The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1851, Page 2

NEW YORK ‘HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR AND BDITOB. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. ¢ DAM. Y HERALD, 2 cents per wer File WEEKLY HERALD, every p= Rae er copy. or $8 per ann ‘dihon Fun, loamy part of Grea Britain, and $6 to any TETRIS eet ethan, oot, der |, for # 7 tistinanta, to be pest. pad, or the postage’ wild be deducted from {RY CORRESPONDENCE, containing #nport- Se ee caigted Lo, OMY dure aeons Conn meeourTs Panvicctcury Keqvesrms 10 SEAL ALL LETrene PACK AGESSENT TOUR | annum. 6% cents U NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, Wedo | 10 return tose rejected. | ADVER TISRMEN TS renewed every morning. YOR PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness, and dispatch Welume XVI... ccc ese ceeees Number 15 AMUSEMENTS 1. )-MORROW EVENING. BOWBRY THEATRE, Boarswaix. Broadway—-Paverve— Tux Bowery—-Purxax—Ban THE BROADWAY THEATRE, Mussayp oy My Beart. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Davip Corrxa = wuetp—Diamonn Cur Diamond. Chatham Square—Paivter ov eNom or Wowas—Gores Ak. BROUGHAM'S LYCEUM, Broadway—Davin Corray.riap —Domagy anv Son. CHRISTY’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway —Brnoriay MinsrRuisy. FRLLOWS' OPERA HOUSE, 44] Broadway—Erxrorsan | Movern eisy. (CAN MUSEBUM—Aavsine Peavonuayces Arren- | myon anv Evexine. the look at ourselvesas we are. Let us march on | Tus Curren Cowrner.—There is great anxiety mant wisely, since it is inevitable that we must go for- ward at some rate; whle the American Navy may hope some time or other, to be thoroughly overhauled like an old man of war, razéd, cut down, sharpened, and mounted with long Paixhan guns, to sail quick, and be everywhere, and throw ‘an unprecedented weight of metal for the number Sorte te | of men and the number of cuns. Until that time comer, let us take the besi that we can have, and multiply our steam eommervial intercourse, under the control’of the government, with every part of the word. No matter how | port or how unfre.u nted : e waters, wherever our vessels go, keep them in active service, mul- tply their number, let out the mail service by con- tract, let enterprising men bid for it, give no favor- | insm, put our rusty naval officers into active com- | mercial service, make it an object for our own citi- zens, born on the soil, and fired with the blood of our fathers, to mount our decks, pull our ropes,and fire our guna; and wherever our steamers go, let them carry with them not only the prestige of our sant may be the national greatness, but an idea of the electric pro- gress of our republic. Let these steamers admin- ister substantial and powerful aid and appllances to our commerce, by carrying freigit and passen- gers to accommodate and help our people; opening new commercial relations—diffusing fresher and purer light among the nations. We hope the bill for the new mail steam- ers will pass. We had rather vote twenty millions a year, for such a bill as that, than eight millions to keep rotten hulks afloat in our own harbors. Drag out our o!d commodores, brush ‘em up, send ’em to sea by team, give ’em PuavoRuances. something to do. In these piping times of peace, WASHINGTON HALL—Pavonaxa ov rar Prronsw’s | Steamers will stir their blood aimost like the shock Paoenxes. | of battle; and if they won’t go, send the captains, SATTEBR’S COSMORAMA, corner of Thirtesath siress and if the captains will stay at home, send the pensar lll | liewtenaats, Work, work, work; the flag of the | Union must wave around the globe. Talk about _ | “Britannia ruling the waves!” This is a very _ funny ecuntry now that it is fenced in. | NEW YORK AMPHITHEATRE, 27 Bowory—Bavusraiay New York, Sunday, January 19%, 1551, | The Steamship Atlantic. The stesmship Atlantic, Capt. West, has now | been twenty-two days atsea. “here is, of course, | a great deal of anxiety felt for her safety; but we are stil] of the opinion that she has met with an ac- aoat oe has put back to Liverpool, or gone-to | position which that journal assumed in relation to the slavery question, and to throw the onus of the Annexed isa lut of her F a, | whole difficulty on the democratic party. It said, NAMES OF THE PASSENGERS IN THE ATLANTIC. Mr.W A Wherlock and Mr.G. B. Reese, Philadel. | the other day, that the agitation was produced by lady. New York, Mr. Abbott Lawrence, Jr. | q set of demagogues, who cared not what ruin their | Tur Covrimr anv ENquiRer, AND THE SLavery Aerration.—The Courier and Enquirer, of this city, in its editorials, and through its Washington correspondence, is endeavoring to creep out of the Mr WE Boston, " See Tee: Pe aie course produced, provided they could accomplish | Mr. Jas. Barter, Balti- Mr. Schifeman. ir own * i . an me ‘ their own purposes This is very true, although | Mr RH. Barris, Mr W. Benjamin, Jr New | We were surprised to see it inthe Cowrver. How- | Mr. L. Pottinger, York, ever, itis never too late to repent. We are in- Be 8. Set ae Teme” formed that there is more joy over one sinner who Mr H P. Walker Mr Alexander & servant, | repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons. | | a anemia Mr. Wadsworth S servants | That the Courrer and Enquirer bas crievously ir E # Griffin, Mr. G A. Curtis, | sinned in its course oa the slavery question, no | ‘Mr D. Rankin, Mr. J. J. Loring | one who has read that pa,er for the Inst year or The next steamer due from Liverpool will be the | two, can doubt. Aretic, and we expect her on Saturday next. We | We will, however, be disposed to question the may bear of the Atlantic before that time; bat if | sincerity of the Courier’s repentance, if it indulges not, we confidently believe that the Arctic Will! gs much as it has within a few days, in mis- bring us advices of her sefety. | statements. It says, for instance, that if a spirit of r disafiection has grown up between the North and the South, it is chargeable entirely to those trading has assumed the ancient prerogatives of Neptune, | paienye en, Rip Te sarin Macponls and taken possession