Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Beeeher-TIltOu-B Tactics-|
The French Masked Ball-The Un-
ion League ReeePtiOn-The Wealth
er-Iee-FIsk-Busin
TILToN-BEECHER.


TILToN-BEECHER.
Familiar words Will the writer ever
get done writing them. and will the pub
lie ever be done reading them? Let US
hope so. The trial drsgs its slow length
along, but nothing new has been thus far
developed. Frank Moulton is on the
gridiron, but all that it has amounted TO
thus far is, he mas sworn to the truth Of
what he before asserted without swear
ing TO it. The court room ispacked and
iammed all the tune, though what people
90 there for, is more than can divine.
True, the best legal talent Of the state is
employed IN the case; and true it is that
Beecher, Tilton, Moulton, Mrs. .Beecher'
Mrs. Tilton, and divers other celebrities
can be seen there every day, but all this
ought not to attract such throngs. All
these people have been seen before, and
the time for the battle of the legal giants
has not yet arrived. But notwithstand-
ing, the court room is crowded, and will
continue to be.
THE BEECHER TACTICS.
The Beecher party evidently intend to
break Tilton's case by showing that he
CTilton) has been q naughty man in his
day, and has been guilty of too many gal
lantries. They may impeach him in
this way, possibly, and secure the legal
acquital of Beecher; but, after all. 1
don't see how Beecher is to be helped
thereby. What Tilton charges against
Beecher is to be proved, if proved at all,
outside of his statements. Beecher may
show him to have been as bad as bad
could be, but how does that disprove the
charge against Beecher? Mr.. Beecher
is on trial before the world, not before
that court. What he has got to do TO
preserve his standing is to show, not
that another man is guilty of inf1delities,
but that he is innocent If he should
show that Theodore Tilton had lIYed the
life of Rochester, it would do him no
good, unless he can also show that he-has
lived the life of an anchorite. So far, l
am in candor bound to confess Beecher
has the worst of it.. Moulton has stood
like iron in the statements made in the
public prints heretofore and the cross
questioners haYe not been able to shake
him in the least. Still, all concerned are
anxious and nervous. Tilton shows the
wear and tear of the past terrible year,
and so does Beecher, though not to the
same degree. Tilton is of q nervous tenn
while Beecher is stOlid and
steady. Beecher can stand wear and
tear better than Tilton. 1t will be long
and tedious trial, and will occupy
months.
THE FRENCH MASKED BALL.
The French Masked Ball, the 21st, at
the Academy of Music, was, as usual,
q scene ofhesdlong gayety and audacious
fun. It is always the widest revel that
society can tolerate, but efforts were made
this year to preserve sufficient decorum
to allow the presence of ladies OF good
who have formerly felt obliged
to deny their curiosity in the interests Of
taste. The sight of drunken opera gIrls.
in brief ballet dresses, sprawling over the
partitions of their boxes, was too much
even for fashionable sensibilities, and it
was deemed prudent to order carriages
by midnight leaving the opera bouffe
companies and pretty French mIlliners
IN possession, who kept wild revel until
six in the morning. The gayest of dance
music, from an orchestra of one hundred
performers, the novel impersonations,
and charming French toilets were attrac-
ions which crowded the Academy as it |
s crowded but once year at the recep-
ION of these balls. The characters |
hoanfif1l
,hante crowned with vine clusters and |
caves, gold cup in her hand, Spanish
-irl with gold and purple skirt, black |
Iueens and gipsies, an ape covered with |
ur, and fiend in flame color and black,
Who whirled in the waltz, holding an
nigel with wings of down in his arms.
l family of professional dancers made /
heir appearance here in two new carni-
-al dances and there was mock recep-
ion of the King of the Sandwich Islands,
md lottery, which the French delight
q, was drawn, giving prizes of dia-
nonds, a gold watch and chain, besides
ums of money, to the holders of tickets. |
The taste and brilliance of these balls |
enders the delight of fast New York, |
rhIch likes to encounter the fun and /
bandon of all the opera companies at
hort range.
THE UNION LEAGUE RECEPTION.
In contrast with this entertainment. |
7hich throws the mantle of broadest
harity over all who enter its doors, the |
lost select ladies' reception, held annu-
lily by the Union League, is given at
heir snowy clubhouse, on the corner of
Iadison Square. Not ten private houses
/ New York have the room or the re-
0urces to entertain on q truly great
Gale, and the club receptions supply the
Dlendor which society Graves. The
alls of a rich Union League are high
ressed affairs, when white silk that
and alone, around point flounces and
rings of pearls haYes it their own way
the halls of the spacious clubhouse.
hose wide drawing and dining-rooms'
leatre, and picture gallery, and wide
air cases are the nearest approach to
alatial br1lliance of anything the city
IS to boast. There the most ambitious
rls IN the city, in toilets OF unimpeacha- ,
e elegance, will promenade the wide
Drridors on the arms of millionalrs,
ajor- generals, and managing politicians.
he sight will be an instructive ONE
be serious stern-lipped man, to whom I
ost Difference will be paid for his
ealth and influence, who speaks of "the 4
,use Of" as we do of the house of
began his career here as a
op-keeperIn Greenwich street, where
sold the most honest sIx-penny Worths
the city, and first drew custom by the
Isket OF lace remnants always found on
s counters. The thin, worn out young
an, who promenades carelessly with t
e pTettlest bellies. is stock broker who |
herited millions. AT thirty he has ex- n
Iusted life, and spends money for pleas
e in loose-handed, cynical way. His .
istress, to whom he is Indifferent, has
m mn q vaar onant unnn bar o1j ~, |