The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1874, Page 4

‘THE CRYING SI. Increasing Excitement Over the Plymouth Mystery. MLTON’S RESERVED FIRE. He Boasts of Having a Bat-| tery of Proofs. iA PICTURE OF MRS. TILTON. | What Two Indiana Ministers Say About Mr. Beecher’s Position. Crisp Criticisms by the Country | ’ Press. | | WILL THE CA°E COME TO COURT? | There was no apparent diminution in the gossip about town, including the City of Churches, touch- | ing the bearings of the great scandal case yester- | day. The various statements given to the world | by the press and the comments published thereon bave been read with eagerness and avidity rarely | equalied and never surpassed. The public nas weighed each point, but the hasty and incousider- ate alone have ventured to give a decided opinion. | The more thoughtful and intelligent of the com- munity appear to be disposed to refrain trom taking sides one way or the other until ali the evi- | dence shall nave been received upon both sides— Beecter’s and Tilron’s, There are but jew people | Whose Opimion is worth noting upon the subject | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1874.--TRIPLE SHEET. | of those who naa made her home objectionable to ) them. Mrs, Tilton has no recollection of having | taken part in any such scene as the one described | 1 the Graphic as having been enacted in the pres- ence of Miss Anthony. Hor answer to Mr. Tilton’s arraignment of Mr. Beecher, she declares, was D0t “prepared in concert with certain lawyers, Was written entirely by herself. The only altera- tions not made by herself were some grammatical changes and alterations of punctuation, Sbe ex- | Presses her confidence tn a favorable result of the | nvestigation, THE ORIGIN OF ENMITY IN THE DAYS OF SLAVERY. An interesting accouut of the origin of eninity on the part of Theodore Tilton toward Mr. Beecher 18 given by Mr, Edward Tf, Ovington. That gentie- | Man said:—“Itis an old grievance, magnified by the overweening vauily of Tilton, roused into vigor by the lapse of years, and made monstrous | now by the desperation of a disappointed man. | Away back in a said Mr. Ovington, | enmity toward Mr. Beecher began. Theu the Plymouth Soctety was asked to aid a Western mis- stonary movement. Those who sought for help were | stoned speech against contributing to them. he | Was loudly applauded for his eloquence by all who were narrow ip their views. The larger, more un- | seifish course of Mr. Beecher was »dopted. Mr. Beecher took the ground that misfortune ought to be sympathized with and assisted wherever it mught exist, and whatever might be THE OPINIONS OF THE SUFFERERS. The church sustained Mr. Beecher, and as Mr. Titton had made it @aort of test of his streneth and popularity he grew jealous, 1 was the first serious diMenity. The jeeling of enmity grew Tapidly, and Mr, Ovington says that when Mr. Tilton saw that his wile and children loved and | revered Mr. Beecher, jeaioasy took on @ wrathful and resentful look, and calumnies were whispered about, Mr. Tilton then began to tell his friends that he had been ruined by Mr, Beecher, Tue statement referred to by Mrs, Tilton was drawn up before the separation, but Mr. ‘iiton did not present it to the committee, substituting for it the one which was published, Mr. Ovington said that THE RELATION BETWEEN MAS, TILTON AND MR. BEECHER of which Mr. Tilton complained in this earlier Statement Was Simply that sue loved her pastor in- stead of her husband, Mr. Tiiton used this method | of attacking Mr. Beecher because he thougnt it | would be most likely to succeed. Aiter Mr. ‘Ttiton had been martied only a few years, Said Mr. Ovington, his bad capricious dispo- sition and tart temper as well a3 his intense and seifish regard for himself began. to inake his wite very unhappy. Mr. Beecher’s kindness was doubly recious to One who taought herself unloved, and t caused her to look upon him as one deeply inter- ested in her welfare, She loved him as a friend | und taught her children to respect him as their | pastor. AN INTERVIEW WITH THEODORE | TILTON. Yesterday morning Mr. Tilton was at his home in Livingston street, @ home that he has not yet left, because all at present is in an unsettled condl- tion in reference to the articles of separation be- but | “riltonts | ro-slavery, and Mr. Tilton made an impas- | | have not yet satisfied the country generally. Some- Uhing more seems to be asked jor than a general | deuial.’? “Iam not surprised under oath, both by Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher, | suilicient answer to the charges? | Mr, SUTHERLAND—Such a denial might satisfy the it,” answered Mr, Tilton, | friends o1 the accused, but nos the public gener- “The great read ublic = =read without | ally, Adenial, however, accompanied with a full | ious wreflection, “Bat those who think ap tisfactory explanation of the difficulty be- | he intrusted the responsibility o! a fair examina- over what they reaad must see that in tween the parties implicated, and also an expla | tion to six of those who, were pillars of his church, both ‘of these statements two-thirds of my | nation of the correspondence produced by Mr. | who were his steadiast Irienas, whose reputations charges are admitted, Elizabeth admits the ab- Tilton tn evidence, I would cousider sutiicient to | sorbing love. and Mr, Beecher admita the letters. | reinstate Mr. Beecher in the confidence and es There i# nothing left, therefore, to be proven ex- | teem of the public, | | cept the criminal Charges, aud those can be sus- Rey. G, Nachtrieb, pastor of the German | vained by a testimony that will not be disputed. | Methodist church, corner of New York and Jersey “Mrs, Tilton seems to impiy in her denial that | streets, was cailed upon by the reporter. He this was for some years a Very Unhappy home!” | stated that he knew nothii about the “Sue does; but none knows ao we! Elizabeth | troubles between Beecher an Tilton, @x- that this was not so, Again and again hag ane tes- | cept @ short statement about Tilton’é let- | tafled to that bappiness withia vhe period which | ter to Dr. Bacon, which was published in | she has described as 80 wretched, To suostanniate & German church paper. “{t seems to me," | | that statement ber own evidence shall be a most id he, ‘that they have @ good deal of trouble in | convincing proof at the proper time—evidence I | setuing up the matter, It wouldn’t have been 80 m certain she will not deny. I say this in no | {n our Church. The discipline provides a way for | wry spirit toward ber, Those who have coun- | dealing with these things, und the accused would | selled tus investigation have done it wantouly, bave been put through without all this pubilo | wickedly, against my own urgent entreaties to | printing aud lovestigating committee.” | Keep silent, and they, not 1, are responsible lor tue Elder W. F, Black said:—‘I believe in Mr, | consequences,’”? | Beeoher’g age, and have bettieved him tuna. | NO HOPE OF A COMPROMISE, | van all along; me a tase no eon Shes he bas | “Is there any chance of a compromise in this | been too intimate wi LOD, a matter, Mr, Tilton ” o | and as a result has got badly mixed up with tuem, “Ltnink not. The time has gone by for that. I Mr. Tilton’s statement is specific, and nothing have been approached in that direction very iately; short of afull statement by Mr. Beecher will satisty since this investigation beguo. 