The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1852, Page 4

SRALD ince conte peg ree ire sory Satay SEA cet Bain * any part of of read Briain, aad 48 to amy part af the the GNIAR Y CORRESPONDENCE sentaining imper- Om any ter ef the ei ire fon, Gok rommee Ocontetnsoeees A mPa mA i em TETTER 7 Subscription, or with Adver- te bop pd or the postage as Be dadacted from aS TR bs taken ef anonymous communications. We SiO PRINTING executed with neatners, chcapacs, and wesTep To Sea ai. Lerrsee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. eDOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. -Iixonew Son—Barrix BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tux Pxni-Mar- Samp amp Berrien NIBLO’S.—Torwixe tHe Tances—Bircer Diteatae mmr—La Vivannisre. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street —Pavri Par— fmovsary Mintinens Wants. “ATIONAL THEATRE, Chathaln street—Hawn, rne — ee Moker Ov tum Pircainxe De ‘WALLACK'S THEATRE. Brosdway.—M Raven Wuer You Us acTicaL Mai whens THEATRE OF VARIETIES, 17 snd 19 Bowe. wisn Bov—Mopst oy 4 Wire—Navat Enoac: mize Cart — AMERICAN MUSEUM- Aftern wuap -M. P.—Evoning—PizarRno—Sw! WAL: hoy oad 586 Brosdway—Bamvann's Paxonaua ov ‘Bax Hoy Lanv. 9% BROADWAY.—Mecuanicar Exnrerrion. OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brosdway—BraroriAx Memorneisy sy Cunisty’'s ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musical Hall, 444 Broad- wey.—Erniorian Mins: GRECUS, 87 Bowery.—Equestaiaw ENTERTAInuenrs, ———— New York, Thursday, December 16, 1852. Whe News, Owing to the continued illness of Hon. W. R. King, the President of the United States Senate, Mr. Atchison again tock the chair, yesterday After the customary morning business had beon Gisposed of, a bill was reported and eventually passed, authorizing the expenditure of the sum ap propriated at the last session, for the completion of the Mexican boundary survey below El Paso, and to @efray the expences already incurred im the proze- wation thereof, as suggested by the Secretary of the | Interior. It is ploasing to observe that ths Sonate hae acted with so much promptness in this matter— athe rurvey having beon wholly suspended for some | months, in consequence of the appropriation bill for its continuance being so worded as to warrant the withholding of the funds appropriated therefor, in eonsequence of which those engaged in the work ‘were suddenly thrown upon their own rosources for subsistence ina far distant region. By the way, late advices from Texas announee tho arrival at Fort Duncan of a portion of the Boundary Com- mission, under Lieutenants Green and Chandier, sll in good health, Among the propositions laid before the Sonate waz one to so amend the bounty land law as to give one hundred and sixty acres of land to all who were engaged in tho last war with Great Britain. Amid the multifarious echemes for ridding the government of the public domain, it is a matter of gratulation that the ola soldiers are net forgotten. Let us hope that all whe have faithfully served in the defence of their country, may be provided with comfortable homes before the obnoxious and sweoping free farm bill sgain becomes the subject of discussion in either branch of Congress. Tho proceedings in the Senate wound up with a debate between Messrs. Underwood and Toucey respecting the claims of Messrs. Dixon and Meri- wether to the seat for Kentucky formerly occupied by Henry Clay. When or how this curious contro- Yersy will be sottled ie as much = mystery as ever. Several eulogistic tributes were yesterday paid by the members of the House of Representatives to the memory of Daniel Webster plete with interest, as will be seen by the report, utder the proper head. By reference to the telegraphic despatch from Washington, it will be ecen that a large number of third lieutenants were yesterday appointed to tho revenue service. Owing to the extension of this branch of the service, six new cutters are about being built, and a number of promotions will be made as soon as the lists are cempleted. An order from the Department, requiring the em- ployees in the different navy yards to work from sunrize to cuaset, bas produced great excitement in | | capital the Philade)phia and Brooklyn yard:, and “'strikes Rave been the consequence, as will be seen on re- fere: to another column. <A despatch was last evening received in Philadelphia, announcing that | the obnoxious order had been rei this prove correct, turn to their labor. Hon. Cornelius P. Van Ness expired last evening vinded. Sheuld in Philadelphia. This gentleman hes filled several | important officcs—among others, those of Governor | Ministor to Spain, Collector of this | of Vermont, port under the administratiom of John Tyler, &c. Four hundred democrats sat down to a jollification supper in Syracuse, on Tuesday evening, and en- joyed themeclves to the utmost. A man named Lair was killed by the falling of | ® grain store in Philadelphia, last Tuesday. His | body was recovered yosterday. The foreign news by the Arctic caused an ad- vance of ene eighth of a cent per pound for cotton, and six cents per barrel for flour. Wheat was also firmer and active, while corm was unchanged and rather less saleable. The high rates which clipper ships are getting fer freights to California are yielding large profits. A first claes clipper about full hes a eargo which will pay $90,000 freight. The cost of the voszol was only $20,000. It is snid all eost and ehargeson the vessel on her voyage to China via California and back will be about $40,000, which leaves a not profit of $40,000, exclusive of the freight on the return cargo from China. These roturns hi greatly stimulated the business of ship: ling, amd eepeeially in the construction o this cless of sharp, tall-masted, {ast sailors. Every uew clipper, like a new race horse, is expected to Be a little better and faster than its predecessors Baltimore first st in clipper-ship building, turn ing out small ves for the African eoast trade These the new Pacific trade have groatly enlarged and improved, until our present floet of elipper ships | outstrips all othore in every part of the world The chip Seargo sailed on the Mth