The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1857, Page 4

4 _NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, City Intelligence, DEATH OF THOMA» CABNLEY. Thomas Carnley, ex Sheriff of this county, died at his late residence im Carmansvsrille yosterday morning, of consumption, a diwaso um which he bas long been a sufferer. Mr. Carnley was s whig la politics, and in bia time en ardent eo porter of Henry Clay. He was elected Aldermas of the Tweifth ward and subsequently Sharif of the county, and im both positions was ap active, offcicot offictal. Ths profeassion was originally that of a lumber mercbent, but he aMerwa :l« weut inte the manufactaring of irow rails, ware, &e. He ook but Hittle part in polities recently, but voted for Colonel Fremont and was a sup- porter of (he republinan tecicet, ‘Tux Roarp or Txx Govyryons met yesterday at Belle- woe Hospital, but did not elect a Governor tm place of Joseph S. Tayler, as it was expected they would. Mr, ‘Van Riper bas declined being constdered a candidate, and thero is coasiderablo excitement ia the Ieard grewing out of an alleged attempt ow the part of the democratic Go- vernors to fill the vacancy with a democrat, thus giving that party eix members to four Know Nothings and re- poblicans: When the Board was crignally cow stitued it was so arranged thai woither party would have a majority, but if the present scheme is Froces-ful the immense patronage of tbe almsheuse de- py ad which amounts in ralamer sions te nearty 000 per year, will pars lato the hands of the deme grants, This e question waether, im view uf the party legis Taiton @ Albany, the derucwats'woald vot be SustSed ta taking the control of the department by way of reprisal = was po business of impertaace transe xed yester y- TaMMANY Socrery.—Tho installation of the nowly elected fachems took place last night. The ceromeny was got through with by 20 o'clock. William )), Kennedy was then chosen Fa bor of the Council, an¢ Richard Winne, Scribe. Brothers Cozner, Cochrane wd Liichardsea wore Opioitiad @ 0 eum tes to Tapers oa, eo ee mgmiant the elcorion, chamber resim sd i the Ceanci! Te wonted quiet. Tex Exacuion v-e Ovrenms of the Mechanics Institste ‘or the cnauing year was hold last nlgh!, whoa the fellow. tng ticket was succersful:— President—Willlam Milea, leather manuf: First Vice Prostaent—!rof. Jamos J. Ma Second Vice Presideat—Joiw B. Wieitios ‘Third Vice Prest¢ont—Jackson 8. Shultz, facturer. Treasurer —George W. Giare, boot and shoe manufac. taser. Corresponding Secretary, Charles H. Delavan, auctioneer and commi-sion merchat Recording Secretary—James MoDons!, pianoforte manu- facturer. Pirectors—John T. S. Smith, chetnist manufacturer of chemical and sugar app Purdy, Previtent of the Sixpenay Saving wurer. yer icathor mans Norton, manufacturer of telegraphic apparatus; D. D. De- lor; Samuel Beswick, elvil engincer; Cilaton . invent ‘eliows, Secretary of the R PB y Co.; Nathan Nesbitt, atiorney ait counsello filiam D. Murphy, sail maker; Thomas [iuie, architect Mathew Haskell. publisher and patent agent: fohw . Ha kins, machinist; George Hutton carpenter: Thomas He ness}, moceller and plaster; William 1. Marsh, engraver RJ. Whittemore, agent; Joveph Haydock, iwerchant; Joka | G. Brant, mason; Jobn McDovald. Conpmion oF TIM STREETA—Lity Inspector Morton yaa terday personally examined the condition of the streets im weveral of the warda. Great complaint haa recently been | made that the ash and garbage earts do not call te col- lect garbage. If the contractors fail to fulill thelr enqage- lenis relating to the cleauing of the streets, will . tou take them im charge? Citizens are anxious to ftreots cleaned. It is presumed Mr. Mort Wards yesteroay was with the view of a persona! obvervation, whether the multitude of e which aro cally tuade at his ollice are well Muztanr Excersos.—The New York Bi 4) Capiale L. Herthamnp, numbering roeventy five men, will leave this | city on the evening of the Aalst of May, om rote for Raltt more, where they will parade om Monday, June 1, with the Baltimore soldiery. The New York Rifcs will be the guests of the Jackson Guard during the time ef their stay in Paitimore. On Thursday they will leave for Washing ton, and on Friday return to Phi phia, where they will be received by the Colimblan Rides, Captain Molaan ‘whose guests they will be while tm that city. ‘They wi return te thix city om Saturday. Fran ix Waser Tauern Sruar.—About lef past elev e'olovk youterday morning @ Gre breko out in a weodshed hacked to @ brick building tn Weot Thirticth stroet, pear | Beventh avevoe, The building ts owned Ly Mr. Holien. | Deck. It iz damaged about $60, ame insured. The flames | Spread to the fiame bu adjoining, owned by Mr. | Hains and ecoupied by Widiam Piaherty. fae bullaing ia damaged abort 3400, raid to be insured. Mr. Flauerty has sustaiued abou: $60 damage to his furniture by water. Tle bas av tmeurance of $750 ie the National In-urance | Company of Jereey Cey The fire, 14 6 said, originated fom cinidren as play ia tia sled. ACGDENT 10 ONE OF Tux SouTE Feenr ferry Toa —While the us was crostiag from New York to Prootiyn yesterday morning about T o'clock she was ran into by @ schooner, carrying away with a fearful crash one end of the gemtietnen's cabtm. Had the acctieat oo cored when the boat was crothing from Brooklyn to New York when the boats are wsnlly crowded af this bour of the Taci ving, dor btless many ttve: would ear lot The schooner at the of tbe colliwon was boading dows the F.ver, satiing before the wind, aud oouid have avoided the accident a* well as pot. No biame whatever is charged tw the pilot oF attaches of the boas, The damage te the Behoover was ti tfing PRESENTATION TO A PRRTRENT OF AN DEER NOK COMPANT. — Mr. ‘Tremns W. Thorno, Prosident of tho National Fire In wuras.ce Company of his Olly, was yenterday com pimenied by a vreventstion f-om the stockholders of that company, Of maguidicent service of plate, valued at $1,000. The coremony took piace at No. 52 W tet, the offica of the ary H. Ward mado the preseaia | ofa be ther with s tuilk pitcher, tea pot, ure ‘ sorate pice of workmansap, bore the following im On richly engrav. mmbracieg surar SATIONAL YTRE INSURANCE GOMPANT OF TOR GTY oF NEW Your, ‘Thomas W. Thorae, Heury H. Ward, Goorge Bell Gilbert Davie James L. Adams, Charles E. Butler Fiwis Hoyt Henry P. Drowne, See’y. im the inemrance business nearly Samuel Lard, Wm. H. Tarbook, Sidney Mason, Tuewlore Banks, ¥. Neobits, 1a Hoyer, Jobe 4. Craie Mr. There bh all of a long | jarr'r. deer tng Uae past ent ia ons ¥ IGAN”.