The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1855, Page 1

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A Pleasant Conversation The Mayor ‘and the Policeman. A Vailey ia the Moantains, ‘The Pe an’s Gu New Peopleand New Homes. ‘The Midnight Consultation. ‘The hd Baron ant the Alderman. os Hannah and Uncle Na- , an, ‘The Birthday Festival. Morning atthe Old Homestead. Chester's Trial, Homesick Poverty, Sickness and Death, The Even! Waking aud A eget Autumn iti the Mountains. Chester's House in the Moru- OugSiater Anna. ka, Sufffet in au Italten Cathedral. ‘The Mayor and his Son. ‘The Two Infanta, Jane Chester and the Stranger. Dark Siorms and Dark Memo- Thy Fever Ward and ite Pa- Apple Gather! ‘ever 4- Apple Gathering. tents, the Farnhams’ Return from Jane Chester and her Little | Abroud. y ‘The Husking Frolic. The Household Sacrifice. ‘The Student Physician and the Child Ni Ure. ‘The Cia Musician. ‘The Midnight Revel—Mary A Dance After Husking. and her Mother. The Mother, the Son the A Spring Morning anda Pau. — Orphan. er Bi Old Memories and Young Hearts. ‘The Mother’s Fraud. of Roses. 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O43, ENGRAVING.—WEDDING CARDS, VISITING, at pams poe L veyed cards engraved and pons. 4 most fashionn! ; RIKO, & choice assor mento} iggy - vives plated door and number plates, seals, mail ually attended 4, ori LAGOETT, engraver, No. 4 John street. ARE OPPORTUNTTY —4N ORIGINAL MPRZOTINT of Jobn Mamie. Pablished te ncedelt 9 woop =, from 8 ting by Thon. Lawrenee, i A date Jone 4, i, ‘On exhibition and Wrnpixe at i bills of ene nent Preps, cheeks. noice ont eee. engraving office, ulna Copper plate presees, ed. mt For TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE, | sei, st gazed up oo From the position ig which the corpses were foand, i: would seem as though the inmates of the house were ca tively unaware of the presence of the fire un ti the fans had renched their very becroor doors. The destroy nz element quietly courred its way to the very tnid- dle Ot the. house without ertating wey lari, and then +hootia up the stair ease of the ‘third ’ end fourth stories, prevented a wall ef fiane, from the baggment to the roof ot the dwoililg, Uitough which none hto penetrate, Cut off from retrent, the only hope lay in jumping form the windows, Ome or two of the ocoupante ayanaged to got fromm the fourt® to the Arath’s doings, manifostes in CONFLAGRATION IN STATE STREET. LOSS OF FIVE LIVE ANOTHER INMATE FATALLY GURNED. eine mee ae he Page ime moraent, botat pees rick of their liver, for the finding of the three dea CORONER'S ENQuEST, Bodies xy abe rect ee stairs way clearly indisted Bae rooms om the fiewt and seeond t injuree’by the fire, which confined ivelf aiinost entirely t the stairway leading from the kitehen te be attic. ‘The house is to all ovterard appearanee net mueb de> maged, and many people were surpriredthat im ay slight # fice five Buman beings cold be conswneds The spot wa the object of a great deaYor attention, and was visited by thousands yesterday, amny of whom had's strange wiels to be admitted Into the dwellin 30 that vhey might gratify their idle cusionity in Deliclting tise revali- ig rpectacie. Some of thet’ were gratified; but the vt mam Were very property refused admittance aside ihe froat door. CORONER'S INVABTIGATION. Coroner Hilton proceeded to the scene of thevatastro- phe yesterday, in order to held’ an inquest’ upon the bodies of the deceased. A jury being empanaetled, they accompanied the Coroner to therroom where the bodies &e., &., &, At Yolclock yesterday morning a most calamitons fire took pinee at No, 12 State street, eausing the denth of tree women and two children, and fatally burning another woman, who was conveyed to the New York Hor pital. It appears that the fre originated ta the kitchen, um- der the stairs. The smoke and flames very soon aprend up the staircase, thereby preventing the escape of thr inmates down the stairways without burting. The house is of four stories, and wae occupied by @ fan ily oneach floor, The first floor was occupied by Mr. Marconnet, wife and one child. Fecond floor oceupied by Mr. Henry Subs, wife and four children. d i ) were, and after viewing them, retarned to the Coroner's Third floor, by Oliver D. Vandenburg, wife und two oflice, in Charabers street, where the investigation was childeen, conumenced by the ezamioation ot-+ Fourth floor, by Mrs, Brown and nephew aged nine Henry Lube, being duly sworn, deposed that ho-Hyed years. pa No. 12 State street; the deceased was his servant girl; Ide rot know her nome, further than Fredevickas she slept on the fourth story, in the back room; about two leck this morning I wis awakened by the ery of fre: Tiept in the back room on the second stury; on hearing cry of fire I jumped out of bed, my wife and four children were slveniug in the same room with me;on opentng my roow door, leading to the hallway, smoke rushed in’in such quantities that 1 shat the doot again fox the purpose of proventiag my wife and children trouw being emothered; I took two of iny children