The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1859, Page 4

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The remains of the woman found floating fn the water near Fort Hamitton on Sunday afternoon prove to be those of Mrs. Fanny Deane Halsey, the popular actress and Shaksperean reader. Deceased had been missing from her home since Wednesday. Her husband thinks that she committed suicide in consequence of some revela- tions which were made concerning her acquaint- ance with a gentleman in Brooklyn, named Henry §. Wells; but the mother and sisters of deceased are of the opinion that she has been foully dealt with. The case is full of mystery and doubt, which cannot be satisfactorily solved until the Coroner's inquest has been held. Meanwhile the police have thought proper to place both Mr. Halsey and Mr. ‘Wella under arrest until the matter should be tho- roughly investigated. The inquest will be held at Bay Ridge, Long Island, this morning, before Coro- ner Bennett. For a full account of the strange affair we would refer our readers to another co- Juma. The mail from Utah has arrived at St. Louis, with the proclamation of Gov. Cumming ordering the Mormon militia, who had assembled for bellige rent purposes, to disperse? The anti-Mormon organ in the Territory asserts that treason is as rife there now as it was before the arrival of the army. Telegraphic reports from Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cin- cinnati and other parts of the West announce that heavy frosts visited those sections of the country on Saturday night last, and that while the garden vegetables and fruits have been in many places en- tirely destroyed, the grain crops have suffered very severely. - The Commissioners of Health were engaged yes. terday at their meeting chiefly in debating the propriety of permitting vessels arriving from Rio Janeiro to come up and land their cargoes in the city, instead of at Quarantine, so long as the health of that port continues so good as it is at present reported to be. No important action was taken, however, on the subject, nor did anything of special interest come before them till they ad- journed. Dr. Mundey, the Health Officer of Castle- ton, Staten Island, was present for the first time with the Board, and made a speech in behalf of the Staten Islanders, thanking the Board for their courtesy in inviting him him to attend their meet- ings. A statement in reference to the progress of the street cleaning showed that during the week ending 4th inst. 141,081 loads of dirt were carted away, at a cost of $4,644 11}—being a fraction less than 33 cents per load. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday, granted three licenses on the payment of $30 by each of the applicants, and adjourned till to-day. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. The Mayor sent in a brief message, giving his reasons for vetoing: the resolution appropriating $6,000 to defray the expense of enforcing the city's right to the West Washington market property. He is of opinion that the suit should be carried on by the Law Department. A remonatrance against the widening of Nassau street was presented and re- ferred. A question was asked whether the com- mittee were ready to report on the City Inspector- ship, whereupon Aldermen Genet moved that the Board adjourn, and the motion was agreed to. The Board of Councilmen transacted a large amount of routine business last evening. The Committee on Streets reported favorable to the proposition of Johnson & Sayre to clean the streets for five years at the sum of $300,000 a year. The report will be called up for adoption at the next meeting of the Board. A resolution instructing the Comptroller to advertise for sixty-four lots on the North river side for the site of a country mar- ket was referred. The bill of the Aldermen, amounting to $1,950, for expenses at Albany, in Opposing the passage of the amended char- ter, was lost for want of a constiutional Vote, and subsequently laid over. A communi- cation was received from the Comptroller, submit- ting a report of the Clerk of Arrears, which gave a detailed account of the condition of his bureau, ‘which was ordered to be printed. The Clerk was directed to have all the decisions of the Corpora- ‘tion Counsels for the last ten years collated and Printed. A report of the Commiitee on Repairs and Supplies, on the communication of the Comptroller fm favor of purchasing lots of ground in Forty- seventh street, for a site for the Twenty-second pre- Ginct station house, was adopted. The Corporation Attorney reported that he had received $203 daring the month of May for violations of ordinances, The Committee on Streets of the Board of Alder- men heard parties yesterday in reference to the widening of Charch street sixty feet, and its exten- ion from Fulton to Liberty strect, and also the opening of Trinity place, Morris street and Rector street. A large number of property owners on the RRS na OY enue various streets were present, the majority being opposed to the petition. Among those who spoke in favor of the project were ex-Judge Vanderpeel and Stephen Storm, both of whom thonght the im- provement would materially benefit the sanitary condition of the lower part of the city, and open new and necessary avenues of travel therein, and they considered it could be done at small expense. Mr. Fyfe and others, who spoke against the peti. tion, considered the opening of the streets would very little, and perhaps not at all, benefit the lower part of the city, and that even if it was benefitted, the improvement would cost far more than ever could be set on the value of the improvement. The committee adjourned the subject till Monday next, when they will give the parties interested