The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1847, Page 1

‘Whole No, 2960. NEW YORK , FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, I 847. OWERYMHEATRE—A.W. Manager, Ma Stavews—| be presented the di of, Don Cezar de Bazan, Bellamy; Maritana, Mrs. BITESir Richard Wrongh by Lage Somes Bri ‘To conclude DUT Bumme! at 6d¢- 123@ cents. MAN—Van rtaln rises at 7. lecken, Mr. C. Burke; Lestelle, Boxes 25 cents; OF THE TERRIBLE DISTRESS. day evening, ofthe HONEY MOON— Sw eGS Jaliana, * fie rT. 0) L ARTISTES in which, will be sung A OLL OF THE D#UM. harles Aubri, Mr. Varry: Wray. Doors open até! To’elnck. Boxes 25 cts— Bian ir, Mr Hi performed the ranza, Mr. egagtde with the is Hildreth; Martha, formance to commence at eens on Fu Slesired somedy ield; Rolando, INCIDENTS. &e., &e., &e. Panos OPERA HOU: NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. Mtr Dyott; Mrs Px will whieh wi bbe: presented th CLE, or THE WILLsES—~G vince (Atbretch, Mons Frederick covelnde the vetit comedy in one NGS—\ Mr. W. B. jor Phobbe, Mrs Abbott PricesFirst Tier and ier, 25 conte. 24 Five. c ‘Malor Phobt SE. — Friday” Evening. Dec, favorite of Admiral, Mr. crane, A Lt me eT LEND Mi W. B. Chapman; Cinoinnats, Ohio, Dee. 17, 1847. oan To attempt to describe to you the disastrous fi ette. 50 : Second ‘audeville by the freshet at that place. counts are truly appallin, {yp ites! iS OLYMPIC THEATRE—Fridey Kve- aiag: Bee ly ths pectormances’ will Commence wi PRIDE OF PHESARKET Ts dore Faring Marquis de Mr. i are, Aree whieh, for time, UPPER. 1848) PLACE—A la Mode, Mr. . Mr. Conover; Lutestring. Batin, Phillips. After which the extrav za, CWINESE JUNK~Th Myaterrous Ladys Mi Who DO THe AK M Me, Chontraus Mrs. Doraigton pper Boxes 25¢; Pit, 1: ‘Twitah Amold: F 4 Miss Phillips. Dress Circle, ake. sible. Sinee I left Bui ‘Mr. Holland; | lated to humble me in my feelings. Thestorm on the Mary Tavlor— |. lake, and by oni ‘are worthy of a better hal mous I than mine to give life and effect to them. But now. fas Mary'Tayror, | it is hard to realize the awful calamity which has ‘of the | fallen upon the western people by this flood The mpleton, 3 wi street (the most resembi! water; and in that street Bee DWAY THEATRI ANNA BISHOE, being Deo 3—' medy of THR —Yie Char ket) Me Lad hin, g Ff estion (pape A—Norma, rl rt r Bene SPEUU—Adinn, Madame Anna guratina from TANCRE N E—BENEFIS OF MADAME i her. farance — arretty Mr. Dru Mrs Druzget. Mrs. Selection > shop. ‘To conclude with a eae ‘Ponte lace of shelter, until the ery, U6 conte, Doors open | EOL Dolly (pou koow het) at the ecrnat of Mata aud EDI, suoe nts; Gall at 636 o’elock—performance to commenee at 7. 3 tise len, itthee the lowes part ie’ the having nothing but thelr welll of poor labor ee men and laborers to remove goods. The cit; id me Ai from LOVE ood abates. STOR PLACEIOPERA—Fri be presented Donizetti’s Opera, Di LAMERMOOR—! Beneventano; Lucy of Lamermoo: Edgar of Ravenswood. 8’r Bened 8'r Felix Genovesi; Raymond, Sig’ra Angiolo Mo: jaestro Direttore iguot Rapetti. Boxes, Parqu theatre, 50 ceats 12 o’elock, aud at No. 2 Wi Doors open at 7 o'clock. Tocommence at half past7 FY ‘ellipno Barillt. Leader of the. Orche and Baleony, $1; here from half'past 8 to asemext from 1to 3. mor Barilli. Box Office how far up in the city the water is. the high cliff on Observator: a view not to be surpassed. der water—the roofs of t the only things visible. entirely covered, [magi and you will have an idea of the flood here. MECHANIC HALL, 472 broaa IVE ‘aed Broome Ci BEAUTY and FASHIO! N. IGHT. UNABATED 8U Twelfth RIST YR MINSTRELS. tablished Band im the United SE, G. N.CHRISTY C. AB! , iN WELLS, whose original and ‘are aightly nonored with cyowded and and universally admitted to mile character offered in this city. hildren under I oore open at 2; concert will commen Christmas Day an Afternoon Concert. Dox Concert will commence at 3 o’elock ‘AY Ut ‘Enirance through ‘Under the management of 147—T! riginal ©H. > loo this Evening, December 2 will Retisiny Sol fri VANTS, or L Artists, ioclud: Bartholomew. Bea.” * The ia Honor of the United Si qWett, 25 cants; Boxes. 1236 c bent nted this eve A nd reets. Crowded to overflowing opie of the 0 years, at NIST'S,who will appear in a and Dances. Part 2—Ne or Living Male and Female Fi othe Mi ine Rising from the rand National Tableau Orchestra Box, 50 oe % OPEN & hour. I would advise trav: bring four mence falling before night. [From the latest newspaper. San Co ||. Ormojunari; Desmmber lei CP hi 3 o'clock. On water was just 3 feet 6 inch the olty th - above Con; ered. Boats are passii Par 19F ANKE sougs, choruses, glees, : , in ire New Comic Melange, | drayed from below. written expressly for him." Other performers sat before laet an incident occurred well worth re- their respective parts are enj ding Miss BER- ing; 8 coal boat had with a man, whose leg Mrs. Mi id WHITLOCK, | was broken, alone on it. boat was one of five lost r. ITLOCK, LAVIN. Comic and Sentiment from the landing by Mr. 8. W. Pomeroy. Isaao Tittle, Ko. A beantiful IVORY CRUCIFIX. which | Homrhe landing by Mr. 8. W- ret SOR 4 has just arrived trom Italy, from one of the first masters in | employ, was endeavoring to secure Seulpture, is to be seen fora few days, in conjunction with | the boats, when he got entangled with a cable, and bis all the other attractions of the Museam. ren under ten years of age and old whole u lone, 1236 cents. 7) ita; chald: ch to walk ali ng exch extra. AN MUSEUM—SP_ENDID PERFORM ES this AFTERNOO! and 736 o'clock. The and dhe ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS r = CRan' wisTERN, f Adinittance to water. The lower part of Sixth, ‘V- NING, at 3 leg was broken. The boat went off with it seats, One dor N y * +0 the eelebrare mulssi vn only xixpecte. ELUDEON, 53 BOWER “There will’ be four g: for the xecommod erformances, new so} 24 2cre HKISTMAS EVE—Society Library Lecture Koom. d street—T'Y ROLEAN ‘AUSER FAMILY, relatives of the ated '* Rainers,” will have the honor of giving positively departure for Bostor 24th, at the Soc et ocession they will present an entire C! Tickets, admitting a G Tiekets, Fift corner of Broadwa: i RT —THE ir gramme. one Doitar; Bi Masic Stores, he Door —MERRY CHRISTMAS. erformauces on Christmas vot ladies and ehiidr viz !—Mornin ™, commencing at | o’cloc! and 3 o’clnek atTo'clock. ‘Phe entertainments will shore, where rested for the night. morning his le an by Mr. Pomeroy, and and ekill ening, December Jozeph and Franz Hauser Wal: ReAT ATTRAC on the Cithern and Guitar. wnence at 73g o'clock. er, Rooms, 406 Broadway, Chri ed some « beew bow WAGNUT St THE, BoA. Mara COLLINS* Friday Evening, December 21, wi AMBASSADOR Si: Purick O'Plentno : 86 OF THE P which, che WH Pepner, Mr, Collins. ER—Teddy the Tiler, Mr Collins. In the course of the r aing, Mr. COLLIN i hii T Eve, ton, ‘HE SECOND ANNUAL BALL ot Recket Club will take place at the Coliseum, Thursday Evenieg ‘antary 6th, len streer. in A M Musical Tnstraments, hat lea deons Melodeons, and Musical Box “DWARD BAACK, cal justramen of Gold Ss DID ROSE W )) SALE —An elegant finisi unnel aud s and 01 first makers in Germany, is offered for sale at a very i, $260, being mehly worth ove Gothic ease. exieusiy row, will contain the first o fil sexes of siticles, ‘eauitled Forte!” These articles will may work be will alae cal sciener. pplinse avd Leo Coneert, (previous to the an and two La made eight the evening of performance will perform several Tyiolean Doors open at 634, to No postponement on aceouut of G G \ (ON—The Sable Munatrels, under ike direction of W. HAINES, would most. respectfully iuf'srm their friends aud the public tha: having jast returaed to the eity, they intend giving an. enter mas might, when will be produe- {there best solos, daetts, aud ‘ch wed by the moat respectable w property, in barrels, such as were yesterday afternoon removi Libra! seemed to be employed in the business of met @ young drsyman early in the fore! dollars and ¥' ttee Ketah “ itrikingl: anythi the mar! ows, ag «i as impassable state of the toads leading tot counted but fifteen huckster’s w: was from beyond the suburbs. 