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Ee NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GGRDON BENNETT, PROV RIETOR AND EDITOR. OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS- od BPPICE ¥- ¥,, CORNER Per errand Britain, aad 9 10 amy eh the’ : RRESPO: E, Oun Fousics Commesron- a iquasTep 70 SEAL ALL Lar agus sen? vs. ae a "SOR RTT ni wi mame, heme, and “YétherisementTs renewed every day. vaeme VTE cece cscs eeseeeee sere eeeeeeNi@e 90. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. TRE, Rowery.—Love mw Humare Live ROMER Goon LucnInuveraiovs Brnanonn. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Dawon anp Py- ‘Surac—'Tw as I. HBLO'Ss—La Favorit. BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers strect—Mrnany Wivse oy Wsnpe0n—Pxanomenon, THEATRE, Chatham street—Cuancoar Sona as. rux Inisn Princess—Finer oy APRIL. K’S THEATRE, Broadway—Sux Sroors 70 qunaurn Far or tae Puvricoare, N MUSEUM—Afterncon—F asn10x asix Socsr- ai yunity Jane. Breaing—Lapy or Lome. ST, CHARLES THEATRE, Bowery—Ro» Roy—Don Cx- wan pe Bazan. STY'S OPERA HOUSE, 472 Brosdway—Ermozran weltoniss by Cunuee's Oren TROvPR: ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Wood’s Musical Hall, 444 Broad way—Eruiorias MinetTRELsy. ‘CIRCUS, 87 Bowery—Equusrnian Exrertainusnre, GEORAMA, 68 Broadway—Banvann’s Panozama oF wus Hour Lisp. RISLEY’S THAMES, at 406 Broaérs"ivenixes or Ec- <ewearerrr. BELLER'S SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES, 539 Broadway. New York, Friday, April 1, 1853. Mails for Europe. THE NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. ‘The Collins steamship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, will leave ‘ils port at noon to-morrow, for Southampton and Bremen. Subseriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Mew York Heratp will be received at the following places in Eurepe:— Isverroot—John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. Lonpox—Edward Sandford & Co., Cornhill. Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catherine street. Paats—Livingston, Wells & Co., Rue de la Bourse. - B. H. Reyoil, No. 17 Rue de la Banque. ‘Fhe Buropean mails will close in this city at half-past ‘tan o'clock. The Wumxzy Henacp will be published at half-past nine @’cleck to morrow merning. Bingle copies, in wrappers, atx penee. ‘The News. The Young Men’s Democratic Union Club held a ‘meeting last evening in Tammany Hall, and adopted 2 seriés of resolutions in favor of the proposed amend- ‘Tents to the city charter, as contained in the report | Addresses | pard, | presented recently in the Legislature. ‘were delivered by Messrs. Brady, Barstow ‘and other gentlemen, a ‘full report of wh found in to-day’s paper. We are to-day enabled to give more comprehensive Getails of the European intelligence brought by the Niagara to Halifax, several features of which are highly important. The relations between Russia and ‘Turkey have assumed a very grave and threatening gepect. The advances of the Minister of the Czar Ahave been repelled by the Divan, and the Sultan has sppealed to England for aid. It was this circem- stance, together with the fact that the British fleet had been ordered to the Dardanelles, that gave rise to the great fluctuation in monetary affairs at Lon- don and Paris. Indeed, on the Bourse in the latter ‘announcement of the evacuation SP Wsntensa by the Turks is confirmed. In Switzerland the excite- ment against the Austrians is becoming greater every day. Inthe meantime, the Emperor of Aus tria has expressed his determination of continning ‘the blockade of Ticino indefinitely. The sufferings of the banished Ticenese are dreadful. Women and children are perishing by the waysides. The siege of Milan continues with unabated vigor. The Aus- trian government expresses its chagrin at the refu- gal of England to expel the political refngees— among them, Mazziniand Kossuth. The Emperor of Russia has caused the arrest of a large number of his army and navy officers, for very extensive em- bezzlements. If President Pierce contemplates countermanding ‘the Japanese expedition he will have to be very ex- Peditious, so far as the steam frigate Mississippi is oncerned. We learn by the foreign news that the M. sailed from the Cape of Good Hope on the 3d of February for Japan. Via England we have one month’s later advices from South America. The revolution was still pro- gressing in Buenos Ayres, and it was anticipated that an attack upon the city would be made on the 3d of February. Nothing is said as tothe relative positions of the contending parties. But little was doing in commercial affairs. The excitement at Washington, with regard to the New York appointments, appears to have been somewhat revived. All the nominations were yes- terday confirmed by the Senate, with the exception of Messrs. Dix and Fowler. Why these gentlemen failed to pass muster is not exactly clear, although one of our correspondents gives a probable expla- nation of the difficulty. Several of the hunkers are Feported to be ina great state of anxiety lest Mr. Dickinson should refuse the post of Collector. Others aver that there is not the least rea- won to suppose that he will decline. They declare that he has been given the power to upset all the machinations of Secretary Marcy and his adhe- Fente—that it isthe very position that he should oc ‘eupy, and that it would be pertectly suicidal in him to refuse it. As for Mr. Marey, itis said that he Anew nothing of this coup d'etat of the President till after the work was completed, and then he ex pressed his moat unhannded astonishment. Whether Mr. Dickinson accepts or not, it is understood that the President is determined that the collectorship shall be given te a hunker. Little was done by the United States Senate yester @ay, beyond acting upon the President's nominations, a large number of which were confirmed, as will be Observed on reference to the despatches. Among the appointments we perceive the name of Colonel Gorman, of. Indiana, as Governor of Minnesota. Senators are beeoming fatigued, and wish to go home. General Houston offered a resolution pro- posing that, should the President have no more \ecommunications to make, the Senate adjourn sine die to-morrow. To this an objection was raised, and i. was stated that it would be impossible to get thre "gh with the business before the middle of wext week. One of our special correspondents writes that the Frenels. Consular treaty, after being materially alter- ed, was ,vesterday ratified by the Senate. Instead of authorizing French citizens to inherit and hold pro. perty, it simply recommends the State Legislatures to adopt prvvisions allowing foreignérs to enjoy such privileges. Our correspondent also remarks that many pexsone are laboring under the mistaken be- lief that the »mileries of the four principal missions have been raised to twenty thousand dollars. Such is not the case—the appropriation having failed in the Honse a't the heelfof the session. The reports of the proceedings in our State Legis- lature yesterda,¥ eontain many items of considerable day, ‘cents a7 go home; but before doing e0, ‘ si will not fail to adopt the bill amending our city char- ‘of the world; if weed, | ter. After giving us that, no further favors will be ill be | | one of the tasks imposed upon about equally divided ©”, qe mubject, a pretty sharp contest is fnticye'ed when the matter again comes up. Wany ‘oills were either passed or ordered to & thJ” 4 reading in both branches, and the debates were short and geberally uninteresting, and every dispo- sition wed manifested to push along the work. The time is@rawing near for the members to separate and it is hoped that they asked—this session. : Some of the Baltimore democrats are said to be dissatiefied with the President's selections for “—— at that place. It would be strange, indeed, if the re otherwise. "yy the arrival of the steamer Star of the West from San Juan, we have received two lengthy and very interesting letters relative to the difficulties between the authorities of that place and the Transit Com- pany. They give both sides of the question, and should be read by all who are in any way interested i matter. lagi from Mexieo to the 16th of March, state that Gen. Uraga had been appointed Ambassador to the Court of Spain. ‘A deliberate case of homicide took place yes- terday morning, at No. 308 Greenwich street. A Frenchman, named Louis De Corn, discharged a pistol at another Frenchman, named Eugene Melville, The ball passed through his heart, causing almost instant death. De Corn was subsequently arrested, and the Coroner’s jury have found a verdict against the prisoner, who was committed to the Tombs for trial. The evidence taken before the Coroner will be found elsewhere. It isa curious and melancholy we annex a summary of the contents of to-day’s inside pages :—News from Venezuela; Letter from Florida; Interesting from the Mormon Region; Fur- “ther Particulars of the late Explosion at Williams- hnncs Desevarrs yuess; Uity, Police, and Theat- rical Intelligence; Charming Actresses at the Al- tar ; Chinese Emigration ; Commercial Affairs ; a Large amount of Miscelianeous Information; Adver- tisements, &c. Our Social Condition—The Age of Corruption and Purification. This isa greatage. It is a glorious age— the most glorious age in the history of the world. Itis the golden age—the real golden age—the iron age—the age of lightning and steam—the age of progress; nay, more ; it is not only all this, but it is also the age of specu- lation. of humbug. of corruption; but, better than all, the age of purification—the age for setting everything right that is wrong, at least within the limits of the United States. We start from this point. We see around us everywhere efforts to purge mankind of the impurities that have been collecting for years. Witness the re- cent movements in the courts, in the City Council rooms, in the State Legislature, and in Congress. Look at the columns of argument in the Broadway railroad matter; read the city reform speeches in Albany ; ponder over the evidence in the Gardiner case ; and inspect the piles and piles of certificates of character that daily arrive in Washington, in favor of the housands of office seekers, One would imagine that Hercules was now engaged in performing him by Eurys- theus. ° “Then, said his lordship, ‘Well, God mend all!” +Nay, by God, Donald, we must help him to mend it. said Sir David.” Sir David Ramsay has no lack of imitators in the present day, who would help Providence to patch the rents in the social garment. Scores of philoso- phical cobblers are ready, with wax and awl, to mend the holes in the world’s old shoes. Myriads of moral quacks are thronging round poor puzzled Demos, and beseeching him to Each calls his neighbor an impostor, and will lay his life that health and safety are out of the question, if his peculiar nostrum isstinted. One will forever put an end to the rivalry between labor and capital, by making every laborer his own capitalist, and obliging every capitalist to labor for himself. Another sees salvation in the opposite extreme. He will push the division of employments until the business of writing a let- ter requires the co-operation of half a dozen in- tellects and hands. A soft-hearted monomaniac welters in tears over the sorrows of distressed needlewomen, and sacrifices on the altar of his compassion a whole street fall of fashion- able ladies, without whose frivolity and ex- travagance the needlewomen aforesaid would starve altogether. Over the bedraggled body of & prostrate toper some philosopher doth sagely moralize, and, as the Scottish parson proclaimed printing to be a “foul invention of the devil.” because bad books occasionally found their way into type, denounceth wine merchants as mur- derers, and wine drinkers as accomplices. This world is too narrow a sphere for some, they must soar into the realms of spirits; and, where earthly advisers have stopped short, ‘must openly interrogate the ghost of their deceased grandmother. One is for hanging all impostors, that is to say. ninety-nine hundreds of the civi- lized population of the globe. His neighbor would not touch a hair of a parricide’s head, but with kindness and tender affection en. deavors to reason him into the conviction that fathers were not intended to be throttled