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he See eS or eee GrevTows, Ok Bax rus = — ‘eb. 28, » To James Gorvon Bennet, Exsg., Eprrox or ras New Yo :« Bgraip:— Sm—In accordance with a resolution passed at a !0 Public meeting of the citizens of this place, t send you copies of a communication from Joseph 1. 4 agent of the Accessory Transit Compan Council of this cit of the reply of the ( to, together with ting sneil there f the peor held in relation to the matter pe sa SE } paper. The documents I have» ed 1, 2 and 3, re 4 hf ull F. SALTEI ays a ¥ ly etary to City Council. COPY OF MR. WHITE'S COMMUNICATION SENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL, FEB. 16, 1854. Whereas, differences have existed and still exist be- tween those cliiming and exercising authority in San Juan del Norte ytown, and the Accessory Transit the said company ave sulfered from those here- tofore exercising authority, and as security against all future differences, the following propositions are submit- ted as a basis of an agreement or convention to be enter- ed into between them:— 1. The title of the company to the ground occupied by them on Punta Arenas, opposite the town of San Juan | del Norte or Greytown, to be fully recognized and con- firmed in them. 2. The company to have, by proper deeds of convey- ance infee simple, all the ground fronting on the bay and on the lagoon tm the rear of the town, which ther may require for stores, houses, wharves, shops, and all other purposes necessarily connected with their business 8. The company to be forever exempt from all taxes or duties or charges of any name, kind, or nature, so far as those claiming or to claim authority in the corpora- tion of San Juan del Norte, or Greytown, are or may be | concerned. 4. All the rights of the company secured to them by | thier charter and amendment, and act of incorporation, to be fully Teoognized and coniirmed, and binding on the existing authorities of aforesaid town und their succes- sors. 6. Those claiming authority in said town,and their suc- | eossors, shall build and preserve a pier running from the | water’s edge in said town sufficient distance into the bay for the ocean steamers of the company to land at, and they sball give to said company, by a proper instra- ment in writing, the free and uninterrupted use thereof. 6. In consideration of the above, the company shall construct on the ground, so as aforesaid to be given, all their necessary buildings for the conducting of their bus ness, and shail land at said wharf or pier all passengers conveyed by them, between the Atlantic and Pacilic ports, but said passengers shall be subjected to no taxes or other charges by said town. 7. The company, not wishing to forfeit the protection of their own government, are not to be considered in as- senting to either or all of these propositions, as in any- wise recognizing or admitting the authority or sovereign. ty or sovereignty claimed by or for the Mosquito king, or in anywise denying the au State of Nicarngna over the Territory of St. Juan del Norte, or Greytown. 8. The company to have the right to use the ground now occupied by them at Punta Avenas for all purposos of business connected with their enterprise which cannot be so well done in the town If the above in substance shall be submitted to me it will be favorably considered. The company have of course no propositions to make, since to protect what they conceived to be their rights they have been driven to seek the interposition of their own government, which was promptly and efficiently made, and upon that protection they are well assure: they can at all times rely. Very respectfully, Signed 3. Agent for A. T. Company. I certify the above to be a true copy of the original. F. SALTER, Sec. City Council. COPY OF REPLY OF CITY COUNCIL. Grey Towx, on San Juan pet Norte, Feb. 16, 1854. A communication, signed by Joseph L. White, Esq., agent of the Acceasory Transit Company, proposing the basis of an arrangement between the city of Grey Town, or San Juan del Norte, and the Accessory Transit Com- my, was this day presented to the members of the ity Council. ‘The people of this city, ever anxious to cultivate the most friendly relations with the Accessory Transit Com. pany of Nicaragua, and believing the interests of both to be identical nt this point, are willing to concede and grant any and all favors within their power constitution- ally, and to renew the propositions heretofor made to the agents of the company. In answer to the first proposition of said communica- tion, the city would agree to grant the company the land now occupied by them on the opposite or north’ side ‘of the harbor for the purposes of a coal depot. 2. The city will farther agree to convey to the company a portion of ground, (the quantity to be hereafter agreed on,) fromting on the harbor, and also a Portion of ground fronting on the Lagoon, in the rear of the city, for the purpose of erecting thereon dwellings, workshops, and for embarking and disembarking passengers. 8. The company to be exempt from taxes on stoamers, buildings, and all necessaries connected with their legiti- | mate operations; the sea steamers to be subject only to pilot and boarding officers’ fees. 4. The free navigation of the river San Juan, within he limits of this city, to be fully guaranteed without reference to any charter, agreement, or act of incorpo- ration which the company may hold from, or have with, the State of Nicaragua, with which State this city does not consider itself in any manner identified. 5. Owing to the limited resources of the city, the pro- tained; it is, however, the wish of the Council as soon as circumstances. will permit, to render every facility and aid in their power for the construction of ssid wharf. 6. In consideration of the foregoing privileges the com- pany to erect their dwellings, offices and workshops on the lands nted by the city on the harbor and la goon, and ‘will land thereat their passengers between the Atlantic and Pacific ports, said passengers passing through the town, and to be free from all taxes. 7. Article seventh relates to a question of sovereignty. The Council cannot consistently at this time enter into any question affecting the sovereignty of teritory. By order of the Council. Signed. F. SALTER, aaa I certify the above to be a true copy of the original. F. SALTER, Secretary. Ata public meeting of the citizens of San Juan del Norte, or Greytown, February 16, 1854, convened for the yurpose of taking into consideration the communications Between Mr.J. 1 White, agent for, the Accessory Tran- sit Company (then present in this city) and the Common Council of said city, the following citizens were appointed officers of the meeting:—Felix Mancho, Esq., President; Messrs. A. De Barrwell, Jean Messnier, and Roman Ri- vas, Vice Presidents; Messrs. E. F. Mason and A. M. C. Wood, Secretaries. The following resolutions were adopted. Resolved, That the said communication and reply bo referred to a committee of five citizens to be appointed by this meeting for their action, and that the report of said committee be submitted forthwith. On motion, Messrs. T. D. Harper, A. De Barrwell, F. Mancho, J. U. Carle, and J. B. Lyons were appointed said committee. The meeting then adjourned for two hours, and upon reassembling, the following report was read and unani- mously adopted:— REPORT. The committee appointed by the meeting of the citizens of San Juan del N action of the City Council in regard to the communica- tions between Mr. J. L. White, agent for the Accessory ‘Transit Company and said Council beg leave respectfully to submit the following-—That your committee, with the modifications and amendments hereinafter to be ex- pressed, endorse and approve of the action and reply of said City Council. Tes Article 1, of City Council’s reply.—This article is ap- ved. ‘Article 2, of same.—Tho committee approve the reply of said Council, with the following amendment :—‘That no hotels or boarding houses, for the accommodation of passengers, shall be erected ‘or placed in operation by aid company, on said grounds; and that no store or store ‘houses for commercial purposes shall be opened other than those actually required by said company.”’ Article 8, of same.—The committee fully approve this article. : Article 4, of same.—Your committee approve of this article as amended—‘The free navigation of the river fan Juan, within the limits of the city, to be fully gua- ranteed without reference to any charter or agreement or act of incorporation which the company may hold frem or have with any party whatsover.”’ Article 5, of same.—The committee offer the following amendment :—“Owing to the limited resources of the city, the proposition for building a wharf cannot at pre- rent be’entertained; yet, in view of the advantages to be Gerived by the city, they hereby agree to contibute the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollary towards the con struction of sald wharf, by and for the use of the Accos- fory Transit Company—conditional that all merchandise drought by their steamers shall be free from wharfage ‘Articles 6 and 7, of same.—That we fully approve of these articles. All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) D. HARPER, Chairman, A. DE BARRWELL, J. U, CARLE, FELIX MANCHO, February 16, 1854. J. B. LYONS. It was further resolved, That the said reporting com mittee be a committee to wait upon Mr. White, and learn his views regarding said report, and immediately or ag Boon an porsible report to this meeting. It being too Inte for an interview with Mr. White, the meeting adjourned to next morning, February 17, at 8 o'clock. Fray, Feb. 17—8 A. M. The meeting organized with the same officers, and the committee reported—3ar™ ‘That the propositions subm committee, were declined BY him; and that no dispo sition was manifested am his part to treat with the com. mittee upon the basi med by the people and govern: ment of Greytown or San Juan del Norte. (Signed) 5. #92) T. PD. HARPER, Chairman, J. B. LYONS, J. U. CARLE, F. MANCHO, A. DE BARRWELL. On motion, the report was adopted, and the committee bee od ie And it was farther resolved, That minutes of these pro- ceedings be filed with the Secretary of the Council for servation in the archives of the government; and that ¢ send copies thereof, and of all papers relating thereto, to the Secretaries of State for Foreign Afiaire at London and Washington, adhd rt oe bas and Lon- don Dimes for publicat jose Journals. Pr F. MANCHO, President. E. F. A. M. , } Secret aries. : Corpses ox Tum Steamer CaRoLixe—The re- mains of Capt. Daniel P. Wilbanks, and of « Mr. Jefferies, were on board the ill-fated Caroline. The former was y laced in the engine room,about amidships, few minutes Jefore the boat went under water. ‘The outer ea yhich covered the metallic case, had burnt, and ami the flames the glaring metal was scen, which contained she last relic of » devoted husband and father, which wasin charge of Capt. Samucl Taylor, to be taken to yacksonport for iulerment, hority or sovercignty of the | Speech of Ex-Presiden t Fillmore at the Loutis= ville The Louisville Journal says it has a full report of the speeeh made by Mr. Fillmore at the public dinner given to him on the 16th inst. in that elty; but, in conformi™ with What was understood to be his wish, it confines i self to the publication of @ mere sketch of what he said. Mr. Fillmore said, on rising, that he felt exceedingly em.arrasse! in being eallod on; for the fir.t time in bls | life, to address an audience like the one before him, and | that he sincerely hoped there was no “chiel’’ present ‘takin’ notes,’’ but that what he should utter might be forgotten with the occasion. He was at a loas to under- stand what motive could have prompted sueh a great and unexpected expression of regard on the part of the citi- zens of Kentucky. If he were in the actual possession of again seeking that position, he might see an object for such @ manifestation; but here Iam, said he, neither holding nor seeking office, with nothing as a private or public man, which, in my own estimation, should call forth such « testimonial as this. ‘Tonothing, said he, can Tattribute it but real Kentucky ‘hospitality, which socks an object whether worthy or not, and lavishes upon that object its own generosity. Mr. Fillmore said that it was his misfortune to be, without his solicitation, and cer- tainly against his wishes, called to the administration of the government. He had not even sought the nomination for the Vice Presidency, and none could be more surprised than he when he learned that he was nominatod. It | was only ten hours before Gen. Taylor’s death that he | had any thought that his illustrious friend was in dan- ger. The knowledge came upon him like a peal of thun- der from a clear sky. He felt wholly unprepared for the great responsibilities about to devolve upon him. Though he had been for many years a politician, he could say that the only sleepless night he ever passed on ac- count of political anxiety was that on which Gen. Taylor died, His sleeplessness arose from his deep feeling of the weight of the duties unexpectedly devolved upon him. He reviewed during the hours of that night his own opinions and life. He was sensible that he had drunk in with his mother’s milk and had cherished with his youth up a feeling, even a prejudice, against slavery. He ‘endeavored to look upon this whole country, from the farthest corner of Maine to the utmost limit of aa but one country, the country that had given him birth. He saw in the gathering clouds in the North and in the South a storm which was likely to overwhelm constitution and the laws as his only guide. He well knew, that by so doing, he must lose the friendship of many prominent men of the country, especially in hs cwn State, and encounter their réproaches, but, to me this was nothing. ‘The man who can look upona crisis without being willing to offer himself upon tho altar of his country, is not fit for a public trust, On the night of Gen. Taylor’s death, the members of his cabinet pra- sented to me their resignations. them, first because I deemed it respectful to the honored dead’ that IT should not consider by what means decently interred; and secondly because this avalanche of responsibility had fallen upon me unprepared. Ide- sired at least afew hours to reflect on what it was my duty to do. Here was a cabinet selected by Gen. Taylor, several of them my personal friends, whom I would do | anything in my power to serve, short of endangering the peace of my country. Iknow, however, that their policy was not auch ax I could approve. I saw that the executive power of the government and the legislative were in opposition to each other, and that, while this state of things continued, peace could never be restored. The question, therefore, presented itself to me, ehall I retain this cabinet or select a new one? The latter course Fas adopted; but youcan scarcely conceive the dificul- Hes of the position in which this decision. placed me. When our Presidents are elected, they have three or four 4 | months, before taking their offices, to select men suitable | toact as heads of departments, but this dutyeame upon me | inhalf a day. I requested the members of the Taylor cabi- not to stay thirty days, and to give me an opportunity to | look around and select their successors; but they respect- fully declined. Thus, while the storm was coming up in the North and in the South, I was suddenly called to ad- minister the government, without a cabinet, and without time to select one; but, thank God, I was not long in this situation. 1 was so fortunate as to obtain a cabinet, the members of which and myself always agreed in opinion; and, in all our acts, we acted together. In that cabine our own honored Kentucky was honorably represented. Still, said Mr. Fillmore, the great difficulty remained. the question arose, what was to be done? In Texas and | New Mexico a civil war was threatencd. ‘Texas mado preparations to take possession of a portion of New Mexico. He felt it his duty to maintain the laws of his countr, One of those laws required that the the Territory of New Mexico should be protecte: Asa means of protection, he immediately ordered a portion of the army and munitions of war to the frontier of Texas to do duty there. The army was put in motion, and then, and not till then, did Congress act upon the subject. Texas and New Mexico acquiesced in the action of Congress. Mr. Fillmore spoke of the adoption of the compromise measures of 1860, and especially of the fugitive slave law. This law, he said, hadgome provisions in it to which he had objections. He regretted the necessity of its being passed at all; but the constitution required the giving up of fugitive slaves, and it was not for him to decide whether this was a wise | provision of the constitution—it was a bai in, it wasa compact; he had sworn to maintain it, and he would do £0 to his last hour. When the bill came to him from the two houses, in