The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1867, Page 3

~ _ = WASHINGTON Proposed Mediation in Mexican and Franco-Prussian Affairs. End of the Extraordinary Ses- sion of the Senate. Hegira of Politicians, Lobbyists and Office-Seekers, &. &e. &. e i Wasmmwcrox, April 20, 1867. Bud of the Extraordinary Session of the Senate—The New York Appointments. ‘The extraordinary <easion of the Senate terminated at mine o'clock to-night, after settling some important New ‘York appointments. General Roberts, who was twice Before rejected, was sent in again and confirmed for Brookiyn Postmaster. Tom O'Callaghan, one of Fer- mando Wood's pets, carried off the prize of the Collector- hip of Revenue for the Ninth district, and Homer N. Franklin remains the Assessor. Thore was a siate made ‘@p some time ago to seoure the confirmation of 0'Cal- Yeghan for Collector and Sydney Gay for Assessor of ‘this district. Gay was formerly a Tribuue editor, nd, having secured the support of Fernando Wood and the radical Senators, succeeded in getting himself confirmed once, but he was recon- ‘tidered by the uncertain Senatora and rejected; then Allen, formerly secretary of Comptroller Haws, was pressed for the position; but he was finally withdrawn, ‘and through Senator Nye’s influence Mr. Franklin is Jeft in his snug berth. “No action has been taken on the momination for New York Naval Officer; so the President may appoint whom he pleases until next December. Plight of Politicia: ind Office Seekers. The exodus of politicians, legislative jobbers and can- didates for office, has commenced. So long as the Senate remained in session but hittie diminution could be ob- served in the assemblages of these classes of Washington Fesidents, because hope still whispered encouragement m dehalf of each and every darling scheme that pro- mised fature glory or a goodly harvest of greenbacks, + The proceedings of the Senate to-day, however, in- icates ‘no further postponement of the recess, and the sudden termination to the oxciting and fascinating game of office-filling has created a commotion’ ‘among the government policy dealers that has caused an ‘nusual number of trunks and valises to flud their way to the dopois and steamboat landings. To say the least Of it, the members of the lobby have @ad a brilliant season. In the work of filling official vacancies alone a fruitful field has been found for enterprising operators. ‘The disparity of views existing between the nominating and confirming powera, as to the fitness and deserts of Candidates, has afforded a wide opening for the exercise Of political influence, and even when a candidate has re- Ceived the joyful intelligence of his confirmation he has sometimes discovered that he had been “reckoning with- ‘out his host,” by finding that his confirmation had been “reconsidered,”’ and another man was carrying off the @ommiasion that should have been filled out for him. Appointments Confirmed by the Senate, ‘The Senate confirmed the following nominations to- day :— United States Consul—Benjamin Lefever, of Ohio, at Additional Paymaster—Frank M, Eiuting, in the army. Agen: of Pawneo Indians—Cnarles H. Whaley, of Ne- TH Masten, “ ee Catia W. eatin Ginasti, Oulo:aW. B Hitshoosk, Upper Sandusky, Ohio; Wiltiem Chiboothe, Mo.; Isaac R. 108, Mo.; iry Waiker, Aurora, Ind; Williams tons Postmasters—J. N.Y. : . Roberts of Brookiva, EPS Cee Ts john B. Collectors of Internal Revenue—Theophilus C, Calli out, Third District of ae York: es ne iy District of Kentucky. ‘The Senate rejected the following nominations this (deena peaeaee Pas, ey ey Pa; Charles Huston, Williamsport, Pa; Joho L. Lerter, Pana, oe hong ye Burr, Paris, Bi, ; W. N. Caler, Champaign, Consul General—Andrew J. Lippits, of Connecticut, at ‘Hav Collectors of Internal Revenue—J. Wade Gardner, Filth district of Missouri; George M. Robinson, Fifth @isrict of Wisconsin; B, A. Seaver, Ninth district of Assessors of Internal Revenue—George Harrison, Seo- ond district of Indiana; Geo. W. Jones, Ninth District eof Illinois; D. W. Maxon, Fourth district of Wisconsio. a of Customs—I'homas W. McFall, Quincy, ‘The following nominations were rejected to-night :— Postmasters—Ciark C. Battin; Jerseyville, Ill. ; Robert F. Young, Litchfield, lil.; Joshua Dickerson, Tak; Albert @. ‘Neal, Pena, Ii. ; William H. Second istrict of Indiana ; Joseph Wegner, Fourth district of ‘Wisconsin; Daniel Brewster, Twelfth district of Penn- Collectors of Internal Revenue—Philip L. Miller, Fifth jt ob omppeng Green Adams, rth district of Financial Affairs. ‘The amount of fractional currency received from the Printing Bureau for the week ending to-day, $349,500. ‘The shipments of fractional currency during tho week ‘were $418,212, including $100,000 each to the Assistant ‘Treasure:s at New York and Boston, 40,000 to the Assistant Treasurer at St. Louis, and the remainder to ‘ational Banks, and others. The amount of fractional currency redeemed during the