The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1846, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. oe XID, es Tewnete na a0. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1846. sites. ——— ‘The Reduction of the City Expenses Breaking Up of Winter—Tremendous | evidently done the same thing in the mountainous re- | ean, 7 ; 7 7 ete 8 : ° The b Spo Intelligence. | Commi ” Office. Memorial to the Honorable the Legislature of the | ‘Freshets. | gions above, where they bonsted thelr fourand evencix'|.. Tus Savamnte Peotone per ape Dechccensibes |. Benigintiz Dole ietocenrinn ie tint of asaniedh pled | Selves Commitee acaete State of New York, in Senate and Assembly con-| Desraucrion or PROPERTY ON THE Mgrnimac.— | eet depths during the winter. All the minor streams | tween Jackson and Gildersleeve came off over the Ogle- ment in Salom, Mass. “The Lord willing”—“ edmit- | Mancow 17.— The Schooner Patuzent and the Slave wened :— | “Advertis : contribute their abundance; and mm the Assanpink, | thorpe Course on the Lith inst. At one o'clock the two | tance 12} cents, as he is old and poor.” | Trade.—It will be recollected that the Patuxent, with ‘The Grand Jury of the Cy and County of New | The Boston Advertiser of yesterday contains. let- which ia nurtured by po mountain, foods altho low | champlone made their appearance, both, apparently, | We leara from the Columbus, Gaz, Enguirer, that in | Her crow, was lately brought home from the Cous of AL York having appointed Co 9 th | ter dated Haverhill, Mayh 15, 9 o’clock P. M.. unda within ite reach. The quantity of timber going struggle. Jackson, at the word, took onto) ith tion of - 4 | rica, by Lieutenant Chandler, ofthe United States Navy, amount of y mace the | whl ys s jept from the tributaries are not unfre- position to the seventh mile, at | srectable meeting of tho citircnn imrespectinee! carey, | to be concerned in that trade. haniel Davis, the mas- taxas proposed to be raised from this | “our ususlly quiet village is in the greatest constere | 4 wood-gathere ng & plentiful ba he was some two minutes ahead of his time, | Yas held at Hindaville on the 2od iuseant, to take inte | ter of the Patuxent, and Thomas lL. Shaw, his mate, were, county, by the Common Council, respectfully beg | nation imoginabi., on account of the sudden and unpre. | Vest, with the drawback of getting a wet jacket now and dersleeve was not quite up to the judge's | V°* Ting freee elect inte | on their arrival, arrested and held to bail. - Preli leave to present the following memorial :— ~ cedented rise ofthe Merrimac. About half past 7 o'clock | then. Among the articles enumerated as coming down i rage time. Finding the task a diffi- plan to arr wot ike progress erase P js were commenced today before Commis As it is the duty of the Grand Inquest to take intocon- | this evening, th tarted and moved for some time | the river, were matters of household furniture, the bo. | cult one, and laboring under the disadvantage of his *"4 (oder maid that veusol Worked'a sioner Metcalf, for him to decide whether the case sideration mattors that concern the general welfare of | quite freely ; it then choked up at the island below,when | dies of cows, horses, hogs, &2. Two or three rafts en- shoes filled with water, he gave up the contest, appa- oe the Welland Canal in the iter | should be sent to the Grand Jury or not. this county, and dosirour todo what may be in their | the water above began to rise rapidly. Ere we were | tire, and any number in detached lose, have passed | rently not worsted by the trial, and the race was conti- i ow |. Lieut. Davis examined.—{s Lieutenant of the York- wer to relieve the burdens of this people, and having | aware, it was flowing full tide into the cellars and base- | 00 their hiledelphia. The cellars inthe lower nued by Jackson. At this point of the race the crowd | | town, Bell, commander. Tbe Patuxent was first board- alarm the great increase | ment stories of the buildings on the river’s bank. So t have been filled b A were favored by a new and independent entry, who, as | & fi through ed on the 25th of October, at Cape Mount, and a pai sudden and repid was its rise as to render it almost im- ies | Jackson came to the stand, started even with him, with t of 60 vessels now at that place, , ¢Xamination made. She was again boarded on the 26th, peeusle to save any of the various pr.perty deposited e 3 bleaching tubs have been the intention of giving him a run of a mile ; but before them, ast, are bound for Chicago as soon as | nd onthe 27th she was taken possession of; Lieut. Stee) While I write, all the cellars on the river side of | y from Lewis's straw peper mill. Sutton’s half the distance was accomplished, without altering his | the ice will permit, and the pioneer is to have the purse. the officer who was first put in charge of her; wit- Wi rrimac streets, for the distance of nearly a | foundry is navigable, and much inconvenience and delay gait, Jackson gradually widened th ne + | Re f | must be the consequence. At four o'clock yesterday ai- | and on the bask stretch the, new entry ee fits Ege cag oop harry gg a Sb ling houses, iF gave wa English’s Mill, b, leisurely w back “i ) th y . Shildfen, who | about two miles above this city. ? tontisaal ‘en sal eecoseiee in sonom pose mind asparagus in this city in tac Tsay will were quietly asleep, only by wading through water wu; ‘From the Philadel 0 Plishio, on miles in 68 minutes 10 seconds. a to his waist) then’ taking them tor a chamber, thence | An cxpressasrived tiie. raorhing ov 11} oreloox trom | _ When the state of the course is taken into considers- | doubtless be bragging over small potatoes Defore long. through a window, and so upon the root of an adjoining | this side of the Susquehanna river, opposite Havre de | tion—it being very heavy and sloppy from the rainson | There are at present 211 convicts in the State prison ', ber of p dui ‘escaped. ‘Some families Grace, stating thet the Baltimore and Philadelphia rail, | Monday and ‘Taesday—this race is one of the best on | of Louisiana. A.—Five, the master and mate, and three seamen, their parlors without ha road is uninjured. | record. The following is the time as reported to us "The Bangor Whig says thet'so many potatoes were | Samuel Morrel, John Smith ‘and Daniel alias James offurniture. The firm of Montgomery & C: ‘The line from Baltimore was waiting at Havre de | 1st mil . | ‘saved Inst fall,and have been husbanded with | Clark. Q.