The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1855, Page 1

‘IBLE CABADITY AT FORT WASHINGTON’ ae Destruction of the Country Seat of John A. Haven, Esq. ihe DEPLORABLE LOSS OF LIFE. of the Mises Mary, Grace and Sarah Havens~ One of the Firemen Seriously {ujured, We published yesterday a brief account of the disas- rous fire which occurred at Fort Washington about four ‘clock on Saturday morning, and by which three of he Qaughters of Mr. Jon A, Haven, one of the most ‘vspected merchants of this ety, lost their liv One ef our reporters visited the scene of the calamity on Saturday, and obtained the following details (rom those ‘who were present during the fire:— ‘The building, which was occupied by Mr, Haven and Temily, is situate’ on the brow of a hill overlooking the ‘udson, and isavout ten minutes walk from the rail, d station. A few rods distant is the dwelling of his on-ta-law, Mr. Hopkins, who was one of the first at the Sire. Ashort time since, it appears, Mr. Haven eaused xn addition to be made to his house, which was not uite finished when the calamity by which nearly one-half pf his family were cutoi eccurred. He had occupied this building for several years, and was one of the oldest resi- dents in that aeighborhood. On the night previous to Ahe fire, he had, as he himself stated, examined the pre- Anises, according to his usual custom, before retiring, and having satisfied himself that everything was safe, Le went to bed, This was betweon ten and eleven d’clock; but about twelve he had occasion to rise and Tegulate the register, and at that time he says he per- eeived no smoke or anything which would indicate that Zhe building was on fire. That very night, a few shor$ hours before the disastwr, the three young ladies were jnmusing themselves in their sitting room playing the piano, danging and singing with their sisters and some Sriends, who were visiting them. There wasa feeling of ‘perfect security, and they all retired at the usual hour, lasnconsciows of the fearful fate which impended over them, About ten o'clock, too, Mrs. Haven went into #the kitchen and laundry, find told the servants to wuspend their work for the night and go to bed. ‘They jclid go, with the exception of two German girls, named Fhristiama and Rica Rutharét, who are cousins, and Who have not been in tho country longer than two or Rhreeweeks. These girls were smoothing some clothes, and it appears that they bad, as usual when work of duat kind was to be done, put on an extra quantity of foals, It is not known exactly what time they went to Hed, but iti# supposed their work was done before twelve o'clock. It is certain, however, that uo one wi awake in the house when the alarm was given, except Mr. Haven. We have said that Mr. Haven retired bet ween ten and leven, and that he rose about twelve to regulate the register; Dut he was also the first to discover the fire. Near four o’clock in the morning he awoke with a feel- ang of suffocation, and on rising to ascertain the cause, be found his room full of smoke. Ho jhought at drst Rhat it proceeded from the fireplace, but he soon became Convinced, from its density, that the house was on fire. He then awoke Mrs. Haven, and they boil: went into the ‘Dall, where they alarmed the mombers of the family, and wucheeded in getting them all safe out of the building. str, Hayen next aroused the servants who were sound asleep at the time, On looking at the building from the | vutside they saw at once tlat the fire originated in the ) laundry, aud {hat aa it bad already made great progress, it was impossible, with the hmited means ot band, to lwek it. ‘They did all in their power, however, and Threw several pails of water upon the fismos, bat without the least effect. Had there been an engiue on abe ground soon after it was discovered, and safficitnt water, it could have been suppressed with very little + ificulty, but the firemen did not arrive uatil the build- i was alinget totally consumed. As may be supposed the greatest confusion and excitement prevailed among the inmates, who were crowded together on the lawn in tront of the house, some of them in their night clothes nd others only balf dressed. The night, however, was very mild for winter, and the air wasso calm that the smoke ascended in huge unbroken masses high over the parning building. After the first apprehensions with regari to the safety of the family, and the other members of the household were over, some of the Miss Havens asked Kate Lean, one of the servants, to go into the dining room and carry vat the plate before the fire reached it, but the girl re- fused, fearing that she would be suffocated by the smoke, wor burned to death in the attempt. Miss Sarah Lang- don Haven, who was in her night dress, then ran into the building, as it is supposed, for her clothes, nnd that was the last that was seen of her till her eharred and blackened remains were taken from the yuins, She was followed by her three sisters, Mary, Grace, and Anna, the two first of whom were snffocated. ‘Kt was thought at Orst when they went into the build- ing, that they would return immediately, but when Abree or four minutes elapsed without any of them mak- ing their appearance, and every room in the house ap peared to be filled with smoke, the greatest apprehensions were felt for theit safety. Mrs. Haven had been at ‘the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Hopkins, bare- ‘headed and bare-foote), and had returned but afew minutes before the disappearance of her daughters. A considerable number of their neighbors hail also collect- ed, and every exertion was made to rescuo them. Mr. ‘Hopkins placed a ladder against the balcony and ascend- 2d to one of the second story windows, which looked out from the drawing-room, and from which he hearda sound as of some one groaning inside. The smoke was so dense that he could not see into the room, and to en- ter it would be at the exjreme perilof his life. Throw- ing bimeelf, therefore, on the floor, near the window, to avoid the smoke, and in the direction from which he ‘heard the groans, he stretched out his hands aad fortu- nately suceeeded in catchiug hold of the dress of Miss Aona Haven. Drawing ber towards him, he succeoded in getting ber out on the balcony, but was forced to re- main with her here ten or fifteen minutes, the ladder Deing too weak to bear the weight of both. Another lad- sler was obtained, and as Mr. Hopkins was nearly exhaust- ed, be