The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1854, Page 3

Beard af Aldea mon. ‘Tah Beard heii tbe eighth a4 best weeting of the egret wmice oo Wetnentsy—hetane ( fy Enq, Pro abbot te tbe aber ‘The minsics of ibe net meeting wore ree! and ap Res Coser ume ‘The repert of the Coeneiimen, ia faver of ronfirutag ‘Bepreneent hol ‘or beinting ee cor a Bareri sireet trom We Bowery to Arty feet vest af Caryouc strert , of mame, Sheeking Treatment of a Seaman. DRATE OF FICWOLAS COOK, ON BOARD THE Pacuur iP YOREGHIRE—OORONER'® INQUECT—VERD.CT auny. ago, we announced that a sailor, named New York Hostal, injaries sustained, as he “thind mate ef, the ship Yorkshire’ beating him several, times in the mot {shumac meaner Affairs in Washingtoo. {Correopundence of the Philadelphia Ledger } snflering dzeadtelly sald, by the first and i if es oa A ai! i i Hf EF 4 as s : § f ¥ t j s beavy armaments exbensted ali available fi i i! i ib i , f } apd most reliable troop: al d 1 i © ' } pil _ sd 5 i ff t i i : i t i t i H i : rf ij 7 nl Bs ff: i i ; i H ' iY fy . Dew governments, and the ruia of ail pew statesmen, no matter how lever or ho- The new government of Spain, thezefore, whetr er it be of a revolutionary charac- ter, or 10ys] yin a new guise, will ba ol think early of some financial operatior replenish the pnbtic treasury, It is in this connec- thn thatthe thoughts of will naturel y be tarned towards the It ie not believed that the Spanish government will seriously entertain a proy to the United States; nor 1s it probabie that of Cubs would like to be bought and sold Bat it is not at all in- if { i f e~ Destly inclined, r j : it i iH ii f i # i if if t if if & i F i & E ' pe # it H S| ae if i i a s2F $ f A & 5 H ; { . = # i 7 i i Hs { Z H { é ' i é I new Spanish ralere ovlonics. 4 i if 4 i lf i é i ' i i i l i i i ? 2 t | rit é Fe it i i ¥ ' é i i 4 i é i ¢ e s i i FH i je aheep in the market, probable that the Cer desirous of much money, er an annuity for a term fe i z t Hi re tf : i i j f : i ¥ i i : i E ss i F | a g. < ef 3? i i i i ! i fr —and do it without loss of riven to.jt by a foreigt ibaus once independent themeelves and the revourees of them would seem most beneficial and practicablo, end they wou'd do so without gi elther to England or France, or Pan power. They migit ask the ith money, or to assume the guarantee of their independence and the @ue to Spain. This FE F f : 4 &, B ge { i sf ving umbraze to may Ouse Hacer United States to 134 sf Hi § r a fe d é st F : i He : is te Fo { Sec i ef Z President in the chair. lr tf a ? [ He al i F is Ey if | New York Canals. ‘THE COST OF THE PUBLIO WORKS—MR. M’ALPINE'S BeTiaares ontane UNDERSTATED, LBANY, August 16, 1854. To rwe Eptron ov rer Aunany Aneus:—" peers ot thiacity $ atthe estimates which I sub- itted.to the L+gislatu-e for the vompletion of the 81 and upon which the ition were based by tue Legislature, and voted upon by = by me at only nine and a 8. Ip an article in the Albany Evenin, the 14th insta: t, it is aaia that “Mr, oes Dso_ of oonestruetip; podiiy, Mr. Clask im aes f - 3 ~ i id ie i in ?. ut Ee x3 Hi 3 i fie € § rH il i d rte i F iff public wo ks of the of the iH f et a i 3 i # setts be vo fr m the is E iE bE Ly Hs 1 toke the liberty to request that you will permit me through your journal to correct Mons misstate- the 23d of March, 1853, I submitted an esti- to the Legialuture ,(#e 3en. Doc No. 64) of cost of completing the Price conal enlargement; eplargemen’ std compiotion of the Os«ego ca- locke avd chaune! wok; the enlargement and completion of tho Cayuga and Seneca sanal and river canal and imorove- of the Bisck river; ana finisbing the Genesee cost, 1, fencrs, miscellane: us, ri amounting toge- “that the cost of there estimates does not claims before the caual apprais- re supposed, at hat time, By referenve to my report, it will elao be seen that it does pot include locks on the Champlain cand, because that work suthorized, aud an estimate of tly estimated, by my }, and if theso two items ded to my estimate it will in>rease the amount rteen and one-balf millions of dollars. the €th of April last the £ i ret I £ + with Rdalgence will be extended i Dyatet h Pie ias egret eal we Sy or, in of t are ou! see rege the vemmatentioh ter pend Board of the Ghief under ounshiesa inances relating 10 vplley canal, he'vdin éeinegea, moving bul wuperntendence avd enxineerin: Uber to the sum of 1 also stated in Your committee the b f present for your sdoption the 4 to cata Cas: FOR THB MORE EPFRCTUAL KECULATION OF THR to emount to over $100, cost of evlarging the the First, Seconds Thir ‘Seventh, or Kighth tire distri taben or allowed to go, upon any p:etence what- ever, out of the district in which tho same m y 09 Moat- except upon the ordor of the Chief Engloeer. ec. 2. In the event of a general +)arm of fire, the com- ES tus from «ll the fire ¢istric's shall per- he distric: whese the Gre ts raging. 