The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1851, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Seen IMES GORDON BENNET®?. ina PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, “ 5 oFPICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nac.” ™ Aue SERALD, Fcente per copy—$? per annum. vt LV HERALD. every. Saterday nt Oe conte per copy, or $3 per annum; the Burepean m $4 per an~ “im, 10 w part of tireut Briain, and $5 to any part of the ‘gatinent both to incl Postage. ALL LETTE: by it, for subseriptions, or with adver- Siew ents, to be pont pur, or'the postage wilh be deducted from EY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import- ae tonnied from any quarter ef the seorits 4 need, yy puld fore, OOK FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS pAwLy Reqcsstap To Seay acy Lerreas nymous communications. We do TS renewed every morning. NG ezecuted with neatness, cheapness, and Volume XVI ‘Number 1, ~~ AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW BY. LNG. RA, Astor stow DY TRE, Bowery—Srvpent or Monvax— oee—Gaann Batter Di- PRINTRE. TRALIA opr vermin ~L ro 7 2owery TH Baw tux Boat BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway —Pavsrvs— Fawr Beans Ney en Wow Fara Lapy. CRION’S THEATRE, Chambers street—Ds vi Corrzre moto —P, Pon THe MAN avo rae Tien. SATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham Square—Bravry axp tur Beaor—FRoiic oF THE PAIRIE®—GOLDEN Axx, BROUGHAM'! LYCEUM, Broadway—Davm Correnriatp Tue Witp Ixvian deny Linn, CURISTY’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway Brnuorian -MinsTRELSY. . TELLOWS' OPERA HOUSE, 441 Broadway—Ersiortay Mover k ELSY. AMEMICAN MUSBUM—Amvsine Pexyorwances Arren- s06x AND Eventno. NEW YORK AMPHITHZATRE, 57 Bowery —Edvesrnias Pen vORMANnces, WASBINGTON HALL—Payonawa ov THe Pricaot's Paconess. will save from ten to fifteen months of time, employed im coming home to discharge their car- goes. This is an immense gain of time, and con- sequently of money. It costs a vessel no small sum for provisions and wages, to come around Cape Horn at any time; and the expense to whale- will be an enu fisheries. species beco:es extinct, when all tu can return to the society of the United States, » owners is very heavy. From this time, there +e«the former interruptions to the x28 ~raued until the whale They will be pu.. as say = snd enjoy the light of the many new gases which pro- 1 mise to supersede the necessity for oil. That day, however, is somewhat dist 1: SATTEER'S COSMOZAMA, corner of Thirteomth street wa Broadway. “New York, Sunday, January 1%, 1851. _ One Week Later from Europe The steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, is now in * her fifteenth dey, and may be expected at any mo- ment. Her news will be one week later. Telegraphic Summary. The Senate wes not in session yesterday, but the Honse of Representatives was. The latter body, however, might as well have taken a holiday, for vertainly their labors did not amount to much. They touched upon the postage reform bill, but sothing more. We must state that Congress are pot proceeding #8 rapidly with business as the pub- hie desired, and if they do not do better next week, we will feel inclined to speak te them ia language which perheps they willnot like. Ifmembers ima gme thet they can elect our next Presi tert ot thig time, they are very much mistakes. It is »lroge- ther too soon to commence any caucusing or wire- pulling for that object. We fear there is so much of | factions that the masses of Ne » York utterly and Wis work going on in Washington, that the public baciness is neglected. We would be happy to Wink differently, but what we see will not allow wa to do so. The Senate of Massachusetts have, it appears, selected Geo. P. Boutwell for Governor of that State, and H. W. Cushman as Lieutenant Govern- or. Thisis, no doubt, in accordance with the terms of ihe coalition between the democrats and the free soilers. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerv of the House of Representatives at Washington have, we are informed, invited proposals for the pubuc orinting during the next Congrees. Wesup. pose Tom, Dick and Harry will, as usual, send in the ir estimates, and that the coustry will be cheated and humbugged as much in the mater as they al- wets have been, and that the priating will be as Joorely and as negligently executed as it always bas been. Would it not be much beiter for the government to establish a printing and publishing depariment of its own, so that it would be indepen- dent of outsiders, as, we have trequently urged ? We are perfectly certain that sooner or later it will beve to resort to this plan. That they will be forced into it The Anu-Bentonians of the Legislature of Mis sowri beve, we learn by telegraph, nominated James H. Greene as a Candidate for United States Senator. This, of course, winds up Col. Bentou’s ehances, and puts him ca the wide world efter his present term expires. The Antielpated Revolution tn the Whale Fishertes of the Pactic. Our last advices from California advised us that a whale ship hed been fitted out in San Francisco, to prosecute the whale fishery in the Pacific. This is the begianing of the trade im the new ter- rrory, which promises to give a3 great activity to the busin¢ rs as resulted from the attempts of the Duteb vod English, in the latter part of the six. teenth century, to find a way to lodia through the Northern Ocean. The adventures of Hudson, in the polar regions, discovered the fact that whal ofan immense magnitude were in the northern | seas, and as the Biscayen whale trade was at an | end, the new field tor the eaterprise of whalemen was entered with extraordinary spirit by the Dutch and English. Onthe northern shore of Spitzber- gen, quite a settlement was made, and the com- forts of civilization were thus found within about eleven degrees of the pole. It is said that the sail- | ors on the isle of Amsterdam, even had hot rolls for breakfast. The products of the fisheries at that | time were so great that extra vessels were sent | out to bring home cargoes, just as we may soon i for California, will e whale ships of | s, fre the car expect our vess soon return with oft the Northern Pacite oc | The erican wt ishery has been proseent- ed with great cess, and pre At firat, | many wha'es mdon the eastern coest of | this continent a having } ed, our enterprise, springing