The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1854, Page 4

eee ee ee ms : 7 Crane created the groates’ consternation. 3 | { shy, ‘and win \iicg, Jest year, have left s large Rep Ca stock of the Erie and Bunbury Railroad. 9. | by honest men, ino cent and ignorant of ganas Cone of Philade}phia coreg a= pond ead } Be nace bevincens mana to woke: Vas conan OF MABEAU AND YOLTON ere, | Tae” {ni CRLETET#®, Do Neon obtained {Atr | tus exploded, the fancies are nowhere, Wall ‘peacateihe when the, same: amen | treet is becoming sober after a fit of delirium private sources, and Mr. rane was one of these | M170, 432%" ,, | private sources. The city, in consequence, of the | tremens which might have been more disas- 4 | trous. Breadstuffs and ‘provisions are exces- i M pe-® | recent ta, will undoubtedly withboid . (rate Greet Bit 8 a a eee mabecriptivn, and he operations | sively high—the war in Europe renders the IE taken of anomymous communications, “We de | on the Sunbury road remav, for atime suspended. | money market and the cotton trade subject to grsiainine iver | At Boston, yesterday, tv, stock of the Central | its futastions—the Nebraska question has re- SET EL Sp'en ramon Conte "Ss | Railroad was mspended {om the oaks of the bro- | swajcened a the fanaticism and revolutionary Santer Pacesom amar on. SS = ** ** | ers until the course of the company respecting } yengoance of the North, and a reciprocal epirit of TERMS, eae “SoLuNTak ¥ CORRESPONDENCE, é spore ALL LE 8 dy mail for Subscriptions of oie {ism | the over-issuc is ma®e known, Meantime, a com- | pitterness and distrust in the South. Then, again, eoments pais, portage will be 4 from ; i ” 9 Seopa ith neatness, cheapnen, and maine of ‘the dlvechy-n 18 HORA Sh eee ee | the lists of paesengers of the Collins and Cunard mae sates re: AFFAIRS. | steamers and of the Havre line, show an increase Commen to inferior grades of State flour were | of cur summer visiters to Europe, deducted firm yesterday a% 12% cents per barre) higher. Prime {rom those classes who have exhausted the old white wheat’, was firm and indemand. A prime | froth and dregs of ‘Saratoza, Newport and Jotvof white Mir higan brought $2 per bushe’. Good j Niagara, and who have yet s bouse up town, shipping corm, also, was tirm, with sales of @ cargo | and some ef the profits of succes-ful specula- | tions and stock-jobbing to e. These, all ef poy daily journal in Barope or America, extent at Pie oficial quotations given fm another | theve, ane goons ted bs int coun of Fre Pally Hraacy circulates ‘neatly sisty Mowsand | column, MISCELLANEOUS. } the tremendous falling off this year, as com. pponntet cadres : The Nfew Hampshire Legislatore, afer a sessiun | pared with the last, in the visiters to New York, ‘he Weekly editons—pudlished eo Saturday and Ban- | and our Northern summer caravanseries of of six ‘weeks, adjourned on Saturday last,'without “Wag—reach s cireulation wf nearly seventy *ousanAshee's | day, ‘Tne session has proved especially disastrous | fashion, its follies and its false pretences. par week. to emeral Pierce and his friends, io and out ef the | There is yet another cause for this reduction Woo aggregate issue of the Bema ertabliskment i | Stave in the defeat of all their plars, and the rejec- | in our summer migrations, which we cannot adeut four hundred housand sheets per woek, or ove | tiwmof all their canditates, It ia byno means im- | o-oo. The cholera prevails in the North and in the West, especially at all the prominent sciaty ell ‘ Tardtable that the next Legislature will be under the m eee 2m lain aere agaen Sangaincy hyena cities and towns of the seaboard, the great lakes “Mails: abolition Senators will pe elected to Congress. As ‘ o 25 Fea é ae and the St. Lawrence, while the extreme South and the rural districts of all the interior of the EW YORE HERALD—CDITION FOR HUROPE. ‘mo Senator was elected, Mr. Williams’ seat, held by country are wholly, or almost entirely, exempt. eoday, Jaly 1 To the Pabile. "he New Youu Hmucy hae’ now the lergest cireulsten | or two ata # tight advance. Cotton sold to a fair ‘Hee Cunard mail steamohip Americs, Captain Lang, 4 ¢opointment from the Governor, becomes vacant, SAB ave Boston to-morrow at 12 o'ciock M.,' fer Liv- | «54, the rule laid down by the Senate in the Ver- oe. ‘mont case. Its existence at the great centres and salieat repeen mails will close in this oity sat: quarter ae Are : Its existe : . d rap seein nr spa eae ee Baltimore repert that city free | joints of our Northern lines of travel—from fhe Wammry Heir, (printed in French and English,) wR de pubdlimhed et half-past mine o’cleck this merning. Single coptentn wrappers, vixpence. ‘Bubecriptions and sdreztisements for any edition of the Waw Youur Huzirn willbe received at the following places tata No. 2 Paradise street. . John Hanter, No. 3 Benwon 7 fandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. ‘No.'19 Catherine street. Philadelphia to Bosten, and from Quebec to Chicago and St. Louis—is doubtless acting as @ blockade to a vast amount of pascenger traffic, which would