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10 THE PAY OF OUR Navy, Wecesstty of a Reform in the Pay of Our OMeers. KBPORT OF THe HOUSE COMMITTRE. ‘The Committee on Naval Altairs, to whom was referred the House bi! for the modidcation of the sea sePvice pay of parsers in the avy, bave bad the eame under coneder ation, and will report—that by the law of 1842 and now ia force, the cea pay Of purzers wis mate to depend on the rate of the veeeel to which they should be stiached, and wag fixed at .be following For ships of the line. For frgates or ra: Fer s'00pe of war apd i For brigs and schooners ; For steamers ess than frat class... ‘When these rates of pay were established the United Plates had no steamers of more than 1,000 tong burthen fm the cervice, and these were side-wheel steamers, Our line-of battle ships, frigates and sloops of war, with only two exceptions, were sailing vessels, and each class was frequently at sea. Since 1842 the cha. racter,of our navy bas undergone a radical change. ‘Steam veesels for all branches of the service have been imtroduced and will continue to be introduced until ves- __ els propelled by wind merely will be but rarely if at all een on active duty. By this change a ciass of war steamers has been intro- @uced into the service and rated as frigates, of much larger tize than the old line of battle ships, and one other lags, rated as sloope-of war, of greater tonnage than the ‘ol stiling frigate. The duty of purser on board these two classes of vessels is quite as responsible and labo- rious as that formerly performed on line of battle ships and frigates, though by differently rating the steam ves- nels the pay of pursers serving on them is greatly re- duced. Under the present system the sea pay of @ pur- eer is Hable to continual change, as he passes from one ‘vessel to another, for it is never the sam when the yes- sels are of different rate. A young and untried officer may, and often does, through political influence or favo ritigm, eecure a place on board a frigate with $3,000 per apnum, while an old and Jong tried officer may be kept, Dy similar influences, on a second ciaes steamer, brig or schooner, at onehalf this sum, the Jowest grade of pay. There are several old pursers, the youngest of whom has been twenty-three years in the service, now doing duty on foreign etations on sloops.of war for the tuird ava next to the lowest grade of sea service pay, and which is only $200 more than the leave of absence pay allowed the game officers; and who may, on their return, be ordered, under the law, to brigs, schooners, er store ships atthe lowest pay, which is $300 lees than leave of absence pay. This fact shows clearly the great injustice of the law, as it now stands, and the marked iu- eonsistency of some of its provisions. This continual n from one extreme to the other makes it impoe- Bible for officers of this class to make any certain pecu- miary calculations for the future, based upon the compen- sation they are to receive. As the class and chai r of tho vessels upon which the compensation of pursers was made to depend have Deen #0 greatly chenged since the passage of the law of 3642, a change of the basis upon which their pay ‘was regulated seems to be actually necessary to meet and conform to the changed condition of the service. If the rate of vessels was ever a just rule by which to re ulate the pay of a class of officers before the introduc ton of swam power into the navy, and when al! could easily agree on the rate each vessel should take, its jus. tise ana symmetry hive been set aside by the general @euee of the claes of vessels which formed the founds don upon which the system of compensation was made to est. r the Te meet the difficulty, and to provide a remedy there- fer, your committee recommend that length of service, ‘dmstead of size or rate of vessels, be hereafter made the principle upon which the pay of this class of officers shali be established. This priuciple of length of service amd tried experience is the one now regulating the com- pensation of both army and navy officers, with this single exception, and your commitvee see no reason why it should not be applied to pursers in the naval service as ‘well.as to other officers. The proposed (remy oe create no additional expense to the government. amendment which your commit- ‘tee purpose and recommend bas been so drawn as to keep the groes sum to be annually paid to pursers according to ha Fite below the annual average sum paid the same ofll- ere for the last seven years—from 1553 to 1859 inclusive— wader the laws now regulating their pay. This will clear- y eaerer by an examination of the following statement went the committee by Mr. A. J. O'Bannon, fourth Auditor of the Treasury, in answer to the mode of payment sub- mitted to him by your committee for examination, with a wequest that he would compare it with the annual average payments to purzers on sea duty for the last seven years, Spa aeenethe seer come Sp cee of such examina- TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Fourm Avprror’s Orricy, March 26, 1860. -Agreeably to the request contained in your letter 234 inst.,1 bave the honor to state that the ac led in this office of all the pursers in the United Bavy on sea duty onthe ist day of January in each year, from 1853 to 1859 inclusive, show their aggre- gate pay for the seven years to bave been $491,500, and ‘heir average annual pay to have been $70,214 28. ‘Taking this as a guide, and adopting as the lowest rate of sea pay $1,800 per annum for the first five years, to be increased every succeeding five years until the pay reaches $3,000 per annum for all who haveserved twenty ears and more, the following gradation would give about ise aggregate of the pay received by the pursers who ‘were on sea duty for the seven years referred to, er 260 ‘After twenty years Upon this basis the aggregate pay of the same purserson sea duty for the seven years would have been $491,350— $150 less than it was under existing laws. In conclusion, J would most respectfully add that by adopting the basis above indicated, I am of opinion that there would be no iwcrease in the pay of pursers, but it would probably re- Bult in a decrease of the 2; gate Rey, in a series of, say from five to ten years. 1 bave the honor to be, very re- spectlully, your obedient servant, A. J. O'BANNON, Fourth Auditor, Hon. F. H. Mors, Chairman Naval Committee, House of Reprerentatives. ‘The gross amount paid for salaries of pursers on sea uty during the last seven years was $391,500; annual average sum paid eame officers, $70,214 28. The aggregate sum which would bave been paid to the fame officers when on sea duty for seven years, under the Proposed amendment, is $491,350, making the annual ‘@verage pay to al! the pursers on sea duty, under the pro- posed dill, $70,192 85—twenty one dollars and forty-three ‘eente lees than the annual average pay for the last seven ‘The bill recommended by your committee has been 80 ‘@rawn as to keep the gross sum annually paid to pursers dm the navy as low as it will be under the present law. ‘This will clearly appear by an examination of the follow. dng statement, the accuracy of which has been endorsed by the fourth Auditor of the Treasury. The first column bows the pay that eash purser was receiving and their mggregate pay on the Ist of January, 1859, as per naval register of last year. The second column shows the pay ‘the same officers would have received for the same year ander the proposed law:— Proposed basis of sea pay for pursers, $1,800 for first six yoars; $2,460 for second six years, and $3,000 after ‘twelve years. Shore and leaye of absence pay to re- main the same as now. January proposed basis, would have Ra on January 1, 1859 :— $1800 ‘81°80 1,800 1,800 2,80 1300 1800 1,800 2,500 2,500 2'600 2 1;800 1,890 3.000 3,000 1,800 1,800 500 3,500 3,000 3,000 3.000 3,000 2,500 2,500 500 2,600 2,000 2,000 2,000 3,000 2,500 2,500 2 608 2,500 iS i 'S i 1,400 3,000 3,000 3,000 3.000 33 = 2,000 2,400 2,500 2,600 2,500 2,500 2/500 2,500 3,000 2'400 3,008 2,400 2,000 2,400 3,000 2,400 2,000 2,400 Zee 2400 2,000 3,800 2,000 1/800 2,000 1,800 2,000 1,800 2,000 1,800 2,000, 1,800 2,000 1,800 3,000 1,800 eco Yeo 2/000 Yoo i = 2/000 Lee 1,500 1800 2000 1,800 3000 1300 {000 1,000 .