The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1842, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. = ‘al. VIII.-No. 159.—Whole No. 3010. his papers, for the purpose of his defence. Gentlemen of the Jury, I hardly supposed that the prosecution would be so hard driven as to go to Mr. Vaux, the Recorder of the City or Magistrate, as to bring the arm of justice to scrutinize notes which he had received in his official ca- pacity, and though I admit that it was necessary to make Such a prima facie case, that they should go to’ Recorder Vaux, I did not think he would be brought toswear with swaggering confidence to this writing from those notes. I now come to the purely ‘circumstantial evidence, the first grand item of which is th finding him in possession of large sums of money. Not, gentlemen, the finding of the papers necessary to the per- petration of this fraud—not the produce of this fraud—but simply the finding of $43,000. ‘The next item is that a TRIAL OF COL. MONROE EDWARDS, FOR FORGERY, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Before Judge Kent and Aldermen Balis and Hatfield. Fovatn Day Or ime Taian or tHe Cecesnaten Fixaxcien Mon- ox Epwarps.—Juxe 9.—The Court room was this morn- ing as crowded as ever it was, and it was with great diffi- ulty thatthe reporters could m: their way, even as- isted by the officers, who used their best endeavors to preserveorder. Colonel Edwards was brought into Court | portion of this money, which is in gold, had been found in t ten o’olock, as smiling as ever, but dressed rather dif. | an old shot bag which it has been proved passed through ferently to what he has hitherto been. He had on a black | @ broker's office in Baltimore, and which had_ passed ress coat as usual, but a light vest, and a pair of light rab pantaloons. At about half-past ten o’clock, his Honor, judge Kent, andthe Aldermen, having made their appea ¢, tho crier opened the Court with the usual formal The Clerk then called over the names of the Jurors, nd allof them answered. After waiting a few moments, “S » Diaiaion Attorney made his appearance, and Mr. Allen Mn. Jamirsox—The ler of the Bank asked Cald- ell what denominations he would wish the $10,000 in, nd he said some notes of $1900, and some in notes of $500. through that broker's office some time within eighteen months. Where Mr. Edwards got it, it has not been at- tempted to be shown, and jis it not ‘likely that in the receipt of a sum of $49,000 in various funds, that such funds would have been likely to have been got in the then state of money affairs in Philadelphia. We now come to that portion of the prosecutor’s case, which I have termed the key stone of the arch, on the removal of which its failure is’certain. ‘This is the personal resem- blance of the prisoner to Mr. Caldwell, or os this would represent his personal identity with Mr. Caldwell. Now, Crosrezamined by Exmnrt—lecame here tosee if{could | gentlemen of the jury,’ experience must have ecognizethe prisoner. I went to the Tombs and went in | taught you, how deceptive personal appearance room whery the Mayor and some fifteen or twenty per- | always is. We all some time or other, pass ons were present. There was some sort of a form went hrough. I think you wero present. He was in a part pf the room. Near the corner. I did not count the noney that was paid Mr. Caldwell. I saw it paid, There may have been some notes of $100, but I don’t remember. Direct Examination—By Distnict Attonxey—I imme- diately recognized the prisoner when I went into the room, the persons being strangers to me. Mr. Kiecxnorver called—Examined by District TToRNEY,—Mesars, Brown Brothers & Co, did not draw mA bills on William and James Brown & Co. in May, By Emmett.—The writing and sigaature of these bills lave genuine. By District Artonney.—The true date that this bill was drawn, was 3ist May 1838. Jvoce Kext—I must Shae most explicitly that all con- versation with the Jury isstrictly forbidden. It isa rule which must be enforced, and no communication with them can be allowed. Disvaict Artonney—We reat our case here. Jupcr Kext—Gentlemen, will you open your case? Mr. Evaars tothe District Attorney—Won't you let me come inside to speak ? Mr. Emmert—You have had the inside all the time for your case ; so let him come in. District Arrorxey, (lauging)—Oh, yes ; come in. Mr. Evants then addresse § ne court in a speech of up- ‘ards of two hours. The following ia the substance :— May it please the Court, and yeu gentlemen of the jury, the evidence for the prosecution is closed; for two days it has had possession of your ear. For two nights has that evidence sunk deeply into your minds, and had undisturb- possession thereof, Though some unfavorable impres- sions may have been made on your mind, we are satisfied it should be so, for during that examination you have had the power to examine and to sift the evidence which has been presented. You have had time to perceive and to see that imposing as in itsarray it may ecem, ifthe keystone is wanting or is removed, it will tumble as readily to the ground as if it were less magnificent in its proportions, and less firmly founded. I may be indulged, gentlemen lof the jury, before proceeding to the delence of the priso- ner, to make some allusion to the circumstantial evidence which go to prove he committed this crime, in order to restore in some meacure that fecling of impartiality sup- posed to have rsigned in your minds when brought here. nthe first place, with ‘reference to the prisoner's true character and position, the learned counsel who opened ing them, and frequent to ourselves under a impression of its being another person. All these purties say that they had never seen Caldwell previously d had therefore no standard wheréby to compare him, and out of nine witneses examined as to his identity at Philadelphia, but one has been produced here, Mr. Ings, Whose testimony now is of less importance than it wos then. But you have nine persons brought forward now who remember better at eight months distance than at one. Mr. Evarts here referred to the Redmond’s case and the celebrated bigamy case; and also to the recent case of Mr. Pomeroy, who was sworn to by a broker's boy who was proved tobe mistaken. Now, gentlemen, what pos- sible defence cana prisoner make in any case? It is sufi. cient ifthe prosecution don’t prove their case; but that might leave # stigma on the prisoner. He cant prove by witnesses that he did not do it, for although adozen might swear he did not, if one swore he did, it w i them, We must restrict the prosecution, first by explaining what is charged against him as the results of these crimes id showing that he derived them from other sources, and by explaining the circumstances brought to bear against him, and showing a different meaning to those circum- stances, and also by showing that it was impossible for him to have done it. The different branches of the de- fence are, first to explain the result of the crimes sought to be traced to us by showing how he came by it; and se- cond, to explain the circumstances brought to convict him of this crime, and giving them an explanation compatible with his entire innocence; and third, by showing that he could not do it at the times and places charged, because on those days and at that time he was not in the place where it was done, and therefore could not doit. Gentle- meu of the jury, in reviewing the events which heppened eight months dince, by what means are we to derive evi- dence of where he was when charged with doing certain acts? Itis no easy thing fora man to satisfy himself where he was on a particular day, unless it be a man who is fixed, who has his counting house, and who is in the habit of having permanent records to which he can recur, and say ] was not in New Orleans on such aday, but in New York, for did soon such aday. How difficult then, for one professedly without occupation, and not a resident, but a stranger and a traveller, to fix'a time when he was at a particular place. Again, if he can do $0, how in he to obtain, persons who will swear to his being there. If it is difficult to know