The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1846, Page 1

RK HERALD. THE NEW Y ————— Vol. XII, Ne, 310—Whele No, 4563. NEW YORK, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1846. Pam ewe ome 1 twite) Van Ness, my niece, Dr. Ketchum, myself, and the .—Yes, | paid particular attention. ronnet nar so and so 1—(repesting wiex.—I told you the truth, sir. Mr. Buent.—Miss Fowler, state what took —I went into the palor ing of his ill health ; my si not you remember my asking you whether a was legal without a license ? ber it well.” I cai t for the defence mi have an to ight opportunity Mr. Mar wished to designate not have any thing to do with the papers. Mr. Baent remarked that this would not extend to Mr. Bi es sla J such a condition ir. Baapiey would not consent to a : he seid he sible for them, and that it of his custody. journed at four o’cl @ plaintiff in the act of making a trang. Van Ness je Cimcurt Covar, Wasuinaton, Nov. 24, 1646. ia case, so far from subsit ease. The court room was crowded, es | what y was not so excit- | witnesses were | ree or four who should: ‘The interest in th - & eir views were di for the present, to enable a wit- }, said he furnished some stoves ‘General Van Ness ground rent, og be remarked that jing content to note the progress of lings through the public prints, without hazard. | was complaini! possibility ef a blush by testimony which might ise Vinotvia Fowren, the step-sister of the plaintiff lady not “ out ef ber teens,” ot speech, came ister said, ** Do lock—leaving the io replied, “1 remem: in and asked him, ** Will you state © the words, but the purport of must aid me—] am | counvel for the | fer of the papers. Cincurt Count, Wasnineton. Nov. 25, 1846. e ‘kably sweet delivery , a8 usual, and as much jn- eourt afew minutes after the crier had warned ull ha usineet to “draw = rol se ee attention, | aving proceeded to the stand, which was never oc- cupied by a more comely witness, submitted to a close cros+examination by Mr..Bradley, counsel for the de- several notes or letters, which ‘sisters’s (Mrs. Van Ness’s) | issouri avenue did not live with her; , but was in the habit | she had ationed the names of 3 the house was well r lived comfort- There was a full atten: terest manifest. d as on previous occasions. Mr. Atraup TifPerr was the first witness called, and, per, said he saw General Van Ness ate was November 18, 1945. General » to ascertain willthank you.” He remarked, “ needy.” My sister replied, “I can’t say anything about Mr. Brapuey.—What did you understand by the re- mark “ She must aid me ”? Miss Fowrxa.—I did not think that it hed any refer- ence to this case. Mr. Buaptey.—And what did you understand him to mean by stating it ? Miss Fow.ex—That he should state it here. Mr. Busnt—I have no questions to ask. The left the stand, and drew her veil over her the pert the day book, the 22d of November, a cooking stove, $20, of which the following is a to General Von Mr. May then read a note, "y, and had been proved, v: being shown a spel word “cei ment entered into betwee! witness, relative to the building Mr. C. Mann, having been sworn, Mr. Baewr to state where he was married ? Mr. Mann—I was married in Philadelphia, in Pine rt. Mr. Mar—Will you state how you were married? Mr. Baaptey.—That is not ev! ‘he witness can’t show the law. show the custom and Fusage Th ation was asked as to the marriage of the wit- nes Mr. Cancisie.—He can’t Mr. May —It is competent unwrittem law by the testimony Mr. Caatiste.—The matter is the books of statutes, properly authenticated, State Department. Now, I can prove the custom or usage of marriage in contraven- tion of a statute. Mr. Brent (after reading a law authority, that the fo- usage must be proved by pa- role evidence)—{ don’t know any one who is better in- structed to prove this than a man who is marrie: The Covrr—The written law ought to be produced, as being the highest evidence. Mr. Bart again referred to law authorities, to show that according to decisions of the Supreme Court of pee - i he consent,” if seriously pays ee: sufficient for ye, and was not necessary to be given before a minister or elergyman; and that the re witnesses, was merely directory, id not affect the vali i red the Kells to furnish and fit Up just such @stove and fixtures, &c.,as you may wish bill. P. VAN NESS. ean M.—I have orde ou a ten dollar fe) ‘Mrs. Connor, Missouri street. permitted the jury to retire from the room The discussion as to whether M: mitted to testify as to Judges took the subject home wit m0 deing Thonksgiving day, the Court will Y: Seah, Major J. P fr nee THE cuablne ot te jor J. P. ANonEws, & paymaster , being looked at the letters shown him, end, erates his opinion on them. ee ie ene en ates i ‘an Ness’s handwriting ral succeeded i this is General guised; don’t think the in his handwriting; | have six or eight of the General Van Ness in my office—they are “ke.” frequently occurred, and the Major remarked that not meet till Friday. In any, report of yesterday I spoke of a little book, the ly bijou, to prove that Miss Serena Connor was not 7 out of her teens,” and to look into which so much Mra, M. A. Van Noss, it ia said, a years old when she was married to Mr. first husband. He wandered off to the Southern climo, when she was but nineteen years of age. ‘The following is an extract :— Mrs. Mary Ann Connor to her sleep ane A Comer. October 2 i) ep on, sleep on, my precious girl, No thy bresst, Thy transient griefs cannot destroy | ‘hy fears, nor break thy rest. Though on thy cheek the trace of tears Yet now how calm thy sleep a » Thy sorrows all have fed ’s dawn will find thee gay, pleasure bright, us to show the foreign curiosity was excited. lon’t see how the witness E ppeil her house in October, 1845, but I do not time J had a conversation with her about the marriage. married; she said, ‘‘ To be sure married you?” Ske replied, “An described him, and remarked that hat advanced in yours, aud had a faco ra- re a long, brown coat, and had an intelli- she did not mention that he wore che was married ina ym; the alderman had 2 book in his ‘state the distance between Mrs. Moulder’s and the she war married; she said the certificate; I ipt for nursing the baby, as well as the appears instead of nursing. Previously read reign, unwritten law ing child, Miss letter in which = ‘1836. Cross-ezamined by Mr. letter in which occurs the re, and find our matter can be | I will now certainly | NewYork this eve: back here the 5th o: you here, on my just asl wish it. make you my lawful wife. 1 go.to or to-merrow morning; shall of next month, and will expect to meet return, that | may then make yo Mr. Brapizy—Now do you think it is lik ee oe make use of “lawful wife,” o1 wife?” * Major Axonews—General Van Ness was remarkable for repeating the same ideas in different words. knew that agentieman had a »” but a wife. Just letters. y to forge a ture, but it and acquired a fixed the bad spelling, the syntax, tter of General Van Ness; Yours, respect,” inst juestioning took 5 and Miss Berene'con Banal AM, ora ask her whether the man; this was in the evening; time f saw wy sister after hi TION IN RELATION TO THE MARRIAGE DESIRED. of the subjoined advertisement y the undersigned to Van Ness and Mrs. Ma- om the 6th of August, A. D. 1845, com- preving the circumstances, be they what ation to be left at this office. MARY ANN VAN NESS.” TME LADY PUT TO THE TEST. Mr. Basvizr.