The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OeFICK N. We CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878, TERMS, THE J in adrance PEERED, 8 conte per cory, $1 por rane. STRLY HERALD, cvory Suturday, af 6% crnte per por anman; te Brropeas ition,” $4 per annum, to any p20 ‘Greed Britain, or 86 to any part of the t, both So tnetude poeta Volume XXII... AMUSEMENTS TO MOKROW FE ROADWAY THEATRE, Broniway—Maneiaun—Tae wer or Vestes— WANDERING MINSTREL —BuRiAL OF DE Soro. — 1.0% GARDEN, Promtway—ltauam Orega—Lvowmzia “OWKAY THEATRE, Bowery—Tue Saucon ov Faxaxce— Forma PURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Hroadwny, opposite bond at, Hess samt Teurs—DMasrar’s Rival. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broalway—KaiGurs of THe Nounr Tsrut-Saragm 4nd Munes, LAURA EEENES THEATER, Broatway—Ti: Moxey Qvemes Tas Kuvas, MARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Reoadway— Afternoon Twenty Mawores wrra 4 Tiume—lurine fr Om, Kyeuing— Serie Vi sreas BON Dear, G80, CIRIRTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- way DTH tOPEAM PRRROR MANORS —W REO. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, 885 Broadway—Bratoruy, Pearce ma nOrs—COLOMNO PIOTVIs GALLERY, MHCHANTIOS HALT, 472 Broadway—Nearo Meconras, ac, —Dew § 8 ALAnama—By Berant's Morerieas. New York, Sunday, April 26, 1857 : ‘The News. The opposition to the new Metropolitan Police bill is assuming new features. Judge Davies heard yesterdey the arguments of counsel pro and con a3 to such a modification of the temporary injunction as would confine ita force solely to the city of New York, leaving the Commissioners, if they chose, and if no legal prohibitory steps were taken, to pat the act in operation in the counties of Kings, Westches- terand Richmond. The injunction was modified in that idea and to that extent. The decision as to whether the injunction wil be dissolved or made per- petual is to be rendered by Judge Davies on Monday or Tuesday. In the meantime other proveedings were taken before Judge Roosevelt, based on a writ of quo warranto, by the Attorney General of the State, in which the people are the complainants and Mayor Wood the relator, and an absolute injanction was granted, restraining the Commussioners from taking any step whatever in the performance of the duties of Police Commissioners. ‘The new Board of Police Commissioners were to have met at 3 P.M. yesterday, in the chamber of the Court of Seasions. Simeon Draper, the Presi- dent of the Board, was present at the exact hour, | and not finding any of the other Commissioners present, adjourned the Board sine dic. A terrible disaster happened yesterday. The boiler of the propeller Fanny Garner, Captain Bird, exploded when near Weston, on the Delaware and Raritan canal, killing instantly Capt. Bird and James McMenn, Michael Nugent, Patrick Comfort apd John Thornhill, deck hands. A M. Black,» passenger, of Princeton; James F. Barrett, the en- gineer, and W. M. McFlvery, fireman, were injured past recovery. The pilot and steward alone es caped with but trifling hurt. The boat was torn into fragments. The value of the vessel and cargo was cotimated at $160,000. Hoa Joshua A. Spencer died at Utica yesterday | | morning. } ‘Two of the bargiars whe broke into the bonded warehouse at Jersey City some weeks ago, and stole $3,000 worth of silk goods therefrom, managed to make their escape from the jail in Jersey City last night, and have mot since been arrested. The ras- cals knocked down the keepers and escaped in their shirt eleeves, leaving their coats and hats behind them. The police in this city were notified of the occurreace last evening, and are busily engoged in | bunting ap the fugitives. Jadge Morris, of the Kings County Conrt of Ses- sions, charged the jury in the case of the People against Richard Lewis for rape, yesterday morning | occupying about two hoars in delivery. The jury | retired about 12 o'clock, noon, and at 9 o'clock P. | M. they bad not yet agreed upon a verdict. It was anderstood then that they stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. The jary were subsequent- ly locked up for the night The Court will assem- bie at ¢ o'clock this morning to receive the verdict, provided the jary agree in the meantime. The April term of the Court of General Sessions closed yesterday. A number of sentences were passed by the Recorder upon culprits, none, how ever, of any special interest. Our weekly compilation of religious intelligence, pobisbed elsewhere, is unasually full and iateresting. An account of the outreges committed on Christians in Turkey, and the protest of the Datch Roman Ca- tholic Hishops ageinst the dogma of the immaculate conception, deserve attention. The mabogany yard of J. & W. Duryee, on Colam- bia street, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire yesterday | morning, involving « low of between eight and ten | Ahousand dollars. The tiames communicated with the lumber yard of Shepard 4 Boughton, destroying pro- perty to the amount of six thousand dollars. Sereral AT Sidings adjoining were somewhat damaged. ~ ‘The City Inspector reports 393 desths daring the past week—a decrease of four as compared with the return of the week previous. The City Inspector and his deputies are basily at work examining cer- tain localities, with the view to the improvement of the sanitary condition of the city by a thorough parification, in anticipation of the gummer. The folowing figures exhibit the number of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distingnishing the sexes’: — Mon. Women. Hows. Girls. Total Wook ending April 18 ws tM MO Week ending April %.....09 71 193 190 M3 Among the principal causes of death were the ’ Work ending Wook ending Apr 8. Aprit 3 Siokse crmp ‘There wore also 7 deaths of apoplexy, 14 of bron- ehitis, 6 of congestion of the longs, 5 of diseases of the beart, 7 of inflammation of the bowels, 6 of in- fammation of the brain, 4 of erysipelas, 3 pre matore births, 20 stillborn, and % from violent causes. ‘The following is 4 classification of the diseases and the total number of deaths in each class of dis ease daring the part two weeks: — April 18. April 25. Hones, joints, We... 5 6 rain awl newves % on jenerauve OTEAne. 