The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1853, Page 4

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The Emperor Napoleon, it appears, had consulted his own inclinations with regard to a ma- ‘trimonial alliance, and thrown all Paris into an up- roar by declaring his intention of espousing M'lle Montego, a Spanish Countess, who had hitherto ereated considerable sensation in the fashionable circles of the French metropolis. It is said that Louis proposed on Sunday, was immediately ac- cepted, and the civil contract was entered iato on the next day. The imperial ceremony was to take place on the 30th ult. The suddenness of this extraordinary announcement caused all but one of the ministers to hand in their resig- nations; but up to last accounts they had not been accepted, and it was probable that the digni- taries would think better of the matter, and with- | draw them. The funds had run down to a very low | figure; but whether his majesty’s marriage, or some | other cause, had produced this depression, seems to | have becn a matier of dispute. Louis Napoleon is actively engaged in strengthen- ing his naval forces, to the evident alarm of England, upon which country, it is surmised, he is deliberately preparing to make an onslaught. The appearances are certainly ominous; and Great Britain, in order not to be caught with her eyes shut, is drawing up the militia, and getting everything in readiness to effectually resist any attempt at invasion. What will be the result of these portentous movements in the rival countries, will be developed before many months have passed. That hostilities have been fully re- solved upon there appears to be little doubt, so far as may be judged from the tenor of this news. Louis Napoleon throughout all his schemes has evinced a | secresy that has thus far baflied the wise heads of Europe to divine, and when his plans are matured he adheres to and carries them out with a determination that is invincible. No better proof of this is wanting than his recent matrimonial alliance, despite the op- position of friends and foes. Under these cireum- | stances it is not strange that the English government should watch his acts with deep distrust. One of the Italian journals denies that Francesco | Madiai is dead. The British are gradually proceed- ing in their annexation operations in India. The im- perial troops in China had of late gained ground over the revolutionists. Late advices from Australia re- present provisions as being exceedingiy dear and scarce, and that the majority of ininers were hardly realizing their anticipations. There have been more destructive freshets in France, and a very seyere storm off the coast, in which an American yesse! was supposed to have been wrecked. The commercial features of the Canada’s news are of great importance to American dealers. Large sales of cotton had been made at Liverpool, at an advance of one-eighth and one-fourth of a penny per pound. Provisions were also but bread- stuffs were rather on the d The Warehouse bill yesterds States Senate, after having been a 1 particulars, and an opportunity had bee one of the Pennsylvania members to ¢ to his jealous feclings towards this sition to except different kinds visions of the bill was rejected of fourteen to thirty-three. is certa’ very cheering information for the iron interests of the Keystone State. Mr. Clemens gave notice that he would next Monday ask permission to be heard on the Monroe doctrine resolutions. The Pacitic Railroad vill again underwent considerable bate. A message was received from the President relative to the postal treaty with Great Britain, which the Postmaster General alleges has been violated by the latter government. The Senate passed bills granting right of way to the Niagara Falls and Lake Ontario Railroad, and for the exten- sion of time for emigrants to become entitled to land in Oregon. The House of Representatives, having settled the manner in which the electoral votes for President and Vice President shall be counted on Wednesday next, | proceeded to discuss the Dill granting land to cer. | tain railroads in Wisconsin. The measure Wasfinally | placed upon the Speaker's table, in the fifth class, where it will probably remain till the close of the session. This bill, it is supposed, would have suc- | cceded last Wednesday, had not Mr. Bennett's | famous land division bill been tacked to it as an | amendment, The Lroadwoy Railroad aftr was again the cause | United various iven to | i: ly not | pervades every j thousands of rich farn Pk ss sas yhapeas Out Slate Renate yester- | Oe very angry dem Mr. O'Sullivan appears y: The mem~' ~ have nettlo2 some of the members of that © acontre tion of.agnity and wisdom to @0 ezumardinary ye gree. During the carly part of the day they cast aside their wonted gravity, afi pitched into Mn O'Sullivan, as well as the unfortunate Senator who presented the obnoxious document, ima style that is truly refreshing, now that the hardypan, quick-sand, and grayel-scratching excitement about the canals has somewhat died away. In the afternoon—the members having had time te cool off—the Pacific Railroad bill was discussed in a rather more rational manner. The Assembly, yesterday, received a communica- tion from Mr. Canal Commissioner Fitzhugh, admit. ting the ownership of certain mills and a transporta- tion line, as charged by Mr. Gale, but not in violation of any existing law, he having taken eminent legal advice on that point prior to entering upon the dis- charge of his present official duties. Under these cir- cumstances, it is improbable that there will be any attempt to impeach him, and all further time spent on the subject will be merely wasted. Upon the whole, the proceedings in both branches