The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1842, Page 1

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BR, FF, Be * ag ii TP HE, gobscrber. ip ann unciog ie wtraneeménte forthe year is frieuda-with seauimenta cf sincere, wr he'the hls sapport by hes received for teny’ years a TTS Wrendotn Ruclaed, ieetiod, Sectioad pieicaie aap nem) euro cate ines 0 i ol, 00 the 1,75, Vath, 19ta, andasth of es Syria, homoge tegen br pipe rppiaplty colo aactonies ther bt their frieuda may reat sati every ‘ere and ‘aitantaon’ will be, piven by ibe thvervad FS ‘sent 7} ‘well as all who may embark with ‘cay of thane, wnove passage has teen paid, q will be re ‘without any chi fe in maciny known erent aetoral eafsttn aud tha Sathaa consider: coucinded hie arrangements for the year ia 0 list of hips -— ps : ta: Gn ae be: wer lowes =‘ Warsaw ong = Cheever . Wet Ps Ingersotl a pshi tory x ion Pe a a * ayear elder re } cael their respective enptsins, are all well a rade. OS a of Ireland and Seot- ‘an rely @WOBEIA Bo TWO FOUR WHEEL ¢. 50. CENTS PER HOUR. STANDS on the CORNER of HUDSON & BEACH S38 ay SRCOND FLOOR. | ae Tn ate af, MUSIC. i ARM SE Ee oe heee he bi Qpening of the Spring Trade—Advertising. The Spring trade for the year 1842 is beginning to open about these days, ia thie commercial metropo- lta, on a new and important’ footing. The auspices are highly favorable—the prospects cheerful. From all the eventstakisg place around ws,and from the remarkable facts developed relative to the ananal productions of this remarkable country; itievery evident, that ia every species of wealth and industry, thie noble country is richer, healthier, happier, than the most sagguine imagined. ‘The ‘applications for getting rid of their debts, under the new Bankrupt Law, seem to be utterly insignificant'in" point of numbers, influence, or character... Not two hundred Persons, in all our larg: cities, have yet'epplied, and those'are just such persods as never add any thing to natutal wealth or natural industry. Itietrue the debts of some of the States appear large and very heavy, amounting to about $200,000,000—but whem it is known thatthe surplus wealth of thie country, for one year, with economy and prudence, is.capable of paying up one half of the debt, who should be frightened, or talk of repudiation about the.iaierest? With an annual produce, ia agriculture, fisheries, mines; forests, and manufactures, ¢qual to 1600 mil- fions of hae would seem to be very easy to re- Organize the ‘state and general government finances—tu curreney—and to complete all really i] Works, be they railroads or canals. Why. then should not trade revive, and public and private credit be invigorated, by pur- muing @ right and honest course of policy? There is no obstruction, but what we find in the clamors of a few paltry epeculators out of Congress and State Legislatures—and the folly and equabbling of m:ny foolish legislators in both such public bodies. Vader this general aspect of affairs, there is every progpect that the trade of 1812 will revive—that pub- lie and private credit will come up again—that the country will go on to prosper, by pursuing right prin- ciples. ‘The firet thing to be done, is, for'\Congress at orce to stop their squabbles, and to settle the currency and other qnestions. The next thing is, for all the suspended banks that can resume, to resume at once —and to compe! the rotten banks to wind up—die- mies their incompetent or dishonest officers—and make them farmers, to gain’a livelihood. Toomany have crowded the commerétal and financial ranks of life,and too few haveturned their attention te agricul- ture and honorable labor, which will always return an equivalent, ¢qual to human comfort and suste- mance. In this city, the prospect of real business has not been better since 1996. It is trae Wall street is down,and many of the speculators there are in'agony —but Wall street is not New York—anor is New York the State—nor is the State the whole Union.” There ig.a vest quaatity of healty business deing here, very quietly, on the right principles—cach or short oredils ; and if Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans and all the other large cities, would close up their retten banks, aad compel their good banks te rewame epecie payments, all would be as merry as a chureh bellin. a spring morning. Take an instance—Bufialo, in thie-Seuaa, is without'a bank—all are gone—yet y. gupieiienipied that the prospects for 1842 in Buf- Reigeed sound business, were mevor better. In‘Pitutargh, they havo on the stocks for this year, about 90 new steamers. This is a cample of all the great inland commercial towne. With these general Views, based on uaquest:ona- ble fads, we are positive that the trade for 1242, will be better than that for any yeer since 1835, provided the commercial and financial clesses, make the start on right priaciples—such as cash and short eredite—a paper currency invariably payable on