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The Portland daily press., 1875-04-03

'sThis will kill me- but might have done it,
l did not tell Moulton that Tilton had given
me permission to 60 to Elizabeth for confrma-
ton of the story Nothing was said between
Mouton and me about sexual intercourse be-
tween me and Mrs. Tilton or any confession of
it. l did not speak that night, or any one to
me. | may have said ''This comes on me as if
struck by lightning" but my impression is that
is the phrase used on the LIST of Jan. l did
not ask Moulton that night to he a friend to
me. (MOulton sat all this time with his hand
to his forehead intently gazing up at Beecher.)
l next saw Moulton about p M, Jan. Sd, at
my house.
HIouIton Goes for the Retraction.
He came to my room and shut the door, made
some Introductory remarks and drew a letter
from his procket in which Tilton stated that he
found on going home last night l had taken
advantage of my interview to get retraction
from Mrs. T. Moulton asked me if that was
SO. / said yes. He said that was dishonora-
BILE and claimed the right of self-defence. He
said that was indiscret aud did not tend to
peace but the other way, and that | ought to
give up the retraction. There was some little
Interchange of talk backward and forward aud
then he drew from his pocket a letter of Mrs.
Tilton's. Letters handed to witness.) L hadn't
this letter IN my hand but | think this is the
one he read to me. L am sure it is Witness
read the letter. 1t was from Mrs. T. to Moul-
ton asking to have the confession and retrac-
ton returned to her to be burned
Witness-I reflected. Tlton told me the
letter of accusation was destroyed, and this
note implied its existence. l said to him if [
gave up the retraction l would be defenceess
against the accusation. He said that he would
stand by me and burn both in my presence or
guard them with his life. After some little
parey | went to drawer and took the retrac-
ton. gave it to him. He took off his over
coat and 1 saw the hilt of pistol He took it
out and put it on the table, and subsequently,
returned 1T to his pocket. He said that Tlton
was a wronged man, but he was his friend and
he meant to do right by him. l understood he
referred chiefly to Bowen, but after what had
seen the night before didn't exclude my own
participation in the injury. During that inter-
view be tried to show that it was mean act to
keep the paper procured, under the circum-
stances 1t was not conveyed in an ungentle
manly manner His manner to me was always
that of gentleman. Mouton said that he
was very much gratifed that acted senslDly;
that it was work of Cancellation he was doing;
that Tilton imagined | was his active enemy,
and the very act of self defence ON my part
would strengthen the impression.
what MouIton and Beecher said.
Nothing was said by him of my having pro-
cured what MoUlton called or was justified in
calling lie. No charge whatever, or express
sion of that nature was used to me. There
was no distinct promise on his part that peace
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f O r E I q N.
The Contest with she Vatican.

LONDON, April 2.-The Times correspondent
at Berlin teegraphs that it is anticipated that
the old laws prohibiting intercourse between
the Pope and the Catholic clergy in Prussia
except through the government will be re-
wholly suspending the papal authority in
Prussia until the Pope abandons his preten-
sions TO cancel the laws of the kinodnm.
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PERSONS LEAVING the city during the sum.
EXPLANATION EXTRAORDINARY.

So many malicious misrepresentation
have recently been made regarding the
business relations existing between the
District Commissioners and THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN that we feel called upon to
make brief explanation.
First. Those relations are friendly, and, as
yet, no controversy has arisen, nor is one
likely to arise, to disturb their friendly
character.
Second. The President has not interfered,
one way or the other. in our business trans
actions with the Commissioners, nor has
he been appealed to to make any such inter-
ference.
Third. While we are extremely grateful
for the gratuitous advertising of this jour
nal by the authors of the misrepresenta-
tons referred to, we regret that they have
all been guilty of lying, and that some of
them have added to that guilt the worse
crime of base ingratitude.
