The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1855, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 6761. MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1855. AFFAIRS IN THE METROPOL! ‘DEATH OF CHIEF JUSTICE EDWARDS, ‘LECTURES OF SAM HOUSTON AND DR. HULL, INTERESTING PRISON STATISTICS, FIRES—ACCIDENTS—INCIDENTS, oe, de, de. Malian Opera Last Night. DEBUT OF BIGNORA VESTVALI, IN LA FAVORITA, AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC—-YOUNG AMERICA IN A STATR OF BXCITEMENT—THE AUDIENCE AND THE ~~ PERFORMANCE. Last night was the fifth of the Opera season at the Academy of Music, under the Ole Bull regis, As « Ri- goletto’’ did notachievea great success, the management ‘resolved to give that portion of the public which in- Aulges in the tuxury of the lyric drama another opera, ‘by other artists. The ‘Favorita’’ was the opera select- ed, with the principal parts thus distributed :— AOONOA. 0s. s.eeerseeeseressseeees Signore Vestvali, (First appearance here.) sokidcasdeseaierssss Signor Lorin, (First ‘appearance here.) Alfonso... cesses, Signor Badiali (Est appearance with this troupe.) Bulthave: seessSignor Coletti. ‘This programme includes the names of several popu ‘ar artists, but it faileé todraw sufficient number of “persons te Gill half the house. The prima donna of the night made a hit” some two weeks ago as Maffle Or- simi in “ Lucrezia Borgia,” and Young America was ter- ribly fascinated with her, This usefut class of our population csme out in pretty good numbers at the Academy last night, and bebaved iu the usuel manner. The long overcoats, profanely called ‘Shanghae,’? the ammense waistcoats, the tight trowsers, the bouquet for the charming object of the affections—the tittle eye glaow inserted in one optic after the most strenuous efforts, and maintained in its place by the most painful muscular efort—all these were the subjest of admira- tion to their proprietors, and amasemont to the outside barbarians. The attendance of the aristocratic Aabitues of the opera was light. Irving place and Four- teenth street did not present the long array of carriages which usually annoys pedestrians whenever there is Thnything new at the Opera. In fact, the number of pri- vate carriages was very small, and the audience was as mixed and as democratic an aseemblage as we have ever seen at the Italian Opera, Some of the ladies wore opera cloake, diamonds, flowers, brocades, and other in- Alspensables for fullevening dress, but they were few and far bétween. It really seemed that the fashionable people had given up their favorite amusement. Moat of the ladies appeared in bonnets and the ordinary street costume, The delegation from Fifth avenue found themselves in a decided minority, and they seemed very sold in their white opera cloaks, their frigidity, and their reserve. The most striking contradictions in costume were vis- ible on every side, In the dress circle, sitting ia the same row, might be seen @ sturdy democrat, rejoicing in 2 rough freize-like overcoat, and « Broadway dandy, at- tired in the height of the mode; one lady in a twelyo shilling shawl, and another in a cashmere, which cost somebody not less than a cool five hundred; while, to complete the picture, a pol of the foree, appeared ia the background. Really, the Opera, by the appearance of the Academy last night, seems to be growing popular with the people. It was the sort of audience that we would see in any theatre. Cf Donizetti's numerous operas La Favorita is de- servedly esteemed the most original and perfect as a com- position. Taere are less evidences of plagiarism in it than in any of his other worke. It may be less spark- Jing and less captivating ina popular sense than some of his older compositfons, but itis more satisfactory to the mind of a critical judge. The rdle of Leonora {san ar duous one, and requires not only great powers of musica! ion but histrionic talent of a high order. Perhaps no artist combines these two requisites ina greater de gree than Giisi, and the performance of the part <luring her late emgegement here was accordingly one of her greatest successes, The this rdle tor the debut of Signora Vestvali last , struck us, to say the least of it, as an ambi- effort, after such a recent opp rtunity of comperi aon with that great artist, and we own that we felt no little curiosity to judge how tlis lady would acquit her- Self under such unfavorable circumstances. The dit- ficulty of the undertaking was of course enhanced by the fact of the part being, in some degree, unsuited to the qualities of he: voice, which is a fair contralto one, rich in the lower, but defective in the higher notes. In the part in which she had already appeared at the Me- tropolbtan theatre, she had made a most favorable im- pression; butat the same time it must be reeollected ‘that it was within the legitinate range of her powers, and subjected them to no greater effort than they could fairly meet. Jo say that under such circumstances Signora Vest Fernando, feeling and force of expression with which she ren ered this difficult part. In the early part of the even ng she manifested considerable nervousness, which oc casionally imparted aa awkwardness to her tovements, Dut as the apera progressed this feeling wore away, and she became more composed and natural. Her appear nce is very much in her favor, Shois a tall, dacly xpressive eyes and brilliant complexion. welieve, @ Pole by birth, but has very much the style and manner of a French woman. ith the kisg, (Badiali,) in the second act, she ac jvitted herself most creditably, as also in the impreca tion scene and the finale of the piece. She was warmly the curtain to receive the tributes of the audience, Jthough not what we would cal! a brillant success, mora Vestvali’s performance w ould call a suceés d’estime, and will give th n honorable place in the public favor. Of the othor personages of tho piece, with the excep ition of Badiali, there is nat much to besaid. That admi able artict as usual, correct and spirited in his ren ring of his part. f the requirements of the part, The Balthazar of Col Ko. tute ite efleetive force. This deficiency will, howe remedied in the course of a week or two by the * débute of the other artists who are engaged. Coroner's Office. A Fats Rerort or Mocnoen.—Yesterday, Corone jy of Carl Westerman, » German, residing at 23 ton street, who came to his death from congestion 0 brain, brought about by intemperance, The cas t light in the Chief of Police yesterday " i that the name was ten to death by robbers, who rifled his poskets, all o ith the exception of the last fact, waa > the 0. of thy | manly bearing. ashis | was evident. Death bas truly, im this instance, loved s conges- ‘oroner's investigation found to be incorrect. anion made an external examination of the boty sod, found no marks of violence, and Cred inion that the deceased came to his death mn of the brain, caused by the too free use of arden ia. The jury rendered ly. De was thirty-one of ho were playing in Grand street. One of them, name was s much frightened, t He was conveyed Exnee7LeMeNt.