The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1843, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. New York, Tuesday, July 11, 1843, = vee = Sanavoos Srarnos.—Our readers will please bear in ‘mind thet the Heraid can be obtained daily, on the arrival ofthe cars, from Mr. Lewis, opposite the United States Hotel. Lan wren, N. ¥.—The Herald can be had ef Mr. Lewis, Rensselaer House. Subscribers leaving their ad- dress woil be served regularly. Me. D. Lymax, Middletown, 'Conn., is Agent for the Herald, of whom may be f id Wont werd ay be obtained copies ef the Daily anc Seve Sine, N. ¥., Messrs, Stanton & Co. Kixaston, N. ¥., Mr. Z. Waller. Post Orrice Dauinquencigs.—We have received «letter froma highly respectable subscriber in the city of Natchez, in which he complains very bitter- ly of the irregularity with which he receives the Herald, He states, that for this last three months, he has not received our paper with any regularity. They reach him three and four together, and then not in due coarse of mail. He stroagly suspects that the source of the neglect may be traced to the newspaper depot, connected with the post office in this place, kept by the eon of the Postmaster. We have only to state, that the utmost regularity is ob- served by eur mail clerks in forwarding copies of the Herald to our subscribers. We do not know whether any other subscribers in Natchez have si- milar grounds of complaint ; but we call the atten- tion of the department {o the fact as stated by this correspondent. Tae Heare oy rar Crry—Inonzasx or Mor- tatity.—We have taken the pains to examine the returns of the City Inspector during the last month, and find the evidences of a very marked and alarm. ing increase of mortality during .that peried The following table presents the result of our examina- tion :— Men. Wom'n Chil: Tot'l Deaths In week ending 34 June, 339 26 © 46109 og “loth, 2 2 “ 106 os - 30 QT 51 108 = “ g4th, 62 él 7 178 - “Vet July, 46 ao 98 208 Tt is thus discovered that during the latter part of the month, the number of deaths has increased in a very large ratio. The mortality has, as is usual in the summer season, been very great amongst children, and a great many aged persons, and others in feeble health have been cut off. Great care in the management of the clothing—avoidance ef open windows in the evening—light digestible food —careful attention to the state of the bowels—tem- rance in all things, are the best preventive mea- res against the attacks of disease. All who can afford the time and,other necessary means, should obtain a few weeks’ residence at some of our delightful watering places and inland summer recorts; Fort Hamilton, LongBranch—New Brighton —Fort Lee—Schooley’s Mountain Springs—Avon Springs—Sharon Springs—Catskill Mountain House, and other places, present varied attractions, and all offer most desirable facilities of ebtaining health and enjoyment. To those who are condemned to bide the dust, bustle, and filthy streets of the city, eneed hardly recommend frequent visits to the *gant and commodious salt water baths of Thomas ud Rabineau: They place within our reach one f the very cheapest means of preserving the health and securing bodily and mental! com{ort. Azrses or THE Fire Usrarrment.—The occur- rence on the 4th inst of a another disgraceful riot, in which a young man of highly respectable con- nexivns in this city, was almost beaten to death, and now lies in the most critically dangerous state, has again, fer the hundredth nme, aroused public attention to the crying necessity of a radical change in the orgasization >f the fire department. This is one of ihe reforms which the Corporation have ut- | terly neglected. Not the slightest approach to it | has been attempted. It is altogether unnecessary to enter into any de- tailed exposé of the shocking state of this depart- ment. With the exception of a few companies, who are tolerably respectable, the whole department is disgraced by its connexion with crowds of volun- teers, and many regular members of most disreputa- ble character. The entire system is defective and wrong. Are we ever to getridof it? Surely now that the Mayor and Corporation have ceased for a time their pleasure excursions at the public expense, in more senses than one, we may expect some ac- tion in this matter. If they do not move in it, and set to work in earnest to effect a so much needed reform, the duty of all our citizens who value good government is sufficiently apparent. It does seem as if the Mayor and the Common Council have for- gotten, if they ever knew it, that the righteous dis- charge of their official duties, and the fulfilling of the important trust confided to their hands, by their fellow citizens, includes something more generally important and useful than quaffing champagne, and driving coach horses to death. It will be no fault of ours, if they remaim unreminded of their duty. Come, gentlemen, what do you intend doing with the fire department % Oregon Convention.—This body assembled on Monday, July 8d at the College Hall. Colonel R. M. Johnson, Ex-Vice President of the United States, was chosen President, and William Parry, of this city, Secretary. The officers, with these exceptions,we have not ascertained. The proceed- ings,which will appear at length, we have no doubt, from the numerous talented and popular men of different sections of the country, who participate in the deliberations, will be of great and universal in- terest. Gong To Recruir —After having so satisfactorily settled the affairsof the cabinet—filled the vacan- cies—and greased the wheels of the administration, 80 as to ensure a month of smooth locomotion, John Jones, the Jobn Jones—Jehn Jones of the Madi- | sonian”—John Jones, the poet laureat of the govern- ment—John Jones, the Grand Vizier and father confessor of “honest John Tyler,” has gene to the country, to seek “some boundless contiguity of shade,” and prepare himeelf for the autumn cam- paign. Tar Decency or ue Fourierrre Orcan.