The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1854, Page 2

HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA. 4. Dd. 1854. Annual Chronology of Events in the United States and Canada. JANUARY Sonpay, 1.—Good sleighing in New York; snow four. teen inches in depth. 2.—The new year celebrated. Excellent sleigbing in New Common Council of New York city Sworn in; first organization under the new city charter of the new Board of Councilmen, composed of sixty | members. 3.—Legislature of the State of New York convened at Albany; receipt of Governor's message in New York city.... Resolution introduced in Congress by Mr. Out- ting, of New York, asking for the correspondence in re- lation to the removal from the office of Collector of New York of Greene C. Bronson....The shock of an earth. quake wae felt at Mariposa, California. 4.—News received of the loss of the packet ship Staf- fordshire, on her passage from Liverpool to Boston, om the 80th December, off Cape Salle; she struck on a rock, and the captain, nineteen of the crew, and one hundred | and forty-three passengers, making a total of one hundred | and sixty-three persons, perished....A bill to organize theTerritory of Nebraska introduced into theUnited States Senate by Mr. Douglas, of Illinois... Resolution intro- duced in the United States House of Representatives calling upon the Secretary of the dreasury for the cor- respondence between the department and Greene C, Bronson, in relation to his removal from the office of Collector of New York—laid on the table by a vote of | 104 to 66....The Legislature of New York adopted the resolutions in relation to an amendment of the constitu- tion for the enlargement of the canals....The steamer General Bem sunk onthe Mississippi river, and eight | persons were drowned. 5.—A large building fell in Dayton, Ohio, instantly Killing three persons, and wounding a number of men nnd women, 7.—A large fire occurred in Portland, Me., which de. stroyed the Custom House, Post Office, the United States Lourt House, and various other valuable establish- ments.,..Father Gavazyi sailed from New York for Liverpool..,,News received that the steamship San Francisco, which left New York on the 22d December, ound to San Francisco, had been seen at sea, with her Mocks swept, and in a disabled condition, The following ‘vessels were immediately sent to sea in search of her:— Steamship Alabama, from New York. Steamship Union : “New York, Revenue cutter Washington. “New York, Revenue cutter Forwar “Philadelphia. Pilotboat , Pilotboat . Sloop-of-war Decatu “Philadelphia, “Philadelphia. Boston. Revenue cutter., “Boston. Revenue cutter. ¢ “ Charleston. Revenue cutter, “ Wilmington, Suypay, 8.—Metropolitan Hall, and Lafarge Hotel, situated on Broadway, New York, destroyed by fire, Metropolitan Hali was well known for being the finest nd most spacious concert and lecture room im the country; and the Lafarge Hotel, which was within a months of its opening day, was to be unequalled in its splendor and accommodations. The total loss was about $500,000, ...Steamship Empire City, which went ashore ‘at Bannegat on the 4th inst., was got off and towed up 40 New York. 9.—The Astor Library, so called in honor of the late John Jacob Astor, who bequeathed $400,000 for the es- ‘tablishment of a public library in the city of New York, ‘ras thrown open to the public for the first time. It eontains about 80,000 volumes...,The Sachems of the Bociety of Tammany celebrated by a ball aad supper the thirty-ninth anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, in Tammany Hall, New York.,..The soldiers of the wat of 1812 met in convention at Philadelphia, having for heir objegt the soliciting of Congress to place them on a footing with the revolutionary pensioners....At the third trial to elect a Mayor in Boston, Jerome V. C. Smith was chosen; Mr. mith is a uative American whig....The shock ofan earthquake was felt in San Francisco. 11.—Gen. Lewis Cass delivered a lengthy speech in the Dnited States Senate on the subject of the Clayton- Bulwee treaty. 13.—News arrived in New York of the loss of the Bteamship San Franciseo. On the 22d of December the San Francisco left New York, bound for San Francisco, having on board about five hundred United States troops. which, together with the officers and crew of the ves- pel, amounted to near seven hundred persons. When wo days out, and about four hundred miles from New "York, the steamship was struck by a heavy sea, which completely disabled her, and carred overboard the deck fabinw and about one hundred and fifty persons, all of ‘whom were drowned. ‘The ship then laid for ten days at the mercy of the waves, during which time from forty to fifty of the persons on board died of dysentery, when the bark Kilby, Capt. Lowe, bound to Boston, came to hee assistance, and succeeded in taking off’ about one hundred of the passengers, after which she drifted away and lost sight of her. Subsequently the British ship Three Bells, Capt. Crighton, came alongside of the dis- abled steamer, and commenced taking off her passen- ra and crew; while she was doing which the packet ship Antarctic, Capt. Stoulier, bound to Liverpool, also taine to thelr ‘aaslstance, when all that remained on Doard the San Franciseo were taken off, after which the vessel sunk. The British bark Three Bells arrived at New York, having about two hundred and fifty of the ngers rescued from the steamship San Francisco... Fhe ice'in the Hudson river broke up at albany. 14.—The abip Lucy Thompson, Capt. Pendleton, ar- sived in New York with one hundred passengers rescued Zrom the steamship San Francisco by the bark Kilby. ‘The Lucy Thompson took them from the Kilby in a starving condition... The packet ship Continent, arrived at New York from Liverpool, reported having lost fifty. four of her passengers by cholera. Sunvay, 15.—Ashbrook’s extensive pork establish- ment, in St. Louis, destroyed by fire. Loss $170,000. 16,-Two vessels arrived at New York from Hamburg, pne having lost forty-one of the passengers by cholera, ‘and the other her captain and nineteen passengers. 17.—Bark Kilby arrived in Boston, having on board about twenty of the rescued passengers of the steamship San Francisco....A debate commenced in the Uni States House of Representatives relative to the divisions an the democratic party. The cause of the division was explained by Messrs, Cutting and Walsh, of New York. {5—The troubles in relation to the railroad gauge at rie, Pa., broke out afresh, and the bridges acrors Har- dor Creek, which had been previously destroyed and re- Duilt, were again burned by ® party of women, or ‘men dressed in disguise. 19.