The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 22, 1866, Page 1

Number 10.456, — The South ost ten thousend mi! lone of d of p operty by the war. and be though they covered The Latest News 2. yee es | pot thie puns ment enous)? In cone usin, Me By Telegraph to the N. W. San, | (uh oad (hee wae no se son io the wold wa —" Cigtes 8 aid send «flicere of the Free ine.’ cadmaiieel Bureau to Ter nate whe relations between the ciusens mm W ASHIEGTON DISPATCHES, | “Stearns ann A CURRENCY BONFIRE: $4.8,000,000 Destroyed THE FREEDMEN’S COMMITTEE Loutiavtila, Ky. Jan, ®.—The weather wea very warin yesterday afiornoon, At night the mereury fell fiom 60 to 19 degrees, Soon after midnight & Trip Through the Southern States, IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Official News to Devember 224, FRENCH OCCUPATION OF CHIHUAHUA: heavy storm of wind and rain accompanied with El Paso. thunder, lightning and ow sot In. Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 20.—There waa @ severe gale inet night which blow down several honers in Juarez Flees LATER EUROPEAN NEWS. The Fenian Revolution, Faégefield, Both snow and rain fell in large quantl More Arrests Made. ties, The mercury fell to three degrees below sero. Snow foil an inch and a half deep, A RAILWAY TRAIN FIRED AT. Poughkerpate, N.Y, Jan, 20.—The contiaaed maild Buffalo, N.Y. Jan. 21.—The gale of the last forty- Excitement in Spain. eight hours still continues here. Weather cold with bat little snow, From Europe. Two Days Later News. Halifax, Jan, 20.—The steamship Asia, from Halifax the Tch inst., bas arrived. GREAT BRITAIN The London Trwes refers to the satisfactory aenect of European effaire and trasts that the prospects of lasting peace will have some effect on the military +dministration of European powers, and that there will be some viation of these burdens which everywhere weigh eo heavily. The Times anticipates that by next Janvary the Emperor Napoleon will have withdrawn the French trocpa from M:xico as well as from Rome. The Anwy anp Navy Gazerrs, referring to ite ennouncewent last week of reductions in the army, sihitiinhlseuhinittetasicini etye: At present what is actually decided upon is yatta! net <Ingdom shal be Loss Estimated at $640,000, | Metin nen" epnnania anaie t __ scrap gO ag ha be reduced in like manner on Another Libel Scrite | ais. prichi's vetorm epcoch at Rochdale is univer- tally regarded by the p tion of his reform cemande, and as indicating that he ls pre- pared to sccept suc moderate measure as the weather had ite effect on the ice in the Hudson, The ferry boet commenced running between Fishkill and A Milita ry Revolt. Newburgh to day, the first time eines the closing of City and Miscellaneous News. navigation, Washington, D. C., Jan. %1.—Weather clondy. THE GREAT WATER STREET FIRE. Thermometer 29 degrees, A. T Btowart Dewands Re- q Cabinet may be e ity propose, Live political paration. ene vies ere it he ith tein’ tar less offensive ee ee than iu any of hie previous specches, > &e., BSC., &e. Mazzini ie danyeroualy ili at London, The woek.y official return of the cattle disease & largo increase in the number of ani- Warntsaron, Jan, 21. The Houce Committee on Freedmen's Afairs, or @ portion of the members, will shortly vislt some of the Southern Bates, The Orange and Alexeudria Rail oad Company has ten lere! to them the use of « @ecial train from Washington to Lyochburg, Rep Fesentative Kelloy,in reply tothe Pierident of the foad, thanks him jor his kindn:s, and says the Committee will name en early day ‘or the proposed tour of oleervotion. Bince Aurust last the Treaeury Dopartment bas estroyea by burning over $48,.00,000 worth of mu- lated and cancelled notes of ail kinds, and $10,000,000 @dditional wii! soon be added to the flames, The Department has discovered that there ts an- @ther new coun'erfeit of the twenty-five cent note. The sum of #7 has just been returned to the De- partment through the confessional as a matter of @ontcience, Buch cases, which occur occasioually, @e only for smal! sums, Two new banks were created, under the National Banking system, during