—The respectable organ of Charles Fourier, and the ready exponent of all the new-fangled notions in religion | and morality—The Tyibwne—has become shocking- ly bad-tempered of late. Bye and by we shall be favored, we are disposed to believe, from some ru- mors afloat, with a quite satisfactor explanation of the causes which have driven our vegetable neigh. bor to lose his former equanimity. As specimen of the amiable, gentlemanly, and Christian spirit, which now animates the high priest of Fourierism, we submit the following paragraph :— From the Tribune) The Sun se: it Harvard University conferred upon John Tyler, during his recent visit to Boston, the degree H idiculous reset be true, but we cer- eit until we have better authority ts of the Governor. Yesterday, the Governor, accompanied by Alder- men Purdy and Nicholls, by Messrs. McMurrayand Daly, of the Assembly, and several other gentle- men, visited some of the Inspection offices, and public institutions in the city. He went first to the Potash Inspection, and then to the Flour Inspection. The inspectors and dealers seemed much pleased with the visit, and it was fre- quently remarked, that that was the first time a Governor bad evervisited them, or paid any atten. tion to the manner in which the duties had been dis- charged. On his way up town, the Governor stepped with his party at the Fulton Market. He was very cor- dially welcomed by the butchers, and was detained there nearly an hour in becoming acquainted with them and the market-women. When he left the market, he made a brief call at the Mercantile Library, and then, by appointment, met the trustees of the Hospital, at their institution in Broadway. After a thorough examination there he visited the Catholic Orphan Assylum, the New York Orphan Assylum, the Lunatie Assylum at Bloomingdale, the Leake and Watts’ Assylum, and the Institution for the Blind. At the latter place,one of the pupils, Miss Frances J. Crosby, addressed the Governor in the following lines of her own eomposition :— ie We in thy presence, honored sir, appear ; With glowing hearts we bid you welcome here— ign Ruler of the sky, ny itwrent from on Tien: welcome, thrice welcome here— Yes, honored si Tay voice b Its gencreus tones a nob! Whore pure benevolence do “One beon we ask, and not we trust in vain, Our Governor may we thy friendship claim, And when before the Legislative band, We to solicit aid perchance may stand, ‘Then let thy voice in thrilling tones be heard, Where eager crowds ali breathless mark each word, ‘To aid our cause, and He who reigns above, Will thy philanthropy with smiles approve; And you who here our Governor attend, O may wetrace in each a faithful friend, Welcome our lips in joyous accents swell, Dear henored sir, and you kind friends, farewell. Mr. McMurray, in behali of the Governor, made a brief reply, and the party returned to town about eight o’clock last evening, highly pleased with their excursion for the day. ‘We understand that the Governor to-day will vi" sit Brooklyn, and wlil spend several days on Long Island. He will return to the city probably by Sa- turday next, when he intends to visit the other in- Spection offices,the; Long Island Farms, Blackwell’s Island, and sueh other institutions in the city as may be deserving his attention. Tne Suir FRawxuin anD THE Mgomanics-—The mechanies, workingmen, and other citizens of the Seventh Ward, who are interested in the contem- plated removal of the United States ship Franklin to Boston for repair, having been called together for this evening to express their opinion of the wrong about to be done to our mechanics and others, and to take such measures as they may deem proper to prevent, if possible, so gross an act of injustice to the city of New York. This isa movement which will excite a sympathetic feeling amongst mechanics o' all classes, and for their information, but more es- pecially for the information of the meeting to be held this evening, we give some of the more sub- Stantial reasons urged by the late Secretary of the Navy in a communication which was last night laid betore the Common Council in relation to this subject. Mr. Upehur says in the first place, that— There is no dock in this city or in Brooklyn, where a ship of the line can be repaired. The Go- vernment has provided two docks, one at Gosport and the other at Boston, in one or the other of which the Secretary feels that he is bound to have the Franklin repaired. Again he says, no other ex- pedient can with any degree of safety, be adopted, for the weight of the Franklin is (oo great for a sectional Dock, and the strain he fears would injure the ship. This CEP peRe he says has been tried in Fou and failed; and the plan of cutting the ship down cannot be admitted, for it would be inconvenient, difficult, and too expensive. And it is not certain that she ought to be cut down at all. Further, that all the expedients suggested, are to to say the least of them, of very doubtful practic: bilty. The expense must be greater in New York than in Boston, and what reason is there for incur- ring it? She is now ready for her voyage to Boston. But again, even if she sheuld De repaired in Brooklyn, she must afterwards be sent to a dry dock to be coppered. A further objection is conclusive. No veseel is ever launched without more or less injury. There is a point ef time when she is not supported, either by the ways or the water, and at that moment she is always injured in some degree. A long and heavy vessel is almost invariably hegged, oe which she is both Aa and weakened. This was the case with the Franklin, and she shows it to this day. Why then, he asks, should she be again put on ways, and egain subjected to similar injury? It she be put in a walled dock, her present crook ma‘ be corrected ; if otherwise placed, that crook will be increased. He says he has no right as a public officer to hesitate a moment between such alter- natives as are here presented. The Secretary says there is no dock in New York, and that this is no fault of his, for he has strenuously recommended the same. But that the construction of such a dock has been stopped en account of the fact that certain citizens of New York have endeavored to substitute for it other contrivances which they considered better. . The communication of the Honorable Secretary is very full, occupying thirteen closely written fo- lios, and is accompanied by other statistical decu- ments and faeis which coustitute the ground of his decision to remove the Franklin to Boston. Movements.—Ex-Governer Tomlinson, ef Con- necticut; Hon. Job Pierson, Rensselaer county; and A.C. Hand, of Essex county, Ex-Members of Con- gress; and Thos. J. Patterson, Member of Congress elect from Rochester, are at Howard's. Hon. Willis Hall, late Attorney General, and next candidate for the Governorship of this State is also at Howard’s. Com. W. B. Shubrick, U. S. N., lady and daughter; also the Hon. H. P. Hunt, M. C., from Rensselaer county; also the Hon. Wm. Shepherd, lady and servants, from North Carolina, are at the City Hotel. Governor Shannon, Senator Tappan, and Col. Medary, have arrived in Cincinnati. Mr. Tappan is quite unwell. Mr. Crittenden left St. Louis on Thursday, June 29th, for his residence in Kentucky. Dr. Lardner is lecturing at Nashville. Oxp Tecumsen.—Col. R. M. Johnson will start on his eastern tour to New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, and other places, some time between the 19th and the 30:h August ensuing. Ferzicn Musica Anrists.