The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1855, Page 4

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For the future, if the pressure continues, we shall be compelled to postpone to the following day the publica- ‘tion of all advertisements which are not delivered before 9PM. By adhering to this rule our getting to press will be much facilitated, and our readers enabled to re- aeive their paper at an earlier hour of the morning. News for the Pacific. ‘Me steamship Stat of the West, Captain Turner, will Yeave this port to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for Panta Arenas. ‘The New York Heratp—California edition—contain- §mg all the latest news by mail and telegraph from all parts of the world, will be published at eleven o’clock ‘te-morrow morning. Agents will please send in their orders 2s early ax possible. The News. ‘The steamship Pacific, due at this port from Li- verpoo!, had not been telegraphed at Sandy Hook at two o'clock this morning. In all probability she was detsined at Liverpool several days over the time assigned for her departure. We give elsewhere the evidence taken yesterday before the Coroner in the Poole tragedy, and an ac- count of the proceedings at a meeting of the friends of the murdered men, held last evening. Baker is still at large, although the police have made the greatest efforts to discover his hiding place. The belief is general that he left the city on the last steamer bound for Aspinwall. The United States steam frigate Susquehanna, ©aptain Franklin Buchanan, arrived at Philadelphia yesterday. We give a list ot her officers anda sketch of her cruise in another colamn. This ves- sel, allowed to be the finest steamer in the eervice, has been absent from the United States three ye and ten months, during which time she has cir eumnavigated the globe, made a long craise in the Chinese seas, and headed the Japan expedition. She has touched at Madeira, Rio Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macoa, Amoy, Manila, Whampos, Shanghae, the Loo Choo islands, three ports in Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco, Acapulco and Valparaiso, stopping at Rio Janeiro on her re tara, from whence to Philadelphia she made the ran in twenty-five daye. Sne is the first side wheel #teamer that has doubled Cape Horn, her predeces- sors preferring the safer route through the Straits of Magellan. Edward P. @owles, Esq., of this city, has been appointed by the Governor Justice of the Supreme Gourt, in place of the late Judge H. Pierrepont Bawards. Mr. Cowles has but recently removed from Hudson to this city, and it has excited no little remark that many of our citizens, in every respect qualified for the post of Justice, have been everlooked by the Governor in making his selection. No business of importance was transacted in either branch of the Legislature yesterday. Both houses adjourned at an early hour to Fridsy next, at 12 o'clock, to visit the institutions under the charge of the Almshouse Governors. On Thurs. d@ay they will set out on their peregrinations through the hoepitals, where smallpox, ship fever, loafers and luna‘ misery and madness abound; and on Wednesday they will banish all these things and many more from their minds by a dinner atthe Astor, with all the trimmings. Presently after this bout is over, look out for an accession of numbers to the doctrines of the Maine i Rochester paper publishes an article showing that nearly ail the pointed passages in Senator Goodwin's Washington’s Birthday oration at Al- bany, were taken from Tom Paine’s eulogy on the life of George Washington, delivered at Newbury. port, Mass., fifty-five years ago. Elsewhere the reader will find an account of an alleged embezzlement of the fands of the Pacific Bank to the amount of $18,000. It is charged that John B. Urmy, ex-bookkeeper, is the party guilty, and that he has decamped for parts unkuown. It is wuppoeed there defaications have continued for a couple of years, the officers in the meantime being wholly ignorant that anything wrong was occurring. What precious queer management these banks ex. hibit! Whose turn next? In snother column will be found a letter contain- img some curious statements in reference to Miss Bankley, the young lady whose escape from the @envent of §\. Joseph’s has led to such an exciting oontroverty in the religious world. Without ex. pressing any opinion sa to the correctness of our oorrespondent’s facta, we may mention that he i, personally known to us, and that he is on terms of friendly intimacy with the lady whose alleged saf- ferings have furnished su:h 4 fertiie theme to the adversaries of Romanism. On Friday night and Saturday morning the wind blew with frightful violence. Already we have re ports of its effects on the shipping on the coast. A large ship, supposed the Oriental, from Liverpool, went on shore at Scituate, Mass., early yesterday forenoon. A boat was swamped in trying to reach the shore, and the crew drowned. In the Chesapeake Bay the storm was unusually severe. ‘The brig Julia Payson was cast ashore at Cape Henry; and the brig Avon, from Norfolk for Mar- seilles, lost her foremast and main topmast. We are not informed what damage, if any, she receiv ed in her buil. 1 and ninety-one persons died in the week ended last night, which makes the total of the official report of the City In- apector less by forty one cases than that of the fore- gotig seven days, Ninety-eight of the number ware Jwen Minety-oue women, one hundred and sixty boys, and one hundred and forty-two girls, Of the aduite, eenvumption took away 55; various fevers, 71; in- femmations of different organs and cavities, 54,and disorders 17. comgesthye Six persons were drowned, ¢hd one committed suicide by hang jog. Sixty Infonte aigd of convulsions, tweu. ty-ome of dropsy of the head, five from teething, and forty-two were stillborn. Two hundred and eighty-nine of the children were under ten years of age, and of this number one hun- dred