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The large amount of electricity which pervaded the atmosphere yesterday afternoon and evening will account for any lack of variety in our telegraphic columns this morning. No storm ever occurred at a more propitious moment—our streets needed cleans- ing, and the growing crops in the surrounding coun- try were greatly suffering for rain. As is generally the case on Monday, both branches of our State Leuislature were very slimly attended yesterday, it being difficult whenever a vote was to be taken to find enough members to form a quoram. The Senate epent the principal part of the forenoon in discussing the Niagara Ship Canal bill, which was Teierred to a select committee, and the bill for the im- provement of four or five rivers in the Northern portion of the State. Mr. Babeock declared thet the latter measure, if adopted, would impose the greatest tax on the people ever attempted, but at the same time iucetiously observed that constituents had ceased to be astonished at anything, and that the only legislative proceeding that would be calculated o amaze them would be a fiual adjournment. No business could be transacted in the afternoon for want ofa quorum. Petitions against the Catholic Property bill, signed by thonsands of New Yorkers, created considerable stir in the Assembly. Should this measare be adopted by the Senate, it is destined 0. open a wide field for discussion in the lower house. Many bills, come of them of importance to onr citi- wens, were passed by the Assembly. The Maine Liqaor bill could not be reached, although a motion was made to suspend all other business for the pur” pose of taking up that measure. The proposition was defeated by seventeen yeas to fifty-two nays. ‘The impeachment cases are evidently becoming a sourve of annoyance to those of our legislators who fare desirous of going home. Mr. D. B. Taylor yes. terday offered a resolution to adjourn on the 7th of next month, bot it was tabled. Mr. Ken. nedy offered another to take @ recess from Friday tll the following Wednesday, and this it is thought will be adopted, although it is éoubtfal whether the Senate will agree to remain so Jong idle. Everybody is now anxious to have the impeachment arrangements disposed of as speedily as possible. ‘ihe specifications against Mr. Mather, it is understood, will be reported by the committee to the House this morning. They are said to be very voluminous, and several days will probably be consumed in discussing their merits. Comptroller Wright is said to have put in a rejoindér to Mr. Ely’s charges against him. All this indicates anything * else than a preparation for adjournment. Hen. Pierre Soulé, our new Minister to Spain, left } w Orleans in the steamship Empire City for this port last Sunday morning. He is en route for Madrid. ® The commercial advices brought by the Baltic had the effect of somewhat reviving the spirits of cotton dealers at New Orleans. Holders demanded one- fourth ofa cent advance yesterday forenoon. Onur latest advices from Manila are highly inter. esting, both as regards the staple produce, exports, and inter-communication of the Philippine Telands. A large forest of hemp trees had been discovered upen the north coast of Luzon, The material is re- ported as being of the finest qnality, and the crop is » ‘Imated to extend for nearly forty-five miles along the irregular coast, ranning back into the interior for e distance of about eight m This fibre world be one of the cheapest in the world if the people had some improved mechanical means of Cleaning it, by which the clumsy system of hand labor, now necesarily employed, could be superseded. The American steamers which were built end for Manila in the year 1950 were in very si eperation. One of them was plying upon the Postig, running up to and continuing upon the leke in which it takes its rise. coviizy, is about forty- ing between the island: @ daily opportunity to the inhabitant communicating with the other, and obset different favorable peculiaritie cultivation, and general commerce w Adv from the:city of Mexico to the isth, bh been recvived at New Orleans. Ou t..at there was no news worth telegrapbing. South Carolina havi ] remain in the no while rT, Gov. Ma Con to represent her at Ne g concluded to appointed oue for each of the rinal sionera , Were const eas of the fla re precipitated imi Lreonal. The Philomathean § waicd their anniversary meeting att neteh Chorch sterday eveniny ! em entilled “ Eqs» delivered an ¢ reader is.directed to the ad | ropean inteligence ‘ the I t, to wit: A let ter from our Constantinople or respondent in which | he g ves a comprehensive ac count of the origin of | the difficulty between Turk ey and Russia, the exer- tions gf the former power ' 9 preserve peace, the in- dignation of the people against the Czar, &c.; Lon- don letter contair ing a ¢ omplete resume of political, commercial, theatrical; and miscellaneous affairs; French view of Gen. TF 4erce’s official condact, par- ticularly with