The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-23
{ Correspondents of the Ashland Union)
From New York.
New YoRK, May 10, 1855.


- From New York
New York, May 10, 1855.
Barnun ID before the people " in an
unpleasant attitude. A good-looking
married woman, named Anna Hessing,
accuses hun of o criminal offence. The
case came up at the Mayors Office, yes
terday, before Justice Osborn, and the
Developments were of the kind known
among city reporters as decidedly
rich." The lady swore that Mr.. Bar
mum visited her on a certain evening,
during the absence of her husband, and
behaved himself pretty much as \ wick
ed Roman may have been supposed to
have behaved to a Sabine matron.-
Consult your Roman history, and
when found make mote Of" It ap-
peared, however, that Mrs. Hcssing
made no outcry at the time, and no com
plant to anybody until some hours az
terward. Mr.. Howard, late of the Irv-
ing House, was slightly mixed up with
the affair, he having been applied to by
the husband of Mrs. Hessing, to effect
a compromise. It seems that Hessing
was employed at the Museum, and that
Barnum owed him $2I. Mr. Howard
talked the matter over with him, it
would seem, in a conciliatory way, and
finally paid him s25 on Mr.. Barnum's
account-ths four dollars extra being
for the " trouble Mr.. II. had been
put to. The latter, however, was net
satisfied, and according to MI. Heward's
allegation, demanded the modest sum of
S25 5000. It was also shown that He's
sing was greately excited by his wife's
statement of MI. Barnum's conduct,
and that he proposed to Mr.. Barnum
that they should re~ciprocate bullets on
the Battery, at the same time displaying
q pistol. Finally, Hessing separated
from his wife, who was enciente, and she
was sent to q hospital bya German friend.
The lady was evidently magnetic, for it
was stated in evidence, that she said the
German attempted to take q liberty
With her lips, on the way thither. Up
on the whole, the affair looked as If Mr..
Barnum had strayed from the paths of
virtue, and that the lady, on - second
thoughts" had determined to turn his
and her own peccadillo to a profitable
account for herself and husband. She
don't appear to have made an awful re-
~sistanee at the time. On the contrary,
the thing, according to her own state
mcnt, passed off pleasantly enough
Judge Osborn therefore decided that it
looked like a conspiracy, not prccoDcert-
ed, but su6concerted, and disusissedit as
such.
How is it possible that so enthusiastic
q cold-water man as Mr.. Barnum could
be guilty of the hpsus imputed to him ?
In his autobiography, from first to last,
there is not a single passage which indi-
Gates IN impulsiye or ardent tempera-
and ealculators seldom get into such
ment, scrapes as the one referred to- AT
ter the case had been dismissed, Mr.. B.
made a speech to the reporters present,
in which he minated his determination
never tt be made the victim of humbug
or extortion, and expressed his willing
ness to "face the music" quere, the
music on "Scudder's ~balcony,') on all
Occasions. How will this affair inter
fere with the approaching baby show {!
What will prudent husbands and dis.
Greet wives think of the propriety of pat.
ronising Mr.. Barnump On 0erya.
Judge Beardsleyis elaborate opinion
on the prohibitory liquor law has given
unqualified satisfaction to the dealers
in " Ere water" in this community
The pith of his opinion lies in a nutshell.
Here it is:
The act, by express words, takes out of the
prohibitory clauses Of the first section al i'm,
ported wines and other liquors, SO that noneo
its Provisions-as to fines, seizure and forfeit
ure-for violating said clauses, apply to this
class of act A--aEe' does moi
ny contain any prohibition against keeping
selling. or giving away imported liquors. al
the pleasure of the owner, nor can any such
property be seized or confscated under its au-
thority.
The steamer Northern Light arriv-
ed yesterday, from St Juan, in seven
days and six hours, having San Francis
CO dates to the oath ult. She bring.
36I passengers, about S27s,000 on
freight, and bad news as to the state Of
trade in California
At cur Cattle Market, yesterday
there was a slight advance on last week,
prices. Beeves of the best quality sole
!, at l5c. per lb,-avarage about l4c.-
Mutton continues ~extravagantly dear
and yeal-much of which n Of the exit
ten " class-ditto. In fact, all sorts O
edibles are up to a mark where nothing
5 short of a salary of $4,000 a year or SO
will enable a man to supply his famil,
with " the best the market affords."-
HOLSTERS are about the cheapest foot
ooin0 Thaae ahell-fah NAV ha ho,oh