The New York Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1854, Page 4

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An effort was made to reconsijer the vote on the resolution fixing en the 4th of August for the final adjournment, but the presiding officer ruled the motion out of order. A bill was reported providing for the constraction of roads in Washington and Nebraska Territories, ‘The subject of the improvement of our harbors and rivers bas been allowed to sleep through the entire session until yesterday, when a bill tor the improvc+ ment of the Patapsco river and to make the harbor @f Baltimore accessible for war steamers was re" ported, and information respecting the construction ef a canal across the peninsula of Florida, and the removal of the bar at the mouth of the St. Joha’s Resolutions from the Rhode Island Legislature against slavery, and kindred sul.- jects, which seem to form the staple of New England siver, was asked for. Jegislation at this particular junctare, were pre sented, and, for a wonder, were referred without a word being said on the subject. The proceedings in the House yesterday were simply fiivolous. On the day previous the General Appropriation bill was rejected, the trifling item of hajf a million of dollars for custom honses at the Bast, West, North and South, being the sticking point. After ondoing most of work of patching up the bill, and a liberal expenditure of virtnons in- @ignation on the spoils system prevalent in Con- gress, aud sundry patriotic appeals about embar- rassing the great interests of the country, the mal- contents swallowed the custom houses, under the spur of the previous question, and passed the bill - hy a vote of ninety-two to sixty-seven. Nothing could more forcibly illustrate the weak- ness of the administration than the course of the House on the Appropriation bill. It was in a di- Jemma, and, according to our correspondent, had it net been for the exertions of Mr. Preston, a whiz, from Kentucky, who came to the rescue, the means te carry on the government would certainly hay been withheld fora time longer. Bat by his efforts, and the timely molification of the Virginia members, who were all along opposed to the custom house ‘appropriation until one at Richmond was agreed to, the difficulty was got over. The nomination of Mr. Westbrook is not deter mined on, and John McKeon is spoken of now as the prominent candidate for the District Attorney- ship of this city. “* THE LAW COURTS. The case of the alleged lunacy of Thomas Dun- lap oecupied Judge Roosevelt nearly the entire of yesterday, and at the conclusion of the proceedings his Honor directed the discharge of Mr. Dunlap, and that his personal and real property should be restored to him. An interesting decision on “the equity of the wife” and marital rights was delivered by Judge @Qlerke, and will be found in the legal intelligence. Judge Mitchel bas granted a stay of proceedings in the case of Andrew Williams, who was sentenced te be banged on Friday next, for the murder of his wik by poison. FROM BRAZIL. Onr correspondent furnishes an interesting as- eount of the rise and progress of Rio Grande, the Brooklyn of Rio de Janciro, with @ description of @ome Catholic ceremonies, and a statement of a novel, bat Portuguese, mode of raising an army. NEWS FROM FUROPE. ‘The foreign mails brought by the America reached this city last evening. On the eighth page we give some additional intelligence brought by her. The Baltic is the next steamship due, She will probubly seach this port on Sunday morning. MISCELLANEOUS. We publiah in another column the latest intelli- gence regarding the recent frightfal catastrophe on the Busquehanna railroad. So far thirty-two deaths have occurred, and there are several persons whose ‘wounds, it is thought, will terminate fatally. The cause of this calamity is attributed to the incom. perency of the principal officers of the company, one of whom has been arrested. General Quitman and Messrs. Sanderson ani Thrasher, who bad been arrested upon warrants feaved by Judge Campbeil, of New Orleans, charge! with filibustering designs towards the island of Cuba, have given bouds in the sum of ten thousand @ollars, under protest, and been released from cus- tody. The noon train of cars from Philadelphia for B\- timore yesterday ran off the track at Broad Creek Maryland, killing Benj. R. Benson, the engineer and Joseph Bobinett, a fireman. Fortanately, non of the passengers were injured. The cholera is ragiag with fearful virnlence at 6t. Louis, The papers of Tuesiay last say that “there had been two haudred and seven deaths from thie terrible disease in that city daring the week previons. APFAINS IN THE cr The Boaré of of their present ses 1 bold ¢ to Monda~. “he Counsim.n hel! a moerting, passed anum ie © bh port: re’ating 'o stree's, the Fire D partmon’, ani ewer, and adjourned to Monday ihe i} ad’ ‘upervi transacted som rout ne busines. | Amoest det rmpne! a +m t st ren wis street, |ept by C a e+ A. Pev relly for stovare. | The private watch van detected persons in the atore | at about twelve o'clock; !e gave ai a'arm, and, aided by t'e | olice, ev'ered