483 tr ship, coming on the Mw sical Liraes (TE HOR! favorit- melodies. Am ANNUAL GRAND DRES3 BALL of the O {eke pace at the Minerva Koom ec 24. 1847, Tickers ean SAWL TRUESDELL, Presid Covtumer will be in attendance with Dresses of every di ‘ONS—Tne subseri ye warranted to AMERICAN and_ wonder ia perfect revolati ‘oreian Ka Mewwelssohn. al Reviews Pree ATRE, Phi ladeiphia —Lessee, Mr. il. Mansger, Ma J. Wallack, J and Las ir Collins. After 'EPPERS—Girnld Dei To conclude with TEDDY THE TI- ning, forthe Jast ‘To-morrow, Chri 38 a + On Monday, Madame Bishop’s Ope- Xi ‘al Minerva Society, will Iway,on Christmas ob-ained at the Root . D. Baxen, See’y. Mt, Tickets cam be had at the Court, ODEONS, AND AUCCORDE.- manufactarer and importer of @ assortment of Accor and all kinds of M' Fulton street, cor- 16 14t®: b touch, and fini vevy superior instrament, and may be seen at 150 tween Laurens and Thompson streets. Pp! ‘Nu FORTES FOR AIRE—J Y. RENDER SON, manutarturer of Piano Fortes, 5 has constantly on hand an assortment of supe end mahogany piano fortes, kept expressly for id well selected stock of new and te and guitar Strings, ke., 549 Broadway, are SICAL TIMES. ost exciting and won Electro Harmonie. P ion jontain A Bachel ke , Ke he Ai will be frinted oa’ the best quality of paper, with new type, and will be the mostdesirable of t ‘i toall ‘overs, professors, and connoisseurs in mus $3 per annum, or 6 cents per copy. of publication, 1'4 Nassau street. ‘agi MIE | deflctent from this cause. 16 —At sunset, last to height within twonty in hest rise wit of of the community for sustenance. bse M ANCY Lig? thanks are their exertions in behalf of these sufferers. 23 2 n Street stand higher than at that ground is covered with a two. t depth of sno: Tv weather cold and disagreesb! that induced a ri ferer cries. Th lenet, the taken to ¢ Piano | a striking incident. A drayman was asked aid tere the water was then rising. The drayman less than two dollars, (be’ offered one dollar- had, if she didn’t like to give it.” The woman excited thesympathy of the o1 ness of the man its indignation. upon the dray, knocked its owner off into drove to the door of thi furniture. This the holidays, the Concer meri ed by water. Several houses exhibit the roofs only, and one or two that drifted off and lodged against the * hillside. Several hundred hogs were drowned at the peas White Mills and other places Office | wend were taken out alive at Ba B A Vis’ the Holidays. and re-mbe teen Directors of thi 176 Ceutre street, between ths hours of Land Sook Lis —Lovers of Nometion Pige, please eail on old DAVID for he is eL FITZ RALD would rerpecttally families or New ¥ viremt stl Bad, MUSICAL SOUVENIR.—The Musical Annual, the sobseriber, w Il be ready for delivery v 23d. Ie some Son i th pop KR tte Washington Letter, ; Stories, Pane + No 2 Astor House, reacin, a i, with likenesses of jar Bollads, Waltz jomely vound with gilt edges,and any ntedon itfree. Price $3 50. By re- | tire! i | he mailed to apy part of the eountr: masic contained im it will be almost HOLT. Jr...156 Fulton street, comer Broadway. WEF—M MONITOR, FORK CHRinT. a ber dered about amongst the drift the whole night, foundries of the of in consequence of a want of water the Water Works, and some from » Polkse, ‘Lhe wood-yards being all flooded out, steam! ners is also Iraapended. receive or discharge freight or Five houses passed cits which # man was seated, hal reeuwich, OF THe I be closed from By order, © articles at th A BOWLING ALLEY—Grent sport for Recotlect 44 V: Price 1246 cen 817.—T will be held at this office, No. fn "ia o’elock. A.M, ‘The transtet 12 0% erty ih fost. until after the elec- ORGET THE 8 ood Christmas Poultry and Game and | $y ) RIPTUKE & CO, ug off below covt, The Sign of the old Fox, et midd’e row BUANC MANGES, H ‘ ork aud Brooulyn, that he will miko the q ebimney, and the grape vines were et between Church | front By scoounts brought in Tent evenin; ws of the fall of the water at hoax. Janus Kevtucky, quite fast, yesterday afternoon. A 422 Mer OF TH via Pittaburgh, reports th: hanies, t the mountains 24 It re pouring out with great vehemence. noon, says there able. is well a of his brother in the ekiff probably sav life. Several roofs have been broken by the weight of snow. The ges werks were closed last evening, and also all lectures and public exhibitions. Great wearers ot sugar and grocer: y to the streets al the bottom. On Third street, Broadway and other streets, we observe large quantities of goods in barrels, on | Placed along thestreets. All the Come pneroiner “e . We ; who had rr i ae thenenrnn 0 ‘ce rays are carrying passengers ‘scross Co- ve centaa pisce. The condition of oan do, the e city. "We ns, not one of which ‘sually the lower mar- ket is well attended Yy, wagons from Sycamore town- Montgomery road, but we did not ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS TREMENDOUS FLOOD AT THE WEST. GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. The Herald's correspondent, at Cincinnati, has sent us still later accounts of the terrible distress occasioned Im addition to this. we give a list of accidents and incidents, extracted from papers published along the line of the rivers. These ao- which has met me on my western tour, would be im: falo, it seeme to me as thoug! was intended that I should pass: through scenes calcu- daily papers can tell ,how much; but not gives tithe of the distedes t0 tine poce people o this ‘The whole lower ‘of the olty up to Pearl our Cedar) flooded with the cellars are full, four entire of the city, flooded. ‘And th look to for sup- pert, not able to paythe exorbitant prices asked by aie coun have adopted measures (the best they could) to relieve the distress; but imagine ten thousand destitute beings. drowned out of house and home, flocking to the churches (thrown open by their respeotive congregations) for a jatered my Pearl streets to-day at noon; that may give you an idea 1 went on top of Hill, and from there I had verlooking Cincinnat), and taking Kentucky in sight, | saw nearly a whole town un- ¢ houses, for the most part. Full two thirds of Newtown is ine New York, on the North River, overflowed for its entire length four blocks from the river, the houses nearest it being twelve feet under, The cart- men charged one dollar a load to carry property to what was considered out of danger, and over fifty cents an ers coming this way during the present high stage of water, to come by Pittsburgh. Money is so ecarce here that hogs are not worth three dollars, when if money was plenty they would easily Wanperenr. P, 8.—The river is now at a stand still, and will com- } ing.)—At noon, to- day, at the corner of Main and Water strevts, the 8 below high water mark of 1832. The river is rising rapidly: On the cast side of water is high above Front stroet bridge; 6 street bridge. Third street bridge bove water, but the low ground on each side is cov: ng throvgh Front and Congress streets. On the west side of the city, the whole of the squares and buildings below the upper line of Columbia street, are under water,and communications through Water, Front, and Columbia streets, can only be made by .. From the Whitewater canal to the river, through the lower part of the city, the houses are under , on the Barr proj on which are many fine buildings, is under water. street, in nearly ite whole length, is lined with barrels, T. board, and relief (nine at night.) seemed impossible. His brother, (Henry Tittle.) however, took a skiff, with one oar, and succeeded in overtaking him below the city, and getting him to a house on the Kentucky hh Yesterda; was set by Dr. Worthington, and, in the afternoon, he was brought over to the city attended to. red his nment at Miverva | see one bic rs from that direotion. The market garden- iy ers were all abseat. Two or three vegetable huckaters Seer rerete icith une | were in from the suburbs cf the city. We apprehend 423 2r* re that nearly all the market gardens are under water; and that the vegetable market, for the winter, will be made ‘he milkmen from beyond Christmas, kye— | Mall Creek and the Licking, are also all absent. formed the IRI3H | high dyke, at the bridge on the Miame road, is under Mr C water.