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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Small pox is prevalent in the Car-list Car-list camps. A Are at Kansas city, Mo., destroyed destroy-ed the building occupied by the Union express loss $10,000: T H. Stewart has been appointed internal revenue storekeeper for the first district of Illinois. The Hazard ville. Conn., powder works exploded Wednesday, killing three workmen, who have large families. fam-ilies. Morris, the contestant of the late John Mitchell's election, claims the seat in parliament, his opponent being ineligible. By the breaking away of dams at Eagle's and Hall's laks, Ontario, the villago of Minden is overflowed. The damage will be great. One of seventy-five Indians being conveyed to Florida prison, stabbed two soldiers at Madison station, and then stabbed himself, supposed fatally. LATEST DISPATCHES.' GENERAL. THE HEEIHEK TIIIAI.. (C.'N riNLTtD FROM FIIT I'AOE.) Ui-Judo Porter continual bumming bum-ming up I y quoting from one of Mrs. Tilton's Liters, in which she breathed forth the fervor of her admiralioi ol her husband. The woman whom he s'.i uc-d iu- an adulteress knelt '10 HIM A3 TO GOD and io'..i him as she luwd her P.s-deciiicr. P.s-deciiicr. This woman, slanuing at the gr.LVc of her boy, they would have you believe stood within nine months and a half of the grave of he own honor. Morris, in opening, alluded al-luded to the frequency of the inter views between Bee-cher and Tilton. No one would doubt that Mrs. Mattiej Bradahaw was a good and pure j woman, and Mrs. Tilton in ti letter to her husband said that1 lic wus jealous of the attentions' shown her by Beccher. Counsel , quoted further from the letters of; Mrs. Tilton illustrative of her tinsel-1 fishness. Did any woman who had committed adultery ever write such1 letters of love, admiration and confidence? con-fidence? Counsel also quoted from tho letter of Feb. 3, lSGS, in which she reproached herself for HER SHORT COMINGS Tho dastard to whom this letter was written, furnished it to the papers pa-pers for publication, with the intention inten-tion of blasting his wife and injuring Beccher. In another letter she says-" says-" Life never seemed to her better worth living for than then." Ho did not return her love in the same warm manner in which she tendered it to him. In January 1S6S, Mrs. Tilton wrote her husband that Beecherj called to see her, and there talked of her husband, and Mrs. Tilton says ttcoeher loved him. Beeeher speaks i of tho soothing influence she has over him. This woman writes her husband hus-band of every thing he said to her, and what pushed at his visits. This man pretends, after all her confession to him of July, 1S70, ho broke oil trom the church, and swears himself that his connection with the church ceased four years before 1S73. Counsel Coun-sel referrarto book gifts, etc., which were paraded by Judge Morris, and which he said would not be likely to be made by a libertine. Counsel read other letters for tho purpose of shoving shov-ing the jury what passed between Beeeher and Mrs. Tilton at each visit, and said they offered the EXCL'SE OF JEALOSY to a man who wanted an opportunity for his infidelities. I deny, said counsel, that in the history of the whole human race havo we a similar case of a woman writing such letters to a cuckold husband. Counsel quoted from a letter in which she Hsks her husband to love the Lord Jesus Christ and bear patiently with her. The woman who wrote that letter to Theodore Tilton was not an adulteress. Tho was faulty only in that she loved him too well. Though it was admitted sho was pure on the :J4th of February, IStiG, we have a lelter beginning "my darling of darlings," in which she speaks of her "tin" and T., hastening to make an accusation of adultery against. Beeeher. Tilton writes irepw uiber, lSelu, regretting being overcome with worldly minded-ness. minded-ness. In December, 1S06, there is another letter from him in which he says he had been leading Carhoriu Gaunt, and it turned on jealousy. Hp p-vju-pwpH the thought that any man was a fool who w.ts the vLtim of jealousy,- and in a few sentences sen-tences afterwards says, " Oh frality, thy name is woman." In all these letters to this poor little woman, there was nothing but glorification