The New York Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1854, Page 4

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The ‘irat seseion closed on the 7th of ‘ast August, leav- tag a vast amount of business urfiniahed. Annexed a @ list of the bills lost in either the Senate or House, or vetoed by the President, during the last @ays of the sextion. They will come up again be- tween now end March :— 11 of five millions. ‘The Pagitic Railroad scheme. The Senate bill of eight and # half millions for the re- Ref of Texas. Senate amendments, of several millions, to the general appropriation bill, including half a million te the Wash- ington Water Works. Mr. Old’s bill for the increase of the rate of postage. for aline of steamers between San River and Harbor bill—$2,700,000—yvetoed by the Vresident The Insane Land bit—vetord. The propositi 0,000,000 in the secret cor- view fond, at thee Colt’ Pate The Min A baich of many millions in amou of land Jobbing rallroad sebemen, | Col. Ramsey's Calif Mail Route dill Weekly Mail to Calif © money due Collins i Navy. © caused great com in Virginia. 1 to provitie to revolut ry offi bounty lind is bustle +6 Weft for the rest ills enough to occupy tie att for a few weeks, snd it should bo the duty of ch members to clear the calendar of $26 rubbish with the least delay. fornia, which we published io , contained a number of inter- esting items, to which we will briefly refer. fhe amount of specie brought hy the steamer was a Hii tle over seven hundred and thirty seven thousand dot Jars; bnt a8 this was pot the regular mail steamer, we look for an amount much larger by the noxt ar rival. A doel was fought rear San Francisco on the Bth vit, between Mr. Achilles Kewen and Col. D. J. Woodlief, which resulted in the latter being in weutly killed. They were formerly friends, both living in Ban Fr co The veevels of the alitod ficet contiuned to hold by their anchors in the har bor of San Fran isco, with appearances indicatiag that they would rot soon Irave their present oom. fortable perition. A number of the men composing the crews of the English vessels had deserted. A Frepsh vessel, the Obligado, had been despatched to Guay mas, to ingvire into the circumstances attend- ing the death of Count de Boulbon, and it was re por'ed that on ber way ehe fell in with o Rasiaa frigute, ard an engagement bad taken place; but the.) umor needs confirmation. The Know Nothings had obtained a complete triumph over the other parties in San Francisco, by the election of William | Sherman to the office of City Comptroller. Ovoriand emigrants had arrived at Sacramento, and reported having encountered vonsiderable difficulty with the Indians on the piains. The citizens o Carson Var ley, who sre hecoming quite numerous, it was sald were ar xicus to have their portion of Utsh Territo- ry apnexed to California. They are now under the @emiration of the Mormons. James Logan and Willism Lepeey were bung in Columa on the 3d ult., oth for the crime of murder. The state o trade in ‘Ban Francisco was in nn improved condition, acd | ‘the principal articles of cousumption showed a de- | wided increave in price. The amount of enles to the interior of the State had already exceeded the usual fall trace, notwithstanding there had been an ad- ‘vance in freight charges. Shippers on the Atlantic are warned, however, no} to be too sanguine of a continuance of the present improved state of the | merkete. Our Caraccas correspondent, under date of Oot. ‘26th, furnishes gome items of news from Venezuela, whieh are of very melancholy interest. Colonel Vaequez, a revilotionary officer, who was taken prisoner in the late battle of Bap Carlos by Gane a Bilve, was put to death, on the 2ist of that month Dy crder of Prosident Monages. He sufferod ia a) yard, and aster being tortured for an hour his naked | ‘po! y was carried outside the gates and baried ia » | dreadfal ravages in the provinces of Margarita and Guiirta; and black vomit had respp-ared at Paerto Cabello. -A me) teresting letter from ve of our oorres- pondents in Central Amevice, will be found else where. Itisdated a 1 on de Nicaragua, on the Sth of November, and conta nea coacise historical sketch of the past misgovernment o' that country, with a tru bfai ex osé of its b'ighting effects ons fair and fertile land and on e mixe’‘ rac? of people, never very v gorons and pow ‘o al y imbecile. The important commercial position of the republic is ably treated, and tke vita question asked : Whether Evg’and or the United States shall erjoy ‘he benefits of it? Castellan and Caam morro sill arrayed the populace on the side eitber cf @ revolution or the sustalament of the newly formed exe:utive. It was no’ consid: ered likely that Castellon would eucceed to the Presidency ,even if victor ous. From the other States we learn that Gyatemsla bad een: one thousand men to ald Chammorro. These troops were stop- | ped on their march, at Carrero, by order of he gov- ertment of San Salvador, but they w-re ordered to Presi¢ent. The inbabitants o’ireytown were re- solved to prosecute th ir claims to th: utmoss at Washington, and ‘they are deferded by the writer from some