—In this city, as in all the chief cities of the Union, there is a large number of foreign musical artists—singers, violin- ists, performers on all imaginable sorts of instru- ments—whose only talent consists in the successful cultivation of Pan, and the eking out existence by some mysterious process, the secret of which they wisely keep to themselves. These are they who, If the uccident of Gen. Harrison's death can imbecile a creature as John Tyler to the high- ry houor of the oldest college in America, those honers must ve something less then worthiess. ‘The tone and language of this elegant morceau is disereditable even tu a equash. ‘Talk of imbeecility, indeed! Pau. River Surrenees.—We trustthere is small necessity for our recurring to the claims of the nu- merous eufferers by the late calamitous fire at Fall River, on the sympathy aod active benevolence of the whole community. With the recollections of our own sufferings and disasters from a similar cause, fresh iv our minds, we surely need no re- membrancers of our duty to our brethren in an hour of like misfortune. It is to be hoped that the noble example set by Boston and the other towns in New England, will not be lost in us. Let a spirit of hal- Jowed emulation in this work of mercy and charity be encouraged, and let the efforts of the committee who were appointed at the meeting in the Exchange, be energetically and promptly seconded. $@-Hon. John Holmes, formerly a United States Senater, from Maine, and well known throughout the Union, died at Portland on the 7th instant, after rotracted illness. He was upwards ot seventy us of age with unclean linen, and uncombed beards, oceupy the chief seats in our concert-reoms, or block up the entrances. When an artist of real merit comes amonget us, these creatures, like the creeping things which riot in the decay of nobler natures, immediately fasten themselves upor him or her, and by their malevolent efforts at depreciation, or their equally injurious selfish adulation and adviee, inflict in many cases serious injury. We had not long since an opportunity of making @ personal inspection of one of these creatures, and of observing the practical demonstration which his conduct afforded of the characteristic worthlessness and impertinence of the whole class. The fellow underteok to dictate to us the course which we ought to puraue in the case of a moet distinguished artist, and had actually the consummate impudence to express his disapprobation of our omission, ona certain occasion, of a long Preparatory puff. We administered a reproof to the fellow,twhich, dispite his incorrigible character, will, we are yet inclined to believe, not be altogether without a salutary ef- fect. At all events he will not repeat his insolence in this quarter Tue Locusts.—The Jate gale, it is said, dealt death and destruction to the horde of locusts, whieh have overrun portionsjof our eountry Urry or Tax Human Race.—The last number of the Biblical Repository contains an elaborate dis- cussion, by Dr. Forry, of this city, of the question relating to the unity of the human race. He shows, with no !ittle force and ingenuity, that the Mosai aceount of the origin of our race is sustained and corroborated by the natural history of the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent, Dr, Forry, in the course of his argument, dwells upon a certain law of nature, which we have always thought one of the strongest positions taken by those who main- tain his position. He states it thus:— “‘An identity of species between two animals, notwith- standing a striking difference in some Deen inierred, as a general rule, if their o! found capable of procreating.' Although this doctrine has been generally maintained by our most distinguished naturalists, yet some have rejected it as a hasty generali- zation. The production efhybrids is a phenomenon ob- served not only among mammifers, but among birds, es, the insect tribes, and the vegetable kingdom; and when we survey the numerous facts opposed to the gen- erally admitted law of nature that all hybrid productions are sterile, there would scem to be some ground for doubting the soundness of the general conclusion.— Thus the deg and the wolf, and the dog and the fox, will breed together, and the mixed effapring is capable of procreating. And that mules are net always barren, is a fact not unknown even to Aris tetle, But as hybrid productions are almost unknown among animals in their wild and unrestrained condition, it would seem that there is a mutual repuguance between those of different species ; and thusnature guards against 2 universal confusion of the different departments of or- ganised creation. Notwithstanding the occasional ex- Ceptions to the general fact of the sterility of hybrid pro- ductions as never been observed that an offspring si- milar to themselves has proceeded from hybrids of an op- posite sex, The offspring of these animais is capable of being continued in successive generations only by re- turning towards one of the parent tribes. it is th ar rent that the vis procreatri# between different species,both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, is very defective, ‘and that the law ef nature which maintains the diversity of tribes in the organised world, is not really infringed by the isolated phenomena ebserved in reference to hybrid reductions. That Is generally have the same form and endowments now as at the remotest period of our acquaintance with them, isan epinion confirmed by the oldest historical records, as well as by the works of art andthe actual relics foundia Egyptian tombs. ‘The zoolegical descriptions of Aristotle, composed twenty- two centuries ago, are still faithful to nature in every par. ticular. Hence it would appear that insurmountable bar- riers to the intermixture of species, at least umong wild animais, have beea provided by nature, in the instinctive aversion to union with other species, in the sterility of hy. brid productions, and in the law of the reproduction of rh corporeal andjpsychical characters of the parent in the offspring. These facts have en impsrtant beeing. trine that mankind constitutes a single species. It is well known to hertioulturists and ‘hose engaged in breeding domesticeted animals, that by crossing and in- termixing varieties, a mixed breed superior in almost every physical quality to the parent races is often produced ; and it has alse been observed that the inter- mixture of different races of the human family has pro- duced one physically superior, generally speaking, to ither ancestral race. Now, as it is alaw, according to i Hunter, that the i upon the doc- fh anthority of Buffon’ ai ithstanding ‘some i earance, whose offspring is equally pro- lific with themselves, belong to one and the same species, it follows that these facts afford a strong confirmation of the conclusion deduced from many others, viz , that there is but one human species, for, as just remarked, while the offspring of distinct species (real hybrids) are so lit- tle prolific that their stock soon becomes extinct, it is found that the mixed offspring of different varieties of the same speci (rae exceeds the \ ote races in corporeal vigor and in the tendency to multiplication.” Norroux Courr Martiau.