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MRS. WOODHULL. lished a journal. Thcso two events took the town by storm. When the doors of her office in Broad stroot were first thrown open to the otMIo, several thousand visitors came in floe ihe first day.

Ihe "l.dy brokers," as they were called (a strange oonfession that broketsare not always gentlemen), werebesiegcd like lionesses la cjge. The asily press interviewed them: the weekly wiU satirized them; the oomlo sheets caricatured them; out like a oonole of fresh young dolphins, breasting tho sea side by side, they showed themselves native to the element, and cleft gracefully every threatening wove that broke over their heads. The break en could not doth the brokers. Indomitable In their energy, tho staters won the good graoes oi Oom modore Vanderbllt a fine old gentleman of comfortable meant, who of all the lower animals prefers the hone, ond of all the higher virtues admlrospluok, Beth with and without Commodore Vanderbllt help, Mrs. Woodhull has more thou" onee shown the plaoz that has held the rein of the stock market a tho Commodore boias hiB horse.

Her Journal, as one sees M' week bv week, is eenerallv a willow basket fall of au Victoria's birth, the mother became powerfully excited by a religious revival, and went through the process known as "sanctiflcanon." She would rise in meetings and pour forth passionate hallelu aha that sometimes olcotriued the worshipers. The father, colder in temperament, yet equally inclined to the supernatural, was her partner in these excitements, when the Btroko of poverty felled them to the earth, theBe exultations were in grief. The father, in the opinion of some, became partially crazed he would take long and rapid walks, sometlmeB of twenty mites, and come homo with bleeding feet and haggard face. Tho mother, never wholly i sane, would huddle her childrenlOgether as'a hon her and wringing her hands above them, would pray by the hoar that God would protect her little Intense melancholy a misanthropic gloom, thick as a Bea fog seized jointly upon both their minds, and it Intervals ever wnce has blighted' them with Its mildew. It is said that a fountain can not send forthatthe same 'Ume sweet waters and bitter, arid yet affection and enfmify will proceed team this couple almost at the iame moment.

At Umetnoy are full of craftiness, low punniDg, and msievejenoe; other times they beam with sunshine, sweetness and sincerity. I have seen many strange people, bat the strangest of all ore the two parents whose commingled eesenep consulates the spiritual prfnoiple of the hero "(one of banter "Mr. Tilton turned with a "merry twinkle in his eye and said, etc." One wotdd like to know what circumstances would be able to impress this monument Of vanity and levity with Any seriousness. Pre paring a thunderbolt" amid the ruins of a home, and cracking jokes the while, is a combination of BonOaetet, Jim JVy and logo, which suggests, we are sorry to say Theodore Tilton. Mayor Hunter's effeetive cross questioning of a subordinate of the Park Commission yesterday was so.raoy as to encourage the belief that the Chief Magistrate of Brooklyn can get the better of any mute olerk, in any one of the Departments, whenever he tries to air his resolute mind upon nim.

Bismarck has summoned a guard round "him." "Further evidenoes of the oon "spiracy," etc. It doesn't follow that the wily old sohemer is not going to keep his hand in. His wrist was only disabled, the left one. That accounts for the sinister use being made of the event." and that finally, to crown her career, she would become the ruler of her people. At length, after patiently waiting on this spirit guide for twenty years, one day in 1868, during a temporary sojourn in Pittsburgh, and while she was sitting at a marble table, ha suddenly appeared to her.and wrote on the table in English letters the name "Demosthenes." At first the wrtting was indlMlnot, but grew to such a lustre that the brightness filled the.room.

The apparition, familiar as It bad been before, now affrighted her to trembling. The stately and commanding spirit told her to Journey to New Sork, where she would find at No. IT Great Jones street a hcuse in readiness for her, equipped in all things to her use and taste. She unhesitatingly obeyed; although she never.before had heard of Great Jones street, nor until that revelatory moment had entertained an intention of taking snob a xeodenoe. rjn enterics the hotujIT It fnlflUed in reoUry the picture whffinesawof in her VBlon aelf sonie bill, stairways, rooms, and furniture.

Entering with some bewilderment into theUfiaryBhe reached out her hand by chance, and she did, took up a hook whteh. on Sly looking at its title, she saw (toher blood ohuw astonishment) to be "The Orations of Demosthenes From that time onward, the Grock statesman has been even more palpably than in her earlier years her prophetic monitor, mapping out the life whioh she.muet follow, as chart for the ship sailing the sea. Sho believes him to be her familiar' spirit the author of her public policy, and the inspirer of her published words. Without inlrnding my own opinion as to the authenticity of this inspiration, I have often thought that it Demosthenes could arise and speak English, beoonld hardly excel the fierce light and heat of some of the sentences whioh I have heard from this singular woman in her glowing hours. That the chief of her spiritual visitants was visible only to Mrs.

Woodhull, was a very fortunate fact for themselves. A Madison avenue policeman would show bat scant courtesy to any matured man of stately clad only "in a Greek tunio, to whom he might discover on a hoase top. Such an apparition would BUggest rather a somnambulist, prowling around ia his night shirt, than any well oonduoted Greek orator "communing hour by hour" with the marvelous subject of Mr. Tilton's rapturous biography. The gravity that tho culprit will be discovered.

Every man should be thoroughly examined until tbe truth is known, andtho3ewho are perjuring themselves to shield the boss should reoeive the punishment due for their oriruo. Nor should the publio rest content with the aim pie discharge of the person responsible for the death of thiB ohild. Another stone, weighing three times as much as the one that did the mischief was thrown by the same blast to a still greater distance, though fortunately without doing anyone an injury. But the fact is sufficient to show that a much larger charge of powder was used than was necessary, and if these people do not use their experience to regulate the quantity whioh would do the work without risk to human life, they should be made to pay the proper penalty for their criminal carelesness. Tbe Newest Scandal of tbe Vttarcb.

It is impossible not to feel that within the last eight years, there have been a series of scandals given by the Church whioh have greatly vexed the souls of those who do not belong to it. That great demoralization was spread among the people by the late war, is admitted on all hands but no one dreamed that it would reach the clergy of any denomination. Yet, from excessive use of gin and milk to violations of the Seventh Commandment, the press has been teeming with records of vices and crimes in the clergy. If the number of these latter be taken in proportion to that of the tailors or bricklayers in the community, we greatly fear that the pulpit could not in morality now stand a statistical comparison in morality with either the goose or the trowel. Quiet respectable folks, who, whatever their own sins in past or present, think virtue a goed thing for their daughters, and a useful one, are by degrees becoming less anxious that they should be edified by propinquity of spirit with the pastor.

They are getting a notion that the honorable young man who works all the week for a living is about as safe a companion, and affords as wholesome society as a preacher. Mothers are less fond of leaving the religious instructor alone with their daughters; and husbands who are members of churches themselves are beginning to have tbe same feelings about their wives. A case comes up to day not at all likely to diminish this sort of caution. It comes from the office of Thomas Aldridge, Justice of the Peace at Jersey City Heights, and it comes in form of an affidavit, reading as follows platform end lovingly kissed tho young apcaker In pietonoe or the multitude. Her enemies (tmw or uer own hcufit hdtl) are etnuigera.

To see tirr In re spict bi to know bor Is to vindicate ber. She h.n ar.inn Impetuous and hoadl jng faults, but were Mi" without Ihe samo traits which produco Iheaf would 'he mad and magnificent energies wblch (If she Uvi will make her a heroine of hlatory. Iu conclusion, amid all tbe rush of her active life, sho 1h lii 9 witli Wordsworth Ibot The gods approve tho depth and not Tho tumult of the soul." So, whether bnffotod by criticism, or dsfamerl hysltn Uer.dhe curie, horgdf in mot iellgiouo veico which, tbiCH.gh nil turtmVnce, is a measureless content." TV hen apparently aboiit to bs struck down, sbe gathers strength and goes crward conquering and to oonquf r. Kuown only as a rash iconoclast, and ranked even with the most uncouth of thote. noise makers who re waking a sleepy world beforo it umr, an, beats ber dsJlj! gong, of business and reform win, notes not musical but strong, yet mellows tho outward rridonei of the rhythm by the inward and devout jaK of one of the ilnoereit, moot reverent and divinely gltw 0f human souls.

Little remains to be added by way of comment to tbn extraordinary and suicidal columns in which Tilton sought to cruoify tho principles in behalf of which he yearns to expire in roseate martyrdom. While bis own wife was suffering ot home, wrapped in the shadow of doubt aad suspicion, wrong with open charges against her fidelity to htm, tortured with all the (neen tout refinements whioh accumulated until they drove her from her home and from her children, Mr. Tilton was busily engaged In glorifying a creature irliose diabolical mission wss tho debasement and degradation of (he purest and noblest of social As if in the bitterest irony at his own expense, he, sacrificed the intellectual harvest of bis life, on tho altar of that very licontiousnest which he complaint has brought havoc into his household and dishonor on his name. That sacrifice confronts the people of Brooklyn to day, in this page, and, if there bo ono person who can derive pleasure from contemplating the sorrowful speotacle.that perBon can be none other than the vicious and fatal adventuress who lured him into hor home of death ond at 030 feet, as Sampson at Delilah's, he fell and slumbered, ta his own ruin and despair. THE PRESS Oft THE SC.VXDA.I..

THE VEr.DIOT BBEOItE THE TRIAL. (From the TJtlca ebserver.) Mr. Beecher's course in naming hit awn Investigating Committee, aroused a sort of mild suspicion that ho stood in neod of whitewashes. If now it shall appear that Tilton's threatened orposures awn bim into apologetic submission, he will bring 0 tattered character out of this controversy. If, on the contrary, be shall invito the fullest investigation, and shall meat all accusations squarely and frankly, he will be sustained by the best wishes of tha entire country.

Iu other words, if he is innooeut, no hair of his head Bhol: be hurt. If ho Ib guilty, wbitaajsBh won't save him. A TROPICAL TRIBUTE TO MR. BEEOHER. From the Easton Dispatch.) For a quarter of a century he has stood In the very vanguard of American Christianity.

His relentless war on slavery almost redeemed the American people from the infamy of complicity In that terrible sin, and every great reform has counted him among the most zealous and self sacrificing of ita advocates. If the spirit of our Christianity haB been brqugbt more into accordance with the spirit ot its Founder during Iato years ff it has been lifted from a cold and loveless formalism into the higher atmosphere of sympathy and lore Henry Ward Beecher has done more to hasten the happy result than any other single clergyman. His clear common sense, his inveterate hatrod of cant and bla overflowing human sympathy, not less than his rich and unrivaled eloquence, have made bim, as it wore, the very type aud embodiment of American Christianity. V. W.

AND T. T. From the Washington Chronicle. 1 It is not to bo wondered at that Mrs. Tilton should leave her husband, aB indicated by last night's dispatches.

That notorious woman, Mrs. Woodhull, baa telegraphed to Theodore, from San Francisco, that if her testimony Ib needed Bho will take the overland route, and fly to her "devoted lover." It is presumed thnt Tilton will require her presence and counsel to fix up thiB reply or letter which he promises In a week or (co davs. This once brilliant young man is but a disturber of the publio peace, a murderer of domeBtio bappiuess, and sapper of the foundations of eoclety. Can't ha sent with "Vic," to Juan Fernandez, or some other iouo isle? FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 17. Ibis Paper hue the darkest Circulation or any evening Paper PablUbed In tbe United States.

Its Valno as an Adrertislng median 1 Therefore Apparent. Brooklyn's Distance From Everywhere. The time of the singing of the birds has come, and the time for the flitting of all the folks from Brooklyn that can get away, has come, too. The estimate of the express com panics, and the equally indicative evidence of the subscription books of the Eagle, show that some eight thousand families, or forty thousand people, residents of this city, ore resting or roaming elsewhere than in Brooklyn during thid season They take their luggage" wharefrom to clothe their outer mam, and they order their EiaLES to follow them daily for the nutriment of their immortal natures. Consequently ourselves and the carrying companies can approximate with substantial correctness to the number of people out of town for the season." If those who are away would write of their luck in get ting off to the much larger number (and we are not far from saying the much more sensible number) who staj at home, then all Brooklyn would have lively apprehension of the distance, in practical calculation, which Brooklyn is from everywhere.

