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Tho Work of the Defense.

Mr.. Beechers sons are working very
hard in his behalf, and every day are
with some of the younger counsel seek
ing out testimony and perfecting plans
outside of the court room. Henry
Beecher, Jr., is smart young insurance
agent in Court street, Brooklyn, and
during his trial he intrusts his business
to his brother Herbert, and joins with
his brother William in helping the law
yers. Mr.. j. l.. Hill, Gen. Tracy, and
Mr.. p. Ready are busy all of every day,
outside of the court, with different
branches of the case, and it is asserted
by one who is in Mr.. Beecher's employ
that six lawyers whose names have not
been made public are at work for him
making thirteen in all. Gen. Tracy is
committing his opening speech to mem
DRY, and is waiting patiently to be called
into the courtroom to deliver it. The
defense have a long list of witnesses, and
the working lawyers outside of the court
room arc learning specifically what each
can testify to. They pass the result of
their work into Mr. Shearmans hands,
who has his clerks trained to arrange the
matters to nicely, and the result will
be that the facts for the defense will be
woven strongly together, and made to
tell TO good advantage.
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TiIton's Damaging Admission.
rFrcm the Chicago Tribun5.l

[Frcm the Chicago Tribun1.l
The defense in the Beecher case on
Tuesday last struck its first material
blow at Mr.. Tilton i'll 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 very important element in
its theories, and will undoubtedly be
used with great effect when the time
comes In this connection Mr.. Tilton
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 =" through the open gate of the lips
of Mrs. Nathan b. Morse, his mother
in-law, and TINT this latter found out what
had passed confdentially between him
self, Beecher and Moulton, "because
L told her, and she teld the world. T"
What are we to think of man who, after
pretending to shield the reputation of
his wife for two or three years, and
threatening to shoot Mr.. Beecher if he
divulges the terrible secret, deliberately
goes and tells the whole whole dreadful,
scandalous story to woman, knowing
the weakness of the sex when possessed
of n secret, and that woman, too, mother
in-law, who had all the infrmities of the
conventional mother-in-law in most I'M
usual degree1 Had Theodore Tilton de-
sired to find the surest and speediest
medium of disseminating the scandal he
could not have made 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 a
fact is, to say the least, very damaging
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19
Tllton HopeIessly Ruined.

From the Utica Observer
Whatsoever may be the outcome of
this great trial, Tilton is ruined man.
No publisher would care to employ him
as the editor of political or religious
journal. The atmosphere of the Brook
lyn City Court will cling about him for
ever. His notoriety has swamped his
fame, and the paths to honorable dis
tinction are closed and barred against
him. Even though the pastor of
Plymouth Church steps down and out,
and the world turns from him IA from a
guilty creature, there is no salvation for
Theodore Tilton. His home-life is hence
forth dreary blank. His voice raised
in behalf of any pending public question
would be an empty sound falling on
vexed, unwilling ears.
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told her, and she told all the world.
Laughter.
Q.-You know that A.-Yes, sir
Q.-And she was one of the persons
you toldl A.-Yes, sir. Renewed
laughter.
Q.-And you knew her infrmity when
you told herr A.-Yes, sir.
Every man in court who labored under
a mother-in-law, and every man In court
who contemplated that fearful possibili-
ty, opened his mouth and shouted with
laughter Mrs. Tilton herself smiled at
her husbands tribute TO her moth
er's garrulity, and even Beecher
looked IA if he would like to laugh,
but dared not in presence of his
wife. The Judge, however, threw cold
water on the merriment with threat to
adjourn court, upon which Evarts re-
sumes the cross-examination.
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TILTON VS.. BEECHER,
The Great Brooklyn Battlefront
Scenes and Trial Items.


The Way Mr.. Beccher IN played Out"
From the New York Start
The defendant is in excellent health,
and performs, without ceasing, the ire
mendous round of duty imposed upon
him by his several spheres of labor Last
week, for instance, he preached on Sun
day, lectured once, attended and spoke
at his Friday night meeting, of1iciated at
four funerals, married five couples, edit
ed the Christian Union, scanned three
hundred and fifteen letters, wrote at least
a score, met with his counsel, often at
consultation, endured the dominion of n
tremendous influenza, and prepared for
the Sunday labor of the ensuing week.
Obviously little Carpenter was right when
he echoed, "Beecher is played out. :"
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The Battle of Brooklyn in Verse.

