Bowen's Statement

The Brooklyii fCaglc says : "Mr. Ilenry C. Bowen declines to give the tost of Lis statement against Mr. Beecher to the newspapers, and the Plvmouth committeo say they will not. Eagle reporters called upon Bowen and ïaembcrs of the committee, but they vero all firm. The substauce of the statement, however, has been ascertained. Bowen does not claim to have anyknowledge of guilt on Beccher's part. He says he believes him gnilty because of what he has heard from divers parties. The only names mentioned by him are Mr. and Mrs. Bichards, who, ho said, töld him that Mrs. Tilton eonfessed to theni. Another woman, whose name he declines to give, tokl him, ho says, that in 1858 she saw Mr. Beecher enter in asuspicious manner the study of Plymouth Cliurch witli a woman whose name he also declines to mention. His informant did not say that she knew adultery was committed there, but she believed there was. The third and ohief case cited by Mr. Bowen is that of a woman who, he says, told him that she had been twice outraged by Mr. Beecher, and that subsequent to the outragcs she remained improperly intímate with liiiu. Who this woman was, where the nllegeü outrages took place, or when they took place, re facts wliich Mr. Bowen declares that he cannot be induced to disclose. Apart from theso threo cases the statement is devoted to a defense of Mr. Bowen's behayior toward Mr. Beecher and the public since he became oonvinced of Mr. Beecher's gnilt. " BKKATOB Mohton has prosented in tlie House a petition from lö,OÜO women and 9,000 men oí Indiana praying Unit Oongross pass a law makiug total abstinence a requisito! for the appointment of all ofiicersof the govtrnmcnt, civil, military, and naval.