Of merely geographical space between the City of Churches and Scandals and other places does not solely enter into the question of our undesirable ro nioteness from the rest of the world. Time, in a certain sense, is as much a measure of distance as space itself. It is but six miles from East New York to Fulton Ferry. It takes an hour, and more, to travel from one to the other point, by the existing mo3es. It is five times six miles from New York to New Bruns wiok.

It takes but an hour to reach either place from the other. On tho contrary, it is only thirty three miles, at most, from central Brooklyn to New. Brunswick. But it takes about as long to go the three miles by two linos of street cars and two lines of ferries, as it does to go the remaining thirty miles by steam. Persons who leave Wall street reach their homes in Orauge, Newark, or Eahway, sooner than their partners reach theirs in Clinton avenue, Mo Donough or Union streets, as the case mny be.

Now Brooklyn's rate of transit is six miles an hour, Now Jersey's rate is thirty miles an hour. If Brooklyn's rate be applied to New Jersey, then Newark would be ninety instead of twenty minutes from New York, and Now Brunswick would be five hours' instead of one hour's ride. The gentleman who leaves New Brunswick at fifteen minutes of eight o'clock in the morning and reaches his office in New York by nine, would, if propelled by Brooklyn's rate of speed, reach his office at exactly 1 V. M. Conyarsely, apply to Brooklyn the rate of speed which obtains in New Jersey, and these results would follow.

A man would reach a saorcd tight, and sbe bcoime an object of religious awe to many wonder stricken people whoje inward lives she had revealed. Moreover, her unpretentious modesty, and her perpetual disclaimer of any merit or sower of 1 herown.snd tho entire crediting of this to spirit Influence, augmented the interest with which all spectators TCgardedtte attuablo prodigy. First at Indianapolis, and afterward at Teire she. wrought some apparently miraeolouB cures. Bhe straighted the feet of the lame she opened the ears of the deaf: tho detected the robbeta of a bank she brought to light hid.

den crimes; she solved' physiologiasl problems; the nn veiled basinets secrets she propheoied future events. Knowing the wonders which she wrought, certain citizens disguised themselves and come to her, purporting to be strangers from a distant town, but the instantly said, ob, no; you all live here." "How can yon tent" they asked. "The spirits aay so," ahe replied. Benedictions followed her; gifts were lavished upon her; money flowed in a stream toward her. Journeying rem city to oity in tbe practice of her spiritual art, she thereto tuppoxted oil ber relatives for tad near.

Her income In one year reached nearly a hundred thousand dollars. She received in one day, limply ss fees tot enres which she had wrought, five thousand dollars. The ram total of the receipts of her practloe, and of her investments arrowing out of it, up to tbe time of its discontinuance by direction of the spirits in 1869, was $700,000. The age of wonders has not oeased I During aU this period, thsugh outwardly prosperous, SHE WAS INWABDLT WBETOHKD. The dismal faot of her Bon's half idiocy so preyed upon her mind that, in host of morbid feeling, she fell to accusing her innocent self for bis misfortunes.

The sight of his face rebuked her, until, in orcfenneet ol spirit, she prayed to God for another I ohild a daughter to be born, with a fair body andasonnd mind. Her prayer was granted, bat not witnout many accompaniment of inhumanity. Oncedurlng her carriage of her unborn charge, she was kicked by iu father In fit of drunkenness infllct ing a bruise on her body and a greater braise toher spirit Profound as her double suffering wot, in its owest depth then was a still. She waa plunged into this stthechild'B birth. This event ooonrred at No.

63 Bond street. New York, April 23, 1861. She and her husband were at the time the only oooupsnts oi the house her trial coming upon her while no nurse, or strvant, ot other human helper was under the roof. It was this horrible experience that first awoke her mind to the question "WHT SHOULD ANY LONOEB LIVE WITH THIS MAN?" Hitherto she had entertained an almost superstitious idea of the devotion with which a wife should cling to her husband. She had always been so faithful to him, that, in bis cups, he would mock and Jeer at her fidelity, and call her a fool for maiutalniag it.

At length the fool grew wiser, and after eleven years of what, with conventional mockery, was called a marriage during which time her husband had never spent an evening with her at home, had seldom drawn sober breath, and had spent on other women, not herself, ail the money he hod ever earned ehe applied in Chicago for divorce, and obtained it. Previous to this crisis, there had occurred a remarkable incident whioh more than over confirmed her faith in the guardianship of spirits. One day, during a severe lunesi of her son, she left bim to visit her patients, and on her return was startled with the news that the boy had died two hours before. "No," she exclaimed, "I will not permit Ma death," Audwit'ifrautio energy sbe stripped her bosom naked, caught up bis lifeless form, pressed it to her own, and sitting thus, flesh to flesh, glided insensibly into a trance in which ahe remained seven hours, at the end of whioh tkne she awoke: a perspiration started from hia clammy skin, and the child that had been thought dead was brought book again to life and 11 ret to this day in sad half death. It la her belief that the spirit of Jesus Christ brooded over the lifeless fprm, and rewrought the miracle of Luzarus for a sorrowing woman's sake.

ViotorlB'B father and mother, growing BtiU more fanatical with their advancing years, had all along subjected her to a series of singular vexationB. And the elder Bisters had joined ia tbo mischief making, outdoing the parents. Sometimes they would burst In upon Mrs. Woodhull's bouse, and attempt to govern its internal economy sometimes they would oarrv off the furniture, or garments, or pictures sometimes they would crown her with eulogies as the greatest of human beings, and in the same breath defame her as aa agent of the devil. But their great cause of persecution grew out of HEB YOUNOEB SISTEB TENNIE'b OABEEB.

ThiB young woman developed, while a ohild in her father's house, a slmgar power to Victoria's. It was a penetrating spiritual insight applied to the cure of disease. But her father and mother, who regarded their daughter in the light of the damsel mentioned in the Acts ot the Apostles, who "brought her mastors muoh gain by soothFsying," put her before the public as a fortune teller. By adding to muoh that was genuine in ber mediumship more that was charlatanry, they arouBed against this fraudulent business the indignation of the sincere soul of Viotoria, who, more than most human beings, scorns a lie, and would burn at the stake rather than praotice deceit. Sho olutched Tennle oe by main force and flung her out or this semi humbug, to the mingled astonishment of ber money greedy family, one and all.

At this time Tennie was supporting a dozen or twenty relatives bv her ill gotten gains. Victoria's rosouo of her excited tbe wrath of all these parasites whioh has oontlnucd hot and undying against both to this day. The fond and fierce mother alternately loves and hates the two united defierB of her morbid will and the father, at tunes a Mephistopheles, waits tall tbe inspiration of cunning overmasters his parental instinct, and watching for a moment when his ill word to a stranger will blight their business schemes, drops in upon some capitals whose money is in their hand, lodges on indictment againBt his own flesh and blood, take oat bis handkerchief to hide a few weil.foignfd tears, olasps his hands with an unfclt agony, bobbles off smiling sardonically at the mischief which he has done, end the next day repents hit wickedness with genuine oon trilion and manlier woo. These parents would cheerfully Rive their lives as a sacrifice lo atone for the many mischief which they have cast like burrs at tneh cbililn but if all the scars whioh they and their progeny hnvo inflicted on one another could be magically hi ulcd to day, they would be scratched open by tbe same hands and sot stingiug and tingling anew to morrow. There is a maxim thit marriages are made in heaven, albeit contradkted by the Scripture whioh declares that in heaven thtre is neither marrying nor giving in marriage.

But, even against the Scripture, it is safe to Bay that Victoria's Becond marriage waa made to heaven; that is, it was decreed by the self same spirits whom she is ever ready to follow, whether they lead her for dleolpllne into the valley of the shadow of death or for cumfort in those ways of pleasantness which are paths of peace. COL. JAMES H. BLOOD, Commander of the Sixth Missouri Regiment, who, at the close of the war, was elected City Auditor of St. Louis, who beoame President of the Society of Spiritualists in that plaoe, and who had himself been, like Victoria, tbe legal partner of a morally sundered marriage, oalled one day on Mrs.

Woodhull to eonsult her as a spiritualistic physician (having never met her before), and woe startled to Bee her pais into a trance, during which she announced, unconsciously to herself, that his future destiny was to be linked nt hers in montage. Thus, to their mutual amazement, but to their subsequent happiness, they were betrothed on the Bpot by. "the powers ef the air." The legal tie by which at first they bound themselves to each other was afterward by mutual csnsent annulled the neoeeoary form ot Illinois law being oomplied with to this effect. But the marriage law stands on its merits, and Is to all who witness its harmony known to be sweet and accordant union of congenial souls. Col.

Blood is a man of a philosophio and reflective catt of mind, an enthusiastic student of the higher lots of spiritualism, a reoluse from society, and sn expectant believer in a stupendous destiny for Viotoria. A modesty not uncommon to men ot intellect, prompts bim to sequester his name in the thade rather than to aee it glittering in the sun. But he is an indefatigable worker driving nu pen through all bouri of the day and half of the night. He is an aotive editor of Ifood hutl and Clafliifi Weekly, and one of the Duty partners in the firm of Woodhull, O'aflin Brokers, at Broad street, New York, His otvio views are (to use his favorite designation of them) oosmopolltloal in other Words, he is a radioal of extreme radicalism an internationalltt of the moat uncompromising type a communist who would rather have died in Pans than be the president of a pretended republlo whose first official act has been the judicial murder of the only Republicans in France. His splrituauatio habits be describes in a letter to his friend, tho writer of this memorial, as follows: "Atabout eleven or twelve o'clock at night, two or three times a week, and sometimes without nightly intervals, Victoria and I hold parliament with the spirits.

It is by this kind of study that we both have learned nearly all the valuable knowledge that we possess. Viotoria goes into a trance.during whiati ber guardian spirit takes control of her mind, speaking audibly through her lips, propounding various matters for our subsequent investigation and verification, and announcing principle, detached thoughts, hints of systems end suggestion! for affairs. In this way end in this spiritual sight school, began that process of in siroefion by which Victoria has arisen to ber present position as a political economist and poUtloian. During her entranced state, whioh generally lasts about an honr, but sometimes twice as long, I make copious notes of all the says, and when her Bpeeoh is unbroken, I write down every word, and publish it without correction or amendment. Sbe and I regard all the other portion of our lives as almost valueless as compared with these midnight hours.

The preoeding extract shows that this fine groined tranoendentoltst is a reverent bucband to bis spiritual wife, tbe sympathetic companion of her entranced moods, and their faithful historian to tbe world. After a union with Col. Blood, instead of changing ber name to his, she followed the example of many actresses, singers, and other professional women whose names have become a business property to their owners, aud she still continues to be known as Mrs. Wood hull. One night, about half a year after their marriage, she and her husband were AWAKENED AT MIDNIGHT, in Cincinnati, by the announcement that a man by the name of Dr.

Woodhull had been attacked with delirium tremens at the Burnet Soma, and in a luoid moment bad spoken of the woman from whom he had been divorced, and begged to aee her. Col. Blood immediately took a carriage, drove to the hotel, brought ihe wretched victim home, and Jointly with Victoria took care of him with life saving kindness for six weeks. On frU going away they gave him a few hundred dollars their Joint properly to make him comfortable in "anothef Stty. He depBfted.

loll 01 gratitude, bearing with him tho assUMtidS that he would always be willing to come and go as a friend of the family. And from tbat day to this, the poor man, dilapidated in body and emasculated in spirit, has sojourned under Victoria's roof ond sometimes elsewhere, according to hie wbim or will. In the present rain of the young gallant of twenty years ago. there is more manhood (albeit an expiring spark like a candle in its socket) than during any of Ihe former years; and to be now tnincd out of doors by the woman he wronged, but who would not wrong him in return, would be an act of inhumanity which it would be impossible for Mrs. Woodhull and Col.