himself, how much more to find a person so confident as to swear to it. It is the case, took occasion to mention the importance to the | undoubtedly a most difficult thing, and to arrest aman community at large that the prisoner should be convicted | Under these circumstances, and to call on him for this of this charge of forgery. He said that mercantile men pores Say is a most cruel exertion of power. Now, the distrusted one another and the usual modes of transacting | letter may ‘have been put itito the post-oitice at New Or- business were not safe. ‘This is very true, and in that | leans onthe 10th August. If,then, I show the prisoner to sense it is important to the community at large that the | have been in some other place, he could not have put it in true forger should be convicted. I regret, however, that | the post-ottice.. On the 26th August a letter was written he did notinform you who were the instigators of this | and put in the pastes et A becabticis; Besring the post: prosecution, and their agents, and the deep pecuniary in- | office mark of that place, and some one put it inthe post- terest they have in its result. Gentlemen, the conviction | office there on that day. If I show the prisoner was not ofthe prisoner is necessary to them as preliminary evi- | there, it could not be him. On the 30th August, an an- dence in civil suits commenced by them. On it depends | swer to the one dated 2th was received at Alexand; whether $50,000 shall remain the property of the prisoner, | 27¢ taken out of the post-office, and the contents of th: or those individuals defrauded by this forgery. In these |. letter have been sworn bo dco Brothers & Co., to be civil eases, Brown Brothers & Co. and Fletcher Alexan. | the 17 drafts with which Edwasds ia charged with obinin. der & Co, are the plaintiffs, and Monroe Edwards is the | ing; these contents were taken out and scattered all over defendant; and on theother hand there is asuit pending in | Virginia on the 3ist August. Now if we prove that which those parties are defendants and Monroe Edwards | the prisoner was not there on that day, but isthe plaintiff, and it is under cover of this prosecution | Somewhere else, he did not take it out, and can that evidence has been introduced of those who are di- | You, geutlemen of the Jury, got on with this case if he did rectly interested inthe recovery of the money, and whose } not receive that letter St AS HOON as We Show that the evidence would not be admitted in these civil suits. There | prisoner could not have been the person who received is also an unusually large amount offered as a reward for | that letter and its contents, we bring evidence to show the recovery of the money. & per centagé on the | that Jno. P. Caldwell and the prisoner, are different men.— amount... Twenty. per cent 18 offered on the amount of ¢ August those drafts were hegociated in Balti- money recovered, ani just so far as Brown Brothers & | more. how the prisoner] wus elsewhere, we more Co. and Fletcher’ Alexander & Co. are interested, to one | conclusively show he was not circulating the drafis, but fifth of that amount is the agent interested in procuring | somcbody else was. The prosecution can’t then go back testimony which should convict the prisoner. You will | #dsay it was not on thatday, for they have positively understand too that $10,000 will be as great amotive to | #W9rn to that. ‘Then as to the money, asto the funds, as that member of the profession as $50,000 to the wealthy | tothe bag, andasto the type. em Monroe Edwards houses concerned. You, geutlemen of the jury, know | Was in Paris in the winter of 1840, a treaty had just been that advantage too has been taken of the feeling which is | concluded with ‘Texas by France, and that accorded to strong in the community here against the inhabitants of | the French West India Colonies ‘the sane privileges in that fer distant portion of ont’eommon. country from | trade and navigatian with Texas as tot! id which the prisoner comes. He is connected with the | tions. By aprevious law the admission of slav most respectable families in the West, and I should | ‘Texashad been forbidden, except from the our ace Seer pepe panebo ly speak to others and ere n feel less delicacy in alluding to his connections, were not | ‘To learn definitely whether slaves could be imported from those of his counsel, who ‘will aldress you from his na. | the French colonies under this treaty, Col, Ewards, who tive State, familiar with his history. He ia the son of | Owhed lands in Texas in conjunction with a gentleman a widowed mother—the brother of ‘a widowed sister—he | named Johnson, owning slaves in Martinique ; took the opinion ofan heaped lawyer, in Paris, and of that dis- tinguished F; th advocate, Mr. Berryer. That opinion unl Recorder Vaux, in his thoughtfulness to forget every thing important’ to the defence of the prisoner, should have forgotten to bring, it will be read to you. This opinion was translated into English, and has the seal of the Consu! attached. Mr. Edwards then came to Baltimore-and entered into partnership with Mr. Johnson, and articles of agreement were signed, and they were to is the sole support of the family, and you will conceive how with,moist and anxious eyes his distant family are waiting to hear the progress of the trial and the news of its result—with feelings as great, and stretched to as great an extent as the heart will bear without breaking. Can you, gentlemen of the jury, hesitate to do all in your power in a. case so important t¥the community at large, so impor- tant to the prosecutors, so important to the agents of those prosecutors, and so important to the prisoner at the bar and to his friends and connections, to give it a | be the first men who should import slaves, worth $200 in patient examination with a firm and unbiased | Martinique, to Texas where they were worth $300! This mind, to reach a just verdict, and to discover | reduiring ready money which was furnished by one part- between the semblance of the truth and the truth | Ner—land was fu rnighed by the other, and the counsel on the other side have stated that the prisoner is porsessed of the business qualities required to conduct such a busi- ness. The Pomerat ‘was entrusted to the prisoner and funds, furalshed by Mr. Jobnion, and both of them furnished land. ‘The money was furnished and arral ents made, and Edwards was in poseession ofthe funds under the stipulation of secresy, fortheadvantage would be to those who were first, and it was only the over scrupulousness of his counsel who told him that the pos- session of the money, if unaccounted for, would be a cir- cumstance that woud’ prejudice the jury. and that it was important that he should account for it that induced him to dogo. Does then the possession of types prove him to have committed a forgery? Docs the possession of a stamp- ing apparatus prove him to be a forger? Every man has a right to possess stamping apparatus, if he thinks proper, they are not isolated things made for the use of one person only, anid soldto him only. Now here is this difficulty in the supposition that the postmark was forged. If that letter had heea put in the New Orleans itself. So much for the importance of the cause itself, ‘The learned geatleman then went on to allude to the vast difference in resources of the parties to the prosecution and those for the defence, showing how powerful were their means of obtaining evidence, and how their wealth had enabled them to frustrate the endeavors of his counsel in many instances, to obtain evidence important to him, and stating that they had been Co ee — watched rae untiring perseverance in every stage of their progress, a in every thing they had un lertsken.. He ‘alee alluded to the prejudice which had been excited by. the public prints, invariably styling him, since his arrest, as the forger—the celel rger—or the notorious forger, and said that the ution had shown that their object was, if possible, to overwhelm the prisoner by a multi- tude of charges, and scattered over the whole country in New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond ‘and New