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if ys ye here under his certificate, he goes to the for sale. The important qavstion to be decided is what amount of protection shail a free man of Massachusetts have under the law; and in this view every presumption of law was to be tikea in favor of the liberty of this mer. The evidence he should offer would be t» show tant priv to the ‘time they allege he escaped, this min was a freeman of Massachussetts, peacefully pursuing his avoca- tions. But the iniquity they have attempted should not wnpunished or ked » thea stated his objections tothe 4 ideace put in. | The record was not a { eutire record, and even to the extent it would go they were nob entitled to nee it. Many other technical objections were urged, occupying he time titl 8 o'clock, when the Court adjourned tll 9 o'clock this morning. Miscellanvous Items. In the Board of Aldermen on the 29th, Alderman Williams offered the following order :— That hia Honor the Mayor be, and he ia hereby, instructed to notify Hon. Peleg Sprague, Judge of the District Court of the United States, to discon- tinue the use of any of the rooms of the Court House on Court aquare as a place of confinement fi fugitive slave, or avy person charged fugitive slave ; and that Le also be di ig States Marines, now stationed in said uilding, to be removed from the: o that the proceedings of the State Courts may uot be inter- rupted, aad that the same be atteaded to forth- Alderman Dunham moved to lay the order on the table; and the vote was taken as follows :— Yeas—Aldermen Dunham, Drake and Manroe—3. Nays—Aldermen Williaws, Washburn and Al- len—.. The Mayor gave his casting vote in the affirma- The Boston Times publishes the following letter from John G. Whitt AooeouRY, 20th Fifth month, 1854 In thy paper of this moriiig {seo a paragraph, atating that at a meeting of col red ci zens in Boston, a docw ment was read from me, tevdering ait for ration of the new victim of the t paragraph stands, it m ¢!t be i vor of the extreme meu to the meeting, and of saying, that so far fr always nd op all occasions the presewt ocen neatly cesire may be preser my colored frie patient—God rules, oppression cann J. @. At half-past 5, the W had fun enongh for one d York steamboat train, where they for another disturbance. The train was stopped near the engine house, and conductor Pratt put out the ringleader. The fellow looked ot the bullgine as if ho had some idea of making an utiack on tliat, but concluded to vent hie ive on watchman Phill who atood near. Finding himself only second in the contest, he drew a kni wrenched from his hand. ‘This dual will probably make his appearar day. It is said a very large delegation from ter will be in atteniance at the Court House to-day. The following persons were arrested ye:terday afternoon for distarbing the peace d- resisting officers :—Daniel A. Judd, of Watertown, formerly | of the Boeton polic Cambridge ; Joseph Fowler, said to be « € Samuel Fillebrown, of East mbridge law student. The woman Hinckley, wh» we have already no- ticed, re-appeared in the morning and urged in vain her right to admission inside of the Court House. She left apparent!y disgusted with the officers, bu returned in the afternoon, and ¢ of her suit, the sat down on the and proceeded to read» volume which she with her. At the dispersion of the crowd abe be- came violent in her behavior and was carried to the lock-up and detained abent two hours, aad was then released. She is apparently « very respectable laly, and evidently acting upon principle—she woud make no promise as to her fiiure behavior oa her release. it is understood that in case the tuzilive Barna is rendered up to his master, be will be carried South in a revenue cutter, and that Lieut. Norris is pre- paring for such an exigency. Caleb A. Webster, a «treet preacher, of Cambridze, was arrested about half past three o'clock, P. M., for practicing his vocation in Court square, thereby contributing to the excitement already existing at that time and place. He was released about 7 o'clock, and departed for the clsssic shades of Cam- bridge, after giving out notice that he should preach aguin in Court square. A correspondent of the Znguirer. who ha'ls from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and dates from New York, sends to us a dollar for the benefit of the widow Batchelder, The money shall be applied t» her sor- vice, and it is to be hoped that the example of the giver will be extensively imitated by those who are concerned in the affair in which he was sacrificed. TELEGRAPHIC. The Latest Ace s from Boston. FURTHER PROCEEDINGS BRFORE TH COMMISSIONER— IMPORTANT ERKOK IN THE DATE DISCOVERED, Efe. Bostox, May 30, 1854 The examination in the care of Anthony Burns, the al eged fugitive slave, was resumed at half post nine o'clock this morning. The court rom was less crowded, and there was far losd excit ement outride. Mr. Ellis resumed his argament for the defence. He lremarked upon the insufficiency of the warrant, saying that it was not sufficient to allege the naked fact that the prisoner owes his services. but it must also state how he is held—whether as a slave, the owner having a speci- Go interest in him, or whether asa lessee. The prisoner is entitled to bave the allegations properly set forth, and also time for his defence. Another objection was to the record of the Virginia court. This court cannot kaow the serl of the Virginia court. The court is by no means to know the seal of every other court—it is impracti cable. He cited authorities to sustain his position. Another objection was the insufficiency of proof of ownership He also contended that, inssmuch as the evidence went to show that the prisoner fell asleep on Doard a vessel, and was brought away, it did not amount ‘to an escape, according to the strict sense of the statate. Mr. Bilis concluded his argument at 12 o'clock, ani then introduced testimony. Wiltiam Jones (colored) tes‘ified—Knows the prisoner; saw bim on the Ist day of Biarch last; employed him on the 4th at the Mattapan Iron Works, South Boston, | cleaning windows; was in my employ dve days; witness said he could not write, but produced 4 memorandum book showing that Burns had wors«. «rhim. Cross-examined—Was positive as onthefirst of March in Washington treet, near the Commonwealth office; was first adires:.c by Burns, who wanted to know if he could get hima lace to work; he stopped with me five nights; I reside in outh Boston, (Nork.