The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1852, Page 2

INTERESTING LETTERS. Our Washington Correspondenee. Wasuineron, Sept. 25, 1852. Wravai—Arcraary Kewnedy—The Pierce and Ma- grude Afas—Cayitol Marble Walls— Architeei Wale and His Plans—Sam Strong— Secretary Fate ior—Insane Asylum, ce. P. Kennedy, Secretary of the Navy, with Commodore Shubrick, Chief of the Bureau of Con- struction, Equipment, and Repairs, will be with you = Monday night, and ready for an official Tucrday morning, #4 the Henaiv has already an- meunced. The Bocretary wants to look into the Mavy Yard, and into the Japan expedition, snd some ether of Uncle Sam’s matters io aod around Gotham. He ie & clever gentleman and # prompt Seeretary. Gen. Pierce’s private seoretary,(who, by the way, Sen relation and samesske of Daniel Websier,) meashod here thir morning, with the original letter ef Gel. Magruder, the authenticity of which has, you know, been doubted by the unscrupulous and rate cf the whig prees. it is difficult to estimace the mamber of New members are offering at uh grag we clase will Bum! im uD Ww toplasecing end surveying wate surveying, A. Norton, bas commenced operations. twenty-two students are to the eetton cro) this department predict for it @- very large aiteud- | point to Evansville will divide eight to ten por ceav - anee, not more on aeeount of the popularity of these branches at the present moment, than for the weli- of the Professor, qualities, whieh endear him to all his instrnetion. ‘The other departments are filling np. in the Chemical schoo), the de: P. Norton is much felt, Me was a young and risin; genius. Firet in the precedence of botn time an qualification, as he stood in the soienso of agrical- tural chemistry, in this coun! peer behind him, and his place it will be au impos sibility at present to All. Ae no estimates have yet boon made of the professional students here this yoar, we can form no ealoulation as to the aggregate of students in the Te will doabtiess execed that of last The planet Venus is holding levees here by day- I found mysolf amid a large compa’ at her brilliansy to day, at 1: The tun was uncionded, and yet sho overcome the are with whieh he would fain have veiled hor inguished geologist, and ing tus city with a visit Ei Indianapolis Reilroad has ated, for the last two aged. The friends of : Profeasor J. , bo bas left no It has been examined Adjutant General's office, and to morrow’s @unday) Union will contain cortifcates, &s., ofits The marble walls of the new Capitol are raising ‘@beir bright, white facee in the sun’s light. Tao admirabie plans of the United States’ archit Phomes W. Walter, Esq, are being handsomely and feithfally executed under the masterly diroe- tien of Copt. Samucl Strong, of Now York—the wos’ femons of your Hiram abiifs. Mr. Walter for the extension of the Capitol seems, wpon the closest serutiny, to be the very best that ould have been originated Reeretary Stuart has reiarned yo the Departinont of the Interior, after a week or two at hie o residence, rear Staunton, Virginia. efficient, devermined officer wuburbs of the metropolis for the selectic der the Insane Asy/nm authorised by Congress trust be will repudiate bad sites and iow pr he ought, in public contracts of grout wo admirers, gaxin; Sir Charles Lyoll, the d' The designe of Lady Lyell, are hov nobility of character as woll ag rank, of all who are They are fouttiess. privileged with their acquaintance. Car Trenton Correspoudencs Trenron, N. J., Sept. 24, 3552, Temperance Conventim—Laxaggerahd Siatemenis—The Maine Law, §c Abont half past twelve o'clock Jast night s fire broke out im the foundry of Messte Bottom, Tit , adjoining their large meskine shop, near the Owing to the promptners and efliciensy of the fire companies, who were on the spot almort at tbe very moment the alarm was given, the flames were very soon extingnished. Tae Joss is estimated at foar or five hundred dollar, which was covered by insurance. The tempsrance meetings which have boon hold hore for two daye past closed jnst night. Addresses nubore, of Phila- He is examining ur Albany Correspondence. Axsany, Sept Bgwlar Case—A Man Tried for Kidnap, dis own Sister. A novel and very singular case wae tried before at the Court of General Sessions It appeare thet a marriage teok place, about the first of March last, between a young man named Henry Shuter, of the town of ng lady, Ellen Shuter, wh: ie soloted, by way of being his own half aunt. age is about twenty-two, and the lady's n At the time they were about being mx Bpon annouscing their names to the o being apparently of the same family, the re gentleman inguirod whether any relationship ex Ssted between them; when Henry promptly replicd that they wero second cousins to each ot elergymen, upon this statemoat, united them in the Donde of matrimony. Tho wedded pair th turned each to their former homes, lozi the friends of the young Jady might be awakened to the sue pision that # clandestine m: oanal, in this city. Indge Robinson, holding in this city. Cecymans, and a 68 on the ladies,” stated tly iquor dealer in his travels, who had the hardi- hood to asrert that the ladies wore 0 anxious to get husbands, that they wonld rush into the arms of reeling drunkards rather than not be marvied. The particular point and