The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1848, Page 1

Whole Ne. 4000, NEW YORK, TUE: COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO GEN. TAYLOR. Speech of the Old Hero. Sic. de. Gece [From the New Orleans Delta, Ji We announced yesterday that the a fayette were about to give a complimentary dinuer to ‘our distinguished countryman, Get . We far- ther announced, that fro: made, it would turn out a splendid false pro- phets.. It really was @ mplendid sffsir, in the strictent sense of the word— the gallant General may well be proud ‘of his couatrymen—his reception yesterday, was but andther proof, added to the many already given him, of the high esteem in which he eld by them. "The town appeared exceedingly gay and lively. merable flags flaunted proudly over the public buil ings. among which those of the Court-house, Exchan, the market, and the Terpsichore ball-room were con- spicuous Othe (ent ‘arrived about J2 o'clock, amid » deafen- ing salute of artillery, and was received at the ball-room by the Meyor and a special committer. About 2 0’olook, Gen Tsylor partook of # public ool- lation, at which the é/:te of the beaut fashion of the nlacs were present Many of the ies had their ebildren with them During the time, the boys of the Orphan Asylum. led by their teacher, were introduced to the notice of the General. T! numbered about 40. He shook hands and conversed with them all. Immedi- ately after they were brought in by « back door tothe dining room, and partook of the public hespitality which marked the occasion. General Taylor was presented, in the room, by a citi zan of Lafa: with a Mextoan lance, and Mexican offloer’s epauletter; part of the tr Of Buena Vista, and also with a cannon ball, a precious relic of the bat- tle of New Orleans. They were accepted with marked satisfaction. * About half-past three, the General, accompanied by . the Mayor, Captain Garnett, and Robert Huyghe, Esq . ¥ede out in the berouche in which he came up, and which waa drawn by two splendid bay horses. We thought he viewed, evidently with much delight and tisfaction, the rising importance of the city, its late and progressing improvements. At five o'clock dinner was announced About forty gentlemen, comprying the Mayor, Aldermen, and some of the most influential citizens of Lafayette, lown to table. The Mayor, M. W Bouligny, presided The il- lastrious guest eat on his right. After the cloth was re- moved, the Chairman proposed, without any preface, “General Taylor.” The toast was received with un- bounded applause. ‘The gallant General, in acknowledging the toast, said, that he found it dificult tojexpress the feelings of grati- tude that were excited in his bosom by this manifesta tinm of regard onjthe part of bis countrymen. He was sure he hed done no more than bis duty. and no more than would have been done by every patriot who might be placed in rimi'ar circumstances The valor of our troops, aid the gallant Genrral, had, under the favor of Providence, crow his efforts with success ; but not to the extent he had hoped for and most ardently de- sired The object nearest to his-heart had been, to briag the war to a speedy terminstion—to restore peace and amity between two neighboring republics, who had every motive to cultivate mutual good-will, and whom he ¥o.1d much prefer to see vieing with each other in the arts of peace, than contending on the field of He hed always hoped: aud believed, that by that spirit’ of forbearance and me; ity which a great and powerfal nation should always practise towards a feeble and prostrate enemy; peace might be restored on terms consistent with the honor, the rights, and the in- terests of both nations. In this, however, he had been dis- appointed. He regretted that clroumstances, to which he would not then advert, had deprived him of an opportu- nity of contributing more towards the accomplishment of this desirable result, This was not an occasion to utter complaints; he had submitted and would submit without much com pe he had already le preferred adverting to plaining; said more than was pradent. ic, to wit: evidences which he 4 rosperity of thei: city. The ving, he City of Latkettes unsurpassed in the public spirit and enterpriseof its inhabitants, Shortly after, the General left to embark onboard the steamer which was then waiting to convey him to his residence at Baton Rouge Before leaving, hands with every person in the room, and. said he, turn- ing round ashe neared the threshold, Gentlemen, euc- cess and pfosperity attend youall.” ‘The guests attend- ed him to hivesniage, and returned to resume the fes- tivities, which were protracted to a late hour. ct aap arehentcht er ot ANOTHER LEPrER FROM GENERAL TAYLOR—HIS GPINION OF THE COMMERCIAL MARINE. The shipmasters at New Orleans, at theirlate meeting passed, with other resolutions, compli- mentary to General Tylor,one tendering hima public dinner at the St.Charles Hotel. In re- ply to the letter enclosing the resolutions, Gen. Taylor sent the following : New Onveans, Jan. 13, 1848. Grntuemen—Your polite letter of this dete, in which Jou communicate to me the resolutions adopted on the 2th inst. by a meeting of the sbipmasters now in port, Theo which you kindly invite me to appoint a day which I can meet you at a public at the St atles Hotel, has been receiv I have to assure you that it would afford me a parti- cular pleasure to accept the hospitality at your hands. an | feel that it has been offered with that hearty cordi- ality which has ever been characteristic of your profes- sion; but I greatly regret to inform you that. my engage- ments during a stay in this city are such that I shall be unavoidably debarred this gratification. | have, therefore, to return my sincere acknowledgments for this very acceptable testimonial of your respect; and I beg to assure yeu, that there is no portion of my fel- low-citizens to whom | would be sooner indebted for such & civility than to those enterprising shipmasters and sailors of our merchant marine, whose intelligence and boldness have contributed s0 largely to the present — and national importance of our common country. With my best wii , Fenton o, T remain, very res- pectfully, your ebliged and obedient servant. Z. TAYLOR. To Capts. Geo. Wevcn, H. P, Cana, and others. Political intelligence. Tavton Movemrnts.—A Taylor meeting was held in ‘he hero of Buena Vist Presidency at whig meetin, in 16 counties of Pennsylvania, vi in Franklio, Hunt- ingdon, Westmoreland, Philadelphis city, Dauphin, Co- lumbis, Lycoming, Northam ton, F Greene, Tiog: d Philadelphia while 28 papers urge hie nomination. Inviana Leaisuatune.—This body having again con- vened, at Indianapolis, on the lth inst., Gov. Whit- comb rent in his megsage on the 11th. > *‘Corumsus, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1848. Movements in the. Législature—Political Affairs, §e. Be Among the whig pertion of the House of the General Assembly of Ohio, is a Capt. McLane, one of the ‘one year’ volunteers to Mexico, re- turned to citizen life, a physician by profession, and, thougha whig, is not blindly devoted to the party. This gentleman introduced a joint reso- lution, which was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, that our Senators and Repre- sentatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to have a provision inserted in all bills for raising additional troops for the Mexican war, which may hereafter come before Congress, requiring that they should be officered under the military laws of the several States from which such troops may be raised. The proposition met with no objection, and the probability is that the ** instruction” Hl be given, A joint resolution has passed both branches, granting relief to D. T. Disney and others. This grant involves a little matter of history, worthy of reference, as the reminiscence was among