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The Beecher Trial.

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BROOKLYN, n. ", July AT IllT A. N. the
jury came into court, which was densely crowded.
and stated that they were unable 10 agree, when
they were discharged. The jury stood nine Tor
acquittal TO three for conviction.
The Tribune says: Triton risked everything
family. fortune, reputation aud peace OF mind 10
crush his adversary, and the discharge Of the jury
was the announcement OF his failure. Yet be has
good cause for satisfaction that the result was no
worse. lie has broken mp bis home and discarded
his wife-for whether she II innocent or guilty he
chung TO her until Il became necessary 20 cast her
of In order 10 strike Beecher. He has sacrificed
the good opinion Of the world and spent bis last
dollar all for nothing. II Beecher had been tri.
umphantly acquitted, Tilton would have gone
down into an abyss OF ruin ard infamy without y
CLEAN OF hope. That fate he has, perhaps. escaped.
and Il il only 10 save him from that late that his
counsel have recently been fighting"
The World says 1.-THE great Brooklyn scandal
has ended as II began, In a moral .quagmire, out OF
which no man can hope TO IND his way aud live
unsmirched, save along the solid, unmAiAkable
path Of an honest, masculine contempt for Beecber's
accusers. Such was the character OF Beechers
accusers that even TO listen 10 them anywhere out
side of n court Of justice was 60 put In peril the
value Of public opinion itself. How can an hon
orable and high-spirited man be expected 10 prize
and seek the good opinion OF the community IL
after having won Il he finds II OF NO little aolidity
that IL may be blown about him in sliding vapors
by the foul breath OF n pair OF rascals who own
themselves 10 be uncontrolled by conventional
laws Of honor or by the national instincts OF man-
hood
NEw YoRK, July l3.-The people and temper Ary
residents Of Peekskill and neighborhood, preceded
by a band Of music and a company. Of militia,
marched 70 Rest Hall last evening, and serenaded
Rev. II. w. Beecber. After an address by Judge
Wells, giving expression 10 confidence In him rs a
man and as a Christian minister OF the Gospel,
Beecher spoke for nearly an hour. Among other
things he said When j began my life i had no
intention OF being a great, eloquent and wise ynan,
but i did mean TO be q good man and honest, and
j do mean TO spend all the strength God gave mo
in making my fellow-men better. This / have
done by the help OF God. / make this assertion
more emphatically. because not a few papers seem
TO think / have done IL by the help and permission
OF newspapers but 1 have done ID In spite OF them.
! don't ask that they should care for my future.
My future is In the keeping OF the Lord God, 10
whom my mother directed me. ! should like 90
zle? About 1870 and 1871 and for three or four
years ! had 10 60 through pretty deep water at
times, but kept IL to myself. The revelation Of
il TO mankind came within q year, but I had got
through II. / an receiving scores and hundreds OF
letters couched In the most earnest and afectlonatO
coincidence for the Gery trial through which ] am
going, but the ashes Of that Gre were scattered
long ago. / am growing In strength and elasticity
Of body. / am all right. The letters / have re-
ceived from Baptist c~lergymen, from the clergy
men in the ministry OF the Episcopal Church. and
especially letters and kilograms from Roman Cath.
Ollie priests have been among the most Christian
expression rendered. i prize these letters. Churches
have prayed for me households have prayed for
me mothers kneeling In the midst OF their littlO
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these prayers have been more 20 me than tho
plaudits Of the people In the streets. Il has been
this that has made me happy. have no new
course to take I am too old 10 change my posi-.
ton. shall go on trusting men ] have pursued
that doctrine all my life, and only once In forty
years have i made a mistake. I shall love men II
shall not stop 70 think OF their faults before 4 love
them. I propose 20 go on with my work, confident
in men, not preaching merely the difference be-
tween right and wrong, but this That there "a
no Justice, no severity, no punighment. that are
good. unless administQrol In tho apfrfN ~ Lane
expenses Of the trial have been enormous.
enough to bankrupt q country minister Eve times
over. and would have destroyed ne bat for Ply.
mouth Church, and even with their help I shall
barely get through, for the expenses Of the trial 10
me have been over SIS 900. ON the other side
they have been very large, bat they havo got no
money 10 pay them with" Beecher cllnitOd mnch
and was frequently warmly applauded
his long address.
NEw YORK, July s.-The Commercial Adu, rissy
states that Beecher's Sunday school visits him al
to-day 10 convey the Official news of his
$1,000 0 salary, and adds: "H II a wonderful
close TO a wonderful trial. A plaintiff IL left alone.
clouded by the suspicion Of conspiracy without a
friend 10 do him reverence or the Contribution az n
penny toward his expenses. The defendant stands
surrounded by a multitude OF friends. with streams
Of money flowing into his pockets, an enthusiastIo
leVoton following bis footsteps. This IL the public
verdict. IL establishes forever the question Of
Beecher's status 80 far as ~Plymoutb Church Il con.
serned lie rests securely 10 the affections Of HIS
NV ADhht jury E"-lbo following card from
appears in the Argus this morning To
The Editor,-Siri The New York Tribune, a paper
10 the Interest Of Beecher, published this morning
ne following paragraph: The evidence Of J. NJ.
fearsall ia the Loeder case, reported In full else
where, 50 seriously duplicates Monlton In the
OF the false anidayits OF Price ana
LoedeT, that counsel for Beecher have already
taken steps 10 indict him for conspiracy AZ we'll a.
Information Of perjury, and will make the applica-
lion to go before the next Grand Jury. II Moulton
returns TO brooklyn before the Grand Jury meets
40 Will be arrested and an examination be bold
preliminary 10 action by the Grand jury A
Judicial examination Of the origin Of the Price
Loeder atndayits and my connection with them IA
'xactly The thing I desire. Accordingly. r have
to Brooklyn 20 NEE. the MENACE Of
minions, and / hereby challenge aud.
ley them 20 institute their threatened procesdings.
signed. Francis ID. Moulton.
BROOKLYN, June 25e-After the retirement OF the
ury yesterday. Evarts and Tilton met face 10 face.
1VartS held out his hand, saying, 81 hope there Is
20 aninosity." Tilton replied, mo. not a BIT"
warts and Beach then shook hands. Both sides
anne under the Judges charge, which was fair
md impartial.