7 ? Heart aod bigod vewsels 5 13 Lunges, Urroat, @e 1 2 ory and piromatare births “ 2 ‘Ac., and eruptive fevers * ot wwrels and other digestive organs. 58 bd cat and general fover= - a ane 7 2 + wt os ‘The oumber of deaths, compared with the correa ponding weeks im 1866 and 1856, was as follows:— bal eusog Apru 2, 1856 . 60 06s cowssovess OM oF, 1808 372 Ds, 1867 we The nativity table gives 244 natives of the United tates, 61 of Ireland, 23 of Germany, 10 of Pracce, and Une Ualance of various foreign countries, The sales Of cotton yeuterday embraced about 3,000 ChnnEr (0 prices a large portion of the ever, said te Lave been based upon mid M about TF site Flour wae again ac uve and higher. The common grades advanced from be # 10e. per barrel, and medium and & Ue. per barrel Wheat wae lots sonree nad wanted for milling. Gorn was higher, ith sales of Western mined st Te 8 Te, in store NRW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1857. and at the close B00. was asked Soathern yellow was sold at T5%c. Pork was dull, ‘and closed at $%% for new mews. Sagars continued firm and im goed demand, with « fiir amount of saien, Coffe was fron, with fair sales at firm prices. The sale of green teas was well ottended. The quality was good. dding Was spirited, and full prices were obtained. No biacks were offered, Froights were dull, and ghip: Pers as Well as slipowners were waiting the receipt of private Ivers due . Kagagements were Light aod quotations were nominad ‘The Metropolitan Police Act Nullificd—The Seeret of the City Bills, The injunction obtained at the instance of Mayor Wood against the new Police Commission- ers waa amended yesterday by Judge Davies #0 as to exclude from its operation the counties of Kings, Westchester and Richmond, leaving the county of New York alone subject to its influence. On this preliminary question and upon the amended injunction Judge Davies is expected to render & judgment to-morrow. Meanwhile, after the injunction had been argued and amended, an application was made by the Attorney General of the State, Mr, Cushing, in conjanction with counsel engaged, for a writ of quo warrento, which was granted directly by Judge Roosevelt. This writ, being peremptory, may be said to settle the ease for the present; and the new Police Commission- ersare therefore at full liberty to engage in other and more legitimate pursuits, Tbe organs of the republican party in this State bave done their best to discredit the theory that the late city acts were paased with the view to help their party, sad with no other view. But they will need # good deal of argument and a good deal of rhetoric to get over the dis- closures made by the special committee of the Board of Aldermen on Thuraday night. That committee having disburthened itself of its mis- sion to Mr. Pomeroy of the Legislature, a leader of the republican party, reports that said Mr. Pomeroy candidly confessed that “the party,” having failed at the Presidential election, and being therefore at a lox for suitable rewards to bestow on worthy servants like Gen. Nye and Sim. Draper, bad been induced to turn its atten- tion to the city of New York, and to seek conso- lation for past mishaps in the arms of the muni- cipal treasury. That the party had not been dis- appointed in the prospeet; they had the power, there was the money, fifteen to twenty millions annually, more or less; and hence, said Mr. Pomeroy to the committee—‘“gentlemen, my opinion is that you had best return whence you came without lows of time, and report the case of the city as settled.”” Much may and probably was added by Mr. Pomeroy, while the candid fit wason him. No doubt he made mention with fitting sorrow of the failure of the republican scheme of plunder at Washington, and cursed the folly by which Mat- teson and Simonton palled the House down about their own ears. Having been driven from the fe- deral, the republican financiers took refuge in the State capital; and very likely Mr. Pomeroy may have entertained his visiters with some remarks on the debate which once divided the loaders of the party on the famous question—#hould they sell themselves to the railroads, or lay bunds on the city? Itdoesbonor to their judgment that they guve the preference to the latter method of raising the wind; though the method employed does very little credit to their common sense and tact. It will need some argument to convince peo- ple, after this frank confession of Mr. Pomeroy, one of the chiefs of the conspiracy, that the pre- cise and sole object of the city laws was not to provide funds for the republican party. It will need some management on the part of our co- temporary the Tridune, for instance, to convince people that it and its friends have not deliberate- ly attempted to sacrifice the city and its highest interests to the .ggrandizement of the political party to which they belong. It will involvesome kill to mystify the fucts so thoronghly that this will not leak out. For our part we se no matter of