regard to Cuba and Central America; | extracts from Lond: » journals relative to the Cuban | Slave Trade, the B! pckade of Buenos Ayres, &c. ‘The Board of S' speryisors did not meet last even- ing. The French J ‘ress on Gen. Plerce’s Diploma- te Appointments. ‘The Paris Constitutionnel devotes a special article to the consideration of Gen. Pierce's diptomatic appeintments, and particularly those ‘ot Major Borland and Mr. Soulé, the one the General Minister to the States of Central Ame- rica, and the other our Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain. And a translation of this article will be found in our columns to-day. 4 The Constitutionnel quotes certain passages from an editorial of the New York Heratp, referring‘to the pugilistic proclivities and im- pulsive character of Major Borland. and argues therefrom that it was a ‘nomination not fit to be made;” that Major Borland’s unqualified an- tipathy to British aggressions, assumptions. and machinations in Central America, is also mal apropos, because it were better rather to con- ciliate the British officials in those States, than | to provoke their displeasure. But it does not ne- cessarily follow from Major Borland’s sweeping construction of the Monroe doctrine, that his appointment is intended as an act of defiance to the British Government, or as a warning to its author'zed agents in Central America, to clear out or prepare for battle. We undertake to reiterate, however, that in this appointment the President ‘consulted the popular sentiment of the United States. which is clearly as hostile to foreign interference in the domestic affairs of Central America as Ma- jor Borland himself; and to the fact that he was, perhaps, as widely known as any other man in the Union, to be an uncompromising believer in the Monroe doctrine. he is no doubt indebted for this particular and delicate mission. It is believed too, in this country. that the States | of Central America concur in this doctrine, and that they have expected an ambassador from our new cabinet who would come among them, officially representing our government, as the avowed advocate of their absolute independence. In this character Major Borland goes out; and it is but justice to the administration to say. as our belief. that his appointment is. by the people of the United States, regarded as an assurance that the truckling neutrality policy of the late ad- ministration is now superceded by a policy more consistent with our duties of guardianship over the national rights of our republican neighbors. Of course. considering alike our duties towards the Central American States, and our poli- tical and commercial interests in that quarter of our continent; and considering the industrious and unscrupulous means which for some years past have been employed by Great Britain to get the ascendency there, and the control eventually of the maritime stations and transit routes from ocean to ocean of Central Ameri- ca, on both sides. we say that it was impossible, in the appointment of this minister, to consult the pleasure of England or of any ether Euro- an government. But still, the appointment of Major Borland is net necessarily an act of warlike defiance. Impulsive and belligerent as, in propria per- sona, he may be, he will be fully eharged with the instructions of the President, whose declared poliey is not to despoil the powers of Europe in America of their established rights; but while conceding them, it may be nevertheless his purpose to reverse all unlawful foreign usurpa- tions and aggressions in Central America, and to maintain there a republican balance of power, by protecting the legitimate independ- ence of the confederation. in the aggregate and in detail. 5 The interests of England, and even of France, as the empire, may conflict with this republican American policy; and hence, perhaps, the true secret ofthe objections of the Paris journal tothe appointment of Major Borland. In his case. great international and continental issues have outweighed the trifling personal peccadilloes and political heresies of a domestic nature with which he stands indicted, and are merged in the Monroe doctrine, with which he is as noto- riously identified. We have no fear of his coming to blows with John Bull in Central | America. without due authority and a sufficient provocation, This assurance. we should think, ought to be satisfactory to our Parisian cotem- | poraries, one and all. The occasion is not agreeable which calls upon us to combat the idea that possibly France, our ancient ally, may be inclined to take sides against us in the settlement of our American difficulties. Yet this idea is strongly suggested from the whole bearing of the article under review. The objections of the Constitutionnel to Mr. Soulé are not essential again to answer at this time. Ungnestionably. the government of Spain bas the right to receive him or to refuse him; but we think that. as his rejec- tion might render our relations with Queen Isabella diffeult of peaceful