The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-26
NEW YORK.
The Reechsr.TiIton Scandal.

known a. the Beecher-Tilton scandal
is the following, under date OF May lst,
1874:
Henry Ward Bescher
SIa-Mr. F. B. Carpenter mentions
to me your saying 10 him that under
certain conditions, involving certain dis
approvals by me, a sum Of money
would or could be rsised to send me
with my family to Europe Ior q term
of years. The occasion cempeils me 10
state explicitly that go long as life and
self respect continue to exist together
in my breast, shall be debsrred from
receiving either directly or indirectly,
any present or. other favor at your
hands. The reason for this feeling on
nv part you know go well that l will
spare you the statement OF it.
Yours truly,
THEODORE TILToN.
Tiltop follows this with reference
to what he declares to be fact, that
although he had received from the clerk
OF Plymouth Church, on the 10th Of
May, q communication announcing
that his (Ti!ton's) offer 10 appear for
trial had been read by the Rev. Mr..
Halliday, assistant pastor OF Plymouth
Church, and submitted 10 the Examin-
ling Committee, by whom it had been
rejected, Mr.. Halliday had, some forty
days afterwards. emphstically denied
to several newspaper reporters that such
an offer had ever been received. and
branded the whole story as false from
beginning to end. Rev. DR.. Bacon
having, in his speecn, characterized
Beecher as the most magnaulInoHs OF
men, aud referred 10 Tllion rs dog
and knave, leading the public to infer
that the latter was IN some way n
creature of Beecher's bounty, TiIton
states that he called Beechers atten.
ton to the offensiveness of the
statement, and insisted on its cor
rection by either that gentleman
or himself. Mr.. Titon closes his letter
to Rev. DR.. Bacon as follows: "lt the
public have heretofore considered my
silence as ineXplcsble, let my sufficient
motive be now seen in the just torbear-
ance which | lelt morally bound to
lshow to the man who had sent me
written and absolute apology, but my
duty to continue this forbearaDce ceases
when the spirit OF that apology was
violated to my injury by it's author or
his agents. This violation has been
multitudinous, and they threaten TO
multiply in future, forcing me TO pro-
tect myself against them IN advance
particularly against the cunning devices
of the clerk OF the church, who, acting
as attorney, appears to be conducting
this business against me as IT 1t was
case at. Had the fair spirit
which | had a right to expect from the
Plymouth Church, at least for its pas
tors sake, been shown to me, l would
have continued to rest in silence on Mr.
BerCheI'e apology, and never dur'Lg
the remainder of my life would
II have permitted any public
word OF mine 10 allude to the offense or
the offender, but the injurious measures
which the author OF this apology has
since permitted his church to take
against me, without protest on h's
part, involving gross injuries to me
which have been greatly aggravated by
; YOUR writings, have put me before
nv countrymen in the character OF a
, base and bad man, a character which l
trust is foreign to my ature and li'e.
Under the accumulatiug weight OF TINS
: odium upjustly bestowed on me, neither
: patience nor charity can demand that
keep silent.
Mr.. Beecher is now on his farm at
Peekskill, and today the children
, teachers and friends OF Plymouth
Sunday School 90 there to congratulate
their pastor on the occurrence OF the
sixty-frst anniversary OF his birthday
News Iiems.
The Government awarded a million
OF gold TO day, at from lll.O' TO
. Ill 26s.
Police Commissioners Gardner and
Cbarlick, who have been on trial for
the past ten days on charge OF vloiat-
ing the election laws in last November,
! have EN- found guilty. judgment
was postponed in order to allow the
defendants counsel to argue motion
in arrest of judgment.
Last-night a large grist mill near
Mt. Slnia, Long Island, was blown
down, killing five persons aud lpJurlng
two. -..
Erie Railroad.
At meeting OF the Board of Erie
!, Directors to-day the treasurer reported
that the total amount of the hoa'lne
, debt including the secured loans was
s243l,97l; decrease in the pas
month OF SI97S00. Little and Hous-
ton the former auditor OF the Northern
Central railroad, and the latter auditor
~ the New York and Oswego Midland,
renre.ent that they have been making
, An examination OF the conpauys books
=. q, the time Danand, the former AUDITOR
: loft and state, after a careful .examlns'
,;on ol Dunsnd's own books without
sny changes, that his report as to the
floating debt OF the company on the
0Stb Of February was correct TO the e1
tent OF over $3,000,O0O, and that the
r.nort OF the examining committee
"a, correct, except that one OF INT
committee had over estimated tn'
floating debt as it then existed oy over
, $500 600, A full report is promised