The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1853, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. —— gay RDON BENNSTE BS $8, * OPFICE w. W. CORNER. OF FULTON AND MASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. P @WERY THEATRE, Bowory—Consicaw Baornsns— A) .am ann wis Srexp. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Gzanraron— } Bwe axp I . BUR erwin WATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Raxe’s Pao enese—Herwty ov THe Rock—Yanuss Dusuisr. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—3oLpise's Davaw wrun—Paviine. AN MUSEUM—Afternoon—ALL Ww mE TO imenicx Boy. Evening—Maunien Raxe— THEATRE, Chambers street—Mzray Wives A Favonit® Fanos, ST. CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery—Seniovs Faminy— Gamsies's Wire. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brondway—Erniorian | Meropixe sy CuRigTY's Oras TRouPE. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood's Musieal Hall, 444 Bromd swey—Erworian MinsrTReiay. @FROUS, 87 Bowery—Equestaiaw Entertainments. @BORAMA, 586 Brosdway—Banvann's Pawonama o7 vone How Laxn. MBLLEWS SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 539 Broadway. BISLEY'S THAMES, at 406 Broadway. BOPE CHAPEL, Broadway—Granv Concert. New York, Sunday, March 13, 1853. ‘The News. A despatch from New Orleans, received at a late ‘hear last night, containing the startling information “that the British war steamer Devastation has, in the mame of the Mosquito King, formally taken posses- gion of the town of Toupillo, Honduras. At last ac- eoun‘s the steamer had proceeded to Limas, from whence canonading was shortly after heard, from which it was supposed that a conflict was going on ‘petween the Honduras troops and the forces on board the British vessel. Should our despatch prove cor- fect, and it comes from a most reliable authority, ident Pierce may be called upon to take cogni- gance of the progress of affairs in that quarter much sooner than was anticipated. This movement, if orrectly stated, shows how much reliance is to be placed in the assertions of British diplomats that their government is desirous of abandoning the Mos quito protectorate. The screw steamship Glasgow, from the city of the same name, yesterday arrived rather unexpect- edly—the recent bad weather being taken into cor- sideration—with one day’s later advices from Bu- rope. The news by this arrival possesses bat little | interest, except so far as relates to the unprecedented preparations to emigrate from England to Australia and from Ireland to this country. The brief sketch | given concerning the suffering among the. Irish du- ring the past winter will be read with melancholy | ‘interest. The Liverpool and London markets re- mained ebout the same as per the accounts by the Baltic. The Africa, with two days’ later news, ix mow in her sixteenth day from Liverpool. She has probably been detained by the storm. Owing to the unfavorable state of the weather, but five square rigged vessels were able to reach this port esterday. For the same reason, the commander of the Humboldt, which drew out from her pier in the afternoon, deemed it expedient to remain in the Nar- rows anti! this morning. A despatch from the Highlands, dated ct six o'clock last evening, an- nounced that the four southern bound steamers, as well as the sailing vessels which left yesterday, were all off. With regard to the ship Atalanta, Mr. J. J. Sproul, the agent of the underwriters, informs us ‘that at dark last evening the ,ship laid easy, but that the sea was rolling so heavily that no lighter could get alongside. During the night, should the sea per- | mit, the lighters would proceed to take out the cargo | and discharge it at the Atlantic Dock Cnstom Honse | Stores. According to our correspondents, the grumblings of the place-hunters at Washington are both loud and deep. They are astonished to find that the President is neither to be coaxed or driven; and that, after having spent more than a week in cau- eusing, arranging and parcelling out the great and sanall offices throughout the country to suit theny selves, little or no attention is paid to them or their claims. After having waited six weeks or two months longer, perhaps a few of them wil! be able to understand that Gen. Pierce and his cabinet have | been able to select proper agents without the as- break open the safes and vaults of aid , and take therefrom the amount of the assessment- The bill even goes go far a to enumerate what instra- ments shall be used on such occasions, naming crow- bars, pickaxes, &c. They have @ queer way of constructing and enforcing the laws in that State, traly. The increase of receipts of cotton at the different Southern ports over those of last year at the same time amounts to five hundred and twenty-nine thou- sand bales. The latest despatch from New Orleans amoances that a brisk business was doing im the cotton market, at firm prices. Fifty-four thousand ‘pales were sold during the four days ending on ‘Thursday. The mortality table made up by the City Inspec- tor shows that sixty-seven men, seventy-three wo- men, one hundred aud twenty-one boys, and one hundred and three girls—making a total of three hundred and sixty-four persons—died in the city and county during the week which ended last night. This exhibits a decrease of fifteen deaths when compared with the number returned for the foregoing seven Qys. The diseases were of the ordinary character. Thirty-two adults died of the different fevers, of whom fifteen were carried off by that of the scarlet type. Fourteen died from congestion of the lungs, eight from congestion of the brain,and twenty-four from in- flammation of the lungs. A large proportion of infants died. Two hundred and fourteeu were children wader ten years of age, and of these one hundred and three had not completed their first year. Croup, convul- sions, measles, smallpox, and dropsy of the head, operated with very fatal intensity. Two hundred and fifty-five persons were natives of America, sixty- eight came from Ireland, and twenty-one from Ger- many. The City Inspector must experience consi- derable difficulty in arranging and classifying the matter for his most important report, and the accu- racy of the statistics of existing diseases be much vitiated by the very lax manner in which some medi- cal men fill up their certificates of the cause of death. For instance, yesterday