The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1858, Page 1

———— WHOLE NO. 7827. THE GREAT CALICO BALL he Academy of Music Full of Filo- rence Nightingales. ‘e Way New York rts a Benevo- Peei Written for the Occasion, and Deli- tered by A. J. H. Duganne, Esq, &o., &o., do, ‘The ent of the winter season in Now York, the groat Sharity all, took piace on Thursday night at the Acade- my of Yaic. The occasion was looked forward to with maueh invest, pot ouly on account of its novelty, but tho Praivewaby object which ite managers had in view. ‘When itm firet proposed it met not only with indiffer- ence, bawith opposition from certain quarters, and its faiture Ws prodicted vs certain, The managers, besides, ‘bed very ttle more than a month to make their prepara. tons in, bt their activity and entorprise, and the liberal support thy received from otbers carried them through tm the mos successful manner. The public were iuform- ed that it ms to be @ calico ball, avd that the ladies who aetended iniresses made of that material would be expect- ed te preset them, eitber during or after the ball, for dia- tribution anong tre different charitable eocieties to whose Benefit the proceeds are to be devoted. Thatothers, how- ever, mighaot be exsluded from participating in the Dleasures oftbe evening, it was announced in the pro- gramme tha all the ladies in attendance would be al- fowed on thi toor after eleven o'clock. The day before the ball the fol»wing gentlemen were appointed as a com. malttce to solicitdonations of clothing throughout the city, snd the result poved how weil they performed the work em*rusted to then :—Lient, Cot Butterfield, Quartermaster Beckingham, Gptain Tompkins, Lieut. Pride, Bieut. Buuee, General la'l, and Mr. A. M Bininger. These gen- themen were givin the gratuitous use of one of the Amert- ean Express Company's large four horse express wagous, ead in this theymade their calis of charity. Asa proof of the way in wich their demands were answered, we ay state that itwas filled twice with calico, blankets, eanton flannel, shoes, and other articles of elothng. One éry goots desler gave sixteen Bupdred and foty yards, another twelve bundred, muctber fve hunded, and none ices than two hundred. Then there were two bales of good substantial material for apdercicihes, wd stockings enough to set up an ex tenrive boviery etablishmest The whole amount of calico received, inthis way, in Addison to what was sent wo the Acacemy of Music, was about eignwen thousand ards. So much fr the exertions of this commitiee. It , however, but Junce to Messrs. W.8 Tisdsle and 8. Lee Perkin to say Gat the ruccessful manver in which the enterprise was conducted is largely attributable to Weir enterprise anauvergy. According to anatincewent the ball was to commence Bt pine o'clock, but jhe company began t arrive at half part six, end at \eaci an hour before the appomted ume nearly every seat ta the house was occupied. The ar- Yongewents and dicoratious were so admirably in Reeying with the charecter and spirit of the eeasion 4s to justify detuiled description The immenre area of stage and parquette was over- jaid with a bali room floor, rouno the circuit of which were placed sofas for the daccers. The stage itwelf Wee sO afrargea as to preseat the appearance of a gi tic tent, the folds xf which were opened oa the rear of stage, giving a vew of a bighiy Gnished rural scene. Suspensed fom the sentre of the wot was « number of gas burners 60 constricted as to form the expressive word isoeioncsovohtatlnasedoteanetorce £ Giiakity POORLY LEIMCOLE DD LEEL DDE LDLODDPEDO DODD otters of which were thus formed of living Gres. (he van striking aod D-AUtiTUl KDE Cabco ntributed the day before was employed jong, end was boog in gracetul festoon: Vent abd ip front of the two tiers of aghteon thousand yard: was uset in The Ub way, Sut ip suo & MmABNEr aH Not to tojure or deface Db xes whole Te materi ane pattern. This part of the aecorations at trueed geveral attention and was much admired, Extend. teg over the ‘rout of the amphitheatro were the uames of the (allowing sccietien, for Whose benefit the ball was got wy POPPE DEERE PDE DL PDEELE aerees, Penn ROO RD DOE LE NRE HUSTERK WOOD BENEVOLENT SOO18TY. Tr coaponaTED 1868 POOR EPEERL OLE LEOOLE PPOULELOLEDEDOLPIDEEL ODODE Pe deet POD A POLELELEDE RODE DERLELODDDO LE EDL LOE @ SOCIETY FOR TH KELIKY OF Pook WIDOWS Win SMALL CHILDREN, AOAC LODEOO DELLS PODELE PODOLELEDEDDDELEPDELEL ODE POOP OOO LEO LE ERE PODOLDIP DE DPLOLOLELEDELODE SEW VOKK LADIAs” OMB MISSIONARY SOCIETY POOL BODE LE DED LOLELE PODDLEPODOPPPOLOPPPPDODDEE Pe nenne ne COOOL LOE LE MEMLOLPOE POLED DOLELE LOM WORES Ss PRUTECHIVE EMIGKATION SOCLETY Peete ACM OREO EOLE DELL DELELEDOLILEDELODEPODOLOL Pee On PLE DELO DE BOOOLE PEPELPEDELEDOE IDOE LOLOL OD ANKRICAN }KMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY. Penne nn nen COee POCO LIED PODCLEOL LOL? POPE DOLOLOL OEE eee ee et CON PONE DONO LO NOMIC TEIN TUR Lapua’ UNION socTeTY. POODROOLINO LODE PE DELO EE ADELE DLP DOPDPPODDODDIDLE POAC LE LEO IOLE OE LOLOPPLLLOPOLEDOPEDEPOLDDL DEW YORK WOMEN'S HOPPTTAL OOOO OE OREO EELOLE LODE LELPOPOLPLEDOLODE DOLE POC OO LMAO TE OTE DELETE TEDOLEEDLE DOODLE COLE LOOL Tae COL RED flower, OOOO LUOLED DOLE DLEED POLEPLDOLEDOLEDELO DEDEDE Boiow tee were the folowing names, so well known fo the anus of charity ant good deeds —Leake, James Lenox, Peter Cooper, Floreace Nightingale, Huater Woods, snnw M. Andrews, Howard, Dorothea L. Dix, Amos Lawrence, and Watts. ‘At half past Rix, on wo have said, she first of the som. arrived, and at cight every seat was . AL reluine tnre were abs it three Uousaud ia the , of @hom mow than ove-half were ladies, Of the latier large yon wore callon dresser, many of which WM Ube Most pubstanual manner and of the very 1. One lady (and we bave no doubt that many wre ae cunsiiersie) Dot conlent Hy i i = i HL et ii if i i ' | did not commence tilt poem, entitled “Sham,” ‘warencby Mr Angustine J. HW Doganne, by whom it warwriten for the oorasion. The spirit it breathes and the van ee ee it teaches, a4 well aa the morte 0 the production itself, rendered ‘it pecuiiriy ap W to the occasion, and We therefore presen: wt aa we dlivered:— SHAM—A POEM, poet inspiration? Bauty and love have their bards uoiversal— Wr bath ita poran aad power ita ovatim. Valy, ab, vainiy with love might I linger, Voly vor beauty awaken my lute St (rom their sie with aim, shadowy Onger, Bkons a phantom, wom ving aod mule, ‘Ten to the deeps of our mortal distresaes, Den to the gults of our buman evdurance, Tre am 1 Deckon'd— but not with caresses — ‘Must [ go, with oo love's dear assurance. ana White as the Tye ve) een my pathway shadow so gaunt; Ov ita eyes with their look, broken hearted — ite name—'tis the phantom of Want, Phitom? 