, 1874-09-24
How the Reporters Fought,
Bled, and Died.
Scenes and Unscens at tho Gt0rrs
Mansion.
Tilton's Last Statement, and What Brook
Ign People Think Of It,.
A Change Comes Der tile Spirit
OF Their Dream.

gathering up tho dota!ls OF tho Groat Tlro. las
over folt tho burden of hiB profession to DO 10
much like tho great earth on tho shoulders OF
Atlas M our Nov York aud brooklyn Dol,nmaus
have done under tho superintendent Weight Of
tho Doccher scandal.
Shall wo evor forgot the Bln1rnor.nighta whom
TO used to hung ovor the rai!iugs Of tho historic
rcsilonco Of Augustus storrs, OH Monroe place,
during tho seasiona Of tho Investigating Conf
mitteo?
Can our cars ovor forget tho rumblings Of tho
stately ca,ragu-wheols Of tho ponderons Atr.
Sage, Chairman, lunbcsnat, aud whitowaahes?
shall wo over lose from our fauoy the dpmuro
and downcast look, aud funoraal aud uncertain
tread, Of District-Attornoy Winalow,-tho most
timid and characterleAs man to w1om Nature
over gave Roman noso2
Can 1t DO possible TINT Horace D. Claain's
benny oyea and egg-Bhaped hoad shall over fado
from the camera-plate Of our ondurng rocolloc-
tion7
1sit within tho scope Of probability that the
slock, oily, we!I-fod aud Alderman-waistod Au-
guHtuH storrH shall bocomo, in due tmo. to our
journalistic mouiory, mere lmy and forgotten
thing7
Shall ITO ever ccaBo to lingor fondly over cur
cherahnd recojectiona-
Dear as remembered kisaca after death
every member, Of tho Connittee,-eves
that cInorf,l noncnt;tv r,o conat;t,,t,. H.
s."..,a.,s ,,,.sas os WIZ euilh.'tu'ee Mt'
!'ooono. @ paos9. 10 I, H. noa!np,oce' 'acKes,
anu sefvaht-ol-all-~ofk,- Ideal dry-goods
clerk,-1Iensy III. Cleveland?
They wore a little Legislature OF HiBo heads.
,,ot I;,;n,t,, co,n,,;,,ao NJ t,ro., ,,aa1 ,,,,a1
sn"s euAn I.', -, e.e"s .nsu' Lucy
oog"n th'll oVen'nss ., WIN 4o'loo 4ao.os' anu
ended them Will cake anu lemonade. NO asrong
fan{f 81 oil
cornmittco vontt rnect anrlv inst NJ snnast. tha
s.,o;,od ,.d;as. uor,d ,,,to,. ia rot,,d NJ.
'o"sa '@3'o" "'''0 0D''t '"o 4''ono '1l'
Augustus,
LoED or THE AASs1oN,
would sal11to them ut t1o door with the air of O.
r,th,r,, n,,,,+ tbo ranor4 or. world n,o !, o,o.
asrp p .,ssa,, ~ ,!a1s ~
.ne pa4za' 'ntooen 1no sionooF H@'i'lhcn ooL"ees'
tho wando"-curta'h ana lilo window-s1ll; TIC put-
suit Of journalistic knowledge would DO coutin-
uea under difficulties: AIR. Ytorrs would catch a
p1,nnao NJ t1,o nna, cravjcn thron,h 7vh;ch Inn
sNinlao y. .Au opou s4 'Ao"5A "l'su :no
secret proceedings "e1e leasing. ata would IRA"
dowu tho curtain In diegust; thoro would ba q
yawp among twenty reporters, WHO vere thus ex-
c,,,5o1 from ovorv ayennc of fnforn,ntion. and
H. so,on,, -roc,aa;,.. n<o,,,1 ~ ~, ,,i,,,;.,
'no o''o. I1oebp "ou'" 81 W "i'1i'l'
Wills everything would be left socon1eosuro With
out.
Ana what coh1ecel1fes "o used 70 mago! who
was tue Nitness taaI 1ns1 went lh y Was, OF
course, Velied lady II was evidently u
young one, tor' ln e. coming up tio stone steps,
ahe ran lightly. Ihat greon veil must Aa7o Lid
| ING race o. besgie iuraer.
or Pofhara tao mYstGilons hgure was TAT
woman. cumpfou6 WIN tno "e'ght OF yoafs,-
hor yontn gone ner stop unsse1aoy. n'u 1lo loaat
| trilio OF noso-a dwarioa tonturo III so great
q parsonage o,-sho"ine ltaeil benoatn tho bIhck
screoh WIN "lncn ahe cilrta'nea hoFsoli against
our scrutnziug eyes. All, yes!-alrs. Morse, -
tic famous -
| MI
mud no mtslako Nhat would we not nave
givon on TINT night to haVe known Mhst she
said! We strained our fancy; we brlbed Alr.
btorra, servants; VIC ca1oled hiH coachInan; we
chief clerk; wo hired tue diHtlict-telegraph boyd
to send III messages which we lad "roLo on cards.
all to get little scrap Of Information from tue
ponderons mother Of the petite Elizaboth,- THO
| threatening mother-n-law OF tho lonS-au11eilnG
Theodore.
| She caino anu "ons' Iho Bum-total Of nor
| testimony, ~ it now appears, waB, that Eliza
beth, her daughter; was Us chaase US the Virgin
| Mary. That was all tile mother said.
! Then, with bold step, can1e lady
| WITHOUT VEIL.
Her snowy locks aro well known in tleao parta,
This WAS the wonan WHO provides for Mr.
Deccbor, according to bis testimony, . refuge
from tho Storm" yot who, according to Mr. I'll
toms recent statemont, is moro often tho storm
ITSELF" There was grimnesB in her Hsnilo, such
AZ one would Imagine in u tondcr thunderstorm.
| IhGu CAME the oXcltablo john ". uarmau, =
alwayB believing right,.yut always acting wrong,
ono Of the most honest, rush, ai,tl fooliah oi
1non,-giying his Testimony, like ShakHpearo'h
| ghost in " such Questionable Htape =" that he
was quoted by tbo Committee on the side against
which his heart inclined him for haye heard
him say that be regards Deochor as ono OF Tue
wotat. aud ho knows Theodore to bo ono Of the
best, men In Brooklyn.
What Tina VIC used to havo-we twenty
different representatives Of tho op'nipotent
pross- discussing With each other tho merits OF
tho great controversy.
The opinions Of tho average reporter ara Of
yalue-not through auy Inherent diguity tn luis
mind, for with tho exception Of myself and
D few othors) he is generally q scapegrace and
yaeabond but he IL unbiased lie don't caro-
for Qua unn or another; ho thinks no moro ol
Beecher than Of Tilton,-no less Of Tiltop than
Of Beecher tAut iA to say, ho cares for nothing
except to mako point against bis comralo, uni
to steal or invent pioco Of exclusive naws FOL
his own Journal.
I think tho reporters-T mean the eroet clus:
tor who, .1ike bees nwarminE on branch. usot
to buzz about tho Rulings oi Mr. storts houso-
/ think moas of these wore at first
ON a1n. nEEcuEn's SIDE.
| TN ,1sn1 tn rntor tn 3lE. and Wa liked him