tue s'ore, where they found the p opr etor and his | rother, « bay fifteen yearso age, under very suapiciou circumstances, Evidence of the 1 Ost ;ost ve character was vist ble tua! a daring «item t hai been in progress to fire the building. A lar e « ity of camphene was found to have been th own over th: flooring, and cotton siturated with the iuii spr.al about in all directon’. | i:eesof cand e were a'so found in the tops of tottles, one of which was f.a:.d burn- ing in amongst the com/ustible matter. A report of the affair will be found in to-day's paper. THE CANAL ENLARGEMENT. The canal board yesterday, by a vote of eight to one, decided to enlarge the Erie canal, between Lockport and Rochester, to the (dimensions agreed upon in September, 1850. The negative vote was cast by the State Engineer. In anticipation of the decision of this importa:.t question numerous public meetings have recently been held xt the towns on the line of the canal, and yesterday a large delega- tion of citizens from Rochester, Lockport and other places, were at Albany, eagerly watching the pro- ceedings of the board. ANTI-CATHOLIC DISTURBANCES, At Bath, Me., on the 4th and 5th insts., the itine- rant preacher known by the sobriquet of the “An- gel Gabriel” lectured against Popery. On the last occasion a mob of several hundred proceeded to the Roman Catholic church, broke in the doors and windows, rang the bell, and finally set fire to the building, utteriy destroying it. The mob afterwards paraded the streets, manifesting their gratifloation at the achievement in the most boisterous manner. The blowing up of the Roman Catholic church at Dorchester, Mass., on the Fourth, has created an intense excitement in the neighborh od of the oc- currence. A meeting of citizens has been held, at which resolut‘ons to spare nu pains to bring to jus- tice the perpetrators of the outrage were agreed to. The origin of the affair still remains involved in mystery. . The Great Schuyler Swindic. The moral of the Schuyler swindle is one, we are afraid, that, like other antecedent occur- rences of the same sort, will be utterly lost upon our community. In a city ia which three- fourths of the mercantile and trading classes are living beyond their means, and indulging extravagant tasies at the expense of ethers, it is not to be expected that commercial ethics should be over strict, or that offences like that of the late President of the New Haven Rail- road Company should excite either excessive astonishment or reprobation. It is only the consummation, on a gigantic scale, of what each in his turn expects to acoomplish in a more humble way. The feeling created amongst commercial people by the event, is, therefore, rather one of respectful admiration for its coolness and audacity than of pharisaical hor- ror at its enormity. It is, in fact, the measure of a crime that constitutes its wickedness. There is this trifling anomaly, however, in the swindle figures—that in an inverse ratio to the the commission of some paltry breach of trust in order to supply the necessities of a family means, form a fit subject for the severe jus- tice of our legislation and the indignant homilies of the judicial bench, whilst the colossal frauds of our commercial magnates are removed beyond the pale of statutable a future state. The allegory which represents the Goddess of Justice as blindfolded, is, there- fore, correct in more senses than one. Deplorable as is this event, in the destructioa of confidence to which it must lead, both here aod broad, and in the vast amount of indivi- dual suffering by which it must be attended, it is to be hoped that it will not be unproduc- tive of some oompensating result. We were proceeding faster in the road of speculation than our resources actually warranted. The mania for railroad investments was in fact car- rying us to extromes that conld not fail to prove ruinous in the end to all the interests connected with them. The consequence was that few, if any, of these enterprises were rema- nerative speculations. In most cases they have been paying dividends out of their capital, in order to sustain their credit; and as they till continued to borrow, whilst opposition was constantly epringing up from new lines, it was evident that this state of things must seon end in bankruptcy. Now the effect of the recent disclosures will be for the present to destroy all confidence in these investments, both here and abroad. For a period of two years, at least, it will be impossible to raise a cent in Earope for railroad purposes, and unless some more effectual guarantees are provided for the money of shareholders than have been proved to exist under the present system of management, the same difficulty will be found here. This will give the old roads time to work up, and under an improved syetem this description of invest- ment will ultimately become one of the sound- est and eafest in the market, It may perhaps be thought that we are at- taching more importance to this exposé of the affairs of the New Haven line than the cireua- stances of the case warrant. A moment's re- flection will show to what an incalculable ex- tent it is likely