8 Any company who sbal {ofringe upon any of the provisions a8 above expressed, shall be forthe first offen. evspended for three aon'hs: sach suspension to | coant from the time of the approval of t! ‘the Mayor ard for the sceond offencs such ¢ mpany be disbanded. tec, 4. It shall be the duty of the Chief Engineor of to report ali viorations of the above within teenty four hours after tee same shall | eowe to his knowledge, ana it is herevy of al} Assistant Engiceers to report to toe: | ail bofrippements of tte ssove section of @ts oruinance of wineb they may have knowledge or ivformatio: all cow.panies so reported shall be prevented > bef kurincer from the porformance of fire daty (at until action be had on eald complaint by ‘Was not called for. pis work was subse r nt State Engi red to the Legislatw ioe > © cost ot the and works before mentioned, and also helm, op tbe rendition of the verdist com ; from the city. and will not | probably be seen in New are, however, insved fur je@ted in Ube mansl: iT Convention of ‘Tbe Convention of Delegates of the Livers! soe oties of New York, held ir wrval sem!-monthly meeting oo Wee. | Bescsy evening, at $0 Leonard «t:oet- Mr Asheubsouner, President, in the chair. After the minutes of the dast moeting were read, ( nil Forbes bronght before the socley's notice the d! + ressed condition of the Roman exfles w’ New York. These Mtalls | brovght from the Romen States, are te aetete which calle for immediate action on the port of the sath pape They have been foreidy rout here after fonr years imprisonment fer thelr aetl papal acd reyab plea; (hey are votalty igeorent of (he He: there estimates would probably be found to vary considerably from the cost whieh will be incurred whe v the works ar. constructed.” The reports and estimates of Mr. Clark were rt, on date taken from my oonual re- porte of 1602-58, while my report of Mared, 1555, a The onnval reports ot the State Engineer are iy with the law watch requires reeentiy | that the entieates ; rovcuted shvuld be coaticed wo tie work uncer contract. It bee not been customary to ineinde In t' ose neitores But ovune ted with the Bn- See. d. Ali ordinances or parts of ordinances Inéomatst- ent With the provisions of this ordinance are hereby re sec € This ordivaves shall take effect imnoti: ‘ety. Afier a long dobdate it wos woved that the yx er be | Maid ov tho table, and its further con Idoration was ul:i- mately adjourned. b The Board then resolved {teelf Into Committee of the | Whole on the reports of the Committee oa Assessments, | when a large namber of reports recommending varior expendltares for city improvements were w poyera seeeptod were ordered to be laid on t: 1 fie Board then went into the third reading of bills, | many reports of the Finacce Committee, re | ayments of money for a hundred or #0 of | ere rea @ad ordered for payment on Astensments, in favor of la Wall street ferry, was theu con- to ts stoption, on | raise a rent when a mepes are detyrmined by tie Canal Apprrisere and the misco vmuiner and paid by the Cacal onl reports of the raced these trem, | thetr denunciation of | way of earvieg acta and su Gerings, val fe port to the Legislatare of 1 ah ct of toe amendment cf the ocnsti slow, | e'ated the whole cestcf ding all that wore then proposed Now York, and if, #hen they no ~tbcead These par eontene + landing io New York, th yt Irieh. are moet bitter ag ¥bom they regard as of there men ovteloet at Wortervelt's evtp to be coustracte i. Mr. Clark, ope year afterwards, made a al reportto tle Legwlatore, under precisely cirermetences as my #pecial report waa made and furniebed an extigate, os before observed, n.acly ove end belf m-llions of dollars lesa than mine Teanrot doubt toat