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or guruquy and BIseeR Aid Iterrup- HE ‘PROVES A BRAVE MAN THEN, Burity and the sptris of Tile eanse. There was he conseious rag of erver of sim bearmg upon his heart, and he was a man in ail the majesty of & aud creation, and he sustained the cause of ths cquatty, 1 eed not imitate or ‘at the language of my earned and eloquent jriendin telling you huw suecessful and how noble that erfort was. | agree with nim wholly, unreservedly, 1n my reverent estimate of the motive, the poe and the suc cess that grand performanee on the part Be . But, then, my learned friend ou, “Are you going to convict Henry War oher of Adultery! Are you gotng to allow proud and envious England to say, ‘Why, im that | great evisis you sent us your greatest man, and @ persuaded and overcame us,’ But, after all, after ali, are you, gentlemen of the jury,” says Mr. Evaris, “gomg to cenviet that man so that England may say that Le Was really a fallen man after ail 7? Oh! you must not conviet him! England will | laugh ‘at us! Yon must uot, by your verdict, send to Engiand the announcement that the great and gifted and brave and successful Henry Ward Beecher, who subdued all your hostility and won ‘all your convictions, nas ‘any human mfrmity | You must not tell England he has seduced a | Wwoman— (Sensation)—because England will laugn atyou, Her aristo¢racy will meet you with con- tempt and railery. An! my iriend has had t muen todo with England, (Leughter.) He bi too high a respect for English sentiment and Eng. gh aristocracy, and If we have yot 80 low, if the Administration of justice 1s & poneling and ° at ‘witn 8) tens. < | debased in this free governmen! ours that we garmot pronounce justice against our great | and noble men lor Jear of the scoffs of the aristoc- acy of England, then God belp justice and Amer- jean institutions! (Loud ap: ) Judge Nellson—Gentlemen [| wisn you would be silent. Mr. Beach—Ab, my friend Fvarts, as; were too Tong at Geneva, tau inter.) And you associ- ated too mach with these Englishmen, You ayed away too much of your time at Paris. You ve tost the simple grandeur of American inde- pendence and individuality, and do you expect to earry and control a jury ip this country y that sortof argument, by that low appeal to tie vul- i$ passions of our nature? Whom do you ‘Vaink you are addressi What sort of minds and i hearte are youspeaking to? In a cause in- volving learest questions Attach tO our society amd our person: interests are at stake, whe: ing and terribie consequences may follow your enris is it to be hoped that you will descena to the debasement of such con- siderations as what may be the judmment of England or of anything else upen your verdict? ‘You are men reaponsib) le in this case, No matter what other yoy ie may think or Other peopie you are ple: gee to a higher authority than pul opinion or eign judg men’ and your coi sciences are bound by an oath to the Judgment Seat, and we must have from you in this case tho lear, in dent judgment, ‘takes if he supposes Y MISTRUST THIS JURY. ~ Whatever I may know in regard to the infla- ‘ences surrounding this case and the means wnich Dave been resorted to, full weil I know and be- sieve that they falt aimless and powerless be- fore the independence and the wath of each mem- ber of this jury; and by ne word, by no hint, by ‘no insinnation have J ever or will J ever agsall the personal integrity of the gentlemen I address, (40) lause,) Yes, England will laugh at you! ell, Jancy that there are peopja in Kpgiand who | ‘are looking with considerable interest to tne prog- es8 Aud watching the result Of this case, Indeed, I now there are, having positive and per- | fonal information to that effect, and no | one has a deeper respect for the etviliza- | ‘Hon ana intelligence of England than I have, To say I have a respect for her tnstitutions, the mode of their operation within the sphere and limit of their application is quis another thing; bat sue has great men and learmea men, ‘and agneat many unjust ones too, But 1 do not fear what England will say, and laon't believe that even England, with ail her reverence for | potentates and dignitaries and hierarcuics—I | don’t believe that England will stop to consider | the question of Mr. beecher’s conviction or ac- qguittal with reference to any association he may | have had in former times with ber government | eo England is not very apt to laugh } at American justice or American effort. Indeed, We have growu \s0 fast thateven in the domain of law, In the commentaries of eur distinguished civillans and jurists, we h: ued the respect ‘of Engiand, and in her courts our authorities DB a and liste to England wu Cry beers rob you may pronounce; she w! ve no oO jon to, nd she has had no décasion to laugh at America ‘What | have ever known. Indeed her associations | the gentleman, quoting a denun- Scriptures, ‘Woo’ to bim that ealis fT good and 4) What is the application if that sentence ? Nobody disputes the Proprio | f it, or the authewtictty of it. God says “Woe to | im who calls evil and good evil.” We agree ut we had a long essay from ‘My learned friend, Mr. ts, upon that subject, Pnten tea mo to think that there was some terrl- ¢ doom falling upon some of ws. Ido not knew who it was going f9 Bit, Who ts it that calls | “good evil and evil Ia it Til- ? Is Moulton? Ie whom is tne woe nced, ‘whoma is lt applied in this case * This learned g man and great advocate ty to have some dig reed for his theories ana moral é@ssays. ny, Hi Ward telis us that he was arged a ee solicitations. Benjamin F, cy tells us in ‘world-wide ret (satirical ge oped that the real t in issue in this case whether the-offence was improper solieitations or adultery, 8. TUtOR Over and over again 8 ig imp. if solicitations. They don’t deny it. iseue in this | Wi Ward Beecher, whom | wgtcny vances ‘the great- z rth,” whom everybody ad- fi eth the pulpit of the coun: ty Of improper solicita- your parishioners wuo | as ber God, how comes it | Jentiemen—ur. Tracy aided by all By ir. Evarts—paint tuis | as & dem! upon whom the stain of sin jas never rested ‘ho 1s making ‘good evil and | good Can the pastor of a great church ad- | ess to his parishioner solicitations of lastful Vil, undemied by his counsel in court, and then be esenved to the American community and to jhe World ag & Gemi-god just descended from ven + A SCENE. MHere a remarkable scene tock piace. Porter up like aspectre and cried out im asepul- | chral fone, “Icannot permit counsel to murepre- i } tent us. We never admitted the charge of im: | proper solicitation: Then be gat down, walle Beach—nis white hair all fying about him—in- wistea that they did, Again Porter rose up, walle repeated bursta of applause, repeatediy checked, made a noisy accompani- ment to the ary discussion the counsel. The Judge imterposea. Beaca cried put tnat he was surprised any gentleman would Btand up and interrapt connsel by stating he ut tered a falsehood, The feelings of the audience were highly wrought, and the preponderance was ‘on the side of Beach. | Mr. Porver—One moment. 1 cannot el to A ata wa to bave we admitted t Improper advances hag party.) 