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siiao, sad intering the bodies of the victine of thie most be. ene roy gee licate of you not to the 2 of sree aes be rl oe ee me and my obedience and patien: these Sur atiictione and eufferings.” weir Since writing the foregoing, I have seen and con- with a from the ruins of San Sal- me that seventeen persons had out of ruined houses alive, and it was be- thatothers might yet be saved. He describes enfferings of its late inhabitants os very great. ‘Without means of perc! the necessaries of life, ‘without pemee ie @ word Pp rie Sommiians fand » Here isa case for 8} thy. nit net ma Sounsryanen at home ve tai ie warm and generous joreans, ani aid in relieving their sufferings under this aoe sanding and sppalling affliction? I know, I Sol, Seay . Let what isdone be done quickly, fer the hungry want food and tie houseless a home. Funds may be remitted through Mr. Molina, the minister for Salvador as wel! as for this republic, or ean be forwarded, (and which I believe would most effectual and specdy manner), via Belize, fiers ay Bale ¥ Castillo! eae peepee send down to the lent The town of Yo leagues town of Ysalco, eighteen from San Balvador, has been the scene of a great conflagra- bong a ae mien have been destroyed, prin ose of the poorer es. Great Gistrees revalia there also, Ppa The Bate of San Salvador has indeed been strick- ». For two years past it has heen overrun by the }» destroying the crops, rendering its rich land Darren, and making a dearth and scarcity of pro- ‘visions, which alone has caused much sufferin and ‘sieknees too. Then follows thie destractive , in ‘qe of its principal towns, and, to close the scene, ‘thie terrib! hquake, destroying over one thou- wand lives, annthilating its capital, and thus leaving eighteen to twenty thousand ‘of our fellow-beings houseless wanderers, suffering all the horrors of want and misery, and even at this moment, with a proa- ay of momentarily beng engulphed in the yawn- abyss of some newly forming eos TAT A MBLER. Our Honduras Correspondence. Beuize, May 30, 1854. More About the Earthprake—Hostilities between Honduras and Guatemala on the Wane—General Oarrera out of Funds—The Pacific Railroad—A Practicable Route Discovered—The Cholera a! Belize—The Weather-—An Indian Hung for Mur- der—Public Meeting in Belizc—Colony of the Bay Islands--Specch of the Superintendent--Policy of Great Britain—Americgns Called upon to take Me Oath, of Allegiance to that Country—Death of Captain Reed, of Philadelphia, §c. I embrace the earliest opportunity to inform you that the city of San Salvador, the capital of that State, was destroyed by an earthquake, which commenced with great violence on the night of the 16th of April, ult. So sudden and violent was the first shock that many of the inhabi- ants were buried under the walls and ruins of their ‘own houses. Over one hundred and fifty bodies have already been dug out, and more than that tromber are still missing; and when my informant Yeft, although several days had passed, the shocks of the earth were still felt. The entire cityhas been @estroyed, and in all probability will be entirely abandoned. This was the most populous and weal- ‘My city in that State, and its destruction will prove ‘8 great loss to it, and will, no doubt, seriously em- ‘Darras its financial affairs. I omit any further par- ficulars, as L am in hopes they may have reached you through some other channel before this, ‘The war of Guatemala with Honduras “has Sppa- Yently died out, as the former has made no further @fforts during the last two months, and probably will not, as Gen. Carrera is out of funds. The proa- of the railroad from Port Cabello to the Paci- lo, through the State of Honduras, has excited strange eclings among various interests at Guate- mala, and, in fact, throughout all Central America. Here it is considered a Yankee take in, and our stur- @y John Bulls will not believe the thing ‘ible, but as the evidence thickens, and the plans to develope themselves, and doubt gives way to cer- tainty, they exclaim, “Can it be ible that a feack for a railroad can be found in the very tainous State of Honduras?” I am assured by a genvemsn from the interior of the State, that he has ravelled through the entire line of the proposed yoad, and that it isnot only practicable but that it ean be built at a trifling expense in comparison with any other road contemplated at present. My in- formant is an American, who has travelled both ways ‘over the Panama and Nicaragua routes, and also over the inland route from St. Louis to California. ‘The people at Omao and its vicinity are in raptures, and cry from their ‘‘heart’s deep core,” “‘The Amer- Jeans are our greatest and best friends.” ‘The Gua- famalans are as much depressed, and the feelings of their dissatisfaction and discontent are very great, and manifest themselves on every occasion. The cholera has nearly disappeared from this set- @ement, and as we now are enjoying very fine ‘weather, with a strong sea breeze, we are in hopes #8 will not again visit us. The weather is quite warm, and water very scarce. The public have all the pri- @oners engaged in bringing water from a large pond wixteen to twenty miles up the river, for the use of ors On tbe 26th an Indian was hung in this town for wourder. He had murdered his wife by cutting her head off with an axe. On the same day a public meeting was held by her Majesty’s superintendent, in the Court House, in regard to the colony of the tice of this meeting had been posted up for several days; and although it was announced that the super- Intendent (who 1s the Lieutenant-Governor of the eolony,) would take the chair, and that the Chief Justice, Matthew Newport, D. b., the rural dean of ‘thissettlement; Mr. Cuyler, the chief ite of ‘the new colony; the Rev. Mr. Arthur and Joseph Gegg, and several other gentlemen, would address ‘tthe meeting, yet all was of no effect, as at the time of meeting only its officers, speakers, and their Semilies, were in attendance. This rather threw a damper on the affhir, and the superintendent felt thet he had been led into ar affair which the people eared but little about. In this emergency the ori We officers had the large court house bell rung loud and long; and, as this would not bring the people, it | ‘was again rung louder and longer. But all would not do; the inhabitants did not and would not come, an‘ the meeting was then organized with less than fifty 8 in attendance—and at no téme were there over pet Ry ersons present—among whom were forty public officers, and members of their families. 