—Mies Fowler, will you please sit down, and write a few sentences at my dictation? Miss Fowxea slightly inclined her head, in token of itlemen who sat at the ti red his seat, and two or thi time presented pa and Thine eye with Pl th: little iting of Gen. Van Ness. Mr. Baavey stated that he had served the other side with a notice to produce a ce! plaintiff by Gen. Van Ness. ir. BrapLer—I ne’ lawful” wife, or a look, Major, at the for jor ANDREWws—-It is eas; icult to make the bod: a & man who has liv: and. Mr. Brapter—Look at and the omissions. t4Mejor Anpaews—I hav atthe conclusion, it says, The manuscript Wit My harrassed feelings still Lat bapaan Of griefs—my thoughts are pain. be ms Tcbide my starting tear, And try to gain repose ; ive drops will still appear, My weary eyes unclose. Norcan | hopé to-morrew’s dawn Will aught of joy restore; atar of joy is gone, To light my path vo more! hh! then sleep on, my dear Serena, And sweetly take thy rest, and innocence, and joy, Are inmates of thy breast. For, sh! too Coa pee will press its cares upon thy brow— s to harrass and distress, 80 peaceful now. Wasminaton City. read the notice. had no such letter. that it was necessary jad never had, nor ever had seen Bravuey, after a few suggestions fro asked and obtained further time to prepare ir another form, in order to the production of the paper which he referred. Mr. Brent arose, and whieh had been raised against Mr. Mann answe: tory which had been propounded as to the man- ner of his marriage, referring to law authorities to show that it was competent for him to testif} in {referred to the per. The lady threw asi pen wrote the followi: radley, being an extract from the lady’s own , written to her step-sister at Green: Valley: yesterday, and I should have, ,) the same day, but I Mr. Brent—Miss Serena, you stated the other da that no one called while you were at Mrs. Moulde: ‘&@ statement abeut visiting the water- Cross-evamined by Mr. Baavuzy—We went to the Wwater-works; it is customa: got into an berber men; amo: im was @ gentleman we hi ie iroducea Bie oth je! e had ueve: a; hav’ wi and said he had un intere the waterworks; we being stran, Mr. Girin remarked that the law of Penusylvania makes a distinction asto a marriage ceremony being @ clergyman and ‘by an you also made “He was here day before mailed bis letter, (Gen. Van Net was flagranti delicte with grounds. ‘ ‘Mr. muegratay ones over, gt bir hte 4 the beau- tifal chirogra; e x ar ordinary: handwriting, Mise Fowler? on =e Pr Fowea.—lt is sir, but I usually write with a steel A steol pen, efter @ short search for one, was presented to ber, and the lad; to write. Me Baewr, debe peor rood ot prove what the law is—i self, from the statute boek and the decisions of the Su- preme Court of the State. Mr. Basnr said that it ho could stantial evidence, that there wai ‘al Van Ness and Mra. Connor, the law would pre- nd if the jury finds there is this Av umes thore was a marriage. s. 8 indows on the left for ladies to go alone; we d with ladies and gentl Corumsus, Ohio, Nov. 12, 1846. The Polities of Ohio—The Efforts to Kill eff the Pres; dential Candid $e. @HOn the evening of the Sth January, 1846, the leading spirits of the “unterrified democracy” of this great State, met at the American Hotel, in this city, for the purpose of discussing the choice viands and neat w: of my friend Kelsey, the accomplished host of that ox cellent establishment. It was,the evening of the anui- versary of tho battle of New Orleans, and consequently an occasion on which every good democrat is bound to indulge in reasonable mirth, and privileged te utte any conceivable quantity of nonsense. If men canno always be “wise,” that is no reason they should not be “merry” whenever opportunity offers. should be a bound to jesting—a rule which was grievi" ously infringed by one of the company, who offered the following sentiment, {as appropriate to the occasion and the circumstances under which our democracy had “The democracy of Ohio, to y of New York, greoting :” or words to nat effect. Whether the guests, when this apparently jocose Saatiment was propose: when, according ite testimony of the governor “> eerriage-feast at Cana, it was customary with the wine before the drinkers, seeing that incapable of criticising the qualit vintage, is more tham [ cen say; but certain it present heartily swallowed both the sentime: ith that confounded ‘next moi dread of all revelle: ish, by circum- ir, and seeing that we were Triage between foposed to accompany us; a manufectory in the di: sume it to be legal; Fort the ne t this stage of the p = heard, in one of the wit ef the Judges. They looked round hurriedly, and every ye was turned in that direction. Mr. B the fears thus excited, by saying lass didn’t go clear out !”’} bate ensued ; and there being a breathing The Covmr decided th: knew the facts. C. known as “ Blair and Rives,” tes- e ten years ago I knew the band- writing of Gen. Van Ness ; he used to write communi- cations for the Globe; ifthis letter (holding it out) was shown to mo in the absence of circumstances, | should say it was his hand: initials look too round, I think ; 1 have lool if they sre disguised, they are counterieit, they are di Sincerely yours,” in the Wallace letter, is the same as that in the Leesburg letter; | think the direction is better than General Vau Noss wrote; I have psid much attention to hand-writing, not having.the benefit of a school, | learned how te write fromether i ; if this letter had been bro imitials, 1 might have doubted whose it was;1 might have thought | remembered the sppearance; but if ‘an Ness had been mentioned, { would have said it was his; J don’t recollect that the printer had an: trouble. in correcting mistakes in General Van Nese’ handwriting, when be wrote communications for the I will say that my own sig- ire was so well imitated by a clerk in the office, that the lapse of thirteen years, I could not tell