—How many persons, under ordinary circum- have $20,000 worth of shoes and lealher new under wa- | Grace, andthe line ‘rom thie city was weiting on this | 22 | so much care during the winter, that the supply of them | WUCSn Teer ber'we founiéon trunk We found a a street le of the ach being unable to cr $ he ’ this spring will be very fair. The price hero now fo 3 . moment padding from 4gor to door inboets or on places is ann 8: peas conta perbumel 7 snes coaty, has, von | Berens wer ila rie cosnumpton SP ee taales from the farious flood. % We understand that a match has been made up in old town of Sparta, Liv: county, sel; there was quite enongh of provisions to supply Af- ‘Geo tam fo the leet of consumption is in one | ported, have been carried aay 7. He cae it is re-| Cyarieston for Jockson end Gildersleeve, which Wp ex. | formed into three towns, viz. : North Deaypie, Len ag teen men for thirty-five days. Q,—Whet number of per- of the aforesaid houses, too far goue to be moved away. : y » ted to come off soon, over the Washington Race | end West Sparta. This division appears to be accepte- | sons could be taken on board that vessel on y. 5 , Bec 5 ingto o He has been removed, ho’ + an upper room,where mY erg ee U.S. Gazette } BOS Course. ble. from the Coast of Africa to the Island of Cuba? A—I he will probably before morning embark on his last long | sirsaay sick of heating of the ‘abivaatetione sat the: whet In New Orleans, on Sunday, March Sth, a fight be-| , The resolutions passod inthe Assembly, in relation | should think 250 could be carried conveniently as the F i ; ina the order of the | slave trade is carried on ; twenty-five days would be a v°Phs water stil risos, thongh it is new higher by two | 004, as it bas, in all probability, not been confined to | tween two bulldogs, of the genuine English breed, to the old pilot monopoly, were made the order Oe ee ee ty: A Eve! “| if upon a wager of $100. day in the Senate, for Tuesday. feet than in the t flood ot dy is out, | tit section alone, but must extend to every stream | Came 0 1, having for its dd, wou. which has its sources wi r Something is going on at Montroal, havi Hi be javalige, 96 wall 69 become so by their | nag | farnished the materi ie for sanding Ib foethe ES: Axaanr; March 14,1846. | object the introduction of Mr. Papineau. tote Minis- | SHevourin additionss the suimiber tlready on beard? A. pecting that you will receive this by the Reading route, | Opinions in Albany on the Anti-Rent Question—Legisla- —Thave no actnal knowledge on that subject, but 1 think tho communication by Lancaster being suspended, t |” aiee Proceedaege-—New York Pilein fe, fe flouting mill of Mr. John Brown in Chippewa: | Cigit or ten, in addition,woula be quite deficient to me- shall endeavor to give you some of the effects of the “Rantings ype county, Ohio, was burned last week, wi nage the vessel, and conduct her from the Coast of Atri- flood along our rive. The Susquehanna rose gradually As the subject of anti-rentism has arrived at a crisis in| ite contents. Something over 2000 bushels of wheat | Cato the Island of Cuba; in addition to the beef and por starts at this bigh pitch. = - fom all nr nlaits pene upon Heo suc- | this State, and as some final action is about to be had in ig bomen ae ca in nauelpheer ae ko., we also found on beard a large quantity i rice, 2 ‘Should find oursel: : surge additio evidences 0} jevas- rick’s day was celebrated in 0 weight was about unds mack, to-morrow MOrdIng, re we Cr, he Merri-| tation “it had committed, which furnished, at the | ‘n° Constitutional Court, I proposed in a previous letter | «i, rable dtnnoxeh tee Wy eming Howse; No. | Sertsisteces, hechiee Bona til. cotharea tank eight tween them, sent, in the evening of the same day, to relieve him. to Monrovia. Q. by at Newburyport, describ tame time, ‘additional. weapons for further’ destruc. | © send you an impulsive expression of a confirmed | {3 Walnut at at 6 o'clock, ?. M. barrels and one tiercet of rice. Q—From the informa- ill it, i . Tremendous cakes of ice, and bu; opinion, sustained as it is by a of citi upon the what is the allowance for each rm a ge masses | opi 5 y @ mass of citizens, upo 4 made acity. It hes a rou have received, debt, by which, ey are enadied at the ek re stll. The ice-dam below | timber, Fushed by. upon ite foaming ‘surface | subject of feudal tenures in America. 1 confoss I be- renee 34 ; pet say 1 A.-About one pound per day 280 slaves few 1 FE er g hand hat Jest given Tac neareth eliel of the ncoumnle- shore and the island, fell with «| Héve, admittiog th kingly grantsto have been made, | ‘The operatives in the Trenton Calico Works have | Would be sustained thirty days on tae quiveay gs tee bt not to be, and we ask that a law may be | few minutes our two Dri pein Sree LA end the fi thatthe very article in the constitution which recog | struck against the ‘‘order” system. and water that is given to slaves; we also found on board biting it. but all that is now past, gre 3 breathe freel; ane *| rising up in y for a tii nizes the validity of all grants of land within this State, | The suit of clothes which Washington wore when he | casks to hold fifteen hundred gallons of water, which bly trust und hope that your honorable body | Monday Morning.—Our relief last night was caly tem. | tte Wreck which had been made. About 6 o'clock ano. he ki delivered his first Inaugural Address, was manufactured | would sustain a crew of fifteen men, and a cargo.of 200 Meltere into Your serious consideration | porary. This, maruing we Gnd the water as tigh os | (20% fell, carrying with it two spans of the Railroad | ™Ade by the kings of Great Britain, or persons acting | in q woollen factory in the city of Hartford, and the first | 5 ‘a gallon of water for thtrty days to each of tle ever, and still rising. “The amount ot aacmaee dune Se | Bridge. thus leaving but one span of the old bridge, ‘and | under his authority, previous to the 14th day of October, | of the kind established in the country. It was es- | ¢; ‘and at the rate of a pint per day for each of the much greater than we last night upposed. “At present | ‘79 of the new one, standing next this shore. Al 1716, to be voidsble. For, if the King of Great Britain | tablished, it is said, in 1790. flaved; the casks ‘could be very esslly filled on. the we dare not conjectere how great it may be. Littl eRi. | O'clock, A-M.,two spans of the Clarke's had granted the whole State to any persons or pers: ‘There was a copious fall of rain at Portland, Me, on | coast,irom the incessant rains that fall there almost every ver bridge is gone clear, many small wooden build. | °2™° floating down among the other wrec . 