—Two young mem, trick Leonard 2d Wm. Sean, clerie for Patrick ooer, corner Calon avenue avd Grand street, were ar eaterday by officer Sherman, of the Fifth district ry ey £6100 from their | on ac! ig abe Committed for examina‘ion. man, inthe neat uniform | bar and the community. Death of Hon. Henry Plervepent Edwards, Justice of the Sypromo Court of the State of New York. ADJOURNMENT OF ALL THE COURTS. Fxn 28.—The sad event that we anticipatet hasoe- curred, and one of the brightest ornaments of the bench has been forever dimmed in the premature death of Henry P. Edwards, which took place at nis residence in this city, on Tuesday evening; young in years but fall of legal honors, The various Courts of the city adjourned in respect tothe memory of the deceased, and we sub- join reports of the proceedings. SUPREME COUKT—ctRcUIT. Hon Judge Roosevelt, presiding. Fen, 28 —At the sitting of the Court th s moraiag, ex- Judge Kent briefly moved that out of respect to the memory of Judge Edwards, whose death occurred las! evening, this Court do now adjourn, Mr. Noyes having seconded the motion, Judge Roosevelt said—The Court has received intelli- gence of the death of Mr. Justice Edwards, at his resi dence in this city, on the eveningof the 27th instant, in the forty-sixth year of his age, The event, although sudden, has, for a few weeks, been not unexpected. Among the youngest, if not actually the youagest, of the Judges of the cistrict, Judge Edwards was the oldest in commission, and consequently, by the arrangement of the constitution, the presiding Judge of the Genera! Term. A few more months, had he lived, would have completed—and most honcrably completed— the first period (eight years in duration) of of his jadictal acrvice, It bas please} the Great Disposer of events—prematurely to mere human eyes—to cut him down in h's youth and in his strength, and (for I cannot doubt, had he lived, bis almost, if not altogether unopposed re-election) in the midst of his usefalrbss. By tho bar and the public his loss will be deeply felt; to his colleagues it will be irreparable. Another opportu nity, and a move fitting one, will soon be presented to well more at length upon his character aud his virtues. For the present the Court will direct the above entry to be mace in ity minutes of the death of Mr. Justice wards, and, as a furthor testimony of respect fo his memory, will now adjourn, SUPREME COURT—SPECIAL TERM, Prevent—Hon, Thomas W Clarke, Justice. Fen, 28,—At the sitting of the Court this morning, Mr. Henry EF. Davis said, that the melancholy intelli- gence announced this morning to the bench, bar and he public of the decease of that eminent Judge and our much esteemed fellow citizen, Henry Perrepoat &d- wards, renders it pesuliarly fitting that proper notice of this great public loss should be taken. In respect to hia memory, | therefore move that this Court stand adjourn- riday morning at 10 o’clock, which moti seconded by 1). Bewley, Exq., and the Court wa! ed accor¢ingly. SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM, Pefore Hon. Judge Slosson, Fer, 28.—At the opening of the Court, Mr. Bidwellan nounced the death of the Hon, Henry I’, Edwards, one of the Justices of the Supremy Court, and asa tribute of respect to his memory moved that this Court do now adjourn, ‘This motion was secondad by Gilbert M. Speir, Esq., and thereupon his Honor, Justice Slosson, reaponied in en eloquent and feeling manner, and ordered the Court to be acjourned, SUPERIOR COURT—TRIAL TERM. Before Hon. Judges Bosworth, Duer and Slosson. Fru, 28,—At the opening of the Court. DD. Field, Faq., announced the death of Judge Edwards, of the Su preme Court, and after a few appropriate remarks upon the charactor of the deceased, moved an adjournment of this Court. ‘The motion was seconded by Albert Mathews, Esq., ina few pertinent remarks eulogistic of the late Judge” The Court (Judge Boswor! Every member of this Court,Waid Le, sympathizes deeply with the loss sustained in this event, by the bench, the There ‘bad been serious grounds to apprebend, for several days, past, that the Un approved of the motion. ent which has now happened would oezur. thin seven or eight weeks Judge Edwards had been engeged im the pertormance of his judi cial duties and inthe enjoyment of robust health. Although yet a young man, being only forty-six at the tim? of his death, be had aftained a, high posi- tion im life, which he maintained with credit to him- self and with honer to the profession and to the puo- lic. He was a man of good talents, of high professional atiainments, and of great courtesy in his intercourse with his brethren of the proteasion and with the beach is was not an occasion in which, upon the spur of the momect, full justice conkd be done the memory of tno deceased, Both from a sense of ity propriety, ail in az- election of vali did not break gown, is already a high degree of but we are warranted in going further and stating chat she surprised every one by the energy, the depth of ‘ormed woman, with small but beautiful features, flee She is, wo In the ductt what the French ir artist 4 we were bappy to find that his oice betrayed no evidences of his recent indispos tion, Signor Lorini wade a very respectable Fernando, rather | [° weak at times, but «till rising occasionally to the level | ral tti wae about one of the best things we have seen him | Altogether, the opera went off very creditably, con- videring thet the troupe is still abort of the numerical rength and quality of artistical talent which is to cou- r, "Dovnell was called upon to hold an inquest upon th» yan at firvt oupposed one of murder, an it appeared in | Mleventh ward police returns made t) | ef the most solemn character. Before him were tried The returns | several for crimes Ne deceased ‘etmore, that he | wed at No. 102 Stanton street, and that he had been Deara cavemp sy Friar —On Monday afternoon so ne ows persons set a large Gogupon a party of boys | est nature, and to the humblest member of the bar, al it he was thrown int to the residence of hia parents, ‘th Third street, where he died on Tuesday night. named | had hoped Boyle, cordance with the dictates of the personal feelings of Court, the motion for adjournment is granted Adjourned. SUPRRIOR COURT. Hefore Chief Justice Oakley Fen, 28.