the present week, making fhe whole number of euch organizations sixteen hundred and twenty-nine, with av aggiogate capital of $4 7,759 208, The in‘ernal revenne rece'pts for last woek were Between seven and eight millions of dollars, The office of General Bakor, late chief detective of @e War Department, has been closed, and the Becords turned over to the latter, The President pro (em, of the Senate has received tho credential: of ex-Giovernor Kirkwood, of lowa, @r Benstor until the 4b of March, 1807, and those @f Becretary Harrw for the loug term, commencing Ot that date. Colonel Osborne, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Keiujeos, Freedmen, &c., for the dstrie! @f YViorida, bas submitted a pian to Mejor Venera: Howard, for the consideration of the Government, fer colonizing freedmen in Florida, He suggests that the United States purchase from Florida ali iat portion of the State lelow the 26th degree of latitude, and give ita Territorial form of government; mone but freedimen to be permitted to buy or pre- empt lands, and each bead of « fainily to have eighty acres. TUR FENIANS, A railway trainin which (he Lord Lientenant of Ireland and lady Weodchouse were travelling, wae fired at by some unknown man near Milliogar, The driver of the encine bad @ narrow ecape, the bullet strikine the won hod uncer which he wae sanding It ea euterd that ajury lo tee Lard Licueuant was conten pared, The Cork Examunmn of Jan, Sd anya: No tncoushlersble excitement was on serterday eaured in th ) ort that toe ce.corn ei: Hew Centre, tor whore such efforts are boon the police, vood abeut two miles hour 10 (be merning & proce@ce to uep ae # here sty an eup sepnens Lad taken tefuce, and alliwenidy bed evory spotin the iogalit) Giscluuing the house Keetie), in whieh they imagined he mirht be . Withouk howevel, bé.ug able toget c.ue Ww the y chief, two young men who gave their names as Henry Nelson and Join Clewa and who are seld to have re- cently retuned from America bave Leou arrest ’d in Dublin on the charge of benian am, Arie, amiou- nition and treasousb.e documents are raid to have been fouad upon them, The -peeial commission for the tris! of Fenians resumed its sittings at Dublin on the 6.b inst. en of Mr lala mi LONDON MONBY MARKET, Notwithstanding the advauce in (Lo baok rate to § per cent. discount, the demand co, «ued lively, The Tiwve “eity article” attritutes the condi lon of the London money mai ket to tue seres ol uaimied con icnineats of goods on creals to Awer.ca, without any prop: Lvnete returns Gither Lo buiuon of pro- Mesers. AL #@CU- rather efeadier, oa o that Ame Boring Ko ber!’ cireula riuios, in co.umun with ali others, @:e depressed, Liver pool, Jan, 6—P.M.—The Bank of Holland has raised i's rate of discount to 6's per cent, DISASTERS TO SIVLPPING, The ship Palinurns, from Liverpool for New York, was totally wrecked vear Holyhcad, Crew saved, The ship Albion, ashore Momess, ts @ total wreck, Eight of the passengers aud two of the crow drowned, behii75 then Marianne Notteboum, from New York for L. ¥ + pool, put iuto Queenstown on the Ob inat,, in dielr se, ‘The brigantine Flora Brewer, from Galveston for Liverpool, put into Plymouth on the 3d inet., ser- fously damaged, ‘The Henry, from Baltimore for Antwerp, put into Piymouth op the tb inat,, with loss of sails aud bul- . ele, "4 he ship Guy Mannering arrived safely et Oban, It in reported thet the ship ‘iaymans was lost on te fist of December, on lona, near the Isiand of ik. The Paramount, of Boston, is at anchor between the Mull aud Co.enay, dismantied, The captain has gone 0 Giasgow for aes stance, FRANCE, The Bank of Franceon the 4th inst., advanced its rate of discount one per cent, making it five per cont, The Sonate and Corps Legislatif have been sum- moned to assemble on the 22d of January, it is stated that the opposition Deputies held a meeting at Paris toconsider their course of provedure inthe approaching session, and that they decided to direct eir efforts chiefly o the Mexican question, BPALN, Two incomplete regiments of cavalry stationed at Aranguez and Ocans revolted on the 44h