendered himself to a U. S. Mar
shal yesterday, and was admitted to
bail in $1,000 The outlaws of
Breathitt county, Kentucky, have prepar
el to resist the State authorities, and
troops are now marching to the scene of
the disturbance from Louisville Ex
Lieut. Gov. Woodlord of New York an
nounces his intention to retire from Con
gress Official returns in Maine give
Dingley (Rep.) 49,768 andTitcomb (Dera.)
39,018 Gov. Brown of Tennessee sends
a message to President Grant, protesting
against the exercise of jurisdiction by the
U. S. Commissioners and Marshal incases
where such jur sdiction properly belongs
to the State authorities, whk-h, he asserts,
are competent to preserve the peace and
protect tne rights of citizens M. Tirerd
of the Left in yesterday's sitting of the
French Atsembly, interpellated the gov
ernment concerning its rigorous treatment
of the Republican newspapers and protest
ed against the recent warning addressed to
the Journal des Debats MacMahon has
returned to Paris Regnior, who was an
important witness bat lied freiu Paris at
the beginning of the Bazaine trial, has
bee condemned to death in contumaciam,
for his traitorous conduct in the negotia
tions at ••'"'tz M. Pietri, formerly Sec
letury to the Empress Eugenie,has airived
at Ajaccio. It i3 his intention to offer him
self as a candidate for the Council General,
in opposition to Prince Napoleon
Some excitement has been caused at Lis
bon by rumors that a new scheme for an
Iberian union has been mooted, and that
it has its origin in the brain of Bismarck.
... .The old Catholic Conference at Bonn
closed yesterday.. ...A dispatch from
Constantinople states that the Governor of
Aneora reports 24.000 people utterly des
titute, and they will require maintenace
throughout the winter.
MONDAY, Sept. 21.—Six hundred Mor
mons passed Omaha Saturday for Utah
....The yellow fever still continues its
ravages at Peasacola navy yard. Com
mander Chas. L. Franklin, a native of
Ohio, died on the 8th, and Commander
Semmes, executive officer, is down with
the disease... .The reunion of the army of
the Tennessee takes place at Springfield,
111., October 14th and 15th. President
Grant, Secretary Belknap, Gen. Sherman,
and other prominent officers have signified
their intention of being present. Gen. S.
A, Hurlburt delivers the annual address
Owing tu dull times the cotton manu
facturers of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island have resolved to reduce the volume
of production 20 per cent, after October,
....Gov. Kelloggreoccupied the Louisi
ana State House Saturday morning, with-
The Worthin
out opposition, and Gen. Emery tele
graphs to Washington in the evening that
all was quiet.... President Grunt, in re
ply to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, con
gratulates that official on the prompt
measures taken by him to secure the
arrest and punishment of the perpetrators
of the recent outrages in that State, at the
same time calling his attention to the fact
that the laws of Congress give the General
Government jurisdiction in such cases, un
der which federal officials must act, but
that no special instructions have been
issued iu these particular eases, and
that no conflict of authority need necessa
rily ensue thereby. Senator Brownlow
also iiends Gov. Brown a very complimen
tary letter to the same effect A severe
storm swept over portions of Illinois and
Iowa Friday night. At Davenport and
Dubuque, Iowa, and Rock Island, 111., a
number of houses were unroofed, walls
blown down and cellars flooded,'while
great damage is reported from the country
surrounding..... During the storm of Pri
day night, a freight train on the Illinois
Central R. when three miles from Dun
lcith was wrecked, badly injuring the en
gineer and fireman, and a brakesman
named Allison, the latter dying from his
injuries shortly alter Mr. Campbell, ot
Crawfordsville. Ind., injured in a railroau
colliiion near Buffalo, N. Y.,
Friday night, died Saturday morning.
TUESDAY, Sept. 22.—Yesterday the sum
of §1,929,819 was paid at the State De
partment to the agent of the British Gov
ernment, being awards to British claim
ants by the mixed commission, under the
Washington treaty of 1873 Rev. Wes
ley Prettyman, ol the M. E. ehurch, and
Posstmaster at Marietta, G*., has been ar
rested there charged with embezzlement
and other penal violations of the postofllce
laws The party iu pursuit of the Hot
Springs, Ark., stasje robbers, have been so
far successful as to force them into the
mountains, where they aie conipletly sur
rounded, and the capture (r death of the
entire baud i» expected A Cuban in
France has given $20,000 to the parriol
agency in New Y'ork Victor Sejonn a
French dramatic writer is dead Gen
Sherman takes up his headquarters in St.