week, $486,616 45. The disbursements for the week are as follows:— ‘The amount of National Bank currency issued during @e week was $49,700, and the actual amount in circula- ‘thon at thisdate—ihe currency returned—including worn out notes, which amounts to $3,607,983, being deducted— ‘ts $208, 900,474. ‘The internal revenue receipts to-day amounted to (@278,320; for the week they foot up $1,976,942; the @ggregate for the fecal year to this date is $224,680,463. The securities held by the Treasurer of the United ‘States in trust for national banks, reported to-day, are aa follows:— For circul notes. barr) Bor deposits of public money. Copper from Mexico. Commissioner Joseph 3. Wilson, of the General Land @O@ce, received to-day a very fine specimen of out- «@opping from the Nanciemente Copper Mines of New fees situated sixty-five miles west of Zante Fé. The 18 of the black oxide of copper, weighs over pounds, and assays sixtythree per cent \ General Schofield’s Appolatments. \ Major General Schofield, commanding the first Mili- uy district, bas announced the appointment of Brevet C.¥osel H. B. Burnham as Judge Advocate of the dis- tritt; Brevet Major§C. Rodney Layton, Eleventh United tates infantry, is ordered to continue on duty as Acting Assimant Judge Advocate of the district, reporting to G@olone! Buraham. Sargeen General’s Office Now Open for Bueinens. Ford’s theatre, which has #0 long been undergoing alts,rations to render it suitable for the occupation of the Bargeon General's Department, is at length completed ‘and 0,°n for business. The lower floor is occupied by ove ban‘dred and twenty clerks of the Record and Pen- sion Division, under the charge of Assistant Surgeon J. J. Woodward, United States Army; Applications tor pensions are referred by the Cdumissioner of Pensions to™ this division, where she records POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Sarors Rosssp iv 4 Portsr Hous. —On Friday night two sailors, named William Morgan and Bartholomew French, recently from a foreign port, left their boarding house 190 Cherry street, im company with Wil- liam Ryder, who took them to the porter house coruer of Water and Oliver streets, where Michael Feeny is em- Liquor was freely given to the ey became intoxicated, and while in that condition $72 in English gold coin notes were taken ih was similarly relieved of Ryder was seen fumbii: om Smee as an wenn means jcer ¢ Fou Feeny and Ryder, and found in ion some gold and a which Morgan 1° The information is exceedingly tine point of view, and is being disection of Surgeon General J. K. Barnes for publication, in a work to be called A ployed as barkeeper. seamen and eventually i from Mi 's resolution of Congress, The third floor contains the Army Medical Museum, under the charge of Dr. Otis, embracing an extensive collection of anatomical curiosities and specimens of skilful surgery, as well as cases that have been improp- erly treated. There is algo connected with the Surgeon jerzan’s pockets, y afternoot committed to the Tombs for trial in default of $1,000 Daileach. They both not guilty, Ryder is a and born Feeny is a native of THREATENING TO SHOOT BY 4 Dervry SaxRivr.—Jobn C. Lyst, one of the Deputy Sheriffs, and Charles Ham- mond, 165 East Eleventh street, had a slight altereation in the vicinity of Fulton market yesterday afternoon, ed, drew a pistol, with which Hammond. Officer’ Worden, of interfered and arrested bs, where justice Dow! laboratory, under Assistant Surgeon B. F. Craig. The Virginia Tax Bill—Efforts to Secure the Colored Vote for the Radicals. The Tax bill, providing for the payment of the interest on the State debt, passed both houses of the Virginia Legislature to-day, and is now a law The following are the main features of the bill:—Real estate, not exempt from taxation, thirty cents on every hundred dollars of assessed value; male persons not exempt by bodily in- Srmity, sixty conte; personal propesty, thirty cents on every handred dollars; on all salaries in excess of $1,000, one per cent per annum; on the gross earnings of all railroads and canals, two-fifths of one per cent; on the Gross earnings of all express companies in the State, one Per cent for each quarter; on tho dividends declared by banks and insurance companies, five per cont on was taken to the him to bail in $300 to answer sions, Brrrex By 4 Ferocious Doc.—Yesterday afternoon Peter Farrell entered the premises of Charles Hernkind, 125 Washington street, to sell a quantity of onions, when it is alleged Hernkind ordered him out, and at the same time set a ferocious dog upon him. caught Farrell by the breast, tearing his clothes and par- Hernkind then ran up stairs, whither he was pursied by officer Griffin and arrested, The prisoner was taken before Justice Dowling and held to bail to answer a charge of assault and battery. reli, the complainant, lives at No. 85 Sheriff street, Cruzxty To 4 Horse.