and tifty-cight had not completed their first year. Sixteen of the adults were between seventy and one hundred years of age. The causes of death may be fally classified thue:—Bones, joints, &c., 1; brain and nerves, 113; heart and blood vessels, 20; lungs, throat, &c., 131; stomach, bowels, and other digestive organs, 75; skin, and eruptive fevers, 34; uncertain seat and general fevers, 58; stillborn and premature bi:th, 45; old age, 8; and from vio- lent causes, 12, The nativity table shows that three hundred and thirty four of the deceased were born in the United States, seventy-seven in Ireland, fifty- three in Germany, eleven in England, and the re. mainder in other foreign ccuntries. In the case of the United States against Bartho- lomew Blanco, a merchant of this city, being a charge of slave traflicking between the West Coast ot Africa and Cuba in the bark Millandon, Commis- miesoner Morton yesterday rendered his decision, discharging the accused from the warrant of arrest. In the Marine Court yosterday Mr. Busteed ap- peared before Judge McCarthy and made a long argument in behalf of Mr. Lee, the reporter of an objectionable paragraph whieh was published in the Daily Times newspaper on the 15th February, and for which Mr, Lee and the proprietors are still in contempt. Cotton sold yesterday to the extent of about 1,000 bales, the market closing steady. Flour continued quite firm for all descriptions, with a fair ameunt of sales, chiefly for local and Eastern consumption, Pennsylvania white wheat sold at $2 25 and $2 39; Canadian do., at $2 424; and Soathern do., at $2 35. Corn was firmer, with less offering. Mixed was at 95c.; Western do., at 97c., from store; and a small lot of Southern yellow, at 98c, Rye sold at $1374 a $140. Pork sold to a fair extent at $14 25 for old mees; new do., at $1475; and new prime, whieh ‘was scarce, at $14 37. Beef hams, Western, sold at $18. Other articles were without material change The New Bounty Land Bill—Amount of Pav” lic Lands—Stupidity and Cupidity of Con- gress. i The new bounty land bill, including a land grant in behalf of every man who ever shoul- dered a gun in any of the white or Indian wars of the United States, since the Revolution, (the soldiers in that war having been previously pro- vided for), will, it is supposed, absorb an aggre- gate of at least two hundred millions of acres, allowing a reasonable margin for forgeries and bogus claims. Now, let us see where we are to come out with this bill. According to the report of the Com- missioner of the General Land Office of the third of June, 1854, the following are the sums of the public lands disposed of and remaining on hand :— Acres. Aggregate of public domain in States and Wetorles.sns cn: 5 1,891,480,320 Sold up to June, 185: .108,197, 356 2EDTITT11148, 916,881 Given away Total, sold and given AWAY......--..seee0e+ 252,114,287 Acres unsold and unappropriated... . ....1,139,336,083 For the sake of round numbers, let us put the amount at eleven hundred millions of acres still on hand, and where’s the alarm? This bounty land bill will still leave nine hundred millions; and even should existing bounties, grants, reservations, sales, pre-emptions, Xc., cover another hundred million acres, we shall still have eight hundred millions of acres re- maining. Where, then, is the alarm? Is not this remnant of eight hundred millions enough sor all the purposes of railroad grants and home- stead bills for fifty years to come ? The wiseacres of Congress have unquestiona- bly been acting under this delusion. But these tremendous figures of ihe Land Office have de- ceived them, from the simple neglect of the Commissioner to deduct his deserts and moun- tains. Let us throw a little light upon the subject :— ‘The amount of public lands undisposed of in all the land States east of the Mis- sissippi, and in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missourl and Iowa, west of said ri Add Minnesota 168,158,818 acres 86,255,601 ** And the amount i8........66.000606 263,414,419 aeves. And here is the bulk of the arable public lands of the United States. The remainder of the eleven hundred millions of acres on the books of the General Land Gflice lie in Kan- eas, Nebraska, and the great plains south stretching to the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, Washington, Utah, New Mexico and California. Now mark what follows—and our estimates are deduced from the official reports of the topographical engineers and from the private accounts of thousands of intelligent travellers, emigrants, voyageurs and trappers, including thore that have perished from cold, heat, thirst and starvation. We say that the bulk of the public lands now remaining lies in the two hundred and fifty- three millions of acres given above, and that settlers, pre-emptions, grants, and the new bounty bill, will absorb the whole of it. What, then, have we left? Kansas and Nebraska? In less than three years all the cultivable lands of those Territories will be appropriated by set- tlers. California? Spanish and Mexican claims and squatter sovereignty have already appro- priated the mass of the arable lands there. In Oregon the actual settlers, under an act of Con- gress, have left but little of the narrow habita- ble Pacific selvage of that Territory. In Wash- ington Territory there may yet be twenty or thirty millions of acres of desirable timber lands. In Utah the Mormons have monopolized all the little green patches, except a few occu- pied by the Indians, but useless to the white man. In New Mexico, excepting the territory of the Gadsden treaty, there are no habitable lands unappropriated, and those of the Gadaden district are good for nothing but a railroad route to the Pacific. In a word, from the great plains west of the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean, between the British boundary in the North, and the Mexican boundary in the South, there are, we dare say, seven or eight hundred millions of acres, in