The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1850, Page 3

PY ada further avers that he is ed and that after a te: ence at the house of Mr. Godwin, Mrs. Forrest spent one month or more at the house of Mr, N. P. Willis, eavith whom this deponeat chirgea her with incon- ‘tinence ; and that she afterwards took up her par- Rape peoldence vot ot Voorhees, 4 ig ed w earn protested against, as moralizing and discreditable. 0? And he says that, fom the time Mrs, Forrest and 20 wit, on the 28th day of April, 1549, fanarty dg neh the = of $1,500 sare anaum support, has a ctu: paid to- —. and in advance; That ig 8 su Was sufficient, as he avers—that it was more than sufficient; and that she had never him for a larger allowance, prior to the pro- cathe nen ey standing Mrs. F. je avers that, notwithstandi rs. Forrest, on the eve of tke coaversatioa in relation to licentious Teceived by her from the said lamieson, solemnly declared that she had never Written to him; the said Jamieson averred, in the affidavit before mentioned, that she had answered thet letter, which is alse averred by N. P. Willis; ‘and that Mrs. Forrest received the visits and atten- tions of said Jamieson after the reception of that — when its existeace was unknown to her And he avers that he is informed and believes, that Mrs. Forrest admitied to Mr. James Lawson, (whose testimony is hereunto annexed,) that she ‘was in the wrong in her difference with the de- boon 3 and that the difficulty ia the case was, third party knew it. And he avers that, learning that the cause of their separation was by Mrs. Forrest made the sub- ject of misrepresentations most injurious to the cha- of the deponent, he, as a good citizen and an ns found himself compelled either to the ture of the good opinion of those ‘whose esteem was valuable, and of the character met Lx many years of earnest and honest effort, community, or to vindicate him- elf before the tribunals of his country. That im- ly upon his separation, he resumed his ori- residence in Pennsylvania, though without, & el an: inteation of ory divorce. mts at na he says that the stetement made by Mrs. ‘orrest, relative to his petition for a divorce, to the Focreeh rol of Pennsylvania, is utterly untrue. ‘That he avers that the suid petition was ne Jected by the popular branch of the said ja- ture; and that it was but once only, by a majority of three, rej the Senate; and it was only lost, because no opportunity waa afforded to for ite reconsideration. The defeat of the divorce bill in the Senate was usly efiected ~ the influence it by John H. Walker, of Erie, H. Jones Brook, of Delaware, both of whom lent personal and political enemies of this @eponent. And he avers that, ia the discussion of aeons ie said dee ne that he was correspondence with N. P. Wiilis, a paramour of the germ perttag and thet he was i swerably charged wit: ing the attorney, rather vdiacbarging the dignified and ustainesd daties station; while the Senator from Delaware as thie deponeat can prove, to the bitterness of his hostility, a detected and undenied falsehood. And he further avers that, pending the said ap- plication, Mrs. Forrest made directly, and by her @cknowle dged agents, propositions for an amicable arrangement for a divorce. She had before volun- tarily offered, as appears by her said letter to the it, “to go out of the State with him te ob- a airy age said that at any future time her e to promis: t effect would hold good.” She dap Te- ry and agreed to make no opposition to his jicetion before the Legislature of Penn- Ivania, though it alleged her incontinence; but ehe afterwai under counsel, objected to that allegation And, at a later period, as this deponent is pre- to prove, she made, through Henry Wi ragent for that purpose, a written proposition t @he should leave the country, reaouace his nane, permit him to obtain a divorie, on the ground of meat, and leave her aliowance to his generosity. Had this deponent been actuated by a mere desire to dissolve his mnetrimonia! connection his said wife, this proposition would have Deen accepted; but it was ovde through an indi- vidual believed to be involved ia her guilt, and its acceptance would have lefi this deponent open to the charge of having mate sgainst a woman, and that women his wife, a wrougful accusation. [t ‘wes therefore declined, and this deponent posi- tively refased to see Mr. Wikolf And this deponent further avers that evidence of other, avd equally criminal acts, on the part of Mrs. Forrest, of which be had been previously wholly unsuspicious, has reached him; that when the was at home, his house was usually closed, and the femily retired at ten or eleven o'clock, that his household was conducted with the strictest regart to decorum and propriety; but that, when he ‘was absent, as be is infor: and believes, bi house was made, by Mrs. revelry and intemperance fer herself and her com- panions, and those of Mrs. Voorhees (many of which guests he hai never, to his knowl seen or known) until late hours, and even through- out the night, unti! the next morning. That, not withetandwg this deponent had forbidden Mrs. ‘Voothees to enter his ioove, on all oceasions, as soon as he left the city, on professional business or otherwise, Mra. Voorhees came, with child, and nusse, and hesband, frequently, and made depo- nent’s house her home. That, turieg Mrs. Voor- ees’ recidence aloressid, Mrs. Forrest made par- ties, for the avowed purpose of endeavoring to bring seid Mre. Voorhees into society, and to change the current of feeling w set against het, in consequence of her bad character. And all of thie was unknown to this deponent until ‘ wrest, A scene of after the 28:h day of April, 1549. And he avers that at these entertainments the uests occupied different rooms, the companions of rs. F. Voorhees being gBeporetes That the housekeeper, vod, upon one occasion heard (## deponent is iaformed and believes, and As appears by her testimony, presented before the Legislature of Peunsylvania), at 4, A M, a great notee, and saw Captria Caleraft bringing up a tray ‘with bottles and glaeses; ond that Mrs. Forrest owas with him in the tibrary, ood eid aot go to bed ahet night. That Robert Garvin saw Mrs. Forrest and the eaid Caleraft diac together, in the absence of Mr. Forrest. Thet Mr. Forrest was intoxi- cated, and that the din ng }oom door was locked; ‘but he, the said Garvin, Smering unexpectedly the apertment by the pantry door, found Mrs. Forrest, half lying, balf sitting, in Captain Caleraft’s lap, with her ‘arms on his breast, and round his neck. And he further avers thet the said Mra Under- ‘wood end the said Robert Garvin, as he is inform- ed and believes, in or about the month of Decem- ‘er, 1848, and in the absence of Mr. Forrest, knew one gph ened to be ae en = aa 0. in Twenty-second street, for three s aod oan y emonstrated nights; that Mrs. Underw rr with rs. Forrest, and d who was thus ted; and that she exclaimed, “Good God, who anys sot” To which Mrs Underwood replied ail the servants knew it. That during the of Jast mentioned conversation, the said Richard Wine