—We learn from the Army and Navy Chronicle, that this court, which has been so Jong in session on board the Pennsylva- nia at Norfolk, has got through with all the cases brought before it, and at last stands adjourned sine die. The follewing are as many of the decisions as we have been able to obtain :— Commander William Ramsay, sentence not con- firmed ; reported to be five years suspension. Lieut. Edward M. Vail, dismissed, Juiy 3, 1843. Lieut. Charles H. Poor, acquitted. Passed Midshipman Matthias C. Marin, suspend- ed for two years. Midshipman Charles T. Crocker, suspended un- til December 80, 1843, without pay. Midshipman Albert G. Enos, suspended until June 30, 1344, without pay. Midshipman Samuel A.Miller, dismissed June 30. We hope with the Chronicie,that all the decisions, whatever they be, if according co law, may stand. This is the great evil thatthe discipline of the Navy has had to contend against—the frequency with which the decisions of courts martial have been set aside, not from any want of legality, but by personal importunities and political influence. Tue Court MartiaL at Mippietows.—Of the Court Martial sitting at Middletown, Connecticut, for the trial of Lieut. Colonel Wm. H. Freeman, of the Marine Corps, Col. Samuel Miller is President, and H. M. Mortet, Esq., of Washington City,Judge Advocate of the Court. It 1s said the difficulties out of which the charges arose, occurred on the Norfolk station, and, therefore, the cause of select- ing the land of “ steady habits” as the place of trial, is hard to guess. Joz Smita in Troupe Acain.—News was brought to St. Louis, on the 29th ult., by the steam- er Osprey, that Jee Smith, the Mormon Prophet, has been arrested and placed in jail at Ottawa, and further, that when the intelligence reached Nauvoo two hundred horsemen of the Legion started imme- diately for Ottawa, with the iatention of liberating him. The steamboat Iowa had also been chartered at Nauvoo by the Mormons, and is at present as- cending the Illinois river with one hundred and fifty armed men, to second the attack of the horse- men on Ottawa. Ottawa is situated up the Iilino! and is distant about three hundred miles from this city. We believe the Prophet has been travelling in the northern part of the State, for the purpose of keeping from the arrest made under the requisition of the Governor of Missouri, which accounts for his being lodged in jail at Ottawa. Siexora CasTeLian.—It has been erroneously stated in several of the papers, that this distinguish- ed artist would give another concert previous to her departure from our city on a tour throughout the States. This isnot the fact. However much we may regret the present deprivation of an oppor- tunity of again listening to the melody of her voice, we find some consolation in the anticipation of hear- ing her, on her return to the city, and before her departure for Europe in the fall. The Signora pro- ceeds now to Philadelphia, where she will give a concert. She will then visit Niagara, and in all probability extend her tour to the Canadas. On her return she will visit Boston, and give a concert. The fair and gifted Signora beare with her from this city, the e — usiastic admiration and friendly regard of thousands, and she will be greeted on her return te us, with a welcome, suchas only the high- est order of genius and talent can command, Save at rae Tremont Turarre.—The sale of the furniture of the green-room, scenery, and other arti- clesat the Trement,took place on Friday last. Every thing, of course, sold at a large discount from the cost. The two Jarge mirrors in the saloon went for $144, the ecenery for $50, the orchestra music for $70, the manuscript plays for $26, the Bunker Hill drop curtain for $11, the curtains and ornaments of the proscenium boxes for $20, the chairs in London Assurance for $13, which Kimball of the Museum purchased, the ornaments around the boxes for $5. The bust of fair Ellen Tree, which at one time some of the Boston beaux would have given $20 to look at, wentfor the paltry sum of 874 cents. The s atues of the muses, tragic and comic, in tront of the theatre, sold for $5 each. The dresees were not sold, as the sacrifice on them would have been too great—they having originally cost $10,000. To a new theatre, they would be worth about $5000, New Music.—Atwill, 201 Broadway, has pub- lished two new songs—‘' Love's Chosen Hours; or morning, noon, and night,” sung with great applause by Mias Mary Taylor, the words by Harry P. rat. tan, Eeq.,, the music by Francis H. Brown. Ano- ther, ‘ The Coquette,” words by W. Grandinson, Eeq., the music composed by F. W. Rosier. They are both very pretty. Exceitent.—Mr. George Jamieson’s representa- tion of Sir Edward Mortimer, at the Chatham last night. Thisis ahighly talented actor. Why he i# withont an engagement in lis native city, we know not. He willnot be long without one somewhere, ‘| OUr recommendation is worth anything. tast Evenine-—This was one of the most brilliant affairs ever witnessed in this city. Long before the sun had sunk in the west, and bade farewell to a world he had gladdened with his rays, the garden was crowded by a glorious assemblage of the youth, beauty and respectability of our Irish fellow-citi- zens. The Battery was crowded with economical spectators, determined to enjoy as much as possible of the eventng’s entertainments withoutthe annoy, ance of paying fer participatien in them. There could not have been less than ten thousand persons assembled. The scene which was presented to our observa- tion on entering the garden, was singularly imposing and beautiful. An hundred lamps illumi- nated the area, and from the crowded benches of the amphitheatre a thousand brilliant eyes “‘rain- ed influence” down, and made the whole scene one of light and brilliancy. We have had some toler- able experience in the gatherings of New York feminine beauty, but never, we can say without the slightest hesitation, never have we seen congre- gated, on any one occasion, such an overwhelming assemblage of female charms and female influence. Every phase of beauty had there its appropriate re- presentative, from the budding girl of sixteen to the fascinating matron of thirty, with