instant for Australia, with a fall freight at fifty oonts por foot, measurement, and about 170 passengers. Among recent muniGoent bx requests, we notice that the Countess of Rumford—Surah Thompson—lately deceased, has, in her will, granted $15,000 anda homestead, valued at €5,000, for a widow and er- phane asylum; $15.000 to the Now Hampshire In- sane Asylum, and $2,500 to the Concord Charitable Female Society. Bishop Wainwright eonsecrated tho now Grace Church, in Albany, on Tuesday. All good people will be pleased to learn that the cause of christianity isin 8 flourishing eondition at our State capital, notwithstanding the drawbacks supposed by some to attend the annual asrembling of logisiators. The first day’s sale of the paintings of the Amori- aan Art Union took place yesterday. There were n great number of bidders in attendance Competi- tion wie brisk, and the pictures generally brought Nineteen were sold at prices ranging fair prices. between one and two hundred dollars, three between tre and three byodred at thre? banored dollprs. Tae handeod aad Sty panting: dolare, ond on RIED AND Ser | interesting European | head. the workmen will, of course, re- ‘ | general thi | turns to fifty-five dollars. The plotares day's sale are ofa much more valuable class than those sold yesterday. The telegraph is becoming a great puffing ma- chine. We daily receive over the wiree notices of actors, actresses, new theatres, old theatres repaint- ed, politicians, loeturers, and of all sorts ef curious people and things seeking notoriety, at the expense of editors, te pay at the rate of one and two eents a word for the trash sei This is certainly a pro- gressive age, when puffing has to be done by eleo- tricity. It was rumored yesterday that an axe faetory, in the vicinity of Troy, had failed. We now learn that the statement did not refer to cither Simmons & Co , or Claxton & Wetmore. It appears that the Methodist Episcopal Church ease, which was tried in the United States Circuit Court of this city, last May, before Judges Nelson | and Betts, is destined to be still further litigated. It isa dispute between the North and South, re- speeting the funds of the association, and the judges pronounced a decision in favor of the South, referring the matter to the elerk of the court, Mr. | J. W. Nelson, to ascertain and report upon the yalue of the property. Counsel wore not satisfied with the report, nnd it is said that, with the sane- tion of Judges Nelson and Betts, the whole matter will be brought for review before the Supreme Court. The Beard of Assistant Aldermen last evening coneurred to purchase the bust of the late Hon. Henry Clay, sculptured by Mr. Pruden, of Lexing- ton, Ky , and in the possession of Peter V. Husted, Esq , for $1,650, to be placed in the Governor’s Room; also, in a resolution pasred the previous | night, to cause a sewer to be constructed in Sixty- first street, leading to Blackwell’s Island, between East river and Second ‘avenue, notwithstanding the veto of the Mayor; and also in ono requiring the Harlem Railroad Company to lay grooved rails round the City Hall, Centre and Grand streets, to be completed by the 15th of July next. PHThe twenty-sixth anniversary of the New York City Tract Society was held yesterday evening, im the Dutch Reformed Church, Lafayette place. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. Mesers, Wescott, Haven, Lord, and Prentiss. A full report will be found in anether column. To-day’s inside pages contain a large amount of intelligence, consisting of letters from London, Paris, and Switzerland, and newspaper extracts relative to another Arctic Ex- pedition, Irish Sewed Muslin Embroidery, the Death of Lord Byron’s Daughter, Song of tho Telegraph, Parisian Statistica, and Musical, Theatrical, and Mizcollaneous Items. Also, the Art Union Picture Sale; a communication entitled War of tho Wits— Thackeray, Swift, and the Heratp; Naval News; Estimates of Appropriations for National Expsn- ditures; Late Advices from New Mexico; Proceed ings in different Courts; Commereial Reviews, &o. ‘The Census Returns— Distribution of Wealth Strength of Churches, &c. The census statistics, prepared by J. C. G.'Kenne- dy, Esq, and which appeared first exclusively in this paper, disclose some curious facts. We have | alrendy dipped into the rich treasures of this official report of the substantial prosperity of our glorious Republic, and wo may yet recur to its interesting date from time te time. For the present we propose briefly to enter the exceedingly rich vein of the ma- terial wealth of the several States of the Union. The tebles supplied exhibit remarkeble equality in the dietributien of wealth throughout the United Stetes, which has no doubt been owing chiefly to the eperation of our free institutions. We find that about one seventh of the assersed value of real and pereonal estate is owned in the State of New York, which also centains only a little less than one-seventh of the antire pepulation. In no section of the coua- try is any very striking disparity to be found, if we except some of the new territories, in which the people have not had time to develope their resources. We find the average for each inhabitant of the States, to be $356, and including the Territories, $355. Ac- | cording to the returns, South Carolina—a State chiefly ongeged in the culture of rice and cotton, and with considerable commerce carried on threugh | Charleston—porseszes the largest amount of wealth ‘The speaches were re- | to each inhabitant of any State in the Union, and which amounts to $1,017. Louisiena, including New Orleans, comes in next. This State, with an extremely rich soil, is largely engaged in the eulti- vation of sugar and cotton, and we find that her as- seseed property amounts to the sum of $357 per It is objected by the Zvibune and its ilk, that ibis comparison of the distribution of wealth with other States is unfair, because the whites own tho Iaborers, who are blacks. This is true; batfew | of the blacks in Louisiana have been brought up in that State—they have been earried there by their | owners, or purehased in families. A vast amouat of nas been invested in them. Itis not alone in the value ofthe negroes that the great value of property consists. It isin the cost of the sugar and | eotton lands, and in the use of expensive machinery. | Nearly adl parts of the Scate are acsessible to ateam- boat pavigation, and the soilis the richest on the continent, if not in the world, being wholly inex- hauetible by cultivation. Improved lands on the Mississippi and Red rivers are worth, in many places, from #100 te $200 per acre, while the same description of lands in the Northern or Northwestern States, equally distant from seaport towns, would not command over one-fifth to one-eighth that price. Hence, we find that one reason for the difference is to be found inthe greater value of the sell. What becomes of the vast sums received annually for agricultural products, such as cotton, rice, sugar, and hemp!