waa relieved by Mr. James Jones, one “pf the men in charge of the telegraph at Fort Washington. Mr. Jones succeeded in carrying the ine sensible girl safely down the ladder, and giving her to ahe arms of ber distracted parents. She was taken im- mediately to the residence of Mr. Connolly, which is » ‘phort distance off,and whore she received every care ant attention. She is, we understand, in a fair way of re- covering, but it has been deemed advisable to conceal trom her the fate of her sisters until she is entirely out of danger. Jones and Joseph Moloney, the keeper of the railroad »tation, entered the houre again in vearch of the other aisters, whom they found lying near the closet contain- her knees with her hands against the door of the closet ‘Bs if in the aot of opening It, when she was suifocated; nnd the other'was found « few fect from her, lying on the floor. They wore both carried out immodiately, and wvery means taken to restore them but without effect, van life was doubtless extinct before they were found. Nothing could exceed the grief of the paronts os the lifeless forms of their children were Brought to them—they bad seen them the evening be- fore in the fall enjoyment of life, and now, a terrible Yatality, they were deprived of them, even after they Thad eneceeded in essaping unsouthed from the midst of ahe flames, > On the alarm of fire, hose companies 40 and 52, and engine companies 95 and 49, hastened to the spot; but the building wa enveloped in flames when they arrived, nd they could render no effectual fervice ia saving it. ‘They did.all they could, however, afterwards, in clearing away the ruins and extricating the remains of Mis» Sarah Langdon, which were found so horribly burned, as to sender recognition utterly impossible. (ne of their own ber, a member of Hove Company 43, named Wilson, had his leg broken, and was otherwise seriously injured py the bose carriage running over him, es they were de. peconding the -eop bil to the eceneof the dre. Such was ing the place, apparently dead. One of them wason | the difficuliy they experienced” a their ma” chines with them, that they frequently ram.off the road, and oneof the carriages was upset two or three ‘The morning-ef the fire, the German servant girls paid their wages, ait services t required | any longer, they came to . It is not ‘that the fire was caused by their + but itis su; in 80, from the fact that they were the houre who were known to be up that night. The house was built in the gothic style, and furniture is estimated at twenty thousand dollars, ebout one-third of which is insured, It was constructed prin- cipally of wood, and was one of the finest looking build- ings along the North river. THE INQUEST. 4 On Saturday, Coroner O'Donnell, accompanied by Fire Marshat of New York, Mr, Alfred &, Baker, went from this city to Mount Washington, to holdan inquest on the bodies, and to investigate the cause of the fire. On theirar- rival at the residence of Mr. Hopkins they found the bodies of the three sisters—Sarah, Mary and Grace—lying in cof- fins side by side. The latter two exhibited no external marks of violence, and but for the shrouds in which they were enveloped, it might be easily believed that they were asleep, so calm was the expression that rested on their features, Their father was alove in his room, no one withing to intrude upon hig grief, while the mo- ther and sisters seemed ready to sink under the weight of their affliction. It was, indeed, a house of mourning, The Coroner empannelled the following jury, and, after viewing the bodies, as“required by law, proceeded to examine witnesse: FE, A. Hopkins. James A. Connolly. James C. Carter. he, Philip O'Hanlon, Wau, Sweetser, A. E, Baker. ‘The first wituess examined was Mr. Waven®, thefather_ of the deceased, whose testimony was taken by the Coroner, as follows :— - TESTIMONY OF MR. HAVEN. Jobn A, Haven being duly sworn, testified as follows: —It was my usual custom to examine the premises every night before retiring; I did not observe any evi- dence of fire at half-past ten; about twelve o’clock T got up to regulate the register in my room, and then there was no sign of fire; I went to bed again and fell asleep; Twas aroused from my sleep some time after by smoke in the room; I get out of bed; my wife slso got up; we went to the hall and alarmed the family, and told them to leave the house; we did not return for ourclothing; I thought tho fire proceeded from the fireplace, on ac- count of the smoke; but I saw the fire had gained such headway that nothing could check it; there are fourteen in family; the fire was found to come from the laundry, north end of the building. . TESTIMONY OF KATH LEAN, Kate Lean, one of the servants employed in the house, testified as follows:—I have lived with Mr, Haven since the 16th of August last; I was not in the wash house last night, but the two German girls wero; I went to bed about ten o’clock; I heard the girls apeak in German in the wash house, the door of which was closed; there was a Greplace init and they were ironing clothes; they heated their irons in a range Which was connected with the boilers; some time inthe night Mr. Haven came to where we were, and told ua the house was on fire—to come out of our beds; I ran out then, and was standing in the entry, when one of the girls asked me to get a pail; I saw smoke in the wash Louse; one of the young Jadios asked me to run alter one of the men; it was Miss Helen; I got the coachman, Peter Hines, at his own house near by; I called him twice before he answered; the young ladies wanted me to save the silver out of the closet, but I was afraid of the smoke, and the house was dark; the closet was in the dining room, which was even with the street; when 1 returned from the coachman I went into the dining room, through the window, with one of the men, who had a lamp in his hand; when we were there I saw one of the young ladies lying on the floor; I took one of the drawers that had the silver in it, and he handed it out of the window; [ said’ then that I saw Miss Mary lyingin the closet; after this ¥ came out of the dining room; I saw Miss Mary and Grace lying oppesite the front door of the house on some clothes; I did not see them move, but I thought I saw Miss Mary open her eyes; I did not seo thea breathe. in private TESTIMONY OF JON BRADY. John Brady, aleo employed as a servant, testified as follows :—I am a general servant in the house. { went