The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-12-09

should not know what 10 say II was asked
the reason for it, and it might be the means
OF doing great injury 10 them whom want
ct, TO shield and help. Mr.. B., too, had
more than any other, represented 10 me the
Christian religion, and to bring reproach
upon him seemed an injury TO it, 20 / alb
stained IRON going elsewhere, les, it should
harm him, and indirectly bring things TO
light which he WAS all the time afraid
would become known, and which
1t did not belong to me
to disclose. Mr.. Beecher ought To he the
last one in the world to blame me for wha.
did in his behalf; he knows that could
not speak the truth more perfectly than I
have spoken 1t here, if | was standing be-
fore Coos throne OF Judgment When Mr..
Tiltons name was dropped by you, two
years ago, told Mr.. Beecher that I was
afraid you would sometime want to drop
mine IN the same way, and he then most
earnestly assured me that it should never
be done that he would see TO it himself
hat should never be in any way injured
BY his church. Really, do not see how
MIR. Beecher, knowing, as he does, the per
feet truth OF what i say /; knowing how he
used to weep at our house, and heap shame
upon himself for his great sin,
and how often he spoke 10 nv
husband and myself of the utter despair in
which he would be except for our comfort
ing and help. l cannot see how it was pos
sible for him to stand up and read this let
ter to me in your presence without his very
soul giving way"
Mrs. Moulton refers TO other points of the
letter, and says there are great many
things in it which are incorrect and iniuri-
GUS, some of which she mentions as follows
You saw that a. far as the church or the
committee knew, l had never made any
statement impugning the purity of MIR.
Beecher, except in a court of justice,
but in that very cour; l had stated
under oath that / had made pre-
cisely the same statement which have since
made IN my protest 10 you, among the
leadIng officers and members OF your
church, telling them that Mr.. Beecher's sin
was adultery, and that he and Mrs. Iilton
had confessed ii to me. Ii the statement
was a Islander, had dreaded the fact of
my uttering the Islander before all the
world, and might, months before, have been
called To account for il. | never knew be-
fore that false swearing in a court OF JUS
lice was an oiiense which the church of
Christ is unwilling or unable to punish,
and ii you think that lied in that public
manner and in that solemn hour; that l
LIED in order TO injure the minister
whom | had loved as much a. any
OF you, anu whom l had done
my very best TO uphold and comfort, for
three dreadful years, through the time Of
anguish which he was carefully hiding
from you, you ought all the more to
think that l have been tried and condemn
ed, instead of dropping my name"
The letter concludes As follows: Il had
a heavy burden to carry, and l am very
sorry 10 say, that the first act OF Christian
attention which have received from the
church in five years past, was the notifying
me that my name was to be dropped from
the roll the next evening. My proposal to
you in my previous letter was, that you
should unite with me in calling q council |
Of churches, before which you should state |
your reasons for your action, and | should |
state mine, and which should impartially |
Judge between US. That proposal, 1 under |
stand you to have accepted"
WATERFOWL, December 3.-Sarah Conk- |
lin, aged fourteen years, was murdered on
tuesday, while returning from school
through a piece of woods, in Rutland. A
boy named Rutter, aged sixteen, has been
arrested.
ROCHESTER, December 3.-N. Sprague, a
,olored clerk in the post-ofhce, for two
'ears, was arrested this morning for steal
ny letters, and plead guilty.
NEW YORK, December 4.-Rey. Justin
D. Fuller resigned the pastorate of Han
ON Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, last
vening. About seventy-five members of
he church, including socie of the most in
iuential, then rendered their designations.
i dispatch was received at the police
headquarters, this evening, stating that
Vim. NJ. Tweed had escaped from the Gus
ody oil Warden Dunham, OF Ludlow Street
laII- Word WAS Immediately telegraphed
o every police station in this city, Brook
yn, and neishboring cities, notifying the
police to he ON the lookout. Warden Dun
Dilkes. at tie Central police Office, and
tated that he had accompanied the prison.
r 10 the residence Of Mrs. Tweed, At Mad
son avenue and 59ih street, and while
here, Tweed requested permission to ste
his wife privately. Durham unhesitatiur-
v granted the request, and Tweed went up
tairs to his wife's apartments, leaving one
i his sons 10 entertain Durham and the
Ieputy After waiting about ten minutes,
Durham became uneasy, and sent young
tweed up stairs to tell his father to come
own Immediately, As they desired to re-
urn to the Jail. In short time the young
nan returned, and informed Durham that
lis father had gone Durham searched
he house thoroughly, but no trace of the
loss conld ne found. Leaving the deputy
n charge OF the house, Durham hurried to
he residence OF Sheriff Conner, and in
Drmed that officer OF the escape. The police
were promptly notified, and Of
cial detectives at once went out, securing
he city in all directions.