a gentleman certified, “Child stillborn—cause of death, hydrocephalus.” Another replies to the query: ‘Color of the deceased? “The usual color of corpses.” The Judges vs. The Aldermen. The Judiciary has attained a signa! triumph over the Common Council—the court has heen vindicated and upheld in a remarkable manner, and the public mind has been satisfied that the bench in this city has preserved its indepen- dence, by the novel proceedings which took place yesterday in the Superior Court, and which will be found fully reported in our co- lumns to-day. It was indeed a novel and edifying spectacle to see the legislative bodies of this metropolis— the men to whose wisdom, ability, and recti- tude, the immense interests and affairs of the city had been entrusted—called upon to hear judgment pronounced against them for the of- fence of which they had become amenable. They had dared to treat with scorn and refuse obedience to an injunction issued against them by one of the Judges, restraining them from further action in the matter of the Broadway Railroad; and they thus incurred the penalties which the law provides for contempt of Court. The power and morale of the court was never better exemplified in this country than it was on that oceasion, where the legislators them- selves were in a body compelled to feel that their high position furnished them with no exemption or immunity from its rules. A heavy fine was imposed on all ; and one of them, who had signalized himself by taking a more active part against the judicial action. was fur- ther seutenced tu Afweu days’ luprisonuent tu the City Prison. The sentence, however, will not now be carried into execution, an appeal having been lodged to the decision of the court; and the whole matter will therefore come up for argument before the Court of Appeals some time | about the close of the month. This determined action of the Judges will have a strong and salutary effect on the com munity at large. The people will learn from it to obey and reverence an institution which has | shown itself thus pure and independent, and | having no respect of persons; and legislators sistance of outsi fluences of any kind. Itis as- serted that the New York appointments will not be reached for several days. It is understood that the Tehuantepec question | will probably come up in the United States Senate | on Tuesday or Wednesday. Many of the whig mem- | bers of that body are reported to have gone home, | and it is doubtful whether a quorum will be left after | next Saturday. By way of Charleston we haye the melancholy | announcement that Vice President King, on the 3d inst., declined to take the oath of office, for the rea. son, a6 he alleged, that it was improbable he should | ever assume the duties of the office, and therefore the ceremony was unnecessary. Should he recover, he observed, the oath can be administered in the proper place, at Washington. Though the ven- erable statesman himself evidently despairs of recov- ery, bis friends are encouraged with the hope that he will yet be restored to health. ‘The latest advices from Mexico state that the peo- ple of the capital were so saaguine of the return and re-election of Santa Anna to power, that they had already secured and furnished a house for him. A Mexican revenue cutter left Vera Cruz on the 21st ult., with a commissioner on board, to invite the re- turn of the exiled chief. | The report of the proceedings in both branehes of | the New York Legislature yesterday, though quite brief, will be found unusually interesting. The most | novel feature of the day was the resolution introduced in the Assembly, proposing to inquire into the expe- @ency of so amending the State constitution as to authorize the Legislature to sell the canals. Though this may have been intended as a good joke, if car- ried out in good faith it would be likely to save the money of the people—that is, if things shall continue tw be managed by future Legislatures as they have been by those of the past few years. In the Senate, Mr. Pierce presented the minority report of the committee appointed to consider the | subject of the completion of the canals and the pro- priety of so amending the constitution as te facili- tate that object. Thia report is represented as directly the reverse of the one from the majority— takes decided grounds against Mr. Vanderbilt's plan, and rather coincides with the views formerly enter tained by Col. Young and Mr. Hoffman. But arrend the constitution? Why not submit the | question to the people, whether they approve or dis | approve of borrowing more money to perfect the | public works? But, instead of thus coming straight up to the mark, our legislators are dodging and twisting in every posible way, for no other apparent purpose than that of killing time by doing nothing. A spirited controversy arose in the Senate, relative to the rights of New York and Brooklyn, on the bill for the incorporation of ferry companies. The Senate passed the bill relative to the laying of rail road tracks across streets, ag did also the Assembly the one for the division of the Nineteenth ward of this city. The te raph has furniehed a synopsis of the see proeeedings in the case of Dr. Gardner, mi a charge of false swearing in order to procure an award from the late Commissioners of Claims against Mexico. The suspension of th fioned in yesterday's paper, appears to whatetartled the financiers in the West, from Cincinnati states that the Ohio and Trust Company bas refused to receive any New Fogland bills except those of the Boston banks, il yee € Ohio Le two Connecti » some apateh Ab erday passed “ t I dit in case he will hardly again be found to risk their personal freedom by placing themselves in antagonism to it, or imagining that they are beyond the reach of its action. The Maine Liquor Law—Probable Decline of the Temperance Delusion. It is now some twenty years since a small band of well-meaning but fanatie individuals | resolved to attempt to curtail the natural | liberties of the American people by interdicting the sale of spirituous liquors. They were not models in their task. History fur- nished but too many examples of individuals voluntarily consenting, through error or supine- ness, to debar themselves the rational enjoy- ments which Heaven had bestowed. Hardly a State or a nation could be mentioned in which at some time or other, the supreme authority had not