The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-19

Is spent with q pair OF Indian CLUBS, a1ter
which he takes a smart walk to Prospect
park and repeats dozen times the ascent |
of the hill where the Prospect tower
stands. He eats porterhouse steaks /
when he returns home, sand washes them
down with Dublin porter. In this way |
he has reached the strength and muscular
vigor of prize-tighter. Tuton has gone |
further and superadded to all this, prize
ring practice in a private parlor. Moul-
ton tried variety of ways to harden his
physique and tone his nerves to the
steadiness of rope walkers. The re-
suit Ia seen in the freshness that charac-
terized Meulton after his ten days ordeal
as witness, and the splendid health so
palpable In the faces of plaintiff and de-
fendant
Tnton's Damaging Admission.
lFrorn the Chicago Tribune.l
The defense in the Beecher case on
Tuesday last struck its first material
blow at MIR. Tilton IN securing from him
the admission that he was the first to
give currency to the scandal himself.
This does not affect directly the question
of Mr.. Beecher's guilt, but it furnishes
the defense a very important element IN
its theories, and will undoubtedly be
used with great effect when the time
comes In this connection Mr.. 1ilton
testified that all his interviews with Moul-
ton were for the purpose of keeping
! secret the adulterous relations between
Beecher and Mrs. Tilton that Mr..
Beecher did not communicate the facts
to Mrs. Woodruff which she made pub
lie, but that Mrs. Woodruff obtained
them 's through the open gate of the lips
of Mrs. Nathan B. Morse, his mother
ln-law, and that this latter found out what
had passed confdentially between him
self, Beecher and Moulton, " because
1 told her, and she told the world.
What are we to think of man who, after
pretending to shield the reputation of
his wife fol two or three years, and
4 threatening to shoot Mr.. Beecher if he
\ divulges the terrible secret, deliberately
bgoes and tells the whole whole dreadful,
scandalous story to woman, knowing
the weakness OF the sex when possessed
Of scret, and that woman, too, mother
n-law, who had all the infirmities of the
conventional mother-in-law in most un-
usual degree2 Had Theodore Tilton de-
sired to find the sr1rest and speediest
medium of disseminating the scandal he
could not have made a more fortunate
selection. Mrs. Morse, the mother-in-
law, did the work In the most thorough
manner by handing it over to the most
inveterate scandal -mongers in the whole
country, viz, the Woodhulls. Such q
fact Is, to say the least, very damaging
to MIR. Tilton's sincerity and his asser-
tons of anxiety to drown or strangle the
secret
Theodore's Estimate of the Great Preacher.
rT1tou's Cross-ExaninAtion-l
O. He (Beecher) was In his maturity
and strength of life then2 A. I don't
know what you consider maturity.
Q. What did you consider his age
A. About 63.
Q. Was he man of mature years and
settled position in his professionR A.
always regarded him as a big boy and
not man at all
Q. In what sense was he. big boy
A. His manner was large, hearty and
companionable.
Q. Doesn't that come within the de-
scription of boy? A. No, sir. The
craf6est people know are boys.
0. You use the phrase in the sense of
! generosity of demesnora A. I means to
say there was certain bouncing air in
his manner, and he was fond of the
things that boys are fond of. I thought
him the moss charming man / ever
knew.
Q. You think you wero right then I
A. T had not had the experience have
father.
O. Up to what period did you retain
these feelingsl A. As I mingled with
the world my idol became dim. I met
other men, his peers and superiors, as
grew older.
Q. These rivals of Mr.. Beecher's came
into as intimate companionship with you
rs he did A I don't know to what you
refer. When I came to know Charles
Sumner ranked him higher intellectual
ly, morally and socially than Beecher.
also ranked Horace Greeley higher In
tellectually and in every way. L must
: say was never as intimate with those
men as was in my early life with
Beecher.
Q. Give us the dates when your opin-
ion began to change7 IA. In proportion
as enlarged my acquaintance, here and
there one rose above Mr.. Beecher. He
. men before Agamemnon, and there vii
be great men after him. The change was
impercephble In its progress and begin
ming.
I Scandal TItbits.
YALE College denies that she contrib
uted $40, 900 toward Evarts' retainer.
MR. AND Mrs. BEEoHKR are mucl
| given to pleasant chats together in the
courtroom.
FRANK MoU1roN, we learn from th,
Brooklyn Argus, is now principally ad
dressed rs Sir Philip, and bushes like
maiden about it.
Turos's testimony Us to the news-dis
seminating power of his mother-in-law
Mrs Morse, viii lead the public to thinl
his suit should be IN re-Morse.
OFE death has already resulted from
the Beecher trial. Henry Ford, of Bos
ton, contracted an ear-ache in the court
and taking an overdose of laudannm tx
quiet ii, he died from the effects.
A NEwsPAPER correspondent having
called Mrs. Tilton the Helen of TIN
Brooklyn uiad, the Nashville Usaioa
says Theodore called her Helen Blaze
whom he FIRST made the distressing dis
covery.
THEoDoRn TnroN, in that poem reat
in court, remarks: "What did Adam
say to Evef 'sAtnscr, uinter, c'cst /
viaTe," but it's bosh to intimate tina
Ta n ~