by their sons. One would batter the social edifice into dust, Another would add a fresh story or two. <A third prefers a thorough process of cleaning and whitewashing, without interfering interest to the , whabitants of this city. The select committee of the Av. “eumbly object,to the Senate's anti- j with the existing walls and partitions, Amid all this chaos of schemes and nos- trums. “bustling trivialities and loud, empty noises”—in these days so aptly termed “days of endless disruption, dislocation, confusion Worse confounded’’—poor common sense, bul- lied, badgered and abused on all sides, finds yet some consolation in the discovery that the main tendency of the whole process of seething which is going on. is towards reform and purifi- cation, Many of us are striking wide of the mark. Some are plunging into new vortexes of error and sloughs of fanatical prejudice; but the main body of the host is pursuing a very straight, intelligible course towards a practical improvement of the world. We are adopting no chimerical belief when we boast that the Christian virtues are better understood and more generally practised, now, than they were formerly. Man’s mind is expanding, his meaner passions gradually becoming less prominent, and his nobler qualities looming larger into view. There is a strong under cur- rent in most of the popular movements of the day, tending to drown old-fashioned hypocrisy and corruption—to sap the foundation of exist- ing “shams,” and to develope the substantial germs of candor and manliness which God has planted in our soil. struggling lustily. of prejudice, timtity, and that lige hum- bug called “time-honor,” they lie ensconced, and faney they are safe. We know better; and looking round on the outward signs of the times, Gan ‘reely applaud Thomas Carlyle’s aunounce- The victims are of course Renkrontey | Taw rrr Rev0r y Bus Acony oF THE Broadway railroad bill, 202, #*‘igg city delegstica ia | ment that in our day sball come the berhrny.cy ry met a: cana yo our view, and exchang- Reform bill ‘as approved by the Siaining ing the panorama of the whole world for a mi- Hall me‘eting of last evening, and nothing wil croecopi¢ inspection of the community in which | ROW interfere to prevent its becoming a law. we live, we ehall find the same tendency apps | Apropos of this subject—quite — rent on a smaller scale. Have we not our | created in Nassau street by the publica ay is civic reformers? Laugh as we will at the noisy the bill in this paper twenty-four hours - talkers who are riding a race against obscurity, | vance of its cotemporaries. The Tribune and Legislature should, Uke the federal government, make it felony on the ‘part of office holders, and ikewise extend its provisions to all other parties guilty of the offence. Regarding the constant and progressive spesulation in real estate, a merchant from the East stated that it re- minded him of a speculation among some farmers ef New England ina ram. It seemed that a farmer brought up 8 pet lamb about his house, who, being well fed and cared for, grew to large size, and exhibited » splendid fleece of wool. A rumor became current that it wasan imported ram of some extraordinary breed. Finally, = sheep fancier offered him $25 for it, payable with his note anda mortgage om the ram. The fame of the animal rapidly spread, and soon the purchaser was offered $100 for his bargain, payable with his bond, and a mort- gage on the ram. The next desler which saw him purchased him on bond and mortgage fer $500, and he again sold him, in the same manner, for $1,000, and this purchaser again transferred him to the next bidder for $2,000, until the last buyer took him at $4,000 or $5,000— each party boasting that he had cleared] 100 per cent on the lucky ram. A sudden change in the money market came round. No body seemed to have any money. The last purchaser failed, and the purchaser before him fail- ed, and so on, until the ram came back to the farmer who had raised him, when a law suit arose, as to whe- ther he was really a blooded ram at all. Finally, in wind- ing up the matter, the farmer’s lawyer took the ram for his fees. So it is in winding up real estate—it sometimes occurs that titles are disputed, and before they can be settled the lawyers come pretty well into possession of the whole. ‘Talk in the Courts. ‘The talk in the courts is a very curious anda very di- yersified kind of talk, when there is anything to talk about ; but as there has been no business in the courts for the lact few days, people have nothing to talk of ex- cept the appointments that are tobe. In the United States courts they ‘‘ talk’ of the probable successors of the present District Attorney and the Marshal. Some assert that the Huratp is right ; that Charles O’Conor will not accept the office of District Attorney, and that Lorenzo B. Shepard will be the chosen lamb. Others are equally confident that Mr. O’Conor, after a nolo epis- anna sibilities of that important and grrr Ra "Io any ued vy MIF. rrescuw Hall. The great expectants of the Marshal’s birth are dcomed,to be disappointed, and Mr. Hillyar is hourly look- ed for to take the oath of office as the successor of the present eourteous and gentlemanly incumbent, Mr. H. F. Tallmadge. Dreadful Murder in the Fifth Ward. A MAN DELIBERATELY SHOT—ARREST OF THE MUR- DERER—VERDICT OF THE CORONER'S JURY. A most deliberate murder oceurred at half past ten o’clock yesterday morning, in the butter and wine packing store of A. Giraud & Co., which is situated in the large basement of the house on the corner of Greenwich and Reade streets. It appears that M. De Corn, ono of the company, drew a pistol from his pocket, and shot a re- spectable young man dead, at the above time, Upona visit to the spot, our reporter was able to glean the fol- lowing particulars:— It agpears, from the statement of Louis Steamer, a boy employed in the store, that the deceased came in at the door leading from Greenwich street, and entered the Place of business, He then commenced a conversation with M. De Corn, and showed him a piece of paper, which sympathy of their Protestant brethren to some account, for they may thus make a fortune out of their