Blood either jointly or separately to commit. For this piece of noble conduct what is commonly called her living with two husbands under one roof she has received not SO mach censuieoa earth as I think she will receive reward ia heaven. No other passage of her life more signally illustrates the nobility of her moral judgments, or the tupernal courage by which she stands by her convictions. Not all the clamorous tonges in Christendom, though they should simultaneously ory out against her, "Fie, for bamel" could persuade ber to turn this wretched wreck from her home. And I say tho is right and I will maintain this opinion against the coraointd Pecksniffs of the whole world.

This act, ond the malioe of enemlet, together with ber bold opinions on social questions, have combined to give her reputations stain. But no Blander ever fell on any human soul with greater injustice. Now, it is just here that Mr. Tilton's biography of Mrs. Woodhull has contact with bis own case.

If his charges' against Mr. Beecher amount te anything, they derive their value from Mr. Tilton's cruelly sensitive idea of tbe marital relation. Mr. Tilton's whole complaint is that the purity and tranquillity of his married estate were corrupted by a proposal made by Mr.

Beecber. Yet we find him in the very heat and climax of bis righteous anger, sitting on the roof of her stately mansion, night after night, for three months, with a woman who not only maintained two husbands under that roof, but who now boasts that she turned one of (hem out of her bed to make room for her virtuous and sensitive biographer. If Colonel Blood, thus surrendering to the superior prestige of. Tilton, was so manly in Tilton's judgment, that the amber of his rhetoric embelms the Colonel as weU as the Colonel's wife, how can Tilton's town oou dnot appear manly to Tilton himself He was aot too nice to profit by the Colonel's complaisanee, nor too delicate to reward that complaisance by characteristic advertisement of Colonel's olngulor motto. How can he reconcile this liberality of practloe, in the cose of Mrs.

Woodhull, with tho bigotry, of profession wblch tie bao noisily claimed in his own Mr. Tilton niay be able to explain the paradox not the Eagle. Then Mr. Tilton proceeds to "spread himself" on the purity of the most licentious woman who ever enlisted in tbe devil's service, In the following glittering phrases: A MOBE TJS8ULL1ED WOMAN DOBS NOT WALK THE EABTH. She carries in her very face the fair legend of a character kept pure by a saored fire within.

She is one of those aspiring devotees' who tread tho.earth merely as a stepping stone to heaven, and whose chief am bittion ia finally to present herself ot tho supreme tribunal "spotless, and without wrinkle, or.blemisk, or any snob thing." Knowing her as well as I do, I cauuot hear an accusation against her without recalling Tennyson's line of King Arthur. "Is thy white ulameleBBness accounted blame?" Fulfilling a previous prophcoy, and followm? a celestial mandate, ia 1869, She founded a bank aud pub Her Biography by Theodore Tilton. A CharroiBg Literary Production with Modern Applications Notes Apposite to the Present A Glowing" Eulogy by the Man Whom Beecher "Injured" on the Priestess of Free lore tad Unlimited Abc tlon The Varying Phages ef Her Phantasmagoric Career Fondly Photographed How She Burst the Fetters of. BatrhaosyaaA Fled to Her Affinity Her Prayerful, Pious Spirit On the Boof Communing with DemOBthenes Beyelations to TheodoreThe Worthies of Aictent Greece and Borne who Contributed in Common with Br. Tilton to Victoria's Weekly.

Mr. Theodore Tilton, when in the first throeB of that anguish which has lately found frequent if vague expression in letters and protests, turned to Mrs. Victoria Woodhull for comfort and moraf support. The virtuous current of his life bad been interrupted. The ascetic purity of hiB soul hod been disturbed, and for the first time in his life he found himself face to face with moral enormities of the extjtenco of which be had scarcely been aware.

He says, just at present, that his home has been shaken to its modest foundations by the aot or word of Henry Ward Beecher. Of the dimensions and of the significance of that aot or word Mr. Tilton has vouchsafed, so far, to say nothing exact or precise. We are forced to believe that the shock was so desperate, so tremendous, that in HIS AOONIZBD BECOIL from its contemplation, he fell into the siren's clutch of Mrs. Woodhull.

How grimly that arch prieBtess of Priapus held on to Tilton's streaming ooat tails, he has himself testified as few men of moderate oommon sense would like to bear witness. "The wife of his bosom had been insulted." The sanctuary of hiB home had been invaded by "an Improper proposal." His belief la the flowery code of ethics which he himself received $100 a night for rehearsing about the oountry, had been shaken. What so natural, because so paradoxical, as the recourse of his original resentment to the oracle of Broad street to the woman whose Satanlo embassy was precisely the description and extraction of those very social and marital relations, the menacing of whose stability IN tilton's own case, by Beecher, was the mainspring and private cause of Tilton's despair The proposition Is simple enough in all conscience. Tilton loved his wife, and cherished his domestic purity with an enthusiasm almost fanatic. Beecher's inconsiderate act revealed to him possibilities of injury and destruction to that domestic religion, which his own crystal integrity had never suspected.

Naturally, in his tearful perplexity, he hied to the sorceress who trafficked in lusts and adulteries, and who, from a negative sort of personal experience, knew moro and less about the inviolability of marriage tbau any other oounsel or to whom he could apply. Mrs. Woodhull had been fishing for souls for some time in Broad street. She had landed half a dozen meagre spirits of the stockbroker set, but these had slipped out of her hands, and left no good behind. When Tilton blundered into tbe meshes of her net, we can conceive how, like a spider, she clasped THE BLEATING VICTIM to her ruthless breast.

Here, at all events, was a good catch, plump and succulent because full of vanity and a rich store of maudlin sentimentality. Threfore she made up her mind that this, her latest gudgeon, should distil a nourishment of at thiB crisis, she stood in sore need. The Tiltonian chastity which hsd shrunk in horror from confronting the spectral possibilities evoked by Mr. Beecher's alleged proposal to Mrs. Tilton, was dazzled and blinded by the moral effulgence of Mrs.

Woodhull. Hovering on the edge of her fascination, at first, Tilton was finally engulfed, and three months of the time he devoted to purging his sensitive honor, were spent in the closest and nearest intimacy with tbe polyaudrous nymph of Brood street. In brief, if the word of that notorious drab be worth the credit whioh Tilton, himself, over HIS OWN SIGNATOTE, attaches to it, Tilton conceived the project of re consecrating his home and re establishing Us purity, in the adulterous arms tf his mistress In exchange for the sympathy and the comfort of that woman, he devoted bis remarkable genius to tbe creation of a monument for her. At her foot he laid a votive biography, penned at intervals during the preparation of his remedy ior the wrongs whioh Mr. Beecher, as he complains, had perpetrated upon his honor.

That biography was regarded at the time of its original publication with only the moderate interest which attacheB itself to the irrational and inexplicable freak of some madman. But in view of the light it throws both on Tilton's mental condition and in his painfully acute mcral sensibility, the' Eagle devotes some space to the reproduction of that wonderful Uterary work. Mr. tilton's Account Qf Mrs. Wood hall.

"He that uttercth a slander is a fool." Solomon: Prov, x. 18: I shall swiftly sketch the life of Victoria Claflin Woodhull; a young woman whose career has been as singular as any heroine's in a romance; whose ability is of, a rare and whose character of tbe rarest type: whose personal sufferings are of themselves a whole drama of pathos; whose name (through tbe malice of some and the ignorance of others) has caught a shadow in strange contrast with the whiteness of her It whose noeition as a reDresentative of her sex in tbe greatest reform of modern times renders her anr onjectoj peculiar interest to ner leiiow citizens; ana whose oharacter (inasmuch as I know her well) I can portray without color or tinge from any other partiality save that I hold her in uncommon respect. In Homer, Ohio, in a small cottage, white painted and high peaked, with a porch running around it and a flower garden in front, this daughter, the seventh of ten children of Bcxona and Buckman Claflin, was born September 23, 1838. As this was the year when Queen Victoria was crowned, the new born babe, though olad neither in purple nor flue linen, but oomfortabiy swaddled in' respectable christened (though without chrism), as the Queen's namesake: her parents little dreaming that their daughter wonld one day aspire to a higher seat than the English throne. The Queen, with that early matronly prediieotiou whioh her subsequent life did so much to Illustrate, foresaw that many glad mothers who were to bring babes into the world during that ooronation year, would name them after the chief lady of the earth; and accordingly she ordained a gift to all her little namesakes of Anno Domino 1838, As Viotoria Claflin was one of these, she has lately been urged to make a trip to Windsor Castle, to see the illustrious giver of these gifts, and to receive the special souvenir which the Queen's bounty is Bupposed to bold still in store for the Ohio babe that uttered its first ory as if to say, "Long live the Queen!" Mrs.

Woodhull, who is now a candidate for the Presidency of the United StateB, should defer this visit till after her election, when she will have a beautiful opportunity to invite her elder sister in sovereignty the mother of our mother country to visit her fairest daughter, the Republic of the WeBt. The elasticity of a mind which condescends trom schemes of moral cruoifixion to state that "Viotoria Claflin has lately been urged to make a trip to Windsor Castle to see the illustrious giver of these gifts," and come baok with a present from tho Queen, reminds one of the elephant's trunk, oapable both of tearing up a tree ov pioking a pocket. We are rather at a loss to comprehend how the babe of snch promise was christened "without chrism." The performance of such a feat must have been something remarkable, or Mr. Tilton would surely never have embalmed mention of the fact in a parenthesis. "Her eldest sister in sovereignty" is a very picturesque sentenoe.

It's only fault ia that, on being analyzed, it doesn't yield much meaning as a result. It lookB very much as it ihat and the succeeding phrases were gauzy and prismatic, if very unsubstantial devices of the Tiltonian genius, to fill out a paragraph. But let us proceed, It is pitiful to be a child without a childhood. Such was slie. Not a sunbeam gilded the morning of her life.

HEB GIRLISH CAREER was a continuous bitterness an unbroken heart break. She was worked like a elave whipped like a convict. Her father was impartial in his oruelty to all his children; her mother, with a fickleness of spirit that renders ber one ef the most erratio of mortals, sometimes abetted biro in his scourg iDgs, and at other times shielded the little ones from his Uowb. Iu a barrel of a rain water be kept a number of braided green withes made of willow or walnut twigs, and with these stinging weapons, never with an ordinary would cut tbe quivering flesh of the children till their tears and blood melted him into meroy. Sometimes he took a handsaw or a stick of firewood as the instrument of his savagery.

Coming home after the ohildren were in bed, on learning of some offense which they had committed, be has been known to waken them out of sleep, and to whip them till morning. In consequence of these brutalities one of the sons, in hiB thirteenth year, burst away from home, went to sea, and still bears a shattered constitution the damning memorial of his father's wrath. "I have no remembrance of a father's kiss," says Victoria. Her mother haB on occasions tormented and harried her childen until they would be thrown into spasms, whereat sbe would hysterically lsugb, clap her hands, aud look as ileroely delighted as a oat in playing with a mouse. At other times, her tenderness toward her offspring would appear almost angelic, she would fondle them, weep over them, lift her arms and thank God for such children, caress them with eostatic joy, ond then smite them asjf seeking to destroy at a blow both body and This eccentric old lady, compounded in equal parts of heaven and holl, will pray till her eyes are full of tears, and in the same honr curse till her lips are white with foam.

