The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1854, Page 4

or os ee — eee ——— SES ‘a Ag 7C 4 —snd in fer} ce of the last named praiseworthy NEW YORK HERALD. iiseh K8 “aca the callotle Baten of Cincinnati JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | prefer ¢ the of ten dollars, to aid in allevi PROPRI*TOR AND EDITUR. ating the suf of the distressed, which was seta be ¥ in-atgna d by the society of Freemen; ba® Se Sts CORNED OF PONTE: AUD MOISAN. WF with wha ree of justice the Bishop's kindue: -— = ES vas was iporned we are too far off from the scene of wae JouN Overy ATRE Brosdway-Domxeric Eo ATARACT OF THN GANGES. THEATRE, Chambre Ach ASD Winwe Chatham street ~Afternoon— cue Tex's CA NATIONAL Mor Coun Eventas—l UHEATE moou—Tom Trt m—Poon CORN Toa THUMB—LOAN OF AMERICAN M Purcovoy. Eveu H A Loven BROADWAY NENAGERIR—Siamese Twins avy Wi Bracrs BOWERY AMPRITHBATRE, 37 Bowery—Eauesrnian CHRISTY'S AMERICAN OPERA HOUSS, 472 Broad way—ETOPRAN MELODIES BY CHLLISTY's MINS ¢RELS WOODS MINSTRE! way—Eruorian Mi Wood's Minstrel Hail, 444 Broad LAY. BUCKLEV’S OPERA HOUSE, 5% Brosdway—Buce- uev’s Bmuorian Orena TRovrr BANVAR?'S GEORAMA, 4 Broadwey. @v wn Hony Laxy RUENISH GA dway—Day and Bvoning. BSIGNOR BLITZ—Sruvvesane Inevivere, 650 Broad wey ACADEMY HALL, 663 Broadway.—Perna MABUTION OF THE SUVEN MILE MIKRBOR HOPE Cai cb, THE WORLD IN MINIATURE—Broodway, corner of White street. BRYAN GALLERY OF CHRISTIAN A way. 3 Guer Ex 8 Broadway.—Joxns’ Pawroscore 3 Broad po = New York, Monday, January The New We give to-daya detailed account of the destrac- tion of the Lafarge House and Metropolitan Hall. The recent great fires in this city, by which an im Tense amount of valuable property hus been destroy ed, induce us to look back and form some estimate of theaggregate value of buildings and merchandise which bave bren lost hy the destructive element within the recollection of the present generation— say, during a id of thirty yeers. We are not now prepared to give statisties on the we are inclined to believe, from facts own recollection, that the yalue of property destroy- ed by fires inthis city during the last thirty years must have amounted to a sum which, if invested, woulc, wth interest, now exceed the total valuation of all the buildings a present inthis city, The as ed value of real estate in the city, according to the returns of 1852, was a lite over two hondred and fifty-three millions of dol'ars, ($253,278,384,) of course includes the assessed value of the lots, for which a large deduction should be made-perhaps More than sufficient to balance the value of buildings belonging to we jon, and property not subject to taxation, as churches, There can be nv doubt, we think, that the amount destroyed by tire in thirty years, with interest, as we heve said, would exceed the valuation of buildings Bow standing; and the question arises, whether mos of this immense amount could not haye been saved had a thorough system of fire-proof building been red into the city previous to the year 1823, nce enforced by law. Tt seems something like tion that the same ineecure style of combus tible bu dirgs bas been and still is contiaued, not- withrtanding the constant wernings the great fires have given from year to year. The time must come when combustible mategials will be banished from buildings devoted to business and public purposes in this great metropolis. The present moée of using flues in our public hotels is very dangerous, and worthy of condemvation. To them can be traced wost of these large confiagrations. A very destructive fire occurred at Portland, Me. on Saturday morning. The Custom House building owned by goverpment, was entirely destroyed, to- gether with the contents of the Post Office, the United States court rooins, the Society of Natural History, and yarieus libraries and other valuable ea ents. The loss will probably amouat to hal? on of dollars, most of which falls upon govern subject, bat within our h ment. To another columo will be found the full particu lars of the accident—if accident: ii can be so termed— that befel the Empire City on Tuesday night last. From this account it appears that her running ashore on Barnegat beach was the result of the carelessness of the officer in command-—so, at least, all the pas, Sengers agree in saying. Their complaints of the treatment they received, in being left on a bleak coast, uinety ora hundred miles from New York, and in beiug forced to pay their travelling expenses, are certainly not very creditable tothe character of the coupany who owa the vessel, although they may be legally right. ‘The steam:Lips Star of the Weat acd George Law arrived about two o'clock this morzing with the de tails of nine days later California news, # telegraphic synopsis of which was published exclusively in yes terday’s paper. The statement with regard to the defeat of the fllib Encicado turns ont not to be 60 discouraging to those who sympathize with them as was at first represented. They constituted me sed may pos only # portion of Col. Walker's party, «n~ ve sibly have been succored by the large expedition which sailed to their relief from Ssn Franc the night of the 12th, At the last dates, Walker was still President of the Republic Californa. Tue general news from California is quite in- fercsting. The mining accounts were very favorable, but the Jabors of the diggers wouid probably be re- tarded for s while by the freshets prodaced by re. gent heavy rains. Tbe continued heavy importations of goods, ard limited demand from the interior, cansed dulncss in every department of trade. Flour wee only worth $14 or $15, and meas pork $19 or ros 2 #20 per barrel. he intelligence which we today furnish from Woasbington is unusnat'y interesting, and in many respects