to bed mmmediately after tea, but got up again and put rome ashes en top of the coal in thg furnace; after this Mrs. Haven ordered us all to go to bed, when I went; tho furnace is in the hall of the main building; it heats some of the rooms; I don’t know what hour I went to bed at; the girls were in the wash house when I went to bed; the Grst thing I knew after this was Mr. Haven calling me by name from the head of the stairs; he call ed “John” twieo, and I answered; I put my clothes on as quick as I could; when I came out I heard some of the family say the laundry was on fire; | ran towards it and saw it and part of the dwelling hoase on fire; then I rushed back to my room for some of my clothes, and when I got them I left them out in the yard; I went then and got a pail of water to throw upon the fire; I threw three pails of water on it, but it had no effect; I saw nobody throw water besides myself; | beard some of the young ladies run round the house and cry Gre; the neighbors soon came and made an attempt to get the young ladies out of the room, but they could not find where they were: they got out some’of the farni- ture; one of the ladies was taken up this morning to Mr. Connolly's in a wagon; it was Miss Anna; I helped to draw the wagon; she was not dead; when I saw the other bodies, people were trying to restore them; I did not see them after this, TESTIMONY OF PETER MINES. Peter Hines being «worn, said—Am employed by Mr, Haven as coachman:1 was ealled last night by Kate lean, when I got up immediately; there was another girl with Kate, and they said the house was burned up; I tarned outimmediately, when I met Miss Helen, who told me to / hurry up, that one of her sisters was in the house suf- focating, and afterwards to get the keys of the stable and attend to the things there; when I came up to the buildings the north wing of the house, over the laundry, was on fire; I saw plainly that I could render no assls- tance; 1 beard from Mr. James Connolly that they had succeeded in getting one of the young ladies—I think Miss Anua—out alive; Isaw Mr. Haven, and he told me Jobn had the keys of the stable; I got them from him then, and took the horses, harness, carriages and other things out of it; 1 saw Mids Grace and Miss Mary after this lying on beds outside’of the buil ting, quite motionless, TESTIMONY OF JOHN M. HOPKINS. John M. Hopkins being sworn, testified as follows—I reside a short distance from Mr, Haven's; I was aroused sometime between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning; I was called by Mrs. Hayen’s who told me ber house was on fire; this was about fifteen minutes after the family learned the house was on fire; the flames broke out on the west side of the house; my at- tention wae first eniled to the fact that there was some one in the drawingroom; I immediately ran up a ladder to the baleony attached to that room, and found Mr. Connolly there before me; I opened the window, and hearing groans within, I threw myself on my face and reached in; there was a dense smoke, and I had to put my head down to the floor to avoid it; I reached my arm in and took hold of some person, which proved to be | Miss Anna Have was then alive, but perfectly in sensible; Miss Anna afterwards revived ; sho is now Jying in Mr. Connolly's, in a fair way of recovery; I was about a quarter of an hour on the balcony, holding her in my arms, the ladder being too frail to bear the weight of both of us: Lwas present about fifteen min utes after, when Mary and Grace were found in tho china clost; the men stumbled over them as they were going in to take out the silver: Mary revived a little when they were taken out, but she Ged soon after. THe vRMDICT, After the examination of the witnesses the Jary ren. dered a verdict that Miss Sarah Langdon Haven bad come to her death by burns received at a fire on the ‘morning of Saturday, the 15th inst., and that Mary and Grace Haven bad been suffocate’ at the same fire, The bodies were examined by Dr. O'Hanlon, in accord- once with the law, who found that their deaths were producea by the causes stated. Remarys Or GENBRAL AnwaTroxG.—The remains of the la‘e Geverai Armstrong reached Nash. | ville, Tenp., on the and the coremonies of interment took from the house of M 5. Josian Nichol on the y novelty. The events of the past week do not offer any striking A bagatelle, by De Walden, at Burton's, {:Ciree and her Magic Cup,’’) was the only really new thi ‘the week. It is only a ‘piece of absurdi- ty,”? ae bills, but it is very funny and ex. ceddingly well doné2The military evolutions of the O’Lyseus Guard are equal to those of any of our crack companier. Miss Macarthy plays the principal part, and sings Targe numbers of pretty songs. Thi'young actress ises tobe eminent among actresses of the Mrs. Chai ward Behool, She has youth, beauty, talent and a volee power, purity and sweetness, feveral noveltie: nderlined at Burton’ Tuesday we are to hav “Our Set; or the Sp: fully competent 'y, as he is Carolinian by was for rome yearm «journalist in this city ‘opera (the Harrison and Pyné™tregpe) has done a fair busfifesa at the Broadway during the week, with ‘Mari tana,’’ “Fra Diayolo,”? “La Sonnambula,’’ ‘The Crown Diamonds,”’ acd the “Bohemian Girl.”’ Mr. Horncastle 18 @ valuable addition to this company.———At Wallack’s nothing rew has been presnte@, ‘The ‘Sisters’ ant other favorite pieces have drawn good Houses through the week, We are gratified to learn that Mr. Wallachia convalercent,— At the Metropolitan theatre, Sands & Co.'s circus ccmpany has been added to the dramatic corps, but the experiment has not proved a lucrative one, Au passant, M’lle. Chiarint, of the cireus company, is a perfect little phenomenon. One night we see her playivg Eva, in the drama founded ona celebrated negro Tomance, again appearing as a danscuse at the Broad- way theatre, and bringing down the house by the grace and @xeewtes. a pas seul on horseback, All this, for a eli : At the Bowery, the only remarkable e¥ was the benefit of Mr. Robert Jones, the stage manager, on Wedneeday, when there was a very long bill and a very (ullhouse——At the Museum, Mr. J. R. Scott is still playing to full houses, ‘The entertainments offered at the-vasious theatres this evening, will be found interest ing. ‘ At the Broadway theatre ‘Cinderella’ is announced, with Wewaconery, ete. Miss L. Pyne is the Cinderella; Mr. Borrani a i, and Mr. Harrison asthe Hrince. Cinderella's carriage wi wo by four “real ponies,’ Serres pe At the Metropolitan theatre the melo-dramatic spocta- cle founded on Dumas’ “Monte Christo’’ is announced, Also, an equestrian entertainment by the Sands’ circus | company. A good bill at Burton’s:—‘“Living too Fast,”’ “Circe ond her Magic Cup,” and ‘A Nice Young Man.’’ Genile- men afilicted with the blues will take notice that here are several good opportunities for a laugh. At Wallack’s a now adaptatio x Morn= ing,” in five acts, The cast includes Mr. Lester, Mr, Blake, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Dyott, Miss Rosa Bennett and other popular artists. New scenery and dresses, striking effects, &e., Ke, At the Bowery theatre, “The Crock of Goldy**eThe Eton Boy,” and “ Tinour the Tartar’? are announced. A good bill, At the Musoum, Mr. Scott plays “Watlace,”’ and the | “ Second Grand Annual Poultry Show’’ is going on. | Excellent bills are announced at Wood's and Buckley's Minstrels. * | MUSIC AND THE DRAMA ELSEWHERE. | “(A Midsummer Night's Dream’? has been produced at the Walnut street theatre, Philadelphia, with the scevery, properties, &e., of the Broadway—The Grisi and Mario opera company appear in ‘1 Puritani’’ at the Boston theatre, this evening. Mr. RE, L. Davenport concluded a two weeks’ engagemont with a benefit on | Friday. Mr, and Mrs. Conway bave been re-ongaged at the Museum. The Transcript is anxious that the Boston ladies should go to the operain proper costume: ‘Not in bonnet and dark artictes of dress that absorb the light, neither in low-necked dresses and short sleeves— leave those to the private diawing-room—but in light and bright colors that will enliven the hoase, and give Grisi an impression that she fe not winging to the ‘ser- vant girls with their m streasos’ tickets.” And again, A correspondent wishes the editor to “‘say that itis the | fashion in Europe to go to the opera without them; and | those who wear bonnets are supposed to have no time to dress their hair, or nodresing maid to arrange it for | them.’’ It is nn important matter, that same fashion, in | Europe; and it is to be hoped that the Boston Indies will not commit so flagrant crime as disobey its edich——- ‘The following named persons h been elected officers of the Boston Museum Dramatic Fand Association :~Pro- ridert—W. H. Smith; Vice President—J. A. Johnson; Trustees—Moses Kimball, J. A. Johnson, Thos. Comer, John E. Marden, W. H. Curtis; Recording Secretary— William Marden; Corresponding Secretary—M. W. Law- rence; Treasurer—J. H. Anger; Medical Examiner— Winslow Lewis; Committee of Relief—Jos. P. Price, Mre, Mary Tuttle, Joseph Rametti.—— Morris Barnot commences anengygementat Buckland’s theatre, Mon- treal, on Monday evening next.——M’lle Marie Duret com- | menees an engagement at the National theatre, Boston, | this evening.——Miss Margaret Mitchell is to appear at | the Albany Museum next Tuesday evening.——Mr. J. A. MeVicker is playing Yankees at the People’s theatre, St. Louis —-Mr. Neafie, the manager of the American theatre, San Francisco, Las reduced the prices of adinis sion to his establishment, and is doing well. Mr. and Mry. Stark were his stars.—Christy’s Minstrela have | disbanded at San Francisco, Cal. Part of the troupe re turned to New York on the steamer of December 16th. | Bryant, Eph. Horn, Campbell, and Abbott, have become partof the troupe of Backus’s Minstrels in Californ’ ——Napicr Lothian, the celebrated musician, formerly of New York city, died suddenly at San Francisco, Cal., on the 11th December last, while performing at a military ball given at the Metropolitan theatre in that city. His funeral was « very large one—attended by all the leading musicians in San Francisco, playing « solemn requiem for their departed comrade.——Yrom late accounts received from Australia, Kate Hayes has given three grand concerts in Sydney to crowded houses, hundreds of people being com pelled to go away from the doors each night, being unable to obtain even standing room. The managers from the different interior theatres had offered her several evgagementy——The Thornes, with Kate Denin, received 4 magnifleeat reception at Sydney on thetr first appear ance. By way of San Francisco, we learn they had per formed ten nights to crowded houses, and had accepted | & profitable engagement for three months ——The London | Athenawm Was some criginal ideas about the American stage, thus — A recent American drama, ‘‘ The Upper Ten and the Lower Twenty,’ irs to bean attempt to prove that New York is ab wicked in its mysteries and as violent in its contrasts betwixt rich and poor, vice and virtue, as | the Paris of M.Sue’s notorious romance. Some of the transatlantic critica have been thereby driven into great national indignation. Others have been busily watching the career of Miss Matilda Heron, an actress who has ‘recently made @ sensation and a success in California,” and whe le selh to be engaged at Drury Lane. On the yiole—sirnnge in its form, spasmodic fa its motion, ani dislocated in its organization though it be—there seems to us life in the drama on the opposite side of the Atlantic, which some Hawthorne to come, who prefers action to narration, may turn to account. —Dirs, Harriet Carpenter Moulton’s beneOt was an- nounced at the Honolalu theatre on the 234 of Novem ber——One of the California papers says that Mr. T. Campbell, an actor well known in California «ines 1549, has, by inheritance from « recently deceased relative in } Eng! |, come into possession of a large property, | amounting to over $100,000, and takes his departure for London on the next steamer ——Letters received by the last steamer announce that Mins Adelaide Phillips ( tive of Philadelphia) made her first appearance at the Careano thestre, Milan, on the 17th of December, ia the opeta of the “Barber of Seville,” and met with cotire success. The debut of Mins Elise Hensler at La Seala, in the partof Linda, was to take piace very shortly ——Mr. Geo. Ryer hes been playing “Ingomar” at Maryeville, Cal and the Herald of that place thinks that he must one day ‘achieve the pinnacle of his pro Kimberly is playing ot the National theatre, Cincionat! ——Mr. Redmond Ryan, irish comedian and vooalist, died recently in Now Orleans ——Mra, Charles Howar! is ploying at Savannab, Ge. One of the papers sys — “The borqnuets thrown upon the stage during the even. ing, were received by Mrs. I. with s grace which phowed that she was practiced in the business of se- | ‘powledging such manifestetions.”