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VOLUME XI.-NUMBER 1671. CHARLESTON, WEDNESDAY" MORNING, MAY 3, 1871. EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR. THE OHIO SENSATM. THE STORY OF OLD FETER BUFES BUBG AND HIS YOUNG WIFE Hay and December-A Singular Narra tl vt-Justice Tracking the Guilty Was Poison Used ?-The-Result of the .Inquest. O? or about the year 1352. lo Paint Town? ship, Madison County, Ohio, Peter Barenburg, .aged seventy years, was. married to Angelina Dutson, whose ago at that time has been vari? ously stated at from eighteen to* twenty-four. And thereby hangs a very serious tale. HARRIED, BUT NOT MATED. . Peter Bufenburg, although not an educated maa, had acquired great riches. He was lord -of vast flocks and herds, and his domain cover? ed several thousand ferule acres. At the time of his death his estate was estimated at from six hundred thousand to seven" hundred and -fifty thousand dollars. - Angeli oa Hu ison was .the daughter of a farmer In moderate cl rca in? stances In the adjoining township.' Up to the period of her marriage her educitlon was lim? ited; but, it is said, that she sur saliently im? proved her opportunities. She was comely of ?erson, however, and if the current talk of the elghbors is to be believed, was something o? a rustic coquette. There were others, deas lenient, who were of opinion that she carried .ber coquetry to the verge of imprudence. Howeyer this may be, she attracted the regards of the wealthy old bachelor grazier. Peter Buf? enburg, and in 1852, or thereabouts, they were married. About a year later, greatly to the mar? vel of the people of the township, a son was born to Peter. Alter a further lapse of six .years, when* Peter was of the age of seventy seven, another son was born, and then scan . dal gave tongue. In country districts, even more than in towns, when a story- once gets _ currency, it gains amazingly by repetition. W~ ANGELINA'S "AFFINTTT.1' Among the friends ot Angelina was a young man named Colburn, - and the manner lu which, the acquaintance was formed was cer tai cly curious. After Peter was married be far broke through bis .customary habits that he caneen ted. to take bis young wile on a wed ?ding tour. At Cincinnati the pair changed theil country apparel for clothes of the Setter . sort, and, whilst out shopping there,- they, were served at one ol the "stores by B.'T. Col? burn, who was then a dry goods clerk Having a soul above calicoes ne became, after the lapse ol years, one of the war correspon .dents-of the New Tork Tribune, was captured in attempting to run past the batteries Vicksburg^ and spent, subsequently, conslde rabie time In Libby Prison. Whilst waiting on the tewly married couple, in the days ol their honeymoon, Colburn appears to have - been smitten with the charms of Mrs. - Bufen burg, whom he mistook, or . affected to mis? take, for Peter's daughter. Ol' course, Peter himself was Jinowa to young Colburn, by rep? utation, as one of the wealthiest of the rural magnates of Ohio. - So, during his stay In Cincinnati, Colburn 'was assiduous In paying court to the young woman until she told him she waa. Peter ?ife. She thea told Peter himself of the mla? ke whfch Colburn bad made, and -Peter, laughing at lc as a good joke, Invited the young man to visit him af bis home In Mad! yon County. Colburn does not appear to have oeen slow to accept the Invitation. He did visit Peter, not once,' but ofter* and thus the acquaintance ripened Into intimacy, and. as -some malicious people-, say, into something more than Intimacy. There can be no reason . to doubt that the nephews and nieces of Peter Bufenburg looked upon bis young wile as an interloper, and were disposed to regard her conduct with a jaundiced eye. The cordial reception given .by Mrs. Bufenburg to Col burn whenever he visited Madison County, Uie close accord existing between them, and the fact that he had' a special room set apart for him in the new mansion that Bufenburg built soon after his marriage, added spice to the rumors thal-floated about. But the years Wore on, and Peter Bufenburg continued to tolerate if- he did not. wholly-approve of the visits of the younger man. THE SECOND MARRIAGE. In 1865 Peter Bufenburg. then in his elgh .ty-second year,* and In the twelfth of his marriage, sickened. From' that time his health began seriously to decline, and for the y?ar Immediately-preceding hts death, which took place In September, 1867, he was couti ned to his room. During the long period of bis. sickness many of the neighbors d?clare that-Mrs. Bufenburg was Invariably kind and attentive. Others say very differently, and intimate that Colburn continued his visits secretly, waa In the house when Peter Bufen? burg died, and was also at the funeral-which others again deny. . Peter Bufenburg died .in testate, and all his estate went to hia two chu dren, subject, of course, to the wile's right bf .dower. About two years before his death he. also made a gift to his wile ot five hundred acres of land, valued at that, time at fully for 8-five thousand dollars. After Butenburg's nth the Intimacy between bis widow and .Colburn Increased, and, when a year bad elapsed, they were married. Colburn, who was then In the bonking house of Fisk. & Hatch, at New York, took his wife and the Bufenburg children to ? Elizabeths wn, New Jersey, where they still reside. THE SUSPICIONS. And now comes the most mysterious part of this somewhat common-place, and yet some* what romantic story. During the present year, the hints* and Inueudos that followed the Col bums to their New Jersey-home have acquired-strength and consistency. A man named Thompson, the husband Qt one of Bui en burg's rejat?ves, and who would have been one ol the heirs to bis est?te If Bufenburg had not married, has made-himself, recently, quite notorious In Madison County by his bitter as? persions