in my arma, and my wife took the other two, and went through the front room, and out of the windows of said room, ome plazza in front ot tae hi 1 out “fire? and “belp,’? and in about te ana | told them to broak h ther ivey could not resene thi they broke open the door, dese they could not go in; there was a family live ing in the first story, consisting of a man, his wife oud child; the roof of the house next door, and on the northerly sice, was even with my balcony; | handed two. of my children to seme persons who were on the baleon: of te house on the otter side, and my wite an’ me too the other two and went on the roof of the house first spoken o ; 1 then went buck into the front room that 1 had Je(t, and got my pants nad shoes and some other el vth d Altic, by Julia Recus, and a German girl named Frede- rika, both servanta in the employ of Mr. Lubs, and Mrs, Catharine Anne Peacock, mother-in-law of Mr. Vandeu. burg, and Miss Mary Peacock, her daughter. Miss Raker, who occupied a garret room, ‘uccecded in forcing her way down stairs through the smoke and flames to the first floor entry. ‘There she was extricated Dy Mr, Peter Fritz, She was terribly burat. The peike conveyed her forthwith to the New York Hospital. It was stated by the physician that she could not survive the injuries. ‘The firemen responded to the alarm ina faithful man ner, and were very soon at the house ; but before their arrival the street door had been forced open, which grent- ly increased the cireulation of air, and the flomes rushed vp the stairway with astonishing rapidity, Several etreams of water were applied to the lower part of the premises, and in a short time the progress of the fire was cut of from the kitchen to the second story. Enginvers ‘i o Farnham and Banlch then forced their WAY Up the aret | yiien went back on the rou! of the house next door a1 flight of stairs, and when on the first landing they stara | dewn into the street; I found that the statrease loading bled over something which they*tuok for some burnt fur- | vp to the top of the house was on fire ; [did not sell niture, Mr. Baulch placed his hand down to ascersin | *2sthing Mke turpentine; I went to Lod about ILA ns es "clock; ‘I have two servant girls, the deceased and an the character of the obstruction, when he clasped the they both slept together in the fourth story back skull of human being, burnt almost to cinders. A lan- | room; when I came home they were both up, and: were tern was procured, and then, horrible to relate, there. | Waiting in my trent room for me, and when I came ta a heted Sidtin God hit t they went out; F thon locked the door and went to bed; mains of two females and one child were found. Tho flesh | when l drst opened my room door, alter hearing the ery Was burnt completely off, and the bones toa crisp. One | of fire, 1 saw apc ‘but smo Thave no idea where female was crouched in a sitting position in one ge-- | the fire tovle place: the other servant girl's name is Jal Ba he eliild lay by her: th ‘Sinaia’ 1don't know the other part of her name: she told me ner, and the child lay by her; the other female lay in a | she got out of the house by jumping out of the t mmilar position iu the opposite corner, The remains of | story window down to the baleony on the weaond floor; these bodies were immediately conveyed from thy | *be Faid hp sid 208 tofere herself; sethere gotout in this ‘ “ way, but not without Injury; he haw since gone away slaire to the front room on the first floor, The fir) | Sai 80> Stother; the basement of the hous tes bureed at this time was still burning on the upper staircate, | out; a emall portion of the stair cflse is left standing; I o°- spreading to the roof, and partiuily through the rooms on Fd vied ving Megs ame = we - eee vs A i 4 ai is ured in common he families in: the hoase; the third snd fourth stories. Intense anxiety now pre | ibe front docs le secured at might by a Late vailed, as it was positively asserted that other people Tetor Priter, beirg sworn, saye—I reside at 49 White- were up stairs, and as the firemen succeeded in ey ballsizee R at the tie tive alarm of fire wangiven I Was wtanding in front of my house tal with. & potice- tnguishing the flames, they-gradually pustied thelr wey 100% ‘wa both ran to it, ald two Or lite ather mane further into the Louse. On the fourth floor they foonl } found the frout door shut but not fastoned; whem.we ae- the body of Mrs. Brown. She was in ted tna sleeping | rive there was no ove there that J saw: the staircase position, and apparently died by suffocation. The beat | Se™ding to the scoond #tory was on fire, wud a woman was ofthe fire had extended over her body, and the water had given her akin the appearance of haying been sealded, as whem touched the eurface rubbed off. The body did not exhibit any signs of having stroggled, and the im. presston is that she never awoke, but was suffocated in the sleep of death. The child, a fine looking little fellow of up. states; bur the smoke wits so Iny ing about four feet from the statr way, th the hail; she Was badly burned: we helped