The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1854, Page 4

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The news is unimportant, and pos weasee comparatively but little interest, beyond the fact of the safe arrival and landing of the gool pound sum of oze million three hundred and eighty *bousand dollars. This, when added to the amount Brought by the previous steamer, makes the sum faily equal to the average semi monthly shipmen’. Our advices from Acupulco are to the 25tnof November. We publish in another column a som mary of news, from which it would appear that the revolution continues its progress in Michoacan— Guerrero being alseady an indeperdent State. Al | ware, it is said, has drawn up a declaration of in | @ependence, and is making preparations to pro- alaim the South of Mexico a free republic. Ta> Merth Sta arrived in tims to place her advices on Doard the Baltic, and her California dates will thus reach England ix thirty-three or thirty four dajs, which, although vis N-w York, will as usual be seve- wa) days in advance of the British steamer from As pinwall to Southampton direct. The steamer (7old- @ Gate arrived at San Fr-ncisco trom Pansna | en the 13:h ult., with New York dates to the 20th | October. The time from port to port was twenty three days and ten hours, the quickest on recocd, notwithstanding a detention of twenty-four hours ui | Panama tor the New Orleans mails. By the arrival of the North Star we have also Inter pews from China. Affara in and aronni anton bear a terrible aspect. The rebels, to tue mowber of one hundred thousand, beleaguer the ety, and they have abundance of money to carry @m the war. The mandarins, however, hold oa: Qwavely, and have defeated their opponents in nex | every skirmish that bas taken place. The Gover): @f the city is in favor of appealing to foreign aid against the rebels, but is restrained by fear «! “fire in the rear” trom an associate in the adm‘nis twation. Tne scarcity and high price of food ha ewased large numbers of the villagers to take p.'t with the rebels to avoid starvation. Altogether, @ abocking etste of things prevails in the Cleats! Empire. Com. Perry, previous to his departure was presexted with a complimentary letter and « service of sitver plate by the American mercns im China. The Biitish, French and Americin via ‘Dbasesdors intend, if possible, to visit Pekiag for t « porpore of revizing existing treaties. The clipper wip Comet arrived at Hong K>ng on the Sth Sep tember, in eighty-five days fzom Liverpool. This is said to bo the quickest parsege ever made between ‘the two ports. We bave jikewise interesting advices from Jap in. "Phe steamship Snsquebacns, on her passage frou China to San Francisco, touched at Simods, o.+ of the teo ports opened to our commerce by trea Wep*. Bocbaran hed an andieace with the cover end the very best feeling prevailed, ail timidity tie part of the Japanese having disappeared. Sir geor Jaman Hami-ton, of the navy, was buried «+ Bimode, sni the \eremonies were regarded by th~ motives with respectful curiosity. The ewe trom the Sandwich Islands is import. «+. The treaty with the United States had brea a- sented to by the royal family, and the docum at merely ye quired the signa‘nee of Prince Liholiho, ¥ v war abeent from the 18), to complete it. To eater Missigs'opi was expe sted at San Franvi«c: with the treaty shout the 2éta uit. The arrival ot a portion of the Japan squatron at Hono'nia hai area‘eo a crest sensation. The offi vers of the squid ron, #°com.anied by Mr. Gregz, our Commiss'>n- er, bid ap antienee with the King, and afterwards his Mojesty end su'te visited the Mississiop!, wher: wey were received with al] the ceremony due an Independent sovereign. From (regos the revorts of the hostility of th- Indians ti!) continue. and it was believe? that they bad Cetermired upon a combined hostile demonst '- tion agsize’ the whites, A severe fight had tak: place near Port'and, in which five persons were 106 on the week previous, Ox eo =pariezn, we ind | that thie increase is 1 men, 13 women, 19 girls, 41 buys. Tt | that there has been an increase of | sumption, 27 of inflammation of the | temperance. | Greene C. Bronson | Jason Clark... | Clark Burnham... killed and several wounded. The gold excitemeat eontinu:d. but there were donbte as to the gennine Bese of the article represented to be “ound. Ioven Gianzice were bully and succesefully at work at Po.t Jand. Owire t the iste honr on Friday night at which we received the advices brought from Earope by the stearosh'p Union, ve were unable to give bat a brief tyr opsie of the news. In to day's paper, tow- ever. we give a fn!) and comple’e history of the vente corrent from the departure of the steamor of tbe (Sth ult. down to the 22d; and in ovr editorial eolomne msy be found such commentaries as the anaracter of the sdvices and the complexion of af faire angers’. Onr next intelligence from Enrope will reach us by the steamer Pacific, which left L'v- erpoo) on the 29th ult., and which may, therefore, | arrive a thie port to morrow morning. ‘The Eupire City Bark, corner of Greenwich and | Drone streets, was on fre last night, between nine | and ten o'clock. The firemen succeeded in extin- guishing it before itextended beyond the bank. it $e supposed she fire originated from a defect in the fives used for heating the building. A report ofthe fire wil] be found elsewhere. The shipowners and agents held an informal mesting on ‘Change yesterday, d came to the se, no ution, in conseqnence of he present depression | in their lire of busines+, to reduce the wages of car- | penters on board of ship: from three dollars to t ¢o @ollars and a half per day. We