of the Legis- lature, since the commencement of the session, have been remarkably curious, racy, and rare, and show that many of the members give little heed tothe busi- ness for which they were elected. Constituents should read the debates, in order to fully ascertain the pecu- liar qualifications of those who represent them. We elsewhere publish a report of the very interest- ing lecture delivered in Boston by Mr. ‘Thos. F. Meagher, on “Grattan and the Irish Volunteers of 1782.” We learn that Mr. Meagher will deliver a lecture on the same subject ,in Metropolitan Hall, in this city, on Monday evening, the 14th inst., in ac- cordance with a promise made to the managing committee of the former lecture, on their first inter- view with him relative to lecturing in this city. The subject is a deeply interesting one to every lover of freedom, and, as will be seen by the sketch else- where, is handled with splendid effect by Mr. M. As usual, our columns contain many telegraphic despatches, and much other interesting matter, to which we have no room to more particularly allude. We annex a brief summary of the contents of the inside pages :—Letter from Havana; Royal Decree Affecting the Religious Confraternities of Cubas Cuban Opinion of Secretary Everett's Letter on the Tripartite Treaty; Bank Fight in Ohio; Confidence Men in Charleston; Meeting for City Reform Rela- tive to Taxation; Detailed Account of the Business done at Fulton Market; Naval, Religious, Law, Theatrical, Commercial, and Miscellaneous News,ad- yertisements, &c. Schemes of the Day~What’s a Hnndrea Mil- lion “A man who cannot make $25,000 a year must be a ninny.” Such was the remark of a young man the other day, in a high fever of spe- culation, with a fortune of a million or two looming up in the future, to his admiring gaze. “As times go,a man must be a dolt if he cannot make $25,000 a year.” Money has been cheap so long, it is now a mere drug in the market; old fogies with hereditary fortunes and a very superficial knowledge of Wall street, are wor- ried to death with the possession of their wealth. Nor do their juniors care much about ridding them of the encumbrance. When accommodation can be had on the merest shadow of personal se- curity, the blessings of riches do not redeem its drawbacks. Wealth has its necessary disadvan- tages. Like noblesse, richesse oblige; and the man who would make a fortune must renounce many a pleasure dearly cherished by fashionable youth. But, these objections removed, if a man resolves to inflict riches on himself, and seriously to undergo the painful operation of making money, there is no reason why he should not gain a fortune in less time than the affections of a wife. Such, at all events, is the sentiment of the Wall street sages. Far be it from us to gainsay it. These are times in which it argues more boldness than judgment to deny the truth of any statement, however incredible it may seem. | The world, and especially the United States, are in a whirl of excitement. The barriers of human power and knowledge are being over- leaped on every side. Art, science, philo- sophy and trade are progressing with such rapid strides that the eye cannot measure their pace. or the mind fix a limit to their course. All are stimulated and fostered by the golden shower which recent years have poured on this happy land; and, for the first time since the world began. he who really contributes one line to the advancement of mankind is morally cer- tain of a substantial reward. Merchants and spe- culators are not the only recipients of wealth; | both the manufacturing and agricultural classes are waxing fut and strong, professional men participate in the general spoil, and even ar- tists and poets are sure of a dinner. Comfort is no stranger to the poor man’s home—luxury amber of the house inhabited zen. The age in which we ly the educated c | live has a much better claim to the epithet of golden than the periods usually distinguished by that title. In proportion to the increased profit earned in ordinary transactions, commercial operations have become more extensive. Speculators cal- culate their gains by millions—mere thousands are of little moment; the great operators of the day cannot afford time to think of schemes in- volving less than six figures. One company purchases a right of way across Nicaragua for $10,000 a year, expends a couple of hundred thousand dollars or so, in organizing means of transit, and finds no difficulty in disposing of four til of stock. The net profit of this single operation must have exceeded three and a half millions of dollars. In another case, a single indiv places half a dozen steamers on a popular line of travel, and is reaping a very handsome return from the investment. pays for hig steamers with his profits. when a com pany covets the vessels, and ¢ the fortunate proprietor ing sum of one million and a quarter to 1 his interest to them. Many ons, of no less magnitude, are be- ade every day in Wall street, hen you hear of a canal, to cost 0,000. to connect the Atlantic with the Pp; e a hundred millions ? Put € cannot compare with two or three schemes of recent birth, at which the strongest faith actually rs. An application has been mi to the New York Legislature for a charter a cor to build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific States. Another party has applied to Co: s for a nt of land sixty miles wide—thirty miles on each side the line—throughout its whole length to Francisco. It does not require a Cassandra to foretell the fate of such an application as this; but at one period the applicant had a fair pro- mise of success, and could reasonably indulge visions of being, at no very distant day, the largest landholder, and probably the most in- fluential individual in the world. Settlerk would eagerly flock to the neighborhood of a line which would be constantly thronged with travel; and before the original shareholders had bequeathed their interest to their children. hundreds of villages, aud scores of promis-ng gitics, would cover the iy’ mile strip thus modestly demanded. We Savmvos Baxxs—-N% re INTeRPERENOR OF THE need not attempt to show that to vest such | LeowsLature mm Oc City Arrairs.