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Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18

to the Office, and from the porter there
bought fourteen papers, and then hired
the porter to take them to the Postoffice.
He followed on, and as soon as he saw
them depart he had the porter arrested
and warrant issued for our arrest for
sending obscene matter through the
mails. i first heard of the order through
the Lotus Club that same evening.
What followed is matter of public and
legal history. was arrested for job
which Beecher put up.
Were your things taken when arrested!
Why, sir, the officers emptied the CON
tents of our trunks into the street and
carried them of. They left us of our
clothing only the dresses We went to
Ludlow street Jail in.
Previous to the publication were you
on friendly terms with Beecher, Tilton,
and Moulton
We were excellent friends. They were
frequently at my house, and I was very
often at Mr.. Moulton's. Mr.. Beecher,
Mr.. Tilton, and myself often dined at
Moulton's, and Franks Burgundy wine
was the subject of many joke with us.
1t was very superior, and Mr.. Beecher
never let his glass go dry. One day at
dinner one of us asked him how he could
drink wine and go out as he proposed to
that evening and deliver temperance
lecture. He replied: ''The inner man
dimes and drinks the wine; it is the outer
man that will speak to the temperance
people,
Mr.. Tilton was then happy with his
wife!
Yes. Theodore had thoroughly con
doned his wife's fault, and had told Mr..
Beecher if he loved her it was all right
The last time / saw Theodore at Murray
Hill he came in saying, "I'm ten feet
taller than ever before" L asked him
what he had done. He said that when
going home from my house the evening
previous he met Mr.. Beecher on the
boat, and, walking up to him, said,
You have nothing to fear from me, y
and then he described how he saw Mr.
Beecher safely home.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
TELEGRAPH MICHINES WORKED

BT -aIR.
An account is published of an inter-
esting exhibition of telegraph machines,
worked exclusively by air, lately given
in London by Mr.. Guattaris, the invent
or. A number of different instruments
were on view. The impulse is produced
at one end of tube by the operator,
and performs the mechanical work of the
other end, either by ringing a bell or
turning needle round dial. A rapid
ity and precision can be made equal to
the electric telegraph, the conducting
tube being able to be laid under or over
cover, In the same manner as the ordi-
nary telegraph. Attached to each ma
chine is bell and dial, and the message
is Transmitted by the moving of small
lever which drives the air through pipe
to the other operator. As the lever is
moved up and down, the dial, which
stands where the message is destined
for, registers Whatever the words may
be. Each dial is supplied with a needle,
and, as each squirt of air presses against
the words of the machine, the needle is
moved exactly the number of times that
the lever is pressed. Each instrument
can receive or send message about 400
yards, and is, therefore, of special con-
venience for private INSTRUMENTATION.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
THE IRT OF FCOMPLIM E.NT.

A delicate compliment is a work of far
higher art than the most biting sarcasm
Every one knows the story of
the poor creature who found him
self seated between Madame Reca-
mier and Madame de Stael, and
managed to offend them both by say
ing that he sat between wit and beauty
The court of Louis XIV. seems to have
been the school where the art was
brought to perfection. The Aattery
offered by the men of genius to the King
was at once coarse and exquisite Wit
ness the inimitable reply of Mignard,
who was painting the kings portrait for
the tenth time, when Louis asked him,
"Do / look oltisrl" 81 see few more
campaigns on the brow of your majesty"
1t is only fair to Louis to acknowl-
edge that he could himself bestow
praise with more grace than any other
monarch of whom history makes men
ton. After the battle of Seneff, he re-
ceived the great Conde in state. The
Prince was suffering from a sharp attack
of the gout, and made his way somewhat
painfully up the steps of the royal stair
case, at the head of which was the king.
Conde begged of the king to forgive him
for thus keeping his majesty waiting.
Louis hastened to silence him with these
words: "Cousin, take your time; when
one is so heavily laden with laurels it is
impossible to walk fast" 1t is an old
reproach against Orientals that they can
not understand a joke, and that they are
still less able to say pretty things to Ia
dies; but a daughter of Louis XIV, the
Princess de Cont, inspired the Moorish
Ambassador with as gracefully turned
compliment as can be imagined. She had
rallied against the Mohammedan custom
of polygamy, and the Moor thus de-
Tended the practice Madame, plural
ity of wives is allowed among us, be-
cause in our country we must seek in
several women the charming qualities
which are here to be found in one" Wit,
like money, is of no country.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
[Dr. Syntax's Le.ter.l

