The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1855, Page 4

—— NEW YORK HERALD. JANUS GORDON BANNET?,; PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR, OPyICE M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AMD FULTON STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—GuaniaToas Pasasasr Neiausons. BOWERY THEATRE. ng, A ovEs or BLARNEY— Sousvy or Exnonrs—Youno Nas Goon voR Noruine,, BURTON’S THEATRE, Chambers stroet—Comepy or ‘Bunone—Lecerpen ain. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway—Tuz Diany or ‘ounce Wire- Bory Dracoons—Lavy anv Gan Tian. AMERICAN MUSEUM-Afternoon and Evoning—Fuvine Dorowuman. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broadway. BUCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, 639 Brondway—Bvuex- Bar's Evmorian Oren Faours. FaRnAlve BERIRIQUS a HOUSE, 663 Broad- MEPIRE HALL, 596 Brondway—Panonaua ov Bunore 4up SizGR oF Sxpasroro.. New York, Wednesday, April 18, 1855. 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Advertisers will find this of ad- vantage, as brevity in language is ecomomy in adver- tiatag. The News. An adjourned meeting of the friends of Dr. Peck was held last evening. The special committee sent to Washington to lay the case before the President made their report. The committee prepared a let. ter and placed it before the President, in which Dr. Peck’s case was fully set forth, and which summed zp with demanding—Ist. That a special agent should besent to Cuba to secure for Dr. Peck a fair and impartial trig); 2d. That he should be released from prison or provided with com- fertable quarters; and 3d. That he should be in- @Gemnified by the Spanish government for all in- jaries sustained by him in consequence of his arrest. ‘The replies of the President and Secretary Marcy to the representations and demands of the committee, aa rendered by the chairman, are given in our re. port of the proceedings last night. An agent will be despatched tojHavana forthwith, to inquire into the matter—the President and Mr. Marcy take the Mveliest interest in the case—the Cuban government must be crezy—there is a point beyond which for- bearance,” &c., &c., appears to be the sum and sub stance of the President’s reply. We give this morning a number of reports of local matters to which we have no space to refer particu- larly. The trial cf Capt. Ditchett, of the Fourth police district, on a charge of refusing to release a prieoner at the order of Justice Bogart, was com- menced yesterday. The committee of the Board of Aldermen whose special object ssemsgto be the ex- amination ot policemen’s pedigrees, were in session. Chief Matscli was industriously pumped by Alder- man Brggs relative to the place of his nativity, and he pertinaciously persisted in being a New Yorker. 4 number of witnesses were examined as to that Heary Clay faneral cloth, supposed to have been T™aanuiactured into talmas and paletots, or other for- eign fashionea garments, for certain functionaries about the City Hall. The public are awaiting the aeport ot Alderman Briggs on these important sub- Sects with nervous anxiety. The sate of leases of ‘Washington Market cellarson Monday shows that ‘that description of corporation property is rising in value. Anattempt by a party of persons to storm ‘the Senastopol of an intelligence offics keeper in Rivington street is detailed under our police head. ‘The timely arrival of a detachment of policemen eompel'ed the besergers to desist trom their work of vengeance. The Almshouse Governors met yesterday, and passed a resolution instructing their Clerk to in- form the Board weekly of any excess of the ex: penditures over the appropriations. Thisis all very fine. It sounds, however, like an economic dodge— and it is to be hoped that the Clerk will immedi- ately notify the Board that over four thousand dol are were #pent by the Governors on the late legis- lative frolic, when only fifteen hundred were appro- priated. Our Quebec correspondent states that the opinions ‘ef the peopie of Canada with respect to the Militia Dill bave undergone a wonderfai change since the introduction of that measure in the Provincial Par- Hament. The ministorial majority of fifty obtained om the second reading was reduced to ten on the motion for the appropriation to meet the expense of the force proposed to be raised. The Upper Ca- madian yote—allowed to be the real expression of ‘public opinion—stood twenty-five for the appro- Priation to twenty-four against it. The bill, having been pruned of ita obnoxious cienses, is now re- garded as merely establishing an official constabu- Jary for the maintevance of law and order, instead of an expensive and useless standing army, as at first designed. ‘Trinity chapel, a new Episcopal church edifice, Jocated in Twenty-fifth street, between Broadway aad Sixth avenne, was yesterday consecrated to the service of the Lord with all the imposing ceromo- nies of the sect to which it belongs. Provisional Bishop Potter conducted the proceedings, which were witnessed by a throng of epoctators com- posed mainly of ladies; and it may be said with ‘teuth that Selomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Late accounts from Zante, Greece, represent the imhabitanta aa still saffering to the Jast extremity of destitation from the continued failure of the warrant crop. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop has been elected Presi- dent of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A steam boiler belonging to the hosiery tactory of Charles Spencer, at Germantown, Pa., exploded yesterday with terrific force, blowing the outbnild- ing of the establishment to pieces. The engineer, Mr. S. Selsor, was instantly killed, the top of his head being blown completely off, The damage to the building was estimated at about eight thousand dollars. The sales of cotton yesterday teached about 1,200 bales. Prices closed rather tame at previous rates, dealers being disposed to walt for later for- eign news, now nearly due. Flour wae again firmer for State and Southern, with fair salea, while Oana- dian wasunchanged. Corn was higher, and new white and yellow sold os high as $1 10a $110}. A stasillot of Southera white whest was sold at $2 70. Oldmese pork sold at an advance of 12}. & 160. per bol. Lprd wae firm, aod sold at w slight ten to. one. It is deemed impossible by the tem- perance men to get thie law revoked, and if not re" yoked no licenses can be granted there during the gards the infliction of penalties, than the Maine law just enacted in this State. The committee of the Massachusetts Legis'ature appointed to investigate the conduct ot the Visiting Committee at the Roxbury nunnery, made a report yesterday, which was accepted. The Visiting Com- mittee is censured, but the Legislature is recom- mended to take no action in the matter. ‘The Know Nothing Movement—Its Varying Phases and Dublous Three-fourths of the little local elections of the last few months round about the country have been carried, nominally at least, by the Know Nothings. Very likely, too, they will carry the State of Virginia against Mr. Wise by a large majority. Yet, with all their suc- cesses, past and prospective, it is impossible to define accurately the purposes, principles, or prospects of this new political party. What are their principles and purposes as a great national organization? They are as mysterious and inexplicable as the fature des- tinies of the Order. The party themselves, in this respect, are veritable Know Nothings, Look, for instance, at Massachusetts. There they have absolute and undisputed possession of the government; yet there they have favor- ed us recently with some of the most abomina- ble legislative developements of fanaticism, treason and indecency—treason to the consti- tution, and indecent outrages against private rights and public morality. In New York, again, we find a portion of the Know Nothings aiding in Seward’s re-election, and aiding in the passage of the new liquor law of pains and penalties, which is destined to produce a more disastrous revulsion in the business affairs of this community than all our Schuyler frauds and bank and commercial failures of the last ten years. There are already two or three branches of this Know Nothing movement in this State, two or three in Pennsylvania, two or three in Massachusetts, and similar symptoms of division and discord are not wanting in other States, How all these discrepancies are to be harmonized is the inexplicable mystery of which we speak. In the meantime, “Sam,” as he is facetionsly called, appears in most of the petty elections of the day, South as well as North, to hold and wield the balance of power. His last notable achievement has been a great victory in Colum- bia, the State capital of South Carolina, in the most ultra pro-slavery community, perhaps, in the United States. Very curious, this, and embarrassing to all reasonable calculations. Yet these scattering shots will doubtless be continued through the summer and full, East, West, North and South, in favor of the Know Nothings. But how are they to be fused into a homogeneous mass? In the North, they are allied with the ultra anti-slavery sentiment; in the South, they are leagued with the ultra slaveholders. From these clashing materials the Know Nothing or new opposition elements will hold the House of Representatives of the com- ing Congress, and very likely s large majority of the State Legislatures next winter. From these materials, too, they must then begin to arrange their plans for the great campaign of 1856. And who are then to be sacrificed— their anti-slavery confederates of the North, or their conservative slavery allies of the South? Nice question—rather impertinent, perhaps, just now, but suggestive of extremely difficult and dangerous navigation. Consulting these Know Nothing embarrass- ments, it is evidently the policy of the scatter- ed elements of the democratic party to await patiently the final snufflug out of this expiring administration, and to postpone their National Convention till July, August or September, 1856, in order to appropriate to the best ad- vantage the sectional divisions and reconstruc- tions of the various opposition forces, which can hardly be brought sooner into a definite shape. Otherwise, we must depend upon the eventualities of a scrub race=a most miscel- laneoug, exciting and ludicrous scrub race before the people—and a still more exciting and perilous squabble among the factions of the popular branch of Congress upon the three highest candidates. Upon a new departure, a new organization, new men and new measures, the field is still open for the reunion of the scattered democracy. Sebastopol is not yet taken. Revvxston to se Propvcep sy rae Lrqvor Law.