—for we know the people of the South are not dispesed to Jook to stock investments, as a Honce thoy mostly re-inves: as fast ae they receive their money, in lands and negroes, with s view of extending their business, And thus they go onadding feld to field, and augmenting their products, increasing the wealth of the republic, ex- tending commerce, and thereby sustaining the ship- builders, and, indirectly, the United States navy, and, to a large extent, tie interests ef the Northorn manufaeturers aad ef the grazing amd grain grow- ing farmers of the Northwest. It is @ glorious consideration that all parts of our great Union are as much held together by the ties of mutual and dependent interest as by the necessity of political ties for external defonce; and those who attempt to destroy either link are the common traitors and enemies to the whole. ‘The State of Miesissipyi gives £752 por head, being | next to Lovitinga. Her lands are also noxt in value. Georgia comes in next, having $610 per head. Of tho Northorn States, Maveachusetts is the richest, having a valustion of $577 per head. Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida come in next. The last has $475 per head, and the other two about $100 to $475 per hoad each. Vir- has $111, and North Carolina $391; Tonnossec, Rhode Island i is next to Massachusetts at the north, and haa $546 por bead; New Hampshire has’ $326; Kentucky has $391; Ohio, @255; Indiana, $205; Tinois, $184; Alabama bas $532; Arkansas, $215; Celifornia, $259; Delaware, $260; lowa, $123; Maine, $211; Toxas, $341; Vermont, 204; Wisconsin, $133. Of the three largest States, N ; Population will reach 115,035, ‘ew York has $31 Pennsylvania, $313; and Ohio, $255 We see by thi that Kentucky lands and othor property oxosed in value those of Ohio. Of the territories, Oregon renks the highest, being valuod at @331 per head. ‘The District of Columbia is valued at $304 per head ‘There was one serious omission in the census ro » ond that was the cost of labor, in difforent pursuits, in the various States of the Union, showing the difference betweon the cont of slave and white labor, and between that employed in commoroe, agriculture and manufactures, As wealth is pro- duced by labor, its statistios are equally important as those regarding the value of Property created by ord no acatiscics can bs complste wihou! ia ; cluding them. The cost of labor iw this eountry | if clearly ascertained, could have been favor~ ably compared with labor in other parte of the world. We should also have seen in what parts of the country labor was in most demand and where it was best paid. hitter ea sus will be made to include the cost of labor. Labor, tike capital, is inclined te scek an equili- brium by distribution; that is, to pass from a choap market toa high one. Capital, however, being of more easy distribution than labor, generally finds its level quicker. All new countries are most defi- cient in labor, while the old countries of Europe have it in excess. The supply in the mark:t ex- ceeds the demand, and the only permanent relief is found im emigration; that is, in transporting laborers from tho old to the new countries This in- volves time and expense. The United States have, at al) times, afforded an extensive market, or field, in the new territory of the West for labor. Indeed, the growth of the country has been retarded for the want ofit. At the present time, our demand for laber is largely in excess of the supply. Vast tracts of for- tile lands are unoocupied and untilled forthe want of labor. The same difficulties apply to almost every part of the country. The demand for labor on our railroads is immense. The slave Inbor at the South is also insufficient to fully develope the re- sourees of that section. The soil and climate are favorable to a much larger growth of cotton, tobacco, and hemp than the present yield; but the supply of labor is too limited, and hence too costly. No one doubts that, were labor sufficiently cheap and abundant, but we could as readily produce four millions of bales of cotton as three millions, and thus add that much to our national wealth and regourees. The importance of the slave population, as an element in our government system, has at all times been overrated. The African race on this continent, whether free or bond, is doomed to extinction. It is merely s question of time. Were the three mil- lions of alaves liberated to-morrow, the event would only hasten their extermination. When this coun- try contains a hundred millions of whites—as it wil at the present rate of incroase, in fifty-five orsixty there willbe an end of negro slavery on thi continent, and, finally, of the negroes themselves. With this vast pepulation, the whites would be compelled to seek tho labor performed by the blacks for subsistence, and as they would do it cheaper and better, they would supersede the blacks. The ne- groes being cast upon their own resources for existence, in contact with such an overwhelming white race would soon sink into non-existence Deprived of the guardianship of the whites, now eecured by mutual dependence, they would neglect vaccination and other sanatory precautions, no less than the necessary provisions against famine, and thus be constantly liable to decimation from diseaso and starvation. More persons have died with small pox amovg the free blacks of