The Beecher-tilton Committee

The New York papers give the follow ing account of the penonnel of the Plymouth Church Invostigation Cointnittee, which is now engaged in examiniug the Beecher scandal : " Ilenry W. Sage is a deacon of the church and a trustee of the society. He ias gi ven $10,000 to found the 'Lyman Beecher Lectureahip on Preaehing , in Yale College; $300,000 to found the Sage College for Women ' in Cornell University ; $40,000 toward the building of a church in Ithaca, N. Y., his former ïonie, and is in constant exercise of generous private charities. "Augustus Storrs, of the commission louse of Storrs Brothers, is a ineruber of the Plymouth Churoh Board of Trustees, ;reasurer of the society; a man of kind, charitable disposition, clear sense, and consistent Christian character. " Henry M. Cleveland was originally a Counecticut man, and a few years since was a member of the State Board of Education. He has beeD a member of Plymouth Church fourteen years, is a membor of the Examining Cominittee, and is cnown as a keen sighted, genial, honora)le man. In business he is a member of the large paper house of H. C. Hulbert & Co. " Horace B. Claflin, one of the trustees of the society (and with the exception of ts president, James Freeland, the oldest member of that board in service), has always been known as one of the foremost men in the affairs of the society. " John Winslow is the district attorney 'or Kings county, appointed by Qov. Dix, and is a memher of the law firui of Winsow & Van Cott, in Brooklyn. His partner, Judge Van Cott, is a leading memer in the Church of Pilgrims (Dr. R. S. ütorrs), and was a member of the special Committee called by the late Congregaional Council." "S. V. White, the church treasurer, is rominently active in all the Plymouth Jhurch and Sunday School work. He is banker and broker in New York.