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= times with the same weapon; after ; TRe Gansevoort Praperty Onse, Affairs in On: — PUBLIC LECTURES, | reteisat iain tua fret ‘eb aon the er ith Cecelia 7.8 nem GOON monny |” The Gatos froma Oregon are to the 1bih Pebraary. Rca enema GE eck tarace eet bie B. Ouleman, Simeon Draper, and the Mayer, de., of Neo | The Legislative Assembly, after a session of sixty he Bible and the Papal System. Ameries the Roman Catholic very ind her head them lay upon the foo: Yerk.—Beme fow weeks since we published the compiaint ,sdjourned onthe 3d February. We take the “ it is net strange to hear from my lips that, ‘oupesn: be let im thisease, and now pe ielening # the items from the Oregonian: — . _ * AREANACUE a bd ey Ey youn y = ig il roe re, shares the dat be will face the eluartars aay memoranda in our marine were " the fSirstef his regular series of | man ef the preed to be 1 were screaming out, be came | and legislative acts, and subject the construstion and m, the apprehended loss of the brig Vandalia, Fh name inet Monday evening, inthe Taberneclo,en the po A mere rey tag mie aguin and held the mallet oves ix agfeet thereof ‘o the Judgment of the court, paren Capt. NW. Beard, with all on board, has bean con: u f rf econ: 6 sold, ‘1’! a 5 charter The been driven Semmens, Dairartoar Laue amtoe | fnnrins Ger amtie thea a? ai klar | fnowldge 2d te, who cannot earn Wy reading, | rhea tng he td ta Seoul ir ees dant he anon eva | We beih above Nackeneics head, ve. on ort on ove » yi % ou ing 8 ry tine of bie avpearanee here. His lectare was St do- ’ (apg Gp aed oe Te eee nee aes Lele eee canusead the do wef the sitting room from the | debtor stock. He deuiee that the resolution af the Com. ¢ Cape Disappointn ents and 8 po portion not hen cargo Mrored in Ualan, and afterwarie be preceeded toad: | {nthe heart of their country, and I wee voloemed by Sioa revenge are synonymous terms, ti qv is there?” and I hesrd tome” person autwer | the Corperation in disregard of the amended charter of | dies—that of ung man with light hals—ig emp @reop bis audience im the English language. He said— | them, and Tonly pity this generous am bry ta, and legtolators oligarchs. With them a | bim. but I donet know what was said; when heard the | 1940, and of the act of the Legislature of 1851. He denies d to be thal of fapt. Beard. It was neat We subject tonight is the (Pope and the Bible.” 1 | tbat they are the slaves of the pricsta. it ine Ne Ns ne is the only eoncelvable remedy for vielence— | assistsnee coming Ie the bed and jumped outof the | that the land referred to in the said resolution or any | the spot, and a of the hair Anos all. preve, fist, that Popes pin re | (paULIbit the calumay—ond 1 Gosriee fei ter came, welt net 2, national revolution. All. government | becreom window into the yard; I juimped from the win: | part thereof, was pledged to the, redemption, of the city | ther body was that of 8 boy twelve or fourteen years Bible; second, that the Popes altered the Bible; and, | well. If Rome is the antipodes of Christians —if Rome is | seems to thi tward compulsion. They cringe tos a ee gpl wot ihe hee, Med ae eerie ated Ot’ ap Oneaatadl Mt the | of 88° ie Teeaalae Sam ‘were much and feally, that Popes substitute human authority to the ag ny gre Exstaciant, Canes tee nieeee constable, while they curse hin. | These fellow-citi; | ent te the woman who was then in her own hall; the | Sinking Fund, orany of Chem, in complying with sald rso- pag tehve Sage one of them haw . 4 ‘line’ heart ond warmth, | Zens are voters. floor wit faml Ia mon meetings § , Satin ential fon Whiow, Sandy hn senathghehnes | preeh, irom ote reteay body and Nonder | instructive American education? I fancy there is, foo pponie to as: TATd MeTweman thst my’ father | leged in the complaint, or st aay. time, passed ay reso. premnp lp papshe omega FAY ES Rt ha Ce ne eT ee ae eee ene ee ae annem ihey | dinaate sC1MA This dalcdast has bo kuowiadge ot i en epics ape : citizen Tead eg band 4 pa wpe ete | ene cakes tee oem aoe ol Ee te a ee ee eee ee arse it ike tears may inte ealocked | formation sumcient to form baie! whather or not there Lemon) i a it Jet them in; the women eame up and lighted can- | wan no rej made in the course of the honestly enjoy your liberties. Father the American will save the democracy; but 3 i” never will unless the democracy can it. He | @ d saw my mother in this state; the officers ar- by, the t sioner and Comptroller, cabin is gone a8 well as s couple of boilers whicl fhoula Rave some habita of reflection, and foresight | rerted him; 5 this {tne my other was layne Ree at the land eeee ate MePacd | she had on deck. Some articles from her leed hang and rience, for every question has two sides, ja lay all around her’ Tes jurer--My father | or not there was no appralsement of the value ef the | likewise been washed ashore, including they en; readieg of the Bible? The hia pened Bible the pulpit. They do not advise le to read their Bible at home. No, never. And ‘the license to read is only a mere license, aad ed te deceive the Protestants. By the bulls of Six- ‘and Clement VII. the Reman Catholies are pro- em reading the Bible without license—not ver- tin writing. License for the Word of d, without license, if I read the Bible in a ver- tongue, I commit a mortal sin, and cannot be ab- my confessor! License! Ihave the command ‘and need no other license. Christ never said in Go and search the bulls of the popes, or the e bishops, but search the . St. Paul never said, Go read the works of Al Liguori or Ignatius de Loyols. And, therefore. if cardinals, bishops, and Jesuits, prohibit the read- ¢ Bible. and God and Christ eommand me on the I will obey God, and disobey popes, and car Jesuits. We ‘have the proposition plsinly the popes prohibit the Bible, but we have an- y who say the popes grant license to read the what Bible? pe will thus escape the ; but itis se easy, in the papal system, to and faleehood, that you eannot be surprised Bible read at present in the papal system is pied Bible, The specrypbal Sank are tutxe- many errors of the Chareh seem autho- ti it ut F i I ve Aa aL j vil gt i i ‘we eppose the intrusion of the a| jh were rosea in the Couneil of Tent! is ‘was composed of Sfty-t hree prelates, and therefore was said te be a General Council, representing the whole @ureh. But we disclaim the apocryphal , and wil call ourselves Christia: and the fathers of the eouneil apostates. The ancient Jews never admitted the apocryphal books among the canonical books, according to Josephus. edmitted the 2) stantinople confirmed Suthers rejected and excladed the specryphal books. Ei sobius Jeronymus were among them, and therefore we equelude these books, not because we are Protestants, but Dessure we are Christians of the primitive Church. The @ouneils are infallible and immutable. Very well. The neils ef Leodices and Constantinople excluded these and, therefore, accordieg to them, we reject them. @h } seid of sera must admit them. is infallible—who lies ? ie Councils of Laodicea ple, or that of Trent? This is the first and corruption in the Bible, beeause many great re supperted by the book of the Maccabees. But alse s real corruption in the Bible. Take. for the Latin vulgate. Before the Council of Trent, Tese to reproach Jeronymus for many errors in ranslatien. wards the translation was much the amanuenses, so that Sixtus V. was obliged ‘T have corrected this vulgate Bllabed a bell, recalling oll the eoples of Bix: pal « boll, al copies of Bix- ing that he found two pers errors, had correeted. This is said by Clement VII. in Bible was translated tus V., so that it errera altered by Sixtue V. and qu ting Protestant Ce ks. The Couneil of Laodices them, and the Council ef Con- “gn i iv a v. is i fF j & ; é i jblished in Reme. re- quisition, in which book he said that he Present vulgate, not less than seven hun- ‘eapital errors.’ This is stated by a Romish Now, this is the Bible by the Ca Werd, corrupted expressly by Popes. I have ‘dhe authority of Clement VII. that purposely many things whieh ought to be changed were not cha: and many things added not from the Word of God. I can aay that Genesis to the Revelations the Bible is corrupted. Im the text, mish Bible has He BEET 1 i troduced the word “she.” here Christ said, “I shall wend my Holy Spirit to you to ‘each you what I have said.” is ed from the preterit into the future‘ what I «ball say,” so.as to permit the popes te introduce any new d . "The text where Paul di- ep shall be the husband of one wife, is made the meaning that he shall have only one Giecers, au the diocess is his wife. Who cor) the eeunsils? Men who wrote the bulls—men who are the holy fathers—men who are the ascetieal writers of the stem—all men. And will I substitute the falli- 'y of men to the infallibility of God? Oh, no; I ean be without pope, and councils, and ascetical writers, Dat I cannot be safe without God The Roman Catholie Ghareh claim infalibiity py apontolical traditions. Ac- eording to them. many of the apostotical traditions ure superior to the Werd of God. I have nothing to answer ‘when my Reman Catholic brethren believe traditions su- Potion fo the Bible—aiperty to Il, Believe, my doar vem, in traditions; but I will believe in the Bible that to Clement and Eusebius, when the heretics cannot find im the Word of God proof for their heresies, they find {t in the apostolieal traditions, and ‘Merefore the Church of Rome is a heretical church. ‘The 1 system will have » foundation in the tradition of Pia when it is favo to them; bat when the con- is the eace, it re. Papia—so that Papia is avery vorable to the Chureh of Rome, when be is unfavorable. Tadition, not as a foundation for faith, but an an inspiration. "But we have apostolical dition against the Word of God. Christ said, “Not The text 1 tH yi; et the Chureh of Rome prescribed some particular on Friday and Saturday in Ember week, or in Lent. fen fh Word wf God aud tradition is tmpossible. If ve the Bible, you cannct err; but if you believe tradition, then you must disbelieve the Bible, Woe q@manot be saved by the -ouls of our priests, but by our I eannet commit the food of my body to ;] must eatand drink for myself. It is the ‘the Word of God. Christ never said, “I com- te the priests the reuding of the Seriptures.’? but he to read the eriptures. Remember what I ss —rope and Eaten are perfectly equal. You will say it is feo much. I will prove my proposition. The first cor- of the Word of God in Paradise was Satan: the first eorrupter of the Word of God in the Church of Christ was therefore Pope and Satan are equal. But Pope is prevecition in iting the Word Grey xv! say Gnally, | the Papist nations without the Bible? Nothing. ‘the Protestant nations with it? Jook at Swit- , Germany, France, the United States. Bible alone, the sione, which made your freedom. to speak in the warmth of rae Word of God, to excite the American of my Ialy—no army, no seldiers, but mors! support alons—When I said in h I respect all individuals, I am sc- Roman Catholics, I ean dine, con- om friendly terms with Roman Catholics. ; but I ex; as an Italian, to be respected. conducter m; of an independent paper in public press; and there public press will not mis- ; but it is for a war If I came with ices. I thank God that in conscious of its own might and But is certain section of the American premto which refer. I may turn from a Popish priest © Protestant, and Iam called an apostate; but when an American Protestant becomes a Papist, he is called ® convert. (Laughter) In Bogland, the freedom of rae ts greater then ie your republiean America. y speech that I distinguished between principles and individuals, and beturven pelbete and lay- " having so clearly distinguished, I am be exciting a war, and ought to be pre speaking again, Am {I in Rome, org am’ I (Cheers and hisses.) In Rome the Pope ition could oni: event me «peak! When in vonr conatey Ramen tathe, boner ohana ie fm public. Mere, the primitive Church of Christ never | je shall crash the serpent’s head,” the Ro. | On Tuesday evening the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, ot Williamaburg, delivered a highly interesting lec ture on the above subject, at the Broadway Taberna- cle, to a numerous audience. The lecturer said—‘ All is not gold that glitters,” and all are not citizens who vote; for just as a mere glittering proves nothing as to intrinsic preciousness, 80 mere voting proves nothing as to intrinsic fitness for the franchise. Technically speaking, an Ameri- can citizen is a man who has lived certain number ef years upon American soil; and, with equal felicity, & witty writer has declared that, chemically speak- ing, “‘a man himeelf is but forty-five pounds of car- bon and lime, equally diffused with five-and-e-half pails of water;” and the one definition is just as ac- curate and satisfactory as the other. Now, to manu- facture American citizens, in this technical sense, it is only necessary to take any white boy and feed him. That is all. Or, if time is an object, and that some- times is at the close of an election, the imported ar- ticle may be had. It takes a little sworn declaration, and a few pen scratches of the appointed officers, and the article is warranted to vote. (Laughter.) There is a little wear and tear of conscience in = ea roceas; but conscience is not a necessary ngrecien fi the technical citizen. The manufacture of voters, therefore, is not my theme; but itis the genuine Amer- ican article, whether native or imported, with which | L have to do; and the aes is, how shall we train | boys #0 that they ehall become intelligent upholders of American institutions. If such is to be the manu- factured article, at once you guess where the manu- factories are—schools, of some eort. But allow me to narrow your guess, by announcing that my theme this evening is the common or public free schools, in our American aspects and adaptations. Let mesay, then, as I here announce the subject, upon which controversy already rages in various of our country, that I shall sedulously bear in mind the courtesy due to this audience, and at a later occasion my aim shall be strictly affirmatively constructive. I will remember that this is a Peopie’s Lecture, for J am very certain that I have chosen a pees subject. (Applause.) It is a sound American doctrine, that whenever and wherever government can be spared, its room is better than itscompany. Haman govern- | ments are necessarily productive of both good andevil —the best do some harm,and the very worst do some good. The test conceivable social evil is anar- | chy. Government, therefore, in every sense, is a neceseary evil. It is to man what Mebea is to horsee—a burthen, no doubt, and yet two or four horees cannot work together without it, and the lighter it is the better, ifit be only serviceable. The less the governing the better the rnment, is an axiom as true as it is tried. In a democracy, there- fore, the aim is to reduce