— Evening Chronicle. ing, the water hadrisen es of the Great Flood of hig iin the memory of living man Some ides of the extent of the distress occasioned by this flood may be formed from the fact that over five hundred families in this city alone have been driven from their homes—many of them leaving their furniture behind, amd compelled to seek whatever shelter charity might open to them. Hundreds were entirely destitute en the common necessaries of life, and, with small children, were compelled to take refuge in the churches and engine houses, andrely alone upon the benevolence families took up their quarters in the Cathedral, and their necessities were freely administered to by the priests and others It was thus in other churches and engine houses; and ‘ticularly due the mayor and marshal, for The blow at this time falls more heavily than in ’32— for there are more to suff-r, and prices of all necessaries and, besides, the andthe 5 is is mot all—wood is selling at ten dollars per cord, and other necessaries at an equally rascally rate—rascally, because there is no- thing to mitigate the uncharitable, mean-hearted spirit, in price of that for whieh the suf- &re those among us, deserving, at orn and contempt of all, who have under: peculate upon the distress of the poor, and to bulld their fortunes upon the sufferings of the stricken ‘We witnersed yesterday, in the lower part of the city, to remove vy the furniture of @ poor woman from a dwelling into which haul the load, to the distance of about one square, for ing id told the woman that she might “stay and ress of the and the rude- One individual among the by-standers ran into the water waist deep, sprang @ water, @ poor woman, and removed her was done amidst tho cheers of the crowd. There are incidents similar to this in constant transpiration, and enough to be witnessed at all times to excite the warmest sympathies of the heart. In Mili Creek Valley, the waters are baeked up to a tremendous heightand me of the pretticst residences are surround. the bottom Thirt: after having floun- All the y have suspended operations—some ‘the stoppage of aving too much water, Columbia, Front, and Water etreets are all en- inundated, and heavy charges are made to ferry e of | people across the streets. ‘he Broadway Hotel is eniak- rely | ed, has started @ ferry! Congress street was also . partially inundated last evening, and the water was ri- ting with a rapidity that threatened to go beyond 1432! t busi- not being able to get fuel, nor to yesterday—upon one of g to those on shore, and on the roof of another were scattered the bricks of the pon the by the 424 6t*re | steamer Monongahela, all the towns above GAS LIGHT COM | the streams pouring out, and the river ate nnual election fo point. T laysville, ext, [t is reported that the water was rising at Augusta, tle. man who reached here yesterday, direct from Balti: there is no snow on the Alle- er Was uncommonly warm, and at it had rained incessantly ducinz his whole trip over As nearly as he could judge on the boat it was etill rising all the way down from Pittsburgh. A the streams, particularly on the south of the Ohio, were {nm Ohio, the rains do not appear to have been so heavy, though the streams enerally are full, Mr Scott, the ice dealer, who left ‘roy on eli night, and Dayton on Tuesday after- no uncommon rise in the Great Mi- ami, that the eanal is in good order, and the roads pase- eo whole of the Whitewater Canal distriet is under | \e worst in the space that stretches from the Basin, near Western Row, down the River. The Courts adjourn ited tenemarnmniee w kite come wi ford tem) 0 a large namber. titude has been evinoed by tho Mayor, the test promptituds Sfersbal, and other city officers, and numerous esterday, #0 as to put the Sows The lent associations and individuals, including ladies, who have spent all their time for the last three days in af- ft riton shelter to the houseless poor, and supplying them bount! on to the hills back of the town, where they are camped out, and crowded into the few farmers’ The snow has continued to sions, since Sunday night. ral, and it should be succeeded by « warm rain, t! Sequences may be appalling. The town of Vevay, Ia, is also almost entirely submerged. felt by the inhabitants of Rising Sun, that the water embankment, which served a flood of 1832. will force the hij it the calamitous within one foot of what it was at that time. above, we have litde information. Circleville was very high. and tho lower part of the rier fully with cooked provisions and clot! Mary Pell g. The ought up nearly three hundred persons yes- terday from Lawrenceburgh, who have been forced Som their homes by the flood. The whole of New Richmond is under water, and the inhabitants foroed stream remarkably #0. however, sa; Muskin, ry precedent. The town of Tiles above) ta ua im and that Kan r water; and t jouses there. fall, with slight intermis- If this has been vei Great appreher gene- con- ms are The Sciota below The dispatch from Columbus, fy ther the case with several of the small towns on the river. We may 7 consider the water at a stand—unless the snow melts to-night Dee. 17 —We haye accounts from above and below. son the steamer Lanoaster, Neville, Moscow, Beimont Point Pleasant and Palestine, are entire! at the people have been driven to the hills, where they shelter in barns, &0. two persons between Ne- Alice Rickson and in feeble health, died in nde of the Miami a: B; tho Rowan of erected ten! deptor: ville and Po! Brownson, who wei from exposul The bott in condition, int Pleasant, Mrs. learn that Richmond, overflowed, and re San, the hills entirely inundated, houses show but their chimney tops, from the same cause. Several thousand bushels of corm which had been left |- in the fi-lds, has passed out of the Miami into the Ohio, within the last two days, and # passenger informs us that at the time he passed, that stream was literally covered with corn, wrecks of fences, drift, & down, three houses, one a tavern, be- longing to Palestine, the other a small frame cottage, with turned column portico, and the other a large barn, with gable windows, in which several fowls were quietly roosting. Evidences of the wreck and destruction above passed, on her wa: are constantly paesin; At the town of mauy have been carried away. re about one hundred wagons leaded with produce for the Cincinnati markets, unable to cross the waters by ferry or otherwise. The railroad track is entirely submerged. the water in some places standing at a height above the chimney tops of a locomotive. comotive capnot be got withiu ten miles of the city, in cons*quence of high water; the turnpike is impassable at Plainville, Duck creek bridge, agd at Crawfish creek, the city. thiehem, Indiana, a short distance above Louisville, which is inundated, oth greatest distress were drowned at th upper Pi Hy. of baled the town was some ten {vet under water. lory of Mesara, Dubles & Co. they had to shoot about 1,000 head ot hogs, and there being no means to dress them there, they’ will be brought to this cit; to-day or to morrow. The Kentueky river is it pores On the same night, four men awrenceburg, while assisting the dis- tressed in the removal of their