understand that it wax nt Mr. Sacket’'s father who was sent for on Long Island, as has beon stated, but his father-in-law, whose name is Mr. | farmer, and who was on Mr. Sacket\’s bond for about five thonsand dollars. He is said to be fully able to eatiefy the bond to that extent. Sackett also gave two other sureties, in sums of twenty-five handred dcliare each, one of which is now perfectiy good, and the other wae so at the time of their ex» ention. According to the official report of the City In rpecter the whole nomber of deaths In the oy | resources for the defence of distant points of | ot pportioned ae follows: ppears «99 } in tre mor \ tality in our public institutions. Ofthe waole uve. | ber 9 died of apoviexy, 10 of bronch tia, 65 of other inflammatory complaints, 10 of d.arrhes, 20 of dysentery, 18 of dropsy im the bead, and ¢ of in- Of the dissases incidental to children there were 35 deaths of convulsions, 19 of croup, 2! of scarlet fever, § of debility, 5 of measies, and 12 of marasmus. There are also 11 premstare births and 35 cases of stillborn reported. There were bu’ | eight deaths from external causes during the week. The nativity table gives 276 natives of the Un'ted States, 81 of Ireland, 65 of Germany, and the ba- lance among different Enropeam countries and Canada. The Board of State Canvassers closed their labors yesterday. The official vote is given below, from | Which it will be seen that Mr. Clark has a plnrality of 309 over Mr. Seymour: — GOVERNOR. Myron H. Clark Horatio Seymou Daniel Uiiman.. LINUTENANT GOVERNOR. Henry J. Raymond... .. ; William H. Ludlow G. A. Se . Elijah Ford... . Henry Fitzburgh Josiah B. Williame. INSPECTOR OF STATE PRISONS. Norwood Bowne W. R. Andrews. James P. Sander: Abram Varnam The War in the Crimea—Rumored Intention of the Czar to Invade British India. The siege of Sebastopol, judging from present appearances, seems likely to fur- nish another memorable illustration of the folly of indulging in over confident anti- cipations. If it serves no other purpose it will teach a useful lesson to those who mistake national arrogance for strength, | and who forget to measure the progress of other countries by their own. The limited number of days in which it was calculated the fortress could be reduced. have already been spun out into weeks, and are gradually wearing into months, and still the hoped-for result seems asfar from attainment as at the commence- ment of the siege. The agony of this protract- ed suspense is beginning to tell upon the com- merce of both England and France, and in the manufacturing districts of the former the cry of distress is making itself heard. Vast num- bers of operatives will, in the course of a few wecks, be thrown out of employment by the forced suspension of the large mills and fac- tories, and to the embarrassments of the gov- | ernment, arising from its external difficulties, | wil) be added the fermentation of popular dis content. In France the desponding view which is taken of the critical aspect of affairs in the | Crimea, may be judged of by the altered demeanor of the court. We hear no more of those splendid /fétes with which it has heretofore been the policy of Louis Napoleon to occupy the minds aod dazzle the imaginations of his restless but pleasure-loving subjects. At the few recep- | tions that take place, bis Empress generally appears attired in the deepest mourning, an emblem at once of the grief which France feels for the loss of some of her bravest sons, and of the gloom which the prospects of the future inspire in almost every heart. It is true that both countries are straining every effort to remedy the miscalcnulations that were made at the outset of hostilities, and to supply the amount of force necessary to the accomplishment of the great object of the Cri- mean expedition; but great doubts seem nov to prevail whether the errors that have already been committed will not prove ultimately fata) to it. As fast as reinforcements arrive to the besiegers, the elements of resistance are accumulating in a still greater ratio of rapidity and numbers with the besieged; and it is evi- dent, from the fact of Prince Menschikoff hav- ing thrown all his infantry into Sebastopol, and of bis making preparations for another general attack upon the lines of the allies, that he is determined to make a desperate effort to annihilate their pre- sent weakened force betore the large bodies of troops, now on their way, bring up their num- bers to an equality with his own. The arrival of the next steamer will, therefore, probably bring us the news of another great engage- ment, the issue of which, in their present straitened condition, may be disastrous if not fatal to the invaders. As to the disposition said to be recently mani- fested by the Russian Emperor to accept the four conditions of the note of the &th of Au- gust.as a basis of fresh negotiations, it scarcely | deserves serious consideration. The English journa)s themselves view it as only another effort to paralyze the military action ot the court of Vienna, of which they bave alternate Yard! Times and Harder Prospects. It ie eetimated that eight thousand Irishmen, “Engliebmen, and Germans, returned to their na- tive Jand from the port of New York daring the past year. convinced that the home they had left offered them better prospects of succets in life than the western world. Altogether, perhaps 20,000 British subjects have, in 1854, thought better of ecttling in America and taken ship for Great Britain from Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, and New Orleans. The item is hardly worth noting in our stat stics of emigra- tion, so sma'l a proportion does it bear to the