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Show EASTERN. eeeihert;lion scawdal. The Ket llur y a tils to Hfe TIioj Let lem. New York, o. A member of the Hcecher uofnmiltee yesterday said the design of Moulton, in wi'thbolding his testimony, was to ebjiuuao the stronger fide, when Beeeher tObtified and cut the tbnuit of tiie weaker. It was doiihtlt-! Tilton's puriKjse to lock up part of the testimony for a reserve I fund for the future. 'Hie committee tinanimoiirly decided that no report should be made till Moulton 's ttsti-monv ttsti-monv o'uould te Liken and the letters nubmiited. If the letters were not forthcoming they would be obtained bv legal process. 'Gaynor's libel suit against Til ton was withdrawn to-day. The com-Iplainani, com-Iplainani, in conclusion, said: " nave heard Ihe caae is to be taken before be-fore a higher court. Truth, justice and a well dcUneil law of our com. monweallh were my only motives foi bringing il to trial, as fuQ satis factior can be obtained ueiorc a nigner tribunal. tri-bunal. I therefore withdraw the complaint." The case was then dismirjed. The following are the letters written writ-ten by Mr. Beeeher to Moulton: "Brooklyn, July lifeth. "My dear Friend The committee of investigation are waiting anxiously for you before closing their 'abors. I, too, earnestly wish that you would oimo and clear your mind and memory mem-ory ol" everything that can bear on my ease. I pray you also to bring all letters and papers relating to it which will tlirow any light upon it, and bring to a result this protracted case. I trust that Mrs. M. has been re-invigorated, and that her need of your care will not be se great as to detain you. Truly yours, ''H. W. Beeeher." "F. D. Moulton, Esq." "Brooklyn, Aug. 4. "F. D. Moulton, Esq. "Sir Your letter bearing date of Aug. 1th, 1S74, is this moment received. re-ceived. Allow me to express my regret re-gret and astonishment tnat you refuse lite permission even to see certain letter and papers in your possession relating to me and the charged made aguinstme by Theodore Tilton, and at the reasons given for refusal. In your solemn and repeated assurances of personal friendship and in tho unquestioning un-questioning confidence with which you inspired me with your honor ami fidelity, I placed in your hands for safe keeping, various letters addressed to me from a brother and Bister, and various other parties; also a memoranda memor-anda of affairs not immediately connected con-nected with Mr. Tilton's matters. I also from time to time addressed to you confidential notes relating to myself my-self as one friend would write to another. an-other. These papers were never placed in your hands to be held for two parties, nor to be used in any way. They were to be held for me. I did not wish them to be subject to risk, loss or scattering from any careless care-less habits iu matters of preserving documents. They were to be hold for me. In so far as these papers were concerned, you were only a friendly trustee, holding the papers subject to my wishes. Mr. Tilton has made a deadly assault upon mc, and has used letters and fragmentsof letters purporting to be copies of these papers. Are these extracts genuine ? Are they garbled . Wnat are their dates ? What, if anything, has been left out, and what put in ? You refuse re-fuse my demand for these papers on various pleas. That if I speak tho truth in my statement I do not need them; that if I make eiiccftf',1 ,,,i0 urines is win injurious to luton, and that you, as a friend of both parties, par-ties, are bound not to aid cither in any single act that shall injure the other. I do not desire to injure any one, but to repel the injury attempted upon me by tho use oi papers committed sacredly to your care. These documents have been seen and copied. They have-, been hawked for sale in New York in newspaper offices. What purported to be my confidential notes to you are on the market, but whon I demand a sight at the original papers, of which you are the only trustee, that I may defend myself, you refuse; because you are a friend to both parties. Mr. Tilton has access to your depository" for materials with which to strike me, but I am not permitted to use them in defending myself. I do not ask you to place before the committee any papers which Mr. Tilton may have given you, but I do demand that you lorthwith place