sur- prise in the confexion of this chief of the con- epirators. Volitical knavery is now so public a trade that every one understands and expects it ; and we sce nothing improbable either in the story of Mr. Pomeroy’s interview with the committee, or in the semi-retraction which that gentleman thought it best to make, at a subsequent period in the Legislature. A certain class of politicians half rogue half zealot—bave or pretend to have « intense # devotion to the principles of their party, and 60 furious « horror of the princi- ples of its opponents, that they conceive its vic- tory may be honorably purchased at any cost of truth or right. Many of the supporters of the New York city bills no doubt acted on this sys tem. They were #0 well eatistied that without the predominance of the republican party the Union would infallibly go to pieces that they were ready to act more dishonestly than anything could have led them to do for themselves, in order to secure that predominance. And now, where are they laaded? The ridicu- lous disfranchising and centralizing acta which they passed in order to secure power, patronage and plenty of money for their party, are being practically nullified. In @ short while there will be nothing left of them. The City Charter, City Hall, and Central Park bills are being inquired into, and will, in due course, be nullified by the action of the present Council. That duty will be performed for the Excise law by the people and the hotel keepers ; and for the ’olice law by the Mayor and municipal authorities, Perhaps not one of these laws will go into effect, and the only practical consequence of the obstinacy and per- verveness of the republican leaders will be to ex- pose their corrupt and unprincipled nature, ‘Tur Atremp™ To Brovsoyme: Mr. Scum: Our readers are already aware that a severe out- side pressure has been made upon the new Col- lector by ® clique headed by the Surveyor, Hart, the Navy Agent, Sanders, Mr. Sickles, the last named personage evidently thinking that he has a sort of patriarchal mission to superin- tend the federal officials, and the democratic par- ty generally in thie State. We incline to the | telief thut thie amiable trio—Hart, Sickles and Sanders—will not succeed. The game which they are attempting, both here and at Washington, is the same that was played upon Mr. Bronson foar years ago, but the enemies of Mr. Scholl will find that the President is made of different stuff than poor pliable Pierce. Mr. Buchanan thinks, and with reason, that Mr. Schell is one of his best appointmenta. The new Collector is already very popular with the merchants—his good name endears him to the general public—while the mawes of the demo- cratic party admire him for bis bold, manly and consistent political course. As to the political and personal repute of the party hacks who are working against bim, it is unnecemary for us to mays word. Their position is perfectly under- stood both at New York and Washington. ‘The administration which sppoiated Mr. Schelt sa viet ap ea. 888 received a6 mach honor ab it conferred. In his case the farce of Bronson and Pierce cannot be acted over again. So Messrs, Sanders, Hart, Sickles and their cmfrires may a3 well bang up their Gddles, and pick up the crumbs that fall from the federal table, remembering that even the wickedest ours will not bite the hand that feeds thom. Emigration Southwarl—Arkansas—Another Ohance for Mr, Thayer—Opinions of George Peabody, the Banker, Mr. George Peabody, the eminent American banker, whose visit to this country has been the subject of frequent newspaper comment —both in consequence of the reception he has met with, and the generosity he has displayed ia the eu- dowment of several admirable institutions in re- tarn—is reported, since the completion of his toar in the Southern and Western States, to have expressed geome opiuions which, from such a source, and relatiog as they do to subjects which he perfcotly understands, are entitled to con- siderable attention This geatloman finds the United States in a condition of general prosperity of which he had Ro sdoquate conception ; but as a whole, he con- siders the Southorn States as oceupying the most solid-and permanent position of them “ail. The great staple of cotton makes the whole world forever tributary to them. This is something which at present -they alone produce in such quantities as adequately to supply the looms of Karope and our own country, and without which we may almost say the world would go naked. Ia the Northern States the industrial pursuits of men are liable to great commercial changes. The form and the character of manu- factured articles, the course of trade, the demand for shipping, and the price of floar, are all mat- ters of trequent and dangerous fluctuation ; but cotton, under the impulse of an increasing de- mand, and the cheapness of its machinery formed novelties, is e basis on which its producers may solidly and unfearingly repose. To the new Western States, the rapid advance of the price of land, consequent upon tho formation of new States and the com- pletion of new railways, is encouraging a spirit of speculation which again threatens the embarraament of public and private credit, as it has before done in those parts of our country. Capital is being withdrawn from its legitimate employment to be laid out in “corner lots” in paper cities, there to lie for future gains, under a load of enormous debt, to secure the future Ppay- ments of the purchase money; farmers only hale cultivate their land, merchants extend their pa- per in the Atlantic counting houses, under the expectation