The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1853, Page 7

NUS DOMINI, 1853. TWELVE MONTHS CHRONOLOGY oF HE UNITED STATES. INTERESTING LEGAL STATISTICS. THE WEATHER DURING THE YEAB, &e., &., &- ts of the Year from tho Opening to the Close. / JANUARY 1.—Collision on the Harlem Railroad, near Morrisauis, which two men were killed and a number more or less |. Horatio Seymour took the Governer’s oath of joe of the State of New York. Brooklyn Female Aca- cestroyed by fire. 3.—Jacoob A. Westervelt sworm into the office of Mayor et New York. Cholera broke out in Charleston, 8. C. Jarge fire in Galveston, Texas. Tremendous high price Se provisions in California—fiour in many places $75 per Darrel, and other provisions in proportion. 4&—First appearance of snow im the streets of New Work the present winter. Lewis Cass introduced in the United States Senate a resolution reasserting the Monroe ** goctrine by declaring that no future European colony or Sominion shall, with the consent of the United States, be Ostablished on any part of the Americar continent. As- Sem bling of the New Yo:k Legislature, and receipt of the = Governor’s message. The caloric ship Ericsson started @ponae trial trip. The boilers of the steamship A Fasi Jeor exploded below New Orleans, killing three persens fnd wounding five. d §.—Return of the calorie ship Ericsson from her trial . 4 rip, which proved the partial succsss of the new discov- Ory in motive power, the vessel having accomplished Bome twelve miles per hour. Message sent to the United Btates Senate by President Fillmore in relation to the tri- - Partite treaty respecting Cubs, including the letter from award Everett, Secretary of State, to M. de Sartiges, The steamers J, Bragdon and Camanche came in collision San Francisco, by which the latter was sunk, and 1m lives lost, 6.—A train of carson the Boston and Maine Railroad thrown off the track near Andover, and the passen- car, which was filled with passengers, among whom ‘as Gen. Franklin Pierce, wife and son, rolled completely down an embankment. Gen. Pierce's son, ® boy Gbout twelve years old, was iostantly killed, and Mr, and Mrs. Pleros both slightly injured. Steamer J. Wilson ex- ploded her poilers at Columbia, Ark., killing forty per- fons. 1.—Hudson river closed at Albany, secord time during Ghe winter. The powder mill at Acton, Mass, blew up, Kkilling three men; one haxdred and fifty kega of powder exploded. The steamer John Simonds exploded her boil- near Louisville, killing twelve persons, and soalding tween twenty and thirty o:hers. $.—The equestriar statue Gen. Ardrew Jackson in. fas felt wt Mileegevila, G Sunpay, 9.—News received of the discovery of new gold Bnines in Australia. Great floods in California which de- Btroyed roads, bri’ges,anda great amount of private proper- ‘ty, and rendered many localities inaccessible. The stocks of Provisions among the miners b»came consumed, and no Tueans being left to replenish them, great distress, and in tances actua] starvation, was the conse- iret sppearance in America in the same time in New York, SY Madame Henrietta Sontag prima doana at Niblo’s Garden, ‘and Madame Marietta Alboni prima donna at the Broad- gray theatre. i1.—Cslorie ship Ericston went on another trial trip, the complete success of the priaciple of navig: vessels by the power of expanded air. The ship was ‘propelled against a strong tide at the rate of 8}{ miles er team boiler explosion in Reading, Pa, kill- thres per:ons and wounding fir '2.—The pilotboat Commerce last seen off Egg Harborin gale. The pilots op board were McKnight Smith and ‘thew Betts, of Brooklyn; Thomas Scott of New York; Thomas Smith, apprentice; Roger Clark, boatkeeper and 1, and three other mer 13.—Snew a foot deep; good sleighing in New York. winter kvowa in Califorvia In. Packet ship Cornelius Grinnell beach, with a large number of passengers on board, ly landed. which left New Otleans on the lst ten eolore1 emigrants for Liberia, at into Savannah, having lost the cap‘aia and twenty- seven of the ranta by cholera }—Very cold in New York; thermometer ‘oral of @ grocery store eeper a is wife through the Kea with & ‘tes steamsh'p Fulton sailed from Norfelk Havana, having on board Hon. Wm. R. King, Vice- sident elect. 18.—Great speech of Gen. Lewls Cass in the United ‘States Senate on the Mcnroe dostrine. 22.—Bill introduced in the New York lature to re- ‘ lew York from sativg pri to construct railroads. Sixty-four oaths from consumption cecurred in New York sutiag the past week, the largest number that has yet occ! one w 195.—Speeches were made by Mr Soule of Louisiana, and . Cass of Michigan, in explanation, or interpreting the doctrine in relation to the faterference of trans- » 27.—Kighteen builcings were destroyed by fire ia Jer- bey City. A resolution of ixquiry concerning the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, which granted certain Tights to Eng- ‘Jand in Honduras, passed the United States Senate. 28,—Large fire in Nashville, Tenn., destroying nearly hundred thourand do!lars worth cf property. Nichc- Jas Howiett and Willism Saul were executed in New York for tay murder of Charles Baxter, a watchman on boards Verse). 20.— Enoch Reed, indicted for participation in the res @ue of the negro. elave Jerry, found guilty. First appear- pace in New York of a troupe of Chinese juzglers, FEBRUARY A serious fire occurred in Nassau street, in Hender- Bon's Intelligence establishment, in which Leopold Collia and David Collin, brothers. were burnt to death. Dense fog on the East and North rivera, in coasequence of which pumerous collision: ocourred. Fulton ferry bost Gowanus ran into the clipper ebip Howqua, by which a number of Persons were injured, una others swept overboard. 5.—Alderman Sturtevant, of the New York Common Council, held to bail in $500 for a contempt of court in violating an injunctioa, ia connection with « majority of 5 the Board, issued to restrain the Common Council frem Jeasing Broadway for a railroad track. The packet snip Antarotic, bound trom Liverpool to New York, put into Hampton Roads, having lost sixty paesengers on the pas y smallpox. UNDAY, 6.—The {ce in the Hudson river at Albany & ene up. oe. shooks of an earthquake were feit at ‘. 8,—An accident occurred at Glen Cove, Long Island, by the of floor, on woich was great nuinber of pie, by w! one men was instantly killed, and twenty Seriously injured, ‘The Mai Liquor law in Vermont Voted on by the people a: d m: opte 1.—U; of one thousand men, employed on the Baltimore and Ohio Raijroa, and in foundries in and around the city of Baltimore, struck for high: r wager. 12.-- Joseph care executed in New York for the mur- r of George T. Gillespie, a policeman. os —Caloric ship Ericeson sailed for Norfolk. The Hud- fon river again cloved at Albany, 16.