object of this statement. was pot apparent. The Rev. Theodore L Cuyler was called out, but h until after his retarn from & contemplated visit to “that good man, Neal suggest to Mr Cnyler, that if he will stop at the best hotel in Portland, the place of Mr. be will see liquors and wines as ag at any hotel in N to the contrary notwith If he does not, bis experience will be diferent from mine in that city a year ogo. It is stated that a thousand delegates the State Temperance Convention here. ber did not exceed, by actual count, four he declined to make a ; age had been po n this condition few dsys, when the n sey, “the Maino lay ¥y left her home, and went to that of ber husband ‘be family then avi thet a marriage bad taken p! gooond day of her absence, two of e@ompanied by two other persons, house where she was, about 5 ing, forcibly entered the chamb were, and tore her forcibly from the arms of Her cries and supplications for r duccd no effect upon her av: in 1 sleigh, carried to the ci: red to the cars, and taken wit the village of Evaneville, Indi: The husband compl: kidnapping of his w against Nichne) Sh man uawed Miller. ison and detained witho' il, zovounced his intention dence and revealing the whole a autboritics woubkd release bim fro: was Gone, and upon the trial he reve rial facts of the abducti ded | dressed lad appeared, with a large bundle of papors is now fairly rasie, ‘the Maino * pnd ie to be carried into | the next State ele Gur Indiana Correspondence, Princeton, Gibeon Coun ‘oads—Raitroad | 21 System—Greay | A Trip to the West—Vice of Ra ing— Western Raiir Orning for Female Labor, §c. New York city, Mr. Aditor, ia the 6 o'clock morning train for Dunkirk, on Monday, th on a trip to the West. Tt ocours to me that I may geod to wy neighbors and fellow creatures, down, this morning, and give them some ac | count of what I saw and heurd, through your mil- sure I shall not sow seed 1 since March, fro urture of the tra brother cn ihe other ei Bhe yielded to tho lat court aud jury, that from ber busba road, ina very dark ni some seven or eight of the last hundred on the Dunkirk end of th —thus endangering the li hundred passengers. miles we made at the rate of a mile » mi that, too, in elmost utter darkn delay is even wor @iana, couched inthe u which plans were laid for 1 rived at Alban, ng him when she ar- But this vice of The testimony being concluded. the prisoner moyed for his di that there was no cause of action the court finally consented, the cuse was taken 0} of the hands of the jury, end the prisoner dis- wharged. From certain disclosures made by som of the jurymen, there is no doubt that, had t ease boen submitted to them for judgment, a dif- ferent result would have transpired. A great ex- citement has prevailed in the neighborhood where the parties reside, and the result of the trial bas mot aliayed it in the least. Bat in doing so deserted her lawful husbani. arked on Tuesday, the 24th ult., purposoly del: departure tor two hours later than its ar e,in order to wait the arrival of the Bafialo and many of the best residences, although standin, é D boat, and when it did arrive, it brought so many | close to the street, are almost entirely conned | Tavages are confined chiefly to the late corn and poa passengers, that there were not cars at the station suf- i ficient to carry them forward. sult of this delay. The tra miles at a enail’s pace, expoct meet an ascending one, either burden or passenger, all on a similar lookout. Thus the delay of one train created a derangement | throughout the whole lino, and the consequence was, | that at London, in Ohio, we were thrown off the | straight track on to a turn-out, by the desire of the | switch tender, to save ua train, then doe at hi to eave us @ coll: ow, mark the re- went for mdes and g every moment to while the up-trains were Ellen saved her brother, Our New Haven Correspondence. Yae Coiieon, Naw Havew, Sept. 2, 1452. The Literary Contest—The Planet Venus —Visit of Sir Charles Lyell, §c Yesterday was an interesting day in thie college Its cloge brought an i 1 fween the two loading monian,” ond the “ Brothers in Unicy.” is in reference to the acyuisi from among the “ gentler tered college,” az is the To gain a inajorit, eelf months beforehand, s¢ from encountering th: station ; but in his eagerness jon, he omitted to move to the other extremity of the turn-out a long burden train, | and the result was, our locomotive dashed into this b in, making mince-meat of everything in its nocking the passengers almost out of their tunately, the engineer h: i cached the turn-out, or we should than imince-meat of n, with one half of our | purchose goods, | in with General 9, & shout raised ie put into requis: wary exercises This clectioneeri earnest importance Presidential elections will } be becomes a citizen of the ¢ preparation for a future p B & bad one; and, though the system has ite disadvan- tagos, it, on the whole, is o w to all engaged. ho Faculty allow of the thing. To afver all has been done that is pors' is, on a set day, & believed at one time to be doomed te Now, all this mishap was and crimine! delay at Cle any purposed delay o: | fesned, telegraphs published, bills posted, ead | depot when he er, forty hours, az ortentatiousl through, and within a | ws of decided benefit