The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1854, Page 4

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New York, Fete projet of treaty the governmen’ taing of the Three Bells, Kilby, and | “HERALD. | 27% 1 appointed Messra. e members of the | , . , : * | fact that all that § ste with the coun tree feo | bi ace lewa expressed | 6° Secure i L one complisentary to the masters of Aiter some time speat in Conmisiee of the Commiitre on A variety of inter Francis.o calamity letter from Cup’. matter relative to > ve to the brave Capt. Low, We lear that the committee of now raised about nise thousand do! »yives, do., for ther tradiciion to the Heratp’s tmnoane fresh information bad come to his knovw- | at Savanush, on Charlton served in the Senate Thirty-second Con 2 is again occwfMed with tao ch of the operati st the people of Erie to the courts until matters are ad- ny underwent a second Nwiniag ntelligence f will be pudlirhod at ton o’elo Bingle copies cixpence bets orders a0 early as pose Mails for Europe THE NEW YOUK WSAKLY HERALD. ‘The United States mail steamship Balic, Capt. C stock, will lepve this port at noop to-morrow for L/ pool. s Bubseriptions snd advertisements for any edition of th Baw Yous Hxcavy will be reseived at the follo ring places fa Eorope — Livsy Jobn Hunter, Loxpos—F W Pamii—Livis Pince do la Sou: B, H ode ls Banque The European mails will claro at half past teno’clook | © to-morrow mera'ng. The Wraxiy Hrratn, (plated ia Freach and Englisl, A will be published, ot morning. Single co half-past nine o'slock to morrow in wrappers, 6 The N Our columns are crowded today with highly im portant and interesting information of every deserip tion. That which will doubtless attract the most general attention is the outline of the Gadsden treaty with Mexico, together with the amhouncement @its reception by the Cabinet in Washington. In OWS. barns and trees were ating the gale rom Charleston that the steamship Black y repaired, would Tt is said that the diately for Havana » her machinery was tri le expense of repairing it cid not exceed four or hundred dollars. Institute and a large audience. the form of a narra numerous amu e author's own ex their flist shor ‘3 Museum, cor charge is to be made for a mission, and ex bitors are to be adu under no expense for kee; the cily, and, in a sgreed to transport the poultry free of charge. uting to $500, has heon ives $50 for the b md $25, and so on down for all t! the railroads h, of had given assurances that the projet of treaty submitted by him would meet their approval if he could show that the government of the The Cunard steamsh!p Cambria, for this port, via Havre and Scuthampton, bas been nineteen days in concection with this matter we publish several en tertainiog items of Mexican news, one of which states that the reported demolition of the Lower California filibusters was fully credited. Ex-Governor Foote, of Mississippi, ad Democratic General Committee at Btayve: tate last evening. He excoriated the spoi Washington, and gave a full resume of the polit tory of the country, aud the presen’ condition o ahings. We give a dctailed report of the speech in nother place. Governor Foote departs for Ca) fornia to-day. The proceedings in Congress, yesterdiy, wer again of a very exciti and interesting character In the Senate quite a ed debate took placs b ween Messrs. Gwin, Bright, and others, on a reso yution offered by the former geatieman information with regard to the naval for fornia at the time of the departure of the flit expeditions against Lower fornia and Son making the passage to Halifax. ton on the Jist ult., sailed from Li Halifax, with d We ehall probably She left Southanp- the same day tliat the Europa The Niagara is about due at to the 7th inst.—one week later her news to-morrow or next greater certainty th The Mextean ‘Treaty Its Arrival fa Wash- of the Cabinet, es from Washington Gadsden’s treat Immediately reception by the President, a Cabinet Co was held, and active opposition manifested it- Our telegrapbie ady form us that General throw out the idea but we shall see. herefore important to the nation that its features are known Tt sc nitted to the Senate. 1 it would be | ter actually in possession of that i's provisions were sub. ut Generel Gac had cowmu ava Anna desired in order was to know that resident Pleree would endorse the projet sal ited to bim. Tiere was a iscovery calculated to aston’ sh the geutleman interested in the Sloo g’ saat and witbout further Gcluy he repaired t the Wh formed the President of the t held with the Mexican | Minister. The President confrysed that ite House. Arriving there, he at 0’ yoo in- ture of t,he con- ation he had he bad authorized the ¢,xplicit con- ot ledge which put an entirely different com- plesion upon the matter. The gentleman urged, tbat es no later mail had Neen received from Mexico since the appearanee of the Uni article it was scare possible any further in- formation coald have been had. The President, however, cut the interview short by declaring that he would allow no person to doubt his word or cross-examine him, aad thereupon, the gentle- man vanished, We donot charge it upon the President that he knowingly authorized the Union to impose upon the public by a false