arid plains, rocky and snow covered mountains, and sandy deserts, which, for agricultural purposes, are good for nothing. Between the Columbia river and the Gadsden boundary there is an absolute desert of volcanic moun- tains and sandy wastes, very much like that of the ancient Israelites, Dead Sea and all, em- bracing an area af not less than five hundred millions of acres—horribly scanty of water and vegetation, and mainly without animal life, ex- cept prowling Indians, reptiles and vermin~a hideous and howling wilderness. Yet the Commissioner of the General Land Office in- cludes this tract among the public lands unsold and unappropriated, and Congress pass their bounty land bills and railroad and other grants accordingly. ven or eight hundred millions of acres of waterless plains, sandy deserts and volcanic mountains counted in the aggregate of the public lands! See the late report of the Secretary of War on the recent Pacifle Railroad explorations, and the reports of Fremout, Kearney, Emory, Bart- Jett, Abert, Lieut. Marcy, Col Cooke NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1), 1855. tl LC EY host of others. We suggest to the mem! ers of the next Congress—elected and to be ‘tected— astudy of these facta, and that it. would be wise in legislating upon the public lands to knock off from the eleven hundred millions of acres of the Land Office at least seven hundred millions to the account of rocks, wastes and deserts, Let the treasury no longer be fleeced upon the false pretences of the big figures of the General Land Office. More Sprcuators IN THE LEGISLATURE.— The last dodge of the Wall street speculators is to apply to the Legislature for a special char- ter for a company to be called the “New York and Brooklyn Ice Company,” with a capital of $250,000 and power to increase it to half a mil- ion. On the face of it, the thing is a hum- bug. We have in this State a general act for the incorporation of all companies ot this na- ture; why are not the “New York and Brooklyn Ice” people content with this, and what need s there for a special charter in their case? On what ground can they demand of the Legisla- ture of this State to depart from its settled po- icy in reference to such matters, and to lend a hand to the erection of amonopoly? Moreover, anybody who chooses can collect ice, and sell it without acts of the Legislature or any thing of the kind; what is there in the case of this company so different from that of the other dealers in ice, that they require to be specially incorporated? Look at it in every light, and the only object to be gained by the charter they demand, is the privilege of palming off a worthless stock on the public, and creating a new fancy to be dealt in, and knocked up, and knocked down, and swindled with generally. It the Legislature has it in heart to encourage this sort of thing, by all means let them incor- porate the New York and Brooklyn Ice Com- pany. The ice trade is doing pretty well as it is. On the strength of some experience in Europe and this country, we venture to assert that there is not a city anywhere in which ice is so plentiful or so cheap or so good asin New York. The amount consumed is fabulous. For this summer’s consumption nearly 300,000 tons have been stored, which are distributed as follows :— : Knickerbocker Ice Co., ton! Ulster Ice Co, Rockland Lake, 35,000 Turnbull & Co. 25,000 Hyley, Winch & Go. (new Co.) 25,000 Catskill 1c@ CO... .eeeeeeeee seeeee 14,000 All these concerns manage to exist, to fur- nish pretty good and cheap ice, and to make money, without epecial acts of the Legislature. Why make a distinction between them and others? Tue STEAMER MASSACHUSETTS AND THE FILI- BUSTERS.—The examination of witnesses con- cerning the alleged filibustering equipment of the steamboat Massachusetts is a rather in- teresting affair. Certain warlike looking sad- dies, and harness in boxes, an unusual quantity of coals, quite a number of casks of water and water tanks, blacksmith forge, tent poles, wagons, hand carts, pistol holsters, life boats, &e., were found on board. Such is the testi- mony of Mr. Angelis and Mr. Cook, of the United States Marshal’s office. But it appears that they saw none of George Law’s muskets or secondhand artillery on the boat, and only some twenty-five or thirty pacific looking men. The and a | boat was lying off towards the Jersey shore, as if ready for astartat any moment, All thishasa strange look, but perhaps it was all right. African slavers, sometimes, when overhauled on the high seas, clean up everything so as to make a plausible appearance, and perhaps the filibusters may have learned something from their experience heretofore. There has been a filibustering expedition nearly ready for sea, or else the administration and the Cuban au- thorities and General Quitman have been egre- giously deceived. Curious case, this of the steamboat Massachusetts. What could those handearts have been intended for? They would be useful, as we all know, for baggage transportation in Cuba; but the boat was bound for New Orleans. No muskets discovered. Very curious case. Cor. Benton’s Tuxsnet—Tue HIGHEST IN THE Woxrip —According to the report of the topo- graphical engineers assigned to the survey of Colonel Benton’s great Central Pacific route, an iron road by that route will, for many hun- dred miles, be the loftiest in the world, and it will have a tunnel at a higher elevation than any other tunnel, excavated or projected, on the face of the earth. This tunnel will strike threugh one of the depressions in the backbone of the Western mowntaims, at an alti- tude of 9,540 feet. Moumt Waehimgton, in New Hampshire, is considered a gient—the Allegha- nies are regarded as a grandchain of mountains; but put the Alleghanies on the top of Mount Washington, and the highest of the Egyptian pyramids on the top of these, and Col. Benton’s railroad tunnel will still overtop them all. We think that Old Bullion is right. The Pacific railroad being a moonshine enterprise, he pro- poses to build it above the cloude. From the mouth of Colonel Benton's tunnel we look down with perfect contempt upon the Kinney expe- dition. Mr. Pisece's Verovs.