1 may say since the public, I cannot cunceive of the great man’s Iny staiement has been beiore the committee. In guilt; he has said ana done too many good things | auswer to your question, 1may say | have gone in his life; his thoughts have been running ina turther, and have suggested a mode 01 settlement | good and pure direction, and it is diMcult to con- that I think Would effectually stay the present ceive of his failing so sudden and so low alter 80 public excitement, It may yes be accepted. I | many years of the best Christian ministry.” scarcely tank it will, though.’ A PLEA FOR TILTON, MR. FRANK MOULTON'S BVIDENC! “Rave you any idea as to what Mr. , SuahiatZ, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— z, Moulton’s course will be?” “1 have not,” reptied Mr. Tilton, “except that I am sure he will speak the truth, or adopt some | Rongensis way o! avoiding ae sea ay ol ne a: Of course Mr. Beecher nay be innocent, and Mr. Bio & FOE SEAAgS AIOE, | EACee oe ee Tilton’s belief have its foundation in groundiess were a very different one. That nature bas pre- | vented td asking Mr. Moulton anything about | Jealousy. Regarding this we must all wait till Mr, the tig ae cht to oe, z an i eg — | Beecher and ali the other parties to the coutro- 88 cold, pitiless and heartiess. Tals is all on the | yorsy nave been heard under oath; and it equally Hace. 1 id wea very str wil, ta Thin ip (o thac ncaa ae Oar ik dere comme | follows that Mr. Beecher may be guilty. For one I, with many others, as the case now stands, ba- jieve he is. The illogical expressions o! the Rev. Mr. Halladay, Mrs. Beecher and the rank and file of Plymouth church that all the oaths of ail the This it ts that impels me on tn this course, unre- Jenting and imexoraple apparentiy. 1 cannot help 10.” WHAT WILL BE THE END. “Should the committee render a decision in fa- vor of Mr. Beecher—a very probable result—may 1 ask You, Mr. Tilton, what will them be your | angels on all the Bibles ever printed would “{ shall commence an action for divorce. What | not convince them of Mr. Beecher’s guilt can I do otherwise, I should like to know, in the | amount to nothing, unless to prove that tueir | present condition of this terribie troubie?”’ | Opinions are absolutely worthless. The publication | The reporter arose to bid iis farewell, Mr. Tilton | 01 such balderdash only hurts Beecher’s case, and | gave a hearty shake of the naud to him, who | iM conneciion with the wretched pettifogging of | assed into Livingston street with his retlective , Dis lawyers 1s calculated to prejudice the public | faculties greatly exercised, | Mind strongly against him, But why, im either | case, abuse Tiiton? It seems to me that bis treat- | ire capa, ment by the press, onrather by Ane great Majority | SIER REACHERS Of the press, is unjust. It he is laboring under hal- | #00! P. ON THE lucination he Serta hye tna sed eere ee He; } ANDAL. like Mr. Beecher, is a distinguished journalist an SCANDAL. entitled to the amenities of the press in ths | hour of tus trouble. Ii, on the contrary, his charyes are weil iounded, and at last nave to be ad- A reporter has visited a number of the clergy- men o/ indianapolis, and publishes in the Journal mitted to be true, what then? If the terrivle indictment of Tilton ia a true bill who do uot assert that the Plymouth church com- | tween himself and Mrs. Tilton, The parlors of | nuttee, appointed as it Was upon recommendation | sr, yyiton are elegantly furnished, inastyle that is | of the pastor, who himself named the gentlemen | indicative far more of an wathetic taste than an ex. who are ius triers, will not be able to satisfy the | public by \heir conclusions, as the court of law alone can serve to satisiy the Majesty of mind upon | this matter, | SOCIETY IS SHAKEN TO IT3 VERY FOUNDATION oy the astounding revelations, whether true or jalse, and ail Christendom awaits a just, open and | Gnal adjudication of the great moral calamity of | the day, Meantime Theodore Tilton boldly parades | the assertion that when he was being cross-exam- | Ined by the Committee of Plymouth church he | urged them to adjourn to meet in court. He boldiy says, “I expressed a willingness to be sued | for libel, or to be put in any other way betore a tribunal which could compel witnesses to testify | ander oath and which could punish perjury with the State Prison, It this case, with ali the iacta that Me bebind it, revealed and unrevealed, were Q0W before a criminal court, instead of a voluntary committee, and if Mr. Beecher’s printed statement | nad been made under oatn, subject to cross-ques- tioning and overthrows, he would be com- pellead to ‘step down and out.’ his may | all be silly bombast, but it is a chal- | lenge to open trial, nevertheless. in which Tilton appears ready to stand his chances before a jury and abide the consequences of the verdict. | When General Tracy’s attention was called to this | Assertion of Mr. Tilton by a reporter of this jour- | nal he smiled quietly, and, shrugging bis shoulders, exclaimed, “Well, let him take it be‘ore the court. | Who is preventing lim’? He hws the same redress that any citizen nas who may consider himself aggrieved.” The General is counsel for Mr. Beecher, \t will be remembered, ana a legal tilt between | the left of this, | Tegarded of even far greater | these at the present time is one to the left of | travagance of expenditure. The walis of the larger reception room are covered with oil paintings and fine engravings, the former including an ideal head of Christ of considerabie beauty, A piano, parlor organ, @ large secretary desk and an artist’s easel, on Which was resting sketches and books of engravings, were the prominent articles of furniture. Beyond the folding doors of this room is the inner and more private sanctum, where two or three can gather together for a quiet chat and commu- | nion of soul. On the mantelpiece of this room is Page’s celebrated painting of Shakespeare, and a striking portrait of Wendell Pnillips ts placed to ‘rhe painting, however, that is interest than Shakespeare. Yesterday a capacious crimson rep couch was wheeled to that side of the room, and | as Mr. Tilton reclined thereon, nervousiy turning from side to side, the very truthful represente- tion of the face of bis wife, from this pic- ture, seemed as though it looked down upon him, The artist has selected the attitude or listening and Mrs. Tilton’s head is bent slightly forward as if intensely interested in the talk of some imaginary speaker, There is a brightness in the eye that at once impresses the beholder of this | picture. There is also a strange youthfalness about the face, on each side of which are heavy