of MrS! Col burn's charact?i. He not only accuses ber-whilst Mrs, 'Bufenburg-ol adultery with Colburn, but also ot compassing Bufenburg's death by poison. These terrible accuf ions, however, lose much of their loree by the fact that Thompson is a man of villain? ous antecedents. He has been arrested seve? ral times for counterfeiting, but escaped pun? ishment by Joining Colonel Wood's detective force; and once he has been convicted of bur flary, but broke jail and fled. Singular to say e lias not since been molested. But, how? ever bad the character of Thompson may be, bis accusations find believers. He has stirred the authorities of Madison County to action. The body of Peter Bufenburg was exhumed, a -?hort time since, In the presence of the coro? ner and the neighboring farmers: The stomach and Internal organs were taken out by two medical men, and were sent, carefully sealed up, to Cincinnati to be analyzed byDr. W?rm ley, one ol tba ablest analytical chemists of the west. That analyste bas been made, and -Dr. Wormley reports the presence of arsenic In large quantities In the stomach, an? traces of ?je same poison In the liver, fie : s P.ISO said to ave expressed the opinion that the poison was administered before the death of Bufenburg. The doctor who attended Bufenburg during bis last illness, states -that he died of con? sumption, and that, if poison 'bad been ad? ministered he would 'have known it. Never? theless, the charges brought by Thompson have been strengthened by the finding of poi? son in the body..-Two theories have been started to account for its presence there. The .first ls that at some time or other during the four years that have elapsed since the death of Bufenburg, his remains have been secretly 'ex? humed by Thompson and bis accomplices, and ?olson in solution Injected into the stomach, bis theory falls, because traces ot arsenic are also found In the liver, and because Dr. Worm ley believes lt was administered previous to Bufenburg's death. The second theory ls that Bulenburg Was poisoned by some other person than his then wife. Such a theory does but strengthen the original accusation, as.lt could point only to Colburn, or the at? tending physician, with or without the conni? vance of Mrs. Bufenburg. Both these theo? ries failing, ii ls now stated-if the case ever comes to trial-that the whole ground ol the medical treatment during Bufenburg's illness will be gone over. RESULT OF THE INQUEST. - In the meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Colbuin have gone to Madison County to meet their accusers. As announced in a telegram from London, Oblo, August 10th, the coroner's Jury In the Bafenbure case concluded Its labors Thursday. Further accounts give the fallow? ing addition?; particulars : Dr. Wormley, ana? lytical chemist,' testified to finding arsenic in the stomach and liver, bat did not discover sufficient to produce death. He was indefinite as to whether there had been enough taken or administered to act fatally. The remains were in an unusual state of preservation, but he could not say whether that was owing to the arsenic found in the viscera. KU testimony was very clear as to facts, but very guarded In opin? ion. Dr. Colllns/who attended, Bufebburg tes? tified that he attended him almost daily from August 3 lill September 2G, 1867,. when: he died. He treated him lor consumption, and saw no traces of arsenic poisoning. He did not prescribe arsenic, at least three or four years previous to his death. After absence of j an hour and three-quarters, the jury returned with the lolloping verdict : '.After hearing the evidence in the case we, the jury, do find and say jhat.arsenic had been administered to said deceased. Peter Bufen burg, by some unknown person br persons." The jury was composed of the best citizens in the county, but their verdict is not regarded as very intelligent in the light of the evidence. The coroner reiused the newspaper reporters access to ibe original information, on the ground that he was advised to keep it secret. lb was then demanded as a public document, which any citizen has thetigbt to see, but he obstinately persisted in retaining lt unseen. It ls now known that no matter what might be the verdict ol the Jur-y, the prosecution had deter? mined -to arrest Mrs. Golburn on the charge of murder. The coroner bears a good name in the community, but lt is rumor? ed on the streets that he is personally in sympathy with the prosecutors of Mr?. Col burn. The original Information upon which he called the Inquest was filed in February last by a man named Vandeveevener, a physV . clan from Indiana, who says he ls a nephew of Peter Bafenburg, but .the wording of the document ls unknown, and lt js not even known whether it was sworn to. He came to London last fall and nosed around the county records, and also went out to the Bufenburg farm. He did Bot appear at the Inquest, but arrived in the place by rall, and ' was closeted with the attorneys for the proaeecution. TOTO WERE TO BLAME? The Fatal Accident on the Blue Ridge Road. The following-letter, signed "T." and dated from Walhalla, on the nth, appears in the Columbia Union of yesterday: .The railway collision on Thursday, near Perryvllie, by which-Mr. J. C. Clemson lost j his Hie, was the result of such gross careless? ness as to deserve better the name' of murder | than accident The facts are about as"follows: On Thursday last, the up train- on the Blue Ridge Road, consisting of an engine, baggage car and a passenger car, lett Anderson closely followed by a lumber train, belonging to the Greenville Road. Previous to reaching Pen? dleton, t lie passenger car became detached l roar the engine, and was left*standing on abridge. Fortunately there was between it and the con 1 n^r lumber tra?na straight piece of road, so that the latter was stopped within, however, a very few yards of tho standing car. Had it stood upon a curve the accident of the day .would have occurred earlier and with proba? bly mor? fatal results. In spite of this warn- j lng, the lumber rraln continued to follow the passenger train closely. After passing Pen? dleton the passenger train stopped at Huhnl cut's crossing (uot a regular station) to put put some lrelght. Behind was a curve, and around that curve dashed the lamber train, striking the passenger car which' had just commenced to move forward, and badly wrecking the rear platform. Such passencers as had not succeeded In Jumping off were thrown violently-forward. Mr. CW son was' thrown against the end of the car, aud was so bruised Internally - that he died In a short time. These facts show criminal negligence on the Ert.of the superintendent of Ute Blue Ridge ll way In allowing one -train . to follow.