statement. Let us ey did al head rather charitably suppose that \ not deem it necessary to tell the m of the government the facts till after the publi- cationin the Union. General Gadsden, it is understood—and the statement was mad our ic columns some days ago—did wi th of Decem- ing any telegra to the State Depart ber, that he had not succee arrangemeat with the M that the prospect of a actory conc The mail, however, di 0 titlthe 17th of Dece nent, on the 1! ed in ¢ n authori ttering. e city of h leber; aud it was upon that day that Gen. Gads- able tocommunicate to Washington the facts which afterwards created such a sensation upon their appearance in our columns. Mr. farey, let us hope, adopted the homeopathic principle , and administered to the President Gadsden’s despatches in small doses~—-giving him the letter of the 16th to digest for a few days before handiog him the letter of the 17th, which contained the cream of the whole inatter. The Union people ere very sore at the silly part they have be the editors was indisereet enough to declare that if the administration desired to have a paper to Jie by authority they must hunt up some one else ior the work. The public wi scarcely appreciate such squeamishness in that particular quarter. Le arrival of General Gadsden with a ty actually agreed upon is easily accounted On the 17th ult. our Minister at the city fexico wrote that the Mexican government den we United States would ratify such a treaty, Meantime, Santa / "s necessities are daily growing more urgent. His only hope of con- tinuance in power rests upon his ability to keep his purse filled, An empty treasury would hurl him ‘rom the seat he occupies with all the efforts ot his foes uld effect. He, therefore, deter mined to ive mere ceremony, aad without waiting for the formal san of the treaty by the authorities at Washington, signed it at onee, and hurried General Gadsden to th United States. so as to secure the millions which the convention is to give him. The treaty thus agreed to by Mexico is the Fame ¥ combined ute known to be pract ough our own itory to the Pacific. It will extend our In the course of dhe argument Mr. G. stated that | still more important if the history of the late | boundery down to the thirty-first parallel, only two vesrels of war were engs the | tection of our interesia on the entire line of fi thousand miles of the Pacific coast—one of was stationed at the Sandwich Islands and the other was ordered to Peru, thus leaving filibusters and others to do as they pleased, withont let or hindrance ‘The proclamation of the President for the suppression of these unlawfnl expeditions is tak no! ith Mexico could be fully de- We have no doubt but that Gen. Gadsden, in making the treaty, has gone far ahead of it he had not with the document it would, ia all kooe' Already a large party in C door after the horse is gone. It service. Among the petitions rece from this city relative to the San Francisco calamity and another from Philadelphia remo: gainst | the establishment of a mint ia Ne | Berate adjourned till Monday. | that t Mr. Hughes, member from the ith distri of this State, made his n peech in the Honse, | in reply to Mr. Cutting, upon troubles in the ranks of the New York deniocro | Mr. Cutting, i: is understood, will make a reyoinder to-day. This intestine dispute is said to be creat: quite as much sensation in the political circles Washington as it did in this State a! the time of jast election. The war, having now literally become & national issue, wil! doubtless be carried on with the utmost vigor til] one or other of the parties is @riren from the field. Read Mr. Hughes’ def of the administration and tree soil allies, and ther await the reply of Mr. Cutting. For a comprehensive and instructive insight into | yarious of the peculiar political mancuvres of the day in course cf fermentation at the State capital the reader is referred to the letters from our correspon. ent, published in another page. In a pecuniary point of view, it may, perhaps, be fortunate for tax payers that both branche the Leg’ are are com: pletely in the hands of men who are believed to be disposed to strictly adbere to tho usages of their party--else protracted debates upon the various measures to be introduced might again make it in- cumbent on the Governor to cal! for au extra session in order to secure the completion of at least a portion of the work nally necessary to be done. Ag yet mo discussion of conseyuchce has taken place in either house—members having thus far confined themeelves almost exclosively to introducing and voting upon bills. To be sure, a wal @ebate has been going on in the 5 wome days upon the resolution spprovi the proposed purchase of Mount Vernon by the generai government, to which Mr. Morgan desired to append a free soil amendment providing that slave labor should never again be introduced on the estate; but both the resolution and amendment were tabled by a vote of scventeen to twelve yesterday Notice was giver in the e of the day ofa bill to amend the charter of this city, and a petition wasre- @xived requesting the Legi:latare to provide medals for the rescuers of the San Francisco's passenger. ‘The Assembly reconsidered the vote ordering the printing of the report