ringlets of black hair. The bodice, which is partly | open, revealing the muslin that conceals the bosom, is fastened at the neck by a brooch, given | to her by Mr. Beecher on his return irom his last | visit to Europe, their views, Rey. J. L, Witurow, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, over which Mr, Beecher once nad charge, is reported thus:— He said that what struck him as most peculiar | | have submerged almost any other man. I prophesy that he will come out of this struggle with the recognition of the American people alter having passed through @ sea oi trouble pane ould le has certainly borne himself, under all the circum- was Wuat he discovered upon comparison of Mr. | stances, with dignity, courage and philosophy, | Titton's charge with Mr. Samuel Wilkeson’s state- | and has overcome, singie-handed, the most tr | ment printed on Monday morning. It was that | mendous combination oi talent, money and soctal | Mr. Tilton comes forward on the 2d of July, 1874, | and religious influence ever brougut agaiust a | | and demands that Mr. Beecher shall be disgraced, | man in this country, | deposed trom the ministry and coudemned, for | Let us walt, therefore, and see the end of this acts committed prior to April, 1872, when | afair be/ ore we denounce & man who may ve not | he signs a statement rears bis love for | only vivuin but victor. x. | Beecher ap his ponent in him as a —- “grandly good man.” “f am not much of a lawyer,” said Mr, Withrow, “and yet I am THE PRESS ON TILTON’S STATE- justice on Tilton’s own complaint, and have him MENT. nonsuited in five minutes. Why, just look at the bature 01 some Of the evidence offered by Mr. Til- ton to support his statements. One principal | poiot he makes is that Mr. Beecher offered him | money to go to kurope. He says this statement was mage to Messrs, Moutton and Carpenter by Beecher, to be repeated to him (Tilton), But ae denies it ptt fs Ann all ee en th “\tious case of Catherine Gaunt tn Charles ter’s affidavit says is:—On Sunday, Juae 1873, a: | two days aiter the surreptitious publication of the ; Re#de = novel is not more nicl na dia seiner tripartite covenant between H. W. Beecher, H. ©, | resemblance which, if Mr. ‘Tilton's story be true, Bowen and Theodore Tuton, I walked with Mr. | the action of Mr. Beecher in thts matter bears to —e. Another Parntic! in Fiction, (From + vapnic) roe remarkable para.. m which Mrs. Tilton lus pointed out between her own real case and | willing t» say that I could go into a court of | | | Beecher from Plymouth church to tne residence of | that of hieigh Osbaldistone in his deal- F. D, Moulton, on Remsen street. Un the way to | ings with Diana Vernon in Sir Walter Moulton’s house Beecher said tome that uf Tilton | scott’s powerful novel, ‘Rob Roy.” In order would stand by him he would share his tame, his | finally to seduce the veautilul Di Vernon, Rash- fortune and everyting he had with him (Tilton). | leigh, knowing that the purity and pride o! her | ‘That is, that if Tilton wanted to go Europe, and nature would lorever prevent Lim irom attaining | the need of money was all that prevented, that | his object by appeais to base sensuality and the | could easily be had.” The letters of Mrs. ‘Tilton, | common grossness Of the flesh, piays upon her | which are quoted in Mr. Tilton’s statement, ouly mind with casuistry, endeavoring to shake the ) fo to stow to my mind that the woman was | foundations 0. virtue in her by confounding her afraid or conscious of the fact that he was unfaith- | notions of right aud wrong. Rashleigh, though | 1u) to her, and she was endeavoring by a Wonderful | not a churchman, was intended for one, and was | and unusual display of affection to hoid him to ner. | gy deepiy versed in casus conscienti@ as Mr. | ‘The jear that he might prove recreant when abseut | Beecher or any Jesuit may be supposed to be, and | | lent a tone of deep and consuming love to her let- | any one who knows how readily the study of re- | ters. Mr. Tilton 1s a feariully jealous man, in fact | ligious ethics may break down the barriers which | 1 have it almost direct from his wile that he 18 @ | separate ngnt from wrong may easily see how, | Monomaniac on jealousy. Knowing this, 1 can | under the teachings of a strong and beloved pas- easily analyze ts feelings and conduct. Wheu his | tor, virtue may tali away from & woman inseusibly, connection with the Woodhull was known—and it | But Kashielga did not accompitsn his design. Was | was open and notorious—he at once lost caste tn | Mr, Beecher more eloquent and successiul? Aimselt and General Butler during the autumn | jt was in tis room and with this portrait of Mrs, (etm of the Supreme Court would be | Tiiton placed steadily before his eye and Mr. Tilton A TREAT OF KARE INTEREST, | the world and with his employers. They cancelled | his engagements, and while frenzied at this action he determined to be revenged On some one, and “He Ought To Be Tied to the Tail of a | and even now there are those to be found who look forward to such an occasion, which would divide | Attention with the gubernatorial canvass. The counsel for Mr. Beecher is exceedingly reticent apon all that trauspires, nevertheless it is ascer- tained the “mysrerious lady’’ witness who testified before the committee on Friday night was not Mrs. | Ovington. | Mra, Ovington will be doubtiess calied on to give | testimony bearing upon “tue ideal happy home” of which Mr. Tilton speaks in his statement, He tes- | tifled, it will be remembered, that the harmony of | the home was unbroken till Mr, Beecher entered it as a Irequent gaest and friend. Mrs, Ovington has been au intimate friend and near neighbor of the | Tiitton family in Livingston street for . several | years, and was aware of the domestic misery which existed. She knew of visitors introduced by Mr. Tuton, srs. Ovington will algo testify in | refutation of the assertion made by Mr. Tilton that bis wife had been led away from her home by Mr. Beecher’s friends, and by the advice of @ lawyer (meaning Tracy) whom Beecher had sent to Mrs. | Tilton, In these particulars the testimony of Mrs, | Ovington, with whom Mrs, Tilton is now stopping, | will be important, It is highly probable that more | testimony will be received upon the suoject of that “ideal happy home,” which Mrs, Tilton says is “a | lamentable satire upon the household where he | himself (Iulton), years before, laid the corner stone of tree love and desecrated its altars up to the time of my departure.” | TRE MOTHER OF MRS. TILTON, | Mrs. Morse, wile of ex-Judge Morse, will be sum- moped Irom her home, in New Jersey, to testily. “Why, sit,” suid an’ oid resident of Broukiyn to the writ yesterday, ‘it fas been no secret among the friends and acquaintanves of the parties that | on the couch beiow that picture that a reporter of | the HeraLp bad yesterday a jong taik with Mr. Tilton, the substance of wuich ts given below, THE INTBRVIRW. “Mr. Tilton,” satd the reporter, “You are ex- | citing the world in @ somewhat new direction, and I calied in this morning to talk to you about | it “Indeed,” said Mr. Tilton, smiling, “What is \ ier “You are charged with threatening to carry this Warlare into other families than that of Mr. Beecher aud your own. Do you intend to do this 7 that ts part of his plan of the battle lam ready to meet it, Jf ladies’ names are to be men- tioned in connection with mine, I can only retaliate by a coantercharge of otwer names, I have no desire to do it, God knows. It {8 no part of my plan of battle, and is certainly not necessary for | my case, and i should have thought it would be scarcely necessary for Mr. Tracy's.” “In this connection,’ said the reporter, “there is a threat of the courts, Isee, and even that of a | criminal procedure."’ “| am ready for it,” promptly replied Mr. Tilton; “and I think that there would be great wivdom in | removing the inquiry to some tribunal that couid compel (he attendance of witnesses and take their evidence on oath, The present committee, al- though composed of yery worthy aud honorable Men, has no such power. to meet this charge in open court any time. Itt am a liveller 1am amenable jor my transgression to the laws of the State.’’ THE RVIDENCE AS TO ADULTERY. “Ts that published transcript of the cross-exam- ination pretty correct, Mr, Tiiton?? “Substantially it is. It is grossly inaccurate, or rather incomplete lu One particular and that a very important one. You wiil remember that [ amasked whether I have any proofs of my wiie’s “That depends entirely upon General Tracy, If | Tsay again, lam ready . Cart.” [From the Norfolk Lanamark]. We shall not attempt, with the present lights | befove us, to discuss the question Oi the guilt or in- | Mocence of those tmplicated in Mr. Tilton’s | abominable story, but wait the finding of the com- | | mittee, or the reply of the accused. And now, one | word about Tilton, Whetner the accused are guilty or innocent, he ought to be tied to the tatl | Of a cart and iashed trom the Battery to the Park | | tn open day, and tnen branded, as the basest of | bis kind, with a red hot iron. . | chose Mr. Beecher for that one. No one can say | that Mr. Beecher 1s not guilty, and there must be aiulland complete explanation of all that seems dark and pad in the terribie statement; but I nave Jaith to believe that it willcome outallright. in | any event itis asad thing, and will cause much | grief and sorrow among the friends of poth par- ties. Kev. Mr. Dean, pastor of Piymouth Congrega- | tional cuureh, said that the sworn statement of | Theodore Tilton certainly calls loudiy for an ex- planation from Mr. Beecher. Mr. Tilton has cer- tainly gratified tne curiosity of the puolic tu ex- plaiming what grave offences he re‘erred to in his lormer insinuations against Mr. Beecher. True or eee { ee i rarycreny od gore paca of the hom g The Charge Not Proven. ) kind, ney are true Mr. Beecher 1s a very ba | man. If they are faise Mr. ‘tiitun is one of the Parone tps sare ceela (il) wournal:) | worst perjured men living. To establish his inno- We do not say, in the light of such evidence a8 peony F coscree akenet CU dees the force or | this, that Mr. Beecher is innocent; but we do say, | Most of the letters quoted from the several par- | | ties, I think only a suitable explanation wil be | ®% We have Mainvained since this revolting case ) needed, but some of the gravest of them can only | Was Opened up anew, that the crime charged ts be met by the most explicit and emphatic dental ot proved. Beecher is now, jor the first time, | by botu Mr. Keecher and Mrs. Titon. 1am stillof pat distinctly on the deiensive before the public, | the opinion that Mr. Beecner's famous note of | Whatever may have been his attitude toward apology may be explained as referring to bis hav- | Tilton privately, Silence would be coniession, and ing once advised Mrs. Tilton to leave her husband | he must now disprove or deny. | for reasons which justified him in doing so, | , Rev. H. K. Naylor, pastor of the Meridian street Methodist Episcopal church, has ali along been in- | clined to belicve Mr. Beecher gulitiess of the un- named crime imputed to him in ‘Tilton’s letters to Dr. Bacon, but last evening he said he dared not hope that Beecher is innocent, His opinions he expressed as follows:—“We sometimes say one Story is good until another is told, but Tilton’s story will remain good enough to ruin Beecher, no matter how good a story he, aided by Mrs, Tilton, May be able, trutniuily or untrutofully, to teil, Such a stab Wil killeven a Beec Without pro- phetic vision, to us Is revealed, very impressively, that the end of Mr, Beecher’s ministry and happt- | The Blush to the Cheek of Decency, (From the Nashville Banner.) ‘The whole affair is too ugly to be touched, except for the sake of pointing such @ moral as 1s easily enough seen without comment. The majority of mankind now hold Mr. Beecher as one “‘con- demued alreauy,”’ let his statement and that oi his auieged inamorata be what they may. We at least induige the hope that when their statements come to us to-day or to-morrow they Will oot send tue blush to tue cheek of decency, | ence toward any hints, fon, be 1e tions of Woodnuiles insinuations or as, direcuy irom Mr. Tu the foolish exag ge and iater, when the Cccasion seemed to him to demand excuipation, | Were more or‘less bound up with his own, and who would have the most exaggerated terrors of the resulta of such @ judgment as, we fear, must be pronounced by less partial tribunals. These de- Vices are not resorted to by innocent men. A Defence of the Great Preacher. (From the Minneapolis Tribune.) ‘The investigation ts still in progress, and Mr. Beecher 18 yet to be heard. He demanded a thor- ough investigation of all witnesses who nad any- thing to say against him. Had he been the guilty wretch described be would have crushed this scandal long ago by ae, one of the humerous overs made by Mr. Titon for a compromise of their diiferences, Until all the witnesses have been heard and all the testimony submitted judg- Ment should ve suspended, Mr. Beecher’s Henchman. {From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.) What surprises us most in this matter ts tht If Mr. Beecher be so guilty as Mr. Tilton believes, why shoula Mr. Beecher permit, we may say, his henchman and his own newspaper to be contina- ally harrying Mr, Tilton, and thereby Jorcing him | into puoilc revelations waich be mantlesily aid Rot desire to make f In Charity Hear Beecher. {From the Burlington (lowa) Hawkeye.) On the other hand we must remember that Mr. Beecher has not yet been heard. We must suspend Judgment untit the evidence on both sides of the matter i ailin. And while Tilton’s clear, ciroum- stanital, logical statement seems scarcely to leave @Hy possibility of contradiction or disproof, in charity we must hear Mr. Beecher beiore we con- demo him, None to Do Beecher Reverence. .From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.) And there need be no fear that the punishment Will be inadequate, There is no man so poor to- day as to do Mr. Beecher reverence. The