The New York Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1875, Page 4

4 THE “RAGGED EDGE” THIAL General Tracy Concludes His Open- ing Argument. MOULTON MRS. CRITICISED. The Newspaper Scheme a Case of Blackmail. SUBSISTED. HOW TILTON Bowen’s Part in the Drama of Revenge. THE “TRIPARTITE” General Tracy proceeded on the fourth day of Bis opening address ior Mr. Beecher’s defence with fair audience. He was now surrounded with all the trappings of a lyceum lecturer, A raised reading stana, coverea with a figured red cloth, was placed on the attorney's table, and tne Manuscript, carefully written out, was deposited ima portfolio. There General Tracy stood and read in the most afflicting and miserable manner a series of careful sentences, which should bave risen up and rébuked their renderer. The impu- tation that Tracy is as vain as the Plymouth co- terie in general wil! not stand in view of the slip- e@hod, sleepy, sbambling way their own autor Yepeated these sentences, the product of his ma- ture mind, in the most important cause he ever wied. That ne was aware of the im- portance of the case was plain enough, for he told the jury that their duty ‘Was the most important ever rendered by any Jury of twelve men in the past 1800 years. Here there is an anachronism, as the jury system has no such antiquity, but as the period named ap- proaches the origin of the Christian era it was, perhaps, @ convenient way of avoiding, while Droaching, @ parallel between tne Preacher of 1800 years ago and the preacher of 1830-1875. TRACY'S ELOQUENCE. Many of Mr. Tracy’s sentences in the morning ‘Were quite eloquent. His reference to Mr. Beecher as “this old man mortgaging the root tree that sheltered bis aged wite” and then receiving from ‘Tilton @ card inscribed, “Grace, mercy 4nd peace’? as the receipt for the remittance of this mortgage money, was rendered with a tremulous voice and the band raised over Mr. Beecher’s face, the orator, meantime, shedding tears. Mr. Beecher, however, aid not weep. After the recess ITacy spoke with a languor de- Tived irom somnoience and imparting it. He bas Deen hardariven in composing portions of his speech, as he expected the plaintif® to introduce more Witnesses. Tracy’s references to Mrs. Moul- ton yesterday bore every appearance, by the low toned, stumbling address in which they were deliv- ered, of having been cut down (rom some stronger characterization. He showed the intention of Proving an alibi by Mrs. Beecher on the date of the alleged interview of June 2, 1873. Here there was a piece of bad art in not separating wider the imputation on Mrs, Moulton and the authority of Mrs. Beecher. Tracy had charged that a wife ‘Would take the witness stand to save the lather of her only child (meaning Mrs.Moulton), even by perjury. Im the next breath he promised that Mrs. Beecher would acquit her husband by her testimony. THEORY OF THE DEFENCE, Mr. Tra¢y charged that the offence Mr. Beecher bad committed was “a complicated transaction, including details dificult of just or exact state. ment.” He therefore said that he would not try Vo state what this complication was, but would prove bis case, and that would explain the letters, while the letters would explain themselves. He read @ letter, the date being Gxed as prior to Mrs, ‘Tilton’s alleged fall from virtue, and elucidated the idea that the Plymouth coterie had a great deal of despair in mere phraseology, and were prone to exaggeration. Toe Judge on the bench listened Janguidly to alt this, Keeping order and conversing witn Samuel Nelson White, a grandson of the great old Judge Samuel Nelson, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and with two law students from Dwignt Coliege. SMILES ALL ROUND. Mr. Evarts listened to the drawling, school roum elocution ef his colleague, with bis hands be- aind his head, his chair cocked back, and now and thea Tracy jooked to bim and smiled suggestively. Edward Beecher, with his red face, thick lips and fringe oi white beard, w. tthe opposite end of the tabie, bis head vetweenthe palms of his bands, and at the least opportunity he broke into a per- fectiy jovial and hearty laugh. Mr. Beecuer jJaughed, too, wien Tracy commented upon Beech- er’s delight that Mrs. Moulton knew his secret, aa at least one woman could now keep asecret. His wife wasin good spirits and appearance most of the aay, but Mr. Beecher himself showea more varie- tues of uneasiness and mental suffering thanatany time im the case, His color was a very bright pink, with flashes at moments, and in bis face was gn expression of wistfuiness and hopefuiness, asif @ critical moment bad been reached and every ‘word of his counsel was of gravity. He watched the jary ali day, bis eyes swimming, his ‘orehead ‘wrinkled at times, and in perfect antithesis of nis older, less mentally alert and duller brother, Edward. The latter hada good-natured, vacant countenance, dozed with fatigue and old age for Jorty winks, and then came up smiling. Henry's Jace was oftem like an animated grape, where every raddy or purple vein pulsated with au immer agitation. Some of the old descrip. tions written of the great preacher’s sorrow and pain seemed scarcely exaggerations yester- day. Mrs. Beecher’s complexion is bleached al- most periectiy white, and her hair being of the Same hue she brings into stronger relief the high color of her husband. Mrs, Cojone! Beecher was also in the Court yesterday, a tidy, smiling young womau. Plymouth church was ont in force, but there was much moving in the audience and the clicking of the door was unintermittent as one person or one group slipped ont and let another in. The snow came fine and ferce all day, driving the tramps and corner loungers into the iobbies of the Court, so tmat cold toes without and deep mental indifference witnin were the alternatives, HARD WORKING NEWS WRITERS. There is one set of men in the court room who heid & very large space of the floor, yet are sel- dom woked at or spoken to by lawyers, the Judge Br the principals in the triai—the reporters and correspondents. The amounc of work done by these men is prodigious. One Western newspaper is printing the trial verbatim and editorial tele- grams besides. The Chicago papers are compet- img with nearly equal enterprise, and scarcely an issue Of any daily journal in this country is deati- Bute of an editorial article upon the latest devel- @pments of tne trial. From the court room the Gespateh and messenger boys go every few min- ‘Utes to the telegraph station. Nota gesture cor QB expression occurs unnoted. TILTON KREPING TALLY. Tneodore Tilton has heard every word of Tracy's oe wae hours O1 solid reading—wWirn bis dish, lengthening jace casting up ‘he effect of the sentences in its wrinkles, is chair is cocked beck; Bis hands are in bi b siowly and gentiy by the le Watching the jury and occ Beecher. Mr. Beach alone of Tilton istened to the whole of Mr, Tracy’ Feapect(ui attention. The peroration yesterday was delivered with a slow, religious impressiven and brought a Found of a) y. Mr, Beecher 0 counsel tas speeca with Mr, Beecher is expected to take the stand m MR. TRACY'S SPEECH. The Court assomvied at the i EXPLAINED, | « or ishortiy after General lo Tracy resumed lis Speech at the polot where he left olf last Friday. He sald :~ Gentlemen of the jury, when we closed on Frijay we had arrived at what is knowa in this a as the Woodhull publication, We have shown you that after that pubite Beecher, following the advice and judvim st judgment as he then suppos nd Moulton, assented to the policy ot tus policy Was aecepted by al. “The endant, genuemen, has been widely criticised e policy of silence which was adopted and ig pursued imreterence to this scandal. Tne tuar the delepdant assented to this policy and winered to it {or several years has ‘been now 18 the very corner stone of this The most of your time has ied With evidence tending act-—a fact never denied, but always