of the salt waters of the | conniving for the promotion of both ; and that the globe. Possession is nine points in the law, @nd | gbotition party would have died a natural death ten, for that matter, until the casé comes to atrial. | years ago, but for the industrious efforts of the It is often true, besides, that what is boldly as- | jocotecos to kee} it alive. Now, the Courier and sumed by one party, is taken for granted by every- | pw rwirer cannot but know thet such is not the The Ocean—Whose Is it Since the days of Blake and Nelson, John Bull | fested, and much speculation indulged im, by s great many persons interested in ship building, concerning the respective sailing qualities and seaworthiness of the various beautiful ships that have left and are preparing to leave this port for California and Chime. Bech vessel,as sheis launched from one of the ebip yards of our city, andevery one that comes to our port, from some astern yard, has its separate admirers. The various points of beauty, whether of the ul or spars,are marked and descanted upon with a eri- tical eye, Some one, probably e New York ship builder, with eparkling ¢ye and animated countenance, among the groups that are generally aseembled in the neigh- borhood of the doeks where these ships lie, will point out to you, what, in his opinion, are the masterpieces of theart. The Eclipse, with her signal flying. “Through by Daylight,” sailed om Wednesday for California and China, and the Ino, now receiving freight for the same destination, will be considered by him as combi- ming all the elements of a vessel never to beexcelled,and but on rare occasions to be eualled by any craft hail- ing from other than a New York shipyard. From stem to sterm—from keel to masthead—their various powers for skimming the waters or withstanding the antici- pated heavy weather to be met with in weathering the Cape, and the qualities of their commanders to bring all the vessels’ powers into play, are talked of with as much earnestness as if the speaker had embarked his all in the voyage;and sanguine assertions are made that either of his favorites will beat anything that the Eastern States can ever produce in the shape of a sailing vessel. But the Eastern built vessels are not without their friends and backers. The Sea Serpent, which left on the llth, and the Stag Hound, now re- ceiving her cargo, are cited as proud monuments of the skill of our Eastern brethren, each, in its turm, being ‘warranted as sure to take the starch out of anything afloat; and though admitting that for beauty of model end sailing qualities the New York vessels may proba- Diy have some claim to perfection, a confident guess is rendered that the results of the voyages will prove that the East bave as good, if not @ better olaim to su- periority in ship building than their New York com- petitors, Among so many splendid vessels, it is im- possible to select one as superior, where all are beauti- ful. If this one has a neater or more beautiful stem, | that basa more elegantly turmed stern, and a cleaner | Tun; if one has a greater capacity for stor and bet- ter bearings, another has a greater rise of door, with its accompanying lightness of appearance. The trips, however, of the Eclipse and Sea Serpent, will prabably go some way towards settling the matter in dispute, as cach is of a different model. and one a New Yorker and the other an Eastern vessel, and each commanded by a man celebrated for his energy and great seaman- like qualities. It will be @ neck-ood neck tace—they having railed witbin four days of each other, and are looked upon by the two partiee as the champions of their different ideas of clipper ships, Sucovss to t he winner. Lavscreo.—On Saturday, the steamship Lafayette, according to notice, was launched from the yard ot Messrs Perine, Patterson & Staok, at Williamsburgh. She was immediately taken to Messrs. Hogg & Dela- mate LL aor! to receive her engines. Her dimen- sions we bave already published. Tho Lafayette is ropeller, and is @ most handsome looking and excel- jently built vessel; the work being put together in the best and stropgest wanner; and she will compare fa yorably, both internally and externally. with anything ever produced in the shape of a steamer. Breamenie Crescent Ciry.—Tiis vessel did not sail yesterday, her appointed day, owing to a leak being discovered in her boiler just on the eve of her starting, the repairing of whieh will detain her until to-morrow ai Express bag will be Kept open for letters and packages, until that time. Shurnvirprse av Barn —The number of vessels built in the district of Bath, in 1950, was 43, of which 22 were sbips, 6 barke. 2 brigs 6 schooners, and 5 steamers, The aggregate tonnage is 16,80. The tonnage of Bath 48 105,040, of which 70,854 is registered and 27,108 en- rolled and licensed. wi.oine at Watponono.—The vessels built in the district of Waidobore, Me , in 1850, amount to 20,- 017 tons, of which 2,162 are in the town of Waldoboro; 3692 in Newoastle; 2.175 in Thomaston; 2.630 in Rock- land (late E, Thomaston) ; 1320 in 8. Thomaston; 3,159 655 in Bristol; 617 in Nobleboro; 262 in 8t. (4 61 im Friendship body elee; but in the sublime language of Mr. Micawber, ‘something will turn up” to over- | throw the presumption. We are heartily rejeiced | to ee tbat the committee to whom the subject was | referred in the Senate, have reported a bill to ex- | tend the mail steamer service of the United States; and with a large and comprehensive spirit, they propose to do it on both oceans—the Atlantic and | the Pacific. There is to be a line connecting the western shores of our continent with the coast of China, probably at Shanghai, the moet active com- mercial seaport of that vast empire. Steamers are also to sail from Norfolk, Charleston, and New | Orleans, to the shores of Europe, thus sweep- | img the two oceans, and bringing our repub- lic into immediate contact with both sides of the old hemisphere. There is something about this that looke like progress. There is something that qui kens the pulse and stirs the blood of | every American. It