The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1853, Page 4

JAMES GORDON BENNETT. * PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASBAU STE. | FEE rer ores See neives he sb any part? | ag ag hand wane ane Pauses eriree NO NOTICE ef ance1ymose ‘communications. We do not ose "GLE LETTERS by mall, for Subser';tione,o7 with Adver- Bisemente, to be post pyiid, tr’ the ; ostage will be deducted from Be re JOB PRINTING emeadted with neuiners, cheapnoce, and AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWBRY THEATRE, | —Towx ‘axn COUNTRY Brouann UI- Cuanror ST savus, BROADWAY THEA’ pre. Broadway—Miceern. BURTON'S THEAT gx. Chambers strest—Suz Wout aso Sux Wourn Nu” Pus Toopuss. NATIONAL TH) ja7RE, Chatham street—OLp Tout Hoves—Pavoy tu, Prezn—Curono7oRM. WALLACK’S T) Nosmne—tne KR ST. CHARLES orneL—Puaty SEATRE, Broadway—Mvcu Avo anour avenw. ) THEATRE, sowery—Wanpsrina Mra- Deoron— dacnarn. AMERICAN yaasUM—Afterncon—Boors at rae Swan oan oral geyn. Bvening Willow Co: CHRISTY’* x me 2 OPERA HOUSE, 473 Brosdway—Ermiorian Cusurr’s Orena Trovurs. 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We eannet refertothe deplorable accident which oc- eurrred on board the steamer Jenny Lind, coming as it does in such quick succession upon the late lamentable catastrophes which have happened more immediately in our midst, without a shudder, as the awfulness of such scenes are pictured in our imagi- mation; and we are forcibly led to ask ourselves where can we look for safety from such haphazard casualties, and when is this wholesale hurrying of buman beings into eternity to cease? But we shall probably soon forget these accidents, and the grasa will hardly have time to get green over the graves of the victims, before the causes which brought them to their untimely end will also be removed from our memory. The loss of the steamship S. 8. Lewis is another important item in the California news, to which we have before referred. Intelligence from the mines continnes to bear a cheering aspect, and the miners continued to turn in their piles of golden treasure, which was despatched by each steamer bound for the Atlantic cities. The Illinois, which is gow due from Aspinwall, has on board nearly $2,600,000, which, added to the shipment by the steamer of the first of April, and the amount on freight in the Brother Jonathan, makes the sum of $5,000,000, which left San Francisco during the past month. A despatch from New Orleans announces the ar- wival there, in the Philadelphia, from Aspinwall, of Gen. Villamel, thg first Charge d’Affaires ever sent from the republic of Eucador tu this country. New Orleans is the General’s native city. Coroner O'Donnell held an inquest yesterday on the badies of the two brakemen who died the day before at the Ci:y Hospital, from the effect of injuries reeeived during the recent collision on the Paterson Railroad, near Bergen Cut. The investigation was necesearily limited, as the Coroner had no jurisdic- tion out of this city, and thejury could merely recom- mend the authorities of New Jersey to take cogni- zance of the matter. This they did, and censured the agent, Mr. Greene, for his carelessness in leaving the station before he had served the condactor with the new time table. We hope this matter will not be allowed to rest here, but tbat the authorities of | New Jersey will have it thoroughly investigated, and punish the party or parties through whose ne- glect two lives have been lost, and several persons seriously injured, In addition to the report of the inquest alluded to in the preceding paragraph, we publish the expres- sion of sympathy by the American Medical Associa- tion relative to the disaster at Norwalk, together with the result of the election which was held yesterday, for officers of the New York and New Haven Railroad. The Legislature of Connecticut has adjourned til! next Tuesday. During the interim the special com- mittee will pursue their investigations concerning the catastrophe at Norwalk. What will eventually be done in the case few will venture to form an opinion, particularly since the Senate rejected the bill making steamboat owners liable in the sum of five thousand dollars for deaths caused by explosions, &c, However, it is still hoped and believed that laws will be passed in that and nearly every other State in the Union, sufficiently strong to at least pre- vent, so far as human foresight can, the repetition of such melancholy disasters as we have of late been ealled upon to record. Wor epecial and other despatches from Washing ton have considerable to say respecting the conclu sion arrived at by the cabinet upen the subject of foreign appointments, to which the aitention of thore interested ix direc’ It is somewhat gratify- ing to learn that the ence in the Gardner case has at last been closed, end that counsel will ty-day commence sumining up. Th. is now some proba- vility that we shall ase: e result of this long and rether tedious coutreversy before the close of the month, at least. A Igrge number of criminals were yesterday een: tenced'in the Court of General Sessions. Among the nnmber was a youth named Robert Burns, con- » cted of highway robbery, who was sentenced to Chaun cy! arkin, alias Gol, Fillmore, pleaded guilty to an ‘ndictment char ging him w th obt. ning money under false pri tence’ 4 from W. H. Brown, shipbuilder, and was remanded for sentence. T! e excessivel’ crowded state of our columns pre: vents us from r eferring particularly to a large num. ber of telegt? phic despatches from all parts of the country, 48 ell] as much other interesting and jm. : portant m/ ,tter published to-day. Besides the re ports of t,he anniversary meetings, the inside-pages contain * ,he proceedings of the Art Union Investigat- ing Co’ amittee; Letter from Nicaragua; Late News from 'Zuenos Ayres; Accounts of Trotting Matches over the Union and Hunting Park Courses; Financial an’, Commercial affairs, &c. Tne Gola Countrtes— Australia and Califor- nia. “ Gold! gold! gold! is still the cry from all sides. Gold in Carolina, and gold in Missouri ; gold in Texas, and gold in Canada; gold in the North, in the South, in the East. and in the West; everywhere mountains of geld, streams