The father exhibits a mere tranquil bitterness, with fewer spasms. These parental peculiarities were lately made witnesses against their possessors jn a court of justice, It isl hard to explain Mr. Tilton's evidently accurate acquaintance with the oastigatory apparatus of the Olaflin family. "The barrel of rain water in whioh Claflin pare, kept his "braided green withes made of willow or walnut twigs," is so vividly projected on our ittlina, that a eharp and sympatheticspasm responds, in divers portions of bur anatomy, to the lurid description. "A handsaw or a stick of firewood" were occasionally substituted for "the braided green withes." No wonder that with the alternation of such regulative implements in fa familU Olaflin.one of the sons "burst away from home." The only marvel is that the rest of the children didn't indulge in a like domestic explosion.

"I have no rememberanoe of a father's kiss" aays Victoria, to whom the fates afterward seemed to have allowed huge OBontatory compensation. The portrait of old.Mrs. Cloflrn hysterically ingher bands and looking as fiercely as a oat with a mouse," is the work of a master hand. Nobody other, than Tilton could have done so muoh with so little. Nor could anybody else have described the vigorous spanking powers 'ot the old lady so neatly and so graphipsllyO If I must account for what seems unaccountable, I may say that with these parents, these traits are not only constitutional but have been further developed by.

circumstances. The mother, who has never in her life lerrned to road, was during her maidenhoooVthe petted heireEs of one of the richest German families ofpenn sylvonia, and was brought up not to serve but to be served, until in her ignorance and vanity she fancied all things her own, and ail peopla her ministers. The father, partly bred to the law and partly to real estate speculations, early in life acquired affluence, but during Victoria's third year suddenly lost all that he had gained, and sat down like a beggar in tho dust of despair. THE MOTHER, SltOM HER TOTJTH, HAD BEEN A BMilGIOTJS MONOMANIAC, aepirltuallFt before tbe name of spiritualism was coined, and before tho Ilochester knackitigs had noised themselves into the public ear. She saw visions ad dreamed dreams, During tho half year preceding dacious manuscripts, apparently pioked up at random ond thrown together pell meU, stunning the reader with a medley of politics, finance, free love, ond the pantarchy.

This sheet, when the divinity that Shanes its end shall begin to odd! to Ihe rough hewing a little smooth shaping; in other words, when its unedited obooe ohail oome to be moulded by the spirits to that order which is Heaven's first low; this not ordinary bat "cardinorv" Journal, whioh is edited in nnn world and published in another, will become less confusion to eitner, ana more a power ror notn. In 1S70, following the English plan of self nomination. MBS. WOODHULL ANNOUNCED HXBSBLP AS A CAN DIDATE FOB THE PBE81DENCI. mainly for the purpose of drawing publio attention to tne claims oi women to political equality wits man.

She accompanied this announcement with a series of papers in the Herald on politics and linauce, which have since been collected Into a volume entitled "Tho Principles of Government." She has lately received a more lormai nominaiion to toot nign oinee Dy tne victoria League, an organization which, being somewhat Jocoblnlcal in its secrecy, is popularly supposed, though not definitely known, to be pro sided over by Commodore Vanderbllt, who iBalBO similarly imagined to be the golden corner stone of the busiuese bouse of Woodhull, Claflin Co. Should sho be elected to tho high seat to whioh she aspires (an event concerning whioh I moke no prophecy), I am at least sure that she would excel any queen on any throne now in her native faculty to govern others. One night in December, 1869, while she lay in deep Greek guardian camo to her, and silting transfigured by her couch, wrote on a scroll (bo that the could not only see tbe wordB, but inimediolely diotated them to her watchful amanuensis) the memorable document now known in history ss "The Memorial of Viotoria O. Woodhull" a petition addressed to Congress, claiming under the Fourteenth Amendment the right of women as of other "olttzenB of the United States" to vote in "the States wherein they reside" asking, moreover, that the State of New York, of whioh ehe was a oitizen, should be restrained by Fsderal authority from preventing the exercise of this constitutional right. As up to this time neither she nor her husband had been greatly interested in women suffrage, he had no tooner written this manifesto from ber Bps, than he awoke her from the trance, and protested against the communication aa It to bo a trick of some evil disposed spirits.

In the morning the document was shown to a number of friends, lnoludjng one eminent Judge, who ndiouled its logic and conclusions. But the lady herself, from whose sleeping and yet unsleeping brain the Btronge document had sprung like Minerva from the head of Jove, simply answered that her antique instructor, having never misled her before, was guiding her aright then. Nothing doubting, but muoh wondering, she took the novel demand to Washington, where, after a few days of laughter from the shallow minded, and of neglect from the Indifferent, it auddenly burst upon the Federal Capitol like a storm, and then spanned it like a rainbow. She went before the Judiciary Committee, and delivered an argnment in support of her claim to the franchise under the new amendments, wbioh some who heard it pronounced one of the ablest effort) which ever heard on any subject. She caught the listening ears ot Senator Carpenter, Gen.

Butler, Judge Woodward, George W. Julian, General Asbley, Judge Loaghridgo ond other able statesmen in Congress, and harnessed these gentlemen as steeds to her chariot. Such was the force of her appeal that tbe whole city rushed together to hear it, like the Athenians to the market place when Demosthenes stood in bis own and not a borrowed clay. A great audience, one of the finest ever gathered in the Capitol, assembled to hear her defend her thesis in the first publio speech of her life. At the moment of rising, her face was observed to be very pale, and Bhe appeared about to faint.

On being afterward questioned as to the cause of her emotion, she replied tbat, during the first prolonged moment, she remembered an early prediction of ber guardian spirit, until then forgotten, that she would one day speak In public, and that her first discourse would be produced in the Capital of her country. The sudden fulfilment of tniB propnecy smote uer so violently that tor a moment she waB stunned into apparent unconsciousness. But she recovered herself, and passed through the ordeal with great success which is better luck than happened to the real Demosthenes, for Plutarch mentions that bis maiden speech was a failure, and that he wsb laughed at by tbe people. Assisted by Elizabeth Oady Stanton, Paulina Wright Davis, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan B. Anthony, and other Btaunch and able womon whom she swiftly persuaded into accepting this cenEtruotien of the Constitution, she sucoeeded, after her petition was dented by a majority of the Judiciary Committee, in obtaining a minority report in its favor, signed Jointly by Qen.jB.

Butler, of Massachusetts, and udge Loughridge, of Iowa. To have clutched this report from Gen. Butler as it were a scalp from the ablest head in the House of Beprssentatives waB a sufficient trophy to entitle the brave lady to an enrollment in tho political history of her country. She means to go to Washington again next Winter to knock at the half opened doors of the Capitol until they shall swing wide enough asunder to admit her enfranchised Bex. 1 must say something of HEB PEEHONAL APPEARANCE, njthoush it defies portrayal, whether by photograph or pen.

Noitber tall uor short, stout nor slim, she is of medium stature, lithe and elastic, free aud graceful. Her side face, looked at over her left shoulder, is of perfect aquiline outline, as classic as ever went into a Homon marble, and resembles the masque of Snake peare taken after death; the same view, looking from the right, Is a little broken and irregular; and the front face is broad, with prominent check bones, and with some unshapely nasal lines. Her countenance is never twice alike, so variable Is its expression snd so dependent are her moods. Her soul comes into it and goes out of it, giving her at one time the look of a superior and almost BBintly intelligence, and at another leaving her dull, commonplace and unprepossessing. When under a strong spiritual influence, a strange and myBtical light irtudiutes from her face, reminding the beholder of the Hebrew Lawgiver who gave to men what he received from God and whose during the transfer shone.

Tennyson, ai with the hand of a gold beater, has beautifully Kilded the some expression in his stanza of St, Stephen the Martyr in the article of death "And looking upward, full otgraae, He prayed, and from a happy place, God's glory mnote him on the faoe." In conversation, until she is somewhat warmed with earnestness, she halts, as if her mind wore elsewhere, but the moment she brings all her aoultiea to her lips for the fall utterance of her message, whether It be of persuasion or indignation, and particularly when under spiritual control, she is a very orator for eloquence pouring forth her sentences like a mountain stream, sweeping away everything that frets its flood. Her hair, which, when left to itself 1b as long as those tresses of Hortense in which her ton Louis Napoleon used to play hide and seek, she now mercilessly cuts clOBe like a boy's, from impatteuoe at the daily waBte of time in suitably taking oare ef this prodigal gift of nature. She can ride a horse like an Indian, and climb a tree like sn athlete she can swim, row, a boat, play billiards, and dance; moreover, aa the orown of her physical virtues, she can walk all day like an Englishwoman. Dirficulties," says Emerson, "exist to be surmounted." This might be the motto of her life. Iu her lexicon (which is still of youth) there, is no such word as foil.

Her ambition is stupendous nothing is too great for her grasp. Prescient of the grandeur of her destiny, she goes forward with a resistless fanaticism to acoomplfsh it. Believing thoroughly iu herself (or rather not in herself but in her spirit aids), she allows no on else to doubt either her or them. In her case the old miraole is enacted anew the faith which removes mountains. A soul Bet on edge is a conquering weapon in the battle of life.

Snob, and of Damasous temper, is hers. In making an epitome of her views I may say that in politics she is a downright Democrat, scorning to divide ber fellow citizens into upper and lower classes, but ranking them ail in one comprehensive equality of right, privilege and opportunity concerning finance, which is a favorite topio with her, she holds that gold is not the true standard of money value, but that tbe Government should abolish the gold standard, and issue its notes instead, giving to those a fixed and permanent value, and oirculatiug them as the only money; on social questions, her theories are similar to those which have long been taught by Jobn Stuart Mill and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and whioh are styled by some as free love dootrines. while others reject this appellation on account of its popular association with the idea of a promiscuous intfmaoy between the sexes the essence of her Bystem being that marriage 1b oi the heart and not of the law, that when iove ends marriage Bhould end with it, being dissolved by nature, and tbat no civil statute should outwardly bind two hearts wbioh hove been inwardly sundered and finally, in religion, she is a spiritualist ot the most mystical and ethereal type. In thus speaking of her views, I will add to them another fundamental article ofher creed, which an incident will best illustrate. Once a siok woman who had been given up by the physicians, and who had received from a Catholic priest extreme unction in expectation of death, was put into the care of Mrs.

Woodhnll. who attemnted to lore her back to life. This zealous pbysioian, unwilling to be baffled, stood over her patient day and night, noither Bleeping nor eating for ten days aud nights, at the end of whioh time she wsb gladdened not only at witnessing the sick woman's recovery, but at finding that her own body, instead of weariness or exhaustion from the. double tack ot sleep and food, was more fresh and bright than at the beginning. Her face, during this discipline, grew uncommonly fair and ethereal; her flesh wore a look of transparency and the ordinary earthlness of mortal nature began to disappear from her physical frame and its place to bo supplied with what Bhe fancied were the foretokens of a spiritual body.

These phenomena were so vivid to ber own coa ci6usne8 Slid to the observation of her friends, that she was led to speculate profoundly oil tiiC transformation from our mortal to our immortal state, deducing' the idea that the time will come when the living human body, instead of ending in death by disease, and dissolution in tbe grave, will be gradually refined away uatil it is entirely sloughed off. aud the soul only, and not the flesh, remains. It is in this way that she fulfills to her daring hope tbe prophecy that "the last enemy to be destroyed is death." Engrossed iu business at any moment SHE WOULD BATHER DIE THAN LIVE, such is her infinite estimate ot tbe outer world over this. But she disdains all commonplace parleyings with tbe spirit realm such as are had in ordinary spirit znanifestations. On the other hand, she is passionately eager to see the Bpirits face to face, to summon them at her will aud commune with them at her pleasure.