the government to a minimum, and for this reason it is that vigilance is the price of liberty. The common school question is now undergoing investigation all over our land. It is urged very forcibly that education may be safely left to voluntary effort ; and, therefore, by the | American axiom, the State has no business to inter- | fere, if the results even be good, and that the results cannot be good, Site pores iteelf is dangerous; for if the State may e writers and readers, Why | not bammerers and weavers, lawyers and doc- | tors? Some say that the system of tion would not be fair, for taxing the sterile bachelor is taxation without education. Again, it is said that school mo- neys ought to be kept from the Legislature or Com- mon Council; but indeed no moneys are. (Applause and laughter.) Is or ig not the system of free schools feature of American democracy? Have the papal ble American foundation,and if th« they ap; nable American foun ani \e" have, what itt If they have such a foundation it will do no harm to canuonade it, for the balls will only knock off the moss and show the rock. If they have not, it will do good to cannonade it, for if our insti- tutions are built upon unsoundness it is well for us to discover it, and renew them upon foundations that are not unsound. I affirm, then, as @ proposi- tion, that a system of instructive American schools is absolutely eseential to our perpetuity as a demo- cracy, and that such a system has the impreg- nable American foundation of which I have soe spoken. What is it? It is not this, that know- edge is good for children, and therefore ought to be furnished by the State, for so is bread and butter, and milk, and now and then alittle birch. Nor is it that an educated people will be happier than a stupid; for this is by no means certain, for the Peruvians, under a paternal despotiam. were the happiest but yet the stupidest of people. In this country and under our constitution there is no such thing as a self existing-govermment. There is no such thing either as a governing class. Ten or an hundred could die, but their dying would not stop or even flack the spin of government wheels & part of the body politic, which is to the State what brain is to the body, selected, elected and perched up upon high, to see and think and act for the general good of the whole. The right of the State or of the city to educate or compel education is simply the right of self preservation, and on this unquestioned principle the common school, as an American institution. must stand. The pious man may ray how important it is that ail should read the Bible, thet they may all be prepared to die. A sublime argu- ment; but it is no argument toa statesman, andshould most cogent plea that is possible; but as a citizen, asa voter, us a school teacher, [ ignore it from be- ginning to end. The pious argument is inapplicable | to the State question. The merchant has his argu- ment, and the mechanic his, and there is the Bible uertion, the political question, the district ques tion, the tax question, and all such questions—dif_l- cult and important, no doubt, but they are merely uestions of detail, you will observe. In arguing them no American citizen should waver as ‘to the democratic American question, for a lasting demo- cracy, with no intelligence and education among | the people, is now, and always will be, a monstrous absurdity. It may be said that education does not necessarily make @ man a good citizen; but however plausible the argument may appear, it will be found delusive in its practical nature. Itis all ‘ gammon,” said ® man to me once, about these public schools; there is no connection between common schocis and good citizenship. There is too much | truth in this suggestion; and let it stand, then, con» | fessed, that the matter of education is not a very defined enterprise—that the educated are not ne- cessarily good citizens, and that there is no real connection as yet between our common schools and our national institations. What follows? I should say that it follows very evidentiy that it is time that this problem of educating citizens was accurately under- stood. It ix time to answer the question whether or not all educated men are always good citizens. It is time to make common schools American institutions, and harmonize with all the rest; for, if it be trae that ignorance is the destroyer of trne democracy— | if it be true that a democratic republic {# our chosen form of government—then it follows that every pa- triot must bind himself to the matter of universal education. The vaguer it is, the more need of pa- tient study—the harder it is, the more need of bard work—the more imperfect our schools are, the more need of improvemeut—for the dilemma {s, educate the citizens or there is an end of the republic. If education is eerie tae then the sooner we change our government the better. Change while we can, for the path which leads a people to revolution is red with blood. No, no; the only effect which the diffi- culty should have upon true men is to make them stronger and more resolved; and this problem is not 80 difficult as it seems, for, like ghosts to scare chil- dren, speak to it, aud it thing. Let the aim be clearly understood. It iw not proposed to educate a man, but to train a citizen to understand h's franchise, and to use it wisely. The State ia for citizens, and uot for men; and the State is not to maintain idle notions and visionary scruples. The legislainre is no place to preach & sermon abont immorality. Mducation is no care of the State whatever; but God has laid the barthen upon the shoniders of parents to edneate their chil- | dren, and nponevery man to educate himseif, in point it is mo concern of the State an be a fool or a philosopher ; but beyond isa very vital matéer to a State. When te tolevery one, we act wisely. There ia @ vote, there is no magic power in Ame- here is no virtue in American soi] to f intoa freeman, a stave into @ citizen, ‘here are few now in this andlence—in- me none at all—that have felt what the sion means since the days of our child- ave all been whipped, I Lopanwe have it, 1 know; but now none of our acta compulsion. You know enough to be When we speak of the state of government we mean | not be. As a man and aChristian this plea is to you the | ill reveal itself a homely*} | expel and he ht to know {t.g¢He must know that he can think aa ell as Se. Look bat oe crade Besgetion lom entertain: nine every meet. A man may jump into the river, that is Freedom with the multitude. But a man should know the tendencies y , do four common ach these fanctions in the training of children? Frank- yy no. Common schools, as they are, do not hold ese labers to be the most important ones, and often times the school teaches @ leason which the citizen actually has need to unlearn: and yet. not- withstanding these infelicitiea, our common schools are incidentally doing a great work for the democra- cy of this country. I am mis Bow nalng. Wee wo avery in any local sense, but it is that any school is better no school. It is my purpose now to speak affirmatively as to some points of com- mon school improvement. A achool is supposed to be a place of intellectual culture; and what pecull- arities of intellectual culture ought a common school, an American school, to illustrate? It is evi- dent that no amount of memoried knowledge will be of any avail to make good citizens. Five years is a very large average to give for the ugual time spent by our embryo