The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1875, Page 4

fis was deeply concerned in the proceedings, ing {0 the cross-exXamination with as deep a relish as a German horn Blower On @ bot day takes in a wiass of lager—and Judge Appleton, of Bangor, Me., @ bervous, hawk-nosed mao of melancholy expression, Most of the Long Island judges, or justices, © they are more properly designated, have been to the Court already. Some have been invited on the bench and have gone home with a sweet sense of the distinction, The antique notions of some of these upholiers of the law's majesty im the interior of Long Islana misiead them to that degree they seem to Jancy the whole audience feels their presence, and even jorgsts the existence of Tilton and Beecher when they are in the foreground, Tre Juage from Oyster Biy, Who once presided over an inquest, mistook Methson “for une artist of au illustrated weekly, and gave him the benefit of his full face and profile tor more than an hour. Mallison was engraving a card of admission, and the Oyster Bay Judge will be terribly disappointed in the next issue of the illustrated journal, TRE EVIDENCE. Everybody was ponctual yesterday morning, and Mr. Evarts resumed his cro:s-examination at seven minutes past eleven o'clock sharp. Mr, Evarts commenced on the so-called “True Story.’ and asked the witness whether the state- ment that Mr, Beecher preached every Sunday to a dozen Of is mistresses was in jt. ‘Tilton repied that he could not swear positively whether 1¢ was or Was not. | Witness then stared :—I said that if Mr. Beecher | resigned, throwing back a stiadow on my farmily, | Lwoutd shoot tim in the street; 1 meant exactly | what! said, and if ne bad resigned 1presame I | suould have shot him in the street. Mr, Evarts then read the letter of resignation, | and alter tuentitying tt asked the witness if he was present when the letter from Mr, Moulton | 4 THE BROOKLY AGITATION, a es Opening of the Seventh Week of the Great Scandal Case, TILTON'S TORTURE ENDED His Redirect Examination Commenced. A PARADOX EXPLAINED. How a Man Can Hold His Accused Wife as Sinless. LECTURE ON DIVORCE The thirtieth day of the case was yesterday. The court was full put not crowded uatii the afters | (ex spit ys, 49) wras written. ian chia see | e' IY 1 Witness stated :—I was not; Ido no! Ink Teve Tien, when the (panne. peared into: Mec eEDy saw the letier ull tc appeared tn one of the state- room and looked thelr best vpon Tilton in tne wit- ness box. There he sat with bis long, cold face, vitreous eyes, Geepening wrinkles and looking into vacancy. Sdéme think that this long st-ain apon the man will turn his brain. Glancing over to the defendant, there is an ex- pression about Mr. Beecher more volatile, but at moments scarcely less abstracted and painiul. In short, this proceeding 1s an awiul nervous and mental test, When will tt be concluded? Mr. | Tracy remarked last Saturday that it would extend into the summer. He made this interence from the time consumed with Moulton and Tilton, MR. BEECHER'S CROSS-EXAMINATION and testimony are expected to consume at least He sas applied his mind in its fulness @ of bis defence, and be is now confident every Gay that he will unlink the sequences of the piaintid’s story and reveal bimself to the jury as 4 pergon led into a pitfall the depths o! which ne never knew until he sought to find a ‘way out, and then be uttered those expressions of anguish and Bell-accusation, which were natural enough, con- sidering his estimate of Mr. Tilton’s cruel and re- morseless nature. This nature, he will explain, ments last summer; f remember, however, tout Mr. Moulton iniormed me that Mr. Beecaer had written a letter and be had writtenarepiy; he did not show me the repiv; Ido not think | was r. Moulton’s until he had received Mf. Boech- I neithe- wrofe nor draited the letter c y dear iriend—For my husband's saxe aud my catidren’s;” It was writ veu bY my wife io consultation wich me; she wanted to have it written; I think she consnited meas to the phraseology of a part of it; I don’c remember whether I took the original letter of Mrs. Tiiton’s or a copy of it; at all events, eitner the original or a copy was there, in order tnat Mr, Beecher might see exactly What Elizabeth desired to do and had done—in other words, 10 see her card; I think that either the original in her hand- writing or a copy of mine was there: I know the card was thera in some form: it was not my handwriting, and copled by her and signed; [ think, sir, thar it had been completed by her either the day beiore or that mo:ning; I know the first idea of that interview did not contemplate het presence there, and her presence there was in order that she might snow Mr. Beecher the card; Ido not remember seeing the Clarke letter that you have just shown me ut the time it was writ- ten; Mr. Moulton and Mr. Clarke were intimate personal friends; I was very trequentiy present wiih them, but I don’t tnink lever saw this letter | unti it Was handed to me during the progress of nls trial; still IT may have done so, bat I don’t hx ic in my mind; Mr. Clarke was an associate editor of the Golden Age; Iwas aware that this Mr. Clarke, | my associate, who had been previousiy an editor- ormy was revealed through Mrs. Tilton, who | jyonief of & newspaper, nad talked instracted her pastor as to what manner with me of the posstility of s a= of despot Tilton had been for years. Asto Monl- | coming owner ol the Golden Age; I bad desired for a loug time to abandon the newspaper and gu into other iiterary toils, but I could not fix the date when these (ales first began; | was not aware that there wa: a prejudice against me that injured the sale of that paper; Lam noc sure whether I saw Mr. Ciarke’s letter or no’ do no: remember 1t being Suggested that 1 snouid go abroad into | another atmosphere and new scenes; I believe | about a month later alter I nad been writing a book tnat Mr. Clarke and possibly Mr. Carpenter sazgested that 1 had been working very hard and bad better run over and spend the summer in Hurepe; 1 do net know tue reason why they made such © suggestion as wy lealth had always been very fair; [do not remember whether Mr. Olarxe in his conversation Wita me advised my going abroad; I cannot fix any data of any conversation with him, Clarke; | rememover, however, as I said before, etter I got througn writing a book and pre- | | paring it for the press, Mc, Clarke an’ a few o'her iniends said ]ougntto run over and spend the summer vacation tn Europe; that was several | months after this letter was written. Mr. Evarts then offered Mr. Clarke’s letter In evi- dence, but, aiter considerable legal argument, Judge Neilson ruled ttoutand Mr. Evarts noted an exception. Witness then continne1:—I remember hearing ofa ct tor starting @ political paper alter Mr. | Greeiey’s death, but [ took no part in it; 1 think Mr, Cornell and some others. were talking about it; Ire(er to a certain enterprise that finaliy cu'- minated in the Republic, lately estabusned ia New York; ‘he Revolution was pubiisiied for some years ; 1 cannot say when it was founded; it was jounded by Miss Susan B, Anthonys and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady | Stanton somewhere avout 1566; 1 was never an ediror of taat paper; it was editea from time to tume by Miss Antnony, Mrs. Stanton, Mr, Pillsbur; and Mrs, Bullard; idon’t Know whether she was the las editor or not; I think there was one later, Mr. Clarke. Q. Pervaps this may refresh your