The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1856, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 7146. AFFAIRS AT ALBANY. SEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. Atnany, March 22, 1866. PETITIONS. By Mr. Srzxcun—To change the name of the Bleecker Church, in act of incorporation for the Literary and Theolcgica' titute at Canton, to be called the St. Lawrence Uni- sity. By Mr. J. B. Sai—Favorably to the erection of the ity of Unadilla, from parts of Otsego, Delaware and DPhenango counties, A special committee on the bill in relation to interest n money was appointed, as follows:—Mesera.C. P. Smith, Noxon and Hale. BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. Uraam—To prevent the hoarding up circulatiog otes of apy bank. By Mr. Ricuarpson—To extend the time for the com- encement of the Utica and Waterville Railroad. BILLS PASSED. To provide for the payment of certain labor done on nals and materials furnished. ae Lal, for the eaucation of the Indian children of h ite, ‘The resolution to adjourn on the 9th of April, sine die, +10 P. M., was adopted. ‘THE MILL TAX BILL, The dill providing for a mil( tax for the support of roment, was de! tbe question bei mendmeént to increase the tex to mill and Progress was reported on the bill. No other business of interest was transacted up to the hour of adjournment. Assembly. Aupany, March 22, 1856, PETITIONS, By Mr. Grover—Against leasing Reservoir square. By Mr. Gvest—Againat the Port Warden bill. REPORTS, By Mr. Rety—To amend the acts relative to keeping vapowder in New York. The Health Officer of New York sent in a communica- ticn in reply to the Assembly resolution. ‘BILLS INTRODUCED, By Mr. GLOvRR—To repeal the act to erect the county of Schuyler. ay Batey—To a) priave $2,000 for relief of Geo. iB. Woo.dred, for injuries recetved on the Hudson |River road wi in the service «f tne State. A resolution was adopted fixing the time of meeting of Sie House after the 24th inst., at 93¢ A. M. A resolution was also adopted inviting the President of the New York Deaf and Dumb Institute to bring a por- ja of ths pupils to Albany to be examined by the Logis- ure, A long debate occurred upon a motion to appoint a ‘Committee of Inquiry in'o all matters connscted with the State prison contracts at Sing Sing; but without di oe it subject the House adjourned til] Monda; At 93, A.M. The Board of Ten Governors before the Le- Ou Thursday evenisy last Meer, Dro ured} Messrs. Tor of the Board of Ten Goypriors, attend: committee of the Assembly who have the New York ‘tex bill in charge.§Mr. Draper, on behalt of his associates, Toade a statement to the committee, explaining and re- pursued by the rd since its forma- 7 pieet objections urged against its management, and £ 1g forth the considerations which ay them in asking from the Legisla ‘ure the allowance of $817,000 for the coming year. The statement is as fol- Mr. Ctamuax—With your consent, I will make to your Pommittee a general statement of the past and present Gonditicn of Almehoure Department, to which I shall be glad to add my answer to any questions your conside- ticasjof the interests involved demands. On the 9th jiary; @ proper regard rd to erect ‘the proger buildings for their protection, as well as re- move ot! that were not fit for occupation. The first was the heapital on the extreme end of Black- ‘weli’s Island, a wooden shanty, filled with sick, unprotect- ed from the weather, and without the common comforts of the worst 3 poor house in the country, The next expenditure of importance was the taking necessary steps to prevent the sacrifice of the lives of the inmates, by endeavoring to prevent the falling of hospital built by contract by the city government, previous to the or- genization ot the Board of rs. Next ecard be bersteaed ot githe Logins the Berg Bary vagrant ‘unt Lchtirerbes ytd slature ie ‘State granted means for the establishment and building ofa workhouse, and passed a law ulating its adminis- tration. That building waserected by the Iabor of the istard, with auch adaitional call for Iabor from outside Os was coreg A tit, Its cost is to be found in the reports o1 ernors, think, amounts to adout $93,000. Afterwards, an addition was made, which @ost the department something like $40,000. The law which I have just mentioned, enadied the Governors to separate the vegrants from the criminals, an¢ we com- menced to carry out practically the theory of this law. ‘The separation of the mate from the female BL cron ‘and s point has fore unknown in ae aud county of procuring @ mon: arm of cash receipts to ogee 2! of from to $1,150, besipes it has furnished for the eare, protection, and nourish. ent of the inmates. We then come to the Almshouse Department proper, ‘tke buildings ot which werein a dilapidated condition. The male and female department, as woll as that oc the penitentiary, were separated by walls of granite, built entirely of the rock of the island and by the labor of the island. We have been forced to make a large expenti- ture of money with a view to permanence, which will Tender similar expenditure for some time to come un- necessary. ‘The Lupatic Asylum and the build: oa Randall’ Island were also in a condition to require considerable outlay. Adcitional buildings in all these departmeats have been required and erected for the neccasary disci- piive snd efficiency of the insti‘utions. ‘The out-door pc or of the city of New York have made large and increasing calls u) eepartment. The vestion of granting the relief called for has been, from beginning to the present time, one of grave import- ance, and has been dealt with in a manner comporting with the best mnt of the Governors of the Alms. vhoure, and with an earnest desire to aczomplish two great otjec's: First, to do what was their duty as repre- sentatives of a proud city, so far as the claims of true ebarity req |. Secondly, to see, to the fullest ex'ent of helt ability, that not one dollar cf expenditure should bem that eae bad phage the department which item of expenditure e ment whic! those who are not inti- Js most dificult to satisty mately acquainted with the extent of its opera*ions, ment of so farge @ number in is that for the em, the administration of its affairs. It is not generally un- derstood that these instivutions require, for various rea- supervision far beyond the ordinary institutions of charily. Private charities are genera!ly #0 distributed the dispensers of the fund to have it ander late control nd supervision. Not so with the Aimshoure Department. Our Bellevae Hospital is the hinge of refuge of the r in time of sickness. Our Syphilis Hospital, on kwell’s Island, a refuge fz the upforinnate cf a more depraved character or Smallpox Hospital (just erected, in place of a tem- wary wooden buil.ing found upon thy isand, with Faraiy a place for a sick person to de protected from the elements,) is now nearly ready for occupation. This will invoive an expenditure of some importance, which no honest citizen can ae Our other institutions on Blackwell s Island are each of sush a character aa to require continual watchfalness. Persons of the worst charac‘er and every grade of disease are there to be found, in their various staged, The sane and insane absolutely require the nu- merous officers that are appointed by the board. Among them, a5 will