those small beginnings of which the end is not yet. Mr. Disney is the same who presided over the recent democratic convention. The ‘ State of Ohio” holds a judgment of some thousands of dollars against him and others, obtained under the circumstances following :—About ten years ago, there came a voice booming up the Missis- sippiand Ohio valleys, from beyond the banks of the ‘* Sabine,” appealing to the “ sons of liberty” for help. Our government, however, threatened to enforce neutrality. ‘Then sprang up a spirit ‘Texas emigration” by companies ; and it so happened that about the same time that a compa- ny of ‘emigrants’ left the Western States for “Texas,” an equal quantum ot muskets, rifles, and suitable accoutrements, left for the same des- tination. Andon one occasion, when a large company of **'Texas emigrants’’ were escorted zens to the boat in landing, it so happen- by a large concourse of ¢: waiting, at the Cincinnat ed, that on that same day the Adjutant General of the State found himself relieved of the ‘ care ad keeping” of no small number of muskets ‘and trimmings.”” Possession’. of the ‘ missing warfare was traced to certaincitizens ot the city of Cincinnati; and in making out the list for an ac- tion to recover the value thereof, the agent of the State honored the Hon. D. 'T. Disney witha place, which resulted in the rendition of a judgment, now usually referred to, as versus “1, "T, Disney and others. Th obect of the resolution now passed by the neral Assembly of the State, is to exempt *D, T, Disney and others” from the payment of said judgment. Another item which may be not without some interest to some readers of the Herald, | find in the reported desultory discussion in committee, on a bill supplementary to the several acts con- cerning banks and bunkers :— Mr. Olds, im reply to Mz, Godderd, sald that if the re. Pols‘ enn nc de a eat ee ce > RR a cc RIS dh A 7a Se mm ae SRE Sr tS 2a EE ERS SE Se RS Re i a ee solutions whioh he offered a few days since, in relation to the New Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, was passed, and a committee of inventigation a, he stood to name and juce 9 New York a y ‘whom he would prove ‘one of the men who start- three of the Ohio banks, had to pledge his wealth for sixty doliars in New York, to pay his tavern bill—to ys that the same specie that was used to start one of Ohio banks, was used to atert at least two others; and that s bundle of notes of the New Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, more then a foot thick, was tht into Ohio ited with one of the banks in this city. What became of them he (Mr. Olde) knew the lightning line brought news that the bank was broke, those who had the notes of that bank traced them home to the bank in this city, where they had been deporited and re-issued. t ‘There has not, as yet, been any final action on any question affecting the banks of the State, and it is not probable that the investigating com- mittee asked for by Dr. Olds, will be raised. Tam sustained in my opinion, heretofore ex- pressed, of the time-wasting and frivolous acting ot the men occupying the responsible position of legivlating for this great State, embracing two millions of inhabitants, by Thdge Wright, himselt of the same party: p With the rey whi in aletter from this city to his paper at Cinci: watt; (the Gazette) says: “I regret to say, our friemds inthe Legislature are doing nothing— literally nothing, towards the business proper that should be attended to.” Mie , ‘And was it not that I wished to aid in holding up to the scorn of the American people the “iniquity” of mere party legislation, a work in which the Herald (as Governor Bebb, shame to himself, says of Ohio, in regard to the war) “stands in the fore front of opposition,” I would not have much to say in response to the editor’s request ‘to give a sketch of the important do- ings of the Legislature.” And it is in view of the benefit to the country at large, resulting from such and similar expo- sitione, given through the columns of the Herald, that I here again reter to the fact, that hour after hour, of each day’s sitting of the General As sembly of Ohio, during the past week, has been consumed in the presentation and discussion of the ‘*Corwin denouncing” petitions, introduced by the democrats as_a set-off to the ‘‘ anti-war” and “ dissolution of the Union” petitions, here- tofore introduced by the whigs. Thus are’ the tax-paying people mulct out ot their hard | iogs, in having to foot the expenses 9) party-legislation. Numerous petitions. resented, the tenorof which pray shat rier? ature instruct Thomas Corwin to resiga hivséat in the Senate of the United States; that he be tried as a traitor, and awarded a traitor’s.doom ; or, that he be condemned to the penitentiary, or confined in the lunatic asylum, during the war with Mexico. The question of receiving or rejecting, first—then of laying on the table or re- ferring to a committe, these petitions, affor s grave “senators” and honorable ‘* members” an opportunity of speaking for partisan-buncomb, of which crimination and re-crimination, with the slang phrases and appellations of ‘tories and traitors,” ‘federalists and Mexican, whigs,” “ locofocoes and agrarians,” ** crouching slaves before the throne,” and such like, form the “ points” to hang the speech upon. And this too, strange to say, by men who, but for this de- moniacal spirit—I can call it naught else —have the talent andthe ability to fill with dignity and honor any station in our government. A number of railroad charters are in progress, and most of them will probably-be granted. 1 will hereafter devote a special review of the lo- cality, prospects, and advantages of the several routes. A general bill is also under considera- tion, and will likely pass, authorizing the com- missioner of any county through which a rail- road is located, to subscribe a given amount of stock, and then submit their subscription to a vote of the people of the county. The several boards of trustees, and directory of the State institutions, have ; resented their an- nual reports, from the reading of which by the clerks, I gather the opinion that few States inthe Union have a more enlarged provision and bet- ter managed retreat for the insane. And the same may be said of the two asylums—one for the blind, and another for the deaf and dumb. The penitentiary for criminals is also under good regulations and control. . The statistics fur- nished in these elaborate repo: resting items to the philanthropists and the states- men, the world over, and so soon as 1 can get the favor from so.ne member, of the printed copies, the readers of the Herald shall be furnished with copious extracts therefrom. : i Delegates are already crowding into the city, to the Whig State Convention which is to con- vene on Wednesday of this week. Usually, heretofore, there has been less division in the whig ranks of Ohio, than in the democratic party. The reverse seems now to be the case. he choice tor candidate for Governor appears to have narrowed from some dozen heretofore named to but two—namely, Hon: Columbus Delano, of Knox county, and the Hon. Seabury Ford, of Geauga county. The latter was first announced by the Scioto Gazette, ‘a whig paper of the highest standing in the State, and_one ot the first and most zealous advocates of General Taylor for President; and, nos Lam not ap- prised of his own sentiments on the subject, yet, as his nomination has been urged by all county meetings at which no ‘*Corwin” resolutions were adopted ; and, as the division in the whig party has narrowed to between Corwin and Tay- lor; and Mr. Delano ‘being emphatically the choice of the Corwin-whigs, Mr. Ford may be regarded as the Taylor candidate for nomination for Governor. His friends, at least, if he does not himself, occupy that position. Simultaneous with the