1 wink time and space would allow me to give you a zeport of each of the speechas, which were great novelties in their way; and a3 one remark from Mr. J. W. Travis, a member of our Legislatare, was of great eee to the wealthy, 1 will ventare to it for the benefit of all at, rich rascals shout the world. At the close of his he said :— When you die, your Cea? | thing that leaves you—your friends the next; they follow you to your grave, and there they leave you. Bat it’yon will oa a money to this good pur- pose—i. ¢., to establis! man and school, at Ruatan—it will be be pice act, hich will not leave, but go with you, open a for you into heaven.” ‘ Enough sed !”” The euperintendent, after all the speakers had had their soy, andthe meeting had adopted their resolutions,” made a most excellent _and practical eech, and as it was his first speech, as well as his rst appearance in public since his arrival, I am happy to say that, although evidently sed ape and unpremeditated, it gave evidences of a strong mind, deep thought, and intimate knowledge of the pest and present history of this continent. He spoke highly of the institutions and men of your country, and then ere a history of the Bay islands; and as this will be interesting news tomany of your readers, I will give you that part of his speech :— A great many years have passed,” said he, “since many of the wealthiest and most intelligent of the speech inhabitants of this settlement called the attention of | he crown of Great Britain tothe im of se- to the crown of England the d of Ratan and sister islands. This step was with great force by all of our eminent men in settle- ment, down to the time that her Majesty granted to those islands the charter by which they now are a eolony of Great Britain. Although often thus to take possession of these islands, and fully aware of their importance, with their fine harbors, coves and inlets, asa key to the bay of Honduras, and as of vital importance to t! settlement, 3 was not until recently, and. when fally gatiefied that our near and enterprizing neighbors ‘would, if we did not, ber Majesty’s government, ee to the reqnest of her most loyal subjects , and the prayer of the inhabitants of those delands, took possession and brought them un- der the protection of the British crown. Recent events, and a thorough acquaintance with their coast aud excellent harbors, eee of affording se- care and good anchorage to large fleets of mer- chant and naval vessels—their being to windward; the only good harbors on the whole bay, and their beautivul supply of sweet water—have fully proved the it wisdom and utility to the Hnglish nation of that act of her Majesty’s government.” Thus it will be perceived that the right of Great Britain to these islands rests solely on the grounds of their advantages as a naval station, and their poate g or Ty ition in the hay of Honduras; thna at last baye the facts in regard to this step on the part of Great Britain come to light; and thus va- nishes into “ thin air” the long ‘and mnoh talked- abont dependences to Belize, as they have been eal Med. There are several Amogicans liying on those Bay Islands, A no- | is the first | @ Church of Bi d, cler- | islands, who have been by Mr. Cuyler, her Majesty's stipe magistrate to that colony, they must come’ forward and take the oath of allegiance to the crown of |, or forfeit their Plantations; but one has as done so. The others refuse, and have taken steps tolay the matter before the American go Captain Edwin Reed, a native of the. United States, formerly a resident of Philadelphia, di month of ¢) pl Rane nate if le had, by cnergy, ‘and }, amassed a small prope by beside: plantation —a nery ree oP he owned two vessels, and an @ good sum in round dollars him died. This property will all De lost as he died without a will, and feft no one to take care of it or his children but the family of a creole woman whom he married some time after the death of his former wife. It is to be hoped that some of his or her friends in the United States wil! see this, and attend to his affairs. Provisions remain scarce and high; owing to the bark Cadet having been sent to England, her cargo of over 3,000 bbls. is now causing a scarcity, which is felt by none more than her aopelgnee, here, and which is giving quite a harvest to the owners of the small schooners trading to New Orleans. As we have had a very lon; season, we ought to have out a great quantity of mahogany. Yet this is not the case, asin all the gangs great mortality has prevailed among the cattle, one man having lost ayer imo hundred head; esr sete terete eneral. Maho; » logwood, coehi 5, indigo, ond sarsaparillin euill remain very high—too high to answer even as a remittance to your city. I have many other matters for your notice, but will not ex- tend the length of this letter. i There are no American vessels here or in the bay. TRAVELLER. The Latest Revolution News from New Granada. 1b) ne 15. athe the Aspinwall Cour! General Posada is ordered to take command of the Province of Carthagena and the department of Magdanela. He is now raising recruits in Panama, and will leave this for Carthagena in the first English stea- mer with such force as he may collect. It is understood that all Isborers employed on the railroad are exempted from military service. The Panamenosays, by a letter received from Carthagena, June 6, we are informed that on the 24th of last month General Melo attacked the con- stitutional forces assembled in Capiquira under General Franco, and routed them with considerable loss. The defeated party had fallen on Ambalema, Honda and La Mesa; that Melo’s agents in Bogota, Berinas, Obregon, &c., committed all kinds of cruel- ties and excesses, in order to effect the payment of the tex which was levied on every person. A of the name of Don Raimundo Santamaria been imprisoned and kept in prison twenty-six hours without food, Hs or water, who finally had to ran- som himeelf with $6,000. The Panameno gives the following:— “ General Franco, with his troops, was occupying Chocanta, and Melo, Capiquira.” The former being greatly molested-by the guerilla parties of the latter, in his advance on Capiquira, determined on attack- ing and taking that city, although General Herrera and himself had aj not to attack the enemy. The rebels had fortified themselves strongly in their houses, and by these means caused serious injuries to the constitutional party; en with all this, fightin; Seperesly, they to cut their way through and reached the * plaza Mayor,” but Gen. Franco was killed by: a discharge from the church steeple. Discouraged by this unhappy event, the troops began retiring in good order, but Meloin Ree son pursued and completely routed them. The loss sustained is estimated at 500. In consequence of this, the forces of Gen. Lopez, stationed in the town of La Mesa, formed with the troops that marched from Popayan, Antioquia and Cauca. Gen. Herrera had be ve uninjured from the defeat of Capiquira, and effected his march to Ambalema, after separa- ting in San Juan del Rio Seco from Senor Jose de Dios