0, would it were a phantom shape, Fu from the exhatations of this brain! ‘Wea that wich morning's sun it might eacape ded vapors, nor, with shame aod pain jo real, stelk amid oor walks again’ Of ould that misery could be exorcined, Aiwnds of yore, with bell of ualiowed strain! Budat with which 1 geal i# not eurmised, Bathown, and, being kaown, it cannot be disguised! ‘Tha, at the gate, lies Lagarns! and hia prayor Sms Mock'd by muric and the Joound dance Oh «! not moek'd! for, lo! wih Heaventy ait thee Crarny returns’ his you i ie, at her ws Withmiie and Opmar hood! what with tear ng sigh, ™ Ike that whieh fai from on high, fob thee » radiant deeds of «aint like ( arity! . I kty that misery i# not link'4 alone Wi fireless hearths and bourde without a crust: MORNING EDITION—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1858. ‘The tyrant, quake on bis crumbling throne, May envy gears lolling in Oaelr aust; ‘And there are slaves of gold, and power, and lust, And servile thralls of fashion, pomp, and pride, Whose chains are gold, and yet whose bearts are rust. I doubt not thousands in their chariots ride er Broadway's pave, whose souls by gold are crucified! Nailed down to daily trees of yellow goid, Whereby the Christ within is scourged afresh, And baffeted, and mock’d with shames untold— Bis godhead tortured jb their wretched flesh; And His pere spirit wouad in narrow mosb Of vain le and envies, and low vy Or hungry paseions loosed from leash. O chat teas teense be slave of morta! necda— ‘Thou ait, indeed, the cross, un which our Saviour bleeds! ‘Three-rcore and ten the prophet’s liberal span, And Mammon claims each day, from year to year, ‘The eye, the tongue, the heart, the soul of man; "and |, that some poor, i A tombstone leitier than his Axsepuchre wbereunto, day by day, Since first the greed and jo of gold began, His toil bath added heaps littering clay, Beneath which heart aad ‘must wither and decay. Gains our bowes, as once the serpent wound Tis coils around Laocoon’s hapless race, ke ‘The folis of Sham o’er youth and maid ure bound. No more they claim our love by modest grace, But bend the phant neck in deference base, ‘To purse proud ignorance and bold pretence; io more those homely virtues may we traceo— Our young republic’s glory and defence— Unworthy ancient faith to guide our modern sense. To dress—‘o dine—to sleeo—tAaress again With gaudy waste of robes to sweep We street; To speculate, suspen, ‘wind up,”’ and the tarnished ame to othe: poor slaves sach chances meet; Yet meaner tools etili ape their tine! guise— From clerks who starve to buy aa Opera seat, To ‘business men” who dream that Paradise From “brown stone fronts” and marble stores may rise. But she—the maid—whose fragile frame can bear save the or waltz, with manly worth to share? Must she to nature and herself prove false? While jove rebukes her pride and truth revolts’ From that which dooms its Dioom to earhest blight; Ah, why must Sham’s ead, withering assaults Corrode her faith apd stain ber mature brigdt, Till ali the ange! from ber woman's soul takes flight. ‘With marble squares to bound her narrow world, ‘And silken shreds to cramp her reagun crude, ‘Through Folly’s maze and Vieasure’s pageants whiri’d, Bebold the type of Fashion's womanhood | Not such as by the Mouut ef Ualvary swod— Not such as g!ides through camp an« hospital, With sort comparsion’s fearleseners énined ; But Vanity’s poor child and Custom ’s thrall— A waltz her heaven—her love, a bat or shawl ! Bedeck’d with gauds of gorgeous woof and dye— That style the choicest which shall grace her least, Our proud republic’s daughter rusties by— A dry goods’ sign-a card for her iste Meanwhile, her iord, by hungry brokers fleeced, O’er ledgers poring, plods bis tedious days— Consent, poor wretch, (at intervals releas’d) To wark his household in their tinsel blaze, Ané¢ fee) that ali is Snam, and yet for Sham he pays! Tl bodes the future when a race like ours To foreign wiles bail yields its native powers; When bemespun wrwes, like domestic cloths, On dus:y whelves ie, eaten by the moths; When brgieb ton to Eng)isb snobbery wins, And Gajlic costumes coax to Gallic sing | Shame tracks the path ava freedum shuos the goal Where servile Fashion tempts the youthful soul; Where Foily’s rbrine 1t8 pinchbeck offerings craves, And Shaw regs monarch o'er diasem bing slaves | Tl threats the hour when Me foe of Sham O'er wasted youth and lovei manbood roll; More tree the son of Ishmael or of Ham Though virtuous Love ensreats with drooping bead, ‘The youth ehriiks backward from its biissfui goal; Til, beart grown pew ified and hope quite dead, At fifty years he’s willl too poor to wed. “Too poor to wed!” and s0 th’ o'erflowing cap Of natural life must never ba enjoyed ; And #0 the well springs of the heart dry up: ‘Years pasa, and Avurice tills the loveless void, Or reck ions selfishtees the rense has cloyed ; While she who might have reigned, @ radiaut queen Supreme, o'er housebold pleasures unaliey ed, Transferred, like dank stock, to some dotard lean, Remains the ghttering mock of what she might have been. Is thia the bride that Freedom’s manhood claims? ‘The maid whose charts shail bind a generous heart? Are heroes nourish’d by your dainty dames Who gauge their itves by nicest rules of art, And sell their loves in matrimonial mart? Do matrons such as, in the Komen tue, Gave birth to Gracchi, or, yet uobler part, Bort warty re" crowps upon’ their brows sustime— Do niatrons such as these exalt our own fair clime * Exait our clime! Say, rather, that we shan The ancient tru, to act the moder lie! No grand Volumpia here may bid her som Hie pasev bs yield to Bhal piety; No Arna bere shail teach her spouse to die; No proud Cornelia texch her rons & live; Bot stl, oppreesed by fasbion’s tyranny, As Dannide mad draws w with ber sieve, The bapiers »: sof Sham their useless hours must give! Too poor t) wed!—Too poor to love—too poor To watk, like trustiul Eve, bestue per spouse, An leave with God the morrow’s mercies sure. So keep we dutnh the heart's most sacred vows, ‘Till Metnmon’s priest the sacrament allows. There was & time, ere Sham and Seemug graved inkled ownerelsip ou youtnial brows, aidens ioved, and, loving, wedlock braved! — To be, and not to seem, their honest natures craved! To be, and not toreem! to wa'k the earth ‘A tan! and like a woman. love!