The New York Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1852, Page 4

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Before another number of the Hera. is issued from the press, it will have been incontrovertibly settled who is to preside over the destinies of the mation for four years from the 4th of March next. Asto the final result of this great contest, no ob- Servant and reflecting mind can have any doubt whatever. What will to-day be the verdict of a majority of the people, has been foreshadowed in the recent elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Flerida, and Baltimore. The merits of the different Bominees for the Presidency and Vice Presidency are, of course, too well known to render comment meceseary at this late hour ; but, in order thatevery man may have no opportunity of being led astray, we elsewhere publish, together with much other political matter, a complete list ofall the candidates for National, State, and City offices. Let every man vote in accordance with the dictates of his yeason and conscience, and he will not hereafter be troubled with upbraidings for having failed to do his duty. The country is safe. Everybody will be gratified to learn that the tele- graph lines leading from this city, will be held open all ef to-night, for the accommodation of the press g@adthe public. In publishing Mr. Swain’s note upon this subject yesterday, a part of the conclud- #g tentence was inadvertantly omitted. public” was included as well as the press. Let not the reader for a moment suppose that the weincipal ingredients of this issue consist of politics, for it is seldom that we are enabled to spread be- fore the people a more diversified amount of highly “The | merce is anticipated. Well, the British opened | If we have opposed Gen. Seott, we have given our | Hom- Mdwesd the ports of Chins to our vessels, and we may as well return the compliment be effecting an entrance to Japan for the commerce of the world. Our “ spirit rapping " fraternity afford considerable amusement to the good people of the Old World, whe are fast becoming impressed with the indisputable fact that this ie a most stupendous country, and, consequently, aré sending over hordes of emigrants to seek their fortunes in this land of plenty. Australia, too, still proves very attractive, , as will be observed by the acsount of the great numbere of people who are on their way thither. The commercial reports from London and Liverpool show tbat those great staples of American produce, cotton and breadstuffe, remained firm at good prices, and that a fair business was doing in mozt other articles. The Hon. Edward Everett has been called to the | office of Secretary of State, at Washington. We have elsewhere given & short biographical sketch of | the public career of this gentleman. From New Orleans we learn that the Gardiner yoveetigating Committee sailed from that port for Mexico, on the 27th ult. It remains to be ascer- | tained hew profitable this excursion to the Doctor's mines will be. Gen. Pereifer F. Smith, it is said, is preparing to keep the Indians under a complete state of subjec- tion. Itis high time. Three passengers and two of the crew of the bark Susan Brewer, which was abandoned in a sinking condition last September, have arrived at New Or- leans. It will be recollected that they ieft the ship in the eaptain’s boat, of the fute of which nothing | had been previously heard. The yellow fever is supposed to have materially | abated at Charleston. There were only fifteen deaths during last week, and no new cases were re- ported for the four days previous to Saturday. No less than eight persons were arraigned for murder yesterday, in the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner—a fact which shows that, however onward our progress is in many respects, certain classes of our citizens are not advancing in civilization, or manifesting an abhorrence of crime. In the Board of Supervisors some suspicion as to the veracity of the Coroner’s charges, in his last quarter’s bill, were thrown out, and the matter was ordered to Ke on the table. The Board of Aldermen met last evening, but no business was transacted beyond the reference of some papers to the standing committees, and they adjourned till Thursday afternoon, at the usual hour. The mortality report for the past week, published in another column, shows a reduction in the num- ber of deaths occurring in the city of forty seven, as compared with that for the week ending the 28d of October. “No particular class of disease has attained any high range during the week, and we look upon the report as very satisfactory. Notwithstanding the publication of several ool- umns of advertisements, which are fraught witha great deal of useful local and general information, our inside pages will also be found to contain a vast quantity of highly entertaining reading of every description—embracing an account of the late un- successful attempt to arrest fugitive slaves in Ohio; report relative to the anniversary of the Youth’s Missionary Society ; proceedings in various courts, including the verdict of the jury in the action for malicious prosecution in the Supreme Oourt; marine affairs; descriptions of a new clipper ship, anda new California steamship; monetary and trade re- ports ; theatricals and musical, &c. The Day of Judgment. This is the day. The people of the thirty-one States of this great and glorious Union render in their verdict to-day. It is the day of judgment be- tween the respective claims of the two great party tickets nominated at Baltimore. The argumont is closed. Newfpaper discussions of the principles and measures involved in the canvass are over—they are useless to-day. They may be resumed when the grand result shall have been ascertained ; but this is not the day for argument or debate—it is the day | for action, all over the land. | With the eetting of the sun this day, in all human probability, the people of this republic'will have ac- lished a great revolution—a revolution of the interesting intelligence from literally every quarter importance to tha nation, and to the whole 8 Of the habitabic globe. We have news from Uuba, | “Vilized world. The organ of W. H. Seward, and Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Jamaica, and