rolling Pactolus-like over golden sands, ships and steamers freighted with bags of dust, bars of the solid metal, and ingots of fine gold. Fresh discoveries follow each with magical ra- pidity. Farmers plough their fields with ner- vous anxiety lest a nugget of the bright yellow treasure should escape their watchful eye. Spec- ulators will buy any location that can produce enough metal to pay twenty-five per cent on the cost of working it. One man buys up all the tailings that have passed through the crush- ing mills, and invests his capital in the pur- thase of a new machine, werranted to exhaust the quartz. Gold from the bosom of mother earth, gold from refuse washings. gold from mountain ridges, and gold from sloping valleys —-still it comes, and adds a monstrous item to the conventional wealth of the world. Enough of speculation as to the results of the golden fever. Suppose we do produce two or even three hundred millions of gold a year, what then? Your happiness and ours, friend reader, will not be much affected thereby. Your spoons may be gold instead of silver, your cash may be in eagles instead of bank notes, your remittances to Europe may be in ingots instead of barrels of flour or beles of cotton. But none of these changes will alter the pulsa- tion in your veins, or disturb the charming lit- tle arrangements you have made for Marian and the children. You would not be the richer if a thousand million of gold were annually depo- sited at the mints. Let us leave castle-build- ing te those of our neighbors whose time hangs heavy on their hands, and see if we cannot draw some practical inferences from the news from the great gold fields to which our acquaintance are flocking in such numbers. : Australia has, without a doubt, produced more gold than California in the same space of time. English geologists prophecy a still larger yield. Sir Roderick Murchison. who claims, not without a fair show of reason, the credit of having been the first to indicate the gold de- posits in Australia, is confident that whena sufficient number of men are at work on the placers, the crop will far exceed one hundred millions per annum. It is quite natural that Sir Roderick should make the most of his for- tunate discovery ; but without disparagement to his judgment we may be permitted to attach some weight toa more disinterested witness. We are assured by the celebrated author, William Howitt. who has gone to Australia for the pur- pose of furnishing the British public with cor- rect information respecting the state and pros- pects of the colony, that the actual yield of gold is much less than that reported in the newspapers. The colonial press, he tella us, are naturally interested in exaggerating the receipts of gold. and have frequently overstep- ped the bounds of truth, with a view to induce emigrants to adopt Australia as their home in lieu of the United States. As an instance of the dishonest speculation which is being carried on, he mentions instances in whieh the same nugget of gold was earried round from one pit to the other, credited to several in succession, and reported in the newspapers as having been found in half adozen. A valuable discovery enables the proprietor of a placer to sell it at a handsome profit ; and the “loan” of a large nugget will answer his purpose equally well. Many of the holes which are supposed to have produced from $25.000 to $30.000 owe their reputation to a manceuvre of this description. It is needless to remark that no imposture can be practised on those who derive their in- formation from the returns of the Imperial officers, or from the published manifestoes of the Australian packets, but we fear that these are rarely tonsulted by those who emigrate to Australia. The bulk of the emigrants resolve to expatriate themselves after reading a glow- ing account of the diseovery of a large nugget, (which had perhaps heen discovered half a dozen times before.) or of the enormous yield of a hole whose proprietors had carefully plugged it with lumps of gold before they no- tified the Sydney papers of its wealth. In the second place, the most wonderful mis- takes have beea made about the climate of Aus- tralia. We have deen assured that the island was aGarden of Paradise, where neither cold nor hest inconvenienced the miners, and where a serene sky and a genial sun were perennial. Dwellers in the foggy British isles. in the frigid and torrid zones of America, havé sighed for g9 blest a clime. Now, however, that we have disinterested testimony on the subject, we find that the temperature of this paradise sometimes varices as much as sixty degrees in twenty hours, and that the extremes of heat and cold are not only felt, but felt at extremely short intervals of time. The “fine salubrious climate” which has been so much vaunted in’ the English papers, turns out to be, in the gold districts, scarcely less unhealthy than the Southern swamps. Dysentery, rheumatism, cramp, and influenza, are permanent companions of the miners. Hardly a soul, says William Howitt, has escaped the contagion. And, not content with giving us his own testimony, he quotes the opinions of men whe have lived in all quarters of the lone to prove that, all things considered, the climate of Australia is the most unhealthy and unpleasant iu the world, To their verdict he adde. by way of confirinat’on, a statement of the frightful proportion of deaths which have occurred am@®g the miners. We wish to draw attention to these facts be- cause we believe that William Howitt is in every respeet a trustworthy esa, and be- é ds of our coun- Yen, not only from these States but even from California, are throwing up fair prospect cess for the indefinite eb rater in Australia, We might ilow- evidence the statements published a fow days since in this paper, showing that whil the necessaries of life were by no means cheap- er than in California wages were gencrally from two to three hundred per cent lower. We do not wish to be understood as under- be confine! in the St gte prison fer ten years. | vi NEW YORK HERALD. |: cultural prospects of Australia, It is undoubt- ‘Gdly destined to become a great and we trust a ‘free country. But we do wish those of our countrymen