—In recent enormous power ia the hands of any private | articles we said that the Legislature of this State, corporation, would be to endanger the safety being invited ‘by a portion of our citizens to inter- of individuals, and even that of the whole | fere with cur municipal affairs, by undertaking to Union, Arguments against the grant are, by this time, saperfluous; but the fact of its having been demanded is an astounding symptom of the enterprise ofthe age. A similar scheme was that for ranning a line of steamers to Africa. They were to be enor- mous vessels. of four thousand tons each ; and the projectors of the line agreed to carry negroes eastward at $10 a head. But one requisite to the realization of their hopes was wanting, and that was the money to build the vessels. No- wise discouraged by the discovery of this trifling objection. the projectors of the scheme coolly applied to Congress to advance the necessary funds, and there are some, we believe. who ac- tually allow themselves to hope still that their prayer will be granted. Less chimerical, though scarcely less signifi- cant, to the philosopher who notes the progress of mankind, are the applications recently made for charters for companies to construct a line of telegraph to San Francisco. This is, in itself. an undertaking which would have covered its projector with ridicule in any other age and any other country than this. What would our ancestors have thought of stretching a wire across the continent of America, and bringing the shores of the Pacific into immediate contact with the shores of the Atlantic? What will the people of Europe. who boast of their hundred or two hundred mile lines, say when they hear of our erecting a line of telegraph that would nearly encircle their whole continent? It is certain, however, that very few years will elapse before this grand project will be realized. Many other schemes we might enumerate. Intrinsically the majority may be as chimerical as the Pacific Railroad project; but their vast- ness and their number—as well as the serious- ness with which they are entertained by the public—are striking proofs of the exuberant en- ergy and enterprise of the age. There have been many periods of speculation—many cras of bubble schemes, South Sea Stock Companies, and Mississippi schemes—many years of wild, reckless gambling in stocks and real estate; but we are safe in asserting that there never was a time which afforded such a plausible ex- cuse or such a favorable opportunity for impos- sible schemes as the present. Money being plentiful, confidence unbounded, almost every commercial operation remunerative, and the most gigantic projects proved feasible, it is w remarkable proof of the sobriety of modern ope- rators that such schemes as the Pacific Railroad should be the exception instead of the rule. It would scem although our prudence had increased pari passu with our boldness. and ready as we are to discard all received ideas of difficulties and obstacles, that our enterprise was invaria- bly tempered by a due regard for our own in- terest. We never despise a scheme because it was considered impossible by others; bat we seldom commit ourselves to it unless it is sure topay ten percent. The Yankee may shock his neighbors by the wildness of his specula- tions, but he always makes money. AyotHeR Crry Rerorm MovEMENT.—We elsewhere publish the proceedings of a pri- vate meeting of gentlemen who appear to take an interest in the reform of our city go- vernment. It is scarcely necessary to tell our readers that we are in favor of the reforms pro- posed, and of all genuine reforms. But we do not much approve of their mode of doing the thing, and fear that their proceedings may have a tendency the very reverse of what they anti- cipate. Reform of municipal institutions is not a private, but a public matter. It is not like the affairs of a merchant or a firm of merchants. which may require secresy for their adjustment or management. Reform concerns the whole city, and every inhabitant ought to be invited, or at least allowed the opportunity, to take a part init. It does not belong. therefore, to a clique or a coterie, and every attempt made in that way must prove a failure. We are well aware that in all such movements somebody must make a beginning, and a few individuals may set the ball in motion which is destined to work great results. But, to be successful, every thing of this kind must be open and aboveboard. There must be no mystery about it—nothing that leads to suspicion. The motives and objects ought to be as transparent as the limpid stream; and then there is a chance of the public taking hold of it, and making it triumphant. The cause of reform is frequently more injured by its imprudent advocates than by its most bitter opponents; aud we would pre- fer leaving matters as they are, in order that they might work out their own cure, rather than tamper with reform by a bungling legisla- tion, like the tinker who, in mending one hole | in the old pot, made two or three where there was none before. We rather think that this ob- servation is applicable to a leading feature of the proposed scheme. There are some of the re- forms in the report of which we approve. But we have very great doubt about the new finance board. We havea strong objection to