property. At Lawrenceburg on Wednesday, the large warehouse art of the landing, float Two frame buildings were floated off. and At the distil- the present time than locks and dams are out of si seon—the boats passing wit lower part of Frankfort is under water. The flood furnishes the Cincinnati Commercial of the 17th, with the material for the following items :— Night before last, some contemptible dog in man’s shape, th Newtown, A lo- ancaster ive worthy men were drowned, on Tuesday night, while endeavoring to 8) ve some wood boats from destruction. Here, as at all tl r river towns from which we have heard, the It was full during igher at im the last twenty years. The ht, and mo break can be out any diMoulty. The entered # house near the White Water Canal, and rob bed it of all the moveables. The famil the flood, had removed the second story and went to the house of a friend in the upper part of the city, to remain until the waters sul ken bd; being overta- niture to the sided The rascal performed his villanous act in the night, with the use of a boat. retand that the “City of Industry,” a small miles below this city, is entirely inundated Businese of all kinds had been compelled to retreat to t] young ladies and a young man were dro ‘o reach @ place of security in « amall ven have taken to town fe with water. familie deavoring t The th We unde! fe ratical operations. We was suspended, and ‘Two d while en- the line of the canal itself is not observable have heard of several robberies within the last three days, where the thieves have forced entranoes into dwellings deserted by the ocou; the flood. About ten thousan: wero stolen from Ci during the leas hoped tuey may that they wil Villan} people i be. night of Weda last, in the second story gone. We saw a man taking an aquatic excursion down Columbia street yesterday in a sugar hogshead The oity council made acknowledgment of li natiens from several citizens for the relief of the suffer- It is 1y appears to increase with the distresses of the The Water Works were set on fire night before The watch on the premises discovered it in time to extinguish the fire. Mr Ezekiel Ross, lumber merch tleman highly esteemed, was drowned last evening in Mill Creek bottom, while in a skiff looking after some lumber which had floated aw: A poor old colored man, whi his dwelling, back of the gas works, handed a box con- telning forty-five dollary toa man to hold for him, and when he rowed to shore, the money and man were it in this city, a gen- ite moving his family from iberal do- ers by the flood. A member moved that the city trea- sury be drawn u the y the males participating, unconscious of the danger that threat ‘We saw yesterday & man sittin, story window in Columbia street, lide. and seemingly intent upon the hope of a bite. @ poor. them. n for an advance payment of the sa- laries of each individual momber, for the remainder of and that the amount be appropriated to the re- ‘Tho proposition was Inid on the table for farther consideration. Sheriff Weaver informs us thet during his charitable tour through the flooded portions of the city yesterday, he heard music proceeding from house, of which the upper story and roof only were above the water, and al skiff's were hitched to the windows p, it was discovered that» bali was in full blaze, and itz in giddy whirl to merry music, males and fe- Upon’ row- quietly in a second hing with a rod and The south and west walls of the large chair factory, building by N. Longworth, near John and Columbia streets, gave way thia morning. They will have to bo taken down. Quite a number of feeble persons have died while being removed from houses to places of (From the Cincinnati Chronicle, Deo, 17.) The following, taken from Mr. T'nomas’s ‘ Account,” shows the precise points, by measuzement, at which the water rose in 1832 :-- The following sre the highest places to which the water came on the different streets commencing with Broadway and ending with Western Row: viz —at Broadway it reached the south side ot the Market house over the curb stone, about twenty-five feet of which was covered ; near the corner of Sycamore it crossed the curb again ; between Sycamore and Main it came up Produce Alley, and nearly crossed Market street, com- ing within six feet of the curb on the north side. Mr. Henry Clark, druggist, with several other gentlemen Went on board a bont at his door, within seventy feet of Main street reached to within twenty- faterseotion of Vine and {) crossed entirely over the latter ; Raoe and Green streets (the latver ii Pearl), it rose to the upper side of Gi Green street, it came wit! the ourbs: steam Say and went out into the Ohio River. east side of Main it came within Schultz’s floor; the corner of F eight ine! on the opposite side, it cat ‘earl street. On Wall street, enst sid ht feet of Pearl ; © line of Pearl street, it ter the intersection of continustion of im, at this ve feet ot ide of them it crossed, and came overt! Mill; at Plumb within the curbs, it came On the 8 of Mesern. he within fifty feet ‘of the lower line of Pearl, or Green street; outside of them it entirely crossed the upper w line, and reached the bank by Tatem’s Foundry, where steamboat Daniel Webster discharged her ¢: came to about the same line on Western Row. 0. It ven and ahaifinches deep upon the floor (entering from front street) of the new brick buildings. At Cromwell’s Cincinnati Hotel, it was twenty inches deep upon the bar-room floor, and at the Broadway Hotel seventeen inches, In comparing the present flood with that, as to streets, it should be recollected, that nearly all the streets, on the lower squares, have been filled and raised since 1832. The comparison by this, therefore, is not accu- rate. As to the number of houses inundated, the is very much greater, in consequence of there uantity wing 80 many more built on the low grounds. Last evening we visited the west end of the town, and, at the lowest bord we could reach on Sixth street, there see: jundred of houses within the it was in the secon: cause of this flood kingum, and this "The pr t fault. ‘in on hay Mop is the fact, ani rise, and the w: to be r, and, in some of id 5 is different, and philosophers, accounted for things so easily, are the mounting, and poured mostly. from the the moun’ C ‘mostly and Mononagahela. Now the reverse the rains slone have caused thi come chiefly from the Kanawha, the Sandy, the 6 of Pittsburg. ¢ proof of this is, that the Pittsbury t has Mus- papers of the 14th of February, 1832, state, that the water rose thirty- one feet above low water mark, and tho highest ever Known since the erection of Fort du Quesne, In Wheeling, the flood was forty-ni French by the ine feet above low water mark. By comparing these measure- rts from Pittsbugh and Wheeling, we find that now the highest water at Pitts- burgh, was twen’ ments, with the telegraph re wight feet. At Ti lower than in 1932 lower, mouths of the in thi valley of the chiefly, of three fest, aud at Wheeling thirty- taburgh, then, the river is At Wheelin; id at Cincinnati, it is only Muskingum, the Kanaw! ‘water was higher than it was ever known ! flood is onused by rains {allt and ita tributaries below Pittal ht feet it wan eleven feet ix inches lower! At the ay nts in consequence of dollars worth of goods ore, at the foot of Broadway, ay.’ The thieves had doubt- jouded a it from the second story window. be caught, and these is a probability Kanawha, Muskingum, and Sandy, are the princi ones. The presént condition of the river is as Follows Freie 8 A M—The water rose in the night, about two inoligs, and is now only about six inches below the flood of . Water spparently on the stand, bese | reached (from boats) the 2d door on the east side Broadway, below Lower Market, and having crossed Stone street, at the intersection of 3d street. (From the Cincinnati Commereial, Dec. 13 } ‘That ing calamity, such as we bave passed through, any person could be found to extort from the necessi- tles of the unfortunate poor, is almost incredible; yet it is, nevertHeless, true. Numerous instances of the most heartless extortions are related. obrouicle to show what heartless beings live in our midst. A gentleman sering a womam and child’s heads sticking out of the window of the second story of a house far out in the foaming water, procured @ oki from a ge- nerous boy,who refused any compensation for the use of it, and brought the woman and child safe to shore. The gentleman prope: ly rel compensation for this act of duty, which we ail owe to our fellow beings in dis- tress; the woman left rejoicing in her rescue, and the rescue of het child from jatery grave; butone of those cca the shape of man, seeing that she paid of which we will nothing for her rescue, followed her, and under pretence that ‘aa the owner of the skiff, extorted from her one dollar ands half A drayman who hauled a poor invalid some two or three squares, charged three dollars for the service. A man who plied one of the water crafts, which are to be seen in every street below the hill, brought from a house, a short distance from land, one load of furniture, and charged the poor woman three dollars for the service. She gave him shree five franc pignes, which did not satisfy him, but demanded the balance, fifteen cents The orowd, incensed at the extortion, took from him the three five francs, gave them back to the woman and started him. This act of the populace, we suppose, wae 8 violation of law, but however righteous laws may be, they cannot d against all emergencies that may arise, wed ite all violations of our statutes, yet we cunnet pity the man who would thus extort from the poor in ress, their last dime—their only hope to procure a ’e shelter and @ day’s subsistence. The sbove are but & very few of the incidents of the kind we heard, and we record them with sorrow, but they serve to contrast the sordid spirit of some, with the noble gen- erosity of others who have done all in their power to re- lieve the distressed, and of whom we will hereafter speak with pleasure. 2 , We were gratified to find, in a round through the mar- ket yesterday, that the butchers generally bad sent con- tributionsof meat to the different jylums, some of them giving very liberally. Soup bones were decidedly scarce. They have done well to adopt this mode of be- instead of giving indisorimina'ely at so many imposters make a regular ply’ The contributions of provisions y our citizens generally have been liberal; many have sent in clothing, and some blankets and other dry goods ‘The Alleghanians give a concert at the Melodeon, on Monday night, the proceeds of whioh are to be appropri- ated for the reliefof the distressed by the flood About one thousand five hua dollars have been subscribed in money. Speech of Hon, John A. Dix, of New York, in favor of the Repeal of the @liot Act of 1837, delivered in'the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, Febrnary 9, 1847. The bill to repeal the act of Congress of 2nd Maroh, 1897, regulating Pilots, beng under consideration—Mr. Dix said :— Mr. Paxsipent —The bill under consideration provides for the repeal of the act of Congress of the 2nd March. 1837, entitled “ Am act concerning Pilots.” Before I show what the act fhus proposed to be repealed is, it may be proper to state what was the existing system in relation to pilotage, before Congress had any authority to legislate on the subject. Before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, each State regulated its own pilots. It p: bed the mode of their appoint- ment, their duties, and their ilities Toe State of New ‘York, as ly. aa 1694, passed a law providing for their appointment by the Governor Council, and prohibited all other from piloting any vessel into or out of the port of York, under a Pavey per alty. From that tim the adoption of the Constitu- tion, the State legislated exclusively on the subject. The regulation of pilotage within ite own jurisdietion, was a State right. The articles of confederation found and left itso, The Constitution of the United States gives to Congress the por “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.” Under this del ion of authority, Congress assumed to legislate on the subject of pilotage. I do not stop to inquire’now whether this power is fairly incidental to the express authority given it to late commerce. But | desire to call the attention of the Senate eal bs while Poet Incldgntaty right, it e whole subject where a pb eas pot pu ® pe «GS Tight as it was before the adoption of Constitution—a State right. It recog- 4 and confirmed the legislation of the States existing at the time. in respeot to pilotage, thus pronouncing it to be a fit subject for State regulation. ‘T'he act of Con- gress referred to, was passed on the 7th of August, 1789, —(chap. 9, laws of that year,) and the provision relating to the subject is as follows : “Ske. 4. That all yg in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall contume to be regu: Isted in conformity with the existing laws of the States, re- spectively, whereim sach pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may, respectively, hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by Congress.” By this act, it will be perceived that the laws of the States, in relation to pilotage, were recognised by Con- gress at ite first session atter the Constitution was adopted; and that by referring to the future as well as the existing legislation of the States, it designed to place the whole subjsot prospectively unter State regu- lation, Congress undoubtedly saw that this was one of thore cases in which each State would be best capable of judging for itself what regulations the subject would re- quire within its own limits, and that in roles» for its own interest, that of the public would be most likely to be secured. From 1789 to 1837 this was the established m in respect to the ulation of all that relates to pilotage. Though the section | have read contemplated the possibility of ruture legisiation by Congress, no fur- ther act was passed during a period of forty-eight years. not been able to find any other act refe to y except the act of 1792, establish- lag a uniteeta sailitis y which they w. mpted from militia dnty. In the year 1937, two disastrous ship- wrecks ocourred on Long Island; and in the excitement of the moment, the pilots of New York were regarded as responsible for them. The clamor raised in New York extended to this city; and on the day preceding the close of the session of bee ag (24 March, 1837.) an aet was passed (chap. 789, Laws of 1337) ‘providing, “ that it ) and may be lawful for the master or com- mander of any vessel coming into or going out of any port situate upon waters which are the boundary be- tween two States, to employ any Pilot duly licensed or autborised by the laws of either of the States bounded on the said waters, to pilot said vessel to or from said port, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary not- withstanding.” ‘The ebject of this act was to open the pilot for,the city of New York to competition between the pilots of the States of New York and New Jersey, from the idea, which prevailed, that the pilot system of New York had grown into # monopoly, and that the shipwrecks I have referred to were a consequence of it I believe I may safely say that subsequent examinations before the judicial tribunals of New York resulted in an exoneration of the New York pilots from all censure in respect to those disasters. All the testimony | huve seen coufirms this statement. It was clearly shown that the loss of the two vessels, the Bristol and Mexico, was not occasioned by their negligence of unskilfulness. Thus the New York | east not only