The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1853, Page 4

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(CERCUS, 37 Rowery—EQuestRiaN EvrurtaryMerts. DOUBLE SHEET. “Wew York, Thursday, January 20, 1653, Malls for California. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. The steamship Ohio, Captain Hartstein, will leave this pert at two o'clock this afternoon for Aspinwall ; ‘Me Uncle Sam, Captain Mills, at three o'clock, for the ‘same port; and the Northern Light, Captain:Tinklepaugh, also at three o'clock, for San Juan del Norte. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at one o'clock this afternoon. The New Yorx Weexty Heap, with the latest in- telligence from all parts of the world, sill be published at ten o'clock this morning. ingle copies, sixpence. Agents will please send in their orders as early as possible. The News. As the eyes of our readers are at'this time, no @oabt, watching the proceedings of the United States Renate with regard to the foreign policy of this government, it is almost unnecessary to-refer to the transactions in that body. It will be seer that Mr. Mason took ground in opposition to General ass concerning the Monroe doctrine, and-contended that the declaration of President Monroe wes made for a specific object, which, having been gained, ‘tbe matter dropped. How the controversy on this particular point will be settled is hard to fore- tell; nevertheless the soundness of the doctrine, and the necessity for its application at the ' present crisis, few will undertake to ques- tion. It is supposed by some that this contrariety of opinion between leading democrats will give Gen. Pierce trouble in the formation of his cabinet, but this is hardly probable. The new cabinet members will, undoubtedly, be united in sentiment, whatever bickerings may arise among others of the party. The discussion of the subject has been postpowed till mext Tuesday, when Mr. Soule will take the floor, and, it is understood, make a strong speech in-sup- port of the position assumed by Gen. Cass. Quite a lengthy asd exciting debate took plage in ‘the House of Representatives yesterday, on the bill for the establishment of a branch mint in this city. As was anticipated, some of the Pennsylvanis mem- bers, in their jealousy of the enterprise and progress of ‘Mew York, endeavored to excite sectional prejudices sagainst the- measure, but appear to have met with @wery poor success. Congressmen begin to understand ‘the true reasons for the uncompromising hostility of ‘the delegation from our sister State; and, were it net fer the lateness of the session, and the fact thata ‘great number of bills on the Speaker's table are yet to be disposed of, the chances are that this bill ‘would soon become a law. Even as matters now Stand, the friends of the measure are inclined to be- Tieve that it will be adopted, as an act of simple justice to the thousands of people belonging to all the States who return from California by way of this city. On reference to the proceedings in Congress and the despatch from our special correspondent, it will be seen that the President yesterday sent in a mes_ sage relative to the Amistad case, in which the im perious language of Spain concerning the matter is alluded to. The objectionable features of the letter from the Spanish government, as furnished by our eorrespondent, indicate that Her Most Catholic Ma- jesty’s Ministers are losing something of that diplo- matic polish and courtesy for which they have been celebrated from time immemorial. The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasu- zy, it is announced, will be sent into Congress to- | day. We elsewhere give some statistics relative to the financial condition of the country, which are said to embrace the principal features of the docu- ment. Our special Washington correspondent writes that the extraordinary claims of certain Custom House officers, in which some New Yorkers are deeply in- terested, are not likely to be allowed, afterall. The | President opposes the claims, and it is thought that @ majority of Congressmen will take the same view of the case. The lady of Senator Douglas expired in Washing- ton, yesterday. Rev. W.H. Van Vleck, Bishop of the Moravian Church at Bethlehem, Pa., died on Tuesday night. Ata caucus of the whig members of the Rho¢ Island Legislature,on Tuesday evening, the Hon. | Samuel G. Arnold was, on the twentieth ballot, no- | minated for United States Senator, in place of Hon. Mr. Clarke, whose term will expire on the 4th of March. The new democratic Governor of Louisiana, in his inaugural message, declares the finances of that State to be in an unsatisfactory condition. He recommends a free banking system. The proceedings in the New York Legislature were of a varied and very interesting character. Our Christian readers will be pleased to learn that Mr. Beekman’s resolution of compassion for the im- prisoned Madiai family in Tuscany was unanimously adopted by the Senate. A favorable report was made on the bill to suppress the construction of rail- roads in cities without the consent of the property owners along the lines of route. Should this measure become a law, and it is believed it will, it will com- pletely upset all the new railroad projects in this ‘The temperance folks had a grand jubilee in Alba- ny yesterday. They held two or three conventions, numerous meetings, listened toa multitude of good and indifferent speakers—among them Neal Dow, the father of the Maine law—paraded the streets, and passed resolutions declaring their intention to enter the political field at the next election, and support candidates of their own choosing—besides all which, one of their number is reported to have had his pocket picked since his arrival in AThany Our telegraphic advices from Mexico, y ‘ew Or- Jeans, are of a rather important character. The rumor relative to the preparations of Santa Anna to return is confirmed. Recruits were flocking to the standard of the revolutionists trom all directions; | in addition to which the troops in Juan de Uiloa, at Vera Crnz declared against the government. in the field, and is.said to have Colonel. Gen. Canales is snppc rdered by and the re he Castle of San reported to Caravajal is ptured a } d to have been | gain oem back to Mulgore, dle ro } burners claimin Santa Anna way for a tinte check theepirit of dis- cord, but itis not probable that he will ever be able to subdue is. The late Henry Clay's post as President of the American Colonization Society, bas been filled by the eledtion of Mr. J. H. B, Latrobe, of Maryland. Mr. L. has long been an ardent advocate of the cause, and was the founder of the