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‘here, whether vy special invitation or not, I don’t remember. Q. Do you remember an occasion when Mrs, Woodhall came to your house, and Mr. Mouiton was there, and Mr. Tiltou was there, and you Were there, in your husband’s rooms—I suppose— do you remember Mrs. Woodhuil’s coming in where? A. Yes. Do you remember how she saluted you and your busband and Mr. Tilton on that occasion? & [don't anderstand your question, Q. How she saluted those three persons? <A. She always saluted me in a ladylike and usual way. o Yes. Do you remember that she saluted Mr. Tilton, Mr. Moulton and yourself, cach with & kiss? A. I remember that she kissed me. Q vo you remember that she saluted each of you on that occasion with a kiss? A. 1 don’t re- | member. MRS. MOULTON AS A WITNESS. Q. Now, Mrs. Moulton, how early did you learn that {¢ was desired that you shonia be a witness in this case? A. Since Mr. Beecher made his state- ment; | have spoken of the fact that I was to be a witness a number of tines; the conversations | have given to-vay are from my unassistea memory; Tnever wrote them out; I have given the substance | of these interviews; I did not seek to treasure them, but I coula not forget my interviews with Mr. Beecher; I always saluted Mr. Beecher in a friendly way. HOW MR. BEECHER WAS SALUTED. ara you usaailly salute bim withakiss? A. 0, sir. ¢. Did you never salute bim with a Kiss? A. I never remember to have kissed Mr. Beecher, but With one exception on the morning when he told me that he was about to commit suicide, when he was sitting tn a chatr, the tears streaming down face; I stood behind bim over and kissed him on the forehea only time that [ ever kissed lim, You remember that occasion? A, I do, sir. When you did kiss him on the sorehead and put your arms around nim—. Mr. Pullerton—No, sir. A. No, sir; I put hand on his shoulder, Q One hand? A. My band on his shoulder; ne Was sitting in the chair and the tears streaming j down his face; when he had spoken to me of his great suffering and of my— Well, the occasion you have given? ir. Fullerton—-Well, let er state it. Mr. Evarts—'the occasion she has given. Now! don’t ask herto repeut it, Iam not bound to take | ® repetition, Judge Neilson—There 1s no Occasion for it. Mr. Fullerton-—What is that, sir? Mr. Evarts—There 1s no occasion for it, Mr. Fullerton—-Weli, I agree to it, Q. Now, do you remember saying to him at the time when you thus Kissed him on tne forehead, whenever that may have been, that if there ever | food man you believed he was one? A. I said that! had believed he wasa good man; t | had believed in him more thorouguly thay any other man, and that, having known what I had of | bim, destroyed my faith in human nature, . Well, Low, did you or not, at the time you kissed him on the forehead, whenever that was, | did you say to him that ti there ever was a good man you believed he was one? A. think [ said | vo him that I had believed he wasa good man, | and | at that time believed there was stl a great | deal of good in Mr. Beecher. Q. Have you altered your mina in that particular ae oe last year? A. Ihave not any taith in | echer, C ‘* Q. When did you lose it? A. My fatth as a moral | teacher in Mr. Beecher was destroyed when I knew what I did of nis life, Q. But this remnant that you had at that tune; when did you lose that remnant that there was a good deal of good in him? A. In the way tn which he has—the course that be has pursued for tne last | year, and I leanea nat is the NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. bani@ opinion. ine auiness of the average middie Class fave 18 notin Mrs. Moulton’s features, and when she was asked yesterday it she considered Mrs. Tilton an acquaintance and affectionate friend there was just a trifle of discrimination in her look, The question answered itself. Several other ladies were in the court room, very much absorbed. Assistant Pastor Halliday’s face was looking very long. He seemed stupetied ®& part of the day yesterday, Mr. ‘Tracy dropped that grizzly smile he carries, and looked | Straight beiore nim. The old Judge on the bench looked painfully, almost teariully intense, as Mrs. Moulton, in the jorenoon, had entered upon the | Steep and narrow defiles of her darker ex- periences. He had not, up to that moment, shown | more than a mastif’s watch over the case. In short, Brooklyn was in the profoundest agi- | tation all day yesterday, At the close of the day Mr, Evarts looked pale and oid and serious, Judge | Porter and Mr. Abbott had heard Mrs. Moulton | with an interest go absorbing that they appeared to lose their professional relation to the case in the iumportance it had newly | acquired through a newer human revela- | tov, Prior to this day we had seen worldly men at work striving to bury something, to | drag it away, to push it ont of existence. In place of their savage contention and futile ingenuity here had been a witness saying, “Con- fess! Speak! It is easy and noble!” Mrs, Moul- ton had peen to this tragic opera what» Little Pearl had been to the Scarlet Letter, ready to advise. “Preacher, will you stand here at noon to-morrow tn the pillory, with mother and me??? She had, sccording to her oath, said to Mr. Beecher, “Your only way out is to contess, 1 will be a friend to you as long as you tive 1f you will do 80.” On the supposition that Mrs, Moulton had not told the truth, still her story had all the fascina- tion of simplicity in the midstot a deadiy tab- leau. As if a woman had walkea into aden of lions and serpents and talked to one palsied there, ag if she had not seen any terror, 30 seemed Mra, Moulron’s relation to the case. The Woodhull scandal had not touched her. She talked about going to Mrs. Woodhull’s house, and the assocta- tion lost its fatality by the fact tuat with her went her mother, now dead, and her only cnild, Mr. Beecher was not in court when she began her testimony. He came in late, and Mrs. Beecher, who had heard !t with a piteous face, tola him, in @ sentence or two, what itwas. He made a few efforts to look incredulous and to laugn; but after a while the crimson color, as of a grape skin held up to the light, began to fill the cheeks and brow and extend to the roots of the hair. closed, and looked entreaties or prayer. breath could almost be heard. He was, to all ap- | | pearances, in real agony. H. B, Claflin came tn while the testimony was at | the full, The witness had just ceased to speak, with that sweetness of solemnity which made the | Toward your husband? A, Yes. | Now | ask you, madame, again, If, when you put your hand upon htm and kissed him on the tore- head, you aid not then say to him thatif there ever Was a good man you believed he was one of them? A. I thiok I said to Mr. Beecher I believed there was a great deal of good in him still, | Q. You think that was what you said? A. I | thtok that was what | said. Q. And you think—do you remember that you didn’t say “if there ever was a good man | believe you are one?” A. i don’t remember that I stated itin that way; I think I do remember of saying that I believed there was a great deal of good in | him stil. Q. Yes, you think that was what yousaid. You think that was said op the occasion when you thus kissed him onthe forehead? A, 1 think so, yes. ; Q. Do you remember, [think you sald that rou Tever kissed Mr. Beecher in the prescnce of your busband curing bis visits? A. No, sir, 1 was not in the habit of kissing Mr. Beecher, Q. Well, l want your recullection distinctly if ou have any on that subject? A. I recollect that did not kiss tim, CONVERSATION WITH HALLIDAY, Weil