of the aspersions thrown on them. Tae crews of H. B. M. ships in port were busy prac tising, for amusement, in fliiog at targets. From Key West, under date of Nov. 27, we learn that everything remained quiet om the reef, aad consequently there is no wrecking ne} ‘The first regular ‘norther” was felt the 26th ultimo. The town was rapidly filling up with strangers acd returned citizens, making themselves com- fortable for the winter. Lieutenant Mead, of the Tepographical Engineer Corps of the United States, was to erect a lighthouse near the northwest portion of the harbor during tre win. ter, acd » toweriog beacon will be soon placed on the Tortugas ehcals. Materials for both works had srrived. Some marize and fishing items are given, with a report of the movements of the 0 ited Sta‘es ships Prioceton, on an unsuccessful search for the missing eloop-of-war Albany. The flour market closed rather duli on Saturday, thovgh prices were uncianged. The tock in store Was not considered large for the season, though the exict quantity was uncertain. The last we:k or two of canal navigation has added ma ertally to our sto ks of corn, wh: at, and oats, each of whicu were cull, and aold at .asier rates. Corn closed at 88. a $%c., while Michigan white whrat sold at $2 20, with ¢mall lot at $226, and Southern white at $195. Rye was ecarce, and sold at $1 36, Barley wee also scarce aud high. Oats were plentier and chearer. Provisions were steady, with a fair amount of sales. About 600 or 800 packeges of lard were purchased fer export at 10}c. Strictly prime waa held at 10jc. About 800 a 900 bales of cotton were eold. ‘he market closed steady. Freights to Eag- lish ports were quick, with free shipments of pro- duce, including cotton, grain and provisions. We have received our files of papers from San José, Costa Ries, to the 4th of November ins‘ant. Like most otier journals in the world at this mo ment, the Gaceta devotes its columns to bisto:ical desoriptions of the Crimean campaign, ani girvesus very little loval intelligence. The republic seems mai vellously peaceable, and we may therefore infer pros; ereus, fora Spanish-American country. Ad- vices from other Oeatral American States arenot later than those previous'y received. The steamsh'p Black Warrior ariived at this port yesterday, with advices from Havana to the 28th ult. The letters of our correspondents, published else- where, contain all the news. The Board of Canvassers of this county conclujed their business on Saturday, avd adjourned without Gey. The official canvass is to be published io jour of the daily ani two of the Sunday papers. Tnteltigence has reached us from Lake Superior, said to be derived froma reliable source, that Dr, Kone’s party, of the brig Advance, sent o1t hy Mr. Gilnnell, bas discovered the bovies of Sir Joun Friar klin and hiacompapions. They were completely n, ud ina perfect atate of preservation, Al- tiovgh Dr. Rae bas anticipated our indefatigable countrymen in solving the preblem as to the fate of the gallant Sir Jobn, yet the honor due to his ver vices in the cause of humanity is none the less. A deliberate and fiendish attempt to commit murder was made in this city yesterday torving, #) the corner of Third avenue and Seventeenth street. The parties were partners in business, and had quarreiled. Both sr- Germans, A full report of the circumstances Is given under the polics head. And in this connection we would remurk that the record of crime given in this mo:ning’s paper is an unusually black one, including, ae it does, couspi- racies, murders, assaults, a stabbing case, embozz’.- ment, sorceries and fslse petences, showing iat there exists ‘n our city at the present time a shock: ing amount of crime,and a lamentable deg’es of destituticn, for the most of which we are no doubt indebted to the distinguished financiers who have cut such a brilliant figure in our midst daring the past yeor. The Fire Marshal concluded the invert’ ‘gation yesterday in the case against Mary Lyoch, charged with setting fire to the dwelling house No.34 Fra:k- fort street, and Justice Osborne committed her to prison for trial. Effects of the Fatlure of the Allies Before Sebastopol. Our last accounts from Earope state that the advance guard of Liider’s army was gathering fast to the north of Balaklava, and that a me nacing bidy of Russians were ranged in line from she northern defences of Sebastopol to the mountains on the seaboard, eo that the alles were enclosed between the fortress itself, those pew troops, and the sea, One need not be a coldier to perceive the peril of this pox Tt was weil understood in the allies’ cawp that nothing but an assault could save them: and the orders for that movement were hourly ex- pected. Upon the success of an nit depends tar moie than the fate of the arr r di be- fore Sebastopol. Should it prove a failure, and t} ps be compelled to take to their ships « ter revere lceses, a étand would at once be token by the governments of Germany. Prussia would throw off the flimsy mack which has not availed to con- ceal her designs: and Austria would direct her army in the Principslities to co-operate with the Russions against the