The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON HENYETT, PRO! EDITOR, A’ D FULTON STS OFFICE N. W. COR OF NASSAU Prous. THE Dally. tiki ALD = per annum. f ALY HEE ef i s. zy, = Stun Ve per sonten, any part of the Con E, containing impor wo ter Of the world—if used will OU PORFIGN CORRESPONDENTS ESTED TO seAL ALL Lerrens or with Adver: 1 be deducted from We it for Subscr t putid, OF the postage t aken of anonym ne rejected INUING executed 18 commu with and No, 270 adway,—Meravona—A BOWERY THEATRE, y wery—Pasio ~Eustaone. NIBLO'S, Broadway.-La Pere Champerae -Diver- manent ASrioD!! BURTON'S, Chambe Movsrache Maxia— ° Now-a-Daye'=Tur Piuinuster. © NATIONAL THEATRE, Chathem _ etreet.-- Kixo's Jesren —F asni0N Anp F. wk ~Macic Ross. WALLACK’S TEEATRE, Broadway ~ Rust Day~My Covsixs Gexman. ma eETROPOLI TAN THEATRE. leanente-Brreny Ba- AMERICAN MUSEUM warr—Lyering, Eusracnr WOOD'S MINSTRE!. BALL, 444 Broadway BinsrReELsY AND BURL esque OrERa ternoon, Virtaer Paorur Erwioriaw BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, mny's Ernorian Orena TROvYY WOOD'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELS -Mrcuanics’ Bae, Broadway FRANCON swnray Perri w York, Monday, October 2, 1854. 539 Broadway - Buce 'S HIPPODROME, Madison Squere—Eyurs MANCES. The News COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS. The first Council of Roman Catholic Bishops ever held in the province of New York, assembled yes- terday in the Cathedral, Mott street, and was with great solemnity inaugurated. Our reporters have farnisbed a full and interesting report of the cor2” monies of the occasion, and of the opening sermon preached by Archbishop Hughes. LATER FROM CUBA. The letters of our Havana correspondents, re peived by the steamship Ei Dovado, give so~.. intar. “esting additional Intelligence with regard to the state of afairs on the island at the time of the land ing of General Concha. Innumerable arches, the loudest vivas, with thundering salutes from the Moro Castle, heralding an extensive procession, hailed thenew executive chief from whom so mach good is expected. General Pezueia met his suc- wessor with smiles and behaved himeelf like a high- souled gentleman all through the trying scene. It was observed that a curl of contempt played around his lips at the moment when Concka swore fidelity to Queen Isabel. A series of bull fights will soon place so tha’a bloody finale may be given to popular rejoicing. A number of telegraph eperators had been fiagd for neglect of duty. An Opera company from Mexico was expected. Some @aring highway robberies, the drawing of a sixty thousand do!lar prize in the royal lottery, with somo bold slave speculations between Cuba and New York, gave a pleasing (no doubt) diversification to the enjoyment of the Creoles and Catalans. NEWS FROM KEY WEST. Our Key Wes! correspondent furnishes some po- Hitical news in the way of probabilities on the chances of the different candidates for State Sena tor, representative in Corgress, and Assemblymen, at the contest on Oct.2,ia Florida. One hundred nd thirty-six dcllars had been collected in aid of the Savannah sufferers by yellow fever. The weather was very pleasan' on the 22d of September. TEMPERANCE CANDIDATES. At an enthusiastic mecting of the temperance people, held at their big tent corner of Fourteenth street and Seventh ayeoue, on Friday evening, it was nnepimously resolved to support C. C. Leigh for Mayor cf this city: Myron H. Clark for Gove nor of tho State, and Henry J. Raymond for L‘eutenant Governor. STREET PREAC TING. ‘There was street preaching yesterday in this city, Brooklyn and Williamsburg. There was no distur. bance in either place, and the attendance was mach amalier than usual. SILOCKING APPATR. Much excitement was caused in South Broooklya yesterday, by the attempt of a man named King ‘to murder his wife, and afterwards cutting his own throat. The attempt on the wife wes not sucessful, nd her wounds, though serious, are not considered fatal. On an attempt being made to arrest him by an officer, the unfortnnats man drew a razor across is own throat, completely severing the windpige, and almost instantly exvired. Ram ard jealousy were the impeliing cau MISCELLANEOUS, The contractor for the building of the new steam fr igate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard wil! mence operations today. She is to be named the Niagar’+ From the high repute of the consirnctor, it is pre wamed something new ond superior will be pro @uced. The Niagara is one of the six steam fri- gates ordered to be built by Congress early last winter. The other five are all under way, having been ccmmenced about two months since. The packet chip Patrick Henry, which arrived from London yesterday, with foar hundred and three passengers, had eleven deaths on the voyage. Three members of the new government in Canada have been re-elected by acclamation in their old constituencies. ‘There were but five deaths from cholera at Pitts: burg on Saturday. The U.S. practice ship Preble has arrived at An- fapo.!