The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1851, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENEETT. PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @FFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE HER. 2eents annem THE aden HE. ovry, St 2 rae conte ry copy, or annum; t Opean Per an~ Fn lenny partes Creat Briain, and $6 to any part of the tude a ait ERS by meri fore ‘acripion, or with, adver- . to be post paid, or the postage jucted from Ba money cemile. ‘ VOL te Aen sete were metee, # rom any quarter worlds 4 use ay ee gg ge A At Requester 70 ALL ans CMAGRS aun TO Ub. NO: taken of anonymous communications. We do 90) return those resected. “ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every morning. IB PRINTING exceed vouh nediness, cheapnens, and vol AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ITALIAN OPERA, Astor Pac: BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery—Dayw Correariaiy— Peren Witxins, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Extkemes— My PRowp ww SrRars. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosiway—Tiour Rere—La Syi- weipe—MAzuLa. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street— Woman's Live. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham Square—Dauxxaro— Op Kivo Cone—Fausky Comscen. 19 TANNA DI NAPOLIe ‘Lear Yean— BROUGHAWS LYCEUM, Broadway—Omsicus— Davi Corrensieto—Jenay Lixo, CURISTY’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway —Erworian MinsTkELSy. FELLOWS’ OPERA HOUSE, 441 Brosdway—Eruiorias Most RELY. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Awusive Penvonwances Avtun- ween AND EvENixo, NEW YORK AMPHITHEATRS, 37 Bowery Equestrian Pruvonnasces. WASBINGTON HALL—Panonama oy tue Pircaui's | PR cress. ATTLER'S COSMORAM. Broadway. corner of Thirteenth street uday, January 5, 1851, “New York, su Nouce to the Publi We underst hat within the last few weeks, or perbape months. persons. representing themsrives as travelling agents for this pa; tions which ¢ have received sabserip ed, thus causing disap- y. Woe desire those swind- have pointment to those who gave the me to put the public on their guard again lers. have any. eb We have no travelling agents, aud never will All persons repretenting themselves as ishment fhe meney through the Post OM The safest way is for subscribers to remit Interesting Post O@lce Report. We are enabied to publish in eur columns, to- doy, a very interesting document, in the forin of a report of Mr. Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster Gene- rel, com zy the mail eervice of the United Sw tic and foreign, aad including the Oregon end California branch of the Post Office business. This report exhibits the rontes of the foreign mail service, the distances, and the com- peneation paid to the contractors. This has al- ‘Woys Leew an important branch of the government, and is becoming more so every day. On this ac- count, apart from the valaable iaforriauon which ‘this report contains, it will be read with interest. ‘The Last Session of the Common Cou nell, During the whole of last month, with the excep- tion only of a few days, the Board of Aldermen were engaged in discharging the arduous duties | | spirit cf England. From it have emanated many | ameumbent upon that body. It would be natu- Tal to expect that in the course of such a long and protracted sessioa, & vast amcunt of business was TWensacted, and that the venerable city fathers may, without scrupulosity or compunction, lay @:m to the rather indulgent remuneration guarao- teed them by the city government for their valn- able services. But we are sorry in being compell- ed to contradict this impression, by the statement that such was far from being the case. Upen inati- tuting an inquiry into the amount of business trans- acted by the Board cf Aidermen during the last erssion, we find that very little was done, and that the ection of that body upon the few sub jects of importance which were submitted to their coosideration, proved to be in direct opposition to ‘he interests of the city and to the wishes of the community. If we examine into the manner ia which they conducted their proceediags, we find that the greater part of their time was invariably consumed in idle discuesions—if they may be termed svch—upon points of reference, and er trifling matters of a similar character. The city fa'hers, on the one hind, manifested but little regard for the ropolis and the wishes of its Prosperity of cruzens, whi 2 nective dieposition to frame and ratify highly pretitable aad lucrative coatracts with monopolists of every description, who, in consequence thereof, facten and become rich upon the distress and op pression of the community at large. The firet subject in importance, which came up before the Board of Aldermen during the last ses- sion, wea undoubtedly the report of the special eommittee of that board, to whom several peti- tions were referred in relation to the gas supplied by the present gas light companies, and praying the Common Council for the formation of a public gas department, for supplying the public lamps and buildings, and also the citizens, with gas. An- nexed to this report were also the stipulations of anew be entered into between the city government and the New York Gas Light Company, together with a resolution directing the sume to be carried iato efivct. in consideration of the great importance of this subject, and in view of the intense interes; and excitement which it created throughout the ivy, it would have been but common policy on the part of the Common Council, to have displayed more eagecity and deliberation than they have done in disposing of this document—to have made at least some allowance for the adop‘ion of suadry amendments, that might have been offered, and not to have hurried i's passage with such indecent haste, so unbecoming the paramount importance of the subject, as has been the case. As it was handed in by the special committee, it came before the board, and, deepite the numerous petitions, signed by thousends of our most respectable citi- gens—derpite the serious nature of their complaints — despite the frequent violation of the provisions of the existing contrect oa the part of th resent is Monopoly—deapite the exorbitant prices they extort from the gae consuming portion of the community— despite the abundant evidence of the bad quality and insufficient supply of gas,which has been aad ia till furnished by that company—despite all theee weighty considerations, the report was passed by overwhelming majo’ in the cow of