the dif- n it and my own. ined—The name of old St on the Declaration of Inde terfeited; this is Gen. ; ter looks more like it than either of the other two. Mr. Braver exhibited letters to Mr. Rives, and qu as to the similarity of figures and letters w! inthe Van Ness letters, ond the letter of Mies “Are not all the 5’sin these letters in the same tleman returned with he accompanied us to the boardi pol ness we usked him to walk in; he did so; and we sat conversed with him ; rang, and he retired; and I have gentleman from that uame, but I have forgotten it; his face onit, oneach side, as though it had been burnt with powder ; he behaved like a gentleman ; on a former oc- casion, when [ was asked whether any body went with "s to the water works, I said ‘no ” ‘as put ; the gentleman did ith us, but got into the je of the gentleman was be- 'y 5 1 saw Cornelius P. Van Ness visiliug my mother’s house after the death of General as I had nies fe cos Mice, usto where the omnib our time———[several in the neigh- in a whixper)—Miss Virginia. Mr Bravusy—Take your time. [And every cye was cted towards the table, where the lady was writing Misa Homies, having finished Ld “the man who the task which Mr. , reascended the stand. Tho letter, ied the extract. was written on she said she thought that she “office onthe night of that day; i then addressed as it now was; it is the Green Vall day to this; he at usage could be proved only the 10th of August, had sent it to the poi usftrom Mrs. Mouli pero serie oe answered the question as it w: not go from Mra Moulder’ bus after we did ; the Mr. Buapity—Miss Fowler, if you write one more a tween forty-five aud will be obliged to you. sed to sey, obliged b wrote, without ti i (Our old Quaker icious or extraneous thee ” y J slightest hesitation, The ceremony was performed by Mr This referred to the secret marriage of ner relative, Catharine, to Mr. Gray, in Mra. Cross-eramined by Mr. Bradiey.—The date of the let Van Ness ; when he came, I looked ut him from the Conner's house ting in the basement; ing the edcleniiag. ov seeing the Governor it, “Isaid, there is Gov. Van came to the door, and our servant conduct hours afterwards, told m d, were in that blessed ent (holding it jught to me without re ol. Lee, and endorsed or for the plaintiff; this in her band) is written by C by my sister, Mrs. Van Ness. ir. Baznt —You were asked yesterday, Miss Virginia someihing with regard to a conversation with the iv’ Teaac Ketchum and your sister on th Tell what it was. came reflection on the “mistakes of e night,’ and no small number of the gentlemen who to wonder, not ) whether it had the parlor door; my aunt was in the ad heard mother say “I do not jest—the General and I ss Fowixa.—She asked him whether he did not re- aeet~es) tothe signelans, member her asking him to procure the information for r d be Jegal without a.hi- conse; he said be remembered it well; ‘' Will you,” she asked : “state that 7” he replied: “Freely ;” 1 said: “sh will thank you jfor so doing;” ho remarked, “she need: sister replied, “I can’t say, ” this conversation was on a evening, about two weeks ego; Mr. Ketchum ssid, “summon me;” I have stated the conversation to gi = igh rere nh }, on Fel + “I will call im a fe wasalll wert Cross-rxamirev by Mr. Braptey.—There was another gentleman in the omnibus; | dou’t know how many la- 4. the gentleman got in at the not say with what kind of a {setory he was connected; I did not know him before; e was an utter stranger, 1 believe he said he had a fac- tery by the water works; he was so marked in the face tat I would know him again; Lor Mr. Schott; it I will show you the proofs.” to what the toast meant, but her, whether a is the momimation Gov. Wright as theuvxt ite ae date for , and was mean! ledge the democracy ea at Somfsation. Another thought it looked confoundedly like the commencement ef some legal instruments, which a ; the omnibus was full; lac did; he did of Onio,; to aid in effect place we did; about that now more common it meantone thing, and some another. In fine, not an orthe Augaean stables were nd out a meaning that would not HE LETTER DEMANDED--WHY RESISTED. tified that the superscription of , Wasin the hand-writii ess; and the counsel for the cription might go to the jury. ry it. (handing it tohim.) Brent immediately opened it, and looked for one That was long enough for it was not Mr. Brewster, when General Van Ness came to Mrs it was candlelight, and a remember whether the I came home with my mother in Valley ; I do not remember to have heard the man, or the manner of the mar speak of them. My 0; I only remember a little id not interest me much; rebing in Philadelphia for eremony ; I know of my to Philadelphia to see her counsel ; | never koew that Mr. Sherbourne visited all the aldermen to find the man; Mr. Lee and my mother went to several aldermen, and said she would know him if she saw him ; my aunt said the alderman who mar 1awore a long coat ; that he was an elderly never heard that he had iH think I heard pve. at the hor telling a about the alderman havi remember that aunt, gran were all present w! ard my mother say inthe sfternoon, and that the servant said that there was a marria; heard grandmother say that Mi scription of the man, bis dress and th went away, I think in May, to see about business in Philadelphia; also in Septembe: after which of these visits it was th having seen a servant girl; mother said the servant girl said she thought the Quakers; I think my mother saw Mr. Christian’s daugh- ter, and that my mother left home in February, coming home from Virginia; 1 think she went to Balti- in December; no gentleman her, that I remember. THE Lapy’s ace. Mr. Barnt.— Miss Serena, have you a book that shows zie ungallant, Mr. Brent. Ey ‘an - hyero, pack ntl ove! Mr. Rrves—I can’t tell my own hand. Mr. Barnr—What did you ask, Mr. Bradley? Mr. Buaptey—I asked whether all the 5' rson.—Handing the letter of Miss irs. Connor alias Mrs. Van Ness, at in Philadelphia, bright evening ; moon was up; jetbnce desired tor, but now ex-editor of the Ohio Statesman, attempted to give it signification, and by the same token, was at 210 of Fabre: bly recollect that Mr. Sawyer, the much abused demo- cratic member from our Sth district, on reading the greeting, wrote a sharp letter to the editor of the States- man,in which, after speaking in rather warm terms of Gov. Wright, he proposed to amend the toast spoken of, democracy of New York, but tothe democracy of Michigan—the plain English of which was, to propose the nomination of Gen the Ohio democracy, Knowing how necesser 3 to prevent quarrels in the party, and sensible of the fol! arrelling about the ?: the Sigteeman appended to Mr. Sawyer’s rt note, in which he end ing. At length, the then edi tt into a kettle @! Fowler, sent to it, boiling heat. Green Valley Depot.