coming up of the dele- gates, also come the whig papers of the latest dates trom the several counties, discussing the ** proper duties” of the convention. The point at issue chiefly 1s, that the Corwin whigs wish to put Mr. Corwin in nomination as the choice of the whigs of Ohio for President, and also to select delegates to anational whig convention Whereas the Taylor whigs object to any expres- sion of “choice” by the convention, and demand that the delegates to a national convention should be elected by the whigs within each Congres- sional district The articles in the late Lebanon Star, the “ home” organ of Mr. Corwin, and of the Nenia Forchlight, the peculiar ‘ anti-war” organ, and of the Scioto Gazette, the leading ‘Taylor’ organ, and of the Cincinnati Gazette, the * Corwin-McLean” organ, and of the Lan- caster Gazette, Tom Ewing’s ‘* Clay-Taylor” or- gan, and others of these several tones, just, now send upto the capital such chimés ‘of “sweet discord” as have seldom been heard since the invention and introduction of political organs in this country. But, as the day is near at hand when they are to compare notes, and agree (if possible) upon one and the same tune, I will re- frain from an attempt to describe particulars, though such of the readers of the Hrrald as may have heard the caterwauling of the Chinamen in Peters’ Museum, may, by comparison, form some idea of the ** harmony” in the several whig or- gans of the whig party of Onio on the eve ot the convention of 1848. Western Scring. Boston, Jan. 20, 1848. Movements of Politicians—Intrigues among the Leaders—The Democracy in Frouble—Legisla- tive News—Railroads, §c. The demonstrations recently made in support of General Cass, as the democratic candididate for the Presidency, in various quarters, have ex- cited the fears of certain persons in these parts, who believe have little to hope for in the event of his election. They have been long in- triguing against the General, and, it is said, that they are countenanced by President Polk, who does not love the Michigan Senator; and the course of the Ohio democracy, in nominating him: for the Presidency, almost unanimously, through their State convention, has given them additional cause for working againsthim. The intrigue has many branches, and more than one object. One of its objects, is the destruction of General Cushing. The nomination of this gen- tleman, by our democracy, as their candidate for Governor, last fall, gave great offence to the Van Buren section of the party. whose leader is Col- lector Morton, who resembles St. Matthew in no other respect than that he is a custom house off'- cer. As that section, however, hold almost every government office in the State, they could only rowl over the nomination and refuse to vote for General Cushin So generally did they refrain from voting for him, that the re+ cipients of nine-teaths of the amounts paid in the shape of salarics or fees at the cus- tom-house, did not visit the polls. Morton him- self voted against General Cushing, and made no secret of it. Immediately atter the election was over, Morton’s ee came out bitterly against General C., and measures were soon entered upon to prevent his nomination in ‘48. They were in fall train when the Cass» movement took the plotters by surprise, and added to their difficulties. The ends had in view are these :— To work as stoutly against General Cass as pos- sible, in the hope of preventing his nomiuation by a national convention ; the defeat of Cieneral Cushing ina state convention, and the nomi tion of Isaac Davis, ef Worcester, for the office of Governor ; and, shou'd all these fail, the ee- cession of the Van Buren section from the party, its members either voting for third men, or staying at home. They will be governed in their movements wholly by the course of the barnburning democrats of your State. Should these latter give the signal to for Clay. or any other whig, our barnburners will rigidly obey it. The idea is, to work upon other New England States and to. prevent Gen, Cass from receiving the electoral vote of either New Hampshire or Maine. They are working hand in band with the Herkimer men of New York, and are quite able to play their old colleagues as shabby a trick 46 the former were to unsaddlo the regular democrats in that State. ‘They highly approve ofthe suggestion made by the Washington Correspondent of » New York evening paper—uamely, to elevate Senator Dix to the place of leader of the northern democracy, vice Wright, deceased. In conversation with one of them, a day or two ago, he showed me a calculation, by which he made it very clear that the 51 electoral votes ot New York, Maine, and Now Hampshire, were entirely at the disposal of the Van Buren men ; thatis to ssy, they can prevent their being thrown for the nominee of the National Democretio Convention, if they should not like him ; and they like General Gass about as well as Judas loved honesty. 1 cannot go into the particulars of the ealoulation afore- said; suffice it to say, it displayed A very intimate ‘ace uainance with the local politios of the different parts of the three States named, and eans to be resorted to to secure their support for tl ig candidate. Upon my remarking that General C: i event of General ‘Taylor not being a candidate, would carry Obio and . Tennessee, which States went sgainst Polk, the gentle- man replied, that Ohio would not be ¢arried for Cass without the aesistance of Mr. Van Buren’s friends ; that lettera had been received from a high quarter, declaring that the Ohio convention did bymo means represent the opinions of the democracy there, inits recent action; that an onslaught was sure to be made on Monday, of the Columbus Statesmun, who had come out for Cass, pravios, him to be so corrupt that. he could not main- jain his present “ following,” &o. ko. What truth there is in these latter statements you are better able to judge then am ; but that there ia an“ uader-tow” at wor! iu which the democracy may get drowned, is ne doubted here by any decently well-informed man. Théruccess of J. P. Hale’s treason, and the brilliant position attained by John Van Buren as a consequence of his “bolting,” have uasettled the minds of the ee a tind ambitious, who generally rule in parties.” Power ani fame no longer are the prizes of those who support regu- lar nominations, and tr.ason has usurped the honors once devoted exclusively to the “taithful.” As your’ milld neighbor, Webb, would say, it is a “ business trans), action,” but not avery ‘fair’ one, however. The de- mocracy have, indeed, “fallen upon evil days.” ‘The treatment the Mexican war is likely to recaife at the hands of our Legislature, may be inferred from the character of the committee sepelated on the subjestof that body. It qonsists of seven members, all of whom are whigs but one, and the gentleman forming the excep- tion is said to be # “conscience ? democrat, and opposed tothe war, Mr. Buckingham, of the Senats, and editor of the Boston Courier, is chairman of the committes. There will, no doubt, be» racy report‘egainst the war, aud Massachusetts wiil be found an atiilly federal as ever. ‘Thus far, nothing of consequence has been done by our Lagislature. ‘There ina great lack of experienced men in it, which delays business, andy will probably cause the session to be prolos ie ae spring. There is a prospect of # good f ‘a business being transacted. Among the schemes omfoot, is one for building a road connecting the various tines which fall into the city, so that cars can be trans) d from one to any other, without shittieg either passengers, baggage, or merchandize. It will be avery useful affair, and it is thought a productive one:too. The codification of all the relating to railroads, and the placing of thore corporations on @ proper foot- ing, hae been talked of more in our business aud