[Dr. Syntax's Le.ter.1
One of Moulton's shots evidently hit
Tracy between wind and water. That
towering three-decker exploded one of
his broadsides in tremendous question
of where did you first see that paper9"
The point of the answer was expected to
be an admission that Tilton and Moulton
had jointly concocted it. But the enc
my's port-fires were alight, and crack
ing ca ronade split Tracy's ive-oak with
the reply, 81 first saw it, General, in a
confidential interview with you and
Tilton." 1 should like to truthfully
affirm that the General blushed But he
WINGED only, and the audience passed a
chuckle over each other heads, all round
and about the room. Evarts, who sits
in his chair during the cross-examination,
with angry wrinkles upon his hatchet
face, and who shakes his head perpet-
ually ike a meatless old buffalo baited
by mosquitoes, at this sprang to Tracy's
rescue, and, pointing his long, lean finger
at the stenographer, cried, "Now, don't
take that down
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
THE POoR MIN AT THE CITE OF
PIRIDISE.
A Morning Dream.


A poor old died one bitter cold day,
And directly to Parsdise wended his way;
Saint Peter he met-tls a dream I relate
With his great shining keys. keeping ward at the
gate.
Now while standing here with the apostle conyers-
ing,
The events Of his journey to heaven rehearsing
He sees a rich townsman-the gate Is ajar-
Slip quietly BY them and in through the bar
He listens; he hears pesls Of music arise
To welcome sAis man to his home in the skies;
But on entering himself, though bright visions I'LL
His fancy with rapture, all is silent and still.
s~5fow is this :--turning back to ST. Peter, his
guide;
In accents Of wonder the poor man then cried;
Whsn my nsishSor went in, rweesest music I
heard
Why is not the same honor on me now conferred!
"Dye keep up the distinction here, please let me
Twixt the rich and the poor that we had down be-
low?
sc Not at an,- said st. Peter; -.oh, no, not at
all;
Just as brothers we live in this banqueting hall;
But poor folks like you, I am hippy to say,
BY hundreds pass through the gte every day:
About once in year 3 rich along,
Then all Paradise rings with q general song.r
-christian Union. ~
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
Women Seeking admission.

knowledge of the fact that under GER
tain circumstances few women had got
into court has induced persons of that
sex to come here from distance in hope
of seeing the trial. They need not come,
for they can not get in, though several
managed to do so at first by stratagem.
The only ladies whose presence is toler-
ated by the Judge are Beecher's wife
and Mrs. Tilton, with her companions.
Within the last few days some women
have got into an anteroon, where they
can get an occasional glimpse of the no
tables In court.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
4 P4TRIOTIC GRANGER.

Col T. J. Smith, the Grand Master of
the Georgia Changers, presided over the
recent session in Macon, dressed through
out in Georgia fabrics, and manufactured
at home. His coat, vest and pants were
of Georgia jeans of beautiful gray,
made at home, and as neat and jaunty
suit as any man may desire. Indeed his
trim apparel attracted our attention be-
fore he spoke of it. His shoes were also
made at home of Georgia leather. AS to
the bat, he had to give in there, for hats
are not made in Georgia, unless 1t be
summer hats of straw or palmetto. His
good wife, the Ceres of the State Grange,
also took her official position in the lodge
dressed entirely in homemade apparel
Macon Telegraph.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18

AN ingenious system has been adopted
on the Northern Railroad of Frsnce, by
which, through means of a stationary
electric battery, the whistle of an ap
preaching locomotive is blown automati-
cally. If the road be obstructed, and it
is found necessary to step a coming
train, the signal tender sends an electric
current along the rail which, by certain
appliances, is made to pass to the engine
and open the steam whistle, causing it
to blow.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
The Great Legal Lights.