—It appears certain that the total des- truction of a branch of business in which forty millions of money are invested cannot be effect- ed without some serious suffering. The amount involved in the Schuyler fraud was not at most, adding the spurious to the real stock, five mil- lions of money ; and the actual loss was not haif that amount. Forty millions are invested in the liquor business in this city and the vicinity; and we shall be within the mark if we say that over one half this sum must be totally lost if the bill be carried out. We measure the con- sequences by the Schuyler business. It is very well to talk about the duty of en- forcing the laws; there can be no question but the laws should be enforced, but we must try if we can, not to cut our throats in the doiog of it. If in the present delicate condition ot trade, twenty or more millions of property be suddenly destroyed, obliterated, reduced to a value of zero~—end this must be the effect of the Prohibitory Liquor Jaw—more mischief will be inflicted than would flow from a score of riots, Nothing, in short, can prevent an extent of disaster compared to which the revulsion of last year was a mere frolic. Al the men who are concerned in the liqnor business are like- wise stockholders in hanks and other financtal enterprises; if their means are taken from them, all must suffer together, and twenty thousand will be a mere trifle to the number of men who will be thrown out of empioyment, and placed on the high road to starvation. The prospect deserves far calmer consideration on the part of the temperance men than thoy seemed prepared to vouchsafe it, Revoru wire 4 Venomance—Puoceess oy | THE LATEST NEWS. Fovrreriem.— Some ten or twelve years ago “a lousy, Godless, Christless set” of scheming va- gabonds, as Governor Wise of Virginia would call them, but reformers, as they called them- selves, started up in this neighborhood and down East. They had just made the grand discovery that Fourier, a visionary French- man, had hit upon the plan of the millennium. This plan, which they immediately proceeded to carry into effect as far as possible, consisted of the grouping of society into phalanxes, or voluntary workhouse Unions, in which every thing was to be held in common—women and children inclusive. In these phalanxes labor was to be clagsified and made “atiractive;” and the social amusements of man ina state of natural innocence were to render these institu- tions as sweet and romantic as the Happy Val- ley of Rasselas. The leaders in this enterprise accordingly applied to all the visionary old grannies and epinsters of both sexes within their reach, and possessed of more money than brains, to give this new and glorious moral revolution a help- ing hand. Money was raised, various fine tracts of land were bought in several of the Northern States, and Fourierite phalanxes were established upon these purchases, and put in operation, including a good many loafers, charmed into the novelty of having labor rendered “attractive,” and of having a whole community of affectionate brothers and sisters all under the sameroof.' But the theory, when reduced to practice, proved a disastrous or lamentable failure in every case. From Brookfield, in Massachusetts, so delightful to the sentimental Miss Bremer, all the way round to the persevering North American phalanx at Red Bank, in New Jersey, one by one these phalanxes exploded, and the happy communities were dispersed. The loafers at these establishments, finding, that as far as they were concerned, even Fourierism could not make labor ,‘ attractive,” and preferring idleness to the drudgery of every day work, and dancing and frolicking to pradence and economy, were soon reduced to the alternative of bankruptcy and starvation. Of course, then, these birds of evil omen were dispersed from their rookeries, and driven to pick up ® subsistence according to the old rule of each man for himself. Some of them found a place of refuge in a Seward newspaper office, here and there; and the motley crew, in various disguises, have thus succeeded in.en- grafting their atrocious doctrines into the poli- tical programme of the Seward coalition. They have given us a striking illustration of this fact in our new Prohibitory Liquor law, involving the destruction of an active capital among us, of from eighty te a hundred millions, and the interests and business—more or less—of two hundred thousand people. This is one of their expedients of moral reform, after their drunken spree at Blackwell’s Island. A batch of others, including the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Jaw, for want of time, have been thrown over to the next session, Such are the measures of reform of what Mr. Wise would call that “lazy, lousy, Godless, Christless’ clique, so characteristically repre- sented by those theorizing Fourierites of the New York Tribune and Times, for the last two or three years, The new liquor law, however, is but the beginning. Give these Fourierite reformers the Legislature for another year, and we shall probably have a law for the repu- iation of State and individual debts, and another establishing free farms and a division of property a!] round, upon the broad principle of equal rights. Progress is the spirit of the age. LireraturE snp Dirtomacy—-CHevaLier Sovrx’s Forracommna Boox.