influx of immigrants; we could afford to lose five per cent of our supplies of raw labor, throngb faint heartedness, prejudice, or uonatis- fied ambition. But as an ind’cation of the de- cline in the demand for labor, and the general ‘ hordness of the times, this sudden reversal of the tide of emigration is well worthy of notice. One cannot help comparing it with the impor- tations of flour from Liverpool which preceded the crash of 1837, Both seem, like the “ hea- venly portents’’ of Roman bistory, precursors of evil. Nor is confirmation of the inauspicious omen wanting. In South Caro}iua, the Governor de- clares that no such times have been witnessed since 1837, In Virginia, the press discusses the prospec of a general suspension of specie payments. In Indiana, the whole banking credit of the State is gone, and with it, three- tourths of the commercial community. In Ohio, the banks are constantly obliged to publish certificates of their solvency, to allay the gene- ral impression that they are about to fail. In Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, failures of private individuals and mercantile firms have been daily occurrences. Brokers, grocers, dry goods men, shippers, jobbers, and hardware dealers have been silently suspending payment ever since October, and no one has heard of it but the immediate creditors. Though the strin- | gency has lasted for several weeks now, and the consequences have been unusually severe, there is no visible symptom o ‘relief. People talk ofa revival of credit, of foreign remit- | tances, of enlarged accommodation on the part of the banks: but this nonsense has been uttered in the same tone and by the same peo- is, as | pleever since Erie old at fi'ty. The fac: Mr. Adams said to Nicholas Biddle in “there is no possible relief to be expe: tila broom sweeps away the whole of cur indebted- | ness,”? This would be apparent at a glance. ifmen would only shake off preconceived prejudices and unbending theories, and form an independ- ent judgment on the bare facts. Unfortunate!y each man has a hobby of his own to ‘ide, and, in trying to make the times fit it, wanders astray from the truth. The protectionist—lall soul- says that our troubles arise from the fact of the protection tariff of 1846 not being protec- tive enough: (if the duties were doubled, bo would complain in the same doleful voice of the want of protection to-morrow); the old whigs charge it on the democrats; Mrs. Grundy says it is owing partly to the cholera and partly to the price of mutton. Sho knows as much as the others. Ther: are very few who Jook at the facts closely enough to see that the trouble is really the simplest thing in the world to accoun : for. When A. B., on a salary of $1,500, takes house, keeps servants, asks his friends to din- ner, drinks champagne, drives a trotting hors, and has season tickets for the opera, no o: wonders at his getting into trouble, or think of dragging in the tariff or the demecrats o- the cholera to explain his embarrassments Every one eces that they were due to his extra vagance. So with the Erie Railroad Company, which we take to be a plain case within the compre- bension of every one. This company, ai a time when it was making no money. was borrowins right and left to pay dividends; so that the great concern of the managers was not to work the road cheaply or to attract traffic, but to dispoze of bonds and negotiate acceptances. Financiering in this wise succerded for a while; but soon a point was reached when the profits of the road, after deducting working expen:es, left barely enough to pay the interest on the bonds already issued. To be precise, at the present moment, the Erie Railroad has a fand- ed debt of twenty-four millions, and a floting debt of about two: of the former four mi! iors —with the whole of the latter—‘all due in Veb- 1uary next. Instead of increasing, the receipts from the road are falling off in consequence of the hard times, diminished traffic, short crops, &c.: those for October fell forty thousand dol- lars short of the managers’ expectation. Tne consequence is that the Ere Company has no prospect of meeting its engagements in Feb- ruary. No one imputes this misfortune to the tariff or the cholera, or any similar cause: on all hands it is admitted to be due 10 the impro- vident working of the road, to the errors mate doubts and hopes; but the trath is that if such a disposition has been evinced at all, it is only intended to farnish a friendly pretext to the German powers to adjourn the responsibilities and hazards of the decision which the pressure of evente must speedily force upon them. It is of vital importance tothem that they should not be driven trom their present position of neutrality, until the issue of events in the Cri- mea demonstrates to them the course wnich it is their interest to pursue. The report of a diversion being attempted hy the armies of the Czar against the British pos- sessions in India is again revived, and facts are stated which would lead to the conclusion that some such movement is intended. Al- though the idea is ridiculed by the Engli-b journals, it is certain that the Russian Emperor will avail himself of every available means in his power to embarrass his enemies, and thas he will endeavor to force Great Britain to draw awsy a portion of her limited military her own empire. As he is compelled to miia- tain armies in these remote regions hims-If, | which cannot be brought to bear in the contest | now waging in the southern portion of bis | dominions, there would be both good policy and good generalship in his endeavoring to | | defray some of the heavy expenditure of the | war out of the spoliation of the rich Eastern | porsessions of Great Britain. | Ovisstons of THE Messack.