who are dissatisfied with their prospects here to be well aware of the obstacles they will have to encounter if they adopt Australia as their home. We wish them espe- cially to contrast with the system of deception, the fatal climate, and the over-abundant supply of labor which exists there, the well-known ad- vantages. the wholesome air, and the liberal prospects which California affords. All we ask is a fair comparison between the two. If after- wards they prefer the former it will be all the better for Australia, and for our part we heartily wish them God speed, Queer Doings of the A: ti-Slavery Societies— Abolitionism Sali Rampant. We published yesterday the proceedings in full of the anniversary meeting, on Wednesday evening last, at the Chinese Assembly Rooms. of the American Anti-Slavery Society; and we give tothe four winds of heaven this morning the queer doings at the meeting yesterday. in the Tabernacle, of the American and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society. There were about the usual proportions of treason, fanaticism, mock philanthropy, and dis- appointed malice, in the speeches of Wednesday. delivered by Lloyd Garrison, Edward Quincy, Lucy Stone, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Frederick Douglass. The only light, however, thrown upon the future inten- tions of this Society is, that their first object is to break up the American Union ; their second object is to break down and reconstruct the American churches, and then they are to follow up these achievements with the immediate and absolute abolition of slavery allover the South But, in the meantime, it is very evident that their underground railroads to Canada will be kept in full operation, and that every device and stratagem they can devise for reviving again the late sectional agitation of the slavery ques- tion will be resorted to. In a word. there is to be no peace with slaveholders—no compromise. no armistice—nothing but continued war, with- out quarter, till slavery shall have been extin- guished, amid that sort of blood and carnage which exterminated the whites in St. Domingo. But if the meeting at the Chinese Assembly Rooms was characterized by black sedition, dismal fanaticism, and the woman’s rights trumpery of Garrison and Lucy Stone. the second and more comprehensive gathering at the Tabernacle, embracing the foreign depart- ment of the general abolition movement, was enlivened by some incidents of a very peculiar and:amusing kind. It is well known that one of the heroes of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a good-looking. interesting mulatto fellow, of the name.of George Harris, and that. for lack of some better place of refuge, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe finally locates him, safe and sound in wind and limb, in Liberia. Now, as will ‘be seen from our report of the white and black gathering at the Tabernacle. this very thing of transporting George Harris to Liberia was a serious blunder on the part of the benevolent female historian of Uncle Tom. The Reverend Mr. Ray, a colored clergyman. and the Reverend George K. Downing, F. R. S&S. so justly celebrated for his famous oysters, Fried, Roasted, and Stewed, and who rendered himself very popular at Newport last summer for his skilful evasions of the Maine Liquor law, both protest- ed against the removal of Harris to the colored republic of Africa. It was not the thing. It was pandering to the slaveholders’ darling idea of colonization, while it so happens that the na- tive colored Americans have no particular fin- cy for the coast of Africa. Indeed. many of them would rather live here in the United States as bootblacks, whitewashers, and wood- sawers, than be members of. Congress in Libe- ria, And they are not going to go. And such are the sentiments of the Rev. Mr. Ray and Judge Downing for there is no better judge of a good oyster thanhe. Andso they protested against the colonizing of George Harris in the African republic of Liberia. Fortunately for Mrs. Stowe, the Rev. Mr. Bacon, (white man.) her private secretary. hap- pened to be on hand, and explained. in her be- half, that she had located George Harris in Af- rica somewhat accidentally—that if it was todo over again, she would take him to some’other place—that she was not an advocate of the policy of shipping off the free colored Ameri- cans to Liberia at all, but dead against it. And this explanation, together with a letter read by Arthur Tappan, seemed to be perfectly satisfactory to the Rev. Mr. Ray and Professor Downing—for he is o professor in the art of cooking oysters in every style, and deserves his title. The conclusion of the proceedings at the Ta- bernacle meeting were of a practical character, in view of the cause. They voted the collection of forty thousand dollars to aid in the revival of the slavery agitation all over the country,in speech@s, pamphlets. books, &. From all of which, including both meetings, the people of the South will understand that the great battle against their Northern enemies has yet to be fought. There {s anything but peace yet upon the slavery question, Botxy ror Evropr.—Among the passengers booked for Liverpool, in the list of the Pacific, which leaves to-morrow morning, are Hon. Ste- phen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from [lfinois, Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, a member of the House of Representatives from Philadelphia, and Hon- Geo. Briggs, one of the delegation from this city for the last four years. Judge Douglas doubtless gocs out for the laudable purpose of seeing something of the Old World, and, as the embodiment of Young America, he will proba- bly embrace the first opportunity to call upon Kossuth and Mazzini to ascertain how the land lies for the liberation of Europe. Mr. Chandler is an elderly gentleman, «nd. as a good Catho lic. goes out expressly to see the Holy Father at Rome. As his passport on this pious pil- grimage, he will take with him the blessing of our venerable Archbishop Hughes. Having proved, through » long industrious life, the vanity of all earthly things, (and especially of a branch mint in New York.) Mr. Chandler wil! return with the benediction