very important. Is embraces let ers and de- spatches from oar own ard other newspaper corre Gpondents, relative to the leading topics of the day with regard to our foreign and domestic policy, in cluding the Gadsden treaty with Mexico; the bill introduced by Senator Douglas for the organization of the Territory of Nebraska, upon which there will doubtless be some exciting debates before the close of the session; also various » mes before Congress, de. A private correspondent writes to us that @ spe. cial messenger left Washington on Friday wit) instructions for our Minister to Mexico. This tends to confirm the statemeot that the administration has in its hands, and is either pleased or displeased with | the project of a treaty negotiated by Gen, Gadsden. It is interred that the instractions principally relate to the amount of money be is authorized to offer for the terriiory tu be ceded to the United States, We regret to learn that Gon Heary A. Mudlen- berg, democratic representative from the Eighth d trict of Pennsylvania, died of typhoid fever in Wash- mgton, last evening The excitement ia Cincinnati in relation to the late difficulties which grew out of the pre- gence of the Pope's Noncio, Father Bedioi, in that city, appears to be werking more in- tensely, and wew scenes and new procesdinies with fresh phases and festaros, have pr themeelves on exch succeeding duy since the al rict occurred. At firet. we were astogished with a» account of a dreadiul riot, with an attempt to ha fhe Pope's ambassador, and a bloody cx tween the German cit zeus and the whole pole oroe of Cincinnati. Then we bad the exan| ot the alleged rioters, and thelr uuconditional dis the woun 'e ml to bury the anfor ia giro! whose life was sa ciliced to sustain the law t to determine, fore the Municipal Cou end now we have a rejoinder from the prosecutin: torney, an indignation mecting of the citizens finally the arrest We have seen the matter we have read mersage of Mayor Snelbaker, explaining why he w? cut of the city when the disturbance took place, oud attempting to justify the action of the police: holding to bail ona charge of anwarrantable agsou't of the police justice, Judge E pooner, aud aearly the whole police force of the city, W all this is » end, we are unable to predic t is to be the result, or when and where but if we may be # towed to jndge by the finis of a former dif: ficulty in that city, in which Mayor S the citizens wer in relation to a the end of nine days. To-day the sitizens ot paker aud ly toxether t preacher, it will fizzie out at Boston are to treat them: selves to another trial to elect a Mayor. This will be the third atten thould seize upon the people and drive them mad. we heartily wish them success change of cal lates at each trial. Ligelow § and they have now put in nomination the Ho kins. e, Mr. Slerper, bas declined Smith is the i iu zeus’ Uni democrate b: James Whiting a oaU the snti-liquor law candidate. | the Union and onrselyes when we s , snd, lest on election mania There has been @ Mr. Seaver and pre successively tried by the whigs, Jobn The candidate of the Young Men's and Jerowe V. dave instead, nominated Aaron Hobart, and The society of emigrants to Turkey held 9 mecting yesterday at Hekart’s Hotel. This movemeat in Jayor of te Sultan seems to be spreading among our foreign population. meeting. We elsewhere publish several columns of very in teresting European intelligence, tional information relative to the 1 inions of the British press cor Pierce’s message, aud the treatment of American citizens by the King of Naples, &c. We give a 00-Russian war; including addi. sketch of the verniag Presideat By the way, the Collins steamer Baltic is about due with four days later news. The Project of a freaty with Mexico. The Washington which * Union, intelligence, “deems it proper to state that there is nota word of truth” in our statement to the effect that the leading features of a trea- ty bave been submitted by Mr. Gadeden to the Mexican authorities and are now under consid- eration by our Executive. In its first assertion the Union is pertectly right. It seldom does notice our intelligence, or reliable intelligence from any quarter. If it did it would know more about public affairs, and would display lese ignorance and utter less nonseuse in its editorial columns. Had it “deemed it neeessa- ry” to read the Herarp with more care it would never have made itself and our govern- ment ridiculous in the eyes ofthe world by lating a cock-and-bull story about the African: zation of Cuba. We do not say this by way of cousure on the Union, It is not its business to know, much less to speak the truth. Its voca_ tion in this world is something entirely different. It is paid for a specific duty, than which no- thing is farther than telling the truth. It is hired to defend the administration; to extol the virtues of the elaries ; to write down their assailants ; to gloss over or excuse their faults ; to keep the people in constant good hu- mor with General Pierce ; to check, by whatever means it every symptom of disaffection among his party : avd to pervert and misre can employers. What little business it acis besides this—in the way of puffing contrectors and speculators—is a private and tinate matter, Its main functions are honoroble duties we have enumerated: one can see that a habit of truth tell- ld be utterly incompatible with their efficient discharge. The Union does not, there- tell the truth. Its misrepresentations in- Jl the various degrees of falsehood from the suppression and denial of known facts to deliberate inventions. Long practice has given it such ability in this respect that we doubt vbether the Imperial organs at St. Petersburg, Vienna or Paris, could deny, invent. or preva- ricate