Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

other offices in this region held their mails open till perhaps ten minutes before train time, and it proves valuable accommods- tion to business men, who very frequently are not apprised of the necessity of mail ing letter till within fifteen or twenty minutes of train time. when, if they can be permitted to dash off line and mail it without being compelled to carry it to the depot, and assume the risk of it's being lost, by being tucked under the strap to the mail bag, it would more effectually serve the purpose for which the present mail system was created, viz, the accommodation of the people. We are informed there is law ln relation to the closing of mails, and which says it may be closed half an hour before the arrival of trains. The law serves very good purpose to establish limit to the time people may demand mails shall remain open, and we presume was created for, and designed to apply more especially to, offices in the larger towns and cities, where the amount of business is so great that the time mentioned is absolutely required to get the mails 10 the trains, but few are the instances where that law is enforced at the smnller offices, and proves about as effectual, and is about as useful, as the law that forbids the use of profane language on the street. We hope our local government officials, who are proving themselves SO efficient in the business entrusted to their care, will kindly consider this matter and see If all interested cannot be equally as well served and accommoda- ted, by not taking the bag to the depot, to lay there in patience waiting so long time before the trains arrive.
 The Beecher Trial.-Some of the prominent testimony introduced by the defense in the Beecher trial thus far is as fellows Bessie Turner testlfes that Hilton entered her room and attempted to violate her person on two different occasions Was in the habit of trotting around the house in his night clothes in search of the softest beds 10 sleep in; hanging pictures in his night clothes knocking her Bessie Turner,) down with his fist on one occa- sion scolding at his wife and making her life miserable by his whims and cruelty, and-well, a multiplicity of everything else, tending to portray to the world the ''ideal CD home" of Theodore Hilton. She also testified that during the years of her sojourn in the Hilton family; and they were many, covering the entire period at which MT. Beecher's repeated crimes are claimed to have been committed she never saw the slightest indication of anything in the conduct of Mir. Beecher or Mrs. Hilton, to lead her to even mistrust that their con- duct was anything but perfectly proper Mrs. Tilten's treatment of Mr. Beecher when he called, precisely the same as that of various other gentlemen who frequently visited MT. Tilton's house. Miss Turner was not an inmate of MT. Tilton's house as domestic, but, as 1t were, an adopted daughter, receiving the same treatment and accorded tho same privileges as other mem- bers. This being true, it would seem m possible for her all these years not to have seen something to arousehe suspicious, if all the sin and iniquity was being committed that is charged against MT. Beecher by Hilton.
 By witnesses (colored) who were em- ployed by Woodruff, it was proved by overheard conversation. that Hilton endeav- ored to persuade Mrs. Woodruff to publish his islander, saying that Plymouth church was rich, and would give $lOO, 900 to have it suppressed, showing the motive conclu- sively to have been blackmall.
 By witnesses called this week, 1t is posi- lively proved that MT. Beecher was absent from New York on the afternoon of June 2d 1878, the time Mrs. Moulton swore pos. itively Mir. B. was at her house and made the humiliating confession. He left New York at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and visited, in company with his wife, their farm at Peekskill. Three residents of Peeksklll swore positively to seeing him there Monday afternoon, June sd 1873. Several other witnesses have been called, who testified to other matters pertaining to the trial, proving the origin and sole cause of the difficulty between Beecher and Til ton, to have been Tilton's discharge from the Golden Age, followed by Tilton's vari- ous efforts at persecution and revenge against Beechcr, and which finally culmi- mated in Tilton's last grand effort 10 drive MT. B. entirely out of Brooklyn, by charg- ing him with having committed adultery with his wife.
 It would seem as if the above evidence was amply sufficient to prove MT. Beecher innocent of the crime charged, beyond a possibility of doubt. but we are pained to say there arc those among our better class of people, who are so thoroughly biased against Mir. Beecher, they seem to take de- light in stating that the evidence of the de- fence thus far. is of little consequence in proving the innocence of MT. B.; they seemingly having greater relish for and more readily believe the evidence of such "man" as this thrice proved villain and scamp, Hilton, against the character and, as It were, the very life blood of such a man as Henry Ward Beecher has always been known to be up to the time of this filthy accusation: and yet if questioned closely about the evidence, they will al most universally reply they "are tired oft, and read but very little of it now," and why: because they possess greater relish for evidence against a man, that tend eth to his destruction. and they read every syllable given on Tilton's side of the case but that proving MT. B's innocence, is evidently distasteful to them and they "ale tired of it." We prefer to think man is innocent of heinous crime, rather than ts possess love for knowledge of his misery. We do not say MT. Beecher is