Turks, The necessity which has hitherto existed fur an appearance of caution on the part of Russia would thea dis- appeer; aud the bedy of troops which hare heen ecemingly occupied in watching the Aus- trian army would at once unite with them. These points are aduitted by all who are well informed on the continent ef Europe. The sympathies of the German courts haye always been with the Czar: nothing but a sense of danger has restrained them from openly os pousing his cause now. The failure of the allicd expedition against the Crimea, involving as it | would, not only a moral check, bat an actual logs of life, which the diminished army contin- gents of the Western Powers can ill afford, would remove the risk that formerly attenied an alliance with Russia: England and France will bave enough to do to repair their losses without undertaking hostile movements agalust Germany. Under theee circumstances, it seems beyond reasonable doubt that the mews of the failure of the allies before Sebastopol will be | followed almost immediately by the open alli- ance of Russia, Avstria, and Prussia. Nor will it Involve Jess portentous conse- proceed in defiance of her prohibition. Costa Riva | had elmost open)y decl>red in favor of the e'e ted | | countries, the war hes been a popula move- mevt: the masses have gone w th is heart and | rou), end so long as oraune seemed to amile on | the allied arms, both g ve:nments have been | strong. This popu ar fee ing has been on the decline Jately, owing to frech demands for | movey. and the ;rectioal ailure of the Baltic expedition, Thedefea of the allies would de- | etroy it altogether: the war would ecom> as | hateful a. it bas been p pular, an) both gov- | erpments would be weakened accordingly. Ia France, the democrat. would begin to plot afresb; and Napo eo. woald need to increase bis vig lance aad wate falue n England the difficulty would be overco +e by the resig- nation of the ministry, :nd the substitution of new men, free to pur ue a new licy. What would that policy b:? There a © two | parties n England wo would advoca: the | termina‘ion of the Angl -Frenc” allina , and | the conciliation of Rusia. Tne fi st of ‘bese | is the Court: the -econd the mercantile coni- | munity, ‘10 the former, the alliance has always been detes able. From the Ge rges down to the presen day, the royal house of Hanover bas a ways been German at | e.rt—opposed to | Englith freedom English laws, and English | Parliamentary usege—and attached to the | system of governmen’ which prevails in | Germany. The Quen his never been sincere: in her protestations of fricud-hip for the French Emperor: it is weil known on the Continent that Napoleon’s projzct ed visit to England has been abandoned simply because che would not receive the Em- press Eugénie. Her busband, Prince Albert, became notorious by his expre-8:0 18 of sym- pathy for Russia. These feelings will induce the Court party in Eogland to seize the oppor- tunity afforded by the failure of the Sebastopol expedition, for urging the rupture of the alliance, and treating with Ncholas. In this they will be seconded by a large body «! mer- cantile men, who have been for war so luog as it cost them little, but wil! be for peace when the Chancellor of the Exchequer calls for fresh loans, and the funds fall. In the general dis- hearte ment produced by so disastrous a failure as the re-embarkation of the troops from the Crimea, these two parties wil! be reinfurced by a large body of individuals, who, like John Bright, think Engli:hmen have something better to do than cutting Russian throats for the benefit of cowardly Turks: and altogetber it seems bigbly probable that the party thus com- posed will command a mafority in the British Parliament, and dictate the course of the na- tion. Simultaneously with his abandonment by England, Napoleon would, in the coatingencies we have supposed, be menaced by an army of half a million of men on the Rhine. The com- bined Russians and Germins would make no paltry attacks on distant corners of his empire; he would be assailed in the heart of France by an army more than twice as numerous as his own. The result could pot be doubtful. Napo- leon L. took eight or nine years to erect an empire out of the fragments of the republic: and it required fifteen years for. the combined des pots of Europe to break him down and send bim to St. Helena. Napoleon III. took three cars to eet up his mpire on the ruins of the se- cond republic, which was an improvement upon his unele; but should the events we Rave sop posed realiy take place, his overthrow may be consummated before six months are over. Events are only too apt to repeat themzelves if Sebastopol ie not taken, the Ruseo German ailience, the withdrawal of England from the contest, and the appearance of an army of hal! amillion of men on the Rhine, are likely to suceeed cach other with startling rapidity. To suppose that Napoleon could singly resist such au overwhelming enemy would be prepos terous. He would be compelled to yicld ; ond the Easterm ollies might not improa- biy carry out the scheme of 1812, by cividing France like Poland, annexingPicardy and Normandy to Belgium, granting the centre, including Paris, to the Orleans dynasty. and bestowing Languedoc, Provence, and th rest ot the south on Henri V., the Bour?