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'lt , ---....-...„....,,t4:•,.. , I , ' . . ~ .. , • ' ' VQL. 13g. 41 ' $ lORN I ESPAY, JANUARY 13, 1868 , DIREVTORV MAKING. i There is no difficulty in making a good Eirectllry 7 at least, there , nover ought to be. -proper mode of ,arrangehient, and a well e'rganiood system of obtaining information, ere tbo main points. „ y - c t; yvbat American Diree 7 -tbry-maker bas over satisfied public. expecta tion?-None in -New York—none in • Philo delphia.—Errers of all sorts are constantly Complained of, and itivonld appear (from the gruiolffings as if as many names were omitted tis 'Published. ' In, fact, there are only three perfect Directo- Jiria , One published by Messrs. D1D07,.0f paris, as an annuaire ; one by Mr. Trioity of Dublin, which_ is really a Directory of 'the whole of Irpland, with much informa tion respecting England and . Scotland also; and the third by Kriivr . & Co., of London, arid called" the Post Office Directory, because it 'Was the property, for many years, of one of t4icalerks hi the London post office, who was allowed to use the letter-carriers to collect in-, formation. For-same years past it has been . shparated• from the post Office, (though still, the property:of one of the hoed-0101100 and' 'has a large e t a fr of information-collectors., of its own. - ' , :' , - • The Limor armoire; which is as full of information about Prance as Tumests about Ireland, is a portly 'volume, which sells fit $6. 'l'.uom's Directory sells for $4; and KFILLEVEI 2 .consisting of about;1,100 large octavo pages, Sn small type, is as, high as $7,60. _lndeed, a large price is inevitable if a complete work is 'to be had, for the expense of supplying it with lull and accurate information is very•con-, aiderhbhl,. and thP ,-,iyhole _should be the' Aortisat _porialble:thrte on .the compositors', printers', "and binders:!haMis, so is to present the most' ecent details: • Three essentials, at. least, a Phiiadelphian ` 4 o , r • Dlreotqry,Viould (but - "doeknot) 'There 'Alphabetical list - of the inhabitants Oe'the City; mentioning the place of business and the, private residence ,when practicable) of each person, mentioned therein. ...Next; there should Wo a .elasSitled list of iradesi cailingS,,And official 414 other ;occupations, as full, at - least, as themere diret -fury of names. 'Lastly, there should be,'in alphabetical order, all the streets of the 'city, with the names of: the occupants of each house. • For .example, a person froth New York visits Philadelphia, and desires to see JAMES hisnEnrrn,, who, he knows, keeps' a leather store in Miirket street. He refers to the Di. rectory, and :finds "MEREDITH, JAMES, leather and skitt"dialer, 691 Matta street." But, arriving by a' late train, Abe visitor finds his friend's store shut up, and, unless the Direc- ; Moir gives his priiate residence, be must delay 'liitiloglilMutitil the next morning, which may uivolve ;serious loss or inconvenience. - the New,' Yorker has met Mr. MERE. " tiny, mid forgets his'imute,though he remem bers 'his. Mildness. Arriving . in this city, he ought to taiOng 'to that. art of the Directory which is. devoted to trades and Ocenpationi, =MI , sunning , finger , - down' ithe'pagii - deioted. to loather doaieri," to find: the name which he had forgotten; but could. rowdily reniember Who saw,it in print.' - cii;ttifilftisir Yorker, ignorant of-the bust-. nes& or place of business -of a, person whose Mini° Les knows recollects that - he resides its Belmont s rest (if Bitch a street there be) and, if the Directory' were a good :one, he ought tolnicabre tb trod, is ftientii 'residence liy - rnimbiroieribe names Jfporsoliswlio aro recorded swilling in Belmont street,* as afore- There can be no difficulty in determining hoW farthe now Directory comes up to our very simple and practical standard. Qrie great error it certainly has fallen into— tho retaining, the old !lumbers of,honses, and even, of oreating confusion by intermingling thorn with the new. nom HARRISBURG. Correspondents of The ?relic] HARRISBURG, Jan. 11, 1858. On Friday night the Democratic caucus will meet to agreti upon a candidate for State 'Trea surer, to serve from the first 'of May noet—the election; taking place, on Monday, thel 18th of January. There. are a, number of gentlemen from different sections of the State who are will ing' to take charge of the public money bags, aome of 'whom are already .on tbe,grouad, and others are looked for- burly. Col. Henry S. Me, grew is up for re-eleodop, and it is conceded that be will be nominated. He is an able, experienebd, and fearless politician; a thorough gentleman; and by his legal knowledge and high sense of honor, has done muoh to protect the best interests of the State. The names of the following gentle men will also be presented: Henry S. Mott of Pike, John Neatly of Clarion, John J. Meany of Philadelphia, William-Workman of Washing ion, — and Peter A. Johns of Fayette. The following is the list of committees : Fitatotec.—Meeers. Bistikalew, Coffey, Wright, Souther, Fetter Judieiary.---Messre. Wilkins, Finney, Bell, Cresswell, Schofield. Aceounts.—Mesers. Evans, Guam, Turnoy, Shaffer,-Knox. • Estates and Escheats.—MOL43ll. 8011, Scofield, Brewer, Southerauruey. Pensions and Oratuittes.—Messra. Gregg, Steele, Harris, Marselis, Francis. Library.—Messrs. Randall, Erne's, Miller. Corporations.—Mesere. Wright, Souther, Steele, Schell, Shaffer. Banks.--4fessrs. Cresswell, Finney, Bell, Coffey, Marselise Canals and Inland Navigation.—Messrs. Ery, Meyer, Craig, Harris, Steele. Railroads.--Messrs. Ingram, Gazzain, Cress. well, Turney, Rutherford. Election Districts.—Mesere. Scofield, Straub, Coffey, Wright, Francis. Retrenchment and Reform.—Mosera Steele, Finney, Wilkins. Lantutok, Randall. Ethisation.—Messis. Brewer, Harris, Wilkins, Gregg, Miller. • . Agriculture -and Domestic Manufacture. Messrs. Knox, Rutherford, Evans, Baldwin, Ely. Straub, Gregg, Fetter, Har ris, Shaffer. Reads and' Bridges.—Mettere. Lauback, Bald win, Bly,Tiotither, Craig. Compare Bills--Messrs. Meyer, Laubeek,linox Fetter, MAORI! Viican4 limnorguay.—lgessro. Miller, Gregg Straub, Baldwin, Evans. Private Claims and Damages—Meesre. §oheil Finney, Buckelow, Meyer, Ingram. Pad is Printing —afelltlrS. ORZZatII, Brewer Scofield, Steele, Craig. Publie Building,—Moosre. Morsel's, Ruther ford, Turney. New Counties and County Scats.—Movers Craig, Frunoits, 4grani; Fetter, 6ohof, , In the House to-day it was moved to appoint a committee of nine to meet a committee of the So nata, for the feirpose of apportioning the city of Philadelphia dnto 'single Senatorial and Repre sentative itist,riota, in aooordanoe with the provi sions of, the amendment, to the Constitution, passed last fail. — After a stinggle it passed, and the Speaker will announce the committee to-morrow. The - subject of 'passenger railroads has occupied the attention, of your citizens considerably for several years past, and in this conneetion it is pro per to remark that Mr. Wright has introduced a bill, which has been printed, and is'now upon members' t dcalle,' authorising a passenger railway {rein ,qiiard College to 'Second street, by, the fol lowing route: down ,F . tttlige avenue to Ninth street, down Ninth to Arch street, and down Arch street to Second—to have a double track. R. A. Parrish, w, Dinlen, Robert Ralston, James Page, E. D. Stokes, D.. T, Pratt; /tarry Conrad, Robert *or- TheoPhilus - Cat:Ewan, Wm. F. Trego, Coates , Walton; M. 'J. Mitoheson, and J. Austin Parrish _aka aorparittefl. * lisuntanuno, Jantiary 11,1858 The merriment now on foot in the Senate to ro pe'il-thoi 'tun oteating the offioe of Superintendent • C ° l Tiior l l 3o hoplit tricots with rarer from 'many, tinarters. ,Tho,inriono committees are announced, and nor legislative Imaineto will go on smoothly ; and;ltin to be' helped, rapidly: There lo nothing of ninoli iritenist frigrrieljnet nod. I.ntitriidiAra li#Rfe4lit!,Alll, ginagen are going al.:, ~ wieryprosiweithat it be armagnifioentr aft*, There will bi 0610 thlity taltsry companion pa- tioipatiug:. The recommendation of Governor Pol lock to erect a monument to the memory of the Pennsylvanians who tell in the Mexican campaign is warmly approved of hero. ' I noticed this morn ing an elegantly written memorial on the subject. It is ascribed to the vigorous pen'of a young lawyer of the Harrisburg bar. As I write the members are returning from their trip to your ally. Th rain le pouring In torrents, and the walking is mi serable' A nuthber of burglaries were committed 14 one of our hotels last night. No arrests yet. Saxton. LETTER FROM O&RBON. Correspondence of The Press.] Menai CHUNK, Jan. 11, 1858. ;My attention was called to-day to an article in a Philadelphia paper, a few days ago, dated Mandl ()hunk, Jan. 4, 1858, professing to elm a history of our late county meeting. It is hardly nacos : eery to say that the only truth in it was the copy of the resolutions. 'The meeting was only made stormy by those that wanted to gag what was known to be a majority of the meeting, by trying to prevent the defining of the position of those that agreed with yourself and Senator Douglas on the Kansas qusetion. If you will take the trouble to read the resolutions you will find that they aro general and ambiguous in their character, and it Ives behind those general. Itities that they entrenched themselves, and would not avow any position beyond that they went for the Administration, and when a word was said about the admission,4f Kansas-.under, the Le. compton Constitution, they would _raise ,a howl and say thatithoy did nol'propose so to do—not da ring to face themusio, knowing well what the re sult woriltlbe had they alone' so. The Ain't mtule . 