the State, in any shape or form, having any thing dowith the working of our manicipal institutions, We would not give the Governor the appoint- ment of three members of this finance board, nor would we give the mayor the appointment of three. The whole beard ought to be eleeted hy the people, if any board is neces Bat if the magisterial be separated from judicial nthe Board of Aldermen Assistants be made a check on them by their election hy a difterent constituency —if tlfe police system be thoroughly purged by taking away the appointing power from the Aldermen and making the officers amenable for every trans- gression—a blow will have bi 4 the corrupt system of primary elect ch will insure the choice of better men for the Common | Youncil, and go far, with an increased veto power in the Mayor, to render any board of supervision unnecessary. After the Mayor vetoes any measure, in order to become alaw it ought to be again passed by two-thirds. or even three. fourths. of both legislative boards. If all this will not do. let primary elections be abolished or made legal by an act of the Legislature, placing them in the same position as the elections. and punishing fraud and violence hy the sane penalties, Jut let us have no crude. impracticable nos- trums, that will lead from bad to worse, or, to vse a trite saying will throw the city from the “frying pan into the fire.” gular Srinit Raprines,—Aceording to the report of the Superintendent of the Ohio Lunatic Asy- lum, which will be found in another column, there are at present confined in that institution twenty-six victims of the ‘spirit rappings’” de- lusion. the number being equally divided be- tween males and females, if the Board of | prevent the Common Council doing a particular act, would not stop there, but would proceed in their meddling operations, so as to upset our whole city government, and throw all things into confusion. By reierence to a report of the proceedings of the State Legislature in Wednes- day’s Herat, it will be seen that the unct@imed deposits in the city savings banks have Been suc- cessfully attacked in the Senate, and what is worthy of remark, the two Senators—Beek- man and McMurray—who have been so zealous in persuading their fellow members to interfere in the case of the Broadway Railroad, protested in vain against “oppression from the Capitol” in reference to these moneys, which have been voted to the State treasury. Thete gentlemen have given the Senate an inch, and they seem determined to take an ell. The wedge has heen inserted. and it will probably be driven home by repeated blows till it makes a destruc- tive rent. The Senators from the rural dis- tricts have been taught a lesson of interference by our city members, and it will go hard with them, or they will “better the instruction.” What right has the State treasury to the custody of these unclaimed funds. which it was stated by one Senator amount to a million of dollars? We would go further, and say, what right has our city treasury-—what right has the Board of Supervisors--to the custody of this money? It belongs to the banks; and the owners or their heirs may yet turn up. If it is never claimed, it renders the savings banks the more secure. for it will make up for losses and frauds. Let the money, therefore, alone. and let it stay where itis. If there is any public right to it, most undoubtedly it belongs to the city ; yet the Senate have laid their hands upon it for State purposes. Nor is the mischief likely to stop even there--this is but the boginning of the end. But there is a graver objection than one even of policy or justice, against the bill, Tt isan wngonstitutional measure. being an ex post facto law, having aretrospectlye agian instent | ofa prospective, and interfering with existing contracts, When the deposites were made it was-on the condition that they should belong | to the banks in case they were never claimed } by the depositors or their heirs, and the State has no right to make a law annulling this con- tract, which was part of the inducement to many depositors to invest their capital, and part of the security on which they relied against loss, | or the breaking up of those useful institutions, Any meddling with them may have the effect of ruining them by disorganization, or by inducing depositors to withdraw their funds. Why is it that our Legislature cannot let well enough alone? But whatever right they may have to legislate in this respect for the future, they can- not legally touch a cent in the banks, and they might just as well legislate the money out of a merchant's safe because he happened to owe a debt tosome party who had not appeared to claim it. VictvaLtinc THE MeTrorouis—Tue Mar- KETS AND THEIR Bustness—In our first ar- ticle on this subject. we gave a detailed account of the business transacted in Wash- ington market, and such other information in relation to it as we deemed of sufficient interest to the public. The facts which we then presented to our readers were well calculated to astonish not only them, but the market deal- ers throughout the city. In another part of to- day’s paper, will be found a full account of Ful- ton market, which will amply repay perusal. A comparison presented between it and Washing- ton market, discloses a great difference, not only in the amount of yearly sales. but in the charac- ter of the business pursued in both. In the latter, over seventeen millions of dollars worth of ve- getables are sold in the course of the year, while in the former the sales of vegetables are very trifling. Washington market may be aptly termed the great country market. as there is more country produce sold in it than in any other in New York. More than three-fourths of the vegetables disposed of by the