The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1853, Page 4

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The News. 4m to-day’s Heravp will be found an account of another disaster, more fatal in its consequences to human life than any we have recorded during the past year, terribly rife as it has been in calamities Yesterday the brig Reuben Carver arrived at this port, with the news of the loss of the bark William and Mary, on a sunken rock in one of those danger- ous channels of the Bahama Islands. She had on board the captain, first and second mates and six of the crew of the lost vessel, who were picked upa few hours after their vessel foundered. Of two hun- dred passengers who leit Liverpool in the William ‘and Mary, for New Orleaus, not more than thirty were waved, the remainder having gone down with her! By reference to the account elsewhere, it will be Been that we had a second edition of the Buffalo ca- lamity in this city yeste norning. The floor of a building in progress of deuv\.tionin Wall street gave Way, crus! one of the la rs to death, and breaking another. Another i railroad accident happened at Pa- terson last« ning. boy, in attempting to pass from one car to another, fell between them, and was instantly killed Our special and other despatches from Washis ‘ton reiterate the assertion that the foreign appoint- ments have not yet been disposed of. Several super- vising steamboat inspectors were yesterday appointed for different parts of the country. It is again inti- mated that Gen. Pierce will sustain the position as- sumed by Goy. Lane with regard to the boundary of New Mexico, A military expedition will shortly leave Fort Leavenworth for that territory. be under the command of Gen. Garland, who is to relieve Col. Sumner. Some three months later news from the valley of Tewill | the amount or the Great Salt Lake, will be found in our paper this | morning. The intelligence depicts in some respects, the peculiarities of the Mormon people, who are com- pletely shut out from the “ rest of mankind,” by the Rocky Mountains on one side, and the great Sierra Nevada range on the other. The most important | feature of the news is the message of Governor Rrig- ham Young, the great chief of the valley, to the Le- gislature of the territory. The Governor thinks that his people have been very much neglected by the government at Washington, and that while California has received large appropriations of money, and the ralaries of her government officers have been doubled, Dtah has not had a penny of the government funds, gad pot even 4 word of encouragement to stimulate her in ket endeavors {4 meke a great State out of the territory at present under {te exclusive control of Ave Mormons. He reads a good le “02 #0 the South: ern secessionists, and the abolitionists o7 2 North, ‘The'extract which we give will be read witu “le | rest. The people are represented to be ina most : prosperous condition, manufactures are flourishing, machinery is being introduced, and agriculture is on | ing onward ia this channel. | those e routine business, as will be seen by the offic’a’ re- port elsewhere. Both Boards adjourned till to-mor- row evening. The New York Young Men’s Christian Association celebrated their first anniversary meeting at the Dutch Reformed Church, Lafayette place, last even- ing, when N. B. Blunt and Hiram Ketchum, Esqrs., delivered eloquent and able speeches. The Rey. sents | Dr. Bethune, who was to have addressed the meet- pertof | ing, was unavoidably absent on account of sizkness. See a very full report elsewhere. In addition to many columns of advertisements re- lating to business of every description, our inside pages to-day contain the proceedings of the Art Union Investigating Commitiee of the Assembly; & very interestigg paper, entitled “ Crossing the Andes,” lately read before the Geographical Society, by William G. Dix, Esq.; Financial and Commercial Reviews, and a variety of other reading, to which we have uo room to particularly refer. ‘The Coming Commeretal Crist. Nearly six years have elapsed since the dis- covery of ggld was made in California, and within that time at least two hundred millions ef gold have been added to the currency of the world from that single source. Australia has not been so long in the field, and the product has not, therefore. been so great. I would not be far out of the way to put the product of thet country down at fifty millions of dollars. To be within limits, we estimaie the aggregate ad- dition to the gold currency of the world, withia the past six years, to be about two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. This teaves for the arts and sciences the product of all countries but California and Australia. It appears by official returns received from ‘ime to time from the great banking institutions of Europe and the United States, that there has been ne in- crease in the amount of gold bullion or coin in their vaults. The total amount on hand now is no‘greater than it was six years ago. It has not, therefore, become the basis of the paper currency. The increased value of metalic currency must have passed from the mints into active circulation. or, at ali events, into the hands of the people. It is pretty well established that it has not served asa foundation for the im- mense credit structure which has been raised to such a dizzy height in all quarters of the globe. The progress of financial knowledge. and the genius of the ag», have wiped out all old systems, and a new order of things exists. What would have been considered an impossi- bility a few years since in banking is now | daily practised, apparently with impunity. There was a time, within the recollection of middle-aged men, when gold and silver were absolutely necessary as a basis for banking operations —when it was considered the sole re- presentative of the paper currency of the coun- try. Since that time a revolution has been realized; and the precious metals appear to be of no consequence, except for