another hearing. Ata meeting of the Aldermanic Committee on Streets yeaterday Mr. North, the Secretary of the Hudson River Railroad Company, presented a pro- position from the company for running small cars on the Eleventh avenue, from Fifty-third street to Chambers street, to meet the views of the pro perty owners residing along the line of the Eleventh avenue. Several of the residents of the Eleventh avenue were present, and said they would feel satisfied if the proposition was carried out The proposal is to run the cars every ten minutes during the day, both ways, from the Fourth of July next, at a maximum fare of five cents for each passenger. The committee took the paper, pro mising to consider it and report upon it at anearly day. mae Tiemann has ascertained beyond a doubt that the seven dead bodies found in a box that had floated ashore at Westchester were lost overboard from the steamboat employed in the removal of the pauper remains from the old Potter's Field at the corner of Fiftieth street and Lexington ave. nue to Ward’s Island. The box slipped overboard, and the parties in charge saw it float towards West- chester without attempting to rescue it. The only mistake about the Westchester inquest was that there were the remains of fifteen bodios iustead of seven in the box. The case of James Shephard, who was convicted of the crime of arson in the Court of Sessions in December, 1857, and sentenced to be hanged, and from which judgment an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, was brought up in the latter court yesterday, when the judgment of the Court of Ses sions was affirmed, and the prisoner was senteaced to be executed on the 22d of July next. It will be remembered that Shephard set fire to his dwelling, and that his wife perished in the flames. The case will be carried up to the Court of Appeals. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday a motion to quash the indictment found against Ben- jamin F. Wood and Charles H. Murray, for an al- leged violation of the lottery laws was granted by Recorder Barnard. A full report of the trial trip of the Russian steam frigate General Admiral at sea is given in the HERALD to-day. It is from the pen of Commander William M. Walker, United States Navy, appointed by Secretary Toucey as one of 8 commission to at- tend on board, and will be read with interest in consequence. ‘The cotton market yesterday forenoon opened with a decidedly stronger feeling; but as the day advanced the telegraphic report of the suspension of the house of Messrs, John Frasor & Co., of Charleston, and of their branch in New York—Messrs. Trenholmn Brother—causes tameness in the market, and sales became more diffizult to make. The bouse also have a firm in Liverpool, wel! known as Messrs. Fraser & Tronholmn. The firm of Measrs. John Fraser & Co. is among the oldest and most respectable houses in the country. They nave done a Jarge commission business in cotton and rice, on which they have made liberal advances, the bills always selling in the market among the first class of commersial paper. The house, we understand, paid about $60,000 which ma- tured last week, and made preparations to pay another sum. of $70,000 due this week on or before Wednesday, when, owing, it was said, to some misunderstanding between the Charleston house and some of the banks, who mani- fested a disposition to narrow down their accommodations to an unsatisfactory extent, they telegraphed to their house in this city to suspend payments until further notice. Soon after, it was gtated that several of the Charleston banks stepped forward to the relief of the house and extended their paper, with other accommodation, equal in amount to about $700,000. Upon the tender and acceptance of this relief they yesterday afternoon telegraphed to the house here to resume at once. Their resumption late in the day tended in some degree to restore confidence to the cotton market. The capital employed by the house was said te be very large, and from the long established character, con- fidence was expressed by their friends and acquaintances in this quarter that, suspended or otherwise, their assets would greatly exceed ail liabilitics. The flour market opened dull’y esterday forenoon, but it became stronger at the close, on account of telegraphic reports from the West giving re- Ports of serious damage to the growing wheat crop by. frost, eapecially in Northern Ohio. Wheat was algo firmer, and corn was more firmly held, with moderate gales. Pork was firmer, with gales of mess at $16 80, afterwards neld at $17; prime sold at $14 623g. Beef and lard wero heavy. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 600 hhds. at rates given im another column. Coffee was quiet. Among the freight engagements to Liverpool were 1,500 bales of cotton at 3¢d., and 800 bbla. pork on privateterms. The Presidential Issue—Symptoms and Ele- ments of a Scrub Race. From all the signs around our political horig zon there is some reason for the opinion that the game for the next Presidency will be reduced to a scrub race—an exciting sectional scrub race, with all the complications and cross-firing of two Northern sectional parties and two Southern sec- tional parties on the everlasting question of slavery. Already it is abundantly manifest that between the republican party of the North and the oppo- sition elements of the South there is an impacsa- ble chasm. The republican party adhere to the doctrine that Congress possesses the power, and that it is the duty of Congress to prohibit, the in- troduction of slavery into the Territories. Oa the other hand, the opposition forces of the South have entered the field in their preliminary work for 1860 asa pro-slavery party, boldly taking the extreme