poli- tical,circles lately; but lam afraid that nothing will thus early be done about it, though there are evils which such a proceeding only could abolish, * Mapison Co., Miss., Jan. 8, 1843, Estimate of the Cotton Crop of 1847. Several estimates of the ootton crop of 1817, predioa- ted entirely upon the extraordinary length of the grow- ing season, have met my notice,which, in my opinion, are extravagantly bigh, and will repress prices below the point which the law of supply and demand would cause our staple to attain, thus operating injuriously to the interests ot the planters. Those whose estimates were founded wy, of the season, seem to have overlooked ti product of those sections which suffered from the rava- swe of boar} i; army worm,” im not trap sin- gle pound in consequence of the gation of the son ; the yield here was as davai eae off by P- pearance of this scourge as it would have been bythe oc- currence of a killing frost; the length of the season in these parts of the cotton States was determined by the time the “ worm” commenced their work of destruction The “ boil worm’? contifiuedits raveges to the end of the fseason—they were spread over se: of the country which were not visited at all by the y worm,” and the destruction caused by them has far exceeded that caused by the latter in the aggregate. Up to the middle of November, the beat informed planters supposed that the yield of the land on the Mis- sissippi river and bayous would be sufticiently abundant to more than counterbalance any deficiency of pro tion in the uplands, snd cause the crops of Louisiana and Missiesippi to exceed an average ; but the uncom- mon severity of the frost, which occurred November 19th, caused all bells not fully matured to rot without opening, of which all that had attained the full size would have opened if we had been visited merely with a killing white frost ; thus the expectations of planters been out down fully 100,000 bales in these States, d their production cannot now be estimated at more than.a feir average. The crop of Arkansas will be larger than that of any previous year, and that of North Ala- bama and Tennessee will fall somewhat below an aver- age. ‘The production of that part of Alabama which ex- ports through Mobile has been influenced by causes simi- lar te those which operated in Louisiana and Missis- sippi, and the crop wi!! be » fair though not a large one The yield of the Chatahoochee lands has been about t! the th ¢ fact ‘het ee same as last year, while the proiuction of Florida hi been greater, #0 that the description known as Florida cotton will be somewhat increased. In the remaining cotton States, the late date at which frost occurred hardly compensated for the backward- ‘ing, and their preduct will fall below an timate the receipts at al! the ports as 1,040 000 bales 426,000 * 140,000 South Carolina. North Carolin Total crop,, «+. . ee. «262,125,000 Supply of cotton to meet the wants of the world for the year 1913 :— Stock in England, Sept. lst. 507,000 bales “© United States, * 193,000 Crop of United States... 25,000 Other degcriptions of cotton 300,000 + see e+ «3,130,000 risis which has prostrated the credit of so many long established commercial houses in Europe will quickly paes, and trade and manufactures attain their former extent by the end of another com- mercial year. The suddenness of the crash afforded no time or opportunity to bolster up rotten concerns ; therefore, all whose foundations were not stable, went down before the tempest, leaving but few, if any, totter. ing fabrics even threatening to fall, to prolong the period of distrust ; with the return of confidence, and # redue tion in the rate of interdst, the restoration of business activity will be rapid—the absence of speculation in grain Will contribute to hasten the return of prosperity. ; boop the consumption of the world, for 1943, as follows :— Total supply. It is probable that the 6 Consumption of England... .. . .1,410,000 bales “of Continent of, Europe. .... 629,000 * “ of United States. ........ 450,000 ‘Total consumption . +2379 000 ** ‘Cotal supply... 3,130,000 © Leaving on band, Sept. t, 1848, in Eagland and United States... 750,000 Stoek on hand, Sept. 1,1847..... 705,000“ Demand of England, from Sept. 1 to Dec... ..eee 422,000 Actual be od ‘of crop. 5 333,000 When the ordinary activity is manifested in the manu- facturing districts, so slight an addition to the already small stook of cotton, especially when, as is now the case, there is no stock in spinners’ handscould not keep prices at their present low range, though they will not probably attain the highest point of last season, unless the approaching spring should prove backward. Marniace or tae Countres Guieciot:,—On Thure- — the Countess Guiccioli was married to the Mar- quis de Bousy, peer of France, at the chapel of the Pa- lace of the Luxembourge. The marri considerable sensation in Paris, where both parties are well known, and has given rise to sn infinity of jokes at the expense of the young couple. Among others, an an- eodete is ge to prove that twenty ye: f widowhood have not theinfluence exercised by the fair In her younger dsys she je has created & bride over her admirers. showed her power over Lord Byron, by inducing him to give up the publication of Don Juan; and now she shows ber influence ever her new husband, the Marquis de Bolssy, by extracting from him » solemn premise not to apeak in tho Chamber of 'eers moro three times a week. Anthe Marquis is as frequent aspeaker in the French Chamber of Peers as noble and learned lord is inthe House of Lords, though without the eloquence, the genius or the Knowledge of the latter, the promise in question is eaid to have given great delight to the President, Duke Parquier, and to have reconoiled him in great measure to the introduction of the, Counters Gulocioli into the French peerage, It is an important fact, that the Moravian settlement of Sarepta, on the river Volga, has again, for the second time, escaped the visitation of the cholera, whilst the disease bas prevailed all around it. This is to be the result of. the well-known temperance and cleanli- 5 of who rival the Society of Friends DAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1848. City Intelligence. Sviewe or Dx, Honacr Weexs.— Quite an excite- ment was created yesterday morning at the ‘Tombs, in consequence of the self. dertruction of Dr. Horace Wella, dentist, No. 120 Chambers street. It appears that Mr. Wells was detected on Friday vight last, in the act of throwing vitriol upon the dress of a young woman, in Broadway, near the Astor House, when he was arrested and conveyed to the 3d Ward station house, and the next dey conducted to the Police- office ; and, after tho testimony in bis case had been taken before Justice Osborne, he was committed to prison. No suspicion was entertained by the keep: ors, of any intention of self-destruction, as Mr. Wells appeared to be rather cheerful on Sunday, conversing freely, and, while out of his cell, on the corridor, appeared to By, particular attention to the sermon delivered by the Reverend gentleman who preaches eve- ry Sunday to the unfortunate and abandoned creatures confined in the Tombs The principal subject of the discourse related to the ill effects arising from the early and constant association with disreputable females, and seemed to throw Mr. Wells into a deep meditation, and when it was conoluded, he retired to hia cell and request- ed the keeper to bring him some letter paper and a can- die, which was done. Between six and seven o'clock that evening, the last time that Mr. Wells was seenalive, the keeper locked the cell door, and he was then ocou- ied in writing. On the following morning, (Monday,) fr. Jackson, one of the deputy keepers, opened the cell door, between 8 and 9 o’clock, and was astonished to find Mr. Wells, in