the purposes of making change, and transporting from one sec- tion of the world to another, in regulating bal- ances of trade. We now find banks springing up by the dozen in all parts of the country, and launching out at once into the most ex- panded movements, without five dollars in gold or silver in their vaults. Credit is their basis. Paper promises to pay are the founda- tion of the whole future inflation, and one class of credits serves to support’ another. They are piled up one upon the other, the first having to sustain the whole, until the weight becomes so great that the whole fabric tum- bles with a tremendous crash to the bottom. Government and State stocks and bonds form the first strata; then comes city. county, town nd vi bonds; then railroad bonds, canal bonds, plankroad bonds. and so on up, until the most worthless, valueless paper securities, form the capsheaf. There appears tobe no limit to variety; and the first warning the builders of this splendid structure get of its rottenness is a complete prostration and destruction. spreading ruin and dismay among gaged in its erection. During the past five ycars the financial and commercial community have been rapidly rush- They have been actively engaged in creating evide of debt, without the remotest idea, apparently. of the consequences. Bonds have been mannfactured by the million, and sold, either at home of abroad, to the highest bidder, and frequently at a great sacrifice, All sorts of internal improve- ments have been commenced and partially completed. and every species of extravagance entered into without the first thought of where the means of payment were coming from. This recklessness must have its reward. It must sooner or later yeach its culminating point. We do not intend here to point ont the mexhod of preventing it or a edy for its cure. At present we shall confine ourselves to the fact that such a state of things xists as 5 the increase, all of which only tends to show what, q | will bela upon ue all the evils which **¥ve people can do when they become depender®, chtipelv upon their own industry and re= a We elsewhere w' aa uF OE} ; esting ~ _-wusn the lengthy but very inter- _ «eport recently made by the committee on tbe fishery question to the Canadian Assembly. The committee appear to have given the subject a pretty thorough examination, and a perasal of their report will doubtless tend to greatly enlighten those ‘who are not perfectly conversant with the matter. The last advices from Newfoundland announce that Mr. Ambrose Sheca has been appointed a delegate to Washington, for the purpose of communicating with the British Minister and promoting the views of the Assembly of that colony on the subject of free trade between this country and Newfoundland. The case of Jane Trainer, the colored girl, was re sumed yesterday, in the Superior Court, at 3 o'clock P.M., and adjourned to Wednesday at the same hour, in consequence of the absence of the father of the ebild, who, it appears, has quit the city abruptly, Reaving the abolitionists alone to fight the battle of the free colored girl. ‘The Board of Supervisors met at four o'clock last evening, his honor the Recorder inthe chair. The Committee on Connty Offices reported in favor of paying one hundred dollars to the City Judge for the rent of an office taken and held by him since he was dispossessed by the Coroners from’ the room he formerly occupied. The report was adopted ‘The corporation counsel reported in favor of paying seven bundred and ninety-five dollars to Messrs. Benedict and Boardman, being the amount of their bill of costs in the case of the People Daffy. Sixty-seven dollars were ordered to be paid to Mr. Henry ©. Rabeneau for meals furnished to jurymen ‘and officers during the trials of Fitzgerald and Neary. ‘The requisite legal provision was made forthe support of Charles W. Morrison as a State pupil in the school for the instruction of the blind. A resolution rola- tive to the copying of books of record in the County Clerk's office was referred to the Committee on Coun- ty Offices. After some few bills for police expenses were acted upon, the Board adjourne| until next Monday evening. ; Nothing of special importance transpired in the Hoard of Aldermen last evening. Several coutracts for grading, flagging, and sweeping streets, were referred to their respective committees. The Board concurred with the Board of As sistants in adopting @ resolution prohibiting fire engines, hose carriages, and hook and ladder tracks, heretofore so often followed such an artificial expansion of public atid private credit. The large receipts of gold from California and Aus- tralia have for sometime past and continue to lull the public mind ‘ato a fancied security. It is argued that so long as the supply of pre- cious metals continues undiminished there can be no danger of arevulsion, This is a danger- ous delusion. The receipts of gold in large sums will only hasten the collapse and make t more disastrous when it comes. All the un- mined gold in the world would not restore pub- lie confidence when once widely prestrated. Credit, both public and private, is a very delicate, sensitive element to deal with. We may for years go on prosperously. All the future may be full of promise. All may be sunshine, and not a solitary spec be visible in the financial or commercial horizon, when sud- denly a dense black clo may obscure the whole, and gloom and despair be visible where but a moment before all was confidence and hope. We have known panics to take posses sion of the public mind as instantaneously as a day san. summer's cloud will shut out the im InskcURITY 7.9 Lirg wy THe Metrorotis— | 8! consideration of our Legislature, and we Deatu at OU", ELpow.