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4 a an neneneneammanney whi NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—IN ADMIRALTY. Collision Case Decisions. Before Judge Blatchford. Michael Murphy vs. The Bark Emitie, ana Christian HT. Watjen and Others vs, The Schooner Pilot Boat Abraham Leggett.—These were cross libels—the first by the owner of the pilot boat against the Emilie, the second by the owner of the Emilie against the pilot t for collision. The Judge held that the collision a2 Suatast the plot boat; that the evidence didnot tide against 3 evidence C4 oe lot boat’s anchor the ground, ani the pilot boat ort was & collision. be dismissed and the decree be ited, with a reference to a commissioner to as- Certain the amount to be awarded, J. K. Hil and ‘W. Q. Morton for the Emile; Beebee Donohue for the pilot boat Leggett. i Collisien on the Hudson. " John H, Crawford and Others vs. The Steamboais America and New Haven.—This case, which was opened on Friday, and adjourned to yesterday morn- ing, was resumed after the calendar had been called. The opening statement and the cause of action have been already fully reported in the HEnaLp. The libellants were tie Owners of the canal boat which was one of a fleet in tow by the iow Haven going up the Hudson in Ootober, ‘1865, and at a point in the river near Alnny the America then coming down the river to New York struck the Contest and did her consiterable injury. ‘The libel wag filed to recover compensation for the damages sustained by the boat and her cargo, and ‘hence not only the America, by which the blow was struck, but the New Haven, which had the Contest tow, is included in the action. The case 1s con- lucted as if the struggle lay between the two steam- boats as to which should suffer the penalty, ‘The Ubellants are demanding ample compensation for their alleged losses, and the only question at issue is, “Who is to pay?’ The America says, “The fault is not mine,” and the New Haven says, “It is, and not mine’ The Contest looks on ey at the struggle. The court is occupied in taking oral testimony and the case is still on. ‘The testimony having been concluded counsel sum- pe the court taking the papers and reserving ecision, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—CRIONAL BRANCH, The Van Campen Hubens Corpus Case. Before Judge Blatchford. The United States vs. Samuel R, Van.Campen.— In this case, which had been argued last Saturday, the Judge rendered his decision, in which, after a review of the evidence and circumstances of the case, he sustained the committal by Commissioner Betts, and affirmed that the defendant should abide the action of the Grand Jury in the ordinary course of the administratioa of the laws. The habeas corpus and certiorari had in this case should be therefore vacated. Condemnations of Whiskey. On motion of Mr. Rollins, United States Assistant District Attorney, decrees of condemnation and sale were taken in the following cases:—The still and ten barrels of spirits found at Ebling & Co.'s, West Thirty- ninth street; five barrels same at 34 New Bowery, one case of smoking tobacco at pier No. 21 North river, 130 gallons spirits at No. 54 Columbia street, four barreis same at No. 280 Elizabeth strect, two barrels same at No, 42 Mott street, two barrels same at 126 East Twenty-sixth street, twenty-eight barrels same at No. 218 Pearl street, ten barrels same at No, 448 ‘West Thirty-sixth sireet, two barrels same at No. 232 East Fortieth street, fourteen barrels same at No. 362 Greenwich street, and two stills aud two tanks at No. 270 West Forty-ninth street. Pzatidene Filed in Bankruptcy Yesterday. ward H. Branch—Referred to Register Williams. Franklin Burns—Referred to Register Fitch. lomon 8. Cohn—keferred to Register Dayton. © foregoing are of New York city. james KR, Alien, Cuatham Four Corners, Columbia county—Referred to Register Beabe, SUPREME COURT—CHAMB ERS. 4A Carious Divorce Case—A United States Cone sal in an Uncomfortable Fix—Complications im the Hymenial Knot—How Divorces Arc Obtained. Before Judge Barnard. Morgan L. Smith vs. Mary Ann Smith.—In Decem- ber, 1866, the plaintif obtained in the Supreme Court of this city and county a decree of divorce from his wife, the defendant, on the ground of alleged adultery on her part with various persons, Mrs. Smith was at the time, and now is, a risident of Newport, Ky., and when plaintiff obtained the decree he swore that he was a nt of this State; but it is now claimed that he was then tually a resident of St. Louis, Mo. A short time previous he had occupied the position of Gencral Agent of the Southern division of the Little Miam{ Railroad, and had during the war attained the rank of gen- eral in the Union army in the Southwest. A short time after obt. his decree against this defendant he married a Miss Jinella, of Vicksburg, Miss, who has since borne him one child, and m February, 1867, he was appeinted United States Consul at Hono- th Rennes Islands, and shown to be a citizen o It appears that the first intimation his wife had of the decree of divorce against her was on December 8, 1866, when Mr. Simith came to his home in New: port, y., and just before leaving the house again formed his wife that he had obtained a decree of divorce. She asked what he meant, and he replied that it was “a kind of mutual atrangement for separation between us.’ She protested against the idea and asked him where he obtained it, and he declined to give bh he informa- tion, mé remarking that vorces could be obtain very easily in the e of In- diana.” He then lefi her with fye children and some time elapsed before it could be ascertained under what jurisdiction the decree had been granted, but it was uitinately found to be among the records of the Supreme Court of this State. * ‘Me case caine up yesterday on a notion to set aside the decree a3 fraudulent and void, The defence asked for delay in order to secure the atiendance or alidavits of witnesses who, it is alleged, are now living in Omaha (Nebraska), Cincinnati, New Orleans, Newport (Ky.) aud St. Louls, These witnesses are the nh Whose testimony tie decree was gran and it seemed to puzzle the court to ascer- tain by What singular circumstance ali these pe sons should have left the city aud taken up their residence in places so far distant, willin so short a time after the former trial. The court decided not to act peremptortiy in the matter, but gave the defendent leave to submit his aftidavits at any ume before June 15, 186% when nt will be entered on motion. For the mo- . B. Morrill; opposed, D. W. Adams, The Erie Litigauion—Another Postponement. Eight motions in the Erie litigation were upon the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1868 Beach was neither a trustee nor ereditor of the estate nor guardians of the lunatics, the two sons, but merely a trusted friend of Humphreys, the father, in bis lifetime, and who wished in his action in this pn iad protect helpless relatives from rapacious cousins, Aiter argument the court decided that the oomm|s- sion granted on application of Mr. Beach gave him only conditional power, aud had been supersérs io vacated by the subsequent one granted tated in the Young, ough it was hot expressly vo Ete a force, id Judge an and Ju Ek hy ‘The motion, ther was denied’ and the ‘application to vacate order granted, SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. ‘Phe Révinson Diverce Case. Before Judge McCunn, Etizabeth D, Robinson vs, Cornelius D, Robinson.