now, do you or not remember that you Said to Mr. Halliday the words that Ipow repeat, | or words to this effect:—“Mr. Halliday,. Mr. Beeeher 18 my pastor, and has been from my chil hood, ard I believe in him, and they can say noth- | ing that will lessen my confidence in himor my | atlection jor htm one particle? A. Idon’t remem- | ber the last part 0! that remark; the tirst part 1 remember. Q. ‘The first partyou remember? A. [remember 1 suid Mr, Beecher had been my pastor since I was sixteen years old; that I had told to every one, because {t was the truth. | Q. Did Mr. Halliday know that? A. I don’t know bow be should have known it; it was his first visit to the house, as nearly as Lcan remem- | er. | Q. Not his frst connection with the church? A. | No, sir; but he didn’t know me personally. | R, BEECHER’S CONFESSIONS. | Q. You have given a consideravie statement of what Mr, Beecher said to yon—were you saying notuing to him during the progress of that state- ment to you? A, | said a greas deal to him. ve During the progress of the statement? A, ex, sir. Q. Now, won't you be so gocd as to give me how the statement went on; who spoke first and what Was said by way of answers, and soon? A. Mr. Beecher spoke first; he sald be had had a sleep- Jess bight; that ne had not had much iest; that he was utterly without nope, and that he thought he must have the sympathy and consolation of some iriend, and as I was the only person who knew tne truth of this thing be came to me. ' Very well, what did you say tothat? A. As | net SS | can rememper I expressed wy sympa- tby with bim. i How aid yoo express the sympathy, and in whol language? A. very sorry for you in this great trouble, there is only one way ont of it for you, and that is by contession, telling the truth; you canuot continue in this life oF deception and hypocrisy ; the truth wit come out sooner or later. |. . . Well, did you stop. nere Labs T)presume 1, did; 1 don’t remember any a else. ' Q And tt yan stopped there what did he say? A. He said he could not confess it because his work would be st ao end; that if he could not continge ln tis position aga spiritual aad moral teacher there was nothing left for him to do; jor the sake of bis cuildren—he woulda be disgraced | with them if he confessed lis crime; that he Would have o home, and that his people would not forgive him. Q. .Well, did you speak then and say something ? A. Isaid [thought they would jorgive him; tua’, he bad done @ gr@at deal of good in the world, that his churca was bound to him as one win al- most, and [ thought they would stand yv ium; he said, “No, that Isa crime they won't, ryive; they Won't treat me as generously and Kindly as you bave done." Did you then say sometAing ? A. 1 don’t re- oer the conclusion ; we were talking or along time—three or four houts; on his part 1b was one long account of what he had suffered, and that ne had tried to gq'on gad tuat he could not endure it any longer; that Qe felt that (meaning the truth) Would come ont, aud that he cond not live to | meet it--that he bad not the strength eitner poyst- | caliy or meutally. lu regard to the powder which Mrs Beecher said he had at home on his dressing table, tue witness stated that Mr. Beecher said it was a dose that Would give no pain, not instant death, but a very easy death, Q. Well, how did the interview come to an end? A. tle said it Was pear his dinner hour, and 1 tn- vited vim to stay to lunch, but he said mother would expect tim. Q. Whoim did he mean by mother? A, His wife, I presume, Q. Was that his usual mode of referring to his wie? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did be leave inthe same gloomy state that hecame? A. Yes. Q. Did you understand that he was going away to take that powder then? A, because he aid he should come to sce me again, It being the hour of adjournment the Court took | ® recess until two O'clock. THE SCENE AT RECESS ‘was thatof blank amazement. People arose and looked at cach other, and as Hawthorne relates in one of bis stories each man saw his next neigh- bor tremble but was not conscious that he trem: bled himself, The short witnesses, those with plain, brief statements and mereiy incidental re- lations to the scandal, had been more efiicient and staring witnesses fer the piainti? than those laden down with documenta and bearing their Own characters into the investigation to be ex- amined into. There had been Catherine Carey, the wet nurse, with her brief personai relation of faruliaritics; Richards, Mrs. Tilton’s brother, with one pain. | “ tui, deliible’ scene; Brasher, with his story of Mr. Beecher in Livingston street at all hours of the day. They were like to the brief ap Paritions, saying to the victim of their test wony:— nd sear his heart— jows ¢ so-depart! Tose {rom the chair where she had ‘been sitting, with her head bent forward and her | eyes partly closed, her vetl down and her face pale and thin, and she walked eut of the cours room, attended by one man and three or four iadies, among them Mra, Shearman, the lawyer's wise, | and Mrs, Field, Ars. Field 1 looking very white and mach wor- Tied, not neariy so much jike Zenobia a8 early in tue week, She looked ap at Mrs, Moulton yesterday With a face exvressive of gloom, und yet tmpertur- | poxing tn thelr ears to listen. | Beach looked genuine admiration, | Irtend of mine and I o | pi F489 carne UB: hen Thad sympathy for her; said, “Mr. Beecher, | aw . ~ the time ; Tonipkiig place Mr. Moulton | but not frequently; I can’t scene like a Quaker meeting. Mr. Beecher took the occasion to whisper to him and to smile | again. At recess Mr. Beecher spoke loudly and at length, aboot thirty reporters and others around He sald that she had lied from beginuing to end, Still his face was | very greatly disturbed, Nothing like it has been seen all the trial, Even Mr. Beaci, of Plymouth, | who always laughs, looked queer yesterday, ‘The expression of Mr. Beecher as ne marched | out of court and throuch the corridors was that | of pain, anger and premonition. Mrs. Beecher followed him mechanically and stooping. Three . of the boys had been present, and Mis, Moulton’s | reference to them had been depressing, On the other side Mrs, Moulton was treated as | she descended from the witnoss chair with a little | ovation by Tilton’s gounsel. Roger A. Pryor offered his arm as she left the courtroom. Mr. | Failerton saia | that the only defect aboat her testimony was the | interest of such a wicked fellow as himself getting 1t, Morris was too full for utterance. The jury had also been profoundly impressed, The religious people on it were struck with the Woman’s apparently instinctive good principle and personal piety; the young and commonplace jurymen with a pretty woman talking so sweetly, | Judge Dick Busteed was on the bench. The | pleasant face of Judge Reynolds was also there for | for a while. | 4 People ate their lunch with long and thoughtful | ces, AFTER RECESS, | The cross-examination of Mrs. Moulton was re- | sumed by Mr. Evarts. She said—1 forget the year when | first became acquainted with Mr. Tilton; [ think it 18 six or seven years since I first knew | him; I did not kvow bim tn the earlier period of | my married life; not until | moved to the Clinton | street house; | cannot teli the year when that was; I think [ lived four years in Clinton street; {t 18 barely possible that 1866 was the year, but 1 don’t remember; he has been a frequent visitor at our house; 1 considered mr, Tilton a | him; T think it was in 1308 | or 1869 that Lmade the acquaintanze of Mrs. Til- | ton; I torget how I first met ner; tL remember hey | coming toxée ine In the