—to feel ‘That bere, whefe Freesom claims her mghtiest birth, No toul may cower—no form to mortal kneel; And, whether fortune’s cha: ge bring woe or weal, Copiers the Prernal Hard im nature's plan! To be, and rot to teem! behold the sea) ‘That gir the forehead of each nataral man! ©! would that such might stamp the pure American, To be ano not to Foom—a generous youth And radiant maicen of ow gloriods land Prove of their race, and strong in love nod trath, ‘Twip types of freedom—clasping hond with hand; Yor bim bis patriot sires’ example grand— For ber such bome as pure Lucretia made For Coliative. on Tiber's peaceful strand— Or that still lovelier home, la Vernou’s abade Where Washingwu's dear wife ber warriors toils repaid. Buch homes thers are—but nit where Sham o’ersways; Buch matrons shive—but pot faabton’s biaze; Such radeus biews, ip eweet Thon art weeping, beauteous lady | Heaven bless thee for that tear | List! gentle lady, list! Thou wilt bear the Of the hopeless one who liveth ‘Of the bappter one who dies! Tho. Bast sieters who are outcast— Yet through misery they erred; They are pining—yen, they sipgle kindly word! Come bither, \ady! come! There are bearte which thou may'st warm; Be an angel in thy mercies, As thou bart an angel form: Come! and soothe thy suffering sisters, Fair and geptie ax dou art, Ob! the poor are always with thee! ‘They are knecling at thy heart. 5 . . * . be the Ley gilded hall— Clad in garb of simptost grace; Half concealed her fovelior fnce; List! she comes at merey's call: = where and famine thrall— own toward poverty 's wut Tauber she hurries Wom feartens pace Coworing ¥ in yi Shrinking from her, a woman glides— —in misery ola ; thenorta wind cold, Whiles her/tegriil eyes she hides There, where Squalor's host abisen— There her home those eyes bebold— There, in the tenaut house, dark and cold, Tenant bouse—narrow, and dark, and drear— Torry ing place of deeperate mon: Cutlaw s iar and beggary’s den— Womb of view an’ virtue’s bier: Wel! might celieate indy fear Haunt so vie Seetee conid depict it to mortal ken. with no cbildish mion— to the grave Spac io labor's tebe to gh There, too, wemank ind i eeen All the ehape that natere gare Lost in dicbonor’s inseusate slave! Crowded in perrow and darkehme room— shi 2 bearth— ering over a fire’ W- YORK HERALD. Here these Ishmaetites of earth Pime through ll the winter’s gloom: And when summer's orchards bloom, ‘nly peetiien se and dearth Out of the tenaut bouse soil have birth. ‘Well might dalicate lady sbriak— Bhrink and flee from sights like these: Here, wich shuddering giance she sees Evil eyes that leer and biiak, Faces ttush’d with iaddening drink, Or, with looks that welt freez, Stalks tn ber pathway some white disease. Yet, ber light foot-print is on the stll— Fearless stepp’d abe, even there: Up the dark aud devious stair— wigreg her gentle beart grew boy jor the north wind, flerce and shrill, Through the parsuges everywhere Moaned, ike a soul in ite Inet dewpair. Little she reck’d of the sobbiny wind; Wr) abe knew that close within the heart of buman kin, Mosn’d the soul of womankind ; She had come thut heart 10 fnd— She had come that soul to win ‘Out of the sorrow and shame of sin{ Over the threeholo her feet have pass’d— Loorely swings the creaking door, Javt beyono, athwart the floor Quick her pitying glance ir cast. Crouching there, with face aghast, Grovelling tere, with spirit sore, Lyeth the woman the murk’d before. Beaotiful, even in want and woe! Rich the corls of lustrous hair Drecaieg und a bosom fair Aa the dril fleece of snow: Bravely had the beart below Struggled Jong, with hope and prayer, Crying to heaven —to save and spare! Only this day had the Tempter power, Only bow the conflict came: : Tears were darkening vestal fame— ‘Wapt was frosting Virtue’s flower. OF ie eat Sl felghing with s name, Tottered her soul on the brink of shame. Listen! a loving tone thrills ber brain— Falls a soft kus on her eyes; And she feels, ip mute surprise, ‘Tear-orope fleck her breast like rain. Father ip Heaven! 0, not in vain Prayers onto thy throne arise! Bhe is redeem’d—aad the Tempter flies! Ob! hew the moasureless peace of God Into the heart of my Indy stolo— Kneeling in poverty’s drear abode, Sootbing her desolate sister's soul! ‘How are the tipseis and gauds of fashion fhamed by the haloes that circle her now; Bright in ber eyes are the gems of compassion— are the glories of love on her brow! * * * * * * al up the dance! and ye, bright almoners. Whore tmiles of Joy shall ary the tears O think how many a lowly bosum stirs ‘With hope of bounty trom your hands to- morrow. ‘Think, bow, in quatnt o/ 4 Saxon tongue— Whea the poor their orisons ssid, The ame of their “lady” they evermore sung, And called her the “giver of bread!” And to-night that tender old Saxon word ‘Tus meaning Once more way claim, For the bread-giving ladies have spread their board— And the poor wili Diets their name! Call on the dance! yet pause, to think that one these—tbe ‘bread givers’’—heth pass'd to heaven! Ere the good work wherein she wrought is done The Eternal bread hath to her soul been given! Yet doubt not, bending from the realms of bliss, Racket* still emiles upon # eccne hke thi Call up the dance! let pipo and harp awake The hearts melodious that await their measure! Cal up the dance, with strains of love and picasure— Call up the dunce—for Charity’s dear sake! * Ip allusion to the sudden decease of Mrs. Rachel Morri- tou, one of the lady managers of the ball. At the close of the poem the ball began, and it was kept up till between three and four o’ciock next morning. Nooworth’s full band was engaged for the occasion, and we ever beard them play better. The officers of the Seventy Oret Regiment officiated as a Door committee, an) atterced, as was announced, in ualform. It is suillcient Ww eay that (hey fully sustained the character they have ebwived for courtesy and gallantry, and that nothing was Jett undone which came within the spbere of their du- urs. The danewy Commenced at nine o'ciock, tbe hour fined in the progianme, of whicu the following ls a oupy: seerooos es: sorrow; CAaLIco ame ROTHER, ANDY Tol ol ilk" HUNTER W0O00.s KENEVUOLENT SOCIEFY, And ovber charities, BXECUTIVE COMWITTRR. oan gene) Adm. at. Bininger, Gunther, a * Cyras Rewsay, Col, A. 8. Vosburgh, ‘m. 5. Treasie. 