'at the Democracy of Geperal Lilly and his associates come with a bad grace from such men as wrote the letter above alluded. to, as General Lilly, and those that acted with him on Monday last, bait) always been the champions of Democratic usages and Democra tio.tieketain this 'county, while the writer of that effusion has always bolted when he saw At, and at the last election circulated spurious tiokets to de feat Charles IL Williams, our respected member of the ,Legislatire ; and I am sorry to say that uloatoi: these that opposed- General Lilly and his friends, at 'that meeting, are notorious in their oPpoiltion to the regular Democratic ticket when they are not"composed of their partioular friends. If sticking to the ticket, and never swerving in their support of the usages of tho party—even upon judges and district attorney tsrkets, when once formed in a regular manner—makes them thernhey are indeed so. And when fintils are to be raised for party purposes, their purseS are alway s open, and they give liberally, and never ask for any remuneration for self, or yay for their horses, when in the service of the party. Now, sir, I boldly avow that the Democracy of Carbon will sustain no man or set of Mon who go against the great and living principle that tne people shall have the right. in all cases, to vote on their 'whole Coristitution Wore they aro of bind ing force I would not trouble you at this time, but have been called upon by several Democrats of this county, p desiring the refutation of so gross a slan der as that contained in the paper referred to The Press is the paper of the day here, as your subscriptiOn list shows; and it is sought after with sap mush avidity that the news agent cannot supply the daily-increasing demand for it. Yours, 4., AQUACHICOLA. The Pacific Railroad Recommended by the President—lts Effects on England's Eastern Trade. [Prom the London Post, Dee. 25.) ' Almost from the time of the discovery of Arne rim—almost from that day when Nunez do Bilboa fiat caught aglimpse of the great South Sea—various projects have been formed for the piirpose of effecting an easy means of communica tion between the Atlantic and Pacific Weans. But ages passed, and during these periods the Spa niard, the foreign lord of the soil, with the list lessness of his race, paid little attention to any measure which would have developed the material prosperity of the fertile regions which he had con littered by the sword. When the trans-Atlantis empire of Spain had passed from the sovereignty of the Mobt Catholic Kin,g ; ,when Ito place had been supplied by the weak and inefficient domi nion of varieue independent republics, the mixed Spanish and Creole population had neither the means.nor the inclination to provide these facili ties ,for commerce which would have increased theinwealth and given solidity to their national power. The enterprise and energy of the Anglo-Saxon race have, however, been brought to boar upon thatrftt, l4 .4 tanOrbrth Pit , b l .nnaltkllt,ineeen- .- .nied repuislicatititaiiiant,C ssinerica. The Panama Railroad has now for some yinins united the two oceans, and farther to the north a wealthy Anglo-American company is engaged in .the construction of an inter-oceanic railway be tween Perin Cabello and the Bay pf Fonseca. The importance of these commuuleatioris in reference to the trade of California, Australia, and the islands of the Pacific, it is impossible to estimate tee highly;, and when the desputes whirls have arisen between. Enoland and the United States en the subject ofCentral /interim shall have e• ceived a just and honorable settlement, we have a confident belief that European and North Ameri can capital and enterprise will be largely applied to promote the internal improvement of every por tion of these most Interesting and valuable re gions. The message reeentlyeommunicated to Congress by the President of the United States recommends the construction of a railroad across the continent Or the purposes of military defence.- The line suggested by Mr. Buchanan will pass through some of the newly aoquired territories of the United States to the seaboard of the Nellie. Mr. Buchanan adds that the diffieulties connected with an undertaking of this description have been great ly exaggerated, and that by a wise expenditure of public money, assisted by private enterprise and free grants of land,, this line, of so mush impor tance on military as well as commercial grounds, might at some distant day be completed. Here we may mention that some years ago an Ameri can citizen proposed the construction of another line stretching from Lake Michigan, between which lake and New York there Ic already steam communication, and proceeding thence through the far West to California. The projec tor of this scheme asked for no grant of public money, but merely that thirty miles of the waste lands on either side of the proposed road should be conceded to the company to enable them to acoom plish this gigantic work. Mr. Whitney's scheme, ' although it received the sanction of many separate States, still remains in that category of useful pro jeota which, from their magnitude and expensive character are favorably considered, whilst they are rarely, if over, earned into execution. We do not intend to institute any comparison between the two routes which have been suggested by Mr. Bu chanan and by Mr. Whitney. But it must be ob vious to the most superficial understanding that the opening of any interooeanio line through the territory of the United States would effect as great a revolution in the trade of the world as that which was broneht about by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to India and to other eountrtes in the East. The trade of China, Japan, and of regions comparatively unknown, would be impelled to the Pacific, terminus of the railroad, whence It would bo carried to the great Atlantis ports, to be afterwards distributed over America and Europe. Hong Kong, Shanghtie, Canton, and and other marts of Chinese trade, would be brought by steam within a few days' distance of the great Amerman emporium which would spring up on the coast of the Pacific. If a facility of this kind existed, the most important and lucrative trade in the world would fail into the hands of the people of the United States, and the long voyages round the Cope,-or the Horn, would rarely be un dertaken for any purpose of commercial gain. Whilst the citizens and the Government of the United States are perfect) y alive to the advantages which their country would derive from the posses sion of this great "highway of nations," the mer chant princes and rich capitalists of England ap pear almost to have forgotten, that in British North America there exists vast regions ad mirably adapted for the construction of is railway, by means of which England could, as at present, defy the competition of the world. The position of British North America is peculiarly favorable both as regards physical geography mid means of water communication. The distance between the north-west point of Lake Superior and the Straits of Fuca on the Paolflo is estimated not to exceed sixteen or eighteen hun dred miles—just double the length of the groat Trunk Railway of Canada. From the recent in "mitigations of Professor Palliser, it appears that large portieres of the territory through which the lino would pass consists pf level prairie lands, and that the Most formidable diffieulty which the pro jectors of - ouch an undertaking would have to en counter would be the discovery of some pass or gorge in the Rooky Mountains peribitting the construction of a railway. But no ono can hold such an obstacle to be insuperable when on the same continent the selectee of a Stephenson has spanned, by a bridge of two miles In length, the waters of the mighty St. Lawrence. In 1851 the scheme of which we have given an outline was submitted to the Legislature of Cana da, by a gentleman of the name of Allen fileedon ohl. The scheme was rejected by a committee, on the technical ground that the projector had not obtained the necessary capital, but the report dis tinctly stated that, oonstruotion of such a rail road was not only desirable but praotioable, and that it ought Memo future time to be undertaken. If the Grand Trunk Railway were continued to Halifax, the route up to the lakes would bo com pleted from a British port accessible throughout the year. The construction of a railway running to the northwest of Lake Superior and onward to the Para° would terminate the line. The expenses of this undertaking have been estimated at ten or twelve millions—a sum insignificant when com pared with theprofits of that stream of wealth which would flow from the east through British terri tory to Britain herself. The abolition of the Had eon's Bay monopoly, and the constitution of Van emtver's Island as a British colony, will attract hardy and enterprising settlers to the hitherto ne glected regions bordering upon the North Pacific, and whether of net the formation of this great in ter-Oceanic communication lie speedily undertaken, a nee' Liverpool will spring up in Lard, part of the world, affording - a centre for British trade and British industry. With iron, coal, and 'timber on the spot, the railway then would. become a matter of comparatively little diffleillty. Commencing at both ends, and advancing with the progress orthe population, it would eventually meet, and thus that iron ti girdle would lie placed around the conti nent; sub footing territories which are now lying Wade an unproductive to the beneficent dominion of olvilleation and commerce, and maintaining in British hands .that superiority which would seem to be the heritage of the Anglo-Saxon rage. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1858. The Tragedy at the St. Lawranco Trial of Thomas Mrashimaton Smith for the Murder of Richard Carter. YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINOS Reported fdr The Press.] Oven AND Teaxiace—Judges Allison and Lud low. Tho ease of Thomas IVashington Smith, charged with the murder of Richard Carter, still ()couples the attention of the court, and will continue to do so in all probability for several days yet. The testimony, !dace the defence opened, le almost of an unvarying character, and Is becoming exceedingly irk Some to those who are obliged to note it down in, any official way. Tho trial still has an undiminished Interest for the public, if we mayjudge by the avidity the details arc devoured and the anxiety daily manifested by a disappointed' multitude to get even dglimpse of the proceedings thtough the windows of the court-room. As will be seen by our tepoit to-day, two letters of Mrs, Smith, written after her separation from hor hus band; were read yesterday, but they created no sensation, tier protestations of love in them were so completely negatived by her acts as to show that no reliance could be placed in her,,and these letters make it apparent that she only sought to got her husband into her toils again, perhaps to escape the shame of a public disclosers: There was no change in the prisoner's manner to-day. Mr. Henry C. Townsend, his counsel, was on the stand for two or three hours to-day. Dane Ist. Smith, cross-examined by Mr. Mann: —On Saturday previous to the 4th of November I saw Smith; I am not pwitivevlion I had the in terview velthisimprobably it 'wag Thursday before the 4th of November; it was in my store, in Mar ket street; I had been engaged just before that in the store; I attended to him exclusively, and left what I had been doing; we exchanged very few words; hardly any conversation, it was so very short; he did not talk to me more than two minutes, or thereabouts his conversa tion. was, I think, be said " Why did you not call and see me?' and I:apologised for not do. log so; this *as the sum of the conversation; I did ask some other questions; be aocrood hurt that I did not call and see him; this is all I can remember of the conversation then, and do not remember anything else; his countenance was as sad then as it had been before, but it did not make ,the same impression on my mind ; there was a wildness in his conversation and manner; his countenance was particularly distressing to me; he was pale, haggard, and care-worn, end I sym pathized with him very mush; ho came in the store, and stood there, looking on the floor ; I was busy at the time; can't say If ho saw I was en gaged; I was engaged, I think, with a customer; he was walking towards the other door, I thought, to go out; and then I called to him, and ho turned and came tuna ids me, or the other door rather, and as I approached him ho shrunk back; 1 did not know how to account for this—it was strange ; he was very much agitated ; appeared to bo jerking and shrinking; don't know whether to call it nervousness or not; standing near me, on the op posite side of the counter, was a gentleman—ho (Smith) shrunk back from the stranger, I suppose, or from me, I don't know which. Edward P. Dorm, sworn;—l em a clerk in the post office ; I lived at the Madison House in Octo ber last; I know Smith the defendant there; I conversed with him two or three times; I did nut know his name till after this occurrence ; had no knowledge of his history or difficulties; I thought he appeared distressed in mind; ho looked wild ; I thought he looked different from men in general who aro of sound mind ; his conversation was I considered different from other month sound mind ; ho would leave ono subject and go to another; his mind appeared to be wandering; I was of the opinion that he wee of unsound mind by the man ner in which be conversed, noted, and looked; when he came there ho was a perfect stranger to me. Cross-examined by Mr. Mann.—llia general tip pentane, notions, to., made mo form the opinion of his insanity; he acted strangely; tf I had known hie domestio affliction I osuld entirely hive accounted for his notions, but I did not; no I don't mean that ; I can't recollect any Instance In which he wandered from the subject. • George Simeol, sworn.—l reside at North East; I know the defendant Smith singe he was a small boy—l suppose twenty years, sir; his natural dis position was kind and mild; his moral character has boon very good; I saw Smith on the let June, 1857, at Jones a Hotel in this city; where I last saw him before that I can't recollect ; in Juno Job. served an alteration in his 'appearance ; that altera tion was great I considered; had a conversation with him at Jones's hotel; when I first saw him asked him how his family was? Ile asked me "if I had heard anything about his faintly ;" I told him " had not ;" he then asked me "to walk into the reading' room ;" instead of going to the reading room, he walked from me past the door; he then returned to me again ; I think ho walked from me a second time to the clerk's desk; he then went into the reading room; I followed him; I then asked him the cause of hie trouble ; he picked up a pen then; and wrote the name of "It," or " Richard Carter"— I deit i know whioh—on re of paporl he tried to Iblll it, otlif afrah 5 •being seen,i'lle told t to calLthelr• told me hie'wife had bode confined, or that had a child, I don't know which ;he said r. Carter was the souse of his trouble, and of course I took it for granted that he was the father of the child; there was no person within eight or ton feet of us when ho shielded the paper with his hand ; he seemed to be very much agitated ; It lifts in August last, in North East; I saw him In Mr.. Thomas's store In North East; his appearance was very wild; never saw him looking like it M my life before ; I did not speak to him ; I think I saw him in October, but can't remember ; if I did I bad no conversation with him. Cross•examined by Mr. Mann.—There wore four or five persons in the room when he wrote Carter's namo; all seated I think, Won't be certain; he blotted it over immediately after I had read it and threw it on the floor; he told me ho didn't want anybody to hear the name; the reading•room is very small ; I think there was but the one large table ; it is a protty large table, but don't take up all the room; our conversation was about ten minutes. A. J. Perkins, sworn.—l know the defendant; halo known him since June, 1855 ; be ie a man of very mild disposition, very amiable temper; I know that his moral character in some points is perfectly good, but es to others I am entirely ignorant of them; ho is perfectly temperate; my opinion is based upon person al observation more than general reputation ; when I last saw him before this occurrence was in the beginning of April, 1857; be lived in Eighth street; he told me to call and see him; he ap peared to be in good health and spirits; didn't see him after that; didn't know many people that knew him; we have few mutual acquaintances. Henry C. Townsend, sworn.—l am a member of the Philadelphia bar; I know the defendant; my acquaintance with him is entirely of a professional character; it commenced about the middle of April, 1857 ; he was introduced to mo through my friend and client, Mr. John F. Keen ; ho came to my office, I think, the lath day of April; Mr. Keen having previous ly given me an outline of the eirounistanoes; he had the appearanee at that time of amen suffering under great mental diastole ; he gave me a little narrative, much of it in reply to my questions of the oireumstanoes attending his courtship, mar riage, and wife, anti the mislortune which was the immediate cause of hie visit; he stated he was a travelling agent for De Bow's Review; while on a visit to his sister, who was a teacher in the Wes leyan Institute in the city of Wilmington, Dela ware, in the month of May, 1856, while seated in the parlor engaged in conversation with his sister, a young lady entered and passed through the par lor ; be said she at once arrested and attracted my attention and admiration, and I at once said to my 'sister, who is that; she filled my eye more than any woman I have ever seen; I will make that Woman my wife if Icon get her ; told me hie sister endeavored to put that idea out of his head, re marking if you want a wife lot in° select ono that will suit you better, and then he referred jocularly to somebody else; my impression is he referred to a teacher in the institute; ho then told me ho repeated his inquiry as to who the young girl was; she told him cite was Miss McCauley, from Pennsylvania, a pupil in the seminary ; that she was placed there by a gentleman named Car ter, who had taken upon himself the burden of her education; ho then naked her if the young lady's father was living ; site replied yes ; and he mode inquiries as to his standing and respecta bility, and also said she believed him to be re spectable, as far as she know, and poor; that at a subsequent interview with his sister the next day, Mies McCauley came up and joined them, when in conversation; he was then introduced to her for the first time; he said, that ac quaintance confirmed my admiration for her; that he soon after left Wilmington and went on his collecting tour, and while travelling that sum mer be was agreeably surprised and flattered by receiving a letter from her—from Miss McCauley— which led to a correspondence between them ; that ho saw no more of her personally until the month of October, 1856, when they became engaged to be married ; ho said as soon as they had determined upon their engagement, that ho didn't want to do anything underhandedly, and that he wrote to Mr. Moe., father of the young' lady, stating a desire to marry his daughter, and caking his consent—that he received, as a reply, a let ter stating he had no personal objection to him, but preferring that his daughter should remain at school till the end of the session; ho said tiro thing remained in that shape, their keep ing up an intercourse by correspondence in the meanwhile, until the month of December, when she wrote to him that elm would be in Philadelphia on a certain day, to moot Mr. Carter. by appoint ment, and she contemplated making a visit to her relatives in Chester county, and wished him (Mr. Smith) to accompany her; ho met Miss MO. and Mr. Carter at Jones's Hotel, Chestnut street, on the Friday before his Marriage, and made an engage , ment with Miss McCauley to meet her at the West Chester earson the following morning, to accom pany her to Chester county, to the faintly of Mr. (leans, living in Goshen, a little distance from West Cheater; he went to the West Chester depot on Saturday morning agreeably to appointment ; that while nearing the depot he mot Mr. Richard Carter coming down Market street; he told him the cars had gone; that ho was too late for them, and that he had put Miss McCauley on board the ears; that he land!Mr. Carter walked together t o Mr. Carter's hotel, the Union Ilouse ; that in the course of that walk he said to Mr. Carter, intend to marry that little girl of yours;" he Said that, Mr. Carter treated it as a jut, as though ho didn't Natant it; he left Mr. Carter at the door of the Union, and he (Smith) went to his own hotel, the Madison House, whore his sister was at that time staying ; that he com municated to his sister the substance of his inter view with Carter, and she said in reply, she felt it due to her own position, as a teacher in that in stitute, and to the relations existing between Miss McCauley and Mr. Carter, that Mr. Carter should be more formally apprized of what his intentions were in regard to the young Indy, and that she (Miss Smith) either sent word to Mr. Carter to some across to the Madison Rouse, or they together wont over to the Union to visit him, and that hexe the fact of this intended marriage was . formally communioated