fluger is pointed at him from every quarter, and by none so Mercilessly as those whose own lives are crimson | with sin. Unbeurable as this may seem, it 1s hardly worse than the punishment whicn he has undergone for years, the severity of which bis own despairing words revea. We would not add to this punishment tf we could; we could not if we would. {he lesson, the moral—if there be any — 4s complete without our condolement or condem- nation, We leave the sinner aud the sin to an- other and @ higuer judgment, The Hardihood of Sickt {From the St. Louis Republican.) Tilton hesitated long before delivering his blow, but he has delivered it with terrible force and el- fectiveness, In reading his statement, so won- deriul in its crushing arrangement of points, 80 thoroughly fortified in ita charges and so un- ausweratie in its conclusion, we tind eurselves amazed at the seli-composure of a man wio could prepare such a paper in the presence of tue tear- ful injuries ne had received. ‘Titon has been re- garded as a giited but weak and vain man, with an effeminate cast of character. But in this sinale Of the tragedy he exhibits the savage strength and hardihood wich Sickles showed nfteen years ago at Washington in @ somewhat similar Wrausac- tion, If Not True Tilton the Vilest Wretch Unhanged. [From the Atlanta Constitution.) Tilton's vague threats have at last veen exe- cuted. If his revelations be true then ts the crime of Beecher @ most shocking one. If not true ‘il- ton 1s the vilest wretch unhanged. And here we | warn our reauers that the headings of the de- sSpatches give lull notice of the contents, which they can read or not, as they see prover, A Darkened Picture. (From the Atlanta Herald.) It is with almost insuperable difficulty that we have obtained our consent to publish the revoiting © revelations by telegraph of the Beecher-Tiiton scandal, Tilton’s exposure of Beecher and Mrs, ‘Tilton 1s filthy, conclusive and damning to all par- ties, Ivleaves no suadow of douut of Beecner’s jaiernul guiltasa * * * monscer. Its array of evidence 18 irresistible, It does the work of cot Viction with horrible conclusiveness, It presents tue darkest picture that tie century shows, aud we turn fromm it sickened to the core. Beecher Playing the Role of Folly With- out His Bells. {From the Cincinnati Times.} Guilty or innocent the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is piaying the role of Foily without his bells. Gen- eral denials by himself or by Mrs, Tilton, or the more precise statement which he promises the investigating Committee of his own selection are worse than useless; they are insults to the com- mon sense of the community and doubly injurious tu the cause of the writer. There ts one point upon which even @ man of the most interior intel. | lect, and Mr. Beecher is not such, must Know that the whole case turns, Are or are not tose let ters which Mr. ‘Tilton publishes in bis sworn state- ment correct copies of letters written by those Whose signatures are appended? Iftaey are then Mr. Beecher may as well attempt to whistle aown the fury of @ northeastern gale as hope to siem the tide of popuiar indignat.on by teariul ex- Planations and “solemn denials.” This Blasphemous Man. {From the Montgomery (Ala.) News.) The telegraph brings the news of the fact of Til- ton having at last published, openly and specifi- cally, his charges of crime against Henry Ward | Beecher, We will hereaiter give particulars. It is tue deserved doom of this blasphemous man. A Striking Reason. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) A correspondent asks, “Why don’t you pitch into Henry Ward Beecher!” Because, “when the este Jays His hand upon w wan we take ours | om. Keeping Up a Bold Front. $$ Tilton's charges, and after they have been re ceived by the committee all of them will be given to the pudiio, Until the evidence is all in it wi Of course, be impossible to render a verdict, oi Mr. Beecher has already expressed himseli in such Banuan ante lead to the anticipation ol an ac- AMidavits Are Wanted. (From the Newark Journal.| It Is painiul vo have to say it, but we do not think Mrs, Tulton’s statement has bettered the case as it stands, for either herself or Mr. Beecher. A simple aMdavit of a few dozen lines, containing 4 (ew particles of evidence would have been worth @ dozen such statements. Why did she ,not pre- Pare such an instrument? She had two days to think over the matcer and hosts of advisers, An Explicit Dental. (From the New London Telegram.) Mrs, Tilton’s statement follows ciose upon that of Mr, Beecher, and is an explicit denial of all the charges preferred against her by her husband. If Whe statement be true Theodore Tilton is 3 man utterly lost to ali sense of honor and deceucy and devoid of anything that resembles principle. The Fall of Mr. Beecher, (From the Terre Haute Journal.) We are heartsick at the terrible disclogares made by Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher. The moral sense of the entire country and of the world is biunted by such things. The Juli of Satan irom heaven to hell was hardly more horrible than Mr, Beecher’s. From the very pin- nacie of fame he tumbies into the gutter, 4 the whole history of this country such a fall has never before occurred. its elect upeh the religious sen- titlens of the people can hardly be estimated. Ne man in this country has done 80 much toward lberalizing reiigioos opinions as Mr. Beecher, and now that he tas himself so far gone astray we al most tremble for the result. However, with the strong array of evidence belore us, We are en- deavoring to hope that all may yet oe explained. Desperate, if Not Insane. {From the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press.) Against Mr. Beecher’s word, as we said weeks ago, no declarations of Theodore Tilton deserve particle of credence, Mrs, Tilton’s solemn affir. mation of her innocence and of Mr. Beecher's was not needed Co reassure us, though we were glad to see it. Mr. Tilton’s recent history, independeat of this miserable business, has shown him to be reckless, Gemoralizeu, desperate, if not insane, There Is No Haste. [From the Worcester Gazette.] ‘The time ior deciarmg Mr. Beecher’s entire ae quittal seems to us not yet to have arrived, There is no haste; the truth will come out in the ead, and Mr. Beecher’s character will shine thrice more vrightly than ever belore ‘f the slander can ve proved against bis accuser. We shail rejoice— all men worthy the pame will rejoice—il such shaw prove the result. A Womanly Production, {From the Boston Transcript.] Mrs, Tilton’s statement contrasts most favorably With that of her husband. In its inspiration, tone and execution it is a@ womanly production—aa emanation replete with the strong religious senst- bilities of tts author and exhibiting a nacure over- flowing with tender sympachy and affection. ‘The qualities and character 01 Mrs, Tilton are perfectiy mirrored tn her exposition, And the actual pre- sentment this given to tne world is that of com fiding, beautiful, outraged