Ucros, who had arrived at Honda. Gen. Juan Jose Reyes Patria was in Tunja with 15,000 men, awaiting 400 “ llaneros.”” The Diario de Avisos de Caracas says:— “It gives us much pain to read in the Pamaneno that the citizens of the American Union positively refuse to pay the provincial contributions, and treat the authorities with contempt, causing them a thou- sand difficulties, which cannot in the end fail to pro- duce most disastrous results. We can conceive how the members of a strong Union, governed by ambi- tious tyrants, who do not respect any princi iple or any law, would bog to the countries where they es- tablish themselves the immoral customs of their gov- ernments; but we cannot possibly conceive that men born and reared under the most beautiful political institutions in the world, who have contracted habits of order,and who kuow theoretically and practically the value of the authority of the law for fostering in- dustry, can comport themselves, in a regulated so- ciety, like people who for the first time come out of the forest, and know no other limit to their actions than that which material force imposes.” “The citizens of the American Union,” where- ever they are found, refuse to suffer imposition and insulting exactions from “ambitious” and tyran- nical o} cials, “who do not respect any principles or any laws,” whether weak or strong; they treat with Sa any authority which is merely nomi- nal, wholly inefficient; “they know theoretically and practically (the misery Gti authority of the law,” (and) the officials that foster laziness and every appearance of fraud in themselves‘and others, and they comport themselves with the inde- pendence and freedom of the denizens of the forest, recognizing not the “limit” of ‘ material force.’ The Panama Star of the 10th, has the following: General Joaquin Posada Gutierrez has been or- dered into active service, likewise to organize a | body of troops to be called to ‘Division del Istmo.”” The Commandent General of the department, the | fourth column, stationed here, and the National Guards, are to place themrelves under the above mentioned General’s orders. News from the South Pacific. {From the Aspinwall Courier, June 15.) As we go to press we have time to glance at the southern summary of the Panama Star and Herald, | frem which we learn that an agent of Castilla, the aspirant for the Presidency of Peru, who has been endeavoring to oust Echenique, the incumbent, had pispored to some of the returned Australians to aid upsetting the government; that in consequence a rumor had been circulated that one or two hun- dred foreigners were to assault the palace and rob the national treasury; that E/ Hera/do contains a long article upon th tol of allowing the Ameri- can emigrants to refhain in Lima; that Americans and Australians are frequently attacked in the vi- cinity of Lima; and that when the Americans suc- ceed in ety the villains, the authorities, in- stead of aiding them, throw them into prison; that the Americans who have come there are generally | in considerable distress from want; that several | small parties are going, and have gone to Chancha- mayo, about fifty es from Lima; that it was | thought they had takena good route for explora- tion, and that the balance of emigration from Aus- tralia is bound for the Isthmus. [From the Valparaiso Echo, May 14.) We have it from good authority that in the rospect of an open war between England and ance and Russia, the two former powers, with a view to the protection of the commercial interests of their citizens on the shores and waters of the Pa- cific, have ordered to this coast two vessels of var, viz., H. B. M.'s jfrigate Pique, of 44 guns, and. the French frigate Alceste, of 32 guns, These vessels left England in the beginning of March, and may be now almost daily e: ted in this port. With this reintorcement there {a little fear of either British or French shipping being molested either by the Rus- sian men of war, privatccrs or corsairs, as we think the Pacific ocean will be in a very short space of time completely ewept of anything like Russia ship- ping. Isiat, April 12, 1854. The most important news at present here, is the arrival of the Gamarra, 16 gun Peruvian brig, hold- ing herself ready to blockade the port it is supposed. On the morning of the 16th, arrived the Cockatrice, 4 gun schooner, Capt. Dillon, from Arica, to seo what is going on. In the night of the 16th, also ar- rived the Rimac steamer, searching for the Gamar ra, which, after communicating with the Cockatrice held on her voyage for Arica. On the 18th, arrived the Gamarra,and on the morn- ing of the 19th the Rimac returned, and after stay- ing the whole day, went away in a northerly direc- tion, No communication is allowed either by the authorities on shore, or by those on board the Ga- marra. On the evening of the 20th, a boat from that veesel caine up to the mole and took away the “Captain’s” boat, leaving in its place their own— merely an old battery of a thing; they returned again shortly after, when some smart ring took place, which ended in the retiring of the brig 's peo- le with one man killed. In this port is stationed a argo force, headed by first rate officers, who know their duty and do it, Gen. Castilla is at Cuzeo, re- cruiting largely, and has received from Gen. Belzn, the Bolivian President, 600 horses and 4,000 mua- kets, and offers to any amount of arms, men, | or money. Gen. Vivanco and San Roman are still he Tacna, and will proceed to Arequipa in a day or wo. By private advices we have learned that the re- pt we have previously had of the arrival of Gen. osqnera in the vicinity of Bogota, and the union of | his forces with those of Herrera, under Gen. Franco, were 2 het Gen. Mosquera, up to the ist, had not left Ba: - quilla, with the famall fores te had celle ‘ed, He Was to leave, however, in a few days. A portion of his men had been taken from the force at Cartha- | geno, and a national guard had been raised hy the | jovernor, A rumor was in circulation in ous city, on Sunday, | that a emall party in the province of Boumentare | had declared for Melo, and that Gen. Posada was | | raising a force to go to the suppression of the move- | ment, Bat Jetiers under date of the 8th inst., from Gen, P., make no mention ef tne affair—hence we credibility of the doubt the ty of the story, The general impression now seems to be, that the task of putting down Melo will be very difiicult, if at all practicable—and the second battle early expected will be more severe than the first. Atthe Erelyree eek Wad aawarabbemtneds were Miles 4 es. The Walker Divorce Case, COMMON PLEAS—PABr II. CATHERINE ¥. FP. WALKER, BY HER NEXT FRIEND, CHRISTIAN 8. BLOANE, VS. WILDES P, WALKER, Before Hon. Judge Ingraham. x FIPTH DAY. June 23.