—James McKeon was yesterday arrested by officer Reilly, of the Fitth precinct, on the charge of cruelty, in driving through the streets a horse his back beneath the saddle. Justice Dowlng held Reilly to bailin the sum of $300 to answer before the Court of Special Sessi VaGrant Pockersoox Drorrgrs.—Stewart Wilson, Al- vert Wheeler and Robert Neil were brought before Justice Dowling yesterday morning on the charge of being idle persons and vagrants, having no lawful em- ployment or visible means of support, The prisoners ‘are known as pocketbook droppers, who hang about the North river piers watching their opportunity to swindle verdant countrymen by means of the drop game, son, Wheeler and Neil were committed to the Tombs for tially mutilating the flesb. received. Merchants, commission merchants, and all the professions, are also taxed, the tax on liquor dealers being one hundred dollars if by wholesale and forty if by retail On the manufacturers of ardent spirits thirty dollars, and on all malt liquors dollars, On theatres six dollars for eadh week of any performance; Cireusses ten dollars each show, and five percent on Gross receipts, This bill is also intended to defray the expenses of a Convention to be held in Richmond in September next, when it is supposed the registration will have been completed, and elections will have been held under the terms of the military bills and the order of General Schofield. Since the adjournment of the radical Virginia colored convention the question of the negro vote in that State has been the Hopes are still entertained by prominent South- negro vote will be conservative on the whole. This opinion ts, however, dissented from by many, who aver that the entire State has been canvassed by emissaries in the radical interests, This has not been done by means of public meotings, issuing handbills, or any of the ordinary modes of po- litical canvass, but agents, both negro and white, have been travelling through the remote portions of the State, and have had personal interviews with every colored voter, in which the negro has been pledged to vote radi- Secret societies, maintained by the radicals, is another measure adopted by that party to inevitabiy se- cure the colored vote in Virginia. which influence will prevail. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Extraordinary Session of the Sen ‘Wasuincrox, April 20, 1867, MEDIATION IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS, The doors being temporarily opened, Mr. Suuxxr sub- mitted the following resolation, proposing the good offices of the United states between the contending parties of Mexico which bad two sores on VioLatinc Taz Boat Law.—Two young men named John Brown and John Cantron were yesterday ar- rested on board the ship Andrews, where they were reons on board, in violation the Twenty-fourth precine! took the prisoners before Justice Dowling, who require them to give bail to answer th of General Sessions. A Yoururct Forczr.—A young man, who gives his name as John A. Nugent, was yesterday brought before Justice Dodge, of the Jefferson Market Police Court, for forging and counterfeiting an order in the name of Phil- bin & Quinn upon the firm of Hayden, Gere & Co., hard. ware merchants, From the testimony adduced it is shown that Nugent, who is only nineteen years of ago, was in the employ of the firm in whose name the orders were forged, but had been discharged since. Being hard up, he determined to and choose the very on his former em; parties to whom holding intercourse w ern politicians that 1g charge before the Court jayers to accomplish hie furgiowe. "Th loyers to accomp! 8 pu e e presented the orders, believing them 1, furnished the property, cocks, valued at $48, It ig still doubtful Jess money. On being arraigned before the Justice rf acknowledged his guilt and gave such information as led ‘He was committed in ry of the, property. ; Auzcep Larceny oF D1aMoxpa—George Lauray, driver of a Fifth avenue stage, was arraigned yesterday at the Essex Market Police Court upon a charge of lar- ceny, preferred against him by Ferdinand Zoybaum, of ‘No, 10 Maiden lane. The circumstances under which the offence is alleged to have been committed are thus inant:—About eleven o'clock A, with bis wife, a and nurse, got Bin ‘September 16 lady friend and her two i e avenue stage, Hy ils 1 i i ok: | +f BEE P i & i 4 li i gees i ! No, 36,—Mr. A. D. Dubois, upon whom an attack was recently made as he was entering the school house in Ninth at mid lars of which have been street, re gen Fagg B- ve bit a] si. eas fees ca at nee eras complaint against the afterwards com’ charge of felovious assault and VioLations oF Tas Excise Law.—Anthon Osten, No, 802 Washington street, and James Hayes, No. 245 Ninth avenue, were brought before Justice Dodge, at the Jefferson Market Police violating the Excise law. answer in the sum of $300. Sorr yor Liset.—In the matter of the alleged libel suit instituted by G. L. Fox against Frank Queen the before Justice Shandley, at the jce Court, yesterday, and gave bonds CRUELTY To AmrmaLs.