—Can nothing be done to prevent thy, digging of pitfalls under our very feet, and, the erection of huge masses of bricks and rv;obish, tottering under their own weight, over our heads? Men seem to have forgotten the law of gravitation. They dig the earth out from under walls and sidewalks as if heavy bodies would hang suspended in the air without any other support. It would not be at all surprising to see some mason, more enthusiastic and en- terprising than the rest. commencing with his mortar and bricks at the top of a chimney to build downwards. Now, the days of miracles have gone by, and these things cannot be done. The sun is said to have stood stil) at the command of Joshua; but those credu- lous persons in this city who have thought that at their command stones, and bricks, and timbers would hang poised in the atmosphere, find themselves sadly ia error. Many ex- periments of the kind have been tried lately. A tew minutes before the close of the Women’s Temperance meeting at the Tabernacle, on Saturday evening. the brick arch which sup- ported the flagging in front of two of the three doors by which the building is entered from Broadway fell in, precipitating the flag- stones twelve or fifteen feet. The crash was heard inside, and at first created some alarm; but, on being assured that nothing serious had happened, the audience became quiet. and lis- tened io a speech of a few minutes by Douglass, This gave the officers time to guard the chasm which had been created in front of the build- ing and make safe the egress of the large assemblage. Had the accident happened five uinutes later, while the people were going out, it must have resulted in the fracture of limbs, and in all probability in the loss of many lives. The cause of this accident was an excavation which had been made, encroaching upon the foundation of the wall, for the purpose of erect- ing another building. The audience, it is true, in this instance escaped; but it is not quite pleasant to step so near to death—to shake hands with him—to feel his breath on your brow--although he kindly consents to leave you here a little longer. to meet him, per- chance suddenly, on some steamboat or railroad in the course of your tra- vels hereafter! It chills a man a little to think that while he was amused by the extra- ordinary performances inside death was an- xiously wating for him,in a hole dug as it were for the purpose of secreting him, at the door. It is not quite pleasant to reflect that if Dr. Snodgrass had not bored the audivnee after they had repeatedly tignified to bim that they did not wish him to bore them any longer. ov if Lucy Stone’s speech had not been longer than her petticoats, or if she had omitted the stanzas of poetry which she recited. or if the long- haired Burleigh had not spoken, or the black Dovglass had not grimaced—if either of these performances had been omitted, you would pro- bably have stepped into your grave when you stepped out of the door of the Tabernacle. In our evening edition of yesterday we pub- lished the particulars of a most shocking oc- currence at No.7 Wall street, resulting from the criminal carelessness of the parties demo- lishing a building in placing the rubbish upon an insufficient support. he particulars we give in another column. In God’s name, can nothing be done todiminish the number of such catastrophes ? In Broadway and many of our other thorough- fares men are engaged in demolishing old buildings in the most careless and reckless manner. The keenest man cannot get by them without having the dust thrown in his eyes; nor the soberest man without great risk of ap- pearing in open day with o brick in his hat. In Nassau sireet is a pile of bricks twenty or thirty feet high, and bulging out on both sides asifall ready to fall; yet thousands and tens of thousands pass by the edges of this pile every day, and almost every hour of the day. At what moment it will fall and crush the bodies which chance to be beside it and the hearts of some now happy homes, God only knows. There are plenty more such piles in other streets. Some of them will soon be falling. In Heaven's name let something be done to put an end to these manslaughters. Tur Norwatk CaLamryy—Actioy Wantep.— trust that Mr. Cooley will seize upon the first occasion to initiate a general railroad life in- surance law. Tue Harp SHeris stmt Kicxine wtne TRA Battery, and waving proudly in the air the national tri- color fiag of Italy. The green signifies the hopes for the future independence of the Italian peninsula, the red is an emblem of joy to have accomplished the great work of ces.—The morning orgem of the hard shells of | national emancipation, and the white is explained as the this city, is doing its very best to get up alittle party rebellion. It calls upon the masses of this city to come together in a mass meeting. symbol of a brotherly unity. ‘We were furnished with a special boat belonging te the veasel in going on board and returning to the Battery. We are indebted for this kindness to tho gentlemanly and show the trading politicians what sort of | sardinian Charge des Affaires, Signor Valerio, and to the principles they want. It rzpublishes the Com- | gallant commander, Marquis Vincenzo Incisa. When eff promise platform, and wants it, and intends to | the Battery we met one of the boats of the San Gio- have it re-enacted at all risks, as the platform of the democratic party. It calls for a conven- vanni, containing several officers of the frigate, who approached near us, and asked a few copies of the New York Hxratp, to read the latest news. Yesterday tion of the people, and threatens a variety of | being among Catholics a kind of holiday, mass was cele- terrible things when they speak. We suppose | brated in the morning on board by the respected chap- the meaning of all this is, that the administra- tion has been giving too many of the big loaves ‘and Jarge fishes to the soft shells, baraburners, and free soilers. in this bailiwick, and that con- sequently there is abundant provocation to the hard shells for rebellion. We very much fear. however, that these same hard-shells can do nothing, neither to save them- lain, who appears to be a very exemplary minister of Christ. The crew were afterwards employed in drying the sails, and demolishing