Maryland Society, which has, within a few years, enabled a large num- ber of persons to reach Liberia. ‘The libel case against the owners of the wrecked ship Georgia, for the board of passengers, has been adjourned over till‘the March term, by the U. 8. Dis- trict Court, now in session at Trenton, N. J. The Supreme Court of Louisiana bas decided the will case of McDonogh in favor of the cities of Bal- timore and New‘Orleans, and against the States of Maryland and Donisiana. The annual report of the Treasurer of Maryland, represents the finances of that State to be ina flour. ishing condition. Three steamivoats were entirely consumed by fire, at St. Louis, yesterday afternoon. Property to the value of over twenty thousand dollars, belonging to the Clyde Print Works, at'War- wick, R. I., wes burned on Tuesday. A fire broke out at half past six o'clock last-even- ing, in the warerooms of Mr. J. M. Beach, situated atthe corner of William and Cedar streets. The house and stock were entirely destroyed. The damage is estimated at sixty thousand dollars. Last evening, at the Court of Sessions, as will be seen by our report, the fighting men who a short time since maltreated the hard shells of the General Committee, at Tammany Hall, were convicted of riot, and assault and battery, but were not sertenced: This is a heavy blow and a serious discouragement to rowdyism, and if it is followed up by the Court, as the public expect, it will go far to put.an end for ever to those scenes which have so long-.disgraced Tammany Hall and the city of.New York. .The high- est extent of punishment for the offence; is twelve months imprisonment and a fine of $250. .The con- demned have reason to bless their stars. that they were not tried for murder, asthey would have been had Mr. Schell died from the effects of the:wvound he received on the head. ‘ We publish the testimony taken at the coroner's inquest held at Tammany Hall, yesterday, upon the body of Doctor Henry A. Weinecke, who poisoned himself by taking twenty-five grains of. ecetate of morphine, Monday night. A rigger named Christian Wilson, was accidentally killed yesterday, in the ship building yard of Mr. Westervelt, mayor of this city. He was.employed upon the ship Resolute. Deceased was a native of Sweden. Last evening Dr. Antisell gave a lecture at the Stuveysant Institute, on the subject of volcanoes and yoleanic forces. The Cunard steamer Niagara, with one week's la- ter European news, is now fully due at Halifax. Want of room again obliges us to omit much in- teresting matter prepared for this morning’s paper, among which is the following :—Lectures by Rev. H.W. Beecher; on. Anson Burlingame, and Pro- fessor Tayler Lewis; Reply of the Cuban Junta to a Washington Correspondent, &c. The Squabble for the Spolls—Political Cor- respondence .of the New York Herald, We discharge -upon our readers this morning a whole broadside of round-shot, shells. scrap- nels and musketry, from our political corres- pondents in various parts of the country, bear- ing upon the President elect. his cabinet, end the distribution of “ithe spoils.” These letters, at this juncture, are particularly interesting, not from the glimmerings of light which they throw upon the cabinet question, but from their startling illustrations of the bitter jealousies which have sprung up among the various de- mocratic factions against each other. and their wolfish appetites for the public plunder. Our correspondents all appear to have an eye fixed firmly upon the main chance. They do not stoop to the consideration of such empty ab- stractions as the general, domestic and foreign policy of the new administration, or the means and instrumentalities by which the prosperity of the country at home, and its honor and glory abroad. can be best secured. Such visionary topics vanish into thin air before the substantial and savory roast beef and plum pudding of the Treasury. The secondary contingencies of peace or war, annexation, non-intervention. reciprocity and free-trade are consequently set aside, pending the present awful suspense concerning the divi- sion ofdhe spoils. The harmony, nay, the very existence of the national democracy, and the Baltimore platform, and the Union and the Con- stitution, appear to hang upon a judicious divi- sion of the spoils. We had thought that the great triumph of November was the result of a sound public opinion upon the constitutional compremizss between the North and the South; but now itis made manifest that the overwhelm- ing rush upon the democratic platform was but a rush for the spoils. The enigma is solved at last, in the fifty millions per annum of the loaves and fishes. dispensed to the hungry by the administration at Washington. Having thus hit upon the lock and key to the late Presidential struggle, the list of letters which we publish to-day will be found to be particularly seasonable, pungent. piquant. and spicy. The Donaldson and Grier correspond- enee was flat and tame in comparison with this. We have here a bird's-eye view of an existing state of things, the most amusing, the most em- barrassing, and the most disgusting that can well be conceived. From Albany we are in- formed that Dickinson is going ahead, and that Marcy is stranded; from Utica we have an indignant attack upon the free soilers; from Rochester, and other points, we have the curious information that the Van Buren, or soft shell faction are delighted and astonished at the late gracious pronunciamento from the Concord Patriot, defining the generous intentions of General Pierce to all the factions of the demo- cratie—that the free soil organs publish this organic decree with peculiar gusto, overjoyed at the idea that they are subjects of political grace. Indeed, from Albany, Saratoga, Utica, Rochester and Syracuse, our correspondents come up to the extermination of Dix and the free soilers with a patriotic zeal that is par. ticularly refreshing. Contracts, however, are entitled to some re- spect. We believe that the only way of safety and success to Gen. Pieree, is through a cabinet and administrative policy resting upon the bind. ing vitality of the compromise measures and the integrity of the Union. We believe that he is strong enough, if he will only be bold enough, to establish a firm and popular administration without any particular efforts to con ate the disorganizing factions of the day, North or South. But we demur to the New York t nm in their own right, and from their own merits, the monopoly of the loaves and fishes, Contracts should not b lightly disregarded. The old maxim of “hon esty among thieves,” is not a bad one for offic secking politicians. There was a contract