The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-08


cognlZe their authority to make the demand he
would state that he had received his orders from
the United States government and should occupy
the island until recalled by the same authority
Captain Pickett has raised the American fac at
Chapultepec, in the Mexican war, is a brave and
cautious officer and will go as far as duty and hon
or require.
THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE AT ST. LOUIS.
From the Brooklyn Eagle, September 81
EFFGE c. CARzTANG AGAINST HENRY SHAW
The immense verdict rendered on the above ex-
traordinary case, when it was tried at ST. Louis
few months ago, created general surprise wherever
1t was spoken Of but more particularly in this CITY,
where the plaintiff first the light and where
her parents resided many years. The father of
Llhe was the proprietor of small rope walk at the
Wallabout and was a sort of local preacher in that
then almost benghted and sparsely populated dis
trict In consequence of his excessive Deafness he
invariably carried with him an ear trumpet and
was frequently subjected to the-nschievous pranks
OF the boys, who in those davs were under less
moral restraint than they supposed to be in this
age OF comparative progress and enlightenment
The girls, too, are represented as having with but
few rare exceptions, not been so remarkably cir
cumspect and prudent In their department as in cir
cies more polished and refined, a proof of which
fact has since been established by the history of
Mrs. Emma Burdell Cunningham, of borus-babv
notorlety. who was one of a large family ofdaugh-
ters oil William Hampstead, neghbOr of Carr
tang 5, most OF whom have been more or less unfor-
tunae in the various spheres of life they have sew
orally occupied here aud elsewhere
One of Ellie Carztang's sisters Mary married
man named David Seaman, but shortly afterwards
separation took place between them, each of ii m
going whithersoever they pleased and taking an
their respective abodes wheresoever they thought
proper. He, without the fear of anti-bigamy laws
took to himself another wife, whom he is now sup
porting by driving an ice wagon in Brooklyn for
i md tha fret
her fortunes in the companionship of her sister the
plaintiff in this action. 1t appears that the twain
(Ele and Mary) af-er various ramblings and at-
ventures reached the city Of st. Louis in the fer
tile and prosperous State of Missouri, where, con-
Jointly they embarked in the business of lodging
house keepers for single gentlemen. 1t was there
that an acquaintance formed with Mr. Henry
Shaw, the defendant in this suit who is reputed to
be Immensely wealthy, and whose donations of land
for public purposes in the vicinity of ST. Louis are
said to exceed in value half million of dollars
lie is by birth Englishman but has re-
sided in the southwestern states several years.
and acquired his large fortune as whole
sale dealer in hardware. He lives in prince
ly style at a country mansion in the suburbs of St
Louis, besides having splendid private residence
in the city, and has rendered himself eminently
popular by his numerous charitable benefactinns -
1t is alleged that Miss Carztaug's first interview
with him was with view of obtaining from him
loan on behalf of her sister, to enable the lat
ter to meet her engagements for the rental of her
she had incurred in the course of her business as
a lodging house keeper. On that occasion chattel
mortgage offered to him as security for the
payment of the loan solicited, which he declined to
receive, contrary to his mode of doing business;
but he never heless advanced to the ladies some
money, for which Miss Carztang gave him her
promisSorv note. Subsequent interviews took place
between the parties, both at his town and country
houses, until the visits of the plaintiff became more
frequent, and their intimacy grew more familiar
eliminating, as is pretended, in a promise on his
part to marry her, notwithstanding their dispartv
OF age. The result of the suit for the non-fulfII-
ment by him of that alleged contract is already be-
fore the public, in the awarding of damages to Miss
Carztang to the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars, besides the enormous costs incident to the
trial This doubtless considered to be a tolera-
bly, good "windlall' for woman wha acknow-
ledges herself to be thirty-seven or thirtyeight
years of age, and her friends and associates greatly
reJoiced thereat-but the verdict had such an as
founding effect upon certain portio-s of the COM
munity as to avert the sympathies of intelligent
people from the plaintiff to the defendant; even
some of tho jurors who had consented to its infic-
ton, publicly announced through the newspapers
of St. Louis, that they had erred in the conclusions
arrived at by them. Like the tabled Frankepstein
they shrank in alarm and dread from the work Of
their own hands, and when a superior tribunal was
applied to to set aside the decision stay of proceed
ings was Immediately granted, and a new trial or
dered AT this stage Of the proceedings the Hon
orable James +. Lakeland, then one of the Circuit
emnently distinguished for his learning and elo-
quence, was retained additional counsel for the
defendant, and he forthwith procured a commission
TO be issued for the purpose of taking depositons in
the city of New ork, to be used in evidence at the
next trial of the cause, which will take place at the
December term of the St. Louis Court OF Common
Pleas; the attorneys for the plaintiff simultaneously
obtaining an order for the examination of witnesses
in New \ Ork on her part.