— Judgment was rendered in this case yesterday morn- ing. The plaintiff brought a sult for divorce, on the tery, while the defence charged the Ree siinllar offence. The motion was now made for alimony, Which was granted at $25 a week and $260 counsel tee. Decisions. By Judge Monell, Hopman et al. vs. The Union Paper Collar Com- pom <inenoton dissolved in part and in part modili By Judge McCann. Kirkpatrick et al. vs, Frederick granted and proceeal ed. Dilworth v3, Bost tion pronien, Brett et al. vs, Mainy et al.—Motioa to amend answer granted on payment of $50 costs. Fowler v8. Burnham.—Motion granted, COURT OF GENERAL — SESSIONS, ‘THIS DAY. Before Judge Russel. In this court yesterday Edward Latton pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a trunk containing $190 worth of clothing from Jesse Williams, and was sent to the State Prison for two ears. Stephen Canfield, who was charged with urgiariously entering the premises of the New York Varnish Company on the 25th of April, pleaded guilt; to an attempt at burglary in the third degree an was sentenced to the Penitentiary. Wilham Christopher, against whom there was a charge of stealing a gold watch and @ set of, qawraly from Thomas Lynch, 20 New Bowery, pleaded guilty to Letiessiae 4 at grand larceny. Sentence was post- poned. ab the first was vacaine © td mated Re. was his intent. second order aside the ‘rst Cyrus.—Motion COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Supreme Covrt--Crrcuit.—Part 1,—Nos. 3 1831, 1333, 7, 533, 132 45, 1347, 1349, Part 2.— , 978, 340, 250, 1024, 1076, 1082, 786, Supreme CoURT—CHAMBERS. 105, Surerion CourT—TRIAL TERM.—Part 1.—Nos. 8781, 3801, 3951, 2955, 3891, 3893, 3833, 3867, 1089, 3027, 3029, 5933, 3741, 3063, 3071. Part 2.—Nos. 4006, 3450, 4168, 3736, 4034, 4012, 4048, 4098, 4098, 4100, 4102, 4104, 4106, 4108, 4110. 1093,1287, ComMMON PLEAS—TRIAL TeRM.—Part 2.—Nos. 566, 966, 433 343, 708, 735, 820, 1902, 688, 1262, 894, 431, 32, 1304, 921. MARINE CouRT—TRIAL TERM.—Nos. 1049, 1259, » 1226, 1155, 1163, 1247, 662, 862, 1053, 452, 1201, 1314, 1315, 1817, 1815, 1318, 1819, 1820, 1321, 1322, 1928, 1824, 1925, 124, 1827, 1328. CITY INTELLIGENCE, PARADE PosTroNeD.—The parade of the Fourth brigade, National Guard, General Aspinwalh, called for in general orders for May 5, has been postponed until the 3d proximo, PROBALY Fatal ACcIDENT.,—Eugene Schultz, a German laborer, twenty years of age, while at work at 104 Canal street yesterday morning, had his right leg, thigh and arm broken by_the falling of a derrick upon him. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, CoRRECTION.—Richard Neville, the man whose death was noticed in yesterday’s HERALD as having resulted froi the effects of intemperance, proves, on investigation, to have died from disease of the heart. FATAL ACCIDENT ON SHIPBOARD.—James Quinn, a Jaborer, while at work on board the ship Hays, at pier No. 45 East river yesterday afternoon, fell from the deck to the lower hold, sustaining a fracture of the skull, from the effects of which he died, He resided in Cherry street and leaves a wife and family. New Yor« AND HARLEM RAILROAD.—The annual election of directors for the New York and Harlem Railroad was held yesterday in the rooms of the company, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, The following are the names of those who have been elected:- ‘anderbiit, W. H. Vanderbilt, W. C. Wetmore, Baylis, H. F. Clark, Augustus Schell, James H. Banker, John M. Tobin, John B, Duteher, William A, Kissam, Oliver Charlick, Joseph Harker and ©, Vanderbilt, Jr. New York Hosprrat.—The election for Governors for the “Society of the New York Hospital” yesterday resulted in the cholce of the following gentlemen:— George T. Trimble, James F, De Peyster, John A. Stevens, David Colden Murray, Robert Lenox Ken- nedy, John David Wolfe, Thomas Hall Faile, John C. Green, Frederick A. Conkling, Nathaniel P. Bailey, Otis D. Swan, James W. Beekman, James Boorman Johnston, Samuel Willets, James M. Brown, Israel Corse, Theodore B, Bronson, Sheppard Gandy, Robert J. Livingston, William Dennistoun, Jackson’ 8. Schultz, George Cabot Ward, George D. H. Gillespie, iliam B. Hoitman, Edward 8. Jaffray, Jonathan Thorne. KnNIGurs OF PyrHtis.—This Order, which, it is re- ported, has created some interest throughout the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia, has just been introduced into this city. On Monday evening, the 18th inst., the first lodge of the Order was instituted at Warren Hall, corner Oliver and Henry streets, to be known as “Rathbone” Lodge, in honor of the founder of the Order in the cliy of New York. It numbers among its members several prominent citizens. Past Grand Chancellor J, H. Rathbone, and Grand Chancellor W, P. Westwood, of the Pro- visional Supreme Grand Lodge, Washington, D. C., were present and installed the officers elect. Hook Lopaine Housk.—The Children’s ely has opened a new lodging house for boys, bearing the above tile, at Nos, 325 and ct, Last night it was formaily opened and about ifty boys presented themselves, ‘They were addressed by the President of the society, Mr. Booth, and the Secretory, Mr. Brace, both of whom exhorted the boys to ruthfal, diligent, per- severing and industrious snecess in life would be sure to reward their efforts, After lsteuing to the remarks of these gentlemen the boys fives down stairs to the supper room and partook of a good substantial meal. At present there are sleep- ity accommotations for fifty boys, and in a short > calendar of this court yesterday, and upon being called were, after some unimportant discussion, ad- journed at the suggestion of the court and by con- Sent of the counsel until the 26th inst, ‘The motion on the Bloodgood injunction granted by Judge Cardozo, but wh t Justice so fre- quently stated be was not desirous of hearing, Will also come before Judge Harnard at the same date. The contempt proceedings against Davis, Skidmore, Lane, Thompson, Gould and * Fisk, which were to have heen heard this afternoon, were also Sdjourned until the 26th inst. ‘was also announced by the court that upon J. S Eldridge com! iuto court, which his setae ex. he would do yesterday Nad the case gone ¢ Bait would be accepted in thea of $10,000 Oo SUPREME COU;RT—CHAMBERS. A Curious Case of Alleged Lunacy—Another Family Maddie—A Squabbdie Abont the Pree perty of a Deceased Relative, Before Juctge I. rl, In the Matter of Bas ard Humphreys, a 8 Lunatic. —In 18%4 Elijah Humphreys diet city, leaving a widow, Maria Humphreys, un children, named respectively Edward, § Anna. The two song, it is said, were both | The daughter Anna died some time