be seen by our reports, area large number of vegrants, lopatics, ciiminals, &3., who are thrust up- on us by our present Ia’ regulating the sentences of foreign paupers to our various institutions, while the wity and ity of New York are obliged to sustain and support a 'arge number of this class who are rightfally cha, geable upon the Commissioners of Emigration. The estimates for 1856, to be found ia the report of the Comptroller of the city of New York, page 100, is not intended as anything but the guersings ot ten med to know something of the requirements o! tutions over which they have presided for years thout atealing. It is not to be suppssed that evon t of the best men of New York, any more than ten of t ‘worat, can sufficiently penetrate the future to give Hable estimate of tho coat of fuel, which is reg iy demand and supply, dilfering every year, nor can they calou'ate on what may be the wecessity of an expen- divure under a state of pestilence, famine, war or defal- cation, nor the price of flour, beans, pork, beef, &. On tabiog possersion of the department, utder the Is of 1849, the Board being mostly composed of merchants and Lang ee they eee their duty (3 take an coount «ol »”? to see whet ‘ty in the mani- details hed been loft to the department) Thi ocount was taken, and will be found on th» re- cords and on file in the office. In taking the census of the Almshouss Depa: trent, we found the number on the fitth Cay of May, 1849, to be 999. The report for the week eccing April 14, 1849, made by one Marcellun Fels, then Superintencent of the Almhouse, ze us the num- ‘oy of tomate i that, department a a5. ‘The owmber, as per the report log May 6, 1840, three Cays before the Governors took Fosseseton, was 999, mebing a difference of 1,746, This glaring incon. sistency waa of such a character as to induce the Board to remove Mr, Fela forthwith. Changes wore made of ‘3 officials, and the department placed in honest Since i's organization no discovered fraud has boen » kfc unpunished, no economy§ has been intentionally © omitted no crime left unpunished, no charity that has not been justly regarded, and tho only reward that the sdministrators of this law ask at the hands of the Logis- + Inture fs that of am honget yopdict, after » full, complete Also, of Caleb Barstow and others, for the passage of hing examination of every act of the Board and eearc! since its formation. In addition to the amount of $652,000, called for the support of the inmates of the various institutions, we report of amounts wr $165,000 for building purposes, The the Comptroller, page 104. gives the speciic 1d objects of tha! ‘The whole cest for the enlargement’ 000, The expenditure, to be age 1s @normous. Here is a fsir opportunity for doubting, i anywhere, the "ighere may bea dillerence of to the propristy ere may be a as pro) of the full extent of this enh opinion The question has ‘been egitated for several years. Doubts have been enter- tained and expressed by every member of the Hoard. The question was one of immense importance to every citizen. ‘It was already filled to overflowing, having 70) inmates uvder treatment, and it became evident that means should be taken for the necessary repairs and alterations for their suocess‘u) treatment. The want of room and of proper ventilation, #0 essential to a hospital, the difficul- ty of escape in the event of a fire, the danger to the lives of the inmates by the falling of the hasan of other requirements, considered absolutely req ), impressed themselves forcibly on the minds of the Governors as to the necessity of calling for this appropriation. cost of {t growa out of its extent. Similiar ball'ings, ‘uot. ed by individuals, would require fally the same amount of expenditure, if ‘wiser then the Ten Governors, can sufficiently pene the fuiure, and can convince tte Ie ture of the iraporie of this outlay, Iet the re- tpcnsibility regt upon judgment, and we will will- ingly forego the appropriation. the expenditures of the department for building, ) ot ont exclusive ofthe labor which is perfc eneral rule, they defy the com; vate contracts at the per ‘at which oon le and executed simultaneously with thei prison had almost ceased to be a tax upon the city. amount of ite expenditures beyond its receip's smounting to less than $10,000. Large improvements have been made by the lato: of those committed for vari- our causes, and the term ‘Egyptian Toms’ cannot with justice be applied to it. In conclusion, the Governors of the Almshouse regret that inconsiderate statements have been made by those connected with the city government. yw these parties can resentations they have made without having visited the inatitutione, and personally ex- amined the affairs of the department, is beyond my comprehension. The Comptrolie-, for example, has never, to my knowledge, condescanied to make any official inquiry or pay the compliaent of a personal examination of our instituiions, An officer, recciving a compensation tor his services, as- sumirg cfficially to speak tn, reference to so importaus @, branch of the city government, focated withia one hua- dred yards cf the entire detail of its accounts, would able to speak wheiy snd justly of its administration, did be veel the trath so near at hand. As to the statements made by other officers connested with the legislation of the eity, we have only to say that, in come instsnces, their statements have been made without a knowledge derived from a reliable source. ‘They also depend upon rumors and mis-statements of those unworthy of creditor regard. There are those who apvxiously Jooking forward with the hope of an official cennection with the Almshouse Department, aud whose Cesign it is to fix for themselves a reputa ion which may enable them fo benefit by the disbur-ement of the fund expended, and e¢cure beth honor snd profit. The trust is an honorable one; the taithfal performance of the duties {t involves will amply reward those to whom its administration is entrusted. On the other hand, a Gisregard of the true interests involved, should end will reflect the highest discredit upon those who trifle ite sima and ends. New York Volunteers. 4N AGT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRST REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS WHO WERE IN ACTUAL SERVICE IN THE LATE WAR WITH MEXICO. Introduced on notice by Mr. Reil y—read twice and re- ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means—reported favorably from said committee, and committed to the Committee of the Whole. The people of the State of New York, represented ia fenaie and Fol do enact as follow: Section 1. The lowing named ons—Ward B. ‘nett, William Peal and Edward Reynolds, residents of the efty and county of New Yorkeshall constitute a commission to examine and decide on all app:ications for the benefits of the following ions of this act. Sec. 2. Every person wo shall appear, on due evi- denee, to bave been a member of the first regiment New York volunteers, and shall actually have in action cr engaged in the Mexitan war as a member of the aald regiment, from the landing at Vera Cruz to the foal cap- tore of the city of Mexico, shall be entitled, on due proof of such service, or of having been actually in action in aay of the battles in Mexico in which said regiment par- ticpated, to receive from such commission a certificate of such service, duly authentica‘ed; and on the presenta- tion of sueh certificate to the Comptroller of this Stute, or sny other person ‘suthorised by bim to receive the sare, he shall be entitled to recrive all the moneys due ok the State by virtue of an act en.itled “ Au act for the relief of the survivors of the first regiment of New York volunteers who eerved in the war with Mexico,” Psssed July 10, 1851; and the Comptroller bali imme- diately issue his warrant on the Treasurer of the State for the whcle sum due, and for the complete payment thereof; such certificate rh: ‘iguabie, nor ehali tre same or any moneys due thereon be liable to be erjcined, seized or attached for avy deb‘s of such v. lun- teers: Provided, however, that no certificate shall be is- sued to any ceserter, or auy person who msy bave been Giacharged from campaign service at his own request. Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall ba daly sworn faithful'y to pertorm the duties of their office, and shall yeeeive nO compensatinn for their services; and shall keeo an accurate record ofall certificates which they may fasue, with the name. age and nativity of the pereons to whom it msy have been issued; and shall, as soon as ees make return of the same, on oath, to the gzelier, to be filed in bis office. The sum of twenty- five apne Gates te hecobr 9 eeaptiated eo effect tk provilons of this tse Oo of the revenue of ‘the fiscal year commencing on the first day of October next, Sec. 4. Allacts or parts of acts conflictiog with the {.regoing sections of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. This act shall take effest immediately. Our Albany Correspondence. ALBANY, March 20, 1856. The Liquor Law—Lull in the Zeal of the Anti-Prohibition- ists—What are the Members from New York City about ? Aiter the excitement occasioned during two successaive campsigns ia this State, by the discussion of the liquor question, and the final enactment of the Prohibitory law at the Jast session of the Legislature, it appears rather strange that the subject should have elicitei so little at- tention this year. I do not mean to say that the popular mind 1a less intensely sgitated on ths ques.ion, or that the degree of interest felt in it by the community at large has at all dimin:shed, Ireter only to the proseed- ings of the Legislature, and especially to the House of Astsemply. It was reasonably to be expested that mem- bers elected on an snti-prohibitory platform, aud with exprees reference to thelr known hos \ii:y to the Maine law, wou'd do all in their power to carry out the wishes of their ccnstituents, by endeavcring to procure the re- peal of that odious enactment. Good faith to those who bad elected them demanded this at their hands. We na- turally anticipated that tney would be at least as ener- getic in attack as the friends of the measure are zeaious in efence. It is matter of public notoriety that the members from the city of New York represent constituencies umequivo- cally opposed to the Prohivitory law, and extremely avxtous for its repeal, We looked to them not only for the ipitiatory movement, but for the most consplimows zeal in onrrying it ‘ormward. Yet, in addition to Mr. Glover, of New York, who made the motion, it was left for two country members, Mr. Bsilley, of Patoam, and Mr. Mattison, of Oneida, to take the leading part in the effcrt to procure the repeal of the law. We have not yet obsemved any Cirect evidences of faithlessness on the part of the city members; bat cennot he!p remarking a fain degree of coolness, which is unaseountadle, to say the least. Why ta it, forinstavee, that Mr. Ray, of the Secor d Assembly distrist, himseifengaged in tie liquor traffic, and elected <istinctly as an anti-Maine Jaw map, was abrent frem the House when an itaportant ‘voto wad taken on this question’ Perhaps Mr. Ray, and those who like him. by their absen:e, contributed to defeat the motion to take up the rs ger bill, can justify them- selves before their consti uents; but if ‘hey can. do 0, their reasons must be stronger than apy Ihave yot heard in extenuation of their course. It is to be hoped, as well for their reputation for consistensy and figelity asfor the rigt ts and interests of the peop!e of New York, that they hee ifest more zeal when the bill again comes before the House. Tne Fire Department. THE ELECTION OF ASSISTANT ENGINEERS. The canvass for Acsistant Engineers of the Fire De- partment was not over until 5 o’clock yesterday morn. ing. The following is the new Board of Assistant Eagi- 4, with the votes that e‘ected them:— John Baulch, re-elected Elisha Kingeland, re-elect Henry Hi. Howard, ro-elec ed 1,749 Faw. W. Jacobs, of Engine Co, 1715 Noah 1. Farnham, ro-c ected ‘1678 John Docker, re-electe?... 1,658 Peter W. Cornwall, re-elected. imothy 1. West, ot Engine Us, No. 24 Jas, F. Werman, of Hose Co, No. 5, Seven of the above named persons were in the old Board, Messrs, Jacobs, Wenman and West being the only new cones, ard they were elected in place of Wm S'wpson, John H, Bra¢y ani Mores Jackton, who de- clined running. The following is = statement of the votes given for the unsuccessful regular candidates J. G. Rush, Evgive Co. No. Ta. ..++ Isaac G, Seixas, Hock and Ladder Co, Julian Botts, Engine Co, No. 88. C, Miller, Engine Uo. No. 34 John Brice, Hone Co. No. 4: C. L. Kent, Hose Co, No. 6 Thos. Leavy, Ei N Jas, Masterton, While the vot re a lec! con- siderable excitemont, but all adjourned in great gol huper when the nal result was kaowp, seers it of Beflevue Hospital will be exceeded 500,000, INTERESTING FROM CHINA. Our Shanghai Cocrespendiemes; Swancual, Chins, Jan. 8, The Prosperity of the Port Great Increase of provement of the Navigation of the Fangt-s2e-ktang—Rebel> ton—Its Advawe—The Grand Result—What Should the United Statesdo?—The Black Tongue at Nanking-—100,000 Victims, Scmething over one hundred million pounds of tes hae been shipped from China last year (1855). Of that ag- gregate Shanghai has furnished eight-tenths, From all China, during the same period, there were exported fifty- eight thousand bales of silk, of which Shanghai supplied fifty-one thousand. Sixty-four American vessels entered end cleared at this port during the same period. It is now, beyonda doubt, the nucleus of toreign trade in China, and will ere long furnish a trade astonishing to those un- acquainted with the resources of this {,vast commsroial empire. The warking out ard buoying of the entrance to this port Is now complete. The light ship on the North bank as securely stationed, and will serve as a suré guide sgainst that dangerous bank. The wooden buoysare now in use, but will be replaced as soon as the fron omes arrive, which have been ordered. The sailing directions, in accordance with these new improvements, have been issued and generally circulated. ‘The rebeliion, which, has apparently been dormant for co long # time, it now seems was smouildertog, for it has broken cut with great force, totally cvertarowa the imperial rule in the weaithy and tea producing rovince of Honan. Oa acd ison the ‘avgt-sze-kiang. lt ia the firat wince the beslaniag of this rebellion that the tea distric'a have beon intea! ‘This I anticipated some time ago, and then recommended a plan by which our interests and trade might be secured. e imperial government