The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1842, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. New York, Wednesday, Pebruary 9, 19t2. =< — Fo Advertisers, Now is the time to advertise. ‘The epriag trade is jax setting in. Prospecta are bright, and al ahead looks cheerful and healthy. The posi who advert ses liberally, always has the best slice of the sound cash business. Come along, there dare ; ‘and advertise at once. 11 is the very lile-bloed o good business. mah iy er ix Burraro.—Mr. 8, 8. N Yorx Lavci bar aya the Lancet in Baffilo, by whom week, and subserin- in advance. Mr. H. so that he all the back num- Hawkes is agent for single copies are for sale each tions received at $3 per annum, have forwarded a new supply to will now be enabled to furnish ders. Important Movemer Recorder Talmadge tin Public Morals— *s Charge against Wall street Stock -Jobbing. The Hon of this charge will be found. The Recorder boldly takes strong ground against the present system of buying and selling stocks on time, as practiced to a great extent under the man- agement of the Board of Brokers. He shows it to be demoralizing, illegal, unjust, and disgraceful to Demara: the character of the age,and to the interests of socie- ty. Wealso learn that the Superior Court has re- jected the sales of stocks as quoted in ‘Wall street, as not legal evidence in a court of justice. This re- | alle jection is founded on the belief that the practice of | men. ‘buying and selling on time, under the mantle of the Board of Brokers, a secret and irresponsible body, is without a legal or authorised existence of any kind. fi ‘The Reeorder also recommends the abolition of this secret conclave—and points out the propriety of ma- king all sales of stocks in the open market, accessi- ble to both parties without the agency of third par- ties. He accordingly charged the Grand Jury to take up the question at large, and te present it to the legislature for their action as soon 43 possible. We conceive this movement, on the part of the A. Talmadge, Recorder ot New York, delivered a charge to the Grand Jury yester- day, containing recommendations of the most im- portant character, in relation to the Board of Bro- kers, and the prevalence of stock-jobbing in Wall street. Asan instance of moral ceurage in a judi- cial officer, we have seen nothing like it in many years. In our Sessions report, the material points “ Now York Express”:— away Matcnas —The elo day, of a young girl of the West, Boarding School on Staten fsland, bos We | desl of attention, and created something of about Boarding Schools, but in particular is indignation expressed egainst the clergyman who sauctioued this matrimoniel connexion. This young girl, who is near}; rected a An Elopement In High Life--The Influence of Fashionable Boarding Sehools. We find in one of the Wall street prints, of yes- terday moming, @ very remarkable account of an elopement which teok place ago, and which illustrates the iutluence of fashiena ble boarding school edueatien on the young female mind, in the most extraordinary degree. is, a8 written by Mistress Biddy Brooks, Esq., who does the chamber-maid work and the gossip of the this city a few days Here it Urox Curnarmex on Mastérnarss wo Manny 1x Rox- ment we alluded to yester- from a well known Treat jerm eonnected with two among the most distinguished officers in the army, was Recorder, to be the beginning of a great reform in | 7 with, the morale and honesty of Wall street. principles that nothing can shake. Let us, therefore, have Wall street at length cleans- ed out and whitewashed. It wants a few barrels of chloride of lime most mightily. Anti Boziana.—“Col. Webb of the reguler army” hhasagain entered the field of literature, booted and spurred, and bids defiance to Boz and the whole Having long since demolished Fennimore Cooper pad iis admirers, he is now de- termined to put to rout Charles Dickens and the Boz sehool. Here is a very curious extract: (From the Courier and Enquire.) have been so much annoyed by ations for tickets tothe Ball to be given t» Mr. harles Dickens, thet we tn: ehave been compelied to write hourly, viz of thet Ball, a e has been used without authority.” While en this subject, and allthe tickets for the Ball being sold, we would correct another error. Pickwick club. BeTae Bor Bart. what “that we are not one of the manage: that cur published’ posed Ballto Mr. Dickens, the fol curs: “The meeting was called te order by Wm. H. Max- well, who nominated Robe Prosper M. Wetmore named D.C. Cuold-n and D. C. Pell as secretaries. The officers being duly elected, the Fm ie yah pooh by Philip Hone, Charles W. Sand- ford, J. W. Edmonds, J. R. Livingston, Jr.,J. W. Francie, Ww. ‘rosper M. Wetmore, and other gentle- Wm. H. Maxwell, after some appro- ed the following resolutions, which men; whereu priate remark: ‘were unanimously adopted,” Now itis perfectly true that we did address the meet ing ; but it was fer the purpose of saying t i rt H. Morris 6 chairman.— would yield to none in our admiration of Mr. an admirable magazine writer, and onc wh ion of hum in the delines rivalled— meetii honor of signing the original invitation. It it to be a ceedings of the meeting. consented that our name should be used in callinga , with a view to give Mr. Dickens @ ball at the apposed that we should quiet}: arrival emong us, and then tender him the pro- posed ball; but that when it was of the seoretaries of thet mecting (Mr. Colden) should be despatched to Boston asa special envoy to carry to Mr. Pickens an invitation, sigued by every gentleman preseut—some eighty in number—it did appear to us that we were going tuo far—that our feelin, ayor), and secret: . Tothis Mr. Pro W. Edmonds ebjected. could not proper appreciate Boz For a long time past, forgery hae followed forgery, in that ave- nue—all being produced by the corrupt and illegal practices of time sales ef stocks, and the existence of a secret body called the Board of Brokers, who encourege stockjobbing jo an unreasonable ex- tent. We have every reason to believe that the Grand Jury will act with despatch on this] recom. | preli mendation, and that the Legislature will follow up the movement by the enactment of a Jaw upon the subject. The Foreman of the Grand Jury is Levi D. Slamm, formerly the principal partner of the celebrated firm of Messrs. Slam, Bang & Co.,a body of respectable citizene, who now control the Legislature, and manage public affairs. Wall street has always raised a shout against these venerable reformers; but the revolution in banks, currency, and every thing, has given an ascendancy to their as well say publicl: t this day w inst the pro- |, thatwhen