of the commistee to repeal the Bill for the Nineteenth Ward Park, after which both the report and bill were tabled. A proposition to “charter sixpenny savings banks was voled down The bil! to so amend the State constitution as ty maake it a penal offence to bribe voters or o ise «orruptly interfere with the elective frauchise wa taken up and referred to the Committee of the Whole. Whether the party now in power wili have the subject of the the fearleesness to virtually carry out this importan ‘Mmersure remains to be ascertained » The Board of Councilmen met tht, and dis. J of numerous r Pp and reports usttires, none of which were of any grosti M@h.ce. The Bod vourred with the i f ib Ma Setermiuing \y Wye tag Gpppom ot ae ived little faye tating the propriety of dividing the acy an aspect as to put down all opposition, aud create a new Southern State immediately, 1 of more Southern every reason to beli devial which appea f > first announcement of a treaty with co had this particular obj | that the nies con: ject in view a h was sent fir te a week or two since, bore encral Gadsden to amend the | project of treaty which was sent by him to his December, so as to territorial acquisitions beyoud what was absolutely e Like a skilful gener en did not wait for this to take care of hi fore the public, it is out of the diministration to resist public opinion by smothering the treaty because of its instructions te territorial features A great many speculations have been ia- dulged ia by our cotemporaries as to the term of the treaty in question; but it is not at all to find that all these. statements a rehash of the information publisi more than ten days ago exclusively in the New York Heranp, and which was at cially contradicted instance of the the time ofi- hington Union review of the yvehind the curtain will prove both a ‘ormed that, upon the arri Henxatp in Washington announcing the fact sneral Gadsden had forwarded to the Department of State a projet of treaty with nt for the editor of the dirceted him to deny that there foundation of truth in the Union accordingly annou that the whole story wasa fabrication, a rications were characteristic i its correspondents. President to have the contra ted, and to invalidate the iafor mation given by us, that it was telegraphed in overy direction that the L cially deny the 3 Satanic press, the Heras A day or two after this coup d'état on the President, a gentleman intimately 00 grant,” and who quite naturally felt adeep ingerest in all the facts of | their occurrence. _ ~as the rumored treaty was favorable to Garay aud adverse to Sloo—learned, ia con- exican Minister, then at pxious was the rion intended to perpetrated by that should be taken to diminish the frequen been acjatge BK Pena d was really true; ng in a portion of Chihuahua and half of So- Should the treaty become the law of the Jand—as it will unquestionably if the does his duty and sénds it to the a new Southern State will at once Union. Pree at our doors for admission into th State so s to carve aslave State out of it. With these sitions, the question would assume such sis the question now presented tor the eration of President Pierce and hi net: and we can readily believe our correspoud- ents when they telegraph us trou- ble at the west end of Pennsylvania avenue, and that the arrival of the treaty at Wasbing- ton has caused a commotion the Cabinet. But from whom does the opposition come? Ayorner Desrrvctive Fimu.—It is our pain- ful task again to record another of those de- strnetive conflagrations that have within the last few months swept away property to an amount that would cover a year’s losses by the same cause in three of the largest European cities, This time, happily, the disaster has not fallen upon the hard-earned results of private enterprise; but it is, nevertheless,‘equally.to be deplored, from the public loss and incorve- nience that it must necess ily occasion. Ia the partial destruction of the New City Hall Inst night we have received another of those severe lessons which have been of such frequent oceur- rence of late, and which, will fear, we require to be still further multiplied before the pub lic become impressed with the necessity of guarding against thecauses that lead tot We have so lately had occasion to enlarge upon those causes, and to point out in particular the danger arising from the use of imperfectly constructéd flues; that it would be a wa time and espace were we again to dwell up them. We have exhausted all the arguments that can be used upon the subject, but it is vata to appeal cither to the fears or the interests of the owners of private dwellings. They must continue to suffer the consequences of thetr own folly until the frequency of the uuitaoce compells some legislative remedy. With public buildings, however, the case is diferent. There the control of their construction and manage- ment is placed in the hands of officials who ought to he made responsible to the public for the careful discharge of their trust. Whether theee dicasters arise from recklossness of their own ivterests on the part of householders, or from carelessness on that of the public servants, itis high time that some coercive measures The Alderman in Contempt, The commitment of Alderm: te tof the Superior Court, of which he has My, wee forwarded oa Wed 0 to the Sherill, sscompaaies, however, neil Saturday, when the cave ore Jacge Boaworts, in tae Superior Court, pt ofthe n made to play, aud one of PEP gg axp mis Assatuants..