—President Franklin Pieroe arrived in New York, en voule for Washingt’n Steamer Indepencence, while on hher passage from San Juan del ‘ud to San Franciseo, ran ashore off Marzaretts laland. where she was totally de- atroyed by fire, and one hundred and th riy human beings perished im the flames or were drowned. 17.—Gen Pierce left New York for Philadelphia. 21.—News received from California, over the telegraph from New Orleans, in viceteen days: the shortest time. Taw amending the previous enacanent relative to the half doliar, quarter dollar. dime and half dime, and au- , thorizing the coining of three dollar gold p'eces, approved ‘by the President The law alno provides that the silver Coin above mentioned shall bes legal tender in payment of debts for all sume under fire doliars. 22.—Clipper ship Northern Light, which left Boston for Gan Francisco Feb. 12th, waa struol aes at sea. and destroyed by fire. The Unewnge and crew escaped in five boate, which were afterwards picked up at various ‘Times by different vesseln. 23 —Law passed by Congress erizing the United ~ Btates Consul at Havana toadmiaisier the oath of the of- Mice of Vice President of the United States to William R. ) Who was then in the island of Cuba —The Grand Jury of Ne« York made a prosentment ‘Df two of he aldermen as having been guilty of receiving bribes to influence their votes in the Common Council. ‘ MARCH 2.—A beauti'ul carriage and horses was presented at citizens of Boston, to Gen Franklin pproved by the President establishlog the mew Torsitery of Washington: it embraces that part of Oregon which lies north of the Columbia river, A cotton and about 20,000 bales of cotton were destroyed by in New Orleans, Loss nearly $1,000,000 4.—G8n. Franklin Pierce inaugurated President of the United Stater, at Washington. [he new President dali- his inaugural address without reaiing, Ad rosa blished io New York at 2 o'clock P. M. The following the names of the members of the new cabinet:— a S * 16.—Awful accident on the New York and Erie Railroad; several killed, and a number wounded. five inquests were held in New York city of nine inches fel! in New York. | haustion. Twenty four of in New York city within forty-eight hours. Bumpay, 26.—! fire in Pa., which de- 6.—Snow to Great olty reform meeting held ia Metropoliten Hall, New York. A bill to amend the city charter af New York was depth introduced in the House of Assembly, ttroyed rty to the amount of x ite the Nuw Yorx Hera were EUxDar, 6.—Paclfic mail steamship Tennessee lost near | | 28—The question or calling oonveation in Rhvde | oPPO# with their contents, smounting in value San Francisco; peasengers oe: Istand, for the purpose of amending the constitution of | to $460,000, P. L. Rogers & Co., clothiers, 1—A large of the town of Weaversville, California, | the State, heme been submitted to the people, was re- | hesviest lovers. Duri destroyed by Are. Loss $100,000. jected by about 1,500 vates. Wer, andl busied 6 saute ‘ 8.—A comet discovered by Charles W. Tuttle, assistant JULY of whom were crushed to death, and seven others in- at the observatory of Harvard Co! be 1.—Bteamboat New World collapsed one of her boiler jured, 9.—The ioe broke up at Albany ior the third time | flues at her dock in New York. killing six men, and during the winter, and the river clear. wounding seriously two others. Tremendous hail storm NOVEMBER 10.—Ship Atalanta, cighty-three days from Canton, the es ah wore Canizoatin fire eccurred at Green Bay, Wis. occurred in New York city. Hailstones fell from four to ah: rtest on record, im coming into New York har- | five inches thick, and from two to three inches long. | -s mea ates leld, Mass. bor, ip cuarge of pilot» was ram ashore on the Romer During the storm a aumber of bullogy mere blown dows; | sive ao erie wit ere ene see Saecaaeecaacial ira Honora Shay its. Ellen Lynch, sistera, | one of them opposite the a Fort; . two respectable women in Philadelphia, were ‘murdered, : - Fee anak Dade: Sa Mow Yorn, waialt) TO street, which killed three men, and pega 1 mime soren others; aed snother at the foet of Forty- street, which killed one man. The steeple of Datch Re- formed Church in Fourth. street was blown down, and a number of buildings throughout the city were unroofed. One building was strack by froeape olen a German was billed by the electric fluid at 110th ai — cornerstone of a monument to be erected ia honer of the captors of Major Andre was laid on the pre- cise spot in Tarrytown, Westchester county, N. Y., where +d a follows:—Average whig vote, 161,992; average 680; average vote of i) democracy, 96,697. A proposition to unite Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and) Bushwick, on and, under one municipal government, voted on by the people and adopted. we slight snow equall in New York city, the first of 1e season. 11.—A very destructive fire occurred in Council Blaffs during the abseno» of their husbands, in s most shocking manner. ndous storm ocourred at Columbus, Ga., which was only of minutes’ duration, and more or less, nearly every house in the place. Some of the bi were totally demolished. Damage esti. mated at $63,000, 12,—Alderman Sturtevant semtenced by Judge Duer, in the Superior Court of New York, for a coatempt, in vo! in the Board of Aldermen on a resolutio City, lows, w! great \. to certain to lay down rai Andre was captured y or Pauld vid Williams, oe stontcon® siaiene 8 earns are after an injunction had been issued restraining the * | and Isaac Van Wart. occurred in the Ninth ward | “12a ‘dre occurred at Kingston, Canada, which de- mon from soning any action on the resolution, to pay a | of New York city between several of the Hibernian socie- stroyed proj to the value of $200,000. A fire took fine of $260, and cests and siyeepes amouss to $102, | ties, who were marching in procession, and the police, as- place im St. , Which destroyed $70,000 worth of pro- and be im med in the city prison for fifteem days. | sisted by a number of citisens and fire companies. ty. ‘berse.purfarmed one bandred sallon, ever ‘the And oa of the Alderman, for the same of- | A number of were ut none mecioey, Beadevitte race course, L.1, im eight hours and fifty-six persons jured, ‘and some forty of the Hiberniuas were arrested. turbance arose in ferce,a fine of $250 was imposed, amounting to $101:— Abraham Moore, ti minutes The horse soon car W, Sturtevant, Jasob F. Oakley, Thomas J. Barr, aginee with coste . Sunpay, 13.—Great storm and floods in the Eastern adley Haley, Os- 5 frightened at some fire | states, particularly in Conneeticut and Maine, where a ‘M. Tweed, Richard T. Compten, Wm. J. B:isley, James M. | crackers, broke into the line of proceasion, o Irish- | great amount of sropadty was ceatroyed At Ansonia, a Bard, Asahel A. Denman, Wm. H. Cornell, Wm J. Peck. | men thinkixg the criver had done it intent dragged | bridge was carried away, by which ® mumber of persoas, Aldermen John Doherty and Wesley Smith were fined $100 | bim off the box, and oer hes him to death. The po- | who had congregated upom It.to see the flood, were in addition to $101 costs; and of the followin: As- | lice attempted to arrest 2 perpetrators ‘of the deed, | drowned. sistant Aldermen were fined for the same offence $1 which the body of Irishmen , and this caused the 17.