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

NEW YORK HERALD. Jam. PRCPKIETOR AND EDITOR, @PPICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASS4U STS. THE DAILY HERALD, 2 cents per copy-@ per WEEKLY HERALD, s . at 0% gerry Senden 21.06 num. ents per copy. or $3 per annum; the mum to any part af ee, he Ca PSL EMP CORAES Vinay lla lite idieteattg ie [9 “ALL LETTERS by Advertisements “to be Ridsicted from the money remitted. rea include the paste NT TOUS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, CASTLE GARDEN—Awwa Bourn a, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Macerrn. Breadway.—Twx Tooviee—A Onear NATIONAL THEATR me oops —Fainy Daven cease oF BROUGHAM'S LYCEUM, Broadway—Dox Casan De * Bavan—[nviana er CHARLEMAGNE. CORISTY'S MINSTRELS, Mechauios’ Hall, 472 Brosdway —Ermtorias Minerasisy. FELLOWS’ MINSTRELS, Fellows’ Musical Hall, No, 444 way—Ernierian Minot RRLav. AMERICAN MUSEUM—axvsixe Peavoamances Ar PeRNoon aNd EVENING, New York, Saturday, July 1851. Sununary of the Latest Our peaders will fine to-day, the concluding proceedings of the extra sersion of the New York Legislature. It will be seen that a number of important bills were passed yesterday, the details of which will be found under ur telegraphic head. We shall take up the doings ef the extra session at our leisure, and pass dis- passionate judgment upon them. While there is much to praise, there is much to find fault with; bat of this, more anon. For a review of the last day’s procecdings, we refer our readers to our special telegraphic correspondence from Albany. We pud- lisb, in another column, the acts that have been in addition to those we have already given. be report that Ar. Webster bas resigned his ecretary of State, is contradicted. Such bowever, is not at all improbable, at some nteiligencs If our correspondence from Washington is oor- rect, Gen. Talsott bas been found guilty of the ebarges preferred against him, and he bas been dis. mirted the service. o=—the Pehaantepee y. Anteresting from ™ Tre ‘Tbe telegraphic news from New Orleans indicates | phat difficulties may arise between Mexico and the United states, respecting the passage across the [sth- wus of Tebuantepee. The Mc repealed the law granting to Garay and others the right of way, and the privilege of constructing a ox- nal or railroad from the Gulf te the Pacitle; and the @athorities bave forbidden those who have become ascociated with Garay, from commencing the work, and have refused to allow the surveyors, engineers, laborers, and their tools, implements, provisions, merchandise, &c., intended to be used ia the con struction of the work, to be landed at Ce or its vicinity. One reason given by the Mexican Suthorities is, also, that the port named 18 not, by the laws of that reputic, a port of entry or delivery, at which only ean fr Passengers or cargoes. This course of Mexico is attributed ny some to British influence in Mexico, our legation there ha- ving but comparatively little influence and might with that of Great Britain. Mr. Letcher, gut Minister, {iu fact, was, during most of last winter 2” spring, in the United States. That the British goversment, previous to General Arista’s election, ad full knowledge of mort of the State secrets of Mexico, and, in fact, pretty well controlled ber foreign diplomacy, we bawe little doubt. influcuce and intrigues bad a great deal to do wich precipitating the war of 1816, we have always be- fieved. Her course was adopted to embarrass a, in the Oregon business, and to prevent a British and American war respecting that territory, @04 | curse on the people of the United States that | did it was, in a measure, success'ul. Mr. Pol pot admire having the candle lighte: ends; and seeing what was iaevitabl go fur as it relates to Mexico aud the United States. If the Mexioan Congress bad the right to t under their coustitution and laws of its conditions, orfur any other » treaty stipulation between us aad teeing js grant, then the United States government have nothing to do with it. There ia no treaty. Mexico ex- pressly refused to make any stipulation respecting evpul the gra for non-fe! eat Hritain, aid $9 to any PONDENCE, containing Lignan” See onto Conese: | : Sate asqvecrsn vo eat aie. | ee climax, ik, for Subscriptions, or swith Mpdid, or the pectege will be ¢, ia our columns | anUongress have | tzacoaleos, | ign vessels euter or land their | That ber | ‘The New Posts! System—Its Oppressive Ohasacter. The new posta! arrangements have been in opera- poveantia or be tion since the Ist inst. With the exception of those complaints, a few of which we publish in another column. But these complaints are nothing to the | general effect of the rules, as adopted at Washing- ' tom. The law, as it affects newspapers, is suffi- ciently outrageous, but the rules applied to it cap It is announced in all the papers, that Berford & | Co., of this city, take letters or newspapers to Chagres, Panama, or San Francisco, for three cents. The law bas luckily afforded loop-holes to enable individual enterprise thus to defeat obstinacy, which have forced upon the people postal arrangements at once complicated, bungling, ex- pensive, and onerous, aad scarcely paralleled in se” | verity, even in despotic countries. The Post Offive | authorities, as if ashamed of the disgusting ex1c- | tions demanded on the transmission of newspapers, | publish the rates of letter postage, but are signifi- cantly silent with regard to the former—probably | not willing to make known, through their adver- | tisements, that transient newspapers, when sent to | California, must be taxed ten and fificen cents, or a | trifle lees, when under the weight cf two ounces. The employées of the Post Office have more sensibility | and modesty than Mr. Postmaster General Mall, | in whose bureau the repulsive regulations of the law were conceived and prepared, for the sSsent of an inedicient, culpable Congrees—deccived and imposed upon by the vainglorious and ignorant in- | ventors