The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-30

testimony will be the pivotal point that
all the world will wait for and decide the
merits of the trial for. good or i'll. The
majority of the people trust that Mr..
Beecher will acquit himself, that he will
explain his remarkable letters in a wav
that will win him the gratulatorv symv.
pathies of a whole nation when he 10.
sends from the witness stand.
so lar, unfortunately for the defence.
the witnesses have not been as positively
forcible on the side they testified for as
the previous witnesses summoned bv the
plaintiff proved in their capacity. The
management of the trial undouhtedlv
proves superior ability on the plaintiffs
side. There may be superior LAWYERS in
America to Messrs. Fullerton and Roach
but no two men could have done one whit
more than they have done to drive for
ward case to conviction and triumph.
perhaps no two men in the whole history
OF legal practice have worked in such
conjoint strength toward one end. Beach
supplies what Fullerton omits, and while
the one excels in cross.examination the
other towers upward in the wondrous
clearness Of his interdcpendent areu.
mentS.
MRS. T1LToN WILL NOT TESTIFY.
That is generally conceded. Mr.. Beech.
er>s brooklyn organ has appeared with
long editorial against changing the law to
meet this exceptional case, and that is the
attitude of lawyers and juries in general.
''Change the law to oblige Beecher and
Tlllon = said a distinguished jurist last
week. ''Why, do they want to make the
law as progressive as their morals? If the
law forbiding a wife to testify in case
concerning her husband is ever to be
changed hope it will not be on such an
occasion as the present, which see-us to
me to concern only the most frivolous so
clety that has ever been revealed to a dis
gustcd public. A respectable raven might
f1y over this dcluge of mud and slobber
ana ind no clean rest anywhere in it
for the sole of his FOOT Judge Nor
rls and, we believe, Mr.. Pryor saw that
they would rather like to see Mrs. Tilton
on the stand, but want the defense to call
| her' as she is more properly their witness.
! People who have INDUCED the deusion
that this unhappy couple are ever to meet
and dwell together again al not probably
ever to be gratified. Tilton said recently
when addressed or this qmestion:
Nothing was ever further from nv inten-
lions after Mrs. Til,on co-opcrated with
/ the defense to do me the last injury in
her power. 1t will be impossible for d
reconciliation in this life, although cx-
pect to work for her support as before
! They will throw her aside in Plymouth
church with 'ut compensation as soon as
they have used her to ruin me-
There IS no abatement Of the zeal of
the counsel for the defense. Mr.. Frank
Moulton was bowed to in an interroga-
tive way by Mr.. Beecher in the court
room last week and shook his head that
he was not to be placated. Still, they do
very queer things over there. It is not
improbable that we shall yet see Mr.
Beechcr painted in a picture of
THE LAST SUPPER,
with Tilton, Moulton, Halliday and the
respective counsel as the twelve apostles,
the Same to be set up In the
rcfectory Of Plymouth church
| with the words below -
"Leonardo da Vino, Tracy,
pinrit.' Several of the leading secular
spirits are to go ON the stand next week,
it is believed, Claain, Cleveland and
Stor1s among them. A rumor prevails
that the plaintiff means to serve sub
pena upon Mr.. Shearman, the clerk of
Plymouth church, and give him an un-
usual opportunity to say II Object Mr..
Bowen continues under subpoena and
will be put upon the stand, without CUES
| ton, by Beecher's counsel. He seems to
care nothing about it. It is said that he
will testify that Tilton, while editing the
Brooklyn Union, had an improper person
in his editorial rooms after office
hours, and that their relations
were the reverse of respectable. Two
servants Of Mrs. Woodruff will also tes-
tify that Tilton had the same chamber
with that priestess Of the progressive,
and Stephen Pearl Andrews will testify
both to Tilton's talk and acts. The
plaintiff will impeach Andrews as a man
who used his own residence to board
women Of bad character for lewd and ra-
pacious purposes, under the consent Of
his wife. The trial will hardly finish
without bringing out the names of the
people who were in the habit of visiting
Woodhulls house, and there is great
trembling in high quarters in consequence
Of this apprehension.
1sessic's Brother.
The Sun publishes mysterious inter-