-As we pub- Nebr 6a the ocher day a long communication in tantially as stated by the Herat: and finally, | + fenee of Dr. Be ed the * and assailing Padre Ga, /azzi, we now give place to two letters which tuke the opposite side of the con'roversy. It is not difficuit to stei a balance between the s. In the first place, al! the stories in relation to Bedini’s conduct in Italy mast be dismissed from the controversy as irrelevant, We have nothing to do here with the antecedents of the eeclesinstic whom Pius IX. thought fit to sceredit to our government, and that govern- ment thought fit to receive. Whether Bedini, who is well known to have taken a leading part in the struggfe between the constituted autho- rities and the revolutionary factions, actually participated in the shocking scenes avbich dis- graced the conflict, or counselled the assassi- nation of Ugo Bassi and other Italian patriots, we have no right, no authority, to inquire. We reecive him as the envoy of a temporal prince, aud as nothing more. If he oversteps the bounds of his authority we must call him back. Ifhe attempts to settle territorial dis- yutes here we must gently but firmly remind him of our rights and bis position. But even ifit were proved beyond controversy that he had devised and ordered the tortures ia which so many of the revolutionists of 1848 met their death—if he had flayed alive, as his enemies assert—these c would not relieve us from the duty of treating him wita respect, or debar him from his claims to protection. As to Gavazzi, on the other hand, our opinion remains just what it was. Our correspondent’s assertion to the contrary notwithstundiog, we don’t think he has made many converts among the Catholics, or done much ter the cause of European demo- eracy. This opinion we imagine is shared by most intelligent Protestants. Gavazzi would never have been as popular as he became at one time had not the stupid Irish papefs abused him, and-a parcel of brutal wretches in Lower Canada tried to a inate him. These attacks gave him a notoriety which he never could have obtained otherwise. combate Koszra Acaty.—Our notice of Martin Koszta’s destitute condition, published in yesterday’s Henap, has elicited the following letter from Mosers. Meade Brothers :— New York, Jan. 19, 1854. Janes G. Benner, Esq. :— Dean Sin—Will you oblige us with the address of Mertin Keszta or bit friend? We notice by the Hexann of this morning that he is ia a destitute con- dition, and we can be o: considerabie service to him. Yours, very respectfully, eavs Baoragns, per 8. H. W. We should be happy to satisfy the inquiry here put to us, but we are entirely ignorant of Koszta’s whereabouts. We, who bave made neither medals, nor glory, nor fame as a states- man, out of the poor Hungarian, have not felt it incumbent upon us to keep trace of him, The Hungarian Committee or Mr. Marey are mach more likely to know all about him, Let Messrs Meade drop a note to the Secretary, and they will soon obtain all the information they de- sire. Practica, Benevotesce.—We insert with pleasure the following letter, which does credit to ibe heart of the writer:— Tueatre, Jan. 18, 1854. Dran Srr:—Having read the article iathe HERALD of to-day, relative to the distress of the widow and orphans in Brooklyn, upon the principle that every litiie helps, I beg to enctose fifteen dollars, to add to ihe subscription that is going on. Yours, very truly, J. W. Wannack, One of our Wall street cotemporaries seems to think that the exercise of benevoleace should be limited to one, and that not the most at- tractive, portion of the human family. It is well that all do not give this narrow interpre- tation to that divine virtue which should cover a plurality of races as well as of Sins. Let him take a lesson from the Cbristian example of one of that proscribed class whose pursuits, according to his bigoted notions, exclude them from all chances of the Kingdom of Heaven, Tue Ssrrus, Nort ano Sovru.—Congress has been entirely occupied of late by the two Smiths and their speeches. Smith of the South spends the time of the House in ridiculing th- Union democrats of the North. - Smith of the North does thy same thing by abusing the slaveholders of the South. Could not these two Smiths be locked up somewhere by them- selves, sothat the business of Congress might proceed ¢ S More Brack Benxrvot. We see by the Journal of Commerce of yesterday morning that it has succeeded in raising $1,100 for another black family. Did anybody ever hear of the Journal raising a single cent for a case of dis- tress where the parties were white? Is it abso- lutely necessary to have thick lips, woolley hair, and an ebony skin, to move our cotempo rary’s bowels of compassion? We begin to think it is. To NuGaRa Farts and THE WaSt. Passengers can now be carrie’) to Niagara Falla snd Baftalp by the rie Natl road, ae this road connects with the Casandsigzs and Niagara Fells Raliroad, The last mamedJroad siso con- reots with the Canerdai; ni Elaira, the Great Weet erm, acd the Michigan