7. Beach—My learned friend forgets himsell, (Laugiter.) Those chords of affection which have been growing for thirty years between us will not jd the tension Of an accusation like # false- | } between | | | " hood. (Applause.) Mr. Porter—Nor will the bonds of friendship permit me to give a statement made in open Court that we admit & enarge which Henry Ward Beecher has denied on cate, aud against | whieh each of the counsel in this case haye ar- iison—The Cont t— Mr, Porter (comtinuing)—The question whether | the charge Was improper solicitations or adultery i another thing, I am amazed that my fri whould claim that either of us bas on any eccasion adaitted thas Mr, Beeches made improper ad- vances 40 this indy. Judge Neilson—No donbt the interraption on ‘the part of Mz. Porter was, in his judgment, called for and correct; still, [think there 18 a misappre- hengion. [did not understand Mr, Beach to say you had admitted; I understood him to say, tn the course Of his rapid denunciation, thas the charge of unproper advance jd net been denied—taat you made it a test question—that is, that you padn’t in terms denied it WRoN it was a subject of discussion, i don’t think bi id you ever admit- fed it, ji may have misunderstood him, Mr. Beach—Everyvody wuderstands, may 4 Please Your Honor, and no one oetter than the counsel that, in discussing this case and the coarse of counsel, Lam reasoning according to my best judgment and understanding of tne case, ‘There is no one more likely to full in error, but it 44 not intentional error. [ yet assert, according to my vest recoliection, to my fairest deductions | from the arguments of not one word was sald by am denial ol tie ¢ Judge N Mr. Porter or Mr. Evarts roper solicitation: understood your ex pren (Applause y , 8 Judge Neilsom—it Hy sible to go on with this now m.aave. Sone “ Mr. Hewon na I repeat the assertion that Mr. ‘Tracy, in Bis opening of tois case, ex! seniod the issue, teil practical issue in this case was whether the charge and the ofenre was improper seicivations or adultery, a Mr, Tracy—The charg, Judge Netison (to Genviemen, I wish you we ootators) —sitence | not compe) me to | community who did not pri | the fervor of his here ‘his Would.turn out to | hatever verdiet | 9° | photograpnic galiertes. the learned counsel, that | hi NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 1%, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET: He did mot aay ina. Mr. Beach—He dia! Judge Netlson—You may be mis! Mr, Beach—No, sir, [cannot be My personal honor 16 agsuiled, I am sorry the ig said it, because be certainly knows I 4 not mean to assert a falsehood, Mr. Porter—I certatniy did net suppose #0, and when the gentleman first made the assertion | Waited and in surprise for an explanation. When 1 anderstood bim to review the charge that that was the issue, and we recognized it and had not denied it, why then most certainly | had to take bim at his word, and no one cam be more sur- prised than he himself ts or will ve wnen he comes to read it, He would be very much sur- prised if I were to rise bere and say that he ad- mitted Mr, Beecher 8 innocent so when he asserts, as | Quderstand him, that we Admit he is guilty of Improper advances, dir, Beach—1 have exposed the MISREPRESENTATIONS OF BOM THESE COUNSEL in wapene to material facts, by reference to the proof; but I have not ventured to say, and God forbid J say to my learned friend, whatever the provocation might be, that ne ever snould a misconception of the proof and without aay ine tention to misiead the jury or to do hag 4 to any human being, | know that in th ardor ot advocacy wo are sometimes be- trayed into intemperate assertions; we are led mto errora and mistakes by our zeal and by the honesty of our purpose; but we are not deceivers, gentlemen, intentionally, Neither my learned friend nor myseif utter falsenoods to you intentionally, and no one can submit with More obliging grace than mysel! to any correction Which may be Tmade necessary by any error into which I may fail; butl tell the gentieman again posh gana not charge me with falsehood. (Sen- sation. Mr. Porter—The gentleman mnst not charge me with aamitting away the case of or elien Mr. Pullerton—I insist that my colleague shall be permitted to go on now, PEACB AGAIN, Mr, Beach—Who isit, then, to whom and upon this woe fs denounced ¥ And what is the appilca- jon of the pretentious philosophy ef Mr. Evaris ? nerein bave we called good evil? Wherein have we sought to cover the heinousness and the hide- Quaness of wrong? Who is laboring to cover up sin? Who 1g toiling to protect, by every device and ingenuity of outside influence and of inner effort to cover up the truth, to conceal the bide- ousness of guilv? Not us. We do not callevil and evil, “Oh, you are not only evil, il continually,” says Mr, Evarts; “bat you | have got all the profiigate classes on your side. Respectable men don’t believe this charge.’? “Well,” said Mr. Evarts, ‘when scandal is pub- Mshed then at once there is @ vast olass of the community that give it ready and full accept+ ce,” Then, quoting some Latin, which I bog he privilege of skipping, he says, ‘the idie profi- fas of New York belleved it, and of tuis neigh- ring town, and ao in every’ quarter where the wicked Classes make thelr meetings ana hoid therr gossips, with a sneer and a smile the Bcan- dal is accepted.” Indeed! and how did the gen- Weman find that la (Langhter.) What sort of Association does he keep to make that discovery? Does he learn it from the declarations of nine- tenths of the press of the country? ell, there are some few who seem to believe it In this au- dience. Do they beiong to phe proiligate classes? Do they honor us with their attendance out of love for sin and debauchery? Are they giving to this defence the coun. tenance of their presence because of their profigacy and abandonment? Is Fairfield a profigate ? Is Judge Ford, who gave a public Opmicen upon this question in Massachusetts, a | profiigate? Are the Various eminent divines who declare their conviction by thetr absence, and Who do not hesitate to aeclare it otherwise, are they profigate ? And this jury of the victnage, to which | my learned friend refers, 1s this the jary trom the | vicnage? And are they holding their hands in acclaim in hopor of Henry Ward Beecher? No, gentlemen, the cause of this plaintiff cagnot be disgraced by any such association. Hear What an oracle of my learned friend—Mr, Bartlett—says tupon this subject, quoting this phrase. of Mr, Evarts, “The Idle profil- ates of New York beileve the scancial’” t am equally | Sustained and inGepeudent man, and will crawl | in | denied him by this jury; Stated a falsenood, He has ho right to say it to | Which overrules the destinies of men as well as He knows it ts not trae, asf believe, that | these misstatements of counsel arise entirely irom | the end overtakes sin and offence, Mr, Evarts’ speech). “Mr. Evarts 1s mistaken, ‘ne profligate classes are on Mr. Beechor’s side, | and those who most fear that he ls guilty are the | religious, respectable people.’ And it fs true. I koow, gentlemen, that there is a large class iu this community, pious and moral men, who long | e@ud pray that Mr. Beecner may be proven to be innocent, and at the outset of this inves: tion | there was scarcely a respectable man in the waole ad hope with all | ®& mistaken and false sccusation. But the times, sir, changed. The developments of this trial have wrought their legitimate | and inevitable effects, From every section of | the country came a the acknowledgments of | that erfect. Ob, my friend (Mr. Tracy) laughs, but Ihave qnoted the papers. { can refer to the | article, and, althougn he opened that great open- ing of his with the declaration that he was sus- tained by the sympathy of the world, I think my friend feels a little shorn of his supports, Now this is all aside from the crue merits of this case, | Igrant you, but lam not introaucing these topics, Ihave resorted and shal: resort to mo such de- vices to Win the favor oi this jury. My case does not demané it, and my own sense of jastice does not appreve it, fendant whici would lead me to have resort to any stich contrivances; but when these gentle- men FLOURISH IN SUCH MAGNIFICENT MANNER, claiming all the purity and the elevation and the dignity of the commanity in favor of their cient, and assigning us to ignominous association with the profligate classes, why we are called upon to make some hittie deleuce. Well, Mr. Beecuer is @ busy man. He had no time 'o commit sin, It ig an argument made to you by the general advocate, Mr. Evarte—\laugh- ter)—the man who represented, and abiy repre- sented (i mean no slight upon Mr. Evsris), and ably represented the luteresis of this