to him; that ho expressed some degree Of surprise, not being prepared for mat anannouneement ; that there was something said In regarllto the time of the marriage ; that Smith expressed it wish to have it performed at once; that Mr. Carter said that ho had to return to the mines immediately( and if they could defer it.for abouX two weeks, till the then approaching ilbristmaxi it would bettor suit his personal eon vonionoe, as- be. desired, to .be present on ,the occasion, rani take some notion of the matt; riege; - that Aey separated on . that i opension 'without arte&finito arrangement es to the time; that he (ffull'Ok" the afternoon train of neat for West Molder; it carried him further from Miss Itioo..than , the other oars would have done, but he found her that eveninglamong her friends In Cheater otruntyi he spent Sunday and part of Mew day them witlrkfiss WC. ;‘ they returned to Phi ladelphia on Monday afternoon together; went!to the Ashlentlilissese; °sampled separate apartments that night,, , and, the next morning went to Dr. Watiswerth%,,aDd were married ; returned to the Ashland House, where, they made their home for 1 some days ; then went up 'town, and then went on a visit togollir. , Smith's relatives in the State of.Deldwake. about Christmas; returned and took hoordingseon afterwards at Loonard'a, going there nt his'vrtfc's request, asithey were relatives of here; he said they lived happily, and without suspi cion of anythitg wrong, until the Friday previous to my intelvs with him ; " that when my wife was taken Or O: thought she was going to bays a misentriagkomd went for Dr. Gilbert;" he told me he allot4,lJr. G. what was the ranged possi ble age at syliloti a child could live, and when the doctor told hit 6 or 7 months, it; connection with what Mr.,,llWiard had, told him during the day, gdve hied .Ihin first suspicion of anything being wrong; he bold me then that the ;Auld had been born en - reitiay night; I asked bins if his wife had confe to hies who was the father of the child; ' that he had gone into her room on Sunday ' Monday morning, end finding her comparattxpizeur and oomfortable, he had said to her " TAO% you know I'had nothing to do with you Woo igtwriage—l want you to toll me who this child holoege to and all about it;" that she said in istuktgretontenees, and under great emo tion, " 'f.Mlr. Carter bad taken advantage of her whtle,hrit oncrof her visite to the city of Phila delphia heikeet him, and while staying at Jones's Hotel, &Wing the previous summer;" he says., " this is heraaplonation of it, bat, I don't believe it;" I atetigoing on to say what the explanation was; " tiat while lodging at Jones's Hotel, she was alok girt. night; left her chamber door un locked fe.A.Wsnerse toattend her; that Mr. Carter took advatittge of that occasion; entered her i room, andy ‘ then and 'there the connection took place; bilt-he mid, I have reason to believe, that it was oftener than that, and continued ; he -said to trio, "Oat can you do for mo ?" what is your 1 1 remedy %Amish a wrong; I saw from his manner axd the made uf,his narrative that there was still in him fhb embers of a very strong affection for his wife, anili e did then what I hove shwa done in the few vireo oases I have ever had; I said to' him, " thOiret thing I advise you to do is try and ' rant amtsiloS if you cannel mildly - yourself of the truth of her; story; this may be the only Mamma of infidelity 01.‘wite committed before marriage; it is known,en a Very fart persons thus fur; loving her as d ate yen do, try nail coo if you cannot over look it' take her sway and make a new home for youreolvea; 'where you ore not known; be said No, digs impossible, my trust and confidence are all e; I believe it was a base design between the two Os cover up their own shame by marrying her to me, and I want to be relieved from the hor rid tie Villa again said, "Well, what can you do for mar- - can you do anything ;" I told him that fshilan enema of that sort, committed before unerring°, it not being adultery, an action of divorce -Oettld not lie; that them was another mode of t "dross; an action far pecuniary damages' against the seducer; he rejected the proposition decidedly; and contemptuously made u very em- phatic.expression which I recollect; he said "damuilidamoney, I wouldn't touch a dollar of it"; I told him then, your case is the hardest I have ever known', it was ono of ouch flagrant wrong and great hardship; I thought it was a fit case for the attention Of the Legislature; he said, "you wouldo.haye much chance there I fear, for I have always beard that tenth thinge have to be boughri. and this man Carter, who is a bank president, and holder of coal mines, would oppose; ma and buy up the whole body; I told litZl thought that very unlikely; that the gentle ' ti to whom I would entrust It, Mr. Knight, of thehounty delegation, could not be bought; we had several interviews of the came oharaetor for sevortiklays• he would repeat over and over again rlff the details of his wrong and suffering ; he asked - me how far he might commit himsolf and prejtoruke bas ohormee of divorce by continuing to stay in the house with his wife and paying her expeisols ; I told him if he was satisfied that he nevoritiould live with her again, that ho had bet ter lalVe her-quietly, without any outbreak, find I thoutlltber case would not be hurt by rendering her lisrviees proper and bunions, under the air outurtanoes ; ho otter! use as many as two or three tionsis'a day during those three days; the promi next. impression made open my mind of Mr. Set s character thou seas— tad fo. J a' - aipr hale pull this formalfestion : 44 iodtleiVar a man did Ile at - at' to you to' 1 - ;0, 4iritithe mitudiev)eitrotr, In lie interviews you At Spoken of ! Objected to by Mr. Mann. Objection sustained by tbo court. Exception taken. Mr Thayer pats the following question: Q. fled you opportunities to observe the man's disposition as to the question about which he con sulted you, and if so, what were they ? Objected to by Mr. Mann as vague and indefinite. Objection sustained. Exception noted. Neat saw defendant in May; in April besaid he was going to Now York, and would see me on his return; saw him in May, at my office, hie ap pearance still showed signs of mental distress and grief, but not to the samo extent as I had observed .before; ho saw me off end on for several days; he enteral my office in a very abrupt manner; this was is May; was very quick and nervous in everything he did; he said, " What have you heard; what are people saying about me and my affairs; have you got anything new!" I think ho asked those throe questions in one breath; I told him I had written to Mr. McCauley on the subject of tho divorce; that I bad received no reply from hint, as yet; that I had also written to Mr. Knight, of the Legislature, and had visited Harrisburg and seen Mr. Knight on the subject ; that although Mr. Knight thought the case ono of great wrong, that the Legislature might be induced to give relief by panting a di vorce ; yet it was then so late in the session, and there vas so much unfinished business on the file, that it was useless to try that session ; ho then said : " Well, thee, thorn's no hope for me; is there t ' I told hint I didn't say that ; that I had another hope for him. Wo have an act of As sembly-, recently passed, authorizing our courts to grant divorces for marriages brought about by fraud, coercion, or compulsion; he said he thought that was a very good law; that would just wit his taoto; I then- inquired whether he hod heard anything further about his wife or her whereabouts; he said yes, ho had ascertained that Carter had removed her to Bristol; that he had recognised the child as his and intended to maintain them both; he ntanife,ting ss. peat ea citenstist of manner while detailing this past of the courerJatton ; he was very restless in his mo tions, leaving his seat and walking rapidly tip and down tho offloo, and while seated his hands wore clenched es if attempting to koop down the inter nal excitement; ho would take out of his pocket a piece of tobacco, tear off a very large piece of It, in a rapid, quick manner,. place it in his mouth, and eject it almost matantly: he on more than one occasion during that visit en tered sty office smoking a cigar; he asked me if it was offensive to me ; I said no, but that Mr. Price objected to it; he apologised and throw away his cigar; I think ho did that during that visit three or four times in succession ; be once offered me a cigar —OIM I declined ; ho said, " Why! don't you smoke?" I said, " Yes, Ido smoke;' he said why don't you take a ;agar from me; I saw he was hurt at my not taking one; I said, " it was a heavier grade than I used ;" too strong; ho did not tats it back but left it there ; his manner du ring all these Interviews was very nervous and ex cited. .[Letter handed witnces.l I received this letter Dior to the interviews I have just detailed. nti f t saw Mr. Smith about the 20th of October; he was so changed that I failed to recognise him at my first sight of him; my office door opened, and I WY a head and upper part of the body, look ing in; he entered, and I did not recognise him for an Instant; there was a wildness in his eye that I had never seen before; it was a watery, glassy brilliancy, an unnatural expression; ho was reduced both in person and flesh ; his overcoat was crookedly buttoned; ho were a soft felt hat, very much oat of itsproper shape; his countenance was haggard and distressed; he spoke very rapidly, saying, "how are you ?" and then commenced conversation the same way ho did in May: "What have 4011 heard now—what do people say about my attire?" 