THE ENGLISH AUGUST MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4231, 12 October 1874, Page 3

THE ENGLISH AUGUST MAIL, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Our English files, via San Francisco, are to the 25th of August. From them we make the following extracts : ENGLISH. THE KING OF DENMARK IN SCOTLAND. On August 16 the Danish war-ships Heimdal and Jyllard, from Iceland, arrived in the Firth of Forth and cast anchor in Leith Roads. His Majesty the King of Denmark and Prince Waldemar were on board the Jyllard, and as soon as the ship was sighted, information was conveyed to the Princess of Wales at the Douglas Hotel by the Danish Consul. The Princess drove down to Granton, where she embarked on board a steamer, and went alongside the Jyllard. His Majesty stepped up, and affectionately embraced bis daughter. The Princess stayed on board the Jyllard for a couple of hours, and then returned to Granton in company with her father. On the arrival of the royal party at the pier a salute of twentyone guns was fired from Leith Fort. His Majesty and the Princess of Wales drove to Edinburgh, and in the evening returned to the frigate for dinner. The Princess of Wales left the frigate shortly before ten o’clock, and arrived at the Douglas Hotel about eleven o’clock. On August 17 the King of Denmark, with Prince Waldemar, landed at Leith, Owing to the unexpected nature of the visit none of the authorities vvei’e present to give His Majesty a formal greeting. The King and his son drove off to Edinburgh in a hackney cab, and his suite paid a visit to the docks. The next day the royal party visited Holyrood Palace and afterwards embarked for Copenhagen. A STRANGE MURDER IN IRELAND. Accounts have been received from Dublin of a third murder committed within a few days and in a space of about fifteen miles in the south of Ireland, with evidently the same object as the two preceding and under very similar circumstances. It is, indeed, in all respects so like the other two that there is some reason to suspect that the three crimes have been perpetrated by the same hands. Ou August 1 a farmer’s wife named Ostler, residing near Fermoy, went to that town and sold some butter, the price of which she brought home. She was sitting at a spinning-wheel after some time, when a man entered the house and asked for a drink of water, which she gave him. He left the house, but came back shortly afterwards, and, sitting down, he inquired where her husband was. She told him he had gone to Ratbcorman. A little girl, a daughter of the woman, looking out of another room, then saw the man seize a pitchfork and knock her mother down. The child attempted to escape through a window, and had almost succeeded, but her dress caught in it, and the man seized her and tried to pull her back. Fortunately, a tape which fastened, her clothes broke, and she disengaged herself from his grasp, and, rushing out, raised an alarm. The poor woman was Idled by the blows. The man immediately ran off, but a policeman having ridden into Fermoy for assistance, the sub-inspector in plain clothes accompanied him, and they went ou the track of the murderer. After riding several miles they came up with the man. The sub-inspector kept back the constable, who was in uniform and would of course be at once recognised, and going forward alone some yards in advance, he turned sharply round, and, quickly dismounting, presented a revolver at the man, who was taken unawares and offered no resistance. He has been identified by the girl, but refused to tell his name or give any account of himself except that he had lately come from America. Some coins similar to those which had been given to the woman in payment of the butter were found in bis possession. GREAT BICYCLE RACE. On August 10 the race for the captaincy and sub-captaincy of the Middlesex Bicycle Club took place from Bath to London, a distance of 106 miles. The start was from the front of the Abbey, and all the competitors were up to the time. Mr. Sparrow (who accompanied the race) started them at eight minutes past five o’clock, and, owing to the great number of people assembled, there was some difficulty in passing through the crowd. In a few minutes, however, they were out of the town, and the running was very sharp. Walker and Tyne were leading. Some of the competitors had to dismount and walk up Box-hill. They all passed through Chippenham at the rate of fourteen miles ‘an hour, and Caine (nineteen miles) was reached in an hour and a-half. No stoppages were made until Mai’lborongh was reached (thirty-two miles), Walker, Tyne, and Leaver coming in together, the distance being got over in two hours and three-quarters. From Marlborough to Newbury (eighteen miles) Walker and Tyne led the way. At Huugerford, Goulding’s machine gave way through striking a large projecting stone while going down hill. After an attempt to repair it he got as far as Thatoham, where he was compelled to take the train for London. Walker and Tyne performed the journey from Bath to Newbury (fifty miles) in four hours and threequarters. Walkersoon after made a spurt, and Tyne savvnomoreof him. Thearrivals attbeOlubroom at Kensington, were as follows :—Walker, 3.13 ; Tyne, 3.50 ; Spencer, 5.12 ; Percy, 0,58; Leaver, 7.35. Walker had been somewhat jaded at Hounslow, but upon bis arrival at the goal, he started, after a few minutes’ rest, to meet the remainder of the competitors. The time made by Walker is one hour loss than the fastest stage coach ever performed the journey from London to Bath in, and is also the best bicycle travelling on record, the pace of the winner exceeding 10 miles per hour, including stoppages. Mr. Sparrow, the starter, although upwards of fifty years of age, followed the competitors on his