ith'this view of the cuse | in thie State in Novemb the rumiuatiog of its antagonist men—who belabor oat r # are apt to be wofully et riured into such kind cuough to ters not how mar * train, under chargo ¢ 5 i, ono Of which should be bew and thy o auged as a restaur king department might be arra j ns, so hat people might be coming and going at all g what they might call for aad paying What fared? & 7 ’ e might be displayed undersuch marcas ichent make ¢ access from this hint will be elegance, and an arrangement. car to car perieatly safe. t acted on by some of the enterprising manag In Germany you oan get heir cars—a place being pro the end of euch ear for the quafling of the beverage. Jn tho course of two yoars move, the people of thie once out of the way” ville; in the care and check York, Boston, &c. to this point is Anished, he be aie bs | ir 3 for New ing Evansville and an excellent stracture abash, next spring; from Vincennes to Terre Haute, the connection will be made in lees than two yeats. -A railroad is under nearly oppodie E qollmags to lake foon |. Meantime, they are interseeting Indians with railroads in every direction, and mating iv resemble a spidor’s ‘There is.ecareely @ road inthe State that 4 over $11,000. mile cost, expense of esi included, so level is tho eountry; and the a the Ohio—to Nachville in the are en the bother iy The ups fe 2 New Butidings In New York. ‘YHYROVEMENTS IN TIE SIZTEINTO WARD--OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS BXPENDED IN BUILDING. la thie ward the epirit of improvement bas ar- rived at its xemith; the number of houses buildiag in thie werd is ineredible, partieularly in tho neigh- borhood of Vourteenth and Treaty third streota, Relating to the Crops. ° * ian ‘ meee eee ob. | says that teame heavi. N anticipation, and ath of | increase roplaie, no fear is en: | No. 118 Woes 7: Sreatbertvy or ate Sree base Is ia twenty-two foet » three stories and basement bi ieks & Brother oro buildin, three dwolll ‘est Lwenty- fre 7, of the Kh inst., te | yond They aro twenty toes front, and three stories and basements bh these roade are almost ineredible ‘The Maviaon and ing materially tho enormous crops, ars, ten per eent, and has a sdrpins of $100,000. fhe Cleveland sod’ Pitsburg Railroad divided fou teen per cent last your. and the short arm from thi this year—the firet. of its existence mon mane of tion. ie, for the. Here some megnifisent dwelling house: are being army erected, The material used for fronts in these stroots pearance in that parish, and is doing great damage | iw principally brown stone. The fronts of somo out and ornamented, whie others are plain, without any oraament waxtever. We netived several houses with whiv marble froats ja Twenty-third street, but they are neither as handsome nor cestly as the brown stono ones in will be constructed of fine brick, ments, which will be brown stone. just commenecd and will not be finished before nest Cost, $3,000 cach J. Grecian is building a dwelling house, No 114 West Twenty-first strees. [ fifsy feet deep, aud threo stories high. The front will be brick, trimmed with brown stone. Ir will be ‘The Baton Rouge Gazette is informed the planters thas houses are beautifall, merous that apprehensfons are entertained of hao ma aa ae eea- } ruction of the esop to avery great extent. ‘8, eink the copital-|'' The Concordin: Fateldi; twenty fee: front. er Kas the following re- is not easily obtainable from other sources, to tax marke on the subject of ibemsoives the requisite amount to accomplish tho growing crop: —*' Ke cont ring, and will cost about $3,000, facts have convinced the eotton growers of the Houta that sirect. In various other party of this ward Mr. Van Vatien is bu:lding a dwelling house, No. tbe houses, which are built by speculators for to- object. Hastern capital, I find, is not slow in | that it will be im ho ona up the ponauer stook of Westera rall- | full eotton erop yoads. Then there is Qlinois, with her neswork of | in ‘ible to realise anything like a © present scason. eaily ; but no preparation 114 West Twenty-first street [t is oaly commenced, and will not be fiaished before spring. ine first pick. | ncmont purposes, sre constructed in the chospoat feet deep, auct three stories aad basey There are at present two lines of maoner possible. yeilroads in this ward, which ovcasion, in a great ig commences Ssarialls iron rode, and her neighbors, too, aro not much | feeins to have beon mi behind her’ in their glen for opening comunniea | middle and later pickings. tione to markess, The three Btates of and Llinois, are deatined to be the eentre of popula- tion of this country, and mast become the garden je by the planter for the fo 0, and no sigve of 1 rept ans hic, ladiama, | formed, and no 8 of any. is new a err tive certainty thet wanty all the cotton which 8 made in the South this year will be picked by the he frone will bo brick exeept {1 ment, which will be brown stone. G. & W. Youn; houso, No. 112 messure, the vesting and basines-like appearance Gf thie portion of the city. It will be seen thatover ove million doliars is expended in buildiog houses in this ward. Below is the list of new buildings now $8, ero building @ fixe dwellin est Twenty-third siroot. twonty feet front, fifty fect deep, and three stories! apote