—Two destructive fires occurred in New York—one and $161 of costs:—Josiah W. hay Geog R. Mebbatt! disturbance. 5 tree! Hi irned ‘Timothy O'Brien, Patrick Bro , Hel: | 6.—Large fire in Oswego, N. Y., which destroyed two | on, atbington, Jane, SE SSr Bosnte, which hereed ar MC Wels, bain Bouton, Wan. MoGonkey, Joseph | bundred Sulldogs, among which were a great number of 000; ant 'the other in Twenty-ifth atreet, (the Rogers, Thomas Whelan. Shock cy es was any aren A Property { hep yee Empire Iron Works,) consumed $200,000 worth os pro- felt at Watertown, Jefferson county, N. ¥. —AY ytorm ¥! e of Haverstraw, the 1 ‘burali aeenmays 13.—Aeck of an earthquake fot 1 St. Oathe: | on the Hudson river, which blow down a large two 4 eae moasee note aia as (ae hme De ine’s, Canada, ai at Queenstown Hagera. | wooden building, ve persons, and severely wound- | south Carolina, killing and wounding ten persons Governor Lane, of New Mexico, issued a tion | ing eight others. The storm done serious camage toa —A fi urred i ‘ claiming for the United States the Mesilla Valley, a tract | number of 24 — A Sze occurred ia Ciacitaati, which destroyed pro perty to the value of $100,000, ‘Nearly all the emigrant vessels which arrived at York for three weeks previous to the present date Joat great numbers of passengers by the cholera. The packet sbip Constellation arrived from Liverpool this day with the loss of one hundred of her pracengers by cho- lera. Avother comet was discovered by Mr. Van Ars- of country lying on the west side of the Rio Grande cel Norte river, which tract is thirty.four miles wide by one hundred and seventy eight miles long, The territory thus claimed was acknowledged to belong to Mexico by the Boundary Commission, 11.—First official aet of Presidemt Pierce, recogaizing the Spanish Oc nsul at Norfolk. 11.—Vote taken in Brooklyn on a plan for the intro- duction of fresh water into the city, which was rejected by @ vote of 5,054 to 2,639. President Pierce left Wash- ington for New York. \4.—President Pierce arrived in New York, and was re- ceived by @ public demonstration. The Crystal Palace Ex- 2% New ba hibition was duly inaugurated, and the Pred teat of the | duic, cf Nowerk, Neo, in the eote tc 2a. —Fitteen building were destroyed by fire in Brook- | United States, together with some of the members of the | “gt “Judge ‘Duer, of Fhe fe een oor tar ym, by which aloes of $90,000 was sustained, cabinet, General Seott, and other ed individu: | junction against the Brosdwsy raiivond thocld tossa ance aes ae ploded her oiler while racing | als, were present at the ceremonies, took part in the | }erpetual. The propeller Independence burst her boilers wih the steamer tune, near Galveston, Texes, which twenty-five persoms were killed, ani eleven wounded, Sonpay, 27.—Accident on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, about seventy miles west of Cumberland, by which at the bead of Portage river, killing four persons, and wounding # number of others, Sunpay, 27 —Cholera in New Orleans. One hundred and twenty 16.—A grand banquet was given at the Metropolitan Hotel to President Pierce and some members of his cabi- net by the Crystal Palace Associstion. The President, in nine deaths occurred from it in seven days the evening. attended the Italian Opera at Castle Garden. | 28 Tae clipper ship Great Repudlic, the largest vessel eight persons were killed, and twenty-four more or less | 16.--The President left New York for Washington, The | invho oon Suing. 4,056 tous burthee, arrives at Now injured; some very seriously. Two passenger cars went | steamboat Empire, on her trip from Troy to lew York, | York from Boston. over an embankment one hundred feet high, turning | was run into by @ sloop, the bowsprit entering the boiler 29 —John Mitchel, the Irish patriot, arrived in New four times over before iar tee bottom, of the pare and caused itsexplosion. Sevem persons | York from San Francisco, he having escaped from the 29.— The jail at Chesterfiel@ rt House, 8. 0., was de- | were killed, and twelve wounded. British convict colony in Australia. pores by fire, and eight persons perished in ee 11. ee ¢istinct ahocks of an earthquake were 80 —George H. Carrawan, a Baptist minister, was tried lap ea, Portland, Me. uilty, in Washington, N. O., of the murder of iter, ® schoolmaster. After the verdict was rendered, Carrawan fired a loaded pistol at the prosecut- ing att. rney, which slightly wounded him, and then with a second pistol shot himself in the bead, and he died on the spot, DECEMBER 2—-The Pacific mail steamship Winfeld Scott, which left San Francixce on the 1st December fo: Panama, went Santa Barbara, amd was totally lost. Passen nd apecie all saved. 6—The firet session of the Thirty-third Congress or- ganized at Washington, and the House of Representatives elected Linn Boyd, of Kentucky, Speaker, and John W. Forney Clerk. All the ferries on the Fast iriver runzing to Brooklyn consolidated into one company. The President’s message commenced reading in Congrers at fifteen minutes past 1 o'clock P.M. The steamship Humboldt went askore on tke rocks called the Sister, near Halifax, and became total wreck. Passengers, mails, and ‘Considerable excitement and difficulty in Erie, Pa. in consequence of # determination on the part of tl company to change the track of the railroad which passea throvgh that place. The citizens turned out and tore up the new track, destroyed the bridges, altered the grade, and committed other depredations, 8 —An accident occurred om the Erie Railroad, near Jersey City, bys collision of two trains, which caused the death of one person and the injury of fifteen othere The revenue cutter Hamilton, with a crew of twelve men and three officers, was lost off Charleston, and all perished ex- cep’ one . The men took to the boats after the vessel was disabled, which were apes the surf. Tae officers were Thomas C. Rudolph, Captain; Camillus Saun- di First utenant; and FE. Curtis Hi Toird Lieu- tenant. The death of Vice-President William R. King was announced in the United States Senate, and eulogies de- livered by Senators Hunter, of Va., Everett, of Mass., Cass, of Mich., Douglass, of Ill, and Clayton, of Del 10,—A fire occurred in New York, which destroyed the sare. Harper, in 1d Walton House, which was within » ‘ew months of being » hundred years old, and seme f ur- teen other buildings, in Franklin equare and Pearl strest, embracing a lors of $1,200,000. Sunpay, 11.—The City Inspector of New York reported nine deaths from Asiatic cholera during the previous toven cays. 12,— Beverly Tuoker editor of the Sentinel rele oy at Was! ington, a national democrat, was elected printer to the United States Senate, by = vote of 26 to 17. 