—The row of buildings Le = oe Bef York, New Cit; , whish were occu; courts and city offices, were burned down. The total loss ‘was about one hundred thousand dollars.....A treaty, for the purchase, on the part of the United States, of the Mesilla valley, entered into between the aMfexican ernment and Gen, Gadsdes, Mexican Commissioner From the United States, was received at Washington....A mation was issued by the President of the United Mates agairat the filibustering expedition got up in DPalifornia to invade the Mexican State of Sonora. '20.—-A destructive tornado visited the towns of Bran- on and Mount Vernon, in Ohio, which totally demolished or did great injury to every house which stood in its Course. It was described as having the appearance of a great black pillar, with blindening flashes of lightaing. ‘21,—An extensive conflagration occurred in Roches- ter, N. property to the value of Suiltae a colored reporter from that body. ing a colored rey rom ; eee k Senclution was introduced in tie United States Senate by Mr. Cass, calling upon the President for in- in the Park, fronting on which was known as the pied by a number of which destroye ny. from San Francisco, by the the Mississippi, at Connelton, persons were killed and twenty three wounded. | were destroyed fire in thirty lives were lost—mostly slaves. of amounted to nearly $700,000. | A court coavened in few York, for the ‘of inquiry into the facts teiative to the loss of the steamship San’ Francisco—General Winfield Seott president of the court. 10.—The steamship Georgia, which sailed from New York on the 6th, with passengers and mails for Califor- nia, put into Norfolk in distress....A treaty between Mexico and the United States, called the Gadsden treaty, was transmitted to the Senate by the President. 15:—The steamship Amenia arrived at Boston with the pesscnaare which were rescued from the San Francisco y the ship Antarctic. Thirty-five of those reseued died on board the Antarctic before reaching Liverpool... ., An election held in the State of New York on a pi ition to amend the constitution so as to enable the State to borrow money to complete the enlargement of the ¢a- nals, decided affirmatively by a vote of 185,802 in favor, and 60,656 against. A tremendous snow storm in New York, the snow busing fallen and drifted in some place in the streets of New York city to the Eo a of nine feet. 22.—Anniversary of Washington's birthday celebrated in New York. Snow two feet deep; excellent sleighing. The steamship Northera ht arrived at New York from San Juan del Norte, bringing dates from San Francisco to the Ist February. The trip was per in twenty-two days, being the shortest on record shock of an earth yuake was felt at Reading, Mas —The military court martial which was convened in New York to inquire into the facts relative to the loss of the steamship San Francisco, adjourned, having been in session eighteen days. 27.—The galleries of the French Opera House in New Orleans, suddenly fell while the audience were witness- tug the performances, and three persons were instantly killed and fifty-six wounded. MARCH 2.—A bill was passed by the Legislature of Rhode Island, and signed by the Governor, annulling tne judg- ment of the Supreme Court of that State, rendered against Thomas W. Dorr for treason....A. terrible ex- plosion of a steamboiler ina car factory at Hartford, Conn., occurred, by which accident eighteen men were killed, seventeen of whom left families, and ten or twelve persons were seriously injured. 3,—Dr. George A. Gardner, found guilty in Washington of defrauding the government out of a large amount of money, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. ‘The prisoner, very soon after tho sen- tence was pronounced, died, either_from taking poison or from overwrought feelings....A bill passed the of the United States organizing Territorial governments for Kansas and Nebraska, The bil! abrogates the Mis- souri compromise act, and leaves the question of slaver to the decision of the people of the Territori i passed by the following vote:— For the Bill. Northern democrats. , Against it, Northern democrats. Southern demociats: 14 Southern democrats Southern whigs.,....... 9 Northern whigs. Southern whigs Free soilers....., Total ,. veeeB7 Total... sees ood | Swypay, 5. fire occurred in Spruce street, near Nassau, New York, by which five large buildin, were destroyed, and over three hundred thousand dol- lara worth of property consumed....a block of marble sent by the Pope of Rome for the Washington National | Monument, was destroyed, and the fragments were left | on the banks of the Potomac. | 6.—The Homestead bill, which gives to every citizen of the United States one quarter section of the public | lands, which shall be ever after exempt from execution for debt, passed the United States Mouse of Representa- 8 the work of design, and one of great suspicion. Since then, it wili be seen, s quarrel has arisen be- A. C. Flagg, in"which it is made to appear that I have furnished an item of costs for Alderman Herrick’s “Committee of Grievances,” implying that it was from ‘a desire to litigate and to add expense to the city from unnecessary law suits, I deem it but just to correct the jurmng & number ‘of others, and sorentyrave houses more or less injured, some which, including the residence of Bishop were completely destroyed. JUNB 2.—A terrible murder was committed at Cutchyque, L: I. An Irishman, named Nicholas Beehan, broke into the house of James Wickham, a retired merchant from New York, and beat out his brains, and also killed his wife, and beat a small negro boy nearly to death... fugitive slave, named Ant y Burns, was delivered to his master, in Boston, after five days’ examination, and ‘was escorted on a United States revenue cutter, for | a purpose oh ety Coie sge to Virginia, bs: soar e entire military force of ueh precautionary | tearures blog aban by the rites through the | Opt. 45 Re rash orient in, Deemer, 8 Seer of an attempted seaste hy shaanob, be December, 1854. How wasit possible for the Scunpay, 4.—A serious riot occurred in Brooklyn be- troller u this law inany other manner? It tween the Irish and a number of persons from New York who were styled Know Notbings. it number of persons were severely injured, and about fifty Irishmen were arrested. The riot was quelled by the military, who were ordered out by the Mayor. 14.—A most disastrous oceurred in Worcester, to be = Lycee r partment —o- January, why did ey not aay £0 As an executive officer, there is not the shadow of tence that the Comptroller had the power to alter a ire or & word under such circumstances. Those who made the law—the Common Council—could amend and rae eeee rie Mass., which destroyed property to the value of a quar- BEEF Fes Pye eager 9 ey ‘ substitute one figure or word for anotlier, and op appli- a iy 26.