—Is the direction of the lette: Mr. Brapiry.—! id the contents written by the same person, according to You will proba- momeni over its contents. him to know what the pape: Mr. Buaoter.—Did you look into it? ‘es. aunt gave mother’s descriptio: ubout the clocks ; I thougat it di , — it - Tai het khow soither wes Mr. Rives It may have been written by the same por: Mr. Brent—Repeating aloud.—Written by the same person, in the same handwriting. Mr. Baapuer—Mr. Brent, don’t interrupt me. Mr Brext—Don’t you want the Mr. Brapter—Yees, but J will te Mr. Brent and Mr. Bradley alternately asked questions ‘as to the formation of letters, orthography, etc. In re- to a question of the latter, ir. Rives, said signatures could be imitated by }, With two or three years as this? (Referring to one ma . —Qne (tes a og ya McDonald, who m ters, got Coy my aij ature ac that I vould not tell it myself. beara ne = ‘was an expert clerk 7 en. Would you take the letters in tho mascu- and, for those of General Van Noss ? ‘am not very well acquainted with female I never had much experience that You won't look inside ofthis; (holding Mr. Burnt.—I can’t crose. the whole of the document and send grecting, not to jury to know it? d General Van Conner, or Mrs. Van y bear, it is all we want. the sidential nominatio: i! direction of Me haat tye he Be 3 but I about using them mother say she found a servent where she was married ; mother think I heard somethi his back to the light; ‘ored to explain away offensive in the toa: as, that the democracy of Ohio, ha- yn the censtitutional currency, yw York brethren, trom that ay of reminding them, that it » and strive which capacity for wri e ferent, Thow Ninotsaaty object in asking , COMSp.racy, practice, write such a forgery. This was tay of the General's letters.) the witness te write. Our charge is tra rv duty te do the same thing, othe most valiant deeds in the inroad against and @ paper currency. is it certainly did net appear to be of a ise to ill-blood in any quarter. such was its fate, nevertheless. Seme of the friends ‘aunt.—Mr. Bradley proves the superscription, 1 have a right to cross-exam- ine, not ovly as to the superscription, but as to the body of the locument. Mr. Brapiey.—I have not offered the contents. Mx Baxwr.—I protest against merely offering th receipucn, and not the contents orrentto the broad system of justice, that the Court cannot sustain it without some case in point. crossexamine the witness unless { see the contents of — and then proposes to stop Place; mother character to give 5 1 cannot remember jat mother spoke of It is @ doctrine #0 ab fool, tat h — see what eu er meant? or, does he suppose us e that we will swallow tA absurd explanatior other hand, some of the friends of Mr. Wright took exceptions to the editor’s explanation, indignant with him for having published Mr. yee A yA ne Waich was an ¢ y the put pals merely wish to bring out the masculine Beapiey.—All this, so far as it goes, restson the If we show that she could wi different hands, we show a capacity for for- gery and fraud. We care nothing about the contents, 4 DRFRACE OF THE WiTNESS—A OORAKCTION. A discussion ensued on this peint, in which Messrs. lay, and Breut, participated. In allu- radley, privilege of defending the of a witness with more, and staid one day then went or returned w! juarrel breke out, but interposition of some ‘and cool headed men of the par- fire, however, ovuarer tain ee 1d, and would bal we broken out wit Peer than ‘evel, hed emit boom that chroamaen: the editor of the Statesman to resign his I sat down with the intention tails of the condition of political cinct history of of which will enal their future course and { theaghtthe offair narrated in. the preceding paregra were it not that I have beenr York, which set forth the di , (a8 he was retiring )—I want derstand tnat I mistrust as to my own handwriting. your name and Age ? Mr. Caauisie—( Mr. Barnt.—Certainly, eit Le was called.—He said, | am a of the Presbyterian church; I resided rR Pennsylvania as a clergyman, five years in Phi: ani even in Carlisle; {mai ‘more Coxe, Bradley, M: Mr. Baxnt said, | claim the Mr Baavvey.—tI will alway: ireedem. 1 have not said a word to prejudice her. aent.—I will answer. puer.— What { said was as an illustration. wt.—I will defend the witness. Mr. |, because the lady has this morning co: that it is jumping over the feuce marked that the witness heard her ‘What is that book ? It being handed to him,) I will show it. —(From the stand)—The losf is turned wa. Mr. Brent—I'll find it, (tarnin; small book, which might be put ing you some de- ere, and a suc- proper knowledge e Herald to under- the twelve yeers in that State, I married a large number jundred. .—State the general practice, and whethe: a license is obtained. BRT eT 8 Mr, Bravisy immediately objected; if there was any the ceremony was performed by s man; the custom end usages transactions ‘er the lenves of a ble the readers of th in the Philadelphia Al- pLev—Whose handwriting is it ? Miss Conson—I suppos it is my mother’s. present to me'by my mother; I suppose mo- clergymen cannot the custom amd usages of laymen; they stand on a distinct foundatien, in Pennsylvania are married charch of whieh they are members. When iaymen perform the ceremony, there is @ statute. In this case, in said to have taken place mut eight short months had demecracy ther sent them from this democracy, assume’ wise want—that is, on was uttered by w: 808, . The jury can say wheths Mr. Braeter—The: "s handwriting is similar at a slight glance. The made a mistak y may be pretty; I have not read . Brent—Miss Serena, will ask you to look at Although the verses were written when ou think there is any resem- that of Mrs. Van Nens, witness discovering thet she had honestly corrected it. It is proved the handwriting against her ing that she made a mistake, correcte: Dut @ witness allowed to correct her mistake? And if there be arule to prevent it, the sooner it 1s abolished Im the agitation, confusion and excitement of a court room, a lady, especially, might very naturally ommission of errer, and innocently. The Couxr— We do not aliow personalities. Mr. Saewt—I disclaim personalities; and I trast Mr. Bradley will not eudeavor to destroy the credibility of Mr. Baapigr—I thought it w: ‘ou Were an infant, do lance to your mother’s Miss Connon—( ‘ing Mr. Beent—(Throwing up his hands in his pockets)—Ab ! the place where the marri cannot be found, although ed ; the party cannot find out the alderman noth ng to show a