otherwise be on the wing. We have reason to hope that the disease has reached its maximum, here and eleewhere, and that our next reports“ of mortality will show a general decline in the num- bers of its victims; but any relief now from this source will come too late to save the season at our hotels and the watering places. It is too late to hope for the rush, the crush and the flush of 1853, or.anything like it. The fall trade may enliven, to some extent, Broad- way and our hotels; ‘but our Northern watering places, we apprehend, excepting their local cus tom, can hope for nothing of the grand harvest of 1853 till the year 1855, or the Presidential ycar of 1856. Excessive inflations produce corresponding reactions. The speculations, and stock-jobbing, and gambling and swindling operations of 1853 are, under this inflexible law, brought to some- thing of a stand-still in.1854. And it is useless to calculate again upon the attractions of such another humbug as the Crystal Palace, super- added to the yellow fever panic in the South. The lion bas ceased to roar, the panic is re- versed, and bills falling due must be paid, or there will be a general crash. In this state of things we would advise the sensible readers of the Heap to eschew the foibles and flummer- ies of fashion, to live temperately in all things, to distrust all steck-jobbers and speculators, and gamblers and swindlers, and to be ready for the chances of.the fall business. The citizens of New Haven decidedyesterday, by & majority of over six hundred, not to introduce water into that city. The estimated-expense of the works was $325,000 only, The Legislature of Pennsylvania, at ite last ses- sion, passed an act authorizing the friends of an in- ebriate to give notice to an innkeeper not to sell the intemperate person any more liquor, and yesterday Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, had a case coming under this law ‘brought to his notice by the wife, mother and deughter of a pereon of drunken habits. It was the first prosecution brought under the act, and the Mayor bound the seller over for trial in one thousand dollzrs bonds to answer. ““Wam. Thomas & Co., YH STRAMEMIP FRANKLIN ASHOBE—LATHE ROM EUROPE. We have received intelligence that the steansship Pranklin, which jeft Havre on the 5th inst-, for this pert, via Southampton, went ashore early yester- @ay morning, during a thick fog, sbout fifty miles ‘weet of Montauk, on the coast of Long Island. At Best accounts ber position was considered critical, although it is probable onr informant might not, wader the peculiar circumstances, baye been able $e form a correct opinion. In another part of the Paper we have given all we could learn in regard #0 the matter. At a jate hour last night a meywenger reached thie city with. despatches from the ship. He came wpon a special train over the Long Island Rail yoad, acoompenicd by about forty of the passen- gers. All the passengers were landed in safety from the steamer, and will reach this city early Mis forenoon. Owing to the non-receipt of our regular files of papers, our compilation of the European news is mecessarily very brief. Enough is known, however, 2 show that the slumbering elements of -revolution have at lost barst forth, and although every effort hae been made by the government to suppress the material facts, sufficient has transpired to convince ae that what is now derisively styled a military in sarrection in Spain, is the premonitory symptom of @ grand explosion, The names connected with this enterprise are those of men who are not likely to dend themselves to the formation of a mere émeute. The Austrians have entered Moldavia. The ada- wance, consisting of twenty-four thousand men, to ‘we foliowed by other larze bodies ef troops, march- ed into the Principality on the same day one year ago that the -Rossians crossed the Pruth. By referring to the articles on this subject from ® Jeading London paper, in another columa, our weaders may learn the effect which this movement has created on the minds of the allied Powers, ‘There is nothing of importance from the seat of war. The Anzlo-French fleet off Cronstadt, were st last acconnts expecting t@ attack the Ras silane. The commercial news is untavorable for dealers im dreadstuffs. Cotton remained unchanged, with wut a moderate business doing. FROM WASHINGTON. Fashion—Oaur Hotels and the Watering Places —The Cast Season and the Present. Our fashionable Northern watering places, of the seaboard-and the interior, from Coney Island to Niagara, and from Nahant to the uttermost sources of the Susquehanna, appear, upon the average, to be in a languishing condition, com- pared with the “flush times” of 1853, Let us briefly state the case, and the principal causes for this unexpected, extraordinary and lament- able falling off in the fashionable migrations of the present season. The “flush times’? of the year 1863 com. menced some months before the military pro- cestion in which the President of the United States marched up Broadway on horseback, in a lively thunder shower, to the inauguration of the Crystal