all her ripened and bewitching charms, The fireworks were truly magnificent; and the skill and tase of Mr. Kenny, the pyrotechnist, were acknowledged in repeated rounds ot enthusiastic applause. Mr. Edge had better look after his laurels. But we think he and Kenny should com- promise the matter at once, for if they venture on a regular trial of ekill, we should like to know belore- hand who isto be answerable for the safety of the globe. As we do not admit poetry except at a respectably circumspect hour in the morning, we do not pretend to transgress our own rule, and give you some of the songs, which we used of old to sing. We give them in another and an unobjectionable form, and a fair chance is afforded by us for satisfactory con- tradiction of the grave statements made by our correspondent of the 30th ult. The placid moonlight—the calm and shining waters of the bay—the vessels lying so quietly in that peaceful and secure haven—the city and the battery veiled in the thickening mists of night—all made up a picture which sunk for ever into the soul. The repealers must repeat this entertainment. But they must not again congregate together so much Irish beauty, or the Castle Garden will not be able to contain the half of the visitors. Sxconp Apvent Camr Meetine.—The fellowers of Miller, the predicter of t! d of all things, a nounced a protracted can eting at Williams- burgh, Long Island, yester iy. Their pilgrimage is not yet ended, and-hence (he necessity to “watch and pray.” Indeed, doubis increase as time pr: gresses. The Rey. Mr. Miller, im a letter ‘0 Himes, of Boston, is disposed to think the has been some errors in the calculations res the time of the second advent. After noting © of the ceremonies ot the typical law, as they appe: in the Old Testament, he says—“ If this should be true, we shail not see His glorious appearing until after the autumnal equinox. A few months mere ot trial and calumny, and then all will be over.” We may probably give some reports of the pro- ceedings of this camp-meeting for the information of the faithful. Nisto’s—Tue Ravets.: his incomparable fa- mille commence their Harlequin Pantomimes te- night with the Magic Trumpe?, which drew such crowded houses lust season, and was so deservedly successful. The whele company have capital act- ing and dancing characters. Monsieur Massetté will “assume any shape” in his contortions. Kavels appear on the tight rope in that always amusing pas- toral pantomame La F'éte Champeti It is gratify- ing to find that this astonishing family have com- menced their season with every likelihood of being rewarded by their usual great success. The or- chestral music is of a superior kind, and we are pleased to perceive that the “opera orchestra” will perform two popular evertures. Beacon Coursg.—The great trotting match be- tween Lady Suffolk, Beppo, and Oneida Chief, comes off this day at four o’clock. Independence will not start. The Lady Suffolk and Beppo, it will be recollected, on the 4th July made 228, being the best time on record. The Lady on that day was the winner, and great excitement exists as to the result of to-day’s trotting, the last match having been so closely contested. City intelligence. A Savage Hussanv.—On the 3d July last,an inhuman brute, unworthy the name of man, was caught in the act of beating his wife, Martha Haney, ina most barbarous and savage manner,the poor woman being atthe time within one month of the period of her confiaement.— Her friends interfered, and rescued her, nearly dead, from under a neighbor’s bed, where she had fled for refu; nd obtained her admission into the Bellevue Hospital, where she was delivered of a child, which lived but a few hours after birth,the mother continuing very feeble and sore from the effects of the violence used upon her person. We further learn that this bloteh upon humenity has been for a length of time a prey upon the visiters of the Alms House, who, at the request of that same wife, would visit him, while he lay pretending sickness, and when their backs had turned would wrench the pittance from her, and spend it in riot and drunkenness. He also compelled his infant boy to solicit alms from the charitable in our streets,and if he had ill success, the unhappy child felt the violence of his brutal father’s rage. The fellow has been committed for an -s life time in the State Prison. Daowxen.—On Sunday week iast a party of four men, while out on a sailing excursion, were suddenly precipi: tated into the bay by Saence of the boom ofthe boat which wes under the mépagement of Petter Hollan, a native of Denmark,aged about 26 years,who kept a board. ing house at No.71 Cherry street. The accident occurred off Bedlew’s Island, and Hollan seeing the other three, cliuging to the keel, swam towards the island for the pur- pose of procuring the aid of the men stationed there in rescuing his companions, but he was himself the victim, for before reaching the island, he sank to rise no more. His body was discovered on Sunday last, floating off the ry near the North Carolina, and was tows ashore. ‘The corener held an ure at the house ot the wile of the deceased, and @ verdict was returnedot “ Accidental Drowning.” The other men were rescued by a sloop, which soon after fell in withthem. They say that immediately after u size, a sloop, name unknown, passed close by them, without heeding them or their signal. Such heartless con. duct degerves universal reproach. Steatina an Entine Surt.—William Jones was fully committed for stealing from Robert Quinn, No. 339 Wash- ington street, an entire guit of clothes worth from eighteen to twenty dollars, which he acknowledged he pledged with Simpson in the Bowery. A Cnty Buaxep to Deat.—QOn Sunday morning, @ little girl named Mary Elizabeth Scheman, aged two Years, was severely burned, in the absence of her mother, who leit her alone inthe room while she went to nd at the Washington Parade ground, where he sort of fruit stand. it is supposed that the child ed to get possession of the match box, and while laying with it some of the matches ignited and set fire to Ber clothes. Dr. Martin was cal ed into see her, but she died in th Verdict, that the child came to her death by lly burned. Foun Drownev.