, 1874-08-15
The Money lntrusted to Mou'tor
for Tilton's Use.
1t Was Paid for the Sake Of Peace.
Not OH Account Of Guilt.
Mr. Beeoher Says that Carpenter Is a
Good-Natured Busybody,
d Genial, Kind.Hearted Fool, and a
Stupid Blunderor.

From. Our orn corTespondtns.
Nkw Yon1, Aug. H. 1874
Sitting in that dim, funezeal house whore {or
ten years the Tilton family resided, passing
through all tho passages Of soofal, domestic, and
scholastic ntaroonrao. .-sitting there after mid
night, quito alone With Theodore I1ton. said;
II have been all day trying to grasp your
character and reconcile your serenity OF feeling
towsrtl your vito with tho outrage shc has COM
ultted upon you. Shall tall you tho main
points tho world makes against you'll"
"Yes," he said, "if could be out In the
world and look In upon u,yBclf, might mako
myself botter understood to tho world. You may
ask mo anything you like7 Do not bo delicate
don't think there remains anything for people
to write against mo which they have not said. "
uBED TO BE THEODORE T1LToH,
I thought. Nov find that am spo1troon, a blaoR-
mailer, follow Jealous OF another mans fame;
and my wife, whose letters to mo, nnioss arn
| blind and cnnuot read, chow IN approximation OF
me exaggerated and even passionate, tolls tho
| world that WAS as bad as they say. You may
ask me anything, down to the marrow"
"TAen," said I, "the grossest ofrenae you
| have committed, In the estimation Of your own
sox, was continuing relations with your vito
after you know her to have been impure to you.'
| hPerhaps,n said h(r. Tilton, "mnny mon who
say that never cana to tho opportunity Of show
| ing what their conduct might bc.
| wuEN 1uuNDEnDo1r 6ra1xEs 4 VEssEf.
| It makes an immediate catastrophe 10 that one
!! muak do what no had mover prepared himself
for. Tho atory of Elizabetha guilt was relatod
to me voluntarily. I never ACCUSED her. She
had been out In tho country staying awhile, sud
waa In . moor state of health. That fovsrish.
religious nature she had probably urged her on
An a., hall ho1faf That gtA HNH
only perpatratod a spiritual love by carnal
act, complete, by ridding 1t Of tho eonont of do
ceit. She therefore resolved to open tho story 10
mo of her onn voiition, hoping that might I'M"
derst and 1t, or, it could not understand it, she
| would take tho worst.
1TwAs IN THE VERY Room.
| She WAS sitting there where you ara
/ camo In aud stood yol,der. Bho addressed
mo at once, and In minute my heart WAS pierced
through and through. stood thero transaxed
aud hundred things came to mind, that anklt
acono amongst them. Bho used tho words OF hc'
religious emotion to express the ooufasaon O.
AUDITORY, Bho passed out leaving Mo thero a
il standing neither upon nor under any "ord
? whatever, perfectly empty Of omotsons' Jus
] blasted. As 1t to mako her acknowledgment
perfect and her confession absolute, she ae@at VI
to me that wrtton statement, and then. as 1t sh
had done all, her spirit gave way both Oh
apent tho night alouo. -
IN TUE n1psr OF TILE H'omraa"L. as'1,; - M
Office lu tlo Brooklyn ynio" BUILDING, and
could not write. l felt that | mlst tl oatla
to soma dissemination on ts tL"E, tno"En T.,
bAs; be S:;reater s % tattlod down tbu yoals the Pc
cullar nsturo Of liz yiotlm aad har relisloa ~
tenslt{ 4 last 'sl; 'Th1s t,sn "a ,vas ~ ssGT w
punlsh lin only TO this extent Elizabeth shal
20 Ind teii him that kno~ from hsr own LIP
Sshst pattern at Godllnoss he is,, and thst aul
/. IYing. suffering sacrifice for hls children