The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-26
An Avalanche of Certificates of Anthem.
ticity-Royal Favors and Off,
cial Recognition.
"Can Any mposture, However Daring,
Hope for Such Success p
Postscript Concerning a Kicked
Local" of Omaha.
Challenge to the Doubling
ThOmases.

No. DUCHESS STREET, PORTLAND PLACE,
LONDON, Sept IS, 1872.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.,
DEAR Sm-Your agent in this city to-day
kindly sent me three copies of newspaper
published in the city of New York, bearing
the dates respectively of the Oath, 3Oth and 31st
of August of the present year. It would be
difficult matter for me to describe the conflict
Ing emotions felt during the perusal of GER
tain articles found therein. My first feelings
were those of profound establishment at the
discovery of 80 debased character as
THIS wRETCHED YOUNG MAN, NOE
turns out to be. He proclaims himself the
victim of q foul and unnatural outrage, gives
his name in full, with his present address; he
dwells fondly on the disgusting details which
unnamed him; offers himself up voluntarily
to public scorn and contempt, and deliberately
stamps himself as the greatest moral idiot in
existence. then felt regret at discovering
the fact that there was newspaper in the
city of New York which could lend itself for
the publication of such disgusting, immoral
sooS0A 10 OAAo VAA0 PuAP oAMAS W No WIAtteA ny
Lewis 81. Noe, and exhibit a morbid delight
In every circumstance and detail of this most
shameless story.
To enter upon q detailed refutation of the
various charges and accusations falsely levelled
at me by this eccentric youth would be
(, UNIDENTIFIED AND UNWORTHY OF ME;
IT would but serve to bring the contemplate
newspaper and its unmanly correspondent into
greater prominence than they deserve I con-
tent myself with simply asserting that the
Statements of this man Noe, in so far as they
refer to me, consist of series of the most
Atrocious falsehoods that the most imaginative
villain could have devised to the detriment Of
any one mans reputation. - ..~
"a. WHENCE THE ANIMus.
They are oft-recurring questions to me-
f'Wherein haye I incurred any mans hostil-
ItyP Why should people attack my private
character? How have injured any person
10 much as to induce him to villify me in this
manner?" It is with the utmost confidence
that can reply that, Intentionally, I have
never injured any living man.
In the summer of 1866 took this boy as
kind of companion, who was to make himself
generally useful. A few miles east of Smyrna
the young rascal
SET FIRE TO A VALUABLE GROVE
belonging to some Turks, who were so enraged
ct the incendiary act that myself and COM
panions were in danger of our lives upon
(which, after notifying the anger of the
natives, punished the young villain with a
few strokes Of switch, far lighter punish
),ment than he deserved, as any sensible man
will at once admit. Near Chihissar the chief
Of gang of brigands which infested the en-
Yirons Of Ofum- Karahissar
= - -, NsULTED HIM.
upon which, in my indignation, struck him
with my sword. He Immediately raised such
an outcry that was compelled to order my
companions to mount and hurry away; but,
An our ignorance of the country, we rode direct
Unto the neighborhood of the robbers den,
and were consequently captured without much
trouble. The indignities and outrages which
the ruffans subsequently visited upon men,
Der of our party need not be repeated here,
but may mention that I was the one who was
instrumental in relieving my party from all
approximations of worse fate. Now possibly
this boy-now a man in years at least
REMEMBERS THE SLIGHT FLoaGINa
4 administered to him, and stung by the
memory of 1t, has proposed to himself that
the author of 1t, having in some way distin-
guished himself by the discovery of DR.. Liv-
ingstone, might now be made to feel his re-
pertinent, and proceeds to do so by investing
him with Satanic character; with all the attri-
butes OF "bold and unscrupulous, daring,
but intelligent and specious adventurer"
Positively, if thought the young wretch who
wantonly set fire to the Turks grove near
Smyrna and endangered his own and our lives
was insane. think him ten times more so
now by hurrying into print, to glory in his
JBhamelessness and make public what the most
)Hebased courtesan in any great city would
never have published But enough of this
pbominable fraud, with his series of absurd
actions Let me dilate q little upon the accu-
Stations levelled at me
ABOUT THE LIVINGSTONE LETTERS.
You know yourself, sir, as well as your
former agent, that 1 was utterly ignorant of
the commission you gave me at the Grand
Hotel in Paris before you delivered to me
instructions regarding it. Captain Francis r.
Webb. late Consul at Zanzibar, now residing