bicycle, and per'ormed the whole journey in fifteen hours, including stoppages. SINGULAR ELOPEMENT. An extraordinary elopement has occurred in Edinburgh. The parties are the wife of an officer at pre ent serving in India and a Free Church missionary. The lady, who is said to bo highly accomplished and of prepossessing appearance, had resided with her husband _ for some years in India, and shortly after the birth of her fifth child, had come to Edinburgh and boarded herself and children with a respectable family in a village in the vicinity. In order, apparently, to further the education of_ her eldest boy, she engaged a Free Church divinity student as tutor, with whom, it appears, she became very intimate. Ultimately she removed from her lodgings in the village, and took up quarters nearer the residence of the tutor in Newington. By-and-bye the tutor received an appointment as missionary to a station in an important town in the north, ■which be had not long occupied before be was followed by the lady. The intimate relations and frequent communications which took place between the parties became the subject of talk among the gossips of the town ; but nothing of a scandalous nature was suspected until it was rumoured that the lady and the missionary had left the town on the same day for the south. Inquiry was of course made by the friends of the parties, who wore traced to London. It is said that they have gone to America, but nothing has yet been definitely ascertained in Edinburgh as to their whereabouts. The five children have been loft behind. It is said that the lady will have £7OO in her own right in the event of certain circumstances occurring. It is also .said that the husband of the lady will arrive in Edinburgh about the beginning of next month, and that the case will then most likely come before the law courts. The lady is said to be about thirty-five years of ftge, and the missionary is reported to bo her junior by ten years. DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

One of the most destructive railway accidents ever known in South Wales happened on August 12 at Bargoed station, on the Rhymney Railway. A mineral train of forty ten-ton waggons, laden with coal, was taken out of the siding of the Dowlais Iron Company’s Yochriow Colliery, drawn by one powerful tank engine, and with an ordinary brake-van at the tail. A drizzling rain had come on which made the rails slippery, so that the brake would not act with amy effect, and the speed increased with such rapidity that it soon became evident the train was running wild, and the brake whistles were sounded for the alarm of everything ahead. The distance

between Deri Station and the Bargoed Junction, three miles, was traversed in a few seconds over two minutes. The curves on this part of the line are very sharp, and nothinghut the tremendous weight of the metals travelling at such a speed kept the waggons on the line. When the runaway train arrived at the Junction Road, an engine, which had several detached waggons behind it, was taking water at a tank on the down main line, and into this locomotive the coal train dashed with indescribable force. The stationary engine was literally lifted off its wheels and pitched in exactly the same position into the ravine 100 ft. below, while the engine of the runaway train rolled over with the shook and came to a stop on the side of the embankment, lying on its bade. The waggons were crushed into one indistinguishable heap of broken iron and wood and coal, many of them being totally while scarcely one of them escaped material injury. The driver and fireman of the runaway train were killed instantly, their remains being afterwards recovered from the wreck in a dreadful condition. The brakesman laid himself flat upon one of the trucks of coal, and was mixed up in the general wreck of coal and trades, from which however ho escaped most providentially without greater injury than a few concussions. The guard had previously, on finding the train covdd not be stopped, detached his van and so saved himself. The driver and fireman of the watering engine had only just time to save themselves by jumping from their jdaces, and the detached trucks, started by the collision, ran several miles clown the main line before they could be stopped, having been finally thrown off the rails at Hcngoed. The damage to locomotive and rolling stock is enormous. A. STRANGE CASE. A case now before the Courts —Credit Fonder of England v. Boyce presents some curious features. It is a point to determine whether the defendant is a widow. The defendant, Mrs. Boyce, it appeared, had been twice married, and was a widow with something like £IOO,OO0 —represented by Government stock—standing in her name in the Bank of England, when she put herself, then (in 1860) seventy-two years of age, under the protection of a French gentleman some thirty years her junior. The ceremonial consisted, according to the venerable defendant, in her having a ring placed on her finger by her brother-in-law, a clergyman, now deceased, and being by him formally consigned to the caro of Monsieur Gautier. From that time she appears to have lived abroad with the gentleman, who had promised to protect her from the Irish relations whose importunity had induced her to form the determination of spending the residue of her life out of England, and to have been known as Madame Gautier. The Bank of England hearing that the lady, whom they believed to be a widow, had contracted a matrimonial alliance, declined to pay her any dividends or allow her to deal with the fund standing to her credit until it should be clearly known whether or not she was really married. In these circumstances the lady was compelled to borrow money for the means of subsistence, although entitled