oa hour oF #0, together with the adoption of the res tion, without either elteration or amendment. la afew hours t-e new contract with the old gis o tied of eighteen years, was sealed the intereats a n. pany, for the pe and ratified, aad in connection with ould be Landed over to the authorities for pun- | p onthe other they gave evidence of | wntract for the space of eighteen years, to | lease to the present company for the Fulton, South, and Hamilton avenue ferries, be renewed for the term of ten years, which report was also adopted by both boards. Although the action ‘of the Commen Council upon this subject did not arouse such a storm of indignation as that respect- ing the gas contract, in consequence of the latter greatly preponderating in importance over the former, yet it was far from giving general satisfaction. On account of the frequent instances ef corruption in ‘procuring contracts, the pub- lic have lost “all faith and confidence in com- panies generally, and regard all their contracts with distrust. It is the general wish that the present contract system be abohshed, and al! city privileges sold by auction to the highest bidder, with the deposit of ample security for the engage- ment on the part of the purchaser. Until this course is pursued, corruption, in the present state of things, will naturally prevail. The next important subject was the report of the Comptroller on the expenditures of the city go- vernment for the last year—a document which gave the public no small degree of surprise and as- tonishment. The taxes of 1850 amounted to nearly three millions anda half, while the estimate of the Comptroller for the {taxation of 1851, reaches nearly four millions, giving an increase of more then halfa million of dollars over 1850. It is true that, with the rapid growth of the city and the rising value of property in general, taxation must likewise necessarily increase; but we are incapa- ble of discovering a reasonable proportion of in- crease between the two; for itis evident that the taxation, at the rate of half a million for each suc- ceeding year over the previous one, outstrips, by far, every allowance that can be made for the | growth of the city end the rise of property. The rajidity, therefore, with which the expenses of | the city government are increasing, can only be ascribed to the recklessness and extravagance of the city authorities. This lavizhness of expendi- ture, and the enormous increase of taxation every year, bave given our population much cause of alarm, and, we doubt not, will tend materially to retard the growth and prosperity of the city. ‘The rest of the business transacted by the Com- mon Council during the month of December, is og litle or no importance, and consists chietly in the adoption of sundry reports from the committees oa the verious departments, in the reference of a con. | eiderable number of petitions, and in the adopt of several trifling resolutions. From the various | reports concurred in by the board, it ie clear and | | monifest that very litle has been done for the | general improvement of the city and the pro motion of her interests. We want!our street, to be kept cleaner, better paved, and better lighted than they generally are. We want to have tho: j nuisances removed, in the shape of slaughter houses, bone boiling establishments, dairies, pig. geries, aud manure heaps, whichare so frequently to be met with ia the upper part of the city. We wich the city fathers to direct more of their atten- ticn to the wretched condition of some of our wharves and piers. There is still @ vast field open for reform and improvement, and we would advise the new Common Council to be more active and less talkative. ae SPD Sx 4 Tue Eart or Caruisie’s Lecture oN THR Untrep Starxs.—We have published a full report | peth—now the Earl of Carlisle. It was delivered | before the Mechanics’ Institution, at Leeds, in England, where there is as much knowledge of towns of England. For more than teu yeara, Leeds has been the cynosure of the republican | of the reforms which have been urged upon the Parliament of Great Britain; and the chartist organ, for several years, was published there. rapid, and, of course, very superficial survey of this | country, was very sagaciously happy in sympathiz- | ing with the spirit of our institutions, even had he | not been sincere in his representations. The au- | dience before him, we imagine, was compoved of | perron ble as the noble lecturer himself, to judge fairly and correctly on each of the topics in- | troduced on the occasion, and would scarcely have | tolerated, with respectful patience, the reiteratioa j of such slanders es form the current coin of opinion | emong partially educated English tourists. The Earl of Carlisle gave his impressions with a cander, } we doubt not, that is creditable to his judgment. | The whole tenor of his address is charac! not only by fairness, but his statements may be deemed as correct as would be those ef many of our native born citizeas, whose sectional prejudices always color, to some extent, their opinions of per- | cons and of things. What we chiefly admire ia the lecture, is the commendation with which our society, is made to suggest reforms ia the old coua- | uy. Our religious freedom seems to have drawa | forth much admiration; and many other topics con- nected with the prosperity of the Untied States, are made subservient to encomiums that speak well for the Earl of Carlisle's judgment. Howe @ lecture, under any circumstances, must be super- ficaal. A popular evdie seeks amusement more then troth, and desultory pictures rather than a philosophical anelysie of facts. We thiak that the | Earl would do himself far more credit by preseat- ing the world with his diary, while he would offer to European society an antidote to the poison which | malignant wrivers have disseminated. The T: lopes, the Fiddlers, the Hamiltons, Dickens, and » have made themeelves leughing stocks by lections of raw materials, while they have othe their neglected the great web and fabric of American | scciety and of eur iastitutions. Even De Tocque- | ville bos been monstrously overrated fer his at- | te to enalyze us philosophically, and Murat, | retgntly, in runniog @ race with tourists of all sorts, has etaumblej, and thrown himself into a | slow prens who will eventually produce a good book on the United Statee—one that will scorch, while it | will present facts ee they really exiat. Toe Earl of Cerlisle, we think, i# able wo give the worlda good book upon this country ov Packers in Port.