The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1857, Page 8

again raleed in the SHE PORT JEFFERSON TRAGEDY. = oe gg apt wan the Setar sioten tetas Wake Bek ober toca ware, Particulars of Marder—Statements Witnesscs—Emunett Brewster view this of the tragical scene. The blow was ef Three Eye-" pat Ee fall, for something most Heard— Mary Jane Sturtevant’s Statement— | of attempting to inflict John KE. Darling’s Statement—The Coroner's | 0¥D odious: Bere Mrs. Sturtevant’s stalement ends, The Medical Testimony—Singutar | “4 that of another eye-witness begins. JOHN ¥. DARLING'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HB SAW. Dream of John E. Darling—Strange Facts | 7 io. up about 6 o'clock, and burried in poling on may Connected with the Murder—Excttement tn { pants, imagining that I was late in to my bus ‘the Neighborhood of the Scene of the Tra= | ess, us I believed that I had overalept ‘@n account Concerning the Murdered Per | eee eee Oy a ae ee tne ney eons and the Murderer, dic., dic., dic. of “murder,” accompanied by ‘most terrifying Afler we received intelligence of the direcalamity which | shrieks from two voices. I ran in the direction tas been the monns of throwing several of the families in | fram which the shouts procesied. and, on, looking Me neighborhood of Port Jefferson into monrning, and tho | which commands a view of Waters’ house, I saw three persons all clustered together in dre front of the door, all of whom, I now thought, were shouting and running away from sons by whom they bad in some way been blood. “What my sensations were at that ful moment I could not atiempt to tell. After taking quickiglance at them, Iranto my wif who was still in bed, and said, in a burried manner, “ Why, they are all yg themselves in the next house! what will 1do?’” back to the win- dow. What a terribie scene now burst upon me! | clear- ly understood the whole matter at a glance, for I saw Mrs. Waters lying in her blood near the door, the young wo- entire district in that section of Long Island into unwonted excitement, we despatched thither one of our reporters, & order that we might present our readers with the full- eet particulars of this most melancholy affair. He retura- ed last evening in possession of every fact thet has trans- Bred in connection with the sad event, and the following fare the beartrending particulars — OCCURRENCES OF THE EVENING AND NIGET PRECED- ING THE MURDER. About 4 o'clock im the afternoon of the day preceding = Lappe re herwrhyans and Racevrst co her as ist AS could, wi appeared to me a a wepety 5 ter en ee Giang taal | idol in his band. I shouted « Murder !” az londly as posaiblo, Port Jeflerson, was handed to Henry 1 and by thie time the blow was raised and y to de- afterwards committed the murder, notifying him that un- Jens be made some advance in the direction of settlement & sult would be commenced against him for slander by Wm. Washington Sturtevant, one gf his victims; upon receipt of which Waters, whose eyes were rather dim, proceeded to the house of Mr. Davis, @ grocer of his acquaintance, for the purpose of having it read for him by that gentle- man. The letter was read. Waters listened attentively te the contents, which specified that it was hoped an ar- vangement would be made before to-morrow (Saturday) evening; and when Mr. Davis had finished reading, Wa- tere asked ‘Is that all?’ and being answered in the affir- mative by his friend, remarked, ina manner that would indicate contemplated satisfaction, ‘It will be settled be- Sore to-morrow evening; I will settle it.’ He then left the house where the letter was read, and no more was ‘thought of the circumstance until after the calamitous erie had been perpetrated. JOHN E. DARLING’S SINGULAR DREAM. ‘Mr. Darling, who resides in the next bouse to that in which the murder took place, related the following to our reporter. He is a relative of the late Mrs. Waters by her former marriage, being the brother of the late Mr. Mat- ‘Tew Darling — Soon after I went to bed on the night of Friday last, and when I had just fallen asleep, I thought that some- thing made “me get up in a great hurry, und that I beard the cry of *‘Murder’’ shrieked out two or three times by a familiar female voice. I forthwith pro. eceded as fay as possible from my bedroom, where I ‘thought I was dressing, to the window in the end of the Bouse, and upon looking out distinctly saw my niece (Mrs. Sturtevant) and her mother all cut and bleeding, as was also the mother, and Waters close by them, who I Smagined had blood on him, too, apparently running away from something that I could not divine. [then thought that I ran ip and told my wife something ina hurry, and Row it came to pase J don’t know, but 1 again found my self at the window looking out in the greatest state ot ex €itement, and I clearly saw Mrs. Waters lying on the ground motionless and covered with her own blood, and scend upon the young lady’s head. Instantly the mur- derer’s arm grew slack—he started and ran in the direc- tion of the house, and I darted over to the spot where the young lady was, who, uj my voice, raised her- self on her feet and 1 tow! me. On re to her she asked me to help her to her mothor, which I did, and then ran to call up a neighbor. After returning, which I did in about a minute, I helped the boas | lady into my house, and did what 1 could for her; but saw it was all over with her mother. After having what was in my power done for her, J then went to look for ‘Waters, who was not to be seen an} to the rear of the dwell house, I at length discover him in the barn hanging by the neck from a joist close by a ladder, from one of the steps of which I believe he had swung himself. Thinking he was doing pretty well there, I just walked out and left him to swing, and on reaching the front of the house, I discovered that a crowd had collected. I then walked into the breakfast room and discovered Mr. Sturtevant with his brains battered out, and lying on the floor, which was covered with his blood. EMMETT B. DARLING'S STATEMENT. Emmett B. Darling informed our reporter that he was sleeping up stairs, but was awoke by tho shouts of mur- der proceeding from the breakfast reom. He got up to dress himself, and felt very much afraid. He then heard blows, and more screeching than wha’ he thought was a fight outside the door, and after that he heard a foot com ing up the stairs, and something heavy knocking against m ag the step moved up to the lobby. He then hid him- self under the bedstead, and before he was well concealed there Waters entered the room with an iron bar in his hand, and after searching the bed walked out to another, and then the boy ran down stairs and Waters passed into the rear of the house by another stairs. The boy then proceeded down stairs, where he saw the bodies in the state that they were when Mr. Darling saw them. ‘The entire story of this melancholy tragedy is contained in the three statements which are given above. Dr. Decling, the physician who resides in the village, attended to the murdered persons, both of whom died immedi- ately after he arrived at the house where the murder wok In the evening, at 6 o'clock, Coroner P arrived and held two inguests—one on the body of Wa- ters, and the other on that of Mrs. Waters and Mr. Sturt imy niece on her knees in a falling state, with Waters be- | vant. On the felt hind her with an trom bolt. raised with thie two hands to | UeeGoromer nee oe em n Jury was empannelied by strike her another blow on the head, from which the | “Wines Pinmens WH Gkheor Diood appeared to flow profusely; whereupon T instantly | RH. Wilon, Lewis Trapp,” understood the whole affair, and shouted Murder’ as Decatur Oakes, Joseph Brewster, oud as my voice would permit. As if Waters was electri- | Wm. Tillowon, 0 Ea Rcaaen, ‘fied he started, the upraised arm shook, the blow was not William Dowd. Fiven, and something not very clear followed; but the The first witness was Darling, the boy, whose testimony is included in the statement of himself in relation to the murder, which is given in its proper place. He was not sworn by the Coroner, on account of his extreme youth, but simply questioned. Allen Bunce was the next witness. He said that he came there at about half-past six o'clock in the morning, and went into the barn; he saw the body of Waters hang ing there; he