—A fire broke out about 1 o'clook y mot: ing at Tompkinsville, Sistea island, im the ng beune owned aut oorapied by J tta street. ‘The fire er 3 t, painter, and 1 aii ¢ wore destroyed in the work of ue ino mae ay morning © f gto John Kw yert < Fowrr Snxmn * broke oat im o frame ok, witusiat le Forty-siscth ‘Tee etable siuable horses, tabie the miller as of the y pone fa ree after rere wt, and thes eid upom the tof Howsare, eam aie today b ined o tte tan this cory the finest rogimont om the Mas DRowsem.— About 2 2 Mon tay a0 enon a | inat belon r a bowed sigh ' wre tyme , e ‘owe na NOt BEHOLD ¥ sn SoraTe Of Hipsey Deen. We are requented to say t © etitement to the elfeet that Mr. iey) J. North hed for the re the late Mency Tarner ' > 4 founsat net The Querentine Cowen Prom tbe F 4 ston at Philadelphia, ale rT, May 12 t, both tae vee comm 10m or ine ction thaw 1 men for a 4 ’ | mon Council to procure a now banner for the Fire Depart. n thie eity, | trede, The of tho Se eee ere exece- knowiedge, ageln4 (he introouction of dixease. The parpe-e of the | copvention about (wit im this city, we belleve, to consider | the Propriety of revising the Quarantine regulations, 80 as objections against thom which are wilt Sealand , the requirersents ef the public, aod the Interests commerce, The rewuit will ubably be te reieave vesecls ani their crews from the detention at the Lazaretio, because recently arrived trem ports where diseases ee ery te be infec- tions, aad that vessels ina (ithy condition, or with sickly crews and datuaged cargoes, arriving from a healthy or uphealthy port in the middle of the summer, will be sub jected to a stricter surveillance and puritication, before they are suffered te enter our crowded ports. The Fire ite RLECTION OF A FIRB COMMISSIONEG—DIVYICULTY BETWEEN TRE CHISF HAGINERS AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTERA The Board of Repreventatives of the Fire Bovartmoas met last Bight a8 Mremon's Hall and transacted some tm- portant business. Am election for Fire Commissioner ia place of Wm. A. Freeborn, resigned, wav heid, aud re- NE ee ew Robert H. Fills, Engine George Jeremih. 3. 7. Flaaagan 13 cons; | eoncort in af a of the fund ef the department, without con- aniting them or complying with the wiages of the depart ment. Mr. TL P. Vewx moved to lay the report om the table, ag it was redecting un the Chief Eegineer; but the motion was loss on the ayes and nats being called. ‘The matter was finally referred to the fotiowing named Joba B. Thomas aad J. eommittes ty repertat the next meeting, Taverick, Joba © Ham, J. Kuyser, Ha A. Walnut ‘The Committee on Painting reported that the likeness of Corusiiua V. Anderson wae compleied, and now bung om the walls. The portrait is a good one, and represents the ex Chief Engineer in his fire clothes. wa3 also appointed to confer with the Com- \ | | omit | | ment, aa the present one wae in a dilapidatet condition | As the charter of the Fire Department will expire by its | | own limitation in 1860, tho officers of the meeting were by | | resolution requested to ask the next Legislature for its ex: | tension. After some other busipess ofa local mature the Board adjeurned. ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS OF THK BROOKLYN | FIRE DEPAWTMENT. Am election {or Commissioners ef the Breok!yn Fire | Department took place last evenlug, ta Fireman's Hall, | Henry street. Representatives were present frem all the | corapanies in the Western district, numbering sixty in all | | —two from each company, James K. Leggett, of engine | Go. No. 14, President; and Geo. H. Haywood officiated as | Seoretary. Tho credentials of the mombers having been received, a number of candidates were nominated from whien jt ect five Commissioners, and the vote resuked 2s foliews: | Ofver @. Carter | Peter Wycket, Wm. B &prag | Jobn F. Phil Joba Lawrence. laa Degraw. (has. A. Fiekt Jusoph kort | FB. Servier } Sona Wyekol | Thurlow Weed ; The first five above named having recived a majority of | | the votes cast, were declared duly elected. Thoy are te | Se See rene aw for their terms of | fee, | ““Thetr @htion wifl he ntmilar to those of the New York Fire Department, and their rights end privileges about the same. The Common Louncil will have no more te do | than to c wtirm their action. Pa valutions com mew: of the notion of the Seaater | and reprepreeeniatives of Kings county im the last Legia. | lature for thoir efforts in advocating this bill amd secarivg | phtadal | te passage were adopted, and tae convention a FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF WILLIAMSBUKG, Dalegavcs from the varivus Ure coupuuics of the Bagtera | | dimeriet met inst evening at the Odeon, amd appointed the | ‘Ales of laxation:— Valuation of Ra'eof | folle: named gentiemea Fire Comuuioners, under the | Tuxable property. City Taxation. recent oot parsed by (he Lagislatuce:—Richard H. Harding, | New York... 20u,000 $11,740,402 $1.38 por $100 . 8; Win. Hanson, Ki 1; Garret | Philadelphia... €00,00@ 145,711'900 1:90 per 109 gine Co. No. 10; Ji f Pngino | Raltimore..... 260,000 102,472,205 99 por 100 | Co. ¥. B. Fuoler, ef’ B: Among | 200,008 96,300,440 = 130 per 109 the powers entrusted to them are (hose of organiang new- secs sess 160/000 241 /032/200 Ti per 100 ading okt companion, axpoiling tmaembers, taking | Now Orleans... 