The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-06
Judge Nelson Designated
to Try the Issue.
THREE JURORS OBTAINED.
The Entire Panel TO Be Com
pleted To-Day.
A Regular Field Day in the
Court Room.

persona in their show Clothes all the lawyers in
their best dialectcs, and finally the lawyers De.
lay proving intolerable than the laws delay,
the Bench itself closed the skirmsh and delegated
one Of It's number to preside at the trial. Mr..
Beechers counsel took an exception, and Chief
Justice Nelson retired to another court room with
the case. There, unless more legal comets and
asteroids are discovered the jury will be made up
and the evidence presented
SCENE IN THE NELSON COURT ROOM.
The clear day brought out q very great crowd to
surround the Court House. AS 1t Is related in
"Barnaby Ridge" that when Newgate JAN was
burned down the escaped convicts chose the jail
steps for resort. SO in causes c6Le0reS mankind
likes to stand around the court house doors II it
can get no nearer
The ample court room was very full Of jurymen,
and the press contributed from forty to sixty
members to the crowd. Chairs were at premium
and were sought TO be carried away from all the
neighboring courts. The buzz OF discussion was
still as to the probable judge who would preside
In the case. that being Tor the moment apparently
OF more consequence than the guilt OF the princi-
pals the composition OF the jury or the relative
vigor OF the counsel The little gallery in the end,
set on brackets, looked ike pair OF black domes
above black roof, where the dense
crowd at the two doors rose uniformly
upon successive steps and filled the arched
panel men, were as well dressed and GOOD looking
as could be seen in any church or lodge. Nobody
attempted to call particular attention to himself
except the Count Johannes, who sat al the re-
porters table and talked over the head OF O re-
porter at the wide arcana OF nature. Several or
the social friends Of Mr.. Beecher were on the
floor. 1t was noticeable that among Mr.. Beecher's
friends less acerbity was shown to those whose
convictions and words have been against him
than formerly. The melowing hand Of time
has somewhat softened the passions of
even this dispute. In Brooklyn, alter libel
suits lnnumerable and fights Of rival
adherents almost from house to house, steadier,
more dltTused feeling has settled on the general
mind, like what mlgh6 be presumed in some long
chancery litigation among the lnnumerable heirs,
claimants and partisans.
TIIroN's HUT.
In the absence OF any decided proceedings at
the court room our reporter called at the Tilton
establishment close in the rear OF the court. 1t
appeared to be empty. The thousand interviewers
were no more. The tall, haggard, poetical pro-
prletor was buried among his counsel, mlnutely
going over subtleties Of evidence, which to those
gentlemen were OF merely professional considera-
ton, but to him the former Of his heart
strings and the fiaments OF his dreams
"People wonder how Beecher can have lived
and suffered So" exclaimed a Brooklyn journalist.
"But what can Triton live on9 He has never
managed anything before with the general good
judgment he has shown in this case. | expected
him to go from one eccentriclty to another until
he dlssipated the support OF his most obtuse fol-
lower. His general course in former times was to
stir up some agitation and then get inside Of 1t
its high priest But in this personal cause he has
grown older, more secret, strong and cautious,
and has made Roadway even in Brooklyn and
he has successfully dealt at Beecher.
He has discontinued his talks with
the correspondents, taken up books OF law and
practice, and generally timed his attacks at the
weakest occasions with his adversary. How he ls
supported nobody knows; but MT. Beecher Is
mortgagng some OF his property. They Will
probably go down IN this wrestle together, their
eyes on each other TO the last and leave the scan
DIAL mystery to succeeding times"
RIVAL COUNSEL
Many persons look upon the subject as above.
Others are apprehensive that the case, as Moulton
and Tlton have related 1t, cumulatively and with
tie transposition OF slight circumstances
and subtle interpr citations OF Beecher's let.
ters. Will be weakened, If not destroyed by
the shrewd analysis and reconstruction of
the same material by able counsel like
Tracy and Evarts. Again, 1t is said that Titons
lawyers are quite as strong to reconstruct the
scandal In favor of Tton's position either him.
self or the 'Mutual Friend"
As to these counsel they are by no means I'M
worthy OF each other Mr. Tracy respected IN
Brooklyn, ana Mr.. Beecher gets no small part OF
his personal confidence and worldly respect from
the solid consideration OF this attorney. Mr..
Evarts ID better adapted than perhaps any Ameri-
can orator to state Beecher's case with resonant
tribute to his character and that mingling of evil
Dana a biph will t.io
to the Plymouth congregation. His weakness
may be in his ong-windedness. At the
impeachment trial OF Andrew Johnson
ne spoke three days, and exhausted on the third
the good impIesso OF the other two. Even
Charles Sumner wanted to stop him and 90 to
vote. The friends OF Mr. Evarts say his weak
ness Is never to let historical opportunity go by
II he can plant a speech IN it for posterity. The
cold, austere, dignied oratory OF Mr.. Beach, with
its keen penetration Of shams and sardonic
power OF getting through moonshne, is the chief
reliance OF Tilton's adherents. Behind Mr.. Evarts
he Is expected 10 stand, like the human drama
OF the Midsummer's Night, parallel with the fairy
dances and passages which accompany 1t, and on
hts cold ineredulity the vapors and sentiments Of
Eyarts are to condense In mere drops OF water.
Those persons who were measuring the counsel
in this way while little or nothing was doing in
court room No. 2 did not suspect that part Of
the same case was being tried across the corridor;
d
two scenes for two days.
SCENE IN THE M'CuE COURT ROOM
At eleven O'Clock, or Whereabouts, coup d'etdt
came OF IN the east court room which would
nearly have made as much sensation through the
country Is the conservative coup d'stdt the day
before in the Louisiana Legislature had not the
Bench put an end to 1t.
There was no need oil Disgusting the fact that the
Judge who was to try this case was yesterday the
whole point Of the scandal. judge McCue was the
person solicited to preside BY the Beecher interest,"
He was not so much desired by the Tilton interest
from the fact that ne granted the bill OF par
tlcuIars desired by Beecher's counsel.
1t may be added here that while there are old
English presidents for granting bill OF particu-
Mr.. Sherman, Beechers attorney, has the credit
IN public estimation OF giving prominence to this
sort OF plea in the case OF his client Fisk. At that
time the courts were notoriOusly corrupt and the
appearance OF the same counsel with the same
demand for a Dill Of particulars mas led a portion
OF the press, II not portion Of the American Bar,
to pronounce the whole thing a novelty anu