Clintoh stree omer | hink gue Wi s you bronght there by ner-nusband; . was > f a latte ut né€ int er: I. gon’! know that I nad any g0é(io jor ner until after Tegar for her, nov auy affection; sue aid nos Visit me frequently norT her, but | regarded | her a3 @ friend; I Knew that Mr. Tilroo and my husband were at school together; | their intimacy was not continued from | tes tcit school; while we were living in | 8 ever saw Mr. Tilton thas I femember; We moved to Clintol arta aecatt pao intimacy between Mr. Tilton and my husband; Mr. ‘Tilton formed the bavjt of pet {reauent! atour | house at meals, lor eet aie, one after an- | other; he wa: ogy Lots a great deal wuen he was organs He paper, the Golden age; he was spear ‘artigg Tits paper, tne Golden. Ag: 1 forget ie year th: 8 the season these interviews I ave been | ig about took place; I only remember that he | Sime to our house to arrange jor his paper; at that season he was in the habit of being in our house at meals @ good deal; he did not tre- | quently spend tue night tnere; Iam quite sure he spent one night at our house; 1 don’t remember | any more; be has taken his meals at our house very frequently during the last four years; dur- ing this trial our house has farnished hospitalities | to the gentlemen who are conducting tue case for | the plainuievery day, with one or two excep: tions; they have Junched with us habitually; I have been present on those occasions at table | | with them; 1 tuink I remember an interview I had at my house with Mr. Beecher in July iast, when I sad something to nim like this, that HE WAS A VILLAIN, and would betray my husband as he had Mr. ‘Tilton; I said sometuing or wat Kind; Ido not | remember, lu answer toa statement of his, saying that Lwould send fora pollceman and put him out of the house; Ldo not remember saying any- thing about a policeman or anything of the kind; i said if be was unkiud to Frank, if he would turn on him in any way, even by & look, be must never | come tnto our house again; I thiak I might have | said to Mr. Beecher, On the occasion of tue intere | view 1 bad with him, that fheodore Tilton bates you, and be has gooa reason to do so." Mr, Evarts—Madame, | did not ask you that. I move that the answer be stricken out. The Judge—It must be stricken out. Witness continues—I remember repeated! say- | ing to Mr, Beecher that I Bole fob it Impossibie for Air. Tilton to keep this quiet; 1 may in that way | | Have satd that | taought he was treacherous— | | treacherous in regard to keeping quiet; that he meant to Keep it gush bat, i be was forced to | auswer, he would tell the whole story; that is | whatl told Mr, Beecher—that I thought | MR. TILTON WAS FILLED WITH REVENGE and anger against iim, and often, when questions Were put to him, he might reply by teiling the | whole truth; I thought that wouid be so; 1 don’t recollect using those exact words that ‘Theodore | ‘Tilton was treacherous at heart and hated him” (Mr. Beecher) ; I tink I may have said 60; I can’t remember at what stage or season of this contro- versy I said that to Mr. Beecher; 1 can't remem. ber any partict ime—thore have been so many | times that Mr. Tilton had reason to be filied | with— Mr, Evarts—I bave not asked you about his rea- son. Witness—I can’t remember the time; { don’t re- | member the number o! times I said that to Mr. | Beecher; I first made a proiession of religion in | Mr. Beecher’s churon 1n 1358, two years vefore my Marriage; the first two years «iter my mar Triage (lived in New York; then [ did not tend the church; aiter that! resumed connection with tne church; irom that time onward my habit of receiving communion was inirequent; I never became connected with the woman's buffrage movement; my husband had; ! was aware of th 1 don’t know that my house was a place of meet ing for the ladies and gentiemen connected with wat Movement; some of them visited my house, remember tne j 1 aon't remember that whey were at our house Mrs. Woodhull was ever there with ary of tne | woman's suffrage party; 1 remember M Ise on | and Miss Anthony were tuere; 1 do not at pr remember the names of ot Idid not use to be @ party to their meetings and con- | Versations; I bad no particular interest in thein; I don’t know that { avoided them Tdonit remember the year or the time tn the interview with sits. Tilton ; Promember it i was alter my interview with Mr, Beecher—tne first | aterview—whea he confessed to me tue tratn of | he charges made against him; it wag His eyes halt | His | | street or not. hen that was; I don’t remember that | 4, | Lean waiting year | in the time of that tnterview; I cannot give any Idea Of the time this interview with Mrs, Tilton took place; it must have been earlier than 1873; it might possibly have been in the Jall of 1871, but I Beecher, because she asked me Irom whom I had heard it; I told her the trutu, that Ar. Beecher told me; that is the best reason | can give you for fixing the date; I did not say that my first interview with Mr. Beecher was in the first week of January, le7l; he was coming to the house frequently before he spoke to me; TI can’t remember whether this interview was im the spring of 1871 or later; 2 don’t remember the time—the season; I only know it was in 1871; it | might have been the spring or fall, so far ag I know; Mr. Beecher, on all the occasions | have spoken to him, expressed the greatest solicitude | that Mrs, Tilton should be properly considered and treated by everybody; he always expressed the greatest kindness and consideration for Elizabeth: he always desired that I would treat her well and visit 4 console her; I saw her tn her house in Livingston street; | have seen her in two or three rooms of the house; I don’t remember Where I first saw her: I don’t remem- at a time when I supposed that there might | be some pubifc controversy or accusation tat would bring these matters into contest, and ask- ing her if there should be a contest between her husband and Mr. Beecher wnat her views would be; [don’t remember that that ts either of the occasions to whioh Lreferred in my direct examt- nation; [ remember the conversation to which you (Mir, Evarts) refer, and the occasion of it; { hink it was at the time that Mr, Moulton went down to the church; Ldon’t knowin what year; I wanted to know from Elizabeth which course she proposed to adop! in case she was called be- fore the charch; I refer to the time when there Was talk about dropping Mr. Tilton from the church; as near as I remember it was that time, Q. Did you go of your own accord or was it your desire to go? A. I went of my own accord. Q, You aid not go of your husband’s desire or in his interest or of his request? A. No, sir. Q. And your object was to learn what her view would be if that contest came on? A. Yes, sir; What posttion she proposed to take, Q. Lo you remember asking her whether she should support her husband in a charge rains’ Mr. Beecher or whether she should not, and her answer being made to you that if there ever came | @ controversy sbe should speak the truth? A, No, sir; 1 don’y remember that. Q. You don’t remember that? A. No, sir, Q. Now did you urge her tn that interview as to What she should do one way or the other? A. I dou’t remember that I urged; 1 can tell you what i said to her, Q. Did you speak to her on the question of which side she should talk? A. No, sir. % Or did you express an opinion as to which et she ought to talk? A, I don’t remember that a. . Q. Were you at that interview very much excited | and distressed? A. 1 think I was, sir. . Did you show in your manner great distress and weep? A. I might have done so, Q. Now did you, in