5 ny persons OF person, |. tiay, which Anished the sleighing, which had con- | day. @Q- From the information you have received of ings standing slong on the banks of the river, were en. | 08 Dearly whole, struck ogainst the remaining spen of previous to this time, no number of men would have | tinued good for one hundred and three days, without | the manner in which the slave trade 1s carried on, is it tirely crushed by thrice, and mony others moved from the ola bridge, but passed under the arch, after being powered, without the consent of the lords of intortantion. . necessary to have a slave deck? A.—I donot know that theid foundations’ Twe ef our pricepal pecinecs sereecs, | considerably crushed, without moving it. But t re es acatltution Yop the cuatrel and goverment efthe | Since the change of rulers in New Hampshire, it is | it i#, essential, Q—Did you And any thing else on maining portions of the railroad bri¢ge were carried | lican constitution, the cont: ¥ board besides the beef, &c.? A.—We pede Posaplls pega yon) eer apled up with huge | with it, and both moved off together. ‘The floating ice | tenantry occupying these tracts. 80 any portion of the | most probable that that State will be divided into Con- | Pra‘yeeun se found dity pieces of deck of vari- and timber gradually undermined the pier which suppor- | 8ti ranted after this form 1s inhibited from the opera- | &tessional districts. gths, from four to forty feet. Q.—I wish you to - [From the Soston Journal, March 16 } ted the end of last of the old nage until aa tion of the laws governing separate portions of the State. | Samuel Hawken, a veteran of the lest war, and | watoeon erates that pA Sask beused? A.— We learn thet a serious freshet occurred on the it must give way, and a crowd of people watched | The right to erder and govern this Pract is vested solely | who fought bra in the battle of Baltimore, is the | It could be used in a very ‘short time for a deok. Q— Merrimack and Little River, at Haverhill, last night, be- y ugon the bank, uutil about half 2P.M., | in this subordinate lord, who, by grant of the king, | democratic candidate for Mayor of St. Louis. Could this operation be performed without hatchet or tween eightand twelve o'clock. The waters of these | when the upper half of the pier being entirely under | is its rightful owner. Hence a clause of exemption | yfore th, Choet dezvoused at Vicks- | saw. A.—Yes, without the slightest difficulty. Q.—Have rivers having become dammed up by huge pilesof ice, | minel and crumbled away, the span toriered for a mo. | of these estates should properly have been incorporated | ,,.MoF® than 1,000 Choctaws have rendezvoused at Vicks | sav. A et, without tte siighte ‘wore tompo- charges by | rose toa height unprecedented within the recollection of | ment—cracked—leaned up stream—broke—fell and was | into the declaration of independence. Therefore, | burg. on their way to the nation west, Per: | Zary stanchions that could be removed ina vary short eunted to near ity per | «the oldest inbabitent,” and with fearful rapidity, flood. | carried away. Much sympathy ia felt for the Cumber. | if the titlos of these subjects of Great Britain are | Yi#i00 of Mejor Armstrong. | time. Q.—Would the circumstances of thove stanchions ight and cost of the arti. | ing the streots, filling the lower stories of factories and | land Valley Railroad Company, who having sustained | conceded by the State, un amendment of the eharac-| The Committee on Federal Relations in the Louisiana temporary, afford facility for laying a slave deck, houses, floating off work shops, barns, and small build- | the entire loss of their former beautiful fabric by fire, | ter above nated, to the constitution, is indispensa- | Legislature ‘eported a series of resolutions, de. | not this deck be exceedingly useful in the ings of various kinds, and carrying eway Little River | had mustered their resources and directed their ener: | ble. Now, | declare, that when this governmental fa | Claring our title tothe whole of Oregon clear and Un- | transportation of acargo of slaves? A.—I should judge Bridge from its foundation, and completely demolishing | gies towards the ion of the same upon a more | bric, which George Washington reared in blood, was ble, und in favor of giving Great Britainim- | |. °° Q "pia you find any other cargo except what you it. At one time it seemed almost certain that the Haver- | permament plan, the desteaction of ished, that the rights of the State inevitably be- f tion ofjoint occupancy by the | tt, Lirsedy described | A. Yee nit. We found some b> Aa a the support of this | hill bridge must be carried away by the freshet, and had | their renew ‘as if the elements ramount to the rights of individuals, and that * | pine plauk crowed under the deck pass Q—Did you peoniation kee pod rat rg Is reaie tear meee Ree poten ames te rise for a ow minutes lon , | had combine: tic tel me) oe of ithe State deca ole and mniverea! over the mvicted for the | Boa ay other cargo en a? ‘AL-Nothing of ‘q “ road br: il is color ye us ya] ave assur tetiee of Years. “Ph ealaries Of this department are now | mast have bees sept oft AT sae thee earn rude | is demolished between this ni | domain, and all tities, of whatover nature, should have | gfvcommon Flees for Eagedeld District, ‘South Care. | eyampartances the in cables, and Shaved 2 tea mogoent of salaries to the amount of $40,- | as high as the second story of Hale’s Factory, on Little | flo lumber. I write M. A span | been, and were, properly, merged in the supreme title of fine. 2 | pair of chain clings, and a number of bolts ef various * allay oy ys er = Kame’ esr River. Wien tho csrs ue me, thin morning, some Ci the | a, ridge ie lodged against the upper end of the Seek abrateer < But we Tah Solavfh mere re | Hon. Edward Everett, will be inaugurated as Presi- | sizes, and some spare spars. The ship’s pepere were then * isl oppo! ere, W! is supposed to be a prebe: @ evils which would natural- D y | amo! Feduction of nivety thou: | the river was rapidly falling. We shall be able to give | tion of tho bridge over the mouth ef the Juniats at | ly ensue, aud without, due. deliberation, anxious to se. | C°nt °r Harvard College, on the first ot May put in and proved. imongst which, wes the log book TOpose sand dollars from the amount asked for by this depart- | further particulars in our 1 4 special term of the Shelby, + we recise ‘paper to-morrow. Duncan’s Island. Amid the masses of floating ice cure harmony among the citizens, and upon a naked re- 4s ty $4 ducti: 5 understand, te it te . ‘ i . ‘ be held on th ond Monda: roduction of those papers we did not ment. Amoun