chiefly out of the capite! of Neotucket and New Be » extended iteeif into the F eas, north and south. At an carly cay, M tte employed one hua- dred and eis h vessels in the North, and one hondred wenty-one veevels in the South Pacific oceans lusion to our en a thet time, edmond Burke, in 1774, said:— What in the world teequal to it! Pass by the ouber ing mountains of ice ong *n and penetrating inte the deepest frozen re- n't Bay acd Davie’ Straite; while we tor them beneath the Arctic circle we hear ced into the opporite region of eyare at the antipodes. and en nm serpent of the Booth. Falkland | med too remote d ton remantic an burpora op the coe. their giganti but what fe ve of their toite the activity arity of Rng. mod> | Henry Lone, | It will be carried out, be the consequences what _ they may; and we are strongly of the opinion that, | @ | if the ultras of the South only knew as much of | public opmion in the North as the Northern people | States, but especially of the city of New York, | the greatest blessings of life ought to be made a | Ce uncil, althowgh the document appeared next it. Tue Wasminaton Union aNp THE CASE OF —The Washington Union, edited by Father Ritchie, appears to be in eestacies because the provisions of the Fugitive Slave bill were carried out in the case ef Henry Long. It says the court in New York has set a salutary example, which, it is to be hoped, will be followed on future eccasions. It likesise saysthat Judge Judson, before whom the case was tried, is a clear headed, competent, and independent officer, who has borné himself with equal discretion, liberality, and firmness. Now, we appreciate the venerable Mr. Ritchie's compliments, |u we can assure him that we in New York, do not view the matter in the light in which he does. Judge Judson will no doubt be much amused at Father Ritchie’s attempt to soft soap him. Our venerable cotemporary is admit- tedly as ardent as a Southern sun can make him} but he must not suppose for a moment, that there is danger of any law, no matter what it might be, not being carried out by New York, so long as it is jaw. The Fugitive Slave bill is the law of the land, and it will be carried out, as far as the State of New York is concerned, come weal or come wo. Neither our citizens nor Judge Judson need to be informed of what his duty under that law is. themselves do, in reference to this question, they would not be quite so rampant «8 they are. The Untom exclai s, is the Fugitive Slave law a dead letter and a humbug at the North now? Fa- | ther Richie certiinly cannot be as well informed of the state of the public mind at the North as he ought to be, or he would not use such language. We can tell him that the citizens of New York will uphold any law passed by the national lege jature, as long as it is a law and in accordance with the constituten. Even did they think it un- constitutional, they wo Id stand by t unti’ its un- constitutionality were decided by the Supreme Court. The great mistake with people out of New York State has been that they ave taken Gerrit Smith and Horace Greeley as public opinion. No greater error could be commited. Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley and William H. Seward belong to completely condemn and despise. By accident, W. H. Seward go' « se-t in the Senate of the United States; but if his election depended upon the voice of the masses, he would have remained until this time, in the obscurity from which he never should have emerged. New York does not want any credit for per- forming her duties as a member of the confederacy. She may for a time be led astray, but enly for g time. She kaows her duty under the laws and under the constitution, and will perform it at any risk. Judge Judson, too, knows his duty, and we venture to say will perform it, no’ caring a straw who approves of or who condemns his action. ‘Tur Croton Aquenvct.—In another part of the Herald will be found an admirable document, emanating from one of the departments of the city government. It is the report of the Croton Aqueduct Board to the Common Council, for the year 1850. The Croton Aqueduct is, perhaps, the greatest work of the kind in modern or aacient times. It is the pride and boast of the United whose inhabitants voluntarily taxed themeelves | for its construction and maintenance. All, there- fore, that relates to it is interesting to them. The document to which we refer must prove particu- larly so. It is the best, perhaps, that ever issued frem the department, and it presents a striking contrast, in point of merit, with the report for the year 1849. We have abridged it considerably, and, for the further convenience of our readers, we have added headings to the different subjects which it embraces. We entirely concur in the observations relating to the wast» of water; but we think that some stringent measures ought to have therto | Arrival of the U been long since’ adopted to put a stop to the evil, The Commissioners, however, promiee to take the | matter in hand immediately, and to furnish each | houee in the city with a copy of regulations, the | violation of which will be attended with penal | consequences. 8o strongly do the Board feel on | the subject that they think wanton waste of one of | misdemeanor, and we are rather inclined to agree | with them. We refer the reader to the report itselt, which will amply repay perusal How tne New Corporation erain Tuer Year ov Orrice.—The very first act of the new Corpora- tion was one of the grossest extravagance, to say | the least of it. On Monday, the Board of Aldermen ordered 1,000 copies of the Mayor's message, and | the Board of Assistant Aldermen 500 copie: printed in pamphlet form, under the pretence tha; this vast number Was wanted for the Common morning in nearly all the daily papers, in the Herald , gratuitously, and in most of the others paid for ac- cording to contract. Itis no wonder that the city | taxation is increasing from year to year, till at | length it has become intolerable, and it is driving | our respectable citizens to the neighboriog cities. | If the Common Council begin the year in this way, whet are we to expeet from them before it has ted? exy Marine Affairs. For Cu Capt. Porter. sailed, yesterday att via, Havens, with the Pacific Fhe carried between 150 « whom were the Hon Cort) ones ‘ason. for Chagres, od Califoraia mails. 