of this new postal law. With respect to the trarsmission of newspapers to regular subscribers, who may ave @ temporary residence for a period lees thap three months, as if to put a ridiculous elimax to the absurdities of the law, we have the annexed brief manifesto:— Post Orrick: Deranruxnr, Arrowement Orrice, July 7, 1851 In reply to yours of Lie Irt instant, you ure informed | that all bewspapers sent for @ less period than three | months, whether sent frem the office of publication cr otherwise, will come under the bead cf transient uews- | papers upon which the postage must be pre-paid at the | | cfice where mailed. Very respectfully, | Your obedient servant, FITZHENRY WAR Now, we think the Postmaster General might | have spared Mr. Fitzhenry Warren the trou- | ble of exercising such tyrannical cruelty upon the | people, who have hitherto been supposed, uuder our | | the disastrous effects of governmental stupidity and i | afternoon, a man EN. | Tb Tur Lare Poticemey Gutxeriz—Svsecairnon or tie 4 Wann Pouce ron mie Famiy.—A mosting of Bighth Patrol district was held at Kighth ward 8. Lurnbull © ubanimourly adopte: Whereas, our late brother, Oflcer George P (ilieeple, of the Fourth Patrol district, was killed, on ©¢ morning of the loth inet.» we feel that his life wa, sacriiiced 10 his duty, and in sustaindg the reputa- B. feredbry vy tion of the department; azd in bim higsereaved fumil have lost its protection—a kind and Jeloved husband, ‘and an affvetionate father—to whom v¢ extend our most sincere und heartfelt condolence. Resolved, That each member of bis distriet eppropri- ate Cne duy’s pay for the benefit 4 our deceased brot! Officer's family. Kesolved. That a copy of theabove preamble and reso- lations be sent to the family o the deceased. K Resatved, ‘That tbe feo 4 emmitice be polnted 0 1 rame into effet: ‘mary }, sonal rp William Sterrety John Keynolds, Jou 8, Van ‘No doubt this praiseworthy act will be foliowed up by otber wards of the degartment, and ane will De contributed—something to alleviate the sutfer- inys of the widow and orphans of the deceased Brasovs Accrwent ro Conover Grer,—Yerterday, about noon, as Dr, Geer, Coroner of this county, was on his way to eaccute his official duties, while t the coraer of Chambers street and Centre, in his wagon, the iron part slsebed to the }ront wheels suddenly broke, thus de tack jog the front part of the wagon from the rear, p: cipkating Dr. Geer, and likewise Dr, Lidell, who was abo in the wagon, vieleuily Readiong into the strect br. Geer was badly injured, striking his nose and right e) ¢brow on the stones, cutting his nore and initicting a vere contusion on the eye bone, His left knee was 86- rely injured, baving evidently fallen beavily on the knee cap, inflicting o wound of about an inch in length, ard otherwire brussing the bone badly, His right arm wasaleo injured. vr, Lidell, luckily, received but slight injury on the elbow of bis right arm. Dr, Geer howe in a carriage, aud the horse, who red and rap away, Was subsequently cavgbt in bathum street, without injury. Minsicnt Maxavpens—On Thursday night, as Major Riebardson was returning home, at «late hour, he was Knocked down, near the corner of University place, by ove ct two men, as it is supposed with the inteation of robbing him. ‘Fortunately, two gentlemen turned the corner immediately afier he received the blow, whea the Parties ran cit. purrued by one of the gentiomen, but the night was so dark (hut they were soon out of sight. The a@llock Wat so rudden that the Major did not see his as- railants, Who Vere, however, very common looking mea, until the moment before be was knocked down, Cais, we believe is Mejor Richardson's secoud experience of the hard hits ‘hat are sometimes dealt in New York. Little more than a year ago be received a blow froma slung sbct, bebind the ear, which drew balf « pint of biccd, and laid him up for forty eight hours, Le after. wards kuew the man who struck him, but never prose- | cuted. Dratn From the Erreers or amed Halle tur Sux.—On Thursday while driving a cart in bi sixth street, was sun--truck, He wae immedi- ly conveyed to the store of Joreph Barnett, aud at- ded by ‘br, Horstield. but he died in a few minctes ater, Deceased was oo Irishman, aud had beea but a few weeks in this coumry. He bas a wife ard family 6 Greenwich street, The body was house and afterwards conveyed to institutions, to be the framers of their own laws. | He might bave pausd for @ lucid interval to | Visit bim, that, by the exercise of the commonest | | school-boy judgment, he might come to a ¢ pa | | more favorable to the thousands and hundreds of | | tbousards of ndividuals who visit the country | for a few weeks during the summer season. But no | | euch bappy consideration of circumstances, and of | the desires of the people, can enter the bosom of | postal regulations, as the present Postmaster | | General. It is, in his selfish view of the fede- | ral cconcmy, much more requisite that a theory | | of bis own should be rupported, for the par- | pore of making a revenue balance in the postal de- | partment of the United States, than that the people | shall have the privilege of reading newspapers at their own will and pleasure. England and France | stamp their newspapers, and livense their publica- | tion; but by meane of th law, levelled atthe dee + sires of the peojle, a prohibition is virtually placed | upon the newspaper prese; and if the Postmaster General can carry bis theories fully out, perhaps be | may be able to stop the cireylation of newspapers | altogether. | We suspect that the Postmaster General has | deternmingd (o make @ political manwuvre out | of bis practical exemplification of his postal | theory. On no other ground can we understand | how any man of common foresight and every | day sagacity, could concentrate so much folly | on any plan for postage reform. Some political aim wust be hidden under the matter, for we imagine that ignorance c snot a political wirdfall is