her out, she was insensi hia and did rot speak; 1 then tried to get up stairs whare W Mawt-witners lived, wnd leorned tht he and hie family had got out; I saw him om the roo fof the house next door; when I first went into the hall I did not discover any emel of turpentine, tar or anything of that kind; Mra, Brows and her nephew lived on the fourth floor, front room; Wf i ck lived with Mra, Va pb the about nine years of ago, was found in bed on his back, | thind wean ne?” SEE. eee eT apparently having met his death in the like manner. Julla Kickers, being sworn, says—-t Wooster treet, 7 brother Mr. Lube, the dece Fredevicka, If slept to gether, we beth waited antil Mr. Lubs came home, after seaving bit room we went up stairs and went to bed; was awakened by the cry of fire, and we tried to ge Cown stoit, but the fire prevente! na: 1 then went up to the third sory front window and jataped out on the baleony; Iwas in the kitchen about 11 o'clock, and did net eee any fire about it at the time; | have no idea how this fire occured: I lost deceased in the smoke, Oliver D, Vandenburg, being sworn, saye—I ocoupled the third story; 1 slept in the front room withany wife, infant child snd daughter, Almeda; Mrs. Peagock was toy wife’s mother; on the alarm ot fire ske came down stairs from he fifth slory where she slept, and deceased tan to ber, while was in the act of raising the window to jump out with her in my arms I becaine enveloped in fmoke and missed thom; « sister of my wife slept in the same room with ber mother, and come down and got out of the front window in the thicd «tory: 1 jumped on the balcony and caught my wife aud baby a« they came down my daughier Alweda rushed from the window when to liftit, and I did not see her again alive; 1 am of optrton that the fire took place in the basement, aa this part of the house was burnt most, ‘The testimony being concluded, Coroner Filton brief; charged the jury upon the evidence as elicited, who, al- tera few minutes, rendered a verdict in exch case of ceath by suffocation and burning, caused by the house No. 12 Stato street taking fire on the morning of October 19, 1866." The husband of this unfortunate woman is omployed wa on bord one of the Savannah steamships, and was ex- pected heime yesterday. She had been making a vielt to her sister in the country, and returned on the day before, bringing her Mitie nephew with her to epend a few days. Up to 12 o’elock yesterday, the young woman named Daker was yet ving, although but iitfle hope is enter- tained of her recovery. LIST OF THE DEAD. On examinatton, it was found by the police and fire- men (hat the following persons were quite dend:— No, 1.—Jane Brown, twenty yeurs of age, and a native of England, The body was taken charge of by Elliot Lit tiejohn, in the employ of the New York and Savannah Steamship Company, Deceared was suffocated, No, 2.—William , Rephew of Mrs. Brown, aged nine years, anda native of this country, The Coroner could not ascertain bia surname. Death was no doubt caused by strangulation from the smoke. No. 8.—Fredericka , 9 girl, about eightech years of age; was a native, of Germany, and was employed as domestic by Mr. Lubs, This woman was burned to a crlap. No. 4.—Almeda C, Vandenburg, five years of age, ands INSURANCE. fr. Luba hasan insurance upon hix hoasebold proper- , ; » ry ty to the amount of $600, in the Jefferson insurance native of New York. The little chilt wae burned t @ ) mpany. The damage done to the furniture through cinder. out the buflding will obably amount to $100, a No, 5,—Catharine Anne Peacock, age’ fifty years, and | damage done to the building will amount to about $500; covered by insuranee. . City Intelligence. Fam ar 11 CRYeTar Patack The pupils of the Deaf and | Dumb Asylum visited the Crystal Palace, on Thursday, hy Invitation of the managers of the American Institute, tly five hundred of them, male and fornale, accepted the invitation, and spent the day in examining the ewrioal ties and inventions on exhibition. ‘Those in the palace who were unaware of the visit were somewhat aatoni«h- €\ atthe number of people inevery quarter who were gesticulating, posturing, and making enigmatical signs 1 | with theirfingers and hands. The children manifested the Neenest interest in what they saw, and showod that though one sense may bedetcient or wanting with thei, full compensation is in the additional sensibility of some other faculty. The fair was never more attractivo. than at present, immense crowds vieiting it daily. On Wednesr ay over $1,200 were taken in, and on no day Joring the past week bas the receipts fallen slort of $1,000. Pecuniarily, therefore, the air isn great success end the exhibitors may felicitate themselves on the ovr- ta'nty of getting something handscene in the way of prinan. @ native of England, Deceased was the mother of Mes. | Vandenburg, and slept in the fifth story or attic. she | was also burned to death. } THE WOUNDED. Mr. Vandenburg and his wife were severely injured in jumping from the thir! to the second story. They lighted on a balcony in safety, but were badly