The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-16
(From the New York Herald, March 81
Betting ON the Result.


addition to betting on the verdict, bets
are now made on the judges health and
the appearance of smallpox in the court
and the thinning out of the jury by
cholera morbus, St. Vitus' dance, dropsy
and delirum tre mems.
A serious rumor is floating around the
court room that that bottle Of sherry to
which each juror is supposed to be enti-
tied has not been forthcoming, but that
the whole number of several hundred
dozens will be assembled in one
place when the verdict comes to be made
up, and that the ''twelve men good and
true will then enter npon such spree as
has not been known since the days of
the primitive church.
THE OTHER HENRY.
Henry c. Bowen has not turned up his
cards. He is willing to bet on a blind
hand, because nobody knows what's un-
der 1t. Mr.. Bowen always gets better in
health and spirits when he has mystery
on his mind. AS Frank Moulton was tho
most unsuccessful secret-keeper that hu-
man nature has to do with, Bowen is the
most eminently successful. He not only
obeys the Scriprural injunction, not to
let his left hand know what his right
hand docth, but his left ear does not walk
OFT with the contents Of the other. There
he sits on Sundays and at Friday night
prayer meetings, blandly listening to the
discourse, apparently oblivious Of the
fact that Mr.. Beecher's lawyers have al
ready brought him among the conspira.
tors and charged that he, Bowen, threw
the first stone.
1t is seldom in social history that
man can take SO mysterious place as
this. Mr.. Bowen's position in the drama
is like that of the ghost in ''Hamlet,'
about whose existence some players have
been SO doubtful that they do not present
it in form at all, but have the invocation
to Hamlet addressed from behind the
scenes. This is true of Bowen, except
that, instead of meditating the ghost and
saying, ''swear," he hears with great in
difference the large part of the country
laundering ''swear'' at him, and he don't
''swear'' worth a penny.
If the verdict is rendered will the Jury
know much about the case! Will any.
body know much about this extraordinary
puzzle. Since Bowen holds the key
and refuses to unlock it, Mr.. Bower s
position is at once graceful and irritating.
| He let's gentlemen of the press come to
| see him, expresses his regret that he
| must be silent, and refers them to the
| columns Of the Independent, for the pro-
digious success of that paper he thinks of
more consequence than the small matter
| under discussion on Long Island heights.
COUNSEL IN DAILY CONFERENCE.
+ TO- 70 NJ ,of
each morning, between the hours of nine
and eleven o'clock, there is a private con-
sultation held by the numerous counsel
for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, at which
the line of action for the ensuing tilt in
! the legal arena is reviewed, re-
| vised, and revamped by the
combined talent assembled so
as to meet the latest cxigences that the
case presents. These meetings are held
in room No. 8, in the large iron building
on the corner of Court and Montague
streets. The most prompt in attendance
at these important consultations are
Gen. BENJAMIN F. Tracy, the faithful
clerk Of Plymouth Church. Thomas G..
Sherman, the energetic and prematurely
bald Hill. and ex-Judge Porter. Mr..
Evarts puts in an appearance rather late
at these meetings and frequently absents
himself, being contented to learn from his
associates the result of their conclusions
and guide his course by his own judgment
thereon. The defendant rarel y absents
himself from the caucus in which he is so
profoundly concerned. Indeed, he is
found to be of invaluable assistance by his
counsel, and his able and comprehensive
mind has learned many points in law and
the logic of events since the
After the adjournment of
the court there is another brief consulta.
ton at the same place, when the night
work Of the Junior attorneys is mapped
out and subpoenas are prepared Tor the
impending witnesses who are to confront
and confound the prosecution. The wit.
nesses for the defense will be as tive to
one compared with those called for the
prosecution. The extraordinary ramifi.
cations and intricate labyrinths of the ca
bal of influence which vibrates social, po'
litical and ecclesiastical life from the cen
tire to the periphery in and about "the
, two cities would form a
curious record in itself, aside
, from the main question, the issue in
, volved. Nor is the case confined to the
r metropolitan district, for not q day passe!
, that lawyer does not put in an appear
f ance in some city, town or hamlet, remote
= from the scandalized municipality O
, churches, armed with legal summons fol
witnesses.
: The statement that the standing com
, mittee Of the diocese of Connecticut haG