Palace. But the Crystal Palace was the conspicuous stimulant to the rampant spirit of speculation, overtrading, stockjobbing and swindling which have since been brought to light. The Crystal Palace was the great Catholicon, the Universal, Panacea, which was to cure the whole business world of New York and the North of all its ailments, {[t was enough to know that the thing was to be done. that the Palace was to do it, and the modus operandi Was.2 matter of genera) indifference. The millenium commenced before the expira- tion of the winter—it advanced with the iroa skeleton of the Palace—it culminated with the inauguration, and has been declining ever since. The whole year of 1853 was, in truth, a year of jubilee to our hotel keepers; but in other respects it was a vast humbug, a delusion and a snare. Like the South Sea Bubble, the Yazoo swin- die, or the Morus Multicaulis monomania, there Was nothing like our Crystal Palace till it was tried. Stocks went up, goods went off like hot cakes of the richest qualities, in the largest quantities, and upon the most liberal credits— houses went up, stores went up, lots and lands and all sorts of fancies and wildcat paper went up, including Parker Vein and New Haven Railroad Jeremy Diddlers. Country merchants and Southern planters, with their wives and daught me pouring tn by thousands, to make their purchases, to see the Palace and the lesser lions of New York, and to visit the sea- Waar tary Tark or New Yore in tite West.—The St. Louis Repudlican is very se- vere on us; after alluding to the Schuyler swindle and its cotemporaries, it inquires feel- Ingly “Is there anybody in New York who is honest?” If for New York the words “Wall street” had been substituted, we might have had some hesitation in answering it; it may be @ question whether any quality of honesty will stand the atmosphere of that region. Roguery is certainly epidemic there. Small swindles are always being practised under the shadow of the Exchange; bogus companies got-up, worth- less stocks sold to flats, and lies told by the bushel to filch men’s money from their pockets, Every now and then, the malady assumes the shape of a plague, and bursts forth with such violence as to shock every one. The small every day rogues then sink into insignificance, and actually seem honest by their contrast with the leviathans of knavery. Such a scene was witnessed in 1842, when a few bank and insurance offices helped themselves to a couple of millions of dollars by issuing spurious stock and falsifying their books. The following we believe are the figures:— Levis Schuylkill Bank, false stock...........+ $1,300,000 Nicholl N.'N. Life and Trust, false certificates.. "349,000 In the Senate yesterday the bill providing fo: the | shore and the springs. The large stocks which Schermerhorn Ocean Insur. Co., false entries... 110,000 Yetier preservation of lite and property in ship- | they bad received upon a promising credit Heweses Mantatten Bonk, feloeane Thicee ‘wrecked vessels, on the coasts of the United States, | would enable them to flourish a little and enjoy wiki —— was taken up and passed. The Lighthouse Appro’ | themselves; and so the seashore, the moun. | (evict ttstisecesesseesee ap a We have made progress since then: the over- issues which have come to light within the past month represent a par value of some twelve millions of dollars, and must have netted their perpetrators something like half that sum. This will probably suffice for the present; ten or twelve years hence, we shall require another developement, and the sum stolen will then bear the same proportion to twelvemillions as that does to the swindle of 1842. We have no intention to assume the defence of New York; but we think some distinctions must be drawn which the Si. Louis paper has omitted. Schnyler’s frauds are as fairly chargeable on Conneciicut as New York. A share of the odium resulting from the Parker Vein expose ought to fall on Maryland. ‘The Vermont Central frauds belong wholly to Bos- Priation Dill, which has already passed the House, and is now before the committee of the Senate, eontains an appropriation of twenty thousand do!- Jars fora similar purpose, but its expenditure is restricted to the coast of New Jersey. It cannot be doubted that some comprehensive system of relief for shipwrecked vessels on “our coast is almost indispensable, and, therefore, we trust the House will not hesitate to concur with the Senate, even Mhough, as ie most likely, the Jersey appropriation should be rejected. The resolutions fixing the sal- aries of the employes of the Senate, and increasing those of the legislative department of the govern. ment twenty per cent, was adepted. The Home- wtead bill waa taken up, and Mr, Clayton's motion to strike out the sixth section, which places aliens and native born citizens on the same footing, joa rogards the benefits of the bill, was rejected bya { mete of nineteen to twenty-nine, Mr. Stuart pro- . pared a substitute, whieh extends the privileges of taine, and the lakes, from Long Island to Lake Erie, and from the Hudson to the