York, and that such was the extent of the charges and their ramifications, that it was almost impossible to bring evidence to mect them; so they had thought by the vigor of their proceedi: to disarm the priso- | Post office, it would have received the genuine post mark si, Gnd Weobird Wed A oC ihe peeenr Rkee [tm nation tothe foeged, enor ethos atigkr palates bace the trouble and expense of om aang the processes of | aroused suspicion there. If it was put in at Alexandria it law., Mr. Evarts then said that out of eight Indictments,| Would have receivel, the Tost office, mark there, found, they did not know till the morning they came into | and if it was. put in at New York it would Court on which he was to be tried, and eeded to read | have received the city mar! It is singular, the counts of the indictme&t which allege that Monroe | too that out of the types which form ‘Monroe Edwards, Edwards forged the letter purporting to befrom Maunseli, | La.,” and of whi ‘h types he had duplicates, fo can by ‘White beh oe Brown, Brothers & Co.,in the first Ward of opty aise ps yan a p4me we pC anit a the city of New Yosk, and with uttering and publishi 4 pitted then tha ley collocation of letters said letter with intent to defraud, ‘After calling i should send Colonel Edwards to the State prison? With Tespect to the attendance of witnesses I have. to observe, that wherever a process of Court conld compel the attendauee of witnesses, we have obtai it process, and where we could do s0 we have taken their de posi will be rend A them wiil be those of the two daughters of the rding house where Colonel Edwards os patente | the books and ac- tention of the jury tothe evidence by which it had been attempted to prove that this letter was written by Monroe Elwards, he went on:—On this indictment, by this evi- dence,he ls no more guilty than you, though he may have been steeped in fraud and crime froin his cradle, and if he is innocent of this fraud, you are not to convict him of t " i* other crimes, and then argue that he is guilty of this. | fernsto private allies kee eal pe hd the other teatic You must take the evidence on this alone, and in the words | aret should be brow * to public notice. Their mother, a widow ofyouroath atrue jadgment give between the people ofthe | —withoat a husband and without a son, would not sihject her State of New York and the prisoner at the bar. Gentle- | {anehter to tle ribaldry af the court | and of the Dewspapers | man of the jary, in agcordance with the provision of the | {rent the steal toes te rayne females would have low, no ev! f the prisoner's general character is to nothing could induce that sother to send them on to this be produced. The jury is to be ignorant of the fact | city to be exposed to the sinpleasaniness of the gage of thie whether he $s of onblumished character prior to the te PG Bathater not the he y this, for if there crime with whieh he is charged, or of the most degraded. Well, gentlemen of the jary, we will now, with your | (esnanother it is testimony from the lips fi , p intelligent female. Gentlemen of the jtry--we appeal to yor orm Consider who the prisoner at the bar is, and | vridict with conliences becanse wre know that the jorers what figure and part he played onthe where he now | State of New York are impartial and ‘and We ask you to occtiplits meh en unplessant position, prior to this trans- | weigh and consider that evident ai ertliet aceord- action. Menroe Edwards was introduced in this city in | ingly, for from your verdict nerther Monroe sly nor the 1908 by two dis ished Southern men, well knows in | People of the Ste of New York can appeal. this communit eral Hunt, the Texan A: bessad Sore expressions of approbation were then made by stamp 1 Joseph M. White, of Florida. Ile cen io OF, | ing, aee., when Judge Kent said that if any inarks of approbation and Joseph M. ; was introduced to | jrMlisarobation were made again, le should have te parties arrested and comnitted Defence, Mr. Exmerr stated thot they had sont for witnesses from Philedelphin, who were very important; they would not be hero till to-morrow jmorning; they begged, after they had got through with their case, the favorof a little time to be allowed to make use of those witnesses. Jn the this community asa of | Ssterwrelepednnrn family, and as gagged in tepenien negoci one Me sailed for Murope and returned by way of Texas to his plantation in Lonisiana. From there he returned to New York, and this time he became acquainted with Lewis Tappan, with whom he had some = dence, which you have heard of. He then went to Ru- rope, returning in the spring of 1841, and arrived at Balti. more by wey ofthe West Indies, on the Sth July, 1841,— | mean time they were ready to goon with their care. From the ot July, 1841, to the 3d October, 1941, nothing | Judge Kewr—Certainl, was heard against him, his character, position or relations. | __ Prosecution here put in a letter from Maunsell, White & suggestion was made to his prejudice, no information | Co. to Brown, B: & Co., dated Sept. 6, 1811, which as to his character being otherwise than good, and no | 4 received by B. B. & Co. on the 17th of September. It slanders through the newspapers. On the 2nd October | enclosed and the two bills of Exchange for he wos a nd the floodgates of publie opinion have | $13,000 each, The letter was read:— ows, Drovnyny & Con New Yors 2 t evening in reesint of your favor of the 20th nlt., ret forth volumes of abuse and defamation ever since. tis @ strong illustration of the truth of the old adage, “give adog a bad name, and kang him.” He had been three months in the country, without © whisper being heard against him ; but as soon as this prosecution is fas. tened on him, from some information or ether, every mouth get for nar eng Seger af the Ith inst, is opened against him, Allow me now, gentlemen of the Well, Bray.” mh wo dindls. (oF 5nry, to aall your attention to the heady of the evidence ai Unercotton aay nne Metter to as, ‘offered against the prisoner, and suggest their abili- | * pipak pe 5 Ly to the defence we intetsd to nsfer. With reference tothe | fiery! one thousand and cleven Bales to your honse in Liverpool. Ta reply, We aresorry to smyth i Leandra wo haven mnpte the letire of fanrnneetioeett eae dt have no knowledge of who Jobn EeCadwell Ben fen 5 je hale Of cotton helonging to any wan Of thee pare «sion. resembl of the hand w: © but one witness is called, that is Tappan, and he had never seen Monroe Edwards write, and had but received two notes pe ing to be written by him ; there is the evidence oi er witnesses who swear to the resemblance of other papers alleged to be comnected by ciroumstances with aie letter signed . Mr. Benjamm Stor ith the three enclosures, at which he Maunsell, White & Co, This is however of no importance | © if snegested that we ought t it these circumstances are rebutted. If the chain of evi, | tiv deatte, regularly SR dence foils, those letters are shut out. The second wit- | hem fogthwith: Find which we now do enclosed, and hope nest, Jam: aid Callwell wrote his name ono. Vaux | fo" ma) be enable to the iaseal, and recover from amount yon ad ving remitted bir. It spears a similse frond was practised on one friewhand correspondent, Joaliua Clibborn, of New York, to worn & forged Tetter was addressed, introducing the same individual n, derives his knowledge*of his writing from seeing him write the order for his trunk, and from the reqnest made by him to obtain possession or access tq his clothing and to who Wanted to negotiate through him about twenty five to | Q—Where were you when the arrangement (if any) thirty thousand dollars. He very fortunately declined the busi | was mude with said Edward: i euteary, to the express understanding of partuere A—lIn Baltimore, at the Eutaw tags par the articles “ p On Chas Reng. - v by Mr. Edwards. A. We hope to ear’ sn from you of your having recovered | of aeteement were drawn up Uy Nr, the money am! counterfeiter. Fara We deyecitis mance remembered. Q—Where did you reside before going there? ory respectfully you MAUNSELL, WHITE & CO. vad i! 4 2 1 | A—In Louisiana, but