of the Union for cuitivation; for the simple | first of October. reason that the soil is from two to twanty feet deep, and almost every foot of it is capable of spade cul- ‘ and basement high. The basement ie eonsiracted John Tonnel! has just built a handsome dwelling | of brown stone, above tbis the front ia brick boure in West Fourieenthetect, noar Sixth avenue; ree feet front, sixty five fost deep, and i Point Conpee Echo of the 1th inet says sprees peng Maral Rae Pa Meer dep ’Curin is building # fine dwelling house, ture. All they want now is a complete system of | tended mere or less to near): railroads, and people will seek homes withia borders igh. The front is constructed of ele- stone; it is neurly finished, and willcost about $14,000. Samuel Warner is the No. 135 West Twenty-first strect. It is tweaty-fir ie yarails, Wille she onteruiiisr has disappeared al- feot front, fifty five feet deep, and three stariea| most entizely. It is thought, however, that the Throughout a)l the free States of the West there plante iss great demand for female labor, but nowhere is there a greater demand for it than in this thriving high. The froat will be constrneted of elégant It will not be finished before nex! uilding a handsome dwelling ho: 78 Will etill make an average crop. The Madison Jowrnal saye:—Bo far a3 our obser- Yation oxtende, it will prove more destructive than J. H. Correll is buildin; a hand houre, No. 103 West Fourwenth street; five feet front, seventy-five teet deep, and four and growing village. Honse girls, nuracs, cooks, | ing catespillers in °44 or °4 and washerwomen, ean get from five lo seven dollars a month, aceording 40 their proticiensy, ant, in a few years, be able to begin life on their owa account, if they are economical. For twenty-five or thirty dollare, a girl ean leave New York and reach this village in four days. She has only to take ber | jy passage in New York for Cinoinnsi, which will ing cout her $16. At Cincinnati she ean take a New Orleans or Bt Louis boat, and for four or #.x dollars, she will be landed at Bvaneville, whonee by railway she oun reach thir place for one dollar. ‘fis esti- mate is for firet-class passengers. She oan eome as sooond-elass passenger for lees money. Why noteome of your New York working women pio! up and come to this portion of country, where they can get mmediate employment, instead of cooping themselves up in & garret in your city, tbirta at ten cente a piece, with ruia bo the! tnd the fear of starvation before thoir eyes? hey will never starve. A kind people, in bardehipe, inhabit thie conntry, and im vhe'r tion, labor is dignided. Let your industrioas, honest, and virtuous working women come, then, to the Wost, and sewk Inbor in the kitchens and houses of Western people, and they will soon grow rich ond take their places amongst those whom they once honorably served. Male labor is just as mach in demand as that of females. Good hands can got from teu to lifteen doliars @ month Gor Columbus Correspondence. CorumBus, On10, Sept 21, 1852. The Herald om the Evie Railroad—Agricultural Prospects in New York--Cleveland, Ohiv—State Fair—General Scott im Ohio— Political. Beautiful and gloriousis the morning; the gloomy ekies of the past two days have cleared away, and the sun comes brightly out to cheer the earth again. It is coo}, pleasant, snd there is a good prospect of a continuance. T must tell you of a clear case of juvenilo smartness I witnessed on Saturday morning, on my way from New York to Dunkirk, by the railroad. Soon aftor the cars started, an active, intelligent, well- | under his arm, when the following conversation ensued between him and a regpectabie looking old gentleman :— Gent.—Boy, have you got the morning's Henan ? i Yes, sir; Henauy and Zribune, sir; ouly nee. rent —But J didn’t ask for the Tridun:: I want | the Henap. Boy.—Henarv? Yes, sir: here itis, sir. What other paper will you have, sir? | Gent.—I don’t want any paper but the Heraup. | Boy —Can’t sell it alone, sir. Gent.—But why not? Boy —We slways keep them to make the others 0. f I presume, thinking that the boy deserved patron- | age for his shrew ss, he bought a budget of papers, and shared them with bis fellow passengers, reserving for himself the coveted Hen aun. Ped ‘The agricultural prospects, in that portion of New | | York State through which the Erie railroad p: | from Suffrens to Dey ing. The crops were ent to mort the farmers, in many | cattle at @ sacrifice Cleveland is rapid); pon ce. Business is prasp Buildings are going up on sides—good tial ones, too, built with much beauty, 28 well as durability of material. Bsyek time, a horse cannot be h mumber is very h three extensive | planing steam » it necessiry to engage | dressed lumber two or three weeks in advance to | get it atall. Cleveland bas more the appearance | of a thriving eastern city, than most other places in the West. The strects ere broad and regalur, n- | from view by the profusion of shrubbery ond shade | trees. I know no place where a more beautiful | drive can be enjoyed, than on the borders of the jake, towards evening. The sun slowly setting, seems | to disappear gradually beneath the waters of the In the neighborhood of Milliken’s Bend, she cotton ia all o icked by the Ist of Novemhor. ted that the picking season did not