simply looked at it for a moment, and then Jeft the barn; he believes he was the first who saw it. John FE. Darling was then sworn, but all his testimony is included in the statement which he gave us in reference to the murder. After these three witnesses were examined, the evi- dence on the inquest of the body of Waters closed, and the jury returned a verdict to the effect that Henry Waters met is death by strangling himself with his own ant On the second inquest, the following are the names of the jurors that were empanpelled -— next thing I remember was my helping some lady who had been badly beaten, and who was covered with blood, into my own house from the di rection of Waters” house, and when T succeeded in getting ther in I bad my arms around her in the room where we are now seated; and so much was I shocked by this cir- cumstance, as we both stood on the floor, that I awoke Yerribly frightened, and could not refrain from telling the matter to my wife, which I did. [Here Mra. Darling con- firmed all to our reporter and others who were present. Then | felt my nerves very weak, but in a few minutes had recovered and imagined that ‘it was all the ridiculous fancy of my brain. It was now midnight, and I endea- Yored with some success to leep away the femembrance of so terrifying a vision MARTHA ANNE DARLING'S UNACCOUNTABLE UNEA- RINESS. T was just falling into a dose when I was suddenly star Wed by & shriek trom my litue daughter, who is always accustomed to sleep both quietly and soundly. I could Wilson, H. B. Punderson, Rot distinctly make out what she said, but while I was H. H. Skinner, Charles L. Hurse, considering the matter she suddenly boanced up on to her Wines Emmens, Benjamin Jones, feet and in a mort terrified manner shouted, “0, father, C. Emmett Kite man. ‘that awful man! drive him from me.’ 1 said, “there is mo man near you, dear, lie down and sleep; when she Sgain exclaimed, with upraised hands and other evidences @f terror, “There is an awful old man; don’t you eee him’ there!’ 1 now imagined that the child 4d perbape see someting that 1 could not, and 1 there fore pow moved over to her to reason with ‘her, but per- ‘@cived that she had regained her usual tranquillity; so 1 aid ber down and she slept quietly from that till morn- fg. This circumstance worked so much upon me that Idid not again sleep for an hour or two, and then I eould hardly say what o'clock it was, and in that sleep I remained until | was awoke in the morning by what was | Foaily torribie. The boy Darling was again questioned on this inquest by SFRANGE INCIDENTS AT THE RESIDENCE OF STCR- | perce 5 which Hoe sr iieane ee ened eee ; “ - | Verdict of the jury was to the o zal vaters TEVANT'S FATHER ON THE MORNING OP THE MUR | 014 William Sturtevant came to their death by blows in- | ficted by a blunt weapon in the hands of Henry Waters. | Fmmett Darling is a very smart little fellow, and scarce twelve years old. He is the heir to the property of his | mother, he being her only son. The property ts said to be worth between twenty and thirty thousand dollars. | Mrs. Waters was married to Waters two years, and during the latter part of that time there were a great | many family dispates of a small, but growing nature, arising out of some jealousy on the part ot Waters with Tegard to the disposal of pecuniary matters. Mrs. Waters wae a native of Port Jeffersom, and was the former wife of H. L. Maer. Wiel ‘Tillotson, John F. Darling was the first witness eworn. All his testimony, however, in this case, as well as in the other, is comprehended in ‘the statement that he made to our reporter concerning the murder. or. Decing was the second witness. The Doctor de- posed to his being @ practising physician in Port Jefferson and its vicinity; he was called upon to visit the scene of the murder, and on arriving there found the bodies of Wm. W. Sturtevant and Elizabeth Waters in a state of in- | sensibility. The Doctor further testified that from the nature of the wounds inflieted on the heads of both they were calculated to bring about immediate death. DER. hn Sturtevant’s house also strange noises were heard towards morning. A young woman, who resides with her parents and is a sister to Mr. Sturtevant who has been muurdered, was lying awake in her room about four weiock in the morning, when the dogs, which are ac- customed to be quiet at night, but had been crying and growling all the time from dark till now, suddenly began © bark and grow! louder. She then ordered a ser. vant to open the windows and look if she could per- eetve any one round the house. The girl did so, but ould not perceive any one near the placo. Both then lay Mr. Matthew Darling, ship builder, in Port Jefferson. She down, but were not long in bed before they heard a foot. | : , i | was rather under the medium size and well looking. Her step, which seemed to be that of a man walking round the | rther was = hero of the revolution. Waters was house. Bewg disturbed, however, once or twice before, | when there appeared to’ be no one near, they did not | notice this circumstance, although the dogs barked louder and jouder, and appeared to be attacking some one. A few moments of quiet elapsed, when the sounds were again heard, and this time they imagined that they were Listening to some one trying to raise a distant window; Still they did not get up to see if there Was any one near their doubts of any reality inducing them not to take any further notice of the matter. At length they heard the Sootsteps approach a portion of the house where they Were, and u moment afterwards felt fully satistled that fome one was endeavoring to raise an adjoining window % Wat in which they were. Now the gir) got up, and demanded to know who was there, orared, and the dogs, which tad all along contin: a native of Jericho, L. 1, and was part of his life in New Orleans, where he followed the occupation of shipcarpenter. Ho was fifty.seven years old, Was « weak minded man, and in consistence with many others of his follies had a shroud in the house for some time before he committed suicide. He also ordered « coffin, but that was never brought to the house, Ho was a man of robust appearance—not tail, but stout, He has no relatives near Port Jefferson, and his remains are con voyed out West by some of his friends for the purpose of interment, the populace of Port Jefferson refusing to ad mit them’ to be buried in that locality. All his wife's relatives reside in the neighborhood of Port Jefferson Sturtevant was a tall man, aged tw ven. He was | well made, and of a sandy’ complex: ¢ was also o | native of Fort Jefferson, and all bis relatives reside on Seuahaa tate tua toeauar ont y kept cp | Long Island. ‘Mrs. Sturtevant, his wife, is aged twenty, 21! morning, and the inmates of the house were not again | Mendsome, and resembling her mother in point of size. disturbed by any different sounds from the outside till | Her case is @ very doubtful one, yet Dr. Decling has hopes of her recovery. All the parties were engaged in ebipbuilding and agricultare The house in which the murder was committed ia a large moruing dawned It is generally supposed that Waters came to the he fo order to murder all the persons named Sturt “e ant frame one, consisting of one story, an attic and a base. ‘who live in it, for the porpose of making sure that no oue | 3 b of that name should have any claim ou property to which | Ment, and containing many apartments. It is patnted he believed himself best eniitled white, and bas wooden pillars in front, in the Tuscan style of architecture. Tt is agreably situated on a gentle slope rising from the bay, at the distance of about | one hundred rode from the water. The room in which the murder was committed is in the form of a parallelogram, STATEMENT OF MRS. STURTEVANT, WHO WAS THE LART PRESON ON WHOM BLOWS WERE [NVLICTED SY THE MURDERER. The advice of the medical gentleman under whose treat- | 18 feet by 20, and the ceiling feet from the floor. ment Mrs. Sturte of Waters’ victims, is | The walls and ceiling, which were stained with blood piace. hject, | after the murder, have been painted over and they are ever rsaw | Low white. re two doors leading from the outside 0 of the directions of the | the porch at the south end of the 3 he did her by entering into a per and the other in the front, between the windows, Bona! conversation