100 passengers, among The U 8. mall steamship Georgia | | 4 Cushing. Charge @At- | fairs to Eeuador, Major 8. BR Tebbir. the Ravel tami- ly. &e Th painder 4 under the 4 of maritime irtellige Fon Savavvan —The new steamship Florida, Capt. Ludiow. od yerterday afternoon. on ber first voy- ope te Be Bhe took « large oumber of passen- gere for ¢ maritime inteiligenoe Masicai. Tre Mesicat Feevivat.—The great musieal enter tainment whieh wae to have te place at ‘Tripler Hall, last night postponed. in consequence of the | iinese of Perodi, who has been aflisted with » sore it einer Frid The concert will og lest be given, probably, om Saturday night next Correry's Mrvererce excellent and highly amuri tertatame nt offered for to. ing en ing—tinging of the m tt b sim the highest terms a which excites which cannot be b que I er: aod dancin he part of the Union Fetve Or " This popular place of | amusemen nto night with a grand sacred con cert end ut raising the price of admiaston, whien scnly 25 cents, Mr PF. E. Doctor and Madame Louise & people w ed into mauho have seen “ the future ia the ia- stent’ well the character of a people born beyond all ho; ex those generated by self relying indu lie e mind saw the | future strides of this country in the very attitude of fits infancy—end probably he felt im sed with the certainty of a coming day n the sons of the | Doctor. whore brilliant murleal display on the plano at Tripler Hall, wou for them the esteem of the musical | people of this city, will execute # grand fantasia | and the a na. “he Poika de Concert. alao. from “ Bonpambuln * Coronation Marteh, Meyerbect Leopold eyet, a violinist of great | | county, Michigan. and the Geld heretolore occu; Frigate Constitution. ‘The U. 8. frigate Constitution arrived yesterday, from the Mediterranean. She left Spezzia on the 3d @' Nov. ; Genoa, 7th, and Gibraltar, Deo. 1, ‘The following te a list of her officers:— an A. Conover, (late Johm Gwinn, 1e Lieutenants —1st, James H. Rowan; 2d. Melancton Smith; 3d, 4. ¥F. V. Gray; 4th, Benjamin F. Shattuck; Sth, Carter B. Poindexter; 6th, Thos 8. Crossan; 7th, Henry Rolando. Purser—Benjawin J. Cahoone. Mas — pel Ow 3 d Assistant Surgeon—R. W. Jeffery. P. J. Horwitz. . Frost. igmen ‘Thomas 8. Phelps, W. W. Low, hur. Joseph D. Danels, W. G. Lloffman. joxe. M mes Stillwell, Geo H. Chapman, J.P K Mygatt, E. P. Coddington, F. H, Baker, E.R. Sbubrick. Acting Master’s Mate—C. T. Bullen. Boatswain— Jobn Featherston, Gunner—John ©. Ritter Carpenter—Luther Manron. Sailmaker—F. Belbersdort, (acting.) Lieut. G. F. Lindsay, of the marine corps, has come home passenger in the Constitution, Phe toliowing are the names of officers formerly at- tached to the Constitution, and where ordered .— Lieuts. Lewis C ’’Kinney passed midshipmen . Duvall and James Rochelle; a) well. all ordered to the razee Independence Surgeon F. B. Guillou, and {Midshipman Eugene H. Oaklsy, or- dered to the trigate Cumberland. ‘We publish the abstract of the cruise of the Consti_ tution, from the time she left Boston, in 1848, until her arrival bi Date of Sailed from, sailing. A.D, 1548, Chaplain—N Date of No.of arrival. ‘days Distance A.D. 1849. at sea. by Lon. Jan. 19,..41 6,452 Arrived at. Boston, Tripoli, Malta, Alexandria, Spertia, Leghorn, Spossia, ‘aples, 2) 3 | 153 | Bpenai o | persis, Leghorn, 55 | Speaia, 72 G 198 Toulen, it | Spezzia, 40 Leghorn, Apr. 30. 35 | Spezzia, May 22. . Leghorn, 55 Leghorn, June 8. ,Spezzia, wt 20 er 531 825 0 n2 60 ur Gibraltar, Dee. 11.,.New York, = On the the 25t\ of Feb., 1849, the Constitution land- ¢d Daniel M’Cawley, Esq., (Consul General to Egypt.) and family, at Alexandris. The lady of the Consul General on the previous day gave birth to a son, who was christened on board, by the name of “Constitution Stewart.” Thee ony was performed by the Rev. N. Frost, chaplain of the vessel. Capt. John Gwinn stood godfather ‘or the child. On the 2d of A 1849, Pope Pius IX, accompanied by the King of Naples, visited the ship, and were each City Intelligence. Postic Baxaxrasr ro Ma. Jas. W, Wattack, Ja.— Yesterday, the professional and many other friends of Mr. James W. Wallack, Jr., who will leave this city to-morrow, for the Haymarket theatre, London, gave to that gentleman, at the American Hotel, » splendid public breakfast, Messrs. Taber and Bagley turnished an ample and elegant entertainment, varied with all that luxury could suggest or the appetite desire, ‘The preliminary honors of the table having been con- cluded, the chairman, Mr. W.R Blake, introduced, in an appropriate speech, the guest of the company, Mr. Jas, W. Wallack, Jr, whose reply to the chairman was most felicitously expressed. Mr. Thomas 8 Hamblin, the manager of the Bowery theatre, then sddressed Mr Wallack. and, in the name of the company, presented to him a silver salver and two tilver cups, of massive workmanship and beauty. These testimonials of the regard of his friends were received with deep feeling by the recipient of the honors, and @ delightful inter- change of sentiment soon exhibited itselt in the toasts and speeches which were called forth by the festivities of the cecasion. Among the distinguished pers who were remembered on the occasion, were Mr. Henry Wallack, the father of the guest; Mr. James Wallgck, the vnelg; Mr. Benjamig Webster, the ma- pager 01 ihe “esmarket theatre, Loudon; Mr, Burtea, of this city whosé natie was proposed in @ neat speech by Mr. Brougham; Mr. Ubaries J. Eames, thé tinguished dramatic critic and weiter, now about to leave this city fer Nathviile; and several other per- sons of eminent reputation ia the literary and dra- matic world. Mr, Watterson, the ex-wember of Con reas from Tennessee, responded to the compliment to ir Fames, in an admirable speech, indicative of his feelings on this occasion ot hopes and farewel| and the whole scene, which lasted from one o'clook till six in the crening, war many sentiments sas Ked yA and « veioh we caunot do justice tor want Chepee. Su, Komblin beving been ‘toasted, as the ‘ouncer of the American Dramatic Fund Associa tion, am honor to which he ts alene entitled gave a very interesting history of tbe rise and progress of the institution; and Mr. Blake, the ehair- man, in an artless, but warm speech, made many val able remarks with respect to the position of the theu- trical profession, making 4 deep impression upon a present. The nowsaper press, also, was con plimente: on the cccarion, and the toast was