the midst of hurry and confusion and diffi- culties he examined it, and a doubt came up in his mind | whether it was not unconstitutional, as denying the right of habeas corpus to the fugitive slave. He referred the question to our accomplished Kentucky lawyer, his At- torney General, who gave his opinion that the law was not @ violation of the constitution; and thereupon, said | Mr. Fillmore, I gave my signature to the bill, but, in forte, or Greytown, to report upon the | fed to Mr. White, by said | position for building a wharf cannot be at present enter. | CONE tO Ldrew down upon my devoted heed, as I knew Ishould, the vials of wrath from abolitionism and free- soilism. Mr. Fillmore regretted that he had felt called on to say so much of himself, and went on to speak of | those who stood by him in the great struggle of 1850. He said that he would gladly name in that connection many living persons, not whigs merely, but democrats, as true” putriots’ as ever lived. This work of paci- fication, said he, was by no means the work of one man, or five men, or ten men—the crisis was one in which the true patriots of the nation, no matter what they hsd been called. whigs or democrats, or any other name, rose above all personal and partizan considerations, and’ looked only to the good of the coun- try. He referred beautifully to the noble parts taken by the illustrious dead, Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and the late | Vice President King. |The speaker auld that though he had, by his efforts in behalf of the compromise, lost for ‘a time the confidence of a portion of his fellow-citizens, and especially in his own State, he loved that State as @ dear mother, and was unwilling to believe that he had proved a recreant son. He trusted that the excitement of the moment would pass amay, and that she would at last see that he had at least acted with honest intentions if he had not acted the better part. But, fellow-citizens, said he, let me refer to your own State. When the ga- thering tempest of fanaticism, abolition fanaticism, was | rolling up from the North, an equal violent tempest of fanaticism, secession fanaticism, was rolling up from the South; and where then did the State of Kentucky stand? She stood like a rock amid the surges of the ocean—she stood firm and unshaken, the pillar of the constitution. | His eulogy of Kentucky was exceedingly handsome, and this portion of his speech, like all the other portions, was received with the most enthusiastic applause. Few public speakers ever made so fine an impression upon & Louisville audience as he. American Citizenship. D&PARTMENT OF STATE, Wasuixatox, March 16, 1854. Sir—Your letter of the 11th instant has been received. ‘The cases which it mentions are not embraced in any law of the United States upon the subject of naturalization; and it is believed have not been decided by any court in this country. Although, in general, it is not the duty of the Secretary of State to express opinions of law, and doubts may be entertained of the expediency of making ananswer to your inquiries an exception to this rule; yet I am under the impression that every person born in the United States must be considered ‘a citizen of the United States, notwithstanding one or both of his parents ma Firth. ‘This io in conformity with the English. common law, which law is generally acknowledged in this coun- try. And a person born of alien parents, it is presumed would be considered a natural born citizen of the United States, in the language of the constitution, so as to make him eligible to the Presidency. spectfully, your obedient strvant, W. L. MARCY, List of Kitled and Wounded on the Steamer Reindeer. ‘The following is a list of the persons killed and injured by the explosion on board the steamer Reindeer, at Can- nelton, on the 13th inst.:— Robt, Ferrier, Canada. Benj. Guest, St. Louis. Cary Bodel, Howard coun- Mr. Gabbiger, Louisville. Mo. R. R. Stadleman, St. Louis. Michel Borge, Ky. t Robert Craley, Pittsburg. L. M. Brown, Eperidge. James Rutherford, Ky. A. McNutt, Iowa. David Richards, Ky. Isaac Comer, Sciota, 0. Pierce Cary, Ohio. Michael Lynch, do. Mr. Purvis, Cannelton. | Pat. Merriman, Olio. Signor Vrecanter, Italy. Pi Pat. Gallagher, Rachael Snyder, Ohio. | Andrew f Mary Snyder, do. do. Jane Pulves, St. Louis. | Wim. Snyder, do. | Cath. Doyle, Pittsburg. Wm, Thorn, Louisville. | Ann Allen, Ohio. Mary Allen, do Jordan Penk, Warsaw Nancy Allen, James Allen, do. Margaret Allen, do. Patrick Comer,’ Matamoras. John Bolton, Columbus, 0. 1. McIntyre, Matamoras. D, Mullen, ’ mate, Louis- | &. L. Hyatt, Alton. ville. Frederick Ludwig, second engineer, Louisville, io. An Arrectina Incipent.—The New Albany | Ledger says:—‘An affecting incident was related to us | this morning by a gentleman who was a witness to the dreadful scene on board the Reindeer after the recent ex- plosion. ‘Two families, one of five, and the other of six persons, who were removing from Ohio to Missouri, were all so badly sealded by the steam that they have since died. A little girl of five or six years of age who belong- ed to one of these families, whose tender flesh was liter- spirit was passing in an agony of pain from its earthly tenement. "Turning her eyes towards her mother, she said—‘Ma, it is so dark; will we not get home.’ Poor child! Her eyes were darkened by the haze of death, and soon afterwards her spirit was unfettered and did go home, to live forever with angels.” NAVIGATION or tHe Hupson River—The Al- | bany Hegister, of the 22d inst., says ~The steamer Isaac Newton, Captain Peck, arrived ye rday morning from | New York, having been thoroughly repaired and painted | during the winter. The Oregon, ‘which left here Mon- day evening, was aground yesterday morning at Mull’s, two miles below Castleton. A great chan, oc. curred in the channel of the river at this point during thewinter. This is self-evident from the fact of her running aground when the river is flooded. The steamtug Commerce arrived yesterday from New York with seven- | teen barges in tow. She left the America and Hudson at Athens for the bree of sheathing, The Hudson ar- rived about dusk last evening, and the America was hourly expected. The steamtug Austin left yesterday morning at ten o’cloek with ni in tow for New York, ail deeply laden with flour, pronsée and provisions. There was a large amount of pretty formidable, floating ice in the river, which retarded the of boats, The steamer P. G. Coffin, from Cate! at noon yesterday, the power which it was once his fortune to wield, or even | him, and, he feared, his country also, but he took the | I declined to look at | 1 should carry on the government until he was | people of | have been alien at the time of his | Tam, sir, very re- | ally boiled, was laid alongside of her mother, whose | Floods and Storms. GREAT FLOOD IN LICKING RIVER—$1,000,000 woRrTH O¥ PROPERTY DESTROYED. the Cynthiana (Posey Co. Ind.) News.) On Thursday morning last, about two o’elock, the rain commenced to fall, and for thirty-six hours in unbroken succession it came down in perfect torrents, raising Lick- ing river to an @mprecedented height,which sw pt every- | thing in its course, destroying property to a: amount | which we have reason to believe will reach oa million | dollara, in the Licking valley. | South Licking, wt this place, was at least five fect higher than it has ever before been known; and from its source to its moush there is not a bottom but what was | entirely submerged, nor a farm on its banks but what | was more or less injured, by the loss of fencing or crops which were still left standing in the fields. During the en- tire day on Friday immense quantities of fencing, lumber, cornshocks, mayendks, &c., were seen floating down a the mercy of the torrent of waters; and accounts have reached us from every direction of the heavy losses sus- | tained by our farmers. We hear of one gentleman in Bourbon county who lost forty barrels of whiakey, be- sides @ large quantity of corn and other grain, by the pudden rise of the water upon his premises; and scarcely a farmer within the influence of the flood can count his loss at leas than from five hundred to one thousand dol- lars, and numbers will groath exceed the latter sum. We learn that the rafiroad bridge at Falmouth was en- tirely submerged, but we are happy to learn it sustained no injury. From the accounts that have reached us from Main Licking, the flood there was even more terrible and de- vastating in its,consequence than here, it