, 1874-08-13

puoiic sentiment: and the hosts of men
ana women all over the country, of dev.
lllsh instincts and licentious propensi.
ties, are jubilant over the result.
No one who has read the report with
out prejudice, can fail to arrive at anv
other conclusion than that Beecher and
TIiton are both bad. The latter. if he he.
lieves his own statements. has for years
compromised, compounded and condon-
ed his own shame; disciple of the Ii
centious doctrine of free love and a
follower of its precepts, he has no
wrongs to redress, whatever nav have
been the invasion of his marital rights.
AS to Beecher, it is not material to the
issue whether he has actually committed
an overt act of inidelity to the marriage
relation or not; it is settled beyond dis
pute that he has tampered and compro-
missed with licentious practises dis.
graceful to his sacred calling and in di.
rect conflict with his professions; that
as an emotional Christian, holding that
the instigations of the flesh were the in
splrations of the spirit of God, he falsi.
ned the pialnest precepts of the gospel
which he was ordained to preach. 1t is
now evident, beyond peradventure. that
hypocrisy and falsehood has been the
rule of his life, and that his rorality
and sentimentalism was founded upon
no faith in living God or belief in d.
vine revelation. The advocates of the
religion of sensualism claim him for
their own; for tie sake of religion and
decency let them have him.
Truth STRANGER THAN FIcTIoN.-The
old residents of Olympia of 1853 4, will
recognize their old fellow. w.citizen, Henry
V. Coulter, as the lucky individual who
has recently been willed some 5000 900.
as a reparatlon for an injury about 20
years ago. He was formerly of the firm
OF Parker u Coulter, who transacted
general merchandising business at the
Pioneer store of Olympia, built by Ed
munG Sylvester, the upper rooms OF
which was the Hall used by the first
Legislative Assehbly-long the post
Office under the administration of the
late DR.. G. X. Willard; latest known as
uncle Bennie's Saloon. 1t will also be
remembered, that said Parker & Coul,
ter We're the proprietors of the express
between Puget Sound and Portland
connecting there with Adams & Co..
then the great express company of the
whole continent, before Wells, Fargo &
Co. occupied the field.
The Parker who was pal tner in the
firm, is our popular steamboat Captain,
John G. Parker. Jr., of the Aida, not
Edward Fl. Parker, of San Francisco, as
the newspapers have it in their illusions
to Mr.. Coulter's good fortune. E. H.
Parker, of San Francisco, was large
importing merchant in that city, and
the reason for connecting his name with
the affair will be in what follows:
The singular blending of names and
getting facts terrible mixed, as appears
in the recent publications, are in keep
ing with the whole romance, and strik-
ingly verify the trite saying which heads
this notice
Mr.. Coulter went to Chincha Island,
South America, in the spring of 1854,
being possessed of Il large amount of
funds, the property of Parker & Coul-
ter. Here he was taken very ill, and
he then entrusted to Mr.. Jessup about
$4,000, with instructions to purchase at
Alsop Il Co.'S Bank, at Lima, Peru,
exchange ON San Francisco for said sum
for his partner, John G Parker, Jr., of
Olympus. Said exchange was to be ad-
dressed to E. Fl. Parker, a prominent
business man of San Francisco, as the
best means of securing its receipt by his
brother John.
Jessup failed to comply with Coulter's
injunctions. Parker never received the
money Coulter intended for him tc
have. With it Jessup commenced bust.
ness and made large fortune. What
our present townsman, Parker, was
wronged out of, was the foundation OF
the fortune to which Coulter has fallen
heir. From Mr.. Coulter's antecedents,
indeed, from this very act of transmits
ting funds belonging to Parker, we are
satisfied, now Mr.. Coulter has become
SO able, be will hasten to indemnify the
really injured party, our esteemed towns
man, Capt. Jno. G. Parker, Jr., of the
Aida.
We are really glad to chronicle Mr..
Coulter's good fortune We more
strongly hope, as dttirg sequel to this
romantic turn of fortunes wheel, to an
nounce also that as the funds which
Jesup used were really j. G. Parker's,
that he, too, has been fully Unidentified
for his sore privation; that after twenty
years of honest. earnest struggle with
adversity, he has at length attained that
competence that will at least secure to
him comparative ease and rest from his
labors. s.-Co,uier. 8a
STEAMER S. L. MAsTIC. This steamer
which has been undergoing repairs in
this city for some time past, is receiving
a