———Heory Farren and Miss I. Howard are playing in Charlerton, 9. C. ——On Sundsy evening, the Tih, in New Orleans, Miss + | MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1855. Julia Dean played Elvfia was played at the French theatre; Mr. Eugene Godard made a balloon ascension; Campbell's Minstrels gave a About two and a half o'clock yesteriay moratag, concert; Van Amburgh’s menagerie was exhibited, and While @fieer Maina, of the Twomty first ward polee, way there was a hunt for rats by terrier dogs “at the cock. patroifing his beat at the corner of Thirty-neveoth street pit om Gravier sireet,?? A cnflicient amount of variety, | aad Sixth avenue, he beard alarm rap feom one of { atapy rate——The Pelican theatre, St. Charles sircet, | ey gareer ste ent en Pe Pa sane, os walking on to inquire what was the cauro of the signal, he naw a waa tobe opened on the Sth—-My, Calder, lemee, and} Sun rguning down Bixth avenue at o sayid pace and | George Holland, acting manager. Mr. J. 8. Browne, C. evidently pureued by seme one. Officer Maius imuedi- B. Hill, Mre. C. B. Hill, and Mrs. C. Pope, were included ately sterted after this person, supposing lim to be an ip the company, ——A letter giv { ‘\thief, Pursuing bim closely, the fugitive, when he following account | f'*4 | | at the corner of Thirty-thira street, suddenly turued of a dramatic performance extraordinary, at Varna:— | arvwnd and drawing a pistol from his person fired itat the y there way absolutely @ theatre got up in | officer, who, undaunted by the attempt on bby Hfe m Prince’ pon’s camp—a very droll and amusing af-.| by the rascal, pursued him ld frame house fair, |. ‘The nen hast erected it of the old material — es—and had all sorts of do- | vices for ry “What's the ape ve suall m i Police Intelligence. ATTEMPT TO KIDT A POLICEMAN, this polmt, trom which the daring fellow made his escape by some rear outlet. The officer was not iojured by the | nd decoration, We always satl, | discharge of the weapon, although quile close behind | directly,” when any- | the fugitive when it was fired at him, a matter as stabling | grrgsy FO GAMBLING-—KEEVING A DISORDERLY | HOUBE. About three u’closk yesterday morning officers Morel! and Jones, of the Nineteenth ward police, made a de seent upon a porter house situated in Forty-first street, between Third and Jexingto nes, owned by oman pamed William Marx, and arrested seven men for gam- Bling. 'The proprietor was arresied for keeping a disor Gerly house, ailowing the prisovers to remain gambling on hit premises at such an woseasouable hour, and on @ Sunday morning too The prisoners were taken to the station house, where they gave thelr pawes as Michael Nugent, Patrick Coleman. Edward Nugent, Richard Cole man, John Collin, and Michael Connolly, All partie including Marx, the keeper of the porter hoffe, were | locked up for tho night, at the Nineteenth ward atation | house. Yesterday they were taken before the Magistrate at the Second District Police Court, who held the propri- | | tor to bail for keeping a disorderly house. The other | | prisoners were also held to auswe ROBBED BY PICKPOCKERS. o Purkof the audience, would costribate; and miaves acted, and droll enough they were. ‘The; compored their dramas, tco, ax well. a1 uctol then; aad they were usually rude satires upon existing circum. statces, full of coarse humor and rough mirth. * * © ‘The Czar, of course, was very promineat as a hero on ‘the boards” of the Prince’s theatre. In one drama that with immense applause, and was announced for ition, a windmill was introduced, con- much @lovecness, with bayonets aod tur- ban cl & few brushes, and so on, A sack was brought in by 2 man gupposed to be a Russian, who emptied it into the windm! he wanted the contents bi ‘and then screamed out that k, as they consisted of the But the Zouaves toll him to wait; and thea grinding away, a quantity of dust, the remains of the autocrat, reduced by French power, was shaken oat to the Russian, who anon capered’ about, and danced of ehinuelpation fon tas Counamees sense of the value} spout 9 o’elock onSatorday night, while « Mr: James Madame Stoltz « short time since entared into anen. | Mclaughlin, residing at Hoboken, was passing West | gagement with the director of the Grand Opera, Paris, | eet through Washington market, rome expert thieves | by which abie was to forfeit Afty thousand franos in case | &naget to pick hts pockets of wallet containing $125, Cgy ‘The vietim was Grst sade aware of his loss on reaching nok tag The Iesy senile Yat wibh | tue Hobeken feist, wishes Sowing his hand tn, be retiro from THY perm; end her zoaliness to pay the fine; | pockot for his ferriage, he found to Mi) surprise Unt his but it appears, after an absence of # couple of montps, ‘ Net sed v rong Ro) meetierly, iniceseee § Re | director, 7 . | Heeman of t et, who accompanied him back to tho Do iivertamy tho had the courage to; epply; for: hie mo- | Oran de suppeeed he hea! hist, Bis money, Here ney, has been referred to the lady's avocaf, and tho the par addrersed a young min whom they supposed world is likely to have another theatrical proc’stoamuse | to be a persen of questionable charac ter, and who Mr. REET " | MeLaughlin identified as being one of the individuals ‘Te—eTiig. French artiste have been making up a fund | Perayeiia mee’ up #gainst him in the market, but to supply the soldiers in the Crimea with luxuries not | all. questions put him being romowhat satisfacto. provided by government. Roger, the tenor, sont hiv | rily suswered, the young man accosted was allowed to contribution, one thousand five hundred france, tho | PToeted unmolested, the officer not feeling justified in Ereaatved by bins a scduilened ad | making an arrest. “Melanghlin returned to Jersey a | amount received by him at @ representation of ‘ame wirer tun, resolving never to leave money exposed to Blanche,” in Germany. It isto be laid out in segara, | the obscevence of thieves again which are to-be labelled “Roger's packet of segars to lis PASSING COUNTERPEIT MONTY. countrymen, ”’=——Madaime Ugalde has returned toherold | A man named Francis Osborne wax arrested on Satur- | place of occupation, the Opera Comique of Paris, having, | duy, on the charge of passing counterfeit $5 bills on the it is said, signed an engagement for some years there. | Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of I’hiladelphin on seve ——A German clerical gentleman has jus concluded a | ral shopkeepers in the upper part of the city. A woman | drematic work of which report speaks well. It beara the | semed Elizabeth es ‘fan cause! the arrest of the nontaed ‘ f ” who, on being taken before Justice Brennan, at the Jo title oft Fontins Pilate | and 14 to be: brought out at | abe mashet police court, detained his for examina Greiswalde.