recollection (handing paper to witness, which was not no- ton, that gentieman invitea Mr. Beecher’s conf- dence and proffered his help, and, relying upon his youth ana affability, the pastor learmed too late that Mr. Moulton was unprinciplea and had syste- matically filed and annotated, not only Mr. Beecher’s letters, but every family document of which be cou'd get possession by coaxing it from its owner’s custody. Meantime there is Mr. Bowen. According to several witnesses his position is that of armed neutrality. One of his sons, according to report, Says that Mr. Beecher’s counsel have approached Mr. Bowen and said to nim:— “Why don’t you come into court and stamp out these accusations against Mr. Beecher? You know you can doit.” “Very weil,” answers the senior Bowen, “!! you want the whole truth, as jar as 1 know it, you bave only to summon me.” “Then,” adds Bowen, Jr., “when father volunteers | to goto court they're frightened off like people Ba panic.”” put on the stand and kept there two or three weeks is apt to grow brusque, nervous or queru- lous, particularly if the bulk of inquiry is into the secret history of himself adduced irom a hundred volunzary or employed agents. Tilton has been run barder than Moulton, The latter was a busi- | ness man, of fair wealth and strong connections, who had retained some of the opposing counsel if past times, aad was liable to do so again. Besides | nis mother died in the climatte portion of the | testimony, and this sudden blow of Providence | ticed), A. No, sit; my recollection don’t need had its so(tening effectupon the Court. TueJudge | any reiresiing about that; | know about it per- reused to upbraid Moutton at General Tracy's | lectly weil Q. This is dated June 2, 1870? solicitation, saying that he had been severely tried aga witness anda man, and that bis siips of tm- patience were not unnatural. But Tilton, as the bringer of this suit, the challenger and principal, could receive no such exemption. He has been segregated, antagonized, suubbed and made to be his own revelator, and this position is | all vent ing. the ail He severer because his wife is pre: the while—cool, critical, unencourag- essayed a diMcuit 7Ole when he preferred to be his own Witness. A jury is apt to | form opinion of # plaintiff by his style of tesufy- ing. Unless he be a very good actor, Jeigning per- tinaciously, ne will reveal at least toose slight egotisms and mannerisms which provoke dislike. | Men are ofteuer disiiked Jor their weaknesses than their crimes, Tiltou lacks warmth of nature, that open, chivalric style which, vold of scholarship or affectation, talk: youth. He answers to Hamlet's sell-accusation, and with him “enterprises of great pith and mo- Ment” are “zicklied o’er with the pale cast of Quite uis opposite in this respect is bis friend Moulton, who has a fervidness and zeal, and, | thought.” bebind ali, that domestic tranquillity so nerv- ing and assuring to a person io public trial. Tilton bas nothing but bis lawyers. One cannot dis- tinguisn in all that court asingie person notably his iriend, while the mind selects a hundred every day who are bearing ap tae fortitude of Mr. Beecher with love, boldness and confidence. In this view of the case Tulton’s petulant smartnesses ire matched by Mr. Evarts’, who, suffering no such oangs and qualms, is just as captious and retalia- sory. JUDGE FULLERTON’S re-direct ¢Xamination showed tue public how easy it ig to support some one thgory of tuis case, and bow very dificul: itis to make the same explana- tioo respond to another theory equally prooabie, The character of Fullerton’s questions showea that he and the piaintit? were apprebepsive of the efect upon the jury o: Tilton’s ugiy relations with Mrs, Woodhulli—taking her to Coney Island, es- corting ber home in a carriage, &c. ‘ore made to define bimself upon marriage, ai- vorce, the divinity of Christ, od particularily apom the immaculate theory of @ guilty wife. He was given great latitude to make these replies and sustained himeelf lucidiy, and yet his reasons were ail of that sentimental caste which the Gradgrinds of the world turn up their noses at. For instance, when né explained tne youth of himselt and his wife wuen they were married he said it was necessary to make some excase for her in hisown sudering beart. He, therefore, made the singular excuse of guilt with out #im, which not one man ina thousand can understand, His definition of wod the Son as didering trom God the Father was elaborate, but it insensibly made the hearers comme want of humility in @ young man who, with such confideuce, obliterated tne divinity from Christ. Aa to divorce, Mr. Tiiton’s explanation of bis Views on this subject seemed to be directly at variance with his definition of marriage. He thought the sanctity of the marriage relation required it to be made easier (hau itis by the jaws of New York Siate, and yet he said that marriage should be made in the spirit of “1or better or for worse,” through storm aud torougn calm. There is too much theory in the Brookiyo schvol and too little loyalty. They are continually explaining themselves when they mignt lead piain, straightforward lives, as they agreed to do, chew speculation, MR, FRANK MOTLTON in court for some time. has not been ing generally in the ante-room, itis pre- sumed he wil be the next witnes: 1Wo country judges of remarkable appearance had seats ‘eside His Honor on the bench. One was Judge Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburg, a large, wide: Leaded Man, suingied over Wita silvery White bar ‘om the surface of a glowing He was there- | t upoa the | By the uity with which Mr. Carpenter attends tue that th Of it. ‘dhe Judge (to Mr. Evarts)—! Mr. Evarts—It is @ prospect The Juoge—Is chat the paper? Mr. Evarts—This is @ prospectus of it, Juage Neiison—1 was going to say that it was & smal! Revolution uf that is the paper. Witness continued:—I do not recollect writ- ing that article: the interview between my- per? sel, Mr. Moulton ana Mr. Tracy oc- curred between Christmas and New Ygar’s Day; the incerview lasted so long that’ Mr. Tracy went to sicep; Lbave BO accounts except What are shown on the books of Wooaruf & Robinson; the books of the Golden Age also con- | tain an account; these books are now in the pos- se-sion of the present proprietors; they are gen- tiemen jately connected witn the Christian Union; 1 think one is Mr. Webberly, the ether Mr. John- son, and | think also Mr. Clarke; I don’t kuow ex- I don’t know that I am indebted to Mr. Moul on at all; it was with Mr. Moulton’s free consent that 1 sold the Golden age, with all the implied obilgations resting upou it, which came frow the moneys which he aavanced, amounting toajew thousand dollars, pervaps five or six; | Mr. Moulton would not take anything 10 return; i tried to get Mr. Moulton to take my property ip Liewellyn Park; he said “No, wait; then I tried to get him to become the owner of a halt or @ tnird or a quarter O1 the paper, which he said he would in due time i there was no reimoursement im any way; Mr. Moulton told me to be very much at my ease about it; is just like nim, for he ts a princely mau; during the year, wnen I was writing a book, WHICD Was jrow tie Spring of 1878 to the spripg of 1874, I very rarely went to the oflice—stuyed ail tae time at my house—aud Mr. Moulton told me that he Would see the paper Was kept going dur- ing that time—not to disturo myselt gbout it; once or twice during the year I spoke to him about tis Kindness to the