is well. The time has fully come to do it. We are locking to no collision with the naval | power of England. The days of peace are on us, | thank God, and, we hiope, long toremain. But the time has come when it is the duty of our govern- ment to show its flag in every quarter of the world. Hf we are the great republic of the earth—it it be true that, in the Declaration of ladependence, a politica! principle was laid down of the imalienable right of men end nations to the boon of freedom— how much truer is it that, after seventy years of successful working, we may, with augmented | power, go ferth among the natio and give the hand of fellowship to all mankind who are #trug- giing for liberal institutions! The despatch of Mr. Webster to the Austrian Minister Yas been received and read by the whole country, with a feeling ef gratification which has sought to find expression in almost every form | that words could give it. Probably no State paper | has issue | from our cabinet since the government meelf began to exist, tha: will be longer remem- bered. No Aqbrican could withho'd from i: the tribute of his approbation. Jt strack a chord that has vibrated from one portion of the nation te another, and the reverberation has come back from a!l quarters, showing that when an occasion came for a declarat on of republican policy, and republican principles, “the man” was ready, es well as “the hour ome public political com mentary w needed on the Declaration of Ia- dependence, and we not aware that anything so decisive, 20 clear, so comprehensive, and so | powerful, has ever before been given. [a the poo session of a little brief au hority, Mr. Hulsemano, | the Austrian Minister, queerly the American goverament . bout certain proceedings that seemed not to meet bis approbation. It was, | probably, in h stimation, a proper and a perti- pent official duty, in the name of the house of | Hapeburg, to call our government to eccount | Because General Taylor had seen fit to send a confidential agent to look on events, as they were chasing each other with lightning rapidity across the continent, to «© tisfy him how, a¢ a guod President and a true repubdlican, he ought te The lucky aid of the Kuesia. empire, brought to bear at amom ot when Austia was crumbling at the tou bh of the lthuriel «pear of a world wile revolution, happemed to sve that ancien from utter dissolution. | “ there a re a therefore, why the Monister of that power which had been saved by the Cra at the expense ¢ own independence, should call this republe to ea accour ause, forsooth, ite President che send «4 men in hie confidence abroad, to le ren! #t ase 1 But the ime was when even riendly gi an ofal wer diet ' aapect of our @ faire by | whie case ; that if democrats have formed combination’ with the abolitionists, the whigs have done the seme. Is it nota well known fact that Wm. H- Seward for many years past, has advocated aboli- tion principles oft be most violent and ultra charac. ter, when he was Governor of the State of New York, as wellas since! Look a: the course, too, of Thurlow Weed, and that of Horace Greeley— men who have done everything in their power to back abolitionism and every other destructive ism, foreign and domestic, that visionaries and crack- brained poets could invent. The fact is, that both | parties have truckled to the abolitionists, for the purpose of getting their votes. lt was this that gave the abolitionists the power to use and control both | the old parties, and, if anything, the whigs went farther than the democrats did in the dirty work. | If the Courier wishes to back out from the unfortu- rate policy with which that journal was identified, it must do so fairly, and in a straight-forward manner Tue Apwrnistration.—From our prtvate advices from Washington, we are assured that the cabinet is a unit—that there was never a more harmonious cabinet, and that the very best aad most cordial re- lations prevail between the President and Mr. Webster, particularly. No matter who may turn | up as the Union candidate, or as the conservative | national whig candidate, for the presidency, they are both ready, not only to acquiesce, but to coa- lesce in the movement. This is good news. Standing fast upon the slavery compro + ives, upon the Union platform for the sake of the Union, and liberal and conciliatory upon the general domestic policy of the country, the admiaistration has a fair field before it. [tis now the admitted bulwark of the friends of the Union, and the rights of the States under the constitution. It has the confide ce of the country in ite patriotism, the respect of foregn nations for i's conceded ability, and the fall eup- portof the Union people in its consistent, eonser- vative, and honest footing upon the slavery ques- tion. Whether ruled in or raled out, by the tricks of the politicians, if the President and cabinet continue to carry out the “true priaciples of the govera- meat,” they will be abundantly rewarded in the expanded happiness and gratitude of the country. the meantime, however, do let us have eome light on the Nicaragua question. On that subject | we are all in the fog Varrate Mises Near Home.—The immense discoveries of gold and quicksilver in California, have attracted public attention so much of late, that valuable mines near home have been entirely overlooked. [t will no doubt surprise our readers to hear that there it a valuable lead mine as near to ua Uaxbrid, near the boundary line between Khede Island and Massachusetts. It is on the road from Millville to Alum Pond, and thelead coataina ge proportion of silver ck blend sulphuret of zine, areenical iron, and copper pyrites occur also in ne close to the lead mine. The mine was examined by Dr. Jackson, who made a geoiogi- cal survey of the State of Rhode Island, in the year 1829, and after analyzing the ore, reported that every cubie feot weighing four huadred and eighty { pound 1718paris of silver. This mine has been worked to a limited extent, but for want of ca pital to purchase proper machinery, &c., it has been pa y aban 1. We pow learn that «com pany ie about te formed to work thie mine €n an extearive scale, to be composed of jew elera doing busin city. As soon as the Company shall have r edand the eapit in, Operations on au extensive scale will be Por given toe x d whig | Pr Arrnoacnino Musica. Evenrs.