we now proposed that one In the of the meeting tendering the pro- wing passage oc- tequir- ion, it should be signed by the chair jes only, and despatched by r M. Wetmore and Mr. John atimating that we did not cr Dr 4 claiming the Our resolu- Boai pretence of visitin, est point is stated at 49, a greement of computation arising from pair of mustachios and whiskers, which the ca; wore, while, it is affirmed, he reuges not wears a wig and fulse tecth—sach orname: ,often adding much youth to the ap dresses remarkably well, walt- igired mot alittle in our fash- ionable society, so that when he concentrated all these ornaments and facultic sto fascinate and bewitch a youn girl, not yet fourteen, who knew nothing of the world, jot at all remarkable that he had success. Heis J, however, to be respoctably connected in England, his marriage certificatesin the is The captain, too, zes admirably, and ‘h and he has left behin hands of a respectable merchant. Under a late law of New Yor here, the marriage of a young girl under sixteen is void- able, but not void. We have stuted these facts thus particularly to awakin attention to the act of cle a large fee, marry in suc! Capt Shinloy w: must have been all the gir men or Ma im proper case nd the vail in certain eliques. ‘tion waslost, because gentlemen did not choose to be | Hotel. considered as hostile to a proceeding calculated to hovor Mr, Dickens; but within twenty minutes thereafter, and before the letter was offered to the meeting, more then one half of all present left the room, in or fixing their signatures to it. ‘When that latter ultimately appeared, we again “ad- dressed the meeting ;” but it was egain to protest against ht of that meeting Mr: Dickens to i*s proceedings,an with the Maver im the Chair, ask: paved Ball ac-cept of the iene'ar New do with the proceedings. that no publication of proceedings thus far was in con! amale: on vet wo were put down o this Balt Our ony object in now an the proposed Ball, is to @ur name among the list of which we have nothing todo, the conrse we have pursued ing di ition on the part of certain individeals to make themselves ridiculous in their public attentions to Mr. Cuanccs Dicarss. All these details ate highly important, in illustrat- ing the history of the age—the progress of society— Yet upon the face of these proceedings, it does not distinctly appear what the We should like to know also to.whom the Colonel consented that his same It was a great condescension to permit his respectable name to be put on the Boz Committee—a name, too, whieh figures at the head of the highly respectable bankrupt list for the south- ern district of New York. Again, the Colonel want- wietly,” and objected te sending These are very droll objections to come from a “Colonel in the regular army,” who has made so much noise in the world, from the famous rencontre with Duff Green down to and the march of mind. Colonel is driving at. should be used. ed the thing “‘ don: a “special envoy, to object to the ri dog re. We. that sad affair about Cilley. The truth is, we suspect the real cause of dissatis- “Col. Webb of the regu- ararmy” considers nobody a gentlemin, wh ose mame is not on the bankrupt list. He, therefore, cannot degrade himself by being considered on the Dickens Committee, with a set of men who have factionis yet unwritten. thus far obstinately refused to t equals and gentlemen. He! he! he! A Rroumonn ix tae Fiein —Col. Webb of the Fegular army” comes out and puts up of the West,” candidate for the Presidency in 1844, and naively adds, that either “ locofoco” will be the successful man. -dle-but has not General Scott a chan memantine pene ee ee agers is regard to de plation or would be one of the manegers disclaiming any participation show that the xppearatice of matter with nd not inoonsistent with jer to avoid tain Jackson. e overween- “ Harry Clay the benefit of the act. Col. Webb is like the fox who lost his tail ima trap set to protect the chickens and pouliry, He tries to persua Je the whole Boz Committee to cat off their tails, and then he would consider them Ha! ha! hat Ho! ho! ho Harry” or a “ rabid Very proba- ce? that facili Baut ron Henry Cray Tivoli Saloon on the 17th instant. pumps ready. Packet Snir Oc went ashore on Romerflast Monday,was relieved by the praiseworthy exertions of her commandgr,Cap- By his superior skill she w: from receiving the slightest injury. She strained nor even scratched. Possession of the F eral patri # on board of her New (Granada and H. B, diately went in pur. them after a brief battle. Six: killed, many threw themselves o three were wounded, and among these José Antonio Padilla,who afterwards died of the wounds received in perate fight. Oa the patriot killed and four wounded. T' said by the “ Eco de Neiv4)” to have been a ep did affair, ended the blockade of Carthagena, And the Neuva(iranadians, overflowing with gratitude, presented to Captain De Courey of the Charybdis, the brig Marcelino, .whieh was eaptared during the action. This brig, we recellect, once sailed out of this pert. And on Jand, Carmona and Reaseo, two traitors, have been forced to aband nd the entire rep’ id speeches. it, and on the 15th ¢: y of the rebels were verboard, twenty- two hundred made prisoners, avage looking is third wile. may be as well to add ates who for this. That ee Retna i girl’s — clear as light tothe party mai it them. Notwithstandin allthis incoi Hyraky thoaghs nding the girl was left, by her ing School, some Clerg’ g reverence’ and love for reli jor hypocrisy and deceit, aided iu violating one of the commandme: now. in the pursuit of avarice, thoug! future happiness, 0 In the first place, thesystem of fashionable board- ing schools is destroying the happiness of the pre- sent and future generations of American society. Young ladies are taught every thing graceful, classi- cal and accomplished, but their principles, their sen, timente, their domestic affections are entirely ne- glected. Toshine in eociety is the ambition of every female—not to be affectionate wives, or sensible mothers, or cheerful companions through life. The vices and follies of the corrupt higher classes of Europe, without any of their virtues, are creeping into American society, through these fashionable boarding schools. The next gener terly demoralized, unless public opi the existence of these revolutionary seminaries. Again, look at the effect of this foolish and fash- ionable system of education upon those vain preten- ders and miserable upstarts, who arrogate to them- selves the title of the elite of society. During the last summer and present winter, this self-same Cap- tain Shinley had the entrée to all that is called