adjustment, he will be received, and with that courtesy and confidence to which our good faith with Spain ntitled. We are somewhat surprised however, that the intelligent editor of the Con- stitutionnel should set down Mr. Soulé asa native of our Southern States. He was born tillon, in the Pyrenees, during the first ate of Napoleon. At the age of seven- ; for his part ion in a conspiracy Bourbons, he was sont to St. Pe- soon made his es- tures he arrived in e to go to the discharge « Madr vh ( forget < ates are ¢ heir id nd that an : ti c y election cannot com- emise ¢ in the pointment of € rsonal history oT 1 to appease the f Gen. reraments, Pierce is expected to adhete to the Monroe doc- trine and the doctrine of manifest destiny. Hence. we doubt not, the appointment of Major Borland to Central America, and Mr. Soulé to Spain. Will there be war? Tue Reports on tae City Parx.—We doubt very much whether Messrs. Beekman and Bartlett would have cared about signing their majority report in favor of Jones’ Wood Park, if they had foreseen what the dissentient minority (composed of Mr. Cooley) was pre- pared to say on the subject. To use a homely phrase, it must be obvious to all who read the documents published in Sunday’s Heratp that the Senator from the First district has entirely “used up” the Jones’ Park side of the question. He has regarded the matter in all its various lights, and, to our mind, proves conclusively that, horticulturally as well as geographically, hygienically as well as economically, the Cen- tral Park is infinitely preferable to its noisy rival. Disdaining a controversial tone, the majority of the committee have confined their report to an analytical examination of the signatures to the petitions and remonstrances sent in by the citizens of New York, anda brief sketch of the evidence taken before them. Now, it is doubt- less a very interesting thing to know that out of the nine thousand remonstrances against Jones’ Park, six hundred and seventy-three ob- ject to any park at all. and several could not or did not sign their own names to the remon- strance. Such statistics are a very pleasant theme for reflection. But, after all. what does it matter how the “ remonstrance” was got up, or whether four thousand out of the nine thousand signatures were those of illiterate persons or even wholly supposititious? The question which the committee had to decide was whether Jones’ Wood was or was not a suitable site for a park; and the only solid grounds on which that deci- sion could be formed were substantial reasons drawn from an abstract inquiry into its capaci- ties, horticultural, geographical and hygienical, for the purpose. If there had been but one remonstrant, his remonstrance ought to have prevailed, if it was founded on sound and logi- cal reasons. It was the business of the commit- tee to bestow their chief attention on the grounds which formed the basis of each remon- strance, and not on the signatures at the hot- tom. Instead of pursuing this natural course, they have modestly confessed théir inability to weigh conflicting arguments, and assumed the humbler ré/e of endeavoring to find out what is the will and pleasure of the fifteen or twenty thousand individuals who have busied them- selves in signing petitions and remonstrances on the subject. We are not certain, aftera careful perusal of the majority report, that Messrs, Beekman and Bartlett have committed a serious error in this appreciation of their own abilities; they are, perhaps. better judges of themselves than we should be, and when they argue that because “the Common Council of New York is already infamous from its.corrap- tionand venality in railroads. Russ pavements, and. contracts.” therefore the committee should not “attach the slightest importance” to ere- monstrance from that body, we cannot complain of their abandoning logical inquiry for the more congenial field of chirographical critieism. Fortunately for the interests of New York, Mr. Cooley’s report, though slightly disfigured by pretensious language, contains so compre- hensive and so unarswerable a review of the real pointe.at issne, that it must carry eonvic- tion to the minds of the Senators. We may cluster the arguments in favor of the Central Park in a few lines. 3i is, as its name desig- nates, central. which Jones’ Wood is not. Itean already be reached by four established railroads; while Jones’ Wood can bexeached by none. Itis admirably adepted for ornamental purposes, which Jones’ Wood is not. It is five times as large as Jones’ Wood. It would ventilate an immense area of ground, wwich will hereafter be covered with houses; it would, in short, oc- cupy’ the same position in the city that the lungs do in the human body, while. to make Jones’ Wood the City Park, would be like placing the lungs in tte elbow or the calf of the leg. It has, finally, water in its midst in any quantity, while the supply in Jones’ Wood is doubtful and limited. On the other hand, the only argument which the whole ermy of advocates for the