with her on the s of the murder; | which look down upon the sea, two being on one side of Dut he was enabled to get her statement of the murder | it and one on the other. from several centiemen, to whom she related it imme Port Jefferson is a quiet little town, surrounded by hills @iasely after it occurred — and built round the extremity of a very neat bay, at the Mrs. Sturtevant states that on the morning of the mur- | mouth of which is Long Island Sound. The bay runs der Waters got up, as usual, a little after five o'clock in | eoutheast and northwest, and is one of the safest on the the morning, after which he proceeded to the barn, as he | American coast. The houses are chiefly wooden ones, was accurtomed, for the purpose of feeding the horsee and | painted white and rising one above the other, and, scat hogs, which were kept in this building. Subsequent | tered all around, dot the hill sides and the valley, and discoveries proved that he really did perform this | give the place an appearance of picturesque beauty. The er. Inthe meantime the other fauates of the house were also busy, and at 6 o'clock Dreakfaet was on the table The table which stood about « foot from the wall, opposite the windows of the room, which is in the front of the house; this table is a equare one, with failing leaves; when these are raised it inhabitants have their means invested partly in ships and partly in land, and are universally in comfortable circum. stances. The population is 1,500. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE CONNECTED WiTH THE MUR DER. There was a copy of a magezine on the mantelpiece in ‘Dusinens in the usual mat siruck @ speck of blood fell on the word murder, and another descended on suicide, while no other part of the page was stained. THE POLT WITH WHICH THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED, The weapon which Waters used wae a ship's bolt, MienUy real net ie cite Sree Pee ee tee Thuis was | the room at the time the murder was committed. The ~ phen a ‘eetea appened to be open at the time, and one of the ee ten nln! Went ae ee ae contained the words “Murder and Suicide” as a hele back ta en eee when Watere entered trom | Beading. Strange to say, that though this magazine was te door leasing from the yakch into the ‘room from that | tthe distance of xome yards from where the blows were -) xt to her Sturtevant, and furthest from bim, t remote from the door, eat if. They had just their morning meal: a man mile next t which Mrs. Waters was wughter, Mra ‘walked past the « n the direction of the barn, | round, and one inch in diameter, It we flat at 4, and they knew thie to be Waiers, whom they euppoted | but thick, and it wg clotted with blood and hair after the U be akfart. On be came. ull ™ jer. It wae JCPt two feet in length. taf ing passed round by the Our reporter is indebted to Mr. Le Forte, the oondactor orch, Mrs, Sturier pe od that she saw something | of the Long Island Railroad, for gentlemanly attention hie band, a@ it bung bia mide, but Hittle sup pou posed that it wae the it mt of death ‘which 1 a mo Personal Int Snen Atecwards It proved to be He pas | ReGovernor Browme Yulee, United © re ere by, an aiso her daughter, and | gates Senator fro orida, we Tharleston Be a Hee nator from Florida, were in Charleston on the pet Aber and 1 for a ARRIVALS At the Clarendon Hote)—Mr. and Mre. A. Gerald Hall, New York. Mr and Mra. A. Hi. Barney, two ehildren and servant, sot Mire J lor, Cleveland: KE, G. Thompson, Pa Mre Thompson an id, Dobbs’ Ferry: Nicholas Oar Heary Jervons, Chas, Wm. Strachan, aud Rev. Pierce Butler, hort, | Eogiind Geo Bewy Binke, Boston; Mr. and Mra. 8. J rosdwell, Cineipnath, W. Hanbury, Bngiand; Madam shand perceived what Wal if th died y could not have ant the notion that it was inten rpose ite insane bearer had 4: riviw at Sturtewant’s back he stopped 4 r whe led qolekly round, raised dhe iron bar with bis two | jy Ww " apres ang matt, and Mise Durand, Washington’ Hei hands an te use the words of Mrs. Sturtevant, jet him The J. Fennell, New Orleans; Pollak. Warhingion £ have ® right the top of his uncovered No | Ketore San Francisco. 8, Mart, Philadelphia; James P. , weroeeh burst f the second blow war vored, | Brown and two children, . H. Cowperthwaite, which was ainet Mrs. Waters. The scene tuat Bile Gowrerstrwratte, and A. 0.Gittesple, Philadelphia; Mran faiowed faust culy bv seungined, because daweription must | MPC Amurae, Hawachunett see Hlonter, 1.8 ali short of expressing « Startewant fell from hie chi rleston, in steamehip ~ . Bre “ Soaneed high Out @ her seat’ | Nickerson, Freewen Hunt, Mre Hutebiason, aud 17 in the ner dene i for the door. the dangh ter heipeng Net sloce aa Waeers following Lit | #F0m Bermuda, in brig TM Mashew=Mrs 8C Outerbsldge terrible b Mre Sturtevant repeated blows ov the head, bat failed to Knork her down. At length ber unfortunate mother City Politics. on !6 expect beip fron: ber wr no ote THE MAYORALTY NOMINATION. 7, snd #he Was RgAiN Next to hammer: Ni ie sald that the « Straigit out Americans,” who are ng away in the moet rel # manner, until they got out | payor ed to Wood ane of tie door by which he had entered they were now ly oppost oo) am!) fusion, intend making a Doth covered with blood & few paces from the door | BOmination for the Mayoralty this evening. Ae there are Mrs. Waters fell, while her daughter stitl ram om shouting | many in the American ( le disaitteted by the course murde oa she wae able Waters, bi er, soon | that has been pursued by party ip making its nomina riook her, which caused ber w fall ou ber kave in the head tions, this movement may not be an unimportant one in ite | aud Whey she wae ; reeulte. ‘The CBiatch, the Drama and the Opera. LECCE BY DR. FRANOS BEFORE THE NEW YORE HISTORICAL S0Cr¥TY. A lecture on the ebeve named subjects was delivered last evening before the New York Historical Society, in the ‘Dew building of that institution. Tho lecture was for the Denefit of the contingent fat, and judging from the large attendance was one of the most profitable which has yot ‘beengiven. Among the sadience was Charles Makcay,the popular English poet and journalist, and several prominent members of the society, Although it was announced that the church and the opera would form part of the subject, yet the lecture was mainly devoted to a history of the drama in New York. The extended acquaintance which Dr. Francis had through his profession with members of the histrionic profession, and the remarkable tenacity of a memory full of interesting incidents, rendered this part of the lecture peculiarly interesting. After a sketch of the history of the church in New York he proceeded to speak of the drama as follows :— The transition, said he, is not altogether violent, in leav- ing one species of instruction for another—in dismissing the system of school education and taking up the stage, so ioe reckoned a source of usefel know! and by many still deemed capable of becoming an enlightened monitor. But with the drama, as with many other subjects that Properly belong to a discourse accommodawd tw this oc- casion, 1am subjected to a painful brevity; for what ade- quate notions can be imparted within the few moments command, of the dramatic occurrences of New York dur- Ing the fifty years? It has so happened that for forty years of my life I have been, with slight intermissions, the medical adviser and physician heroes of the sock and in, great Frederick Cooke in 1810, to the departure of the classical Macready in 1849; and I am apprehensive ‘that of all the individuals commemorated in Punlap’s biography of Cooke, I am perhaps the sole survivor. 