of greater profits from their home tn- vestments than their regular business. But the cottea producers, though deprived ot the excite- | ment of inordinate speculation, teel that they run no risks in their own case but those of the sea- sons, which are alike to all. They see their wealth steadily and largely increasing, though they have no corner lots ahead (of which a bale of cotton would literally buy acres); and though they may lament the want of spinning mills and shirt manufectories, they have that without which | no mills can «pin nor shirts be made This, then, is the impression made on the minds of those strangers who cast a rapid glance at the relative responsibility and wealth of the various States, And we of the North must admit that this view of the subject is an exceedingly in- teresting one, and explains very naturally why the Southern politicians, getting some vague idea of the facta, rant and rave at their commercial power and importance, and threaten by a vehe- from our ports to their own. Bat with the adiaitted fact that cotton is thus king, there is till & very large breadth of cotton land totully uncnitivated i nited States; and how to turn it to account is the puzzle of Southern statesnen and economists, They have gone so far as to propose the revival of the slave trade in order to procure laborers, and have counted the Union itself not worth preserving if they could but extend their cotton fields to advantage. For some time past there has been an evident movement in the New England States in favor of emigration to the southward on a large scale, and monster companics have been formed to car- ry out the idea. The Southern States sve in this | nothing but an abolition plot—a dark conspiracy to overthrow their domestic institutions, “Not a bit of it.” The working people of New England are actually starving. They cannot earn enough to keep bodies and souls together. The rigor of their climate demands large supplies of fuel in | their dwellings, beavy and expensive clothing on | their backs, and good solid carbonaceous food in | their stomacha The climate alone is fickle | enough to ruin the outdoor laboring poor. The population baving begun to press on each other, | itis becoming ® necessity of life and death to emigrate to places where the expense of living is smaller and the demand for iabor is the samo. ‘The South offers in many respects greater advan- tages thaneven the West. Without a sufficient supply of money to carry thom along for the first year or two in the new Stutes, the condition of « poor emigrant family is traly deplorable. It isa fearful and bheart-breaking struggle against ill health, with @ want of means, want of sympathy, want of neighborly kindnoes, want of every- thing. nV now, since the demon of «peculation has set up his red flag in the West, and is attracting purchasers of lands, not for improvement, bat for a rise, the emigrant in moderate circumstances will soon be driven to fresh fields and pastares still newer, to greater distances, and to a cheaper soil. This is the time, then, for the South, by » maa- terly magnanimity, which will produce them a handsome profit, to overlook all this abolition nonsense, and encourage emigration to their va cant landa They have no more violent friends than Northern men with Southern principles, and these last are soon nequired by residence and busines transactions at the South. No, it is not abolition which is making the stir; it is food and cheap living which lic at the bottom of these movements, and these are bend given to fate for the cood behavior of their new allies Nor must Virginia and the Carolinas hold back any longer, for we perceive they have a competitor in the field. The lending journals of New Or- ment rivalry to withdraw «ail our foreign trade | roads now penetrating the State from the east- ward and southward, and giving direct routes of travel, and nearer markets than before. Arkausas a: the last census bad 162,000 white population and 47,000 slaves. It had 781,000 acres of improved land and 1,816,000 of un- improved. The value of the improved farms is estimated at fifteen millions of dollars, Its products are singularly various. It raises wheat of the finest quality, and when made into floar it is not surpassed by apy in the United States, It also produces corn, rice, tobacco of the best de- scription, hops, potatoes, butter, maple sugar, vegetabics of every kind, and more horses than Michigan, Towa, and Wisconsin put together, or than most of the New England States, It is alsoa sheep grazing country, being the ninth in rauk in thia respect in the whole Union. The climate of the interior is like that of Charleston, without being rendered unhealthy by the introduction of epidemics. The finest counties in the State are Hempstead, Lafayette, Sevier, Pike, Clark, Polk and Montgomery, all accessible by steamboat and the new railways Lands are here subject to entry to actual settlers, at prices varying from twelve and a half cents to one dollar and fifty cents per acre. Manufacturing establishment, have been erected on tne Little Missouri rivers planing mills, eaw mills, wool carding. machines and flour mills, which Ine$ turn out @ superior article of flour. In Hempstead county there are numerous churches, excellent male and female eeminaries, ard a polished state of society. It will be soon as easy to go by railroad to Arkaneas as to Kansas, and as cheaply. We perceive that eome of the leading men of the State have called the attention of the public to these facts, and are anxious to have a share of emigration directed towards Arkansas, From the accounts they have given—and they come from sach persons as the well known and highly esteemed General Royston—we are inclined to think that our Northern emigration companies would do a public service by paying some atten- tion to Arkansas as well aa Virginia. Ite lands are newer, fresher, more fertile and cheaper, its products more varied and valuable, and its cli- mate more equable and as healthy. It has moun- tain ranges like Virginia, and much larger rivers, navigable tor afar greater distance. What it wants is am influx of industrious white emigrants to infuse into it the life and spirit which St. Louis has given to the State of Missouri, We recommend Mr. Thayer therefore to enlarge his programme, and secure for himself some of the beautiful cotton and wheat lands of Arkansas, for cotton must yet be king. Metnorourtan Arrains tHe LeGistators.