The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1856, Page 2

ROW—AN ASSIGNATION HOUSE—CLOSB OF THE INVESTIGATION. The Committee of the State Legislature, Mr. John M. Reed, chairman, appointed to Jook into the condition of fhe tevant houses of New York, met again on Saturday, of 10 A.M, at the cffice of the Cierk of the Com" gon Council, City Hall. With the exeep'ion of Mr. Cur_ ts, of Westchester county, a full committee was im at fendance. There was also & numerous attendance of Jandlords and tenant house builders and others interested fn the mabjoct, whose presence had beem requested by the gemmittes. The Chairman announced that it was neces- sary he should absent himself in erder to return to Albany; where important business demanded his presence. Mr. eed thereupon left, when it was decided among the re- maining members of the committee, im accordance with the arrangement of the previous day, fora portiontoremain end hear further statements of -parties destring to be eard a0 to the best plan for the future construction of fewant houses. The others, meanwhile, would look Mreugh some of the tenant houses in the Eighth and ‘Minth wards. This latter arrangement was agreed upon, as Mr, Brevoert desired to make a personal inspection of some of the tenant houses, not having beem with the gommittee on their previous tour ef inspection. Mr. Douganne, of New York, acoompanied Mr. Brevoort, waile Mr. Shea, of Richmond county, remained behind. ‘We give first what was said before Mr. shea. a. R. 0, Srapaens was the first party appearing. He said that he owned the four stcry brick tenant house Ne. 43 Bixter street. He complained, in the outset, of the fmecnverienees and abuses he had to suffer from those Tving im adjoinirg tenements, and he wished some astto be passed compe'ling proper respect by the oe- eupants of every house to the comfort and health ef parties occupying premises adjacent. Houses of ill fame were entortusately next to his building, and he wished to know if it was not part of the commitiee’s Dusiness to effect the breaking up of such locaities. ‘Mr. Sura said the committee in their present official ehacacter, bad nothing to do with such places. My. Srurums repeated that the proximity of these peote made it nrarly imposible for him to xeep his yard fa clean'y condition, as rubbish and garbage were con- wtantly being thrown from their yards into his. Mr. Snes suggested as the best remedy that Mr. Ste- PRene buy the a Joining houses and convert them into Fespectadie tenemen's. ‘Mr. sruruxss said this would do were it not that it might compe! him to extend his purchase over « large aves of tne city. (Laughter.) Mr. Stephens, after this proceeded at Jength to speak of his owa house. % a building 31 dy 465 feet in dimemsions, four stories, with two families on @ flor, each family ocyapying s yoem and two bedrooms. The iv terior, he said, was not @lean, nut this he at ributed joiatiy to the infectious tmfiuence of da: example, and ihe natural filthy habits of the poor of large cities. He ssid chat he did ail he eould to enlorce cleaslinees, but to ensure ita p-eservation oy Jeng of time, it was neseseary that » police offiser ch officer should be in constant a teadance As this however, could not be cone, he urged upon the com- mittee that they introduce a clause in their bill, as to tenant houses, giving to every landlord the power of a ‘Bealth officer. He claimed that inno otter way could @leaniiness be maintained. The cecupants of tenant Reuses were mainly the poorest of the poor; besices many of them were emigrants, whose natural element was seemingly filth. They were those who, f-om pover- ty, lonng Sher self-respect, soon lost ali idea or care ‘Of eleapsiners. ‘Mr. Sac. Wxaxs next appearing, said that he owned alarge number of tenant houses in the city, situated re- ly in Pell, Elizabeth, Mott, and Mulberry streets. attending to bis own buildings, he kep’ an office for the general renting and supervision of temant houses. ‘Be had grown up with the business, and knew what it was; be had been Saqneel 98 Nusaniort for tenant house owners in the city thiriy-two years. At the commence- ment of bia agency it was a retail business ccmpared with its present magnitude. At present he had, im addi- tion te his own, the letting and Fupervision of ten rega- Jer tenant houses, besides a number ef old buildiags rented to tenants, but not modern built tenant houses. ‘He built bis own buildicge expressly to accommodate the are class of people, these getting saleries fron $8 to Bweek. Ten yeare ago he buil: his firsttwo houses, Nos. 47 and 48 Mott street, to accommodate this class of tensnts. Their dimensions were 21 by 70 feet each; each wait of apartmen:s comprised t2reejrooms, two suits on a ‘kor. The msin room was 11 by 16 fee’, with a vedroom ‘by 1) feet, aud a backroom or a kitehen 10 by 17 feet. ‘The coiling was eight and» half feet high. When these Dulldings were first rented, he charged nice dollars a month. At p:esent he let them twenty five per cent less. But at this reduction a large majority of tenant: could M@afford to pay the amount. Tne resul: was that they ‘would sub-let their apartments, and this was one reston why the tenant houses were so crowded and filthy. All prevent it were ineffectual. Tne tenants was none of his basiness if he interfered. if he had nos rict rules regulating the partments and the order they should be id he always inquired as to the charas- tenants, morally as weil as pecuniarily, but he y got taken in. Under the present ordinances lord had not enough power. Heemgloyeia maa general charge of each building, acd a* soon as eleaned out the yard, the tenants wouli again with garbage and obstractions. ‘They do it purposely to give his man something . They seemed to delight in doing it. By present laws, if a tenant paid his rent it was diffi- @alt to eject him. It frequently happened that s drunken man