—Michael Haggerty was arraigned yesterday at the Easex Market Police Court, charged as above in setting on a dog to worry a cow in Suffolk street, Justice Shandley held bim in $300 to answer. Matthew Rudden was held to answer in $100 by Jus- sare athe een fe Une of blood may be avoided. THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT. parties in custody. 4 without bail, to answer to a The Senate farther its time of adjournment battery and robbery. sine die, and took a recess from five until eight o'ciock this evening, to act upon nominations. Evening Session. MEDIATION IN MEXICAN ‘The Senate met at eight o'clock. When the doors were opened, Mr. Jouxson, (dem.) of Md., offered lations, namely :— Whereas during the ctvil ‘the United Sta: lished & DESCENTS LAST NIGHT. Raid on a Den of Ill Fame. At a late hour last night Sergeant Schoonmaker, of the Fitteenth precinet, acting under the instructions of Cap- tain Caffrey, and with the co-operation of officers Barker ‘day. qT junicate s copy of these 15 the President of the United Statens? The resolutions were ordered to lie Senate die. ALONG THE HUDSON. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. i HE & i i : ! i Ha dl i i iy z i z it fe H 4 [ a ae fl i j : i ' l PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. President Johneon has accepted an invitation from the citizens of Raleigh, N. C., to be present at that place bout the middle of May, at the laying of » corner stone s = , Samael Clemens, of San Francisco, numerous cone) is in town, at NEW YORK ‘WERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. Db) whom he was apprenticed at the age of stgteen, remain- ing with them five years and three months, his first Position of trust (in 1849 and 1850) was the superintend- ing of the construction of the engines of the United States steamer Saranac, after which he removed to Montgomery, Ala, and was employed as superintendent of the Winter Iron Works, in which position he remained until 1852 During the last mentioned year Mr. Tf. removed to this State, and was employed as superin- tendent of Starback’s Iron Works, in Troy, remain- ing for eighteen months, until the burning of the build- ings in 1354 About this time, and soon after the burning of the works of b's employer, the young engi- neer returned to New York city, where he soon found himself installed as draughtsman and superintendent of repairs for the Collins line of ips, ta which capacity he served Ove and a halt youre While at the Novelty Works, where for short time he was foreman of the shop, ne projected celebrated air and steam locomotive. After leaving ‘employ of the Collins Com Mr. T. was the recipient Of @ proposition from Messrs. Nason & Dodge, 61 Beek- man street, in whose employ he remained’ until the beneking ot of the war, when he bocams identified with Captain John Ericsson in the construction of the moni- tors, and acted for some time as that gentleman's super- mtending engineer. In this capacity he was identified with the construction of the P Sangamon and Lehigh, which last he delivered at the Hampton Roada, and received in reward for his services the appointment of local inspector of iron-clad war steamers from the Hon, Gideon Welles, and was immediately ordered to Philadetpbia to oversee the construction of the light draught monitor Yazoo. Before this vessel was com- pleted, however, Mr. Thomas resigned in favor of a pro- position from W. Perrine, of Wil , to — tend the bailding of tho light draught monitor Nabuc, after which he was calied by Messrs, Haughwout & Co, to superintend the steam-warming of the Vassar Coilege at Poaghkeepae. "Soon after, Mr. Thomas re- , Me., where he was omployed in the construction of the Wassuc, subsequently returning to New York and engaging with Joho ft as super. int engineer, whose employ he left in favor of a from James Gordon Bennett, Jr., to super- int the steam and gas fitting of the new HxraLo Buildi This gentieman is forty-four years old, and bas bis spurs as a ecientific and practical engineer. ‘The Decorative Marble Work | was committed to the firm of Messrs, Fisher & Bird, whose skill ag artista in marble has begn employed in fashioning the ornamentation of the now building, These gentlemen are tbe sons and saccessors of the members of the firm of the same name which wag founded in 1831 and occupied asa workshop a small build: ing at the corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets. There were at that time only six marble workshops in New York, where there are now about seventy-five. In 1834 Fisher & Bird (the elders) removed to the Bowery, corner of Houston street, then North street, above which the country was at that time no more than a vacant, unsettled farm land; and in 1859 the buildings now occupied by the firm, from 97 to 103 Houston street, were built and fitted up with all ap. pliances of steam power for the sawing, smoothing, turming