a sitting position on his bunk, with his head resting in one corner of the cell, his right leg hanging over the side of the bunk, and the left lying straight on the straw mattress Between bis legs, on the mattress, lay an empty vial, levelled “ Pure Chioro- form,” @ razor, and a penknife. The razor was fixed with’ slip of wood running from the back of blade along the handle, made fast with o ple of wire, and some threads drawa from the sackip of his mattrass § The left leg of this unfortunate exhinited a moat horrible sight, from a desperate g! evidently inflicted by the razor. This wound wes about the center of the thigh, tery, peaeirating nearly to tl inches in length, from the effects of which he bled to death. On his mouth he had place a silk handkerchief, bunched up, and another pasting on the outsi and tied on the top cf his head, on which had d his hat. This handkerchiet was sup- ged to have contained the chloroform, -which he in- Bled just before he inflicted the fatal wound. In one cor- ner of the cell laid his gold watch, together with tn nexed letters, and a small piece of candle, about three inches in length, which he had dently extinguished before perpetrating the awful deed. Hartford, sent by three highly respectable medical men, Dra, John M. Riggs, E. E Moroey and H. W. Elleworth, netting forth that Mr, Wells, tho deceased, wan a man of irreproachable character, and a member in good stand og in Dr. Hawe's Chureb. ‘Tue Basrono Surcioe —Im our paper of yesterday morning, we noticed the ruicide of a young man, named Basford, who drowned himeelf, on Sunday evening, by jumping overboard frem one of the Jersey City ferry ts, a8 also. note, which he handed to a gentleman on board, directed to the Herald office, A gentleman called at the office — morning, who recognized the note to be the manuscript of # young man by the name of Issac F, Basford, of Philadelphia, and from what we could gather, he had ‘had some unpleasantness with his friends, am account of an improper marriage, which ho some time since contracted. His" friends in this city heard of his having arrived from Philadelphia, on San- day morning, but did not see him at all, That fact will at once account for his raahness. Tar Resvur ov Intemrenance.—Conorer Walters was called to hold an inquest also, at the 16th Ward sta- tion house, upon the body of Louis Grabofaki, » native of Poland, aged thirty-three years, who came to his death by intemperance and exposure, From the evi denes adduced before the coroner, it appeared that t deceased bad been for some time past a very intem| rate man. On Sunday night, he called at the atore of a person by whom he was employed to tell sausages, and invited nim to take ® parting glass together, as it was going to be the last glass of liquor he should ever take; at the same time handing his employer three papers, one being afew lines, thanking the latter for favora conte red; another was'a note to the coroner, in which he set forth that he was about to take his own life, and conse- uently no one need be blamed for his sudden death Phe sausage dealer, on opening his store yesterday morning, found an empty phial, labelled loudanum, near the door; but in what manner it came there, could not be ascertained. In the meantime the deceased had been taken to the station character, and on hi about dying, and r would make about a bushel and three quarters of eau- rages. On opening his cell yesterday morning, he was found dead. 5 Tue Wratten —We had yesterday a continuation of the pleasant weather. The morning sun shone out beautifully, and ao continued until s late hour in the af- ternoon, when the clouds red the sky, and the dampness ofthe atmospher token of a fall of snow or rain, Finr.—A fire broke out at 2 o’clook yesterday morn- ing, in the attic of house No. 148 Barrow street, caused by the bed-clothes taking fire from a hot brick.’ It was Sin :—I wish through the medium of your journal, to make a plain statement respecting the unhappy olrcum- stancesin which | amat present placed. My real vame is now before the public as o miscreant, ag Sap a most despicable act, that of wantonly destroying the proper- ty of those girls of the town who nightly promenade Broadway. The facts, so faras | am concerned, are brief there. On etd evening @ young man wi ) whonts bad recent iy formed an acquaintance, went with mé to my Office in Chambers atreet; while there he said that’ a Woman of bad character had spoiled a gar- ment for him while walking in the streets, by throw- ing something like vitriol upon him ; that he knew who it was, and would pay her back in the same coin. As! had some sulphuric acid in my office, which | was using in some chemical experiments, he requested the liberty of taking some of it for this purpose; he accordingly cut a groove in the cork of a pial00 ‘that e small quen- tity only might escape when it was suddenly thrust for- ward ie then said that he might get, itupon his own clothes. I told him that 1 had an old cloak, which could not be much injured bythe acid,as it was good for no- thing. By his request, I walked into the street with him, he wearing my old cloak, and [ having on my ordinary overcoat. We proceeded up Broadway, and when about opposite the theatre he said that he saw the girl he wes in pursuit of, and he soon gave her shawl a sprinkllog; we then turned down Broadway, when my friend proposed to eprinitle some of the other girls. 1 immediately objected, and told him that what he had already done was not in sccordance with my own feelings altheugh it was done in reve: ad when we arrived at Chambers street, | took my phial and my cloak—at the same tine two ofhis friends came up —and I left him, eup- ‘ing that | had dissuaded him from doing the mischief ¢ proposed, which is as foreign to my mature as light is opposed to darkness. I then regretted exceedingly tbat | had countenanced, in any manner, the first act. On getting home, | found that my closk had ap- parently received the principal part of the acid which had escaped from my phiel, as the wind was blowing towards us when the act was done. On meeting with m: acquaintance the next day, he said that himself and his two friends, whom I met the previous evening, bad re- solved to drive all the bad gitis out of Broadway, by sprinkling them with acid., | in vain reasoned witu him against committing so much injury, where he had not been harmed, This was the lastinterview which | have had with him to the present time, I wish now to state, ‘aa woll ast am able, what influenced me i do te ‘act, on Kriday evening, which | copfess was done with m; own fer and this was the only one of which I oan guilty, and whioh resulted in my arrest, | had, during the week,been in the constant practice of inhaling chloro- form, for the exhilirating effect produced by it; and on Friday ev. last, I lost all consciousness before I re- ‘moved the in! from my mouth; how | it re- mained there I do not know, but on comiag the stupor I was exhilirated beyond measure, exceeding any thing which I had ever before experienced; the phial of acid (which had been used a fe previous as, before described) standing om the m in my delirium I seized it and rushed into the street and threw it at two females—I may have thrust it at others; but I have no recollection farther than thi The effects of this inhalation continued very much longer then ever before, and did not entirely pees off until some time after my arrest. | donot make thi ment expecting to free myself from all blame in this matter; yet I have been induced to make a minute statement of facts, that the public may better judge of this misdemeanor, #0 far as 1am concerned. 