paper, and toid pim i was under an obigation Which I didn’t know when i shouid be able to pay, and he always said to me, “Be quiet and easy 10 your mind, aud {i cuere is no other way { will take one-half or one-third of tbe paper and retmburse myself in tna way; I oaven’t looked at never kept tvem; I never looked three times into the books 0! the paper; my Impression is Mr. Ruland generally got a check and came to me to inaorse It; ueciined to receive the first $1,000, pted 1; 1 consider myseli a debior 1p 4 moral Sense; the sums | recetved jrom Mr. Mouiton; he sent me one | gay a check ior $1,000, desiring me, by tie hand of the messenger, Ww give a nore jor it, or some- | thing of that kind; I dou’: exactly understand tne rincipie of the business, ands] returned It, Siy- fog, ‘Lcau't borrow $1,000, lor | don't see way Clear to pay it back; Mr. Moulton then to me in person and said, ‘I kuow you need the money, and bever Mind about avy obligation to pay tis back; 1 will trast to your future fortune aud to your Integrity; put yourse}i under no wbli- | gatio under those circumstances I took the money; he said be would reimburse bimseit in some other wa’ he said tuere as the Liewellyn park property, jana there was the papgr liseli; said he, “| can reimburse myself at any time; don’t you be — discuros understuod | at was more @ Moul.on aud my ness Mau toward another; 1% was the act of sonal, kind ano loving friend, who, Yarov apar- his abundance of means, Was wililng to bely me inmy necessiy? he said he Kuew that Whenever my for- | tunes came ageio to Mood tide | Would repay; he suid:—"At any rate, you snouid die, why you bave property enough to reim urse this; so take it and make yoursel com ortabie wbout 10; it Is not every Wan Who Would have dove that, vut Mr. | Moulton Was just the man to have dose just that; | 1 do not think nis liverality nas ever terminated he would advance me woney now 1 I needed it; 1 received botniog from the sale of the Golden Age, in@ pecuniary polut of views; I bad jor @ year begued Mr, Moulton to stop the paper, but be said ii tae payer stopped he would be injurea; I have never given Mr, Moulton any security or the mouey he adcvanc i have sent Mr, Moulton some engravings a8 presen's, THE PSIEND WHO OFFERED MONRY. I never heard Mr. Mouiton mencion a friend who had proposed to lend me $5,000. Mr. Moulton tola me a {riend of bia ana mine ad proposed a loan of $1,000 and I objected toi, i don’t remember the date. Q. Well, who was the friend? bir. Pullerton—It is not worth while asking that. Mr. Evar Wel, Ldva't kuow wuether it is or not. ihe Judge—It ia part of the same case we had up betur Mr, Evarts—That | don't know. it certainiv differs in iis circumstances, and, i Your Mouur please, tnis Ig put iv (he p.ace of that ueayored to get irom this witness whetoer it} couldn't pay him the money; 1 nave en- the | | | the accounts—{ | me with ail the | | Wansaction concerbing Which Mr. Moulton testi. Ged \o bad ever Leen communicated to him, I NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. understand he rejects that as never having been the last of Soprember, possibly the first 0: Oe.o. - civil uh Piymouth ehuret submutted ber; se haw remuiuéd there with a inend cf | ould be en cor Clement C. ¥ailandighatn, air, Be: Yo, no, LO—— our family; according to my best reco! mn. | Gi cburee Me Heoshe peers paurd ore of XA pa A Mr, kvarts—Now, how do Lknow that tt was the | alter her fetura irom the West, sav returned 10 | Rucrisina lotticr and piney aeriantinan theca te 2 ransaction as the $3,000? my house, aud during the day she went to her | tone of copperhead polines; but tae huunliating tact re- n excluded. mother's house, and then returned and said her jc Mir Bee er deliberuicly and otfieutily, under Mr. ou no. I have never heard mother insisted on ter ving vo longer with m pd aud sea!, has entered into a league and cove. OF (he $1,000 transaction belure—— and thea she went that day io her mother's | DARy wich He sau eae party, a party Mr. Puilerton—On yes, you have, house: 1 »seorted ter from the depot to my houre; | HAR Ny Bee stens aon te an Mr, Evorts—Not distinerly, I think Mr, Moule Sie notified me by letter that she Was coming; Wy | tis He that is not for us is aicain ton’s testimony concerning a large Sum of money, Mmotcer in-law then hved arouad tne corner trom | jie of Mir, Beecher at this present moment is aa that he communicated the fact to Mr, Beecher and = ™y house; I don’t remember that the cbildrsn communicated to Mr. Tilton tae proposition—now, ltry to get om this witness whether that oc enrred. As 1 understand him, it didn't, Mr, Fullerton—No ugh matter is before the Court, and | mamtain with regard to the evidence of the case as it stands, Mr. Moulton testified tnat there Was & preposition made by a third person to contrivute $1,000 to the capital stock of the Golden Age, through bim; that he communicated it to Mr. Tilton aud it Was rejected, and that the note was sent back; he sent back the note; returned 1% to the person from whom tne propos'tion came. ‘Tilton has testified tn the last two weeks that there was @ $1,000 transaction— Sceaking Of it a8 an identical transaction. Now, there pever has been auy proposition to contrib ute $3,000 to the Golden age by anybody. No such sum has ever been offered, and the counsel | on the other side is iaboring unger a grave mis. apprehension of the facts avou, the proposed con- | tribution, Judge Neilson—Go on, Mr. Evarts. We wil: see Woat you have. Withess—i can’t x the exact date; all I know aboutit Mr. Moulton told me that, and it is very indistinct in my recollection: have not now any- thiig about it in my OWn suowledge ut all. THE BACON LETTER, Q. When you wrote the leirer to Dr. Bacon, M Tilton, what had occurred in reference to this scandal so-calied that inducea you to write that etter? A. There had occurred @ series Of meus- ures ia Plymouth church detrimental to me; there had eccurred a councl! growing out Os those meas- ures wherem Plymouth church was arraigned, and there lad cccarred a deience upon the pare | of Plymouta ehureh to that council, which repre- | sented me as having vreught dishonor on the Christian name, whereas it Was another man who had brought taat diskonor; tnere had occurred & public lecture by Dr. Bacon. the moderator of chat councii, who went home after the councti had ail- journed; said publicly in New Haven, summed up the results of the council, ‘that I was aknave and a doz, Mr. Beecher, (he most magnanimous or men,” and that a series of articles in the Indepeadent by Dr. Bacon, five or six in bumper, emphasizing that idea; there hud occurred aiso a public insult to Mrs, i) ton and me by fomas G, Suearman, Clerk of Piymout' church; tvere had occurred aiso an apolovy by Mr. shearman to me, aod there had occurred @ propositi n on inv part toward Mr. Beecher that this misctuef which Dr, Bacon had | aope to me should +e corrected vy Mr, seecher, ana there had occurred aiso an interval of tnree piopths Wherein he had taken no measu ea to cor- rectit, and then I cerrecred it mysell by writing a jetter to Dr, Bacon; ail these measures were sel jorth ia the letter to Dr. Bacon, now in evidenc 1 did not regard my letter to Dr. Bacon a8 disclo: ing ao imputation against my wife and children; cn the contrary J consid«red it carried her vindi- cation and mine; I consider Mr. Beecher had given occasion Jor Dr. Bacon to sneuk and write about Mr. Beecher’s affairs, Mr. Beecher’s crime, Mr. | Beecher’s measures