frequently absent, engaged in ray Letter B. was read :—It wasan answer of Maunsell trading operations @ White & Co. to U. 8. Hill, about accepting the agency of iter th xhews ex thie slaiiciicesh taabanacs tory, that you ever paid or deposited the said Edwards as B enarniy tate The severnl days on which you paid or deposited with him sueh money? —On the same day that the articles of agreement were executed, and on the day of the date of tlre receipt. Q—Where did you procure the same? Give in detall the person or persons from whom you reeaived the same, with their residence and occupation? x A—I am not disposed to answer this question, as no man has a right to require me to make a manilest of my various transaction: ; Q—On what acconnt were such moneys reacived by you? State fully and in detail! his cotton ; H. 8, Hill, E. ‘Sin _ Your much xe is at hand, stat proptictorsof a farge and are desirous of for ageney of the same, aad t) natil your firet i in for plantation sipplies. : much gratified at the confidence you repose in us, by © through. the nuation of our ti y rely upon our best New Onveans, July 2ith, 1941. Baltimore : cted favor of 9th inatant, from, Phi that you aud your brother liad tately become anty, Arkansas, an engagemant in this city for the ou, wall mot want any advance hands, nor even then, beyond what is anticipst ; ‘AT am not disposed to answer this question, business we heerfully acces Q—If you say such moneys or any of them were received those terms. On ay CC. Bait it pesca by you in payinent of any debt or dubia, state fully: and in pn Bg ih ae ‘Noorhood for some | qerailthe origin of each debt, the name, residence. and oc- ¥ should he do sonafly aegiva dent, in New Yorn, thonzh we have. no known there, and should von purchase signed to our care you will find no diffi astire to become pers | CU jon of the debtor, and the date of its ereati on? ay eee |, COMPETE This auseations Tiepy 0% Aiaphon tO kite ae Sty awer. Q—H sou say said moneys or any of them were the proceeds of the sale or exchange of any moneyed securi- jes of other property, state fully and in dotail from whom you received sich moneyed securities and other preperty,, five the name, resi lence, and occupation of the person oF persons from whom you received the same, _ ‘A--I am not disposed to answer this question, ily and in detail such securities or other is doing in our city, and’ we arvent anuexed, fur the pre= P remain your obed vants, IAUNSELL, WHITE & CO, ‘The deposition and cross examination of Mr. Johnson, taken before the Aimerican Counsel at Havena, last May, were then read. Count oF Oven axp Trraiien, Cire axp Counrr oF New Y Interrogstories to be administered to Charles I. John- son, of the Parish of Caldo, Louisiana, planter, axpected to le at St. Thomas in the island of St. Thomas in the Wert Indies, a witness to be produced, sworn, and exam- ined, under and by virtue of the annexed commission, be- fore Joseph Ridgway, ‘Thomas Potts and Nehemiah Can- nington, of said town of St. Thomas, merchants, th missioners named therein, or any one of them cauge now pending in the Court of Oyer and andor the city and county of New York, wherein the People of the State of New York are plaintiffs, and Mon- roe Edwards is defendant, on the part and behalf of the defandant. QuWhatis y A—My nam Q—When did you receive such securities or other-pro- perty? give the date of the receipt ofeach. A--Lhave po answer to make to this question. Q-Where did you receive the same? tell the place where you received each, A—1 will not answer this question. 2 Q—How came the sane to be in your possession? A—1 will not answer this question. Q—Ifyou say you were the owner of them, or of any of them, state fully andin 1 with reference to each, how became the owner, Q—If you say in answer tory thai you eve Eilwards any mo: as to each from whom you re: the name, residence, and occupation of the person or per sons from whom you received the same. A—I will not answer this question. Q—How came such securities to be in your possession? A—I will not answer this question. Q--State fully and in detail as to each, the day or days ov which you rece AI will not answer this question. yand in detail as to hich you recedved such secw * deposited with said curities, state fully d such securities, giving rname age) residence, and occnpation ? harles F. Johnson ; about forty of age ; Treside in Caddo parish in the State of Lou 1am au American, atrader and a planter. Q—Do you know Monroe Edw cause? if yea, when, where, how long, in what cireum- stauces, and in what relations have y i A--Yes, became acquainted with him about ti years ago, in the State of Kentucky, under such eireum- stances as I became acquainted with others, at a hotel 51 | 1 have known him in ‘Texas; in Paris, and many places in the United States under almost every variety of cireum- stances, and was frequently engaged in speculations with him in the United States and elsewhere. Q—When (if ever) and where did yo last have an, * terview with the said Monroe Edwards ? Either at Baltimore or Philadelphia, in the, of August, 2s near ag gcan recollect; on the secq August Inst, we were ip Baltimore together. 40 Q-Have you or have you not ever eagerec, A Proposed r into any nereeiole- vevion, or partnership with said Monroe Edwards, in any business, traffic, mer. jana; defendant in this Ay will not suswer this question. Q—On what account, or for what purposes did you re- seive such securities? ‘A—L will not answer this question. Q=It you say you received such securities or any of Ri debt or debts, state fully and in them in‘payment of t , and occupation of the debtor or mouth’ detail thes id day Of Sohtore wewtion 1 as to each, the origin of y and in de ts AI will not a1 Q-Il you ceived by you sale of any oth ail what were such other securities or property. A—1 witl not answer this question. a Q—Where and when did you get ruch other securities swer this question. such securi or any of them were re-*| exchange for, or as the proceeds of the securities or property, state fully and in cantile speculation, or enterprise, whatever ? A-Yes. a, when nnd where was stich agreement, con- artnership, entered into or proposed? Wi was the nature of the business, traffic, enterprise, lation, for which it was entered into or 1 ore; the document A, and the receipt B, will explain ure of the business,and I pray that they may be ta- part of this answer. Were the terms of such agreement, connection, or partnership, (if any) reduged to writing? Were they under seal?’ How many stsch writings were executed ? What was done with them, and where are they or any of them now ? ‘Yes ; and the document .A exhibitsthe time; and the natere of the business transactions we were to engage in; or property? : yas will not answer this question, Q—From whom did you receive the same? A—I will not answer this question. Q-—-Who owned the same? A—I will not answer this stion. all : Q-If you say you purchased the moneyed securities (if any) by you psid to, or deposited with the said Edwards, with what funds did you purchase the same? A—I will not answer this question. Q—How did such funds come into your possession? Thavea copy of the agreement, an Mr. Edwards has | A—By trading, and by my oceupation. another, and there are no other articles of agreement be- | Q—Did the suid Edwards ever give you ar twepn us; these are under seal ; and were exeouted at the | for any moneys or securities delivered to him by Euthw House in Baltimore, written in a room occupied by Mr. Edwards, and witnessed in the bur room of said house by the bay keepers. ae any such writing or any? counterpart, or topy of such writing in yo&r possession your control? If so, produce th original it of a copy of it to your deposition ? A-Thai is already in my fifth and sixth answered, and | A—Each agreed to p the copy attached, and property Q—Have you ever paid to or deposi Q—Who was to furnish such capital! State the por- Edwards, any money, monied securities, or valuable pro- | tions to be furnished by each party. perty, in pursuance of and for the pucposesof such agree- |] A—The answerto a previous interrogatory, is the