the newspapers which Deretofore made these erroneous statements in re- public work:, as made out by Mr. Clark sod myself, will ¢o me the justice to make the correction. neceraary © it may be for from the Stale wien M ed, and that on my return telpec from him that be bad never aeserted in ic, that the completion of the poi works would cont sixteen, eighteen or twenty mib ious of dollars, as has been staced by some of the newspapers. Reepe tfully, y ur obedient servant, Wa, J, McAurive. Counetiman Coxovrn was los cme be —— unl se existed, for the reason that ® company " viewal was doings profitably - sith, 4 we oi tho subject, and > oa oll events en esvor to rectify acts of 1 grosg, the late ‘The resolution was ultimately adopted. Is wan moved and seconded that when the Hoard ad- it adjourn to moet on the fire! Monday tn Septecn- age recelvet from other wrrmen, Ten went at thelr own etpem inte the country te « brick making evtablekment, sith @ recomacn talon | from the migrant Society, bu are the men to dor They are not sudject to the none any feeling for some further remarks bad bea mele ures the entiemmen present the follow Convention salle the atten‘lon of the siteation of the laden jelities! exile re Fequest citizens to offer ore, cabinet makers, tvs, am! wast iFticulars ean bo obtalue! fiom forem ¢ to the cost of the id. that Twas absent Other reports from the Committee on Assersmenta | Upon and ascer fees aapen op.snd acted on. Aftera homorous ne, the Board adj mille Uber tiaton aed Srerrerice Or Mantow Coonry, frtend who lately vietted Marion county, we presented with the follow log statistical > Aen Tes | ment of the smount of load ewtered np to Decem:- wentlon. ber, Inod— 265,379 acres. duter into correspondence | Toth] valuation of aamecment In “ “ ‘ Lege (already PO | tacreascin two yeare Two letters were then. aigent from the central one Lom New Orleans | both cestring union with the New Secretary was directed to Presented and read by the Pre- of liberal eovietien — | the otber from Cinelanst!— ehed) were then taken up avd diecyesed, M. taom, delegate frem the Democratic Union, pre- ast hanna Court—Sperial report from that Union MW Rovni, of the Teckel Teform. Soot, presen EL, the \eform wary, it Teport to the aame effect, * a | delegate from the Freie Gemeinde, said that he was ratisfied that the report from all (he Frenen German Rocieties would express sim iar views Yurther discursion on tho auliject beng ‘tL the next meeting, the Coovention Tncreave In two y } fey necst cece | ii 7 i } aith: ithe Stitt val it tH: H iF p i om i elke baveciral iF iff i i l fie f : i a il i ts ache : topimo, an Indien Sachem of the wide who made Goverpor Vane a visit for sake of entering into a treaty with the whites. It ereme that the: biefe of the Indians dined with tne Guv- ernor, while only the attendant went to the ordi pasy,® name hy which the imn of tast period was of cuterteinment, called ordinaries, into wach, inted to that office, who ‘SLrust bimeelf is CF at Bae 40s 3 and if drink than the officer fo his judgment, coud suborly bear away, be would presently coun termand it, and appoint the proportion weyoud whib he could not get one drop.” Perhs # our friends who groan under the Maine law, may feel, aiter reading the ebove, that they bave not fwien upon the worst of times, In our revolutionary times, and iater, wa read of number ef Boston taverns. There was the Geen gon tavern, near Dr, Neale’s chureh on Hanover steet. ‘This was femous as the rendezvous of poll. tical caucus and club mectings. Another house on Hanover street. was that of the Golden Bull, near the spot where Bevjamin Franklin worked in the z i ' ; atranger went, he was followed by ont ap. | } } z key t by Mrs. Clepham on the present site of the | Merchants’ Bank. The Royal Exchange was promi- nent on the same street. On School strvet was Brackett’s tavern, and opposite Hayward place was thatof the White Hors, a oe: Be father of Perez Morton, who died in 17: veral of these pas sare alluded to in Loring’s Hundred Boston raters, Esi)y in thie century, in the year 1808, was an era | ip the bo:el business, for at that dae was erected the Exchange Coffee House on Dovonshire ‘street. It was built on the circulation ef the Farmers’ Ex: | cbenge Bavk, which had no actual capital, at a no minal cost of $500,000. At