adoption of Jones’ Wood have been able to adduce is the fact, that it is already well wooded, while its rival is bare and destitute of trees. This would be a for- midable reason. were it not that the forest now standing in the former would require to be largely thinned to be converted in a park: and Mr. Cooley adduces the testimony of the high. est authorities in horticulture and botany, to | show that the process of thinning would be al- | most certain to ruin the trees left standing. Old ancestral oaks, which have towered to heaven in the society of a dense array of other denizens of the forest, seldom survive a sepa- ration from their early companions. When these fall under the axe, and their roots are torn from the earth. the unaccustomed exposure to light and heat deals a fatal blow at the mon- archs of the woods; as an old king, whose might knows no equal solong as heis surround- ed by the close companionship and affection of his subjects, but who grows weak, totters, and falls altogether when his throne is deserted—so the old oak, that waves proudly his branches, overtopping his loftiest neighbors, owes so mach of his strength to their protection that, when they are torn from his side, he gradually droops, withers, and exhibits at last a bare leafless trunk, a melancholy spectacle of desolation. The advocates of Jones’ Wood, like their own oaks, have nota leg to stand upon when the bruehwood which obseures their position i away. We shrewdly suspect that. as } says, the grounds of their advocacy Tn truth, we only ask of the yolk once at the map of New York ngle glance, they can hesitate, we Tiaftter a | shall cry no more on the subject. But the very position is animperiinence. The Central een hold- erce will never tem to be ineompati- th w American Leening Post there" Lon the abolition side, Though we a of slavery in ( Y a that Ge h emancipi rera The New Yor nthe cudg cle of the Union recurs, as tho wpon Cuba, T i Union is not the organ, ia the proposed new demoeratie paper at Wachingtom to he the or; gan, or how? How is it! ton ¢ Tas Pacric Rameoap—Ricaarp Rosy To Corowe1 Benroy.—The letter of Hon. Richard Rush to Colonel Benton, which we lay before the readers of the Heratp this morning, is a fine specimen of familiar epistolary letter writing. It furnishes no new information upgn the Pacific Railroad, it discloses nothing of past history which was not known before ; but it is, nevertheless, a highly agreeable and inter- esting letter. From the distinguished public reputation of the writer, as well as from the conspicuous and elevated individuality of Old Bullion, however, this letter derives its particu- lar interest. But this epistle is calculated to exert some practical influence in behalt of the Pacific Rail- road, by stirring up a more general spirit of enterprise in behalf of the great work. And Mr. Rush’s recapitulation of the tremendous highways constructed in various parts of the world, including the continent of America, by the “old fogies” of past ages, is well adapted to excite that general spirit of enthusiasm which alone is essential to give us an iron road rom New York to San Diego within the next five years. We say five years, for if fifty thousand men may complete it in ten yea why may not one hundred and fifty thousand finish it from stem to stern in five years. The great primary difficulty is the route for the trunk line; for, unquestionably, the first object is a single through line to the Pacific. Several routes have been designated. and ex- ploring parties have been officially detailed to explore them. The most northerly route is that of Colonel Stevens, which contemplates making Puget’s Sound, at the northern extremity of the United States on the Pacific, the terminus. We appre- hend that this will be found too.far north, too much among the snows and labyrinths of moun- tains and difficult rivers. rocks and defiles, aad | too long for the purpose, in view of a through ticket in the shortest possible time, and at the least expense. The second route is the general overland emigrant route from St. Louis. The grades of this route are feasible; but the scarcity of timber, the depth of the winter snows in the Rocky mountains, and the howling desert of six hundred miles of the Great Basin west from the Salt Lake, are formidable embarrass- ments. The next route, further southward, is Col, Benton’s route. It has been unexplored, and is unknown save by mountain trappers, and the opinions of Col. Fremont and Col. Benton; but from all that is known of it, it is less practicable for a railroad, though ‘perhaps shorter than the general overland emigrant route to Californie. The next route, stil further southward. és Senator Rusk’s route, striking into the Rocky Mountains, from Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande, thence to the Spanish trail across the desert, thence around the butt end of the Sierra Nevada, or Snowy Mountains. by Walker’s Pass, and thence across the open country to San Diego. This route is comparatively availavle