of | union and harmony between the two New York factions, during the late campaign, upon the \imore nominations; and both hunkers and harnburners gloried in it. Neither faction can n exclusive title to the no right at all t therefore plead now have yearauye of | thgup, Lut Gon, Pierce, not being a party to | ie their re-union, ie not bound by their agreement. He may dct independently; and #0, we trust, he will act, and establish his cabinet and do- mestic policy upon 4 sound Union platform, and ‘shut oat agitators and demagouges; but the New York hard shells and soft shells must take things as they come. The free soilers frater- nised with the hunkers for the spoils and nothing elze, and cannot claim the privilege of excluding the hunkers from the plunder. That privilege belongs to the President elect, and he ‘should exercise it with a view to the integrity of the Union and of the democratic party as a Union party, and to.an honest, able, and united administration, leaving it to the various party cliques and factions to settle their party dis- putes among themselves. From Pennasyivania, we are pained to say, our information of the concord of the party is just as discouraging as from our own “rural dis- | tricts.” The ok feud ‘between the Cass and | Buchanan men is revived, and exasperated to the cut-throat animosity of ‘the Montagues and Ca- pulets. But the blackest intelligence. of all ovr catalogue of letters, is frem Ohio. Our Colum- bus correspondent informs us, that at the late Demoeratic:State Convention, the constitutional democrats'were borne ‘@own by an unholy sili- ance with‘tke free soilers—that they refused to ratify the Baltimore ‘platform, and that it‘now “lies bleeding on the table, beneath the stabs of these men promising office in the name of Pierce.” A bleeding platform upon a table, stabbed 40 death! ‘What a horrid spectacle! And the'Ohio democracy gone to the dogs. “Oh! lamentable day.” All these things in New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio. disclose’ with some distinetness, the nature and extent of the venomous wranglings of the Northern: democrats over the spoils. The condition of the Southern cliques is but Jittle better. And the questien still reeurs—Can General Pierce reconcile these factions by any®* possible division of the public plunder. -No. It would be uséless to attempt it. Disregarding the low, miserable tricks.and intrigues; and contemptible qudfrels of the-eontending cliques, for power and:patron- age, however noisy. they may be, the only sure and safe reliance of General Pierce is the Union, the Union platform,and a Union cabinet. He has the strength to ceerce, and will be sustained by the-country in coercing, through a ceurse of rigid discipline, all..disorganisers of both sec- tions into submission. His whole true policy is comprehended in three words—bold, indepen dent, firm. Let him adopt it. He has great re- sponsibilities before him, but he has the -confi- dence of the country. Morr Fisuery Trovuries.—The subjoined re~ solutions were recently adopted at a public meeting held at St. Johr, N. B., with reference to the pending negotiations relative to the fish- eries. A series of ultra resolutions were pro- posed. in amendment, by the Hon. Charles Si- monds, the language of which is remarkably strong, expressing fears that “colonial interests will be lost sight of, and imperial interests alone regarded,” and contending that “the North American colonies cannot receive, by any com- mercial regulations, any equivalent for the ces- sion of their invaluable in-shore fisheries,” and “protesting against any such concession as is contemplated, az.one which the imperial govern- ‘ment or parliament have no right to make ; the vast magnitude of which, if made, would as- suredly, at no distant period, enable the great republic to become:the first navai power, and Great Britain, of cansequence, only the second —ifnot still lower.” “ And, further, that if the rights of fishing on the coasts of British North America are conceded to the Americans, for the supposed advantages of free or reciprocal trade, it will be another instance, added to many more within the past two hundred years, in which colonial interests have heen sacrificed to benefit the manufacturers and merchants of England.” Mr. Simonds is Speaker of the House of As- sembly, and his amendment was only lost by a majority of four, The original resolutions; as follows, were then adopted, and a committee was appointed to prepare an address, to be laid at the foot of the throne :— eeting consider the coast fisheries n colonies the natural right and property of the inhabitants thereof, and that they should not be alienated, conceded, or affected, without their con- sent, in any Le, Non one with the United States govern- ment, or any other foreign power, without their consent, inasmuch as the value of the fisheries to the British pro- vinces, with an inereased and increasing population, can- not be estimated aright at the present time. Resolved, That the meeting view with deep anxiety and concern the announcemeent in her Majesty's speech to the imperial Parliament. that negotiations are now pend- ing between her Majesty's government and that of the United States, relative to the fisheries of the North Ame- rican provinces; and also the recemmendation of the Pre- sident of the United States, in his official message to Con- gress, to negotiate a treaty for a partict tion by the ei. tizens of the United S’ates in the said fisheries, irre- spective of any question of reciprécal intercourse between the United States and the North American colonies. Rerolved, That.a committee be now appointed to bah or an humble address, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to refuse to entertain any proposition from the United States government, for any modification or alteration of the treaty of 1318, unless such a proposi- tion embraces the full and entire question of reciprocal intereourre in commerce and tion, upon terms that will be just and reasonable, inasmuch as the value of a particiyation in our fisheries by the citizens of the United States would greatly exceed any concessions that the United States government can offer to the inhabitants of the British colonies, and that befor eaty affecting the fisheries is agreed upon, her Maj vill be graciously picaved to afford her Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects in the provinces an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the terms proposed in said treaty, and of laying their ease at the foot of the throne. Mexican Distin tx New Yorx.