sought, dites too grotesque where # politician hopes to improve his conditivn; but it is tvo much of a politicians should ride over taem rough-shod, in the | shape of postmasters general, mounted on the mails | and levying tribute for Cavsar, as, with one or two | Mexico, agreed to the line of 49. It is of Jittle ¢oa- | equeuce whether or net the intrigues of British | postal department during the last (weuty-five years. | em seuries effected the anuulment of Garay’s grant, | exceptions, hus been done by those at the head of the ‘The people of the United States must endure | patience the load put upon them by the Postmaster General, till the heat re s#, ‘whea, | out of the evile of which we are forced to com yn of Cong’ otberwite could be ex J, and a nearer ap ch to the system age than present bovehed and ed ene—whieb rue, but which more d redaction, by an reduces the tax on letters, it | than makes up for the vacn such a custodian of the public revenue, from | i | covered yestere | street | heap of rage could perpe- | trate £0 much. No blunders are ‘too gross where | health during hot weather, like ¥ and vo absar- | water bathing. | young man by the name c | plain, may come a larger amount of good than | ot his family, where an imquest was beld ng. wud & Verdict returned in accordance | With the ta en. | Dears at tHe Cry Hoerrrar, Cavern av tae Heat or | any Sos. Within the inst chree or four days several per- | sone bave been sun struck, or atfeted by the extrem beat, sothat it was deemed necessary to send them to the City Horpital, and yesterday three persons dicd fiom We efeets. The Coroner leld inquests yester- dey. at the City Hospitel on the body of Henry S:ra- telleck, born in Germany. aged 25 years; alo on the Lody cf Wan, Finn. aged 25 years, born in Ireland, aud LhkeWire on the bedy of ai unknown man, aged about 1s Whore Ceatbe were ewused by exposuce to the ru, A verdict Was rendered accordingly. Drarn ny Drowns tion watt THe Sreame poat CoLUMAER in, in consequence of the accident happe held aa iaquest on dy of Johu M wed 35 years. born in Lreland, whose Led ie North river, at Pier No, 7 It appears that the di ceased was in @ sail boat on last Sundwy night, and while in the bey # collision took place Letween the beat aud the steamboat Columbus; the tall boat Was Upset, and John Mulchey, the deceased, who Was in Ube boat, was drowned. aud the body only ro- ‘The jury rendered the following ver- ceased eaive to his deatt’by being run mall boat, by the steamboat Columbus, uing last; whether the result of carcless- is to i on Friday diet:—Ti at the into, while ons ness on the part of those managing the steamer, this jury undetermined. Srmiovs Acciest.—Vesterday afternoon, a laborer pam«d Edward Kenedy, fell from the top of a ladder in Nineteenth street. and fractured his fuw bone, broke his arm, and lacerated the flesh on parts of his bedy in a frightiul manner. THe was conveyed to the Hospital, whise he lays an object of comumiseerution. Aceiorst.—A woman named Ann Letcir, residing at No. uvich avenue, While at Hoboken, on Thurs- day evening, fell and broke ber ankle She the ferry wud placed in ebarge of wm officer, whv con- | veyed ber home. Finy.—Between 9 end 10 o'clock on Thursday night, fire occurred in the attic story of house No. 264 Mott It was extinguished ina short time, doing but trifling damoge. Sarr Waren Batnine.—Nothing is more conducive to present, than salt whole eysiem. No better prescription for lassitude aris- ing from the beat, could be given than a dip in the Washington Bath, at Castle Garden, the water is always pure. and the attendanee all that could be de- fired. It is @ wonder that our citizens do not indulge 0. | more freely, in this great luxury, than they 4 Police Intelligence. Suypored Erlezziement by a Cloak —On Monday last,» Lewis Borthwick, a clerk in ihe employ of O. Jolley & Co., No. 180 William street, corner (f Epruce street. was entrusted with $714 to make with | a deposit in the Ocean Bank. but did net do so, and it is | eupporrd he bas absconded with the money, frou the \ fact that be has not been feen since by his employers. (On visiting the room where be boarded, bis truck was found emptied of the beet of his clothing. thereby leav- ry fair impression that bis intention was to run Verthwick is dercribed to be about 24 years of ee; height about six feet; light hair and complexion. ken eyer, with a deep yellow circle around them, and | stoops consi y when walking. He is « Scotchman by birth. a ke the German language fluently. Mr. | Jolley offer J of $100 for the arrest of Borthwick end irecvery cf the money, or $50 for Borthwiek aloue, var of Forging @ Deed.—Yesterday, one of Uhe at at the lower poilee court, arrested a colored man. ing a this grant, in 1843. ‘The grant isa private miter | urjust, oppressive, inconvenient, wud extremely | yy Detween the grantees and Mox The holders of | perusing tax on newspapers~the vory media by | Just repudiated in EI f , ' rd ye fer to the owners Missirrippi or Florida repudiated bonds in Englond | \iich mueb of the inevitable wad neesssary cor, | KEN ty fourth #treet. tn the Tveitth ward.” "Tho nd, might as well ack their governments to d States, or those orl paterfere acd compel the Unit States, to paytbem The Tehaaut specular hough some of them may b the United States, wust obey the laws of Mexico in all res- pects. Ax to the refusal of the Mexican consul at New Orleans to ¢ & Clearance, we witbLold our opinion till we are more fuliy ay of the circumstances. Certainly, if it was clearly cilizens 0 ve the steamer rived fntended to be a hostile expedition agains bis owa eountry, be was justified. $ “Of the friendly diape of the President of J Mexico to this country we are entirely satisfied. We eu) join extracts from an origtaal private letter from tie ideat, written te a friend now in this city, reveived afew day# since, which bespeake his friend ings to the United States, aod his just | and elevated views ax to the right of way deing for