Saguenay, swarmed with their overwhelming migratfons. Another cause contributed largely to swell the tide of the last summer's travel from the South to New York and the North. It was the yellow fever and its fearful devasta- tions among the Sguthern States flaaking the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi river, Flying this pestilence, large numbers of South- ern people sought refuge here, and at our vari- ous swamer resorts. And, as vultures follow in the track of an army wasted by battle and the plague, so the Southern migrations of the last summer to the North were followed by flocks of gamblers, sharpers, and all classes of the chevalier Mindustrie. Our hotels were literally packed with visiters, from basement to Benduree—Encvurcgument to Hanigretion— } soiored race in this country. The anti-slavery TL. heral Tendeneles, By hate arrivale from Hondaraa we are or.a- bled to lay before our readers a synopsis Of the charter of the Honduras Railway Covapany, which reeeive] the sanction of the constitu- tional authorities of that State, and wa; pro- claimed on the 29th of April feet. This charter is distinguished for ite liberality and simplicity, and in these respects cam probably claim a su- periority over any which has yet been conceded for a similar purpose. One of the marked featares of this charter, and which evinces the foresight of the Honduras governinent, is the encouragement that it holds out tofcreign emigration. For, although Hon- ‘dures occupiesa favorable and commanding geo- graphical position, extending from cea to sea, and having unsurpassed ports on both oceans, as well as a territory of great and varied riches, egricultural and mineral, yet ber re- sources and advantages have hitherto been very imperfectly known to the world ; first, in oon- sequence of the narrow and exclusive colonial policy of Spain, and next from the unsettled condition of Spanish America generally, since the independence, which has had the effect of deterring foreign enterprise from taking that direction, and of embarrassing all local at- tempts towards developement. These conditions, however, are now much changed, and the general movement of the peo- ple of the United States in the direction of the Pacific, serogs the Central American Isthmus, has not only infused new life in those regions, but their resources and advantages have ar- rested the attention of enterprising and far-see- ing foreigners. The prejudices with which they regarded the natives, and the jealousy with which the people of those countries at first re- garded them, have given way, if they have not entirely disappearcd, on a better acquaintance. And we now see a general disposition to har- monize, if not fraternize, as @ means of mutual benefit, and as the general principle of common interest. The people of Central Ameriea have @ vast, beantiful and rich country, but they want scientific and mecharfical intelligence, in- dustry, capital and enterprise—precisely what the Americans poseess—to develop its resources and to make it produetive to them and to the world. It is, after all, only a pompous pov- erty to be the owner of league on league of lands, rich as the sun shines upon, if these lands must lie idle and waste for want of means to cultivate them. Don Fulano may have mines rich as those of Potosi, and yet be miserably poor, because there are no roads by which machinery can be carried to work them, and because there ie not sufiicient industry or intelligence te apply the facilities which mo- dern invention bas supplied to their develope- ment. The charter which Honduras has recently con- ceded for @ railway through her territories is an illustration of that new and better state of feeling to which we have adyerted. The government of that State, always distinguished for its libe- ral tendencies, has, we repeat, shown a wise provision in this charter. It comprehends the importance of calling in not only foreign en- terprise, but what is of equal importance, foreign labor. To this end it concedes a liberal bounty to foreigners who will establish them- selves in the State. Artisans and laborers coming out to work on the projected railway are not only entitled to receive fifty acres of iand if single. and seventy-five if married, but are ex- empt from all taxation, or civil or military ser- vice for ten years, except with their own con- sent. Meantime they are entitled to all the tights and privileges of native born citizens, This is a stretch of liberality exceedingly unpalatable to a certain class of men in Central America, who depend upon the gencral igao- rance and poverty of the people for their so- cial and political ascendency. This reactionary and monarchical party, or, as they are called, “serviles,”’ profess to see in these concessions the germs of great future evils, and denounce the government of Honduras for having admit- ted “the Trojan horse,” from whose sides will some day emerge a host of enemies, who will be content with nothing short ofan entire exter- mination of their race and religion. It is diffi- cult to believe that such a