14 —Some exciterent having been created by the ar- reetof eet preacher, op @ warrant issued by Mayor rveli, in New York, an indignation meeting was ip tbe Park, a1 uch ten thousand persons were prerent. Speeches were made, and resolutions adopted, condemning in strong terms the course of the Mayor. | 16.—A terrible riot took place on the Illinois Railroad, and found 80.—A firework manufactory in Williameburg exploded, CH kv ling one person, and seriously injuring eight others. APRIL 11,—Firat executive session of the Senate of the Thirty- third Congress adjourned, having been in session ince the 4th of March. Steamer Jenny Lind exploded one of the flues of her boiler in the bay of San: Francisco. by which accident twenty-nine persons were killed, aad ning: teem dreadfully sealded. 18 —Legislature of the State of New York, having been in session one hundred days, adjourned. A proclamation was issued by the Governor calling anextra session of the Legislature, to convene immediately. 15.—The extra session of the Legislature of New York acjourned till the 21h ot May. Sunpay, 17.—A fire occurred in one of the large build- ings of the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, which destroyed government property to the value of $105,000. 26.—The gold discoveries in Texas caused a great rush of emigration towards the localities of the mines. ible accident om the Michigan Southern Rail- road, by a collision of two trains, by which twenty: one persons were killed, and fifty injured. “Thomas Kane, Care," wan dlachargedoa New York, by Juage, Nelaou ta ? wan jew York, by Judge the United States Cheult Court. Kine was claimed by the British government ase fugitive from justiee, he hav- eee at, with intent to kill, » farmer in Ireland named fe. 21.—Thomas Neary and Patrick Fitzgerald were sea tenced to be hung, each for the murcer of his wife, inthe city of New York. —The hotel at Rochester called the Rochester House eg ty ed by fire, and four persons were consumed in e flames, 29,—Frane oni’s Hip) 18 0} to the members of the press of New Neko wines ann dress rehearsal. 80.—The steamer Ocean Wave was burot on Lake On. tario, about forty miles from Kingston, and twenty eight persons lost their lives, 19.—Three men went over Niagara Falls. Oneof them, in going down the rapids, clung to » plece of rock, whare he remained twenty hours, during which time the great- est eforts were made to save him, but they wore of no avail, and he followed his companions. The steam boiler in the foundry of John R Pratt, in Attorney street, New York, exploded, killing one man, and injuring ‘three 21.—The extra session of the Legislature of New York adjourned, after passing three hundred and ninety three laws, which, added to two hundred ard sixty-one passed at the regular session, makes the whole mumbor of new laws made in 1858 amount te six hundred and fifty four, An act to establish the Central park and also the Jones Wood park, in the city of New York, passed the Legisla- ture, Daring the 80,.—Yellow fever raging in New Orleans, week ending this day there were 880 deaths in the olty, of which 692 were from yellow fever. Sunpay, $1.—Oce hundred and thirty-seven deaths oe- curred in New Orleans from yellow fever in one day. AUGUST 1,—The anniversary of the departure of the Pilgrims fiom Delft Haven was celebrated at Plymouth, Mass. 2—An accident ossurred on the Belvidere and Dela- ware Railroad, nine miles from Lamberiville, N. J., by which eleven of the laborers who had beer at work on the Pennsylvania canal were instantly killed, and four- teen wounded, 6 --The deaths in New Orleans from yellow fever, in twenty-four hours, amounted to one hundred and fifty. 6.—The total number of deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans during the week past,was niae hundred and fifty. 8—two hundred and four deaths occurred in one day in New Orleans, from yellow fever. 9.—An accident happened on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, caused by a collision between two trains, by ee four persons were billed, and twenty seriously in- jured. 12—A shocking accident occurred on the Providence and Worcester Railroad, by two parsenger trains coming in colli'ion, Fourteen ‘persons were killed, and twenty- four seriously wounded. 18—The thermometer in New York dnring the week has ranged from 90 to 45. Upwards of one hundred per- fons were sun struck, and about sixty tive of the cases proved fatal. The number of deaths in New Orleans, during the past week, from yellow fever, was 1 369, Suxpay, 14—In New York ci!y ninety persons died from gun stroke, and thirty seven died in Brooklyn from the @ cause. A violent thunderstorm ocsurred in Maseachuretts. A number of houses, churches, and barns were struck by lightning, some of which were destroyed, and a number of persons were killed. MAY 2—Franconi’s Hippodrome opened to the public, Kight thoussnd people witnessed the first pectoruinaces Three shocks of an earthquake were experienced at Carmichael, Greene county, Pa. The same was felt in Waeeling, Va. A moet destructive storm visited Galveston, Texas, which done great damsge to the shipping in the harbor, and also to buildings in the town. 4 —Convention to revise and amend the constitution of met in Boston. il banquet in Boston, given in honor of ; An earthquake occurred at Newcastle, Lawrence county, Pa. The shock lasted half a minute, § —The mort frightful sscldent that ever cccarred on 8 And Now Baten Halitcel Be ahige ets at naa cork | 1b--the mumber of deniha by fellow fever in New Or instantly killed, one died in twenty-four hours after, and | ans, during twenty four hours, amounted to two hun- twenty-four others wounded. The train left N it | cred and thirly five 8 o'clock A. M., and while going at the rate of thirty | | 16.—Yellow fever broke ont in Mobile. i | 20—The deaths from yellow fever ia New Orlsans, | vear ia Salle, IIl., during which Mr.-Albert Story, a con; Ogee cae Bed hah eae ee aa yee ce PAS | curing seven days; numbered thirteen husdred and sixty’ | ivactor, was killed by 8 large bots ct iniebuen’ One of the Norwali river, in consequences of the drawbriage being | five. Nine hundred and sixty nine deaths occurred in | the ricters was killed, and » number wount ed New York during seven days, of which two hundred and fourteen were from sun strokes. Sunpay, 21.—The number of deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, during twenty four hours, was two bua- dred apd forty-eignt. 22.—A comet was visible to the naked in all parts of the United States. A most destructive fire occurred in Penn Yan. N. Y., destroying upwards of $100,000 worth of property. Papers received from San Francisco over the Nicar- agua route in twenty-two days and nine hours—the quickest trip on record. The Pearl Street House a large oa situated ioe aa and Water streets, was deswroyed re: . 