that interview, express to her great distress lest Mr. Beecher should ve betrayed by Mr. ‘Tilton aud your husband? A, | Not that he would be betrayed by them, bus | that the trat® would be made known—ma@e public, . By them? <A. Yes, sir, by them. By them? Now, aid you in tat interview in expressing your opinion as to what Mr, Tilton and M aiton would do, beg her to stand by Mr. ier? A, So long as she could without sacri- ficing herselt and the truth, Q. Did you beg her to stand by Mr. Beecher? A, So tong as she could without sacrificing the truun. Q You did beg her? A. Very likely I did, Q. Ana didn’ she then tell you that whenever inquiry came she would tell the truth? A. No, sir, Q. Did she tell you that she should nov tell the truth? A. She told me distinctly that shd should Sacrjfice her husband and deny everytotug tor Mr. Beecher’s sake; she felt uuder the circum- stances she would be justified in telling a lle, Q. Now, madam, are you quite sure as to her saying she would sacrifice her husband to justity Mr. Beecher, to save hersel(? A. Yes, sir. Q. That she said she would tella lie? A. Yes, sir, I I can’t as to the word she used—thav she used the word lic; she sald sne would deny everything. Q. But aia she say she would lie aboutit? A, Ifshe dian’t use the word “ie” she used *faise- od.” Q. Did she say she should tell a falsehood? A, Yes, sir. Q. One or the other, a A ‘Yes, sir, Q. Did you go to your house satisfied that the errand had succeeced ? A. Lhave never felt that any errand of mine has ever veen successiul. Q. in this business? A. No, sir. . VO you remember, Mrs. Moulton, about Mr. Beecher’s portrait having been brought to your house? A. I remember it was brought there. Q. Do you remember when that was? A. I don’t remember the year, whether we had it in Clinton I don’t remember, Q. No recoliection ? A, Not as to that. Q. But still you can recollect whether it has been in your house @ number of years? A, We have lived in one house for the last three or jour years—four years, I think; IL think it has been in our house since we lived in Remsen street . Ever since? A. I think it has, “Me” or “falsehood ? . Now, Where was it hung? A. Inthe front | arior. y Q. And at any time was it removed from that place? A. I removed it—yes, sir, . When? A. This last autumn, & Put another portrait inits place? A. Yes, sir, Q. Where was Mr. Beecher’s portrait put? A. Mr. Keecher’s portrait still. stands on the mantel piece, in our iront room, second story, Q. This room? A. {tis a sitting room. Q Nota bedroom? A. Not at present; it is not a bedroom. Q. Was it a bedroom when the portrait was put there? pled that room— Q. But it is the sitting room? A. Yes, sir, Q. It ts tho room in which the interviews took lice, and there it has remained, has it not? A. es, SUF, hi Not this Wag last venr A. ‘This last autumn, Q. And of colt . Mr. Beecher’s abtisned a A att SIT... ee Bh ta t. réhiember While TF, Beecher's por- trait wasin the parior that Mr. Moulton had gas+ lights arranged especially to display it? A. Not especially to show that picture; we have several of Mr. Page’s plcvures, and he had them arranged to show tne different pi ‘e8 In the room, cluding this? A. Including that, yes, sir. . Ini gy know Mir, Andrew Mclean? A. 1 have s Rati er . He 18 a Brooklyn man? A. Yes, sir, . Do you remember a coaoversation with him about Mr. Beecher, looking at that portratt— snowing it to him? A. I don’t understand the question, Q. Doyou remember & conversation with that entieman While you were exhibiting to bim Mr. Beecher's portraity A. I never remember ex- bibisne, Mr. Beecher’s portrait to him particu- arly. Q. Do you remember in November or December, 1872, in your parlor expressing to Mn Andrew McLean, tn view of and in reference to the portratt of Mr. Beecher, your confidence in and admiration for him A. [think I expressed my admiration for Mr. Beecher; I don’t remember now the exact conversation, bat I think that { expressed perhaps my admiration of Mr. Beecher; but certainly not my confidence, Q. You are quite sure you didn’t say “conf. | dence}? A. I am quite sure; I don’t remember the exact conversation we had; 1 have always spoken to everyoody of my admiration for Mr. Beecher. Q. Didn’t you say to Mr. McLean that he was a pure man? Q. And a good man? A. 1 don’t remember to have said that. Q. And entirely innocent of the Woodhull charges? A. No, sir, I never said that to anybody, Q. Nothing o1 that kind? A. No, sir, never to anybody. . Do you now remember having had a conver- sation with Mr. McLean? A. l remember Mr. Mc- ig our parlor for Mr. Mouiton; I remember his calling attention to Mr. Beecher’s portrait; [tnink quite likely [expressed my ad- miration for Mr. Beecher, which I bave never failed to do. Q. Never what? A. Ihave always expressed my admiration for Mr. Beecher. Q. Now, are you quite sure you dian’t say to Mr. McLean a8 a part of your admirauen for Mr, Beecher tnat he was apure man? A, | certainly have never said that to anybody. Q. Can you give ime the language that you dia use to Mr. McLeau In expressing your admiration for Mr. Beecher? A, No, sir, 1 cannot. Q. Do you remember an occasion of Miss Faith. full, Who, Ithink, was an English Evangelist, being here? A. Yes, sir. Q Ana your giving her a reception at your house? A. I don’t think we gave her a recep- tion; she spent six Weeks with us; during that time I don’t remember that we ever hau any re- ception. ’ Q. Didn't you have either a social reception, a levée, or a public—or a meeting of invited gues On the occasion of Mrs, Faithfull, Miss Faithfull | being at you house ? A. We invited a number of friends to meet her, but never gave any reception or levee, or any large entertainment, ° , Q A. Not that [ remember, Q. Weill, did you take part tn any pudlic recep- tion elsewhere than at your own house for Misa Faithfull? 4. 1 went with Miss Faithiull to Stein. | way Hal', where she delivered a lecture, and I remember attending @ reception given by Miss ; Bullard to Miss Faithfull. Q. Of Twenoty-ninth street, New York? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you remember calling upon Mr. Beecher and inviting him to preside at that? A. Tue re cepuon of Miss Bullard? Q. Yes? A. No, sir; [don’t remember that I in- vited him, Q. When? A. At the Steinway Hall meeting; I Perhaps asked him to f° there; I don’t think I asked him to preside; I don’t remember at an; ‘view saying to Mr. Beecoer this iu effect, * am airatd that my husband and Mr. Tilton have overreached you;" Ldo pot remember anything of that kind; I never satd to any one thac my husband and Mr, Tilton had overreached the otd man (rea Mr. Beecher); I ‘aid 1 jeared my husband would hardly be able to keep the matter viet, The witness was then questioned as to the fre- uency of Mr. Beecher’s visits to her house, jhe replied =he had = frequently visited the house during the past four years, and that during that period there was a do not remember positively; I cannot ix the aate | at all; know it was alter my Interview with Mr. | ber uow long I saw her; | remember visiting her | A. No, sir; the reason we have not occu- | A. I don’t remember that I said that. | ! ; daly, last year, | waa very near | time when he calied twice every day; Mr. | ragansett; Beecher often came to see Frank to get comfort and strength and courage to go ou: Mr. Beecher Was ipvited to our house, but 4 cannot many times Mr. Moulton invited nim ; ¢ on which Mr, Beocher vook me by parlor was in the spring or fall of 1871; he walkea up and down the floor and asked me if I knew | anything of his sorrow; | said I did; he said be knew l expressed sympathy