| Show GlEAm GLEANINGS GS FROM EXCHANGES N GE so miss erfie errie CATHERINE lately sued gued henry shaw all of st louis mo for promise claiming one hundred thou r sadid dollars damages on the ad of june the jury rendered a verdict for the full amount of the thi petition of the he plain plaintiff tir tiT which will amford afford thodi damsel a handsome competency lor for life the young lady is represented aa as beirl being 9 about thirty years of age tall and graceful dark hilr hair brilliant eyes blonde complexion and arnouts expressive of great firmness and decision of character in itt rather poor circumstances mr shaw is about sixty years 0 of f age his hair is somewhat gray his features are rather sharp but with an expression of countenance anything but disagreeable he be is a man of great wealth assessed for and worth upwards of a million according to the evi evl evidence kence is one of the oldest citizens of st louis lisis and tower grove his country seat is one of the finest residences in that vicinity damages were at first laid at but at miss carstang Carz tang subsequently had bad her petition mended amended probably by advice of other her counsel and the amount fixed at during the trial the defense tried to impeach the soung young ladys character but signally failed on the contrary says an exchange the whole effect of the testimony on the part of defense was to show that miss carstang Carz tang so far from being immodest or indecorous was waa unusually prudent and discreet the ile courtship between mr shaw and miss carstang Carz tang was continued from the spring of 1856 1806 to the winter of 1857 8 a few weeks previous to the institution of the suit shaw was an old bachelor it is said that no inconsiderable fraction of the one hundred thousand dollars damages is to t be regarded as ismart smart money 11 vit it ia is understood that defendants counsel will file a demand to have the verdict set aside eside and petition for a new trial to give a more definite view of the case we extract the following from a letter written by miss carstang Carz tang t to the defendant in the spring of 1858 I 1 write to you yon now not because it Is a pleasant tk task nor do I 1 do it to annoy you yon for I 1 believe I 1 am BO so constituted that it Is my ray disposition always to heal rather than wound but P lit t the same fame times timet timeo timed I 1 consider myself under all ali 11 circumstances as bound to protect and defend my own ova penson person honor ani ani and reputation reputations let who will suffer and 1 write now to remind yon you that tbt by your attentions the last two years to me antl and our engagement and your subsequent deseri ion lon or me you have hare attacked nd compromised all three it Is unnecessary for me to say that I 1 am much put pat out and aj dissatisfied though perhaps you think I 1 ought to have bad better sense than to bave bare b llevad you it Is over two years since you sought fought acquaintance my mr and requested permission to visit mey met me and oared offered me references aa as to your character and position and very soon atter after came your proposal to mary you ton bald said your wealth and business did not answer for company you were very lonesome that your mother was too old to live with you that your single tingle sister bister would probably dies dle die even before your mother and mrs borlase had bad her husband for company after d delaying ome fowe time to test the sincerity of your offers becoming satt sati fied tied fled that hat you really desired me for your wife I 1 accepted you yon and from that time you were a constant visitor you sent me flowers and fruit and made me lae presents li resents from time to time and frequently invited me to ride rides and seemed teemed to desire that our eur relation chuld be made ruehe you invited me to meet friends at your house louse in the city and to ride out ont to your country et test ton you sent me a piano and desired that I 1 hourt bourt employ a teacher you yon told sister that you yon were going to tako lako lake me away sways and nally hn lly ily named the time nhen when we would marry and I 1 made preparations for the same the time arrived and you yon postponed it on account of your desire to perfect your arrangements in relation to the botanical garden you ton removed the piano plano to your own house houses under the pretence predence pre tence that you yon desired it on account of a musical party to be held there fiu Flu finally ally aily jon yon cease tease to visit me and when I 1 become solicitous for fear yon you are III ill and call at your house you yon insult intuit me with a proposition prop which any true woman would reject during our engagement encasement I 1 have avoided general society and declined the attentions of other others and have endeavored to please you yon in every way your tour attentions have been remarked by many and I 1 am now BOW to all the unhappiness and mortification arising from trem your desertion of me roe had you yon called on me as a gentleman and offered any tes tea anable excuse for tor this treatments treatment or simply limply ogled me lor tor elese elesse you yon from this engagement engs engi rement gement sni ant ant ani aw goed no Teason reasons ll I 1 trust I 1 should have had bad too much pride not