——-Mrs. L. 8. Buckingham, of Haymarket | tion, Yesterday, throe or four persons caine to the po- | theatre, has just been divorced from her husband, on | lice court, and. viated That they Jad several of these Ms sate | counterfelts parsed upon them, the person answering | her own petition, by the Edtuburgh Court of Sessions. | (OGes, ription of the prisoner Osborne was thereupoa ‘The lady in future wili be known by her maiden name | povght inte court, avd identified asthe person who had | of Miss C, White. | passed three of those counterfeits on the xame number | of storekcepers in the upper part of the city, Osborae | | was committed for examinatic stice Breunan. | ! DAKING HIGHWAY hoonery. | } » how © Seturd ening rs ele —Coroner Hilton heli an inquest, on Saturday, upon tho | #8 lato nm Saturday evening as Trea body of a man named Daniel Coffve, who came to hig | 7 ¥! mane 17 Walker streot, was ro Divaie s death from starvation and exposure tothe weather. It | Furry atsout Uy foun shen from. ths. person appeared that Coffee for the last six months hae heen | of Mr. Vellia iid mot beleng to, him. being place’ tm bie rambling through the Nineteenth ward utterly destitute, | pomey i Se Be reer a ree BGC Be ar ethos yet been obtained a to the whereabouts of the highway feed Toned Bim fiaading agsines @ cil dau; lthwogh opotles Simoni ew. Seyparcted wile’ ti Bn pong complainant soon after the occurrence, in order, If pow sible, vo find out some trace of this street robber. STSPICION OF BORGLARY. Four boys, named George Harrison, Kone,and Jon Mebermott Coroner Inquests, DEATH FROM PTARVATION AND ExPosuRe to THE Weariin. ; that for two days th ter his attendants could not get him to t ny tood or medicines, and that he died in cousequ a Yow od by off of exposure and starvation as aforesaid, He was pro cit digg | bubly past recovery whep taken to the hoxpital, On hix | rardand Dofly, of the Fours ward pel | arrival there they tried to get brandy into him without | of having busglariously entered the jewelry success, and be gradually ceclined,and died from an ex. | Daviton, No. 410 Pearl street, and pivaling therefrom & hanstion of his vite! powors, resulting from cait sud | small quantity of property. | ‘The prisoners wore taken want of food, He was thisty-five years of age, vad a | before Jurtice Osborne at the Lower Police Court, who native o1 Ireland, Fata, Accipent on Susrnoann,—An Inquest was held upon the body of Houry Marshall, steward of tho sulp | : . Famuel Willets, now lying at the foot of Dover stroot, | TH# Frmates’s Bart.—Thix annual festival (akew sjlace who came to hia death by falling dowa through the hold | * ¢ Academy of Music this evening, the Lith inst. We have often oppealed to the citizens of this metro of the ship, breaking his neck and fracturing his skull. , , ‘ No evidences could be obtained showing the olrcumstanses | in behalf of this nobie and efficiont charity, and wo dy it under which the decvssed fail down the hatehway. The | this year, Cospite the money provare—nay, om « jury rendered © verdict in accordance with tho ebove | tr iy cup Wisk 1 was about twenty-eight years of ago, | “f it—with more ¢ 7 rf nar TEI TOArE OF $B | sat it then td one claite ateon gratituce nud liberality of our committed them for exam/nation. ~CHy Intelligences ant ative of Fogland, Fapon thi Fatat Accipext.—A woman named Bridget Maloy, em itis Cat wis ployed as a domestic in the houso No. 143 Chambors | i* presented by thove who, owning a comparatively small street, fell down a flight of #tairs in thiv house, ou Sa | *hare of the property of th r “s li cians ins pat day u turday night, and broke her neck. Coroner Hilton held | {yam oRuinn’ its mont dang tous f iin inquest on the body of the deceasod yesterday, when | {hit tai, nor i. b paki alive te the jury rendered # verdict of th from compression | 5 : { a Fork. prevaure which sti | of the brain, the renult of a fail. pa I a de dd ; Facil es Accipextal Ly Daowrr —Yesterday, Coroner Hilton | or maintenance of the w orphans of thove held an inquest on the body of John P’. Brintnall, who | whobave ini down their Hivor inthe veryiee, The de en the fund {] diturea have rea renting aril fitting « Relng fior for the b are peculiarly heavy, The $19,000, and the expense hondemy of Music wit » thouwand wary fron oa the trensu was aveidentally drowned on Thursday night, by falliag | overhoard from the gang plank of the steamship Har- monn,” lying at the Novelty Works. The deceased, it appeared, the third officer of the steamer, and tho night being very dark, had occasion to go on boar his vessel, when, ace ng bs atep, he fell | assistance could | | | | a \< fy the extraordinary dem into the water and was The preparations for this ball have been mate uw be rende Deceased was « native of Virginia, and j rcole corresponding to the expectations and abcut twenty-two years of age. fertained of it, and © are that the Mbera! mon of eee ihe | New York will’ need « nw when {t comes off to fill the treasury to overflowing ren Sa ge oral Seis tncabecd Gi Nasthiod Chaar we vitae Wittens Oncsnvasen OF Tune KauwatH.—Yesterday the principles | ee tre y 1 Hee a as to the atri t Sabb peeks ce. ae in a the strict Observance of the Sabbath, expressed | om th city rail ae and declared by Mayor Hall, were vigorously ad rele nevetthelens susceptible of my Throughout the elty (iaclel-"| ously carried out | hundred dollars per annu ing the Twelfth ward—a portion of the old Sixth, | . ; | ear, of course the companies gin groggeries, few of which can boast the ovement should be would p aba ovsible on th xpective routes, and remblance of @ tavern) the law was atrietly observed: | {} os inconvenienced by No subterfuges were, as far as we could learn, resorted | and le ween the tripe, No rip t . dines | and to give commodation than ts offer 0, ond ota er en nee Neenes dee cily railrouds at prevent, wo would recowmond that a frock ments to the traveller, and these were entirely con- | ta; of one humired and fiity dollars each be levied upon fined to the lower part of the city, and had their bars | the first five cars put upon each road, one hundred dol closed. The directions iaaned to the police, to ascertain | Mra ench on the next five, seventy-five collars on ea and report the names of all persons seon eu coy | of the next five additional, Ofty dollars on the var’ poy ¢ between fifteen and twenty, twonty Ove dollars o lishing perfect order and a due observances of the | with a proportionate rednetion beth. The Mquor trade was not the only one attacket. Tae Saute sor on Fine.