Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-24
FROM SARATOGA.
A Run Down 30 New York and Peep In
TO the Brooklyn COurt-BeecheF
and TIItOn, their Lawyers,
their Case, and the
Jury.

From an Occasion Correspondent
SARATOGA, June 17.-WejO Gnl0dOT
IN VieTnO con flor. One is reminded of
this old Spanish proverb on seeing the
bovine, sensual defendant in the great
Brooklyn trial. OF course | was there
and saw them all. l heard Mr.. Beach
send his hot shot straight at the mark.
Was there ever case envelOped with so
much circumstantial? Guilty or not
guilty? Certainly guilty Of utilization
for years with low, vile characters-peo-
pie of the meanest sort. Friendship be-
trayed, Oaths broken, virtue scotfed at.
30! how the mighty have fallen" And
those iconOclastic letters! The name of
Bacon is very suggestive that such great
genius should conceive things so foul.
TamLer with o wOman's heart! Does
not any man of intellect know the indie
Unable effect of eloquence; how the
cheek will glow, the heart beat, and we
are, as it were, by its effects lifted out
of ourselves 1t is intOxication. And
when words are woven into breathing
imagery, sentences whose fine points
pierce the soul, whose purity and love
and Vagueness wait US mid-air, and all
this to a sensitive, sympathetic woman,
she must reliDquish mundane ties and
yield to the infatuation whose mes
meric influence makes her lost.
And 1 say he who can thus daily with
poor woman's heart, fondle her person
and kiss and kiss, whether he commits
the final act for which the great Word
ist stands charged, makes him no less
guilty of high treason to the living God,
through whose truths he would accom-
plish human redemption. His crime is
moral assassination. He has confessed
it. Those whom God has united he has
parted; and those dear, innocent chill.
dren must meet the cold, selfish world
under disadvantage, robbed of that sa-
cred crown, an unsullied name. l once
read story, il memory serves me right,
called 'The Assassin 1t told of q viii
lage. Count Fosco-one Of those pretty
men who think the world is made for
their individual benefit-plausible in
sinuating and hesrtless, would select
an untutored maiden-untutored in the
ways OF the world-win her affections,
and when the soul-yearning of deep love
was entirely his, he would leave her to
wither, to die; and this he would repeat,
counting many household idol among
his victims. This wretch was purity
itself, as far as sensualism was concerned,
and yet how shall we qualify his crime?
All! woman is the delicate tendFil
winding itself around stronger nature
unc0nsciously, and when q man mature
il years hampers with that sacred treas
ure we need not long hesitate in esti-
mating his quality. l went to Brook
Ign to lOOk at the people. saw Tilton.
He may have the defects that Macaulay
attributes to poetic natures; but when l
gazed into his large, open eyes and his
frank, manly face, l could not discover
the 'deep-dyed villain" which his op-
ponent's counsel SO artistically depict
ed. MoultOn is not so pTepossessing;
bis busby hair, half combed, sang froid
air and large physique might indicate
capacity to do the rough work Of
house that needed political favors. Mrs.
Beecher is old and thin. Judge Nelson,
with fine, large head and native digni-
ty Of manner, exhibits q capable GER
beTus guarding the c7air OF Justice.
Everts reminded me Of some pictures Of
cold Hickory" with peraOneLle SINH
lar to that Of Mr.. Jefferson Davis. EX-
Judge Morris might be likened to a
Scotch terrier, eremplGS sunt Odt0ns.
Mr.. Beach has Washington
an face, and spoke in an
easy COlIOquld SLyloJ ouu uI-
tered his sentences without hesitation.
Ex-Judge Fullerton is the type Of din
ner-loving New Yorker, yet not allow
ing pleasure to interfere with business.
Ez-Judge Porter might pass for 3 pro-
fessor. Among the jury the most no.
table is Foreman Carpenter, a fine-look-
ing old gentleman, inclined to be portly;
and he listened with attention. The
jury, taken as whole, are apparently
Of excellent materials, and We may look
for an intelligent result of their deliber-
ations. The air Of the courtroom soon
affects one not accustomed TO it, at least
that was my experience. Among the
New York papers, it appeaFs the Herald,
World, Times and Sun are against the
preacher, while the Tfibasse sides with
him. Before this reaches you the ver-
dict may have gone forth, and the most
notable trial Of our country will belong