Twice, as Bbe unBhokenly believes, she has seens vision of Jesus Christ, honored thus doubly over St. Paul, who saw his Master but once, and then was overcome by the sight. She never goes to any church, save to the solemn temple whose starry arch spans her housetop at night, where she sits like Simeon Stylites on bis pillar, a worshiper in the sky. AgainBt the ineulcationB of her childish education, the spirits have taught her tbat He whom the church calls the Saviour of the world is not God but man. But her reverence for Him is supreme and ecstatic Tbe Sermon on the Mount fills her eyes with tears.

The exulting exclamations of the Psalmist are her familiar outbursts of devotion. For two years, ss a talisman against any temptation toward untruthfulness (which, with her, Is the unpardonable rin), she wore stitched into the sleeve of every one of her dresses the second verse of the UQth Psalm, namely, "Deliver my soul, Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tODgue." Speaking the truth punctiliously, whether in great things or small, she rigorously exaots tbe same of others, that a deceit practiced upon her enkindles ber soul to a flame of fire; and she has sc 3 aired a clairvoyant or intuitive power to detect lie in io moment of ita utterance, ana to smite the liar in his aot of guilt. She believes that Intellectual power had its fountains in spiritual inspiration. And once whea I pat to her the searching question, "Whotis the greatest truth thsthaB ever been expressed in words?" ahe thrilled me with the sadden answer, "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." As showing that her early clairvoyant power still abides, I will mention a fresh instance. An eminent Judge in Pennsylvania, in whose court house I had ones lectured, called lately to see me at the office of the Golden Age.

On my inquiring after his family, he told me that a strange event had just happened in it. "Three monHis ago." said he, "while I wss in Hew York, Mrs. Woodhull said to me, with rush of feeling, 'Judge, I foresee that you will lose two of your children within six This announcement, he said, wounded bim as a tragio sort of trifling with life and death. "But," I asked, "did anything foljow the prophecy?" "Yes," he replied, "fulfillment; I lost two children within six weeks," The Judge, who is a Methodist, thinks tbat Victoria, the clairvoyant, is like "Annaj the prophetess." Let me say that I know of no person against whom tiusru ate more prejudices, nor any one who more quickly disarms them. This strange faculty is the most powerful of her powers.

She shoots a word like a sudden suubeam through tho thickest mist of people's doubta aud accusations, and clears the skv in a moment. Questioned by some committee or delegation who have come to ber with idle tales against her busy life, I have seen her swiftly gather together all the stones which they have cast, put them like the miner quartz into tbe furnace, melt them ilh fierce and fervent heat, bring out of them the purest old, stamp thereon her image and snperscription as if she were sovereign of the roolm, and then (as the marvel of it all) receive the Bwom aUcglauce of tbo whole company on the spot. At one of her public meetings when tho chair as abo hoped) would be ocoupieu by Lucre la Mott, this vent table woman bad been persuaded to deeline this responsibility, but afterward atepped forward on tae lu ui inis laje. Jue here, if any one asks, "How is it that such parents should not have reproduced their eccentricities in their children?" I answer. "This is exactly what they have done." THE WHOLE BBOOD ABE OF THE SAME FEATHZB EXCEPT VICTORIA AND TENNIS.

What language shall describe them Snob another, family circle of cats and kits, with soft for and sharp claws, purring atone moment and fighting the next, never before filled one house with their clamors since Babel began. They love and hate they do good and evil thev bless en1 omit Anh other. Thev area sisterhood of furies, tempered with love's melancholy. "tiu tmu tut. to one win axop on aer mieco iuu invoke' God's ve egeanee on the rest.

But for i years there has been one common sentiment sweetly pervading the breasts of a majority to I ward a minority of the offspring, namely, a detormina tdon that Victoria and Tennle should earn alltho money for the support of the numerous remainder of the Claflin tribe wives, husbands, children, servants, and all. Being daughters of the horseleech, ihey ory "give." It is the common law of the Claflin clan that the idle many shall eat up the substance of the thrifty few. Victoria is a green leaf, and her legion of relatives are caterpillars who devour her. Their sin is that they return no thanks after meat; they curse the band that feeds them. They are what mv friend Mr.

Greeley calls "a bad crowd." I am a little rough in saying this, I admit; but I have a rude prejudioe in favor of the plain truth. If the elder Olaflins had been tather in lsw and mother in law to their daughter's biographer, we could understand, without muoh difficulty, the painful minuteness of description which he lavished upon their characteristics. But we respectfully submit that his caricatures of the old and gentleman are really outrageous. What would be exousable, on tho ground of precedent, in the case Of one of their daughter's numerous husbands, is unwarrantable in that of a mere stranger and devotee at the Woodhull shrine. We are forced to believe that the whole brood" didn't extend to Mr.

Tilton that hearty welcome which he received at the hands of "Viotoria and Tennle." They must have treated the eminent historian as an interloper, or he never would hove drawn upon Mr. Greeley's vocabulary to call them "a bad crowd." What charming simplicity in his assertion that he "has a rude prejudice in favor of the plain truth Victoria's schooldays comprised, all told, less than three years stretching with brokea intervals between her eighth and eleventh. The aptest learner of her class, she was the pet alike of BOholars and teacher. Called "Tho Little Queen" (not only from her namo but her demeanor) she bore herself with mimic royalty, like one born to eommand. Fresh and.

beautiful, her countenance being famed throughout the neighborhood for its striking spirituality, modest, yet energetic, and restive from the overfullness of an Inward energy such as quickened the young blood of Joan of Arc, she wis a child of genius, toil and grief. The little old head on tho little young shoulders was often bent over her sahoolbook at the midnight hour. Outside of the schoolroom she was a household drudge, serving others so long as they were awake, and serving herself only when they slept. Had Bbe been born black, or bees chained to a cart wheel is Alabama, could not have been a more enslaved slave. During these school years, child as she was, sbe was the many burdened maid of all work in the large family of a married sister; she made fires, she washed and ironed, Bhe naked bread, she cut wood, ehe spaded a vegetable garden, she went on errands, sbe tended infants, she did everything.

"Victoria I Victoria 1" was the call in the morning before the cock crowing; when, bouncing out of bed, tbe DICUUI CUJfUlC, HQ DUO ITP, DtJTlCU, LKUl UlT buzzing activities for the dav. Light and fleet of etep, she ran like a deer. She was everybody's favorite loved, petted, and by some marveled at as a eemi supe natural being. Only in her own home (not a eweet but bitter home) was she treated with the cruelty that still beclouds tbe memory of her early days. To comment on the above paragraph, would be to shower hot sand on a garden bed of flowers.

So it shall gleam, unset, save only with a mere invitation to the reader to consider more than once the religious accuracy which ti lis how Viotoria made fires, wsBbed and ironed, baked bread, Bpaded a vegetable garden, went on errands, did everything." Cinderella and the Prinoe over again only this time, a pamphlet biography instead of a glass shoe. 1 MUST NOW XiET OUT A SECBET. She acquired her itudieB, performed her work, and lived her life by the heln (sb sue believes) of heavenlv Bpirite. From ber childhood till now (having re her luucy.imru year; uer anticipation ot tne ouier world lias been more vivid than ber realisation of this. She has entoitoined angels, and not unawares.

These gracious guests have been her constant companions. They abide with her night and day. They dictate her life with daily lorowMuu, nuu 1II.D xuui, Hue "um ulbUDeaiem to the heavenly vision." She goes and comes at their behest. Her enterpiises are not tbe coinage of her own brain, but of their divine invention. Her writings and speeches are the products, not only of their indwelling in her soul, but of thejr absolute control of her brain and tongue.

Like a good Greek of the olden time, sbe does nothing without consulting her oracles. Never, as she avers, have they deceived her, nor ever will she neglect their decrees. One third of human life is passed in sleep and in her case, a goodly fragment of this third is spent in trance. Seldom a day goes by but she enters into this fairy land, or rather into this spirit realm. In pleasant weather she has a habit of SITTING ON THE BOOF OF HEE STATELT MANSION ON MUBBAY HILL, and tbtre cemmuhing hour by hour with the spirits.

She is a religious devotee her simple theology being an absorbing faith in God and tbe angels. Moreover, I may as well monttou here as later, that every charsoteristio utttranoe which she gives to the world is diotated while under spirit influsnoe, and most often in a totally unoonscious state. The words that fall from her hps are garnered by the swift pen of her husband, and published almost verbatim as she gets and gives them. To take sin illustrallon, after her recent nomination to the Presidency Viotoria League," she sent to that committee a letter of superior dignity and moral weight. It was a composition which she had dictated while so outwardly oblivious to the dictation, that when she endea and awoke, ehe had no memory at all of what she had just done.

The produot of that strange and weird mood was a beautiful piece of English, not unworthy of Macaulay; and to prove what I Bay, I adduce the following eloquent passage, which (I repeat) was published without change as it fell from her. unconscious lips "I oucht not to doss unnoticed." she savn "vnnr courteous end graceful allusion to what you deem the luvunug uiiicu ui uij UU111 J. Lit ID true tuai a Victoria rules the great rival nation opposite to us on tbe other shore of tbe Atlahtio, and it might grace the amity just sealed between the two cations, ana be a new security of peace, if a twin sisterhood of Victorias were to preside over the two nations. It is true, also, that in its mere etymology the name signifies Victory and the victory for the right is what we are bent on securing. It is again true, also, that to some minds there is a consonant harmony between the idea and the word, so that Us euphonious utterance seems to their imaginatiohB to be itself a genius of success.

However this may be, I have sometimes imagined that there is perhaps something providential and prophetic in the fact that my parents were prompted to confer on me a name whlah forbids the very thought of failure and, as tho great Napoleon believed tbe star of his destiny, you will at least excuse me, and charge it to the credulity the woman, if I believe also in fatality of triumph as somehow inhering in my name." I quoting this postage, I wish to add that its author is a person of no special literary training indeed, so averse to the pen thBt, of her own will, she rarely dips it into ink, oxcopt to sign her business autograph nor would she ever write at all except for those spirit promptings which she dare not disobey and she ooald not possibly have produced the above peroration except by some strange intellectual quiokeniyg some over brooding moral help. This (as she says) she derives from the spirit world. One of her texts is, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills whence cometh my help my help cometh from the Lord who made Heaven and Sbe reminds me of tbe old engraving of St. Gregory dictating his homilies under the outspread wirig of the Holy Dove. It has been so from her childhood.

So that her school studies were, literally, a daily miracle. Sbe would glance at a page, and know it by heart. Thi tough little mysteries which bather the bewildered brains of country school dullards, were always to her as vivid sb the sunshine. And when sent on long and weary errands, Bho believes that she bos been lifted over the ground by her angelic helpers lest she should dash her foot against a stone." When she had too heavy a batket to carry, an unseen hand would sometimes carry it for her. Digging In the garden as if her back would break, occasionally a storage.

reBt fuiness would refresh her, and she knew that the spirits were tolling in her stesd. All this may seem an illusion to everybody else, but will never be other than a reality to her. Let me cite SOME DETAILS OF THESE SPIRITUAL curious In themselves, and illustrating the forces that impel her career. "My. spiritual viaion," she says, "dates back as early 4b my third year." In Victoria's birthplace, a young tvoman named Bachel Scribner, about twenty live years of age, who had been Victoria's nurse, suddenly died.

On the day of her doatb, Victoria was pioked up by her departing spirit, and borne off into the spirit world. To thie day Mrs. WoodhuU describes vividly ber childish BensationB aB she felt hersulf gliding through the air like St. Catharine winded away by the angels. Her mother testifies that while this scene was enacting to the child's inner consciousness, her little body lay as if dead for three hours.

Two of her sisters, who had died in ohildhood, were constantly present with her. She would talk to them as a girl tattles to her dolls. They wore ber most fascinating playmates, and she never cared for any others while Bhe bad their invisible society. In her tenth year, one day while Bitting by tbe side of a cradle rocking a sick babe to sleep, she says that two argelB came, and gently pushing her away, began to fan the child with their white hands, until its face grew fresh and rosy. Her mother then suddenly entered the chamber, and beheld in amazement the little nurse lying in a trance on the floor, her face turned upward toward the ceiling, and tbe pining babe apparently in the bloom ot health.