the cabins which bad been erected for the eighty-four exiles, painting the inside ef the vessel, and doing other work. We;were astonished to see the quick mancuvring of the sailors, who all of them ore very young, and the masterly command of the officers on duty. At 12 o'clock the drum was beaten, and, after the prayer of Angelus Domini, all the sailors and marines partook of an excellent dinner, viz. ; selves nor to rebuke Secretary Marcy. If they | maccaronisoup with vegetables, fresh ment, ebeese, could only reach that patch upon bis old leath- er breeches, they might bring him to, and bind him fast. But they have permitted the occasion to pass by. and their rank and file have dwin- dled away to a mere corporal’s guard. Silenced in the coal-hole, excluded from Tammany Hall, and voted down in the cabinet, the hard shells may be considered as pretty well used up. A mass convention in these busy times, simply to re-affirm the Baltimore platform, is no go. The only living chance for the poor hard shells is to try it on again, at Albany, in the Legislature. Failing there, they will have no other alternative than to surrender at discre- tion to the Premier, and Prince John Van Buren, or to go over the fence and set upa new party, in conjunction with the natioual whigs of the Castle Garden Union Safety Committee. The lesser organ of that committee, which. for saving the Union in Wall street. received as its reward some eight hundred subscribers, for one year, to keep it on its legs, will, doubtless, re- joice at the junction of the hard shells with the Fillmore whigs. We pity the hard shells, we sympathise with the hard shells; but they have played their game badly, and have lost. That’s all. They may grumble and threaten; but the game is lost. They are high and dry, like the clams of Coney Island at low tide. Alas! for the poor hard shells! What can they do? Tue Fisnery Questioy.—In another part of our paper to-day will be found the report of the committee appointed by the House of Assembly of Canada to investigate and report upon the subject of the fisheries, which is at present creating unusual attention through- out the British North American colonies, This bread, and a cup of good Italian wine, all in abun- darce. Although these people are not condemned to cold water principles, yet corporeal punishments are strictly forbidden,. and we did not find a single man condemned for apy transgression on board. The ofticer on duty examines every meal previous to the dis- tribution of the food among the crew, and in case the victuals'should not be of good quality, othersare given, and ifthe fault lies in the negligenee of the cook he is fined for ‘the expenses. ‘This reform was introduced in the Sardinian navy in 1848, after the proclamation of the Piedmontese constitution. We mention these particulars to show how they live on board foreign men of war, We are glad to inform our readers that the San Giovan- ni will be ready ina few days to receive visiters, und those who go on board will not be disappointed with their view of the interior of the vessel. This frigate in time of war could be armed with fiftytwo heavy guns, and the armory ix well provided for any emergency. The Italian exiles were landed yesterday by the boats of the vessel, and Captain Incisa paid them fifteen dol- lars each, instead of twelve, as we stated in yesterday’s Herat. We have been informed that some goods are on board for our World’s Fair; but the richest and rarest collection belongs, as private property, to Chevalier Ulisse Isola, first lientenant of the San Giovanni. This gallant sailor is already familiar to us, having visited our office and printing department in 1846, when he arrived in our port on board the brig of war Aurora, We are sorry that the same gentleman, owing to the protracted opening of the Crystal Palace, will not have it in his power to leave among us his precious paintings, all originals, and of the greatest artists of Italy, Holland, Spain, and France. It is likely that during his stay among us he will place these rare works of art, for the benefit of our amateurs, in one of our public galleries. To him we nre indebted fora right of these beautiful paintings, and for the fol- lowing list of them:— A Cena Domini, by Leonardo da Vinel, oil painting, and an original. This same subject has been treated by the great maesiro, also, in a large size, as we have seon it in the convent of Le Grazie, in Milan. A portrait of a young bride, by the same author. A portait of an old lady, by Tiziano, A portrait of a Spanish marsfal, by Velasquez. document, it will be perceived, is drawn up in a more dispassionate manner than were those of either of the other provinces which have appeared in our columns and embraces acom- prehensive review of the state of the fisheries in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. The committee was composed of nine members, six of whom were from Lower Canada and three from the Since the dreadful catftrophe at Norwalk we have had a thousand suggestions through the newspapers for the prevention of railroad acci- nents ; but not one of these suggestions, it ap- pears to us, carries with it the force of the pro- position to lay a heavy penalty upon the rail- road companies for the loss of every human life by needless accidents upon their respective railroads. A law of this sort would strike at the root of the evil, for the “love of money is the réot of all evil,” and this it is which is at the bottom of most if not all our railrdad ca- Jamities, The Connecticut Legislature is still in session, They may do a great act of humanity and of sound policy in fixing, to the extent of their ju- risdiction, aheavy penalty for the reckless sa- crifice of every passenger whose life is thus lost on the railroads within the State. Such an ex- ample would doubtless be followed without much delay by all the other States in the Union. The Legislature of New York, which re-as- sembles on the 24th imst., could not better em- ploy the whole of