Louis Oct. 4.....The Narragansett Fire
and Marine Insurance Company, of Provi
dence, R. I., has suspended on occouut of
its heavy losses by the Chicago
and Boston tires Frank Moulton
has accepted the service of a capias in the
libel suit of Miss Edna Dean Proctor, in
which that lady asks for $100,000, grow
ing out of charges in the Beecher scandal.
... .Henry Ward Beecher has notified his
congregation thi-t he will attend the Fri
day evening prayer meeting this week and
preach from Plymouth pulpit next Sun
day. .. .Henry W. Dodge, executive officer
of the Hayes' arctic expedition, died at
Brooklyn, Monday, of appoplexy, aged
45....The complete transfer of the city
government of New Orleans to the Kellogg
officials is finally consummated. An at
tempted compromise by the opposing fac
tions in reference to the composition of
returning board of the coming election
failed. Advices from the interior of the
State indicate further trouble. In some
parishes citizens aie arming and refuse to
allow the restoration of the Kellogg offi
cials-, and it is feared that nothiug but the
presence ot U. S. troops will restore order
in these disaffected districts.
WEDNESDAY,Sept. 23.—The Russian
government, on account of the extensive
emigration of Mennonites, proposes to ex
empt the members ol that sect from actual
military service, but to hold them liable
to duty as hospital attendants.... Nomina
tion4 for Congress were made by the Wis
consin Reformers yesterday as follows:
Sixth District, Hon. Gabriel Bouck, of
Winnebago and Third District, Hon.
Charles C. Thompson, and Gen. Ed. Bragg,
of Fondulac, from the Fifth.... President
Grant, in a conversation yesterday, stated
that as far as federal offi
cers were concerned, the
South should have no complaint in the fu
ture. In this particular he was decided
on anew departure... .The civil service
rules are working »o acceptably that the
President has issued an executive order
extending their operation over the customs
district of Boston... .Reports from the
wheat crop of Europe continue flattering,
it is estimated that Hungary has a million
quarters to sell. Prices in Germany, Russia
and Fiance have declined heavily... .Mrs.
Eunice Howell,a maiden lady ot 70 years,
at Washingtonville, Orange Co.,N. Y., was
murdered Tuesday night. Her gold
watch and a large sum ot meney known to
be in the house, are missing... .S. A.
Briggs, of Chicago, said to be a defaulter
in the sum of $100,000 from the bank ot
which he was Vice ^resident aui Cashier,
was arrested in New Y'ork yesterday, and
sent back to Chicago. .The motion to in
clude the old Prairie du Chien railroad in
the injunction compelling a-compliance
with the Potter law, was argued in the
Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday, the
court then adjourning for a week when a
decision will be Tendered.... The Annual
Convention of the Catholic total absti
nence union of America, will be held at
Chicago Oct. 7....Judge A. A Atocha, of
the New Orleans Superior Criminal Court,
before whom any action instituted by
State authorities against leaders of the
late insurrection, would have been brought
has resigned.
THURSDAY, Sept. 24.—Elie de Beaumont,
the eminent French geologist is dead
The Democrats of the 20th Ohio Congres
sional district yesterday nominated Hon.
Henry B. Paine, of Cleveland, by acclama
tion. David Ray was also nominated by
the same party foi alike position from the
St. Joseph district, Missouri The land
department of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fee R. R. has made a sale of land
VOLUME III. WORTHINGTON, MINN., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874
aggregating 150,000 acres to a party of
Mennonites. The lands lie in Ma
rion, Harvey, McPherscn and Reno
counties.... Representatives of manufac
turing corporations having headquarters
at Boston, have voted to reduce the pro
duction of the New England cotton milk
one-third until an improvement is noted
in tke market... .Advices from New Or
leans are to the effect that another confer
ence between leaders of opposing factions
is to be held, at which it is believed a
compromise will he agreed upon for con
ducting the forthcoming election satisfac
tory to all. Less trouble is reported from
country parishes than was anticipated.
Liberal»Deniacrattc State Conven
tion.