late imprisonment just as well as not. Let the old missionary take counsel from the example of Kossuth and do better—let him save his money, and get all he can, and come here ™ i in divine wrath at having been ks of the Aldermen, there is much | the Times are in sec practical meaning in the recent | beaten. The former impudently accuses Mr. ous in carrying out the investigation which the | ment, and indulges freely in those vuleae = Grand Jury entrusted to his hands. Nor are pletives which are its usual substitutes for ar- the merits of the bill, which it f their proceedings may sometimes seem, | to acknowledge in anywise in sea the Augean | had not the enterprise to procure, and blindly declines to throw the shield of impu- | defective project reported by Mr, Smith, nity over poor Aldermen Smith and Bard; | Strange to say, the Times practises a more “ tlemanly allusion to “ thim- chasm which the wrath of the gods has opened, | we exeept an ungen' 4 to pros for the sins of their shrewder brethren. | ble rigging,” anda rather spiteful snarl at our- reformed. It was too bad of Mr. Butler to | are bound togay. within its limits of propriety turn States’ evidence and peach on histoocom- | and decorum. Though smarting under the ting that peculiar vocabu- that he might be anatomized in his turn, and | abstained from quo’ a that an seins of his civic corpse would dis- | lary which is the vernacular of rowdies, scaven- temporaries give vent to h he denounced in such wearisome dry as But while our cot 4 ies: style. Courage! say we, nevertheless, their vexation, each in the way which his natu- harging a member the Aldermen! And courage. Mr. Barr, | prompt, they both agree in chargi . = saan Mr. Butler! The country needs | of the New York delegation with the enormity : a ‘esheparo i de- Thus we are jogging, oti@tUlour social | siguates Mr. Aiden Bae hendaels, agi loseness, Je. economy. As we advance, coatroverted points | the more cautious course of slandering, in gene- pocrisy and imposture will be dried up. For | we distinctly and emphatically assert, that our part, we can only repeat to one and all of | neither Mr. Alden, nor any other member of and bill published exclusively in the Herat The Proposed City Park—The Plea of Hu- | of Wednesday. The statements to the contrary Our extremely conservative cotemporaries | tirely destitute of foundation and untrue. At of the Journal of Commerce have perpetrated | the same time. the public will probably be of concerning the new park which it is proposed | her, actually committed the terrible deed to create for the direct benefit of the million charged, the proceeding would only have little island:— procure for documents of great public interest Tux Great Park.—A proposition is before the | an earlier and a wider cireulation than they between Sixtieth and 106th street and between the ab at oc Fe en a one int a aes Dare 0 Tue RELEASE OF THE Mapia1s.—The Madiais clude the whole city in the said park, enclose it with having been released from their imprisonment Ere railing, and import a suitable quantity of Ww to be paid for bya tax on the Common Council. that they are toleave the country, it is proba- That sounds like the voice of an interested | ble they will soon make a noise in the world. within this cramped. dusty, and suffocating | in England; and, after lionizing it there awhile, city, could object to giving it a pair of good, | we may expect them in the United States. the masses of this population, we cannot ima- gine. What would be the mortality of London, but for their parks and public gardens? With the low filthy sinks of destitution, crime, and may safely conjecture that the lungs of their | and settle down in the country; and he may yet public parks save them from the horrors ofa | be in time to be duly naturalized, and ran, by name of humanity, ye legislators at Albany— | He might do this, even here, within the imme- give us the park! We have now in this city | diate jurisdiction of Archbishop Hughes. The thousand souls. Across the East river we have Brooklyn and Williamsburg; and the opposite expansion of Jersey City and Hoboken, while is if anawme dig. SMe Be i OF groan is ‘Deing rapidly tories, homesteads, railway. stations, groceries, and hotels. Why, at this present rate of in- the island, and all around the island, including Staten Island, Long Island, and the hills of the working classes are in a fair way, within a few years, of being limited for recreation and fresh blistering desert of Coney Island. Let us have the park ! our paramount argument, the simple, un- answerable plea of humanity. There are thou- children, in this vast city, living in close and confined quarters, in narrow and unwholesome air of over-crowded workshops, and garrets, and cellars, throughout the day, and often who cannot afford—as can the lords of Wall street—to take an airing during Niagara or Newport. No! Here the la- boring classes of our people have to stay, with laxation through the oppressive heats of July and the dogdays. What a blessing to them park like that contemplated in the bill before the Legislature. What a charming place of re- hour or two which may be theirs of the long Saturday afterncons. How grateful to them air, ina park large enough for the free winds and the bright sun to play in, untainted by the streets. Let us have the park! How much the prevailing and steadily aug- abated by the establishment of a large attrac- tive park, with an abundance of shade and tains and flowing streams of refreshing water. cannot be estimated. It is manifest, how- would be thereby vastly improved. from the very simple procees of an occasional venti- How much the crimes engendered in the sinks of vice and dissipation within the city would people the more wholesome, attractive, and in- nocent recreations ofa park, may partially be the parks and public gardens of Paris upon the whole body of its population. Paris would not likely. the scene of constant plots, riots, street butcheries, and barricades. Let us have the We might suggest here the public policy of king the city as attractive as possible to its public park, like that proposed, would larg contribute to this object. It would increase as the crowning glory of our public institutions, But we adhere to the simple plea of humanity. Madiais are in luck. A Lirrtz Sop ror Danrer—Hmam’s Bap Lucx.