would get in bis apartments, and it was very dilli- @alt to get rid of him, He desired an enactment touc’- fog such cases, as also t> afford increasad facilities to gE § & 5 @jec: disorderly characters without the present exorbi. | fant expense. Mr. Weeks, in oonclusion, recommended ge ibe best plan fora tenant house, a lot 25 feet front 100 feet cep, so as to build a front and rear house eo, each 28 feet deep, allowing an interval of forty feet between, anc leaving tive feet space io the rear of the rear house. ‘These buildings he would ereot five stories Righ, with tweire inoh wails; each builcing to ascommo- da e ten families. The ‘aparimente for eac family would bea room and bedroow. The mala room li by | 16 fee, axd bedroom § by 9 feet. The bedrooms would @ech bave windows. and be ventilated from tne yard. | Bush buildings could be built at an average expense, | for both builcings, ot six thousand dollars, exclusive of | gost oflot. The rent would vary from $5 t) $4 amonth. | Mr. Weeks detounced as rivizulous all the fice spun Botions a>cut air chambers and all that. Poor poope ‘were poor people, and had to get aloog poorly. The ail ficlty was not lenciorcs, but tenants. Mr. Weeks said ‘be would not turn out a poor respecteble famtly be @auce they coudret pay their rent. Ths dus ness of Shouse letting was nct now sa good as in former years, though Le managed even now to make some ton per 8 money invesied im buikings. uN McOsmsenny desired next to #ay somsthing, in order for any one t) give their suages'ious | esto the erection of tenant houes. He recommended | two rows of buildings, front and rear, wiih gregp plot Between, anda fountain playing boaatifal y ita@Piapid waters in the centre. Mr. MsChe-eney continued a\ seme length with a deveriotion very much atter the pic- ture of the priace of Lake Como. ‘Mr. SHEA sugges ied that practical facts were what the we wanied. ‘Mr. MoCursesey raid he was not @ house builder by Profession, but he had ideas, and 1: was only to give tuase ‘wtterance toat he appeared. His principle regarding the poor was dulce at uttie. Mr. Tuomas Pius followed. He said he was a build- 0 had built # large numer of tenant houses, of warious plans and dimensions, tor himself and o:hers. He had deen engsged in the business thirty-five yours. He objected iu the first place to the erection of rear tenani houses. It was impossivie to keep the yard clear of impurities, ard especially the alleyways leading to the rear tenements, A single house, on a siogie lot, ooali, im his view, with proper care and atteatiou on the part of the landlord, be kept clean, adequate ven lation eould de afforced, and health ensvred to the occupants. He reeommenced that under no cireumstances lesa than two Yooms, wilh proper ventilation, :hould be allowed for @ ‘amily, and 'n0 more than four rooms fora family. Weay they to bave more rooms they would either use thent @ » con! ard Woodhouse or else underlet them to gtoer tenaxts. The hall of every tenant house should be from fur to six fest wide at the fi from seven to eight feet where the «tai + entrance, aad should be from eight to mine feet higa, with pisces for vea- ‘MWiation inserted in the wall of oach apartment near the . Alarge skylight should be placed on une roef to Bight the hall, wita a lange voatilator ia the roof. The thould be as open as powible, and ligt holes lef: fm the front and rear. Every landlord should be com peiled to keep one person in & hoa to soo that every Senant keeps his place clean. tous kespiag tenant hhoures clean, they would not only be maca tier fo° she in & sanitary peint of view, bat would be Profitable to the landlords, «i re Fa8 pec table for the poor tenants oscapying them. In sonolu- Mr. Phillips aeked the committe to visit his tomant use at No. 36 Siarton street, as built upon ine wag he hai joat made, and showing what might be elected by prover ventilation and s!+aaliness, Mr. Jaums Wey said ho bad been @ practical bailder er thirty years. The main difficulty with ‘ensat honses, present cons ruste’, was having the spartaants small, and not lesving sufficient moans of wicape in ease of fire. alowed. i ‘He thouga’ thet @ rear house shouid n»\ be There was s rear house in Prinoe stree;, be- tveen Thompron and Sullivan strests, six stories hig, en a lot twent, # feet aquare, which looked more like @ chimney than a bullding for human oceupanta, Simi- far buildings, be waid, wore going up elsowtere, Taece ‘were <i rous to human aad #tood ony a monu- Fw os Legh api 7] He bn w be in- javure could remedy the eceati ef such houses. frnresipps ‘Mr. Suma seid a different construction could be com- re ee enenitary measure, The stairways also coud required to be msde wider, ani other improveenia @ompelied for pudiic safety. Mr. Wenn said laws, in bis view, would do 20 good. They would be like ihe fre laws, only le Mr. SRA—That’s your business, not Lag’ ‘We make the laws, and the Corporation must #:@ to their Deing erforoed If the statutes are not complied with, eltizens must cali cn the Mayor and get thelr redrovw Mr, Sreruens (nverrupticg)—A fig ferthe Muyor | M-. Btophens berruon gave an eladorate aod Interesting @tatement of the ineffestual results o” his cailiog on the ‘Me yor for redress or & reeent occasion. ure’, rr. Wenn, resuming, gave his views at length inant eas tlh aoere” Sn hat der materially from those advanced by Mr, Phillips, and speci answer the purpose as well. statements as to the construction of terant houses tuto some of the ing, terani houses in the Fighth and Nioth wars, taken by They. Fo of ths committees. Av on Mesare. oor Lege the inepection tour of the committee they =o Se were Mr. R. C. vowning, Superintendant of Lakeraft, Health Warden of the The first place visited was ta. 3 i Laurens There tories high, thirty vy forty-two “ heise’ airisaraetie loty teat, four steriea <a anaes thirty-six: rooms, coonpled iy twelre highe: milies, Both