+ This would only be a slight variation of i. old per- formance. What then should be Napeleon’s policy, in the event of the failure of the Sebastopo! « <pe- dition ? In the first place, he should bewar> the British court. They are not his friends; and most assuredly if they can ever command the people, they will shake him off. In the next place, the Austrian and Prussian courts baving Acclared themeelves in favor of the Czar, he should }oiet the red cap of liberty, estabiish a fice press, @ :ree parliament, and free institu tions in France, and proclaim a crasade agaiost European despots. He should throw oversoard ail the tresh and nonsense he aseumed with the title of Emperor in Imitation of hereditary monarchs, and cell himself plain Napoleon, the chosen of the people. With this title, anda good army to back him, he would be perfectly invincible, At his command, revolutions would burst forth all over the continent. Cracow, Ber- lin, Pesth, Milan and Vienna could be set ina bloze In a month. Half the armies of the German Powers would turn their bayonets agains: their own masters. Instead of being driven to the wall by an army on the Rhin-; he contd himself, like his uncle, march victo- riously into Germany, and carry the war to the walls of Moscow. Guided by his uncle’s expe- rience, be could avoid the faults which injured bim, and might become the father of European liberty. Iven the British aristocracy would hardjy be able to resist the popular ory that would arise in his favor; and instead of his nuelo’s fate, and a second St. Helena, his des- tiny might far eclipse anything that history has ever written. lf Napoleon is not prepared ioe follow this course, be had betier take Sebastopol. Mx, Frae@ vs. THE Orviciats or tan Crrr Hast—Wuy pon’? o® Pay Tarim Savantes?— The position which has been taken by « ur City Comptroller, Mr. Azariah C. Fagg, in refusing to pay the police ond civil justice:, the clerks of the varions departments, and other offici :ls, is creating quite ® eeneation among the office holders generally, and considcrable indignation has also been mapifested throughout the com- munity at the course he has thonght fi: to pur- tue. Soon after Mr. Flagg entered upon the duties of his office, he commerced ‘his remark. able system of economy in the pub ic expondi tures, and the officials whose only means of support was their salaries, were compelled to live on whatever credit they could obtain emong their friends, some of them being forced to pay an interest of five per cent, S-veral in- stances of this kind have occurred w thin the past year, and in one or two ca es the disap po ated officials, having n» other means «f re- dreas, appealed to the courte. Mr. Morton, the ee ee ee NE Se ne re eee ere ace a RR mE the most degraded manver. Orelera wss tasking | quevees in France and En lend. In bo'h theze first clerk in the City Iorpector’s department, instituted a euit in the Marine Cont for the re- covery of bis sulory, and +necerded in obtainiag & decision against the C mptroller, bus he stili \ refused to pay, and appealed. Before the appeal yas decided, however, the Common Council | end middle States ; that from. North Carolinas ordered the diecontinuance of the suit and the _ to the Gulf of Mexico. and along the Gulf payment of the am unt claimed. This took | States, they have suffered much less, as also Place in Avgu-t last, bat Mr. Flagz, as we | fom the mouth of the Missis-ippi up to its bave stated, stil refuses to pay he just c aims | souro‘s; that occasional belts, even in the in- , of the offic als, und inv.tes them to sue him in | terior States, have escaped te worst effects “of return, the general dearth ; that in Texas they had far ; In defence of this cour:e, he says he has not | yorable seasons; that in New Mexico they had» the means of psying their salaries; and this in | an unusual quantity of raia, and au abundance | view of the fact that the eis ssurplus of nearly | of it in California and Oregon. The fact iv, 8 million of dollars in the city treasury, all of | that a country 0 vast us ours, occapying the | which bas been paid in the form of taxes by the | breadth of a great continent, can never feel | citizens of New York. Th’s enormous sum is | the withering influences of a general drought, | now lying in the Mechanics’ Bank, and while it | 4 deficiency of rain in one part will be made up remains there, is, of course, utterly useless for | py a surplus in another ; and short crops in one all practical purposes to ihe city. Now, it is@ | section will be redecmed by a superabundance singular fact that Mr. Edmonda, who is the City Chamber] sin, is a'so cashier of the Mechanics’ Bank, and, in connection with the directors, enjoys the use of this mopey and all the ad- vantages which may be derived therefrom. They can loan it to others to go into the street and shave good poper, at one or two per cent, and even the notes of the poor of- cials whose pressing neceseities put them in their power. Judging fram the facts before us, it is