—The administration is doing the work of rotation with the efficiency of a new broom. Daniel E. Delavan. late grand sachem of Tam- FR Ae ee emu we praeeo onal MBVE VUES ed up for the party in New York. He gets the little place of Naval Storekeeper, and, to accom- modate him, our cotemporary of the Evening Mirror, Mr. Hiram Fuller, has to square up his accounts and vacate. Misfortunes, the old women say, never come singly. It was but the other day, that our neighbor had to plank up, in cash. the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for an unlucky libel upon Edwin For- rest; and now, although he was not a rabid sup- porter of General Scott, he is compelled, by the law of rotation, to turn over the naval stores at Brooklyn to a Tammany sachem. Hiram’s gone. <i Quire WetcomE.—The city watering carts being all out of repair, there is no telling to what extent we might have been permitted to suffer from the dust had not the soft spring rain yesterday laid it down. It was quite welcome: Providence is merciful. Momentovs Question-—Will Mr. Dickinson decline the Collectorship ? Mrs. Fillmore’s Remains, The remains of the lamented Mrs. Fillmore ar- rived here by the train, via Camden and Amboy, las evening, and were received at the landing by a few personal friends, among whom we noticed his Honor Mayor Westervelt, Messrs. Maxwell, Bokee, Brady, Tallmadge, Phenix, Howard, Haws, and Hoxie, and were conveyed to the Irving House, where ample arrangements had been made for their reception. It was observable that his great affliction had deeply marked the countenance of Mr. Fillmore, and all who ‘beheld him, with his son and daughter, could not but commisserate with them in their irre- parable loss. Messrs. Livingston, Wells & Co., tendered one of their new spring carriages to convey the remains of Mrs. Fillmore to the Irving House. The Erie, Buf- fale, and New York City Railroad, and also the Hud- son River and Central Railroad line to Buffilo, ten- dered special cars for the President's family and friends. They leave at six o'clock this morning, by the Hudson river train, direct to Buffalo, accompanied by Mr. Hemenway and lady, Mr. Powers, and Mr. Jewett, of the Albany Register, and D. D. Howard, Esq., of this city. The foreign news per Niagara, at Halifax, (so far as re- ceived,) was considered quite favorable, both in a com- mercial and financial point of view. The effect in this market was favorable to cotton and breadstuffs. The former was more active, and the sales reached about 8,000 bales, closing with an upward tendency in prices. State flour was also firmer, and common brands sold at $4 6234, which was fully 26 cents per barrel dearer than the quotations in the early part of last week. The proposition broached in the Legislature for laying offa large park in the upper part of the city, between Fifth and Eighth avenues, was condemned, Many mer. chants are in favor of Jones’ Wood being secured for park, but think the scheme, so suddenly sprang upon in the Legislature, smacked of real estate speculation oa the part of private tndividuals. De Corn seemed to read from. After a little the boy saw De Corn retire to a dark angle of the store and draw a pistol from his pocket, raise it, and fire at the de- ceased, who fell and instantly expired. The murderer ran away immediately, taking the weapon along with him. It was a large, long, and new pistol; at least so the boy describedit. The ball penetrated directly into the re- gion of the heart, and lodged about the edge of the right shoulder blade. Capt. Carpenter, of the Fifth ward, attend- ed, with his officers, and conveyed the body te the station house, having firstsent several policemen in pursuit of the murderer. The deceased was a very respectable looking young Frenchman—name at present unknown—but nothing has been found in his pockets by which he eould be identified. He is dressed in a black dress sack coat, dark pants, with a red stripe, a dark vest, and light check cap, with shoes and white cotton socks. He has ona clean linen shirt, and a narrow black silk cravat, with the shirt collar turned over in the Byron fashion. He had only a three cent piece in his pocket, with fragments of papers. Upon one of the pieces were written a few lines as if the commencement of a love letter. Coroner Hilton will hold an inquest this evening, after Surgeon Fennell has made a post mortem examination. The boy Louis Steamer, and a workman in the store, will be ex- amined. The excitement in the neighborbood is intense, and no further particulars could be learned. Steamer says that he thinks the deceased was named —— Slellville. At about half-past three o’clock, Mrs. Melville, wife of tn the Fifth ward atetinn hense, in a carriages snscenpanied by Mer, Racantio, proveletor of the Franklin Square Hotel, and stated to Captain Carpenter that she had been informed that her husband was mur- dered, or shot, and was at the station house, and that she wanted to see the body. Mr. Rucastle then informed the captain that Mrs. Melville boarded at his house, and he believed that the man charged with the murder was then secreted in the room of Mrs. Melville, from the fact that at about 11 o'clock that morning he saw a man boaring the description of the accused enter the room occupied by Mrs, Melville. Accordingly, Captain Carpenter proceeded forthwith to the room, accompanied by Mr. Rucastle; the door was forced open, and De Corn found secreted in the closet; his person was searched, and in his pocket was found a pistol—one of Colt’s revolvers—which he ac- knowledged be had discha: at the deceased, and in- flicted the fatal weund. ‘The accused was taken into custody, and conveyed to the station house, there to avait the holding of the Coroner's inquest. ‘The trunk Le fe Mrs. Melville was brought to the station house, and when opened a largo number of let tera were found, showing quite an extensive corres) a. ence between herself and gentlemen admirers. ere was also found in the trunk a daguerreotype likeness