But this iact did not originate with If We are to believe the plaintiff the silence arfd suppression pad been ove this b ed. eecker. ol tiey adopted vy iimself long beiore Moulton bore to Mr. Beecher the message which brought about the pe memorable interview on the night of December so, ‘Tiiton pow asserts that he then koew and had known since the preceding July every hing he now knows. Yet ne had maintained a silence and affected @ suppression so complete that the knowledge which ne projesses to have had of the facts had never come to the ears of Mr. Beecher. For it 18 conceded by all the parties that, down to the evening of that interview, Mr. Beecher did not know that he Was in apy wise involved in Tilton’s domestic aificuities, except that he had concurred with nis wile in advising Mrs, Tilton vo separate Irom her husband, and had repeated to Mr. Bowen stories affecting Mr. [ilton’s character 1n respect of marital fidelity. BOWEN’S PART IN THE DRAMA. Set on by Bowen, Tilton wrote and sent that in- nt demand that Mr. Beecher should quit the pulpit and leave Brookiyn. Tilton says Bowen as- signed as a reason why he could not sign the let- ter with him chat he had just settled all bis dim- culties with Mr. Beecher, but premised tnat, if Tilton Would make the atrack, be would assume and carry on the tight. He vore the letter to Mr, Beccher, and then, in the twinkling of an eye, Bowen sipped througn Tilton’s fingers like an eel, ‘wo days alter signing the letver Tilton founa him aneuemy instead of @ Iriend, Thus deserted by Bowen, lable himself to be assailed by Mr. Beecher, and threatened with dismissal from bot ms’ papers, his ruin seemed inevitable un- jess he could suppress the publication of his letter and repress the indignation of Beecher which that letter Had aroused. For this purpose we have scen how, like a coward, he attempted to interpose the boy of a sick and suffering wile between -Limself amu the man he had so grossly outraged, SILENCE AND SUPPRESSION, Mr. Tracy insisted, was the policy of Moulton and lilton. Mr. Beecher did not make but only as- sented to this policy. Moulton comes again as a messenger of peace, and carries away with nim what is now called the letter or contrition, And on February 7, Mouiton, finding that Mrs, Tilton was uot so completely reconciled as he desired she should be, he, and not the defendant, suggested the correspondence bearing date on that day, in order To establish a more periect peace and to make the suppression of tuis ditticuity doubly sure. Thg only criticism to which the defendant ts lable, in’this respect, 18 tbat of having assented to the olicy of siience, The dificulty vetween Tilton and eecher Was not the only one that Tilton and his Iriend Moulton desired to bury at that time. Tilton was covered all over with tou: scandais, which demanded suppression. THE TURNER SCANDAL, ‘There was the hideous story which Bessie Turner had communicated to air. Beecher, Mrs. Morse and others, of tke manner in whica Tilton had lilted ber irom her bed at night and carried her to bis own, and how, upon anotier occasion, he had again attempted tie Virtue of this poor child, who bad been adopted and cared for by his large- hearted and benevolent wile, And, more than all, there was need to keep from puolic knowledge the fact that nis wife bad separated from him, and had threatened to leave lim jorever because Of bis In- figelities and the many cruelties sne had suffered at his hands, {1 Theodore Tiiton was to be resur- rected fom the sepulchre of infamy and again set upon nis feet ali these scandals must be sup pressed and kept from the Knowledge of the world. You will see, gentlemen, that this was a task requiring lor lia performance a man possess- ing every characteristic which, Tilton tells us, guided him in the selection of his iriend. To ac- complish the part it was necessary to possess “joyalty to bis employer, a genius for administra- tion, and great courage of thought and action.’’ All these, Tilton says, Moulton possessed in an eminent degree. VHR SKILL OF MOULTON was strikingly siown in his choice of means to obtain idorsements of character jor Dis friend fyom the two men whom he had the most reason to fear, Mr. Beecher he controlied by gaining W138 contidence and by convincing bim tbat the stories against Tilton were talse. Mr. Bowen be con- trolled by arguments Of a different character. But Mrs. Tilton’s complaint of the treatment to which she Was subjected must also be suppressed. To ubis end she was made to feel that she was the only obstacie in the Way of that reconstruction of her household lite for which she longed. In the letter of February 7 every argument that could move her was brought to bear upon her, and at last Mr, Moulton succeeded in obtaining trom her a@pleage that sve would never remember herself to Theodore’s narm—a pledge she too faithfully kept, gentlemen, until by his open and shameless attack upon Mr. Beecver the plaintiff drove ner jorth a uespairing fugitive, fying as for her lue from tue jaws of hell. A BLACKMAIL NEWSPAPER PROJECT. Having shown you, gentlemen, how the defend- ant Was induced to enter into this policy of sie lence and how he has pursued it for years in good faith, 1 now come to Show you how this plaintify and his friend treacherously and continuously vi0- lated it. You lave seen how the jailure of tue po- litical campaign in 1872 and the immediate death of Mr. Greeley, followed by the substantial fail- ure Of the Golden Age, blasted the tuture nopes of Mr. Tilton in that direction and compelied him co |ook jor new avennes of success, Upto tnis time, gentiemen, the policy which I have no doubt moved Mou.ton and Lilton was mainly the restor- ation of Mr. ‘liltun in tbls pew pewspaper enter- prise which he bad entered, io the attempted es- tablishment of the Golden age. But this bad falied. The woney which he had received jrom Bowen in April, 1872, was nearly expended. In- deed, | believe im December, ail the money had been substantially drawa from Woodruff & RKobin- son—December, 1872. Mr. Shearman—The last money was arawn De- cember Mr. Tra 1am informed that by the accounts the last money Was drawn by lilton on Lecemver the $7,000 Were exhauszed, he had no means of future support. How necessary, therefore, that they sbould look around and find some new ave- nue jor (ue bepefit of Mr. Tilton, Aud, gentiemen, the Counsel jor plaintif, In opening the case, called your attention to a newspaper scheme tuat was started or talked of in December, 1872, He represents it \uatit was the sugge-tion of some one vo Mr. Beecher that uow was the great time jor 4 Dewspaper enterprise in New York, and he Was the man to bead it. The three out of the fve editurs controlilog the great daily papers o! New York bau recently died. Kaymond, the youngest, and the man perhaps naving the best conception of the true sphere oi journalism of apy man who has been upon the American press, was the first to depart. Bennett, the ablest newspaper put lisber and eaitor combined that we have ever seen in this country, had also gone, And now came Mr. Greeley, b¥ lar the strongest writer that ever wrote upon the American press; he, too, bad died in the early days of December. There remained then only Dana, ol the Sun, and Marble, of the World, left among the men of established reputations | upon the press of New York city, These scheming entiemen, looking out to provide an avenue for r. TUlon, suzgested that this Was the occasion for the starting of a pew newspaper in this city of New York; that now chere was no great and over- shadowing name upon the press inthe city of New York, here was @ Vacancy, apd Mr. Beecher Was the man to fill that vacaucy, and it would be wise and judicious, uuder the circums. tances, jor him and Mr. Jilton to unite im that enterprise. calling your attention to this scheme, gentlemen, so ( Will not be charged with having torced it to your attention here. We shall