an- mest, connection, or partnership, or st pursuance of any | swer to this question. * other agreement, connection, or Partnership or with auy | Q—Was any capital ever paid in? If yea, by whem object, or for any purposes whatever ? If so, state par- | and when? tictilarly the time, place, and circumstances of such pay- —I paid in my portion, ax document B. will show. meat or de; the amount, character and discription of Q—What business such money, monied securities, property, and the object | pose to carry on? and purposes for which such payment or deposite was | A—Document A. will answer this question. made? Q—Where did you propose to carry it on? A—The receipt B. exhibits the amount furnished, which A—Document A. will answer this question. was fifty thousand dollars; the gold was principally Ame- | Q—How long did you propose to carry it on? rican coin; some was in severeigns; I cannot ay | A—Document A. will answer this question. whether there was Spanish or Mexican gold coins amon; Q—Was, or were any person or persons to be connected it ; Ido not know what bank notes I deliv ered to Mr. Ed- | with it, besides you and the said Edwards? If so, give the wards; nor the denomination; | have no Knowledge what- | name, residence, and oecupation of such person, or per- ever of the description of the bank notes; the advance | sons. was mace at Baltimore on the 2nd day of August last; no person was present at the time ; for a more full answer, 1 again refer to the attached doeument marked B. ‘Q—Do you know any other fact, circurgstance, or thing to the advantage of the defendant in this grit? Ifso, state it particularly ? A—Ihave known Monroe Edwards for tany years, and believe him to bean honest, but persecuted man ; | have never known him guilty of ‘a dishonorable act, and until! arrive at such knowledge for myself,1 will itot believe him aguilty man. WM. M. EVARTS, Attorney for Defendant and of Counsel. Allowed subject to all legal exceptions. James R. Warrixe, District Attorney, for the city and county of New York. Count oF Oven anv ‘Trnsuxer, Crry any County or New Yor. Interrogatories to be administered by way af cross exa- mination to Charles F. Johnson, of the Parish of Cadio, Louisiana, Planter, a witness to be produced, sworn, and yea, when and wh A—On the second House in Baltimore. Q-If in answer to the direct. interrogatories, you #ay that youwver agreed to engage in any enterprize or bisi- ness with the said Edwards, what capital (if guy) prize or business ? 1 fifty thousand dollars in money ay of August last, at the Eutaw dupligate, or uluder nd annex d with said Monroe A—No other persons interested, but such as acted as agents or clerks. ‘Q—When were you last in New Orleans? A—I think in November la Q—How Jong did you remain in Mrs. Phillip’s boarding house in Philadelphia after the arrest of the said Edwards? A—I was never in Mrs. Phillips’ house. Q—Have youhad any letter or other communication from the said Edwards since you left Philadelphia ? A—One at § and another at Havana—a copy of cach is hereto attached marked ©. and D. Q—Has not the said Edwards communicated to you that you would be examined as a witness for him, under a com- mission in suits now pending? A—TI have received no other communications than the two mentioned in my answer to the previous question. Q Has he not informed you what facts he desired to have sustained by your testimony? A—He has not. Q—Have you not been employed by the said Edwards to sellor get exchanged any bank bills, checks or bills of examined, upon the part and behalf of Monrae Edwards, | xchange? If yea—when and where, and to what detendant in a certain cause, now pending in the Court of | amount’ i Oyer and Terminer, in and for the City and County of | A—Never—never. Q—If you sey you ever paid to or deposited with the said Edwards any moneys or monied securities, had not ruch moneys and securities, or some part of the same been re- ceived by you™cither dircctly or indirestly from the said Edwards ? A—Never received a cent of it trom Mr. Edwards. Q—Had they not or some of them ever been in the pos: session of the said Edwards before you handed themto him? A—No : not a dollar of it. Q—Were not they, or some of them, the proceeds of money, monied securities, or other property once in the possession of the said Edwards? A—No : not a dollar of it. Q—How long have you known the said Edwards ? A—Some twelve or thirteen years ego. Q—Has the said Edwards ever delivered or caused to be delivered to you any money within the Jale ¥ ? If yea, d in detail, when, where, and what amounts ? to the best of my recollection. Q—For what purpose did he deliver such money ? A—Iig never delivered any. Q—What have you done with the same? A—Nothing. Q—Hns the said Edwarde ever delivered to you any monied securities within the last year? Ifyea, state fully ond in detail, when, where, and what securities A—He has not. Q—For what purpose did he deliver tho seme to you? A--None doliyored. Q—What have yor done with the same? A-—Nothing. Q—Mave you ever, during the last three years bean ongaged in any turiness, enterprise, ot undertaking with New York, ; wherein the People of the State of New York, are plaintiffs ; and Monroe Edwards, is defendant ; before Joseph Ridgeway, Thomas Potts and Nehemiah Carrington, of the town of St. Thomas, of the Island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies, merchants ; pursuant to a rule of the said court, made on the lay of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty two: Where a last see Monroe Edwards? A—I think in Philadelphia or New York, J think in the city first named. —When did you last see him ? A~—In the month of August last ; the day not remem. red Q—Where did you first become acquainted with him ? A—About twelve or thirteen years a Q—When did you first become acquainted with him ? A—In Lauisville, we prcenn A Q—How did you get acquainted with him ? A—As I do with others at hotels. Q—If you answer the fourth direct interrogatory in the affirmative state from whom came the first proposal for such arrangement ? A—I cannot say who made tho first proposition. Q—Where was euch proposal made ? A-—lIn Paris, at the American Hotel Q—When was it made 7 A-—I do not remember. Q—What object had you in making such errange- ment ? A—For the pur of making money for myself, ond advancing Mr. Kwords’ interest. ap whot business were yor engaged when you mode such arrangement ? A-—Not porticularly engoged at that time in any hnal- ness. the soid Ldwards) if yea, state fully whot, when, and - : busi Wd whore a Jone had you eC SORES ae ee to | ONY ettaéthon Wbtbved, With Phi’ abla of ula A-!I formerly engaged as a planter and trader; but greed upon on the 2nd of August last, at the Eutaw fou Q—When were you last in New York? A—In the month of August last. Q—What was your business when last there ? AA trip of pleasare. Q—Have you been in New York with thesaid Edwards during the last year? If yea, at what times and at what hotel or other house did you stay? A.J have not ; it is possible I may be mistaken ; | think J stopped ot the Waverly House. It was in the month of August. 