The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-03-05

distinguished is entitled to fair play by the
public press. Respectfully,
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LONDON. Jan. II, 1875.
MY DEAR GENERAL Thanks for your
friendly and manly letter. The extracts
you send me from newspapers Of Cincinnati
and other places would have surprised me
if had not already seen myself lately viii
fed and lied about. Why I have been
made the subject Of these assaults, and why
my life and conduct are SO grossly calumni-
ated and misrepresented, do not altogeth-
er understand, for God knows with what
earnest and single-heartedness [ have hon
estly and honorably labored through a long
and active lifetime to promote the happi-
ness of others, and to serve to the full meas
ure Of my ability u country which has in
trusted to me much and various public SER
vice. What has troubled me most and fill
ed me with indignation is that some Of
these attacks, anonymous as they are ma
licious, should have been admitted without
question in journals of reputed respectable
ity.
You write to ask me the meaning of the
ridiculous story about my having published
work on the Rules and Art of Poker
Playing. | will tell what it all comes from.
In the summer of 1872, while visiting with
others at country house in Somersetshire,
the guests, as is usual in English society,
amused themselves in the evening with
games at cards and, as is also usual, the
stakes were for pennies and often six
pences.
They were anxious to learn the American
game of poker, of which they had heard,
and of which some of them already knew a
little. | showed them how it was played.
When I was coming away the lady of the
house requested me, as a favor to herself
and other friends who thought it attractive
and amusing, to write down some of the
rules of the game, as it is SO generally
played in America. I complied with her
request as well as [ could, ON the very
morning of my leaving her hospitable roof
and thought little more OF my act of polite
ness until she surprised me by sending me
some copies of tffese rules, which gentle
man, another visitor, had had printed for
her, and for their own private use and cir
culation, on his own private printing press.
1t was very prettily done. 1t was intended
as compliment, and | am very sure that
nobody can be more amazed or more annoy
ed than my friend Lady W. and her family
and guests to find that they have thus un-
Willingly brought down on me the wrath
and apprehension Of so many good people
i'll America.
If can find a copy now of the little work
which some people would willingly make
famous, if thereby they might inJure me,
will send it to you.
Very truly and faithfully your friend,
ROBERT G. ScHENoK.
Once more we offer the handsome sum of
five dollars for copy of that book.
One Version Of the Tripartite Agree
ment. s... T..
Joe Howard gives this version of the tri-
partite agreement, and states the case per-
haps as accurately as it can be stated:
We three men, Beecher, Bowen and
Tilton, are in scrape, and we want to get
out.
First-And I. Henry G. b., Que of the
first members Of the Bald-Headed Club,
having, like tender lamb, heard things
that wish I didn't, and having, like a
little bird, repeated things that | wish [
hadn't. take 'em all back, and welcome to
my Christian heart both Beecher and
Tilton, who will doubtless continue to write
for the Independent, and take it out in
trade.
Secondhand I, Theodore T., weak k-head-
ed slack baked and hard-up, anxious for
money and fresh field Of grass, take back
all have said about Bowen and Beecher,
and set my promissory bow, indorsed by
Moulton, in the clouds, that / will never
again say u naughty word or tell any more
yarns, for cash or otherwise, about my
valued friends, the great and good Bowen
and the jolly green Beecher.
Third-And I, old Dominic Bcecher, like
the original dog who was caught in bad
company utterly sick of this whole worri-
ment, fooled here, badgered there, and
blacknailed everywhere. promise like a
LITTLE man that If have aver done anvfb;no
wrong won't do it again. 1t may be that
have done these Christian statesmen
injury. lfso, / forgive them. And now
ali hands aiound-N J.. Star.