—The court room wasas crowded as usual this morning, at ihe opening of the Walker divorce caee. Among those present were a large number of Jadies, who had either been summoned ag witnesses, or were interested in the suit. Mr. Churchill, for the defence, as soon as the jury had answered to their names, moved to strike out the evidence of Amasa Hagar, on the ground that it ‘was not pertinent to any of the piaintifl’s allegations in her complaint. Mr. Blunt, after reading the allegations in the complaint, which charged the defendant with visit- ing houses of ill fame in Mercer street, cited the evi- dence of Hagar and Wark, (see report in Heraup of Thursday,) and contended that the facts there sworn to were sufficient to go tothe jury, whose province it was to settle the question of the perti- neney of the evidence to the charge. The Court said that the jury would be instructed to disregard this evidence, if the defence could show that it was not pertinent. Mr. Busteed then renewed the motion, of which he had given notice yesterday, to dismiss the action, on the ground that at the time of the filing of this complaint Mrs. Walker was not a resident of this State, and that during the time of the commission of these alleged acts of scaler neither Mr. por Mrs. Walker were resi dents of this State, and that the court had no juris diction over the case at all. He said that all actions of divorce were aprerned, by statutory regulation. Where the question of rs isdiction was made an iseue in the case by the pleadings it must be clearly roven. If the ee taken in the answer of the lefendant that at the time of fhe filing of the com- plaint the parties were not residents of this State, affirmative proof of the existence of this court's jurisdiction must appear. In order to give the court jurisdiction one of three things must affirma- tively appear—tirst, the parties or one of them must have been inhabitants of this State at the time of the commission of the offence. It could not be con- tended here that at the time of the commission of the first offence Mr. Walker was an inhabitant of this State. Yale, the first witness for the plaintiff, swears that Mrs. Walker came to Brooklyn on the 29th September, 1833. Up to this time she had been living in Maine. Certainly at the time of the alleged commission of these offences Mrs. Walker was not an inhabitant of the State, and therefore she can take nothing by her writ and complaint. Secondly, it is within the authority of this court to grant a divorce when the marriage has been solemnized within the State, but no proof hasbeen adduced where this marriage was solemnized. If the Om bt of the court have been properly invoked, that jurisdiction must be founded on one of the three subdivisions of the section of the statute. The Court here will remark the care- fulness of the language employed by the Legislature. For injured parties to obtain relief, by divorce, in our courts, they must be inhabitants of the State at the time the acts complained of were committed. In the first subdivision, where both husband and wife are inhabitants of the State, the word “actual” does not occur. In the second subdivision, which speaks of the solemnization of the marriage, the anjeced party mast be an “actual” inhabitant of the State; and so in the third subdivision. He con- tended that the word “actual” was used here ex in- dustria, that there was a difference between inhab- itants and “actual” inhabitants.. The question then was, whether Mrs. Walker was an actual inhabitant of the State of New York. Now, it appeared in evidence that, on the 20th September, 1853, she went to the Mansion House, in Brooklyn; that her name was inserted in the books as a resident of Maine, and as a transient buarder; che was a married woman, and her domicil was the same as that of her husband. No proof has been brought forward to show that the parties were piing: separate. If the other side has failed in proving that they were then living apart by agreement, or that Wildes P. Walker had abandoned his family; if they have not shown this, they have failed to show a jurisdiction. The learned counsel produced a great pomber of authorities to show the nature of a domicil, and that if a rigkt in a domicil is once fixed it will contiuue, notwithstanding the absence of the party, until a new one is taken. The counsel referred, smog other authorities on these points, to the cases of Jenningson and others ys. Attwood, and Greene vs.Greene, 10 and 11 Picker- ing R., 3 Greenleaf R. 466 and 6 ib. 390, 1 Bradford » 69. Mr. Blunt said that the following section of the law was an answer to the whole tirade of the conn- sel (see Revised Statutes, p. 330):—‘ lf a married woman, at the time of exhibiting a b'll against her husband under the provisions of either of the two last articles, shall reside in this State, she il be deemed an inhabitant thereof, although her husband may reside cleewhere.”” ‘he Court said that whether defendant was or was not an inhabitant of the State of New York was a question of fuct, which, like all other facts, would have to be submitted to the jury. The case for the defence was then opened. Mr. Busteed rose and said:—May it please the Court, and you, gentlemen of the jury, on the 15th day of July, 1840, at the town of Buth, in Maine, Wildes F. Walker, the defendant in this action, was joined together in the holy bands of matrimony with Catherine F. P. Patten. The nuptial rites were at- tended with circumstances of more than common interest. The father of the fair one not only re- uted to be, but in fact was, the wealthiest burgher the whole State. The sails of his ships, freighted with rich merchandise, whitened every sea. (A laugh.) The lands in his neighborhood were called after his name; the great men of the Che and State gladly received him into their companionship and council. This magic wand converted into shining gokd all the baser substances which his genius for money-making subjected to his will. He was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuoasly every day; his magnificent equipage, with the gay ‘emblazonments of heraldry, and the gaudy trap- ping of outriders and footmen, proclaimed daily the power and wealth of this peer of the realm, and he was the envy and wonder of the parvenu who, starting in life with George I’. Patten, had been left immeasurably behind in the race. He was rich, and he was proud. In his lordly mausion in Maine he kept his best jewels; several daughters were at once the pride and solace of his heart, and attracted to his board all of the other sex who, per force of good fortune, possessed the magic sesame. One of those girls, then in her nineteenth year, was the bride of the occasion to which I have adverted. Blushingly beautiful, highly accomplished, and liberally educated, she was to all human ken good enough to be the wife of an European autocrat, yet none too good (looking