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The appointment Of Andrew Johnsoa's

THE appointment of Andrew Johnson's
successor in the Senate proves to be mat
ter of some difficulty to the Governor of
Tennessee. Among the aspirants are ex-
Governor Isham G.. Harris, Judge Archi-
bald Wright and Judge T. w. Brown, of
Memphis; General Alex Campbell, of Mad
ison county; Colonel John A. GardRer, of
Weakley B. D. Thomas and General W.
B. Bate while the Exchange, newspaper
published at Milan, in that State, exclaims
ave nominated ex-President Davis some
months since for that Office, and are still m
favor of him. He is the best man we know of
to fill Johnson's seat. Let's have Davis"
From this explanation of the situation 1t
seems that 'tHonest Andy's" seat may
eventually be filled by faithful represent
alive of the Lost Cause. But the serious
nomination of JEFF. Davis will strike the
average Northern mind as audacious, to say
the least. That such q suggestion receives
federation by the public is wholly due to the
impudence of the Southern Democracy,
which is the natural outgrowth of the en-
coursgement extended to them by the
Doughfaces of the North, and the natural
result of the Centennial Gush movement
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THEY ARE beginning to beg the question.
The Richmond Dispateh says the late
North Carolina convention election twas
not one for test of party strength" From
the earnest efforts of the Democracy before
the election to induce the people" Of the
State to overcome the effects Of "nigger
rule, we had made contrary deduction.
But the DiSpatcH goes on to say that the
Legislature, in the act providing for the
election, restricted the powers of the con-
Vention, and therefore prohibited such a
revision of the constitution as the people
desired. 1t seems to forget that this was
one OF the main arguments of the Demo
Gratis to induce the people to support their
candidates.. e., that the restrictions re-
ferred to would prevent the possibility of
completely revolutlonizing the State gov
eminent. We thought during the cam
paign, and still think, that those restrictions
would not weigh feather in opposition to
the desires and designs Of the Democrats;
but, be this as it may, the truth is a major
ify of the citizens of the State were in favor
of retaining the present constitution invio-
late, the people" to the contrary notwith-
standing. .......-
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apIEA FOR THE NATIONAL BANKS.

To the Editor Of TIE National Republfcaa: IN
SIR: The following appeared In the editorial
columns of Democratic, rag-money organ of
this city, in its issue of yesterday:
"AIl that the Ohio platform demands Is that
the national bank notes shall be retired, and the
this is done, and Eresnbscks issued In place
OF the bank currency. twenty:fou millions
annually in interest Will be saved to the work.
end must pay the taxes. That will be one way by
which the Workingmen can get some Of the
been compelled 70 pay the nstiOnsi bankers
nearly two hundred snd ffty millions Of dollars,
without obtaining . single thing In return"
Indeed II this be 90, is there parallel In
the history Of any country for such state of
affairsl What shame 1t Is that the working
men Of this country have for ten long years
been kept in ignorance of the fact that they
were annually squandering twenty four mil
lions of hard-esrned dollars in such reckless
mannerI And how fortunate 1t is for them
that, after wandering in financial blind
ness just quarter of the time the children of
Israel wandered in the wilderness, Moses ap-
pears to show them the error of their ways.
We are almost inclined, from q mercenary
stand point, to accept this statement, snd de-
mand from these gentlemen bankers our
shsre of the plumber, but before
doing so, perhaps, we had better
examine the matter q little. Suppose we
stake array" the charters Of the national
banks, retire the national bank currency and
surrender these piratical bankers the three
hundred and sixty millions in bonds now in the
vaults of the Treasury as security for their
circulation, and issue greenbscks instead, as
proposed. How would we stand theni Who
would get the twenty-four millions interest
the workingmen or the owners of the bonds
Perhaps the owners of these bonds might get
the ayaricious notion into their heads that
rather than give away the twenty-four mil
lions mentioned 1t would be better to dispose
Of them to our cousins across the water, take
the proceeds of the sale and loan 1t to the
workingmen, and make them pay thirty -four
millions for it-who knowsi Money is worth
from eight to ten per cent, and while the
bonds do not average more than six, working
men are often borrowers. Then, would not
our cousins across the water call on US fer the
same amount at interest now paid to bankers !!