Mrs. N. P. Willis, Mrs. Forrest, aad Mrs. ‘oorhees, Ii night, and were seen by her in a mmorniog | ta the hate ted dresses of the night bts ‘Asa he further avers, that he is informed and believes, that in the summer of the year 1847, and the absence of this deponent, a Mr. Samuel remained during the night in . Forrest; that the servants were that Mrs. Forrest the next morn ‘that he had stayed all night; that the she , oceupied was andis- that, it any body had slept there it been on the outside. Al of which will ly appear by reference to the said teati- i i i 3 s s : i ba i : i ! > a= : avers that, as he is informed and and privacy of the visite N. P. Willis to Mrs. Forrest, in t, attracted the attention and ar of the domestics in his house. «P Wiltis is a man o oriously profligate character,and has publicly bea moral man, he is so from nt and pot from principle; and that he according to his published stitements, oc- see Mrs. Forrest sod enjoy her company heence of her husbind hat, as this de- informed and believes, pon one orev year 1848, Mrs lorrest went to Mea. . the housekeeper, end expressed great “get him ont of the house without the seeing him,” which wee «feted upon another occasion P. Willis, in the of the deponen’, tivited Mra Forrest, (as the evidence of the seid Mra. Und ‘and as deponent believes te be true.) and she returned from the room her cheeks were , ond her hair disordered, and she, t aid Underwood, believes that he had been taking i i i 3 ft itt z 7 i cuit 37 & = = i i i i it liberties with her, be avers that, as he is informed and believes, the eaid Robert Ger ene ht, in the abenee the depovent, saw Mre. | at broag vt hone Mr ike. in a eorricw he y+ wg sping ond chippted ote ec low or hall, SAG vise ‘he xa Wikol hike Mrs Por gest. Anthe eos that Mr Aadrew Stev'os, ‘a we ane Fee month of Decem- or Sih Mie Forrest, she Mn relation to Mr. Henry Wikoff, that he had made dishonora~ ble proposals to her; that she had induced him to falling Aad. unghing ia Bin: Fortest's bed: roow; ja in Mrs, Forrest's Too.u; and that the ar Mrs. Underwood has, scp2tation, seen Professor Hackley go into the bed. room of 5.72 Forget, end stay thera, laughing and talking, fora long time; and tuat Mr, Stevens at the house of Mrs. Forrest upon one o¢éasioi, when the said Hackley was let out clandestinely, by the basement js And this deponenit is further informed, and be- lieves, that the said Mrs. Forrest has frequeatly left her house, in the deponent’s absence, during the evening, in disguiee, aad returned, letting her- If in, without knocking, or ringing the door-bell, ght key; and that during such absence visited houses of ill-fame in the city of New York. And this deponent avers that he has in his pos- session a deporition, through which he is informed, and believes, and has no doubt he shall be able to prove, that the said Mrs. Forrest was seen un- dressed, coourying the same bed with one of the once nai in_ this epee jibel in the said urt of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, and who is therein charged with an adulterous connection with the said Mrs. Forrest. And he avers that,the statements made in the affi- davit of the said Mrs. Forrest before this honorable ourt, are generally, so untruthful, that he is con- strained to believe that they were unscrupulously pened for her, and submitted to, and signed by when she was under an influeace that over- ruled her reason and a consciousaess of the truth. And he avers, the affidavit of the said Catharine Forrest to the contrary notwithstanding, that from the eighteenth day of January—the day of the dis- covery of the letter of Jamieson—he has not co- habited with her; that andrew Stevens states, in his Tagg red to the Legislature of Penn- sylvania, which deponent believes true, that in the summer of 1849 the said Mrs. Forrest told him that Mr. Forrest had never had any intercourse with her, as man and wife, from the time that they quarrelled, in 1849; and the Rev E. states, as will be seen in his said testimony, that in the month of December, 1849, she told him that for several months previous to their nae beer and her husband had known each other only as prtipat ths deponent furth that his origi :@ deponent further avers, that I= was in the city of Philadelphia; that he purchased a house in said city more than twenty years since, ia which he resided, with his mother and sisters, until the year 1837, when, after his mi , he removed to New York; that after his separation from Mrs. Forrest he resumed his scigienl Tesidence, to wit: on or about the first week in June, 1849; that he did eo without reference to any difference with his wife, but because circum- stances rendered it his natural home, and because he had ne other; that he has repeatedly visited his estate in Westchester, to superintend its improve- ments; but although he has frequently slept ina cottage on the premises, he has never for a stogie night slept in mansion at Font Hill; and says that he has been for briet periods in New York, but that his residence has been, from the date aforesaid, in the city of Philadelphia; and that he isa resident of that city, and a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania. _ And in reference to the allegation in said plain- tiff's affidavit, that his petition to the Legislature of Pennsylvania eet forth that he had resided in the city of New York from 1837 till on or about the first se of December, 1849, when he resumed his residence in the city uf Philadel- phia, this deponent states that if any such statement was made in said petition, it must have occurred from the error of the copyist; that the original of said ee. pogetber with the remon- strance of Mrs. Forrest and the affidavits and papers accompanying the same, were transmitted to this deponent, as he believes, from Harr'sburg; but he has, on diligent search, been unable to find said petition, and he presumes he must have destroyed the same, together with such other papers as he deemed no longer of use or importance, though he does not recollect the destruction of tition. This deponent avers the facts in re; to his re of residence to be, as he has hereinbefore stated. And that ifthe eaid mortgage executed by him, referred to in said affidavit ra. Forrest, de- scribed this deponent of the city of New York ;” it was a misdescription, and made by the drafts man or copyist of said mortgage, without the atten- tion of this deponent being had or called thereto. And he saye that although a separation, by mu- tual agreement, took place between this deponent and his wife, he never abandoned her, but that, on the contrary, he has furnished her amply with the means of support ; that the mye aod vided for her by this deponent, was admit by Mrs. Forrest to be sufficient ; and that in this re- gard, and in all his relations with his said wife, even after his conviction of her guilt, his conduct has been generous and kindly. And he avers that the allegation of Mrs. Forrest, that the deponent * has generally in his compan some person, or persons, of loose and irregular li and menners in his employ, and devoted to his