enprepeseted. Lo etert 4 “acai [From the Harford Madisonian, March 16 ] to be seen fragments of bridges, mills, boats, fences, | presentation, unbacked by proof, which would be indis- March, 1946 i for the trial of ‘Henry Bettoer, charged Cept that the logboo! or the. Atalanta, was eens recemmented by the Inte Comptroller, Alfred H. ive hasten 0 inform the Public that the Susquehanna bbe shame — tea erloiantn ne = page ae ene, Tecoma i cae on eae ot with decoying a young girl from her parents. show thet she was sold to a man named T! fap. ond aa Jarge saving would be made to the city—at | Fier Perity pete ioe} the tow path ‘of the Tide | is totally inundated, and canoes were plying from door | was plenty, and could be had for the asking almost. This | The Postmaster General has discontinued the post we. 7 Water Canal is for miles overflowed with water, and | to door. The river was at its highest point about noon, | circumstance, also, operated favorably for the Van | office at Alton, Franklin county, Ohio, on account of | chrgo of slaves to Cul hn Fp ope nll muerte ve | tne weighworhood of Derliten, have: Deon ent Tans | tant. “The teaim of the Reading mail cosch in coming in | (Supreme Court of the United Statos,) that the article in | that office will hereafter, be delivered at Columbus and | ¢,f"mdation for the exemintion to the mithoes 2 Nett” on for an $00,000. Thi their moorings. Yesterday, the river was literally cov. | this afternoon, was obliged to swim on the pike in order | the constitution, mentioned above, as recognizing these | West Jefferson. | underwent a long cross examination by the pri- saked for is $174,000 ; deduct $49,000 from the supplies, | S7eq with macses of fates’ bartels, hogeheade, Isis, | to get upon the Paxton creek bridge, the whole valley | grants, will be declared unconstitutional, tor the reasons as sattromed * $bd the department wil sustain no injury. The office of | feats frames of houses, ke. On one of the fishing fats | around the creek being inundated by the back ‘water | l have named, cf Anotaxn Staven Cauout.—In addition to the | "AS Cher witness, named John Smith, one of the orew, emp lighter, was abolished last year. which.makes en | wore'two negro women, who roared lustily for help | {rom the river. ‘Theuilroad between this and Middle- | Popular feeling conflicts upon this most important | bark Pons, the official account of whose capture | way examined, buthis testimony is not material, The arinr aon oad ‘erefore the whole re- they were rescued from’ their perilous ‘abeiativin near | town is used for boats instead of cars. Our town has | question. This is clearly evident to me, and I can | we this day publish, says the Washington Union, we | further examination was postponed to Thursday next. fas (pes 008 be is eighty-six thousand dol- | ii sown, by some of our intrepid watermen. We loarn jertul state of excitement during the whole | trace this confliction of sentiment to the proper cause. | learn that another American vessol, supposed to be en- eee 3 4:2 ED that two epens of the Conowingo Bridge have been cer: | day. Uhave travelled over these estates, and conversed with | gaged in this infamous trafic, has been sent intothe port | Tie Texan Navy. -—The ami for ried cf. Pours ure entertaihes for Port Deposite Brians, 1snunaH, March 16, 1846—11 o'clock—I have the | many of the tenantry, and thus acquainted myself with | of Charleston, South Carolina, for adjudication. This | Union of Friday last, onaccount of a satis uate Sohe Corte belooglog to Mr. Ja- | pleasure of stating that the damage to the public works | their passions. Beside, various events have afforded me | vessel is named the Panther ; and is said to have sailed | interested,” who has ve y cob Hoke, was drowned yesterday. : Fenot so xreat as was feared. But two upaid of tae) opporranky to learn the feelings of the great mans of the | {roa Providence, Rhode Island, to Rio Janeiro, and | readers one of the official documents of G. W. [From the Hartford Courant, March Ctarko’s Ferry Bridge are gone, apd the Juniata division | canaille, or populace, upon this subject. Here I may be | thence, as usual with ships so employed. to the coast of | the time secretary of war and marine of the late repub- Whe penaun talnn G24 mali eet ia h, | is-nid to be comparatively sate, and that $10,000 will | permitted to draw a nignificant line of distinction be- | Africa. Itis stated that mote senna ke- | lic of Texas; which letter, he says, establishes ‘thatthe olie: og snows have very much | rengir the da between this and Duncan’s Island— | ‘ween the citizens who conflict in their views upon this | ceive on board 1,500 sla We are to publish the | navy of Texas (before her adoption into the Union) was swollen the Conneoticat river The ice from above and | the worat part. A resolation was adopted in each House, | vital issue. Capitalists, and the compeers of capitalists, | officieal account of her captare by the United States ship | by the constituted authority disbanded.” ‘This ideptical Tiemning scrly the Tivos way “Bile ea tke eee emeey, | calling onthe Canal Commissioners Tor information er | are for the Patroon ; the eanaille (technically the poorer | Yorktown, in a few days. letter was published by Com. E. W. Moore in the fall of on account of offices abo. |came probably from above Enfield Falls. During the | ‘2,tte extent of the damage. The waters are still sub- | classes) and their associates are for the tenantry— pea sant Dearaepaben, ide muel Houston believed he was to, 7 = 97, which should be deducted from the | rains snd alncs, there have been very sudden rieings awa | *2108- poate icked suscomb amd kneel to power, Decstse wealth | $:x:—I have the honor to inform you that I addressed tin of prcy, he ‘oglant wet har ok the Leth of hay, 1048 amount fallings—e change sometimes of several feet inan hour. | Tue Particu.arsor THE AUBURN MuRDER—One of iMorde xclusive ad: ., ‘these su] by | aletter to you on the 30th ultimo, giving an ac- after hich asserts that raraticee Mare 1s « burden grievous to be borne: we | "(From the Albany Knickerbocker, March 18] the most horrible murdersit has ever been our duty to | swords exclusive advantages, and these supplant, by | ¢ eller 2, 00, cure ofthe Americas Bark Rona, of | «(te ety nuwiee toe cate ofthis letter, which ansorts nat poe! Sones gl § ap ly half 2 million of dollars, | we are in the midst of one of the greatest and most | fecord, was perpetrated last evening in Fleming. about py | wealth. That usege which has assassinated | Philadelphia, with eight hundred and ninety-six slaves | o, the stop