125,008 76,692,568 W per 100 | of ciswderly coninct amongst firemen, ap | All of theee figures ara taken from the Last official reports hell ringers and making rules and regalations perta.uing to he department. The Board of Comu.ismoners | ate compoced of exempt firemen, av required by the act, Inauguration of Cotumbin College, omequent on the lnavguration ef the | if, late the Deaf aad Imumb say. | 4, Wok place according te Th mow! Coileg B jum, en Porty-ninith tr noomcoment yesterday morning at nineo'clock. Thosse- | perty ls taxed more thaa once. conte orde D the College by the peo ¢riveu from its old and time honer according ta 0 toe chayel. 1, afler whi the sow regulations, proceaded im | the Rev. Dr. Kuox, Chairman of the Hie lwoked upon it rare enabled te obtaa vitleing, *@ suitable in every wa; purpees, and the trustees intended here tho facttities of study, | ares of be | youn 1 Kreduatad (p Columbia College, | and whe oow wish te perfect themselves ia any depart | ment of science. He imprewed apon ihe shilemte that the inerensed fncilitiew for study inorensed alee tmeie re. | spons. bilities | newly created advantages. | President Kino followed, by thanking the trustess pre- | } bout for their presemon, giv ity to the aervions; and | Jed, (hat ae far ae he was concerned, the courte of | uly should be carried out and discipline matntalned and wilt by ihe apirit manifeswed by the at | dente generally, that they would cooperate with bim. He Dol wil 16 impose aby Durthous upom the studeuts, but | | iealow (em all reascusbie indulgence. Ther dudes te con alry, COULLr¥Huem, Amd themselres whould a | late them to meet these expectations. The services oon- niste | ip reasing the third chapter uf Prove: ba amd chaust | (og the seventy pinta solectios Of Pralms, to the tune of Uid Hondied. Mer Walker presided at the organ, and | the students jotmed heertily im the serviews and ne- | gutted uncmasclves with credit. After these services they the comp! cv lier’ | precedes 19 their respective isetere rooms. Their conree | @ lecinres will now eontique. Pxleasive preparations are | dermen, form the deputation to Philadelphia Turee morn | HL Rico, Mayor of Bouton; Dr. Moriarty, Quarantine officer; | FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THR CRINGIPAL CITIES IX ' | Hive cities, with the exception of New Orleans, The itome | for that olty were Lakes from the report of 1854, and are Services were read br the Rev. Mr. | prowgs that efiher Ik=ton cillzens are richer, or Haat muo’ Trustees, addressed the etademts, He said that most probably the case, for according te the above cesities of commerce, beem the average mmeunt of taxable property ewnsd by sack, 1d site from which $9 citizen of Borin ie twice an much a that of Ni for population of New York. Large numbers counted as ures established [or garved that the bi; | oreare om the previous Y must Bot fall w improveg@en these | the extra levy fur the mente. now being made te beautify and orsamoemi the grounda | areund the college, aud it only romalus for FUUeth street te be properly requlaind to add to the time pronpeot of this tnost noble and worthy |nsitutioa | | Coroner's Inquests. } MNLAWCHOLYT SUICIDE OF A TOWNE WIFK. Ll, wife of Wm. 1 Caldwell, of No. committe! suiciia on Montag afernoon, ® quantity of he = ver comm taoe ly uscd for eloctre-plating. The decessed, it appaared, | waa s beautiful woman, about niseteom years of age, and bad been married but a fow months whew abe contem pias. | od self destruction. [lor husband was an o! pla by profession, bot wea vomewhat unfortunate in business, whick had ct upon the mind of the young wife | that she resolved mmit eulekie, Accordingly, on Yon her hushasd came homes, be the effects of drink when abe ran >a ed ® cup, and hoiding * up wo her hustaud’s the most tragie manner, ‘Thare, how io weil immodiate. ng thet the onp which be used = for Gijed wich ating porpoes, aud that om, bo grasped bis wite around the waiet and in the what she ted done. The sui eirevm-tarces e Squeet Upow the body of the were eliiel — I reetde at 18 ama hothe ye terday tna afinewcs J @aly takem and told her it eae not “ more to bi te ihe chest and stood ke wm the im entetpiace ayty < the exp and smelt eo revition of ber or | her in my 2 | you done ibs one Tren & her and tok Maddy, what hare ‘ruounsel ner dead; | keep Whe solution wits woe alway buerretied @!l yesterday: the decreed war rhe never atiampted or threatened to com Tewlemnly «weer that T did nut give eutroy her life. she died sboat twenty mi the yoteon er Wety, M1, being eworn exAmipation body of Ae ience about the body; ea openiag eartand lunge bealth u tem of the ovial wnerd a the effeets of p w tar we never on, supposed }* | were were exar creed and her Wy ving to show u by wed for the purpose of and siwaye Wved oe ood rivraotar wad her friends and rele | tas cause of hee . c Cambie ' foam Coroner ay latter | Wold an lnqueat yesterday af the New Yerk Hospital upon t the bedy ofa young women named Marthe Hai, whe died from the effects of scvero burns received on the evening of the 26th of April last by ber clethes catching fire at hor late roaidense, Ne. 63 Laurens streot. The de- ceased, it appeared, was sitting near a grate tire, whem a ene oe Beene window biew her dress and shir inte the Qnd insantly eet her im flames. The pour creature Hugered in agony from the oilocts of the Wjurlos receive t until night, when she ex: pired. Vewdct, “Accidental death.” Deceased was a ua | ave et New York, and was 2 years of age. | Vatar V4i.—Wm. Schap, @ Gormaa laborer, 38 y are { of age, accidentally fell om Momday fram a swmifidtog erected im frowt of & new building ia Brsox drcet, near ftapton street, and wes instantly killed. Ceroner Caanery heh} aa inquest upon the boly at the Seventeeath ward police station, aud tho jury roudered a verdie; of accl- dental dea bh. Deam ur Byens.