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Show TELEGRAPHIC ANOTHER MniALfRlEND And This Time ire Is Itolli Knave aud Fool. Trying to Acquit Beechr, lint Forgci line i iiHt t lie Pastor Convicted Illwsell New York, 3. The Herald pub liebes a Rochester PDecial attributing ti Henry Ward Beecher'a lecture agent the statement that Beeclier'o counsel will Boon institute proceedings againflt Til ton aud Mouitoo on the cbarge of conspiracy against Bt-et:ht;r. It ia claimed lliat these proceed'uiga will be huaed on new developments m-ide by a party unnameJ. Tor Herald correspondent sayd thi-parly thi-parly wag in the confidence ol filtoi. and Moulton .through all. Trv-y dared not trust esch other, :ind !i? was the rniddlemun to whom all secrete were coutided. He whs tbt cuatcdian of all pipers, showing the conspiracy and at the aa one time took full memoranda of the conference aud conversations. These show every point of the conspiracy, and lay bare the entire plot to ruin Beecher The alleged new witness is stated to have written to a newspaper articles bitterly denouncing Beecher. He may at first have been honest in h'ta opinion, hut subsequently dincovered the plot. During the trial of B;e:her the coon eel lor the defense frequently came close to cltwi which would have ruined all, but they did nut happen (o Ret bold of the facts, that would have shewn the whole case in its true light. It ia claimed that witneps' aiale menls from personal knowledge are supported hy papers and document so overwhelming aa to be absolutely public they will set Beecher right fully and forever before the world The witness says Tilton always knew his wiftf. wag innocent of the charged of improper intercourse with Beecher and thai in the conference of Tiltorj, Moulton and himell, Til loo used to shuw anger il either cf the others alluded to the mutter as though it were a fact. MAX IS HIS NiJIE. While the Herald's Rochester din patch about new Beecher-Tilton developments de-velopments is erroueous in some details, de-tails, its general statement aa to whit is expected will he developed ia sub etantiaily true. The new witness who declines to be interviewed is James B. Max. He wag brought up on the New York Times, subsequently long employed on the Tribune, and for several years bas held a responsible position in the New York postofficp, where be still has the entire confidence confi-dence of Postmaster James. As the New York correspondent of the Chicago 'Times ho first published the Beecher scandal in that paper. No body except the principals probably know its inside history so well as Mux does. Ho was not the friendly go-between go-between of Til ton aud Moulton, aH U.. V, con nllomul- lint Ilia nrtnnni-linn with and knuwhde ot many import 1 ant facta grew out of his seven years' confidential agency of Victoria Wood-hull, Wood-hull, who really held the key to the bottom facts, by means ol many private letter and papers written by Tilton and Moultcn, and some by Moultou'a wile. All these are in Max's hands, whose personal knowledge knowl-edge of the circumstances underj which a written and personal ex planalion of their motive and results, Hud their relations to what has already bpeu proved upon the witness' Htand, are claimed to thoroughly completo a most marvellous chain 01 tesiimriny regarding what promises to be the most interesting chapter in the whole scandal. Max has not met Beeclur on the subject-, but has been thoroughly examined by the Ulter'a counsel, who pronounced his evideuco absolutely conclusive of the case. Among the points claimed to he fioinblished beyond a peradventure, but net the raont important, are these: Futi Tilton'a failure to tell the whole truth on the witness' fcUnd, aud his positive misstatement and conceal mentfl an to the time and circumstances circum-stances of becoming a'quainteil with, itnd ol his relations, to ttie Woodhulls. Si'coud That Mra. Tilton's com uromiaing letter's were in fact writ ten at her husband's dictation, as purl ( f the net deliberately woven lor the purpose of compromising B echer without cause. Ttunl Tiltnll'fl HlU'Mrfil! ftri-Anpe menls for Woodhull'a all niyht bo j urns M U's own house despite Mrs. Tilton's bitter remonstrance, and at Moultou'a ho ise with the assent of the latter aud ci.Operation of the latter's wifd. Fourth Strong support to Beech-er'a Beech-er'a explanalioD ol Ue "ragged edge" and kindred letters, end showing that the wrong therein regretted waa af Beecher awore, pimply aud sulely Tillou's Iosb ol employment, through lieecuer'a complaint ol bis immorality, immoral-ity, and that theie were in fact Jehu erately drawn out with the purpose of using them as circumetaiitial evidence to cast suspicion upon Beecher 'a morality. Fifth That Beecber's letter to Mn. Tilton requesting her to confide in Moulton waa written at the latter's request Irorn the exact motive an signed by Beecher on the trial, but that il was obtained by Moulton only to be used m part of the trap get lur Beecber's feet. Sixth How the interviews of Victoria Vic-toria Wood hull with B.echer were carefully planned and eflected by the conepiratorB while Beecher aiwayB did tuppose that they were entirely accidental. Despite the ifljrts to confine the new ieaue to the parties already in volved, il iB doubtful it the reopening of the icandal can Jail to incidentally compromise several pereonejof eome note, bitheiti unaffected. It will be remembered thai when the Brooklyn A'vu.t tirt published Tilton's atate-Dent atate-Dent regarding the scandal, Tnton prolesaeJ that it was nide public without bis consent, and his friend Maverick, then an editor of the Aryus, silently accepted Tilton's mild but public cenpurc for having injudiciously betrajed bim in this ma'tfr. It can now be established thai Tilton was at toe Aryiu uflice until 4 o'ciock on the eveninn of the publication, himwii correcting the proof. Tn:a fact is cued to show bow l"r TiUon ie worthv ot tnisl when prote.-aing eurprme at In-wifeB In-wifeB recent con fp-i&ion and disc'ivm-ue disc'ivm-ue t.'rcifnowlde thereof. Toe friends of Max give as ft iitive (or h; tiiccioeure the tact that he wa for ft lonn time made the blind toil of tiv cor.fjpiratcrrf, bf re obwinme tnp ci'jta to their urpjaea, and tiiat now ; he feels it d;ie to himj'f r.d tre public lo make the f.tris knnwn, since ; be has obtained tlie necessary dnru i mentary en p port of hia own stale I meat. He waa urged to it, Btao, b h:B mother, who ia an aged, highly in'e'iigfnt, rer-p-rcted aud well known lady, and who, on what she recer,t v supposed was hr death bed, earnp-counseled earnp-counseled him to thiecotirne. Whil" 1 the foregoine is not an autboriz d Btatement, 1 hplipve it a f iir r.pre- , seutation of a few of the points which Mux and counsel believe capaMe of establishment iu the next stftg- uf the celebrated case. |