fast« jomable in New York—the run of every salon, and an invitation to every soiree, from the famous Join- ville ball in Bleecker street, tothe most fashionable gambling hell in Barclay street. He was courted and caressed by all the elite—partly in consequence of his military title—partly from his moustache—and partly because he was impudent and insinuating. An honest emigrant, who comesto this happy land— wait | who settles down like a good man and a valuable citizen—who ‘contributes to the stock of public wealth—is despised by these parvenues and preten- ders; bat any impudent foreigner, with plenty of moustaches and impudence, is taken by the hand, led through society, and receives those attentions te his plans and schemes upon others, as in the instance before us. These are the fruits of the syetem of Fashionable Boarding Schools—but they are only the first fruits. action, which w: tle, and left, by her fond parent, in a Boarding School on Staten Island, with some three years yet betore her to complete her education in; where a Captain Shinley, late an ofticer in the British Army, and serving either i Waterloo or New Orleans, first became acquainted with her. Through the instrumentality, as it is said, of the son of the lady who kept the Boarding Scho. out her knowledge or her consent, the this Captain Shinley ripened into ai married and to elope. He voarded for Pavilion, but he subsequently became house itself, on accoant of a nexion he had formed with the family of the lady whose school the young girl was in. On young lady was permitted to come tothe city on the her father, who had just been here, ut was not here then, when the marriage took place; and February 2d, after having returned home, under an- other pretence she again came to the city, both sailed in the packet ship Mediator, which brought out all the facte in the case. This Capt. Shinley sion for thi pabemne: he field of jut with- cquaintance of reement to be ng time at the resident of the previous matrimonial con- jaturday week, the when they r Loudon, isnow one of themixed commis- raity though, nt father, ‘yman probably, profes- igion, and pretending to d abetted this gi er’s too. Such guilty of them deserves tohavethe finger of scorn to be appointed at him by a whole community. We have understood that the lady in whose School the reliminaries of this afair occurred, is ia the greatest istress, and is not in the least to be blamed. The young lady referred to in this narrative, is Mies Emily Croghan, the daughter of a Mr. Croghan of one of the western states, who has been an Iadian agent in the eervice of the Government. isthe celebrated hero of Sandusky, Col. Croghan of the U. S. army. Her father is now in Washing- ton. She is the heiress, it is said, of half a million of dollars. The affair has produccd a great excite- ment in fashionable circles, and execrations are, of | i course, thrown outat randona npon all parties con- cerned. The evil, however, exists in the state of society, and the tone of fashionable morals that pre- Mer unele n willbe ut- ion act upon 8 To Dicxews.—A public dinneris to be given to Charles Dickens on she I8:h instant, at the City Prepare your toast _ Joexxy Cuvp —The annual dinner of this associa- tion, will come off at the Astor House on Thursday, 10th inst. Sharpen the carving knife. -A splendid ball, to dance Henry Clay into the Presidency, will come off at Get your best Late Axp Impontant From Nevva Graxapa.— By the America, Capt. Hubbard, arrived last night from Carthagena, we have received “1 Eco de Neiva,” and lots of proclamations, to the 21st ult. The most important pi arrival is the re-incorporation of the provinces of Panama and Veraguas with N uvaGranada. Both Provinces have agreed to conform te the constitu- tionand laws of the government of the republic, and the latter assumes tl This was promulgated on ‘The next in importance is the settlement of all difficulties throughout the country. On the 12th of December, the rebel party took uglish brig Jane and killed sev- The naval force of bts of the former. ¢ 31st of December. shortly the seige of Carthage- ic appears now to be rid of the tribe of banditti which have infected it since 1816. But before these rebels left they set fire to houses, and spread devastation and ruin all aronnd. season—whic of ourriver m ghocmian rom the west are rife with disasters by the flood, of which we have some indications here,in the sudden rise and breaking up of the river. Fonpa, Fridey P. M. etting farther today. The ere, and the west of this, , and some parts of itare gone. ¢ creek at Fonda, (the Cuyadotta,) the land. We or 17” Season. Cranoms, Faxsumrs asp up without the indeed little foating ice in the river. ‘The weather for the past weck—we ma ly all the month of Janu: month—has been bland a has yielded to upon a steamboat navigation for There is no pros track is covered w for ten or twelve Two bridges or 3 cr nd west several tremendous freshets. few extracts below, to show the extent of the da- mage caused thereby ; andalso a few extracts, show- ing the extraordinary weather this either been blessed or afilicted with this winter. [From the Albany Ar; One of the most extraordinary ruction from the ice. Navioation.—There was: change in the weather iast might. About seven o’clock a snow squall passed ever—the thermometer run down—the wind run wp till it blew a strong gale from the north west As we have had a full share of mildness, we sap- pose we must now to have a touch of the wildness of a winter. Luckily, there was a resumption of navigation before this change took place, and we hope that it will not close again this ‘season. In consequence of the warm weather and warm rains of the last week, there have been at the north We give a nus, Feb. 7] cidents of this extra- untry has ordinary season, was the arrival yesterday morning of a steamboat from New York. The Telegraph, Captain Brainard, left that city on Saturday morning, ind came ere is 4 influences, we may count remainder of the unequalled, we believe, in the history About two hundred feet of the dam at Jones” mills are also gone—dami dy is gone. 2 ‘The western mail, due on Friday, city until yesterd proceed on the rail deluge of rain on Thursd ed rise of the waters of Our oldest inhabitants has not been as ve the ordi the valley of the Mol lage of Amsterdam loging the entire vi ‘The bridge across the Mohawk a off yesterday. It floated down almost bodily to with about two miles of this city, where it is said to have lodged on an island amidst so1 which left here westward yesterday morning could pro- eced no fartherthan Fonda, from whence, aiter waiting ine returned with the way passen- p to the hour of