in going reund, instead of crossing over the Sierra Nevada.as.do the other routes indiceted; but it is no mere exempt from the graniteand volcanic obstructions .and deep snows of the Rocky Mountains, and.the deserts beyond them, than the rest. The most available route of all, from all the information upon the ‘subject, is that from El Paso, or near that point on the Rio Grande, through the Mesilla or disputed district to the south side of the mountain ranges along the tGila, and acroas the open.country of the Mexi- «can States of Chihuahua and Sonora, to the mouth of the Colorado, thence across the desert ita Sap Diego. By this route, the Rocky mountains are ‘wvoided—their deep snows and impassable canones are avoided—a comparatively cham- paigne country is traversed to the Colorado, and thence to San Diego; the mighfy chain of the Sierra Nevada are left far to the right, the road passing over successive ranges of low hills and valleys to the ocean. From a report presented at the late Pacific Railroad mecting at San Diego, at which Col. Magruder, of the United States army, presided, it appears that the distance from El Paso to San Dieg 0 is eight hundred miles, and estimating the cost at $30.000 per mile, they say that a railroad between these two salient points may perhaps be built for twenty-four millions of dollars. But this is only half the work. A thousand miles remain between El Paso and the nearest available point on the Mississippi, which, at the same cost per mile, would require thirty millions more, or fifty-four millions to complete the road from the Pacific to the Mis- sissippi by this route. But its advantages over all the other desig- nated routes are manifest. A glance at the map will show that throughout its whole ex- tent it avoids the mountains, and the deep snows of the mountain passes of the other routes. It also avoids the Great Desert Basin, which for the five, six or seven hundred miles across it, must be supplied with all the mate- vials, iron, lumber and provisions required, from the Mississippi Valley or the Pacific termi- nus. The El} Paso route avoids this desert, and by taking the open country, to the south of the | Gila, traverses a region bountiful at least in its supplies of grain, grass and beef, It is in view of this Pacific Railroad, and of these advantages south of the Gila, that the disputed Mesilla territory becomes an imporf- ant acquisition. Hence, too, the expediency of acquiring the aforesaid margin of open country on the southern side of the Gila to the june- tion of that river with the Colorado. We are gratified to be informed that the adminis- tration has an eye to these things, and we are not without a hope that for a liberal equivalent in cash, which we can very well afford to pay, we may secure the ad- ditional slice suggested from Santa Anna. The Mexican constitution is a barrier against any furthér cessions to us of Mexican territory; but where there is on both sides a will there is away. BE we are digressing. The Pacific Railroad surveys have yet to be made; and we must be content to await the reports of the several sur- veying parties. In the meantime, let all scep- tical people as to the possibility of building a railroad to the Pacific read the letter of Mr. Rush to Col. Benton. Tue Texas Gory Mixes Daityp Ur.—As we suspected would be the case. the T mines haye dried up. As proof positive of this fact, it is only necessary to announce that there are eight democratic candidates in the field tor Governor of Texas. Now, if there were any gold mixes in that te, it is simply out of the question that there would be eight democratic candidates up for Governor. The fact that the emall pickings of the spoils are in such request, is proof positive (hat there are no gold mines in Texas. Dried up. lw: Tae Guorora Union Partry—Sritt ALive.— We give to-day, frem the Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder, an additional chapter to our infor- mation published yesterday, upon the politics of Georgia. It will be seen that the old whig party in that State is dead and buried, and that its materials, with some scattering rein- forcements from the democracy, are merged in the Union party, the still existing Union party, by which Governor Cobb was so triumphantly carried to victory in 1851, and standing upon the same identical platform. This Union party, it will be further observed, make a direct issue, in their string of resolu- tions, with the appointment policy of the ad- ministration, taking the most decided ground against Southern secessionists and Northern free soilers. Thus arraigned against the re- organized democracy of Georgia, we should not be surprised if the Union party were to carry the election; for we presume that there isa considerable number of Union democrats, upon the simple issue between a Union man and a sccessionist for Governor, that will vote for Jenkins, as in the last trial they voted for Cobb. The issue fs a direct, issue, and the re- sult will go far to solve the question of a speedy or distant re-construction of the political parties ot the whole country. Let us wait the result. Tur Inpvstriat Cias8es or New Yorx—Tue Barbers, Wic Makers anp Haux Diessers.