—The past week has been characterized by some of the most remarkable musical festivals ever known in this city. As # fact exhibiting the industry of Parodi. it is worthy of ob- | servation that has sung every night except one during the past week, besides being engaged daily in | the rehearsals of two operas, “ La Fayorita” and “I | Capuletti Montecebi,”’ both of which will be produced | during the present week, und in the latter of which | the generous daughter of Genoa will sustain the part | of Romeo, at the début of Miss Virginia Whiting, for whore success in the lyric drama her concert perform- | ances have prepared us. Nor is this all the novelty that we are to have dur- ing the week. The letter of Parodi, addressed to the citizens of New York, in which she makes an appeal in behalf of the political Italian refugees, has appeared in ourcolumps. In that document, in conjunction with | Maretzek and the opera company, Tuesday evening | next was set apart for a concert at Tripler Hall, and | (be programme shows that we are to anticipate a treat ‘bat. doubtless, will fill the capseious saloon of music to the very ceiling, om that interesting occasion. It | will give additional zest to that event to know, that Parodi berself is under the ban of the government of her own country. When the republican cause was doubttul in the scale, it was to her hands that tches of the liberal party were confided, and she it was, who, in crossed the bay of Naples with them, at the hazard of her liberty and life, For this,and her other romantic yet noble acts in connection with the freedom cf her country, she is an exile; and, having ceme nobl wardin behalf of those who are less gitted with the means of obtaining support in a foreign land, it is to be hoped thas the publie will respond to the call, in. dependently of every consideration of curiosity that may be exelted by the great talent to be displayed on ight. musical event of | the complimentary benetit at Nibio's, next Thursday. It wil! be » testimonial to Mr. William F. Brough that ‘we still retain plensing tnemories of kis yoosl irtamphe, when the Englieh opera was in vogue im the metropo- lis trost that it will be, in every way, satisfactory to the benefeiary. Late reom Pont av Paoon.—By the arrival. on Fri- Gay, of the brig Hayti, we have dates from Port au ce to the let inst, The island remained tranquil ‘The Emperor bad completed the furnishing of the dis- , Unetions of the crosses of the military and of the order of Bt. Faustin the First. ‘The previous reports of the failure of the coffee erop are confirmed; the crop will not average half urual quantity. The price of this commodity, in- open boat, croseed and re. | | creat interest will be for. | ‘There is a prospect of @ thronged house. and we | | | | | | } | \luding the one fifth to the government, is 11 cents | perlb. The good coffee of the last crop was mostly told st $00 perM. There were at Port au Prince about fifteen large vessels on demurrage, waiting for coffee Lut their cargoes will not be completed before the last o April lee Intetligence, Philadsiphia Counterfeiters held for Trial,—We published, in yesterday's /irrald, the arrest of eight " on a ebarge of passing counterfeit $19 bank jils on the Miners’ Bank of Potteville, Penusylrania, conristing of fix women and two men. In consejuence of the est. Capt. Mopkiae, of the Thira ward police. No 38 Barclay street, received yesterday, from The } thirty store keepers. teriding im various parte of the | city, @ couuterteic $10 bil from each, making. in all, Thir togetber with the $100 counterfeit bills ured yesterday. makes. in ail, $450. On the pri- # were found $491 in good money, thus exhibiting verthe «mount received in exchange for the All the prisoners women have been iden. ore keeper. The prisoarrs Friday morning tof the wine tothe Fourth #ard stath ted a policeman, n fim talking wi net been broken tote ith ye be 5 ckemith, new , * rat vue ' t ts planer, chirele, &o. Some of the ar ole wer nd in y n of bis brother-in tar ( is Boh w into euatody, ® be tat iohard I ' however, war dis er we The he ® . 1 ay. by the nan ersare wanted Apply com i the nocured parties to await a iu ‘ eT Dollore —An individnat | ‘ brik rar arrested on Thursday, by | j Cf the Beventh Ward, on a bu rge of stealing n doliaer, the property of James Fitzgerald ath Catharine © The seo -ed was rt. who acing await @ further oumitied | br The Testimony before the Corener’s Jury. eRe BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK. Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, Coroner Geer oom- menced the inquest of investigation, involving the cause of the fatal catactrophe by the falling of six buildings in Twenty-first street on Wednesday lest, causing the death of six persons, and possibly mor- tally injuring ae many more. The Coroner is holding the investigation in one of the chambers of the 8u- preme Court. new City Hall. The room was crowded with persons anxious te hear the evidence. The testi. mony as taken before the Coroner, we give as follows :— James Btephens sworn.