mearly every part of the United States. | Seme very important information from Havana will be found in the telegraphic despatches from | Mobile, where the steamship Black Warrior arrived on Sunday, bearing the announcement that Juige Conkling, our Minister to Mexico, had an interview with” the Captain-General of Cuba, in which the | latter acknowledged that his government had been too hasty, and he therefore apologized for its past | conduct. He expressed his readiness to permit the steamer Crescent City to land her mails and pas- | wengers in future, but would not sanction any | attempt of Purser Smith to go on shore. | This is all very well, so far as it ‘goos; ut then there are some other matters that remain to be looked into. Not one word | is said with regard to the overhauling of the | mails and papers in the captain’s desk on board | the American bark Cornelia. Perhaps this will not | be s0 easily explained away. It is likewise roport- | ed that Judge Conkling, on leaving the United Btates steamship Powhatan, and proceeding to the | house of the American Consul, was followed by a aabble, who heaped upon him all kinds of abuse | and insulting language. Is it the intention of our administration to quietly submit to these additional | ‘wrongs, or will it boldly demand “reparation for the past and ‘.curity for the future?” The ex- tracts from the Washington papers, appended to | the despatch mentioned, will give some idea of what | will be the future course of our nationaal uthorities. The four days later advices yesterday received | from Europe, by the arrival of the steamer Pacific at this port, possess rather more than usual interest Louis Napoleon, on his return to Paris, on the 16th wlt., was most enthusiastically received, thus leav- img no doubt of the determination of the people there, as cleowhere throughout the entire country, to place him at the head of the empire, There is an old and very correct saying that “Paris is France,” and as goes the city just so surely follows the nation. Another very striking feature of the mews, is the annunciation that the quostion of gov- ‘ramental reform will be submitted to the people themselves for ratification. This again will be & decidedly popular move. Louis was sustained in his celebrated coup d'état by 2 majority of millions upon millions of the French voters, who elected him President for ten years, and who will now crown him emperor by, if possible, ® still more united and decisive voice. The French Senate is to meet next Thursday, tho Ath inst., when it is probable that measures will be | adopted for the deelaration of the empire, upon a | scale of magnificence hitherto unapproaehed But the movements of Louis Napoleon and his ‘friends towards empire do not, by any means, sum up all that is of interest in the European intelli gence. Abd-el-Kadir, the celebrated Arab ‘thiof, who bas been for'some years retained asa prisoner in France, has been pardoned by Louis, and will receive ®@ pension fromthe government. The countrymen of | Abd-el-Kader,however, appear to be as far from being | wubdued as ever, for we perceive that in a recent | skirmish betwoon them and the French troops, in | Algeria, fifty ot their number were killed. Like | the North American Indians, it seems as though | nothing short of total extermination will ever sub. due the inveterate antipathy to white men of these | natives of the sandy doserts. The British press | continues to be ocoupled in the discussion of affairs on this side of the Atlantic. By the extract given from a London paper, it will be scen that the | “a scandalous panic,” what will the end be? | continue debatable ground, atleast till this evening, | | will cast over half a million of votes, may affect the of Gen. Scott—as an instrument for Seward’s promo- tion—says that if the whigs aro defeated to-day, it | will be through the influence of ‘‘a ridiculous and | tcandalous panic,” an opinion which no man will be | apt to dispute. But if they open the battle with We | can count upen nothing else than the defeat of Gen. Scott, by a popular and electoral majority more de- cisive and overwhelming than anything that has transpired since the grand political carnival of | 1840. Such are “ the signs of the times.” | It would be @ waste of time now to speculate upon the probable result, when the facts, within o few | short hours, will be placed in our possession. As far as the State of New York is concerned, the issue, however decisive it may be, is still congidered a debat- | able question. It was on account of the supposed | popularity of Gen. Scott among the mass of the abolition—tinctured whigs of New York, Penntylva- nia and Ohio, that his nomination was forced upon | the Baltimore Convention. He was nominated for | those three great States, leaving it to the chances | of his gunpowder popularity, and whig tactics, to pick up the necessary scattering votes to seoure his | election. The late State elections in Ohio and Penn- | eylvania are generally regarded as having disposed of those two; but there having been no such test ap- plied to New York, our great Empire State will | and perhaps for adayor two. The slightest general | influence of change operating overa State which | result, one way or the other, ten, twenty, or thirty | thousand Upon heraggregate vote a majority of five | hunéred in Virginia would be as large as a majority of five thousand in New York; and yet a majority of five or six hundred in Virginia would be considered | a very close vote. But when we consider that the | majorities between the whigs and democrats at our last State elections, ranged between one and two, | or three hundred, we have the data of, by all odds, | the very tightest fit in the Union. Yet now, the | two factions of the democracy—hunkers and barn- | burnere~ are united, as they were never united be- | fore on their Presidential ticket since 1836. Tnoy | are enthusiastic—they are sanguine—of from ten to | twenty thousand majority. Then, again, it is ex- | pected that the Webster movement in thie city will | carry off several thousand votes from Gen. Seott. | But there has been some mystery about the Hale | and Julian party; and how far the canal question, | and Gen Scott’s old soldier popularity “west