— Our fourth article on the Industrial Classes, which we publish today, will, we have no doubt, be read with general interest by both barbers and their customers. No man who uses that peculiar emblem of civilization—a razor— will neglect to peruse it, and every lady who is indebted to the hair dresser for a large share of her personal attraction, will find much in it both interesting and instructive. It is an ar- ticle for all classes of the community—the bearded and beardless, the bald, and those who are blessed with an abundance of hair on the cranium—for all it contains a fund of infor- mation which cannot be found elsewhere in print. ‘Talk on Change. The character of the foreign news was @ topic of con- versation. Commercially speaking, it was considered, in the main, as favorable as could be expected. In & politi- cal point of view, although the complexion of matters bad undergone no marked change, the indications, neverthe- Jeas, preponderated in favor of the maintenance of peace, though for how long a period was uncertain, It was said that the best time for England and France to have united to check the territorial aggrandizement of Russia, was when she seized so large a share of Poland. Had that movement been prevented, and Polish nationali- ty maintained, the Prath, at the present day, would not have become the Rubicon of modern Europe. The news exercised very little influence upon the value of produce in this market. About one thousand bales of cotton were sold without change in prices. Breadstufls closed at last week’s prices, while provisions and groceries were dull. There was rather more flour and grain ship- ping to England, at steady rates for freights. The New Mexican tariff was referred to, and considered in many respects nearly prohibitory. One of the surest means of increasing smuggling was to impose excessive custom duties. Though Mexico grew some cotton, yet her mills were supplied with the srticle from the United States. On this an impost of $3 per quintal had been declared; underrhirts and drawers were taxed $3 60 per doren; wool $250 per quintal, men’s stockings $1 per dozen; pianos $60 and $80 each. This was travelling backward. Even old Spain, of lato, had shown a dispo- sition to relax ber commoreial policy, by reducing daties on some articles, and in adding otbers to the free list. It was feared that the attempt to enforce’ such duties on the borders of ihe Rio Grande would ba productive of disorder and violence. It appeared that the duties were to go into effect in the Gulf ports against Americans on the first of August; againet Europe » month later, and in the Pacific ports on the first of October. The Guillotine at the Custom House. ‘The decspitation has commenced in the Marble Palace in Wall and Nassau streets. Collector Bronson, with the coolness of a Judge of the Court of Appeals, hea cut off the heads of a batch of whig office holders, and made the following appointments. These appointecs are, of course, a kappy set of fellows; but imagine the {celings of those who have received their congé, DEPUTY COLLECTOR. Thomas A. Osborne, WEIGHERS. Daniel Geary, Jawes B. Cisco, Louis Duflon, Robert B, Clark. Joba Cox, MEASURERS. Theodorus Van Tine, Lewis Conover, William Francis, Germain Thompson. GUAGERS. Edward Pell, Geo, H. Healy. INSPECTORS. James Masterson, Henry Uiebenau, De Witt Clinton, Jobn J Bailay, Patrick Murphy, George W Roome, George Freserburzh, John A L Terhune, Evgene McGrath, Jobp Asten, Alfred Windsor, James Edward Porter, William J. Wiswall, Ieateh R Clark, Richard H Stoddard, James Q Adams, William Town, William Fagen, Peter A. Ross, Thomas N. Donght, Joha C en Ne Faward Brown, William 8. Leach, John Lawrence, Peter Burroughs, Samuel Graham, Cornelius W. Oakley, Andrew Brady, Kosign Driggs, Ghsrlos © Coutrel, Henry N. Wri cht, Hiram Walden, Jacob Montross, Ieravl O. Disosway, Henry Dusendury. ‘Alonzo &. Mor Miebael Kyan, ~* Danvel B. Boden’ John Quin, . NIGHT INSPECTORS. Willism Byles, Patrick Fox, Jackron Vermilye, dobn Petletresu, Joseph Shaw, Morris Garvoy, Somes Keelan, Michael Fyn, Jobu B Houghkirk, Robert Jastison, Charles T. Leviness, William Bartis, Richard H_ Bishop, Fraveis Lanzer, James G. Hamlin, John A. Havilsnd, France's Clark, Silvanus M. Cantior, John Carroll, NIGHT WATCHMEN. Samnel D. Bedell, Borris Franeix Donnelly, Jerowinh Wells, Jobn Cantrell, Peter Curren, Thomas ©, Emery. OLERKS. Leonard @. Van Kleock, George FH. Young, Daniel Jackson, Thomas Kyle, Henry De Ahua, Jonas P Harris, Tokn Reso. The Tart, * The trotting match for $2 000, mile heats, best throe in five, to wagons, between Flora Temple and Highland Maid, announced to come off yesterday afternoon at the Cen- treville course, wes postponed on account of the raia. It will take place this afternoon, commencing at 2 o'clock G. Spicer bar beon engaged to drive Highland Maid in