inst, Three of the superior and a majority of the inferior officers took no part in the movement, General Zavalla, Minister of Marine, immediately set out from Madrid with ® strong column in pursuit of the insurgents, who are reported to be fnstigated by General Prim, wey were retreating hastily towards the mountains of Canenes, Macrid and the provinces remained ranquil, but it isexpected that the troops ae con- fined to the barracks at Madrid, Tho latert dis- tches assert that Generale Prim, Carios and La- rre are at the head of the ineurgente; that the movement was organized by thi that the cry of the insurgente was” “Vive Prim 1" Atter leaving Mexico. Jaurez and His Cabinet Driven from Chibaabua, tte. Washington, Jan, 21.—Official news from El Paso, Mexico, up to the 22d of December, has been receiv- e@4 bere, The i rench marched in great force against the City of Chihuahua, and the Mexicam Govern ment had to abandon it, On the 9th, President Juarez left Chihuahua, with his Cal t and bis army, and come to El Pase, arriving there a the Mth, The French occupied Chibuahua on the 11th @f that month, The Mexican forces under General derrezas, remained fifty miles from Chibuabua, an- @oying the French, President Juarez was very well Beceived by the poople at El Paso. The news from @e interior is represented as very good for the Wational cause, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS, BO Thirty-Ninth Session, BENATE, Washing ton. Jan, 20,—Mr, Lane, of Ind, called ap @he bill authorizing the President instead ot the Becretary of the Interior to appoint pension agents ead name the boundaries of pension district. The Dill was read three times and passed without amend- ments. The House bill makin and other pensions for Aj eppropriations for Invalid © year ending June, 1807, was t.ken up tnd pasod, regents destroyed the bridges over the Tagus to Mr. Tromt ed up the bill to enlarge the powers Gelay the nue of Zavalla, who at the time wae of the Fre ureeu euuost wikia ach of thew, being en.y one hour's Mr, Cowan moved to amend by restricting the ations of the bureau to the states laely to re on, Mr, Tramball said that this would h Gysluding hb ip the rear, Madris was perfectly tranquil, but reports wore current (hat martial law vould be prociauued there, Liverpool, Jan, T,—The military revolt im Spain ts not exicuding, It is reported that Gen, Prim com- the effect Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and there were many emancipated slaves the protection of the b: . Mr Guthrie said there was no reason’. “yy Ken. | mands the insurgents. y tucky should be included in the bill. Kentucky did AUPTRIA, mot want ibe relief proposed. The fr ou were The ratifications of a Treaty of Commerce between England and Austria, were exchanged as Vieuna on the 4th iostant. part of her population, and would cared for as mach. He believed the States themselves could tak: @are of the freedmen much beiter than the Freed- men's Bureau, ‘Ihe bill before the Senate wus ao fora “lazzaroni” throughout the Southerm it INDIA, Details of Bombay news to the 13th of Deeember, my that many reports were current of commotion !n the Affghan States and along the Punjuab frontier, Thece wen no euprohenalons, haw ever, of aay dis ates, and Kentucky wanted no such thing within er borders. The bill before the Senate could net intended as a matier of economy. If economy as the object it could better have been accomplished Bo the ianamecdiaie eta cmmcanas ol Lai Bl el i usually quiet town Oo) Kanturk. by a} e worth | turhence, SUN. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY @ablity of the B h freaty of Peace, ihere were ‘oars of a famine ip Beu ai JAAN, The Mipado of Japan has given formal eane‘ion to the ifiea ion of Riago, and they are ty be ¢ e.maef the existing pool, Jan, 6 Fvening.Corton,—The cotton ies, with «downs ard tendency, uffe very dull P orion: quiet and steady, London, Jan, 6 Eeeninsy.- . teow, tor money, assis. Us. Pive-lwentles. 