have been strait nerve to their own; have sacrifice] men money with a iavish hand, latver to such an. extent that the preducing part ot the population refuse to con- trioute any more; hence the rebeliion in Honan. Leutoh- nen, tco, the richest province in the empire, (M. Hie) has been visited by a dreadful famine, on which bas fol- lowed the rebellion. So will this rebellion go on till this empire, magnificent in its dimensions and simost less insite commercial resources, will be dismem ered by. factions ard the foreign trade destroyed. Intervention ‘Bow would save the foreign interests—not in behaif of either party, but a demand at the muzzles of the guns cf but two id eds of such priviless as are our dae and as will place us in a position so that, come what way, we can protect ourselves. Such 4 pol is feasi- But even this policy could not be effected. through ans known to the Chinese as eminently timid and Bsmby-pamby. Letters to the Emperor ra etiquettical sa'aame are all so much waste paper and time lost. It is not the wey to treat with Chinamen. This is well known to us fa China, and sconer or later tt will be knowa at Washington, until which time we must all look atter our own interests, and not trust to Sam. il hold Nanking, but a terrible plagne which the Chinese axsart itants. Before the rebellion the city contained near 2,000,000 souls; but it ia aap- posed that at no time during tke siege has its population Newspaper Accounts» TRAVELS OF FOUR AMBRICAN PAILORS IN THE IN- TERIOR—THEIR RIDE FROM COREA TO THE GREAT WALL—A FAIR SUPPLY OF CASH—NO LADIES SEEN, ETC., BTC. Y ‘rom the North China Herald, Dec. 29.] On Friday se’nn'ght a party of Four American sailors arrived in Stavghae, who caused no litle curiosity when it was ascertained that Stay, had travelled uader escort all the way frcm Cores. It appears that these men belonged io the American whaler fwo Brothers, of New Bedford, They sailed in her to the Pacific in Jute, 1854, and lest cuomer they state that, being kep’ on +hort commons and {il treated by their captain, they tock one of the ship’s boata and made their escape tothe ccast of Corea, being at the time to the northward; their boat was stove in on the beach, but they fed a kind reception by the natives, whe fed them and kept them amorgst them tor a whole month, afvr which tae proper authorities having been communicated with, they wire sent on horgeback through Manchuria to the Great Wall, where they were delivered up to the Cainese sfan- aii acd forwaided to Pehirg. The first nffht of their ortival in the northern capital they were visited by Rasrian miseionaries, who gave them food aad c'othing: they — but little Eng i nd communicated most!y in writing. After remaining at Peking about three weeks, the Rus +iaps told them tna: the Emperor of China had presented teem wi h acme silver, od they were to be sent down to cbangbae—the meney they never saw; but on theit road to this pert, they were very scantily supplied with eo9- per cash: ‘hey received ‘only 40 cash per day, at startlog, which paltry sum wae subsequently reduced to ten casn a dey, until they approacted this distrist, whea they were paid about 200 cash per day. They speak well of teeir treatme:t both in Corea and Manc.ntia, but dis- yeroge their treatment in China. ‘hoy say that they wavelled through a highly culuvated country between this and Peking, and pissed through a great many fice sities, which were exceedingly populous. Unfortunately they appear to be very unsuphisticated young men, from 20 to 24 years of sge, and did not profi much by thelr oppertupities of travel. In afl the resting places they were kept in the prisons, and ia Corea and Manchuria they never saw a woman: they were jealously kept from the Fen qui AN HAVANA SLAVE AGENT PUNISHED. [£som the Hong Kong Register. Jan. 1.) The Register’s batber, aman named Ching-Asoong,.» very reputable peraon ia his way, sud ‘more in tren the ft countrymen in the aasne revoke eet Life, ‘wna ike ‘others of his countrycien, nst odject- ing to do a strcke of busines: out of his trade whereby to gnin sn honest penay, lately proceeded to Tiepiag-hae, some Git oe inride the Bogue for the gener of engag" it g coolies for the Havans, While lying p insoinn, the poor fellow attacked by some Mandariga soldiers, who accused him cf coming there wich tne view ot entrap- ping men for the English at Hong Kong, who would af- terwards sell them into siavery inforeign countries. He was most unmercifully beaten, and barely escaped with bis life; and, to add to this cruel*y, he waa robbed by the wen in who:e house he was lodging of the iittle moi he had with him and tho most of hia clothes. Hea threat- ens to go back to be avenged; but we think he will show more sense by stickin ‘bis more peacetul employment of shaving and hair custirg. NAVAL REGATTA AT HONG KONG—ACTION OF THE From the Hong Kong Register, Jen. 16 ‘rom the Hong Kong jan. 15.) In Pe ar of sundzy un.oward circumstances, it wen at ove time apprehended that we should have no re- gatta this year, We wilt only advert to cme of there cir- cumstances: the almost tctal ceesation of practice by the pullers of ihe club; whether aristpg from the auperior at- teactions cf other smusementa, business, or laz'neas, is uot very go Tois waat of practice precluded the idea of the club furnishing forth the usual amusements of a regatta, and scvantage was thezefors taken of the presence of the large number of the sbips-of-war of the allies and the United States in harbor to get up matches between their different boats’ crews. The result has heen # meeting surpassing ia amusement, if not intere apy previous one. The sailing matches fur boats of the members of the club was the only proceeding in which the club was exclusively concerned; and, unfortunately, the want of wind made it a very uninteresting feature in the programme. ‘The direction of the sport was principally under the care of Sir F. W. Nicholson of the que, in support of the Hon. '. Mercer, Faq., ump're; Lieut. Sproston, in charge of the Macedonian’s toats, ably represented the United States, and to the presence of n- neuve, of H. I. M. frigate Sybille, we were mainly indedt- ed for the success of our second day’s sport. Never could have been seen a better instance of the camaradaris be- treen officer and tailor, than when the worthy captain went into the boat io console one of his boats’ crews, de- feated in ® yey unequal struggle; and his “bravo, mes as one of his boats pulled in an easy winner bet St competitors, bad quite a different sound ygliah officer’s «Well done, my Inds,” ‘The only hitch in the proceedings arose from the in. obstinacy cf H. M. Lords of the Admiralty, the Minister of Marine of H M., or the Secretary of the Navy of the people of the United States—none of which functionaries seem oble to sgree what @ pinnace, a launel cra cutter should be, One thing was tolerably clea when a iace cf avy particular class of boats was ca'ed, H, M.’s boats had decidedly the advantage, avi shewed In advance of the boats of the other two navions—in bulk and weight; invaluab‘e qualities, doubt- e's, on acme ogcasions, but of more than doubifal value ‘0 x» puliing match. Tae French were next in weight; 4 our cousins of the United States, on their prinsiples of gc-sheadivm, bad their boats of the very lightest con- struction; so th my want of harmony tn pulling, to- rinsic, an gether was totally ex! id all the Toult of the “old folks at home,’” On the first dey the third race was for ten oared cut- tere, and ended thus:— U.S. frigate Macedonian’s Ist cutter HB, M.'s frigate Pique’s 1st cutter. & & ay higate Pique’ A poor race—the first boat ran with two oara shori, but al ad more the look of a twelve oared bai then utter, and could have weighed little more than half the weight of her op its, A good race between the 2d, 3d and 4th—the 5th nowhere. Iay a fourteen oared boat from the United States trigate Macedonian also ay red, but nei- ther the French nor English boats would pull with her-— one Cose sufficient—“ De burnt childs dreads de water, as your Shak-es-peare says.” The Wo, of the day concinded with the laughad’ farce called “Catebing a Punt.” ADMIRALTY AFPAIRS—SILAS E. BURROWS IN COURT —JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM. - _ {From the Overland Register, Jan. 15.) Vice-ADwRaLty Court, Jax. 9.