— The esty wae fall of ro There was jeneral, Mf not total nepension of all | on urday afternoon, to the eifect that the United tions. Even th ual troops of boys | « " caidas ad to suspend thelr vocations, tates mail steamalip Baltic was on fire, A gentleman or remai de of Jordan, The soup house | celled at the office of the Chief of Poli aad stated that wae eee and e portion of the poor wore far- | jntelligence had been received at several of the invar nished with the means of satisfying the'r hunger; but |... nies fect, w epreed with arent it appears that thie was not* generally known, and ee eae ad Be meen Sy betel applicants were limited to those whone energy or craving | TARIEUY nduced them to seek for relief. Willtamabarg News. ! y Mavon Haus Viarring Tun Guouinnm—Cacour iene | found of the tater there, Bevers Act.—Mayor Hall seems determine! to enfores the law | gentlemen attached to the Ni | Dante to the « | ed sorprinin | When they arrived relativ Orders were iasned by Bitn last weok to the closing of drinking house ther nal street, out of Police, directing the policemen to report all plice) | of win’ and ont of humor, und the Battie wale where liquor in sold, and also all places kopt open for tag | snd round. cz a ‘i eke, eS oe ath soe ee reece pape boy Tuy Wrarnnt—Oo1o Agaix.—Yexterday was cold Inding licensed taverna,) with the names of all persons ak, the temiaainae aad Sho keep and are poen to enter them, and whenever any | clarand bright, the very ideal of « winter's day. The violations of the State law, or the civil ordinances in | streets were filled with pedestrians, ane to take this respeet, come under their personal ow | advantage of the pleasnnt weather while laste, acd ¢ offenders. Yestertay, in order to ascortain (0 | xtent liquor places wero kept open, Mayor Hall a by Chiet of Police Folk, visited the e arrest wha accompante Gletret Mame burg), and found them all ¢ Tiel’ hep eee ch desk aed with ove exception. This, the Union Ilotel, in Grant aie, an the Sith strect, kept by Francis Swift, they entere:!, and being the anathe- cnipewn to the proprietor, witne fy prprecations of the pablie to five persona 3: sien) shen mode Dimaslt baows, | 055. cores hut surely, intoeberd, Orem, »! notwith — the piace pan diag me Aeag | combination of earth and lee, it ia to be hoped the cold | asked, ae Pre melee waa fofores Saran o, a4 it is preferable to mild weather, with ori 0 drumken ccompaniments of muddied ethos and in the nizeets thing new ‘itil itis Work vor Tim Usewrioy+0 It is onderstoo! that nat 10 A Bruny Cowrescwon—One of the ene | the Common Councll will make application to the Legis, |. Ut reots in the Third, Fifth ead | latore for the passage Of se act for the constructive Of | 4). 124 wantene Mr. Wilhame—met with s severe ce- | the proposed canal from the Wallabout to Newtorn | on Wedneniny night of lart week, It spyeare he | cok, to go Into operation Immediately, fy eo doing, | dob neste lived 4 . (hovcande of men cam obtain employment, at fair | ¥*Mt 104 val Ta Bs any whine creestag tas | waxes, who ate sow vubelating upon charity The pro. | Yarsch strat, mer ser guite dark he slipped sad’ tea | Fre coe oe ee Te eat ce etials ak | tows om wafeneed aren, and iojured Muneeit deveafatly, | , an of ouiiehent depth to font an a 7 He out bis head dangerously, end broke both bix wriets, | Pine Wanorws —The Board of Officers of th o De ro that bis bends beng lose, being attached to (he arma | vent of the Bastern district have non ted for only by the skin. Help was soon readered, and be 00 } conveyed to bie reeldenee, ‘This is mach to be ot to approval by the Common Covnell. regretted, a» Mz, Williams has manifested consiberale \ rove Howes soup house was opered on Priday, wal in the performance of bie duties lately, Lavi week | Prteenth & ie Mr Bo yder's brewery, io Meow be removed over a thousand loads of ashes, gariags and reet. It was orig. nated and conducted by Captain | dirt from the in the Third and Vifts wards us, the funds being raised by volumtary contri A Wowsn Sevenny Berrmn.—A woman oamessarah Haley, wae admitted to the New Yore Hoxpital yoater Sriog ion ioe received by falling ons ented ateve, at ber revidenee, 67 Oreenw ch street. Her vries are Gf a mort dangerous character, and she 4 Fire. i.) Wardens Wm. V, Hanvom and Cornelius Wogtou, but Arn errep Rart-—A youtg man, named Meary Hae woe arrested O@ Hetorday by Officer Croben, on & war raot, charging bom with assault with intent to coment = | rape cn the pereon of Auguste Carillo. Committe! fur now lying in « most critics! copdition exounation, | Pian meno ome Raven —Joke Cantwell fell off the Gok in North the river et the foot of Corlenre street, om Beturday riday night aot ‘urscon =i wes s000 Called, and be eae reseed ‘The burglars left be | by two policemen, and conveyed to the station heures, | tore veaced thea ber! | bites mai ws | United Stat | will take place thin day, a | wey Oty terry cattle’ PRICE TWO CENTS. | No ws from the Cape AUATVAL OF THR SLOOP OF WAR PLYMgua EAT VOLK. ‘The stoop of war Plymouth arrived at Hanzpta \ Road on the 10th of Jaavary, forty-three diyw trum the Caper of Good Hope, on her return from thp Bast ladiea, The following it a list of her officers, who are alt well. — +, George B, Leadetty, Comman ler, John Kelly; Lieutem John Guert, Houry N, 7. Arnohi, Peter Wager Pusrer, Fdward C, Doran, Surgeon, Chas. H. Wheelw Acting Master, David Ochiltree; Assistant Surgeon, p--") Ti. Otis; Passed Midshipman, Millon Haxton ; Midshipmemys. James W. Shirk, Geo. F, Morrison, Lester A. Beardalee, Kdward ©, Stockton; captain's clerk, Joseph FP. Norris, boatewain, Williom Swith: carpenter, Charles W. Hab: er, George D. Binckford; acting gunnery lytoan Page: We have received the Cape Town papers of the 27thet Novumber, ‘The Cape Town Mail of the 26th of Neweune ber copies the (ollewing from the Grabaim’s Town Jour= information fi pateibe ohn than (hat previously