64%. Erie shares, 669 @ 57, Lidnows Central shares, TOs a Tin. “Fall Dress” in America. The Now York correspondent of the Lonton Breotator tells the iollowing pleasant tale: The seme woman wil! beat the opera on one evening in full dress in a private box, ant if she does not own a box, at the next performance in the atal's or the nario, with armas, shoulders and head al! covered. A lady woom Iknow had rather Qn Uny Samant er erience in an attempt some years ago to diaregard the tacit anerstanding emong the sex in regard to dinner jrees at hotels, Bhe belonged to an ultra-faahion ble eet,an t havin marned a South Corol na planter, soon_scop ed what we call “plantation manners,and off cted no | little scorn of #.m)'e-mannere|,rea rve! New Eng- land folk, Bie was et Newport, our erent seasce watering-place, and havin: just returned | Europe took gros aire; 0) herac'f, O ing at the tes-t ile, a genticman sat down her, and the buter-plate beore bim happen- ing to have no butter-kniie by ft the nio- ment, he, instead of calling the watt ud wat ing for ona ts) Le brought, used he own per- fectly ‘reah bright knie to take @ bit of buver. He was e man of culiure and social stending, but ® Yankee, and one whose mcial prete sion she wis od to flout, She seized ibe opportunity, and calling @ water tin an elaborsiely subdued, but ceded tone, ‘Take away tiatbuuer, That geutioman hag had hie kuiteiu it He took no notice of the remeik, which drew all eyes upoo him and upon the lady; but bye and bye #6 stretobed out her hand and took frow the p ate some o ipped drie |) be f, wiich stood Letween ber aud ber victim, This was wel enough, of course; but be turned at once, and ¢ & waiter sad, oply as if he was asking for more t “Take eWay that dred bec thie lady has bad er fiuvera in oot.' Tuo the en ounter, such as it Was, be wan thought to bave bad the bess of it, and she did not forgive ortorget Boe few dave stierwarde (1 sould have mentioned thas there waa the slip biest possiile a quuinian’e between them) they belong at cinun she couspicucus in the tull dresa se bad & since her tour to Europe, end which wa > very ‘fu’ thas it would have attracie! atieution ender any ciroumetances, took ove from ea deh of fresh figs before her, aud puleug tone place, hanued it to him with an expre@son of Com) lesance, bus tay - ing in 8 tone of unmistakable wig itl auce, Woich could be heard aliar und ber, “A fig for you, Sir Ho asccepte: ‘t graciously, aud taking in bie surne the gerniwre of t.eda., olered it w ber, “A th, leaf tor you, Madam.” Sue flod ihe tabi, mua keps Ler room unl Ler intend. et vicum lel the Lock Ib was gen rally ayrecd that Le bad done what a gentleman would surink irom doing but the provocaton Was such tuat be was Leid guiltless of Uence, aud applauded for his Wil ahd Lolod), exept perhaps a few of ber slaveluliing treuis. ibe is the Les edad 1 know tuli drese at @ publ.ctuvle, Bus T am told thes Wiebin the las. turee uo ivur yours it is coming wore in ‘ashion among the * iestes\’ seis ab tue hey of (he season at Baraio.a, wud ove or two ObLere Ol our payee Walon es, News Items, By Telejraph to the New York Sun.) Terr's stable in C! stown, Mass, was de- stroyed by fire, Saturday night, with its contents, including eight valuable horses, Tus storm of Friday night was very severe in the nelghborbood of Cincinnati, At Lex .ngton, Ky., trees were torn up, fences prosiraied, and chimnies over\brown, Tus schooner General Sheridan, from New Foundland, of and for Gloucester, Mass, was wrecked on the night of Jan, 16, off Cape Cancer. Four of the crew perished, Potnarp was arraigned before the Virginie House of D legates, on Siturday, for breach of de- corum on the Sih io Le was, on motion, repri- manded by the Speaker and discharged, Tus ship Lancaster sailed from Poiladelphia for Antwerp, on Baiurday, with the laryest cargo of petroleucn ever taken trom the United States in one vessel—viz., 8,708 barre s, containing 270,191 gal- lous of refined an! 96,113 gallons of crude oil, val- ued at over $200,000. Tue Canadian Trane Review professes to know that the United Biates G vernment bave consented to renew the Reciprocity Treaty if Canada will raise the provincial excise duties to the Ainerican standard, admit certain manufactures