at the defendant) to be the wife of ason of New England, a mother of Ameri- con freemen. She had been wooed and she had been won by the man into whose keeping, for weal or woe, she placed her destinics. Scorning the opposition of the millioniare father to her alliance with a man whose little all counted but some beg- garly five thovsand dollars, she willed to be his wife, e’en though she ceased to be her father’s daughter. The pride of the citizen had to bow befor: majesty of parental love, and Wildes P. Walker was condescendingly allowed to enter the tuinily. The happy groom, then in his twenty-sixth year, was the possessor of that kind of character which is the birth- right of an American boy. Industrious, capable, houest and fearless, he lived in the future, and made the present but the entering wedge to the glory that was to come. He hai dared to beard “the lion in his dem, the Douglas in his hall.” He had entered the list of competitors, anc borne off in triumph the rich prize for wh all had contended. Even hia rivals mitted his worth, aud a his pr Pardon me, gentlemen, if I love to linger in contem plation of sucha scene. The atmosphere of such a | world isa holy one. There stood the man of God, | and at his side, the man on the right hand, the wo- | man on his left—those who were to share together | this honorable estate. Clothed with the plenipoten- tiary power of his holy culling, he cally upon all tn to show any just cause why those two loving earts should not neo together. The rich fa- ther dare not in that hour even suggest that the man who aspired to his daughter’s hand was poor. No other cause of embarrassment existed. ‘The father, thus invoked, was silent. Let himsee to it that he forever after holds his peace. And now the minis- ter of the altar addresees himself to the twain, and, lifting up his voice, charges them both, as they will answer at the dreadful oN of judgment, when the secrets of all heartsehall be disclosed, that if cither* of them know any impediment why they may not be lawfuily joined in matrimony, they then coutfess it. No such cause is in the way. And now, a low, sweet voice, musical as the spheres, tremnlously a3 a fluttering dove, and yet confi ly as a loving child, is heard distinctly, and with subdued, bat marked intonation 1 Catharine Patten, take thee, Wildes P, Walker, to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for, bet- ter, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, and, forsak- ing all others, to. keep only unto thee as long as we both do live. Ani thereto I give thee my faith.” The mystion nolon is completg, Lrgrayen on thy } not one shadow of suspicion ever ent | to go to a candy shop in Dirision street; fined with the second child, her husband took a house for her at Bath, in Maine, The second child | was born there. In 1842 or 1843 Mr. Walker bought house in Boston, furnished it well, anticipating every wish, and indulging every caprice of his wife. He settled that house on his wife and children, they, at least, might be taken care of. From that time until July, 1850, Mr. and Mrs. Walker lived continuously and happily his heart in respect to the love she was bound to give him. After 1848 Mrs. Walker and the children were in the habit of visi @ watering place called Hartwell. They went there, and, though in Boston, the husband would have ventured his soul that his wife was true to him. Among other visiters at Hartwell was a aeapere who aspired to the dignity of an M.D, gentleman’s name was Dr. Heartwell. He was an acquaintance of Mrs. Walker, but a stranger to her husband; he had never been introduced to Walker by hie wife. Every summer the annual visit to Hartwell was renewed. One strange fact was that whenever Mrs. Walker was at Hartwell, Dr. Heartwell was there also. This con- tinued from 1845 to 1848 or '9. left Boston as @ place of residence. He was not exactly satisfied with the female associates of his wife. He removed from Boston to New Branewick, and was about tohire and furnfsh a house when the circumstances to which we shall presently allude took place. Walker became connected with the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., of which he was made a director. } ‘This was in May, 1849. Up to July, 1860, Mr. and Mrs. Walker and the three children lived in New Brunswick, N.J. One of the little ones became sick, and the mother boa ean taking her down to Bath, in Maine. Up to that hour Wildes ?. Walker never imdulged the most distant suspicion that his wife was not what she ought to be. While the mother and children were down at the watering lace, Wildes P. Walker was arrested at mA suit of t Waa al eser#. Crookers, merchants of Bath. E leged that Walker oved them $40,000, and at night he was arrested by Samuel Cunningham, under pro- | cess sued out of the Superior Court of our city. Mr. Walker had friends. He gave the requisite amoont of bail, and was at large for two or three days, when his bail surrendered him and he was committed to close custody, though he had for his lawyer our {agate District Attorney. Up to December, 1853, ¢ was confined in the Eldridge street jail, being only occasionally allowed to go down to Wall street to transact his business. He dragged out his existence there, the dupe of lawyers, who cheated and robbed him of his money on the plea of getting him ont of jail, and then left him to rot. In December, 1853, he made an application for his discharge, and was discharged under the insolvent act. During all that time, amid all that sorrow, in sickness, in poverty, and | in confinement, he hoped against hope; but no wife | came, no voice of hers fell upon his ear, and until | December, 1853, Walker was never visited by the wife of his bosom. In December, 1850, Mrs, Walker came to New York and stayed in the jailox’s apart- ments with her husband for ten day3, in company with a gentleman who will have to figure on this stage of action. He is another proud citi of Maine, and glories in the name of Senator Evans. I complain that Walker's wife never afterwards | went to see him for the three years he was in pri- son, When he next heard from her it was in the shape of a complaint for a divorce, alleging that he had ravished the virtue of every woman in New | York. We next come to the complaint itself, It consists of sixteen articles, in all of which we are charged with adulteries. The persons whose names are given are married women. Our anawer denies all the ateresors of the complaint. Some busy, prying, lying knave, got into the ear of alker’s wife, and made. her believe we had committed these adulteries. We were obliged to answer the complaint under oath, and we swear that we have not been guilty ofa single act of adultery. This constitutes one part of our defence. Would to God, gentlemen of the jury, that, consistent with my duty, I could pass over