deprived its subjects of some article of comfort or luxury which Providence intended them to use. The apostles of temperance re- ferred. no doubt. with profit, to the monopo- lies and vexatious restrictions by which the monarchs of the middle ages were accustomed to raise a revenue for their licentions pleasures and private quarre They learnt something from the old laws of England. which probibited the people from wearing silk, riding in coaches or killing game. They found a fruitful lesson in the more modern code of France. conferring upon the government the monopoly of the sale of salt, and gunpowder, and thus eriously injuring the commercial, agricultural and manufacturing interests of the country They will even have consulted with benefit without tobacc | that portion of our own history which relates to the selfimposed privations of the early settlers of New England. All these—without mentioning the very veracious accounts of the Fakeers, and voluntary martyrs of the East—will have supplied the early advo- other | cates of teetotalism with a tolerable fund of experience, and a fair budget of precede their purpo T purpo its for With their aid and the natural facilities which the evedulous character of mankind affords, it is not a matter of wonder that the new doctrine should have made vy this county Ar 9 considerable progress in yple, we are prone to run ter where it is unaccom- religious sects new al institutions, thrive better on our 1 other country Wit ced fetter our freedom, without many time-! in it to 1ored the world usnges or principles te with a new social movement, we give e¢ O every soi-di- sant philosopher who has a ation to of human re y rnshes wildly in ; opened for its passage. without any pre inquiry as to the safety of the ronte. dition of the goal. We see what is present state of society. and, being hette bad ja th then our night to undergo : aiment, do not flinch fee pain banks refuse to pilytMe taxca levied upon them, to | itimay seem. Yo these causes may be ascribed the success of the. hundred” new: doctrines and isms which have overran the country within the last thirty or forty years. To their influence we may rightly attribute the favor with which the temperance movement has been received in many of the States. They are sufficient. we think. to account for every partisan that has been gained to the cause. The success which the most obvious impostures have obtained iu this community is conclusive against the be- lief that the progress of the temperance party can, in any measure, be derived from the sound- ness of its principles, or the intrinsic truth of its doctrine. That progress has, we trnst, now reached its climax. Four States—Maine, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, and Vermont—have adopted the Maine Liquor law ; on the other hand, these ad- vantages are counterbalanced by simultaneous checks. Illinois has tried the law, and repealed it. It has been lost in the Legislatures of New Hampshire. Wisconsin, and Michigan. Up to the present moment, the attempts which hav’ been made to introduce it into New York have failed. It is rendered a dead letter in Massa- chusetts by the decisions of the courts against the right of search, and the licenses to sell liquor previously granted by the city corpora- tion of Boston. It is improbable that the temperance party will ever be stronger than they are at the present moment. As much talent as they can expect to enrol in their ranks has for several years lent its whole support to the cause. Men’s minds are unoccupied by any popular subject of controversy, and, between spiritual manifestations and temperance, not unnaturally prefer the latter. Trade has reached such a pitch of activity that few give much thought to the minor matters of domestic com- fort. The Maine law has the attraction of nov- elty—where it does not possess that charm it has been or is about to be repealed. The only States in which it has been successful are peo- pled by the descendants of men who fined a man for kissing his wife on Sunday, and placed him in the pillory for not going to church. On these, among other grounds, do we found our belief that the decline of the temperance movement is at hand. In some few States, where the operation of the Maine law is not known, and the old saw—omne ignatum pro magnifico—applies, political and other motives may procure it a brief period of triumph; but we are much mistaken if twelve months’ trial be not sufficient to convince any but the hardest headed puritans of its absurdity. Teetotalism, like the fashion of wearing armlets, the perse- cution of witches, the rage for galvanic rings and mesmerized rods, and the thousand other evanescent manias which flit periodically through the world, is destined to die out; and we shall be much surprised if the first unequivo- cal symptoms of its demise do not take place within a very short period. Its memory will remain as one of the most remarkable delusions which has ever afflicted humanity. It will hardly be believed. a hun. dred years hence, that enlightened men adopted so exaggerated an idea of the value of a par- ticular principle that they resolved. en masse, to sacrifice their liberties for its practical reali- zation. People will refuse to admit that citi- zens of the United States made a legitimate traffis « crime. and provided for ite puaniclmont a judicial machinery whose model myst be sought in the accounts of the Star Chamber and the Inquisition. With the severe penalties de creed by the Maine Liquor law—the careful ex- clusion of cases under it from cognizance by juries—the elaborate system of espionage it es- tablishes—the bribes it holds out to informers, and the judicious rewards it offers to judge, clerk, and all other functionaries concerned in | convictions before their eyes, posterity will be inclined to form a very low estimate of our no- tions of personal and civil liberty; and when they turn from the law itself to the principle on which it reste—when they find that it was at- | tempted, in 1853, to proecribe a trade which afforded an honest livelihood to thousands, and much reasonable enjoyment to the whole com- | munity, because » few reprobates indulged in it to excess. we fear that their opinion of our common sense will not be more dattering. Mock AUCTIONEERS AND THE PoLice.