1 state unhesitatingly that I would no sooner deliberately, in cold blood, go into the street and commit the groms acts of wantonness which have been committed for the last fow evenings, than | wou'd cut my right hand from my body. No:'I a prone to do mischief, as all can testify who ha known me. But now | am placed in circumstances where I am obliged to bear the reproaches of the world for the most con- temptible acts, in which I have not participated. Because I did this one act in a moment of delirium, I must bei brunt of the whole. Some of the papers disbelieve ay statement about others being concerned in this business; but I am informed to-day thet wh! was in close confinement last were being committed in Broadway—se kled with acid, ever, my character, which I have ever prised above « very thing else, is gone, irrevocably gone, and I am now in the most miserable condition in which it is pos abandoned females who were examined yesterday, stated that I had often addressed her in Broad- way. Now I do most solemnly aesert that the state- meng of this girl is utterly false; I never have, on any “occasion, hed anything to say to these mi able creatures. If myself alone were the only one who is to suffer by all false statements which may or have been made respecting me, it would be nothing compared to the injury to my dear, dear wife and cnild. Oh, may God protect them ! 1 cannot preceed; my hand is too unsteady, and my whole frame isconvulsed in agony. My brain {s on fire. Sunday evening, 7 o’clock—I again take up my pen, to finish what I have to say. t God ! has it come to this? Is it not all a dream? Before twelve o'clock this night I am to pay the debt of nature. Yes, if I were to go free to-morrow, | could not live and be called a villain, God knows I ‘em not one. O, apy dear mother, brother, and sister, what can I my to you? My anguish will ooly allow me to bid you fare- weil. I die this night, believing that God, whoknoweth all hearts, wi'l forgive the dreadful act. I shall spend my remaining time in prayer. Ob, what misery I shall bring on all my near relations; and, what, still more distresses mo, is the fact that my name is familiar to the whole scientific world, us being connect- ed with an important discovery; and now, while 1 am scarcely able to hold my pen. 1 must bid all farewell. May God forgive me, Oh! my dear wife and child, whom | leave destitute of the means of support. I would sti!! live and work for you, but | can- not, for were I to live on, Ishou'd become @ maniac. | feel that I am but little better than one already. The instrament of my destruction was obtained when the officer who had me in charge kindly permitted me to go to my room yesterday. HORACE WELLS. To Evrrons :— My Inst request to Editors is, that they will, while commenting on this unhappy affair, think of my poor wife and child—also my mother, brother and sister, all of whom are numbered among’ the most respectable members of society. H. WELLS, To My Dean Wire :— | feel that Lam fast becoming a deranged man, or | would desist from this act. I cannot liveand keep my reason, snd on this account God will forgive the deed. 1 can soy no more, Farewell. H. To Mx. Dwyen: Doar Sir—When your receive this, [shall be no more. [wish you would take my watch, and present it to my dear wife, together with the trifls I have already given you. lense to see tomy burial--let me be interred here jo the most secret manner porsible. 1 wish you or Mr. Barber would go immediately to Hartford, and reveal this misfortune to my wife im the most unobjectionable manner possible, and attend to the business which we apoke of this morning, when you little thouzht of this occurrence. Yours, H, WELLS. Measr#, Dwver and Bannen, Western Hotel N. B.—Piease tell Mr James to write to Mr.T.W. Stor- row, No 19 Rue du Faubourg, Picssonnier’, Paris, and tell him of my death ‘The prison was visited during the day by many of our eminent doctors and dentists, and frem remarks made by Dre. Hosack and Smith, founded on interviews with Mr. Wells, prior to his arrest, they were decidedly of opinion that the deceased was perfectly insane on the chloroform practices. We are informed that this chloro. form tf nothing more than an extract from slcohol and ebloride of lime, which, upon application, is inhaled from a sponge. Dr. Walters, the coroner, was called to hold an inquest, and the jury rendered a verdict, “ that the deceased came to his death by suicide, by inflicting a wound in the left thigh with @ razor, while laboring under an aberration of mind »> ‘The effects of this unfortunate man were placed in the hands of Mr. H d the bod extinguished with trifling damage. The apartment was occupied by a Mrs. Henderson. Anoruen.—A fire broke out, at half past six o'clock, yeaterday morning, in the attic of house 238 Bleecker Atreet, occupied by Mr. Robbins, It was put out with little damage. ANOTHER Fi ‘We learn that Mr. John W. Whit- ney, ® private watchman in John street, last night dis- covered a firein the millinery store of L. & A Underhill, No 6 John street, which he succeeded in extinguishing without the necessity of giving an alarm. Arremrr at Ansow.—At I o'clock yesterday morning, asmoke was seen to issue from an outside stairway of house No. 257 Stanton etrest, and an alarm was immedi- ately given, On examination It was discovered that x quantity of straw, shavings, and other combustible matter, wes found, which had been set on fire. It was immediately extingulehed. The villain who attempted to fire the premises made his escape. Omsisvs Reautaviens.—The public generally do not seem to be aware of the recent laws regulating omni- buses. In walking clong Broadway, yesterday morning, we observed several ladies and gentlemen on the leit instead of the right side of the road, and who were obliged to pass to the opposite side of the street before they could be taken up. If the law is to be rigidly en- forced, we should suggest that bil mtaining the regu- lations, be placed inside the vehicles till the public have become fully aware of their existence. Crossing Broad- way may be no great feet just now, but in wet weather | Bone Sour —-We were yesterday shown a large pail full of marrow,by a man who;said!he had bonghtit at two shillings per pound, and which was obtained from the city prison. He stated that the bones, of which the soup is made at the prison, are first broken, and all the mar- row,which is the nutritious part, extracted, for d the soup made from the bare bons It is also ifany richners r ins upon the bones, when ‘soup making process, the pi itface, are skimmed off and sol jbliged to subsist upon a mere thicken- he only thing that is left. Are there state- m Ifso, why do not the proper authoritice pa top to such proceedings? There is a committee in the common council to attend to the prison affairs, and ifthis state of things exists, there is certainly» very great rmissneas of duty somewhere. Let the matter be the prisoners ed wate: ¢1 t Dwyer, of after ‘he Inquest tome coffin, placed in » pine ed on board the Hartford Steamboat, f oenced hase wife and child ar We reesived # investigated; and the prisoners, if they must live on bones, have the marrow with them. ‘Those connected with th ame department are amply pald for heir ser- vices, and itis ® most contemptible thing to attempt to make more still, by selling the living of the prisoners, Sav Resutts or Wan.—A fine young fellow, who en- listed in Capt. Knowlton’s company of United States Artillery, in the fall of 1848, has just returned to this city snd a wounded shoulder. In the lo his left leg was carried away by a hin left shoulder pla by & leg was amputated near the body, and d. The shoulder, though not entirely ry The poor fellow hes pension of eight dollars per he wishes to gratify his active tempera- ment and eke out his means of subsistence by some em- ployment, he would be grateful to any person who would employ him in some kind of labor thit could be perform- od in a sitting posture. Persons having employment of the kind referred to and willing to gratify the poor sol- dier’s desire, will confer a favor by addressing Captain M. Knowlton, United States Army, at his offioy, 115 Cedar street, New York. ‘Che man is active and in- telligent, and is said to be of good habits and character. He came originally from Holland, but speaks the Eing- lish language. The steamship Cambria will be open, on Thursday next, to any person who may wish to visit her. with the loss of a ley battle of Cerro Goi Boarn or Assistant ALornmen,—January 24th.