since, leaving one child, Anna Hughes, Mra, Haophreys, the relict, took out letters of administration upon the ate of her hinshand, but no settlement of the atfuirs ever took place, and she afterwards claimed ownership in fee of all the property. In 1867 Mrs. Gnagher died, leaving her two sons and her grand- @ second cousin, James Ki. Young, execintor, and he- queathing al! her property toh vranddaughter, who apee eden ae cna Tears oF aving her twosons unp®evided for. r. Humphreys’ estate at the tine of his death amounted to about $50,000, which is claimed to have accunmiated to $150,000 at the de- cease of Mra. Humphreys, and now consists mainly of extensive tracts of land in tilinots, and Peal s- tate in this city valued at $75,000. ‘The will wa offered for probate by Mr. Young, and the contest? ants claim si4 the existence of ihe two sons was" not case came before this court yesteras maleabcoestn behalf of the executor to Youle ca, vowed in this ithe h and order ited by Judge Ingratiam shortly aft will offered for probate, Sppolnting a connie sion in lunacy on lication of Mr. Lewis Reach, to M AD intiwate friendor tho who claims to have father of the family; and the second motion on the part of Mr. Beach to set aside @ subscquent order Tnade by Ju On application of Mr. Young and re, inting the Bane persons who were appointed commissioners in Innacy on the pro. ceding application. Counsel for the Young branch of the case denied that the property was worth the amount stated ($160,000), and contended that it did not amount to more nen 96/000—certelaly @ great diecrepancy in Counsel on behalf of Mr. Reach stated (hat Mr. hter Anna surviving. She also left a will naming | time places for fifty more wiil be provided. THE LATE CHARGES AGAINST POLICE CAPTAIN MiLis.—At a mecting of the Board of Police, held a day or two ago, the charges that have been for some time standing against Captain Mills, of the Eighth precinct, were passed upon. For having arrested a inan named Hayden, because he was standing on the corner o! @ street talaing to a friend one nian O° mis. This motion did not pre- Bosworth moved that the pay. This motion was also iment that the accused ame! rely censured by President Acton was finally adopted, Commiasioner Brennan voting ainst it, missioner Brennan moved that he should be sed from the department, vail, when Commits The sentence of the Board was duly carried out by Mr. Acton. On the charge of having locked up in a ceil a woman with a dead infant in her arms, Com- inissioner Brennan moved that he be censured, The on did not prevatl, | \OVANCE IN THE PRICE OF LAGE.—A circular | signed by the secretary of the New York Association | of Brewers, by order of the executive committee, | War yesterday delivered to each brewer in the city and vicinity, giving the reasons why an advance in the price of lager from twelve to fourteen dollars per barrel was necessary, Chief among these ts the in- coat of barley and hops, the highet rate of the internal revenue tax and the fact that cigiteen dollars. Reference is aiso had to the fact haf since the repeal of the Reciprocity treaty with the British American provinces cheaper Canadian Darley cannot now be had. Another rather peculiar ground is that the hop and malt dealers had resolved to deny cr to any brewer who shal! not have paid Up lis arrearagos by the Ist of October next. There is uo dont that the suggestions of the assoctation Will be followed by the brewers and lager will become # more expensive bey erage this sammer, ° nf JANE STRRET UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. — Last evening Mr. Mathews was installed pastor of this church by the Preshytery, in the presence of a large congregation, who manifested considerable in- terest in the proceedings, The services opened with Frayer by the Rev. Hugh Brown, moderator, who Sobeequentiy preached a iengthened sermon. The reverend gentleman adverted to the pestorai rela- tiona of the ministerial omce, and explained the Mander in Which it important functions should be exeretsed. The power of the minister, he observed, | was mot sovereign but delogaton, aud was divided into three elasses—the dogmatic, the ordaining and the power of discipline. Rev. Mr. Campbell, of the West Forty-fith Street Presbyterian church, then de- lvered the charge to the pastor, which was followed by the charge to Cap onl the Rev. A.M, Con- neil, of Newark. Mr. ‘iow been formally installed, he was accorded the right hand of fetlow- ship hy the tery arid congregation, after witel: the new pr invoked @ solemn benediction upen those present, and the impressive and interesting proceedings were to a close, LAYING a CORNER STONB.—The laying down of the | | y | dre in St. Louis will charge from sixteen to { | , Corner stone of the First German Baptict chureh | af took place yesterday afternoon, The new edifice, now in course of erecti¢n, is situated in East Four- teenth street, close to First avenue, The church was organized in 1346, and up to recently the congrega- tion worshipped in avenue A, convenient to Fourth strect. The material of which the building will be com) is the marble from the lecture room of Dr. Cheever’s old church in Union square, which was purchased by the committee of the First German church, About three o’clock yesterday the children of the Sunday school attached to the church ussem- bled on the having with them the banners of the school, Rev, Herman M, Schaffer, pus'or of the ion, commenced the ceremonies with & An address was then en in German, and boramlise, proceeded to Iny the ppener stone, Wiki ne. the stune was boo the usual ‘in box, containing the of the church, the newspapers of the day, and German currency, and Bogiish and German Bibles, The building, when fuished, will accommodate about seven hundred people. Its i paaaaa including lot and building, fs about Tae Fanuers’ CLUB.—The leading topic discussed at the meeting yesterday of this club was “ Docs deep ploughing remunerate the cultivator?” A cor- Yespondent who had been present at a convocation when the question was on the ¢apis, put it in an epistie to the President, in which he insinyated that “philogophers’”” and “ amateur farmers’ "—snch a3 he supposed the club to be composed of—opinions were not of particular moment. The question, how- ever, brought the “ philosopbers” and “atmateur farmers” to their feet, and for a time deep ploughing was discussed with a warmth of manner, if not of language, which must if he were present, have greatly edified tl propounder. As usual the discussion took a wide range, and while several among the number, “the philosopher,” H, G., took up the line of argu- ment that deep ploughing was the secret of successful farming; others insisted, and cited instances to sus- tain them, that it was oftentimes most injurious. The President finally proposed that farmers shouid lough and manure as deeply as possible, and if they found that loss resulted to report the fact to the club. The debate tinally turner upon pisciculture, in which again “the philosopher,” I. G., assured his audience that very deep ponds were apt to kill tr@nt, for the reason that deep water was always warm—(something new)—and that consequentiy trout would die rathor than consent to be parboiled. On listening to an address from a gentleman from Vermont and a statement by another that there were one thousand agricultural associations m the country, the club, wilhout formality, adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, CHance OF SWINDLING THROUGH FaLse Pre- ‘TENCES.