tCor. Cincinnati Gazette.l
During the last few days the lawyers
have been the prominent figures in the
case, especially Evarts and Beach, whose
contests keep the courts mind active.
The former is the scimeter of Saladin !;
the latter is the mace of Richard. Evarts
heads and fronts the defensive in this
case. 1t is the most offensive defensive
on record. Beach acts the leading
I" lion " of the prosecution. He rouses
himself and shakes technicalities from
his case like the king of beasts the dew
of the morning from his name. Evarts
rmexcited and Beach excited are emi-
nently interesting spectacles.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18

of his honored and sacred profession
one whose words were listened to with
Difference and respect But he had
these powers of mind over her he had
that persuasive power of eloquence, that
insidious and silver tongue which would
lure an angel from his paradise. He was
her accepted and chosen teacher and
guide. She looked up to him with ven
Grafton second only to that with which
she regarded her God. Nay, if an in
carnate Christ had come down, with the
glory of Calvary upon his brow and the
love of sacrifice in his eye, she would
not bow down to him with more Obedi-
ence than this woman gave to her pastor
and her God. From her childhood, sir,
she was under his teaching and admoni-
ton. He was almost an inmate of
her home. In the confidence of
her husband, and as the friend and
pupil of this aged, venerable and gifted
man, he was welcomed with tenderness
and affection. He exerted upon her, sir,
all his arts, his specious wisdom, his
prayerful devotion all the arts of his
gifted nature were bent for the seduction
OF this happy, beloved wife and mother /;
and she fell. And do you wonder, sir
Is she to be blamed for the act? Is this
prosecution of her9 Is this action, there
fore, brought by the wronged husband,
an action against her for her condemna-
ton! Oh, no, sir. Consider how strong
be was consider how submissive she
was to his teachings, and imagine with
what specious and insidious tongue he
conveyed to her the theory of his plans,
that fornication was but the natural ex-
preston of love. He taught her to be-
heve In pious adultery, and by steady
steps, he led her along the fowery path
to the precipice upon which she fell.
That seducer is brought into a court of
justice to answer for his crime. The
husband wronged, the seducer guilty,
stand before the immaculate Justice of
the law, and before it each is to answer
for deeds done to this woman. And we
are told, sir, according to the logic of
my learned friend, that this aged, vener-
able and gifted seducer may take the
witness-starld and apologize for his guilt,
and present all the evidences of his
learned ingenuity and that the husband
must be still silent and that this is law
l say no, sir. Before your honor will
admit any such construction, before you
will approve any such administration,
you must be driven to it hy the force of
inevitable legal logic Thank God there
is, in my belief, no such rule of law in
this State.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
TILTON-BEECHER.
SCENES md INCIDENTS OF
THE GREAT TRIAL.
. Beecher's Opinion of BeecLer
[Cor. Cincinnati ComIierciAl.l

"Now, are you really, after all, half a
fool p" said friend of Beecher the other
day. in referring to some of his Tilton
letters. "I was intended for a first
class fool, replied Beecher, land have
in me the material for that. When the
rest of mankind were made up, there
was lot of waste material lying around
which was thrown together, and that's
me- >,
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
1fOuffOH.
From the Chicago Tribune

rom the Cnlcago
Is not Moulton the most remarkable
man, after all, in this scandal? Since he
has completed his testimony, it is easy
to understand why he should have been
trusted and hearkened to alike by Beecher
and Tilton A New York boy, with a
common-school education and CONNER
cial training, acquiring his means by
acute perception and untiring applica-
ton, and an amateur only In literature
and art-he is an excellent specimen of
the American type of self-reliant, self
made men. He displayed during his
long examination and tremendous cross
examination the mental force and moral
courage which fully account for the ad-
miration of two such remarkable men as
Beecher and Tilton. Without bravado
or buncombe, he gave his direct evidence
without the suspicion of alesson learned,
and faced the fierce fire of the cross
examination without fiinching. During
ten days he showed himself the equal of
the formidable display of legal ability
which had been massed against him. 1t
will take overwhelming testimony to
break down evidence given with the per-
spicacity, force, directness, and familiar
ity with which Moulton said everything
he had to say. 1t looks now as if the
defendants counsel would only discover
sufficient contradiction and inconsistency
in his testimony which the recollection
of mass of incidents, covering long
period of years, must involve in order to
commend itself as truthful.
Tilfon's Tesfinsony-Consfrwcti,s a Narra
tire.
lCor. Chicago Tribune]
The direct examination of TiltOn has
been cumulative. Every interview with
Beecher, every incident germane to the
case, every subject that could be intro
duced to the plaintiffs advantage
have been brought out in historic sue
cession. The testimony to-day consisted,
therefore, in the construction of narra-
tive instead of the development of a
theory. The first story of the structure
was the hideous description of the inter-
view between Tlton and Beecher to
settle the paternity of little Ralph Tilton.
The profoundest impression to which the
ordinary mind is subject was effected
upon the audience by the recital of that
nuimaginable scene. Vast horror made
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
WoodhuU on the Scandal.
HER FIRST MEETING WITH THEODORE TIL
TON-BEECHER AND BURGUNDY.

