The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-06-20
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Com
merciai

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Com
lnercial.
BALTIMORE, June SIN these dis
patches of last night, the Ecclesias
lical Committee that has been in
session for nearly three weeks in
vestigating certain grave charges
against the chastity of Rev. DR..
Huston. was left in session, delibe-
rating upon their verdict. All
night long the Committee pursued
its labors, for every word uf testimo-
ny taken during the long, tedious
inquiry had to be read over and di
gested anew, and'it was not untilff-
teen minutes after seven o'clock
this morning that the sleep-wcary
preachers who composed the court
.finsity determined upon the follow
ing as the result of their delibera-
tious;
We, the undersigned, a commit
tee appointed TO investigate the
charges and specifications preferred
against the Rev. L. d. Huston, d..
d., find the said charges are not
sustained, because the said specifi-
cations are1not sustained.
REV. NELSON HEAD, d. D.,
REV. L. NJ. CRENsuAw,
"Rev. }. NJ. SPANGLER, D. D.,
REV F. II. WHIsNER,
"Rey. THos. E. CARSON"
The committee then adjourned
aiEe die, alter directing the Presiding
EiGei, Rev. Mr.. Rodgers, to notify
the accused Of the result of the in
yestigation.
Hardly had the committee adj
jOurned, when the news of the ac-
quittal spread over the whole city
and friends at once FASTENED to con
gratulute the Doctor upur his tri
uiRph, and all day long his quarters
at the Eutaw House has been
thronged. Indeed, SO constant has
been the visitors, that he was
obliged tonight to remove to the
house OF Il friend, to get tile rest he
sorely Ieeis. The Doctor received
the congratulations of his well wish
ers with considerable feeling. and
all day seemed to hardly compre-
hend the good fortune that had
come TO him, because he, well knew
the Influences that had been brought
to hear TO secure IL conviction were
very great, and the prosecution had
been waged with all the vindicative
ness that attaches TO any criminal
prosecution in a court of law.
But he had stood she storm and
come ont all right, and while he ami
his immediate friends reioiced as
we'll as those who had been on the
fence, the accusers were correspond
ingly sad. They denounced the
Court IN unmeasured terms, and
the more active of them at once set
about 10 invent some new scheme to
give the acquitted reverend more
1t was first proposed TO
get the Young school girl, who pre-
tcrred the charges, to go before &
and make oath to her
so that he might be ar
r asted on the charge OF adultery,
but for some reason this was aban-
doned, and this evening they declare
that ON Monday they will have him
indicted by the grand jury.
The american, which is the brains
and spirit of the prosecution, the
of which DR.. Hnstou has
sued for libel. laying his damages at !
one hundred thousand dollars, had |
an editorial in the afternoon edition |
the trial As a mock a.
~ of Justice, and declaring the /
EhOle community to he shocked by !
he unexpected verdict.
There is a great diversity of sen
iment in regard to the investiga |
ion, but the justice of the verdict
nay he considered when it is known
hat every one of the committeeman
we're comparative strangers to the
accused. The friends of the Doc
or declare that he will push the suit
against the Ame,icgn for a further
Of his character.
Thus We have the end of an in
the like of which has
never been heard in this country
and, for the good of Christi
nifty, should never agai~ be brought,
when the basis is the idle
gossip Of indicative neighbo:s.