The Liberal-Democratic State Con*
vention convened in St. Paul on the
23d inst., and organized by appointing
H. M. Burchard of Winona, President,
and H. A. Child of McLeod, and P. L.
Gregory of Stearns Secretaries. The
following platform was adopted.
WUUREAS, The special occasion which
brought the Republicin party has long since
ceased to exist and there is not now and
has not been foryears any central, animating
principle or purpose in that warty except the
cohesive principle of public plunder, and a
settled purpose to retain power by any means
and at all hazards and
WUERBAS, To perpetuate its hold upon
office, that party has lormed an alliance with
the capital and organized monopolies
ol the country^ and together
they purpose to run the Federal and State
governments in the interest ot favored
classes, by exempting them from all bur
dens and restraints, and casting the whole
crushing weight of onerous taxation upon
the masses ot the people,
THEREFORE, We, the representatives ol
the people of the State of Minnesota, who
demand a reform in the administration of
our State and Federal government, having
assembled without regard to former partisan
distinctions, hereby proclaim the following
platform of principles:
1. Believing the present disastrous condi
tion oi the Southern States to be largely due
to the corrupt rule of carpet-bag politicians
who have plundered and impoverished the
people, intensified the prejudices of race and
driven the communities to the verge of civil
war knowing that this state ot affairs has
been developed during the administration
ot President Grant and been fostered by the
course of the Republican party and "des
pairing of relief except through a radical
change of policy—we demand the mainte
nance ol a just and impartial policy towards
the people of the South, whereby both races
will De protected in all their rights, the ex
pulsion of the thieves, and perfect equality
belore the lawtorall persons, without re
gard to race, color or politicalopinion.
3. A return to gold and silver a
& a basis
of the currency ot the country, and resump
tion of specie payments as soon as public in
terests will allow.
3. A tariff for revenue only—consistent
with an honest administration. None for
protection. No Government partnership
with protected monopolies.
4. Home rule to limit and localize most
zealously the few powers entrusted to pub
lic servants, municipal, State and federal
no centralization.
5. Equal and exact justice to all men no
partial legislation no partial taxation.
6. Free press no gag laws.
7. Free men uniform excise laws no
sumptuary laws.
8. Official accountability, enforced by
better civil and criminal remedies no pri
vate use of public funds by public officers.
9. Chartered corporations by the State
always sirpervisable by the State in the in
terest of the people.
10. The party in power responsible for
the administration ofthe government while
in power.
Resolved, That the nomination by the Re
publicans of a noted salary grabber in the
First Congressional District—of an apologist
and defender ot that outrage in the Second,
and of one ot the most unscrupulous Con
gressional lobbyists in the Third—show the
utter hollowness ot all Republican promises
of reform
Resolved, That the startling exposures of
corruption in the offices of State Treasurer
and Auditor, concealed through so many
years of Republican administration, cause
just alarm to all good citizens, and •demon
strate anew the impossibility of reform with
in the Republican organization.
Ebenezer Aycrs offered the following
additional resolution which was also
adopted:
Resolved further, That we agree with the
'eading Republican organ of this State, that
'the history ol the late State Auditoris sub
stantially the history of the Republican
party of this State."
Wescott W. Wilkin of Ramsey was
nominated for Chief Justice, and Win.
Lochrcn of Hennepin for Associate
Justice, both being nominated by accla
mation. Speeches were made by
Messrs. Ignatius Donnelly, Eugene M.
Wilson, E. St. Julien Cox. Charles E.
Flandrau, and E. Ayers, after which
the Convention adjourned.
Chicago Produce Board, Sept. 83.
3 p. M.—Wheat irregnlar at 1.00 for Sep
tember and 94 to 94 #c for October.
3:10 p. M.—Corn irregularat 82 ^c for Sep
tember aud 80JWC for October.
3.20 p. M.~Oats easier seller at 52c for
September and 49\c for October.
3:25 p. M.—Wheat irregular, lower and
active at 98^c for September, 94 to 94# tor
October and 99c cash.
Milwaukee Produce Board, Sept. 23.
3 P.M.-Wheat unsettled No. 1 $1.04
No. 2 96Mc September 96 %c October
93 xc.
New York Republicans.