— Linus W. Stevens, F.sq., President, in the chair. Bust of Gen, Tayler.—A communication was received from the Mayor, enclosing a letter from Mons. P. Gar- beille, who was sent by the Common Council of New Or- leans, to Monterey, to execute a bust of General Taylor, requesting the city authorities of New York to accept of a corresponding bust of the military chieftain. Ac- cepted. Groton Water Wanted.—Petition of sundry persons to have beverage laid in 18th street, between the First Avenue and Avenue A. Referred. Street Inspector.—Report and resolution from the Board of Aldermen, adverse to the employment of any street inspector in the 6th ward, other than pelicemen of said ward. Non concurred in New Street.—Petition of occupants of storesin New street, to have sidewalks relaid. Referred. City Guager.—Petition of John D, Neefus, to be ap- pointed a cityguager. Granted. Sewer in Frankjort Street.—Petition of sundry per- & sewer constructed in Frankfort street, m to Jacob street—Referred. ‘y-ninth Street.—Petition of sundry property- owners to have Thirty-ninth treet graded and paved between the Sthiand Sth Avenues— Referred. Second Avenue.—Petition of sundry persons to have the 2nd Avenue worked from the Fifty-third to the Sixty-first street—Referre3. Murray Street Sewer.—Petition of property-owners and loreees to have the sewer in Murray street, between Greenwich and Went streets, filled up, in consequence of the tide-water entering the cellars, and greatly in- juring the property—Referred. Appointment.—Resolution’ in favor of Dr. William ly, ® physician, for the Penitentiary Hospitel—Car- ried. Gas in Tenth Street.—Resolution in favor of causing Tenth street, betwoon Broadway and 6th Avenue, to be lighted with gas— Adopted. Charitable tutons.—Communication from the Counsel to the Corporation, enclosing his opinion in re- lation to the right of the Comwon Council to appropriate money for the Genefit of charitable institutions loter- re a. Harlem Railroad,—Re port in favor of directing the Harlem Railroad Company to construct bridges over the railroad at 79th and 95th streets, to replace the bridge at 50th street, and the sides of the railroad be- tween Sith street and the tunnel. Adopted Ga Attorney street.—Resolution in favor of light- ing Attorn reet with gas. Adopted Bills fo iomery —Communication from the Comp- troller, relative to a vill of George F. Nesbitt, amount- ing to’ $443, for stationery, and in favor of adopting some measures for reducing the future expenars in this Ry lies vd Chambers street Pier.—Report in favor of the exten- sion and repairing of the pier at the foot of Chambers street, and renewing the lease of the pier to James Ray- mond, for the term of three years from the Ist of May next.’ Adopted. Sivth Avenue.—Resolution in favor of renumbering the 6th Avenue to 40th street. Adopted. Bill for Amunition.—Report of the Finance Commit- tee in iavor of paying a bill of General Storms for ammu- nition furnished on the 25th of November last Adopted. Forty-ninth street —Report and resolution in favor of regulaviog 19th street, between Bloomingdale road and 10th Avenue. Extension of the City Hall.—'The report of the com- mittee on public buildings, &o, recommending the building of @ wing to the City Hall, in contormity of a plan prepared under their supervision, at an expense of $90,600, and applying to the Legislature for authority to raire the same [for this purpose, after considerable die. cussion and opposition, was finally ado,\ed The Board then adjourned. Sporting Inteiligence. Jaexson (Mias,) Races.—The following report we take from the Mississippian:— Wrosespay, Jan. 6, 1848.<Paree $100-—mile heals. Mr. Baird's Maryflie, by imp. Ainderby, dem by Bertrand, Mr. Smarr Col. Derry berry’s Com: Promise, ‘by Wagner, dam’ by Red eee Me terre ees . by imp. Belahazaer, out San eS TERETE Prices Pwe Ucuts, ov tue Crry —The following report + view of the health of this city During the year ending the attending physicians treated, at th ten thousand seven bundred and tiente: — Femalene sss cervcceecesece Males. The numbers attended during the rev months, are a8 folloy.e- ial weasonaand Spring. Autumn ‘ Maroh. Sept. 1135 Jan...1050 April. . -1050 Oct 114 Feb.. 961 May....1200 Nov. .1100 308 2088 349 These results, mengra as they are, are (he only reliable ones that could bs obtained trom ths books of the dispensary. Many facts might be gathered, and in- ferences drawn, of general and scientific laterest, from the reoords of this Institution, were they Kept with such an object in view. It will be seon by this statement, that during the yoar 1817 there hos been an excess of ont thousand vight hundred and eighty four( 1534) patients, over the amount ofthe previous year. This presenta a number far be- yond the averags anoual increasy, ‘Tho unusually large Immigration of last yaer, thy miserable condition of most of the immigraats, a condition favorable to the pro duction of typhus feyer and other slied diseases, nud the consequent extension of thor disases to other por- tions of the population, are the obvious causes of this in- creased number of patients It must not be inferred that typhus fever, the product of misery and filth, is olone of fore growth. [tis true that ships arrive from Europe, filled like floating lazar- houses, with the sick and the dying, wad that the newly arrived emigrants are the moot frequent victima of fever; it is, however, no lees trun, that snost of tho typhus that hag Men, wod is atill, at ite work of death, in the city, is due to caunes which have their origin here. It is believed that most of the foreign population that are now broken dowa with typhus fever, soon after their arrival would escape, if removed from the daily inilue:- ces in deadly activity in the very midst of the These poor creatures, prostrated by the sufferings of their voyage across the Atlantic, are especially sensible to the influence of the typhus poison. Immediately on their arrival in New York, they throng to those parts of the city where the deadly ingredients of this poirol abound, and amidst foul air and filth, sicken and die Nor does the evil end here; for from lozal comes general infeotion, and the whole population bows to the violence of the raging epidemis. The frequent relapses and the slow return to health and vigor of thoes whone constitutions have resisted the first onsets of typhus fever, and the existence of severo chronic complaints as the direct results of thin disease , have been generally observed by the physicians of the dispensary. It is worthy of note, in #1 of, that orainary medical treatment proves of little avail. ‘Chere fucts are believed to be owing to causes that eriginelly produced the typhus fever, the unfavorable condition for health by which thors persons thus affected aro eur rounded in their homes. In estimating, therefore, tho effects of this diséase, regard must be had to ite ulterior as well as immediate consequenoes—the thousand ills that follow in its train. ; ‘The causes of typhus fever have reference to the phy sical position of the city im its iniluence on health ‘To this condition, one by no means ersential, im fact. is due any epidemic with which New York has been afilicted ; fevers, scariatina, measles, dysenteries, the summer complaint of children.and the fatal cholare,are the malig - nant nurselings of filth and foul air. ‘This subject comes