—We understand that Chevalier Soulé, who has now become an historical and literary character, ishard at work upon the history and the mysteries of his late mission to Spain, “and its consequences.” We have every reason to believe, from the facts which have been disclosed on this subject, and from the talents and pluck of this preux-cheva- lier, that this book of his will be the most in- tensely exciting, interesting and romantic that has ever been written upon American diplomacy, at home or abroad. We do not even except the forthcoming work of Che- valier Wikoff on his amateur diplomacy in England and France, under the auspices of Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon. Wikoff will doubtless make a curious volume of his very peculiar diplomacy, including the various matrimonial alliances of his general scheme for perpetttal peace between the great Powers of Europe and the United States; but the book of Soulé will be more profound, more piquant, and more to our present purpose, because it will be a full exposure of the Cuban imbroglio, and of the causes and agencies which have brought it to the present dreadful entangle- ment. We may expect from the Chevalier Soulé, for example, a full exposition of the imbecili- ties and vacillations of Mr. Pierce, and of the treachery and ignorance of Marcy on this Cn- ba question; and of the labor and trouble re- quired to bring Buchanan and Mason up to the Ostend platform. We may also expect a complete inside history of French and British diplomacy in connection with these Madrid duels, including the particu- lars of a projected meeting between the Cheva- er Soulé and Lord Howden, which did not come off. General Concha, now dictator in Cuba, was to have been the second of Howden inthe event of a meeting; but why it did not transpire we shall leave our Chevalier himself to explain. We shall also expect, in this new book, a full account of the Chevalier’s official conversations on Cuba with the Queen Isabella and the Queen Mother Christina, both willing to sell the island for a good sum in hard cash but unable to do anything, from the want of a ministry to back them. The public will also discover from Mr. Soulé’s narrative the real meaning of his stoppage at Calais by Louis Na- poleon, We understand that the Emperor of France was induced to suspect, on that occa- sion, that Soulé was about to enter into nego- tiations with Russia to put Spain upon a foot- ing of dignity and strength, independent of England and France, the like of which she has not held since the time of Charles the Fifth. Upon the whole, we have no doubt that this diplomatic brochure will be a most conclusive and scathing exposure of the blunders, follies, tergiversstions and treachery of the adminiatra- tion, and of the self-conceited ignorance and double-dealings of Marcy, from first to last. With sach a book as this from Chevalier Soulé, and with another from Wikoff on American diplo- macy, we shall only require @ small volume — Chevalier Webb to complete the tri umvi- re BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Passage of the Massachusetts Liquor Bill. Boston, Aprit 17, 1865. ‘The Liquor bill passed the Senate to-day, and now enly awaits the signature of the Gevernor to become a lew. ‘The Nunnery Visitation. REPORT OF THE COMMITIBE OF INVESTIGATION. Bosroy, April 17, 1855. ‘The committee of investigation into the doings of the Roxbury Nunnery Inquisition made a lengthy report to the House to-day, in which they censure the Visiting Gommittee, but recommend no definite action in the matter. The report was accepted- ‘The committee on the specific charges against Joseph Hiss, member of the Visiting Committee at Lowell, have not yet reported. Explosion ef a Steam Boiler, Pumapeurat, April 17, 1855. The steam boiler connected with the cotton mill be- Tonging to ©. Spencer, of Germantown, exploded early this morning, shattering the mill, and destroying the dry and dye houses, and also an adjoining boiler house, 8. Selsor, the engineer, was killed. Fortunately the ex- plosion occurred before working hours. Shooting Affair at Buffalo. Burvrato, April 17, 1865. A returned Californian, by the name of Forbes, shot another man here to-day, named Schaler, on account of Schaler’s intimacy with his wife. Schaler is not con. sidered dangerously injured. Forbes surrendered him- self, confessed the deed, and expressed regret that Schaler was not dead. Forbes had been absent three years. He has been committed fora further examina- nation. Less of the Ship Golden Mirror, Boston, April 17, 1855. ‘The ship Golden Mirror, Maguire, from New York for Toulon, with 6,000 bbls. pork, sprung a leak on the Sth of March, and was abandoned on the 9th with nine feet six inches of water in her. The crew were taken off and carried to Cardenas. The cargo was shipped on French government account. A Prisoner Pardon: Boston, April 17, 1855. Lucian Ayer, of Plaistow, New Ham) }, sent to the State prison on conviction of robbery, was sét at pet’. to-day by the Governor, it shown that conviction was ‘procured by perjury. Lake Navigation. ‘Wargrtown, Tuesday, April 17, 1855, The harbor at Cape Vincent is clear of ice. Markets. New Oxteays, April 16, 1855, Our cotton market was somewhat easier to-day, al- though previous quotations are not altered, The busi- noses was restricted to 2,000 bales. Sugar has advanced 3c. per lb,—fair to fully fair selling at 45(¢. a 4%c. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pazan! ‘The rates for money are unaltered, Stocks are heavy. Reading 4234; Morris Canal 14; Long Island 16; Pena- FUT Feels 4334, interest off; Pennsylvania State iven 8634. TRAVEL To Evrorg,—The steamships for Europe are now crowded with passengers; some to visit the Palais de V Industrie, which is to open next month at Paris; some to make the tour of Europe, and some to visit the Crimea, to witness the grand tragico-melo-dramatic spec- tacle at Sebastopol. Steamers take spectators from Mar- seilles to Balaklava for two hundred and fifty francs each. Three hundred leave to-day in the Baltic—the largest number ever carried across the Atlantic by one steamer. It was expected that Mr. Augustus CosaT Dodge, the recently appointed minister to Spain, would go in the B., but another change has come over the spirit of the Cabinet at Washington, and it will therefore be impossible te get his instructions ready in time, METROPOLITAN THEATRE—MRS. OLARK’S ConcERT.—This affair, which took place last night, was bat thinly at- tended—the weather was not propitious. The prima donna of the night, Mrs. Isidora Clark, is, we believe, a native of this city. She hase high soprano voice, of considerable power, and rather uneven in quality. We cannot say much in praise of the manner in which she uses her great vocal wealth—her intonation is often hurried and indistinct—her style is ungraceful, end her xecution is hardly up to the level of mediocrity. The concert was not brilliant, Miss Camille Urso’s violin folo was the best thing of the night. She played the concluding part of the fantasia from the “ Favorita’” very nicely, and received a deserved encore. Mr. Gris. wold, who sang a ballad, bas a pleasant tenor voice, but it is not powerful enough to fill a large theatre. Tae German Orera.—The final performance of the season was given at Niblo’s last evening, to a fair house. ‘The opera was Bellini’s ‘‘ Romeo and Juliet.” Ten per- formances have been given during this season, which has been pecuniarily successful, Nim1o’s GARDEN—ITALIAN Orrra,—Circulars have been issued by Jacobsohn & Co., to the effect that the season will commence on the 30th instant, with Mme. Lagrange as the prima donna. City Intelligence. IuPRoveD Parent Cak BRAKE.—A number of gentlemen connected with the railroad interest, started yesterday morning from Jersey City in four cars of the New York and Erie Railroad, to testa new car brake, a notice of which has already appeared in our columns, The train ran to Paterson and back, anda number of trials were papi Befeo te en ign pe severely, and secured for it the approbation of the company. this new brake is, that the engineer has full control of or at what speed it may-be running. simply p ast }» & 8] attached to the brakes is brougnt into ion, and train almost immediately . is of courte has a great advantage over tho method of stopping the train by brakemen, who must be warned by the whistle in case of any danger, and after that must run from the part of the car at which they are stationed to the brake wheel. In case of any ob- struction or danger on the road, which of course 1s first seen by the engincer, the time wasted in calling the brakemen and in their runcing to the brakes, is saved— & diference in time, perhaps, equivalent to the loss of hundreos of lives, and of torture and agony to as many more, The fearful Norwich disaster would never have happened had this description of brake been in use. Very {many of the dreadful railroad accidents which have exeited the berror of the community, and entailed serious lons to the railroad companies, might have been avoided by the timely stoppage of the trains. The first Sacy soloomialr Going 40: wreaiag re eo very successful, owing to» e of tht rope. On thet third trial, however, while the train was 4 at the rate of thirty miles an hour, it was stopped in forty- five seconds, the engine being reversed at a distance of 950 teet, on a slightly inchned grade. the fourth trial whh the same , at a still more downward de, it stopped ata distance of 1,150 fest in 58 seconds. it was afterwards tried on an upward grade, at a ees oe Ee aren x, “8 med feet. It is nol posed jue the employment of brakemen; inseen, this operator is not intended for trains that require to be stopped slowly. The jar in the sudden stoppage, by the way, is not so great as would de supposed. Ata recent trial on the Harlem road, the experiment resulted as follows:— iret Trial—Train ronning about 90 miles an hour, engine reversed and the operator a] stopped in 345 feet, Second Trial—Same speed, on down grade of 30 feet, stop- ped in 350 feet, ird Triai—Same speed on down grate, and brakes ap- Plied in the ordinary way, stopped in 1,4N) feet. fourth, Trigl--Same spécd, same grade and same brakes, sto in 1,5°0 feet. ‘Bue invedtion Is well worthy the attention of railroad companies;nor is the public unioterested in a roatter that will insure the safety of life and property. Occunranion or Vanvs.