de- mand in specie—and the resuscitation of public credit, by the imposition of taxes, by Congress and the States, Yo pay their expenses honestly—and to meet the interest | on their public debts. Letus not be any longer the sport of gas politicians—Presideat manufac- turers; est financiets, or bankrupt speculators. Tris time, therefore, for our commercial mea to begin moving—and the first movement to be made, is to advertise liberally and largely in those news- papers that advocate sound doctrines in trade, and have a genese! circulation over the whole country among the best and eoundest business men. Among. the fitet of this class is the Naw Yoru Heaacn, which has a circulation of nearly thirty thousand, throughout the. Union, among the~ cash end:short credit mem of business. A word tothe: wise is enough. Let ustake the first step aright, and all will end right. Newbern, N. ©. \Corrcapondence of the Herald.| Newneas, N. C., Jan. 29, 1842. Politics —Temperqnce— Weather —Business—Juvenile Depravity --Railroad Impositiona—-Murder and Fire. Dean Bexeerr— Hii hae retarned from the Raleigh Democratic ‘State Convention, for the nomination of a democra- tic Gevernor. Lewis D. Henry, of course, was the eheioe, though there is not the slightest possibility of his election. Governor Morehead is a man beloved by all classes and parties, and therefore’his competi- tor, chould he have the temerity to stand the nomi. nation, which is doubtful yet, will be “a ased up men” Temperance is progressing, groggeties diminish- ing, and hope our towa will.soon be cleared of them entirely. Let rational amusement usurp the throne of debasing, humiliating rum,and we'll be- come a healthy, happy, prosperous people. Weath- er is fine ; already the geniat gtow of spring is with as. The finest and most delicious fish that a New Yorker would fain relish, are here in abundauce.— Shad, ho! royal fellows, they are four shillings per pair. Businéed is reviving; cotton, tobacco,’ rice, tarpentine, tar, e-, ison the raise, asthe demand is increasing. A couple of lads from the north, Philadelphia, I believe, named Mastera Bo “tband Young, wire dan- cers, have been playing off great precocious talent, in way of parloinimg money, watches, ete. from the different persons with whom they have been ane = within their perigrinations the — hough several times apprehended, yet owing to their juvenile appearances, d&c., they were let slip to practice again. 4 ’ ES... ined take an osgoroaniy of saying Tg of words relative toa i tion the railroad in elven the Raleigh nod Peterebusy, road. The fare from Raleigh toGaston averages eight cente per mile; from thence to Garryburgs, ten cents per mile; from-Garrysburg to Welden, twenty- five cents per mil® ; part of which distance you must walk in mud eadiwater, three, five, and eight inches dee shifted a half dozen times, ‘and sometimes lost. Ima- Bennetts the utility of ladies’ shoes and cleaner saat tradeing Mt midnight a planes, along the shore when I saw them and myself poleing ae The mad, a negro carrying &. torch to light There’s beea foal murder committed near Wanes- » A wh farmer, at ends oesape wer avelub end literally NEW YORK, TUESDAY M Hartford, Of ahi {Correspondence of the Herald. * Haatroap, Saisteag, great } ‘ch. . Blue Laws in Connecticut-A Case of Finanesering Few Bankrupts in Connecticut—Box Expected. | Mr. Bansetr?— Not having noticed in my favorite “ Herald,” for a long time, any communication. from, this city of piety, bypocrisy, gessipping, and fleanceering, where the devil plays his fantastic tricks under the ‘cloak of Christianity, I have dared to trespass up- on your patience. You will recollest that: one Morris appeared here last fall, with a company of juvenile dancers and comic singers, the performances of w hi pleased a large majority of our citizens, = saan nover ‘allowed to coe any thing more than atomperance lecture, a conference meeting, ora patty of old ladies over their cups oftea. One of Morris’s Samnery, was ity of the heinous crime of showing her koee joint to the astonished natives, during a ‘‘ Highland Fling.” which, » could not be submitted to bed Bumpsted,” and poor Morris wasaccordingly pro- secuted, under onevof our “blue law” statutes.