having reached a point at least cight feet higher than was ever before known, sweeping with it a tremendous quantity of fencing and prodce, lumber, &c., which came in its w: submerging entire farms, and even sweoping off numb of houses of every description, which were seen to p: down during the height of the flood. From Claysville | we learn that all the buildings on the street fronting the | river Were from three to five feet deep in water, and that | only two or three beildings on the high ground in that | village were above the water. The rise there was sudden and unexpected, having come in the night after the inhabitants had retired to bed, and were awakened before mor: by the sound of the water in their houses, farabove where it had ever reached atany former rise, and in the morning the river resented the spectacle of one vast sheet of water, cover- ing the entire bottom on which the town is situated, and | during the day immense quantities of valuable lamber, | saw loga, fencing, and produce of every kind, with ogca: | sionally a house, passed down the stream. | _ The ‘loss in the Licking valley cannot fall short of $1,000,000, and when full accounts have reached us we | would not be surprised to find that it exceeded that sum, | The water commenced subsiding on Saturday, and is now again down to its ordinary level. | TERRIBLE STORM IN TENNESSEE—LOSS OP LIFE AND PROPERTY. [From the Bedford (Tenn.) Yeoman.] | A most severe storm of wind and rain passed over a | portion of this and Coffee county on Friday morning last, | about eight o’clock. A portion of the cloud passed over | this place, but there was not wind enough to do any dam- age. The cloud was cxtremely dark, and came from the | west, and went a northeast direction. Up in the neigh- | Dorhood of Tullahoma and Normanda, and on the Baren Fork of Duck river, some three miles from the latter | place, it did severe and serious damage. A Mrs. and Miss ne were killed, The house they were in was blown | down, a log fell across the neck of the young lady and | cut her head off, the other one was smashed and mangled by the falling of the house. It swept away all the tim- | bar, houses, fences, stock, birds and squirrels shat Iay in | its wake. Everything on’the plantation of Mr. D. V. Da- | vidson, who lives some fifteen miles from this place, was | forn away by the giant power of fhe raging storm excopt | his dwelling: as good luek or kind Providence would have it, the dwelling was only partly unroofed. None of the | family were injured. About a mile from Mr. Davidson’s, | Mr. Barton’s house was blown down. His wife had been | very sick for several weeks, and was expected to die; con- | | sequently was not able to get out of bed. The wind was | go severe that it blew their child into the fire; ho snatched it out, however, and then gathered his wife in his arms and with the rest of the family made his | escape out of the house. They had just got out when the house was torn to pieces, and would have killed the inmates had they remained in it. The | main body ef the wind was from a half to two miles in ‘The New Police Bill. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. A committee of citizens of opposite political parties, has been the past three days in Albany to attend the debate in the Assembly on the proposed Police Dill, action on which is set down for to-morrow. ‘ Such is the deep interest felt by all men who wish to check crime and immorality in our city to defeat the bill, that they cheerfully left their business and their homes to make known the desire of their fellow citizens to the members of the Assembly. They regretted to find that s large proportion of the city delegation were in favor of the bill, led away by in- fluences which it is unnecessary to mention, so that there was no alternative left but to appeal to the mem- bers from the rural districts to save the great city of the State from improvident and injurious legislation. It is not to be wondered at that several of our city delegation, young in politics and young in experience of the acts of the knowing ones, should yield to the out- ward pressure made upon them by national political cliques, three of which are now striving to get the mas- tery of this city by the powerful engine of the police, to make ita political body. ‘The great crime of the Chief of Police is that he has steadily refused to prostitute his department to political purzoses; be has, therefore, the honor of having the combined enmity’ of hop and porterhouse politi- cians, who are backed by the six thousand drinking shops which are open on Sunday in our city, and which he is now striving to close; by keepers of brothels and gamb- ling houses, by rowdies and law breakers, who wish to ‘overn the police by electing their own Chief, and estab- thing a close political corporation by appointing three new commissioners for life, with increased taxation, and turning out the three highest magistrates in our city— the present commissioners—who are carrying out the provisions of the Palce law of the last session, to the t annoyance of the different classes of persons I have Corea, who think themselves by the oppression of the police much injured men. Tenclose you a copy of a remonstrance of the gentle- men who went to Albany, which will be presented (among numerous others) to the Assembly to-morrow, and of which a copy will be laid upon the desk of every member. Its brevity is not its worst feature, and it a | the whole argument, addressed to the members at large:— P. 8.—I see by an advertisement in your paper of to- day, a meeting called in the Park this evening at seven o'clock, by # person who for himself and others call themselves reformers, It has been intimated to me that it possibly may be a branch of some of the national cliques, or other combinations I have referred to, to pass resolutions in favor of the police bill. It is in character with the secret influences which have been at work at. Albany. To hold their meeting tm the dark, at seven o'clock, calls for perfect invisibility at this time of the year. As you are in the habit of giving to the public all the doings of the night as well as the day, I hope you will send one of your reporters there, and give to the public the character of the meeting. JW. C. New York, March 22, 1 ‘The Washington Market. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. The idea of Pegs Sy) Washington Market from its present location to the foot of Fourteenth street, or some other eligible site up town, has beon mooted, and the question somewhat discussed. As far as the pros- of the market is concerned, it would be a danger- ous experiment. This market now is the market—the grand receiving reservoir whence is distributed the im- mensity of cultural products, &., | eect from far and near by the indomitable energy and perseverance of those doing business within its limits. Although the re- tail business in this market exceeds that of an; but a very small item compared with its wholesale trade. | Upwards of six thousand grocers in this city, Brooklyn il liamsburg, Jersey City and Hoboken, deal’ in marke! truck, all of whom obtain their supply from Washington Market. The principal ant of this trade is done before daylight. This trade could never be carried to Fourteenth street. Just imagine for one moment how it would be, | width, and the woods through which it passed are now re- | duced'to one vast plain. The roads are completely cov- | | ered by the fallen timber where it d. In Manches- ter it killed an ox that was attached toa wagon with a1 ther; on the other wasa negro man,who with the ox he | on escaped unhurt. The wagon was blown to pieces, and on it was another negro, who also escaped unhurt. Seve- | ral houses were unroofed, fences and stock were blown | away, but no lives lost that we can learn. | _ ‘There is no telling the extent of the damages done by | this powerful tornado. How many lives have been lost | we donot know. ‘The amount of stock that was killed is | great. ‘The damage that the people have received cannot estimated, as it has left the most of them without houses and furnitare. Everything was prostrated to the earth that it came in contact with. We hope to be able | to give the particulars more fully by our next issue. We | are truly thankful that we escaped the ravages of this | dreadful tornado, for had it visited us our town would have been nothing but a mass of ruins—a pile of rub- | dish, with the loss of we cannot say how many lives; but we fear had it passed this way it would have shortened | the days of very many if not the most of our citizens. ‘We are indebted to Mr. Andrew Davidson, a young gen- tleman of this place, who was in a portion of the storm, and miraculously escaped unhurt, for the particulars above stated. Brooklyn City Intelligence. Firt.