the ure of the world My Beverwrn Fame = . -* . : . T have reowived. with the greatest pleware, your Lest teil etter, of the J6ch ait. whieh is 6 me « new proof Of remembranee of your exptersive Cwmdehiy, which I turn to you \ tee Lede the Bigh aporeeiation I entertain for the erlebraied Sevor Bustamente. wnd you wll anderstaod Bow I have been gratified that you swmeuber aim You speak, aiso, of the question of Crhusate pee, about the right of way to te given for its constrastin i 0 derires it, no doubt, more than the repariic of the United States, but she wants that it shall be onade for Ghe utility of the whole world, on legal nad juite pri) ciples, which will save ber nationality aad rights of what will tase pw 1 qm well persuaded Rest! eount better upon the exoetlent reiati Betwgen thie prerement aud that of Washington; but @rrire thagyou are a friend of mine, aud you desire the Welfare ofMerice, I believe tt proper for you to to ste a Jour exAPiPene in order to settle that question. wie: Pill br adgen tag cour for the two counties. é + ~ . . 1 ie pleasure to ealute you, and desire to you e Joys. ns your friead aud ad clionate servant, MARV. ANISTA To ome emmy Caxpipates’ Excuses.— There are about thirty Bentlemen, more or less, whose friends are pressing them to become candidates for the Presidency, aad who, as they have no tearonable excuses for de. @lining, are “constrained, by the urgent solicita- Qiong of their partial fellow-citizen, to allow | ‘ ie | Movements of Distinguished Individuate, | Tinpecn, their names to be used” We pity the #04 condi- tion of twenty-nine of theee gentlemen, and accord Angly present, for their use, @ precedent from Ton | Mersee, cut from the Clarksville Jefersomam, of ao exeure for refusing to be a candidate, which can b» borrowed by some twenty-five of the Presidential reepondenee, virtus y to be #0 esteemed, of the | hie roid lotr ct land are claimed by one William f. smith, poor and industrious people of the | united States, | ee Py hy Syd y ey soamean ee is carried on. The friends of the poor Jaborer ia | same having been transferred to him by Edward Hauil- California eanne * unicate, without the | tex wite. by deed bearing date Zist day of July. 1634, , ; din d bas ever vince remained 19 his porsessiom. aud under trouble and expen f g, those orli piv cor trol: and, that he bas jast beep informed that tidings which the v zone er wd the ov B. the accused party tn this complaiat, wot =e i teats of w ‘owner of raid property, by virtue of m journal may contain, and vl ot vlainent. bearing date ¢ #0 important he poor laborer, It is examining the reserds odious to the mass of the 2 instinets this featare which i+ elect ates, war wny operation of the law world oa people of the United ace sensitively ali which facilitates | their read to } the comforts and bhopp’ | who keep neither eler! recognition of the ¢..ims uf f wealthy in the rity, and places che the nor secretaries, and Wpand kinduess and by publi | ia conveyed by public jourrals alone We trust that th: next ( first cuty to Mr. Postmaster General [eh te understand that be ie not to fasten upon the country euch a stein ae this new law offers for com | templation, and for the regret of those whose | greatest prile is to witness the popular iustita- | tions under ovr government, a iminwtered with» | wholesome regard for oll elasses and conditions o citizens, «0 that the moet eral sense of happi | nese may be didfased ¢ rywhere, and that each one | may consider that, w'taout regard to his wealth, be hae privileges of the mort liberal character, equal | to his own individuni dosires—where those desires are rations’ —and without injary to the State and hie neighbors. As at prosemt conducted, our postal system is outrageous. Eogland, from one end to the otber, is aroused by the fact that about fifteen cents is charged on Britich newspapers going into Prussia; bat how much move cause for complaint have the people of the United States, who are tax ed by their own govern an equal eum, for newrpapers sent frou one State of the confederacy to the other! But we bave hope for better day. ‘The next Congress murt clip the wings of the |. piring Vortmaster (everal. ngress will make it @ Gov. Johneon, of Leutlana, ie at Springs. Oliver Hedron ond lady, 4 L. C . 0 “Sain, | Conneetiout; Dr, Hovatio Stone, New London; Tattle. Ohio; J. W. Crawford. New ey Labor, = were among the arrivals, at Union el RK Guillar, Philadelphia; 8. B. Cilley, Seaneuee, B. eandidates — Hopkine. Louisville, M_ Lewes, Philadetpnia; J. Hoy. N To rns Provus Grepmanty— Jearned, from ya- | (tiene, Il Darby C\nelanath, W. Bunbor Natehea: D. scurers, that I, even I. would be elecued to the jn Syme bt tomy, Winoia, were among Eerie jonah pay, ta ging end | «Ww, ies ee, tape, Nomi, WM jne ee alone [ wich to perpetuate, I therefore . iphia; J Watkins &t John. NB; withdraw my name M GU TCRNER. ae ste i : ‘The excuse, we believe, wou't answer for Mr Bu- JF. Phelan, Halif«x, John Rogers Canada; C @. Rich My @hane, vor Col. William R. King, and we doubt if | TCS pite, steamer Fmpite City Jonn Phillipe, Canada, more than one of two of the others can prefer it With entirety But it will anewer in the p!ace Of a better, notwithstanding Memphis, Tenn J ©. Lane, south Carolina; Dr. Henry Sizor, Springfield hom Geo Hull. Wasssenasetts C. Enos, Philadeiph\a; B. T. Atwater, New Haren; A.B Oneey, age HE 4 Sanderson, Boston, were auiong the arrivals, at the Howard Motel, yesterday ao | Premises, fr Piace | man, of No 72), . he fads a deed 1848, nnd recorded Augurt 7.1847, con veyi Jd Simon Green the said two los of lad, for urports to hare uted in the presence of Clifford Beleber and Tow. as subeeribing witnesses, neitt tant kuow, althongh the eertii- sd to hare been made ot deeds, om the Hh Degraw = Smith suid deed, of make Denk Bille ata spreie, — at Suacide by Jump of veuth ward yesterany an. by the d 3 be yew herselt inte the river with an emit! ing | foleide, ‘The unfortunate woman was conveyed before