—Miss Mary Hall, of 63 Laurens street, whe was terribly burned om the 24th ult., in consequence of ber clothes taking Ore frem a grate near which she waa standing, died on Mowday of lockjaw, cansed by the intense suffering sho exiared. Aa inquest will be held upes the Vaxly today. ‘The accident is attributed te the large sived heote whice she were and by which her dros was grub ly expanded. Fours Drowsme,—The body of am tinknewn mam wee | found on Mouday im the deck at the ft of Dey street, North river. Coroner Counery held au inquest upon it and the jury rendered s verdict of death by drewnlag. The de- ceased wes eboulfive feet 8 inches in beight, had black hair aad heavy whickers. His dress consisted of a black setinet movkey jacket, browm fustian vest, wilh greea some Buttons, black paate do. The beiv waa muck de composed and axpeared te have boen ia tas water for about three months, Arrival of Bostentans in Blew York. ¥f it he true thet thous people who are icast geveracd ‘are best governed, the city of Baton ix cvjoying u proe- Pority at the presout moment which many cities willemvy | her. That Paritanical little! place is new rejoicing im ite immunity from Mayor and two thirds of the Aldermen, notte mention a mumber of other municipal officers, who have eimultancowsly made themsoives scarce. The maim | cauzo of this oxodus ts the Quarantine Convention at Patta- delphia, tac latter towm being selected fur that object on account of ite quiet retirement and freedom from the noise and excitement of commercial aifaira incidental io auch a metropols as New York. ‘The Rowtopians have three objects im view ia this jour bey. One party, composod of the Mayor, Quarantine offi cer, the city and congulting phyeictans and eight of the Al- bere of the Common Council and two medical moa form a second committee, whoee object it is te study the different inaliutious Of the Kmjire aud Quaker Cites, whilst four gentlemen of the ‘Committees of the Board of Directors of the Hono of Referm ition’ are to attend a city convon- tion, to be held thie week tm this city. The following are the bames of the gentlamen om the various committecs:— DEPeTATION ON QUARANTIN MaTTSRS.—Hom. Alexander Dr. Herry 0. Clark, city physician; Dr. Bigelow, conaale ing physician; Al¢ermen Oliver Frost, mora Jamos, Joba T, Dingley, Joseph M. Wightman, Otie K ch, Solomen Carter, James Nate, Timothy Alien Samuer. OCommTran ON Leetiryrions.—Counseilor Mallen, Counrel- lor Freeman N. Jocelyn, Counsellor Joaiah B. RiJbardsea, Dr. David McGalvary, Dr. Henry L. akon. Commirres oF Howse ov RuporMation —Mr. William Dall, Mr. Joha‘Cowdin, Mr T. C. Kendail, kG: js Nearly all Uewe geatlomen have been stayine at the St. Nichelas; but thoco of them whose destination is Philadel pia, left for that city yesterday Comparative Cost of City Governments. TER UNIWED STATE—COMPARATIVE RATES OF TAXATION—VALUATION OF TAXABLE PROP BRTY— } ITEMS OF CITY EXPENDITURE, RTC., RTC., BTC. ‘Tho materials for this article have beom gathored from the last annual reports of the compwreilore of the respeo- prebably ata clightiy lower tigure than weuld Bow preve | Ceused came to hin death by the exceasive axe of liq :or, | State, exce;t the ctty of New York, where capital nata- | | meus and society then demanded, that village aud city lot. Jerecy City News. Bava: Ovreace—A Necro Kuiaa.—A most stugular and brutal eutrage was perpetrated on the person of an Jack*’ im the neighborhood where he lived. The eutrage {noffensive negro named John Thomp-on, well known as resulted im bis death. It occurred ow Mowday at a porter howe kept by @ mam namod Tucker, about three miles from Jersey City,"on the plank road w Newark. It was not hewever at the public 9 om that read, known a# Glendalo, by another man named Tucker. This negro has been mich adiicted to from that causo. ral : as ringleader, gave this negro Jack liqter to drink until he was'ablo (0 drink no more. They then poured sume de his throat. After this they saturated his hair with ca! phone aid set fire wit. Abother man, who came Ia at the time, extinguished the flames. The necro was afterwards roughly bapaled by tbem, probably for the purpose of re- Heviug bim of the effects of the liquor. He died, however, that night. Corover Sycer held an inquest upon the bod: yesterday, and the jury rendered a verdict that the de- which was a‘ministered to him by Davicl Keevan and others. The Grand Jury being in resnion yesterday jphe case was laid before th 9 indicted. Why Money ts scarce and Business Dull, [#rom tho Albany Argua, May Lt.) ‘piable that in atmost every portion ef this | | | raily concentrates, t preseure. itcan hardly be said that any severe or gene rel dintrems on this account prevails. ‘The evil ia bat to that extent, But there is an uncomfortable tightness in | the money market. There whe want funds fur teitimate | business purpasoa find some difficulty tm proeuriag them, even om undoubted weourity. ‘There seems to be a lack of capital ta supply the demand for it, which regular business Pilates svilol the tnteterel tae emmntey, uaeenpe rhenoed, Is, to a imanennnts Oe result of (nga rae ntrangoncy, but om oxtont,tho result of sat bee schich kno reutored execey sanror We aiiude to the general of basigess, ax comparod with tho activity which provailed afew years ago Tui:, we suspect, is felt im most force im the villages of the Btate, and In the ctttes of the interior. There ta in mast of the m a failing off in the brisknees of trate, in the demand for mechanical tabor, consequent upon lows buil..ing taas formerly; and as @ natural result of all this, both the de mand abd the price for real estate have declined. ‘The last remark applies also to the country, strictly fe called—we mean to the farming Ianda of the tate, Although | there is no reusouabie ground of complaint that wgrivultur al products are not suffivion ly bigh umd q tick of wale, it te | nevertheless true, that im most vectiuns o this State farm- | ing lands bave d& preciatea 10 value at leat twonty-nve per cent within the last four yoars. It may be that farm- ers well to doin the world, ask no less for their farms than formerly, a d value thom po jess im tuoir invenvorws; bt lands subjected to the test of a vale would prove cue truth | of ourremark. There is leas demand for agricultural | there are few purchasers in the market, aod or | cout the price falls. Th a useful to understand tho cause of these things, bo- cause lessoms for the future may thus be gathered. 