to affect not only railroad inte- rests, but also every other kind of speculation. Although the amount of which the shareholders have been deframded is only two millions, we believe that we are father ander than over the mark in estimating the depreciation in stocks which it has already caused in Wall street, at about fifty millions of dollars. The panic will be still further increased by the discovery an-, nounced yesterday, that on the Harlem line with which the Schuylors were connected, there has also been a spurious issue of stock to the amount of between four and five thousand shares. With such loose management as these facts indicate, it is not to be wondered at that the “confidence men” have not hesitated to rvail themselves of the opportuaities thrown in their way. It remains to be seen whether the public will continue to sapply them with wil- ling dupes and victims, or will insist upon re forms being introduced in the direction of th oy enterprises, which will at least ensure thotr being honestly administered. If this be th~ only result likely to be brought aboat by these painfal and humiliating disclosnres—clike dis creditable to the moral feeling and strict ba ness habits of a commervial commuaity lke thle—we shall look upon itas cheaply purchased. even by the disastrous consequences with which is gortaiat nded # aso met, and | deaths cane by the recent collision on the - | more cre!itable t) the urors f it had been | | vered o» Thureda night ‘n th» sto e No. 147 Front | class of offences in which the recent railroad magnitude of the interests and the moral re- sponsibilities involved in them, is the guilt of the culprit estimated. The defaloations of a miserable pettyfogging clerk, who is driven to whose numbers are disproportioned to his offences and left to the remote retribution of and Susquenaona Raltrovd. ‘The ver ic: of the corone:’s nque t on the Baltimor an Suequehanna Ral'road w ald be | more explicit in its term , and wore direct in | | itscen ur. !t is quite o vi us that, as the | | jury says, the deaths of the per ons killed were | caused by the megligenc of Scott the conduo- | tor ; and it is also clear that ce sure is due to the officers of t'e company f r not being more explicit in their ‘nstructions t) th: cond ictore, But this is not all. Quite as acp rent as the two facts above mentioned ‘s the negle-t of the company in app ‘nting an incomp n: «engineer, and rendering it p ssible for an accident of this nature to occur. This is in point of fact the gravamen of the injury «f which we are now entitled to complain. When an accident of this nature cceurs, it is absurd to talk of censuring conductors, whose insignificance is a perfect shield from public retribution : the eom any is the party which shoul be mad: to feel the weight of our vengeance. Scot!, whoze mis- management was the ‘immediate cause of the disaster, cannot be reached by anathe- mas, and is secure from punishment; his incarceration for life would neither remedy the evil he has caused nor guard against its reeurrence in future. The railroad company on the contrary can be made to feel the cost of similar instances of negli- gence and mismangement. Heavy damages, sweeping off along list of dividends, would sharpen the wits of railroad men, and the pub- ie may rely upon it that they can prevent accidents if it be made their interest to do sv. There is no railroad in this country on which itiseafer to travel than the New York and New Haven; but this safety is wholly due to the enormous expense to which the Norwalk accident put the company. That disaster swallowed up eighteen months earnings of one of the mozt prosperous lines in the North, and has bad a most salutary effect not only on that road but on all ethers, The example must be folt@wed at Baltimore. The Baltimore and Sus- quebanna road has long been noted for the inefficiency of its management and the nig- gardly spirit of economy by which necessary improvements and safeguards were prevented. These traits of character, have at length pro- duced their obvious fruit, in the murder and the maiming of alarge number of our fellow crea- tures. No consideration must prevent ener- getic retribution for these injuries, The wound- 4 should at once take legal proceedings against the company for damages; the relatives of the deceaced should in like manner sue for a com- pensation for their loss. It may seem repul- sive to the feelings of an orphan or a widow to eeek money as a consolation for the lossof a father ora husband; but the survivors owe it to themsely€s and to the eountry to pursue this course. Those whose means of livelihood have been taken from them by this accident should demand of the company a suitable mainte- nance. Injury to limb should in like manner be amply compensated in money. No compro- mise should be entertained by the victims that Jeaves them worse off, in a pecuniary point of view, than they were before. There is justice enough in Baltimore to see that a niggardly corporation like the Baltimore and Susque hanna Railroad do not fatten on the blood of our countrymen. They must pay—pay largely —to the uttermost farthing of their earnings