—The daily compromises made by the police with the mock auctioneers are disgraceful to the city authorities, and ought not, with a due regard to society, be tolerated. Every week we read | of strangers victimized by the Peter Funks, and then applying for redress toa police officer, who undertakes the job: visits the auction shop, talks boldly to the swindlers, threatening them with a lodging in the Tombs, and finally in- duces them to compromise the offence by re- funding the money they fraudulently obtained. The duped countryman then. in most instances, gives areward to the policeman for his ser- vices, thereby only changing the amount and complexion of the imposition, the stranger still being minus some of his dollare—the ouly dif ference being that they have been transferred from the pocket of the mock auctioneer to that of the policeman. Now, all such proceedings are essentially wrong, and reflect discredit on the administra- | tion of justice in this city. If an offence be committed, it is the bounden duty of the police the matter by receiving back the money. By adopting the latter and more common course, the policeman becomes a party \to the fraud, and, by taking a reward for services, and allowing the swindlers to escape, he only encourages and gives opportunity for } the commission of fresh crimes. Again. if the Peter Funks do not commit avy offence against the laws in thus duping and defrauding ig rant strangers, the police would have no right at all to interfere or to demand a return of the moncy ; but as these swindlers well know that all their operations are fraudulent they very gladly make a compromise with the police, and gain let loose on society to continue fur- r depredations. Until the law now before the Legislature, providing effectively for putting an end to these evils, be passed, the Mayor should adopt the remedy within his power. and at} hibit all such disgraceful bargains as ily between his policeme mock auctioneers. ried on da Obituary. eppes Deatu oF Hercuum Mf. Havew, Esg., 2 Ins HNcuMIND MencuaNt or THs Coty —On Friday morning this gentleman died, suddenly, at his reek Unioa Place Hotel. On Wednesday he dined a# nsual in good th, with exception of a sligiy cul ing he grew very ill: on Friday mening be b and partially deious, until about 2 ed Mrs F vax a native of New England on Thutaday « sar lock, when he 5 avd wa © rou ptily ving partner of the celely & Co. He wow one of mr most om he bad uot a few to insist on a prosecution. and not compromise | ‘Talk on ’Change. ‘The decision of the Judges in regard to certain alder- mea for contempt of court, made yesterday, gave rise to considerable comment. There seemed te be but one opinion, and that was strongly in favor of the Judges’ action on the subject. They were applauded for the inde- pendent assertion and execution of their judicial func- tiens, and the confident assertion was made that their course would be strongly sustained by the community at large. Trade was somewhat checked, under the impression that the Glasgow probably brought later foreign news, but it was not known before high ’change. The merchants complained of the existing evils growing out of bank operations. They state that the operation with new fledged banks, in adjoining States or elsewhere, is to report a larger capital than they possess, issue double its nominal amount in bills of eirculation, put them afloat at the West, for flour, beef, or pork, and ship the sume eastward; then draw on New York or Boston against it, obtain current money, appropriate the same to*their own use, then fail and disappear before their bills come back, or probably the produce reaches market. It was thought the Legislature should erect some sort of barrier to prevent fraudulent practices of this kind. It is true that the class of shin plaster concerns referred to are nominally located in other States, but the wire pullers are mostly found in Wall street. To deeeive the people, they give out that their agent in New York will redeem their rags, and for a time he may do so ; but when their ‘game is bagged,” and the people robbed of their labor, the agent suddenly declares that his funds for redeeming the bills are exkausted, and so the swindle ends. What merchants say fe wanted is a law regulating these “agency” gentry. One mode would be, to tax them pretty freely; another might be, to compel them to de- posit with the Comptroller a statement showing the amount of their valid capital, circulation, and other sta- tistics, and to swear to the same. They should show that ‘the engraved faces of their bills were he so executed os not to be mistaken for bills of other banka; and no ageney should be allowed in the State which did not redeem the Dills at par, or at most for a quarter of one per cent dis- count, It was believed that something should be done to protect the people against such swindling practices, or that ere long serious trouble might grow up Mr. Jobn Ogden, the agent for the Atalanta clipper ship, ashore on the Romer shoal, received a despatch at a quarter to three P. M. yesterday, stating that she had not deen got off, that she had her spanker set, and that she had four lighters anda tug ahead. One lighter was fast by aline from her bows. She appeared to lie at ease. fhe isa Baltimore elipper, and owred in that city. Her cargo of teas and silks is quite valuable. ‘Tae THEATRES.—The Bowery theatre announces for to. morrow evening Mr. E. Eddy in the “Corsican Brothers.”’ Mr. Forrest appears at the Broadway, in his great charac- ter of Spartacus in the ‘Gladiator.’ Mad. Henriette Sontag will sing the réleof Amina, in the beautiful opera of ‘La Sonnambuls.”’ Burton, Placide, Johnston, Dyott, andother eminent performers, appear in the “Merry Wives of Wind. sor,’’ at the Chambers street theatre. At the National, the “ Rake’s Progress,” ‘‘Hermit of the Rock,” and the “Yankee Duelist.” An excellent programme is present- ed for the amurementsat Wallack’s theatre, which em- braces all the distinguished artists attached to that well managed establishment. The ‘ Serious Family’ and the ‘‘Gambler’s Wife” are the selections at the St. Charlee; and attractive entertainments are offered for the after- noon and evening, at the American Museum. At the Cir- cus, Christy's Opera House, Wood’s Minstrels, Helier’ Hall of Enchantment, Risley’s Panorama Hall, and at Banvard’s Georama, the usual attractive entertainments and exhibitions will take place. Dr. Boynton gives the two last lectures of his interesting course to morrow and Tuesday evenings. Marine Affatrs. Naxow Excare.