--Burrows », Ausiralia, late Rob Roy.—Burrows for himseif, with G. Cooper Tar- ner, ., proctor; the Hon, W. T. Le and F. W. Green, Eagra., advocates; and Messrs. and Brown vroctors for impugnants, Mesars. Douglas Lapraik and George Chape. Tks was ‘a suit in @ cause of possession. The fac's are briefly as follows:—The Rob Roy, an American shiv, was sold by the United States Morshai in Sao oe seamen’s wages, The ves*el was bought by Silas [). tar f cub $1,000, He repaired hec ps far as he SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1856. fora rezage to arrived ia B. cng J 1a, withthe tro caterers on bard, on: was water, roant ri tela ena” eree a ~ ‘ were re- cee oy aS fest including the bottom, it was found that was in such 8 state that It cculd not have been overhaul- ships rose tly in value, end any- tn ape i ship. wan ploked npatonn omnes Rob Roy—not improved by axteen it into market and was rc. Lapraik and ey ing, to repair and put y of bet $17,000" "snd sis,o00. ts at an expense ween ‘sf a addition other sums were ex her for officers’ quarters to amount of $2500 and upwards, A ‘ill of sale” was parties, took the “bi tein to Lamont, and that from Lamont to the present purchasers, and laid them before the Colonial Secretary whe granted » register to the veseel under the name of the Australia on the second “bill of sale.’’ taking no no- 8 ust, 1854, S. E. using the R>b Roy , laid claim to her on the ground that the captain has no power to sell a ship in any case. The Judge said that having read the evidence he was of nie t the captain had a@ right to sell under the dl jancer, The promovent, notwithstanding this intimation, was detirops of going into the merits of the case by reading a it in-whe nature of a deposition; and as Mc. Bur. Qn ‘was a sttanger, ignorant of the laws and manners ofour courts, the opposite party agreed aa the shortest way to allow the paper 10 be rexd. It turned out to be tly @ review of the evidence, and par:ly « deposition 9 Burrows himself, that other partios would maxe car- ‘ain depost.tons. Among other things he read was @ do- position made before the British Consul, at Canton, by Sanawith Drinker, to the effect that be had offered to cbsrter the ship and to advance what would be sufficient to repair her sufficiently to carry granite and passengers, The Judge seemed to think it hard that pasceogers ebould be put into en unseaworthy ship with granite, aad asked Mr. Burrows if he thought that a fair and houor- able proceeding. Mr. Barrows thought it perfectly faic, anc went on to try and prove that the merits of the case were in his favor—that the ship was bought by one of the surveyors who condemned her, and who, besides that, had undertaken to repair her for $5,600, but that the repairs did not cost him more than from $2,000 to $3,000. The Judge—it is perfectly clear trom the evidence that the ship was not coaworthy when she was in this harbor, ané it is also clear that she waa not aeawortny when she -e't San Francisco. The Hon. Mr. Bridges then addressed himzelf to the point of regia‘ratien. A bond had been given for $22,000 to bring the ship in to Judgment. Burrows, in addition, to have the net earnings of the ship to date, and to pay all amolicrations, THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER AND THE COOLIE TRADE. [From the Friend of China, Jan. 15.) The newly arrived United States Commismoner to China, his Excellenoy Dr. Parker, has notified subjects of his government that they will not only forfeit protec- tion but be Hiable In heavy penalties, if heresfter found ergagirg in the traffic known as the cooile trade, the hornble character of which his Excellency describes as pore revolting a that of ths A’rican slave trade. Tke notification will be received as an expressioa of high disapprobation, we take it, and n more, some- thing more expiicit than threats being required to doter American citizens from ecgaging in such a trade. The coclle trade, in itselt, may not be cavilled at, and might be evgsged ‘in by persons of the most philanthropic ats- porition, What we want for itis.an organized system; not an attempt to stop the trade aitogether, for the sole sdvant f adventurers under thet most convenient of a'l flage—*he Peruvian. An averege bonus of two hun- deed dollars is given on every Chine bondsman landed at Peru; 20 that the profits ona sbip losd are sometime: conmderab'e— quite sufficient to induce rome of ‘‘che fre ee to throw up their citizenship alto ether. ras Excellency lias been staying at Government House since his arrival. REMOVAL OF COMMODORE ABBOTT’S BODY FROM VIC TORIA-—THE FUNERAL PROCESSION. [From the Fiiend of Colne, Jan. 16 On the day of the Ceparture of last mail for Eu- rope, We meds mention of an intended procession with the body of the la mmodore Abbott from the house of R. P: De Silvi U. 8, Naval Storekeeper, where his Excellency died. The,fullowiag was the ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. Bend ot H. M. 8. Winchester, playicg the Doad March in Saul, followed by a body of Royal Marines, Broad Pendant of the deceased Commodore borne by his coxaiain, 46, a eign needy U8 Marines, and 6% tf . 5. en Rea ee Frag 138uy, Gwaitig Pe Geant KivaD: Gept, Wilson, B.°N.,'H.M. Hon. Gol, Graham, Com- . Winchester. mandant. Bon. Commocore Elito‘, H. Capt. [4 Malssoneauve, H. M. 8. bong |. M.S. Sybille, His Excellency Admiral Sir His Kxoellency Gov. Sir Jas. John Bowring. Ria flicers of U. 8. 