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THE PARTIES TO THE VAN NESS CAsE.-A letter from Washington o he New York Commer- ca gves the following succnct history Of the case

 John r. Van Ness came 10 Washington in the year l6Ol as memher of Congress from the State of N . York. He was al that time dashiDg and eIesan; young man. some live or six and twenty years of age. In the year l6Os he married lhe daughter of old Da- vid Burns. who WAS large landed proprietor when what IS now clts wHs divided between cornfelds and swamps Miss RDrns an only child a very beautiful and interesting woman. and aer the death o her father became possessed of all this property Under the careful and thrifty management of Gen. Van Ness this property m little less than half cen- ury, amounted in value 10 half million of dol lars. Gen Van Ness had by this marriage only one daughter. lovely and accomplished girl, who died soon after her marriage. In few years afterwards Mrs. Van Ness followed her daughter 10 ,he tonb' having been borne down with grief ever since the loss of her child, thus leaving Gen. Van Ness sule proprietor of this immense real estate.

 The only heirs of David Burns new living, that l remember, are two persons, a brother and sister cousins of the late Mrs. Van Ness The fornier ha g been an inmate of the poor house for several years past, and the latter, widow, is residing here in great restitution and poverty In the early pat of the present year Gen Van Ness died Istesiaie,--a least no will has beea found Cornelius C. Van Ness brother oi Gen. J. P. ". known to the public as Governor oi Vermont, as Minister 10 Spain, and as collector of New York, proceeded to take out letters ci administration upon the estate. Mrs. Connor, the person assuming to be Mrs. Van Ness sought to revoke the letters obtained by Gen Van Mess. The Orphans Court turned the matter over to the Circuit Court, which is now investigating the fact of lhe al. legged marriage.