properly resgonded to by two journalists who were present. “Al euch a picassnt, and, we may add, admirab tainment, as that designed to do honor to Mr. James W. Wellack, Jr, bas seldom been kuown in this city. Without ostentation or notoriety, it was conducted throughout. with no reference to the public; yet the many brilliant speeches and sentiments uttered would have greced the history of amy festive occasion. It was 60 appropriate affair in every respect. Mr. Walieck, to morrow, will leave the city for Lon- don, where he is engaged as the principal actor of the Haymarket theatre, and where, as he expressed him- reli, he will strive to do justice to the kind opiniensot his friends on this side of the water, whose favor has wafted him towards a Innd of new hopes and new am- bition. He has had a eplendid testimonial benefit at the Broadway theatre, aud the public will be gratified to bear that hin success in England sball have been such as wil! tranemit the lustre of the Wallack name through the dramatie future. Tur Case or Niuxs any Ronents.—Judge Edmonds, before whom the bill of exceptions bas been sub- mitted on an application for an order to stay judgm in the case of George W. Niles aud Nathaniel W berts, who stand convicted in the Court ot General 8 has refured to interfere in the matter; therefore on Monday the final judgment of the Court of Bession’ will be carried out, amd the sentence passed on both convicts. Dererauven Scrcipy.—A man ramed Charles Wal- ton. reriding at 275 Water street. near Dover. commit- ted euicide on Friday night. ili wife, who kept a dance house, obtained @ divorce from him on Thurs day. On that day be attempted to commit suicide by opening the veing of his arm. He went to bed on saluted by a discharge of 42 guns. On the 17th of July, 1849, magnificent ball was given on board in honor of the lady of Col. Rowan, our Charge d’ Affaires at the Court of Naples, which was attended by all the nobility of Naples. At Palermo, on the 4th of Sept., at 18 minutes past 3A. M., 1849, Cap:. Johm Gwinn, the commander of the Constitution. departed this life. He was much beloved and respected by all on beard. Capt. Thos. A. Conover assumed the command of the ship at Naples, on the 15th ef September. ‘The Constitution arrived at Gibralter ont ¢ 27th o Nov , after s passage of 20% days from Genoa. TheU. 8. storeship Lexington lett Spezsia on the 7th of Nov., arrived Gibraltar 24 hours before the Constitu- again left on the Ist of Dec, atlOA.M. =~ ‘The frigate sailed from Gibraltar for this port, on the Ist of Dec., at 8A. M., and on the same night came in collision with the British brig Confidence, from New- port, bound to Barcelona, loaded with coal. The brig went down, but the crew, consisting of eight men ands doy, was saved. The Constitution visited, during the cruise, the ports Friday night at 9 o'clock. and on one ef the tamily go- ing to his bedroom at 1 o'clock in the morning, tound him lying dead. with his braing blown out, and a pistol beside bim. Bince the abové was written. Coroner Geer bas inveetigated the se of death and held an inquert on the body, when the following facts in addi- tion were elicited: The wile of the deceased was ex- amined, a6 was, likewise, Catherine Canter. cne of the feale boarders, who testified that the deceased was a dissipated man, and hed been so for many months pact. About three months since, while laboring under ae temporary deranged state of mind, caused by drink- ing liquor, he attempted the life of his wife by die- i loaded pistol at her, the ball of waich took effect in ber right side and came very near proving fa- tal. At that time Walton was arrested,conveyed before the magistrate, and, om the charge, was committed to the Tombs. The next day he opened « vein im his arm, and would have bled to death but for the timely dis- cov: of bis condition. On charge of attempting to kill bie wife, after s short time, the deceased was liberated trom nenge| on beil, ing. during and again took to excessive Le A juor. ‘would pursue his wife and threaten to ta o her wife finally engaged a bs hay end on the re- quisite evidence she obtained adivoree. This fact be- coming known to Walton, only tended to enrage bim bitterly st and on Thursday last, \deavored to take his life by the opening bothfarms; but in comeequence of the timely of Tripoli, Malta, Alexandria, Bpezzia, Leghorn, Na- ples, Gaeta, Messina, Palermo, Genoa, Toulon, Mer- eeiiles and Gibraltar—in all, thirteen. The number of miles sailed “by log,” during the cruise was 19,000. nee. ciples’ Meeting Moure, Beventoenth street —Re Disciples’ joure, enteen| —Rev. 8.E. jorning. |, ma Central byterian ‘inured, Broome street—Réy. @ W. Wood. evening. Congregational Church, Fourth street—Rev. Charles Parker, eveni: Baptist Chapel, Grand street—Rev. D. M. Graham, THOoD. Universalist Church, Fourth street—Rev. Dr. Mas- Or 5 ational Chureb, Madison street—Rev. H. W. nil uilding, Hudson street—Rev. James s Dg. Meeting House Christie street—Rey. N. B. Baldwin, THOOR. Congregational Church, Hammond street—Rev. Dr. Patten, eens: comnneten all, Broadway—Revy. Jobn Grigg, eve- » 5 Bray ver nt Institute, Broadway—Rev, Mr. Welling- Retor ed Dutch Chureb, Lafayette Place—Rey. Prof, Alden, evening. Constitution Halt Broadway—Mre, Bishop, after- noon. Congregational Church, Bixteenth street—Rev. 8. D. Cochran, eveniny Presbyterias urch, Spring street—Rev Dr. Bkin- + —Mr, Peleoassl, one of the per- hore favor to the “Protestants ’ made him an ob- ob of Zante, was baptized on 4 immediately compelled to leave the city From a letter of Mr Iiuel, dated Pirwus, we learn that, though the object of suspicious hostility. his meet molested. A man, who had attended hi elf part, gave credible evi- “ We have at length a wus,» Mr. Campbell, writing on the 20th Sep- that he had only the day before re. he was desiguated to labor Kyouk Phyoo ; and, for eneouragemer by their assistant. who was just r place that the people crowded round to hear the goepel till he bad no time to ‘They arked to ba’ Preaching had hitherto only excited opposition disturbance. This coilmeidence was highly gratitying to his mind am.— Letters trom Mr. Deane state that Mr. Jones waitin the arrival of some one to take char, church. as he required change of alr. There were several bo) for baptiem aineng the Chinese seemed inclined to adopt a more exclusive polley | towards foreigners than for y sion TI Avam.