—Mr. H. 8. Dodge briefly moved the aljourn- ment of the Court in consequence of the death of Jade | Edwards, of the Supreme Court | Mr. Charles O'Conor seconded the motion. Hy sald it | would not become me to anticipate, by informal remark at | this time, the well merited eulogy whieh, on the appro- | priate occasion, will be prouounced upen'the virtue an | talents of Judge Edwards, Let it suilice for the present to say, that influenced by emotions of the deepest aym patby with his numerous friends, I second the motion The judicial body of New York, numerous al ae | guished as ftis for learming and ability, has sustainy! a revere loss. The community, whore faithful servant he was, has aufered a lose not easily reparable. In the prime of life, with his well matured vigor of mind and | body, we hada right to expect that a long life of honor and usefulness was before him. But an ingcratable wis- Com las been pleased to set asile these expectations, and call him to another and better world, where, I trast, the rewards of a well spent life awaited him. ‘Though thus early called away, he had filled the measure of destiny which might ‘wall excite emulation. After a highiy honorable career at the bar, at the will of his | fellow- citizens he ascended the bench; he passed, with | great satisfaction to the public and creiit to himself, | from the front stage of judicial promotion, to a seat in | the highest court known to the constitution and laws of | our State, and at the cloee of his term, which was em | ployed in a manner equally useful to the pudlic—without a pause in his onward career, without experiencing for | an instant any re in his earthly fortunes, or any check in bis advance to earthly honor and dist:nction— | he ins been called away. We can but weep over his | honored ashes, and pay the tast tribute to lis honored and honorable ame. Oabley raid he felt the deep loss that the ben r had sustained in the death of Juige E wards, Veibaps no other member could be so mach | missed. TLeevent was so sudden it was an awful warca- ing to us all COMMON PLEAS—SPECIAL TERM. Before Hon Judge Daly. Fen 28,—Judge Daly, of bis own volition, directed an adjournment of the coirt, out of respect to th of the late Judge Edwards, of the Suprem whose virtues as a man, and whose worth | lawyer and a dignitied 2 the profound woll learned Judge, he passed ‘wpplauded throughout, and was several times called before | @ brief but touching and just eulogium, The Court then adjourned, The other branches of the Common Pleas were not in session, and, therefore, no action in the matter could be taken. U, 8 CIRCUIT cOvRT. Before Hon. Judge Betts. Fer. 28.—At the sitting of the Court this morning, Hon. John McKeon, U.S. District Attorney, rove aad said — May it please the Court—I rine to ask this Court to | suepend its proceedings. The press of this morning an nounces that Henry P. E one of the Ja the Supreme Court of the State of New York, di it evening at his residence in this city. Aga this me- ly result the bench and bar have hoped for seve- past The blow hes been struck at | It in | becoming that respect should be paid to the memory of | one who has held # high jadicial position. Judge Edwards was a son of Governor FAwaris, of Connecticut, in which State the deceased was born. Judge E came to this city an early age, aod atudied w. He practised at the bar with each distinguished | success that he was elected by his fellow citizens, about | eight yea ce, one of the Ju of the Saprems | Court of this State. By the organization of the Judi- | clary of the State of New York, he has exesuted the | duties of the Judge, not only of this district, to which he was selected, but during the past year he has holt a | seat on the highest tribunal known to our system, the Court of Appeals. It is not my purpose to apeak of the | deceased in studied phrase. Some more fitting occasion | will be afforded, I trast, todo justice to bis character and servicer. can speak of him as | knew bim, in | language of deep sincerity and truth. He was a ripe scholar, a luminous and learned Jad, As the prosecating officer of t ity for several years, it became my duty to appear before him in cases te , and I Bianded by Judge Edwards in the execation of bi | office the tenderest feeling of mercy with the severest sense of justi | Few men possessed & more commanding and gentle. In every action the accomplished man | shining mark. I therefore move, and I have no doubt it will afford re so to direct, that this | Fh honor & melancholy plea | Court do now adjourn for the | Ex Judge Beebe anid be had j | second the motion of the District Attorney, * #0 with no ordinary feelings of emotion, It was his pri- vilege for many years toxnow Judge Elwards, and ty know him was to esteem bim; he was # man of the kind- | ways gentle and courteour, the bar sad the blic dipary loss, from the ju missed than j By his death, the beach, have sustained no or. 0 | could mee gage ms zy, who cou more udge Eiwatle. He (Judge Beebe) | that a constitation entirely strong would have sustained him under his recent aod eoabled him | enna suas to Sat oe ‘tion which he fillel with so . Bat in the midat of his and his usefalness, he has beea stricken down, old stil live ig the memory of all who kaew ly him, This isa time when sueh & inten could be be spared. Asa nisi priuajudge be bad no superior, His prance: was rapid and alweyw correct. After some ew more remarks on the virtues of the deceased, Judge Beebe seconded the motion to adjourn. Judge Betts considered the motion proper, and the mace by both gentlemen appropriate and He knew Judge Edwards from lis earliest rofessionnl life. It is now nearly tweuty years since he iret came to this city, and im his pri @ atthe bar and his career on the bench he evinced great learning, and maniferted a happy facility im his expositions of the Jaw. He (Judge Betts) was net prepared with any re- marks now, but he understood preparations were being made for & meeting of tho profesmon, whieh afford a more fitting opportunity todo justice to the worth of the lamented Vales: UNITED STATER DI8TRICP COURT. Before Hon. Judge Halt, Fen, 25 On motion, thie court ako adjourne?, i rer pect to ths memory of the lamented Judge Edwards, MAPINE COURT. » Hon, Judge: MeCarthy, Thompeom, and Bird- wall, Pr Fun 28,—At the opening of the court, ex-Judge Phillips rose end announced te-the court, ia eloquent and appro- priate terms, the decease of Judge Edwards, of the Su- preme Court, and moved, ana mark of respeet to the memory of the deceasad, that the court adjourn. Mr. Morrison seconded the motion at longth.. Judge McCarthy responded to the motion briefly, but very happily, and ordered the clerk to enter the mation upon the minutes, and that the court do now adjoura. MEETING OF THE JUMMGIARY AND THE BAR, A meeting of nearly all the State Judges and many members of the bar was hoM, after the adjournment of the courts, in the Supreme Court general term room, to make arrangements for a meeting to do honor te the memory of Judge Kdwards Mr. O’Couor moved that Jadge Mitchell take the chair, which being seconded, all the otuer Judges pi sent were elected vice-preni lente, Mr. Dodge and Mr. Titas were requested toact as #e- cretaries. Ex-Judge Kent moved that a committee of five be ap pointed to make arrangements for a meeting of the bar adopt ‘The Chair nominated Messrs. Kent, Bidwell, 0’Conor, Kirkland and Jos, Hlunt ax such commi'tee. After rome discussion, it was arranged that