, 1874-08-20

ing on a planet, where I do not live
You must remember was aware that il
addition to this trouble involving my
name, Tilton had also in an act of zeal.
ousy accused his wife Of criminal init.
macy with several gentlemen, of whom
l was one. He has asserted in the pres
ence of witnesses that all her children
except the first were children of these
gentlemen respectively. In his decent
moods he was very anxious to have such
sccusations unknown to the world, as
mere rumor of them would cast an inef
fable blight upon his children. Moth.
ing would have induced me to make this
explanation, but that Tilton has deliber.
ately chosen to cast blight of precisely
the same kind upon those very children
by his subsequent course, and all that is
left to me is the power to treat his abom
able accusation with the scorn that sucl
falsehood deserves. Question, :"
have the strange feeling upon mo tha
I am spending my last Sunday ani
preaching my last sermon" Do you
refer to same condition of health anc
mind you have described? Answer,
refer to the fact. simply that that was
the state Of mind during this great trou
BILE, although if you we're to collect ali
the language I have used at various
times it might produce DIN impression
that had wallowed in a sea of unparal.
leled distress. I have had stormy days
and have suffered more from this than
all others causes in my life put together
taking four years together.
On the. point of his relations with
Woodruff LIE was asked: Are you clear
in your recollections that you never met
Woodruff more than three times.
Answer: I am perfectly clear. On
one occasion I was walking with MIR.
Moulton in the direction of Tilton's
house, when he said that Mrs. Woodruff
was going to be there. I at first hesi-
tated, and he said, "come in and just
see her," I said, every well." and
went in. After SO ne conversation down
in the parlors. wen: up stairs into the
famous boudoir room. where she sat
waiting. and like a spider to fly she
rushed to me on my entrance, reached
out both her hands, and with the ut
most earnestnest, said how rejoiced she
was to see me. 1 talked with her about
five minutes and then went down stairs.
My second interview with her was on
an occasion when I had been with 20 or
80 gentlemen to look at warehouse
establishment of Woodruff and Robin
son. We were on q steamer that had
been chartered for the occasion, and
when I came off Moulton asked me 10
go with him to town. He never told me
there was to be any company. When l
came there learned that there was TO
be something in the evening, and that
there was number of literary ladies
present, among whom was Woodruff.
I was placed at the head of the table,
near Mrs. Moulton. Mrs. Woodruff
was next to me, or else she was first and
I was next, do not remember which.
At the table she scarcely deigned to
speak to me. I addressed few words
to her from politeress during the even>
ing but there was no sort of enthusiasm
between US.
My third and last interview was at
Moulton's house. She had addressed a
threatening letter to ME, saying that she
would open all the scandal if I did not
preside at Steinway Hall, and in reply |
Moulton advised that instead of answer
ing her letter, I should see her, and say
without witnesses what had to.
NEW YORK. Aug. ia reporter al
leges that Tilton denies to him of his
having received money from Beecher.
" If Beecher contributed to the Golden
Age he did so in common with other
men, without his knowledge" He af-
frmed that hired girl in his house dis
covered the criminality between Beecher
and his wife and began to spread it,
whereupon Beecher had her sent away
to boarding school, where he main
tanned her.
1t is stated in tho Brooklyn Eagle that
this servant girl business will wear an
other complexion when the story of the
girl, now in possession of Plymouth
Church investigating Committee, is made
public. The allegation is that Tilton,
not Beecher, was interested in her re-
moval from Brooklyn. She was an
adopted child in Tilton's household,
taken when an infant and always treat
ed as member of the family. During
the absence of Mrs. Tilton this adopt ed
daughter left the house, and on Mrs.
Tilton's return related to her the occur
rences leading to that act. After awhile
the story crept out and Mrs. Tilton was
sent by Mr.. Tilton to more than ore
house to deny it. Finally, finding it
did not die easily, the girl was induced
by them to sign q statement denying
which were called wicked stories set on
foot against Tilton. After this retract-
ion was obtained Tilton had the girl
sent to school and Francis D. Moulton
paid her tuition and board bills. This
is the girls own story as she told it to
the Committee, to her school teacher
and to Mr.. Sherman.
Beecher left for Peekskih early this
morning and Mrs. Beecher says she
does not think he will return before
October.
The Argus states that Frank Moulton
says that he will do as General Butler
advised him.
New YORK. Aug. 15.-Assistant Pas
tor Halliday of Plymouth Church has in
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