—We remember hearing of a man at Washington, who, in General Jack- son’s time, took to smoking a clay pipe with the constancy of s Dutchman, Asked for the reason, he said “Old Hickory does it; it has made him popular, and why should’ntI try it?” So with Mr. Pierce's vetoes, Old Hickory exercised the power, and why should’nt Young Hickory try it? And he has tried it. He has vetoed the Lunatic Asylum Land bill, the River and Harbor bill, the French Spoliation vill, and the Collins Steamer bill, though he signed the same identical appropriation the very next day. And yet Young Hickory. is not popular. Failing upon his spoils system, upon the Greytown bombardment, upon the Nebraska bill, and upon the Cuba question on hoth sides, he hag also feiled to make anything of bis vetoes. What a lucky man was Capt. John Tyler! Newurrication is Meme They have passed a bill in Michigan substantially repeal- ing the Fugitive Slave law. They are bolder than the Seward men of our Assembly. What is the reason? Are Mr. Seward’s followers at Albany afraid of the Know Nothings? We | know that they hate the South as intensely as the free soilers of Michigan; but still they hold back. Can't the Know Nothings at Albany in- duce the ai to show their hands on the Fagitive Slave law? Suppore they try, and then put the question of obedience to the constitytion and the laws to the people ful dodgers of the Seward coalition | | one favorable to its pas | legis! A Goop Orsxixc ror THe FruusTers.— We have entered upon a nine months’ recess of Congress. From a state of desperation the administration has sunk into indifference and lethargy. Congress have given it neither money, discretion, or advice upon the Cuba question, and Congress are to be absent for nine months. It will be strange, if in the in- terval, we do not hear on some fine morning of a formidable Anglo-Saxon descent upon the Island of Cuba. They know they may never have such another opportunity, What says Marcy? THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Important from Washington. ‘MR. SOULE AND THE PRESIDENT—RUMORED CHANGES IN THE CABINET—-GEORGE M. DALLAS—THE PRE- SIDENT—GENERAL QUITMAN AND CUBA. Wasuincton, March 10, 1855. We have man confessions and @ few explanations re- lative to the late negotiations with Spain and the report of the Ostend, er rather Aix-la-Chapelle, conference. 1 ‘understand that the President has expressed to Mr. Soulé his full concurrence in all the negotiations with Spain, and his manper of conducting them, and also in the pro- positions laid down at Ostend for the acquisition of Cuba. Mr. Soulé appears to be satisfied that the government is right about the Cuban matter, and that all the difficulty and vacillation in the Cabinet have been produced by Marcy, and in part by donble-dealing on $he part of Bu- chanan, It is actually believed by some diplomats here, who are skilled in such matters, that while Buchanan was expressing his concurrence in the report which he signed at Ostend, he was at the same time writing letters expressing entirely different views, to some of his particu- lar agents and friends in this country. Mr.Soulé is very nearly reconciled to the President. It is plain that he concurs with Mr. Soulé; and the only question is, whether he will put himself in direct opposition to Marcy. That a partial‘change in the Cabinet is under conside- ration is one of the chief topica of conversation in the knowing circles here. The day before yeaterday,I think it was, General Cadwallader, of Pennsylvania, dined with the President. General Cadwallader is a very inti- mate friend of the Hon, George M. Dallas, of Pennsylva- nia, and of Jeff. Davis. I understand that, in the event of a change in the Cabinet, the opinion of General Cadwallader is, that George M. Dallas would be just the man for Secretary of State, providing that Marcy received leave to retire, in consequence of the imbroglio in which he has involved the Spanish negotiations. I understand that the Presi- dent concurs in this opinion, as to the ability and fitness of George M. Dallas for the office of Secretary of State; in the event of a change; and that change is to be deter- mined by rapidly coming events. There seems to be no doubt of the fact that Mr. Buchanan will shortly be back in Pennsylvania; and it is probable that Buchanan, Marcy and Mason, with one or two others, will be laid on the shelf together. A very interesting interview took place the other day upon the sidewalk in Pennsylvania avenue, between the President and General Quitman, the chief of the filibus- ters who are going to take Cuba. The President was attended by General Cadwallader, of Pennsylvania, and General Quitman was accompanied by several members of the New York Cuban Junta. A very interesting con- yersation ensued, followed by ® warm invitation from the President to General Quitman that he would pay him a visit previous to his departure for the neutral island of Cuba, where he is going {o get up # revolution. This interview created a terrible explosion in various circles, The President retraced his steps to the White House, and Quitman returned to his hotel with a view to the preparation of the first bulletin for the liberation of Cuba. Latest from the State Capital. RECESS OF THE LEGISLATURE—VISIT TO THE TEN GOVERNORS--THE MILITIA BILL—TBE WEAKNESS OF IT8 OPPONENTS—SENATOR GOODWIN’S WASH- INGTON’S BIRTHDAY ORATION— SENATOR STEBBINS’ TREACHERY—THE POLICE BILL, ETC. Auayy, March 10, 1855. ‘The laborious duties which the members of the Legisla- ture baye voluntarily imposed upon themselves since the commencement of the session, is a full justification or a respite from their labors for afew days, Both houses adjourned early this morning, and will take a re- cess fora week, A majority proceed to New York upon