— He was Ce aie bane Superior Scat w in ‘on two counts- hh. at Rehr fey $60 for exhibiting Clementine’s knee to the audience, and more for sending upon the etage a“ litile nigger in a bag!” Such are the laws of old Connecticut! A man would for kissing his wife before sanset ons re Wf The city hes been thrown into an excitement, dari past two days, by a theusand rumors respecting & forgery said to have been committed certain newspaper editor! “These are the lolbreok, editor of the ‘ Patriet and rt sont wot backed by ei wo great political parties, was ar- | rested on Thursday Gremio on the charge Of for, ing the name of Wm Rogers, a respectable jewel- ler of this city.. The note, $175, was drawa by Holbrook, and. Rogers’ name was used upon its back. It was discounted at the Phoenix Bank, and from there sent to the Hartford Bask for cok lection. . The Cashier of the latter, ‘‘ Old Spikes,” who ia cagpere sete suspected something wroug, and ace ly presented the note to Regers, who pronounced the endorsement a forgery, and so tes- tified, under oath, before a justice It was also rumored that other notes, used by this same Mr. Holbrook, had been altered te larger sume tha as originaliy drawn, after being endorsed. But thi matter was :00u husbed, and oft held to bail in the sum of $1200, ¢ di The on Thursday jing, that he never cdthenoe is evetiog, seemed, to-day, (by ‘ ; oth+r,) to be flouneing about in the fog. He ha doubts about the siguature—did not know positive- y but he might Have endorsed the note—had en- orsed Mr. H.‘é notes befere, and in this ease might have done s0, though he denied it on Thurs- day night. Under these cireumstances, the pro- secution did not deemit advisable tocall him as witness, and the defence dare sot do i the prosecut: Id, in that event, testimony of reaay night. The Cashie! Hartford, Phoenix, and F aod Mechanics’ 5 ‘a Banks, swore that they considered the endotse- ment a forgery—that it did not ag-ee with Rogers’ usnal signature, thouzh it was a tolerable imitation. Tho te! of the bank; also gave evidence of the samo nature. Other individ’ among the sum- her, two brothers of Regers’, swore that ibey br- be the signature te be genuine. The Cashier Bank, attempted to state as evi- dence, all that is the counsel he know about tho affair—bat thi of defendent would net consent to, and finally suceeeded in bim to such ques- tions as were asked. jastice ght the evidence was not strong ea commit and he was accordingly diso! |. His new: is transf-rred to other hands, though te-day's number ms ys aed bis name. ‘his aff .ir has created a great deal of excite: more than has oecurred since tldor Knapp ap here some twelve months since ern system ,and others exhibit wofal coun: tenances when mentioning the matter. Tho Distriet Judge will be hore on Monday, and the Court will opps, on Tuesday next, te cessider Sea under the Bankrupt law. There are but few'caseshere. Connecticut is a creditor, not adebtor State, and will bea loser by the law. Oar riveris clear of approaching afresh- et. Mach rain bas fal withia ts and we have mud in any tities. Were it not for lively Herald, we should be in a gloomy coa- Jitien. "The Banks are tight, and eee oes good paper.‘ Boz” will be he.e next M shall ** eat” him on Wednesday, and © on tiptoe in expectation of the event. Superior Court Before Judges Jones and Oakley. Decisions, Feb, 10.—Jas. L'A juz va. Richard J. Evans. which the plamtiff bou; brother Andrew, whi been unfortanate ia business. an old claim egainst An of Lewin OF and was appointed receiver on hit furniture, but the plaintiff claimed it, haviog bought it in under a landiord’s warrant issued some time previous, sued, and recovered judgment. A motion was then made t» have the verdict set aside. Motion for new trial denied Jacques Meriam and Charles Bernard vs. Jacob Acker.—The plaintiffs were engaged as part- nerain the sele of baskets at a store in Cedar ‘The sheriff served an execution, whi to be illegal, and an a jich resalied in a vi pl Abou waa made fora new trial, principally with a view to test the right of the assignee to the pro perty. New trial g.anted, evsts to abide the event. James Bird and Hiram M. Beardsley vs. Richard Pe The plaintifis loaned $200 on a bank aday or two, giving for it out of town ahe check was contested on the groaud + but resulted im fe i tion was made for a new that no usury had been exercised, the out of town money was payable ia specie at the countcrs of the banksicsuing it. New trial denied Abraham Bassford vs. Thomas Birdsall.—This was an action to rec. ver the value of two billiard tables sold in 1832, the defence to which wes the c A 3 testified to de- state part of the d. for plaintiff. A le the veidic: on the not been correctly in, d at Buffalo, and had . The Mayor, Corporation, &e, of Naw — This was an action brought by the plaintiff terecover the amount of his salary as one uf the Ji of the Court of General Ses. sions, which oppo-ed on the ground, first, that itutio: Ny the law creating the Judges was uncon: not baving db: rd secondly, that the Common stated that ail tl by the Supreme law, and also the te aue the Corporation. Judament for plaintt® ~~ Mitthew Mi Phun var Lyon Levi.—This was an which ed entirely upon of inet. was 0 a large lot of 1s pledged to defendant, an: ich he sold ander eirc of fors to plaintiff. Verviet was given for Motion for new trial Peter J Stuyvesant vs. Catharing Woods and others. —This was an action on the nonpayment of rent, to recover back premises leased to a deceased ten- ant, but the defendants claimed that they were ad ministrators, and were entitled to a year to settle up the estate. The Court held that ajandiord, in eh t had a ri s such a ease as the pr ie add sperm af the lease were not pt sane bd ere rance Company —Tinie was dgrnurrer to deel — a rrer toa ration. ‘Ihe plaintifis insured a pobiel AE y ae run yr mT parle yet jhe went , was lost. xment for detendaat, w: toameénd within ten days, papeune at he j bs Sreanen Vis é My) few deys oa the River, in Onslow 7 “I identy Waites to’ the that one should have strayed ef te Fegies.— ORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1842. zation e Court Seasion: In Asscancy, Jax 26, 1892. Revort or THE on tHe Joprcrany, ox orme Mzmonat anp Bict Resrec ina WAL Covars,or tmz City, axp County or New ‘omx. 3 Mr. O'8etuvak, from the committee on the jodi ciary, to which was referred a memorial from the 7, Aldermen, and commonatty of the city of York, for the repeal of the law ‘passed May 14, Ao the now organization of the cruninal courts ‘the city ef New York; and also a bill to carry into effect the said repeal, 7 fi ‘The memorial thus referred to the eonsideration ef this committee: sets forth tnat the law whose re- is prayed for, has not produced that effect of ancing the public interesta, which itis to be pre- must have been the design of the Legislature it” was enaeted: that the Court of General joms, ag at present constituted, hae neither been ans of despatching the publie business nor of taining the public peace, to any greater extent than under its older and better organization: that under its former nization great benefit was de- he public from associating the alderman of in the administration of criminal. justice. aoowiag public confidence in the judgmeats o} e coart; by furnishing essential aid in the proper apportioning ef punishment; by carrying into effect the design of the charter of the city, 80 a8 to make the end of criminal lence com. mensurate with an calapienot public sentiment; and that the law above referred 1¢ was passed com trary.to a great majority of the Prople of the city, notwitnstanding the remonstrances of their ne tatives in the city and governments, al ath ug the Tequisite constitutional vote. strong hue the repugaance of the people ofthe city to this law, as represented in their muni- cipal councils, that ever since its passage the latter have refused to recognise its conetitutionality; have refused to make appropriations for the salaries of the additional judges. mogoinied in, pursuance with its provisions; and have been engaged in aaery pol protracted liugation with these officers, iu relation to the ment of salaries; while the novel spectac! been ever since exhibited of a double set of judges in occupation of the same bench, each denying the constitutional or legal authority of the other to j¢es which both have been unyielding in: mail ing; with occasions from time to time arising in which the most unseemly collisions of au- thority have been with difficulty avoided, only by a mutual exercise of forbearance and good temper, en the inexhaustible comtinaance of which it would not perhaps, be wise always to rely. _ This committee consider it unnecessary to in view of the cogent reasons of expediency u: against the continuance of the law complained of, to dwell upon the question of ite constitationality, Ithas been strongly and urgently challenged on tha: aun, as a violation of the chartered rights an franchises of the city, of ancient date, of repeated confirmation, aad of very recent ratification, both by the ture and by the approval of the people themeelves interested, in convention assembled. ‘The law was enacted without that majority of twos thirds which the Constitution of this State expressly declares requieite to every bill for “creating, conti? nuiog, altering or renewing any body politic or cor- porate.” That it did involve avery material altera-. tion of the charter, with reference as well to the bur- thens of the municipal expenses as to the right the people and the privileges of their elective au- thorities, cannot be seriouely questioned. .By a vote of thie house (89 to 13), at the eession ensuing to that at which the law referred to was passed, the neces sity of a two thirds vote to bills of this character was expressly aeserted, after an extended 28i08 of the whele question. And although an adjudica- tion has been made by the supreme coart, favorable to the constitutionalify ef the law; yet it was made by a divided bench, and em grounds, es contained in the opinion delivered by one of the two members of that tribunal, composing the decided majority, which seem to involve, notwithstandi i technical distinctions, e virtual eurrender ee ultimate decision by the Court fo rrection of Errors, to which an judgment ef the Supreme Court has Sycade taken, fs note proper sabject for speculation committee. ze, y this ‘The commitiee repeat, that theydeem it unncees- | sary to go further into a saperfluous cor ration of this point of view in which the obnoxieus law in have thought it preperto be thus al- for the