citizen in schools. Should those five years in to memory only? Should those five years be ‘iven to the same studies which the corresponding ve years would be given to, if it were intended to protract the course twenty years. Shall he live for ears, and come out of school bloated with facts which e will never think of again? The lectarer went on to contend that common schools should be established in the poverty stricken neighborhoods of the city. I would yield, said he, the high schools and all the col- leges the country is blessed with, but I will not yield the common schools. He concluded his remarks, amidst much applause, by pointing out the defective system of discipline in the common schools, his opin- ion being that Asstructive discipline should be intro- duced. Coroner’s Inquest. THE LATE MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND, IN TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET—OORONER’S INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF MARY NEAREY—ARREST AND DESORIPTION OF HER HUSBAND, THOMAS NEAREY— THE TESTIMONY AND VERDICT. Coroner Hilton proceeded to Belleyue Hospital at half past ten o'clock yesterday morning, in order to investi- gate all the circumstances connected with this most re- yolting and very extraordinary murder, by whieh the life of a woman was sacrificed to gratify the passien of aman, and that man her own husband. We published the first account ef the dreadful deed in the Hznatp of Sunday morning, expressing, at the same time, our opinion that the unfortunate woman eould not long sur- vive the extensive injuries inflicted upon her by repeated blows, given with a heavy wooden mallet. The scalp was lacerated to such an extent that the wounds communi cated with the bone of the skull, which was deeply frac- tured on one part. The unfortunate weman was conveyed to the Hospital at Bellevue immediately. She was then in an insensible state, and continued so up to the time of her death, which event teok place at four o’clock on Mon- éay morning. The husband—Thomas Nearey—was, in the meantime, arrested by officers Heath and Grovenstein, of the Fighteenth ward police, and detained in their cus- tody from Fridey might until yesterday morning. They then removed him to the Hospital, in order to await the result of the inquiry. Our reporter was in attendance, and has furnished the following— DESCRIPTION @F THE PRIBONER. Thomas Nearey is aman of, apparently, 48 years of age, measuring only abeut five feet five inches im height, and weighing akout 114 pounds. He has a sallow and careworn countenance, with prominent cheek bones, dull, sunken eres, and long, thick, coarse hair, which has been of a{dark color, but is now turned almost entirely gray. His forehead projects immediately above the eyebrows, but suddenly recedes, and is contracted to a blunt apex at the top, directly under the hair. His eyes are of a gray color, giving an inanimate, enervated, and even feeble expression to his immovable countenance and weakly locking frame. His dress is of the description usually wern by the poorest class of Irish emigrants. It consists of coarse linen shirt, soiled and worn bar- Tagen vest, gray tweed pants, s round-about jacket of blue cloth—much wors—an old pair of cotton socks, and shoes, He had ena dingy, rusty colored and long worn hat, with a narrow, tnrned up leaf and battered ciown, which realized the complete idea of the ‘“Cau- been” deseribed by, Leyer and Lover. He is a stone cutter by trade, and came to this country from the town of Roscommon, in the province ef Connaught, Ireland. The maiden name of his unfortunate wife was Mary Manion, and they were married about twenty-two years. Nearey was of intemperate habits, but not ® confirmed drunkard, and failing to get work at home, his brother-in-law, Michael Manion, sent from this city money sufficient to bring himself, with hia late wife and family, to America. They arrived nere about December, 1862, and, having lived for some time in the houre of the brother in-law, Nearey got employment in the yard of the “Empire Stone Dressing Company,” in Twenty-ninth street, when he took rooms in the house at the corner of Twenty-ceventh street and First avenue, in which be remained nntil they became the scene of the late tragedy. He was brought up yesterday in charge of the paws oBicer by whom fhe was arrested, placedin chair, and listened with much attention to the details as developed in evidence against him. In one point, his | | case resembled that of Spring in Philadelphia; the ebief witners against him being his only com, a lad between fif- teen and sixteen years of age of exceeding intelligence and great propriety of demeanor, The room was filled with relatives of the husband and wife, the witnesses in the case, and neighbors anxious to know the result. | There was a brother of Neary’s present, and Mr. Manion, | | Joseph Ducel | the blows very distinetly and they appeared as if given by brother of the deceased woman. The Coroner having taken his seat, the following guntlemen were sworn:— THE JURY. No. 109 Twenty-fourth street. ‘0. 265 Twenty-Sixth street. 258 Seventeenth street. 'No. 602 Houston street. No. 148 Twenty-fourth street, ‘0. 208 Twenty-sixth street. ner Twenty-sixth street and fe- cond avenue. George Tugnot. Oswel Mathews Reuben Philips. Wm. H. Gardiner Anthory Deleyer Joseph Warren .. The gentlemen proceeded to view the body, which Ia in the dead house. It was ina mangled condition, whic rly understeod from the testimony of What renders this case doubly deplorable in the fact that Mra, Nearey was enocinte, and expected to be confined in six weeks from the time at which she was killed. Upon the return of the jury from the dead house, the Coroner recorded the following TESTIMONY. Edward Nearey being duly sworn, deposed—I now re- ride with my uncle, at No, 222 Twenty third street; his naine is Michael Manion; Ihave been living there sinee Friday night; previous to that night I lived with my pa- rents at the corner of Twenty seventh street and First enue: my father was perfectly seber on last Thursday and Friday; his name is Thomas Nenrey; e is the pri- soner now present; mybfather had been drinking all the week previous to that week; my mother and father did not quarrel nor appear to be offended with each other upom that Friday; my father did not discourse mueh with my mother during that day; I went to bed upon Friday night about nine o'clock, as I was unwell during the day; before I got to sleep my mother went to her bed, which was in the same room; my father was in the aitting room, which is immediately off the bed room, when she caine to bed; after this I went to sleep, and ‘continued so until about half. past ten o'clock, when I was awakened by the cries of my sister, who was in bed with me; when I awoke, my father, the prisoner, was standing alongside of the bed where my mother was laying, beating her upon the bead either with the tools (eh{eels) or the mallet; { heard # heavy weapon; I did not hear my mother speak, but she moaned heavily; at this time my father bad no part hin dress on except his shirt; there was no light in the room, but could see the motion of his arm raising up the weapon and hitting her; a little light came in upon the bedroom window; I could not see the weapon distinetly at this time; I was very much frightened and Iset upin the bed and began to hallow ‘ murder: upon this he came over to me and said, “lie down or I'll mur der you, too;”’ he held the mallet over me in the bed: f then saw it wasa mallet which he had in his hand. [Here witness identified a large wooden mallet and two wren chisele an the weapons, and continued.