'Per- bape many of ovr readers witt reply that tue cause is ob ‘vious, that we had lived too fa-t, that busaness Bad been overdono in our villages, that merchants had overtratod, all classes bad built too’ wany honara, stores and other verements, that farmers had beeome infatvatea in relation to the value of lauds, and that every budy had been extrava- gent in their expesdiwres, and that the presort state of thing» is but thy natural reaction following upon the heols of extrema expansion. ‘We admit that the:e is doubtless much truth in all this, | as inaseason of general prospe ity is almost a matter of conrse for jeople te Kye Loe fast, aud to forgot Miata re yulsion is powable. Bu. we do uot Hud iu there rexsoms a ralisfactory solution of the problena. We are not cauvine- ed thas it can be raid with truth—louklug at things as they | existed four or five years ages our merchauix ia our interior villages and cities then overtraded, thas more wow | buildings wore crected than whe apparvat wanle of bud- | ‘were oxtravaguntly iriated, or tha: farming lands wore | current at prices above their value as tected by tacir pre | sent and prospective jwoductiwoas. We in fact, serieusiy doubt whether our pee ie were any more orszy thea \han they have since beem, and now are ‘the great expiananos of the unfavorable chanses, not only in this State, but im all the Kasterm States, which have occurred within & fow years, aro to be found, according te Our judgment, in the rush of emigration aad capital from Uhewe States wostward. We wikb tno sggrogate of moa | tae caso. | comranarive agoueaares oy errr xXxPExDIreRE. ‘The following tabio chews tho totai amount of orpeadt jure om cily acouuat por ences fer cach ef the dties | Ramet: — New York. 94,188,537 Raitimere $3,398.207 Boston... 3,215,371 Brookiyn. 1,043,996 » 4,930,680 New Orleans. 2,311,606 ‘The following table shews the comparative population of | the cities welected, the valuation of taxable property and ef the respective city comptroilers, with the exoaption of New Orleans, the Sgures of which wore taken from the re- portof IMSS, the last whick was comycnings comtaiming an oa timate of tho rato of taxation. Deubtiess the rate would figure slightly Digher at the present time, The rate for the CH Of Buxton cooms comewh at lew, bul several fact me be taken inte consideration. ie ax eof $1 58 per poi! is | not included, and by taxing wor gages, &o. the same pro. is from the figures that tbe taxable praperty {2 Boston greatly oxereau that of New York tm proportion to the populanen. This proverty im New Tork ea:apes taxation. latter ie ‘One (hing, however, eught te be takem Lnte cumsiderauve om tbis point, apd tht tz, the vast amount of the floaung Citizens in the census eterna ure transient resideats, | whose bulk of property evcapes taxation. It will Le ob: | cat rate of axatiaa ia [n Vhiladeipbia, notwithstanding that pa muck hae been said awit wi ican about the enormous taraton ef New York Tistraa | that the New York levy for 10? will thow a great (n- | ned bet that ie maraly ovtog to | eutral Park and other improve COMPARATIVE DEFT OF DIVVRRENT GItiin, ‘The following table chows the ot mparative total debt of different cities, the amounts provided fur, and the net meaounl of lek) of ceo — A weval VA Around Drevsied for. Debt. New York... $6,598,002 8,812,008 Vanladetpbia #11 000;000 watt $10 . wt oer 46 Thee, #1ts 17 | 4s 26 $400,017 ©The etty of Philndeiphin sum ls Were fore need. +The ott of Trees OF CITY EXPRNDITORE. Tho fallewing tables show the the compar alive expanses per anawm in difercu! departments of the various city ¢> | verumente:— Salaries of Clenning city uifiows, — Pobler. strene New York + SLM 8808172 $314,897 4 fTecinted va | Bastom .... $1,075 188,906 | th Ties Piledelpiis 180,000 = 401,113 160,080 Palumare 42,00 ingen f{ Tastuded ia Rrookiys 907 Bae New Orleans Below Puts Ss Reval a a mot dent y | 5 In consequence of the different argamsretions of ity governments, tbe abo as te chow, rogardinss of Io a im departin the comparatic eect under toe ¢itferout heady, as given ta | ee Now Terk city ncewwiits | the next eleetoa. ud weot for physician, wha | sa terperats woman, and | yet hewe | Personal Inte titge General Dow fe £9 Gece Ddlia oh the 24 \0 ral days pret México, with @ 4 New Ortonme fw The General, we believe, te oe f me the om let It, oF stilPowinn semeowbat the back bone of Uormonieri’s gororammat / the stawanes that opal makes war pou Mortod latter MAY GXDECI serielance frum te of Columel Orr, member of Congrans “me “outle Ca Tolima, arrived (uM. Lous ou use 6th bm He at tended the cek t of he unloa of te Mbei wipyd DY railway, at Mempui, — € sutbor of the prove garotiiag law of tho | will be probably te Bur tue | ae ‘hows, Wen | ier dt ft erhes, Comer TC Perrawore he AT and waphew. TH lieben and town haps, We weltgon, TTP iter ber, M8 Teeod and sow Mies Vancom, Jobe Hoenian, % | Ff ox Kéwards, Win Poser, B | » Dao MoMatelive, Mie Paiilips ; ban Comey, concege Marton, # | Makin. (+ W Hrideos Joba Parcel, F Cerreke, T 4. J Rostwivos, FM alow i Jobne } Bana g 7, & Hives, A Johnson, J | Catrmmbbte WF wae. Mis Finew Miss 4 Prtenard, Mise Prive kd fi Mice Hotfunan | 5 0 anand ia ray OAM F Daniy, % T BL Cota, tay, cna aod ten Mieses Crewe, A TL Lee Arich, Major R Lowndes, De or BG tov the ante er: 1H, Jad , Wise two | beat by amd strong man—constantly drai