another part of the defence. From first to last, Wildes P. Walker has charged me not to use the de- fence of recrimination if it was fects to avoid it. We ask on what ground is this charge brought against us? Whois the insidions villain who fas poured the poison into our wife's ea? Can it be that she believes it? You were told that although we pleaded recrimination, we never opened our lipa about it till the commencement of this suit. That is true: it is the last discovery a man wants to make, that the wife of his bosom has had lascivious connec- tion with others. But we discovered who the vitain was. Dr. Heartwell had been in the neighborhood of our wife; he had her private ear; supplied our place in her confidence, and, a8 we most righteously be- lieve, supplied our place in her bed. Vr. Heariwell is the key to this divorce suit. We ex) that during the summers of ‘45, “40, 47 and 748, while our wife was at Hartwell, Dr. Heartwell was there in the seme li Their bedrooms were op- ponite, and they were always seated side by side. We shall prove that on one occasion, as late as five or six o'clock, while Mr. Walker was in Boston, she and Dr. Hartwell entered a phaeton and as- sumed to take a journey of twenty-six miles, We will show that on another occasion Mrs. Walker and Dr. Heartwell were seen alone in a grove in the neighborhood, and in a position y indicated the existence of a very great familiarity between them. He had his'arm round her waist, and their hands were pepet together, We will show that so habitual was this familiarity between them that Mrs. Walker was refused admittance to the hotel. We can prove that she entered a fictitious mame on the books; and we can prove that if she qgme to Hartwell one day the doctor was sure to arrive the next. And we shall prove that Mre. Walker was in the habit,of corresponding with a person of her owa sex; and we shall produce her letters, which bear uvon their face the stamp of her guilt. As to the third branch of our defence, two aduiteries are charged against us—one at the house at the corner of Grand ani Mercer streets, and the second at Mrs. White’s. Both are said to have ocourred before De- cember, 1860. Our defence, then, is, that in Decem- ber, 1860, when Mrs. Walker visited ue in the Eleridge street jail, she cohabited with us as our wife, and that, with a knowledge of those adulte- ries, she forgave us for them. If no act of adultery has been proven since then, the plaintiff cannot take her bill of divorce. These are the separate defences on which we rely, Henry J. Smith, examined by Mr. Busteed—I am the keeper of Eldridge street jail, and commenced my term of office in 1853; I have known Wildes P. Walker, who, with Henry Sturla, were prisoners there; Walker was there eleven months and some days under me; he was discharged on the 14th of December, 1853; 1 knew Colone! Bobo; | know Wm. F. Birch; the latter was in my employ from 3d Jan., 1853, to 23d of April of thesame year; he did not re- turn tomy employ; he was the aor he lost a ects and T discharged him as I had to pay $li2 9; Walker occupied the second cell on the right band side; it 1 Slsree window init; a peonet named Turner occupied the cell also; iron bara are the only fastenings in the windows of the hall and of the cell; there are four inches between the bara; the crossbars are about eighteen inches from the sash of the window; there are no shutters or blinds to any of the rear windows; the shed comes up to the bottom of the sill of the window of what was Walker's cell; there is a sky light six feet long b: three broad on the shed, about two feet and a half from the windows; there is an inside hook, i think, on the door of the cell; it isnot much bigger than a straw; I know of both men and womea who visited Walker at the time I was jailer ; one of the women went by the name of Mrs. Malcolm, and another by the name of Miss Li 3 [ see Mrs, Malcolm in court now; I don’t think lever saw Mre. Warner; 1 prohibited females coming to the jail after | Satins | Laces, . Embroideries. CAPM. ceeeee Velvets . the 15th of May. and that prohibition continued in force aii the time that Walker remained here; the reason of this order wa that other priso- ners complained of my giving Walker a preference over them in letting him see his friends ; { did not fee Mrs. Malcolm there more than two or three times; I never refused a request of Walkcr’s to peas him never said tobirch that | considered Walker a or made use of language to thate! i don’t believe that Walker would have run away if he had the ance; he had opportunities of running away if he had desired it; Walker generally kept his door locked when he was alone; he would hook it if I went in to sit with him; I took Walker down town | about a hundred times—over sixty times, for his ex- amination; 1 went once with Walker to the Hippo- drome; on which occasion he was aot out of my | reach during the entire time; we returned home, | afterwards, direct; [never took him to a house of ill-fame in this city; he never asked me to take him to one; on the occasion of our visit to the Hip9o- drome, Walker did not meet any female acquaint- ances. Q. During the time of his confinement, have you ever heard Walker speak of his wife and children? Objected to, and objection maintained by the Court. T never saw anything unbecoming a lady in Mrs, | Malcolm; she sometimes came in company with Bobo, and sometimes with other women; there was nothing suspicions in her manner of going out or | coming in; Mr. Walker's health in the jail was rather poor; it was because he was poor and shut up along time that [ allowed those ladies to visit Walker: Mr, Walker was rather wild in his manner when I came there; { bave sce him blow out froth at the mouth a little about the lawyers, and cry at | | the came breath; [ wae present when Birch signed | P an affidavit for Walke: The court bere adjo naw it at the jail, together; | Tn 1849 Mr. Walker | pery customer, PH Gloves & mils. Gimps & fein. Brés. & bagi | Ribbons. Oe sah FINANCIAL AND COMMERGIAL. There was a alight let up to-day in the stock market. | At the first board there was considerable activity, but most of the transactions were on time. Cash stock ap- pears to be scarce. Canton Company advanced to-day ' per cent; Nicaragua Transit, %; Cumberland Coa!, \; New York Central Railroad, 2; Erie Railroad, 1; Harlem, 1; Reading Railroad, {. New York Central Bonds declined As per cent; Michigan Southern Railroai, 1; Northern Indiana Construction, 14; New Haven Railroad, *; Cleve land and Toledo Railroad, 33. At the opening this morn ing the market was weak, and prices did not vary materi ally from those current at the close yesterday, but for some unexplained cause,an improvement soon after com- menced, and at the close there was quite an upward ten- dency. Wehave no faith in the advance. Nothing