The New York State Republican con
vention at Utica, N. Y., Wednesday, re
nominated Gen. Dix for Governor, John
C. Robinson, Lt. Governor Ezra
Graves, Slate Prison Inspector R. W.
Strowd, Canal Commissioner Alex. J.
Johnson, Associate Judge Court of Ap
peals. All the above are present in
cumbents and were renominated by ac
clamation with great enthusiasm. The
main points of the platform are
Protection to all classes in the South
against Ku-Klux, etc., by the States if
they will, if not by the general govern
ment that armed attempts to subvert
the recognized government of a State is
revolution, and revolutions must be
suppressed that the public debt must
be paid in coin oppose inflation, and
favor speedy return to specie payment
taxation should be kept at lowest pos
sible point that the administration of
President Grant has been true to its
pledges that the administration of
Gov. Dix has fulfilled the highest ex
pectations of the people, in broad con
tradistinction of his Democratic prede
cessors.
THEODORE TUTOR STATEMENT.
Another Chapter In the Brooklyn
Scandal—The Evidence of Mr.
Beecher* Mrs. Tilton and Mm.
morse, and the Report of Ply
mouth Church Committee Re
viewed.
Theodore Tilton's statement in reply
to the denial of his charges by Henry
Ward Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, their
statements before the Plymouth Church
committee, and that committee's find
ings upon the evidence suomitted to it,
is too long a document to be reproduced
in these columns, but in deference to
the general interestin its subject mat
ter we summarize its points as follows:
The statement attempts to follow the
chronological order of events and is di
vided into sections, of which the first
and seeond are devoted to showing by
letters and other documentary evidence
that up to July 3d, 1870, the time of
Mrs. Tilton's alleged confession of adul
tery with Beecher, there had been a
continuous and warm friendship be
tween Tilton and Beecher and Mr. and
Mrs. Tilton had been a loving and happy
couple. This impeaches the evidence
and theory that Tilton entertained en
vious and vindictive feelings towards
Beecher, and that he was cruel and un
loving towards his wife.
The third section details the occa
sion and substance of Mrs. Tilton's
confession to her husband, and relates
that she fixed the date of her first act
of adultery by a memorandum in her
diary. This confession was full and
free, made voluntarily and when she
was in good health, solely because her
conscience reproached her with the de
ceit. A letter is produced from Susan
B. Anthony which appears to confirm
the former statement that Mrs. Tilton
also made confession to her. That
Beecher seduced Mrs. Tilton and she
did not tender her love unsought is ar
gued from the expressions of their cor
respondence, his frequent gifts to her
aad the admissions of the parties then
and since.
The fourth section introduces Mrs.
Morse, the mother-in-law, as learning
of her daughter's crime and henceforth
plotting against Tilton. A letter from
Mrs. Tilton to her husband and to her
mother is produced, showing both that
the mother knew her daughter's secret
and that she had led the daughter to
believe that her husband was going
wild over it.
Section five, by ber letters, exhibits
a change in Mrs. Tilton's tone of mind,
corresponding to the time of her con
fession and confirmatory of the state
ment that she did so confess.
Through the throe succeeding sec
tions the Bowen affair is taken up and
its connection with Tilton and Beecher's
affairs explained. This led to the in
terview at Moulton's house in which
Tilton first told Beecher of Mrs. Til
ton's confession.
In the next two sections it is shown
by the ie,-ords of Plymouth Church
itself that as early as October, 1873,
Tilton had, to Mrs. Bradshaw, accused
Beecher of adultery with Mrs. Tilton.
This dispnn e.s Beecher's statement and
the committee's theory that the origi
nal charge was only "improper solicita
tion."
Through sections eleven and twelve
Tilton, denying that he entertained un
nsual or free love notions concerning
marriage, and citing Beecher's part
in the McFaaland-Richardson affair,
for which Beecher was publicly censur
ed by Mr. Bartlett, now his attorney,
while he, Tilton, was for the first time
accused of loose notions because he de
fended Richardson, he proceeds to ex
plain his support of Victoria Woodhull
as prompted and urged by Beecher, to
prevent her exposure of Beecher.
The thirteenth section tells in detail
how Beecher repeatedly and particular
ly Acknowledged his adultery with Mrs.