buildings are better tenant houses. The rooms are larger, with roar wider s‘airweys, aud better light. A fea‘ure however unrsual with ordinary tenant houses, de- veloped the ittea—tne tact that r @8 promiscuous!y; negroes, who preferred as spouses White women, ané vice teraa. White women aod men Who felt themselves above any petty pr udices ‘as to color, could here have apartments and live as umitedly an lovingly as unlimitei enjoyment of their peouliar psr- soval attractions could possibly enable them. The varie- ty of shades of pooigg gy ae es ane Teenie of om algemations, can ed. psriestly white ‘woman, with aliege lord of darkest ebom hue of counte- mance, were to be seen eating at ‘he same table, witha bevy of paie offspring about tnt No exeiusively white families were to be found in either building. lt was evident to hep tencaterry teat they tae coonped ts among a cass of undoubted “nigger worshippers.” Toe interior of the upartments, it e but just to say, pre- sented a mueh neater appearance than that of average tenant houses. The committee from looking on the above dark en reels next to examine & row of mements cn the same Vs saige Bee above Grand stre en the west side, igaated ‘‘ Rotten Row.’ There are fourteen buildings in all, eight frocting on the street and six im the rear. The Duildings are three stories high in front and four stories high in the rear. In the front buildings are 64 families, and in the rear 48 families. They have a room and bed- roomeach. The condition of the dutldiogs themselves is beyond description. The appeiletion of “Roven Row’ is most appropriate, The ins: stages of decay are visibly manifest on the floors, the etaire, the baunisters, the doorr, the windows and throughout the combined premis height, and nearly a: denuded of plastering. were narrow. the rooms qearaly, dark and ill v lated. Many of the rooms had two beds in them. A nam- der of these becs, it was stated, were let at a shilling a night. A sadder spectacle than the miserable teaants exhibited bad presented itrelf at no prior place visited by the commiitee. In three of the apartmen’s were persons in the final steges of consumption, besides frequent exhi- bi ions of unfortuna‘es suffering from not less fatal but more horrible and sickening dineases. fhe inoone derived from these buildings is $5,600 a year. They belong to the Joseph Morse es‘ate, which is at present in liti ticn, and thus are prevented from being torn down. city would cmly do right to take this task upon itself. the building No. 42 Wooster was next looked into. It 18 8 large building, 40 feet front by 100 feet deep. Tae committee seom ciscovered that they had ob’ em selves into a large assignation house, A minute investt- gation of the interior apartments was not pursued. Tue lanclady letting the committee in, when subsequently interrogated as to the character of the house, remarked ‘ne int that she supposed they knew when rhe first admitted them, from the familiar way in which they went up stairs. With the limited research made by the commit- tee, an oocasional flutter of sairte was heard, with a brief glance at their occupants. ‘An adjournment took place from the last locality to = respectable aud better class tenaut house, at No. 53 Greene street. There was a front and rear duii in both fifty famiies, paying rent from $6 50 to $10 month, ‘ibe rcoms were ail capacious, with high ceil. ings; and, aside trom dark bedrooms—the only objeo- tionable feature—well ventilated. Nos. 16 and 163¢ Downimg street were next visited. There were fifty iamilies in the house, comprising 251 persons. The rooms were comparatively good, and tole- rably well lighted and ventilated. The most noticeable feavure was stairs only twenty-a’x inohes wide. A building in the rear ot No. 40 Hamersley street, only three stories high, acd containing fifteen famiies, was found to sfford very meagre accommodations for its occupants, with but limited oppertani y for the enjoy- ment of necessary ventilation and light. A visit to No. 98 Christopher street terminated the inspecting tour of the commities. This was claimed to be @ sort of model house. I:is «six story tenement, and has 29 rooms. The lot is 30 by 70 teet, and the building omiy 30 by 50 feet, thus leaving aa opea space in the rear of 20 fest for free admission of air. Each family oscupies @ room and bedroom, the former 12 by 16 feet, the latter 10 feet square. There is Croton water on every floor, with coal bims in the cellar. The rent varies from $5 to $8 a month. aged yey and good ventilation throughout the bulldi @ ob- jec\ionable featares, and they are serious, is the narrow- ness of the balls, and the rooms being partitioned through- out with pine partitio in cave of fixe. The above was the lest visitation the committee made. An adjournment subsequently took place sine diz. 1 understood that the committee wil not make their report during tne present eession, but offer @ resolution recom- mending that they be authorized to sit during vacation, #0 as to give them time ‘or {urher investigation. , @ too combustible mat Steam Communication with the South Pacifie Letter from Commander Boutweil, Usit- ed States Navy. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Usrrep S1aTes Sup Jouy Apaws, Bay ov PaNaMA, March 7, 1856. j I take the liberty, throngh the columns of your paper, to express my confidence in the ability of the Panama Railroad to convey to the cities on this coast and the islenés of the Pasific O.ean all the necessaries and luxu- ries of life that Europe and North America may be wil- ling to dispose of. A man of common unders‘an‘ing and wi hout prejudice, has only to pass over this road three cr four tines (as Ihave done, acxompanted by nine hundred or a thousand pessengars, baggege, freight, &:., and without accident.) to be oonvioced of the firmness, stability, and comfort cf thts read. Indeed, it will eom- pare very iavorably with most of our roads at home, Tke order end sys'em with which the roai is conducted commands my admiration. The managers, from the Superintendent down, are p>- lite and obliging gentlemen. In connection with the road on each ocean, the finest steam vessels in the worl’ are in waiting to convey passengers to San Francisco ani | New York. The punstuality of their arrival and depar- ture, the sa’ety and expedition of the embarking an4 dis embarking of the passengers, do great eredit to the gen- tlemenly sgents on each side of tue Isthmus, The lm- petus given to trade in the Pacifis, the expedition with which passengers andthe mails ave now conveyed to California Oregon, Chi'1, and Peru, are wonde.fal. Thera is, however, one or two things more to bs dons. The first, and of tae most importance, fa to erta lish a line of steamers to Australia, calling at the Society, Friendly, aud Weejee Istande. A sailing ship can make the passage in forty five days, and s eteamer ough? to maxe it ia twenty. The next most important roate on which to place @ Line of steamers, is that from San Fransisco to (anton, to connect with the Panama jiae, and « third to the Sandwich Islands, Whaleshipa running into those islands for supplies, would find tt edvantezeous to ship their oilim these steamers to Panaina, The wear aod tear of ships doubling Cape Horn, the injary their car goes are liabe to sustein, ought of itself to deter men trom risking thelr property around that stormy cape when they have the advantage of the Panama Falitoat putting cut of the question the losa of time from Europe and North Ameriea to the Pacific Ocean via Cape Horn. Witkout any ctner interest except that of wishing well to my feliow men, | present to the public the views of one disconnected with this great measure, but with the hope that they may aasist in some small degree to draw attention to the advanteges now offered by the Panama Railroad. ae if ‘Asan American, I feel proud of this great work, be- cause itis wholly Americas. Aod I trust ia God that if England osnnot be convinced of the Importance of » lina ot sieamers from Panama t Australia, that my eater- prising countrymen will take it in hand,’and add one raora link to the great chain that must connect the oommerse of the two grent oovans, via Panama. The gold of Aus- tralia, the products of, and the snpplies for, the Feajas, Marquesas, Soc'ety, Friendly, and all other islands of Po. lynewis, rhould pass over the iathmus on the Pana: ailrosd. In treating this subject philosophieally, T beg to state that the surest and most certaim plan to civilize, Christianize and develope the resourses of tha great and productive islands of Polyzeda, is to increase eommor- cial intercourse with them, bring thelr products to your door by the isthmus route, supp'y them with wholesome laws, pure religivn, and eultivate their minds, This sa0 only be brought about by eonstant intercourse witn them, and that intercourse must be regalar and f-ejaant, such asthe Panama Ratlroat and a ioe of etsamaca to Austraiia, stopping at taese Islands, can alone supply. Vhysically, the Feejee Ialands are possessed of many of ‘bi in ages of our own happy land, and only eqaice on acd euterprive tomake them ® paradise on earth. Why ot give them civil and religious Hberty? Let them have an example of theenterpri.e and tadus try of cor own veople, asst them to develops their wealth, ard you will bricg anout @ more happy condition in the bevighted nds of Polynesia, In ciosing this that, in the a0 stion of « President, © Panama Railroad Com have understood weil ir interest, David oatiey, Haq., who has recently visite’ Panama, is admitied ail to be an accompli: hed gentieman, with great inary, and untiring Im his efforts to make ‘tnie route popuiar, profitable to the compyny, and at the same time cumfor. able, but not unreasonably expensive to paxkengers. The able report of Colonel Totten, the Chief Ragincer, made to the Board cf Direotors of the Panaua Hailroat Com. pany, should be read by every one wh» feels an int in the commerce of ths Pacific Ovean. E. B. BOUTWR Commanding United States Ship John A¢ reat ms. Prorecrion Ov SLAVE PROPERTY IN VinGinta. Governor Wise has tendered to Dr. J. J. Bimptins, of Norfolk. the appointment of Imapectot General of all veu sels leaving the waters of Vitgiais, in virtue of the law persed dy the Virgina Legirlature to protect rlaye pro- perty NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAROH 31, 1856. James Joho N. lows. Lorenso Fairbanks, ant Towa. Wm E, Sheftield, County, Ill, Wm. M. Pend eton, Norfolk, Va. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL MOREY MARSK&E. Sunpay, March 30—6 P. M. During the past week the stock market has been comparatively quiet. Quotations closed yesterday without much variation from those current at the close of the previous week, and we see no more indi- cations of a speculative movement than appeared in the middle of winter. We are not disappointed in his. It has forsometime past been our opinion that there would be no speculation in stocks of any im- portance before the month of May. During the early part ef the spring there is usually an active demand for money outside of Wall street. The mercantile classes at that time have heavy payments to make, and find active employment for all their capital. During that time they cannot engage ia stock speculations, but on the contrary are gene- rally forced to sell stocks previously purchased. This is calculated to depress prices in Wall street, and concentrate stocks in the hands of brokers. March and April are the two worst months in the early part of the year for the stock market. As soon as May opens and business begins to fall off, capital accumulates in the hands of outsiders, and the dispo- sition to speculate in the street daily increases. As this extends the market begins to show signs of more activity, until the number of