1 told him I hod nothing now, and asked, " What have you?" ho replied, " A good deal of importance to my case; I have beard from the Leonardo ' " ho continued, " that Carter has been keeping that woman all summer, and prevented her father, who went there for that Curpose, from taking her Immo to his house • that arter visited her there, and more than that, ' they have Won seen parading the streets of this city with that little bogus animal of theirs." These aro his very words; that le the first time ho spoke of the child in these terms; he moot generally, at least in many instances, termed it a papoose: throughout all my interviews with him; he always selected the most delicate expression in which to clothe hie misfortunes prior to this time ; I toll him that the facts which ho had detailed to me of the Illicit intercourse continued between Mr. Car ter and Mrs. Smith—that they, in connection with the fraud which had been practiced upon him in the Muhl°, would make out a case so strong, that the court would not refuse a divorce, and that, now his year's residence in the State teas up he could file hie libel and proceed with his case ; the year had expired, and he came hack the very day I told him ; he said "how am I to prove my case;" ho said the only person that can prove it are the Leonard's, the nurse, and Dr. Gilbert, and that mon Carter will buy them all up and shut up their mouths, and where shall I bo then; I told him that was a mistake; ho needn't be fligitened at that; that I knew Dr. Gil bert too well to fear anything of that kind; and if Ns fail upon that point of adultery (luring marrine, we still have a very strong ease on the question of fraud in the marriage itself ; he failed to take lay idea properly; still calling book his own notion that he was without hope; but after talking with him sortie time, he said I might go on anti pre?are the necessary papers; I prepared the libel which I the next day submitted to him ; said ho would like to take it away with him and read it over legibly ; I told him it wasn't quite Crashed, but he could take it and read it as far as it went; he brought it back either late In the same day, or the next day, very meeli altered and defaced by his own inter lineatiOns and romerke, which he thought neces sary to go In ; I was somewhat provoked at it, and expressed myself so • he said he was very sorry he did it—that ho didn't know it was wrong—l am a poor, miserable devil anyhhw,_ and don't half the time kI:1914 what VIA about—let 11130 take It and write it over again for you ; I told him I preferred doing i t myself—that I would re-write it that even ing, and be was to cal I next day to sign it ; !moaned that evening while I wee in the act of writing it; and detained me a long time going over some of the leading points of his narrative; he dwelt at length on some 'more prominent points; wanted me to put them in the libel, and one on which he laid evening • before the birth of the child Mr. Carter ,had spent the evening in company with himself ; wife and sieter, and had made an engagement to gd, to' chinch with them on the following Sunday morning, and accompanied them to church on that day ; he wanted that pat in the libel. Hero the court took a recess. - • • . - ... • Examination of Henry /. Townsend renewed.—He en-' tered my Wilco one evening, and I think this is the last time I saw him prior to the catastrophe at the St. Law. repee Hotel; it wan about one week before that event; he said in his very abrupt and rapid manner," What are you at? are you working for me ?" I had before me at that time a sheet of paper on which I was writing the third libel I had prepared; I sold I was; be mei "you might as well stop," and said "you can never get the witnesses to prove the case;" I told hiss that I thought differeutly, and besides I thought the strongest point in his coos was that of the fraud in the marriage itself; and I said, now tell ins again how Mr. Carter gave his assent te this marriage; ho woe seated In my office of this lime; mid I to him, " What exactly did Mr Carter say'" be mid that Mr. Carter said "I have no objections to it, buts have to return to the mines, I should like you to defer it for t,svo weeks when I could be present and celebrate it pro perly; or take proper notice of It, or words to that effect;" I asked him why he did not defer it; he said they had their own consent, her own father made no objection, and house afraid if he yielded to Mr. Carter's request, that it would look as if be was trying to please him in order to derive mine pecuniary advantage front him, and he wan afraid his motives would be misoonstruest , sod ho said that his wife was not willing fora postponement; that she was ready to marry him at any time; that else had lived in a cabin, could do so again if necessary, and that she could be happy With hind anywhere ,• he raid, " I loved her so, that I wen ready to do whatever she desired, and we were married, es I tell you;" I asked him if she ever gave himany other reason for the great htste for the men damp, /aids (Imbibe told Mill that Mr ,Carter wanted her to marry a nesphew,of his,whieh she,waa averse to that she wanted to judge for heraelf In that matter f Oda she would marry, sedge to the end of the wbeld with him; be told me too, that while one visit to th-ir relatives, the (theme at ()Millen, previous to the marriage, that she sheered him a letter received by Miss McCauley from Mr Garter, and received white on that visit, wh ch letter Ise says has been destroyed, bat I can recollect soma or it: "How cat you think of marrying, knowing your !situation ee you do 1 put it elf for a fortnigbt ; destruy this letter, and all my letters to you; I will write you after marriage " I said to him, "Mr Smith, did not that letter awaken suspicion in you ?'' he said, "not for an Instant; I met her in the parlor of a ladies' seminary where she was a pupil; I thought she bad never seen the world, and seed not have been corrupted; the man was her guardian; he was old enough to be her father, and, as I hope for heaven, I rinser suspected anything wrong. I asked him whether the word , situation" did not create sus picion; he said, "never fora moment; I thought it re ferred to her dependent situation on Mr. Carter, and it provoked me to think that ho should have alluded to it, and made me more determined to marry her at once ,• and then ho repeated a,gain, ' to think that he should have the audacity to visit 114 after marriage, and go to church with us and my meter ou the Sunday before the child was born; he had during this recital wept frequently, left his rest, walked the office, resumed it again, passed his broils rapidly and frequently through his hair, pulled it through his finger'', got up, buttoned his coat, straighten himself up; would stretch bin hands convulsively, 'stroke his hand down over his face, take a long breath and sigh, and once he said, ,Oh ! lied, / wish I Isere dead, and rid of all this trouble; " his distress wee very great, and I tried to comfort him; he said ho believed he wan beyond hope; he did not think ho could get a divorce • I told him again that the circumstances attending hie marriage made it a fraud in my opinion, and it was worth an effort at Inset in the Court, for if he failed there, the Legisla ture could not refuse in a case of ouch tingraut wrong and great hardship. Ifs slid out seem to comprehend iny position, and still spoke of being a Ghee! hope ; and while walking up and down the office to this excited manner, he said, ii Donis you think .1" ought to hold II on ncrounfebts !" I said only In a legal way; he said I have sent hint word to arm himself, and be prepared to ON e me that satisfaction due to a man of honor for such a foul wrong. I told him that such talk might an swer down South, but it would not do here ; that public opinion here did not sanction that mode of redress, and said that he must think of the consequences, both here and hereafter; his reply to that Nemesia in words and manner that I shall never forget, it startled me so much; he was seated with his left side towards My table, within about two feet of me, his arms on the ta ble, and his hands supporting his head; be thrust his head along the table until his face nearly touched mine; ho said, "as for the here it matters not—l am rained and disgraced forever, and as for the hereafter, God will smile upon me for ridding the earth of such a .roaster;" that expression and the manner of it startled me and gave me much anxious reflection during that night; I told him to go home and go to bed, and try to compose his mind, and see me again in a few days; consulted my legal calendar andl the rules of court, and determined not to proceed with my divorce at that time, but to wait for a week, finding I should not lo o a term by the delay; that wan the last I saw of Thomas Smith be fore this occurrence ; think he eves entirely of unsound mind the last time I BMW him; on that evening he was no iusane as any man I ever caw outside of an asylum, and mo•e so than many I had seen confined in asylums; he het dad me two letters loom his wife, one of which came by mail ; one he hooded me in the Slay inter s ie,e, and the other ho scut to ins from Virginia. Cross-examined by Mr. Mann —Mr Smith banded me the fret letter in person; I have heeded Mr Thayer all the letters I received; one of the letters i was enclosed by Mr. Snit i n his letter—that ma the one on pink piper; I told iiii to leave use thei . etters, that key wool I lie useful to e lit the , `.. ,14 9. Letter; ob. jPrtecl Won the ground t t they ate &Tete so commu nications nude to the primmest by his wife. Mr. Thayer replies—That these letters are offered to shim the condition of his stied in his interviena with Mr Townsend ' . I offer them in the second place as the confections of the wife; the defendant's possession of these letters is proof that he received them; the de clarations of the wife were ruled * to be evidence in Sher lock's case. Judge Allison.