against me in the church, Mr. Beecner’s defence im the counct!, which was to my detriment: all these taken tu- gether were the text of Dr, Bacon’s arti- cies; I took particular pains to framing my letter to Dr. bacon to speak in complimentary terms of my wile; the council was got wo in reler- | ence to the actions ef Piymouth church; Mr. | Beecher wis arraigned be:ore the Councl practi- cally and morally, and his detence was @ paper | presented velore the council, the essence of waich was that my retirement irom the churen did not fling @ shadow on the churcn because I brougtt aishopor on the Cristian name; they had given me no letter of recommendation, they said; livou Wul read the document sent by Plymouth church to the council you will sce that Mr. Beecher vindicated himself at my expense; Mr. Beecher came out Gi the church one night, as I pave descrived in my direct examinatiun, meetiL; Mr. Moulrou and me against the iron railing, an suylog toat he could control nis church; they would do exactly wnat he wished; he held them m his right hand, and any action which Mr. Beecher designated fo" Plymouth courch to do, as necessary lor this case, Mr, Shearman and the other mauagers would have it done; Mr, Beecher was thoroughly and acsolutely responsible; they would have done anything he said. The Judge—At any rate that is the view you tooK ? Witness—Yes sir, that is the view I took. Q. That is your view? A. Yes, sir. Q. That these slurs upon you coyld have been prevented by Mr. Beecher? A. 1 know they coula. Q. And were not? A. Yes, sir, and wee not. Q. And that was the offence of Mr. Beecher ? A. No, sir; that was not tne whole offence of Mr. Beecher. BEECHER’S LACK OF NERVE. If you will read the Bacon letter you will see the whole volume of (he offence set forth; itis nut an | offence which one phrase of a sentence could | carry; 1% was one of gieat magnitude; Ido not | fastening think Mr. Beecher was desirous of affronts on me; [ think that perhaps, bis wisD ‘Was to the contrary; but ne was to the midat of a churen whicn ne might have controlled, he had not the courage and the nerve to control; he 1s the unwitting author Ot his own exposure ; think in the years 1871 and 1872 it was mere lack of courage; 1 think that Mr. Beecher fejt that a% svon as the opporcunity was sale in which he cou! turn upon me and strike me down he meant to do 80; that is my judgment; | sup. mit it with deiereuce; 1 came to that conclusion alter my last interview wita Mr. Beecher, ta Mr. Moniton’s study, in which I gave him an oppor. | tunity to rectly the mischief which the council naa done aud Dr. Bacon had done aud tne church had done, and during the three months whieh fol- lowed, when he did nothing, I cameto the conciu- sion that Mr. Beecher was going to tarn upon me, and I then suid to mysell toe time has come when [ must defend mysell against him aod his church; | rendered ber convictions to him; she went at bis | hence the Bacon letter. THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH INVESTIGATIO: Here numerous questions and answers were Tead to the witness irom the proceedings of tt Plymouth church investigation Council to dis- curacy. Mon that the effect of his letters would be to re- move the scandal and the aoswer, “No, I did not.’ This he aid not remember, wae A number of qnestions joilowed as to how tie | Tiiton publication of the testimony before tne | committee was brought about, and nothing mate. | rial was el.citea, beyond the fact that @ Mr. | Maverick got hoid of a copy and published it in | the Argus. The witness was then asked 1! he had any present employment, and he answered not | beyond the work be had now on band, The Court tuen, at one P. M., tool two o'clock. Tecess until AFTER RECE3S, That people can become accustomed to any- | thing is ciear irom the well-fed, complacent look | of the principals nowadays, as they come into court. Mr. Beecher’s boys seem to enjoy itt ver7 much, One of them sidles in chewing gum, to- bacco or lemon peel. Another has the joyous ap- pearance o! having just partaken of a Welsh rare- bit, waehed down with Brooklyn-Burton ale. A third has a decided business look and settles down toa table to take notes as if this was an academy | of iaw and morals, and anything missed would be to make education defec ive. ‘The lawyers are ail lagged, except the recondite | fectory, satin the style of a model who hires out Shearman, who grows more and more like the youthful prophet, Samuel. Called. to ao anything | his whole countenance responds:—‘Lord, here am | I.” He read a gushing letter from Tilton to his | wife, and its relevancy was In inverse proportion to the important way it was declaimed, The interest was unabated all the afternoon | ~ | there had eccurred also aiter | but which | 1 | fact that sne 18 charged with adultery, were taken with hertoher mother’s; ine child that was called the baby couid theu wuik and tulk littie bavy talk; the child was bora iu September, 1809, and she returned 10 1870; this is the enild mentioned in the correspondence When | wrote the peremptory order; tu he best of my recoliece tion my Wile Temaimed at her mother’s two or three days; she went 10 New Brunswick, N. J. 5 I sent the baby to New Brunswick as I did no! wish it to remain tm the hands of the persoa who tad chatge ol it; she returned tom New Brunswick a lew -days oelure the sickness, on the 2460 of December; aiter sh she was ubsent | from my nouse onl; jay how Jong; | have no ine: the date; I recoil. | fect ler absence on the 6tu of July, 1874; she went | betore the comunte the best of my re2ullece to tion, on the 6th or 8th of July, 1874: she left my house on the 11th of Ju'y, 1s74; she left ac wx | O’clocs 1m the morning, between six aud seven; Abe told me sie Was Quins to leave we perma ently; 1 was greatly surpri-ed at the announce- | Ment; Tnad noc yet risen; in tact 1 was waked | out of sleep 1a order that she might deliver that Message to me; sue leit saying se Was gelng 10 | the Ovingtons; I arose aud went down there iny- ; $e, and inade a cali and took breakfast wito the | faiutiy; she was at home tne day beiore leaving; she did not express @ wiilin, ness or desire tu leave speut tue might before in dressed that morning; ehe tand gloves on: I had uo knowi- @ appeared before me, toat she | aving me; I ad no intimation, | directly or indirecily, up to that moment | tac she waz gomg to leave me; she gave me no intimation of any such inrention, either by word or act; she had been petore the | cominitree on a night of tugt same week, eiiher Monday, July 6, or Wednesday, July 8:1 don't taink that date 13 fixed definirely in the evidence, and | 1s pot definitely fixed in my min; I did not know | that she had gone before tne committee; | did | Dot know of tne existence of the committee at the ume she went; sie Went secret'y and Without my Knowiedye; Ileurned from her own report what took pluce belore ihe committee, the night she Was present be ore it, when she came back. and aterwards I was 10/0 med about It by General ‘Tracy. Se r, Tilton, I want to ask you with reference | t . Tilton and as to the factlity with which a | person witn whom she was we.l acquainted and Whom she admired would influence her wishes— | what was her dispositida 1a that respect? A. She | Was an extremely sympathetic woman, taking the | tdeas of others readily, not that she lacked ideas of her own, bat ready to yield to advice; that was } her characteristic in un Uncommon degree; sie would be more ready to yield to advice 1! her reti- gious sentiment was appealed to; I think sne | would the more readily yieid if she tnought her action Would promote the cause of religion; that ‘was the view she took or it. “IT 18 A SAD QUESTION So said Tilton when Fullerton asked bim the question everybody asks:—“How cana man hold | bis wife sinless whom he accuces of aduitery?”