pro-slavery ground in Kentucky that | it is the duty of Congress to legislate for the pro- tection of slavery in the Territories. In the late Virginia canvass, the opposition fought the de- mocracy chiefly upon the plea of the anti-slavery antecedents of Mr. Letcher, and his unsoundness on slavery as a Southern man. In Tennessee, also, we find the democracy in a fair way to be super- seded by the opposition on the Southern side of | the nigger issue. | ‘These new movements very clearly show | that the opposition forces of the Sonth \ have regolved for the future upon an independent policy of their own, and that | it is not the game of fusion with the anti-slavery republicans of the North, but a solid footing in the Southern States upon the Southern side of the slavery question. We may thus assume it to be a “fixed fact” that there will be two distinct opposition parties in the field in 1860—a North- ern anti-slavery party and a Southern pro-slavery party. Nothing in the fature appears to us more certain than this division of the opposition forces of the country into two independent and hoatile sectional parties. The democracy, assuming that they will be reunited into a homogeneous national party at Charleston, will make the third party in the con- test; but we have no satisfactory assurances or signs of this reunion at Charleston. Between the Territorial squatter sovereignty doctrines 80 extensively prevailing among the Northera democracy, and the Southern democratic policy of Congressional intervention for the protection of slavery in the Territories, there Appears tu be NEW YORK HERALD, ‘no half-way diplomatic house of rest.’ Tae Northern elections of the last twelve movths have shown, too, that if the democracy would | recover the indispensable Northern State or two required to carry the Presidential ele ion, the | party must fall back from that extreme Southeca | pro-slavery policy which has driven them out of the North. But can the party of the South afford to full back, with the opposition of that sectiou threat. | ening to supplant them at home as defenders of Southern rights on the slavery issue? The question will be a tough one for the Cha leston Convention to decide. To make the ma’ er worse, the deci- sive balance of power which a little over onc- third of the Congressional ratio of representation in the Convention will command may be pos seased by the secessionists of the South, Ia any event they may possess sufficient power to defeat the party in half the Southern States, should the Charleston Convention fail to come up to their demands. To save the South, therefore, the Convention will probably be compelled not only to repudiate Mr. Douglas and his squatter sovereignty platform, but to pronounce it the duty of Congress to protect the institution of slavery in the Territories. Let this be done, and in 1860, on a far more extensive scale, we shall have a bolt of the Northern democracy, after the fashion of the Van Buren Buffalo movement of 1848, And thas our schedule of four sectional parties instead of two will be completed. Detached from the Southern wing of the party, the democracy of the North would be enabled to take more definite ground against the extension of slavery than they have hitherto been allowed to occupy; and at the same time they might effect a powerfal coalition with all the odds and ends of our Northern old line whigs and Americans, with whom the paramount object is the defeat of W. H. Seward. Thus, according to this division of parties into four sectional organizations, while the Northera democracy would perhaps recover one-half the Northern States, the Southern opposition party might recover five or six of the States of that section. Of course, from an election with these results before the people, the issue would be car- ried up to the House of Representatives at Wasb- ington, including the three highest candidates for the Presidency. What then? From the uo- certain division of parties in that body we can only answer that the result would be the sigaal for a new organization of parties, somewhat after the manner of that reconstruction which followed the election by the House of John Quincy Adams after the indecisive serub race between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay, of 1824, Who can undertake to say that this theory of four sectional parties and a sectional scrub race in 1860 is but a foolish programme of the imagi- nation?—a fancy sketch?—an exaggerated picture of party troubles and sectional issues, which can never come to pass? All that is wanted to com- plete this programme is the division of the democracy into two sectional camps, as we find the opposition forces already divided. And between the sectional dissolution and the reunion of the democracy at Charleston, who can tell us which of these two things will happen? How are the Virginia and Peunayl- vania democracy, the Mississippi and the Illinois democracy, the Georgia and the New York de- mocracy, to equare up their accounts at Charles- ton, with the implacable Southern fire-eaters holding the balance of power? If the disorgan- izing cliques of the party have broken it to pieces in spite of the fair, just and conciliatosy policy of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, upon what platform can theee broken fragments be re- united? In this view the wisdom of the lately repeated declaration of Mr. Buchanan that he will not be among the gladiators of the Charleston Conven- tion would be apparent, even if he were in the prime of life. the The War In Italy—Powers of the Combatants and Elements of the Struggle. When the efforts of the several European Pow- ers to confine the present war to Italy are con- sidered, few persons reflect how great, even under that