From the Graphicl.
On Brooklyn's castellated heights,
High on the dizzy ledge,
The foes are met, the battle set
Upon the ragged edge.
Hark! where lean Discord roars her head
And flames her haggard eye,
And Beecher's ahield confronts the field,
A-Tilton is the cry.
hear the thunders of the Beach
That bars the roaring tide
OF mighty EYarts putting forth
Upon the other side.
There grimly stalks stout Fullerton,
With carnage in his breath
Who stand in tight or skulk in flight,
Alike receive their death.
So Spartacus at bay stood forth
The victors to eyict,
And slew that day in Roman fray
The lictors and the licked.
See Porter, keen of tongue and blade.
Ulysses of the band
None ever laid the amhuscade
or battle safer planned.
There ex-Judge Morris culverins
Belch from "A dozen forts:
Here brave cx-Austin Abbott stands
(Ex-Austin the reports).
Hot Pryor leads fiery charge
Through Tracy's iron rain,
And Sherman steals across the field
On Pearsalls loaded train.
These be the chiefs. The ranks are filled;
Who WELD or spear or brand
Stand not upon the summons now,
Though summoned on the stand.
IT'S Flanders battles fought again,
And Heaven defend the right!
For he who dares IL he who swears
The loudest in the fight
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THE MAGIC HARP.


1 eat in the winter twilight,
The red I'm the west burned low,
And the reddcr light of the blazing logs
Streamed out on the drifted snow,
And thought of the olden story
The harp of long ago.
When its strings were touched, came only
note-like half-said word;
but sudden awaked by that sound
A strain responsive stirred;
Above, below, on every side,
Grand harmonies we're heard.
A deep low music swe eping up
The sea surf on the ledge;
a soft sweet music breathing down
The night-breeze in the sedge;
loud shrin music whistling through
The pines on the mountain edge.
hut only he who touched the strings
Could hear those chords profound;
All others heard the faint low note
And the silence dumb around,
An 4 they said, otis but an idle toy
This harp 40 poor of sound"
thought tbs the heart of the poet
This harp of olden time;
The grandcst song he sings is but
poor half spoken rhyme,
But he hears respondent eyerywhere
A harmony sublime.
For day and night forever
l. sounding in his ears
The mystery of the universe
The marvel of the spheres
All chords and discords blend and make
The raptures of the years.
And day and night forever
He strives, and strives in vain,
10 breath the passion of his heart
The phantom of his brain;
TO utter forth in tongues of time
The grand eternal strain.
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FRAGILE BELIEs.-At the german of
Postmaster-General JEWELS, President
Grant and Gen. Belknap staid until
about o'clock, and busted themselves
in computing how. many miles the
dancers travelled. provided they stayed
until o'clock in the morning and, as
n result of the problem, they demon
strated in n most convincing manner that
eleven and u half miles of pleasure were
glided over by delicate girls, who would
be htigucd or "half dead y. were they
obliged to walk two consecutive miles,
drcaacd in street-suits, and out on II
jaunt for health. Washington Letter.
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namely: How He would appear in the
character of married man. If investi-
CATION proved that He was married, it
would add new glory to his character.
The probability il he never was, and
even Renan affirms it. Yet it is by no
means certain. He admits that if Jesus
were married, the world would never re-
ceive Him as the only begotten Son of
God. But then, he asks, would Mrs.
Tilton love Him any less
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jesus and Marriag &c.
TCor. Chicago Timesj.

Tilton's letter specializing about
whether the Redeemer ought to have
married, created profound sensation,
though it had been already published,
and probably had been read by every
one in the court except the jurors. As
to the jury, they appeared bewildered,
and some of them fixed their eyes on the
witness for some minutes for some
minutes. The letter was dated Oshkosh.
Wis, Feb. IA, 1867, and commences,
" Ny dear orthodox wife," He wonders
If she will be shocked Mt one of his
meditations on the career of Jesus,
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Scandal Titbits.