this date it was toe | wost extensive establishment in the United States. | The house took fire in 1818, and there being no en- give in town that could nh the upper stories, it was busnea to the ground. rejoiced in the. dest, a tion of this honse, in sonsl- aeration of the mode of its erection. Benjamin | Avstin said of it—It was conceived in ain, i forth in iniquity; but it is now purified by re. It _was the preceding year that Me. Hezekiah | Esrl, who for ao many years condnoted the Barl Hotel, in Hanover street, : ommenced the basiness. Mr. Es1is one of the oldest men iis! Ez e teak g He] st 2 i Hi r g g 3 [ [ 2 38 F +A 3 ,, * & ef 55 i i & Q) g s : § i i E Le Hf BSS g& ; 5 Douse. It has a sba e of the Apap Coineyene of the special lover ‘ariborough fa en) heuee. Here reli ‘ot er houses are the chief hoases sof cold water. pratics'ly the religious worshi » has beea observed the parlors morning and eveoiog regularly, we believe, for fifteen years. The service has reall become an “institution” of the establish nent, Other }ouses in this city and county have mato- | tained similar services for @ longer or shorter period. In this connection it may be moutioned that most of the public houses ia the land are furnished with | Bib'es by the Bible societies, or by kindred institu- | gracteall locas ree | ar at all sea sons of the year, it 1 difficult oe pos the book could sccomplish a more beneficent mission, Lewis Rice, of the American House, is be- Heved to bave beep engaged longer in the hotel | de basiness in Boston than nected with it. e Tt is the fotentioa a of one ~— cndine le remains upon very 8} where be has been for a quarter of a century the changes trat ke has witnessed | where in his pursvit must be both interesting aad instroetive. Another veteran ia the basiness is Mr. Daniel Chamberlin, of the Adams House, distin- ished alto for the number of houses he has had rge of, In a world tike this—in a country like ours, where ‘tual motion has been more near; than ever before—shat could we do without the traveller's home? Ii ving, in one of his del: thus speaks on this subject:— less man who has no spot world which he cen truly call hia own, there is a There were those who | retired from the business in Boston. Mi who began still earlier to keep the Patterson Hotel on Rim vtreet, is atiil living at the advanced ag? of more than four score years. He ie the oldest man living who bas been in the business in this city. His successor, Mr. Solomon Wildes, etill lives {a our city to epjoy the f.rtune that this business gave It is within the last quarter of a century that the greatest improvements in the hctel businoss have occurred, to which the erection of the [remont Hovpe in 1828-9 gave such an impetus. This butkd- ing cox‘ained about one bundre i aud eighty rooms, wos every way & palace of a house, and 20:n be- came kt own t out the country and the world. Just previous to opening of the Tremont, the old Exchange Coffe House, which hae just ovased to be a hotel, was the most fashionable house fa Boston. Others that ranked next to it wero Huarl's and Wilde’s hotels, the old Bastern, the Gommercial Golee, the Inélan Queen, the Marlbaro’, ‘he Lion e1d Lamb, (near the present site of the Adims Ac sea and the Lafayette, opposite she Boylston market, The business of keeping a public house, even no longer ogo than a half or quarter of @ century, was very unlike what it pow is. Toen the housea were generally muoh smalier, the amvuns of capital in- vested comparatively smal, the hands-em loyed manny less, ad the whole interior arrangemente of houses, including the tables, far inferior to those of the present day. The nowber of hotels in Boston at the present time, acoorcing to the Bis‘on Almanack for this Jear, is seventy-two, as follows Adams House, 37) Washington strect, Dante) Chowberlain; Allany Hotel, Albany, .orner of Kneeland, kaa Hail, Jr.; Albion, Tremon*, soraor Beston, J. W. Berton; Amerian, 42 Hanover, Lewis Rice; Bromfield, Bromtie'd etreet, 8. Crocke $; Brown's, Lowell ttreet; Buffel), 38 Lincolo, J. Mer- ritt; Central, 9 Bratt’e square, Wheel ch & Casi tat City, Brattie street, Gage & Tucker; City Point, Fourth street, J. King; Congress, Pearl, coraer High, Wn. Hastings; Colombian,176 Harriaon avenue, Sto- hen George; Cornhill Coftee, Oornbill