[ another in such close proximity as to render suco a collision possible. The remedy will, it ls to be hoped, be found in exemplary pecu-1 niary damages. The engineer of the lumber train was crimi? nally-careless In running into the train which a previous warning proved he was following too'ciosely. A remedy for him ought to be found In an instant dismission from his em? ployment, and a criminal prosecution; As If fate followed the passenger train, another disaster w^is prevented only by the energy and activity of one of the colored em? ploy ces. The passengers had been transferred. from the wrecked car to. a b ox-car. Soon after starting* the coupling broke, and the carl started on a down grade, toward the scene of j the previous ? disaster. A colored man ran past the car and'began throwing chunks-of* Wood 1n.front ot:the wheels, thus retarding i its speed until a large p'.-?ce Anally threw it. off the track. If H had not been for the prompt action of.this.man, the car. would nave soon gained a speed that could not have failed to result In a fatal disaster to the wo? men and children in the car,. "As the wrecked car was the only passenger coachjowned by the Blue Ridge Company, pas? sengers are now transferred from Walhalla to Anderson'In a box car, and. are allowed to sit' | in splint chairs as far as they will go round, then upon trunks, and finally upon the floor, or staud ll.they prefer. Unaccountable as it may seem, a coroner's jury, -Bitting on thejhjtody of Mr. Clemson, re? turned a verdict or "death by unavoidable ac? cident." W? venture to say that no persons are more surprised at this.verdict than the officials of the Blue "Ridge- Company. ON THE BALL. LOUISVILLE, August 14. The Pennsylvania Railroad now claims a ; controlling interest in the Louisville and Cin? cinnati bridges over the Ohio River. CINCINNATI,' August 14. The gauge ot the Louisville and Cincinnati short line road was changed from five ;o four feet yesterday. THE WEATHER THIS DAT. . . * WASHINGTON', August 14. The barometer will probably rise in the Non h west without material change In the weather. The conditions are favorable for Io- [ cal storms to-night in Wisconsin and Illinois, which will probably be repeated Tuesday after? noon over the same region. Lighter rains, if I any, will probably be experienced to-rribrrow | on the Gulf coa&t, and increased cloudiness with generally pleasant weather throughout the Atlantic States. Yesterday's Weather Ile po ru of the Signal Service, U. S*. A.-4.17 P. nfc", Local Time. . - Place, of Observation. Augusta.. Baltimore. Boston....*.. Buffalo, N. Y.... Charleston. Cheyenne, w. T. Chicago. cincinnati. Cleveland. Corinne, Utah... Detroit. Duluth, Mino... Indianapolis.... Key West, Fla.. Knoxville, Tenn. Uke City, Fla .. Memphis, Tenn.. Milwaukee, Wis. Mooile. Nashville. New London, Ct. New Orleans.... Sew York.. Omaha, Neb. Oswego, N. Y.... Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Pa.... Portland, Me.... Rochester, N. Y. San Francisco./ Savannah . St. LOUIS. St. Paul. Toledo, o. WashiDgton,D.C. Wilmingtoa.N.C Norfolk. Lynohburg.. Capo May. Leavenworth.... Mt. Washington. . KOTS.-The weather renorc dated 7.47 o'clock, this morning, will be posted In the rooms of the Chamber or Commerce at 10 o'clock A M.. and, together with the weather . chart, may - (by the courtesy of the Chamber) be exanilned by ship? masters at any time during the day. GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM. TEE TRIBUNE 1RYIXG ITS BLAST? AT A SENSATION. After the Brooklyn Ring-Woodhull} for President and Cl nfl tn for Congress -How thc Strong-minded Keep Them? selves Before the Public-Mr. Greeley's Manifesto on the Domestic Relations. -Arrival of a New Crop of British Blindes. - [FROH OC?'OWN CORRESPONDENT.] NEW YORK, August 12. The Tribune is so distressed with Jealousy over the success of the Times, In. having peo? ple talk about it, that it has started a smal sensation of its own. The City of Brooklyn,, like mf 6t American citles, 'ls favored with a "ring." It 13 an exceedingly small and select ring, and, therefore, the profits to each mem? ber Individually are larger than those re? ceived by the m?mbers of the big rings of New York and Philadelphia. The king pin of the Brooklyn machine is a Mr. Kingsley. It is under his supervision that the great bridge across the river and the new Ridgewood'reser? voir are building. Envious people, outside the ring, say he will cleat a couple of millions by all thc contracts for public work on his hands. Among the other prominent members of the Brooklyn Ring are ?emas Barnes, lae .patent medicine king, an ex-Congressman and a millionaire; Tom Kinsella, Congressman, mil*, lionalre and editor of the Eagle, th? rjng organ; Isaac Yan Anden, business manager of the Eagle, once a poor compositor, now worth three-quarters of a million, and hopes to dou? ble it; "Boss' McLaughlin, county register, a position worth $49,000 per annum In honest, fees; and a Mr. Fowler, the chlei officer of the water board. These people