— Resides at 44 West Twenty- Grst street; I ame carpenter by profession; I saw the Duildings in queeticn in Twenty-first street in process of erection; when I viewed them on the morning of the day they fell [ believed them to be unsafe, andin danger of falling, from the fact of the condition of the falls; they being very much out of a perpendicular; the walle generally were in the same eondition; this was between 10 and 11 o’cloek in the forenoon of that day; I did not tion the fact of my observation to apy one except the members of my family, before the buildings fell; { heard the fall of the buildings, and ett my house immediately; went to the ruins, and assisted in resouing the living and the dead from the ruins; about three-quarters of the side and party walls had fallen; the firet cause in my opinion of the fall, wes an improper foundation, built of very inferior ptone, inferior mortar, and too much mortar placed be- tween the stone; altogether, I consider the founda. tion improperly put together, with not sufficient care; the workmanship was bad; the mortar used in the brickwork, I consider better than that used in the foundation, but whether of the best quali- ty Iam unable to say; the bricks were good; the materia! copstiiuting the mortar made at this season of the year caused itto have a different appearance to what it would had it been made in warm weather; the change in the weather trom frosty to mild, acted ipjuriousely no doubt to the building, and was the cause of the shifting of the bricks; trom an observa- tion. I Ly eaiistied sand and loam were mixed with nd loam; in erect- ing buildings. it 19 done tu many instances, to erect the side and party walls and leave the front out, but not werally to leave the entire front euc; I think it was safe to efeot the bulla: w into copsidersiion the materi: ship, without the front; but had front been erected, I think it would not have falien; the westerly wall was braced # short time betore it ; wlno the rear walis, It is customary to brace wails in the provers of nos on the beams The ties ot beams were 3 by 5 incbes; the trimmers were 3 by ¥, and 2 feet apart; the beams consisted of spruce 4 pine and hemlock; the hemlock was the common- est kind of timber; the other timber the ordinary ‘tim ber from lumeer yar the third tier. I thiak. was of hemlock, after the ame are set upon the wails, u the fore end aft partitions are set; some of the walls were out of level some four inches when the Deams were put on; the great space between the beems tended to weaken the building; the wails, U observed, had started. irom some cause, four inches over the stone wall, from the tuuudation to the 2d story to the west, and ircm that story they leaned ; the building bad stood to allow the fromtto beerected, my) Opinion ie it would not bave fallen; the lime used for the foundation was what is called groand lime, but whether tbe same kind of lime was used ail through the building i doa't know; « large portion of the loam mixed with the lime was taken trom cellars of the builuimge. Joseph Tucker being sworm, says he resides at 225 West Twenty. necond street; L win & maton; I examined the buildings in question; my impression trom what Lhave arcertained on viewing the ruins, as to the cause of their failing, was derived trom several causes; in the frst place the workmanlike was bad, it had pot beem put together ip a workmansbip manner, and the material bad. that is the morter snd stone; the stone was bot the sharaster usually put in houses of that clas ; potwithetancing. if the stone had oven laid witb shiltul bands and proper mortar, the foundation could have beep made to size sustain @ building of that hard to judge whether there in the lowm or not, possibly ough lime; 1 think it might have wante: sand instead ot loam and trom wiat I ould judge, if ic had been mixed with sand it would have made good wortar, but lime mix: not make a good cement; the mortar, as [ should same used among the bricks as that foundation; the stone wall appeared co ther scant, only 18 inches; but the brick walle the usual thickness; the timber ured was very ight, and I should think not strong enough tor « buliding of tbat class; it the walls had berm kept per. pendicular until the front was finished, the building would be eafe ; but, it out of a perpendicul testi- fied by the previous witness, I sh would be doubttul; if the walls ba: it would bave been possible to coming out was the cause; but leaning tot clined to believe it was the fault of the workmanship. The effect of the frost would operate more on tar made of loam thanofsand; [ think ther rtat used betwen the stone; I could build a seme kind of stone. sworn eays he resides at No. 4 ue; [am master mason; | haveexamined the ruins of the building in question; the caase or tn falling. in my opipion, was in conrejuence of the bad | coprtruction, in the manner the building was put to- getber; I have formed this opinion by examining the remaining portion of the building; the mortar was poor; I should judge there was loam in the lime; the foundation ought te have been a twenty inch wall, instead of fourteen inches, for buildings of tbat size; the party walls, instead of being placed on the centre of the foundation, were on the west side; it ie usual to place the walis in the centre; I thought the mortar used between the bricks was considerably better than that used for the foundation; I think, by the color of the morter. some loam was mixed to it; {tis frequently done to build up the side and party walle without the fromt but it i# not a good plan; I believe had the bulidings stood and been completed, the floors all set, | and the front in, notwithstanding the walls were out ° rpendicular. they would bave been safe to reside in; I bave baiit stone wells in the country witb clay, with loam would gpe SRS5E particular way of making the ut more loam, and sometimes tions on rants how to Ee ortar; out loam, only sand; a little loam makes the mortar | woes potters ‘the brie! mever found any fault Eighteenth strevt; I keep @ store, and wand, and out eellars; I get trom 86. 