with better grace or more perfect ease. Mad the character of the Union been differ- ent, or less notorious, we might possibly have devoted a larger share of attention to its denial of our statement. We might, for in- stance, have inquired whether its well- known interest in the Sloo grant—which is rejected by the project of the treaty—might not bave had something to do with its angry protestation that things stood as they were. The reasons we have given render any neh inquiry superfugy fore clude We have no fear of the public verdict on the iasug raleed between y that n0- thing bas appeared which invalidates oar faith in the accuracy of our correspondent’s informa- tion. Nor do we apprehend that much discredit will be thrown on its character by the sf contradictory denials which have apy the Wall street papers. Both these journals have confirmed our statement, in letters from Washington, protesting. the while, that it was not true. ‘They attempt to extricate themselves froma the dilemma by taking exception to minute vils, and claborately drawing impalpable distinetions— with what success those who read the extract from the Courier and Enquirer, published in our columns yesterday, and that m the Journal of Commerer, given clse- where to-day, will be fully qualified to judge. Leaving our estimable cotemporaries, who scem very wroth at having allowed this im- portant news to escape them, to flounder as they can, we wish the public to bear constantly in mind that it is the ckgskeus interest of the administration to deny the existence of the project, and to bid its organ to print the denial. In plain truth, Mr. Gadsden, who is an inde- pendent, high minded statesman, has gone some- what further than Mr. Marcy’s instructions thorized him in settling the details of this treaty. Its terms would undonbtedly confer upon the South an advantage which would be of infinitely higher practical value than all the compromises in the world. The accession of Sonora and Lower California would do more to consolidate the equilibrium of power than all ihe Jaws Congress could pass. And it is more than probable that. in concluding the convention with Santa Anna, this obvious advantage was Mr. Gadsden’s principal motive The same feature would indisp General Vierce, Marcy and Cushing, against the project. Their antecedents show them to be strongly op- posed to any scherae which would operate to tirengthen the power of the South. They are ready enongh to write and talk about the rights of the Southern States; but the whole tenor of their antec tells in unequivecal language hat if a pr ct were proposed for consolidating the balauge of power beiween the tical pr ntees, and advocating the interests of lom deems it necessary to notice” our Washington ite friends. Tenee, to our mind, a resolutton on their part, as soon as Mr. Gadsden’s pr feet reached Washington, to conceal, modify, or at- tempt to Gertroy those provisions watch were clearly in the interest of the South. Tence their instructions to their pa'd writers in the Union to deny the existence of the treaty they intended to mutilate or pervert. Hence, possi- bly, the amusing state of confusion into which cur Wall street cote mporaries are plunged. They ere not the only organs from which we expect a persevering denial of the truth of our statement until the day it goes to the Senate for confirmation. The Mexican government has precisely the same reasons for concealing the truth until the treaty is ratified and the first instalment of the money paid. Santa Anna cecupies a most critical position. His assump- tion of supreme authority under whatever title he pleases, is a dangerous and doubtful experi- ment to make without money and without means of recruiting or maintaining an army. On the other band, he is committed in the fullest manner against any abandonment of Mexican territory, and against the barbarians of the North. In all his long life of intrigue his di- plomatic skill never met such a test as the pre- sent one. He must have money, He knowshe cannot get it from foreign capitalists, for defal- cations and repudiations Jong since ruined the credit cf Mexico abroad. There exists but one scheme by which he can hope to raise funds and to establish his power, and that is to violate his pledges to the Mexican people, and sell to the United States for a large sum of ready cash, or a bendsome annual tribute, a portion of the soil he swore to preserve in its integrity. To effect this scheme without arousing a stroug opposition, and possibly a revolution in Mext- co, he must keep the negotiation a perfect se- eret until he is provided with means to main- tain himself and trample down his opponents. Both governments, from different reasons naturally desire to conceal the truth of this matter. Ours, because its chiefs are inimical to the rights of the South; that of Mexico, be- cause publicity would probably defeat the scheme, will deny and prevaricate till the last moment. We are quite content to place our general reputation for accuracy against that of their orgavs, and, while we reiterate our con- viction of the substantial correctness of our statement, to abide quietly the final verdict of time. Important To MeN or Bustness—Prices or Apvertisinc.—The public knows very little of the scales of prices for advertising charged by the various city journals. Upon such a matter no inquiry can afford much information, most jourvals being in the habit of shrouding this branch of their business in impenetrable mys- tery. It does occasionally happen, however, that a ray of truth flashes from the midst of this darkness, just as a gleam of sunshine will burst from a dark sky on an autumnal day, lighting up the whole zenith, and exhibiting in bold relief the wierd form of the storm-clouds. Such a ray is contained in the following letter: which we lately received:— Mr. James GokboN BeNnetr :— Deak Sin—The following memorandum of amounts charged a certain Western Railroad Com- pany for printing its annual reports, making less uban a column small type, in the Morning Express, by the different papers respectively, may be of inte- rest to you:— Paper. Daily circulation. Charge. 