ser- vice,” is wholly without foundation in truth. It is known to all who are acquainted with him, that his associations have been elevated and irreproach- able; and he has employed no one, and has had no occasion to do 80, in this behalf, except his te- counsel ; and that the deponent would bl e could entertain, at any time, the companior of such degraded, depraved, and infamouscreatures are now the chosen associates and friends of the said Mrs. Forrest. And he says that he has never, onany occasion whatever, given Mrs. Forrest cause to have ‘‘great and just apprehensions on her part, that he would suddenly assail her, and commit some great rote injury upon her;”’ that there has been, at no pericd, in his language or his life, 2 word or action, which could give color or probability to such aa imputa- tion ; but that, onthe contrary, his language and conduct, in relation to the plaintifl, have been as respectful and kind e# they could be, consistently with the accusation which he is constrained to pre _ yey me it is untrue that he hi ‘ime, prowled in a stealthy and bout the house of Mrs. Forrest, in Sixteenth street, but that on one occasion, to wit, on the 15th day of June, 1850, he did visit the neighborhood ot her ssid residence, with good rea- son to believe that one of those whom he accuses of adultery with his wife, aad who is believed to be the worst enemy of jomestic happine: the most unscrupulo umniator of his character, was in the house ; that about midnight the afore- said Samuel Marsdon Raymond, who is also ac- cused as a paremour of Mrs Forrest, came stealth- ily out of her snid house; und the deponent ac- costed him, and inquired why he left the residence of a lady ted from her husband, at an hour so unseasonable, and with the skulking and oe manner of athief. The said Raymond tremble and feltered forth an attempted explanation. He admitted that he had stolen secretly from the house, but for reasons which the deponent knew to be falee, and which, with expressions of proper con- demnation, he then pronounced to be false; but that the deponent, notwithstanding the great pro- vocation thereto, did not comm ny violence upon the said Raymond, but permitted him to pass un- punished, siating that he was not the person and that the law should have its course And he says that, anxious to make satisfactory ‘ovision for the comfort of Mrs. Forrest,he offered t the choice of three houses on Twenty-second street, which offer was by her declined. ‘And that the deponent never expelled Mrs. For- rest from his house; but that, as has been stated in this affidavit, she left their residence which was about to be vacated, voluntarily, and that at her instance the deponent took her ia a carriage thence to the residence of Mr. Park Godwin, where, as she had informed him, Mr. Godwin had invited her to stay, and where, it was understood between Mrs. Forrest end this deponent, that this deponent ‘was to pay her board; and there this deponent left her. And he says that the allegation that he has ever designed to carry the said Mrs. Forrest out of the State of New York, or the jurisdiction of this Court, is idle and untrue. That she states in her letter of the 29h day of December, 1849, received on the Slet day of December, that she was willing to go out of the State, to enable deponent to ob- tain a divorce, pee Pt oy future time her pro- mise to that effect would hold good; and also that she hes, in her affidavit, alleged that this depo- nent “hath never taken any measures to remove her out of the State of New York, or commanded, desired, or requested, her to remove or go out of the same.”’ ‘And he farther avers, that the statement of Mre Forrest that this deponent did not and does not believe her to have Teen unfaithful to the m irriage vow, is consciously untrue; that the diflerence be- tween them arose soleiy from that charge. That the self-vindicatory oath faieely sworn to by the said Mrs. Forrest three days after the discovery of the Consueto letter, end now in deponent’s posses tion, the letter of the feponent of the 24th day of | December, and the statements made in the # | vite of the mnt, made before the Legistature of Pennsylvania, and the Court of Common Pieas | of Philadelphia, of all which she was fully ia‘orm- ed atthe time of making gaid statemen' ire the untruthfuloess of the snid averment rs. For. wr And he avers that this deponent, if not con- vineed of her guilt, and impressed with the duty which it imposed upon him, might have ed the divorce which, according to her own affidavit, she profiered to him; and that his whole course have actuated by no motive save thet which arose & Consciousness of right, and a sense of imperative, thovg) painful duty. ‘That this de- always been in hia relations with the affectionate aud » and that nothing a.conviction of her in! cou'd have in- duced a desire on his part fera divorce. That he dere patiently, and for a longtime, with her extra- ve her habits of intoxication, and her illicit with persons believed by thie deponent to be utterly unworthy, and weuld e continued i bear with it; that her offer of a divorce ler gn arrangement between the parties would ve been accepted if this deponent had noi re- garded it as unjust and dishonorable. And he says that the said Catherine Forrest de- claree, under oath, that she had determined not to arpearto the libel of divorce iq the Court of Com- vy) oP 80 uni ba hiladelphia, and will wholly and lecline, refuse, and omit, to appear to the seme} and, yet he avers that, in her affidavit before the Legislature of Pennsylvania, she said, “‘whenever summoned | am ready to appear ia a Court of Justice, and there to vindicate my perfect innocence.” She now declines to assert fer in- mocence before the very tribunal to which she then appealed, and to which, at her own instance, she hes been summ: by this deponent. And he says that, as a resident and a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania, he is entitled to the re- medies afforded by her laws aud Courts; and the prayer of the said Mrs. Forrest, that he shull be restrained prosecuting his action for divorce before the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, cannot be granted without a signal violation of his rights as a citizen of the United and an un- justifiable interference with the tribunals of his na- tive State, of which heis a resident and a citizen. And this deponent avers that Mrs. Forrest says, in her letter to the it, of the date of Decem- ber 24th, 1849, that the cause of separation was knewn only to the parties; and yet that to Mr. Lawson she said, as appears by his affidavit here- to annexed, that the cause was known toa third party. And he says that he has never used any indirect or improper means to urge or strengthen his said application tor divorce, nor to sustain himself in any $f tha proneeds arising from it; that he chal- lenges evidence that he ever has been, or is liable, to any charge or suspicion of indirection or disho- predbodin Lt by #4 of his life; and that the accusations which, in this regard, have been made by Mrs. Forrest, Mr. Willis, and