of the | bridge” may help him, are matters of doubt which can only be settled by the returns. The odds, how- ever, a8 it'appears to us, including whig panic, aro largely in favor of the democratic ticket. But notwithstanding the disheartening aspect of things, the Seward men are moving heaven and earth to carry the three important States—New York, Pepnsylvania, and Ohio. Even if they should have the unexpected luck of succeed- ing in it, they are not certain of “the final result. But they are eure of this: that it will place the control of the whig party in the hands of the Seward Northern faction for the futuro. This is their paramount object. Even if elected, what could General Scott do for whig principles and whig measures, with a democratic Congress in the | way, for two yoars certain, and most likely for the whole term of his administration? No, the election of Gen. Scott is a secondary consideration. The great, practical, ultimate object is the elevation of Seward, and the practical application of sedi American expedition to Japan is characterized as a wovel and humane enterprise, irom waich it i» evident that much benefit to English com tious and disunion principles in the moasur@of the general government. But we are wikia a siowe's Uanow of the sctual Tesult. We await it with confidence and equanimity, | on the funds of the concern. | over $10,000 to Bowen, and on Monday would re- | ty Mr. Bowen continued to have transactions of | his counting bouso to Fifth avenue, what thoughts | reasons for our opposition, without quibbling or equivocation. His qualifications, his principles, his political antecedents, and his most obnoxious political aseociations—to say nothing of his expedi- tion in search of e site for a military hospita! at the Blue Licks in Kentucky—the cliques and the means by which he wae nominated, and the purposes for which they seized upon bim, have been to us causes eufieent for aiding in his defeat, the great end being the expulsion from the government of Seward aud his abolition traiters of the higher law. ’ We have nothing more now to submit. The issue isin the hundsof the people. The Wall street Alleged Embezzlement— Merchants and Clerks. The lesson taught by the recent alleged embezzle- ment case in Wall street, will not be lost on the mercantile community of New York. To those who are not engaged in business, it appears unac- countable that so large a sum as $220,000 could be withdrawn from the bank deposits of a single frm, without any suspicion of the fact ocourring to the minds of the principals. The mode of doing business of the Mesers. Brown, it will be said, must have been very careless, if no more adequate check exists Strange as such a charge may seem, when sp- plied to a banking house of the high standing of the Messrs. Brown, it cannot be concealed that it is founded on fact. It is clearly proved that at the very moment when Mr. Brown ordered his cashier to make no further advances to Mr. Com- stock, the latter was indebted to the house in a sum not less than $90,000. It is assumed that Mr. Brown was ignorant of the fact. This is the first anomaly which this strange case presents. Thus, even before the transactions between Bowen and Comstock could be strictly characterized as unjus- tifiable, the former must either have falsified his balance sheet, or Mr. Brown must have contented himself with a very careless supervision of his cashier's accounts. In matters of this nature, ce west que le premier pas qui coitte: when Bowen had once succeeded in concealing Comstock’s existing indebtedness, it is quite natural that he should have kept up the game; and the Messrs. Brown ought to feel thankful that they have escaped with the loss of a m:re quarter of a million. Once betrayed into a breach of trust, Bowen must necessarily have be- come the subservient tool of Comstock: his first fault had placed him in the power of his tempter. Accordingly we find him, in direct violation of his orders, continuing to lend snms of money to Com- stock from August, 1851, to September, 1852, until the total sum due bythe latter to the firm wasmore than double the original debt which Bowen had in- geniously concealed. The mode by which these loans were disguised was very simple. They were not included in the debit side of the cashier's ba- lance sheet; but the total addition was made to tally with the credit side, as though they had occupied | their proper place. This is what is technically call- | ed ‘forcing a balance.” Of course, if Mr. Brown | had taken the trouble to make the addition of a single line of figures, the omission would have been detected; but the banker, it would seem, had full confidence in the arithmetic of his clerk, and find- | ing the total agree, did not trouble himself about | the items. The balance sheet having thus passed | the ordeal of the principal, it was necessary to recti- fy the omiesion in order to prevent its discovery by | the bookkeeper, and accordingly the missing item was adroitly inserted in small figures between the lines. Here, again, one would imagine, the smallest | degree of vigilance on the part of those whose duty | it was to keep a check on the cashier, might have | exposed the defalcation. Rows of figures inserted between the lines are not so common in a well ordered balance sheet as to escape notice: it is passing strange that no one remarked how fre- quently they were to be found in Mr. Brown’s, and how invariably they referred to the account of one whom Mr. Brown’s orders ought to have rendered an object of suspicion. In some cases, we are told that, whether from apprehensions on this head, or from a calm reliaxce on the carelessness of those into whose hands the balance sheet passed, Mr. Bowen did not take the trouble to insert the missing figures, and a balance was filed of record, in which the cashier certified, ad his employers tacitly ad- mitted that two and two did not make four, but six. This, to most men, will seem an inexplicable circumstance. We may, perhaps, comprehend how principals and clerks contented themselves with a smile at the slovenly manner in which Mr. Bowen’s balance sheet was prepared, and did not suspect any deeper motive for the want of morcaatile neat- ness; but that an error, which any schoolboy might