—Mr. Stoddard has been obliged to suspend | wae kept w) public epeaking and teaching. in conse jaenoe of brom- per was chitia, The school was therefore placed in charge of | he Mr. Dauble. It numbered fifty two pupils. t Rev. Charles K, Meflarg was installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Chureh in Byracuse, December 261 Kev. P. Boughton bas ed the pastoral 4 ot the Congregational ebureh at Port fiuron bim is now yacan Rev. Warren © Copcregational chureb in Mariboro, 18th uit ‘The new meeting house just completed by the Firat church in Winchendon, wae dedicnted on the 12th ult, Rev. © W. Cooley was dirmissed on the 25th ult. from the pastoral charge of the Becond Congrega- tional ebureh tn Dover, Mass; aud on the ame day, | by the rame council, Mr John Maskell was ordained | it Fiske wae installed a* pastor of the Cona., on the | elice| society ot North Bridgewater, was dedicated on Fhurecey the Oth inst Rev J Alexander. D1, is understood to have d the callof the Doane street church and e nin NewYork. om condition that hir real of the profersor holde im the login) Bemipary at PF the direotors of that ii Acermbly ‘An 0.8 Presbytery was lately formed by the Bynod compored of the membere end churches of Presbytery, north aod east of Lowa river, led the Presbytery of r Jerse W. Tame was ied over the 0. 8 th folk, Va, has bi Dec church in Telleharres, Fin struggling colenists would plant their baoner and | be o Terietifel url of Nor . we have t jebrity, execute rome beautiful roloe Mr. Con- their institutions, ae we have, on th shore | seer sing the recitative, “Lord, whet to Man!” b ‘i Presbyterian chureb in —leadipg, eventually, to commercial and politic Btepheneon. A young lady of great vocal ability, will has resigned the pastoral charge ehanges in the eropires of the Last, of which we | reméer! ppm arr 4 arch in Zaneeville, and Rev. Wm. M Ferguson r and fair , snot 4 toes, have to day only a faint and narrow conception rtve Moria.” ‘The piano te be uaed on the socasion, | PA: berm sprtaiic® IX bis pine call from The carrying trade between San lrancisco and | #0n* of Erard a grend double action, being th t | the Prevhola Vi acepted. entie port idea, 6o far as the whale | Bit obtsined at Jollie's gift concert This i Rey De Oster and Rev. Mr. King, two 0. 8. clergy: qhe Atlantic ports is a new idea, 60 far as the whale | dia entertainw | men of Alabama, have recentiy died of the cholera shipe ere concerned. By the discharge of their oil ‘and whalebone at California porte, to be brought thence by our ordinary sailing vessels, the whale- men will gain a very important advantage They | U, &, District Attorney's Office, | © puppert of bia victim The Reform convention of Maryland, have instruct ed a committee to inquire into the expediemey of mak- ing ® person Rilllog another in @ dael guttty of ' er end hove his property confisested to tue laws y. lite was saved However. he clared life, bur faction, (meaning to take the life of his wite.) and durivg Friday, he several times expressed himeelf in the like manner. On that he came into the house as usual, between 9 'cloo! od Catherine Canter — Mrs. Walton e dance reo! Walton immediately ran out st the back door, an took refuge in # neighbor's house. Walton findii could not obtain au interview with his wife, stairs to his bed roem and there looked himself in, ‘where be was found about 1 o'clock lying on the bed, baving shot himeelf through the head with a pistol. This ra from the 001 5 wife, but luckily for her, ehe kept out of the way, and he, in his crazy Bt of put an end to hisown existence. The j red a verdict, that the deceased came to his suicide. by sheoting himecif in the tol. Charles Walton was 36 years of age, and @ Swede by birth. Arrumpt to Commrr Suicipe ay Jumrixe ore 4 Fenny Boat.—Yesterdey morning at nine o'elock, a Ger- man ratt, a rilversmith by trade, at- apt commit suicide, by jumping into the river at the foot of Burling slip. He was rescued from drow’ brou, to Feit into rie Rive night, Michael Curry fell tieh ship Conrad. lying pier No 6. North river. and was rescued from drowning by policemen Kiely and McCarthy. te —The members of the Young ‘at Tammany ‘lal bave presented to ir Chairman, Garret H. Strikor, Jr. jen did gold teh and chain. which are of the Onest work- watch bas the ‘ollowing inscription wed —“ The Democratic Republican Bixruoay —On Frigay in New Yor! elebrate Benjamio Fi day, at Ni bys rand banquet, under the diree- tion of the New ork Typographical Boctety. It will, we understand. be a magni ‘tertainment. well wortby of the illustrious dea of the printers of New Yor Printers Lt 1s Trircen Hart. —This ff, which erday evening, in Tripler Hail, was of « It was soarcely inferior attendance of t! «high time to repair t their homes. hour to whieh the bail was prol: fot the universal was pre the rearor with it Te Gas Lars —On Friday night. two gas lampe, in John street, near Broadway, and two in Fuiton street, one pear No, 18 and the other opposite to No. 00, were not lighted The sulphur factory of , near Warhington, caught aif pasttwelve o'clock. The fire fy by the energetic action of the fire jes. with bot trif_lng damage. The smell of the sulphur wae borr! Movements of D Amin bey. the Turkish Gov. Johprion of Pennsylvania, has deciia: eendidate for the post of U. 8. Benator from th tate Mr. G. Barclay, Concord Hally, Bag to; T M. Hotchkiss. Albeny; James F Toron- Montreal; Mra. D. Beecher, New Haven Bangerties, were among the arrivals yesterday at the Union Place Hotel ¥. B Holmes. Montreal; Col, Joreph Ward, BA; A.; Capt, Baker U.8 A.) Chas le; J. Cox. 8. N., Hon G@. Hard, Al- ; 8.N-; 6. W Tift, Duffel J.8. Pease, Bt Lonia; Hon. J. A, Colling, Bing ton; Hon. J. Sherman, Buffalo, D. D, Perkins, U. 8 A. F Field, Boston; J. W. Field, do., are at the Houre tend. a B.H.; J. Waloott, de dict: Oreper, . . Albany, Gen m, Baltimore George day. U 8 arrived yorectay at the American. jeston: J” Hawley Albany: J. Bette, 7, Te D. Baker, Charleston: tT jost-on, were amor Major Ridgiey, & Low Chey The Croton Aqueduct Department—Keport to the Common Council The annval report of the Croton Aqueduct Depart- ment laid been laid before the Common Council, and printed, It ii admirable document. CLAIMS SETTLED AND UNSETTLED, During the past year the department has settled two lai inet the city for damages growing out of the construction Of thé