—The complainant allegos that Lurns escaped from Alexandria on the 24th March.) The witness Jones was cross examine! at ;reat length, Dat his testimony as to seeing Burns about tue lat of March was not shaken. George H. Drew, book-keeper at the Mattapan Iron Works, in South Boston, was next called that Jones, the previous witness, was employed thers several days, commencing with the Ist of March, an! had two or three men with bim; the prisoner was our of them; witness recognized him now; felt sure of his identity Witness was closely cross-examined, but without shak- ing his direct testigony. The Court adjourned to 3 o'clock. ‘ Tho testimony, #0 far.ts quite convincing that Barns was in Boston all of three weeks before the allege! date of his escape. The general opinion is that he is the slave of Colonel Gattle, but that » fatal error in dates has been made in the prosent complaint. The Court reassembled at three o'clock. James G. Whittemore, member of the Common Coun- cil from Twelfth ward, ard Lieutenant of the Pulaski Guarda, was called, and testitied as follows:—Waa for- merly a director in the Mattapan Iron Company; is s machinist; resided in Boston eight years; is neither an sbolitionist or free soiler, but a hunker whig. Witness testified substantially that he saw tho prisoner employed in cleaning windows st the Mattapan works on the 8th or 9th of March last; William Jones was at work with him; noticed the mark on his cheek then, and also ob- served that his right hand was maimed. Witness fixed the date from the fact that he arrived home from Phila- delphia on the 8th of March, and went directly to the shop. He was quite positive of the identity of Burns, Stephen Maddoeks (colored) testified that he saw Burns on the Ist or 24 of March. B. H. D. Gilman and Wm. C. Culver, employs at the Mattapan works, testified to secing Barns at work there. | Jobn Favor, carpenter, swore positively to having seen Burns in his shop in Lincotn street, about tho lst of March; Jones was with him; they called to ask witness for employment. Horace W. Brown, police office, who had teen em- ployed st the Mattapan works, testified to seeing Burns here previous to the 12th of March. ‘The testimony for the defence beinr c'osed here, the «© Crt Mjourned till 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. nan, of Woburn ; James H. | Ea to meeting Barns | He testidet | EXAMINATION O¥ THE ABRESTED RIOTERS POSTPONED. ‘rhe examination of the eleven persons arrested for riot on Friday night, and also oharged with the murder of Batebelder, has been further postponed until Friday. Te polloe court was crowded when the prisoners were brought Im. " STATE OF FRELING IN THE CITY. Court square has been comparatively quiet to-day, not more thaft 600 persons being present at any onetime. The report that Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker had «pplied to the Mayor fer the protection of their persons and property is incorrect. A detachment of forty marines from Portsmouth (New Hempshire) Navy Yard, under command of Captain W. S. Young, arrived to-night, and were quartered in tho Court House. This swells the United States ferce now bere to 150 men. Two companies of Boston military are slso under arms in the City Hall. Our citizens generally are becoming tired of military despotism about the Court House, apd urgent appeals are made to have the slave case adjourned to the Navy Yard or one of the government islands. If the trial continues much longer it is not improbable that Uncle | Sam will have notice to quit the Court House, whioh is city property, and build a tenement of his own for thes military displays. Our West Point Correspondence. Weer Port, (N. Y.,) May 30, 1864. The Approaching Semi-Annual Examination—The Gradu- | ating Class—The New Cadets—the Recent Eclipse of the Sun—The Company of Sappers and Minera—Zhe New Riding Hall, ‘The beautiful appearance of the plain, the green leaves of the trees, aud the buading flowers in front of the Trofessors’ houses, remind the frequenter of West Point that June, with its semi-annual examination and its ac- customed gaiety, is nigh at hand. The Board of Visit- rs appointed by the President are to be here on Thurs- Cry uext, the lat of June, and will be received at 12 o'clock, M., With the usual honors of a salute of thirteen guns, fized from the light battery. They are then to be 4 by the Academic Board through the various dings, after which they will review the corps ‘s upon the plain in front of the Superinten- | uurters. ‘The corps ix now in # fino «tate of dis- | as eviveed by the readicess aud precision with | they go through the various evolutions of the | jou every afternoon, at drill, abd their suitier-like | »ppeatence upon the march promises a fine review be- j sore the Hoard Lext Thursday. The examination of the corps will commence wita that of the first class upon | | Friday. the 26 proaimo, and will be continued datiy, Sun- nys excep esd, until thisbed. The oruer of examina- tion has not yet been published, but is suppose to be the sane ae ut the June examinations heretofore. The graduating class numbers forty-six members. Of these, forty are of the original one hundred and thirty wao en- tered tue Academy just four years ago, and tho remaia- ing #.x ure those suspanded or turned buck withia th @ same period, from the class that graduate! Jaat July; aad yet this class has met with but a usual fate, for of at those who enter the Military Academy uo han ono- third of the number ever "graduate. The others, from loleness or want of ability, nre found deficient, or gladly portunity of resigning to escape the fate whic ly awaits them. The list of those who aro aboat to enter bas been received here, aud mumbera oue hun- dred aod tweuty numes. Among