—At the present writing there are some twelve or fifteen packet ships due at this por: from Europe. There gre none in port of re. ©. H. Marshall & Co.’s Black Bail line, consisting of eight ships ; and the tame of Wm. Whitlock’s Havre liae, of four ships; Usvsvat, Scancity only one (the Constantine) of Messrs Grinnell & Minturn’: Liverpool line; one (American Congress) | of the same firm's London line; nose of Kk. Ke Mit's, exce; he new ship Uunderwriter ; on (the De ) of Mr John Griswold’s Loodoa ly one (New York) of Mesers. Boyd & Hacken's I is fair to suppor, erd much t the next easterly wind henge the fece of afluire materially. Aceord- there are seventy-five Moat of theee hav board, and it is among them, from avre line, ke. I « hoped, that | ing to our Shipping List, ail of veseels due at this p large numbers of p th sors and welfare of the people for that long space Of | wate ead the in peeved the = This act of the Common Council must | very few veesela th have manage¢ joetly be stigma se n scandalous and infam ately, repost the weather ass proeeeding—a flagrant ia spon the diserim Since the above wae written, t ag arace of the ce hity—@d atrocio’gs | Arbert Gallatin, Joseph W = ey ee ee | Jey, and Vanguard, have erri end will enty serve to impat | also, the South Carolina, from Kotterdam--wi h a ee - © | total, in all, of nearly 2.500 pa 3 able body have acquired by a « of var and inconsietent treneactions with Hing | Pranres. Ravaoes or ¥ F vee the pueseg he report, however, and th Captain Shackelford, of the brig lieiem, has far 4 firmation of the new contract by the Com us with advices from Surinam to the 15:h of Decem Coeneil, i will have been ob ie ber. by which we learn that ® French steamer a 1 there on the 6th. fo urpoee of 5 al batiofection, th Hone he enehetanee to 5 biand ot Cave turned the reecliuion, and thereby 7 Galnen) where the yellow fever was raging to a + action of both boards | siarming extent. The disease bad been very tatal The second impormot su oubr df among the white population, and most of the phyei- action of the Bourd n h ane have either been carried off by the scourge, of he Commitiee va Fe ommending tha | were on the pick list of the lecture on the United States, of Lord Mor- | this country as in any other of the enlightened | The Earl of Carlisle, therefore, in giving his | ized | social improvements upon the condition of English | | We do not despair, however, of findiag Euro- | The of the Atlantic. nee F , lec mo 4th, 1850, 70 THE KDITOA OF THE HERALD. of this your pape: you state that the U. | 8. M, stesm« “Atlentic”” from this port Deo. — ‘Tth, at 7 o'vlook. 37 mower te our files of that you will see she did not @ quarantine . 8th. at 8 o'clock. This, if correct, makes her houre shorter to Liverpool twenty-four al then Livery a Bo as an Ameri :. T wish you would have it corrected in to-morrow morning’s paper. Yours truly, Ww. B. The Atlantic left at 7 o’clock, instead of 8 A.M on the Sth ult. With this correction, the passages of the three steamers named were as follows:— The Franklin had a tittle further to run than the Aulaatic. Marine Affairs. Laven or tHe Curren Su “Ivo” — Yesterday morning, this beautiful clipper ship was launched rom the yard of Mesars Perine, Patterson and Stack, | at Williamsburg. There was pretty large concoursy | of persons to witness the interesting sight, and the launch went off in very pretty style—the nobie vessel gliding into the water like an arrow, and without the least careening. This vessel has been built by tho aboveeminent firm, without aay control on the part ot her owners, Messrs Siffkia & Lronaides, and the result bas been one of the most beautifeily modelled and strongly built vessels that ever graced our harbor The Ino fs tor the owners’ own service, snd will ne employed in the Kast India trade, under the som mand of Capt. Robert FE Little, She will be Jorn town, at her duck. in afew days, and will well repay the trouble of an inspection. Derantunes or SrvomsHirs ~The steamship South. erner, Capt Dickinson, leit this portjyesterdsy atter- noon, for Charleston, aud the new steamship Mexivo, Capt. Williams, tor New Orleans, The latter is to ron asamail steamer in the guif. The names of their aa ers will be found under the head of Maritime fa iligence. Lance anv Varvanre Canco —The ship Chas. Crooker Duncep, master, tor Liverpool, cleared at Oharleston on Tuesday. by Messre. George A. Hopley & Jo, with the following cargo :—223 bales Sea Ieland and 4.1 do upland colton, 51 barrels turpenth cotton seed The cotton weighing 1 645.942 Ibs., the whole cargo valued at (227.509, being the largest cargo ever cleared from that port. City Intelligence. THe Oxcaxivation oF THe Common Councrt Ton organined, the new Mayor will be installed im office. | and the recently elected mombers of the Vouncil will be evorn in Tux Wearwen—Anornen Ssow Sronst.—Yesterday morning, between three and four o'clock, a smow storm, Come OB, and the ptreete were covercd yesterday to a tuffictent depth for gout sleigbing Accordingly, the | music of the sieigh Bolly might by beard on every side ‘The stage rleighs were im requleition aad some of them 1 # The day was cold particularily in the at nighttall The thermometer was a6 mn After night, the cold rapidly increased and the wind | blew hail a gale trom the northeress, dritting the snow | im the face cr pedestrians fo u) almost to biiad them, | There is every prospect of abundant sleigbiog. | A Dean Lerten —The following Ordinangs of the | Commen ptember lust, appears to | be a ceed letter:—“ The owner or ovcupant ot each sud every store or ocher building in the clyy of Nev York, in which there ta a hoistway, eb: aso the said hoist. way eueh tory of suid store or otter baliding. to be forthwith enelosed, by # good aad suflleieut raiiiog around the opening thereof, and provide tor the closing of such opening by a trap-door, aud each owner or oc- cupant of any euch building or store, shail eaase maid railing to heneeurely fattened up and said trap-door to be closed. on the completion of the business of each day. in euch score or bai , end toc every violation ofthe provisions of tuis ordinaace. or any of them, the owner er owners, occupant of occupaucs ot aay suck store or buiiding shall be liable tow pemalty oc | filty dollars, for each uad every offen Tue Tammany Soctety.