6d. 4s. & load for sand; I turnisbed from 170 to 180 loads of sand for the buildings im question, and four houses in Twen- ty second street; the greater ee elivered in | wenty first street; I got four o! gs a load at the buildings in Twenty-firsc street; trom what I sew, the mortar was prineipally made with sand, and appeared | to be of a geod quality; I never saw any loam mixed | with the mortar in Twenty-first street; [ have received $20 on aceount of the sand I delivered, and have due me $64, which amount I was to have received this week. John B. Jenkins. being sworn, says:—I reside at 74 ‘Twentieth street; [ams master mason by trade; I vis- ited the ruins, yesterday; I examined the mortar, and | copstidered there was too much loam in it; I t | there was enough lime; when there is too much | loam it dries dusty, aod don’t hold; the buildings have been rum up in too much haste, and the mortar used | * ther, which ie unsafe; I noticed, one jt was too cold for my to work, on tem or twelve men at m, they were worki ie accident woul for men to hot, in frosty w frosty day passing by work op one happen; I consider une! work on, and of the poorest class of buildings, trom the <epeie of the materials used, and the work- mavrFip Hugh Trainer sworn —I reside at No. 9 Fourth street; Tamam " jae epgaged at work on the buildings im question in lsying brick; I thought the mortar waa Pretty good; I have workvd better, and have worked worse; I call it about the average mortar; just betore the buildirg fell Edward called me cown trom th = of we lemming, the foreman, the building; I bur- immediately raa for the timbers, with the rfay the whole of the walls tell; they fell from the west to the eurt; I did mot give any slarm to the men on the building’ as I thought I could prop the wall in time to save it; [ did not consider it dan- gerous until the foreman culled me down; I have Often bad wails to sag out. and yet rer fall; I have used much worse mortar in New York than that used ‘on there houser Juror—On what buildings have you worked with such morter ? Witners—i decline to wish to condemn any man’s buildings Juror— Where were the buildings situated ’ Witn 1 don’t think it’s right for me to answer that quertion Corcner- You must answer the question. Witness—I would rather not; well, it was in the neighborbood ot Perry streat. , Juror—Well, I don't wish to press the question any furtber ‘The witness acknowledged to having worked at lay- ing bricks when it was freezing hard. At the con- clusion of the testimony ot this witness, it being then after five o'clock. the Coroner adjourned any turther proceedings until ten o'clock, on Mondsy morning. Mr Thcmas, the architect, was yesterday taken in- to custody on the warrant of the Coroner, and held to bail in the sum ot $5,000, to answer any charge that might be brought agsinst him Mr. Flemming, the foreman, ¥8 alro bailed for his appearance. Ou Monday, ¢videnee on the part of the defence will be taken. in order to relieve Mr. Spencer and others, who at the present stage of the investigation stand somewhat culpable City Intelligence. Axxiety Anout THE ATLANTIC StEaMsHir—CROWDS OF Preasons at Hex Wane —The anxiety about the Atlantic isintense. On Friday night, up to 12 o'clock, crowds of persons were collected at her wharf. in Canal street, expecting her arrival. Many of them had re- Iatives em board. They were first attracted by the guns of the Asia. which they mistook for those of the Atlantic. The excitement was very great. Ficnr at 4 Dance House. ann Assauit on THE Po~ Lick. Yesterday mornt: fight occurred in ad: street. between S: doing battle tor #01 but hostilities er that question; I don’t the way to the station hou mob headed by a man nai | the officers and resened the prison Iiggine struck officer Houston em getting & reinforcement of other policem: pursued Diggin, and found him etowed away under » cart. Ile wae brought to the station house, and com- mitted by Justice McGrath. The Nextuens Liventy Evorve Comrayy, of Phila- delphia, returned from Boston yesterday morning. remain in the city until Monday. The ¢: bandeomert ever seen in this city. | ne Company N: y They are a noble set of The Sunday laws are to be strictly enforerd Public hor look out! We sup- pore the gambling houses. the lottery heares, and ‘worre houses, will come next under the broom of Mayor Kingrland Let ali the laws, without fear, favor, or at- frotion, be strictly eaforced, and though, at first, this rigidity may be irksome to some, it will prove, in the nd, beneficial to many. sometimes dry, Without any, and just pointing them with mortar, (0 support frame buildings; [ don’t re- commend ory walls, mortar is best made with rand; I thins good morter don’t want any loom, I observed a chimney now standing, abeut ten feet by six, and not vot, A brace made; it is usual to make a support every; bouts 1 should ray the buildings fa q Juve, from the quality of the 1m ar Lenth avenue, I am a build seem the buildings in question, [ visited th stsrday atierwoon; the cause of the building in my 0 in consequence of aiy built. id imprudence; [ me three stories a: ut the fro ¥ be on ¢xamination we, instead of sand | no tim ber ong! and not more th three and four inok es wpart; in this ound them from the id the buildin, closed. as they wer represented by M 7 iron anchors or to fasten the ends of the beams tozet! they wo oor elass ot butld- ings. from = of the material used, and worn, says he resides at 106 street; I am a bricklayer by trade; 4 the buildings in question two or three times a week rince they were commenced; I passed them the morning they fell; I arrived at the ap few minutes etter they fell; my opinion was,on view. ing the buildipg*, that they were not put up in a pro- per manner, from the tact of the walle bwing run up iwelve courses of brick without « heading course five courses being the usual mamber, aud then « I observed, two weeks before it fell in the rear wail.and alro on the gable end; sil towards the east; the men were at work at that 0 the third story. On the morning of tho fall I 4 the gable end, on the rast end, overhung some nto eighteen inches, to the beet of my kuow- ledge. Lbaverern a8 i ¥as pas ing, loam mixed with the lime an mortar good, [don't 4 loam 1 ith Hime makes ood mortar. Deen lying ip the street by the lime, as I plied that m I gon’t kno at 40 King street tn wy opi # buildings falitn Abip. and ¢ out of ple 1 of a, & usual ate wing their work to wiih loam t ndation wast er OF that class sed im the t detion I don the I thought there tar tor th sud mason et, exe Lain & brickiaye «tu Twentiett ar of the be a? in question, my attention was tw he bu t time before they fell; @ working om eur builuing told me to come Ok AL Ube enet ge dof the building hing we (be wali f foun dit tooverhang about #; L then exemined the gable end of 4 foand thet the U-anea the eame . wall | found to bulge at the rast cormer, party Walls the rame, I spoke to Mr. Fiem and asked ine he w came the wails ‘ he repiled that the walle were as 2 ¢ ° erterday, (meaning the day told me tha was built ona 1 und wae rettling we talked about ' p the gable end th erhanging, L the b ge tall; the able ond gave way th Jobn T Conover, sworn, rays ha teeldes at Greenwich street Lam a master mason. and eae th nut in question forthe Inet two w | ioe d. ow (he day the buildings fell, tha | they bauled off from the pier and | morning. officer Niobols of the Eleventh ward station | Pine ' Vessrt ov Frus.