}—I think he he bad one of the tools in his left hand; he held the mal let io his right hand; I then lay down, and after I did #0 he ceturned and hit my mother again in the bed; he hither upon the head with the mallet; she was still moaning in the bed; then he went over aod looked out from the bedrcom into the sitting room, and imraediately turned round upon his heel and paid, "she moans very # rong 1 had better give her some more;’’ he then seized her with his jeft hand, and pulled Irer up toa sitting po sition in the bed, and steuck ber upos phe bead either dow: the blood lay wade an attempt to stick my mother with a knife about fore this time; he was then arrested for it; this wasthe time he alluded to when ho said “I at- tempted to kill you before, but it failed me; from that time up to Friday night he did not do anything to her; at the first time he had been drinking brandy, and was disturbed in his head. Annette Dorr sworn—I live in the house at the corner of Twenty-seventh street and house in whieh the prisoner and the deceased lived; I knew the parties, but was not intimate with them; about a week before thia occurrence took place the deceased was out in the entry holding the door against her husband, and she said that ber hu-band, the prisoner, wanted to hurt her; upon the night of Friday, the 25th inst., I was awakened by the barking of a dog in the entry, which upon the same floor where the deceased and I lived; I listened and I heard some swearing, and when it did not stop I got up and went into the entry; I then saw persons living in the upper part of the house coming down stairs; we listened and the noise stopped; | went to bed again, but could not sleep, and said to my husband, “I want to see what fe the matter with that woman;” I got up second time, got a light, and upon my husband's vsying. ‘take care of yourself,” I took up the poker , ae any ene comes, I'll knock him;” I went into the entry and knocked at Nearey’s door with the poker, and sai “what's the matter in there?” but got no answer: heard some person at the door inside, but received - . returned to the same door, and said, dcor is not opened I'l] break it open with the axe;” then the door was opened a little by the prisoner, whom I saw 4), inetly; be came out a bit from the door having one of the irons—stone cutter’s chisels—now shown to me, in each of his hands; the ‘frons were eovered with blood; the prisoner is, I believe, a stone eutter by trade; Thad alight ir my band and could*see the chisels distinctly; the chixels now shown to me are, I believe, the same he had; the prisoner stood and looked at me, but said nothing; I told him, ‘ that if he came near to me I would take the axe and kill him;” I then eaNed to my husband toget up quick and get some policemen, an I did not hear Mrs, Nearey speak; the prisoner then went in and shut the door; at this time the prisoner’s son eame up the stairs, holding bis leg and saying, Shat he had jum out of the window and hurt it, aud that his mother was dead in the bedroom; he seid, ‘my father has killed her;’”’ « short time after my husband brought in two'ofi- cers; when the door was epened I saw the descased lyi upon floor and bloed running frem her; she mevel her head from ni Heary Dorr street, corner mony given by my wife, the last witness, attentively, and, astarasI know anything about the matter, it true; I do not know anything more of it; I lived in the same house with the prisoner and deceased for nearly one year. “Laue Gibbous sworn—t reside at the corner of Twenty- seventh street and First avenue, in the same house with the prisoner, and where the deceased woman lived; I lodge upon the floor alone; I was asleep last Friday night, and was awckened by hearing the sereaming; 1 do not know the time, as I had been asleep; the noise was in the same house, below me; I went down stairs, after Mrs. Clements, leaving my mether standing at the head of the stairs; Mrs. Clements knocked at Mr. Nearey’s door, but got no answer; I was there when the officers I went back to my room an my y ie the side once or twice. n—I reside at No. 447 Twenty-seventh iret avenue; I have heard the testi- o where the deceased lived; lant Friday night I screams, and got up and found that The eri ed ieee ins pelooace ta; 1 the cries procee m the oar 5 knocked at his door a ried out, Yon vilain, are killing your wife?” hear him answer; the sereaming then stopped; Mr. Dorr’s dog, whieh was in the hall, barked ben Mrs. Derr came out and said that the dog med her; I then went up stairs, re- turned soon, and saw Mrs. Dorr with an axe in her ight; Idid not want to bea witness so I went up and staid until the efficers came; when they came I went into the bedroom and. saw the deceased lying in- sensible upon the floor, with her head’al! smashed; her husband was standing by the windew. Philander Warden sworn—I reside inthe basement, and keep the saloon, in the same house where the de- sed and the prisoner lived; it is atthe corner of Twen- ty-seventh street and First avenue; about eleven o'clock on last Friday evening I beard a noise immediately over wy head, ae if from persons fighting; one-half of the room in which Nearey lived eame over my barroom: as a noise there was so common, I did not think much of it and remarked, “If be is killing her, it is not the fi time he tried to de so before;”’ I meant hia wifo; I made this remark to a number of persons standing around; di- rectly after some per-on came into my place and said ‘he had Killed her,” 1 immediately ran up, and the officers were there; I saw the deceased lying upon the floor, and her head appeared to be very much beaten up; I saw & quantity of blood lying around, both upon the floor and on the bed; one of the officers eame here to the hospital for a doctor, and requested me to re main with the other; I did 0, and during his absence the prisoner said, in answer to the remark, ‘‘Are you not ashamed to have killed your wife?’ ‘I would be willing to be hanged right up, provided I had killed her; about three or four months ago I heard o great noise in his apartments; I went up then and found the prisoner with aknife in bis hand; the deceased was holding him, in self-defence, as I theught; # gentleman named Mr. John Burns took the knife from him and handed it to me; either the prisoner or the deceased came for it after some dogs; at that time heard him say that he intended to with her; I think he was a little intoxicated at that time. To ® juror—The prisoner is a stone cutter by trade. Michael Manion sworn.