—Henry L, Webb was yesterday arrested by oMcer Robinson, of Judge Kelly’s court, and brought before the Judge at the Yorkville Police Court, on a-charge of swindling George D. Crary, of No, 218 Pearl strect, out of $260, through borrowing this stim on a $500 bond of the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, which, it is claimed, he falsely represented to be his bap ie After Mr. Crary had sworn to the above facts, » A. T. Willis, of No. 20 West Twenty-cighth street, testified that he gave the bond in question, No, 214, to the accused as a sample of bonds to be exhibited to parties desiring to loan ey on said bonds: as collateral security, the latter having represented that he could readily dispose of $50,000 worth of the bonds, The prisoner was held in $1,000 bail to answer the charge. ALLEGED HicHWAY RosBeRy.—As Daniel Ryan, living at No, 417 East Fourteenth street, was passing through Twelfth street, near Third avenue, about three o’clock yest’rday morning, he was suddenly set upon by two men, knocked down and robbed of $9, all the moncy he had about him. His cries for the police reached the ears of a policeman, wh secing the two men running, at once a aare chase, ant after a run of two blocks succeed in capturing them, The stolen money was found in their posses- sion. The two men, who gave their names as James McCluskey and John McNamara, were taken before Judge Mansfield, at the Essex Market Police Court, and fully committed in default of bail. THE LABOR QUESTION. Proposed Strike of the Piano Makers To- Day. Between seven and eight hundred piano makers, workingmen employed at factories in this city, as- sembled yesterday afternoon at Ruppert’s Hall, on Forty-fifth street, between First and Second avenues, Mr. Henry Siebert presided. After resolving to hold @ picnic at Jones’ Wood on the 24th of August next, the real object of this gathering in mass was reached, which is the enforcement of their demand for an in- crease of wages. ‘On last Thursday, at a meeting of delegates from the various facturies, which convened at No, 28 Stanton street, it was determined to inquire of each employer what he Intended to do in the mat- ter, and yesterday the result of their inquiries was reported. Of ali the numerous factories in the city, omy that of Smith & Co., successors to Brad- bury, agreed to an advance of fifteen per cent upon the present scale of wages. Decker & Co, having continued to pay the ‘same prices as before Christmas, ugreed to any increase above that which may be adopted by the other manufacturers, Lindemann & Sands reinsed any and all advance, and E, Gabler told his workmen that when they had finished the work now in hand they might just as well stop if they declined to continue at present rates. ‘The answer of the proprictors at nearly all the other establishments, as reported to the meeting f Ster erg was, that if sieluway & Sous will pay the nevease usked for they would do likewise, and not if they don’t. A rather irregular and desnitory debaie ensued after these reports were received, during Which the president of che meeting indulged in some very proper and unjust aspersions of the of the city, as being “in the pay of capital and against the labor — interest,’ which, jowever, were not very favorably received. For a while it seemed quite uncertain what the result of the meeting would be, as some extremists among tue members insisted upon tie return to old prices— some thirty-five or forty per cent. higher than those paid now. At lost a motion was made and carried, With but a dozen voles in the negative, that an in- crease of ten per cent, wich would amount to the wages paid beiore the last reduction, should be de- mauded; and tien it was unanimously resolved that this morning in every shop, except those of Smith & Co. and Decker & Lros., be:ore commencing work, the men should tn a body proceed to Lhe several pro- priciors and demand a inimediate answer, and it any do not agree then to retire from tie factory and ine to receive work. ‘hose employed at Stein- Way & Sons were then instructed to report once to the other shops the answer they may veceive; a8 the others have made their action in the matter de- pendent upon the course adopted by tus leading esiabiishment, A committee of three Will be in ses- sion to-night, at headquarters, 28 Stanton street, to r ve the reports of how these proceedings re- ited during the day, and then the cutive Com- will determine what further action, if any, lay become necessar, Operative Plasterers, A large and very enthasiastic meeting of the plasterers of New York was held et the Deratit Insti- tute last night, There were over three hundred and fifty members present, the largest number that has ever attended @ regular meeting of the association. The ch¥€f business of the session was to consider the propriety of insisting upon an advance of Wi Terom $4 50 per day to 86, in accordance with a notice given ata previous ineeting by Mr. Munday. The chair was occupled by Mictrac! Goode, and P. Grogan acted as secretary. After the iransaction of the usual routine business and the initiation of a number of new members Mr. MUNDAY moved that the society's wages of the men in New York be $5 per day on and after the 20th of May. Mr. MUNDAY advocated the adoption of the resolu- tion on che ground that now was the most favorable tine to ask for the increase, which was just, and at this season of the year, when business wae brisk, ihe demand would doubtless be acceeded to, He had understood that already some twenty or thirty societies which had demanded an advance of wages had been successful, andl there was no reason Why the plasterers should be an exception, Mr. STERRITT moved for a postponement of the matter until the first meeting in July, which was lost on & division. Au exciting discussion followed, posed the proposed strike at the work was so dull that many co: Mr. BURNS suppoi this was the tine Jebs were done, Mr. Mansfleit, Mr, Gieson, Mr, Fortune and others Mr, CAMILLE Op- prosent the, when i not get jobs ed the resolution, and thought Mant the increase, befere tho spoke for against the proposed demand, and on a division there were 194 for it and 144 againet it. AS the rues require a two-thirds yote,the motion was lost. BOARD OF HEALTS,. The Law in Regard to Tenemest Houses Precautions to be Adopted in Regard to + Foreign VeeseleAn Tutected Vessel Ordered Back to Quarantine=The Weekly Mortality List. The Board of Heaitn heid their regular meeting yesterday afternoon, Dr. Kione in the chair. The attorney reported a form of notice to be served on tenement house owners who refuse to obey the Tenement House law, silowing them fifteen days’ gtace before obeying the injunctions of the Board. For e¥ery day that pases after the expiration of the fifteen days of grace without the house owners com- plying with the law there is attached @ fine of $10, The ‘y Committee reported a communication to be sent to Secretary Seward, in which he is re- quested to inform our consuls abroad, for the beneflt 0 f al whom it concern, that any vessel eens to this port foreign port Without clean bhis health will be regal aa coming from infected ort Was adopted, 8, . m motion of Commissioner Manierre the Board of Estimate, it was resolved, should meet at one o'clock P. M. on the 26th inst. On motion three assistant sanitary inspectors were ited to act during the summer months in a and one for Fort Washington an.