Wilmington journal., 1874-08-07

tained in 1,475 barrels. The discove-
ry of the supposed fraud is the result
of a new order of the Internal Reve-
nue. department requiring all high
wines to be reguaged before being
rectified.
It is said that about fifty thousand
dollars has been advanced by the rner-
chants in this city on liquor under
seizure.
New YORK, August 4-Night-A post
norton examination having been made
of the remains of Van Etten, the Cali
fornia bond forger, it was discovered
that death had resulted from conges-
tion Of the lungs, he having completely
recovered from the effects of lauda-
mum. His harsh treatment, while I'M
der the effects of the poison and need
less exposure, being allowed to lie
naked for some hours, are assigned as
the causes which led to congestion.
On the 10Th of July last, officer
Thomas Barrett, of the Sixth Precinct,
was bitten on the hand by dog. He
Immediately shot the animal, but the
fear of hydrophobia pressed upon his
mind to such a degree that he was
confined to his bed for a week. When
the roll was called this morning he
complained of feeling unwell. and an
officer handed him glass of water.
He dashed it to the floor and betrayed
the usual symptoms of the disease by
barking and swapping at those around
him. He was taken to the Park Hos
pital, and the physicians think it IS
case of lyssaphobia, instead Of the
genuine disease.
Tilton has written a letter to Page,
| NhoI of& ha T.,
| Committee, in response to one FROM
Page, calling for certain papers. Til
| ton declares tnat he already produced
the papers desired before the Commit
! tee, but was prevented from reading
them. He now, by advice of his coun-
sci, declines to give them up. He
charges that the Committee is of
Beecher's friends, appointed by Beech,
er, and expected to act in his behalf
He also says the daily papers have
been carefully fed each day with
crumbs OF fictitious evidence against
his own character, as if he, and not
Beecher, was on trial, and further re
marks that it IS not right perhaps to
hold your committee responsible
for this daily Misrepresentation u hich
may come through the malice Ofothers,
yet the result is the same to me as #
you had deliberately DESIGNED 1t, and
that result is this namely I expect
no justice, either from your tribunal,
since you cannot compel witnesses to
testify, nor from your reporters, since
they do not give impartial reports
Third, L cannot resist the conviction
though L mean no offence in express
sing it, that your committee has come at
| last to be as little satisfactory to the
public as to myself, and that your YER
dict, If you render one, could not pos
slbly be based on full facts, since YOU
have no power to compel the Witnesses
nor to verify their testimony by oath,
nor to sift it by cross-eXaminatien Fer
these reasons. which ought to have
moved me earlier, | have at last i'll
structed ny counsel to proceed at
once at his discretion to carry
my case from yoUr Jurisdiction
- court Of law aud il view
Of THIS instruction from me, lie has
i'll turn Instructed me to hold !: O fur
ther communication with y>!.r com
mittee, except i:.iS present l.t,tr OF
c ,urttsy, i'll wh:cl I've TIE honor to
BID yoU aTewCl!, n doing which allow
Ne 10 add tl.at respect which | am uu-
;.b.;- t0 ei,T, Gain tor vuIr couLI. tie
rs 4 tlihunt:. { l.., ! help expressing
for rori each and ali n ind,v ,ilttS
NEW York, August 5-Nu0n-Tne
FlyLlJu,iI Church Commit e. z,iif con
tinue its sessions 10 hear Moulton and
Beecher. They will report probable,
on Saturday.
Judge Riley las dismissed the Til
ton libel suit