very probable that the whole echeme has been devised for this purpose. Mr. Edmonds is a vocd Chamberlain, and a» good cashier, but was alko a very prominent member of the old Regency in Albany, and when the Regency be- came defunct, be, with others, came to this cily, and have been quartered upon us like broken down eoldiers in an hospital, and are now managing our finaneial concerns as best suits themselves; and with what effect we have shown. There is at present @ surplus of from twenty-eight to thirty millions in the national treasury, and it would seem that the City Comptroller is pursuing the same delectable policy that has been adop'ed by the adminis- tration at Washington. If this money is not need for stock jobbing operations, why is it al- lowed to remaiu in the Mechanic:’ Bank, while claims to the amount of several thousands of dollare, and about the justice of which there can be no diepute, cannot be enforced unless through process of Jaw. Is Mr. Flagg iociuded among the officials whose salaries have not boen paid ? The Drought and the Crops—Wonderfal Products of California—Goot News from New Mexico. In reply to our general circular of Septem- ber last on the subject of the drought and the crops, we have published from time to time numerous interesting and valuable letters from intelligent officia' and private sources from every State and almost every Territory in the Union. We close this correspondence, to-day, with several very gratifying official letters from California and New Mexico. These complete our list of letters on the crops, excepting the Territory of Utah. From other sources, how- ever, we are informed that the Saints at the Great Salt Lake have had bountiful crops of all kinds, which ar: very important, considering the rapid increase of the population there, un- der Gov. Young’s prolific system of patriarchal polygamy. California is the living wonder of the world. Her unfailing crops of gold make her so ; bat her agricultural productions are even more wonderful than her gold washings. We have the authority of the Governor of the State, over his own signature, that during the past season California has produced the atonishiag yield, in one instance, at least, of eighty-two and a half bushels of wheat to the acre. Think of that. In Pennsylvania and Virginia, two of the largest wheat-growing States in the Union, an average crop, we believe, ranges from twelve to twenty bushels per acre. In Western New York from fifteen to twenty- five will do remarkably well. In the rich, vir- gin eoils of Northern Ohio, Indians, [1!' ois and Micbigan, from thirty to forty bushels per acre is a splendid crop. We doubt whether there can be found a single ios’ance oa record of # yield of wheat east of the Rocky moun- tains, for a premium, which has exceeded sixty- five bushels to the acre. Io England, under the most per‘ect eystem of cultivation, they sel- dom reach as high as six'y bushels to th: acre. California, however, rolls up the magaificent premium product of eighty-two and a half bushels of wheat to the acre. Think of that. We have heard of that great redwood Cali- fornia tree, in the county of Calaveras, aspiring to the majestic height of three hundred and tweaty-five fect, and ninety-six feet in circum- ference, straight as an arrow, and sound to the heart as a piece of mahozany—reinciag to stunted shrubs, from its gigantic superiority, all the boasted vegetable wonder: of !'irope and the rest of the world. We have secn a transverse cut of this tree, proving its ci:me- ter and soundness; and we have the highsst authorities that there are handreds of other red- woods in California only inferior to this giaut in their dituensions, We have heard of Cali- fornia potatoes of six and elght pounds weight, of onions of the size of a half gallon punch bow]; of tomatoes as broah as a soup plate; of melons weighing » hundred pounds; and of wild oats, indigenous over thon- sands of acres, as high as the breast of s man on horseback, and now can believe them all. At an agricultural State fair in California, wpon the high authority of the Governor, the premium crop of whet ‘was the aplendid product of cighty-two nd a half bushels to the acre! It is thus piainly written in the manusoript, over the Goreraor’s signature—upon his official and private respon- ebility—and there can be no doub‘ of it. Kighty- two anda half bushels to the acre! Let our farmers take a note of it, and put ona little | more guano. Our Saviour, in one of his most beautiful and touching parables, tells of a “ eower who wont forth to sow;”’ and that of the svcd thus sown full- ing into good ground, it produc:d “ some sixty and some @ hundred fold.” This puts the Holy Land ahead even of California as a wheat grow- ing country ; but in Palestine and in Ezypt, if we mistake not, they have a spocies of whoat which is far more prolific tian any of our Euro- pean or American varieties. At all events, we have yet to learn that out of Egypt or Pales- tine there has ever been 9 product of whoat ex- ceeding cighty-two and a half bushels to the acre. The letter of the Governor of New Mex'co gives us a flattering account of the crops in thit distant Territory. He te'ls us that theaverase crop of wkeat there is from twenty to thirty burhels to the acre, which is doing very weil, cotton or corn. H In e general review of our correspondence | upon the erops, we find that the late drought | bas been severest through the New England | this under the sun. Long live the Union! Tne Aarration Commenced —By a political | seen that the anti-slavery agitation bas already the candidates for delegate to Congress will turn on the abolition poiat. The result of the election will show whether or not the plass of Eastern agitators will be allowed to intertere wih the right of the people of Kansas to ectile their own affaire in their own way. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. ARRIVAL OF CONGRESSMEN—THB POLITICIANS ALL ALIVE. Wasurxaton, Dec. 3, 1954. The members of both houses are arriving hore in large numbers from all sections of the country. The greatest activity is being exbibited, and everybody is looking forward to the proceedings of to-marrow with feelings of considerable interest. The Virzinia Democratic State Convention. NOMINATION OF STATE OFPIOERS—GEN, PIERCE EN- DORSED. Rronmonn, Dec. 3, 1854. The Virginia Democratic State Convention, after « stormy session of three days, have nominated Henry A. Wise for Governor, E. W. McComas for Lieutenant Go- vernor, and W. P. Bocock for Attorney General. A motion was made to make Mr. Wise’s nomination unanimous; and although many noes were heard, the Chairman declared that the nomination had been over- whelmingly carried. Resolutions were then passed approving of Franklin Pierce’s administration, aud declaring that he had faith- fully adhered to the constitution. The Body of Dr. Franklin Found by Dr. Kane. Atpany, Dec, 3, 1854. The Lake Superior Mining News, of Nov. 9, con. tains the following :—By private letters we learn that the bodies of Sir Johy Franklin and bis men have been found by Dr. Kane’s party, frozen, perfectly preserved. Im our last number we gave the report of the intelli- gence derived from wome of the Esquimaux Indians, of the discovery of some of the silver used by Franklin’s expedition, and marked with his initials, The later re. port is of the discovery of the bodies, and from our au- thority we have the right to believe it to be true. The editor makes no mention of the source of his information, nor of the direction whence it came. Destructive Fire at Black Rock. BURNING OF THE FRONTIER FLOUR MILL, AND LOS8 OF THE PROPELLER INTERNATIONAL. Borrato, Dec. 3, 1854. About 1 o'clock, P. M., to-day, a fire broke out in the Frontier Floor Mill, at Black Rock, which, with all its contents, was consumed. Some 15,000 bushels of grain and 3,000 barrela of flour were in the mill at the t'me. ‘The propeller International, lying at her dock, took fire, burned to the water’s edge and then eunk. She was owned by the Buffalo and Brantford Railroad Company, and was worth about $15,000. The mill was property in dispute between the estate of Ferdinand Suydam and the Seneca County Bank. It was fully insured. From Philadelphia. RAILROAD ACCIDENT-- THE WEATHER. Pauapraraia, Dec. 3, 1854. Yesterday Michael Shields, a pedlar, in attempting to get on a burthen car at Paoli, on the Colambia railroad, accidentally fell, and was killed almost instantly. Rain bas been falling here all day, but the -rlud changed this evening round to the northwest, and a snow storm is just commencing. Snow Storm at Syracuse. Brracvse, Dec. 3, 1854, It han been snowing heft all day, and the snow "snow about nix inches deep. The sleighing is exoellen‘, sad the first of the season. cn: as aS The CouFts and the Common Council. ‘The opinion has long prevailed that this ts the worst governed city in the world; and yet we all know, to our cost, that the result cannot be attributed to the want of extravagance in the expenses of its government, or re- Tuctance to impose heavy taxation. That we should thus suffer is the more strange and deplorable when we con- sider that our citizens are active, intelligent and ener- getic, and are as remarkable for their success in what depends on individual enterprise, as they are for patiently submitting to the total absence of any similar enterprise in our rulers. We see illustrations of this wherever we look. Abouts year ago the building in the Park, in which many of our courts were held, was #0 far injured by fire as to be wholly unfit for occupation; and yet its blackened and ruined walls still stand to disigure the public ground—a desolate monument of corporation folly, laziness and neglect. The interior of the dilapi- dated building 1s & haunt for rats and vagabonds, and the walls are covered with handbills and other defor- mities, And yet we bave bad » reform Common Counell in power--incessant talk at its meetings—lavish expendi- tures of public money— long-winded debates, and waste of public time and treasure. In the meantime, where fires Lave destroyed private bulldings, private energy has reared others in their stead—as may be neen in various places in the city. It is really intolerable that all who are intecosted, or toke part in the administration of jusiice, should be ex- posed