| vicinity, Board at The was informed our Consal zat that the Orig Dito had, tie Sots ett that ps & New sick and died bik to as they tl sae t ‘with her, ‘The follow! 7 . Harris’ weekly letter on the mortality in this elty and Brooklyn, for the week ending on Saturday, the 15th inst, :— METROPOLITAN BOARD OF ALTH,| UREA OF VITAL STATISTIC Le 1808, » the 16th as There were 109 deaths that were reported from the streets id the clty limits, Seen pinenes 3 97.50 w of five ere ral Brooklyn, besides tweive Kings county instftutlous and The zymotic dises the infantile deatha nN cent of one week, For e outside of public found that no less 21n shanifes and only 111 bi houses of all kt than 21 w in tho houses, hotels an‘ 0 inde. This isa clear de: stration that the death rate last week was more than twlot enement, houses us in the whole mass kinds of dwellings. Of the 27 deaths by scariatina at aere in those tenements, and of the 4 by measics and 9 by diph' ria 8 and 6 respectively were in such crowded apartinents, The fact was also ascertained that of the 22 deaths which occurred in the dwellings of the ier pre ward there were only 3 in the seventy blocks west of Third avenue; while of the 18 iu the narrow eastern belt of that ward, exclusive of public Institu- tions, all except two were in tenements, 4 ‘the death rate for the whole city was equivalent to 23,6 in 10 yearly, and in brooklyn to 24.16 in 1,000, estimated on the census of 1865. ‘The meun temperature was 05 degrees Fahrenheit, or two degrees cooler than the for twenty- five years, The avi hurnidity was 7, an excessive de- gree of dampness for the season, and the total rainfall was equivalent to 2.4 inches depth of ti e it storm on Wednenday «id sanitary service in flushing guiters and sew- ere. Inevery portion of the Metropolitan district the un- drained lands and the we.ls show that the surface water (ground water) is at « maximum belght discover what grounds are. insuificient panltary gietion that wid become vitally: (mporiant, before the end of the next dry seaeon, HARRIS, INSTITUTION F@R DEAF MUTES. rivate = The fiftieth anniversary of the New York Institu- tion for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb was celebrated yesterday at the buildings of the institu- tion, Washington Heights, at 168d street. The first business on hand was the business meeting of the directors for the May election, which took place at one o’clock and resulted as follows:—President, Ben- jamin R, Winthrop; First Vice President, Shepherd Knapp; Second Vice President, Rev. William Adams, D. D.; Treasurer, Joseph W. Patterson; Secretary, T. . Adams; Directors, Harvey P. Peet, D. D.; Henry E. Davis, Erastus Brooks, John Astyne, Frederic De Peyster, Daniel F. Tieman, James N. Cobb, E. L. Fouger, LL,D.; Cyrus W, Field, Avery T, Brown, Willlath Niblo, Benjamin H. Field, Gedrge Folsom, LL.D.; Oliver 8. Strong, Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D.; e Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, Morris K. Jesup, Henry K, Rev P. Barnard, D.D,, LL.D., and Wil- Bogart, Rev. F. liam A. Wheelock, The number of pupils in the Institution bo ta than at any previous time. Tae admissions of the ear have nm 71, 66 having leit the Institution, leaving 439 in the institution, against 434 for the year 1306. Ancxhibit of the progress of the Institu- tion in number of pupils is presented in the follow- ing figures:— December 31, 1863, «+ 819 December 31, 1863. 337 December 31, 1864. 358 December 31, 1865. 408 December 31, 1866, December 31, 1867. ‘Thus it will be observed that the number of pupils has increased tor five years about 120, or nearly forty rcent. The greater part of this increase has been due to the operation of the act of March 25, 1863, re- uiring and authorizing the counties to support in the Institution deaf mutes between the ages of six and twelve not yet eligible by to the list of State beneficiaries, e foliowing schedule exhibits the financial condition of the Institution: Expenses for the yea: Payment of balance for 1866. 15,5: OLA. cise ehuviths a> sae seeee $156,192 The receipts amounted to, 1 Debt for current expenditures unpald..... $13,620 A large proportion of these expenses has, how. ever, been extraordinary, necessitated by sanitary considerations and ordered by tie Superintendent of the Board of Health; and of these the statement amounts to asuficient sum to have balanced the books, leaving something in favor of the Institution. The following Is the statement of these ext ry expenditures;— Introduction of Croton water. $5,058 Two new steam boilers... seeeee 8,025 Wash house and outhouses 550 Repair of north wing of mansion for hospital * Carpenters’, masons’ and plumbers’ work. Ventilation... Ss Uae Extra professional attendance Renewalof beds........ ove 267 Board for pupils during prevalence of epidemic. 373 Total... tsteeeseeecceees sess s 815,681 The treasurer's account for the year exhibits the subjoined budget of necessary expenses in the way of food, clothing and the lil Grocerics and provisions. $42,694 e Salarles and wages. + 18,061 Clothing, sioes, & + 12,362 Furnitore a Fuel aud lights 1 Shia Washing... +: 2,08: ‘This wives an average of about $200 per pupil for necessary expenses—the State only allowing $180 per year for State beneficiares. ‘The order of exercises was the same as that adopted for previous exhibitions. Benjamin R. Win- throp presided and Dr. Peet generally superintended the exercises of the pope The order was—firet, prayer; second, reading of letters from guests in- vited, but not prosent; third, introductory address, other addresses; and tinaily, exercises by the pupils, whieh consistea mostly of exercises tn the alphabet, in finger speliing, finger reading and recitation aud writtag tesks on the blackboard. A large audience, compoacd mostly of ladies, Was present, SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. A New and Powerful Light. ‘There was yesterday exhibited at the office of Stevens, Stern & French, 22 Nassau street, to an in- vited audience, the new and powerful artificial light just burned at the Exposition Nationale, Paris, and which received the cordial avproval and direct coun- tenance of the Emperor Napoleon, made according to the process of Tessié du Motay and Maréchal, of Metz, France. The new light is called “oxygen gas.’ Its manufacture is simple and comparatively inexpensive, while in intensity it ts as sixteen to one of the common carbnretted or street gas. In other words, while the cost is one-fourth of ordinary gas, the light from a single burner is as sixteen to one, In the burners there seems to be too much machino- ; but, apart from this, the light is delightful to the eye, notwithstanding Its intensity, and, however close the apartment in which the gas Is consumed, the air is not vitiated, as by coal gas, but rather im- | gad It is hardiy necessary to enter into detail as the manner in which the oxygen introduced into the gas consumed is produced. It is simply extracted in large and pure volumes by in- tense heat and solution of alkaline manganates, ‘The manganates are placed in a series of retorts, and these again are deposited in a furnace, the tem- ure of which has been raised to 860 degrees urenhelt, and are then alternately submitted to the action of a jet of steain and acnrrent of air. The steam as it paases over the manganates Ce no the oxygen, and the cold alr resolves them again, they taking up, a8 before, as a dry sponge absorbe water, oxgen contained in the atmosphere, The process is exact and beautiful. As the oxygen from the manganates it is conveyed by 'o_% condenser and thence by other pipes or Meaus of conveyance to the burner, and thrown, in combination with ordinary Ai’ upon a fencil of magnesium, where, all but vot heat, it glows with a briilianey that far surpasses any - chal light, with perhaps the exception of that known to us as the “calcium.” From its cheapness, purity, strength, and when shaded by ground glass, - ableness to the eye and the plexion, it we are persnaded, become a favorite ina little time, For theatres, ball and concert rooms, street burners, erent He Tooms, atudios, in fact wher+ ever a magnificent light at a trifling expense is de- ted the oxygen gas will be found unexcep- tion able. A New Electre-Magnetle Eugine. There was exhibited yesterday afternoon im the lecture room of the College of the City of New York (formerly Free Academy), on the corner of Lexing- ton avenue and Twenty-third street, before a large and deeply interested audience, wholly composed of | gentlemen, a eeries of experiments by Prof. Doremus, tiustrative of the nature and power of electro-mag- | | tempts at robbery which it has recently cyme within | the provinee of daily journals to record oceurred in accompanied with an atteryyt at murder, | netism, preliminary to the operations of an enginé, whose force was the tenth of a “horse,” the motion of which waa supplied by @ galvanic battery of forty cells (charged the interior vessel with nitric and the exterior with eulphurte acid), and which, it was con- tended, could be run ata cost that would, in addt- .-TRIPLE SHEET. tion to other advantages, such as non-liability to explosion or z power, for the compellin, mate! plosion of bollers or fire from furnaces. may be siasm 18 Of the kind which urges its ward to the making of magaidloont ¢ »sclence. fire, recommend it to the public, where ttention or possible danger, is a rod of five hundred revolutions an‘ raising water ten feet at the rate of Anthe hour, The e1 the satisfaction lereturore the electric force has acted With him This is and in the right fectly confident that he has succeeded in bi ing electricity, chant proposes bullding engines of two-horse ring- as &@ motor, within the realm of me- Lrg He does not despair of uiti- he in the steam mM @X- led as an enthusiast, but rr for~ verles in PUBLIC EDUCATION. Examination of Candidates for the United States Military and Navai Academies. Mr. J. W. Chanler, member of Congress from the Seventh Congressional District of this city, having offered to grant to the boys residing 1n his district who should pass the best competitive examinations, scholarships at the West Point United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Kelly, Willi: Commissioners Samuel selected Messrs. John T. Hoffman, John jain Schirmer, Prof, Horace Webster and P. Patterson, Theodore Tooker, Francis V. Euring and Horatio P. Allen as a committee before whom the candidates should be examined. Four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Hall of the Board of Education, was Appyinted as the time for the ex- amination, and at that time ail the members of the committee except Mesars. Hoifman and Keily were present and nine candidates occupied: the “anxious seat.”” Superintendents Kiddie and Harrison con- ducted the examination and tasked the students critically, yet fauly, in reading, parsing. “arithmetio’ denuliious” gesetapey, and com} was ver" after a gal and full inpestigacon of tion, The examination as & the committee, the merits of the respective candidates reported that they had decided to recommend for the appointinent to the Naval ot hin Academy J. H. he iia 187 Pitt street, and for the "ivdites “ro announcing the determination of the comunttice, |, Watts, of airman, in ash Webel { stated that the best examination in every way an in every branch had been passed ni obi to by James J. Cun- ham, of 114 Goerck street, but that they were reject him, inasmuch as he weighed only seventy-nine pounds, and tie rules of the service, which are mandatory In their character, require the andidate to be at least 100 pounds weight ois, voirdu- “AUCTION SALE OF MARBLE STATUARY. The auction salesroom, No. 37 NassawWstrect, was well filled yesterday at the opening sale of a collec- tion of Carrara marble statuary and other marble ar- ticles. Though the crowd was large excitement over the purchases did not run to a very alarming altitude. The situation of the salesroom being so convenient for the numerous throng of pedestrians who daily congregate Post Office, in and around ¢] that few indeed neighborhood of the ld resist the tempta- no matter what the hurry, to just dropin and tion, see how thin, continually cl were going. AS may be expected, a nging stream of lookers-on, loungers, and purchasers kept ebbing and flowing during the reas of the notion, which commenced about Proven o'clock with the sale of two marble ash re- ceivers, which changed hands for five shillings. ponenae a commencement the articles, as num- bered in the paid for and taken away. up, Love and Payche, pedestal included, was sold for $39. An statuette, clild in the act of and the executed figure went fora dollar catalogue, were put up, knocked down, ‘A handsome alabaster landing about two feet in Faith’ in. God, representing a Braying, brought $1025; ohn, a very finely ‘compan gra less, Innocence, represented by a female, only brought the modest sum of $11 60, bid for two very fi ‘and almost immediately after $18 was Marble Hebe vases. These latter were carved. A guardian angel, about. oer four pice in height, found a purchaser at $: while an_ alabaster statuette of Joan d’Arc was knocked do" wh for $18 25. One of the neatest and most beautifully carved articles offered for sale was @ statuette of Pandora