$140,800 Total.........9140,100 100 out all after ta» » oogur from them. DEMILT, General Principal ‘The afer a short debate, was laid agement of the publig schools, nighly -NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. acting claec In the bill referred to them, and ingertin the accompany ing amendment and the passage of the bi as (hue amended :— That from aod alter the passage of this act the sea pay irecre nthe navy Bhall be determined by length of co instead of the rates of veseels to which they may wached; and (bat their annual pay while on sea duty 8 follows -— For tho tirst tive yearg after date of eommizsion, cigh- tern bendred ¢ollars; for the secona five years after sven cate, twenty-two hundred an4 @fty dollars; for the third Sve years after said date, twenty-six hundred dol- lars; for the fourth five years after enid date, twenty- eight hundred and twenty’. dollars; and after twenty Sears from date of commission, three thousand dollars. Provided, that notbing contained in this act shall be con- Strued to alter the pay now allowed by law to pursers on shore duty, leave, or awaiting orders, nor to change the pay of any purser now on gea duty until the termina- fae crue, the duties of which he ig now per- TABLE SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE FULL PAY OF THR SENIOR OFFICERS IN THE ENGLISH AND UNITED STATES NAVIES, el Captain of fleet . Medical inspector. Deputy inspecto Surgeons... Paymasters Lieut. com. ’s pa: Surgeon’s bighest Passed aset. surgeon. Apeistant surgeon.... Purser, highest pay. Purters, average... UNITED STATES ARMY. Major-General receives. Brigadie? General, Colonel.......+++ Hence, it fcllows, that the officers of the navy are really the most poorly paid of any class of officials connected | with our natioval government. The rate of compensation now allowed to officers the navy was fixed in 1835—a quarter of a century sgo—and no advance has been made | sinoe that time. But the pay of the ollicers of the army | and marine corpe, as well as the compensation of soldiers, marines and common sailors, has been advanced to meet the increased expenee of living. We are, therefore, at a Joes to comprehend why the gallant officers of our noble avy have thus been neglected by Congress, and kept upon the short allowance that was doled out to them twenty five years since, when the country was poor, and one dollar was really worth more than three dollars at the present time. The members of Congress have also increased their own pay, and that of officers and employ és in all branches of the civil departments of the goveroment, at home and abroad, on the truthfal assumption that twenty five Years ego articles of necessity ana comfort were pur- chasable at prices from {ifty to a hundred per cent less than now. In this general and proper increase of pay to government employés, the oflicers of the navy alone have been entirely overlooked, while they are obliged often to go to sea for three years upon a stretch, and pay two “mess bills” all the while—that of the family at home as well as their own afloat. Officers of the navy have no extra allowances, and can epgage in no other business. They have no opportuni- ties to accumulate wealth by speculation, and must solely rely on the miserable pay allowed by government for re Rupport of their families and the education of their children. The neglect to.which they have boen eubject is an abso- lute disgrace to the country, and it is the duty of Congress forthwith to remove the etigma of meanness and illivera. lity that now attaches to the pay allowed the oflicers of our navy. in Naval Statistics. The following statistics, compiled from the U. S. Na Regieter for 1860, will be found very interesting, as afford- ing much valuable data in regard to those who bear the brunt of the ‘‘right arm” of our national defences:— Years in Service. Grade. Number. Over. Under. Captain. 1 60 - Capt 13 50 60 “ 39 45 50 Be he ar 40 45 Commanders. 3 40 45 ie 46 85 40 “ 65 30 35 Lieutenants . 18 38 35 mi “3 25 30 - 82 2 Py “ 98 15 20 vn 67 10 16 “ Nu 9 10 “ ct) 12 = - « 26 10 By] « “ 48 5 10 “ “ 6 148 4 5 “ “ “ 32 eas 4 ‘The last promotion from the Lientenants’ list to that of commander was March 2, 1857, or more than three years ago, and there can be no other promotion to that grade until the commanders’ list is reduced from 114 to 96, and even then, under existing laws, the lieutenant promoted will, when on leave, only receive his leave pay a8 a lieu- tenant, and when on duty not the full pay of a comman- der, but, in the words of the law, ‘‘the difference between the leave of absence and ig orders pay and the lowest sea service pay of the grade to which they may be 80 promoted.” Years sea service. Over. Under. 25 = 20 25 15 20 10 15 9 10 24 25 20 24 16 2 13 16 ll 13 8 10 20 - 16 20 13 ory BO 13 9 1 7 9 Lieutenants now employed “ “ "on other duty De “ “ « ‘waiting orders, 34 * «on leave of absence. 23 furloughed...... ae ‘The lieutenants on leave of absence have returned from a cruize at sea within the last three months. More than half the lieutenants waiting orders are invalids, and the majority of the remainder have been ordered to duty since the compilation of the register, thus showing a constant active duty for the list of lieutenants. Prior to the passage of the Tetiring Dill there were nearly 200 passed midsh'pmen doing duty as lieutenants and acting masters, whereas there are now only 34 masters in the line of promotion, and no passed midehipmen. Thus it will be evident that 324 lieutenants and 34 masters, or 858 officers, are now performing the duty that was re. quired of over 500 officers previous to the action of the Retiring Board. Advancing in age as well as years io service, with no prospect of promotion for years to come, the navy lieutenants are required to perform increased duty, at sea and on shore, and without any improvement in their pay since 1835. ‘There are but seven Lieutenants in the navy who have quarters provided for them on shore duty, viz: the First Lieutenants at the naval station in Boston, New York, Washi» gton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Pensacola, San Fran- cisco, and those they have to furnish at their own expense. All other lieutenants onshore duty have to hire their own quarters. There are but ten Lieutenants commanding vessels and receiving the pay of Lieutenants Commanaing, and those are doing the duty of acting Purser without any addi- tional compensation for the pecuniary reeponsibility at- tached to that duty. The following 1s the present pay of Lieutenants as cs. tablished by law, and includes all emoluments and aliow- ances, viz:— Liewtenants Commanding, $1,800 plus one ration daily, $91, total........06 2. soosoesves secs cere SLO0L Lieutenants on sea service, $1,500, plus one ration daily, $01, total........... 