to an income of £3OOO a year, and the Court was now asked by the Credit Fonder of England, from whom she had obtained loans, for an order on the bank compelling them to transfer to them the sums she had borrowed. His Honor said the bank were quite right to act cautiously in cases of suspicion, but as Mrs. Boyce had solemnly declared that she was not married to M. Gautier and was still a widow, there was no reason why they should not treat her as an unmarried woman, notwithstanding the fact that M. Gautier, acting under the advice of M. Jules Favre, had declined to make a declaration that he was not the husband of the lady who was called Madame Gautier. AMERICA. Mr, Tilton has served a writ on Mr. Beecher, for criminal intercourse’ with his wife. The damages are set at 100,000 dollars. On August 21 Mr. Francis Moulton published a statement which contains a long history of the Beecher-Tilton scandal, and the whole correspondence which has passed. He produces documents which appear to be of a convincing character regarding Mr. Tilton’s accusations, proving that Mr. Beecher has several times expressed himself guilty of adultery with Mrs. Tilton and five other ladies. Mr. Moulton says he makes this statement in self-defence against Air. Beecher's attempt to vilify him by accusing him and Air. Tilton of blackmailing. The excitement caused by these revelations is tremendous.

A divinity student named Kims attempted to assassinate Bishop Whipple, in the church at Pairbank, Minnesota, on Sunday, August 2. Just before the sermon, Kims went to the chancel with a pistol in his hand, but before he could fire it the Bishop seized him and forced him into a chair, whore he was disarmed. Nims, who is insane, was exasperated because the Bishop refused to ordain him to the ministry on account of his mental unsounduess. Colonel Bichard Ten Broeck, a name well known in English as well as in American sporting circles, has been shot, and, it is reported, mortally wounded, at Gillman’a Station, Louisville, by General Walter Whittaker, a lawyer of that city. TUB BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL. The committee of Plymouth Church have exonerated the Eev. Mr. Ward Beecher, but Mr. Tilton is not satisfied, and has now moved the Law Courts in an action for heavy damages against the reverend gentleman. We make the following extracts from his own statement ~, 1. That on the 2nd of October, 1855, at Plymouth Church Brooklyn, a marriage between Theodore Tilton and Elizabeth M. Richards was performed by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which marriage, thirteen years afterward, was dishonoured and violated by this clergyman through the criminal seduction of this wife and mother, as hereinafter sot forth. 2 That tor a period of about liiteon years, extending both before and after this marriage, an intimate friendship existed between Theodore Tilton and tire Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 3. That about nine years ago the Eev. Henry Avard Beecher began, and thereafter continued, a friendship with Mrs. Elizabeth M. Tilton, for whose native delicacy and extreme religious sensibility he often expressed to her husband a high admiration ; visiting her from time to time for years, until the year 18(0, when for reasons hereinafter stated, he ceased such visits'; during which period, by many tokens and attentions, ho won the affectionate love of Mrs. Illton • whereby, after long moral resistance by her, and after repeated assaults by him upon her mind with overmastering arguments, acomplished the possession of her person ; maintaining with her thenceforward, during the period hereinafter stated, the relation called criminal intercourse; this relation being regarded by her during that period as not criminal or morally wrong—such had been the power of his lirgnments as a clergyman to satisfy her religions scruples against sucii violation of virtue and honor. 4 That in the evening of October 10, 1808, or thereabouts, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Tilton held an interview with the Eev. Henry AVard Beecher at his residence, she being then in a tender state of mind, owing to the recent death and burial of a young child ; and during this interview an act of criminal commerce took place between this pastor and this parishioner, which act was followed by a similar act of criminality between these same parties at Mr. Tilton’s residence, during a pastoral visit paid by Mr. Beecher to her on the subsequent Saturday evening, followed also by other similar acts on various occasions from the autumn or 1808 to the spring of 1870, the places being the two residences aforesaid, and occasionally other places to which her pastor would invito and accompany her, or at which he would meet her by previous appointment, these acts of wrong being oil her part, from first to last not wanton or consciously wicked, but arising through a blinding of her moral perceptions, occasioned by the powerful influence exerted on her mind at that time to this end by the Rev. Henry AVnrd Beecher, ns her trusted religious preceptor and guide. 5 That the pastoral visits made by the Rev. Henry AVard Beecher to Mrs. Tilton during the year 1808 bccamea so frequent as to excite comment, being In marked contrast with his known habit of making few pastoral calls on his parishioners. . . 