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PiamouJ drop a of n^lit;
3 Celled mask 3 and 5 g r\ > fans,
til carved oaes of t.vop-cal wool;
Aspic bracelets, buckles, and bands,
O.aaps for mantle an l flood.
Dreaming a dreoni of e-vilid "-iln,
The in rahant. f-jy!, r inning, and cold,
Smiles in tnouvht of yodlw vain,
Ducat* and Bt quint, of go;d.
Trailing her rob os of velvet and laoe,
r Through the lunvucqf? dininesa glows
Viola’s torm of g'rii^hC'ttee,
Andfaceliko aa Aip;i > rasa.
to look ’ .übiea new,
To look at the
With light in be- * ©.vesoi’ turquoise blue,
And dglfvi;* her goHan curia.
f-'.-;?) fans her-olf with l'w .fiitigrae f<n-,
Opa?-'i:uidl 'd, with' il un i and dusk *
CJiT'Og the palms of her t-leu ler bauds
The ;c.nt of attar and ruuek.
Sho fosses the chaplets of Syrian jet
And amber by, with a careless a;r,
A>.d look- in vnn lo* a j-i welled net
h.-i’ bv-iulito! ( ;ol*o.m hair.
C' T.zly- bearded, v spectral gleams
I too me;. h ken eye, cunning, and bold,
•1 Trough v, o i<i: .{. y he sits and dreams
Of nr.Mgl;d blue and gold,—
Counting his wonl*h of baubles and toys.
Of the hoarded • )in which Ills coffers hold,
A snare for the * %•■.■) of blue tu qiiume
Arid ret for tL.t hair of gala.
m Q iTI T o M !
He Comes Out Squarely Against
Beeclier.
flow the Great Man Fell in
Love With His Neighbor’s
Wife, and How They
Both Fell to Earth.
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Beecher Made
" His House a Hell, and He
Found Peace anl Quiet
at Tilton’s.
Beecher Writes Passionate
Letters to Mrs. Tilton.
he Investigating Committee’s
Export E.
W. Beecher.
•Special Dispatch to the Courier-Journal ]
Chicago, Ills , August 23, 1874.
'r. Morion k added to his long stnle
%,(;u soul”' real,. kafc.’v \ fearless revelations,
'vbiuh are pointed this live ruing in the Chicago
Tribune in a dirffatoh > >m it.|correspondent,
G .rge Alfred To wnsend. Mr. Moulton, freed
from the relations of e mijkiul frieLd, torus
upon tho accusing Beecher vlith a velmateiice
hitherto unknown in bis part of the traitaac.-
tiou.i. 11c applies to Mr. B echer epithets
which fitly describe a person guiity of what
La “bids Beecher to be convicted.
no OIIIME MENTIONED EXCEPT ADULTERY.
He supplies tbe gup in the testimony so
loug open, ami that was—if the accusation
,'rom ina beginniug was an adulterous rola
ti ;.n, what explanation or extenuation did the
mai l of Plymouth CLuich offer for bis con
ducA? It now appears at no time between
Beecher, Ti\i c Jipulton. and Mrs. Tilton,
was any other crime mentioned than the
one. The injury of having advised a separa
tion Betuis never to have been discussed at all;
and toe suggestion that tho offense was an im
proper oveuuia to Mrs. Tilton was a simple
invention to satisfy the curiosity of other
pa-ties, and by diverting attention enable the
parties the better to preserve tbe secret of the
great and only eff use.
HOW MOULTON BECAME THE ABKITEATOB.
In explaining how he became the mediator
between Beecher and Tilton, Mr. Moulton
say ■■ that Mr. Tiltcu had been wearing a kind
of woeful, wretched face ior some lime. The
nigtit I drew Beecher to was the
night he told me his trouble. My heart at
once jumped to these poor cbildreu, myself
betng deprive.’, tf as much family as I have
desired; and 1 struck right out on a lino of
policy natural, as it sei nu-d to ine to be, to
rebuild and compel harmony. I had no need
cf eithtrof these men, no time ior years of
arbitration, no curiosity as to their secrets.
V UEECHEE A LIAR ANI) A SNEAK. i
Tiie ufason I can not make the evident
exon err.'. Beecher is that ho is,tlie guiH
party . Ha was before a iibt-riine and a njfl
istcr. He 's now a liar and a sneak.
word cau be mined until the day of etenfl’
to describe th man’s peifidy to me.