for him; 1 can’t say what time in 1871 tais interview was; the witness then descrived the interview where Mr. Beecher said he was worn out and heart broken and ut- terly without comfort or hope, and then he lay down onthe lounge; he said he had come to see me aod Mr. Mouiton. Mrs. Mouitou, you remember when Mr. Beecher calied at your house and had a long talk | with you about this trouble r A. Yes, sir. Q. Now, tell us the language Mr. Beecher used on that occasion, as near as you can remember 1v; | state what you sald and what he sald. Witness—He began by saying he was despondent and disheartened; he expressed great sorrow and Misery, and deplored its falling upon himsell and children; he said he was very sorry lor what he had done with Mrs. ‘Iilton; sald that he had re- pented and now felt better fitted to preach; he was sorry that Mrs. Tilton had coniessed to her husband; aiter laying on the so'a tor a while he got up and walked up and down the room, with the tears streaming down his cheeks; he said, “It Is ee hard, after a long Ite of usefulness, I should be brought to this fear and death ;” I wold him there was only one way le(t for him, ana tuat was by coniessing it; 1 said, “If you will only go down to your church and acknowledge all that is charged against you your peo- ple will torgive ‘ou; you have been y guilty of a great crime, and will bave now to take the 1Ull responsibility of it;”” 1 told him if he woula acknowledge the crime that Frank would stand by him to the last; 1 vold nim how sad It was to have lost my faith in him; I have never beard you preach since lL knew of this crime that | aid not think you were doing wrong; I bave always believed you as the one good man im the world, and now you have destroyed my faith; | won't go to church until you have proved your repentance by maging a confession ; the people will stand by you and lorgive you the crime i! you say yon sin- cerely desire forgiveness; J told him I would pot | believe in his true repentance unless he did 30; tt | was very hard for Mr. Tilton and his friends to be traduced, and he, Mr, Beecher, need have no fear he would not receive him —— Mr. Evarts—This is what you sald to him? Mr. Beach objected totne interruption of the Witness in the narrative, Witness resuming—1 told him Mrs, Tilton was Not a bad woman at heart; Mr. Beecher went on | to say that he wauted me tobe kind to her and treat ber well;.he said there was no more hope for him; that HE WOULD COMMIT SUICIDE; te! Le he had no fear of death, but rather longed or it. Q. Did you believe at that time he would commit | suicide ? A, Yes, sir, at that time; he sald that he passed through great remorse and mental suf- Jering; that when he went home he was com- poles to put on a pleasant smile, and that when ie went In his pulpit he had to appear at his best. Q. At what time did he come to your house at that interview? A, About two o'clock; about lunch time, Q. Mrs, Moulton, did you not (Ge that Mr. Beecher sent a message by you to Mrs. Tilton ? Now, what time was it that you were asked to bring that message? A, Idon’t remember the tune; he would always ask me when he calle@ at my house if I had seen Mrs, Tuton; | can’t say ex- sous when It was that he sent a message by me to her. Q. Can you not tell about the time hesent the Message you refer to to Mrs. Tilton? A. 1 donot recollect; he sens messages by me to her at differ- ent umes, Q. When was the first time he sent a message by you toner? A, lL cannottell the first time, Q. How long alter the long interview be- tween Mr. Beecaer and yourself was it that he sent the first message? A. Lt was Deore that in- terview, Q. Was the first message sent in 1871 or 72? A. I can’t tell now whether it Was im '71 or ’T2, Q. Where did any interview occur when he sent messages by you to Mrs. Tilton and about what time was it? A, He asked me nearly always to take messages to her; he asked me to find out if she was in ueed of apy luxurtes; he told me to tell her for his sake, if not tor her own, to be kind to Mr. Tilton. Q. There is, then, no other message that you re- member, except this one you speak of now, of Unis mature? A. He told me be had no faith tu her; she was alltho time making tt worse and worse. Q. What was the general character of Mr. Beecher’s messages to Mrs. Tilton? A, Mr. Beecher’s messages were always kind and affec- tionate; be told me she could have everytning she needed, aud to be hopeiul and courageous; | don’t remember the time she was living with her mother. Q. Mrs, Moulton, after receiving this note, dated June 1, 1873, you wave said you had a conversation | with Mr. Beecner on the Monday after that date. | What day of the week was June i? A. I don’t | know the day of the week; I remember tne letter; | that 1s the only way | nave of fixing the date. Q. Now, how do you fix the time of Mr. beecher’s calling at your house? A. Mr. Beecher caied at my house on the next day to see Mr, Mouiton, Q. Was Mr. Moulton in the house when he calied? A. Mr, Moultom was in the bouse at the time. Q. Was this conversation which you have given between Mr. Beecher and yoursell the lasi one you had with bim? A, It was not tne last one, sir, he had with me; the last conversation we had was in 1874, Q Now, between Jnne 2, 1873, and the 18th of July, 1874, was there any other interviewg which you baa with Mr. Beecher ofany importance? a. On One occasion be met me at my house and thanked me Jor my sympathy and kindness, and said I was one of the best Iriends that he hud ever had. Q. Now, was this visit of July 13 to you or to Mr. Mou'ton? A, The visit of Mr. Beecher was to my husband, Q. Did yon remain in the room during the Inter- view o! Mr, Beecher with your husband? A. I was not present at that interview; my conversation was with Mr. Beecher belore my huspand came; their conversation was held iu the study; Mr, Moulton was in the house when he called; he was preparing to go somewhere when Mr. Beecher Calied ; 1t Was beiore evening at the time; Lasked ian Beet to come up stair: tu me to the A re a Seen Q. "3wlong did you remain in conversation wiih him on that occasion? A, The time passed there was, I shouid say, about ten or tiiteen min- utes belore my husband came up. . Q. How did that conversation come about? Mrs. Moulton, please state what passea between you and Mr. Beecher. What occurred there? A. I satg to Mr. Beecher, ‘Mr. Moulton is very angry With you, Mr, Beecher. Whathave you done? Hoe is angry witn you because you have called the Churca Investigating Committee without consult- ing him in the matter.” He said it was against his better judgment that it had been done; Frank then came info thé room, and | went down siairs; when Mr. Beecher went down stairs at the end 0! his iutérview with my husband I followed him; rr. Moulton said to Mr. Beecher, ‘Well, Mr. | eecher, you think my statement delore tue cum- | mittee an honorable one?’ and Mr. Beecher ap ewered, “Yes, sir; 1 do, sir; 1 said to him, “Do you know what Air. Yilton. intends to do?” and he said he did not; I told him Mr. Tiiton was going tO publish a statement of facts jor the public “THAT WILL RUIN YOU, MR. BEECHER;’’ I said to Mr. Beecher, ‘He wilt publish that letter 1 con/ession ;” he sald, “if it is published it will be @ breach oi contract; he bad made no confes- gion; Itolad him i meant the letter of apology given in confidence to Frank; he said it would be & breach of faitn if that was published; be said, “Lat them come on and do their worst, they cans | not ruin me;” Tsaid 1 aidn’s know what todo; Mr. Tilton had been long a friend o! ours; that he had suffered a long time, and tbat he couldn’t