of De Corn, the man under arrest for the murder. STATEMENT OF MRS. MELVILLE. The wife of the deceased, at first sight, is not very pre- possessing in her appearance, but becomes more intefest- ing on acquaintance. Her conversational powers are very good. She converses readily in the French lan- guage. She is of medium stature, rather short in person, dark complexion. black hair, and dark piercing eyes. ‘There appears to be much determination in her disposi- tion, yet withal perfect nonchalance. But to use her own language, sho ssys :—‘I was born in Connecticut, and shall be 19 years of agenext October; my parents are dead; ry maiden name is Emma Eugenia Woods ; I was educated in Philadelphia, and have welled considera- bly; my uncle is in California; about a year ago my uncle sent for me to visit California; I started, and, ar. riving at Chagres, was taken with fever, and there’ re. mained sick for six weeks, and being unable to Proceed, returned back to New Orleans, and there became ac. quainted with this poor unfortunate man, Eugene Mel- ville; we returned to New York in August last, and in October we were married ly the Rev. Mr. Verren, and Mr. De Corn and Mr. Giraud were both present at the ceremony, since which time we have lived together until the last eight days past; I have an income of my own of $€00 a year, which my husband used to take from me, and spend, leaving our board unpaid; ever since our marriage I have supported him; he latterly became jealous, and threatened frequently to take the life of Mr. De Corn; Mr. Corn bas been a good friend both to Melville and myself. he has loaned me money to enable me to pay my beard; there has never been any im- proper intimacy between myself and Mr. De Corn. Coroner Hilton proceeded to the station house, at a quarter past four o’elock in the afternoon, and immo. ¢iately summoned the following gentlemen, who were sworn upon the JU! Jos, Mecks, 11 Beach at. J J. Lasher, 167 Duane st. D.B Palmer, 868 Washing’ P. 1, Walker, 76 Warre RY. Fred’k Farr, £0 Thomas st. J, G. Reuse, 72 N, Moore st, ©. Wright, 6th Ward Hotel. J. H. Welch, 35 Leonard st. 8. N. Fecking, 181 Franklin. A.Van Valon, 60 Vandam at. L, Ventura, 106 Prince st. Jer’h Casey, 81 N. Moore st, N.B. Blunt, Eeq., the District Attorney, was in at- tendance, and after the Coroner took his seat, the follow- ing testimony was taken :— TESTIMONY. Plerre Giraud sworn—I reside at the corner of Reade and Greenwich streets; Tam in the butter business as a trade, i have Mr. Louix De Corn as my partner; he is the prisoner now presentI knew the man now lying dead at this Place; his name ia Melvelle; Ihave known him for about the lust five years; in my opinion he once gave some few French lessons, but in this city he had no regular busi- year he has been here, 1) think, sinee last May or June; 1 was acquainted with bim previously, in Cincinnati, Ohio; ke had_no regular business there,’ oceasionaly he taught French pupils; he bas been in the habit of ooming into my = of business often; I never wished him to come in there, hut my partner. the priconer—tolerated him more; [had known him before, and his character was not good in Cincinnati, and that was the reason I did not wish him to come to my house ; I have told him so, bat he always took it asa joke; my partner was good na- t and did not wish to tell him this, so as to offend Professional lobbying, it was declared, had become en intolerable evil, and detrimental to sound or useful | legislation. The woryt measures, or those intended to | enrich speculators in real estate, ia banking, or benk | note shaving, generally had the largest lobby repre- | sentation. | Wa + that bank bills of other States should be re- | deemed here ata half per cent dicount, while our own | banks were compelled to redeem their Villy at only one. quarter of one per cent discount? Yet, it was said, that | 4 large lobby influence yas at work to defeat this jast | legislation ! | crusade. Recorder Tillou is desperately seri- | George F. Alden of having sent us the docu- the Assistant Aldermen, silly as the reports | gument. So furjous is its choler that it refuses task they have undertaken. Judge Beebe | avows a predilection for the incomplete and like Curtius, they must be engulphed in the | commendable fortitude under the affliction. If Meanwhile, the reformers themselves are being | selves, the language used by the Times is, we placent cronies. He ought to have foreseen | sting of defeat, the editor of the Times has close deformities not Jess loathsome than those | gers, and the editors of the Tribune. to both parties. Courage, Mr. Butler, in expo- ral disposition and habits of life were likely to you both. of acting as our correspondent at Albany. The will disappear, and sources of corruption, hy- | ral terms, ‘a member of the delegation.” Now, the cosmical purificators—courage. the New York delegation, sent us the report manity, in the Tribune and Times of yesterday are en- the following hard old fogy specimen of wit, | opinion that had Mr. Alden, or any other mem- of people which swarm within and around this | eyinced a very laudable desire on his part to Legislature to convert so much of the island as lies could otherwise have obtained. hope some member will move an amendment to in- id beasts for its use and occupancy. ‘The whole { by the Duke of Tuscany, with the condition witness; for how any disinterested person, living | They will, perhaps, make their first grand debut wholesome lungs. accessible, free of cost, to | They have a fair prospect now of turning the of Paris, of Brussels, of Dresden, of Vienna, contagion. with which these cities abound, we perpetual pestilence. Give us the park, in the | some party or other, asa candidate for Congress, a population probably exceeding six hundred bank of the North river is filling up with the appropriated to villages and villas, stores, fac- crease of the business and population within Hudson, and the heights of Jersey, the poor air to the windy. sandy, dusty, desolate, and We plead, then, in behalf of this park, as sands upon thousands of men, women, and streets, and toiling, from necessity, in the bad throughout the night, for