—I reside at No. 222 Twenty- third street ; Iam the brother of the deceased Mary Nearey; the prisoner and she lived very regularly except for his drink; they bad been married for twenty-two ears about fast Christmas, sho waee temperate woman: e would drink and go on a ‘spree’? when hegot a chance; I mean when he could get drink ; upon these oc- casions he would be, now and then, ugly to her; I never knew him to abuse her until he came to New York; he came from the old country here about twelve months rought him eut and into my house for some time; ood husband when he did not drink; he woul leave the deceased and his children starving and spend his money for drink; he isa stone utter by trade and worked forthe Empire Stone Dressing Company in Twent y- eighth street; I saw the prisoner a: half past. six o'clock upon the evening of lest Friday: he was then perfectly sober; the deceased was getting tea readyia her room; id, ‘Tom, will you have your eupper ?”” she spoke good naturedly; he made no reply; I thought he seemed uneasy in his mind; I imagined that he was troubled from having been unemployed; I know that he had been discharged from the yard for drinking. George Tufts, sworn—I reside at No. 450 First avenue; I know the prisoner by sight; on last Friday night, about half past ten o'clock, I eame to the corner of Fwenty- seventh street on s stage; some person there told me that @ man up ad been killing his wife; I went up, and saw the deceased lying upom the floor, and two policemen in tl I understood that the he said, that @ grudge 3 You'll have to suffer for this ‘witch you have done,” apd he replied, “\If ahe only dies, ll willingly suffer,” I'am in the employ of Garrison, Mertam & Co,, stage proprietors; I expect to remain with them during this summer. To a Juror—The prisoner appeared to be perfectly sober at the time. David Heath sworn—I ama policeman belonging to the Eighteenth ward; J was on duty upon the night of last Friday, and just passing near the corner of Twenty: seventh street, with officer Grovenstein, when witness,Dorr came out, and I was told by him that a man had mur- dered hia wife in the house; officer Grovenstein and I went in; we knocked at Nearey’s door and he opened it; he had ‘an iron chisel of a stone cutter ineach of his hands; I see the chisels here; they were covered with blood; his wife, the deceased, lay in a small bedroom adjoining. At this stage of the proceedings, the Coroner took the following MEDICAL TESTIMONY. John H, Stevens, M.D., being eworn, deseribed— THE ANTE MORTEM APPEARANCES. Tam one of the house surgeons of Bellevue Hospital; the deceased was admitted here about 12 o’clock on the night of the 25th inst.; she was invensible, and mach prostrated from the loss of blood; there were several xe- vere wounds and bruises upon the head and scalp; they communicated with the bone, but there was no fracture of the skull; khe slept well during the night, but con- tinued insensible; in the morning she was delirious, but appeared better; she continued in the same condition during the day, but at night she beceme a great deal worse; the delirium increased upon the 26th; there was no improvement upon Sunday morning; she continued to get worse, and died about 4o’elock on the morning of Monday, the 26th inet. THE POST MORTEM EXAMINATION. I made a post mortem examination of the body; I found the face, trunk and neck extensively bruised; there were eleven different wounds upon the sealp, some of them coromunicating with the bone; there was a fracture of the right temporal bone, just above the ear; there were several cloteof blood between the dura mater and the bone; the brain was very mueh congested, and bore traces of extensive inflammation; it waa otherwise healthy; in my opinion, the injuries and loss of blood caused her death: the wounds may possibly have been inflicted by the wooden mallet now shown to me, but I think it more likely that they were produced by a blunt edged instru- ment, such as one of the chisels now upon the table. ‘This concluded the testimony. Coroner Hilton summed up in concise manner, and the Jury immediately ro turned the following VERDICT. ‘We Gnd that the deceased, Sony Kore , came to her death by blows inflicted by her husband, Thomas Nearey. Afier the verdict wan rendered, the Coroner made out a warrant committing the prisoner to the Tombs. His son war aleo committed asa witness. Nearey appeared unmoved by hie awful position, and handed the sum of two dollars’ and seme cents to the Coroner, which was given back to him. Coroner Hilton took the mallet and chirels to hia office. The oe Week ar come seven pounds and in deeply stained with blood, in which some hairs may be seen fastened, One of the chirels bears also Barks of blood upon it, land, either under water or out of water, made by the Strect Commissioner and Commissioners of the r0- Ceedinge, at a'meeting heldon the 224 day of December, 1862, or that such resolution was negatived, as is set forth in the eomplaint herein. It is not true that en the 21th of December, 1863, ee Recorder or Chamberlain resented aD; 2 ent the renelution then passed, nor that hee. ot Iain gave any dissenting vote upon the passage thereof. This defendant further says, that before the execution of the said deed to him, the said Reuben Lovejoy trans- ferred to him all his right, title and interest in the grant authorized to be made to him by the said resolu- tion, passed by the Commissioners of the Fund; that’ this defendant purebared the same, @hd the lauds and premises granted to him by the deed meationed in the complaint, and received the conveyance thereof in said complaint mentioned, and paid forty thousand dol- lary in cash, part of gaid consideration for said purchase, and gave his bond and mortgage for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars—the residue of said purchase money—in good faith and without any notice, informa tion or suspicion of any of the objections mentioned in the complaint, or Ci or either of them, or of any other objections to the sai t, being made to the defendant; and this defendant denies that be was acquainted with each and all of the facts recited in the complaint, at the time of the purchase of said premises by him. This de- fendant-has no knowledge or inform form a was he ion sufficient to lief whether or not the said Reuben Lovejoy reonally interested in i ROT er Simeon Draper was one of tho persons actually ually interested therein, er in the profite rt Comptroller, ¢ said property, as though the tale luad been made to bim directly. And aa te the a in the complaint ret forth, that the said Simeon r paid part of the purchase money ef the said pro- a defendant, upom information and belief, says, t Reuben Lovejoy, shortly after the ation by the Commissioners of the Sinking Bund, di- reeting the execution of the deed of the prpmises te Reuben Lovejoy, transferred his interest in ‘the pre- mises te the defendant, Simeom Draper; that a deed was executed, conveying the said to the said Draper, who, thereupon paid the then New Yerk the sum of forty thousand dollars; tha: after the said Draper declined receiving or ety eed the purchase of the raid premises; that the said Reuben Lovejoy then transferred his right and interest under the Carer iatien ef the, Commlacionery: ef tha, ak Fund to this defendant as aforesaid, and the sai Draper executed and delivered to this defendant a quit claim deed of all his rights and interests in the said pre- mises, by reason of the deed aforesaid, That this defend- ant, at the request of the Comptroller, instead. of paying the raid Comptroller the said forty thousand dollars, as tWenty-five per cent of the purchase money of said pre- mises, refunded and paid the same to sald defendant, Draper, and received the deed for the said premises from the Comptroller, and complied with the ether require- fthe resolution of the said Commis. ‘ing Fund as aforesaid. This defendant further says, that thereafter this defendant executed « conv g to the defendant, Coleman, the one undi- vided balf part of the aid premises, and received the sum of twenty thousand dollars therefor. Itis not true that the said Simeon Draver was at the time of the sale an officer of the cerperation, or head of any department, or forbidden by the existing charter of the city, am in 1849, to be directly or indireetly interested in the purchase of any realestate or other property belo to the sald city. He, the defendant, submits and insist that the plaintiff, as a tax-payer and citizen of the city of New York, or as a ereditor of the said city, as set forth in his complaint, has no legal er equitable right or title to main- tain this action, nor to pray for the jadgment demanded in the said complaint, which he saks maybe dismissed, with costa. Law Inte! mee, Court or Arrgais, March 26.