outside purchas- ers becomes large enough to absorb stock rapidly: Then the speculative movement commences, aud the brokers, relieved of the burden which rested upon them, at once put all the machinery for an inflation in motion, and an expansion rapidly follows. We cannot look for much activity in the stock market until all these influences have commenced operating. Until the merchants are relieved from the pressure of business and the pressure of payments there will be no outside demand for stocks of sufficient impor- tance to put up prices. We cannot expect that be- fore May, but then it will without doubt come upon us with a force equal to anything of the kind ex- perienced for years. The money market is in a fa- vorable position. We have not hada pinch during the whole of the present month, and the supply now is so great that the rates are gradually settling down, and there is a growing demand for firat class busi- ness paper. The Park Bank commences operations on the first of April, with a capital of $2,000,00.] and we must expect after that date to see a rapid increase in bank loans. Several old banks contem- plate an increase of capital. We shall, beyond a doubt, have an important expansion of bank credit within the next six months. The exportation ef specie from this port last week was quite small. The Ericsson took out none. ater, oF SPECIE FROM THE PoRT OF NEW YORK. Ship Haifee, Hong Kong, Mexican dollars 2 Brig Lauretta, Para, American gold..... Total for the week.. Previourly reported. MOA, WOME ing os ci sd ohasinicsade ssn OR OTE DD: The steamship Fulton, at this port from Havre, brought $86,000 in specie. The California steamer arrived early in the week with one and a quarter million of dollars. The banks will not show much increase in the specie department in the returns for the last week. There has been a drain upon this point in other directions than across the Atlantic. We give in another part of this day’s (Monday) paper a portion of the annual report of the Erie Railroad Company. The whole of the report forms @ pamphlet of one hundred pages, and will not be jeady for general distribution before the latter part of the wock. Wo have not space to-day for more than the synopsis of the President, two or three iables exhibiting the operations of the most impor- tant departments, some extracts from the Super- intendeat's report relative to future expenditures on construction and past expenses of the opera- ting department. This report has been anxiously looked for by stockholders and others. It will be seen that Mr. M’Cullam, the Superintendent, proposes an expenditure, during the present fiscal year, of about $270,000, but says that it is not absolutely ne- cessary that the whole of that amount be expeaded atonce. It is required, but the company can get along without the whole of it. Mr. McCallum is a very careful, cautious man, and what he says he means. It wili be for the interest of the company to give him all he asks for construction, The efficiency of the road will be best secured by such a course, We have only hastily glanced over the report, but we have seen enough to convince us that : one of the most thorough, comprehensive docu- ments ever issued by any railroad company in this country. This report will be a starting point for all time in the history of this road. The pact is disposed of effectually, and the sooner it is forgotten the better. The 30th of September, 1855, is the time from which all fature estimates of ite productiveness, &c. must date. The tem years pre- vious should, if possible, be blotted out from the public mind. The company is now, we believe, free from all these difficulties which hung like a mill- stone about it during the whole of that period, auc the report just made is the first wherein it was poseible to show that the road was a dividend eara- ing property. A. H. Nicolay’s regular semi-weekly auction sale of stocks and bonds will take place on Monday, at 12 o'clock, at the Merchant’s Exchange. It has been reported that the steamships of the Ni- caragua Transit Company would soon run regularly to Aspinwall on this side, and Panama en the other, thus forming a new line by that route between San Francisco and New York. There is no truth in this report whatever. By an agreement between the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company and the Nicaragua Transit Company, the former pays the latter $40,000 per month, whether the latter company runs its steamers or not. The interruption in the operations of the Transit line, enables that company to lay its steamers up, and make money in so doing. With its steamers doing nothing, the company will receive $480,000 per annum, a sum equal to six per cent on its entire capital stock, or equal to about fifty per cent on its present market value, or about twenty per cent on the stock at $30 per share, the price at which it was issued to Mr. Vanderbilt in payment for the steamers purchased by the company of him, in January, 1853. If any stockholder or party interested have any donbta relative to the existence of such an agreement, all the necessary information can be obtained at the Com- pany’s office. It thus appears that the Nicaragua Company is not so bad off, and that the community at large on both sides of the continent have been injured more by the lawless acts of the Walker- Garrison-Morgan-Randolph Company than the Transit Company. The perpetrators and instiga- tors of the act annulling the Transit charter and seizing its property, should be execrated by all honest men, and we have no doubt will be when the particulars of the combination are presented tothe public mind. The Comptroller of this State has appointed John N. Wyckoff, of New Jersey, late President of the Hanover Insurance Company; Joseph A. Savage, late President of the Knickerbocker Bank of New York, and Daniel B. Wheeler, counsellor at law, Commissioners under