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As pledged to .Moulton, ho to the
latter. The deliv. ry was maTe in Mr.
Townsend’s pr.. ■ cti. Mr. Townsend eon
tir.ues:
‘•Moulton burst out, savin? Mr. Beecher
hadnowplayel false with him by renewing
a. correspondence with Tilton’s wife. Moni
ton handed tbo letters over to me, as in a ges
ture, impetuously. I read them without know
ing what pirt of this drama they belonged to,
and telegraphed thorn to Chicago. No won
der Be clrer’s lawyers are looking anxiously
for those letters and I pr-sume that at this
stage of the game Tilton’s conned has them.
The Beecher letters are written in that vi u of
unearthly sentiment which permits the good
man’s idolators to say, ‘Ob, nothing in this;
quite pastoral and seraphic;’ but they are un
signed, if not undated, and bear the stamp of
a secret, ad the suggestion of a passion tol
erable only in a loose celestial existence.
BEECH Elt’s I'EAK 01’ HtS BISTER..
In answer to the question whether Mr.
Beecher feared his sister, Mrs. Hooker, Air.
Moulton said: “He did. She was no crazy
woman, but a bolder Beecher than he, with
equal appetite for tire world. I will tell you
something that will show the selfish depths
of Beecher’s character. His sister was worked
up on the idea of the falsehood as such a life
as her brother’s; and has resolutely resolved
to invade his pulpit and make him show his
hand. Tilton an.l inyseli were equally afraid
for Tilton’s family’s sake. So Sir. Tilton
went one night to the house of Mrs. Phelps,
in Twenty-Third street, and questioned Mrs.
Hooker as to her intentions in this respect.
She declared that she would bring Henry to
the pillory on bis own pulpit. ‘Xhvn,’ said
Mr. Tilton, ‘I shall make an equally authen
ticated charge against you, Sirs. Hooker,’ aud
he named the connection. This stopped Mrs.
H. s mouth. When Henry, w. u..,.<h nx Had
heard that Tiltion had done this, he applau
ded his decision and success. It struck me
with horror that a clergyman could be wil
ling to have his own sister charg'd with adul
tery in order to cover bis personal ihame.
BEECHEfI’s COWAIiDLT DEFENSE.
“Observe again (said Mr. Moulton) how
Mr. Batcher is running the intellect of Mrs.
Tilton into contemot—the same woman whom
be calls in his spiritual love letter ‘a saint.’
‘beloved of God,’ ‘a comfort to the mind and
‘he soul.’ Nothing will stand between him
and the miserable life he must hereafter lead
of self-enjoyment on the faith and weakness
of Plymouth church. Elizabeth has made
every struggle to suve him, consistent with
his own character. He is a viper on the hearth,
ild wants his neighbor’s field and his neigh
bor’s lamb.”
mrs. Beecher’s advice to beecher.
Mr. Townsend—Mr. Moulton, your own
wife had sympathy with Mr. Beecher.
“She did.’Vsaid Moulton. the
story oi adultery Jroiit Mrs. Tilton. It was
the talk amongst us al. At my request, out
of the tolerance of her nature, she kept the
silence of the funeral bier. Mr. Beecher
speaks of her as reviving his faith in woman’s
nature. She saw him tu these half genuine
bursts of remorse, and she advised him to go
like a man of sorrow and confess. She said
‘Vonr better life will th n come out. You
will be more useful, if more humble. Pre-
Vrve your reality. Perform the truth; then
uotovjng can harm you.* Once or twice he
though he would do so; but he was too we*k.
If he haA‘ he agony of the terror would have
been over Hjng ago. lie not only could not
be the man, hat I believe ho renewed the cur
ie. pondeuce.”
Mt urton'h advice to belcher.
Mr. Townsend—Did Mr. Beecher ever make
you th - custodian of more letters m
general?
Mr. Moulton—Yes, sir.
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tilton’s chimin ally immoral conduct.
The report then goes on to review Tilton's
allegations of personal chastity and claim of
high moral character, with the evidence oi
other persons as to his alleged corrupt prac
tices and criminally immoral conduct, nota
bly in the case of the girl known as Bessie
Tamer, whose evidence is given to show that
Tilton states hims. !f to be what he is not.
Therefrom is deducted a charge of perjury, l
showing that Tilton states u::.{ v ouh in one
iiisrance w hat is flatly contradicted in another,
the committee giving, as a conclusion to this
particular branch of the subject, the rule in
law that the entire testimony of any one shown
to have committed peiju. y is worthless.