—The ship United States, (of Bath,) Captain Chuisam, which arrived yesterday from Cardiff, Wales, with railroad iron, was leaking so fast that the pilot, to save the vessel, had to run her into the Atlantic dock, where she soon after sunk to her upper deck. It is most fortunate she was enabled to make port when she did, There would be but little time to prepare for escape when she bad onee begun settling, with such » cargo, as [ she would go down like shot, and thus probably have added another to the melancholy list of ‘missing vessels.” Tim Scuoonmn R, P. BRowN.—A telegraphic despatch from Norfolk, signed A. A. Hickburn, says that the American schooner R. P. Brown, captured by the Germantown, om the coast of Africa, uud lately ar- rived at Norfolk, is no slaver, and that she has been unjustly seized, her papers being all legal. She eleared from the New York Custom House. For Furor#—The steamship Humboldt, Capt. Lines left yesterday for Havre, via Southampton, with 74 pas’ sengers and $60,000 in specie, She did not leave her dock until 2 o’elock, having been detained for despatehes She anchored in the Narrows over night, and wiil proceed on her voyage this morning. Tor Steamsnip NortTHEaNer arrived from Charleston last night. We are indebted to her officers for late New Orleans and other Southern papers. Commence oF Newarx.—The number of vessels which passed the hght house in Newark bay, on their passages to and from this port, during the menths of January and February, of this year, was as follows:— January. February 76 81 Steamboats..... Schooners A 52 6 fon was interrupted by the ice for fifteen days during January, from the 18th to the 24th, and from the 27th to the Slat. Navigation was closed during February from the Ist to the 3d, when, as will be seen by the above, it was resumed with mnch +pirit, and we understand that arrangements are in progress for a much larger freight ing business then has been ever done here in any previous season —Newark Advertiser, March 11. City Intelligence. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST RIVER, CAUSED BY THE UPSETTING OF BOAT—SIX PERSONS DLOWNED—TREATM EMIGRANT PASSENGERS—VERDICT OF NER'S JURY. A CORO- containing ten passengers, was capsized in the Hast river, opposite pier 13, and six persons ont of the numbar were drowned. 1 appears from the statement of one of the packetship Queen of the West, from Liverpool, now lying at anchor in the stream; and, for some reason, the visions of tho emigrants overboard, leaving them in a | starving condition. | the eity, to procure fresh provisions. They had not loft the ship more than five minutes before the boat upsot, Jeaving ten souls at the mercy of the waves. ‘Their orios for help attraeted the notice of several peopte on the doeks, who immediately put off in boats to their rescue; | but wlas! {heir aid came too late, for five of those unfor tupate creatures bad sunk before the boats arrived. The remaining five were picked up by the boats, and were immediately conveyed to the First ward station house, where every attention was paid to them, One of them, a small boy about four years of age, named William Brown, could not, however, be resuscitated, as life was extinet yen he arrived at the station house. The other four, whose naines are Margaret Brown, (the mothag of the boy rowxed,) Bridget O'Gara, James O'Gara, Wary O'Gara, Richard Matchell, and James Miller, were com- | pletely restored. Thus it will be seen that only five were | eared. ‘The bodies of the other four, who arenodoubt | drowned, have aot yet been recovered. ‘The abeve in a correct report of the aceount given of the cecurrenes yesterday morning, whieh we publishod in our evening édition, Coroner Hilton bold an inquest upon the body of William Browne, in the afternoon. We publish a summary of the testimony taken, from whieh it would appear that the distribution of the ship's rations was vadly neglected, and that there wasa total negleet to r the pamengers. Now mentioue! that the other four were ope that thay may be still alive, trowne, mother of the deceased, deposed — erpool about five weeks ago, and anchored in morning; the ship furnished us with ery day, and» little ten and sugar once a furnished with biseult once a week, my an, and myself, bad two and a ‘half quarta of water daily between us; we had oatmeal twice during the voyage, but i& was of such a quality that the pasrengers threw it ovesboard; the day before we arrived we had nothing to eat but one pint of sour gracl for the three of us carpenter told us that we might stay there and starve, or Tenve the ship 3 it appeared, then, that the witness and nine other pax sengers engaged with « boatman to take them on shore, he charging one rhilliog for each, and one shilling for every box. The water was rough, and the boat almost immediately rwamyed, when the deceased was crowned Kichard Matchett, and Mory O'Gara, James o'Gara Jamee Miller corroborated the «tntement of in all the material points. They added:— near the dock on Friday; there were two or between her and the dock, and pcople ba gage could not get iton shore; there wa eft the ship ina boat; besides these, there four large boxes: the boat was very he rear the shor: she filled a out: when next seen the tation house, there wax no cor we were thrown lying dead in the enience furnished uw > comeaskore. She jnry rendered the followin | va | f HH DICT ' Row | or | On Friday afternoon, about five o'clock, a row boat, | the men raved, that the passengers had just arrived in | Capiain, upom arriving at this port, threw all the pro- | A party of ten, of the families of | | Brown and O'Gara, hired a row boat to convey them to | of tho | we were then inw starving condition; the | hunger, eonveyed mend the Commissioners of matter. ws Fires.