3 3 PROGRAMME, ‘AUS o'clock AN Onrorsal Porm, Written for the oceasion, wil be delivered by the author, THE HUN. A. J. M, DUGANNE. ladies tp c.Uco At o'clock cancing Wil! commenc orem ALIT o'clock ladies ealion dresses, aud app st Will be served in the ww PROGKAMME DANSANTE. 1, Quadrilie, 2 Polka Redowa... 3. Quadrille 4. "Bebottineh..... & Qaudrille......... &. ¥. Detorest, Sy Briggs, Deng Britton, Ir. J 8 Keone id, Up w eleven o'clock, aa bas been stated, the ladies in ca)0o dreeses and Ubew partners Bad the exoiusive ure of There were rome few, however, who were evidently uneequainteu with the rule, and vere in the act of gong om #ben they Were informed by the com poset 5 wene?dut thee be hee) Greased ip caiioo were €0 tO Parlicipste in dancing Hii the ed hour As soon as they w: (hes alided they tome, distely withdrew, botthe trumpet no sooner gave the fighe that the hour baer arrives when all present might jow im the oapee, than the ladies who had up wo this time been debarred, crowded in w the The ball bow partook more ef the chereuer of 6 Promenade concert, tough the davcing waa atill kept uy by @ few of the more determined reat o the hy | sejoyed themssives ip ooking at others, and ig eked atin retarn. The gentiemen come 5 & conriderable ehare obser vation, and #e'Rnow of Ove committer of indies who de their altenbou to the taciel embellishments of the lorda ot a great chjyect of soheitage, troabie, prite feation to the wearers The object of tis com to select for their other selves the faanion y Most fancied, and t make w fall report the «nd of thew wur of inepection There was certalely bo lack of \anety, and it they faiiea to make a selection they must bave bard w please. There Were the flerce or milvary, the grave, the gay and the gray, the Wterary, thy exquisite, aud a huodrod others of Clore, shapes aod tines to suit every taste. Some of them were eaboratea @ith all the ekill of the bar bere art and the asrietence of bair dye sod gum Thin Inet article, by the way, has beowme Quite indvepeneeote to the fastonable gentleman's tv acd is escential tn giving those ati pornted eaun @ fave been enity of tte =f honre wae eo crewded that the committee were twice ged wo ele th bat desiring tw aatie'y every eve they threw them oye ly. there could pot have been le tae Huila ihr atone time, and ty ball was tow Most sucoveesfal Unet has ever lakeu piace ww tua oily Ihe succers proves that our will ebaritable enterprise when on condt , coursgement whicb the committee have received ia maf- ficient ta warrant them in getting up apcther ball. There ‘will etl) be a large number of poor in the city unprovided for after the have been and there ie no donbt that it will receive sub- stantial soomanee’ | fine our — citizens. oe fo rame men who had the Md given, ee thareony, ae charge of that’ which we now weopene, and which shoula de a full dress soirée. could be got up in a month a: the farthest, and the Academy of Music should be engaged for the Go abead, then, gentiemen, with the full dress seirce or ball. The times are favorable for it—the revul- tion Je over, aud the people have the wherewithal to pay for it, and liberally too. The followivg ia a detailed liet of the , exelu- sive of the money receipls, which will be known more definitely when the returns of the different agencies are made They will probably amount to five thousand dol- Yara, of which about eight hundred were recetved at the doors on Thurrday—a fact which, ve believe, is entirely unprece¢ ented in the higtory of balls:— DONATIONS OF CALICO, MUSLIN, CANTON FLAN: NBL, ETO. Ladies of New York Hote], 100 yards calico. Ubecell, Pierson, Lake & Co, 1,800 yaras muslin, &c. Lord & Taylor, 20 yards caliso, Lathrop, Ludington & Co., 200 yards calico. DONATIONS OBTAINED BY TILK WAGON COMMITTEE. Tracy , Irwin & Co. , 200 yards calico, & ©. W. & 8. T, Moore, 214 yards calico, flannel, &. Wileon & Hunt & Co., 188 yarde calico, flannel, &c. ¥. T. Tefft & Co., 74 yards of calico, Claftin, Mellen & Co., 183 yarda of caltoo. Warner & Loup, a quantity of blankets, Doremus & Nixon, a jot of blankets. ‘Wesson, Vanderhoof & Uo., box boots and shoes. A. T Stewart & Co , blankets, calicos, &e, There is still a larger amount, of which it was impossi- Die to keep ap account, From the contributions of ready made dresses left at the Academy of Mutic op the night of the soirée, and other dopatone in patterns, &c., the committee will be enabled to give nearly six bundred dresees to the benevolent #0 cieties designated in their programme The money is to 9 to the Bunter Woodis Benevolent Society an4 be diatri- ad by that society among the poor in bread tickets, Police Intelligence. SinguiaR Cask or ALLEGED Grawp Larceny —EAward Smith, a messenger or runner at the Tombs, waa bronght before Justice Welsh on charge of having felonioasty stolen a quant ty of furniture from Mary Gries, under the following circumstances, as narrated m tho affidavit of compiaint. On the 2d of June last complainant was con victed: of @ misdemeanor in the Court of Special Sessions, and was sentenced to the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island for the term of six months; on the day of her de parture from the Tombs, Smith agreed to take charge of her furniture, which was locked up in ber apartments at No. 66 Cortlandt street, and deliver it over to Mra. Fos- ter, the matron of the City Prison, for safe keeping unti! compjainant’s term of imprigonment shvuld expire. Upon the promise of the defendant to take charge of the proper- ty and bund {t over to the care of Mra. Foster, complain. apt gave bom permission to remove the same, consisiing of varwus artices of houvebold furniture, valved at $i6v. Tost jowever, of banding over the furniture w Mre. Foster, defenvant conveyed the same Ww bis place of resicence in Ceatye street, and there kept nossex- sion Of it, refusing to del over the same to compiain- art oplers she paid him the sum of $27. This complain ant retuced to do, apd on finding that defendant was deter: mined to keep poseersion of her property without avy utile thereto, she commesced a suit for graad larceny, be- fore Justice Wel above stad. A number of wit nesses were brough: forward to corroborate the statement of the compleipunt. Among the number was Mrs. Foster, who bettied to the agreement that Smith mate relative to the transfer of the furniture and its gon-fultimeat on the part of the defendant. Uypoo the strength of this testimony Ju-tce We sh held the accased w bail in the sum of $500 to answer the charge of grand