witbin the question of the * wealth of towns,”’ a question fully as pertinent in New York as in Londen; there being as much occasion for inquiry Inte the voluntary causes of death and disease here an there. ‘Uhese voluri- tery causes, which are daily working fatel wischtef, aro dered ca, alleys, the hud- ustructed obviously the impurities of the atmosphere, en by the corruption of organic matter in str factories, laughter-houses, and dwellings, by dling together of the poorer inhabitants in 1!l-c houses, and by filth and fouineas wherever existing. They are to be removed by proper sewerage and street clenn- ing, by the strict execution of the law in regard to nui- frances, by the judicious construction of tenements for the poor, and by the promotion of cleanlinvrs end purity everywhere. It is to the prevention of thore dread disesses that are bred from the corruption of the city, thatexertion must be directed; for ncience acknowledges herself powerless for their cure, ‘These diseases form: the great staple of the labor of the dispeusary physician, and, in truth, of all the medical profession. ‘he experience of every ob- serving practitioner will attest the fact of the powerless- ness ot drugs and mere medical management for their treatment. ‘The approach of the cholera suggests, with startling force, « motive for inquiry into the present state of the city in its bearing upon the bealth of “its inhabitants. ‘This disease having been for some time at ils work of death in Asia, is now in Europ. ‘There is no reason to hope that it will not come hither to destroy, as it hus destroyed elsewhere, and in the sad remombrance of New York, it has destroyed before. ‘be natural his- tery of cholera proves that its existence and progress do- end upon filth and impurity. Foul air is its breath of lif@, and it fattens upon corruption. Here, amidst the pouralpngs the city, breathing its vital qtmosphero aud feeding upon tts c ial food, it will be strengthened for its work of death. Physicians have no cure for the cholera; there is no drug administered secundum artum that will drive away this disease. ‘The laws, however, which control its existence and diffusion, are well known, and are simply the plain laws of health in re- gard to cleanliness und decency of life, A senseless panic will not be the result of a right view of the nature ofthe cholera, but # rational confidence, based upon the fact that this plague insy be stayed in all its evil. direase is not contagious; it cannot, therefore, be avoid- ed by flying the sick and dying. It's am infection that exists and is diffused as its causes, as has been said be- fore and cannot |e seid too often. exist and are diffused, This subject has been referred to ina manner some- what emphatio; itis felt to be one of grave importance. Effort should be msde for the removal of causes of death. aad diseases that are known to be removable. No one* in better suited than the dispensary physician to give direction to that effort, for his daily labors and dangers are amidst the pollutions of the city, the plague and the pentilence. It will be observed that of all the seasons, the summer presented the greatest number of patients, and the win- ter the least; and of the months, July the greatest, and February the smallest. It is not’ presumed to draw any exnet inference, from these data, of the influence of the diferent seasons and months upon health. The greater number of patients, during the summer,was partly owing to the unusually large arrivals of foreign immigrants during that searon, and partly to the great prevalence of diseases among children, as cholera infantum diarrhoea, &e. Sketones wy THe Lire or Honora Suernern —The life of Honora Shepherd has been one of crime for many years (#he is now but thirty) and, al- though often tried at our Sessions courts for her coun- terfaiting propensities, she has, by her personal beauty, tact, and winning address, managed ever to escape— save only in one instance, ' In February, 1843, she was convicted of passing counterfeit money, by ® Sessions jury, and sent to Sing Sing for eight years and three months, Honora—whore maiden name was O’Brien— the whole family from whenes rhe sprang being addicted to fatal dabbling in forged paper, several of her bro- thers and a sister, wo believe. having been graduates of our State prisons, or those of other States, as was also her husband—was at that time younger than now, and on her way up to Sing Sing, after sentence, ehe very plainly indicated to Sheriff Jones, who had her in charge, her plen of operations. Perfectly acquainted with human nature, sbo had measured tho lady keeper of the institution and laid her plans accordingly. “Just now you keep still,” said she, addressing the Sheriff,dur- Ing their ride, “ and eee how | will work it! T'l bea very devil for the first three weeks, and then ’ll let Mrs Farnham convert me! lil beas meek and quiet as a lamb; Dll make her think mean angel, and Vil flatter the old woman until she will imagine that she herself is an archangel. Won'tido it? You gee | anr not going (o stay in thors etones walis long. now, | tell you.”” ‘And Honora was right, On the 16th of April, 1845, sho was pardoned, through the intercession of Judge lod mendes, Mrs. Farnham, and other mistaken philanthro- pists, by Governor Wright, and hurried off to the banks of the Mississippi, no that, with her supposed new and praiseworthy resolves, ahe might commence # new and praiseworthy career. We have no certain information of her course of life out west, but obaritably presumo that she lived aa correct as tho frailty of her nature would admit. She corresponded with Mrs. Farnham regularly until a year or so since, and her letters were frequently read before the members of certain philanthropic arsociations, as a proof of the vast benefit of the societies instituted for the amelioration o the condition of the erring and unfortunate. Honore wasa trump card in all their operations, and was ever referred to asa living proof of the good effecta of their organization. The hour of trial came, howsver, and Honora Shepherd, the reclaimed counterfeiter—the re generated Magdalen — the 0 most irresistible Hono ra, fell from her high estate, and is apal clutches of the law! What induced her tor city, we know not. She had been Ifvingin At nois, and in ia, whete, rumor ¢nid, her eoorss was tolerably upright ‘for the most of the tis du- ring her absence ; but abdut two months sinew, una- bleany looger to endure her grievous exile, theonce dashing lady convict re-eppeared in her former haunts =tfaitbieeniy to benefactors, tock to her former criminal calling, and Is row ican judieputable road to her former reaidence at nt Pleasaut. Mes Fara ham will, no doubt, welcome her with open atwe. we before atated, rs old—the traces of her y¢ erasble, but time and troubl: lost much of the a shield and buck! Shepherd ia above the mediuin height, with dark haic eyes, and extremely brows. She sppears somewhat posse, bu moy be termed & Winning woman. She he { iavguage, and well wuderstands the eff teare upon jadge and jury, She has vaztows address in the Western States having Shepherd, Aun Forres! saguclous, scheming, and dange: in this country; and, atter th any attempt to ebield her will among the impoasibilities of es ful beauty aro have made sad ivroa n edings. Honore aves; her been, Hannah Sho is the most talented, demonetration, jose ler reform is Globe 5 in Albany since William B, Winne, penny portman in Albany 1800, died on the 2ist inst, having served In the offloe for of the dam of St. Cloud. . 6... 66.6 6+ dis. Time, 2:05 - 2:00 Tuvntoay, Jan 6.—Purre $200—two mile heats. Mr. Morse’s Miss Fionnoe, by imp Leviathan, out ofimp. Flounor. .... 60.6 CAs | Mr. Smart's Tarantula, by imp. Beisbezar, dam by Stockbolder soocreers ® & about 49 years. ite was, at the time of his years of age