writing this, no- thing has been heard from beyoud Fonda. It is feared that the railroad bridges crossing the Canada creek have been carried away. ~ ‘The bridge crossing the Mohawk at this city h little damage in itslight out work timbers, reatest height, was with- several hours, the en gers abouts P.M. U though the water, when at its ‘h or two of the floor timbers, report, but little credited, however, that the per aqueduct about four miles below, fet damaged The water has fallen about a foot since last night, o'clock. Iam just informed that five§ piers of aqueduct, and ‘portions of the wood work of the new, No cars yet from the west. No damage was done to the Mohawk and Hudson rail road by the freshet. {From Utiea Daily Gazette, ‘The great quantity of rain which hi fohawk to a height of above the low water mark, at this p'ace—being three to four feet higher than was ever before known. A tremendous storm of thunder and lig! in Syracuse and the adjoining towns on with heavy continucd rain. are carried away. [Brom Rochester Post, Feb. 3.] ‘When this February weather ceases to be mild and pleasant as May days, we will inform Prof. Espy and Other weather wise philosophers abroad. Such a long continuance of warm weather, accompanied by lightaing and rain, is indeed wenderful for theseaton. From Montreal Herald, Feb. 3.] On Saturday there was a violent south wind, which the west on Sunday, and yosterday it rained all day. The river hes broken up in several places, and should there bea few day continuance of resent weather, we would aot be surprised if the ice should altogether disa; habitants in the city has sek at present, and deaths are more numerous t! ears excepting those when the cholera dec. ave been informed, on there were about one hundred and fift week in the Roman Catholic burial ground alone. veered towar dor ations poo! cant t it were Aj —the snow has melted from our streets ; the river opposite are as green as if of February. [}rom Schenectady Cabinet, Feb. 5.] The mild weather during the present week, and the t, caused unprecedent- ljohawk and its tributar rees. Ti! hep re about $1,000. The west track of the railroad in the deep cut west of Schenecta- did not reach this Finding it impossible to road from Herkimer to Little Falls,the mail and passengers were conveyed round by the way of Johnstown. From Albany Evening Journal, Feb. 5.] ‘The river rose last night almost to its highest water mark, causing great derangement business men on the pier and fering tothe A fleet of Some of them came from [From Albany Atlas, Feb.6.] From mid-winter we have leaped inte id much loss to ind severe suf jubmerged. assed down the river to-day. ‘roy, and some from our canal anced spring he ban! pril instead al y summer level. The buildings in the southwestern part of the city are entirely inundated— the water being up to the sills of the first story windows. Itisfeared that great damage has been sustained along wk, as large quantities of timber, fragments of buildings, and some household furniture, have been seen floating down. : ‘The dams on the creek which passes through the vil- uve way on Thueday évening. de- leaving scercely a dry cellar. hat place, was sw NA ‘ain efcers ‘has been 11 ‘old Feb. &) fallen of late has ear eighteen feet ping coeurred ridey night, The health of the in- ym been in so bad a thority, that interments last [From Buffalo Com. Adv. Feb. 2.) vividness and ther has been mild as mid-epring. LF om B past, and the water exceed reat storm of wind morning. The ri et higher than it ha [Fro n Peterabur The mercury sto a8 oppressi Tho weather, which dur. was exceeding! derwent some not remembered. tivated, the crocus is in full blossom ; and the plants and bulbous rooted flowers, such as bh making their way ont of the groun. We have been requested to state, for the information of the public and the travelling part of the community, that, although it hes been customary at this season of the year to discontinue the running of steamboats on the Potomac, such has heen the extraordinary miidncss of the present season, that no stoppage has yet taken place in the run. ning of the mail-boat und other Potomac steamers. All ly on the Potomac are now run- e mildest weather. the steamboats which ning as customary in t ther said of it. Corporation is, Sixauran Seas ter afew days age. Court Cal vit Covrr.—Nos. 52, 184, 147, 17 B ‘258, 259, 261,264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 187, 178, 181, 982, 270. 108" Hd ovat Now. 1, 13, 18, 19, 20, He a 2, oral, tees ae LA 198, 31, 32, 197, 33, , 39, a ta om Puvas.—Part 1, at 10 o'cloek, A. M. 1: 77, 189, 161, 165, 167, 81, 97, 139, 91, 131, 38) ‘ad 4o'clock, P.M oh rWhig, Feb. 5.) ly muddy rain on Latelligenee: 7 hure On Thursday ni agood deal of thunder and lightning. Re: ther this for February, which is generally one of the coldest months in the year. {From Washington National Intelligencer, Feb. 7.) the early part cf last week and unusuaily mild for the season, un- ange last Thursday night, when ti was adrenching rain, which deluged our streets and filled every vacant lot and low ground with water, ac- rong wind from the nerthwest. deen chilly, but the weether on day was quite pleasai too easonable. So mild a winter, thus far, is In yards and gardens, w Reoreamization or tHe Court or Srssrons.— From the appearance of things in Albany, the pre- valence of economy, and the report of Mr. O’Sulli- van on the subject, it is now highly probable that the Court of Sessions will be placed upon its an- cientfooting. In such a case, our special friends, Judges Noah and Lynch, will go out with the re- peal of the law—and as our democratic friends can sometimes do a generous act, let them be paid their salaries in full tor the work done, and nothing fur- The Superior Court has decided in favor of Judge Sanford—and tle best way for the to get rid of the whole difficulty by paying up,and taking a receipt in full, unless, in deed, that honorable body mean to take the benefit of the new bankrupt law. —A butterfly was caught in Brooklyn yesterday, and a grasshopper in Roches- Look out for early strawberries next week, and the first shad to morrow. riday ni , though rath here it yacinthe, are lustily Da. Lanpssr at tus Parc Tasarre.—The ce- lebrated Dr. Lardner begins a course of lectures this evening at the Park Theatre, on the morality of the heavenly bodies. They will be illustrated with dia- grams and transparencies. nently popular in Boston, atre with the mest respectable, refined aad pious audiences. Dr. L. Las been emi- ‘od nightly filled the the- Worx ror THE Scnooumastea.