en- dure i: any longer; I satd, “If you had taken my advice at first aad made a confession of your crime it would ave been all right now; your church would have forgiven you;” he said he would never do that; he would never confess; he would die veiore he would make any confession. | Q. Well, as to Mr. Tilton’s intentions to publish ascatement, of which you told Mr. Beecner, how did you come to know anything about them? A, Tread a card from Mr. Tilton which was puolshed in the Zagle, Q. Was there anything tn that card about Mr. ‘Tiiton’s intending to bring @ suit atlaw? A, No, sir. Q. Then, how did you know that he was going to bring suit against Mr. Beecher? A. 1 heard Mr, Tilton Say that we would. Q. How long before re toid Mr. Beecher this was it that you heard Mr. Tilton say he would bring suit? A. 1 beard him make the remark about it a day or two bejore that; it was, I think, about the time of the puvlication of the Bacon let- ter that 1 heard this irom Mr. Tilton; to the best of my recollection that was the period; 1 mention that period because at that time Mr. Tiiton was very muci worried and wrought up about tt by his friends and the news- papers; lf he did not make the tireat at that tme I do not remember any previous time when he made it, Q. ‘this communication that you made to Mr. leecher, did you do that by the request of any one? No, tir: my busband did not know tnat 1 was going to do 80. Q. Can you give us any information as to the Sunday tn December when Mr. Tilvon or Mr. Tracy ‘Was at your house—on tne Sunday n December, is72?_ A. | don’t remember eting Mr. Tracy with Mr. Mouiton there tnen. Q. Can you net remember wnat Sunday in Des cember you saw Mr. Tracy there? A. Mr, Tilton was there so olten that | do not remem- ber what particu‘ar Sunday he was there. Q. Do you remember a Sunday when Mr, Tracy, Mr. Tilton, Mr. Franklin Woodruff and Mr. Moul- ton were at your house and took tea there to- ether in December, 1872? A. Ido recoilect Mr. racy and Mr. Woodruff calling, but ! have no recollection of their being there at tea togetners I oan’t tell you what Sunday ir December that was, Q Mrs. Moulton, when were you first intormed that you were to be a witness In tuis casey A. In the latter end of July, 1874; tended to be @ witness; it Was soon alter the puo- lication of Lhe statement thas | iearned that | was to be @ witness. Q Did you mean that you thought you were to be @ wicness before the Plymouth church commit | tee? A. No, sir. 9. What suit was it then? A. J understood that if the case ever come to trial in the courts that I Was to be a witness. Q Were you expecting to be a witness before the charch committee, or only in case a lawsuit came ont A. ft aidn’t expect to be a witness be fore the church committee; in the latter part of @osent from the city at Nare leit Brooklya aiter tug Loth of July. the hand in the | 8 | grages, if he a it first from ech istinéss hé thay ¢ ts cant Sympathy by and by. If amean fellow can cannot; | 1n the Piimpton Building. After the transi of the regniar business the lecturer of the even: | have ever since in- | Q. Was it before or after you left town you un- | derstood you were going to bea witness? A, L think it was afier, Mr, Evarts—Now, Your Honor, the neual hour of adjournment has arrived, and [ shall not be able to close my examination to-day, ‘The court was then adjourned ull Tuesday next at eleven o’cloce, 4 VISIT TO PLYMOUTH'S PASTOR, aeeenemeeneet In view of the damaging testimony to the defendant’s cuuse in the great Brooklyn scandal case given yesterday on the witness stand Mrs. Frank by D, Moulton a represen- tative of the HERALD paid a visit to the Rev. Henry Wara Beecher last night in order to obtain, If possible, some ex- Pression of opinion from him as to what construc- tion he could put upon @ story 80 succinctly wold and at the same time so damaging. The evi- dence adduced from three of the witnesses who have been examined since the beginning of the week have so far greatly added to the weight and quantity of cumulative tacts which are daily being put in the scale against Mr. Beecher. It was with a desire to afford him an opportunity of making an explanation of these so far uncontroverted facts that an interview was sought with bim last evening. The defendant in the “great case” was found | at bis comfortable residence on Columbia Heights, It was only after some minutes alter the HERALD representative was admitted to the hall that Mr. Beecher was visible, and then he evidently only came out from the parlor after a consultation with numerous friends. [n reply to the questions put to him Mr. Beecher said under present cir- cumstances it would, he thought, be highly improper for to make any re- mark whatever on the evidence. The time would come when bis side of the question would be heard, but for the present he must decline to say anything. His counsel would not approve of any such action on his part. At this point a gentleman descended the and said to Mr. Beecher that he was wanted up stairs. Mr. Beecher thereupon evinced a great desire to be rid of his interrogator which was, under the circumstances, appreciated and Fespected, ‘nile the conversation was being held, how- ever, the reporter noticed that the hat rack in the hall had every peg covered with @ hat, and some of these had a singular resemblance to those noticed as having been by the counsel during the trial. This naturally | led to the inference that a conference of the legal luminaries was being held upon the significant facts adduced during the day. It was found im- possibie, however, to definitely ascertain who were present, but there was reason to believe that among the conclave were Messrs, Tracy, Shearman, Porter and Keady. This council evi- dently lasted until a late hour, for no one was seen to leave the Beecher mansion until shortly before midnight, worn PLYMOUTH PRAYER’ MEETING. MR. BEECHER ON THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. Plymouth lecture room was unusually crowded last evening, every possible space being occupied, After prayers by Brothers Hutchinson and Hart, followed by hymn 776, Mr. Beecher satd>—The at- tentive study of the four evangelists will snow that the Sermon on the Mount has nol been re- ported by any one of them In tts fulness. Vor ex- ample, the Lord’s Prayer introduced in Matthew 1s \ollowed by a commentary on the subject of fore giveness, being the only one in which a commen- tary is made. In Luke, the same prayer being given, no commentary follows, but an exhorta- tion on THB USE OF PRAYER. It is probable the Sermon on the Mount was In- terlocutory. itis probable questions were inter- changed and topics brought up not given in toe text. In Luke, In the eleventh chapter, it says:— “Which of you shall bave a friend, and shal! go | unto him at midnight and say onto nim, Friend, | lend me three loaves; fora friend of mine in his journey is come to me and I have novning to set before him. And be from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not; the door is now shut | and my children are with me in bed. I cannot | rise and give thee. 1 say unto you, thougn he will | not rise and give him because he is his iriend, yet because of his importunity be will rise and give him as many ashe needeth. And [say unto you, Ask and itshall be given you, seck and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.” Then, in the eighteenth chapter of Luke, ‘‘And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought alwaysto pray,and not to Jain.; saying, there was iD @ City a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: and there was a widow in that city; amd