are getting as rich sis the Tweed? and Connollys ol New York, the Boutwells bf Washington, the Caseys-of New Orleans, and the Grants of Long Branch. While the Times keeps up its hullabaloo about the New York finances, the Tribune at? tacks the Brooklyn Ring. Its sudden.zeal in behalf of the welf?B of a neighboring city would excite some interest it lt were not patent that thfe publishers were nervous about their rival's success, abd were attempting to get up a little- diversion in their own favor. The knowledge of trils fact by the public spoils the effect. - The sensation falls flat. It Is really surprising how many people there are, with reputations for good sense, business capacity and self respect, who permit them? selves to be drawn into? Woodhull and Claf-' lin's advertising schemes, and made apparent? ly to appear before the public as supporter of their ridiculous pretensions for office. These women have but one earthly object,In view, to make all the money they can out ot fools. They can only do this by keeping themselves constantly before the public. .The broker's office In Broad street, and the pretended busi? ness done therein, the weekly newspaper ad? vocating free love and all the Isms; the con? stant appearance of the parties In the police courts .with their family troubles'and their self-nomlQatlons for positions they cannot legally fill, are so many dodges to keep alive their notoriety. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull has nominated herself for President against Grant, and has wrltten an-lmaglnary address to her? self from an Imaginary association which she styles "The. VictoHa League," endorsing Woodhull for the Presidency. To use the current slang, this ls very "thin," and the wonder ls that anybody should be taken in wlth lt Rut it Is a fact that Wood? hull's pretensions are sustained by such sharp women as Susan B.. Anthony and Elizabeth Cadv Stanton. Woodhull's sister, Tennle C. Clad) rr, bas the apparent support of some of the first bankers and btokers In Wall street. She has nominated herself ior Congress in the Eighth-District of New York, (James Brooks'.) Last night she got a large number of Germans together at Irving Hall, and made them a speech In their own language, and told them what she proposed, to do when she got Into Congress. Dr. Ehrenberg, a physician, pre? sided, and .resolutions endorsing Tennle for Congress were passed without opposition. This was done, not in burlesque, but In sober earnest, and among the gentlemen, present in Che hall were Henry Clews, Rufus Hatch, T. Durant, Pitt Cooke, <of Jay Cooke A.Co.,) Mr. Flint, president of the Continental Bank, A*. F. Willmarth, of the Home Insurance Company, Mr. Bussellj president bf the Loaners' Bank, and Fisk and Hatch, all Wall street magnates of the first calibre.. It ls possible that these grave ? and busy financiers Were attracted to Irving Hall bv curiosity, but their' appearaffce at all at a Claflin meeting is seized upon*by these advertisings women as too good a thing to be kept lrom the world. . Claflln and her elder sister, live In an ele? gant bouse on Murray Hill. Mrs. Woodhull keeps two husbands by her. She bears the name of" one and lives with the other. She acknowledges this openly abd glories lu what she protests ls an act of charity. Why, she asks, should she reiuse to support a Bick and helpless husband merely because erie has gota divorce from him? Ci allin, who is'really a handsome woman, and' dresses magnificently', makes no secret'of her loose Ideas about mar? riage and divorce. She . expresses them without reserv? through her newspaper, in her public speeches, and tb interviewing re? porters. You may well suppose that two such monstrosities as those unsexed creatures could exlBtin.no part of the world save the United States, In France they would be gob? bled up by the police, and in England ducked in the horse pond. Ciaflln has had two lithographs of herself struck off, one in miniature, the other life ai?e. The little'picure she gives to the reporters, the larger one she sends to the managing edi? tors. I have seen in a large newspaper office all the spoony reporters^ desks ornamented with the Clafiin. She represents herself, as dressed in a man's upper ck)thing.and wearing her hair cut short. * Under the picture ls. the legend, "Candidate for Congress In the 8th District of New York." Mr. Greeley's extraordinary pronunciamento on love, marriage^ divorce and existence alter death, published in the Tribune a tew days azo, vas in answer to the hostile criticisms of Rev. Theodore Tllton, of the Golden Age, who ls an ardent friend and avowed champion of the Woodhull-Claflln sisters. Mr. Greeley lays down some doctrines which, however much people may differ with him about their correct? ness, cannot tall to raise him in the estimation of the community. Some of these views may be odd, but none but a pure-minded man could entertain them. He avows a horror of the masculine women, believes in the indissoluble y of the marriage tie, and would Consent to divorce only under the most aggravating circumstances. He honors the mau who would forgive an erring, repentant wile; he opposes second marriages except where poor men have large tamiles of small children, and cannot bestow upon them the care they- require, and he believes in the continuation in the next lite of a marriage-a genuine "blending ot souls"-contracted In thia. From this you will gather that he gives no countenance to the female suffrage move? ment. He does oppose lt with vehemence'. He has two beloved daughters, he Bays, and he would rather be in his-grave than Bee them like the shameless things who go brawling through the land fof the right to vote. When it ls remembered that Mr. Greeley's wife isa warm advocate of woman suffrage, his won? derful courage In making those avowals will be appreciated by all husbands. The