—There are 584,457 white persons in this country, over twenty years of age, who can neither read nor write. This Day. 313, 57, 222, 112,"162, 240, 242, 244, 246, 243, 250, 269, 26 248, 260, 262, 264. pisses eee Steamsnip Sovway, irom Eogiaad, last from Bar- badoes, arrived at St. Jago, on the 17th ult. re iscul- 254, 256, lon. 166 So says the Rochester Advertiser of Monday last. And the same phenomena were experienced here in all their Yesterday aud to-day the wea- Itrains copiously this forenoon. ‘This sort of woather will clear the ice from our river. { Feom Philadelphia Gazette, Feb. 7] The Delaware river has been very high fortwo days i in consyquence ‘ht and [Corr eopendence of the Herald.) Ricumonn, Feb. 4, 1842. Dear Bexaert— ‘The notion has just come in my head, that I would write you a line to give you the news courant. As | ones were bitt the church comes first, we will commence with it. We have here at the old Bishop’s church, (the Monumental) a most excellent and really pious prea. cher, (you know all of them are not'so.) He is not | worthy Deacon W—a, much like Brother Knapp,but he gave it to the young ed rn financier, scavi men of this city ina most able manner last Sunday, telling them how to avoid the Devil and all his angels. He described their various diseipations as though | he had been the night before taking a “‘punch er two” ye gene by Mr. with Mr. Baxter, at the bar of the Exchange. I hope here are very dissipated. Speaking of the Exchange Hotel, in the summer you gave the dimensions of this building—of those | e' we shall say nothing. I cannot emit to speak of several of the fair eccupants now residing in it. alas! our’s isto be a short lived pleasure, leave in the morning for Washington. I mean the | under him so dangerous to snsceptible hearts. Mises B—-s, two sweet, amiable girls, aceom- C—x, of plished, fascinating, and witty; and 1] must add, pretty Miss E. sings really with a taste seldom met | whose ma; with inevery day society. One important fact not | dulcet to be forgotien, is, that they are positively worth five hundred thousand dollars. It would really make | £'y fait de beauté, you laugh to see the number of poor creatures who | enly ladies wh have been trying to gain the affections of their mo- These ladies very sensibly have rejected all these beings, notwithstanding several threatened | mme mere ef au jeune editéur. suicide. The first of these in view, though by no means the first, is Dr. R. His is a hopeless case, and he may be seen Jooking at the merry parties, Mr.S ,80n of the Commodore, jone—destracted, or home, I don’t know » G., of Fredericksburg, has likewise been among the micsing, or gone to secure quartersere their arrival. Mr. G. and both lawyers, and twenty, aye, little of the Scotchman in the haye teased these sweet girls so much that their ma offers an excuse for their leaving, by saying the measles are about the house. ink—the love of funds. re isin full blast here, Mr. Batler is ind playing to pretty good houses. He n of a distings for they peal sed of beauty, for: like Banquo’s ghost. ir. C. | Gosse fifty othera, to say benign ladies’ ordinary, who ception of Charles Kean, we have not seen a better conception of the character. Lambert is doing very well this season, and is a favorite, and those winning x fs ; @ and laughing eyes of Miss Fister, who would not | their morals or their manners, or te give the writer credit for the fearless exposure of a most crying evil, and applying the stern reproof which an out- raged community should pour upon the heads of whigs and locofocos in turn, and not one of them | these retailers of the smallest of all small news, koow what they have met for. They say make things ail right before they leave, currency ail O K, and times easy, make a Gover- ner,and a President too,it necessary, which I think it is qute——. Timesare, as every where else are, | their horrid ; two to three failures a da, tobacco jmen have gone, but it the st to see them, ‘ehave a parcel of fellows here assembled, who call themselves the democratic Convention ; they late last might at the Capitol, sbusog they will | these petty gossip: mongers, of distress and the piteous cry of misery unheeded, in their haste to communicate their suspicions, and they says” to their equally officious friends. le who has administered the caus- +] tie, if so be that it may prove effectual, and check this vile traducingof private charac- y 3 nearly allthe | ye matters bu ey say is all owin; ur New York Commission Merchants. fora good business this Spring, notwithstand- ing all the croaking. Tobaceo comes in slowly, a | ter, this ceaseless flow of calumniating tales whieh great deal loose, and selis low. The Bunks are wreuing a very rigid course here, towards the Merchants ; they cannot help it, for they wiil have o actin concert with Oid Maryland when she re- sParties here are all the go. You mentioned Stan- nard in yourlast. Since then I’ve been to many. The Missee W—ns gave a grand affair and | regret I haye neither time or space to give you all the looks and dresses of the sweet creacures there assembled. I wentto one of Mrs. General P's, which was very elegant indeed, and where I noticed two beautiful Miss W.’s, and the daughters of the lady who gave the party above alluded to as grand. ‘here were assembled in this phalanx of rank, wit, wealth and beauty, two graceful creatures, the Misses W-—bb’r, one of them, 1 think the younger, I was most parucularly struck with. i surrounded with butterflies. 1’1I call and see her toute seule one of these tine evenings, and deecribe m' sation at seeing her so besieged. Among the men, party going is comme il faut. Jumes U., a Pres- byteran, gave quite a rout, as aiso his brother John. Atthe latter I saw the daughter of Jadge B—, who it think I met her one sum- mer at the White Sulphur; she was attended badly Mise A. C—I, the daughter of physician, looked heaven. born 1 go to B—1’s to-night quite a coterie; and M—’s, the tobaconist, gives a fete on Friday night ut it won’tbe onthe exclusive. _ Business dull of course, I’ve written much I cen- At present she is really is a beautitul soul. by a Dr. Somebod: a highly reepectab honored us wit! plied weekly by a line from inter is unusa Exchange on England, —; deh fond INTERN. | New York, 10; Balti- | jativade, and we have hi more, 4h : i _P.3. We had a shocking tragedy here nights ago. A man named Fletcher a woman by stabbing her many times with a bowie knife, and then shot his partner name of Carter Wells. t ind Heth is in jail—taken 30 miles beyond The a few | travelling, as t! ‘a gambler) by th i The latet is dete ond ec ters- | seven more, Correspondence of the Herald.4 Rocuestsr, Feb. 8, 1842. Bankrupts—Van Zandt—Colt. Dean Bennett :— Our moral city is