taken by Post Captain E. W. Moore ;” which i by the Ce Foevameter! if the amendment | destructive freshets that ever visited this city. The | four miles south of this village. John G. Van Ness, his | charity, renders it totally impossible for poor and illi on 8 duplicate of which I now enclose. I was #0 | stop was that of attacking more than ph er ‘aso 3 ‘ommon Council shall be passed by the d to fall sinceThursday, | Wife, and child two years old, were siabbed and must | rate men to have the favor of the aristocracy. As anxious to despatch the vessel in the shortes' for | off Campeachy, at the s tion of Commissioner Jas. Pe ey =) hich Ha) Key mey not be. The amount night, and it continued | have died almost instantly—and Mrs. Wykoff, the mo- | natural consexuence, upon vital and minor points these | Liberia, in order to land thé slaves, and reliéve them | Morgan, ‘who, in his evidence before t ‘special tribunal es i is $428,000. Seerteent has, heretofore, | to rise and fall till yesterday mornii ‘The water rose | ther-ia-law of Mrs. V.N.,, and Cornelius Van Arsdale, | classifications of men are inevitably arrayed in bitter an- | from their miserable confinement, that it was not in my | established by the Congress of Texas on February 8, heyy tor het wundred thousand dollars | over the pier, on Saturday morning, were; dangerously, if not mortally wounded. It is, | tagonism. Though the power of government is being power to Ae: byl peered particular account of this ves- | i944, + for the impartial trial of Post Captain E. W. a sum asked by the Common Council this | the ice started and moved for about a pee tow that the murderer entered the front door | more andmore contracted, yet, thank the God of | sel. I will now endeavor to do so, and also state some | Moore and others,” says, “ that he had hazarded the re. x, ass avs down, when it stopped. The ice banked up on the pier | Where he must have mot Mr. Van Ness, who was butch | Nature! it is still vested in the people in America. | facts which have since come tomy knowledge. " bility of su; 1g to Commodore Moore to attack berg lary have Oy rnge sod before them of the | in piles almost mountain high, and caused considerable | ered without being able to give any alarm ; the child | Do you but once submit this question of leasehold ‘The Pons, under the command of Berry, was at Mexican force off Campeachy, for the pu of bh oy yo. ine ciene of this department and being | destruction of property. Tne ice, about 3 o’cleck, start- found dead in the bed, and Mrs. Van Ness, after be- | estates to the ballot boxes; and though the cenaille will hor at Kabinda for about twenty Defore she took | preventing a descent upon Galveston, and of saving the ble to contrast it with the former | ed again and moved with great rapidity, carrying every | ing stabbed, ran through Mrs. Wyckofl’s room into a | have to contend with the votes of a combined, and slaves, during which ti Tepublic, if we could.” or coeapell ae ronlhagad former arrangement, | thing before it. Abozt 6 o'clock it was arrested in ive | bedroom, occupied by a girl living in the family, and powerful aristocracy, yet the comparative mejority of a . ommodore Moore also published st the same time, a pater Phot A a no protection aS onward progress b the city, somewhere noar Castle. | threw herself on the bed und died instantly. Mra. Wyck- | {he ople throughout the State, in favor of the ” letter from the same secretary of war and marine, to am the “on ¢ it} ct nse 18 affo! to the citi- | ton, seven miles down,where itdammed up. The water | ff wasstabbed inher room. The murderer then [oa will be ten-fold greater than the majo! was for the other lieutenent ofthe Texas navy, in whicn is the e Fe) Ys hy, from this time popes to rise very fast, inundating the en- d upstairs with a light, and inquired of Mr. Van | anti-rent members of the Legislature, in this county, last | stood to sea. following :— Iargel; ae a and amount y tire lower Fore of the city, and driving people from their had got up on hearing the noise, if taere | fall. The masses would be united and firm upon such | Gallano, who commenced getting on board the water, “ DerantMent or Wan anv Manin, } gely, Feduced, and the ei hundreds. But few expected to seo the wa- ‘and, on being answered in the affirme: | an issue, because its truly monarchical tendency is fully and so expeditious were they in “Was Sept. 1, 1843. § crossed, Deduct one hundred and sand dol- high, and but little preparation was made for it, stabbed Mr. V. A., who seized the can- | appreciate: by the If the title of the Patroon | their movements, eight o’clock that evening the | « sin :—Your resignation subsequent communi- 8 an abundant em reds retired to rest, to awake ith ter stick and threw it at the assassin, who either | was valid, | ‘menid renomanend him to accept an in- | vessel was under way, having embarked nine hundred | cation of the 19th ult., have been received. the efficiency. two or three feet deep in their dwelliny fell or jumped down stairs, Mr. Van Arsdale follow- aivalent or not—and relinquish his claim. | and three slaves. Instead of standing directly to sea. she “ ‘of inte! 4 and ery—The Comptroller says that | night the water to rise with grei ing and striking him with a broomstick. Mr. V. A. then | y, y be assured that the results of this conflict will | kept in with the coast during tre night. At daylight arton, at Galveston, be asks for more than is needed, and on investigation, it | continued to rise till about o'clock on Sunday morning, | ‘ainted, and the assasin left the house. The girl | be of great account, as evidencing the sentiments and | they were off Kacongo, about twenty-five miles to the ly the care neval hat seven thousand dollars may be reduced, | when it was at its Frstost height, being six inches | *#¥3 she saw him afterwards standing near by with | predilections ofthe men to whom it will be submitted | north of Kabinda, when they discovered the Cygnet in jioners, that the officers desiring to do so might higher than it was in 1899. The poor people living along | * U2, as if meditating whether to return—but he | for adjudication—it will be of most vital importance, | the offing. They immediately furled all their sails and | jeave that city, and obviate the inconvience of which ie submitted to judicial supervision | commended for appointment. All mailable matter for | Wp, youel before she mas talk te CMntees Ott ous in rele- aod the uppl7 be sufficient tor the cit; Reporte and Supplies is an item t! ai ihe Comptro! the dock, and in the several streets in the | final: it drifted ‘the shore, that