In the above paragraph it will be seen that Mr. Tilton "warms to his work," and that bis enthusiastic confidence in the gifted Woodhull expands into a wider faith in each aud every one of her elastic creeds. Clinging to her snowy petticoats he slimbs thereof of her stately mansion on Murray Hill," and there blissfully contemplates the Bainted muning hour by hour with the spirits'." We oanimagin'o the first consternation, afterward changing to mute surprise, of the neighbors as they descried Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull thus enthusiastically engaged in ghostly! exercises, Mr, Tilton, Blowly and majestically telescoping himself through the scuttle and handing Mrs.

Woodhull through the same narrow aperture as a preface, to "their "communing hour by hour with the must, indeed, have been a remarkable speo table, and one doubtless much appreciated by' the residents of the vicinity. But while Mr. Tilton gloomily smoked his cigar "on the roof of her stately mansion on Murray Hill," Mrs. Woodhull, unbeknownst to him, was holding high arid lof ly converse, as befited one perched on a housetop with no less spiritual dignity than Demosthenes. Why Demosthenes, unless beoause of hia SuadrueiZtooate, and therefore prodigious We can't for the life of us make out.

the testimony of Mr. Tilton is clear enough that although he didn't see the great orator with his own eyes, yet did Mrs, WoodhuU oommune with him hour by hour," a proceeding which would have been exoesslvely monotonous nd irritating to any one less patient and considerate than Mr; Tilton, who was apparently more than content to deal with Demoslbenes second hand, per Mrs. Wood hull, as schoolboys explore the rbetorioal myBterles with the secret aid and cribs" and IHE CpiEF AMONG HEB SPIBITUAL VISITANTS, and one who has been a ma jesbo guardian to hBr from the earjicBt years of her remembrance, sue describes as a matured man of stalely figure, clad In a Greek tunic, solemn'snd graceful in bis aspect, strong in his influence, and altogether dominant over her lute. For many years, notwithstanding an almost daily visit to.her vision, he withheld his name, nor would her most importunate questionings induce him to uttof it. But he always promised that In duo time he would reveal hia identity.

Meanwhile he prophesied to her that she would rise to great distinction that she would emerge from her poverty and live in a stately bouse; that Bhe would win grout wealth in a city which he pioturedaB orowdedwith ships; that she would publish aud conduct a journal; CURRENT EVERTS. Albert Grant, M. for Kidderminster, has been unseated for electoral corruption. Austria and Russia have agreed to negotiate with Turkey for the independence of The Idverpool oup race was won yesterday byBlontyro. Belsea Bill was second, and listless third.

Mr. Gladstone withdrew his resolutions against the Publio Worship Regulation bill, in view of the large vote in its favor on the second reading. The Admiralty (Eng.) Court has awarded the Bteamer Spray, the E. T. Barry, 110,000, and the Auburn, salvage, for towing into port the abandoned French steamship L'Amerique, The French Company has dismissed Captain Lamarie and Chief Engineer Lennox, of L'Europe, and Captain Boussan, of 'Amerique.

The London Times speoial dispatch from Paris says that the proposition for the constitution of a Senate Chamber in the Committee of Thirty's bill, will be amended to provide for 100 members nominated by the President and 130 of the Assembly to be selected by the Deputies that Cardinals, Marshals and Admirals shall be members ex officio; that the first Senate shall Bit for three years, and the next six or mow, according to the decision ot the Assembly an 3 that the President of the Senate shall become Provisional President of the Republic if a vacancy ooour between tho adjournment of the present Assembly and the meeting of the next ehe and finally, the President shall have power to dissolve tbe Assembly with the consent of the Senate. As was expected, the defeat of Magne, Finance Minister, on the tax measures, has led to hiB resignation but he will hold office till his suc cessor is appointed. The Carlists have abandoned the siege of Puycerda after a second repulse. Guerca is bsing energetically defended against them, and reinforcements have gone thither for the Republicans. Bismarck's escape is considered wonderful, as he had his hand to hiB hat when wounded.

His coachman, fearing a second shot, struck Kullmann across the face. Evidence of a conspiracy having been discovered, policemen have been sent to Kissing to watch. Baron Jomini, Russian representative, will probably be chosen President of the Brussels Congress on International Law. An extensive fire is raging in one of the suburbs of Constantinople. The Levant Times has been again suspended for calumniating a dignitary.

Many fatal cases of vomito have lately occurred in Harana, and smallpox is also prevalent. Trifling engagements between the insurgents and Government troops are reported in Cuba. John L. Toole, the comedian, sailed for New York yesterday in the White Star steamer Republic. At the meeting of the Dominion Board of Trade at St.

JohuB, N. B. yeaterday, President owland alluded to tho reciprocity treaty as an important subject for discussion, and said he objected to the fishing clauses, among others. The treaty returns between Canada and West Indies were shelved without remark. The Bay Verte Canal projeot was rcindorsed.

The Beciprocity treaty will be considered to morrow. Owing to the rough weathor, the inter collegiate race at Saratoga was postponed till five o'clock this afternoon, A severe thunder storm did great damage to Lowell, (mass.) yesterday, leaving the Branch street Church among other buildings iu ruins. The net loss to insurance companies by tho Chicago fire is $2,2.70. The bodies of two men and one child were yesterday found among the ruins, but more are known to have perished. Newport, R.

is shipping toads to Dutch Island to exterminate the bugs which are destroying vegetation. A mountain near Iona, in the northern part ot Nebraeka, is in a preliminary state of eruption, smoke and steam having been for some time issued from its sides, and lately a land slide over fresh crevices and greatly increased the amount of steam; but the anxiety felt is not very great, as a vein of coal closo at hand is being worked. One hundred business houses and 500 residences were destroyed by the late fire at Oahkosh, Wis. The bill to incorporate the New York Warehouse and Bailway Company has been vetoed by the Governor. Sweet Lips won the Thespian stakes, Bona venture the West End Hotel stakes, Vandalite the two mile heats, and Woodbine the Long Branch stakes at Long Branch yesterday.

Walter Lenox formerly Mayor of Washington died there yesterday, aged 67. Philteus H. Holt, of New York, died on Wednesday, aged 61. John Hntton, of New York, died on Monday, aged 66. The American Philological Convention is disoussing philological subjects at Hartford, Conn.

Another illustration of the want of discipline among the troops of the National Guard was given at Creedmoor yesterday, when the Sixth Bailment turned out only 150 men, Dicers and all and the men totally disregarded the orders given them. The shooting was very poor, and in the afternoon many wore boisterously drunk. Gerrit Smith yesterday sent $1,000 to the aid of the Iowa and Minnesota sufferers from the grasshopper plague. A boy got too near the lions' cage in a menagerie at Ormo, a few days ago, and the King of Beasts put his paw on the boy's shoulder and tried to pull him in, but he was resoued without much damage. The remains of a mastodon were lately discovered near Waueeks, Wis, Wisconsin pigs are feeding fat on chinch bugs.

Three car loads of cheese were last week shipped to Europe, direct from Eransrille, Wis. Mrs. Minzle, aged 80, of Pierceton, recently died in ten minutes after being etuug by a bee. An Indiana farmer raised this season, kernels, from a single grain ot English wheat. Isaac W.

Andrew, a brother of Gov. An drew, of Massachusetts, has jU9t been appointed a clerk in the Boston Custom House. A line of steamers is to be established between New Bedford, and Philadelphia. A building at Portsmouth, R. containing half a ton of powder, was struck by lightning the other day, and tbe roof cut clean off without igniting the poffder.

Deputy Sheriff Elino, who conducted the execution of the desperado Side Clarkaville, last March, was mortally wounded, on Wednesday, by one Robinson, a oouslu of Wallace. The international Regatta took place at Toronto, yesterday. The single scull raoe was won by B. Tinning; C. Nurso being second.

The Clipper, of Pittsburgh, won the four oared raoe. The New Dominion, of Toronto, led till within a fourth of a mile of the winning buoy, when she broke her rudder. Other races took place. In the case of Arnot against the Erie Railroad Company, a decision has been rendered compelling the Company to pay bonds of the Boston, Hartford and Erie which it had guaranteed. Rev.

John S. Glendenning of the Presbyterian Church of Jersey Oity Heights, was yesterday arrested, charged with accomplishing the rain of Miss Mary Pomeroy. He utterly doutes the charge. The Ohio Republicans are in council at Columbus. The affairs of Jay Cooke are being examined before Begister Mason at Philadelphia.

Mr. Fahnestock, the senior partner, testified that the oa use of the failure was inability to meet advances on the Northern Pacific Railroad. He hadobjeotcd to this class ef investments. A futile attempt was yesterday made to wreck and rob a pay car on the Central Boad, near Fort Plain, N. Y.

Two girls, aged twelve" and fourteen, daughters or Mrs. Robinson of rjioholson, were abducted by two men belonging to the Oriental Circus last Monday, and have not been seen since. THE CHAEITIE8. Payihff the Employes of the bepart meat for tbe month of April. To day Commissioner Midas, Treasurer of Commissioners of Charities, is paying the salaries of the employes of the Department for the month of April.

The amount allowed br the Fiuauce Committee of tho Board of Supervisor! was $6,527. In auditing the pay roll, the Committee cat down the salaries of six employes, reduoing the pay roll about $700. Com. Midas says tbe Committee made a mistake of $50.00 less than the sum required for the salaries allowed. It Ib understood that the Commissioners deny the right of the Board of Supervisors to interfere in the matter of employes or salaries.

The attorney of the Commission, Wm, J. Dainty, holds the same opinion. It is said that tbe employes whoso salaries have been reduced or cut off, will contest the qnestiou iu Ihe courts. For nearly four mouths tho employes of the Department have received no pay, and iiiero has been much suffering among them for tbe want of it. The pay rolls for the months of May and Tuue are also in arrears, but will shortly be preseuted to the Board of Supervisors or payment, with which the gifted historian describes the modern appesranoe of Demosthenes and the inscription of his name in EngliBb letters on a marble table, is almplv lrresistioie.j I now turn back io HEB FIEST UABBIAGE.

The bride (piUf nl to tell) was in her fourteenth year, the bridegroom in bis twenty eighth. It was a fellowship of miBery and her parents, wno abetted it, ought to have prevented it. The Haytians speak of esoapTnn out of the river by leaping into the sea. From theen durable cruelty of her parents, ehe fled to the unendurable oruelty of her husband. She had been from her twelfth to her fourteenth year a double victim, first to chills and fever, and then rheumatism, which had jointly played equal havoo with her beauty and health, until ehe was brought within a step of "the iron door." Dr.

Canning Woodhull, a gay rake, but whose habits were tent bid from her nnrli onuni re spectability of his family connections (his father being an eminent Judge, and his uncle the Mayor ot New ws pruieseiououy summoned to visit the child, and, being a trained physician, arrested her decline. Something about her artless manners and vivacious mind captivated his Coming as a prinoe, he found her as Cinderella a child of tbe ashes. Before Bhe entirely recovered, and while looking haggard and sad, one day he stopped her in the street, and sold, "My little chick, I want you to go with me to tho plonio' referring to projected Fourth of Jnly excursion then at hand. The promise of a little pleasure acted like a charm on the houseworn and sorrow stxioken child. She obtained her mother's assent to her going, but her father coupled it with the condition that she should first earn money enough to buy herself a pair of shoes.

So the Uttle fourteen year old drudge became for the nonce an apple and with characteristic business energy sold her apples and bought her shoes. She went to the nicnio with Dr. Woodhull, like a ticket of leave delinquent, on a furlough. On coming home from the festival, the brilliant fop, who, tired of the demi monde ladles whom he could purchasefor his pleasure, and inspired with a sudden and romantio interest in this artless maid, said to her "My Uttle pu t.ll your father and mother that I want you for a wife." The startled sirl onivered with anger at this announcement. and with timorous speed fled to her mother and repeat ed tae taie, reeling as some injury was uureatened her and some danger impended.