—Mexico is becoming quite an important region for the people of the United States, who are kept posted up in all the ever-varying stage-shifting tricks of the governmental and revolutionary parties of our republican neighbor. The Herarp would fall short of its duties and its prestige if ected to record the interesting piece of intelligence that, for the last day or two. our metropolis has been honored by the sojourn of eminently distinguished personages, whose names are “familiar as household words” in connection with Mexico. First, we have Capt. Jonas P. Levy, who has acquired great celeb- rity, and is striving to acquire still greater material benefit, as the projector of a new and improved route from the shores of the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific, The Mexican Con- gress have, however, exhibited a contemptible obliquity of vision in porting against the adoption of Capt. Levy's plans and specifica- ifons’ Then we have also the famous Dr. Gardiner, immortalized as the claimant of mines invaluable as those of Golconda, situate omewhere in the unexplored region of the Mexican sierras, in the hunt for which a com- e been amusing and enriching them- Mr. Hargous, the mission | elves for some time past. projec over the isthmus, and also a claimant for losses late war, forms another of the party of our distinguished guests. It is proba- ble that we shall not have the honor of enter- taining this eminent trio longer than a day or two, alter which we suppose they will present themselves at the seat of the federal govern- ustained in th of another shortest and best route | Napo.gon THE Tuy aNp THE Frenco-AMERI- can Press.—The world now acknowledges that Louis Napoleon, Emperor of the French, isa great man. We are able to follow all his move- ments in Europe, public and private, through the cordon of correspondents which the London journals maintain around his person. But in America we have not such facilities for tracing out the operations of his imperial policy, when carried on “under'the rose.” However, inklings of facts and circumstances will now and again, leak out; corks on the surface show the wry the stream flows, and thus we are enable(, to sketch lightly the drifting of the Napole jonic current on this hemisphere. Our readers are possibly aware t’pat the Franco-American population of this city sup- port in it two organs printed in ‘che French tongue—le Phere and le Courrier des Etats Unis. So long as tke young repablic of 1848 was an entity, these journals we re its firm and consistent supporters in this corntry; but when it had passed away. like a vision of the night. fainter and fainter became the impressions it had left. until, fmally, every souvenir of its ex- istence had passed away, and left not a wreck behind. The:editors of the above named jour- nals could not be expected to advocate a non- entity—a-mere visionary idea, which their com- patriots had almost unanimously repudiated. The star of Napoleonism was in the ascendant, and the kings and the wise men of the earth were sending to the modern Bethlehem to pay it homege. In the universal pilgrimage direct- ed to'that resplendent shrine, the editor of the one,-and the proprietor of the other, of these Frenéh journals, have taken their place. May their pious enterprise be rewarded. May the presiding genius of the Elysée be propitious to hbis-servants. ¥f the mission of those who have “seen the star in the East,” and have gone to worship it, be-crowned with that success which it deserves, and if their respective journals be franked by the new Emperor, we may soon look for a trans- formation in that quarter, from antiquated re- publicanism, to speck and span new Napoleon- ism. And after this legerdemain is effected, we may also immediately look out for the advent of a third French journal in this city, devoted to the advocacy of the cause of “/a déesse de la Republique,” and in immediate connection with Louis Blanc, and the European Revolutionary Committee of London. We do not bazard much in the prediction—Coming events cast their shadows before.” Tue Navat Rerorm.—The very able report in favor of reform in the navy was writen by | Senator Mallory, of Florida. It is tobe hoped that the suggestions of Mr. M. will be-adopted, and thus enable our navy to get rid ofthe load it now has to carry in its bureaus. Mapawe SonvaG In THE CavsE OF CHaRiTY.—A number of highly fashionable and influential ladies, who have been for some time past working in concert for the mainte- nance of a private charitable institution, denominated ‘The Hope,” being in need of funds, have solicited Madame Sontag to sing for their benefit. -This request thas been courteously and generously acceded to, and preparations have been made for a private concert in aid of ‘The Hope,’ to take place at Niblo’s saloon, on the evening of the 29th inst. We presume that the superin- tending committee of ladies will find little difficulty in disposing of tickets for this soirée musicale. ‘The Difficulties in Tammany Hall—The Gene- ral Committee. ‘A meeting of the left wing, or barnburner section of the Gennral Committee, was called last evening at Tammany Hall, but the Sachems held a meeting previously, and they resolved not to give the use of any part of Tammany Hall to this portion of the committee: or to any other, for the present. This is regard- ed as aftriumph by the hardshells, who attribute it to the verdict last evening at the Court of Ses- sions against the fighting men of the barnburners, who assaulted Mr. Augustus Schell at a former meeting of the General Committee at Tammany Hall; and there is no doubt that the verdict fell like a bombshell into the wig- wam. It is also said that there are some apprehensions that the hard shells, who are the main body of the Gene- ral Committee, may abandon Tammany Hall as the head quarters of the democracy, and remove their place of meeting elsewhere, which would have a very serious ef- fect on the value of the property: and rather than run this risk, the Sachems, however disposed the majority of them may be tofavor the soft shells, will pause before they drive the hard shell leaders to this alternative. Marine Affairs. Tae Sreamsure ALaBama, Capt. Ludlow, arrived on Tuesday from Savannah, bringing as the usual favors of our Southern contemporaries. The A. also brought a quantity of fine shad, fresh from the Savannah river—n steamer. ‘Tar Stramsuir Marion, Capt. Berry, arrived yesterd: morning from Charleston. Irortayt To Suir OwNERS.