MiiS. TILTON H STATEMENT.
The report then goi.s on to review’ the !.:•.>
timony of several unimportant witnesses,
among them Mrs. Stanton, coming at length
to the cross-examination of Mrs. Tilton her
self, givmg her accusation of br gy against
her hu-bmd, and of irdi JHity, and still fur
ther showing distinct contradictions cf
Tilton’s accusa’ious.
Mrs. Tilton’s evidence is quoted, to give
her denial of having ever had criminal rela
tions with her pastor and her own explana
tions of several of the most prominent por
tions of her letters.
mr. moulton's short statement.
From this, the report proceeds to the short
statement of Frank Moulton, as given to the
committee, and dismissed it briefly, as hav
ing made no charges whatever against
anybody.
mb. beecher’s statement.
Finally, the Beecher statement itself is taken
and contrasted with several of the more seri
ous portions of Tilton’s, showing that circum
stances in themselves apparently damaging
were in reality easily capable of explanation,
the conclusion of the committee.
After this review, giving in detail the more
prominent episodes of the entire controversy,
the report sums up the whole matter pro and
con, showing on the one hand a man stand
ing before all the world with a great reputa
tion for spatless purity, Christian char
acter, and moral ‘woitk-, on otL-r a uaan
of proven bad and criminal character, the
latter making accusations against the former.
The one with nothing to prove his story ex
cept personal allegations proven in part to be
pet jury and supported by some letters which
may mean a dozen things but the one mean
ing given to them. This story denied by all
having any connection with the matter, but
one with the circumatances as well as the
burden of proof all on one side; the other un
supported by anything but bad character.
THE VERDICT.
The commit'ee finds Henry Ward Beecher is
not guilty of the charges preferred against
him. It is impossible that a short paragraph
may be added to the report, noticing briefly
the failure of Frank Moulton to bring any new
evidence to bear upon the subject which can
in the the sliglites degree alter the conclusiors
which the committee have come to.
BEECHER.
TIIE OLD CUS‘I GAY A8 A LARK UNDER TF v ,
KCANDAL.
[Corrostiorulonca New York ’World.]
A pretty general impression seems? to fre
afloat in the hotel—l do not know by wh6t
authority—that he will speak on Monday. If
any one is troubled it is not Mr. B&i&tr.
L*ugbiug and talking ali day od the pinjjzas
and in the parlors fail of lift? and h?a It a Seve
rs where lio bears with rare poise the publicity
of hotel life. It is safe to say that nine out of
ten think of Mr. Moulton’s statemeu*, which
reached h re ouiv this af'iernoon, every time
they see him. and whisper straightway to some
friend &s he parses; but neither looks nor
whispers mar the easy flow of Mr. Beecher’s
good spirits. A few minutes ago the guests of
the house trooped, in the merry, half disor
derly fashion oi a summer hotel, to the par
lor;; to hear the singing of some traveling per
formers. With the rest was Mr. Beecher, and
a mock straggle over the undivided half of
a contested seat drew every eye to him. and
brought out on his face a look of submission
and repentance as he yielded which sent the
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IkLY HERALD—September 2, 1874.
SOftCS BIRDS ABROAD.
How Italj-- is not Quite a Para
dise for Musical Students.
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Facts Would-Be Artist Will Find
Worth the Reading,
Il is the pr< suit t,. li< f iu As erica; writes a
eoiresponifont of t'.o Ciuciucati Gazette in
Milan, that- Italy is tbo boice of the arts, as
w Hin music as in paintin' and sculpture.
Tho Italian language is tiro medium through
which most of the operas and a great deal
of other music as rendered on the American
s'age. Operatic singers, f t prime, dona
dawn to the macc troni vendor’s wife in the
eh nr-!, are either Italians or have served
tb.-ir timo under Italian Masters. And if
perchance an English or American girl re
veal-; promising talents, she cannot hope
for a career until she has tacked on to
plain Jones or Robinson a suffix, gen
| eraby of “uni" or “id,” to show that she has
been adopted into the Italian family cf nr
j tista. They do not mns* to r -fleet "that the
I average Italian artist is ns disreputable and
dishonest us t::o ruts - who sires trim. And
ias if all this were not enough to establish the
supcftorityof I’:.!y c.-v v alt rival;; iu the rnat
t rofmu.la, p ..i n v, usts have con
[ spir tfj advert;so tho wtcliod pc l’formanoes
■or the gon toilers oa tha canals of Venice, of
the shepherd boys oh the mountains, and of
the holy monks in church aud cloister. What
! picture oi Venice wo.ld be complete without
j a goudolia or a lover languidly tbrummiughis
j guitar by the light of the moon? Or who
woald venture to describe anything iu Milan
without throwing iu auaiiusionto the Soils.