—A fire waa Stewart, Greer, & Co., 108 about half- Front, past ten ovelock last night. ep est rose Caen ee, inoet oes aaoaae ersee te ting La ag iron safe was secured at the commencement ofthe fire. Ifthe fire bad gained much power before the firemen arrived, the fron shutters would have Ee vented their working on the upper part of the building. vclock yesterday a saber of Hine va eh weve tiered up against the fence of Mr. took fire, and had it not been for the exertions of the police, who first disco- vered the fire, it would in all probability have been a se- rious one. alarm of fire fer the Third district was occasioned by the burning of a lot of books in the third story of the house, No. 13 mond street. The fire was extinguished with trifling damage. A alight fire broke out at the house No. 284 Pearl street, at one o'clock yesterday morning,which was extin- guished before any material was effected, Religious Intelligence. Alarmed at the fearful and increasing profanation of the Sabbath, and anxious that some measures should be taken to secure its proper observance, s number of cler- gymen on the wost side of the city of New York have, during the winter, held several meetings. Among other means of reaching their purpose, it was thought advisa- ble that a series of discourses oa the Sabbath should be delivered in that distzict of the city to whieh they be- long. A committee was appointed to make all the ne- cessary arrangements for carrying that d into effect- That Cnamitine hes attended to the stat derstven on it, and now announces the following series of sermons, to be delivered at half past seven o’clock, P. M., on aucces- sive Sabbaths :— I, Onsen AND Hisrory or THE SasnaTu—By the Rev. A. D, Smith, D.D., in the Jane street Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, on Sabbath, 13th March, Pa SRN AD CunieriAx SAnnatu—By the Rov. Geo. ott, onthe 2th March. III. TemporaL ADVANTAGES OF THE SABBATH—By the Rev. 8. D. Burebard, D.D.,in Dr. Burchard’s Church, Thir- teenth street, on the 27th March. IV. SPIRITUAL ADVANTAGES OF THE SABRATH—By the Thomas De Witt, D.D., in the Dutch Reformed . SABBATH DESECRATION AND ITS Consrqusnoxs—By the Rev, G. B. Cheever, D.D.. in Church of the Puritans, Union square, on the 10th April. VI. Tis Purpors or tur Sannar the Rev. G. W. , in the Church corner of Fi and reet, on 17th Apt ‘oF Sapmatn SanctivicaTion—By the Rev. D.D.,in Dr. Burchard’s Church, Thirteenth street, on 24th April. Tl. Practicar. Duties or Curistians in Rererencr ‘To THE SaspaTH—By the Rev. John M. Kre! D.D. Dr. Alexander's Church, Fifth avenue, on Ist o! INSTALLATIONS, Rey. James A. Hawley, recently of Augusta, Il, was installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Jackson, Mich., by an ecclesiastical council, on the 16th ult. Rey. Henry Cooley was installed, as their first settled pastor, over the young church and society in the growing village of Mittinéaque, West Springfield, on the 23d ult. Rev. David Breed, Jr., was installed at @hester, Mass., on the 17th. Rev. Solomon B. Gilbert was installed at Prescott, Mass., on the 234 ult. Rey. Thaddeus Wilson was installed, on the 17th Fob., poster of the First Presbyterian Church of Shrewsbury, beh ., in the Church on University pl Betlane, D.D. ORDINATIONS, Mr. Joseph Scudder, who will soon leave for his mis- sionary field in Hindostan, to join his venerable fathor and two brothers in the missionary work the.e, will be ordained to the Gospel ministry by the Classi of New York, in the Reformed Dutch Church, corner of Feurth street and Infayette place, this evening, "Tue sermon will be delivered by Rev. Dr. DeWitt, and the eharge by Rev. Dr. Vermilye. . Rey. Samuel M. Shute was ordained pastor of the Bap: tist Church at Pemberton, N. J., on the 17th ult. Mr. A. B. Runyon was ordained to the work of a Gospel minister, on the 11th ult., at the call of the Twolick Bap tist Chureb, Pa, Sermon’ by Rev. A. Neff. INVITATIONS. The Shawmut Congregational Church and society of Boston have extended an_uuanimous call to Rev. Theo. dore Ledyard Cuyler, of Trenton, N. J., to become their pastor. Rey. Mr. Scott, of Halifs: come the pastor of the Tl Baltimore. Va, has been invited to be- resbyterian Church, in &CCEPTANCES. ‘The Rey. Mr. Holbrook, of Dubuque, Iowa, has decided to beoome the pastor of a new Congregational Church, in Chicago, Ill. Rev. A. B. Fuller, of tho Unitarian Church, Manches- ter, N. H., gave notice on the sth inst., that ‘he had ac- cepted the second eall from the Hanover street Church, Boston, (Dr. Parkman’s,) and that he should resign his pastoral ebarge in that city about the first of June, Rey. Dr. Cleveland, of Providence, R. I., has accopted the call extended to him by the First Church and socieyy in Northampton, Mass. Rey. J. 1. Kirkpatrick, D.D.. formerly of Alabama, has accepted a call from the Globe street Presbyterian Chureh, Charleston, and will soon enter pou his pastoral duties. Rey. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, Henry W. I. ngfellow, has accepted a call from the Second Uni- ta‘ian Society of Brooklyn, worshipping in the Atheneum Ruilding, corner of Atlantic and Clinten streets. Rev, A. P. Friese, of the Evangelical Reformed Church, las taken the pastoral Cok, of the congregatioa of that denomination al Jefierson, Frederick county, Md. DISMISBE! Rey. J. J. Ward was last week toral charge in Camillus, N. Y. land, also, from the pastorate church in Syracuse. Rey, James Sinclair_was dismissed to the Presbytery of Long Island, by the Third Presbytery of New York at its late session. He bas received and accepted a call from the Presbyterian church of Cutchogue, and will shoctly be installed, Rey. J. H. Avery has been distnissed by a conneil from the pastorate of the First Congregational church in Aus | tinburg, 0. smissed from his pas- Rey. Byron Sunder- of the Congregational DEATH IN THE MINISTRY. . | _ Rey. Stephen Taylor, pastor of the Ducal street Church, | Richmond, died on the 4th inst., after an illness of four days, in his O7th year. He was a graduate of William's College, the first scholar of the class of 1816, a native of Perkshise, Mass., once Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, Va., twice a pastor in Richmond, and always a man of amiable manners, industrious habits, beneyo- | lence, and piety. NEW CHURCIIES. The congregation of the Heyenth Presbyterian Church | Society. Vhiladelphia, now worshipping in Vine street, below Thirteenth, have purchased a lot on the southwest corner of Schnylkill Fifth and Arch streets, 150 by 125 feet, upon which it is designed, during the coming season, to erect a spacious church. The Fifth Presbyierian Church in Washington City | was formally organived on the th inst., by the election of the Rey. A. G. Carothers as pastor, and Messrs. John . Clements as elder CHURCH DEPICATIONS. | _ The Church of the Atonement, at | Summer streets, Philadelphia, we i inst., with the imposing solemnities of the Protestant | Rpiseopal Chureh. | ‘The Presbyterian