The true northerner., 1875-05-14

down the working force in his department
Some twenty people-a good proportion OF
them being lades-have been dismissed from
Gen. spinner's Office.
The Postofiice Department is still engaged in
adjusting the salaries of Poetmasters under the
law of the last Congress. 1t is discovered that
the appropriation was not large enough for the
purpose. and such of the Postmasters as have
not already made their application for increased
pay will be without it.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report of their
condition Oh the list inst.
The Secretary of the Treasury, with view TO
retrenchment in his department, has very prop
erly set ON foot an investigation AZ to the pro-
priety of abolishing some of the many interior
ports of delivery which are source of consd-
erable expense to the government without COM
pensating revenue
Douglass states that the Internal Revenue re-
ceipts for the fiscal year will certainly exceed
luis estimates. He had estimated the receipts
at $105, 000,0 900. They will certainly reach
S107, 600, 600, and probably $112, 100000.
The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia
has indicted Bill King for perjury.
The Washington Republican intmates that
Secretary Fish will retire from the Cabinet at
the end of the fiscal year.
The South.
! Two New Orleans editors, Isaac n. Stoute-
meyer and L. NJ. Finley, recently quarreled,
and challenge was given and accepted to fight
with rifles at forty PAGES but they were both
! frst-class shots, friends interfered, and the
duel was averted.
Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from
the Ninth District of Georgia, in place of Nc
MILAN, deceased
At Paris, Ky, on Saturday of last week,
Jacob Almond, aged so, quarreled with his SON
n-law, named Allen, aged So, and knocked the
latter down. Allen arose and plunged knife
into Almond disemboweling him. The latter
died instantly.
Col Richard II. Gaines leading New Or
leans merchant, recently shot and killed d. r.
Winn, a prominent hotel-keeper at Hope,
Hampstead county, Ark
The Southern Memorial Association has
adopted resolution that all the soldiers of
the Federal and Confederate armies be cordially
invited to join the Memorial Association i'll
decorating graves at Arlington on the 1st of
June
! fire at Marshall, Texas, last week, destroyed
property valued at $4,000.
Gems. Hatch and Davis of the United States
army have returned to New Orleans from the
Rio Grande. They report that the raids are
becoming more bold and frequent. Murders of
Americans and friendly Mexicans are con-
stantly occurring. The civil authorities on this
side are under the control Of Mexcans and
prevent the United States troops from making
arrests. Unless summary measures arc taken
by the United States troops, they think the
counties between the Rio Grande and Nueces
will soon be in the hands of Mexican outlaws.
General.
! The Portage bridge on the Erie railroad, said
| to be the largest wooden bridge in the world,
was burned last week.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad continues
its liberal policy of furnishing the public with
cheap passenger and freight rates. 1t has just
reduced the fare from Chicago to Pittsburgh
to 81.
The TtIton-Beecher Trial.
EIGHTY-s SECOND DAY.-Stephen Pearl An
drews and Henry C. Bowen were the witnesses
who testified in rebuttal. Andrews testified
that Mrs. Woodruff derived the facts in the
scandal case from Mrs. Cady Stanton before
Tilton was introduced. John Wood, the printer
of Mrs. Woodhulrs paper, testified that the
scandal article WAS not set up until long after
the colored witness, Woodleigh, swore he saw
slips Of il with Tilton and Mrs. Woodruff An
drews wrote the article, and his information
came from Mrs. Stanton. Bowen was then
called, and contradicted Beecher Oh several ma
terial points. lie swore he had discharged
Tlton before the latter demanded the preach
ers abdication; that Beecher had no hand
in the removal of Iilton and that there was
no cause for remorse on the part of Beech
Ell for Tilton's downfall. Witness remembered
the tripartite agreement, and the payment of
the $1,000 check, and there was no connection
between these two matters. Bowen also testified
point blank that the letter from Tilton to
Beecher demanding the latter's abdicaton of
the Plymouth pulpit, of which he (Bowen) was
the bearer, was delivered at Freeland's, where
as Mr.. Beecher swore that the note was de-
lvered at his own house.
EIGHrY-rHIRD DAY.-Mr. Bowen resumed the
witness stand. He was subjected to n severe
cross-examination by Mr.. Evarts, but adhered
to his story with remarkable pertinacity. His
amendments to the tripsrtite agreement al ex-
planned by him, showed that he shrewdly avoid
ed committing himself to an avowal of Beech
er's innocence of the charges laid at his door.
He simply withdrew them and in place of
declaring the innuendoes false he regretted
having made them" His settlement with
Tilton WIS simply business agreement and
was not promoted or retarded by what Beecher
did nor did it have tho slightest relation to the
matters in controversy between Beecher and
Tlton.
EIdHTY-FoURTH DAY.-The day was princi |
pally devoted to disproving the alibi claimed
by Mr.. Beecher relative to the interview with .
Mrs. Moulton on the I'd of June, 1873. Lowis
j. James, Superintendent of the Health Lift
Company, swore positively to seeing Mr..
Beecher on that day, walking in the direction
of Remsen street. jeremiah p. Robinson and