— The State Legislatare, which recently closed its sittings, seemed determined to distinguish the session just expired by the number, variety, ab- surdity, uncovstitutionality aud unpopularity of ite acts of legislation in reference to the good city of New York. We published, some days ago, the new Metropolitan Police bill, the new Excise bill, and the bill in refereace to the Cen- tral Park. The provisions of the two @ret must be now pretty familiar to all our citizens, from the strong opposition which one of them is meet- ing from the municipal authorities, and from the general disfavor with which both are regarded by the most sensible and practical people. We pub- lish to-day another batch of bills, also applying to the city—in relatiog, one to assessments, one to the new City Hall, one to Quarantine regula- tions, and one to affairs generally in the port and harbor. The Astessment bill undertakes to reorganize that department of the city government which relates to assessing the value of real and per- sonal estate. It abolishes the office of Ward As- | sessors and the Bureau of As-esament in the Street Commissioner's office, fixes the termination | of office of the three Tax Commissioners | now in power, for the first Monday in July, 1859, gives the future appointment of commissioners— | sulary $5,500 each—to the Board of Supervisors, provides for the appointment of twelve deputies by the Tax Commissioners—salary to be de signated by the Supervisors—and prescribes generally the duties and powers of the Commis- sioners. The bill for the erection of the new City Hall appoints Richard M. Blatchford, Gustavus A. Conover, Robert Emmet, Edwin D, Morgan and Henry Eveson commiaioners—vacancies to be filled by the Common Council. Their duty is to direct and superintend the erection of a new City Hall on that portion of the Park lying in the rear of the present City Hall. They are to decide on the plans and specifications, make con- tracta, Ac. There is a provision, in very bad grammer, about giving the United States authori- ties accommodations for a Post office and courta, ‘The Mayor, Aldermen and Commovalty are au- thorized to raise two millions of dollars by the creation of public stock, redeemable in 1876, and bearing six per cent interest, the stock not to be sold at less than par value. The twelfth sec- tion authorizes the Mayor and Aldermen to remove commissioners for violation of the pro- visions of the act; so that if the City Hall Com- missioners do not pull well in harness with the Common Council, the Mayor and Aldermen may remove them by resolution. What a pity there was not a similar clause in the police bill! ‘The Quarantine law is entitled “An act to pro vide for more effectanlly guarding against the spread of pestilential diseases” It merely con- tains some provisions regulating the powers and duties of Boards of Health and Health Officers — provisions which might have better emanated from the Common Council. ‘The Port bill is entitled “An act to establish regulations for the port of New York.” Ita pro- visions are prohibitory of encumbering piers and docks, casting cinders from steamboats into the bay or rivers, interference with buoys and bea- cons, &o. It repeals the act to amend an act re- lating to the Harbor Masters of the port of New York, passed April 17, 1861, All fines and penalties recovered under the act are to be paid into the treasury of the State, and the Treasurer shall pay back to the Commissioners $10,000 annually, “to be divided equally between them,” if the fines and penalties amount to that eum. If not, they are only to get as much as recovered. None of these acts exhibit evidence of » very large amount of knowledge on the part of the Legislature in reference to the subjects on which they were legislating. But they are now laws, end we must see what we can do with them Coroner's Inquest. Tre Sepnen Deatn at ne St. Dex Hore.—Coroner Connery held an inquest yesterday at the St. Denie Hotel, in Broadway, upon the body of John M. Whittemore, who ‘was found dead in his root, a8 was reported in yeeter. day’s Hxnato. Dr. Garrieh made » post mortem examina tion of the body, and found the brain and lungs highly congested. The physician gave it ax his opinion that death ‘was caused by ‘‘apoplery of the " The deceased was a native of New York, and wae 33 years of age. The rebrred wo in our edition of Bakar wane upon the door THE LATEST NEWS. Kxploson of the Boller of the Steam Propel- ler Fanny Garner—Lows of Life, dic., die. Sommenax, N. J., Aprit 2%, 1857. ‘The steam propelier Fauny Garner, Capt, Bird, belong: ing to Jacob Shurtz, of Bonnd Brook, exploded her boiler this morning about half-past two, on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, near Weston, and about five miles from this