? | This was a leading and important question. It | Was of a character to awaken the jury at once, | They looked up with toterest. Tne foreman’s round, aeep, short head was turned up, so that his chin was like an index board. He took Theo. | dore all to, passed him up his cheeks, and drank him down, 80 to speak. The fine looking yourg | euge, before | Was about | <| juryman behind the foreman, who has a kind of | eagle nose, and cold, handsome, unsympathetic | eyes, gave one gulp of a look at the witness, as if | he meant to come to @ conclusion about him | When he had answered this question, Tne good looking, reliable old gentleman near tne tall of | the jury, who 1s said to Le conservative as the | swora of Bunker Hill, took Theodore in in a | tinute, and then looked into his own shirt bosom, < Tilton answered very classically, but a little too fine. He was very quiet and soft. Mrs. Beecher, who has grown more belligerent day by day, looked at Tilton witha sort of triumph, as if he was now ina sortof Thermopyle, between sneak- ing out and being spanked. Mrs. Tilton, who has thrived during the trial and looks like a pretty, marriageable widow. wore her quaint little look of one pouting, and systematically watched her late lord and master. Then the repiy came out. | | _Q. In answer to a question put by Mr. Evarte | with regard to your wile you answered, ‘I thnk | my wie lovea everything’ good and nates every- ting bad, and 1 believe to-day sne is @ good woman; now, Mr. Tilton, | want to ask you the | founcation for that velt+!, in view of this charge tuat has been preferred against your wile; 1n other words, how you reconciled that statement yita the . Well, | sir, that ts a sad question; I can answer only for my own judgment o! lier behavior, nox for otuer | peopie's ‘opinions; you inust remember, sir, that I new Elizabeth when 1 was ten years old, that 1 | became her confessed lover at sixteen, thut I was | Married to her at twenty, and that jor fliteen | years oi our married lives I held her in wy rev- erence perhaps almost tu the point of making her an idol of my worsaip, and wnen she came to her | down!all 1% was the necessity of my own heart that I mast find some excuse for her; other peo.io might blame her, but I must pardon her; I iound vhat excuse in the fact that she had been rapt up in her religious teacher and guide, end had sure beck and lead trusiingiy; she walked after him like one vlinded; 1 thought she sinued her sin as one entrance did not tnink sne was a free agent; I think sie wouid nave done his bidding if, like the heathen priest in Hindu, he had bade her throw her cniid in the Ganges or cast herself under the Joggernaut; that was my excuse lor Elizabeth. Witness—May I say another word, sir? Mr. Fuileiton—Yes, Witness (reierring to a Bible which he held ip hishand)—I will give you a better answer than min . if 1 can find it, Mr. Evarts—I think I must object to this, u Your Honor please. The witness 1s apparently proceed- ing to read & portion of the Scriptures. it gives us the right to put in the whole bovk if he reads a at Fallerton—That would be your condemna- tion, Never mind, Mr. Tilton. THE CLEVELAND LETTER. The manner of Theodore explaining his Cleve. land letter was quite grandiot nd se!i-important. He went into the answer like a school historian. | Mr. Beecher, witn bis eyes balf closed, half avoided | Jace, but seemed to feel good, | the witness’ Directly Mrs, Beecher went to sleep, and her venerable hairs and black velvet bonnet nodded down to her sable jurs, her face suggesting Marie Tuerese or Empress Catharine. But jor her comelier face she suggests Charlotte Ousnman. Edward Beecher, looking like one of the apostles stepped down irom a picture in some monkish re- by vhe hour. Witness went on to say that his protest against Mr, Beecher's Cleveland letter was publisued in the Zndependent soon afser the publication o1 the Cleveland letter; he did not (think it ied to any | alienation between Mr. Beecher and himself; tne witness theo explained the political difference be- tween Mr, Beecner and himseif as lollows:—Mr. Beecher anu I were memoers of the republican | quite as agreeable ro iolow asearly in the trial, | Paity; the ndependent, o1 which 1 was then the The crosiexamination of Theodore Tilton was | faitor. was, Mt | may ve alowed ta say Bo, one of resumed at Ove minuies past two o’ciock. Wit | most reliable mouthpieces of the repubiican ness said:—I think my son Paul Jied in the latter | party; it was bound in honor to defeud*the pact of August, 1868, not on the zoo of August, | Dttelances or that party; Mr. Beecner's 1660; 1iuink the birth of my youngest child w88 | Gieveland letier wis aa vfience against tue on the 20th of June, 1869; it Was the Zu or the 21st; | lalways speak with an apprehension of dates, | MORE LETTERS. | Mr. Shearman read two letters from the witness | their representation in Congress, without Prefix- | fina a correspondence. and confidence. ite first was dated January 28, 1863, aod the second January 30, 1868, | With the reading of these letters closed the lengtnened cross-examination ot Mr. Tilton, EVARTS LETS TILTON Go. | At twenty minutes atter two, eleven days ques- | tioned, Mr. Evarts resigned Theodore Tilton to | lawyer Faullerron, ose of his own counsel. | to his wie containing Many expressions of love | | There | ‘was nothing dramatic in closing the examination of ‘Titon. It ceased so qnietly that when Judge Fuller- top arose it looked to be a mere interruption, Mr. Evaris sevied qowao in his chair, looking tagged and old, About one hundred kinds of lines cross | bis {ue*; it ts corrugated, palid, thin, | Tilton looked no better. He has, apparently, | been disappointed witn bimsel’. His smartness | has been too flippant, his repartee too etymolo- | gical. Like Hamlet, replying to Polonins, who | asked him what ne was reading, he has replied | merely in “Words, words, words.” His trae role | was to be the broken-hearted One, Happy had it been for bim t be had veeu the defendant, meeting the accasajion of slander. His general hauteur is not redfced, but it 18 less lovable, He seemsto | show the wear and tear of 4 working mind, } REDIRECT EXAMINATION. | Mr, Tilton Was examined as [ov ows on the re- direct by wr. Fallerton, te said :— ihe levers that have been produced on my own behail and ou vebaif of the deendant were re- ceived about (he time of their respective dates; the oby exception I now think O4 18 in the case of Mr. Beecher's etter writtem to Mre, Tuton about ihe Wovghall s ory; that was written @ namber of thonths aiterward; I believe tt nas no date; on Cross-eXamivation [' Was asked ip regard (o the ub-ence of my Wile, some time in December, 1870, at her mother’s; she nad Lees spending (he autumn at Marietia, Obio; | canbot Gx ihe exact aae of ber leaving to go to Marietta; I suowid tolok it was | | to Congress ;"" | to Congress’ first and republican party and that difference consisted in this fact—he recommended in the Cleveland letter the restitution of the southern States and ing avy coudition to secure the Iiberty uf wwe negroes, by whose aid we had conquered tne re- beliion; for