—Among the | omiceions of the President’s message are—the | Nebraska bill, the slavery question, the Cuha question, our exact reJations with France and | Spain, the doings of Sonlé, the Ostend Conven- j tion, the Sandwich Islends, and the case ot | Captain Gibson. It is rumored, however, that some of these subjects are reserved for a special message or two, d that there will be a war | ation before the end o ery from the the eeesion thie view we await with great | nows of the arrival and reception Propyt ing now cepen? | be our fall. | mente within twelve or eighteen months, in its construction, and to the frands in its financial management. The history of A. B. and that of the Erie Railroad C.mpany are precisely the history of the country. The whole country has been extravagant, improvident, and reckless. We have made too much paper money, incurred too much debt, set up too many wild schemes, built too many railways and lived in our homes on too extravagant and expensive a scale ; and the consequence is that like A. B. and the Eric concern, we now find ourselves in difficulties, To seek any other cause beyond these for the fact is preposterous. In like manner every one can see that for A. B. and the Erie Railroad Company there is no salvation short of absolute bankruptcy: that the longer the evil day is delayed, the worse the crash will be ; and that the interests of all parties would be best consulted by as speedy an assignment of the effects of the insolvents as possible. Itis just so with the country at large. The longer we struggle the worse will The more shaves we submit to, the Jess we shall have for our creditors. The more we try to defraud, the less mercy will be shown us, There is nothing to cure the present | stringency and stagnation but a general com- mercial crisis, and the total demolition of all the unsound corporate institutions and private firms, We must in fact go ‘hrough 1837 anew. There will be this difference between th: crash of 1837 and that of 1855. The former which spread in a great measure over the whol world was solely due to over trading, over speculation, and reckless financial schemes ; as 8007 as the community was purged by failures credit, confidence and ease began ‘o revive. |: is greatly to be feared that the case of 1855 will be aggravated hy the inevitable embarracs- ments arising out of a war in Enrope. Shonld the war last, it is almost certain that the barks of England and France will «uspond specie pay- The history of the last snepension shows that our | | | | whieh would follow he depreciation of paper money in Great Britain to three-furths of its original v la. axak : Econowy AcconpinG TO FLacc.—It ap- | peers from the City Comptroller’s report | that ‘be amount to be expended by the city government during the coming year ex- | | ceeds thirteen milions of dollars. The total expenditure last year was under seven mil- | lions; so that in round terms, our expenses | have doubled during th: twelve months. De- ducting $4,200,000 for redemption of bonds, | the whole amount to be spent on the city in 1855 is nine millions of dollars. The increase is fairly distributed over the whole budget. The | Alms House gets $123,000 more than usual; | the Board of Education $300,000 extra; the | Fire Department $20,000; the ps ving account | $100,000; street opening account $850,000 ex- | tra; the police department $100,000 extra, and | so on. No one has any reason to complain of | Mr. Flagg’s want of mpartiality. It is only in dealing with poor clerks and impoverished | contractors that he stints the dollars. We cannot of course go into the details of these various appropriations. That there are jobs among them, and that certain parties | whose names are now unkaown will fatten on | the swelled tax levy, and grow rich while the | public at large are groaning under fresh exac- tions, we have ample reason to believe; nor can there be any ground for apprehending that in all cases the guilty will escape detection. The public may rely on it, some of the rogues will be exposed hy some one or other before the year is out, and we shall know where the extra millions are going. Meanwhile. we watch and pray. These estimates, high as they are, are consi- derably lower, we are told, than those proposed by the heads ot departments. In some cases. it is said, Mr. Flagg declares that he under- stands the bueiness of the department much better than its auth. rized chief, and where the latter says tn, F agginstantly substitutes tive. The cocsequence of these interferences, which appear to be based on no sound rule of econo- my but on mere arbitrary caprice, has been that severe embarrassments have already oc- curred in one or two offices; and while the city deposits a million of dollars in the Mechanics’ Bank for stock operators 10 use, the public bu- siness has in more than one instance been brought to a stand still from want of means. We should not complain of these arbitrary mea- sures, if they brought forth any tangible fruit; but Mr. Flagg’s economy is more burdensome | ! can provide suitable resting places for our wild Indians, where they can be domesticated, there iso other alternative left than to keep them down by the strong hand. But while powerful military detachments at | convenient points will deter the savage from , acts of violence, insufficient bodies of troops only invite their assaults. We venture to say | that if timely steps are not taken to arrest it, we ehall have a general war with our Western Indian tribes within the next tive years, with forty thousand hostile savages in the field, from the Columbia river to the Gila, and from