and money which has launched npon this sen of miventares within :he last few years could be known. It is immense. | ‘The former way be cuunted by thutioauds aud ths laiter by | millious. Lavking at our ows Stale uly, the rust frou every city, vi sod rural tuwn bus beew like that which the of Petar the Mermit roiled in guch + mighty volume towards the Holy Crusales. Mercaane | ave left their counters, lawyers dwir Boks and briefs, | mechaniss thelr werksbops, their curser low, punall formers their ancestral patrimanies, unurers their petry note shaving, and ad have haeteved to the Ei Dura tc where they fancied the true philosopher's stone ov id be found, which would convert thew lite aactugs Inte g fortunes. We need not explain bow sort bas wasened the communities from which it 3 forth. Th bas operates Wie continued diewdiug up ia a y life's Dlood and kwoping cim weak and ric: these emigrants bave ca: ried away considera money—mauy of them large rovunts whict ha- gone Weet bas not by ay ms fal retiruad eiroks and , im town lots, im far ning lands, and on loans, at febulons rates + fim erest. It has caged not exclusively among the capitatiate of our large olties but has scizod the money lenders throughout the taterlor Fvery map having ® thow.and dolinn’ ia cash hax prem upeasy unill be could invest it iw toa shares of Wostara | Tailroad stock, oF ina railvoad bend at twenty per cant discount, oF ls & lot in BoMe projected city west of the | Misdenipid or north of the Falls of S Anthony, or ons | mortgsge at twelve per ovnt interest. The aggregate of | men and money thus withdrawn from the Kast 18 amvly euGiercut to explain tbe pecuniary striageacy and the gens. Tal Guiness im business bow so generally complained of ia the interior. | Te doew not fail within the purpose of hla article ty die | eure the wisdom of these weaterm lavestmeuts, or their probable uiummate fate, or their preductireness in tho long | rom as compared with Investments ata lower rate of (a toreator ina regolar business in the old Staias. The toptes furmivh food for refiection and may in yar atton- tion hereafter. Our prosent object haz been simply to point out What wo regard ms the real, eilicient care of t peerewt peverty of tee comnery im tie AUaalia o ates ia ready wach means, and we think most rolincting mea agree that we have indicated the true Kouroe of ihe evs. German Ctvtitzarien In New York. [From the New York Staats Zeitung. The consideration of the 1mportance and valae of | the large body of Germans in this city anditeneen | bortog towne con he estimated only hy the activity and intelligence which there evigrans devolaye in | their new homer. If they excel im arts, trade, | | commerce or manntactaring, tren their accession Must be accounted as beneiicie!. We are happily able _ to show that our comourymen bere fuily reslize all their conditions. Mechanical arta, sach as tailors, and shooumk sre pursed by Germans, rivaling the best Losdow apd Poria make, ond their work ts cold as ench. In peins of fact the many large estibdli-h conta in theca trades could not be carried on with wtthom, Maay, if not meet of the honees in the eastern portou of the city have bese bulls by German ines carpeuter-, aed the waintiow, glaze: tin reefing been comple by there who were a brought up to trade in aod. The | plans of some of oor ment ab Mifkces, fron bre finisbed ex vat en to the + working drawing, come from the ma y se!) kaown German archiver in thin ety. mane The best practical furrisra are Gor: Germans. Meny feucy Oifticntt hd anches of enametiag jewe.ry, enicn bay. | tre bebeve to be “lu ported,” are te prodnetions of | Germon arceane in tlis city. We mart wits mean grocers, bakers and confectiou-rs at every | turn. The German hotel qual tn @! reso Ge to the seme estartisheeute in American heads; apd cotbrongh the # able branchos of trade bot lorsettwg “ mate aed “lager ner," give oy hores: Hemg to S any worthy men, ie ently a Germew toveation 75000) te tae We bare a “Ge wan’ aiepensary two societios | of Corman phyeatens, numbers of Germaa aparne carves, a d & number of wHalyt Mandar aring choniste farpien a rep © tion fur the medvoal Pir ferston im wll te y pmriic places of worst 'p and apwer rls speak for tel gion ab rm Ten book at sto and mosern writer to tbo» vane men earning ten the many pro’es Hore f ery tow rut tale community, Lo 619 line ® te Deed only to print t tee opera, the | Dasectoorf Gallery, ail toe mautinsee and ca me prove heir olawmt exclusively Ge asa ¢ bo newes: that ie Bineseseary We esw leo siinete with aot fon to the German Hatrtomic mae fag a c re The oo rue of U © Germ w York is proverbist!, Their bills of exchange a erly sought aa reait | tavers. Daring the list year the airat trade wish | ermany trom thie port employed ia ity mariee 4 jem 152 | are six lines of ips The mnaber | of se-m Pp en ploy The valaation of | thie trode for the year was 213,193 284 90 of divert | imports and 24.507 574 of direct experta. The ind? Tees tride may be swumet ate higher fignre The | Pumber of pasrengera arriving daring the same time | waa Sh 2 Tabe th poyaleven ani transplant it Jato a desert and will ti not consgitate a perectly civilized community ? article cannot be safi- cleptly extended to give the foilest detaila. lor the | intelfigence and reading capacity of those, more than one hundred thonsand German tnhabitante, let | our paper with ite 15,000 daily eubseriers—let the | other German daily, weekly and monthly pepers, bear conotuaive testimony. According to the official return made up to the Siet of December lsat, the mercantile mariae of Holland emounted to 2.515 vowels measuing together 595,284 tons. In the above nnraber are in- cluded 31 steume s of 10,428 tons, being 11 more than in the preceding year. | New York ané Brockiyn. Wrehin thts | county. ard gives | of theeon tities @ New Youk tow with bringing pre: edey ‘ow the courte of events proven enalogies by what trans Rmuriies é Ther bircory waa in the moi a hietory of the citer: Atheus, Sparta, Theis, in the Plorence, Pim, ier: The imal commeptics wee whirled orben, a# is the train by the locomotive. rent rate of freling in the city of New York, and the hostile attitade im which it stands towards the Legisinture of the S di-tinesly these a tory, aud how cons'ar from wounted locai freling. has evolved an ererent kno Iter eur we owe it that the great bell not summon the pera with arma im their hands, and MAY 13, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEET. a if is E Anarchy In New York in « Geston Point View. {Frou the Bestan Dai Courier, May 11.