The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-08
The 9uttand Daily Glube,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1874.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
TiitOn's Unmanly COurse-Shad Tor
Germany George DiamOnds-Thc
Peach crop.
New York Aug. G, 1874.


The most distressing revelations of the
Beecher-Tilton controversy are contained
in our papers this morning. Mrs. Tilton's
testimony before the Plymouth committee
is a heart-breaking history, and its ingen-
uous candor is as plain as its pathos. There
is no ground for disbelieving this woman's
account of her husbands conduct and her
own sufferngs. 1t is apparently picture
from life Mrs Titon absolutely denies
all criminality or thought of criminality
with Mr.. Beecher. She declares that her
husband ha frequently compellel her wien
sick to copy, or from his dctation write,
confessions which she hardly understood,
and in her despairing condition of mind
cared little about Her painful replies to
the questions reveal a jealous husband ac-
cusing her of infdelities with different men
of exerting sensual effect upon her; lock-
ing her up; declaring himself ashamed OF
her when among his friends; full of selfish
exactons; Indifferent toward her during
her illness forcing dsreputable women in
to her society, till sometimes she fled for
peace to the graves of her children; avow-
ing to her his right to commit adultery en-
his lecture tours whenever he chose, and
describing to her cases of his indulgences
scducing an inmate of the family; and yet,
at almost all places, dribblng out his
charges of dshonor against his wife. After
reading the statement, it is hard to regard
Tilton as anything better than cur? That
is the general sentiment here.
sHAD FOR GERMANY.
We are shipping 100000 young shad to
Germany to-day by the steamer Donau, to
be placed in the Rhine. They are sent by
Professor Bacite to Professor Porter of
Berlin, under instructions of the Deutscho
Fischerei Nerein. The experiment is
curious one, and fish cuturers at home and
abroad look for the result with great deal
of interest. As the young shad are barely
an inch long, they carry their yolksacks
and subsist in them. There will not be
much difficulty in keeping them alive.
GEORGIA DIAMONDS.
According to the statement of DIR NJ T
Stephenson of Atlanta, contained in the
Sun here to-day in an article on the geolo-
gy and mineralogy of that state, its mineral
wealth is as yet only partially developed,
when compared with its future, in the pro-
ducton of jewels, particularly diamonds.
In the great belt of its metamorphic forma-
ton, extending in diagonal line through
middle Georgia to the line of its limestone
formation in northwestern Georgia, are
found five distinct outcroppings of sand
stone. In each ofthese lodges diamonds of
greater or less value have been found, The
most extensive of these lodges is IN Hall
county, upper northern Georgia, in belt
thirty miles wide running diagonally north
east seventy miles. In every gold deposit
or branch mine worked in Hall county
splendid diamonds have been found by gold
washers who, ignorant of their value, have
lost or thrown them away. A few have
been sent to Europe to be cut, but most of
them have been lost. None were picked
up except those without incrustation, and,
it is well known, in Brazil only one-tenth
of the diamonds are without incrustation.
In washing for gold, all the large diamonds
would necessarily be lost, on account of
thrown away with the gravel. Only such
as passed into the ritflers with the grains
of gold and fine sand, were found in the
paintings after the days work was finished
All those picked up in Hall county were
found in this manner. Most of them
weighed from two to six carats. Three
very large ones were found. The first was
broken in pieces by the ignorant miners to
see why it was so lustrous; the second was
used by the boys of GAINESVILLE for long
time as middle man in playing marbles (;
but the largest, as large as guinea egg,
and partly encrusted, was lost soon after it
was found by DR. Boyd, the overseer of the
Glade Gold Mine, a deposit about twelve
miles northeast of GAINESVILLE. According
to DR. Stephenson, it is established beyond
question that diamonds of great value have
been found in Hall county, and that it re
quires only ajudicious outlay of capital and
labor to develop diamond beds in that
county, and perhaps in other parts of the
state, as rich as the diamond fields of Brazil
or South Africa.
THE PEACH CHOP.
Over 5000, 900 of Delaware and Mary
land peaches reached this market yesterday
by the Pennsylvania railroad. ii.