to brave elave compiled at once but your desertion ag as it I 1 ade ide deserves V whatever whatever the of a jn in t public may roay ag its t author and YOU yon may rest test assured that if it my count U I 1 so 0 o advises advise uch such reparation shall shail be de banded as our laws grant grint to my sex rex ex tinier under the during the courtship the lady resided with her gister sister mrs seaman who was the principal It neba nega in the cage case if eo so lar lares lareo a verdict the largest lar pet get it 6 leov b ever rendered similar cabe cage the jury were undoubtedly influenced by the known wealth of the defendant the personal attractions of the plaintiff and still more by the course which he be a man twice her age pursued toward a woman whose affections he had once son sought bought Z bt to win JOSEPH PERRY PEBBY in the circuit court at beaufort north carolina obtained a verdict of damages against malachi bell for slanderous words used by mrs bell against mrs afro perry plaintiffs wife horace GREELEY writes from leavenworth may 23 that a mule train would leave the fort in a few days filled with soldiers wives and babies on their way to join their husbands in utah from whom born they have been separated nearly two years from which fact he argues that uncle sam expects to have use for his army in utah for some time yet yes mr greeley the army in U utah tah I 1 serves an admirable purpose in depleting the peoples treasury when its coffers are overflowing blowin l but it is intimated is not so efficient in restoring financial soundness to a country steeped in bankruptcy bankrupts I 1 A DESERTED husband publishes the following card in the napoleon ark planter whereas matildaa mati matl m ldar idar pInk hams bams my whitey white has left my bed and bord boril and bud who EO so ever will wilt bring her back shall ball be au tybel rewarded let it be more or less she has chesnut cull culi ered hares hates hare lite biu blu hes kes ies tes lite skin ghose those of a small size find her da du or her muther will be distracted distract edy edt age 28 richard pinkham of madbury cadbury mad bury if yon you can find out anything about her send a lattur to dareau of new hamp khlare bhe went away the 9 of no niber 1842 1812 before she the was married her name was the darter of ezra hill and hauner hunner hill of alton it is not at all likely that the schoolmaster has ever visited those remote regions leavenworth is the largest city in kansas and contains about inhabitants STEAM CANAL BOATS have commenced plying on the ohio canal SANTA ANNAS recall by special decree Is confirmed protestant liberty in france has recently received the attention of the emperor who in cor lection with a report from al Rr rouland uland minister of public instruction and worship issued an imperial decree modifying the french laws in regard to the exercise of protestant worship M roelands Rou lands report of measures for the protection of the liberties of the minori minority ty begins as follows the principle of liberty of worship though a elated I 1 a t e di in n general terms refers especially to the liberty of the state has BO no right to ask account of personal per fonal faith bal bat when leaving these private individual prayers and devotion siy citizens meet together to worship openly the french government regarding the important interests of society has never hesitated to gig give the state the right ot of previous authority the office of permitting per pei public worship is now entrusted not as before to thai tha perfects of departments but to the council of state 2 who it is thought thoughts will be even less leas accessible to protestant petitions than the perfecto perfects were it is also asserted that dissenting ministers must be frenchmen by birth PRESIDENT buchanam buchanan RU chanan CHANAm returned highly satisfied with his visit to chapel hill during the college exercises the professor of logic and rhetoric having mentioned the name of the successful candidate requested mr air buch anan to award the premium for the hest best english composition in compliance with which aich the president remarked I 1 confess I 1 am taken by surprise I 1 am m very happy kappy to be the honored medium through which this token la Is presented to the young gentleman be before I 1 ore me ile lie has baa distinguished himself for merit in composition and that is t the greatest grea feet teet merit perhaps that any literary gentleman can enjoy because the man who writes learly clearly kind and thinks clearly arter after a little practice will peak speak clearly th great merit of compo my chumbl judgment consists in hort pointed sentences the author s ho he writes i ofir long sentences involves himself in many difficulties one dl dig dib idea resented in a distinct manner bas baa more potency and inere more power than tha the sentences e of a bock buck la which everything under tho the sun ban Is bought boight tc gelber kelber according to style of many rainy of cur modern writers the che ancient style was the bet best style and that was emphatically the style of mr calhoun and la in an eminent dewree defies the abe style of mr webster I 1 wish you gret pret honor an I 1 great prosperity in whatever pursuit you intend to follow I 1 have bee bet n delighted with the exercises here