Church at Spring Brook was dedicated | on Thursday, March 3. Dr. Thompson preached the sermon | A new and beautiful meeting house has recently been | dedicated, and a Congregational Church organized, at Hanover, @ village in Meriden Ct Rev. T. D. P. Stone, late of the Normai School, has supplied the pulpit for some months, but has declined the call of the society t } settle with them, | Douglas and J, MISCELLANEOUS. | The number of missionaries of the Old School Board of Domestic Missions has diminished seventy three during the past year. This is, in part at least, owing lo the new | policy of the Board in refusing aid to churches that have | been’ aided for a length of time—with the purpoze of | making them self-sustaining. | Rey. John Street, of Philadelphia, has announced that is no truth in the ramor that he bas accepted an ‘ation to remove from that city to New York. Several of the Trenton (N. J.) clergymen took occasion, | last Sabbath, to warn their people against the excitement | created, and the erroneous doctrines inculeated, under the names of pyschology, spiritualism, &e. ‘The Central New Jersey Ministerial Conference will moet at Larabertville, on Tuesday, March 15. the: ii Asroctation for the Exxhibtth try of all Office, No. March 10, 18 tan election held at t | inet., the following gentlemen were chosen di | eneuing yenr. vir:— Mortimer Livingston 1 Filbert J. An Alfred Philip Burr Anguet Belimon Johneton Li Alexander Hamilton, Jr Charles W. 1 George L. Sehuyier, el William W. And. at a meeting of the directors, held this day, Theodore Sedgy ick was appointed President, William Whetten, Vice President, Trensrrer and Secretary, and L. C. Stuart, Assist onse its number, under ment of the w the enening y WM. WHETTEN Mity [These were the } memorable words of that man of iroa will, Goneral Jackso | om the occasion of his * ren | the Defiance Salamander S do indeed © take the sand occasions, pe | deposits entrasted | 9 dohn st hy ROS They are for « (nftor May at If anufaet et, corner a RTM. PATRIC th jer Safes, Wilder's Patent, wi No. 146 ment.—STEARNS & MARVIN York, are the only with Wilder's patent and Rich's patent 0 | ‘arpetings.—Peterson & Uumnphrey, | Bronaway j ened, and aro daily ro aanal euppl | and Eng! minster, Also, rich wm J. Crossley & mont of other rpets, direct nd, consieting of Moquet, Ardrossen, from the most esighratod Preweh mauwfact dallion velvet and Sovate earpots, ff and Ax res. terms naid Carpeting; <&mith & Lounsbory, rl etn have reeeived, por Int ivals, © lacce stock of velvet tapestry, Brussels, three-ply, and ingrain | earpotiogs, of chaste and olegant designs, which, having beon Porehased previous te the reeeat advanco iu prices, they are | wembled to offer nt vory great indusoments. cirew So believing, the hag vue ie mM star S cos. iarben the dy. a GREEN: 1 ‘Autor House, to bi shirts as'near perfection as Gnd the unequalled demand for his shirts proves that he succeeded, F L. Co.—By Letters Patent, Issucdl mber 16th, 1861—Manufacturors of bronze colors, Id, silver and metal leaf factory, corner of Bont Rroihe atrvets, Brooklyn, otiee No. It Cedar. tree 5 a rently rod , 000,’ s6:"3,008" 0: 1.006, $0; Bob, 84; 000, 83, 200, less ten per cent discount per pound on six months Our long sad favorably known bronze colors aro extonsivol@ wed for trousing iron’ Uraas ind ‘wooden ware, Japannings label printing, ofe./et; ‘and ‘will compare favorably. wi 1e' y anne ead New ‘Window Shades.—Lest mt In the Trtld, st KELTY & FERGUSON'S, 3893 Broadway, ani Hecdo vtrect,. Deniers supplied from test pomier Shades Tahoe ectablishment, W. B- Store oleate wena eae Lae |. B.—Store, 4 shados, painted and lettered to ordsr, in superior soya, ee f furnishing shel toa, ethers desirous of rnis! their boats with 4 * aber light and reliable life preserver, “that ‘will play tas spection,” and at the lowest possible cost, will do well to cal atthe india rubber and gutta poreha warshouse of $.1C: BISHOP, 151 Broadway. New Mourning Store, No. 551 Broadway... Bartholomew & Weed have opened their spring stock of fall gnd half mourning goods, comprising every article necossars for s mourning wardrobe. We have just received, Humboldt, s splendid assortment of mournil mobairs, tamise clothe, &c., &e., which we are offeri extremely low prices. ‘Also, just’ opened, feveral packages: superior bombarincs, Canton cloths, Queens cloths, and many new and desirable articles in the mourning line, Pare ticufar attention is invited to our manufacturing depart ment, where fall suits of mourning are furnished at a fow hours notice. Bonnets, dresses mantilias, constantly om band. BARTHOLOMEW & WEED, No. 551 Broadway, between Spring and Prince streets, nearly opposite the Metropolitan Hotel. Pianofortes.—Gentlemen arriving In New York, who wish to purchase pianos, will please examine tha stock at No. aud roadway. Certiticates of great are ‘and pianists will be shown, proving them equal to anys ev mnie eked ll Sear Rity bigee pele Zo com, n, piano a; iano. Call and try them. ¥ % u "Ae BASSFORD. ‘Te Hotelkeepers and Others.—F. J. Krugler, 508 Broadway, importer and manufacturer of syrups and cordials, furnishes the samo at pri Hed by any other dealer in this city. All syru tho bosé in this city,) together with his imported cor hotel keepers and country dealers at reduced p: iberal discous it ts that there are Those who. doubt the instantaneous effect of ISTADORO’S hair dyes Deubter, if you seek truth go to No. 6 Astor House and wit- ness an iment. Though your hair be white as wool, om red as cochineal, in five minutes this matchless dye willren« derit black or brown. , With Amertean Fiuid Mognesia—Twice the quan= tity, half the price; recommended by the doctors of Now York and Brooklyn, as pure and strouger than tho English PEsParation, In bottles at 25 and oo cents, Sold. by ings and all respectable 92 Broadwey: Sands, Fulton street; and druggists. HOLBROOKE, MARTIN & CO., 157 Broadways Hernia Effectually Cured by Marsh’s Newo Jy improved, light, self-adjusting Truss, Unquestionable ro ference given to those who have been radically cured, an& their Trusses thrown aside, Open until nine o elock in the evening. MAR: ‘Trusses.