Tirton and of his appeals to Tilton's
sympathy by exhibitions of remorse,
profound dejection and heart-breaks,
which Tilton suspected were feigned
but Moulton believed were genuine. "I
close this section," says Tilton, "by de
claring, with a solemn sense of the
meaning of my words, that Mr. Beech
er's recent denial under oath
that he committed adultery with
Mrs. Tilton, is known to
him, to her, to Mr. Moulton, to me,
and to several other persons, to be an
act of perjury."
In section fourteen, after taking up
Beecher's comparison in which he
speaks of his own home as if he had
never complained of it, and relating
how Beecher frequently and always,
and his relatives sometimes, complained
of Mrs. Beecher, Tilton then takes up
the charge of blackmail. To prepare
for that charge he says, Beecher mis
represented his circumstances, Mrs.
Tilton was persuaded to testify to
want at home, and yet Mr. Beecher
knew (because he was informed by one
of the custodians of the money, at the
time when Mrs. Morse wrote to him
that Tilton could
his debts that
very time—the
1870-71,—Tilton had
sands in cash on deposit
and owed no debts. Again, Mr. Beech
er's statement represents Tilton as hav
ing ill-success in the lecture field the
succeeding winter, yet a note is pro
duced from the Vice President of the
Library Bureau, to the effect that Til
ton filled more lecture engagements
than any but one of the one hundred
lecturers on the list. A note from Mrs.
Tilton is also produced showing his suc
cess that winter. As to his using
Beecher to extort $7,000 from Bowen,
he shows by his contract with Bowen
that he was clearly entitled to that
sum, when Bowen broke the contract.
He shows further, by notes from his
lawyers and Mr. Moulton that he sub
mitted the affair with Bowen to
arbitration solely in the inter
est of Beecher. The $2,000
paid by Beecher, he says, he had noth-
not pay
at that
winter of
several] thou
in New York,
ing to do with, but knows it went in
whole or part to pay the girl, Bessie's
school bills and of the $5,000 for the
Golden Age, he knew nothing, until
since he sold that paper, he learned it
from Beecher and Moulton's statements.
Bessie, and the cause of her being
sent away, are described as in Tilton's
former statement and by Monlton.
The message, "Grace, mercy and
peace," quoted by Beecher, Tilton says
was inspired by Moulton, to comfort
Beecher, who afterwards acknowledged
it as greatly cheering him. The words
are from a favorite text of Beecher's.
Thomas Kinsella is said to be the one
who suggested Beecher should contrib
ute money to the Golden Age. Mr. Kin
sella recently called upon Tilton to per
suade him to suppress his first statement,
when, acknowledging Beecher's guilt,
and saying he had confessed it to him.
yet he said he would see Tilton and his
family should never want if he would
suppress his statement. Mr. Kingsley,
Mr. Kinsella's partner also offered to
give Tilton $5,000, just after endeav
oring to persuade him to suppress the
charges.
Kinsella and the editor of the New
York Tribune are mentioned as two
editors who publicly proclaim Mr.
Beecher's innocence, but privately ad
mit his guilt.
Francis B. Carpenter is quoted as
squarely accusing Beecher of uttering
a lie in his statement ef an interview
with him.
Henry M. Cleaveland and Oliver
Johnson are shown to have professed
respect and affection for Tilton, though
knowing all the facts upon which the
blackmail charge is based, which Til
ton then did not.
Section fifteen is a reply to Beecher's
charge that he (Tilton) garbled
Beecher's letters by the extracts made
in the sworn statement, and accuses
Beecher of trying to pervert them from
their, real meaning, the offense of
adultery, reiterates Mr. Tilton, and
that alone is the key-note to Beecher's
four years of "anxiety, remorse, fear
and despair."
Section sixteen treats of the Bacon
letter. He was persecuted and abused
he gave Beecher an easy way to correct
Dr. Bacon's errors he waited three
months for Beecher—and then he wrote
the letter to Dr. Bacon in his own de-macy.
fense. But Beecher saw from the let
ter that Tilton was still trying to shield
his wife and, presuming upon this, he
adopted the expedient of a public in
quiry by his own committee. On the
morniug of July 11th Beecher's ap
pointment of the committee was pub
lished the same morning, at 6 o'clock,
an hour before the papers came in,
Mrs. Tilton quitted her husband's
house and went to Ovington's.