And when paid TO them, how could we go to
work to make them refund this twenty four
million steal They, however, would have no
chaitei WHICH VIC eouiu aoVnsn' VI any tninS VI
that kind, and it is most probable that they
would be satisfied with anything but the pound
of flesh. Then, again, there is another little
matter connected with this transaction which
the laboring people might find detrimental to
their interests. The banks pay to the Treas
ury as internal revenue tax the sum of twenty
millions or so. To whom could we look for
that We are afraid these windy assertions
about saving such bags of money for the
workingmen have little foundation. We are
sorry, but figures won't lie. 49,
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THE Petersburg index and Appeal ex-
plains the increase in the Republican vote
of the State of Kentucky since 1860 by de-
claring that it is 'tsolely due to the fact that
"the negroes have had the ballot put into
"their hands by the unconstitutional legis-
citation of Radical Congress" In few
days it will reiterate its not very "plausi-
BILE falsehood," that the people" of the
South accept the acts of Congress under
the constitutional amendments as the para
mount law of the land. Then, why does
it attempt to teach its readers that those
acts are unconstitutional? This kind of
Gush is illogical, and is the evident handi-
work of one who has been so badly trained
in the methods of the Gush movement as
to be incapable of Disgusting his true feel
ings and belief
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Southern Democrats will be unwise enough to
insist on having the Presidential candidate,
and thinks Hendricks has the best chance for
the nomination among those talked of, but
opines that the nominees of both parties VIII
probably be new men.
- The sausage Of Phils-me-delphia has poi
soned one of its citizens, and they begin to sus-
picion the dogs Of prophobia. The particular
canine interested In the sausage may have been
rabid, but the other dogs are not to blame for
that, and yet the populace are crying loudly
for the blood of all dogs. -
At Nancy an American congress is dis
Guessing the question WHISTLER there was 9 dis
coyery Of America before the time Of Column
ous. What slow people those Nancy fellows
must be- It has been known for ct least three
weeks that Fog Horn de Allen discovered this
country before Columbus grandmother cut
her front teeth. .......-,...
- The Pennsylvania Democrats are writhinp
on the rufied border of hesitancy. United
they want q hard-and- soft-money plank In
their platform; divided they want either one
or the other, according to tastes and circum-
stances. They will want about fifty thousand
NOtCb AhOAO yuan bhCy Will Pun 1OE ClLucT byb-
tenn to enable themto triumph.
= The Ohio Legislature, which is largely
Democratic, recently closed q career of legis-
latiye debsuchery that fails to find parallel
in the history Of this nation. Its record was
that Of bdbe-givtng and bribe-takiag, as evi-
denced in the "Wood county business" and
the general press Of the State condemn It as
disgrace and stain to the good old Common
wealth. E'E = -..'. .a...a-
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, who claims
to be hard-money man, jubilantly predicts q
great Democratic, rag-money Victory in Ohio.
How that gentleman can make the two poll
cies mingle harmoniously is . question that
would set mummy to thinking. But they
are a mysterious people are those Democratic
political aspirants, and their ways are dim and
doubly vain.
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THE Independent Sovereignty, known
as the State of Virginia, is again agltated,
in view of the near approach of the meeting
of Congress, with the idea that the General
Government should be prevailed upon to
advance $50, 900, 900 to aid the improve
ment of the Ksnawha canal. Witha State
Rights majority In the House of Represent
atives, and that majority controlled by the
Confederate Southern military ring, 1t Is
strange that the Independent Sovereignty
aforesaid should beg for aid. Why don't
it consistently ask the other Independent
Sovereignties of the confederation of ma
tons" to loan it the amount it requires
Or, after all, is it willing to admit that
Congress has the authority to control the
internal improvements of the country, and
that the people of one of the States are in
terested personally and politically in the
welfare of the whole?