thetr extra session, if neces: ry, than in the werk of framing some efficient and rigid death pemalty upon cur railroad companies. It is a strange anomaly in the law under which damages of five, ten or twenty thousand dollars, may be seeured for the accidental crippling of a passenger on a railroad, while for the poor widow and her or- phan children, whose sole dependence for their daily bread was their husband and father, who may have been crushed to atoms or suddenly The immediate cau eldom or never clearly shown, but its effect is withering. When credit is enormously inflated the fnan- cial and mercantile systems of the world are in an unhealthy, diseased coudition, and we know not form, and prove fatal to many whic particularly sulyj duenee. we are approaching state of thi rapid strides no one who covily < watches the expansion of credit. th of extravagonce, the headlong re rushing into eve: of ean fora moment doubt. Or reached such a height that w without cauns- what moment it may ta That cts them to it hha in which indebted- impetus way a nese, has alre t is possible to stop ing serious damages. We might perhaps with safety put down the brakes and apply all our force to a gradual slacking of speed; but it would not do to reverse the mot power while wnder ful! headway, for we might bring | question i 1 i Idermen ‘onning on the sidewalks. ‘Tbe Assistant A me pri in geasion, and transacted considerable abont by such » movement the yery evils we wish (0 avoid drowned in the prison house of a submerged car—strange, we say, that for them there is no indemnity—no damages—no relief at all. We do hope that our wise legislators, when they shall have assembled together again at Albany will fill up this ugly hiatus—this deep and black chasm into which so many victims of criminal negligence are so recklessly thrown— by a law which will make each railroad corpora- tion the life insurance company for the safety of its passengers, Mr. Cooley is an enterprising man. We sub- mit this matter to Mr. Cooley. If we are not mistaken he has the moral courage and the requisite sense of humanity to take hold of this proposition, The public will endorse it, rest assured of that; and, in the end, it will prove advantageous both to the railroad companies and the public at large. in bringing about a sys- upper section of the province, all of whom con- curred in tle report, with the exception of two from Western Canada—Messrs. Merritt and Ridout—who consider the obtaining’a reciprocal free trade with the United States as being of far more importance, than retaining the exclu- sive right by the colonies of the coast fishery, from which the Americans are excluded by the convention of 1818, and who drew up and sub- mitted at the time the report was presented an expression of their sentiments, which we also give. Tue Art Union SwinpLe—Astontsuina De- VELOPEMENTS.—The battle between the Art Union and the people is drawing to a close, and the management of that precious lottery concern, or mock auction, is disclosed in all its unblushing audacity. A pile of some eighty or a hundred thousand dollars of the funds of the institution is gone; and with all the explana- tions attempted, nobody can tell how it is gone, where it is gone, or who carried it off. Perhaps some of our art-loving anti-copyright cotem- poraries can throw some light on this dark subject. Where is the Slievegammon fund for the liberation of Ireland? Where are the as- sets of the Kossuth Hungarian bonds? Where is the surplus of Father Mathew’s benefit? Who knows? Do the Irish Directory, or the Hun- garian Central Committee, or Father Mathew’s special committee, or does anybody else? And who has Galphinized the surplus of the Art Union? What sort of monsters are these that swallow up such enormous gums of money without belching? Let the Peter Funks of the regular mock auctions be reprieved. Are they not in the fashion ? ‘Talk on ’Change. Cotton sold to the extent of 1,500 bales, at steady prices. There was a fair business done in breadstuffs, without material change in prices. Pork was more ac- tive. A considerable sale of Manila hemp will be no- ticed in the trade report. It was said that the ship William & Mary, by the me- lancholy wreck of which so many lives were lost, was a new vestel, of about 800 tons, She was built last winter at Bath, Maire, and sailed for Charleston, South Carolina; whence, after taking in a cargo of cotton, she sailed fur Ltv. erpool, being under the command of Captain Stinson, At the latter place she took in acargo, in part, of rail iron, and was lost in the mann@ related by the eaptain. A hope was exprezsed that a considerable portion of the pesrengers might have been saved by the bark scen to heave to near the scene of the disaster. The wreck occurred almost directly in the path of many coasting vessels; and had the ill fated ship beon provided with a sufficient number of good life boats, which every passen- ger vessel should be compelled to carry, it was believed that the greater part, if not the whole of the lives, might have been saved The William & Mary was supposed to have been insured at the eastward. There was nothing on her in Wall street. Letters were received from Galveston, Texas, giving ac- counts of the terrible storm at that place, which, it was said, swept nearly the entire const of the Guif to the south-west of that port. The Flicha Dennison was an old verrel, and was insured in Wall strest to the amount of $16,000, She hed no cargo on board when she was wrecked. The accounts contained extensive details of the dam sustained by a large number of other ves sels, including several barges belonging to northern ports, Portof a wharf washed avay, and 600 bars of railroad ison sunk in fifteen or twenty feet water, which was insured in Boston. Notice was received from Berlin, Maryland, May 12, stating that a new schooner, 200 tors burthen, called the Charles Hill, of Kenebunk, Maine, went ashore on that morning. che was valued at $12,000, and was insured in Boston. Aletter