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Show A PROPHESY. GEORCHi ALFIiRD TURN'S PKOPHET, AND l'itEDICTS Tl I AT I'l l E GREAT SCANDAL WILL WIND IT WITH A HOllBIDLE TRAUKDY. Brooklyn, Jan. 22. I am perfectly serious when I prophesy that this trial between Tilton and Beecher will not be lawfully completed until the first day of April, or thereabouts. Yet I do not contemplate so long and so depressing a continuation of these proceedings. I feol, nomohow or other, that A TRAGIC CONCLUSION will abruptly and terribly end Hub matter. As it progresses, tho theatric mantle of heroism drops oil, lold by fiJd, from its shoulders, and presently present-ly it will bo wholy undraped, a lewd and hideous transfiguration ol'Priapua. , T bo the laureate oi such reeking annals might grati t'y the hot ambition of Swinburne; but, to impartial dob-iriis, dob-iriis, the whirls and stenches of a widespread wide-spread licentiousness are nothing less llian sickening. Jts tableaux are as vile as tho encaustics of Pompeii; its episodca fit only for the prurient contemplation con-templation of a Mcsaatina; and its actors seem to have lost their aptest opportunity in tho suppression of Aplira Behn. IfBeecher is a libertine, Tilton is a free-lover; and, if Beecher seduced Elizabeth Tilton, Theodoro Tilton permitted and extenuated that seduction seduc-tion by his adukeroui) alliance with odhull. So far, it looks like a a match at mud-throwing, with foular amunition, however, than the cheap ordure of the streets. A.l manner of beastly confidences are to be torn from their graves, and shown up in the witness-chair. A true Corinthian orgie is promised, in which every brutal appetite shall be nakedly represented. We are only on the thresh hold of the scandal. If it be necessary to save Mr. Beecher, nn exhibition so monstrous may be made that the anger of his countrymen will rescue him by a prompt nnd wrathful extinction of the whole proceedings. Other adulterio?, other seductions; other bestial incidents in the unwritten unwrit-ten history of Plymouth, are to be paraded before tho puzzled jurors and the stupefied world. At least TWO DEAD WOMEN are! to anticipate the last judgment by confe.-ising, through the mouths of their own kindred, that they were false to their marriage-vowd; and one of them, that her li lib in ess was beyond be-yond even the awlul picturing of Juvenal. At least one incest will be dragged from under the protective shadow of Mr. Beecher's churuh, and stripped bare and putrid for the consideration con-sideration of these Christian Btates. If Henry C. Bowen ever reaches the witness stand, there will be squeezed from his lean person such a stream of poisonous, excrementitious knowledge, knowl-edge, that the whole country will stop its nostrils and its ears, and ; cry "enough!" Testimony will be produced upon this trial, and may, perhaps, be spread upon its records, to which the feculence fecu-lence of all extant literature will be at which has already been ransacked to prove prior guilt on Beecher's part; and I know of another gravti -into which Beecher's lawyers will presently pres-ently descend to grope for the shameful shame-ful affections of Tilton. Human dust and- ashes cited to demonstrate the wickedness it committed in the flesh is one of the certainties of this, our tail inns Difis Trm But, though tho horrors which I have faintly outlined and which are as well known to a scoro of peraons as to myself form an irrefragable chapter chap-ter in the lewd record of this ease, yet do I firmly believe, without being able to givo a reason for my belief, that a SUDDEN AND MORTAL STOPPAGE "OF THIS TRIAL will be made by one or both of its principals. I dare not predict that Beecher will take flight from this terrible arena; I dare not predict that sudden death or dramatic confession will startle bis worshipers, and silence the process of his accusation. But though it would be something worse than audacity to conjecture the form ! in which the end will come, yet do I verily and earnestly believe that some other climax than the verdict of a jury will conclude this apalling religious religi-ous tragedy, Beecher's papers this morning explain the mottling of his face by stating that he has had a bad cold. They alio curiously emphasize a recent re-cent suggestion of mine, by speaking of the terrible pains in nis head from which he constantly, suffers. I have several times indicated the alarming symptoms of CEREBRAL COXGESHON which flare out in his face like beacon lights. I have also drawn attention to the frequent desperate applications of his hands to the crown of his head, in whioh there evidently throbs a perpetual neuralgia. His nervous debility is becoming more and more marked every day. For instance, while Mr. Evarls was rending the tripartite covenant, to which the signatures of Bowen, Beecher and Tilton were all sullixed, Beecher's right arm lay for a while upon the sliQiildor of his youngest son, and a paralytic twitch of the forefinger betokened be-tokened how acutely sensitive and how feeble his nervous centres have i become. A wistful, yearning, abstracted ab-stracted look sits perpetually upon his swollen features, as if he were indeed on the very edge of the promised land, with the easy ripple of Jordan in his cars, and the cry of pursuers growing louder end louder. Innocent Inno-cent or guilty, he CANNOT STAND THE CRUEL PRESSURE MUCH LONGER. Sooner or later he will fall dead or will yield his confession with a shriek of despair. One of Beecher's disciples made a naif admission to me this morning. Just after the recess had been announced, an-nounced, he touched me on the shoulder and said: " The longer this trial proceeds, tho larger the class of bad men who believe in Beecher's guilt. Now, I have been making inquiries to-day, and I find that every lawyer and every reporter takes Tilton's part." Perhaps this Was only a bitter pleasantry ; but what are the meritsof a case in which reporters and lawyers are found unanimously on one aide? Yet the devotion of Plymouth church and the Brooklyn ring may countervail the indifference of reporters and lawyers. law-yers. Cor. Chicago Tribune. "This sudden sound caused Buford i to start; the arms which had been about to hurl Arthur away relaxed, quilted their hold ol him and Rosalie's boy fell and disappeared from the assassin's sight." Beginning of a sensation ttory in a New York weekly. |