50 000 $37 00 23,000 91 00 20,000 40 00 bake 2,500 87 00 Journal ot Commerc: . 5,000 33 00 Commercial Advertiser . 3,000 20 00 Evening Post......... 1,500 30 00 NEQUE ort ie gyace vase dent oees 33 00 Average, about. . £48 30 It 1s easy ERALD would have received had its price per thousand e¢irculation been placed at the seme rate with those honest pa- pers which strive to have the public believe the tyravy is a black mail paper. [ am, éte., Ove wuo Apverrises to Get Tse Most Reapers. We may add that we have the name ot the writer of the ahove, and the name of the rail- road company which paid the various sums of moncy indicated in his letter. The former is a gentleman of undoubted veracity and high re- putation; and we therefrom reason confidently from the facts he states, assured that they could, if necessary, be proved in a court of justice. The mind’s action on such materials certainly leads to strange developements. The charges of some of the newspapers above mentioned are moderate and reasonable in pro- portion to their cirenlation. Such are those of the Tribune, Journal of Commerce, and Com- mercial Advertiser. But it is not a little sin- gular that— due allowance made for the cirenla- tion of each—that much abused and sorely slau- dered journal, the Heratp, the paper with whose name “blackmail” has been so frequently con- nected, turns out really to be the cheapest of all, and the most reasonable in its dealings with the public, The paper which has been so often accused of living by unjust exactions is really less exacting than any of its cotemporaries. Nor is it less curious to find that those journals which have been most vociferous in calumni- ating their neighbors, and casting charges of avarice and cupidity against their rivals, are themeelves the most exacting members of the whole profession, and the most remorseless bloodsuckers in the community, The reader will have anticipated our enumeration of the Times, Express, and Evening Post. What can be said of such © paper as the Times—o journal of yesterday—which, after attaining a tolerable circulation, has the audacity to levy blackmail on the public by charging for adver- tisements three times as much as the Heraty? The Evening Post and the Express are even worse. These paragons of moral assumption and pretended rectitude in newspaper manage- ment, carry avarice and impudence still farther, If the advertisement for which the one charges $87 and the other $30 had been inserted in the Herstp at a proportionate rate according to circulation, it would have cost the advertiser from $600 to $800. The developements here brought to light are deserving of careful attention. Some of the journals mentioned in our correspondent’s letter have lived from their birth by levying prepos- terous exactions on companies, corporations, other public bodies, and private individuals, in the shape of advertisements. They have by this means inflicted a serious injury on the newspaper trade and the fair business of ad- vertising. We all remember how the defunct Art Union was bullied into contributing some four hundred and odd dollars towards the es- tablishmert of the Z'imes, the nominal consi- deration for whieh was the insertion in the pros- pectus number of that paper, of an advertise- ment which would have been overpaid at twen- ty dollars. The Express has lived on similar exactions from political parties, and other as- sociations. No whig politician will bo likely to forget the manner in which it bled that an- fortunate Castle Garden Committee, or fail to moralize og the versatility with which it two sections of the towntry they could not be trew the Castle Garden doctrine overboard, ard came out plumply against Douglas’s Ne- braska Report, when the committee had ceased to exist, to advertise, and to pay. So with the Evening Post, which levies its tolls alike on moneyed corporations and enterprising private individuals. The public is tired of hearing it abuse George Law—tired of seeing fresh evi- cence of the risk run by any man who refuses to advertise in its columns. The public, of all classes, will be Jikely to tuke some interest in these developements, and allow itself to be guided by the facts they dis- close and the inferences they suggest. Great Fires—Destixy or Tue GRouND ON watcu THe Larance Hovse sroop.-—Fires are again becoming so frequent and so destructive as to create general alarm. Within the last four weeks the “general alarm” has been rung three times: an cecurrence which has not taken place for many years, Within six weeks four fires have destroyed in the city of New York an aggregate of nearly four millions of dollars werth of property. Throughont the country conflagrations seem nearly as frequent and as terrible. What practical lessons these disasters ought to teach it will devolve upon another column to show. The employment of more suitable and less combustible materials for building purposes is the least reform we should strive to introduce. But the smoking ashes and cbarred and tottering walls of what was on Saturday one of the noblest architectural tri- umphs of Broadway are suggestive of other corsiderations besides prudence and caution for the future. What is to be- come of the large plot of ground on which ‘tood last week a splendid hotel, yield- ing to none in magnificence and costliness of decoration and furniture, and the finest ball and concert room in New York. on which now blackened marble and calcined stone lie hud- died in a hideous heap? Its destination isa matter of some consequence to the city. We are told that Mr. Burton is about to sell his Chambers street theatre, and to build some- where up town a large house which will serve alike for Italian opera and the drama, and may on occasion be used as a concert and ballroom. We can conceive no location better suited for his purpose then that now vacated by the La- farge House and Metropolitan Hall. Such a building as we understand he contemplates would be an ornament to Broadway, and supply a deficiency now severely felt in the upper part of the city. With handsome stores in front, aud suitable arrangements for meeting rooms, &c.