—This # ent and honora- ble Booiety will celebrate the anniversary of the bat- | Ue of Now Orleans. at old Tammany, on the 8th inet., gtaudeur. Sachems oa this ve are intormed, will dress ta tull regal nting the thirteen original Trihes, whieh, it is ill coprtitute quite a uvvel feature to the oat- A large number of distinguished statesmen Will be present, to join the numerous throng of ladies who will grace the occasion Be Bawes on tHe Union. —L | Dr. Hawke repeated bis sermon on Union. which he preached on Tbhaukegiving Vay, at Calvary Church, in the Pourth avenue, at the corner cf Twenty-first street. It was a very eloq dis course, cod we publisbed an outline of itat the time. | Heronew Bate —On Thersday evening next will take Place. at Niblo’s Saloon the fourth anuual ball in aid of the funds of the bachelor’s Hebrew Benevolent Loan Association. Bome ot the tairest deught Terael will be there, besides ladies of the @: the masculine gendur of every creed. It i to be an interesting affair. Buaxsreane Deamartic Association Bact.—The sixth annus! Sbakepeare Drematic Arsociation ball comes off, om Tuesday evening next, @t the new assembly rooms, Broadway Coliseum. It will be a Lwae J deons and civic ball. and will be extensively patronisea by | the friends and admirers of dramatic art. The pro ceeds will be devoted to the defraying of the expenses | attendant on the perfor # of the Arsoctation. t evening. Rev very ad t | This will be one of the most recherché balle of the sea- — rs | Paintexs\Bave.— The firet Annual Ball of the Print- | era? Association will take at Tripler Hall +a Tureday evening bext. It is stated that arrangements to thir seve Deatw Pevatty. —There is to bea meeting to. Tow evening Convention Hall, in Wooster street, of the opponents of death punishment. Youtnrct Daonkensess.— It te bed enough to wit- Dest imioxication in adults, but im extreme youth it is shocking aud melancholy On Friday night, a &: boy, ten years of ege, waa found lying on the sidewaix in Bouth street. in a state ot the bm te He bad got dropk in a groggery ia taat vi- einity. Poltwe Intelligence. Charge of False F Knox, merchant, notion With & man called John Q Adems. the sum of $610 in money and goods, by talre aod fraudulent Tepresentations It appears, from the wffidavita now ou file before the mogistrate, that in September law’. a lot of merebandiee, consisting of tobacco, snuff, and in digo. was on torsge, belonging toa Mr Hand. Pais eud Sir. Koox was agent t, to dispose ofit. Aa oiler War made by Mr. Phelps, to take the property ta que with seertain synount of cath, and give in ox ey & deed of land. situated iu & county, M. ing of twenty two lota. ed en & map ted, at the powinal vaiue ot $12000. ‘The bur- echsumated ip November, soon after it Was ascertained that the property in Kerex coucty wae greatly overrated, and (hatin fact the ceprereuts thos maade by Mr. Pheips were falew and which Mr. Kvox was induced to part with the proper- ty aod money in question. Mr Poelps. on heatiog the ccrplaint bas tatirfacte only acting a* coms M ‘A hearing was grant for Thureday next, w the ether side will be shown Dir, Pheips bor ds tothe amount of $5.000 for his appearaac Charae of Strate Wath ont Crsia —A mon, ealiing himreit € ker Arrested, yeater- ny, by the police of the Sixteenth ward on a charge of stealicg @ gold wateh and chain, valved at near $100. the property et Kdward Mil ar, residing at ite Twenty-ftth street, between Tonth aud | avenues. Un the arrest of the aseused, is the missing as the polte r he would ebow bij i) and chain, secreted, evidently by the ac- The preperty, together with the rogue, was conteyea before the magistrate, who committed hia to prison for triel on the ebarge eling a Foney A man osiling himeslf David day. on a charge of tot entpemters’ tool property of Edward Me of Distinguished People, 5 New Haven: Bounttel Kieth Lioyd Wright, Bngiand; M. Austin. Signor Gretrilis, Itnly; A. Andrews Conn Vincent Walleee and lady, Engiend, were arrienls yerterday at the Union Nor «toh det ip one of m most rey ange three of x0 hin Ul commence, th, the 1861 —To morrow the new Commou Council will be | kM. 3 o’clock P M. 8 o'clookP M. | 6 e Of the most iiberal kind have been made to gire eclul | | teeny ost helpless iatoxi- | ras. by | ‘The Common Sphools of Bow York. ANNUAL REPORT OF THK COUNTY SUPERINIKNDENT. ‘The schools iu theeity and county of New York, which particip ate in the distribution of the avails of | the school fund of the Stats , are two humdred, | Der; mesrly all of which bave beonu taught by quelited teachers the whole year, with theexoeption of four wee vacation 1p the wonth of August The general | tree fehool law, whicn has caused much discussion | througbout the t disturbed the worki Of Our Jecul system Free public echools have been Sit tested in tbie sud their adaptation aad capa! | tes are pretty well understood, The small fraction of the | people who preter parochial trea schools, do not, in all | Prebability, emount (o more than trom three to ti | per centum of our vocers and tax payers, They have, wever, exercised an influence im the pore tym | and there kas been ap iacreusw of charch sebooin, into which have been gathered two or three thousand chil- dren more than were in such schools a mouths go. Most of these rehooie a reatly inferior fro:a the manner of thelr orgentantion, to the commoa schools, This ,articular preference ofja portion of our | in favor ¢f shureb schools, in, bi ve judgment aod individual Dimeht ,uarantees to @il ite citizens. Mr MoKeon eays—The common schools under Board of Béucation are gradually iucreasing in number {acilities for instruction, enlarging their bounds and Aiberulizing their policy, until they now include ia their several echools more thau four fiftas of all the children who attend school in the city of New York. The predomboant iaterest o: the community is thero- fore with the common sehovl od it has become the prevailing sentiment of the people, that intelligence the lite of liverty- that uecful knowledge is a rightul inheritence of ail the people—and that the means of | acquiring thie necessary intelligence should be mado | Accessible to ail the riviay generation. ‘he alien out- caste—the poor of every land, without distinction of nation or color, who can prefer any claim to our com- | mon humanity, are invited to our schoo | legrd to enter the lista sith the fortunate aud native Dern jor the wealih aud b of the country. ‘The tollowing ruamary Noite the whois number | tengbt, and the average utteudance in the schools of | this city for the last year: —~ Whole num- Average at ber taught. tendance. In 114 echools of the Public School Society, including the Alas Honre School on Kan- y id. with 1,103 nd- Wirsiour, bo8 average attend. 