and polishing of marble. The firm has, consequently, been in existence thirty-six years, and has become more thoroughly identified with de- coration in marble of American pattern and manufac- ture than perhaps any other existing firm. During the above period, these gentlemen have extended their business into every department of marble work, from the cutting of headstones, tablets and monuments to the more elaborate fashioning of statuary and orna- mental work in stone. The New Orleans Custom House, which may be con- sidered one of the most claborately decorated buildings in America, shipped the whole of its marble work from the maoufactory of this firm; and nearly every one of the leading hotels in New York is adorned with spe- cimens of their handiwork—with the exception, per- haps, of the Fifth Avenue. Among these may be men- tioned the foilowing:—Metropolitan Hotel, Hoffman House, New York Hotel, Kennard House, Cleveland, Ohio; Brevoort House, New York; Russell House, De- froit; Imperial Hotel, New Orleans, Tho Decorative Wood Work was designed and executed by Mr. J. W. Vandewater, to whose skill and invention are to be ascribed the de- signs of the interior decorative wood-work. He has long stood at the head of his profession as a decorative designer in wood, having, perhaps, carried the art tos THE NEW HERALD BUILDING. SKETCHES OF THE ARTISTS. The following are brief sketches of the gentlemen who were engaged in the erection of the new Hxnaup Build ing:— The Architect. Jonx Kx.Lvm, to whose skilbin design the symmetry and completeness of the new building are due, has been for some years especially identified with the progress of classicism in American art, and has probably succeeded more felicitously in plans of this order than any New York builder. Mr. Kellam won his spurs as a knight of the pencil and a master of constructive art through some contro- versy in regard to the building of Mocars, Ball & Black, om Broadway, of which the plaus were drawn by him— some raiber minute calculations in regard to the weight of the several floors in determining the relative bulk of material, necessary to support them having elicited cou- siderable discussion among members of the profession, and given rise to seemingly plausible objections from those who had been accustomed to calculate the weight to be supported, and the material necessary to its solid support, with less mathematical nicety than the draughtaman of the designa By objections of this sort the work om the building was stopped and some delay occurred, though, upon due explanaiion and demonstration of the validity of his reasonings on the part of the young professional, the wort was soon resumed and the building completed, ‘With considerable invention and unusual powers of calculation the success of Mr. Kellum was a cer- tainty from the begianing, and it is not a matter of won- der “4 fed his ao mere closely identified with the progress of the metropolis than the name of any other single artist, The finest business edifices in this city— icularly those latterly erected; of which she estab- ishment of H. B, Claflin & Co., may be takon as an ex~ ample—are due to a happy hit of his in the application of the ee neorige Kw — wpe ape cae poses; and that will gradually work into general favor is sufficiently obvious from the fact that it combines tastefulness with uulity toa greater extent than any other which has yet beon introduced, and cannot, therefore, fail of popularity, unless super- seded by some more felicitous adaptation, ‘Of adaptation of the classical to the purposea of mod ern civilization, the new Court House, the drawings of which are due to Mr. Kellum’s fertility of inveution, is probably, the best example in New York city, aad, though modelied upon the principles ect forth m the treatise of Palladio, has some originality of offect, being far legs servile than the Girard Collego or the Philadel phia Custom House. In this building Mr. K. has adopted the Roman-Corinthian column in all its proportions; and, though the remainder of the building {a in the man~ ner of Palladio, the portico has certainly no superior as of Corinthian in the United States—if Girard College, the columns of which are copied from those of the monument of Lysiorates be excopted. Stewart’s new building, corner of Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, the lower story of which is very pure Corinthian, forms another of the unique triumphs of Mr. Kellum in the adaptation of design to location, and, when completed, will probably present tho renaissance in {ts utmost susceptibility to harmony and grandeur of fMeot, - * Tn the new Heratp Building, which is ornate Italian, with windows in the manner of Palladio—a building which bears a closer resemblance to the new Louvre, at Poris, than, perhaps, to any other edifice known to the travelling public—the difficalty occasioned by the super. eral stories bi simple a device as the Mansard roof; thus imbuing the