—About 1 o'clock on Wedneaiae morning, a fire broke out ina small frame building in Sullivan’ street, | near Van Brunt, occupied by Mr. es communicated to a large three story frame build- ing adjoining, known as the Red House, occupied by Owen | Murray, John Toole, Michael Ryan, James Delaney, and | three or four other families. Both houses were com- pletely ruined, and brick building on the corner of Van runt and Sullivan streets, was damaged to a considera- ble extent. The firemen arrived on the ground prompt- ly, andobtainod sufficient water from a pool near by, which had been reported asa nuisance, but in this in- stance was the means of saving a large amount of pro- perty,asthe public cisterns in that neighborhood are few and far between. Engines Nos. 7 and 18 became em- bedded in the mud so that it was with great difficulty | they were extricated. No.7, after getting their own | machine out, went to the aid of No. 18, and pulled her on | dry land, having beon sunk to her box. The property | dettroyed was owned by Samuel Osborn. Loss about | 3,000, | _ INSUFFICrENT ACCOMMODATIONS.—A number of tavern | keepers were convicted in the City Court yesterday, on | | indictments for not having the necessary accommoda- | tions as required by law. James Gaffney and Charles | | Giddings, for not exposing a proper sign on their premi- | ses, were fined $10 each; Patrick Gagahan and Peter Mo- | Guire, for not being provided with sufficient stabling, were fined $20 each; 0 Pope and Lawrence O'Neil, | for selling liquor without a license, were fined $10 each, and sentenced to the county jail for ten days. ‘Williamsburg City Intelligence. Fast Younc Mgx.—One of the Chief’s detectives visit- | ed this city yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of fer- | reting out several fast Pog gents who visited No. 64 | Mercer street, New York, on Sunday night last, and acci- | | dentally or otherwise carried away with them a mantilla, yalued at $70. The persons in question were ‘not a! | home.’’ | __ ARREST FOR CARELESS Drivinc.—A lad named William Murray was run over yesterday afternoon, by a hack driver called Stoken, while driving at a furious rate through North Second street. ‘The boy was but slightly injured. The driver was arrested and taken before Jus- tice Boswell, where he gave bonds to appear for exa- mination. Larceny.—Mary Conway and Margaret Gunn were yes- | terday examined before Justice Boswell, on a charge of stealing is from the store of Mr. Moore, in Grand street. he first named was sent to the Penitentiary sixty days for stealing the goods, and Margaret Gunn was | sent thirty days for,receiving and secreting them. Jersey City Intelligence. LineERAL CuristiaN Sociery.—A Unitarian or Liberal Christian Society for Jersey City, was organized ou Tuer | day evening, at a meeting held’ in Hiram Lodge room, and measures were taken for services on Sundays, in the | evening. At the meeting last evenipg, William Glaze, Fiq., was called to the chair, and J. Mf Armstrong was appointed secretary. A Unitarian Society was organized with the following gentlemen as a board of trustees, viz.: Messrs. William Glaze, Matthew Armstrong, Moses Bramhall, Solomon Alossen, D. B. Grinnell, Seneca Alger, A. J. Bixby, R. B. Crawford, Alston Allen, Abm. Abbot, George D. Seymour, and James Austin. The sum of $1,000 was raised for the support of divine worship for the year to come. Arrangements have beon made for services on Sunday evenings at the Lyceum, at which Unitarian clergymen in New York and vicinity will officiate. itirany ComPaxy.—Commissions were ré- lay from Governor Price, for the officers of rd, a youthful company of forty muskets, nearly all of whom are capital shots, and whose azes range from sixteen to eighteen years. This company will parade with the second regiment of the Hudson Brigade, in June. The officers to whom commissions were given were S, D. Ellis, Captain, 19 years of age; I. H. Baker, First Lieutenant, 18 years of age; and John McCutcheon, Second Lieutenant, 18 years of age. AN INJUNCTION TO PREVENT TAXATION.—A perpetual in- junction has been issued out of the Court of Obeneery of | the State of New Jersey, restraining the Mayor and Com- | mon Council of Jersey City from taxing the property of the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad Company in Jer: | sey City. The city is also held responsible for taxed costs of $86 68, claimed by A. M. C. Alexander, in this suit. Crry Prorgrty.—The duty has been imposed upon the | Common Couneil Committee on Public Grounds and Build- ings, of rendering to the Council, at its meeting, a de- tailed statement of the city property—real eatate and | personal—and its estimated value, excepting fire appara- | tus. The Committee on Fire and’ Wrger have been di- | rected to make out a similar statement relative to the | fire apparatus, | Jersey street will be extended into Jersey avenue at the | northesly side of South Eighth street, an ordinance having been adopted by the Board of Aldermen to ‘that effect. Horr Murper iN ALLEGAN, MIcHIGAN.—A letter written on the 11th March, by a brother of A\ man Knapp, living near Allegan, Mich., relates the cir- cumstances of « dreadful ease of parricide, that recently oceurred there. A man named Clemonts, about thirty- five years of age, killed his father, an old man of seventy, by chopping his head to pieces with an axe. The mur- derer struck his victim thirteen blows with the edge of dreadful deed attempted to kill his brother also. The man was arrested. He insisted that he had dono the act in perfectly cool blood, and will only be contont when he has destroyed his brother. The writer, who was present after the murder was committed, and helped to bind the maniac, toys that the mother of the murderer, his brother's wife and two young men, were present, and | that the young men saw the murder committed—which not arrived | in hardly credible. The affair created great excitement | in the place. mes Sullivan. The | the instrument; and when he had secomplished the | with the streets in their present condition! What a nice chance our Brooklyn grocers would have of gettin; market! Fulton Market, had they room to do the busi- | ness, would pater remedy the evil to a certain extent; but they have not got the room. Within the last soven years the trade of Washington _ Market has iner at least one thousand percent. In | the butcher market stalls are valued as high, some of them, as three thousand dollars; not one of them can be urchased for less than fifteen hundred. On the walkin est street, where beef and produce are at wholesale, as high as two thousand dollars have been paid for the transfer of a stand. In the country market, and on the other side of West stands bear a high pre- mium. The amouut of business done in and about this market cannot be estimated yet. I ven- ture to. say that in no part of the city, on the same space of ground, is there more business transacted; nor can you find better or more thorough going business men in this wide world than are to be found in Was! a ton Market. A most industrious set of men are the deni- zens of this market. They work hard late and early, hot or cold, wet or dry, and as a general thing meet with remunerative success. Here we see a young man open: ing oysters—’tis hard work; yes, but he owns a fine house and lot in Washington street, the prodoct of his industry. Here another @ quarter of beef ; he lives in ‘his own house uptown. This one that is rolling PS ee Sigg tree teed Remsen ince a the market. Thus we go;.’tis work, but industry meets with its reward. A market should be built on the other side of West t, extending from Barclay to rtlandt street. This should be one continuous building of iron, one story high, and that to bea high story, soas to admit of a good supply of light and air, with cart ways and foot- paths t! pone it at Vesey, Fulton and Dey streets. Its width should be two hundred and fifty feet, divided into five causeways of fitty feet each, running the entire th. This width would room for stalls twelve and a balf feet in depth on elther side, and leave a freo passage way twenty-five feet wide. On the river side of the market there shccld bea space two hundred feet wide, for the accommodation of wagons, carts, &c., which, with’ West, Barclay, Vesey, Fulton, Dey and Cortlandt streets, would prevent an: king up, such as we now see in consequence of the wagons and carts being con- centrated on a certain point. Should you desire it, large on another occasion. I would simply now suggest the propriety then te meeting of the butchers and dealers in the market, to held at some appropriate place, at an early day, for the | purpose of discussing the subject, when some feasible plan may be ted for the erection of a new market, ‘which will be both ornamental to the city, useful to the | citizens, and interesting to the city treasury. en ai ve THRD WARD. Another Charitable Call. No. 8 Wooster Street, March 21, 1854. J. G. Bennett, Esq.