commemee this year until nearly three weeks later than the the season thus far bas been far from be- a8 favorable ; and that it will close from presont cationr, full ix weeks, if not two months earli- er, our readers enn form some idea of present pros The front is brown stone; it is nearly fivicbed. and cost $20,000. Mrs. R. Usher has built a dwelliog house, No. 105 West Fourteenth street; it is twenty-five foot sive feet déep, and four stories high. Tho style of arghites- Tt will cost about $20,000. Field No. 166 West Twenty eccond street. be constructed of fine brick, trimmed with brown matte It ig three stories and basement high. Cost Frager has built a dwelling house, No. 149 West Twenty-seeond street, also ® bulldvwy ta the welling is twen . fort feet deep, and five stories b trimmed with brown stone nty seeond str Jest ; that of brown stone. ture is Grecian. & Uorrejiw are the erebitects. P. Burrows hag built a hacdso ne dwelling bouse, No. 107 West Fourteeuth stnevt; it is twenty-tive fest frout, sixty-five feet (esp i The front ig constructed of ian, and cost $20,000. Field & near Aoventh aye veiling bousoe have boan just i front, fifty foot deep, The ironte are Cbey are all owaed by dif- ret, Nos, 100 avd 162 3 aty live foot front, ep, and four stories high on aod brown stoue, above this Cost 34,000 each Vive bandaome dvclling honzes, Nog 106, 107, 109, 112, and 113 West Ewonty- third atroes, whieh have been recently ercoted, aro twemky feet front, fifty-six feet doop, and four stories high fronte are constructod of plain brown stone belong to Mears Young, Babcock & Widmoyer ‘They are nearly Gnished. Ju Ywenty-third street, near Seventh aveaue, 9 Jarge lot of ground is being exonvated -for the pure se ofbuilding ten handsome dwelling houses. foot lots, and the housos, it is supposed, will bo conetructed with white marble fronts, to correspond with ochers whieh are around Thoy wil eost xbous $10,000 each. oO. Richards bas built a s:ore at No. 289 Six! It is twenty feet front, four stories high. brick, trimmed with brown stone. ished in the fall, ant will cost about $5,000. Warner is tho arebitect. The store No. 13 West Twenty-sixth street, whic is nearly finished, is twenty five foet frout, thirty: five feet deep and five stories high. Cost $1,000 Henry Manker is building two dwolling houser comer of Seventh avenue and ‘Twenty Ono is seventeen feet front. and the other twenty- They are forty-six feet deep and fonr stories high. They will be finished this x The Holly Springs (Mi learns that the boll warm is very destructive in the ok, | Boxthern part of that county. The Natchez Cosrier, of the 14th inst , says that. complaints are extremely general among planters of je upon the crop by the rot. All along the river, oa bigh up as Vicksbarg, come | The front is Philed plaints of arimilar kind are wade. are too tras to be made light of. Samples of the rot are continually coming ia ae evidences of the state- ment, and all nvite in testifying to the rapidity with | Nighth avenue, corner of Fourteenth etreet, in which the ruim hag been accomplished. In’ fields where & week eince not a sign of direase was fest, hardly a healthy boll can now be found. Pot appears to be confined to plants from the prolific, prout, Peruvian, and other seeds of the kind. Plants | cost about $25 000. from the old Moxicun seed do not appear to have -) Gazette, of the LOth, architecture it Gre 7) ferent persons. v. %. It is thirty eeve p, and four storiea high hia brick, trimmed with brown stone; it will be finished in December, and will coet abont $20,000. Samuol Warner is the architeot. ‘The Kaiokerbocker Bank, which is situated in Fourteenth str i making | gest inroads being mma frovt, #ixty-four feet door twenty-six feet front, seventy-five feet deep, fone stories and basement high. streete aro brown stone; the style of architecture It will bo finished in tue fall, and will The fronts in both Havermeyer aro building dwelling houses, Nos. 195 and 197 West Mourteonth street. They are twenty-five feet front, sixty fect eep, and four stories high structed of brown stone. Tho Columbus (Misz ) Democrat, of the 4th inst , Bays :— Beveral of the planters of this county have toid us that the boll worm is playing the mischief with the cotton. On some plaatations seareely half | Cost $15,000 each. 2 crop will bo raised. The Columbus (Miss ) Argus, of the Sth inetant, gays that the cotion crop in Mississippi, though very romiring ovly a short time ago, are very tar from ing £0 now. The bol! worm, caterpillar and rains, have proved very dostractive on tho prairie lands, W. ad no person a all acquainted with planting thinks the crop will average more than two-thirds. The most favorable weather could not now change The froata ara con: | Phoy aro twenty five They are nearly faished. William Jobnson & Sons are building a dwelling house, No 278 Weet Sixteenth street. five feet front, forty feet deep, and four stories high. It will be finished in November, and will cost itty foet deep, and ‘The front is eonstracted of J.N. Wolls is building six dwelling bouses in est Twentieth street, near Ninth avenue are seventeen feet tront, sixty-one feet deep, and four stories high Tbe fronts are plain brown stone. They will be finished in the fall, and will cogt about William Jobneon & Sone are building a dwelling house, No. 2&3 West Sixteenth street. ty feet front, thirty-five fees deep, and four stories bigh. It will be finished in the fall, ana will cost From Marion, Twiggs ¢ :unty, we learn that the cotton crop, up to about the 10ch of this month, remising. The excessive raing will matorially injure the crops All low and level lands have rusted and shed off everything except the grown bolls SoIBeISEOr, the carly crop is neerly all thet will never Wes moro i since then has an il, aad will eost etenthaler is building a dwelling house, No. West Twenty: fourih strest fest front, eightocn feet deep, and three stories The basement is brown sto; above thia the front is constructed of briok. It be finished in the fall, and will cost $2,600. 