Scandal Titbits.
YALE College denies that she contrib
uted so, 600 toward Evarts' retainer
Mr.. AND Mrs. BEECHER are much
given to pleasant chats together in the
courtroom.
FRANK MoULToN, we learn from the
Brooklyn Argus, is now principally adj
dressed as Sir Philip, and bushes like a
maiden about it.
THToN's testimony rs to the news-dis-
seminating power of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Morse, will lead the public to think
his suit should be in re-Morse.
ONE 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 to
quiet it, he died from the effects.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent having
called Mrs. Tilton the Helen of the
Brooklyn HAD" the Nashville Union
says Theodore called her Helen Blazes
when he first made the distressing dis,
covery.
THEODORE llLION, III IllhU poem redu
in court, remarks : "What did Adam
say to Eve2 "-Aimer, ainaer, c'cst a
piUre," but it's bosh to intimate that
Adam used French at all; his language,
if memory fails us not, was merely a
sort of antediluvian patois.
BRooKLYN Argus: "There are $50,
600 white men in this country who can
not read-750, 600 immortal beings to
whom the Brooklyn bonanza is the very
arcanum of mysteries, and VIII, can never
know of =" true inwardness," and "parox-
ysmal OSCILLATION" and "soul trustful-
ness" except by the bewildering avenue
of hearsay."
DURING last Fridays proceedings of
the trial, hitherto unpublished letter
from Beecher to Tilton, dated June 3,
1867, was produced, in which the writer
says 81 find myself slowly but surely
going from those views of human nature
and of divine government which have
underlaid for thousand years the Evan
gelical churches. No wonder, says the
Chicago journal, this declaration, when
read in court, produced a sensation. 1t
was coupled with encomium upon Her
bert Spencer. But, then, Henry Ward
never was regarded as second John
Calvin i'll orthodoxy.
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to Mr. Tilton's sincerity and his asser-
tons of anxiety to drown or strangle the
secret.
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Theodore's Estimate of the Great Preacher

trilton's Cross-Examinationl
o. He CBeecher) was in his maturity
and strength of life thenl A. / don't
know what you consider maturity.
@. What did you consider his age {!
A. About 63.
Q. Was he a man of mature years and
settled position in his profession A. l
always regarded him rs big boy and
not man at all.
q. In what sense was he big boy
A. His manner was large, hearty and
companionable.
q. Guileless A. No, sir.
q. Doesn't that come within the de
scription of a boyl A. No, sir. The
craftiest people L know are boys.
q. You use the phrase in the sense of
generosity of demeanorl A. / meant to
say there was certain bouncing air i'll
his manner, and he was fond of the
things that boys are fond of. / thought
him the most charming man | ever
knew.
Q. You think you were right then ?
A. | had not had the experience l have
had since. L loved him next to my
father
q. Up to what period did you retain
these feelings? A. AS / mingled with
the world my idol became dim. L met
other men, his peers and superiors, as |
grew older.
9. These rivals of Mr.. Beecher's came
into as intimate companionship with you
as he did, A. 1 don't know to what you
refer. When l came to know Charles
Sumner | ranked him higher intellectual
ly, morally and socially than Beecher. l
also ranked Horace Greeley higher in
tellectually and i'll every way. l must
say | was never as intimate with those
men rs l was in my early life with
Beecher.
Q. Give us the dates when your opin-
ion began to change? A. In proportion
as | enlarged my acquaintance, here and
there one rose above Mr.. Beecher. He
was still a great man. There were great
men before Agamemnon, and there will
be great men after him. The change was
imperceptible in its progress and begin
nlng.
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Prizc-Ring Training.
rTs IL ~


The gossip Of the trial is found at the
lunch-houses. There all the stray bits of
history in the lives of the principals have
a chance of being told. Many are true,
many wear the semblance of truth, and
n great many are purely apocryphal.
Among many other things told at lunch
about the chief actors in the trial was a
story that, before the case began, Tilton,
Beecher, and Moulton went into active
physical training, and that the two
former still continue the practice.
Beecher gets up at five o'clock, takes Il
cold bath, and afterward exercises with
dumb-bells for half IN hour. Then he
spends another half hour pummeling
sack filled with sand. Another half hour
is spent with n pair of Indian clubs, after
which he takes a smart walk TO Prospect
park and repeats a dozen times the ascent
of the hill where the Prospect tower
stands. He eats porterhouse steaks
when he returns home, rand washes them
down with Dublin porter. In this way
he has reached the strength and muscular
vigor of prize-fghter. Tilton has gone
further and superaddod to all this, prize
ring practice in a private perlor. Moul-
ton tried II variety of ways to harden his
physique and tone his nerves to the
steadiness of a walkers. The re-
suit is seen in the freshness that charac-
terized Moulton after his ten days ordeal
us a witness, and the splendid health so
palpable i'll the faces of plaintiff and de-
PENDANT
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
emocrasso Executive Committee.