instance, the position o: the repub- lican party was this:—We had just ended a rebei- lion ib Which the free States aa conquered the slave States; the question was, What terms shail be imposed upon the conquered by the conquer- ors? the republican party said, “We will aumit the Southern States upou certain conditions— they shuil blot out their ordinance of secession, they shall repudiate the revel debt, abolish slavery and secure to the negro the elective francaise; the republican purty said, ‘Ac- cept these conditious and you Mr, Beecher sald, “No; reiuro Settle te conditions alter.” f'ne whole putot in dispate between Mr. Beecher aud myseli, or, rather, | may say, be.ween Mr. Beecher and the repudican party at that time, was simpiy this:—Ue wanted the southern States to come back without conditions; we Wanted the southern States to come back with | conditions, tne ceatral and main condition being the right of the negro to tanchise. q. Won't you step down here and look at that (pointing to a file 0 tue Independent on the coun- e1's table), aU say Whetuer it is your provest, Mr. Tilton examined the paper and said taat the article re.erred to Wud bis prucest. Mr. Fullerton—I propose to read that in evi- dence. (Reading.) Ma, Beecuxa—With profound surprise and grief we have read Sir, Leecher's lever to the Cieveland Conven- tion, Our iri¢ngs wil find 1019 anotier column, Would ) God it needed bo other commentary in (his jougnal than regretiul silence. put & sense of duty coustrains us to mpany its pubacuion with a solemn protest agains’ the pupiic tarce to which at commits tue author. ‘Taig ietier queliches our last hope Wat Mr. Beecher Was to wuite with the friends instead o: the en: ‘ot his couutry. We know aud love him well. fives are purer, Ho MAX More atiectivnately native iavd; but under the spell of anu fess which has rested on hts eyes for # year past, le has done more imjury to the American Kevublic than has been dune by any pt Andrew Johnson. we had secretly ch that Nr. Bi during his last thr e concerning pans ofairs, had veeu weady ng, ouantre ¥ pores ff Bot Teves ‘our mind Ye believe tat is ihe great ay return | cher, atuiude of a nan who ty his reat acquire: this awiul fuer, x be as bad as un but his great reputation and Rents tow base purpose. ilence and seeming ueyuiescen equlescence fae Tn view of ce Would inee the 01 i - We have only to add that if any of Mr. P's friends, or if Any of our own, shail feel pained, ‘hey Will then hnagine thé greater pain of Gemnation, Beeche: at | our writar | That article (continued the witness) did not | break up our triendiy reiations; Mr. Beecner may have feit sure, but we were iriends as belore; I bave an indistinct recoliection that Mr. Beecher Dade Qo evaborate oration in the Academy of Music seceding ‘rom the doctrine of the Cleveland letter; he Was pushed on to tna course by bis own congregation and by the republican party; Mr. Beecher was the chosen leader o1 the woman's rigots and woman's suffrage movement since it had any jead at all; Mra. Tilton was an active @yent or that cause, and when the great meeting was held here in relerence to that movement iD the Academy of Music, presided over by Mrs. Fie!d, she Was one of the committee on resolutioas—the bead of that comuvittee, 1 believe; she was an | officer of That society for the waole of the State of New York: [spared her views ou thia subject; tv Was sue Inspired me to Cake those views, ‘Yhe Witness Was theu re-examined at some Jength in regard to his views on marriage and divorce. He sald he held the comimon opinion entertained through al! Christianity—throdgn ait the civilized world—that marriage ol ohe Man ana one woman forey or Worse—in storm or caim—not onty in ile, but, peraaps, beyoud life. As to divorce, ne held vie Ly ag Subject pot entertained by the law of this ate. TILTON ON DIVORCE. Theodore read quite & lecture upon the subject of divorce, and was as clear as a chemist. He made @ great sensation among the dozen women in court by eloquentiy urging their right to be divorced without unnecessiry trouole. There Was a great cackling in the temale aisle, After- ward, wien he forswore free love, and aaid that it had trespassea to his own house, and was, therefore, repulsive to him, filton made a great stir tn the audience, They buzzed so joudly that the Judge had to call for order, Yet it was not ciear whether they buzzea for delight at 60 much analysis and dissertation, or because they agreed with the philosopher or disagreed with hin, It wa3 all loteresting, how- ever, ana brougnt the Court inio happy thougnts. Witness continued to say—The State of New York 14 out of harmony with all the other States on tue subject of alvorce; here divorce 18 granted” oniy 10r one solitary cause, while in Massachusetts und otner States in New kngland, and ip the Western States, divorce is atiowed tn a variety ol instances; I give an illustration; I say, as the great body of the American people say, that ff a husband brutally beats ls wile sne is entitled, Mf she wishes it, toa divorce; I say that he ne, lects to support her aud allows her to suffer pri- vation she 13 entitied to a divorce; L hoid that if the husvand ts an habitual drunkard and makes the le of ms wite and children miserable tne wile 18 entitled to a divorce; the same woman being im Connecticut would be entitled to a divorce for this cause, but she would not be entitled toit in Brooklyn for tne same cause, for the lawot the Staite of New York only aliows divorce ior one je; the sancrity of marriage demands that we change our code of divorce in New York and xdapt it tothe New bares or Western code, which allows divorce for different cau: itis not my doctrine that hosband aud wiie should separate according to will, but that they shall be governed by the law without respect on the points I bave named: tne iaw ol New Hampshire allows divorce for desertion on the part of the husoand for one year; bat if a man, married in the State of New rork, de: wie, goes to Cnina, tor instayce, and 3 there for seventy years, the wile Cannot obtain a divorcee; 1 wouid ask why tie law gives divorce jor desertion tor one year in New Hampshire and reiuses it in New York ? ‘The witness was then questioned as to whether he advocated FREE LOVE, id that tn all his writings he had never en- couraged or supported the doctrine of free love, and he was horritied when he tound that a mem- ber of his own family had been destroyed by that doctrine, (There was considerable sensation in court when the witness made this aunounce- ment). When | reier to divorce, 1 mean that divorcea ought to be granted to parties where there is such incompatibility ot temper between them that it is impossible jor them to live to- gether. All I desire 1s that the law of divorce in this State should be made to resemble the law of divorce in other States. Marriage ts @ civil con+ tract, and | want to see it protecced. Mr. Fullerton asked the witness what he meant by those lines of his which had been read in evi- ence :— Have you In your tresses room For some orange puis to bloom t Witness—I meant a teacher giving some lessons | to o pupit and asking that question; Laid not | Mean anything immoral or impure by it, FULLERTON’S REDIRECT. Fullerton on the floor again is a sweet boon. His voice 18 like a silver dollar melted into articu- lation, Sly, soft-like, with a twinkle of almost Milesian wit and the obstinacy of a Yankee ped- ler, he seems to syringe and gimiet his questions into his witness, and a