4 in what places have you resided during the last cig! months ? A—I have had no fixed place of residence for the last m cege mouths, having been travelling the greater part of the time. *Lastly—Do you know ofany other matter or thing, or can you say anything that can tendto the benefit of the le in this cause, besides what you have stated in your jories? If yea, declare at thattme | was eng in no particular business. E Q--Where was it carried on ? A—In the parish of Caddo, Louistama ; in Yucatan, and various other places. Q—If you say you were e1 how long it was since you h in no businoss, steta been engaged in any busi- ness? A—-| closed my business about the first day of January, 184d. Q—What was such business? A—As a planter and trader. Q—Where was it carried on? A~—My planting interest was carried on in the parish of Caddo, Site of Louisiana; my trading operations in Louisville, Kentucky, Santa Fe, Yucatan, sometimes up Red River, and in many other places, wherever I thought 1 could make money. ney Q—How long had you been engaged in it? A—I think about eighteen years. |—If you say any arrangement or agreementwith Mon- ‘wers to the preceding inte roe Edwards eA, reduced to ‘writing, aate who wrote the | the same fully and at large as if you had been particularly same? int ated thereto? A~ Monroe Edwards wrote the contract, A—Thave no further answer to make. J. R. WHITING, District Attorney for City and County of New York. Allowed subject to all legal exceptions. im. M. Evan: Attorney for defendant and of Counsel. (Cory, A. ArtiSler AO Riese. made and entered into at the City of Baltimore, Md., this second day of August, A. D. one thousand eight hundred ond forty one (1841), between Charles F, Johnson, of Louisiana, of the one part, and Monroe Edwards, also of Louisiana, of the other part— ‘Winesseth Whereas, the said Charles F. Johnson and the said Mon. roe Edwards, have this day entered into partnership, com: meneing from the signing and sealing of those artic to be terminated on the firet day of March, one Q—When was it written ? A~—| think on the second of August last. Where was it written? in what place and house? A-—It was written at the Eutaw House, in Baltimore, in Mr. Edwards’ room, and witnessed in the bar-room of said house by the bar-keepers, ; Q—Who has seen the same besides said Edwards and ourself? 4 A—I do not know that the articles of agreement have been seen by others than the parties to it and the wit nesses, bak ya were you last in Philadelphia? 1 think in the month of August last. want what route did you travel whea you Jef Phila Adelphia the Western route, down by Pittsburg and the ippi river. = NEW YORK, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1842. id you and the suid Edwards pro- sand eight hundred end fort wen (1847 On the conditions, stipulas i the purposes herein after mentioned. ‘The capital stock of said partnership is two hundred thousand dotlars, as follows :— Seid Johnson puts into said partnership, im cash fifty thousand dollare— ($50,000, )and two hundred and fifty (2b) negro slaves, cre- oles, of, and now in the Island of Mustinique. Seid sla by mutual agreement, are rated at two hundred dolla ($200) each, and are accepted into this partnership at fifty thousand dollars ($40,000.) Said Edwards puts into s: partnership ten and a halfleag-ses, ot fifty thousand ac of land, more or less, lymg and beiag on the Red, Natches Angeline, San Jacinta, and Calorado Rivers, Texas, being the same lands purchased by said Edwards of Wm. B. P. Gwines, James W. Robinson, aad Peyton R. Splane, and more particularly described in the deeds from said Gaines, Robinson and Splane to said Edwards. Said lands are by mutual agreement rated ‘at two dollars ($2) per acre, and are accepted into this purtnership at one hundred thou- sand dollars ($100,000.) ‘The business of said partnership shall be conducted in the. individual name of said Edwards. And it is hereby furt) ser i Figning and sealing of theso articles, the aforesaid sum of fity thousand dollars, ($50,000) in gold and silver, or the equivalent in curre’at bank notes, the reseipt of the same being hereby coknowledged by said Edwards. And itis further agreed, that the said Edward: vest the aforesaid sum, of any part thereof at h tion in tobacco, the same to be shipped to St. Pierr: tinique, on or before the first day of November nex account of said partnership. Said Baw erson to St. Pierre, sail Johnson. And said Johnson hereby obligates himself to by at St. Pierre in all the months of January and Februr ry nex and then and there to deliver into the pos session of said Edwards two hundred and fifty (250) negro slaves, t tween the ages of fifteen and twenty five years,t.o hecreoles of Martinique, sound and healthy, and free from any blemish whotevers And it is further agreed that the said sum of fifty thousand dollars, or the procee’’s of the tobac- co purchased with the same, shall 4e invested in negro slaves, creoles of Martinique, young and. gond subjects ; andl those thus purchaked, together with thos’. put into said partnership by said Johuson, shall be traust’ srred to Texas, under the direction of said Edwards, and ‘are to be settled on the lands belonging to said partners ‘without delay, on one or more plantations, at the discretiara of seid Edwards Said Edwards shall have the entire centrjl and inonice, ment of all the property belonging to saic,'partnership duc ring its continuance, he shall have powe sto morgage oF hypothecate, at his discretion, any of th ¢ said lands or ne- fund sufficient to m: ake ail needful im- ments on said plantations during t pe frvt year of their cttlement. But sald Edwards shally jot yell any of saad 1s or negroes without thewritten cc ayvorit of suid Johmson sail Edwards shall have power to gmphoy one or more overseers, gin wrights, and such of per workmen as ma be required to improve and carry © a'sail plantations: hee shall keep aset of books, in whieh “ehe ackounts af suid partnership shall be kept, he sho’ fgeyote his cutive in unc personal attention to the bur jaess of said partuershi aud as a compensation for his ¢ grvices, he shall be. padi three thousand dollars per aa" yum out ofthe funds of said partnership, he shall reside permanently on said planta- tations; he may have @ dW felling house erected on said plantations at the expense ‘of said partnership, but the same to be furnished at hig private charge. Sart Edwards shallrender an account ¢arrent, and statement of the fairs of said partnershir, ow the Ietot Money the City of New Orler enc ast of March, it is for p is to go out in and is there to await the arriv's] of f ach year at Profity to bu divided andually. And it is further og: eed, that said Edwards may apply to his individual use t’ ge sum of ten thousand dollars out oi the said fifty thou: +Jollars this day paid into his hands,upon the express stip" gfation that he deliver on Red River onihe plantations of gid partnership prior to the first of June next 1942, a stock ofhorses, mules, and cattle, equal in value to ten thous’ ud dollars. ‘This partnership is to terminate, be settle’y and the roperty divided in March 1817. And itis he eeby expressly stipulated and agreed by both the said Contracting parties, and the one with the other, that in ‘che event of a non-compliance with these articles ac i ‘tter and their true intent, and meaning, ing to comply, hereby stipulates to pay to r party fifty thousand dollars, which gum is ex- pressly stipulated as damages and hot a penalty. And it is further agreed that if any such failure do oc- cur, the party so failing shall forfeit all his rights under this contract, und the other party shall be for ever solved from ail the stipulations herein above written. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands, and aflixea our sesls in duplicate at the city of Baltimore this day and date first above written. WW es, C. F. JOHNSON (Seal.) F. M, Expen. M. EDWARDS — (Seal.) D. Mitton. (Corr) B. Thereby acknowledge to have this day received of Chas, F. Johuson, Ey., the sum of fifty thousand dollars($50,000) in trast, inthe following manner to w In gold six thousand five hundred dollars, tu New York Bank notes, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars, at par, In Baltimore Bank notes, fourteen thousand two hundred dollars at 2 per cent discount, equal 13,916 00 irginia Bank notes, seven thousand end fifty dollars at 3 per cent discount, equal In silver one dollar and fifty cents $6,000 00 22,741 00 In 6,538 60 150 $50,000 00 Which said sum above named [ am hereby held, and firmly bound, to appropriate in manner and form as is sti- pulated and agreed in the contract of copartnership, this day entered into between said Charles F.Johneon and myself. Done at Baltimore, Md., this second day of Au- giist, one thousand cight husdred and forty-one 1441.) M. EDWARDS. s (c) (Cory.) Waventery Hovsr, New Yorx, Sst August, 1841. i Cuances F. Jounson, Esq. My Valued friend, I fortunately met with Isadore yes- terday afternoon, at Philadelphia, and as he was in a great hurry to get on to Bath, Iconcluded to come over thus far with’him, and I embraced the only