1,591 Do, Navy Yards and other duty Do. waiting orders..... 1,200 Do. promoted to fill vacancies by the retired list, a! sea, including ration. Do. on shore duty. Do. waiting orders... ‘We make no menti cents mileage an officer when travelling under orders, as it seldom, if ever, covers bis actual expenses while waiting for ‘his vessel to be ready for his reception, because on his ro- turn from a cruize to any port in the United States he has to seek his bome, however distant, at his own expense. The Senior Lieutenant entered the service April 1, 1828—32 years ago. ‘The middie Lieutenant entered the service Dec. 29, 1840—20 years ago. ‘The Junior Lieutenant entered the service April 8, 1850—10 years ago. ‘The first seventy on the lieutenant’s list and a majority of the first hundred are older in years and longer in ser- vice than was Paul Jones, Barney, Preble, and others of the Revolutionary navy; and most, if not all the heroes of the war of 1812-14, when they achieved those vis tories which have given standing and wide renown to our navy. The Senior Lieutenant on the ‘“‘active”’ list of the navy ‘was commissioned Feb. 25, 1841. The middle sh 162), September, 1655; the Junior (325), October, 1859. poet have seen c years sen, service as lieuts, “ ‘ ‘ no “ 10 « “ He Onarr2© “ “ 2 13 be Jess than one year. Many lieutenants have seen much servicwas acting Meutenants previous to the receipt of their commissions. Amother School House Panic, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘Wepxaspay, April 4, 1860. Fearing an excitement which occurred to-day in Riving- ton street Grammar school should be brought to your no- tice, I wish to state as follows:—About noon, some vapor being observed to escape from one of the registers in the Primary department, the Principal stepped to the door and requested boy passing at the time to call the Janitor. Another boy going by at the same moment, seeing this vapor, and supposing it to be smoke, became alarmed, and called out “Fire!” This occasioned a temporary panic, and a few of the scholars hurried out, the rest were dismissed slowly and in order. Fortunately no one was injured, and, had it not been for the excitement in the neighborhood, and the great number oi parents crowding in for their ch'ldren, ine echool would no} have deen dismissed. The building is heated by hot water ap. paratus, and the furnaces are a0 placed that no fire can NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL, The Movements in Regard to Division of Counties— Passage of the Bill im the As- sembly to Abolish Capital Panishment— The Bi)1 te Divide the Sixth Judicial District—Almshouse Department—Sime- om Draper and Senator Mammierre in @ Squabble. OUR SPECIAL ALBANY DESPATCH. Ly a Aunany, April 4, 1860. New York city ts not the only locality that is suffering under the withering curse of this Legislature, which seems to destroy everything that it touches, There has been a series of logrollings going on in regard to division of countics, fixing county seats and balf shiring, which alone is enough to bury any party who has fathered theee measures with that unanimity that has characterised the dominant party in this Legislature. First and foremost in these county schemes was the Schuyler county operation, which should be placed side by tide in the history of affairs with the frauds of a man by the name of Schuyler, in connection with the New Haven Railroad. The transactions in regard to Schuyler county here is engineered by Mr. Downs, of the Assembly and Colonel Trust, in the third House. A great deal has been guid about this matter in the papers, but one-haif has not been told. The means made use of have been of @ nature to disgrace all who have been connected with it. t was for a long time urged that Mr. Downs had placed his bill in the same boat with the six Gridiron Railroad bille that passed the House, ag he was one of the com- mittee that bad the fixing up of these things; but that is mistake—for bis share of the railroad spoils is centered n Bloomfield Usher, one of the incorporators of hege bills, who was placed in to take care of Mr. Dowoes’ share of the plunder. St. Lawrence county, and is connected with a bank there, but formerly resided in Herkimer county. This is what secured Mr. Downs’ influence for the gridirons, instead of the combinations with Schuyler county. There is another bill now before the Senate which has passed the House with great speed, being prested here against the direct habitants of the county. The bill is opposed by a majority of the Supervisors; and the last Grand Jury ae- cided, by a vote of 18 to 2, that the bill was a nuisance. Notwithstanding all of this, the Legislatare is rushing the bill through, in the sameatyle that this re- pubhcan Legislature has all other schemes in direct violation of the wishes of the ! Legislature fancies above all other, and if passed will be the com. mencement of an open warfare in that county, even more Cigastrous in its consequences than that which has swept over Schuyler county. If the republican party stand up under the action of this body of men, then they g came up this morning for a third reading. moved to recommit to te Seleot committee, jong to insert the following bill, stating that the friends ofthe billin this House had thought it best to take this course, fearing that they could not get the original bill through the Senate. The bill after considerable discus- sion was re-committed, the committee reported at once, and the bill was the third time and passed, yeas 94, pays 9. ‘the ‘bill provides as follows:— No crime hereafter committed, except treason and murder of the first degree, shall be punished with in the State of New York. Sec. 2 All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or ey any lying in wait, or by ether kind of wi deliberate and pre- meditated killing, or w shall be commit- ted in the perpetration or the attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, or in the attempt to eecape from imprisonment be deemed mi r of the first degree, and all other kinas of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree; and the jury be- fore whom apy person indicted for murder in either de- gree, shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, find in their verdict whether it be under the first or second degree. Bec. 8. Upon any indictment against reat Spore for murder in first degree, it shal] and may Jawtul for the jury to find such accused person guilty of murder in the second degree. Sec. 4, When apy person shall be convicted of crime punishable with death and sentenced to sufter such pun- ishment, he shall at the same time be sentenced to con- finement at hard labor in the State prison until such pun- ishment of death shall be inflicted. Sec. 5. No person so sentenced or shall be executed in pursuance of such sentence within one year from the day on which such sentence