the Mississippi to the Pacific. If Congress were not wholly pre-occupied with the spoils this short session, we should call upon them in the name of justice, humanity, and sound policy to | strengthen the army in the wilds of the West. | As it is, we leave it to the chances of the appro- | priation bills, THE LATEST NEWS., BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. | From Bosion. ! ARREST OF AN IRISH GIRL FOR SETTING ON FIRB 4 CATHOLIC CHYRCH—DISCHARGE OF JAMES x’DO- NALD, CLAIMED UNDER THE ASHBUBTON TREATY — DECISION OF JUDGE PHELPS, BTC., ETC. Bostox, Dee. 9, Bien Keenan, a young Irish g’rl, has been arrested in | Waterton for setting on fire a Catholic church in that place, She is reported to have had some difficulty with | the priest. James McDonald, claimed under the Ashburton tre: on acharge of murder in Nova Scotia, was yeste: discharged by the United States Com nissioner, the e' dence showing the case to be one of manslaughter. Judge Phelps, of Vermont, has given a written opinion | that the personal property of the Rutlaud and Burlington | Railroad Company, comprising all the rolling stock and | tools of the road, can be held by the second mortgag» | trustees, who are now in possession of them. | J. A. Studley, an actor, while performing at the Ne tional theatre, in this city, this afternoon, bad his | hand shot off by the accidental discharge of a pistol. Thomas Cordis, Esq., an eminent merchant of this city, died this morning, at the advanced age of vighty- five years. ‘The health of Boston is excellent. For the week end ing to-day there have been but fifty-one deaths. ‘The thermometer early this morning stood at eleven degrees below zero, and the weather during the day has deen very cold, with a strong westerly gale blowing. Very Mysterious Affair. URE DEAD BODY OF A HUMAN BEING DISCOVERED IN A BOX AT THE RAILROAD STATION AT AMSTERDAM— SUPPOSED TO BE THAT OF MIS8 MOORE, OF ROCHKS- si Una, Der. 9, 1854, A few days since @ passenger om one of the night trains of the Central Railroad left a box in charge of the porter at the station at Amsterdam, stating that he would return for it in a day or two, and then continued | and more expensive than any other man’s wastefulness, The tax levy grows, and grows, and grows; and while the friends of the Albany Regency are praising the more than Spartan virtue of the City Comptroller, he is eontriviag to extract more from us year after year. The ordinance providing for the annual ap propriations contains a clause absolutely pro- hibiting the various departments from incurring apy expenses over and above the appropria- tions. The effect of this may be to subject the city to serious inconvenience in the event of the amounts appropriated falling short of the object for which they were designed. It is anotier illustration of the folly of the pri.- ciple on which the las’ city charter was based. Flagg and his associates seem to think that the cl: ser the hands of the city officers are tied, the better they will discharge the business entrusted to them. Automata would answer their pur- pose far better than men. It is high time the Mayor gave his atteation to the Treasury department, and began to ex- ercise hie executive authority in restraint of Mr. Flagg and his short-sighted theories. It Mr. Wood does his duty, we shall have anentire change of policy next year. Mr. Bricur anp tHE SenatTe.—There appears to be some trouble concerning the election of Mr. Bright as President pro tem of the United States Senate. Firat, it is a question whether he supersedes Mr. Atchison or not. Secondly, it is contended that Mr. Bright’s election is a victory of the administration, notwithstanding the said Bright is, or was lately, « good stiff, implacable hard shel’. [t matters little, on2 wuy or the other. The end of this session, for all practical purpores, will be the end of the administration. In the interval, let all hands put infor the spoils. Mr. Bright has only been making the most of his time. The question be- tween Mr. Atchison and Mr. Bright is another affair; and asthe Senate hare got themselves into the difficulty, we leave them to get out of it at their leisure. They are wise men, but they can’t have two Presidents at the same time, Read the constitution. Ovr Frontier Inpians—-More Troor- Wanrep.—The repo't of the Secretary of War presents, among a variety of other things,a birdseye view of the lamentable deficiencies in our Western army defences against the In- dians, Between the Mississippi and the Pacifi> the aggregate of all the wild Indian tribes is estimated at four hundred thousand souls within the limits of the United S'ates. They are hemmed in by the whites upon every side, The wild game upon which they have hereto- fore subsisted, is in rapid process of extermina- tion; and so between starvation and plunder, the Sioux, Crowfeet, Blackfeet, Pawnees, Utahs, Snakes, and other more northern tribes, are reduced to the expedients of assaulting cara- vane, and detutchments of troops, upon every inviting occasion, after the fashion of the fierce Apaches. In this manner they procure firearms, ammunition, clothing and horsebeef. Thus the Indians of the western deserts and mountains are fast becoming formidable enemies, from the distribution of rifles and muskets among them, Their forays of the last year, in Oregon, Utab, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas and Califorsia, have been singularly bold and bloody. What’s to be done? They must kill and plunder, or they will starve. Government should take immediate steps to locate them in districts to themse!ves, and teach them the arts of agriculture. biscksmithing, wagon making, c., as in the Cherokee settlemeat