—But few, among the ow even of our regular packet ships, are, we believe, ¢ nizant of certain clauses in the British Passenger Ac 15 and 16 ia, cap. 44, 1849—the compliance non-compliance with which may become a matter of seri ous import to parties concerned. In clause 13, of this act it is ordered that a list of passengers by each vessel sailing for a foreign port from Great Britain or Ireland shall, on arrival, be deposited with the British Consul at such port. This regulation appears to have been habitn- ally neglecetd by American shipmasters; and we now learn, on the best authorit hat the British government have determined upon the ‘infliction ef the full penalty upon every vessel re-appearing in an English port with out proper proof of conformity with this requirement o the preceding voyage. Snip Berrpine at Passamaquoppy.—The number of yes- sels built at Eastport. Robinston. Pembroke, Calais, Lu- bec, Perry, Trescott, Dennysville and Whiting, last ‘year, was 46, viz.: 5;ships, 18 barks. 9 brigs, 13 schooners, and 1 steamer—Total tonnage 14,086. Lavxcngp—At Cape Elizabeth, 15th inst., by Mr. Jos. W. Dyer, a fine double decked bark of about'300 tons, called the ‘Faith,”” owned by Messrs. J. W. Dyer and Edwin Churchill, and intended for the Cuba trade, under com- mand of Capt. Albert Jewett. A clipper ship of 1.600 tons, British measurement, was y Wright, at St. Jobn, N.B. She was built after the model | of Mr. McKay's celebrated clipper, the Flying Cloud, and is said to be the most beautiful vessel ever built at St John. Personal Intell Arrivals at the Metropoli on. James Buchanan, Lancaster, Pa.; Lieut. Clark, Royal Engineers. Mrs. Baker the niece of Hon. Jamea Buchanan, who arrived yesterday at the Metropolitan, leaves to-day in the Ohio, for California, via Aspinwall and the Panama railroad. St. Nicholas—Ch Jones, Penna: North Carolina, At the Irving Honse—Hon. W. A. Gralam, North Caro- lina; Hon. RB. A. Burrowe, Albion; Capt. Jao. L. Slocum, | Mexico; Col. &. W. Abbott, Mexico; B. Laurrent, Mexico. nee. fef Justice Day, Montreal; Hon. RB. ania: Mrs, Edward Stanley,’ and sister, Superior Court—Part First, Bofore Hon. Judge Bosworth. Jay, 18.—Somuel W. Whitney, ve. the Hudion River Railroad. jis was an action tor injury sustained b the plaintif’ December, 1851, by a collision, throug the alleged negligence of the defendant's agents, by which two of bis ribs were broken, and several of his teeth knocked out, The defence is, that the negligence was wholly on the part of the plaintiff. The jury could not agree, and were discha In the case of Ogle and wile uteinst foto Poole, 6 po- liceman, for assault and battery by arrest, the jury ren- dered a verdict of $500 for plaintiffs. i Police Intelligence. In the matter of alleged Burglary against Policemen Ken: nedy and Smith.—Justice Osborn yesterday gave his de- cision in the case of policemen Kennedy and Smith, pending be‘ore him on an alleged charge of burglariously entering, on the merning of the 12th tastant, the store of Lemuel H. Hopkins, situated at the corner of West and Franklin streets. ‘The Justice, on the sworn affidavits of Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Taylor, considers that enough has been shown to warrant him in } ties to bail, in order that the case may be pns and Jury. That body may, however, Limony. form a different opinion, and ceused parties were required by bail Yn, the guim of $1,000, for thelr up nee to answer. Kennedy gave the bail; Smith, who till confined to his bed, will put in bail when, € to court ing away. We rs to be somewhat better; a piece of hia r t, that was carried into the wound by the bull n extracted therefrom. It is thought by the physician he will survive the injury ed upon he ma: t present, there is no we h rn from Dr. Kilbourne that & , has ment. To ure the Oriental style of salutation, et Any 1 LrersnaTene OF The Legisla- Wie OF Inova Lyle odey. VA Sorta, delicacy that now appears daily on the tables of this fine | | t'me of his more ushappy death. recently launched from the shipyard of the Messrs. | ‘The Suicide ‘4g Doctor Henry Adolphus Wel- necke. INQUEST UP’ gy HS BODY—DETAIL OF THE MELAN> CHOLY ' pRaNSACTION—VERDIO? OF THEJURY. We apt ended all the facts which could be collected connect’ 4 with the sad end of this gentleman, to the gull report of the Corouer’s investigation held to inquire into the © circumstances of the very sudden death of hia wife, Pu? Jished in the Hunatp of yesterday morning. It ap- P¢ ars that when he left his late residence, No. 9 Leonard street, after that event took place, he came and engaged room at Tammany Hall. There he administered to himself a powerful dose of the acetate of morphine, ter- minating a life rendered unhappy by intemperance and domestic discontent. Coroner ell held an_ inquest upon his body yesterday morning, when the following gentlemen were sworn upon the jury:— ‘Thadeus W. Meighan, J. Van Jobel, J. L, Palmer, A. H. Bates, Reuben Phillips, Jesse H. Patterson. The Coroner and jury \ deguee to the Bellevue Hospi tal, whither the body had been removed. After their return they proceeded to Tammany Hall, where the fol- Jowing testimony was taken:— ; Maurice A. Hart being duly sworn, deposed—I reside in Tammany Hall; J am Mr. Brown’s representative in his absence; Doctor Weinecke came here on Monday night, be- tween the hours of eleven and twelve o’clock ; he applie@ tome, if I recollect rightly, for a single room ; I replied, “You? he then entered his name upon the book, as is customary; this is the entry which he made—[Rezister produced to jury, the name written ina free hand, but Wandering, as if of a person laboring under high nervous excitement—[He then took several bills and some cha: from his pocket; he handed me a one dollar bill to three shillings for his lodgings; when he was putting the change in his pocket I that he had no vest on him; Tarked him “if he wished to retire to bed ;” he replied, “Certainly,” in a foreign accent ; I then ordered the por: ter to show him to ; while the porter was lighting the lamp, deceased asked me ‘“ whether he could go to bed any time;”’ I told him ** he could,” as we kept open all night; immediately then he seemed to his mind, and gaid, ‘ I'll go now;” he was shown to bed ; when he first entered the office he was slightly under the influence of liquor; I remarked to Mr. Brown and others that he was a little © tight;” this is a common phrase ; tho orter took him to oom No. 85; this is the same fe body ; I went to bed about six o’clock Tuesday morning; I was called about a quarter past one, P. M., by the porter who told: me “that Mr. Brown requested me to come down stairs’; I was not very willing to rise at that time; after a little I went down stairs, and Mr. Brown told me, ‘‘that the man I had put in No.85 room on, Monday night wasdead; I went up to the room soon after this and found the man dead; I saw