— Dear Sik—Knowing you asa friend of the unfortunate, induces me to request a favor at your hands. Iam a stranger in this city, married, and have been out of em- iy ent three months. I served in the capacity of clerk ihe Post Office at Troy, N. Y,, for a period of nearly two years, and was superseded in office a few days subse- oe to the resignation of Foster Bosworth, Eeq., late ‘ostmaster at that city. My health had been much im- palred during my stay in that office; my lungs were af- rected. My physician recommended change of air; and being alreaay out of work, I came to this city in quest of both health and employment. My efforts to obtain the latter have been fruifless, but the former has, thank God, been much benefitted. I have, since I have resided here, answered all advertisements that would suit me, as | they’have appeared in your valuable paper, but without success. On our arrival here we were almost without money, and we have been forced to part with our wearing | ayparel to purchase food. Five weeks since [commenced | to write a narrative, or tale, entitled ‘‘Sketches of Sea Life,’ intending to carry it out, if possible, to the size of a 12mo., and Gs al in order to do so, to be able to dispose of itina monthly series. I submitted the first number to Messrs. Harper Brothers, and their editor, Mr. Guern- sey, approved of the work as far as written, but said they could not publish a serial work. He advised me to gether. The work, which ia a personal narrative princi- am drove to the ‘test straits, I have written a small | manuscript, which I have tried to get into the columns of some of the Sunda; yors, tir,I have addressed myself to your notice, and hope you will assist me by your influence. I am aware the columns of the HeraLp are more usefully occupied than by novel tales for amusement only. Yet, sir, I will hope you will try to assist me as you may think best, We ave now without a shilling, and our wearing apparel | all pledged, except what is barely necessary to retain. I ~am sorry to be obliged to resort to any meansethat may engross your time, but it is stern poverty that prompts me to it, Tam, dear sir, very respectfully, your obodient servant, W. L. PAYNE. P.S.—I have enclosed the small manuscript, if you will condeseend to peruse it. I have entitled it ‘“Flo- rence Mabin.’’ European James GORDON Benner, Esq.— Dear Sin—Permit an old friend and subscriber to ask why the American peonle have been so deceived by English papers, which have made it appear to many that the Russians are a feeble and benighted race? Yet in the face of this, we find a Napoleon trying all in his power to seduce the nations of Europe to join him in ‘crushing this Russia. From the gas which has for a long time been received from Europe, your friend is under the impression that Russia must be a powerful nation thus to frighten all | Europe. Am Iright? Truly your's, 76. ‘War. Armed Procession In the Streets. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mx Eprror—Your article under this head reminds me of what I heard from the lips of a soldier belonging to an Jrish company, the substance of which remarks was as follows —That the know-nothings had better not meddle with or disturb the procession on that day, meaning the 17th; that the party out was able to thrash all the soldiers in the city, know-nothings included; that they (the Irish) were armed to the teeth, each man having twenty-five rounds of ball cartridge, Further: more, it was not optional with them to take those cartridges. It was the oy, of the commanding officer | to see that no member of the company left the armory without them. These, he saya, were the orders given. From whence, I would ask, through your columns, ema- nates this order to all our citizen soldiery? Is it confined | to the Irish companies? Answer this, and oan, A EN. Curtovs Cause ror Se.e-Mcrper-—Mr. Chancy H. Reynolds committed suicide near » Ohio, a few days tince. He had gone into the woods to fell some trees, but the first three which he cut down fell in the Tong direction. Believing, a4 he said in a note, that | {the suffered everything to go it him,” and | bis mind a on excited by remembrance of nome trouble which he had once with his first wife, he concluded to terminate his existence, whic! he did by | banging himpelf to a tree, other | market in the city, yet this branch of the business is | : | will give you my views more at | continu: writing, and when finished, dispose of it alto- | iy, will take me two months to accomplish it; and as | papers. Failing in all my endea- | h Assoctation bition of the Industry of all Nations—Pheodore’ Setgwick, oe pie, a ieoader Duncan, Watts Sherman, and William B. ‘The complaint, which is very voluminous, sets forth'the act of 1852 incorporating the association, and the act of 1853 amending the same. It states that the capital stock of the association was increased by the directors, under the last mentioned act, to five hundred thousand dollars. That by the terms said acts the corporation had no power to borrow money on interest beyond the limit prescribed by the last mentioned act which provided that such loans, together with the capital stock, should in no case exceed; in all, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. That tiff pepeerinel for his eek cat faith Th oe prescribed b; e jslature e operations ol the association Therstorhonll be strictly observed. That the borrowing of ee on interest tA the > acting professedly for association, led to an extrava- omg expenditure destructive of the object of the aasocia- ion, and ruinious to the interests of the stockholders. The Somali’ then prays that all moneys of the tion heretofore received i: repayment of moneys loaned to the directors on interest may be refunded to the association by the parties who received the same, and that all parties now holding bonds or other securities for the payment of such loans, may be ordered to deliver up the same to be cancelled, and that an injunction may issue restraining the directors from applying in future any funds of the association in hay fears of such illegal loans. e following is a copy of the injunction:— T aring from the complaint in this action duly veri and from the affidavit of the plaii , that the said plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded in the complaint; and that a portion of such relief, consists in restraining the defendants from paying or receiving any funds or money of the corporation called ‘‘ The Associs- tion for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Na- tions,” in repayment of moneys heretofore ille- gally borrowed on interest by the directors of said corporation acting professodly on behalf of said corpora- tion, and professing to bind property of said corpora- tion for the payment of such le Now, on motion of Dillon and O’Gorman, of counsel for said plaintiff, the said defendants and each of them, and all the attorneys, treasurers, directors and agents of said corporation, are hereby ordered and enjoined, under the ere by law preseril that they and each of thein lo absolutely desist and from applying or receiv- ing the funds or moneys of said corporation, or any part thereof, to the repayment of any moneys which may ppl gp balay fore 80 ea weeee a by directors of said corporation, act feasedly on be- half of said corporation, until this cone shall mA made further order therein. THOS. W. CLERKE. United States District Court. Before Hon. Judge Ingersoll. Marca 22.—The United States against Twenty-thre Moulds of Gold Beater’s Skins.—The District Attorney moved for an order of sale, as the property seized for duty was perishable, and that it was necessary to have it sold, and the proceeds paid into court. The court en- | tered an order for the Marshal to sell the property at five days notice. Supreme Court—Special Te: Before Hon. Judge Mitchell. | _, Marcu 22.