dealers, how- ever, are sold by wholesale, and of these, about fifteen million dollars worth are potatoes, of which immense quantities are shipped to vari- ous Southern ports. In Fulton market, on the contrary, the meat trade exceeds in the amount or its aggregate yearly sales, any other business pursued therein, and next in importance may be placed the fruit and fish trade. Itis, in fact, the only market in the city which transacts an ex- tensive wholesale business in fish, for throngh it is obtained a large proportion of the fish con- sumed by our citizens. We regard this parti- | cular department, therefore, of great importance, and haye consequently devoted more space to it than to any other. The dealers in fish are a | peculiar class of men, and their occupation dif- | fers widely from the generality of market peo- ple. Itis unnecessary to say anything more than direct the attention of our readers to the article in question. Private &E ter the hanging of culprits at the Toms will be | conducted privately, or at least only a sufficient | number of citizens admitted to witness the | Sheriff perform his duty, as intended by the law abolishing public executions. The following | notice was yesterday morning tacked on the | door of the Sheriff’s office :— To accordance with intelligence received from the | Executive Department, all executions for capital of- fences must be strietly private. No permits will be given under any circumstances. Orsee, Sheriff. Jou War or tHe Rosi We have received a let- j ter from Mr. Ge Sanders in reply to an article in the Washington Union relative to the Democratic Review. It indicates another war of the roses; and as we desire to seo fair play, we cannot publish one without the other, We therefore omit both till Monday. We may | then illustrate this elegant fight between young America and what are called the old fogies, or | hand them over to the Rev. Joe Scoville, of the Pick, Tasical Manan Sostac at Nunto’s.— Lucrezia Borgia” was | xhibited last evening at Niblo’s, for ‘ Sonnambula,” | Poszolini, the tenor, having been unable, from illness, to sing the ignod him, On Monday evening Madame , Sontag will appear in her celebrated réle of ‘ Norina.”’ | | in that ad “Don Pasquale.”” | Nn. Gorte NEMENT OF Coxcent.—The con- cert of the distinguished pianist, Mr. Gottechalk, which | | was to have come off last evening, is postponed till'Friday | next, on account of an {attack of fever, which has con- fined him to his be Marine Affairs. ov an Oyster Boat, With ALL mR Crmw.—Tho oy tae bogs Blossom, which arrived at Philadelphia on the Jat Mitt, fm Chesapeake Bay, reports that the oyster boat Fagle, of hiladelphia, was upset in a squall, near J's Island, on the 26th ult., and all hands perished Lavxcnen.—At Robbinston, recently, clipper ship Junt- Jet, O14 fons, said to bo @ superion yosnol, UTION oF CriminaLs.—Hereaf- | Talk with One of the Chincec. Dr. Gihon, who has in his charge the Chinese troupe of jugglers, &e., to tho number of fifteen persons, male ‘and female, called—with Assam, (one of the most intel- liger tof the Celestinls,)—at this office yesterday, to in- vite us toa Chinese rehearsal at the Broadway theatre. ‘Assam speaks English, having been @ Canton tea dealer, and, in that capacity, having had the advantage of con- siderable intercourse with English and American mer- chau's. Heknows but little, however, of the interior of the country, and was totally ignorant of the late revolu- tionary movements against the reigning imperial dynasty He is, however, pretty well informed concerning Chinese in California, He estimates the number now thafcountry at no Jess than fifty thousand. These are al- most entirely men, having left their feminine attacuments at bome, to await their return to the, Central Flowery Kingdom.’ And a few hundred dollars being a fortune toa frugal Chinaman at home, he is soon enabled, from his good qualities of industry, temperance, and economy, to return, and establish himself as an aristocrat among his late fellow-plebelans for the rest of his life. There are, it ix said, hewever, some three hundred Celestial women ef the town in San Francisco, of the most abandoned and shameless dissoluteness; and these ayrens, being, generally handsome, and possessed of delicate yet finely rounded figures, seldom fail in gathering from the returning miners a rich harvest of gold. Between these frail daughters of the Orient and the gambling suloons, many a poor fellow is wheedled out of the savings of years of hard labor in the diggings, and, after a few days or weeks is thrown as a loafer upon the town, or driven back, penniless, to the mountains, if he does not perifh on the way. The late hostility against the Chinese working in the mines has subsided. It grew out of an arrangement between certain English speculators in Can- ton, and their gangs of Coolies, hired st certain rates to work in the diggings considerably below the usual rates of wages for California labor. This cause of offence hav- ing been removed, the Chinese are permitted to come and go, or remain, without let or hindrance; and they seldom give oceasion for trouble, from their peaceuble, tractable, and sober habits. The white rats of San Francisco are a Chinese importation, and they swarm through the city. No place in the world is, perhaps, blest with a greater number and variety of rats. First, there is the gray wharf rat, originally from Norway, but now common the world over; then there are the black and blue rats peculiar to California; and last, though not least, the white Chi- nege rat, ‘This abundance and variety of ratg, no doubt, contributes to make San Francisco so very a'‘tractive to the Chinese. But it is due to them to say, that with pien- ty of fish and rice, or even