free, and enlarge the canals, the United Biates bearing part of the expense—the whole matter to be arranged by the respective Legislatures without « treaty, Genoral Intelligence, (Dy Mail to the New York Sun} Jupan P, Buwsamry bas entered bis name at the Temple for adiniesion to the English bar, Tum cases of rmall-pox among the colored people in end arcuid Washin,ton are daily diminishing, Two river pirates were sentenced on .Thuredasy by a» Poughke:paie Court $0 1539 years each, bs Ir has been decile! by the Court of Queen's Bench, in Dublin, that a cloreymen of the Courch of England cau legs!!y marry himeelf, Jupau Advocate General Harvey, of this State, decides that @ county judge is empewered to dis- charge mon drafied for aillitia service, for good cause, A Rarxoap collision oecurred on Wednesday, on the Uiiuols Ceniral R I., by which two men were killed and several sold.ers returning to ther homes were wounued, Tases is « chiid in Staunton, Va., seven weeks olf, which weighs ouly oue pound and e half, When born it cou d Le put inw @ tes cup, and thea weighed only half a pound, Caurznrre's well known picture of ‘President Lincoln Reading the Emanc!pa ion Proclamation A 1a to be emp! 1 as the decoration backs of some of tue new national bank Tus Pension M!!, as 1t has passed the Senate Finance Commitioe, amounts to seventeen and a millions dollars, The Sonate added twe and s half mi hon to |t, and there is @ deficiency of two and # half million dollars, Ex-Gov, Arcen, who bas errived from Bouth Carolina, gives a sad account of the tm, bilisy of inducing negroes to work, and says that unless something is cone, the entire crop of the Boush will be » failure, Tas honesty of Albany butchers and grocers it seems | oon 8 good deal of looking after, No | than one hundred and eleven sets of false scales and weights have been selsed these within @ low Wd oth, he Treaty and tor opeun: the | 99 Steed | 1866. Thirty-Third Year. Upw. apa of eighty livhthonses and boats ak extent of the ‘ously irom the mouth of the Chesapeake Tay | psn dedi pnd to Texas, aro in need of repaire, while some are | entirely dretroved, yet Congr as has made no ap- | propriasion for re-establishing them. |S 8ra" asked @ newly fletoe! legislator of | fellow passenger on the Hudson R ver Railroad, | ‘fare you voing to the Legislature!"" © No, thank Godt! not so bad as that, Tam going to tue Btate ave been fully insured, From « statement made by the receiving clerk, {0 i# underttood that cotton were atinitted for “nore oon boda 7 afternoon, and there is litle doubt entertained bea that the fire was in aid cotton, The building, No. 247 Bouth sirect, was partly cceupied by John Mo- Mabon, @ shipwright, who loses about | 9500 | Prigon i" sured, Murray Roberta loses $10,000 ; pid | sured, It is leved there will a eal of Warnent Patiires delivered « lecture in Bpring- | from thirty to forty percent, It ist be reqretied | fleld, Mass, on Weunesday, on the labor roform | that two serious acelcents occur red, Questions in which be edvoested the exht hour | falling of the wall « Portion of is ee mov ment, He said that he expected t)1 ve 0 are me | nav named Christop te ously Such & provress made in machinery that four houre | jured him, He wat when sone ‘ih Pre oe Wil sccomp!iah whe work of eight under present | tion house where he was atiendad i eatreon, ‘ 1 by th OOD, and from thence to his Teaxdence, a ‘Jaen hooner Patte Martin wae wrocked! onthe | *trect. The other occurred about 4 o'clock _ nt cutece of Hatteras [let bar, and ber | fay morning, when Georwe Waywan, of Engine ceptacn and cook were (rozen to ceath, Themae | © No. 11, fell from the roof of one of the build. med Oh boend the wreck fe ate juss ‘joining the fire, and wae seriously inured, suiler.ng, and living forthe | [0 *8Ure cas as estimated late last evening, ts Ur@ previous to ther rescue on the dead $649,000, | | condit A Swact Fiem aep Guat Boans,— Early you. Tar other meht a transtant boarder terday torning, @ quarrel occurred, a hotel in Bt. Loule got tie! t, missed har eaprured y P bar secneg aed contered be My PM ig Ph re ca eee John