hart. Mr. Vandenburg had his ancle broke, while Mrs, Vandenburg sustained a revere fracture of the left arm. Mrs. Baker, a seamstress, was severely burned about the head end shoulders, She slept in the fifth story along with Mra, Peaceck (deceased), and was burs very severely in making her way to che third story win- dow, where she succeeded in eseaping wiih the aid of a Mr. Fritz, Mrs. Brown lies at the New York Hospital in secritical condition. She in so badly burned that the Coroner considered it dangerous to examine her, and a>- cordingly concluded the investigation without her evi deuce. ESCAPES, The scone presented in the Palsce during the evening is Miss Mary Peacock, who slept with her mother, ia the | yery fine, and, to the lover of the picturesque, must af- fifth story, rucceeded in making her way to the third | ford great attractions. The varied colors of the goods on exhibition, the artistic arrangements of the statuary, the crowds of well dressed men, handsome women and pretty girls. that throng the aisles and cluster in the paves; the brilliant gas light, which, in a thougand jets, -heds a righ light that fills the dome. and tashes back from myrints of spai ve story, where she got out of the window and descended to the balcony, on the second story, in perfect safety, al- though ber brother in-law and sister were considerably burt in performing the same feat, Peter Marconnet, who resided with his wife and chil’ | tingn of oriental eplondor ren, on the first floor, was awakened by his wife crying | the stories related in the Arabien Nights, of marvellous leading to the ball way, was oppeml by a volume of | dayele ana Oetight the bebnider smoke and flame, which prevented bim making hi Foe iw Brosywav—Careucw Seevare Giet.—About cape by the hall door. He subseqagatly got out of the | eight o’elcek on Thursday evening, Ortobor 18th, « fire window, whieh is nesrly level with the street, and ‘Dus | broke out in the back attic room of Ny. 818 Broadway, escaped. occupied by Dr. Hunter, It appears theta girl, who bad Mr. Luby and his wife, and fomr children, got out of the worked wd Mrs. bmg went into thir red o— to — , ’ on her things before wing for the it; rhe took « barning house by getting om the places in front of the eo} {te tM ttm teen, tied, ov tavitg » woniientioh cond story, and from themer to tne ground. He escape ; One Of the email denwers on the Growing uninjured, as did also his wile and children. table apd stood the eandle in , Alter dressing she VISIT TO THE BCENR ‘OP THE CALAMITY. went ont, forgetting to put out the light. The candle ‘The aspect of the charred and half ruined premisoy war sed and mournful indew,. In the front room, on the burned down apd set the table aw! win ‘rare on fie. extinguished without doiag any more dasuage than first floor, lay the corpses @/ the unfortunate creatures presenting a horrid spectacle for human eyes to gaze It borming the drewring table. upow. In one corres cf ‘ise room lay the bodies of Mrs. CAPS OF TREPERANCE.—At the annual meeting of the Grand Section of the Order of Cadets of Temperance ot the Southern District of the State of New York, held ln this Brown and her cryher whose discolered, though not | city on the 13th inst., the following persons were viectad mutilated appearance, led us to believe that the work of death had been perfor med not by the devouring dames, but by strangulati@y from «moke, These persons were officers for the enaning re hi V., Andrew J. Kaw mire, New York; Ist C$. P.. Warren Rockwell, Hut won, 166. AP, wn, New York, & Sectretary and Trearurer, Henry 1. Johnson Jr. New J York, A. C. Secreta: ile found in bed, wheer. the silent, but sure work of destruc | Turki Aco Secrstary, Orville | tion bad overtakw, them ere the prevence of fire had | G W., Frederick A. Meschult. > been discovered, Covered bya blanket frown the rade pe ae Marvin, ioe ores oS Chap., a = nham. rand Coaneil — 4 gare of a morbb) crowd, who had flocked to the scene of Hart, Heory D, Soh de, batsow 2. Kamaico, Di the catastrophe, were the three bodies of Mrs. Peas ek, A. Tindall mas 8, nh, Horace Greetey, Gow Fredericks, (sre. Lub’s domestic,) and the litte girl, | W. Hart, New York, 4 Be Amelia Vandonburg. Tae blacl and partially burned _— trusks of these victims was shocking for those of even Marine Affairs. the strongest nerve to behold; side ode iaid, TO THE or Ti HERALD. with blae’cened and disterted heturse wan ie Under the sown heed of tbe artival tthe Atlantic, you devoid of arms and feet, and enti wate, “The arrived at Cowes on Friday even bared of tesh. And whem the relatives of the vietim« | .t0b.’'