sake in tting the oor. 8 without asserting the important princi, Of legislative independence of Cjudiciel cwnetractio on conatitutional questions. Even if the j ot the Supreme Court had been mere decisive yor of the eoastitationalty of the law than, when closely scanned, it ie found to be, it would, never- thel be not only the right, but the imperative duty of the to repeal it immediately, if their independent and paramount judgment on that point should be adverse tothe law, even though the: should find themeelves at variance with any or the members of the jadiciary in the State. The briefly to etate two other leading grounds on which, in their opinion, the prayer of the memo- Tialiste in the present instance, without reference to the constitutional question, ought to be granted, ae an act of wise and proper tion, aad the re- moval of an opptersive grievance. y Tn the first place, the operation of the law isto re- move from the bench of the Court of General Sep- sions for the city and county of New York the two aldermen who, by the charter of the city, were de- clared constituent members thereof, substituting for them two ealaried judges with a five yeate’ term of office, and chosen and appeinted, not by the people themselves locally interested, but by the extraneous authority of the ( mor and Senate of the State. To this feature in their charter the of the city have proved themselves partieulurly attached ; for not only did a general fuction prevail reapect- ing the constitution of that but not farther back than the pape 1828, when a city convention the revival and amendment of the charter, in which body full and thorough discussions were had upon most of the leading principles in- volved in it, a proposition was expressly made to deprive the aldermen of this fuaction, and to vest it ia e ! judges, and expressly rejected. Nor was it without well tounded reason that this priaci- ple seems to have been thus carefully. cherished by the people of the city, in the anizaiion of their rineroal local criminal court, by pli upen its yin association with a ing legal jndge, a major:ty of persons drawn from the sanks of com- moa life, reeponsible to the people, by their exercise of ite powers and duues. 0 abie part of the mass of the cosnennals Rania vee mode or another, within the reach of the ection of such a court, either aa witnesses, accused or prose- eutors, or as connected thesngt the various relations of ite with those thue more direcuy interested ip its H “ adently of the interest pervading in the proper. administration of its powers, for the general maintainance of the good order and ood murals of the community. _ It a in the highest jegree desirable that such a tribunal should pos- esa not enly the coufidence but the attuenment of the people; nor isthe commitice aware of any mode in which that object could be beter attained than election, for Ave os a by taking ite incumbents thus from ume to time from the body of the people themrelves, and making them responeible to a vigilant public opinion, by frequent eubjection to the approval or condemna- ton of the test of popular election. Simple as the principles of criminal. law are, there is neither ne- cessity nor propriety in placing on such a bench any greater amouat of feewtonal familiarity with us practice than is abundantly secured iu the person of ts presiding judge. Long conunued occupation of a seat apoa a criminal (ribanal has been too ofien known to produce a petrifying etlect ou the charac- ter of my hewcrregnnn with - nareh — Siete ing and bearing, predisposed to the side of ice against the accused, aad of severity in the snl clon ot paoichment, alien perhaps to the original dispo- sition of the iodividual, and certainly foreign to that Spuit which should animate the administration of penal jusuce. 1t i9 well to place asde by side with thts tendency, on the ernminal bench, a salutary tem Corrective, in the persuns of associate judges, relcesional, elective, aud subject to Irequent ro- A result is thus obtamed wisely analogous, in reference to the fair and just measure of - ment to be meted out by the cuurt, tothe principle on which is foanded the institudon of the jury If i whom tice, too apt to arwe on the part of nor 7 yore bear oe the persons few if not in shear ewn-—1e obviaied to the great- } me Second vide pendently of ihe gruends above stated, there is yet another reason which ought alone, in the opinion of the committee, to be decisive with this Legislature in favor of granting the application of the ent memorial ef the cor- porate authorities of the city. The law which it is proposed to repeal was paseed by the Legislature of 4810, in disregard of the strenuous opposition of the pe of that city, through all the accredited public organs by which the wi: and will of a msjority of that people could express. themselves. I:s_ entire delegation on the floor of this body, fresh from a recent popular election, by their Voices and