The Democratic Executive Committee
met at Aug's Clubhouse this morning
for the purpose of nominating five candi-
dates for members of the Board of Con-
troll, President Mullaney in the chair.
The following candidates were placed
in nominations: Nelson Sayler, VIM.
Dunn, Anton Benning, N. Anderson,
Silas Hayes, A. Gels, Oliver Matson,
Alex. Brown, john Tott, Tom Early, j.
J. Faran, J.. Satfin, W. II. Ruukel, John
Holland, Daniel Heaton, E. X. Turpin.
|. The first ballot resulted in the election
of Alexander Brown, of Mt. Pleasant, by
80 votes; E. X. Turpin, of Anderson
county, by 40 votes; VIM. Dunn, Of the
city, by Al votes.
The second ballot, after the names OF
Tott, Matson, Saylor, Satin, Early, and
Holland, were withdrawn. resulted in
Hays obtaining 40 votes, Gels 81, and
Buening "a. Twenty-nine votes being
necessary, Silas Van w. Hayes and A.
Gels were declared chosen. After MAX
ing the last two votes unanimous, the
Committee adjourned to next Saturday
at 10 O'Clock,
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
Mrs. WoodhaslL Speaks Ouf.

BROOKLYN, March 3O-An article pre-
pared by Victoria Woodruff at the time
sTiIton gave his testimony in Court, and
addressed to 1ilton, but never either
sent or published, is published to-day.
The article is entitled "Whom the Gods
Would Destroy" She accuses Tilton OF
shaneless departure from truth in Civ
ing his evidence under oath with the
view of shielding himself from the odium
of his relations with the writer.
He never did anything so foolish as
when he recklessly invited the destruc-
ton ofhis own testimony. The writer
disclaims any purpose of interfering with
the present controversy. She then re-
views certain portions Of Tilton's testi-
mOny.
His evidence concerning the Steinway
Hall lecture she characterizes as a mass
of ialsehoods, SO also were his accounts
of certain interviews.
She credits him with having been the
means of securing Greeley's nomination
for President at Cincinnati. Fom that
time she dates Tilton's downfall.
Alter this Tilton abjured her acquaint-
ance. Her threat of publishing the scan
dial brought him to her first. She denies
totally that the suppression of the scan-
dal was any part OF his motive in any
thing he did Tor her.
He would have consented To it's publ
cation in any way that would have made
Bowen responsible for its communica-
tion to her, because il he (Tillon) should
be made to appear as the authority for it
he could not live with Elizabeth after.
ward.
The Herald advises that Mrs. Wood
nun be called to testify in the Beecher
trial.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
should nav AT 600 to Tilton and all letters

should pay $1,000 to Tilton and all letters
and documents to be burned. Tilton and
Bowen signed the agreement and the
latter handed Tilton the check. After
the covenant was signed Tilton desired
to alter it, but was not permitted.
He persisted and was allowed to alter
it In some parts. The engrossed copy
was then made, which was signed by
Tilton, Bowen and Beecher. Witness
further testified that Carpenter waited
upon him as friend Of Tilton and asked
him to subscribe to the Golden Age.
Carpenter subsequently suggested that
witness should subscribe to the capital
stock of new paper of which Beecher
was to be editor. Witness went to
Beecher but the latter declined the pro.
|ject.
This was after the publication of the
Woodruff scandal.
Mr.. Clafln was cross-examiped by Full
lerton at considerable length on the tri-
partite covenant, going over his entire
direct testimony. Witness did not know
what became Of the original Of the tri-
partite covenant. He has the engrossed
copy in his possession.
Beecher had it for short time in
April, 1873; witness has known Mrs.
Woodruff for several years past; he
called at their office ouI OF courtesy, and
called once at her house after some pa
pers; was accompanied by Bowen and
Beecher's lawyers.
Witness subscribed for her paper.
This closed the cross-eXamination. 1t is
now generally believed that Beecher will
not now testify until tomorrow. Recess
taken.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
Neap York Market.