+ within, it could not fail to be a very profitable enterprize. We trust the matter will receive attention. Tux Disaster To THE San Francisco—Con- DUCT QF THE GOVERNMENT.—We publish to-day a narrative of the incidents connected with the late disaster to the steamer San Francisco. While ‘awaiting later intelligence it is well to ask what has the government done in the en gency, and what efforts have the proper authori- ties made for the relief of the sufferers on board? Among the passengers are over five hundred soldiers belonging to the United States army. These men are commanded by officers who have already rendercd such services to their country as to obtain brevet ranks as re- wards for their bravery. On this occasion many of them were accompanied by their wives and families. Suddenly the announcement comes that the lives of all are in jeopardy; and the ovly effort that the government makes to res- cue these brave men is to despatch a small revenue cutter in search of them--a vessel of dimensions scarcely sufficient to accommodate the officers with their families, and which could not take off one-fourth of those on board the San Francisco. No effort was made to cmploy the steamship Black Warrior, now in our port— the revenue eutter was deemed sufficient. But we are happy tosay that Messrs. Howland & Aspinwall have chartered the Alabama, and sent her in search of the San Francisco, and it is very probuble that aid will reach those on board the unfortunate steamer from this source before the government revenue cuttercan make out the track of the missing vessel. * Tue Eicuts ov Januaky—Democracy at THE Dinner Tasie—We have received various in- vitations to join with both wings of the demo- cratic party in the celebration of the anniversa- ry of the Battle of New Orleans. It secms that this day, which is to the democracy as the date ot Mahomet’s hegira is to the Musselman, be observed by both factions. We print, in an- other part of this paper, the “soft shell” or Van Buren circular; and they have also inyited us to dinner. They are very polite, and we have no doubt that the cuisine of Tammany Hall is much more attractive than ‘the work of the Udeg and Soyers of the kitchen cabinet at Washington. We have also an fayitetion to join in the festivities of the ‘‘hard shells,” at Rochester. Both factions will show their patriotism at the dinner table; but we think the “ softs” will have the best dinner, as they have the spoils, while the “ hards” will most proba- bly have hard fare, as they have none of the spoils, and must pay the expenses out of their own pockets, “ Tue “Sunpay Disparcu” ayn THE LETTER List —Yesterday’s Sunday Dispatch states that the circulation of the Hxrraxp is one-half out of the city. This is entirely; misstate- ment. If the proprietor of the Sunday Dis- patch will step into our office we can prove to him that he has misrepresented the facts rela- tive to the circulation of the Heravp. Tue “ SaTanic” anp THE Sunpay Press—For a wonder the Sunday papers of yesterday, with one exception, have not the slightest allusion to the Satanic. What's the matter? Madame Sontag in the Weat, Madame Sontag wan st Cincineati, Ohio, om the Sta of January. Her tour in the ieterior gives some informa- tion a to the taste of eur people out of New York. Her tour commenced on the 18th of Nove nber, and sinoe that time she bas made thirty thoasand collars, being eight thousand more than she re seived in the whole opera seacon of five months. She rometimes gives six coucerts & week ip as many places, and has created a furore where- ever the has been. At Cleveland, asys the Plaindaler, sho eang at the Athenwam to $1,100 worth of people, and the next morning to three thousand obildren, free, aud in Cincinnati she was 10 do the same The career of Madame Sontag also proves # position which we have before assumed—that the taste of the people does not incline towarde opera. [sr season of opers, twenty-seven waeks, netted to her $27,000, while nineteea weeks of concerts netted to her $48,000—ths averege bring thas: Ose week of concerts gives $2,525 net profit; one week of opera, $1,120. We may may, om passant, that Sontag’s opera reason at Castle was the uly lucrative one we have ever koowa York. Her experience shows that, not only are the ex- | mah of concerts smaller, but the sttendance is greater ‘oe grona receipts of six of her concerts amounted to he groes receipta of six operas amounted te bat B14 Jn the interior Madame Sontag hee conanlted the pb: her programmer are pisaeantiy siternated sith ted muric, her barinesa afiaire are well 07 own in figater, rhe is ant THE DISASTER 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO, Account of the Velamity, as far as Known— Siruaiton of the Steamer when Last Seen— Vessels Sent to her Assiatance—Her Pro~ hable Fate, &c., &e. Op the 6th iostart we published the exiting inten gence which had reached us by telegraph from Halifax, of the rac and un+xpected disaster whied bad escurred to the new steamship San