3, Macedonian. Crew of Macedonian. Foreign Consus. English and French officers. eon rrieges. Sedan chaira, &0. An the procession proceeded, minute guns were ficed, first from the Macedonian, then by the shore battery, and, lastly, on beard H. M. S$. Winchester, the whole of the soldiers in garrison in extended file, with reve-sed arms, tining the Queen’s road towards the Janding place. Arrived at the landing place, the eer ‘was received into the deceased Commodore's barge, then escorted by beats from the seve;al men of war in por up to the Ma- cedonian, where {t was received with the honors due a deceased ting officer. Our New Granada Correspondence. Mosros, New Granada, Jan. 18, 1856. Visit t@ New Granada—The Ambalema, Tobacco—Mahates— The New Carthagena Canal—Santa Cruz—A Story for the Abclitionists—Fruits of the Policy of England in Central America--Journey Through the Woods—Calamar —Tereriffe— Chances for American Enterprise in New Granada, dc., de. It was night already when we arrived at Arjono, and as we were not expected, no dinner had been prepared for us. During the ride I had emptied my segar case, and as our luggage had gone on while we remained to viit Gen. Santa Anna, I could not fill it feom my own stock. Taccordingly seat a boy to purchase for me a couple of dimes’ worth of segars of the country, and for that sum he brought me two bunches, containing sixty- four small segars, similar in size and make to the Manila chercot. I was most agreeably surprised on smoking them. They had a mild, pleasant flavor, burn: freely, and, iu my optnion, were better than the Havana segars which are made in Cuba from the fabaco de partido, although not equal in flavor to the true Vuelta de Abajo. On inquiry, I was informed that they were made from Ambaiema tobacco, Ambalema ia a province of New Granada, lying upon the upper wators of the river Magdalena, and its tobacco is esteemed in the London market as being inferior only to the true Vuelta de Abajo, and better than that of St. Jago de Cuba, Large quantities are already shipped to London and B-emen, in both of which paces it finds # ready sale at high prices; but a merchant of Santa Martha toid me that some lots which he sent on trial to New York did not do well, I suppose this was becanre our tobacconists were unacquainted with it. It seems to me that a fine open- ing Ja presented here for our tobacco and segar dealers, some little enterprise only being needed to establish the manufacture on a large scale, for the reqaisite kind of Jabor for iia manufacture is abundant and cheap. We started at early morn, aiter having passed «few sleepless hours in & hammock, which is the most usual bed here During the rice we crowed nearly # league ot country flooded by the surplus waters of the old Dique of Carthagena, and after crossing the Dique itself, which wo did in & Jarge canoe, accompanied by a little jacka: while our horses swam by {ts side, reached Mehates, where breakfast awaited us. This place was formerly the point at which cargo was landed, and taken acros) the country on horses to the river. The channel from here to the bay of Carthagena ix a deep natural rent in the earth, having from two to nine fathoms of water. There is here @ bar formed of gravel, brought down by « brook: and beyond this the natural canal continues to severa) fresh water lakes, within ten or {welve miles of the river: Col, Totten, the prerent able engineer of the Panams Railroad, ext a canal throogh this small distance « few yearn since, in oréer to make a combiaued line of water communication with the bay of Carthagena, A mdden rela the ist before the guard ‘ook woe finished Bod Ue gar al meg Loko, aug dalled thous with myd) and a failure in the supply of funds caused the work to be abandoned. A New York company has taken it in hand, as I wentioned in a former letter, and are prosecu- ting the labor of clearing the canal with groat success. ‘They have a privilege of ita tolls for sixty years, and as it fu supposed that the opening of the canal will bring the Greater part of the trade of the river tothe aafeand easily accessible harbor ot Carthagena, it is expected to proves very profitable undertaking. We otarted from Mahates immediately after breakfast, im order to reach {[Ca'amar before night. The country from Arjonas to Sante Cruz is very similar to our best sugar Jands in Cuba, and formerly contained many sugar estates. The long continued revolutionary atruggle, and the subsequent abolition of slavery there, has destroyed them aud their once fertile fields have again become @ thickly wooded wilderness. Under a tropical aun and tropical rains, the,forest soon resumes its sway where the hand of man ceases to hold control, an|it is now difficult to recognise even the boundaries that once divided highly cultivated lands. ‘We stopped at Senta Cruz during theheat of noon to rest our horse sand ourselves, The place consists of a few negro huts only, and seeing an aged looking black vitting on the earth in an open hut, and eating with his fingers from an earthen vessel,I crept into the shade beside bim. Entering into conversation with him, he told me that he was a Lucumé (an African tribe of which there are mapy in Cube); that he did not know how old be was, but had been in this country every since the English ‘‘burnt Spein’’ (I euppore he alluded to Tratal- gsr); that he bad been brought from A‘rica by an Eing- lith cap‘sin, whose mame was King, and 591d to Senor Caepades, His master formerly hada sugar esta‘e here, where the forest now was, and he saidthe old sugar mill snd kettles were stilt lying over there ia the thickot good for nothirg now. In reply to my further questions, he said his master was a good one, but he was dead now, and his widow was livirg, very poor, in Carthagens, with x0 one to help her, “for all America is free now.” He wished his old master was back for he was old and had uno one to give him mecieine, There were some chi dren playing round which he eaid were his grant chi'dren and one, a babe, bis great grandchild, Iasked him why his children did not plant corm and sell it to get money for the purpose cf buying medicine for him, He replied, “what do we want to plant corn for, ell America is free now.’ This seemed to be tbe uppermost idea in his mind. In the history ot this poor negro we have » perfect epitome of the policy of England towatd tropical America. Tho cestruction of the Spanish fleets, the carrying on of the Mave trade by her own sbips, to their gain, and to the proeperity of the Spanish colonies, and then tho rules of Eaglieh philanthropy destroying the colonies, the whites dying in poverty, and the children of the nogroes build- ing themeelves huta im the forests that have overgcown the once prosperous fieids—he once happy slave siak- ing into the grave in unallevisted pain, ‘for all Awerica in free now.” After leaving Santa C:uz the horse of one of our party begun to sbow evicent signs of giving out, and as the others rode on I Isgged behind to keep kim company. We rode on slowly, givieg our horses rest at the vil'ages of Arroyo Hendo aud Sato, and the sun was already pe low the horizon whon we left the latter with two gocd Jesgues yet to ride. As we entered the forest the daylight tailed, though the stara shcne brightly overhead. Alter having ridden, as we judged, a league our horse’s feet be- gen to pester in water, and we could soon percsive that at every step they sank deeper and deeper. I rode on with come misgivings, and in s few minutes my horse sank in the mud nearly to his girths, I had lont the way, end I rhouted to my companion, who was at a short dis- tance behind, to hold up, for there was no road, but only swamp, where I was. With some dificulty I got my horee out of the mud, and rode back to where my icend waited fcr ire when he beard my shout, We retraced our steps to where the ground was dry, and as it was too dark to nee I dismounted, and anelt to see it Tcoult feel the trodden path with’ my hands. Hoof prints in hardened mud were everywhere around, but nowhere conld I find ag beaten road. We were undoubtedly in the old roai, but, as it had become flooded with wa-er, had been aban: ndoped, and there must be » turn out nea. Imcunted agniz, and we tlowly roce