suff for a time, in the public estimation, on sccount of calamities tor which they were in no manner responsibls, bat they have. since 1837, been suffering from an act of Congress passed under # misapprehension of the facts, and under the influence of an unjust judgment in respect to them. The excitement against the New York pilote was un- doubtedly aggravated by a prejudice against them.arising from the fact that under the laws existing at the timethe shipwrecks referred to occurred, agreements had been formed among them for an Sa of the duty of pilot and « division of their profits, in such e manner as to destroy competition, and that it b gerous relaxation of vigilan: and boarding them. There is no doubt that there was ound for this complaint. But the defects of the sting re remedied by an act passed by the ogisiature of ) York on the 12th of April, 1837. A board of commissioners was appointed to license pilote ; their number was increased ; they were subjected to rigid regulations in respect to training and licensing ; the exciusive features of the old system were abandoned, aod the freest competition between individuals was in- troduced by 78 ions which effectually oe eombivation. ‘uder these new provisions it may be confidently asserted that old defects would have been cured, all the bemefite to be anticipated from the most judicious system of regulations would have been secured, if they had been left to operate without any conflicting or contravening legislation by Congress. ‘The New York pilots, in skill, experience, en! , and fidelity, aro not surpassed by any similar body of’ men in any country, They have been trained to buai- ness, they have invested most of their pi y in | they are the owners of their own boats, which are equ: to any craft in the world, and which are worth in the sgaregate sbout a hundred thousand dollars. The effect of the act of Congress was to introduce the New Jersey ilots into competition with them, under great disadvan- tage to the latter. This dissdvantage to the New York pilots was s0 apparent that the Legislatuce, in 1845, deemed it an act of justice to repeal the State law of 1837, in order to place them on » fair footing with the pilots of Now Jersey. The whole subject of pilotage in the State of New York has, by this repeal, become uncontrolled b: legal regulation, excepting so far as the laws of New J sey may have been extended by the act of Conge of 1887, tothe waters within the jurisdiction of York. To this condition the ture considered itself forced by the operation of act of Congress on @ most meritorious and valuable olass of citizens. Under these ciroumstances, we ask that the act of Congress may be repealed, in order that the State may be left to late pilotage for its own ports for itself. We ask it, because we believe the interposition of Congress to have been wholly unnecessary, and because it was founded on & misapprehension of the facts. At the Yery time the act was passed, the Legislature of New York had been nearly two months engaged in the inves- tigation of this subject before committees, and on the floor of the two Houses, No act of equal interest evor received # more careful examinstion ; and | have no he- sitation In saying, that all the benefits derived from the freer competition which has existed in the basiness of pilotage in New York since 1937, would have been secured under the laws of the Sta had not inte po But tho act | fee wel jer objeotions. New York his Now Joreey, Marylené with Virginie, and Louisiana with Missisel; Two of these States (New York and Maryland , by leginlative resolu- tions, asked for the repeal of the act. Litigation between individuals in different States, for the assertion of sup- posed rights, has grown up, and classes have been arrayed each other, not only in the courts, but as sui to Congress for rellef from grievances caused by its own legislation, or for protection in the epjoyment of privile- leges acquired under {t. For these reasons, and for the further one, that the act of Congress is unjust in its op- eration upoa # meritorious and valuable class of citizens, who should be left to the regulation of our own | ask for its repeal Should the ploos thew rr State of New York will probably place the subject under such regulations as the mercautile interests of the city of New York, and the commeroial wants of the country, require; and the whole su’, will be left where it was before the constitution of the United States was framed, and where it remained for half a century afterwards, un- der the control of each State within its own jurisdiction. I ought to add, that the first effect of the repeal of the act of Congress will be to | the business of pilotage wholly open to competition, a condition which a por- tion of the commercial community deem pri to any system of regulation. Having given th! history of the pilot laws of New York, and stated the present condition of the pilot system there, I pro ceed to some considerations of a graver character. As we have seen, the only act of Congress passed for nearly half a century after the adoption of the Conatitu- tion, was to declare that the subje:t of pilotage should be,where it had been from time immemorial under State regulation. It is trus,the act provided it should remain bo until further provision should be made by Congress, thus asserting incidentally the power of Congress to regulate it. The first question which arises is, whether thie assump- tion can be waintained ? Does the Constitution. ucder the authority given to Congress to regulate commerce, confer on it the power of Prt ad pilots, prescribing their duties, amd seriguing the limits within which thoae duties shall be performed? 1s the assumption of such » power in accordance with the rules of strict construc- Uon, which some of us deem essential to the maintenance of the Fights of the States and the restriction of the wers of the general government to their eonstitutional undaries ? Sir, I do not propose to discuss this ques- tion, for the reason, that if the affirmative were 10 be made ovt, it would not follow that the act of Congress of Marob 2, 1837, was in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. Congress has not by that act, exer- claed the power of appointing plots. It bas granted no commission under its own authority, to perform the du ties of pilots. But it has assumed to authorize pilots appointed by the State of New Jersey to exercise their functions within the jurisdiction of the State of New York. From this exercise of power we dissent, wholl and emphatically. We deny that Congress can wit! propriety. under the power to regulate commerce, thoriae officers apvointed by one State to come wi the jurisdiction of another and perform their appropri- ate duties. In providing for executing the laws of the Union, and enferoing the authority of the federal courts. has euthorized the appointment of marshal: thew the sam: the respective States. moment, that Congress should authorize Georgia, for instance, to come within the jurisdiction of the State of South Carolia: dd exeoute precepts issued under the authority of the United Statea—: offlcer neither appointed or commissioned by the federal go- vernment, nor by the State within which his official acts were to be performed? Certainly this would be a great abuse of power, if not a positive usurpation. The au- thority given to pilots Noensed by New Jersey to pilot vessels into New York, through waters wholly within the jurisdiction of the fatter, is equally offensive, It is authorizing the officers of one State to exercise their functions within the territorial confines of another. It is stripping the State of New York of a portion ot her sovereignty,and conferring it on the State of New Jer- sey. Itis one of those encroachments on the rights of the States which, from small and almost im- perceptible