votes protes'edagainst it. Itsmore immediate local r presentatives, in the councils of the city, by official memorial remonstrated against it. It. was thus rc- moonstrated und protested against, not only as an un- ‘constitutional violation of the chartered rights of tae city, but as atthe same time unnececsary, un~ called for, expensive, at vari with the, sound principles which should regulate the organization of a criminal court ofthat nature, and as being,from the general train of circumstances attendant on its ge, ime very: high degree obnoxious to the feelings and wishes o} & majority of the people — ‘Such iéasalanon, in the opinion of this committee, Unless for conclusive and urgent reasus to the con- trary, ought rarely to be allowed to stand on the éta- tute book a siagle unnecessary hour after its repen! is rendered practicable by the restoration, in the le- ep bodies, of counsels more_in harmony with e democratic genius of our institutions. In civic matters of this nature, compulsory legisla'ion from abroad, by means of political majurities representing other perhaps distant sections of a State, ought never to be brought ia, to impose on ‘the people ‘of any particular city, important changes in the affairs ir own: loca} self-zoverament, alike unslicited and unwelcome, If very extraordinary circumstances should, on any occasion, justify such an exercise of the mount legislative power, there were cer- tainly none such on the occasion here in question. And inasmuch as the people ot the city of New York, through their representativesin this body,as well as inthe city councils, have continued their a pero to an actdeclared by themselves to be so obnoxious to them, by urging its repeal both at the past session and at the present, this committee—in the absence of any good reason adduced in favor ot its contiauance, in the absence too of all remon- Strance againgt its repeal—would feel themselves wanting in regard to the first fundamental principle by which our legislation ought to be governed, if they hesitated to report to the House a bill to carry into prompt effect the wiehes and will of the people solely and ‘locally interested. » And in accordance with these views the commit tee report to the House the bill referred to them, ame. and recommend the passage of the AN ACT Recvative ro Cansmat Cou: county or Naw . ‘The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, de ensot as follows :— Sxction 1 The act entitled“An actfor the better of- al courte in the eity and | cour May 14th, 1840, is hereby repealed. not be construed to invalidate any pruceedi ents of said courts commenced or perfected prior to the o of this act. §8 This act shall take effect immediately wpon its passage. @ourt of m Pleas, Before Judge Ingles. Feb. 7th.—Semai and John D. Shultz,vs. John Clark.—The defendant is proprietor ef the Pietare Gallery in Barclay street. The present action is to recover the amount of a note for 1200, gives by him to Lewis Morrison, partner of S. J. est the defence to which was usury, 5 e defendant stated that he was desirous of $300, and applied to Mr. Sylvester, whi himself willing to let him have i bought certain shares of the North Ame: Co, stoek. He Gnaliy agreed te do s0, and henge the note fer $1200 for which he never received value, and which was transferred to claimas The trial lasted two days, but the plaintiffs made ent their case to be a legal, even if nota just one. and obtained ‘a verdict in their favor for $1253 cents. For plaintiffs, Messrs. J. Wallis and Eiward Reabiged Ne Jordan and Mr. Williams for de- ant. City Intelligence. Tas Watkins Ow Prve.—Mat Hammond whe commenced yesterday morning at seven o’clock, to walk or stand 48 suecessive hours, without rest or sleep, was in good trim last night at ten o'clock, when he had been on his feet fifteenhours. He draws crowds to see him at Camcary's hotel, oppo- site the Tombs in Centre street. At twelve o’elock yesterday, George Washington Dixom commenced the same feat at the Cottage in Broadway, below Gothic, late Matonic Hall. He was confident of success at eleven o’clock last night. The first man that performs the feat is to receive the sum of $4000, and we understand there are numerous bets that neither of the men now started will bold out over thirty-six hoarse. Nous verrons. ' Axoruza Ricumoxp ix tae Fircp.—Mr. Rich- mond, Moffett, the young pedestrian of the west, hearing of the very liberal offer of $4000 by Mr. Stevens, has eome to this city, from Buflulo, for the express purpose of accomplishing the feat of walk- ing forty-eight hours on a platform fifteen feet long and three wide. He will commence to-day at 12 o’clock in an apartment in the Terrapin Lunch, where arrangements have been made, corner of Broadway and Ann street. We understand that this young man hae already performed some of the moat extraordinary feats of pedestrianism ever per- formed in America. Sroue two Loaps or Woon.