and this was sold for $18 25, merons as it was varied in style,§execution and workmanship, Etruscan, Medici, Florentine, Roman and Grecian vases sold readily at com ratively cheap prices. Baskets, richly carved and elaborately ornamented, found ready purchasers; yet the bidding was by no means animated. Adventurous auction speculators were few and their bids far between, and certainly there was a lack of individuals who were determined vases sold to ris much for the sake of art. The yesterday from $6 to $20 a pair. Many of them were excellently carved and highh finished. transportat! meagre est! to be. Important army, there tations by t! When the workmanshtp, im) rtation an fon of the articles are taken into con- sideration the prices brought are low and rather a mate to be placed upon the productions of the Florentine artists whose works they are said JAN CLAIMS AGAINST MEXICO. Movement to Obtain a Settlement. It is pretty weil known that during the struggle which Anaily ended in placing President Juares at the head of the Mexican government by the down- fail of Maximilian and the capture of his foreign Was a large number of American capital- ists, merchants, shipbuilders and others of our citizens who furnished material aid to Juazez through his agents in this city and Washington. ‘This ald was rendered cheerfully in the represen- he Mexican Minister, Sehor Romero, that the claims of American citizens should be promptly adjusted u nthe accession of the republican gov- ernment of Mexico to power. Events having lately transpired in Mexico leading to the belief that the claims of American citizens were being held a few evenin, in this city, almost entirely red, a meeting was since at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at which were present @ largo number of citizens interested in these claims, representing merchants ne of Massachuset nein After a lengthy consul! tosecure thelr rights in the matter, includin; action of Mr. Romero in Mexican republic to the. Spani English claims, thereby giving Americans the goby, the sense of t! determined tleal union of all interests, the followin Were adopted, and a committee appoin' and Cacho of rouge 8. other mn St. Louis, ch nd ofthis city, ae upon the best means the devoting the funds ‘hase of ish and he ny ‘upon & prac- resolutions to confer with General Sturm aa to the moet effective mode of carrying them into effect :— Whereas, American citizens are the just creditors Mexican government anid government bas settle waid inde zens who hav the contrary reiatentl Bald Atserton Amerlean ¢ftt; Tepublic of Mexico or al Resolved, That of the fer, pany, talline of dollars, and tke jon to equi lebtednesa, orto treat ly the ‘mera it ided and benefited paid govern: on id Mexican. government all law and roms Where “culo se ak erent all thei that Gere cense wares wing el Esacgh ond Sh tek been Ge mandsand ; ry posed! by General E secure the appot fitment ot a lon on the part of Uisited Staten'poverament to soeet m similar cormmntasion. from the repnbile of Mexico, with @ view to an amicable ‘ment of sald claima, meets with Ouray ) an the only jurt, feasible and proper course to be Resolved, That = committee erszal Kitten and urge the proseeutlon of 1 Mexican government or mt permeate cen seat pects rat bral American clattaquts'ia. thie amicable mettod of adjuet- ing their grievances, After the appointment of the following committee the meeting adjourned, to meet gf the rooms of Gen- eral Sturm, 151 Broadway, at time ag the chair Yesterday Ann street, whieh man shall apetity:— Committee—Herman Funke, of Herman Boker & Co.; E. A. Quin of Quintard, Ward & Co., M. | Hartley, of Sen nd Hart & Graham; W. aa fe lor, of W. J. ‘Taylor &00.; ©. Doda, for “Pp. P. Howell & Oo. —— OAMING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. — afternoon one ofwihe most ciaring at- mun wfose_ name has not yeen agreftained, » clerk {a an exchat in his place ol No.9 Ann Cuvineas in ng the process of ships forward at a less | and the day’ when an fadividual, name uan- known, calor, aa withost preface or previous in such severe wound, seeing which he immediatel; flict decam) The wounded man at once sought surgi- cal welt i in the drug store under the yen House, arrested, from whence ; 4 Rom. wey he proceeded to his home. His assalt- FOREIGN WAR VESSELS IN PORT. ‘The Spanish Iron-Clad Tetuan and the Frigate Gerona—Freach Transport Europecn—Hay- tien Corvette Alex. Peton, By force of circumstances New York has been especially favored during the past month, ‘ag pleas- ant winds have wafted to iis shores numerous navai representatives of foreign Powers. Their missions have essentially been those of a friendly character, directed in a majority of instances by the desire to take advantage of the facilities of thia port and skit of our artizans to effect needed repairs to hull ard machinery. Strictly the latest to boom from her im. pregnable sides a national salute and drop anchor opposite the Battery, her formidable appearance at- tracting the attention of all who visit that section of the city, is THE SPANISH IRON-CLAD FRIGATE TETUAN, Approaching her sides m a small boat the eyes of the visitor grow dim and his head becomes con- fused in gazing at her mammoth proportions and great height above water. Ascending to her upper, or promenade, deck, discipline and neatness are every- where apparent, Although she has had but a limited time to arrange the many hundred ropes, sails, &c., after a voyage, the most exacting old naval dog extant conid not but speak words of commendation in regard to her appearance. The Tetuan left.Cadiz on the 22d ef September, 1866, proceeding direct toHavana, where she has since: been ‘stationed, attentively watching and guarding zealously the interests of her Majesty Queen Isa- bella, All the porta in the waters surrounding the Island of Cuba. have been repeatediy visited by her, and only until now has she ventured beyond prescribed limits, this being done to effect certain repairs demanded by the length and character of her cruise. Her model possesses many architectural lines of beauty—a marked contrast to the clumsy, disproportionate lines seen in many tron-ciads. HER SIZE—ARMAMENT. The Tetnan was finished at the port of Ferrol, Spain, during the year 1862, She is 313 feet fi length, 62 feet breadth of beam, 409 feet depth hold, draws 28 feet of water and 18 7,600 tons burden, Spanish measurement. Her invuinerable qualities are recognized as being admirable, all the known im- rovements In {ron ves-els of war being combined in er construction. The thickness of her side plates is six inches, while twenty-five inches of solid oak rung back of them, making a solid wall of thirty-one inches to resist the shot and shell of an enemy, Her armament tn ition on the main deck nam~- bers forty sixty-eiglit-pounders, all smooth bores, four of these Deine of stecl, although of the samé calibre, quiring ve pounds additional charge of powder. Ail the smalier arms are everywhere to be noted in profusion and of the most approved pat- terns. HER MOTIVE