narrow, ignorant, and bigoted spirit should prevail at this day in any part of America. Yet we observe in the official papers of Guatemala, in significant conjunction with fulsome laudations of Sana Anna and advocacy of Spanish protec- torates, a systematic attempt to excite the passions and prejudices of the ignorant and unscrupulous against the enlightened policy adopted by Honduras. For a time, these de- basing appeals had an effect, and it appeared’as if 2 combination would be secured, sufticiently strong to break down the liberal government of Honduras. The revolution in Nicaragua, how- ever, has dispelled any such apprehension. Th> reactionary party in that State, with lis bigotry, intolerance, and exclusive policy, has been signally overthrown. The actual government is imbued with liberal principles, and will act in strict accord with Hondurasqand with San Salvador. These States ave really the only ones which, from their geographical position and other causes, have any great commercial or political importance, or in the policy of which the world has any direct interest. It is important, therefore, as well as gratifying, to know that they are governed by enlightened ton; and they surpass all the others, inasmuch as the offence was deliberately repeated by the President after the detection of the first. Those affairs have created more excitement here than elsewhere, because New York is the centre of trade and finance; any severe chock is first felt here, and radiates from hence throughout the country. But the crime was plotted and com- mitted in as many instances ont of New York as within its precincts, Again, the St. Louis editor quotes the Walker divorce case, and the case of the merchant who fired his own store, as evidence of the horrible depravity he sup- Poses to exist here. We don’t know whether People ever set fire to stores in St. Louis or men’s wives sue for divorces in Missouri; both Practices might be common in that region with- out anybody in New York hearing of them. But in Philadelphia, Boston and all other large cities, incendiaries and profiigates are by no meansrare; and their police courts seem to have as much business as ours, Large seaports, receiving thousands of panpers and immigrants every week, must not he judged by the same standard as country towns. Wall street must take care of itself; we have nothing to say on its behalf, But therest of New York, if due wllowance be made for its population, the foreign immigrants it contains, and the nataral tendency of rogues from every part of the coun- (the bill to all persons who by State laws aré en- Aitjed to hold lands, and fixes the price to be paid Ndy persons seeking the benefit of the act, after pos. #s¥asden and cultivation for five years, at twenty-tive oexte por acre. It also provides that for lands o cert.sia time in market twelve and a half cente ao acre tall be charged, according to the time the Jand ius geen in the market. And it moreover allows theStates in which lands lie to take it at the gradvated prices for railroad purposes, Other amendmems were offered. Tho debate on the amerite of the proposition was interrupted hy x. Wate, who succeeded in getting ap a gteonal controversy with Mr. Clayton ia regar@ to langeage used some days previouly, Those who feel interested in these wordy quarrels ave referred £0 the telegraphic report. The motion to reconsider tie vote whereby the Pacific Telegraph Bill pansed, wes rejected, as was also that providing for the printing of the Nebraska-Kansas act. The ‘DD creating Dunkirk, Barcedona and other ports in Western New York, ports of entry, was briefly dis- gassed and passed. In the House yesterday, the bills for regulating the pay of the army, and increasing its efficiency by retiring disabled offteors, waz rejected by a vote of ninety to sixty-four. In commitiee the Army Ap- propriation bit! came up, the question being an re- peeling the law author'ring the employment of mill- tary superintendents iv te national armies, and providing. for the appointment of civilians in that rervice. Before arriving at a conclusion on the sai- jecs the committee rose. VERMONT CENTRAL RATLROAD. ‘The Crano frand is now the subject of o n ip financia At + powe yeeterda>, the intelligetes @” the doing: of | sky-light: yea, oar most commodious Broad- way establishments were compelled to colonize, as at Saratoga, hundreds of their surplus cus- tomers among the surrounding boarding houses and private families, for their sleeping accom- modations. Throughout the summer Broadway was literally olive with strangers, and clusters of Southern “sporting men” enlivened its bar- rooms during the day, and reaped their golden harvests {rom the uninitiated in its splendid eub- terranean saloons by gas light. Such was the delusive millenium of 1853; and looking down upon the saturnalia with the selfeomplacency of a mock auctioneer, the Crystal Palace was decreed the lion of the day" Pity—oh! what a pity, that Barnum was not called to the helm before the tide had run out, and left the concern like a Feejee mermaid, high and dry upon the shore. ‘Bat what's the use of si When time is on the wi Where the galvanic appliances of Barnam have failed, we must be resigned. 