limitation, must the coming struggle be. The contest that has now begun is not a simple international war. It is a conflict of dynasties and opposing systems of government; it is a life or death struggle between the political ideas of the age and the conservative tendencies of the feudalism of past ages. In it two of the most powerful military monarchies of Europe are pitted against each other; and as the repreeenta- tives of the several systems they support, one or the other must come out of the present contest a waning if not aruined Power. France, possess ing a population of thirty-six millions, in a high state of intellectual developement and industrial activity, has a standing military force of six hundred thousand men, and a navy equal, if not superior, in the number and class of ita ships, to any in the world. In case of emergency it can increase its armies to a million of soldiers, which are unsurpassed in military tastes and disposi- tion, armed with the most perfect weapons of destruction, and equipped with every appliance known to the most advanced mechanical skill of the day. On the other side stands Austria, with a popu- lation of nearly an equal amount, not behind her antagonist in intellectual developement, at least among the governing classes, and though displaying lesa industrial activity, still in possession of all the mechanical appliances known to science and the arts. Without any great developement of her naval power, her military system pervades her entire organization; and her army, on what is called a war footing, numbers more than eight hundred thousand men. Tf brought to the necessity, she can probably bring out a million of soldiers. At the head of this vast power stands a young Exhperor, am- bitious, active, and desirous of being the cham- pon and the hero of a house that counts eight centuries of existence as a dynasty. He aims at restoring the waning energy of the principles of political and ecclesiastical feudalism; while his antagonist, with equal ambition, aspires to complete the triumph of the new political and social ideas. The Emperor of the French brings to the conflict all the life and vivacity of the brilliant youth of France; and Francis Joseph himself, just in the heroic years of life, is not likely to permit himself to be surrounded with time worn veterans, who have lost the energy, the activity and the confident ambitious striv- ings of early manhood. The scene of the struggle has been the battle ground of the two nations fora hundred and fifty years, and each can find in it an abundance of ancient glories to emulate: Around the strongly fortified city of Milan the contest must centre for the present. Both Emperors are to be in the field, to TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1859, animate acd escourage their respective arnstes by their presence. The niecbanical skill of the age places each withfn hourly communication by telegraph with bis own capital, and enables bim fo bring by rail and steanr, within a few days, all the reeources of bis empire ito the fight. Each caa probably marstal bis Balf a million of men, without leaving the other exigencies of bis alm unattended to. With such resources at command, and such a spirit animating the com- batants, Europe—the world—will witness a con- test such as it has never before seen. Taking an active part in it, there are twenty-seven millions of Italians, fighting for freedom, and who will readily bring a quarter of a million more of soldiers into the field. A contemplation of the probabilities as they now present themselves, seems to in- dicate that France will be the most successful of the two in the fight. Her auimus is more in consonance with the spirit of the age in which we live, and her resources secm to be greater and more at command than those of Austria, She bas, too, with her the sympathies of the down-trodden nationalities of Earope, and an enlightened liberalism all the world over. But whatever may be the issue of the strife of blood, we entertain no misgivings fur that of the conflict of ideas. The old spirit of feudalism must go down before the new spirit of the preset age. Even it Austria comes vic- torious out of the contest, she cannot but recog- nise the impossibility of imposing upon the living and coming generations the despotic forms of a worn out church and a crumbling State. She will have to abandon, as gracefully as she may, the principles she now proclaims, and seize upon those of her antagonist, if she would secure a new lease of existence. Such has ever been the result where systems of ideas have struggled against each other. The men who eupport them may fall, but those ideas which address them- selves to the hearts of the great mass of man- kind—which have the most liberalizing and ele- vating teudency—have always triumphed. They teize even upon their apparent conqueror, and bend him to their influences and to their ends. Wues Suaut, We Have tae New Post Or- rick ?—It is now nearly two years since Con- grees made the appropriatiqgn for a new Post Office in this city, and as yet nothing definite has been done towards securing a site for the build- ing. Meantime, almost every available lot up town is being bonght, and magnificent stores are going up every day, so that in a short time the government will have to pay an enormous price for the ground for a Post Office. Congress will have to make a fresh appropriation to meet the increased value of property every year that the affair is allowed to lie over. The present Post Office building, regardless altogether of its unfit locality, is miserably defictent in all the facilities which the postal service of this city requires, It is entirely too small, besides being limited and inappropriate for the purpose. If anything is to be done towards giving us a new Post Office, we truet the government authorities will doit at once. Delay is only adding to the cost and pro- tracting the inconvenience to which our citizens are subjected from the condition of the present Post Office building. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTOS. ‘The Question of Maritime Neutral Rightsa— Movements of Naval Vessela—Award of Sta- tonery Contracts by the Secretary of the Senate—Expected Arrival of the President and Secretary of War, &. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasnioton, June 6, 1859. The State Department is receiving letters from leading commercial men in various sections of the country, and also from the Chamber of Commerce of Now York, and the Board of Trade of Boston, urging the government, in ‘the event of the extension of hostilities in Europe, to in- crease the Mediterranean squadron, with the view to pro- tect our commerce in that sea. The unsettled condition of the maritime neutral rights question is referred to as re- quiring speedy action. The subject is now under advise- ment, only the difficulty in the way of augmenting our force in the Mediterranean is the necessity of keeping up a strong force in other quarters. ‘Tho frigate Sabino, Capt. Adams, has been ordered to the Gulf, ‘The frigate Congress, at Philadelphia, goes to the coast of Brazil, as the flagship of Flag Offlcer Sands. Purser Levi D. Slamm has been ordered to join the Congress. ‘The frigate Savannah, now at Pensacola, bas been or- dered to Boston, to recruit the health of her crew. The Secretary of the Senate bas awarded the contract for stationery for the Senate to the following persons, among whom various classes were divided:—W. A. Wheeler, Bowne &Co., Phineas & Co., Wm. J. Bryan and Ames, of Now York; Taylor & Maury, Blanchard & Mobun, Anderson & 7. Dean, of Washington; and Tatnall of Delaware. ‘The President will arrive in Washington to morrow morning. ‘The Secretary of War, who has boon absent for two weeks, is expected here to morrow. He has not entirely recovered his health. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOR. Wasmnaron, June 6, 1859, The Home squadron is to be atili further increased. ‘The frigato Sabine will soon proceed to the Gulf. Thero will then be ten vessels of war there with an aggregate of two hundred and twelve guns. As ono vessel has al- ready been ordered to Tampico to Jand marines and other forces if necessary, to protect American citizens and pro. Perty in the event of an aasault by Miramon on that city, the impression prevails hore that a similar course will be pursued at other points wherever such intervention may ‘be required by American interests. It may not be gene- rally known that sailors are constantly drilled in the prac- tice of small arms as well as ordnance, The latter can be used on land, as carriages are provided for their use in such an emergency. For more than twelve months past the Secretary of the Treasury bas been receiving information from the collec- tors, in compliance with reductions can be made successively received, the carried out ag far ag could be without detriment to the pad service. The expenses last year were about $200,- less than during the one ling. The reduction of fected a pat of the scoomacl srrangesene °° ec! a e arrangement, ‘The Treasurer has now ample means at his command. A million and ® half of the late loan has not yet been called in, but can be obtained at any time; besides from four to five millions of Treasury notes can now be re- issued under the recent act of Congress, and as many as may be redeemed. Within the last ten days a million & half of Treasury notes bave been reigaued at flvo per centum, A private letter from our Minister to'Austria says that ex-President Pierce, who haa been sojourning in Vienna, left there on the 12th of May. The municipal election passed off quietly to-day without any of those scenes which have heretofore disgraced the city. There was no serious opposition to the anti-Know Nothing ticket. Arrival of the Overland Mall. HORRIBLE INDIAN BARDARITY—-AMERICAN OUTRAGES UPON THE MEXICANS IN ARIZONA. Sr. Lovis, June 6, 1809. ‘The overland mail arrived here last night. Eight white men, prospecting for allver near Honey Lake, have been killed by Indians, and the house of Col. Stevenson, at Red Bluff, was burnedon the Lith ult, Svevenson’s wife, another woman and five children perished in the flames. The Arizonéan of the 19th is filled with accounts of the proceedings of « band of regulators, who had driven all Mexicans from Sonorita Vi and committed several murders. The Americans at Tabac publicly denounced these out and @ com of troops has been de- talled. trom Fert Buchanan vo prevent, their further pre. Seuthern Ocean Steamer Movements. SAvVANNAR, June 5, 1869, The United States mail steamsh!p Alabama, from New a arrived at hor wharf at nine o'clock P.M. yestor- —— The City of Washington's News and the Nova Sa tla Telegraphic Line. Baonvitix, N. B., June 6, 1850, ‘The dilapidated condition’ Of the Nova Scotia company’s line renders it quite impossib.’