three papers lying upon the table—one was empty, and the remaining two were full of powders; in a tumbler I observed a little of the remains of a powder clogged to the glass; it was the same color of the other powders, if they were wetted; some persons there thought the powders were ipeeacuanha ; then I loft the room and it remained locked until the doctor came to make a post- mortem examination; I do not know of any cause of death; there was.a German printed medical paper wrapped around the powders. Mary Rielly sworn—I am chambermaid in Tammany Hall; about ten o'clock yesterday morning, I went tothe room No. 85; it was locked; I unlocked it with my own key, and when I went in I found the key of the doog lying upon the carpet inside; the deceased man was lying in the bed upon his left side; he appeared to me to be aaleep; Ithen lett the room and locked the door; about two o’clock I went back to the room and found him still in the same. position; his hand was black; his face was also black; I suspected that he was dead or in a faint; I told Mr. Brown, who sent up per- sons to see him; I told Mr. Brown my opinion of his being dead; I went up with the two barkeepers; one of them, Augustus A. Woodbury, shook the deecased, and found him dead; I did not hear what name he called him by; we again left the room, Mr. Woodbury having locked door and kept the key; Ido not know any further of his death; when I went into the room first his dress lay upon a chair. "Augustus A.-Woodberry, sworn—I am clerk at Tam- many Hall. He corroborated the last witness as to his oing to the room 86 und finding the deceased dead in his Bea. ‘The bed clothes were se much turned over his face I did not at first know whether he was asleep or dead; [ found him stiff, and seon became aware that he was dead. Doctor David Uhl sworn—I made a post mortem exami- nation of the body of the deceased; I did not find any marks of external violence; the pupils of the eyes were much contracted, the stomach was very much inflamed, ‘as well as the intestines near to it; the remaining portion of the intestines were congested: I took charge of the powders found the room, and subjected them toa chemical anslysis; the powders consisted of acetate of morphine; each powder contained twenty.tive grains; upon examining the contentsof the stomach I found a small quantity of the acetate of morphine; the stomach presented the usual inflammatory appearances, as shown when narcotic poixons are taken; judging from the fact that morphine was found in the siomach, I conelude that his death was produced by morphine. Huldah N. Jessup sworn—I reside at No. 69 Leonard street. This lady’s testimony was nearly similar to that given upon the inquest held upon the body of Mrs: Wie- necke. They lived unhappily; I visited Sirs. Wienecke on Monday morning at the request of the doctor; slie ap- peared ped ill;she hada loud snoring noise from her mouth and nose; the doctor—now dead—gave her the contents of a two ounce vial of something like pale bran- dy; he said it was to make her vomit; Mrs. Morton and I put her to bed, and used every effort to recover her, but she did not show any signs of life when we were rubbing her limbs; she died about half-past seven o’clock the same beihaiee f when this family was in the house there was slight intermission between their quarrelling and fight- ing; I have seen a great deal of liquor carried in, but I never saw either drunk; from the continual disturbance n the house, I think they were often drunk; when J frst went into the room the deceased doctor said, ‘She won't live, and I’ll die, too:”? he acted very strange during the day; he would beat his head with his hands, and pace the floor when 0 doing: upon my asking im way he did so, he replied, ‘that ‘everybody would’ say he had poisoned ‘his wife,’ he said that the day before he had a bottle of wine, and she had drank a glass and a half,” then he took out a bottle containing laudanum from his medicine case; im reply to me, he raid, ‘‘she is gone, and I'll take a dose too; I took the boitle from him, and he went for his coat to go out: he said ‘he would go drown himself; we kept him in the room; we sent to the station house for an oJicer; an officer came from the Fifth ward station house, and at that time the deceased appeared to be more ration®!; be- fore his wife died, he went over to the bed and kis: saying, ‘‘good bye, Eliza, I'll Le with you tu moirow:”” remained in the room about ten minutes, and then put on his overcoat and went into the strect; this was the last I saw of him. After a charge from Cororcr,0'Donnell, the Jury return- ed the following verdict :—- We find that the deees. «i, Henry A. Wienceke, came to his death by admini‘+sing to himself a large dose of acetate of morphine whilstin a state of mental aberra- tion, produced by the sudden death of his wife. The deceased was about forty-five years of age. He was educated in - for the medical profession, and had faix practice in this city for some years past, until fortunately became of intemperate habits. Some year: see Le refrained from drink, and again improved au every sespect for two bee but unfortunately le was again led away, and continued an unhappy life up to the A Chapter of Accidents, opyt.—Last Tuesday evening, a lad named on, aged about eleven years, was stand- ue stern of a large’ ship, now upon th curse of building, in Webb’s yard, foot When about to move away, a’ shor- ing ‘ober cc'dentally fell down from the vessel, and steuck him m the head, inflicting most dreadful in- juries, with a fracture of his skull. He was removed to the station house of the Eleventh ward, where he was attended to by a surgeon, who dressed the wounds, but considered them to be of a futul character. He was sent home to the residence of his pareuts, at No. 163 Lewis street. The boy died about six o'clock yesterday morn- ing. Coroner Gamble proceeded to the house, and held an inquest upon his body. The foliowing testimony was taken:—Bricget Lawton—mother of the deceased—de- posed, that the child was assisting her around the house until five o'clock Tuesday evening: he then left and went out for some wood: in about ten minutes afserwards T heard that he wasdead: he was brought home from the station house, and remained insensible from seven o'clock that evening, until about ten on Wednesday morning, when he died. Joseph Anthony, deposed—Tho with the deceased, near toa ship upon which a ium ber of men were at work: I heard some persou cry out “to stand off;’’ I saw the men carry deceased away. imothy Spencer, sworn—Was employed upon the stern of the vessel: was removing a shore ot timber; the boy came round the stern, and the shore was falling at the moment; it struck him on the head: I cried out to him. Dr. Uhl testified to the nature of the injury; there was a fracture of the frontal hone. ‘The jury rendereda yer" ‘et of ‘de cidentally recived hy a shore or st upon his hea yard foot of F river. Asorner, is tHe Yarn oF titk Mayor.