marrisge took place. T! tension is to show that the person who was an alderman—nay, even his name is men- ut how can the usage of a minister illustrate an It is set up here that. two ears before tended marriage, there was an illicit tae continues as such till a clear marriage. I know of no one better role to prove the usages of a clergy- clergymen, but this would not prove the usages of analdermap. Can the party now sh: ground, and say, “! was married by a clergyman ?” After what we have heard from witnesses, is might have been married by a clergyman? ‘stated, in her petition, that she was married by some alderman. The allegation is, son whom Gen. Van Ness called Mr. Alderman ; but of has since been able to learn nothing with Mr. ‘ieon:, (after reducing to writing the question ropounded to Mr. Sprol out of the recor It was a sort of jury ar and prejudice the Dg of the absurdity of sending a hard money greeting to the I do, sir. ead, and putting his great curiosity excited to look into this In vain did those who did not * walk light,” the comers-in and also gentlemen leaning on ‘th gh necks to have a good look at th: democracy of your State, who a as intimately connected with whigs themselves, and were they to make be led to the co the usage of an alderm: certain their everiasting pros defeat of Gov. Wright, though it can- eminent and able man in the estimation of terested friends, here or elsewhere, has, beyond all q into utter ruin the somewhat crazy edifice that had been ereccved by many of his mere- political friends. The superstructure remains ; but e edifice has left the sight of men as marvellously as did the palace of Aladdin on the rubbing of the lamp by the malignant Noureddin. It hes vanishe: the merning cloud and the early dew.” After the inauguration of Mr. Polk, political matters took a rather irregular tarn in this 40 long and so honorably connected with our democratic ross, retired from the editorship of the Statesman on the ist of Jaly, 1845, having dis; young men, brothers, the otuera New Eng! jonpareil edition of here’s a piece of t, written in 1928, IT have an album in Ma. igor a —verses al a sleeping infs Teas as name of Serena Conror. my house with a piece of poetry in it about an infant two ughter, not loud, nor general, as it would y of the Court, and very justiy. his hand.)—Hand me the book. It is the only sort of family record, or register, I can find. Mr. Bravury.—Miss Connor—When your mother told at about her getting married, did it not mak on on your mind ? Miss Conson.—it did not. Ma. Baaviey.—Did not make an impression on your mind? Gualifed than Mr. ‘aa my duty to say what I ‘man, or of a hundr thas to illustrate my argu- ment. lemen will do me the justice to say never sssail @ witness without bese is innocent, no one will she escapes unscathed; but if she fi justice must be. done. ice more than | will if » though angels » I have not thought to en- contrary to the dignit: It is not a place of mirth Mr. Brent, (extendi that it was o per- ‘nhe Count was understood to the letter need not be produced. Mr. Bradley, howe’ [it had alreaay been re ‘The address was ©. P. “| wish to eee you on the business about which versed,” and signed “ Missouri Avenue.” Arnot April 14, 1946, as fol you would call ere this to see me phall be glad if you call to dj handwritung was proved by M: decide that the body of boom the letter '¥ On @ preivous occa: Ness, to the effect: State. Col. Medary, which he had pi of the concern to two one of them a citizen cf Ohio, and ae. = is = to have lized an ample fortune while filling, for it years, a ‘3 bat whilst ie estoubeecly uma from the State for valua- Lam inclined to believe that his. d, as the cost of car he sharing no ex per a most useful organ for the money matters he has, liberal toa fault. Be Miss Connon.—No, Sir. MORK TESTIMONY ABOUT HAND-WRITING. Mcintins was the first book-keeper of the Bank of it there in 1824, and was there ten ears; General Van Ness was the first president ef the thought General Van Ness wrote all the let- ters exhibited to him ; there is a uniformity in the hand- that could not be mistaken ; the “Wallace” re- the child was his. the re-examination of the witnesses for ld probably terminate to-morrow, fp an Was called as a witness, but it was trom sickness gument, and calculated to forestall urgoment belore the jury, me to say that the jury hay idence, whether the marriag clergymen or by aneiderman The was merely directory—a cle! the place of 8 true that he rece; tomorrow.” The reasoi profits have been much exaggs prepared te ve Pale. rying on the Statesman was gri 0 delphia at the time you before stuted. x My sister's daughter (Serena) was },she was not at home. jnapiey.—Did you not say y were no persons bat yourself and Dr. house when you spoke about the marriage? (Read- 108 foun his notes, MRS forum did not say there was no one sbout | 8 Were present. | My niece came in altyrwards. There were in the house, statute was to protect » aflected the marriag: rs, wards, spproptices, and minors. parties were married without tw witnesses, but this did not invalidate the marris in @ marriege, like. this, where there were ties, sojourners, there was no statute law. The law was stisca, e vi might be viola! was not designed that find, from the circt marriage, ; the law presumes there was @ marrisge ; he: the reputation ef being imeaeoee bet te that as it may, having presided over democratic presses for some seventeen years, and served the party with zeal and fidelity, he had on undoubted right to rest from his tion was such as to warrant the belief ‘was secured for many years, The new paper met with great difficulties at the ver their undertaking, and were soon conv 1e , that there | hour aiter the The Rev. H. Siicen ascertained he is till house. Mr. Baapuey made the required witnesses. E: marrisge yt ‘ers. they were to win and wear anything, it would be, not a | out of the wa! lature passed a tax law | wreath of laurel, but rather a crown of thorns. It was | Which was unequal in its operations, and ir ne soen after they entered into the posses. | to favor bankers and holders of State stocks, at the ex- | sion of their “new purchase,” to incur the enmit pense of our great egricultural interest, the pride and Judge Tappan, a gentleman of whom it may be said, as Flory of the State, and also the source of ite wealth — old Fuller saysof the Jesuits, that he promptly pays | This law certainly did injure the whigs, but not to the his debts of ill will. He cortainly did his best to ruin | ¢xtent that the hard money jured the democrats. them, and undoubtedly made their position suffieently | Then came the question of repealing the black laws, in