country in settlement of tie Alabama cialai. really aD argument made to Bat it tis jury in Beecher that was too busy & man to fad any lel for the comuission of the offence. i, that same busy man tells us, with onderful products of his industry and, rut his work is doue by tea o'clock nd he has ali the rest of the day for recreation aud exercise. Well, that is rather more than you and! can cisim. Well, then, ho tells us also he takes Saturday as a ews Every Saturday, and it turoe out that fnese di culties in which he got mvoived oceurred on Sat- urday— (laughter)—one of his holidays, He had time enough to Visit, although he was not much of a visitor, favor of the innocerice of Mr. he et he did find time to visit | in the absence of her husband. | ¢ 1 have no animosity to this de- } M Mrs. Tilton, an Thavs all right, He solicued is, prop (Laughter.) vabiés Asicep; not only that but to engage himsel for that service in thé future. (Laugiter.) An to request Mrs. Tilton, whenever the babies were neasy, to Rend round to bisa and he would come at once aud put them tosieep. There can be no Gispute avout that becanse Mrs. Tilton writes it, Yer, and he acknowledges it, Why, he could find time to take Mrs. Tilton out riding—no un- eiges in tt—and to be out walking with Mra, ‘iiton and visit @ scniptor’s stady, I believe, and It was very He found time to put the Well, now, how pittiul Qu argument that is uuder sach circumstances, In what & desperate fal and strait must @ iruit- ingenious lawyer be to resort to any nat character would establish the proof ury. And so with the state- Ment of the learned gentieman that Mr. Beecher's person is $0 well known that he could not move Anywhere without beiog an object of opserv: Well, what tf it is so 7 as for him for intercourse wit Mrs, Tilton, of woat- ever kind that intercourse may be? ‘Didn't he visit her? Didm’s he see her alone, where there ‘Was opportunity, if opportunity was desired ? What atrant nonsense, with these known circum- stances admitted by Mr. Beecher, to argue that be wae too busy and tov well known to commit mivery. ‘There is one subject. which, in passing, I desire to speak of, because I would be giad to disavuse every ming of the idé@a that Mr. Tilton Was @ cruel and a brutal husvand. I know BRSSIR TURNER calls bim #0, Dut she 1s the oniy witness in this case WhO imputes any £UcR Conduct or quality to Theodore Tiltou. If we may judge from his letters, if we may judge from her letters, if we may jndge from the evidence of the man, trom his demeanor upon the «i, fromevery revelation ot bis in- on. a no opportunity | } | and he named the a s | Bermost character which he has given, fromthe | sentiments he has expressed, {rom toe doctrine he has avowed, from every act of his, so fax as it i® proved py any other buman being except Bessie Turner, why he was a man Who Would revoitatany indecency or outrage toward his wife. Ab, gentiemen, except from we lips of Resale Tarnes, where and when has Th dove Tliton ever breathod @ lisp againsé the pe: and the honor of Elizabeth Ff icon ? When hat he ever professed anything but iove and rever. ence and duty? He may have sinned— | ship, wrote know—but you may beileve it trom the evidence; | Dat, so far Aa Wo can trace the ch: career of tue man from his writings and deciara- tions and publications, it has been a lite of ua- swerving loyaity and of mlimited devotion to this ter and the woman; wi he comes upon the stand and swears that she confessed to him her imperity with Henr, Ward Reecher his adoration for that wie was so profound and his veltef in Ber epiritual integrity was so immoy- adie that ne, in tie presence o' belief that sho is pure in soa! a conceive, if he is u represented to ve, declaration? 1 shali comment vpon it by and ; but it strikes every man aa be an open ‘owal of & conattion of spirituailty and morality utterly at war wita and inconsistent wiih the icy O1 this prosecution. But kneodoro leved 1 th he stil, But ne bad the honest manliness to avow it; and not only to avow it, but without questions oF iijuiries to volunteer it, Why was Det Some One cise from that Household produced to prove :nis baseness am bratality on the part the members of nd white as villain that ‘S of Mr. Tilton? Why not some o Plymouth chureh, who three oriour years ago ware intimately familiar witn the ni ties of that honsehold? Why nos some of the numerous ag“ . Tracy—The question was wi Tiston | ladies attac! to Piymouth charch and stil! eling- charged iieproper wolicitations ee otenare: dog to Henr, eecher, who kaew Of inecou iz@ Nevison—Then f fF. Benen, | dition of that housebold. you. You didn’t If THRODORE TILTON WAB THR MONSTER intend, to say that (hey had admitted, ine ta be, why does the nce it, Beach—No, sir. Bnt wi er he misonder. | rest puerile Bessie Tarner? stood me or not no gentieman a rignt to What is the meaning of the testimony m by w Wis Court aud Etat thay 1 Lod & falechood, ~. LJoseed BIGKAIIA GAUNBTNe acer by CAIArINg his God, avows | t he would nave made | | | in omnidus.’? ree ' MeDonald, by Mrs. Mitche), Mra, Bradshaw Mr. Ma F ft iP. faerie, rs a by ani 4 rae Me pepe mr a loving an: istaken when | beatific home? Beecher himself, too, bearing tes- rag timouy tolt? And yee, wien this evifénce, apon the simple testimony of tis girl, Bessie Turner, this Col House has rung for days, id the echoes of the voices of my learned friends are Still travelling ali over the world in bitter and araceful denunciation the conduct of Theodore Tilton in his family. | iknow you bave | prejudices against Mr. Tilton. There is nota man “bout me who has not, | fancy, in consequence of the storm which hag been beating about him, the thunders of which were closed & day or two a0, and the echoes of which stlil ring in the arches 0: this court, and because he 1s @ fearless, self- at the joot of no human being, and court | ‘He confidence of no member of this | jury or of this community, who stands up _ bis own single and independent man, | hood, and demands in ® court of law justice, founded upon the evideuce—and he will geu if. Some time and somewhere he will get tt. If it is i there be a Provitence | stiee witch in Theodore Tikion | wul get Vindication and justiee and Henry Ward Beecher will get nis due reward, The Court then adjoursed to Monday morning, MR. BEACT'S POPULARITY. A few minutes alter the retirement of the jury | Mr. Beach, with Frank Mouiton on one and Judge | Morris on the other arm, emerged from the court room. They found much diiMculty in passing through the dense mass of peeple who throngea tho main corridor Upon = arriy- ing at the head of the —_ statrease under the dome Mr, Beach found severai hundred people gathered there and awaiting his | appearance. A3 soon as the face of Mr. Beach was recognized a deafening cheer greeted hum, Which was taken up and repeated by those behin nations; if there be a retributive the counsel, Mr. Beach moved rapidly down the staircase, hat in hand, powing to the greeting tendered him. All three of the gentlemen then entered & carriage and drove away. MR, CARPENTER MAKES A STATE- MENT. | Mr, Frank b, Carpenter, the well xnown artist, whose name has been counected with the ‘scan- dal” almost since that long-lived trouble first came to the knowledge of tne people, has now made a final “statement” of his knowledge of Messra. Beecher and Tilton, snd of the centro- versy between them, Lacking the opportunity to say what he knew in court, under oath, he bas accepted ®& chance which the Graphic newspaper has given him, and, through a reporter of that journal he reiates to the people a lengthy tale, of which the following are the prominent teatures,— MR. CARPENTER'S BTATEMEST. ‘The assertions of Mr. Beecher’s counsel that I did not ‘dare’? to go on the Witaess stand are without foundation, lexpected to be called throughout the trial. On the last day of the prosecution's re- buttail went to Brooklyn and told Mr, Tilton’a counsel that 1 was ready to go on the