Jamaica, within the past year or eighteen months, than have died | among the three millions of slaves at the South in ten years. The rosson is, that tho masters employ the best medical aid to attend the blacks, and to keep them all properly vaccinated and protected against all unhealthy influences Let thisguardian- ehip cease, and from that moment will their final extermination commence. Tho worst enemy of the negro is the abolitionist, whose plan, if adopted, would speedily end his race. By loaving things es they are, he bas a respite for a good part of another century. That his final dicappearance, however, is inevitable, and that at no very remote period, is very readily scen from the onward progress ofthe white population. O84 citizens recollect when negroes performed nearly all the manyal la- bor of this city. They were the only servants— wharf laborers, ship loaders, draymen, porters, scavengers, &o. They have rery noarly all disap- i péared. They have been routed out by the compe- tition of white labor, and have nearly ceased to be seen anywhere. The severe winters, bad living, with typhus fever and pulmonary attacks, have burried them out of existence, and whites occupy their places. The same process will ultimately pro- duce similar resulta all over the continent. The Ume of ite accomplishment may bo predicated by the following tables. The white population in the United States in 1850, was 19,630,738—showing a ratio of increase since 1840 of about 38 percent; while the slave popu- Jation at the same period amounted to 3,193,321— showing s ratio of increase of about 28 por cent. At this ratio of increase, the relative progress of the two races for the future will be seen from the following statement:— POPULATION Whites aa pas 738. 82. Blacks. 198,824 003 Le 5,2 1910 ....4. (118.035 ,504 | We thus sce that by the close of the prosent cen- tury, or in fifty years from 1850, or forty-eight years from the present time, the United States will con- tain 81,910,246 whites, and only 10,989,358 blacks; and in 1910, or in eixty years from 1850, or in fifty- eight years from the present time, (1852,) the white 594, while the blaeks will only reach, at the sume poriod, 14,465, 103— showing that, shape things as we may, they will be overwhelmed by the whites, and that their final ex- tinction is a mero question of time. It is difficult to beliove that, apart from tho acocleration given to their dizappearance by emancipation, their hap- | pinese, in the aggregate, would be enhanced by | the adoption of such ameacure. If mental suffering is keener than bodily pain, and alienation of mind the greatest calamity which can befall human | plan, will be found in another part of this day’s e seen that Dr. Rae says there is not the slightest | 10] | age, and it seems that even the eternal icy barriers being, then it is shown by the cencus that the negro slayes have the advantage of the whites. It! seems, among the whites there exists one insane | perfon to every 1,280, and among the frec people of | color, one to every 1,338, while among the slaves , there is only one insane to overy 11,010. | Among the whites there is one deaf mute to each | 2,151; of free color, ene to each 3,095, and auong | the slaves, only one to each 6,552. Of the blind | there is one to every 2,415 whites, one to 870 free people of color, and one to cach 2,625 slaves. Tho | statistics of erime, it is believed, will also show a | difference in favor of the slaves, and against the | whites and free people of color. j Looking te the diffusion of Christianity and tho | number of churches, and value of church property, | it would appear that they are pretty equally dis- | tributed over the whole Union. If we take tho fol- | lowing slave States and compare them with as'mi- | lar number of free States, we shell find the number | | | } \ of churches to inhabitents, negrocs and all, aro equalto many ofthe most favored free States, while in others they exceed them. This proves | that there is extensive church accommodation fer the slaves at the South,‘ or, which is not tho fact, that the whites support double the number of | churches for their exclusive accommodation to the \ whites at the North :— Free Chuerehes to unter Churches to member | States, Peaph af People. | Vermont.1ehurch toes. 656 Virgivie lohurch to vn, 608 4 Mase'tiado, do, de, 68 N.0.....d0. do. do, 617 | R.Teland do, do, do. 007 + flo, do. do. 674 Connes'tdo, do. do. 615 do N do. do. 758 eo. . do, de, 668 . do, do, 624 N Jemey do. do. do. 606 do, do. 617 Ohio . do, do, 508 . do, de, 068 linois ..do, do. do 507 Kentue’y.do, do. do 540 It fs thus secon that the slave population is acoom- modated with churches about in preportion to the whites. Of the various sects, the Methodists are the most numereus and own tho lergest number of eburches— about 12,457—and the greatest amount of cburch property, valied at about $14 636,671.5 The Baptisteoome in next as to the number of churches and value of property, haviog 8,79) ehurehes and $10,900,382 in property. The Presbyterians are next. They count 4,584 churches, and $14,269,889 in value of property. While they stand as the third great Protestant sect of the United States.as to the number of shurches, they stand only second to the Mothodist-in the value of tonaliets with ; Rad ul We imviude tue Congroge | rough them, We find that the waited value | yuynge to Kurcpe. ¢ cf ebu: The Episcopalians and Catholics stand nearly equal in the numberof churches. The former count 1,422 churehes, and the latter 1,112. But the Ep's- eopslians excel them in wealth, their property being valued at $11,251,970, and that of the Catholics at $8,973, The whole number of churehes is 36,011, and total value of property $96,416,639. By these statistios it will be seen that the religious character of the people of the United States is largely and powerfully Protestant. Taking all tho other Pro- teatant sects in eouncetion with the three leading denominations referred to, and we will find that they form an immense majority, and that the Catho- Tics form comparatively # small element of the whole, although highly respectable, wealthy, and influential. Can any reader pass through the simplest reea- pitulation of the foregoing figures and facts, illus- trative of the wonderful growth and continually multiplying results, resources, achievements a1d capacities of this country, without boing struck with astonishment and admiration? Truly aro we s po- culiarly favored people. A vast portion of our con- tinent, most beautifully situated in referenes to cli- mate, and our commercial relations with all other parts of the world—full of varied, inexhaustible and undeveloped riches—gettled and occupied by the most intelligent, powerfal and progressive races of mankind, could hardly, however, aftor two hundred years of sturdy enterprise, present a different pic- ture. But it would not be complete without the crowning glory of the splendid institutions under which we live. The Union and the Constitution lio | at the basis of our happiness and prosperity. God save the Union. Mong Ancric Exreprrions.