piace, killing the captain and four of her crew, and se riously injuring three others, and totally destroying the propeller, she being actually blown into apliniers above the water, The boiler was carried forward some two hundred yards over 4 hill fifty feet high, through an orchard, and was nearly baried in the ground. Fragments of timber, iron, coal, barrois of eggs, and every description of produce were scattered from two to five hundred yards around, Apartof ber connecting pipe and a stick of wood was found in the woods over five hundred yards off. A dwell ing house on the canal, and within fity yarda of the ox. plosion, escaped with only broken windows, from the fuot that the force of the explosion carried everything over it. ‘The report was distinctly heard at this place. The boiler was new and had been in use only four weeks. Some of the bodies were horribly mangled—one was found in the bottom of the canal, and the head in « meadow opposite. Another had his head entirely blown off, The loss of boat and cargo is cétimated at about one hundred apd Ofy thousand dollars. ‘The foliowing were killed instantly:—Corryell Bird, Captain; James McMann, Michael Nugent, Patrick Com- fort and John Thornhill, deok hands. ‘Tho injured are A.M. Plack, @ passongor from near Princetown, on a visit to his son-in-law in Bound Brook; James F. Barrett, engineer, and W..M. Mckivery, tireman— all seriously. ‘The pilot, George R. Mitchell, was thrown out of his pilot house window, and Andrew J. McCarty, steward, out of hia berth on the forward deck. These were the only persons on board that escaped without serious injury. Addidonal from Europe. Bowron, April 25, 1867. ‘The royal mail steamsbip America arrived here at 10.90 this morning, and her mails will be despatched in the afternooa train, due in New York shortly after midnight, A letter in the Huropean Times of the 11th inst., from @ Lieutenant of the Coast Guard, at Carlingford, Ireland, states that on the 2d inst. a parcel coniaining about one hundred and fifty delivery notes of cotton was picked up on the beach at Greenore. They are dated at New Or- Jeans, each note specifying in writing « certain nomber of bales, with the names of the exporters printed thercon, such as “Bell & Boyd,” “ C. N. Paskeur & Bro.” “T. C. Szymanki’s Press," &. The latest date of any of those notes is the 9th of December, 1856. It is supposed that an American ship has been lost on her homeward voyage on this coast. ‘The amnesty by the Emperor of Austria on visiting Hun- gary will be very complete, and will exclude only Koe- suth. ‘There has been @ moderate busines doing in American securities in London. Shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company's stock were more inquired after, owing o the aid received from the two governmeuts, United Sates sixes of 67 and "C8, 1064 107; Dlinois Central sevens first mortgage, of '75, 899 91; do. sixes, 86 a 88; do, se. vens, freeland, of 60, 106 a 108 ; Michigan Central eights of "69, 91893; New York Central sixes of ’83, 82a $4; do, sevens of '64, 93 aM; do. sevens, third mortgage, of 182, B43 a 86%; do. sevens, of 62, 78.80; do. sinking fund, of '75, 840 86 ; Pennsytvania Central sixes of '80, 88 a 89 ; Panama sevens of '65, 93. Inte: from Wi THY UTAH GOVERNORSHIP—THE MEXICAN YORNIA MAIL CONTRACTS, ETC. Waswnarow, April 25, 1857, ‘The Union newspaper has just ascertained that the Utab Governorship has been tendered to Benj. McCullough—« fact which J stated three weeks ago. He declined if then, ‘and informed the administration that he would not take We position, and they gave bim the Marshalship of Texas, ‘That the administration have writicn him another letior, asking hit to reconsider the matter, is doubtless true; but his friends here say be will not accept. ‘The Postmaster General has just completed # contract with C. K. Garrison for carrying the mail between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, the contract with the previous coniractor—Mr, Carmick—having bea snuulled, owing to repeated failures. ‘The contract with the Panama Railroad Company for carrying the mails for one hundred thousand dollars per annum was to day signed and delivered. AND CALI- JW CRNKRAL DIEWATOW THE NEW YORK AND NEW KNGLAND MAIL CONTRACTS Wasuuvoron, April 25, 1857. Contracts for about GMeen hundred mail routes, prinet- pally in Now England and New York, were let out w-day by the Potsmaster General, The contracty are somowhat more expensive than (he preceding oacs. ‘The Postmaster General has also made « temporary con- tract with © K Garrison for ® semi-moothiy mail service between Now Orleans and Vera Cruz. ‘The Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Question. TROUBLA AMONG THE DEMOORATS—dOV. GKARY IN THR FIKLD, Haxuswens, April 26, 1857 A new political combinatiod has just been developed, ‘The disappointed democracy and the straight out Ameri cans are waiting on Gov. Geary. A committee bas called upon Geary nad he bas agreed to accopt (oir nomination Great excitement prevails amongst the poliueians. The Wilmot and Pacific men are shaking ia their boo Particulars will be know Secretary Stanton’s Kansas Platform, Qviwmao, K. T., April 26, 1867. Secretary Suunton has pablished an nddreas to the peo- ple of Kansas in the Lecompton Union. Ho says the ad- ministration hax recogatzed the authority of tho Territo rial Fegislature, and tho validity of the Territorial laws, and has especially recognized the act providing for acon stitational convention. Tle prosumes tha: thay convention will submit the vital question of (he domestic institutions of the State for the subsequent vote of the