placo of F. J Nodine. The trot for $1 500 between Mac and Taconey, will aleo come off at ths Union Course this afternoon. Great sport for one day. Police Intell " An Alleged False Pretence rp Practice Officer Underhill yesterday arrested a Culver alias Cul. bert, who stands cbarged with one Conkiin Piersall ia a com pisint made by Edward H Watson of No 164 Ninth avenne, who olleges thet the said Oulver and Plecanll conspired together for the purpose of defranding hit out of a horse, valued at It seeme that a proposition wae mare to Wi , to nweo b noe, on him pot er held Culver to W aver the charge. Mr. Piers oud enter into tha aw will in ol! proba? pear y amount of bonds to er wer any indictment that might herenfter be brovgbt against him, bs Charge of Stealin ra —Oflicer Green yosterday rested aman romed Thoms Hammond, on a char stenling ¢ dats | perty of T 06 Pearl ntre ft store, bu ving so he carriad off iw another direction, and is now » appropr The acensed was iaken before, Justice Bogart, who do. tained hi to anawer the char Personal Int Nidell United States <enator. Loutoinga ; ries O'Conor, New York ; RR Carter Culaut ta, were among the arrivals, yesterday, at tho Metro- politen Hotel. in PA. Now. Ol), Indy mad five child ady and two cbildren Mins Caro line Tnener. M Mr inw T Manpiag. we had quite a thunder, and bsg io setae 200 Se. ahaenaaee aes for harvesters in those parts where have menord 10 cut the grain. Fie thermometer at 12 wae The dan Rat ethan ean thot tal dering tae night ee: g it it Ky regarded, it would be found: Crystal Patace —We learn thet Mr. Secchi de Tas Cerali has beep named Pay Avg by Capt. Dupont as translator and Frmemen’s Procesaton.-—Yes'erda; between 11 and 12 o'clock A Mf, Go." No, 8, wosinpaniod by the Herman offica en route to- hey were t Mesers. Giles & Backs, ut 25 Howard street, where been newly painted and gilt. The route taken company was down Broadway into Fulton street, and round by our offiee invo Nassau street, along Nassau and Chatham into the Bowery, and then direct up the Third avenue. x faras Thirty eighth street, whence they were ‘go to Harlem by stages. tly yesterday morning a fire broke out at 275: wpeet in ‘lower part of tbe building. Dam: 0 Lieut Stanford, of the Seventeenth poliee - and Lieut Hogan, of the Eleventh, each with a platoon of men, were early on ihe ground. Toe of the Mari- ner’s church, in the Fourth ward, was on Sunday evening to be on tire ; it was, however, extin- guirhed by the police of that district ; damage slight. Farly yesterday morning, between 12 and 1 eo fire was dircovered ianuing from the roof of houre No. 81 Pitt street. It wae soon extinguished by policeman Hood. Damage trifling. University Inti1iGesck.—The Alumni of the New York University will celebrate their jase firet euni- versary this evening st University Chapel, whea Dr. Draper will deliver the oration. The Columbiau Literar, Clob will likewise hold their second annual meeting this evening at Hove Chapel. Wednesday will be a busy day with the members ot the University Io the morning’ the commeccement wil! be colebrated at Niblo’s, when the Rev Issac Ferris will be inaugurated as Chancellor. In the afternoon the Associstion ef Alumni will hold their apnusl meeting in the Chapel of the University, ae will dine together in the evening at the Astor jouse. AMan Reascurp rromn Drownrnc—PRaisxwortay Con- DuCT.—As the ferry boat Moutauk which leit the slip at the foot of Whitehull street, at 7 o’clock last cveutog, was crossing the stream, about midway. © man named: Brahem, a cartran, residing at No. 83 Fourth strest, New York, accicenially fell overboard. The boat was stopped at once. the life boat lowered. and three men, pamed J W Whittier, carpenter, doing business at ‘Trinity place, R. Reynolds and Thomas Clark, jumped into it and pushed off tewards the diowuing man, who had by this time been dritted abont five hundred yards with the. current. He sunk twice, and just as the it came up to him was sinking a thid time to rive no more, when, by an almost superhuman effort Clark seized him by’ the hair of bis head, Clark banving from the stera of the boat, and immersed this neck in the water. ihe other men, Re; nofts anc Whittier. took them into the life boat, and they were all ina few seconis on board the Mantauk once more and usder way for Breoklyn. The man ap- red greatly swollen, from the quantity of water he Bao taken ip, aud for some micutes all life appeared ex- extinct; hut through the efforts of some experienced gentlemen on board, animacion was restored. When the Montauk reached the Brooklyn side, the 10an was con- veyed to the re-idence of Dr Lodge, No.4 Union ee. who gratuitons!s attended to bis wants, The highos praise is due to the three gentlemen above na whe gallantly risked their own lives 10 save that of a fell -w- creature; and though we wonld not detract from the merit due the other two, yet the bold and fesriess manner in which Thomas Clark jumped from the I:fe-boat, just in the nick of time to save the object