+ If be the the Arago has made the eawe to take view of those who the evening pre were full of Mfe and happiness, but. ne red, le ges ber erage of clay, the scene was port the Arago Jf-intot to all wbolders, deap shutter, sven like death | bense om the yk te the Aragy has caver! \% ‘eeif, seemet to pass convuleively through the frame of | ror, ae sige the t to report the arrival of the pertom who rele? the rude covertog trum the @ Ariel 4 FACTS ege 2 shout six #t!' 8 she aniled from New York ot boon Saturday, 924 Com it be that the desire to of the Ariel, whieh mesimer ea\'ed Beste Polttacs. MEETINGS OF THE MARD AND SOFT STATE OEN- IRAL COMMITTEES —PUSION MOVEMENTS AMONG THE STATE POMTICIANS—THY HALY BAKLLS, &C. Siniee the nomination of the Nqnor dealers’ State ticket at Syrecuse, on the 10th inst., there has@een’ a strong pressure on the hard at soft State Central Committece to meet together and see if it wae powsible to retire such candidates as were not oa that ticket, so tihwe the de mocracy might present @ united fromt on election day, Tetitions, resolutions, manifestoes, aud remonztrancer from all parts of the State were cent to the reapettive chair men of tha committees, favoring » union and waking that the comaaittoes come together to take some action on the matter. Samue? Fowler, Chatrman of the hard committee, in odedience to this genotally expressed de: size, called the exmmittes together, and they assemblod (on Thuzeday leat, at the Brevoort House tn Fifth aveaue, to take auch action as they might deem ex pediewt, Aiter the’ orgamézation, a naraber of re- quests were read from Oteeg®, Chenango; St. Lawrence, and Aljuny, all exprossing a'desire to forget past differ ences and unite on o commen platform and State ticket. ‘The manYesto, together with the ticket adypted by the aif Shell General Conmtttes af St. John’s Halt, was re- ce’ved and duly considered, As the chairrtan, together witr severa} of the cowmittee, were fully committed to fusdm by their action et the Liquer Dealer's State Con- vention, the feeling was génerally'im favor of some action beingitaken; but here @ balay morose, The State Com. mitter would be competeft to fill e-vacancy should any resignation occur, but in the opitton of several of the membars, they would exceed their powers in talsing the initiative to cause the retirement of their State candi. dates, without an expressed desire on the purt of the latter todo 80, The commstiée therofore adjourped un- next week, in order to commult the interested re final action voull be taken, ‘The So% Shell State Committee with aasemble on the 24th instant, to take nctim on the same mutter, Meanwhile 1’ correspondence haa taken place between Jonah Sutherland, hard oletl, State candidate for Attorney General, and Samuel J Tilden, soft, Mquor dealers’ and half shell candidate for the ame office. fhe former offered to withdraw, provided the Jatter would freely endorse the Kansas and Nobraal ot, and other- Wine express bis assent to a sound national platform, To this Mr. Tildeu replied, that while he: was at any time ready to give his views when properly interrogated, he felt that justice to Lis aesociatewon the soft ticket, mot endorred by the liquor dealers, would compel him to de- cline negotiating with Mr. Suthertand, who, im the opia- jou of Bir. Tilden, should address the Hard ntate Comimit- tee on the subject, tendering his resignation; and to their interrogatories, provided his own state somumittoc erpored no objection, Mr. Tilden. would) immediately expend. Here the correspondence closed, and the mct- is thus referred to the respective State-committe ‘The Union manifesto of the St. Jobwa Wall organisa. tion was also sent to the Tammany ond Stuyvesnat Lo stitute committees in thiseity. Both organiwations had the subject before them, ani! the propriety of fusing was warmly debated. The soft shells appointed @ committoa of five, headed by Duniel EK. Dolayan, to confer with the Halt Sheil General Committee as to the best steps to be taken to fuse on the state and city ticket. In the hard committee different counsels prewalied, after a warm discursion the half sne!! addvews was laid om tho table for further consideration, ‘On local nominations there isa very general fasion be- tween the two sections of Low ad y. The bards, ase general thing, get the Assembly noraination, and the vofta the Senatorial. It is reported that no maa gets the foft nomination who is not committed to Joba Van Buren for the United States Senator wha is to 08 elected im the winter of 1856-7, This, however, is more specula- tion. Yet, notwithetamding these earnest efforts to effect union'in order to carry the State agaiast the black re- is neverthelow true that many old bards, especially the leaders, will not listen to any such pro- position. The Dickinson mon wish to keep the bard or- xenization intact, ae that a complete delayatian m: from this State to the Cloeinnati con oo next Jane, who will be pledged to Daniel 8. Dickinson. Should the fusion Lalf shell movemont prevail, it le feared by both the hard and soft politicians that the-clalins of their re- spective leaders, Marcy, Seymonr and Dickinson, will get the go by, and some man outside the State—Hachanan yerlaps—receive the support of the waited party at Cin- cinuati, Thy presitentiol eon-iderstions will induce many to oppose, who. would otherwise favor fusion. At the weetivg of the Hard State Committee, on Thura- ay, the most cheering acconnta for them were heard trom all parts of the State. The softs were reported to be dererting thelr candidates; one portion jointag thorepub- llcans, the other. and more numerous, disgusted with the Cassidy omendment, returning to the fold of the adaman- tines, ‘Ihe bards are confident of ¢ scting every man on thelr State ticket who is endorsed by the liquor dealers, whose support is considered worth fifty thousand votes, Yet a union Ls deemed desirable to ensure that result, ihe action of the two State Committers will be looked upon with great jaterest. The Bark Maury. UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. THE SUPPORED RUASAN FILURCRTER DUCHARGED, Oct. 20.