have detected in an instant, should have escaped the vigilance of the whole establishment, is to us ptrfectly unaccountable. For some reason or other—probably to allay the fears of Bowen—Comstock used ocsasionally to act the farce of refunding a portion of the money he had borrowed. Thus, on Saturday, he would hand quire a fresh advance ef $20,000 from his pliaat in- strument. This, again, isa fruitfal subject of in- quiry. Howdoes it happen that no entry was made by Bowen ef the suws of money he thus re- ceived from Comstock? Or, if they were regularly entered, how comes it that the principal did not atk, ina tone of natural severity, by what authori- this nature with Comstock, in defiance of the ex- press orders which had been issued on the subject? But all is mystery in this extraordinary case. We stated that it would not be without fruit for | the mercantile community. It will teach them, we trust, that in the largest operations of trading and | banking, the personal supervision of the principalis | indispensable to security. Who knows whether, at | the present moment, many other houses are not in exactly the same position as the Browns were sme | weeks ago? Who shall say, while the wealthy | merchant: prince carelessly glances over the balance | sheet handed him by bis cashier, and hurries from are agitating the troubled breast of hissubordinate? | For such men as the Messrs. Brown we have no sym- patby. Their carelessness has produced its fruit: they deserve their punishment. But there is another light in which the neglect and carclessness of a merchant may be viewed. It ill becomes one whose daily prayer is that we may not be led into temptation, to afford those under his au- thority the most fearful opportunities of crime. The victim is scarcely loss criminal than the perpe- trator, when the negligence of the former has been the temptation. Merchants ought to bear in mind that they have in their employ many who, for their pleasures or more laudable purposes, require more money than they can earn in a legitimate way; and if the business of their office is carried on in such a Joose and slovenly manner that facilities for doing wrong are constantly offered to the clerks, instances of taking advantage of such facilities will constant- ly occur For there we consider the merchant oq 1al- ly respnosible with the defaulter. Brwane !—Let every voter to-day beware of un- known or extromely officious mon at the ballot- boxes. Beware of spurious tickets —beware of Slievegammon placards and proclamations. Beware of bribery, perjury, forgery and all sorts of corrup- tion. Vote as carly as you can—fire and fall back. Let every man vote that hess vote, and according to his best jadgment. There is room enough for all. Nover mind the weather. If it rains you will not be troubled with the sun; and if it gots fair, so much the better. Lot us have a fair, smooth oleo- tion ; as few frauds and broken heads as possible ; and let every man possessed of the right to vote, eome out, if he can, and fairly and quietly discharge his whole duty. This done, lot the inspectors give us the results without delay. the The owners of the steamer Admiral have sued State for $9,000 for the late eolli- owners of the Kastera fon ip Boston harbor Eiverett, the new Secretary of State. ‘Theeppointment by the President, of Mr. Everett, the friend and biographer of Mr. Webster, to suo- ceed the deceased statesman, as Secretary of State, peculiarly and will doubtless be ac- ceptable to men of all parties. Mr. Everett is well known to the American people, having for the last quarter of a eentury held many important public stations, and | the*highest reputation, for his superior talents and purity of character. A few reminiscences of his public oareer may be interesting to our readers. 3 While a; Harvard College as a student, Mr. Eve- rett was distinguished, though very young; on leav- ing college he s'udied divinity, aud was ordained and, settled « youthfal prodigy, in the Unitarien church. In elegant literature he had no equal of his age, and the public were delighted with his pulpit eloquence. Whenever he preached crowds of the most accomplished, of both sexes assembled to hear his splendid sermons. These discourses, if, in the opinion of some they had less of vital piety in thom than was shown in the sermons of some other men, were distinguished for a purity of taste and a sweet solemnity that made him delightful to hearers of all creeds. A few years after his ordina- = tion he was elected to # professorship in Har- vard University. This office he accepted on con- dition of being allowed to visit Europe, and reside a year or two in Germany. He set out on this tour with all the ardor of a young man panting for knowledge, and ambitious of surpassing all in his accomplishments. In his absence, he visited Rome, France, and England; and tarried for some time at Gottingen, becoming quite enamored with German literature. He extended his visits to Greece, and there drank inspiration among the relics of ancient teste and grandeur. He returned to his alma mater with a mind filled with ‘‘ the spoils of time,” and a memory stored with the humanities—the great object of his travels. He then commenced his labors as a professor, and at once became the pride of the University and the delight of his pupils. At this time he gave a» splendid course of leo- tures on architecture, which was numerously attended by the most enlightened*of both sexes in Boston and vicinity. As principal editor of the North Anerican Review, for a time, he also acquired much reputation, and elevated that pori- odical to the first rank among reviews. His por- tions of the work are marked by taste, talent and learning. In short, Mr. Everett wasa scholar by profession; and by many it was considered an evil hour for American literature when the politicians of his district turned their eyes upon him as a can- didate for Congress, and induced him to accept a nomination. In 1824, Mr. Everett was elected to Congress from the district in which Cambridge is sitaited. He re- signed his Professorship in college, and took his seat in the House of Representatives, in Desember, 1825. He was continued by the people as their rep- resentative for ten years, and finally left the Halls