Central, forming @ poiat from which rallroa?s extend into Diisole, Wisoonsia, Michigan ard Upper Cansds The road is built on the broad gay, and the comfort, rafety and sped of passemzars Is cared for. The reentry is not exceeded fir beauty and variety in the Uclted States, City Inteliigence, Procers or Rownyem —A few evenings ago & gentle man and two lidies started in s stage frou up town for Wallack’s theatre. Whea about hal! way down, one of the ladies got up and asked ths gentleraan to exchange seats with her, as she bad been grossly insulted. The gentleman of course insisted upoa the refian leaving thy stage, and upon belog reristed cxngh’ him by the throst and run him back to the door, It sesms, however, thst the rascal had ® companion on the opposite reat, who tripped the gentleman up, and suatebed his cane away rom him. A regular melee then ensued, in which, bet it not been for the presencs of mia¢ of the ladies themrelres —one of whom received rome severe coutustone—ths gea- Jeman wight have go! the worst of {t As it was, the two rewdiee were expelled from the stage, A crowdof Ofty or a hundred persone had by this time collected, Dat among them all nota pollcemonto be seen, It ia no mors than justices to the proverbial chivalry of the American eheracter to say that there wero three other nouistal able American gentiemen im tho omn{bus, not one of whom raired @ fuger in the affair, bat allof whom ob- rerved that patient, exemplary neutralty,which becomes reppb'icans, Sush soehes ar these are of daily aud almost hourly oeourrence. What with rowdytem, roboery, and recklessnees, to live in New Yo kis jart aoout as danger- ons a4 to be in the midst of # bombarded city. As to the police, with their biue surtows, gilt buttons and stars, who cost us Over # milion 9 year, they are never by any chance to be seen, § Vare reform! Vice humlay ! Prarry Goon Gran —Among the bills reeratly presented to the Board of Suporvisors was one agalast tae Fifth district court, for a desk costing $95, and a quantity of law books, including ® regular law library for tke higher courts, #monntiog to $105. The Supervisors have not yet beon able to dwcover any law suthorielog them to pay for the furniture and law lid:ariea of ambitious ward magistrates, but they coubt'es i do 60 in good tims ‘Tax Foo Yareapst—Toyace ov 4 Fenny Boat.—Tae fog. on the river yesterdsy was very dease, and the ferry boats were epabled to make their trips with great difti culty. It was wetersary at one time to riog ths fog bal 6, in oF Jer to cirect the boste to their jandiog places, Ons {tne Wiliameburg ferry boats left her wharf for this city in clear weatner, but had not reached the New York «de before @ dense fog ross and exmpletely enveloped bor, She ran agniost the pier at the foot of Corlears street, ard then dvi ted acrow# the river to Prooklya, re se again coms in eviixton with a wharf at ire y yard, She broke her radcer, and deieg anablé to othe elty, ber passenger her and waked itom ferry, by whieh they arrived at New YorX ANOTHER TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION, THE NEW CrtW WALL IN RUINS, Zoss of Over One Mundred Thousand THE LAW LIBRARY SAVED. BISTORY OF THE BUILDINGS, &., &., &o. We are agais called wpon to record another terrib\ fro with whish our city has beea visited. There seoma to be a epectal fatality, at ibe present time, resting upon the metropolis, for uo sooner is ths record of one coa fisgraticn complo'ed than another takos placa, en! be- fore the smoke has died away from the rulas of Metrop)- Itan Hall, the publis buildings of the Park are clothed in ileme. About four o'clock yesteréay afternoon the new City Ball was discovered to be on Sre, and the alara was im mediately sounded throughout the city. The origta of the fre was from the flues in the upper stories of the bnilding, in the Commisrioners of Central Perk Commi: e+ room, over the Snperior Cours rooms, Whan two cr three of the reserved force of police from the Chisf’s office Sest arrived ov the epot, the Oro was breakiog through the ctiling over the Superior Qvart room, in the | southeact coraer, and wea siso coming through the eaves of ths buillizg. Tae spot thea buraing was not more than ten ‘eet rquare, but the woodwork was so dry that the flames ignited like » flash of powder, and soon ea- veloped the entire court room. During the fire the scene from the top of the City Hall was truly grand, Within the space of half aa hour from the time of the fret dicovery of tae flames, the eatire roof of the new City Hall was ia blaze. Boing of wool, the fames ran along it with curorisiug quickuses, Soon the Park war crowded with fire companies and speo'ntors From Proadway on one side to Park ror on the other, ard between the bursing building and the City Heli iteelf, there was ome dence mass of human beings. Ha éreds rushed for the roof of the Ciiy Hall, from wh view could be had of thg eatire alate, Thousands who mece their way to the scene of conflagraiion expected to find the City Hall itself on fire, or the store of Megara, A T. Stewart & Co. Froma distance, the City Hall clos weemed to be enveloped in the volumes of dame aul smoke, which led to the above conjectures, The atmos phere being very dense, the soxko stroggled upward throvgh it with great