larceny. Smith on bis ex- amination stated that be was a pative of France, wax 23 Years of ape, was & barber by{profess'on, and lived at No. 120 Centre street In reference to the charge preferred againet him be pleaded pot guilty A Cavkc Mamaxe in Troonts —Onarles F. Jacobson, @ member of the James ptreet Mariners’ church, was taken into curtody yesterday, by Policemen Peeney and Hig gins, of the Fourth precinct, on charge of stealing $250 in gold coin frem Joseph Kellenbeck. of Ne 4* Cuerry street The complainant, ip an affidavit made before Jus tice Conpolly,at the Lower Police Cours, alleges that on Sunday last Jacobson and he started for Witiamsbarg: thet when they arrived at the ferry the former wom it inte his bead to turn back without giving any satisfactory trenton for to doing; that complaingnt preceeded oo hi Journey, and after remaining in Wiliamsburg for severa Doure be ret od to bis home tp this ety, that apoo his entering bie bedroom and examining his trunk Q found it had been rifled during bis absence, and tbat $260 in gold con bad been abstracteg therefrom. Knowing that Ja cbeon alone was aware of hie having this money, coveraled im his trunk, Kellenbock at wee ruepeted tim of the t aod bed him arrested on Hu : aut theo informet 1 epector Wal tin; norg t « of gold stolen from bix trupk wae a quarter eagi», wh cb be coaid easily identify by & mark or stain which he discovered upon tt few days previonsly red to erase by scratebing will uupk of the prover the id complanant was found mixed up t pieces and it was at ones identitied by Kovenbeck as a part ot the stolen property Toe pri<ooer on being ques: ve to the whereabouts of the remaiodcr of the gold, stated that all the movey be bad was contunsd in bis trunk. Upon clorely examjning bix pers m, however, abcut $60 more of the gold was found in his pockets. Jus tice Conpoily commitied the accuyed for examination Moc prerest is man fested tp the result of the examina top by the members of the Marivers’ church, of which ine accused was one of he atrongest pillars ‘Coanor oF Passtxe Courrerrer Mower —Jamea Stan- ford was taken into custody yesterday by policeman Mor thiemer, of the First precinst, on charge of attera sting to pare a oovnterfelt five dollar bill upon the Merchants’ Rank of Lowell, Mana. The accused, it i alleged, went into the rtore of Morria Urbas, No. 147 Greenwich street, apd offered the counterfeit in qneetion in exchange for two updershirts, valued at 8755 conta. The clerk lu the atore, ‘wher the Toth tbe b About = change it, where a store woo to pase minutes cherwerds the pricnser mato another ut tempt the bill at the storeof Hermann Laipaiguer, 16655 Greenwied etrect, and while endeavoring do no he waa followed the prisoner into the store of Wr. Leiprigner, and open that be was attempting t pare the cout eit be called in the poborwan, and bad bim taken to the Tombs. Jae- tee ee SE ee ose defanit of $1,000 bel. The counsterfelt is a preity tolerable and wuld if w }ity of the Dil) and Rlipped out for » policeman, but the pallor wae not canght soeaaly Guxpecting tat he wae detected, the latter stepped out alan, and mate hr escape Suacxe oF Boces Moxey —George Jacksou aad George Melear were taken into custody by Sergeant Heiden, of the First ward police, whilg attemptiog to indie a country man named A‘am Leib, by inducing him to buy a Dogus passage ticket to California, In the porwersion of the accused was found the sum of 63,009 ta bogus bank bills, which (¢ is euppoeed they were in the hahit of using fo the ete fing” and “drop” The bile were on defurct hanking institutions, koown as the Oty Trast and Pevking Company and the Globe Bark. When arrestee fhe of the preorere tried to throw away 0 gold watch, but he was Cetected in the act. Justice Keily, before shom the prisoners were taken, was compelled wo dis charge them in consequence af the lack of evitence. Coancr oF SmuuxG Lotrery Poucret —Samuel Kippere and Jolt W. Mead were arrested and taken be ore the Recorder yesterday,on charge of selling lottery policy tick: t@, at their office, 196 Varick street. The privoners were beid to bail for trial before the Court of General Ses nour Intelligence Lots Mowree Vierring tie Prisowmna 1s rie Tose, Tole Montez, in company with the proprietor of the German theatre, paid a visit to the Tombs yesterday, and made « thorovgh *xaminadon of the enure praco. fhe fair Countess chetied with the prisoners, and gave them many oofe of ber eympathy for their uocfortunate aitustion. Nb Vancem! she bad @ long conversaton, in the course of which varcu. bypiee were introduced. Shepperd was not com menicatyte, hor dd he seem to wate tb tance of the visiter After examini vir to the female department, ee of the Matron, Mra. Poster, th all the mysteries and miserirs connected with the Tombe the witness rooms, the cooking, baking ord enebing avervments were thin visied, Wren ibe Ow om her leave of the premines, ev iy weil placed with what ebe bad seea and heard in the Halla of dustwe Gen. Nye’ Howse axp Lot.It ie stated that potwith ing Geo Nye’s alleged decienaion of the preseat of the boure en” lot, Said to be about to be presented to him by the Dolce Departmen , gobseriptions are still be core teat) make the € to bie wife and that & ave been rated fh the Kleeenth ft eslfth asd seventequt wars, for tbat puryace. kee 1p the to owt th the fas Lo get We vat yetter * pooy up,” ¥ wuse reacy Oy We dret of May Report of the Bay State Mills Comamitteo, ‘The stockholders of the Bay State Mills held a mocting yesterday, at which the report of tho Invebtigating Com mittee was read by the chairman, Mr. R. J. B. Crow ninahield, The report makes over four newapaper cotumns, om Dracieg a detailed history of the company and its connec. tion with Messrs. Lawrence, Stone & Co. Mr. Law- rence, as treasurer, received a salary of $5,000 per an- num, and the firm a commission of two and a balf per cent ‘on all their sales. The entire amount of their commissions from 1848 to 1867 from the Bay State Company alone was over $335,000, besides doing a larg» commission businoss for the Middlesex, Pemberton and New England Worsted Companies. Their aggregate commissions for the yoar 1856 amounted to nearly $95,000. On the faiure of the firm they owed the Bay Blate Company nearly $327,000 of which, with the exception of $87,000 paid on account of the Tariff bill, no trace can be discovered. The report says: ‘This large sum of money has been taken from the company by its confidential agent, of whom the treasurer was one, without the knowledge, consent or even suspicion of the directors, and the facts have been carefully and studiously concealed from them, and it has been appro. priated to their own use, in such @ manner aa they bavy ween ft, Whatever that application may fave been, or ho w- ever they may have fondly or foolishly hoped or intended to have made it good at some future day, does not cl the nature of their acta, which can be characterized ag fraudulent, criminal miscondnct—an appropriation to their own use of the property of a too confiding company by {18 agents appointed and munificently compensated to guard aud watch over its interoats and mabage ite most importent concerne.”