and their assets; it is enough for the victim; that they endure mental and bodily suffering without the addition of pecuniary distress, The readers of this journal are well aware that we have uniformly »dvocated the establish- ment of a rule, whereby railroad directors would be rendered personally liable for acci- dents occurring through negligence or mis- mapagement. The hardship which such a rule would at first sight appear to involve would in reality be no practical hardship at all. If railroad directors were working men instead of capitalists who accept the office for the purpose of speculating, they would not deem it oppres- sive to be held responsible for accidents which they could easily prevent. Private individnals are accountable at common law for the co: quences of their carelessness; and no one has ever been heard to complain of this rule as uniust or unfair. It is impossible to discover any Teason why corporations enjoying profitable no- nopolies, and intrusted with privileges far be- yond anything claimed by individuals, should be exempted from a similar liability. Every acci- dent which occurs confirmsonr opinion that per- fonal reeponsibility for accidenta should attach to the office of managing director of a railway. Had the directors of the Baltimore and Sus- quchanha road been thus liable, such precau- tions would have been taken that the reoent frightful massacre would not have occurred: and so itis with all the other accidents we chronicle. They occur, not from wilful perver- sity in the. managers, but from a want of that vigilance and foresight which the dread of pun- ishment and a personal sense of responsibility would ensnre, New York Porrrics—Prerararioys vor Tus Campaion.—The weather is hot enough to suspend business, thin out the prome- nades, depopnlate the theatres, and, in fact, annihilate everything exeept political gossip. “Talking politics” is refreshing to many people, and the higher the mer- cory the more piquant the discussion, The gentlemen who manage the political affairs of the city have already commenced settling mat- ters for next November, although there are strong indications that the result of the elec- tion, in the city, at least, will be such as to de- foat the ends of many aspiring patriots, The whigs at present are in high hopes, thinking that their success, with the aid of the Know Nothings, ie certain, To be sure, we do uot know that the new organization will act with the whigs; but judging from their acta in Philadelphia, Norfolk, Boston, and other places, it seems almost certain that they will support whige, Whether they will swallow the party nominations, as a whole, remains to he seen, There are always a large number of patriots who are ready and willing togerve their fellow- citizens in the various arduous State and city offices, and the intriguing for nominations has already commenced. The number of patriotic whigs who are ready to rush forward at their country’s cal) is very large, and it is cheering to seo So many instances of self denial, The democrats are endeavoring to patch op a plan by which they may maintain supremacy-in the State. Their “best bower” at present is the Non. David L. Seymone, the father of the reci- Procity movement; it is stated that he will ra- ceive the hard shell nomination. Gen. Aaron Ward, of Westchester, an unmitigated adamin- tine, is also mentioned. Ho served hie district in Congrers, durlag ceveral terma, The fact that we have » Con ressional elec- tion next autumn, bs alr ady attracted the at- tention of several aapirants. In the Third Con- native; Theodore A. Ward, whig and aati-Maine low; Janes Monroe, whig aod native, and ' Alexander H. Shuliz, Seward whig, are men- tioned as candidates. This « istrict is now re- presented by the Hon. Hiram Walbridge. In the Eights dstrict Evas us Brooks, silver gray whig, and Abraham Wakeman, Seward whig, desire nominations. In the Eighth district, | Thomas R. Whitney and Jobo Leveridge are candidates. They are both whi.s nd both identified wits th> native movment. Mr. Whitney owes his election to the Senate to this native influence, and we have reas m to believe that the order generally called the Know No- things, originated in his district. City offices continue to Le as much sought after as ever, and we have a few more names to add to the list «f candidites we gave some days since. Elias C. Drake is spokea of as a proper candidate for the office of Mayor of the city. Mr. Drake is a whig with native tenden- cies, and was the candidate of the last-named party in 1846, Morgan Morgans, also a whig, and once President of the Board of Aldermen, is also & candidate. For the important office of Register of the city several persons are proposed on both sides, Of the democrats there are three—Gar- rett Dyckman, the present incumbent; Sherman Brownell, and Charles H. Ring. The whigsare Jobn J. Doane and Olcott Rhines. ‘The statements in the newspapers relative to the large amounts of money appropriated for the cleaning and improving of our pablic streets, in contrast with the small amount ac- tually expended for that purpose, has caused public attention to be directed towards