AdWedudtethe firat a claim of Richard Carman compromised for $10,000, and the fecond for $194 The report adds that there are other claims ett useetted, which will require not lees than $125 ((0 bo maticty z WEMANTS OF THE YEAR Among the improvement, je during the year are the iron railing cn the wing is at the western end of the High Bridge; the river between two of the piers dredged out, ro as to turmish, at all times of tide, a ruffivient depth of water to any vessel likely ever to pavigete the Harlem river; aud commodious iron stairs have been erected down the rooks, at the foot of O: Hundred and Beventy-third «treet, to the bridge. This new means of visiting it, available by one of the finest drives om the isiand and opening at various poiptson Harlem Helgnis. avd trom the top of the | staire @ very exte and beautiiul view of Long Irland and the Sound, will no coubt. become a place | Of great attraction, not oply to «rangers, but to own citizeos, In the design and erection of staivs, the department has ht to exhibit the character of messivencss and solidity. which #0 expa- prominent features of the aque- ite entire lengte Mee Equecuci Coe “Ho" TSShunt, in which thesé improvements are items, amounts to $16,107; still leaving further payments to be made, Out of the ap- propriations made for repairs has been expended the sum Of $12,607 These outlays are spread Over a con- tinuous line of more than thirty-three miles of aque- duct. and do not appear extravagant THE PXIENSION OF THE WATER WORKS. All the work contemplated in the plan submitted to the Common Council, in December, 1849, under the head of ‘Croton Water Works Extension,’ has been completed, The amount expended is $31.71 means thus Sequired of throw sng into the distributiog Tese. voir, at will, an additional thirty inch column of water, is a most important item in maiptaining at all times an efficient head for the extinguishment of fires, and for the service of consumers inthe upper stories of dwellings and man ; its beneficial effvots are apparent, in the a! eof complaint—formerly of daily cecurrence— ot deficient supplies im all ele- vated situations, MAPS AND STATISTICAL TANLES. The appropriation of ten thousand dollars, m the Common Council in 1849, for the pur, ot bling the department to compile * Statistical Tab! of ali the heuses, buildings, manutactories, steam er- gines, and other particulars, within the water districts of the city required by the act of the Legislature of the 11th of April, 1849, has turuished the means to meet there expencitures, with a surplus sufticient to pay for the returns to be made by the Captains of Police, of all new brildings erected during the current year, their character and dimensions. and also to eopy the ward maps used in the office of the Receiver ot Taxes. These maps are exsemtial to the Receiver of Water Kents. THE LAYING OF THE PIPES—THe TOTAL LENGTH, In the laying of pipes much har been done during the Year; but the operetions of the department have been greatly obstructed by the erection of sewers, and by others which it is intended to ereet. During the year, in the upper wards of tne city, 9U1 feet of four inch pipe have been laid, 32630 iret of six inch, 1,980 of twelve inch. 5.000 of twenty inch. 2950 of thirty inch, and 640 of (hirty-rix inoh, Total, 43 461 feet, or over $8); miles. The whole of the presen! area of the water Girtrict including the curious net work of pipes be- neath the street pavements. maker an uggregate of two hundred miles, THE MAINS ON THE FIFIH AVENUK—INIERESTING OFRRA- TIONS. In April, ue early a* the opening sprii mit. the department commenced the great ering the two lices of mains on the Fifth Murray hill, rendered impe: by supply of water to t) n the variour estimates of the cont of th ing, wade by the former cfficers of the nd cifleriug im amount from sixty to o1 and five thousand dollars, it bad alwayn bee that these pipes mut of necessity be takem apart, hoisted out of the trench, the deep-cutting (reaching to the depth of sixteen feet) excavated. toe pipes low- ered ip, ang the joints remade and cauiked, each con- suming at least one hundred pounds of lead. To avoid this epcrmour expenditure, Mr Edward H. Tracy, one of the engineers, ruggested, that in bis opinion, it might de effected us safely, aud at @ great saving of cost, without bresking the continuity of the line, by draw. ing off the water from one of the maine at « time, and proceeding to lower and finieh that, while the other | wae left. yp addition to the new thirty-inch line on the Third avenue to keep up the daily supply of water te the eity. His suggestions were approved and adopted the board, and be was placed in charge of the work. course pursued by bim was essentially this:— First, the whole of both lines were uncovered, and the water orawn off from the westerly one; next, sectional Grits underneath end ecrors both lines, were excavat- ed to the required depth. at distances of about eight feet apart. and both lines supported on independent: crib work of timber, carefully carried up from the bot- tom of there driste, and securely wedged. 80 sustain- ee eo bevy bag se ae Sony pete bpd ¢ pipes supported by them for a len; feve- ral hundred feet ata time: jack-rorews weethen ne- curely placed under the line, the erib work of timber taken out. yee Sy Piece, amd the pipes lowered by the screws to the bottom of the treach The nature of | the soil, an exceedingly hard pan. favored this mode of procedure, as it protested the an ‘n from al) dangerof ite caving. About one hundred and fitty laborers were employed, among whom the atrictest dircipline was required, and enforced; no liquors were permitted to come on the ground, nor were the men allowed, durin, the hours of laber, to visit any place where they co: be procured Every precaution baving thus been adopted, ond steadily continued th: | i] of twenty, twenty: irty. thirty-rix § diameter, ail t! ttop-cocks, with perhaps two or three exceptions, were ut vertically The great danger rangement will be apparent. when it is a that the vaty ‘ttached to the piston which ele- vates them either by an ordinary screw thread, or by rivets and bolts. w: e acted upco with great ra- idity by oxydation, readering it certain that im a jew year, more or less, this freil support will be eaten away by rust. and the valves suddenly fall, The effect of an instantaneous stoppage of a column of water, thirty