1 pee mcd 8 Ucloved Svhoola, | with 2 620 whole mumber, and 616 average attendances 53.782 18.909 | 08 Ward Schools... ...+5 49,482 17,080 | 18 Aryiume aad other Corpo- | POLE BOHCOMS.. ..eceeeees 3584 Total in all the Com. Schools. 106793 | ‘The law yequires thet tbin average should be ascer- tuned by Givicing the whole number of sessions or schoul times by 430 The echools wre uenally taught but 48 weeke of ten sexsiouy. or echoui times. A dedac. tion of four or five day ing eight or ten soheol eersions, in therefore ma im the 240 school days, ed. such as 1st of Jann int of May Yhav kegiving and Christ Jaye ; fe that, not #iiletandmng the large propor of the year (bat our echools aretsught. it will be perceived thar the divisor of 480 is (oo large for all tho schools, except the asylums In the 200 school», im whteh bi lncividuals will » lerge av are pot ipeluded the 7 O43. wit of 24W0 io the IN ewenivg schoels; mor the bn everage of 150 iw the Loree Cnty Normal nor the S0€. or therexbou who bare been ti the Frew academy | The Public Schocl Sectety have had in their during the psst year, of colored children 2 been taught 106,708 a tendance of 10, 4,029 | The Society fer Lie promotion of Education among colored children. have had einen gi2 | The Ward rehools. buve bad The colored Orphan Aeylom, bus bad..... And the Alms House aad the House of Refug: | ~ bave provided for probably A | | | Making « total of. . | _ From this it may b rovided for sbous one-eighth tfthe city Curing]7 weeke an evening sshool tor colored percens, ip which were taught 2)7 persone, ‘The seylume ot the city continue to fuldl the pue- pores of theiz estabif hment—ell maintaining schools ‘They are as tollows, via: | No. Tuught, cake and Watts’ Orphan Houre. 230 ew York Orphan A aan that the o | d school sccommodations hole coloced population nd ol the Average Attendance. | The Li 201 « N $30 Colored Orphan Asyium. ....,.269 187 Komap Catholic Hat Orphan aryiom. 113 Protestant Mall ¢ 132 Female Guerdian Soci ty’ BobuolQ07 74 “ Seboc! for Juvesiie Delinquents jo the House of Re 316 adwirably conducted The Institution for the Blind. with many adult pu- pile, has & school adapted to the peculiar wants ct tus Ts whole uumber bes been 129, with an aver- pep age ot 60. ‘The Mechanics’ Society's achools, to the extent only of their tree seholarehips, sud the Hamilton free tcboul, participate in the scbool money ‘There ow Trinaine no extuse for atter Sgnoranse in of our you’ htul population. Its existence, bo have been long residents of the city, jus the insplication of eriminal neghet, either on the part of thr child. the parent. or, in case of orphan. #ye.of the public authorities. It ls a happy condi- tion of soolety, when every member ie wlike protected and cared for The questionable propriety of poor im sand peuper institutions may be discused and contiovertea by political eeoaomiste apd wm lators— but 2¢ ts now m fully recognt-ed br: y veyord controversy in oar community, that the poor | mus: be educated” Fae common school, is the slyni- a appropriate app: ilative of the gi Yeding. and turdemental institution of the Stat erpectolly of the elty of New York ‘The evening echovis, since their recent re crganina- tow wader the Bearé cf Rdacation, have bewa ruc. | r three years During seveuteen weeks of | fH and winter, there were maintained | | ” | eighteen ot there echoole—twelve for mal females avd owe for colored malee Tn thi were (aught 7 68 pereone of whom 2570 we! rs ci age. Im these schools were employed shoots | tremes? Besides the above, there is supported, | | mene’ | Ube entertaic ments will conclude with “ Jenny Liad » | five for | 7 Brook! City Intelligence. Portce Count ihe +xeptmation of John Doran, with ith intent to kill, was re- on g@umed yesterdsy, apd the case for closed with the evidenee of the wounded man, avitiem Br adls barged as in gi » ol a the act. was also brought np, but t ad- duced 4id not implicate him in the offence charged agatnet Doran. but in that ot assault and battery only. ‘The Judge (Mr Truman Smith) had resolved on oom- mitti © firet-uemed prisoner to abide his trisl, but, in the application of his counsel, Mr. Samuel Garreson. the tter stends aru guo till Monday next. in order that he may produce farther evidence jn bebait of the pee. The cere of John Brinkerhoff, also charged with stabbing, etands adjourued Brrkaonpimany Cuance —Under this 1 we gave. yertercay, w story told by one Henry Baker, charged with stealing s sheep's carcass, from Peter Dermott, @ butcher In consequence of the ag A fo told. Mr. J. © Smith issued his warrant, and Mr. Tuft, the perty charged with inciting Mr. Baker to the theft, so bt uy, en ihe statement of the prisoner appeared by evidence to be quite unfounded, and Mr. Tart was immediately discharged, aud Baker sentenced to rixty days imprisonment in the penitentiary. Fue ex #xipay Nichr.—This fire, of which we gave but sp imperfect report yesterday, broke out between six and seven o'clock. in & soap amd candle factory, jied by Mr J. Swan in Furman street. near the terry. candle factory was nearly de. 1d. but the adjoining soap factory was saved, by exertions of the freme: jonflagretion Ddeew immense, had it extenced any further, +b borin, being filled with faflammn- tory masteriais, Tbe damage done to the buildings is about $500, tor which bir Hicks, the prepricter, is his own insurer; that done to the property ef Mr, Swan, about $800, is covered by au insurance by The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. Supven Deatn.—Dbr Pall, the Coroner, held an in- nest, on Thursday last, on the body ef Richard ptroyet the g) illon. late firat engineer ou boad the Spanish steamer Gusdalquiver, pow lyiug in thy Atiantic Dock. 1t ap- me that the deceased came on board in good e if night, and on Tussday ith apparently, on Moada: eulnn' hee Bee Verdict, died morning was found dead in of congestion of the braia, ‘Theatrt Bowery Taratns.—A bil olgreat attraction is pro- sented for to-morrow eveuing's performance. The Lew piece. illuetecive of the eveute of David Copper- field's lite. will commence the performances. Mr. J. RK Boett will sporar as Daniel Yegotty, Mr. Pope as David Copperfield Mr Stevens es James Steortorth, Tilton as Ham ao bout dutider, and Nmity by Miso Weinyes, Those who are trequent visiters of the Bow- ory, wullreadily ndariy that «very new piece Is placed op the Bowery stage by ‘ir. Stevens, in exoellent style. Goearly, andenjey arich treat Mins Hilfert will sing an edmired rong aud the whole will close with the ro- mantic spectac! eter Wilkin? Kroapway Trxatae — The beautifal comedy of “Ex- will be presented to-morrow evening, with ® Mr Richinga and Mr. Wheatley have deen epectally brought here from Philacetphia, to give full eect to this stectiag production. Nearly all tne | talent attached tothis treates will be exercised in the respective characters ofthis duegomedy. The orches tia wil play several beau overtures, mud the ter- minating festure will be the favorite farce of “My Friend to the Straps.” We hope the dramatio pabitc Will sustain Mr Marsheli in Miswiforts to produce the mort instiuctive end hichly emusing pleoes. Ninco’s Ganpen.