The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-07-23

The BEECHER-TILToN AFFAIR.-The re-
porters of the New York and Brooklyn papers
are still kept at their wits end in hunting up
individuals from whom they think it possible to
get new facts bearing upon the Beecher-rilton
scandal. All attemts to induce the investigating
comffiittee to make disclosures have been futile.
but the reportorial pumps profess to gateer
something through other sources. The Brook.
lyn Eagle, friendly to the Beecher side, says
of the meeting of the committee on Wednes-
day:
We feel, however, at liberty tomake this gem
erai assertion: that the case of Mr.. Beecher is
fully known to the committee, and that the load
of anxiety with which his friends have been
burdened need no longer be borne. The So
called ssvery worst'' is known. That it is moth
ing but what an explanation and the apology Of
one gentleman to another would fully atone
for. may be safely inferred.
The same paper says the rumor to the effect
that Mr.. Tilton had begun proceedings in di-
vorce, against his wife is without foundation in
fact, but the New York Tribune. among others,
mentions a formal separation as follows:
'SThe papers are being drawn up for legal
separation between Mr.. and Mrs. sTilton. The
residence in Livingston street is to be given to
Mrs. Tilton, and the childred will also be
placed in her custody. The separation will
be by mutual consent. The details of di-
vorce suit with all its annOyances. will there
fore be avoided.'
ton referring to the letter Of apology of Mr..
Beecher in regard to an alleged offense against
Mr.. Tilton, and now said to be in possession of
Mrs. Moulton, the natural friend of the princi-
pal says:
With regard to that letter can state on bet
ter authority than that of Mr.. Halliday, who
propably learnt all he knows of it from Mr.
Moulton, that it no longer exists. 1t was not
a letter, but some sort of apology, written, |
believe, by Moulton and signed BY Fl. w. B.
1t was destroyed long while ago. What Til
ton now has was written either by him or Mol
ton from memory of the old document, and has
not the signature of H. w. B., except such as
they have put to it themselves. This / am quite .
sure can be proved. Tilton refuses to show
the letter to any one, (perhaps he will show it
to the committee,) but it is virtually a forgery,
and heterogeneous for him to represent it as an
document, when it is only reconstruct
ell from memory. There is no evidence that it
is the same. They may have altered it, or
not remembered its language or-import. This
is the statement Ct Mr.. Sage in private con-
He had it direct from one who knew
with regard to the matter, though he did not
tell who.
The theory of Mr.. Beecher's friends is, in re-
gard to the apology, that when Mrs. Tilton
was. two or three years ago, disturbed, as is
alleged, about the neglect of herself by her
husband, &C., she sought out the advice of
Mr.. Beecher, as her pastor, and he gave his
advice, which, after subsequent explanation,
he was sorry for, and hence, wrote the apologet-
c letter. ~,
The N. Y Sun, says:
IA gentleman of the highest repute in
Brooklyn, and in fact, throughout New York
state, said authoritatively last evening, that
Theodore Tlton;s document would implicate
wo other ladies besides his own wife in the
scandal.