that bureau, and many persons desire to be at its head. George W. Riblet is mentioned by the whigs, and on the democratic (hard shell) side we find Mat. Gooderson and Joseph T. Sweet. These candidates, it will be seen, are all party men, and these who are fortunate enough to get the semfnation will run. Mr. F. H, Pettis, of No. 88 Wall street, anndunces himself as a stump candidate for Congress, as may be seen by advertisement. Why can’t we have some more stump candidates? It would make the race @ great deal more exciting; and as parties are now-a-days, the chances for out siders are almost as good as those of regular nominees, Let us bave plenty stump candi- dates. Tre Croron WaTER aND TRE STREETS. — One of the first duties of public authorities is to make such use of public material under their charge as will be most advantageous and beneficial to the constituency. The course of action of our own rulers, however, appears to be directly the opposite of this in too many instances. The best evidence of this last as- sertion, at the present time, is the action of the Croton Board. By a rule of these directors, the water pipes are closed up throughout our city, giving only the amount absolutely neces- sary to quench our thirst, to make our tea and coffee, and wash the dishes ; and the reservoirs, from week to week, retain their supply, stag- nating, fermenting, and almost boiling, beneath a sultry sun. Accurding to the rules of this board, it is true, a private citizen, who has been all day long ewel- tering almost to suffocation, and drinking in the clouds of dustwhich have darkend his wiadows, has a right to direct his servant to place the hose pipe upon the Croton, and with it to wash his dust-covered dwelling, the sidewalks and the street, thus, to a slight extent, giving the atmosphere a healthful and refreshing tone. This must be done within certain hours—before 8 o'clock in the morning and after 7 o'clock in the eveving. But this does no good in washing the streets, For this the hydrant must be set running, and this work no citizen has the autho- rity to perfgrm. If man ventures to take the responsibility upon himself, and opens the hy- drant to wash away the filth be‘ore his door, the police interfere, and the geutleman is informed that the Croton Board allows no such luxurious indulgence to our citizens, bat he must be content to live on, stewing, perspir- ing and dust-blinded, with only water enough for his drink and his domostic use. Now this miserly protection of the Cro- ton might be justified if any public interest were jeopardized by its more free use. If there was any danger ef the river running dry, of any sudden break in the supplying apparatus, or of any conflagration which might demand the full- est head of water, this preservation might be proper. But there is no such danger, nor grounds for any such apprehensions. The Croton river is full, its spring is never failing, the pipes are strong, and as to conflagrations, the Board niight be liberal to our citizens and stiil preserve a sufficient head of water to satisfy all fears upon this head. But the inconvenience to our citizens occa- sioned by this withholding the Croton, is not the strongest argument against it. The pre- sent draft upon it is not sulfficient to create change in the supply as often as necessary, Not only in the reservoirs, as we have sug- gested, but in the pipes, the same water is confined until the animalcule is dead; it becomes pregnant with tobacco quids and filth thrown in at the reservoirs and other places; it stews and boils, ferments, and stinks; it grows acetated from the iron and leaden pipes in which it Mes; and whea it has been worked up into such a soup—when the once pure Croton has been formed into such @ poison, the citizens drink it off with thanks for this beverage, only to the Croton Board. Thus we have two great evils growing out of this miserly restraint upon the Croton—the citizens deprived of its use in washing the streets, and their drink perverted. Will not these directors wake up to a proper appreciation of the injury they do our inhabi- tants, with this lock upon the Croton? If they” will not allow the citizens themselves to use the water at their own disoretion, thon enter into come arrangement with the police, which shall daily open the hydrants, and pour a healthful, copious and refreshing stream through the streets and gutters, carrying away the garbage and filth that have long been engender- ing cholera and disease, Some such arrange- ments might easily be made; and at various times the police captains, in their returns to the Chief, have proffered their services to open the hydrants and wash out the gutters. The times demand that action in this respect should he immediate and salutary. Death is in our midst; the cholera has obtained a foothold among os; citizens drop down on the sidewalks from the effect of a scorching sun; the streets are parched, dry, dusty and filthy. No wonder, then, in such a state of affaire, the people should cry for “ water, water.’ Conveyances IN THE Crry.