disagreeable. Every error caused by ignorance of thele- favor of which Mr. Bebb, the whig candidate fer Gover- cal politics of the State, was quoted as evidence of their | er, took open ground. These laws are indefensible in intention to make over the influence of the Statesman to | the abstract, but their continuauee is demanded by large ives, or softs, the men whe were oppoked | Portions of both parties, on the ground that their repeal bold stand” in favor of destroying the banks, Weuld Ipad to Ohio being flooded by « black pauper pop- ey played into the bands of their ulati cpoaisting of runaway saves from Kentucky of associating with themselves some | ia, andalso, because the peopling of our State Ohioan, “native here and to the manor born,” they es- | ly, shiftless, sayed to conduct the paper with ich assistance, and necessarily fought at great di we ; for though | Various kinds of labor sufficiently industrious, and desirous if not apt to learn, | ponents of rep f they had to learn by experience each succeeding day;a | ‘8, is prompted by any thing but # philanthropis most tedious course under any circ hat’it comes from ‘men who are deeply interested absolutely destructive tothem. They w ngthe rates of wages. How well grounded tion of men who, for the first time, walk thro re, Lcannot undertake to say; but think into which no ray of lightJenters, who are under the ne- ig lost votes by censity of feeling every inch of their way, and who, ‘od.did not groping along, are set upon by active and d womles, perfectly familier with the place: snd er f in pursuit of their end. Mot ing as he does ina qu js supposed to efeconomy undoubtedly actuated them in pursuing be not unpopular, probably democrats in southern Ohio, ill advised a course, but I am of opinion that they must | Considered him as standing on the same platform with have saved ut the expense ofa dollar each. Mr. Bebb; while in the northern counties, he rather in- Not to go into mere details on this branch of my aub- | Jured his chances of an election by coming out age ag «4 Jeot—whleh, after all, relate mainly to personal matters | Hon to repeal, a fow days belore the termination of the of ne further interest tothe public, than as the position | C&#V8ss. But neither tax law nor the repeal of the black of the individuals alluded to was one of importance to a | laws, nor both combined, did the whige so much harm as great party; connected as it was with the macLinery of | the project of adopting the constitutienal currency im- that party—I will say, in brief, that the successors of Col, | jUred the democruts, not because that preject is so bad Meda re accused of aiming at the nomination of | mthe abstract, us because of in favor of a paper currency, and of several other “high crimes and misdemeanors,” or what were held to be such by a number of very worthy, but not very discriminating people, as ulmost every now charge brought against them had the effect of killing off some one or more that had been previously made. At length the friends of Mr. Tappan thought people were not prepared monetary concerns of the parent when the votes of re analized. The democrats lost tes in the counties of Fairfield, Butler, Wayne, i as would have electe: id in all these counties the hard money doc- trine was unpopular with a respectavle portion of the arty, and they are all strong democratic counties.— Even Hamilton did not do much better for Tod last month, than she did in ‘44, when he was committed in favor of banks; yet Hamilten is regarded as the hard mot county, rae se ae pass resolutions denouncin; character of the Log! ae that the democracy would have ot owship with th. ‘J what might have béen done, had supporters. They were enabled to accomplish their prevailed. The Senate is tied, and partly by the use of fair means, and by the the Hoase baat redueed. feats tliat no honest man can call fair. Obie hes suifer. | elocted by the whigs by. vecy sual Slee eT RateS ed much from bank failures, many of which'have buen of | hada few votes beenchanged, or even withheld from a character to the last degree infamous. In consequence | Wg candidates, to have changed the political com- of this, there has grown up a hostility to paper money in | Plexion of the House. It is very evident that few mea- this Mate, e, partical ly ete democrats 3 and for many ome of astrict party character can be carried next whe ears it in @ great object with the jority of the , i smocratie party, te #0 reform the tenting soe an to The loss of several members of Congrese by the demo- Prevent a few bad men from fleecing the people. These | Tats, is entirely owing to the want of pluck om their men may be called the Girondists of the Ohio democracy, | part. When the haf Behm tera ag 4 yrle-m § as they possess, in no small degree, or rather their lead. | the democracy, carried the Legislature in 1644, they re- orsdo, the same traits of character that distinguished the | districted the State. For some time, it wate faverite leading men of the Gironde Party in the great French ga with many democrats to elect im the old district, en- convention—having much intellectual culture end taste, | tirely disregarding the law, passed by the whig Legisle- end sincerely desirous of the public welfare, but averse | ture; and had the State convention recommended that to thove violent attempts at reform which defeat ham. | COUrte, 1 have no doubt that the party Would have ops a selves. So long as this section of the party, headed by | @d it. But the convention did no’ of the kind; Gov. Shannon and Gen. Hamer, had the control of aftairs, ia, the democracy, under the banner of bank reform, main: of whigs. So tained its ascendancy, though it could not bear up against the tornado of '40 Had ite wise councils and discreet action been adhered to, democracy would have by th: time been permanently inthe ascendant in Ohio, and as. ood a bapking system established here us the wit of n could desire. Bat, from various oa . there hed | | Farties | cpt r futese be rowing up in irty acl men whom | will | ® jafe prediction as to our ful ga gh Br gered Radice 5 fl i efi the whiga carried both branches of the d-and bloody-benes | Legislature,andwere they te act with ordinary discretion ly connected with it; but simply ae | Modifping thoir tax law so as to make it bear w th equal expressive of the decision, energy, and determined, will | weignt upon all classos—a real property tax, end some- of our radicals. None can deny to them the virtues of | What altering their banking system—I think they would honesty of purpose, and a general logical precision of | Lave v tolerable chance of maintaining their exeendency. ideas. “The great error