fiom New Orleans stated that the two boats lost on the Upper Red River were loaded at Shraveport, other boats ‘There proposed clipper race The young Ameriza was in the lield agsinet the world, for a bet of $10,000. No acca; tance fier the Sovercign of the Seas for that sum had been received. Sapertor Court =I Before Hon. Jw tem of management and ipline in the run- ning of all railroad trains very nearly equiva- lent to absolute insurance against all danger. Seriously : we submit this matter to the practi- DECISION, with goods carried to that point from New Orleans by | of an rothing farther tranepired regarding the | 0f,9 804/10 o'clock A. M, A Sybil, by Rubens. Apollo in the act of stripping off the skin of king Mar- ias, by Sebastiano del Piombo. Judgment of Paradise, a Flemish painting. ‘Two landscapes, with horses, by Van Blumer, called the Orizzonte, Portrait of a young lady, by Bronzino. Portrait of a young man, by Vandyke, A view of Venice, by Cannletto. * Two marine views, Horace Vernet: Pythagoras singing on the lyre the verses of Homer, by Pierino del Vaga. ‘The daughter of Herod, by Giorgione. A Virgin Mary, by Lodovico Caraccioli, Some of these paintings are valued at not less than two thousand dollars each. Many of the officers of the San Giovanni are acquainted with English and several other foreign langunges. Three of these gentlemen have already visited the principal ports of the United States, and speak in the highest terms of our Prosperous country and free government. They appear very anxious to learn of the success of the discovery of Captain Eriesson, and as soon as convenient will visit hat vessel and our printing establishment. The following is a list of the OFFICERS OF THE SAN GIOVANNI. Commander Marquis Vincenso Incisa, Chevalier of the Order of Saints Maurisio and Lazzaro. Flag Lieutenant, Chevalier jUlisse Isola, decorated with the Cross of St Joseph of Tuscany. Chevalier August Baglione di Monalo, First Lieutenant. Chevalier Alfred of Clavesana, First Lieutenant. G.B Thalandier, First Lieutenant. Chevalier Felix Burone Lercati, first Second Lieutenant. Chevalier August Albini, son of Commodore Albini, first Second Lieutenant. E. Giribaldi, first Second Lieutenant. 8. Binelli, first officer of the Marines, August Brun, Pilot. Chevalier Louis Promis, first Physician. This gentle- man for his bravery and talents was rewarded with the Cross of St. Gregory the Great, of Rome, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and of the Nisham of Turkey, J. Moriondo, second Physician. L. Bensa, Purser. Rey. Caffarelli, Chaplain, The salute fired about 9 o’clock yesterday was in honor of the President of the United States—the first salute from foreign man-of-war that Generdl Pierce las re- ceived. Dreadful Accident, PALL OF A HOUSE IN WALL STREET—ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER SEVERELY INJURED, A little after nine o'clock yesterday morning, the house No.7 Wall street, at the corner of New street, whichis in progrers of demolition, was the scene of a frightful acci- dent, by which oxo man was killed and another had his arm broken, It seems that the materials of the upper floors of the house, which is partly torn down, had been piled on the ground floor, and that the workmen were be- low in the basement for the purpose of shoring it up. ‘While thus occupied, the flooring above gave way with a sudden crash, cased by the weight of the superincum- bent mars, sfireadiog great consternation among the work. men, who precipitately fled from the ruins, Assistauce was immediately procured, and in a short Hme several laborers who had been buried beneath the ruins were ex- trieated—one poor fellow, a German, with his right arm broken below the elbow. It was, however, soon acer- tained that another workman, likewise a German, by the nome of Conradin Schmidt, was buried completely beneath the mars, acd to oxtricate this unfortunate man all exer- tions were now directed. From the manner in which the flooring had given way, it was inclined from the side wall nearest to Broadway, and allowed of some communication to the man’ below, by which he was supplied with spirits to keep up his strengt” But from the position in which he lay, extended on his back, with the whok mags of flooring and rubbish piled upon him, it was impossible that he could be extricated except by firet dizgirg away the weight above. ‘This, unfortu nately, was a tedious work; and notwithstanding the exertions employed by his fellow laborers and many of the police force of the First district, who were prosent with their captain and used their utmost efforts to pre. serve order und assist the workmen, their efforts were too late. After nearly two hours labor, in which spades, axes and other tools were used laboriously, they succeeded in getting to the poor fellow beneath; but, even then, it was Rel Ae ee 4 of his extrication, for the greater part of his body was yet buried beneath the ruins and prevented from moving by the cross girders of the floor Tbove, Dr M.A. Van Liew, of No. 80 Greenwich xtreet, was in attendance, and asifsted in prolonging the man’s life by affording bin every possible aid. At this time one of his arms protruded as high as the elbow above the rulbish, and renewed exertions were employed toextricate him from his perilous eituation, but before thia could be effected the Doctor, who kept his hand on the man’s pulse, pronounced hin dead. After extrasting the body it.was teken to the Bellevue Hospital Coroner Hilton will hold an inquest at his office inthe Park at one o'clock this afternoon, Court Calend Umiren Starrs Distnicr Co! 9, Day. 08.31, 94, 41, 43 to 4 Sormmre Court—Cireuit.—Nos. 874, 1,008, 1,029, 1,096, 1,097, 1,165, 24 588 to 590, Surneane Court Same as before, Svvyrite Covrt—Chambers —Business for the remainder the month will be transacted only between the hours No special motions will be —Nos. 918, 83, 199, 852, 521, #84, 569, Ge 802, 896, 94414, 045, Common Prvas—Part Second. —Nos, 576, 924 to 920, O81, O11, 955, (58 to 044, SorEzWOK Courr—Two Branch 401, 156, 587, 516, £49, 656, 175, 360, 324, 995, 807, 241, 5606, 602, 871, 622, 467, 90, 521. 