The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-23

allowance for a good deal Of atfeetaton and
| hyperbole iii the coInubial illusions of most
suDimated, not to say a most STACEY, pair OF
sentimental babes in the wood But, discount
| ing this, enough is left TO rei,lte the alter
thought of brutality and neglect put forward
by the woman, who, according to Beecher,
confessed and recanted the most disgraceful
and ruinous of all falsehoods, and who ac-
cording to her own exhibit, but lately held
| the husband she has abandoned rs the idol OF
of her soul.
| The showing against Mrs. Tilton j, rough.
Wheth we Judge her by Beccher's narrative,
or Tiltons narrative, or her own tale, which
is confused and tangled, we shall find her
equally tickle fiighty and affected. She seems
one Of those half headed little fools whom we
| now and then meet in the literary and Re-
| iigious world, with an Overplus of sentiment
and taste for celebrities, too sweet to live,
too ridiculous to die, existing in a semi-po-
etc state in the boys of dreamland Such
| women are usually the victims Of an uncon-
qIerable val ity. Their wealth of affection is
boundless The are in their kind, more
skilltul in fatterng the yantry Of mere simple
tons than professional adyenturesses like
Becky Sharpe, because they purr and lie in
IL languishing dle-away strain of nature, and
not ithout the attractions Of flesh and blood
withal Well Mrs. Tl.ton seems of this cut
and if her relations with Beecher did not ante
date her marriage with Tilton. she has earned
for herself the distinction Of having succeeded
in captivating and destroying much stronger
man than usually falls under the influence of
such actresses. An actress she undoubtedly is.
The bedroom scene, with itsrigid white robed,
speechless figure, that reminded the great
preacher of the statues he had seen in
Europe, indicates considerable dramatic tall
ent. But, for all her sublmities and her cul-
ture, Mrs. TiIton is an untaithful woman ; d
woman whom her husband declares to be SO
weak that she believed herself 10 be morally
guiltless whilst committing adultery with
Beecher a woman whom Beecher states to
have been so weak that she was forced bv her
husband into a false confession of adultery at
the cost of his or her own ruin ; woman
whom all of us have seen to be SO weak that
one d ny she abandons her husband the next
day calls him the idol Of her life, and finally
ends by charging him with years Of brutality
and neglect Mr.. Prentice once advised IA
son of his, when he went abroad, to refuse
the embraces of fools and never to quarrel
with cripples. Mrs. Tilton is an example Of
the force of the Prenticean precept. She
does indeed bear certain resemblance to the
Main-street definition of a sewing machine,
only her stitches are very uncertain and
himsy.
AS for Beecher the morbid the man who
inhcrits from his father and his grandfather the
remains OF a misanthropic family streak-the
man whohas suffered the tortlrres the damned
he seems to be getting on pretty well in this
hour Of his supreme wretchedness. He Jokes
with his friends on the top step Of the 'front.'
door, whilst his chosen Judges the committee
Of investigation, hold solemn conclave in the
ck-parlor. lie is even merry with the night
Waterman after the company has gone. II
tickles him nightly that the reporters are not
able to find out all he knows himself He does
not feel in the least like the gentleman who
has :. let bird 60 He is proud of all
He has handled his case arts
tically. The appointer OF his own judges, he |
las patiently kept his counsel until all the
witnesses against him have shown their hands, |
and then, having the advantage Of the last
word, he comes in with muddle of verbiage
too complicated for the ignorant, and too long
Tor the busy thinking, by general melee
md countir-assault on Tilton and Moulton to
escape by q side-door, leaving the world at |
least in uncertainty.
He sets poor estimate upon the public in
diligence Innocence is never shtty: 1t is
rarely patient under wrong. 1t is usually
lc to make its case. MI Beecher has car
led himself throughout this business like "a
actician- like simple truth-teller. He
las displayed the cuteness and enforced COM
Dosure of guilt, not the eager indignation of
outraged innocence. He has displayed along
With the futile cunning Of MIR. Pecksnift, the
patience OF Job. He closes years OF submits
ion and folly by an urnatural story, the
of which rest upon the assump-
ion that he is an extravagant idiot, that Til
on is self-destroying scoundrel, that Moul-
on is a motiveess wretch and ruffian, and
hat Mrs. Milton is one-half angel and the
tAer half harlot, and that all the circum-
tances and letters, which cannot be dis
proved, have another meaning to them
han that which plainly appears upon
heir face. Mr.. Dickens, in none of his
musing fl ,tions, asks us to stretch our Gre
ulity half as far as Mr.. Beecher in this most
musing fiction of his, 1t is the rather COM (
arabic with the inventions of Mr.. Sylvanus
'obb, Jr., or of Mrs. E. ID. T.. N. South
yorth, who, being paid for their work in the !
mp, have no time to consult probabilities,
me action, or intent. So they sustain the '
interest of the theme and end with the com
leie happiness OF the hero and the heroine 5
nd the destruction of all Of the villains.
Only II day or two ago we wrote "De Fini- {
us over this dreary scandal, and here we !
re again pounding away at it. What shall
re say to the good people who, like ourselves,
re sick of it? Nothing, except that, dismiss
as we may, it will come into our daily talk,
lggcsting evil to those who evil think. sug- {
esting good to none. 1t is a nasty business,
ldaed, but, like the contents Of the vault
hich the common sewer does not empty, we {
lust submit to have it carted away and can
OF shut our senses upon it. 1t is the wonder,
it is the stencil, of summer untoward in t
'Ir social annals Louisville COurier-Journdl.
ROAST DoNKEY.--in an arti Gle on expert I
tents i'll cookery writer in Eo,iers Mago- {
ne says: "The report of our experiences eli !
tied suggestion on the part Of one distin-
uished alike for classical and culinary loIe
lat it would be well to test the quality of ass
esh Accordingly, a donkey who had at |
.Ined the mature age ofsix was purchased and t
,refully fattened for the SPACE of three
lonths, till it became quite pleasure to pay I
III daily visits and poke him professionally |
l the ribsas Ee put on yet more and more flesh |
t last came the day of doom. He was pro- |
ounced perfect, was duly slaughtered, and
lie series of experiments commenced. The I
ny after his decease his brains were y
ten with unmixed abstraction, and the
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