of Congress in 1835. In the autumn of that year, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts; and being three tlmes re-elected, held that high office until January, 1840,'when he was succeeded by Hon. Marcus Morton, who was elected over Mr. Everett and all others, by one vote, in consequence of the odium of the fifteen gallon law—a sort of Maine liquor law. As arepresentative in Congress and Goveruor of the ‘Old Bay State,” Mr. Everett sustained the ex- pectations of his friends, evincing great talents asa debater and legislator in Congress, and eminent ability as an executive officer, in directing and con- troliing the affairs of a sovereign State of the Ame- rican Union. On the accession of John Tyler to the Pres'dency, mainly, it is said, through the influence of Mr. Web- ster, then Secretary of State, Mr. Everett, in 1841, was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. It is not too much to say that the impor- tant diplomatic affairs of this country with that government, have never been entrusted to more able and ekilful hands, and never have those high duties been performed more acceptably to the Ame- rican people, and received with more favor by the English, than in the case of Mr. Everett. He was recalled by Mr. Polk, in 1845, when he was suc- eceeded by Hon. Louis McLane. Soon after his return to the United States, Mr. | Everett was elected President of Harvard Univer- sity, much to the gratification of the friends of lite- rature; but he did not long continue to hold they office, which he resigned, and was succeeded by Pro- | fessor Jared Sparks. The speeches and addresses of Mr. Everett have been collected and edited by himeelf. They forman elegant contribution te American literature. But the most important of his recent literary labors, is the part he hes performed in editing the works of his friend, Danie] Wobster, in six volumes, to which, also, he contributed a biographical sketch of that lamented statesman. It is hoped, by his friends, ‘The English Opera at Nible’s. The Englith version of Flotow’s admired opera of ‘Martha’ was produced last evening at Nibio’s, to a crowded and fashionable house. Madame Anns Bishop, and her treupe, receiveda very warm and flattering recep: tion from the audience. The plot of the composition is founded upon an ancient custom peculier to a certain porough in England, where, on the occasion of the annual fair of the villege, all the serving women wanting em- ployment presented themselves; and, on stating to the magistrate or judge their qualifications, he fixed the rate of wages they should receive, and assigned them over to their employers, Lady Harriett, a Maid of Honor to Queen Anne (Madame Bishop), having, with her friend Nancy (Miss Rota Jucques), determined to have # frolic, they dresced themselves as country maidens, 2nd goto the market. The Judge arsigns them to two young farmers, Jyonel and Plunkett (Mesers, Guidi and Leach), when they find that they have oarried the joke too far, as they are constrained to accompany them home. They, however, manage to make their escape from bon- dage, but mot until the hearts of both the ladies are cogeged to their late masters, who, in their turn, feel discomsolate at the desertion of their beautiful meids, In the last act they recognise them in the palace, and it appearing in some unexplained matter that Lyonel, the farmer. is no less a personage than Lord Derby, snd Plunkett, his foster brother, of course all obstacles to the desires: of the poring: couple were removed, and the opera ends as all pieses ought toend in a reunion and marriage, ‘The opera is very well put upon the stage, notwithstanding that there are some little inconristencies and absurdities in it. The market soene is particularly rich and amusing, heving all the accessories well attended to including the street organ, the Punch and Judy exhibition, ard the other sketches of a village fair in England, though we did think that the file of beef eaters dressed in the form of la garde Napoleonne might well be dispensed with, without any loss to the tout ensemble, The farmers, too, might wear some more aj penerinte, costume than that of citizens of the Celestial Empire. Madame Bishop sang and acted her part to fection, and received the Plaudits of the audience. a plentiful offering of bouquets, ‘and several encores. Mire Jacques was also very adm'rable in her performance, and contended, not unsuccessfully, ie the felene donna his ie hp artd praise. We do not mi admire the renderin, parts gentlemen. nor did we thinks their conception of the cha- racters they played the truc one. There was too much awkwardness, We also think that the the air. “The Last Rose of Summer,” no less than five times, is rather too much of a good ; and that. if o song foreign to the opera be brought in at all, once should be quite rufficient for it. On the whole, however {the opera wes very pleasing, and will be repeated to-morrow night. ‘This eveninfi Senonte Soto takes her benefit. City Inte)ligence, Tux Weatnen.—The ¢arly morning, yesterday, was warm, but foggy and unwholesome. As the fog cleared away a dark heavy sky, threatening rain, wasshown. At a little past noom we bad a slight sprinkling, which in- creased gradually until the the middle of the day, from which period up tonight a thick, misty, but continuous, rain fell. The thermometer at the Heracp buildi ranged, at noon 71°; at 8, P. M., 713¢°; at 5, P M., 71°, ‘The nigbt was wet and gloomy, and, at a late hour, there ‘was no sign of fair weather in the morning. AccipentaLty SHot—The Coroner held another in- quest at the City Horpital, yesterday. upon the body of a young lad named Charles Doherty, who was accidentally shot by one Moses Leroy, on Sunday Denby was sworn—I work in the Morgan which occupy the block between Ninth and Tenth aven- ues and avenue D, near to the Kast river; I was passing up avenue D, Sunday afternoon, about half past one o'clock; I heard the report of a gun, and the scream of a child; I ran, with other people, and saw the deceased in the arms of Hugh Gallagher; an apothecary recommended his being taken to the City Hospital; Moses Leroy, em- ployed in the same works, was sop ees gun, in order to turn out with the Morgan Guard; he was carrying it before him, when it went off; the bullet went through the inside doer of the Works, which is two and a half inches thick. it then ed through the outer door. forty two feet from the inside one, and three-fourths of an inch thick, it travelled into Tenth + treet, near the dry dock, and Iron Works, foot of tbat street; it was purely accidental; Mr. Leroy could not have seem the deceased; he is a temperate man, not quarrelsome. Surgeon Coo} as to the na- ture et the wound. The death from being accidentally shot ore bullet discharged from gunin the hands of Moses Leroy. The boy was & native of this city, and about ten years old. the Seventeenth ward, found a man named Michael Hines, lying in a fit, in Second avenue, on Sunday night. ‘He was taken to the station house and attended to. Fing.