the moet- ing be held in this room’on Thursday, at Lo'clock, P.M. ‘The funeral, we unterstand, will take place at 4 o'clock, P, M.,’ Thursday. General Houston's Leetare on the Indians. General Sam Houstom delivered his lecture on the Indians last evening, at fe Broad way Tabernacle, before the Baptist Historical Society, ‘The building was not quite full, and could bave easily accommodated five hundred more; but this was perhaps owing to the fact that the subject was not announced in any of the ad- vertisements. Some said that it would be “a kind of a continuation’’ of his lecture on Texas, which was do livered the evening previous at the Academy of Music, while others were of the opinion that it would be some- thing entirely new, and suited to the religious character of the society before which he was to «peak, Nothing definite, however, was knowS in regard to it, and every person of whom we inquired acknowledged themselves | to be Know Nothings, on that matter at leat, There were between fifteen hundred and two thousand persons | present, among whom we observed a considerable aum ber of clergymen, and one colored lady ant gentleman. We arrived precisely at half-past seven, but the dis. tinguished lecturer had not yet made his appearance, Supposing that he had withdrawn his injunction against the reporters, we proceeded to our old place, immediate ly In front of the stage or platform, expecting to find our table there as usual, but the table had been removed, and so we were obliged, as at the Academy of Music om Tuesday evening, to report upon our knees. Fortunate- ly, however, the inconvenience was of short duration, for we soon ascertained that it was the same lecture which he had delivered at Niblo’s Opera House on Mon ay evening, Feb. 19, and « report of which wilt be found | in the Henat of the following day. General Houston entered the Tabernacle at twenty-five minutes to eight precisely, and walked down the central passage to the committee room, where a few gentlemen were assembled to meet him, On asking one of the committee i( there were no accommodations furnished for the members of the prers, he said there were not; that General Houston would not have it—that he was, in fact, quite strenuous upon that point, and that of covrse they complied with hie desizen. Soca after, he camo out of the Comealttes rooa, arm in arm with Mr. David I, Valentiae, Clers of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Baptist | Historica! Society, and ‘took his seat upon the stage Rev. Lr. Cone, of the Broome Street Baptist Church, opened the proceedings with « prayer, after which the President said that he had the pleasure to introduce General Sam, Houston, United States Senator from the State of Texas. (Applause. ) General Hoveron then came forward and delivered the | same lecture which he delivered at Niblo's, before the | New England Young Men’s Ansociation, at half-paut seven o'clock on the ing of the 19th of February, 1855. With the exception of two or three additional anectotes, there was no material difference between them, Oa this eceasion, however, with an economy of ileas and matte: that we have seldom seen surpassed by public lecturers the General contrived to extend hia discourse over an while on the evening of the 19th of February °6, be did not consume more than forty minutes. L evening bo commence! exactly at threo minutes past eight, and finished at sey nutes cast nine presively, consuming one minutes, and veating his first lecture at Opera Flouse, on Montay evening, | February 19, 1 by twenty-seven minutes. The dit ference between that delivered before the Mercantile Library Association, on Tuesday evening, and his lecture last evening, was only three minutes, ‘This, we under stand, ia the last be will deliver before a New York au dienee for some time. Interesting Medicat Lecture. A PEW THEORY OF CURE— MATTER AND ELECTRICITY. Doctor A. Grandison Hull delivered s lecture in the Chapel of the University, Washington square, last even ing, on the “Forces of Nature and their Adoption to the Core of Disease.” In this discourse he advanced the original theory of matter and electricity form'ng the basis of a rew system of medicine, a: lately tested in the hospitals of England and France. At balf past seven o'clock there was a very limite? but selentific audience present, made up principally of members of the medical profession. In a few moments after Dr. Hull came forward and delivered the fol lowing DISCOURSE. In developing the principles of an a the matecial universe, and presenti of an effective aystem for the alleviation of haman su fering, I feel the difficulty of enforcing the (raths of a new and ‘mmutable theory—of combatting thone preju- dices which successive generations have held as incon trovertible truths—which the time-bonored institutions ent dound leas as these aa the b. of ages lave in some measure consecrated, and which nothing but a clearer and more efficient system should it of the presume to distrust. But the progressive #j age demands that the mist, if such ft be, w long surrounded and obscured the theories of medicine, deprived them of the dignity of and placed them in the intricate mazes of an uncertain art, should give place to « certain therapeutical agent that pervades the most minute atoms of animate or inanimate pature—the laws of which are immutable, and the effects of which are so decided in the alleviation or the eure of diseases, a# ia maintaining the plancts in their respective orbits’ while they perform their harmonious and undeviating revola- tions around the gre: tre of light and heat. Philoso phers of all ages have endeavored to discover the gene ral laws which govern the universe. Many theories have been advanced to explain the phenomena of nature Some have maintained different ones at differest pe riods of their lives, but those of the present day believe it to be a profound mystery, No system has ever beea advanced sufficiently comprehensive to account for the varied phenomena of nature, The Doctor then pro posed offering owe capable of explaining in some mea Uave thooe changes. fie said, An active motive power, acting on inert matter? produces every change in nature This principle, under “diferent conditions, ix called by different names, se fire, heat, light, electricity, chemical actioa, attraction of cohesion, capillary attraction, kc Helieving it important that it should be known by one name, indioative of its ure under all conditions he proposed calling it power, or th power it is the only iorce known in the univers All the changes we see are produced by ite operation on matter, it sustarne the #un, gives motion to the planets its law is the entire law nature, controliin: ery change, great and small, amd producing all phe nomena in nature. Vower giving motion to matter ap | parently gives it active principles, though of itsaif it is wholly inert, without force or activivy, and is chaotic and void, was first created. Power gi matter lace, porition, form, weight, resistance, ke. These dif rent efiescts being exhibited have given rise to various names, When there is great excess, producing decompo aition and recomposition, with high atomic tension, ets called fire: an excesa of ‘power, with very little teasion, is called heat, an excers with it tension, traoaferring ticles of matter,"is called light; an excess with bi, Pension, electricity.’ This power, actin ter and cha ‘thelr combination, c action; when acting on atoms of matter holding th Particles together, cohesion is the name g' to it when on atoms of already combined, and others ima fait | state, are brought witbin its influence, so that ite particles are move! and thout decomposition, it ie called capillary attraction, An excess of power act ing om a body for which it hae a strong attraction, and bad n- force of itself is strongly exhivites, i+ De [op mene If acting on & solid with for enough to without producing decomposition im the solid 1 it ee bate og ating o8 transferring thelr ta by it is called | ing this desideratum I know that I rua the risk of being | ' an electrical machii | duced it. the policy to the wormas, | court, which is inert, without fowce, action, attraction or re- pulaion, and ‘independent ©! power, has none of the characteristics we ascribe to {t. Electricity, or power, is active, but, independent of matter, it has none of the PRICE TWO CENTS. Jermey City News, Tuy CTY CoARTION—A Ponue Miarina —Mayor Manneee has calle * public meeting, to be held at the Reformed pattners in the concern, and that he haa a perfect right | to enter the premises, Held to answer an examination CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONKY UNDER FALSE PRE: | characterstica by which it is distinguished. Power, or TENCKS. Puteh Chueh thi ning, t oned seaidy, has 4 repelling’ force tor itself. 4 es 10 | A German lawyer, named Jacob Straus, was arrested | a endments .o the Pevebprdt oh veneer nee It attraction for itself, independent of matter. It haga | }, ol . - Seetal atiection for ital, whak, however, domeete by officer McClusky, of the Lower police court, charged | 44 by the Com 90m Council of the city, aad transmitted entirely on its attraction for niatter. It has a powerful attraction for itself when acting from matter. Ttadheres or attracts matter only from contact. It haw a repel'ing force for matter only when acting from it, The electricity which forms the current of » battery is derived principally from the decomposition of the me tals and fluids forming the battery. When ® piece of aincis placed in water, electric changes take pluce, new currents are formed between the atows of zinc and the atoms of oxygen, which develop the electricity that maintained their former attractions of atoras of zinc to zinc, and the atoms of hydregen to oxygym, and sew combinations are formed, whit do not rejrite 40 mach electricity, ond a portion ix set free, wieh passon with the negative clement to the negative plate of » battery. The voltaic battery bay a compound action of lectrieal forces, arising from three voltaic circtes—two mall Ones, Composed of wtome and particles, theother large, composed of metals and fluids The smalisr ones are in coutast—one with the pouitive, the other with the negative plate. ‘The larger circle includes the omill- cuones, to ngreat extent, and tends to Increase their | action, and, likewise, to remove the electricity ax fast ra it is liberated. "The lweger voltaic circle con- sists of four poles—two metalite, and two fwd. ‘The powor force, or inéomsity, of a battery depend principally oa the polar’ arrauge- ment ‘of the larger ciscle, but the quantity on the action of the rimalier one, Probably all batterie give force to e'vctricity derived frowa other sources thar ‘be decomposition of the ravtal and exciting fluid, The distant action of an electrited body, by whieh its own | cbarge isin no degree lessened, iv distinguished by the , term incuetion, implying that the eleotritied body in Cuces electricity in the unelectritied independent of con- duction, Bet the tact is, that industion is simply eloc- | trical transfer by conduction with the varying effects | produced by the conductors operated om. Tue great | question, on what the positive and negative condisions of matter depencs, bax never received thet attention which its importance demands. I advanced the theory | that the poritive and negative effects arise teow two did. | tinct kinds of eloctricity, viz vitreos and resinous, We with obtaining $15 from Caroline Biel, of No. 670 Grand street, under ipine pretences. The woman alleges that she, be cominf¥nvolved in some difficulty, gave the lawyer the above amount to help her out of it, but instead of to Trenton for .'egislative action. They will ¢vidently facilitate the prom ution which may be brought against liquor well jon of the Carron Loagus. doing wirich, he forsook ber and did not attend to her | These proponed ame Yémonte provide that all proseca- case, The woman alleges that she had to sell a lot ot | tons before the Keco.-der for the recovery of and her clothing and other necessary articles to raise the imponed by city ordinances, mball be in ths evame of the city 4s plaintiff, and any number nes incurred by det adanta cader the same ordi nance may be ineluded | one procems and judgment: also, that the City Clerk stall have the custod: i] books and papers of the Commen Couneil, exce; | otherwire ordered by ordinanes, and copies of the same, certified by him, shall be evideaer ia courts, and the records shall not be removed from the City Clerk's office by subpoena or otherwise, The amendmimts also re. num agreed pen, the accused, on being taken hefore | the maglatrate, was held to bail in the aum of $500 to | amawer. ALLEGED LARCENY. & colored youth, pamed John Biddle, was taken inous- todp yeaterday by officer Latty, of the Tenth ward police, charged, on Use complaint of Margaret Washington, of No, O30 Flivabeth street, with having stolen at various times small sume of inceey,, amounting in the agg to $1 The largest sam taken at any one time amovriting to $25, the magistrate committed the youth | for trial om eharge of peti larceny only, pealro much ef title 0, ax provywe for apportting thres comminrioners to a named in that tit! pasned March 2, 18 + the expeases of improvements wad section 2 of the aupple , hall app.y iAitend, Alo», whi penser thereat City Intetligense. Tx Wins Dexenvk> Taemoniatt.