UoodhM on the Scandal.
HER FIRST MEETING WITH THEODORE TIL
TON-BEECHER AND BURGUNDY.
rFrom Interview in the Washington National
Republican,
If not asking too much, will you give
me history of the scandal
cannot pleasantly make reference to
the details of the affair. When this
present trial is over, let it go as it will,
though / think the jury will disagree, 1
propose to sum up the case, and then
the whole truth will be given to the
world
But you can tell some of it now!
Oh, yes, a volume. My first acquaint-
ance with Theodore Tilton came about
in this way He came to me with copy
of the World of May %, 1871, in which
card of mine WAS published, which in
cluded this sentence '' For example, 1
know of one man, public teacher of
eminence, who lives in concubinage with
the wife of another public teacher of
almost equal eminence. All three concur
in denouncing offenses against morality
He asked me '' who I meant" / replied,
"YOu, Theodore Tilton, and Henry Ward
Beecher." He acknowledged it was true,
and was ready to have the matter ex-
posed. He wanted it to come out, and
urged me to refer to Mr.. Bowen, who
said to Tilton, year before the publica-
tion of the expose, that he could drive
Beecher out of Brooklyn at any time.
How was the article prepared?
From information received from the
parties. first heard of it in the Agricult-
ural Committee room at the Capitol
when a committee of ladies' were met
there by a Congressional committee.
Soon after this had conversations with
Mr.. Beecher about it. He was very
apprehersive, and more than once made
the remark that he was q natural born
coward and could not publicly avow his
real sentiments, though he had been
pupil of Stephen Pearl Andrews for nine
teen years. He claimed that there was
nothing criminal In his love for Mrs.
Tilton, and that it was spontaneous.
Was the matter known of in private
circlesl
Why, certainly.
What induced you to publish it!
One powerful motive was to please Mr..
Beecher and to comply with his request
that should do it. He said to me it
could not be held back much longer,
and he would have no power to fight the
story il it should come out in the secular
press, but if it was published IL my pa
per he might be able to rally from the
blow. He said he had lived long enough
with the sword of Damocles hanging
over his head.
What followed the publicationa
The arrest of myself and sister and the
confiscation of all our property. 1t is
safe to say tht we should have received
orders for million and half of copies
of that issue of the weekly. We had
printed some 200, 600 when one evening,
after Office hours, Mr.. Comstock went
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18

Miss ADA SWEET of Chicago is the only
female Pension Agent in the country, and
receives the highest salary paid to
woman by the government.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-02-18
T1lfon yade,. Cross-E;r,.