is to be found in their supposing | |t is thought by many, in whose abitity to form w sound that the ware of years can be accomplished at or.ce; ond | judgment en thesubject Iuave much confidence, that were they to prove victorious, it would be but the fore | What they have most to fear, is the nomination of some runner of their 5) ay and perpetual defeat, and the com. | popular western man forthe next Presidency by the dem- meeacement of fis sihon perpetual ascendancy of the | ocrats. The popularity of such aman would much aid opposie school ef politicians—the ultra whigs. They | Our democrats in the local elections, and render the re- seek the same ends, though by different means, that are | elections of Mr. Allen to the Senate almost a matter of desired by the more moderate men of the party. You | certainty But there is one element which enters into 7 utmost importance, and baler a ince are not likely to think mach of; I allude x are so nearly divided here, that it is hardl - ena autel fe leaders can ji bt We are ssddied with obligetions to are jount of $20,000,000, much of which was by legislative enactments. ves, they did | borrowed bly low rates and at heavy imterest. not distrust those who took a forward part in the radical | You can form uo idea of the weight of the taxes under movement, though many of these lstter had, in some | Which we are suffering, and which galls us the more be- way or other, besn coanected with banks all their lives | Cause the wholo of this immense ise: Thus, while the better pertion of th taxation. To keep the credit of e up here on the 8th of January ing men are willing to submit to muc! laudable intentions, some of their ‘leaders had other ob- | ly afreid that what Lord Castlereigh was jects in view. Their ends were—1st, To compe! achange | “ignorant im; e of peggy will at lest dels in the editorship of the Statesm they aaau much for those who seem to think that a new command: that paper would not support yard “ise 2d, To | ment bas beer namely, that you shall pay in cause the defeat of the party at the fall election, 60 ‘that terest on your public debts, and which they appear to General Cass might not be backed up in the next demo. | hold of more isportance than the entire old decelogve, cratic national convention by a great Western in | Already have propositions been made, through some of - whieh democracy should hold sway, w wv, | Our most respectable public prints—in all iastanc how. Wright, they firmly believed, would be supported in that | ¢v@r, that bavexcome under my tion, in the m body by the victorious democracy of York, and his | Of communications, and not edit ly— to give UP, 4 nomination thus be rendered certain ; aud, diy, to kill | Public worke tethe public creditors, whe shall coe ef Col. Tod, who was, unquestionably, at thut time, the | erty to mekogee most of them. 1 have aiso heard most popular democrat in Ohio. They did not succ same proposit boldly entertained in conversation the extent they expected. The cenvention me men of property, and respectable for their social every man knew that a majority of the regularly chosen | ing and general jntelligeyce. Wero anything of the LT delegates were opposed to the hard money issue. Hence | to de done, millions would be lost to our creditors, af it became necessary to ci by fraud and force what | 07¢ pretends that the werks are worth the amount of our could not be obtained by a fair procedure. ‘The conven- | indebtedness, teo much having been wasted, in various tion was open to all who chose to take part in its pro | Ways, to allow any well informed man to entertain Jo 4 ceedings. The whole population of Columbus might | 90 Opinion for a moment. Suppose the thing done, “4 ha present, had they chosen to do so, and many peter cares ce pes (opener gre not Wi _ did attend and assist the radicals. It was told at po peetel sete as & capital joke, that a whig member of the | #1 rave most disinterestedly abou: ren ieepeseaue in the convention, al- | Obligations which its frequenters hal iy 5 porting the icals, well knowing that | When, by so doing, they can put an additional penny in the way to st his own party. The tad ede However, we hope SS ake, men were completely “ over-crowed,” di ghee re —_ filling up and lost all confidence in their cause and in each by dit srg 8 i bee, en among other, as they had acted without concert, and knew 1S pesestve Oe oe eens wont not whom to trust ‘The proceedings of the Con- hundred miles of railroads ould ention were agreeably diversified by a few acts of vio- and if eastern capitalists ence, in t Sra af personal scant, the intliction of help us to Soca so desirable an end, id the advancing of tho interests of tai- | they weuld benefit themselves one i But that cannet be counted upon: ing Jik. Satan bias rang ed ring etter had beon mere pre | tainty, and when you foel. inclined, for your own perly conducted, and for t) 'y common con- | ®musement or the edification of your readers, to calcu- sent, Col. Tod had been rej democratic can | lets political chances in Ohio, don't foruetie, thiniot eur didate for Governor,and so fir the nomination was com State abt, any action on yeh, or Se, halon 4 parties, cerned, the action of the Convention was looked upon | ## of the last consequence, and m retin as a mere formality. Some spasmodic attempts were | |, Having alluded to the next Prendency, | will improve made to bring forward other candidates tor the nomina- | this occasion to corpagan impression which appears to tion, but they proved signal failur o radical presses | have fastened itself Myon the min x some of! he'ou everywhere going for the Colonel with a marked oem wwhiga, and.whieh it vehocnes tes oe eee and unanimity. Now it did so happen, that this gentle. | They seem to think ~_ our whigs ay eager ~ fre] man, when on his way home from the copper regions on | nomination of Judge MeLean tor the Presidency. an Lake Superior, where he had been on governmental bu- | that they are specially anxious to see him in the “4 i topped at Cleveland, and immediately after his | House. This is a great mistake. bik Led ns areomnn) ng, an article appeared in the Plain Dealer, then | Simire the Judge, and regard him as a Ho orgs the only democratic press in that city, in which it was | great talent and worth, is true; it is also true, that e - fn ‘ x eis announced in manner too pointed to allow any one to | few ef our whigs would be gratified at witpessin, suppose that the editor did ‘not speak without ample au- | clevation to the chief magistracy of the Union—but it is ity, that he (Col. Tod) weuld not it his name | Not true that he is the first choice of the bulk of the per- bs pe in te