Both Beecher and his wife, Tilton
felt, had thus challenged him to tell
the whole, but it was not till the ninth
day after that he submitted his sworn
statement to the committee. Had
Mrs. Tilton remained with him, he
says, he would not have made it, but
when she turned upon him he had no
other course left but to tell the plain
truth.
As to first condoning his wife's fault
he sajrs he forgave her because he loved
her for her children's sake and be
cause he despises the public sentiment
whieh condones such faults in men but
would compel men to punish them in
women.
The seventeenth and last section of
this remarkable paper, following ths
general tenor of the whole, arraigne
Mr. Beecher for the ill treatment of
Mrs. Tilton by himself, his committee,
his lawyers and his paper, the Chris
tian Union, as to the manner in which
she is spoken of by each, and closes:
"All this base and brutal conduct by
Mr. Beecher towards Mis. Tilton
prompts me to speak of him in fierce
and burning words. But I forbear.
"Vengeance is mine, and I will repay,
saith the Lord." I have become so
used to sorrows in my own life that I
cannot wish for their infliction upon an
other man, not even on my worst
enemy. 1 will not ask the public to
visit upon Mr. Beecher any greater
condemnation for the desolation which
he has brought upon those who loved,
trusted and served him, than I have in
past times seen him suffer from his own
self-inflicted tortures in contemplation
of the very crime for which he has now
been exposed to the scorn and pity of
the world. I know well enough how
his own thoughts have bowed him in
agony to the dust and this is enough.
Wherefore, in contemplating my empty
house, my scattered children, and my
broken home, I thank Heaven that I
am spared the pang of this man's re
morse for having wrought ruin which
not even Almighty God can repair."
Henry ward Beecher as a Granger.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher addressed
the Caledonia fair at Johnsbury, Vt.,
Tnesday. Over eight thousand persons
were present. His subject was, "What
I don't know about farming." He was
brought on the fair grounds in an open
phaeton, and looked splendid as he
drove up to the sound of martial music,
and was greeted with loud cheers by
the assembled thousands. His speech
was frequently interrupted with loud
cheers and hearty laughter. At the
close of the address he was driven to
the railroad depot.
P. T. Harnum's Marriage.
(From the New York Sun, 17th.)
In the interval that followed the re
cess of the Universalist convention yes
terday, it was announced that Miss
Nancy Fish, of Southport, Lancashire,
England, was to be married to Phineas
Taylor Barnum. In a few minutes the
couple walked up the aisle, the organ
playing the wedding march- The bride
were a slate colored dress, diamond ear
rings, and black velvet hat with blue
feather. Mr. Barnum was in a black
dress suit. After the ceremony, which
was performed by the Rev. E. H. Cha
pin, the couple entered a coach and rode
to the Windsor House. The bride is
26 and the groom about 07. Mr. Bar
nam's first wife died about a year ago.
Advance.
victoria Woodhull Returned.
[Brooklyn Special, 19th, to Chicago Times.]
Victoria Woodhull has suddenly re
turned from Europe. The reasons of
her return are believed to be that she
was summoned but she says that she
did not mean to stay any longer. She
says she has read all of Tilton's last
statement, and that his references to
herself are contemptibly mean. She
said to a reporter to-day, "Neither
Theodore Tilton nor any one else can
speak of my blackened character. He
has acted the part of a cowardly fool
all through this matter, When I went
to Europe, to take a little necessary
rest and recreation, after my hard work,
and to prepare myself for lecturing by
trying to get a little health, he and his
friends began to cast obloquy
on me, by saying that I had been either
intimidated or bought up by the Beech
er party. He knows that when he says
that, he lies. He knows, and Mr.
Beecher knows, and Mr. Moulton knows,
that all their money cannot buy me
and all their powerful influence cannot
intimidate me from going on in the
straight course which I have laid out
for myself in this matter. They know
that 1 published the only true, ungar
bled statement of the case, and have al
ways been willing to take the conse
quences of that publication. Mr. Til
ton is no more to me than Mr. Beecher,
nor Mr. Beecher than Tilton. Theo
dore's story that his publishing ni)r
"Life," and doing so many favors for
me, was for the purpose of
bribing me to keep quiet, is a deliberate
lie. His statement that he broke with
me in the spring of 1872, because I
threatened to attack several of the lady
advocates of the woman's suffrage
cause, is another deliberate lie. He
came to me at that time—it was short
ly before Greeley's nomination for the
presidency—and told me that he had
been detailed by Mr. Greeley to go to
the Cincinnati convention to report it.