British steamer Queen, which lias been overdue for a couple of days, came, in last night to the reliel of almost everybody. Our pet police Judge, Dowling, and Lydia Thomp? son, with her newly selected troupe of British blondes, were on board. KYM. SPARKS FROX THE WIRES. -John Clark, florist of the Fifth avenue Hotel, New York, another Westfield victim, ls dead. -One woman was burned to death and another badly injured by a tire nt Jersey Citv. -Mrs. Catherine Toucey, wife of the torm?r Secretary of the Navy, was taken Bick In a church In Hartfurd, Connecticut. Sunday, and died before reaching home. -A Havana dispatch says the missing mall eteamer Espa?a has arrived with a broken shaa. T TTh?re was a row ttt the Junction of the Lake Superior and North Pacific Railroads owing to the suppression of the liquor traffic, ine Bherlff and a rioter were shot, and one rioter was killed. TBE COUNTY OE AIKEN. An TJnproductvc Meeting-Thu Site of tlie Connty Buildings-The Platt Es? tate in the Wirket-Money In lt. [PROM OUR OWN CO RRES PON D 3 ST ] * AIKEN, August 12. Our usually quet little village was made quite lively to-da,' by the assemblage of a large number of he citizens-of the county to consult regarding the. sites and cost of the county buildings. After a futile ntttmpt on the part of a few to have a close session, a lull meeting of the peo? ple was held In be Town ' Hall, at which J. Miller, Esq., presided. Much to the regret of the majority, the neetlng called for the pur? pose ot. bust ness bicame nearly altogether a political meeting, md the session was tr ready taken up In bickerings, charges and counter charges. Finally, tie meeting was adjourned without any thing definite having -been ac? complished. Your correspondent ls informed that the commissioners will meet on Monday, select the sites, advertise fir proposals, and then call another meeting ot the citizens to ratify or re? ject their action. It ls believed by many that part of the late Judge Platt'a ettate will .be selected for the sites. There if quite a pressure being brought to bear upo? the commissioners to in? duce them to' purchtse the tract; but there is strong opposition on tile part of some of them to any such plan. Tiere is money in the plan. AIKEN. GREELEY OR THE WOXAN QUESTION. H. G. the Preside altai Candidate of the Faithful Husbands and Wives of America-What He Thinks of Free Love and "Progressive" Women. The following letter from the venerable edi- j tor of the Tribune, t??Theodore Tilton, is the sensation of the hour in New York : ' To rte Editor of the Golden Age: SIB-Your article on this topic ls so forcible and just In the main that I presume, you will be quite willing to have Its slight. Inaccuracies cometed In your columns. I do not assume that my views of the woman question are of much consequence io others; but, In so far as they may possess Interest, it ls well that they be clearly understood. Let me, then, indicate your misapprehensions without further pre I. You say I ''hold that there ought to'be no divorce at all-not for any crime, even the worst."1 So far as I can recollect, your only authority forthis statement is a remark that, ?had not the Master spoken otherwise, I would not have deemed adultery a. sufficient reason for dissolving a marriage. As you seem-to I have gi v?n these, words undue weight, allow me to explain my view more fully. That per? sistent, flaglttousadultery In husband or wife affords ' good cause for. divorce I have not meant to deny. - But there have been cases ol transient infidelity to marriage vows, under the influence of passions Inflamed by wine and other unnatural excitements, which, being fol? lowed by prompt and profound contrition, I I would not judge an adequate reason for divorce. You and. I both know that wives I have often parddned such lapses in husbands; you and I agree that husbands have no. rightful immunity in such matters 'which ought not also to' be accorded to wives. And I profoundly honor and reverence the husband who can say to bis er ring wife, "Though I know that you have been false to God auct to me, yet, because of the love I have borne you, and ol the vow which pledg? ed me to love and cherish you till death, and for th? sake of the dear children which God { has given* us, I, believing you truly penitent, will forgive and try almost to forget your crime, and thus shield our little ones from uh deserved shame." I regard the husband who thus speaks and acts as a better Christian, a j truer man, than is he who exposes, discards and outlaws the wife of his youth for a flagrant transgression, now sincerely and bitterly re pented. * I suggest, therefore, that you hence forth represent-me? as~"holdlng that adultery may, but does not always, justify an applies-1 tion for divorce. II. You say "I hold that "if a mon marries and his wife dies, there should be ho second mar ri age," This, also,-ls too sweeping. Some ( of my best and most esteemed friends are re-? married-happily, I am sure; wisely apd nobly, I judge. Nay, I can.imagine a casein which the poor, hard-working, widowed lather of young children whom he cannot take with him to his dally labor, should- feel constrained for their sake to replace his lost wile by another I In whose perfect acceptance and discharge of ! a mother's duties towards those children he could implicitly trust. Pardon me, but I am quite confident that the casual, remark ou which you based your broad assertion referred I to a remarriage following separation by di-1 vorce, not death. III. Let me state my own conception of re marriages as complicating marital relations In the other world. I do not dispute the doc trine of Jesus, that ;*ln heaven there is neither marrying nor giving In marriage," if you have Sloted'bis words exactly. And yet I feet that ere are couples so completely and happily united lu this world that they will be nearer