OPEIIA AND CHtiaCH MUSIC.
It is no wonder, therefore, that the Amer
ican traveller who loves music shoaid expect
to find in Italy the realization of all his
dreams. He goes prepared to have his soul
ravished with music iu the church, at tho the
atre, and on the street corners. But alas for
his fond anticipations! After he has tra
versed all Italy, with disappointment gradual
ly ripening juto disgust, he must sit down
here in Milan, the operatic centre of the
world, and lament the hollow reality. The
same time similarly spent in America would
have yielded more satisfactory results. In the
large cities—Rome, Naples, Florence anl Ve
nice—opera is gsaerslly well produced but
one raiely''hears a great singer. Milan, for
special reasons, is sometimes an exception,
hut even here i’atti, or Nilsson or Lucca arc
never heard. If an impressario can secure a
a good tenor that wilt draw, he is content to
entrust the leading soprano part to some
nameless EnglUh or {American yirl who will
! sing for nothing, and possibly ev, n pay some
thing for the privilege. Toe chorus is gener
ally excellent, but the orchestra, except m the
largest theatres, rarely so.
Then there is the noble music O'. rTkrv'h.
According to the tradition awl books, it should
“resound through the lofty arches of tbo cu
i thedre.l in iru-jcsMC waves of harmouy.” It
] should lilt the soul of the devout worshipper
I away from earthly things into celestial enjoy-
I ment,” and all that; but how sentiment is
| crushed by the commonplace reality! The
! church has taken that short but fatal step
j which separates tho sublime from the ridicu
lous. I attended high mass at St. Peter’s on
| - V VN.A. WAA
. the solemn occasion. There were probably
v lO.OhO people in the vast basilica—an audience
Vwurthy ot lotno giviit muUb. But th" sacred
j service must not be denied by the singing of
a woman,/lest the dignity of the church or
the sancuy of the priests may suffer, and even
| the shrill voices ot boys are only employed on
j occasional choruses. The mass begins, the
i grand organ pours out a prelude, find a close-
I Jy-sbaven monk in the gallery , lifts his
voic.f Shades of St. how tbe
! romance of music fades away beiorethat so (
j It is neither tbe voice of a man, nor a worn tin
| it is a poor eunuch’s attempt to imitate the
latter. To an V. m cur it has a strangely
I familiar sound. 11 is the same burlesque
i falsetto, that f> ins a feature of nearly every
j burnt cork entertainment at home. The lull
I choruses iu some part atone for these excra
; b!c solos, of which there were not less than
t seven, but even better chorus ’s can be heard
/ any Sunday morning ia the Cathedral in Cin
! cinnati. Perhaps these remarks ought to be
I qualified in favor of the organ music, which
jia almost invariably excellent. The great Ca
thedrals of Italy contain noble organs, and
employ the best of talent to play them. To
be sure the organists are not always rigid in
their choice of music, as the operas and even
Strauss’ polkas are made to contribute is the
spiritual elevation of tho worshipers; but if
their taste can be criticised, their execution
j is certainly good.
The only other class of music worthy of
mention is that of the military bands. They
play excellently, and are heard regularly in
public, but they throw away altogether too
much talent on the trivial compositions of
the band-master.
AMERICAN PUPILS IN ITALY,
But all ol this is only preliminary to a sub
ject which needs a little ventilation in Amer
ica. There are now bore in Milan about 200
Americans, mostly girls, culiivating their
voices for opera or concert singing, and for ev
ery onelwho is hers there are probably twenty
more at home looking with longing eyes to
ward Italy, and expecting, with more or less
| definiteness of purpose, to como. While
! Milan ia unquestionably tho best place ia the
| world for the cultivation of the voice, yet I
I am confident that a great many mistakes are
| made by aspiring young singers in coming
here from America, and I shall present a
| few facts which I trust will tend to de-
I crease this growing fevdr for emigration to
j Milan. I have taken pains to asccrtaiu the
i truth about ti.e matter, and what I saw will
bo confirmed by the young ladies who are now
hero from Cincinnati. One of them, who is
welV-known at home, and has been here nearly
two’yearß, acknowledged to me that if she
could have locked the course all over as it is,
tO-dj wnl4i‘.i.- found h e r in Cincinnati.