% The officers and crew are all well. It is repos that there have been twelve deatas from yellow fever at Darlett, Ga. Rand, the alleged bank robber, has been released from jail at Norfolk, Va., there being no positive evidence of bis guilt. STATE OF THE MARKETS. ‘The flour market was without further change of moment on Saturday. Common brands of State closed at $7 a $7 37, and extra Genesee at $3 a $8 50, and for some favorite extra brands, in small lots, at $9.0 $9 25. Wheat was quiet. A small lot of Southern white brought $1 75. Provisions were @all. Meas pork sold in small lot: at $13 87 a $14, bat was freely offered without takers, at $13 75. Cotton was firm, with sales of about 800 a 900 bales. EUROPEAN ADVICES, The steamship Arctic, from Liverpool for this port, ia now twelve days out, and may be hourly expected, with three days later intelligence. @he Candidates for var rea Pros- pects. From present prospects it appears that the suffrages of the people of New York will shortly be divided between four candidates for the : office now leld by Horatio Seymour. There is a chance of that number being increased to five by a separate nomination to be made at the Know Nothing Convention on the ith. But as the policy of the Know Nothings has invariably been not to make nominations of their own, but to decide upon those made by other bodies, and as very thorough exertions are being made to secure the Know Nothing vote for two out of the four candidates already in the field thechance of an addition to the mumber of rivals is very slender. Asa matter of policy, it would be an error for the Know Nothings to sct oy h thetr foe: 4culd attach, when their aims gould be attained ob wh LY | without any exposure of the kind: and our ex- per ence ott curs, flor s us no reason to anticipate the’ they wou'd lay themselves open to deieat. Supposing, therefore, that the con- vention on the 4th confines its eper.tions to adopting one of the four candidates now before | us, the conte-t will be narrowed down toa very ' 1 | | close issue. Myron IH. Clark represents the Seward whig, and temperance interests, He is a firm friend of the New York Senator, and is fully pre- pered to go any lengths in his train. He has been conspicuous as an anti-slavery Jeader; and will doubtless secure the bulk | of the abolition vote. The author of the measure which the whig candidate for Lieuten- vernor denominated “odious” and “op- ‘~the prohibitory liquor law—Mr. Clark figured largely in the contes which led overthrow of that bill, and was the chief adviser of those who sought to pass it over the Governor's head. Without doubt, the eutire temperance vote will be polled in his favor. Here are two substantial sources of support It is believed, however, that without that of another body —the Know Nothings—Mr. Clark will not carry the state. To obtain it, his friends are busily e ed in circulating a rumor that he is himself'a member of the re- doublable fraternity. We know not how this may be: but it is quile clear that he is less con- cerned in the contest, as Myron H, Clark, than as the instrument of William H. Seward, whose intense hostility to the Know Nothings is notorious. It will need a good deal of argu- ment to convince the people of New York that Clark is not Seward ina fresh shape, or that ’ his election would not be a defeat for the Know Nothing party. That he was put for- ward by William H. Seward—and nominated by his inflnaence—is denied by no one: that he will, if elected, govern agreeably to the advice and direction of the New York Senator, is a fair inference. These considerations will of course exercise their due influence on the convention of Wednesday; whose members need not to be told that by his speeches, and the course of his newspaper organs, Mr. Seward has sought to do them al] the injury in his power. As usta’, the di mocratic p.rty isdivided. Oo the one side, Chief Justice Bronson offers him- lon self as thé Cidmpion of the hards: of the other, Mr. Seymour agrees io tempt fortune in the hope of a re-electien. The yolitica! affiliations of the latter, including the support of the federal administration, are sure to be injurious in the highest degree. It is fatal to avy man in this State to be connected however remotely with the Pierce Cabinet. Apart from this, Mr, Seymour stands very well. His best sup- port is the liquor men. His veto of Myron Hl. Clark's bill will secure for him, through gra- titude and interest, the votes of all those who believe we have enough legislation on the sub- ject of temperance, and who regard the prohi- bitory liquor bill as the whig candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor regarded it, before he got the nomination on the tectotal side. This category includes the entire guid of dealers in spirits: a powerful, wealthy, and influential class of men. Whether they can sustain a contest single handed with the entire State is a matter on which doubts seem to be entertained by some. Mr. Bronson stands on much safer ground. In the first place, he is the embodiment of the prin- ciple of hostility to the present administration. All who believe that Pierce has brought dis- grace on tho country: all who are indignant at his want of principle and his imbecility : all who see with shame that his weakness and instability have brought the two sections of the country ever known for Bronson. into angrier strife than was before, will of course vote It is the only way in which they can show emphatically their dissatis- faction at the policy of the government. Again, there is a large section of conservative whigs who regard the nominee of Seward as worse than a democrat. The extracts from the whig press which we have published from time to time show that this faction is hy no means insignificant. On the liquor question Mr. Bron- son holds a middle place between Seymour and Clark. He does nos approve of a prohibitory liquor Jaw, and thus differs from the latter; but he does not think the excise laws are sufficiently stringent, and in this respect differs from the former. There are doubtless many men who regret the evils of intemperance, and desire to cheek them, but who still oppose a prohibitory law as savoring of tyranny: these will support Bronson. The Nebraska law men are all his: so are a vast class of independent citizens who, car- ing little for party measures, only desire to eleet an honest, independent man for Governor. These yarious bodies of voters will give Mr. Bronson a formidable party. Should the Know Nothings prefer him to the nominee of William Hi. Seward, his chances would be very much improved. Finally, the fourth candidate who represents s is Mr. Goodall. This gentleman ran for President at the last elec- tion in 1852: and received the extraordinary number of seventy-two votes. Any child can decide how many he will poll in November, If out of the whole Union he obtained seventy- two votes, how many will he get in the State ef New York? Such are the men, and such their claims to support. On the liqvor question, the contest lies between Clark and Seymour. 