and dearer to each other In the next than they would or could have been bad they failed to meet. In this life; and I think these are hap pier In either wot ld than though one or both'I of them had remarried. I do not hold that either would have been culpable In remarry- I lng. If widowed, on this planet; I only Insist that they will both rejoice, and with reason, I lo their higher life, thal neither in this life was married a second time. . | - IV. You are entirely, eminently right. Mr. Editor, In asserting that my conviction of the proper indlssolublllty of marriage is the main? spring of my hostility to woman suffrage, and to the.social philosophy from which manyi vainly seek to separate the woman movement. Though I have written or dictated very little ot what has during the last ten years been printed os editorial In the Tribune on this sub- j Ject, it is nevertheless true that my concep, lion of the nature and scope ot the marriage relation renders my conversion to woman stiff-1 rage a moral Impossibility. I have but two left of seven children, and these are both daughters. I would gladly flt them for lives ot usefulness and honor, as beloved and loving wives of virtuous, upright, noble men, and mothers, If ll shall please God, of good, healthy, happy children. If lt be decreed that they are to be, not such women as those; I have most admired and reverenced, but men with a female physique-powerful iu ward caucuses and nominating conven? tions,'vehement In Senate and on - the stump, and effective before juries lu the trial of ac- ] Hons for mm. con., I pray that my career on this globe shall'cloae before theirs is fairly be? gun. When and where they shall thus shine, J it will not be pleasant for me to sa v. Mr. Ed 1 tor, I believe our countrymen are indebted to you for having discovered (perhaps I should say Invented) me as a possible (though most improbable) candidate for the presidency. Allow me then to thank you for your early and frank demonstration that I can In no con? tingency be counted on or hoped lor as a woman suffrage candidate. As you forcibly and Justly say, there ia not even a remote pos-1 slbillty of my ultimately adapting myself to this end. My difference with your crowd is too vital, too radical, to permit the most san-1 guine dreamer to hope for ray conversion. I am growing old; my opinions are tolerably I linn: und the advanced female ot the Laura Fair type, who kills the paramour of whom j Bhe claims to be the rightful affinity, and gives the lie In open court to tho wife 'she has doubly widowed, is my pet aversion. But why should any man be ike candidate for Presiden t of the woman suffragists ? Logically and con- j si8tently I feel that their candidate should be j a woman. She ought, moreover, to be one. j thoroughly emancipated from the "absurdity I and folly," the "narrowness," and the "bale? ful conservatism," which I am now too old to I outgrow. Could you not find one who Illus? trates in her own person and history what you so felicitously term "the liberal thought ol au enlightened age?" Let her be one who has two husbands alter a sort, and lives lu the same house with them both, sharing the couch of one, but bearing the name of the other (to Indicate her Impartiality perhaps,) and cause and candidate will be so Ally mated that there will be no occasion, even tinder the most libera], progressive, enllghetned regime, to sue for their.divorce. Could not one of. this class be persuaded to overbear her shrinking modesty and nominate herself ? loa spirit of hearty hatred for^ree love and all its Infernal delusions, I remain yours, HORACE GREELST. Tribune Office, August 7,1871. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. ENGLAND REFUSES TO GIVE VP THE COMMUNISTS. A Row tn Derry-Proposed All lonee Between France and Italy-Victor' Emanuel's Warrow Escape. LONDON, August 14. The "Apprentice Boys," headed by Member of Parliament Johnson and Mr. Bea, of Bel fact, attempted a procession in violation of the proclamation. The police scattered them amid cheers from the Catholics. Stones were thrown, the riot act was read, and the cavalry and police charged on the rioters. Thirty ar? rests were made. Several persons were wounded. It ls reported that the Italian Government has instructed its minister at Versailles to ex? press thanks to Thiers for the pacific and con? ciliatory words, but surprise that Thiers per? mits speakers to use ' language injurious to Italy. ' . The liberal Some journals express the readi- j ness of Italy to enter into an alliance with France, if France aoandons negotiations rela? tive to the Pope. The French Government has reported that it requested the extradition of Communists who had taken retuge on British sell. .The reply of the English Cabinet was a decided refusal. The vine disease prevails in Portugal, and the wine crop is expected to be short. A dispatch from Borne reports that King Victor Emanuel bad a narrow escape from. death while hunting wild boars. Nsw TORC, August 14. The World has a special that Victor Emanuel proposes to restore the Quirlaal to the Pope, and enter Into a league with France and Spa'.n to secure the Pope's perfect Independence. ' ANOTHER MINING HORROR: Twenty Olen Maimed and Killed. PrrrsTON, PA., August 14. An explosion, or fire damp, took place in the Eagle-shalt operated by Alva To m kl ns. Twenty men were working Ia the rear gangway at the time of the explosion, which (ore away the timbers supporting the roof, causing It tb fall, and leaving the men imprisoned behind the rock with no means of escape until the debris ls cleared away. Benjamin andi Davis,., who were working outside ot the rear gangway, were instantly killed by the explosion. The men imprisoned are most likely dead, orwlll be before they can be reached.. It Will take a day or two to get the bodies out A FIRE IN GOLD SB ORO'. G0LD3B0K0', N. C., AugUSt 