—In the ease of the United States va, the bark Maury, which was litelled on a chargo of fitting out for the Russian service, Mr. McKeon, the United. States Dis- trict Attorney, received ac ommunieation from Mr. Chas. Fdwards, counsel of the British Consul, stating that from explanations under oath, made by Messrs, A. A. Low & Brothers, he deemed it reaconable that the Distriet At- torney should be left outirely free, and he thought it would be but fair towards the owners to ‘lift’! the libel. ‘The District Attorney received the following communi- cation, ander cath, which he eubmitted to Mr. Edwards ‘To the Hon, Joun McKuox, United States Distrot Attor- ne Sii—The bark Maury, owned io part by the under. signed, having been seized by a process from your olliee, we Leg to ofler the following explapations, vis — That the said vessel waa built by Mesers. Rosevelt, Joyce & Co., of this city, uder a contract made in the month of April last, after the model of the bark Penguin, that che was designed for the China trade; that there is nothing peculiar fn her construction apart from the rig, which wax adopted with particular reference to eeonamy in view, that in pursuasce of the original intention «he wax advertised some three weeks since for Shanghae, i she has been receiving freight for that port, nm board, from Messrs. Fogg M& Hrothers, 1, a quantity of naval stores, and a variety y, Jor theif house in Ching, with « litte with which she is expected to ras! | the coming week, under the command of Captain Hletcber, for the’ port above named. We farther declme that in addition to the ordinary ar mamenta of o vessel of her class, she has bub tw, dock guns, supposed to be necessary in consequeuce of the great increase in the number of pirates om the coast of China; that the other guns, shot, dec. pet eubjoined list, were purch dee an American geutleman at 5 shipped yee Maury on freight that said vessel has for spare spacsoaw foretop galiant raaht, one fore tey gallant yard, or qaualr boom, one main gaff boom and five extra staddisg se 4 booms; and that ber crew wilt consist of but twelve * or jourteon men before the mast they furthermore declare that the vensal received ' the name of Maury in the month of May last, net Lodishe wor 4 men of whew our country lms +o mach resem Uy be J, bat & bear upon an honorable missiometie ’ agsno har done so much to Improve nev igpalan , igned pledge themselves to prom Ut he wa. y jy while tht, veel ie etilt bi al, Viet the 200 tons of e* of ship ebane other general freight oo og lon 0mm under the eharge of the Unt’ allegations mace Sgainst the vessel are “elee, that she has no guns or mavorlaly of war under der oar), asking only that the expense to whieh they nyay le thas anal jected shail be berve by the naj! Oonse), Wama, and only when ihe statemevts upon which tho Towa baw teen eo eg rte 2 voted, we fully dleproved. y Finally, they declare that the Hussam have no com neasion whatever with (he enterpries, im questim, A. A. LOW, of the firm of A. Ay Lane & Bewthers, 10 62 boxes of stuvt, » balers we, » aie 18th diay of October, 18d. Gro, ¥. Berm, é 8. Commu steniosmge. Thereby wear that | am eogyisant of tee tacts nogte thoned in the foreguing «tatewens and that U ey nee tone, NATH. PB. PALMER. wworn to, he. Gao. F Bitew, ©. §. Comm dertoner. Under thix state of tacts, Ue Dietriet Atorney de charged the veesel from te enstety of the Mocshal, game of tbe fret offices of the lark Maury, winkeh en eeleed by the United — wathe silos, of vals Clty, an deneribed in yerterday’s Himmalp, |) Welton, sud fod Patten, a published by our report Court ot General frea'gns. CONTEMPT BEYORE THE GRD JURY. Aman osgved Heary Hart war arsected aed brought before Recorder Smith, yesterday, 2 ery ed with contempt hefure (he Grand Jury, in refosing ‘» ancme = question repeanded to bim. When the ; dyrner came before we ‘ort, Recorder Smith mbt— Vou ero a reuiad for refoeag to snewer a question propounded Wy yon by the Grad Jury Why do you refuse to anewor? Prisontre=| decline to anr@or unines 1 am aaleted by couveel. J wish 10 employ cowtsneh Recot dor—The reason of yor.r rfwal be av This jw a ease in Which you carmat have eons) vtatute protects you frow all harm, amy theretee there ono te valid reason for your daaliaing V anewer The Court has coppicered the quisition and Wy ekied 1» be © proper ene for you to anewer Primmner—if your Rover yi’ «| still declioe to amewer, think Ishowld be allow counsel. | whel to coneult counsel Recorder—I bave alvwmtt, tM