others, are utter- ly selma, and wholly without in truth. And he says that the said Mrs. Forrest alleges an apprehension that this deponent will sell, con- vey, or part with, his real estate, to defeat or ren- der unavailing any decree of this cor to the contrary whereof, she knows that this deponent has never sold any of his real estate, and that the seid averment is utterly untrue, and unsus- tained by any fact or probability. And avers that the statement made by Mrs. Forrest, to wit, that this deponent said to Mr. Lawson that there was no erime on her part, and that he, the deponent, wished to God that there were, is untrue ; that she herself made the remark to Mr. Lawson, as by his affidavit appears; but that the deponent never uttered the language — erste to him, nor any language of a simi- r import. And he says that the affidavit of Mrs. Forrest falsely alleges that she did not consent to separate from him. Her consent is expressly recognized in her said letter to this deponent; and she stated to others, in conversation and writing, that the sepa- ration was a matter of mutual arrangement, and that the world had nothing to do with it. aes oe Oat ater the discove: bo ~ It of his wife, an agreement of the ponent to shield her from shame, he treated her, as she states, with compassionate kindness ; that shortly previous to the separation, she asked him for a copy of Shakepere, and that he told her to select any one she wished from the library; that she chose a copy of the said work, and requested the + ye to write her name ia it, as is stated in her affidavit. He had always theretofore written in the books presented to ber, “From her lover and neat dwin Lebieg 9 but nat, pepe this casion, he wrote, as 8 Thame and 1 own. A eg he also, rte prt ie andin accordance with a promise previousl le, took the plaintiff to Font Hin; and thet though after the discovery of her guilt he could not regard her as a wife, he treated her with the consideration and gentleness due to a woman. And he avers that the statement of the said Ca- tharive Forrest, in relation to his said letter of the 24th of December, 1849, is untrue. The said let- ter referred expressly to the fact of her infidelity; and if she had been innocent, or if the charge ha: been “ new and unexpected,” it would have met an immediate and indignant denial; but, on the contrary, she did not, in her answer, allude to it; and it was only when urged I Ghats, to avert the eflect of this tacit admission o! ilt, that she ad deda seygnenentety letter, denying the accusation Sr ~ Neoy et ap <r, a eleven mon! re brought upon which she had entreated con and had consent ed to a separation. And he avers that the law enacted ve Legis- lature of Pennsylvania, giving to the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, jurisdiction of his libel for divorce, was not, as stated by . For- rest, passed at his instance, or under any applica- tion made by him. A number of the members of that body doubted the propriety of passing a bill of divorce in a case which was deemed open to the action of the courts; and they manifested their sense of the justice of his claim for a divorce, by passing a law giving the court jurisdiction in his case. And he says that the allegation of Mrs. Forrest, that she wes naturalized at the instance, and b; the counsel of the deponent, is not true. That if she be so naturalized, it has been done at her own instance, or that of her legal adviser, from a desire to secure supposed legal rights in relation to the property of the deponent, and not from any wish to comply with his requests or by his counsel And he says that the said Catharine Forrest, as he is informed and believes, declared to Mrs. Ua- derwood, after this deponent had commenced pro- ceedings to obtain a divorce, that she did not care; that matters had gone so far, she was determined to brave it out. And he says that the statement of the said Mrs. Forrest, that he “intimated a desire that she should go to Europe, and also that she should go into some secluded place ot her own selection in the country, to be more completely removed and it away from him, said Edwin Forrest,” is uotrue hat such propositions were made by her and re- jected by him, for the reasons heretofore stated And he further avers that, inthe month of Feb- ruary, he did, as stated by Mrs. Forrest, see her in Sixteenth street; and he denies that “ ke violently reviled” her; but he jadmits that in the course of the conversation mentioned by her, and which took place on the street, he rebuked her for per- mitting her sister, who was a person of infamous character, to reside in the house, and for enter- taining, and giving supper parties to men of profli- grte character, such as the said Captain Calcrafte a known rove and a libertine. She answered, = at shall | do?’ and the deponent said that she ought to exclude such persons from her house —she “Teannot do that: but what shall I dot” And the deponent replied, that she could, if she would, live virtuously, and that it was better to die than not to live so. The deponent objected that pe: against whom he charged adulterous conduct and conversation, were entertained upon the money provided for her by him; and she re- plied that her sister contributed $1,500 a year to the ew of the household; and the deponent said that it constituted, with the sums paid by him, the ey ane.tnge ay = per an- num, for the support of twe females living apart from their husbands and two children; but that the means to do wrong cid not justify such asso- ciations and conduct as she indulged in. And he says that the statement “x4 Mrs. Forrest, a8 to the property of the depone: mtroe, that his persone! and real estate amount to less than 150,000, and that hie ennual income is less than ‘And be further avere, that the apprehension al- leged, that the depooent will part with his estate, real and person: New York, does not and can- pot exiet, an the statementia untrue; chat Mrs. Forrest, on the contrary, offere|, after the seperation, to unite with him in any sale or other dieposition of the real estate, which he might wish or desirable, and that the deponent declined to make any. And he avers, that the declaration made by Mra. Forrest, that enterteined great affection for himg is untrue; for, that she was guilty of the adulterous wrongs hereint: fore set forth; and that her statement, under oath, thar, “even when re- pudiated, she still loved and honored him,” is entirely inconsistent with that contained eome affidavit, tha, “from the time he fi it, if possessed of the ade- proofs, og since have instituted ee hy divorce in the courts of the State of ork. And he avers that extraordinary and wawarraat- able measures bave been teken to give peatiety cr g in thie behalf in the cours of New York; aud that false aod !)5¢llous stareme nts have been made in sueh journals, by persons aceu ed or @ interested in the © prejoolcing (he publie mind against (he and of disparaging bis cane before the note of the State; apd that the first had of Mra. Porte Lof this d through the public prin. And this depunent is informen, end believes thet said criginel complaict was vever filed, and (hat® copy reof was farnisaed | proves, undex the cireumstances, that he could to the press by the taid C Forrest. 