0. That previous to the aforesaid criminal intimacy one” of the reasons which Mrs. Tilton alleged for her encouragement of such exceptional attentions from the Rev. Henry AVard Beecher was the fact that she had been much distressed with rumors against his moral purity, and wished to convince him that she could receive his kindness and yet resist his solicitations : and that she could inspire in him by her purity and fidelity, an increased respect for the chaste dignity of womanhood. . , . , ... . , - 7 That the first suspicion which crossed the mma of Theodore Tilton that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was abusing, or might abuse, the affection and reverence which Mrs. Tilton boro towards her pastor, 'TO? an improper caress given by Mr. Beecher to Mrs. Tilton while seated by her side on the floor of jus library overlooking engravings. Mr. Tilton, a few hours afterwards, asked of his wife an explanation of her permission of such a liberty, whereat she at first denied the fact, but then confessed it, and said that she had spoken chidingly to Mr. Beecher concerning it On another occasion Mr. Tilton, after leaving his house in the early morning, returned to it in the forenoon, and, on going to hia bedchamber, found the door locked, and when, on knocking, the door was opened by Mrs. Tilton, Mr. Beecher was seen

within apparently much confused and exhibiting a flushed face. Mrs. Tilton afterwards made a plausible explanation, which, from the confidence reposed in her by her husband, was by him deemed satisfactory. _ r , 8. That in the spring of 18/0, on Air. Tiltons return from a winter’s absence, he noticed in his wife such evidences of the absorption of her mind in Air. Beecher that in a short time an estrangement took place between her husband and herself. After an absence of several weeks she voluntarily returned to her home in Brooklyn. On the evening of July 3, 1870 when, and then and there, within a few hours after her arrival, and after exacting from her husband a solemn promise that die would do the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher no harm nor communicate to mm what she was about to say, she made a circumstantial confession to her husband of the criminal facts heiembefore stated. She affirmed also that Mr. Beecher had assured her repeatedly that he loved her better than he had ever loved any other woman, and she felt justified before God in her intimacy with him, save the necessary deceit which accompanied it, and at which she frequently suffered in her mimb 9. That after the above-named confession by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton she returned to the country to await such action by her husband as he might see tit to take, wheeupon, after many considerations, the chief of which was that she had not voluntarily gone astray, but had been artfully mislead, through religious reverence for the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as her spiritual guide, together also from a desire to protect the family from open shame, Air. liiton condoned the wrong, and he addressed to his wire such letters of affection, tenderness and as lie felt would restore her wounded spirit, and which did partially produce that result 10. That in December. IS7O, differences arose between Theodore Tilton and Henry O. Bowen, which were augmented by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Beecher ; in consequence whereof and at _ the wish of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, expressed in writing in a paper put into the hands of Air. Francis D. Moulton with a view to procure a harmonious interview between Mr. Tilton and Air. Bccchcr, such an interview was arranged and carried out by Air. Aloulton at his then residence on Clinton Street; Air. Beecher and Air. Tilton meeting and speaking then and there for the first time since Airs. Tilton’s confession of six months before. The paper in Air, Aloulton’s hands was a statement by Airs. Tilton of the substance of the confession which she had before made and of her wish and prayer for reconciliation and peace between her pastor and her husband. This paper furnished to Air. Beecher the first knowledge which he had as yet received that Tilton had made such a confession. At this interview between Air. Beecher and Air. Tilton permission was sought by Air. Beecher to consult with Airs. Tilton on that same evening. This permission being granted, Air. Beecher departed from Air. Aloulton’s house, and in about half an hour returned thither expressing his remorse and shame, and declaring that his life and work seeiued brought to a sudden end, Bator in the same evening Air. Tilton, on returning to his house, found his wife weeping and in great distress, saying that whatshehad meant for peace had only given pain and anguish; that Air. Beecher had just called on her, declaring that she had slain him, and that he would probably be tried before a council of ministers unless she would give him a written paper for his Whereupon she said he dictated to her, and she copied in her own handwriting, a suitable paper for him to use to clear himself before a council of ministers. Airs. Tilton having kept no copy of this paper her husband asked her to make a distinct statement in writing of her design and meaning in giving it, whereupon she wrote as follows: — December 30, IS7o—Alidnight. Aly Dear Husband,—l desire to leave with you, before going to bed, a statement that Air. Henry Ward Beecher called upon me this evening and asked me if I would defend him against any accusation in a council of ministers, and I replied, solemnly, that 1 would, in case the accuser was any other person than my husband. Ho (H. W. B.) dictated a letter, which I copied as my own, to be used by him as against any other accuser except my husband. This letter was designed to vindicate Mr. Beecher against any other person save only yourself. I was ready to give him this letter because” lie said with pain that my letter in your hands addressed to him, dated December 29, “had struck him dead and ended his usefulness.” You and I are pledged to do our best to avoid publicity. God grant a speedy end to all further anxieties. —Affectionately, Elizabeth.