—Twenty years ago there was but one line of stagesin this city— ; | grersi.. al di trict Will 6 B acks oae, whig and | from the Bowling Green to Bleecker street you |. On Thurdny night, ats few winntes before 12 o’elnek, might ride up for @ shilling, in an old-fashioned / concern drawn by four horses, The business was an experiment at first, but proved success- ful. Outsiders began to look about for an im- provement—the city extended—the routes must be larger. Some euterprising New Jerseyite gave us the comrortuble two horse stages thut now are seen by hundreds on all the streets and avenues. It was soon found that the business would pay at six cents for each passenger; and | a, Fev. sundry prising have | Theode yo. Lowe pple be | about the premires, when, from the arrangement of cer- fh | tain comvustible ma erlals, {t appeared an intention wae JIS3 | exbibiied to vet fire to the premises. Mr. Peverelly and avenue palaces, and do all other acts and things | bis nrother were arrested and taken to the Second ward , Wation house by officer tracy ano watebman amasced a sufficient number of sixpences to reckoned among the millionaires, occupy Fil pertaining to the aristocrat of wealth, who ia held here to be of much more account than the | aristocrat of birth. Fifteen years the stage proprietors reigned | supreme. New York was divided into two Claesee—the people who rode in stages aud the drivers thereof. No government could be more | camprene despotic. But the hand of improvement was again visible. For some ycars passengers have been conveyed in the Harlem cars from the | qh: ina short time the whale of Astor House to Twenty-seventh street. Many people found this: much more agreeable than, stage riding; and soom we find ‘railways im the; |Hir-t, Secoud, Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth avenues, carrying every day thousands of pa.- sengers, at the reduced rate of five cents, Th- Harlem road fare was lately reduced to the same price. The Sixth Avenue Railroad, whic’ cost about two hundred thousand dollara, will pay for itself long before it can be worn out. its receipts have sometimes reached twen- month. The other lines are comparatively prosperous. Who suffers? More people ride than ever be- fore, no doubt; but mauy of the stage lines have experienced an awkward diminutioa in their receipts. How to oppose the railway ma- nia? That was a question to which there could The fares must be reduced. The movement has already commenced. One line of stages, which runs through the Bowery, disgusted with the dry business of picking a few stragglers who could not get in the cara, came out boldly, a few days since, and reduced ty-eight thousand dollars per be but one answer: its fare to three cents, Since that time, these stages have been literally crammed with pecole —outside, inside—on the top, and everywhere elee where there was a chance to hang oa, even by the teeth. The legitimate number— twelve—has been entirely ignored, and the people sit on each other's laps, and sometimes (for all that we know to the contrary,) stand upon each other’s heads, like the Bedouin Arabs. Another line, through the First avenue, will reduee its fare, on and after Monday next, to dbree cents. We opine that the movement will be a universal one, and that even the Broad- way stages will be glad to get as many three- cent pieces as they have passengers. Then we hall bave the cars running at the same price, which will be a great blessing to poor people— editors particularly. Foreigners and strangers are sarprised at the cheapness of city travel in New York. Rail- way men calculate that they must receive two cents per mile; but one may be carried all over thisisland for one cent per mile. And it seems to be a lucrative business, notwithstanding the low fares. Let us have the three cent scale at once. CENTREVILLE COURSE, L. I—TROTTING. The ten thousand dollar trotting mateh announced to come off over the Centreville Course yesterday afternoon did not take place, the owners of the horses agreeing to draw their stakes, and disappoint the publis of witness. Dg a match between the two fastest trott ng horses in the world. Luckily, however, for many, the fact of the match being broken up had spread over the city before noon yesterday, and but a few hundred went over to the course. Those who were there were entertained with a race for a purse of $100, mile heats, best three in five, towagons. The entries were b. m. Laiy King, b. g Righiand Boy, b. m. Gipsey, and g. m. Clapets. Lady King won in three straight heats, is most excellent time, ‘This was her first appearance on the track. Highland Boy was the favorite against the field at one hundred to seventy previous to the start. The gray mare did not come to the post. First Heat.—The horses were started nicel, but Lady throughoat, King soon went in front and led the part although clorely followed by Highland Boy. She wou by baif a length, in 2:433f. Gipsey was taken up after passing the tance and came tothe score on » walk. Leen rrr ‘in — the lead, fo'lowed up ga seeming not match for the others. The ge Meat the bay mare made an exciting race. The mare, fast forthe gelding, and came home in 2:37 Third Hoat-—Giptey was now withdrawe, leaving the Tace to be decided Boy. The mare won this heat very easily, in 2:47}. The following is the summery :— ‘ * gag dhe ly 7.