the negroes lined the . a jower ly went to the barn and took a horse,and be-| and of great significancy. In a few days, the ed so near the Q i ‘ou complain. {a his communication, says thattoo much is asked for. | the city, have been completely drowned out eyes fore any alarm could be given. The horse ves" found bill ‘which suiheriags the tenartry to cali the beach, in hope of a shipwreck. They continued in this 7iXghould you acce} afurlough, by informing the de- Ipance yen thoncend collars. suffered’ greatly from hunger, wet and cold. Market | last evening, nearthe south part of this village, where | title in question, will be taken up in the Le. | situation until meridian, when finding they hed not been | partment of your residence, you will receive due notice Cleaning the Corporation Decks oud Stipe is set down | street, from Hudson strect to the old railroad house on | there were signs of his having fell and been abandoned. | gislature. I hope’ and believe it will pass; neverthe. | discovered, th their lower sails in order to clear | of the action upon your resignation; which will not ay jomptrolier at much more than it usually costs, | the pasture, was completely under water, and naviga- | Mr. Van Aredale describes the murderer-as about 5 feet | [ess I have my doutts. It is said if the sixteenth section | the shore, and as the Cygnet drew offfrom the land, deviate from what may be considered§ justice to your- eee ante oy wes Wement Sellars. ble for boats from Hudson street,yesterday morning. Up | © jither a negro or dieguised | in the seventh article of the Constitution of this State is | afterwards set their more lofty ones. Two days self, and most conductve to the interest and honor of Pviy-d is an account that is much over | Hamilton street, above Union street; up Lydius street mson, who had been spend. | abrogated, that the law in relation to real wards we captured her. Her crew consisted of Span- | the nation, and benefit to the service. gharged. ‘his should be done by contract. The amount | to within'a few rods of Groen street }_Up State street to ing at Mr. Van Ness’s, left there about 9} | be insecure, and that possession would be equivalent to | iards, Portuguese, Brazilians, and some from other coun- “| have the honor to be, iked for is about double the sum for which responsible | the second store below the corner of’ Market street ; up a he had not proceeded far towards home be- | title. But itis perfectly clear that this principle would | tries, and although continuing under the American fleg, Your obedient servant, i ns are willing to do the work. It certainly cam be | Maiden Lane to Broadway. In Ferry street both the fore he irda dog bark, and some one shriek; before | not jords seized of land by purchase or inhe- | with probably American papers, not one American was “G. W. HILL ~ Be od Rig done, for sixty-five dollars less | Dutch Reformed Church and Catholic Church were | be et te the Sand Beach Church, a man passed on Mrs. | ritance, but has reference alone to titles which conflict | on board. “Secretary of War and Marine. nasked for by the aaa ($65,000.) Amount | flooded, and the water up to Franklin street. Pearl bo f’s horse, urging him on as fast as he could. Our | with the very fundamental principles of the republic.— | As I could not despatch her the evening of her cap- | «To Lieut. A. G. Gray.” aoc > ig! ings, an: instance, ie “one interested” has sppropriated is ($120,000 street was under water a ant, Mr. Quick, describes the 0. as the most | When the rights of any citizen endanger the peace | ture, she kept company with us thet night. The next | ates are very important thi Docks and Stips—There is or ought to be a large re- | and tise at the south end Wiese ae hi NTCh «street, | appalling he ever witnessed; and the particulars as he | of Btite andthe. bap {tho people, | morning I regretted to learn that eighteen had died, and | the authority from’ whom. th jyenue from this account, but none is allowed by the | ly crossed. The Bethlehem road was three feet and | Das , Will be found mainly correct, although ts should be subordinat rig! ‘one jumped overboard. 80 many dying in so short ® | thought proper to quote, to ‘ Compt It has exceeded the amouut asked Lflie more under water. The island below the city was | inthe confusion incident upon s a case, it was im- id should be sacrifice time, was accounted for by the captain in the necessity | and utterly groun: in his article referred to, the Common Council twenty-four thousand dollars, entirely covered. Up about the Little Basin, hundreds possible to ascertain the details with perfect accuracy. | case | have taken above is, I think, quite original. With | he had of thrusting below all who were on deck ani oves directly the reverse, when coupled with certain there is no good reason why the receipts this year should | were y Prod from their dwellings, and were forced to ‘e understand that Wm. Patten of this village ed by | infinite deference to the wisdom of your legisiators, | | Closing the hatches,whon he first fell in with us,in order | facts well known to the world—for where were the ot exceed the expenditures, Unde: seek refuge in their garrets. A number of grocery | the scene of this murder, leat evening about 9 o'clock, | submit it for their consideration. I believe it embodies | te escape detection. Austin and Wharton at the date of, and some time sub- the amount asked for cannot be req Allowing the | stores in the lower part of the city srci 2. | and saw a man staccing near there witha gun. The | the state and stage of the affair as it now stands. I shall | The vessel had no slave-deck, and upwards of eight | sequont to, the le:ter from G. W. Hill, secretary of war hole expenditures to be. ed, the amount should | not having made preparations for #0 great a flood. Tho | murderer has probably gone east—a valuable grey mare tinue to advise you of the bearing of events upon this piled, almost in bulk, on the wa- | and marine, to Lieut. G.C. Brenner, dated Moy, 14, 1848? ot exceed twenty-five thousand dollars be a severe blow to the poor. The Colum. | belonging to Mr. Burrington, about 2} miles east of this t question. were males; about forty or filty | ‘They were off the town of Campeachy ; and twe deye nd at the very outside—$15,000 to be deducted. destroyed by the ice, which | Village, on the Skaneatcies road, having been stolen last | The Senate met as usual. A most determined and re fined in one half of the round-house / after the date ofthat letter they had the gallant action Interest on Revenue Bonds.