little auger, ready at com- mand, is apparently held between his fingers with his eyeg! He used to be a racing man and a lover Of Out-ol-door sports, and this gives nim @ bounce and off-hand character, quite rare | among the dull readers of the law. When Fuller- ton scratches his glands uoder the jaw ne is gen- erally on the eve of dodging past the Judge and the opposing lawyer with a siy point, Mr. Fullerton, holding a copy of the Golden Age in bis hand, said:—l propose to read Article 7, a | reply of Mr. Tiiton to @ rejoimder oi Mr, Greeley. He tnen read the ariicie commencing “1 don’t | overrate my sense of the importance of woman | sultrage ;’’ “womanhood is a sa@red thing, ana yet | the Tribune is insu.ting 1t every day,” &c, ABOUT THE PORTRAIT, Mr. Fullerton—{ now ask you Why it was that you removed Mr, Beecher’s portralt trom your nouse to Mr. Moulton’s, and when was it that you #0 removed it? A. | co not remember when I re- moved 11; I cannot now nx in my mind the day, Q What was the occasion tor removing that | portrait? A. ‘The occasioa ior its removal was certain threats of Mrs, Morse, my mother-in-law; I tink it Was avout the autumn of 1570. Q. Were these threats the resul: or cause of the | removal of ‘hat porcratt trom your nouse? Mr. Evarts objected to the question, as it was | already in evidence, be said, that sne threatened to cut or tear it uway—to tear it to pieces, He nad added nothing new in his cross-examination, Mr. Beach retorted that Mr. Evarts bad intro- duced the portrait on bis examination, and it was pertinent now to go over that point of the evi- dence, . A Judge Neilson said the counsel for plaintiff hada rigot to account Jor the removal of the portrait. Q. What threat of Mrs. Morse Was mnude toward | the portrait that caused ydu to remove it? Mr. Evarts again objectea, saying that it had already been stated that she sata sie woulda tear | It to piecea, | . Toe question was again asked by Mr. Fullerton, however, and the witness replied that “Mrs, Morse tareatened to plunge Ler scissorg throagn it.” Q Did you at toat time, Mr. Tilton, believe that she would have carried her threat into execu. | ton’ A. Yes, sir, Lieared that she would at that | Ume; it Was then standing on the fluor, against the Wall; it wax not banging up; 1 1emoved it trom lear tbat it Would be destroyed; | removed it for its preservation. i THE CORRESPONDENCE, | .Q@ Now | | ou Dave boen asked whether, after your wile leit you In July Jast, you found anything | belonging to her in your house; anytaing In the Shape of @ Correspondence f A. Yes, sir, 1 aid | _Q DS you recoilect finding @ correspondence | With Mr, Beecher wuich sae bad bad alter eae leit | the house? A. Yes, sir, | Q Where did you find these letters? A. I found @ number of ietters of Mra, Tilton’s, lettera which #he Ladreceived irom Mr, Beecher, an Ld them was a uruber of books which she bad used, | 0 the hor: | _ Mr. Evarts sald that these things haa not been | re.erred to by tim in bis cross-examination, aod | Dow the deience were undertaking to speak of | everytuing she naa leit atter her in the house. | Mr. Fulierton—strictly speaking J snould bave asked as to these maitersin the firect examina- uuon, but | omitted to do so, not belug then aware | of ali tue circumstances, | . Judge Netison admitted the rigit of the counsel to proceed, Q. You kept this box (showing @ small box to Witoess) and is Contents as they were Jound Iu the same spot; aid you not’ Where wes that Spot? A. | ionnu Mr. Beecner's levters to Mri | Tilton in thac vox In a litre cioset. | Q. Wuat sort of a closet was it—about how | large? A. ‘the closet wuere they were founa was about three feet Ligh and about two leet wide; It | Was in tue corner o: the roum, aud tt was filed | with gilts Which Mr. Beecher had given her. | Mr. Evarts objected to the answer, ana ¢on- | tended that the assertion that It contained gifts | from Mr, Beecher was inadmissible, and it did not, by any means, descrive the closet. ‘Was not a description of the closet, but parperted to be a description of its contents, Mr, Fuliercon said his ovject was, then, that the 2 8 | sciieseenteianl not know anything of this closet or of the box ta Which these letters were found when he was cross-examining the Witness, though he did know of the letters themselves, Had he at that stage of proceedings known these circumstances, he would hot now introduce the subject. e OPENING THE CLOSET, Judve Neiison—! think under the circumstances you can open the closet and see what is in it. (Laughrer.) Mr, Fullerton—Did you find these portraits of Mr, Beecher in tnat Closet? A, Yes, sir, Mr, Fullerton here handed the witness seven juli sized card photographs of the pastor of Plymouth church for identification. The counses then offered them in evidence. The cards or Phusoerapts represent Mr, Beecher in different at titudes, At the production of Beecher’s photographs in an attitudinizing position, seven in number, Mrs, Beecher did not look particulary pleased, However, she rallied directly when she saw Mra, Tilton violently 1anning herself, Mr. Beecher laughed, All the strange ladies in court looked deiignted, as we had now come to the pictorial ae partment of the scandal. Fullerton held the por trait of Beecber ike @ poker hand where there was not one small pair, ail the posturing being dit ferent. Mr. Evarts objected to these portraits, as the: didn’t prove the presentation. They were nol properly evidence and could not be considered a) Buch, Mr. Beach eaid that if they could snow that Mrs, Tilton baa a locket with Mr. Beecher’s portrait in eee would be perfectly competeat for them t a ow it, ae Neilson ruled out the photographs as evi ee Mr. Evarts sad he would introduce no objection to the pictures being shown to the jury; but ne didn’t gee thatit could have any bearing on the issue, as there was no presentation snown. The mere matter of her having these photographs ol 4 puvite man did not constitute a ground lor sus: Picluo, aad does not prove anything in the case. Mr. Fullerton said certainly it would not pro’ Suspicious if only one was found, but when th were seven of them discovered in @ secret cli it did excite some degree of suspicion, Judge Neilson said it did not indicate that Mr. Beecher had given her them, however. Mr. Fuilerton—No; but 1¢ does indicate the de- gree of regard which the Jady nas for him. No twa photographs spown are alike. Judge Neilson asked whetner t! e taken by the same artist, and if they were taken at t! same time. He inferred that they were taken at differenc times. Mr. Evarts remarked that they may allhave been taken at the same time. The fact of her getting them from Mr. Beecher is not, as the counsel a evidence against Mr. Beecher. Mr. Fullerton then exhibited two letters of the number tound in the closet, marked 13 and 18, and aakeu whether he recognized them, Witness re- plied in the affirmative, Mr. Evarts asked whether those pictures were in evidence, and the Court replied they were not in evidence, thougn they have been shown to the Jury as exuibited. They could not be put on the records, Mr. Fullerton thougnt they were in evidence a3 much as instruments coula be put in evidence ia a homicide trial. Judge Neilson repited that a description of them was in evidence, and that was sudicrent, Mr. Evarte took an @Xception to this point, and Mr. Fullerton called upon the stenographer to read what he had taken down in reierence to these pho! phe, Q. Now, ‘iiton, whose signature 1s that; ig it the handwriting of Henry Ward Beecher? A. aod sir, tt ts, Fullerton—This is good enough description at picture, Where did you find that picture A. In tie clos {ter my wile Dad leit the house, Q. [show you exhibits (letters), Nos. 72,13 and 20; where oid you find them? A. In the closet, giver my wile leit, Mr. Fallerton said that mr. Shearman did not read ail the letters from Mr. Tilton to fs wife on Thursday. There was one froma hotel in Pitts- burg, Pa., dated January 23, 1868, which he would read. Toe letter was full of affection, and com- menced:—“1 am here in one of my old familiar hotels. My auaiences here have been very large. ‘To-night the Academy of Music was filled, * * * Your loving letter greeted me on iny arrival here witha kiss, * * All the colored men of tuis hotel are tull of attention to me. My face gets shaved wich unusual Sttention, and boots get polished with unusual radiance, * * Tenclose you $100." 