—ln Bhnrlock's cane, it was ruled that the communications or declarations of the wife made to the ,husband could be given in evidence, not to prove the facts stated b by her, but to show the effect of such statement upon the mind of the defendant. This offer is in affect the same as was then passed on These are the declarations of the wife in writurg, said to have been communicated to the defendant by Mrs. Smith, and the possession of the letters by him is pronn facie evidence that they were sent or handed by the wife to her has. band. The offer is defective, however, their being no proof of handwriting, or that they are in fact the letters of the defendant's wife. Until that proof bee upplied, we think they ought not to be allowed to go to the jury —when proved, however, to be her handwriting, they would properly be evidence. Mr. Thayer said he would make the necessary proof. John McCauley, sworn —I am the father of Mrs. Smith; her name was Lizzie McCauley ; [letters handed witnendtheee lettere ore in my daughter's handwriting: MAT bth. 1857. Will you allow me to say, my dear, dear, yet injured husband . Your letter was received and read with feel. loge of the most bitter anguish—read it without a pain orpaa,ion of grief. Tom, lam not 'void of feeling. I feel as though truly alone in the N 1 orld Father, bro thers, husband, friends, and all--have all left me. Oh, (toil, that I died the day I was born My dear Toni, I wronged you deeply. I kept the fa tal secret from you. I did wrong in morumg you, but I loved you; yes, God only knout] I loved you— and do still. You are the injured ono; eerier the guilty wretch You wished me dead before you left me. I wish I was You as/. for a divorce. My dear Tom, if it is y our wish, I null make no fdjections I cancot but a ill aid you in all I ran to get you a divorce; it H right that you should separate from one who has so deeply, grossly i 111111ei you; but was not intentionally on the part of Mute. Tom, you know my sensitive feeling.. When this is done, I have given up all the tie that binds me to earth 0 God, how deeply I love you! You have ivy heart ;my very soul is centred in you. Oh, Tom, will you, can you forgive me ' I moat humbly ask your forgiveness—that is all I can ask of you You speak of the onto romping school-girl ; yes, what am I now '—a heart-broken, dejected woman, without friends—thrown upon the cold world for assist ance. Why, oh, why has Heaven sealed me doomed No, verily, God has forgiven me, and I hove been re-. stored back to bit fold again Lite has returned, but my poor, desolate heart cries for its lost mate. Oh, my poor, heart-broken, dejected, injured husband, forgive mo ! I contrail I have done you a lifetime of wrong. I have made you drink the most bitter dregs of norroa's cup. Oh, that Heaven would grant me to reclaim you back again ! You ask my future lot. I wish that I could tell you. I know not where to go or what to do. Sickness and trouble have left me weak and miserable. Strength does not return; I have not left my room an yet. Leonard's moved a couple of weeks, and I mi. Reek shelter somewhere. Where, I cannot say The poorhouse is as good as any where for me. lem not able to do anything, se yet, nor will not be fur some time, but never while earth stands will I throw myself out to the world ati a public character. You shell never have it :mid to you that is the way I make my living; and, as for Carter, he has injured me for life. Wo will senor meet again only when a thirdperson is present. Bertha wishes me to send the child where it belonge—to Car ter. I cannot sloop nor eat; I can do nothing but walk my room at night I must clone Slay the God of all goodness guide and protect you—cheer you up amidst thit—is the prayer of her who was once your beloved, confiding Llama. July fieth,lBs7. Dear Tom : Do not throw this scrawl aside without first reading It ; it may be the last line I will ever be permitted to write, either to you or any one else. Let mo ask where and how yen are living I Au for myself —oh! my (toil, how 101.1 g is this to last , Yon may curse me, but Tom I love you, and ever will while life shall last. Oh, the anguish, agony of mind. I leel—yea I know life is foul sinking nn ay, I lire only for r, re tag c on him who woo my destroyer. My brother is with me. lie tries to still me. I will not listen, but like one who holds his hand upon his sword, so am I waiting for my destroyer The world is nothing to Lee when you are gone. Oh! Tom—poor, ruined Tom—will you not grant me this last, perhaps (lying request : /et Flit see you tel once more I could then satisfy you of one thing, and I ark no more Think not lam here under Carter's doings he has taken all that belongs to him My brother pays my board ; and no soon as I am able to travel, they take me home. Yes, home—l will never leave thee again. I scarce can write; lam weak, and tears blind use. Tom, Toni, how I wronged you ; but forgive me, forgive your dying wife. )(myriad, in his infinite mercy, take carp of you, and if wo never meet again, may we meet in heaven. I beg of you to let me keep your miniature and ring ; it is a consolation to loo; it ie all I have to look upon. My health bide me cease writing. Oh, my dear Tom, you may read this without a change in your coun tenance, but oh, it may be the last you will ever re ceive from me. As It was le life, co it will be in death ; I loved you still the saute. May (toil bless you, guard and protect you, In my prayer E. G. SMITH 14 ill you please answer. BRISTOL, BR. Cross-examination of Mr Townsend continued I think it was in some of the three prominent inter views, ho spoke of having noon the letter. she received at West Chanter ; she showed them to him; he gave me as an Caruso for the haste in the marriage, that she told him that Mr. Carter wanted her to marry his nephew; lie never said that she told him Carter said the marriage should not go on; she said that Carter noted the marriage put off until Christmas ; he said he took the phrase I'll write to you after the marriage.' as consent; lie never stated to me that, Carter merely wanted two weeks to break oil the match; he gave one reason that she fur. Dished for not burning the letter ; he said that letter Won destroyed Ilium time during their mar riage; 1 don't think he said who destroyed it; en one occasion I saw weapons In his peeseseion ; they were a bowie-knife and a revolver; he came to my office one evening on the Friday but one preceding the catastro phe at the It. Lawrence, about the 14th of October, he said that he hind heft his arms there the day before (at my office) for safe keeping; he said he had given them to Mi. Brinton, who had his office with mu, who locked thorn up in a drawer (pointing to it); he Mad ho wanted them; I told hiss they were safer where they were—ho had better leave them; I asked him what he wanted with them; he said he was going out of town with his friend, Mr. Keen, to the coun try, and that be never travelled without Ahem ; I told him If he would give his word aa a man of honor, that he wanted them for that purpose, ho could have Chain; he assured me that wax the fact, and I believed him; I unlocked the drawer, opened it, and he toot them out; I did mot touch them; he put the revolver In a hind pocket; he then drew the knife, and said to me r , did you over coo the way they use this down &nth'' , ho wan smoking a cigar at the time, and standing some throe or lour feet from niei end Its drew the knife as TWO CENTS. suddenly iss a noon of lightning; I think I never sawa muscular motion so quick; he made a motion with it backward and forward very rapidly, and in one of the motions, giving at the same time a sort of "Indian whoop," he attack the end of his cigar with his knife blade and knocked the spathe towards me; I ran liken the expression of hia face at that time to nothing ha ! man that I ever saw ; the falling of the sparks towards me in connection with the flashing of the blade, the whoop that he gave. and the expression of hie counte nance altogether startled me so that I felt quite relieved when he left me; Wilton flies tonelled the weapon ,when be saw them, grabbed thent,and Vreattkrough the motlons; vow th e ond the pistori, it was a revolver, and had cape on it'; I never :mid anything to hi m * b ou t hi o arms afterward, nor he to me; the warwheop was only one of the circumstances by which I formed my opinion of bin insanity; I attach great weigh: in forming my *pion now to his conduct with regard to the knife, the expression of his countenance, &c.; I thought his de sire to have certain points in the libel was one of the reasons that I attach consequence to • he could not com prehend the dry details; of the libel ; ' there were a num ber of times that he intimated to me, In spite of my re monstrances, that Mr. Carter could, with his money, buy up all the witnesses, and prevent him getting a di vorce ; his articulation was distinct while be could speak, but his narrative, while preserving the general order a hich I hare given, was in broken and disconnect ed sentences, interrupted by emotional excitement; I have endeavored to nee his own language; I can recol lect occasional expressions, one I now remember, he asked me how long it would take to get this divorce; 1 told him that would depend on the amount of opposition r I told him I did not anticipate much op. kosition from whet I hr ew of the parties , that I had nown Mr McCauley when I was a boy and he was a man; and if Mr. McCauley wee the man he wts 20 years ago, he would not oppose it, I told him further that since I had seen him in the spring, that I bad made the acquaintance of Mr. Carter, and had at that time under my care the investigation to a title tea mortgage of $.50,000 ; that formed the undivided interest of another party to a coal mine in Schuylkill county, of which Mr. Carter was part owner; that in the prosecution of that business, I had visited Tinware and the mines, and made Mr. Carter's rename acquaintance; I told him, judging from the high twill posi tion which Mr. Carter held there, that he was probe. lily the leading man of his town, and said, lie wont want to give this thing publicity, and I think he will not op pose it; be seemed a little worried at any baring any. thing to do with any matter with which Mr Carter had any passible connection, and said " perhaps it would be disseeenable to you to eoritthne to be my einem' ;" tild him "Not at all," that Mr.oexter had nothing to do with this Mishima I referred to; items erei - patate interest, and that it had been closed; I think that planation satisfied Idea ; he expressed himself satiefied ; after I had given him my reasons for not expecting op. position, be said, " Well, if you say eo, go ahead as fad an you can, and let me away to .the wild woods." I want to go to California and be a grisly bear;" I don't recollect that he laughed at the Mat remark ; the expression of his face wail serious and solemn; his ex wanton of countenance was habitually mournful; I think he bad never spoken about going to California before ; I had instructed him to say or do nothing that would look like changing his residence in Pe 'maitre nia; Ido now attach importance to that expression about the " grisly bear;" there was one occurrence during one of the October interviews : be observed a gentleman who was sitting in my office; the gen tleman was sitting there when he came in, and he asked me if that man had been talking about him or his affairs ; told him no; that the gentleman could not by any possibility have known anything about them; hie intellect showed a disordered state at that time ; he either could not receive or retain a proper comprehee- Mon of my advice on the subject of lilt divorce ; he would one