womanhood, Butler’s Connection with the Case, (From the Providence Press.] We hardly think that the introduction of Butler into the case will aid Mr, Tilton or tend to give him the public sympathy and confidence. Butler 18 @ superior criminal lawyer, but in a case of thia sad character and in this state of its un- folding it is the trath that is wanted and hot trick of concealment or subteriuge or technical victory for either of the parties, Either Mr. Tilton is @ jeaious and revengeiul liar or Mr, Beecher is corrupt, and has not scrupied te lie to cover it, If Mr. Tilton has tied irom jealousy or revenge no punishment meted out to him wilt exceed the demands of justice. [f he has told the truth Mr. Beecher is a fallen angel. Neither Tt ton, Beecher, Mrs. Iliton nor Ben Butler can solve the doubt. There are others who can. Let us wait for the evidence, Hardly Possible to Dishelie [From the New Bedford Standard.) The statement of Mrs. Tilton, whica we publish to-day, 1s an affecting document, the truthfulness of which it seems hardly possible to disbelieve, It unfolds a condition of terrible wretchedness and sorrow, and proves Mr. Tilton to be one of the most despicable of med. His word Will not weigh much in the balance against the evidence against him, and it can bardly be doubted that the puolic, the great jury which is to judge of this matter, will pronounce the acquittal of the parties ac- cused. Still the iull report of the Investigating Committee will be awaited with interest. Those Telltale Letters. {From the Portland Argus.) Is Mr. Beecher guilty ? And to sotile this quem tion most persons will only ask, are the letters purporting to be written by Mr. Beecher and Mra, Tilton, as published in Tilton’s sworn statement, genuine? If they are genuine—were written by them—no subsequeut explanation or devices or denials can Change tne coaclusiun to which they unerringly point. An Air of Sincerity. [From the Albany Journal.) Can this strange story be true? It bears the im press of candor. It is, indeed, only the plain, ua- fortified statement of the womanly soul, but it hag the air of sincerity. If it be faise, if it be the cun- ning and artiul device of a bad woman or vad partner seeking to escape from the network of proof which their own wrongs have woven about them, then it 1s the most remarkable of all laven- tions, More Light Wanted. [From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,] It i$ impossible to sit down to a comparison of Mr. Beecher in his own denial and of Mr. Beecher in his statements as produced by Tilton, and feet that the dental 1s sufficient to tts purpose. If 16 [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.) Mr. Beecher’s friends appear to be trying to | Keep up @ bold tront, and they will do the best tney can for him. Mr, Tilton talks strangely, if he hess hus come. IT cannot join, however, with taose | Beecher as an Actor. | oer ace ed ie pote moma” ane who denounce the Brooklyn preacher ‘lust- | . eciel ent, given q fal, WAnKIN' | Mth, Dacatacea, cabeushes? <c/LABee | {From the Ricumond Dispatch.] | Keeping with the mysterious manner in witich he lieve that he has sinned grievously and, it Henry Ward Beecher is @ good actor, with @ and his friends have heretofore treated the cuarges may be, continuously, and that his sinning warm and sympathetic neart and a stroug intel- , 484lnst him, | has found bim out, The justice of his downiall lect, rather too much subordinated to strong | Mr. and Mrs. liton have led a ‘catand dog life’ | adultery except her statements to me. 1am rep- | has my accord, yet my heart bieeds to think that These ten years, His pillosophy has not met with | resented as replying, ‘Noue whatever.’ Tuatisim- the sun that has shed such sacred beams on the Baturalimpulses. He played with the maxims of | the sanction of his good aud Virtuous wie, I be- correct.” patnway of so many tempted, tried ones of our religion as the disciplined performer 1n the circus | lieve what she Says when she tells us that it was “You arouse my curiosity, May Task was the race should set suddenly in the midst ol 80 mucn | gy, th the balls that he throws up and catches the determination oi uer husband to rum Mr. | answer fuller or different to that?" self-created darkness, and, worst of ail, te rise no | 206s Wi IMU @ANUea VaR toe OF eevee | Beecher tuese years He Was jealous o/ the | “do not propose to give any report of what more. ‘Let mim that thinketh he standetu take | 0d Keeps up with an endicas variation o1 move | popularity of the pasior woo overshadowed hun, | actually passed between the committee and my- heed jest he fall.’ ” SECOHATL WHGIATIET aEOMDEA: iit ttle "craaink af || aud it grew Into @ passion whicu he failed to con. sell. H that confidence Is violated it will be their | Rev. N. A. Hyde, pastor of Mayflower Congrega- Beecher's audience, absorbed by the cunning of quer, || remetiper @ controversy between Mr. Til. | act and decd, not mine; but this 1 may say, that I) tional churcn, said to the reporter:—“Whetner | M8 Brt, fall to criticise the moral tect of his per ton and Mr. Beecher, avour the time of the have other proofs of the adultery of Mrs. Tilton | Tilton’s astounding charges prove to be true or | formance. | Actor and aldlensa, lost in the excite. | famous Cleveland letter agitation. Mr. Heecuer | than her confession, and those prools most direct false, it is evident that ne is now determined to | Ment OF the hour, were ilaed to the true p was urging reconciliatory measures for the and positive.” | do his utmost to destroy Mr. Beecher, He means | Ciples of religion. | The sete iene mch nate South, when Mr. Tilton cane lorward, and, exnib- | “Surely not direct and positive, Mr, Tilton?” | to give & biow that shouid ‘ell his victim to the Over Fel tg Vries ara wichuin Upenevil passione... | iting "a Sharpe's rife, said that was tue ‘So positive, so direct, that ‘tneir production | ground. The statement breathes a vindicuive | Pridie on vanity a seca gort of argument used by Mr. Beecher during the alone will be to those who meet them a silent spirit. Kansas diilicuity, when he sent a case of rifes to be used. AN argument arose in which the pastor obtained the best of it, and Ititon was very much ut out. 1 think he has always been jealous of leecher, and, forgetiul of the difference vetween their years, has siriven vo obtam the better of him, He has now done serious injury to the cnar- acter Oi that muinister—an injury which ts almost irreparable. I do not velieve the story of the adultery—not a word of it. St is not pussibie that ne could carry the knowledge o/ such an act tor four years locked Up Within him without preferring charges and chastising the seducer, He bas te Weak side of tue case.” Mi. JOSEPH REEVE, of the Executive Committee of the Liberal Gen- erai Committee of Broukiyn, was spoken to on the sunject and said ;—''] have sat under Mr. Beecher jor the past twelve years and always liked to hear | him taik, but 1 can’t see now, for the lite of me, how he is going to get over that statement of Til- ton.” A