But her parents, as if not unwilling to be rid of a daughter whose sorrow was ripening her into a woman before her tlmo, were delighted at tho unexpected offer. They thought it a grand match. They helped the young man's suit and augmented their persecutions of tbe child lornoraut. innocent and simple, the girl's chief thought of the FBOFBT.B.ED MABBIAGE was an escapo from the parental yoke. Four months later she accepted the change flying from tho ills she uuu mj tuai sue Knew not ot.

uer captor, once possessed of his treasure, ceased to value it. On the third day of ter taking hiB child wife to his lodgings, he broke her heart by remaining sway all night at a house of ill repute. Then for the first time she learned, to her dismay, that he was habitually un ohasto and given to long fits of intoxica tion, sue was stung to the quick. The shock awoke all her womanhood. She grew ten years older in a single day.

A tumult of thought swept like a whirlwind through her mind, ending at last in predominant purpose, namely, to reclaim her husband. She set herself religiously to this pious task calling on God and the spirits to help her ia it. Six weeks after her marriage (during which time her husband was mostly with hiB cups and his mistresses), she discovered a letter addressed to bim in a lady's elegant penmonahip, saying, "Did you merry that child because she, too, was en familie This was an additional thunderbolt. Tho fact wsb that her husband, on tbe flay of his marriage, had sent away into the country a raistreBS, who a few months later gave birth to a child. Squandering his money like a prodigal, he suddenly put his wife into the humblest quarters, where, left moBilyto herself, Bhe dwelt in bitterness of spirit, aggravated from timo to tlmo by learning of his ordering baskets of champagne, and drinking himself drunk in the company of harlots.

Sometimes, with uncommon oourage, through rain and elct half clud and Bhivering, she would track him to his dene, ond by tho energy of her epiiit compel him to return. At other times, all night long ehe would natch at tbe window, waiting for his footsteps, until she hearu them languidly shuffling along the pavement with the staggering reel of a drunken man, in the shameless hours of the morning. Daring all this time, she passionately prayed Heaven to give her tho heart of her husband, but Heaven, de decreeing otherwise, withheld it from her, and for her good. "In fifteen months after her marriage, 'while living in a Ultle low frame house in Chicago, in the dead of Winter, with icicles clinging to her bedpost, aud attended only by her half diunken husband, she brought forth in almost mortal agony her first born child. Inher ensuing helplessness, she became an object of pity to a next door neighbor who, with a kindness whioh the sufferer's un homelike home did not afford, brought her day by day some nourishing dish.

ThiB eame ministering hand would then wrap the babe in a blanker, and take it to a happier mother in the near neighborhood, who was at the same time nursing a new born sou. In this way yroroMA and heb cbild themselves both children wore oared for with mingled gentleness and neglect. At the end of six days the little Invalid attempted to rise and put her sick room in order, when she was taken with delirium, during whioh her mother visited her just IB time to save her life. On h.er recovery, and after a visit to her father's bouse, she returned to her own to be horror struck at discovering tnat her bed had been occupied tbe night before iby her husband in company with a wanton of the streets, and that tbe room was littered with the remains of their drunken feast. Once, after a month's desertion by him, until she had no money and little to eat, she learned that he was keeping a mistress at a fashionable boarding house, under the title of wife.

The true wife, etill wrestling with God for the renegade, sallied forth Into tbe wintry street, clad in a calico dress without under garments, and shod only with India rubbers without shoes or Btockings, entered the bouse, confronted the household as they sat at table, told her story to the confusion of the paramour and hia mistress and drew tears from all the company till, by a common movement, the listeners compelled ihe harlot to pack her trunk and flee the city, and shamed the husband into oreeptng like a spaniel book into the kennel which his wife still cherished as her home. To add to ber misery the discovered that her child, begotten in drunkenness, and born in squalor, was a half idiot; predestined to be a hopeless imbecile for life; endowed with just enough intelligence to exhibit the light of reason in dim eolipse a ad and pitiful spectacle in bis mother's house to day, where he roams from room to room, mnttering noises more sepulchral than human; a daily agony to the woman who bora him, hoping more of her "burden; and heightening thepathps of the perpetual scene by the uncommon sweetness of bis temper which, by winning every one'slove, doubles every one's pity. JOUBNEVINO TO OAtfFOBNIA as a region where she might inspire her husband to begin a new life freed from old associations, she there found herself and her little family strangers in a strange oity beggars in a land of plenty. Change of sky is. not change of mind.

Dr. Woodhull took bis habits, his wife took her necessities, and both took their misery, from East to West. In San Francisco, the girlish woman, with uurelaxed energy, and as part of that lifelong heroism which will one day have its monument, set herself to supporting the men by who she ought to have been supported. A morning journal had an advertisement "A cigar girl wanted." The wife, with hawfaceof Bweet sixteen, presented herself as the first candidate, and was accepted on the spot. The proprietor was a stalwart Oalifornian one of those men who oatoh from a now country something of the liberality whioh the sailor brings from the sea.

Sho served for one day behind his counter blushing, modest and sensitive, her ears tingling at every rude remark by every uncouth customer snd at nightfall her employer, who had noticed the blood coming and going in her oheeks, said to her, "My Utile lady, you ore not tho clerk I wont I muBt have somebody who can rough it you are too fine." Inquiring into her case, he was surprised to find her married and a mother. At first he discredited this information, but there was no denying tho truth of her story. He accompanied her to her husband, and as the two ineil aisooYcrefl tQf ffisclYeB to each other aB brother Freemasons, he rr4Ve his cleric of a 3a fl tffenij dollar gold piece and dismissed her with his blessing. Add I hope this has been revisited on his own head. From Demosthenes, Mr.

Tillon drops suddenly and abruptly into a very painful and repulsive description of Mrs. Woodhull's early married life. With that married life we have no concern, and we simply reproduce tbe dismal story because Mr. Tilton thought fit to write it and Mrs. Woodhull to publish it.

One para grogh a decent regard for our readers has compelled us to omit. BESOETINO TO HEB NEEDLE; she carried from house to house this only weapon which many women possess wherewith to fight the battle of life. She chanced to come upon Anna Cogswell, the actress, who wanted a seamstress to make her a theatrical wardrobe. The winsome dressmaker was engaged at once. But her earnings at this new calling did not keep pace with her expenses.

"It is no use," said she to her dramatic friend; "I em running behindhand. I must do something better." "Then," replied the actress, "yon, too, must be an actroes." And, nothing loth to undertake anything new and difficult, Victoria, who never before had dreamed of such a possibility was engaged as a lesser light to the Cogswell star. For a first appearance she was cast in the part of the CiutUry Coxttin in "Now York by Gaslight." The text was given to her in the morning, she learned and rehearsed it during the day, and made a fair hit in it at night. For six weeks thereafter she earned fifty two dollars a week as on actress, "Never leave the stage," said some tf her fellow performers, all of whom admired her simplicity and spirituality. "But I do not core for the stage," she said, "and I shall leave it at the first opportunity.

I am meant for some other fate. But what it is, I know not." It came as all things have come to her through ihe agency of spirits. One night, while on the boards, clad In a pink silk dress and slippers, acting in the ball room scene in tbe "Corsioan ASPIBIT VOICE ADDBESSED HEB SATING, "VIO TOBIA, COME HOME Thrown iastantly into a clairvoyant condition, she saw a vision of her young sister Tennle, then a mete child standing by her mother, and both calling the absent one to return. Her mother and Tennle were then ta Oolumbns, Ohio. Bhe saw Tennle distinctly enough to notice that she wore a striped French caUco frock.

"Fijtoria, come, home!" said the Uttle messenger, becEonhig with her childish forefinger. The apparition would not be denied, Victoria thrilled and ohflled by the vision and voioe, burst away at a bound behind the soenes. and without waiting to obange her dress, ran. olad with all her dramatic adornments, through a foggy rain to her hotel, and packing up her few things that night, betook herself with her husband and ohild next morning to the steamer bound for New York. On Vie voyage she was thrown into such vivid spiritual states that she produced a profound excitement among the passengers.

Oh reaching her mover's home she came upon Tennle dressed intlio some dress as in the vision and on in ourrinothe meaning of the message, "Victoria, come home!" wos told that at the time it was utteredlher molher had said to Tennle, "My dear, send the spirits after Victoria ta bring her home and moreover the French calico dress hsd appeared to her spirit sight at the very first moment if wearer had put it on. This homeward trip, aud its couseqenses, marked a new phase in her career a turning pojnt iu life. Hitherto her clairvoyant faculty had been put to no pf cuniary use, but she was now direoted. by the spirits to repair to Indianapolis, thero to ahuounqe herself as a medium, and to treat patients for the cure of disease. Taking rooms in the Bates House, and publishing a card in'the journals, ehe found herself able, on saluting ber callers, to tell by inspiration their names, their residences, and their maladies.

Iua.fewdys she be camo the town's talk. Her marvelous performances in clairvoyance being noised abroad, people flecked to her from a distance. Her rooms were crowded and hBr nurse grew fat. She reaped a goldon harvest including, as its worthiest part, golden opinions from all sorts of people. Her countenance would often glow Yfw Hitdson Counti.

The voluntary examination of Mary E. Pomeroy, of Jersey City, in said county, single woman, taken on oath before, Thomos Aldrldgo, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county, this loth day of July, 1874, who Baith that she is now with child and that the said child is likely to bo born a bastard and to be chargeable to tho city of Jersey City, and that John 3. Olendenny of said oity, a minister of the Presbyterian church, is the father of said child. Maky E. Pouznox.

The Rev. Mr. Glendenny is an eloquent, a magnetic young man of twenty eight. He was full of promise in the church, and to Mary E. Pomeroy, to whom he had given an engagement ring and sleeve buttons and various other love tokens.

Miss 'Pomeroy is an orphan. She lived at the house of a Mr. Miller, a member of a Board of Education, was a welcome guest in the very best society of the place, and generally respected. She lived by teaching music, and was the organist in the churbh of which the very Bev. Mr.

Glendenny is pastor. Her good character and her music were her sole stock in trade. Of course her situation as organist depended largely on this reverend man, who, be it remembered, is a single man, and who, if frail, as frailty dwells beneath a cassock as well as beneath a coat, could quietly have married and saved this girl. We have not the stomach here to rehearse the long roll of late scandals of a kindred sort which the churches from New Orleans to Boston have been affording, we only ask for a little more charity from men of this class, who seeing how they themselves may fall, might lean a lighter hand on those of less pretense when they too succumb to temptation. It is but a few weeks since one man in Chicago, a reverend, and another not miles from Brooklyn, characterized all the women on the stage as prostitutes, or wooers of prostitution but it would appear from many cases beside that of poor Mary Pomeroy that the organ loft has done as much of this demoralizing work as the footlights.

The New York Herald this morning described at some length the case of this poor orphan in New Jersey, and as an apology for the publication dwells on the obligations violated by a minister in such a case saying: This young man, owing to his exalted position the shepherd of the flock gained access to many families, into whose society ho could never penetrate in any other capacity. He was, forsooth, the guardian ol the innocent, the apostle to the wayward, the protector of virtue and messenger of peace to tbe afflicted. These lines have now more than ordinary Import, for In the story recited tho question arises in every sentence, "Whom shall we trust In the bosom of oar families if not the clergy?" Painful as are the details, a true regard for the sacred interests of the family clrole everywhere demands their publication. Parents and guardians will read the lesson. iTIr.

Tutors as a Biographer. Than Mr. Tilton's marvelous biography of Victoria Woodhull, few modern literary productions have boenmore extensively discussed and less read. Eveiybody has heard about it arid perused parts of it, but those who have studied the gem in its entirety are not numerous. The revival of the scandal and the bringing up again as significant testimony of Mr.