4 And he says that the course of Mra Forrest’s life is prodig reek) thet at gives expens've entertainments to persone of loose ; and continues to enter- late and unseasonable hours of the night, he has, upon the stro: evidence, he ae ber pee poaneinsle 7) ous crimes; that ment of extravagant and unnecessary bills, focurtea by her since the separation, has been eleamed frem the deponent; and that, as he is in- formed and believes, when bills have been pre- sented to her, she has declared that she did not care, and that, whatever the amount, Mr. Forrest must pay them. That the said deponent not only demeaned him- self with uniform kindness towards Mrs Forrest, but also towards alt members of ber family; that h ter, Mrs. Voorhees, remained for many en inmate of his hou that her sister, 8 Teer ived as a member of his fimity, clothed, educated and protected at his nd that her pareats received from him lurge cums of po at! for which, as he is prepared to prove, they are st i indebted, and that they re- sided a long period in his house, ‘That this deponent has, in this affidavit, for the firs: time, spoken for himself upon this subject, other than in the formal pleadings prepared for him by counsel; that he has made these averments, as he has preferred his application for divorcee, with great pus that he forebore to expose Mra. Forrest, until her charges rendered it unavoidable, and subjected him to the necessity of submitting silently to aceusations industriously circulated at her instance and by her friends, who were the deponent’s worst enemies, that he had unmanfully and dishonorably wronged an innocent woman, and that the only choice open to him wea to assert his own rectitude in the sole manner left him, be- fore the tribunals of his country, or endure through- out the future @ weight of reproach, which he trusts his entire life proves undeserved. * Epwin Forrgsr. me, this 15th day of November, . 8. Sommers, Com’r. of Deeds. Interesting Items from California. MINING INTELLIGENCE. The damming of rivers, this season, has, in many instances, been a losing businese. After spending weeks in constructing dams and races, miners too often find that the bed of the stream is entirely destitute of gold. A letter from a young man on the er or that they have worked there for mere nine weeks, and have just made nothing. The traders, too, are severe sufferers by theee failures, as they give credit to the companies while they are working on the gern] relying upon their success for reimburse- mei nts. It is sometimes stated that the cream of mining is over—that the best of the diggings are ex- hausted. Of course we have every reason to dis- believe this. We are coat informed that there are 1,600 men at Mormon d, and that each man is making more money there now than the miners on the same spot Jast year, although they were the first comers, and there were but 300 of them. A year ago, provisi tools, &c., were very ¢: ive, and now, even if less gold is extra by each one, (which we very much doubt,) a man should make more money than then, on account of the diminished price of everything, and on account of the int tion of the long Tom and other convenient machines into the mines.—Sacramento Transcript. The San Francisco Picayune states that Mr. James H. Edmondson exhibited some of the finest cimens of quartz gold that have yet come under u ved obse: on yd aa denen exceed- ingly rich. were wu iposa mines, whieh in all Trobabuity are the most prolific in the world. The company recently discovered the vein in which the specimens to which we allude were found. They are now engaged ia crushing the rocks, which produce, on an average, one hundred dollars worth of ‘gold to every ton of tock. On the outer edge of the vein the quartz was in a decomposed state, produced by volcanic action, from which large quantities of pure gold were taken. Our informant says that as the workmen ress in the vein, the gold be- comes more plentiful. The Mariposa Mining Company have certainly struck a happy lead. ‘We met a few days since, upon one of the steam boats, on bis way to the States, a young man from Burean com Hinois. He came into the coantry lete.in the Fall of 1849, by the Lawson route. He went to mining on the Yuba river, where he has worked steas ever since, until recently. He returns with nearly $8,000 in dust, as the pro- ducts of his individual labor.— Placer Times. This day week, a small ravine at the by end of the village was prospected, and yielded la ely. Some twenty-five claims were forthwith staked off. As an evidence of its preductiveness, our infor- mapt states that on Friday last, Messrs. Daniel Bowman and Peter Bowman, took out $229; seve- ral others on the same day, took out $100 each— all the claims averaging from $40 to $75 per man. = Sworn before Tuos. There are numerous gulches in the vicinity, and this winter that whole section of country will ly examined.—Sacramento rapt, Oct. ‘We conversed lately with a gentleman from Cin- cinnati, Ohio, who has just arrived with his fami- bi he came by way of the Carson river route rom the States. He gives a most appalling ac- count of the oa anes by those who were last upon the rou'e. From the head of Humboldt river, where their sufferings first commenced, hundreds have actually died from starvation. Cat- ue, horses and mules almost literally line the road across the desert. We learn from Mr. Wilson, of this city, thatanew and very rich discovery of gold, in quartz, has been found on the Cosamoes, about sixty miles from Stockton. The vein is said to be richer than any et discovered in California. The specimens rought to this city Warrant the assertion that this is the richest discovery of gold in quarts yet found in the Sierra Nevada range.—Stockton Journal. Mr. Wm. H. Robinson, of the firm of Robinson & Uo., of this city, exhibited to us yesterday a beautiful lump of gold and quartz taken from a spot between two tents in the towa of Sonora he jump weighe 136 ounces, and contains about $1,500 worth of gold. It is a very handsome specimen in two respecte, both in appearance and value. e are informed by Mr. R. that a similar piece was taken out, a few days since, in the neighborhood of Sonora, which weighed 150 ounces.