begimnings, grow into gigantic assump- tions ofauthority,and lead to the most dan; abuses. Independently of ‘these constitutional peer tiont there are Lejos inconveniences in the existing system, which are of themselves sufficient to condemnit. The New Jersey pilot, who is faithless to his trust in New York, violates no law of New York. It is true, our State’ laws are repealed; but from 1837 to 1946 ‘they were in operation, and the New Jersey pilot was in no manner amenable to them. He violates no law of the United States; they have prescribed no tions for his government; they have merely authorised him to exercise his function beyond the lim! f the State from which ho derives his authority. Iie is ameuable only to the laws of New Jersey. By the isions of the Su- preme Court of the United States, “ suits for pllotage on the high seas, and on waters navigable from the sea, a8 far as the tide ebbs and flows. within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of nited Stat ’ The sheriff of act of Congress, of 1789, virtually adopted the State Jawa in reapect to pilotage; but this recognition or adop- tion of the laws of the States was not construed to oust the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, in cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. A con- current jurisdiction was left in the State courts. Thus a New Jersey pilot, commissioned or licensed under th eT f that State, and giving bonds under those lat for the faithful performance of his duties, must either be pursued into a foreign jurisdiction for the oe of holding him anawerahle for acts or delinquencies com- mitted beyoud out of it, or be prosecuted in the courts of the United States. The ceurts of the State of New York have no jurisdiction in such cases; and the State is therefore divested of ull control over the t of pilotage, in the chief commercial port of the whole Unien, the waters leading to which are almost wholly within its own boundaries, so far asthe New Jersey pilots participate in the business of piloting. But there are other objections of a graver character. The constitution provides that no preference shall be given, by any regulation of commerce, to the ports of one State over those of another. We insist that such a pre- ference is given by tue act of Congress. Massachusetts is left to the exclusive regulation of pilotage for the ports of Boston, Salem, Marblehead, New Bedford, ko ; South Carolina for Charleston ; and so of other States On the other hand, the State of New York is divested, by the act of Congress, of the exclusive regulation of pilotage for the city of New York. The business of pilot- age for that pert is subject to the concurrent regulation of the laws of New York and New Jersey. New York and Boston, by this act, stand upona totally different footing. In the one case, the regulation of pilotage is exclusive in asiogle State; in the other, it is concurrent in two States. ‘o insist that a decided preference is given to Boston. We inais: that Congress might, with equal propriety, rovide that allthe ports north of @ certain parallel of fititude sheuld be open to the pilots of the adjoining States, as to provide that @ port situate on waters which are the common boun between two States, should be open to the pilots of both. The pre just as palpable in one case as in the other. the absolute right of Congress. If we look at the resson of the thing, and the operation of the act of Congress, wo sbail find as little justification fur it. New Jersey and New York are apparently put on the same footing. The New Jersey pilots may pilot vessels into the ports of New York, and the New York pilote may pilot veesels into the porta of New Jersey; but practically the advantage is all on one side. New Jersey has no foreign com- merce. The trade is all carried on in coasting vessels; and these are not, by her own laws, required to employ lots at all, unless they exoeed one hundred tone burden Qo New York pilot over takes s veesel to Now Jersey — On the other hand, the commerce of New York is chief- ly oarried on in vessels of @ tonnage requiring pilote; and New Jersey pilots participate largety in the business New Jersey has no real interest in main- act of Congress; New York, on the other reot interest in ite repeal. It concerns her- The act of Congress, though ge terms, is, from the nature of the ciroumstanoes, partial in its operation, and gives a decided preference to one State over another in regard to their respeotive ports. But, independently of ali the objections referred to, we hay right to demand eaaek ae he lated on this subject, it should leg! direotiy and efi- olently. It should have provided for the appointment of pilots in all the States in the Union, prescribed their qualifications, their duties, their liabilities, and made effectual provision by law for enforcing the performance of their functions, and securing adequate remedies for faithiessness and incompetence. We complain that in- stead of executing this authority, Congress bas dele- gated it to others, and in sueh » manner as virtually to give effect to the laws of one State within the territorial boundaries of another. To any such delegation of au- thority we never can yield or assent. | do not wish to be understood as admitting the right of Congress to make such provision for the sppointment of pilots throughout the Union Bat | to say, that if it oan | on the subject at all, it is its duty to legis- late directly, and for sii the States, without making an unjust and invidious distinction between them 1 is another oonsideration—the only other | shall pr sent to the Senate—in favor of the repeal of this law. Whi i by the Conetitution or not, rience of nine years has shown that it is,at least, impolitic. It has brought the au- eral government into conflict with it baa led to collisions La ne the ten; and produced litigation an Siteee ot fecling om different classes of oi! No act of federal legislation which leads to such oo sequences, cau be justifiable unless it in de- manded by some imperious exigency. The legislation of the central government should be liberal and forbear- ing, and desigaed only to effeot objeota of indispensable necessity. When it departs from this fundamental rinciple, and encroaches on rights or even on privileges oor ‘exercised, it becomes allen to the parental charac- ter which every government should possess, and without which it cannot command the approbation of those who are subject to its jurisdiction. 1 repeat, then, we ask for the repeal of this act, because it is of question ble constitutionality; because it was procured by mis- representation; because it is unnec ; because it is ritorious clases of citizens; because it has and litigation; and because it encroaches, if not on positive rights, on privileges long eno ed, and which there is no cause for ting. | this question almost exclusively on legal groun: trust the Senate will see in what | have said, cause for the repeal of the act of Congress, of Legislatures of Ne ik jaryiand h resolutions, complained. | have pur all reference to difficulties of @ local o different classes of the citizens of New York, which have grown out of this unnecessary, al believe, this unauthorized, act of legislation. | shall not enter into an examination of those difficulties, unless compelled to do #0; but | rest the application for the repeal of the act on the legal and constitutional grounds | have stated, and leave the question in the hands of the Senate. Reciciovs tyrecicesce.