—The argument in Ne. 13, commenced yesterday, coneluded. No. 16. Reserved to March 31. No. 16. Reserved generally. No. 18: Ogden; appellant, aguiant Marshall, respondent, 0. 18. a b st Marshall, responden’ Argued. MS. Bidwell, counsel for appellant, Danioi Lord, counsel for respondent. Nos 382, 33, 88, 67, 124, 126, 139, 167 and 180 struck from the calendar under the rule No. 19. Andrews and others, respondents, t The New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society and others, appellants. Argued. Murray Hoffman, counsel for appellants; Benjamin W. Bonney, counsel for res- pondents. Not concluded at adjournment, Theatrical and Musical. Bowrry TuEatre —The receipts of this evening are for the benefit of Mrs. H. P. Grattan, many ore ay formers having volunteered their services on the oocasios Mrs. Grattan is an actress who is long known to the citi- zens of New York, and has contributed, largely to their plarure. The pieces relected are, the play entitled “A few Way to poy Old Debts,” with J. R. Soott as Sir Giles Overreach; Mirs Hiffert and Mr. Ray will sing some favo- rite ballads, and aJl will close with the eomedy of the “Serious Family.” Broapway TaeatRk.—Mr. Forrest, who has been draw- ing immense houses, will appear to-night in Shakspeare’s beautiful ereation of ‘‘Hawlet.”’ If we take into view his great succdss in his other personatiens, the house to- night will present an immense concourse of his friends and admirers. Mr. Conway, a very able actor, will per- sonate the Ghost, Mr. Pope that of Laertes, and Mad. Ponisi, Ophelia. The entertainments will conclude with the farce called ‘Diamond Cut Diamond.” Nrp1o’s GarvEn.—The excellent opera company, consist- ing of many of the most eminent artists namely, Mad, Alboni, Sigaori Salvi, Beneventano, and Marini, will ap- ear this evening in’ Donizetti's comic opera of “Don Paquale.”” It is needless to remind our readers that b; visiting Niblo’s to-night they will enjoya rich vocal treat, such as cannot fail to give the most unmixed pleasure and delight. Burton's TreaTre.—The great success of Shakspeare’s exellent comedy of the ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,” which has been witnessed by large and discriminating audiences every night, who have given testimony of their Pleasure by the moxt warm expression of approbation, will again be presented this evening. Mrs. Holman will sing a favorite ballad, and the amusements will conclude with the comedietta of a ‘Novel Expedient.”” Namonat THRATRE.—Tho eomedietta called ‘' Binks the Bagman,” will be the commencing feature of this estab- lispment, which will be succeeded by the drama of the “Red Riever of Scotland,” with Mr. Jones and Mr. Clarke in the leading characters. Miss Deforest will sing a fa- vorite ballad; and the entertainments will conclude with the Irish drama, which has been very successful at this theatre, called * O'Neal the Great.” Wainack’s Trearre —Mr. Brougham, « very popular actor, who is probably the best personator of Irish cha- racter in the States, and what more, a actor in every respect, takes his benefit to-night. The pieces se- lected are, the eomedy of the ‘Irish Heiross,”” with Les- ter, Brougham, Blake, and other eminent artists, in the cast—Minn Laura Keene in the leading female character. The popular farce of the ‘‘ Review’ concl des the enter- tainment, AMERICAN MusevM.—Bulwer’s beautiful comedy of “The Lady of Lyons,” with U. W. Clarke as Claude Xecinotte, and Miss Mestayer as Pauline, will be performed this afternoon at the Museum. Poole’s oelebrated comedy of ‘Vaul Pry,” will be given in the evening, Mr, way sustaining the character of ‘Paul Pry.” St. Cnaries Turatee.—Mr. J. R. Scott, the favorite American tragecian, who is attracting orowded houses every night to this popular theatre, is to personate the character of Captain Copp this evening, in the drama of “ Charles 1.” e comedy of ‘ Sweethearts and Wives,’”’ and the farce of ‘A Kiss in the Dark,’ will also be played, Cincos.—Sanda_and Company have provided an unusu- ally attractive bill of entertainment for this evening. ‘The entire equestrian troupe are to appear in several new features in the arena. Sands and Company have every reason to feel satisfied this season, for their beautiful establishment is generally filled, and their performances give the utmost satisfaction, Consty’s Orma Hovse.—Christy’s popular band of Ethiopian delinestors annonnce another exellent pro- gramme for this evening J. B. Donniker’s benefit will come off on Saturday evening next. Woon’s Minerreis.—This favorite band of minstrels offer a well selected bill of amusement for this evening, comprising vocal and instrumefftal pieces, dancing, an the burlesque “ Brothers.” Dr. Vasantenn’s Evenings of Eccentricity are exten- sively patronized. He in to be assisted by the popular vo- calirt, Mile. Lovarney. and Herr Stoepel. Baxvarn’s Hory Lann-—This splendid painting is at- tracting crowds of visiters to the Georama, Broadway. Man axp Woman.—Dr. Boynton gives the closing lec. ture of his brilliant course on geology, thie evening, at Metropolitan Hall, the subject being the present order of animals, including man and woman. A number of the citizens of Boston have held # meeting to make arrangements to give Mra, Pelby » complimenta- ry benefit. Madame Apna Thillon, and Mr. Hudson, arrived in St, m the 2ist instant, where they were to fulfilan lo engagement. he Chinese jugglers are in Boston, and are to make their first appearance on the 20th of March. , Mra. Mowatt arrived in Loulayille on the 25th instant. She was highly ecmplimented by her fellow passengers on board the steamboat. Mies Kimberly is drawing crowded houses in Pittaburg. The Mirses Denin had a benefit at the Buffalo theatre on the 26th inst. The smallpox, we learn by the Transcript, is at Er raging in Montreal, and hae num- many victims, ter, &c. The wreck of the Mindora is between Shoalwater bay and Gra; ‘Steamer James P. Filnt, which near Cape Horn, in the Columbis river, bas raised and i penne refitted to take her the river as formerly. The Times says: The bar at the mouth lumbia river has always been a terror‘to we are too apt to attribute accidents that it to the impracticability of the bar itself. conversed with many, sea captains on and almost all bear y to not onl cability but the safety of the Columbia ‘The water is said to be deeper—some 18 tide—and the channel wider and straighter bar at the mouth of any other river of the in the world. Accidents on the Pacific coast be attributed, not to the dangers of the sea, or bali! safe la Lapras but to the want experience and capacity, instances, tine masters of vessels. Some one commanded, ships who crossed the plains, and never saw salt war ter until they arrived in Oregon or California. Thi fact has caused more accidents and r ties than all the bars on the coast north of Panama. Several of our enterprising merchants have met with heavy losses by the late shipwrecks at the mouth of the river. Among them, Pritehe ard has been singularly