7. P. Aymer has built 2 dwelling house, No, 188°, West Twenty-fourth strect. D. Davis is building three dwolling houses, Nos. 260, 293, and 294 West twentieth street. They are eighteen feet frout, fifty fet deop, and four stories 4 are nearly Gnishod, and will cost about It is twenty-+wo A correspondent at Piseola, Lowrdes county, eays basement high. that the cotton crop is certainly % jured from the Jato excessive rains The caterpillars have made their appearance, though not much harm has been done by them yet. ‘The Salem (Ala.) Reporter, of the 10th, fears the quantity of rain which bad falien the previous week rove very Gestructive te the cotton crop, aa worm would inerease it? depredations. The Tuscaloora (Ala) Monitor, of the 8th instai r We learn from our exchanges, and from pri- ources, that the boll worm is doing considere- sin Alabama and Mis. d the recent cos! , Samuel Down, gas metro menufacturer, is build- ing a large store, tor bis businees, in Twenty: second street, near tho North river. front, twenty-five feet deep, and four stories high; also a wing attached, which is fifty-three feet froat, twenty-five feot deep, and four stories high. It is nearly finishe dl, and will cost about $10,000. _ The store No. 171 Tenth avenue, which is noariy finished, is twenty-three feet front, fifty feet deep, and four storica high. Is is one hundred feet It is twonty-five feet feet deep, and four stories high. front is constructed of brick, trimmed. with b: stons. It is nearly finished, aud will eost al },000. C. Stirling is building a dwelling hones, No. 19f° Wert Twenty fourth street. front, twenty-five feet deep, and three siorive basement high. The front is brick, trimmed It is nearly finighed, and coe al r It ia twenty-one foot cost about $3,0W). ig two stores, Nos. 193 and uty: four feet front, mage to tho eotto 195 Tenth avenue. They are two: Mesere. Buckley & Crank hava built two dwell ing houses, Nos. 167 and 169 West Pwenty-fourth street. They axe twenty-five fost iront each, and tbree stories and bifsemen » Suvored thoir ope that the limited dist but little rain are abo y entirelyexempt. wenty feet front, forty high. The basoments ee brown stone, above this the front ie brick. fi wil bo finished ia Bnisbed Lemre , , the ing houses, which sre feet front, sixty £ The fronts are constructed of i 2 ‘n stone; they belong to Sunes owners; they will cost abous $4,000 ing house No 265 West Twenty-fourth of erection, is twent; fect fron®, fifteen feet deep, and four stories p brick dwelliog, and will cost about . | The Marianna (Ile Whig, of the 1th inet, | states that the Inte freshets have done serious dam age to the crops in nil parts of the ¢ devasiation on the Flint, Chattahoochee, an ers, is very great. The crops of tho plane recently removed to the Apalachicola On some of the plantations | the cotton is entirely out of sight. , Mr. Hallock has just fnisked building ten dwell- ing houses, a continuation of the row of houses in Weat Twenty-third street, corner of Ninth avenue, known as London Terracs. to twonty-three feet front, fifty-four feet deep, and They are very neat and hand- Cost $6,000 each. has built two handsome dwelling- 56 and 258 Wost Twenty-third strect, They are twenty-three and five stories high. is building two double houses Nos.'} 210 and 232 West Twenty fifth street. They are cheap brick houses, and will cost about $5,000. two dwelling houses corner Twenty-sixth street. They sre nineteen feet front, fifty feet deep, and four stories high. They we be soon finished, and wilt They are from twenty W. Barnes is buildin; four stories high. of Ninth avenue and CORN AND POTATOES. | somely finizhed houses. worm, believed to be tho “ army J so formidable to cotton planters in Missis sippi, Alabama, &c , hes made its appearance with- in the last few weeks on several of the plantations | near Raleigh, and the neighboring counties. nty-eixth street, near Tenth aver there has been erected two double houses. They are twenty five feet front, forty-feet deo stories high. They willbe finished will cost about $8,000. : commenced to build three houses * Tenth avenue, between corner of Ninth avenue. feet front, fifty-six feet deep, Tho fronts are constructed of brown stone, beauti- fully cut. Thoy are nearly finished. Those houses crops. Fortunately, its appearance was too late to | command a fine view of “the North river. affect the corn crop gener: in bodies and destroy every vestige of green vegeta- tion in their course. The Wilmington ly. These insects move on tho easterly side of