1 cannot say that I have ever been stage struck or drama tically mad in my admiration of the bistrionic profession yet as one ever gratified with the displays of intellectual power, I have experienced the raptures inspired by ge- nius, in a vocation which, while it holds tho mirror up to natnre, is the acknowledged school of oratory, and has Teceived in all ages among the refined the countenance and support of many of tho loftiost minds and most sympathyzing hearts. Morecver, I think it not too much to say that my professional intercourse with actors has enabled me to obtain a view of dramatic character and dramatic life which could somperly be ex- pected to fall within the scope of the mere beholder of scenic representation, who never perhaps had passed be- hind the foot-lights, or been familiar with that condition of physical and menial toil which the ceremonies and per- formances due to “personation’ impose on the feelings of the successful artist. I take it for granted that no intel- ligent man will hold in doubt the fact, that the life of the player is one of severe trial, of great demands on the phy i cal powers, of incessant mental anxiety, and of precari- ous rewards. Yet have I known many members of that calling filled with the largest benevolence, aud enriched with the graces which cignify human natare ‘The actor's. life is especially subjected to the caprices of fortune; the Platform on which he stands is ever uncertain; as a general truth, he encounters adversity with more than ordinary fortitude. I have known many instances of this. nature; the mimic world has its stern realities not less than the actual, and the wardrobe no more protects its denizen than do the common habiliments of the ordinary citizen. “The life of au actor,” says a modern essayist of the schoo! of English undefiled, “is a severe trial of hu- manity. His temptations are many; his fortitude, too, often ineffectual; his success precarious. Ifhe be reso- lute, uncontaminated by the society of his associates, and a genuine artist besides, he is worthy not only the praise ofthe moralist, but also deserving the admiration of thecritic. The prejudice against the profession, like most prevailing pre. judices, is founded on general truth; but it is freqvently absurd and baseless.” If the stage has failen from its high estate, and failed to raise the genius and to mend the heart, to elevate the moral sentiment by heroic action and sublime example, let not its sad decline rest solely with the representatives of Shakespere aud Jonson: let some- thing be ascribed to the revolutions of tuste and to the mutability of popular opinion; but more than all, jet us suffer within ourselves the chagrin of self condemna- tion, like the gad patient, who in searching for the causes of disturbed propensities had led him most unwittingly to indulge, “The love of the drama,” says the poct Campbell, “is a public instinct, that requires to be regulated, but is too deep for eradication. IT am no such bigot for the stage,” continges he, “as to say (hat it 18 necessarily a school of morals; for, by bad management it may be made the reverse, and T'think, on the whole, that the drama rather follows than ieads public morals.” The drama is legitimately the school of human life; it has vast acommedations, but its origin is in the lnaman boart, Let + cherish the passions and the doings of man fidelity to its great trust; let it eo conduct itself as not to fall below the intefligence of its ar- Vitrators, never forgetting thet the schoolmaster ie abroad, The remedy is within grasp, and its restoration is nct altogether a thing of The scholar, however fastidious, cannot wholly disregard a theme which found fayor among the Incubrations of the ‘bty Warburton, he who would penetrate inw the othies of human life need not suffer apprehension of evil from studies which asorbed many of the precious hours of the eat Moralist Johnson, nor can the Christian philosopher e afraid to reason on the subject with the example before him of Young, the successful author of the “Revenge,” and the poet of the “Night Thoughts," a work whoee devotional excellence has made ita manual of closest study to _mil- Lions of human souls wherever revealed (ruth has heen recognized, Iam not so confident as to presnmne that what I may utter can have any influence on a New York community, either on the fortunes or destiny of the stage. It has been decried by the bext of men, and it has been countenanced by the wisest. It was formeriy supported by religious partialities, aud every body is aware that it owes its orign to religion, and that tho first actors were priests Au illiterate multitude were thus enlig 4 the clergy, with ap inberent Sagacity, repres: wonders of belief and the actions of the gods in appropriate temples For a long while it was a schoo. 1 instruction, and tor manners and behavior, apd op this account ihe stage is still higher to be appreciated. Shakspere has taught more history tothe masses than all the school- masters, from the lime when the first pedagogue was installed, and Lord Chesterfield’s dicta have proved a were cipher compared to the operations which scenic influence has wrought in mollifying the intercourse of society. Yet there is @ progress in refinement which eclipses the exhibition of the stage, and be whose ruined is stored with much knowledge will abandon the: having lost their former interest with him. Lo a foe to hypocrisy, and that alone, with the real philan thropist, is no small recommendation. It proves a won- drous relief to the laborious man and the worn intellect, and is a happy succedaneum for diversions less beneficial to good morals and good health. Grant that the sphere of the stage is indeed local, and its displays fugacions yot it leaves a lasting impression on the human heart, If rich literature bears the imprees of genine, and cannot be overlooked by the accomplished sebolar, Bot | must break off here. Let those who would raise an inditertral nate outery against the stage read the isp. sionate address of Dr. Bellows, lately delivered in the Academy of Music, before the Dramatic Fund Aso- ciation. The history of the Oret introduction of th in the American Colonies is full of perplexity. our leading dramatic historian, in his work American Theatre, a performance of acknowiedget merit, has blended his facts with so many errors that we strive in vain to derive from his pages a true know- ledge of the subject. He was doubtless led into most of his difficnities by too great reliance on the story given by Burk, in hie History of Virginia. 1 have endeavored to make the case clearer, and have sought out curious facta in Parker's News Roy. The intro- duction of the drama in the American colonies was in this city, on Monday evening, the 26th of Feoruary, 1750, in a convenient room for the purpose, butldings which had belonged to the estate of Ruy Dam (a renowned Knickerbocker) in Nassau streot play was the historical tragedy of “Richard the Third written origwaily by Sbakspere and altered by Colley Cibber, unser the management of Lewis Hallam, whoee family consisted of his wife, ason Lewik, art ay son, Adam, with niece, Miss Hallam.’ His eller son, Lewis, was but twelve years of age. Dun'ap says that be made his first appearance in September, 762, ot Williameburg, in Virginia. The younger, Adam, avpeared in October, 1753, in this city, in the character of Tow Thumb. He hada daughter, who became Mrs. Mattocks in England. It may be that this compa der manager Hallam, appeared next in burg; but on the | 16th of April, 1754, they opened in Philadelphia with the “Fair Penitent We not before ue the cast of the play (Richard the Third’) enacted in thie city. It possesses eo many dramatis perme, that we have little dow “ of the company had to take double parts, Rigby, we may safely infer, enacted Richard Third. There wax no accommodation of boxes, only pit and gullery. There ‘was no farce after “ Richard Third.” The permission for the perforthance was given by the Britieh Governor, Clinton, Lewis Hallam, at the age of twenty-nine, ap peared in “ Lord Ogleby”’ the year after the comedy was written, in 1767. Thie part he ed for forty Fours the last time in the Park theatre, in 1807, and witnesses of gthia fact still eurvive, Manager Hillam died in Philadelphia in 1808. This company was generally designated by the name of the Old American Company, and Hallam the father of the American stage. Thus it appears that thie city hae enjoyed the drama for rds of one bunared years. Of that fifty which passed away before the establishment of our Histori cal Eociety T intend not now to enlarge, Suffice it to say, ‘ax to the character and abil ties of the performers of the American company our ¢ goers were often heard to speak in terms of highest approbation; and when we enumerate Hallam, Honry, Harwood, Jefferson, Hovtekineon and hie wife, Cooper, Fennell, Jobnstone Mrs. Oldmixon and Mrs. Merry, we need not apprehend that their ite were unmerited, The names of several of these efficient actors of the old eo