—At about one o'clock y. morning; « fir® First avenue and Twentieth street. and F. Godey as a feed store. I tively dentrayed. Daas: . as feed 6! . It was ent . - ‘There were two false alarms of fire in the during Bundsy night. mar ‘at the City Coroner Ives held an inque ‘The Horticuitural Society. The regular meeting of the New York Horticultural Society, was held at the Stuyvesant Institute,"Broadway, that he may be induced to undertake the writing of a more elaborate biography of Mr. Webster, as no one so well knew and appreciated that great man, re is so capable of analyzing his life and cha- Tacter. The brief period which remains of Mr. Fillmore’s administration will be happily terminated, by | placirg the Department of State in so able and | competent hands as those of Mr. Everett. | | | i feta A, | TuatT Wrostrr Lerrer.—It appears that that letter, which, it was 4, Mr. Webster had dic- tated on his dying bed, in ‘or ofthe Baltimore whig ticket, was never written at all. The Boston Courier—Mr. Webster’s most confidential organ—denics that any such letter was written; and the editor of the Lvening Mirror, (a whig paper,) says that he is authorized by George T. Curtis, with whom he had an interview in Boston on Satur- day last, to say that ‘‘ Mr. Webster never expressed bis acquiescence in the Baltimore nomination.” Furthermore, the Mirror says:— ‘We know erough of this cruel torture of the dying | man tomake the cheeks of those engaged in it tingle with shame; and we advise, not only “ one of the five,” | but each of the five (whose names we have,) to keep en- tirely quiet om the subject. A letter may come to light, | written by Mr. Webster only a few days before his death, that will place certain parties in “the "? for life, ‘There is no doubt among the friends who were with Mz, ‘Webster in his dying chamber, that his days were dimin- ished and pd med by the political impertunities of the pretended friendship that “entertained fears for his Teputation.”” He was urged to do things which, to use bis own emphatic words. ‘would scorch his check with shame; and give the lie te the sober judgment of his whole life.” Within fifty hours of his death, in answer to one who begged him not to disturb bis thoughts with political affeirs, be playfully replied: “I care no mere about them than the jackdaw that sits on the top of St, Paul's steeple.” How is this? What have the ‘committee of five,” who went up to Marshficld to extort a letter from the dying statesman—what have they to say to the testimony of the Boston Courier, of Mr. George T. Curtis, and of a whig paper of this city? Perhaps one of the committee of five wrote the letter. But whether it was written or not, is of no consequence—for even the committee of five admit that the letter was “ nevor signed.” Have the committee of five anything furthor to say? Tne Wesster Exxororan Ticket—ANoTHER Trick Exrosrp —We are authorized to say that the report of the New York Tribune, that some of the members of the Webster Electoral ticket had de- elined to serve, is another Roorback of the socialist philosophers—a sheer invention. The Webster Eleo- toral ticket, one and all, will ‘‘ stand the fire.” In- deed, if we mistake not, the battle of this day will only be the beginning of their contest with the Se- ward factions of abolitionism, socialism, aud iafi- delity, Mark it down. Jersey City Intelligence, Anotier Bransine Case On Bi night, about ten | o'clock, while a Mr. Edward Braden, his wife, sister, and brother, were passing up Montgomery street, and near Newark avenue, one of the ladies was jostled against by a yy of young men coming out of @ grocery, One of them apoligized for it; but ae Mr. Braden and is party were about leaving, they clored in om them, and one of the samo individuals dacw a Knifeand stabbed Mr, Braden ht times, obiefly in the abdomen, oe Eee to prove mortal, He was taken before 6 Gutier, who, afier a cxaminstion, committed him Jail toswalt his trial. We undevstend that several pereone were under arrest yesterday, | There was aeplen | committee allude with pleasure te yesterday evening. Mr. Oakley was voted to the chair, and after some preliminary observations, called on Mr. Meade, the Secretary, to read THE REPORT, which declared that the last exhibition was a matter for congratulation. inasmuch as it displayed triumphantly, the fact, that New York can get up a grand horticultural show, There were both the material and the spirit. More | might have been done, and it would have been well if it had been done; but as it is, the society and New York: have every reason to feel proud. For greater displays in future, much will depend upon the citizens, and upon the way in which their efforts shall be divested. In drawing up the report. the committee have been anxious to show how the exhibition succeeded in a monetary sense The receipts, (exclusive of subscriptions. ) amount- ed to $995 78, and the expenses to $1, 03. In expla. nation of the fact of the Co og on the present cccasion having exceeded jose «Of «the spring exhibition, the committee have to remark that they had’ to pay $100 a day for the use of the Metropolitan Hall, which could not be hired for less, nor could any other building be secured answerable for the purpose which the committee had in view. Thus, for rent alone, the expenres were more then double those of last spring. The next considerable item is the expense incurred for additional fixtures; but as those are of a por- manent character, andembrace almost