I said to him, 'Theodore, you are going
there to nominate that poor old man
for the presidency, and it will kill him.
You know in your heart that it will be
the death of your benefactor. Do not
go I see, in my clarivoj'ant vision,
Greeley's coffin, and you standing along
side, driving him into it.' But he
went, and that was the last of our inti-
Did I not tell the truth about
Mr. Greeley Was not that conven
tion the cause of his death
"And then, what right has Theodore
Tilton to speak of Henry Ward
Beecher's adultery By what right
does he accuse Mr. Beecher of impro
prieties I am summing up the case.
Col. Blood and myself are preparing a
statement which will throw light on the
whole affair. I have kept an accurate
and complete record of everything per
taining to this business. I will sum up
the record and publish it in my own
paper, and then, and not till then, the
public will learn the truth."
Reporter—Did your sudden return to
this country have anything to do with
this matter
Mrs. Woodhull—Nothing at all. I
was worn out and needed rest. My
sister and myself were presented with
tickets for the round trip, and we were
very glad to get them.
Reporter—Will you inform me who
gave them to you
Mrs. Woodhull- I do not think it at
all necessary to do so. Mr. Tilton did
not expect me so soon. He published
his statement when he thought I was in
Europe, and the public excitement
would have had time to effervesce and
cool off before I had an opportunity to
reply. But he was mistaken. My re-passed
ply will be forthcoming shortly, and it
will tear the mask off and let the peo
ple see the naked truth of this whole
affai'.
Terrible Calamity at Fall River,
Mass.
About 7 o'clock on the morning of
Saturday, Sept. 19th, a fire broke out
in the Granite Cotton Mills, Fall River,
a five story building. The operators,
some seven hundred in number, had
just commenced their daily work, when
the flames burst forth and, spreading
with lightning rapidity, cue off some of
the avenues of escape. Under these
appalling surroundings, a large major
ity of the operators became terror
stricken, and made feeble efforts to es
cape, while still others, maddened by
the threatened danger, wildly
threw themselves from the
fourth and fifth story windows. The
firemen were promptly on the spot,
and in something like an hour's time,
had the fire fully under control, but
not before there had been an appalling
loss of life and great destruction oi
property. The latest estimate of the
killed is forty, and twice that number
injured. Among these were several
firemen, who lost their lives in trying
to save others. The scene while the
fire was in progress, and after, among
the relatives of the imprisoned victims
was truly heart-rending, and not soon
to be forgotten by those who witnessed
it. The loss of property is estimated
at $500,000, almost if not quite covered
by insuranoe in Eastern companies. A
coroners jury has been summoned to
thoroughly investigate the sa catas
trophe.
A Grange Railway.
The narrow gauge railroad from Sa
linas to Monterey, in California, is al
most completed. This is litcially a
granger's railroad. The project was
first broached, discussed, and organized
in the grange. The stockholders are
nearly all grangers, the directors all
grangers but one, and it is nearly all
grangers' money that has built it, and
the grangers are going to patronize it
and send their wheat to Monterey, and
load it on board a vessel chartered by
grangers, and get the returns through
the grangers' bank, of San Francisco.
—The Democrats of the third district
of Wisconin have nominated Hon. Chas.
Thomson of Green county for Congress.
In the sixth district of the same State
Hon. Gabriel Bouck of Winnebago is
the Democratic nominee.
NUMBER 3.
The Three Practical miners
Accompanied Gen. Custer's Expe
dition Controvert Prof. Win
chell's Statement.
BISMARCK, Sept. 15.---The under
signed, who accompanied Gen. Custer's
expedition to the Black Hills, having
read a report made by Prof. Winchell
to the Geological Society cf Minnesota,
stating that no gold is to be found in
the Bl ick Hills, pronounce his state
ment unqualifiedly false.
Prof. Winchell knew nothing of the
gold section prospected does not know
gold quartz when found, and does not
know a gold country when iu it. If
Prof. W. had paid more attention in
looking after gold discoveries, and less
after deer horns and other useless curi
osities, he probably could have given a
more truthful description of the coun
try. Without exaggeration we found
diggings that would pay no less than
ten dollars per day per man. As an
evidence of our sincerity we are ready
and willing to accompany an expedition
there whenever permission can be ob
tained from the proper authorities.