neon Te. rorded on the bills which announced the arrival of Cooke To one who contemplates the progress of art and education in our land, it will at once occur that with theatricals, as with instruction generally, we depended almort altogether upon supplies from abroad Our Preachers, our professors in eolleges, our artiets, our hooke were rarely indigenous, and the stage illustrates our early reliance on the mother country in an squal, if not in a greater degree, than in any of the other vocations of busy life. If our condition was once 86 restricted that farmer Giles imported from beyond the eeas wi handles when the country was overrun with fe surely it may be pronounced to have beon admissible that a truthful Cordelia might be included among importable articles for the praiseworthy design of disciplining the ities of the man of refinement. At tho time firet representation of “Richard the Third,” animadversious appeared om the corrup tions of the stage; bot, in ite defence, Whit field in cited in ite bebalf, inasmuch ae he had aseribed ht inimitable gesture and hewitching addrear to hie having acted in his youth; and the writer moreover fide, with great carneestners, that the abuse of a thing against its use is no argument, ar there is nothing im this world but must fall before « lemolishing kind of logic. ‘There was little dramatic criticiem, however, among us int the early days of the theatre. The chronicler who would be faithful to the history of the stage in New York would be compelic¢d to say something copcerning that period In its nature it is the Concentration and the exposition of | fancy | 96 000. NEW YORK HExALD, WEDNES elapsed between the commencement of the great ‘icra wa a7 and ea 1788. Daring that , is own horrors, finds them to have | originated from the pernicions aliment in which his | | known, te mansion on the Trinity church inde, to which T have already alluded ia my account of Col. Burr's would seem that during the en ears: ‘The ‘‘Wheel of Fortune” was made applicable Gage, who had arrived in this country as a 1766, in the old French war, and in 1776 was com- mander-| ‘of the British army. The ‘Male Coquette’’ was by & sort of unanimous concurrence applied to James Smith, the brother of the historian of New York, the man whom ] described in my sketch of Chri or Colles as writing madrigals for young ladies. He must have sued the nearly half a century. When Anacreon visited thie city in 1802-3, Smith had the temerity to offer with rene vigor his oblations on the altar of love. Iknew him well. He was an M. D. of Leyden. When professor of chemistry im, Columbia, College, then called King’s, his flowery diction with ho students greatly disturbed both analysis and synthesis. “Hempstead was brought forward in those times, most bly au in- digenous work. It is affirmed that {t alluded to one of the prominent members of the Beckman family, Gcrardus, @ great sporteman, who secured the reputation of having tallied more birds any other man that ever lived. He shot deer in the city Common (now Park), and antlers, the trophies of bis skill, are yet preserved among his de- scendants as curiosities to mark the city’s progress. He kept a diary of his gunnery. But we must hasten to times: nearer our own. About the beginning of the second part of the designated one hundred years, the Morning Chroni- cle, @ journal of much taste in literatare and the arts, edited’ by Dr. Peter Irving, ana the New York Evening Post, edited 4 William Goleman, were the prominent papers in which anything like regular theatrical criticisms were published. the former a series of articles on plays and actors was printed in 1802-3, over the signature of Jonathan Oldstyle. Atthe time of their appearance they were generally ascribed to the accomplished editor, Dr. Irving, who enjoyed great distinction for classical ac- quisition and belles-lettres knowledge. Iknew him only in bis advanced life, when illness had nearly exhausted his frame ; yet he Was most courteous, refined, and en- gaging. Years elapsed before the real author became knewn. They are, I believe, among the earhest literary efforts of our countryman, Washington Irving, then in about the nineteenth ear of his age. These criticisms were net wanting in free animadversion ; yet betrayed some- thing of that genial humor which so amply abounds in several of the subsequent writings of that eminent author. Coleman, a man of culture and of impulse, often supplied the city with bis lucubrations, and aimed to settle all other criticisms by his individual verdict. He was often furnished with articles of peculiar merit on acting and ac- tors, by John Wells, the renowned lawyer, by William Jobuson, the well-remembered reporter, and by our mented Anthony Bleecker. Will Wizzard, in the Salami gunci of 1807, also favored the town with two or threo theatricals on the histrionic talents of the old Park theatre. The lecturer here went into a detailed criticism of the merits and peculiar characteristics of some of the most prominent actors who have figured on the New York stage, and related a number of interesting incidents illus- trative of their career. At the conclusion of the lecture, the audience enjoyed themselves for some time in the inspection of the excellent collection of paintings be- longing to the society. Police Intelligence. (CHARGE OF False PRETENCES—Six TuovsaND Dow.ars IN- Votven.—Charles W. Clarke, late of Providence, R. 1., ap- peared before Justice Comnolly afew days ago, and pre- ferred a charge of false pretences agaivet Edward H. Hotchkiss, of Dubuque, lowa. The complainant, in a lengthy affidavit, sets forth that in the month of Novem. ber, 1856, the defendant came to him, and by means of false pretences, induced him to part wit the sum of Hotchkiss, it is alleged, represented that he was connected with the firm of Atlix, Noyes & Co., of Du- ‘Duque; that the firm was a very wealthy one and had in- vested extensively in real estate; complainant, upon these representations. was induced to loan the defendant the above mentioned sum, which Hotchkiss has never paid back and for which he has not een any equivalent; the compl further adds that the defendant is wow insol- vent, thal be never was worth half the property he rep- reverted; and that all the representations made were made for the purpose of cheating and defrauding com. plainant ont of hismoney. Hotchkiss was held for exami- nation on the above charge. ‘Tre Late ASSAULT UPON OFFICER SANGER—ANOTITER Aruest.—Michael O'Neil, one of the men who kicked up the rew in the drinkirg saloon No. 220 Bleecker street, ou Sunday morning, on which occasion Officer Sanger, of the Ninth ward police, was severely if not fatally beaten while attempting to quell the disturbance , was taken into custody yesterday morning and brought before Justice Flaudreau, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, where he was required to enter into bonds for his appearance when called upon to answer. Frniocs Drivive.—Francis Riley, driver of a baker's ‘wagon, was arrested yesterday by Officer Wood, of the Texth ward police, on charge of furious driving. The ac- cnsed knocked down and severely injured a woman living in Chrystie street and then attempted to escape, but the Policeman succeeded in overtaking him. Justice Wood of the Third District Police Court, committed the accused for examination. SuooTing AFFRAY aT THE Five Poryts.—The house No. 21 Bexter street, at the Five Points, was the scone of a shooting affray on Monday night, which resulted in aman named Jobn Callaghan being shot in the face and hands with some luge, which were fired from a pistol in the hands of a fellow named Flood, The latter thought pro: per to make bis eecape coon after the difflenity without taking the trouble to leave his address with the police Callaghon was injured bot slightly. The row grow out of a too free indulgence in bad rum. Picxrocerrs at Tammaxy Hats.