} ‘The present utate of ia the city of Now Youk, ond the hating © ceoms to have awukened thereby the action of the the Bate, deserve much moe matters of 2 parcly local nature can claim. not ly because New York a0 great a city and the bas: Bees of 60 large & commoaseaith, sat he- Cause the issues ratred are ret avcidente: but inepita- ble, and soch assure likety to grow up slaewhere ‘and w submit our iustitadons co vew wats. Oar tu- Meuse con mercial cities, wita local and oxolusive interests avd a pubdite opinion of theic own, repre- scones by ci ee thul perenne | age are berms oor wates sper iy net contom- pinted by the met whe inid the {vandavons ef cur Tnstitationy; and had trey been foreseen, even the Propheno sngucwy of th-ve seganions stat-amem conld net have provided against all the possible oifficulties which the fuiure might develope. At thie moment an average amount of political fore- aight and of knowiedge of huwan natare wil teach us that the rejations Letwweea our greas vities aud the Legivlatmes of the respective Sistes te which they belorg msy rasily becowe aucomtercable, and even Openly ond avgrity mostule Between the city 209 country there is some nete- ral antugonism. ‘Tne interests are not always iden- tical, or, at ieast, sre Lot thought to be; apeu baak- ropt laws aud usury laws, for icstance, the farmers end the werchan's aro xiways upou different sides. The inbavitants of cities (»Mea without reson) ace also suppo-ed to have aw essier life than their oreta- | rea im tbe conutry; to werk leas bard fer their mo- ey, and to get more of comfort and Inxury m ex- change fur it; and thus @ Ditle of that bitter here catled envy ix sewn in rer breavs. And the diffe rent tofiuences overs! Upen city and coansry are tibely to lead co differen: resuits apou political ques Ware; Ho thas 8-0 City will vow ene Way eeu tne country envther At tate moment, the otty of New Yirk is cemooratic, aud the State is ; abé this fact may have bad seme ‘aflacnce ia saarp- ening aud pinning the acting of the Legistature. The founcetinn principle on which our institutioas rest is that of locel eeif-goversinent, by wh ch the ‘own bas the exclusive charge end respunsibility of all masters wi bw its own sphere- and the same of the coanty—ibe Ste taking nothing that caa ve done by tee lowes and wider organization, This is simple evough 'n principle, but its practical Spoil cation is wliewded with difllculties. beceuse the between one juri-diction snd another cannot be Grasn wit precigion. “caiced, a great city caanot be dealt with precixely w a ewal. village, out must bave reguiati rs of 17s owe—just asa large hotel cannot be managed in the same manner a8 a private faxily. The Legislature of New York, which has just closed its se-sion, and whicn certataty deserves tae praise of energy industry, ebatever else may be vaid of it, pueed reveral Iaws wich affect unl, ano seme of ‘hem carbg ag sity of New York. The metrupelitan Pulco bill, te Excise law, the new city charter, the Ventral Park bil, tne Cisy Hall tail, the Assemment bil, the Querantiae iaw the !nw es'ablishina Port Wardens, all bel wg this«Iase = Boene wre said by a lerge portion @ the New York meee te be more or less eacroschmente upon the princtple of l-cal se'f government aud the municipal right: o! te co-poration. The Centra:purk biltane tne City Hail bill—we presume, for we have pet seem them—give to offl- Coss appoiat-d by he state 4 share in the manage- ent and expensi aire of the great sums of money whieh are to be ns-d in the erection of a new Crt Hall and the laying out of the Central park. Al! | tesuab this movey is paid by the penple of the city of Now York exciva.vely, and, om principle, the ex- pendita-e of tt world seem to be their own dasiness and nobudy’s else, yet, if all tates told of city offi- ciais be true, we presume th: the tax payers will hat object to bave a Bow clement ct vigilaece and reepopeibiliy prs inte operation im this instance. ‘Tie new ory charer, the Quarantine and acsess ment swe, de net appear te vave called forth mack comment ‘bes tar Bat the Exciss, or law, the Pert Warden bill aud the Wetropolitin Po- Nice law, base awekened strong oppoxidon, aud the Inet i- under jodicu! ndvinereus; and so Sais, for she prem .t, our r-marke «itl be coutiued. ‘Thin til Crested @ police district, of four reversal ceuntier, and embractag the of nn whole gire:tun ane coutrel of tbe po'ice force are verted na tbemdot Ove, commissioners, whe have €xolvswwe powers o8 to the appointment aud removal of police eJicers, and who are taus invested with an | immense palron-ge snd Clo ked with the power of Teguisting the expendiore of a vast amount of money: tu¢ police expenses of the city of New York Satbie more bee a miilt nef dollars, we believe. the powerof the rof New York, as regards the p lice, seen#, nner this bill, to be absolutely nothing et all; and, If t goes: inte operation, we bball oe @ thee Bi lar spectacle of tue exesutive ma gistrate of a great ily wi direct power to vat j ives and property o! Pp ovect the che poop'e over whom bik musicigal jurmeietion extends. Tudeed, ith thle ane other ects of bre Loyislatare, (6 New York meme reduced to a nf o-na- mebtal apper dage. hke the carved aud galated Agure hesd of u etip, whice appears to lead the