—We yesterday pub- lished the able and interesting paper of Profossor G. K. Kane, en the subject of ‘“ Access to an Open Polar Sea by a North American Meridian.” The basis of Dr. Kane’s plan of operations is an ovor- land route, founded upon the hypothesis that be- yond the icy barricr whieh_shuts out communiea- | tion with the North Pole by water there is an open sea or basin. The eourse proposed to travel isa due northern line. This is a highly important expe- dition, and its results will be looked forward to with deep interest by the people of the United | 1 States, and by seientific men of all countrio: From the London Times we learn that there iste | boanother Arctic expedition, headed by Dr. John Rae, and under the auspicos of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This, too, is to be for the | most part an overland expedition. Tho starting point is to bo Hudson’s Bay, and the object is to complete the survey of the Northern shores of | America, a small portion of which now remains un- j explored. Dr. Rae’s letter, in which he details his Hrxad, and will be read with great pleasure by those who take an interest in Arotic expeditions or in the advancement of the science of physical geo- | graphy. While Lr Kane does not abandon all hope of yet recovering the lost Sir John Franklin, it will pe of finding any trases of the lost navigator in the quarter to which ho is going. But whether the lost explorer is ever found or not, there is every pro- bability of the labors of the expeditions now being fitted out throwing such light upon an important question of geography, hitherto involved in obsouri- ty, and the subject of much dissussion between men of science, as will compensate even for the loss of Sir John Franklin and the brave companions who have shared his fate. Progrees isthe great idea of the ! | | | | | of the frozen North cannot arrest its onward warch. ‘The North Pole will yet be found. CoLiision ON THE Erie Ratwxoad AND THE Exectric TaLEGRAPH.—Some censure has been ex- pressed against the employees of the Erie Railroad, in reference toa recent collision near Owego, and also because the company would not permit messa- ges from the passengers to be transmitted over their wires There are two lines of wires, running side by eide with the railroed—one is public, and the other is private and belongs to the eompany, who use it exclusively for the purpose of sending messages in relation to the business of the road. All the trains | are started by telegraphic communication, and the managers know everything that is going on from one end of the line to the other. By this msans they are enabled to prevent collisions, and thus ren- der # service to the public. They could not permit , their telegraph to bo used for sending the messagos of passengers or other individuals. They have no time to do They leave such business to the publie lino. From Pont av Prixcr.—By the brig Hayti, which left | Gonsives on the 2d inst., we learn that on the night of | the 25th of November, Port an Prince was visited by a | severe shock of an earthquake, The place is at present quiet. Coffee is coming in. Whe Strixe in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Nearly nine hundred of the mechanics employed in the yard refuted to go to work yesterday morning, im consequence of the new order issued from Washington, requiring them to work am additional hour each day without any additional pay. The mechanics have drawa up a rtatement, rotting forth their reasons for objecting to this restriction. They forwarded s scmmary of their views upon the matter to Washington, by telegraph, yesterday, and are determined not to go to work until y is returned. At a late hour of last night large lacards, printed with the following notice, were exten- tive y circulated amonget the gaen and posted througi the clty:— eccoocecccoccoe soc oe oe cocOO xoricr To MECHANICS. IT 18 REQUESTED, BY THE COMMITTEE IAT THE ME.CTIANICS DO ft GD TO WORK FROM THE DESPATOH SENT TO THR : RY oF THE AVY. Broonzyn Navy Yanp, December 16, 1852. APPOINTED, g a 4 = poeccecoacce eoceccocceco ©0000009000000000000000000 A telegraphic despatch, received at our office yesterday, from Philadelphia vd published im our evening edition, informed us of a general strike of the men em- | ployed im the Navy Yard of that og consequence of the receipt of a similar order. government order requires the men to go to work at sumrise, instead of an hour Ister, as heretofore. In Brooklyn, the mem would not abide by the resolution of # committee which recom: menéed o return te work. They labor under the impres- tion that the order will bs countermaned as coon as the anthorities at Washington are made acquainted with thelr determination. The Caloric Ship Ericsson, SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF THE ENGINGS. The caloric ship Ericsson, whose beauty ef model hes, for seme few months part atiracted the attention of pas- sengers up aud down the river, as the lay at her dook at Williomeburg, was the cause of increased attraction yes- terday. Owing to rumors being rprend around to the eifect that unsuccessful endeavors hud been made on hourd, for some ten days past, to start the machinery, the owners determined yestorday, in order to prove thotr falsity, to set