—Decisions.—F. MM. vs. J. Lovejoy.— The judgment and execution are set aside on terms spe- cified, and the cause is to be tried again. Gorham vs. Lyon.—The defendant having defeated the action is entitled to his costs, and to an extra allowance. One hundred and fifty dollars is a reasonable allowance. Wood vs. the Brooklyn Fire Insurance Company.—Judg- | ment fordefendants on demurrer. An award of arbitra- tion thet the loss by reason of the fire was $3,500, and | their certificate that the loss during the fire exceeded that sum, establish, when taken together, that the loss beyond the $3,500 was not caused by the fire. Court of General Seasions. Before Judge Beebe. SENTENCES. Marcu 22.—Defrauding Emigrants.—John Brown and James Burke, who were convicted last week of defraud- ing Gideon Grant and others, by selling them cattle train | tickets for Albany and the far west, representing them to | at the time to be first class tickets, for which the com- | plainants paid them the highest ‘price, were brought up to receive the sentence of the Court. Judge Beebe in pronouncing sentence, said he had no pity for persons | eonvicted of defrauding poor emigrants, innocent of our ways and country, and, if they had not had both of them (large families, he would make their sentence as severe as | the law would allow him; but in consideration of their families, he would deal leniently with them, by sentence | ing iia each to four months confinement in the peni- | tentiary. P Riot'and Assault and Battery.—William Donohue, John | Bracken and Thomas Connolly, were then brought up for sentence, they having been convicted a few days ago o- | having been connected in the late riot between the memf bers of engine companies Nos. 30 and 48, on the 12th in- stant, in the neigl borhood of Third avenue and Thirty- fourth street, where stones, brickbats, and 8 were | used indiscriminately on both sides. The Court sentenced | Donohue to sixty days confinement in the city prison and | fined him $25. Bracken and Soanelly were sentenced to | thirty days imprisonment in the city prison, and were | fined $15 each; all parties to stand committed until the | fines were paid. | Assault and with Intent to Kill.John Finney was then placed at the bar, charged with having com- mitted an assault and battery upon the person of George of the atone, pecser ne Walker mveat the prosecution it apy er from his house in First street, near Second avenue, on the 19th of February last; when he arrived at the corner | of Second avenue and First street he saw the defendant pareolling with a friend of his, and upon his going up them, the defendant showed him a knife and asked him if he liked it; the complainant said he did not care about it; whereupon the defendant set ‘upon Walker, took him by the collar, and stabbed him tl times— | once onthe shoulder, once on the left arm, and once on | the small of the back—producing us wounds which were obliged to be dressed by Dr. Budd. For the defence it was sought to prove that the defendant acted | only in eelf-defence; that he was strack by Walker and the person whom he was quarreling with; and that all his acts were committed in self defence, and not with any | felonious intent. The jury, in this case, after due con- | sideration, rendered a verdict of guilty of assault and bat! only. The Zourt then adjourned for the day. Theatres and Exhibitions. Bowsry THEATRE.—An excellent bill is offered for this evening. Mrs. Hamblin, Mr. Eddy and Mr. J. R. Scott appear ina legitimate piece, supported by the strength e company. | _ Broapway Trmarre.—Mr. Forrest, who is drawi | crowds to this theatre, appears this evening as “Jacl | Cade,” a part in which he is very popular. The excel- | Tent company at the Broadway are giving good support to the great American tragedian. | Bortor’s Turatre.—The enterprising manager has another novelty for his patrons this evening. Farquhar’s brilliant comedy, ‘The Beaux’ Stratagem,”” is the at- | traction; and by the cast it is apparent that it will be | well played. Nationa. Treatre.—Mrs. Prior, an actress of decided ability, who has played Eliza in ‘‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ since September, has a benefit at the National theatre this evening. The play is ‘‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin;” and we trust that the fair beneficiary will have a bumper house. Wattack’s TuRaTrs.—Mr. John Dyott, an old New York ' favorite, though not an old man by any means, has a benefit this evening. The prineipal play is “ John Bull.” The cast was probably never excelled, if it ever was equalled. It includes Mr. Blake, Mr. Brougham, Mr. | Dyott, Mr. Lester, Mrs. Hoey, and others. Other popu- lar entertainments are also announced. Barxvm’s Mcsevm.—‘‘The Old Brewery,” a capital local drama, is to be sented this evening. In the after- noon there is an excellent performance, and the various curiosities can be seen without extra charge. Cunisty’s Minstrgeis—the original band—at No. 472 Broadway, continue their ministrations tothe mu ‘The people like it immensely, and come in great numbers every night. The programme for this evening is a gqod one. Woon’s Mrvstrers—‘The Virginia Cupids”? are still bio Migr J their friends at No. 444 Broadway, or in other words, their popular burlesque continues bein high favor with the public. CmgsE Hatt.—The Buckley minstrels, with Eph. Horn | and Briggs, give one of their pleasing entertainments | this evening. To geta front seat it 13 necessary that | one should go early. ‘Tax Saint Nicuo.as Exhibition Rooms, 495 Broadway, are nightly filled with the admirers of the Campbell min- strels, acapital band. Go and hear them. Madame Sontag has been playing operas at the Saint Charles theatre, New Orleans. On the performance of the ‘Figglia del Reggimmento,’’ the receipts of the house amounted to $2,500. She is assisted by M’lle. Seidenberg and Signori Pozzolini Taffanelli and Rocco. Julia Dean is playing at Louisville, Ky. Miss Heron last spring offered five hundred dollars cach, and one thousand dollars contingent upon its suc- cess, for the best play Which should be offered to her prior to the Ist of December last. The award, it ap- pears, has been made to R. Gerard, of New York, for 9 play ¢alled “Retribution,”? Board of Supervisors. ‘The Board met yesterday at 4 o'clock, P. M., his Honor the Recorder in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. ‘A communication was received from the State Super- intendent of Common Schools, presenting the names of Charles Morrison, Martha Kurts, and Mai ‘Ryan, as fit candidates for the Institution for the ny asking for an appropriation for their support. it to the Comptroller. Paid.—Of the Freeman’s Journal and other news papers, for advertising Reports of the Board of County Canvassers. Of Policeman W. J. Graham, for making an arrest at Ibany. ithe’ Board then adjourned until Tuesday next, at 3 otelock. “3 AspUcTION OF A YounG GrRt. FROM HER PARENTS. —A man by the name of Adam Niver abducted a youn, lady from Broadalbin, N. Y., about three weeks ago, ant brought her to Ohio. While in Broadalbin, he was em- loyed as a farmer. The lady (or rather the girl, for she [h"tnty. fourteen years of age,) has dark eyes, darkish hair, fair complexion, and_is of pretty good size. Her name is Rebecca Snyder. Niver the girl while she was away from home, without the know! or consent of her parents, but very much against their will. Niver left a wife in Broadalbin. The girl’s father followed them to Rochester, and there learned that they had left for Ohio, somewhere in the vicinity of Cleveland. The girl was of previous chastecharacter. While at Roches- ter, she and Niver passed as husband and wife, or rather coliabited as auch, staying in one room, &o. Krom those facts, itis com Tuded satoly that, she fwas, tahon oF is veigled for t rposes of prostitution. cliec will Leon tHe look out for this seamp, and arrost im. The laws of New York-are severe against this be it to justice. — Sede Be wean FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. ‘Wepxzspay, March 22—6 P. M. The movement in the stock market continues upwards. At the first board Canton Company advanced 3 per cent; Mlinois Central Railroad, 14; Florence and Keyport, 3; Nicaragua Transit, 5; New York Central Railroad, ; Hudson Railroad, 34; Michigan Central Railroad, 54. Cleveland and Toledo Raflroad declined % per cent. Cum- berland Coal sold largely, without any material alteration ee Sean Compote demand at the im- provement, were eh for cash, Florence and Keyport is pelted or ae influence of the contemplated railroad to centre on the company’s Property at Keyport. The rise in prices has by no means ‘been so great or so rapid as circumstances justify. 