coutoy Cait, if the democratic party | ty here, who would much prefer some other man. A did not harmonize. Every iutelligent man in Ohio kuew | objection made to him is, that ke would not be likely, i what this meant, asthe Plain Dealer was well known to | elected, to make those necessary removals from , be opposed to the “ hard” doetrine, and as Col. Tod, | Which have been in vogue for the last seventeen pee 5 when a candidate for Governor in 1844, had written | #o4 this is no shght matter, I can assure ~ The | what was very generally held to bea soft” letter on | Whigs of Ohio—she genuine blue blood bhoye- woul "9 Whether the confidence of the pees Henry € lay to any other man. He would wor! e unciation, | besom of “reform” with an energy coming somewhat w cet em ean | ae reece aeeean a ae ial go when: lows our workil a er icperenre St wees thet perthe of the blessed opinion of Themistocles, who once sd nor “softs” were prepared to bring forward any other | “The gods forbid that 1 should achieve victories at candidate when the convention met. On the organiza- | Prove no moro, beneficial to my friends. t tion of that body, and the election of Col. Medary to the | ™Y enemies. yh SR Ma ee residency thereof, that gentleman, who had ‘arrived | of permitting Mr. Polk’s disci ee : neve good Boren day or two before from Washington, where Col. | things under a whig adenine ere 1 Cy ‘Tod then was, produced a letter from the latter, in which | success and defeat were alike. n defeate: they = he took very hard ground indeed—proving himself to be | Tight ready to sit down to oe aan rd of the “hards.” What influences had been brought | Barmecide’s feast, but when succe: |, they w: ve bear upon his mind to effect so great a change—what | none of such airy food, a that the second the nature of the inspiration that had throw: be played, and with sumptuous fare too. To dow powerful a light upona mind that confessed itself, justice, they submit with fortitude to reverses, and march the very act of writing so singular « lett een | to the guillotine, if not with alacrity, at least with resig- previously in a state of midoight darkness on t nation; but the Lord help the men who recommends to Tency question—or whether, like Cranmer, he wasdesi- | them Christian-like forbearance and a meek Sausivensee rous to atone for the greatness of his error, by the mag | of injuries in their hour of triumph. | could mention nitude of his sacrifice—are points respecting which littie | other causes why the nomination of Judge McLean is can be known, and about which it would ve profitless to | not #0 generally received here +8 many at the East sup- speculate. His letter was heard with acclamations by | pose; but | have said quite enough te convince those of the radicals, and with dismay by their opponents. He | their error who know of what materials our purtios are was nominated, and resolutions were adopted by the | Composed. I will make no prophecy, but J will expresa Convention, in which the hard issue was distinctly made, | the opinion, that if the vote of Ohio inthe ig Ni i though an occurrence towards the close of tne si Convention is wanted to bring about the nomination of showed that the Convention either knew not what it Mr. Clay, that great man and his friends need have Lit about, or was frightened at the antics of the political ing obatinately withbeld from bim, Frankenstein, which had resulted {rom its labors. Mr. lary resumed possession of the "Starcéman Correy, one of the delegates from Cincinnati some doys since, in consequence of the failure . — man of great talent, and an uncompre' proprietor to fulfil the te: of purchase, as * |. fered a resolution declaring that the The Colonel has issued a stirring address to our demo- be collected in gold and silver. Strange . | eracy, who will doubtless reapond to Lot tet — this resolution was not adopted, though it lowed with writer, as he is one ¢ pine & singular propriety from those on the currency which It was with much reluctance, however, the Convention had adopted, and was 8 logical necessity | took possession again of hie oi post therefrom, if they had any vitality, and were not a mere | Our Legirlature will meet on the mber. sham. Having voted the yr and the minor of a exciting session is wnticipa in oie St nd pe logism, the delegates we: culiar state of , parties in 1 . ee A Very fow re conclusion. I mention t circumstance because it | members have been oes) . oa new be Sere ae shows how entirely unprepared the Convention was | difficult to carry on the puone Nisiiees, | mon ots Miertion, abGut which ‘the arty had hee ened | Olde Sonstor from Faitfeld and Pickaway. He is one of ftestion, about which the party had been quarrelling | (10, Sewho, have had. 0 large legislstive experiance, Well, the issue having been made, the Statesman | abd will probably be ot cain promptly gave in its adhesion, in accordance with the | presidency of the Senate, Ne ron ae atone repeated declarations ofits editor previous to the meeting | of both branches, ray ge ag et of the Convention, that such would be itecourse A! eeaeath sate hay yo + gestusune peg ny fairly supported the MersyapPeared to be satisfied, and re heen a legislative officer, and familiarized himvelf fthe Wasne County | With the Course of proceedings in public bodies, upon a vompinted change | Proper knowledge of which so much depends ina man’s ‘The plan of injuring | career in public life. Whew the, legislature shall, have ot fairly under wi tal, an thet wee beved | fi % dit whatever may be of copse- ~ also give some account of the e (now Ashland) Standard 80 og iy a not effecte: mn. Cass was eqnally unsuces upon the re election of Gov. Wright fa New ‘York, which | ange sn tp sot ata is Now more whig in its character i Whewer Colonel ‘Fol he teen ined af, rain ty fein, vow, So of one wing pari nop bing be seen. His popularity has been rudely shaken, but he ~ Allow toe to add nother paregraph L- be | rise superior to the storm. * hen the hard money banner was first thrown to the | pT breeze, the opinion was expressed by all democrats, | friends as well as foes, that they should be defeated by at least 10,000 majority—the former adding, however, that their ultimate triumph would be great, a philoso- | 4c, phical view of the subject, in which the softe did not quite concur. Butin the course of the contest, | wi to there entored into it elements which caused the whole | baht tron work, with tmnt body of the democracy to entertain the belief that suc. | ~~ SLAW, BUAKUS- yald in ail probability crown their exertions; and . Boards, ality, just, ve Grenis proved iat their apeculatjons were uot very fer / Tee’ WN PRIOR Be pita ty ‘ tio he