—Coroner Gamble held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the Eleventh ward station house, upon the body of a man, named Christian Wileon, who was k 1 injury which he ck in the morning, when’ working at We he went into the yard h from injuries ac- timber falling th street, Kast or of this city. y taken;—= am a boss rigger; the de: last three years. E rigger: the deceased was r joming at Westeryelt's yard, on board of the ship Kesolute ; we were setting thi miazen topgallant stay; the fall of the gipsy flew wp. and htt him upon the side of she head; it kuocked him senseless, and he never spoke aft ds: Ipicked him up with other men, and brought him to the stationtiouse: there was no blame to be attached to any persen; I think it occurred at half past ten o'clock this morning. Doctor Kimbark testified to the nature of the injuri ‘There was a fracture of the parietal bone; this injury was the cause of his death. The jury retnrned a verdict of—Death from injuries accidentally received. and fracturing the left parietal bone. The deceased waaa native of Sweden, aged thirty five years, and leaves a wife and two children, He resided at No. 277 Grand street. ANOTHER. —CAvTION TO Facre named Samuel Job waa engaged 01 pre summary 6! th William \ding the accused par- | | hundred weight | him a little above the left knee: b | | | | | | | COAL WCE Hip Masdd oad Mace batt | J upon him, and broke York Hospital, where he died soon s arrival. Coroner Gamble held an in qnest upon the body yesterday afternoon, wl shown that if a surgeon b nat hand, his have saved the poor man. lowing evid tuken :— James Akens—I w the foundry of the morning, he was poising an fron ring upon a crane: it tilte when a la his it was co was was knocked over upon a carriage that was behind him; he was sent to the hospital. Dr. Cooper testified—Deceased was admitted yesterday (Tuesday) morning to the hospital, with his left knee ernehed and Incore fed: he died in shont four houre after Jiound the poplitent artery nearly cut through by the fractured howe, I veeye the heunorrbage to baye bye the } immediate ome of bis death. The jury returned the following vei _ We fd that the deceased came to his death from a fracture of his leg, said fracture having been caused by an accident in the raid Novelty Works. jury farther say that it is, in their opinion, incumbent upon employ- ers in such works to haye a Lo Seep at hand, as it ap- rs, from the evidence, that this man’s life might have Been faved had this been the case. y ‘The deceased was a native of England, and aged thirty- eight years. Farar Case or Burxinc—Deatt oF a Curtp.—Coroner: Wilhelm held an inquest yesterday evening, at the house No. 83Bedford strect, upon the body of Wester- field, daughter of officer James C. Westerti of the Ninth ward pelice, who died there about eleven o’clock, Tuesday night, from the effect of burns received by her dress becom! ae tontnk from the flame of a lamp in the hands of her brother Charles, aged about three years: Westerfield, mother of the deceased, testified to the accidental nature of the cause of the injury; it occurred. in another room, into which my son Charles took the lamp fiom the supper table; I heard the deceased scream; ured all exertion to exti ag the flames; then I sent for my family physician; the child died at the time speci fied. “Other testimony was given, but it was mercly cor roborative of the accident as reported in the HERatp of. yesterday morning. Verdiet—Accidental burning. The child was one year and three months old, ‘ Ramroap Accipent FRoM Want or Cavrion.—A little after five o’clock on Tuesday evening, as the cars of the Hudson River Railroad were passing up West street, a. young man, named J. §. Burnham, who resides in the Ninth avenue, near to Twenty-eighth street, attempted to ump on one when inmotion, Failing im hia object, he fell to the ground, and sustained a fracture of one of hia legs. The police’ of the Ninth ward removed him to the City Hospital. Accipent vPoN THE Ice.—Mr. ‘William Mackay, ship, builder, accidentally fell upon the ice at the corner of Henry and Rutgers streets, and broke one of his arms, last Monday afternoo: City Intelligence. » SERIOUS AND ALARMING FIRE IN WILLIAM STREET. An alarming fire broke out, ata quarter past six o'clock, esterday evening, in the third sony et the large brick uilding, No. 63 William street, which extended over the stores No. 36 nnd 28 Cedar street. ‘The store with en- trance upon William street, and also that of No. 36 Ce- dar street, were owned by Mr. J. M. Beach, importer of British laces, hosiery, gloves, and other dry goods, and the fire originated amor jis stock. The flames spread with such rapidity that the alarm was scarcely given be- fore the fire burst out at every window of the third floor, extending downwards to the store of R. L. Hough- ton, electro magnetic machine operator, at 38 Collar street. Notwithstanding the most energetic efforts of the firemen, it prevailed through cvery story to the roof at half past seven o’clock, consuming the stock of Mr. Beach, and all the material and manufactured stock of ‘Mr. Platt’s umbrella manufactory, situate towards the rear of the third story. Mr. Houghton’s store was also. destroyed, as well as that used as a fancy basket ware- house, the owner’s name of which we could not learn. ‘The roof of the building feli in at nine o’clock, and the fire was shortly after extinguished, leaving the building a per- fect wreck. Mort fortunately, the surrounding houses were preserved, upon the Cedar street side. This was owing to the fact that the next house, that of J. Rosen- thal & Brother, and Messrs. Kellogg, Merrett & Nichols was a fire-proof building. The damage to building an stock is variously estimated at from 000 to $80,000. ‘The house is insured, and all the stock is known to be so, except Mr. Beach’s, which could not be correctly ascer- tained. Itis said that, fortunately, his has not been so heavy as at other periods, owing to an extensive Southern trade which he has been lately doing. In the house next, door there was not any protection on the floorsto prevent firemen falling throug! the hatches. Ata quarter past, nine o’clock, the hook and ladder and other companies epecineriese to take down the overhanging portions of the walls. Tuk Weatuer.