she came unto bim, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary, And be would not fora ! while: but afterward he sald within himself, ‘Though I fear not God, nor regard man. yet | because this widow troubdieth me, I will avenge uer, lest by her continual coming she weary me.” I thick there is an UNCONSCIOUS CONSPIRACY in the world to take away our God; and one of the most dungerous forms 13 the decrease of faith | of men in the eflicacy and reasonabieness of | praver. It is a Conspiracy that comes to teach | thst, though there may be a God, we can never find Him out; He is inaccessible. To admit that prayer has no use, no efficacy, is to destroy the power of God and to practically take the pres- ence of God from us. It certainly rips up the New Testament, jor the one thing our Masier insists on is prayer in its intensity aad appiicution. So, if anything tends ig dimin ‘Att N’PRAYER, it is the first step to destroying God Himself, Now, let us look at ootn these parables tn Luke; they are stumoling-blocks at first. A man comes al 73 Ly friend (it i8 8 good thing is BAY £54 sta HAC mes) Tate), ana, the | man says, “Don’t plague me; 1 éan’t get ol Is not that @ mean person? A honey nefghbor, a hungry friend, asks so simple a thing as tread, | and because he is sleepy he won't get up; and yet it coes on; not because he ts a friend, bur because Of is importunity; not because he ts generous, but when he keeps knocking and keeping him awake it awakes nis meanness and ne says, [ shall never get to sleep; I might as well give it to him, and so tt is the lowest instinct in his nature which mal bim do a kind thing. Now, if the lowest form of nature makes men do kiad things, rising in gucce: be compelled to give, how much more would he give if be had * higher motive? If a man, even for the sake of relieving himseli from tmportunity, will give bread to the poor, how much more shail your Father, who js the EPITOME OF VINTUB AND GOODNESS? If selfishness will give, what will the ail-full hand of God do to those whom God loves and pities ? Take tne unjust judge. When tne poor widow | cried to mim to be delivered from her adversaries he says, “I won't; she can’t pay any fee; she can’t put her hand behind her and have money putinit.” But she pleads, she sticks to him, and by and by he says, ‘I don’t care for God; I don’t care for man; but this widow stick’s like a flea. I had better get rid of her;’ and so jor the lowest reason, pure personal convenience, he saya, “still, | will’? Now, then, if he can be | made to do a Just thing through the lowest form Of bis nature, now much more would he do from | higher motives? If the meanest of men, caring only for himself, would for that reason hear the cry Of distress, how much more will He who never | sleeps, who 18 always watching, betore whom not @ Sparrow can fall to the ground unseen. jow take into cousideration the intensity with which He urges nien to prayer. Not to go down on our knees before an imaginary God, ana feel that | he pure, quiet thoughts will do you good by re- action, But it 1s stringently tanght that prayer 18 not unavailing. Prayer is not a sudsti- | tute for your own exertions, nor can we | | Understand how God answers prayer. Men sup- pose they can prove that God cannot answer | prayer, for if He aid tt would break some wheel in | the universe. The augels take turns in grinding | out events day by day, and if they should stop to | answer prayer something would clash. Now I | don’t undertake to say prayer ts answered in a way we can comprehend; out God can do it, either with or without natural laws, Men’s lives | teach that prayer is good. Let no man take away | the glory of that veliei, and when the aays are dark and disappointments many there is a golden | gate for you. God ts the tower, the high rock of | Our defence, our shield and buckier, the captain of | our salvation, and if God ve torus who shail be against us? LIBERAL CLUB. The weekly meeting of the Liberal Club took place last evening at the rooms of the association ton ing, the Rev. W. R, Alger, of the Church of the Messiah, Was announced, tis subject was “Ine @ Uses and Characteristics of Poetic Literaiure.” | | The lecturer saia that man was given three ways | by which to give expression to the inner thought; | One Was by delineation, the second by mimett gesture and the vnird by speech, vaken advantage Oo! by the painter and sculptor, the second by the actor, the third by the author, | The last was the greatest of the three. as express- | | Ing ali the inner thoughts of man audibly, so as to Dring instant recognition bY other men. | gathered The first wae | > 2 was the depiction of last was the which was creative, Throug it brought the mind into thought, and brought man ihe near sor. God was tle greatest poet a The poet trausfgured ail that was r the actual, The form est lew Ore- i inte we ideal and deait with a range of feeling which was the most subtle in humau nature, and spoke oe 1e the essence of our of mankind first four divisions of _Iiterature; only the most gifted, the most godiil could seize the vast realm of the @itn and bring tt down to the rance of language. Most of us have language at times in our soul to express that which will not assume tangible form. It was the poet only who could seize these and transfer them to si language as to be understood by others, The most exquisite things in nature, tho fiotion of ap imaginary life, were his. The iecture was an exceedingly interestin, and was listened to by a large and appreciative auuience. After the lecture several new members were admitted. THE DEATH PENALTY, most spiritual commonplace brain, dealt im one, EXECUTION YESTERDAY OF IKE HOOPER, THB MURDERER OF HOWARD LATTERWHITE, AT AUGUSTA—THE FINAL SCENE—SKETCH OF THE DETAIS OF THE CRIME—THE FATAL BESULTS OF A DRUNKEN BRAWL. AuGusta, Ga., Feb, 19, 1875, lke Hooper, & colored man, was execnutea here this morning, in tbe yard of the jail, for the mur- der of Howard Latterwhite, The execution was comparatively private, there not being more than fifteen persons present as witnesses of tne dread- ful legal penalty, Among these, however, was the father of tne condemned mav, who Yemained to the last, a painful spectator of the dying agonics of his soa Dure ing the night Hooper slept for about an hour anda half, At hall-past seven o'clock he arose, and shortly afierward he attended service im the chapel of the jail, where mass was cele- brated by Father Lechner. At ten o'clock he was brought down from his cell to the hall below. Father Lechner prayed with him. He kissed the cross, the Sheri@ read the death warrant, his arms were pinioned and he was then Jed to the scaffold. fe ascended without any aasistance, When asked if he had anytning to say he replied that he had not, The fatal noose was then adjusted around the neck of the wretched man; the black cap was lowered over the face; the priest and Sherif descended; the bolt was withdrawn, and in a few moments Hooper had exptated his crime by his death, The body was suspended jor thirty-three minutes, and alter @ funeral service in tne Catholic church was buried in the adjoining graveyard, THR CRIMB. On the night of the 12th day of December, 1873, about half-past eleven o’clock, a colored man by the name of Howard Latterwhite was killed on South Boundary street by ike Hooper, also @ negro. Latterwhite was a regular member of the band of the Ogiethorpe Infantry; Hooper was & brass band musician, belonged to no regular organization, but played whenever called upon. On the night in question both men had turned out as volunteers iw Gardner's Band, which went to South