them are represcuta- | tives from almost every State aud Territory ia the Uaion, commencing at Maine, and even including Uta, Califor nia, and Oregon. Of the number are ten appointments ut Iarge, which have already appeared fa priot. Prepa- rations ‘or the reception of this class aro already beiag made. A portion of barracks, which is always set apart | to be ecenpiod by them, was vacated by the older cadets op Saturday, ‘This reservation of quarters for their par- ticular use appears to bea necessary precaution, for the love of “devilling w plebe’’ seoms to bo innate with a ca- Get, and were ihty not closely watehod, aud prohibited under the very severest penalties from visiting tue qnar- | tere of the new comers, these poor follows would hardly | survive thelr fi mpression Of a militory career, This “plehe devilliog,’” however, if nothing now to what it Was io ormer times, ¢ urts-martial aad suspensions hav- ing ds upon, these habite of twenty years gre: port their presence before ts arealrealy bogiaaing out from barracks at every struggling to recogaize in a sun upon Friday last was daly Professor Bartlett was engaged ry, taking observations of the sun, trom the coumencement of (he eclipse. A curious fact, which may be interesting to the scentific, is that t eroury in ihe barometer here commenced falling at the begid- ng of the eclipse, and contiaued to do so until the in stant of greatest cbscuration. It then begun to rise, and attained the same altirude at which it stoo! in the first ploce, the moment the moon disappeared from tie sun’s aise. At about 4 o'clock | sauntered dowa from the hotel to ihe rear of the aca'emic buildings, to observe the proceecings in the neighvorhood of Cadet barracks. It was just the moment of atternvon release from quar- ters, aid ihe cadets came pouring out in all irceitons, evidently awailing the advent of the eel Somubody at this moment had, very secileotally, of course, broken half a dozen window panes trom out a neighboring sash, | evidently preferring the damage to his unt with the | “treasurcr, than the chance of losing a sight at the aon. | Glasa was in great demand, and every morsel wae imme- diately appropriated, In leas than iftee: b a minutes, two | hundred and Bitty pairs of eyes, shaded by bits of smaoked | glass, i aly upward. Bonches and ere brought into requisition, uo unusual, though @ most amusing sight, to sce one cadet seated in a chair, supporting upon his knees one of his fellows. and he another, aud this ono yet a | third, till a long string of even fiftern or twenty. thus | supported by the single man at the base of the system, might be seen aiming their smoked glass telescopes to the heavens, laughing and chatting tozetber, as though their position was a most comfortable avery day ocevrrence. At 5 o’clock the bugle blew for drill, and I imagined that these military youngsters would los0 the very best of the eclipse. But my citizen notion of these things led me sadly astray. Every man carried a piece of smoked glass in his cartri: box with him to drill, and when a rest was given tothe battalion, which happened at the very moment of greatest obscaration, these were brought into active requisition. i T notice the company of sappers and miners drilling every morning upon the plain. ‘This is the only compa- | ny of the kind in the service, and is the same which be- | haved so gallantly in Mexico. They are at preseat com- manved by Capt. Cullum of the Engineers, and are | stationed here to garrison the post. oat of them are very fine looking, intelligent men, and they well deserve their repntation of belng the best dri company in the service, - } The site for the new riding hall has been decided upon. It is to stand just at the foot of the bank, below | the library buildings. Its friends may well congratulate themeelves that their hard fought battles in ite behalf have at last been crowned with victory. Never has any appropriation from Congress been more needa than this one for cavi ‘poses. Lient. Sackett still continues to stand forth pre-eminent in tnis department; but of him we shall hear more when he brings his clavses be- fore the Board. A. B.C. West Point Cadets. Annexed is the list of the newly appointed cadets to | the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. The appointments take effect from the 20th of June, 1854. | . Names. State. Names. State, | John A. Albert.... Miss. F. J. Crally.......Penn. | Theodore E Ames. Mass. G. HL. Crossman... Penn, Wm. J. Anderson..Texas. } RT Luman Andrew: | A. K. Arnold Buffin L. Ash Morumer Baker. . 2 Y. B. ¥. Boynton, R.F. Butham, | Vt «Minois. Tenn. Int. -Tlinois. Ben. T. Phillips... Miss. G.F. Whole sum! A Returnep Stave.—Some time Mr. Robert Moore, of Dahlonega, Georgia, permitted one of his slaves, aman about forty ears of , to accom: friend of his to California. T! ‘tleman Favlag recently died in the last named , the slave at once made arrangements for retarning home. Arri at New York, he was carefal to avoid the clutches of the abolitionists, who,he jastly feared, would kidnap him and frustrate his d | He was successful in eluding their nefarious ica, | and reached Baltimore on Saturday. He immedi- ately sought a magistrate in that elty, whom he in- duced to accompany him to Washington, for the purpore of conferring with the Hon. A. H. Stephens, & friend of his master. The result is, | might this gentleman, iy designed wh» had previously designed | to a a brief visit to Georgia, and who Was ‘on the eve of dej ure, left the city, taking with slave for his earnest) songht | home fi the ~— Washington Sentinel, May 30. Late News from Texas. ‘The Texas Times, of the 21st iost., says:— Major Merrill, of the United States ariny, station- ed at Fort Be'knap, and at preseut in our city on his way to the court martial organized P f the ‘. nop-s pearance o! prisoner. orth, has informed us that the for the trial of Dr. Steiner following preomble and resolutions’ were unani- has for the present adjourned, on account of the | mously B It is altogether | in when the trial will take place. The Ma- | © The Newark Firemen and the Paid Fire Ata of Washin Engine Compan: No. 3, of Newark, Ne Jes held ‘on tan aah poof et the room of the Washington Associstion, tho Whereas, we, the mombers of Washington ingine No. 3, in common with the whole depart neat ‘be city, bave bad our ergine locked under the jor was one of the officers composing the court mar- | 9) (he Cty; Bane had our engine locked up, under Led $e, Seeteme part & visit to his friends in Pre’ that the engine was not ente in the hauds a several years. The last Legislature of Texas paased giving to the voters withia five miles of 8 a special act arahall, | has been soparated for compary i ht to prohibit the sule of spirituous or vinoas | ‘ liquors, in any quantities, except for medicinal par- ones, The vote was tuken on the law on the 6th nst., and after the most acsive exertion of the op- nents of the no license law, resulted as follows: — ‘or the law (no license) .... 