the act to examine into the condition of all the insarance companies in this city and Brooklyn. The Buffalo cays c— ‘The Lake Erie, Wabash and St, Louis Ratiroad is rapid- ly advancing towards its completion. It ig now open as tar ss Logansport, 166 miles from Toledo, On the 1st of twill be ready for trains to run to Latayette, 37 rther, making 233 miles. The line from (a! tte nville is being rapidly completed, Danville is the Commercial of the 27th instant Bparrots it From will be completed about the ti at eas'ere end is finished, Persengers oan now go through dy rail to St. Louis from Toledo, vis Fort Wayne, Haat- ington, Wabash, Pera ani Indianapolis. Wicn the oom pletion of the two links east and west of Danville, there ‘will be an air line roate from Toledo t» &t. Louts. A few days since the Assembly of thia State passed 8 resolution appointing a committee to investigate charges against the ‘New York Central Railroad Consolidation.” That iniquitous scheme is now, we believe, in a fair way of being laid bare, and ali the fraud perpetrated under the act of consolidation ex- posed. The resolution is as follows:— Wherear, under the act of the Legisiatare of 1853, au tho) lair g the consolidation of sertain railroa) corp ora- tions berween the citive of Albany ard Baffato, the com- missioners appownted to carry out such act allowad the introduc'ion of certain railroace into the consolidation at rates which were mamfestly to the detriment of stock- hol‘ers of other roass entering {ato #ush consolida:ion; ‘And, whereas, it is publicly stated, and never cvatra- dicted, that some of the promiuent capitalists engaged in promo'ing that enterprise mede large purchases of stock im sald cmpacies &' were not remunerative, end turred such #tcck into sald consolidation at enozmoas advanoes, and at great inequality of valuation; these fore Resolved, That a select committes be appointed, with power to send for persons and papers, to ingutre into the manner aud mode of said consclidation, aud all matters pertainirg thereto. Mr. Northrop, of Washington county, was made the chairman of this select committee. At their first session, Mr. Reynolds appeared before them in behalf of the directors of the New York Central Railroad Company, and Judge Parker in behalf of the stockholders, the parties aggrieved. B2for2 proceeding directly to an examination, the commit- tee saw fit to require that definite and specific charges should be preferred. They regarded them as indispensable to direct them in their investiga tion. The following specifications were accordingly presented to the committee:— First—That the passage of the act entit’ed ‘* An Act to Authorize the Consclidstion of Cer'ain Railroad Comps- nies,”’ paseo) April 3 1868, was obtained and procured by and ibrough fraud and eorruption. Seoon¢—That in see prccers aaa under the act of April 2, 1853, aforesaid, the directors of the several com- pénies which entered into consolijation by their mutual egreement to and with each other, executed on the 17th day of May, 1853, introdacad and allowed, and agreed to put into cons tidation certain railroads, and the stock and property of certain railroad companies, at great dis- parity and ivequailty of va'uation, and at rates and prices which were mantfestiy to the detriment of the steckbolcers of the other railroads so entering into eon- solivation, and in fraud and eontraveation of the spirit, tue een and meaning of the act of the Legislature aforeeaid. Third—That certain of the said directora of the said several companies which entered into consolidation had, rhortly before whe fact of consohdation, directly or indi: rectly, ma6e e porns of, and become and were directly or na rectly largely interested in tbe stock and property of eertain railroai companies, whion wore atthe tforesaid below par, and of little or no mar- ket value, and not remunerative, and st low rates and prices; and being such purchasers, and so entrusted as aforesaid, the Girectors then put in congoli- dated the said stock in which they wece s9 interested as aforessid into the consolidated company, namely, tre New York Central Railroad Company, at greatly ad- ‘varced rates and prices, and the said direstors received instead therefor to themeelves, directly or indirectly the stock of the said consolidated company at par, and the debt certificate of the said company, in fraud of, and to the detriment of, the stockholders of the several other companies consolidated, and in fraud and contravention of the spirit, true intent and meaning of the act of the Legislature aforesaid. ‘ourth—That certain of the said directors, parties to the aforesaid agreement, while acting as such directors, and being tm fact trus’ees for stockholders, have realized, received and taken, directly or seals, large amounts and profits arisiog from corrupt and fraudulent agree- ments, arrangements ications, made by be- 7" ‘and carried out in, by and through the act of consolidat which ef right be- el the stockhoiders, and that tne same have been reslized, received and taken as aforesaid, in fraud of the seid stockboléers, and in contravention of the spirit, true intent and meaning of the act of the Legislature. Fifth—Tnat shortly before the fact of consolidation and in ecntempiation thereof, certain directors of some of the companies so entering into consolidation did, by virtue ot their position and power as directors, take up, charge and convert certain of the noneonvertible b-n issued by the said cempanies into the capital stoek of ‘and thereupon put in and consolidated large premiuma and advances, aud re- ceived instead the suck ot the said consclidated compan; at par, and the deot certificates of said company for suc! premiums and advances. in fraud of the stockholders in ssid eompanies, and in fraud and contravention of the spirit, true intent and meaning of the act of the Legisia- ture sforeraid. . Sixth—That the