difficalty, anda stroag wiud earcied itin clouds over the City Hall before it ded. The fire buroed from the roof dowawards. First the eatirs roof was blazing beyond she eilective control of the tre: men, on account of its height and extent, the length of it being about three hundred fest. Then the flames ea- wrapped the story below, and when it had exteaded to the firet story from the basement, the firemen were exatied to reach it with their streams, and compel it to yield to their efforts, The new fre proof buildiog lately erected #: the east end of this range of buildings wee not at all damaged. Tue police were rtationed at each window of this building with buckets of water and by the™aid of s strong wind blowing from it they were e2- nabled to keep the flames fror entering it, The firemen were untiring in their labora until the flamen were subdued. At adout aix o’clock they gained the mastery over the ‘devouring element,” aad before sevon o’clock it bad done its work, and now only rollad up its dezee clouds of black emoks from the smoaidering pile, Amorg.the firemen from the distant districts on hand, ¢Coing all that could be done to save property, we noticed James MoLeod, foreman of the Haslem Hock and Ladder Company. Perceiving ths flames to bo wispping themeelves apparently sroand the belfry ani clock of the City Hall, the conflagration was known to bes ditastroun one and needing the assistance of every member of the department. ‘The pclice also Ceserve much credit, for their active ard valuable acsis‘ence, reserved force at the Chiafs cfice, sore Instantly on the spot, anda great amount of the property saved was by their exertions, It is well worthy of remark that the Caief, Mr, Matsell, although Isboring under s serious injury of his ancls, received a@ the late burning of the Mstropolitan Hall, was porroaally on the ground, rendering every assistance within his power. It waa not til the flames were subdued! thet he yielded to the solicitations of the Mayor and Recorder to leave the fire, feering his exposure might aggravate his present injuries and lead to a serious result, PUBLIC DOCUMENTS FAVED. As soon as it was perce!yed that the entira row of Dull. ings would probably fall, the entira force of police, an’ the fremen who could be spared from their engine), were immediately at work, *mying all the papers and public dccumenta pcasible, Fx Alderman Peck, the newly elected Tax Comnaissioner was the first in his office, aad all the books of his depart ment, tegether with the public papers, were remove to the Comptroller's office, and thus preserved. The books and valanble documents of the United States Marsball ware carried iato the building of the new Court of Sessior #, and also saved. ‘The papers of the Counsel of the Corporation were also taken from the office befure the fire had reached them. Mont of the public offices in the basement were damaged oxly by water, and the vajuable papers, being in eafes, were preserved. We will give ihe efiices in each story, commencing at the west end, towaiés Broaaway. BASEMENT. The Commissioners of Repairs end Supplies—Damaged by water; books and papers saved. Collector of Assseament—Booke and papers preserved. A\torney to the Corporation --In this offiss there was a valuable library, which was saved from the fire, The Receiver of Taxes, Tax Commissioners, the Coroner's office, the City Inspector, and Commissionsra of Emigra- ‘ion, complete the public offices in the basement, and were allequally fortunate with the above in the praserra ticn of their books and papers. flooded with water, and will locality for the fuiure. We have received the following from ths COMMISSIONERS OF FMIGRATION. to mt in your report of to morrow conoern- w City Hail, that the office of the Com- of Amig stion will be tomporsriy placed at No 27 cf the bullaingrit the water’ Will sllow th removal ov desks of the in| e water will silow the remo t deak, thereto, Bocks and records all sate, : rpg Mr. WALSH, Chief Clork. FIRST STORY. The Law Library.—Te volumes were mostly saved though not without some damage from their tumbling about. The Coursel to the Corporation, the chambers of the Sopreme Court, the offices of ths United States District Attorney, the United States Marshal, andthe United States Commissioners, complete the officy on this story. The office of the United States District Attorney was in the middie of the range where the fre burned through to the basement. We noderstand chat all his psperr, however, were preserved, together with his valuab! l brary. ~ SECOND STORY. The second story, through the entire length of tue building, was ocsupied as court rooms. On the weet end towards Broadway, was the Superior Court and Chambers; next, oodupying the centre of the range, was the Coart of Oyer and Terminer and Supreme Court ; and on the east end was the United Sta‘es Couris aad the U, 8. Courts Clerk’s office, All of these court roome were entirely de- stroyed, Most of them had Intely been fitted np ant farnished by the city +t a heavy expense, At the time of the fire the Supsrior Court had adjourne!, ard Jndge Hoffman had been gone about twenty minutes. W. R. D. Livingston, clesk of the general term, and Mr. Bennet, were in the court room when the alarm wad gives When tho