of the Pope all the better prepared for the enduring realities of the kingdom of heaven. George Briggs goes out to enjoy himself after the fashion of the world ; and when he has seen the English lions, and “found out whether they have or have not a branch mint in London, he will proceed to Paris to give a little ex- ereise to his knowledge ‘of the French '4n- guage, to shake hands with the Emperor, io see the Empress, to walk the boulevards and the public gardens, and to take an afternoon ride now and then in the Bois de Boulogne, He will also visit the opera, the theatres and such places. and go to the Cathedral of Notre Dame on first Sunday after his arrival in town. With Judge Douglas, he may also call in at Rome, to pay his respects to the Pope, before he returns. But if this party should happen to meet With ex-President Martin Van Buren, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Black Swan, in the pas- sage of the Alps. what a merry time they will have of it! Let the managers hurry up the Crystal Palace, or our expected summer visi- ters will all be running off to Europe. Democrats, ATTENTION.—The organ of the hardshells of this city boldly announces that with the meeting of the extra session of the As- sembly, or shortly thereafter. the party of this State. hard shells and soft shells, willybe required to show their bands upon the slavery question, for that the issue upon that subject has been dodged long enough. So it has been. Apply the test. Let us see where the party stands. The masses are in the fog; but the leaders ap- pear to be strangely mixed up with free soilers and abolitionists. Put the question. Question. Talk on ’Change. ‘The foreign news by the Cambria engaged conversation. In its general bearing it was not deemed to be of special importance. The commercial intelligence produced no effect in this market. As usual with the Halifax steam- ers, there was a disposition to wait the receipt of private letters before doing much. The sales of cotton reached 1,2€0 bales, at unchanged prices. A gentleman stated that he observed in the evidence of one of the witnesses before the coroner's jury at Nor- walk a rewark which might probably explain the mis- take of the haplessengincer. He testified that, in walking along the road to look for the signal, a tree was trimmed up to near its top, leaving a clump of bushy branches which strongly resembled the signal ball, and at rome points was in a line with it. It will be recollected that the morning of the accident, (May 5,) was ark and cloudy, accompanied by a fall of raia. It was therefore possible that the tree, witu its round busby top, might have been mistaken for the ball. He had uniformly and positively declared that he saw a ball up, while the evidence of such fact was agaiast him. Might he not. have mistaken the top of the tree for the ball? The Legislature were to reassemble next week. They would have many important subjects before them. Among others, there would be some additional legislation required for securing greater safety to travellers on rail. roads, and for the protection of passengers by ferry boats. The extension of the banking basis might also engage its attention. There was a difference of opinion as to the expediency of such a measure, and some persons con- demned it altogether. They seemed to think that we had free barks enough, and that the system was likely to be overdone on the present basis, and to extend it would be to make the matter worse. Some doub‘ed whether the Legislature, being convened in an extra session for specific purposes stated im the Governor’s message, their action could legitimately embrace general subjects, or whether it would be competent to take up and pass bills which had been rejected at its regular session. Should they take up rejected bills, or introduce new subjects, it was believed that they ought to repeal the usury laws; and as silver and gold coins were more plenty, they should prohibit the banks from issuing small notes, and especi- ally fractional bank notes, some of which were in cir- culation. Some merchants interested in the Australian trade expressed surprise that the news received from Port Philip at Quebec, down to the 3d February, one day later than that received in England, should have proved so extremely meagre and vague. It was found out, via Boston, that people were living under a great many tenta, and that a great many more would be required for shel- ter—which was known before. Nothing was said about the state of the markets, the yield of gold, or other mat ters of importance. There was not a Yankee skipper on Leng Islana Sound but who, in coming to New York from such an important point, would have brought enough news home in his head to have satisfied the public. The surveying expedition to Bhering’s Straits was looked upon with much favor. Its labora, if judiciously performed, might result in important services we our whaling ixterest in that quarter. Since the days of Capt. Cook very little had been done towards exploring the ad- jacent coasts and harbors of those celebrated Straits. The expedition might also examine into its capabilities for some future transit of telegraph wires to connect Ame. rica with Asia, If ever the Old and New World were Unked together by the telegraph, this would be the route. Capt. Cook met with » Russian navigator, while wintering in or near Nootka Sound, who exhibited a remarkably fine and wellexecuted chart of the Straits, ana, indeed, of that whole region of country. Could not our government obtain s copy of this chart, or of a later one, from the archives of St. Petersburg? ‘Tue TumaTres.