Court, Goo. ‘cung; Cunard, Webster stree:, (£. B.,) A. Psamer; Eagle, corner Fulton, G. Terhorat; Engle Hotel, 24 Noth, A. MacKeppy; Eastern Exchange, E. Ry R.wharf, J. B. Carter; Eastern Re R. House, 244 | ‘Da Yommercial, P. Tripp; Elm Street otel, 9 Elm, M. J. Brockway; Florence flouse, 86 South, Libbey & Boutell; Fountain, 36 Harrisox ave- bue, A. W. Ri ckwood; Fourth Ward, 9 Wileon lane, Jvbn Wade; Franklin, 44 Commercial row, Ivhahod Samson & Co.; Freeman’s Ian, Sea, Jeremiah Brown; German Coffee, 155 Pleasant, Mis. C. Pratl ; Gibbs Hotel. Court square, B, Wood; Giobe, Hanover, cor- ner Commercie), 8. C. Brooks; Hancock, Cornhill ct., J. Ae Duggan; Hanson’s, 72 Court, James L. Henzon; Hope, 26 North street, Thomas Reet; Jet- ferson, 18 North street, James M. Lucas; La Grange, 40 Upton street, J. A. Drew; Lowell, Lovell street, C, Ober; Monsion, 181 Hanover street, E. Ganerzon; Marh er's House, North square, N. Humiiton; Mai ket square, 8 Marke* square, Benjamio Butte fi Marloo 0’, 229 Washivgion, John A. Parks; Massy cburets, Encicot, corner Cross, Meigs & Keeler; Maverick, Maverick square, T. J. Plummer; Mei- ebante’ Exchange, State, Henry Dooley; Merchants’ Hotel, 13 Change avenue, Ephraim H yea; Merrimac, corner Frietd,J. W. Sargent; National, katone, corner Cross, Hiram Tabba; Now Hngiand, Ciioton street, L, Mayrerd; Olo Colony, South, corner Kuce- lend, Pats) Bolly; Pavilion, 63 Tremont, D. Har- vey ; Pearl Street, Pearl, corner Milk, Wm, B. Sunth ; Phenix, Pleacan', opposite Bliot, J. Reed; Quincy, 1 Brattle eqnare, Alanson Long; Railroad, Turnpike street, South Boston, I. Leavitt; Revere, Bowdoin sqavre, Paran Stevens; Kehmood, 5 Rechmond street, A. B. Clark; Bail Hone, 99 Purchase, Jchp O. Chaney; States, 2 Cornhill court, Nachu piel Tead; &. B ston, 75 Fourth street, H, Hubbard; Milk, A exander Macgregor; J.E. Boydon; Tremont, fre- mont street, Pt Stevens; Tienont strret, cor ner Contor W. Hureltine; Vermont Centra, Canal, corner Canse Cofee, 158 Wasbiog . He 1,186 Washing: Azariah Coole vee, Mill Dam, Bawin aul 114 Cambridge stre H De + Whismey's ney; Wilder’s Hotel, ‘hrop, Tremont, cor- ¥ mercial, George Nosiou; Eastern Steamboat at ra B. ; mtr Boyleten, J. 1, bilsby. To ths list may he aided the Commercial, 54 Couseway street; Concert Hal!, Court street; the Fwopean ard QOoean houses; the Bte Tavern, 8 Market street, and others that are as properly hotels as some t ot bave been menti ned, so that the whole numLer must be eighty or more. From a pretty carefiil estimate, we are confident that more than $4,000,000 are invested in these houses, Including tend, buildings, farniture, etc. The value of each establishment ranges all the way from $10,000 to $400,000, or more. Tue Americao Hevee, including the recent addition, is believed to be the most expensive bone, and it will now pro- bably scoommodate as many or more guests than any other in New Eagiené, It covers 30,000 feet of lend. The United States is about the sacie size, an@ bas 350 rooms, or more thaa the Astor, in New Yorks It can conveviently lodge 600 guests, ani as | many os 800 bave found a home in it at the same time, Well does William Chambers, who has just made sn tour through this country, exclsin ‘n view of such facts, “an American hotel is not a house, it fe & town.” One of our largest hotela consumes 600 tons of coal a )ear, one hundred cords of wood, and seventy- five loads of cbarcoal, The same house consumes © wndred pounce of butter daily, one hundred corn of eggs, and as many a¢ 600 pounds of meat. The expenses of one of our largest hotels are ut momentary feeling of s»metuing like independence torial consequence when, after a weary he kicks off his b sts, thrusts his feet. shippers, and +tretches himeelf before an ian Let the world without go us it may—'et king- doms rise or fall—so Jong as he bas the wherewitn- his bill, he is, for she time bei of all be surveys. The arm throne, the poker his eco) some twelve fovt square is a morse! of certainty snatched from the midst of the uncertainties of life. It is a sunny moment, gleaming out kinjly from @ cloudy day; and he who tas advanced some way on the exiktence knows the importance ol even morrels and moments of enjoyment. “sl I not take mine ease in mine jan?’’ thonght I as I gave the fire a stir, lulled back in my elbow chair, and cast a complaisant look about the little parlor of the Red Horse at Stratford on- Avon.” ¢, and the little parlor of avdisputed empire. It Ter Deovent is New Haursnares ann Vee- mo>t.