—An unknown man was found foat- ing in the slip at; the foot of Rutger’s slip; he was dressed ; a blue dress coat, with brass buttons, a baff vest, coarse at No. 10 Centre street, and returned. The body remains at the dead house for recog- nition. Statistics or THE ALms Hovse —We have been furnished by Mr. Morse with the following interest ing statistics :— Total in Aims House Department, including 323 in Hospital, 2 in Lunatic Asylum, Block weli’s Island, and 762 on Long Island Farms, 2810 Recaritvsation, Bellevue, 3%8 Asylum, Blackwell's Island, 382 Oo Long Island Farme, Th—~—1419 In Alms House proper, 1498 , Prisons. In Female Penitentiary, Bellevue, ot Do do Blackwell's Island, 904 Male do do. m City Prison, wa Totalin Prisons, 70 In Alms House Department, ase Boe Deseaves, Sup tbe FIVE O°CLOCK, 1 M. Wreck of the Steamship Columbia We learn by the Boston papers received this morving, that the steam ship Columbia, which left Boston for Liverpool on Saturday, 1st inst, has been totally wrecked. The following information in regard to this disaster, is copied from the Bangor Gazette :— The schooner Three Sons, Capt. Kendrick, arri- ved at Monnt Desert, with the important informa- tion that the Royal Mail Steamer Colunbia, while going at the rate of ten knots, in the fog,struck upon | Black Ledge, near Seal {sland, Nova Scotia, om the 8d inst, with so much violence that the vessel was driven out of water five feet. When the schooner ieft she was geing topieces,and was supposed would bea total loss. She is reported to have had 180per- sons on board, one of whom was missing. Among them was Hon. Abbott Lawrence, who paid Captain Kendrick $100 to bring the news to the nearest port inthe United States. The passengers were waiting upon Seal Island for a steamer for which they had sent to Halifax,by brig Arcade, to take them off. Baggage,' freight, &c., saved. i Several letters were received at Boston, among which was one from Hon. Abbott Lawrence to hts family, giving details of the accident. Seal Island is off Townsend Bay, on the south west coast of Nova Scotia. SS REESE Common C it. JuLy 10.—Boann ev ALpenmen—Aiderman Len Presi- dent pro tem. ia the absence of Alderman Purdy. Refitting the U. S. Ship Franklin.—A communication from the Secretary of the Navy, giving his reasons why the Franikliu should be removed to Boston for repairs, was presented and read. F Temperance Petition.—A petition from 5900 citizens, asking for protection for temperance assemblages in the Fourth Word, was read and referred to the Mayor, Payment by Water Commissioners.—The Committee on Laws reported in favor of the view taken by the Comptroller, in refusing to pay warrants {rom the Water Commissioners, without the endorsement of the person for whom they are drawn. Public Schools.—The Committee ef Finance reported an ordinance regulating the payment of moneys for sup- port of public schools. Alleged Defauiter—The Committee of Financ rted in favor of commencing a prosecution again ritton, late Collectorof the 15th Ward, for non pay- ment ofa emall amount of money, alleged to be due by him te the city. The Alms House.—An ordinance, appropriating $55,000 for the support of the Alms House, was adopted. Private Secretary to the Mayor. resolution, autho- rizing the Mayor to appoint a private clerk te aid him in the duties ot his office, at a salary of $400 per annum. Alderman Emsons opposed iton the ground that he thought on increase of publio officers was uncalled for, and if it was the salary was (oo small. Alierman Waterman advocated its passage on the ‘ t the duties of the Mayor had increased so ra- ly within a few years, that the office was absolutely ssar ae Scores moved that the report be laid upon the which was finally adopted. Anoier Alleged Defaulter.— Che Comptroller present- ed areport, stating that Oliver Cobb, late Collector of the ist Ward, had not settled up his accounts, Hawking and Peddling.—An ordinance to prevent all | persons trom hawking and peddling in the streets of the eity, without a licen 8 ordered to be printed. Members and Contracts.—The Counsel of the Board d a communicstion, giving as Lhe so Be of the Common Council could legally ntract, or sale, or purchase of m |, Measurere and Guagers.—An ordinance to ue Mayor and Common Council the power te ap | ing the proposed mi BY THE SOUTHERN MAIL« ————_— IIE Peace Prociaimed between Mexico and Texas ‘The steamer Sarah Barnes arrivedat New Orleans on the Ist, bringing Texas papers to the 24th ult, ‘The most important of the news is the following proclamation from Gen. Houston, declaring the es- tablishment of an armistice between Mexico and Texas:— By the President of the Republic of Texas A PROCLAMATION, ¥ ‘Whereas, an official communication has been received atthe Department of State, from Ker Britannic Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires near this Government, founded na despatch he had received from Her Majesty ’sUhargé d’Al- faires in Mexico, announcing to this Government U ot that the President of Mexico weuld forthwith order a ces- gation of hostilities on his , and the establishment ef an armistice between Mexico and Texas, aud requested that the President of Texas would send srmilar orders to the different officers comm the Texan forces. And whereas the President of Texas has felt justified, from the dispositions evinced by this act ef the President of Mexico, and the nature ef those dispositions, in adopt. jure, and ordering the cessation of hostilities on the part of Texas: Therefore, be it knewn, t! of the Republic of Te: Army and Navy of t claim that an armistice Mexico, to continue durit endency of negoti between the two countries fer peace, and until due notic » of an intention to resume hostilities, (sheuld such an in- tention uereafter be entertained by either pacty,) suall have been formally anmeuuced through Her Britannie Majesty's Charged’Affuirea at the respective gevernment and the revocation o/ this proclamation; and ali efficers commanding the forces of Texes, or acting by authority ofthis Government, are hereby ordered and commanded to observe the same. In testimony whereof I have hereuntoset my hand, and caused the great seal of the Repeblic to ne affixed. Done at Washington, the fitteenth day of June, A. D. 1848, and of the independenee of the pepo ble the eighth. M@USTON. By the President : Ansox Jones, Secretary of State. , The Propositions from Santa Aana for the armis- tice were breught to Galveston by the Brirish brig Scylia. We find quoted the fellowing speculations ot Texaseditors, which display an intelligent eom- prehension of the relations of Texas. ‘They can- not fail therefore to interest most of our readers. ‘The Houston Telegraph of the 2d of June save:— We have not seen the communication of the British Minister, but wi that the propositions are far more favo thove previously sent by Santa Anna, a Judge Robinson. ‘They are, however, so vagu definite that we are loss to know whether he poses to acknowled, merely to renew the the Mexican confeder: at I, Sam Houston, Presijent nd Commander in Chief + the in integral iy Itappears tiously avoided meki: statement over his own signature, by which in the most indirect manner acknowledges pendence of Texas, but addresses his