very quiet just at przsent. The famous Van Zandt ca: foolscap folios of the lawyers, waiting the motion for a new trial which is shortly to be made, The your paper oftentime stical court have not yet reported, and ab- is known of the opinions of the members of the court, individually or collectively. uld judge that the lawyers ‘were busily en- | sueh irregulari gaged in preparing bankrupt cases. It is said that | De’ our little city will furnish three hundred subjects |, Tt is sai forthe whitewashing process. Success be to them ! Let them ‘go and sia no more !”” The verdict in the ease of Colt has excited «deep and painfal sensation among our citizens. None of them knew either Colt or Adams, or any of their | devel 3 Consequently they had no cause of ex. | Cle! citement_on the subject. When they heard of the particulars of the attempt to conceal Adams’ body they were horror struck, very naturally. Lut they lly read the report of the eps quietly in the route, two or three solutely nothing ment, in regard respondence are the first and best i f | ton that we receive. have since very gene trial day by day as 4 calm and dispassionate jud; The result of the trial has astounded to the truth of on the subjee:, such as are ly called y some revere calamity befalling a worthy e bave a right to judge of this business as well asthe people of your city, and perbaps we ‘ean do | ¢, so more dispassionately, and I have not heard a ak of the verdict wh. has not been very budy seems to fee! that our lives may not be safe even in the hands of jurymen. The old maxim oflaw used to be, that “it was bet- ter that ten guilty men should eseape, than that one innocent man should be hi Ww ¥ em to have adopted the rule to “Jet g an innocent on following brief report The great importance and charitable instituti ring care of the Legislature is acknowledged by every one ; [Correspondence of the Herald.) Oven, Cattaraugus Co, Jan. 31, 1842. Condition of Olean—Erie Rail Road— Remains of a Dead Red Dog—Beauz and Belles of Olean. Ma. Eprror :— As your valuable paper contains notices the United States, allow me to pat you au faite of what ‘s geing on here at Olean, stined to become of so much | geon: re rated for more than h: management of twent; every | among our most disti time and services place of any not a town, which importance ere lop; one of the oldest towns in Western New York, and before the completion of the Erie Canal, was impertant as being the spot whence the stardy rant to the prairies of the west, leaviag his waggons and teams, laanched his ark oa the rapid waters of the Alleghany. Sines the opening of | pote of 2 public hospital. that great undertaking, it hae remained stagnant; but a new impulse has been given to it of late yeart, by the fact, that it is herethe New York and Erie Rail Road first meets the Alleghany, and that es the Genesee Valley Csnal. in larger towns, our s, and our mo- the arrangement of th the Governors to appropriate sively for the accommodati and who would much an institution, to any t lings or public hospit afford a better opportunity classifying patients according which they may be affected. eases are admitted, there is never} priety in placing in the same w here also, term: We have here as well financial and temperance movements, ral, religious, and political reforms. Bank, a Red Dog eoncern, has finally elosed its af- | different complaints, many of which, it is well faire, anda few days ago its desks, tables, chairs, imk stands, sand boxes, Religion and Fashion in Richmond—Beautiful Ladies } vistole, kept I euppose to protect what it never —Spring Trade— Theatr icals— Soirées and Balls— | pad, were sold to pay taxes. A eouple of miles from here is Alleghany City, that eut 90 extensive a figure om paper afew years ago, and in whose lots so many of your ft ill wh al d a pair of formidable that received the magnificent ‘wu grown with bu enger, ng line of the road. Hi lozen young ‘men of the it promise, among them Mr. Emmett, the i lawyer of your eau valtzeur” as he is sometimesjealled, is as lished for his love of his dinner as his horse. t, of Buffalo, whose captivating exterior juctive manners, added to rather principles jadelphia, endeared to all his acquain- lity and remarkable . MeV—r, of N heard breathin, ic of ‘m but pai re rather deficient. The any claim to it being stran- ming Mrs V. D. R , and her beau- L., whom we are so fortunate as us for tne winter. P. 8 —I need not tell you in what estimation the Herald is held here. ‘Watertown, Correspondence of the Herald.) Warenrrows, Feb. 3, 1842. -—Morality“of our Elders—Sir Charles Bagot—Francis Bond Head—Travelling Facilities —Postoffice Management-—iterald—Congressional Reports, §¢.—Van Zandt Outdone. more de- | Friexp Benserr,— My former letter, ard your comments thereupon, have excited some attention among the gossiping played Hamlet uncommonly weil, and with the ex- | newsmongers of our most gossipping place, but, a8 generally happens, they seem more anxious topeue- the incog of your correspondent, than to mend ‘o other who pi id canker of the heart, originate and make current. But we are somewhat peculiar in one respect, with regard to our morals and manners. In most commuaities, the dereliction of morals is supposed to be one of the infirmities of young men, and they are held accountable for whatever circumstances of that nature may occur. is the ease, as the young men are by far the most ral part of the community, and the are mainly committed by the eld: uld be the most exemplar: munity, and the grey-headed who were noted in their youthful da: deportment of their liv: der of nature, and have their p; with their years, whil time are the deacon sent. On what prio losophy this is foun: s the fact. And these same e! most watchful eye over the maidens, and = red Woman! slightgfauxtpas in ot ir Charles Bagot and his suite id seemed to ex ancis Bond Head, who di Bat here the reverse if open for this northern but very little sleighing. enerally here the best season fer e roads are most always good, and the sleighing permanent, But we ve some more speedy conveyance than from Rome to this place, some sev- 3,and thence to Kingston, some thirty- contemplated, and already made; but for the present we are fortunately supplied with most excellent lines of stages, east and west from here, under th ment of Symonds & Co., who have given isfaction by theit promptness and despat. their quiet and correct way of doing things; and the traveller would find it to his advantage at aay time, to take their northern stages from Utica to Syracuse, in preference to going by Oswego, * But we geod dea. of fault with the irregularity of mails between New York and