Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-03-12
NEW YORK.
Beecher.TiItOn.

new DIX, March H..
In the Beecher Tilton case to-day, after recess
Mr. Conley's cross examination was continued by
Mr. Beech.
Our conversation to the hours boarding
house keepers should close tncr places. They
usually did thus at 8 o'clock This was restfic-
tlon pl tced fe males. A violation of this regu-
lation several times resulted in the parties being
discharged.
The next conversation that in which the
gentleman gave the spiritual mani ,satons, and
MIR. lllton took photographic notes of it. We
occupied the same positions. | think we were
discussing the Lowell revelations. This gentle
man must have occupied - minutes in his reveal
ton. The subject of 1t wa, the condition of dis.
embodied spirits and their relation with embodied
spirits. There was nothing in the conversation
that made an impression my mind
There were some poetic sentences in his ad-
dress. 1t was sentimental but there was no argu-
mcnt or thought 10 it. | do not recollect a single
idea or sentence that was related there. | rcmem-
bt attn he got through and sat down Mr.. Tllton
read few of his notes and said if it had been
published as essay it would have attracted great
admiration. male the remark that did not
see anything in 1t except that there were in it
some well rounded periods and mellow musical
words. The next topic of Conversation
leCo.iect was that of Mr.. Brsbcne, who demon
stratod the pracicability of Pneumatic tube be-
tween Washington aud New York, for the trans
mis- siC Of letters between the two places, and Mr.
Ilton sad this would alter the character of all
Journalism except metropolitan. The next sub
leCt OF conversation was on the social Icvolut on
which was about to take place, Mr. Tilton sat on
the sofa and Mrs. Woodruff and | about five or six
feet from him, having little and between us.
Mrs. Nilbrook sat think before Mr.. Tilton. Mr..
Tton occasionally spoke TO the other guests
When appealed to Mrs. Woudhull SAID that the
whole system OF the marriage relation was going
to undergo complete chunge, and hat some of
the grca est minis of the country were enlisted
in H.
She spoke in the same way of woman suffrage
in re a ion to this, with which she said General
Butler wa, connected and Mr.. Sumner. She also
come cted MI. Betcber with 1t. | asked her what
SIZE meant TO do it'll the children when lie mar
rage cont act was broken up and she replied that
public Institutions would take care of them. |
said MIR. h, echer would not be likely to take a
new departure at his time OF life or adopt these
principles. She said that he had already done so,
al d that if he stopped now he would he exposed.
She SAID that Mr.. Beecher aud MIS-. Thton had
adopted these flee love doctrines and that the
had bt en- V NJ in the relation Of husband and
wife for long time to all practical observations.
She said that Mrs. TIlton had written a letter to
her husband telling him that she loved Mr.. Beech
er more than her husband; that Mr. Beecher OBJ
tanned this letter and 1t was got from him at the
point of pistol. | said that Mr.. Tion could get
another letter from Mrs TIlton iuculpating MIR.
| Beccher.
treating women was false and they would never
find tn, ir true level until they the same
plane : men.
Mr. +. SAID that the system of treating woman
as inferior to false anu the regulations
made between them should be by contract and
dissolved by contract.
This subject WAS under discussion about half
hour | remember MIR. T. saying that any law
which took awsv the will of the individual was
an usurpstion of his rights. ! think he said he
had read up the subject of the laws in relation to
divorce and was to lecture on this matter in Bos-
ton. | remember his mentioning the law in one
of the German States, that q man could not OBJ
tain divorce during the first year after the
tenth year. He contrasted the laws of New Eng
land relating to divorce and those of n. Y. and
last wear compelling husband to lock after his
laiion was ent red into there was a penalty in
lc,ed for the breach of the performance of the
contract.
! We talked of an essay of John Stuart Mill on
the subsection of women. remember the name
of Chief Justice Chase was mentioned by Mr..
/ Tiltop, and under stood that he was in favor OF
womans suffrage. did not hear that Mr. Gree
I lev sympathized with the movement, thong h it
might have been so. | delivered lecture in
in New York on the Trades Unions or the labor
movement > aid not mention Mrs. Woodhulfs
name in that lecture. About year after that
converse alton with her | became counsel to her
Several weeks after this had another interview
with Mr. Tilson at Mrs. Woodhulls In the first
interview with Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodruff
they conversed in private two or three times
did not SCI them sitting close together; they were
on the lounge about a foot apart. noticed no ca
resses or saatatsns between them, but noticed
several smorous glances pass between them.