received. rumors of iinpending war are gradually dyiog out, it heems pretty clear, whatever might ha been Oe intentions of the Kaiirs, that no movement of character will be for the presentmade, From Fort Bean- fort wo learn that « Fingo Chief in that vicinity has ad~ mitted being present at Umbala’s beer crinking carousal, Sud tat the main topic of conversation there was war W th the colony, ‘This may nerve as broad hint to the ‘ keep awake, and a salutary caution nut te ne of defence which are within thelr in which slone wall be found their future safe~ the de‘ence of the frontier to the natives, to rert in a state of unpreparedness, and * altendact horrors, is inevitable, Sue he part of the colonwats is a great Incentive » by the @atives. All are trained to arma r infancy, and are taught to view succossfab freebooting as the highest honor. Itia our business te teach them a better belief than this, not by the incules- tion of a mere maxim, but by am exhibition of power to resist eflectually and to punith promptly their evil de- and be conten war, with all The Cape Town Mail of the 204 of November ways:me The United States #hip Plymouth, whtcl it will be me t the Cape some the United States aye ‘The and exp wisieh thoy bave al y oat nent pitatle colony hip Vis moat ‘ehle Bay, Nov. 21. On Tuesday last, cae of the’ crew belongin, itp Hymouth, in attempting t 1 sluit near the Central wharf, ly fractured one of bin lege. le ah br in thar rap over not clearing it, un- lmediote aamiae andy having bean conve he was at cer connected with the versel. Martine Affairs, The launching of the ship Rilwood Walter < o'Mock P.M. at Thomas Stack’s ship yard, foot North Second street, Willlame- burg, being postpooed on Haturday on aceount of the denee fog. The Ellwood Walter is one of the Gent ships over bullt in this city or vieluity, She iw 2,260 toos, intended for the Liverpool trade, Owned by ihe s . Sardy and others of this elty Tux Loes or ve Wusionme Crrv.e-The following ae count, from Capt. Gitlord, of the whaleship City, of New Dedford, ean: rt of the lone of bis vee. rel, in Sagbaliag Bay, ton miles north of Cape Gola. vateh, together with her cargo of 800 barrels of sperm oil ond 970 barrels of whale ofl, The captain and crew left the ship ta three boats. The mate and six seamem were unfortunately Crowned io eadeavoring to reach the shore on a raft made from the abr 1 Chilian beetle Lavyon.- | Revello, (before mentionsd,) against which thelr boat had been dashed im endeavoring to board her 4 the remainder of the erew suc shore on the wert side of Saghal boats several hours. ‘The diva of Sept. Capt Gifford writes — Up to th ening of the Tth) the natives had roomed to Cigike our company, oud had stolen wewrly af the little that bad been saved by my crew, whea we brought the inen from the raft they eame out in thet true colors, driving every one frum their house, and ex- pretsing particular dislike to shelter the almost dy’ men, the rain at the thine pouring down intone Fortunately, some of my crew hat saved three bienkets, with which we made a rude tent, and with « fire sue din saving their lives although two of them were upconscious vatil the vext morning, when we were arly « by the natives, The gale had *e launched one waist ¢ pinee where I had ja ‘The cap. eded in getting 1, aftor being in their e occurred on the Oth eomaie ® nud en) crew had bought with temalued, The Tartary ted Our coats we, of ers to th before they eo and were about one hams when they ep or; we then avd take them ty ‘ore their object we had em» dred yards trom tee be th every mare of kind } shelter aod elything; vio thelr faratiler, wherw power to bee low ehelleve we weie vader bo Obs fever, a# on their part it was only uty; we remained at Petro ber, w embarked on be Amerivan Compeny's brig Ooh to pass the winter, On hoard of her we very par seaped having to slip set of Chiriet ithe Ist of Nursian vb rewly réable an leo shove ina gale. at one time wear hip rly i” the breakers; the gale abe we returned t on the 34, for paw hoa been lett bebind. We foum@ ras n Queen, of Faichaven, Coptales Jab het heart « romer of the pand came in search of ua, and wake public the debt m my offewrs, crow and ly treatment while ach vow ledgmnent for bis ings of gravif aving { the thip Spleud in taking & part of my crow on b Crm Raven f We Clark, Je , On rphy, New Nedfora, » boatetoerer, William Charles Henry, = k. Kemen—James Ho Hathaws New hed « Ephraim Badly, Vermont Oliver Rantall, Vrovt- wit Henry “ay wood, New Haropehire, Kiear® Peter Kebto, unknown, Johm Vatr- Morten La on, Mars., # ward denen Gifford, Weetport, Mart Franiilo, Vlores Manvel Vritas do, Antoine, do., da.s Frank, do. do,; deen, do. do. to Ova, Em ique, de., do, Newre on Chow Ieer-—George N Lewis, Voirhavem, firvt wate John Lagrange, New York, bonteteorwrs Hugh MePiieny, do., sarpenter, William H Clark, New Hedfor’, Mark. evaoman, Asobrose Kayer, New Jersey, dy Harry nats, do. Dan, do., do Your obedient servant, #. Merny Giron, tate master of ship City derecy City News. | AcctomsT 4 Rurenoan theeot.—Oo “atar- day morning & woman shout thirty yeure of age, named Mra. Walters, lowt ber life | y acchtontim the depot of the New York and Pirie od, in Jermey Clty, fhe had Yroorn taken her seat in» train « hh her two childree tw £0 (0 Delaware (Port Je ont as starting t her kewl out of the ear a a querte to Jer baggage, when ing » «husband cteen! Wiring recently el at Port Jere, where 8 the employ of (he Kastrow’ Cum pee 1 Colter held an inqartt upow the body of he Ceqwes om) Ue jery, in thelr ernenrel the remy on renning Uhelr cars so near to the youte of the dey The trein was in the depot building, am & ee lente let room thet tin uneafe. Tun Crcrm—-in the Halen County Crort of Oyer and Te T, Judge Maines, previding, the case! of Jumee Gidignn, triel ous charge of manslenghter, im wtrihing Mr. B, Me th his Get, uring aw alarm of Gre which he died, ‘re - sentenced 1@ falor i Jobe Wanner, propriet the Hodeow Howse, in Jer- wey City, was convicted ow Aeturiny CES of willing Mquor witheut « Boone, aad was foed 6128 john Hh Mae, pyr 1 comviewmd, waa fined $140. The trial of mar’, © exported ty Lake place too dey vow Derserers? Foxn.—The on A watews of the Jereey Oity lope rtenoet Fat helt om Fritey — ime laete The fuller COLO A abot # oe clock on Batarier worn'eg, during Ue prevalence «f the heavy fog, owe of the Jee- Lente, tame into wae ay ber saler, ond did ker 22 wy