nvitation of the Ten Governors to visit the institutions under their charge. They are to be entertained at the Astor House at the expense of the funds at the disposa of the Governors. Besides the members, a host of out- siders will be on hand, to swell the multitude. We take this early occasion to bespeak for them the freedom of the city, and hope the Mayor or Chief Matsell will see that they are escorted through all the institutions with safety from any molestation by the “fancy” gentry, who are always #0 particularly friendly to credulous country gentlemen. Please let the reporters take espe- cial pains to garnish the speeches in the best possible manner. The epaulettes and yellow plumes are down upon the City Militia bill like a thousand of brick. This morning remonstrances against its passage flowed into the Senate with @ strong current. One from the First brigade, signed by the brigadier, staff, and four or five lieute- nants in the line; one from the Fourth regiment of artil- lery, signed by the colonel and sta‘l, and a dozen officers in the line; four from the Seventh regiment Nationa, Guards; one from the Eleventh regiment, signed by the colonel, staff, and a few of the line officers; and another from the Seventy-sixth regiment, by the colonel and eight or ten line oflicers. Some one hundred names out of some six thousand persons belonging to the First di- vision, does not exhibit a very formidable opposition to the bill. Generals Sandford, Hall and Yates should be active in procuring remonstrances against the vill, if they really desire to defeatit. Yesterday the opponenta had a hearing before the Senate committee, ani advocated the defeat of the bill. They were most triumphantly angwered by Major Cocks and Captain Waterbury of the Anembly. A Rochester paper of the date of Oth instant, (yester- day,) containing a review of Senator Goodwin's oration on the 22d February, was freely circulated through the Senate and House this morning. The review accuses the Senator of extensive plaginrisms, and places extracts from his Albany orstion im juxtaposition with senten:es which, it « isttaken from an eulogy on thelife of Gen. Warhingtot jelivered by Thomas Paine, before the citizens of buryport, on the 2d of January, 1800, ‘The “‘anti-Hindoos’’ are exceedingly jubilant at this ex- sition of what they style the Senator's literary quali- cations, and are in high glee in the expectation of foating him during the remainder of the session with aving clothed himself in borrowed garments, It may ensily be, however, ‘that the compositors, ia their ex. treme haste to get the oration in print, inadvertantly omitted putting in their proper places thore important characters, inverted” commas and apostrophes. An ex- plenation must come, The recreant Know Nothings are being daily exposed. Among those of the House of Assembly who voted for Seward ist pledces staring them in the face, ia a John W, Stebbins, the man to whom was confided the trust of introducing the Maine law in the Legislature. Be is also one of the veritable thirty-seven, whose pames appeared in the HeRatp, as having violated his ledge, and who subsequeatly informed the House that never was a Know Nothing. I have before me, a Ro- chester paper of « Inte date, in which is contained statement made by one of his neighbors thus:—“T have heard him (Stebbins) say, and many others have too, that be hoped his right arm might be palsied if he ever voted for a man opposed to the principles of the Know Nothin y: and that his body might moulder in the guilty of betraying the inter. er he shoul ests of the order, Likewise have I heard him declare that the return of Seward to the national legislature, | would be as disastrous to the American party as the election of Bishop Hughes would be, and that the Know Nothings should strive to their utmost to de- feat him.” And yet this man ix now one of the leading Seward whigs in the Houre, and declared repeatedly in | oo, that he never took the oath of the “ order," w York Police bill still remains in the bands of delegation for consideration, Whether a very report will be made is not very evident, But the enemies of the bill, and Mayor Woot amongst them, may rely, that immediately alter the recess, the Seward Whig majority in the House, will endeavour to take the bill 1 that committee, and place it in the hands of ge—that it will be hastil reperted complete, and run through the House, All tion which the interest of the democratic party desires, will be, after the recess, put under whip and spur his Th Charter Elections in Erte County, Bereavo, Mareb 10, 1855 Fnil returns from every town in Frie county show the election of fourteen Know Nothing Supervisors, fusioniste amd three whigs. six Naval intelligence. THE BAINBRIDGE AND JAMESTOWN, Noxro.k, Mar A Court of Inquiry meets to-morrow to iequire into the damage: ained by the brig Bainbridge in the re- cent storm. ¢ court is to consist of Captain Carpen- t, President; Captains Barron and Manning, and Parser Meron, Judge Advocate Le sloop of war Jamestown is discharging her powder. vey has been held yet, but #he is certainly rotten. | lady, Mre © | Eaufebnry, Joseph Saulebury, and 8 Efffeets of the Recent Gale. A SHIP ASHORE AT SCITUATE—1085 OF LIFE. Bosrox, March 10, 1866. A large ship with mainmast gone, went ashore this morning at 8 o’clock, at Scituate, One boat was swamped in trying to reach the shore, and the crew drowned. It is thought she is the Oriental, from Liverpool. No other particulars, THE GALE IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY—DISASTERS TO BRIGS AVON AND JULIA PAYSON, Nonvoux, March 10, 1855. There was heavy gale yesterday, below Old Point. ‘The brig Avon, from Norfolk for Marseilles, lost her fore- mast and main topmast, leaving her huli almost un- manageable. Had recently been refitted. The brig Julia Payson, with a cargo of timber, for Bath, Me., is ashore at Cape Henry. Ce ions. FIRE AT PORTOHESTER. PortcuxsTer, March 10, 1855, At half past 