people, and thinks that Congress will thea admit the Territory immo. diately Into the Union as a State. Ho recommends « go- neral amnesty fot past offences and prosecutions, and ex. peets the presence of Governor Walker sbout the middle of May Msasters at Sea. BARK MLIZA LN DISTRESS—LOSS OF THY VOLANT. Nowoux, April 25, 1867. The bark Eliza, from Cuba, with sugar and molasses, bound to New York, ha,s put in bere, leaking badiy. ‘The Volant, from New York, isa total low on the Fast ern shore of Maryland. Lass $40,000 to morchanw of Nor. folk aad North Carolina. DAMAGE TO BARK MARTHA ANNA—A LAOS SHIP [SKEN WITH LOSS OF SPARS, Provipercn, April 25, 1857. ‘The bark Martha Anna, Wesser, sixtoen days from Car. denas for Boston, was spoken off Point Judith on Friday morning. Had experienced very severe woather on the passage. Lost main and monkey rails, aud sustained other damages. A large ship bound west, with loss of all her epars abfve the topmasts, was seen off East Hampton, Long Inland, on the 94th iast., and was supposed to be a Liver. pool packet. ra Plensure Trip Over the Pacific Railroad, Sr. Lowes, April 2%, 1867. There waa s pleasure trip over the Pacific Railroad yes terday in honor of Baward Everett. Ho repeats biv ora tion 00 Washington here to night ‘The Canadian Outw: Hound, Portiann, April 25, 1867. The steamer Oxnadian sailed from bere as three o'clock this afternoon for Liverpool. ‘The America’s News at New Orleans, New Ounana, April 26, 1867. The America's news was received by the Nasional lino, and published exclustvely, yesterday, in the alernoow edi- tion of the associated presa, The New York and Binghamton Ratiroad, Ovwnoo, April 25, 1867, Mr. George Peabody, of London, and several prominent Roston gentlemen, are in this city to day. [tis rumored that their visit is connected with the completion of the New York and Binghamton Railroad to Oswogo, in which the former penileman is said to be larcely intorested, Exports of Cotton, Waseaworow, April 25, 1857. ‘The exporte of cotton from New Orleans oo Saturday, the 18th inet., were 14,600 bales. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. , Ly ng hy Sy or asioet raed, 41 5 Bows from Sew Moxico. ‘&r. Louw, The Santa Fo cxail arrived ab ladepenonte ice en inst, extensive preparations were boing mado for a agsinal the Apaches, to commence about We Lat of Mag. Difficulties with the Utaha were apprehended; bub the Kiawas express themselves friendly. ‘Tho weather wad unugualiy warm, sod he farems were busy planting, Business was dail, ' Death of Hon. Joshua A. Sponcer, Urioa, April 26, 1867. ‘The Hou. Joshua A. Spencer, a very eminent lawyar & this city, died Uda morning, after a brief tlinera. —_—_—— ‘The A) Comet. WILL IT DESTROY THM MARTH? ~-ONTHRHgTING OMe TORY OF COMHTS. As tae eighteenth day of June is rapidly when we are toll by the French and Pct tere that a comet will come In contact with the earth, and aither dixplace it from its orbit or coasume it with fire, we hage collected from such works on astronomy 48 are withia eg reach the following observatioas upon comets, which a this time, whea two comets are visible, may not be wake. teresting to our readers. The wonderful charactortatie which marks the flight of comets through space—theér aim- gular form and territic appearance—rendered these boddes, - tn the early ages, Objects of terror and dread, Supervl- tion regarded these wandering fery worlds with awe, and Jook@@ @pon them as omens of war, pestilence and famine. All the great and calamitous events of nations were ascribed to Wielr appearance; but at tie present eniigh. ened period, the appearance of a comet is no more a pre- digy, and has no more influence upoa the fale of men er ations, than the appearance of the moon, As far as ob servation has gone they are subject to thesame laws as the planets revolving about the sun’s orbit or path, wits this difference, that their orbits are more ecceatric, or di fer much more from circles than that of the planets; amd thus, while they approach much nearer to te sun, thay recede corre-poudingly further from it. ‘The following are among the most remarkable of whtoh we have any account :—Az the time of the birth of Midara- dates, 120 years before Christ, we have an account of @ comet whose magnitude must have been far beyond any- thing subsequently seen, as its splendor is said to have surpassed that of the sun, Ip tho years 248, 324 and 390 of the Christian era, remarkable comets are recorded have appeared; and in the year 1006 one is described an presenting a frightful aspect, exhibiting an enormous curved tail, in the form of # scythe. The appearauce of the comet of 1456 spread consternation throughout Kurope. ‘The same comet returned again in 1631 and 1607; and is is recorded that, in 1680, a wonderful comet appeared, which, by its splendor aad awiftness, excited the deepest interest throughout the world. Newton examined this re markable comet with great attention, and was led, by the general Laws of the motion of bodies in free space, as well as by his own particular observations, to conclude that the orbits of comets must, like those of the planets, be ellipses, having the sun ia one focus, but far more ec- centric, mad having their aphelions, or greatest distance from the sun, far remote in the regions of space, The idem thus thrown out by Nowton, as also the observations upem comets made by Tycho Brabe, were tikeu up by Dr. Hal- ley, who collated the observations which had been made Youching the appearaace and aspect of comets from the primitive ages down to his own Ume, and found that, wits ‘but fow exceptions, they had passed within less than the earta’s shortest distance from tho sua, some of thom with. in les than one-third of it, and others about one-half, Fle examined with much care the comet of 1682, und disce- vored # wonderful resembiance between it and tho comets of 1466, 1531 and 1607. The time of the appearance of the comets had been a nearly regular intervals, the average period being betwen 76 and 76 years.