- To morrow eventog being the last js berth, splendid cast nigbt but two otthe Kavel famuy. @ dilb of uncom attruction ix effered for the amusement of their Pbe entertainments wil commence with an oded by the grand Chi ropes, by Jerome, Fran- ter this, the beantifal "and the mi patrons, overture, which will be suc nero” Pas de Trois,” on thee cole, and Antoine K. vel seiious ballet pantomime of “ia Sylyhide entertainments will termivate with the aple pantomime ef: Meuula or the Night Ov 7 remein here bot a few pights, the sdmirers of their bewutitel performances should see them, {Benton's Turarne.— orrow evening that excel- | eb actrers and grent ¢ Sirs, Russell, takes he Buckscone’s ex t comedy of “Leap not the Lester as Churles Ditap #8 Fina Flow | Will dance Ls Zivgerille; the orebestra will play the Jenny Lind Pot-vouri end the entertainments will conclude with the excellent wew dzamatic production of “David Copperteld,’ with w cast of characters which way dety eouwpetition. Rarionan Tirearke Purdy ts indefatigable In his exertions to please the respecteble and large aasem- Diages that viris his theatre, To morrow evening he again will produce that very instructive moral deama entitled the “Drankard,’—che part ef Edward Middle- ton by Mr MH. Watkins, aud that of Maury Wilson by Miss B. Mestayer. Tambourine Daace, by Miss M. viva; after which the pew buriesque, entitled * Old King Cole.” The orchestra will then execute ths overture toGay Mannering.” und the entertainments will terminate wih the laughable batlet of the “ Pris. hy Copbler.”” A fine bil! for one night. Buove 5 he patrons of this neat and popular lichment b tor their emusement to-morrow evening The ent jomente will commence with the faree of the aibus.”’ avd this will be succeeded by # new version of the “History and Experience of David Copperdeli,” with a splendid cast of eburacters, Broughsm is weil knowa to be pot enly au excelent actor, but also a fice dra- fe writer. ard we therelore may (ake it for granted ion ot Dicken’ work will be euch asto give tiefavtion. Mlle Dacy-Barre, who isa great ill display her Lerpsichoream abilities, and taverive, Awrnican Museom.—The afternoon and evening per- | formances given at thi¢ very popular and favorite estublirbment are attended by large and highly re- apectable assemblages im the afternoon, the enter- tainments will consist of “Turning the Tables.’ A cbaract tie danee by Mins Weet will follow, and the closing piree will be ~ Domestic Reouomy Ta the evening, the moral and domestic drama of * Cherlotte Temple,” snd the cowie piece of “ Crimaon Crime dese & Co's Cinccs —Daring the past week the ampbibestre has been crowded every night by fash- fonable audiences, aud the admirable pertormances of the French troupe hare. as ty always the onse, beea | received with tic demonstrations of applause yet seen these remarkably clever acly Opportunity to do so, fity-rix mal three male teachers for the colored school Wheler dod to. . do. eul'd males, 7,688 bers enter their names as scholars in whe attead very little, The fact that the school is free. induces tasny to come in who would | not attend a pay rehool, and causes many to be irregu- iat Just because it is tree, and therefore wader valaed ‘These revonis, both day and evening wre of the high: | ert importance; batthere te one grand deeideratum required to make them eMictent. and ualifert Many of 4 these a eal partisanship merit. bigh moral character, the inttrastors of youth | 7! a retovm In this respect takes place, the better ‘ising er ue Reigious dnterigenee. EAUMORS TO DAY Congregational shuret, Hammond street-Rey. Dr. Pattew, evening piiet chapel, Grand street— Rev. D. M. Graham; ing netegstional church Sixteenth street—Rey. 0. HU. Feber horn, morning Ver etehurch, fourth street—Kev. Dr Mas- ) morning | Presbyterian church, Spring street~ Rev A.D Smi evening Vresby terien church, Mercer street—Rev. B. A. Bau- telle, morning. ent institute, Beoadway—Rev. Mr. Welling- | ton, morning | Copstituiion Mall, Broadway—Mra, Bishop; after. nee | at Hudsou street—Rev. James Macbeth Methoaiet & eburch, Mulberry street—Rev. Dr.Dar- bin. evening New J Bush; © ¢ Univerealiot church, Orchard street— Rey, 0. H Pay; owning. Baptict church, Norfolk street—Rev. T. Armitage; morning Chureh of the Puritans, Union square-Rev. Dr. Cheever; evening. fiope Chapel, Broadway—Rev. Dr. Dowli ning. Rev. F Starr. jr, of Rochester, was installed as paw tor of the Precb)terian church ia Weston, Mo., oa the loth ult. Rev, dobn B Alico war installed pastor of the Con wrege J ehureh im Gartavus, Obto. on the bch Hie tings cf Manitue. hae declined @ call ouregationsl eburch, of Pequonos. Conn. Poitehett, of Otekeny has «cali to Paw lem chureb, Righth street—Professor eve. tucker. KL, which be has aecepied, Kev Jat obele bat re\eued the post tal charge of rhe Pr ering chureb ef 4a Depot. N ¥ v Davi t » tate of Marlboro’, Maes, has ved to New Haven «ational charch bas been formed stor Kev Mr Popy eb p ver the friaita- be wan tae ated iiton 18th fe ree Mase., has asked a from bir p | 1 installed by | ' over tue heer ee 1 Mave " Ort parton of ‘ ravonal in ¥ us te # been dinmyaad, ta | om i trom Dateh churel tk Y * Kiet teal Toet from om bar riner charge ctorsbip ot at raueriy held ' 1a wnantmone call the Kvangelaes, ‘hile, M4, to New for the @int rary charge ot-the * h in Sometert Md. to at ina’ parioh. Dalrimare county. eounts } acch B om &t. Thoman’ parish, Baltimore ‘ tN + | the admirers ot epiendid paintings | ebermin they eement to appear in Boston during the present month. Brerraxt Hart ~ The exhibition of the splendid panorame of the Pilgrim's Progress is deservedly draw- ing mumbere to eee ir, ; SarTiex’s beautiful commoramas should be seen They are pro neunced by the bert judges to be superior to any thing everseen in this country. Mr. 0. W. Cranks, the talented stage mehager and excellent comedian, takes his benefit at the Mu» on Tueday wext, We hope he will have, what he do- teny bumper Musical, Aswa Binoy — This dietinguished voonliet pang last week et the Tremont Temple, Boston. before o large and farhiovable wudi-nce All her songs were encored sinidat the mort wnihusiastic cheering Bochss pre rided. She will be here in m tew days. when we hope to have the pleasure of bewring ber sing those sweet and bailude—© Hom, sweet Home”? ‘Soha An- dereou my Jo. end ~The banks of Guadalquivar,” in | which the has nor qual Travian Orena Hovae.