—The respective places of amusement are crowded every night, owing probably to the great influx of strangers, who are every day arriving in the city to see the Crystal Palace, the Hippodrome, ani ather features of attraction, ani who likewise wish to while away an hour or two in one or other of the theatres. We would direct the attention of our readers to the adver" tisements for the programme of the performances in each establishment. Mr. Glenn takes his benefit at the Bowery; Forrest appears at the Broadway in “ Macbeth;”” ‘Miss E. Raymcnd sustains the character of Donna Hypolita, in the comedy of “She Would and She Would Not,” at Bur- ton’s; Messrs. Cony and Taylor appear at the National, and Mr. Wallack, the great comedian, will delight the patrons of his theatre by his able representation of Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing.” At the Museum, St. Charles, Christy’s Opera House, Wood's Minstrels, Ban- vard’s, Heller’s and Owens’, the entertainments are such as cannot fail to please the viriters. It should be recol lected that Castle Garden, the beautiful summer retreat, will give the firet sacred concert of the season, on San day evening next. Dodworth’s Cornet Band is engaged. City Intelligence. ARREST FOR EXTENSIVE POST OFFICE ROBBERIES. Our readers will no doubt recollect a statement which appeared in the Henaxp recently, of complaints made to the United States Post Office Department, by the Post Office officials of Germany, respecting a large number of letters arriving in that country from America in a muti- lated condition, the seals being broken, and in many cases gold coin having been abstracted. It may not be generally known that a custom prevails to a considera- ble extent, among emigrant correspondents of that class, of remitting gold coin, secured under wax seals, and it was such letters that were chiefly violated. This state of things was of course calculated to dis grace the government of this country, and it was so view. ed by Postmaster General Campbell, who very promptly placed the investigation in tne hands of a special azent of the department, who has been thus engaged for some time past, until he #ucceeded in tracing the depredations to Thecdere A. Rossie, one of the clerks in the foreign letter room. Plans have been adopted, it seems, in connection with the sailing of several of the last steamers, to asesr- tain with certeiaty that the frequent robberies were com mitted within the limits of the United States. This being settled, the next difficult matter was to discover by whom they were committed. This, too, was finally ascertained yesterday morning by the adoption of measures known only to the government agents; the one which was adopted in this instance was the placing of a gold ring uncer the seal ofa ‘decoy’ letter written in German, and which happened to be one of those depredated upon, while the agent was looking on from some seclu¢ed point in the office. Rostie har been in the Post Office several years, and has a family and highly respectavle connections, He had plenty of money, ubout $1,900 in bank notes being found under lock aud key in his private drawer ia the Port Office: The examination tskes place this day, before United States Commissioner Nelson. Mr, Holorook is the agent who bas Lad charge of this important case, and we have been informed that he has had the valuable co operation of Postmaster Fowler, Mr. Coffin, (the head of the foreign letter department) and Mr. Hallet AccinexT#&—Fractorep Lien—On Sunday night an Irish gir] pawed Bridget Filey, who lives at Hoboken, was on her return home from the city, and while in the act of stepping +n board the ferry boat her fot slipped. and was jaromed togther with part of her leg, between tas boit avd the platform on which xbe was stunding. The girl was so seriously injured that she wes obliged to bo cen- veyed to the hospital, where it was found necessary to te the injured limb. Yoaterday afternoon Joba who was drivirg »ccal cart in Centre «treet, was by the Hurlem train, with which he came’ into collision betore be wae awire of bia danger, and had bis ligbroken. He was conveyed to the City Hospital Cacmnve Exprogior.--An occurrence of this kind, which ix now, unfortunately, so common, ended fatall? op Sunday last. The victim was a servant girl, named Mary O'Brien, who was frigh‘fully burned the preceding Satnirday night, while filing a lighted lamp with the above danger sus fiuid, and died the following morning in thé | hospital. val kntelligence, The revenue cutter Sea Drift, Lieut. Randolph, from New York, arrived at Key West on the 26th ult, American Institute. The annual election of the American Institute was held yesterday, at their room, 351 Broadway, when the fol- lowing gentlemen were chosen trustees for the ensuing year, viz.:— President—James Tallmadge. Vice Presidents—Robert Lovett, Robert L. Pell, and D. ig Secretary Henry Meigs. ‘Secre tan ‘and Agent—Adoniram Chandler, Treasurer—Edward T. Backhouse. ‘The usual standing committees and managers of the ‘Twenty-sixth Annual Fair were also elected... There were only one hundred and thirty four votes polled at this election, as there was only one ticket run, and most of the officers and committees of last year were re-elected. The American Institute was established in 1828, and incorporated in 1829. The first fair was held in the fall of 1828, at Masonic Hall, (now called Gothic Hall.) The annual fairs have been since continued, without inter mission, at Masonic Hall, Niblo’s Garden, and Castle Gar- den, in succession. The next fair is to be held at Castle Garden, in October next. Great exertions, we under. stand, will be made to make the coming fair more at tractive than ever. The distinction between the fair ofthe American Institute, and that given under the au- spices of the Crystal Palace Axsociation, is that the former will be comprised, as previous fairs have been, of American productions and manufactures exclusively, while the Crystal Palace Exhibition will doubtless be prin- cipally occupied with the manufactures of foreign coun. 3, althongh American manfactures will form a share of the exhibition. ‘The American Institute is now in et condition as to pecuniary circumstances, the asvociation teing the own- ers of their fine building in Broadway, valued at one hun- dred thousand dollars. a select library of about seven thousand volumes, valued at ten thousand dollars, and various other property. It is expected that the income of the Institute this year will pay off a small balance due and leave the building free of incumbrance, with a hand- some surplus in the treasury. . Gen. Tallmadge has been President of the. Institute about twenty years. Cel William Few, John Mason and Mablon Dickerson have also been president of the insti- tute