glori-fication and adoration of Theodore Tilton. Counsel reed the letter dated March S:h, 1SG7, iu whih Tilton wrote his wife of his grey hairs, and ?aid counsel, Bessie Turner said he spoke of them in 1870, yet this man comes here and in the presence of the everhieling God swears he bad no grey hairs then, Why, you cannot open a letter of this poor womau's but there is something about Bowen, and you cannot have a midnight meeting between Beeeher and Moul-ton Moul-ton without a snovvs'.orm resonant with exclamations of Bowen's treachery. treach-ery. Beeeher in the course of his life has written a few letters to Mrs. Tilton, Til-ton, and these are taken as evidence of adultery though written at ttie INSTANCE OF TILTON. The letter of Mrs. Tilton of January 13th, '70, to her husband was read in! which she mentioned tho visit ofj Beeeher to the house that day. Why said counsel, should she write her husband in a remote state needlessly and mention tho name of her paramour. para-mour. This was after October 10t!i, 1SGS, when they i!eged that Beeeher debauched Elizabeth Li. Tilton, at his house and after October, 16dS, wheu they said he repented tho offense. Another of Mrs. Tilton's letters was quoted referring to tho troubles as of tier own making, and yet Tilton camo on the stand and swore that they were of Beccher's making. Adjourned. THE "TRIBUNE'S" REVIEW OF JUDGE PORTER'S SPEECH. New York, 10. The Tribute has the following in reference to Judge Porter's speech : Everybody knew what to expect when almost the first words uttered wero these : "Men are apt to bo bold ol speech when two stalwart champions like Moullon and Tilton make a joint assault upon a clergymen auJ a woman, the one forbidden for-bidden by his profession to return evil for evil, the other weak and powerless, held in the hollow of the hand iy the man who h:is but to look upon her to fuIxIuo her to his1 will." The last clause, referring to! Mrs. Tilton, was dehvc cd in a deep deliberate voice with scathing force,' and as the wordj were uttered tho j speaker turned toward Tilton, who; sat behind him, and shook his clenched clench-ed hand in his face with a look of scorn. Tilton's face turned very red, but ho looked the lawyer straight in the eves ivhi:o his lips became! pressed ti.;!it together, as if with suppressed passion. Judge Porter continued con-tinued at intervals to turn and denounce de-nounce Tdton to hi3 face. More than once the latter, who was bu.-y making nobs, dropped his pai uervously and half turning in his chair faee-d tlie speaker with au angry expression. Judge Porter, alter comparing liie lives and ch.irac.icis ol t'..e plaint if and deft ndant, hastily . f-.;ei. hed tiu more salient eve;. Is iu the hfc of B-.eeber, and pronounced Mr. Tilton an adulterer, a perineei! D.'.-crihing t'ne discussien ot the p lie: inty ol" tho bov liilph, Mr. Porter -xclainied with e'ectric force and keing Tilton, "If there be a be .st up n the earth! capable of holding sjc'u a cun versa- ' tion over his own My with the paramour para-mour of bis adnh'Tus wife, he : has lived ten) ; lorg uon tbej earth ; it is time lor him to j die. What are su'-h iih n for un'rs-ji they have a mission iu lnuitmg d vii clergymen, crucifying woLntu, and . committing perjury in courts of jus- lice?" Nothing that was said during dur-ing the speech that caused deeper feeling in the audience than this sentence, delivered with all the withering with-ering force the orator could condenso into his words. Tilton faced it all with an irou will, but his cheeks glowed, and tho lines about his mouth were deep and hard. The denunciations denuncia-tions of Moulton and several other persons were only less severe than ! those launched against Tilton, but as the persons who wero denounced were not present, the effect was much less marked. The chief aim of Judge Porter's argument yesterday was to prove from the character of both Mr. Beeeher and Mrs. Tilton, and from the tone and nature of Mrs. Tilton's letters to her husband, the great improbability that any adulterous adulter-ous intercourse had taken place between be-tween Mrs. Tilton and Beeeher. Judge Porter says he will probably speak until Friday, if his strength holds out. Evarts desired him to oc-1 oc-1 cupy the whole remainder of the week with his arguments. |