? The report, alluding to the tariff aispursement, saya:—What sbail po said, however, of the large sum of $87,000 of money, which in +Heet forms a part of that so taken from us and from others, which was applied to the procuring of the passage of the laet taritt- panacea which was to cure all our evils? Is that application of money such aa to cuaunead it to our approval or that of the public? It is true that we DOW bot with certainty where it went, or how it was ap- plied, of we except some $8,000 which was spent for publications, newspaper articles, and whe hike. Of the balance we know that it has gone, and we kuow one person by whom it was disbursed. We know thet there were at one time certain memoranda ip the poesession of cur agents which would, it is suppos- ed, ae in part this mystery, butthey have disappear. ed, While we have figures for matters which do not appear objectonable—the diffusion of light, of informatio and arguments—there 1s a careful omission of anything which would show what became of the balance of the money. ‘This givee rise to dieagreeablo suspicions that it must pave gone for pur pores which wouid oct bear exposare, and which needed to be hidden and concealed. Was it employed in costly entertainments at Washington, given to whose Buppored to be able to influence lngislation there? ‘Was it expended in the Cp egerems of a corps of lobby members, hangers on to the ekirts of members of Coo- gress to worry them into giving vo'es in favor of sach Mearures as might be supposed favorably to affect taeir Liererte! or was wemployed for still darker and more objectionable purposes? We only know that ove of the tirm— Mr. Stone—bax told us that while he was at Wash- ington, laboring 4 ly and with ali bis inight to diffuse inrormation by all lawful means to persuade Copgress into the passage of a tariff which would prove less onerous ant more advantageous to the woollen interests, which have long been depressed, be was told tbat |v be hoped for suc- cess it would be necessary tor him to adopt quite apotber conse of measures, and to be less scrupulous than he was ip the use of the means ut hin disposal; that letters were written bome, saying that some other agent—ong of a more pliable temper—must be employed; and that im consequence thereof be was withdrawa, abd another member of the tirm was sent on to represent them, aud who, as he suoposed, paid out, and disbursed or controll. 0 the application of the rest of the money, 80 our mo- ney went without oor knowledge or consent. We have no account of it, and are po! able to teli how much of it was ours, and how much betonged to others. We sre pot assured that it even did go for the tariff. Tt te binted that it did net. There is a darkners sdout it tbat we cannot peretrate. Per it may be hevter that we shouk! not. There might be brouglt to light matters whieh it would be dieagreesble to some peorle to have expceed. We are tola that whatever was done was done with the best intentions and for our good. If that much vaunted tariff sball prove beneficial to the woollen maou facturing mterert, we have the satisfaction of contem- plating tbat bad we not beep s#ifled by our friends before the day dawned, we too might have tasted its good iru * port was accepted, and a vote passed to dissolve &. The the corporation and close up ite affairs. MENTING OF THE CREDITORS OF LAWRENCE, STONE & 00. [From the Boston Journal, Feb. 4.) The adjonined frat meeting of the c ditora of Taw rence, Stone & Co was held before Judge Ames, of the Ineciveney Court, yesterday afternoon, Tners ’ wi large attendance, aud claitns to th were prevented and allowed. The endorsements of the firm on pa er beld by the comsmiasioners for the Western Railroad sinking fund, to the amount of $64,250 60, wore presented, put ay the paper bad vot yet become due, they were not allowed. At the previous meeting of the eredi rs cimimns to the amount of $70,000 were presented aod allowed. Some $63,000 additional were ted, and the question of allowing them wos suspended until further invertigotion could be had Most of these were small aims. The amount presented and allowed thus tar is about $) 200.000, It is expected that this amount wiil be increased at the adjourned meeting. Tho following aro amerg the largert claimants. It is proper, however, to re merk inorder that po injustice may be done ty these slaim- ante, tbat in nearly or quite every instance their claima con- rist of the endorsements or acceptances of Lawrence, Stoae &C> upon the peoer of other parties or corporations, wo are ww the most cases believed to be solvent, aod which paper, when taken up by the principals, will of course re- heve the estate of Lawrence, Store & Oo. from theso ‘The principal claims are — Tremont Bank... . . . Merebants’ Bank, New salem Five Cents Sa Cumberiand Bank , ' mount of BL,1ss oBoSsensyssiee sess SS823S35= Lee, Higginson & Co... 1. & EB. Saltonate ll, trustees, * : Robert Ferguson and Francia H. Gray. Mechanics’ Bank New Bedford ‘3 rs s S8E238ss8Es2 3 3S= & $3 the peculiar descri mentored above. of March, as 10 Wit Lacen Bren Inroxrcere?—Tthe trial of George Staats and others, in the Kiegs County Grewt Court, on ‘the charge of selling intoxicating Liquors on Sanday, waa conchuded yesterday. The defendants kop a lagor bier sajoon and garden in Wittiamsburg, and sel! nothing but the above named beverage. The question on tie trial was whether lager bier would intoxicate. Fvicence was rougbt forward to prove that it oxhilarated apd also in toxicated, while, on the other hand, it was prored thet ‘aumos. any quantity could be drank without producing in- verication denen raaate wore Wo drink ing irom twenty to ninety pint aiay, ae 8 (bing, without caueing ey enemies resale end one fan swore that be drank seven aod aball gailoox within two hours. The Judge (Strong) ia his charge reviewed the evilonce at cons! erable length, ana the etired about noon. After deliberating until Si kk, they came into court with the Following verdict: — for the defenéacts, delioving that lager Jorn Hot contain more than 3K per cant of aicobol, does not come within the ‘sions of the sta te im relation wo intoxieating drinks.’ The, therefore, dv cides the question that lager bier ia not intoxicating, and dove pet come within the provisions of the preseat law lating the vale of intoxicating drinks. Among the not the jury *e* © prom nent member of the Sone of Temperance A New Counsrarmer —A man giving his name as Fdward Themas was arrested by offlcer Munson, of the First pro raday night, for passing counterfeit $6 bills on the Merchant’ Bank of Lowell, Mase, upon reveral storekeepers m Atlantic street. He was accom panied by two men, who made their escape. The paper ot the bill w@ rather heavy and hareh, but the ergraving ® fest The figure five on’ the right and eft copper Gerners are crossed aad recromed by lightly curved light lines, On the right lower corner # cbe (gure of @ female sitting on @ ruck with agricultural mpements by her side On toe left lower corner ix a figure of General Taylor, and immediately above the Pro- evient's signature is the Maseuchusetta coat of arms. The pares of Harlin Pillsbury, President, aod John N. Merce, castier, are legibly written, The accused was committe! by Jus sce Cornwell to await the action of Grand Jury Faxreweiv® Reems For some three months past the pork packing establishment of Wm. B. Barber, on Red Avok point, has been robbed of pork amt lard smouating in value t probably thousands of dollars. Wagon losis have beep taken from the establiahment from tme wo time, amd loaded ob lighters and barges and carried off A tew days since officers Irwin ano Thompeon, of the Third precinet police, diecoveret two Germans with wagon © front of the door. After loading two barrels of ‘aro they covered it up with scraps and shavings to avoid ‘election. The officers took them into custody, and — surpecting parties §=omployed in the o® tabliebtment ns being implicated, they arrested the fore man of the killing depart nent ana two of bu men. They Were committed wo saat further inquiry Sobseqneotly apt. Shaorman anc ¢fcer Ferry foond nineteen barrels fiat A wed away in the forecnetle of one of Mr. Bar bere pig barges, sod wine barrel of poe on the barge leteey Bive, ready for transportating, Some $500 worth has «0 far been recovered, with afair prospect of further developement. Thus far eleved persons have been ar Tested on suaprciun. —————._ PRICE TWO CENTs. Municipal Affairs. EXPRCTRD ARRIVAL OF MOHAMMED PACHA, TH? TURKISH ADMIRAL—PREPARATIONS FOR HIS Ke CKPTION. The joint epecial committee of the Common Council 4)- pointed Jo adopt measures for tu reveptian » .onamined Pacha, Rear Admiral of the Turkish ficet, who ts expected to arrive, accompanied by his suite, in this city in a few days, met yesterday afternoon. After considerable delay, and onthe fourth ballot, Alderman Boz wae elected chairman of the committee. Alderman Brapiay said that be understood that Mo- bommed Pacha wonld arrive in « frigate of the Turkish Davy, apd that his suite, consisting of seventeen persons, Wonld be on board with him. He therefore moved that 4D 4ppropriation of Ave thousand dollars be made jor hia reception, : The wotion, however, was waived until consultation could be had with J. H. Smith, the Turkish Consul at this port. Alderman Brapiey moved that a sub-committee be ap- pointed immediately to walt forthwith upon hi+ Hopor the Mayor, and invite bim to aitend the fursher deliberations bp seni cor’ ly it was unanimously agreed that Alderman Brauiey aud Qouvcilman Van Tue should consutute the committee, and they proceeded to the Mayor's offise, and represented the nature of their business w Mr tiemann. He returned with them, and was approprataly recetved by the other members of the commitiee. On’ bets quetted by the Chair to express his views upon the sub- ject which was being considered, Mr Tiemann said that the Rear Admiral was simply coming tothe United Staves op buriness, and that be only intended, he unde-ntood, to remain a few days in New York botore proceeding to Washington. He believed that he is coming w this co im- try to enter Into @ contract for the buil jing of a ingate, aod, therefore, be did wot see why his reception should be attended with much publis display or oatentation on the part of our citizens. He added that the care would be different if the Rear Admi- ra! aud his staff were coming for the oxtensible parpose of visiting this nation, and he supposed that if he was iovited to visit our public imstitutions he would probaoty roturn. in reply that be had not time to xparo ‘or that purpose, When the Mayor had conluded giving expression to his opinion, Councilman Gxxer moved that a committee ba appointed consisting of three of the members of the pre- veut committees to wait this moruing upon Mr. Sauth, im order to ascertain from him when the Pacha ia ex, and the length of time he intent tw remain in New York. The motion wa* unan mously carried, aud Alderman Brad- ly and Counciimen Van Tine and Buuce were sominuted as the committee. At their request the Chairman also became a member of the committee. At this stage of the proceeding. and after expressing bis approbation of tho action of the committee, Mayor Newanu rewrned to his = and immediately afterwards the committee ad- PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS OPPOSED AND ADVOCATED— DEVKLOVEMENTS IN THE COURSE OF THE CONTSO- VERSY. 