Iu America the facts are not presOuta: . thiir
true light, ana when the trnth is learned mo
indomitable will and courage of the American
fkirl carry her through what she, at first, never
would have thought of undertaking.
HIGH EXPENSEB AND THE RESULT.
In tho first place, then, the cost of firing
there proves to be generally nearly double
what the student had calculated upon. Sim
ple board and lodging cannot be secured at
any respectable place for not less than 150
francs a month, and from that the prices run
to nearly double. Washing and other unnec
essar expenses are nearly as high as in Ameri
ca. Clothing, of course, is somewhat cheap
er, bnt fuel and light make up the difference,
so that a stranger can live in moderate style
about as cheap in Boston to-day as in Milan.
Then to these living expenses are to be added
the coast of lessons, attendance at operas,
carriages, etc., all of which are necessary
items in a pupil’s expenditure. Next there is
the teacher for the voice, who oharges six to
fifteen frances a lesson, according to his rep
utation. Then comes a teachor of Italian,
whose price is from three to five frances more,
and after him, in tho order of time, a stage in
structor, whose price is generally betwe u
the two named. Thus the pupil is compel
led to pay from eight to thirty
francs a week lor private instruction. And
all of these things together and (he result is
about a hundred dollars a mouth. This may
seem like placing it high, but I am assured
that where one spcuds less than his amount,
two spend moro. The young lady before re
vived to cume expecting to spend from fi
o sixty dollars a month, but bus in roa
pent from ninety-five to a hundred regu
ly. Tais unexpected increase in expense (of
course I am speaking of a limited purse) caus
es discourag-ment from the start, shortens the
time allotted for study, and in sums cises re
sults far more serious still. Young girls coma
hero with only a few hundred dollars, it will
carry th.-rn through a considerable course.—
Soon they find them; fives in a strange lan 1.
without money and without friends. I’ride
prevents them from returning hums in dis
grace, aud they go—nobody knows where—
perhaps to follow the vice and misiortuneu of
some obscure opera troupe.
- EEQCUtEt.IESTS ran ,1V ARTIST.
Another thing which is quite generally un
derestimated is the time required to turn out
a first-class artist, even with the bast of voices.
Most of tho young ladies e nne hers with tho
delusion that if they have taken a few terms
of lessons at home, a year ought to suffice to
take them to the highest summit of perfec
tion. It the teacher is, fortunately something
more than a flatterer, they will soon flat! out
[ that two, three, au l even five years of earnest
| toil, cm only see them well * started on the
road. It is sail, but never uul .st truo, that
1 most of tho young ladies here ha ve the most
xtraordinary opinion of their own taloats; a
lading for which they are not ns much respon
sible as their flatterers ! They are Very ambi
tious, and it would be hard to find one who
does not aim at the topmost height of artistic
fame. Soma even believe that they are P.ufis
and Nilssons already; only without a record.
One young lady (not from Cincinnati) aetu illy
boast-:d tome tjt she coull execute foits
with hit voice \vh*ch uo artist living date un
dtrtake. I heard her sin ? and thought she
could. It is tho overestimating of acquire
ments already made, and underestimating
tho ie still lacking, that accounts for the ,a
miliar fact th.it nineteenth-twentieth? of all
those aspiring artists ar • nev.r heard outside
of their owa 1 'cal circle.
Aid not ou:y in money and time B the
to it anleresti U rie l, but iu physic il.-'.reng;h.
Toe preparation for a sucossful musical ca
reer s tor years a mo;t exam ;Ung strain on
| mind and body. Through these ton? and
hot summer days, when everybody else ha?
gone to S.v; Zsiluil of the lakes, tfiiess girls
are to be heard in almost every street, run
ning the scales or wrestling with a high C.
Their ambition is ualimuad, but their
strength must often fail. Many a harp has
had to be hnug upon the wiljow became the
feeble body has refused to do all tho will de
manded of it.
is it wosra this cost?
The material and conditions, then, necessary
for a great arti.t are something astonishing.
First, she must have an extraordinary voice.