We refer to Gen. Custer for our re
sponsibility and the truth of our state
ments. Jxo. W. SMITH,
H. N. Ross,
W. T. MCKAY.
PKOF. WINCHELL S STATEMENT.
Prof. Winchell said that he did not
see any gold in the Black Hills, nor did
any one bring any to him for examina
tion. Some Drought what they thought
was gold bearing quartz, but on exami
nation he found it to be mica scales
stained with iron rust. Iron often gets
into mica and colors it, causing frequent
mistakes in that way. He would not
say but what theie was gold there, and
some parties may have discovered gold,
but he saw none, and therefore he was
of the opinion that there was none
there, lie was led to believe that the
reports of gold were groundless from
another reason, viz: that the character
of the men who talked up the expedi
tion urging the government to explore
the Black Hills, wou'd lead any one to
distrust their statements. These men
were miners and adventurers who pro
fess to be practical miner*, but who have
always lived on and profited by excite
ment. They were stock jobbers who
probably own extinct claims now in
different parts of the country and who
wish to profit out of this expedition.
He did not say that Gen. Custer or the
military authorities have been influ
enced by these men. They may have
been practical miners but they were
also practical schemers.
The reporters accompanying the ex
pedition derived all their information
concerning the reported gold discover
ies from those men, and so did General
Custer. No one but these men pre
tended to have taken out any sold, or
to have seen any anywhere. lt would
have been verjr easy for them, with the
view of raising this excitement, to ha\e
taken with them a quantity of gold
dust and then washed it in their pans.
He would not say that they did so, but
that they might have done so, and in
deed the possibilities for so doing were
so great that he thought it a good rea
son for distrusting theii statement.
A COUNCIL of the Sovereigns of In
dustry was organized at Winona,Thin s
day evening.
CAFT. JOHN PLUKKY of Dubuque, has
purchased the Wabashaw boat yard of
Commodore Dugan.
Two hundred and forty Memioriites
through Moorhcad last week for
the Red River eountrj*.
HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY'S address at
the Stearns county fair, is spoken of as
able, eloquent and practical. The fair
itself was a poor affair.
HON. PETER FINTON and John N. Mil
ler, of Olmsted county, are about to re
move with their families, to Sanders
county, Nebraska.
THE Fillmore and Mower count
Agricultural Fair, like the State Fair,
chanced to fall on foul weather, and like
the latter, was therefore a failure.
REV. DR. CYRUS BROOKS, leliring pas
tor of the M. E. Church, Winona, was
tendered a farewell reception Friday
evening, and presented with an elegant
gold watch.
MR. GEO. Wnmionr, of Douglas
comity, was found dead in his bed
Wednesday evening of last week. .Sup
posed heart disease. Mr. Whitmorowas
50 years of age, unmarried, and lived
alone on his claim.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Wabashaw
to secure a change of track of the M.
& St. P. R. R. so as to carry the road
through the city. The depot is now
about a mile from the business portion
of the city.
J. W. GREGG and W. B. Griswold of
Mankato, have purchased what is known
as the Howe brick yard at Cha&ka. The
yard has a capacity for 30,000 brick a
day, the principal market being Saint
Paul.
THE new Turner Hall at Mankato
was dedicated Tuesday and Wednesday
last. Visiting Turners were in attend
ance from Minneapolis, New Ulm, Saint
Peter and other neighboring towns.
UP to this time the following towns
have voted bonuses in aid of the con
struction of the Zumbrota Valley nar
row gauge railroad: Mazeppa, $20,
000 Oakwood, $20,000 Wabashaw,
$75,000 Zumbrota, $50,000 Minneola,
$50,000.
SEVERAL families of Mennonites,
among the first to seek homes in Mani
toba this season,have returned to Moor
hcad, and are looking up land on which
to locate in that vicinity. Sooner or
later Minnesota will get a fair propor
tion of this Mennonite immigration.
THE Olmsted county fair was hardly
a success, owing to the unfavorable
weather. The display of stock, was,
however, particularly good, and speaks
well for the improvement in this res
pect made in that county in the last
few years.