¢ to travsact any business over @in a satisfactory manner, Nearly every report of Europea news from Cape Race is doiswod cast of this point frou one to four or five days, Tho City of Wash- ington’s news was obtained at Cape Raco \y the news boat of the seéociated Press iaat Thuraday, Late on Saturday afternoon the Nova Scotia line gave ue about one-quarter part of the report for the Press, and then the wires ecased to work, This afternoou the tine was repaired, and the report was again reaumed; but be- fore a word of the tows reached this point, the wires near Pictou gave out for the third time,aad nothing can be received to-night, This isthe more provoking, as the laut part of the report is known to contain the one day later news telegraphed by the agents of the Associated Press at Paris, London and Liverpool to Cork. It is understood that tho Newfoundiand Company have authorized Mr. C. W. Field to send owt an additiona: cable to extend from Cape Breton to Prince E¢ward Island, thus avoiding Nova Scotia entirely, and Placing.the whole line from this piace to Newfoundland under the immediate control of the Newfoundland com- pany, and putting an end to the annoyances of the public, who are compelled to do business over the prosent shame- fully mismanaged lines in Nove Scotia. Arrival of the Indlan at Quebec. Quaene, June 6, 1860. The steamer Indian, from Liverpool, passed Father Point at five o’olock this morning, and will be due hore ‘at about eeven o'clock this evening. Her dates are no later than those received by the City of Washington off Cape Race, and the despatch made up for this point con: tains no further details of the news. Important from Utah Territory. GOV. CUMMING'S PROCLAMATION COMMANDING THE MORMON MILITIA TO DISPERSE. Sr. Louis, June 5, 1859. ‘The Utah mail brings a proclamation of Governor Cum, ming, Commanding immediately to disporge various par- ties of Mormons, associated together in a military capa- city im the mountains surrounding Salt Lake Valley. The Tan complains that this proclamation was not put into the hands of tho fedoral officer to execute it, instead of the Territoria! Marshal, and asserts that treason is as rife in the Territory now as it was before the§ advent of the army, Heavy Frosts at the West. REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF GRAIN CROPS AND GAB DEN VEGETABLES. Crxvetanp, June 6, 1859. ‘There was a heavy frost throughout the northern part of Ohio on Saturday night, aud the whet crop was badly injured or destroyed, and corn, grapes and potatocs Dansvitix, N. ¥., June 6, 1859. A heavy and disastrous frost prevailed in this vicinity on Saturday nt, killing the growing corn and potatoos and all garden vegotables. It is feared that the various fruits have also been cut off, The logs, it is anticipated, will be very heavy. Brrra1o, June 6, 1869. This city and vicinity were visited by a severe frost on Saturday night, destroying the fruit and potatoes, and it is feared doing heavy damage to the other crops. Ac- counts from the country report the frost 25 heavy in some places this morning, and the crops, it {8 feared, are much injured. Urvemmati, June 6, 1859. Thore was a severe frost on Sunday morning, extending over the whole of Ohio and the larger part of Indiana, and doing great damage to the wheat, corn and potato a ae Prrresona, June 6, 1859. A severe frost occurred in this neighborhood on Saturday night amd caused great damage to the wheat, * corn and potato crops, and also to some of tho fruit rees. ‘The President En Route for Washin, le by Norvorx, June 6, 1859. afternoon Portamouth steamer Adelaide en route from Raleigh for Washington via Baltimore. Thoro was an immense crowd at the wharf, and loud cheers greeted the President. He seems in fine Affairs in Boston. CLOSE OF THE OPERA SRASON—MURDER OF ONB OF THE CREW OF THE FRIGATE MINNESOTA—ACCIDEN- TAL DEATH OF ANOTHER OF THE CREW, ETC. The Opera closed to-night, haviny ely snd season , having entirely successful and quite profitable to the management. Mme. Gazzaniga, an established favorite here, has contributed 2,000 trancs towards the Italiaa fund. ‘Two seamen of the frigate Minnesota died yesterday at the Hi first, Daniel Farrell, from being stabbed in a Sight in North street; he has a mother living in Bal- timore. The second, John McNesmoth, fell from a third story window in North street. Patrick and Dennis Mullen have been arrestea charged with killing Daniel Farrell, of the Minnesota. Farrell’s fu- Perper Place to day, and was attended by about 300 of 8. ipmato: bur ee ee toe colors at mast in respect memory in Ryder, Tate master of the bark Oak, of tho’ Philadelphia Packet e. The ship Neptune arrived today from Liverpool with 819 passengers, and the ship Kate Prince with 367. ‘The two hundred and twenty-first annual parade of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company took place to- day, with the usual ceremonies, Col. Brinley commanding. Governor Banka and staff were escorted to Chauncey place church, where the anniversary sermon was: by Rev. George H. Hepworth. Ancient and Honorable, with their, invited guests, then dined at Fanenuil. Hall. After the dinner the Company led to the Common, where the following officers received their commissions from the Governor:—Captain, General Joseph Androws; Firat Lieutenant, Major Charles Amory, Jr.; Second Lieu- tonant, Brigadier General E. W. Pierce; Adjutant, Captain Isaac ¥. Shepard; Treasurer, Captain J. G. Roberts, Reported one of a Mercantile House Avausta, Ga., June 6, 1859. Tt is confidently stated hore that the house of Join Fraser & Co., of Charleston, suspended on Saturday, in consequence of the difficulty of negotiating storling cx- change. Their assets are superabundant, and it ig be- eyed the suspension will be very temporary. [It was stated eter, on ’Chango that the house of fay Co, already resumed business.