six inches in diamerer, a mile or more length, and moving at the rate of four miles an hour can recarcely be conceived. No pipe ever constructed would sustain the trom dour reaction; ® rupture would inevitably ename, which if bappening tn the night. would probably prodver incalculable damage before the water could be it is not too much to sappose, that in jog ite course to either river it would out » ra- vine down to the rock. and seep » ything op. Destng an be le to ite exit | } department iat during the next working t op-cocks in place of oner, on the principal lines, aa early rapidly as the means of ite dixporal will per- We WATER TO Pha’ n to Blackwel ered The ri Kk. pointed depth trom 40 to 7 forbade th L's 1LaNp, nee of metallic he ringular tenacity of the material would furnish egainet abrasion on the rongh and sharp roe A contract wae ac for the requisite ith whieh this depart. connection- they were found incapabie ing the required preseure of 200 Ibe. to the b, and were therefore condemned. The eaperi- to the confidence before felt, mede, would meet, and over- erme the diMeulties of t nterprise. New piper, were therefore ordered. but, were found to sustain a prereure of 170 lbs. to the inoh | — and put ecross a single line for immediate use. This bas been ruccessfully done, and the water { livered on Eleckwell's Irland in quantities rufficie nt for ordinary deme stic purposes, This temporary line bas bern loaned to the department. (not purchared) and upon delivery of the new pipes, will be taken up and returned Mortified and dirappointed as the Chief Eng t war at the fallure of there pipes to sustain the proof, it is not. perhaps. to be regretted as the taking up of the erent line. after four or six months’ wear, will enable jim to tee what damage, if any, it has aw the rhifting tides chafing it agninst the rocks ORAINLE WASTE OF Wa The fellowing observations of the report om the waste of water thet continues, are deserving of serious atte voy | Dave produce ot searcel; public eye, though the daily triboth exbidit the trifling « bove that of former eum mere. that rerervoir, with the addition and realons exertions of the « intolerable waste of water, roeptible to the rom any; yet days, e9- peciaily—when zeslour hous-wifery pute every etreet washer in requisition (whether necessary or not), that the reservoir is drawn down to half ite opacity, equal to tem millicne of gallons more and making 4ate- of forty millions of gallons fer » single day's con- mption, in @ population (within the water district) | of not mote then four hb persons, or pinety gallons to each individual. Ifthis shameful and wicked waste of one of the blessings of Providence, was ooafined to the ignorant, - to those presumed to be unacquainted with the city ordinances rguintiug ite use, or incapable of estimate ing the priceless velue of the waters of the n, there would be * me shadow of excuse; but it is not able’ quarters of andred and thirty thousan@ to; @ walk through the tasbio: the city will exhibit as muebh of the sights of pedertrians, defiant & divregerd of limitatioy of street washers as can be foun in the suburbs, and slong the wharves in the unlawful oosning, use. end abase of the fire bydrants. Mt is in vaim that this Department essays to stop the evil last re- ferred to; it bas pot the means, nor the number of men at its disporml to effect it; nor, if it had would both be sufficient. without the aid and rapport of other departments of the city goverament. The sub- ject is already beyond its reach, and the fire hydrants within the control of thousands of irresponsible per- ons Outside of this department, and over whom it om exercise no supervisory power, The Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen can open them, 60 may every person employed to sprinkle the streets, every gang of street eweeners, the firewen (rightfully and properly), the employees at every ferry at all the wharves ocou pied by steamboate, and their barges, and at tho rail- road stations; tae health wardens do it without law, avd not untrequentiy it is dove by members of the police, Nor istbissll The hundreds of hang rs-om about engine houres, the volunteers, the runne:s with fire companies these excrescences upon that Depart- ment, have evch a wrench to open a fire hydrant, am@ the spirit to rhow their proneness for inisrhief, by doing it at all times smatin despite of everybody. It is sate to estimate that thene wrenches to opea by~ drante are in the hands or under the control of more than ten ihourand individuals The present ordinance imposing @ fine—upon com> viction of opening one - not exceeding twenty. five dol- lars, in the dircretion of the magisirate bearing the complatnt. is found to be quite inadequate to check the evil; the requisite proof fs not always attainaleor if obtained, ie wet by the production of a permit from some member of the Common Council, who, though he might bimeelt open it, cannot delegate that power to uno'her, but which must neverth Jers be deemed rufficient to exonerate the ofiender. It is this perversion oy che purposes for whic by drants were erected ‘bat renders the repairs of thom 80 expentive reaching this year $2472 71, aud whick is greatly beyord any amount that in the prover ase of them would be wecessery Nothiog short of caking the offence spoken of # misdemeanor, subjec’ the offender to imp oment, will ever abate the evil. ‘The Cther rource ot waste referred to, namely, street washers, ar also tbat protaced by ing taps at wash bowls, and the cp: minus wt water closets urinale rupning #t all times, day and night, is sufficiently within the control o{ thix department, end its pow- ers will hereatrer be interposed, it is hoped, vifestus ally, The dviny has arixep from the continued bors impored upon the Board in arranging the sta- tistics, and carrying into operation the ne: water rates, leaving it po} 0US Ordinances of \he city gow use of water, which it is i to do with the udot ag le: adopted by this Bow: aD them printed ona single sheet, with potice that the violation o: any of them will subject tre offender to the penalty, first, of having the water ehut ott second, to the payment oF the fine and expenses betore a supply will be agaim furnished. These printed sheets will be distributed to very building #itbin the water district; this done, no consumer can complain it he finds bis offence illewed by ro just a