The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-11
NEW YORK.
RussRLL SAGE REsEdNs.

NEw YORK, December l0.-At meet
ing ol the Directors Of the Panama Rail.
road Company today Russell Sage re.
signed the office Of President, and r. w
Parks was elected 10 fill the vacancy.
SPECIE SHIPMENTS
to-day amounted TO $sOS, ,4O2, $7OOOOC
being gold coin and the remainder silver
GOLD AWARDS.
Hall o million dollars in gold werI
awarded to-day at from llO.s4 to 10 02
TILToN-DEECuRR.
The argument in order, 10 show causC
why a bill Of particulars should not bt
granted IN the Beecher-Tilton suit, can't
up to-day before Judge McCue,in Genera
Term Court room, Brooklyn. Theodore
Tilton was present. SheaTman opened
the argument by reading the order tC
show Causei and ex.Judge, Morris, thCr
read the affidavit made by Theodore Til
lou. 1t recites that the sum total o.
the knowledge now possessed by him o.
the conduct Complained OF, between
Henry Ward BeeCher and Elizabeth II.
Tilton, and Of times and places thereof
consists in confessions made by Becchel
10 Francis D. Moulton, Emma r. Moul-
ton, Theodore Tllton and others; comics
sions made by Elizabeth Il. Tillon tC
Emma Il, Moulton, Martha B. Bradshaw
Florence Tilton, Theodore TiIlon and
Others; written and printed papers, docu-
ments and letters 10 BeeChCr, Tilt0n and
other persons; acts, declarations and con
duct by Bcecher and Mrs Ti!tOn, tending
to proof, without locating acts 10 any
times or places, and direct proof derived
from acts, oral declarations and written
papers and documents oil Beecher and Of
other persons. Tilton also says in his al.
tldavit that the confessions made 10 him
named but two specific occasions
and but two places when and where
criminal conduct was had-namely:-onC
at the house of defendant, in BROOKLYN,
on the 10th Of October, 1868, and the 9th.
er at the house Of plaintiff on the 18th OF
October, 1868. But this depOnent Is not
absolutely certain that the above arc
the precise dates given by said confession,
but is positive that they were about or
very near those two days. Nor is this
deponent positive that the places assigned
to these dates are as above stated, il be-
ing possible that the intercourse stated
above as occurring on the 10Th Of October,
1868, may have been ut the house of the
plaintiff, and that on the 18th Of October,
1868, at the house Of defendant; and the
deponent further says that the confession
made 10 him admitted various acts OF
adultery by the defendant with the vile
Of the deponent between the 10th Of OC-
tober, 1868, and the spring oI 1870, but
did not psrtiCularize any time or
place otherwise than sthose stated; that
the deponent did not expect 10 be able on
trial TO prove by any witnesses any such
intercourse, or 10 prove any definite time
or place when or where such intercourse
occurred, except by the confessions, and
that they are the only proof oi the adul-
terry charged within the control or knowl.
edge OF the deponent, and which he ex-
poets TO Ciler on trial. Mr.. Tilton con-
cludes his affidavit by asking the Court,
in case bill Of particulars is granted, 10
insert clause 10 the following effect
But this order is not to be so construed or
applied as 10 prohibit the plaintiff from
introducing evidence Of confessions, aCts,
declarations, writings and documents,
which may be admissible under the gen.
eral rules oieVidenCe, as ifthis order had not
been made, and which donot in terms refer
10 any particular act or time OF adultery,
but proving by such evidence the adulter.
ous intercourse charged in the complaint,
although it may not thereby appear TO
have been committed on any particular
day, or at any particular place.
Alter the argument in favor oil a bill
Of particulars by Messrs. Shesrman and
EVsrts, of the counsel Tor Beecher, and
by cx.Judgc Morris against, the Judge
took the papers and reserved his decision.
INVESTIGATION OF STRAIN SHIP suB;IDIRs.
EXPresident Sage and managing ti.
rector Hatch, Of the Pacific Mail Uompa-
ny, Commodore Garrison OF the New
York & Brazil Company, and other gen.
tlemcn, left tonight for Washington, on
asummOns oithe Ways and Means Com.
mittec OF the House OF Representatives to
testify, ii is understood, in the matter oil
the steamship subsidies Of the last and
previous sessions.