The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-20
TELEGRsAPHIC.
THE MARKETS.

DALI1MOhEJ "A III 1T HUI QulOt
but shade finer. Wheat, southern
good demand and firm western firm
and cent higher-southerT red 1.20
al.35 do, amber, 1.36a1.37. Corn,
southern shade firmer western
strong and and cent advance
southern white 5Ia52; do. yellow, 81
a5l3. Oats fairly active and firm
southern 33a36; western white, 34a
80. Rye dull and nominal, 60ae2.
Hay good demand and steady prime
Maryland and Pennsylvania, 14.00a
1900. Provisions dull and nominal
ly steady. Butter choice and steady
and unchanged. Petroleum dull and
weak-refined, 11a213. Coffee quiet
and barely steady-Rio cargoes 134
all.
NEW YORK, Apl. 17.-Gold, 1901,
1909.
BEECHER's CASE.
NEW YORK, April 10. The follow.
ing letter from Mrs. Tilton will APP
peaa in the morning papers to-mor-
row:
Mr.. Ira B. Wheeler:
My Dear St-A few weeks since,
after long months of mental anguish.
l told, as you knew, few friends,
whom l had bitterly deceived, that
the charge brought by my husband
of adultery between myself and Rev.
Henry Ward Beeeher was true, and
the lie | had lived 50 well the last
four years had become intolerable to
me.
That statement l now solemnly re-
affirm, and leave the truth with God,
to whom also l commit myself, my
| childrenn, and all who must suffer. /
know full well the explanations that
will be sought by many for this ac-
acknowledgements desire to return
to my husband, insanity, malice,
everything save the true'a nd Onl y one
my quickened conscience and the
sense of what is due to the cause of
truth and justice. During all the
complications of these years you have
been my confidential friend, and
therefore | address this letter to you
authorizing and requesting its pub
| LEGATION.
ELIZABETH r. TILToN.
Brooklyn, April 13, 1878.
Mr.. Beecher was out of the city
when Mrs. Tilton's letter was made
public and his whereabouts were not
known, save to few friends. The
New York Tribune telegraphed him
copy of the letter at late hour to.
night, and received the following
letter in reply from Mr.. Beecher:
WAvERLY, n. Y, April Is, 1878.
To Editor Me,0 Work Tribune:
l confront Mrs. Tilton's, statement
with explicit and absolute denial.
The testimony to her own innocence
and to mine which for four years she
had made-to hundreds in private and
in public, before the court, in writing
and orally, declare to be true; and
the allegations now made in contra.
diction of hey uniform solemn and
! unvarying statements hithertomade,
| utterly deny.
declare her to- be innocent of the
great transgressi0n.
tSignedD
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
REVISION OF THE. ELECTORAL
SYSTEM.
WASHINGTON, April H.-The bill,
prescribing the method of counting
the Elec oral votes, and deciding
questions arising thereon, agreed by
the Senate Committee ON the Elec.
toral Count, embodies sub tantially
the proposition submitted to the
corresponding House Committee by
Hon. Eppa Hunton, of Virginia.
The principal points are thas each
State shall provide for the judicial
determination of any controversy
concerning the appointment of cleo
tors. and that every such determine.
ton, made by the highest State Court,
snail be conclusive evidence as to the
lawful title of the Electors so declar-
ed to have been appointed; that
where conflicting decisions from diff
ferent tribunals in the same State
come before the convention of the
two Houses of Congress, the votes of
those Electors only shall be counted
whose title as Electors the two
Houses, acting separately, shall con-
currently decide upon. The returns
of the electors of the several States
are to be transmitted to the Presi-
dent of the Senate by the second
Wednesday next after the meeting
of the Electors, instead of the first
Wednesday in January, as now pro-
vided by law.
PRIVATEEIs FROM AMERICA.
LONDON, April 16.-The English
newspapers still seriously discuss the
dangers to British commerce from
privateers fitted out in the ports Of
the United States. The Globe of last
evening says, editorially: "Our
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