Then she must have years for its cultivation,
and au abundance of means to defray the ex
penses. Next, she must possess charm? of
person and manner, and have more than
common dramatic talent; while a strong pbysi
cal c >n r ribnlion is necessary from first to
last. Very rarely is it that all three conditions
are found to be present in one person. When
they are. her feme and fortune as an artist are
made. But when someone of them is want
ing, is is tho difficult work of a life time to
achieve great success. Pew of the youoa
ladies who set out for/an operatic ** "° 1 ' rea
lize (these things n*a moy hive proved
them <aoir own experience, Then
t me flower of their life is goues
their best opportunities wasted, aud all is
finally disappointment. Far better would is
have been it the young woman could have
aimed lower, cultivated her voice a? best she
could at home, earned a fair salary in some
church choir, and married a good honest m vu.
It is placing a life of alternate disappointment
and brilliant success, but always clouded by
anxiety and vulgar associations, beside one ot
contentment and comparative obscurity. The
former, with its shining attractions, draws
hundreds of followers every year, most of
whom, sooner or later, find that what glitters
so like gold ia only tiue(ol.
All of these things, a*nd a great many more,
should be carefully weighed by every American
girl iu moderate circumstances who contem
plates a course in Milan. For the rich it is
quite a different matter. They can enjoy such
privileges as they would any other luxury.
But it is remarkable that nearly all the Amor-
ieau girls now here are of limited means, an!
s ime of them are sustained only by the self
denial of their ovsr-contideiit parents.
THE INSTRUCTORS AND THEIR PRICES.
Tho following list of the principal teachers
here, with their prices, may prove of vaiua to
same intending to study in Milan:
Maestro Lamperti 13 francs.
Mazucato 10 “
“ Facei 10 “
“ San G-ovanni 8 “
“ Montebone 8 “
“ Tryvnlsi 8
“ Perini 6 “
“ Leoni 6 r ‘
“ Bassile 6 “
Those are the prices during the present sea
son, as nearly as I could ascertain, but they
vary somewhat with the popularity of the
teacher. The length of the lesson is generally
from half an hour to au hour, though the pu
pils of Lamberti, rarely get more than fifteen
minutes each. Of course thera are many oth
er professional vocalists, but these named are
the ones who stand highest, lamberti is
seventy-two years of age, and has just mar
ried a young German girl of twenty-two. She
was on iof his pupils. Tryvnlsi, who was the
teacher of Lamperti, and is one of the very
best instructors, is 74 years old, and never
leaves his bed. He employs au accompanist
and gives his instructions as he lies on his
back. San Giovanni ia one of the most popu
lar teachers with the American pupils, and
now has under his charge two or three young
ladies from Cincinnati.
The conversatory, which was once the pride
of Milan, and the foundation of her musical
leputatioa, is still maiutained, but only as a
place for elementary instruction. I am not
aware that any American students are attend
ing it.
THE CINCINNATI DELEGATION.
PcrhaDß I ought to say a word concerning
tho representation now here, from Cincinnati.
It consists of Miss Laura Woolwino, Miss Josie
Jones, Miss Anna Hill, Miss Julia Gould and
another young lady whose home is iu New
port. Besides these another delegation is ex
pected here soon,.under the charge of Signor
Alfisi. Those who knew the ladies mentioned
at homo need not be told that they do credit
to themselves and to Cincinnati. Miss Wool
wine has been here twenty months, studying
without intermission, last winter she
had a highly successful career in o„., ~f tj,,,
large inland towns near Milan, and now
has flattering offers for fnture engagements,
She will, however, study under Tryvnlsi
another year. Miss Jones has been here a few
months longer, and is considered one oi tho
most promising mezzosopranos here. She
has made her debnt and sung in the Scala—
an achievement Whi.h not many oau brag of.
Miss Gould first appeared in publio June 28,
on the oocaßion of a oonoert given by the So
ciety of the garden. She was well received,
and her sucoess was haudsomely acknowledged
by the Society. /The other young ladies men
tioned are also meeting with good sucoess in
their studios, but have not yet sung iu publio.
There are afew young men here from Ameri
ca slinging their “seas” and “las," and expec
ting to compete with the Italian tenors—a
task in which they will find some difficulty and
not very much sympathy from the general
publio. Italians, who are too lazy to do any
thing else, have monopolized this branch of
the art, and it would be heartless in any able
bodied man to curtail their field.
