Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-06
NEW YORK.
Observation-Disclosures sweII in the Ma.
fiOlal Debt

tiOnal Debt.
NEW YORK, Dec. "a Washington spe-
cial says: 1t is expected the entire sum for
the payment of the December pensions will
be taken from the legal tenderreserye The
associated banks hold $50, 10000, an in
crease since yesterday of 81, $40, 600. RI.
Edwards has been elected President of the
Gold Exchange Bank.
The outstanding legal tenders are $780,
056,71S
Geo. Bird for Grinnell & Co., appeared
in court to-day and stated they had agreed
with nearly all their creditors for the with
drawal of bankruptcy proceedings, and
asked for an order which was granted that
the register take testimony and report on
the discontinuance of proceedings.
Temperance or TeetotaIisni?
Temperance men in council here heart
lily endorse the proposition for national
commission to be authorized by Congress
TO investigate and report upon the alcoholic
liquor traffic and the results of prohibition
and other legislation for the suppression of
intemperance, and request Senators and
Representatives to give the measure early
and favorable consideration.
Disabled.
The EUeniRg Post says the steamship
Brennan which retured to-day with six feet
water in the hold, sprung leak in the
coal bunker at noon yesterday when 100
miles out and was Obliged to put back
She has been taken out to get at the leak
and get ready to sail tomorrow. Her pas
sengers will be transferred to the steam
ship Deutchland.
The Beeeher.TiltOn scandal.
Plymouth Church was densely crowded
tonight, it being made known that all bust
ness questions relative to the Beecher-
TiltOn scandal were to be brought up and
acted on, after the usual Friday evening
meeting was finished. The business meet
ing was at once commenced, and opened
with prayer by Mr.. Beecher. A let
ter from the Church of the Pill
grims was first read, which was in reply
to a resolution passed at the last
meeting and requesting to be informed
whether Plymouth Church declined to
take part in the formal Conference with
the Clinton Avenue Church. They were
DESTROYS of being set right in the matter,
with a view to avoiding all miSundeTstand
ing, as il was considered that their former
communication was greatly misapprehend-
ed. Communication accepted.
Mr.. Beecher read a reply which he had
prepared, requesting before Plymouth
Chuich be asked take part in the council,
to be informed ofquestions TO be discussed.
Mr.. Holiday read communication from
the Examining Committee appointed to in
vestigate the case of Henry G. Bowen, re-
porting that Bowen intends to stand to his
agreement made with Mr.. Beecher, and
recommending the charges against him be
dismissed. Report was adopted.
Prof. Raymond offered a series of resolu-
tions to the effect that Plymouth Church is
an Independent organization and permits
no interference III its internal affairs.
Mr.. Beecher spoke in favor Of the resolu-
tions, which were unanimously adopted,
and the meeting adjourned.
The following card from Mr.. Bowen, eX-
plains itself:
A CARD.-To Editor Of, Sir ::
More than six months have elapsed since l
was informed through newspapers that
sundry charges against me had been pre-
scented to the Examining Committee Of
Plymouth Church. 1 have never seen a
copy of these charges and the per-
son who had presented them has
never spoken to me on the subject.
| have never been cited to appear
before the examining committee, although
have repeatedly expressed my entire will
ingneSs to do so Oh the shortest possible
notice; nor have been able to traverse or
rebut any testimony that might be sought
against me. After a faithful search for tes-
timony, the committee, as stated by the
assistant pastor, utterly failed to
obtain it. The only course before
them was to recommend that the
charge be dismissed, and this was done by
unanimous vote of the Church. But a
committee in their report and the Church
in their official action strangely omitted to
put that recommendation on the only per-
tinent basis, namely, that there was no ev-
ieence to sustain the charges; but instead
of this based it on an oral
statement which | refused to put in
writing since would not appear in the
least to weaken my protestatiOn Of entire
innocence in reference to reported charges.
| am so amazed that the Committee should
have embodied their report and thus given
further publicity to a fragment of q
document which was sacredly private,
which had been surTeptitiously obtained
and anonymously published, and all the
parties to which were solemnly pledged
never to divulge it. HENRY c. BOWEN.
BROOKLYN, Dec. D, 1873.