at various times since its organization. The origi- nalidea of the formation of this society was that of the late T. B. Wakeman. The name was given by Joseph Blunt, one of the original members. The Tammany Soclety. ‘The installation of officers for the Tammany Society or Columbian Order, took place last evening at the Old Wigwam. After the following officers were installed, an election took place, which resulted as follows :— Grand Sachem—Isaac V. Fowler. Father of the Council—George 3. Messerve. Scrite—Thomas K. Downing. Sachems—Elijah F, Purdy, George 8, Messerve, Anirew H. Mickle, William J. Brown, Thomas Dunlap, Jacob i, Vreeland, Andre Froment, Samuel Allen, Issac V. Fow- ler, Charles A. Denike, Stephen H Feeks, John Dunham, Henry Vandewater, ‘Secretary—Stephen C Duryea. ‘Treasurer—Cas par C. Childs. ‘Sagamore—John Becker. Wiskinkie—Jacob D, Letter. After the election, speeches were made Fowler, Judge Hogenboon of Hudson, Cochran, Elijah F. Purdy, and others. Postinaster fesers. John Police Intelligence. ARREST OF LOTTERY POLICY AGENTS. One day this weck an arrest was made by the police, on a warrant issued by Justice Welsh, of E. Morrison, broker, No. 51 William street, near Wall, George Ter hern and Joseph Mason, of 141 Nassau street, chargod with publishing s psper called the Reporter and Banking Circular, advertising the cons: lidated lotteries drawn in Baltimore. The arrest_was made under the following section of the Revised Statutes “No person shall, by printing, writing, or any other way, publish an account of an illegal lottery, game, or device, stating when or where the rame is to. be drawn, or the prizes taken, or where any ticket may be obtained therein, or in any way aiding or assis the same. Whoever offends sgsinst this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and on conviction be subject to fine and imprisonment.” The accused parties were held by the magistrate to answer the charge should an indictment be found against them by the Grand Jury. Marine Affairs. Tar Stra Yacur Norru Srar will be thrown open for the inspection of the public on Monday and Tuesday next, at the Allaire Works, foot of Cherry street, East river. Commence or San Francraco.—Between the 1st of Janu- ary and the Ist of April, 1863, there were entered at the port of San Francisco 282 veenels, of the aggregate bur then of 143,687 tons, of which 26 were steamers, 107 ships, 82 barke, 49 brigs snd 78 schooners. During the same period re were clearances, of 154,653 tons. Of these 39 were 102 sbips, 84 barks, 72 brigs, and 102 schoonerr, Ambngst them every marine power in the world had a representative. ‘Loes or 4 Wate Boat AND Crew.—The loss of a boat’s crew belonging to the whaleship Metacom, of New Bed ord, before published, occurred Dec. 23, during heav; weather, wi the boat was fast to a whale which sta: to windward. The persons lost were John C. Atwood, first mate, Jonathan Tarr, passenger, William Dunham, boat- ateerer, Levi Needham, Joseph Spencer, Geo. Spencer, seamen. Obituary. TON. JACOB BURNET, OF CINCINNATI. ‘The telegraph announces the death of the Hon. Judge Burnet, of Cincinnati, one of the pioneers of civilization and settlement in the Valley of the Mississippi, and one of the remnants of the old federal party of the days of Washington and Adams. The father of Judge Burnet was Dr. Wm. Burnet, of Newark, New Jersey, who was a member of the Continen- tal Congress, and physician and surgeon general of the Revolutionary army for the Eastern district. His son, Jacob Burnet, the subject of this notice, was born in Newark, New Jersey, in February, 1770, graduated at Princeton college, and was admitted to the bar in New Jersey in 1796, soon after which he removed to Cincinnati, where he has ever since continued to reside. Devoting himself to the practice of his profession, he for many years racked among the most distinguished members of the bar in Ohio. Under the territorial government he was ® member of the Legislative Council, and under the State government was a member of the Legis- lature, and active in supporting the government in the war of 1812, although opposed to the declaration of war. In 1821 he was appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Obio, which office he resigned in December, 1828, and was immediately after elected to the Senate of the United Stateg, to fill the vacancy occasioned dy the resignation of Gen. Harrison, of whom he was a devoted personal and political friend, as he was also of John Quiney Adams and Henry Clay. In March. 1849, he attended the inauguration of Gen. Taylor. at Wash: ington. and was at the head of 8 large delegation of the whigs o} jo who waited on the General to Rim‘on his election to the Presidency. cemerateigte Judge Burnet was the first President of the Astronomi- cal Society ef Cincinnat!, and was an active member after he wan eighty years of age. He wan also president of several other literary and cther institutions, and om the nomination of Gen Lafayette he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, a vers rare compli- ment. In 1847 he published an octavo volume of historic interest, called ‘Notes on the Early Settlement of the Northwestern Territory,” containing a vast amount of information on the rise and progress of theState of Ohio from his persons! reminiscences for over half a century. The Fir a. New Yorn, May 9, 1853, James Rezo, Esq. bones Ses Dear Sir:—Since I had the pleasure of seeing you this morning, I have received a letter from F. K. Stores, Eaq., of Panama, informing me that the Uaion Hotel, together with all the others in . and many native hute, irr were destroyed by fire on the 26th ult. [We Jearn that there was no insurance on the Union Hotel; the whole is a total loss—Eprror Henatp.) Brooklyn City Intelligenee. GANTYATION 4 THE Pouce Dxranruunt.