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THE World lsbors hard and in vain to find
rag-money arguments in Senator Morton's
late speech. 1t may as well prepare itself
at once for the inevitable division of the
people on the currency question, which is
foreshadowed by the present condition of
affairs. The honest resumptionists will
follow the Republican party, and the infa-
tionists or regulators will join the Democ-
racy. If present indications are to be de-
pended upon this will be the situation in1S76.
Certain it is, at any rate, that previous plat
forms of the Republican party have been
consistent in this respect while the grow
ing influence of the Pendletonites in the
West plainly points to a rag-money plank
in the next Democratic platform.
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A CORRESPONDENT, whose letter appears
in another column, suggests that the re-
mains of our dead Presidents shall be dis
inferred and removed for re-burial to Mt.
Vernon. The idea no doubt had its origin
in the time honored custom of entombing
the rulers of Great Britain at Westminster,
and will be Objectionable to large number
of people on that account. 1t is neverthe-
less worthy of serious consideration, and
further discussion. No danger need be
feared from the imitation of the British ex-
ample, because the Veneration of our people
for their illustrious dead is engepdered only
by the memory of their services in behalf
of the cause of true republicanism.
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DIED.,

RoosE.-At Cape May, MI, August 10. FRANK.
infant son OF W. ;. and Jane Roose.
Funeral from the residence of his parents No
o'clock. - Isu
SYPHAX.-On August 10, at SIX O'Clock n m
RlCHARD LEE, son Of Colbert s. and Cordeiia W.
sYphaI, aged one year snd seventeen days.
The funeral will take place from the residence of
his parents, 1881 street, at II O'Clock thIs morn-
ing. Friends Of the family are invited.
CAsSELL On August IL, MAUD, aged seven
months and nx days, youngest daughter OF George
i. and Elizabeth A. Cassell.
The relatives and friends of the family are re-
quested to attend the funeral at $3.50 O'Clock this
afternoon, from the residence OF her grandfather
XII Davis, No. SOC Eleventh street, between and
northwest.
LAHGLEY.-On Auguft il, at O'Clock a. m,
SAMUEL ANDREWS, infant son OF z. G. and Eliza
beth Langley, aged one year, i've months and
Funeral ct $50 O'Clock this afternoon, from the
residence Of his parents No. l2os Eleventh street
southeast.
MERRIAM.-At Bryan hall, Prince Georges
county, Nd, on August 6, ANNA T., daughter OF
y. +. aad Mary z. Merriam, late OF Topeka, Kan
sas, and granddaughter Of Thomas Ascot, wash
inEton, d. c., aged three years, one month and
twenty days.
uwARD.-on August IL, At Il O'Clock a. m, W.
HAMLIN, youngest son Of j. t. and NJ. A. Ward,
aged eleven months and fourteen days.
Funeral Will take place from No. 1031 Second
street northeast, at o'clock this afternoon.
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showing the folly of sectionslism. This
country is open and free to all people for
settlement and the citizens OF one State
will continue to move and remove into an
other at will, and those who have talent
and energy and honesty viii be sought
wherever they go, to al the Offices of public
trust and honor. Louisiana Is State OF vast
capacities, and she has many noble sons,
and true Republicans win everywhere re-
joice to see them advance to high power
and dignity, but under the baleful teachings
of the Democratic Times that Common
wealth would be retarded by the lack Of
progress which only follows from the at.
triton of the masses
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financial troubles of the country sink into
utter insignifcance. And he is right.
While the people ofthe North, forgetful of
the lessons of treachery to be found in their
pastdealing with the Southern Democracy.
are absorbed with considerations of per-
sonal interest, the Southern rebels are or
ganizing new effort toreassert the suprem-
acy of the doctrine Estate Rights. One of
these days unless they heed the warnings
OF such deep thinkers as Mr.. Morton, they
will wake up TO find themselves confronted
with condition of affairs Of which they
little dream now, and in which the leaders
of the rebellion will play parts as the rulers
of the entire country.