11o’clock this morning the mansion of George Woodward, in this village, was totally destroyed by fire. The outbuildings, and a portion of the most valuable furniture, was saved. Loss about $3,000, covered by insurance. FIRE IN THE WOODS. Pmapernia, March 10, 1855. A fire is raging in the woods between Millville and Malaga. Several hundred acres are already burned over, and fears are entertained of still further and more serious damage. FIRE IN TROY, * Troy, March 10, 1855. A fire broke out here this morning in the store of J. McKinney, No. 341 River street, silver plater, which was burned down, with the two adjoining stores, occupied by R. L. & G. Drake, druggists, and Bussey & McGee, tinsmiths. The loss has not been ascertained, The Niagara Suspension Bridge. Burrato, March 10, 1855, The Buffalo Express of this morning gives the follow- ing statistics of the railroad suspension bridge at Niaga- ra Falls: Length of span from centre to centre of tow- ers, 822 feet; height of tower above the rock on the American side, 88 feet; ditto on the Canada side, 78 feet; ditto, floor of railway, 60 feet; number of wire ca- bles four; diameter of each cable, 10 inches; number of No. 9 wires in each cable, 3,659; aggregate strength of cables, 12,400 tons; weight of superstructure, 750 tons; ditto, superstructure and maximum loads, 1,250 tons; maximum weight of cable and stay will support 7,300 tons; height of track above the water, 234 feet; height of railroad above wagon track, 60 feet, Postponement of Fyler’s Sentence, Syracuse, March 10, 1855. The sentence of Alfred Fyler for the murder of his wife has been postponed until June next, to test the question whether he is insane or not. Powder Mill Explosion at Wilmington. Witainaton, Del. , March 9, 1855. Three buildings belonging to Garelsche’s powder milla were blown up to-day, at half past two o'clock, killing two men and fatall y injuring two others, The explosion was terrific, and the shock was felt at the distance of several miles. Another despatch says one man—John Kane—was killed, and three wounded; two not expected to recover. Death of a Noted Boston Belle. Boston, March 10, 1855. Mrs, Frederick Sears, formerly a Miss Shaw, died to- day. She was a noted Boston Belle. James Brown, of the firm of Little & Brown, book- sellers, is not expected to li ight out. The Malls. Wasnincton, March 10, 1855. ‘The mail from New York, due here at 6 o’clock this evening, did not arrive until half-past 9. Barone, Mareh 10, 1855. New Orleans papers of Sunday received. No news, The Ohio at Pittsburg. Prrtspura, March 10, 1855. River eight feet and eight inches in the channel, and falling. The weather is clear and mild, State of the Weather. Boston, March 10, 1855. ‘We have had snow to a depth of about an inch last night. Weather to-day cloudy, with a thaw. North- east wind. Portianp, March 10—9 A. A strong northeast wind, with ications of 51 BANGor, March 10, 1866, Eastport, March 10, 1855. It is now snowing hard here, Carats, March 10, 1855, Snowing slightly. Wind northeas Cold and cloudy. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PuiLapenputa, March 10, 1858, Stocks are steady. Reading, 401; ; Morris Canal, 14% ; Long Island Railroad, 16%; Peonsylvania Kailroad, 453¢: Pennsylvania State '5’s, $834. The money market is easy. —_—_—_—————— ‘Tue Excuisn Orena.—We learn that the Pyne and Har- rison English Opera troupe have dissolved, and that we shall probably have no more full peras from them. The principal artists in the troupe intend to give concerts. Balt oF THE DRAMATIC FUND AssociATION.—The direc- tors of the American Dramatic Fund Association cele- brate their anniversary this year by a grand fancy bail, to take place on the 10th of April. A novel and attrac- tive feature in the programme isa series of tableaux vivante, representing celebrated scenes in the plays of Shakspeare, Many eminent artists will appear. Fire at Quarantine, Staten Island. A fire broke out on Friday night, about 10 o'clock, at ‘Tompkinsville, destroying seven buildings. It originated in the grocery and shoe store owned and occupied by John Jobnson, and communicated to the three brick dwelling houses adjoining, also belonging to Mr. Johnson; from thence to the brick front house owned by John Kelly and occupied by Thomas Hinton; a frame building owned by J. Kelly, and occupied by Mrs. Almsteed as a millinery e#tablishment; a frame building used as a porter-house, belonging to Mra. Egaus; a brick house owned by Richard Halliday, and occupied by John Web ber—all of which buil¢ings were entirely destroyed. Most of the goods and furniture taken from the build- ibgs were destroyed or stolen by the many thieves about the place. The Dutch Reformed Church was three times on fire, but was saved by the people of the vilinge. By this fire « large number of perrons are thrust into the street, as most of the buildings bad three and more familier, The fire was exused by the upsetting of a cam phene lamp in Johnson's grocery. ‘The whole amount of property destroyed is valued at $25,060, of which the Johnson property in estimated at $10,000, and ia partly insured, Mr, Berner’s sugar store is insured for $500. The following is a list of the losses:—Mc, J. Johason, boot, shoe and general store, loss $6,500, insured; the adjoining house, also owned by Mr. Johnson, and ocou- pied as a dwelling, basement, eegar store, loss $3,000; partly insured; next building, owned and ozcupied by the family of Mr. John Kelly, totally destroyed, loss $4,000, partly insured; building oscupied by Mr. Olm- stead as a millinery store wad dwelling, loss $3,500, said to be fully insured: building occupied by Moses Fagan a8 a porter house, insured for $2,000, loss $3,000; house owned by Mr. Halliday, and used for a bakery and cake store in the lower part, Mr. Weaver living in the upper part of the house, The total loss is estimated at about s | $40,000. Personal Intelligence. ABKIVALS. ladelphia; H 1, Jones, 4, Buffalo; D Andrews a