On the next day, namely, December 31, 1870, Mr. Moulton, on being informed by Mr. Tilton of the above-named transaction by Mr. Beecher, called on him (Mr. Beecher) at his residence and told him that a reconciliation seemed suddenly made impossible by Mr. Beecher's nefarious act in procuring the letter which Mrs. Tilton had thus been improperly persuaded to make falsely. Mr. Beecher promptly, through Mr. Moulton, returned the letter &o Mr. Tilton, with an expression of shame and sormw for having procured it in the manner he did. The%etter was as follows : \pecember 30, 1870. Wearied with importunity aim weakened by sickness, I gave a letter implicatirk my friend Henry Ward Beecher under that would remove all difficulties between me laid my husband. That letter I now revoke. I waaf persuaded to it —almost forced —when X was in a wakened state of mind. % I regret and recall all its statement!# £. R. Tilton. I desire to say explicitly, Mr. B#echer lias never offered any iinjiroper solicitation*/ but has always treated me in a manner becoming a Christian and a gentleman J Elizabeth B. Tilton. At the time of Mr. Beecher’s returning the above document to Mr. Tilton through Mr. Moulton, Mr. Beecher requested Mr. Moulton to call at his residence, in Columbia Street, on the next day, which he did on the evening of January 1, 1871. A long interview then ensued, in which Mr. Beecher, expressed to Mr. Moulton great contrition and remorse for his previous criminality with Mrs. Tilton, taking to himself shame for having misused his sacred office as a clergyman to corrupt her mind; expressing a determination to kill himself in case of exposure, and begging Mr. Moulton to take a pen and receive from his (Mr. Beecher’s) lips an apology to be conveyed to Mr. Tilton, in the hope that such an appeal would secure Mr. Tilton’s forgiveness. The apology which Mr. Beecher dictated to Mr. Moulton was as follows: — mr. beeciieii’s apology. [ln trust with F. D. Moulton.] My Dear Friend Moulton:--! ask'; through you, Theodore Tilton’s forgiveness, and I humble myself before him as I do before my God. Ho would have been a better man in my circumstances than I have been, I can ask nothing, except that he will remember all the other breasts that would ache. I will not plead for mvsclf. I even wish that I were dead. But others must live to suffer. I will die before any one but myself shall be inculpated. All my thoughts arc running out toward my friends, and toward the poor child lying there, and praying, with her folded hands. ‘ She is guiltless, sinned against, bearing the transgression of another. Her forgiveness I have. I humbly pray to God to put it into the heart of her husband to forgive me. I have trusted this to Moulton in confidence. H. W. Beecher, In the above document, the last sentence and the signature are in the handwriting of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Mr. Moulton asked Mr. Tilton if ho would permit Mr. Beecher to address a letter to Mrs. Tilton, and Mr. Tilton replied in the affirmative, whereupon Mr. Beecher wrote as follows: MR. BEECHER TO MRS. TILTON. Brooklyn, February 7, 1871, My Dear Mrs. Tilton,—-When I saw you last, I did not expect ever to see you again, or to be alive many days. God was kinder to mo than were my own thoughts. The friend whom God sent to me, Mr. Moulton, has proved, above all friends that I ever had, able and willing to help me in this terrible emergency of my life. His hand it was that tied up the storm that was ready to burst on our heads. You have no friend (Theodore excepted) who has it in his power to serve you so vitally, and who will do it with such delicacy and honor. It does my sore heart good to see in Mr. Moulton an unfeigned respect and honor for you. It would kill me if I thought otherwise. He will be as true a friend to your honor and happiness, as a brother could be to a sister’s. , „ In him we have » common ground. You and 1 may meet in him. The past is ended. But is there no future?—no wiser, higher, holier nature? May not this friend stand as a priest in the new sanctuary of reconciliation and mediate and bless Theodore and my most unhappy self? Do not let my earnestness fail of its end. You believe in my judgment. I have put myself wholly and gladly in Moulton’s hand ; and there I must meet you. , , t This is sent with Theodore’s consent; but ho has not read it. Will you return it to me by his own hand; I am very earnest in the wish for all our sakes, as such a letter ought not to bo subject to even a chance of miscarriage.