—Parodl returned teom Phile- del Dh Fiiday eventog. In Philadelphia sho hen made a very remarkable senention by her per. jormences and we beliews she is destined to increase her popularity bere. during the remainder of the sea- ton. The prices ot adminson have been redaced. Seate cam now be e-eured. without any extra charge, at on» dollar and fifty cen 4 the gallery tickets are fifty ceate wach This is cellent arrangement, jch will Hil (he house on the re appear or te redi Chnisty’s Mixerneia —So gteatiia the popularity of this bord that hundreds are frequently obliged to re. turn home, not being able to gaia admission. Christy is making & rapid fortune are very mach improved by ment of m celebrated bo: instrumental performances ai admired | Bererit ov 8 A Weis —On lar performer taker his anpual be ratloore, He bea general for that eecasion willcontain a Henk Kracves.— The concert of this celebrated Hun- Farian vocalist will come off the firet week in February. The Scarcity of Sliver. TO THE RUNTOR UF THE HERALD, © heard it intimated that eoveral Rurepean are engaged rand silver epeoulation; vb we Vary now dally printe y next, this popue it at Fellor Be Wy thelr position they » fluence of their reepeotive in their ecbeme “May it not be that those govern. ments, for the double purpose of aiding their trteods, the bankers and depreciatiog ont California gold. wi'l lend themrelves Co thie magnificent plaa to make mo- bry, and pass laws to make silver, only,» legal tender? QUE ViVR, New Yous, Jamary 4, 1950 United Dre, 4— Tne coedtngs in theo tive ave. atand further moj m # quenee of the cootinue een. Hi Bis boror should not then be able to attend, | itis probable that snags Betin will predds alone at the exem The exettement nat a the enee b sbellioniete and colored friends rf Hevry Leng etitl about the groups Morebal’s office tn | Istenestine + Orvis want OF AR ais from tieptam Siooers, of t - ts port dated off the isiand of Ceylon, May 15 he bad been eubjested te an im prtven ten daye at the island of Jo. bonne, fer ret quieate certela claims amount. fn 10 $600 oF foreien trasere at that pince srainet At Captain M. ste tredern to nurer t pris stepping at 1h fore to receive anyt Wilhstanding the tha h such req for rotrerbutente, &5 etba fe | boat company, esc Steam Boller TO THE Epi’ OF THE '. I wieh to draw ationtion, for the general benefit mankind, to the numerous en rences, “‘steam exp| ” accounts of no less thar five having appeared within a few days the public papers, with little more comment, as articles of news, every day occurrences, or un- avoidable accidents. They arise, senceally, from norance of some much tore valuable and — r higher chemical laws than have yet been discovered er suspected by the most’ learned, chemists, there being new, distinct and | fa’ ’ more powerful and economical combiaatione ! of heat and water, than steam, and consequenlly remain so wholly unknown fo engineers aa to 4” pear ond their comprehension; ugh from thei: readful effects their existence is in table. The chemical causes of those effects are own, yet till the causes are known, the direful effecte cannot be counteracted. Fifteen yeare ago, the general government being at that time imbued with a spirit of humanity, em- ployed and paid the lit'e ppenee of a committee of the Franklia Institute of Philadelphia for more than a year, to investigate the cauees and divine the means for the prevention of those then con- sidered dreadful calamities, so little cared for now wis be beneath the notice of the goverament of- cials. The Franklin committee, though both talent and industry, ernved, after a great deal of labor, at only an inadequate conclu- sion :—That all explosions of steam boilers arose solely from the boilers having become over dis- tended with steam, end recommended double safety valves, and fusible metallic plugs, as ample and sure preventives of explosions; and as those gentlemen were justly considered able and indus- trious, their * fiat” and remedy have unfortunatel: been considered, by the government officials bs the whole race of engineers, as the me plus tra of wisdom and knowledge, a perfect security ggainst steam explosions, und any dissent from their opinion bereieal cr insane. Nothing could have been more unfortunate, than following those directions, as they are the readiest ways to canse explocions, and it is more than probable their directions have already caused, and will ciuse numerous explosions. hed Notwithstanding the profound opinioa of the Franklin Committee, if any competent and unpre- juciced person con be found, who will calmly and patiently consider tne facts disclosed by the late explosion ef the two steamboats at New Orleans, he will see the perfect inefliciency of all the in- structions hitherto diflused for the sate guidance of engineers, which h led to their destraction. First, let the case of the Anglo- Norman tow boat be considered She wos furnished with a low-pres ente condensing engine. constructed at one of the firet foundrys, = and ftrmshed with all known inventions, “‘notwitustending which, the boiler, weighing many tons, exploded, and disappear- ed from the boat Fifteen of more person? were killed, and eighty wounded and scalded. Arvongst the former were Mr. Alfred Stillman, one of our most emine: “cueers, and two others, also selected trom the Novelty Works in New York, beardes the careful and competent engineer of ihe boat, and the President of the tow f whom must have been pre- direct the engine with safety > and, besides being superintended with this quin- topte effeteney, Mr. Alfred Sdllman was inventor and proprietor of « potent iron’ safety tube, with fusitle metal, for the certain detection of danger ead prevention of explosions, in further ad- vance of the Franklin committee’s inefficient ree commendation “ Notwithstanding all these euperlative advan tages, the low pressure boiler exploded, from some unknown and unex; d couse to those capable and practical engiut using their horrible sumed competent devths, and ulso ef ten others, and the more or lese e ating torture of jess sorrow of their jeaving all other per- concentrated inflietion of eighty-five