—We kasn from private ictters recently re- ceived from northern Hew Hxmpabire and from Ver- mort that the drought continued with unabated violence, threatening utter destruction to ali stand- 4 letter from the Awmonorsue Valley, dated the 10th, sayathat there hus bee no raiu in thet vicinity for tome five or six weeks. drying up. In some fieldw one-third of the to; black and dry, so that the hand. Qata, too, were sal such en extent that some farmers were moving them for fodder. The Ammonoosuc empt es ioto the Wells river; indeed, the several branches of the Ammonooruc are the principal contribators to the Wells, The largest branch rises near Fabyaa’s and hrougb Bethlehem and Litt’eton. ¢ vicinity of Mont, elier, Vt., #3) 4 there has been no rain iv that regi n fora nubs of | weeka. Grain, graas and early potatoes were sui- fering severely. There were scarcely av in the hills, apd there were also indi ations of the | tot. Oats were being mowed for fodder. A cortvapondent from the neighbornood of thé White River junction, under daic of the 3d inat., e@ believe thet jittle or nd talon has since that it is exceedingly dry there; and tbat, unless there would be rain spec would not be three quarters of the ust From Charleston, Vt., near Derby, the same story ie neceived. Up to the Sth it was extremely dry; tutces were suffering for rain, aud wee mani- esting symptoms of the rot. there would be scavely enough for domestic uses, and that the starch manafactories would be naablo to procure any supply for manufa:turi A gentleman recently returned from that region ave now held In some parte of Berkshire coun’ is a report that the rust haa struck end that there will not be more than vaif or two- thirds of a crop--Boston Traveller, Aug. 14. Po'a'oos wero fast It was thooght taat Ovrnace on_a Gran—Tre Nothern Blade, (Constableville, N. Y.,) of Augnst 11, states that a poor little motberless girl, nine years of ago, who re- rided in a family on Tug Hill, west of this place, ten at aifferent times, some time since, by ber mistress. Some of the ft follows:——Si ¢ was sent over @ hilly road to the vil- lage, jour milea trom } er residence, witha twoquart jog of milk in one hend and a badget in the other, She was allowed just two hoars to perform the jou Not seturning within the time, she was stripped naked, tied up toe bed post, ard whipped without mercy. was most « rueliy bey here and ba: This not wly happen- nit at reversal d fforent times. Tao gir! leports that she wee treated in this inhaman man- mallest off nce- such as accidentally ‘eo meal. Thegfa ts first cime to light inthe istrict school where she sttended. teacher revt her to the nejghb re, that they micht wo: k the whip had made npon her Her back wes sadly cat np, and had heen repeatedly whipped befo-e ihe thet wounds bad time to heal. her father’s, in the town of Levis, rte rick In consequence of her wounds Her er aente constable after the gaily perpetrator cf this outrage, and sho :eitied by agreeing to pay $100 and costs. sre what horrid She was seut to LAPLAxD IN Morrnx.—A negro man in Mobile, who was engaged in loading a barge wita ice, daring the late hot weather, thinking to have at least one Tersible Expiesion of Ganpowder at Mays vilic, Ky SEVERAL BUILDINGS WHOLLY 04 PARTIALBY DRY YROYED—EVSBY BUILDING IN TOWN MORB 04 LESS INJURED—SBVEKAL VEKIONS INJURED BIE NONB KILLED. A despatch from Meyxvilie dated August 14, te the Cineapnati payers, gives the wing particulars of the gunpowder explosion at tie! 2 On Bunday morning abou our ditizens were aroused from their +} Geox plus- ‘J 3 i ¢ a7 q He Hi t confusion, terror and @lamay ly among ‘be female inhabitects, That the ond of all had come had beard the leer rey the an- that time hould be no longer. For a Ts 1 iE if =o. i f hil “s The fellowing persons © © ‘hose most serlouly in- P. Comwell, a well known liwyer of this elty, ro he ler: «igh two inenes deep ant exok em Aid the whieh strucic bedobamber. him through the win ~ into 5 re De Thistes and Miew Vell Pedate were struck witty woman was considerahly io \.ci vy ‘bef ‘in of the roo and aice wallof her tn-» «ut, ia the hollow below the megezine. Anotber — was