14. About half-past 12 o'clock last night a?re broke out at the Exchange Hotel in this place, destroying the two hotels, ten stores and out? buildings, and the railroad shed. Loss 'about $80,000. Insurance probably $30,000. The fire j was the work bf an Incendiary, and ls general? ly supposed to have had its origin la the late riot. . ? i, - i. > cftops iN FLORIDA: [From the Jacksonville Union, August 12.] ' Generally the crops ot all kinds in' Florida will prove.good. Colton, though in some sec? tions retarded by rain, os yet has not suffered except in a single locality from the caterpillar. Picking has already commenced, and lt Is now so late, that In any event two-thirds is sale. Corn has been planted more extensively, and a fair crop is promised. Too much raia will shorten lt la the lower 'counties, but the la creased area will, make up for this loss. Sweet potatoes, peas and smaller crops are dal'n'g well. Cane is well advanced, and promises to be extra, and the planting has been more extensive than ever before. Oranges are all right, and in the Tower counties the tropical fruits are in excellent condition. Grapes are everywhere good. Peaches now grow well, are excellent in quality and large in quantity. On the whole, we think that when our plant? ers balance their books lor 1871, the figures will show better Utan in any year since the war. DRAMATIC GOSSIP. -Mrs.'James A. Oates' Comic Opera Combi- j nation will inaugurate the lall and winter sea? son at Albany, New York, on August 28th. -C. B. Bishop, the popular comedian, is in New York, preparing, to star-lt on his own account the coming season. He was recently quite successful at Montreal, Canada. -William Cresswick has been engaged for Booth's theatre during the engagement ot Charlotte Cushmau. John E. Owens will follow Miss Cushman, and then Hr. Booth himself, supported probably by Edwin Adams. -Miss Lillie Eldridge having made a success at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, in her new play of "Alma;" has already been engaged for Mon? treal, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Gal? veston, Richmond, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cin? cinnati, B?llalo, Rochester and Albany. -The Memphis theatre will be opened about the middle of September, wheo the following j stars will appear In succession: Miss Lillie Eldridge, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, F. S. Chaafrau, Joe Jefferson, the Lydia Thompson Troupe, the Oates'English Opera Troupe, the Trans Atlantic Combination Troupe. -Lydia Thompson and her new company .will open at Wallack's. New York, this week. Miss Lydia Thompson'has Invested $100,000 ol her money in this country and $100,000 ia England, besides buying a large house la St. John's Wood, Loadoa. She also talks ot build lag a theatre ia the upper part ?f New York. -Concerning the prospective Nilsson troupe, lt will be Interesting to know that the aeason'l Is to opeu at New York October 23 with "Tra vlata," tills to be followed by "Mignon" and "L'Ombre," by Flotow, a work entirely new to America. Humor speaks of Mme. Monbelll as an addition to'the company. Capoul, the new tenor, is diff?rent in-appearance from the usual stage hero* with their fierce black moustaches and sparkling eyes. ' He is a slen? der "blonde," ha? . light curly hair aud whiskers, and ls coasidered very handsome. -Fechter has bought out the New York Theatre Fran?ais, and proposes to tear lt down and erect in Its place one of the hand? somest structures of the kind In the United States. The front and portico are to be of the Boman style of architecture, the front columns resting on the curbstooe. The usual dome and other accessories of this style of archi? tecture will be erected, and the whole ar rangement of the interior will be new. The parquette will be nearly oa a level with tho street, and lhere will be but two tiers or cir? cles above it. Some novel leatures will be introduced In the lighting of the stage and the disposition or the scenes. Tne orchesira will be entirely out ol view and covered over with a magnificent trellis work of flowers, as in an arbor, and on either side fountains will play betweu the acts. Mr. Fechter is deter? mined to make this theatre first-class in the most complete sense of the word. The per? formances will be English drama exclusively, with, perhaps, a summer season ol French drama by the company irom New Orleans. -John T. Ford, the enterprising manager, will have more speculations under his control and direction at one time, during the early part of the approaching season, than hos hith? erto been uadertaken by auy one manager in this country. He will manage the new Opera Hotise, now helm? built by him; the Holiday street theatre, both la Baltimore; Pike's Opera House, Cinclanatl, and at the same time di? rect the movements of several travelling com? panies, playing Miss Maggie Mitchell, Joseph Jefferson, J. w. Wallack and C. B. Bishop. AH of these companies will be upon the road at the same time. In addition to managing all, these companies and theatres, he bolds the following civil offices in Baltimore, which claim his attention. He ls the president of | the eecond branch of the City Council, presi? dent of the Union Railroad, member of the board of directors ot the penlteotlary, aud a director of the Fountain Hotel Stock Com? pany. WASHINGTON NEWS. WASHIKOTON, August 14. The steamer Nipslc ia ordered to San Do mingo waters. ' : Secretary Boutweil bas addressed the follow lng letter to the agents designated to negotl ate the new loan : Gentlemen-I have deemed it advisable, upon further consideration, to withdraw the loan for the present from the market, with the exception of the -five per cent bonds, as of? fered to the national banks by the circular letter of the Secretary of the Treasury dated the 10th Instant. This communication relates to the tour per cent, and foar and a half Der cent, bonds, in combination with'the five per cent. The signal officer at Detroit , reporta a dense smoke for five days. Reports from . Lake Huron state that the density bi the smoke Im? pedes navigation.. The following ls the fiscal statement for the year ending June 3.0: RECEIPTS. Ctt9tOms.