fire began to increase they ordered the book cases to be broken epen, aud the library and the Judge's private papers wero removed iato an adjoining room, and thence carried to s place of safety. Mr. Augustus Clason and Mr. A R. Lawrence, Jr., assisted materially in saving the proj erty of ths Saperior Court In the court rocm of the Oger ani Terminer next ad jotuing, there was no livrary or property of any kind otber than the furniture of the room. Io the Supreme Court, there was a small library, which ‘we understand was saved. The Judges of the United States Court, poas:rsed ' inable law library in a room adjoiniog the court, which was entirely preserved, being carried into the new fire proof baildieg on the rast end of ihe range. Judgs Betts, as soon as bs learned of the cissster, hur- ried to the City Hall, where Lo received the gratifyiag ia- telligence from the Chief of Pcl os, that the entire library of the Judges, together with (heir private papers, were paved fror the flames, From the resond story to the roof, all was buraed, There were in this portion of ths builaing, however, 0 public oficsa or property of iwportance, The building is total loes to the olty, as the corporation nevar insures ite property. TOE LAW LIBRARY, The law |\brary, in the wast ead of the building, war tbe mve} valuable pessomal property ia jeopardy, inns ‘ a a nn | mach e#, if burned, it conld pot be replaced excep | with much Isbor and reresrch, This"Kbrary, theres | clalmed the especial attention of the polics aad fired | men, and tha books were wortly preserved from the | flamer, Osders were imme invely given to carry them Awsy, and within the rp ceo = fer minutes the entire Kbrary, aumboirg sine seouwand volumes, were | transferred foor thule ahs yea fo the Chiefs office and to | Other public places, Many volume® were, modoadt, ia- | dared end deste yed fom being tombled about in the | mud and fre, bot the general on of the library from totel hrs was forta: ste for the New York bar. Thielibrery was ectablished in the year 1830, and ay to the p erent (me bes ese! i's members a sum not dhor§ of ore hundred theusnd ¢ Since its orgeniastion) | the incidental expense» for »alariss, &o., may be sof | dowmatabout <histy thoussed dollar, leaving seventy thousand dollars as the purchase monay of the dibrary itself, This may seem an evcrmous sum to expend for six thonsand volumes, bot !t caus: be boraein mind that the cost of legs! publication: i¢ mudh greater than for any other works. The movey tist would purchase @ select law library of six thow sat yolames would pur+ ebace a good miscellaneous Librery of thirty thousand, ‘The New York Law Livrary was ostaollshed wholly by the members of the New York bar, sont any foreign ald orappropriation, To tbe Hou, Cusavellor Keat, Judge McCoun, the la'e Judge Paive, tle Hon, Ogden Hoffaaa, Judge Duer, Johu Authom, Hogh Maxwell, Thatcher fT, Payse, snd others, belong the lonor of establishing thie | Lbrary for the bar of New York and which is, at the prevent time, the fourth large library im the United States, Is is powressed of ail the icaportant Amerioan legal pub ications, ss w ll the mort ucful Eaglish aod Freaels works. Tho prevent income of the library is between three and four ‘housani dollars’ yearly, and it has sbout four oundred men'es The terms of meme bership sre~Initiation fre $0, and annual dues $10, until Lhe sum of $100 is paid, *hen » certificate of stook is iseued freeing the member from sll further regalar peymonts. The Library is used wholly for referanes by the law vere, im trying their cass) before the sours, The volumes are lowe? to de ‘ykea boyond the limite of he City Hall the Corp ra ion granted the Library the rooms it cen) in the new Oity Hell, as am equivalent for its free use by beads of dvpar' aents of the city, It was selected Will g eat care ‘he part of its origina) founcers, ard ita Joss would by ® great calamity to the Jt was insured for $20 G00, which will more steve: joss it may have sustained by present cor flagratic HISTORY OF THE BUILDING DESTROYED, One of the most importnas reilos of the public builds ings of this city, erected at ‘he close of the eighteenth century, it wil be seen by the sdove acconnt, ha: falleg before the destructive elemeas of tre, The building eae. cessively known as the “Aim~house,” the “New York Institution,” and the ‘New Cily Hell,” ia which many law courts were held, and varivus publis offices wore toe cated, has been dew royed by tire. Tho building referred to wa: a brickedifice, two hams dred and sixty fest ia length by forty four broad, with two projections in front, ff. een feet by twenty, and wag three stories in height bevices ‘he barement, Tha front was on Chambers street, wit cumerous entrances from the rear oa tho Park, Fr m ics elevated acd healthy situation, this spot was fxed von in the year 1796, when the population of the city was about forty thousand, ang there were bot few Luilcings ebove the Parkeeasa proper Place cn which to eres: au almshouse for the increaring poor of \he city; 200 from this period, for over twenty years, downto the carly part of 1816, when the paupers were removed to the Alushouse at Bellevue, 1% ‘was applied to that purpows. Shortly after, the Common Council, on the application of the scientific institutions of thiscity, manificonUy grau ed them the use of the building for a terra of ten years; im comsequance of which i's name was changad {rom ihe ‘¢ Almshouse,’? te that of New York Instilution ” Tae different roows im the building were then occupied as follows :— 1, The Literary and Philo*o,hical Society. 