The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-26
ELI Perkins speaks.

Eli Perkins writes as follows to the
Chicago Journal:
Theodore Tilton looked upon himself
as giant and his wife as a pigmy. He
never consulted her about literary mat
ters, told her frankly that hewas ashamed
of her, and that he was married to per-
son beneath him in intellect. Mr..
Beecher, on the contrary, old me that
he found in Mrs. Tilton a woman of ge-
MUS. When / asked him to explain in
what way Mrs. Iilton was remarkable,
Mr.. Beecher replied
"Why, sometimes she had as good
Judgment In a question as the ripest
Judge on the bench. She could be as
learned as Judge one moment, and the
next moment giggling girl. She once
wrote an opinion on grave question
the Byron disclosure-which so enlisted
my attention that / read it to a good many
friends, and finally I sent it to sister
Harriet I have read literary passages
to her many a time, in which she sug
gested the wisest and most subtitle
changes. "
But, to go on with the story. Mr..
Bowen, of Brooklyn, told me that once,
after Tilton had returned from lecture
tour, he was belittling his wife, saying
she was mediocre woman and not fit
companion of man of his intellectual
culture, when the little woman, goaded
by his i19huendoes to retaliate, ex-
claimed
"You may not think me worthy of
your love, Theodore, but I know bet
ter man than you, grander and more dis
tinguished, who does love me. :"
i '' Yes, it's that Beecher !" hissed out
Tilton, as he took his hat, and uncere-
moniously left his wife.
sc It was that unguarded boast" said
Mr.. Bowen, (Which the outraged wife
let out to punish her husband, which
reused Tilton's jealousy and suspicion
against Beecher.
From that time on Theodore Tilton
had but one idea-a hatred of Beecher-
a jealousy, insane and morbid, which de-
voured him night and day.
Beecher's Dread of Beach. -
New York Correspondence Rochester Democrat
Beecher, as it is now admitted, should
have retained Beach at any expense. ALI
who know the power of the man expect
that his invective on the defendant will
be the most cruel thing perpetrated in
any court of the world. There are hun
dreds who would give ten tollars to hear
Beach spread himself. The case will
conclude with an avalanche of annihila-
Beach more than any other element in the
case. He had an ntination of the lat
ler's incisive style In a few minutes
speech, which thrilled the audience like
a stroke of lightning. This plainly sng-
gests the terrors that are in store. Beach
and Beecher are much alike in character,
and are almost equal In age, In stature,
and in weight. Had Beach been a
preacher he would have rivaled the ora
tor of Plymouth church in mercrlrial wit,
brilliance of thought, and originality of
expression. On the other hand, If Beecher
had been a lawyer he would have been
noted for that versatility of language,
that pictorial display of words and ideas,
That commingling of law with wit, satire,
and scathing denuneiation, and that hex-
ble and majestic utterance which mark
ihe famous advocate. As the case now
stands it is one Beecher let loose on an
other. As gentleman calmly remarked, |
it Sir, Beecher has always been his own
worst enemy. His free and easy pulpit
style and his general display of what is
,alled Beecherism have continually in |
ured him, and now he is obliged to meet /
lot only their damaging influence, but he |
s also to take the punishment as it
we're his own self " Another man re-
marked, 81 would rather have all the |
awyers in America against me than
Beach" During six weeks Beecher has
Ieen this antagonist, like huge ana
,onda, calmly waiting the proper mo-
nent to crush and swallow him. For this |
,eason it is now apparent that the great
olunder In the case was the omisson on |
he part of the defense to retain this legal |
Jupiter Tonans.