—The ship Trade Wind came in contact with the | cation it probably woud have been done. | Bui Mr. Mor, Gut be stayed away about two hours, In this time ship Olympus, at 11 o'clock P. M., in lat. 4150, lon, 67 | “Mpreferred an application to the Marine Court, and | he had been home and put the store on fire, Ihave no 20, and so violent was the collision that bot vessels sunk | ‘uu, Dae ones ee Sa ie Le the further details; you ll write or come up within an hour after. Three of the passengers and three e grievances. A.C. . dge Bleakley, Jefferson Market Court, lam charitable enough to suppose the error in the amount of salary is a mistake ; but I cannot entertain any such supposition in reference to the facts as to time, sine the merits of the whole proceeding resulted: from the intent of the resolution. Mr. Flagg knew, and the record will prove, the resolution was introduced into the Board of Assistant Aldermen Nov. 12, 1853, and re- ferred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices—whose duty it was to consider the subject as referred to them— namely, “to take effect from the first day of December, 1853’"—then next. The resolution was appended to their report, and adopted on the Sth of December, the Board having adjourned to that time from the November ses- ve you the further particulars. it servant, FRED. Dee. 10, 1854. I do hereby acknowledge the above statement to be b: FRED. "ERS. written by me. » Witness, Ay E. Baxxs, Fire Marshal. Frederick Myers further examined before Justice Stuart and the Fire Marshal, in reference to the arson in his store, corner of Seventeenth street and Third avenue, fs Sunday evening, 15th of October, 1854, states as We ; ‘Charles Williams and saree tad, been in ship i pel gas business, dt the above place, from the 16th of May last up to the Ilth day of October, = we dissolved Is yi the Contes as our dissolution of alge ip he proposed to me to oy with him; icon ant 2 of the crew of the Olympus, and eighteen of the crew of the Trade W nd, perished JULY if 4.—A terrible collision occurred on the Susquehanna Railroad, near Baltimore, by which twenty-eight per- sons were instantly killed, and {rom forty to fifty se- verely wounded, some of whom afterwards died, AUGUST 7.—An election riot broke out in St. Louis, caused by | an Irishman stabbing an American, which continued for three days, and in which ten ag lost their lives, = to ge hg eet banetht te, UNDAY, 18.—The powder magazine at Marysville, Ky., containing 1,100 kegs (27,500 Ibs.) of blasting aha’ eH powder, exploded, causing damage to provers in the neighborhood variously estimated at from $80,000 to er- tives...’ Steamboat Caroline was burned on White river, a the Mississippi, and fifty-one persons lost thelr | ven. 7.--The shock of an earthquake was felt in Lexington, | cy. '9.—A Prohibitory Liquor bill was passed by the Senate of the Si of New York....The steamer John L. Avery struck g and sunk in the Mississippi river, mear Natcher, and sixty persons were drowned. 11.—The fce moved out of the Hudson river at Alba- | News was brought to New York by the steamship | North Star in twenty-two days and twenty-one hours anama route. 13,.—Steamer Reindeer exploded one of her boilers on Ind., by which thirty-two $100,000," Several persons were seriously injured, and | sion, 0 ont riding ; he hired the one negro woman died from the shock received. An offer was made by Mr. R. C. associated | from Jackson’s, in Broadway, and we left our store BSonpaY, 20.— About twenty emigrants were massacred | in’ the resolution, to abide by the ion of the | between 1 and 2 o’clock that a! ; we went to Har- by the Snake Indians in Oregon Territory. city’s. le ‘adviser—the Counsel to. the Corpo- | Jem ‘then to the High Bridge. On our returm home, 22.—Two large granite buil dings on the corner of Bat- | ration—w! was refused by Mr. , who, it wes about Sixtieth or Sixty-firat street, (Williams tery march and Broad stree‘s, Boston, fell with a tre- | must be inferred, preferred a law suit, since to | was cig cog tie pate ere phonge esto mendous crash, killing three aoe and destroying | have applied to ‘the Common Council would have | it was rather He turned round and drove towards property to the value of $120,000. been an insult to the intelligence of that body in asking some nor eighteen blocks; he then stop- SunDAy, 27.—A terrible tornado passed over the city | a Correction of aright -® moral and ht, as after- | ped, said he had lost his is portemonnale, jumped off the of Louisvilie, Ky. which unroofed about one hundred | ards established by the decision of art, and by | Wagon, and told me to drive slowly up and down until buildings, and totally destroyed the Presbyterian church, | {he action of the Common Council in staying the appeal | he returned; he came towards the city, drove to- burying & bes ot rateore of the congregation in the ruins, | taken by Mr. . ward? Harlem; after driving about five or six blocks, I and instantly killing twenty-five persons, and wounding | “jf decision could give me my just due, why ap- | turned round, but could not see him on the road; I was many others. for eeortection? Ifa decinom had been ‘rendered | then on the Third avenue, When Williams left mo it SEPTEMBER ; adverse, then I might very properly apply for the cor- | was just getting dark it was about 5 o’clock, and when 6.—During the celebration and ssion ofa number | rection, but not otherwise than after = ion | I next saw him | was at about Sixtieth street, on Third of American Protestant societies In Newark, N.J., am | way rendered, or to stay further proceedings, arising | avenue; it dark, I should say about 7 o'clock. attack was made upon them by a crowd of Irish Catho- | from obstinacy, not justlon in law. He got into the wagon and told me he did not find his lies, when the former retaliated and destroyed the inside | ‘The Counsel to the Corporation was the lawyer to de- | po ; lasked him why he stayed so long; he ofa Catholic church. During the riot one person was | fend the suit in behalf of the city, and should not the | replied he was looking all the time, but could not find it. killed, and a number were seriously wounded on both Comptroller have ‘ion before it besame | He then took the reins from me and drove slowly to the aides. 8,—A disastrous hurricane s' Charleston, 8. C., and Savannah, city, and went directly to the livery stable. Prior to our coming into the city we a Patercagetnts ig i his 0} pasa pec ny costs and interest to the city and be Third avenue, between se to myself? Now, tell me, Mr. Editor, who fur- ed “An ii of costs for Alderman Herrick’s Com- over the cities of ja., and the adjacent country. Houses were blown down and unroofed, ves- | Taittes of Grievances?” Mr, with his ‘At the time’ we arrived at the livery stable it sels were torn from their moorings, plantations were | for law suits at the expense of the Corporation—or | must have been between eight and e o’clock. stripped, and tho streets of both cities were inundated, | myself, who hadto pay from my own pocket? Ire- | After Putting up the horse and wi we walked dented helgt. © the destruction of property could’ only | Syetinanecotulty of being compelled, to this publieliy | oGttaken place there, Ou that night Willams expraas- be \- i en re. a be estimated by millions, OF EAE te seatetee Ses cece 80 fasice. to TaN OA) are masa age Taveliinving. taken pines, mand it. Very respectfully, ree ee 11.