Squire Thurman and his wife of Washing
ton, Mo., were temporarily absent, having
left tho children to keep house, when by
some means the youngest, a child of two years,
fell into a cistern seventeen feet deep with on
ly a foot or so of water iu it. Strange to say,
tho youngster was not huit nor much alarmed
for when l to older ones, a boy and a girl of'
nine and ten years, threw down a ch.-ck line
with a noose to it, the little one slipped it over
its head and under its arms and wa3 hauled
out safe and sound.
S.im Houston.
how as re:“ix:::i tub oovaasoasHip of tiv
nes ise, rest ;ook His isumiroww
AND JOI.SBD TUE CHEROKEE IN- ...j
1)1 INS. j
(N i-tivTa TO:sp-,ich. .n i nii'iiji T. a??.]
Tho •;i try of Sam TI ? a stoa’s resign i ,: o i
of the G>v -ruorship of t : ys riratea id jm n?
tbo Caerokoo Indians in Arkansas his n.var
vet been publi? ud, an i when I heird it a
fe v and iy? sine i from th? lips of a grey-hiio.l
io?id at of this sky, wh i ai l been the vim
personal flie.-.d of the hero of,Tin Jicinto, I
made a m in'ai note oi it for ttu bonefli of ous
Time? leaders.
“You sc?,” slid :h9 old g'rihnin refir.-el
t), “H union and l were e a ployed in a s. ire
together at Kingston, Eut Teaujssee, whin
we were boys. Tent wis about 181 A. Ta>
u .-xt year he enlist? I a? a private iu til? ar a ;
and unrolled off to tbs Cr >-.;k wir. Hb wu
soon made au ensiga, and was the first to
scale tna works at the battle of Horseshoe,
where he was shot twice in the right arm.
He came tio.no and fin ally got well and was
appoint;' t sub-agent to tho Uoerokee la lions,
but fie soon got into i q ii-rel with Oilao "•
’h-Mi v .■;• t ; yof ', nil wag remove-'-
then came o N “hvilie in 1318. H oeuan to
| stu iy la y with Julge Trimble 1 m six
jnl on hi'time \v nad milted ths bar. At
tbs fiiit s‘siioa of the ie -mature, after tus,
be was elect 1 Attar a t CL'iwil ot th? 8 an
! over Fr ancis B F >A- 710 ■ Vi; oa " of tn
nr prom j if • 1 car sriy lawyers iu U?
! State. j
il? wasraht to Congress where he wai a
worm jreXion man, aa-l while there had a
hH u'.ty w h Jo in T. Irwin, and when they
■ .i j ue back to N T a.s'avitielrwin clalienged
him, -icnliug hi? challenge by; a noted des
alo oi S;. !,B id'.?, who had killed
-.evcralmm. Ha wad not coisiderei a gen
tleman, and Houston ' ,'ould not taka the
aba'ieng? through him. Goo. Waite heard
of hi; and made sin? remarks about Hous
ton, which led to a duel between Houston
and Waite, iu which White was seriously
wo H id ed.
This aide Itj tie oop il arity of Hiustoa,
and he was elected G ire mo? of the State in
1817. He hid suceeedel Gov. Carroll who
wu9 a very popular m au, aid who was spoken
of prom.neatly as a candidate for re-?le;tion.
Houston wis afraid of him, and in order to
secure his own re-election to Congress in c. sa
Carroll heat him for Governor, bogan to
strengthen himself politically, and in ordes
to carry out this scheme married, in Jannarjy
1823, ala iy belonging to a very infl aenti4
family in Gallatin, thirty mites north ofNaih
ville. She was a vary hinisoms, brilliant
young laiy, aul attracted attention where
ever see went, which exasperated
who was of a morose, jealous disposition. L
used to see him frequently, and knew that he
had married purely through poUtioal reason*-,
and soon saw that his domestic lifa was an
unhappy one.
One Saturday iu April I met him at a big
baKaa<3 just west, of the city, where he ail
Carroll both made sp esches. I saw that ths
feeling of that crowd was all ia his favor ail
told him so, which caused 'dmto be in tbe
vary best of spirits, aui while ia that iu i> l
we separated. Monday morning p c tiled at
the Nashville inn, where ha and his wife hid
j been boarding since their m trriago, but was
refused admittance to his room. I persis ed,
however, and was finilly admitted b 7 Dr.
Shelby. I :ouod Houston lying oa tbe bit
with his faca covered up, an 1 in ausw ir to
my astonished inquiries, D.-. Shslby told me
that M r.s. H melon's father had come d> n
from Gallatin for her the day before, and
(that she had left her husband and returned o
the home of her childhood.