their daily bread, the heats of summer at Saratoga, Sharon, scarcely the abatement of twenty-four hours re- and their wives and children would be a city treat, in the sultry midsummer, for the odd would be the pure, uncontaminated, invigorating fetid exhalations of reeking alleys and filthy menting mortality of New York wonld be sunshine, and forest and open fields, and foun- ever, that the sanatary condition of the city lation of the lungs of our industrial classes, be diminished. by affording to the masses of the conjectured from the ameliorating influcnces of be Paris without them. It would be, more park! citizens, and to strangers coming among us our summer visiters for pleasure and busine The patk—-the park—iet us have the yark | In reference to frands, of breaches of trust, whether in | State cMcers or private indiy:duals, it was sald that the | * ¢ was married, I beleive, ia last October ; Twas a ss at the marriage ; he was married in this city ; ce Leame from Cincinnati, | heard from my partner, the prisoner, and a Mrs. Barker, that the deceased bad sold all the clothes and rings and jewels of his wife, and that the dress she had on was not her own; I saw him Jast about two weeks before this (yesterday) morning ; his name was Eugene Melville; 1 did not know that first name was Rugene’ until my return from Cincinnati; r weeks ago I heard that t not treat his wife well: Ih , and that sh this morning ; about threo ‘or be deceased, Mr. Melville, hat her unele was ‘oming soon from California, Nd pay it back to him; my partner, soon after, nid that he Marned that both the deceased man and hia wife reoelved $408 mouth each, and that, a short time | it i 4 ii i ri i | F a sli Hees ay £ 4 Fr i iF Melville; we Went through Mrs. Barker visited our place she visited was about two or this time Mrs. Melvelle and the same house; about two or three first saw Mrs. Barker; she came to my house my partner; I did not know her then, rtner afterwards told me that was Mrs. Barker; I Berd her name mentioned by my partner before; before this time my partner spoke of an lish lady, who had been in Paris, and knew Melville there; about twelve ov i at ers i Mrs. Barl me to my house with — Teer aud at, that time she vas stil boarding In the same house with Mr. and Mrs. Melville; she brought the letter to my partner; I believe that at that time Mr, Melville was from town: Mrs. Barker told me that the letter was from Mrs. Melville to my partner; I told Mrs. Barker that my partner was out then, and, upon my saying that I knew ali about his affairs, she said, to me, “How miserable that woman, Mrs. es ins and how good it would elp her to go to some other Jace from such a man;” Mr. De Corn came in beforé irs. Barker left the store, at this time Mrs, Barker sald, if piey, did he would kill them ; I went out this morning ta Uy Fine tattar. and returned about 10 or 11 o’clock tothe store; I then saw sed dead in the store; diately room in know where he kept his letters exce; T caw letters there from his cousin Louisa Barker sworn—I reside at No. street; I board there, with Mrs. Wilson; there for the list six or seven weeks; before that I lived at the Franklin Square Hotel, for three weeks, I thinks I came to this city in the latter part of January last, im a ship named Patrick Henry; I went from the ship Franklin Square Hotel upon the afternoon of the landed; these are the only apinene Thave lived in since E came to this country; I came from London to city; I knew a man of the name of me Mel- ville; he boarded in the house with me in street, with his wife; I first saw him in Paris about six years ago; I boa in the same hotel with hic at Paris; Idid not see him again until! saw him im Lis- enard street, in Mrs. Wilson’s, about a week after I went ere; he ized me at once, and introduced me to hig wife; they come to the same house to board; we re- cognized each other mutually; he boarded there himself until this very morning; I last saw him at nine o’clock, when he left the house; about a week ago his wife sepa: rated from him, and went to board at the Prone, Hotel, through my ers eked my room ere ispenard street jo! irs, was es oe his violence towards her : ay of their arrival to the day their separation their quarrels were vio- lent and unceasing; he was in the habit of beat her; she told me so, end he acknowledged it, and her pardon before me; from hin violent conduct in house the inmates called him the ‘‘ Madman,’’ he ad- mitted that he had struck his wife once over the head. with a stick; he asked her pardon upon his knees, in my presence, and said, ‘‘ She should have patience with ashe had once been deranged, and confined in a house in Paris; the quarrel was because he had taken twenty five dollars from her which. had been lent her by a relation; upon that occasion she told me that he had taken her earrings, jewels, shawls, clothes, and eve: she had of dress and sold them, and this was what the quarrel was abouts. - he admitted all this in my presence; he said these things should not occur again; 1 am acquainted with (ord ry soner by sight; he was ‘in the habit of calling to see Mr. Melville and hia wife, in the capacity of a medical man; Mr. Me le told all the people in the house that the pri- goner was-a medical man, and that he brought him to see his wife; I never heard Mrs. Melville say that the prisoner was a medical man; Mrs. M. said she could not live with her husband, that her life was in danger from his violence, and that she would leave him until her unele came from California; I think she said the name of: her uncle was Woods; I always heard the deceased speak wellof Mr. De Corn; he even spoke well of him yesterday: (Wednesday) evening; I was in the habit of visi fers pe Melville, atthe Fravklin Hotel, and I always found her alone; she was employed at’ needlework, and I never. found any person there with her except a dre ‘i never heard her speak of any person except to hope for the return of her uncle; she said ehe was most grateful to Mr. De Corn, as he had kindly ad- vanced her money to save her from destitution until her uncle would arrive from Cal'fornia. The firat time 1 crow saw Mra, Melville was in Lispenard street; I