—Stocktun Journal, Oct. 12. A lump of pure gold, weighing thirteen pounds, was found on Tuesday last, October Sih, by a Mex- ican, near the town of Sonora, in the creek running between Sonora proper and the Sonorian camp — Transcript MURDERS, ACCIDENTS, ROBBERIES, ETC On Sunday, the 6th October, says the Caltfornia Pacific News, & Mr. McDowell, of Stockton, staried in a one horse wagon, to visit some friends on the opposite jside of ‘the river Tuolumne. He was accompanied by his wife, with a babe eleven months old, two daughters of Mr. Gruell, one eighteen years of nd a Spanish boy, some ten or twelve ye age. They crossed the river in safety, but afterwards the horse became unmanegeable, and Fe over the bank, with wagon and load, falling into the water, a distance of some twenty-five feet, and where the river was twenty feet deep. The oldest Miss Gruell, and the child of Mr. McDowell, were both drowned. The rest of the party escaped with little injary We are informed that a boat containing the captain of a ship in tl ‘bor, hie wife and child, and four sailors, while pleasure excursion on Sunday, October 13, was upset, and the whole party drowned, except the captain. We were un- able to learn the names, or any farther particulars, except that the survivor escaped by clinging to the bottom of the boat —E£vening Pic: A man, apparently about twenty-five or thirty years of age, dark hair, and sandy whiekers, was found dead on the Levee, on the 17th Oct. He was dressed in cottonade pants, hickory shirt, thick boots, and straw hat. In his pocket was found $700 or $800 in dust and coin. Te was nothing to indicate his name or residence. — Mr. Durpee, a contractor for moving and raising houses, was crushed to death Lith October, by the falling of a house which he was engaged in raising, in Sacramento street, near the corner of Kearny. He was raising the building by means of screws, some of which gave way, causing the death of a worthy and respectable man. We learn that the deceased had a wife and one child, in Springfield, Mars.—Alta Caltformra, Oct. V4 ‘The bodies of three miners were found close to each other not far from Nevada City. It is su posed that they were murdered for the gold in their posseesion. They had.all been shot. Miners who gh oy loving jhe nore a well arm in parties sufficiently large for (heir mu- tual protection —Sarramento ‘Transcript, Oct 12. On the night of the 27th September last, Wm. Hanna, of an elderly man, owner of a emall ranch on the Calaveras, about ten miles from Stockton, was murdered ia his bed, by some por- son unknown. The deed was committed with an on to. the deceased. An Indian in Mr, *s emp Was suspected. A miner from the Stanislaus river informs us, that an atsecious murder was committed on Satur- cay bight, Sth Oos., in the Mormon guich, = two hear men, & a and a Mexican. bog, were two Itelians, whose names we . ‘The murderers eeenped, with the object of their crma—ve less than twenty-nine pounds of A bot pet ties are in pursuit of the aod hopes were enterta'ned that they would be cavpht —Alta California On the T2h Oct, a train of pack-mules, bound { tthe Mercedes, was attacked just beyond the } Tvolpmine, @ short distance from Heer Bar, and eve Mexican killed, aud another in the foot while nekirg his eseape up a steep hill, It was <a pored that the object of the robbers was to ob- ao possession of the moles; but in this they failed. The Mexicans in charge of the train, assert that © peteore making the attempt were six white eu — Stockton Jow nal bodies near the town of one, on 2d October. The throats were cutand the been thrown over the bank. Appe: indicated that the deed had been fs while they were encamped, and it ia likely money was the object of the murderers, as nothing valuable was found on their persons. From the clothing, it is supposed that one only was an American. The faces were so disfigure nition remained.— Tim On 8th Oct., a sail-boat was capsized in borbor, by which accident two men were drowned. The boat contained four individuals, Mr. Richard Plinkét, his two brothers, and another gentleman. They were towinganother boat, which was drawn under, causing their own boat to capsize. Lieut Wm P. Richmond imme diately put off with a boat from the revenue cutter, aud suceeded in re iog Mr. Richard Plinket and a person whose name we did not sacertain. Mr. Plinkev’s two brothers were drowor d. The Marysviile Hrrald, in noticing an inquest held on the bodies of three men, who were fouad about three miles from Marysville, oa the 5:h of October, states that the skulls of ail the three were broken in, evidently with clubs, or some cther heavy instrument. From the appearance of the bodies, it is supposed the murders must have taken place about two months. since. The only papers feund on the deceased were two letters, one from James Irbell, dated Taladago, Alabama, Jan 16, 1860, to introduce Mr. John H. Terry, and three brothers of the names of John, David and Doctor Taylor: this letter is directed to Mr. George Carlton, Col. Montgomery, and Alex's Carlton. The other letter is dated Taladago county, Ala- bama, June 3, 1850, written by A. T. Dixon, and directed to Chas. Millender, Sacramento city. The Transcript is informed by a gentleman in this city, that the names of the men who were murdered are Charles and William Millen der, and O'Donnell, from Mobile, Ala. It is stated that O’Donnell has three or four thousand dollars deporited ia Sacramento. The Alta California states, that on the 5th Octo ber, a Chinaman and his companion, somewhere beyond Stockton, were attacked by robbers, while on their way down from the Calveras mines. The companion was killed, and he had his arm broken by a ball. The murderers then struck him over the head with a musket, and left him for dead— pacing robbed him and his companion of every- ig. An instance of Lynch law took place on the 6th October, at Georgetown. It seems that a man, by the ni of Divine, had taken to gambling, and as he was in the habit of losing his money, his wife hid all that came into her possession. On Sunday last, as he had “broke,” he demanded the money which she had hid. She refused to deliver it if he intended to use it in gambling, whereupen Devine threatened to kill her. As he seized his gun, she blew out the candle and fled into the next Toom; he, however, discharged it at her. The contents paesed through the door and killed her. An en d crowd, several hundred strong, assem- bled with, set Divine on a horse and rode him off to a tree. Here they made him kneel on the horse’s back, put the rope around his neck, and drove the horee off, leaving him hanging frem the branch of the tree. The Placer Times states that, as one of the firm | of Messrs. Ward & Co., was sleeping with a tin box under his head, containing two or three thou- sand dollars in gold dust, some villain cute hole | through the canvass covering of the store, and got | hold of the box with both hands, when the sleeper | awoke, and caught the rebber by the arms, but he succeeded in getting loose and making his escape. A young rentieman who has a room on Clay | street, left his room, yesterday, fora few moments to get a bucket of water from the back yard. On his return, having been absent some fifteen minutes, he found his trunk robbed of $1,600 in American gold —Alta California, Oct. 1. | We are informed, says the Alta, that a few fore | since a notorious character named Jen Marshall, | shot four men, end escaping to Carson’s Creek, | committed several outra: there. One of the men shot was named 8 Lee, and another ‘Thompson, a monte"dea'er. The names of the other two our informant did not learn. Thompson | is not expected to survive, but the others may re- cover. CURIOUS GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA. “The Mound Rock” is the heading of a sbort article in the Ji/ustrated