—This evening a long looked for event, among astronomers and other scientific men, will take place—the planet Venus will be hid from view by the moon, About an hour after sunset, Venus may be observed in close contiguity with the mcon, and gradu- ally approrching nearer, will at 83¢ o’clock be entirely obscured. The occultation will last about twenty-five minutes, when Venns, in all her usual brilliancy and beauty, will make her sppearance from behind the moon. The rarity of this phenomenon will no doubt.cause the housetops to be crowded with anxious spectators. Those fond of astronomy as a study, should not miss the pre- sent opportunity of witnessing the occultation of Venas, MARRIAGE OF A City Orvrcral.—C, T, MeClenachan, Esq., Olerk of the Board of Councilmen, was united in wealock, yestercay, in St. Thomas’ Church, Broadway, to Mies Louisa Parsons. ‘The ceremony was performed by the Rey, Doctor Neville, and was witnessed by alarge number of friends, mcluding many members and officials of the Common Conncil, and their ladies. The happy couple leit New York immediately after, on rovte for Washington and a southern tour. Naval Inte! Wilson, recently in command of the frigate Columbia, has been ordered to the command of the sloop of war Cyane, now at Boston, and which is to be immeaiately fitted for sea to join the Home Squadron under Commocere McCauley. Lient, Samue) Edwards and Master Francis G. Clarke have been ordered for duty on the United States brig Dolphin, now st the Gosport navy yard, fitting out for the African station. —$—$}——___ United States District Court. Before Hon. Jadge Ingersoll. Apart 17.—Charles Keller, charged with smuggling jewelry, made no defence, and was found guilty, Son- danced to twenty days iniprisonment, ety 3 or ing one of mars! xformange 0! his duty. Sentence deferred. Y Commander 8. ‘Toe New Steamemr Gmanaps, Geptain 8. P, Griffin, sailed yesterday on her first voyage for New Orleans and Havana, in the mail line. cAumucay Enrerraise.—The bark Emily Banning, Captain Fletcher, which left this port in December, with three of the Nautilus Sub-Marine Company’s machines on board, bound for @ pearl fishing voyage, is now on- gaged in exploring the wreck of the frigate San Pedro, en the coast of Venezuela, This frigate, supposed to have on board some two to three millions of took fire and blew up at the island of Marganta, in 1815. Her stern being blown out, her treasure was scattered within the first area covered by the machine before moving, Other articles, as copper, &c., were brought up atthe same time. The captain, finding it profitable work- ss 3 F; g i Fis ne BEepese tyes i EB F ; ; 3s ty i a! Aity mensone alnsy ia, React, te soeeie and wi Sale of Corporation Leases. ‘WASHINGTON MARKET OBLLARS AND OTHER PRO- PERTY. ‘The yearly lease of the Washington Market cellars and other property, owned by the Corporation, was disposed of at auction on Monday last, at the City Hall. There |° were a large number of persons present, and more com- petition than on any former occasion of the kind, for many years past. Asa natural consequence, the rents at which the property was leased exhibit a large increase on the rates of last year. The terms on which it was dis- posed of, were ten per centon the yearly rent bid for each, and the auctioneer’s fees, payable to the Collector of the city revenue at the time and place of sale—the successful bidder being also required to have an obliga- tion executed by two sureties, approved by the Comp- troller. The lessee in each case gave a bond for double the amount of the annual rent, with one or more sure ties, a by th bry end Comptroller, con- ditioned for the payment of the rent quarter yearly, and the fulfilment, on their part, of the covenants of the Teas The following s the 9 erty and the rates at which it was leased, compa: rent oF gear Cellar: Occupants, 1 1855. $300 $500 A com on of the fc the rents of 18 tion propert; panel dry three stores Ni ry fon. rBiene IdGreenwich avenue, with cellars underneath, sppears to have diminished to a corres) extent. Last year, the rent of these amounted to $1,500, w! this year they will bring only $775. These stores have been rented to Thomas Lawrence, the present occupant. The three story brick house in Willett street. between Rivington and Stanton, which was ieee cone by Hose Company No. 20, has been leased to A. ipa, Jr., for the yearly rent of $215; and the house in Thir- teenth near avenue OC, formerly occupied by En- gine Company No. 18, to J. M. Reed, for $180. The tota amount realized by the sales was $3,095. Arri 17.—Larceny.—Elizabeth McGee was indicted for stealing quantity of clothing, of the value of $100, from Mrs, Anne Lafarge, 17 Broome street. The prisoner admitted her guilt tocomplainant, butas the stolen was laid in the tndtotment” as pelongiog’ to the wife instead of the husband, a special verdict of not , on account of the variance, was found by the jury. Stealing Honey.—Richard H. Thorne, of Wa#hington Market, lost 300ibs. of honey, and subsequently re- covered one can, which he identified as part of the stolen property. ‘That can was purchased by one Thomas Ross om Jobn Stevens, the prisoner at the bar, and this was all the evidence against the lniter towards connect- ing him with the crime. Veraict—not guilty. Burglary.