Tilton's intimacy with Viotoria have given the production a new and larger interest which justifies the Eagle in republishing such portions of it as are not absolutely indecent. The belief is general, that but for this intimacy, the scandal would never have assumed written form. Tbe theory is, that Theedore, in his hours of dalliance, unbosomed himself to the priestess of free love, who in turn, and for a purpose not difficult to understand, determined to take the world into her confidence in the matter. It is, however, but just to Mr. Tilton in this connection, to say that he explains the writing by stating that he found Mrs.

WoodhuU in possession of the Beecher story, and that he wrote her life as an inducement for her to keep silent; or, in other words, so anxious was he to keep the foul subject from the light that he consented to appear as the the apologist for, and eulogist of, a woman who gloried in all its noisome details and was bent upon making capital out of her knowledge of them. As to the force which this explanation ought to carry we will leave the public to decide. Mrs. Woodhull has given her account of the circumstances under which the work was done. That account, it is needless to say, differs entirely from Mr.

Tilton's. Her story is that Mr. Tilton wrote the biography and defamed Beecher at the same time the only difference being that the one was for her private ear and the other for the public eye. These things she says were done during six months of ecstatic life at Murray Hill, the region dear to the ghost of Demosthenes and midnight communings on the housetop. The question of veracity here raisea can doubtless be settled in some measure by the biography itself.

Work uone unuer compulsion rarely carries about it tho atmosphere of undertakings conducted con amore. Apart, however, from these considerations, and apart from the new significance given by recent developments to the biography, its republication is justified by the fect that considerable efforts have of late been made to get it out of print altogether. So far as the scandal proper is concerned, there is nothing new specially deserving of cozzunentbtyond the two rumors which will be found referred to in another column namely, that Mr. Beecher has prepared his statement of the case, and that Mr. Tilton has resolved to change the character of his promised ex hibit.

It is now said that Mr. Tilton proposes to show that Mr. Beecher did grievous wrong, not to him Tilton, but to other men. Should this rumor prove correct, we believe Mr. Tilton will find it immensely to bis interest to abandon Brooklyn as a place of residence.

Mr. Beeoher's statement, we understand, deals explicitly and in detail with the Tilton case. He denies that he ever either did or proposed an improper act to Mrs. Tilton. So far as the other oases about which Mr.

Tilton proposes to speak are concerned, Mr. Beecher repeats his card to the Eagle, making an absolute and unqualified denial. That denial, we doubt, not, will prove as satirfao tory to all men who honor nobility of purpose and honest living as will the explanation of Mr. Tilton's particular grievance. Tbo funniest (or the worst) feature of tbe scandal is the unanimity with which the reporters declare that, Mr.

Tilton responded "jjlayfully "Mr, Tilton again resumed his STODLTON AS A MillVEL. From the Booheater Democrat.) Francis D. Moulton, the gentleman who has served ob (he. recipient of the confidence of both Mr. Beecher and Mr.

Tilton, nnd who has hitherto kept the otoaust shut mouth of any man in tbe country, wbb before the Investigating Committee Monday evening, and declined to tell what he knows about tho scandal until Beecher and Tilton have each made their statemenU before it. He sayB be loveB Beecher as ho does the apple oi hiB eye, but he will not stand by and aee Theodore Tilton crucified. He is a friend worth having. In Moulton but just bow he purposes to save tho reputations of both the gentlemen involved Is mystory which only himself can explain. CLAMS AND COMPOSURE.

From the Kingston Froaman.) We ore glad to notice the buzzing around his ears of the mosquitos of defamation does not destroy Mr. Beecher's appetite. And when we happenod to etand by his side a day or two ago in Fulton Market, and witnessed the great preacher swallow with avidity and vinegar), a dozen raw clams, we knew he would oomo out all right. No man can eat as be did there, knowing that fifty pairs of eyes woro watching his doing of it, without having a conscience iu perfect hatmony with his digestion. Mr.

Tilton had nut an well stop bis clamor, (for Mr. Beecher's empty shelln shall knock hiB batteries out ot time. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND IN BROOKLYN. From the N. Y.

Sun.) The mutual friend seemB to be a very prevalent character in tho Beeoher Tllton complications. Beecher and Tilton were mutual friends. So were Beecher and Bowen. So were Bowen and Tilton. So woro Beechor and Carpenter.

So wore Carpenter and Tilton. So were Tilton aud Moulton, and Moulton and Boocbnr. So were Storrs and Beecher, aud Bacon and Beoobur. So were Beecher and Cleveland, and Cleveland and Tilton. Finally Tilton's wlfo leaves bim and goeB to the house of Mr.

Ovlngton, whereupon Mr. Ovington tbinks it necessary for bim to como out la a card announcing that he and Tilton arc mutual fricmis, and tbat Tilton Is freqpent and welcome visitor at hia house. This is fortunate, as he and Mrs. Tilton may occasionally meet there hereafter. Perhaps ovon tbey may, In this way, become mutual friends again, Iu time, who knows 7 If not, and they should got divorced, perhaps their old mutual friendt Mr.

Beecher, may perform the marrlago service which shall units them, respectively, to other parties, at somo futuro time as he officiated in tho Blohardson MaoFarland case again, who knows? One thing that is very odd is that Mr. Tilton, whose soul has been bursting for years under tbe sense of tho wrong done bun by Mr. Beecher, when asked by tho exploring committee what that wrong was, really, for his Boul, did not know and could not tells but he thought that tf thoy would give him aboat ten days he could make up his mind. He would oven swear to something, but he did not know what. He reminds' one of tbe boy who cut his foot and bellowed like a calf with the pain.

He felt the blood trickling, he said, and he already begain to feel faint. He pulled off bis boot with some difficulty, he said because it stuck so with tho blood, when, lo and behold, he concluded he bad modes mistake. It wot the other foot I Had Mr. Tilton taken Icbb time to consider what tbe grievous, wrong was which he hod suffered at the handB of Mr. Beecher, he might have made himself ridloulous by aB egregious a blunder.

It is really funny how he nourished thiB unknown wrong, like a snake in bis stomach, for years I Mr. Tfltorf and this oruel wrong, seem also to have been mutual friouda. We do not think very muoh qf Mr. Beeoher's self deprecatory letter. It (s too strong.

In it he even wishes be were dead. That is ridiculous. He didn't wish be was dead. He probably knew that Tilton wished he was dead, and said that he himself wished he was, merely to gratify Tilton, who was his mutual friund. Very likely the whole qaarrel between Tilton and his wife is because she did not wish Mr.

Beecher was dead. A third time who knows This renunciation or self does not mean much witb clergymen. It is their stylo their habit of speech. Let soy one listen to the exhortations in a Methodist meeting, and on the following day print about the speakers, as bis own, Just what they say of themselves, and there would be perfeot shower of indictments falling on his head. Mr, Beecber did not wish at all that he was dead.

He did not even wont to be hurt, and does not now. We hardly think he so much as wished Tilton dead, thongh possibly at present ha would not be averse to teeing him "laid out." The real trouble with Mr. Tilton would seem to be the green eyed monBter. And now he becomes a mutual friend to the green eyed monster, and given up all bis old friendB, wife and all, for tho Bake of him. Charlos Moriarty, who, in company with.

Martin and Harrahoe, had, after beating John Cooper on an grain elevator and Btabbing bim in the leg, ou afternoon, made bis escape, was arrested laat night. Harrahoe wos arrested at the time of the assault. Martin Ib still at large. Get It id of One Cold Before you contract another on top of it, or you way Bocurely establish the seeds of a serious lung complaint before rou arc conscious of tbe danger. Bettor prudently rofeort to Dn.

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SI per year. SHKLDON AOOMPANY, 617 BROADWAY, Now Voti. East New York from Fulton Ferry, or vice versa, in twelve minutes. He would be carried between "the stables" and Fulton Ferry in six minutes between Cumberland street and the ferries in four minutes and between Smith street and the ferries in two minutes. We would not counsel so high a rate of speed in cities under any circumstances, but if the rato was twice as slow, tho gain would still be of incalculable benefit to Brooklyn over what now prevails.

The antediluvian condition of transit in New York and Brooklyn can bo appreciated by projecting the contrast which we have introduced, into any direction. It takes more time to go to the Forty second street depot from any part of Brooklyn than it does to go from that depot to Bridgeport, Norwalk or (by express trains) even to New Haven. It takes thrice as long to reach the City Hall from Hunter's Point, six miles, as it does to reach Jamaica froin Hunter's Point, twelve miles, and an uptown New Yorker can go to Poughkeepsie, transact business and return, in the time required for a resident of Greenpoint to visit a friend in South Brooklyn, and go home again. Very many of our readers have jugt gone through the Herculean labor of "getting "their families out of town." If they are "sum "mering" at any point within fifty miles of Brooklyn, the distance to the boat or cars took up at least two thirds as much time as the distance traversed by the boat or cars. At no period of the year are these vexatious facts of slow transit so vividly realized as now, when tho heat adds pangs all its own to the snail facilities of travel.

The consequences in every man's own case are well enough appreciated by himself. The consequences to the city as a whole have been again and again pointed out. Some of the consequences to outside places may have been comprehended by readers as they have, with us, been considering this subject. It is a fact that Brooklyn and New York have, while enjoying great prosperity themselves, also parted with as much as they have enjoyed, and have become the feeders of contiguous localities. So far ns the contributions of the population, made by New York to Brooklyn, are concerned, little objection, even on a selfish basis, can be made by the contributor.

The population is retained iu the State, and men owning property in either city are taxed therein for local purposes. But oven in this aspect of the case New York gains at the expense of Brooklyn. All the increasing thousands settling on Long Island contribute nothing to Brooklyn. And they do contribute to New York their business, drill, labor and establishments, and tho tariff on the latter. They are shut out from Brooklyn, and they are shut out by Brooklyn's act as every one knows.

To enforce the "teaching" of these facts would be to repeat what the Eagle has often had occasion to utter. Of course "the teaching," the demand, is rapid transit. Ordinari by communities put up so long and with such stupid patience with inadequate facilities, that it is left to men in whom the forces of the future move strongly to din and din, too generally all in vain, about the necessity or great advisability of rapid transit. Happily, that is not the condition of public sentiment iu Brooklyn and in New York. The long years of patient and stupid acquiescence have co.ue to an end.

There may have to be acquiescence in present facilities for some time, but it will be under compulsion. The people, from capitalists to laborers inclusive, are vexed, and harried, and disgusted with the present facilities. Where there is a will there will soon be found a way. The people of Brooklyn are not going to be always robbed of the time which they could devote to rest and culture with their families, compelled to use it up en route to or from their place of occupation. A local railroad company, by permission of the authorities, has already "inaugurated" a system of rapid transit to the centre of the city a system of which report speaks well, and experiment even bettor.

The Eagle has already referred to that. It is a part solution of the general problem presented. The whole of that problem must be solved, if Brooklyn means to keep abreast with the times. Other companies would do well to be stirring in like manner. The distance of Brooklyn from everywhere must be diminished by all the best of the many means which enterprise and science have found or are finding out.

Criminal Carelessness. A shocking acoident, the result of criminal carelessness, which happened in Rochester on Monday, caUfl for and will probably receive prompt attention from the authorities. The men, digging a Wench on Franois s'reet, fired a blast, stoats of various sizes being scattered in all directions. One of them weighing ait pounds, was carried a distance of four hundred feet and descended on Clifton street, crashing through the top of a baby's carriage and smashing the skull of tho infant within, so that it died within three hourj. A Coroner's inquest wos begun, and us every one of the bosses denied that the blast was fired at his Bcctionofthe work, it was not ascortainod who was diroctly ie nousiblo for tho accident at last accounts; but if the examination bo property conducted, there ca be HO doubt.