—This is a new account not it partly away. The it. Our town is in a state of great excitement, and | solute effort was made in the Senate to pass th la other half of the cabin remains for | with the apparently werwhelming force opposed to tore opened. All the interest on city bonds ‘and stocks | sta ise damaged that we shall | every thing is being done to arrest the assassin. Since | tions published in the Herald of yesterday, rel ears. Asthe abip appeared tobe less | hem, whi ted over four hours; and which broke wp charged in another account, and the account of reve- | h: . It is past re] . The writlog the above, we have seen persons from the scene | the Hote ofSandy Hook ; th esolutions have pass- | than three hundred and fifty tons, it seemed impossible | the blocks: Campenchy ‘and forced the Mexican Donds is charged inthe trust account, which the | water is into basements as high up as Peart street, | of the murder, and learn the following particulars-Mr. ed the House unanimously. The opposition to them | that one half could ved to cross the Atlantic.— | squadron to leave in the night, aptrolier says the receipts will balance Se where it was never soen before. Greenbush, on the | Van Ness was found dead, lying with his face inthe | resolutions in the Senate was fierce; Mr. Folace | About two hundred the spar-deck alone,when they | against,Yucatan. Commissoner Morgan, ire. Taerefore, this sum of filty thousand doilars back kitchen, with his feet on the step, stabbed in the | as the peculiar representative of the lot monopoly ‘of | Were permitted to come up from below, and yet the cap: | before the tribunal, states “that on id not be charged. : inch of coming into tl breast. Mrs. V.N. who was enciente and soon expected | New York, presented a memorial from the Bonrd of | tain assured me that it was his intention to have taken | of May, 1843) Com. Moore, chased the Officers’ Fees—No such account as this can be Proper of to be confined, ran round the house after ehe was stabbed | Underwriters, and further intimated that the Chamber | four hundred more on board, if he could have spared the | they could not be seen from the top of the house, which yharged to our city. Our police officers are not allow. | families had and ac. | and went to the girl's bedroom, and told her she was | of Commerce was preparing a memorial for the consi- | tim L (then) was on.” tees by the law, but paid bj pe yee 5 the other city | quaintances in F part of the city. Several | stabbed, and that they were ail going to be murder- | deration of the Senate, as an ent against the pilots | The stench from below was so great that it was impos | ibe Austin and Wharton arrivedjat Galveston onthe are paid regular salaries. Now, where and to | merohants slong suffered vei erely,| ed. Tho girl raised the window, then went to | off gandy Hook. The gentlemen farther contended that | sible to stand more then a few moments near the hatch- | 14th of July, 1648; and G. W. Hill, secretary of war and large amount be paid?’ The Aldermen sar, prod of all | the front door, unlocked it, and let her in—she | ali action upon these resolutions should be deferred un- | ways. Our men who went below from bog were | marine, writes on the Ist of the following ‘September, ire allowed foes in sitting as a Board of Excise, but that | kinds were sto’ id stories, supposed at the | Went to the bed, threw he: ‘on it, and was found | til the reception of this memorial. After various pleas | forced up sick ina few minutes; then all the hatches | the jetter te Lieut. A. G. Gray, from which | have quot- & sujarate account, and #0 charged by the Common | time to be all safe, but which has been completely | dend after the alerm was given. Van Atedale fought the | upon the part of the monopolists, the resolutions were | Were off. What must have been the sufferings of these | of above. The following session of the C of ane go This account of $31,000 is not proper, and | drowned out. Among the sufferers Dorr & lphesty, assassin ont of the house, and shut the door, and saw | forced off, and the consideration postponed until one es wretches when the hatches were closed? I am in. | Texas, the President was oi wot be allowed. Stewart Clark, Durant k Co, Fish & Co., H. ‘Nichols, | himetab Mrs. Wykoff near the gare she was going to | week from Tuesday next, when I have no doubt they jormed that very often, in these banned to Street .—This is an account charged to the | Davis, Saunders, Sayles, anda number of others. Seve- | sive the slerm ; and ran over 100 rods to Mr. Brooks’, | will pass. atranglo the weaker; and this was ts,in addition to cleaning—and the amount asked for | ral canal boats in the basin were crushed against the | *fter she was wounded—part of the way with her intes- | "The bill relative to the expense of enforcing the law, | why so many died. or rather were 5 to = re than is usually wanted for this purpose— | state street bridge and sunk. Two or three floated out | tines protruding. She was senseless thie and not | &c., in Delaware county was then taken up by the com- | ing after the capture. None but an eye-witness cen form | maintain a watch on board for their preservation in the gor than is wanted this year,if any kind of economy is | and were carried down the stream. Vast quantities of | likely to recover. Van Aradale is ina very precarious | mittee. The committee did not conclude, and will pro- | ® conception of the horrors these poor creatures muft | harbor of Galveston, which was responded to on the 37th din the expenditure. The amount asked is yaoi }) | lumber floated down the city yesterday. The | sate, - of the bill on Monday next. endure in their transit across the ocean. December, 1842, and on the éth of February, 1844, an act by $15,000 than is required—which will leave an | water commenced yesterday sbout noon, and | ip th of found in the house— jouse Mr. Coe presented @ report and billto re-| I regret to say that most of this misery is prod w raved atid Afleen thousand dollers, Sppropriated, it sum for the expenses to be incurred under | continued to fall all day. [t is impossible to form an; duce the ‘of government $15,000 or $20,000 an- | by our Lag dae of te the navy in ordinary, which was ite tion om scoveut. idea at mt of the loss of property from the food, neally. The Dill will be considered on Wednesday | veyance, in spite o ate | of the present month, when the Governor of the Amounts to be reduced, and from what account After the ice broke up on Saturday, at the foot of State next. there are eee, eee [Prod State of Texas was inaugurated. the - $90,000 00 Reprirs & Supplies. $15,000 00 | street, the body of a dead man floated to the surface. He ‘The apportionment bill was referred to the committee ,” sufficient to ind time since the return of the vessels to Gal auiag _ Yorpore wase of the whole, to be taken up on Tuesday next. , if should meet with him, yet I fear ne: | 1843, there have been on duty on board of them, ene lieu Docks and Sligs.. 