of roast beef and plum pudding, they are generally disposed to leave the monopoly of sugar-cured rats tothe Mandarins. This troupe of Chinese appear to baye discovered very few things in the United States superior to what is to be found in China, excepting the California golg ines, our steamships and railroads, and labor-caying machinéry in general, in whigh tho” 770 ‘ery deficient, This “*elerey, however, redysing al dowa, put aboard chip, brought across the Pacific, say ten thousand miles, and re-erected in San Francisco by the same hands. Taking our troupe of jugglers as an average sample of the Chinese, they are evidently, as compared with any of the European stocks, an inferior race of people. They are a small boned, feeble bodied race, the men being slender for their height, and dark as Choctaw Indians, with awk- ward high cheek bones, angular eyes, large cars, set high upon their heads, and flat noses—the whole ‘facial con- formation being far inferior in dignity and strength of character to that of the North American Indian. The Chinese women, on the other hand, are of a much lighter complexion—their features are softer and finer, with a very striking expression of amiability and gentleness; while their limbs are delicate, and their forms round, graceful, and well developed. The tricks of this troupe in the arts of legerdemain, are Oriental, and some of them are exceedingly well done. After the circuit of the prin- cipal cities of the United States, they propose to visit Europe. The double-jointed dwarf fs their greatest cu: riosity, and next to him, we regard their peculiar articles of dress, and the richness and high finish of some of their silken Chinese robes. Buta glance at these Reople in the lump is certainly calculated to dispel the delusive idea of the elevation of China to our standard of civiliza- tion, short of a thousand years to come. Late From Port AU PRINCK.—RAVAGEs OF THE YELLOW Frver.—By the arrival yesterday of the brig Isabella Reed, Capt: Rice, we have dates from Port au Prince to the 17th ult. Capt. R. states that the yellow fever was raging there very severely. Sick men from the vessels were being taken ashore daily, nine cases nearly out of every ten proving fatal. Their sufferings were mnch ag- gravated through the want of @ hospital, as great diffi- culty was experienced in finding a place for the sufferers. The chief mate of the Isabella Reed, Mr. Geo. Hutchinga, died of the fever on the 5th of January, and several ves- sels in port had lost both officers and men by the disease. INTERESTING FROM Messina.—By the arrival of the brig Azores, Capt. Baltie, from the above port, we have dates to Noy. 28. The weather was very mild and pleasant, the winter unusually backward, and fruit not very abundant. Etna was still burning, but without those grand and im- posing eruptions of lava which characterized its first out- breaking. No political disturbances had taken place in Sicily. Great caution was observed by the police in the admis- sion of strangers to the island, and the citizens were com- pelled to wear their beards as per order, to distinguish them from the long-bearded and straggling refugees who may find their way to the island. ‘ Superior Court—In Chambers. Before Hon. Judge Bosworth. Fes. 4.—An Infant in Law.—James St. Leger, a full grown baby, about 20 years of age, desig- nated Ww a fiction in law, “an infant,” was brought before the court on habeas corpus, and his discharge from the United States army claimed by his mamma, he being under age when he enlisted, with the idea of augmenting our military forces. The United States did not seem to think that they had made any great bargain in the beardless soldier, and were satisfied to relinquish the individual, provided the garments belonging to the Ht were given up. This condition being willingly complied with, Jemmy was discharged, and left the court with his mother and sister, who exulted in their successful efforts to regain the long lost boy. Ouro Lunatic Asytvm.—The Cleveland De- mocrat publishes the following statistics of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum :— ‘There were remaining in the Lunatic Asylum, Noy. 15, 1862, three hundred and one patients—males 150, fe- males 151. The number discharged during the year was 6. here were fifty-eight deaths: two committed suicide. The number rejected was 151. Of the cause of insanity, “gpirit rappings”’ takes precedence, ‘religious anxiety’? next. ‘there were twenty-six of the former and twenty- two of the latter. The Superintendent says those de- mented by ‘spirit rappings”’ show a strange tendency to commit suicide. The causes of the insanity of those in the Lunatic Asylum are thus stated :— Males, Fem. Tot, : ie 3 Injury to head ‘ental application, Excessive labor, fatigue, exposure Bodily disorde Puerperal Menstrual Masturbation, Intemperance Tobacco... Imprisonment Old Age.. Dirapjointed Affection Demestic unhappiness, aftietion Swobeomecd| Lome Pe pirit rappings™, Ung N Total of cau Tar Ortarar Cavse or tHE Dirricunty Be- TWEEN Mrssrs. FULLER anp Sci aumBura.—Seve- ral years since Schaumburg boarded at Fuller's, now Willard’s, Hotel, kept by A. Puller & Co. When the firm became insolvent he was indebted to it several hondred dollars, and has #0 continued ever since. Applications made to him from time to time for pay- ment by the surviving ited Edward H. Puller, have been disregarded by him, as we learn, on the ground that the debt was due, not to Mr. Fuller, but to the trustees under the insolvency. Mr. Fuller, nevertheless, pursued the claim, and in an alterca- tion on the tt ade some twe "bette ago with Schaam- burg personally chastised him. This circumstance | Was matter of general notoriety at the time, and Ft into the newspapers.