—The Brig J. B. Lunt, lying at pier 8. Kast river, took fire, lart evening, in the after pert of the cabin, and, no doabt, wo tirely destroyed but for the timel: James J Bevini a department. neni mi ave been 4 arrival of M U. 8. Revenue Th ot Revenne ings and bauled d of the pler, when, aiter much difficulty, they extinguished the flames. | The brig Marklard, from Gonaives, (arrived yestes | Gay) atone time in great dang ich vernel he | nehored in m. There was no person on board of either ¥ the time ofthe fire. To the efficient ald red by the »bove named gen intererted are indebted for the safety The) BL. was afterwards delivered to the Police of the First ward Sunraime or Thisine —At half past 4 o'clock yesterday hours, discovered three men at the foot of Third street, whore B ovements looked suspicious On the approach of the policeman they fled, leaving behind them three copper rede which they had at from rome phip yard. The rove ate seven eight inch thick and about thirteen or fourteen fest long, and weighing together from fifty to rixty pounds Drivine —Vior night, at a qu f0%, CHving 8 stage in ros HoManus. lurpector of Stages. for refusing to obey | the Inepector. He wan sent tothe Chiet's office, whence | b ugbt before the Mayor, and Gued $5. In de. | yment be was committed Served him There is no better officer in the police force | than McManus Accioewt.— Yesterday, Daniel Blaney fell into the T irom pier No. 2 Bast River, and was rescued by wen George O Snodgrasa } civent.— Michael seDaniels, one of the bands | employed on beard the steamer Orercent City, fell through the hatehway into the fire room..yonterday alterncon, and wa severely burt to the hospital by officer Robert Fr ward. 110" ov THE OnorIna © L2 0 clock, Cuvaro Ma- was arrested by Mr. | Movements of Distinga John B. Preston, Heq , the Generel for Or gon. is pow at the Irving House, Mr, P. is making preperations for entering upon his off. | cial duties, at the earliest moment porsible. | ed Individuals ly appointed Sarveyor Wiliiom Fraver Erq. Angas Mackintosh, Req. and | fervent. Seotiend, Lugene Niono, Paria; Mia. J ke | ord and tervent. England: M. Legrand. New Orleans; | 1 K Butberand, Kentooky, Henry Peck Now Ua. Wiliiem ere smong the ary # Hotel cord; B Day, New Haven, yesterday, at the Union A Clark U & Army; B ON. Crimp and W. 0 © Taft’ Providense; O Peck Mas. m San Franetwoo, William ater, Banwere; J Wh te, diy, Boston, were among » Irving House Holbert Te fil; Alfred 8 Bp day. a! the Howard ff 1ge Bo ton: Lieut A J 1 Mayo. i nd Lieut Wyman teed ‘ Winsbe ster; 7 G. Kitham. t HW Kiddie, ee Lieot Ward, Roy, i ACapt. W Lang at ‘ use y ; Hon. Richard i Way re WA Ma i m ee % eon Fr ia the ship Army Ivtenigonees | The U_ pten aptarn Prechorn, ar | tived on Farurca dian fi ree pany § J ortittor mand of Major ¥ bridge trom the Miamt to (ndien tiver: and Company L under th d of Major Loud. from Indvem river to ®t. Auge Saran Georgion. Jon V2 faven hones were destroyed by fire at Smithien), Ky., om the Sth alti@o, eeu ing # lore of $25 000, In DAY. New Jerusalem Church, Eighth street—Prof. Bush; ““Ghunth of the Good Shepherd, Monroe street. i ard, Mi —Bev. jgregationsl Churoh, Fourth street.—Rey. ¢. Parker, ee Hope Chapel, Broadway—Rev. be. Dowling, morn- ing. Cniversaliet Church, Fourth strest—Key, Dr. Mas~ sock. morning. ational Church, Hammond etreet—Key. Dr. ening. Congregational Church, Bixteemth street—Rev. Dr. Hutton, a eg | M. E. Church, Cherry street—Rey, BE. T, Mariner’ Taylor, morning. ri Luke's Building, Hudson street—Rey. James: Macbeth, atternoon Methodist Prevestent Church, Laurens street--Rov. Thomas Benning, afternoon. Baptist Obureb, Cannon strect—Kev. Mr. Bady, even: Methodist FE, Church, Beventh street--Rey. Dr. Olin, morning. Presbyterian Church, University Place--Rev. Dr. Potts. evening. Church of the Crucifixion, University Place—Revs Dr. Schroeder, evening. Church of the Messiah, Wooster street—Rev. G. T. Bedell, evening. Rishop Southgate, we see it stated. has declined the Bolaenpete of Califernia, to which be was recently electer Rev. Edward Morris, of Mass., has received amd ac~ cepted s unanimous oll to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church at Potosi, Wis. Rev. H. L. Stanley. recently of Churchville, has r ail from the Presbyteri CO. i, A. Bul dismissed from the Presbyterian Uburch in Mt. Morris, and accepted) 11 from the Dutch Reformed Churoh in Ithaca. Rev. 0. 8. Powell recently of Chenango a. accepted @ call from the Congregational Chui in Shopiere, Rock Co., Wis. Rev. P. Boughton has resigned the charge of the- Mick., and ie nal Church at Robert Southgate, of Monroe, Mich., formerly of Wethersfield. Ct. has received a call from the First Congregational Church and Society in Ipswich, Maes... as colleague pastor with Kev D. T. Kimball. ‘The new Congregational Church at Plainfield, Ili:,, was dedicated on the second Tuesday of January. The newly erected house of wor of the First Con gregational Society of Portland, Ct., was dedicated om: the 18th ult Rey. Henry B. Elliott, pastor of the bg yon Church ot Waterbury. (t., has tendered bien gt ian, 2 the Society, in consequence ot protracted il2 th. Rey, William T. Bacon, ot New Haven, has received a call frem tbe church and society in South Britain, Ct , to become their pastor. Rev Lyman Whiting, late ot Lawrence, was installed pastor of the church in Reading, vacated by Mr. Pick- ett, on the Stb inet. Mr. Albert Perry,o! New Ipswich, N. II., and late of Andover Seminary, was ordained as pastor of the eburch in Stoughton, on the lst inst. Kev Mores A Hoge. of Athens, O , has received a cal? to the Zanesville Presbyterian Church (0. 