TiitoH Under Cross-F;s,.
Mr.. Evarts arose slowly from his seat,
and, without formality, put his first
question, while Mr.. TltOn changed his
position and answered it with composure.
The questioning was unDroken by any
misunderstanding, until Mr.. Tilton was
asked whether Mrs. Tilton's residence
had been at Mr.. Ovington's since she
separated from him. He declined to say
that it had been, and finally said Her
residence is at my house." Then Mr..
Evarts asked the witness what he meant
when he said that his age was about
thirty-nine, to which Mr.. Tilton replied
that he meant exactly what he said.
After this there were frequent sharp ex-
changes of words between the examiner
and the plaintiff, but always in good
nature, Mr.. Evarts being invariably
suave and Mr.. Tlton extremely digni-
fed. Mr.. Tilton did not lose an oppor-
trlnity to praise his wife, and once, when
asked whether she enjoyed and sought
the company of people with great
minds, he replied ''No. She rather
went to the lowly and unfortunate. She
was a lovely woman" 81 agree with
you" commented Mr.. Evarts. Mr.. Til
toms religious views were next inquired
about. Mr.. Evarts examined him close
ly on that subject, desiring TO show that
Mr.. Tilton's change in belief had caused
his wife much sorrow, and that there was
also a great difference In the religious
views of Messrs. Tilton and Beecher.
Beach on Beecher
(From Besch's Argument on the Admissibility of
Tltons Evidenced
In concluding this, sir, and in answer
to tine illustrations of my learned friend,
permit me to follow with an illustration.
Imagine, sir, happy, honored, cultured
home wife, frail, feeble, and deli
cate woman, eminently devotional and
pious in all her impulses, and, as has been
shown heretofore, devoted to the hus-
band of her early choice, and the father
of her children. She had pastor
learned, eminent, and gifted beyond his
fellows one who stood at the very head
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blood to drink !; but he eude,l by for.
giving me cordially, and invited me
down to the drug store to wash away
nh animosity in q friendly bumper Of
''Fahnestock Vermifoge." 1t was his
little joke. .g...,.r Il ,..aoi,
- My uncle was very angry when, lie
got back-nnreasonahly SO, I .ti,ongl,,,.
considering what an imPetus 1 Ind
given the paper, and considering,
ALSO, that gratitude for Ills preserva-
ton ought to .laye been nppermost in
bis mind, inasmuch BY bis delay he
had :, escaped dissection, COMMUNICATING,
libel, and getting his head shot of:
But he' softehed when he lo6ked ut
tho accounts add saw that I had &c.
k tqallyt bMk@d the unparalleled num-
Der Of ,thirty.three new subscribers,
and had the vegetables to show for
It, cordwood, cabbages, beans and
..nnsalsable turnip s .enongl. II run the
family for two yesss hgo.+ Galdky.i
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'"Now," said Secretary, Chadler,
going into the Interior Department,
''here, is an item charging the Fort
Dick Agency with two BARRELS, of gin
aud four loaves of bread. What's
the use If four loaves of bread r.
HE CAME FROM FIRG1NNY. "A
young gentleman mthis city, in whom
We have the most perfect confidence,
gives us the following conversation,
which he overheard between two COL
ored citizens tie other evening, as he
was returning from yer.meeting :
"Sam, dees you know Jonas ~
"Jonal i! who is lie I" ''..Why Jonah
that swallowed de whale, don't you
know. him pr "Why darn his big.
moufbd soul, wns be from Firginny n
"0f course he was from Firsinoy.n
Well; the b Firsi"iaos.."lways was he'll
w u0Ue :, .......
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State Convention.

] 1ssms ofthe Democratic and Conservative }
!. ,,rr STATE Committee State Of Louisiana. :
'''''' - ~" New Orleans, October %, 1875. }
nAt q meeting Of the Democratic and
Conservative State Central Commit.
,tea.s held on the 2lst inst, in Parlor
P, Of the St. Charles Hotel, in this
city, p,frsoant to a call IF it's Prrsi-
dent, tho following resolutions were
unanimously adopted, to Wit :: n
4 Resolved That, without reference
to past party affiliations all who are
now opposed to Radicalism in Lou
'isaana and to the present usurPatory
State Government, are earnestly in
vited to co operate for the purpose
Of holding State Convention at New
Orleans on the first Wednesday of
January next. 1876. j nd .' l..
Resolved, That in making said call
this committee disclaims 3auy inten.
ton to revive the question of the
Wheeler adjustment, 50 far as it has
fixed the stains Of tile present House
of Representatives. , ~ ts"'s~''5
Resolved, That the basis Of repre-.
sentation, in tho Convention shall be
as follows, to wit Each ward Of the
parish of Orleans, and each of
this State, shall he entitled to one
delegate for each two hundred vOtes
cast at the late election for the Hon.
J. c.. Moncnre, for State Treasurer,
ard an additional delegate for a sur.
plus fraction of over one hundred
votes cast. +; -it,a. = SIT t..fit
Accordingly the. several parishes
and wards Of the city of New Orleans
shall be' entitled to the following re-