this place, as ies over, some whe: ys at a time, and then we re- essive papers all together. k our Postmaster General would be ly in correcting than edicts against the penny id that an affair de eur is soon to eome off een a handsome widow, whom report says “Kinge” have knelt to, anda town, who is disposed to admire the charms of the widow more than charmless spinsters. A case of virtue, far execeding Van Zandt’s in beauty, and to be in another , who has been laboring for some is a very sinful age, friend Ben- ional reports and Washington cor- much valued by us, and give us intimation of things at Washing- Yours, [From the New York Lancet} Annual Report of the Commissioners of Charitable Institutions in the First Senatorial District of the State of New York. ‘Through the kindness of one of the commission- re, we are enabled to lay before our readers. the We intend before long to examine, rather more minutely than the commis sioners appear to have done, the past of the City ILospital, and therefore waive at present any remarks on the subject. TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. ‘The commissioners appointed by the Governor and Se- nate, under the Act of May 13, 1 (0 be seen whether a new trial will | ferent cheritable institutions in the First ‘not, I do mot know whether the peo- | respectfully ple of your city will bring this case before the Go- yernor, but I venture to predict that unless the ‘eastern New York are convinced that the testimony of the trial has not been correctly re- jorted to them, they will call upon the Executive interfere, and at lesst preserve in our law th REPORT! ee the various public hospitals which are reeeivin ‘of the State of and fe mun be a source ot the representatives of the ; h fat the liberal endowments bestowed upon favor of innocenee in cases | lic charities, have been expended in a way best calculated to promote the benevol Wr therefore feel gra ting the attenti jent intentions e medical al hed for the Their servie form with great fidelity th mitted to their care. Since our last annual re York Hospital have completed the new edi connected with that insti rt, the Governors of the New patients from among our own citizens, as well as strangers from abroad, who are abundantly able ‘and willing to pay their own expenses, refer the accommodations of such y could obtain in. p This new building will also than has heretofore existed, for to the different diseases with ‘Although no contagious dis- heless a manifest impro- , patients affected with assume under certain circumstances an infec The New York Hospital can now accommodatn at times about three hundeed and itty Pationta, Aad number in the hospital during the last ten been one hundred and e ; a The total neraber during the same period, in ing those in the hospital the commencement of the year, has been eighteen tenivat and seventy-three. From this statement it will be jon of the new bul there are ample accommodations for about ouc hui ue All classes of diseases are admitted in the ho: such as are contagious or are deem: ‘The average expense per week, fur cach *, Washing, board, &c., but not including cost of building and interest on loan, is three dollars Abut fifty-nine per cent. of the dv number being paupers, are admilted free of expense. venteen are guarantied to be paid for by the ship owners or eonsignees at this port, being all those patients who have been less than two years in the count time the ship owners are responsible. tients who pay their own expenses, Tt atfords us great pleasure to state, that in all the depart- ments of the New York Hospital, the medical and surgical attendance—the cleanliness of the aj the admirable order and system maintained throughout all branches of the establishment, reflects high honor upom fiemle and gratuitous labors of the Governors of thie va rhaps, to be regretted that the Governors of the fospital, have not at their command, the neees- sary means for furnishing suitable accommodations apart pital, for a large number of patients who ought to be provided for, whilst laboring under contar gious and incurable diseases, Were they able to accom lish tl connection with the ample provision for all York Hospital would sed in the comy Iness and universality lum, situated at Bloomingdale, i# @ ; ‘ork Hospital. 1: innow about tw. years since the Governors completed the extonsive b ings at this beautiful place, which is about six miles from the city, for the ree those who are affec for selecting this location, which fur beaut: and variety of prospect, is perhaps unsu: other in our country, was for the purpose of int as an auxiliary in the treatment of mental disorders. influence of moral causes. This was the first public effort in the United States, ever made, to operate uzon the humen. mind, shattered and deran) ife, by the soothing and nd serub oak, and mayor, town ‘council, and sele inbabi- The New York and Erie Rail Road is advancing neighborhood—thanks to the efforts the energetic young contracior, Mr. V. —n, the president leman is from Penn- ighest degree of from the present hos other maladies, the New the world a public charit ness of its organization, and the of its provisions for all classes of d The Luaatic As branch of the New rt of a corps re atients, apart from, ies. Mes homages a Toujours a vias. A Cc. od by the storms and te fe ealing influence of meni moral treatment. The experiment has now been fully and completely tested, and the success of the undertaking, has more than equalled the expectations of its original fous- The patients at this institution are treated in a way, as far as possible to remove from their minds, all ideas i and take their meals at regular hoursthrougle . the intervals between mala, they are em- ployed in reading, walking, riding, ai and pleasant occupations. In the eve tire to their rooms, or spend their time in the ting apartments until ten o'clock, in any manner most con- sand inclination. ‘They have access racing our best yx so furnished with the daily pape a large portion of the patients participate in the observance of public worship, which has been found eminently bene ficial and useful in restoring the mind to its healthy action. These amusements and blended with suitable m ed with the most cheerin From an examination of the account of the admissions and recoveries in the Bloomin opening of the institution in 1! 