com through the British Minister, apparently to a any open admission that hi Texas ai for the unconditional acknowledgement ef t! independenee of Texes. It would appear from thi liar manner in which the communicatien is mi pecnliarjuucture at which it iv offered, that it has extorted from him by necessity ratherthan by any desire for peace, and weare left to doubt whether he merely desires to gain time to reivase his army in Yuoatsa, and establish his authorit: joore te Yucatas, to believe it isto that event mainly tribute this extraordinary communication Again the editor of the Telegraph saya—and there seems to be a prophetic plausibility in his pre- mises:— It needs but the dullest intellect te perceive that Mexi- co will not relinquish her claims to the territory west ef the Nueces without a violent struggle; and we ean only expect to maintein our claims te it by force or by pur- chase, Mexico now has the possession of that territory, ers, measurers and guagers, as they 'y and competent, was reported, and may think nece: order to be printed. Th: Street Contract.—Alderman Emmons presented a series of lutions avowing the violation ofthe street contract by the recemt contractors, and substituting therefor the old plan of sweeping by the Corporatien. Aldermen Tirov and Waterman led off against the resolutions, which were finally laid upon the table by the following vote:— i Ayes—Aldermen Clayton, Woodhull, Dunning, Til- lou, Nash, Waterman, Brevoort, Scoles, Brady and Raw- son—10. Nays—Aldermen Martin, Emmons, Vandervoort, Pur- dy, Hatfieldand Lee—6. Bai, ‘The ordinance to divide the city into sixteen districts, with a contract for each, was then taken up. : Alderman Titvov entere: jetailed argument review- ing the recent contract and its evils, and advocating the passage of the ordinance before the Board. 5 Alderman Waxerman followed in an able argument in favor of the new ordinance. * ‘ A vote being called on the first section of the ordinance, it was lost by— yee Alberwen Clayton, Martin, Tillou, Nash, Wa- terman, Brevoort, Scoles and Rawson—8. Nays—Aldermen Woedbull, Dunning, Emmons, Van- dervoort, Purdy, Hatfield, @rady and Lee—s. , Alderman Carros then moved to adjourn, which was ost. Alderman Scouxs then called up the ordinance allow- ing the May ommon Council to appoint as many competent persons as they may deem proper, to the office of weighers, rsand measurers, which was agreed ct to, and finally aid on the table. ‘The Board then adjourned. 0G-THE STEAMBOAT COLUMBUS WILL MAKE an extra trip to and from Yonkers this evening, for the purpose of enabling persons who are desirous of being present at the Review and the Grand Military Ball to be Given by Colonel Peer’s regiment, now encamped at P. freee hin J New York, foot Chamber street, at7 0G-DR.WISTAR’S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY. The extraordinary success attending the use of this me- dicine in diseases of the lungs, and the many singuiar cures it has effected, having rally attracted the tention of many physicians, os well as the whole fraterni- ty of quacks, various conjectures and surmises ha’ arisen respecting its composition; some physicians have supposed it to contain iodine, other ignorant pretenders say it must centain mercury, and to some such substance they each attribute its singular efficacy. Assuach opinions are altogether erroneous, and calculated to prejudice many persons i Ts it, we LEDGE OUR HONOR ‘Thatit contains nothing of the kind,or any thing the least injurious; on the contrary, it is composed of the mest simple substances, the principal of which are the extracts of tar and wi erry bark, and the whole secret of ite efficacy consists in the mode by which they are prepared. Price $1. Sold by Isaac Butts, 126 Fulton corner of Nassau st. Agents—J. . Moore, 187 Hudson street; David 8: & Co.,77 Broadway; Mrs. Hays, Brook- Dexter, Albany; 8.C. Gorham Ei lyn; r, Newark; New Havens ai 6 so Sie 0G MRS. LITTLE, OF GOSHEN, N. Y., HAVING her hair falling out rapidly, applied to Mr. Elliott, who sells the Balin of Columbia, from Comstock & Co, 21 Cortlandt street, near Breadway, for a bottle of the Balm, and by using not half the bottle, ’it stopped its falling out entirely. She gave the rest to her brother-in-law, Mr. gravated assault. He deservesa | John Little, aged 48, who was entirely bald, except a few locks on the side of his head—and by its use actu ally had his head covered with a fine head of hair. H. W. Elliott, Esq., of Goshen, was a witness to it, and also divers of Lis neighbors. A grey headed gentleman pres- ent declared he had preserved his hair for years with the same. These are but few ot many hundred cases. No other article can doit. The only can be ebtained at 21 Cortlandt street, near Broadway. It is a delightful perfume. DISEASE HAS RUN UP THE BLACK FLAG, and it istime the conservators ef public health should beatto quarters. The best way to drive off the old bucca- neer, aud escape wal mg the plauk, is to give hima broalside of Peter's Pills, should he seck to board you in the neighborhood of the stomach, liver, or intestines; if he aims at the lungs, Peter’e Cough Lozenges will cis. lodge him in the twinkling ofa handspike; if he ette lodgement inthe muscles of your back or in your side, or ehest, put an extinguisher on him inthe Se ofa Peter’s Plaster; and should he show fight in all these points at once, charge home upom him with all these re- medies atonce, and fly he must. That we are going to havi unhealthy summer and fall there is littie doubt. ying little in its diagnostics from the Asiatic made it earance in this city, and every and immediate remedy. jeve all the dangerous symptoms in One of the great merits of this medicine is hold out against its cathartic theeperation of the pills is mild. We have known c: where the intestines were so corruga- ted that quicksilver would not pass, and yet in two hours Peters Pills produced am aperient effect. Every medi- cineto which the guarantee of Dr. Peter’s nam has been tested under earefal medical observ: is promised of these remedies they never fail to per- twelve hours that no constipation influence; and y form. Principal office, 125 Fulton, corner ef Nassau street. Agents—Jobn M. Moore, 187 Hudson street; A. 2 Milk street, Boston; J. 8. Murphy, 90 North Sixth st., Philadelphia. Og THE LITTLE GIKL IN PELL STREET WHO lost her life last king fire, could | Pain Extractor the neces Vf sity of keeping to the case of the Ii life Dr. Pratt, Liberty street, nothing could save this silve'did doit’ ‘Also, it saved theives ot every one that used it on board the steamboat Swifteure, when she burst her boiler, while some who did not use it died. We think these ficis will imprese on parents the obliga- tions