02 political issues, the struggle will be between Clark and Bronson, Goodall receiving all the abolition votes which are rot polled for Clark. The ulti- mate issue still depends in a great measure om the course of the Know Nothings. the ultra abolitioni The Drought an and t the Crops—More Interest- ing Letters—Brief Reply to Mr. Newton. We spread before our readers this morning another instalment of interesting letters in reply to our general call upon our fellow citizens of the ‘rural districts’ throughout the country, for information upon the late general drought, the crops, &c. Upon the whole, these letters give as cheerful a coloring to the pros pects before us as those which we have hereto- fore published. The exhibit from North Caro- lina, and tbat from the great West, are especial- ly gratifying. The “old North State” is a great producer and exporter to other States of Indian corn; and if the favorable returns of the c/ops ot the Eastern sections will apply to the rest of the Commonwealth, she will be able to fill up to a considerable extent the de- ficiencies of Virginia and Maryland. The great West is the great granary of the Union. The letter of Hon. Willoughby Newton, of Western Virginia, late a distinguished member of Congress from that region, makes out prima facie a strong case in support of continued and progressive high prices, Let us briefly examine the salient points of h's general argn- ment. As a farmer, be frankly confessés that he is in favor of high prices. He is a producer, and hog breadgtutis and provisions to sell, We admire his can or, and the fairness an ability throughou with which he character stically discusses his subject. He contends— 1. That the prees is misleadin: the public with the idea that the crops cf the great corn growing States approximate an average. 2. That considering the circumstiuces af- fecting prices throughout the world the pre- sent prices of giain are very lov, an’ the general rise of prices is not sc ulative or transitory. but permanent and p-: gressive. 3. That immigration and the immense in- crease of the population in our large cities, over the increase in the country, largely contribute to advance the prices of the styple articles of subsistence. 4. That the European war will diminish the current supplies in that quarter. 5. That tLe inferior quality and light weight of the grain of this year will contribute ma- terially to tie reduction of the apparent re- turns of the ‘ast harvest, 6, That shou'd the efforts of the press to that end result in a temporary reduction of the home prices of breadstufls, thus leading to im- provident exports now, we may rue our folly when the pressing wants of our own people shall demand ihe very supplies which have been shipped abroad. These are strong points, and were we not re- strained by the pressure of our advertisers upon our columns, we might profitably devote a leading article to each separate specification. As it is, a few general suggestions in reply, must, for the present, suffice. First, then, we have no desire to mislead the public in regard to the crops. “Facts are what we want.” From those we have obtained we are inclined to believe that in the aggregate the crops of the corn growing States do approxi- mate an average; and that if they do not, the | deficiency will be nearly made up from the savings of last year ; from the opening to mar- ket of new districts ; from the diminished con- sumption of corn in the production of whiskey, and from the greater economy of farmersin the feeding of their animals. Much has heretofore heen literally wasted in the Western States, in the careless feeding of hogs, cattle, &c., which will now be saved for “ Cowes anda market”— a market being brought to the door by the lo- comotive. » Secondly, we cannot concur with Mr. New- ion in this—that, considering all things, the pre- sent prices of grain are low. Arise within a year of the retail price of flour in New York, for example, from seven and eight to ten and twelve dollars a barrel, is above the ratio of the increase of the precious metals in circulation, and above the rise in the wages of labor an] the increase of population. Nor have the in- creased costs of production been so sudden as to justify this rapid advance in the prime ne- cessities of subsistence. It.can only be ac- counted for upon the presumption of a great de- ficiency in the general supply ; and if this de- ficiency does not exist, prices must fall to an equilibrium. We have heen under the impression that for the bread crops of this year much larger amounts of lands in every State in the Union were sown and planted than in any previous year of the last great decade of our agricultur- ists. Anticipating a splendid market in Eu- rope, our farmers last fall and spring generally put in unusually large quantities of wheat and corn. The increase in the number of acres thus appropriated must be placed, as far as it will go, against the loss per acre under an average crop. This general extension of the area of production will perhaps neutralize, at least, for the last ten years, and for the