8.) vacated by the rerignation of Rev. Simeon Brown. Rev. Ebenezer Erskine. pastor of Penn Church, in Fee township, Pa , has been dismissed, at his own re- juest. ‘kev, J.T, Rogers bas accepted a call from the 0. 8. eburch in Wsynesburgh Rev. P. P. Irving bas resigned the office of and General Ageut of the Episcopal Foreign Missiom Board, still retaining the office of Looal 8 and = Cr ational Church in Port Huron, at present supplying the Congregatio: Teledo, 0. 3 Rev. James W. Cooks. of Bristol, R.1., has socepted om Y., has ac- appointment to the 1ormer office. v Henry Davie, late of Kochester, N. cepted ap appointment as agent of the tist Hi Mission Society, in Central BOARD OF ALDERMEN. Jay. 18 —This Board met at the usual hour—M. Mor» gaps, President, iu the chai PETITIONS KEFERRED. Of members ot Engine Vo No. 48, to have their house e ed; of Francis tos and others, for the renum- bering of Greenwich street. INVITATION, To attend the eleventh anaual ball of Eagle Fire Co, No, 13. at the Apollo Rooms, Tuesday evening, Feb. 45 COMMUNICATION. From the commirsioners appointed by t! jommen Council to revise and digest the laws relative to the city, which was referred to the Law Department, and ordered to be printed REPORTS ADOPTED, Of Committee on Salaries and Offices,in favor of confirming the nomination of Wm. Holden as Health Warden of the Ninetrenth ward; communication from the Street Commissioner, enclosing estimates for filling; sunken lotein Thirty-tourch and [hirty-fifth streeta, First and Becond avenues; of Committes on Wharves, | Piers, and Slips.in favor of concurring with the Board of Assistant Aldermen in 4 resolation to build up Li in bulkhead between Thirteenth and Fourteen! streets, North River. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Resolved, That it be reterred to the Committee om the Law Department, in connection with the Crotom Aqueduct Department, Pp uch amendments to sections 196 and 504 of the ordinances, as they msy deem advirable. red, That it be referred to the Croton Aque- duct D ent, to report to thie Board, suck» modifications and amendmrate to the present Crotom Water rates as may be deemed advisable to still farther: ornate the burthens of such taxation, as som ap possible Resolved, That Forty-fourth street, between Third and Sixth a i. rty-eighth street, betweem Fourth avenues, be lighted with oil. Resolved, That it be referrea to the Committee om Ordinances, together with the Croton Aqueduct De- t. to form a proper ordinance, making it a mis- jor to open fire hydrante illegally. as, it Das been represented that the house No. ‘37 Dey street, in the Third ward, from its condition, is anuisance of such @ dangerous character” - to render it gneefe for ite vicinity, or for citi: P erefore, esolved, That it be referred to the City [uspector to ine into the truth of said represent Or mending said house. or that in default thereof, the City Inspector be empowered to cause the said nul~ sance to beabated without delay. PAPERS FROM THE ROAND OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN. Reporte reteriea, of Committee on W! Pierm And Blips, in favor of extenaing piers No, 47 and 62, R.. to the exterior line; cf the Committee om the: Law Department, in relation to the code of praction and pleadings now bétore the Legislature of State of New York; of the Comatitee on Lamps and Gas, im Javor of placing two lampe im front of the Bowery Village Methoaist Uhureh im Seventh street; of the Committee on streets in tavor of paving Fit from Thirtieth to Foriy-necond streets; of t mittee on the Fire Departa the house of Enzine Vow ot Commitiew on Sewers. in in Mercer street. betw streets, concurrr: The board then Lourned until five o'clock Monday POARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN ADJOUANED MeKTE President in the chair. preceding meeting were read and TONS REFERRED. d ovhers, to extend the Crotom (weuty-sevonth street, to the ur Kyer, tor serving as bell~ on 5 Arte REPORTS AccerrED. ittee on Streets, iu favor of @ concurrence with the Board of Aldermen on the reference of the Petition relative to (he sidewalks im Fifth avenue, be~ B Ninth aud Tenth streets to the otreet Comuis- Honer, sith poser; of ame committee, in favor of fll- {ng F¥nken lots bet worn First and deoond avenues an® th end Cwentieth streets with ao ordtoance Of Committer on Sewers in relation to culverts and sewers io South # hb siae of Beekman street. RESOLUTIONS AbOPTRO. Resolved, That Jorepb li, Howard be, and he is hereby Appointed trusiee of ‘he common schools in the Third * 4, in place of George Ud. Moore, removed from the Retolved, that Moses A. Hoppook be, and bereby je, #pooiuted trustee of the common eohools ta the Chird ‘d, in pinee of A. Biduey Doane, rem trom the ward Kerolved, That so much of the report of the Street: Commissioner as relates to the propricty-of increas Dg the width of the earring the Park. by reduc “ ion were offered by. oth word — irate oF 0 Die bemed wy «bem Of Freee vermeous d tages * preamble n Saturday ev Atraordinary, extr vn the eity treasury, eod im wb the truth of the preamble ang 1) (Weston aud te show that the poor, who vrly apply \o rhe Aldermen and Assistant CF rely) arm dewied relief and even ooldly the Teo Gover wen Pent to them ba t Ue for reilef whic Worm ibe cane awh Nb ¢was unter the superior denee Commutssioner, when the nd geteral then rithough the y transary the lant yrur eniomet sot $40 00% Theretore Kesclved. Cha pteamble be re~ ferns " rer tea b, ala A te jee we “ prow pt o othe snore the p to wey wtmet Alder +d ueb oe mint seleed tet } oil rem Fifth t of Lamy Aw Bly and MeCarthy were rey nieth street be wd thy rhted with Couunie carried next fra 48 proposition y taxes on those The oa tene but the oy emyplation ce div way frou th meet Heed i, trom eid moraet e busivess of presen toveng " aod $10,000 per yenr s mated to be mond (Va) Femes, Jans Vs Re