day give a narrative, which I would put in alispe, and another day he would change it to a certain extent; he would transpose the order of events; his Bend did not seem to retain for 24 hours consecutively the nine system or order of event, connected with his domestic difficulties; be did not retain the same order of relating events; he did not confound or misplace the events before I could exhaust him as to one particu lar time of certain events, ho would jump off to some Inter occurrence in hie trouble, and bring that in out of Its proper order. To Mr. Loughead. During the month of April, '1 think, he was In with me two or three times s day for three Jaye; he was there morning, noon, and night; be repeated that circumstance of seeing the letter in every one of the prominent interviews; I think now that hie mind In April was affected more by an emotion of grief than anything else ; I do not recollect that be stated where he was when he received the first note from Slice McCauley; he did not say it had been en closed to him by hie sister; the letter he handed me I received before the one I got from him from Vitginia ,• the letter from Virginia I received I think in July; I banded the enclosed of that letter to Mr. Townsend ; [ the letter enclosing this letter was demanded and Mr Thayer stated that ha had no letter mentioning an en closure;] it is not unusual in clients to be impatient; he told me that he had received a letter from Miss Mo• Conley. Joseph B. Benton, sworn —I son a member of the Philadelphia bar, and occupy the same office with Mr. Townsend; I know Mr. Smith, and ant saw him April ar May last; I saw but little of him then; I saw him several times, but had no conversation with him; I can not state distinctly whether in May or April—l think in May; I knew the business upon which he came was for the purpose of obtaining a divorce; I knew this' par tially from what I overheard, and from what I had been told by Mr. Townsend did• I noticed nothing peculiar is his manner at that time; d not me him again until the 20th of October; his manner and appearance during the time be bad been absent had very much changed ; I had but little conversation with him for the first two or three days at the time he visited Mr. Townsend ; he had, how ever, repeatedly told the parts of the history of the wrong for whirl he thought himself entitled to and wished for a divorce; honever gave me at any time a distinct statement of; the manner of his state ment seemed to be extreme nervousness; he was thinner and he did not look so healthy as form erly; his eye had a different appearance from what it formerly hal, a wild glare; at times in his conversation he would be remarkably calm; thou almost iiinnediately become wild and excited with out any apparent cause; he never entered into any conversation except on the one story of his domestic trookim; J,l as sine day to the oltlee, however, and after :Lakin quietly and calmly, first, whether:l was aduutted to the bar, ho then wired haw long it was necessary to study previous to his Adams elan •, ho then asked how long I had studied, which I also told him ; he then inquired if I thought he could get through in that tone; I told him I had not s doubt of it it he would apply to it; he said he would study day and night to plead his own cause ; he then stood upon the floor a few steps from my tab'e, and seemed to imagine himself before a Jury; at least commenced to speak; he denounced Mr. Carter as the seducer of his wife and the destroyer of his happi ness; he said he wee the protector of her innocence, and should be the guardian of her virtue. Re spoke for a moment or two with eloquence and with great earned nem of feeling, and then changing his manner entirely, sat down and looked at me with a simple, silly smile, which he often lapsed into, and asked me "How I thought that would do," and talked to me like a child; I think it was at this time he asked for the libel; he wished to see if he could snake some alterations in it; he was afraid he could not swear to all that was in it, although I had priviously heard him say to Mr. Town send that he thought that was right; I cannot say pea tively whether he found the petit'on on Mr. Townsend'e desk, or brought it with blm; be then suggested some al terations, which I have forgotten; I then gave him souse pens and paper, and told h m to write what he wished to say to Mr. Townsend; he knew what he wished to say,but could not get the correct phraseology; I wrote some thing to humor him, and he said he wished to take my opinion; be was sitting opposite to me, and came round to my aide of the table; he got close by me, end commenced telling me of hid meeting with his wife, as he had often told me before, of how they became au gestated, of their courtship, and their correspondence by letter; he told rue he had every reason to believe that Carter, when travelling with her, had treated her as his wife ; and that lie bed been seen in her room (but he could not say it positively) since their marriage; and, after telling me all, be asked me if I thought be ought to snake Carter responsible to him , I had not paid touch attention to what he had been saying; but I said, without weighing it my mind, yes; when I told him that I thought he ought to make Car ter respousible, he sprang to his feet, and said vehe silently, • do it:" I N. alarmed at the change in his manner; I said "Do what!; " he said "I'll shoot him," if you think, according to the code, I ought; at thin time he was highly excited ; I told him be mis understood me,• that I thought he intended to make him responsible in the pecuniary way; I told him he would be very foolish to think of such a thing; he said hie friends at the South would laugh at him if he did out I endeavored to moth him, telling him it was not Carter's; intention to injure her, he took Isom one of his pocket, a pistol and from another s hunting knife, and he war calm then'; I did not deem him a safe man to have weapons!, eel*. daily as I saw the pistol was loaded as he helitt rectly towards me; I took hold of the weapons siV them from him, he made no resistance, and let 're them, and I locked them in my drawer ; he seem to struggle for a moment to collect himself, and then said "that is right, Mr. Brinton, take them and'keep them, and don't psi; them to me if I cone here and beg you for them, until you know I am going to leave the city, for if I meet that man I ani afraid I will shoot him;" he then went out and said nothing more.. Burning of the Sea View loner [From tho New York Times of Tuesday.] The Sea View House, at the Highlands, where the murder of Moses by Donnelly was committed, together with tho cottage occupied by Mrs. Jarvis, was totally destroyed by fire about 9 o'clock on Sunday night. Tho fire was first discovered burst ing from the third-story windows, and in ton ml. nutes the whole house was in flames. The house has not been occupied since September, and the fire was doubtless the work of an incendiary. Persons who came up by the Ocean Wave yes terday afternoon, state that the wind was blowing fresh frees the southeast, and the fire was first discovered in the third story, at the southeast cor ner of the home, thus insuring the total destruc tion of the premises. Dad the wind been from the northward, Thompson's house would also have been destroyed. None of the furniture wits saved, except a small portion from the cottage occupied by Mrs. Jarvis, who, with her two daughters, and two sons-in-law, went down from the city on Sat urday. No effort was made to save the building, as that was soon to be impossible, and the attention of the neighbors was directed to the preservation of the adjacent houses. People from Middletown, and other places eight or ten miles distant, assembled to witness the conflagration, which lighted up the country for a great distance. The fire was noticed by pilots many miles at sea, and in Brooklyn the reflection on the sky was much discussed. There being no fire engines at the place, the most primitive methods only were used to prevent the spread of the flames. That the fire was pur posely set by some one, nobody at the Highlands seemed to doubt, and all sorts of surmises and the ories were started by all sorts of people to account for the occurrence. There was an insurance to the amount of Sl6,ooo—and the damage was not much more, it was said—on the houses and furniture by the Jefferson and the Broadway Eire Insurance Companies of this city. A vow feature, and a good ono, has just been started in the Now York police department. There IS a deputy superintendent of police, who appoints four aids, for the four police districts of the city. Each aid is instructed to see that the officers under his charge attend daily at the re spective courts, and are prompt and energetic in the service of warrants placed in their hands. They aro also required to keep a register of the names of all persons for whom warrants are issued, the offence charged, the name of the magistrate issuing it, the name of the officer in whose hands it is placed for service, the date of the issuing of the warrant, and its return into court. Lastly, it is charged upon the aid to prevent imposition upon prisoners, or other parties, by "shysters," who now infect the vestibules of all the New York city courts, lay claims to great influence with the va rious magistrates, and thus often extort black-mail. A similar arrangement in the police department of this city would result in much good. Two welklressed men have recently been quite successful in playing the confidence game in Brooklyn, N. V. They hail from Baltimore, and pretend to ho carpenters by trade. They pretend to have lost their tools by fire, and solicit money to enable them to buy a set of tools, so that they can take ajob in New York, in each case promising to return the money when the job is done. Several Episcopalian clergymen have boon victimised by (We men. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Ounsepoodente for" Tie FRS'S wilt pipet* batfw mind the following rules: - Seery eonuntudeatiou taut bescoompanted by the none of the writer. In order to !mare aorreettunutof the typography, bat one aid* of a atutet durnltt be written upon. We shall be greatly obliged to gentlemen in Pennsyl• Vial& and other States far contribution giving the cur rent news of the day in their particular Ibtalltiaa, the resources of the eurroruidlng country, the increase of population, and any infanntion that will be interesting to the general reader. GENERAL NEWS. E. id., of Brooklyn Heights, writes to the Journal of Connerree : " The rat of which I made mention several dayreinee, as imitating the singing of the canary bird, and the _cooing Grdoves, continues its visits, and has peen bsent but two nights since its first Appearance. The night fol lowing its first absence, it came in followed about half a dozen young rats, crying and ing like a parcel of pigs. If the, door happens to be closed, the rat scratches for entrance, and takes Its food with perfect tempura* from the bands of Mn. M. and then retiree as deliberately as a hmtan being would do under similar . edrenni stanceg. The evening of New Year'd the songster rat was provided with cake and eheeaes in addition to the natal rations." _ A letter from Lowell to the ,Bootoil Trays/- ter, says : "The Spindle city isgradually resuming its steady hum of industry and wonted bantam like appearance. With the exception of the =- fortunate Middlesex, most of the mills are in a running condition, giving the operatois from two thirds to fiall time. The cold snap and light bury of snow, whieh, by the way, is giving us excellent sleighing, has had the effect of making trade look up, for it' has brought in a good sprinkle Of crux rural neighbors, who with their produce generally have a little ready cash on band for investment in dry goods, groceries, de., which it dote not always pay to take to Boston." - • Sherif''Bush writes to the Springfield (Maas.) Berth!lean a long account of his pursuit of the man supposed to be the Westfield murderer, Staub. The sheriff says: "Others may think as they please: I think I found the man I feditrwed, and it was not Stoub. So now, I believe that Staub is either dead or is over the sea, and Shill not °hanks my opinion tilt I have some new evidence of ins being in this country. lam pretty Imre that the man seen by Mr. Jennings on the ease for Boston, the day of the murder, was Albert S. Steal. do not give up catching him yet, thilf hehat gone anode the water we can get him sere, and if heta still in this country beirill lie had in time." •*. shameful pedestrianfeat was terminated in Hartford, "Conn., last -seek. The Times asp • Alfred "'London. Antelope," , Secianil relished his great iot of walking one hundred aisii eight consecutive hours, without rest or sleep, at twelve o'clock Saturday night, at the Star Mom. He ‘• caved in" at slant exceelock, andlell down. exhausted and benumbed ; but his friends rubbed hint up, started the circulation; which had aimed stopped, and again started Mm tin Be - kept up till about tau, when he win-beams shaky, and had to be token to a window for, fresh • air. This revived him, and he completed his job. We have, says the New York - Day' Book, noticed the formidable crowd sheet the doors of the almshouse office, in Chambers street. Yoder day they were thicker and more clamorous than ever for food and clothing, when, artording to the Advertiser, one of the officers of the institution, worn out by the pertinacity of the besiegers, went iluietly into the hnnFry and ragged congrega tion," and said something about . 4 one of the sav ings' banks of the city being about to.cicee its doors." "You aught to have seen them scatter, " said the joker, " each to hunt up his Or her book ," and a most miraculous thinning out was the result_ The State Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Worcester, Mast, resist the payment of 51,500 upon the life of Right Rev. bishop Renshaw, who died suddenly of apoplexy, in Maryland, in 1852, on the ground that the bishop had no right to go as far south as Maryland without their con sent. Rio physicians depose that his death was" not caused by any local or climatic influence, brit was from "excessive labor in the ferric* of his blessed Redeemer." The case is now before the - Supreme Court of Rhode Island on questions of law. A suit was concluded in the courts at New ark, N. J., on Saturday, between Martin M. Thorn and the Central Railroad Company, which wag brought for the recovery of SISPOS damages for injuries received by the upsetti n g of ihe cars, some two years since, in which plaintiff wawa Passenger, and had one of his ribs broken, and was otherwise injured. The plaintiffgot a verdict of $5OO dams. Bee. At Waterloo, Monroe county, 111., on Mon day of last week, an affray occurred between a farmer named G. Schirling and a physician, name not given. Knives were' used, and both parties received severe cuts. While the - fight was in progress a constable arrived, who threw Schilling down stairs, where he died a few mo ments after. The doctor and constable were both arrested. Mr. John Upton, a well-known express agent on the Albany route, and sergeant-at-arms to the Congressional Investigating Committee in Kansas, died at Amsterdam, N. Y., on Saturday. HD health was shattered by severe exposure while protecting his trunks in the express car of the Hudson Hirar railroad at the time of the Spuyten Duyvil accident, when the weather was intensely cold. The Portsmouth Caro/tick states that Oliver Philbrick, who has been connected with the navy yard at that place for forty years, thirty-Biz of which he has served as porter, basereated the Pis catnqua river in a boat teatimes a slay, on an ave• ram during that tithe, making a total distance Araltiled for the foity years, 144,000 miles, or nearly siz times ropnd the globe. The act in relation to duelling, recently passed by the Legislature of S.ontit Carolina, pro vides that any magistrate may issue a warrant to prevent persons going out of the State to fight a duel, and oompel them to enter into bond with sureties to keep the peace, and not go beyond the limits of the State. The large steam flouring mill of B. F. Ilanteingcr, in Fairfield, lowa, was burned to the ground on the 6th bat. The fire oritinated in the engine house. The house of G. W. Horn, adjoin ing, was also burned. The mill was fall of grain, all of which i 3 lost to the customers. No insurance. Mill raked at $12,000. The Rochester Union mentions, as an indi cation of the weather in December, that the men employed in the extensive nurseries of Elwanger a Barry punned their avocations in the geld the whole month, ploughing almost every day in De cember. The Circuit Court at Chicago rendered a de cision on Tuesday week of $2,000 damages in favor of a young lad, and against the Galena and Chioa go Union Railroad. ,The lad sustained an accident on the road recently by which he lost an arm. The amount claimed was $lO,OlO. It is stated that upwards of seventy-fire thousand dollars have already been raised, and put out at interest, of the sum required for the purchase of Mount Vernon. Two hundred thou sand dollars is the sum demanded fur the land and buildings Oyer a thousand letters were dropped into the New Haven post office last year, which could not be forwarded for want of pre-payment. Nearly 5,000 others were sent from the same place to the dead letter office Sixteen returned filibusters have published a card in the Norfolk papers, announcing that they consider themselves " prisoners of war." and ready at any moment to return with Gen. Walker to Nicaragua. The Illinois State Teachers' Association has determined to employ a general agent to can vass the State for the purpose of disseminating in formation concerning the school system. Mr. William Walker, proprietor of the Walker }louse, Columbia, S. C., died on Wednes day last. • lion. Thomas B. Whitney, formerly member of Congrans from New York, has gone to South America for the benefit of his health. Hartford Fraley has been elected chief bnr gess of Columbia, Pa. During the last year there were 204 deaths m York, Pa. The United States frigate St. Lawrence was at Rio on the 14th ult. AU well. CITY POLICE-JASUART 12 [Reported for The Press.] AN APPLE DumnuNo Dc:r..—At a hotel in Third street, yesterday, two of'ti.,, _regular lnia l +-.._ erg, viz : Henry Abbott and Daniel W: — Trliner, got into an altercation at the dinner-table. The s he dispute grew more and _violent, every mo ment, until the parties too mush excited to content themselves ^" a war of words." It happened that a large dish of apple domplingi, smoking hot, stood at each end of the table—one in the immediate neighborhood of each disputant. At some very offensive remark from Abbott, Falk nez's rage became uncontrollable. He seized an apple dumpling in his fist and discharged it, like a hand-grenade, at his opponent. The missile took effect on Abbott's face, bursting as soon as it struck the mark, as bomb-Shells and all projectiles of that class are accustomed to do. The scorching or scalding contents of the shell—the dumpling we mean—were scattered over Abbott's visage, the major part of them settling on the-unfortunate man's right whisker. Abbott, who appears to be a young man of ex traordinary personal bravery, instantly returned the fire by snatching a dumpling from the dish which stood near him. and discharging it at Falkuer. Bat his aim was not very accurate, and the dumpling, instead of hitting the person in tended, struck an elderly maiden lady, who was sitting at the table, and exploding just as it touched the aide of her head, descended in a shower of glowing fragments on her shoulders, neck, and bosom. Without regarding the screams of their innocent Sufferer, the ireful combatants continued to fire dumpling after dumpling at each other, both maintaining their ground with a de gree of intrepidity which was truly admirable. Though both were sorely wounded by the heated shot, neither seemed disposed to cry " hold ! enough '" until the stock of ammunition in each magazine was exhausted. A cessation of lac/still ties, by mutual consent, then took place, that each party might attend to the injuries received in the conflict. After the battle was over, it was found that nobody had been killed during the bombardment, but EO% er Al were wouuded, including two or three who had taken no active part in the combat. Ab bott's right whisker wan as badly scalded that is peeled off, akin and all, giving him a vary odd and uncouth appearance ; but be steadfastly refused to have the other whisker out off for the rake of uni formity. The landlord of tho hotel lodged n complaint against both duellists for the Scythian.like distur bance they had made at his table, and both of the high-stomached young gentlemen were bound over to keep the peace. W.
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