—Terrible riots occurred in New Orleans between EO. W. MORTON. From that time up to the 2d day of December instant, 15.—The President of Soa United States Cop deton age wnune a pete CN ge SPiation: of wbdin’ sight monioe ik im repens seiea i apeewoen ne 3 refer- to Congress in relation to the izure of the steamel Persons were wi ence of . On evel went Blac Warrior at Havana, by the Cuban authorities. | died. i) Dedication of the Madison Square Presbyte- | {> hed at an unusually carly hour; itwas about half past 18.—A tremendous gale swopt over the southern and ,_ 18.—A terrific storm occurred in Texas, whichen-| rian Church=Description of the Building. | 9o’clock. We slept in the back basement, as usual, northern portion of the State of New York, blowing | tirely demolished the town of Matagorda, with the ex-| 4 jarge andience bled on Sunday, notwithstand. | D4 when I came down to ge to bed it was about 12 down and unroofing buildings, and destroying a number | ception of three houses, and destroyed a number of crops io bursseaani tid i * | o'clock. 1 found him awake; fe neds light standing on of lives. In Albany and Troy, the destruction of pro. of cotton and sugar cane. A great many vessels and a | ing the inclemency of the weather, to witnoss thededi- | the bed; I undressed myself and went into perty is estimated at $200, N number of lives were algo lost. cation of the new church on Madison square. In the | We Se tpt im the same bed. When I got into 20,—The shock of an earthquake was felt at Macon, 20.—The Reciprocity treaty was confirmed by the bed he said to me, ‘Do you know how the fire Ge 4 ” | Canadian Parliament. asdeaingy the pester, “the Rey. Dr. Adaras, prenebed's in our store the last timo?’ 1 said ‘32.—The Prohibitory Liquor bill passed the New York | | 21.—The cholera, which had been raging some time in | discourse from the text to be found in Psalms 26, 8¥.:— | no, Said he, “I put it on fire.” I laughed, as Assembly, with an amendment making the law to go eerie Pa., this day carried off one hundred and nine | ‘Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house; and | I not believe vite He fog re a into operation on the tat of May; more, on his Western |. 25.—News arrived in San Francisco of the safety of the | ‘B¢ Pisce where thine honor dwelleth.” ‘The reverend | t0 it Pie ager in etn away fron se cise and Southern tour, bad a grand public reception in New missing British ship Enterprise, which had been sent to gentleman gave a rapid sketch of the different religions Sanday night. He said, ‘don’t you know when I told Orleans. the Arctic region in search of Sir John Franklin. faiths history hands down to us, and on the modes. of 1 lost my portemonnaie, I took a car to the city, went Lawrence, N. Y.. wax destroyed by Cooper’s children perished in the flames. 20.—The dwelling house of Mr. Cooper Tyler, at North fire, and seven of Mr. The oldest was but nine years of age. sequence of an antici; Cutting, member of 30.—Great excitement throughout the country in con- ted duel between Mr. Francis B. | gress from New York, and J. Breckenridge, member of Congress from Kentucky, The | difficulties were, however, amicably se‘tled. te 41.—Governor Seymour, of New York, vetoed the Pro: | hibtory Liquor law. | States. APRIL 3.—A comet was visible in all parts of the United It appeared in the West, and could be seen with | the naked eye. i 4.—Gold was discovered at a place called Steilacoom, in Washington Territory. Canemah, in Oregon Territory, ty persons were ture of New York vieted New York city... £.—The steamboat Gazelle exploded at a place called yy which accident twen- illed and twenty-five wounded. \ great number of the members of the Legisla- ~The great 10.—A Southern Coavention assembled at Charleston, 8. C. shocks of an earthquake were felt in San Francisco. 14.—Severe snow storm in New York....Two distinct 15.—The Southern Convention, after a session of six days at Charleston, 8. C., adjourned, to meet again, in New Orleans on the second Monday in January ship Powhatan, bound from Hav: two hundred emigrants, was wrecked on Absecom New Jersey, and every soulon board, num! sengers and crew—three hundred aud twenty-s lost.....The schooner Manhattan was wrecked a' same time and near the sa! nine persons perished... . Th her boilers in the bay of San Francisco, killin persons, and severely sealding and wounding about the same number. . The Senate of Ohio passed a resolution e@x- | formation in regard to the capacity ih which Mons. Be | e Pope’s Nuncio, was visiting this country.. aoe Teriterin ‘introduced in the United Siaies of Minois, providing for the sathe 01 and lea pew Territorial bill was Jenate by Mr. Douglas, i jablishment of two Territories out of Neb 0 be called Nebraska, and the other Kansas it to the people of each Territory to t ‘uestion of slavery, thereby abolish ng the provisions in t respect of the Missouri compromise act.. .. Three distinct shocks of an earthquake e felt in Hillsboro, Obio,,..A tremendous tornado swept along the Ohio river, which swamped fifty-five coal and grain barges, and caused the loss of several lives. 26,—A large meeting was held in the Tabernacle, New York, for the purpose of adopting measures to secure the ‘nfluence of our national government in the promotion vof the principles of religious freedom in other coun- ‘Ytries....The roof of a large iron foundry, in Yonkers, Westchester county, N. ¥ , fell in, killing one man, an Beverely wounding seven others...’ The freedom of the ity of New York, and a gold snuff box, were tendered to t, Crighton, of the British ship Three Bells, for his y in rescuing a portion of the passengers of the pteamrhip San Francisco, ‘27.—Two dollars and fifty-five cents per bushel was riven for wheat, by the quantity, in New York market, which is ‘ighest price ever paid. The wholesale barrel was $9 Paar ge mannnetery, eee L. Ly Diew the lives of about twenty young men and crea wl ae capers - gg 0 large fires occu! jew York; on direct, Sear Pearl, which destroyed the Columbian foun- ed nearly a whole block of buildings; and the at No. 14 Pearl street, by which about fifty fami- ies were rendered houseless. ‘The total loss | ak Dy both fires, was valued at $200,000... . The ym boat was burned at the wharf, in Lake Poncbartraia, deat New Orleans, by which forty lives were lost, and to the value of $100,000 destroyed. SUNDAY, 29.