Twenty-fourth and Twenty- fifth streets, the block). To be four stories each. stories fitted upfor stores, and the upper as dwel- To cost, when finished, about $3,500 each. ewerin has built two fino dwelliag-houses, | Nos. 210 and 242 West Twenty-third street. are twenty-five fect front, sixty-two feet deep, and ubtican states that the The fronts are constructed of four stories high. lake, casting gold and purple shadows across its | potato crop in Mil | mirrorlike suriace. At this, the witohing hour of | considerable extent. twilight, the youths and maidens of Cleveland hie them hither to enjoy the beauty ofthe scone, and Tundred is affected to’ | brown stono, and will cost abort 10,000 each. ‘They will be finished in the fall. 8. Ray is building a dwelling-houge, No. 244 ‘wenty-third street. of the cost of buildi now erecting in the Sixteenth ward, some of ne not being | It. ip twenty-five fect | ascertained, but cstimated as near to the : We learn from Mississippi that everywhere the corn crop is most flourizhi: ; id the yield will be | to whisper sweet words of love, and tell over their | immenee, ' future hopes and dreams. greater than it has ever before beon in | front, sixt ty:five feet deep, and four storics high. m of the country; and the same, we be- | The front is brown stone, and the style of architec: | | Sy a tooeest * 4 i this ec 555 The great Fair Inst week wus, as far as I can aa- | lieve, may be said of the potato crop. certain, the best ever held in the State. It at- | tracted great crowds hither, and the landlords | ture Grecion. It is nearly finished, and will cost | Mrs R. Usher. The Reckvilie. (Md ) Journal states that the po- W. Jobneon is building a dwolling-house, No. 319 reaped a Fich harvests Others were ek dia- Tecnicatetat manasa county, oe | a ted in not og as to. 7 . A 3 | toe p| on hat iin oxtth Mone cf goo, eetimates his oss at six hundred bushels, and other trusting om am inereaged market, but foun: | Jate, that people came to see the Fair, and not to | West Twenty-third street. It is twonty feet front, | forty feet deep, and fourstories high. ‘The front is | brick, trimmed with brown stone. and will cost $1,500 Darrow is building a dwelling-houso, No. 32) It is twenty fest front, The Knickerbocker Bank . A. and R. Havemeyer, two | W. Jobnson & Sons JN. Wells, six... W. Johnson & Bone aSSSE88 too | imstances of iike character are reported. It is nearly fin- “! } Will Jogo their entire crop. to the Cecil (Md.,) Whig says tho rot is spreading A letter from Harford ~ as West Twenty-third street. } left Cleveland for Cincinnati on « freight train, in that county, and thet many of the farmers on | on Monday evening e#t halt past six o'clock. moment before we started, the Pittsburg cars came on his wey to ud in Ohio, and knows it to be #0, here, aud is now making one last and desperate effort to carry the Statein Novem ser. The military was called out, runs were firod, oxtras nfver ntl the furs, there was not to exceed three hun- ered persone } resent (excluding the miitary), at the nneti thie mori: at five o’closk. | % full dem: King wi A Correetlon—The imperial Album of Hayth. York, Bopt. 26, 1852, riday riat and Royal Family of Hayti,” you and reflect great credit on the arviat r truthful dotinention, Thi srogreph contains an error, which I trnet w me to e artist and editor of the | implied by y fiatcmont, was only | ographers employed in its execution. nd only editor aud proprictor of the work a I c , who had pore | to proceed pertonally to Port-au- expense, and to take the daguer- Prince, et TEaty Pes O | imto th Chpie. Mr. Hartmann then returned to New York, | it the Basin at the foot of Lumber street, ou the 20th and carried out bia enterprise of the publication of the ‘Albwm of Hayti,’ at his own riek and ex- | pente. in this work, he hae rescived the ansistance Créhen, O:t, Severyn, and-Grozelier, forty feot deep, aud four etorios high: Tho base- | ment ia brown stone, above this the frout is bricix. it is nevrly finiehed, and will coet about $4,500. A A. Androws is building a dwelling-house, No. | 323 West Twenty-third street. | frout, forty feet deop, and four stories high. Tho | front is brick, trimmed with brown stone. Iy fiviebed, and will cost about $4,000. b Dubois is building a fine dwelhhg house, > West Twenty-third street. » trimmed with brown stone. front, forty feot deep, and four etories high. be finished in the fall, and will cost about $4,500. « W. & J. Jobnson have built a dwelling | houso, No 27 West Twenty-third street. The base- n Above this, the front is brick. Jt is twenty feet front, forty fect deep, and four It will be finiehed in the tall, and will Neer Creck have lost their whole crop; some as high as bie eer ons tt paagenger, pretending to be | Moet prevalent in the high lands; those in the low pends. tb setablisn eee eur lands are very little injured. | hospital at Blue Lick Springe. Tho trath is, he is | EOI | fast Josing grov | since Greeley SESZ2SSES= No. 171 Tenth avenue . | W. Darrow. W.H. Smith . Comer of Twent; Mr. Hallock, te W. Dunning, two ‘The disease seems to he — SeSsce0o Jt is twenty feet G2 3322 sc Domestic MisecDany, drowned at New Orleans on the 20U1 instant, by the upsetting of a kif in the river, Dr. T., at one time, had « very large practice es ® pbyst- clan, but latterly he withdrew from the profession. “fle lenves a widow, five young children, and a largo eirele of relatives end friends, to mourn bis loss. ‘The next meeting of the Grand Lod; ed of the United States. will be held at P He took the eleven o'clock express train for Cine | tiret Monday tn September, 1853, when the Grand Oficers W arrive here, at Col- | elected during the reseion Just closed will be installed. The Inhabitnnte of the borough of Potteviile ie yoke | comimenced the erection of 4 :nonument to Henry Clay, 0. 