133 Against the law (for license). oie 68 jov. Pease has written the subjoined letter in reference to the late Indian outrages on the froa- tiers. Itis published in the Brownsville “ag:— Exsoourive Orrive, t Avstin, Texas, March 24, L454. Dear Stmr—I have the nonor to acknowledge the receipt, by mail, on the 23d inst., of the proceedings of a public meeting of the citizens of Webb county, of which you was the chairman, held at the town of Laredo on the 11th inst., on the subject of the rob- beries and murders lately committed in that county by the Indians. I deeply sympathize with your citizens in their distress, and am disposed to use all the means at m, comimand for their relief, I immediately addresse aletterto the Secretary at Washington City. en- closing a copy of the proceedings of your citizens, and calling his attention to the depredations therein | detailed. 4 alsourgently requested to have a force of mounted men stationed at such poiats on the Rio Grande 2s will enable them to give adequate protec- tion to the lives and property of our citizens, and allow them to prosecute thetr ordinary avocatious in security. I also wrote to Gen. Smith, requesting him, if there s2ec any mouxted men under his command, that can be spared from other service, to have a portion of them stationed in the vicinity of your town. The inquiry that the meeting asks to be made, respecting the guilt or innocence of the Lipans, préperly Salone to the judicial officers of the Btate, and this inquiry can only be inetituted by them upon information under cath, charging the commis- | sion of an offence, and naming the person supposed to bave committed it. Thave no donbt that the Lipan Indians, as well as any other residents of the State, may be tried and punished by our courta, for robbery and murder, end if upon proper proceedings before our judicial officers warrants shal! be issued for the arrest of ay of them, and if the civil power shall prove insuffl- cient for that purpose, I shall most cheerfully call out the militia to aid in their orrest. T have also written to Major 7 h I believe, is the agent for the Lipans, advising hi that these dcpredations have been charged upon that tribe, and requesting him to endeavor t) as- certain the truth of the charges, and to take mea- sures to have their excursions from their present location restrained for the future. Very respect- your obedient servant, E, M. Peass. Ep. J. Davis, Esq. Fight with the Indians in Texas, [From the New Orleans Picayune, May 22. We are favored with intelligence from Corpus Christi to the 10th inst., from which we learn the par- ticulars of a fight that took place on the previous day, between a tmali detachment of United States troops and a body of Indians, four times their num- re Lieut. Cosby, we learn, with ten men and one ser- geant, attacked forty Iudians, who bad been com- mitting depredations in the vicinity, and whom the troops were therefore pursuing. The Indians turned on the troops with great ferceness and fought hard, but four of them were soon killed, five were wounded, and the whole body shortly afterwards completely routed, The gallant littie band suffered considera- cf One, a brave fellow, Sergeant Byrne, being killed, and Lieut. Cosby himself, and several others, being wounded, besides whom two others are mizs- ing. all the plunder of the Indians, however, with all their spare horses and ee and their bows and arrows, were captured. Lieut. Cosby was brought into Corpus Christi on the morning of the LOth inst. ine wagon. His re- covery is confidently expected. He was strack in the groin by one arrow, which fortunately hit a $20 gold piece which he had in his pocket-book, in his pautaleons pocket. When he was brought in the arrow head was found doubied up tu his pecket-book. The natuse of his wounds is not explained, but the: Te said not to be such as seriously to threaten fe. Cutrege ana Murder in Xenia, Ohio, ATTEMIT TO KIDNAP A FREE NEGRO, WHO DIRD IN HIS DEFENCE. From the Cinclonati Commercial, May 29 J On Thursday of last week a man named McLeod, who had been’ stopping in and xbout Xenia fora few days, and who is represented as being a dis- | reputable person, left that town in a bugzy and drove toward Se.ma. A few miles ont he overtook acolored man whom he suspected of being a fugi- tive slave, and asked him to get in and ride on to the next cross reads, The negro thanked him and get in the buggy, but at the first frm house Mc- .eod said he must feed his horse, and persuaded the negro to wait. McL. went into the house and suc- ceeded in making a bargain with the farmer to help in secusing the supposed «lave for half the reward. The negro was invited into a room to eat, was seized, tied with ropes, and placed in the bogey to be driven toward Cedarville on the railroad. e man who had assists i and his son ac- companied McLeod. After proceeding a mile or two the negro broke his rope and then broke for the woods, chased by all three of the party. The old man nearly overtook the negro, when the latter turned and dealt a blow eso powerfal that it broke the arm of his pursuer, but he was soon after aes, beaten, and tied into the buggy again. Before they had proceeded much farther the negro broke the cords a second