—Several gentlemen Jost their wallets at Tammany Hall on Monday night. A number of experienced thieves worked their way into the meeting and ont again, to the chagrin and dissatisfaction of more than one attentive listener on the occasion of the democratic jubilee witnin the wails of the old wigwam. A man named Patrick Hagan suffered to the tune of $50. A young man named Brady was arrested on suspicion of be. ing the thief, but no trace of the stolen money could be found upen his person. Terrible Explosions on the Western Rivers. {From the St. Lonie Democrat, Nov. 20 We have to record a distressing accittent to the Light nirg Line Packet Cataract, Capt. O'Neil, which resulted in lives, and the scalding of fifteen mare per. The disaster occurred on the 17th inst, at Lisbon, armall place below Giascow, in the Missouri river. The ation we have in relation to it is contained in « telegraphic despatches, received in this city Lranow, Nov. 17, 1887 Purst mud receiver this morning, lying #t Lisbon, scald tng. Viz.: William Brace, Hartford, Conn. ,cead; —— Black- burn, Case county, Mo., dead; Barney Kelley, barkeeper, dead) McDonald, Exprese messenger, dead: Thos. Hutch ing, first clerk, slightly scalded, notin danger; Mr Tar. gee, second clerk, do.; Thos. Hogan, St. Louis, scaled; the boats’ porter and barber scalded; Tee Jones, second engineer, lost; five deck bands and fireman, names not calde? ; Kelso, Woodbridge, Loring and Moseer, elightly scalded. Wili bring the wounded down on the first bont, JAS. O'NEAL, Captain, Boowrvriir, Mo., Nov. 20, 1867. ‘The cteamer Oglerby passed here at five o'clock this evening with the wounded passengers of the Cataract on board, bound to t. Louis. Her offleers report that twelve of the persons sealded by the explosion are dead Goy. Walker, of Kansas, and Col. Crosman, are on the Opler’: Ite Toported that Stark Mauzey, member of the Legis: Inture from Brunswick, was scalded to death on the Cataract. DETAILS OF THE MONONGAHELA BELLE EXPLOSION, A correspondent of the Louisville Courier gives the following particulars of the disaster to the Monongahela Belle — Morwn Crev, W., Nov. 14, 1857, Our citizens were astounded thie evening by the intel. ligence that the Monongahela Helle, a small steamboat, running between Columbus and the Coal Mines, had blown cy Fooling some anxiety to know the particulars in regard to the acetdent, we gamed the followin Monongahela Belle ie owned by William and Jobn Neleon, of Hickman, and runs between the above pomte. When At about noon of to-day, (Saturday,) as she was aecending the river quietly, and regardless of dangers, her starboard boiler exploded, blowing John Neleon from the burrienne deck down to’ the fore part of the lower deck, badly bruising and scalding him. He was struck juet above the eye by apiece of iron kettle, from the ‘cook room, leaving an indellible impression, ‘The cook was blown through the cook roam into the river, and was rescued from a watery grave by the life bent, Two of the firemen (white men) were #0 dreadfully eralded and blackened that (( was difficult for some time to determine whether they were white or black Fr Neleon, who was at the wheel, escaped unhurt, The P. Relle, which was near, promptly went to her nid, the officers rendering every assistance in their power to render their condition comfortable. ‘The cook and fremon were taken on hoard of the F. A. Fairchild, lying at Columbus, aitd carried on to the hoept ta} at Padueah, Mr. Neleon returned to Hickman, ‘The accident fe euppoeed to have been occasioned by the water in the botler getting too low, ‘The lone will be about two thousand dollars, tho foro cabin, pilot house and chimneys having been blown aw The accident occurred three miles from Columbus, near the ghalk banks, DAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1857. A.M. Tho friends of tho are respectfully in- vited to attend. The Rev. Dr. pee 4 lent Mary e, Emmetsburg, will preach the panegyric. Baw Recorp.—Engine Company Ne. 2 gave their first ball at Niblo’S magnificent ealoon, on Monday even- , The gentlemen of the committee made such ar- bs IO al ptpan oly enjoyment and satisfaction to all present. The supper, which was excellent and aban. dant, was admirably served. Dancing was kept up toa late hour, and the newly prepared floor of the ball room was greatly admired, an ided much to the ease and enjoyment of the dancers, while it prevented all annoy- ‘ance from dust, nota particle being visible during the whole evening. The first ball of No. 2 Engine will long be remembered with pleasure by those who wore pre- sent, ‘Te Fine mm Front Sraeer.—Annexed is a list of insur- ances at the fire in Front street, on Sunday morning last. ‘Those upon the stocks of tea are totals:—In No. 80, Bucklin & Crane, on teas—Firemen’s Insurance Company, $10,000; Grocers’, $10,000; Lamar, $10,000; Indemnity, $10,000; Empire City, 810,000; Commonwealth $12,000, J. Cas: well & Co., on liquors—Manhattan Insurance Company, bag: ed) Clinton, $10,000; Niagara, $10,000. No. 82, J. Caswell & Co,, on iquors—New ‘World Insurance Com: Foc tg yr mmonwealth, 10,000; City, $5,000; Ex- celsior , $6,000, Not much damage to this lot. Punic Scnoors—An Exrowgovs Impression Remove. We are requested to state that the motion made in th Board of Education, at its last meeting, to close the public schools for the balance of the week, after to-day, did not is ‘The usual exercises will, therefore, take place in the day and evening schools to-morrow. Accrpext To A FireMAN.—At the alarm of fire in tho Third district last night, John Dolan,a member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, was’run over in Fighth avenue. Two of hig ribs were broken. His companions conveyed him to the hospital. More about the Granite Bank of Voluntown. {From the New Haven Courier, Nov. 23.] Mesers. Dunbam & Noyes, of the Board of Bank Com- missioners, returned Saturday from the Superior Court at Brooklyn, Conn., having succeeded in recovering $25,000 of the broken bank bills used in paying in the capital stock of the bank, and arresting and placing in confine- ment Messrs, Lindley, Waggoner, Miller and Peck. ‘It seems that every dollar of the $10,000 used to pay the first 10 per cent of capital was brought into Voluntown, and after the bank was organized it was carried out again by the same person who brought it; hence Voluntown did not furnish one dollar of the capital, aluhough all the stock- holders were Voluntown men except Peck. The stockholders organized the bank by electing @ board of directors, and they a president and cashier. This was done on the i8th of October, and $25,000 was paid in by Peck, in the bills of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, of Memphis, Tennessee, and the Merchants’ Bank, also of Memphis. Both of these banks were got up by this or a similar gang of men, one of which burst after it started, and the other before. The packages were recovered in a room in Broadway, near Wall street, New York, ‘The bills were ireshand clean, and done up neatly in packages of $100 each. The remaining $15,000 was paid in by worthless checks on banks in New York, except a balance which is supposed to have been bills on the Tiver- ton Bank, Khode Island, another jus Concern. Of the $24,200 of the Granite Bank issued, the Commis: sioners have recovered about $6,000, leaving out about $18,000 now in circulation, most of which {s supposed to be in the hands of the ploiters in New York. Judge Butler fixed the bail at the amount of circulation, and for want of bailers the parties were locked up for trial in January next. When Commissioner Noyes first visited the bank he did not succeed in finding avy visible assets; but when he arrested Miller, at Danielsonville, he took from bim nearly 9800 in specie, Which constitutes the bulk of the available assets. Judge Butler, in his remarks in reply to the appeal of Mr. Weich, counsel for the prisoners, gave the Bank Com- missioners a well merited compliment, and he concluded by saying that, “They having discharged their duty, he should now discharge his, and he hoped that the result would show that this kind of swindling was not to go boa even if bail should be procured and for- feited.”” We understand that the bills were engraved at Peck's solicitation, long before a dollar of stock was subscribed, by the same firm who engraved .or him the bills for the Mattatuck Bank. ‘The injunction upon the Hartford County Bank comes before the court for a final hearing to day or to-morrow. Cee IEInIIEEEIEENEEEEIEEteneeEy “MARITIME INTELLIGENCE, Port of New York, November 24, 1857. CLEARED. Steamship Arabia (Br), Stone. Liverpool—E Cunard. iti Ocean Telegraph, Willis, San Francisco—J J Karl & %0 Ship Quito, Hawkins, Liverpool—Grinnell, Minturn & Co. thip Copqueror, Bartlett, Mobile—J