2. The Historica: Socioty. 3, The Awerican Asader:y of Fine Arts. 4. The Lycenm of Naturai I 6, Boudoer's American Museum, © The Deaf ard Damb lusituuon, ry ‘The Board of Health. . The Soctety for Improving the Condition of Domestic Servants. Soudder’s American Museu waa origiaally located im Chatham sirest, near Goambers strest, from which it wae removed to (he building belonging to the city pow de- stroyed. After remaining in (at buildiag, rent free, for ten years, i¢ was removed to the place now oceupled by Bernum’s Museum. Seudder’s Museum was united with Peale’s Museum, a smeil concern established by ore of the Peales of Philadelphia, ia room: over Fransia’ book- store, in Broadway. After tha ceath éf Mr, Soudder the united museums were sold to Barnum. In front of the building now in ruins, when it was o0- cupied by Scudder for his muneum, there was ® balcony, on which s bard of musio ceos:onsily performed during plearant evenings, particulerly ia the summer season. It was in reference to this musis, which attracted gay and fashionable svering promenadies, that Halleck wrote the following lines in his poem of * Fanny” :— There’s music ia the Cash of way When the swift bark cleaves their foam; There's music heard upon her deck— The mariner’s song of bome— When moon aud star beams cmiling meet At midwight on the ses— And there is maric—once & week Ia Seudd:r’s baleony. The meozlight music of the waves © In storms is besrd co more, When the living lightnicg mocks the wreck At mionight ep the shora, And the mariner’s song of nome has seased, His corse is on the ea— And mucic ceases whea it rains In Seudder's balzony, After the expiration of tho f:e8 leave of ten years, or shortly afterwards, the abore societies and institutions not connected with the city government, removed from ‘the building, and it was takea possession of by the Cor" Forstion for public purposes. Part of it was grand or Teared to the United States for the use of the District and Circuit Courts, the District Attorney, Clerk of the Distric? Court, and Uni'ed States Marebsl, and part was occupied. by the Court of Sessions, over which the renowned Rich- ard Riker, the Recorcer ef the cl'y, presided for many years, The Marine Court was aivo located in the building, ‘When the Court of Sessions vas removed to ths Halls of Justice, or Kgyptian Tombs, (as the buildings ia Centre streot are genezaliy cailed,) the American Institute ob- tained from the Common Couce!l s grant of the west ond of the building, at a nominsi rent, and occupied the room for several years; but ihe Institute were finally Griven out ia consequence of tha city government requir- ing the use of the buildigg for public purposes. A few years since the building underwent extensive Tepairs and alterations, under the supervision of Alderman Groliue and others, as s committees of the Common Council. In consequencs, it was supposed to be destined for prevervation for imeny yerrs, as one cf the few remmanis of the pubiis buildings of the last century, and ® memento of more economical sad tumple times than the prevent. But the destructive element whish so ofton visits us with desolation spares not the simple edifices of the past any more than the palaces erected by the present s*seration; and the only wonder is that builiirg composed of combustible ma- terials like the New City Hall, no# in ruins, shoald have stood in tuis city of conflagrations for the long period of pearly sixty years. Bofors the roceat repaira and im- provements were made on tho tuliding it was Proposed pobre sud erect s new Hall om the site. The wants of the city for such a building for publie and the spirit of the age vil death aie as kau diate erection of a new building worthy of this metropo- lin, and one which eball be an ornament to this section of the city until the time sali arrive when the pablic will call for the removal of the public buildings from the Park to ® more convenient central location up town. The pertous who had Lesvsed von fer ea performanee, unavoidab: ity Halt, can b thi tng at op . revurne his friends wa c Pleion ck Ganger, + ound his establishmens a0 the Caambers street Jan, 20. 1954, THE CORONER'S OFFICE. In conseqnence of the des:raction of the office othe Core. ner by fire, th aU'No, 10 Geatre stro orale sdiveety fe the Park, CORONERS. ROBERT C4 Fi 1. Wi. UDONRELIS ON WILE Arvest of Two 8) arrested two y: and John Martin, charged with stesliog thir cravats, valued at $400, {com the store of Stowe Ooops Exchange lace. The accuret parties acknowlsaged selling the int) two receivers, one in Grand street and the in sp ef tadionthert ae the officers have not re covered o . accused Parties were locked up for ‘examination, a Coroner's Inquest, DEATH OF AN INPANY—STKANG <Coreter O'Docuell yovieidsy buldam inquest et he 1236 Leroy street, on the body of ‘an infant, one year five months Old, named Mary Kita Potter, who came to hag! by beige caused by @ pisos of an