794-— ‘Great battle detween the Americans, headed by ae Lane, and the Rogue river Indians, in Oregon te : tie jteamship Cherokee was destroyed by fire 19,—Jese Macuel Gall-gos, a native Mexioan, presented his certificate of election, and was worn in an delegate from New Mexioo th the Congress of the United States, A complimentary dinner given at the Broadway theatre to John Mitchel, the Irish patriot. ‘The grant which passed the New York Common Council, giving the Manhattan Railroad Company privilege to lay Cown a track in Broad- way was vetoed by Mayor Westervelt, 20.—The prominent Bleck of eight buildings on Brook- lyn Heights, known as Collonade Row, destroyed by fire; Tons $120,000, The canals of the State of New York cloned. 21=The Hodson, river at Albany was closed by. toe A fire oocurred in Philadelphia, which destroyed $50,000 worth of property, and by the falling of walls cauced the death of men. 4 of 22,—The tao hundred and thirty third anniversa: open, end one of the most frightful scenes ever experi- enced was the consequence. Rev. Thomas F. Davis elected Bpiscopsl Bishop of South Carolina at Charleston. . 7—The baggage and passenger car on the New Bedford and Taunton Railroad rolled down an embankment about thirty feet high, near Taunton, Mass., and, what is most singular, no person was killed, but two seriously injured. ScnpaY, 8 —Two trains of cara came in collision on the Paterron Railroad, by which accident two persons were ipjured se that they died the next day, and a number of others otherwise hurt. 10 —A tornado parsed over the lower part of Princess Anne county, Va, A number of houses were swept off, four lives were lost, and many persuns wounded. 18.—A building fell in Buffalo, burying beneath the ruins some fifteen or sixteen persons, six of whom were instantly killed, and the others more or less injured. ay the landing of the Pilgrims was celebrated. The boilers eee 16. Af Seriition ee Far anteltiene oy while ying ny her dook fa J New York She had her of ie mae Mar borc ugh <7 lode st Obasiostony 2 cargoon and was ready to sail y for Havana 3, by which ten ns were |, and four wouuced. ere Cia ed oe Cte eT Rn SziG, VEO | Sad New Orletue; Ions G48 008,, The total aauiber or | Bosuir, #8-Artn rted for political offences. The name of the frigate te Giovanni. 16.—A conflagration oocurred in Ottawa, Upper Cavada, which swept over the towns of Sheen, Chichester, Ross, Horton, Bromley, Pembroke, Stafford, Westmeath, Adams’ ton, and Allumetti island. The area of country burned bout four hundred and fifty square miles. Three d thirty families were rendered honseless. occurred in Bristol R. I., which de- stroyed property to the amount of $60,000 26.—A riot occurred in Cincinnati, by an organized bod: of Germans, against the Pope's Nuncio, Bishop Bedial. A Sight occurred betwoen the rioters and police, during which fourteen persona were wounded, and one man killed. A most destructive fire occurred in New York city, by which (cur houses were destroyed in Front street, deaths in New Orleans from yellow fever, during seven days, was thirteen hundred and sixty-four, SEPTEMBER 3.—Eight hundred and fourteen deaths occurred in reven days from yellow fever, in New Orleans. Yellow fever on increase in Natchez and Mobile; thirty deaths latter city, and fifteen in the former. “20.—' \derbilt’s ‘sailed G earthquake . | which contained mercbancize to a great value, and the iar Tork, with ail of Mer v's relator ons eons aly ford, Mass. gains i was felt at Now Beds | ispper sh’ ps \ aghast) Abas Minted eles crates sengers, on & pleasure trip to the principal ports of. the ~ Steamer Bay State, on her passage to New York, on | Packet ship Joseph Walker, were totaily destroyed. The Old World, The N.S. wasto have sailed th ous, but after being run out of the dock areef of rocks at the foot of Corlears street, whor was compelled to Isy for three or four hours, d ing which time her gear were disembarked. shoo! of an earthquake was felt in Augusta, Ga, asd other parte of the State, which lasted fifteen seconds. SUNDAY, 11.—The shock of an earthquake was felt in Sunpay, 22—Thirty-two buildings in Rockland, Me. | different parts of the State of Louisiana were destroyed by fire. Total loss, $120,000, 18.--A fire occurred at Amsterdam, N. Y., which de- 23.—Steamehip Union arrived in New York, bringing | stroyed property to the value of $30,000. The demooratio passengers mails from San Franciseo by the route | State Convention of New York was held atSyracuse. The across the isthmus of Panama, in twenty-three days and | party split ito two sections, held separate convention), five hours, the shor‘est tri er made between San and nominated distinct tickets. ciseo and York. The trial of Dr. Gardner, charged 16.--A Court of Impeachment having been in session with defrauding the ear taae in Washington | one month, at Albany, in trying Canal Commissioner John city, after being sixty-three days before the court, The | 0, Mather, acqnitted the accused, and closed their labors. jury could not agree, and were discha: 24.—A Jar fire occurred in Brooklyn, in the block \ounded by Folton and Adams streets and Myrtle avenue, which destroyed thirty-one buildings, with an aggregate lors of over $60,000, The extra session of the Legislature of New York again commenced at A'bany. Lr nica cate of yellow iever occarred in New Orleans in 1853. 28 —A ship, the first of that class, was launched at Mo bile. 30—A steam towboat of Quebec burst her boilers, kill ing sight persons 1 —-The expedition to the Northern Ocean, under com mandot Dr. Kane, U 8. N., to rensw the search for John Fran} lin, sailed from New York in the brig Advan It is known as the ‘Kane Expedition.” The followi: * list of the offic and crew on board the Advance Ur. Elisha K. Kane, Passed Asaistant Sargeom of the United States Navy, in command, having been detailed by the Depertment for this special service; J, Wall Wileo railing master, United States navy; Henry Brooks, fi ig Island Sound, bad @ hole burst in her boiler by the , which permitted the escape of sucha m af to cavse the death of six persons, d severely kcald ten others. Four of those who died re young girls, (sisters,) daughters of Mr. De Wolf, of Chicago, Il. Great Republic was the Fa og yersel in the world, and had just @nisked loading for Liverpool, and it was i ded to haul Lor into the stream on the following day. The Joseph Walber was nearly ready to rail, with # full cargo, for the rame destination. The White Squall had not yet commenced loadiog for Clifornia. The total loss waa upwards of a million of dol A riot occarred in Williamsburg, in which «bout one hun4red persons were engaged, during which » number of persons were in- News was received in New York in nineteen days lifornia, by the Ramsay route, throogh Mexico to New Orleans, snd thence by telegraph. to New York city. The railroad troubles at Frie, Pa. have been, more or jess, hept up rince their first commencemt Two of the rioters were shot at Hardor Creek to day, and the bridge snd track were again destroyed. A bill to grant vovernment aid to ® Pacitis railroad company was intro- dueed in the United States Senate by Mr. Seward, of N. Y. 29 —Great snow rtorm tbroughgut New York, Pennsyl- vapia, New Jersy, and the Fartern States, impeding the progress of the ouily anc causing great detention on the different rail-oad lines £0,—Covtivusrcy of the snow storm: in some places the snow feil to Le cepth of diguteen inches, aad form +d Gri'ts ten feet ia bei A very destroctire fire 03 curred at Ogcensburg, N Y, which cestroyed $16, Cis broke out in the de laine print .H., and totally destroyed them; low fever raging in all the river towns in 0 Mismierippi. 