Justice Timpron, who committed her to prison, believing | her to be unsene. Seareeiy bad she been in a cell an hour, before Mr. Ohver. the deputy Keeper of the jail, diver veree be the cell window. It ems she took | petticoat and core them into st together ond made & rope and then sus] 4 berself Mr. Oliver, however arrived im time to aud seve ber life. The magistrate sent the Tombs, for the inepection of Dr. Vovil, of being insene We understand that this has been of in- to have been the for some time temperate bebit eaure of the acts of inaani epeetability residing in Brooklyn, Suapicton of Arson —Ap Iti boy. emed Chrvtpber Maileone, in the employ of dee baker No. 6 Centre Was arrested on Wednerday night by officer Bennett, of the Four: teenth ward, on suspic the fact of the bakery of baving set fire to the om fire while the workmen were asleep, ng discovered and the boy paca ty tinde threats that he would have re- verge for some linagined wrong he believed bed been him, The acoured was conveyed before Justice Who detained him in privon for a further <1 Pishonest Boy — The of the Tenth ward ar. tested on Wea , & boy named Jobu Davie, who war forn er}; SS Ss. Le, oo FY. and stole from bis employer $10. and then abseonded. Un bis arrest, $90 of the stolen money wae recovered. Justice Timpson committed the aeeurcd to prison for a further examination. ‘Tue Garvie Crain. —We bert auchority, that Mr. Post did make the state- ‘ Modo | mente of Gardiner’s confessions to him to two dif- s Gray ¥ it, Bennet, Lower Came | ferent gentlemen of undoubted veracity and eh® | ysyct time, when or before the ‘We learn Mr. P. isin thie city. racter. Maile for Europe. The steamship Hermann, Cept. Crabtree, will leave is port today. The mails will clove at the weual tine at the post offer. It was caured by a lighted candle falling upon a | It opens the pores and invigorates the , whieh | re assured, on the | ‘Resolved, That the Commissioners of Repairs and Su p- directed to advertise for) ) and contract for the erection of a three story Park, fronting on Chambers street. and to ex! from © ‘nize street to near the Rotunda, in accordance with the plans thereto annexed; said building to be occupied bvEn- | ive Company ‘No. 22, Hose Company No. 28 and Hook and dder company No. 1; for such other purpose as aay be designated by the Common Council; and that the sum of $15,000 be sppropriated for building the sam | _ The report was seco and the resolution adopted. The od then adjourned till five o’clock to-morrow evening. ow 8 herebs BOARD OF ASSISTANTS. The Board of As-istants mit, and passed the following resolution: — Resclved. That that portion of the communication from the Mayor relative to the removal of engines aad book and ladder apparatus,or to re-locating them, be re- ferred to the Committee on the Fire Department, and that they be requested to take early action " Adjourned till to-morrow, (this evening.) | Board of Supervisors. Jvry 11 —In the absence of the Mayor and Recorder, Aldermen Morgans was called upon to preside. The | minutes of the last meeting wera read and approved. PETITIONS REPERKED. Edwin F. Corey, fer compensation for extra services; Wm. C, Hampton. for reduotion of tax on personal prov | rty to $75 000; from the same, to reduce tax from $30,- to $20,000; from the Metropolitan Bank, for the re- mission of tax. ‘ COMPTROLLER ’S REPORT. | The report of Joseph R. Taylor, Comptroller, respect- | ing the relative value of real and personal estate in the | city and county of New York, as assessed in 1550 and | o and adopted. eLative Varvr or THe Reat axp Per- | N THE THE Crry axp County or New | Your, as Asorssen in 1860 anv 1951, Astresmenis oF 1850, Words Real Estate. Personal Estate. Tal. j 1 874383 OO $92714.211 09 $61.58, 00 23.200 00 1.971.401 68 4.601 68 1.900 00 6.495.466 68 10,736,586 58 670 00 1 pod 9.198.770 00 0 12031.520 00 8.681092 00 6 31 | 7 00 14913 368 00 | 21,453,617 50 | | 2 2 230 00 (Ineluded in Twelfth ward ) Total..$2U7,146,176 26 $78.099.240 48 Assrssarents oF 1851. Personal Estate. vial, | FON ASL BHA AZ FOOT OT 12 | 2065,063 19” 17,540,003 19 BSUS 54 QB ZWNOS 64 | 0.590.605 00 13 026.614 00 8,985,100 00 | 14,112 166 00 | 14.022.139 00 oo a $286,085,416 ri j 10. 1.209.450 @0 1,50 00 n. 620321 62 7.186771 52 | 511.600 00 3.786.090 00 639.705 73 6.301.505 73 | 2.519893 19 oo 5 00 0 1S 347 594 14 870.000 1247 9,825 5.800 950 OO | 15.449.845 00 | 80,745,787 09 | 6,028,957 00 $820,108,358 23 | rors, | Do. do. Do. do. sow ty-fourth etree 905.201.6512 | Amount of increase bj 7,721,068 95 Do. do. ‘Tax Com’rs. 1891. — 26. 3396.184 54 | JOSEPH K. TAYLOR, Comptroller, © In real estate no decrease. * With Nineteenth ward. The rates of taxation for the year will, therefore, be | 91 cents 98-100 per $100. INCRPASE OF ORA The report of the epecial com number of Grand Jurors. and in fi vor thereof; and also in relation to apportioning the same, was adopted. A reseluticn increasing Jowance of tax commissioners to two thourand per m from the first of Jaouary | last, was adopted. The Board then adjourned to Monday next, at 4 o'clock. The Oxford Bank Case. | Before Justice Mountfort. Iery 1 —The Slate at the Complaint of Robert: Barber ogeinst Miles A. Bradley. for Obtaining under False | Pretences.