—William Fisher was indicted for burgla- riourly entering the wine cellar, 91 Allen street, of John N. Miller, and stealing therefrom s quantity of rum. Nicholas Miller, son of the complainant, found the risoner in the cellar in the act of pouring rum intoa Gemijoha, but the evidence of the premises being bro- Lo Pd feloniously entered was not clear. Verdict— ne ry. General Reed and lady, from Erie, and the Hon. J, B. ‘Tyson and son, from Philadelphia, are now in the city, oc- cupying rooms iz the St. Nicholas Hotel. Among the arrivals yesterday were:—At the St. Nicholas U, 8. A.; Josoph W. Fabene, ith, Ni. atthe Metropoli- ‘Mexico; Loonos Rosas, do,; F. graz, do.; Juan Padilla, do.: Dr. in, San Francisco; Rev. J. P..B. Wilmor, delphia. 7) rom Charleston, in the steamship Southe mn, Miss M Bethel, hiss EB Lightburn, Miss S Lord, Miss 1. ise J A Emmett, Mrs BH Mine Jones, Mire Dart, ‘Mrs Haberneioht’ and child» Stra Fisher, AL Sands and Indy, J MoBlancy, Indy, Sad two G De Forrest and indy, J Sandsand lady, J Sul- livan and lady, JH Fisher, J Evans, Bl, Hawes, J Friar, J Sprague, K Mason, J B Morris, J 'Mathews, F'W Cook, 3% Chaso, S Robinson, M Ratchen, M Baker, A Gordon, @ W Turner, 'W Bethel, J 8 Walker, B Newkirk, J E Felton, indies children, H M Emanuel, J Marty, J Ward, J J Emmott, J B Wi € Spooner, Mour, W Walsh, CC Fish, J W Gned, Livingston, J D Lamb.’ and 00 i teerage. ‘From Savannah, in the steamship Auguste. —Dr A nam, Robert Foster Dr Honderson, George Ho ‘arti, HS Leverich and lady, Miss J P Leveria rich, P HGrant, John Brightman, Levi N § E Foster, John Whitehead and Indy, Mrs ES. Mist A Kirkland, Mise Julia Green,’ Mey Lathrop, ‘Mist Lathrop, Mrs Stebbins, C_B Churchill, Waliace Beach, S Feuchtwanger, Charles Peterson, J $ Dickinson, James Mauran, Rev 'R Graham, Mrs G'H Barrett, R C Bossins, James Montgome , 8 H Weed, A F Smith and lady, Miss Willeford, Mr Bridges, Mrs Ryan, Miss Williamson, wad 78 in the stecrago. From London, in shin Devonshire—F Roysen, G Griffiths, and Chas Grifiths, London; H Bilis, Wm Seymour, and Wm Weston, England. From ‘Havre. in ship Francis A Palmer—Edmond Menard, France; A McHenry, England. From ‘Carthagons, i sehr F Barritt—H W Donobue. The Board met yesterday at 4P.M. Present—Messrs. Tewnsend (Chairman), Draper, Herrick, Smith, Taylor, Duke, Tieman, West and Henry. After the reading of the m{nutes, a communication was received from the Warden of Bellevue Hospital, complaining of the state of the building; shoulda fire take place it would prove most disastrous to the in- mates. A communication was received from a person who signed himself ‘An American Beggar.’’ He related a most piteous story of his sufferings. A native of Geor- gia, he came to this city and applied for admission into the Custom Heuse, but the politicians in power being soft shella, it was discovered he was too hard a charac- ter to obtain entrance; and, as a consequence, he, his ‘Govely wife” and ‘angel babes’’—to use his own words —are without food, and lack the necessaries of life, This Coleful talo exeited the sympathy of the Board, ani Ebe ened wis rotrred 00 tas Coumnitine 60 Gatboer: oor, and an understanding arrived at to refer the matter to John Cochrane for his favorable consideration. Governor DraPer gave a long report of the result of the lobbying done at Albany by the Governors. It ap- peare they have procured the passage of an act, a copy of which apy ed im Saturday’s HERALD. Drs. J. G, H. Amerman, J. Hitchcock, William Janos and W. Gentry were appointed a8 junior assistants to Bellevue ; and Drs. W. H. Draper, 0. L. Ives, James D, Galt and Wm. Frothingham as senior asaist ants, Governor TuMANy offered a resolution niring into @ Peniten- the proprie of changing the name of tiary soemitay; also as to the desirability of having one large beriane een thet all the patients, instead of tour sma! ings for ig ual as at sent. Governor DUKx seemed to think it was wro1 ee the news papers to be a of the name of Peni- tentiory Hospital. All the inmates were prostitutes, and for any sympathy to be expressed for them, it was all nonsense, The resolution of inquiry, however, was 5 A resolution was passed instructing the clark to in- form the Board we:kly of any excess of the expenditures ‘over the appropriations. NUMERR OF PERSONS UNDER THE ONARGE OF THR TEN ‘ORS, the 14 not Remaining on th of A) Died... 4 = 68 779 161 Thecharge Sent t Penitentiary Sent to prison... Total, jomipson, tome Lord is % PJ nga bie holy temple; let all the earth keep aly This anthem was com by Dr. cence et See ne Hy lin gy ot artistically tr ‘The moraine prayers were then read by the Rev. Dr,, after which the proper the 84th, Whit Fo Cong were chaunted, the audience generally Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O! Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city that is at unity in itself. For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the to testify unto Israel; to give thanks unto the name of there is : net hore is the sont of Judgment, even the seat of the laces, perm brethren ‘and companions’ sakes, I will wish thea becanse of the h f eakete on coved Feil vg jouse of the Lord our God, J wilE The followed the above ant Rev. Dr. Potter ast by other ry. genres “the whole state Christ’s Church Mili- nt.’