661, 562, 563, 664, 568, 509, 670, 418,483, 496, 442, 450, 460, 473, 474. heard at Charnb Common Pras —Nos. 199, 968, 435, May 16,—Joteph Bailey and others vs The Western Ver. mont Railroad Company.—Motion to pay the plaintifts 970,228 91, and fona receiver, granted as to $40,328 91, with interest since 204b August, 1861, and $10 costs, Orpenep—That the May trial term of thia court be continued until the turday preceding the first Monday a and that @ jury be summoned for the 30th of ‘ys e Marine Affairs. ‘Tar DePasTurs Gr THE SreaM Nora Srax.—Thé Vanderbilt steam yacht North Star will sail fromthe foot of Grand street, East river, on Thursday, the 19tm inst, at 10.4. M., on her European tour. The ew sf elegant steamer Francis Skiddy will accompany her gowa the bay to po gene cal ha ed oni Tas New Yacut Smenz, Captain Howning, from Port Jeffereon, L. I., arrived scl aes fh rt inelbe 1 dapth; anda sop igre 5 feet e' in depth, ai Pp a The & wan built Sr the above place by her owner, Captain: Hawkins, who has already furnished soveral very {ant yachts to parties in this and the neighboring cities ay, white Russia,, rn, Swiss sennet, soft travelling Irving House. “Albon! Hi tention of youn; tlemen wearers is asked to this now and peculiar Lote Ite. combination of isl, shape and appolusmente tont ensemble of perfecti d, while ite) i it wilt i = i cae, flered, while its low cost will insure opti the ofthoscavon, LEARY & CO.. Leaders and Latrodirars of Foshion, Astor House, Broadway. Summer Hats —Beebe & Co., Fashionable Hatters, No. 156 Broadway, respectfully rolicit the atton- tion of the pudlic to their asvortment of exceedingly lizht and besntiful white Rocky Mountain Beave Their assortment of fine and light cassimere and ts und, nd complete. cups, is also full | 4 Mingle Spirits, Grave and Gay.”—Plety and fin jostle each other on every sid and exsept at KNOX’S hat warerooms, where th ‘aymon, attracted hither by the ‘‘ Anniversary week," seeking to render their visit profitable by patronising him, congregate Maily, to t! almost total exclusion of all other customers. Price of hig» salesroom is at 128 Fulton stroet. hatis only $4, and & JAMES, dis manufacture of thei min that their is eminently well deserved. want of auperior bat, potcenlz very quality of exeellonce ronise thelr ectablishinent, corn firect. Price only $4. = wi og maa a Supe: tor Under Garments, Gloves, and Ho= sicry.—One of the most extensive aud select assortments of American, English, Scotch, French, and. G: Wayabe found, at reasonable vrices, and Under Garment Manufactory, No tite Metropolitan Hotel and Nablo Ms’ Hosiery t ADA i Broadway, oppo= in, Extraordinary Attraction.—The new Boot and ehoe store of E. A. BROOKS, the centre of continual ettraction. and@buskins for the ladies, and bos the gents. Keep Cool.—Our Zephyr Undershirts and drawers are just the thing for this purpose. Gentlomen. will find hore a large stock. at low prices, embrading every tize and quality in merino, silk, liste, &e ' Call IRA PEREGO & SON, 61 Our Readers will bear in mind that Mr. LAUGHLIN No, 202 Greenwigh atreet, corner of Chambers street, is selling shirts, nndershirts and drawers suited to the season, cheaper tha: down town. sure not be excelled in the United States. Mark that. Says an Irish Hodman the other day, «I built that house.” Arrah, Paddy, ye mane “ you carried the bricks.” “I made that coat,” saysa jour sewing tailor. “Twade tiny. tailor cutter. You ‘are, both. in my employ, P FOX, the merchant tailor, of 48 Brosdw 'd provided all the ma- terials, designe show you or any jour se r cutter tailor how to cut, fit and inake correctly, by my printed rulee and written specifications, any con ctivable garment requisite in the department of tailoring. Answer, who made that coat’ No North, no South, no East, no West, le known to I. L. FOSTER, wholesale and rotail clothier, 27 Cortlandt street, New York. He has austomers all the Union, and styles and fabrics to suit every State, New summer patterns in great variety, very havdsome and cheap. A full suit made to order in twelve hours, and no disap- pointing. An immense vericty of ready-made clothing of superior quality very moderate in price, Call and see she novelties at 27 Cortlandt stroot. Piarofortes at Great Bargains—At the new muric and placo rooms of HORACE WATERS, S33 Beoaay sy corner of Anthony street. The followin; od ianon will be soldat very low —Iwo mado by Geo. by Chickoring; three by Barmore; two by Bars- Bennett & Co., o1 6k; one bi d Nowhall; one by Stoddart, and one by Glonu. Also, a splendid assortmont * of T. Gilbert & Co.'s pianos, with and without the celebrated Aolian. Also, ten eecond hand pianos, at prices from $40 to ‘New pianofort lodeons to let. Pianos for and monthly en. Comb Factory, No. 387 Broadway.—Ladies aro respectfully invited to examine the neweat styles of tor- toise shell and buffalo horn dr ‘The assortment ig unequalled for variety in the e iring done, igi ‘ya d. SAUNDERS, S47 Broadway. Swiss Razors, from the Manufac of Jae ues Lecoultre.—These razors have no e jurability and kecnness of edze. For #1 SAUNDERS’, No.7 Astor House ani Patent Self-Heating Smootht. ery housekeeper who dosires to be re sat, fatigue, inconvenience and ex; soiling the clothe al iu their extreme je at 387 Broadway. gj Irons.—Let 1d from the groat. of ironing, danger and to have the werk done iu half the time, use these ir: ‘A liberal discount to merchants and travelling agents. N. D. HUNTER, 398 Broadway. Molyneux Bell, No 58 Canal street, solicits the attcution of the ladies of New York to his splendi» assort- ment of rich embroidered mantillas, whieh, for style and slerance, ‘are unsurparsed by any that have been produced is season. Canal strect Carpet Store, No. 70 Canal strect.