Francisco, on her veyage from this port to Californis, witn government troops. The snnoancement of the rews caused the mst painfal feel ings in the wind of every ons, not only here, bat ail over the Union—to wherever the telegraph exten’? On Tourséay noon, the 21st ultimo, the San Franciseo passed the Hook with over six hundre¢ souls on board, embracing about five hundred and A{ty soldiers, their officers, ani many of their families, two or three other pareengers, and wship’s crew of seventy fire men, I> will be remesabered that the vessel was destined for Sau Frenciaco via the Straits of Magellan, tenching at Rio Janeiso, Valparaiso, and Acapulco, She had on board ccmpacies A, B,D G, 4,1, K,andL, of the third regi mert of United States Artillery These aompanics, with the acu commissioned staff aud band of ths regiment, constituted the foree of over five hundred men mentioned above. © Arnexed t a list of the officers ia command, with their familen— Colonel William Gat Najor, and Brovet Lieutenant Colonel J. Mrjor Charles 8. Merobant. Surgeon RS Gatierlie. Asiirtavt Surgeon H. YF 2, Fir t Lioutorant 8, L. Fromont, Regimon tal Quartermaster avd Acting sdjulant i First Licuteuant L. Loerer, Acting Assistant Commissary, tard Brovet Lieut. Colonel M. Burke, commanding commanding regitamnt nel”, ‘M. Washington, a i. oatbt and Brevet Major Georgs Taylor, commanding Com vegy &. and Brevet Major F. 0. Wise, commanding Comps- Lit. HW, B, Jaéd. commanding detachments of recrufte to Companies Band L aha Brevet Captain H. B: Field, commanding yk. i ion’. W. 4. Winder, 0" manding Compary G. Fire! Liat, C8 Winder obyamending Company H. Piret Lieut Ryaith. cxorfne and two childrn, Misa yaicria Mee ghaut, Mra Chase and son. Mrs, Fremon’ and thros childron, Mr. Keeser, Mics Mason, Mrs. Taylor. Mrs, Wyse and child, re, Judd. Amcng her ;asseogera were Mr. Georgs Aspinwall; Capt. J. W.T Gardiner of the First Dragoons, who in tended to join his regiment im California; Lieut. F. K. Marray, of the navy, who intended to join the squadron at Rio; and James Lorimer Giaham, Jr. She was commanded by the following ofticers:— J.T. Watkins, Commander. A. Auchirlick, Ist Engineer. ndward Kellus, jet officer. Faronworth, 24 do, feo Gratton, 2d do, David Dunham Chs. F. Barton, 3+ do. Jamos Crosby, Jobe Macon, 4th do. 3%. Donaghan, JW. Marehall, Chief Eng’r. C. Hoifman, The chip was new, and constructed ‘wit » peouliarre- gardtothe health ani convenience of any troops she might carry; whilst the companies which sailed ia her attracted additional attention from the fact that they only preceded General Weol to his new soone of service on the Pacific. The Sen Francisco was built by Messrs. W. H. Aspin- wall, for the Pacific Mail Stearmzbip Company, and soar $880,000. Her constructor was Mr. William H. Web), one of the most successful amd accomplished shipbulldere in this city, under the immeciate inspection of Commo. ore Kearney and Captain Bell, botn officers of the U. 8 Navy, who, from time to time, expressed their views an: made their ruggestions. Captain Skiddy, eo long and #0 favora>}y known for his nautical skill and practical knowledge, was alsoemployed by the governmemt to #u- perintend her build. Her model and outward eppearance are very beautiful, although somewbet spoiled by guards, givieg her too much the appearanca ofa evand or river steamer, This is the first time, we belies, » government veute] has been built in this manver, which adds #0 much to ths comfort and convenience of paseeoge:s ia « hot climate, at the same time serving all purposes for which she was originally inteaded, Her par, or hurricane deck, extends her entire length and breadth, giving a wider range for both deck and cabin pastongerr than any vessel, perhaps, ever built. She has @ clipper bow, perfectly plain, without ornament or figurehead of any kind; on che aterm is her neme, in plain white letters. She in rigged with two masts, carry ing foretail, foretopsail, and two jibe, with smokeptpes forward and aft. Her internal arrangemeuta wore planoed entirely by Captain Watkine, wro commands ber, and who knows the oak strength of every piece of timber and metal in er. The foliowing are her dimensions :— Levgth on deck,, Lengta of keel Breadth of beam,. Depth of hold, % * and mesures 5,000 tons, custom house register. She ia dcuble troned, diagonally braced forward and aft, with plates let into the timbers inside, Tansing from Lilge to top. A Iarge iron band runs round the ship upon the top of ‘be timbers, directly under the waterways, to which the diagonal plates are riveted, The plates are all bolted to the timbers and riveted st each crossing, form: ings perfect truss work the whole lergth of the ship, keeping her from “hogging.” In ordar to give additional strength lengthwise, two bulkheads have been built fore ard aft, on either side of the engines and boilers from the bettom of the ship to the second deck, seeured to the kelsous below ard to beams aud stringers, @nd under beams in both decks above. She te further strengthened by letting into this bulkhead double iron ¢iagonal braces, bolted to stancheons and kelsons at the bottom, and stringers above under beams, This is an entirely new mode of fastening, never before introduced im apy ship, She is planked wite oak fire inches thick, bolted edgewise and on face, copper fasten- ¢d and coppered to deep level line. She has two power ful engines of 1,000 horse power each, both working upon the same crank, opposite each other. They are called the “Oscillating Fogine,” and have beon adopted by gov- ernment, and wili be used hereafter in prefereacs to the side lever, as combining grester atrength, lese com. plication, leas liable to accident, and occupying less sp sce, Tho wheels are twenty-eight feet in