—Jacob De Baun and John Smith were arrested yesterday in the actof stealing two cart loads of chestnut wood from the bulk head between Robinson and Barclay streets, North ver. The wood belonged to Mr. Joba Piersoll,Jersey city, and the men were seen to vile it on their carts by a colored man named John Van Anten. They were taken to the Police Office by officer Low, with their horees and carts containing the wood as loaded up by them, and held to buil for ial. Waren op rHe Famiy —One Mary Maxwell en- tered the house of Daniel Lee, No. 31 Prince street, on Monday night and stole two iron pota, but while walking of with her booty she let one of them fall and thus alarmed the family who secured her. She ‘was committed at the Upper Police. Disstonest Senvant.—A girl named Mary Lancer, who has recently been in the employ of Henry Er- ben, No, 163 Walker street, was arrested yesterday ona charge of stealing clothing and a gold ring from the family of Mr E., at different times within the past month, the value of which was about 13. The ring she had given toa child of Mra De Witt. After examination she was fully committed. Rownrism.— Matthew Neelis committed a violent assault and battery on Sunday night, on watchman John P. Moody, and John B. Acker, while they were endeavoring to prevent him [rom ill treating 4 woman. He wascommitted. a William Gaston, William Peters and James Hi'l- yer, for rowdying in the streets on Sunday night, ‘were held to bail in the sum of f Tre Way ro pay vour Rawt.—A few days since, agentleman called upona Mr. Muzzy, in Cedar st, to collect his rent then due for the past quarter, when instead of being met with a proper excuse or neglect to make the paym ‘nt, he was requested to leave the premises instanter, and not going quite as fastas Muzzy considered neoreaay, he coited round the counter, and commenced kicking his landlord, a laposterio, wrtil he ejected himinte the strect.— "The result was that Muzz; was marched to the po- lice office, and-beld tobail to answer for his con. duct.. This kicking aod killing men who ask for their own is getting very fashionable. Collectorsof money shoxld take a witness with them, if they would prevent being salted down and boxed up. Dears raom Iwroxication.—A colored man named William Parke who has resided at No. 51 Anthony | street, di on Sunday night from the ech effects of SS raged frolic. The Coroner eld an inquest, ui “death from congestive returned a verdiot of brain, produced by in- temperance.” Acctpestat, Deatnu.—Yesterda after the boiler of the steamboat ded in the East river, nea Ci « German Coot jy ape pate © ¢ of ie u Te ‘ool bhi Tata A iwees Chatoat rig Montgom- ery street, towards one of the windows froming on the river, fer the gucpoeniel wowing Be wi rough tekcer, ‘and fell to the Foor, a distance of Coroner oheld aq aaweaene tory of « Joba Hill, whe died oe Seadey euddea constipation of the bowe! and want of medical auendance. ; escape. Bewighouse tion of deformed animale that he ver hectked phy on evening while in hi: Faboet S100, e Pair pone ye and robbed of about Nororiovs Roaves ARRESTED.—OR A.M.C. and James L. Smith, aided 4 keeper Kuckel, succeeded it securing tw. colored burglars and hall thieves, named Robert Millinge, alias Robert Washingtcn, and George Mason, who are.supposed to r ae ecanict from the entries of dwe! ast winter. Upwat were found in their La alte caesar have lost valuable clothing, &c., from their dwel- lings, may find- portions of them by application to i andy named Meeers. Smith's, at the lower Case or Amory awn Leeps—Thie suit in whi John Haggerty is the prosecutien, j bans a trial at the General Seasons thie thorning, ac, Quire a Mieraxe.—Yesterday ia the Sessions, a man named Patrick Wood, ich g the bar charged with the crime of disorderly éon- duct, and when hisname was called the Court sup- posing him to be the man of the same who ia ed with an attempt to murder, was about to send him back for trial, whew the clerk Teetified the mis- take-and the Recorder diecharged ‘him, with # re- mark that he bore a name of suspicious bearing,and should therefore endeavor to refrain from acts tha would bring him iate a court of justice. Accipestat Deata Yesterday, i after the boiler of the. steamboat ie ded in the East River, near the foot of Clintox dln named Joho Frederick Fink, on men employed ia the eugar re! Woolsey Woolsey, between Clinton pi] "Meat gomery streets, proceeded toward one ef the win- dows fronting on the river, for the purpose of ing the boat, when he accidentally steppe: the ha‘chway and fell tothe ground floor, a distance of eight stories. He was killed almost instantly Common Counell. Boaxp or Atpramen.—Ftb. 7.