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Celebrated Brannan Divobcb
Case.?General John M. Brannan has ob'
tained a decree-of divorce from his wife,
Eliza Brannan. The petition on which
this case Came tip was filed at the January
term of court, and sets forththat the petitioner
was married atFort^Jolumbus, New
York, on September 16th, 1850, to Miss
"FHiVa Crane ; "that the issue of his marriage
was a daughter, Alida L. F. Brannan, born
July 28th 1851- that his wife mysteriously
disappeared from the * residence of her
mother, Mrs. Col. Crane, Stcten Island,
July 20th, 1858; that he made diligent
search for her, but without success, until
the spring of 1800, when he received information
that she was residing in Italy
ftritli Powell T. Wyman, of the United
Htates anny. The petition is accompanied
fey an affidavit of Dr. C. H. Crane, United
States army, brother to the respondent,
setting forth among other facts, that he
had received a letter from Wyman, dated
at Paris, in which he stated he had married
his sister, and that they were living
together as man and wife. Wyman resigned
his commission in the army and
returned with Mrs. Brannan to Boston ;
feat his friends persuaded him to accept
anq^ier commission, and fee came ont in
I command of oneof the Massachusetts regiments,
and was killed at Fair Oaks, being
shot through the heart. Mrs. Brannan,
we understand, still resides in Boston.
Waiter 8. Core appeared oh behalf of
Oeneral Brannan. Below we insert the
{ decision of Chief Justice Carter in the case.
It will be seen that the Chief Justice is
: justly severe on the infamous conduct of
f Mrs. Brannan: ,
| v In the case of General Jno. if. Brannan
' against Eliza Brannan, the court has conduced
to grant a decree of divorce. If
there be anydefect in the testimony at all,
it & in that branch of tho case where it
would have been most easy to have ac- j
paired it, viz : regarding the proof of the ;
Marriage. But the court thinks there is '
sufficient evidence of cohabitation, and
leoognition of marriage in'the offspring,
apart from the proofs of the mother and
the brother, to justify a decree of divorce.
The case briefly aliow9 that in 1850 John,
II. Brannan married the defendant, then
a girl bearing the name of Crane, both of
whose names are connected with tho inili
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. service of tlie country, ana very i
Mpectably connected. That thty lived
together from 1850 to 1851, when the birth
*f a daughter occurred, the only fruit of
; UuU marriage. That they continued from
\ 1851 to 1858 in the nominal relation of
t ef husband and wife. That the wife in
j 1858, under one oi those strange and
\ wicked caprices that set a defiance the i
s 1 tows of marriage and the obligations of
f ! Tumor, of respectable parentage and re spectabje
kindred, broke loose from her
?MTia|e relations, and took up her abode
with a Sir. EeweltT. Wyman, a captain in
the ?Uhited "Stated arm^, who has since
gone to his grave. Tljjat she afterwards
t resided in France, and during.this period
lived and cohabited with, and married the
t eaid Wyman, taking his name, and return-?
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mg to this courtry under his title?braving
public opinion, and withal disregarding
the moral sense of propriety of society in
the country in which she was raised.
It appears that General Brannan?and
this is the most painful feature of the
whole case?regarding his wife with confidence
and affection, and supposing her
to have committed suicide in a paroxysm
of insanity, or to be wandering about in a
demented state, exhibited the greatest
anxiety and agony at her mysterious disappearance
and expended his time aud
money in raking the lakes and advertising
in the highways to ascertain her whereabouts,
and if possible, to recover her, in
which efforts he was actively assisted by
his wife'* mother and brother.
During all this time, it appears, she was
coolly speculating in prostitution on the
other side of the Atlantic ; that, knowing
of this great anxiety and agony on the part
of all her kindred and husband, she refused
to disclose her whereabouts. It was nearly
two years before the facts came to light. .
I look i|pon this as one of the most aggravated
and one of the most cruel instances
of infidelity upon record, and do not hesitate
to decre a divorce, to General Brannan
with the restoration to him of all the
rights of an unmarried man and the custody
of the only offspring of this marriage.