—Purse $100, mile heats, best three in 10 . 211 2332 + 8 Bar. ae Personal Intelligence. Hon. W. B. Meeker, N. J.; Col. E. M. McEntyre, Boston, Mass.; Signor J. Bonard and lady, Havana; E. M. Trover, Fog'and; and Signor F. Balletten, Cuba, arrived at the Union Place Hotel yesterday. : é B. F. W. Clenahan, Baltimore; B. Fisher, Texas: R. M Keechival, St. Louis; E. M. Rittenhouse, New Brane- wick; and J. H. Baker, New Jersey, were among the ar- rivals at the Presoott House. ; Hon. C. The Hon. Thaddeus Stevans, and the Hon. H Hibbard, yesterday pate Bry ver, Rir-d ures from the Metro- politan for ARRIVALS, Pieteriee, ire Nafew, Mise tosh, Misses and A re i Henning. at o 38 saa 47 5B Bee: hayied IDL, D Sonat tt MA ty SEP uke Sheets ween £8 Jobn, SB: wise Shephore WS Whitney, @ Van Abbott, of 8 Weateott J BStevenson J Browa of CW: JT Unkle: bec: N New Yosx Oustvses—Luruovauest or | | from wherer the fre however, proved too & Daring Attempt to Fire a Store. ARREST OF THE PROPRIBTOR, CHARGED WITH THE OFFFXC}—cUNSIVERSBLE § EXOITEVENT AMONG TERE MERCHANTS. ® privace watchman, named John J. White, watehman in Burling Mp. Front and South streets, hearing a noise Pr credig {tem the opening of ‘ter, weat to seo from wher ce the noise come. and found it was from 147 Fropt street Suyposing there were burglars with'n, de raised an elarm, when two of the Second ward police - apd another private watchman, named Ladd, came to hie assistence Afier making an attempt to get im at the door of the store withont success, they got im through the widow, the fall of the shutter of whieh had aroused the atiention of Mr. White, and there foun’ Mr. Charive Iy, the lessee of the store, and his brother eladef 15 years of age. A search was mide - Mr. White,»ndi dir J evin, tbe other thea proceeded to exami: the p:emive-, when they found cocton strewn about the various foors 1m cuantdecable quant ste turveptipe or sopyhers oe io the sates 72 1ge lex muffed with strips cf pine wood, oakam tate, iv alternate layers, saturated also; and between E vhe ip of the building be arid of saturated Oakim woe ph ced, (ree the affi :avit of Mr. bbe apeenge Spt ples of cansies in bortles, and a haif cask The rations for fring the buildi and eps: ring its nn ction were most extensive “4 iu their character ; and but for Mr. Walte hear- kat : voine in the store, aad bis to see : there is but little dou ot the would heve een ope sheet Bh wos Bet Mase, During ti.» das great excitement prevailed about tr in #, eecanioued by persons deing desirous of wit-- Lessing tl.¢ mutus ope andi of the accused, und of othere. Wirhing t teve ‘hel property away. Upon imspecting the goois contained in the store, fears were a ary that there sas vot sufficient property ara v siclaime, bir. Boker the Fie Marshal, was applied to- by Mr. F. C Flecers, the captain of tne igsarance watch, thortly atier the arrest of the accused, at three o’clock in the morning, who immediately and juayected ibe prenilses; when: by fous, i aaaiien to the above, that there were several casks of camphene, nore or less, used in preparing the place for deatruc- tien. In the cesar was » lerge quantity of pings rma incamptere The crevices arouna the iron itters- thoughout the building were stuffed with cot: with th: mm ent. as tt would seem, of preventing the fire or smoke being ob-erved from without; and in seme of the witdow-waye & bale of cotton was jammed, and through- out the hatchways were opened, im order that a thorough draught might permeate the premises, and help tue iniendea tre. The candlea found had allof them been evideotly lighted, and doubtless had been extunevished wien ‘he watchmen and the officers: had xnoched at the door. The candle in the cellar, which wax pl.oe! in the midst of the spresd combusti- bi+a, was burned nearly to the edge. Oa the north side of the store is 8 house fronting on Maiven lane, and about # yurd from the premises in question, which was fill- ed with poor families, The shutter ways fronting on this. building ere mere carefully ed and stuffed than auy of the otber windows. Mr Peverelly and hia brother left the store about @ quartr before seven o’clock, with the intention, as they said, of going home; the store was then locked by @ negro, acting as who retained ~ the hey, apd deposited it in Mr. a Mquor store, int Pine sirret, as wus customary. Sir. Baker, the Fire Marshal, Ger went to Mr. Avery's to ascertain the truth of the story, when tne key was nue ag the peng wis ur tee or he had been let there the preceding even' y negro. apd bad been hunging on the nail where it bad been . placeo ever sivee, whicu key the Fire Marshal took poe session of )§=When Mr. eet was arrested, on batdg © searched, @ new key, which fitted the pi was found. ‘ihe goods ia the store consiated of bales of oot- top, belonging to Taylor & Rich, J. P, Swaine & Ca, Bremer & (olwell, ana C. Dillinger, and some hogshead« of sugarand ol It was ascertuined by the Fire Mar- bal that the caske of camphene were brought on the, premites between 6 and 6o’ciock gn the aft of ‘Lbureday. 