of his-solicitude, is worthy of a more substantial testimonial than a passing~ comment, as, certain it is, the sligutest apathy or delay ‘would have resulted fatally to the unfortunate man whore life wax then atis-ue. The man was pronouaced out of danger at ten o’cl-ck P. M. RUFFIANLY ASSAULT Yesterday © Lead the name of Michael Kelly. who is employed on boar the Knicker- bocker steamboat that runs up the Kast river and ee: Isiand Sound to Norwich, Connecticut, was the vistim of @ raffianly arsoult, committed by a colored man, known as Charley, who is likewise employed on board of the same stesmboat, asau undercook. It appears that the boy Kelly had been in the cookhou-e, and had taken rome peas: outof a plate, which vas seen by the cook who attempted. to rnatch the plate out of bisbrnd. A reufile consequent- ly ensued, during whi sh the colored underoook laid hold of; an axe snd inflicted a blow scross the eyelid of Kelly. - The latter was conveyed to the Hospital and the coloced fellow ren off from the dock at the foot of Cortland si where the stesmboat lay, and has no! sinee been Load of. It is supposed by Dr, McComb, who attends to the case, that Kelly will lose the ese, Rey over in Proapway.--Yescerday afternoon about 4 o'clock, a Germso boy ten years of age named Stephen Kovsman, while attempting to cross Broadway opposite Chambers street, was run over and severely injured internatly. It appears that two omaibuges werd coming slong in opposite cireedons while the boy was crossing. and tbat io order to o-cape being run over, he laid bold of the iron sep in front of one of them by which the driver geta up and down. The stages, however, were so close that they came isto collision, and the pole of the one to waich the ‘oy was hanging go: broke, when the horses reared up and threw hia visleatly tothe ground. While lying there the wheels of the ompibus went over him, cud it is supposed that he was aho kicked by the horses as there are several contusions about his bocy. He was couveyed at first into the deug” the currer of Chambers strest, makiog piteous. nd was conveyed from there to the City Hospital, where be is under the charge of De. Derby, Fractured Limes—Mary’ Noles, an English woman d into the H.spital yee- . ee Ete of the right causes by stepping on @ piece of oral lin the street voth bones of the lower part of the leg, and cne bone of the upper part, being broken, Mary Cabil!, an Inch weman aged 30, married, was like- wise sdmitted ifto the Hospita! yesverday, having broken both bones of tke lower part of the leg tom ‘9 fall in her babe yee caused by - being trivped up by the. carpet while walking across the, floor, Both = under the cere of Dr. Derby. ~ a ale INDUSTRY WiLL PROSPER —We understand man Per- dy, of the National theatre, is having erected megane cont family resiceuee in the vicinity of General Scott's wangion, in Tweiftn street. ‘The buliding is of brown stone, and will cort upwards of twenty thousand dollars, Srem Warp Station House —The police of this ward will shortly be provided wiih quarters instead of their prerent uvcowfo ta ule lodgiogs ia the basement of the Tombs, which are not at ali suitable for their accom. modation ana by po wears healthy. Anew station house is to be built in Frooklin street. cot far from their pre- sent abode, between Ceu're aud Orange streets. Tard AVENUE balRoaD.—-This railroad is now near gompiotion, workmen being: at present employed in lay~ Df @ raila any xing the sleepers at the terminus. which will be at the eng of Park place, Boat Urser—On Sunday evening three men, named Andrew Susban. John Dople, aud John Sveeney,’wh le te small boat in the Fast siver, vocrosly escaped belog rowned. the doat beiug run ‘into by the Wil ferry steemboat, xs Laat apc Accipan:8 —On Sorday evening a man namod David Reed | while Sutoxies'ed, fell down in Thowpton steeet an ead apaiost a stone cutt it very severely. ‘The wound was dressed by De Ringe Minot Last Sunday afternron a mwa, name unknowa, was run over bya coach in Murray stroct He was taken te the City Hospital by officer Eodesnand, IpentiFirp.—The clothes of Patiick McDonel at No 415 Hast Twelfth street, sho was dro 03, we Te identified last Sunday by bis brother, James McDonald. ‘Tbe clothes were found on the dock at the foot of Forty~ second street. East river, oa Saturdsy eveging, by officar has not been Fulmer, of the Nineteenth ward. Tne found, ate. JOIN M. BATCHELDE Sceretary of che Superutendonts. Union Course, L Teteouting ~The Groot he celebrated will Wpoinetd M., should the wor 0 Ip? July 2, ut2 As most of the p at tho Studio Cneioss, WILLIAM C. MOON, Auction Notice.—Tae attention of the public is called to th 1 turpiture, to be sold by Fultow street on site Spring stre: Brott er, wolt kno in this clty. men Brom Lovlsiana, and from the cnovally, are infyriucd . ROK & COS ‘ono price © y r AU who went good, we tan Mowld "oat country. ; Hats vs, Daguerrcotypes felt hat fame and fortum he tay o Tet tee who bays 3 helongs sole REY & LEASK ore street, ond’ an th