time, and had nearly escaped, when McLeod ppled with him, and, the others coming up, a fight ensued, in which the negro was beaten until he fell dead. The party placed the corpse upright against an Prieta oak tree at some distance from the road, and fled. ‘The body was discovered, and on Saturday the mar. derers were arrested, when the frightened son of the farmer confessed ‘to the circumstances above nar- rated. The three culprits are now |: in Xenia The excitement in the surrounding country is tesclne. Breaking up of a Gambling House in Cin- cinnatl, THE GAMBLERS ARRESTED, AND THE APPARATUS BURNED ON THE COMMON. R.S. Neighbors, who, | and whereas, after & second thought by the “city fathers,” it has been 1%: it would be impossible to vecure a sufficient of the citizens to form an efficient department paged of the city; a4 whereas the pailtr: hirty dollars has been to induce us ourrelvrs in the department; therefore, Resolved, That we, the members of this company, ro- anything to do with a paid’ de- partment—ae our efforts have never been actuated by any pecuniaty motive, but simply by that of a common mis wey good citizen should fool that he owed his neighbor. Resolved further, That we hold in utter detestation those members of Council, who, forgetfal of our past rervices, have assailed us with untiring malevolence, en- deavoring to crente the imyrossion on the minds of our fellow citizens, that we are gamblers and blickguards, and in every respect improper members of the depart- ment, in whore hands its implements and apparatus were unsafe ; and thet we hurl back wiih seerm aad con- tempt any and every imputation against our integrity and efliciency, feeling that whatever our fralities may be as men, Our acts as Members of tho department will oom- voraldy with those of many of the city govern- and that, moreover, it illy becomes a body of mea who endorseo us ut the outset, now to trample our rights in the cust and sully the good name which we have #0 faithfully labored to acquire. Resolved, That to those members of Council, Ald. am, Parkburst, aud Doremus, who stood up of the department, and refused to be in- immolating it upon the altar of injustices, mmaoulat ny 1 her the im of earull stromente! | we return our most hearty thanks, and assure them that come what may in the future, we in remembrance as men worthy of the station they ocsu- Py, aud of the continued contidence of the people. shall always hold the:n Indiana Democratie State Convention. ‘The Democratic State Convention in Indisaa, for the nomination of State officers, was held in Indian- apolis on the 24th instant. Nehemiah Haydea was nominated for Secretary of State; Joseph T. Duna, for Auditor, and Elijah Newland, of Washingtoa county, for Treasurer of State. The convention was very Jurgely attended, there being about five huu- dred delegates present. The Hon. Jesse D. Bright, United Stutes Senator, was President. Its proceed- ings were characterized by the greateat‘hharm ny and good feeling. An address and resolutions were adopted. Among the latter wore the following:— Kesoived, That the democrats of Indians fuliy approve of the ERs of the act extending the liws of the United Statee over, avd organizing the Territories of Ne- braska and hansas. Resclyed, That we concur in the opinion that it is not properly within the jurisdiction of Congress to deter- mine the provisions of the constitution of a State, ther than to require that it be of republican form: but on the contrary, that the people do possess the right and power to adopt such form of government as they may jeem best suited to their views and wants; and that this right thoula be recognized as one of the fundamental princi; les of self government. Rescived, ‘That this Convention is distinctly opposed to that provision of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, common- ly known as the Clayton amendment, which made n dis- tinction bet* cen uative born and foreiga inhabitants who muy be residents of the Territories, aad feel gratified that the efforts of the democracy have been successful in expunging that odious feature from the act. Temperance and Liquor Law Items. The advocates of liquor prohibition in Pennsylva- nia will hold a State convention at Harrisburg on the ith of June. Texas is to vote directly for license or no license, at ee State election on the first Monday in August next. cheep has a liquor restriction law, passed by its last Legislature. It was contested before Chief Justice Smith, at the late term of the Court of Ap- peals, who affirmed its constitutionality, The decision moy be reversed before a fali bench. Gov. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, is said to have pocketed the stringent liquor regulation bill passed by the late Legis ature of that State. The traifjc will therefore go on as heretofore until anothl Legislature can take hold of it. The Maine Law was recently before the highest court for adjudication on the question of constitu- tionality. It was sustained at all points. ‘he late trustees of Newburg, Orange’Co., N. Y., are under indictment for grauting licenses in contravention of law. it have tried to get off under & Cemwurier, setting forth that it has for more than forty years been the usage of Newburg to license every body that would pay the fee, but the cone Overruled the plea, and gave judgmveut agaliist em. A meeting was to have been held in Newark, Ohio, on he 2ith inst. to devise means for enforcing the new quor law lately paseed by the Legislature of that State. Destructive Fire in Carcago—Loss $20,000— About one o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke ut ina barn in the rear of a dwelling house oa the weet side of Jefferson street, between Lake and Ful- ton streets, which, before it could be arrested, swept ver the whole northeast quarter of the block. It aged with such viclence that it was confined to hat equare alone with considerable ditficulty. The Trincipal sufferers by this calamity ave as foliows :— +L, Jacobus & Bros., whose establishment for the manufacture of furniture, are the principal losers. The building contained a steam