stand even at that jate hour, The reasens why I was not called are thesc:—I was subpcenaed at the begin- Ding of the trial, was telegraphed to repeatedly, | and presented myself in court, expecting hour), to be called. Just before the evidence on the ai- reet closed Mr, Tilton’s counsel had @ congultation, and decided to hold me back for rebuttal, suppos- ing from Mr. Beecher’s statement to Ris committes | last summer that there would be something im- portant for me torebut. Mr. Tracy made blatant threats of what the defence were going to prove | concerning me, and on hearing Tracy Mr. Tilten’s counsel congratulated themselves on their poliey im holding me back for rebduital. When tlie de- fence closed to the surprise of the plalntits lawyers not one werd had been produced that needed rebuttal from me, The delence abandoned those polnts requiriag rebuttal Jrom ime, andi ‘Was nov cailed, THE BLACKMAIL THEORY. Is it Conosivable that this poluty made by Mr. Beecher to his committee last snmmer, and one of his strongest points tuen, would not have been | proved on the trial if {t could have been proved? | ‘foe trouble was that if they had attempted to | prove it Mr. Beecher would have been convicted | Of falsehood to his committee, and so it was | abandoned, When Mr, Beecher told his com- mittee last summer that a “demand and a threat” were made upon him he was not under | oath. The fact that On the wicness stad he did | not affirm this statement is proof positive of tig , being the falsehood he knew it to bo when he as- | serted ito nis committee, The further fact that Heary M. Cleveland’s sick room testimony was not read in court, and that this matter was dropped when Cleveland appeared in court, shows that Mr. Beecher’s lawyers were alratd their client would be convicted Of ialsehood out of the mouth | Of his OWN Witness and committeeman, | ACQUAINTANCE WITH MR. BEECHER. My acquaintance with Mr. Beecher began in 1856 or 1858. After [came to New York to live [ heard Mr. Beecuer preach occasionally, and hav- ing been educated in the orthodox faim | had a great desire to talk with bim, One day 1 was in Brady’s photograph gallery, my studio. being at that period in the same butiding, when I ovserved echer, ANG was introduced to Mim by Mr. | Brady, aud be went with me to my studio on an | upper floor. Here we had a talk about ‘endless punishiaent.”? Suosequentiy I patated a portrait | of Mr. cher fron iife, having the sittings, by | bis invitatt at his house in Colambia street, during the summer of 1868, the family at the tune being abseut for the season. ME. BEECHES CHARGED WITH PALSIFYING. | Mr, Evarts quoted in bis speech, as a funda- Mental maxim of the law, sus in uno, falsus How does this apply to his own | client? Hundreds of people, since 1858, have seen | this portraits of Mr. Beecher in my studio, and | numbers know of onr intercourse long before the scandal, A glowine tribute to my portrait and to | e Man was pudiisue the Evening Post of ctober 26, 1858, written by a lady member of his congregation, Which was tbe occasion Of an on- | expected visit to my studio by both Mr. and Mrs, Beecher, I once spent a day with him, ey his InVitation, at Ms Iarm at Peekskill, 01 ening, | many years ago, I made one of party of four | especially invited to spend an evenipg wita Mr. Beecher a‘ his house, when the lady just Mentioned was the hostess in the absence of Mrs. Beecher and the famtiy, After Mr. Beecner’s statement to his committee Was made publis peo- le came to me and said, “What does this meas, fir Carpenier? Mr. Beecher says he never knew you till this scanda!.”’ In answer I referred them to the Bvening Post of Octover 26, 1858. Mr. B er deyoted to me in his statement to fis | mmuittee Inst summer about the space of a finger length, Within this space Beecher with six deliserate faisificatiol tu ACQUAINTANCE AND INTIMACY WITH TREODURE | TILTON, | My acqraintance with Theogore Tilton began in 1856, during the Fremont campaign, Tilton was Prestdeut of the Brocklyn Rocky Mouutain Ciub, which ordered.irom me & portrait of General I mvuut. His love of art brought hum cften to my | Studio and we soon became iatimate. With a mu- | tual love of art there was aiso poiltical sympatiy that vrought us closely together. Tilton ana | Beecher used to come to my studio toge(ner those carly years of our acquaintance. | FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF TRE SCANDAL, My first intimation of wrong came from a lady n the Tiiton family (now dead), dariag | he eto my studio early in year just after Tilion’s rupture wasn Bowen, | ¢ Weeks later Mr. Tilton and myseif one day lunched together, and afterward stroiied into th City Hall Park. Mr, Tilton there disclosed to me Jn brief the facts of his rapture with Bowen. He charged Mr. Beecher with having been gallty of Ly of the charges Bowen had made against Beecher. The statement filled me with aiarat. Re told me, I think, of Mr. Beecher’s apology. 1 Temember ‘tuat Lasxed nim of their relations at that time to each other, His reply was that the they met—only a few days before, day—Beecher came up (kissed him on tl forehead = and | aid, “Theodore, you are my savior.” I do not tiom with Tilien on | voodnat: pabitcation 2 that publicati - ia the country, Upon my retara f i of mind bordering oa ie had been to see Dr, ation ofa 4 that evaded charges would last time distraction, He told m Storrs to ask his advice about the p card; that Dr, Storrs told him and did nos deny Mrs. Wooduull be worse than scless, REV. DR. STORRS AND MR. BECHER, Until Tiiton’s anexpected visit to him Dr. Storrs told me we had not gt the matter a serioas thought. Dr. Storrs, in the confidence of iriend- note to Mr. Beecher, scouting the story aad offering any service in bis power. And beré comes in one of the strangest parts of this history. To this note of (rieadship and trust Dr. Storrs told me there came nO 1epiy, and from the day of Mrs, Woodhuil’s publication = Mr. Beecher, from odelug a consiant visitor, never entered his house. | Dr, Storrs said he (Storrs) had paid no attention | to the publication by Mrs, Woodnuli—bad uot | a! even scen it when Tilton c: fo consult him about publishing a card. Toe Woodbal: puriica- Uon appeared about a month alter the Piymoucn chorch sliver wedding, waen Mr. Beecher publicly kissed Dr, Storrs ou Plymouth piatiorw. Dr. Storrs said Tilton came to him Im great apparent distress, with @ card be had prepared to meet the Woodbull s' The card did net ae an evasion. y told Mr. Tilton, Dr. Storrs an Sto! read it, and sb get tue Woodaull story f Ave you my opinion concerning It.” Titon called again, Dr. Storrs sald, ® day or two after- ward, and then told fiiton that the four points to the Woodhull story which denied to have a denial effectual wits the public, DM, STORRS’ SUMMARY OF THB WOODHULL BCANDAL li points were ;— |. That a orimioal relation had existed between Mr, Beeoner and Mra. Tilton. 