you, ar, thet roe oan’ have counsel im thit chew, “The procnedingy of tive Grand Jury are rocret afd was’) not be reveled, even ty coun. wl Make your Heer o wir, | have the power to sent yon to pricen of thi’ ty days mod inflet s Maw of 8280 If Jou refare to anew, brisemer heeltay wt cemne tal chicos (0 anewer T'ghall then be compelled to inflict upon rr the pwatty te law, whieh te that you be eontinel in the C7 P* som tor tairty days aa pays fine of HA v1. He twas thew banded over tn wn taten opr en. + mal er, awh then agate oo PRICE TWO CENTS. APPROACH'NG FINANCIAL REVULSION. THE COST AND EFFRCT OF THE WAR. Probable Suspension af Specio Payments in France anc England. PRECARIOUS POSITION OF THE BANK OF FRANCE. {¥rom the Rowdon News (City Artieis), Cet, 2.) The inh etocke mirket remains heavy eecharacter and clo A pew comtt lower than yesterday. After afi lurtuer decline of 4; ‘yor cent’ wim quoted. Sales on banking account, and for Une Bank ot Snplant te bape are more ned, an fi thouge th & ly are met tom certain extent bythe inves mrnta ef ublic. maney was in increased demand on eonsoke during the morniag xt 6 yor cent tl the next wesunt day. 1a rate, however, inducing # supply of mmey, it hotante cusier In the afternnon. Tho drain of guia te Paris, on account of the Hank of France, continuow, and a farther sum of £590,000 wae wlipped this morning, but the bulk of this, {te belfeved, wax fuot drawn dowetly from the Bank of Kagiand. Omtng to the continuaage of this remarkable efiux, in face of decidedty inj roving ox changes, the idea is teveming: more prevalent that” un. leas the ure in reiieved by liberad arrivals of from Avstralia, the Bank of Eng umy find itself com- pane to adopt additfonal reeasures of restriction, his view is considered to be strengthened by the distrust with which the parition of French momedary re at present regarded. The-propriety ofcaution in this diree- tion in strongly vorroborsien by tive tenor of primate mar- cantile communications vom Parts, according t which a re. pert 8 gaining grown! i thal city that the ara Prance contemplates doubling ts present capital of 91,000 000 france (tay £5,640 000.) A projort, it'ia averred, ia also ‘om the tapis for making the notes o/ the Hanke government paper, t. 6) fo bequaranieal by (i government, but the Rank: ‘af France to be exemp from connpulrion to yay thom in spore. As this propesal, however ainguised, would fmaply a le ized Bixcontinuance of cash payments by the Hank of France, and would probably send the notes of that estab lnhment, guarantecdsthenghttiey might be, tom discommty there ts an unwillingnens here to Petters that ¢ Bas any volid foun: in the financial wi very strong, and in further weakened by 1 bec pmo regime trem tho-walutary checks parliamentary contro! and free dixcuseion. According te he lant ma shed return of the Hank of France the colm and bullion stood at only 411,546,800, whilst the notes im eclreulation had inereased te @26 568,000. {From the London eonomiyt, Oot. 2.) ‘ ‘ . . ‘ But fronr what does the alverse exchange arise? First, we must look for thé tauws to our war expenditure, aad not alone to that portion of it which iy sent abroad th the shape of bullion to make payments at the seat of war, bet fo the eatire expenditure, whether at home or abromd, im excess of our ordinary expenditure for such objects. Next, wo must look for it alro in the manner in whidie the money required for toat expenditure hay been raised. First, them, in Tewari to the war expenditure iteelf, Per the thore nervices um voted in ordinary years may be taken £16,000,000, For tho present year thenumn vous war tu round numbers £44,000,000, or about £4 000,000 in excess of the ordinary 4am. Not a word nood be aald as to the obvious influences upon the besk secounte of the hard cash sent sbroad to replenish from time to time the commissariat chests, During the present year, about £100.000 x week in coin hat beem taken for that purpose, But there i another cleat of expenditure which, though les directly, yet iohuenees the chin nad to a drain. “All contracts in the fow nos, provender, and whatever else li required fer re made payable in bills drawn upon the trea- to be provided for, in audition to te ordinary billy drawn it importations, thoy, how ever, representing uo importation of goods.’ Thos» affect the exchanges dirvetly, and indirwetly the drat from the bank, a4 mush as if bard coin were remitted. * But there ts till snotier, and porbaps a muck larger class of transactions, which equs lly, in point ot faot, when clorely examined, oid in pro lucing an maverse o@- © allude t the whrole of the purchases ot tot the war, ing lading powder, anmunt- if fi with equal certainty, lends tion, arma, provisions, clothing, shipping (bire of trans pects and bulldog of sulps) re quired for the prosecution ot the war, A Latie consi ration will show that the mere fret of there articles ¥ ving produced at home, ond id for at homes giving ew ployment acd wages te le porers and ariiwans at bor we, und yicliing profits te merchaats ant manufsete rere at home, in no de gree