—Crose examination of Benjamin fF. Weymouth continued. The witness desires to explain his answers to the Inet #ix questions. on the last day of bis cross. | examivation, and makes the following #tatement:—At | the time I met Mr Barber in Wall street, I am quite | itive that I did not state to Mr. Barberthat Bradley | ‘swindled his, or words to that effect. I may have id so since, in our various conversations, bat [ have no recollection of the particular time, or of the words I have used to bim on that subject | Q—llow has your recollection been refreshed on the | rubject just referred to, sinee your last examioation ? ‘A=li wos by reading the tostimovy in the Heruld On looking it over, Lthougbt there was an apparent con- tradiction. and I wish to explain it in that way 4 —You ty now that you are quite positive that wt the conversation in Wall street, you did not state to | Barber thet Hirediey hed ewingled him, or words to that | eff et; and in your last examination you state that you do not reecliect whether you did or not, but that you way have told bim <0, Will you state how you reconcile there two ers? A —I mewn to say that at that time I did not tell him fo; but that I might ha him +o afterwards The former quer tion iretur ti afterwards, I had said +0 that you have said so aflerwards you did +0 oF mot! t recollect whether I did or aot. it your Lest recollection that you ever sald 60 oF I i a not! A —My best recollection is that I never did. GQ —Weie you present at any conversation or conver- rations at st. Joha's office. b tween Barber, Bradley St Jobu. ard bank pure wT haa conversations with Mr. T.P St. John, but 1 : ther a of the others named the | prevent I think I never met any of the | any Hobart, st one time at | it might nave bee: st. Joho than thet I have on ecm munice ted to Mr. Bradley the f. Barber, after the original | de. had Bradley might be interorted in | w do al oF words to that effet | : fey that you cominuoieated this declaration of barber's si veral times to Bradley, after bis and your — from Worcester, Was Bradley's answer always be some’ | he said be oenen much the same thing; I don’t recollect | any tbirg ' G—When if ever, did first seo the Waggoner draft, whieh, we you state, was cancelled and replaced by | the one referred to in Behedule C? A—Leewitin Mr. Hobart first. if T reooilect right: I em not certain whetb: Mr barber's first; 1 tht ment y —When U A—That I don't know. & = Did you ree it afterwards? A aT dod't koow wheter 1 ala or not; T think I did; | | Leew it ip Mr, Barber's hands, I think, at Florence's i ee 8 ee ae eae returo " | Cited the new draft on Wi | A—Ldon't know what time wor made. oe —What do you meso. then. when . in your M Jon. thet after Hobart had given the securities to Barber, the firet draft was destroyed ands | pew one wae me for the saine amount, being the one | get St John | behalf to see ben pert, OF any of them, on the subject ofthe | * wbjeet. I don’t recollect any | = counsel objected, as the witness had bad no Teeolleetion. . pen OD an answer. T saw Mr. Barber was on it, mn. Q —If you are not positive about it. how ean state that Wished you to get Bt. John's endersement on it.and the other circumstances connected with that endors ment, as given in your direct examination ? A.--I think, on reflection. that I did sce him several times before St. John’s endorsement was on it, and that vadley to get St. John’s en- Q.—Was there apy endorsement on the draft when Barber first requested Bradley y ‘Saumement ager to get St. John —None except Mr. Bradley's, ; I think bis was on it. nh EE cman Hedi oaltive ofthat t js name was on it; T thi Tam not errata. bat thin ‘y= let ng ane Q.--How often did you see Bradley tue teat tote Bh. Schateontameeean ene dot’t recollect; I think I saw him several Q.—Who had the draft at these times? A.—Mr Barker had it some of the time; I don’t know who bad it the rest of the time, Q.—Was it in Bradley's possession at any time after he drew it. and before 8t. Jobn endorsed it ? ‘A.—He had it when he and I went to St. John’s; but I dcn’t know how long before. @.—Do you know of your own knowledge who gave Hu draft to, Bradiey before Bt, Johm endorved it ? 0, sir, Q —How came you then to state, on your direct ex- emination, that Barber then (that is after requesting you to sce Bradley on the subject of St. John’s endorse- iment) gave the draft to Bradley to get the endorsement of St, John? Bradley told me so; Barber was not prerent ; he | never teld aie so in Barber's presence. that I recollect; Ivar not present when the draft was given to Bradley. mn@ Had you seem Waggoner's letter of credit belore Am I had seen it sometime before this, In Barber's pos- session. ¥ Q—Was the letter of credit in Bradley’ ic wben be asked 8¢ Jobn'sendoreementt 2 A-—Idon’t know; I don’t recollect that I saw it when St. John endorsed the draft; [am quite sure I did not tee it there. but Iam not certain whether I did or not; Barber was pot present when St. John wrote his name on | the draft, nor at any art of the conversation: which led | 0 Ht. Q.—Who were present at St. John’s endorsement be- tides you and bradley? ee Dink T. P. St. John was present. —Don't you rmember whether he was put? A—1 think he was. ee Q.—Are you certain of it? A—I think [am quite certain, r defendant—Good God, what kind of a wit- bess you are! You know nothing, Counsel for plaintiff—When you get angry with your own Witness, What em Ito think? (Laughter ) a I for defendant—I never get angry except for an object. Q—You have stated that Mr Barber wished you to ‘a pame, for he said that if you could get that, he would get the money on it—when did he say so? A. —Some deys before this; I don’t recollect the time. Who was present? I dent know that any ¢ne was present. Qs near as you ean, the language of Mr. Bar- ber at that time? A—I don’t recollect the words that he said; we were speaking about ralmg monry to carry the bank macter threugb. and he said if hee uld get Mr. St. John’s naute, he could get the money cn it from some of bis friends; £ thir k that ix about the substance of it. Q.—How did be ecme to request you to get ‘Bt. John’s name on the draft! A.—I don’t know, except that he had ew ployed me in the firet pluce to goto Worcester to assist him in getting bis money buck, Q.—Hlow diu be come to ask you to use your influence with St Jobn? LA —I suppore he krew Iwas acquainted with St. John, but I don’t kuow how he knew. Q —Did you agree to go to St John for that purpose t A.—I went with Mr, Bradley at the time of the endorse- ment; I don’t recollect going at any other time for that as it before or after Barber asked you to get St. Jchn'sendorrement that he aeked you to see Bradley, and get him to do it? A.