unfortunate; he ahi; over ‘andalia, HA ¥ e. Ef 5 al fr 1 t E Bett RS TR $16,000 on the J. Merrithew, Mindoro, and all of which have been lost. Mesars. Northrup & Sie, mond, J. Failing & Co., and several ethers, were aleo logers to a large amount. The British bark Josevhine, from London, has ar- rived in the Columbia river, with merchandise forthe Hudson Bay Company. We learn that she has 800 barrels of flour on board. ‘The new steamer Oregon, built by Mr. Sim for the Upper Willamette, has commenced her trips, and gives promise of being @ successful enterprise. A memorial to Congress, from the i sembly of Oregon Territory, is pub! gon papers, iting forth the ir cene gfe trans- continental railroad, and urging prompt action inthe matter. The steamer Whitcomb has been raised and rev pea and is running between Astoria and Porte ‘An tee eh held on the 10th inst., upon the body of William Davis, who was identified as one of the two men drowned in crossing the | ay few days since. The weather for the last month has been fal. ‘The former part of the winter has been um Bee vere for this country, causing much suffering among the late immigration; but, in the Governor Bell, of Texas, “the winter and vegetation is already ‘going through a sprouts.” — Oregonian. Dr. Dart, the superintendent of Indian Oregon, has forwarded his resignation to ton, to take effect at the close of the fiseal 30th of June next, or as much sooner a8 may mee! the wishes of the new administration. The mines are yielding well, and a quantit; of gold is being taken out this season. ir pre- ns are being made for mining than heret le ‘here are supposed to be over four thousand engaged in the different locations, mining. sions were getting more plenty, with a gradual duction An pros Flour 50 cents; sugar 45; 75; beef 26 cents per Pee The general the miners is good. e floods had been structive, caulking considerable damage to the of miners and other property. During the flood e river, a party of seven men were while on an island—the water having overflowed tha land they were on. The only name of those reported is George Palmer. On the 8th February, by Rev. 0.8. Mr, Charles Shramm to Mise Miranda Ann Savkinnt both of Colnm- bia Precinct, Clackamas Cen In Portland, January 27, by . J. N. Prescott, Terenee McMurray to Misa Nancy Mitchell, both ef 3 county. the same, February 34, Sebastian E, Miller Bars E Powers both of Ferland, ai satin By the same, February 9th, 8. D. Moore to Miss Mary eiarrortinnd; Sexae ‘rth, by Rev. C. 8, Kingsley, Mr, In'Portiand, January 27 v. C, Arthur Kelly to Miss ary G. Claygett, allof Partiaad, At Columbia (i of Peace, Mr. Patrick Ahern to January 84, by John D. Biles, Justice rs Naney J. Hale. On the 1ith January, by Rev. Lewis Thompeon, Mr. Richard Hobson to Miss Kate Young, all of Clatsep Plains, on. Be the same, on the 17th January, Mr. Joel Welch ta Mrs, Deliverance Doughit. On the 4th February, by the Rev. C. 8. Kingsley, Mr, Wm. H. Williams to Miss Rosella Araminta Boyd, of Port= land. DIPD, In Portland, February “8th, Daniel Kerkenhall, from Towa. By drowning at the mouth of the Clackamas river, February 27, Mr. William Davis, native of Hamburg, and Mr. Jobin Cannedy, from Pennsylvania. LATER FROM PUGENT SOUND. The weather, says the Columbian, on the Sound continues clear, cool, and pleasant, affording an ex- cellent op Seth tor our farmers to get in their crops of wheat, , &c., and extensive (egreer iad are being made throughout this of territory to make every available acre of land give a favorable account of iteelf when harvest-time shall have ar- rived. It will be recollected that a few weeks ago we no- ticed the murder of a man by the name of , of Vancouver's Island, the perpetrators of which was supposed to have been Indians. Weare now inform- ed that the murderers, (a Kawitchin Indian and atr accomplice), have since been LY ie tried by jury, and hung at an Indian village om the ialand a short time since. The ship Norman, Norrison, arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, on the 16th January last, 140: from London, with 160 passengers, com; ig some 26 families. The H. B. Co.’s ship Vancouver recently arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, with two steam en- egines for grist and saw mills, which are in process of erection on the Island. he brig William had left Victoria on the 17th of January for the of obtaining a cargo in the Gulf of Georgia and on Fra- zier’s river. Business on the island is said to be in- creasing very rapidly. Obituary. Lrorotp Von Buen died at Berlin on the 4th Mareh, aged 76 years, He was the associate of Humbeldt, Kneke, and Ritter, to each of whom an active scientific career of e than half a century has been allotted. Von Buch was born in 1777, and was a Pupil of Werner, the great founder of geological science, at the School of Mines in Freiberg, Saxony. At the age of twenty, he had already taken his place among scientific men as @ laborer in the field of ony. He travelled through Southern Germany and the Tyrol, visited Italy at various times, and gave to the world the results of his observations in two vol which were published in 1602 and 1809. He next visited S ® country much less accessible then than now, and mide numerous bighly 7 lnpertans Aaaltions to @ geology and physical geography of Norwa: = ta and published « voluminous work on this subject fe Perer Borxevi, a venerable relic of Revolutionary thmes, died very suddenly, at hia residence, No. 72 Union street, Philadelphia, om the 26th inst. The deceased came {o this ceuntry at the age of nineteen, with General Lafayette, and served during the Revolution, partiei- Rating in many of tha struggles of that eventful period. je was areapected member of the Freneh Benovolent Society, and an assoolute of Girurd.and the other Frenel: rerldents of the olden time. Mr. Bonneuil has been pina for the last thirty reven years of his life. Atthe time of hia death he way ninety-seven years of age. JoxaTaan Prescott died at East Boston, en the 27th inst., aged ninety-two years. He wes appointed a con- stable of Bos'on in 1800, amd wna in active service from ‘that timo until 1849. when he retired in consequence of hia advanced age and iufirmities, but held his commission, allowed him asa compliment by the eity government, until last year, when it was withheld. ‘He was in the army of the Revolution, and served as Heutenant under Gen’ Lincoln during Shay's rebellion, He leaves a wife (who ia one day older than the independence of the Uni. ted States) und two sons. Joun Froevcu E..i8 was buried at Jersey City on tho 28th March. He was a partuer in the frm of Corp, Ellis & Shaw, of New York. Subsequently he removed from, New York to Jersey City, Where he received the appoint- mont of President of the Board of New J Mot Com- minsioners, the duties of which office he formed up to the time of his death. Con. Jamun firrurap died in Worcester, Mass., on the 26th inst., aged 71 years, Col. bend nav was for sevoral years past President of the Manufacturers’ ema - ie surance Company, which office he ‘health became xo impaired that he could no longer per- form its duties. Gronar W. Berea, insurance broker, who was some weeks since ‘sentenced to, the House of Correction fen conspiracy to defraud am insurance compan, died in prison, on the 28th of March, of Phetmatlsm, 7 CHa ASI soctving lite Poumay’ t Norfolir, nited States receiving ship Pennsy! af b= an to Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, ap eneoe ye officer.