everything that will be wanted for many years to come for the most ex~ tended exhibitions, the committee would est that this item of expense should be regarded in light of an investment, not as money paid out of the treasury for which there is nothing to show, The committes might have Jeft a few of those things to be paid for by future ex- hibitions, but for many neasons they 00% ittbetter to contists cf money expended for advertising and printing, consists of money expen r and pl f but as this was wosvoldeble it will doubtless be coneider- ed by the society as mo: ell spent. Those three items constitute a very considerable share of the expenses in- curred by the committee; but it is hoped that no one will find fault with them unnecessarily. The committee would suggest that the firetitem might be considerably reduced in future, by holding the exhibitions under a tent; but this subject will form matter for fature conside- ration, The second will be avoided for some years. The third will be always incidental to the exhibition. The ob- Ject of the committee has been to avoid all unnecessary expenses; but they will not conceal the fact that they were foal actuated by a desire to Foy A able exhibition—not so much wishful te oa & few dollars into the ae ae ‘The one will in time bring the other At the same time, it must not be concealed that the desirous of increasing its funds —not, however, from « mere desire to make ar, but accomplish & great object—in the benefits of wh dh the whole community will participate. When sufficient funds shall bave been accumulated by donation or otherwise, it in the design of the society to found a botanical of which New York will be proud—and for this pi the society depends upon public patronage. Some erous individuals bave already offered to subscribe wards such an enterprise; and it cannot be dou! the object of the society will §be well seconded §by the public generally, so coon as it becomes well-known and appreciated ‘The many benefits, both public and private, which would result, cannot be enumerated In regard to the last exhibition, there cannot be a doubt thet it was in every reepect highly creditable to the of- forts of the society which is not yet one year old, and to the amateurs and gardeners praise must also be iven.[B The show of roses and dablishs was not #0 e § anticipated; but this seoms to have been the care at othor similar exhibitions. The fact is, LS eas a Rae ete ic. =, eine hee 3 but, sa withstanding, the ified thes ym di dpiny of bores, Thich filed te de! fal fr ee. ‘The displa: whole hall with thetr Dee eres with whet beauty. The respectal 1 baskets of may be mentioned several ralepiny ot pot lants, They not gave i int to theex- Sinition, but a great credit on the growers, Not eee ie aak Seine, be pach ed ng fe corriform, , iw cree waa mode Up’ Of coveral ons, and hem one nearly thirty feet high and in fruit, pre. Mr, Barnum, of Brid; , Conn, The 4/4 of flowers and verve? it~ am sen ‘were well re; a fruit must d; but the duplay, of ‘be notloed In thi ment, were many ruperb epee'mens, which became “ the observed of all Gbrervers.”. ‘The ‘were and prononuced ty large frst growers tobe saline be welt ever seva. Testi by the two extravagance in their scting, nor was it ot he fom afternoon. Joshua hit deceased, who was sitting upon an oyster boat, at the I Ltggaboaca ae @ verdict of 8rneet Destirvtion.—Officers Kenny and Walker, of broke out in a wooden rhanty, situate at the corner of had been read: chair- man moved the ecceptance of the report, aoe adoption of the pat poin's; ceded to On the motion for the some little dircussiuw tock piace as to certain ultimately. the report. as it appears above, was adopted, and after rome officis|buriness, the meeting seperated. iqrasgeretle amureiuent was excited during the even 7 notses created by a class ip the next a ign the cheers that now ‘end then burst from Socee i Sales, Se anion Oe WRI Rega monious, , ° 2 F Police Inte! Seizure of Election Tickets —Im coneequence of the seizure of election tickets at, Broadway Post Office, om Saturday night. alleged to have been done by Mr. Daniel Bickles and Get morning Mr. Siekles, ac- companied by Mr, E B. Hart und Mr. Augustus virited the police courts for the purpose of ascertaining any complaint existed sgainst him, being ready to answer any that night arise from fe quarter. Mr. Sickles was informed. by the justices of that no complaint bad as yet instituted, whole matter eppears to be looked upon as a mere political suabbie, Nhat ll subside on the terminstion of toe election. ‘Husband .ttempling to Poison his Wife-—JTustice Wood; of the Third district police court, yesterday eaused the arrest ofa man named John Burns, oh a charge of at- tempting to take the life of bis wife, by ing a quantity” of artenfe in the belf of & loaf of It seems that Burns is a man of rather dissipated habits, of about. years of ege, and was moerried a short time since tom oung woman aged eighteen years, and resided at No. 96 Fact leventh street; but, for some little time oe to th@ first cf October. they had separated, amd his w: Mary Ann, was living at home with her parents. neat the first of October Burn-. once omer ey tories and brought her half of a loaf of bread, and told her toeat i berself, and not give any toeny other person. This: request created the suspicion of his wife, who bread away ip a closet. and did not partake of next day, rome of the bread was mal soon after sickened and di Burns wade a poultice of a portion applied it to her arm. which caused dently exhibiting the signs of circumstances were made known 102 Fourth avenue, who wok a which he apylized. and found it contained 5 facts were then laid before Justice Wood, who took affidavits retting forth the suspicions, and was arrested and taken before the magistrate McMahon. of tne Seventeenth ward, who to prison for a further examination. The husband, it seems, within the last day or two made a request for wife to come back, and live with him; but ehe refused to Fede under the advice of her . fearfal he in~ tended to destroy her life, after advising her to eat of the poisoned loaf. 3 Board of Supervisors. Nov. 1.