way, oa eply obeys 3 coms unicated m iva. Is will be readile se@a thet this act virlates the principle of local iadependeuce, and creates a terri- torte) police Girt 4, whice is necher a city nora it a Kgal existence. Were the cities Of Boston, Onariewows, Camoridge, and Rox bury formed iste a polles district, and within tha dintries were all the police ffieers to be appointed | by a bosrd of five oummissioners, who were to be puld by the tas payers ot the district, we should be in ® situwtion poraliel te (hat of the city of New York atthie moment It would be « case of very urgeet pecesst!y which weal. reeoncile us tu such an epactment, 4nd bere is the rob. The feetin; the law to be parses, and whica gives it such sup- Pertet pablic oploton as it comaands, must be just this: thet toe must forthe better. Tne 'y was s@ i tive that a litte violation of principle might bs eadured. An out sider is in no #itustion tw pronousce ruthoritatively npon wooh a question: but every observer, in New York or ontor it, bee sen enough, within te jast ord that the polive system of city wae verioumly and slarrmmngly defective. Ib no gieat city of Cinri-teudom are life aad proper- 4) more imperfectly pro ected than im New York. clly well awere that the ogenisavon Beef sneferet police force for se a sete polls preeest dificuiries of no common “i k the highes. o. We wer sad we lary fivetive apa a¢m niew Che radical view of thei system has been, that the police effcee bie been @ political fomesionery, hold- Jon by tee lenure o: (be success of the par- he belouge; and t+ aci'y enero parties are pretty Pearly belaeoe: eho Doe BA caure a cin of ty thre, we by vad esough to tint which shoes toe whole orgenitation, Rrocy poliee off cer sheuld held his plice hy the tenare of Ko0e Mbovior, Wholly tne of p horal parnes and seem of New York te bast fiemly upoa this priack pe they may meke ne ny vew duvtricta an they piesse Orgenize a8 many ovads, device ax many ia- genious crecks wad belunces as taey wilt, it will all come ta wanght It will we like tryiog duforomt ve eendent of the changes Owen's. hicles * i « bores Viat will pot zo. ibe ny posibly be cow syetem lao bet wo ligat as we esa ra departure feoa ned price ples of gevermwent asd atmaia e blow a leen ett geveremen+—s great towards contrelizomom ano perhaps a wetanon tiow is 8 ree wded by there moet immediately taterssted may be in- fosved from the lange a Mayor Wood ip & oom with jestion ell, under date Of May 4: be tows d. bat br ‘The Logislawnre has tested this great eeyoriam an a eubjumated Under tho theury whi \fewtly go rerned yma ing or have jout not uly but Lefo power ar are wot 1 of te authority 9 te all conte —of the pawer t form ther ciyal re he--bet hove fallen to seek a fee: te +1 va sala tof any reiee fa cetion of en ere to be farmicbe ro without oer conse; ne by th " the munich ality tha aby p whic meod is & ot ane ve as RUN IA auerod preroga fu reverent ee worm tive, x: to shat of tue throne tell, ne krowth of our own comntey, and the praottoal Covelepe ment © orratc prig rip tn com i iosperty, ate coostantiy which there is vo exact f the past. Bot the datly from wme te tims, cnrions pred ia the dem yeratic ewm- reese and mecinral lealy, torre t reel of ancien Boiogna Ahan ue pre- enable us to sects of Grecian and F allan hie y ware were breaking out i val wo‘ence But, beppily for si ta ad ve - = to Lnore democratic reece hich se ag bigh, shone ao brilliantiy, and ‘eo soon; and that is the judiciary, Tt is this which caused | pate of -bings im New York was so | faculty; ba’ 10 New | York they bave never sterted apuw the rigo* track. | Until the police | @ We Coumen Coua- seive more | | F E ESRF. ee. Er § 2 { f ! 2 i Ki 3k : 4 ra te é j fal the very resprotabie judicial stations there; bat every lawyer kno vs, that the courts at Now York not Lew porsers that weizht of whieh bad when the:r laws were expounded by Koat hear joc in the mode ef fect their “a aysem bdr ‘appeinta: umited E be; and there in bigher reverence. as ay waves of 3; which have swep$ the State during the Inet tem years, and the manding influence which, di tha: period, been exerted by that eminent magitene an fluence derived from his age. his intellectaal his fear'eas independense, hia { PaiLapeLriuta, May 12, 1867. The Gubernatorial Election— Tae Municipal | tion in Philadelphia-—The State Legislature, ‘The cifferent political parties im this Sate bery im preparing for the approaching contest | Governor. The democrats have nominated Will |W. Packer, of Lycoming county, for that imy | position; the republicans, David Wiimot, of | ‘ord county, whilethe American party have ne selection up to thistime. In many ef the © | fea tee repablicans and smoricens uaited and Gelopates tothe State Conveation which Ws Im ethers, however, trey sould ovaleece, and frum these later localities pure rep lieansaleue were chosen. Inthe nurthora and wesiern portion of the state, Americaniam ts tytall swallowed up by the republican movement, ont the middlc, casterm and seuthers tiem of con Amer-casism is im the ascendant and E whigs. tarin of 1842 end his tree will pemt masy an arro | Judge bas mever beem considered a war a frien’ either Pniladelphis full party vote im his favor. Mr. Packer, the dr mocratio candidate, ble t some of the obj | Gleated ty a cert q | icam party will | Yoouted op Nibg to bave | large im thi. @ ty } bh waged tansy | @en and repyb ican parties preperatery to the contest. mr. Wilmot was im the ity but al to me 0 whole A: om their | act wihthem., Thus the mater commenced, | im a shot time the fire became general along whovw line, Separate tickets were rum in almost 2 an nap ugendered Ui the principal officers Brebanan * re Penne wo for oom al from Suuared maj rity; Poe master, was elected from the ob Council, by av he “outa” have fairly beaten the “ins,” that i itioal government, ey toimeneg cos rH toy City Had does oe inesin the Dark, thet Mr. Meyor Wood