Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-30
TELEGRAPHIC.

New York, July 23.-Theodort
Tilton says Of the publication Of biz
statement: 81 #
Il would not have had it published
for ono, hundred thousand dollars
Augustus Maverick, q friend Of mine
helped to compile the original and
made second copy of 1t !; while I wsi
before the committee he printed ID ont
Of friendship to me. When heard oi
II / went to my room in the Ast0l
House and threw myself on my bed in
-despair.r sait5at'EeFf,k sn'aaasls
Maverick is editor of the Brooklyn
paper in which the statement first ap.
peared and received yesterday thia
note:
g WEDNrsDAY, July 22.-My Dean
A0vssSck From NO other person
save either yourself % my sopyist, OF
from the committees short hand
writer, or from some member Of the
eommittee could my sworn statement
haSe got into print. Ny heart 10 bow.
ed and bleeding at seeing these .facta
,sprsad before the world. Tell ma, how
Son1d you hAYe taken such . fearfu1
6Fea0ful, h0s11bls fosponsibility with.
.eut ceHsultisg ne In edvsncsi There
now rsmaias 10 possibility Of .psace
or silence; nothing bnt syerlasting
woe. Explain yourself; yon must do
Il, both 20 me ssd 70 the public. Youra
II grief, afe
(Signed] THEoDoRE TlL1os.n
AAverick publishes this note In ad-
dltioh 70 his course OF short explain
ation, addressed to Tilton aud the
public: 81 1854
a,l.As enc Of his, Tiltons, slaunch
friends, loving and knowing him to
be . long abused man, and that he still
shrunk from hunting others In order
TO shield himself. I Iresolved that this
statement should bo published, and
publlsAsd Il. I did 20 without his
knowlsilgs or consent, and I did right
ard stand b. The cot - An cot Of jns-
tice TO . man who has been. wronged
and 3 community that has . right to
know all the facts. ~ @
"A gentleman whoee oHaclal trusti.
ness has led him to recoive and open
much Of Beecher's correspondence
said last evening: "ln Beecher's love
letters you would be surprised to
know how foolishly some women
wrote to him. Every once In while
. woman gets . little crazy aend writes
to Beecher 10 tell him how much she
adorcs him. Letters used to 20 to the
Iadspeadsst ONCE. and Tilton, under
orders from Bscehen opaaed many Of
them. He made copies Of them, and
to-day has the manuscript and names
and copies OF the letters, all connected
with respectable ladies, who have
foOlishly written to Bcecher aii shout
their love for him. He receives love
letters by the ream and cord, and the
joke Of il is that as his wife takes care
ofall letters that come to him she
reads the love letters before he sees
them. Nrs. Tlton's letters to Beecher
were very affectiOnate and expressed
: deep and prevading love for him.
Mrs. Beecher read them ail before he
saw them and they are oil In her pos
session now. When the scandal was
n0ised about Mrs. Beecher looked mp
the letters, and ct Mrs. Tilton's request
has preserved them for her. You can't
convince Mrs. Beecher that her hus-
band 10 guilty OF anythiug that Tilton
charges. She says that il all the wo-
men In creation were to swear that
Beecher had been unfaithful to her she
would uot believe them"
NEW YoRX, July 24-The son of s
II. Parson, of 81 Wall street, residing
at Miami, Dode County, Fla, on the
eastern coast. writes to his father, on
July 9th, that . beach searcher named
George Davies found q bottle on the
beach about Is miles from Miami near
New River and gave 1t to him. In
this bottle was q paper. plainly bear
ing marks of time, and written upon
II in ink were these words: "Steam-
ship City of Boston: To all whom this
message may come, that I the under,
signed, passenger on this ship write
the following statement. On Sunday
night heAvy storm arose at IL 40. in.
cressing as 1 30. AL hopes lost. Two
O'Clock, going do.
(Sigued) John Caswcll, London
England"
AT the same time that Davies TIN
beach searcher found the bottle Q board
was found short distance away with
some penciling on Il that was rather
indistinct, and e WAS with difficulty
read. On il were these words: 1--WE
have mot yet taken 10 the boats ~ ouy
last resort" There Vas something
further that was illegible. The board
was headed ACity Of Boston," Thil
steamer called from this port Jauy
18th, 1870 and has not been definitely
heard from aimee.
I Hon. John Jay sailed yesterday fol
Liverpool on his way back to Vienna
\ NEW YoRK, July 23-The following
10 . statement of Mrs. Elizabeth r
Tilton:
TO pick up the sorrows Of the las,
ten years, the stings and pains I had
daily schooled myself to bury and for
give, makes thls imperative duty, .,
called forth BY the malicious stAtsmsn
Of my hubbard, the saddest of my
life; besides, my. thought, following
the Master contradicts this act Of my
pen and abuse OF the perversion Of my
life-faitA almost compsis mo now 4
staud Anido until God himself delivers
yet / 80 In this wAnt0n act urgent cal
and privilege from which i shrink no
10 reply IN detail TO the % articles
An argument / shall not attempt q
present, yet II called upon to tsst{fy 4
each ard I'll Of them, IahAll NOT hesi
tate to do 20. Suffice IL for my. .pul
pose now that I reply to one OF NOR
Of the most glAring charges. Touch
Ing the fsigasd sorrow Of my husban
for the compulsory revelstious,
solemnly Avow that long befoz
Woodhull's publication knew hin
BY insinuation and direct statement /
have repeated 10 my very near rel,
tives and friends, the substance of Ii
accusations which shock tho. NOR,
sense OF the entire community th
day. Many times when hearing tn,
certain persons had spoken III Of hin
he has sent me to chide them for I
doing, and then and there learned
had been before mo with his calumni,
against myself 20 that I was speccl
Less. The reiteration in his stateme,
that he had persistently striyen to hit
these 90 called facts, are utterly falls
I q his hatred to Mr.. Beecher has q
listed these many yearS. and the dete
v-S~~ken,. - ~.xSu h.