4 At two o'clock yesterday the City Library room was the tcene of considerable animation. A very large namber of pereons interested in the fc rwarding or postponing of the proposed public improvements in the Purd, Fifth and Sixth wards bad congregated there, as the Street Committee of the Bourd of Councilmen were to mect at that hour to bear the roasoue that might be advanced for or against the coa templated measures. T. A. Dunp, the caairman of tho committee, soon annc unced that as a'! the members were new present be would be glad 10 hear what any parties had to why certain streeta in the Third, @ifth and should or shoud not be extended or other- Wwike improved Perex 8. Trrvs said be bas property on the corner of m streeta, ano he could no} see how could be beneited by the wiiening of reets. For bis part be dwught proper ty in this city already too heavily asressed, aud consiver- ing the present state of things he coula not know how the peopie, *ho ip too many instances are Dankeupt, can at the present time pay money for improvements. F. J. Porter repried that the matter ‘uy now before the Superior Court, aud the Common Council cannot interfere with that Court's procedure. It had been already agreed. that the streets should be widened and extended, and it ts only afew dwcontented property owners #bo appeal from Ubat cecision. He believed that a majority of the proprietors of real estate in Luane stale are desir vas that the street should be widened amd tbat they would con. firm by their vote what the Commoa Council could not prevent. Mr. L. Leeman stated that be resided at 49 Pearl atreet Ubat he wus aeweased qven there $04 for the Of Duane steect, aed & moighbur who Ives eo wo him $87 for the same improvement, while others who live close to bim have not been assessed for avy amount. He thought bimeei! aggrievea in thie matter, and thare fore went fo the § feet Commissioner's office w gut a copy mt roll. He was favorable to imyrove- meots but wore partial uprightoers, Ove man gous $4,000 for bis that #10 bie own knowleive worth vothing, nother gests $60.000 awarded for = property Wat ouly cont him $8,000 He had # copy of tha ove the wuth of what he # atea, Mr. Cony raid that the matter has been agreed upon for years, and We improvements shoule be elected But ‘suddenly & pauic comes over the country, ani thea certain pariies take the opportanity of turaing it uw their Advevtage and try to prevent the improving of the city He knew that the interests of the city demand the Winening of Reace street The entire cost of the unproe ment is eetimated at $123,816. OF thu wum gearly $100,000 will be paid back, #0 that the entire cust of the work 10 the citizens will only amount w knew that of this sum $200,000 will be paid by parties sho do not desire & suspension of the improvements, The parties who will have to pay the remaiader are un known to bim, and some of thom may be favorable while others are opposed t che measure. Duape and Chat! A SORNE. Here Dr. McComn \uterrupted the speaker, and rather unceremoniously ssid he had a word to say that would net occupy much time, and at the same time be of impor tance. He paid that be was asseased for the sum of $900 for widening Reade street. He thought thes unfair, and remembered, that at that time the speaker came to him and bewMght bim w withdraw bis opposition, acd he might fee) assured that the amount would not be half what he feared. “This was something that | thought strange at the time, and that [ have not since forgouen.’”’ This was followed by much laughter Olber expres- ey - oveeded fe ier e or for nome time lenger, but after this said very fittlc that was argumentative, but denied that be ever remembered the couversatioa to which the dector alluded W. D), Boorm and A. P. Max alvo sroke, bat what they said wan of little interest When they ‘concluded we Chairman ad jourted the cemmittes to uext Tuesday after- now. CONTINUATION OF THE STEAMBOAT REMOVAL CON- TROVERSY—NEW ADVOCATES OF THK REWOVAL— SCENRS TO ENLIVEN THB ARGUMENTATION, ETC. The steamboat removal question was renesed yester- day, and contrary to expectation is not yet concluded. Mr. Bickroxn, the Chairman of the Committee on Wharves , Prere and Slips, presided. Alderman #rexns took tho stand in favor of the removal. He went over a good number of the old arguments, im - pressing them with much force. He stated that the dan- gers of covdivion with the tmtoense steamers that pavigaie the Fast and North rivers will every year increase. He noted rome of the co'lisiona thet occurred within the past year or two, and regretted that he dad not time to ca’! at the Hrrsto office in the morning, where be would hare an opportenny of beirg fuly soquainied, from the fies of coat weer «with an many acevientes arcing from col- hwicee wrth the and Norin river boate ae be desired to know. He that the foreign rbip- hour for their sereices, while (bese steam vessels, which only draw a lit'le water, and cas move any whe den they fee) inclioed, ocenpy and entirely monopor 2s several of the most convement wharves down towa, where there ie upwarce of forty feet of water, He continued for = coniteradie time, showing that tra’e it extending b the upper pert of the city, and that that is, for various rea- tone, the proper leeality for steamers to land Tease Newrow and EX Alderman Mcerny replied. Their arguornts, however, have often been repeated. In a\luoing to the argument advanced by Alderman Steers, In relation to the accommodaton of vewwele, Mr. Murphy entered (nto what seemed to be personalities, for which be was called to order by the committee He ro- torted sharpiy, and raid that he scorned to think that he would come there to epeak by the permission of any man. He war now cal ed to order by the Chair, and 56 became Bs ed, and continued to apeak. The Chairmao vow eaid that be did not want to hear any more from him, aed would feel obliged if he wousa wine bie seat and remain niet. Mr Marphy then al tone, and ine Mhairman that he would hear more hy iy i bie coat oe Wort + O her persons nt ho new argu. mente, and the commiere, ‘who loiended that thie should be the last time thie subject should be publicly discussed , at the request of Alderman Steers agreed to bol! another meeting, and according adjourned till next Friday even- De Army Intelligence. Woe are advised that (n compliance with the request of Colone! Johnaton, commanding the army in Utab. aa pub- lished in the \ixratn on the Sd inst., Colonel Hoffman, who was ordered from Fort Laramie to Leavenworth in November last, a8 @ member of @ Court Martial, and who, afler baving Deen stationed in command of Fort Laramie for rome years past, hes bad but a temporary respite of few weeks from arduous duty, hae been orderet by the War Department to return without delay to that duty required of Colonel Hoffman, in addition to the com- mend at Fort Laramie, will be the superiatendence of forwarding troops and supplies for the Utah army, and ft ie & igh compliment paid to bis weil knowo coergy and ability by Colonel Johnston, in aking thst he shoukt be ervice at & season of (he your whee oaly ¥ responsible and urgent duty would justify it, when reso meny otner officers already there Colonel offen will leave Philadelphia immetiately, aed pre. ceed direct to Fort Leavenworth, from whence be wilt take to the Plains, and expects to reach Fort Laramie before the ist of April.