—A fire occurred in Worcester, Mass., hich destroyed property valued at $105,000.... Three Thocks of an Torsbquake were feltin Manchester, Clay oounty, Ky. 80,—A meeting was lea in New York eity for the por. pose preeaiog sentiments in opposition to the bi eek Dougie, before the United States Senate, for the organization of Nebraska and Kansas Territories... Benator Douglas, of Illinois, delivered a spece United States Senate in favor of his bill for the ‘Territo- gial organization of Nebraska and Kansas. ‘81.—The bill for the organization of the Territory of Nebraska was introduced in the United States House of ves. It contained the on ong hm re rmitting the introduction of slave ras ery wtabodied inthe Senate bill.... The» Missouri Iron Works, at Wheeling, Va., were destroyed by fire. Loss $60,000. FEBRUARY 1.—The Parliament House, with the bnildings attached, wt Quebec, Cannda, wergdestroyed by fire. c 4—The law for We Jidation of the different dis- decide upon the | | | | nh in the | } | | | President of Mexico, and Gen. Gadsden, on the the United State: Mexico, called M States for the sum of $20, ‘The clipper ship Flying | ed. ‘A portion of Croton dam, with | beach, | Fras the lace as the beh and | teamer Secretary exploded thirty | to New Yor 17.—The treaty which was made between Santa Anna, rt of which a portion of the territory of | Valley, was ceded to the United 000,000, was rejected by the e Legislature of New York adjourned. 18,.—The snow storm, which commenced on the 14th | in New York, continued with an intermission of only | about six hours until the morning of the 18th. Nearly | two feet of snow fell, but was quickly expelled by the | influence of the genial sun....A bill was introduced in | the United States House of Representatives for the ad- | mission of the Territory of Oregon asa State into the | Union. | 20 —The largest steamboat ever built in this cauntry | was launched at Greenpoint, L.I. She is called the Metropolis, and is twenty-five hundred tons burthen..., loud arrived at San Francisco, | making the passage from New York in cighty-nine days, the quickest on record. : 22—A rain storm, almost unequalled in severity, visited New York, the Eastern States, aad portions of the West, causing disastrous floods and great destruc- tion of property, carrying away bridges, dams, mills, | houses and fences, and undermining railroad tracks. A | portion of Brooklyn Heights slid down, and demolished a two-story house, in dog beg were eleven per- 8; two were instantly kil and five severe! a, y Wes was buil fe | urpose of supplying New York with water, was carrie: Ray. Ata Mace called Stainnoz Brook, on the Erie | railroad, a large bank gave way and forced nine laborers into the rushing water, seven of whom were drowned. | Stxpay, 23.—A destructive fire occurred at, Warren- ton, Ga., which consumed nearly every house in the village. Lot bout $200,000. 25,—The Gadsden treaty, amenited and modified, was | ratified by the United States Senate....A destructive fire occurred in New York, in the building No. 231 Broad- which was attended with the most melancholy re- sults. During the progress of the fire a portion of the walls of the building fell in and buried beneath the ruins thirty-four firemen, eleven of whom lost their lives, and all the others were more or less injured the French Consul in San Francisco, having testify on the part of the United States against the Mexican Consul, who was charged with a violation of the neutrality laws, was arrosted and taken before the United States District Court, where he protested against the proceeding, struck his flag, and refused to act as ith United States Senate C. | alter the accident. The propeller, although her bow 27.—The American mail steamship Arctic, Capt. James | worship adopted by each. A church is not the only C. Luce, on her passage from Li 1 to New Yor! tore, opened the money dra the then when about forty miles off Cape Race, ina thick oe, habitation of God—every human heart may bea temple | Grew'wime liquor, threw iton the floor ‘and bet re to came in collision with the French propeller Vesta, by | of the Most High—and the prevailing orror of all reli- | it.” He said he locked the doors again and threw the th the waterline in the unk'in about four hours which a hole was stove be bows of the Arctic, an keys into the area as he came out. The object, he said, of retting dre to the store was that he might keep the $80, and, as 1 was insured, I could make some gious systems has been that they thought too much of the form and too little of the substance of religion. was completely stove in, mai to reach St. Johns, | Dr. Adams closed with a touching appeal to his.congre- | money, too, claiming the insurance. He said it was ike inal ha ot Sonat aandiet a cy; | gation to sek the permanent and nating truths of | Soy, phen be Tet inten meet me of the ssengers, ei twenty-two were children, not one of either of whom | Téligion, and live up to them a¢ Christians should, avenue. Tot course seoldedhhin and dnid be ough not to The Rev. George D, Prentiss officiated in the after- ming the Rev. Dr. Bethune occupied the pulpit. He took his text from Hebrews 13th, 9: “Be not carried away with divers and strange doctrinos,, for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace—not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.”” The Doctor preached long and able discourse on the necessity of relying on the Christian faith in all the exigencies of was faved. The crew numbered one hundred and se. venty-two men and two women. Of the whole number on board, four hundred and eighty souls, only twenty- two passengers and sixty-five of the crew were saved, including Capt. Luce, whoheroically remained on the deck of the vessel until she went down, but succeeded in clinging to a portion of the paddle box of the <rctic, which broke loose from the vessel; and after being two days in that position was finally picked up by passing ip. 2b.—Two boat loads, numbering forty-six passer and crew of the lost steamship Arctic, landed in near Cape Race. 30.—The French steamer Vesta, the vessel which came have done #0, as there wer living in the house up stairs whose lives he mig destroyed by it. He re- lied, ‘‘That’s t gio On ae Pr Ge ay) I got up at about 8 o’clock and left Williams jeep; went into the yard; when I came out again to go into the store, I met Charles Everhart, my clerk, coming out of the basement. He said tome, ‘I could not find you; Iealled Charley Williams and asked him where you were, sod he answered he did not know, as he had been asleep.” We both then went into the store and made a fire in the stove. I then sent my clerk after some milk; after he returned, we consulted as to what ‘we should have for breakfast; we concluded some beef- steak; I sent him after it. In the meantime I looked at fety ‘The greatest interest was felt in the exercises during: in collision with the steamship Arctic, arrived at St, | the day, the church—which will seat about 1,800 peo- | the fire, andthen went down baseme Johns NF’ in aaisabled cendition,’ The “Vesta, lost | ple—belag thronged to its utmost capacity. "The fol- | tall Charley: Williams for preabtest;] fonnd hiseeake, thirteen of her passengers by the accident. lowing is a led description of the building, which-| sitting up im the bed. ‘After him, he asked me to for uniqueness of design may be considered one of the | sit down on the bed for s moment as he had to tell me curiosities of the city:— The church is built on very particular. I did so, and Scxpay, 1.