e1 filled with machinery adapted totueir employing as they did over fifty workmen. The was well stocked with lumber, mueh of it well sea- soned, which cannot be replaced. The buildings, machinery and stock are ate. destroyed. loss of Messrs. Jacobus cannot fall below $10,000. They were insured only for $1,400, of which , $1,000 is in the Illinois Mutual, and $100 in the | mitcail, ) Farmer’s Insurance Co. of Oneida sounly, of N.Y. The workmen of the establishment lost all their tools, and as it would be a low average to place $100 for each one, this item of the loss reaches the consi- derable sum of $5,000, upon which there is no in- surance. It falls with severity upon the sufferers thrown out of Searioppent by the disastrous event. The corner of the block was occupied by the shop of Messrs. Reuben Cleveland and John K. Russell, ters and builders. The shop was twenty feet, and two stories high, containing considerable stuff, and some finished work. T! tools of some dozen of their workmen were re- moved without damage, but the building and stock were destroyed. The joss here is trom $2,000 to $2,500—noinsurance. The barnand dwelling where the fire first broke out were owned by Captain John P. Fish, and the latter cooupled by his family. The buildings are in ashes; the household furniture was removed hurriedly, and mostly saved, though mach injured. The buildings were worth about $1,000, and we are informed that Captain Fish was not insured. For some mouths past the police have exercised | The remaining sufferer is Morris Dunnivan, whose the usual vigilance in ferreting out and breaking uj the numerous gambling houses that infest Pitt be pe sg Main = Sycamore. Last T they pounced upon one kept by colored persons, succeeded for the time Being of ridding the neigh- borhood of the nuisance. On Saturday last tl Chief of Police, Capt. Hoke, Lieutenants Rose and Phillips, accompanied by eight policemen, made a descent upon a rondo room on the south side of | whitne: Sycamore, over & srrested Fifth street, between Main and ae Nacen establishment. ¢ officers managed the matter very adroitly. A newly appointed policeman, antaown to the, fra- ternity of“ sharks” who infest the locality above mentioned, gained an entrance into the room, while Capt. Hoke and Lieut. the house. The rest of the officera were stationed on the outside. Ata given signal Hoke and Phillips descended through a skylight, and the officers rushed tp the steps into the room. Some twenty-five or thirty persons were busily engaged at play, and va) atest sudden appearance of the police created t consternation ; some Pen gs out of the dows, and some managed during the confusion to escape down stairs. The following persons were captured and conveyed to the watch house:— J. W. Kelley, gamekeeper: Lawrence Viall, door- keeper; Chas. Pelton, outside guard; Nicholas Baer, Lewis yew Joseph B. Batcom, John Horton, John 1, D. N. Deames, Frederick Laboyteux, Calvin pal been A ein George Williams, Robt. Bolles an omas. The bil table used for playing the of rondo, the chairs, benches and iene of fhe room were a‘l placed in a wagon and cares ee tae aoe fth ced he mas 5 thelr eocepe, | another of the ee] an have not yet besa erected. bess The arrested parties were arraigned before J Spooner in the afternoon for trial. Kelley, vet dwelling house adjoined the wing of the factory on Fulton street, and was entirely consumed. He had time, however, to remove his household effects. His loes is about $800, without insurance—Chicago Press, May 26. Foroer an BiG: —Marehal isT ARRESTED IN CLEVELAND. her, assisted by Deputy Sheriff and @ police officer from Daveuport, lowa, & man in Berea, last night, by the name of John St. John, charged with having committed a forgery of about six thousand dollars, at ee hee. some few weeks since. He was traced east from Chicago, till his track was lost, but he was supposed to be somewhere in northern Ohio. A clue was Phillips got on the roof of | finally gained, and last night he was arrested and brought to this city, and tl morning was started for Iowa. This individual formerly lived in this vi- cinity, and about eight ears since married into a yectable family name of Daily.’ He re mained with his wife till after the birth of two chil- dren, when he went west and did not return till very recently. During his absence he married a lady in Davenport, and subsequently took another wite in Indianapolis, making his third spouse. Not long since, the orgery for which he was arrested was committed ; he fled, and was tracked up and found in Berea, and at the moment of his arrest was in bed with his first wife. The blow fell like a thun- derbolt on her, this being her first knowledge of the base and criminal conduct of her husband. Sheand her family are said to be highly respectable people, and the blow will fall upon them with crashing me peta thousand pet i pak! be in in’s possession, Al wo elegant go! watches. He has probably gone where he wij be duly punished for his misdeeds. This will be bad news for the two wives yet to hear it—Cincinnati Plain Dealer, May 27. and Pelton were charged with havin, Morper iN Cariistx, Pa.—The Carlisle Volun- the apparatus and assisting in Keep! the rom, teer of the 26th instant, says:—It is with humilia- Kelley pleaded “Guilty;” the other two ‘‘Not guilty.” | tion and sorrow we are compelled to announce that The trial y ‘and Viall ‘and Pelton were found | an atrocious murder committed in our guilty. The Court sentenced all three to fine | town. On ago night, or rather on Sunday of $100 each and costs, and stand until | morning last, about one o'clock, two parties of the eame was paid. The apparatus was ordered to | young men met at the corner of Pomfret and Pitt be burnt on the city lot. atrects, and commenced fighting. The fight lasted Barr, Kibby and Balcom were then for | buta few minutes, and terminated in the death of ‘ing at the of rondo, and found guilty. The | John Kennedy Dunbar, a young man about twenty sent them, each, to pay a fine of $25and os who was stabbed to the heart by er et a Fk in nt of the fines imy A age, a printer yan the were committed to jail. After the dis- the Herald ice, After Dunbar received the wound of the case, the billiard table and farnityse ‘were carried upon the city lot and burnt. Cricxer.