80 MANY CHILDREN. Mr. rullerton having read the letter referring ta Mrs. Tilton being so young looking and having sa Many children, public attention was called 10 the redundancy of children among the members of the Bur. Mr. Evarts has fourteen, Mr. Pryor is said :¢ have eight, although a very young man. Mr. Fuilerton—i call your attention, Mr. Tilton, toa paragraph in your letter to Mrs, ‘tilton, dated January 26, 1868—to a paragrapD and ask un explanation. Counsel then read the letter from Cleveland, in which he alludes to his feelings in @ gloomy, sad strain and refers to ‘“whited sepul- chres”’ and ‘dead men’s bonca.”” uni Nod led you to write in thatstrain at that Ure Mr. Evarts objected on the ground that it was irrelevant, ‘the words snould speak for themselves in the letrer, Judge Neilson said witness might explain; if there Were uny circumstances toen existing that led bim to write iu that strain 1t wouid be pertie nent to put that question, Mr. ‘varts contended that as! act mind and feeling as a mat band and wife was incompetent. Messrs. Beach and Fullerton argued that it was proper to snow the condition of witness’ feelings when that was Written, and the question was put, “What caused you to write toat letter at that time #” A, I have no recollection o! tnat letter or my mood of mind at that time; 1 can only expisia that it had relerence to myseif; he could only ace count jor it by certain changes to his conaition Which were passing through hia mind; it waa written under the excitement of the oid Presby- terian faitn, which ne learned when @& small boy; from the time he was tea years old he was accus- tomed to take “dread and majestic views of things 1n life and of the future;?’ in comparison nis ligious view of all buman creatures seemed dwaried and shrivelled; he was a religious uscetio in early ys, like those Of & monk in & monastery and would have rather cut off his right hand than have written a letter ona Sabbath; 16 ‘Was parc of nis bellef that all men were miserania Sinners; 1m iater years those sentiments aod opinions left nim, but not their resonance, and the reverberatious of that spirit had never ie:t him up to this hour; many of taose letters to nis wite, whica bad been read in court, were written at night, when bis mind was experiencing these views; he could nut describe his intellectual suderings of (nese 1our years, alter which be let go; be bumbled himself in dust and asnes. Q. Tuose sentiments grew out of your religious convictions, at giving up your old theological Views, did they not? A. Yes, Mr. Evarts asked whether these letters were not the result of religious feelings, Mr, Fullerton said tuis correspondence rans through @ number 0; -years, au the witness now accounts for these various moods tu which answers Gre necessary to explain, or the expressions used in the letters may be turned to an account by and by. Exception was made by Mr. Evarts. Q. What caused these expressions of despon» dency and humillation to be writcen as taey aps Pear? A. Religious scruples that 1 then had} ior Aon, years Iwas like the irog creeping through cneron, Attention of witness was called to the letter of nis wile in whico s! quotes from him b pressions as “Yours in dust and asnes, a ee ey & nd counsel ed for an expia« nation. Witness said that he could not account for them 48 a whole, but Irom his general mood, which waa that of seil-abasement that came upon him in con- sequence of bis religious turnings; he harvly knew in What words Loset forth the circumstances b resnited in the Change of religious views; WaS a transition from Caivinism to # more genial view ofGod—to a broader view of God’s kindly affection and goodness to man; he supposeu that the one great poiut wus the deity of Jesus Christ; he passed from thence to the Unitarian view, dis- allowing God as Jehuvah; it shook the founda- tions of bis (Witnesa’) life, and he reeled under its he could not speak of 1b Without giving pGin ws others, and he therefore kept his mouth closed; he had written his sentiments freely to his wife in compliance with nis pledge, on leaving home. to Write ner everything; be could not readily ix the aate of this caange fo nis religious views; whea quite young he became editor oi the Jndependent aod was compelled by Virtue 01 his poaition to ex- amine qaesijons 01 religion and morals, and then came the cuange. Q. Were you then attending Plymouth church ? Did the doctrines by eee) twuere have any effect on this Change! 1 was an attendant at Ply- mouth churcd, and 1 thought that the preacning of Mr, Beecher Was @ step or two too advanced for the period, Q. Do you believe in the divinity of Chriar? A. I believe in God anu in the divinity of Christ to @ limited extent; I hold in @ larger and far more reaching sense toe divinity of Christ, thougn not as His fuuctions being tne Same as the functions of Gou the Futner;,1 am nearer a Unitatian than sayching else, tuough not a memver of any chureh. At this point, six minutes after four o'clock, the Court was adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning. witness’ exe etween Duse HORSE NOTES. The trotting mare Clara G., who broke her leg ‘Tue answer | | appetite is good, answer in evidence was not responsive to the | question. He held thar it was proper. Mr, kvarts again ovjected to introducing evi- | dence touching the gine id letters of Mr, Beecher to Mrs, Liiton as immaterial. Mr. Fullerton said he proposed to show where these books were lound, and where tae letters Were fouud, and hie aso proposed to show, 1 fis Honor pleased, what tue croset was used the house—a piace convenient to put the gilts of Mr, Beevver to Mrs, Tilton out of the w | Place where the eye didn’t rest on them, would show that tuis closet Was @ secret piace in | ie'as | at Barnam’s Hippodrome about two weeks since, is improving rapidiy. ‘The limb is perlectiy straight, there is no swelling, she evinces no pain and her Dr. Cattanach took the mare 10 charge soon alter the accident. He iound the upper pastern bone traciured at its centre, whica is midWay between the fetiock joint and the hoof. ‘The docter set the bone in jts proper position, using leather splints, moulded to the leg Wit starch baudages. Two bours alterwatds the mare was Jet lou: ge 0OX atail, Well bedded down with sawdast, and gilowed to take care ol the limb herseli, and it was interesting to ubserve the care she took in getting up aod down and moving avout, The doctor says ue never puts a horse 1a slings for a fractured jore lib, a8 tne Way ne neg treated Clara G. he considers far saier, Will soon be watirely Welk