—Marsh & Co., No. 21-2 Maiden lane, New York, have just imported from Paris a large assortment of the most improved French ‘Trusses, ting of silver: plated springs, with ivory and gutta percha pads. Also, @ general assortmont of bathing trussos, Marsh & Co.’s Improved Elastic Suspender Shoulder Braco, for expanding tho chest, and preserving symmetry of form—adapted to men, women, and childrens abdominal supporters, Indies’ sustaining and comprossing belts. of the most approved patterns MARSH & CO., No. 234 Maiden lane. Wigs and Toupees.—Batchelor’s New Style of wigs are pronounced the most perfeet imitation of nature er invented. Those wanting a very superior article should! 1 at BATCHELOR’S celebrated wig factory, No. 4 Walk street, where can be found the largest and best assortment in the'city. Copy the address. Wigs, rawness; and Hair Dying.—It 1s won= derful the great improvement in the art of wig making, and the methor at the celebrated, of dying the hair and whiskers, wig factory of EDAURST & NE. Also braids of long hair, front braids, Phalon’s Magic Hair Dye, to color the or whiskers the moment it is applied, withont injary to It can be washed immediately withoub| disturbing the color and Las no hud odor. It is applied prie ly, or sold at PHALON’S Wig and Toupee Manufactory ¥ 197 and 517 Brondway, under the St. Nicholas Hotel, and by druggists generally. Phalon’s Chemical Hair Invigorator, to| Prevent baldness) and to restore, hair that has fallen off of| ecoms thin, and to cure seurf or dandruff or invest ig with a brilliant gloss and permanent curl, for sale at 197] and 517 Broadway, under the St. Nicholas Hotel, and all tha| drug stores in ovory city. hai the hair or skin. noss, Pondre Subtile uproo body. Liquid Rouge, Lily Whito, Walker street, near Broadway. Hair Dye.—Batchelor’ hair dye is the best yet disco’ whiskers the moment it. is app endd ani arene Mea ne o a Bore ; ast old eatablished hair} fe performs ig astonishing. It is : WATULELOR'S wig tactorys Nod Wall eareoke PUG 86) Celebrated Liquid 1d for coloring the hatr 0: wonderful March, April and May, are the Most Favore| able months for the application of “Van Deusen’s improved| pee Its operations then on tho balbs and germs of| the hair are more direct and penetrating, and the tonic willl be much shorter in the accomplishment of its great work in| changing grey bair to ite frst oolor, and renewing and sickly hair, Sold at 123 Chambers street, and oinal druggists of the city. MONEY MARKET. Satunpay, March 12—6 P. M. There were no new developements in Wallstreet to day. The stock market continues quiet and without; material variation in prices. It appears impossible to getup any excitement of a favorable characters The bulls have as much as they can do to carry what stocks they have, without taking any more, and the bears are delivering pretty fast. This tends to the embarrassment of those receiving stock, and keepa| prices in check. Several of the small mining stocks, were sold to-day, at prices considerably below those previously current. It is the prevailing impression in the street that next week will bring another de- preciation in all the leading fancies. At the second board the market was better throughout, and prices generally improved. It will be seen that most of the transactions were for cash, which is au indication that the bears are purchasing largely for delivery. This creates a greater demand than would otherwise exist; but it, fills up the bulla with stocks, and ultimately they will be obliged ta put them on the market when there may be nq buyers. The Reading Railroad brought down last weelg 21,093 tons of coal ; previously this year; 244,269 total, 266,262 tons. Same time last year, 239,293 tons. The receipts at the ofice of the Assistant Treasurer of this port, today, amounted to $105,496 99; pays ments, $96,739 64—balance, 36,194,004 10. The following communication corrects a mistake: —~ TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. The rumor that the Bank of North America, of Seymour, Conn., has been in difficulty, is wholly without founda? tion. The lauk has received assistance from no one, and ia amply able to protect itself. Its bills will be regularly redeemed at the Ucaan Bank, in this city, and at its owm counter, as Lereto'ore. CLORGE ¥. D. PURKKST. New Yor, March 12, 1863 The Natches Courier, in relation to the late deci- sion of Chancellor Scott, that the five millions bondg issued by Mississippi are constitutional, says :— The repudiating majority in Mississippi have always de- fended themselves against the charge of dishonesty, by alleging the uaconstitationality of those bunds, and the absence of any legal liability of the State to pay them. They have pointed io the courts of justice open to the bondholders, as proof that Mississippi stood upon right, and not wpon might ; and that she but acted as any indi- yidual would do, who refused to pay what he considered to bean unjust claum. ‘she fiercest repudiators have ge- nerally ackbowle ged that it was but an indirect mode of robbery, tor a party who could pay, to refuse to pay just, legal and constitut debt,” The justice, leg they aud constitutional confor aity of these bonds, were al nied, and formed their justi* cation for repudiation. Acredilor, # appears, hag taken these objectors at their word, and sued the State upon one of these bonds sow past Jue. Now, we ask every candid man—is it not ust ond right that tltese yo whoin we, the people, have intrusted the adjadication of our own laws, should decide the point (hus raised upon its legal and constitutional merits alone? Politically, the people have repudiated , ey raid the bonds were invalid and The courts of justice were opened for 1 do- nenterod Ly those we ourse the matter be determined judicially the question of the legality +0 bondvcarefully excluding to the past political decision of the This Is fair: this is just; it ts 20 more As Hitte: tion it has been decided courts baye | to come in in honest on legal aud judie rounds alone, Justice will bedone, —dons to the State--done to the people—done to the creditors The judees are men of high character, of distinguished legal abilities ; they are Mi ippians, and eannot but * already naturally exe A decision as bas been made, te, If their decision ion ns already expressed, ons cast upon tho feel some litte of the hy the fac ‘Their bia t confirms the popular deters it at onee puts an end to all State for ite past action, It vindicates the action of the heroofter ught upon the sub tecision be adverse to the State, it it the tribunal was of our appoli «n my, the invitatias to own giving, and the