bystander quickly remarked that the letters reierred to by Tilton had not been pro- duced, and that it wos an easy iter to take a Jong letter ana contort aud subver. the purport of at by giving a garbieu extract thereirow, “At all events,” said @ prouinent citizen who knew both speakers well, “Mr. Reeve, | look upon your aa- vocacy Of Tilton’s cause as a good omen jor Beecher, as, whether right or wroug, you have al- ‘Ways been on the losing side in every campaign, | social Or political.” The revort eucited laughter, and the subject drifted by for the moment, The committee of investigation hope to con- clude their labors during the present week, Mr. Beecher may possiviy appear before them on Tues- aay. Mrs. Tilton will aiso bave another hearing, and an opportunity will be given Mr. Tilton to bring forward the Witnesses to whom he alluded as being 1D possession Of the coniession of mr. Beecher’s criminal intimacy with Mrs. Tilton, The testimony, wuen compleved, will be given to the press ia ful, MRS. TILTON stated to a reporter yesterday that she felt much grieved at the many inaccuracies and misrepre. sentations Which find their way into print regara- ing her position. lt was true that Mra. susan 4. Anthony had visited her house, and, aniortu- witness that will be worse than death to those Who challenge their production.’ THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT. “I see it is left to ve inferred that the ladies | With whom your name 18 associated in this pub- lished transcript are ladies tn coanection with the woman's rights movement,’’ “Yes, 1 18 urged against me as an offence, and 4s collateral evidence Of being all that lam de- BCI 1 to be, that [ sympathized with and adopted the views of the prominent women of that move- ment. If that ig am offence, then Mrs. Titon is equaily guilty with myself, The tWo most sucvegsiil meetings in connection with this movement were inaugurated and carried through ana made successtul mainiy by the exer- tions of Mrs, Tilton, her own daughters standing @t the doors to take the tickets.” “A WHITERSOULED WOMAN NEVER LIVED.” Script that has excited comment and 18 Said to In- dicate Inconsistency on your part, It is the cele- brated passage, ‘A whiter-souled woman never lived than Elizabeth Tilton.’ “I know it; it has excited mach attention, but tt is true, A whiter-souled woman does not live than | Elizabeth Tilton, Whatever sne did she did not do asaWwanton. She is not a sensual woman; far, fat from lt Her love was, as she’ has very correctly described 1, an absurbing love for Mr. Beecter. The admonition of con- science in her was deadened by the refiection | that I did not belleve in the divinity of Christ, | and as @ consequence thereot she came to the con: clusion that our Marriage Vow Was absolved, From. rf time Mr, Beecher was more ler husvand than was.” “There {8 a strange contradiction in such a char- acter, is there not 1" | “There i#, in one aspect of it,’ replied Mr. Til- ton. “Elizabeth is @ Protestant Catholic. she is @ Paritan of the Puritans. Her frst allegiance ts to the Charch, and the great sorrow 0: her lite was that | was not @ clergyman, To break away frow the very corner stone of orthodox belief, a8 the denial of tue divinity of Christ, a8 J had done, was to put me afar off trom her. Her ideal of the Church and the man was jound in Mr, Beecher, and hence we absorving love. “There is another passage in this published tran- | Dark a8 the case now looks, [ have tt to be convinced that Mr. Beecher is the man Tilton | eur juaee eaaread, raniane The om eee bond (From the Davenport (Iowa.) Gazette.) cific charges end chiefly upon Tilton’s report Of his wile’s conversatious, The published What must be the character of a pastor who | correspondence might be barmonized with some | could deliberately persuade a pure wife that adul- | other version of the affair. Notwi:nstanding all | tery could spring trom high religious love? The | disclosures yet made, this scandal 18 involved 19 | yecitai reads like @ page of French memoirs. But | deep mysteries still. It 18 unaccountable how Triton con accuse his wife, as be now does, of in_fl- there is still a sadder side. How the wicked will delity, after having declared on previous occasions Muck, the uubeliever sneer, the atheist rejoice. his rth conadetoe te ber patitre. No friend of Mr, The tail o! Beecher 1s @ greater vlow to orthodoxy Beecher can now be satisfed without the most | than any it has received since the reign of Julian thorough investigation of ailtne charges. Stleuce the Apostate, and the very fiends must howl in or concealment would complete bis ruin.” - | harsh delight to see the Piymoutn divine fallen | Rev. J. H. Bayliss, of Robert Park “Methodist | from his nigh estate and weltering in the obscene Episcopal church, expressed himself as follows:— | depths of his own creation. “1 don’t see how it ispossible to set aside the tes- | timony which Mr. Tilton has produced, except it can be shown that these letters are fraudulent or are garbled, and tbat is scarcely conceivable. And yet | hesitate to pronounce the map guilty, jor the reason that we have had as yet | only one side of tne case, The probability ta | that on (hat side we have the fuil strength of | | the case—t, ¢., we have the worst of the case on Tilton’s side, It would not be fair, naving that | worse side only, to judge Mr. Beecher now. it has | looked against Beecher ali along, and the more we hear the worse it grows; still, as the case is pre- sented, it is ail on one side, With wnat ight I have | Lam utterly at 4 loss to construct a theory of the case on the basis of Beecher’s innocence, But on the assumption of his guilt his course is explain- able at almost every point. On the assumption of bis inoocence I can not construct a susort and yet the man has been so conspicuously brilliant 1D Like a Page of French Memoirs. Is Beecher the Fell Necromancer t (From the St. Paul Press.) Is Beecher the {eli necromancer who has spread this fa‘al haze of moral insensibility over the par- | thes to the plot, or is Tilton the enchanter who has | conjured these mad phantoms irom the dreams of | | @ disordered braint We shall soon see. Beecher May Preserve His Influence with Plymouth Church. [From the Savannah Advertiser.) Only Beecher could have so far withstood triumphantly the pressure brought to bear within | the last year; but, unless his congregation is a | body of ultra fanatics, there can be no successful | ! with general interest this morning. THE PRESS ON THE DEFENCE. | pier ee Too Many Admissions from Mrs. Tilton. (From the Wheeling Intelligencer.) The lady’s reply to her husband will be read It is not likely, however, to be considered a refutation of his statement. Unvortunately she has to make too many admissions. Pleas of coniession and avoidance do better in courts of law than in the court of public judgment, What Are Beecher’s Apologies About? {From the New Haven Union.) We are somewhat confounded by Mrs, Tilton's denial. She says that Beecher never even made an improper proposal to