2. That it was reveeled to Mr, Tilton or he dis- covered it, % That Mr. Beecher procured a written Genial from Mra. Tilton, and 4 That Mouiton recovered thie paper from Mr,. Beecher. Dr, Storrs said to his great surprise Tilton sata, “But Whas if eve olnte gamagy be dgnied 1”? Dry then [eee | ith of December | genius aud influence couid be secured. | | t misconduct in bis (Tilton’s) house. He told } Mr. } } | Storrs replied that in that cage “be bad no advice to give.” * MRS. TILTON'S TO DR. STORRS. I now come back to thé 16th ef December, Ag I have gald, | passed the night of the loth at Mr. Titow’s#’ house. ‘The next morning, after breakiast, I was in the back parior With Mrs, Tilton, when Mr, Tiiton came tn and sald, lizabeth, We have just fifteen minutes to meet the appointment at Dr, Storrs’ study.” my fast intimation that Mrs, Tilton was to ec- company him to Dr. Storrs’, Mrs, Tilton ap- parently shrank from the interview. Pityiny Position—aut of delicacy for ber feeliag®—f{ raid “Theodore, don’t ask her to go; can’t she write something instead of geiug in person i? ton acceded, aud Mrs, Tilton, so far a8 i could | see, Voluntarily Went into another room out of my Sight, jeaviug Mr. Tilton and myself together. Before she wenr out of the room she said, “How can Texpressit /’ Mr. Tilon repiied, “You can mt bin this Way,” suggesting the opening sen ence of the fetter, which has now | ecome fan ilar. Mra, Tilton jeft vhe room, She was gone her | Tt was | Mr. Tile | perhaps twenty minutes. When she retarned sue | had the completed letter in her hand. She hanaed itto Mr. Tilton, who read it and said: aS beth, you have stated it with exceeding velicacy better than I could have done,” of Mr, Tilton, on receiving the letter from his wife, [remember with absolute distinctness. This account is in direct contradiction of Mrs, Titon’s Statement to Mr. Beecher’s committee, which 1 read with astonishment; but I ean de no less than state what | Know to be the truth, I was present during the entire INTERVIEW WITH DR. STORRS. When Mrs. Tilton’s statement was read Dr, Storrs said, “Mr. Tilton, excuse me, but that tho whole truth ?? Mr. Tilton replied that it was Dot, that it Was an understatement, but he could answer ho questions. Mr, Tilton read to Dr, Storrs and myself a part, and @ part only, of Air. Beecher’: er of contrition.” tinctly the sentence, ‘She is gulitiess; sinned against.” Before leaving Dr. Storrs Tilton stated positively (o us that Mr, Beecher had confessed adultery to bim and to Mr, Moulton in connection with one of Mr. Bowen’s charges, and that Mr. Beecher at the same time named the woman, which Dawe, however, Mr. Lijtou did not disclose, At this interview, ay I[ read from m diary, Mr. Tilton “lala his case bofore Dr. Storrs,’ thas 48, ax much of it as he was willing to dis- close. He fortified his narration with an ccca- sonal letter or document. When he finisned his accouiit, | recoliect Dr. Storra satd to Mr. Tilton that it was his first duty to put the facts and documents in his possession in historical form for his own protection. I remember Dr. Storrs Used this expression, ‘‘and if you have bier i This | lelsure take the leisure and do it at once.’ was the advice which led to Titton’s employing Dimself for the following ten days in carrying out Dr, Starrs’ suggestion, of which the product was what is now knownas the “True Story.? T find in my diary December 25 (Christmas) tills entry:— “Tiiten read me his statement, juss completed.” THE NEWSPAPER PROJECT. What was the origin of the newspaper scheme ? One day, [ thing it was early in December, | was in Mr. Bowen's Pes ofice at the Jndependent rooms, and we Were speaking of Beecher and Tilton, When Bowen made this remark, ‘Mr. Carpenter, bow would it do for me to take those two men (Beecher and Tilton) and put them both back on the in endent?” Mr. Bowen used some such figure of speech as ‘seeing two men drowning, and at the risk of his life planging in and bearing thein to @ place of safety.” He said Mr. Beeener Would return to the /ndependent if he (Bowen) wished it, Mr. Bowed said, “How does the sug- gestion strike you?’ I told Bowen it would be a boid move, a coup d'état iu ite way, He re- plied that it might be a guccess, and he added, “On the other hand ft might sink me.’ I tried to induce Bowen to try the experimext, and I mentioned the suggestion Mr. Bowen made to Tilton, At lirst me took it as @ Jest, but when advocated the plam im sober earnest ne peremptorlly refused to have anything to do with avy project connecting him with Mr. Beecner, Then I Sagnestes Bowen's replacing him on the Brooklyn 0) think Tilton made no reply. Mr. Moulton entered earnestly into co-operation with me to secure ‘Titon’s restoration to the Union. In pursuance of this plan Charies Storrs, I, B. Ciafin aud my- self met at Bowen's house on the evening of De- cember 22, 1872. Bowen suggested at this time buying the Brooklyn £agle aud patting Tilton at the head of tak paper. I made as strong an appeai im behalf of Tilton as I could, and Bowen then offered to make a steck company of the Brooklyn Union and to take $20,000 worth of the stock, with the purpose of re- Placing Tilton as editor, Clatiu would not com- mit himeelf, Not a word was satd during this in- terview about a new paper in New York, with Mr. Beecher for editor, Nobody had thoughs of such @ thing at the time of toat meeting. It was @ perfectly friendly talk of an hour. Tracy's at- tempt to make it appear that CLAPLIN DENOUNCED TILTON a8 a blackmnailer at that interview failed. On seeing Tracy’s effort to prove this (which Judge Neilson excluded) I saw Mr. Bowen and asked him if Clafia applied such a term to Tilton. Bowen said he never heard of Claiin sayiag Auch & thing, “and certaimiy Cianin never used such an expression in my presence.’ Charies Storrs, in his testimony, confounded a Meeting at Moulton’s house two evenings later, Decettber 24, With the one at Bowen's house of December 22. At Moniton’s, on the 24th, Ciafttn Was Bot present, the parity consisting of Moulton, Bowen, Cuaries Storrs, =. later In the evening, myself nnet heip thinking It very strange that Charies Storrs should have lett out of his tes- timony Moulton’s princely offerto Bowen on this occasion, vecember 24. of $125,000 for a half inter. est ta the Brouklyn Union, for the purpose Oi re- storing Tilton as editor of that paper. Bowen has often spoken with me about this offer of Moul- tou. Perhaps Tracy did not want to bring this fact out in Storrs’ vestimony, as Tracy was subse. quentiy one of the purchasers of the Brooklyn Union from Bowen, and | have veen told that this very offer of Moulton was nade a basis in bowen’s negotiations with Tracy of the value of tae Union. THIS NEWSPAPER SCHEMB, | of which the defence have made so mach during the trial, was treated quite differently by Mr. Beecher ia his statement tu his committee. Ho said 1 once “proposed” such a scheme to him, and he was greatly “amused” by it, Yes, and le said that he tid me that if he snoald ever “ieave his ulpit” he thought it “quite likely he would go nto journaltsm,” as it would be more ‘‘aatura:” for him “than anysbing else.” *Faleus 1a uno, Seisua in omnibus.” Again, | will give you all the facta, and you cau jadge whether he gave me any such answer 48 le alleged to his committee, This “newspaper scheme” Was @ pian oi mine to #ave Beecher from the impending investigation wich every one know Was only a question of time aod was bound to en AS a commercial project it was ‘entered into by three prominent pubtishers of New York,’ two Of whom havo never been named in connection with this scand: Two of these pubiwhers met me at Bangs’ -restanramt on the i572. Mr. Greeley had been dead just amonth. The defection of the 7ribune from tue republican party and the decrease tn its circulation offered an opening for a new repub- ltean er, provided am editor of commanaing Phe resus of this interview at Bangs’ restaurant was aa arrangement on my part to see Mr. Beecher and eu the part of one of the pubitshers to see the proprietors of the New York #rpress ani ascer- tala what that newspaper could be bought for, with the Associated Press privileges, These iwo arrangements were carried ont. HOW BERCHBR WAS TO ESCAPE INVESTICATION. I went, as arranged on that December 26, 1872, to Mr. Beecher aud ascertain if he Would take jue editorsnip of the new paper. Mr. Beecher met me at his door Person and invited me to his study at tne top of tue house, sat down together, and I stated ested that he become the told him plainly in this way he hai T ofa church investigation. 5 tin silence for a few moments and thep said, “Lam wonderfaily taken with this plan of yours.’ He then went on to speak of bis work as ammister cing onded. He said his work had been “destructive,” that there had got to be a “re- construction” of theoivgy, and at this time of life he did how Want to have anything to do with it. rhe pian suggested seened a way out of T recollect dis- | nition, To this suggestion I | | ton Was not with them, | toM | Dr. Storra, ‘This expression | casion, the same | itor | | adore | expr said, his trounies, Aiter t we went to Mr. Moulton’s. On tie way Moulton’s Mr. Beecher said to ime, “t cao stand anything | but the sudering ef others for my fault.’ Fur- ther on he said, “Men taik Of courage in faci: an er on @ battiotela; jets mau face what have faced in my pulpit for two years, thea he can talk about courage.” These and similar ex- pressions complessiy won my aympathy for Mr. peecher. I would nave done anything to him. Moulton did no: enter into the scheme with the heartiness that Texpected. He said the plan presented one solution of Mr. Beecher’s dimicuities—oue that promised “to protect Mr. Beecher’s past and secure his fature;” but I re- member he said he thought Mr. Beecher ought not to jeave bis pulpit. Before we separated t night Mr. Beecher made a siatement of his posi. tion in reference to the scai 1 im the presence of Mr, Moaiton and myself, which, ia the judgment partial Men, Warranted aii that Judge Morris claimed In bis opening speech that the proseca- tion Would show by me. | bad four interviews with Mr, Beecher concerning the newspaper I have stated, was the day Cc yocember 26,1572, The second was the next evening, Friday, December 27, afer the church prayer meeting, Mr. Keecher told me ve | | with hina, ou tis occasion that he had ‘laid the matter ve- | fore God and fe would sake the course Providence indicated," and he told me to “go om and seo ‘wha t vould be done.” BEBCKER'S DECISION, Mr. Beecher Gnally asked me to let the matter rest fora jew months, He said tiatif he shoul | eave bis paipit then it would ve attributed to the scandal puvilvation by Mrs, Woodhull, At the ia terview when he said this he was greatly de- oar, His words were, "1 may die in my tacks, hat | must keep on pr ting.” Ti ty reaeon he gave me for suspension of the matter hat it would be said Mrs. Woodhuil had him from the pulpit, Mis last words to mo on the subject Were, “Let-the matter rest for afew months, When the right time comes we can rae @ millon dollars within twenty-four hours.) OLIVER JOUN*ON'S POSTTION, So far ae | know the only two persons to whom Mr. Titon, fm 1870, before his rapture with Bowen, coniided his wile’s confession of adultery, were Mrs, Bradshaw and Oliver Johnson, his most mth foate friend, whom he induced Mr, Kowen to make managing editor of te Independent to my knowl- edge, fur he asked ane to use my Induence with Mr. Bowen to the same end, and Who was, at the time of Mrs. Tilson’s confession, associated with Mr. Tilton on the /ndependent. Ouver Jenneo ny Whe 49 Titon’s ud Beccuer’y conddcnhal send, ° 3 | replied that in ma editor and representarivé, epoke witl & Knowledge I could not possess, told me the charge of Tilcen Beecher wae adultery, long B wa committee put on record that no charge of ad had ever been made by Mr. ‘Tilton sil! airer te Bacon letter, And é@t Oliver Johnson wasone of the witnesses be- @ that committee. Oliver Jonnson admitted Beecher’s adulteries to me as recently as April 3, | 1874, Mm the office of the Christian Union, He said that “he knew Mr. Beecher had been an awful sinner with women; and I can name a gentie- man who if calied would have gone on the stand and sworn that Oliver Johnson told bim that Mr. Beecher hed confessed to him (Jobnson) that h (Beecher) had been “an awiul sinner with women.” Henry M. Cleveland stated to me on the 17th of Mareh, 1874, chat Oliver Jounsen toid him that “Beecher had slipped bis cables aud must be protected. committee waea Johnson testified vetore it, RBECHBE DECLINES TO SEE DR, STORRS. The morning of December 30, 1872, I ealled at Moulton's, in Remsen street. ‘Tilton and Beecher were In the back room on the second floor; Moul- On this occasion 1 said Beecher that I wished he would go aad see Uvaid, “Mr. Beecher. co to Dr. Storrs and confide inbim, You will ind him the teuest of friends and the best of counsellors.’ Mr. Til- ton said upon this, “Mr, Beecher, | think it would be weil for us to go together and see Dr. Storrs.’ Mr. Beecher replied that be Would. not see Storrs. Mr. Tilton then asked me to go around to lis house and ask Mrs. Tilton to come there. I did go, Mrs, Titon accompanied me to Mr Moulton’s, and [ left Mr. and Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher together. derstood the conference Was With the view to pr lic, altnongh the sesudal wag then two months old; DUNG getion was taken, parties for several month, Mr. Carpenter here detailed a meeting which occurred on the 8d of May, 1873, in the Independent office, betweeu himsel’, Bowen and an excitable [tamer from Milwaukee, named PB. DP. Holton, uring this mecting Mr. Holton said that “were | he # Member of Plymouth churen BOWEN WOUED RETRACT his charges or prove them or bo expelied.”” Bowen fs opinion if ® member of Plym- outn church should rise in the next Friday nights prayer meeting and demana an investigation Mr, Beecher would tell the persom to sit down; hd could attend to bis own affairs. Upon thigh told Holton that Clatin had said tome tuat Bowen had made & written retraction of the charges. Bowen turned in bis chair, “What ig that’? said be. I repeated what Claftin had said. Bowen said, “I do not wish you to understand thatT have made a retraction,’? Holvon wid Dr. Budington that Bowen said he made no “retraction.” Edward Beecher learned of the interview, Isuppose he told his brother Henry. I met Beecher at Antoinette Sterling's concert at Plymouth ehurch, May, 1873, He whis- pered to me, ‘“Trere is going to be AN AWFUL RIPPING UP BEFORE LONG." On Sunday, May 25, Cleveland came for me with Beecher’s horse and buggy. He weot tomy house in Forty-iith street; followed me to a iriend’s, Where | was to take tea, Introduced himself to me, and said Mr, Beecher had sent lim to bring me to Brooklyn to confront Mr. Bowen with the cnarge of having violated the tripartite covenant. On our way to Brooklyn Mr. Cicveland told mé that he had been tn consultation with ‘botn Mr. and Mrs. Beecher, and they were goiug to publish the covenant and smash My. Cleveland also showed on the witness stand a very Imperfect memory concerning this busimess, Fortunately a distinguished literary lauy, @ relative of Mr. Henry M. Cieveland, visiting him at the time, corroborates my account of this matter in all r Cleveland left Monlton said Mr. Beecher nad been t! Wished me to go with iim (Moulton) ana Mr. Clafin to Mr. Bowen's house. The tuterview took place re vetween Messrs, Bowen, Clasin, Moulton aud myself, Reluctantly, bat because | thonght the Interests of truth demanded it, I re- peated to Mr. Bowen, io the presence of Mr. Ciatin and Mr. Moulton, certain statements Mr. Bowen had mage to me concerning Mr, Beecher, Tho conversation waxed warm. BOWEN READY TO MERT BEECHER. I told Mr. Bowen thet Mr. Tilton affirmed that ne (Bowen) toid him and Oliver Jobuson on the 26th of December, 1870, that Mr. Beecher made to him (Gowen) aconiession of adurteries, and | re- minded Mr. Bowen that he bad also said tome that Mr. Beecher made @ copfesston to him on his kuces, I said that MMiton and Moulton asserted that when Mr. Beecher heard this statement he denied tuat he bad ever cunfessed to Sowen. I said, ‘Now, Mr. Bowen, there is @ direct lie be- tween you and Mr, Beecher, and a9 1 am here in the interests of truth oniy I would like to have this matter settied.” At tats juncture Mr, Clafin said, “i think we'd becter have Mr, Beecher here. 1 will go and get him.” Bowen, with periect com- posure, sfid he Was ready to meet Mr. Beecher. Moulton started up and said, “Mr. Cladin, I will go and get Mr. Beecier.”” Mr. Mouiton was gone twenty minutes and caine back alone, Upon Mr, Moulton’s return alone Clafin sald he taought it very importaut that Bowen and beecher should have an interview immediately. Claim said he would see Mr. Beecher the first thing on Monday morhing and arraage a private interview, The fol- lowing Thursday | lnnched with Mr. Ciadin at his store on Worth sireet,* He told me that he went to see Mr. Beecher ob Monday and that Beecher said there Wasn't force enough iu Brooklyn to drag him into a private interview with Hepry C. owen, Speaking of the pubitcation of TRE TRIPARTITE TREATY, Mr, Carpenter says that tue before It appeared in the nm the office of the Christian Union, where he met Mr. Cleveland, who excitedly said to him, “M: Carpenter, look out tor to-morrow morn: papers. There 18 to be the greatest sensation since the war.” Isat down with mim. Two or three times ie got up and arranged his coat, con- cealing the pocket from the gaze of any intruder. At length, apparently unadle to withhold the revelation until the neXt day, he arose, went to the coat, took aroll Of manuscript ont of the pocket, Drought it tome, unfolded it and omered to it. aid, “Mr. Cleveland, 11 I am to see it im print to-morrow 1 do not @ to hear it now.” Cleveland replied, “Om the whole I think you are right,” folded ap the manuscript and The ion, the papers pudtisnea the triparsite covenant. Now, mark, Sam Wilkeson testifed on his oath that no one knew of the proposed pubiication of the tri- artite covenant except himself and Edwin . Ford, and that i8 was prepared the Gay belore its publication, between four and five in the atternoon. (1 think I quote coxrectiy from his testimony.) Now, what cam be thought of sucha statement in view of the facts Ihave just given you? Mr. Beecher published a card the fol- 8 5. lowing week, saying that the covenant was pub- | hisnea “without consultation with Dim,” In ad- dition to my statement that Mr. Beecher sent for me the Suaday before, and his messenger, Mr. Cleveland, told me that the Covenant was to ne ubiished, the literary lady to whom | have re- Rerrea as Mr. Cleveland's visitor told me within a few weeks that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. cher consuitation about thé publication, before d, to her certain knowledge, and wat after the publication of Mr. Beecher’s card the Joliowing Week, exonerating Mr. Tilton aud say- ing the covenant was puolished without consulta- tion with Mr. Beecher, the lady wrote to Mr. Cleveland —ber Visit having terminated—inclosing Mr. Beecher's card, aud saying :—‘What does this mean? You kaow that 1 know that Mr. Beecher was consulted and knew of the tmpending pubji- © Thuis lady recently satiea for burope, in great agitation (being in deitcate 8 ith) lest eu etaud, Mr: Carpenter here @issects Mr. Cleveland's testimony and throws it into avery unfavorable light. Me then reiates the occurrences during an interview he with Mr. Beecher on the even- ing. of rs June 1, 197 ‘hat was the evening before ‘THE FAMOUS “AFGHAN INTERVIEW of June 2 (che alibi Lot Laving been proved) with Mrs, Moulton. [ Went to Plymouth churen, ac- companied by my Wife and a lady friend. After the services I spoke with Mr, Beecher. sat «down together, He sald, “rheo- is greatiy excited by the publication of the covenant and the newspaper comments there- Upon. fie has been up Anna Dickia- son Js there. ey'Ve iuflamed hm, and he's go- ing to publish iy letter.” I think his exact easion was “my letter of humiliation.’ | “| suppose he dees."’ Mr. Beecher replied, “You Khow what the consequences will be—my destruction and Theodore’s, too. He can never rise on my ruins.’ He then said he was going down to Moulton'’s, and asked ime to Walk there As We left the chureh, with a «park of cheerniness Mr. Beeener said, “Weil, Bowen is a deat cock in the pit, isa’t her e then went on to say that If Theodore made the threatened pub- heation Bowea’s charges against him (Beecher) would be belleved oy the pablic and Bowen Would be vindicated, BEACHER WILLING TO SMARB EVERYTHING Witt TILTON, Later on he offered to share bis fame, his fortune and everytoing be had in the world with Mr. Tiitou if he wonld stand by nd publicly disavow Mra, Wooduail It he would @0 this, he said, ke would pat “the whole power of the Chr tien Union wnder the Golden Age and lift it to # ces, roiling the suuscribers in by the thousand.’ T said to Mr. Beecher that, from my Observation of Mrs. Tiiton, I believed if @ collision cane she would deny everyt ting concerning their relations, Mr. Beecher repied that she was a weak woman, and said something to the effect that sne coal Rot bo depended upon, I left Mr. Beecher at ‘a door, I should think about ten o'clock, of distress and depression. My know'- Beecher’s state of mind thar Sunday rived from his own lips, fally con Moulton's Important testimony relauing Wo bis condition aud consessiou the next way, THE USPARDONAPLE STM. A few days alter the death of Obarles Sumner T weat to Brookiya one evening to see Mr. lilton's edituris! on Sumuer. He was not at home and Mrs, Tilton received me. On this occasion sue came into the room, and, sitting down by told me sie had had the heaviest biow thas hg her life. In reply to my inquiry so said that hei friend Mrs. Ovingtoo had told t lady of Brookiyn—one whom meriy considered her ner ti Mra, Ovington that Mrs. Tilton was not & And Cleveland sat on the | reacardfor the pub- | Lwaw little of the | uae. Mr. | bere and Xt morning, accoraing 10 | shoukl be called to the witness | my side, f & be gtac irr com reconcile the two things. she broke down again and said she had a secret Which she would vel me before her death. I said, 0 NOt ask you to tell me.” Them ee sapiedanels 2 ensar. have committed } }. There is nO hope, no mere} | for me.” I said, ‘Phere is mere tor ail.” ‘soo | then sald, “Mr. Carpenter, that written statemeut that I made to you and to Mr, Storrs was A DELIBERATE LIE,’? | I_looked upon her with inexpressible surprite and amazement. I was bewildered. Suddenly there came to niy recollection the repeated as- | Sertions of Cleveland that Mrs. Tilton was the vie- tim of hajlucinatiop. For an instant it seemed @ } clue to the mystery. | said, ‘Mrs. Tilton, if t terrible thing is the result of balluciation tell me 80. 1 for one will gladly accept such an expiang- tion.” She said, “No, Mr, Carpenter, it wasn’t hallucination; 1¢ was a lie.” She toid me she hat | been to Dr, Storrs and told bim what she had just told me, 1 went to Moulten and told him what I bad heard, He expressed no surprise, but would give no satisfaction, I told Moulton I would be | BO party to any further covering up, conceaiment or wrong, let the wronged man be Beecher or ‘Tilton, 1 lett Moulton’s, went to Cleveland’s house anda got him out or ved. Itold Cleveland | what had occurred. I staved vo him, asl did to | Mouiton, that I would no longer be a party to | conceaiment or wrong. A few days later | Wag sent for, and Mrs. Tilton told me that all she meant tO say were the written words of her atate- | ment to Dr. Storrs—that Mr. Beecher had never. | addressed to her any such Words as she wrote” down; that was all she meant to deny; she. | Gianis mean to deny the facts concealed by ine’ | Words, Here BOWEN’S POSTTION. That Mr. Bowen bad a secret revelation involv ing Mr, Beecher’s moral character, made t0 him | years ago, I have had from his own lips. Thag® Aur. Beecher made a confession to nim | also had from Mr. Bowen, That he has always refused to talk upon the subject aud to deny the! statements attributed to him by Mr, Tilton, is a very significant and well known fact, Whatever the facts are, HM. B, Clafin,, Mr, Beecher’s committeemaa, knows them, aud this 13 Unquestionably the reason Mr, Bowen was | Not summoned delore the Plymouth Investigating, Committee, I ones said to Mr. Bowen that Mr. Clafin told mo that he “knew the bottom facts of! | Bowen's case.” Mr. Bowen did not deny thid j fact. I have had business relations with Mr. | Bowen bringing us tn close contact for sseversk) | mies! L have always found bi a man fatthial to is word and promise, To respond to the demand, | of the pabitc that he shall reveal all tacts in his; | possession bearing on the scandal would inveiva) ‘the betrayal of a secret confided to