W Phillipa. Bark Virginia, Hill, Port Spain—Smith, Jones & Co. Bark Mustang, Greenman, Key West—Benner & Deake. Brig African Bolton, Port au Prince—M Truxillo. ig Chesapeake (Br), Barker, Windsor, NS—D RK DeWolf. Brig Morden (Br), Fowler, St Jobn, NB—P I Nevius & Son. Brig L Atwood, Paddock, Jacksor Brig Naratieke, Conklin. Norfolk: Bebr F Robinson, Kio Janeiro—G 8 Coit sehr 8 i James, Clark, Port Spain—Small & McKee. Behr Southern Belle, Tyler, Mobile—D © Murray. Sehr Ned, McCready, Wilmington—F L Powell. Schr H Biackman. rman, Newbern—J C Slaght. Rehr Spencer D, Mapes, Alexandria. Sehr Kio, Look, Kast} 3 jarriman. Schr Martha Maria, Small. Salem—R W Ropea. Sehr Citizen, hull, Providence—Master. Schr Ellen Louisa, Thompson, New Haven—Master. Steamer Chesapeake, Croweti, Portlan’ ARRIVED. Steamship Marion, Foster, Charleston, — hour, with mdse and passengers, to Spofford, Tilesion & Co. Ou Monday. at 6:20 AM. 90 milee BW of Cape Hatteras, aignalized steamship 9:15 AM, signalized ship Alabama, hence for Savannah. Mark Sawa (Ham), Hopkier, Hamburg, Oct, 4. in ballnat, with 215 parsengera, to on board during the passage. Brig Lucy Heywood (of Bangor), Powers, Belize, Hon, Oct 28, with logwood, to T H Sanford. "Nov 13, on Salt Gay Bank, experienced a heavy gnie (rom North, frig LP Snow (of Orrington, Me), Pierce, St Joby 6th inst, with wngar, to HD Brookman & Co.” 10th | ton 72, in @ gale ftom NE to NW, lost from the casks molasses; 20th, off Fire Island, in & gule from WNW, split foretopaail, foresail, Ae. Krig John & Cotton (of Fall River), Ellie, Port au Prince, Nov 12, with logwood, to master. Sailed ‘in company with brig Croton, for New York. Nov 18, lat 29 15, lon 7455, changed signals with bark Magnolia (new), steering SW; 20th, 4 04, lon 74 36, passed new ahip Mary Was ington, ot Wircasseit, steering how, Harvey, Bermuda, 10 days, with hides, 6. apman, Cooper, Bermuda, 10 days, in ballast, « 0. land, Baracoa, Nov 14, with fruit, &e, to it Schr Oregon, Truce, Washington, N Schr Sea Hird, Carrol, Newbern, Ni Schr Elmira Corretia, Williams, Frederiekaburg, 2 days. Schr Empire, Osborn, Norfolk, 2 days. Sehr FA Conklin, Soper, Virginia, 2 day. Rose, Alexand Sehr Wm A Rutan Alexandria, Echr F R Randolph, Philadelphia for New Haven. ‘amden, Me, 7 days. Sebr Sareh Ann, Bet Redford. Sehr Grace Oirdler, Sehr Sarel lennon, Ni Schr Maria Theresa, Moare, Wellileet, Sehr Pizarro, Baker, Hyannis Kehr Alexander M, Christie, Newark for Wareham. Steamer Atalanta, Gager, Charleston, 23d inst, off Cape May, spoke steamer Wm Jenking, from Boston for Bal‘\nore r Petrel, Arey, Providence, Safi Ships New Orleans, and Gad Tidings, New Orlenna: Aime pA, Valparaiso; Emeril, Liverpool; Win Woodbury, Mobile; bark Honduras, Belize, Hon. Also, shipa Rebecea, Rio Janeiro, Patrick Henry, London; barks Almeda, Bt Jago; Oscilla, Mobile; brig Ocean Bud, Miscellaneous and Brie Owernr, of Baltimore, from Mobile for St Jago de Cuba, was fallen in with 14th inst, lat 26 31, lon 7228, loaded Tih lumber, diemasted and waterlogged, by brig Delaware, At Philadelphia from Mayaguer, The D took off Capt Rrows, and crew, who were nearly exhansted from Imbor, cold and exposure, and bronght them to Philadelphia, having saved nothing but the clothes they stood in. Hare Recnen Carver, which has been drifting abeut for months past and often reported, went aahore among the rocks to the north of Bermuda fast mouth, and went to pieces, Basa Monticei.o, Tibbetts, of and for Boston from Port ay Prince, with cargo of coffee ‘and logwood, hefore reported went ashore on Block Sunday morning, al 3o'clock, ls full of water and rudder unshipped. Capt T is on shore sick ScHR Faves Rovtox, hence for Jacksonville, Fla, with an agsoried cargo, was wrecked on 13th inst, near St Arigusticn. Crew aaved: verse! a total lows. Cargo montly aaved, qreatnr portion not damaged, and sold at St Augustine for the benetit vf those concerned. Bonn Mepan Piart, aank at her anchors at Ocracoke Inlet, morning of 16th inst; crew aaved. No partionlars, Senn RI, Tay, Lake, from Philadelphia for Boston, with About 800 tone coal, Was in conlact iG AM, 224, off West Chop, with steamer Uitytot New York, Howes, from Hoston for Philadelphia... The schooner. loat jibboom, both knight heads, had (opgailant forecastie, windlass and head gear cnr Fied away, bulwarksstove, bowsprit knocked o@t of iis pian, fore and main rung, and rece)ved other damage, She put into Holmes Hole same day for repairs, The steamer was somewhat damaged forward, but proceeded on her voy 0, 8 scm londed with, flour went ashore. on Point-no-Point, Long Inland Sound. on Friday afternoon, 20th inst, where sho has since Iain, She will probably go to pieces. We have been unable to Jearn her name, orto whom the cargo be- longed. Renn Howann, of and from Newhern, NO, arrived at 8 Mart ‘October 28, In charge of the mate. Capt Walter WI Powers had fallen everboard drowned Vet 24, ‘Vereen Rortow Ur—A letter from Capt Freeman, of brig & P Brown, of and from Newpa@rt for Havana, sates that on the ‘Zth of September last, when a little to the Southward of Wil mingtom, NC, prased a reese! bottom up, which be judged to be a bark; some lumber wae floating near her. (Posall:ly bark 1 & A Hobart, Martin, of and from Wilmington, NO, for Car. wag, Which Went to'sen from the bar Hept 9,’ and hae not since been heard from. She was nndowhtedly capsized In the hurricane which visiied that vieluity on the £0 and 11th of Keptember. | Lavwon—The bark Benefactor, to be commanded by Uapt RS Corning, wAl be iaunched fram the wip yard of Roose velt, Joyce & Co, foot of Houston street, Kast River, at threo o'clock this (Wednesday) afiernoon. ‘The steamer Ray State, of the Fall Rivor lino, did net arrive until noon yeaterday, bein yelled to put Into Newport on account of henry aquall from W wo BW, with heavy rain and winder. The ahip Georges, 800 tons register, wan yesterday morning taken on the small Mectional dock for repairs, She will be pripped, regaulked aud wewly coppered, The clipper ship m the schooner and was 5 : OF Tick" (parhape bark Adjeser, Fnquit of and rom NYork for Hong Kong) Oct 16. lat it Pp: hel 9 for Australia, oct th, tat 4 Sento veg ware? Coast of Africa, Sept 19—Arr bark Gokifinch, BrRuupa, Nov $—Arr schr May Queen Bn, ‘Talbot, NYork. (and sid about 14th for Barbadoes); pare Bares (Br), Wetec e'Y AGT mea, tr N¥ork Nov a brig Hy sie for do do. ACOA, Nov io Am vessel Cane Moons” West “Aften, Oct To-tn port bark Aaron T Harvey, Willar, for Sierra Leone, to for Philadelphia; and othere as before, Montevipeo, Oct 4—In port bark Gipsey, Mallard, from NYork, in distress, having cut away her masts while ‘at an- chor off Bucco in # heavy BE gale. ilar, abt Nov B10 port brig Mary Means, Hop- for soon. ‘Mavaaver, Nov 8—In port brig Chastelatn, for NYork via ‘Torks Islands next day; achr Miranda, for Nilaven dg. 12—In port a aecical arin ear, Unghie, tak eines for i » * ley. from and for 6 days: Wi for Phila delphia $ days; sehr ea Venrio, Peal from Howton aise, D1 ‘Rumball, was probably in port. Bice Ee es ne, ser from and for Ball few days. . far ‘we t Drige do do: Townsend, MDa is, for NY« Me. jo do; #e} 101 |. Davis, for i tas, Buckley; North Point, Swain, and Pedee, ir, without destination; and others: neon the 17th. Bid Oct 1, darks Luba Brem), NOrleans; 6th, Merlin, Rickard, Surinam; 7th (not. Sar‘ senr Yo Aimer, Fone NOrleans; 9h (not 6th), bak ary Bllsabeth, Btelson, NOrieans (since spoken Oct 18, Sid from Santos Oct 1, Ham bark Sylphide, NYork, Sumatra, Jul: Fr coast, ship ae, pep Kimball, fro York, just arr. ‘ks Arthur, Hoyt, Thetin Grote were alos on the coast, ‘on board the late war in the Crimea). Swrnxa, QctSl—In port barks Henry Hill, Watson, for Boston 1 or 2 days: Leland, Eldridge, and Bea, Breeze, ‘Hall, for do the next week. mart nderson, from Constanti- nople, to load for NYork, Croix, Nov 1—Iu port brig "BL Buckman,” kig—so- reported by the New Haven Courier. it MARTINS, Oct Howard, (ate Powers, who fell overboard), Newbern, NC. St Jonx, NB, Nov 17—Arr brig Tybee: Cartwright, NYork 18h, brig’ Bina, Thomas, do, Cia 17th schr Americana, Potts, Liverpool. Zaxte, Oct 26—Arr bark Orlando, Benedict, Trieste (and sla 28th for Cephalonia). [Per Steamsuir Vanpensizt, ovr Care Race—TrvecRarnic. } Arr from NYork Nov 12, Caravan, at Liverpool; 18h, Com- promise, at