47.—During the hol :i what is termed the b party a platform or xtaging broke down, and hurled about one honored people into a mass. Some tw teen persons were seriously irjured, but none fatally. 30 —Secretary William L. Marcy’s letter in reply to Chevalier Huleomenn, the Austrien Mivister. about thy Koesta affeir, published in the New York BKRALD, OCTOBER 8,—The town of Sonors, California, nearly destroyed by fire; loss $300,(00- 4 —Severe gals on Lake Erie, during which a number of yersels were lost, and fivo men, belonging toa schooner which was run down, were drowned. 5.—One bundred buildings were destroyed by fire in the Y, passed the Beard of As privilege to be sold to the highest bidder a ction on the 20th Febr Jer ey, Obio, Mite sity of Buffalo. i en of territory about one thousand miles long «flicer, €o ; James McG: second officer, do; Amos | © wig andthe ” Courhe ° Ronaall, third officer, dow : B 3. 3. Hayes, vargeos, 60,; Hit qulonement to the captors of Major Andre during | by five bundred brord. Congress adjourned over for the war, was dedicated at Tarrytown, Westchester conaty, N.Y. Steamer Fairy Queen lost near Leen —— Gulf of St. Lawrence, oad ton passengers rowned, 12.--A prize fight took place at Chatham Four Corners, Maseechusetta, vances John Morrissey and James Saili- Biot) for $2,000, at which the former was declared the winner. 14.—Grand ax nus] parade of the New York firemen. Christian Ohl n, carpenter; August Sontag. astronomer; Heory Gookfellow, assistant astronomer; Wm. Morton, steward; Peter Shepard, cok; George Stephenson, sea- mav; Jefferson T. Parker, do.; George J. Fynittel, do ; William E. Godfrey, do,; George Riley, do.; © Blake, do, JUNE 6 —The great Southern Convention assembled at Mem- hit, one thonsand delegater being Prevent, and continued holidays until Tuesday, Jan. 3d, THE WEATHER. Atmospheric Tables, fa nersion three days—William & Dawson, of 15,-—Two mud seows 1unk in the Delaware river at Phi- | THR TRMPRRATURE OF THE METROPOLIS DURING TH’ g Provident sy York elty reform ebartar adopted tye | MesighinytRd cari down with them nioe men, seven of YEAR 1853. 7—The New Yor! form ol by a | whom were crowned. A large fire occurred in Milwat ble iled from De!atour’s dail; vote of #8,121 against 3,861. ‘The Jacob Strader, the first | Wis., which detroyed $60,000 worth of m | _ The felloving tables, comp, 7 cord of the mercury, show the different degrees of tom. perature at different periods of the past year. Th 1» frst records the state of the thermometer, at various) jourg of the day, upon the 16th of each month, and tt 16 second exhibits the range of the mercury upon the } vottest and coldest days of each month, fromthe lstef January to the 31st of December, 1856 — Table showing the range ef the therm’ ymeter in New Property. Sunpay, 16.—A seoret expedition seiled ‘San Fran cisce, with the su object of revolutionising the State of Sonora, in Mexico. 11.—The steamboat American Eagle exploded oe of her near Stockton, California, by which accident nine were killed and several wounded. 18 —Greene C. Bronson, Collector of the of New York, sent a letter to James Gutbrie, United States Secre- tary of the ing his right to interfere with Mr. Bromson’s re officers for the New York Ous- low pressure steamboat on the Western rivera, left Oincin- nati for Louisvilis, with six hundred passengers. 8,—Convention of Connecticut editors held at New Ha- ven. Father Gavarzi attacked by a mob at the Free Church in Quebec; several persons slightly injured; Father G, not sortously hurt, but his secretary badly ‘beaten. | pe Mob dispersed by the soldiery, Major-General Soott re- ceived ® severe injury by s fall in the street in New York cit; : Father Gavarzi attacked by a mob at Montreal; the military Gred upon the assailants, killing twelve, and @ 15th day of each 1 , wounding tty others. if 7 21,—The residence of the late J, Fenirsore Cooper, the Meda prone . aE Ge yom 10. HB. M. frigate Leander, Captain King, arrived at | novelist, in ‘town, New York, was destroyed by 1068 » TAM. Vous New York, from Plymoutn Englend,with Elleomere, | fire. A very tive fire occurred ‘mn Louisville, whi ‘cp, EA OPM OPM. family and enit rd K,'was the ‘English Royal Com’ | consumed $200,000 worth of property, os | 6% + missioner to the Crystal Palace, Execution at Philadel- | 22.—Greene U, Bronson was removed from the office of 33 “0 39 bis of Arthur Spring, for the murder of Ellen Lynch and | Collector ofjNew York, by the government at Was 20 83 a7 86 Kionora Shaw ostensibly for not dividing the offees in the Oustom House 7 S 31 a7 11,—Railroad accident near Waterford, N Y.; several | equally between two opporing sections of the democratic é ee 54 68 persons badly injured, party. A destructive fire oseurred in Cincinnati, which + ; 8 o 18—Grand firemen’s procrarion to welcome the Me- | destroyed prozerty to the value of $200,00 bH iL 4 zo chapteal fire company of Baltimore to N-w York 27,.—A severe shoo! Kj 7 % 14.—Maine Liquor law bill passed the Senate of New | at Humbo) dt Bey, Oregon terri 1 4 8 72 York. The bill to enlarge and complete the canals of the | 24.—Tue Pavilion at Fort Hamilton entirely destroyed + R iz g Btate of New York passed the Senate. Rumors of arising *, loss $75,000, The steamtug belonging to $ 4 a 5 aver created ox itement at New Orleans. % to P 83 a 80 1 rertngerals for the murder Of his wife, hanged in * « Now York portbesat Table showing the range o€ the thermometer La Now York, upon the hottest and coldest day {a each month of 1863 (imeluding non-enumerated motions) ia this 1858:— Bart, ares follows’ 7 Ww 8s 6 CASES ARGUED AND DECIDED. se, SS pee ee Be rene 5 . , g. deg. deg. deg. Jan. 1.,.,Hottest....Saturdey....46 i 6 at a Coldest....Thursdey....12 93 27 * 5 Sunday. 6 53 20 29 86385) = 8 TOtal sce sees seer gersstseccsessessccsscees MOD 60 60 65 NUMHER OF a a 60 63 69 48 62 48 18 Fo s 57 iT = 66 BT 61 : teseeenenes sosccee LAE 65 65 62) Judge Edmonds’ term of office expired at the close ef 83 85 80| 1803. The vacancy was Glled at the last election by the 6? 65 67 | Choice falling on Mr Clarke. 