2 Yesterdgy Mr Peveretly and his brother were takert fone Suction Welsh for examination at the Tombs— where be is sitting to assist Justice Osborn—for exami- pation Mr. bag conise sees the part of the scoured. 5 er Was John White sworn—Lives at No. 5 te ed streci.. Fouth Brooklyn; am a private watchman in aang Fropt and South st.ects, from Fulton street to lane; was last night (Thursday) tem employed. 10 take charge of fe eljavag ont in street, frow . Maiden love to Wall s:reet; about midnight his attention wan drawn by a noise fa pags 147 Front street; eocu- pied as a storage warehouse by Charles A. A when the ir sn shutter of piace thrown . mn by some perron inside; ponent then crind vPeatele when policemen John Devin and Tracy oume to bis ssi; ance, and 8 private . mn, George Lane, when deyonent, the officers and wate’s- ‘rn enceavored to force open the door; failing to do so, they all climbed up at thy window, the shutter of which. was dewn; afer entering the store, depoveot met Charles A. Peveretly and Theodore L. Peverelly, eg sev coping inte the ofiics on the Grat floor; the ¢l whe apieared much excited, in answer ton question, atabed he was Charles A. Peveretly und the owner of the atore, and. that he hed a right there, and that all was right; ther (Cherles ana Turosore) were then taken into élatody by s fiver Tracy and watchmen Ladd, aud convoyed to thks. Second ard station house, whilst Devin and Reeves re» wuined in the store to mabean investigation; founds the crevices of the front door stuffed all around with cot- ton, and in the rear of the store several bales of cotton. Were scatiered or strewn about the floor, in s apace of about ten or twelve feet square, and completely saturated with apirita of tarpentine and oil, it wasa Ughted piece of candle stuck into a small etone bottle, on the r of the said store, immediately ander the hatchway of the second story, (the being open, quantity of cotton, reaching nearly to tue ceiling: t and the officers. then went vp tu the second atery of the enid buslding avd found on the four, near the hatchway, several balos of cotton which were all torn open and stauving end- Wire; they thea weut to the third story, and found a bale of cv'ton which bad been torn end the strewn sll about the floor, from the hatchway to the rear of the loft, and saturated with turpentine or cam- phere, and undernesth the window of the loft a quan- Hity of cotton was pil-d ¢ight or ten inches in ht in the sme loft was found a box about six feet in iy and two jeet thick, containing alternate la; of wood and oakum, raturate: with turpentine or cam- phene—sko s quantity of saturated um waa fount stufled between the crevices of the F cottcn Was found scattered, and the found iv about the same condition. saye thet in the second story of found two bottles ana the them, bot Set ight Tol bering. evidence of 4 it pet ted, bat been Nevalieny: Gated and on front office, wus found an iron Wooked and the key in the lock, were five or six account books; on alao found, alongaide a chair, fei gd cut off a piece of candle The investigation for the was concluded, tha frnoper eas remanded for farther examination, w will be resumed to-day. Brooklyn City oy ANFUAL COMMENCEMENT OF THB 7H FeMse Acapany.—The eighth annus! Rees op oo of nb Female Academy waa celebrated evening as is eltentavat-- toe grectosh proportion Ieties Bet wes Gorth's and wan in attendanos. Fae Fre cr Me. Van ccoupled by the trustees onda po men. The proceedi were opened with prayer, by akan tere read. The reporton the ia were © Tepors on collegiate tment lee J hho diplomas were awarded to the fal ouug ladies — Misa Nis Gresmeosd, Brooklyn. F Reet 5 » Denedietion was delivered, and the separat seam teseene ts rte ten G ptrert, mansion on Wash- ington street bas heen occupled, and a new edifice of brick, in the Gotitle style of architecture, and of ample dimensions, ia now in Course of completion the former structure. A munificent 966,000 having beea made by Mra. tbe acai the plan of the old building f : ; woen, by a charter from the will be merged into the Parker: dircetion of the «ame Board of Trusives, of the ci y ex-officio as one of their number. The exiteme leng'h of the bui is 130 feet, and its depth 84 fer, being five stories in height, witl)a hase. ment, avd a tower rising one hundrel foat in heigut. ‘The ground attached embraces sixteen lotae The edifies js entered by @ hali sixt-en feet in width, with fourteen feet ceiling; ane on the firet floor are the reception, li- brary and buriness rooms, all of ample dimensions, with 8 besives for school purposes There are three ascend the upper stories, from the right, left and rear. The stairs are six feet ia width, and each step. about four inches in beight, making the ase nt conve nient. The s-oond story contains the lectare room, ap Paratos room, labora.ory, with eight other ta. ibe thi ‘TY Cov teins eight rooma, besides the eha; ‘red by three doors from the main hall. It is in dimeosions, with gaileries on three sca ing spout 1,000 persona, . The tourth story contatos the fifth story six roome. whieh are very cious, and Gtied up for drawing and painting, ‘and Sapa This story