1 the railroads just chartered by the Legislature of New Jersey are constructed, Keyport will become one of the most important points in the neighborhood of New York, The original projectors of the Keyport Improve- ment Company have struggled long and manfully against the powerful railroad monopoly of New Jersey; and it must be to them a source of great satisfaction that they have finally accomplished the ob- jects arrived at. Nicaragua Transit appears to be moving upagain. The amount of stock offering is small, and the sales only to a moderate extent. All the leading railroad stocks closed firm at the improvement. The stock market is an enigma to the most experienced ope- rator in the street. The oldest and wisest heads are pus- zled, and hardly dare express an opinion upon the future course of prices. The bulls and bears appear to be pret- ty equally balanced, and between the two influences ope- rating upon the market the fluctuations week in and week out hardly amount to one moderate profit, The very doubt and uncertainty that exist are favorable te the bear interest, and it is necessary to give the market more character by more decided action, before the bulls can make much headway against the current which cir- cumstances are daily against them. We see no good reason why stocks generally should not sies- dily and permanently appreciate; and notwil the existing state of things in the street is about a draw game between the two great contending parties, the fu- ture looks much more favorable for holders and buyers than for sellers. In the table published in the Hurau of the 224 inst., there was an error in the aggregate amount of asscts composing capital and surplus put down to the Howard Insurance Company. It should have been $369,738 54, instead of $260,738. It will be seen at a glance that the error was typographical one. The steamship Asia, from this port for Liverpool to- day, carried out $306,865 in specie, principally gold in ingots. The Hartford and New Haven Railroad Company have declared a semi-annual dividend of five dollars per share. A. H. Nicolay’s semi-weekly sale of stocks and bonds ‘will take place as usual, to-morrow, Thursday, at half- past 12 o'clock, at the Merchants’ Exchange. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port, to-day, amounted to $103,764 61; the pay- ments were $58,218 4l—leaving a balance of $8,163,- 031 51. It is reported that the Erie Railroad Company have ne- gotiated the remainder of its third mortgage loan, amounting to two millions seven hundred thousand dol- lars. The terms have not transpired. There is more finan- ciering in this than appears on the surface. The Erie Railroad Company have negotiated so many loans since its organization that it is difficult to keep up with them, or to distinguish the different classes. We have no faith in these official announcements that loans have been raised. The history of the early financial opera- tions of this company has yet to be written; but it will astonish even those familiar with the most desperate system of raising money under the most adverse cir- cumstances. We havea very distinct recollection of a public sale of Erie Railroad bonds in the Merehants’ Ex- change, when it was represented that every bond of an issue of $3,000,000 was sold. The fact afterwards transpired that but a few bonds were actually sold, the balance having been bid in. It is the opinion of shrewd financiers that the Erie company have sunk its entire capital in losses onthe negotiation of its numerous bonds. x ‘The drafts entered at the Treasury Department, Wash- ington, during the week ending on Saturday, the 18th inst., were:— Customs, . 681 Navy.. + 145,412 56 Redemption of the public debt... 082 04 salaries, . “a 188,781 65 690 14,222 76 856,656 + eee+ $1,201,601 54 _ The drafts entered on Monday, the 20th inst., were:—~ For the redemption of stocks... For the payment of other treasury 558 For the customs.,........ssss000006 50,228 46 Covered into the treasury from customs.,.... 75 29 Covered into the treasury from miscellaneous BOUTCEB.. 6+. 0.00006 44,111 98 For the War Department. 183,117 71 For Tepaying for the War 27,564 71 For the Navy Department. 15,852 11 For the Interior Departmen 20528 40 There was less activity at the Mining Board to-day, though prices, where they move at all, bave an upward tendency. Gold Hill is very firm at 4, Gardiner gold im- proved 3{. North Carolina declined 3. Parker Vein is steady, and so is Cumberland. Dolly Hide shows less firmness. New Jersey Zine has lost all the recent ad- vance. The following were the bids at the Mining Board: For Cumberland, 813g; for New Creek, 234; for Cannel Coal, 1%; for Lehigh, 83; for Potomac, 8%; for Fulton, 134; for Mineral, 40c.; for Deep River, 30c.; for Rock- land 10; for Phenix, 70c.; for Rutherford, 134; for Me- Culloch, 734; for Cherokee, 1. The annual meefing of the American Mining Company was heldat the office of the company, in Windsor, Ver- mont, on the 15th day of March inst., at 2 P. M. The following persons were duly elected directors, vis.:— Erastus Fairbanks and Horace Paddock, of St. Johns- bury; Henry Keys, Newbury; Abel Underwood, Wells River; Isaac W. Hubbard, Joseph D. Hatch, and George Wardner, Vermont; David A. Simmons, Boston, Mass. ; William E. Trask, Nathaniel Hayden, and Francis EB. Phelps, New York city. At a meeting of the directors on the same day, F. E. Phelps was unanimously re-elect- ed President. This company is the parent of several mining concerns, situated on Lake Superior, in Pennsyl- vania, infCuba, andelsewhere. During the last two or three years we have frequently seon advertisements of calls on the shares inthese companies, but never once any sign of a dividend. In point of fact, not one of the branches of the American Mining Company has, ever to our knowledge, paid or declarea one. Acompany has been formed under the name of the Aberdeen Company, mainly, as it appears from their prospectus, for the purpose of working the ‘‘tailings’”’ of the Gold Hill mines, of which they have one million bushels, which they estimate at $2 per bushel. They likewise own one thousand acres of mineral land adjacent to the property of the McCulloch Company. The capital stock is one million, divided into 200,000 shares of $5 each. The company has paid for its land, owes nothing, has $15,000 and $25,000 of its own shares in its treasury. The officers are Mortimer Livingston, President; 0. Mac- daniels, Vice President; and with these gentlemen, F. L. Talcott, Lyman Denison, J. F, A. Sanford and Fulton Cutting, directors. We are glad to see men of such standing come forward to take a leading part im our min- ing enterprises; and hence are inclined to augur well of the Aberdeen Mining Company. A mecting of the stockholders of the Great Northern Lead Company is to be held on Saturday, for the purpose of deciding whether tho mines are to be abandoned or more money raised. It will be recollected that, owing to mismanagement on the part of the mining agents, the amount raised as working capital was expended before the mine was placed ina paying condition, This took place last fall, at atime when the stringency of the money market rendered it almost impossible to raise funds even for the most promising enterprises: and no steps were taken by the managers until, as now happens, the recurrence of the period when the rent of the mines falls due, obliged them to come to a decision one way or the other. ‘A Stockholder” has published a pamphlet containing his views on the subjeot, and as they seem to us sound and judicious, we copy the following extracts:— ‘This important fact has therefore been mine has not degenerated; but, unfortunately, this truth came too late to be of service; the original working capi- tal , and some of the stockholders exhibiting an an- willis to contribute, it did not seem proper to con- i ‘work any longer upon credit. Sihetore | in ns at the mine the United Before susy operat! States Geslogiot a. itney, Faq., was invited to amine and report upon it, He says enough, (as will _ by ‘nn Paper rag to (ome who 10 satisfied, mest substantial and valuable. speculations in bia vein fhas also been shown erick Fe igis i ? d i d 2 be een des i i HS i y