Lyons and his wife, who occupied name, aud entered on | She basoment of the tenant-house, 84 Mulberr | the pott Is asap “unk vown mr The nexs | Mreet, aud while in a etate of auger, as iso Noy MOruing, se ing a crowd about him ty the cell, be © eet fire to airaw bed, with » hghted candle sad, * deud for the proprietor of the hotel, Why ‘ng & 04 filled with smoke, and im- has he put euch @ jos of roughs in my roow f'* uense coufusion ensued, the nme es all rupuiuy outin their night olothes. Mi, Mare Day | Rev, Da, Posty hee surprised the religious world | CCCUpled the jrout basement chtiaguisnes to fre, of England by a letter fu whien he clearly and | # vitcer MGuirk, otwbe Gh Precincy ar unequivocally acknowledges the supremacy of the | Lous, who Was comin tor tral iy Janne Bebop of Rive. Tt wan enproeed for several | Vuwling, on com) lains of Fre Mareval B.keor years past, thet Dr. Pasoy h peen receding trom About 12 on Baturie ; : J ; aftern, 5 ue Romish tendencies. Ea late letter has there- | our ip Ann street, edjoiniiy the saiviad geutins fore painfully surprised many who bave admired | of N. Wiucus's ssioon The fi ¥ - * 0 fi i the second for of the Wulluing whee mead oe pied by D.. Glover wo the exertion of « Which was occu s truss measufmiory, Owlug firemen the fire did Lot make much headway id but alight damays was coue— insured, .. les the datuage sustained by Mrs. O'Gorman, at ihe fire at 191 Grand si reet, early on Saturday morning, aereporws inthe Bus Mos. V. Welk, milliuer, lost $2,000; not insured, Cons. rable dauage waa dove also lu the craceer va! Where the fire ollginated. Whe iuilding, ownid Ly C- M. Waking, was od 61,000— insured for seu.” oe J. Witsoe Scaaran, General Butler's ex-chief of tail, hae returned trom ‘he Bouth, with a aad report of tue disloyalty and bad temper of the peuple, which te in nee variance with the views @x- pressed by General Grantto the President, Mr. | Bebaler has been before the Reconstruction Com ln itee to tell Lis impressious and is to appear again, Apviors from South America r dent Loper, ot Paraguay, tad made proposals to the All ‘or 8 cessation of hostilities, Lhe latter Were gaiviug many aiveutages over the Paraguay- ang who were baatly coireating, Five Broz lian steamers had pus up nearly to Corrientes, aud rein creements coutinually arr.vieg for the | Alles, Is Walworth county, Wisconain, on the Sth, three men entered the house of aman who had just sold bis farm ‘or $8,000, and finding the farm- +r absent, murdered bis wite and child, and pro- ceeded to ransack Waile thus engaved, a persor 3 usp. cious pnoleea, went to the house, saw what had been dove, and shot sil three of the assassins, killing one and wortally wounding the others. Ayouna German gir), named Eim/lie Mass, who feu scribed ving b rewarkally bhandsomy committed suicide in ergo, Til, on Thursday law, by taking strychuine, She had been seduced anc betrayei in her guome in Germany by her lover, aud fled tw the country to hide ber shame | Bae wave ber perevie from disgrace, which fact pr yed heavily on her mind, Bue lefs o lever to be seut to her parents, and auother for a friead, iu which ese requested that ber lover's picture might be Luried wiwu ber, In the Easex County Court of Oyer and Termin- er, in Newark, N »on Friday, in the case of Catharine J, Thomas ve Coarles UH, Meekor, o verdict was renJered in ta of the plaintiff, and dal es amounting to ¢4,000 was awarded, Is “| M \ adopted daugbter ol father, latter recently having married a sovond time, went to Europe, and as is sai, juvited bis miogted dauyuter w live ia the pouse of hissou, Mcker is charged with bawig ejated the young wowan from Lis house, also with using slauderous language towardster, A sult for alleged e/eciment will alee be tre, Tus Chicago Rerupisoam says the last Free Trade Lesgue meetiug in thatcity was a failure end the proceedings were as dull as « Dernocraue caucus Wituout whiskey or fighting. Lie only real \.tei of the entertaiument was the exhibi- tion by President o/ the League, of ac cost which be bought in Canade enu brought to Chica- go without paying duty. This