, 1873-06-06
Tho Beechor-Tllton-Bowen Scandal
---suprome fndiscrotion Of tho
Parties Involved,
Authorial Cheats---The Last
1mposture.
Punctuality As an Executive Aqency...A
Son Of Byron In tho
Metropolis.
Tho Danger of Delaying Edl-
torfals-"-Twocd's Chief
=, Sorrow.

' 6OEFOWs
''' From Our Oan Correspondent, : . :
a. New Yona, Juno 3, 1873.
Ihe Uoccher-T r-Ti1ton-D Bowen scandal ia some
toln8 that persons Of proper mind and goo
taste would very willingly lot dio. Ono woul
think that those throo gout1omon would bo vor
glad to have It sunk in eternal oblivion but
Tor aome mysterious reason, thoy soem resolve
20 keop It beforo tho public, and to cbtrudo 1
upon eyorybody's attcntlon.
THE CHEAT SCANDAL.
For the last oight Or nlno months, tho vi1o 70
ports with which tho Clergyman, ei1itor, and pub
HBhor are nasooiatod, have boon rieing in som,
form or othcr, and almost always, apparently, q
their prompting or instigation. 8uroly no throt
mon wore over moro indscreot or aotod moro TN.
wisely. They do not appear to have q particle
Of common sense, and can blamo nobody but
themselves II much OF what has boon aaid Of
them bo beloved. Thoy roveh just enough to
make people suspect tho worst. Why do
thoy not toll all they havo to toll,
or keep thoir own counsel7 Their
recent card, II 1t can be called auoh, Is ingon-
iously calculated to augment, instead OF allsy,
public curiosity. Ench ono seemod to admit that
he has boon guilty Of somo great orror OF orrorB
says be Is sorry for It, md will not do so any
moro. WAat nrc the errors ? What Ia he sorry
for7 Those arc tho questions tho community
Is asking, and which now demaud solution.
There isvory little doubt tint both Dowon and
Deecher, especially tho lattor, hayo suffered In
tho public estimation and 1t is altogether owing
to tho inozplichble course they havo pursued.
Thoy wore hold to be wholly innocent et arRt
and would havo been to tho Inst, II they had In
any mannor preserved consistency. But they
have kept their tongues wagging, or thoir pcna
going, month aftor month, until almost
everybody fools aomo sort Of right to
know what is at tho bottom Of all
this half-e1pressoa myatery. What waa q
molo-hin has really become mountain. do
not beliovo theae men will DO allowed to stand
bohlnd their yelled intimntions and oontrito in
ferences. They AFRO oil, in some eozt public
characters; for thoy all claim to bo upright and
honorable, and occupy tho place of public lend
ors. II Tilton and Bowen have slandered Beech
81, lot us know wherein they have slandorod
him. What proportion Of truth is there in tho
charges mndo against Beocher Tho vile eoan-
dal, as 1t was primarily thought to DO, has grown
to be q serious and important question, and ono
1t behooyes them to answer. Tho matter hos
passed out Of thoir hands. It is no 1ongor pri-
se'o{ ~, oAo ~ W. Repk So LING tlree mon nr0
at the bar Of public opinion, and tho public
claims tho right to know what they have boon
doing, and how they hayo demoanod themselves
r. the doing: The whole thing, bo IT much or
little, must DO laid opon to tho day, and, tho
sooner they Bea tho need OF this, tic bottor il
WtQ'be for them.
LITERARY 1MrosrEns.
havo boon particularly impressed within
two or three weeks, by tic fact TINT number
Of Intelligent persons had beon inluocd to be-
iieyo that Wi6 II. Carleton did ot not " writo ito
Betsey and Are Out" md that sonae woman
named Emerson did. The CHIN Of tho woman
Is simply gross attempt at imposturo, as oyory-
nody knows who knows anything about it and
the controversy OIL tho subject has bBen on
oouragod and assisted by her publishers, with o
direct Wow to selling 8 book OF versoB-bad
enough in tho mnin-which she aasumos to have
written.
"Botaey md Arc Out does not amount In
much, md ia hardly worth discussion in rospoct
to its authorship, were it not for tho theme of
honesty at issuo. AL tho reputation viii |
Carleton has rosta on those md a few other
nnnnior nnaloq fny@es ana. as they lappon to DO
90 him the right OF originating them.
have bad considerable experience with the |
peculiar class OF pereona who claim literary
property that docs not belong to them, and tho
Her pretended modeaty, sensitiyenoss, and
shrinking disposition arc part OF tho old story.
All the literary impostors I have known hayo
been adyertiHod ~ OF that spooioa. I an not |
nwaso OF the number Of generations Of olorgy- |
mon from whom Nannetto Emerson ayers she in |
descended. II It bo from fifty generations. il |
doos not prevent hor from being shameless |
Sapphira. The trouble with these impoetorg ie.
That they are inspired falsiaers and that .tloir
btatementB arc not bound by tho slightest ar- |
Proclamation Of truth. Their entleBs ayormenta |
paaR for truth, aud tho righteous indignation Of
oyor demonstrated falsehood.
n
corning " Rock He to sloop, Mother" aud how
one Ball published a pamphlat-and q yery spe-
clous ono-to prove bis claim to it. TGora Ia
nGt shadow Of doubt that Elizabeth Akers, or
wrote tho Veraos, and that Ball, years after they
lad becn going tue rounds Of tho prens con,
'olyod the idea OF declaring himself the author
y them. So it WAS with "Doautiful SNOW"
Which nearly ovory hack in tue land haB gomo
limo or other sworn to ba his.
more M are all kinds OF mental hallucination
'ut 1t Is not possible for any man or woman to
Lain to have writton anything written by an
'ther, without the olearest consciousness Of pre-
neditatod impoaturo. Such Offenders ourht to
70 piiloriod actually as vol az 1guratiyely. and
my attef long exposure be permitted to ro-
urn TO the community, rendered too notorious
o do further harm.
SOMETHING ron hus. STOWE,
Speaking Of impoators, pretended son of
Syron has recentlr appeared here. Ho calls
llmeelf Capt. George Gordon DeLunn Byron
ABOUT 10 Or 81 years OF ago.; rathor below tho
nedium size; and has i Gor1nan look and
coent, though he speaks English remarkably
'ou Ills story is, that bis mother whose fam.
y name was DoLuna, WAS Of spaniah and noble !
1000 and that the poet was clandostnoly mar I
ed to her, while travelling beyond the Pyrenoos.
good many men born on the Continent ut the
roper time might have reasons for supposine ;,
lemselyos to be Dyron's Hons tho moral lat{. /
1de which the bard over gave himsolf would
'IdeE the, hypothesis at least plausible {
Ut that 10 could have been aocrotly
l!arrlod to q feminine representative
an illustrious line. whom nobody
ver heard OF, ia altogether Improbable. Oapt, !
yron Hoems, however, to believe hia own atory.
perhaps no has bocome convinced of It BY toll.. 9
g It 80 often,-and rolateB 1t with auoh oircum- Z
antiallty Of dotan as to nuke It intoroatinn. |
. does not appear to be Awindler or trlof- :
or Of Of any aort put quiet, good-nsturel per-
He obtained . commission ~ Captain oarly In +
Q Mar With the o1pootation and promise Of !
ry1ng on Con. Fromont's staiT, Ia tho South :
'st but no neyor Baw any service, and was
on on p mustorod out and haa since wandered q
Of this country and Europe, engaged In the o
luabla undertaking OF auruii,r hfn nwn hread | n