California News, which describes a singular natural elevation, or table rock, covering an area of some acres, which is to be found at Mr. Scott’s ranch, on the Mercedes river. We might incline to the opinion of the writer in the News, that this is artiticial, were it not perfectly evident from the dip of the strata | manifestation or a part of the insanity. which compose this singular mound, ,that itis not the work of ma onry, but of the upheaval of some pent-up forces in the earlier geological periods in the plapet. This opinion is stil further confirmed by the fact that these exist on the plain between Scot's ranch and the foot hills of the Taolumne— say Covering a space of ten or fifteen miles square— numberless more of these singular mounds, which we are satisfied, also, are not artificial. They are situated some miles from the nearest of the main road leading from Stockton to the Ma- ripose, and we should never have met them had not curiosity taken us across that portion of the “* painted prairie” in April last. To effect a cul off, also, was in part an object. We steered by compass from the upper (Texan) ferry of the Mer- eedes, to Jackson's ranch (Horr’s ferry) on the Tuoluune. About midway on this journey, we were overtaken by nigh’, and having the fear of a grizzly before our eyes, we climbed one of the mounds, and with a blanket, there slept im the moon’s pale cold light. The mounds exist, as we said before, in g numbers ia that newhborhood, ell of them having, as in case of that at Scott's, perpendicular walls of stone, which one might well mistake for the cyclope nasonry of an ear- lier oge. Indeed, in some perfect arches seem to exist, and form th some magnitude. Still, we are. the belief that they are merely /ueus nature. Like all the surface of the plain in the borders of the San Joaquin and Sacramento valley, they are co- vered with drift, and afford indisputable evidence, we think, of having been elevated since that period in geology commonly known as the ** drift period.” Besides, they are composed of solid stone, having seams, and resembling gocis, or micacions schist. ‘The banks of the * Dry Creek,” between the Sian- islaus and Tuolumme, and aleo between the later end the Mercedes, in several places, perfectly il lustrate the structure of the walls composing these mounds. The streams, too, which are to be found meandering ceonh the region oceupie! by the mounds, porticularly “ Creek,” are all shat in by precipitgus walls, like those of the mounds Ia some cases, too, they have worn for themselves beds in the solid stone, of extraordinary depth, as occurs in limestone di ts. There are several remarkable mounds between Sacramento € aud Nicolaus, which | certainly appear to be artificial. They are diiler ently situated from those above referred to, being near the centre, and not at the side of the valley. | They appear to be composed of calcareous material, | and are also merked by the ** drift We have seen in the plateaux of Lower California and Mex ico, similar natural mounds Destrvetive Fine at Savannan, (4 —About half-past eight o'clock, last night, a fire broke out in a amall wooden building on Day jane, near Kat Broad street, owned by Mra. Mather. The block bounded by Bryan, Bast Broad and St. Julian streets, and Washington square, was aleo destroy- | ed, with the exception of one house on the square, owned by Capt. Dennis. The principal loss foils of P. upon Mra. Sneider, Mrs. Mather, est orthington, Capt. Dennis, and © Li Sneider Joses five houses and a grist $3,000; Mrs. M estate of Worthington. mall houses, valued at ; Capt. Dennis, one house and shop, valued | Mra. Sneider’s own residence was burat. Capt. Lane was also burnt out, losing house and store. The other buildings, as far as we could learn, were occupied by Irish families, and we only learned the fo!lowing names :— Patrick Riley, Flo- rence Sulli Daniel Sullivan, Thomas Barret, P. Riley John Clary. re were probably twenty others, and some of them lost all their far- niture and clothing, and are much in need of immediate help from the charitable —Savannah (Ga.) Republican, Nov. 28. Anornen Laxp Stuupe at PLaquemum, La —A& correspondent of the New Orleans Picaywne, from Plequemine, under date of the 17th instant, saye— Our town, we fear, has not as yet received her foll complement of calamity from the ineursion of the Father of Waters. Last night the battare and levee, with the road over the bayon, fell in, taking one and a balt seres front, and more than half an acre in depth, the property of Gervais Schblatre, Keq. The grownd is cracked, badly, for several seres back, and will soon follow. The batture ia front of the Planter’s Hote}, and for some distance above, aleo commenced falling, laet night, wine it will not stop short of Main street. We a last night, the most severe frost of the season, ice was seen and measured one-quarter of an inch thick; it will operate severely upon the planters, who are now suffering for want of water to keep their mills in operation. as established the following new post State of New York, for the hse y determined by the admissions into i Insanity, its Causes and Its Treatment. The American Journal of Insanity, published by the New York State Lumatic Asylum, Utica, con. tains a variety of valuable information upon the interesting subject of insanity, its causes and treat- ment. The following observations from an article that no chance for recog- | insanity, in the sexes, are worthy of perusal :— ‘The character ef insanity is not one and the the | same in all persons. It is very various in its origin, ita developement, its progress, and its results, in dif- ferent ‘adhe: It may arise out of a eat the brain, or merely a functional disturbance. There may be. strmexpral Change, ae © softening, or tumour, or watery effusion in this organ, gra growth of bone, or perhaps a malformation of Se there may be merely # derangement of furnctiabe trom excessive or wayward meatal aetion or eae- ons, connected with no organic change. Tais iv the most common condition of insanity. Functional derangement may be produced ty some cause which does notact di ~ the braia, but through some sympathete irritation’from a dis- turoence in other and even remote organs. Among the prolitic sources of the last are the derangements of the stomach and the as, aeiry all the nutritive fuactions, the irrite- ions Of the excretory o1 8, the urinar, the skin, and the laagee and also ome a os fevers, measles, inflammation, &c. These are common to both sexes ; but all the various and manifold derangements of the reproductive syste: peculiar to females, add to their ciuses of meat disorder: It will readily be supposed that these causes of insanity are very numerous. The treatises upon this disease speak of its causes asmany. The re- porta of Junatic hospitals are intended to state all the circumstances, conditions, habits, or eveate, that seem to the physician, or are su; by the friends of the patients, to be the real causes of their lunacy. The reports of the Bioomiagdale Hospital mention 85 causes ;_ those of the Western Virginia Hoepital mention 5 