—The Pacific steamship Yank ee NDAY, 1.—' fic steamship Yankeo Blade, on it was; he told me that he had given me n three times—arsenic, laudanum and 0, that he for. the second day gut trom San Franciseo, California, bound pGaetel Comeauer Madison Twenty-fourth street. It is in the first pointed English to Panama, struck a reef of rocks off Point Aguello, ani ie decame a total loss. She had on board about, ‘nine | ©°st'tie west endis a tower 112 feet high. Ite most | Cowld not rest any more of night and ‘me to for. Hundred passengers, thirty of whom were drowned. | | striking features are the first pointed window, with its | §cvyhimj! then seolied him very oifSidiimet st Oe mart Agricultural Fair was opened in New York | deep and the {retolled cor course between the but- | He then with kis lett hold of any very day. | renee : hand took hold shoulder, Soxpay, 8.—The steamer E. K. Collins, while on her ue capstion ch Uw TEA copytriad by a, (oolellsd saying, “No, you will not dose,” I repeated the same ssage from Sault Ste. Marie, was burned at the ecnbalirevarce, fromseisch will re ay ahem nny eo Fight away sad ise an ee ae spire, ornamented by crockets at the angles, and to terminate. in a finisl 230 fect from the ground; the whole will be constructed entirely of stone. The side walls are flanked by massive buttresses to sup- port the trust of the roof; they are in two stages, and t pa: of Lake Erie, and twenty-three persons hed... The steamer Princess was burned on the Mississippi river, near Natchez, by which accident twenty-three persons lost their lives. 12.—Kighteen passen; in the bed and sna it at me, but it did not go off. I then took hold of his wrist to twist ‘the pistol out of his hand, when he took hold of the pistol with his left uggle the pistol went off; it was a tol. The cl from the pistol went and crew of the lost steam- ship Arctic arrived at New York in the ship Lebanon, | Prmmate in a gable. above the side walls. Between hb 13.—A ferry skiff was upset in the Hudson river, at undernenth the galleries; above this is a mullioned | of bed and tried to get the pistol again. I then took window for lighting the main body of the church; the cornice is trefoiled. The roof is covered with green slate, the ridge of which is ornamented with a range of ventilators, between hold of his breast and tumbled him down, got the pistol myself and threw it up the basement stairs. In the meantime Williams jumped up again and ran up stairs. I caught him Troy, by the waves of a steamboat, and cleved™ out of seventeen persons in the boat were drowned. 14.—The bark Cambria arrived at Quebec with Captain Luce, of the steamship Arctic, and niue others from that | which are ridge tiles of terra cotta. | went right after him, iil-fatea vessel, having picked them up near where the | "'There are four ‘entrances to the church by richly | S20ut Balt way, up. stairs pushed, him back, Restle went dows. is ‘bly felt in | MOvlded doorways, three of wliich have gabled porches. | into the yard. ee pool gen oat after 24.—Shocks ofan earthquake were sensibly felt in | ‘The plan of the church consists of the tower porches t ae hare being afraid he might have some o' him, told him not to come near me or I would shoot him intentionally this time. He said, ‘Don’t shoot, for God’s sake; I’m shot enough.” then ran up stairs to the second floor. Theard him say “open the door.” I then returned into the store to see if the clerk had come back, He was not there. I pct on my overcoat, and went off with the intention of going to the station house. On the way I altered my mind, and went over to Brook- lyn to one of my acquaintances; told him about the case. He then told me to go right away back to New York and give myself up. My abject in going to Brook- yn was to get bail, as Tknow that I had Bobs taken ap. When I came to New York I ran up Water street and stopped into C. Heins’, No. 658 Water street, a friend of mine. I told him about the case, Headvised me not to Keene, N. H. 26.—An awful catastrophe occurred on the Great ‘Western Railroad, in Canada, cecasioned by a collision between two trains of cars, by which forty-seven per- sons were instantly killed and forty-one wounded, 28.—A most destructive fire occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, by which upwards of three hundred thousand dol- lars worth of property was destroyed. Scnpay, 29.—A riot occurred in Worcester, Mass., in which the United States Commissioner of Boston was nearly killed by the abolitionists, in consequence of the part the law required him to take in arresting fugitive slave: 30.—The Crystal Palace exhibition at New York closed permacently. on each side, in which are black walnut staircases to the galleries; the main body of the church, which is 62 by &5 feet, and the Sunday schoolroom, which is on ‘Twenty-fourth street, over which is the lecture room. ‘The interior of the church being entirely unobstruct- ed by columns, produces a bold and striking eifect. There are galleries on three sides ; they are hung ¢rom the walls, and derive no support from the floor. The roof is open. itisof one span, and is supported on arched principals, which rest on massive stone cor- bells, built into the buttresses. Both the galleries and roof are illuminated, which gives great lightness to the interor, taking away the heavy appearance which would be ‘inevitable if they bad been in one color, and serves to particularize the | NOVEMBER detail. The ground of the panels on the ceiling ia blue, ‘i 1.—A shocking accident happened on the Rock Island: | ith white ornaments, ‘The timbers are painted a neu. | 1059 en), me, seine Now ets hase tthe ten tae Railroad, by which twelve persons were killed andtwen- | tral tint, ornamented by bandings of vermilion. and Jice officers came in. I was sitting on a bench, in the gilding. ‘The furniture of the church is of black walnut; the pulpit and screen behind it are riehly designed, and. have elavoiate carved details. ‘the side windows aré filled with stained glass, im- ported from England; the beautiful window in’ the tower is designed to give a mellow effect. to the atmo- ck part of the store. The policeman asked Mr. Heins if he had seen me. Mr. Heins told him no. One of the poli.emen then came up to me, and asked me if I did nob know him. I told him yes, but I did not like to s@ “anything, ax I was ashamed to walk in the street him, as’ all the neighbors knew me. The officers then arrested me, and took mo to the station house in ty-four wounded. A gi was arrested in Philadelphia, charged with murdering four of her ille. gitimate children. 