-—National Intelligencer, Fel A Great Work Accourrisnen.—We learn from the Portland Advertiser ,of the 1stinst., that the rails on the whole line of the Atlantic and St. Law- rence railroad, Portland to Island Pond, the péint of junction with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic railroad; are laid, and that the locomotive has passed up to that point and back, The last rail was laid on the 20th ult, sorts of manufactures to the tedious processes of labor by hand, is, however, the secret of the multiplication of the Chinese nation to three hundred millions of people. As an evidence of what they can do in the way of architec- ture, we are informed that Parrott’s building in San Fran- cisco, of one hundred feet front, seventy or eighty feet | °ushi deep, and four stories high, all of solid granite, was put up in Canton, block by block, by Chinese workmen; and the blocks being all numbered the building was then taken | MG, from St. Lawrenee, one of the Hon. Preston King, M. oe committee who agent ‘the remains of the late Hon. ‘A. H. Buel to hia late residence at Fairfield, Herkimer county, is stopping at the Metropolitan. Court Calendax—This Day. Unrtep Stare Dierrict Covrt.—Motions. Svrenion Cover.—Decision in the Broadway Railroad motion against the Common Council for contempt. ————— First in the Field.—The first Daguerrean Gal. : lery ever ed to the public in the evening, is that of Mr. ROOT, No. 363 Broadway. Other artists may copy hig idea, but they wi'l fail to equal in copying that more im- portant part—‘‘the huinan face divine’’—which is Root’s corner-stone of reputation. His splendid rooms are open day and evening, free to all. j ‘Twenty-five Cone Daguarrcetypes-Reee & ‘o. continue to astonish the daily with splendid speclauena ct hatin Geen ack nee oak exclusively introduced by them. All who attempt o rivalry wi their new system of metus making, are but poor imi- tatorr, and should be ayedled. 1. Broadway. Notice—Removal.—Gurney’s Old Establish= ed daguerrean gallery, 180 Broadway, is removed to his new and magnificent gullery, 349 way, corner Of Leonard street. Fashionable Clothing —We would. call ate tention to the elegant clothing establishment of ALFRED MUNROE & 0. 441 Broadway, between Howard and Grand streets. Persons in want of well made clothing, at very reasonable prices, are invited to call and examine a superior assortment at the above establishment, Feoromy is not exactiy the order of the day, but suck persons as are disposed still to practise it, ean readily do 0 in the article of clothing, and yet dress as well as the bew:, by patronising No. 441 Broadway. The truest eye may fall, the most tired hand may fail, under ordinary rules, to ct pi perfect fit; but by the mathematical system of measure- ment adopted at GREEN’S famous shirting establishment, No. 1 Astor House, a misfit is ntterly impossible. Ladies, if you wish Quilted Boots and Bus- kins, Alpine button boots, gaiters, &¢., for cold weather; if you wish white satin gaiters and slippers, for balla, parties, or India rubber boots and shoes for stormy wea= ther, in fact, any article in the boot and shoe line, for yourselves, sons, and daughters, ee Canal street. $550 for Patent Leather Boots of the Best quality, and warranted to fit the foot; dress boots, $3 60; water-proof boots, $450. Every article warranted to weat as well as boots made elsewhere for six and eight dollars, Call and sq them. J. HUNT, 446 Broadway. For Sale—A Handsome Three 8 Brick ete with Leese = SEs, built in the st manner within the last three years, supplied with Groton water, beth, and all the ‘ussal modem improve: ments; situated between Twelfth and Twentieth si and near Eighth avenue. Apply to John Ogilvy, 1 West Eighteenth street. If not sold by private bargain this week, it will be exposed by auction on Monday,:the 7th inst., at 12 o’elock, noon, at the Merchants’ Exchange, by Anthony J. Bleecker. : District of Columbia Bank Notes chased.—Bank of the United States, Citizens’ Bank, Co- lumbia, Bank, Eastern Bank, Railroad Bank. Merchants?’ penx, and United States Bank—all of Washingtom A. H, THOMPSON, No. 9 Wall street, corner of New:. Raloards.—The only Slate and Iron Tables in. this count: at 149 Fulton street, an entrance at No. 8 Ann sti wise, at 17 Montgomery strect, Jersey City, six tapfes; and at 169 Chestnut street, Lewsey = fourteen tabiés; and six at the corner of Fulten and Pine- apple streets, joklyn. All have Baseford’s: patent cushions. Tens.—Thée Best Assortment of Fine Teas will be found at the store of the Canton Tea Somperr, ‘o. 125 Chatham street, between Pearl and Roosevelt, the oldest tea establishment in the city. We assure our readers that they can do better here than where, either at wholesale or retail, They have now no branch stores. Watches and Gold Pens.—J. Y. Savage, 03 Fulton street, would eall attention to his large stock of fine gold and silver watches, gold chains, pencils, &c. The Kichelien diamond pointed gold pens, the best gold pen in the market, sold only at 92 Fulton street. ‘Wet Linens from Auction.—Excraordinary bargaine.—Double damask table linen, snow byte er Sa “two yards wide, only 5s. 6d. and 6s. a yard, worth 10s.; superfine figured do. two yards wide, only 4s. and 4s. 6d. ayard; large sized linen napkins, 12s. and 14s. a dozen; large size linen towels, 6s., 88. and 10s. a dozen, worth double; lots of other goods at corresponding low prices, BURDETT’S cheap dry goods store, 186 Walker street. New Crop Teas, Family Groceries, Provie sions, &c.—A large stock of choice new green and black teas, Orange county butter, hams, beef, lamp oil, and family groceries, foreign fruits, &e., constantly on and for sale at wholesale prices by J. 0. FOWLER, and 438 Greenwich streetyand 76 Vesey street. Country dealers are invited to call. What Everybody Says Must be True.