retribution. f this Board could by any process divest itself uf the consciousness that it is entrusted with duties con- necting it immediately with the daily comveniences and comforts ot every individual in the city, and upom the proper administration of which the future growth and prosperity of the city so essentially dupend, it could not forget that the law under which it is organ- ized enacts, that “ They soull be responsible for the supply of water. and the good order and security of all the works fiom the Croton lake to the city inclusive, for the exectarse und durability of the structures which may be ereotes, and of the daily work perform. ed, and for the sufficiency of the supply in the pipe yard to meet every casuaily, and for the fidelity, care and attention of ali persons employed by the depart- ment in watching the works, and in making construc- tions end repairs’ Under these direct and sufficlent- Nbitiiies, this Board now warns the Common Veunecil, uvd through it every citizen, that the last drop of water which the works in their pre- tate cap supply is now daily delivered in the cit) ply more than equalto apy, end all the ithe f « population of a million and a bi wsrplas is falling over the Crotom @great part of the year, but the High bridge scroes Harlem river is between the city and it, end to increace the yuantity delivered, ne ry pipes ist be substituted for those now occupying gu this winter have beer for # quarter of acentury the Croton river, and the 1ON OF WATER Rares. tire collections for * water rates.” ior Fey , bave reached the sum of $449,783 90, ee still Outetanding and uncollected, it is th will produce $73 600, the two sums exceeding pe arog estimates made by the department, and upor| the rates were established by an inconsiderabl« difference only. Of these coll received by the Di rmite, &; B Rosa; tor intaren it a8 ON THE ACQURDUCT. ‘The report laine of the diMoulty of protecti: the water. works. S coprequence of ville poten con @ line; am oy to it,om Gifferent parts of alto wilfal trespass. This is the more to be re grotted, as the courts. so far, have decided against th right of the city, ins case tried. and unless the de| cision is reversed by @ higher court, the departmen will loce all control over the aqueduct grounds in th county of Weste: sequired by the payment ¢| three times their value. FROPOFLD FURCHASK OF GROUND FOR A NEW RESERVOIR No direct progrers has yet been made ia pur hare of ground tor a new and larger reservoir. fb necensity for this work was plaged before the Commo Council in June last, Doc. No. 41, which was referre to the Committee on the Croton Acueduet De; ment; that no definite action has been had, seems t b stisen more from a want of powers than a de fielent appreciation of its necessity, time, real estate on the island r In the mes) it to preeure, in a body. a required apectfully euggerted Common Counet! Committer, the © Committee, or this imperative reasont. Bac year will incteare the neomary consamption Water. and the reservoirs now built ary barely equ to furnish the want the aqueduet ta rand anxiety, which is eves year renew increased: and if the means ing & more copious supply be not provided with the next fire yeare these examinations must by aba doned. or the city be without water during « port of the time they are in progres SEWERS ABD DMAINE— VAST LENOTII OF THEM The Bureau of Sewerd and Drains, attached to t department bas been very actively employed throug out the season, anda large amount ot work has be acoomplithed. The benefits rerulting from the co struction of sewers in the increased conrenien: cleanliness and comfort of every dwelling coanect with them, is becoming widely known aud approviate Gwellings to connected are greatly preferred by te ante and an advanced rent, more than equal tt interest on the cort. readily obtained forthem T period is not distant when they will come to be co fidered a8 nreresary an appendage to every howe a fupply of water. aud also as the most ready aude tain means of promoting and preserving the j ub health, The department ruggset thet, in bvildi sewers in streets crossing the ieland, it were well, ail cares, to connect the principal ener instead stopping them, as heretofore practired, within #0 sixty or eighty fect of the summit bevel, A ere wind blowing directly into the mouth of ay sewer, for inrtance that in Twenty third street ditcharge itself throvgh the mail opentags left i yentilaters, and a* & consequence, rometi e the reristance offered by the traps | apd pours foto the dweiling rolu this would be effectually obviated:w are Opened to it irem siver to ri furnishe regulation of stre making the er street, and independen: seu avciding the errors of curves, and frequent couneoti by which the velocity of the current arromted. porite quickly formed, and comstant cb inour for cleaning. A straight sewer of pro; , witia inclination of right Inches to ndred foet, wo mi never tequite the outiny of lar in cleansing the receiving basing only would demand ocsaakona’ tention, Old errors, as in the of Canal ate the Collect grounds, aud tome other parts of theo are probably irreparable; if they cerve as eautine prevent similar ones hereafter, in the upper andr parte of the island, they will not have been with their benefits The praction! operation of the ordinance rogulat contract jally a8 affecting the eo rowers, is found to be injurious, The lod i the ' ordipance organizing the Cenartments of the nisipal government of the city of. Sew York,” com the award of aileontracts “to the lowest hdd Under an eneotment co imperative. it has haope that thir department bas entered into contra :t« it was within its knowled that the individ not the nesersary mechanionl akill The length of eewers constructed during tho year amounts to ten and « quarter miles The department hos recently ascertained by c fol review of the dooumente im ite possersion always reliable) that the whols lengch of pe re now in nee in the city reaches to seveaty miles. y ing the cost of all repairs equal to $27 22 per mile, the ennunl charce of clesaipg them. and the reo basins and culverts, $8877 per mile. All fewers, inclading that im Canal street, hi thoroughly cleens not expected that the son be much Increased for rome of th with them, ot they # the required during the past reason, and I cost of thie . tr Ay ral er,and e out Of tie placed eo far apart « ties for that purpose