of death shail be passed, nor until the whole record of the ehatl be certified by the clerk of the court in which the convic- tion was had, under the seal thereof, to the Governor of the State, nor until a warrant shall be issued by the Go- vernor under the great seal of the State, directed to the Sheriff of the county in which the State prison may be situated, commanding the id sentence of death to be carried into execution. Sec. 6. Every person convicted of murder in the second degree sball be sentenced to undergo imprisonmen in one of the State prisons, and be kept in confinement at hard labor for his or her natural life. without giving them a hearing before an investigating committee or some other way in regard to the serious charges that had been made against them. Draper on the other hand was loud in his denunciation of the Senator, declaring him a traitor to his party and _ that bas eee bem also denouncing See for opposin; i fact, Simeon was iy wevere on a@ll who had the audasity of o; a bill that would legislate him into an office which no com- bination of circumstance he could be elected to by the people. Senator Mannierre never had abetter compliment paid him than the denunciation that Draper gave bim this morning. Alderman Boole and his cashier, Simeon Meyer whore in the lobbies yesterday and to-day, finishing up the pe- culiar business which the Aldermen have here this win- ter. The republicans on guard at Congress Hall appear to be quite disconcerted by the more eflective miluence of the municipal officials. They begin to despair of anything like @ charter at all, and declaim loudly against the grid iror Senate and Assembly. Many of the city republicans have gone home in despair and disgust. Very curious details are current here of the proceedings of the Alder men and their actuaries. Assessments, 1¢ appears, have been levied upon every municipal department whicd could be reached, including the employés from tbe ashcart men up. Seventy-five dollars to one hundred and fifty and two hundred dollars were specially docked from each map according to his salary on last pay day. From this source a cash fund has been raised an¢ disbursed here of very considerable amount, for the deleat of the Charter and Sanitary bill. It is charged here that aithough Weed avd Taylor gave their sanction to the proposed city “‘reforms,’’ yet that they have gold out the office seekers for railroads. 1 have it upon reliable authority that Weed last week was closeted in the Sevate post office with one of the ushersia that precinct, and that then and there the basis of a treaty with the aldermen was adjusted, looking to an explosion of all schemes which should iniringe upon the province of the municipal fathers. They had sold out to Law on the Yonkers railroad job, and they have, been since alternately in elther camp here, which promised them protection for their little affairs, It is now understood, asa chief ground for the bargain about the charter, that they will not back up Judge Bronson and his remonstrance, which they threatened some time since. Justas they have been rea- dy to sell the franchises of the city in their legislative, 80 they now agree to forfeit them in their inidividual capacity. It will not be surprising if all the republican chairmen and committees should return_here, and, finding them selves thus sold, they should take some sort of revenge on the railroads. ‘The portion of the charter which makes a modification of the Mayor’s power, and supercedes the aldermen is pitched into as a sort of Jonah, which must be thrown overboard. But the nakedness of such a job Soe ee one ae then present is so bare- faced that there is danger of exploding everythng. Dra- per and the dining-room lobby here, who want the fat vernors, are ri ded as a new and special: tion applicants, ‘as the republicans have one half of the Almshouse alrea- dy, and can get no more under Draper and the new con- trivance. Altogether matters of this sort here this week are in most admirable disorder. Senator Lawrence is making vehement offorts t the City Hall bill. It has been re committed and ified. The U phcetrgr eos now stands at one million, and provides beng dh municipal, not the legal offices, shall be removed up town. Sec. 7. Section one of title one of chapter four of part fourth of the Revised Statutes shall be amended g0 a8 to read as follows:—“Sec. 1. Every person who shall here- after be convicted—first, of treason against the people of this State, or second of murder, or third of arson in the first degree, as those crimes are respectively declared in this title, shall be as herein provided.”” Sec. 8. Section eighteen of said title one is hereby amended go as to read ag follows:—'‘ Sec. 18. The inquisi- tion of the jury shall be signed by them and the Sheriff. If it be found by such inquisition that such convict is insane, the Sheriff shall convey said convict tothe Lunatic Asy- lum for insane convicts, there to be kept at the expense of the State until such time asthe superintendent thereof shall certify to the Governor that said lunatic is sane, and the Governor may thereupon issue his warrant for his exe. cution, ifhe was convicted of murder in the first degree, or may direct that he be imprisoned in one of the State prisons, according to law.” Sec. 9. The provisions of this act for the punishment of murder in the first shall apply to the crime of it of murder in the second de- gree as herein provided sball apply to all crimes now punishable with death, except as Provided. Sec. 10. All persons now under sentence of death in this State, or convicted of murder and awaiting sentence ong nchaaenae sg ‘accordance with tho provisions of act. Secs, 11, 12, 18, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 29 Ee ae |. ‘The friends of this bill comsider that there is no doubt | ? table in the Senate. The motion to discharge the Com- mittee of Conference was lost—yeas 15, nayg 16. This question is not set/led yet. The friends of toll are busily circulating the story that the, Central road is frightened, and prefer the House Toll bill to the repeal of the law \boliebing tolls, The friends of the Central road, how- fer, assert tbat no Toll bill can be passed; and, from the best information that I cap gather, it wilt be the next thing to imposeible to get @ Dill through the Senate. Yet ‘the complications and combinations of this Albany ma- chine are sach that no person can predict to a certainty. ‘The bill to reorganize the Almshouse Department was under discussion in the Senate all the morning, Sonator Spinola being the speaker of the occasion, and spoke against ite parsage. He thought it an unjust bill, and one of the many party schemes that has been brought up to go through. He talked without cessation until the hoor of recess. An interesting affair took place in the side room of the Senate immediately after the adjournment, between Sena- tor Mannierre and Simeon Draper, It appears that the bupgry republicans of your city—those that desire special Jegisiation for themselvee—are a)] down on the Senator, and Lord Draper took it into his head to day the task showing to the Senator in question the indignation of all his crew of politicians at his _{Manpierre) independent course, stating to him that he did not represent his party. ‘The main argument turned upon the New