The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-05
Beecher after Ti1ton and his
Mutual Friend" with a
Sharp Stick.
Some Prospect of Getting at
the Bottom of Things.
South Carolina People Res
tive under Carpet-Bag
Expressions.
The Great American Trav-
eler Coming West.
How Congressional Rations
are used in Alabama.
SHOW Your Tickets"
Suit brought against the c.,
B. & @. Co.. by a Passen-
ger who Ignores
This Rule.
Frost in Northern Illinois.
Accidents. Crime, Etc.
Frost in Northern Illinois.
Accidents, Crime, Etc.

BROOKLYN. n. Oct. 3,-For the frs
time since Henry G. Bowen started the story
that MIR. Beecher had violated the proprie
ties of life THAT is the delicate way of put
ting it nowadays, and Theodore Tiltor
corroborated it with accusations of adul
tery with his wife, its truth or falsity
is in a fair way of discovery The numer
Gus libel Grim. con. suits which have growr
out of the scandal, involving newspapers
reporters, and many others, promised some
settlement more satisfactory than the com.
mlttee of Plymouth church arrived at
but The proverbial laws delay was so early
exemplitied in the postponemento of Tilton's
civil suit against Beecher, and the abandon
ment of Gaynor's suit against 1ilton, thai
people began to despair of ever seeing the
matter in court. The suit of Miss Proc
tor against Moulton was looked upon as
a side-issue. The activity of the Plymouth
church committee in urging it and paying
the expenses of the case aroused a suspi
ton that Miss Proctor was virtually cat s
paw for Beecher. Nothing pertinent to
the case of Tilton against Beecher could
be brought out on the trial of such suit
The indictment of Moulton was side is
ue,involving Beecher it is true, but not in
the main charge.
The civil suit of Tilton, and the several
suits of Miss Proctor, promised, as said
before no early solution of the trouble
but Beecher is no sooner home than he
goes before the grand jury and secures the
Indictment of both Tilton and Moulton for
scandal. He demanded admission to the
grand jury Immediately upon bis return
from the mountains, and this morning au-
dience was given him. He laid all the
statements of Tilton and Moulton before
the jury, land testified to the falsity of every
material allegation. He wound up at Il
question of one of the jurors as to what
allegations he denied specifically, and in
an impetuous and emphatic manner told
the grand jury that the whole scandal has
been an artful conspiracy to involve him
in affairs difficult to explain, and to extort
from him assistance in the form of patron
age and money. He had been drawn into
false situations, and seduced into impetu
GUS and unguarded statements, which had
been miscopstrued and distorted to his dam
age. This had been possible only through
the treachery of a mutual friend, and he
demanded his indictment as the guiltier of
the two. The grand jury acted promptly,
and, though Mr.. Beecher was before them
at $50 clock, they presented the indict-
meut in the county court at IL this morn
ing.
The document sets forth that "Tilton
wickedly and maliciously, with intent to
injure and scandalize Rev, Henry Ward
Beecher. in his good name, fame and char
acter, subjecting him to contempt and dis
grace, aud to provoke him and his friends
to commit breach of peace published on
or about Sept. IS, or caused to be publish
ed. in the Daily Graphic, and circulated in
Brooklyn and elsewhere, "a false, scandalous
and malicious libel concerning him." Part
of the article referred to was the alleged
commission of adultery on Oct. with
Mrs. Tilton, and the assertion as to the
doubtful paternity of child born the fol-
lowing year. The grand jury also read to
Beecher the second indictment against +.
ID. Moulton,whi is worded similar to that
found against Tilton, charging him with
libeling Beecher by causing the pu9lica-
ton of false, malicious aud slanderous re-
ports in the Daily Graphic. After Beech
er left the grand jury presented the indict-
ments to the court of sessions and were
discharged by Judge Moore, who thanked
them for their services.
New YORK, Oct "a Baltimore dis
patch says the steamship Wilmington, from
New Orleans, brought back thirty cases Of
arms shipped from Baltimore for the White
Leaguers, and returned by them to pre-
vent seizure under Kellogg's order, issued
inst previous to the late Penn revolution.
The house which shipped the arms had
orders for sixty cases more, but the orders
have been cOuntermanded.
A Charleston dispatch says that 10000
voters of that city, black aud white, assem-
bled in mass meeting last night to demand
from Gov. Moses the removal Of the pres
ent board of election commissioners, alleg
ing that they are INSCRIPTIONS partisans.
All the speakers, colored aud white, says
the dispatch, urged petition to the gov
ernment first, and if that fails resort TO
the only means left the people.
In the circuit court of Patterson, \. j.,
to-day, the jury gave verdict of 5000
damages against DIR. Ricordo for malpractice
in the treatment of boys broken arm, by
which the boy lost his arm.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-President Grant
aud Gen. Babcock, left at noon today for
St. Louis and other western cities.
Attorney General Williams has received
dispatch from the United States Mar
shal at Montgomery, Ala, announcing the
arrest of all persons charged with compile
ity iu the murder Of Billings.
MoxTGoMERY, Ala, Oct. 3.-The State
Executive committee of the Democratic
and Conservative party of Alabama, have
issued an address to the people Of the
United states, denying the truth OF the
charges made by Minister Spencer, aud
congressman White. Hayes, and Pelham,
and j. J. Martin, as to outrages in this
state, aud submit proofs to show the uu-
truth of these charges, aud that these
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