7.—A riot occurred in Williamsburg, L. 1., between the Sherift’s officers and the Irish, ducing which two men were fatally wounded and ceven or eight persons se- 1, named Pamelia Myers, Hourly injured: sphere of the interior in theafternoon, aud was furnished | 3 ‘.—Another riot occurred in Willlamsburg between | Sy Nessre, Sharp & steel, , Siniay sursteg, tncetvase tele bee tehacey Wee the Irish and a number of Americans, but only one man ‘The organ is furnished by Messrs. Hall & Lebagh, and | jiams from the mor at the time he fired the he kept it, and said he would give me credit for Iwas indebted to him $300, and would then leave L agreed to that a: stands in the tower. atone ‘ihe font is of unique design, and will be of Caen | j;, as’ stone. fi The lecture room deserves attention for its good pro- portions and ceiling of wood work. ‘the cost of the building will be $100,000, Dessra, Richard Upjohn & Co, architects. —The ship New Fra, a large vessel of thirteen hundred tons burthen, bound from Bremerhaven for New York, with four hundred and ten passengers, went ashore at Long Branch, New Jersey, became immediate- ly a wreck, and two hundred and twenty of ner passen- rs were cither drowned or smothere! betwoen decks... Consul of France under his commission. 27.—A tremendous storm of wind and rain, accompa. nied with thunder and hghtning, visited New York.... The caloric ship Ericsson, having returned from a trial trip, was «truck by # squall in the North river and sunk, ‘anda number of amalier vessels were sunk and driven ashore, and”some lives lost. '28.—‘The Mexican Consul at San Fransisco was found | nilty before the United States District Court of a viola- | ion of the neatrality laws. He was ch with hav- ing enlisted men in Francisco for the Mexican army, to ployed in Sonora. may 3.—The Homestead bill was returned to Congress by President Pierce, accompanied with his veto Loy | 6.—The steam tug Pennsylvania exploded her on the Delaware river, by which seven persons were kilied and four or pre Nha gaarahe "age horses on board ¢ boat were also scalded to h. hei 7. alleries of the Roman Catholic Chureh at Erie, Pa., fell under the wes of the im- mense crowd that had congregated in the church, in- stantly killing one man, and badly injured a large num- of others. othe United States House of Representatives ad- journed for the day at half past eleven o'clock A. M., After being in session thirty-six hours on the bill for the organizaticn of the Territories of Nansas and Nebraska, '2.—The steamer Pike strack a snag and sunk on the Mississippi river, by which accident sou fifteen persons pwned. the steamship Washington arrived at New York, with 477 passengers and crew of the packet ship Winches- 4 from Liverpool to Boston,and wreck. terre passage. A number of vessels had boarded the Winchester while she was in adisabled condition and k off of her passengers, previous to the arrival Srave Wen ngton: The Winchester went down in — thar sfter the remainder of her passengers er laced on board the Washington. , ‘ rfield county, Va., exploded, and by a A killed ‘tate election beld in Massachusetts, and all the State | officers and nearly every meqaber of the Legislature on | the American or Know Nothing ticket were ¢ ' | 14.—The steamship Northern Light arrived in’ New | York, bringing news from San Francisco in twenty days and twelve hours, béing the shortest trip ever made. | — 20.—Placide’s Varieties theatre, in New Orleans, was destroyed by fire, embracing & loss of about $75,000. 22.—A terrible accident ha: on tho Harlem Rail- | road at Fifty. seventh street, New York, by one train of | cars running into another, Twenty wore #- | verely injured, some of whom were mangled in s most | shocking manner.. «The shock of an earthquake was felt in Farewell county, Va. 24.—The British steamehip Canada came in collision In conformity with the above statement, Justice Stuart ordered the arrest of Charles Williams on Sunday last, and officer Crolius took him into custody and trass ferred him from the hospital t> the Tombs, to await an examination. On Monday Williams was conveyed he- fore the Court, and Justice Stuart advised him of tho. charge preferred against him, as made by Myers, and Myers’ statement was read to him,by the Fire Marshal, under the direction of the magistrate. Williams then volunteered to make his statement, and the Fire Mar- shal took it down in writing, asit now appears:— Mr. Thos. R. Williams, mason. Mr. Geo. Riker, carpenter. Cup Morper—A Fiennise Steruoraer.—We were informed yesterday of an act of atrocity which oc- curred on Wednesday last in Butler county, near the lit- tle town of Melville, and which exbibits « dark picture of human nature. A farmer, named Christopher Guel- pher, a German, a short time since married his second wife, an Irish girl who bad formerly lived in his family asa domestic, and whose name was Bridget J: 4 ney. By his first wife he had three children, the young- esta boy three yearsold. Sinee his second yg | the woman, who had previously appeared to take moth: with the stesmer Ocean, in Boston harbor, by which,the | erly interest in the welfare of the children, has thrown STATEMENT OF CHARLES WILLIAMS. latter waa set on fire, and caused the explosion of one | off the tage oy mask, and has evinced a more than Charles Williams, trest om a. charge of her boilers. The Ocean was entirely destroyed. Three | stepmother hatred of ti ‘On Wednesday morning, a | of se! 4 poe lost their lives, and a large number were more | shor: time after breakfast, the children were all three — street and or less injured. taken sick. They complained of « violent burning in jird avenue, on Sunday evening, the f October, the stoma the symptoms beeame at length so alarming that the father rode tos neighboring ~physi- cian for medical aid. When he returned he found the children in the most excruciating agony, but his wife could not be found. The symptoms, and the fact of all three children being sizk at one time, induced the doctor to suspect foul play, and he rode back to lis residence for a stomack pump, and his suspicions were verified, for the contents of their stomachs being east up, it was dis- that they had been poisoned with arsenic. An- tidotes were administered successfully to the two eldest, 29 —First snow of the season in New York city.... ‘The first election in Kansas Territory was held for dele- gate to Congress, when J. W. Whitield, the pro-slavery candidate, was elected. 