Cleveland; Samuel Meln- B Williaias, Phila, RES. in tho steamship § I Flentet, Mrs J G Mir Bertrand, Mrs bertr Mr Fabricator, Capt Dugardin, K'Portinan, J betthley, Hi Louts, ¥ Mrs E Bou rs Stocker, For Southampton and Mile Donavani and maid, Mrs L Adame Bertrand, Mr aers J Pergseon Hand. A Copper. € ibert, G Weller, RS trand. ‘or Savannah, in Bong A i usta—John Q Aymar and & Aymar, Wm C Hoffman, Mist B Hoffman, Miss man, Cyrus C Hubbard, Mise J Hab bard, JOE ¢ TA Emmet, Miss AR’ Emmet, Me Mauran, Mite Maurar, Mrs Wells, Miss Robertson, Miss Samer, A F Smith ith and ‘Indy, Calvin’ Durand, ton and nurse; © Wilder, AC Wil y James O'Hara, Mrs A Wood, Mrs E White, BF Wood, 1.8 Moresnan,§ Fuleston, Jas Kilpatrick, rvin, MJ MeMullan, R MeMullan, T'S Johnson, CR Rik Mies Lathrop, $1 n Fleishinan, Dr T A Holla a, At JN Barr omas Doyle, For Richmond, int lam, George Sole, J ex, Mrs, Loyce Wm Simpson, Wil Clark, R. Gam White, George P. » children; Jobn’ Lanzoake, Jobn Drake, N. M. Bi . Cumberson, G. H. Town send, Mrs. Frost, A Emery, Miss Moulton, 1, Peter is, Mrs. Morton! pip Southerner—S. D, Addi Major and two children, For Charl A.B. Roi W A re e HW, Joho AMT, 8.'M. Mart M. Nell, 0, Ryan and lady, Mrs. I. Serpe Mist A’ Serpe, Wm Freeman, Master G Sebrass, H. C.'Hourt and Alxeander and son, ¢ 17 in the steerage. Martine Affairs, Tue Srmawemp St, Lotts, Capt. Wotton, sailed at noon réay for Havre, with twenty-four passengers and 470 in epecte = A's) “i VOL, XX” Religious Inte‘aigence, ¢ SERMyyB, Rev. Dr. Sampson, of Washington, D, O., will deliver the nineteenth distours before the Young People’s Christian Assogiation,, vf Calvary Baptist Church, Twen- ty-third street, mear Fifth avenue, this evening, at 734 o'clock. Rev. J. C. Duteher, of Bergen, will deliver the twenty-second discourse before the Young Men’s Asso- ciation of the South Dutch Church, Fitth avenue, oor- ner of Twenty-first street, this evening, at 75¢ o'clock. Regular preaching will agooaig My at 10¢ and 34 o'clock, at the court room, tt’s Hall, 1,142 owivay, between Thirty second and ‘Thirty eine streets, Rev, Wm. McJimsey, minister. OR DINATIONS. ‘ The ordaining services of the Rev. C.C. Norton will take place on Monday evening, March 12, at the Church in Linn rege ree rssaee at and C, - in, |p ay the Rev. Mr. Brant, Ordaining a or by Dr. Tathtop. Sermon, by E. L, Magoos, BB, e to the candidate, by Spencer H. D.D. Hand of fellowship, by Dr. Covi. Charge to the chureh, by Rev. Mr. Hiscox. Mr. Henry M. Mskell, of Boston, was ordained at the Winter street church on the 6th inst. . Haskell is to leave next week for St. Petersburg, Russia, where he hag been invited to take charge of an Evangelical Congrega- tional Church, Rev. Jotham B. Sewall was ordained as pastor of the Desral Church and society in Lynn, Mass., on the 6th. 4 INVITATIONS. The Rey. Professor Jewett, of Amherst received a call to becot stor of the Second gational Society in Concord, N. H. At a meeting of the proprietors of the Rev. F. Dy Huntington’s church, Boston, on the 5th inst., the pas- « tor made an address, and informed the parish that he had made up his mind to accept the invitation to fila situation im the University at Cambrid, Rev. Henry M. Storrs, of Lawrence, Mass., has re- ceived and accepted a call irom the First Con; tional Church in Cincinnati, to become their pastor. He will be installed about the first of April. Rey. R. B. Bull has accepted a call to the Cor tional Church in Sinclairvilley N.Y. prot Rey. Dr. Mesick, of Harrisburg, has been called to Second Dutch Chureh in Karitam’N. J. i) INSTALLATIONS. Rey. N. W. Gaylord, formerly of Columbus, be installed as colleague pastor of the First Society in Boston, on instant, at 7 o’clock, of Chel: Rey. Willard Child, D D., recently of Lowel, Masa., was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Castleton, Vt., Feb. 14. Rey. D. H. Hamilton was installed pastor of the Howe street church, New Haven, on the 2d inst, Rev. Amasa Loring was instailed over the Congrega-' tional church in Eagecomb, Me., on the 20th ult. jogs ak DEBATES oe | THR MIIVERT<é 6 Rt. Rev. Ignatius nolds, Bishop of Charlesto 8.C., died on the 6th tose, YY Sith year of his sae Bishop Reynolds was born near Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 22, 1798. “He came of an old land , Who were- among the early settlers of the then wild country of Keaiueky. ‘The good example of his parents, and expressed wirhes, led the young Ignatius to look to. the church as the true sphere of his early labors. He com- pleted his education at St. Mary’s , Baltimore, where he excelled in most branches of study, especially natural history and mathematics, After ‘his ordina- tion he returned to his native State, where his merita raised him to many offices of honor and trust in the ecclesiastical government of that diocess. He was for ¢ along time Vicar General to Bishop Rector of St. Joseph’s College, near Bardstown, and President of the Nazareth Female Institute of Kentucky. Of these well-known educational establishments he may be con- sidered almost the founder and father, He was conse- crated Bishop of Charleston at Cincinnati, in March, 1844, and entered upon his episcopal duties in the A following. Died, on the morning of the 5th of March, at Nazareth, Pa., in the 37th year of bis age, the Rey, Edward Rond- shaler, Pro‘estor in ithe Theolo logical 1 Serainary of the Mo- Travian church, an ol Moravian: congre- getion in Philadelphia. bi Rey. Dr. Flint, who has been for thirty4our years pas- tor of the East Church (Unitarian) in Salem, “Mass. ig dead. He was nearly seventy-four years of age. ‘The Kosciusko (MMiss.) Sun of the 17th ult. has the fol- dome ee renee hes ret Kosciusko that Dr. Wood- ward, who tormerly preached at this place, was recent stabbed by an aa led member of the Methodist pe at Port Gibson. It is said the Doctor ex} ately after receiving the wound, ihe horrible #ffair are, that the person who murdered Doctor Woodward bad made application to be