they owe their children, to always keep this salve at hand in case of accident. Asa lamily salve itis invaluable,being a general cute for all bruiges,cut All who once have occasion to use it, Meigen (or keep iton hand, There ishowever,abase and worthless counterfeit out, that is dangerous to use, and the only safety is to have the positive word of @ Fae pectable man that he had it of Comstock & Co., and Gnd the fac simile of their signature. None fas nl hot positively be genuine. To be had in this city only st 0 Cortlandt street ; Brooklyn, Dra, Hayes, 18° Fulton 5 add York. and D, Smith, 820 Broad stree i COMSTOCK & CO’3 EXTRACT OF 8Al SA- peifis fast snperceding the use of all others lay bees itis aot thirty-three per cent stronger, (as Re rerd show,) rice also one hundred Pe pond : than others, bottles. Price 60 cents pei hottle—$4 per dozen. Tobe had only at ‘91 Cortlandt st; Fulton st; Newark, Broad st. Brooklyn, and we have recent intelligence that three hundred of her troops are actus ly stationed east of the Rio Grande. When cur commissioners meet those ef Santa Anna, even if the latter sre disposed to acknowledge the indepen. denco of Texas, a questien will immediately arise relative to the limits of exes; our commissioners will imsist on ex- tending the limits ot Texas to the Rio Grande, those of Mexico to the Nueces; and thus a centest will spring up which Mexico will doubtless refer te Great Britain rbiter, since she has already selected the Briti¢h mi her mouth-piece. The darling policy ot Great Britaii will then be called into requisition; and Texes may ei. ther be compelled to purchase this ter: ‘i ving part of the debt owing by Mexico to British bondholders, or, what wouid be more agreeable to England, will be compelled to receive this territory only upon coxditon that slavery shall not be allowed in it! Thus, by a master stroke of policy, England would strike a fatal blow to our servile institutions, and Texas would i be compelled te yield up an institu: tion that roved one of the main ents of her prosperity. These are not idleno prompted by a spirit of speculation. There are many facts couneeted with the conduct of the British government that warrants this opinion, and it behooves our govermment amd our ple to be well on the alert at this moment, lest tiey ind too late that in receiving them through the proses channel they are incautiously taking an adder to their bosoms. The rest of the new ummed up as follows :— A rumor had reache: hington that Celo Warfield and Snively had ecapiured the Santa traders without bloodshed. The amount of booty taken is said to be upwards of two hundred thou- sand dellars. _ Exchequer bills are now taken at the Custom House, Galveston, at 60 cents on the dellar Col. Kinney, who had been confined im Matamo. rasformany months, has made his escape and reached Galveston. : A French brig from Havre has arrived at Galves- ton, having on board 100 emigrants trom Franee.— ae are a part of the colonists sent out te Bexar ry M. Castro. . The French man of war ship La Brilli ar rived at Galveston from Vera Cruz on the 24 ult. The British sloop of war Scylia, is alse t f Col. John O'Brien, knowa to many in this eity, was lately shot with a rifle ball while standing atthe door of his house, in Anahuac, by some person cou- cealed in the bushes near tue place. He expired a tew moments after receiving the wound. Mr. Fer- guson, who was standing near him, was elso shet, and dangerously wounded with buck at the same time. Itis feared that Mr. Fe: mn sur- vive his wounds only a few da: ‘he people of that section have charged the murder to a persen who ha: best rank in the country, and who wo believe, hashitherto sustained an unblemished reputation. LATEST SOUTHERN SHIP NEWS. 4, July 10—Arr Rlimbeth, Seate, rt Horner, West Indies; Manchester, (Br) Banik, ly 8—Cld Areo, Reed. Pernambuee aad a 7 ae ighton, Mans; Aug, Tewse, Mew Lond”; John Barr, Hollingswead, 8¢ Thomas and MA Behre: der, Stafford, Kixgsten,Ja; B Cole, and Dire, Brgse, NYok. Sit Mary, Cook, Newburypert; Flor del Mar, Ven- nerd Boston. 1a, DC, July 7—Arr Emerald, Portland. July S—Arr Harreseekatt, Crabb, Portlasd: c id Floridian, Pratt, Roverdsm; Vir- Woreign Perts. ‘atanzas, June 27—Arr Jane, Drinkw Sawyer, Portlaud. Sid Besten; Hiber wes, Cowes. Sales of Stoc hack phe yesterday, $1000 Wilmington RR 6's, 1858, 72; 12 shas Philadel- phia Bank. 63} A Boarw.— $2000 Tennessee Bonds, 80}; 1 nk, $3000 Cincimnsti Bonds, Ad g- , 91, $4, 1 Mechanics’ Reasi ; 10 shas Farmers an RR, 17. Lave AMONG THE VISITORS AT THE AMERI- can Musenm yesierlay were some three humdred who were, as usual, delighted with that most f ting little fellow, General Tem Thumb, whose engagem: comes to a final close on Saturday next, after wh a novelty more marvellous than which has appeared in this country withiw ars. Se weadviseall to hasten aad take a lust rave little General, and prepare for a great t Og- BRISTOL’3 SARSAPARILLA.—This prepara- tion of Sarsaparilla surpasses any thing hereto! red to the public as @ renovator of the humam ayst recommendation by the medical faculty is such that these afflicted with diseases of the blood or nerves cannot fail to bs fully convinced that it will perform all that is claimed for it. ‘The numerous testimony of those who have success. fully tried this article, places it beyond a doubt, thet Bristel’s Sarsaparilia is fe, sure, and effectual remedy for all diseases oft» liver, cancer, scrofula, salt rheum, indigestion, and the verious nervous affections, whicn is he uuhappy lot of many te be heir to. There has net appeared betore the public in eur esti wt article so Pett culculated to purity the system ristol’s Sarsepa: rilla, Sold wholesale and retail by William Burger, 60 Conrt- landt ntcet,and at retail by Rushton & Avpinveall ; Mil ’s Pharmacy; Sym’s, hegre Tripp's, 168 Divisien street, end Q11 alton street, by Wood & Merrison, 209 Greonwich street. RMS KILL THOUSANDS, AND ARB ba sore dan; to human lite than wi Dr. She Ls and bring them away when all other means fail. y now been before the public fer many years. Thou- nd found them a never failing remedy, and they fered with great confilenceto these who may need them, We have been eye.witnesses to their wonderful effects. They may be hadat Dr. 8s warehouse, 106 Nassau street. Agents—110 Broadway, 10 Astor House, 227 Hudson street, 188 Bowery, 77 Bust Broadway, and 139 Fulton street, Broeklyn, OG A DISCOVERY OF INFINITE VALUE Is the Chinese Hair Eradicater, which in five mmutes will root entirely out hair from face, forehead, or any part of the budy, and will not in the least injure the moat delicate vi hia is fact and positive proof will we shown 9 the store. To ry whol and retail depot, 1 Cortlandt street. 7