8. after @ design by F. Houson, Exq. The siatue #6 to be ©) cast hon. 15 feet in height, standing upon a Grecian doric, colum, naivo of eact izom, 6F}q fect, starting from a base of conglomerate rock, the whole rising 103 feet, Henry 8. Bement, Josep MeCormick, and George | Conners, escepcd from the State prison at Columbus on A reward of $100 each is of- Dr, Hypoilte Vrieo y-second street, and Tenth of Oad Petiows Julelphia, on the | A. A. Andrews . 8. Dubois .... ohn: and Constable .. ’ ey, three. Mr. French, two. | W. Stanley, three. | ment is brown stone. Ug $40 Cuisty & Constable are bu'lding a dwelling house in West Twenty-thiid street, near the North river. Jt in twenty-five feet front, fifty foet deep, three stories end basement high. The front is fine brick, trimmed with brown etone. the fall, and will oost about $4,500. | Mrs Bailey bas built three handsome dwelling houres, Nos. 215, 217, and 219 West Twenty-third atrect, They are twenty feet front, sixty-four feet deep, and four etories high ttructed of elegant brown stone, beautifully out. No. 217 will cost $16,000, and tho other two $15,000 e ‘They are nearly finished. Mr. French is building two fine dwelling houses, Nos. 211 and 213 Woat Twenty third street. Tho fronts are constructed of elegant brown stone, costly They are sixteen feet front, fift cight feet deep, and four stories high Thoy will finshed in the fall, and will cost W, Stanley is building three | houses, Now. 200, 202, and 204 West ‘Lwonty-third They are twenty-two fect front, filty-one feet deep, and four stories high. Tho fronts are | constructed of elegant brown atone. finished in the fall, and will cost shout $15,000 . Boxter iv building three stores, Nor. 807, 309, They are twenty-one feet lished fa the Hamann | the night of th It will be finished in under the title of the “Album of | tered for Uh G. Cleland... . Hendricks and Brother, throo | m, an industrious and inne recpestod life Whilst raising the floor of » | | citizen of Osian, lost his res are done to the order of Bowlouqne, | ¥ Mill, on thes A fire ccourred at Rochester on the 20th inet., which dertroyed four coopers? shops, The damage was trifling. | aged 106 years, died at Grove Hill ‘Che fronts are con- Mr. M’Curin . ‘Old Unele Phil.’ t ont. Mr. Corradi, in Clorke county, Ala ,on the 13th inst, 1 white or bisck, in the county, and was buried on Guy night, by torch light, tn'the presenve of « large | number of negroes, It is believed that several of the recent fires in Troy gung of vagrant hoya, actusied by the ma ons devire to witness Che conflagration ‘ pn Hynds, aged 25 years,« carpenter, ant residing » principal personnges of the Haytion | 12,{Rerenr of 169 Orange street, Albany, accidentiy fll He was the oldest Vu P. M’Cabo, two were ret Ly & Twenty. t 7! . + andsome dweDing | Tua fey near Seventh avenue, ten 100,000 We! #T. Manker, two. . instant, while intoxicated, and was drownod. Mr. Detenthaler | & wife and two children, we 1. font whalit t 6 Gloucester. on the only of M. Corradi, but of Messrs. D'Avignon, ride, which (hey had taken the day before in the buy. The total debt of the city of Charloston, 8. C., is $1.89 schooner wasin the outer har. | h instant, with a whale dong. = | and 311 Sixth avenue. Feeling certain that those crrors 1 have pointed | 96 61, Tbe smount in the sinking fund I ®1,052,7]8 ont fonnd their way into the Hxnaup through exrovcous information, I take the liberty of repeat ing my confident hope that you will give pl , this correction. J am, Sir, yours very truly, land, Tu. Lacomee. day. Seeger | 3 ' | front, forty-eight feot deep, and four etories high, lasing 9048;600 86 yet to be proviged fee. ey are cheap brick stores, and will cost about was held on the 27th instant, rays the lo. at of the 28th, on the bo ‘who was killed by the cars at Adam and loaves 4 husband and the Jury was as follows :— ‘That the came to ber death by the cars striking hor, by her own carelessness W. Barnes, two Jace to | chester John Phelan, throe ; building three fine dwelling houses, Nos. 73, 74 and77 West Twonty-iirst stroot. They are twenty-five feet front, fifty-two feot deep, three stories and basement high. The frents are constructed of fine brick trimmed with brown stone. be soon finished. Cost, $12,000 each. Astor is building four dwellin, West Nineteonth stroot, forty-eight feet are nearly fini lang pandeome dwelling five children, 7) 4 and meglect. ii kes bo; bac A crors the bridge when the cars were in ght; an we are , p are grounds of censure agalnrt for not giving the notice the iaw requires.”’ welve or fifteen (on the ralroed It is eupposed pockets were found a pistol and vigh | Williom B. They are seventeen fect front, and three stories high. Th and will cost about G. Cleland is bu' agate Mans