—His honor, the Recorder, in the Chair. The minutes of the last proceedings were read and ap- proved, THE CORONER'S BILL, On the report of the committee in favor of paying: $2.943 50. the amountof Coroner Ives’s bill for the quar— ter ending September last. x ‘The Supervisor of the Sixth ward said that, asa mem- ber of the committee, he had not an opportunity of ex- amining the bills. and he moved that Teport be laid on the table as he considered there were some errors im the account that required to be investigated. The Supervisor of the Eleventh ward had examined and found the bills correct. und the inquests duly signe? by jurors who could write and those who could mot write. He considered the objection of the beg agen of the Sixth ward to be, that the residences of jurors had the gentleman not been given. He, however, thought was mistaken as adhe Hy be (ike Baborviess . before the comwmitiee, an e Eleventh ward) found no @rror in it,and thought it ought to be paid. e Buperviror of the Sixth said he looked/over it, and: he thought it wes not correct. He had brag eed ® pere son to look intoit.and he bad found that in some in- stances, where inquests were said to be held, there was none, and that. in another instance. the mames of the jurors were all written in the same hand. He (the Su- rvisor of the Sixth , did not wish to ng anything about: it for the present, but merely requested that it be laid over forfurthur examination, im order the matter might be looked into, ‘The Supervisor of the Eleventh was waited on by the Coroner, who stated he was a poor man, and it was an in- convenience to him to wait for his money. All the in- quests are very careful y noted, and he believed that Oor- oner Ives would be willing to go with the Alderman of the Sixth veal Ref bine peerehe were held, and Produce before bim the witncsse . Aldermen Denman said that the Bupctvisor of the Sixtla comes with @ direct charge of in offtee; but it did not appear to him that such charges were odPmecn§, yet the gentleman was entitled to an opportnmity of subs stantiating them. Supervisor of the Fifth ward was the last man to put off the peyment of a bill; but it was due to this Board, to the gentleman of the Sixthward, and more tothe gentleman of the Eleventh, that this should should report on the account. Ho had no doubt—no hesitation in saying—thst the bills are correct; but, then, he thought there should be an inves- pias lrg of the Eleventh requested that not be sent back tohim. Let there bes |.committee sppointed. though he th that the cost of Simeone nail more €xpemee could possibly it. In ed, and the idea Was repu ‘was proved to be well founded. tleman of the P maferity of the committee are right, let the Dill be pair they are wrong, let it be rejected. ¥ the gentleman of the Sixth says, that all the names of the jurors om one inquest. were signed in the same handwriting, it is wrong— it vitiates the entire inquest. For one, he (tbe Supervi~ sor of the Third.) was in favor of Isying it on the table. It the matter had come in tignued by the majority of the: committee without this discussion, he sh certainly have voted for it; but as an objection comes feom # mem~ ber of the committee, he thought it had better be laid om the table. The motion to lie it om the table was then carried, REFERRED. Several petitions for the correction of taxes, and amalt bills, were referred. A petition for an additional clerk im the Surrogate’s office. was also referred- PRINTING THE INDICES OF THE 81 fe rae Lg a] be {ieee ee of the Surrogate for preparing and printing the in "e office, coped the Buperviror of the Eleventh, the Reoorder spoke of the utility of the work, and advocate® the apprcpriation. contending that the delay in searches, which now is frequently six or eight weeks, would be ob~ viated on the completion of the work. —* It was then revolved that the sum of $2000 be and the some is hereby appropriated towards paying the expense of arrangin th ae the indices of the Surrogate’s office, and the County Clerk's, ‘The Supervisor of the Third offered « resolation to the effect that Meesrs Burnett & Co, be paid $5,000 om ac- count, for stationery and materials furnished for the indices, on their verifying their bills. The Resorder an@ Alderman Denman opposed the resolution. and moved that it be laid upon the table. Laid om the table by a, vote of twelve to seven. A resolution appointing an additioual clerk in the Reg~ ister’s office was referred, and the Board adjourned te Monday next. Personal Intelligence. Arrivals at the Metropolitan — Hon. A. Addington, Britizh army; Capt. Hayden, U. 8. 3, Lt. 0, > Royal Bwedieh pavy; Hon Corbin Warwiek, Va: Hon Williem Forbes, England; Hon. G. 0. Ferrier, Montreal ; W. Hi. Gray, Eeq., ool, Eng ; W. N, Person, Min~ nerota Ter.; William Gibson, U. 8. navy; Rufus Strat~ ton, Michigan; W) McReynolds, Ilinols; A. D. Cochran, Erq.. California; J.J. Gree ‘Washington, D- ©.; C. M. Barnes, Ohi ‘yon ms 3k ‘Waterman, Rhode Istan: Parker, New se on E. G. Pratt, St Louis; Edmund Marey, Albany; W. T. Col- man, San Francisco. At the Irving—Major Gengral John F, Wool, U 8 A; Lfeutenant Morris, U.S. N ; Joseph Wall. England; E. G Beckwith, U 8.A.; Major Garnett, U. 8. A.; Hon. J Lisle Smith, Chicago. At the Astor Piace—Langley Bruce and ley, Mass. > J, Woodward Haven and Indy, ; George @ : Haven England. ‘At tho American. —¥. Leobrant, Philadelphia, B. F Sandy, U.8 N.; 0. Bergamy, Philadelphia; Julius Ma yanga. Mobile; J. T. Craven, Washington; W. A. Mor~ ton, Philadelphia; D. Balfour, Boston. ‘At the Astor.—Rev. J. Dunn, ‘Wisconsin; J, vie... New Orleans; H, Coffin, Elmira; P. B. Johneon, - Mojor Backus, U. 8, A. J. B, Forguson, Connestiout; M. Woodbury, New Hampshire; Capt. Robinson, U. 8. Ay REDEMPTION OF A SLAVE FAMILY.—The requisite sum of money, $2000, has been subscribed for the pur~ of buying the freedom of the colored man, Simorm jarrison, and his family, who are slaves in the Choctaw nation, Of the amount named, $800 wae enbscribed by the Indians of that nat Lyon's Kethatron.—People troubled by dandrof, harsh or decaying hair, nse Lyon's K Shairon, It is without doubt the most or py Sys let Fricg 35 conta ta Ieege bottice To be had thtowghows Whe: ico. lea wor. ote Tr LYON: iol Bresdway. ie a Go! nna mage tf the me Wigs slor’s New se wigs are pronouneed the moet perf of Ni and Bonpess: ie dace Ss ay}