Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-01-29
Correspondence.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
BEECHER-TILToN-BE TRACTICs
THE FRENCH MASKED BALL-THE
UNION LEAGUE ERECEPTION-THEw wEA-
-ICE-FISK-BCSINESS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 1875.
TILTON-BEECHER.
Familiar words ? Will the writer ever
get done writing them, and will the public
ever be done reading them ? Let us hope
SO. The trial drags its slow length along,
but nothing new has been thus far de-
veloped. Frank Moulton is on the grid
iron, but all it has amounted to thus far
is, he has sworn to the truth of what he
before asserted without swearing to it.
The court-room is packed and .iammed all
the time, though what people go there for,
is more than can divine. True, the best
legal talent Of the state is employed i'll the
case and true it is that Beecher, Tilton,
Moulton, Mrs. Beecher, Mrs. Tilton, an!
divers other celebrities can be seen there
every day, but all this ought not to attract
such throngs. All these people have been
seen before, and the time for the battle of
the legal giants has not yet arrived. But,
notwithstanding, the courtroom is crowd
ed, and will continue to be.
THE BEECHER TACTICS.
The Beecher party evidently intend to
break Tilton's case by showing that he
! (Tilton) has been naughty man in his day,
and has been guilty of too many gallantries.
They may impeach him iu this way, pos
sibly, and secure the legal acQuittal Of
| Beecher is to be helped thereby. What
Tilton charges against Beecher is to be
proved, if proved at all, outside of his state
ments. Beecher may show him to have
been as bad as could be, but how does that
disprove the charge against Beecher? Mr..
Beecher is on trial before the world, not
before that court What he has got to do
TO preserve his standing is to show, not
that another man is guilty in infidehties,
| but that he is innoeent. If he should show
|
a Rochester, it would do him no good, un.
| less he can also show that he has lived the
life of an anchorite. So far, am in can
dor bound to confess Beecher has the worst
of il. Sloulton has stood like iron to the
statements made in the-public prints here
tofore, and the cross-questiOners have not
been able to shake him in the least Still,
all concerned are anxious. Titon shows
the wear and tear of the past terrible year,
and so does Beecher, though not 10 the
same degree. Tilton is of nervous tem-
permanent, while Beecher is stolid and
steady. Beecher can stand wear and tear
better than Tlton. 1t will be long and
| tedious trial, and will accupy mOnths.
THE FRENCH MASKED BALL.
The French Masked Ball. the 21st, at
the Academy of Music, was, as usual,
scene OF headlong gayety and audacious
| fun. 1t is always the widest revel that
society can tolerate. but efforts were made
this year to preserve sufficient decorum to
allow the presence of ladies of good stand
ing, who have formerly felt obliged TO deny
tEeir curiosity in the interests of taste.
The sight Of drunken opera girls, in brief
ballet dresses, sprawling over the partitions
of their boxes, was too much even for fash
ionable sensibilities, and it was deemed
prudent to order carriages by midnight,
leaving the opera boufTe companies and
pretty French milliners in possession, who
kept wild revel till six in the morning The
gayest of dance music, from an orchestra
of one handred performers, the novel i'm
presentations, and charming French toilets
were attractions which crowded the Acade-
nv rs it is crowded but once year at the
repetition of these balls. The characters
were not so new as beautiful, the bacchante
crowned with vine clusters and leaves,
gold cup in her hand, a Spanish girl with
gold and purple skirt, black lace mantilla,
and fan, and high comb, queens and gip-
sizes, an ape covered with fur, and a fiend
in flame color and black. who whirled in
the waltz, holding an angel with wings of
down in his arms. A family of profession
al dancers made their first appearance here
in two new carnival dances, and there was
a mock reception of the king Of the Sand
wich Islands, and lottery, which the
French delight in, was drawn, giving prizes
of diamonds, gold watch and chain, be-
side sums of money, to the holders of tick
cts. The taste and brilliance OF these balls
renders them the delight of fast New York,
which likes to encounter the fun and aband
on of all the opera companies short range.
TIE UNION LEAGUE RECEPTION.
In contrast to this entertainment, which
throws the mantle of broadest charity over
all who enter its doors, the most select
ladies' reception, held annually by the
Union League. is given at their snowy
clubhouse, on the corner of Madison
square. Not ten private houses in New
York have the room or the resources to en-
tcrtain on truly great scale, and the club
receptions supply the splendor which So
ciety Graves. The balls Of the rich Union
League are high-dreSsed affairs, when
white silks that stand alone, round point
ilonnces and strings Of pearls have it their
own way in the halls of the spacious club
house, whose wide drawing and dining
rooms, theatre, and picture-gallery, and
vide siair-cases are the nearest approach