causes; those of the Utica New York Hospital, 65 ; those of the Pennaylvania Hospital, 34; and all the reports of all the lunatic hospitals of the United States mention 181 different causes of insanity. The reports of some hospitals reduce there causes to classes, of which 8 are reported from the hospi- tal at Worcester, Mass.; 9 from the hospital at Columbus, Ohio. The British hospital reports state fewer causes than the American. The re- port of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Lunacy give from 8 to 16 causes for each hospital, beside a clase termed physical causes. This class, in those reports, usually includes epilepsy, palsy, injuries, and sometimes hysteria, and even puerperal mania, which, however, are sometimes stated separately. Yet these causes of insanity, many as they are, even the 181 of the American reports, are capable of still further sub-division ; and if they were re- duced to their simple elements, they would be a'most as numerous und various as the unkindly in- fluences that can be brought to act on mankind. The term ill-health, as a cause of insanity, may be divided into almost the whole range of the noso- | skull which produces pressure on ite contents logy. There may be error in these statements of causes in regard to some patiente. Some of these sup- posed causes have been preesitinas or even merely co-exiftfng facts, rather than productive causes. And, possibly, some of them may have been the result of the diseased action, and the o~- e making all due allowance for the mistakes friends or the miajudgement of physicians tooeager to find causer, it may be assumed, most of these facts or conditions had some, if not the prin- | cipal influence, in the production of the mental dis- turbanee. There is a want of satisfactory date upon which to ascertain the comparative liability of males and | females to insanity. Pinel says, that there are twice as many female as male tunatics in France. Spurzheim says, in general terms, “there are more women than men liable to insanity.” Esquirol, that authority above all others in these ‘that women are more exposed te than men,” yet, in another . ‘mania ie more frequentin males than fe- But their relative liability differ: dif- males.”” ferent ages and different places, for he say: at itis now true that Greece and Italy, females are less subject to ness (folie) than males. But in the north of France the contrary is the fact, for there are more female than male lunatics.”” But in England, he says, thi reversed, and the male lunatics are the most numerous. This he ascribes to the better education of females in Eng- land in France, by which the women of Eng- Jand are protected from some of the causes of la- nacy that affect women in France Of oaly one nation is there aa accurate census of the lunatics of the distinct sexes, and that us the report of the commission of lunaey to the Minister of Justice of Belgium, of the number of lanatics in that kingdom. here were males 2.744, females 2,361, in the year 1835, which shows an excess of about 16 per cent of the males over the females. Acrording to their report, there were in England and Wales, January Ist, I844:— Condition ef Patents Males Females, Total. Private or self-rupporting. 1.911 4072 Paupers. ....sy ee cece 9120 «16,821 Both claseos..........0862 003) 20,808 These Commissioners seemed to have made no inquiry in the private families of the prosperous. This statement, therefore, as it does not include the self-supporting patients who are not in asylums, 4s 4 representation of all the luna- gland and Wales rol says, that there were in Norway, 996 male and 89% female lunatics; and in Paris, 6,156 males and 6,713 females insac In sll established countries which are not peopled, in whole or in pars by recent immigra- ton, there are more temaies ( ‘mates, in allages beyond childhood Almort all the cases of insanity occur after the age of 20. The proportion of those wh» become ia- sane, previous to this period, is so small that it may be left out of the calculation According to the | asus, there we 24,079 males, ears of age. , above 20 borne the same from whi proportionate li to insanity, will not be in the apparent prop males to 43.091 fem but in the of 6 652 mele luna son to these boey million of persons of each vex over 20 years of age, throughout the whole kingdom ; or in the ratio of 100 females to 112 meles In the fifteen States of this country, from whose hospitals the sexes are separately reported, and in- cluded in this calculation, there were in L840, oe- oul y cording to the national census, 2 657,274 mates, and Then the 2,581,062 females, over 20 years of age. to the lunatic heepitals, is 10,988 females, the number ae 4,967 males to 4,25 y million persons of each sex over 2) years o as 100 females to 115 males, which 14 a difference in favor ef women, somewhat greater than that ia Great Britain and Lreland. It appears, as might be reasoned from anslogy, that men are more liable to insanity trom one set ot causes than wemen, and vie versa The question resolves into another, that is— which of there causes, or classes of causes, pra- vails the most frequently and extensively? Aad to this the nnewer must vary with various coun- ries, and in different oges, and different states of ociety. But the general answer now to be given, from the facts which present themselves trom (Great Britain, Irete France, Beigiom, und America, ia, that those causes which act upon males, are more extensive a) which act upon femal But this mast vary with different nations, different periods of the world, and different habtis of the people Thus the recent investigations corroborate the ge I truth of what Eequirel said, twenty years ago. “ The relations of insanity to the sexes Varies. from north to south, from nation to nation, from. province to province. In Scotland, the sexes have. equal proportions of lunsey. [n England, there are lees female than male bunatice. In the north of France, the female lunatics, and in the south.of France, the male Junatics, predominate. Ia Ne- les, there are two female to ooe male lunstio; but in Milan, thir proportion is reversed In on rave article on the medica) troatment of insanity, in which the writer shows that but lit- ue Beene, is yet made in the medicab treatment of terrible mal te hy aM Yr ly of opium, thoug’ as foun vel coi ce break off ite use without a warn of the dy. Althovgh opium is not suited to, all constita- tions, nor to any indi case at all times, it hae, when the system is properly prepared for ite dition, maintained pe for past arcotie, and probably is destined to, for ages me. In the early stage of maniacal disease, the irri- tation and vesvaler action are anch, that opium ia any of ite forms, seems rather to increase than to alley excitement. Bat when thie izritation is mo- deroted, and the vascular action somewhat equal- ied nd diminished, by the well directed use of bat tire and saline dra’ some of the vale lapbemie cane in which the article forma the most active agent, may usually be sefely and advantageously inistered The author concivdes as follows: —Having de~