POWER. This consists of trunk engines built by Messrs. Wm. Tenn & Sons, England, baving cylinders eighty-twe inches Jp diginaser by a. stroke Of piston of two feet four inches, Steam is generated in eight tubular boilers, having thirty-two furnaces, with a fire room in common, or rather running between them. The maximum pressure of steam used is about twenty pounds, and this causes a revolution of the screw, which 1s nineteen feet in diameter, forty-six times F minute, while if desired this can be increased to fty-one revolutions. The propeller ig of cast tron, has two bjades and is of Graef’s system, demon- strated to be very successful ingits application to large ocean vessels. APPEARANCE OF THE VESSEL. The Tetuan does not boast of turrets or covered decks, but her height of over twenty feet above water makes her an object of great interest. Hor decks are of wood, polished to exquisite whiteness, while all the yisibie brass work shines puetty. ‘The cabin, officers’ rooms and quarters for the accommo dation of the crew are exceliéntly arranged, com- modious in character and of good, ventilation—in fact, they are roomy rooms and plenty of them, On ‘the berth deck the fastes of the officers are displayed in the ornamentation of their respective rooms with ict articles of vertu, &c., while a about ‘he ward room are a score of bird , Whose little denizens from the isles of the sea make sweet melody where all seems so greatly tinged with what is dark, grim and terrible, The gun rooms are of thal character that a frigate demands and seem well furnished with the paraphernalia of war. The machinery looks painoneg well, atter almost two years’ incessant use, and the engine room, of such dimensions that it is capable of admitting almost @ hundred agnir) ata time, will, when the ship is in trim, be the point of curiosity of many visitors, LAST OF OFFICERS. The following 1s the list of the officers of the Tetnan:—Captain, Jacobo MacMahon y de Santiago; Second Captain, Fran Gonzalez; First Lieutenant Brailio Montojo, Adolfo Menacho, Judalecio Nunez, Ricardo Pavia, Ricardo Fernandez, Pablo Seoane; Second Lieutenants, Francisco Pocetron, Angel Do- neteve, Jose Caideron, Pelayo Pedemontt; First Lieu- tenant of Marines, Jose Calvo; Surgeon, Juan Franeis- co Sanchez; Assistant Surgeon, Jose Antonio Swarez; Chaplain, Francisco Mon; Chief Engineer, Emilio Coll; Assistant Engineers, Gnilermo Browning, Juan Valle, Coribio Gorrott, Pablo Mascaro, Comas Cores, Augustin Sot Antonio Olivar, ; Midshipmen, Pedro Lizaur, Jo: Girado, Angel Miranda, Pedro Novo, Jullo Vera, Rafael Rodrigez Vera, José Montajo, ‘Aduifo Solas, Emilio de Acosta, Federico Lopes, Eduardo Pawdo, Enrique Caprilea, Ignacio Flores, Fernando Bastaneche. These, with the marines, sixty flremen, thirty coal- rs and the men before the mast, comprise crew of six hundred and sixty-five,.the personnel the vessel, OBJECTS OF HER VISIT. The Tetuan will immediately proceed to the Navy Yard, and there undergo certain repairs that are né cessaty, Meanwhile, her officers, many of whom now visit our city for the first time, will wander on — hoe cmd one 5 Ly an the completion repairs, they int v' fete or series of fetes on board to their write ine authorities, &c, Every arrangement will andoubt- ediy be made to give eclat to the festivals. The decks will be cleared and awnings spread over the vessel; fags of al! nations will be gracefully fes- tooned, appropriate chandellers, with candies, will furnish the titumination, and a band of twenty-nine Py fete ee Be arse ocatrs Canmce, nd yet, though there no exp’ ive as the bolero, the cachwohe and. the Jaulo de eres by accomplished 8y ish maidens upon her decks, there will be beautiful seforitas, whose charms thé coldest hearts will acknowledge, wreathing the oc- caslon with joys long to be long remember THE FRENCH TRANSPORT EUROPEAN. But a biscuit toss from the preceding vessel lies the Freneh transport European. Tuis vessel is rakish, saucy, looks a clipper and is of handsome model and admirable construction. She is of tron, 200 feet in length, 42 fect breadth of beam, 27 feeb depth of hold, ts ship rigged and 1s 3,800 fons bur- den, French nteasurement Her motive power consists of vertical direct en- gines, with cylinders 72 inches diameter and a stroke of piston of 3 feet. She is furnished with six tubular bolters, but steam on ordinary occasions is aufiiciently generated in four for her purpose. e elfective Dower of the engines is 660 horses, The European visits this harbor en route to South- ihe left Lorient on the 29th of April last, steaming directly to this harbor, where she will re- main for a limited period only. There is but litte pretension noticeable on board, yet everything gives evidence of @ capital vessel and excellent oficers. Her armament consists of two guns only, placed fore and aft. LIST OF OFFIORRS. The officers of this vessel are corre: following list:—Commander, Rivou ty given in the Second Com. mander, it; First Lientenant, 6 Second utenan' } Moutin; Sixth Lieutenant, Barrier; Adjutant, Tinos H de Saint Julien; Assistant Surgeon, Payinaater, Calla; Chief Engineer, Mire. ‘he men bejore the number ‘THR HAYTIKN MAN-OF-WAK ALEXANDER PETON. toting the navy of the repubite of Taytk arrived tn a navy public o ari j our rt ou the 28th of September last in a disabled condition, that time she was fully described in the HrraLD. Since then every department of the Spee overhauled and tho ly Appearance of nnauitea beauty. With 6. supp! on ried . provisions; ammunition, ken the Alexander Rebon ‘will leave our port for the Republique d@’Hayti on or about the ist proximo, During thelr visit to this port theomcers have had Many genial times, and on their departure they carry with them the remembrance of many happy toura, pa 18 @ list of ber oMcers:—Rear Adiniral, vi ; Captain, E. Cla —_ Lientenaat, Hac- ui in 4, S. Galllard and Patin; Surgeon, Hervey; Midshipmen, G. Taylor and. Ofiver; Bae aineers—First, Hutchinson; Second, B. Joins. ‘The crew numbers one hundred and five men, a strapping, stalwart fellows, Who Will also leave the city regretfully. THE SPANISH FRIGATE GERONS. ‘This veexe}, also fail ted in the HeraLp upon her arrival, with the genial greeting (hat sab- erent took place vy decks, after being thoroughly cleaned on the dock at Hoboken, left oar rt last week for her old cruising grounds about | Havana. Wishee of a propitious voyage and a success- fal termiaation of her cruise came at the time from the hearts of many of ow dtizens. Tae OLDFSt FReFMASON.—The Dubuque (lowa) says:—One of ovr exchanges in another State ¢ the honor of the residence of the oldest Mason in the United States, We think it is a mistake. javid Stiles, of this city, wae inttiated ©. W., on the 27th of December, 1797, wh Jervis was Grand Master of Canada. The \Toronto was No, 10 of that jurtadiction, was born in Connecticut, May 21, 1766, and is there- | fore 102 years oid and has been seventy one reat noc tne tTadie years. challenge lowa to old f living pioneer to (hy Northwest Blates to gl the nae~s¢an older Mason,