2496, we find the recoveries among the males have about fifty per cent., whilst among the females it has been. hit per cent-—showing apparently the cs among those who other amusements ing, they either re- lale Asylums, from the 1 to 1841, amountii about thirty-ci ry of males than fem: been treated at this institution. From a full examination of the asylum, in all its depart- menta, we can with great confidence lar testimony to ite eminent usefulness, and assure the Li annual appropriations are wisely expe the benevolent rts of this institution. The amount of ‘hospital money received by the Commis- sioners of Health, from the 15th of March to the Ist of Now vember, 1841, including the amount under protest, and ited on interest in the Life and Trust y-three thousand five hundred and thirty-six forty-eight cents. This is about six thousand dollars less than was received last year during the same time. The diminution of the receipts has arisen in coi decrease of emigration within the past year, of emigrants, fom whom the hospital moncy is principally collected, necessarily varies every year, according as the facilities, or inducements h ld out ‘to foreigners, from one period to another. The expenditures di same period has been thirty-six thousand two hund: cighty-three dollars aud ninety to jislature that the the six cents. Of this! usbands and fathers Purchase Budi Quarantine and e sions increase the wild youth of the olden d strict moralists of the pre- haman natare or phi- is more than I] ean tell; but jed from the gross amount collected ers, leaves a bulance of seve thousand two huudred and fifty-two dollars a the reecipts for the remainder. be the same as last year, two thousand one hundred and sixty-three dol thirty-nine cents. ‘The Commissioners of Health have during the last year, expended for wharf repairs, six thousand two hundred and r dollars and eighty-nine cen:s yeket and sur- there will be a surplus of tw le more res; Tamediately in front of the Marine Hos: this a valuable and necessary impro. cement. bulkhead approached very near the hospital, and wes @ ¢ floating and corruptible mate ‘Tho decomposition of ies, frequently created « deleterious mosphere, highly injurious to the paticrts im the Mari common reservoir for all about the harbor. tients reecived at the Marine last year to the Ist of Novem! was 1050, who were treated for a period equal to ys. The average expense of each ur dollars and twenty-one cents, from November of weeks and four tient per week, is is exclusive of medical attendance. In the medical o1 ion of the Morine Horpital, and lendants upon the sic id to the benevolent objects of Retreat, which was founded for lieve the fullest the institution in The Seamen's Fund ans apport and treatment of sick and disabled ving at this port, has been conducte in a manner highly ereditable to the t officers of that institution. After full « twice as far ve had occasion to gs of the inmates of that establishment, and a faithful and economicel administration of The great importance of an institution of this kind, sita- reat commercial port of tho United States, mariners from all parts of the world are constontly arriving, and where, by the sum, they can enjo yment ofa small all the comidrts of a home, is too mar nifest to’ require illustration. Ax New York centre, where thousands of seamen arc constantly from every State in the Union, it would seem no morethan right and proper, that the Federal or State Government should in some way participate in the maintenanee of this The amount of moncy received hy the hosp:tal, from the Ist of January to the Bist of October three thousand three hundred and fil cighty-one cents, which added tu the on the Ist of January, 1841, being two hundred eight dollars and ‘seventy-one cents, amount of twenty-three thousand six hundred dollars and eighty-five cents, There the same period, twenty thousand one hum venty-three dollars and aixty-three cents. Since our last annual report, the trustees have new efrangement ee Porm organization oft ane ital. The princi ician now resi n lu on every Cmergency to attend upom For many years the prin siderable oung man about 1041, was ta an remaininy and is always read: the patients of the Institution. | For r was allowed to reside « con taboo from the hospital, and frequently wes not in attend ance whon his services were most nemied. The trustees of the State Hospilal in the city of New York, have received a grant of land from the © of this eity, for the location of $50,000. the location, the trustees were of t rather too remote from the city. ‘They engaged in effecting an exchange of t ituation considerably nearer the lic ospital AS . will commence erecting, the reception of patients. determined to make thie insti-- tients who have contributed to the fund, from w! s incipally derived for its esteblis , we are of the opinion the trastess verned by a just estimation of the portance of such an institut grants who are constantly én as from a conviction that the anins of money on theit arrival at ous port, under the name of ‘Hospital Money,’ ought not, un stances, be directed to objects disconnect fore of the contributors. The New York Kye Infirmary w inder the contro opinion thet it wes now they effect this n suitable buildin, tution the great asylum In this determinat to the unfortunate g ing in New York, oa w der any cirewm~ ‘of the Legislature. re on this oceasion, in invi ion of your honorable body to the present prosperous condition of the institutions placed under the of the commissioners. New York ital, whieh has now been inco: acentury, be ger sto sa utation it has always enjoyed, for the extent of its ee ae and the abilit; tod wien manifested in the administration of its affairs. This institution is under the Governors, selected from wed citizens, who give their All the subordinate ap- intments are made by them, and are nnder their imme- sion and control. ‘The physicians and sur- ‘surgical patients founded pat ‘fn. i *, a, and be Fee who give biishment of thie im- stitution, more than twenty thousand patients have bees tested a the infirmary, for je ease of the eye and ear. Perhaps no this country has been productive-of greater benefit to the Legistat thi raense Menehets the) ithout the assistance ‘of © Board of Directo: ended by four eminent sur The small sum appropriated by institution, has beem productive afflicted, thousands of who able treatment they have received at this infirmary, wo have become h and consequent] sat open public. the small annaity grant cold and heartless reference to pe: different light, and we behold the have been saved from total blind- ness,—that worst of all human aildici i members of society, we cannot to whenevolent charity, the Legisla for continuing its fostering aid to this most PHILIP HONK, THOMAS O'CONNE. WILLIAM W. FOX. JOUN 8. BOWRON SIMEON DRAPE! important duties com- ¢ has ample reaso! <a | Commissioners. From Havawa.—The Ann A. Parker, at Savanaby from Havana, ee to the 2th ultimo. Her