Almshouse bill, which Mr. Draper appears to have in —_~ charge here— Senator Mapnierre opposing it on the ground that be conriders it upjuet w legislate them out of office ‘Wi lem Allen Butler appeared before the the Senate Committee on Cities and Villages, in opposition fo the City Railroads bill that psesed the Houses, Wm. M. Pullis, of the Twenty-third street line, aud Mr. Ludlow, of the Houston street stagesine followed, both en- deavoring to show the rvin that would foliow unless their stage interests were provided for in the bills, Rufus F. Andrews followed at much length in bebalf of the grantees, snd argued that more roads were @ public necessity, and that competition should control the fare. The dikcuseion upon the Almshouse bill was continued in the Senate this evening, by Senator Robertson in favor of, and Sepator Spinola against it. It was finally recommitted toa Select Committee of three, with power to report complete. Several bills were reported from the Select Committee, with power to re- port complete. The Aseembly was engaged throughout the afternoon and evening in the third reading of bills. A large num- ber were read and passed. ‘The bill providing for the appointment of five bell ring- ere by Police Commissioners instead of by the Mayor, was, on motion of Mr. Webster, recommitted, with in- structions to strike out the enacting clause, thus leaving the appointment in the same way that it has been, and when they will ve selected from members belonging to the Fire Department. Our Albany Correspondence. Albany, March 29, 1860. The Lothy— Work im the Senate and Assembly— Names of the Gridiron Incorporators—The Movements in the Lobby, de., Bc. , dc. ‘The hotel keepers here are reaping a good harvest just now, especially from New Yorkers, who continue to pour in upon us by scores. A crowd is still hovering about the Jegislative halls, like crows about a carcass. The side rooms and the lobbies are so densely crowded, nearly all the time, that it is difficult to elbow the way through them—many of the same stereotype faces that have been here during the entire session—whilst every day presents a number of new men on the field. The names given in some of the letters, of the incor- Porators of the various city railroads, were not exactly correct. The following can be relied upon:— John A. Kennedy’s name has been dropped from the Seventh avenue and parallel road, and instead of five in- corporators’ names it now has twelve, as follows: John Kerr, Edward P, Cowles, Anthony J. Hill, Hugh Smith, Jobn’S. Hunt, Jacob Sharp, Thomas H. Town, Peter B. ames: John B. Babcock, Robert Marshall, John Kelly, jacol . A number of changes quite important have taken place in the Fourteenth street road. The following have been dropped:—William A. Hall, Maxhew Brennan, Jay 8. Treat, James M. Sweeny, Sidney A. Yeomans, Jared Gib- son—or, to make the question short, they have dropped them all butone. The following are the list that now resent themselves:—Stephen Roe, John Stewart, les W. Lawrence, John Kennedy. James S. Hunt, Charles C. Clark, John Fox, William Ruvestyn, William H. Peck, John ©. Thompson, Thomas Ryan, Joseph 8. Craig—twelve in all. Avenue D line seems to have had a shaking up which has thrown overboard quite a number, and others have found their way into the cars. Six names out of eight ‘Were spilt out whilst inthe hands of the committee, as follows:—William Simpson, Anthony Dugro, John O'Keefe, Nicholas Walsh, Henry Cogan, John Fox. Tne following twelve names now,appear:—Jobn E. Develin, William A. Hall, Cornelius Runkie, Bernard Smythe, Henry A ‘Ciark, ‘William A. Herring, Wm. B. Marcin, John V. Gorn, Wil- liam R. George S. Thomas, William H. Hays, Buckmaster, James Murphy—a aloe Bet, to say the least. It seems that only'three other names were shaken out of the Tenth avenue cars, but it seems that number of others have Cesena The following were dropped :—Peter Mitchel, Rufus T. Andrews and Benjamin Prime. The following are now the list of incorpora- tors:—Jobn T. Conover, Moses Ely, Truman Smith, mag T. be she Miler Eek ene Usher, justin D. White, John M. Miller, jolmes, Leon- ard W. Brainard, Jr., Delos D. Woolf and Thomas Siack— precisely twelve, as in the other. The only name dropped from the Houston street 1i is that of Jonn R. Remington. Two have been add The following is the list as it now stands:—Job 8. Black, Samuel 8. Fitch, Henry H. Winans, Matthew B. Green, Samuel Brown, Wit iam McDermott, William McCaffre, Freeman Ferriss, Fitz Green Halleck, John Bryan, Jay 8. Just, George W. Dean, Owen W. Brennan, Alexander H. , James haw. ‘They are a decidedly “‘ happy family.” Barnum should at once take them to his museum and place them side by ide with his cage of animals so long known as the ‘‘happ; amily.” 1 wili guarantee collection will be fully a8 attractive to the public as liection has been, and the performances of the ‘“ 1 monkeys,” California hogs, owls and rs of this collection will be decidedly nteresting to all who may witness their movements. No change has been made in the Barclay street and South terry. The incorporators seem to have had bot- tom enough to stand the last shaking, and were able to defend themselves trom all outside barbarians. It will be seen that some of the names formerly in the bills have been entirely excluded, whilst others have only been changed into other bills,und compromised in that way. You will see that four of the bills have just twelve names, as | stated in one of my former letters there would be. I find upon further invest ion into the action of the Committee on Cities and Villages, that there were at least four present when the Washington Heights bill was firet considered, and Mr. Collins was present, who denies that he ever said that he had any objections to sit with them; ube algo states that the bill was considered, and that he Btated his reasons why he should go for it. Mr. Pond algo stated that he then said that parties wished to be heard against it, but the bill was ordered to be reported, and he reported it. Some of the members of tae com. mittee whe yesterday denied that they were present when ‘the bill was considered, now admit that they were there, but forgot about the bill. This much I consider due to the members of that committee after my charges against them of yeeterday. ‘The lobby from the city has swollen to its highest spriog tide apparently. Foremost in the lists here, after the city railroad forces, are the Aldermen and their allies. Boole and Star, with various of their lieutenants, have slept by night on the roads and steamboats, spending alternate days here and in New York. To-day it was announced, on the arrival of the morning trains, that the money fad come at last, to the amount of $20,000. It appears tnat aesessments bave been levied and forced loans negotiated to that extent among the various subordinates in the de- partments. The amendment giving the Aldermen their sala- ries has been ground out in the committee of nine of the As- sembly; the act to legalize some ordinances of the Common Council, which will put some fifteen thousand dollars in the bands of one of their number, is, it sceme, all safe under the guiding care of Oakey ; and as several other like matters are in a prosperous condition, the Aldermen will probably be able to go into the Senate with a capital of over