building with a certain Jonicism of grace and loftiness, which, without the device of the Mansard roof, would have been utterly unat- tainable. Without being Ionic, and being, in fact, or- nate Italian, the Heraup Building in point of effect is very felicttously imbued with the Tonic feeling—and this, in without the introduction of any one dis. tmetive re of the lonic anatomy. The use of the Mansard roof affords the key to this attaining of Ionic ‘and loftiness without the introduction of elaborate [onto devices; and to this pened fi, Re og critics ascribe the unique harmon; 8 which is pita aosuspansabie in these qualities, Mr. Kellum is now engaged upon tho designs of A.T. Stewart's ted building, to rege A the er a icicle ea large retail store, corner an i Ps ‘ead soveral othep butld- decoration of a large number of the finest business edifices on that thoroughfare is due altogether in point of art design to his fertility of inveation, Tt has been to the study of the art apan art that the attention of Mr. Vandewater has been mostly directed, and hence his success in baving engrafted upon simpli- all i tie es \< posite, rath Sev, e without infringing u mite of the Pay Meg ag hy ry hearty, English ‘of & man of leisure. Brix ‘has donetiore for the prosress of tbe classical | Sens in interior been those of the fol- Ttalian in building than any living compeer. bakes buildings F i z 7 i i SEE i y Hg por van deap lees esr isgycap cA Mamriegiae competition with Moses Taylor and otbers, aad emtab- gentlemen have latteriy been entrusted with conteots be Dons ye may ag dow aco sg in wood. for some of the finest buildings erected and now Some ago Mr. Vandewater and filled Ne Ye ba an order from the Hon. William H. Seward, for the manu- Deing erected in New York, having been | facture of several cases made of native wood for the See cleantse belting et" natn, ein | CORSET Renbeet’ options IIL "ana tae tare oe re , cee é Sout hie lan werk of enlasaze-cond that pon & Co. Subsequently proposals wore received by | which ‘takes bis reputation as a master of design-—baa, them from A. T. Stewart to take the responsibility of | been the designing and execution of the decorative wood 26 manon Works ts tne oreition Sf the Rew artie: 1 Sr oT ere a falicty of combination ard edifice, comer of Fifth avenue ahd Thirty-fourth street, | Guaiaey” gaa! targus ot” pleuding: aay work of the upon which they have been engaged for several years, SS vecaeeatnh tie ae ann RTH and which is reputed to be, as to its mason work, one fandewster claims, also, originat! ides of to woods to be used in his art woat is of the most solid and thoroughly durable stractares in predee g idey drying process, by which, equalizing wae enn, oe A part of their work for the past | the evaporation, the wi fabric and bre of the material five years been after the designs of Mr. Kellum, shrink in unison, thus attaining the double Heraxp, which they reckon among their masterpieces ‘Mr. Vandewater was born December 18, 1824, at of finished elegance and solidity. Hempstead, L. 1, and is of an old Holland family; These gentlemen have been engaged in business apprenticed to Benjamin Newhouse in Hudson street, and began business at 63 Ann street about fifteen years ago; was nearly ruined in 1861, but succeeded in re- covering from the financial shock, and is now doing a beavy Dosiness in bis profession; was the recipient of a ea to submit designs for the decorative intertor work of the now Henatp building in December, in 1466, and submitted a sories of designs which, with somo little modification, were accepted, and the accepiance of the city, having their office at No. 111 West Thirty- third street, and regularly employing from one to two hundred men. The Iron Work. ‘The iron work has been supplied by the old firm of J. B, & W. W. Cornell, who have, in connection with this building, won a triumph in the application of iron equipped works in the United States for the constraction of fireproof buildings. The firm was founded in 1847, when tho two brothers (J. B, and W. W. Cornell), having The Wood Work. John Fowler, who bas superintended the carpenter work of the new building, tias been long knows as @ master of his business among builders in this city, being not only foremost in his profession, but having had considerable experience asa draughtsman and do. mgner, Mr. Fowler is a native of New York, baving learned his trade here, and was originally foreman fo > John N, Trimble, who will be recollected as the builder of several of our leading theatres, and reputedly the most thorough master of this department of the art in America. In this capacity Mr. Fowler euperintended ‘the construction of the Broadway theatre, of Winter Garden and other celebrated places of resort among our metropolitan pleasure seekers. In 1856 Mr. Fowler resigned bis position as foreman of Mr. Trimble’s bu- gathered from the fact that twenty years ago there was work. hardly a building im the