, 1877-02-03
BEECHER.TIlT0A ECHOES.
The sIumbcrinx Case Dfstur5ed-Beccb-
er's LDst Reputation -Susan Is. Anthony 5


Baby.
~. Y Correspondence Springfield Republican,
The Boeoher case is not dead, bat sleepe,h
ye.i,. sleep isanything but dreamless. Moul
ton refused 10 carry the case up to Delaware
county, because he eouiIn'. afford H. Rogel
Pryor told him be should be obliged to charg,
! $4,000 TO go up there and conduct the case
and the whole trial would cost him S75 600
! at the least. Moultou is not rich He ha.
already lost great DEAL of time and money
by this Beecher business. He is now newly
embarked in business with young partner
who depends very largely On his personal at
tention and Judgment, and TO go off 81,
months would be little less than ruinous
| Tom Shearnau saw that he had the mutual
friend on the hip, and came down ON hin
for $500 for special services, which made
Moulton rejoice that he was a pagan, and
could relieve himself by a hearty swear. VOW
ing tha. he would 20 to Delaware, or the
other place and get satisfaction, before he
would pay such bill and the Judge TO.
duced it TO $3.50. But the Plymouth breth-
ren ohuckled at the result, and Mr.. Beevher
rrjoiced that his last enemy was sileneed
His Congregations are larg-, but not great i.
The deterioration in the quality of his audi
ences is manifest, and the atmosphere of his
church is composed of different class Of
moral ingredients. He looks old, and acts
older than be looks. The spontaneity and
en- husiasm are gone. Whenever anything
like the old fire flames up, the blowing at
the bellows Is plain TO all who have eyes.
TIE church ID 10 longer a moral force in the
community, and really seems . be on Its
good behavior.
Outside of it, Mr.. Beecher does not draw
the old-time crowds nor the best people. 1t
was q severe cut, v hich be and his friends
keenly fit. when, after the burning of the
theatre, he was put down to Hooley's opera
house, and DR.. Buddington was eheered for
doing his duty. AfterWard, Mr. Beecher
had the Academy Of Music, but it was not
full, aad the receipts, apart from the subscfip-
tions received beforehand, were disappOiat-
ingly small. Over here. his name drops ike
cold potato which awakeus no echo and
nobody picks mp. A Western lady spoke of
him At an uptown reception, while since,
and there was silenea Tor longer space than
sydney Smith told the women Il was beenm.
Iag Ia ols.,.-- f.. ne meniiQn of ma narsI-
dead. and -, ,.5ss whispered IN her ear,
that name Is not mentioned IN our society.
There Is something almost terrible in the
visible decline Of a splendid popularity II
gravitation, whose resis'less pull makes the
verdicts of courts superfiuous. But just now,
when everyb, dy thought the grave had clos
ei over the scandal forever, an effort l.
making to reopen the case by an ecciesiasti-
cal inquisition. Mr.. Bowen doesn't inter
view worth cent. He won't tell what he
knows, which il that there are prominent
Congregational cicrgymen who are not salts
fed TO let the matter rest where it has drop
ped, and are determined TO have the bottom
facts brought out In way that shall justify
the denomination in taking steps TO rid itself
of what Is felt by not a few TO be moral
stigma on it, fair fame. But there Is q deal
Of human nature in most men, and that the
feeling that the poor old man has been dossed
quite enough, is the prevalent temper Of our
people. And as for the rest of il, well a
clever lawyer said. yesterday, in speaking OF
the ease. If Beecher is not guilty. he ought
to be, for he has paid penalty enough
Mrs Tilton lives with her mother anc IL
poor. She keeps her two boys, but their
father clothes them aud pays their o,Eer eN-
penses. The two daughters occupy the Liy-
inystone street house, aud are highly thought
of TIltUn has quite as many lecture engage
ments az he can fill with fair and sometimes
crowded houses. He looks IGaulier, and car
ries himself in a s'eadier and more digDitied
way than in the old snphomorinal, sentimen-
tai. gu-hing days. when principle was dis
solved into peri'unery, and the elect called
eacl. other By their Christian names. and
wrote sOunets TO each other on gilt-ed9ed
paper.