—The fel- Common Council, for the re-organization of the Police De partment of the city of Williamsburg, have been made by Aldermen, in sommittee, for the several wards. They were all sworn in by Mayor Berry, at 1 o’ciock, P.M., on Saturday, at which time, in accordance with a resolu- tion parsed by ths Board on Monday evening, May 2, the old force was disbandej. The me ted are designated with an asterisk. First D. Hunt, ‘of the Second ward; Daniel Henry Guischard, Daniel De- Five appointments ard. Second ward—Charles re, Hugh O'Neil #8. Ward, B. mers, Se urphy, J. Cslhoun, enna. J. dle} oT all t. Third ward—*Chas. Kiehi, *J. Mullin, Win. Sheldrake, H. Boyce, R. Hovington, *G. Echneider, Robert Cox, J. Adama, J Pattieon, *N. Heints, E. Thompson, and James Luther. ity Intell, enoe, NN FREKHOLDERS.—The new Board met at ‘he Court House in Bergen on the 1ith inst., and orgavized by appointing E T. Carpenter, Director, and H. Van Wagner, Clerk. The standing committees for the year were appointed, and after ordering. by revulution, the sum of twenty thousand dollars to be raised for the urcof the county this year, an adjournmens took place. ATIFMPT TO THROW A PASSENGER TraIN OFF THR TRACK. — Severe) citizens of Jerrey City, who were on the Central Kailroad Monday evening, state that just before the train rrived at Clirton station, the locomotive came in contact with a heavy iron axle-tree, and spreng a leak in the boiler and the steam rushed out repidiy, filling the cars eith pmoke aed water, A small hand car was de spatched to Kaston for assistance, which arrived at mid- night. avd brought tbe train to Easton. Several at- temyte heve been made to throw the cars from the track on the New Jersey road. ‘ Political Intelligence. Colonel L. M. Keitt, has been erected to Conse the Thirt vistries of South Carolina, to fill the j mae vacant by the resiguation of Hon. W. F. Colsvo Riovn Ie.any Luarstarure.—The Rhode Assembly edjour on the 6th inst, after a four 4: at Newport. The most important upon besides the ection cf a United > tates Senator, tre prone of anuct calling @ convention to frame new canvtit jon, A eity charter wae granted to wi) town of .ewport. ACCIDENTAL POISONING OF A rover Hilton held an inquest fom vype morning, at 12tot street, between Second ard Third avenues, on the boly of George Washington Taylor,» child about five meothe. old, whose death was cau: by an overdose of Iauds- num, which was given in a mistake for paregoric. The first witness in pain; about six James Wopd's drug store for three cents worth of pare~ ee my little boy, about six years of age, went for it; t me a little vial with something in it which was labelled paregoric, with Mr. James Wood’s lasel; I was in the habit of giving the deceased paregoric, in duses Of a teaspoonful at a time: I gave half a teae spoonful of said medicine, which I supposed to be poregoric, mixed in cnid tea’ and sugar; I did net give him all of the mixture, I «uj there wie. about » quarter left; I then lai¢ ‘the child in the cradle; about @ quarter of an hour after I went to the cradle, and then the child smiled, but its eyes seemed to be set about fifteen minutes afterwards Mrs. Smith, who lives in the houre with me, came into my reom, and remsri tbat the child looked strange about its eyes an! that they were set; I paid no attention to it at this rime about haif hour after my 1usband came in, and re~ marked the child breathing heavy; I told my husband that I bad given the cbild half a ‘teaspoonful of vare- goric and that! was sure it was paregoric; I gaye him the bottle, but when he had smelled it he said was laudam m; J then took it to Mrs Smith, who lives im the next room, snd she said it was laudanum. and Mr. Wood, from whom it was bought, also said so. Mr Wo @ arked'the young man who was in the store, (Mr, Pxbor,> what the little boy asked for, and be answered parexorl but that he gave him Isudanum; Mr. Wood then after his brether, Dr. Wood. who lives next door to his drug store, and the doctor came down to see the childs before I went to the drug store the chill was insen.ivle; the doctor gave it medicire, ani rewaived in xttendanee: on it until 11 or 12 o’elock that night, and Mc. L Wood stayed from the time the doctor left till 5 o'clock in the morning. Dr Wood, the next witness, te:tified that the » from an overdose of Jaudapi tics, but that all bis remedies we: Mr. Wood, the owner of the drug store, stated thet Mr- Pabor, his -clerk, bad been in nix employment eleven, months, and that he had never nudes mistake uefore; he considered him capable of dispensing the ordinary medi- cines, and said that there were few prescriptions to.) he could not put up; his character was good, aud brs atton- tien to business strict, aud he could not account for the mistake he had made in this instance. The jury, aftera brief deliberatiou, rendered the fsilow~ ing verdict:—*That the deceased came to his death py am overdose of laudanum, administered to him through mistake,”” Dratas BY DRowxIxG —A man named Samuel Petarsom was accidentally drowned on Wednesday last, while ab tempting to get on beard of a echooner lying in a dock near the foot of Hartison street, North river, Whiier struggling in the water a plank was thrown to bim and every assistance rendered, but when taken from the wa~ ter life was extinct. Coroner Gamble held an inquest. yesterday on the body. at the Fifth ward station honse, which resulted in a verdict of death by secidental deown— ing From the testimony, it appears thet the deceasada wag intoxicated when he fall into the river. ‘On Wedrosday the body of an unknown min, ecfdently in a very advanoed state of decomposition, was found im the ‘North river, near Spring street dock, by the captaim of the towboat Plato, ‘The deceased was about five feet high, had brown bair and a Np His face was very much swollen, and the skin *s hands came off like a glove. He was drested in a overcoat, bine muslim overalls, cassimere striped puntaloous, white deawers, black rilk vert with brass buttons, black cravat, red. striped shirt, and » pair of boots, The verdict iu thie case was death by drowning. Srmir Rarrinas anp Necromancy.—Oue of the churches in the Presbytery of Chilicothe, Ohio, has suspended two of its members, who had been ecgaged im f spirit rapping. The Presbytery adopted the tollowiag | resolutions as to the rappings :— Resolved, That the practice of spirit rappings, (so called,) as it prevails in many parts, is, in view of thie Presbytery, a revival of the old abomination of necro-/ maney, 60 decidedly condemned in the word of Goi. s 5 Personai Intelligence. 