—A tion was received from the Mayor, Galuntonthe rt al hep ons bi kant Of the sailors Shug and also from 1) irect: eh i e directors of the Bowery A communication was received {rom Alderman Purdy, the acting Mayor, enclesi: letter forwarded by hish to the widow of ice late int Harrison in Mareh last, by order of the letter has arisen from the su; t wer would have been ret He receptipa whieh bse net been the jal report of the Greenwich Savings” obi pe ae etch ds file. e ion from the members of the Fifth Com- pan: ational Cadets to attend their annual Ball accepted. Petitions —A petition from A. M. C. Bi Daniel E Glover, and 500 others, asking for aks Temeval of M. H. Underhill, the superintendent of stages, for neglect of duty, iv allowing the omni- busses to race up snd down Broadway, was reler- red (o commiltee om application for office. kaow not whe! this reference was intended to place all the names on the petition under the head of applicants for the office now held by Mr, Und r- hill, but it certainly looks very much like it. <A petition was p ‘ed from Henry Petts, relative toa pln he iopeets to introduce milk into the elty of New Yc From the Connecticat River Steamboat Company for use of the west si of.wharf at Peck slip, and also from the Ner- wieh beats for the use of west side of Stevens wharf. From Society of Indigent females for aid. For a market at the corner of Houston and First streets. From the Washingten Temper- anee Benevolent Society, for the useof the ropms over the Centre Market to hold a Tea ee Fev- caliente inetaess Me hington’s bisth day— agi o. From James B. Nicholson, release of pier foot of Chambers street. mn Reports of Committees-—From Fire and Water Committee relative to the cha alleged ayainst olutions passed byth The delay in cai James Backrid foreman fire com, No. $8, andothers. Th y Teportea in favor o! raapénd- ing him for two years, and Judas Frazer, Robert J. Lummoeree, aad Samuel Dunlap, members of the company for eighteen months, for cutting hose of company. From Committee on Charity and Alms House, in favor of a change in the presesheyesee of employ- vei paupers at the Alms House on Blackweli’s Island, separating the criminal from those com- mitted fer poverty, and employ all who are able to business that wi towards pay- img the expenses of their :' Also, giving the superintendence of that ment to a com- er, who shall:have control, and the a nt cf all under officers—Ordered to Th report of the Finance Committee, relative tothe asses*ment of taxes for] 1342, in aceordance with the annual statement of the Comptroller, waa sabe Laielpoea _ be printed. ¢ street committee reported in favor of. pavi 15th street between the Sth a and Woth avesese, Alea . to flag the sidew: several streets ofthe Ninth ~ the ave is posed upon him nees tative to Hack- by drivirg without « license, was to :e;ay Barrett MeSorley 8 fine im d upon him for violation of a ordinance, in receiving money for taking baggage toene of ite without a license, wae to. m was received from Pine, Hopkins appoiuted a committee of the Bourd of Legislatere a Ll of property ccordance wit! tation to attend the re-opening of Peale’s Museum on Tuesday night, was accepted. Aresolation to pay Dr. John C. Covill for.attend- ance upon George De Luce, at one of the cit: watcbhouses, where he had been taken after reé- soit agun shot wound in 1835,in one of.-hie arms, from a perron unknown, was rejected by a yote of 7107. The bill presented was $25, but was reduced to $5, by the committee to whom it was referred, snd defeated by the board evem at that reduction. A resolution to release Bernard Gibson from a fine for selling mea where than in. the oe markets, produced considerable debate. Ht r- man Innes stated that he was decidedly opposed to the present market laws, that he believed tney were unjust; oppressive, and unconstitutional, and he, therefore, did not feel it incambent on him to sup- portthem. The lution was adopted by a. vote of ll to 4, Alder Kimball, Lee and Polloek voting in the negative. The Cor tee on Watch, ported in favor of the cum of $25 f. perfnrmance of hi restin, was received from the Counsel- lor of the Board stating that all the s the city for sales of property under Jaws, had been disposed of and resul the power of the Corporation to compel! ; arrearages by sale of real estate so assessed. Papers from the Board ef Assistants —To a'low the Aldermen of the Twelfth and Sixtecath wards to appoint two physicians in each ward to vacei- nate the poor of the wards at a calary of $150 per ansum—was laid upon the table. in To re number Attorney street—eoncurred in. Resolutions —To lease the collar in Fulton Mar- ket now occapied by Herwed Sith to lease Kaowl- on resofution was, also pasted asthoriniag the A resolution was renting of all the cellars under Fultow Market by ted rowarde the payment of the proton Water War cnanos of tha Iso, to authorize the coun: to commence a su t inthe Courtet Errors ease of Judge Sendford, who had recovered a in the Supreme Court, for the of ry hah Wy bsete of six to six—Alderman voting in the megative. ot wdlses hat de te inenpediont to make-any alters: e present Fire Departmen’, en aecouant the anticipated introduction of the Croten water into the eity. 4