—The return game between the Newark and Paterson Cricket Clubs was p! inst. on the Newark cricket ground. The playing = spirited, and everything d oi ' tly. here was a company on the ground, including a number ladies. Wickets were pitehea at ten o'clock, and the game was decided in terson by one run, with six wickets to go down. on the 29th | after the occurrence, he was carried to the house of Mrs. Margaret Spotts- wood, clore by, where he in great agon: for about two hours, when put an end to hi sufferings. McMurray walked home immediately was permitted to remain till morning, when he waa d by Joseph C. Thomson, , Coroner of Arreeted and placed'in the custody bf the Sherif, by whom he war conveyed on the oon of the favor of Pa- | same day to the Dauphin county prison, to await his trial t the August term of our cont. ae In the of Representatives, op oan, Breaker, T ask the unanimous consent of the House to t the procesdini wo puvlic meetings ia my Trice, convened to give expression of opin.on on the sub- ject of the recent outrage commit thorities in the East Indies, ie of Capt, Walter M. Gibeoo, iate a lina. He was seized in the Islsad of Jay into prison at Batavia, upon pretence of having been wiltv of sedition agsinst the Patch goverament in their indian posseasions. He was thrice tried for the oifence, and acqoitted by thelr judicial jeer peg ; but the Gov- | ernor wae dissaiisted with the resi these trials, aud be was a fourth time tried by « star chamber court, where he was not allowed te confront his acousers, or ba represented by counsel. He was convicted, and sen- tenced to death ; bu’ day or two before the seatence was to be executed, he succeeded in making his escape. _Hia vessel, the schooner Flirt, and its content+, were coa- fineate t by the Dutch suthorities, and al! the of his life sacrificed to Duteb injustice, int cupiat derson, ligence. The persons composing the mestings wene acquaip'snces of Capt. Gibson ; they had known him many years, and they endorse his character, bis in- tegrity, and his worth. They ask this government to demand and enforce full reparation for this outrage upon the perron of ome of their fellow citizens. The resolutions at Pendleton were drafted and presented by my predecessor here, Hon. RF. Simpson, himself a man of high character and intelli reesion of opinion of Capt. Gideon's former melghbore jo hin worth, and the enormity of the outrage pe: trated on him. Mr. O. presented the resolutions unier nee, and contain the ex- | the rule, and referred them to the Committee on Foreiga | Affairs. Tax Sovar Eourrsr.—We learn that the forma- tion of the ring during the eclipse of the 26th inst., as observed at Cambridge, took place within seven seconds of the time predicted by Mr. Paine in his article published in the proceedings of the American Acacemy—a remarkable coincidence, certainly, un- | der the circumstances, ‘The Russian Councillor of State, M. de Hamel, | cfine on purpose from New York to the Observatory ; at Cambridge to observe the eclipse, in order that , he et be enabled to report understaadingly to his fellow academician, Strave, the director of th» Imperial Observatory, how we managed astrozom'- cal matters in America, Throughout New Eaylaui, #0 far as we have yet heard, very much the sie sort of weather prevailed as in Boston, during the continuance of the eclipse on Friday. The heavens | were covered with flying clouds, through tlie open- ings In which occasjonal glimpses of the progress of . the eclipse were obtained in most quarters. [n some | places the moment of first contact was observed, in | others the ring was seen, in others, though the be- | ginning of the eclipse was lost, the formation of the | ring and the end of the eclipse were distinctly seen, In Portland, however, it seems to have been a total failure; nothing was seen from beginning to end of theeclipse. At New Haven, Conn.. the clouds blew away in season to give everybody a good view of the eclipee, thongh it was not annular there. Wo | B regret to learn that although the ring was seen at the Observatory at Cambridge, its formation and rupture, and-the two other contacts, were all ren- | dered invisible by clouds. At Middlebury, Vermont, where the soll by calchlation, was central, we are informed that the beginning of the eclipse could not be seen, but the formation and breaking of the ring, and the end of the eclipse, were finely observ- ed, und that the spectacle was magnificent.—Loston | Traveller, May 29. MARITIME INTELLIGENCE. Movements vf Ocean Steamers. ga All packages and letter intended for the Naw Your Henan should be sealed, ALMANAC FOR NEW YORK—THIB DAY. 4 and went to bed, where he | 30 Port of New CLEARED. Steamship Europa, Shanno: Ship Statire Morse, Andersoa, 61 Ship Camis, Wo ‘ous Brig Edw: Lind. Buckman, Brig Scuiller (Mech), Dale. il Brig Indian Queon, Humo, 8t Stephen, NB, De Wolf, Starr Brig Rebecca Fogg, Henson, Doboy Island, H D Brookman &Co. Brig E O Holt, Moore, Union Istand. C& Ps EJ 4g BEM Thon Connor, Stover, Jacksonville, C A L Blanchard 2 Brig Random, Crano, Portland Metcalf & Lov: A Schr Sarah Maria, Jones, Madoica, V: Tinea Slaght. Sch Wing of the Wind, Pearsall, Havane, mastor. Schr Meridian, Burgess. Elizabeth City, master Schr Sarah E Pa-ker, Parker, City Point, Van Bruat & Hotehkiss. Derb; Schr Sarah Jai Schr Sarsh Eli Steamer Cayu; Cld 29th. ship a, Pratt, London, Griswold, Morgan & Wiley. Capt Wi Piss pry 4 master of ship Margaret Evans, which Svoamship Auzusta, May 27, to Samuel L Hay 37.0 Tybea, pasied the wreck brig En Avant, of Windsor; 21th, Cr g) tteras, siz al brig Kmppire, hence for Sa: 50 PM, 20 miles Si js f Hatteras, signalized steamship Alabama, WP Marion, Foster, Charleston, 57 hours, to Spoftord. ‘Tileston & Co. On Sunday at 7 GPM Istalles Bw of Cape Hatteras, signalized steamship. hence for leston; at 1) light bearing W. signalled Sui Frances (of Portland), Leavitt, Havre, april 90, in vances (of Portland), vr , Dallan, with 297 passengers, to Snow A Barger rE Aitred (Brom) frends, Bromen, 6 days ta bal with 186 passengers, to Meyer & Stacken. One beth one death on the postage »' ‘\attatt with 127 passougers to ilowuings Walle: & Gestion, fy . €0 He fillet & Gosling. Sawa numbor of icebergs lath and 1th inst, in iat 45 12, rT fe Trig Mathilde {Brom), Limne, Bremen, 96 days, with 122 G Strauss. oe for Pancengers. to 5 Schr Devon (Br), Ward, Palermo, 47 days, with frait, to Chamberlin, Robinson & Go. ei 7 Br), Vigures, mn, J, 28 with SH Wevey, May'aiIae 38 80, ton ke F Harriet Neal of Providence, 6 oat, lt, al 7:h, saw « large ship ashore on 8 Reef; apparently American, had her sails ay (ol New’ tlaves), Johneon, Matansas, 9 days, wight Sa F ere Setlist with zile (Br) i. a 5 toon, to, WA Walker.’ OOFR™ _ saa Schr Bi Sehr 'e lagyar, Harriss, Vir- oi ie for . sobre Magyar, Palos, Oregon, Susan J na e others in Outer Rouds, supposed bound 90, 4PM—Arr bark Mary F ‘end Ontario, Dag- 4; Josephine 9 Coulier, Whipman, Wellileot; Woodra_l Simes, Mason, Baker, Boston. | ie PorsiandsGolentan, betgh: to pee. Boston; schrs Ana. Burkes, aaa yt aie a orrie: rr, 2 , J dD Monroe, Mason, ; Harvest, Beach, Al- fi (of Barnstable), Loring. from N Facet Kr'Sen Blok, haere reported Yiiomasted at San the bey, 3 Tase ‘having bean oveained from Fale i) 5 if 4 nhuase.. ‘The nick were still on Sosrd. Another man died April 2. Cargo eupposed to be in good order. a tI hich went ash Gi fect Slater; wus towed vo New Bedford 29th inst, foun Comer, Lincoln, ton, with naval Shallotte, NC, - naval stores ng & leak, and pat into 1 yr. on’ tl Wilmington, NU, 24th, where she mast discharge for repairs. ” foun Mona, from Boston for Phi’sdelphis, 5 Qrolbenaton lo Laguipen the vente oe. schon a Scum Antanne, of ani for Holmes's Hote, went ashore en the entrance of Edgartown barbor 26th inst, and ie high wp Notice to Mariners, GAY HRAD LIONT. geen kes ja le sul itr ting apparatus. w Arr at NRedford cifle Ocean, Talcah Arr at Holm er sent, home. 230 6p 290 oh 24, lat 42 43 8, lon 60.98 W, Noble, SH, gt Jornogan, Nizer, fog the nexthward | Fy Hilo; A La RP al Cushing. BANGOR—Arr ¥ 14 ds; seb: b fos phi. ‘ NVERS—Arr May 26, sobre Claren: 4 Pioneer, Now Fork; uh ‘Adrian, aud Adelaide oe Te taal "ALL KIVER- did Bay New York I n Algoma, Mary Langdod, Granite Lodges, Rocky Hin), Willian arr bri, bi F Myrtic for 4 Moe an Slond, wore, ve do; Charlotte, Par! for BI ke, banal Diamond, Medford, Abeo: Mary Seavey, Van NEW OkLEANS—Are ris, Havre April Boston. Sid Machias, Me. On DF E Boston for ron Sears cla aad ork. . ¥e /D—Arr te) Lig May Zi, Phi Fon by om Me f woe beard, easy for ‘seer hed anipped home at Toa pril 2. by letter from Capt Faller, Osean, NB, om boure bd shipped ai'p pr’ Oliver Crooker, for N fase Rae rt ot mm Capt Marshall, Sea Queem, lot poe ty letter from Capt Achley, P April IE, Sherga, Church, PAL. . ve ctlan la Bee Joat T Ship sophia "som bout the 6th of April on ” Spoken, Bg Meatehth, to m1 Liverpool for Boston, 9th inet, ° Ll for N date, raueae sgain 22d, Tot ction So eee Lancaster (of Bruns: eatts for London, eget! tm Se, ‘philadelphia, or Matagoe 12, off Key Wont. z from Boston, arr Marshall, for do 224: ‘webing (Br), Cr In port 6th, shi, barks Indians, we ia de. EMAKARA~In port abt May 8. bi telope, of Balel- more, reported for Cuba; sbo cid dan' for miver of Plees, CummEREAND HARBOR (Cuba)—lo port May 16, brig anal foe 1m 1dg, to ced to 3t Jago 10, sehr A. hell, from 20, sobe Alex Mitchell, Baker, ‘Minnesota, i bite, Wi loomb, Matensas, to load for Trie Winthrop, Blanchard, Cowes; brigs ( Narawzas—In port May 20, Hamourg, dg; Lady Frank! , to load fo: Pumgusl Ha morket, G,100 boxes capacity); Zara to load for Falmouth Ki. pit js AEE Woodbury, ton or Adie, we West. from Brist om Providence, Iphis, do do; Fai jonl Worth, tack! off, di Portland, disg; Eve: 16th, do} Lam Haven 4 days: & Margaret, we a Port av Paincr—In , Be brig Spitfire, Mer from Boston, arr 7¢! badoos (where "abe ven 29) disg, for Trinidad, Cuta, few days, Sr CATHARINES—Arr, nO date, bark Magdelene, Chester, port April 23, bark Cuba, Fits, for Boston i rige Amazon, sifer. fur Gloucester about Cary Eliza Ann, Bai jayenne, arr lay LL, brij ‘abbey Brows. Br T Tnomas—tn port Liverpool are 5th, Yor NUrleans a Tamipap—ia fay 13, back. Frankl brig T OP Pork: feom Portiand; cour Elise Ann, ¥ Boston dor days, Home BALTIMORE—Arr Muy 29, Bremen 221 uit, Fire ly Mo:iusve, Chia Kibbey, Hooze, Kio Hooton; Timo jo; das Bost we rt er Granite State, Post Baitd- Gl York (to ran be . Liver, piverpool -apelt ‘erpool Apr toner aes Del, George pine RRS Oks nee, Allen, do. {rom the Roads, bark Luailie aud brig Be brig Allston, Mitchell, ar, Tilden, NYork; Pi Sarena: te, Perry, do; th, Br bark eae So Bim foes Be idee May 18, Ue sehr Maty Aun ‘TH—Arr May 25, brig William, Kenerson, Philadel- "almer, and wc. Durtee, eobr Seneca, es y eehe By Al di WART#OMD—ate May 2 shou wit, Powe —arr My HOLMSB’ Baltimore for % Laconia, Lewis, do for do; Portsmout Xeno} or do; Jo lien, do for do; Rio Grande. MeCo! ‘Bulow (Br), NYork for Halifax; rane sith tists for: Portia Lemuel, id Uovan Wa ai lnnenct, de foe Ely rt alee sees, vitglala “toe Shaplotts, Head, York for ast toe Porting: N Vi eS d, Charl ini Saney Mit ‘37th, Johnson, Havens 12th inst for Bow for St Joan, Nib; 7th nse fof Newbury pore Sarah Sargent, ry alee, Heueah Baten, pnt Sea Bats i il, Pomockey river, ru Jat Bascom, Walter & Lemuel, Depueg & P&G Wheaton, F, Lserburt. R Sogst, Sarna L, XB he Enter, : bel G jarcus, Kossuth. rises; sebre Mary Aun & Carc Mi for ke Aton J Means. Maine Le Oolong Albambra, Bitse Frances, Cherloste ne, Nicanor, Magelise Boren, Z 10; N Jueon, Hall, N Yor! York, Matancas. aleo NORFOL om ictgees, at ter, NYORE $y Ait bark Neshus, from oe so under. > Are ech BJ aera an May Mm y's Siise tepelted, hee guano OWL'S BEAD—Arr Moy %, eche Kingsher, N York foe — , Chet webre Fa tesman, 5 for the an gant eae: Bata, Je Fraantor for NYork. brig Esste. to q rs ;, 19, avis, i ‘Saxon, Bsehre Knots’ ABetian; Philadel Moy 2, ecbrs Belons, NYork. ANNAL- eae oe Meroe PW RY MOUTH—Aar