NEW YORE, March 30.-Flour steady and IN
moderate demand: super line w estcrn and State.
"a 50g4 rs; common 70 good extra, "a 95(a5 10:
good to choice, IS 15@5 As; white wheat West
ern extra, IS 5O@6; extra Ohio, 81 95(0G 65; st.
Louis, $5(ge Rye -four steady at "a 00(n5 10.
Corn meal firm and in fair demand at 81 45.
Wheat dull and heavy: No. l spring,
81 s2g1 2s; No. spring, 81 12(@t Is; No. y
Chicago. 81 151s@1 10; No. 2 Northwest, 81 iT.a
Is; No. 2 Milwaukee, 81 171s@l 20; migrated
Iowa and Minnesota spring, 81 1901 "a; winter
red w esteIn, 81 f5g1 s8; amper Western, 81 rs
gvl 29: white Western, 81 30yig1 40. Rye auics
at 90iGs1 OF. Barley scarce and firm: Can
ada West held at 81 55. Malt quiet and firm.
Corn easier: mixed Western, 66X dTkc; yell
low do, S7HQGSSc. Oats scarce and fir1ncr;
mixed Western, 69g7lc; white Western, Il
(g73c.
Hay firm at 7OG8 C.
Coffee firm and in good demand: Rio, 16xe.
in gold.
Sugar firm: fair to good refining, Tz<GS,<c.:
prime, SIC; refined firm at 9,s(Gl0Xc.; centri-
fugal, 7,Sta9c.; Muscoyedo, 7XWSXc. Moias-
ses quiet and firm.
Rice quiet and steady.
Petroleum stesdy: refined. 14Xc; crude, 7xc.
Resin dull at 80 0592 12h, strained. Spirits
turpentine dull at &c.
Eggs steady: Western, aNslc
Pork nrm new mess, $50 S5QD2i. Beef un-
changed. Cut meats quiet. Middles uluietk
long clear, l1K@llhe: short clear, lac. Loru
hrmer: prime steam, i4Gl43lc.
Butter nrm: Western, l2Vg2sc. Cheese firm
at 10Ol6kc-
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
POLICE COURT.

Drunk and Disorderly-Ellen GunricK, An
ME Snyder, VIM. Filnigan, each dismissed
John Maher, IS and costs; Louis Reinbold,
thirty days.
MISREPRESENTATION McFaddin, intent to
kill, W. ID. Gault, forgery, John Jones, house
breaking, Frank Leather, receiving stolen
Stewart, Hugh Atkinson, petit larceny, thirty
days each; Thomas Ford, petit larceny, dis
missed; Mollie Foster, jacob Trlesner, va
grancy, each dismissed; Andrew Castlen,
rem Kennedy, w. Bitterman, petit larceny,
each continued to I'd April; Fred. Smith, petit
larceny, continued to Sd April; Michael Lei
senbachi concealed weapons, continued to LIST
Thomas Hennegan, intent to kill, dismissed !;
Hugh Atkinson, petit larceny, twenty days
and costs, and petit larceny, ten days and costs.
Coleman, Sylvester Long, Thomas Carroll, each
dtsmissed; John Shields, s. and costs; Jacob
Frederick continued to lot April
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
The Ra0tn0 Waters.

NEW YORK, March 30.-Dispatcffes from
the Susquehanna river report it rising
steadily on both branches and to its
mouth. The weather continues warm
and the ice is rapidly decreasing, 30 that
danger from gorges,is lesse ming. -
| RATHER EXPENSIVE.
4! In the breach OF promise case of May
Chamberlin against Holmes, the jury
found verdict for the plaintiff for six
Thousand dollars and counsel fees. Mr..
Holmes became SO enraged at Samuel g..
Courtney, counsel for the plaintiff, dur
ang Courtney's closinaargument, that he
attempted to strike him.
DEATH FROM FRIGHT.
Samuel Purdy, keeper OF the Fifth Dis
trict Prison, was frightened into an at
tack of heart disease'by one Of the female
prisoners setting fire to the bed in her
cell, from which death resulted.
The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-30
Chicq0O Market.

CHICAGO, March 3U.-Flour quiet and un-
changed. Wheat active and advanced: No. .
ChicaroIspring, 971ac; No. 2 Chicago spring,
94Ac for strictly fresh; 941lc for regular spol;
94sc April; 9SAc, May; No. Chicago spring.
S9e S9lac: rejected, s2h(G62c. Corn active and
April: 7jMDid for May: rejected, G6c. Oats in
good demand at full prices: No. 2, 55Sc fresh
spot. 55c bid for April; 5s1sc bio for May. Rye
quiet and unchanged. Barley dull but hOfiers
are not willing to maze CONCESSIONS; No. )
spring, 81 w spot; II VI for April.