today to tc today day I 1 think I 1 have never heard beard in my rn life more genuine humor and wit than that presented today to day by the gentleman who delivered the address and who ws was formerly a pro mior here and in regard to the sober cober portions of his addre address seq I 1 hep bop they have sunk bunk deep in tb be mind of every student lif f thib thin callif col lie ile lif the che great grest curse of our count shat that curse alch which has hall involved go so many of the most prom iong long young men of the land in n ruine which hag has b as md made mothers mot moi herfi miserable and which has ha made father fathers reel feel disgraced by the of their own oss off pring lo the crime of drunken dr unken unten nepsy nessy nes more feally 2 eally by far than the rief tlene tiene than the yellow rellow fever than then the plagues and ani than kli all billier eal egi calmi caimi guil suii ties that have visited man mr buchanan duc Euc hanan banan was waa dubbed dulled u itle ithe the president among the people as was evidenced during durla his recent tour is held in general high esteem the washington constitution ution says that no president not even general jackson himself in the helb helm height beight abt of his popularity was evermore cordial cordially hywel welcomed corned coined or ever received stronger 1 proofs of grateful attachment ent and affectionate respect respects than bao bau ha been spontaneously manifested towards mr buchanan by those who constituted the ornament and guard as well as the strength and glory of a state and a nation at every stage of his bis tour DANci DANCING Nr though rather unseasonable during the hot weather of midsummer mid summer ia Is nevertheless th tb eless at proper times in proper places and under proper circumstances an exhilarating and healthful recreation A presbyterian minister of buffalo N Y lecturing on the lethe christian law of amusement knocks off the cori corners jers of religious superstition a as handed banded down from the days of salem witchcraft and the blue laws of connecticut conn e c uttering uttering agthe the following sentiments why I 1 have sat fat beside a professing christian woman in one of the beautiful parlors of a fashionable metropolitan avenue whose jeweled neck necks and ears and finger pi and dazzling brocade as much as said to the assembled guests none of your dresses cost as much as mine and then I 1 have seen her go into the supper room and eat enough to make a swine have gripes of conscience and then come out obese and pant panting ing for breath breaths made m marvelously or ly religious by sandwiches and chim champagne and wind up the farce with a pious discourse on the sin of dancing now news I 1 think that if she had bad transported a portion of her conscience from her slippers to her stomach though bhe the might have an inch or two less of phylactery the loss would have been compensated by several additional yards of christian consistency A MONUMENT in commemoration of the battle of lake erie is about to be erected on gibralter rock in put in bay north end of lake erie tom jones the ohio sculptor produced the design which for fitness to the object masterly proportions and originality of conception says the ohio state journal vies with the great trojan column at rome 29 its description is given as follows the base Is about thirty feet square from which rises a square re block haying having the en entrance to the column and supporting a panel on which will be cut in bas relief that most meet glorious glor gior lous ious event in the history of perry when he be quitted the be dismantled Lawr lawrence erice and with the battle alag flag 9 upon his shoulder passed in a small boat through the raking aire fire rf of the enemy to another ship the next important feature of the monument wl wi I 1 be the broadside b road side of a man of warp war with its port holes and cannon 0 on protruding and above this will rise in majestic proportion proportions the lott loft column representing the sturdy mast of a vessel the top surrounded with sea shells among amonn which as in watery waters water Is placed the cap of the monument formed with the prows of four noble ships of the line this will be the striking feature of the monument monn nent ment the bold prows with their cut waters and figurehead figure heads head making mat mak the tha corners of a masterly corinthian capital fro pro from the centre of the capital will rie the crown a shi ships P cap tau tan worked out oat to the litey life lite and upon the whole stand stands s a statue of the noble perry fifteen feet high the small email island on which the monument will be placed replaced Is three hundred hondred feet broad broads and twelve hundred feet loag shaped like scoff acoff ln and at equal distances from the aldes aides and upper tipper end Is the highest point rising forty feet above rock the monument will be one cna hundred and sixty feet high bight which with the forty of the island gives an altitude of two hundred feet THE SLAVE SLAVS population of cuba ia is estl esti mated at there is about one free blackno black to three slaves Th the ewhite white population ia Is not quite equal to the whole number of blacks free add slave together besides these 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