—E, A. PETERSON & CO. call ‘the attention of the friends to the stock of new and clegant earpetings just re ceived from the most eclebrated manufactorics, comprising tepestry velvet, Brussels, thece ply, and ingrain; leo, & large aésortment of oilcloths, venetinns, matings, window shades, &c., &c. Unprecedented Bargains at Burdett’s new ary goods store, 191 Grand street, corner Mu Centre market. ’Fifty thousand dollars worth of dry goode from auc! Very heavy to yards wide table linen, only Bs. a yard; superfine double damask do. do., two yards wide, 4s. and 4c. 6d. s yard; elegant double damask snowdrop urd, worth fs.; beautifal snowdrop and figured en napkins, 138. & dexen; large size towels, a dozen; aa size counterpanes, 1: nd 158. a piece; very heavy huckabuck towelling, 1 fine shirting muslin: aya of thirty-two yards; splendic iefs, 1s. apiece; beautiful French d, warranted fast colors. only $2, $2.50. ard $3 a pies fines eambric hiandkere! lawns, only Is. Millet’s Music Saloon, 329 Broadway, is the only place in New York where a Jar, ment of music and musical insts cheap for cash. Twenty yeara in one Porson of town sending for any article can rely on being served 48 well as if present, by MILLET, Importer, 329 Broadway, agent for Watts’ Antidote. Lightning Rods, of all Descriptions, includ= ing J. Boyer’s glass isolated rods, which is agknowledged to le the enfest now in Prices range from ten to twenty- five cents per foot, everyth buildings. Office No. 3 Na: included, and put on ti treet. MAN, Architect (Agent). Table Oll—A Superlative Article, Beant ed, put up in flazons, one dozen each; also Bordeaux . 4 variety of good sound wines. and wines of tho chol- cost grades, in cases ono dozen onch, ianding ex brig Raven, from Bordeaux, for sale by DOMN DUNCAN & SONS, 407 Broadway. Patent Sewing Machines of every variety, making a new and superior stitch. No shuttle {s used, and the threads are tied together at each etiteh ina seam of the greatest beauty and streneth, which will not rip whon every third stitch fs out. Price $00 to $150. Come and see them, with certificates from persons using hundreds, eet, GLOVER, BAKER & C store, 4 Chambers tentees and propri 13,000 worth of Farm¢ To Rent Payers.—§: and building lots to be distributed among six hundred sab- seribers on the Sist of May. ‘Ench subscriber, for only $15, will reccive a warrantee dced for four building lots, 25 by 103 feet. in the beautiful and healthy village of Rose Valo, oF a farm of from two to twenty acres. Subscribers are taking up tho shares fast, and the number will soon all be obtained. Now is the time to secure u country resitenco near MP dlty, where hundreds of our citizens are’ locating, and great im: rovements have been and are now being made, Many of Efelors near these have Leen, soll for from_2®) to. 800” per cent advance over the price for which these lots are now Gold, chowing that the purchase will be @ cood invostment. Apply to CHARLES WOOD, No, 208 Broadway, i Fulton street, N. Y., who ‘will recelve remittance forward receipts therefor by return of mail. Ho will gratuitously furnish toaps and pamphlets of the property, End cheerfully give cuch other information as may be do: sired. Crystal Palace Carpets, at Hiram Anderson’s eight spaciones ales rooms, No. {9 Bowery. Maguificunt new styles of Axminster, Turkey, aud Mosaic carpets, of ono entire piece, Also, Mosaic rugs, Tandscapes, table and piano. tapestry Braseels ° z royal veivet, medallion and carpeting, imported expressly for exhibition a York € brated Es oilcloth ines a aerate At tl : 13h nad American imperial three: Eee hi N.'Be—Boautitulin- carpeting, at astonishingly low pric gralnenspeting at Uc, 4e., fv." Ge cileloths at 2s. Gd, 3e., Ss, Gd. d 4s. and Ss. per van 180, 1,000 pieces Manking Gowqua white and chock fanoy matting, of s splendid quality, remarkably cheap. Charles’ London Cordial Gin.—This celebra- onsumption -of which in the community of ite roduction exceeds all other spirituous distillations com- fined, tae attained an immense popularity in the United ite purity was ondorsed by 700. and 750. per yard; Ear bg dey asa bev ‘Ast re Fae ty CY Groce Liritain, and some of the most eminent phy. Heiand in this country pitseribe it in many caroa of disease. Tie put up in quart bottles, clamped with the propristor's Pind securely packed in casce of one dozen each, name, and sei ONUND C. CHARLES, No. 7 Park place. The Porous Glass Ftltcr has now been tho- Foughly tested for over three Found fault with. Its operatio ties from the water are simple and ¢ r sof ite utility, Callat No, 316 Broadway, and ex- for yourself. peholderi amine it Professor Alex, C, Barry’s Tricopherous, or Medicated Compound, for beantifying, ourling preservings. restoring, and strengthening the hair, rel the skin, curing rhenimatic pains, and 1 wounds. ‘Rounded hy no geo) Hi arry's tricopherous pervades t the article of late years have incr exceeds belief, Professor Barry, after & careful tion of his sales book, finds that the nmnber of bo livered to order in quantitivn of half a gross upwards, during the year 1? 1) 00) unpocesoary eth the evidence of the ‘a rties of the tricopherous when tho public (ve furnished sueh an endorsement as this, The cheapness of tho article, and. the explanations given of its chemical faction upon tho hair, the realy, and in all casesjof superficial first recommended {t to the attention of the peo~ asalltbatthe inyontor desired. Every bottle itself, ‘Tho effects of the fluid exceeded oxpocta- "the Indies would not be with- as with en charm. it. “dealers in every section of the United States found they must have it; and thus was built ap © a trade of on extent hitherto nnhenrd of 24 Fogat de articles of this kin’, Th» hishest point has nos yet be reached, and it Is beticved the rales this year will bo a million and 1 half of bottles. Depot and menufactory, No. 137 Brondway, New York. Retail price, twenty-five cents a large bottle. Liberal ditevant to purchasers by the, quantity, Sela by all the principal morchants and drnggist 01 United Maton and. Canada, Mexiony” West Indies, Crows Pritaies Framer hoe out