know that Mrs, Melville had one or two letters from her husband since she left him; I am acquainted with the handwriting of Mrs. Melville and that of her husband ; the direction of the letter now shown to me is in her handwrit The letter shown Mr. Blunt was directed thus—‘‘L. Seville, care of Sutherland.” (The Coroner marked it as No. 1.) Witness continued—T do not know the handwriting upon the seeon@ E S com| a letter now shown toine; the daguerreotype likeness now- shown to me was shown to me before, by Mr. Melville, who told mo that it was a Hkeness of her, Mra. Melville’s: unele, Mr. James Woods; I never saw the likeness in the: hands of Mrs. Melville; Mrs. Melville passed by the name of Mrs. Stanley, at the Franklin Square Hotel, lest her husband should find her; she passed by this name for the last week while she boarded there; Mr. Sutherland called to see Mrs. Melville once, but I never saw him hee the once; I was very much astonished at recei a addressed to me by Mr. Sutherland, of which I could not. wake head nor tail; I took the letter to Mrs. Melville for explanation; che suid it was for her and kept it. ‘The following is a copy of the letter:— Dear Madame Bink to Miss Woods that at th r Madamo,—Please say to c Broadway Port office there is'a note from me directed ag sre, desired it should be. Say to her not to fail in any one of ite directions, for they are of vital importance to her. Tsball ree rey, move that ie made bY, her or any other person dur- ne the day until she is beyond the reach of harm. fully your servant, ¢. LOUIS SUTHERLAND” That was the same letter rent teghe; I took s note from her to Mr. De Corn upon the morning when she left her husband, asking of him’ to advance her some money to- meet her wants until her uncle would return: I have seen some five or six persons visit her when her hus- band was away; her husband was in Connecticut upon the day she left’the house at Lispenard atreet. Louis Steamer, sworn—I reside and work with my best, at the comer of Greenwich and Reade strosts; wy parents are dead; are Mr. Giraud and Mr. De dorm; Tikpew the ‘teceased, coming into the store very often; he would ask for Mr. Le Cor when be came in: I was there this morning about ten o'clock. when Mr. Melville came into the store: he said, “Is Mr. De Corn in,” he bad a big cane in his. hand; [a large ivory stick shown to witness:) this ix the same stick which he then had with him; this was the first time that ever I saw him have a stick with him; I replied to him that Mr. De Corn was notin; he arked me was he in tho office, and P said not; he them sat down upon a chair, and said he would wait for him; he tried to open the office door, but Mr. De Corn was in; at this time he looked very Lad and sharp at me; in about ten minutes afterwards Mr. De Corn came’ im {hrough ihe Reade street door; when he came in Mr. Melville rose from the chair, and took a letter out of his pocket, and banded it to Mr. Le Corn; after that spoke (in French, which I did not understand > then Mr. De Corn’ looked at the letter, and handed. it back to him; after that Mr. Be Corn sai the deceased ‘ must wait a little for him,” and he wen into the yard where the bakehouse is; Mr. De Corn said the words, ‘ wait a little,” jn English; in going into the little area he walked about twelve or jfifteen feet from the - deceased; Mr. De Corn returned in a short time, and turn- ed round about six feet from tlre deceased; he took a pis- tol from the side pocket of his coat, and held it in hig right hand, and then shot him; during the time that Mr. Te Com was away, Mr. Melville (the deceased) said no- thing. Oue of Colt's oplinder revolvers—six tmrrellod—was shown to witness, having five of the barrels loaded and capped. itness continued—This pistol is the one thathe shot the deceased with ; after Mr. Melville was shot ho ex- claimed, ‘Oh, Mr. 'De Corn ;”’ after the man was shot, Mr. De Corn ran out of the door, having put the pistol: into his pocket ; he ran into ; Mr. Melville - said nothing more ; after Mr. De Corn came into the store, Mr. Melville grasped the stick in the midille, and. drew the letier from his pocket and showed it to him, Here the prisoner stated —very much excited—that the deceased had followed him to his office door with the. cane in his hand, and that he took up the pistol in solf- defence, and told him he would shoot him right away if he did not desist. Witness continued—T did net hear the prisoner oall for Mr. Cirand to hulp him. Antoine Blinnvel, sworn—t reside and work at the cor- ner of Reade and Greenwich streets, with Messrs, Giraud & De Com; between 10 and 11 o'clock this morning Mr. Melville came into the store. and asked me for Mr. De- Corn; T said “he was out;”’ after that the deceased look- edall round the basement for De Corn; he did not be- lieve that he was out, and looked in upon the office win- dow; he asked me to open the door of the office, whioky was locked; he said *‘to let him seo if Mr. Do Corn was in there;”’ I opened the door and he looked round the office; he said to me, “Do you know where Mr, De Corn ig gone,” Teaid, ‘I did’ not;” the deceased Icoked very mad, and had a Wrge cane ia his hand; I never saw hite Have a cane before; he thon went out'and said, “I will call again,’ he came back in about ten or fifteen mi nutes, and went away a second time; he again asked for- Mr. De Corn; in about nve minutes Mr. De Corn came in, and the deceased was there; they talked togethor, but I do not know what they said; I heard the the report of a pistel in about one or two minutes after I fret saw Mr, De Corn; 1 paid no attention to what they were saying when they were talking; 1 saw Mr. De Corn take @ pistol from his pocket and put it in again; Mr. De Corn was then in the shop bebind the partition; after ho érew the pistol from his pocket ho went from waere L was at work into the store; then’ I heard the report, but did mot see the man shot; after the pistol was fired, he returned to the same place from which he it, and put it in hix pocket, and said, ‘© killed that bad man;” he then left the bouse, upon the Reade street door; he wont aw hat time; then I went townids Mr. Melville, and I foun’