On the 9Th of August these two Commissions
commenced their respective sessions-one before
Edward F. Collier, Esq, at the office of Messrs.
BOwdoin, Laroques Barlow, Mo. SO Merchants
exchange, New Iork-and the other before John
NJ. Eager, Esq, No. 1873 Nassau street, New York.
The testimony closed on both sides on Monday
last, and covers upwards of eighteen hundred pages
of manuscript. Nearly hundred witnesses were
examined pro and con-
The object of the defendants counsel, in the
taking Of these depositions, was to impeach the
character of the plaintiff and her sister Mary for
chastity and virtue during their residence in
Brooklyn, and to show the unfavOrabe opinions
which were entertained of and concerning them by
persons with whom they associated in their earlier
years This was only to a limited extent success
ful; no direct acts of cupability being shown
against either of them, except by one of the wit
nesses, whose reputation for truth and yeracty and
general good standing in the community was as
sailed by others. The latter, in their turn, were
contradicted by gentlemen who stand high above
reproach in public estimation and it this re-re-
butting testimony which rendered expedent to
both litgants the attendance of so many witnesses
the occupancy Of so much time, and the expendi-
tIre Of so many hundreds of dollars on both sides
1t is remarkable fact so far as the plaintiff is
Oncerned, that although she was born and brought
up in BROOKLYN, and has many of her relatives and
old schoO-ieilOws and companions here residing,
not a single female produced by her to testify
in her favor, notwithstanding that she was present
at each meeting before the Commissioners during
protracted investigation of more than three weeks,
and was attended by agents and emf -saries ready
to do her bidding at any moment, 60 far relates
to the service of subpenas the running of errands
and the delivery OF notes and messages She is un-
questionably woman Of more than ordinary
shrewdness, tact and energy, and throughout the
proceedings took cOpious notes of the testimony,
besides giving instructions to her attorneys and
prompting them in their direct and interroga-
tions
Three or four of the witnesses for whom sub
penas were issued on the part of the defence pur-
posely evaded examination, either by concealing
themselves from the service of process or entirely
leaving the State until the termination of the in
quiry before Mr. Eager. One of them abandoned
a lucrative situation which he held engineer in
large establishment in New York rather than make
his appearance before the commissioners; another
suddenly discovered that he had important business
to transact in Philadelphia whence he subsequent
y made tracks for Cork; and three others 6adies
well known in BroOklyn) found it expedient to re-
pair their shattered health BY beating hastv re-
treat to the sulphur springs of Virginia. the min
era waters OF Saratoga, the invgOrating breezes
OF Newport or Cape May. 1t is notmpoSsbe that
these untoward circumstances will induce the de-
endants legal advisers to issue another commission
to New York, at salubrious season of the year.
when travelling to fashionable places of summer
resort will neither be seductive or so servceabe
as at present, and when business men will be less
able than of late to cast aside their customary voca
tions for jaunts of luxury and pleasure.
The Commissions sent to New York in this
case are not the only preparations made for the de-
fence on the occasion of the ensuing trial at st.
Louis. Others have been issued for the examina-
tion of witnesses at Charleston, S. c. New Orleans
Cincinnati, and elsewhere, so that the case promis
es to be one of the most interesting and important
OF its kind ever presented to any court jury either
in this or any other civilized country.
lRoS ITEMs.-From recent estimates, we learn,
that there nearly 1000 iron works in the Union;
that these produce annually about S3O00O tons of
iron, the value of which, in an ordinary year, is
fifty millions of dollars of this amount, the por-
tion expended for labor alone is about $4,000 0OO
The amount of rolled iron made in the United
States is about 100000 tons per annum. Of this,
about 100000 tons is made east, and 200 900 tons
west of the Allegheny mountains.