— We understand that Rev, Mr. King, of thia city, has reocived “ call’ from anew soolety in New York. —Crarlestown Aurore, ral in i 5 ‘acter between | Montaxat, Des. 16, 1847. Our Postal Arrangements—Stoppage of the Private Expresses, $c. $c. The follo communication appeared on the slate of the Montreal Exchange, this morning:— “ Advices from Burlington received this p to the effect, that the two expresses forwarded on M: if have been detained by the post office authorities of that city. The goverament despatehes have been taken out of the bags, and all other letters and parcels have by allowed to remain in Mr. Maynard’s possession, in custody, ding instruetions from the Postmaster General of United States.” Should this information prove to be correct, amd it appears to be so, from the terms of the communication ot your post office department, dated the 24 instant, and the instructions therein contained, it will, no doubt, in- duce the government of this province to make a strong remonstrance to the authorities at home, against the inconvenience to which the mercantile community is subject, in consequence of the difficulties arising out of these post office arrangements. It is impossible to transmit the mails to Halifax in less than five deys,and, in consequence of the bad state of the roads, and the waut of snow. ft is uncertain whether they oan be sent in that time. The merchants of this oity were, therefore, obliged to avail themselves of the offer of certain enterprising persons, to run an express to ton; and it became the more geen cee as the lotters by the British mail, via Halifax, reached Montreal enly om Mondsy morning last, and these expresses were de- sp tched in the afternoon. Whilst it is to be regretted that these proceed! will necessarily create = degree of bad feeling between the two governments, which bad not previously existed, it cannot be denied that it will, in the end, prove mutually beneficial, aud thet new pos- tal arrangements will be entered into, highly satisfacto- ry to the people of both countries. Tam inclined to doubt the trath of the statemen that the provincial government transmitted ite de- spatches by this mode of conveyance. Such a proceed- ing would have been in direct violation of the laws regu- lating the post office department in this province. aud insulting, in the highest degree, to the government of the United States. However, the fact remains tobe known and ascertained In connection with this subject, may mention that the commirsioners appointed by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, bave,witn the honorable Mr Cayley. the commissioner appointed by this province, unanimously adoped report, which, if acted upon, will greatly re- duce the rates of inland postage, and effect other im- portant reforms in that department. in the meanwhile, the commissioners to survey # line for the Quebec and Halifax Railway, are progressing in their operations; but it will be years before any communication by mi can be had, by this route During the interval, we are thrown ou our own resources, to procure the easiest and Speediest mode of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and have only to rely on thelemity and for- bearance of the American government, and on the tore- sight and prudence of the British, to provide a proper remedy for a state of tere as intolerable to the people of the one.country as of the other. A. 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Warm ‘old float shower baths for the the occupanta, Apply, to MEDHURST, 541 Houston st., ove block from Broadway. 620 12t"r WO HANDSOMELY FURNISHED LODGING Rooms, to be rented, one ov the first, and one on the se” cond floor, at 79 White street, a few doors from Broadway. 417 Teeod* re SPLENDID COUNTRY SEAT—A Country Seat for sale, of 3834 acres, splendid, new House, Bars) Carnage House, Orchards, ke. of all kinds of fruits. Everything de: rable for the gentleman; situate oue mile north of Kliabeth- town. New Jersey, near the Railroad. For particulars call A. SERGEANT k SON, 15 Wall street. N. B.—Who for sale several splendid Beats on the Hudson R 400 to Loan in 47 7ex8u' end which has given so mach sat sfaction to the public. 8. Scott is happy to say that his cousort has re- covered from a severe fit of sickness, ef five weeks, and is now able to atteud to theeulinary department, us before, tag king all the de: thatis served up in the house, which she is famed for, as cooking in gen Tea and Lo! ved up and made fr called for. His baris well supplied with the best of Ales, Wines, ignore and Segars, that can be procured. He will be happy to see his old friends, aud respectfa'ly soliests the pevonage of th b> lic in general Steaks, Chops, Cold Cats, Poached acl continues to di Rarebits, and other relishes, served ap at ail how P.M. No house supplied with E ner from 12 to 3. Roast ry day, anda variety of other CHEAPEST STOR+ IN THE. ton street, for Curtain Mat wices, lace aud embroidered curta hangings and window shades The Subsernber a large assortment of the above articles, of the Intest Parisian sty! Also, menufactuyer of gaivani spring, pure hair aud other mattrasses, feather be jows, ke, with every article in the upholstery line, whplesale and retail, at prices twenty per cent lower than any Other establis! parered at the short- nd hotels fi treet. d1512® re rm, Mali Lanter ed prices, @ arucles, consisting of gilt, gloss colar 1 zed Girandol en candies; Sol the city. N.B, Curtains hung aud rou estnotiee. Ship aod stenmboat cabins R. D pholsterer, 16436 Fultor ribbe beauufal assortment o! bronaed, ruby, tar of vario . of several ter . a handsome assorti dice sned Toa Trays, of splendid finish. JOHN W. MOR- GAN, 154 Fultoo street, one door erst of Broad Sis, WATCHES —The subscriber coustautly ou hand, watches of the follows ny facturers, viz: Cooper, Londor Sadlevers Morris Tebiay, Loudou: Robert Roskell Werrented keepers and Geneva watches and sents, whicn he is enabled to ER, Importer aud Dealer, 75 Wall sureet. corner of Pearl — N.B. Ali kinds of watches repaired and warranted itable ol y pre- 1 Mery low. JF. LiMBURG 18 tate re KR. CHRISTI PLASTERS~ plasters of any. kind ands nnd it is therefore GALVANiC STRENGTHENING t peculiar senson of the year when efot acknowl dged value, is just at np ale nes ptoms of asthma, oppression of the pulmonary orgs ud meny other distressing complain s— ‘All these might be entirely prevented. or when present. may nved by the use of the Galvanic Strength- ening Plaster ’ he speedy relief of severe 1) coustitational debility, weaknens of ( asa certein preveution for colds, and Iainta to h females are especially Suengthe: Plaster” will be found o advantage fh afew words, it embraces all the virca best tonie preparation, with the important addition of the gale vanie influeuce which is neither impaired nor exhansted while the section continues. “These plasters will be foand entirely free from those ohjections whichare a constant-source of be promptly re and the and agre ve le New York, wat!) fo drugg'st ne arriele. G26 8re Ti still to be found at his old office, 63 Gold Iton, where he can be confidentially con- happy victims of maipractire, in every disease of 4 private nature. Doctor's treatment is upon the non-mercorial system, already succes nally grosmene by him on the continent of Europe. Stretures, Nervons De~ bi ity—the consequeot result of indisereet indulgence in youth—nocturnal emissions, together with rev ent enses, speed- Uy acd effectually cured. All letter paid, encloring a foe, promptly av to. Office, 63 Ga 24 I 121 FvyzON STREET—WYATT& KETOH AM’Ss h wholesale and retail Medicine and Perfame: ‘are- ‘ouse.—This is the only establishment in the city where the pablie may rely ou getting any artiole shat they may call for, and which are warranted genuine and direet from the tors. To a * erry, Ayre Cherry Pectoral, pen rth's Worm Killer and Wild Cherry ‘Bloneom | Bs trifice, a moat beautiful article and recommended by pro- fessor Silliman; Dyee’s Family Mediciaes, and ( arus’s tral for the hair, Gienn’s Perfumery, tom yrith, na tn rof Medieines and Perfun PAHikbside's Tattersall. Heave great it horse medi for a7 at ted withont ACOBE, Trom 8 te. rtveat, opposite ier