alters the eifeet Ww hich such an expenditure apd such shigaenta wr et exert upon the foreige exchanges. Wo canno’ better illustrate this state merit than by represent ing all these commodities as ex- ports for whic there wi ii be no corresponding laporte Mt is the came 48 if we annwully exported wnme thirty oF Sorty millions f mart fartures, and recevoed nothing tn return. Inn ordipary cases the cost of product our prow Imthe form Of wages, of raw material, and of cap ta! otherwise exper ied upon them, (¢ all restored imports either in 7 roduce or in bullion, or by bills re Biceeuting the one or the other; and thas the account te Hameed between ’ chin andother nations. Butin the case of geeds pravuced for the prosecution of the war, while the FamBamount of foreign commodities in the abape of foo! and raw m ials i consumed, are not replag- od by fresh i portations, and must, therefore, to full cmaut and yale ewell the adverse side of the ox- change scoount . and sooner or later be pall for in wut- lin. It AY therefore, In point of fret, be maid, that the whole af jount ot our additional being, 16 fer as trade ia concerned, unproductive, ia 20 tt nner represented by y retarns tm the. form ¢ 1 importations, must sooner or later be wrought V, the wrong pon og gue nd tend le ot our secount with directly to am adverse om DeistioM . wuch as tovie place two years ago to Australia ond ss (nited Htates, by which s cunwierable dermage men the money masket wae caused, are the returme saorely* deferred toa distant day; on tle contrary, the geek f and the money exported are actually consumed, aad wi Il be heard of vo more. in the neat piace, the in which the expenditure of the year hay ben han another direct influence upon the money uae Mat @ od the exchanges, N 4h «the money market We difference whether « war expenditu: ‘8 ation or from loans. Taking the ense of the great BM acen of the community—if an expenditure ts drawn from {9 creased taxes, 1 produces a corresponding eoonorny tm oO her wi If Bfteen millions sterling are to be draws f com thirty millions of people st the rate of 10s.» ued, ‘so far on regarde the great bulk of the thirty millions, @ corveaponsing ceonemy Will be made in the cope. mption of commods and to that extent the expentiture upon the war would be not « new or adtitionsl expeads- ture, but « transfer of it from one objec! 10 auo\uermdt would, in point of fact, come out of Income asa rul tom the place of other expenditure, and woult therets worente any aiverw balance against the country. Hot when « war patie le supplied by homme, it draws directly from the money market the eapilel devoted to trade through the hands ot bankers, blll erecers and capitaliete—every instalment part creates a {real preesure upon the market, and relaces the available balances fue her purposes, It is in reality « oomeunptlen (out in- vestinen rae the nation ls concern, of ite capital, and, in place of Veing attended with any corrmeponding commmy, it rather tends to increase and promote the ecnsupption of commodities by the emporary smalue whjok expentiture af so much of the capitals im addition to the ordinary imeume ereates. Of the wae expentitare of the present year, at ianst twenty-t railiions will be raved by loans, and the rest by taxa tom. It t# therefore clear that the adverse exe under which vein of bullion bas to be traced entirely to the war expendi- ay to commercial causes, wud from dhe clreumstance aries (he “ificulty whiew vik be found im dealing with it. In ordinasy canes the cure te slowphe, im fact, it Is found fp the nature! reaction from «xmeive speculation, sited by judqinaniy applied restrictme upon credit, In the present case tye object of the om penditure i of parauncunt lmporiamee Ww ail ober emm- sidere\ions whether ‘hay be of caevsages or of trade. the expenditure for the war canset te checked o oe it le to carry it fore, which we beve waerd ae © changes must comlinte ag long ee ue will ondy be modified wo far as high pliems anny ‘nen to ter ecomomy of came iiow And it e necmemnry Wp 7 in mind thas precisely the same chunee are in opera. thon in France we ws aa amt eee te now eyinpathios with each othet s oe het bappent in the one country equally the other. A Lis from Anetrelie wldy the ieee to which i bet even in this respect it mest by terme im mind thet bullion is imported Nike any other cnmemedity ae repreenting oar ex aod will only remain bere if the evaAithon of the balance letwern thie weal foreign mative ee ed a ppenet that (he ally & pear bedore theen eames are pioin. Viret, « te fe dy i i ks to bedven It to be taben fo tbe slight deracgrimact, it ¥i) ve ference to future operations (8 specolative mtere, bar in mind (het the real couse of the atvere eaehange the commquent drain of vellion te «tll antwachet, though by mathon aml foresight ite ultimate =e coe may be greatly tnthboh. — (Prom the Lemton Chrombeke (elty ertiele ) On the arrivals of the precioms metals in Rogieo: the past week have been as tolbrwe a From eytney, per W. Irving Per Duvet NerthumSertant ’ Listen, ger Masri, New Yor’, per Canada 1)