one hundred thousand dollars to defeat the charter and the combined forces of Weed, Haws and the hungry municipal republican committees. They mean to do the thing time m a princely way, if their promises can be relied upon. Some of your volunteer correspondents, in theit spisy episties, go not take so much pains to see through thecity railroad milistone as even your more busy “specials ”’ In the case of John A. Kennedy, it is but fair play and literal fact to state, that he has now no connection with the Seventh Avenue Railroad project, and that he with- drew of his own accord. It would seem that some ten opposition to the appro- priation for the Commissioners of Records, and he is charg- ed with having appeared against it before the Governor Inasmuch as the leaders of the stage interest are the prin: cipal corporators in the Seventh avenue road, and that they arealso closely identified with Chas. W. Baker, and his friend Senator Connolly, they were able to put matters in such that the keen and subtle Supervisor had to heave over railroad ballast. A rattling little Ltd now going on about these matters, and a raking is kept up between the intractable Supervisor and the lobby, and the Senator from his stronghold on the Grinding Com- mittee. A similar of arms was had between Pe- ter B. Sweeney and John E. Develin, resulting in the ex- clusion of the from the avenue D grant. Weed, it ap- pears, however, had him retnstated, but failed in the case of Kennedy, who will make no terms. The quarrel be- tween Sweeney and Develin is supposed to date back, in- cluding the overthrow of Develin as the Tammany candi- date for Corporation Counsel last fall. Another little source of disturbance is @ statement which the friends of Mr. Haws are troubled about, to the effect that the invidious attack on the Comptroller by Assemblyman Smith, in his minority report against the new charter amendments, was prepared at the instance of Peter B. Sweeney. It but just to state that Mr. Sweeney's It is also a fact, which I instructions of ALBANY, March 30, 1860. The Radicals Again Victorious—Increased Alarm of the Sewardites—More Radicals on the Canals, dc. ‘The strength of the Seward whig and the barnburner radical sections of the republican party, in antagoniatic ponitions, was fairly developed in legislative caucus last evening. It occurred upon selecting a candidate to be supported by the party for Superintendent of Public In- struction, in place of Henry H. Van Dyke, whose term of office is soon to expire. That gentleman was selected three years since, at a time when the radicals entered the republican camp. Van Dyke ousted Victor M. Rice, of Buffalo, an out and out Seward whig. This gave great offence to that section of the party. There was ne jastiGcation for superseding Mr. Rice. He hed toring his term of office, brought and order out of haot'ani confesion, bad intreduced. referme tm the ma- ‘eaetul, and, in- deed, inviepensable to the common school system of the Stat He was the first Soperintencent oer which relieved the Secretary of State from all duty and | responsibility with regard to the public schools of the State. He bad been a very success‘ul teacher for a large portion of bis life, and was considered as well posted in relation to the actual condition of the schools as any other person ip the State, with, perbaps, the exception of Mr. apdall_ the able Superintendent in the cy of New York. The removal of Mr. Rice at a time wnen he was engaged in bringivg the system !nto more f smn maee utility: ‘than ever before, was considered by his friends and the friends of education, ag a calamity which should have been avoided. Ever since his removal, or ppoint- Ment, ® smothering vengeance has been felt, which has recently buret out with considerable force. but not with poner sufficient to accomplish tt purpose. Mr. Van Dyck ing perfectly confident of receiving another official lease for three yea:s, made no effort with the memers of the Ixgislature in his own behalf. A few days since a joint resolution was ado;ted in both branches of the Legisiature, designating a particular day on which a Soperivtendent of Pubhe Lostruction was to de elected on joint ballot, pursuant to law. Immediately thereafter, for the first time in three years, Mr. Rice made his ap- pearance at the capital The radicals in end out of the Legislature discovering that a coup de main was being perpetrated, instantly ‘ratlied their forces. Lieut Gov. peli, Comptroller Denniston, Treasurer Dorsheimer, Attorney General Myers, all original baruburn radicals of the Flagg, Hoffman, Van Buren platform order, iostitated a caucus of as many radicals of the two houses of the Legielature as were considered orthodox and reliable. Mr, Rise’s case was epgineered in the Seaate by Mesers. Hammond and Sestions; in the Assembly, by Conkling, Flagler and Littlejobn. During the last two or three days it appeared as if Rice was maxing considerable headway. ‘This aroused the radicals. The opposing sections met last evening in caucus, where, after any amount of skirmish- tog, # vote was floally taken, which resulted in a victory for the barnburnere over the Weed and Seward malcontents, of nearly two toone. Van Dyck was nominated, and will be confirmed at the joint meeting next week. The canal pointments made a few days since, the names of whom Auditor undertook to keep from the prees, are also three fourths of the radical stripe. Their determination now is, either to rule the Sewardites or ruin the party. SEW YORK LEGISLATURE. te. Aupany, April 4, 1860. THE HILL TO ABOLISH THE ALMSHOUSE DEPARTMENT. Mr. Spmvoia (dem.) moved to recommit the bill, on the ground that serious charges had been preferred against the Ten Governors, who had no opportunity to defend themecives. ’ Mr. Rouertson (rep.) opposed the motion, and charged, ‘on his own responsibility, that gross bribery and corrup- tion existed in the department. Mr. SrivoLs warmly defended the Governors, denounc- ing the charges as emanating from a corrupt, prostituted Press. The bill was net to aid the taxpayers, but had its origin in intrigues. Designing men, who desired to get everything within their grasp, had the entire contro! of every department of the city government. Belore taking the question the hour for the special or- der, the report of the Conférence Committee on the Rail- tar. Fumo (rop.) moved 10 eppoiat Conference x moved to a new Commitiee. Ceae_ita ols After a long debate the motion to recede from the Senate bill was laid on the table—16 to 15. The bill to abolish the Almshouse Department, and es- tablieh a Board of Public Charities, was further debated by Messrs. Colvin, Robertson and Spinola, and referred © a select committee to report complete. The following bills were ordered to a third reading:— Relative to the University of New York city. To amend the constitution and abolish the property aalification. q . To provide for the appointment of inspectors and can- vassers in New York. The bill to incorporate the Southwestern Mining Land Company was reported favorably. ‘The bili to legalize the notices and advertisements pub- shed in the Zvensng Journal was passed. Algo, the Assembly bill to protect game and fish. J. McLxop Murpny offered concurrent resolutions advo- cating the passage by Congress of a bill to and ee late the pay of the United States Navy. Laid