show you that the [friends of Lheodore Tiiton approacned the iriends of Henry Ward Beecher in December, 1872, with this proposition: “Let us buy the New York Ecpress (is was for sale); let us turn it into morning paper; jet Heury Ward Beecher assume the editorship of it and RETIRE FROM PLYMOUTH OHURCA, and let Tneodore Tilton go aoroad tor three or four years and be tue head oi the ioreign bureau of that paper, and by that time tue Woodhull scandal will have died away and bave been for- gotton, and he can come back and take a position on the eatrorial staf of that uewspaper. We shall show you, gen- Uemen, that meetings were held between tue rep- resentative iriends of Theodore Tilton and the iriends of Mr. Beecher to consummate this scheme. We shall suow you that the man wio represented Theodore Tilton said to the iriends of Henry Wara Beecher that, uniess that newspaper scheme is started, or unless something is done tor ‘Theodore Titon, there will be ap explosion which Wil, sbake Christendom, There weve several meetings. Not only were Henry Ward Beecuer's friends approached tu the city Of Brookiyn by the friends o| theodore Tiiton, but they were also ap proached in tne city of New Yor There was not one meeting at the Union League Cluo, bat there Were two where (his scheme Was faily canvassed. But Mr. Beecher's [riends did not bite at the vait. Although every inducement was brought to bear. ana al‘hough they were threatened with exposure aud menaced by scandal, tuey refused to enter into tue scheme. More than tiat, gentlemen, they denounced the scueme in 1872 a8 blackmall. They 80 denounced it to Theodore Titon to bis face in the city New York at the Union Lea; Club. Toey toid him then and the that this newspaper scheme which ne pro- posing Was no more nor less than an effort vo viackmall Henry Ward Beecher und bis iriends, by (threatening tue world aad Cbristeu- dot unless it was accepted. That we shall snow you by # witness whom you will not doubt; we shall show it by @ man almost as well known in this country as ihe deiendant himsel!, standing a prince among New York mercnanrs, Whose word has never yet been questioned, who told theodore Tilton to ‘his face, “You ask me to subserive a fund to buy that paper as the condition ol Henry Ward Beeche:’s retiring ircm tne pulpit and the suppreasion of (his scandal, you to be interested in it; | teil you it i# Dlackmall,” and it did not succe TILTON RETAILING THE SCANDAL. So long as Mr, Beecher kept the secret, Tilton usual boar of , Bad an excellent chance to revel uls Own Versions ithaok the counsel for plaintiff for | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. as to what the secre! was, These versions varied according to his moods; they agreed in one thing | oOuly—batred of Mr. Beectier. While he was in im- mediate danger Moulton was able to keep him comparatively guiet; but when he had procured nis money from Bowen, and suppressed, as he thought, the stories assaiing ms own character, he did not see why the policy of suppression should be rigitly adhered to, merely on bis wife’s account. Parucularily after the Woodnuil pubiication, and the suustantia! failure of the Golden age, Tiiton wok a new course toward Mr, Beecher, Wiat he had hitherto cireuiated in the dar&é he now began to use as @ direct memace. With Mr. Beecher, silence bad been a sacred duty under the circumstances, as he understood them. To Tilton and his mutual friend it was pot a luiy, but polley, and they pursued it just as lons and just as far a8 their objects required, Ti!- ton’s passion and foily, left to themselves, would soon have overthrown the whole of their plan; but, under Moalton’s skilful management, tue scandal was merely kept alive, so as to torment Mr. Beecher witnout provoking an open rupture OF arousing his suspicions that the conspirators were playing him false, Mrs. Morse, a lady whose energetic tongue they were powerless to suppress, Was perpetually and falsely put forward as the Malicious source of the vile rumors which thick- ened around their unconscleus victim, ray detailed the steps by which Mr. Tilton sought to get the publication of nis story in the newspapers without its appearing to come from him, and continuea :— TILTON LIVING ON BEECHER'S MONEY. I now come to the matter of Beecher’s offer to contribute $5,000 to sustain Tilton's paper. Now, gentiemen, | think I shall not mistake Mr. Moulton’s testimony, Although ne attempted to cast a Suspicion upon Mr, Beecher’s character in this respect in his public statement, when tie comes upon the witness stand—t! 1 don’t mistake his evidence—he says Beecher would have to raise mecney by mcrtgage; so Moulton knew that oe was not taking tne loose money of Henry Ward Beecher; he knew that be was requiring him to mortgage lis property would Lave you bellev a@matter that attracted no attention, So Mr. Beecher went home and mortgaged the root that sheiterea him and his aged wile and bis children to satisly the aemands of these two con- spirators, and he went to the bank drew tue money and took it and placed it in the hands o! Moulton, and then comes the message from Tilton, “Grace, mercy and peace." That money was put tn the hands of Francis D. Moulton, gentlemen, and the day he received it he knew that lilton was wanting money. That is evident from the fact toat a iriend nad offerea to contribute, which had been returned. He knew that Tilton was wanting money, and he lost no time to send him money. But he sent it with a @ note, saying, “1 send you $1,000 and a memor- andum note. Please sign and return.” And what was {ilton’s answer? “I can’t borrow money, lor | see bo Way of returning it.’? And he sent back the note and the check, And then Moulton sent him the check without the note and Tilton kept the money. And then he went on irom time to ume, Grawing trom Moulton every time be said | For | be was snort, for one whole year, gentlemen. one entire year we have shown you that Theodore ‘Tilton had no other income except the $5,000 that Beecher bad deposited ior him with Moulton, and he lived on it aud consumea It, and but sor the un- lortunate publication of the tripartite agreement in the following—in the last of the same month— there would huve veen peace all that year in re- gard to this scandal. . THE TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT. Now, gentiemen, 1 go back to the publication of the tripartite agreement and to the scenes that followed, about the Ist of June, 1873, That tri- pore agreement, as you have heard, was pub- ished without the Knowledge or consent of Mr. Beecher by one of his iriends; a copy, the only copy, I believe, a3 far a8 Iam iniormed, that Mr. Beecher or any of his friends nad of any paper in regard tothis inatter. I recejiect no one other that was ever leit in their hands. But this friend published tnis tripartite agreement, and that created an explosion, That was published on Friday, May 30. Theodore Tilton threatened that he would make a pubdiication unless ar. Beecher vindicated him irom the imputation which he said the tripartite agreement cast upon himselr by its publication, Now you have heard how much pains Mr. Tilton took in cnanging his clause of that agreement, aud Mr. Moulion nas told you the same, He took it home with him and made that clause of the tripartite agreement just what he wanted it to be, and he refused to sign anytning else, except just such @ statement of Nis cause as he desired, and when it was published that paper did not state anything but what he wished. Now, Beecher wasn’t responsible for that publication, But that made no diderence. That's the peculiarity of this case, gentlemen, woicn bas marked it irom the begtuning to the eud, that Beecher has been held respousibie by Tilton for everything that everybody did in connection with this Scandal. If a member of Plymouth ‘bh uttered a word concerning Tiiton Beecber was re- sponsible, It my iriend Shearman said anything that was offensive to Tilton and Mouiton the man who was to be held responsible was Beecher, not Shearman. If tne clerk or the associate pastor or anybody else down at Plymouth church did what Tuion did not want them to door refused to do what he did want them to do the man who was to be biamea for it Was Beecher, and Beecher should be made responsible. So, then, the puolication of this tripartite agreement—which was by an acc { which none of the parties to it were origi- Dally responsible for—was to be charged upoo | , Beecher, and he m st redress the wrong. LIBERTY OR DEATH. General Tracy went on to say:—Tne time, the hour has now come when iv is liberty; or itis confict, aud that is jiberty. “You publish, L fight.’ They were amazed at the temerity of this man, they were astonished to find that tbe Man that they thought they bad their hold on, would leau forever under their yoke, at last bad come to the point of saying, “Gentlemen, thus far but no farther.” He then introduced the letters between nimseli and Moulton and said:—A great prophet is Francis D. Mouiton, as well as a mutual friend. But what sort o1 a God is Moulton’s if He will protect Mr. Beecher, if Mr. Beecher 1s the man he vow pretends tim to be? “God will pro- tect you.’ Will God protect the guilty? Does Mouiten think that nis God protects she ‘guilty? Does he think tuat he covers him with protection who has been a cold-blooded and .neartless se- ducer of innocence ior years? Both of tnese ex- pressions in that Jeter show that Francis D. Moultun knew that when this whole scandal was out there was nothing affecting the integrity of Henry Ward Beecher as a Coristian’ minister. It may prove .omplications arising out of family dif- ficuities that are dificult of explanation to out- siders. But he telis him and tells you, “There is no guilt, then, which, the world knowing all, you cannot stand as the pastor of Plymouth church.” I nad boped, gentlemen, to have in Court an au- thority on the subject bearing on this letter to reser to, but I will state the law as it is held in the Supreme Court of this State. General iracy then read an extract from How. ard’s Practice reports referring to the case, and then went into the particulars of Moulton’s cross- examination, citing a8 an instance in the evidence speaking of Mrs. Woodaull being at his house, as foliows :— “Q. Did you have her at your house aiter that? A, Idon’t recollect.” “Q, You don’t recollect? A. No.’? “Q When Mra, Woodhuil was at your house, talk- ing about the Steinway Hall speech, did Mr, Tilton come with her? A. i don’t remember whether he Was with hef or not, sir.” “Q. Do you know whether he went away with her? A. 1 don’t recollect, sir.”” Speaking of this gilt that was proposed to be civen to the Golden Age at the time he exhibited the papers to Mr. Beecher, saying that that was ap © evidence Of friendship. I asked him “q. Do you remember Whether the amount was as high as $5,000? A. I don’t recollect, sir.’ Q. Do you remember whether it was as bigh as $5,000? <A. I don’: recollect.” Then, speaking of the Woodhull speech:—*‘ What was the subject of that speech? A. I don’t recoliect, sir, what the subject waa.’ “Q, Well, you beard it? A. Yes, sir.’ “Q. Was iton tne ‘Marriage Relations?’ A. I really don’t recollect, sir, whether that was tne title or not.’? ‘Q. iaidn’t ask you about the title? A, You sked me What the subject was—w! er 1t Was of the marriage relation, (. You Can't tell the subject? A, No, sir.” G al tracy then utinued:—Yes, he was present at tue speech, a speech that created great excitement, had @ serious interruption, a hi could not teil what the subject o1 the speech w: about. And you will remember, gentiemen, that, alter he got out of our hands om the cross-examination, and was taken py the plaintif, he was abie to repeat, almost word jor word, Theodore ‘iltoa’s speech introducing Mrs. Woodhull on that occasion. It was in May, 1871. He swore that he had never read ic since that time, put he repeated it almost wor for word—a feat of human memory | have po Jore seen equalled, if it was true. rep a it, only leaving out that point, th arkable fea- ture of it—that was that fheodore Tilton iptro- duced Victoria Wooduull on that ocasion as the advocate of social freedom—wita that exception. It was word for word, with that single exception, with the snorthand report published in the news- | papers the next moroing, and yet he tells you be hever read it since, and when I had him on the cross-examination he tells you he does not know what toe subject even of Victoria Woodhull’s speech was. Gentiemeu of the jury, would you give credit to the lestimony of such on the most important issues that were er sub- mitted to the judgment of twelve men for eighteen centuries? | Will go bo juarther, but I to you thatI have had that counted, and the report is gos of such answere Qs that trom Francis D, Moul- ton on (ne cross-examination. ‘The Usual adjournment until two P, M. was then taken, APTER RECESS. General Tracy, at fifteen minutes after o’ciock, resumed bis address to the has 4 He re- ferred 'to the tripartite agreement. A new dan- ger, lle said, had passed away whea Mr. Beecher | defied Tilton and Bowen toao their worst. Mr. Tracy reud @ nute of Mr. Beeeber addr the Brookiyn Aagle in June, 1873. He note satisfied Tilton, Mr, Beecher not t Tilton had given utterance to the that han been uttered again \. on Mis, MOULTON'S TESTIMONY S8VERRLY COMMENTED ON, What isthe relation of Mra, Mouiton to this case. This lady is the wile of the only man who had anything to jose by 4 Verdict for the delend- @ul. Animated by mis thirst for revenge Francis DY. Moulton has periied all om the issue of tis Suit, There is much to be said im paillation of Mrs. Moulton’s course, Her husband has douotiess assured her with the utmost solemaoity that be | Boows Mr, Beeches to ve guilty, aad thas one Here Mr. | to raise it, and yet he | that is @ mere incident, | and | two | | mignt nave been well made to belteve, since ft is | | bard indeed lor @ wile to disbelieve an earnest as- surance of her husband, The struggie, then, presents itself to her as one between her husband, asserting the substantial truth, and her busband’s enemies, asserting substantial faisehood. Mr. Beecher, she may say, has certainly been guilty of adaltery, isn’t it less Wickea that 1 should say be has confessed to me, than that he should sacrifice my husband by falsely asserting he has not coniessed to him? Since he has coniessea to somebody, of course when talking upon the same subject, he must have meant to contess tome, He expressed himseif sorrowiul, and for what eise could he have felt sorrowiul, He acknowledges that he nad been in fauit, and to what fauit could he have referred except the crime of adultery’ If, then, I put that very language into his mouth 1 shall be only ex- pressing lis view, and be serving the cause of substantial troth, Tne first imterview which Mrs. Moulton relates obviously does not suffice to convict Mr. Beecher, while it plainly shows that her husband had previously given to her his ver- sion of the Case. Mr, Beecher, she says, asked her if Frank had told her the tacts of his great sorrow, and she said he had. Nothing else tnatis pretended to be a confession follows until June 2, 1873, when Mrs. Moulton says she advised Mr. Beecher.to confess his crime belore the church, This ts extraordinary language for a laity to use in her conversation with her pastor ia his great sorrow. The word crime 1s Offensive and coarse, and no Jady Ot the refinement of Mrs. Moulton could pos- sibiy have used it on such an occasion. will be remembere: Mrs, Moulton said she kissed Mr, Beecher on the Jorehead in sympathy for his distress. In her ai- rect examination she made Mr. Beecher say, “Tilton striking at me sacrifices his wife,” and immediately changes the words into this strange | form :—"Tilton in stating the tratn concerning me, sacrifices his whe,” an