to such evils as reault from oar mnniclpal tar-i- ness and folly. Judges, jurors, counsel, reporters, par- ties tg suits and witnerses, have to suffer from it to: a extent of which the quiet citizens who never visit the courts heve no idea whatever. It would astonish one of them to take a peep at the uncouth and misplaced building in which tho Superior Court now transacts business, with its six Judges, and ite General, Specia’, and Triel Terms. The erection of that building where it stands, at the corner of the Park, bounded by Chambers and Centre sireeta, never was necessary, and cannot be exeured, After the fire of last winter, a committee of the Common Council proceeded to it up rooms for the courts in this rookery, at what outlay of the public money we know not, and we understand that they have indulged tn much ‘Jandation over tha comfort and even elegance the spartmenta thas pro- vided, There is no disputing about taste, ard if either of the learned or wise gentlemen on- geged in that pertcrmance will show us how their labors deserve anything but censure or merriment we would be obliged to him for the ingonlous and atriking demonstration. Until Wednecday last the Superior Court was engaged in triels with four juries, The calen- dar of caures was called before Chief Justice Oakley if @ Aquare room, with a very low celling, utterly incapa- De of ventilation, and destitute of convenience. rey morning it was filled to suffocation, and in ite midst stood “‘a red hot demon of a stove,’’ making it resemble Pandemonium as much as practicable. The motley throng crammed into that clamber assimilated the tick et office of a railroad company on the Fourth of July, and the clusters of lawyers around the Chief Justice, while he was hearing applications to postpone casos, waa in no way more dignified than the developements in a respectable pig pen overstocked with inhabitants at the exciting moment when the swill is poured into the trough, and the grunting competitors for it plunging feet and nose into the savory liquid, squeese, and _ push, and equeel, in horrid rivalry for its though considerably bebind Califora's. Cora cajejaan* ta te S tk, daly: ae does not flourish 80 well, the general clevation | 4a in the vile baa ad eh fine of the country—some four thousan! fect above commenced in Kansas, and the issue between | theose— sendaring the climate too ecld for elther ‘salamander, ond an astenishing capacity to ; Tank, reeking atmosphere, from ‘which somewhere else. There isno such country as | manifesto, which we print to-day, it will be , | place, felt that in the gratuitous duty of settling other ‘ pleted in about a year. people’s quarrels, they were euffering quite 0 ff, instead of being disiaterested judges, they wi raigned criminals. As seon as the learned Judge fo & cane“ ready on both sides,” he despatched the sons engaged in it to some adjoining, and, if po ‘more intolerable, room, Hefore Jucige Hostman or Judge Campbell, while the rigid and ing Chief Justice himself, with the insensibility q without afr, went on with his business in the & he thas di buted trla's ds sparks might dy from the glow! under the blacksmith’s iammer, There was could not be, in cither of the four rooms im which’ tials proceeded, one mouthfulof air daring doy, fit for the longs of « human being; and when the ended, every eng.whs had boen compelled to remain up in the suffocating holes, went forth into the nat atmosphere more happy than the prisoner f | the Bastile. Itis perfectly obvious that the bafléing we have cursorily described is totally unfit for the pu which it has beea cevotcd, and the money ‘| the foclish attempt to arrange courts there might u | better have been throws into the sea, New, how is this state of ihings to continue? How long are zens compelled te attend our courts to be treated|| negroes in a slave ship, or prisoners in the Black Ho Caleutta? And howswany months or years more mu | spent in idle debate, or subtle for joba, before] Common Council prov.de for @ new City Hall? Ber plans bave been before them for a long time, aad © one knows that there are hundreds of architects in city perfectly competent to furzish @ proper design! the required building in ene dey; yet our supient le lators cannot procure or decite upom one. Why? /] there the least doubt that it must be and is becaus & discroditable rivalry between the two branches of | “city legislature, as to which of them shall bave honor or the cruolument of selecting the plan for new City Hall, or controlling the contract for iis & ion? neve would suggest to the Judges whether there is an existing law, under which they have a right to quire the Sheriff to furnish them with suitable o rooms, and charge the expénse to the couaty, and wh er this power ehoull not be exercised at once. ] reems due to the people. The judges and the luw, may, by the firing and cross-firing eemmenan in their ; fersional encounters, have acquired te capacity toy dure as much heat a8 was involved in the battles of laklava and Sebastepol. The reporters have been sv If accustomed to discomfort in the discharge of their ed duties that they can. if necessary, descend into trill