—The Satinonialy presented by the merchants of New York to Captain | Creighton, of the Three Bells; Lieutenant Francis K. Murry, Captains Stauffer, Pendieton, Wotking aud Lows, were on oxhibitten yesterday ad tte Exchange, and were | much admired tor their beauty and appropriatencas The set to be prevented to Captais Pendleton consiata of a salver, two pitchers, and four gob! , aad in valued | Finkaey's Exewrr Law —There was a9 law, previo to 156%, Oxing the thee when a member of Fire the Dopart- ment of Jersey City should be exempt from jury auty or bot liable to duty, for hia service in the Pie Department, although they were military duty. Through the efforts mostly of Alderman A. H. Wallis, at the time, a bint Was jiansed fi ra ne the Jey ears ta nance Piriod of ancky service from tea I baw panned, and the Governor at $1,600. Tho oniver and pitchers bear the following | ¢ Its provisions are as follows — | Every person who, on the Sart of May next, shall imseriptions Fire Departnceel for five so occ zccc. | Mate rorved in the Jersey Sty ar2000000¢'2 0000000 & | years or more, and who shall thereafter Merve ay auch two yours erery person who whall then haya served exe than tiv o Presented by the Merchants and Citizens of New o an York te o CAPTAIN ©. B PENDLETON, o % ° of the 0 after the passage of tits act, ° SHIP L0CY THOMP o Sreman for seven years, shall be ox are indebted to Fran} lin for the bypothenis that the post. | five and uegat've conditions depend on bodies naving | more or less electricity than ina natural state. The re ceived opinion of the present day ix, that there are two | distinct kinds of electricity, which’ decompose and neu tralize each other. | bave discovered that these con ditions do not depend on two kinds of electricity. nor merely on quantity, They arise from the attraction o electricity (or matter, and the repulaiog of itself, when #0 attracted, and they depend not ouly on difference in quantity, but in intensity, and also on difference in po- larity and direction, Having now advanced a new th ry of electricity and matter, and discussed their general principles, | now proceed to the application of thy aa the basis of a new, natural and ellective system | of medicine founded on the laws of nature. In supply: thought visionary, butas I have already practised it successfully in London, both ia the hospitals and in pri- | vate, and ‘am confident of its truth, ax « science, I | now wish to make it public in’ this country. | ‘The prejudices against anything new or ditferent from what we have long been taught to think right, makes my task the more diflicult, as 1 have not only to pro mulgate tye doctrines of my own system, bat to remove tbe errors of others. This canoaly be done by laying before you the truth, that you may judge for yourselves ‘Uhe method which I'am introducing ix new in this coun- | try, and original with myself, It differs from other sys tems principally in being based on the laws of nature, and practically in the direct use of the forces of nature in the cure of disease. Electricity, so remarkable as a | phynical agent, is no leas 60 a¥ a remedial power fo: the cure of diseases generaily, but the want of kno eledge relative to ite laws bas rendered its application for gene rpowes totally uacless. tlectricity being the grea’ power of the material world, of the mineral, an nd vegetable kingdom, it follows, of course, that it is the motive power of the n system. Every movement we make, every step and every thought, burns a given quantity of carbon, All the varied phenomena of life, whether of mini or matter, arises immediatly from these forces, add the changes of the system, such as growth, nutrition, assimilation, thought, memory, and reason, are ‘produced by’ the action of elec tricity on’ inert matter, and they are obedieat only to the laws of rical organization change, laws which imple, but always amount an suflicient act, the ‘latest and ve described the human system Kvery organ is, in the full and complete sense of the word, perfect galvanic batteries they have their solid and fluid parts, their positive and negative plates, their conductors and their poles, and an exciting fluid to keep up the supply of electricity, | and the functions of the organs Frit on their being kept in proper operation. Electricity effecta every | change in the system, whether produced by modicine or otherwise, though it has never yet been recognize). changes produced by medicine necessary to the re ticn of health, are electrical only, and can be br about without any of the iajurious effects which atten! the use of drugs. Every «ymptom of disease ia based on or preceeded by an electrical change, ania | Fnowledge of the lawson which it depends ts eaweniial | to the diagnosia and treatment. With the dissovery of | thene laws, including the great principles which govern them, I have invented the means of ecesatully in the cure of inflammations They form the ba af aystom, and the power of medicine may be increased, decreased, or entirely controlled. indeed the power toe changes in the system is surprising and far beyond what could be expected. Medicine in never | powerful in proportion to itn stre , but to the elec trie condition of the nerves or organa on which it asta A knowledge of these lawg teachos the physician to con fine himself to realities and facts, and to employ rem dies, not tradition hax taught him that they are good in thin or that disease, but because he knows what changes they will producs; he can form a correct noris of the ses, knows what electrical condi tions to ertablish, and with what medicines to effect nt physiclog em, (which can often be brought about without ¢ aid of any apparatus,) and thus he is enabled | to prescribe with the certainty of scientific t ‘This system of el medicine shows its nary power in the moat revere forms of disease, all cases in which it has been tried has proved its supe riority to the ordinary systems. As long as the laws | which govern the material world are disregarded, so long | will medicine be enveloped in doubt and uncertainty, J every case will involve a system of experiments, ia which doctors will disagree; bat when based on these | it will become a science of certainty, and all the enon of disease will be investigated in accor with them. In all nervous diseases the electrical | Librium is destr but ineesily controlled by in. | tion than the existing ‘ The jum tremens, and the | treatment Cepends entirely on restoring the electrical condition; therefore, to understand the state that shows that condition in of great importa ty its superiority bas been satiafa y the part affected reached and brought und 4 and round and tranquil sleep pro’nced, which Is geme- | rally s0 difficult to ovtaln without injuring the brain or nervous systent. Paralysis of the brain, spinal cord amd nerves, are cured with certainty, if there if no great organic change. Con | n children cannot be properiy treated without knowing the electrical conditions of the brain and organs. The seeretions of the akin, liver and kidneys | are easily controlled and readily restored to a healthy | state. | bave dissolved stone im the bladder, and, what is more important, changed the diatvesia which re power to dissolve tubercles and heal ui- | cerations gives it precedence over all other methods in sore throst, bronchitis and lung alfeclions. For the ey? and ear I have treated patients innumerable, (many of the highest rank,) and bave generally bee ful It