directors of the setd consolidated com- pany, nemely, ‘The New York Ventral Railroad Com- pany,’’ have, contrary to the provisions of the statutes uncer which the said company was formed, and in disre- gard of the eame, increased the capital stock of ssid som- pany tothe amount of $1,115,000 during the year 1855, without the assent and concurrence of two-thicds 1c amount of all its stockholders first had and obtaised iv the manner preccribed by law. The value of merchandise exported from this port during the week ending and including Friday, March 28, 1866, was, birdie 3 58,607 3 sees eeeeeweees 58,607 Total..... cree e oo 81,256,275 The imports in the same time were as follows:— General merchandire Dry goods...e.. 4. $2,283 966 2,233,817 — $4,517,783 Excess of imports over exports... ......., $3,261,208 The following is a comparative statement of the value of exports from the commencement of the year to March 27:— 1856. Increase. Decrease. 2,771,595 414,239 —_ 9,319.011 2,173,431 —_ ),600 — 2,7: 1,536,753 1,468,815 pa 746,806 — 387,198 627,744 565,404 = 62,340 70.140 1,146,873 276,783 _ $6,275,102 10,166,042 Net increase to March 27, 1858... The quantity and value of each article exported and imported during the week, showing also the destination of exports, appears in the annexed tables:— ComarERce or Ink Port or New York. 4,938,218 452,278 940 EXPORTS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. LIVERPOOL, Pkgs. Value, Phage. Value. 7 $127,882 Sp.turp, bbis. 25 $430 980 8,268 Turpentine,.1.640 6,785 Wreat, bus.20,736 40,022 Rosin. 5008.3 Corn,.'.....56,126 40,138 Tar... 1165 495 Bacon, Tbs.116,686 11,746 Timber, tons. 180 500 Tobecco, hhds’ 6 "611 pened Logwood, tus, 263 5,823 Total........., $243,058 TONDON, Pork, bbls... 87 $2,308 Laacloth, es. 6 $572 Bacon, 1b9.120,909 16,163 Tobacco, 1b.28,080 5,054 Tarpt’e, bbls.2,844 10,114 Hats, canes... 460 Rosin... 108 3,887 Staves......4,200 703 Sp. turpi’e.., 500 8,082 saints Oleake, tons, 286 12,700 Total..........., 85,968 Cotton, ba... 983 Beoswax, Yoe, 2,206 $632 Corn, Bus....9,461 *f 1 420 Rye 358 090 1,541 Tobseco, hhd.” 18 seve 184 8,937 Bason, Ibs, . 65,72 Logwood, tons 45 '839 Lard... 0/8, 626 17 1,776 Cotiee, bgs...5,804 0 BAL Ex. logw'd,vx. 100 6,000 450 Bardware,es. 7 WW vivcencaesbesevevsstupevencseivecterys CIGRS Ba’ Cotton, ba...2,486 $170,194 Cooon, bags.. 285 $5,983 bbls..1,908 14084 Paper, csses. 1 600 9,813 Jewlirs’ashes 51 5,400 6,800 Pearldo., bbl. 10 357 491 Potdo.....,, 269 8,717 %0 Hops, baies., 60 900 2 120 Chrome ore.. 144 2,016 1-260 Siiverware,es 1 "562 7 2,803 Cedar, logs... 300 1,460 1 "£00 Rosin; bbls... 100 “175 Books.......+ 1 156 peewee Rice, tierces, 176 6,518 Totals... ....0.. $296,205 usnoN. «++46,000 $4,085 Tooaer, baleen 17 8760 Watches, bxs, 1 1,600 jodel . 1,000 $8,008 $2,605 cveves OSU TRS. Tobaces,1b4.27,114 $3 837 40 Ries, tiercos,, 26 672 DA iii: S 326 Lasther, sides.200 1,020 Saleratus, kgs, 50 1158 Tallow, 1ba..6,481 690 Tem, chests... 18 1,237 : 60 978 eee 928,467 B Flour, byle....644 $6, $253 Corp, barhels.220 36 18 916 Butter,.....3,110 6 les, boxes, 813 Farnivare. 20 6 Onions, boli 65 185 Wicking, balow.112 14,872 Hate, cakes 5 : 34 Paper, ream aco, Jbe,7,400 f GLASGOW, Cotton, ba.... 265 $14,081 Bacon, Iba..45,000 $4,000 Flour, bole... 500 3,408 Rosin, Dbls,..2,142 3,560 Lard oil, gai. 1700 1,640 Rive, tes. 25 «950 Beef, tes...... 555 11,000 ae Total... +++ 938,606 PORTO RICO, $15,672 $216 at 2080 Boras poH.11,716 3,996 + 912,772 $350 Starch, bxe.. 100 Lumber,ft107,000 4,700 MEXIOO, $000 Domestios,be. 393 $34,684 . 3 100 00,987,188 Domert,bals.1,600 $78,420 Machinery,es. 3 $270 see 883,962 BRAZIL. Flour, bbls... 400 $4,000 Pepper, bags. 20 $176 Lard,’ Ibs. ..10, 1,203 Powder, kegs. 350 1,926 2, 165 Domest, bis.. 60 2,700 brs. 40 '680 Flour, bbls... 100 Domestics, ba 21 Bread, bbis.. 100 Brandy, cases 162 Furniture, cs. 24 Wine, cases.. 2 $1,007,968 OrgER THAN Dry Goons. i Optica’. r Ivory... J+we'ry. . Oil paintings. LarorTaTions Quan. Arrowrost.. a. der. Borate rs, 2 Eeaences..... Gum Senegal. 6 mi 9 2633 «11,682 150 1/619 4 312 714 11,787 19 3,976 2 1,010 10 =—-:1,788 175 27,680 13 3,469 4,927 62.682 . 19 = 18,439 48 3,734 _— 858 Machinery ... 500 5.392 634 Molasses 1,157 41,798 Papr........ 18 1,240 Paper hang’gs 289 11286 Perfumery... 16 3,216 Plante 182 12,487 Stationery... Sugar, bls ton 6,157 466,961 shests.70,810 508,26 95,200 118 1,958 = vee 59 + 68 $5000 Tenn 674,700 560 51000 Missoui{6’s.b3 16000 do... ..b50 600 Virginia 63, do. 2000 2000 Brie 24 M B. 4000 Had R lat MB. 8000 Ill Cen RR Bas. 12000 8000 do. 60 1000T H & Alt24MB 77 160 sha D&H C Co,b60 12634 100 do... b60 127 8 Bk of North Am.. 308% 5 BEE Sene805, #19000 Cen RR Bonds 100 ebe Nie Tran Coe 10 do +e 225 Flo & Key Joint. 60 Chi & Rock I RR, 500 Reading RR, 16 600 10 56% 594 CIFY COMMERCIAL REPORT. SarorpaY, March 20—6 P. M. Asues,—Sales of 50 bbie. were made at 6c. tor pots, and pearls at 8c. The stock of ashes, Friday, March 23, 1856, was an follows ;— er firmness, and medium and higher grades were held at an advance, without being ob‘aired, as & general thing. Common grades were firm xt previous quo:ations. The trapssetions fcoted ab rut 8,000 bbls., tacluding good or- cinary acd streight Staie avd Westers at $6 ary a7 25; common to go d and extry Ohio at $7 374 a 88; extra Gerence was at $8 £0 a $10 50 ; Cansdian was fii and and light stock ; sales of 400 a bbls. $7373 0 $9 4s ‘tor common to extra i good d d. The rales embraced about 2,600 a 2,600 bola. 7 6834 $8 063 for mixed to good brands of Howard street and Alexandria, and $8 1234 a $9 (234 for fancy and extra brands. Rye Flour about $6 26 for fin $8 25 » $3 3134. per 100 lbs. Wheat.