New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-28
PLYMOUTH DELEGATION REDUCED.

Mr. BFECIIER srENps SATURDAY IN PEEkskIIL-
MRS. BErcHER. WITH INCREASING FEEDLENEss'
REsOLUTELY ATTENDS THE TRIAL~PLfMoUrH
PEOPLE IN COURT on sATURDAY-rHEY ARE IN
TuUsIAsTic OVER MR. BEECnER's FRIDAY NIGHT
TALK.
Mr. Beecher left the city on Saturday morning at
o'clock bound for his place at Peekskill where, ne
said he wanted flowers and rest" lie said that the
excitement of the day in Brooklyn would unit hiInior
the preparation of his sermon for Sunday morning.
and as he was no longer needed, as far as the tia
was concerned, he would leave the city,
Mrs. Beecher did not go with him, but with that
resolution which has characterized her all through
the trial. insisted, Notwithstanding sudden and
painful ailment of the heart, which attacked her
early in the morning, on going to court The time
fixed for the assembling of the cOurt on Saturday
had been placed an hour earlier than usual, Judge
Nelson evidently having made up his mind to have
his own way n this matter for once during the TRIAL.
But this did not deter Mrs. Beecher Promptly at 10
o'clock she entered the courtroom, leaning on the
arm of Judge John X. Porter, looking feeble and
fatigued. and even more sorrowful than she has
seemed for weeks past. She was conducted at once
the crowd silently and respectfully dividing to make
place for her) to the large easy chair, with great
high back, massive and throne-like in its proper
tons, in which she reclines langnidly recalling
SPECTATORS, the one great and familiar represent
alive of the slowly dying Katherine of
England. queenly still in her pallor and
crown of gray hairs. Mrs. Beecher's endurance
of this remarkable trial of her strength and faith and
affection is still the common subject of marvel and
of comment by visitors to the courtroom. Her
friends who daily surround her IN court, are aston
ished still at the strength and fortude she displays
She only does not wonder at what she has DONE or
think that it is extraordinary evidence OF her
strength In fact she does not attribute it to any
virtue in herself for being asked how, in her feeble
state of health she could endure the mental strain
and physical fatigue of an exciting trial lasting six
months of peculiarly unfavorable season, sheis re-
ported to have answered with significant Smile
$40 be mad all through is a good tonic"
Judge Nelson, who has observed the increasing
illness of Mrs. Beecher, finding that she would SIT
out the longest sessions has directed long recesses
and early adjournments since the jury retired.
On Saturday Mrs. Beecher was surrounded by sew
eral ladies of the Plymouth delegation, including
Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Register Barry, Mrs. Bigelow
and Others, and a number of gentlemen. The
plymouth Jury" has been broken up as a delega-
ton. and the group now is composed mainly of few
personal friends of the defendant and his family.
On Saturday their principal topic of conversation
was Mr. Beecher's Friday night Talk, in which he
made alusion to the trial and announced his future
purpose to ignore the Islander. This resolution
seemed to meet with the unqualified approval of all
who spoke of il. One gentleman mot however, OF
the Plymouth delegation said that he had heard
Mr. Beecher in many of his greatest efforts i'll Anti
Slavery and war times, but had never seen him " so
thoroughly aroused in his feelings and enhused
with the ideas he was expressing as OH this occa-
sion."