The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-15

| the Grlet or two families, already Suttl-
ciently great, and to blacken the character
of man who has already injured himself
beyond repair. If the credulity of the
people is equal to the inventions of those
who contrived the scandals. no doubt all
this has been effected.
Miss johnson returned to her home yes
terday evening about o'clock, and about
the same time Mr.. Cooke registered his
name, as Mr.. DAILY, at French's Hotel. At
about o'clock in the evening Mr.. Brown,
a son of Paul r. Brown, and an intimate
friend of Mr.. Cooke, met the latter oppo-
site the Astor House, and walked with him
up Broadway as far as Bond street. Mr..
Cooke was fiercely agitated in manner, and
drew his pistol four times, and suddenly re-
tured it to his pocket. His movements
were very nervous, and he exhibited q
strange excitability of temper. Mr.. Brown
sought to calm him, and asked him to 60 up
to q restaurant and take dinner and enjoy
O smoke. MIR. Cooke declined the invita-
ton, saying he had eaten nothing, and did
not desire to partake of anything. He
asked Mr.. Brown to go with him to the
World Office, and he would "tear the
editor to pieces" Finally Brown ap-
pointed Il meeting with Cooke at a
later hour in the evening, and they
separated. MIR. Cooke proceeded to
his house, and, entering the room,
his wife saw the revolver, and fright
cned lest he might do desperate in
jury to himself, sent into the church ad-
joining for some one to come into the par
sonage. Mr. Carter, trustee Of the church,
went in, and, engaging Mr.. Cooke in con-
vcrsation, quietly abstracted the revolver
from his oyercoat, which he lad left on the
sofa. Suddenly Mr.. Cooke left the house,
and ran swiftly down Third avenue and
escaped Mr. Carter, who pursued him. 1t
seems he went to the World Office, and re-
mained outside the building some time,
sailed an editor of that paper. Cooke was
so weak at the time that he was hardly able
to stand, and did little more than shake him
roughly.
Before proceeding to violence he intro
duced himself to the editor by announcing
that his name was Cooke. An officer was
called in, who conducted him to the Second
Ward Station-house. The editor of the
World lodged a complaint against him for
assault, his name was booked, and he was
locked up in cell. The captain left Or
dcrs that no one should see him. The
eloping party have been in an adjoining
city, and have seen the papers each day.
Mr.. Cooke said last evening that all reports
of indiscrctions heretofore, as published in
the World yesterday morning, are lies,
and under these scandals, that have been
imposed upon the public, Cooke seems most
to smart. Cooke also says that he returns
Miss Johnson as pure, so far as he is cop-
ccrned, rs babe.
Mrs. Cooke told our reporter last evening
that her husband a. * q. =. ~ le6tiu
ttuvi.ra, doss-1.1Q1Il[1l! 10 -
| which was enough to kill, and he a%GHell9
his wife and told her he thought he had
poisoned himself fatally. She resuscitated
him, and begged him never to touch it
again; but he said he would 60 crazy II he
did not indulge in those opiates.
He has been partaking OF these drugs
for long time past, and has betrayed o
nervousness of manner quite antagonlstlc
to his nature. So marked has been the
change in bis demeanor that many, have
referred to ii, and inquired of him what 30
troubled him. His answer was that neu,
ralgia was causing him great pain. Lost
evening he said to his wife, "Oh, every one
has deserted me; have not o single
friend left" This belief seemed most to
perplex him.
On Tuesday evening Mr.. Cooke was seen
on Broadway entering a cigar store, ana
after purchasing and lighting cigar ne
walked out and stood on the curbstone few
moments, when he flung the cigar away and
walked hastily away. He has moved boldly
through the city, and has taken no extra
ordinary measures to conceal hlmseif.
His speech is disjointed and his thoughts
| wandering. :,
Miss Johnson has been entirely secluded
since her return, and the parents say that
if it is proven that she is, as Mr.. Cook says,
as pure as ever, efforts will be put forth to
have the matter speedily quieted.
Reports which showed that Miss johnson
was more than imprudent in her relations
with Mr.. Cooke arc strengthened by further
information from his wife. When Mr..
Cooke first entered on his pastorate in
Seventh street, and before his wife had be-
come acquainted with the parishloners,
Miss Johnson used to enter the parsonage
through the basement of the church and
the rear entrance Of the house, and go into
the parlor and play on the piano, with o
view of attracting her pastor to the room:
At first. Mrs. Cooke asked her husband
what it meant, and he said he did not
know. She went down into the parlor, but
the young lady escaped by the rear en-.
trance. For some time Mrs. Cooke did not
know who she was. She pretended great
love for Baldwin, the son, and the
week before the elopement, in coming
ont of the church, she threw her arms about
the boy,s neck and said she was very glad
to see him. The day before she left she
nassed the parsonage and bowed very gra-
c;ously to Mrs. Cooke. This was the last
that She saw of her. Mr. johnson told
Mrs. Cooke that he had noticed q little
airtation between her husband and ME d
daughter, but he thought very little OF It,
and fancied that she would soon cease to
engage in it. Mrs. Cooke told him that ne
did her great wrong in failing TO tell neg
that. She feels confident that she couio
| have crushed it all in the beginning.
1--WE have received the following letter,
| which tells its own story, and which VIC
print precisely as it reached us
| 10 the Editor. Of the Tribune:
J, Sir,-Will you give the words Of o ,eriIni,
nal place in your columns 4 90 Ro1