of Arkansas, But in the meantime the military postsin those vast western regions occupied by the red men, should be doubled in number, and the force ai, the present stations should be increased to thrice their present number of men, for the protection of emigrants and our frontier white settlements. We do not understand that the Gadsden treaty, which relieves us from the protection of the Mexican set'lements, absolves us from the defence of our own. With twenty millions of surplus in the treasury, and, accord- ing to the message, with no immediate prospect of a war with France and Spain, an additional million or two of dollars for the defences of our Western territories against the Indians, would be infinitely better than keeping the money locked up in the sub-treacnry. The neglect of Conpress in thfe reepect bas been for years past pebiedls he UY Gaglaosids. Ds ea on his way to the eastward, the appointed time, the box was opened, a Not coming back, however, nized, The coroner held an inquest upon it, and, as nothing of importance concerning it could be elicited, it | was interred. As the singular disappearance of Miss Moore, of Rechester, has not yet been accounted for, this fact has Jed tothe impression there that these are the remains of that young lady. Large Fire in Baltimore. Baurmore, Dec, @, 1854, A fre broke out in this city at six o’clock this eve- ning, on the north side of Baltimore‘street, between Eu- taw and Paca streets, in John McGowan’s liquor ware- house, The flames soon spread from there to six ad- | joining buildings, each four stories high, occupied by the following nained persons :—Newsham & Co., iron railing establishment; Mills & Murray, flour and feed depot; E. Mills & Brothers, tin and stove warehouse; John Rothcock, inner; E. P. Ousler, painter, and by Knabe, Gaelye & Co., for one of thelr piano workshops. ‘The buildings were all destroyed, with their entire con- tents, leavingfoothing but the walls, a crumbled up inass of ruins. M. B. Clark & Brothers flour warehouse was on fire at onetime, but escaped destruction. It was the only building in the row saved. The Eutaw House was in great danger of being destroyed in the course of the evening, and its preservation in owing to the firemen having devoted nearly their whole attention to save it and the surrounding buildings. Great Pigeon Shooting Match at Paterson New Jersey. Patenson, Dec. ‘', 1854. ‘The great pigeon shooting match, which has been so long talked of, and so extensively discussed in spor‘ing circles, for the past month, commenced here at tiree o’clock this afternoon, The Paterson Cricket Club ground, back of the Passaic Fas, was the place selected by the contestants for the shooting to take place, ani about three hundred persons were present to witness the trial. The match was between Mr. Pilkington, of this place, and Mr. Hampson, of Yonkers, N. Y., for fifty dollars a side, each having twenty one dirds to shoot at, at sixty yards boundary. Mr. Pilkington gave Mr. Hampson five dollars to shoot here. The foi lowing is the result:— Pilkington killed 15 out of 17 birds. Hampson killed 10 out of 17 birds, Mr. Hampson hit his last bird, but it fell about ninety yards from the trap, and being thirty yards outside the boundary, of course it was not counted. After shoot at his seventeenth bird, Mr. Hampson gave up the cou test, and the stakeholder passed the funds over to Mr. Pitkington. ‘The betting on the ground, as the match progressed, was from three to one to twenty-five to one on Mr. Pilkington. Loss of the Steamer Ellen Gisborne: Bostoy, Dec. 9, 1854. Private advices from Halifax leave no reasonable ground to doubt but that the steamer Ellen Gisborue, formerly employed by the Newfoundland Telegreph Company, foundered on her recent passage from this city to St. John’s. She had been here for repairs, and was on her way back to 6t. John’s. Her officers and crew undoubtedly went down with her. Safety of Peter Richings, the Vocalist. PuLADELPAIA, Dec. 9, 1854. A despatch just received here from New Orleans, sa) s that Peter Richings and his daughter were at Memphis on the 8th instant, and were expected in New Orleans on Monday next. Freezing of the Ohio River. Wirrtine, Dec. 9, 1854 The Obio river in some places is frozen up; but ihe weather is now moderating, and the resumption of navi gation is expected in a few days, Loss of a New Misstasippi Steamer. CurcaGo, Dec, 8, 1854. ‘The new steamer Chancellor, bound to New Orleans, sunk near Cairo, and became a total loss. Arrival of the Steamship Nashville. Cnanuestoy, Dec. 9, 1814. The U.S. mall steamship Nashville, Capt. M. Berry, arrived here at ten o’clock last night. Arrival of the Southern Mall, Bavrrmorr, Dec. 9, 1854, By the arrival of the Southern mail as late as due, we have received New Orleans papers of Sunday, but they are wholly devoid of news. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. x F Patapeupata, Dec. 9, 1854. The money market is unchanged. In stocks there is a better feeling to-day. We quote Reading at 333, ; Morris Canal 1114; Long Island Railroad 1234; Philadelphia fives 7945, CHARLESTON, Dec. 8, 1854. _ Our sales of cotton to-day amount to 2,100 bales; mid ling we quote at 83,0. Monte, Dee. 8, 1854. The sales of the week here enum up 6,700 bales ; inid- dling S44¢. The stock on hand 1s $1,000 bale« City Polites. Harp Sue Democratio Cossarre:.