Said I, ‘General, what is this I hear?’
Said he, Tm a ruined mau; I’m a ruined
aian.’
I told him he owed it to his friends to give
some explination of his conduct, and asxe l
him why he and his wife had separated, to
which ha replied that ha hadn't a word to say
agaiast his wife—that she was a high-min jLd,
virtuous lady.
He then Hid that he alone was to blaxer
that he had decided to ex le himself anong
the Cherokee luluns, and that he wanted me
to carry his resignation as Governor to toe
Secretary of State. This I emphatically re
fused to do at first, but at his earnest solici
tation and that of D:. Shelby, I finally coi
sented.
The next morning Houston, Shelby ail I
went aboard a steamboat, Houston being l'i
cguisod so that no one recognized him.’ rt r e
bade him good-by, and he went down the
Oti'n’oeriand. He told me afterwards that ha ■
got as far as Napoleon, Ark., without biag
recognized, and ia that case he begged too
mau to say nothing about meeting him Ho
went on to Fort Smith, where he joined a
Cherokee by the name of Jully, whom he hal
been familiar with while agent for the tribe.
He assumed the Indian dre33, paintel his
face, and could no: be distinguished from
them.
A law years afterward he passed
Nashville with a delegation of Indians on his
way to Washington. I recognized him, bat
wouldn’t speak to him. The fact is, his triends
here considered that he disgraced them, and
were disgusted with him. While in Nash
ville he wont with his delegation and c ailed
on General Jackson at the Hermitage.”
“And how did Jackson treat him?” I asked.
“I don’t know; but I suppass he treated
him ali right as they had been great friends.
After reaching Washington I know he whip
ped a member ot Congress by the name of
Stansberry for saying something disresoeetfnl
oi Jackson.
After this we heard nothing more of H>as
ton until just before the Mexican war, whea
we heard that he had gone to San Augintia*
to practice law. You know his con^eclioT
with the Mexican war probably as well as I
do.”
“He married again, I believe ?”
“Yes. His wile got a divorce, and he mar
ried a Mobile lady, and sho made a mn of
him. They visited Nashville together, ail £
went with then to see Jackson at the H :r nit
age, twelve miles from the city. Hu fir-/
wife married again and is now living near
Nashville, unless sho has died recently. ” J
London, August ‘27.—Tue Oady Ness an
nounces that the strike in Belfast has Jad'-'t
and all the operatives, 40,091) an number,
resumed in the factories at reduced w ages.
HOW A PItIEST SxoPCJtO A PiU*4
I’m mmio Shenandoah, Pa., tartan Ad a
prize fight to come off lait SatuiJfefc Tie
stake was SIOO, and was placed inlßnahos
of a woman. Father B ley, bearing 7 of /k ’
arrangement, went to the stakeholder, look |
possession of the SIOO, and told the (Wien
to fight. But they didn't. 7
Father, O Keefe ot Gallon has appears 1 Je
forethe publio again as a litigant ail ins
been successful. The aotion Was one of/iitxef
against the Rev. Dr. Moran, Jr bishop, /and a '
i-ephow of Cardinal Cullen. ■Father K -efe
conducted his own case. Tue libel g(6w out
of the trouble over the Chllun schools. Toe
defendant disclaimed impersonal iil-w;iL The
jury gave a verdict far the plaintiff, 'a-nm £}.)
damages. In a secipd notion for libel aj bus*,
Dr. Keating, Father O'Keefe obtains £ls
damages./ ,4
A ph/sioiiir of Mauonester, Kuglaud. has
prepnridl a totistioel table, showing the num
ber ot youths from small-pox ooouriug in 1,001)
dealhifrom all catt3B3, in the districts from
whiotyisports were obtained. The re urus
are from 1700 to 1870 and are given in and cen
uial/oriods for convenience of c;mij>ir,ion.
Prior to ISOO, and the introduotioa of vacci
nation, the number of deaths from sorail-pox
iopjach deoenuial period ranged from 50 to
002 in 1,000 deaths. The proportion has
eicadily decreased siuoe that tim i from 04 in
ISOJ-1810 to 10 in 1860-1870. The average
(of tho decennial periods prior to 18 )0 was 7/ /
in 1,000 deaths; the average since 18JJ hast
been 28. Theso statistics show the greit useV
of vaccination in saving the viotims of small- ’
pox from the fatal ttfeoU of that disea is.
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