practical tllussra. tion of the principles of tree wade gave @ tom. porary liveliness w the meeting; but it ater- ward relapsed iuto tw former siow and somuolent LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND TIE VICINITY. Fings,—Hravy Losses,—About half-past So'clock on Saturday evening, a fire was discov ered on the first floor of the large warohovee of Miller & Conger, 459 and 491 Water street, and extencing through to Bouth street, The flames spread rapidly, and, notwithstanding the exer- ons of the firemen, the entire building and ite con'ents were destroyed. The building was fifty feet front by 160 feet deep, and closely packed with goods, consisting of cotton, bemp, rags sugar, tron, &e,, belonging to various parties, As the fire bad made considerable headway before it wae discovered, it 1s supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Loss estimated at ¢500,000—insured, LATER AOOOUNTS—1068, $640,000, About haif-past 12 o'clock A.M., yesterday, the walls of the building fell in. and @ portion of the debris covered the lumber and lath yard 487 Water street, belonging to Robert J. Murray, breaking down the office and damaging the stock seriously, The following are the names of the owners of goods in the building, with the articles stored, and their value: J.L. & D, 8, Riker, 189 casks of bleaching pow- der, $5,500 ; A. Ublman, 8 caska black lead, value unknown; J. Hoy & Co, 187 bales cotton, $87,400; C.C, & H. M. or, 44 bales cotton, 8,800 ; Win, Brice, 110 bales cotton, #22,000; Hoh Coen & Uo, 82 bags cotton pickings, $2,600; Murray & Ne phew, 101 bales cotton, $20,200 ; Hopkins, Dwight and Trowbridge. 267 bales of cotton, $61,400; Mur- colson & Murry, 67 bales cotton, #11,400; J. M, Jones, T9 bales cotton, $15 800; M, Beeler & Co,, 2T bales cotton, 5,400; O. K King & Co., 11 bales cotton, $2,200; J. H. Brower, 6 bales cotton, #1,000; Berger, Hurlbut & Livi om, one hundred aud thirty-ix bales cotion, @27,200 ; A, C, Bebaffer & Co, 19 bales cotton, 800 5 ©, B, Dibble, 46 bales cotton, $9,000; C. B, D.bbie, 78 bales of rags, value unknown; J, B Farwell & Co. 252 bales cotton, 50,400; Curtia & Peabody, Jr, 1,407 bales of hemnp, W9,590; A, Begoden, 500 b of hemp, 20,000; J, A. Wilkinson, 12 bales of cotton, #2,400; Watts, Crane & Co., 88% bales cotton, $6,400; G, W. Atwater, 8 cases bools, Value unknown; BF, 3 Morgan, 150 cases bleaching pow- der, $5,200; Barley & Davis, 40 bales cotlen, $8,- 000; Lorry, Baith & Co. 121 bales cotton, #24, 200; Easion & Co, 189 bales cotton, @87,800; J, L, pmallwood d& Oow 126 bales cotton, 975,000 4 Koar- noy & Waterman, 43 casos bleaching powders, 1,720: N. ¥. Palmer, 600 bales hemp, 20,000; Hugh Herman & Bro,, 267 bales cotton, $66,400 ; Lioyd Parsons, 92 bales coiton, $159,400; M; W, Griswold, 107 barrels ¢’ clay, #1,070; O, Wind. muller, 84 casks clay, $840; RB. Hull, 16 cases sul- bate of lime, value unknown ; H; G, Meyers, Jr., tuns of iron tubing, value unknown; George B. Buel, 1,496 dozen peach baskets, @5,200; E. 8, Higgins & Co. 17 bales of flocks, $1,190 ; Dennison & Wyckoff, an unknown quantity of molasses; O, Balmfortb, 69 bales of 2,240. The building, which belonged to the estate of the late W. W. De Worm. was domaned ta the aa ort that Presi- SKATLNG.— Yesterday was a grand day for skaters tn Coutral Park and elsewhere, and not- Withstanding it was Babbath the ponds were all patronized by hundreds, There was only one drawback, and that was the high wind which pre vailed and which was keenly felt in exposed places, But the weather bas been so coangeable lately that the lovers of this healthful exercise took the opportunity as it came, not knowing what might be in a day or two. The bracing frosty disposition of the atmosphere last evening, however, prom ses to favor the skating communi- ty for the next few days, Tue Fentans,—Tho two parties are as bitter as ever, The O'Mahony side repudiate ali that was sald by the ‘twelve'’ officers recenily arrived from Ireland, They charge that those gentlemen are in ‘bad standing’ with Mr, Biepheus, who bas expressed a wish that they had never set foot on Irish