—We had a slight sprinkli of snow about one o’clock PERS morning, but weather was calm, and it did not fall for more than three quarters ofan hour. ‘The early morning was very celd, and rather gloomy. The air brightenod and the temperature in- creased as the day advanced, but the frost continued throughout, and up to the latest hour of the night. Tha thermometer at the amano building ranged —At eight: o'clock A. M., rees; at noon, degrees; at, Direc o'clock, P. Me 20 stat Ave, PM, 20 degrees: and eleyen, at night, degrees. e was very calm, with an unclouded sky and a clear moon. The sleigh stages, covered stages, and railroad cars were im ‘ brisk competition through the city yesterday. The sleighing was pretty brisk, but a good many of the citi- zens seemed to have betaken themselves to the familiar shelter of the usual modes of conveyance. ‘The private cutters were out in force, and careered’ along at a rapid pace. Tur Crystat Patacs.—The national unable to commit themselves officially, are endeavoring by every indirect means in their power to further thit enterprise. Mr. Barnard, our Minister at Berlin, has ad- dressed a very able private letter to Baron Monteufeil re- lative to Prus: contributions. In it Mr. Barnard takes occasion to explain to the Prussian court, that althougit the laws of his nation preclude his taking any official part in an affair that in a legal point of view {s a private speculation, nevertheless the government take a lively interest in its success. He enumerates the advantage+ overnment, thougle which have been bestowed on the enterprise, such as the corporate grant of land for the sito of the building, and the governmenial promise that it is to be made a bonded warchouse for the reception of goods, free of duty. He also states that he received a letter from the late lament- ed Mr. Webster, a few days before his death, promising the sanction of government to the enterprise, as far as it, could be given without interfering with the laws. Mr. Barnard continues to say, that though his letter must: necessarily be an unoffiial one, in ease his Majesty the King of Prussia should feel disposed to send any valuabla objects of art or industry to the exhibition, he will pledge himself that every possible. care will be shown to the re- ception and transmission of such articles. _ Historicat Sociery.—The Hon. William A. Graham, 0° North Carolina. late whig candidate for the Vice Presi dency, will deliver the lecture this evening before the Historical Society. TRAVEL TO PHILADELPAIA—CHANGE ov HouR—CaMDEN: AND AmMBoY LINES FOR PHTLADELPHIA.—The 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. lines are discontinued, and one line substituted in their place, leaving New York at 12 o'clock noon, com- mencing this day. Emicrant DestirvTion.—The docks and wharves upon the North river were crowded on Tuesday evening with numbers of poor emigrants, who had landed from the ship Cornelius Grinnell, and also from a small vessel from Lim- crick, Ireland. They were in a very pitiable condition, from cold, pocr.and scanty clothing, and want of nour- ishment. | Mr. C. Buckley, of this eity, exerted himself ta relieve eae | forty of them. During this inclement sea- son, the authorities should look carefully after those un- fortunate exiles. ,_ Seppen Draru or a Cimtp.—Coroner Hilton will hold am. inquest at noon to-day, upon the body of a child, named Ebenezer Graham, who died suddenly yesterda} morning, at the residence of his parents, No. 1) Ham iton street. ‘The parents wish for the investigation, as they are not sa- tisfied as to the cause of his death. Iutyves IN THE SrrgET.—A woman, named Mary Anne Grant, fell in the street, in a fit, about twelve o’elock om Tuesday night. She was removed to the Second ward station house, where she was properly attended to for tha remainder of the night. Lecture on Mahomet. Yesterday evening Professor Keeppen delivered a lec ture at the Tabernacle, Broadway, on Mahomet and the Saracenic Empire. The Professor drew a very lucid pic ture of Arabia and the Arabs, and entered into a very mi- nute deseription of the condition of society, and the gross superstitions in which the people were sunk at the time of the nativity of Mahomet. Reasoning from these pre- mises, he contended that Mahomet was deserving of com- mendation for having brought back the people to the be- lief in God. He set out with that glorious design, and it was a subject of regret that he allowed wordly politics ta warp this original good intent. But with all the selfish: ambition which Mahomet displayed, there was much ire his character, said the Iccturer, that’ was excellent. Tha Professor run rapidly over the Saracenic history, and at the conclusion of his lecture, expressed a hope of having succeeded in doing justice to the memory of a truly great man. Dr. Antisell on Volcanoes and Volcanic Forces. Last evening Dr. Antisell delivered his first lecture org this subject, at the Stuyvesant Institute. The lecturer commenced his remarks by stating, that after digging into the earth to the depth of forty feet, it: would be found that in summer the external temperature diminished, and in winter increased; and proceeded ta describe the different chains of yolcanoes in Europe, Asin, and America, dwelling at considerable length on the re- markable yoleanie eruptions of the Sandwich Islands. He contended that voleanoes were of benefit to mankind, for to them we were indebted for our silver, copper, platinn, and other metals, as well as porphyry, marble, and tha finer stones. There could be no doubt that volcanoes existed in the moon and the planet Mars, which wat proved from the elevations and depressions observable ir the forms of those planets. As to the idea that voleanoeg existed in other planets, there could be no doubt, from the fact of the stones which fell upon our earth containing; ava. Common Pleas—Part First. Before Hon. Judge Ingraham. Jackson, by Guardian, against White.—This was an ac- tion for slander, in charging the plaintie with havin; stolen some copper on board the ship Hudson, of whick. the defendant was captain. Mr. George F. Betts, on the part of the defendant, contended that the charge was true, and sets up as a further defence, that the words spoken were privileged communications, The Judge charged, that whon a brother of plaintiff asked defendant whether plaintiff had stolen the copper, any answer ta such such question was privileged, unless going further thon to answer the question, or unless made from bac motives; but as to other communications proven, the Judge charged they were not privileged. The jury could not agree, and were discharged. 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