current year, the immigration to our shores from Europe and the remarkable increase in the population of our great cities over the “rural districts.” ‘The European war has had its effect upon the bread markets of the world. The great store- houses of Odessa have been shat up, and their supplies cut off from Western Europe, perhaps to the extent of twelve or fifteen millions of bushels in the single article of wheat. Dut the crops of England, the Netherlands, Germany, and perhaps, also, of the fertile Pains of Hua- gary, have this year been unusually fine. The ordinary supplies required for the West of Ea- rope, from Odessa, will, therefore, not be needed. In the event of the reduction of Sebastopol there may be peace; and we doubt not that it will then be discovered that even the ravages of Britons, Gauls, Turks, Turtars and Cossac!s have not consumed the surplusage of Southern Russia and the Danube. Of the weight of the wheat of the present year, we apprchend that Mr. Newton is not suf- ficiently hopeful. The season was gencrally geod throughout the Union for a full crop; and we rather think that though there may be ex- ceptions in certain districts, there will be but little general diminution of the yield of flour from the average quality of the grain, We have no fears that “the efforts of the press’’ to bring about a reduction of the prices of breadstuffs Mid provisions, will lead to sach extensive shipments to foreign countries as to result in famine prices from the scarcity which mey thus be produced at home. There must be a very considerable advance in pricesin Eu- rope, or a great decline here, before our specu: lators can venture upon any very heavy ship- ments of flour to the British islands, Holland or France. Freights will hardly justify the ven- | ture of a cargo to “the isles of Greece,” or to Turkey, where prices are extraordinarily low according to our standards, though bread may be dreadfully scarce. We must first have a market abroad before we can have any ground of alarm for ruinous exportations. The current year has been one of wide-spread calamities, disasters, and misfortunes. The cholera, the drought, fires and floods and storms, the yellow fever, railroad frauds, and the general shaking of public confi- dence from excessive imports and overtrading, have, perhaps, more eeriously afflicted the coun- try and affected its prosperity than we should bave suffered in the same time from all the drawbacks and disasters of a hostile invasion and a general blockade. Yet Wall street has not collapeed, and the worst is now believed to be over. Were there any real basis for an im- pending famine, we should be now experiencing a widely different state of things. We shall, from all the lights before us, get along comfortably through another year. Cana- da, with a surplus of many millions of bread- stuffs and provisions, is but waiting the comple- tion of the reciprocity treaty to prove to us the blessings of free trade. California can more than supply all our wants on the Pacific side, naval and commercial included. The opening in the West and Southwest of many hundreds of miles of railroads within the last twelve months, will bring to market immense districts of coun- try fertile in the production of wheat and corn, heretofore almost entirely cut off from any out- let, The extensive net work of railroads throughout the Union to the Missiesippi river will maintain a s'eady equi'ibrium of things and prevent a monopoly of the market by the speculators. They must take the supplies as they come, or run the hazards of an overplus, and a+ onsequen’ loss upon their investments, Finally, making all due allowances for the drought, short crops, light weight, immigration, storms and i: undations, and all other draw- backs, it is impos-ible to believe that an aggre- gate area of jamds under cultivation in the United States during this year, sufficient, with universal good seasons all the way through, for the subsistence of one hundred millions of peo- ple, can fail of supplying the wants, atreasona- ble prices, of twenty-five millions, with some- thing to spare. With many thanks to our intelligent corres- pondents, official and private, who have respond- ed to our call for facts:and reliable estimates in the premises, we admonish our agricultural readers throughout the Union that our columns are still open to their favors upon the drought and the crops, and that it is to the interest of all classes of the community that the whole iruth should be known. Crivz AND ASSASSINATION IN THE METRO- vouis.—Week after week it has been our pain- ful duty to chronicle accounts of numerous murders and assaults committed by bands of ruffians who set lv and order at defiance, and laugh at the feeble efforts made by the author- ities to check their daring and fiendish atro- cities. Within the last month no Jess than seven human beings have been sent suddenly into eternity by the violence of these ma- rauders, who generally go abroad in the night time, in ordey that darkness may afford them some cloak to their iniquitous designs. The Jate murder in Twenty-ceventh street shows that men are not fafe, even in their own dweilings, from the attacks of these assassins; and their d.ring bas now reached such a point that they do not hesitate to attack and shoot down the police in the open streets. The per- petrators of these outrages are for the most part young vagabonds, whose sole occupation is to plunder, rob and murder all who offer a temptation to their cupidity. The knife, their constant companion, is used in the destruction ef human life with as little compunction as by the butcher at the shambles, and upon any fancied or imaginary insult the dirk is plunged with unerring aim into the heart of