him, as such. secrets are confided to priests and lawye: Mr. Beecher ts afraid of Mr. Bowen Is a) | Lnave it on the authority of Mr. Beechor’s cow- | mitteeman, Clafin, Mr, Bowen has been heroic im |; this matter, Let any man of honor, with a secret. | involving mnocent childrep, put himself in Mr. Bowen's place, Lam afraid tew would have stood ; the pressure as he has stood it witnout striking | back with his heaviest weapon. | WHY BOWEN SIGNED THE COVENANT. | Mr. Bowen told me that H. B, Claflin brought him Sam Wilkeson’s original draft of the covenant and wanted fim to sign it. In the crisis of Mr. Bowen’s business career Mr. Clafiin had loaned him $10,000, which he has always felt tided bing over bankruptcy, Tae appeal of Claflin, therefore, Was irresistible, and, afier altering Wilkeson’# draft in important respects, Mr. Bowen consente® to sign it, with the pledge that it should never see the light. ‘But,’ he added in telling me thiy “Tought not to have signed it; nothing but Clafs in's personal appeal Capa have induced me to | do tt,” PLYMOUTH PRAYER MEETING. | THE BEAUTIFULNESS OF RELIGION—RELIGION A PULL BAND. The oniy difference that can be noted in the ate | tendance at the Plymouth prayer meetings is that | Om each sueceeding week the room 1s filled at an eariter hours Last might the hallway was ! crowded dy people standing. When Mr Beecher came in, as he crowded throngly he smiled and said, “A good chance for you all.’? The Beecher family was present in full force—Mra, Beecher, Mrs. Harries Beecher Stowe, Mrs. Scoville and Colonel Beecher. A lady, evidently @ stranger, alter taking a lengtny survey of the v erable preacher, observed, “Looks full of fuu,'? | with which opinion her companion coincided, | After the regular exercises Mr. Beecher began | bis remarks by saying:—{ was brought up to think religion @ matter of duty, and therefore ofteu as hard, as severe, as combative, as ofa | quality the world was not expected to admire, | ana It came to be sald, How do you expect darke | ness to like Muht? How do you expect evil | to like virtue? Therefore men justified nome- un of heart by saying it waa the sign of | faith, 1 have often called your attention to tha ct that the Jewish sense of nature scems to run ioside rather than oatside, turnin at a! pparenty, | away from the expression, in visible form moral qualities, and nownere else is Lue appreciae tion of moral beauty so high. And I am more and more astonished that this nov bee! | found im reading the New Testament an¢ | in reading the directions of the aposties ta Christians, Phere is evidence of a constant yearc< lug for the beautiful, Paul enjoined upon men t be Dountifal with cheerfulness. They were tog Willlagiy, to give bountiiully, were to be caurteo: and kind, In thousagds of places In the New Tes~ tatement you flud the Apostie had his eye, not sims ply 00 certain moral experiences, but those experts etices developed up to a power of beautifuines: affirm that ali traits ofa Christian faitn are trinsieally beautiful. Now, | do not mean that the Scriptare is not true in every indication of the opposition of man against holiness. Ido not 1a. cerstand that when & man is pretty well drunk that he admires temperance. I admit that whem | & man is under the infinence of evti thas what r strains him is not pieasant. But until mem have debauched toetr whole pature men do joel the admirable forms of Ciristian facts. The great attraction of the Gospel ies the exhibition on the part of Christian men, taat men secing their works should glorify God. Now, how much does this enter into men’s thoughts? We know that men want to be beautiful; we | should all be rt to be handsome, | should— laugnter)—and I do not consider myself ashamed to own it, and I don't think less oi anybody tort ownmngit, Now ‘i 1 MAVR. A COSMETIC by Which you aii can be handsome, What make@ @ homely mouth handsome? Change the feature and compicxion !? No. “Handsome is that hand~ some does.” The expression of noble qualities makes argble face. The face fs like a canvas,. aud beanty 18 What you put init. No matter how | coarse the canvas if the artist be skilful. Re Whose face shows large mindedness, generosity,, sweeiness of affection, delicacy of teeing. indicates how beautiul the soul is, Grace makes you handsome if you bave enongn of it. But it ia not enough that ® man should strive after @ Christian quality; stouid catch It, as it were, by the foot, It is Hot until & man becomes pos- eased, not until he bas refined and polimhed 1, tthe moral power of the beauty of holiness | begins to ve discernible, Look at some of the common elements men build on. Is anything grander than consctence? And yet, see some of, those Who live copscienttously. What a hard unieving qaality 1 often appears; men th: | Untemptavie, men that stand up in the mi the temptations of life as the sphinx in the sand# | of Bi je and everlastingty stone. is it Management, is it nota sork of barrenness of conscience that makes it severe 2) Is it necessary that it must be as granite ? Won’? z you let w litte moss grow on ite There are conscientious men who are benignant and sympathetic, for conscience ) is (oldie What the bone system is to the bumam | frame—a thing not to be worn on the outside. bat to be covered with flesh and blood, but to make itself felt in every step. Then there is another, Have you ever seen a fern plucked aud tumbler ? Notice the exquisite beauty of etwork; let itstand an hour, how it collapses t the ribs are gone I have seen soma | people like that—othing to stiffen them up, no combative clement, and without combativencss life would be gelatinous, Combat- liveness ought to do # kind of fire under other qualities, making them boll and bubble, not in the meaning of contention. Men are filling the world | witt racket aod say they are defending the faith. There is no beauty in tuat. There ix one tung certain—jost a8 jong as God spares the lives of editors in New York, that: mem, dows preach right is without excuse. Wo have rules iaid down which we ought to follow, and anybody who lives in New York and is | the | fu G not @ good preacher it is pot for want of good ins. struction, (Laughter,) lanting sores and saacez~ ing bolle al the time, looking for evil always; whatkind 9f preaching is that? Jf a man cheats aneigabor and you see {t, aboor him, but don’t) be yhorent yoursell by doing noth ing but abhor, A Bian who ts always preacting that the Churcls) ist everybody and everything ts Mf! all the arching and finding (ior you wuk | never be without vermin), what is he but A VERMIN: KILLER. To make virtue seem radiant, to Make spiritunts | ity transcendentiy beaatiful, is the duty of man. Take another qnality, humor, How often ong’ happy one is the. deliverer of & whole houssnold R Suppose, ia war times, because | th tar Spangled Banner” with mach empnastg, the softer and mori © stops of the orgun and leave onig. nen tones. Religion is q d; is not an instrument fu you that God does not want you to play te | His honor and giory. All qualities ‘are to ae~ | veloped and freedom withal., That is an idea that, | I have endeavored to teach, the freedom of mam from the bondage of coercive taw. I have | preached to you @ power of freedom that shail deliver you from institations. Por the weak ley Us have cratenes and institutions, but do mot bin the strong. Some me to Plymout OI ng ui uaworthy obj jorbing 80 pleasant t dd for this or that more or think it is because en ae bye themseives, Gt person for her to receive into ner house, Mere | are. They ar a they are, bhé Dore ince tears, At length | said, Tu. | glad tn God. ttraction which you can~ ton, | cannot reconcile expressions that you Rave | not buy, and, th t extinguish. made ved Mr. | The time will come whem thi rch on eart! written | willeaten the choral the deaaty stovoment which you made in my presence.’ 1 | holfmess will draw men to God aad tue pide A MAVE DY TIGRE 0 RRERNOR TOU. UL A AROUIG We ful) of Mie clvkey