bas | ecurred to materially change the condition of financial affairs, and so far as the internal affairs of the principal railroad companies are concerned, they are daily, almost hourly, getting worse. Many of the managers of the | railroads occupying a prominent place in the bools of the wee MONEY MARKET. an Faway, June 23—6P. M. stock exchange, are active speculators in the stocks of the | different companies, sometimes for arise and sometimes | for a fall. Many others who do not openly appear as specu: | lators in the stock, avail themeelves of their position to | make money out of the company. We can point cut dozens of instances where the stockholders have been awfully #windled upon sales made by the directors to the com- Property has frequently been bought by directors, pany. after it was known only to thomselves that the road re- quired it, and sold to the company at an advance of t%o, three, and five hundred per cent. This is the only way the directors of our railroad companies can ge! any pay for their services, and the stockholders cannot expect | j them to work for nothing. Unfortunately they ge‘ much more than the best of them are worth, are rather expensive employes. work for nothing, and the time and service ‘ievoted to railroad management are no trifling mattere,and must be | It would be much better for a paid for. Rich men they were paid directly so much per annu: leaving them to fleece the stockhollers ty making them pay four or five prices for everything required. road president who is willing to work w the dearest officer any company can employ. There are too many of these unpaid presidents, and the scone change is made in such a system, the b stockholders. time something was done todo away with th speculators which now infest the office of all our tea the interests of the do not } A rail 4 pay is ut | | | for | full of ing | It railroad companies, The Eric Railroad Company's offices | have swarmed with stock speculators. has been pretty well scattered, but we shall have another, perhaps equally destructive to the best interests of There probably never has been a railroad company in this country so deliberately used for the pnr- pose of filling the pockets of its management as the From the very commencement it has been in the hands of speculators, and eyery movement made inthe , 100 stockholders. Erie. The old brood administration of its affairs has been for the aggran- | dizement of,some clique of financiers. We hare come | 499 be im for our share of their abuse for exposing from time | 400 Flo & K Join’ 50 to time their financial operations, but that did not tron- | eS Trans ant ble us much. It convinced us more of the truth of our | 390 100 strictures, and induced us to make more tho- | 200 ¢ 50 rough investigations. The plank which hes for | Les Coppe ot Gi ts some time past held the wreck together, is svovt | 499 McCulloch Gold, 3g 150 od being torn away, when the whole concern will | .b 9535 650 Harlem RR. ..63 probably go to pieces. All the oki rats have been | 100 re o.. a leaving the ship, and before many weeks elspse nota | 200 “38 vestige will be left of ths once grand enterprise. I | 500 630 pity that such a great work should have falien into such | $10 rad foe hands, The New York Central is likely to go in the saine 80 Stonington R80 way. Its managers are fast following in the footsteps 700 Reading RR...63 of their illustrious competitors, and the result is likely Qe a nn to be the same. Cumberland was in denzand to-day at the improvement. The appreciation in the market vatue of this stock may be attributed to more important causes | than appear at first glance to the casual observer. The depreciation in railway shares is not owing to any dechine in the traffic, but to the enormous increase of expenses. One item alone on some railways is alarming, and the saving of one-half the vost of fuel may be made by the use of coal and coke, in some instances equal toa divi dend, ternative. It is dificult to overcome the prejudices ant habits of firemen and agents of roads; but there j The Maryland railroads use Cumberland no al- onl. with great economy, and the firemen could not be induced to go back to Wood, so much is the Inbor lessened. The New Haven and Springfield Railroad Company are also using Cumberland coal on their freight enginor, and the Norwich company have it on a passenger train, The Union Ferry Company bave just made a contract with the Cumberland Coal Company for thirty thousand tons of coal. effect on boilers. It ia 2 greet saving in expense and the By an experiment recently made, it was proved that 100 tons of anthracite coal lasted two tow boats eight days, while 100 tons of Cumberland coa! lasted the same two boats twelve days. Here is a fact which cannot be controverted, and euch facta will rapidly inerease and extend the consumption of the Cumberland coal into the remote-t sections of the country. After the adjournment of the Board, the following | sales of stocks were made at auction by Simeon Draper:— | $4,000 Columbus, Piqua and Ind. RR Ist mort, ict. 5,000 Sandusky, M: t 20 shs. Kast Ri 50 Manhattan Fire Ina. Co 40 W'lliameport and Elmira R.R. 107 Empire Stone Dreseing Co Ver Fire Ins. Co. The above on the usual terms—ten per cent to-day, re- mainder to-morrow. The following were sold, payable ten per cent day of sale, the remainder, with interest at six per cent per annum, on delivery of stock, Ist of Auguet— slares Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Co. New York Central Railroad Co. 79 do. 100 do. 100 do. 400 do. 180 do. an advance. Railroad, 34; Erie Railroad, %; New York and Erie Railroad Co Michigan Southern Railzoad, Panama Railroad Co . Little Miami Railroad Co At the second board the market was quite buoyant and there were large sales of all tho leading fancics, a' Cumberland went up 114 per cent; Reading ¥. Central Railroad, . 87% 985 2; Harlem, 44; Nicaragua Transit, 24; McCulloch, \. The Metropolitan Bank bas declared four per cent ai- | vidend; the Market Bank, 4 per cont; the Tradesmen’s | Bank, three dollars per share. The steamship Pacific, from this port for Liverpool, to-morrow, (Saturday,) will not take out a very large amount of specie. The total exports will be under half a million of dollars. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port, to-day, were $72,534 52; payments, $87,278 40; balance on hand, $9,281,093 25. ‘The annexed statement exhibits the quantity and value of foreign dry goods entered at this port for consump- tion, for warehouse, and also the withdrawals from ware- house, during the week ending and including Thitrsday, the 224 of June, 1854:— MOVEMENTS IN FoREIGN Drv Goons. Entered MANUFACTURES OF SILKS, Silke... Ribbons Plush Vestings Cravate, Bhewls.. Spool... Total... 8. and co: Pls. Value. . 