1¢ is the will of fate. We always regarded that ride of the President and suite op Broadway, through that thunder shower, asa bad omen for the Palace and the whole schedule of speculations resting upon that flimsy and transparent delusion. The delusion is gone. The “flush times” of 1853 are superseded by the day of settlement. The heavy bille contracted the last season are | try--St. Louis incladed—to flock to the motro- falling duc, Money is comparatively tight , Will compare we think with any of the The Sebny] oo] of financiers and stock jot wh nhabi now gsbaling vir \ere, from their Mberal expenditures in faebion | tucug indigzstign over cer Les, ~) pling men, on principles of the widest liberality, and that, so far from thwarting the enterprise of citizens of the United States and foreigners generally they are disposed to a frank co-opera- tion, on the basis of common interest and mu- tual advantage. Tae CouncmMen at Crvcrexatt.—We have news of one of our Corporation scientitic e | cursions. The special committee of the Com- mon Council sent to Cincinnati to examine the new steam fire engine (!! ) arrived on Wednesday last. On Thureday they succeeded in preparing themselves for their arduous duties, and on Fri- day a trial of the engine was arranged for their benefit. The Gazette of Saturday says “they were highly pleased with all they saw,” which is very encouraging; and we have only to hope that they understood “all they saw,” and that they will be able to tell us all about it when they return. The Gazette intends tohelp them out by giving a “ detailed statement of the work- ing of the machine.” So it is just possible that the special committee may know something about the matter when they return. At any rate, they will give us all the particulars about the Burnet Mouse, Longworth’s Catawba, = other Buckeye institutions. We must have ething from such an expensive journey. Tur Free Bracks—Sometmye ron tan ApoLitionists.—Sensible people, in this country, have always opposed the emancipation of the slaves, and the equalization of the black and ould Teed we a Soko Code ee grdaal estingtion of the + an PA PE ESCA Obituary. DBATE rs. eee orators, and their presses, have always dodged thie question, which has been frequently pre- sented in the Hmnutp; but we have now the most convincing proof of the statements above alluded to, We give to-day a careful analysis of each census from 1790 to 1850, inclusive, with accurate calculations as to the increase of the free colored population of the United States The results are astounding, and prove very clearly that if the white and blackraces ever come into competition, the negroes must give way, and have no longer a place in the land. Marine Affairs. Launcs.—Mr. Thomas Stack will launch from his yard at Williamabnrg, at 4 o'clock this afternoon, the bark Rebecea, of 300 tons register, built for Messrs. M. M. Freeman & Co., and to be commanded by Capt. Charles 'W. Storer. or Naw Nathaniel B. Blunt, Digtrict Attorneyof New York, a leading member of the New York bar, and of the family of his name so honorably diatinguiahed. in the recent political and legal history of this city, died suddenly, of congestive fever, at Lebanon, at | fifteen minutes after ten oclock on Sunday eve~ ning, 16th inst. Mr. Blunt's father, who is still living in this city, at the venerable age of from 94 to 100 years, was, the deceased iswyer was born, on the 19th of June, 1802, a0 that he was fifty-two yeara and four weekx old at the time of his death. He was educated, we believe, at Harvard College, and he was subss- / quently connected with the press dean associate editor of the New York American, under Mr. Charles King, now President of Columbia College For nearly twenty years he had devoted his tine and his abilities entirely to the law, with what sucx cess may be inferred from the important and honor. able offices he has held, by appointment and elec: tion, in this city, and the eminent personal popu- larity he enjoyed, as evinced by the votes which he received, under circumstances peculiarly anfavora- City Intelligence, ‘Tse Cosronanion Vierr To THB VeaMOnTQuaRny.—We yesterday morning stated that Alderman Fly and Presi- dent Brown, of the Board of Councilmen, would accom- pany the committee of the Common Council to visit the Vermont stone quarry. We understand since that Presi- dent Brown does not intend to go upon this visit, and Mr. ELy speaks for himself aa follows:— TOTHE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. In your of yesterday, you say I have gone with a | ble to the whig party, of which he was a supporter deity st oe Yet, NYhers t anpocr tee: Wiltses | equally earnest, vigilant, and conspicoous. Pleave make this correction, and NATHAN ', Preat. of Ald. and ARTS. one of the Commissioners of Health. Sraxar PREacmnc—Riv. 3M B. Woop sor CeAtievd 1mkNTY.—On Saturday last a was sent bry paper stating that "the Reve J. W. B. Wood, of the Grand street Methodist Ey chureh, would preach in the street, at Williamsburg, on Sunday Jast; bis sub- ject, ‘Roman Catholicism from its foundation.’’ We yesterday received a communication that the above paregraph was wholly incorrect; that Mr. Wood ia a ra- "ly ordained preacher, and never had avy idea of jeaving his pulpit for the atreet to preach. Weare glad of propuiety init Soy minister ofetanting tad regulae of at any ri ordained, Jhoald consent to hrrangue # strect crow upon the present exciting topic of Popery. Tur Carson Lascug.—aA temperance meeting was held last evening in Dr. Hatfield’s church, on the corner ef Broome and Ridge streets, Mr. John Barr in the chair, and Mr: J. J. Riley officiating as secretary. The objects of the meeting were explained by Mr. Blackmer, the nature of the excise law, after which Mr. Greeley male some remarks on the effects of intem; , in the course of which be showed that those who were addicted to it were more liable to be attacked by the cholera than those who refrained from the use of intoxicating liquors. After addresses from Messrs. Blackmer, Hewitt, and oth- Hie relations with the principal leaders of the: party were remarkably cordial and friendly. With Mr. Clay he waa a grest favorite, and he returned the confidence and affection of that illustriour leader with the most generous and unfiltering en thusiasm. Mr. Blunt’s health, until very recently, had beer remarkably good. In the Walker case, which wa decided a few days ago, andin which he was en gaged as counsel for Mrs, Walker, he labored very hard, exerting all his powers in behalf of hi client, with that unflinching devotion and stead fastness he was apt to display in such cases as com, mended themselves to his sympathies by evideu qualities of justice. At its close he was much fa tigued, jaded, and in want of rest, and he select: for a temporary retirement from the heart of th city and the cares of his office the pleasant village o Lebanon. Soon after his arrival there he was st tacked with a slight diarrhoea, and used opium, per haps too freely, to correct it, bringing om thus, w. are informed, a congestive fever. His two brother Mr. Joseph Blunt and Mr. Edmund Bloot—wer summoned to his side, where his immediate famil: were already assembled, on Saturday; and th Assistant District Attorney, Mr. A. Okey Hall, wit! Mr. Brown, one of his partners, left town to joir him before the intelligense of his death was nr ceived, yesterday afternoon. His remains wills rive this noon (Tuesday), at Thirty-secon/ street, by the Harlem Railroad cars, and his faner: will take place to-morrow (Wednesday), at th: o'clock P. M., from his late residence. Mr. Blunt was known to his friends as a politic: ‘writer of ability and power, and for many years we an occasional contributor to the press. Many: the addresses put forth by the whig party in th’ city were the productions of his pen, and more tha’ twenty years since he assisted his brother in editin and compiling the “ American Annual Register,” work in seven or eight volames (on the plan of th “ British Annual Register,”) published during Ge: Jackzon’s administration, hedlenoe to call published yesterday, "a Warv.—In toa pul 7, & of the liquor dealers of the Eighteenth held in Union on the corner of Twenty-second street and Third avenue, at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon. ‘There were present about two hundred-dealers, who felt themselves much wronged by ae ee licenses pha ‘to the ward New York Hoxricctrvrat Socterr.—A con’ meeting of this society was held last eve: at ite rooms, No. 600 Broadway. Some twenty specimens of out flowers, including roses, fachsiar, tuberosas, and Digoinias, from the gardens of Mesers. Cranston & Bur- Se. wee exhibited, Some fine of red and currants were shown Laan ton. But » fow members appeared. Mr. Jas. haz filled the chair. RescorD From Drowsixg.—John Lee, whilst in a state of drunkenness, jumped into the water, at the foot of James slip, East river. He was rescued by Sergeant Knowles, of the Fourth ward police. Fatat Ruwover AocipEext.—On Saturday night, Mr. Jno. them. t a.German, residing in Fifty eighth strost, | He was for about twenty-five years a confidenti: Seruae wed reatet gh "was, dreadtally friend and correspondent of Henry Clay, and i injured. He was taken to his home, and attended by a physician. He lingered untit whe: day. - egg 1848 was sent to the Whig National Convention « Coroner was notified, and aa inquest will be held to- Philadelphia, by the whigs of this city, to promoi the nomination of Mr. Clay, whose name he had th honor to propose to the convention; bat Gener: ‘Taylor was preferred and nominated on the. groun Fata, Jump rrom 4 Wixpow.