diameter, ten foet face, five feet ip, and constructed upon scientific prin- ciple Iately discovered tx Evg'and, but never before in- trocuced in this country, It is called ““Morgan’s Eocen- tric,” or the ‘feathering tloat ” by which a dificulty has been overcome long conaldered im practicable, om account of being tco complex for any practiceble purposer. She has stateroom accommodation for 350 cabin passecgers, and steerage berths for 1,000, and may lawfally carry 1,600. ‘The upper deck is occupied exclusively by the officers ofthe ship. On the deck below is the steerege quarters, water closets, store room, wash room, ioe house, porter’s room, cook’s room, barber’s shop, kitchen, bakery, offl- cer’s mesa room, engine room, bath room, and Isdies’ cabin. The staterooms are very large, with two door one opening inte the cabip, the other out upon a fine spa_ cicug walt on deck, where 1s lien and children may sit or promenade without being molested by passengers from other parts of the ship Her ornamental work, tnish, and decovati it is uumeceseary to repeat, as those now given will oonvey @ good idea of the points which epure strength and stability, the only qualities which the San Frangitco would need during the existence of the late yalen, . The first news we had of the San Francisco, after her departure, was contained in the fsllowing telegraphic despatch :— » ae hig A telegraptic despateh from Liverpool, ¥.'S., dat the Maria Freeman arrived (sre, reports thet tarthe 26th December, im int 8 30, Yon. eo, fll ig with th apehe Om the same afierncon our npecial correspanden’ at Washington furnished us with the annered:— Wasurecron, Jan, $734 PM. News bas just arrived of the wreck of the new s\eomer San hich rocently loft New York tor California, with ae thire iment cf Tnited Statee Artillery op board. endred m cow, and bwolv: with th prov: Provisions for the troops, The following additional particulare reached us during the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th inst.— Boston, Jan pated, received this morning from | “e ne following addi ional psrticulay tein ef ths Maria Prociman states that when he saw Ad fornir! owept 9 4 him to ‘The br'g Napoleon, Capt Stront, fro: xperienoing th ve twenty ene el. Capt, strout also repores, trod, lat. S504, lon 60 Bu, fell im with the steamship demsntled, aversthing awept above deol to breash ov ther. © war lesking fi Firvteaw her at mid-day, and Inet Her hust anpesrad some. Toe win the rretward ber the night, but mode first tork pele frem tre porth sect dusty P the ne: ele. hon the brig bove ia sigh Bauipax, Jan, 7, 1854. 9 Pe Capt eteemer then bur dred rere ras they loudly che: pdeck mea Copt. Pr + at Live pool. N.S fell in wich + cisco om th» 26th of Doce Der ae yesh his report that durtog tht 7 att bs che must have toonderod cng Be he ce ot On iher atverwards, ‘The foil wing «purared in yesterday's Brasnn:— f the Napolson, & uoplemental boiler wt Provided. The Ma is ¥reowan’s rept "18 A dey Inter than that of She bac then probabd the worst of the gale, pat y Coltecter Reefield tn aoaren of th }y vpon bis reception of a_despace be ntesmer slahams, of the Savanna’ d to ® buric frem War line ) A devt powps it a hesider others that ¢ was very strergly > rtance of the Tare k . tios of the gale. aa she lay in’ she direst ing to th: utiern ports apd Woat indies. I! not fallen in wich, Capt “atkive would most probably en| deawer, by the aid of ju y marts to make for the Bermud: where itts likely we shall next bear of her. On the esme evering the owuers of the Ban Francisco rs ceived the fo Th 5 by the Innd rd vil) be wt your house st midnigh ‘Thos “ene wits ia thirty yarde ot the steamer and spoke Captain Wathine tesaid theenp wes making waler, bul did rotons Last He wanted & boat tone, bat at, boat tan theses weevunniry big cone mt Hiv pipe Woe gery, ryt eb stoke from the ea!) c the S& edge of the ¢ ix emooum water, Tho hays ber hnii wad eli richt, aud ae feit we of by bad rata Foafery, ben ow board of har thas i his brig. The wate of ite Napoleon arrived im this olty at t Yeleck y-eterday morning, frem whom ¥e tained tke fullowing (nota :— The San Francisco had 1 t , rancixeo had two tanta, and when aes Jast se@u, on the 2th u'tloo, the mises, cass waa stl standieg. All ber upper deck was standing, bat wheelbouss wax smachad The ssloon, iueluding captain’s cflice, was +till standing, and Capiain Wat kins was observed to eome out of it, Her galley feoare, snc from on board be Napoleon smoke steam could be sean to issue (com the San Froncisoo ; t latter war ruppowed to come from the sapplemental boi spoken of above Her smoke pipe was gone. The hai of the ship was smooth and perfect, Ip this cour ition the Napoleon lay by bor from dar till nocn, #0 that the persons on Cesk could speak her, When last seen she had out a drag for the purp: of keeping her sieady in apy rough sea into which might rau. Mach hope was entertained from this as Captain Watkina was well sware of the value of reg under euch cirowmatances, from his lomg.oxps in the pavigenon of the Cninese- coas, After she parted from the Nepoleon she must hat drifted about thirty miles t» the esstward to the time sh Wan seen by the Maris, on the next day. She then had wind blowing for Bermuda, which port it was though! ehe would mike According \o the calculations made, the San Fravois must bate Gret ft the gsles on Vriday—thirty-aix bow after she left Sandy Hock. She probably experienc Very powerful ard udder changes in the wind, which a9 counts for the destruction of her masts, smoke pipe, The supposition of Captein Freeman, of the Maria, that she foundered, is bered oely on the fagt that he lost nigh! of her, and that a terrible gale osme on the same night. She being lightened probably drifted very