Year: 1874

BEECHER Triton.


Once more, please. [ must give yon
the drift Of opinion here concerning this
BrobiDgdiguagian scandal-take that as
my excuse At this time the tide is set
ting strongly against Theodore. and ESQ
tickle is public opinion) were the verdict
to be made up to day it would be ter
ribly against him. Beecher's statement
has been read and re-read. and the
wonderful adroitness with which he
makes bis case, and the magnificent
style of his defence, have had their pro-
per effect. Half the people to day will
say that Beecher has acted foo .ishly, not
criminally; that Tilton is either a mono
maniac or designing villain; that Eliza
beth, his wife, is a pure and much-abus
ed woman; that Moulton is a cold, black
hearted blackmailer, and so forth and SO
on.


But in the meantime Tilton's lawyers
are ready to commence suit against Bee
cher for seduction, and the facts in the
case will be made public. and curiosity
will be satisfied. People whose interest
it is not to testify, and who cannot be COM
PEELED to testify before church COM
mittee, will find it quite different when
hauled up before a court Of justice and
put upon their oaths, Wait, good peo-
pie, wait. Theodore sticks close to his
house, aud refuses to answer any ques-
tions. He is. he says. biding his time.
And while I am on the subject OF


CLERICAL SCANDALS,


the worst one has recently come to light
in Jersey City, a very popular clergyman
named Glendenning being the alleged
cause. A beautiful girl named Mary
Pomeroy. an orphan. residiug with her
cousin, was engaged to be married ito
Glendenning, who was her pastor. Some
weeks ago she confessed to her aunt
that she was about to become mother,
and after long entreaty named Glenden-
ming as the author of her shame. She
stated that when her condition became
known to her she entreated Glendennlng
to fulfill his promise, but he p'it her Oft.
Finally he came to her one night anG
told her that exposure was ruin to him.
and that she must give him paper re-
lieving him of any connection with the
matter. He threatened her with pistol,
and she acceded Getting this paper,
he refused to marry her. Last week the
child was born, and on Monday poor
Mary Pomeroy, ruined and heart broken,
died. On her death bed she made the
statement she had made before. The
funeral was one of the largest ever known
in Jersey City. The beauty and sweet
ness of the girl, and the peculiar clrcum-
stances of her death, created terrible
excitement. If MIR. Glendennlng is not
lynched, it will be because the wiser and
cooler men, who would have law take its
proper course. are In such ma GRITTY as to
| be able to control the more excitable.
But what punishment can the law inflct
upon such man? He is as truly the
murderer of Mary Pomeroy as though
he had shot her.


And when one thinks of such occurren-
ces. and thinks of the inadequacy of the
laws, grave doubts arise as to whether
double barreled shot guns are not rather
good institutions after ALL All that can
be done with the Rev. Glendenning is
to compel him to support the child.
THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME.
The morning papers, one morning last
week, afforded cheerful reading. There
was the circumstantial account Of the
funeral of Mary Pomeroy, the killing of
a rough BY bartender, the beating of a
wife's brains out by drunken carman.
three children were found starved, two
bodies we're dragged out of the East
River, besides which there were cuttings,
stabbings, and shootinss without numb
er. Has the hot weather anything to
do with crime? Does it irritate men and
drive them to drink? Certain it is that
crime is more fierce In its manifestations
now than during the pleasant spring and
autumn or the cold winter.


BUSINESS


is most decidedly looking up. The best
barometer is the hotels, and accordingly
| took tour among them last night.
The corridors are full of strangers, and
the clerks report.an enormous increase, so
great, indeed, that they have some little
trouble to accommodate them. The cheap
hotels are swarming with Western and
Southern buyers. and the larger ones are
almost as full This is certain indica-
ton of an Immediate resumption OF bus
ness. The merchants tell me that the
buying will not commence till September
some time being required in looking
around. But all expect very large