88 87 84| Jucge Edwards to the Court of Appeals tor the. 1 70 72 68]| year 18h4; Judge Mitchell will therefore be the presiding 2 838 84 80] Justice of this court up to Ist January, 1856, 4 658 60 54 - a o SUPREME COURT—CIROUIT. rr 65 61 pas! same judges, 4.1 44 4! jarles Graham, Esq , Clerk. 43 42 40] The number of causes tried in the Ciroult Court, im 16 2 26 22 cluding inquests and dismissals of complaints, were as follows -— There have been two eclipses of the sun daring the last year. The first took place on the 6th of June, and was States, and iu nearly the whole of South America, The | April second took place on the 30th November, and was total | May- eclipses were invisible here. *This ehows an increase of 296 cases over the year SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The same Judges. George F, Alden, Esq., Clerk. Jan..... Trial of issues of law and equity causes... 56 Motions heard and decided at Saturda: THE LAW COURTS. Statistics of the Law Courts for 1853. Some years since we established the custom of pub- Uahing the statistics of our Law Courts, the business of which presents one of the most important and interest- ing features of our domestic news. In accordance with that rule, wo this day spread before the readers of the Naw Yorx Hymna, a statistical table of the trans- actions of the Courts during the year now about clos- ing. It will be seem by the prodigious amount of causes which have been commeneed, continued and ended, that the inhabitants of New York are very fond of lisig tion, and are firet rate customers of the gentlemen of the legal profession, There are no less than twenty-three different depart ments, in the Old and New City Halls, in whish law busi- ness is transacted, including trial and argument Courta Judges’ Chambers, and United States Commissioners’ anf other offices, Itis but justice to the reveral clerks and other officials, to say that we are indebted to them for their assistance in the compilation of the following tables, as well as for the uniform conrtesy extended by them to our Legal Ro- porter in facilitating him in procuring the opinions, de cisions, and records of the Courts, Many very important cases have been tried and adjuducated during the year 1858—amongat which we may mention the trials and ac- quittals of the parties charged with having caused the Cisasters to the river steamboats Reindeer and Henry Clay; the injunction a; st the Common Conncil, and their being adjudged guilty of contempt; and though last, not least, the extraordinary and astounding verdict in the Fry case, os uments. ‘Saturday motions... October. No trials; Saturday Novs.... trials an This shows an ever last year. During the months of October and November Judge Fevris, of the Albany district, held special term two Wecoks, for the trial cf the Broadway Railroad Case, in the action of Milbau and others agt. Sharpe and others, There have been, probably, three hundred or more me+ tions argued’ and decided at special term at chambem, making over sixteen hundred cases heard and passed upew at special term, besides a large amount of ex parte busi- ness. Above one hundred and twenty orders to arrest have deen ixsved, upwards of three hundred attachments, amd about one hundred injunstions. SUPERIOR COURT. Judges~Hon. Thomas J, Oakley, Chief Justice; Hem. John Duer; Hon. W. W. Campbell; Hon. Joseph 8. Bom worth; Hon. Robert Emmet;* and Hon. Murray Holle UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COUaT. Hon. Samuel Nelson (an Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States) Presiding Judge of this Conrt. S Clerk—George H. E. Lynoh, Esq ; Deputy Clerk amd Joba W. Nelson, Eaq., Clerk. Clerk of rial Terman, past lat George 7. Maxwell, Bog part 2d—H. Richard E, Stillwell, Esq , Deputy Clerk. Assistant Clerk and Clerk of Trial Terms, The number of suits at common law commenced in this | Rice, Erq. we e 2 une court during the year 1863 was sixty-five, of whic num. | .,7h® Humber of causes tried, Papier cae ber thirty-five have been tried; defaulta and ciscontin- | last year, at the Trial Terms of this Court, were as Sel- ued, four. lowsi— In Equity thirty bills of comp'aint have been file}, Dit. Re. most of which were for the infringement of patents, out January, 4 weeks.36 18 "3 tn 10 a 6 9 3 of which number six injunctions have been granted, and | February, 8 do...36 two were discontinued. rete ‘ ae ae ae at 2 an In oriminal cases forty-four bills of indictment have | May,’ 4 do...67 05 95 20 47 been found against persons for offences committed on the | June, 4 do...40 63 2 4 1 high seas, making and passing counterfelt coin, &o.; of | Qotober,, 4 al eg oe tee hee which number twelve have been finaily disposed of in this | Decemb’r, 3 1 2 1 8 conrt, and nine remitted te the District Court for trial, leaving twenty-three still pending. Among that number were two for murder—one sequitted, and the other oon- vieted of manslaughter, and sentenced to tem years im prisonment, The parties indictes for manslaughter on beard the steamboat Henry Clay, in July, 1862, were also tried and acquitted At the special form tn September, which was in aes ned twenty-two days, Judge Kelson heard tuir:y twos ‘Judge Hom lected to fill the vacanoy ereated peals in admiralty front the District Court aoa deliventa | nb 2ccae of Juare Bijan Pain ee? _ during that time sixteen written opinions, afficming | {This shows a dccicaso of furiy-nine oases im compacioum eighteen, reversing ten, and dismissing two for irregu- | With the business of 1352. larity in the proceediegs Of said thirty two eases beard, +ix appeals have been taken to the Supreme Court of SUFERIOR COURT —GENERAL TERM. United Staten, The same justices, Olerk—R. D. Livingston, Eaq. @ case of Thomas Kane. an alleged fagitive from ths. rgued. | Diapeved justice from Ireland, claimed under the Aehburton | Mon‘hs. a treaty, was finally disposed of by the Judge discharging the priscner, ‘Among the important cases by Judges Nelson and Betts, in this oourt, are thirty-six decisicrs in refs ence to du’ tee paid under protest to the Ccllector of this port. A Geerce aa also boen entered settling the Methodist pis copal Church controversy. El xetiizveask TOtAl.cceceseseccsscesereccerevesseeceeseseeees During the last year there were several heavy and im- portant trials, which occupied the Court pay days. The case of Fry vs. Bennett might be menti them, which lasted eight daya. * The Hon John Slosson, takes his soat this day, who was defeated at the UNITED STATES: COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. The Clerk of this Court, John W. Nelson, and Deputy Clerk, Richard E. Stillwell, are also United States Com- missioners, and have issued, during the year 1853, ninety- bh ark warrants for offences committed against the laws the United States. Commissioner Nelson wan that The Jast ease decided pb: of Alexander Heilbonn, med b; British authori- trea’ & fogitive from an ties, under the extradition SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. The