* Their distance from the sun when in peribelion varied but tite from each other, ‘The inclinations of chole- orbiae to. tut of the cartiGad’ also been nearly the same—between 17 and 16 degréad; their motions had all been rotrograde. Putting these to- gether, Dr. Halley came to the conclusion that the comets of 1456, 1581, 1607 and 1682 were re-appearances of one and the same comet. The variation In the time of its rereto- tion around the sun having beon something Like @ftean months, was scoounted for by him upon the supposision that the form of its orbié had been altered by the aturas. tion of the remote planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and pawed near them; and be thereupon predicted that its moxt ap pearance would be in the year 1757 or 1758; and ite ‘actual re-appearance in the beginning of 1759, according to this predictiop, established the fact decisively, that thoy ware regular and permanont bodies, obeying the genoral laws of matter. The oaly difficulty which remained in arriving at a greater degree of accuracy in calculating the rovere of comets was OM nccoUm of the disturbance to whidte they are exposed from the other bodies of the solar sys tem. This was overcome, in & good measure, aller the death of Dr. Halley, by the calculations of D’Alombert, Encke and Clairwult, in regard to the length of time thie comet would be retanied by the attraction of Jupieer, ‘The Lattoe Professor (Clairsult,) read bis investigations upem this point to tae Academy of Science in November, 11%; ‘and in litde more tian « month aNerwards Halley's comes made its appearance, and it reached its perihelion on the 19th March, 1760—being thirty day# earlier than he had calculated. Subsequent calculations enabled him to re duce the error t nineteen days. The perihelion passage of the same comet on ity return in 1853, was predtoted within nino Gays of ils actual ooourrence—a most astomtdla- ing approximation to (ruth, when it is remembered that this body, far aa it penetrates into space, never, even At the remotedt point of its orbit, escapes from the sensible iniluence of the planet Jupiter, Hesides the comet of 1759, of which there have beam five muthentcated returns, there are several otlury of which something like a retarn may be traced at loug la- tervale. One of these passed ity peribelion at about 6 o'clock on the morning of Oth of July, 1264; and again f little past B o'clock on the evening of the Bist of Apral, 1586. Thus its period is about 202 years. Auother ap- peared in 156%, and agaln in 1061, having thus « period of about 129 years. The return of that comet should have beon in 1790, In that your three comets made their ap- pearance, but neither of them resembled the one of 1688. While the periods of most of the comots examined are vely sbort, those of pthors havo beee ascertained to extend to many thousand years. The great coma 1411 remained virible for upwards of two months, and wae considered one of the moet brilliant Of modern times After a careful inveatigation M. Argelander fixes its ported of revolution at 2,988 years. Tho periodic time of the re turn of the comet of 180T was Gxed by Bowel at L568 years. A comet, deoominated Racke's comet, (appearcd tm 1818, and Fncko’s observations upon it enabled bim te identify it with the one described by Mewiours Michater and Messien in 1786; also, with the comet discovered tm 1796 by Miss Herschel, and the one of 1805, Fucke predicted its ro-appyarance ia 1822, and his pre- diction was realized by its being discovered on the St ot June of that year by Thos. Rrisiure; and its retorn was ae ticed again in 1826 and 1828, and sitracted much auention from the astronomers of that day. Another comet waa discovered by Beila on the 2th & February, 1898, which revolves around the aun in six yrats and seven-tentha. Ita return in 1846 atersoted 8 rood deal of attention, on scoount of its baying been die covered by Licut. Maury, of the Washington Observaery, that what had hitherto appeared asa single body was actually composed of two distinct and separate comets. Ia the same year one of the comets whioh is now visible war supposed (o be identical with the third comet of 1846, covered by Brorsea, and which is now the second whide has made ite appearance tbiw year i return perthelien: is calculated to be on the 25th Juno next—and as the Gawd one ia now in Annges, and from the sua, wecond (or Brorsen’s comet) is in ue, and is Li wee ite orth wren part othe beara, ad FS Sec he siete en ere \iterent parts of orbit of Mor All the cometa would ‘collision. there is no evidence that such @ tained of Coles pen, liner withthe arts. or wi ‘other plant; is no correet means of 80 Gab the of a comet aa to be able to say with one. “ohn given day it will crons the orbit of a planes, Hety oun of tne earth in ite orbit in, in round numbers, tmore than a milion ad sal of miles fan day and ne Che: ‘fault, with all hia care, did not come nearer truth them, nineteon days (a to the retarn of Halley's comet, and his followers, all the additional they could not come nearer than nine ite re. the point mearest the sun, on ita return, in ane hie comand, will not return again Ull the earth would in a qoarte around he wun be within nine days he