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THERE are few public men in the coun-
try who have given the close attention to
the Southern question that Senator Morton
has bestowed upon it. As the great
war Governor of Indiana, dealing with the
armed traitors in front and the Knights of
the Golden Circle in the rear, he knew and
felt as few men did the magnitude of the
rebellion and the utter unreliability of the
pledges of its promoters. 1t was therefore
natural that in his late speech he should
treat Of that question as the paramount is.
sue of the day. In comparison with it, in
his estimation, al questions relating to the
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OUR DEAD PRESIDENTS.
Shall Their Remains be Removed to Mt
Vermont
WASHINGTON, D. c., August IL, 1875.

WASHINGTON, D. c., August IL, 1875.
To the Editor Of the National Republican:
Sir: Knowing that you gentlemen Of the press
like short metre in communications whom ad.
dressed to You, l, therefore, 20 in medias ress
without any further preface, to offer this sug.
gestion: That Congress be petitioned at the next
session to appropriate Q sufficient amount of funds
TO dlsinter the remains Of all the deceased Pres.
dents Of the United States, remove them to Me
Vernon, and RENTER them there In mausoleums
for each one in circle round the Tomb Of wash.
ingtoD.
Some Of the Presidents are laid now In obscure
unadorned and neglected gr aves-very unbe.
hitting for men who occupied such high and
mighty position Of power as they did when living.
n. A Mcfy
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The New York Republicans propose to
take time before the forelock and hold their
State nominating convention at an early
date. This is wise, as it is manly. The
party need have no fears OF prolonged
discussion of its principles and record. In
truth, the more they are talked of and the
better they are understood, the worse it will
be for the Opposition.
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NV BeoksI
Bachelder's Popular Resorts, and How to Reach
Ny Danish Days. By Griffin.
Haupt's Centennial Railway Guide-map Of Phila-
Mr.. Smith. By walfred. Leisure Hour Series. .
Within An Ace. By Jenkins. Leisure Hour Series.
The French at Home. BY Albert Rhodes. Illust'd.
n dsf9 ifsA,ore ii0's series hy h. D. s'0a-
Queen Mary. A Drama. By Alfred Tennyson.
4 Double Wedding: or Hew She Was Won. BY
Mrs. G. A. Warield.
In the Kitchen. ReceiDts from the French, Ger
man, and an excellent American Collection.
Trial of henry Ward Deecher. Vol.1. S-vo. Sheep.
NOVELS.
Open Sesame. By Florence Marryatt.
Playing the Mischief. BY J. W. DeForrest.
Ward or Wife. A Romance.
The Lady Superior. By Eliza +. Pollard.
VIII. 10. H. MORRISON,
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jy2S-t E5 Pennsylyania avenue.
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now TO LIVE LONG; OR, HEALTH
DIR. ". W. Hall.
How to Make Living. By Geo. c. Eggleston.
Ancient History from the Monuments. George
Smith.
Personal "reminiscences. By o'Keife, Kelly and
Taylor
In the Kitchen. BY Elizabeth s. Miller.
Living Thoughts OF Leading Thinkers.
Popular Resorts, and how 70 reach them.
VIM. BALLANTYNE,
aus f2S Seventh street.
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TN THE sUPREME COURT OF THE DIS.
L TRI0T OF COLUMBIA, THE SEVENTH
DAY OF AUGUST, 1875.
rs: No. 4s4s. Equity Docket, Is.
On motion or the plaintiff, by Mr., Pelham, his
solicitor, Il Is ordered that the defendants John
Altman and 6eorge Altman, cause thier ap pearance
TO be entered herein or before the hrst rule day
occL ring forty days AFTER this day; otherwise the
2trIe copy. Test: 4. J. MEfas, oierf,ae.