The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-15
NEWS SUMMARY ,
pERsONAL Ard POLITICAL.

/ PEKSONAL Ar
| Mr., Beecher has made brief and partial
lrepIv to the extraordinary statement of Mf.
/ Tflton, in which he denies each and eyerysal-
/ legation therein charged or insinuated Of lm-
| proper or unchaste conduct between himself
and Mrs. Tilton. Mr. Beecher's friends claim
that everything contained in Mr.~1 1hlten's
statement, that has any shadow of truth, can
1 be satisfactorily explained. .a.s.. ...
! 8 The Democrats of the Thirteenth Ohio Dis
trfcth have renominated Milton I. Southard for
i Congress. sss = issa $50 - ssza=sA
/ W.B.sLittle, candidate for State Treasurer
/ on the Illinois Prohibition ticket, died on the
! 21st. - a@
/ Mrs. Filtsn has made pnblie alengthy state
/ ments explaining her share in the Beechcr-
4 Tilton controversy. In it she Indignantly de-
/ MES the allegations of guilt charged upon her
i by her husband. and says that the whole diff
cultyis ehargeable to his desire to !" crush out
Mr.. Beecher.n In regard to some of the pa
/ pers signed BY her and publishedin Tilton's
| statement, eshe says they were obtained=by
MISREPRESENTATION when she was on bed OF
sickness, and without her knowledge of their
i contents. In conclusion, she says that she
appeared before the Investigating Committee
4 voluntarily, and without any solicitation on
4 the part of Mr.. Beecher's friends. .~...z4
The following card was published in the
i Brooklyn Times Of the s27tI1: 2ass s'ss@s 80
-Trespectfully public attention.. to the fact,
that though the Plymouth Church, Committee
have, this morning, pu5iished ight or ten Col
umns of irreleyant and desultory conversation
between Mr. Beecher's counsel and myself, IN
i the commitee-rooms yet this Voluninous report
/ strangely onlits the most important part of my
test
my sworn statement charged upon Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher and his religious victim, was con
Beecher.s furthermore, that it was confessed by
q her and HIM to Mr.. Mouton, as a
i friend and counselor, OF beth; ana sun
further, that Mr.. Moulton's Office as mediator
| for four wears, between Mr.. Beecher and me,
was based on the one sole fact of this pre.eX--
isting criminalty between Mr. BseSher and hfS.
Tilton. This statement made to the COMMITTEES
with my utmost plainness of speech. further.
more stated tothe committee that Mr. Beecher's 8
circuInstsnces with which Mrs Woodruff was
connected, was communicated 10 me by Mr
Beecher nearly six months before ever met ),
these facts from the commuters report, ferces
me to lay them before the public as d necessary
part ofmy case Sss 90
The Beecher-Tilton scandal assumed new
phase, on the 2St1, by the commencement of
!. legal proceedings against Mr. Tilton upon q
| CndTStEOl llDtlluS5 1u1s LO VIM
plant and afidavits IN the case were made by
one VIM. j. Gaynor, an attdche of the Brook
lyn argus, and comprise two separate charg-
!. es. Mr.. Tilton appeared before Judge Walsh,
: pleaded not guilty, and was released upon his
own recognizance until the following day.
1t sunderstood that Gen. Butler has been
retained as counsel by Mr.. Tilton. 1t is not
known that the suit. has been commenced in
the interest of either party, Gaynor's sole OBJ
ject, as hesays, being to bring out 1.-the facts
before legal tribunal. .s4z = zsss-,zsssssz e
The Republicans of Delaware have nomi-
mated DR.. Isaac Jump, of Dover, for Cover
nor. and Hon. JAS. Lafiand, of Milford, fo1
Congress. sal sas 49, p ea#seaszs#
The trial Of Senator Pomeroy for bribery
!, was called at Topeka, Kansas, on the 9th.
{ A motion to quash the Indictment was made
I by his counsel, the arguments uponzwhich
Z occupied two days. sgr# ssag 3
eoMMEReE AND INDusTRx.s
: The closing price of gold in New York, on
! the 27th, was 100 1-2sss@sas =ssz@ss -
5 / Following is the comparative cotton state
mert for the week ending July %:
E ssass4 sa.ssasssss 1S7z@s lisa
r Net receipts for past week =
! aii u 8. ports. ~. 5,63T Aa 2s57s
tod to date si al 6s pofts s,Ss8,sss s.5aB,e7,
ssiftS ron ali ports t9, AS "a, ,sss
. Totai exports froms Sept. = ssss = 4ssss4sss
to date from all ports.... 2, f69 S13 2, oil, ,32
: stock now enahsndsassefla EgsE ssss
stock now on hand at ali ~ ss-zs > s
stock assi At aei Liverpool sHer PC 90
Stock Of American a1oat for - -
O Great Britain. s52, ,O06 7768, ,OU
Y latA dangerous counterfeit having appeared
!; ON the fve-dollar notes of the Traders, Ma
$ tional Bank of Chicago, the Treasury Depart
! / ment offers one-half per cent. premium for
7 return of the genuine ive-dollaf notes Of tina
bank tosthe Departments for destruction. TIL
< notes should be strapped separately, and ma,
]. be included in packages of national banl
d notes returned to the Treasury for redemp
). tion, and may bereturned at the.expense o
I the department. AL genuine So notes Q
u this bank should hereafter BE- refused, an
e notes of the denomination tffds drawn out 0
9 8 IeirealStione No more eaof these notes win b
+ issued hereafter by the Comptroller of th
]. Currency to that bank. Attention of ban
i officers is especially called to the necessity
d promptly retiring these notes, which WI
4 entirely prevent the circulation Of the eour
Is terfeit. zg g s.s
at aItMas officially announced from Washing
4 4 ton onsthe 25th, that all bids sat par and W
nf wards for the five per cent. loansnad bee
a. accepted, except on the large ones; as I
a which negotiations were pending. All othe
O. bids had been rejected. The accepted bic
Sc for the new five per cent. loan.up to the dat
De mentioned amountedz b8s S 10a1S 500, 11glic
r amount, it is believed, is for permanent il
IN vestment at homes ,ssss s.v-s
ID The Boaraof Engineers appointedsby IL
= President to devise some plan for reclainlif
sfhe overfiowed lands along the Mississipa
River, during theirfeeent sessionat Newpor
le Rhode Island, distributed its duties among
50 members as follows: The district Of Loui
u fars-ssr assicnnfl aey.(a (anYernar .Heher