to badly fri A large number of person. inj ured slightly, clelet I wie later. cee eee r &e. ‘The rireets, sieve ke ye yards, Ao, vers covered with rubbish, ami. -c eral places powder wad scattered, which did met goiic |) @ biave of Hight ao- corepanaas, the exple: sgbtful, ac a large quantity of the pow: er ex.) © » the nic, Every houro in sown i» jameged; the win- dows and doors are smut » oo toe walls grad aiaben. The following buildings t rely denotist. ao badly injured ws te req. ye swikdtag:—Joun four frome dwellings ane 4 ir\-\ “ausage meat house; Ben Lagan. . with the frame -rhower, the frana ok dwelling of father Joseph Frank's dwelt: g, vooupe ‘Ibe lower eity brick ro ci dwelling of J. B Gibson md African Baptist Church, 1! Sieviding; alvo, the bitdig: of be. Ambers Sexton, Thoioas 4 Paine, Alexan « acdax, Jacob W. Rand, Rand & Richardson's semivor: butding; the Presbyto+ than, Methodist and Mechiodist sous, , and Baptist Charches, and the Chris: and Afrian Methodist Churches, wero damaged to | «umount of $200 te $1.000 0 to the ameunt of $400. The powder magaaive cousin. d 600 kegs of powder, and is suppored to have been ei by some devil In hu: man form. The Meyor hos offered a rewsrd of $1,000 for ths ap- prabanaien and conviction 0! tho-e who perpetrated ihe ed. ‘the court houre was 4 Melancholy nae me «& Weman Shot tw . From the Charlesior \udard, August 13.) im @ilisenville =. hursday, tho 20th of July last, Mrs. Mariba E ub» ge, in the 64th yoar of her ago. A oma acciden’ nected with the above event, in which the tinier sizvet was immediately concerned, inducta bim t. »u x the follewlog pare , that the minds: f | ™e wne may hear tha same Ke ed Gisabua-c, sh » d there be avy misre: 9 in rerental! nd he ia a! © yom,ted by his 0: 4 the statment, At the game thins exog ports are ab vac, which it is his pure ore . R Mother, sis'er and my: afew months at_ my moter’ ot Gillisonville. About tao w-eks previous to her death, the premises were ‘i-quently vieited br thieves. On Thu sday — oor of the ouspalldings ‘was entered and niflev. On Friday might the ays Pe br-asivg thro jm noe selena. the intruder. on Sau 7 ee eee i b «ql shot, until de ight Sunday moming, but o» one mide his pearance. On Sunday vizht we reti ed later them usual, having attended cha ch. Ate ittwelve o'clo:k I was aroued by 8 ory of alarm (rom my sister,wte waa in another room with wother, they havhig heard @ noise in the direction that the was broken the Friday night ;rviene, Larose and went ‘to the door, ard saw aretrea'ing dgure. | immeJi- ately retarned for the guu; 0,1 reaobing t.e door the second time, I sti)! sa« nme one moving from me towards the pluce wre e Ue fence was broken, I hailed four times, but received no anewer, { waited anti) it was Bring uto my sight bebind the kitchen, some forty or fif'y ar s irom where I was; 1 then Bred, wituout tuk vg wim (for it was too dark to see), when, t0 my utter astonishment and honor, I heard my wothe: asy, “You have shot me;” who, not having aogr-s-ed yot, had gone ¢>- wards where the polse eas, vo 8000 ae sue knew i had opened my door, under the impression, | auy~ pose, that I wae a@are chr had done 80; bes sack » thonght pever crossed my mind. , Many of the shot took effect, thongh sho did not fall, but turned sround an> met me. When askel he she did not auseer, her reply was trat she could not aceount for he silence; bat I presumed sie imagined I was bailing tre intruder. The two following days, however, she complained but little, i nding no dauger; tbe third day fever took plece, and inflammation mece it sppearance, which proved fatal in cieven days, the result of tbe a’ci- dk nit, as is the optpion of ber kind and attentive phy- sicion, Dr. Myers, of Gillisonville, Six sops anda danghtr mourn a mother, «nose virtues they ap- pre » ond a loss which cau cever be replaced Ubia side of eternity, Jas. D. Cussuper. American Institute of Instsuction. THIRD DAY’ SESSION AT PROVIDENCE, THUASDsY, AUGUST 10. A¥YT¥RNOON SeetoN.