? After which a voluntary was and which most of four inches, its length of bod, and breadth: nineteen feet, and weighing O00 pounds” Gov. Reeder, of Kansas, is to Pashinsten, te lay the frauds Fovitrates in Tecent election the proper aut 4 A French and wife and five children, file. They must farnish however, of continued widowhood. At Fort des Moines, Iowa, there is a dreadful scarcity ef women. In one house were found bachelors and only one married couple. The editor entreate the ladies to come out there, The Governor of Nebraska has Charles B. Smith Auditor-of the Territory, B. P, Rankin Sreasurer, and James 8, Izard Librarian. On the 4th inst. Mrs. Edward Thomson, of Lottesville, Loudon county, Va., fell dead while sitting in her chair. Her husband’s brother, Nimrod, ran to ber and, before reaching her, fell on the flogr a corpse, Their deaths were not two minutes apart. An affair of honor has just been settled without resort to weapons, between R. A. Pryor, of the Richmond Bn- quirer, and’ James McDonald, of the Lyne! inian. This is the second alfair of the kind Mr. ere RT yh Editors are looking up in- Iand ests ab to the Lats" toaks ban been sevemreane anc .) e st one thous tro hundred. . A bill has been reported in the Legislature of Masta- churetts to erect a now county, from parts of Middlesex: and Worcester, to be called Washington. State in California, Connecticut, WAT, the Union exce: Massachusett , New Hampshire and New Jer- sey contains a county named in honor of the immortal Washington. One young man in the vicinity of Boston shot himself last week, because he could not get a wife, and another because he could not get a divorce. The Albany 4: ‘a the steamboats every —— arrive heavily Tagen with merchandise for that city an the West. steamboat, ster known 2s the landing, is dafly crowded with piles of freight. We learn from the Buffalo papers that the jce extends. in one unbroken mass for more than one hundred miles. up the lake, and unless there should be a decided and prompt improvement of the weather, there is no mise of lake navigation before from the first to the tenth of May. A petition is in circulation in Cincinnati, Sant the Governor of Ohio toeommute the sentence of the torpedo man, who destroyed the lives of Allison his wife, to imprisonment for life. Arrison was sen- tenced to be hang on the 11th of May. ‘What has beeome of Sin ‘Young’s widows, ‘who were to lecture in Boston on ? Hon. Mr. Hiss, who 80 Meg ed desired the acquaint- ance of Sister Joseph in the Roxbury Convent, has de- clared bis intention not to rerign his seat in tae Magsa- chusetts House of Representatives. A train of forty care, containing live stock, was brought into Albany on the 14th inst. on the Centra? my: The train was nearly a quarter of amile iz ngth. In Adair county, Ky., on the 27th of March, the vene- rable John Pendleton, aged 82 years, was married to the amiable Mrs, Mary Adams, sged 72 years, who is entirely mie nr et A ecg aint in enemas of the prospects @ Bugar Cro) cold weather, End the absence of rain, have seriously injured the cane? Dog poisoning in Newark, N. J., is creating consider- able ‘csattounet among the ‘citizens. pe ery and fifty are known to have died already this month, and [oy Be) number is one which lately saved a child from g Tun over on the railroad by a train of cars, and another which had run ‘‘ wid der merchene” for = long time, and whose likeness was cut in stone and Se See of the engine house, Strychning is u! The entire loss resulting from the destruction of the steamer Huntsville, by fire, on the Mississippi, a few days ago, is about $300,000, A man, named John J. Jones, was recently arrested ii Lockland, Ohio, on ® charge’ of murdering « persow named MeCardle, at West Point, Mo., fourteen years ago. The House of Representatives of Wisconsin, b: te of 44 10 27, have restored the death penalty y that State. The Senate have yet to act upon the matter, Wm. P. Denton, Esq., a counsellor at law and membe of the last Legislature’ of Massachusetts, shot himself” through the head with a pistol, at his residence, in Bos ton, on the 13th inst., and almost instahtaneously. Biijah Wilkinson killed his brother-in-law, Mr, J.C, Young, by shooting him, in Mobile, on the 7ch sast. 0g Church, *hiohaondy Ven broke from its fastenings and came creating ‘enrovgh the floor to the earth, & distance of ninety feet. exton stepped aside, A specimen of paper, manufactured from the common. , the bamboo of the Mississippi river, has been ex- St. Louis, and is highly approved. ‘The firemen of Mobile celebrated the revontsenth an- sey of the organization of the department on the nt, The hemp factory of Douglas & Beer, in St. Louis, destroyed y ire on the 1¢ta inst. Loss, $80,000; Tance, $43,500, In Orange county, Fiorida, which has ® population of four beetred. pe hag there has not been adeathin twelve months, The San Francisco Sun, of March 14, states that fifty- twa mbedeied bed toon sotasal Wed ia (had Biot slace the. 1st day of February, averaging more than one a day. Alexander Rameey, late Governor of Minnesota Terri. tory, has been elected Mayor of St. Paul, by a large ma- Jority, * Thomas Gi & convict, worked so well at the fire in the Tennessee State prion, that Gov, Johason has par- doned him out. ‘Twenty of the caulkers who strack for bighar wa the Chaviestown, Maes., navy yard, haves gor e back i. work at the old price—$2 50 rday. The gang of cau! y ere now at work upon the frigate, numbers avout fert 3 and it ie thought she will be entirely cauiked io woven weeks, ‘