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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.