before the committee every pauer which I have written or deposited with you. Yours Lruiv, . "H. W. Beeeher." Moulton says he has answered the above letters.andjexpresses ssurprise that his answer is not given to the public as well as the letter of Mr. Beeeher. Moulton stated this afternoon after-noon that he would go before the committee this evening, j Gen. Butler has been "telegraphed for and will be iu Brookly n to-night. He will probably act as Tilton's counsel. coun-sel. Moulton's second letter to Beeeher read;?: "My Dear Sir: In our acquaint-once acquaint-once and friendship I have never received re-ceived from you a letter of the tone of yours of August -1th. It Beems unlike un-like yourself and to have been inspired by the same ill advisers who had bo lainentablycarried your private aflairs, before a committee of your church and thence before ttie public. In reply, re-ply, let me remind you that during ihe whole ol" the past four years all the documents, notes and memoranda which you and .Mr. Tilton have entrusted en-trusted to me, have been so entrusted because they had a reference to your mutual differences. I hold no papers' either of yours or his except such as I bear on this case, l ou speak of a memoranda of affairs not Jinimediate-ly Jinimediate-ly connected with the Tilton matter. You probably allude here to the memoranda of your difficulties with jMr. Bowen, but ihesc have direct reference to your present ease with j Mr. Til ion, and were deposited with : me by you because of such reference. : You speak also of a letter or two ! from your brother and sister, and 1 j am sure you Iiave no forgotten j the apprehension we entertained lest j Mrs. Hooker should fuliiil a design which she foreshadowed, to invade I ;yotu- puipit anu read to your congregation congre-gation a confession of your intimacy with Mrs. Tiitou. You speak of other papers which I hold subject to ycur wishes. I hold none sue h, nor do I hold any subject to -Mr. Tilton's wishes. Tim papers which I hold, ! both you ns and his. were not giveu to 1 be subject to the wishes ol" either of the parties, Lut the very oi jcet of my ! . holding them has been, and still U. j to prevent the wish of one party being : injuriously exercised against the ! other. You are incorrect in saying that Mr. Tilton has had access to' my I denoiit'jry of materials. On the con- . trary, J. have reliised Tilton such access during the ortp.iratk-n of his sworn statem-ui. 'He came tome and said his ease would be incomplete tmiess I permitted tiie use of all document?, hut I refused him and all ' be could rely upon were such notesss he had made from thne to time from I writings of yours, which you htd written to me to be read to j him, and passage which he rauwbt from my hps in short hand. Mr. Tiitou Tii-tou has seen only a part of the papers in mv poedeesiou, and would be more ! ourpribed to learn tho entire facts of j the cate than you can possibly be. What idle rumors may have existed in newspaper ortices 1 know not, but ! they have not come from me. In t closing your letter you say: "1 do ' not aiik vou to place bufre the cum-! cum-! niiiu-e any papers which Mr. Tilton ;may have given you, but I do demand, !etj." in reply I can only say I can ! not justly place before- tho committee ; the papers of one party without doing the aainc with the papers of the other, and I cannot do this honorably except either by legal process compelling com-pelling me, or else by the consent in writing not only ot yourself but Mr. I Tilton, with whom I shall confer on the subject .is speedily as possible. You will, I trust, see a greater spirit of justice in this reply than you have infused into your unusual letter of . August Uh. i "Very respectfully, "Francis D. Moulton." , Mr?. Woodhull, in her Weekly bays . Mr. Kinsclla, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, told her he knew all the fuck i in the Beeeher case before she pub- I- .1 tlial Kfwhor li.l come to him and implored him not U. make anv exposure. This statemenl of Mrs. Woexihutl was brought to the attention of Mr. Kinsolla to day, anel he said if it had been made by a mac he would pronounce it a lie, but being made by a" woman he would simply declare it conspicuously inexact. Mrs, Woodhull declares that she was always treated iu a kindly manner by Mra.'Tilton, especially so in the last call she made- - |