—Aloxander McBride, of 44 Robinson street, on Sunday night, jumped from a third window of the house, while leboring under fever. Tho ringing of a ‘fire bell alarmed him, ~ Mr. Chagres 6 re wiki gia of, fe mae m4 of availability. Mr. Blunt was Corporatica Attorne by appointment of the Common Council of this city in 1837 and 1838, and has been twice elected Distric Attorney by the people. Such was his liberality an integrity that he has not, like many of his politic: friends, embraced his many opportunities to ami a fortune, Mr. Blunt was not only an able and efficient of cer, deeply interested in all matters affecting ti public morals, studious to discover remedies for « cial evils, and prompt to apply every corrective : yesterday. An inquest will be neli on di hie body to day. Vier by bon yong crib ee Mont- gomery Guard, Thomas §. Murphy, left the cit poe a visit to Boston. This company, one a the finest of our citizen militia, numbers seventy mus- kets, and were accompanied on their Eastern Fr by Bhelton’s celebrated band. ‘They were yesterday after. noon escorted to the steamboat Knickerbocker by the Emmet Guard, who will also receive them and escort them to their quarters when they return. The steam- boat Knickerbocker, with the soldiers on board, left the wharf at the foot of Cortlandt street at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the band striking up a stirring air as the steamer glided Found the E Battery. The members of the | bis power, so that very many intelligent citizei 100 iu tizen wol- | heartil re-elect Giery in Boston, by whom thay will be ‘received sod iy approved of bis lon to the office « District Attorney who were opposed to him in n: tional politics, but he was one of the most impo tant members of the whig party in the city and tt State, and his death may well be regarded by th: party as a very serious if not an irreparable misfo tune. The members of the bar will meet at the cow room of the Court of Sessions, in the New Cit Hall, on the 18th instant (ey, at 12M, t evince their for Of their de Coaved brother, N- Bowditch Blunt, Eq. “ Maria di Roban” was repeated last night to well filled house. The new contralto, Signor D’Ormy, seems to have at once established herac! as a favorite with the public, if we might judg from the frequent encores which she received in th course of the evening, and the warm applause tha greeted even her most trifling efforta. Although th réle assigned to her in this opera is not one calculate to develope the full extent of her powers, it has su! ficed to show the effect that she is likely to produc: in more difficult Si at a bound, as it were, the first rank in her profes sion. The re-appearance of Maretzek in his usual piso in the opete, After bis late severe a care of till their return, on Thursday or Friday next MirstaRy—Tue Baxrek Ruves.—This com , attach. ¢d to the 19th Regiment, Colonel Stebbing, 4 Passed a resolution to spend the next anniversary of the compat ” 22d December, (od birthday of the lamented Baxter, wh the city of Washington. This company is second to none in the regiment in numbers and discipline, and no other company has added more to the appearanie of this regiment. New Srgameme Leve’ro PriLapaurma, Tovcntazat Care ‘May.—The well known and favorite steamer Mismecho setts has been placed upon this route, and will leave this afternoon on her first trip, from picr No. 20 North river. She runs in connection with the Pennsylvania Reilroad ,, Which will doubtless secure abundance of freight, while from her eu acoommodations she moust receive a good share of patronage from tho travel ling community, expecially to Cape May, during the summer months, Fura Patta.—Coroner Gamble sectoral ATAL FALts, er yesterday held an ia- uest upon the body of Leon Selfino, an Italian, who ived at No. 17 street. Deceased resided in a “rear room of the third story of the house, and fell from the area below, and receivod injuries er pened, nor was it eyery that do- ceased was of unsor mind. A verdict of accidental death was rendered. Coroner O'Donnell held an i the body of Marianna Crowe, an infant who came to its death from a fall from a dow of the premises 289 Front street. child with its parents were in With the window, which had been opened for air, and it 4a nupponed the child being restless in the night hed out. The occurrence took about one o’clock yesterday morning. The child’s skull wes fractured in & terrible manner, and death was almost immodiate. ‘The jury returned a verdict of accidental aeath. Favat ACCENT on Te Trimp AvENvB RalLe Coroner Hilton yesterday held an York Hospital upon the body of John Mullins, whi ag from injuries he had received nest nj age, and a native of Ire! ‘Cuotmna.—Coroner Gamble yesterday held an inquest at 489 Pearl street, upon the’ poy of —— Nicholls, an ne, 48 years of age, of cholera. Fm) for the ment :-~ In a beautiful village in the lived old ge Tyrol Miller, oo and his motheriess iz 4 au i is aii z i it tet Tut Common Covnort, Commrrrer at OINcINN ATI. ~The steam aE iteg ates spa ven’s Gift were noon to ex- before ihe comsuittes of the New York City Council. As usual, both machines did their duty, and threw water far over the'Mechanics’ Institute. The New Yorkers expressed themselves | bighly gratified. After the trial was over, the stran- rera were invited to participate i 4 whien of course they did, and had a very good tigen Cincinnadt Columtian, Jo's lor she knew Rodolphe’s positi Mision, Aue DOL Wve, Prompted ber } begging Wurm, whom sne loved,