unoffending citizens, the perpeirators escaping, nine times out of ten, from the hands of justice. It is a remarkable fact, though not less true, that a few months prior to our municipal elec- tions the statistics of crime show a large ‘9. crease in this latter class of outrages. “aen in open daylight, in the most public ana frequent- ed thoroughfares, are knocked Gown and beaten to death, upon the most trivial pretexts, but in most cases where no offence whatever is given ; and ihe police, as a matter of course, arrive at the scone of disturbance only in time to convey the body of the unfortunate victim to the hos- pital, or to his residence, if there is enough life left in him to enable them to ascertainit, giving the perpetrator of the outrage sufficient time to escape unmolested. Who is to blame for allowing such a mon- strous state of things to exist in a large com- munity like ours? is the oft repeated question of law-loving citizens. If aman goes to the Chief of Police to investigate an outrage of this description, he-—the latter—refers him to the captain of the ward wherein it has taken place. The captain refers him to the policeman for the beat. Upon questioning this indi- vidual, various and curious are the ar- guments that he will urge to prove that it is no fault of his that such disgraceful proceedings are allowed, unchecked, to exist. Many of them will say that they are repri- manded by their superior officers if they arrest any of a certain class of persons—people very useful on election cays, t> intimidate honest men from approaching the polls. The chief argument used, !owever, to exculpate them- selves is this: That those rowdies whom they do arrest make their appearance in their old haunts in a few days afterwards, and that it would be a useless task for them to repeat the opera- tion of arrest two or three times a month; and as the police magistrates and captains of the various wards would not do their duty, it would be at the risk of their own lives to perform theirs; for those characters, who are to be found in hundreds in the different sections of the city, encouraged by the friendship manifested towards them by those in authority, and to whom the city looks for a faithful discharge of their duty, will not at all hesitate in taking the life of even a policeman, should he attempt to molest them in their nefarious designs. Who, then, is really to blame?—the Mayor, Chief of Police, the captains, the policemen, or the magistrates? Until this question is satis- factorily onswered there will be no security for cither life or property in this great vaunted metropolis of ours. Let the Reform Commit- tee apply themselves to the inquiry, and they will be rendering a practical benefit to their fellow-citizens, which will atone for all their past errors. The fact is, that if some remedy be not soon applied to the evil, our public thorough- fares will soon become as dangerous as the Italian highways. It is a grievous alternative for men to be obliged to take the law into their own bands; but unless our city authorities do their duty, it will soon become a question whether it may not be necessary, for the secu- rity of the city, to appoint o vigilance com. mittee to supersede the corrupt and imbecile functionaries to whose guardianship it is at preeent entrusted. Bartmore Puatrorws RepuptaTen.—The following resolution, submitted by Gen. A. P. Granger, was unanimously adopted by the Sa- ratoga Convention:— Resolved, That the Baltimore platforms adopted by the cemoeratic and whig national conventions, without autherity and in direct Violation of the sentiments of & vast majority of the people of this ‘tate, we, whigs and be gs npc) hone repudiate, for the past, the present and the future. And the Ssratoga resolutions having been “fully and cordially” adopted by the whig can- didates, the Baltimore whig platform has thus been “spit upon and execrated,” and kicked under the table, by the new whig Sewardized coalition party of New York. For further par- ticulars inquire of the chairman, Wm. C. Bryant, of the Saratoga Corresponding Com- mittee, at the offce of the Evening Post. Rev. Mr. Baker not Crazy. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Areport that the Rev. Mr. Baker, late « minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and since then a convert to Catholicity, had become insane, is generally credited in the papers. I have received a letter from & frierd of that geutleman, who saw him the other day, saying that the report has no foundation whatever. Mr- Deker hae beocre a member of the Redemptioniat Order, lives in their convent im Bellimore, on Saratoga atrost, ys any of his friends who collon him He th, good epirite, and thinks the story of his being rary & copitel joke, & NEW YO! ‘Whe October Term of the Law Courts, This month may be said to be the firstof the resump tion of the genera! business of the law courts since the summer vacation. Since July lsst we have bad bat little business to record, save a decision now and again, fome few important srrests, and two or three curioug writs of habeas corpus, some of which were to inquire into the alleged insanity of two well known citizens. But this day all the arenas for legal cieputation will be re-opened, tozether with the Court of Oyer and Termi- ner, where there is the heaviest murder calendar that has been presented for may years past. We publiehed, ome few days since, the names and crimes with which the parties stand accused. Some of them are of a very serious nature, but others will, itis confidently expected, result, if not in justifiable homicide, at least in man- slaughier of a mitigated degree. The case of Doctor Graham, of New Orleans, charged with the homicide of Col. Loring in