the enginos at work, Accordingly, fire was applied to the farnaces for the first time yesterday, af. ternoen, and resulie? in the triumphant suscess of the experiment. At the start, the wheels made three turns per minute, end shortly afterwards reached five turns per minute, at which speed she continued working for several bours, and would be kept in motion the whole of the wight. bis is much more than the most ardeat of the friends of the invention had reason to expect. As the experiment was made at the dosk, with the vessel mace fest, the oppovition of the water was naturally much greater thsn if she bad beon under way. Five turns, whon stationary, are said to be equal to eleven er tweive when under way. producing from ten to eleven miles por hour, a rate of speed very rarely exooeded by first elass | ateamehipe. ‘We are informed by agentieman who was on board, that the machinery worked to admiration, the smooth ners and regularity of its movements being unsurpaseed by even weil tried engines. Tt le gontemplated to keep the wheels in motion tor two or three days, to eatisfy, by occular demonstration, the great curiority in the minds of the publio regarding the Easter, although it was not contemplated to set her at work at precent, as she is far from being considered in ‘a complete state, We understand she will not be ready for her trial trip for two or three weeks yet. it being determined to have her in a perfectly complete state when she leaves the herber, when it i intended to take her to Baltimore, and protehly to ene erteo other citfes, Mm oder to give ber | all Jy ratisfactory trial before commencing her i | | bi | City Intelligence. THE WRATEES—THE DDIAN Yesterday morning opened with a e’sar sky and eoel eunmer, whilst ctbers endeavor to explain it upon the basis of eleotrieal aud other versatile atmospheric influences, Tur Onaxv Ji Tawmany Hart. In accordance wita the legal charge of Recorder Tillou to the Grand Jury, respecting the late disturbance and violence whieh took rir at any Hall a short time since, that body hel meeting ia remrence iterday afternoon, at the Court of Bese tothe the violence perpetrated on that occasion. Amorgst the witnesses rubpcencd. we noticed Mr. Augustus Schell, Mr Jonas B Phillips, Mr. Norris Alderman Barr, and a number of others. We suppose thatthe Grand Inquest will order a bill of indictment against the aggreseors, Deatn rrom Inremrenance anv Exnaustion.—The Coroner held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon, N 247 Kighth avenue, on the body of an old ‘man, Edward O'Neil, who died suddenly, in a rear build: vpen the premises the previous day. Patrick Grimes @epored—Knew the deceased for three and a half years; | for the last i he was‘very intemperate; on Monday last he left bere in a* good health as usual to look for pork he was bronght home by @ man, who p! b him, at his own request, in the house where he was found dead; the men told me that O'Neil wanted me; I delay- ed fifteen or twenty minutes, and my wife came uy} Oy told me that she thought he was dead; I went and found him dead. in the back house Dr. Liddell testified as to deceased’s appenraree, revealed by a post mortem examination The jury returned # verdict of death from exhaustion. consequent upon abstinence from foed. from bad habits Deceased was sixty seven years of age, and a native of Ireland. Buppen Deatn rom Disease or THe Heaat.—An in- mest was held yesterday morning, at No. 120 Bence street, upon the body ofa woman named Mai who died suddenly from disease of the heart. ce the evidence ot Ellen Meade, mother of the deeeased, a: that of Johanna Buckley. it appeared that the aes came to this city from Quebeo in September last. She was weakly since her accouchment on Friday last. and on Sundsy, when sitting up in the bed, was seized with a violent and sudden pain in the region of the heart. of which she dicd ina few minutes Vordiot, death from direave of the heart The deceased wasa mative of Ire- land, and aged twenty. three years, Finr.—A fire was discovered Tuesday night in the house No. 151 Oberry street. It would appear that it was caus ed ty the carelessness of some of tho inmates. in placing a ate ited candle in a window, which eet fire to the blinds, ‘The flame was communicated to the weodem casement, and threatened to be serious at first. Sergeant Mais: warlng, of the Seventh ward, by whom the fire was first discovered, euccceded in extinguishing it. Ping Avanm.—At nine o’clook last night the City Hall bell took up an alarm of fire, from that at Essex market, the Sixth district, The firemen were out, but they un- lerstood the alasm was false. Tne Hisroricar. Society.—The second of the course will be delivered this evening by the Rey. Ds. Hawks. Croxry vo Daati.—Coroner Ives held an iaquest on Tuesday evening, at the house No 212 Seventh avenue, upon the body of a woman named Ellen Dunne, who was suffocated at about 12 o'clock, noon. same day, by means of a piece of food sticking in her throst. ter hearing the testimony of Sarah Warren and Fliza Farrelly as te the cceurrence of the accident. and the means taken to relieve the woman. the hes Gi rondered a verdict of death by suffocation from some food. whilat in the act of ewal- lowing the ame on the 1ith instant. The deceased was @ native of Ireland, and was about thirty-four years of age. Oxninus ann Wacon Accinents.—As ® woman ad- vaneed im years was making sn effort to cross Brondway | ftom the corner of Canal street, on Tuesday evening. she was acoidentally knocked down by an omuibus which was passing at the moment. She was bruised e good deal, aey, much stunned Officer R. King, of the Fifth ward, took ler tothe City Hospital. A young lad named Conran, whose mats retide at Ne. 13 Jacob strect, was run down by & horee and wagon, on Tuesduy afvernoas, at the eorner of Pearl and Chnt- ham streets. Hie escaped with slight injury, and was token home by efflcer Duly, of the Fourth ward. Crurt Ananpoyment or an Invanr.