$208,260,000 internal Revenue. 143,000,000 Public Lands. 2,260,000 Miscellaneous...... 31,500,000 Total......;...-....$383,000,000 . EXPENDITURES.? Civil and Miscellaneous.$ 69,600,000 War...-:. 36,760,000 Navy. 19,600,000 Pensions. 84,000,000 Interest. 291,000,000 t -_ Total.......'$449,750,000. J. C. Bancroft Davis has been appointed the agent tcrepresent the United States at Geneva under the treaty of Washington. The Ku-Klux?evidence, now in the hands of the printer, will make 2000 printed pages. Judge Baxter bas decided at Nashville that the tax on law vers is. unconstitutional. An appeal ls taken. * A FATAL INCENDIARY FLEE. ' '?< NEW YORK, August 14. Three lives were lost Dy the Jersey Glty-fire. The nelce, wife and son pf Henry Smith McGee, of the firm of Dorancy & McGee, have been arrested on the charge of arson. Smith's nephew ls missing, and ls supposed to be burned. . TUE MARCS OF PROGRESS IN THE \ EAST. ' ? SIN FRANCISCO. August 14; The China has arrived from Hong Kong with 40 cabin and 283 steerage passengers, and 45,000 packages ot merchandise. Japan ls quiet. .Immense improvements, Including canals, buildings and wharves, are progressing. Tue Corean expedition accomplished no chango in the relations between that country and the-United States.. Minister Low and Ad? miral Bogers will await Instructions from Washington before pushing hostilities. The details fully confirm the telegraphic report of the second battle. (E?acational. ^^?SHINGTOil' & LEE UNIVERSITY. . LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA. The- next Session of this Institution will com? mence on the Third THURSDAY (2lst) of septem? ber, 1871, and continue without Intermission un? til the Fourth THURSDAY in June, 1872. Toe Instruction embraces thorough Classical, Literary and Scientific courses, together with the Professional Departments ot Law and Engineer? ing. ine entire Expenses for the Session of Nine Months need not exceed $800 to $825, according to the price of Board. Arrangements are also made for messing, by walch students may re? duce their expenses to $250 per session. --For further information, address 0. w. 0. LUT.. Pres.dent, or WILLIAM DU LU, clerk of Faculty. aog7-lmo_ Jg ETHEL MALE ACADEMY, NEAR WA BRENTON, FAUQUIER .COUNTY? VA?, Prepares Youths for College, University, or Business; BOARD. AND TUITION $175 Per session of 10 months-no extras. Locality unsurpassed for health and morals. For further information. Catalogue, Ac address ALBERT G. SMITH, ) - WM. W. SMITH, A. M., J Principals. . J. BLACKWELL SMITH, J ang7-lmo . ' ? . ?._ . ? CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER? ING, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. A higher and more practical course or instruction wl.r be given here than has ever been attempted elsewhere In this country. Re-' opens September 13th. For tue Annual Register, containing improved Course of study, and full particulars, apply to Prof. CHARLES BROWNE, Director._. _ ang4-lmo .-JJRS U L I N E INSTITUTE 07 THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, "VALLE CRUCIS," NEAR COLUMBIA, S. C., FOB TEE EDUCATION OF YOUNO LIDIES, CKDBR THE iiiitEDiATE SUPERVISION OF THE RELI? GIEUSES OF THE URSULINE CONVENT. . The ladles' of the Ursuline Community, S. C., re? spectfully announce to their friends, and to the public,, that the annual exercises of the Academy will commence September 1st. their Institute being devoted to the ?ducation of youth,, and. each member having received a long and careful training for that purpose, the schools nnder their charge, as well in the various countries of Europe a^ m america, have never failed to win and retain the confidence of parents and guar? dians. ' Nothing will be left undone in imparting to the pupils couflded to their care a thorougu educa? tion, In the highest sense of the word-not alone Instructing the intellect, but with maternal care guiding and training the Heart. - , The situation of tne convent ls al} that can be desired for health and beauty. The buildings are on elevated ground, about two miles from the Capital, and In the mld.it of an oak grove of twenty acres. It ts within half an hour's drive from the depot, where Omnibusses and baggago wagons await the arrival of passengers. No distinction of religion will be made in the admission of pupils, nor will any undue Influence btfused over tuelr religious'principles; bat, for tne'inainteuance of good'order, all will bereqnlr .ed to attend the exercises of Divine Worship pre? scribed for the Academy. From Individuals or societies disposed to aid In the education or young ladles, applications for the admission or pupila, at reduced terms, will receive the most iavorabte consideration that the circumstances or the school will admit. The Scholastic Year ls divided Into two seasons -the first commencing September lat, aud ending February 1st; the second commencing February 1st, and ending July 1st. TERMS PS* SESSION-PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Board, Washing, Fuel, Lights, Tuition in Eng llsu.Needle Work and Domestic Economy.. $150 Pens. Ink and use or Library. 2 Kret ch, Latin, each. lo Barp, $3J-U9e or Instrument, $5. 35 Piano, $25-use ol Instrument, $3. 28 Guitar, $18-use orinstrument, $2. 20 Vocal Music, iBas-ini'd Method). 16 Vocal Music, private lessons.25 Drawing lu "Crayon. 10 I'alntlag in Water Colors. to Painting in Pastel. 20 Painting In Oils.30 For further information, application may be made to the MOTHER SUPERIOR, to Right Rev. 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