opportunity I shall have in communicating with you until we me I have closely observed the Tobacco market sinc parted, and as yet have come to no definite determination in regard to thé point at which 1 shall make the purchase. Ishall hold on at Philadelphia until the Ist October, and if I get no favorable accounts by that time in regard to the subsision.of the fever at New Orleans, I shall then proceed to charter or load a brig from Baltimore, and will sail in all that month for St, Pierre. If, however, things should look ela at New Orleans, [ would prefer to go there, as it would afford me an opportunity of paying a short vi- sitto my friends there, which would of ‘course ke very gratifying to me ; however, rest assured, that I have an eye single to our joint interest, and no consideration of a personal character will induce me to lose sight of that in- terest fora single moment. From the last quotations at New-Orleans compared the prices quoted by Delere- ny, I see we shall realize a profit of 20 per cent., and if we are fortunate enough to succeed in consummating the bar- ter pending with Mr. lovil, the Tobacco that will cost us $40,000 here will be worth to us $80,000 in Martinique. Since you left[ have seen a very good friend of mine from Texas, and have made so iminary arrange- ments with him calculated to facilitatethe removal of our people from Galveston to Red River, the arrangements | refer to is the procuring of a steam boat to convey the ne- groes from Galveston to the highest navigable point on the Sabine or Natchez—this plan will be greatly preferable, —the rivers will be up in March and April, and the steam boat arrangement will save us the long, ted land transportation. There is another advantage desirable from this plan, that has probably Ted to you. The country about Galveston is very 'y populated, and wagou and teams would cost us very high, if indeed they could be procured at all; on the other hand, eastern Texas is yery well settled, and such conveyances as we Want can be procured cheap and abundant. know the country well trom Galveston Bay to Ted River, and de- pend upon it, it will be no easy matter to move 800 or 1000 people from the Bay to the region of Noxeydoches; alter getting that far there willbe no trouble,the country is open and well settled, andthe roads good from that position of the country to Red River. If no misfortune prevents ! flatter myself shall be snugly domiciliated at Sassafras Point by the first of May next, andif untiring industry can accomplish any thing, 1 will, in the course of two or threa years, show you oneof tbe finest estates in the South. ‘The brulion that | mentioned to ypu contains about 3,800 acres, and if 1 got tothe Point yy the first of May, Tiniend to burn il off and plant the whole in corn, and with a good sonson I shall hepe to gather at least 120,000 bushels, and in 1948 T fully expect to make at least 3000 bales of cotton, besides carrying on all needful improvements. I hope to pat things in sich estate that when you visit mo you will be disposed to give up your Mexican establishments alto- gether, and finally settle down on Red River. If any thing ould osour to prevent your coming over to Martinique person, I want you to We very fall and explicit in your instructions to Mr. Pavil,for you know he is a very curious old gent Your true friend, M. EDWARDS Directed We CHARLES F. JOM Ter A. Isaponn. (Corr) (.) Crty Pasox, New York, 4th April, 1842. My Vatuep Frigp :— Lhare received your letter of the 17th February, and re- gret exceedingly to hear of your illness. It would be needless for me to enter into the details of this unfounded Prosecution against me , you know how utterly foundless they are, If] were alone ia the world, 1 should care but little tor Ph le hae ge 5 bi y ieantns ao ren tomy family and friends, and the injuries that by it have been inflicted on you, bas been the cause of more unhappiness to me than any nal considerations, T am sorry that I could not meet you at St. Picrre in January, but as it was no fault of mine, Itrust you will not attach any blame to me therefor, and I do hope you will not enforce against me the damages J am liable for, by the failure of my part to comply with our contract. Under the belief that you would be at St. Pierre or Thomas, I wrote to you to both of these places Ist Febr ary, ot gut A commission to take your testimony in case you should not come on to New York; unfortunate for me was your short stay in Martinique and still nore eo was your illness and detention in Cuba, [now ask zou, “ Uncle a" to do me a favor, aed oe Thole 4 0 told me : ith the affes Thome Feu will dueregard iit ie merely brother or son, | hope you will dis to come on to this city in person. I know thot your em | lg eh in Mexico re extensive and bly impern- tlre, but if it be in the bounds of possibility, do Ee Spas sake come on here in person, your persona would shut the mouth of rank malice iteelf, 1 feel assured if your health and engagements will admit of it you will Price Two Cents. be here, but in case any accident 1 prevent it had a commission ut to take your testimon The commission is sent to three gentlemen at Hav the American Consul is one of them. But do come iv per sow, for it will not detain you long. I have token no pains to contradict the many slanders that are published against me, for it is my intention to meet them in open court before a jury of my countrymen; all I ask is iair stake and I sha.] relute every lie that the poid and perjured scoundrels have propagated eguiust me; Lask no favor of y mun, and | wiki show iy enenses that they buve hed up the wrong pecsenger for once.” It is not for me to advise you in regard te your own interest; you best know what steps to take. Ifyou do not come on I would be glad if you will annex ‘your copy of our contract to your deposition, as you have been before advised, your funds in my hands w attached, @jd all that was not stolen is, or was, in the hands of the Recorder of Philadel- phia; upwards of $2000, of the funds I had at the time of my arrest has not been wecounted for, which, together with my diamonds and a large portion of my wardrobe has, 1 suppose, been divided amongst the very honest and gentlemaniy persons who ofticisted at my arrest. Hoping to sce you by the is of May, remain as ever, Your friend, M. EDWARDS. P.8. On arriving here, call on Wm. H. Evarts, Esq., 2 Hanover street, and he will tell you how youtan.ses me. me z CHARLES F. JOHNSON, ESQ, Lenin Care ofthe United States Consul, Havana Per Hellespont. (Copy:) Cc Late or tHe Unitep Srates or Amenica, Havana. 1, I. $8. Calhoun, Consulof the United States of Ameri- ti, I requested ‘.Johuson todeclare at whattime he left the United m what port he sailed, and in what vessel, so as to trace him from home fo this place. He answered that he left Charlesten, So. Carolina, about a month ago—Did not remember the name of the vessel—and had no further an- swerto make. That noone had a right to such informa- tion—and that he would not give it to any one, for uny purpose. In testimony whereof, 1 hereunto set my hand and affix iny seal of office, at Havana, this 9th day of M i r of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and of the Independence of the United States, the sixty-sixth. I. 8. CALHOUN. The next documents read were the following :— Deposition ef Lucy B. Phillip Luey B. Purtvirs, of Pililadelphia, spinster, aged twen- ty and upwards, being duly and publi¢ly sworn pursuant to thedirections hereto annexed, and examined onthe partof the defendant, doth depose and say as follows, My name is Lucy B. Phillips, aged twenty years and up- wards, residence No, 104 South Front street, Philadelphia, and assist my mother in the atlairs of the family; Ido know Monroe Edwards, the defendant in this cause ; I first became acquainted with him on the 17th of July, 1841, in the house where he came a boarder; Mrs. Sarah Phillips keeps a boarding house in Philadelphia, No. 164 South Front street; I resided with her at the said boarding house; Mrs. Phillips did keep such boarding house in the months of July, August, September and October, last year ; Iresided’ with her during those months; Monroe Edwards commenced the seventeenth of July, and board- ed with Mrs. Phillips during the summer of last year; he continued until the second day of October, at which time he was arrested; Iwas at home during the whole time, with the exception of one day; I went to Bordentown and returned next day; there are books kept byme ol the names of the bourders, the cha against them, of their stay, of their time of leaving, and of their return if they come back; this book isunder my charge; Mr. Edwa was, while'a boarder, occasionally temporarily absent ; he left the first time July 3ist, after dinner ; he returned August 3d, after dinner; he left August 10th, after break- fast, returned August 11th after breakfast; leit August 24th before dinner, returned August 28th alter dinner ; left August 30th after dinner; returned September oth before dinner; left September 6th before dinner, returned Sept. 9th before dinner; Oct, 2d, after dinner, ceased boarding. s left his bourding house August 24, before urned August 28, after dinner. Mr. Ed- wards was at Mrs. Phillips on the 30th August; I saw him on that day in the morning; Idined with him at the pub- lic table, and I saw him after dinner, when he leftthe house, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, the city, Monroe Edwards was absent from Mrs. Phillipe from Aug. 30 to 6th of September, cn which day he re- turned, Thavean entry in my book—it states he returned onthe 6th of Sept. A.M. The entry 18 Sept. 5 A.M,, Mr. M. Edwards returned. Mr. Edwards was at Mrs. Phillips’ on the Sth of Sept. last; [saw him on that da; at dinner, I’m confident, and we dine at helf-past one un. On all other days we dine at two 0’ jock; Tre- 1 because I was introduced to his 2d am positive it was Sunday the oth; my chief ance ison my book of entries; there is a particular cir- stance by Which L recollect that Mr. Edwards was at yon the 20th August last; he paid me his bill, and paid me a bet of a pair of gloves, on which I wrote in- side, as is my custom, the day I got them; what is writ non the gh is B.P., fr Mr. Edwards, August 30, 1841.” | ‘The rest of the question ve answered in my reply to the preceding interrogatory. Jam aware of @ y mude to ia wards at ‘the time it occurred, and from her com- 6 Caroline Phillips by proposition of ma Mr. E municating itto me, 1 know it from referring to the book; it was the day after or the next day after Mr. Larose left, and he left on the 18th of August, sit; the place was the front parlor, No. 104 South Front street. I ain aware of a pecuniary settlement in connection with such pro- position.” The oftier was of a settlement of twenty thousand dollars at the time of the proposal, verbally in the form of a settlement. I became aware of it on the day itoccurred. I know nothing to the advantage of the defendant, except that in allhis conduct and deportment while in this house he was correct and gentlemanly, He never screened himself {from public observation—he never to my knowledge denied himself at the door—he attended diferent public places, reading rooms, theatres, &e., at which last in company with others accompanied hi Cross-ecamined—1 became acquainted with Mr. wards the 17th day of July, 18.41. Mr. Larose of New Or- vans introduced him to me asa boarder. He also intro- duced him to Mrs. Philips. 1 answer that Mr. Kdwards was absent and returned at particular times; from my books in instances and {from memory in some. 1 do uot speak from memory alone. I cannot annex the book; it is too large, but annex a copy in my handwriting, which 1 know tobe correct. Theentriesand memoranda are in my handwriting, entered at the time of going and return. ing, always onthe same day. There boarded with Mrs. Phillips during the whole or partof the time, Mr. Nicho- las Johnson, from New Orleans; don’t know ‘his business; Mr. Augustin Larose, a young gentleman of fortune from New Orleans, Mr. and Mrs. Parkins, of North Carolina, Mr. Wolif, a German gentleman, andthe family we have now, Mr, Wolff, a brother of the former gentleman, a mer- chant here, Mr. Frederick Nin, aspanish entleman who is accountant with Messrs.Carson andNew bold of this cit; Mr, Ferdinand Preuss of Bremen, merchant in Front street, and I believe that’s all. Mr. Johnson came June 2, 1841, ceased to hoard October 20, 1841; Mr. Laroso came June 23, 1841, ceased to board 18th August, 1541; Mr. and Mrs. Per- kins came August 20, 1841, ceased to board September 15, 1841; the first Mr. Wolff came September, 10, 1840, ceased to board the 20th’ of same month ; Mr. W. Wolf has lived with us these ten years; he came November 6, 1881, and is with us yet; Mr. in came January 20, 1S41, and is still with us; Mr. Preuss came February 26, 1982, and lives with us yet. Mr. Johnson was temporarily abecut ; his first departure was August 4, i841, A. M.; returned the same month ; left Sept. 6,A.M, and returned ., same month. Mr Larose left temporarily ; {absence July 6, and returned the 7th same month— he went oneday and came back the next; then he went away the 6th of August and returned the 7th of August, SY. Mr. W. Wolff left for New York the 23d of Sept: 141, and came back Oct. 2d, nt Mr. and Mrs. Par- kins, Mr , Mr. Preuss, and the elder Mr. Wolff, heve n temporarily absent. When I've not stated the hour at which a perty retur it is because not havin, tin my book | cannot swear to it. 1 have hed let arrest Inst autumn ; I-can- ven or eight; I have an- he has written tome. Thave r received any mossage from Mr. Edwards arrest ; Ihave kad no communication. with Mr. respecting my examination os 8 witness; Mr. Tr. Dallas, and Mr. Gilpin have wach called ‘upon us, and qnestioned us as tothe time he boarded with ur, as to hiv habits, his accociates, ke., the where wasin this Mr. Dallas and My. Gilpin called ofter the time of his arrest ; Mr. Evarts callea December 6, 1841, to pay Ma « balance due her, and called about ten days ago to know matter. when wo would be ready to attend to th Our convertation with these gentlemen war ‘ence or allusion to the testimony which ve now given. | have never seen the congo > tories now ‘proposed, or ony of them, or coples of them, before attending before the Commis sioners. When he accompsnied me we went from Walnut street wharf, and crossel the river in the boat. and took the cars at Camden for Bordentown. turned the nextday by steamer. When Mr. on the 30th of A she taid he y nephew, Tho he was ing to New York andwhen he returned on the 28th of August, hie said hehad been to Newburg and Saratoga. On tl sixth of September they all went to New York, Mr. John- son, Mr. Hurd his nephew, and Mr. Edwards. Mr. Ed- wards appeated to have no particular occupation or bur simess while boarding with us, Mr. Edwards spent his time ax other gentleman of leisure do, in and out oe the day; don't know where be spent his fi T nev knew Mr. Edwards travel under the nam@of Caldwell. I never heard him say he had travelled @nder the name of Caldwell; I never heard him say he halé travelled under any other name than that of Edwards; Inever heard bim aren or he name of Caldwell; I never saw in his posses ny letters addressed to John P. Caldwell, or Mr. Caldwell, or J.P. Caldwell; Tnever have seen in Mr. Bid- ‘cards’ possession, or with his property, any letters John Pe caldwell, sor any check, drafts, or other secu Hides having the name of Caldwell upon'them. 1 never have seon in his possession or with his propasty any Iet- ters signed Joh P.Caltwellor J. P. Caldwell, Ihave never een in Mr. Edwards’ possession, or under his control among his property, or in any way connected with him, any hotel Dill, card, memorandum, or letter, or oth aper, fav ing the name Cald- well upon it, Mr. Edwardes’ friends and associates were Mr. Poy dress, from New Orleans, My Bannon, of Loulsi- ana--a Col. Verry, from Texas, L pelieve—2 Mr. Waldom, and a Mr. ~~ 0 Spanith gentleman, from Mexico—a Mr, Belcher. V've heard him speak of a Mr. lsidore, we to seo him; J don’t know their ocenipations ; Mr. sat boarded ut Mee. Phillips, at six dollers per woeks the Jhice was not increased or diminithed while Mr. Edwards