4,000 00 ° it ning 5 understand The committee of the whole then took up the bill to | his employers can be resched by our present laws. He | tenant, one purser, two midshipmen, and ebout twenty 15,000 (0 | identi id ving 5 reduce the expenses of courts martial. Mr. Harris inti- | will no doubt make it sppear that the “Pons” was be- | petty officers and men. ‘was brought from Schenectady ’ mated that he was determined, before the close of the | yond his control when the slaves were brought on | “ it is neither my purpose nor my wish to enter inte per- ne wagon. The water was very ‘high at that place, ators Aéveri was taken at | 0si0m, to introduce some radical reform ia the present | b Yot, from pee id at ete cee | tonalitios,bat | mast be ailowed te oxpregs the and about Sohenec! road been committee. io those carried away, an + on of te! 7 oe Fulton, Oswego county, and is in custody of the sheriff. The fi endous. The ice in the | whole affeir was arra at Rio, between Berry and | few officers of the Texes navy, whom death (From the Albany Eve. J ‘March, 14] We understand that he acknowle: the deed. He was Gallano, before the ship sailed. These men state that | of Mexico here spaces tee ee ‘te which ve . The western train arrived at 1} o'clock. It waited at | % Syracuse Friday morning. He hitched his horse on | ing of Nogss. ‘Tne water hes rison immensely {iis evs aes Eeey anchored was at Onin, nesr the river | gre entitled, usder ihe bil passed by the last Congrese of the City and County of | Syracuse for the Rochester train, which did not arri the north side of the canal, and was on the steps of the | gooded all the cellars, kc., fronting the river. Naviga- | Lagos, in the Big! et bonis) Nare er cae 2 POF | of the United States, [opasing eanexetion to the guy: A rork. At Oriskany the 4 pa, house wh 'yracuse. | tion will be resumed very soon. tion of their cargo, and received on board am ernment and people of ‘ they will better in- Resolved, That s Committee oftwo be appointed, with 4 trac! 4 hogesheads or pipes filled with water. ‘These were | form themselves of all the facts of the case, and thereby wer to memorielise the Legislature upon the subject “for per, V. Low. Moron Nuws.—A great many men, who say stowed on the ground tier, and a tier of casks Fes o- | not place before the public such ments, ‘our taxes, and request them to grant such relief as | 1 any, that the horse was stolen, and soon alter he ‘h foi a, Trends wt ing spirits were placed over them. They were then 'A FRIEND TO JUSTICE. in their wiedom may think proper. through, and the os and pursued on this suspicion and taken, He bears the marks {they never have been Mormone, but whose wives | informed that the vessel was golug to Kabinda for a Wasninoton Crty, Feb. 24, 1646. lesolved, That the foreman of the Grand Jury be one across what was loft of the ac ueduct, of the blow received from = Aredale. We learn that are tee! er ee Sidhe, Many appling, | au place, the spirit was kept | Poliveness in Church. thes Comet Bias sailed il onpeme pvihe| train, pam: h wont up from ‘rica. mn jest bomb Wainy eve- | ons have been mode to Major Warren in relation to Boy TS ee ieee Derry fg My up the on Lnotice the eaanall “Good Breeding” on Sun - wi —adiban: b . 4 ‘The memor: prepared y seven o'clock last evening, 8 up the water casks, ff order to elude day last, inGrace Church, which he so ably depicts cases of this kind, in consequence of which, we learn, | mand, cove! as aby ruler, a. twenty days did Ber- in your paper yesterday New i 'M. GALE, Foreman, .M. yesterday, and uation eee, swell at?) From New Zeatanp.—Capt. Skinner, of the ship | no metter how, that Lieut Fipotise hes been commission: the » MARCELLUS EELLS, of the Committee. . last night, and Tobacco Plant, arrived at this port yesterday from | ¢4 to go to Mormondom and investigate the facts. It is waitin roadstead ft hi erted If to find « instead New Yon, March 17th, 1846. , ; has | Auckland, N. Z,, Oct. 18, reports that everything was 8 delicate duty, Dot we trust the tact of the, lieutenant | fag of his country, yet closely watched by a of standing still like a ninay,with « dy by us pw The following are the average prices of wool for the tobe coming eek wohope i hor? secbiataaaad Sieatinases wove aelly covecting py ‘row the. —~4 bag) om bene gant eal year tance, of Moluiade fastest eet erner fs Snes ode for an ee or peng would have fe plenty of fee on ree reelised by the growers in western | 570 the Mohawk Creak ap, we ohall bees sesienday, “Phe New Zealand Times of Sept. 27, furnished by this ping wives bat the most novel operation, in. this Hine, wail ad owes arid diag. the flag which There is sufficient civility in American churches | here. arrival, says: — ince tec! im. for all ordinary purposes, wi a seat is request- “Tunas o'cLock.—The ice, a8 we 0 to press, Bey Mt lente, and, nd Albert sobooue - on ersdey. gube = | pm 1} Pd Bide: 0d ed, it is'never refused; but our congregations are bet- | Saat awe Oe cslsuicctuone wae | ‘The troops had not arrived trom Sydney, andno host: | ram. The In the Pons from Rio to Kebinda, in order ter employed during. rene ae watching the | “ * . hi irties ed hould crowd ai }. {From the Trenton Daily News, March 16 } ties hed re-commenced bodies of the wrobably, of tho sheep. | tater on Sr vere, tad ovules toe: War: Taman American, and have been abroad, The stranger who looks upon the | mati Kaitaia, red | Janded the balance of the prize crew here, with the think I never entered an Episcopal or Roman Cutho- haasely water one ae q less by fos sand bg did» Copel coast fever a few deys after | lic Church in England, or on the Continent, without i Mae . | for my seat. b at he would amend his | with ae | inthe vicinity, and is not denied, but j the |“ Thave the honort is, with much respect, | Paying i seat fora 2 gangrene senna een gKanibadint ereant | gt the was with me and she was admied, ned IE The little town of ELL, Commander. | T shut out, while two seata were see hm ay ll most cortain- | In the city of Momtie al, the yoor 1048, there | To the Hon. Gron ; ’ prado contracts 0 wri race of « hundred end have boon 006 mnrrioges, S048 Depdioms, ‘ond Seis vcretary ofthe Navy of the Uniied putes, | ede0 during the vervice, jen tas ‘warm rain whish carried off our snow, has