her. What, then, are all Beecher’s apologies about? Why did he wish he was dead? Why did he offer to share his fame and his fortune with Tilton if he would ve the country and go toKuroper Mr. F, B. Carpenter, the artist, has sworn that Beecher made this pro- osal to him aod asked him to couvey the propo- sition to Tilton. Tilton spurned this offer. Does this look like biackinaily Perhaps ali these things may be explained. Beecher’s Lettors Against His Statement. (From the Albany Times.] Even if the plea of Mrs, Tilton that she signed two ofthe letters while in @ condition of physical weakness be accepted, the like excuse will not avail Mr. Beecher, who certainly was not coerced on @ sick bed, and whose confession of great | wrong done to Mr. Tilton is the most serious tes- timony produced in substantiation of Mr. Tilton’s allegations. it is unfortunate for Mr. Beecher that the only witness in his behalf is Mrs. Tilton, and it is equally unioriunate for Mra, Tilton that her sole witness is Mr. Beecher. Lt ts stili worse for them that they are witnesses against each other; Mr. Beecher’s jetters against Mr. Beeeher’s statement, and Mrs. Tiltou’s letters against Mra. Tilton’s denial, | the ministry, ts undoubted|y the grandest preacher ob earth and without a peer, so that with all this record of his life, 1t seems inconceivabie that he should break down tn this fearful w: ol mis ministry. It 18 looking exceedingly dark lor | him now, but lam waiting jor some defiuite ana {uli statement on the other side before making up my mind, ihe interview with Rev. John R, Sutheriand, pastor or the Indianola charch, was as follows :— KePORTER—What 18 your opinion as to the sworn, statement of Mr. Tilton belore the investigating committee of Plymouth church, jast made puolic? nately, too Many Of her class to contribute to the | sir, | say again, that im those years of infide Me, SUTHERLAND—It i8 doubiess a boa and an happiness of that home. The visits of these people her marriage obligations the Z equivocal statement, aud has produced the impres+ roused her own old and intimate friends to abandon — foul No setise of crime of guilt sion desired by 118 aathor, and until Mr. Beecher ov society. Since her separation, she states, realization of it alierwards, and nence her con! is able to show by the most convinetng proof that umerous letters have been received by her irom | sion he is mnocent vf the charges preierved against former iriends 1n ali parts of the country, con- MR. BELCHER AND MRS, TILTONTS DENIALS. bim the pubic will hold pin guty, Bla Watling her ob ber Wilhdeawad iran tue circle “fhe slatemeats of Mr Beeguer and ales, kilton | Kerowrok—Would you cuasiier & Simple denial, | Mr, Beecher assumed ap ailitude Qi jolly indifters , Hirst named will cover every By at the end | but nis name wil! become the property of the resistance on his part hereafter if Tilton’s charges re indelibly fixed py proof. he may preserve his influence within the portals of Plymouth church; world atlarge, as the synonyme of hypocrisy and cruel, cowardly licen tiousness, Beecher Has Not Shown Alacrity in Clearing His Character. | [From the 8t. Louis Globe.) Mr. Beecher has not shown any alacrity in clear- | {ng nis character; but he has shown that he felt it | | mecessary to say something, and, by detending | himself a8 inadequately as he has done, he nas lett | room for the inference that he did not attempt a compiete aefence because it was hopeless. While | The Assault Met Promptly. [From the Bangor Whig and Courier.) Mr. Beecher bas spoken, and his utterance 1s an absolute and unequivocal denial of the charges preferred. He has met the assault promptly, as his friends and the friends of morality hoped he Would meet it; and with a sweeping contradiction of Tiiton's accusations, deciares his purpose to re- fute tn detail the whole monstrous indicument against lim, The Acquittal Foreshadowed. (From the Newark Courier.) Mr. Beecuer, Mrs. ‘Tilton and Mr, Moulton are all to present statements to the committee. MGAtLOM in Dir, ‘The two | were a mere question of veracity between the two gentiemen, one being a man of a good deal of robUstuess and mental poise and the other rather deficient in these respects, the public would not hesitate which to belleve. But, uniortunately, the pubic now have documents aud signatures before them which no mere alter dental canetlace, They require a more piausible explanation than has yet been given, The public are ready and anxious to acquit Mr, Beecher, but now that he has invited them to an understanding, they Want to arrive at @ sutisfactory one, Mrs. Tilton produces be.ore us her statement this morning. It does more damage to Tilton than good to Beecher. It charges upon him the first dese- cration of the housenold altar; it lays bare the galling waywardness of the man. She and Mr, Beecher clear each otuer most solemnly, ana yet they leave the documentary evidence vnexplained. | It will be observed that the same night on which, “wearied with importunity and sickness,” she signed a paper for her husband, she first signed one for Mr. Beecher, and further, that the last paper Was not a recantation of the first, but simply a record of it, Under the circumstances, this can haraly be made out an act of tyranny, “Lapse of Memory.” (From the Chicago Tribane,} It will be strange indeed if this Beecher scandat 18 ended without the discovery of some astonish- ing lapses of memory by the principal actors. The upshot of it all will probably be to prove that somebody, like one of Byron’s trail and famous heroines, — forgot Just at the moment she [he] should not, Great men and women have forgotten before Beecher or Tilton. There's the Crédit Mooilier Congressmen. Reflect what a powerful faculty ef forgetiulness one of chem possessed. That Terrible Secret. [From the Chicago Times.] Bat his dental, though emphatic, 1s hardly satis- factory, M cannot be denied that it is the state. ment of @ criminal on the witness stand in his owa defence, nor will it dispel tho conviction in the minds of all candid persons that any one placed in similar circumstances would pay more regard to their reputation than to the truth. It does not explain away the confessions of guilt made both by himseif and his paramour; his longings for death to remove him trom danger ot exposure; tis constant dread, frequently expressed, thi Tiiton would not keep tue terrible secret that in- volved so much, Unmistakable Language, [From the Washington Chronicie,} The Rey. Henry Ward Beecher has made a sweeping denial of the charges made by Theodore Tilton in ms stasement. He prociaims his owa innocence and that of Mrs. Tilton in unmistakable language, though not dealing tn deta with the specific charges made by Mr. Tilton, Let Moulton Speak, {From the Unica Herald.) There is yet important evidence to be neard. Mr. Beecher promises a fuller stavement, But the ‘one whose words are now looked ior with most anxiety 18 Mr. Francis D. Moulton, tf ne confirm Mr, ‘Tliton’s amidavit, and tt is apprenended he | Will, Mr, Beecher is gieugeds