—At« quarter before three the Institute met aguin ond «as called to order by the President. The President iutroduced to the In- stitute George Sumner, Esy., of Boston, who for upwaids of an hour held tre lange assem age in wrart attention. After a besutifal and appropriate intreduction, the orator prover ded to give nis views in regard to education in Euro @, the resalte for the most part of his own personal observation, He dwelt particularly upon the condition ¢f Holand, France, Greece, and Ireland, as pres-nting impor- tant points for the consideration of the 90 -ubar eda- cator. Beauty, wit, sentiment and anecdote abound- ed throughout the addro-s. His closing remarks, addressed to the Presioent and wembers of the In- stitute, in regard to their future cuties and respou- sibilities as teachers, were tr nly impressive. Accipent TO THE Oexna ComPany—QOn the arri: val of the New York steamb at ‘rain this morniay, the members of the Itatiun O ra troupe, reveatera, in number, took @ ovach to be conveyed to the Rae vere House. At the corver of Beach and Kingstud stieeta the coach came in cot ision with a team, and upeet, throwing the onreite passengers upon the dewalk. but they escaped material injury. Thove imide the vehicle were m rere jously hurt, acd five ladies required the eervices of physi isos They were immediately taken into the United Staea Hotel, and Dra. Thee low, Blsko aud others, called to their relief. It ees tortu jy toned that no abs were broken, but quite © cals aud beulees we o ed. One laiy fins rendered tnseasinle foc 5 Ume, but wes restored. Aftor the pr per medi a! attentions, & © party were conveyed t> thelr lodgings--Bosion Cranseript, Auguet 15. Myerenior? Mevrea iy Vanomia.—The Green- luler Lre mves along seconnt of afead thet has existed smong the tamily of Jo-eon Graham, of Mo roe Uo. Ve. and of tan burnit g of Mr Nolas’s bara and tho subsequent firding of the bedy of Migs Jane Grabam w a crcek. Nolan » a: the brovher law of M hem, aod on the night of the 2 wit. she mys'erion ly left bie Louse, som efter th barn was found tobe on fire, Mies G, in the means time econtipned abent, and the family, it is said, made no effurt to Mscover 1er wherabout). Suspi- himsel/ out upon the cakes of ice, which were slightly covered with saw dast, and went fast asleep. When the attemst was made to awaken bim, he was frozen stiff. suscitation were resorted to, and the man was, after some copsiderable trouble, thawed ont. cool siesta, atretche Try. Scr Curatine Scnvyier County Daoranep Unconerrrerionat.—The Steuben Furmers’ Advo- cate publishes in full the jn the case lately tried Stenben. involving the question of the conetitation- ality of the act crecting the county of Schuyler, peared at the Jest Legislature. The Judge pro- nounces the act erecting the now county unconsti- totional and void. The case will go up.—- Utica Ga- inion of Judge Lari Tar Gnotxns of om gore of the Ohio Biante Feir have fpened @ fine litho graph, giving a bird's eye view of the entire grounds, all the ayennes, groves, halls, tentr, and decorations This fale is to be held at Sewark, Ohio, from Toosday to Teast $100,000 annually. It fe estimated that the yearly es done by all our hotels will not fall sbert of $2.600,000, If we embrace the capital invested in restaurants and confe tionery sho; Leh sido or $6,000,000, he Lest hotels in Boston are a8 good as any in the couatey or in the woill, aud this ls gonurally SES. Le ae ee ridey, the i9th*to the 20d of Reptemter next. alets of severnl acres of ground, @nclosod by a rail in are floral, mechaolse and the whole are beaut ‘This fair wil, 10 doubt, bo woll atiended. Railrondy throvgbout the State have a ‘bell fere, and those other roads lending towards Newark will carry stock and articles for exhibition free. Ample arrangements are mole for acoommarating a larg it con LOUrte OF exuunurs and visiters than bave yet om 6 similar cceasive, ond all withia an 8 We fais gronnds, | aliof whieh are places of | refreebmente, we shen lncoeeae our $4,000,000 | cod to garry visitors a! of the harn they discovered Indications of a souftie, footprints of human betegs avd a dog, thea spots & blood, and finally the ly of the missing girl. An inquest was held, an the jary came to the con- Arruurrep Mcapxa 5 ped bon ag P tanta» By @ negro man Job: = who resides on the Spring Hill road, abou’ = & E § P - tg negro for the purpose of se-uring him. The negro pape | his enter, who Was oofeedled sick ners, knocked him do’ by the negro #s the futher bad been, Tae wif, bea ing the uproar, cave, and, seizing & brick bat Spy th ow i men coming up, sured the infuriated mare, and 10 prison.