New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-20
NEW YORK.

maintenance OF the monroe uOctrlne.
NEW YORK.
Failed.
NEW YORK, August 19.-Andrews g.
Landlord, dealers In millinery, have tailed.
Ext0rtion of a spanish Official.
The Spanish consul, MocO. claims as fee
forty cents on each package shipped for the
Spanish ports in accordance with Official
Instructions from his government. Mer
chauts here regard the claim as great
oppression.
A Waif from n Wreck.
A half starved negro was found here yes
terday who reported that on the seventh he
sailed from New London in the bark Mer
chant, Captain Prince, bound for New Or
leans, with a crew Of seven men. Ga Fri.
day last the Merchant was run into by
propeller, name unknown, and cut to pieces.
She SANK almost Immediately. Captain
Prince and the crew, excepting the negro
and white sailor, were all drowned. TAis
occurred, he states, off Barnegate light.
The negro further states that the propeller
picked up the two survivors and carried
them to Philadelphia, and he started to
walk home
Report Of the Investigating Committee.
The subcommittee of the investigating
committee, consisting of Messrs. Sage,
Winslow and Cleveland, held meeting ior
the purpose of consultation as to how their
report should be drawn up. 1t was decided
! 70 commit the preparation of draft OF the
report to Mr.. Winslow, to be submitted to
the other two members OF the committee
| for revision. These in turn will submit TO
! the original committee of six, who will
| make any alterations which shOu'd be
| necessary and then hand it over to the ex-
aiming committee of Plymouth Church,
who will report at the succeeding Friday
light business meeting of the church.
The Compromise.
The following is published here this
morning az the facts of the alleg at
| tempted compromise of the Beecher-T.lton
| case, of which mention was made last week.
| On returning to Brooklyn AIR. Moulton,
under the prOvocation of being referred to
as blaokmailer, was led to prepare lon e
statement, which was designed to crush
| Mr.. Beecher. 1t was composed mainly OF
| mis- own recollectiOns of various events of
| the scandal; his own assertions that Mr..
| Beecher and Mrs. Tilton had made confess
| siOns Of adultery 10 him, but unsupported
| by any document other than those which he
subsequently submitted to the court, and
| one other which has been described by MI.
| Beecher's lawyer as manufactured
| He simply corrObOrated TiIton by his
own unsupported word when he prepared
| his statement.
Mr.. Moulton denounced Mr. Beecher to
| the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
who next day telegraphed his statements to
his paper, where they we're published on
| Monday, August 10, the very day on which
| Mr.. MOultOn submitted his short statement,
| containing zone OF the gravest allusions.
Mr.. Kingsley had wrought this sudden
| change in Moulton's purpose. During the
| Sunday which intervened between his talk
| with the Chicago Tribune correspondent,
| and his informal talk with the committee
| Mr.. Kingsley met at Moulton's house on
! Sunday. August g. Mr.. Moulton himself, his
| ia rher, Franklin Woodruff, and two or three
other persons. Mr.. Kingsley communicated
| to the assembled friends of Mr.. Moulton
| that the latter's own safety was at stake.
1t was finally decided that Moulton
| should not attack .Beecher, or confirm Til
| ton further than by the submission of the
papers called for. General Butler read she
| long statement the same night, and advised
, its suppression for future use. As con-
| sequence of Kingsley's infol nation and
General Buffers advice, Moulton changed
| his statement but forgot to alter the Chica-
go correspondents letter.
William Kingsley's only suggestion of
| paying money to Mr.. T,ltOn was remark
! made publicly by him in q restatement, 70
| the effect that Tlton should not want for
money; he could nave $4,000 if he needed it.
Moulton's other Statement being Printed
Moulton to-day told reporter he had
left unfinished some important mercantile
business, in New England, aud had come
home on purpose to take from its hiding
place, and lay before the pub bic the origins
statement he prepared for the committee
Of investigation.
All the world now knows, said Moulton,
| that nv honor has been impugned, and by
| man who impugns his own in so doing,
and l shall publish my statement in full,
exactly as it was written at first.
1t is already in a printers hands. Moul-
| ton, on being Q pressed to tell who the printer
was and why be did not give it to news
paper office, replied that he wished the
document to be correctly printed, and the
proofs to be carefully read, and that there
snould be no possible discrepancy between
the original and transcript.
All this would take a little time. Hs said
the printer had promised him everything
should be ready in time for the statement
to appear In the morning and evening Jour
nails Of Saturday next.
Correspondence.
Tjlton's lawyer sent the following COM
munIcation to Beecher last Monday:
BROOKLYN, August II, 1874.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
SIR-We have been retained By Theodore
TiltOn TO commence suit against you. Will
| you please indicate the attorney who ia
authorized to appear in your behalf, 80 that
we may serve the papers upon him.
NORRIS & PEARSOLL.
Sheaiman & Sterling, attorneys for Mr..
| Beecher, this mo1n,Ug make the following
| reply:
New YORK, August IS, 1874.
Messrs. Morris Pearsoll:
Understanding that you contemplate the
| commencement of acton at law in behalf
| of Theodore Tilton against the Rev. Henry
| Ward Beecher, we beg TO inform you that
we are authorized to appear for Mr.. Beecher
in all legal proceedings, and we request, IN
his name, the immediate service OF papers
on us. SHEARMAN g. STERLING.
Beecher's Standing with Plymouth Church.
| Mr.. Beecher left this afternoon for the
| White mountains. He appeared to be il
excellent health and spirits. The assistant
pastor Halliday, few days past has Wis
tied most of the members Of Beecher's con.
greeation, and, Notwithstanding the reports