—And we say, what everybody says, that Dr. Howe, the cough candy man, has one of the best cough candies we ever saw. It well, cures well, and it certainly tastes well. Everybody should use it. Sold at all the drug stores in New York, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg. ‘Wonder of the World.—Devine’s Compound Piteh Lorenge-—This is what has long been sought for, and is, in full faith, offered to the public as a certain curs for coughs, colds, asthnia, and consumption. . For sale by CH. RING, 102 Broadway, sole agent for New York, Price, 25 cents per box. Dr. J. W. Phelps’ trusses and abdominal supporters, for sale RING, 192 Broadway, corner of John street. agent for New York. Charles’ London Cordial Gin, Distilled Ess cially for, and imported solely by, E. C. CHARLES, No. 7 ‘k place, is, for its medicinal qualities, or as a delight- ful beverage, the best article in the market. For sale at every bar in the city, or a» above. A Prominent Feature of the Sunday Atlas, to-morrow, will be some wonderful developements of the misdoings of the eity government, abuses in the Street Department, in the Department ‘of the Counsel of the Corporation, and in the Commgn Council. It will be full of matter highly interesting to the tax payers. For sale by all the newsboys. Oflice 44 Ann street. (of Boston) Celebrated “Sole Watts’ Nervous Antidote.—I shall feel ita pleasure, and consider it my duty, to promulgate its won- derful power in alleviating those dreadful nervous mala- dies, that, as far as my experience tells me, seems the only known remedy Sanant Horton, 16 Columbia street, Brooklyn. $1 per bottle. Agency, 38 Ann street. v and Tou helor’s New le of wigs are pronounced the most perfect imitation of na- tare yet invented. Those wanting a very superior article should oall at BATCHELOR’S celebrated wig factory, No. 4 Wall street, where can be found the largest and best assortment in the city. Copy the address. ‘Wigs and Toupces.—Mecdhurst & Heard, of 27 Maiden lane, make the most perfect imitation of a na- tural head of hair in the world. Wig wearers should not failto examine them. ‘They are made of the best mate- rials, and warranted not to shrink or change color. Alsa braids of long hair fronts braids, &c. Notice to Ladtes.—D. Stecardi, Hatr Dresser of the courts of Spain and Piedmont, (Sardinia,) has opened an establishment at 91 Crosby street, between Spring and Prince streets, where he will give lessons in dressing ladies’ hair from 11 A. M. to 1 P. t. ‘The sys- tem of which he is the inventor is as easy as it ia inge- nious, and in a few lessons will enable hiv pupils to dress the hair of the most fastidious ladies to their ut- most satisfaction. Terms—12 tickets for $2 50, Harvey & Wallace's Office, for the remo= val of birth-marks, polypus, scirrhous cancers, tumors, moles, &c., by a painless external application, No. 192 Second avenue, corner Twelfth street. To the Consumptive.<Persons who have been taking the cod liver oil will be pleased to learn that Dr. Wilbor has succeeded, (from directions of several professional gentlemen,) in combining the pure oil with lime in such a manner that it is pleasant to the taste, and its effects in lung complaints are truly wonderful. Very many persons, whose cases were pronounced hope- less, and who had taken the clear ‘oll for a long time without marked effect, have been entirely cured by using this preparation. Be sure and get the genuine, manu- factured only by Alex. B. Wilbor. Chemist, 156 Court street, Boston. "For sale, in New York, wholesale and re- tail, by JOHN MILHAU, 185 Broadway. $25 Reward will be paid cheerfully, if the celebrated Bohemian Hair Dye fails to change (instantly) rey or red hair toa beautiful, natural, and permanent black or brown, Also. prevents its falling off. $25 if any other hair dye equals Bohemian. Sold, wholesale and re- tail, at 297 Hudson street. Gouraud’s Liquid Hair Dye is, without ex- seption or reservation, the very best ever invented. Be- ware CR ag dyes. Equally celebrated is Gouraud’a Medicated Soap, for curing pimples, freckles, sallowness, chaps, roughnest, ike Poudre Subtle uproote hair front any part of the body, Liquid Rouge, Lily White, and Hair Gloss, at No. 67 Walker ttre cow poe near Broadway. Hair Dyo Celebrated Liquid hair dye is the best yet discovered for coloring the hair or whiskers the moment it is applied. ‘The wonderful cuse and certainty with which this favorite and old esta- Dlished hair dye performs {a astonishing, It je for sale, or applied, at BATCHELOR'S wig fnotory, No. & Wall sion Ifyou want to be Good Looking you can be 80 for two shillings. A cake of JONES'S chemical soap will make your skin clear, white, spotless, and soft, even the worst skin, Jones’s coral hair restorative dresses harsh, pray, dirty hatr, soft, dark and clean; makes it Krow, stops its falling, &. Depot 403 Broadway. Try, if you ve bad Tecth or Breath, Iafont’s beautiful soap root. This lathers in the mouth like soap, yet it is a West India root; it cleanses the mouth, tongue, and throat, makes the breath balmy and «weet. Price two shillings, Agenta, 403 Broadway, His, iquid hair dye is the choapest and best hair dyo made. If the Hair ts Worth PreservingIf it 16 clement of com , no human being who the properties of Cristadora’s Hair Preserva- tive will neglect to vee it daily. It perpetuates the growth. of the bres, and prevents grayness. Made and sold by \DORA, No. 6 Astor House, As Caloric has Superseded Steam, so has Cristadora’s Exeelsior Hair Dye driven all others from the field. The rich tint, the instantaneous operation, the harmleseness of the 8, lied, tera a so by UHUSEADOL, ‘und by drugyloe in