--At about eight o'clock on Monday night. Assistant Captain Fierty, of the Sixth ward police, found an infant, of only a few hours old, lyirg under the stoop of the house No 24 City fall piace The eaptain left it at the Almshouse office in the Park. Conrection,—At the inquest held on the 2dinst , upow the body of a child, named Mary KE. Rolla, No. 14 John street, the verdict of the jury was, death from convul- sions upom the Ist inst, Toe child was delicate for some time, but was not injured by being coalded, as reported. Suppew Dratnor 4 Crip —The Coroner is notified te hold an inquest today upon the body of a child of tr. Lamb, resiling at No. 80 Charitom street, which died vory suddenly yesterday.afternoon, Police Intelligence. * sfrrest of Counterfeiters and Passere of Spurieus Bank Bills --Sergeant Mertin, of the Sixth ward police, arrested, on Tuesday evening, three men, numed Frederick farris, Claus Dohiman, und John Wieden. charged with passing counterfeit five dellar bills on the Leland Bank, of New Jebanon, Columbia county, this State, It seems that on Tuesday evening. the two men named Harris and Dohr. man called at the clothing store No 26 Cat! street. Here Harris bargained with Mr Arthur McCaffry. for the Purchase of a pair of pantsloons for §2 50, and offered im psyment for them a $5 bill, purporting to be a genuine note, as above dercribed, on the te cland Batk Mr. Mo- Caflry, believing the money to be good, gave the change in gocd money. together with the pantaloops, and the two men then left the store. Shortly after. two other persons ceme into the stoze and inquired if the men who had just left bad pasred to them a $6 bill onthe Leland Bank ; on being anewered in the affirmative, they both left the store sgoininahwry. Mr. McUafiry followed after them, and eaw them bave in custody the two men, Harris and Dobr- man, conveying them Rg the station bedtiee, ‘he avidieaes aguunet ‘Wieden is as follows :—My Theodore B. Stephens, No. 168 Canal street, testifies, that on Tuesday even- between seven and eight o’clock, the prisoner Wieden tered the atore at the ve named place. and wished to purchase acap. The article was sold to him for five shillings, and in payment thereof he tendered a five dollar ll en the Le! Bank, which was taken, and the change given, In about an hour it was discovered that Mr. Stephens the bill was a counterfeit and worthless. | now identifies the msn called Wieden as the person from whom he received the spurious bill in question. The prisoners are all country looking men. and from thefr ap- pearance have been evidently fuppiied with the counter felt money for the purpore of passing 2s much as possi- bie, as their common country appearance would tend much to prevent suspicion It is believed that a large quantity of this counterfeit money hss been passed on storckeepers throughout thecity. The bills are admirably executed, ard appear to have been transferred from one cf the originals. The aconsed parties were conveyed be- fore Justice Wood. at the Tombs, who committed them to prison to await a further hearipg All persons who have been impored upon by receiving any of the said counterfeit bills, will further the ends of public justice by oe upon the mugistrate, and identifying the accused erties ? In addition to the above evidence egainst Harris and Dobrman, « Mr. Simon Siivestrin, of No. 1 Orange street, testifies that tho seme two men called a’ his store and purehared a pair of pantaloons, and offered in payment a $5 dill op the Leland Bank. Mr. Siivestrin did not like the sppeatance ot the bill and’ refuzed to takeit ; both men left the store, and did not purchase the pan. taloons, iat, Bcrraion Count.—(Two branches) —Nos, 148, 10. 61134, 631, 656, 659. 663. 669, 670, 672, 673, 674. 539, 338, ‘Bel, 669, €26, 657, 676, 678, 679, 680, 681, 684, 685, 633, 699, 325, 58, 249) 624, 302, 651, 587, 660, 458, 608, 647, 671, 682. Constox Peas.—Part First—Nos, 667. 659.’ 661, 668, €67, 669, 671, 675, 677, O79, 681, 685, G87, 089, G01. “Part Becond-—Nos. 776. 656, 768, 808, 810, 812, 814, 816, 820,822, 826, $28, 850, 892, ny . to Young Men.—The Gay hand if youexpect to mak s, adorn your hod with one other day wo Leard ® young though in dey nest and m KNOX pleads ie t man; and he a Finley Ge any ve the ladies, trathe ba vlan ttd musiay caper, and the most elegant furs of ail kinds, ew 128 Fulton street Presents for t Holidays. —Fine English gold lockets, of superior quality, togeth Aceortinent of pins, rings, keys and geale, & variety of rich and costly oases of velvet, pi tortoise shell, beautifully inteid, for sate at. BRADY'S Daguerreaa Gallery, 205 Broadway, corner of Fulton svxvet, alr, t, fa oa Have Juat been A Thousand Crying Ba yelved at TUTTLE'S Sportura, Pisa’ to the publio wholoseie ana’ re Fonsonable torme. Tuttle was nevor better p * pane ‘There te no Jack of anything tho fancy oan Pho rush for catly obotocs has already commenced. The Toy Bazaar of Rogers, No, 440 Brond- yay, in, the storo for all te vi it in tho solootion of prosents for the holidays. Evo y variety of fancy gr0ds, from tho rioheds inlaid tables and tk boxes to ® pouny whis Will be found in this extensive banner, ard heing oll imporke od by Mr. Rogers, in oor nection wi ehop in London, anand willtbe bchd et prioes to duit his customers, Ow ercoats! | Winter Overconts!—Pine Ready made overoonts, at reduced privos, Inquire of GEORGE P. FOX, tailor, 339 Brosdvay, ocrnot of Aathony stroet, opt posite to Broadway Bank and Theatre, ‘' i’airo Sans Dire.’ Shirts of Superter Quality, every size, may be obtained at No. 6: sean etroct, where, a largo nt oi fine cravate, polesa! t H, ed Bt wholesale and ads somo Sessa. AVI A Pair of Sclmors, and a Needle and thread, in thy bonds of ecionce ond va ery mente in the creation of beauty ads aise GREEN'S, No, L Astor Hones. menta are fashioned, ab ‘ont infallibly, and (shirts that fi Undergarm vriweient & Wa perlor Quality, such no and Teviot wool, ie eee Bhirts ne p ehtt Warehouse, Greceiwish a ‘corner Chambers. Shirte mad jn the best manner. collars, eoravate, svooks, gloy hosiery. — Ladies’ Dress Cup, Lace and Embroidery —Just rocetveds & fresh lot of rleh pointed Ince and Rolin cellars: of heap bronkfast al th a lorge + Meade Brothers’ a oa = Y Gr ay. 5 brilliantly li tea ia irate ut Tho tecding mia and see the new Bata fat the latece iiss Garncy’s Committes, as the late fein ot ures th: hast ever old medal. Hie Tarte Beeaoeee ene or whtel o- She most appropriate Holiday Gift pony bey ong 4 bo wprownea n fae Felsiey. or : Ber of, ing, i See SING "sews one of mar to il A a, and Mourning Goods Reduced.. —Barthole: t& h dager 551 Broadway, aro off ring ots ato seed see heir via, they cmd take 0 Ox! ro al~ Purchasors of mourning goods will nefit by calling, as ahey. w wil soe . Splonsi> cloake ‘very abeap. New 002 Broadway, nearly opposite Metropelitag Frank Bennett & Co., 351 rend eneet ‘aris s large soce: ionable furs of every de ite di d proposals for ornamental painted glass, the, four large exhibition building “these fenlights are vomit & radius of twonty fect. Partios sending de ie to accompany th in which tho: p inte: sh must be addressed to B. C. Dots No. 74 Broadway, whore fill drawings oan be se By order, of windor WM, WHETTEN, —" Optics. Waldstein & Berkel, Manufacture ing, onsicians, No. 451 Broadway. One of our fem haa just arsived, with 'a most splendid seloctionof opera glaases and tion! instruments in ge eral, among which axe MARY afte cles appropriate for boliday p Teeth Inserted in the Mouth on Gold Plate, without teking out the rota; the stumps are fled smooth, and covered ty tho plate, and in moss sated there {ano pain, as pivots are not used.’ Any on hed in two days, J. FOWLER, 138 Speke area Fine Cutlery. ‘The \bscriber’s ne of pen, pocket, and ferent styles of Josep! ts & Son’ ~ tho g richest ne Bethe ri nd to be he city. SAUNDERS, No 7 Astor House, a1 d No. 357 Broadway. Tertolse Shell Dress Combs. respectfully invited to examine the choice Teloction of dreve combs at the subscriber tablishment. Tho variety is bo- venga doubt, the largest in the ase Gompe mad made and re- 887 Broadway, between Walior and White atx Portable Dressing ases.—These < travolicrs, on aceount of theit ex- d wtility, whieh renders them nasense o all whose business or SAUNDERS, No.7 Astor House, New Fiult for the Holydnys—The Sub- seriber has in store a large stock of raising, dried eurrants, eit: greon and black Seas, sugars, and family grocerioy of he yerious kinds, are offered, and 438 Greenw: 76 Veroy atroets. J. 0. FOWLER. fail to examine them. 7) and warranted vot to ehrin’ of long hair, front Po at and Toupees.—Batchelor’s New mye Wane peeiesh eet er! perfect imitation ef 7 artlele teen t invonte ‘wantin, ony eh Seid call at MALCHELONE WE celebrated tate ‘best materials, ‘raids, ko” at whe, eee 4 Wall street, whore ean be found ae la og sortment in the eity. Copy the address. Halr Dye.—Bachelor’s Celebrated Hair Dye is the best yet ¢iscovered for colo: the balr ease anc whiskers the moment itis reo a ae wonds eertainty with whioh this es old &, forma ia setonisl Gouraud’s Liquid Hair Dye ta senone oo, seption or reservation, tho very be gt puffed dyes. Equally celebra Soap, for curing pimp'es, freckles. h- . Poudre Subi roots hair from any part tof he A Vhite Hair Gloss, at Ne. og a Letters to Cristado:o, from all parts of the Union, pour into his establishmont, No, 6 Bnew? House, aeruring him thet his Hair Restorative gives universal satia- bea Ngo CMS oan OR the ne It is La ‘oluntarily, by the country press, as the 01 ¢ fe for restoring, ia\igorating, aud losing th eae Rich Furs—Whol jc Price.=—The sabscri- the fur Spi ls, minent. ‘The Bertha box is by far the most elegant article in fur ever. invouved, and displays the figure the Lael advantage. The fur ish mantijiea is admirab! ac apted to the promenad y, Furriers and Skin prneriers. rr the present fashion, exchanged, and freed fro! re brown, or superb binck. The scalp is net, eta oneration, ‘The dye tind apilion as Oristadore’s, Nos GlAstor Heuse, and can by obtained °, of the principal druggists in the cit Frested Feet and Chiitiains.—Bush’s Ma- gic Cream Linement ia certain remody for the abovo troubleeom, aint, fo prevalent at this season of the year, Fold at 32 Greenwich stroct, corner of Duane; Guion, ner of Bew rest ; Coddingtoa, corner of - iwnter, 103 Sixth avenue, Regenerator of tne System.—Hastings® Compound Syrup of Naptha is th> most pertset regonorater of the human system over discovered. euses which itis not protonded ir will ha w ‘ihma, in the formation of tuber thing of Dlood, im the washing of ne 8 The Celebrated Bohemian Hatr Dye ts su- pereecing. all ot ‘#6 Any supsrior article will, aad Leet rmane! to prevent it an be given, but are cove dered. y ae, it ged ‘a single arial to prove ite w:rth and. any HF 257 Hudson, strest: also, po ‘at 581, 715, 771, 907 only. $i the principal depos lowing d at 3 ie Pow r druggists and hale. areusers . Aleo, by many ot out thie out, and preserve for ‘ged country. Mio: reference, or show to friend Ihave been on Taber ee eet almenery ble rd rch at Title. Me hea tied Watts’ Nervous Antidote, which hae bec Of maving my life. A; WALDEN, (3 Chaciton atrect, $1 por bottle, $9 per dozen, Depot, 102 Nassau atroct, rs, “iustachoes or Hair row, roader, just Higir’ Rente drseses the fing, and m: yw dark and fing; it to Lily. Whive, for Ladi ii way, N. ¥., aad 175 wSEE THIRD @TaK 6 PERRIN, N OPENING FOR A HOTEL PARTNER —A tleman of experience and character, with an fi disto onsh capital of 812,000, oan iorm ® desirable arrange ment ina fret clac@ hotel in this city. Rete Elie, Borill @ Day 0. 3 Nassau street, OPK ENGINE My MPANY 5i.—THE EXEMPT AND honor ry members ATs moany IL are requested tacnitend amonting, mt sine Emblom, $8 Wet Broadway, thio evening, at 7 o’clook. “xOuEKT o. MoINTYRE, Chairman. Tsaac’G, Errxas, WO MALL SOASON. HISTLE BALI.—THR MANAGERS OF THE THIS. tle Benevolent Amocistion— instituted, 1884 ratod, 185!—respectfally onnounso that thole fi ball for this will take place on Thureda: Tivkots $2, to mit be hind af, Adam Stodary Watiamn tisit & Som +k pl Pond & Co, No. i Franklin equates " of cliher of tho MASDRCTO "HE PIRST ANNUAL BALL OF THR HAY FOUN- T my? Guards will be held on Friday ever ing, Dee. 17, Ai tho City Asrombly Rooms, Brosdway, between Howar and Grand streota. Pa'be Baa fro the od mond wal vein 01 ‘oommit dance, Tickets to be 2 ge ard on. THE TURF. URE GROUND—TROTTT. on, to crme of on Teitay, Wou © putse over $25, rise td does ni the stove nouns: ing. = LUT, Proprioton,