144 $155,201 83 53,73) 906 Straw Wyse: eve, 449° $93,737 Sor Consumption. MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. Phyt. Merinos. Cot. & worst'd Total Value $58,380 10155 38656 25,002 28,470 164 12}673 | 693 $230,510 | MANUFACTURRS OF PLAX, Linens ......« Do. & cotton... read . Hdkfs. Total . mis Embr Suspenders... W. apparel... 162 $37,821 Withdrawals from Warehouse. MANUFACTURES OF COTTON. 1 7 21930 5 8)054 $20,709 MANUFACTURI i 74l4 21 43558 8 3,585 202 $47,378 NEOUS. 88 $10,951 60 40,967 4 1,308 40 18,857 & 1,584 4 1,235 201 $81,022 is OF WOOK. n $3973 ee 38 iets 2 262 6 1,287 M7 $0,845 MANUPACTORES OF PLAX. 32 $4,505 y | ere. | at y Manuf. of Wool. ru a Silk, 37 Flax. 2 | Miscellaneous... ~ Totals. .rorssreoversses 821 $106,619 133 $46,017 Entered for Warehouse. Manuf. of Wool... .-602 $179,660 85 6e2, Cotton. 95 17,244 198 Silk... ai 82;285 «46 80,188 Flax. 40 ° = — scellaneous - - 6 1,419 Totals... 285,487 936 #120 008 Value put on market 4 1852..$1,064,225 do. do. o. 2)128,264 do. do. do. 088,122 Foreign goods rule dulland heavy. The stock on band 6 larger than had been anticipated, and much of M ¢an- not be sold, excepting through the auction roows, and at extremely low prices, which terms are repulsive to hoki- Yet these will bave to concede all that i# mow asked of them, if they expect to get rid of thelr eupplics thie | season. This is the conviction of purchasers, whe, in | consequence, delay their selections, with the bope of be- ing able to make these on still more fayor@ble eondi- Hence the currert requirements of jobbers are limited and not urgent, and for this rearon the transac- tions in British and Continental goods are incenelderatle, while prices thereof are quite irregular, Stock “Exchange. Frivay, June 1854. 100 shs NYCenRR lO 96 50 do 820 96 14% % 500 NY Cen RR Bds 8415 2 oT 500 8455 Me 1000 ce 84% 7 1000 % 08 100 do.. 130 Nor India 10 Mich South KF. . 10 N Indiana Con. . 2 100 200 Erie RR. bi do. 11654 sg tig > BSE 45 20 Panama RR. 100 5 Galena & Chi RR. 323 50 140 Cleve & Tol B.b8 874 ' 100 250 do.,.., 60 88 6 140 do. RS 87 26 8] BOARD. $8000 Ill Cen RR Bde. 76 200 shsCumb Co,.010 Sy 2000 Erte Inc Bas... 974 600 Erie RE . 6 1000 Krie 2a MtgBds 100 60 a 6 3000 Erie Bds of 83, #9 50 d © 5 a oe 100shs McCulloch Gd 1 -b60 Py BESS8R382 Pi d 100 Paname RE 100 Harlem ki 120 Nic Trans ¢ 100 do... 200 do, MINING BOARD. 34 1600 ebs North Gar.. 2° 1000 do... 880 46¢, 300 chs Am Wh Zine. 200 Gardiner Gold. CILY PeADE REPORT. Fray, June 23—6 P.M. Asuks.—Some 75 bbls. brought $5 50 for pearl, and #5 75 a $5 81 for pots, per 100 Ibs. Breapsrvrvs.—Flour tended downwards. The saber om- braced 9,000 bbls. ; inferior State, at $6 8714 a 97 1244; er- dinary to choice do., at $7 1234 a $7 8734; mixed to fancy ‘Western at similar prices, and other grades in propertion. Sales were made of 1,600 bbls. Canadian, in bond, at 97 25 & $7 75; and 1,000 bbls. Southern at previous queta- tions. Wheat was on the decline. 16,000 bushels wero taken, at $1 65 for Southern, and $1 96 for fair @anadian white, in bond, and $1 60 a $1 8734 for inferior to hand- some Western red, per bushel. Rye, oats, and barley were unchanged. The transactions in corn amounted to 42,000 bushels, at 70c. a 780. for damaged, and 80c. & 85c. for Western mixed, per busbel. Corroy.—The sales were estimated at 400 to 500 bales, closing at steady prices. Corrrr —The sales included 800 bags commen Rio, on private terms, and 1,250 bags St. Domingo, for export, i ‘at 8 $14,100 per 1b; 100 do., do., on private nd 1,000 mats Java on private terms, raction under i4c About 100 chalarons Liverpool oanne! coal ro}d 50 per chaldron. "RRIGHTS.—Rates to Liverpool were firmer, owing to diminished number of vessels for that with more offering for shipment. About 25,000 bash els of corn and wh: at were engaged at 434d. a 6a. to 6d. ebiefly in bulk; and 2,000 or 3,0U0 bbls. four were em geged at 1s, 6d.; while cotton was at id. for essed. To Glasgow, 6 000 bushels wheat at Gl«d.; ooo ‘bbls. flour at Is. 9d. To London, 100 tons’ ell cag it 178. 6d. To Havre, cotton Mt am | forward at ashes were at $7 a $9, and rice $1! California, rates varied from 45c. a 66c., with occasienal higher and lower rates, in vessels recently on, or ad- vanced in loading. Hewr.—The market for all kinds continues quill. ‘There are no sales to report in foreign, and in América only 360 bales undressed, at $196 a $210. Dressed is generally held at $260 a $285. . Hay.—1 ,000 bales river were sold yesterday and to day at 7c. a Tbe. for shipment, per 100 ibs. Irox.—£ales of 40 tons Scotch pig were made, at $40 50 per ton, six months. Lrap.—A emall sale of Spanish coast reported at one. Livre,—Rockland was more toquired for, at 87346, Jor common and $1 36 for lump, per bbl. Naval. Storrs —The transactions incladed bbls. gpirits turpentine, at 4ve.; 500 bbls. rosin, at per 300 Ibs.; and 200 bbls. tar, at $4. bereitacrcst am Taras sales of 4,5( lone linseed, a¥80c. @ 82¢. TRroviswons. me movements in reek oe ‘Wls., at $14 50 for prime mess; $13 for mets, and SLL 26 er bbl. Sales were reported of 20 ‘al former prices: 300 Duis, tard, at Dive a toe, juotations; 85 bi 260 bbls. beof at full ble t $20 60 per UI. Butter amd dese were dull and heavy. TALLow.--Sales of 12,000 Ibs. Western were made on private terms. . Ler -satad of 400 casks were made, at $3 60 to $4 25 per i. SvGar.—The rales were moderate, at eed, and jneluded about 580 hhds. Cuba, at see aea sb do, New Orleans, at 4c. a 43¢¢. Sales of 900 boxes brown Havana were made at 40, in bond, for export, amd 200 boxes do free, at bc. 7 Toracco.—the sales included 27 hhds. Virginia 6 pr yate terms, and 100 de. Kentucky leaf, at 6¢. a Te. y 67 bales Carmen and 32 do. Havana, on private tems; 800 cases Ohio seed leaf, at $3¢c. @ 7e., and 10 cases Connecticut, at lic. a 16¢. Woo.—The trade here continues light. Manufacturers are low, looking to the country plies, and are buying, not heavily, however, at the We at 12c. to 18c, ver Ib. lower than at this peried last ‘There i a moderate stuck of all descriptions ; Prices of domestic are nominally 27¢. to Mc. per B. for fleece, and 24c. a 45e, for pulled In fercign ie little or no business doing at present. Wriskry.—Sales of 400 bbls. Obio amd Prison Wen effected, at 20c, a 20 4¢. per gallon. Domestic Markets. Briowron, June 22.—At market 676 beef cattle, 40 works ‘were enga: abont 200 9175 ing oxen, 80 cows and calves, 3,100 sheep and 760 swine. Pricer—Beo? cattle Highs prices were aako| in the morning withont much success, and we re] correspond With last week:—Extra, $8.76 — $0; one $8 0 $8 50; recond do., a $7 75; do., 6 C0n'87, Working oxen—sales at from $85 to 8175, Cowes and calves—sales at from $26 to $62. Sheep and lambs—emall lots at from $310 $6 60. Bwine—tat hore, corn fed, 'Ke.: apring pigs, 6o. to 63¢c.; ahoate to pegs ule, aelected, 5X6, and 6446.; at setail, 04, W 7 at