—Your unhappy friend, 11. W. Beecher. 13 That about a year after Mrs. Tilton’s confession her mind remained in the fixed opinion that her criminal relations with Mr. Beecher had not been morally wrong, so strongly had ho impressed her to the contrary; but at length a change took place in her convictions on the subject, as noted in the following letter addressed by her to her husband MRS. TILTON TO MU. TILTON. Schoharie, June 29, 1871. My Dear Theodore,— To-day, through the minis- , try of Catherine Gaunt, a character of fiction, my eyes have been opened for the first time in my experience, so that I see clearly my sin. It was when I know that I was loved to suffer it to grow to a passion. A virtuous woman should chock instantly an absorbing love. But it appeared to mo in such false light. That the love I felt and received could harm no one, not even you, I have believed unfalteringly, until four o clock this afternoon, when the heavenly vision dawned upon me. I see now, as never before, the wrong I have done you, and hasten immediately to ask your pardon, with a penitence so sincere that henceforth (if reason remains) you may trust mo implicitly. Oh, my dear Theodore .' though your opinions are not restful or congenial to my soul, yet my own integrity and purity are a sacred and holy thing to me. Bless God, with me, for Catherine Gaunt, and for all the sure leadings of an all-wise and loving Providence. Yes, now I feel quite prepared to renew my marriage vow with you, to keep it as the Saviour requiveth, who looketh at the eye and the heart. Never before could I say this. When you yearn towards me witli true feeling, bo assured of the tried, purified and restored love of Elizabeth. Mrs. Tilton followed the above letter with these ; July 4, 1871. Oh, my dear husband I may you never need the discipline of being misled by a good woman as I was by a good man. [No date.] I would mourn greatly if my life was to bo made known to father. His head would bo bowed indeed to the grave. [No date.] Do not think my ill-health is on account of my sin and its discovery. My sins and life-record I have carried to my Saviour. No ;my prostration is owing .to the suffering I have caused you. 14 That about one year after Mrs. Tilton's confession, and about a half-year after Mr. Beechers confirmation of the same, Mrs. V, C. Woodhull, then a total stranger to Mr, Tilton, save that he had been presented to her in a company of friends a few day 3 previous, wrote in the World, Monday, May 187 i> the following statement, namely

I know of one man, a public teacher of eminence, who lives in concubinage with the wife of another public teacher of almost equal eminence. All throe concur in denouncing offences against morality. I shall make it my business to analyse some of these lives. Victoria C. Woodhull. New York, May 20,1871. On the day of the publication of the above card in the World Mr. Tilton received from Mrs. Woodhull a request to call on imperative business at her office ; ami on going thither a copy of the above card was put into his hands by Mrs. Woodhull, who said that “ the parties referred to therein were the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the wife of Theodore Tilton.” Following this announcement, Mrs. Woodhull detailed to Mr. Tilton, with vehement speech, the wicked and injurious story which she published in the year following. Meanwhile Mr. Tilton, desiring to guard against any possible temptation to Mrs. Woodhull to publish the grossly distorted version which she gave to Mr. Tilton (and which she afterwards attributed to him), he sought by many personal services and kindly attentions to inllucnce her to such a good will towards himself and family as would remove all disposition or desire in her to afflict him with such a publication. Mr. Tilton’s efforts and association with Mrs. Woodhull ceased in April, 1572, and six months afterwards —namely, November 2, 1572, she published the scandal which he had labored to suppress. 15. That on the third day thereafter the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, N.Y., wrote as follows ; Elmira, November 5, 1872. Mrs. Woodlmll only carries out Henry’s philosophy, against which I recorded my protest twenty years ago.