New-York tribune., 1875-02-12
AN OLD JOKE REVIVED.

Mr.. Evarts-Ane you quite sure that Mr. McDer
mott didn't tell you advance of that publication that it was
going to be pubshed A Yes Sir certain that the day OF
judgment will come.
O. As that is future event. you should say sure, should
you notY That those things OF which all
certain. 1t is saying Of the Almighty
@ But still it the fuure' A. The Great AM The 1rsr
More Present.
Mr. Eyarts-WelL
Mr. Fulerton-[To Mr. Eyarts YoI give il up. do you'
Mr. Eyarts-You mean by that that you are entirely
certain that he did not to you? A. did not know Mr.
McDemot- didn't know him until he came into my office
and presented his card after the publication asked him il he
who published that paper and he said he was and
| ordered him out of the Office.
q That all very well You did not know the mann A
did not know him at ALL
@ Do you know any to you and told You in
advance OF its publication that it going to be pubshed
A. No. Sir have recollection Of any such thing.
O. you certain that nobody to and told you that
it was gong to be published advance Of It's publication A.
No, Sir have no recollection Of any such thing at all
HOW THE BOWEN LETTER REACHED THE PUBLIC.
O. As far as YOU know and understand MIR. Til
ton this slip that you had confded to Mr. larman the
source from which the publication came, was it not A. Not
at all
O Well what slips You understand it came from? A. My
understanding this quite oomprchended until few
days ago how slip TO be published When saw Mr.
Knseas correspondence published he saidn that that Mr.
Beecher had shown him the pare covenant, or at all
events Mr. Bowens denial and saw there explanation OF
how possibly TIE Edgk might have got hold OF that article
@ Well that is you that the tpartite covenant might
have furnished the OF the publications. A. Yes Sir
o That your Imagination it not' A. Yes Sir
O. That it dd' A. never have known until this day ex
actly how TAe Epge got hold Of the paragraph.
o. Then you don't that the copy given to Mr Harman
by Won was the means or OF the publications. A. No. Sir
do
O. Did you ever back from Mr. Harman that slip that
YOU conded him. did come back into your posses
sion A. think he gave it back to me-
o When : A. think about that time.
O About what time A. Shortly afterwards. That is my
impression. Shortly after the time when it was
O. Published? a. No. Sir Shortly after the time when it
was conhded TO him.
@ That s your impression A. think 80. Mr. Harman
would know better about that than l.
O Where isitf A. Well Sir my-I don't know where it is
IL is not the proof that have here in evidence
You have but one you! A. II may have been that
one or it may have been another II it is another don't know
where il is
youp A. | think it returned with Mr.. Bowens letters.
That is my impression l be certain, because
twice Mr. arman and the paper and talked the matter
over
O. You won't be positive that back to your A.
Mr. Harman will know better about it than /; think 1t did,
though, come back
O. have understood you say, Mr. Tion that there
but copies either in the incomplete the complete FORM
OF this spi A. said afterwards there might have been
other.
O. Well, ] remember that OF course. A. Yes, Sir.
O That would make a fourth A. Yes, Sir.
O That, perchance, is q fourthl A. Yes, Sir.
q But that is ALL complete incompetel A. That Is all
that remember o.
O That you know of A. Yes Sir.