—-I don't resollect whether it was before or after. Q.—Did Barber tell you why he wanted you to get Brodley to see St. Jobn? AI don’t know; I think he said Bradley could get it done, or something to that effect. to St, John’s, | purper G_-Did Bradley tell you. before gob whether be expected St.John to endorse the draft ‘A—1 don't recollect whether he did or not. @—Did Bradley tell you, before going to 8t. John’s, anything on the subject of his credit, or that of his bank, with St.John? ‘A—Not that I know of. @—Did you know, or had you heard, from any one be- fore that tiwe, ofany reason why it was supposed Bradley could get St John’s endorsement ? Scwhes aeeeem he iden first suggested —When and by whom was the idea of Barber's endor-ing the draft above 8t John? AW The first I heard of it, Lthiuk was at St, John’s office at the time; I think Ansel St. John first suggested it, to the best of my recollection. ‘When St. Jchu named this condition, what aid you cr liradley tay? ‘AT deu't know that T said anything; Mr. Bradley aid he would see that that was done: if 1 was not done, he raid St Jobn's name would be stricken off, or some: thing to that effect. (War that all that passed on the subject of Barber's endorsing above St, Job ‘AI'dou't teceiect; there might have been more Q.-Did either Bradley or you pretend at that time to have any authority from Barber toagree to that condi- ten A.—I think Mr. Bradley did; I am not sure. Q-—What did Bradley say about his authority to agree | tothat condition ? A.—1 think he told Mr. 8t. John that he had spoken to Barber on the subject, and that he had agreed to do it, or comet hing to that eflect. Q— Why did you not state this fact, upon your direct examination ! A—I was not asked the question, and I did not recol- lect particularly, at that time. @—Were you not asked, as the nly question. on your direct examination. on the subject of the Waggoner Graft, to state under what circumstances the 100 Waggoner draft, mentioned in sebedule C, with Ansel St, Je endorsement upon it, was given to Mr. Barber? A —I de not recollect whether It was or not. Q —Have you now stated all that was saidat St. John's Cfice, about the Waggoner draft ! se pareve ie vba That was was the endor-rment as [anderstood. any reason for making it Barber should on- st acondition of bis endorsement, dorre above bim! A —I do not know, T do not recollect, «=—Do you know at what time the by regs draft went “? ine posession of Mr, Martin L, Sheldon? A—L do pot. (— Was it before or after St, John's endorsement? A—I think it was before; I do not know whether he bed it at all or not (= Were present at any conversation between bim and bar hen this draft was referred to’ A—Idon't reeclleet; Tthink I enlled re lotion to the draft. or the Pheentx Bank certificate ; don t remember whieh; Lcatled I think, on Barber's r be bad got it discounted. it ‘fh tue draft to Barber, to y meet ! Comment. where thy y met at the Howard Hotel AY | \.—In what part of the house did the interview take — eo? A.—In the reading room. Q— Wes any other person than Bradley, Barber and yourrcif present at the conversation ? A—1l don't remember that there was anybody else prevent \— What was first said when the partion met, and by bem A.—Tthiok Mr. Bradivy. as near as T can recollect, told Mr. Barbe: that he \d have the draft, if be wuld eo- dere it over St. John , Mr. Barber at fret objected. and he y. then had versation by the iver, I think out of the room; when they came they went toa «mall desk in the corner of the ‘and I rtood by them ; Mr. Bradley heid the draft Barber took « penand signed it ; 1 dop't remember that there was over Mr. St Jobn's ; sn ytbing mete, than that Bradley then banded Barber the daft, (— How long were Narber and Bradley in private com- verretion ? A—A few minutes; not Jong. gape te ean wb hy ete out of Ue room? AwIt not. —When did Bradley produce the draft? | pes think be juced it as soon as be met Mr Bar- ber; aaley hese it al the time, till Xe gave it to Bar- ber after the en dorrement. Q—Did they go out of the room immediately upon | Barber's retural vo endorse’ A—They did. ae as Tenn recollect. G—Wae enything sald, or did anything take after their return except Harber's signing the Brydir7 &cb.vering 8 to Bint A —I don't recollect fcre me. CaHave you ‘within the last three months, stated to Mr. Ther dere P. Hinsdale, at the Howard that the the en- at time received for your raviesste bani Gegutistion; and if 20,'how mech, and from whom ! Ualch was ebout my experres, Sbich wae about my ir. Brealey, “tthe otber G—Waret that 6 bet money, for the pur- of t Failedeipbile | PA —t'gck the fat $20 g0 to Worcester on the mago- —War $100 of the money got from Barber obtained ‘ fo Phitadetphia to your EESTI you 10 go | co’ wedding ? A.—1 got the $100 the day I wentto ia; but I comeldered it o* pay for services rendered 5 ' Q —Did yr n not dirtinetiy ray ti Barber when you | got that money, that you wished to lend it to you? A—1 do pot recolicet whether I did or net. Q—Have you not. within five minutes. at this table, stated that you thought you had asked it asa loan, but | mentioned in Schedule C? | <1 was told it was destroyed. bat T eould not tall the {Wim ard shee did you , the subject of the war ‘eggoner draft aT aen't reeoilest where I saw him first. nor the } tite | U -Have you no reeoliection om the subject at ail ’ | Q.—Abowt what time wae it? . A--Nothing partioular, that I could give any time or | j Dinee. j that you considered it as pay for your services! ot reeolleet, engaged In getting some notys dis + bret ve you an; ce of business 7 Nope, ne the +treet and my boarding tT! Se ‘Have you been conecrned with Mr. Bradley. ‘ St Jobne. in apy other negotiation or oo this. within the last year? Counsel f or defendant—I shall object to this, Counsel for plaintiff—[ knew you would, | The objection was reserved for the decision of the Jas- | tice, and the case adjourned. | Abeurdity of the New Postal Arrangements. | ‘YO INE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. May I bew an explanation of the annexed section of the » ‘Dew port office law ? Directions 2.