Komp to the € humerous relatives, ane sons in cleed of hike inflictions waen exposed to similar cireumstancrs, secixg that neither low pressure engia or jhe wisest engineers, are exempt from, or possess sufficient knowledge to be secure from equal eatarnities: New, as some unknown eause existed for that direful calamity, a probable cause will found therefor in the wecount of the explosion of the steamer Kuoxville, a few days after, si New Orleans, on jeaving ihe wharf, and which explosion was unquestionably occasioned by some other disinct cause, than mere in- creased expansiveness of steam in the boilere, for ellfour boilers were in free internal connec- tion by steam japes sad by water pipes; and, be it particularly remembered, just afier star! the en- gine, much steom had been exhausted irom the boilers to werm the cylinder, before starting the en- gine, whereby the tension of eteam in the boilerz was doubtless lessened. The four boilers exploded tremendously at the same instant, when a di~ minivhed stesiu pressure, with such inconceivable force that one boiler was propelled 300 yards, de- molitbing a large pile ef barrels of flour in ite im petuous course; another boiler was propelled through an adjoining +tesmboat into a third, smash- ing the machwery, Xe., in both; the two boilers were demoltiahed, several persons killed, end many more wounded and scalded. Now, no sane and competent prrsou dare dispute, that some part of one of these boilers must have beea much weeker than the rest of the four ocilers, and, with the exquisitely delicate rate of increasing expan- sive force of siear, yeadually raised, as it must of necessity have been, to un exploding foree, the weakest part of the weakest boiler would umavoid- ably give way whenever the expansive force of eorm exceeded, m the least degree, the tenacity of the weakest boiler, when that ruptured a would have acted precisely, and instantly, like e, safety. valve to the other three stronger boilers. ‘To imagine that creating a substitute for a safety valve, m one of the four boilers, could cause the +r boilers to explode, by relieving cient steam preseure within them, would surely be one of the absurdest of ail possible abewrdities ; for, on the contrary, the tremendous explosion of all four boilers, of different strength, ‘St the same instast of tune, can by uo other possi- bility be wceounted for, than by the sudden creas lion of a much more Velunvnous and powerful force then steom, by a sudden conversion of a large vo» lume of steem to *stame” in wn unduly heated boiler, by the very means proposed by the Franklin Commitee for the prevention of explosions, namely, hy suddealy decreasing the steam pressure on the large volume of bot water in boilera, whieh hot water flashing ioto watural s'eam, is as instancly. converted to “ stame,” a newly discovered and more voluminous, powerful, and economical force thao steam, to which Livust request the attention of your readers, by firet concisely describing some of the newly discovered nod peeuliar propertesand: combinations of heat acd water It Was ehown by Count Rumford, fifly years ago, that water was a neorly perfect nva-conduetor of hest, and it is to this peculiar property thereof, though little known, we must seek an explanation of the spheroidal state of water, whieh state has 80 inveh puzzled many philosophers to exph The epheroidal state of water is exhibi by weter to an iron crucible firet introducing # drop bove 212 degrees, when the water heated @ little adheres to the cruciole, wud te quickly evaporated contact with the bested crucibie. On the contrary, When a simlor drop of water is introduced into the fame cracible, previously heated to, or nearly to Tedness, the drop of waler ws repelled by a substra~ tum of tteam from the crucible, and being a non- conductor ot heat. itremsins a long time suspended and uneveporated in the spheroid a state, i also, the curious fact, that water is more slowiy: evaporated by svperheated iron, than by a more moderate heet Secondly, We have experimentally found on the contrary, that steam is the most rapid conductor of beatin patw All pe * know that steam im- parts heat instantly to wny eelder substance; and we have experimentelly found a current of steam: heated apart irom waier by eostact with he iron, become 400 degrees hotter in the seventh part ofa second of time; therefore, steam must have acquire nh — irom a8 rapidly as iron could conduct heat; therefore, steam mu aired heat with electrical raprdicy. sesh Thidly, We heve experimentally found the ade dition of Comparatively rivial quentities of heat to steem wpart trom waer, eo rapidly and Rreatly ine ereaees the volume of etesm, by a wonderful pecu har and hitherto nediseovered law of nature, that Tittle fe than one-tenth the heat requisite for the formation of seam, when added to steam apart from water, doubles that volume of steam, and that ebout (wo tenths, or ove-iifth the heat requited for the formation of steam, when added to steam apart from water, ineres se volume of that steam eight fold. so that it iat shown the extra caloric applied te steer. apart from water, a mere thar the prodaction of useful ood more than thiry times aa effe produenom of noxious or destrue he come quootity of heat when aps thirty times ae ¢fleetive for prodae ic f steam; therefore, Must Le seen, prepert the fa ther applieution of but an inenntiderable qaswtity oF heat to steam, would consliute an iutinite expineive force We have thes seen the narure of the onknown and ouexpected danger e at on the use of one of the beet cons: 1 low pressure boilers and ergimer, cuperien uded by mea ef superiog ine formation, bar iganernt noovered: properiies of hear, for the greater penalty porenee Wem only be ave led by providence _ edvuots sokiad, under the death and toriare for thetx misuge oF ig« hat a'l euch danger may not ed, ttt * Te ue fet soch immense “conom probably ta may be obtained by the prover use of the same wt ef tbe ave amount of fuel, that all ¢ ithe | this faetsece te won'd nppeae that the tenders Bad at | Gone hy the yetsemt wineries pease, bene tempted to hold Capiain Mooee feeponeible for the | prone rien of : " 7 phort-ccmings of his predecostora —New Bedford Mer. eury, dan. 8 The ruperintendent of publi: eehor Dicipality, New Orleans, reecatly a 20 000 of seboo! tur ds. and contemptuble, whe stand etevm. will be found pitiful pared with what may ted by thow ngenta tent persons, who si + ratood the subje n perceive the many and he ately and rationatiy ef when emp oyen by ¢ Hi m; haves Sueh pe io ed a ns Wi ont