awkward and unnatural | mode of speech, reminding us of her husband's saying that Mr, Beecher spoke of his relations, and there stopped and changed it into seaual relations with Mrs. Tilton. It ts perfeetly clear that these charges were made for the purpose of inserting sometning immaterial with a view to the conviction of Mr. Beecner. The language, “The tortures of the damned,” is copied plainly from his letter of February 8, 1872. The continued advice too to the churen immediately and tell | all trnthiully, given @ day atter Mouiton nad strangely dissuaded nim irom publishing any- thing, abd two days alter Tilton had threatened to shoot Beecher if he did tell the fruth; the allu- sion to the card in the Zagle as the thing which he was considering, but which he thought useless; | but at that !tme the card was in type in the Eagle oMice, a8 Mouiton has told ; the unut- terabie absurdity of Beecher’s announcement that he wonid bever see her again, and wouid poison himself, but had postponed his death for one day for the sake of sending some few mementoes to some of nis iriends; these are improbabilities which [ need not awell upon, as they are apparent to everybody who has any understanding at all ot the bearings of the case. desire you to take notice ol what Mrs. Mouiton says in reference Yo ber interview of July 30, when she coniesses her- If having used these unladyitke expressions :— ‘Iryou had confessed it then, you would have been better off now, and you have now the origi- nal crime and four years of lying and perjury to answer lor. You have seen tor yourselves. gen- tlemen, that Mrs. Moulton is @ lady, and she could no more have made that gross, vuigar speech Me S than sie could have cut off her hand, nor could | | labors of the Apostle Paui, suffered to pass without | | She have alluded to perjury, because at that time | Mr. Beecher nad not taken an oato or published anything at all about this matter except that card of June 2, 1873, But the climax is reached when Mr. Beecher responding to that in- lt by saying, ‘‘You are dearer to me than any ter.” Then in her interview with Mrs. Tilton testifed to what that lady salu to her, but on her cross-examination she admitted having told Mra, Tilton to stand by Mr, Beecher, ana urged ner with agony and tears not to allow Mr. Tilton to destroy him. That was in the interview of October, 1873, atthe time Mr. Beecher had gone down to the chureh, but feeling afterward the difficulty of her position, sne subsequently qualifies her state- ment by saying thai she only begged Mrs. Tilton to siand by Mr. Beecher as long as sne could do 89 without sacriicing the truth; yet, if Mrs. Moulton is to be believed it was impossible for. Mrs. Tilton to stand by Mr. Beecher at all without sacrificing the truth. There ts other evidence on the part of Mrs. Mouiton that will fix tne date of that inter- | View. How can you believe this story if amended, as amended if will be? Mr. Beecher will give you | the most explicit statement that he never had any such interview as that of June 2, 1873, with Mrs Moulton ; that he never spoke of suicide, and that Mrs. Moulton never spoke of crime. On Monday, June 2, 1873, Mr. Beecher, in place of having haa aninterview with Mrs, Moulton, was speeding away to Peekskill with Mrs. Beecher; that he re- , turned on Tuesday, when he married a young man and woman, members of his congregation; and that on the following Wednesday he went to Nev England, where he spent a visit of two weeks with Governor Clafiin, of Massachusetts. Counsel then referred to the efforts that had been made to in. duce Mr, Beecher to sign a card, confessing that | he had committed an offence—but not a crime— against Theodore Tilton, Moulton’s plan was that Beecher should acknowledge that he had commit. ted an offence against Mr. Tilton, and Moulton wanted eecher to n & paper, ad- mitting that he committed such an of- fence. Moulton had strongly urged Beecher to sign such @ letter, saying he would destroy all the papers in the case, and that he would stand by him as hisiriend, If Mr. Beecner had not been conscious of bis Own innocence, he would have signed that paper; but be refused, and jor this reasou—that he wanted to know what the charge was. Ifthe card specitied an offence, Mr. Beectier Wouid have signed it; but leaving the matter in & vague and indefinite way was what Mr. Beecher objected to. and he positively refused to sign the letter in that way. his ietters and correspondence, pointed to an of- fence agaiust Mr. ‘Tilton, reterring to a complicated variety of detall; but he never referrea to a crime, and, least o! ail, nad he ever refered to the crime of adultery. He (Mr. Tracy) had now gone over all the tacts of this case, He had not expiained the letters. He desired that the case should explain the letters, and that the letters expiain themselvez. When Mr. Beecher was re- ferring to generalities, wnat had these parties tn their minds? Was it this complicated affair, which ended in Mr. Tiiton’s dismissal from the Independent, or Was it a question of adultery? In all this correspondence there were very few Jacts all, it was a correspondence expressin; | sorrow and anguish. Whenever the correspond- | ence refers to a fact that fact 1s entirely opposed to the idea of adultery. 1n 1868 Mrs. Tilton never supposed that she had been charged with adultery. Counsel read a letter trom Mrs. Tilton, of that | Year addressed to her hasbana, expressing “‘re- | morse.” There was a word “remorse” in one of Mr. Beecher’s letrers, and men asked what | could “remorse” mean but the crime of | adultery? Counsel also referred to the letters of Theodore Tilton. He, too, spoke of “remorse,” because life with him wasa faliure. in weighing the case the jury were to view tne provability and improbabilities of guilt. 11 the defeudant be- Meved that’ at the time he wrote those letters them. And then, where did those letters come from? Why, from the archives of Francis D. Mouiton! If Mr. Beecher bad committed the crime of adultery and had admitted it In those let- ters, would he have given the evidence of it into the Te raed oi Mouiton? Mrs. Moulton told the Robinsons about 1 giad to know that all the firm knew about his aduiteries! Did the jury believe that? There was tnis other sact, that when Mr. Beecher knew that Mrs. Moulton knew he was an adul, terer, he asked ber, a% she testified, to go to church; that he would be so glad to-see ber there | aga member of his congregation! Did the jury was covered over with the leprosy ol sin and adultery would, while in that state, and as @ pas- tor invoking the blessing of God on his cengrega- tion, ask @ lauy who knew his crime to go down and worship at bis church? He (Mr. Tracy) did | mot believe they would. Mrs. Moulton says she told Mr. Beecher to coniess beiore his congrega- tion thi congregation would forgive him, and that she and Frank would stand by nim. Did the jury imagine that the congregation, kaowing their pastor tu be an aduiterer, while invoking on himselt and them the blessing of Heaven, would jorgive bim? It Was utterly impossible to believe tt. responded with Mrs. Tilton throagh Mrs, Mouiton, tolive with her husband, and that Tilton would love her with even move than the old love. Is it Not preposterous that @ man who had other man’s wiie would write a lette @nd express such a monstrous thougot as that, though the facts had been devulged to him, the woman should be told that her husband would love her more than belo. No; the leelings en- gendered were cot originated irom a knowledge Of adultery, but of business and amily diticuitie:s It was decidedly improvable that @ guilty man should demand an investigation of the crime against him when such an investigation was re- sisted by his accusers, And yet, though this be true, Mrs. Mouton has told the gentiemen of the jury, whe on this stand ) that hi busvand was outraged d by Mr. Beecher because he demanded an lnvestigation of the charges against him. Again, when Mrs. Mouition telis him that they will bring the matter belore the Court, Mr. Beecher tells her that they | camnot do harm to him, that they can “do their | worst, that he was not airaid.’’ As to the proba- | bility of nis being guilty, the counsel said, and shoulda at the same time seek an investigation, | while Tilton and Moulton were seeking to keep tt not conceivanie. It was not possibie dore Tilton should continue to conavit L for tour S aiter that wie had | Coniessed her guilt to it waa not possivle nould have ever written a letter of the paramour given it to her husoand and then recall that confession, if were guilty of adultery, Yet confession was obtained irom her oy during a business diMculty. It 19 also nighly t Probavie that Mr, filton should alvulge his wife's guilt to @ third person jor conceaiment, if he Teally desired that it should not ve known. It is | not provable that. had he known of his wife's guilt, be should continue w,on iriendly terms and relations with her paramour; that he shoaid aine with him at Une same table or receive aifeciionate saiutations irom him. it had been said som: where during the eviaence that be (General Tracy) had, ta a conversation with Mr. Tiiton, told him that the world would never forgive iin jor taking eo | bia wile’s pari. Tracy did Dot say th! He | did have a con’ ation 4 Tilton, however, in the sammer of 1874, im Whici id to Lim, wheo | Speaking about the charge Of adultery agaist Tals, it | was the time at which | Mr. Beecher, in all | they could have been construed into a charge of | guiit—of adultery—he never wouid have written and Mr. Beecher was so | believe that? Did they velieve that a man Who | he had cominitted aduitery; tnat his | Again, in 1872, we are told that Mr. Beecher cor- | and expressed tie hope that she would continue | this | ir husband | Mr. Beecher, “The world will never forgive you for having been the friend of the seducer of your wie.” Jt was for taking back the Man to his iriendchip if he believed him guilty of adultery, and not for taking back (he Woman, that the worid would never jorgive bim, It is improba- bie that the husband should destroy the original jetrer, the cburge on which they accused Henory Ward Beecher on the night of December 30, It is improbable that this letter, the most important of all the documents, shouid be destroyed, and that they should damn their preseat case, if they ever had one, by doing so, It is improbable that the husband should make threats and yet remain silent on the subject of acultery, and that for four years he should refrain from saying anything of the charges of adultery. Now being bis enemy the question is whether, lying four years, he will lie one year for himse! NONE OF MR. BEBCHER’S LETTERS EXPRESS GUILT. On the contrary, they will show bis innocence, Mr. Moulton’s statements require corroboration not yet produced, Tilton and he have destroyed important papers, and they tell you now that they have been iving about this case for four years. Mr, Moulton says the papers were prepared 10 bis presence, And his letter to Mr, Beecher in 1873 ‘If the whole truth were told you could ."? Tilton would not have written this let ter; he knows the use of words too well for that. No, it was written to Mr. Beecher by Moulton in the wosence of Tilion, and taat was the only one written for four years that Tilton bad not either written or compared himself and taken part to the composition. Mrs, Moulton has shown sbe was acquainted wWita the aesign to bring QO suit agamst Henry Ward Beecher, while her husband was holding these | letters for the benefit of botn parties, | She also tells you that she told Mr. Beecher that they were going to sue him in a court of law and that she knéw of this intention as early as that time; that she was to be a witness against Mr. Beecher in court and not before tne Church Inve: | tigating Committee, How came she to be tn pos- ; Session of this information? This man, who | obtained every one of Mr. Beecher’s secrets un- | der the guise of friendship, bad given them | to bis (Beechers) most deadly enemy tor | the past jour years, Ths " man wile | knew, days before there was any breach between | Moulton and Beachner, that he was to be sued to a | court of law and that sne was to be a witness. It | Would be dificult to realize, then, that there was | no conspiracy and no confederacy and nothing | but sincere and honest !riendship on the “part of | Moulton toward Mr. Beecher. There had been no piece oi evidence stronger than that part of Mrs. Mouiton’s evidence, It showed malice | and plotting for the overthrow of this defendant, The charge of incontinence has always been THE FAVORITE WEAPON OF ATTACK UPON CLERGY- cusation sought to destroy the great champion of | the orthodox faith. It was by similar means that the name of St. Francis jgkept unaer a cloud for four years, durin: Noe maintained the same silence | client is so sharply criticised. It was on such & | Charge that the rain of the fijustrious Fénélon, | Archbishop of Cambray, was attempted. It was | under such an imputation that the ‘“Judicious | Hooker,” one of the brightest lights of the English | Church, remained “dumb as the dead,” though | Innocent as a babe, tor six years of bitter anguisu. It was such a charge, spread broadcast over Eng- | land, that John Wesley, the man who ot all Prot- estants most nearly approached the spirit and which | @ny public reply jor twenty years, and, by & yet | more remarkab'e coincidence, it was by means | of an insinuatton that he had made tm- | proper advances that a prosecution was | kindled against him in_ Georgia, which | re him out of this country | under the ban of anindictment. Who envies the verdict of the jury which found that tndictment? | Where is Jonn Canton, the magistrate, who in- spired the prosecutions? He is pilioried forever | 1m a few lines of Wesley's biography, and escapes oblivion only because the unsullied and venerable name of the man whom he thought he had crushed makes 1* impossible for him to escape from infamy. | THE CLOSING EFFORT. General Tracy then concluded his four day’s ad- | aress 01 opening to the jury as {ollows:—I nave | laid before you, gentlemen, so much oi this case as to the best of my ae could put into words, But the deepest truth that underiles it is beyond adequate expression by ieebie words out the worla and time, and beyond the grave, Irom the loving centre of a good man’s life. There MEN. The enemies of St. Athanasins by such an ac. | de Sales was | tor which my | of mine; nor, think, could any single tongue set forth the nature and the power | | of that influence which radiates through. THE NORTH RIVER CHANNEL the | | | General Newton’s Report on Jersey Mud Banks. ‘Cause of their Accumula- tion and Growth. Restriction of the Current and Deepening ot the River—Injury to Commeree—Reme- dial Methods and Their Cost. WASHINGTON, Feb, 28, 1875. The Secretary of War has recently submitted te Congress areport from Lieutenant Colonel Jona Newton, corps of Engineers, giving the results of the “examination or survey of the bank of mud in Hodson River, opposite Jersey City’? The report is as follows :— Usirep States Enciverr Orrice, New York, Feb. 1, 1875, Gryerat—In obedience to instructions from the ot the Chief of Engineers of April 15, 1874, conveying @ resolution of the House of Representatives, a6 1 01 ‘esolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to cause an examination or survey to be made ofa bank of mud which has been formed in Hudson ftiver, oppo- site Jersey City, extending from near the Pavonia ferry down the said river, and below the wharves In Jersey | eCity. with a view to dredging and removing said bank of inud, #0 as to afford reneey rotection to commerce: | and that he report onthe feasibility of making said i provement, and the probable cost therof, to the House | Tihave respectiuly to submit