nals more gloomy and miserable than those of the Inay 4 sition, But jurors should oertainly be protected agai disease if not against discomfort, and they capnot tain such an iomunity if they must assemble ia miserable ovens or dens in which the Superior ¢> seems doomed to hold all its sessions, unless # flagration, or its own authority, or @ special ilu: tion and propulsion of the Common Counei, intro some change such as we desire, " ‘The December term of the courts will be commenc: day. The various calendars are still heavy, bat not || of any exciting interest 1s anticipated except the ment for a new trial in the case of Forrest against, rest, and perhaps the suit arising out of the bomt ment of Greytown, which the United States gevecap defence. ‘The Board of Aldermen will open the December «es this evening. We do not know of anything special is to come before them this month, except the matti | rebuilding the City Hall, It is the last month of } existence of the present board as now organized—$ || of the reformers having been defeated at the ra election—and we liope that they will proceed with subject of the new law courts, and leave at least memorial to which they may look back with fatf-st faction. Court of General Sessions. Before Recorder Tillou. ‘This court opens for the term thia day. Tne foliot is the calendar of prisoners, in the Tombs; awal trial, ss made out by Mr. John H. Whitmore, tho! cient clerk of the city bis — i Perjm fakewne srs LOSS OF THE BAK MOPANG. The ship Hemisphere, Pray, from Havre, arciv this port yesterday; reports:—Fell in with the bard pang, Copt. Downa, from Satilla River for Boston, logged and dismasted, on the #th Nov., in lat. 39 doy min., long. 71 deg. 48 min., and took off the eaptain, crew, and brought them to this port. The following Capt. Downs’ report :-— Nov, 22.—Sailed from St. Andrew’s Bar with » { breeze from southwest. 23d—Light breese from oat) and cloudy, making but little or no water, 24th—Strong gales from S. to S.8.B., and equal clone reefed the sail, tried the pumps and found she ma more water thau usual. 26th—Lat. 86 deg. 42 mnin., long. 75 deg. 15 min., wi hauled to west northwest a strong gale; leak increas! daily; one-pump continually goir g. 26th—Continues with strong gules from wost; je: still increasing; both pumps going a good part of tt! day. 27th—Wind northwest, strong gales; tacked to sou west, thinking to get in; found the leak a the an yesterday; Int 38 deg. 5 min., long. 7: 2éth—Strong gales from Roriliwost to to ed poreenell ong two feet water in the took i ops. hove to, and pumped her oat, but fount that the pu: Bond Pat Tr eee bee ee. it her before the whd ed the fame. At 8 again, and at 9P. M.a heavy commenced filling very fast; pumps going centi At midnight four feet water. tla. Sa of ofthe. 30thh+ filled fell over on her side: wreek, wi but the top of her house. At pe ight caw dis but none near thet we could almost read her name, a are 0 oe had a rignal of distress flying, and could nee two her look vas otired no aeristance, fae ing for us, which proved te the Hemisphere, Cayiais Pray, of New York, who us off tho wreck, and treated ‘us with great kindne, and Se uswith cloth &e. To Ca) feel very grateful, for tina aid bees sean re LS read rovisions or water, and no! Geopt in, és 0. Fe DOWNS, cn Late Mastet bark Mo oe of New York. Naval Intelligence. The U. 8. surveying eehooner Guthrie, Com. } arrived ot Charlestor 29th ult. from Portland. ; perienced heavy weather during the passage. U. 8, Svoop-or-War Annany.—Dbe Norfolk Beaconsays there is no truth in the statement going the rounts of the press, that a letter had been rece im that city from au officer of this vessel, indicating her asiety. Th letter referred to was dated the: 2sth of Soptember, wh ehe was g nder way at Aepiaw: wt intelligence ‘of hee has been geben rk ee ore Coroner's Inquest. Tae Late Grinpetone: "ACcIDEN Yesterday, Coroner Wilhelm beld an inquest upon the body oi boy, David Caldwell, who, as we stated @ fay days nen was severely Injute es tho bursting of a grind: stone in the factory of the Union steam works, corner of Twenty-second street and Seccnd avenue, A verdict of accidental death war rendered. The decensed-was thirteen years of age and lived with his father, corner of Fifty-third street and Lexington avenue, petit Superior Court—General Term. Refore Chief Justice Ganley, 0 and Hon Hom Judges Campbell, ARRIVALS. At the 8t. Richolne— Hen Biijah Ford, Buffelo; i Pe. we nck Geo. Be Seen My RS omer | Vv 5 Ci eee ‘i ie Jamon ee Ca. E tie La a pee at 7d ays ieee 4 Fore: ge, St. Louie, G. W. sens § ae Pa it 4 EN Felten” Puiladerphie, : ‘ew Orleans and Ha r are Geo Milener, 8 He Seckeon, ¥ Wallon, Teves. ind dy and te dren, Mrs Majof Iriel avd 4 Marlee 8 Ttesta, C Monege ey pa aires Dal Pyodo, ¥ Mor *Arrontowo, Geo Tnchete Ambrosle Val Lopes, Key, B Lacoste, © Syng, M Ds ag From Maw in bark God H trong, £ a Capt ireland, Mise Kiusote Biiswmovds tala ‘The ronte of the Jersey City and Bergen Point Railroad persons, Tt will prod tk being surveyed by compe: ‘bly, follow the Now Jersey Railroad to Bergen Hill, z then braneh eff to the Point. Jt is expected to be com.