back, seeking on both ci ind some iudicstions of the true road, But sides to the ca:kness was too Fgyptian, and hid {t from us, luotantly we determined to retrace out steps o Sato and procure a guide. Wehad nearly reac! the viliage, when we came suddenly upon three gentlsmon riding to- werds Gaismar. They proved to be two of our own JAT'Y; who, unbeknown to us, bad remeined behind at jobates to avoid the beat of the day, and a gentleman who was returning to Calamar. We told them of our adventure, and all were glad io follow the gentieman. as ed him to be fai time, however, I thaughtI recognized portion of the Tord, and son we heard the patter of the leading horie’s teet in stancixg water. Treined up at once, and soon after we heard the guide shouting to us to stop. For some time we could plainly hear the floundering of his horae, but could ses nothing, and in a sbort time he retnrned and said tnere was no road there. The new comers then began to seak for tte true rcad, but #5 I hed already gene branches and kneesagaiast trunks of trees ~aithons ber, L in donive ne it; ao throw. one ower the mest of: a. eee and waited with patience for the result. sy 800 Rave up their fruitiess search, and the strange gentiemin propored that we shoul¢ ride back a short distance and there wait until ke went to Sato for a guide. We soon came to a small open space, where we dis- mounted, and throwing our tired limbs at leagth upon the ground lett cur horres to browse upon the tender branches, while we so'aced our hungry stomachs with 1 fleetions upon the good dinner that was wai'iog for us et Calamar. In about halfan hour we heard the sound ot appreaching hoots, and at a moment’s warning a littie jacksse, Jadea with trunks, trotted rapidly through our decumpent pary, and we 4 some one Batts, “Mount, mount, tor the burden beas‘s sre coming.” We were soon up, for the laden avimala have little respect for obstacles in their path, and fourd tbat they were out luggage mules which we had at Mabateo. Tae tavern knew the road well, and as the gentieman who had volunteered to go to Sato, came up with them, we ail gladly fell in, and once more tock up our way for Us- lemar, Iwas both hungry and fatigued, and ths da-k ride teemed almost interminable. ‘2 soon met 8 man who roce up to me and said he brought me a fresh horse. It was one that General Mosquera, who had rea sted Cala- war before dark, bad kindly sent out for me, fearing by our long delay that mine had broken down. We rercued the village at half past ten in the evening, and were soon doing = justice to the impatient dioner. The of tbe steamer awoke us before daybreak, and sf er a hurried cup of coffee, we embarked. The Henry Wells, belonging to the New Granada Canal and Steam Navigation Com;any of New York, and named in honor of ita President, had waited two days for us, and her cap- tain was anxious to be off. I was surprised to find her with the American flag flying at the peak, and upon en- qniry was told that the New Granadian government, vith « wise liberality ia its Cemre to advance the mate- 1ial interests of the c:untry, had thrown open the navi- gation ofthe Megdalena river, its main artery, to all rations, and thst both Americim and Ecg‘ish steamers are now runzing wpen it under their own national flags. The latter Lave been here some years, but the former have onlg lately mado their ap;earance. They have al- ready evinced their superiori Ad the English steamers, andan other boats are now being built in the United Sta‘es, exprersly adapted to this river, I hope, and I doubt not, fast they will continue to maintain their superiority, ard even increase it. We lay to at night, and two days’ sail brought us to this city. The river below here present: many of the characteris ics, but less monotonous, of the lower Mis- siesippi. There isthe same broad sheet of water, the some high and caving mui banks, the same sandy shoals, the same rapid, whiring and muddy stream, the sams sega and rawyors, and a similar wild vegetation, al- though no cotton wood is to be found. We passed the old Spanish city of Teneriffe, now quite decayed. It was he szene of one of the great battles of Colombian inde- pendence. A fine church towers abave the thatshed roofs cf ite surrounding bouses, but the walls alone re- matin; the reof bas followed the waning fortunes of the place: Campos is @ busy and thriving place, being the great seat aid cenit river trace. Here the bongas and champans, & by ies of boats and flats that do the carry- ing trade on the river, poling up streams and floating ip and pay off thetr erews. Here are the car- ind black«miths that build and ir there river craft, and here reside many of the merchants and beat owners who conduct the trade above and below them. In rambling slong the levee, and observing their manner of working, I could not but reflect what a great re- yolution and pele ate one single bogie? yen) Ameri can might make , to the advantage of the people and the ig of an ieee fortune for himself. The stuff for boat ot houses is most labortona- iy rawed out by hand. excellent timber ix abun lant and at band, not a be id saw mill exists upon the river. Ey one who estab! ro page 4 his stasis tune, wit! economy and akill, chea| ing the cost of hanes 8 pew impulse to we mechanic arte of Campos. This seems to me to be the beat place to establish such an enterprise, for there is an active city of eight or ten thousand people for a market, be- rides Carthay Barranquilla, Santa Martha and mai smaller cities down the river, and numerous wood rtreams above. I have found the people most hospitable and friendly to Americans, but as my sheet {s full, and I am‘tired, T remain AMG BREACH OF Promise in A) -The Circni Court, two da; has been od in # breach of promise came, in wh ich Elizabeth bel is plaintiff and i L AA defendant. The tiff is repre- fag in appearance KS ‘the both reside in New Soot- lend. e action is for a breach of of brought martiage, made by the defendant to the er ai meerein The alleged seduction of the Hit Is ret up by way Of aggravating the plaintif's domages, which are laid at $10, The obi JETS OW. Ail aryg 0. THAT, Moyryh 21, THE NEW YORK HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTs. ‘The Griowold Case—Motter te Va- 6 grow faa el bag ee ken ex uarig tad minh vari td adduced, which. in aoaaeiee with tbe letter just ‘end with the tact that the respondent had ful ea Gr colence that she ~ Acq wieecence in the by bim, as now, were never breathed to any cue. was permitied to' act as though the case was in all fair and free from any collusion or fraudulect desiga, It becomes, thea, a question of serious import under such circumsiances a Vout ought to leten io the party whe Claiane ‘o impeded the proceedings, elther upon the ground of collusion, to which, if it existed, she wasa party, or of which she krew of avd dec'ined to expose. As to: ccllusion, it does not eatitfactorily ar that it existed tren 1s to demand our ac lon onthat ground. be proceadings were cammenced:and carried on adversely, with full noo. the respondent She was requirea to appear, but did not, charge of desertion was distinctly sated in the Tibel fled, uns the truth of the charge was atiemiptod to be sustained by'evi- dence. Her declaration that the charge war ‘and the = sertion persisted in. ax dthat A party toa «itt who bas a defer