do. ‘Sld for Mobile Nov 11, Belle, from Liverpool. Sld for NOrleans Nov U, Alice Counce, from Gravesend; 12th, Agamemnon, from Liverpool. la for Portland Nov 12, American Lasa, from London. Of Pismouth Nov 10, Palestine. from NYork. Off Isfe of Wight Noy 10, ship John M Mayo, from Shields: for Bosten. Home Ports. ALEXANDRIA, Nov 2%—Arr schra Arctic, Ogdon, and White Squall. Smith, NYork. Sid schr Lewis Clark, Sorril, Bridgeport. BOSTON, Nov 28 (additional)—Arr ships John Haven, Cobb, Calcutta; Sunbeam, Bisbee, Taleabuano (uot Calcutta, 'a4 re, oried by tel); sehrs Gun Rock, Wilson, Wilmington NC; Thompson’ Johnson, and Challenge: Witcher, Norfcik Redington, Ciark, and Myers, Rhodes, Richmond; Searsvill Senra, Georgetown DC; Adriana, Sargent; M Picky ahd Giraffe, Kelley, Baltimore; Speed, Somers, Corson; Isabella Thowpsea, Corson; J Frambes, Fi ©; Gandy; J Ireland, St n; Mary Haley, Haley Bech & Kunbardt. Had 41 deaths | TERA y ‘teelman; Mat Mary Miller, Laws, ford, Doyle, and Edwin Reed, Green, Philadeiphi : Romp, Mayo; Com Kearny ; Brown, and Mary Maukin, "8, NYork. gis z a a e Shaw, romere Madras; brigs wart, Deon! ; Henry Matthews, Cheney iatanzas; schrs Wm H Atwood, Foster, ‘Tangier; Isaac Rich, Smith, ‘and Lizzie Maule, Henderson, i Philadelphia; Princess, Lovell, NYork. Sid, wind BBW to 8 ‘and SE (with rain and a thunder shower at night), abip Judge Shaw, scbr 8 F Solliday. attic Arr (by tel) Ship John Wills, Calcutta; bark Mary. ind, Surinam. BALTIMORE, Nov 23—Arr steamers Fanny Cadwallader, Colmary, and Locust Point, French, NYork: barks Monda- min, Collins, Rio Janeiro: Sylph, Jones, Boston. t 3 steam - er Piedmont, Wilh NYork; brigs Thos Swann, Collins, St 0 de St Johns, NF; sel Priscilla, Su sehr Thos’ Jetferson, lips, Jamaica, BATH, Nov 21—Arr schrs Mary Farnsworth, Hall, and UD, Haskell, New York. Cid brig T W Lucas, Perkins, Guada” Joupe. BRISTOL, Nov 22—~Arr achrs Gilbert Greene, Weaver, De» laware City, 23d Wonder: French, New York for Providence, Bld sel Lue! vot avin, ‘ork. CHARLESTON, Nov i9Sid steamship Iaabel, Rolling, Ke West and Havana; bark Arial, Melville, Newport RI; schr W Webster, ye t, NYork. 2008—Cld ships Gondar, Lebby, Livereool: Albert Gallatin, Storer, Havre; schr Red Eagle, ogers, Havens. CALAIS, Nov 13—Arr schr J P Johnson, Bi , NYorkk via BuStephen NB. Bld 10U, brig Moonlight, Small, Palermo; sebr Kendrick Fish, Wall, NYork. FALL RIVER, Nov 2i—Arr echrs Daniel § Miller, a Rappahanncek: ‘Amelia, Carcless, Philadelphia. Bid echra Kate. Skidmore, NYork; 284 Olivia & Virginia, Davis, and Victor, Sears, do. HIGHLAND LIGHT, Nov 23, 230 PM—Parsed in, bark Maryland, from Surinam, guppesed for a r, HOLMES’ HOLE, Nov 20, PM—Arr brig Souther, Smith, Roston for Charleston: schrs B rink, Donghty; R. Corson, ‘orsop; Almira T, Gandy; Theresa C, ‘Gandy; BC Scribner, Williamson, Jr, Winemore, and = for Boston; Orion, Smith, NYork for StJohns, NF, Bray, do for Saco. Sid brig Factor. ‘Zst—Arr brig Hampden, Damon, Turks Islands for Boston: schra ER Rennett,( masta), Wood, Norfolk for do; Highland - er, Mayo, News NJ, for do; Charles A Stetson. Bre Phi- eiphin for do; Marthe Washi , Pickard, NYork for dor Helena (Br). Roberts, do for Charlottetown,’ PRI Chambers, Norfolk for Portsmouth. Sid schrs Luc} B Frink, and Orion. sai— Are orig Abby Ellen, Guchrist, . Philadelphia ‘for Boston, in tow (see ; 1, Maples, and Lewis Boston; Arctic, Jackman, dofor New brig Abby Ellen: schrs R Corson, S Jr, BC Seriber, 8 N Smith, Gira, A’ Bie’ ‘Washington, jugassett, Lewis, and Aretic. bark, 5 Rotterdam for Bos- ton; sehr North Pacific, Marcy, Boston for Philadelphia, Sic. | brig Souther; schra Niger, Abigail, BR jorth Pa- gifie, and LU Sharp. In port at 10 AM, wind SK, bark Geo Warren, sehre RL Tay’ And Dashaway- a Nov Bate steamer Chalker, New or MORILF, Nov 17—Cld schr Bmeline, Miner, Havana, NEW ORLEANS, Nov 16, PM—Cid steamship Robt Water- ‘Caiveston and Lavacn, teamshiy Granada, Grifin, NYork via Ta- Tronsides, Curtis, Liverpool; Corinthian, States London; tintenberg, Weeks, Havre: Sardin brig Lo 1, Clebero, Malaga. elow, coming SP ship Hamberg, Wii. | ams, from Liverpool; bark George Lealie, Hall, from = og ‘Cld steamship Mexico, Lawless, Galveston and in- nol. | NORFOLK. Noy 21—In Hampton Roads ship Raw Forrest, Crocker, 64 days from Chincha Islands, Cid sehr © W Con- ner, Barbadoes. Hampton Roads 24th (by tel) ship Rxpounder, Foster, 96 In 7 from Callao. EW BEDFORD, Noy 22—Arr schra MB Mahoney, Rob- | ding, M Wrightington, Wrightington, and Cicero, Yates, Phi- lndeiphia; 23d Ranger (US), Gardner, with anchors and chain. | for light vessel Rellof, and will tow her to the Row and P' | station this afternoon; David Floyd, Records, Delaware City ; | Three Brothers, Risey, Baltimore, ‘Sid 24 schr Susan Bray, | Naylor, Delaware City. NANTUCKET, Nov 22—Arr schre BH Adams, Adams, Bal- Umore: Lata Cheeseman, Philadelphia. NEPONSET, Nov 20—In the river schr Garretaon, High, from Philadelphia for Braintree NEWPORT, Nov 2i—Arr schre WH Rowe, Wiggins Philn~ niney Point: 8 P Chase, Chase, Provincelown 1H Endicot, Vankirk. Philedelphin, ‘Dd—Arr qarks Arin}, Melville, Charleston; Kate Wheeler, Grant, NYork for Macias; brigs Leviathan, Morton, Boston for Philadelphia; R Rose, Wyman, Niedford for do; Avon- dale, Dix, Gibara for NYork; Isola, Griffin. Boston for Phila- Adelphia; schrs Wm H Rowe. Philadelphin for Boston: Lady Adama, NYork for NBedford; R P Chase, Belfast for NYork: Cyriont, NBedford for Philadelphin; Judge Tenney, NYork | for Hanger: W Hale, Hyohiil far Washington; LH Philadelphia: M Marcy, Providence 3 AVEN, Nov 2}—Arr barks Antelope, Rhodes, Tri- nidad—on the night of 2th inst, ina gale of wind, leet over- board Mr Forbes Scott secona mnie; Henry Trowbridge, Aa fur, Trinidad via NYork; brig BL Swan, Prindie, 8t Croix; sehr Mary & Hliza, Port Ewen. Sid schr Sterling, Hill, N York. PORTLAND, Nov 2—Arr brig Factor, Titus, Cardenas via, Providence and Holmes’ Hole: schra Concordia, Lathrop, 8 York for Rockland. Cid bark Chevalier, Knight. Apalnch! Y Cheaape ‘ork. Sid bark Fan i jam] , brig Vol ham, Washington pi2zt-B rr sehr Lucp Blake, Shaw, New York via Holmes? PHILADELPHIA, Noy 2%—Arr brig Delaware, Pifelt, Mayagunz; schre Rixbury, Brown, and. Alert on ‘orter; Adams, Cambridge; J B Dickineon, - ton, Roxbury; Che Carroll, Pratt, Baxhrook: N B Thom ‘Cha Armout, Recap, N¥orks r chiy ot Cid ship Gallego, We ® delphia for for NYork; 1 rk, Howes, Boston. olfe, James r si bark Mary Adelia, Keller, NOrleana; Brig Nal pencer, Falmouth, Ja; schrs ida: Corinthian, Taylor, Newburyport eet ee PROVIDENCE, Nov 38—Arr ac Jno 1, Rodner, Radicott, Alexandrin: A Field, Philips, Baltimore; H Willetts, Oran~ mer, Philadelphia. At anchor below sehr John Cadwallader, Godtrey, for Fredericksburg (not Philadelphia). oe INCY, Nov 2—Arr schr A J Horton, Elwell, Philadel~ I SAVANNAH, Nov 20—Arr echra Hampden Reile, Aleran~ der, Lincolnyitie Me; DC Hulse, Brown, N¥ork Old barke RA Allen, Robbis Lat a, Wiebera, St Jago do Cuba; brig M Sawyer, ye NB, sehr Sarah & ton; Meamer Weaternport, Berry, Hisabe tb, Rayner, orl isth—Arr sehr W 1, Barroughs, Jonks, NYork. Cld sehr A A Pandeli, Achorn, Havaiin PALEM, Nov 16-814 bark Turk, Rider, Cape Verd I 19th sche ‘Abigail, Slee, Philadelphin, txt brig Eliza Bur oan Cayenne, Keastiess, Smith, aud Uaaelir, Somers, iphia, NEWSPAPERS. HE CARNIVAL OF BLOO! A perfect avalanehe of murders to have fallen on tie devoted city during the past feWulare. A sman's lig: ie tafe nowhere, neither in the street o ‘own house, For full particulars of the bold amsgerinations, ovtrages and at- eee a mree "s in this ot \d throughout (Le country, seq his Week's t mAsTOnes Se. Vp ad tcontaine thie week @ likeness of » the RUPPORE: murderer of Vincent, te 7 The scene of the murder, ‘The William street aerassination, ‘The Water sreet butchery. ‘The Canal street murder, A dozen attempted murders in the city, Horrible outrage in the Tenth avenue, (reat trial of Brigandies in France jurder in New Orleans, with full partion ra, Murder and robbery in Boston. Murder by a maniac in Maryland, Vidoou eontinaed. Trio} of ‘“coniackers” in Philadelphia, vers in Philadelphia, n the Held. Yall in the city, Dodgers’ expositions an In tronble, ed by a wife, Fhilndelphin, Clioogo, Wedhingtos® i ROSB & TOUS Be, Add Negean Correspondence fro Richmond, §.. Louis, Wholesale agen