soll, They deny that they bad anything to do with Lodi | these men to Ireland, and charge that they could not be depended upon, as they were Benator Svanion's choice, Tuey also olaim the twelve’ were not sue “sposiies,” baving lof Ireland without leave, The Beuate having pre- pared an address, to be issued soon, aliournod at hoon, on Suiurday, subject to the call of iw Preai- dent, Gol, Roberts signed the resolution calling @ military Cougress. Timeelf and Goneral Bweene are about to start on a canvassing tour through! the Uuon, for tue we of rallying the circles to bumediate action, Mr. Patrick J, Meehan, of the Ixiwa AMrmicam has published an able docu- ment, in which be claims to refute all the charges Uroughs egaingt him ba! the O'Mabony perty, and details Lie wission to Ireland aud the joss of bis documents, whicn has caused the arrest of so many Fenians there. He also reviews the slandere relating to the $2,000 draft also lost by him, and which bis enemies charge he devoied to bis own personal use, Epwis Boorn,—This actor, during the last act of “Hamlet,” on Tucslay evening, at Wiuier Garden, was struck in the nght eye by the foil of his opponent, which socident came near beving serious results, The eye has since been partially closed, and is bloodshot and painful, bus he con- tinues his part as usual, A Spicy Line. Sorr—Tue Eprrous or rus “Povios Gazerts Auazetap om Tae Comriaint ov A. T, Brawant.—Mr, A, T, Biewart, the mil- Monaire, on Baturdey afternoon, entered # com- Plains before Justice Dowling, at the Tombs, against Ex-Chief of Police George W. Matesll and Wm, Mackellar, editors and proprietors of the Nationat Powtom Gazerra, obarging them with baving published » gross and malicious libel upon him In ibe last tasuo of their paper. In his complaint, Mr. Stewart ssys thet he hee res ded ir and done business tn the city of New York for raany years; that he is now largely en- gaged in business, and ts well known by most of the residents of the city, either by repute or per- sonal acquaintance ; that in the issue of the Na- TIonaL Potro Gazurre of the date of Jon. 20, 1966, blished an article entitled “A Veteran Bou hich the following allegations were made: That s veteran millionaire, of more than mxty winters—one of the leading representatives of the plethoric wealth of this metropolis—was in the habit of wisi a French actress, named Natalie Dumas, late of the Gallic-American Theatre, who “oeld forth in « suitable establishment im Depau Row, and with gallant frequency did the pipe lover of over three-score years visit ber there in her chosen home ;" that “his abundant libersi- ity in footing the Lille of the establichment, with ite fancy propr tress, was worthy of bis fortune ; the lady was thus enabled to live in glittering lux urience,” Deponent says that he ts the rifliionaire merchany intended to be relerred to 1p said article, aud any person resident in this city, of mod or information, would at once und: is the person therein held ~ to put disgrace, and thas such is the objevt of the publix cation ; that the statements in said article ave ut- ily end wholly untrue, as fares they «lee Ww im. Judge Dowling required the sccused to appear before him, which they did, The defendants, iu explanation, denied in the most unqualified terms, thas Mr. Biewart was (Le geutioman rererred to im the article complained of, but Justwe Dowling re- quired them to thud bail in the sum of $1,000 each, to await the resuls of an examination, Mr, M well Lecume bondsman for Mr Ma Kellar, and the Jamer become boudswan for Mr, Matsoll, Justice Dowling will bold am invesi.genvn in the case this afternoun, ATremPreD Surcips IN A Peison Yaap.— On Saturday afternoon, during an ¢xXamination, before Justice Mansfeld, of Dr, Herman Camp, of No. 11 Carrol! Pisce, on @ charge of having com- uitied an aborioon ob Margaret Kinney, residing at No, 140 East Tenth street, the complainant siep- ped trom the Court room to the prison yard, aud swallowed «# vial of laudanum for the purpose of destroying her hfe, The act was discovered, aad auiidvies which saved ber lie, o— (Oamiumed gn tha das Kesns