the follow: | [have respectful submit the following re; Q the shoal OitJersey City :— ch dies Th ons in the field. wer 4 during he operat in ie fie! were commence the month of May, 1874, and continued during the sum- mer season. | pA.trimometrical survey from Bedloe’s Island to Castle Point, Hoboken, connecting the shore lines of the Hud- son River, was extended over the limits of, map. A base line was measured south of the New Jersey Central Railroad Company. There was comparatively iittle topography developed, since the de- tail maps of the water tronts of file in this office offered needed. | “The hydrogra hy embraces principally the shoal off | Jersey City, and also four cross sections ot the Hudson River. ‘The soundings were located from instruments | on shore, and were taken to a depth of twent with sounding poles, while sounding lines sections exceeding four fathoms in depth. THE TIDES. Tides were observed at the feliowing stations :-~ 1, Ordnance wharf, Governor's Island. . & Foot of Essex street, Jersey City. 8, Foot of South Seventh street, Jerse 4. Near the end of pier foot ot West | New York city, ey City. ‘ourteenth street, The course and velocities of both ebb and fleod cur- Tenis were observed at the maximum stage between Bedloe’s Island and Castle Poiat, extending from the Jersey Gity water front to about, midstream of the Hud- son River Loaded poles, reaching trom the surtace of the water to a depth of eighteen tect, were used as floats. The fleld notes were plotted on the scale 1-600. | Where the average rise and tall of tides on the dav of | observation differed from the mean rise and fall the ob- | served velocities of tidal currents were reduced to those | of mean tides by applying a practical rule deduced tor | | the Lower Hudson from the observations made by the Bobet engaged in gauging the river, under my trection, in the year Comparing the colleculun of simultaneous observations xt the four fanses buta | slight change tn the magnitude of the tidal e is found; mean rise and fail of tide at West Fourteenth street, New York city, three and @ halt miles distant | from Governor’s Island, being only 0.4 foot less tan that at the latter place. There exists a comparative! greater difference In the corrected establishments of bot! ces, high water being twenty minutes later at West nth street than at Governor's Island, The occur- rence of maximum discharge of the river takes place about fourtcea hours nineteen minute r the moon's | transit; the swiftest flood currents happen about eight | hours twenty-two minutes after moon's southing, Dur. | dng their maximum velocities flood and ebb currents | Fun in nearly opposite directions throughout the exam- | ined area. ‘The ebb current is by far the strongest; it radually diminishes in Cheri 9 in the Jersev side on | Ite course trom Castle Point to Bedloe’s Istand. DEEPENING OF THE CHANNEL SINCE 1935. The annexed table shows the general deepening of the Hudson river since 1835, produced by the extension of the water front laces, Fourtee: are facts which are not spoken irom Ip to ear, i ry but from heart to heart. There is a treasure at gs Fn stake in comparison with which even the good fal 5 & ; Mame of one innocent man and one innocent q? Sa woman, however sacred and precioas this may be, Date, i 3 is of trivial worth—I mean the principle of tne b ; iz value of established character. What 1s the use of z 2 an honorable life 1 it 13 no barrier against false 1: Fs accusation; if, in tne face of foul conspiracy, its | ——-——. —— — | prayers and labors, generosities and heroisms are Section L | to be counted as worse than nothing—merely the | 1835. ad 7A | disguises of rotten hypocrisy * Against this most my Ene dangerous infidelity of our time one grand pro- | 641 m6 test has been made. Turee thousand MEN AND WOMEN OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH 52.0 — have presented to this community a spectacle un- 52.0 0.5 | paralleled of faith in goodness and in God. Tuese 53.5 36.4 | people are your fellow citizens; virtuons, to- 56.7 0.1 | dustrious, practical, sensible ag yourselves, They.) , 4.0 cd | love their wives and daughters; toey cherish the 49.0 8 purity of their households, Foremost among yoa | 55.8 Ha, , in every work oO! charity; earnest, sincere, good 53.7 39.9 and kind; good neighbors, good citizens, they have stood many, many months unshaken in their = fort faith and confidence arouna their pastor, whom | 42.5 66.0 ae they iove. And this they do because tney know 78.1 bal bim: because for thirty years they have | ———“~ mena | looked through his clear’ eyes into his | By examining thistable it will be seen that the aver. upon them ana their chilaren haq West, Fourteenth | them from his lips tat repeated tue words | of tne Master, and by a life that reflected the example of the Master, to tear God and avhor | evil. This muititude of witnesses bear testimony to tne value of a good man’s character as read in | a good man’s ile; and it is the lesson of the value | of character which you are called to impress upon | the world. You willsave Brookiyn, aiready too | mucn disgraced by the existence of such a scan- | | dal, from the far greater disgrace of permitting such @ man to be destroyed by such instramen- | tality. | An eagle, towering in his pride of place, | Hawked at and killed by mousing owls. You would tell the American people that when | innocence Is assailed by unscrupulous and cun- | however successful fora time the it must dnd its barrier when And you will | ning malice, | assuult may seem, | it reaches an American jury. this heartless and godléss persecutor | thou shalt come, but no further—here all the mia- | night plotrings of cruel craft musy cease forever.” | 1 ask of you for this defendant nothing but that justice which you would mete out to | the humblest citizen. Yet you cannot but | feel as | do -an overwhelming sense of | the solemn importance of tis rial, 1t will loom | larger in story than any which has taken place | for eighteen centuries. No man oi this delend- ant’s lame has ever been called upon to answer such @ charge in acourt of justice. What a spec- tacie has beeu presented in this City of Churches, Every day for eigut weeks this aged man, who has | been a large and vatious contributor to tbe litera- ture of our English tongue, and who never wrote @ word that was not inspired by the love of God, | of natdre and of his fellow mea; who has moved with sublimest eloquence greater multivudes than | any living orator, and who never spoke save for | justice, truth and virtue; who has convinced, | Tescued, instructed and «comforted unnumbered | thousands of erring, struggiing, suffering souls, | counting bis own life, fortune and reputation | as notning, if by their risk or sacrifice he could save the humble and the weak. This man, whose fame encircles the earth and whose name 18 hon- ored and beloved wherever Christianity bears sway, has been dragged by malignant conspirators into this Court to answer the vile and vdious charge which the evideoce of @ long time outside of these walls, no jess than the evidence produced Within them, brands indelibiy as a lie. Day by day he bas passed along our streets with his brave and true wife to meet the unmerited in- | dignity of this arraignment. Strong men have | been todched with mingled pity and wrath at the | sight, and women have turned aside to p. It | 18 an outrage which posterity will avenge. | This fair city will yet doaa. among her proudest monuments the statue of him who conferred upon her such glory ana received | within her gates such tortures. All who bad part 1M this crowning drama of his life will be remem- hered with execration or praise. Those who faisely accused, those who weakly doubted, those | who cowardly forsook him, those who were swift | to believe evil on the one side and on the other, | men of | gentiemen, ere pronounce you will yourselves | Judged at the tribunal of after ages. | What you do here will never die. When these scenes shall have passed away, When be who pre- sides over this trial snail rest in the silent slum- bers of tue dead, when the seats you occupy shail be tilled by your cilidren or your children’s chil- | dren, strangers from distant ‘climes Will come to | view the place from whi | world, {ree irom cloud or passing shadow, the 1 Henry Ward Beecher, Even when cen- uri | have rolled away, when th marbie Walls siiall be all crumbied and decal this trial judgment Will be remembered, with its ail-absorbing | mterest. More eloquent than the word of | this defendant, more inspiring than his | deeds of magnanimity, more powerful among men | than the story of all his jue of usefulness and | Virtue Will be the recital of his sereae faith and | Patience under dire aMiction and deadly assault. Heroes are admired, out itis the martyrs who | are beloved. Not the triumphal procession and the loud hosanna, but the cross, the thorn crown, the sepuichre conquer the world, and since the hour of the Divine Sufferer no follower of Onrist hag borne the cross in vain, Gentlemen, do you believe in God?’ Then you will recognize to- day what tne generations to come will so clearly see, what the day of revelation will “blaze forth im jetters of immortal light—the work of Goa’s approval upon this His faiturul, uprigut, sufering servant, Whom He hath hitherto guided, sustained and blessed; whom, in the hour of tribaiation, He hath not jorsaxen, and whom, by ali the truth of His eternal promise and all the resources of His aimignty power, He will surely rescue and reward; for, “though hand join | | in band, the wieked saail not be unpunished, but the seed Of the mghceous sh be delivered.” Loud and unrestrained applause followed closing senteuce of Mr, Tracy’s eloquent aad: | and, it being Within twelve minutes of the usual | hour of adjournment, the vourt adjourned wat | leven o’ciook this morning. been pure and wholesome; because Le has taught | i was given back to the | ction 4 (Castle Point to street, | New York city), where the greatest injudicious contrac: | ‘ion of the river has taken piace. { ‘the investigation of the plotted cross sections on tl hydrographic sheet demonstrates that the greatest | scouring Is done in the thalireg of the river, amounting to | seventeen feet in section 4. Notwithstanding the effect ofcousiderable dredging doae along the Jersey City | shore, we find generally that the original deptn of the | river has decreased ratber than increased near the end | of the piers. B DREDGING IN 1874, | Cunard tine Pennsyivani | Erie Railrow Eagie line. | North German Hamburg-american Packet. - : 6 How much ot this dredging ‘was devoted ‘to ‘the area of the slips or what went to deepening beyond the heads not known. The 24-foot curve has remained ly the same position as in 1355, for the space be favonia terry and the Carditt piers: but then tween | in the direction of the Cunard piers and along the in- cluded portion ot the front, the 24-foot curve has moved out consides The causes of the filling against and | near the w! y ves of Jersey ity seein to be the set of the current Castle’ Point toward the New York | side, which Is proved both by the current-charts and the deeper soundings which lie on that side. The current-charts also show that the stronger cur- re- oF: | rents of the ebb recede trom the Jersey shore. markaole instance of this is exhibited opposite the | nard piers. itis evident, hence, that a natural exists sufficient to account tor a shoaling along the plers lying within tue district under examination. | RNCROACHMENTS ON THE RIVER BED. The Harbor Commissioners’ report ot 1855 and 1857, om page 63, states :-— “On the Jersey side, opposite Long wharf, the river | has also deepened by some two feet, but a considerable | deposit has been made south of Cunard dock and oppo- site to Canal dock.”’ I cali attention likewise to the fact that the piers of the Eagle Line, the North German Lloyd, the Baltic Lioya, the Hamburg American Packet and other piers in thet neighborhood extend (uniavorably for the maintenan below them), a considerable distance beyond the pier | line of 1856. “Icall attention to a further proposed en- eroachment upon the channel, which will act_unfavor- ably upon the whole pier ilne below. which Riibited upon the nydrographic chart as the line of the | riparian commissioners of the state of New Jersey. ‘there being, as already shown, a natural tendency, ow- to deposit on the ing to the slackening of the current New Jersey side, it is likewise believed, by some, that the amnount so deposited has been increased by the arti- ficial scour produced by the narrowing of the river at Pomtand at other pli The Harbor Commis ners’ report, page 139, si Directly opposits Thirteenth street is Castle Point, in projecting for some w Jersey—a high, rocky bi ‘The sectional area of the river hort di e uare yards, while oppo. 5,528 square | Ne | distance into the river. vc t Jel Atas' | above ‘W.40 square yards, | site to Thirteenth street it is reducéd to I ards." the Harbor Commissioners also notice the projection of certain ‘snear Thirteentn street, New Y« be. | Bye the line laid down Lea their report, and re od | the removal of these’ projections as soon as, from natu: ral decay, they would otherwise have to be repaired. | The lines of that commission, which are laid down upow the chart, will explain this matter. By comparing the present cross-sections furn in this report with each other and with those give trom the Harbor Com. missioners’ report, 1t is quite probable that the sectional areas are nearly in proper relation, and that little far. ther scour, unless from, Fecent oF future eneroachments upon the New York and New Jersey shores, Will be pro- | duced upon the bottom. | INJURY TO COMMERCE. | The sketch just made of the condition of matters, su; serious reflections as to the future of the chann: and New Jersey. 1 d upon any, policy cale ‘On. the contrary, an’ encroachment not ty Feadily regu | the generai good. from the one side may be too readily met by a corre. ieee one trom the other; a! the general character, of the river should tered for the worse, still, individual and vested interests of a hi ficed injured—among othe: rned in the preservation o! re the Pennsylvania Ri yompany, the Cunard, nd, even | not be may rifice principal interests concet water along the, front a Compan: rie Railway ¢ ny. ic steamship south Wales and. Atlant ‘compan North German Lioyd, the Baltic Lioyd and Hi American packet companies and t! eagle lin White star ling removed to the New York MEDIAL MEASURES, It seems to me highly proper that a superior Loin say § should interfere to regulate Gennitely ce be upon both shores. Entertaining no expect ever that dredging will insure a permanent benefit, and syerees whether sich benet would endure suifciently long to compensate in any coerce or the nse Involved, 1 sudjoin herewith an estiinate for drei iad the suoal to a depth of twenty-five feet irom the n Ht orbood ot Pa: vonia ferry igh oss distance below the Ounard docks, over an area 600 Cy ards 221,300 cubic yards at forty cents, Contingencies and engineering, fifteen $101,897 20 That section lying between Pavonia ferry and the piers of the Cardiff line ais 's to be, from certain indi. cations, not so hopeless of Improvement by dredging as the other portion of the shoal. The probable cost uf this But it should be inslste | dredging would ve $35,000. Bu d that dock owners keep the slips between the piers well dredged. t & tendency for such deposit | top the pler head shoal the 9) | already dredged. ‘shis Gimouity taches to all di | Ing executed along the line of the piers. JOHN xEWros, | Lientenant Colonel Engineers, Brevet Major General. The River and Harbor bill authorizes the Secre W hoard of engineer tw en Staten isiand ani ¥ iow te ey for tne as et | pea Teporung 6 piaa of improvement one