an unforcunate rencontre at the St. Nicho- Jas Hotel in this city, creates considerable public atten- tion. Mr. L. B. Shepard, the District Attorney, will proseeute for the people. Dector Grabam will be de fended by Mr. Jas.R. Whiting, Mr. Chas. O’Conor, aad Mr. A. Oakey Hall. Judge Morris, after several months severe indisposition, will resums his official duties, but he ‘s not sufficiently restored to be able to undertake the labore of the Oyer and Terminer, It is, therefore, un- dexstcod that either Judge Mitchell or Judge Clerke wil! preside over this important calendar. ‘The general term of the fupreme Court bas adjourned util the first Monday in November, but the Circuit, special term, and Chamters will be held, each by one of the three Judges not epgeged at the Court of General Jail delivery. Ap order has been issued continuing the September calendar of the general term to November, with the addition of other numbers to be added. There are twelve hundred and seventy-eight causes on the trial calendar of the Superior Court, and the Judges Dave issued an order that this term be extended four weeks from the first Monday of the magifia and that two special terme for the trial of canses, @ addition to the two appointed to be held'in Cetober, Novemb:r and De cember, be commenced on the third Monday in each month, and continued for two weeks. A general term of this court wiil also be held. On the cslendar for argument stands the celebrated divorce ease of Forrest against Forrest, which comes up on « multi tude of exceptions takey j5 the defendart’s =)” vill be borne in mind by horn and other parties inter- ested, that the business of the Syperior Court will bo transacted in the new buildivg on the corner o! Centre and Chambers street. In the Common Pleas two trial terms will be held for the disposal of the.calen¢ar, which, though considerably Ughtened since the first of January, still contains about seven hundred causes undisposed of, amongst which is that of Mr. Edwin Forrest, the tragediai, against Mr. N. P. Willis, fora libelin the Home Journal, The Chambers of this court will be held in the room of the old Assistant Aldermen, which has been most tastefully fitted up under the superintendence of Mr. B. H. Jarvis, the efficient clerk, whose reapp-imtnent to bis former position has been gladly acce’ ‘gted by every member of the Frofession. Judge Daly), whose health was impaired, is convalescent, after e, few qeoks? cessation from bis official labors. The Marine ( suit, which, since the increase of juris- Siction to #°599, tas contained one of the heaviest calen- dare of our law courte, will bold two trial terms daily an*, » general term on Saturdays, This court, previous to its present extended powers, seldom afforded a case for a lawyer beyond mediocre standing; now counsel eminent by their long practice, and others of our young and aspiring spirits, are almost every day engaged in suits before the Justices of the Marine Court. The United States District’ Court still comtinnes its term of Sepiemter, the case of Dr. Brown, charged with extensive counterfeiting, being still on trial. The United States Cireuit Court will not be opened till the third Tuesday in the month. The case of Durand against Captain Hollins, for the destruction of prope:ty in the bombardment of Greytown, is transferred from the Su’ perior Court to the celendar of this court, and will pro- bably be tried at the ensuing term, Mr. L. B. Shepard, the present Siate District Attorney of this city, is coun sel for the plaintiff, and Mr. John McKeon, United States Attorney, bas been directed by the federal government to defend the charge against Captain Hollins. The case against Capt. Smith, of the ship Julia Moul- ton, charging kim with beieg engrged in the trafic of slaves between the coast of Africa and Cuba, will also be tried at the coming ‘crm of this court. The offence is punishable by death. ‘Thue it will be seen that a vast amount of legal labor is before us for the winter months, and that a rich and profitable harvest bas been ripening for the lawyers dur- ing their recent hours of idleness and ease and summer recreations, ‘the standing rule,” compelling the members of the bar to be on their legs during the examination of wit- nesees, comes Into force this month; we shall note how it operates as to the saving of time from unnecessary consumption and the saving of witnesses from unseemly badgering by opposing counsel. The Court of Sesmons will open to-day—the first Monday of the morth. His Honor Resorder Tillou will preside. The ealendar is not so heavy as that of the previous month, but it presents the usual variety of crime, The decrease in business this term is owing in a great measure to the promptness with which it was despatched at the last session. Among the cases net down for trial, there are six for larceny, one for counterfeiting labels, five for forgery, five for obtaining money under false pretences, fourteen for assault (sim- ple and aggravated), three for burglary, one for reduc- tion, one for bigamy, two for receiving stolen goods, two for manslaughter, three for libel, one for rape, three for keeping a disorderly house, one for attempt at arson, one for nuisance, end three for perjury. ‘The case of the Peverellys, for arson, will be tried this week, and will of itself oceupy several days. ‘he Common Council. The Board of Aldermen will hold the first meeting of the October session this evening, at 6 o’eleck. It is, however, impossible to anticipate that anything will be done beyond the usual quantity of talk and badinage. ‘The reports of several committees on important matters sre expected this menth, and foremost amongst them is that upon the late communication of the