—All drop letters, or letters placed in an: it otf.ce not 0, butfor delivery only, 4 charged with por 5 of one cent I bave this morning recrived: a circular from: Buffalo, (distance about 500 miles) wi jing one quarter of an» ounce. pre-paid ove cent, which, acoording to the above law, clears it from that office to this; yet the oaerier who distributes letters for the Fifteenth ward, charges two» cents for delivering it a distance of 1}y milk. Has he~ authority for doing Fo ? A Busscaimen ever since THe “Moral Wan.” F tray TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. + Bin--The mails from Easton, Pennsylvania, reach this~ city at 43; o'clock, P.M. Can you inform me how long." it takes our Poaanier to have the same distributed? ruly, ABSUBSUR: New York, July 11 1861. er j | TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. | Will you give me and the public information what= time is necestury for the mails to travel from Jumaicn, L. 1.to the lower part of the city of New York? [re- ceived a letter, this day. post-marked July 7th, Jamaica it arrived at 6 o'clock, P. M.—mailed early Mon day morning—from 56 to 60 hours, at the rate of four and-a-balf to five hours per mile, Great speed chat must be! If it requires from 55 to €0 hours for the regular oon. veynuce of the mail, I, for one, am perfvotly willing to dispense w.th the mails altogether, AN OLD SUBSORIBER. | TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. | Sin--As a subscriber to the Herald, i take the Mberty | of making the inquiry if the reduction on the rates of | letter postage bax increased the rates on newspaper pos- | tage? [have trequently sent the Flerald. (both single | and double sheets.) to friends residing in the South, and. | never was charged more than 133 cents (always 2 conte | ona single paper.) Today, in sending the Herald to the | Med, the bearer revurned with it, ssying one of the clerks charged 614 and another 4 cents, (both weighing | it) fora single copy. double sheet, of the Herald. By giv- | ing your views in regard to the inatter, you will oblige USTAGE REFORM. d to New York, July §, 1851. Brook)yn Clty Intellgenee Loxe Isuanp Ratiway—Lysexerion.—Judge Edmonds: bas granted an injunction, which was, on Phursday, served on the Mayor of Brooklyn, restraining him and the Con mou Coureil fiom taking any farther action in the matter of the late ordinance prohibiting che use of steauy carriuges within the city Inquests.—The Coroner on Thursday held an inquest on the body of Archibald Boyle, who died at the station house from the effects of intemperanca, aa previously ftated Verdict. congestion of the brain, Also, on Joho McCoy. who died suddenly in Pacific «treet, aged 61. Verdict, apoplexy. A Card.—Having heard reports anfavora- | dle tomy credit (arising, probably. from a reoent failure), f eveto say. Lam no Way affected hy the suspension 0! prietor of tie Claren and farniahed it; eatirely nd trades ty. also LA ‘one. Lam the lessee and sole pi don. having along leas With my own merns and credi: from mechani men. and expect to mee” my paymonts at mu Peg leave t .that Tam now having ereote: Hollister, Bea , av addition of slmoat ney to be completed on the first of October, wisich will be a ranged and fixished in the same henutifa modern in bath rooms, o'o tx: and I the mame style design to make e every comfort and retirement whi and when completed, 1 to produce ita equal for comfort, conver Of finish avd furnishing. Clarend: nue and Eighteenth street, 0. C. Pourth ave. |, Proprietor. & not Pianoforte dis puch tha Harps, Harp Music, Strings, d&ec., at J. F. oturer, 2.5 Broadway, afew in ry ehoiee onl- utiful instruments on sale ay aveve. The elegant and tasteful in art and music are Gentlemen s Shirts.—Not every one pro- Jemtlemen's Shirts,” eam make abirte ft m. At GREEN'S, | Astor House, etyle, 61, Hosiery Store, ‘ales, there jare; Cufle: Handkere work Robes; ‘bbe em roidere fant’s needle e slime; | worked Collars: on Jac »; R. FRASER, 29 al of the Observe the No 155, as there are others of the ea! the street, in the same buriness. foot, alad in his wiros, 904 relly men hw tie eoumtey. t Decones elegant and att Poot. than bi No wonder—he wells ex E eh benutifal Patent b taveh alow price, © seeptical that they ar | Boots, Boots.—The cheapest and best piace t a supe He iu the way of @ Boot, er More ie we a Phease call OWN. of Gas r HMats.— What kind ip resily # ane his Summer Hats — Every Style of Mocky ~~ drab be be 4 tole * | timere Pants, and fancy est, $2 10 bo 96; 400 paie of Pawen | 8a Torae ' priees. tre streets. er eing d gellows’ Hall, corner of Grand aad Urn By selling — Shoes, Watkins, 114 Futon street, studies bis own as well ag his eastomers’ in- Fest. Perscns whe purohnsr of him are sure of getting bie werth of theif monty. No German patent leather thot racks ured in his entablishment. Ali the Ko the premises Strangers, be their mensere, Hate nd Wig be fomnd te th Bro ene | hoon No. aes ae oy py the addres. Hyatt’s Life Balst m.—More Provts of the reat ying agent over divenvo, ‘The son De iirlenr, 1 Attorney strect, was mst sve Med with vereluin. Lule bedy was cavered sth aloes, weak lad come that his I wae dempairer . other remedies had fai od, the bife mended tine bettie gave great tel th. other Seat tenes town oF country. ton see, be wan restored ta yectogt boalths Pet Quart boteler af 7S-cents ~ Gres 4 s0*% Broome Fodtons treet, Blood ‘as pare eur aerofula, mercurial diseases, rhe austleny fo quench thirst Watte’s Nervous Antidote.—it per called wrong to exil ymople fi airs tines’, debilitated, i ue, f" they —_ what | hes i ay wo woe of 7, 13 vise serest “tor notenkia mays artone. Wat's, 421 Greomwicts n Jebel smog Nag Fd few weeks Ly proc * e consent of Dn, then publish the revord. Ings’ Vegetable Dyspepsia Mm Gen sr, when the 1 | Gheuld be without fe through thi Becerra H | Bo eente per Doitle, i ;