The decree, however, hail better, perhaps,
be nominally amended?not exactly rejecting
the Latin, (for that mode of expression
does not add any force,) but setting forth
that he is restored to all the rights of a
single man, in plain English ; for a hundred
years hence, every person may not
understand "wliat " a vinculo malrimoni"
means.
Newt and ^IiscellaneouN Items.
Tl)? most amusing charge brought
gainst the north by mxy o& the rebels ft
that which the Raleigh Progress makes
against the northern ladies, that tftey are
dressed better than ever before, and that
too in the spoils of southern homes. One
would now about as soon think of plundering
a South Sea Islander's hut as a
rebel planter's house for a wardrobe. We
are sure that no lady here would confess
that Mrs. Jeff. Davis No. 7 gloves could
be of any use to her. , A
The Polish correspondent of a London
paper says that the Russian soldiery much
prefer fighting ag^nst insurgents without
uniforms than with, because they can sell
plain clothes to the Jews, and that their
custom is when they see a citizen in the
distance first to shoot him and then inquire
if he is an insurgent. He adds that
the Russian soldiers are anxious for tliia
and similar reasons to have the insurrection
continue.
It is stated that over two hundred imitations
of pennies have been put in circulation
within the past few weeks. A popular
marketman in Washington market,
New York, a few days since, had made a
collection of 135 varieties, and then abandoned
the attempt in disgust, so abundant
and constantly increasing was the supply.
The iron-clad Galena is now at the Philadelphia
Navy-Yard. Her coat of mail
will be taken off, and the vessel will be
thoroughly inspected, and, if "found expedient,
will be repaired in the strongest '
possible manner. The neoossary work
will be commenced at once, and the Galena
will be floated upon the sectional docks
within a week.
The savings banks of New York State
now hold seventy-six millions of dollars "
deposited by the laboring classes, which
is an illustration of the prosperity which
Northern 4'mudsills" are enjoying. Where
can we look in the " chivalric" South for
such another statement.
Lytton remarks that "in every city,
town, and street, and lane, there are bustling,
officious, restless pel .sons, who thrust ?
themselves into public concerns, \*Lth a
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loud declaration that they are animated
only by the desire of public good ; they
mistake their figitiness for philanthropy."
In a speech at New York, Monday evening,
Wendell Phillips made a very good
"hit." Referring to General Hooker, he
remarked : " Men say he has faults?faults
which some of his predecessors did not
have. Perhaps he has, but in my opinion
a diamond with a JUiw is better than a pebble
without /"
Work on the new batch of monitors
goes on rapidly and satisfactorily. As a
class they will be superior to those used
in the recent attack on the defences of
Charleston?several improvements having
been introduced which were suggested by
the issud-of 4hat encounter. In Jersey
City, the monitor workmen, who struck
some days ago, have all gone back to their
labors, and there is no prospect of another
outbreak. , .
The island governors in the West Indies
understand very well what a "fat
thing" the southern rebellion has been to
them. The governor of Bermuda, in his
speech at the recent opening of the legislative
session, makes this frank avowal:
" I am glad to be able to acquaint you
that the revenue of the last year shows a
very satisfactory result There is no doubt
bnt that this is lareelv due to circumstan
ces of an exceptional character, arising ,
out of the existing state of affairs in the
neighboring continent of North America,
and it will be unwise not to be prepared
for the reaction which must ensue oft their I
rearrangement." *
A number of French officors have temporarily
thrown up their commissions in
the French army to go and light on the
side of the Polish insurgents. In this respect
the policy of the French Government
is very different now from what it
was in 1831, when Louis PhillipiJe published
an address io the army, in which
he gave out that no officer who resigned
his commission to serve in Poland should,
under any circumstances, be readmitted
into the service. Besides French, there
are numerous Italians, Hungarians, and
not a few Bohemians, who are, in many
respects, very nearly allied to the Poles.