Comptroller, transmitting the testimony taken against the late corpo- ration before the Recorder. We hope the matter of erect- ing the new building in the Park for law ecurts will be speedily acted upon. The idea of the Councilmen to adopt the verd antique marble for the base, and while marble for the superstructure of the building, is very generally spproved. In accordance with the suggestions of the committee, specimens of the verd antique were taken to Washington, where such materials are tested by the crushing process, and the result, as certified by the proper authorities, proves that the verd antique is not only equal in strength to other marbles, but is far tuperior to the two best white marbles that have been tested by the same machine. The average pressure of three specimens of the verd marble is 26,429. ‘The Board of Supervisors will meet at 4 o'clock this ftercoon. Marine Affairs. ‘Wat Composes a Sip Loap or EwrGraxts.—The packet ship Universe, arrived on Saturday from Liver- pool, had 555 passengers all in good health, whose destinations areas follows:— Canada. Tor rk (incl a,» lew Yor inelac those cade ckiea) je sean, ‘The tollowing are the ages of the passengers, and se occupations of the adults:— Adults Under Infants un- 14, 14 ler 12 mos. B ald as MF. Teal. - “| -—— 4 d,s te 4 2—---- 5 ee 8 81 a 1—-——- —-— 2 eeece eit it § le o, 1 ee Millers and 4 2 —— Lm 7 Weavers andeottondo.11 3 1 — — — 65 Mechanics &ergravers 2 4 2— 1 1 10 Farm latorers 114458 29 209 62 98 ie ae Sree 7 @¢ 1 8; Lt 12 ei 2.2.2, 9 —-4¢4 e- == 4 1i—- 3? —— 4 »~S$1232- — 1 9 oT DT 2 hee 7 -9 —-- == % ae ~ a - 2 l1- = - 1 2—-—-—<— -_ 2 33333 » Carpenters 9: 8 8 3 8 Ualnows. OE Sf - nh 55 48 10 555 Totala.......++4+4225 201 uxen —On Saturday afternoon, Mr. William Periae Jaunched from bis yard, at Green Point, the ship City of Prooklyn, of 1,700 tome, She wan built for Nesmith & ‘Sons, under the direction of Capt. Jas. Eaton, and is in- tended for the ger eral freighting trade. The large dry dock which has been in course of con- struction for «ver a year, at the foot of North Twelth street, Williamsburg, is to be launched during the pre. sent month. This dock is of capacity sufficient for the largest class of merchant vessels, and it is rumored ig to be put down at Green Point. ~Clsy Intelligence. — Funrrat oF JaMms Cantu, THE ExgvenTa warn Pouce. max.—Yesterday the remains of James Cahill, the Eleventh ward policeman, who was shot dead by bur- glars, ou Friday morning, were conveyed from his late residence, 92 Kidge street, to their last resting place, at Calvary Cemetery, Williamsburg, in the presence of » large concourse of his friends and acquaintances, to- gether with agreat msuy members of the police depart- ment. The deceased was about fifty-two years of age, and was born in the county of Longford, Ireland. He leaves a wife and family to mourn his loss, who we hope will be provided for in some manner by the Com- mon Council, thoy having lost all that was dear to then: onearth, while he was in the act of discharging his duty faithfully as an cfiicer of the public peace. DevicaTion OF A CUURCH.—The new Associated Re- formed Presbyterian Church, just completed, in Twenty- fifth street, was dedicated yesterday, There was divine service in the forenoon, afternoon and evening, there being present a large Ee! upon each caiaiee. is the morning the Rev. A. H. Wright preached, Rey, Potts in the afternoon, and Rev. Thomas DeWitt D DoD D., in the evening. At the close of each service a col section was taken up on behalf of the ch Street Preacuina —There was nothin; pcnye 4 im bag tye Be Meee) meet aie fend- » the Ap; now up in Washington, to which fortunate circumstance may be attributes the quietuce of the Sabbath. Some of the ‘amaller fry’? abers held forth in the Park and on the Ba’ , but the audiences st both places me mall, andat the close of the Cay dispersed in good order, A Alzenew Cerewony—Day oF ATONEMENT.—Lict oyen- ing was the commencement of snother Hel coremo- nig}, called the day of Atonement. According ce the tencte of this creed.il Israelites, except infanti sick or the infirm, repair to their synagogues at ny down cf the sun, and engage in devotion; and, unt twilight of Monday evening has been susceeds2 en light, partake of no food whatever, asa fast of explation, The ceremorios of last evening closed at 10 o'clock, and Wil be resumed at daylight on Monday, and posed throvehout the dav "os the otatd Appear. There is much interest toa reflective mind, in the observance at this day of a ceremoniil which originated three tiiousand three hundred and forty-four years ago. It is based on that part of the Old Testament to be found recorded in the 28d chapter of Lev: wherein it is stated the Lord epole to Moses, sayirg:— ‘Also on the tenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a day of atonement; it shall be @ holy convoos- tion unio you; and ye shall afflict yout your houls, and offer ‘an offering made by ire, unto the Lord, And ye shall co no work in that same day; for it is @ day cf atonement, to make an atonement for you before .e Lord your God. For whatever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in ~~ same day, he shall be cut off from among hia Proples be unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shal afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto éven, shail ye celebrate your Sabbath. It shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to = atonement for the children of Israel for ait their sine, once # yeer, Ovr Boston VisrrERs.