—We understand that the majority of the hard shell committee, after the excitement we described yesterday bad subsided proceeded to designate the 18th inst. as the time when the elections for the new committee should be held and also appointed three inspectors in each ward io the city. This action is deemed very objectionable by many { the members, who prefer the old method of electing yectors in the different wards. A meeting of the e—that is, those who are desirous of returning found to contain the remains of a human being. The | ody having been part y dissected, could not be recoz- | . City Intelligence. Smudy OF Tar Fremuey.anp CoaLHkavers.—Great exci ment prevailed on the wharves in the vicinity of the stamers on Friday, in consequence of the agreement amc | the shipowners to cutdown the wages of the firemen coulbeavers to the same rate they received previous] the strike of last spring. This the workmen resist! and bave organized themselves into a body to ren] their action more effectual. he coalheavers have b ; tofore received $80 a month and the firemen $40. former are now offered $20, and the latter $30. TJ Black Warrior succeeded in sceuring a crew at th put the fact becoming known to the strikers, tl} ed to the dock to dissuade the newly ship) ere om sailing in ber unt!l the owners would ag) to give the old prices. They were, however, preven'| from going near the vessel by the police, whe were p sent in great numbers, and the ship cleared out with« much difficulty. The Baltic, however, paid the | prices to the erew she shipped, as did alo the Kn: ville and James Adger, which sailed yesterday. ‘I men interested are greatly excited, and much trouble} ted, It is to be hoped that this matter may satisfactorily to all parties. ra ny fi antici setth HAHNEMANN ACADEMY OF Mrpictye —This asaociat, met on Friday evening at the rooms No. 105 Fou avenue, to elect officers for the ensuing year. The e! | tion resulted as follows :—President, C. J. Barapa; M. Sec Vice-Presieat, R. M. Bolles, M. D.; Correspondi tary, J.T. Curtis, M D.; Recording Seeretary, E. G. Bi Jeti, M.D. ACCIDENT aT THE FIRE IN WARREN STREET.—A mem of Hose Co. 18, named Patrick T, Carney, met w a severe accident on Friday evening. During t tinuance of the fire, he stumbled and fell, breaking collar bone and otherwise injuring himself. He was c veyed to his residence by his friends, Obituary. DEATH OF GENERAL CATHCART. Among the distinguished English officers killed at siege of Sebastopol, on the Gth of November, was General George Cathcart, Gen. C. entered the army the 10th of May, 1810, at a very early age. His fi services were performed as aide-de-camp to his fath | Lord Cathcart, who was commissioner from Gz Britain to the allied armies in the northern campai, of 1812, 1813, and 1814, and who was engaged in all important events of those days, until he took his share in the final settlement of the treaty of Vienna, one of the representatives of Great Britain. In th eventful campaigns young Cathcart was in close| tendance on his father throughout; and that he neither a careless nor an inattentive observer i+ pro] | by the very valuable commentaries which he has writ | on those campaigns. This work, published in 1850, | | been already the subject of favorable notice in columns of the Observer, and is thought worthy t classed, by the Quarterly Review for December, with valuable accounts of Muller, of Mufiling, and of Wo! gen. Gen, Cathcart’s volume is truly solid and any) tenaing, and affords # most tratbful and intelligent a} rative of the stirring scenes to which he was It is described by the Quarterly Review as ‘lucid, ¢| cise and regnant; and equally valuable for its facts its commentaries.” These campaigns were no bad beginning for a young foldier, who had follo: up his profession through life with a soldier's k General Cathcart gave many evidences of his | ripeness and of his observant character, upon w neither the successes nor the defeat der his observation were thrown away. | tice of his career it is not necessary to refer to 01 | comment upon the circumstances of diplomacy w! he relates. The strategic character of the book i: | more importance, as estimating his qualifications, | in this view it is most satisfactory and conclusi | Amongst the ancedotes related is one of his father himself performing on horseback a journey of thi | miles in one day, across the country, im the retreat | Lutzen, and on their arrival at the head quarters of Czar, being rewarded witl invitation to his pri dinner party. General Cathcart zives, amongst ot! things, some hints, useful in those days, about the | aggerated difficulties of crossing large’ rivers wit great army, of the necessity of being always pro with a reserve, and other matters, which, even at | advanced period, may not prove uselegs to him in | approaching scene of operations. General Cathcart | ually present in ten general e1 ments, vis, Lutzen, 3d May, 1813; Bautzen, 20th and 2ist May, 13 | Dresden, 28th May, 1813; Leipsic, 16th, 18th, and of Oct., 1813; Busccrene, Ist Feb., 1814; Bar Sur Aul | Avelé, 218¢ March; and Champanoise, 25th Mai the samé yéar; Quatre Bras and Water! 