The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-02-22

as is believed, we should be glad to know the
name of the clergyman or magistrate who
performed it, for such an act should not 90 I'M.
noted, if under the sanction Of the laws, it can
60 unpunished.''
The same paper of a subsequent day gives
US the following additional particulars of this
singular and painful case.
This young girl, who is nearly connected
with two among the most distinguished off.
GERS in the army, was left, by her fond parent,
in boarding school on Staten Island, with
some three years yet before her to complete
her education in; where Capt. Shirley, late
an officer of the British army, and serving Ell
ther in the field of Waterloo or New Orleans,
first became acquainted with her. Through
the instrumentality, as it is said of the son
of the lady who kept the boarding school, but
without her knowledge or her consent, the ac-
quaintance of this Capt. Shinley ripened into
an engagement to be married and to elope.
He boarded for a long time at the Pavilion,
but he subsequently became resident of the
house itself, on account of a previous matri-
monial connection he had formed with the
family of the lady whose school the young girl
was in. On Saturday week, the young lady
was permitted to come to the city on the pre-
tence of visiting her father who has Just been
here, but was not here then when the marriage
took place, and Feb. I'd, after having returned
home, under another pretence she again came
to the city, when they both sailed in the pack
ct ship Mediator, for London, which brought
out all the facts in the case.
nj IF fbo
ed commission for the suppress ion of the Slave
Trade, stationed at Demerara. His age is
stated at 40 and the highest at 20, this disa-
greement of computation arises from savage
looking pair of mustachos and whiskers, which
the captain wore, while, it is affirmed he
paints not a little, and wears wig and false
teeth. such ornaments, as all will allow, often
add much youth to the appearance of old men.
The captain, too, dresses remarkably well,
aoaltzeS admirably, and has figured not a little
in our fashionable society, so that when he
concentrated all these ornaments and faculties
to fascinate and bewitch young girl not vet
IA, who knew nothing Of the world. it is not
at all remarkable that he had success. He is
said, however, to be respectfully connected in
England, and he has left behind his marriage
certificate, in the hands of a respectable mer-
chant. This is his third wife. Under a late
law of New York, it may be as well to add
here, the marriage of young girl under 16
is voidable but not void.
We observe it stated in some of the New
York papers, that the name of the young lady
isiMisS Emily Crogan, the daughter of gen.
tleman in one of the Western States, who has
been an Indian Agent, in the service of the
Government 1t is averred that the amount
of her fortune in her own right, is half mil
lion of dollars, which is snug sum for the
old gentleman in the moustache. There ap
pears TO be no doubt that the object of the
suitor was the girls fortune, and the miserable
parvenues who have aided forward the &C
complshment of the elopement, deserves
nothing but utter execration. So we 90. If
an impudent fellow from abroad comes into
certain circles, his pretcnsons are at once &C |
knowledged and he is courted and handed a. |
bout with great eclat; until he shall carry out
any designs he may have formed, and then Ia
king his departure by the first steamboat, he |
leaves his dupes to see how foolish they have |
been. 1t is a matter of sincere regret, that
we have to record the case Of Miss Crogan, |
on account of relatives, on her own account |
also. 1t must be heart-rending to her uncle.
who is said to be the hero of Sandusky, Col, |
Crogan of the U. S. Army.