4 ARRIVALS SEAWARD, Inthe steamship Premetheus from San Juan—Mra O #) Graffam, Miss S Gratfam, G Beecher Indy, infant and sor- vant, , A Azuelar, C Pinto, M Pinto, © Alvarado. Lieut D Hurst, G M Longacre, F Rovers, J A’ Carlyle, Mise Annet, F Lawrence, C Train. R Hug DH Jobneon, J Ring, HD Lammot Brown, Judge Bullock, lady and infant fant, BF Corbin, J B McLane and lily GF Lane, C H Lane. J smith and lad Mise A 2 Mail roy, JD Careners, | \ Bacon Mrs Grinis, Miss M Maynard, Master B Maynard, \j A C Cooke, WG Matthews, H G Kiligore, T Sti ens, J Smith and in= fant, J Anderson and! \y. AJ pincott, J Rogers, A ( ocker, P rick, J W Porter, AL Crane, J K Underwood, D M IToyt, W Helverston, RA Camp)«il, JW Campbell, P C Picke Connelly, 8 J Sader, 1. Carman, wife and infant, 3 P Wis- clits, R Martin, J Adams, E Mills, Catharine Mo~ Buckley, V Bask- king, BY Briggs, BC Woolston Gants, E Kellogg, MH Bradiey, § Wright, Ht Hope, J Bb Profit. CL Taylor, EW Freese, if Dunosn, J McDonnal JN Johnson, J Prend and lady, Dy penters, A Bennett, Jud Cronell, I S$ Cushman, E Soule, M Tattle, G Bay W Ssmpion, Otis Soul, Morris ‘Searl, W 8b John Rogers. J Lora and lady, JC Borry. L Cortes, Laman, E B Humpbroy, L Maun, F Hayden, J Warren. 5 Stanhope, W Downe, RH Adams, A Runyon—126 cabin amg 265 steerage ° it Ltverpool—W B D Rioh- 8, Spooner and wife, Mrs Kilby Paice, ards and wife, Mr and Mrs Geo . servant, Mra McMollon, Thos Charlton, H B Stanwoos Arnold, Kilby Paige, Jr, Mr Eustie, Rev Chandlar Robbing, D Safford and wife, and T. Boston, John Waugh, ‘orcester: Albert Clap) setts; Edw manta wife, three ohil~ H Martin, ‘Mr Irvin, John Arkham, wife: K Hamilton. Mr Brown, Mrs Arnold Geo ‘Thos Fowler, Jacob A Josh, J Ack~ % ; edith, ¥ J Ht Me: O'Neil Bailey Woods, New Yor Obio; M Cohn, 81 Wm ey New Orleans; Col C Cri ronto: Mr Me nd We ft Hamilton, Canada; W W Folleteyne and wife, C: Mrs Col Cratehley, child and nurse, and Mr Luider, ‘Wood and Charl wife Coburg: two Mestrs Howell Strachan and ehild, Jomaicas rr of despatches), Jose Herreras, lias, Juan de Ia Voza, Jose Va- al Avendans, and Antonio Areugs rgelles, Mr. ico—Total 99. steamship Roanoke from Norfolk and Ricimond— EJ Watson, T and Indy, W Humphroy, JW jiout BJ Kellam, ind: hildren, ‘W B Lassi In W Ford, nae t Edwards, Lieut J J Almy, USN N, Liew and two children, Mrs E James and four Barcet, A S Dozier, Mr Oliver, R G Staple Tim Stannard, Mr Horgan, Miss Annie Dui J Baxter and lady, Miss Dudley, “iss Lott Ca Fenti F A Cosgrove, WH Mitchell, Miss H Davi d_ child, it, G W Marris, W E ete S Heal: 8 Prat G Harri Court Calendar—This Day. Umitep Srarms Disrricr Covet.—Nos. 18, 31, 52, 34, 35, 36, 39 to 42. Surremx Court—General Term.—Special motions. The court will not sit on Saturday. Svrrmm Covrt—Circuit.—Nos. 222, 987, 572, 574, 28, 9, 575, 1745, 993, 581 to 687. Common Prras—Part First.—Nos. 855. 888 to Q01. Commox Pixas—Part fecond.—Nos. 9834, 841, 457, 958, 861, 963, 865, 868, 870, 874, 875. 765, 876, 860. 902. Sorznon CouRT—Two Nos. 2, 139, 505, 368, 528, a1, 155, 166, Branches. — ‘227, 485, 626, 527, 628, 541 to 636. 401, 987, 607, 538, 540, 641, 643 to 48, 549, 681 to Office of the Association for the Exhibition New York, May 7, 1%8.— the building’ erected’ by the juare will be ready te receive yn in the American Depart- to apply to ma- articles in 2B ebinery, She nvoctath bdnilding for ti ad notive will be hereafter «i 8 belonging to them will be received. The goods specified in t! rill be recoived om Forty: ‘seeond street, at the rost the Distributing leservo} ‘The Central Consolidated Line of New York Railroada will transport goods intended for Exhibition free of freight, om presentation he official cert of allot Al ding free vf expense 1 goods must be dilivered at the bui to the Associati WM. WHATTEN, Secretary. ‘Warnock’s Hats are commended for their deautifal model, superior quality, 4 of texture, and elogant finish, and because they ar to fit the h with eare. Warnock's hats prodvce ne hat hoadache when fitted. No. 275 Broadway, Irving ilouse, Mealio’s Hats for the Senson are the Most ements of the kind that were over desigued ta head of man. Call andsce them, and yon will . MEALIO’S bat und eap emporium is on orner of Broadway aud Canal streot, acecasible from all parts of the city. Straws! Straws!l—Hats! Hats! !—Freeman, No. # Fulton street, bas a very larze assortment of Panama, Leghorn, and braid liats, wholesale and retail, white beaver and all Kinds ofeummer hate, Fine molerkia hate, $3; extra quality, $30. FREEMAN, No. ® Fulton street, near Gold, «Up Boys, and Hat’ always impree: on the mini Bowery; and tl generaily—nt prices cheaper than any Hdering the quality of his goods, Ie fe much admired, ard is really a good artiole; whi tensive stock of children’s hate, caps, flats, &o , i of the Bowery, Call and soo i N G4 Bowery, between Prise and Houstor Summer Symptoms at Gontn'’s—fhe Pab- lic and Genin’s friends and customers, (the terms are almost .) are respectfully invited to his lower storo, nin summer styles of cent.cinen’s hats, iaclad- Rio, Sennet, C: diaph ing Panama, Marncutbo, GEN 214 Broadway, opposite St. ai The World's Progress.-Cythazoras would lave his diec les wonr clumsy, avkward hoes, made of thi bark of trees, but Brooks, at 675 Rrondway, presents then mannfactured of such deltcate Tootner and in euch » tast: style, thet they charra and captivate all. Go te BROOKS new store, ag well ag to his old one, 150 Fulton stroct, ‘here 1s n Magte,in the mber ThreomAi that ie doubtless one of the reasons why W. row summer hat takes the Tond, heing eqnal in qual style, &c,, to the moro expensive article sold in Brom I1'is light, elegans, durable, and oi «vod fixed color, and on of the mort gentlemanly articles out this yoar. Callan: Judge for yourself, at 1G Canal strect, corer of Wooster where there is also a magnificent collection of novoltion tr Late, oape, fate, do,, &0., for youths, boys, misses, in - fanbh, Ke. A Sorgestion to Clergyime ..—'The reverend gentlemen now ont eirannnal visit 'o our city ean eacl fave adc ilar by purchasing their hats of KNOX, the famow manufacturer, of No. 123 Fulton street in article for #4 for which other desler ber this, and deal with him,