over. Re. ir. ieearins Ss rotnese ceenrent resolutions asking gress for postal arrangements between Mexico and the United States. Laid over. Pending the motion to take from the table the motion to recede from the amendments of the Senate to the Assem- bly Toll bill, the Senate adjourned. Assembly. Atpany, April 4, 1860. Hon. Samuel A. Law (rep.) appeared in the Assembly Cham ber to-day, for the first time since his severe attack of illness. He continues very weak, and only remained in the house a short time. ‘The Dill to create Couhocton county was ordered toa third reading. ‘The bill to divide the Sixth Judicial district of New ‘York came up for third reading. ‘Mr. Gover (dem.) moved to strike out the enacting clause, which motion, after a debate, was lost. The bil was then passed. Mr. Vax Horn (rep.) called from the table the bill to abolish capital punishment. The Houre, on his motion, substituted the bill intro- duced by Mr. Finch, which limits capital punishment to treason, murder and arson in the first degree, and pun- shes murder in the second degree with imprisonment for life. Itdefines fmurder inthe first degree to be by poison, assassination, premeditation or while committing burglary or robbery, and provides that no execution shall reread within wave months from the time of sen- tence, nor until the Governor’s warrant issues. ae was then read the third time and passed— to Mr. Weeerzr (dem.) asked unanimous consent to move forward the bill to commute the death sentence of Mary Mr. Fincn (rep.) objected. ‘The Canal Appropriation bill was passed. = motion to restore the Chenango Canal appropriation ‘was lost. AFTERNOON SESSION. A communication was received from the Cashier of the Hollister Bank, Buffalo, in response to the inquiries of the Assembly, whether apy interest was paid for deposits to the United States Court for the Noi rn district, from which, and from the remarke of Mr. 0. Allen, it appeared that the managers of the bank, by consent of Judge Hall, aiter consultation with Judge Neleon and other eminent men, bad contributed or donated certain sums of money to purchase books for the law library of the Northern district, the property of the State, in consideration of the advantages derived by the Bank from, the deposits of the moneys of the Court. Several bills of private interest were passed, among otbers the foliowi To compel better attendance at the offices of the Clerks of Counties and the Courts of Record. To amend the Rural Cemetery Association act. In rela- tion to preferred causes in the Court of Appeals and Supreme Coart. ‘Recess till 7 P. M EVENING SESSION. On motion of Mr. MmLRR the bill in relationto the Qua- rantine of the port of New York was reported complete. A Jarge number of other bills were reported complete. The bill passed in the Senate to amend the Metropolitan Police law was reported favorably. The bill to empower tho Board of Metropolitan Police to int bell ringers, came up to a third reading. . WEESTER moved to recommit the bill, with instruc- tions to etrike out the first five sections, leaving in only a section compelling preprietors of tenement houses to pro- vide means of escape in case of fire. Agreed to. ‘The following bills were passed :— To authorize an addition to the Kings County Lunatic Asylum builaing. To amend the Brooklyn Drainage act. To provise for the inspection of steam boilers in New York and Brooklyn. The bill provides that all stationary engines shall be inspected once every six months, and im- poses a fee of from three toten dollars for each inspection, according to the power of the engioe. It is calculated that there are 6,000 engines in the two cities. Adjourned. ‘War Between New York and Jersey. THE HARBOR POL:CE VERSUS THE SHAD POLES. ‘The Jersey fishermen’s shad poles, about which there has been such # hubbub lately, have been doomed to tee- total annihilation by the “‘powers that be’’ at the Metro- Ppolitan Police headquarters. By order of Acting General Superintendent Carpenter, this morning, shortly after nine o’clock, a war, surpassing the memorable onslaught of City Inspector Delavan on the hogs of Frogtown, will ‘be commenced between the harbor police and the Jersey fishermen. Captain Gibson of the harbor police received his instructions yesterday morning relative to this pole- ish destruction, and late last evening he reported that he ‘would be ready to commence operations early to-day. Section 13 of the act to eatablish regulations for the Port of New York, provides as follows:— Sec. 13, It shall not be lawful, in cases now pro- vioed by law, for any ponder Soong ‘drive in the oil under water, Eels barbor eee is ue Leeda the Ppurpores of ing where water greater han six feet at rn low oan one we pecan ot hve dollars for each pole erected or driven contrary to provisions of this section; and it shall be the duty of Nove ithatanel Mes ert junta emmmarecton of tra etc. ot tion an’ Immense number of shad poles have been stuck up by the Jersey fishermen and others, and it is trumated that about two thirds ofthe Poles are in fet with the “ome peniatag Mequele eeekn Movertocr aos pore of con x army 1° some twenty men will form Board of Education. ELECTION OF A CITY SUPERINTENDENT AND AG» SISTANT—THE SAFETY OF THE NEW GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST WAKD, ETC. ‘The semimontbly meeting of the Commissioners of Education took place last evening in their hall, corner of" Grand and Elm streets—President Curtis tn the chair. Acommunication from the school officers of the Ninth ward, asking for an appropriation of $36,533 to erect a new schoolhouse in the place of ward school No 8, now in ® dilapidated condition, was referred to the Finance Committee, After a batch of unimportant papers were acted upor the Board proceeded to the election of a City Superin- tendent and his assistant. ‘The balloting resulted in the re-election of 8. 8. Randall, as Superintendent, by 33: ‘Votes out of 34, and that of Henry Riddle, by 81 votes. The election 1s for two years trom the lat of Jane next. The Committee on Elections and Qualifications re- ported in favor of admitting John 0. Delmartin to hie seat an Commissioner of the Sixteenth ward, though he: overlooked the formality of coeles. with the law by taking the usual cath of office before the Clerk of the Board of Education, The report was adopted, ‘The Finance Committee reported in favor of the appro- priation of $2,160 for the purchase of nine pianos (or various ward aod primary schools throughout the city. ‘This report wae also adopted. The Committce on School Furniture id in favor of placing new furniture in ward school No. 42 in the Tepth ward, instead of that which is now in the building. ‘Ibe report was referred back to the committee to report me report fromthe Committee on. Repairs and Supplica report from mmittee on rs an informed the Board that from information furnished to- them by§Mr. Boeeé, the Clerk, the average number of pupils attending the schools of the city for year 1859 pumbered 61,712, and tbat the amount of ce ty far- nished for the use of these pupils during cost, £60,066 &5—$1 16 for each,ppil—which is a degrease on the expense for 1858 of $24.141 25, or fifty cents on each pupil. The report, which was rather ), Was or- dered to be printed. “ The Committee on School in favor of eppecer sins $6, for