—Ep, IKRALD,. The Norwich City Election. Norwica, Conn., June 6, 1869, At the city election here to day the eutire republican ticket, headed by Mayor Prontice, was successful by 144 Majority. The vote cast was very large. New Haven Election. New Haven, Conn. , June 6, 1869, The city election was warmly contested to day, and re- sulted in the re-election of the democratic ae fg iblicans carried their Aldermen in "4 |, Fourth and Sixth, and fifteen Council- men. The democrats olected their Aldermen in wards ‘Third and Fifth, and nine Counciimen, together with the Collector, Sherifis, Clerk and Treasurer. The New Orleans City Election. ‘New ORLEANS, June 6, 1869. ‘The clection to-day for Comptroller and Aldermen re- sulted in the complete success of the American ticket 7 about 2,000 majority. No serious disturbances occurred. New Catholic Church at Portsmouth, Va.. Portemovmn, June 6, 1859. ‘The corner stone of a jatge Catholic church was laid yee- torday at Portsmouth, Bishop McGill, of Richmond, iclating. Fire in Eaton, Ohio. Civcunwatt, June 6, 1859. A fire in Faton, Ohio, on Sunday morning, destroyoa {hirteen buildings, Causing a lous of $60,000; "loncred for 000, ———— Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. : PMLADELrHiA, June 6, 1869. Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania State fives, 90%; Reading ae, 1944 @ 1934; Long Island Railroad, 10; Ponn- syivani ” New Orueans, June 6, 1859. Cotton unchanged: gales to day 3,600 bales. Flour ad- vanced to $6 75 for superfine. Corn advanced 10c, ; white $120. Onte, 65c. Cotton freights to Liverpool! advanced 1-16d., and quoted ag 6-16d, Barrmone, June 6, 1859. Flour very dull, and prices nominal.’ Wheat heavy; white, $1650 $176; red, $140 = $160. Corn activo; white, 83c. a $60.; ycllow, 88c. « 90c. Provisions quict: bacon—shoulders, 7340; sides, 93¢c; pork dull: mess, $17 & $17 25. Whiskey unchanged: Ohio held at 290. a Soe. Pmtapetrata, June 6, 1859. Breadstuffs dull. Previsions quiet. Mess pork $18 a $18 60. Hams, 10c. a 124¢c.; sides, 103. 2 10%%c ; shoul- ders, 8c. a 84c. Lard steady, at Ido, a 13340. Whiskey firm, at 28¢, 0 290, 6, 1859, Whiskey 9. Civciwnatt, Jane Flour firm at $660 $675. Wheat firm. firm at 264¢c. Provisions generally unchanged. Oswrdo, June 6—6 P, M. Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat—Market opened dull, and bigh, but since the arrival of the steamer’s news holders are firmer. Sales carly in the morning 3,000 bushels fair Milwaukee club at $123, and 3,000 buahols Minois winter at $1 56. Corn dull. ‘Oats quiet and lowor, nominally at S0c. for Canadian. Barloy inactivo, Lake imports—200 bbls. flour, 14,700 bushels wheat, 7,000 do. oats, Canal exports—5,0C0 bushe!s oats. Bovrato, Jane 6—1 P. M. Flour in moderate local demand and market weaker; sales 800 Lbia. at $6750 $7 25 for extra Michigan, In; diana and Obio; $7 50a $7 75 for dowble extras. Whoat bs sales 2,000 bushels red Ohio at $1 65. Corn in fair demand; market steady; ales 18,000 bushels at 700. for rejected Illinois to arrive; 76c, for sound do, ; 776. for prime Ohio. Oats quiet; sales 500 bushels Canadian at 620. Barley quiet at 60c.’a 70c, No rye here. Whiskey Bominal at 26%¢c. Canal freights unchavged, Lake im- 43,000 Porte~12,000 bbls. four, 19,000 bushels wheat, * rr HH A corn, 26.000 bushels Dusheis onté. Carpal exoorts—2,500 i wheat, 7,600 bushes cora, Borvao, June 6—6 P. M, market stealy: sales 1,000 extra Michigan, ladiana and doubie extras. Whost— and apart: sales Milwankeo club, mand avd market atvady: 60, a 77c. for sound, and 70c, Cor 2,000 buabele at $1." Whiskey nomloal, at asscen Gane F fl 3 fed. Lake inaports—3,200 bbie, four, 20,000 bushels # aeat, 43,000 bushola caret tes bums oats val exporis—2000 bbis flour, 11,000 bustrels cor ALBANY, June 6—6 P. WL siour very quiet: good brands fri, inferior tess dem, but scarce; sales limited. Ne im wheat. Oats in demand: sales 18,000 bushols at 660. = 560, woight, mostly at the inside fgure, Corn dull; sates at 890., in Gar lots, Whiskey firmer: rales 75 bbls, at 270, Es Practical Reform i the Custonr House. A Bumber of incompetent and ignorant mpleyés im the Custom Hoose, who do the fiybting and’ dirty work af elections, think that this is all’ that thoy owe for their salaries to the government; and’ accordingly they attend to their duties protty much as thoy Ploase-~very’ Often they do mot attond to them at all, These Joafers trust t the influence whick’put ther in offloe te keep them there, and they disregard their obligations and laugh at men who de their duty as boing fools. Some of them, however, have been lately made to laugh as the wrong side cf their mouthe, Tho: Collector of the Port, Mr. Schell, andthe Surveyor, M* Bart, wished to pot an end to this system, and to enforss the obligations of men who bave takem office, compolling: them to fulfil their contract and to-abide by their oaths: It was ascer- tained from information recelved that the might watchmen were scarcely ever on hand, and that, for any use they ‘were to the government, there might as woll be no watch, men at all, The Surveyor bimself sometimes went hie rounds at two and three o’clock in the morning, and’ found his sentinels napping. A watch was set on the watchmen, and one night nine of them were found snugly asleep, when they ought to have been at: their respective posts, Being thus caught im the fact, mothing could save them. A terrible rew and @ great excitement followed in the coal hole of Tammany Hall, at the Pewter Mug, and all at the stroug- holds of the democracy, from the Battery to Kingsbridge. Tt was expected that this reform would become general, and that not only otber night watchmen, but day inspectors, ‘with salaries of twenty one dollars per week, and weigh- ers and measurers, with salaries of thirty dollars per week, would come under the action of the decapitating knife, to the great delight of » host of starved office seek- ‘ers outside; and, in fact, the investigation and the reform are extending to tho other branches. Weighers and in- spectors have been dismissed both for neglect of duty and for accepting bribes to cheat the government. We have heard of one case where the party holding a fifteen hun- dred dollar office lives at Princeton, N. J., where he cul- tivates