ce, but who chooses not to use it, cannot be wit to collude with the’ perry suing. He would not be listened to upen stich a suggestion, tights mar be walved without 1 jtcting the party to avy such imputation. ro a defence may »@ Fiulv dor a proocedixi¢ seauesced in without any tmapropricly. id, on behalf of the respondent, that the fetter writ- ten by her was o>tatned by force and fraud, and should be now: disregarded —‘Ihis, however, is not sustaied oy the evidence, Lor by ker own statement in regarato it. Itseems that the letter containing the declaration referred to, was writien at (! hbel’ani’s request, and upon his promise to permit hisfdsagh- ter to remain with the respoadent, if #he would write the letter. This was no coercion, aud with every alow: ance upon the scare of the altection entertained by het towards the iibetlarts daughter, it is certain.y not suiliclent to Juniity or excuse the reepcrdent’ in thus stating what her as- Rertious cow mace woud sbow to be grossly false and um- founéed ‘The only reasonab'e expianation of jg, that sinee thet period her mind haa beeome muck more ex- guinat the hbellant, or her vie rs so grestly changed that ehe now tees things Siscagh an entirely di medium. The ofdavit of the libeliant should not be regarded as and even it it were, we cannot perceive tne, of perml'ting a varty who, byt e supp! the senertion ofthe existence of contrary tion to be takeo, by which the dearest in'ereats become involved to tuke advantage of herowa to callsuch scton in question, Neither have we beem ab discover any such g rpetrated upon the re: ‘or upon tke Court, aa bas been suggested on her behalt procee ere’ commenced by the ibellant upen full {o the responcent, and carried on without any ef the Itmay be that some formal requisition rotetrictly complied with, but when it was Turbo the cbacges alleged in the" ibel used uth of arges joa i" be obtained and she gave that admission, of fiaud axe‘nst ber cannot be sustained. a8 traud i 5] g a ui Rese j Mi the case. what appeared to the Court to be and the object on o° the want of sufficient notice cent being zemoved by her adenission, we the ifbeliant to show hy & divorce ed. testimony. x 10 the, kranting of the «aid rule o show d or supplement el was fil ‘ot oremondert bed no notice, ed. that tional testimon> = ns (sen urder sald supplemenial libel, dcea not appear whether the supplemental was ever ieihe comereien-o Prey —. Wh.ch exists as to recor apers ry case, ql Teaines Tom secoruaug whatier any charge ee ad upon said enpplemes ial libel. C3 Was ‘he same as that stated in the criginal libel; the testimony alleged to have jaken ur cer It was addresed tothe same fects ard circumetantes as tis; whioh had been ; taken uncer the origianl proceeding. The # had vo etlect whatever upon the of the Court, if, it was ever brought urder consideration, of which we éntertale. con iderabie doubt. The filing of ths paper, even without. tice to the reepondent, as it did not vary the. charge, duced no spectel ection, cannot be coneidered a frei siiion upon the Court’ The main which we tec] obliged to refose the present mi certainiy which exists as to the fact of avicg been entered by the Court, There cere ether upon the minute book, or the, Courts rer do the. docket ent at Fuch decrer Was enter Sed and the teeismony and exh Fy a8 conrt. the deci e®, we are ent fatality, incident, pe ‘rhaps, to re, are kept, these pepers have Gieappeared Sess the ‘tegen sad nn ong :tietina ce id enh ‘on the abject of the decree, Turihor than of ie ieee regarced the evid ‘as it was presented to as it evidence, cient to entitle the !ibetiant 'o the usual rule to show cat a decree ibou'd pot be granted. It ia, of course, rely upon tte recollection of counsel tor that as records are silent; and when we find that there is ovr record toshets thas notice of the rule to Hil Hl decre it seerca to us that the prelt rere rrod to was cot placed tupea ie lin referri as ci pored of in the uvual manner, the doubt as to the made is 80 much increased that we are only safe course, which is to regard thet it which 8 not exist. We are the libellant acted some evi cree having in his tavor. that gyidence was, we have ete ‘formed, nor we B vans of uecertaining. It does tbat ven certificate of the decree wen 4 ren by the Erotheaee ta) if euch @ certificate was upon it waa 4. In this absence of all evidence of any proceeding be- jor dihat which appears of record, we are led to decide. that there is no ‘cient evidevce of a decree drove ree been entered and c juently th phe ea ta 4 and 1 Present Prothonotary Fi he f : a i of the proceedings, cathe ates of his mn subject to his super therefore, refused. Upon the decision of the Court being prot Cuyler applied to the Court for the follee pore ‘wold vs. Griswold. On motion of Mr. Ouyler, the Court granted a rule to show cause why the record skould not be perfected by the substitution of copies and of evidence cf the contents of lost papers. In offering this moiion Mr. Cuyler, couarel for Dr. Gxlswolé, expressed is satictctlon with the decision, which on every moral an round perfestiy exone- rated his client from censure. tT ® question A to the existence of any decree of divorce had been raised the argument of the the Court would have ratisfied upon that point, without the slightest r. ‘The counsel on both sides |, however, considered fact.as settled, and entirely unquestionable. The defects of the record are of salt he te ain ee tte livellant, nor should he be responsible “the strange fatalities incident to the manner in which the re- cords of the court have been kept.”” Dr. Griswold’s dear- est interests bad at ail times been involved in the preser- yaticn of the records of this case. Mr. Cuyler was happy in the conviction that by completing the records from authenticated of the mi parts of it, this strange ard unperallel ‘secution was to be aad tho gocd fame and legal rights of his ollent perfectly via- ie vied. Supreme Court. Before Hon. Judge Davies. THE CLEANING OF BROADWAY. Manch 22.—Jn the Matter of Dodge vs. The Mayor, Comp- (roller, &¢.—This was » motion to show offise why the defendants should not be restrained from signing and countersigning « warrant in favor of ex-Alderman Baird for cleaning Broadway. Mr. Busteed said that as there was a similar order for an injunction against Mr. the Street Commissoner, restraining him from signing any j ‘warrant for clean’ part of the ci eturnable on Saturday, 20th, thong it better ‘thet the ene egainst t! yor, &e., ah be postponed to that day. ry » 1. ‘hepard, Cor; tion Counsel, did not see the ease should b¢ portponed. It waa evidend, that some Mitigation. The Judge said there were other cases now om argument, and set both casea down for Seturday next. Betore the Hon. Judge Strong. THE BROADWAY RAILROAD—INJUNCTION AGAINST THE MAYOR. MARCH 22.-—Jacob Sharp vs. the Mayor, Aldermen, dic., of Now York.—Mr. Wm, McDermott applied for and ob- tained an order for the defendanta to show cause, om next to Satu in Brooklyn, why sind hom 1 Berea SBourd to fi to met time restraining the 5, from signing the in meant 1@ — passed by the Councilmen on the Dnt inat. buildings, aituated near the Fulton ferry, Brooklyn, and eed ax an ice depot, were totally destroyed by fire. The buildings contiguous were at one time in grow Put up by the Cige ny wits, lad ongaped