United States in which more pase than $10,000 worth of iron was employed, while to-day work of the ‘edifices are numbered by the dozen in the construction a came of which from $200,000 to $300,000 have been expended thoagh ‘upon the iron work alone; and not s little of this pro- Sewt, grees hes been due to the enterprise and invention of Sat ‘this firm, Mr. J. B, Cornell having been long noted for fer- and tility of invention in this department of setence, and a ‘ice, 1m commection with great part of the fron work now used for building pur- } A being manufactared Sewnich about twen Fra as the Paseat Office, plotonees The first bu! these tle men were the House, Sivan: Bab, | Gooraio, Mutual Insu- the elements the application coustrection slong intrasted with the repair: ‘Among the principal of which in Be i Ay work of David W. Biegy d. %. & | Orpheus and stephen D, O'Keefe—a couple of young men Ancrh bab a 8 2 he State of ow established themselves ia business in the year 1856 = ls -) mx have since, owing to in- these ie. aa, teat thay: 3 He crease in business, opened a second establishment at pote. Tn fot, the uss of fronwork, in building bas be: ir main ‘come almost universal; and so perfect is the suscept- wo and bility of thie material vo be wrought into delicate forms of ornamentation, that it a very likely that of progress basiness im the ase of it the eae only seen the intrusted penne rar hcreatten apie, Ce cinerial, moald sud | with some of the most extensive and dimMoutt jobs more than is Pole clumsy wood and the best tary simsent of f09 attr, nod inwrodacing aa. sity ad ty palatial crandeur of ensemble. ta the rea; The Engineering and Gan Fitting have been saperiniended by Mr. W. K. Thomas, a gentle. man who has considerable experience in conneetion the with the bailding of iron-clads, and one who has been men, end have won 0 decided itiumph in con, long known as an abie, inventive and skilfal engineer, new having flied wih credit to himeoif various positions of mins of tan coer Commer ie ane responsibility and trast, Having served # regular, ap- Shaw & | prenticesbip with Isaac and Seth Adams, of Boston, to lambing has hitherto boen considered by member asa diflculs and rather Iimpravticabie tak” Hoth mane tlomen Jearned their trade in New York, and having served the proper period as journeymen plumbers, with experience, energy aud moderate means began business for th ves, and now employ regularly from eight to twelve meg. This department of the work has been completed at @ cost of $13,000, The Presses. Near the boilers rise the frames of a couple of Hoo's cylinder presses, which are driven by a powerful engine, also of Hoe’s manufacture, located near. The presses are of the size familiarly known as eight cylinder, and have been so firmly set in their places as to dispense with not a little of the clang alwayeincident to the action of large presses, The inventor of the cylinder pross, Robt. Hoe, is too well known through the value of the in- vention to need biography, though the improvements which from time to time he has made on his own inven- tion have been manifold, until he has in all probability compassed the manufacture of a press which will pelang in use without substantial alteration. The presses in the new HeRavp Building have been supplied from the foundry and manufactory of R. Hoe & Co., corner of Broome and Sheriff streets, from whose manufactory have been supplied most of the presses, 6 and small, now used throughout the United States, is firm has been in existence for many yeara, and. benotit of the in- vention accruing to the family the ioventor—will probably be a monopoly in the manufacture of presses until some new invention shall suppiant in rapidity of execution and convenience the principle upon waieb the distinguished inventor has based his improvement upon the old form of the printing press. The Engines, Bollers, Elevators and Pamps. Mr. AS Cameron & Co., corner of Twenty-second street and Second avenne, have supplied the active steam pumps which clank near the iron-thewed Hoe’s cylinder presses. The two huge boilers which lie in the deep tunnelling beneath Broadway, were manufactured at the extensive establishment of Mossra. Pease & Murphy. From J. P. Otis & Brother's foundry and workshops at Yonkers, N. Y., have been supplied quick working engines which heave upward and lower their iron elevators, aod Messrs. Caldwell, Shaw & W.!