is the electrical changes and their effect: which produce the dilferense between heal All kinds of ulcers, including cancer, have b and the virus removed from the system, by awmie te composition. It arrests gangrene and eryripelss by re storing the vitality.SCases of hernia have been y adhenive inflammation. Violent paipitat: oo of the heart are readily © fort conte ceases rendered muc n by any other m: do net understand me invented & single machine, gious 4 oy ageable ¥inally have same electrization would be beneficial 4. ‘That would be much like waing one tremely for in all cases all diseases. principles of electriet rious eletric conditia ried, different and of electrica and physl to the care of all classes of (ixease, | should be glad to have an opportunity of testing the merits of my «ye tem with any of the other moles now in use in tue city, for alleviating or eradicating disease | should to do it on fatr and honorable groants, with quisition of professional truth for our objert aot But what! say is, that 2 knowledge of the recegnive the va a the Doctor wan Metened to { attentin thicughout with marke Police Intelligence. CHARORD WITH SELLING LOTTERY POLICIES. Yesterday offcer Bigler, of the Firet ward polio ds man named Wiliam Henry Marshall, t keeper of a small lottery poiley office, at No. 08 street, charged with baving cold one of the ticket woman named Sally Plate. The officer, \t seems caters! the plece of the prisoner and watched him while he sold The prisoner brought be ar eget meas to anewer thy - ALLEGED BURGLARY. Vesterdey officer Ross, of the Becond district petiee arrested & person named Hamurl Hmitb, stands charged, om the complaint of Charles M. K. Maul vow, of Mighty fourth street and Ninth avenue, with having burglariously eptered the store of the latter, comm ylaiat situated at No O82 Kighth avepae, and etasling there from the sceount books of the concern, valued by the complainant st $600. The acenses, it is en ered the premises by means of s false key, which \t \s allege! wae econ in his possession previous to the ber On being taken before Jastice Pearcy, at the Jef | a number of interrogatories to the various f | there was no inturence | ber yard of Nash & White, « | The fire was ca | brenking out (na brick empt from serving om a juror ia muy courta of the State, from al! militia duty, except im case of war, tavneiog or Insurrection, Horridle Discovery—Ten Persons Pertahed on the Pratrivs, (From the CMeago Press Fab. 24.) afayotte, lad, it, oa ow Ay a testimonial of their appreciat’an of his hoo arane and gallant efforts in assiatine the passengers and crew cf the STRAMAIU SAN BiaNCEICo, DecKmura 24, 1859 ° ° ° eeogerec0cse Ag 0CeCS0S09909000900% | Another set, similar imevery respect, is to bop resented | < to Li | We are furnished by o gentlemen from ‘The other te with umor current ia that eity four gobleta t | Thur U the mind with horror, in view gold medal to ¢ the sufferings of the party to whom it refers medal each to ( On the Siturday preceding the memorable storm of the wixty three silver and sight gold medals for puch of the | 2let of January, two familie, oumbering ten persome, crews en bourd of their snips ax were deserving of | moving from Bouthern Indiana to Noethera Illinolay « praite, tave already been described at length tn the | rived at Oxford, the county seat of Benton county, Ind. Lena ‘The exquisite beeaty of the workmanship om sbeulforty miles northwest of Lafayette, with two ox all these testimonials was much admired, ant the: mn, and well provided with n varies for the road, prove that American mechanics are equal to'the Englieh | They remained there through the storm, aad on Monday | in the wolidity of their work, and tothe French in finish | morning resemed their journey. Last Tuesday morning and design, A man pansiog over a prairie, only about five miles frou | Oxford, « Don A A q a f Coxvrmumnts To Crry Prisons—Inteaeting Staririos Daford, came upon a right which Alled kim with horror . ‘The carcases of two oxen, from which the viscera had —Some time since, the fenate Committee having ia peen removed, lay upon the ground. Imaide of on of | charge the Dill for the suppressi@n of intemperance sent — them were the frozen bocies of four chiliren, aud ia the other the froten corpse of the fantat her breast. Under the snow in wh blic inati tutions throughout the State, asking for information as to the pauperirm and crime caused directly or Indirectly by the use of intoxicating drinks. A copy of the quos tions was transmitted to the Governors of the Alin house, and the following table of commitments city pricons in the First, Second, and Third districts, during the year 1464, furnishes a comparative table which in to be the answer required. It may be well to state thatall, or nearly all, the commitmeuts to the In ns party had be rything they lad im them, {n the effo Not far from thie pot ‘was found the body of the other woman of the party, portly concealed in a anow drift, ant gear her one. ofthe men. The two other men hat not been found. It ia probable that the party became inextricably im- volved in the snow drifs on the prairie, and lost thete presence of mind. Alter burning up thelr wagoms it would seem that the men had killed twoof the oxen for stitutions under charge of the Governors first past a ehelter din them, and then, ace through the city prisons, and thin is, therefore, ® com: by one womai endeavored to reach th plete statement of the operations of the whole bad left, and procure to rescue thelr © White White BUk BUk ‘The two other oxen hal wandered of. There was noth Male. Fem'e, Male Fem’e, Twal, ing about the perscns to indicate who they Rem. in prison 1453, Reevived during 1884 nothing more ix known about them than was accidentall; toed. po communicated by thetn during their brief atay at Ox Another Snow Storm tn Hltnats, rede HALLHOADS AGAIN th mer ALLWO. GAIN BLOCKED UR. we st eeee [From the Chicago Vress, Feb. 26 | Septet ‘The storm of Thursday proved serious im tte effects Dasatoak upon the railroads. The Michigan Central and Michigam Executed 1 3 Houthern roads were consitered all righ 1 Sent to Blackwell's Ial'd 2,17 2,050 7% edd pom pote ate vovreneny a Sent to State prixoa, 145 w 10 2.0 be srs “ve vagy Sorby coped L P : Rem, in prise riving att lunits, but the passengers were easily 1834 s1 | brought Im by sleigh aud carriages. The (rains oa both coeeeke = roads erri al lest eveulng Total 0,642 | ,, The G cago Union is in the worst aitaa- eat 4 tion. 1 poof the wind was Females Tou their track from t 166 1,802 The ¥ miles al! the cuts 23 Was within wie 11,490 VW ‘and they are alt yet. the y several bundred im were beowght in daring the day by aleighs amd carriages, Three engines were at work Hie A yesterday jeavoring to reach s, but had only peme- ut half the 4 A telog Lenpat d in again badly blocked up jo say when the road wi trated she Could read and wiite Weil educated........ Classically educated Unknown Total comm: It is of course im be opened again, bat can be nent out upom train le 10,150 » Hoek Inland ving 20,601 “Insane, could not speak English or 5 4) anewer Axotien Frost oe Proarect.—It was rumored about the city yestertay that Hyer and Morrissey have to indulge jn that amusing and innocent “rough and tamble Aight, and that the money haw 1 atch from Morris yexterday alternoon «tated ain from the West wae making good progress, roabilition were thet by to day the road wou! allthe way throogh, though the snow wae drifting #Ull upon the prairies Fiom the Chicago and Missiasipp eard, re enter agreed recreation known for a purse of nothing definite hee of another seria been put in the ba stakeholders, and all nee le, The train due from « Thursday night preparations made for the affray; the fight to com bad not reached here last evening. in the vicinicy of the city. The report is douby The Chieago ant Milwaukie t# all right. The traim 4 which went out false, an Hyer has repeatedly declined a the Jilinols and Wisconsin Thursday taking par vilistic encounters since bis famous “trash” w morning bad not been heard from, The road t« bedly “me blocked up, Three engines went out upon it yeterday MPATUY yuo L4ivot.—The Rev, Mr, Priestley, | ™0tning, but what progress they made is not know oc hate prmed Church draft from the It od Church of Oqua stor of the Fourth A this city, han received a Rose, of the Associate Re‘or Youth Henderson, congregation amounting to over to the Association for Improving th the Poor. M. ‘Tum Quaxken Mason Gneeenat—When the an- nowreement was mate to Hon. Ii Jones, a member of the ty of Frieods, that he was elected Major Gene ral of the Hecond division of the military of Maine, that gentleman mate brief nprech ia the How pre sentat. ng the t. in whieh if He had ever endeavored to regulate his own conduct by the principle that legislation should not go very far in ad- vance of public sentiment and it seemed to him that this election might possibly be « little anesd of that 4, being @ contribul of by sald New York, Condition of nantes! Lxercrere —Judge Jobn W. Kamonde will deliver a lecture before thia society this evenivg, Ot 8 | sentient. He would eubmit this suggertion in all cam- o'clcek, on ‘Central Amerh This is the lecture he | dor. It wae gen retood that he eutertanued prepared for delivery before the Historical Hoclety, but | peculiar views im respect to the policy of ware. If he | wan prevented from doing #0 by eudden indisporition. exponent of the ¥ A the Legislature Free to all cheerfully undertake to serve Yestert wity indicated. With mach plew Fi ix Prevestmeern Srucer y afternoon, be tween dard 5 o'clock, the alarm bell rounded f° the | vision, aod give « Sixth district, caused by a fire breaking out im the pa | fret would be to tent ol] manufactory, belonging to Mr. Mores tmith, «ita | *\ Might sbout face before the militia of © eecou lt Me borders as he thought bert. The ground arms the resond would be Hest your ewords into plough- spears into prominghooks, and leare ated in some sheds erected in Seventeenth etreet, near and be would then dismb “ry mam avenue B. From the burning oll, dense volumes of spies, with an aimonition smoke arose and ata distance it wo The shed of near $2,000, on whic prea’ to’ the Jam tremendous conflagration tirely consumed, involving & | Tue Guaveov Ex Ponstomer Hamnison. There is not, in ature a more troly beaufiful apot wherete 4 ite, t that at North Iend Bat ands of unfeeling vialtere had dessere! re evidence of neglect decay, and see vering the steps whiel about $409, before the fire was en insurance on the lumber enough to cover the to kin one of the o\! bolle to the furnace, and the whole which let the oi! premises were acon inf r Hiegious pillage The door Pies os Busecnen Sreeet.—Shortly 110 o'clock lest | load to the vault wae of ite hingre—torn of as “— night a fire broke out in the boarding house of Mra, | nic partios, to serve as 6 table om told, by some p a1 thelr provisions end drinks, sod efter It bad been thrown down the leaving the entrance to the > the winds and ralas The fence, broken, the chrabbery nda of affection was tras fod opens Dunderdale, No. 15 Carroll place, Mlescker street. The fire was discovered in the attic bedroom, caused by evme ighted coal falling from a etove, which burnt a hole ugh the floor before an alarm was gives. The ia «hows, together with the police of the Vif 4 inguirhed the flames with « waifleied aad wahen of water. The domage will amount w ab to \\ remains. The feen!iy ~ * all im thetr er te bat withoat effect one (hat will eflectonlly prevent lege, the whole #trar s Fount Avewer.—Abeut 10 o'clock last nigtt am wee given in the Firet district, caused by «fre the grownée from vinls’ comething is melons acta of eae wil} tumble down street and Fou trifling ¢amag Philadelphia Correspondence. Rrecerion ov s Desrenatx Neono..The negro | Artie, who was sentenced to death for murteriog We | daughter, w wcuted at fyimey Shelby vnty (hho, tea im Both Rivers | on the Zit ult. He fougtvt desperately with the Potspetewas, Feb. 24, 1865 | otros, on bie to the gallows, ent tore the cont T ' “9 80 " tow conn ylatal ity wheril fi voring to re The Hehuyiuill river, above and below the daw. lo | Simla yatting the or 4 bie goat. tight. Thelee ie thick, but sot suficiently stromg for heim uporm the seatolt, ex skating on he managed vo got hoi verely ope hi *, whin ventet | The Delaware river is barely open The steame from breaking bis neck A 2 No rioleetly for er City, for Che Sieeosineadl aed perpen some time, he was choke! to death, when his boly wae bad to return ‘rom the obstruction offered by ice. The mahip for Richmond also started, bat had to m sane cause Theeity ice boat (Iron), cut her n fine style, taking in tow the thip Ba taken 4o0n ant burnet Wasutxoron's Brera Dar sotem (CW) Manner watee tha im Congrene Haul, a thet ple», on the verpook ball was give lower of Weshiogm. The owner = Otttaary. onl Seip talon ait wlcbrating (he aeelversary of Dean OF AM OF wast legions Virthday in (année ben = many Depe life, om the 11th the | yeore since, such an snnouneement w a he pesicenee of his daaghter, in Dizow 7, | equal tn the ery, ew orm ‘on abe ans Ohio, Davin Taran, Bea. at tne eAvanced age of 117) | come o'er the © of car Creams, yrejediees The deceased wae born Feb. 19, longer me’ years, lees wight days Digetry a a a 1706, 1m Morris county, N. J. At the age of 14 years, his | virtue, patrictirm D “ vey ebow Unemaelr This ss the fret time, + removed to Luadum county, Va, where be con- | where they show themanlss pation we believe to reside till the close of the war of the Revols i tow pied in (emacs Jon, etd in which be served hie opprersed commiry « he ‘temtel fields and battle’s storm. AN OLD SOLDIER DEAD. The Oxauhes, (Wis) Advertiser mentions ‘he lexth at Yort Vise, om the 16th alt. of Major Joa If * Major Howe wae a oatire of ‘served with notion im the Le toate Factor Orenativen—The