a farm, and comes into New York on the first of every month to receive his pay. Ona friend joking him about this sinecure, his reply was that he spent ‘ the best of the month’ on duty—tho beat of the month meaning simply the pay day. Further, there are a number of officers, inspectors who have bad charge of vessels, whose conduct is to un- dergo a thorough sifting, as it is shrewdly suspected that ‘a large amount of smuggling bas been connived at, espe- cially in ships from tho Mediterranean, with silka and other articles, a box of prunes, or a five dollar gold piece, having the wonderful effect of making the vigilant guardians of the revenue as blind as owls under a me- ridian sun. This is producing terrible consternation; and It is feared the same rule will be shortly spplied to the Post Office, which is in deep need of a cleanmng out. The cilia ip: RR TN Frigate TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. As I doubt not that any information respecting the fri- gate General Admiral will have much interest for very many of your readers, I send you the following brief and hasty account of her four days’ cruise at sea, in whioh her performances have stamped with success this great and noble enterprise of our fellow citizen. Mr. Webb, the eminent naval constructor, on the com- Pletion of this splendid ship, built by htm for the Empe- ror of Russia, having expressed to the Hon, Issac Teucey, Secretary of the Navy the desire that on her trial trip at sea she might be accompanied by 8 committee of officers of the navy, I was, in connection with others, assigned to this interesting service. ‘The particulars of the ehip, her graceful lines, the weight and efficiency of her battery, the power and beauty of her engines, the elogance of her cabing—in fine, the complotencas of her equipment, has alreaty go frequenily beerf made the theme of the journals, tat T shail only refer to them incidentally, in connection with and in illustration of results. Wepxuspav, June 1—On getting on board the frigate, then. lying in the North river, Ifound her with steam up all read: for astart, complete in all but her battery and ord nance stores, which (with the exception of her gun carria- sce, now on board) afo tobe supplied a, . Tals ap- parently important defect in the requirements for a satia- factory trial I soon discovered had not been overlooked by Captain Shestakof! (Russian navy) and his intelligent and vigilant colleagues; for on her gun deck and upon ber spar deck was secur weight of machinery and other been more than equal to that of their respoctive bat- es. My admiration was Orst attracted by the facility with which aay Ee men “walked” up her ponderous anchor, and it is but just to state that her arrangements for an- ceenes either hie Pare ep ” yom * gtop- ring,’’ or “ weighing,’’ aro perhaps more complete than had ever seen Lenore Tour youslreaty wish my pen, and, therefore, before your courtesy runs Dut to the © better end,” wil proceed. # The General Admiral is an auxilliary screw friguto—i. ¢ , wer is complete, while she holds in reserve an ich may be mado if requit 800 tt. « 48 + 98.609 ft. + 214 228 tons. anders; on spardeck twenty 60 pouaders; and two 103% inch pivot guns, Dabigron Under the careful command of that old favorite of the pe, Captain Comstock, and the safo pilotage of Johu inn, we glided down the bay, the screw turning thy, re thirty two revolutions, but sper a Feuaa 8 , the wholc number being thirt; eight. Wind light from southeast, and tide about bait flood. At 4:10 P. M. Trinity steeple bore gouth by east; dif- ar ere istanse twenty-four ee miles, 725, at ship, stood east by south; wi i southeasterly; sea smooth. i 7 eet, At 11 Fire Island light bore north half west; diffrence of time from Lightship, 2:46; distance, thirty-ve nauti- cal miles. Stood to the south and cast two hundred miles, gradually increasing rovolutions of the engino—revolu- Uons averaging \for twenty-four hours thirty-six, with a consumption of forty-six tons. Iitted propeller, showing Tuorspay, Jane 2—At 6P. M. the perfection of the means adopted and the nice exesu- tion of all the mechanical arrangements therewith con- nected. Made sail; ee under foresail, single reefed topeatl, Lopgaliantents, ji and spanker, making 7.4 knote by the wind in a moderate it reese. = tf Tacked ahip, ‘going about” in 6:20, Fray, June 3,12. M—Lowered the pro) operation of lowering confirmin terday-of the perfection of ail connected; engines working weil the “shake” very mo TURDAY, June 4.—Ran in shore; off the Woodl From Abeccom Ialct to the Lightship, course sorta A, fresh breeze from N. N. W, Under steam alone; engine mal tions with fifteen pounds of steam. Ran th ‘nautical miles in two hours, On hauling in off Sandy Hook, descriod scrow steamer City of Baltimore and mail stoamor Vanderbilt just Putting] to Bea, distant from us about eignt miles, Kept off and made sail on their course, E. 3 S., after two hours trial found, by observation with ‘sextant,| thet we dropped them both—the distanoe ran in ¢ hours by patent log, confirmed by observation, being 27, nautical miles, bi Sunpay, June 6,—At 8:10 Fire Island light bore north uador steam only; ran sg ek Pygie course W. X 8] At 11:48 abreast Sandy Heok light, thus making tho from Fire Island in threo hoars thirty eight minutes. For one Lag io making fifty revolutions, mt oy ved that the ship has been as full so short an absence. She has the tho evidence given yos- @ Appliances therewith’ roll; and have the satistaction to believe ‘the Rorsian officers who have so Vigilantly superintond = were fully satisfed with tne results Thave now only to take leave of her worthy command end eaten eeet — , to wiah thom all * pecd, wm 6 ri Be os ueeribe MYA M, WALKER, U: 8. Ne