same Justices. Wm. P. Brennan, Esq., Clerk. Arguments of issues of law, demurrers, motions, &s. Held before a single Justice. alleged act of forgery. Mr. Nelson deeiced on giving the | Months. — prisoner up to the claimants. Judge Mitchell, of the Sa. cas eey, 5 n preme Court, granted the discharge of Heilbonn; but the | 5°7sr7 = = nited States Marshal refuses to comply with the order | Merch. r- of the Btate Judge. ay 2 UNITED B7ATES DISTRICT COURT. Jay, is 5 The Hon, Samuel R. Betts, District Judge. Aggust 80 td George W. Morton, Esq , Olerk, Chern Fd a Joreph Bridgham, Fsq., Deputy Clerk. Novem er, 38 8 From the 1st of January, 1852, to the Slst of December, | December... ve Bi 1863, four hundred and forty nine suits wore instituted wa a cn the Admiralty side of the District Court. These suits were on bottomry bonds, bills of lading, charter parties, marine hypothecation, ceamen’s wages, |- collisions, personal torts at sea, salvage, xo. Of the above number instituted, thero-have been heard and finally disposed of, one hundred and twenty-five, and there are yet remaining on the docket ard not brought to a hearing, three hundred ard twenty-Jour, During the past year,and owing to the press of business * Slight deorease compared with 1862, SUPERIOR COUBT—CLERK’S OFFIOR, Office Clerk—Jense Oakley, aq. The numter of judgments entered’ up for the yee 1858 amouats to 1,720. SUPERIOR COURT-—NATURALIZATION OF FOR. Clerk—Peter Lemon, Enq. Number of from all nation naturalised in and the sitting of the Circuit Court, tae Hon. Nathan K. this effice during the year............+ seceseeee 1018 Hall, of the Northern intrfotyand the Hon Chas, A. Inger. | Intentions declarec by subjects from Great Britain, 5708 roll, of Connecticut, were designa‘iad to hold the terms of | Inteations declared by sudjects from Germany and the Distriot Court. under the sot, of July, 1850, and April, | other countries.......scsecesseesesseer sees eners 1861—the Hon, Samuel R. Beton, holling the Circuit motte and dispos'ng of the busi ceed during Judge Nelson's absence, On the common law side of; the District Court there were twenty-three suits com ensed. Of these, two were dit posed of, and twenty ene, are still pending On the criminal side of t' ge District Court there were Prevented seventy seven ictments, Of these, four COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Jodges—Hor. D. Ingraham, First Judge; 0. Ps Daly avd L. B Woodruff. Clerks—John 8, Magnes and Sugh M. Herrick. General Term—Ma) ch, July and November. were dismissed sixteen ? nye been tried and dieposed of, and fifty-seven remain t » be tried. 7 Seow argued be eo sos geet tense e sae windge cette oer! Ler echo eo Eh orl ag (0 Febuary, Mareb, Apri, May, Jame, : 4 ade causes and gave wr . a opinions in rixty five eases, in addi ion to those dec dad tember, October, November and December, oe by Ain in the Giroui’ , Court, Jad * Hall cecise 4 thirty five canses, and Jadge Inger fort, even, Judge Betts baw Yeoides every case argued before him € ted doy jng the part year. lve Inyerso’ J han been assigned to hold the Jannary oo" the Dis xiet Court, and Judge Hai) the February Judge Betta Crreut Court preme Cour’ SPECIAL TERM FOR TRIALS, with exception of March. Tuly and November—Number of causes tried Remaining on the calendar............+0006 CCMMON PLBAS—SPRCIAL TERM AT CHAMBERS. Thomas will take up the unfinished business in the 1 while Judge Nelson in sittizg in the Sa- + at Washington. ‘The number of motions argued abd determined from Jarusry 1, 1853 to December 31, in 1,504. This does ao® jude the many pe under hand ot awa, ir the orders and examinat suppleme mentary coedin , Which exceed the other motions. The above does not ineluce the deci-ions upon the undertakings Gle® UN (PMD STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. Gee pee W. Morton, Esq, Joeaph Beidgham, Faq The jommiarioners, Merers, Morton and Bridgham, is apes orders of arrest, injunction, Ae., amounting sue ¢ we bundred and four warrants during the year. ee RATCRALEATION, Th ese were on complaints of murder, manslaughter, The nomber of persons naturalised in this court is eg 2,309, at least one: Britain and Ireland. sult with dangerous weapons, crael and unusual pun- of whom were natives of Grea® i® pments, epdeavors to make a revolt, larceny on the high ' eas, openirg and embezzling letters, &o. MARINE COURT. Many of the cases were taken before the Grand Jury, | , Jedee- Hon, A- A: Phillips, Florence MoOarthy, sail tn reesion at the time of issuing the warrants, ard were “She number of summonses {ssued from 1st Jant : dinpored of by indictments being found or the complaints | to 10th Mey, 1858, (during the term of office of dismissed Lyneoh and was in which 108 judgments were Of those heard and determined by the Commission: Leen er cans dismissed, and 19 Foret twenty-three were committed for trial and in fifty fi The number ofsummonses terued by the present eaces, the testimony on the part of the United States be- | from 10th May to Slat December, 1863, is 8,073; ing insufficient, the complaints were dismissed. ments rendered, including inquests and summor.sen with coats to the ts, 1,863; cases Gia missed, 1,128; settled, 166 Sines the inerease of jurisdiction of the Marine Oour® to $600 the business has been greatly yt the Judges bave been frequently obliged to sit to a late howe in the evening. CRIME IN NEW YORK. UNITED STATES DISRIOT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. United States District Attorney, Charles O'Conor, Faq Associate United States Attorney, Beojamin F. Dun ping, Keq. Aralstant United States Attorcey, James Ri’gway, Fsq Clerks, K, Number ot prosecations it in the name of the United 8 ates Statistics of Crime in New Yerk City and County. Number of trials in the Distriot and Cirou‘t Courts,. 36 Noo ber of triala in the Commissioners’ Court... ..., Number of Indistments drawn, avereging twenty seven Crime, like the eity of New York, incresseth more andi THO ee ecevere 105 | more every year; and to give our readersan idea of the amount of crime perpetrated in the metropolis dering the past year, we are enabled to lay before the publi statistion of the number of convictions, scquittals, &e., in the Court of Oyer and Te: miner, and courts of Gene ral and Special Sessions, which, contrasted, as will be Seon, with the tables of 1852, show a great increase of James J. Roosevelt, Hon. Robert H. Morris, Justices. every species of crime, For the annezed tables we are Wm. H. Dusenberry, Eeq,, Clerk, indebted to Mr. Henry Vandervoort, the gentlemanly ‘The number of cases argued and deckied daring the Clerk of thene courts, whe is always willing to neccmang This table, compa year, a decrease of twenty four cases in the first item, thirteen ip the third, and forty-nine in (he fast, SUPREME COURT—OBNERAL TERM. Hon. John W Kdmonda, Provi ting Jastios. Hon, Henry P, awards, Hon. William Mitohell, Hon.