New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-04

OMEN. .eeer.on of me, Won have ats sked ssi com
prou,eS all three IL rrneceessyy Tor ssy that
I am nuc,s put out snd dissatisfied, thSSgh perhaps
you think argbt 10 hsye had better - n lo
have believed Won. IL is over two years .lrce yUn
sought nv scduA In'aDce and rsque ted pe~a,issiOn
to vi-it ne and oh>Fet me reference ~ tC' yon
character ard Position sod very sooo after yDlf
prcpossl to marry Ysu sid your alih scc business
did not answer for company; YOU were very h>sAome;
that your mother too cln to live with ysa II 81
your single sistsr wouh probably Gle before your
mother and Mr.. Morisse had her husband for CON-
pany After delaying time 20 tes; the sincerity
OF your oilers becoming satisfied that You really de-
sired me for you wife, accepted you. and from tAst
tine you were constant visitor. fOa ~ent me howors
snd fruit, Al aie presents IOm time 10 time and
frequently invited me 10 rde and seemed 70 desire that
relation should be made public. You invited
10 meet friends at your house 10 the city, sud 20 rie
out 10 yOur country seat You sent piano and
desired that should employ seacher. You told sister
that you were goirg 10 take me away, aid 6nslly
rsmtd tie tine when would marry, aEd | made
preparations for the same. The time arrived,
and you postponed It, on account OF your
desire TO perfect your Rrsr gemeots in relation
TO the o.aiicsl garden. You removed the piano to
your house the preieDce tn at you desired
account of a musical party to be held there. III
psly, YOU cease 10 visit me, aud when become So
hcious for fear YOU III. ard call al your house,
insult me with proposition which any true woman
would reject. During our engagement, you have
avoided general society, and declined the attentions OF
o,hers and have etdeavored 10 please you in every
way. Your attentions have been remarked by many,
ard am subjected to all the ubhsppiaess aud
modification arising from your desert'op Of me-. Had
you called me gentleman and offered any rea-
souable for this treatment simply asked me
to release you from this engagement aud assigned
reason, trust should have hsd too much pride not
TO have compiled at but your desertou, ss H.
deserves whatever punishment the opinion of just
public may visit upon is author; and you may rest
sured that if my counsel advises. such reparaton
hall ha md IaIk law. fp
"Yoan T. C. CARSrANG."
The other witnesses beside the sister were servants
and bosrders in her house, who testified to having
heard the plaintiff say that she going to marry
the old gentleman that she loved him better than
anybody else The sister swore that Mr.. Shaw
twice lin the Fall of 1856 and ia the Spring of 1857
spoke of marrying the plaintiff and that she herself
carried notes to bis house, signed Kate"
The defense attempted to break down the plaintiffs
character but -gnaly failed. Every witness sworc
that 40 far a. his or her knowledge rst-hand in
formation went there nothing impoper or indeli
cate in her corduct. Some Of the defendant wit
nesses tried very hard to mpugn her reputation but
on cross-examinaton the truth came out. great
deal of stress laid upon the fact that she in
the habit Sunday afternoons and evenings of visiting
Mr.. Fred. Homes, one of the boarders in the
house in his own room frequently staying an hour or
two, ard sometimes till IL O'Clock. But all the wit
nesses said that she made these visits openly, and
that they never drew any inference of improperly
from the practice; and it further appeared that
Homes who was Secretary of an Insurance Company,
acted "a her business agent and that the converse
tion when overheard was upon matters of business.
Mr. Shepey, in opening the case for the defendant.
left this specific charge and branched out into gen
eral strain of remark, follows:
The parties plaintiff the term deliberately,
for. though this woman stands here n the nominal
plaintiff She is but the instrument of the real who
occupied that chair, and which, by her admission,
in the eager lust of cluchng this promised gam most
nnwittIrgy let ont in her testlmoDy-hvng for four
years in house where none but unmarried men
lodged stand here aud -ay that woman God for
bid should debaI any bereft of protectors to
exercise any employment not immoral, because there
few hOIorabe avenues enough IN this country Tor
such AT one To seek Livelihood, especially one sep
arated from her husband for ten years, with her I'M
married sister, would seek to occupy such a house
unless forced so to do by adverstes. 1t may be
poeitoD is'eDt with prpreiy but 1t Is an unfortu'
nate under any circumstances.
The defense introduced some witnesses with view
to impugulng the plaintiff ; reputation while in
Charleston, but the eylder ce showed nothing more
than that the yonng at that place INDUCED them
selves in loose talk about this pretty mner, only 20
years old.
One Of the counsel for the defendant in opening the
case Infatuated rather than stated that the plaintiff
received money from the deendaot for improper con-
siderstions but there evidence to that effect
There was some talk, however, the part OF
winess respecting alleged notes for money lent by the
plaintiff to the defcndsnt, which notes she had pro-
nounced TO be forgeres out there was no proof con-
nectng them closely with the case.
The whole effect Of the testimony on the part Of the
defence to show that Miss Carstang was. so Tar
from being immodest or ndecorous, unusually pru
dent and discreet, and that for some reason best
known to hin self, Mr. Shaw had seen fit to make
allegations against her good name which he
could not support, and to try to hunt up
evidence which be could nowhere find. The
Jury undoubtedly governed. in the rendi-
ton OF so large verdict-he largest, probably,
given in a of this kindly the great wealth of
the defendant the personal attractions of the plaintiff
and still more by the course which he, man twice
her sge, had pursued toward woman whose affec-
tions be had once sought to win. No inconsderable
fraction OF the one hundred thousand dollars damages
is TO be regarded smart money"
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.