1864, makes the following statement in answer to the On Sunday morning, the 15th day of October, 1854, Myers and myself to take » ride that day; I be: lieve I invited him to go; I hired the horse and wagon at Jackson’s livery stables in Broadway, near Nineteenth street; we left the store between 1 and 2 o'clock on ws afternoon; we went pa A Harlem and stopped @ porter house corner of 125th street and Fourth avenue, and took a drink; we then drove to High Bridge; there and took dinner; it was pretiy near DECEMBER 4.—The second session of the Thirty-third Congres was commenced at Washington City, and the Presider annual message was received and published ia New York. b.—The canals of the State of New York were closed, Wy order of tre Canal Board, but the ice be tha +t a check was put upon navigation two who wero girls, but the boy, after li couple of we left High Bridge; we drove back to Har- 9.—The navigation of the Huvron river was suspended | hours, died. Thore is much excitement in the neighbor. | lem, believe we stopped again at the same porter in consequence of the ice. hood, and a strict search was made afcer the guilty wo- | house; from there drove slowly down to aaother porter house on the Third ue, between Fiftieth and Sixtieth st: we there took a drink; from there we drove down 5 it wes very dark; we drove to the livery stable, pat up the horse; it then about 8 o'clock; after that we went home together 10 the store; Myers was @ little in advance of me when we croasod ind avenue he said that he saw » dight in the store; I began to man, who, deubuless, terrified at the prospect of detec- | tion, fled as coon as her husband went in quest of a phy- tician, taking with her all the ready money in the house, amounting to some $40. When last seen was h Ing in the direction of the railroad depot. It is s peeted that sho bas made her way to Chicago. where she basa mother and sister residing.--Cincinnatt Bn- urred in Broadway, New York, which | qrirer, Dee. 23. 11,the shock of an earthquake was felt in Ports- mouth, N. H., at midnight. The shock was also felt in Newburyport Mass,.,. Bil introduced in the United States Senate by Mr. Adams, of Mississippi, to establish a uniform rule of naturalization throaghout the United | extends the term of caturalization to 20,—A fire © THEE tile | 3? Bis i F F ig tf 5 Hl eft i e é 28 g&£ E i g s| isi ; s & g g i s i ahs it ue gf ie z i z t 3 b i id i f : H E a st . Beare an ti Ler right tide ine al ime, on m, towards the door; as wits as found myself ‘wenate jumped up, raised my head from the bed, and rem: im the bed im a sitting posture; I then saw Mr. M; with a pistol in his ready to fire a second tim I believed; it was my pist had two barreis; it 3. I was ti tp all water ito the basement from head indetvtin the keys of the” what 8 ae eee wen? away from an ly the then sald Chavley forgive ive me?’ I yes, I forgive all that you h to me; with thatI ran up stairs: TREE inthe ati, Tie SAbopee Sprouts, om the election night, in the ‘store J on jon t, groce! re F urth street, where he was employed an ther the that Myers came to their store on that night showed him my double barrelled pistol and ask in ; he did load it, so he told me, and Mf said he had some trouble; that he would shoot any ¢ who should cross his way, or words to- that effe:t. Signed, CHARLES WILLIAM: Taken before me this 25th day of December, 1864. 8. H. 1ART, Police Justice ‘The Case of the Twelve Belgians. DEPOSITION OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE ROCH. -Before Justice Bogart. Harris Stackpole, captain of the Rochambean, (pac ship,) being- examined, deposed substantially as lows:—I brought 351 passengers from Antwerp, and thirty-two on the trip; the remainder were landed this port; the ship was chartered by Adolphus Stra the twelve Belgians now in the city prison, were amd the passengers; they came on board at Antwerp be’ we hauled out of dock, like theothers;. I do not kn who paid their passage; I received the charter mo for all the passengers and the ship from Mr. Stra: the sum was $9,500; I had all the passengers examin ing inquiri as he could not prove them to be then to t theta on shore, without: 2 I did know that these men were paupers.or cohvid and had no means of proving it; the men were exami dead cae 4 phony rumored among Am n C8) 8 a jwerp, that paupers were going to shi; |, but we had no means of Ruding out who tl were; we had a notice put up for eight or ten days| our ship, previous to sailing, offering a reward for information about the shipment of paupers or convi the parties in question were the only passengers agai whom we had any suspicion; the luggage of these gians was the only thing that led me suppose ¢! ‘were paupers; I do not know how much money they h they were all able bodiéd men; at the time they inspected, I was told by an. interpreter that their p sages bad been paid by the burgomaster. 3 STATEMENT OF JEAN BAPTISTE FURRIT, ONE OF ALLEGED CONVICTS I was born at Foi jum; 1 last resided in I yain; I am a labecin, aad eesti twenty-four year Louvain; from Louvain I went to the almshouse in Cambra; I remained there two months and was then s to Hoogstraeten’s workhouse; I pee to the bur} master for permission to goto the United States; he i us ten francs each, and paid our passage money to Strauss; there were nino. more from Louvain at Ho) straeten; six are.with me in prison, and three acted sailors on board of the the ssven from Léuv. are Maes, Jean B. Maes, Guillaume Ferteng: Joseph Werd, Joseph Poisman, J. Wacgemans; I do know whether any of them were convicts. a considération or the question was hete po poned, Desravetive Fire in Exrsworra, Mr—A ( broke out in Ellsworth on the 224 inst., in the buili owned un Hopkins and Thomas Robinson, occny by Asa Edwards asa store, and the second story by P. Thomas and Jobs Ober os dwellings. The build with most of its contents, Mew destroyed, Mr. Edwa: saving part of bis ina cond conditi q fire then ipread uy street, destroying ‘a ite ou the store a 1 by. Henry Rollins as a saddle and » iph office; the second story was occupied by Wn. ‘estcott as a dwelling house, and the stores by Hi K. Whiting and Henry Whiting. The goods of atores wore mostly saved in a damaged condition. Whiting bad about 1,000 bushels of corn burned, Wood & Co. were considerably dam: Tavanassus, Fla, Dev. 17, 1354) The Election of Mr. Yulee to the U. 8. Senat Both Houses of the General Assembly of State met in joint convention yesterday, at o'clock, and elected Hon. David Levy Yuiee tot United States Senste for the term of six years, c mepcing on the 4th of March next, when ths i» of service of Gen. Merton will expire. Tho y. atocd—Yulee, (dem.) 31; ex-Gov. Brown, (+4 21; Black, (Mr. Myron of the Senate, and Mr. R ley of the Hone, democrats) 2, This result only effected after herculean efforts om the part — ogee cardidate and his friead:. ly. ie le uence wai > st ulee fn Diccted by rk ee deavine act votes to ensore hia election. No# that the agony is over we may bops fos | treneaction of business ia which tas people of ¥ State are interested, 8r. Jouni