Boundary street at the hour named for the purpose of serenading some colored friends of the band. While on the road the band stopped at Johansen’s barroom, where Hooper drank cee of wine, whiskey and Jay beer. After the band had completed a serenade the members of it started back, when Hooper became boisterous and very disorderly. HE WANTED SATISFACTION, Hooper said that there were four or five damned rascals in that band he intended to Rave satisiac- tion out of The leader, Garaner, told him to hush ap or go home, to which he paia po atten- tion, but became more disorderly than ever. Several members remonstrated with him and toid him he ought to obey the leader, but they im turn were abused by the now thoroughly infa- lated Hooper. THE MURDER, Finally Howara Latterwnite requested him to step to one side, and there tried to calm him. In afew moments afterward ail the members near by heard Latterwhice exciaim, “O Lord! am mur dered!” Upon running up toev found him down on his hands and knees, the blood gushing 10 tor- rents from a wound in the neck, He was picked up and carried to hts home on McKinne strect ana a physician sent lor. The doctor found that a dirk bad deen thrust into his neck, ranging downward and entering the lett jung. He died about half- past one o'clock. FLIGHT OF HOOPER. Alter the stabbing Hooper fled across the river to Graniteville, but upou the following day was arrested, brought back and lodged in jail. At the following April term of tae Richmond county Su- perior Court, the Grand Jury having re- turned a true bill, be was duly tned and convicted of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced by the Court to death in September; but lus attorneys appealed the case to the Supreme court of Georgia, and upon the day he was to die the case had not been de- cidea, The Supreme Court did not reach it until January, and affirined tue decision of tne Court beiow. Hooper was thereupon brought out and again sentenced to death, A petition went up to the Governor last week, numerously signed by white citizens, asking that the penalty be reduced to imprisonment for lite. Tne Governor sent a despatch to the Sheriff telling him to inform Hooper that he would not interfere, aud to prepare for.death. He was attended on Monday by a Catholic priest, Hooper being a meme ber of that Church, and he hag since been prepar- ing to meet his awfai doom. ‘The clergy have been in almost constant sttendance upon him since paene doom has been known to be inev- itable, THE FLORAL PARK MURDER. THE PRISONER'S VERSION OF THE AFFAIR—THB CASE CLOSED. The trial of Frederick Schetbe for the alleged murder of Jacod Schulta was resumed at Jersey City yesterday. The prisoner was placed on the stand and he testified as follows:— 1 am twenty-six years of ag cook and steward; on the 2is: Floral Park with the target cot Joined them on the march when the; The streets; lett them utterwards on my occupation is thatof of October last | was at nyany: Was not a member; %, Paraded through lontgomery street; wentio my house and changed my coat; subsequently saw ‘them above the Paterson, plank road and followed them {o the picnic grounds, got there about noon; remained there througliout the ‘afternoon ; don’t remeinber hav- ing any direct quarrel with Captain Becker at the din- ing room door in the evening: was sligatly uoder the influence of liquor; know | made an effort to get into the dining saloon at that time; previous to that] went into the saloon adjoining’ and got a bowl of Jelly and came out cating it; Otlcer Kiein then came up and helped to eat it; was eating it with my kuite; waen it was emptied I threw the vow! away ip te bushes and deposited the Knile in my pocket; have no recollection of having a quare-l with Becker before j went up the stoop to xo nto the dinmg saloon, a Was endeavoring to get 1m when somebody struck me, then called out, “You son of a b—h!” don’t Know w struck me; saw no one do it; was not acquainted with Captain Becker; did not him at the door to my Hon; after T cailed out the name | went down, fo the front of the stairs; can’t tell when Struck; When T got’ to. ‘the bottom a crowd around me and commenced (to beat broke away ang ran a distance of about fifteen or ity leet toward the stabie, which leads outof the they overtook me and beat me again; again 4 ran toward the Weavertown road about nL was struck on the back of the umbie and fall; while tw: somebody kicked me in the 3 to protect myself and drew out Fe i Park broxe away Sixiy feet, Whe: which caused me t the act of getting Tthen determin T don’t remember doing anythin) rn . weapon: several men ‘hen seized me; sand, ‘or, God's sake protect me” to the men; a large number of excited men then rushed on me and again beas and Kicked me: during the struggic [ broke away and back toward the barn and fell on the manure be: rowd who followed again fell on me veral hen released and protected me; don't remember bein, aken into the dining room; have no recollection ‘what happened atier that because I was contased; was not kequainiea wiih the deceased ; don't remetaver ever secing im in my life; knew some members of the com- an’t say who beat me, there were so many ; can’t kicked mein the face while [ was trying self; there were about thirty-flve men aroun: ve no knowledge of using the kuite; 1 protecte t my lie was \yrthe'anmerei{ul, manner me; the Jears were cau: e unmer in whicn 1 was getting beat; don’t know what became of the knife, owing to the excitement; have not seen it since that time to my knowledge; did not know the men who released and proveeied me were oiticers; don’t think they wore uniforms: 1 them to protect mo, Decatise [thought I woald get led; don't recollect whether the crowd threatened me; could not reco, oe 3 as any of the crowd when they, manure heap; know Charles visit to the jait after my arrest, received him coolly, dia not like his company: don't know whethel feasted me why T stabbed = chultz; did not say I was drunk, nor that I twisted the knife in the wound; did not have any such conversation; he appeared w be toxicated. Crosa-examined— e knife found in the Park shown my kare, bought it to ase for gen- ir ago; had it in my pos urreds don't remember room between a man's rk; ho ight n. as T got the bow! of jelly; 1 mi | mincht have stolen it: when th | ran; they caugnt me and and can past pace. whe! I sramblea and fell; when ge face ; don’t remember taking out done so while running: as 0} was e before fount the weapon in-my Pat mayyelt with na "t recollect ve paid for it or rst attack ve m | Literature was divided into five classi- | ications, which took their order as fol- | lows:—First, history; second, science; third, hilosophy; fourth, reltgion, and fifth, Ristory was a mefe recital Of past events Science was @ description of bare incontrovertubie | facts, Philosophy was the attempt to explain the | Ways of a natare imperfectly understood, Relig: ‘ton was the depenience of @ man on a higuer ‘unity, While Poetry grasped in itsel! the attributes of all by the glow of the imagination, speaking in | words offre. -The fret jour of these | | | poetry. | ison w it (pr er went 4 ni pores nani remember. swinging Wich BY at Mow whether it cumfe. tn coutmet é; have no reco'lection of throwing it ; | don know what became of it alter. that; | Lran for the purpose of escaping peetne pT) I cenothing from the time 1 was reso 1 the (ole } Gots mornings hed wens sadics: enous " “hot «cl 2'8 Ae ‘ trite: i Boaversad ‘o: don't rememper what he said. | The case was here closed, Mr, Stout spoke for two nours to evidence for the delence, The case will be given to the jury to-day.