rapidly awa from the M. The s‘eamer Alabama, Captain Schenck, of the Savan neh lire, left thin port yester’ay, in search of the Sai Francisco, TELEGRAPHIC, Boston, Jan. 8, 1864, It is reported to day, that the revenue cutter on station is ordered to ail to morrow morning, in search of| the steamer San Fraacisco, More About the Steamship Empire City. HOW SHE WENT ASHORE—SHAMRFUL TREATMENT OP VA THE °ASSENGKRS, ETC. [PROM OUR SPECIAL xEPOKTER,} We hare already pudlished the (ect of the steamship Kimpize City bavirg gove ashore, on the night of the 33. inst., on the beach oppoxite Barnegat. Av nune of the particulars, bowever, bave yet been made public, the Sollowing acocnnt, by vur special reporter, will be read with interest — The Empire City, Capt. Windle left New Orleans at Celock, A M., on the Zéth vit., snd arrived off the Moro Cantie on the ¢venizg of the 28th, bat was unable to enter the harbor of Havane ustil next morning. Having landed her mails and passengere avd taken supply of coal, sho railed for thia portat 84 M of the S0th ult, with & heavy cargo of molasses, euger and tobacco, and forty siz cabio and etuerege parseng ers, Nothiag ocenrred on the voyage particularly deserving of mention till she came Within sight of the Jersey shore, on the 8d inst. About fight o'clock im the evening, the second mate having charge of the ship, she ran ashore om the narrow strip of land lying cif the Jersey shore opposite Barnegat, and Known asthe Iaand Beach. the weather was calm aud clear, enabling thore on board to see objects at a crewt distance off At the time she straok Barnegat light was Giscernible, about four or five miles abead, and the beach loomed up fo plainly under her bow that the pas- sengers could ree it divtinotly at least a quarter of an hour before she went ashore. The mate, when apprised of his danger, and told that he was steering directly for the beach—which is composed mainly of white eaad— said that it was but ths reestion, and continued on bie course. Captain Smith, one of the passengers, also cau- tioned him, bat without effect. “There,” vald he, “is, Barnegat light, and you are steering right for the shore.’ ‘Don’t bother me; mind your business and I will miad mine.’”? This brief conversation took place a few minute befcre the second mais < iscovered his mistake aud the ves. sel ran on the beach. As soon as he saw his danger he gavo- orders to reverse the engite; but as she was then only two or three bundrec yards from the ahore it was toc late. She was going at the rate of twelve miles an hour,’ and the reyertal of her engines at s0 short a notice kad very little effect upon hes impetus. The first inti- mation those between decks had of her astrik, ing waa a slight shock, caused by her running over the outer bar, whish has abont ien feet of water on it. They had hardly time to recover from their alarm be" fore she struck again, with a foree that cansed her te- tremble from stem to stern. Then the captain, who was in the cabin sli the time, came on deek, and, under hic- direction, a full head of steam was put on, andevery exertion made to get her off. For nearly half an hour: the whole power of ber epginas was employed in ineifes~ tual attempts to briog her iato deep water again, aad it was only when i: became dangerous to persist that the fires were put ont. Sigoal guos were then discharged, and these, with the aid of few rockets, gave the people cn the beech sad maiaiand the first intimation of the aceldent. The inhabit of Barnegat were for some time in a terrible tate of excitement, as they csuld no} aee the steamer, and did wot snow what to attribute the firing to; but an soer ae they became aware of the fact that a vessel was ashore some small boats were sent off, An Barnegat is sbont Sve miles from the beach tt was several houre before asnistanos reached her from that place. Fortunately, however, there is « government house vper. the island, which is weli supplied with life- boa 1d, a6 abe lay bat afew handred yards off, one of there, centaiping tho wreck master, Mr Jeremiah Pred- more, came alongside soon after the signal guns were fired, As it wasevident, from an examination of the ves- sel and the mildoess of the weather, thet there was ab immediate danger to be apprehended, noce of the passen- were were taken ashore that eight. Aw may well be sup- pened, very few of the paseorgers wentto sleep that night, but none of them exbibited symptoms of great alarm, the women, it is raid, ‘uring the whole excitement, exhi- bited nearly as Little trepication as any om board. Af the sanc on this beach is very hard the seams were burst when the versal sirack, amd ins eomparatively short; Lime there were ten foot of water inthe bold, The great. weight of her macbinery caused her to sttle very fast, and she bad formed # bed in the send nine or ten fret deep. Or. Wednescay night, information of the disaster having reached her owners, the steamtug Titan was sent down with the view of hauling ber off; but the great weight of” her cargo rem ering this impossible, they again ret the pumps at work, and succredi in pnmpisg out s large quantity of water. Alter lying by ber nise or ten houre: the Titan sia) ted for New York. Meanwhile, the passea gere were loft npou the beach te rhift for themselves az wellas they could, Av daybreak the next morning after she strack,they were taken ashore, with their baggacs, some of therm having, it is true, plenty of money.to pay their way to New York, aod some, also, without a sirgle contin their pockets, They applied to be taken to N York; but no stteotion was paid te them, aod they Asw the steemtug, wbich could have brought them all end, their beggage, snd which they wight natareliy soppose bad been somt for that purpose, leave without them. Thoap