1815, In eight’ of ‘these Napoleon commanded, rson. General Cathcart commanded the mn Guards in Canada during the unfortan rebellion ot that country, when the Guards were b ed under the late General Ellison. Whilst eng that diffcult—though not brilliant— service his en were unconquered, and he was almost impervious fat It was he who introduced a change of ¢lotly in his regiment more suited to the r of a a | winter, and carried out regulations which have ever sij been acted upon in Canada, and which might with propriety and usefulness be introduced in other p our colonial empire. The troops were to dergo forced marches across the snow, on short not through alternate frosts and thaws, amidst every p tion most trying to the men sad to the officers Colonel Cathcart, on these occasions, had been kno snatch his short hours of rest in a chair without t off his boots, and to set a cheeriul example of 1 and manly tothe body of his regiment. When reinforcement of the Guards were ordered to Canada ft their London quarters,Col. Cathcart, in reply to the qu tion of how soon he would be in readiness to march, swered, ‘‘In two hours,;’’ and in two hours, avvordi ly, he was ready to start. He was gazetted as Ma Genera] in the Brevet of November last. DEATH OF CAPT. KOBERT BURNET. New Yore Stare Soctery ov Tas Crvcrvnari, December, 1854. The President, with unfeigned sorrow, announces the society the death of the venerable Captain Rol Burnet, of Little Britian, Orange county, a member the society, who, it is believed, was the only survivo the commissioned officers of the regular army of Revolution, who died at his residence, in Little Briti on the 29th ultimo. He was born on the 22d of uary, 1762, and was at his death ninety-two years, ej wonthe und eight days old. Captain Burnet was appointed a lieutenant in regiment of artillery in the service of the Unite? Sta commanded by Col. John Jaimb, on the 29th day of Jul 1781, being then only nintcen years of age, and o tinued in the service during the war. He was esteen as a brave and efficient officer, and when the A. army marched into New York, at the evacuation the city by the British troops, had the honor of eq manding the American guard, which relieved the Bri rear guard, which was stationed in the Bowery. The spirit of patriotism which animated him at age of nineteen, appeared to burn in his bosom wi over ninety. He was invited to come to the city. unite with the society ard the public authorities to © brate the birthday of General Washington, on the 22d d of February, 1851, which was intended to be celebra\ with unusual splendor, for the purpose of bringing ii prominent view the sentiments of that noble pat relation to the preservation of the Union which peared to be forgotten, or were disregarded by numb of the people of the Union who boldly advocated its d solution, and hie opinion was asked on the subjel He stated that his age and infirmities were such tha was impossible to at the celebration, but that was always in favor of sustaining the Union, and opposed to that spirit of discord which tries to ext one portion of the Union against the other; that he always been an advocate for union, a firm supporte the constitution in all its compromises, that he never countenanced, by his vote or influence any of. fanaticisms of the aay by whatever name they called, free soil or the higher power party who denow the constitution as a gross violation of the laws of @ and the rights of nations, and Gay it upen then bers of the Cincinnati, of which be has been so long member, to su) ‘the Union and to adhere to constitution as long as there is a member of the «oxi in existence. The members of the society will wear the usnal bad of mourning for thirty days, as a testimony of resp to the memory of their venerable associate. By order of General ANTHONY LAMB, President. E. P. Marceiun, Secretary. on, Mass. Hin, Samvet Foust died at Worthingt Mr. Follett was born 30th November, 17! 30th ul] in hee borough. He joined the army when in his eighteen year, remained in the service filteen months, and serv at the battle of Bunker Hill, in Col. Reed’s regiment. survivor of the battle of Bunker _H. H. Leeda, Auctioneer—By H. H. Lees Co.—Sale of superb fancy goods, for holiday preseni| Tuesday, 12th, and Wednesday, 1th. At 10%, o’elo each day, at the extensive warerooms of William | Horteman, Esq., 55 Maiden lane, near William atree The entire stock of rich fancy goods and holiday presen| being the entire nak ones of the above well know importerjof (positively without reserve) consisting of rly Parisian bronzes, antiques aud modern of the most : cherche he po and designs, all of which are warrau| ed. Frenchf procelain vases, tete-a-tete and other se superbly decorated of various patterns, ormola and ery] tal cabinets, jewel caskets, pen trar; car receivers, : entirely new article in every variety, richly ornament) in arabesque and inlaid. Gents’ and ladies drossing wiiting cases, in inlaid rosewood ornamented in b: and variegated patterns, with solid silver dttings ay cut glass vinaigrettes. Embossed morocco goods, con] — the richest description of ladies’ retionles, geni ressing cases, pocket companions, necessaries and oth varieties of this manufacture. Pearl inlaid and silv) mounted jewel caskets, card receivers, and bijouterie< every description. Fans of every description, « ri ing hid, silk and ornamented framed in pear! and ivor and richly carved, in all the finest assortment ever o fered at auction in this city. Toys—The largeat and fine: assortment, comprising anit variety of pattern fro the cheapest to the most costly. We particularly reque the attention of the public and those intending to pn chase for the holidays to tis sale, as combiniag t largest and most valaable assortment ever offered auction in this city. Every article offered will be pos tively sold witnoutreserve. ‘Terms, cash for all cums $100and under: over that nmount 5 per cent off. Goo: on exhibition on Monday 11th inst, Catalogaes on tl mornings of sale. ‘ameo-Daguerreot; and Photograp! y eleciricity—one instantaneous sitting, securing th happiest expression of life without an effort. CHAS, F mae Artist, gallery in Brooklyn, 249 Fuito| stree by Anson's La Size uerreot) for ! cents, colored, and in a nice case, with preserver—twic| the siee others make for fifty conts, and equal to $2 pid tures elvewhere. ANSON’S, 689 Broadway, opposite thi Metropolitan Hotel, Stuners who will read the Herald on day ra ney can get their daguerroty yn 250 Broadway, ho New York Picture Company,