reinstated into the church, and all th mnbers cons snted except Dr. Wood- ward. The excommunicated member became in: and while the trial was in progress, he rushed upon Dr- Woodward and stabbed bim to the heart, in front of the pulpit of the Methodist church. Rev. F. T. Gray, for many years pastor of the Bulfinch street Church, Boston, died ou ther 4th inst., aged fifty, years. y has, Ohio, will Universalist ‘ednesday evening, the 14th Sermon by Rey, i. 6. Leonard, NEW CHURCHES. A new church, recently erected on President street, near Court, Brooklyn, was occupied by the Dutch Reformed Society for the first time, on Sunday last. The morning sermon was preached by'the pastor, Key, U.C.Smith, | and in the afternoon py Kev. Mr. Van Dyke, and in the evening by Rev. Dr Bethune. This church has beem erected at a cost of $10,000, will comfortably seas | 700 persons. The Sabbath school numbers 200, ! The dedication services of the new Baptist meeting house at Oldtown, Me., took place on the 7th inst. A now Presbyterian church is in progress in Crescent City, California; one has jurt been completed at Grass | Valley, and another is nearly completed at Sonora. A new Presbyterian church was dedteated at Stock- | bridge, Mich., om the 14th ult. Sermon by Rev. W. S Curtis, of Ann Arbor Emanuel church, of the Protestant Episcopal deno-. | mipation, situated on the corner of ‘and Cathedral > | streets, Baltimore, was, on the 8th inst., solemnly dedi- | cated to the worship of Almighty God, in the prevence of an immense congregation, which filled the pews, aisles, und other availeole space. fhree Beshops and pets thirty ministers of that denomination were pre- sent MISCRLLANEROUS. Nev. Dr. Stow, pastor of the Rowe strect Baptist church in Boston, recently stated that the: members of his church and society had contributed to various be- nevolent objects, during the yrar 1854, more than eight thousand dollars, This sum was exclusive of many pri- vate donations. The Congregational and Methodist societies in Malden have offered accommodations to the Baptist society of that place until they cap rebuild thelr church, which was destroyed by the band of an incendiary last Friday night. There being no ball in the village suitable for the accommodation of the Baptist roctety, which is quite large, suck, an act is vorthy of notice, as illnstrat- ing the true spirit of Christian charity. The Baptiet rociety have accepted of the accommodations. The New Jersey Annual Covference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Newark on the 11th of April. Some two bundred ministers of this deaomina- tion will at that time be present. ‘ The Rev. Joshua Soule, senior Bishop of the Methodist. | Episcopal Church, South, bas ‘advised and invited” a | ' meeting of all the bishops of that Chureh to meet at Nashville, Tenw., on the third Monday of April expected to be present, except Pishop Andrey, who will attend the Pacific Conference ai at time, The First Baptixt church in Chicago, which had in- ' vited the Home Mission Society of that denomination to hold their next anniversary there, have withdrawa the invitation. Rev. Joseph G. Binney, D. D., has been elected Pres sicent of the Baptist Columbiaa College, Georgetown, D. C., in place of Rev. Dr. Bacon, resigned. 4 bill has been introduced imto the Michigan Legisla- ture to make Roman Catholic schools and nunneries open and free to. public visitation and inspection as Protestant schools. It is similar to that now before the Masta- chusetts Legislature The sale of pews in the South Park Presbyterian church 1p Newark, (Dr. Wilson's.) took place recently, and showed a prosperous state of things. About fifty seats were sokl, realizing about $20,000, 4 Rey. J. D. Strong has been dismissed from the pas~ torate of the Congrevational church in Westport, Mr. 8. has accepted a call to « chureh in the Island The ministers’ meeting, at Amberst, Mase. lately de- cideld unanimously to disapprove of secret oaths. of Miss Bunxley. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. | T have just read im the Times an article from the pem. of Geo, W. Anderson, copied from the Frederick, Md., | Eraminer, in relation to Miss Bunkley, the escaped aun | from St. Joseph's, As Ihave seen no notice of it in c ' your widely extended jouraal, and feeling a deep inte- rest in anything whieh is calculated to throw light on the doings within those ominous institutions, where Jesuits rule in mysterious uecdisturbed sway, | wish to call your attention to the article. Teaw that anonymous letter in the possession of Mix Punkley a few weeks since, and was informed that an at mpt had been made to entice ber from her house, ence of placing a church choir under her’ he bas been more recently alarmed by a com: n made to her, that a party of Irish Cathol c# intended entering the house st night, andcarryingher =; off; but she thinks they will fear to attempt sucha € thing. The writer of the article referred to, Mr. Anderton, tej « the pastor of a Lutheran church in Creagerstown, and was the gentleman for whom the landlord first vent after key renched hiv houae frem St, Joseph's, Ae ly collected about forty persons, members gregation, to protect her until m Norfolk. And not being sati¢fi he cent notices about to recute the four handred Protestants, should it sary, to protect her from being carried t armis. About a year before this occurr informed me, a nun made her escape from inetitution, end accomplished # di { miles, when #he was overtaken by two sis driver, inwearrisge They made chase after é artabble field, overtook her ax she was climolog thay | fence, pulled be n, and then, each one taking h by an erm, } r tot atrioge, oud varried het, back to the hen she has never been heard of by the outs nor (i) Miss B. ever bear of any erenpe whilst #) n the yaring Miss Bunvley’s stay at the hotel in town a strong effort was made to re-obtain possession o her; and bad not the gentiemep to whom | baye seferroy atftation. + ! rearhre- ’ ‘