The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-17
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New YoRK, June 10.-The Glard
Jary of the United States Circuit
Court to day found indictments
against Henry 3. Ciaf1in i Co, and
VIM. Ii. Talcott, silk buyer of the firm
for completely in the recent si!k-smug-
Cling frauds. There are three indict-
ments against Talcott, charging him
with receiving and concealing snug
glcd silks. Three indictments were
found against ii. g. Claf1in & Co., the
first OF which contains tour counts,
charging them with receiving and con-
cealing six cases of smuggled silk
goods, valued at $4,000, on the DIST
OF April, 1873. The second indict-
ment contains sixteen counts, and
charges them with at various times
during the years 1872 and 1873 receiv-
ing and concealing quantities of yalu-
| able silks. The third Indictment con-
tains twenty-eight counts, charging
them with having received and sold
large quantities of silks, well knowing
them to have been imported into IL e
United States contrary to law. The
names of the members of the firm.
vino are also indicted, are as follows:
Horace b. Clafiin, John Clafiin, Ed
ward +. Eames. Horace j. FairchiId,
VIM. S. Dunn, Daniel Robinson and
Wm. A. Talcott.
In addition TO the indictments
against III. B. Ciaflin 81 Co., the United
states Grand Jury presented further
indictments against Charles w. Felid,
John Field, John j. Morris and VIM.
ID. Tenner, for receiving and conceal
ing upwards of six hundred thousand
dollars worth of smuggled silks DUR
| ing the year 1874.
Commenting upon this affair the
ST. Paul Dispatch says:
! Horace B. Claf1n, in whose heart
the lamp of religion and brotherly
loye burns SO brightly and with such
a pure disinterested fame that he is
willing to sacrifice half his fortune Of
fifty millions of dollars, to extricate
Beecher and Plymouth Church from
the slough of Despond in which they
are now threatened to be engulphed,
this identical soldier of the cross, and
prop and pillar of the Brooklyn taber-
nacie, is not, after all, it seems. proof
against the temptations and Vanities
OF this wicked world. Despite his
professed sanctity and religious fervor
he deems 1t nothing amiss to cheat the
government out OF large sums for du-
ties on imports and also to smuggle
and conceal immense quantities of
goods, knowing the same to have been
smuggled. For these offenses three
lndict tments have been found against
his firm, each specifically charging the
commission OF separate offenses OF this
nature, and involving large sums of
money.
And this is Horace 3. Claflin, who
has grown gray under the spiritual
mlnlsfrations of that holy man OF God,
Henry Ward Beecher; who for more
than score of long weary years, has
been devout w worshipper at the shrine
OF the Plymouth sanctuary, one of its
stauachest pillars, and who, as if this
was not enough, has, during the great
er portion OF this period, been burn
my and shining light in the camp of
the Radical hosts, and consequently on
terms Of Intimate association with the
powers that be-" from Grant down.
ward. This, we repeat, is Horace B.
Ciaflln! That the Plymouth devotee
should thus go astray is indeed strange
put when to this safeguard is added
the further shield of potent infusion
of Radical ideas, and daily association
with the leading representatives OF
PAL INC lHiaglna-
ton stands aghast and shudders at the
contem pi'sti"ii. I'ias all ordinary in
ilsldual,--a stray sheep outside the
Plymouth fold-shouIt. nave been thus
se'iuced uy the wlles o: iilanmon,
hi ht iafo ooen expected unuer the
circumstances, but who would have
Pehtuicd !. lew months ago, to affirm
that the t: iA'ly Horace. i, d ii and
protected n
have thus proven recreant?
sit moves wonder
That Tlrtuc mus ur1iectvu snould have f.l,en
y lreS 10 iJo>C desires -