the purchase 08 for sundry echools throughout the city and the re- blr ‘This report was discussed but finally ‘adopted. The Committee on Repairs and Supplies in favor of ap riating $1,700 for repering Fite pice) No. 28, in the Twentieth ward. ad . ‘The Committee on Finance r sv Pesolved, Toa the suas heretn mentioned be taken 01 » That sums herein be of the school moneys for 1860 :— tne Bunnies ren giles Janitors... eo lemy.... "Bo. Normal =f +. Do, _ Evening schools. . Supplies to the depository. respondence between the Superintendent of School Build- 8 and the school officers of the Twenty-first ward, in. reference totbe condition of the new grammar school No. 14, in the Twenty first ward, reported that they con- sider the original plans adopted for the erection of the building unsafe, apd recommended the placing of inter- mediate wrought iron beams, pursuant to plans and spe- cifications to be drawn by the Superintendent of School Buildivgs, and the appropriation of $7,500 to compleve they building. The committee reported that they consider the present iron beams supporting the floor too far apart; they would have them used as girders, and other beams. introduced four feet from each other, instead of the pre- sent distance of eight feet. Commissioners Green, Tucker, Warren and others ex; various views, in- favor of and against the report of the committee’s recom- mittee, by substituting wooden beams girders iron ones now in the building, which plan, if adopted,, ‘would require no additional appropriation, The amend- ment was adjourned. The Board Grand Unitarian Demonstration. FAREWELL BREAKFAST TO THE REV. T. STARR KING, OF BOSTON, AT THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. ‘The Rev. T. Starr King, of Boston, one of the most cele- ‘brated of the ministers of the Unitarian denomination, was the recipient of a grand complimentary breakfast at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, yesteraay morning. Mr. King has recently resigned his charge at Boston, and sails by the steamer Northern Light for California, to-day, to pre- side over a Unitarian congregation at San Francisco. In ‘view of his eminence in the denomination, several leading- Unitarians of this city and Brooklyn extended to him this splendid and deserved compliment. ‘The breakfasi took place at noon. Six parallel tables were set, and a large table was placed for the more dis- tinguished guests transversely at the head of the room. At this table we noticed, among other gentlemen, the Rev. Drs. Bellows, Farley and Osgood; the Rev. Messrs. Bowen, Frothingbam, Longfeliow, Pier! » Blanchford, and Messrs. Peter Cooper, Horace Greeley, Joseph Pea- ody and D. R. Martin. W. C. Bryant, Esq., presided, the . Mr. King oscupying a place immediately upon his right. Many of those present were ladies, and alto- gether the company numbered about three hundred per- sons. Dodworth’s Band was in attendance. A noticeable feature of the occasion was the beautiful bouquets which were placed before the plate of each lady, and which filed the room with rich perfumes. The breakfast was eee, served, and was worthy of the reputation of fe Mr. G. A. Richards, chairman of the committee of ar- rapgements, introduced to the company Mr. Bryant, who took the chair. The Rev. Mr. Pierrepont said grace. After the edibles were disposed of, Mr. Bryant said that it was not necessary to call the company to order, as there was always jorder {where there Were ladies. The object of this meeting was to take leave of their eloquent frieod. He hoped that favoring gales would waft him to that Italy of America which lies beyond the mountainous country which we might cali our Switzerland. He would not pee them, but would offer the following senti- ment:— ‘This socis! gatbering of our Laity and Clergy—Pleasant in itsest and pleasant as. promise of frequent aod genial and blessed fellowship in coming years of our churohes. The Rev. Dr. Oscoop eloquently responded. He said that this scene had sprung up as if through the of Aladdin’s iamp. As Applause.) All could march together to the music of ant’s exquisite poetry. Woman gave man his poetic inepirations. He concluded by reading a letter from the Rev. R. B. Catier, the former pastor of the church to which Mr. King is called, and offered the fol- lowing sentiment:— Ovr Guest, Thomas Starr King—God’s blessing upon him and his family and his voyage. We give bimm the hand and heart of our fellowship to be: uber te wabip ar to our brethren and our eburcly Music—Auld Lang Syne.” The Rev. Mr. King was greeted with said that he thanked them from his soul for reception. He was a son of New York, although that held in New England to be no great honor. here when five weeks old, however, he had hardly been corrupted; yet he might say that he had his birth: here. (Applause. ‘wenty ie ago he had listened to a sermon by his friend Dr. Dewey. It said thas it Jove should speak to men it would bein Homer’s Greek. 80 be would say that the infant himself would speak in Dr. Dewey's words. Perhaps his friend could remember the first sermon he (Mr. King) preached in his church. It wasa very rainy night, and there were about forty-five perfons present. (Laughter.) To-day he had to speak of two cities, Boston and San Francisco. Of Boston he would only say that, next to New York and San Francisco, it was the best place to live in. (Applause.) St. Paul only re- mained weeks in island cities; but in sea porte he re- mained for years. He felt the value of one heart eon- verted to God, and knew how weak he was for the work he had uudertaken. He would like some of his ministerial brethren to oblize him with s few sermons, 80 that he might say—‘Dr. Osgood or Bellows is preach- ing to you.” Mr. King eloquently simple Unitarian faith as superior to Irebman once came to him The Irishman was once & Pres his wife an , but they hed com- Promized their differences and became Unitarians. If this ehonld always be the result Lebar pray that ie Ae the twosects, thus represented, might al in onity. (Laughter and applause ) bidding a touching farewell to his friends, Mr. King concluded by aciaaaengcente fer Te mm sameatest- oS ees vind x honoral Die Bl ip ihe the little church in Chambers street, up to the time, and alluding to the present condition of the deuomai- nation in this city, State and country. Daring his re- + marks he exhibited a cross made from the wood of Dr. Channing's pulpit. Several speakers followed, and at a late hour the com- pany dispersed. Naval Intelligence. ‘Unstrep States 1300” f Sr. Pact pe Loanpo, Feb. 10, 1860. This verse! captured a brig, the Delicta, in December Inst, and gent her to the United States. She had no slaves on board, and was # worthless oraft, hardly good enough for fire wood. This was the ig pe pro ‘on the coast. I write the Ports- . e ‘od considering {com Apna aematg Sra os (Cobo. Bont) ia here, to mal (ehe called 122M) for Marion |. Brent ere, centers, to discharge ber Kroomes and wooded orders, to proceed to the States. men left of her complement to work ship, having sent the rest to ibe Ualted ane izes end as fnvalide, ‘Lieut. now cruising Congo river, Rabends, and the neve porte south of the tine. ni be thue employe: until the Ist of Neved by the Mohican. The Sum) , Liew fs bere, and will sail on the 17th to cruise ith the Mystice-Boston Adv. (Cor.), April