- Hard have supplied the tin lined-pipe used in the plamb- ing material of the new estabiist: ment, experience having demonstrated the superiority of Mr. Shaw's invention over ordinary lead pipe for the con’ the ductility of ite application to 6 nary plurabin g. THE NATIONAL GUARD. nee of water and purpose of ordi- FIRST BRIGADE. In compliance with orders.from brigade headquarters this brigade will parade for exercise and tnstraction on Monday, May 7, at Tompkins square. Field and stat officers mounted, Line will be formed at the east sido of the square, facing west, at half-past two o'clock P.M. The parade being for instruction only regimental bands will be dispensed with, The feld officers and adjitants of the several regiments will assemble for theoretical in- struction, at the armory of the Twelfth regiment, on Monday evening, 22d inst, at eight P. M., in undress uniform, without arms, The resignations of the follow- ing officers have beon received at brigade headquarters and accepted by the Commander-in-Chief mpon the ac- complishment of their terms of service:—Lieutenant Colonel W. I. Coles, Seventy-first regiment, February 2, 1867; Lieutenant Colonel L. Satterloe, Tweifth regiment, March 25, 1867, the following appointments, aro an- nounced upon the brigade staff:—George R. =chieffelin, Judge Advocate, Rowland M. Hall, Aia. THIRD BRIGADE, During the past week the following orders have been issued by the Commandant of the brignde:— The commissioned officers of this brigado will assem- ble on April 26 at the armory of the Eighth Regiment, corner of Grand and Centre streets, at 8 o'clock F.N., in undress uniform, without side arms, for theoretical instruction. They are aiso ordered to‘ assemble, in up- dress uniform, with side arms, on Mondays, stb and 18th of May, at the State Arsonat, corner of Seventh ‘avenue and Thirty-fifth street, at § o'clock P. M., for practice in the evolutions of the brigade, FIRST RRGIMSNT. The first of the evening parades of this regiment was held at Washington square on Wedncaday last, Colonel Hawkins was in command and put the regiment throuch the several movements by companies and battalion. A Competitive drill for the champtonship of the regi- ment will be held on the evening oi the 29th inst., be- tween and the StateArsenal Captain Barnett aad ex-captain Child have been selected as jadess, and Brigadier General J. M. Varinn. referee. 1 will bein the school of the company acd soldier, according to Casey's tactics, and the manual of arms as practised by the regiment An exhibition of guard mounting will also be given. ‘ RIGHTH REGIMENT. A battalion drill of this regiment.was held on Monday last at Tompkins’ square. Ten compaties, of Colonel Carr some one hundred movements. At the con- vlusion of the drill the regiment passed in review before Brigadier General Varian. its old commander. TWELFTH REGIMENT. The following orders have been issued by the com- mandant of Tegiment :—The officers non-com- fat uniform, ‘with olde’ ae tenon poe a fatigue armas, for, jon and dril at the State Arsenal, corner of Seventh avenue and Thir- ty-fifth street, on Wednesday evening, May 8, at a quar- culloressaccemel und teeipped, (white giaveah tr bor w equi wi ) tor talion at the State Arsenal, Corner of Boventh ave- nue and -Afth tweet, on Friday evening, May 10. The members of company:D of this regiment cele- brated the anniversary of their departure for the war in 1861 on ' evening last at the armory, corner of and colonels and a farge numberof officers of the First division, Guard mounting was com- menced at about half; eight o'clock, and at the clore or tary ‘& promenade was induiged tn by all present, Dodworth’s band in the meanwnilo dis- irs. The Board of of this regiment have recently adopted the following as the recimental coat of arms, n octagon divided into four branches, on which are letters 3. N. Y. On the surface of the crozs is a blue enamelied circle, on which ts the word “De- fendam” and the letters N.G. In the centre of circle are the figures 22 This design, in brass, is on front of the full Grees hat of the regiment. SRVENTY-PINST REGIMENT. A battalion drill of this regiment was held on the 12th instant, at the State Arsenal, with Colonel Parmelee in command. There were ten commands, of eleven files each, and @ very successful exhibition was ey et all. On Friday evening last Companies D and G of (ais regiment hada moonlight parade, and after marching through several streets from the armory to the residence of Colonel Parmelee, in Tuirty-third street, tendered to that gentieman tho compliment of a sereuade, A number of alar airs were discoursed by the band, when the nel in respouse to loud calls appeared on the balcony of his residence and returued his thanks for the compliment. SRVENTY-NINTA REGIMENT. A battalion drill of thix regiment came off on Mon- day evening last at the State Arseuc!, which was attend- ed by eight companies with av average of nine files each. regiment will hold aici tier battalion drift to- morrow evening at the same place. These drills are under the supervision of Breve: Brigadier General Farnsworth. SBCOND DIVE-ATOR. Goneral H. B. Duryea has iseued an order direct- ing commissioned officers of the filth and eleventh and provement, ‘ot the state Arsenal, in Port- Brooklyn, on the 20th inst, ateight o’clock, jm undress uniform, without side arma. THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. ‘This command will give agirill by battalion on the 26th li if la He cuit 2 i