A correspondent with thejirmy of the
Rappahannock learns from j^liabta -authority.
that whenever our ma?-are*4is- ;
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covered by the rebels, and they are -found
to have upon them the Kearney red patch,
if wounded they are kindly cared, for,
and if dead are buried with all the honors
of war, their graves so marked as to be
readily recognized. Colonel McKnight,
of the One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania,
was so buried, his body followed to
the grave with a guard of honor, many
officers being present. A band played a
funeral dirge, while over his grave were
fired the usual salute due to an officer of
his rank.
About a hundred of the 20th New York,
two years' regiment, who refused to cross
the Rappahannock to the late attack on
Fredericksburg, on the plea that their
term of enlistment had expired, were
cnnrt-martialed. and sentenced bv their
division commander, Gen. Howe, to hard
labor during the war, with a forfeiture of
all money due them by the. gojfcfcrnnierit.
A letter from Montijtello, Kentucky-'
speaking of the manner in which the people
received our troops in their recent advance
on that place, safit:
"One old lady, a mile beyond this
"jplace, said, as she saw our columns rushing
on after the rebels : " 4 When I seed
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bonnet on the ground and stomped on it."
Vallandigham, on his trial, let out the
fact that Fernando "Wood has been corresponding
with the rebels at Richmond
in relation to terms of peace. Fernando
has often asserted that somebody had liad
communication witlr Richmond, but was
always careful not to commit himself. As
it is a criminal offense to correspond with
the enemy in time of war, he may yet get
into trouble as well as his friend. ^
The venerable John J. Crittenden has
been renominated for Congress. Li a
speech at Frankfort on Tuesday, he declared
himself for the prosecution of the
war, " without the armistice,?and regardless
of foreign intervention, till the re- -
bellion is crushed. It was the duty of
freemen to first save the country from the
uplifted sword, and then save the constitution."
On the 13th ult., there were seven thousand
two hundred and fiftv Union oris
oners of war in Richmond. Of these five
thousand nine hundred and fifty were taken
at the recent engagements in the vicinity
of Fredericksburg. We shall expect
soon t<^see another retaliatory mes- e
sage from Jeff. Davis.
The Tycoon of Japan has gent a coat
mail as a gift to the President. Mr. Lincoln
has not yet donn|il the new suit, but
when he does the reader can imagine Old y ^
Abe dressed up with an umbrella shaped '
helmet, made of steel and rnpp-r j)\\ IdrBTTlTluTj" '
he?ul, i'I.'I <'ver hi^ 'i ( A
^am nn jM^aifms. metal- ? ' 3
lie breos^late, and steel^Scfyork leggins.
Gen. ffurnside is buildings a military
railroad out toward Danville, \Ky. This V ^ x
should have \>een done long ago, bo that our
base of operations could have beermat Somerset,
instead of Louisville and Cincinnati.
The work is being pressed forward with
great activity.
The exercise of the powers given the
Medical Inspectors of the army to discharge
soldiers for disability, is suspended
until their duties in this respect are defined
by regulations to be published hereafter.
The Washington correspondent of the
"New York Poxt says that the national debt
on the 8th inst. reached nine hundred and
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eigUty-lOUl iliuituu uuuaio, luviuuuig <uiu
hundred million dollars of legal tender
notes.
Goethe said that Byron came by Ills
best verses as a woman comes by her,
handsome children ; accidentally, and not
by thinking of them.
Mirabeau, when asked by a friend,
which was the better, the single or the
married state, replied, " Whichever reso- 1
lution you come to, repentance will follow."
The poet Gray epitomized philosophy"
in these words, "To find one's self business
is the great art of life. The secret of
happiness is to b? constantly employed."
As examples of absurd images, Charles
Lamb mentions an elephant in a coach?
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office, coming to nave ma iruuil uuujiou,
and a mermaid over a fish-kettle, cooking
her own tail.
It is stated that Gens. Grant and Pemberton
were, some years ago, both Lieutenants
in the regular army, and belonged
to the same regiment. They were stationed
at Detroit.
The Bangor Times says there was a fall
of snow there on the 7th inst., and the
Providence Bulletin says the ground was
white with frost on the low lands at Cumberland,
Itkode Island, on the Otli inst.