—The Boston Fusileers yesterday showed themselves to be of a pious naiure, by attending divine service at Trinity church in the morai Tega ified their wish on the day before bth alee Fifth company pean’ Guard mad on the and both companies, in full unife , iuntahed to tn to the chureh. ‘The Hestouians much admired the a ap- Pearance and gorgeous deccr rations of Tria! rested in the afvernoan and evening at ti quarters. Fine in Ereventu Staret.—-Between 12 and 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the premises of Frederick Gorsling, dyer and cotton spinner, Fiitusted at 210 Kast Eleventh stzeet, near avenue B. ‘the fire waa Gigccvered in an enclosed building, over the boiler. The Sremen were soon at the premises, and succeeded in ex- tingvishing the flames before they extended beyond the place in which they crginated. The Fire Marshal was guick'y at the prem es, and toade an examination, and, from the appearance of the burning and the peculfar lo’ cality of its origin, it was suppored to have been the work of an incendiary. Mr. Gossling estimates his stock and machinery at about $20,000, on which he has an in- surence of $6,000 in the following insurance companies :— Brookiyn Insurance Company, $8,000; Gaanite Snsurence pany, $1,500, and ismilton Inkurance Company, su TL. he lors by “re wnt water will probably atmousk to between $5 de Aaa SEM ! CELEBRATION OF THE INTHUDECTION OF Passio WATER. — The arrangements for the celebration (to-morrow) of the introduction of Pasrai: water into Jersey City, are completed; and the day, if a pleasant one, promises to ‘be & proud one for Jerssy City A great multitude of people sre expected to be present. Dr. J. M Cornelison bas been appointed Grand Marshal by the Commitee of Arrengemente, and he has designated as his sids Colonel Alex. Ramsay, Mejor Joteph Colgate, Wm. af. Corneli- fon, €x-Alderman James Narine, David Seo‘t, Capt. J: V. Brower, and Wm. T. Rogers, jr. A salute of 160 guns will be fired during the day—a portion of them ie Jersey City, and ihe remainder at the <istributing re- servoir on Bergen Hill. The line will be formed at 19 ’elock A. M.in Grand street, the right resting on Washington street, and the columa will move at 11 o’clock. First in the column after the Grand Marshal a aids will be the military, under Brigadier General E.R. V. Wright, accompanied by his steff. Next in order will follow a large body of firemen, headed by Chief FE: eer S. A. French and other officers of the Fire Department, under the direction of ex- Alderman ee tines 1 aleo ie: econd Division wi be composed of firemen, and will te under the direction of David Scott, one of tke Marshal’s Aids. The firemen of Jersey City will be out in full force, anda considerable body of firemen from: other cities will be Present, as guests of Jersey City com- panics. The Third division wili be under the direction of ¢x-Alderman J. V. Brower, and will be composed of civie societies, the Water Commissioners of Jersey City snd New York, the #ayors and aldermen of neighbor. fey ig orator Rot en ae and State officers ey, the Judiciary of the State, th Senator: ind Congressmen, tad the New “aoart st Pilot Commissioners. The Fourth division be under the direction of William T. Ko¢gers, Jr., aid to the Grand Mar+hal, and will coxsist of civic soci kocieties, bem gant waterworks in different eek local offices of Hudson county, officers of ri ies whose roads ter- mixate in Jerzey City, mentors the Press and invited fcr ; butchers, carmen and ne on Tornebaa wil Mow next in order and brin, i W. Scudder, Fi and other appropriat exeroises Will take place’ ta to. the starting point the column will be dismissed and will be served at three o’clock in different aceording to the arravgements made. The bells es will be tno Stones be on is moi e pas e Bi] wi ed at head. the pose sie Abe pov om will be the day, and in the evening there wwii be fires and ‘iu tions. A tem, Bg oro constructed in the public square, at the interzec! Grend and Washington strests, which will be during the cay. CommirreD ‘to THR Crry Prison.—During September RR 6 hon tes res Rr i ne there were 118 commitments to the City Sects, Sy euspioben of 4 ther 35 ‘easel ler} sus] ion ‘assal wee goo a siege at ‘3; ey, tv ity of tice tome stated fellagar-United Beaten, 54 iFeland, 86; England, 12; Germany, 5; Scotland, ; France, 1’ Total, 118, Foreigners, 108; natives, 5. Gene mare, two were colored persons, Will you much o gers of the atlantic on her eo wie) from Livery mh to this port? That statement, which was undoa! ceived by you in good faith, "belo eleulae! to pele: pero sere Et ars gate Fe Fete ra janded justice to am éat ‘prom; publish ‘this my denial poy ap eta! the ‘Upon CHIEF of the U. 8. mail steamship nahiy Atlantic. nehied’s Hats are Decidedly the Favor- preclats the beauties of he manufsoture- seatares "Bota for 880- Tes wu ties ECi78 Nessau street. None are better, and certainly there can be none cheaper. Hall, Hatter, Sit coon he 413 Broad- cof Li strect, has merited the best Splaton of the juction of the present i iyle of ie nad own manufactures, ho- Partha rg li‘patternsof Fron tabcics fa bis roa ‘of the steamshij tet Mae I to oe Eka Genin will Introduce This a origioal style of felt hat for Broadway, opposite St. Paul’s nerreot: ns at 235 Cents—Best quality tana Ny HOLMES patent double e: two ty fsa, ures. ata single operation, at the original = tory, No, 2¢9 iway. tix hundred portraits taken datly. Children’s Hats at Genin’s, 214 —Never has so brilliant a display of children’s Ie hte oa SE a alta one will now be found a % site St. Paul’s Church, - ’ A Twenty-five Cent ype is not. as cheap as one double the size for fifty. ‘with hand- eome cand anc preserver es extra charge. 3uch o ictnre can be hadat 436 corner of Howard sect. Brom gainaN sm, Artist Comer -Dog nerreoty pes —One Instantaneons sitting. Nery in end 249 Falton street, opoo io ate, Gilbs. Hy WHIZAMION, Artist and Pro- FP