The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-03-05
MIR. HEECHEIs ON THE STAND.

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The great intellectual tussle will begin
when Mr.. Beecher takes the stand.
This may not be for couple of weeks
worth witnessing. 1.-THE great preacher
| does not know enough about ragged
edges already, he certainly will have
pretty thorough knowledge when his
cross examination is over. This, it is
said, will be conducted by MIR. Beach,
whose instincts as cross-eNaminer are
of the bulldog order-that is, he doesn't
know how to let go. 1t is very certain
that Mr.. Beec.lcr will find it much
harder to get along with Beach than he
found it to satisfy the committee that
was determined to find him not guilty
anyhow. His great intellectual resour.
ces and he is probably us well supplied
in this respect as any man living-will
need to DC in their best condition when
Beach begins to draw upon them. 1t
is thought that his greatest difficulty
will come when he is examined about
the visit to Mrs. Tilton the night he
was accused by her husband. He GER
tainly cannot deny the visit, for the
documents prove it,and Moulton swcars
to it besides, and if he admits it he viii
nave to make some sort OF reasonable
explanation. Why did he go to Mrs.
Tilton that night and get that remark
able paper which he returncn to MOul-
ton next day: l put this question
| merely because Mr.. Becchcr will pro-
badly find it harder to answer than any
other. The lawyer by whom he is to
| be cross examined is Il man of about his
own age and fully as quick as he is in
| intellectual play. And ne has II power
of concentration, Il knack of sticking to
| u, h,,,,, nj,
right there, that the brilliant pulpit
orator docs not possess. Undoubtedly
the great trial will come when Beach
lays Beechcr on the dissccting table OF
Judge Nelson's court.
| The Senate sat twcnty-nine hours
continuously on Pinchback. The Re-
public;,ns were determined to seat
Pinch, or die in the attempt. The
! Democrats, filled with despair, resolved
to fight it out to the bitter end and die
gracefully ut last. When both parties
were exhausted, and tho Republicans
were trembling with anxiety, and the
Dem ocrats with hopeless fear, the vote
was taken, which might have been had
ut first, and Pinch, to the Amusement
of all, instead of being seated, was
tabled by Il majority of eleven. An
parties looked ut each other and
laughed.
In the famous history of Don Quixotc,
it is related of Sincho Panza that when
fleeing from his island, which he did
BY land in the night time, he fell over
Il steep place, and, catching to Il tree,
he hung in grim terror thinking of the
fearful abyss beneath him until day
light. When the dawn came ut last,
Sanclo found himself within Il foot of
the ground.
This WAS tho situation the Senate
found itself in after this drcary, pro-
tractcd discussion.
Pinch. is not and never will DC
senator, but he consoles himself with
the reflection that he has made money
enough in these Troublesome times to
bid defiance to the barber shop. We
are told that Pinch. is rich. We hope
so. 1t would annoy us to think of this
saddle tinted statesman turning barber
again.
a Jacksonville, Florida, paper has
peculiar ideas of Hon. John Morrissey,
who has opened a gambling house in