—Saies ot 1,! red was made for milling at $1 70, do. do., inferior E pe 60 a Ls rg eo was, in consequence of e pert, a cent x bushel better. The sales em» about 30,0000 000 burhele, iesincig mixed, white ani fair yellow sound, at 68c. a 640.. with some lots of the latter report. ed at 65c., and 9,000 burhe's superior yellow, which was no fair erlterion ‘of the market, at 676. Western mixed was nominal, Rye—The market was firm, at Illes 12e. for Northern. Oa‘a were in tair with sales at dlc. a 4230, tor State, and 420. a 46c. for Chi- "Corre. — Bales of 800 began of Rio were made at 11¢. & 12c; 100 mats Java at 150, a 250.; do. at 14%X¢., 160 begs Laguayra at 125¢¢, The siook of Rio in this mar- ket was estimated at sbout 86.000 bage. Corton.—The market continued active. The foreign news had no effect of moment on prices. The sales em- adie heath tere Clad in Layton! The news from c favorably w ces. Middling uplazds and Florida 4 ee moont 1030.3 Mo- do., 10%¢.; and New Orieans, at 103. Freiants.—Retes tor grata to Liverpool were again firmer, ard about 30,000 a 49,000 els of corn were engaged at 8d.a 8%d. in bulk and bags, included in which were also 2,200 bushels in bags at 9d., 200 boxes of bacon s+ 27s, 62., and 300 bates of eotton at xa, To 100 bbls. flour were taten at 2s. Od. Ant- London, }, werp, 200 baies of cotton were taken at Leent. To Ham. burg, 860 bales of cotton, at 3(., and 30,000 bushels of grain at lid, A ship was erguged to take @ wood for the Baltic at p.t. and s batk of 550 tons Cuba and back at 400. and $3 for molasses on deck. Havre, cotton was at ic., grain 202. and ashes 9c. disks steady, with sales of 300 a 400 bales at $1 12c. a c. Buves.—The market is very firm, with but little domg teday.” The arrivals conticue quite Maited. nos Ayres at 270 ; Rio Grande at 96}e.; Angostura avd Maracaibo at2%0. The stock is 41,000, insluding 6,850 Buenos Ayres, 7,200 Rio Grande, 12,600 Avgostura, 2,800 Kevaniila, 5,000’ Laguayra and’ Porto Cabello, 500 Maracaibo, 2,300 Mexicam, 534 Newfoundland, 1,000 Demarara’ and St. Domings, and 1,500 Southern ‘and ‘Texan, beride 5.100 Buenos Ayres and Rio Grande horse. Hors.—The market for ney is quiet, and prices are hardly so firm. The sa'es to-day are small at 70.8 10c. for common to oe lint oo © aoe Baer latter anextreme price. We aJso Jearn of a “ of 200 balen prime Western, at 8. for y wits THER. —" pective, and holders evince great firmness. reduced toa mere cypher—a>out 16,000 sides of all kinds, rhs iene and middle at 26c. » 263¢c., and Angestara at 8 45c. Lime.— Rockland is quiet but steady, Inst sales at $1 634 for common, and $1 37 3 for lump. Me yl ee Neen dulat! Prices are loLassrs.—New Orleans bas sustained. Sales of 350 bbls. at 42c. a 46c. is gaist, cas steady. Small sales at former prices have Naval Storrs—Sales 100 barrels spirits Sanpete at 88. Crude was quiet; atock in first hands, estimated at 10,000 barrels. Sales of 500 barrels common rosin, at ier Re ea bene is doing in English Hnseed, 18,— ose is do! en- tirely from store, at 86c. cach. Cruce whale tenis dowa- ward. The stock at the castward reaches 35,000 bbls.; sales 80c. cash. Refined is in moderate at 90s, Crude sperm is siesdy, a, $1810 $183, as to quality. ~8 Elid oll in dull at 922, 2 956 Manufae ured, fed. for Western ahora Provisions.—Pork—The market was , and sales of £00 9.400 barrels, including moss, a: $16 25, and small lots it $16. Beef wes quist, wi h saies of about 100 bbis., including country y ime at $8 250 $8 75, and mess do. $9 25 a $10 75. Repackua Westerm was at $1la$13. Prime mess was quict, at $17" $22, Beef taloe of Fabout "260. peatkes robert a5 of fal re) , at 5c. soeaimew oare and 93,0. fer bass. Bacm continued searceand firm. Lard—Seles cf about 200 bbls. were made, at 95;c.a10c. Butter and cheese were rather more active, without change of importance in prices, i Prixee market was firm, with sales of 100 casks at ic. & ce oe of 2,950 sacks of Ashton’s, part to arrive, at SuGcars.—The market was tolerably active, with alee of about 800 hogsheada Cuba muscvado, at 7c @ ee and 150 do. New Orleans, a: 6%c. a 7%c., and 1,000 boxes brown Havana, at 73ic. a 8c. Wuiskky.—Sales of about 500 barrels prison were re- Bie at 28¢., with some lots of the latter reported at ¢. Weekly aa of Deaths in the city and county of New York, from the 224 day of women, ; boys, Hi ¥. 71. ; children, 263; aales, 213; females, 208; 268; eolored persons, 10, Absooss, Iumbar........ 1 Heart, disease of. 7 Alpuminaria end Bright's Hooping cough 3 Givease of kidney’ Infismmmation of 2 Anemia... In‘lammation of bowels.. 9 Ancurtem of the sorta, nfammationof brain... Inflsmwmation of liver. Ap: plexy, serous. . Infiammation of lungs. Bleeding {rom lungs..,.. 1 inflammation of stomach. Bowen, disease of, Tnflamma‘ion o! tonsils. Bronchitis , Inflom nation of womb, Burned or scalded. Invom perance,.. ...0 +06 Intussusception of intes- tines., oe Kidneys, 4 Liver, disease of, Lockjaw, (Infantile)... Longs, disease of. Malformation ,.... eee eter tier tl tt eMail rey Rt ho mt RO MARS tet et RD BD: 2 Debility, infant 3 Deli:ium tremens. z * 1 Poison, by eating ‘sau- Drovey in the heart. be szarterettec a Drowned,.... . 6 1 r 1 5 Ke ! a 4 ‘ever, puerperal. Fever, remittent Teething...... a Fever, scar.et. . Unknown (not stated)... 2 Unkn>wn tothe jary.... 4 oss scarsgutioneesnntevsavedl RACAPTTULATION— DiSRABES CLASSED, ++ 1 Stillborm and prematare 98 birth.. ‘ Fever, ty phoi Fever, oid age is 1. 8 _ val fevers, Skin, Xo, and eruptive Unknown... FEVERS... eseseeeere4B Oninary organs oo AZ —Of which 8 wore from violent causes, British Aserien, Desmark . Scotland. . Switrerland, United State Unknown el Peavy Hoxp’l, Bik’s Isl. Kendall's Is, Oty Colored Lanatic Asylum, Bik’s lal. 2° Wards Tal. Emig’t Funeite Axylum, Bgdale 1 Workhouse, Bik’s Ial..,., 1. Lying-in Asylum 1 = Total sess sseee tre eeeeeeeenseesereees esses 8B 30 +81 jiand weve eel Mo eservey 4 21 (includes B vue Eloa’l).23 12 (ingtades Ww pe Inland Fonpitale)......18 Total. se sess sess sere GEORGE W. MORTOD, City Inicector. City Inepector’s Office, New York, March 20, 1866. nu!