The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-01-08

the public. Between eleven and three she was Vi
sited by the Elite OF the city. At two o'clock she
was presented with splendid set of flags, signals
and cabin cutlery, by the Yorkshire gentlemen OF
this city, in return for the compliment paid them
in naming her after their birth place.
This exhibition Of ship, gifts, and company, can
not be passed by without remark. In The Yorkshire
there is most everything that Is splendid In the
flags, cutlery, Nc., the gentlemen Of Yorkshire have
thrown in portion Of the beauty OF the ship. No
thing is now wanting to make her patda but a few
views of the "Eye of England" as the shire is
called. We understand that these views are to
be given to her by the leading men on the other
side Of the Atlantic. We are glad of this
The presentation of the flags &c, on Saturday,
was splendid affair throughout. There were as
sembled in the cabin, at the time, ABOUT two hun
dred Of our first merchants and shipmasters Be-
fore them was capital dinner, with the new cabin
cutlery; above them gay loated the flags and sig
mails; and in their midst was the immortal Tom
Thumb walking around the plates as easily as those
who have signed the pledge walk through our
streets. Mr.. Henry Jessup, in behalf OF his fellow
countrymen, presented the flags, Nc, wrapped up
in neat speech, to Capt. Marshall, part owner
and agent of the ship. Captain M. replied
! in very handsome manner. lie stated that pack
cts were first started in 1877 and since then most
astonishing improvements have been made In ship
building. Then, packets We're looked upon as SO
many floating chimeras on the Atlantic now they
are looked upon as many palaces, as useful as
they are splendid, floating off from our shores to
those Of old England. After this presentation,
which was 80 dpropos, Tom Thumb, who has en-
gagged five state rooms for himself and friends, hop
ped upon piece of excellent d Ia mode beef and
sung the 'Deep, deep sea" He then resumed
his seat a cut glass tumbler, and the utmost con-
| VITALITY prevailed till late in the afternoon.
| When Capt. Bailey, the gentlemanly commander
Of the Yorkshire, was toasted, he made capital
speech, in which he explained to the satisfaction OF
every one, that fourteen days was time enough to
take in running across the Atlantic, wind and wea-
Their permitting and that icebergs were only 80
many big boulders from the north. II is the COM
mon remark among sharks when Captain b. goes
to sea- that it is useless to attempt to follow that
ship, for Bailey is on board of her." Such is his
reputation for speed even among the inhabitants OF
the deep.
Among those on board were Captains Cobb, Ro-
gers, Barstow, Marshall, &C., old packet COM
manders, all of whom, except Captain Barstow,
have retired from active service, but who have in
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ships as the Yorkshire, Ashburton, Queen Of the
West, &c. &C., And it is fact that at least one
third of the shipping belonging thisport is owned
by shipmasers in and out OF service. Many Of our
finest packets are almost wholly owned by these
terprisng men, and il is to them that this country is
indebted for the superiority of ships those
of every other nation in the world. Within the last
ten years, dozen or more of our packet contains,
namely Maxwell, Cobb, the Marshalls the Palmers,
Waite, &c, NC, have left their big wooden
poughs on the Atlantic, and gone to small iron
poughs on land. II is said that Captain Maxwell
is the largest farmer in Pennsylvania, and Cap
tain Waite owns a lovely place in Connect
cut. called N"~:-- Manor. and at the last
accounts he up for Town CLERK, the nlgnes,
Office in the gift of the people in his part of the
country. When on the Atlantic. these saor-farmers
reaped dollars and silver ptchers now they reap
cats, wheat, rye, &c. With their cattle II is " star
bord," instead of 'gee-bright," and "larbord," in
| stead of " hawbuck." There such words as
s'gee-up-gee no." in their language.
But in the midst of the gaiety and convivialty on
board the Yorkshire, intelligence reached town
that Captain Burrows, the much esteemed Burrows
| of the George Washington, was no more! Instantly
every thing turned from gay to grave flags and
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splendid Yorkshire were lowered to half-mast, and
all looked sad and gloomy Captain Bailey, who
was SO happy now the most sorrowful, for he
had lost one of his dearest friends. Never was
change SO sudden great as this change
| from pleasure to sadness. Throughout that night
and throughout yesterday the flags of all the ship
ping, as well as the Yorkshire, were displayed al
half-mast in token of respect to the departed Cap
tain.
TIE STATEN ISLAND MURDER.-In yesterday
mornings edition, we have gwen the full parcu-
lars of this horrible MURDER and the commitment oil
Waite as an accessory after the fact Rumors
have since been prevalent that confessions and
| revelations have been made tending more strongly
to elucidate and confirm the previous suspicious
elected by the testimony as published in this paper
On Saturday evening, several persons, representing
themselves from Staten Island, were hawking abou
what they alleged to be confession of Polly Bo
dine twas offered to u.s. Exclusively, but doubtine
its authenticity, and caring little even if it was au
thentic, we refused to purchase it, and the paItie
afterwards applied to several other establishments
where they obtained about the same encourage
mcnt. 1t is possible that Polly Bodine may hav
made confession but whether she has or not, tn
public care very little, the testimony already ehci
ted has proved sufficient to satisfy the whole commu
nifty of her participation in this unnatural crime
The various false statements promulgated by poi
ton Of the city press during the past week shoul
cause the community to place no reliance upo
statements not confirmed by some official action
The examination of this woman was set down TO
to-day. We shall have a reporter on the spot, an
all the facts connected with the case will be give
in our evening edition.
The New YORK OPERA HoUsE-CAsrELLAN AM
BoRGHEsK-FURTnER PARTICULARs.-This elegan
establishment is now in great forwardness; tn
graceful outline of The dress circle, the imposing
succession of Seats the picturesque form Of tn
stage and the novel and tasteful decorative de
signs, are already in view, and almost make mel
mad. The house will be opened on the first OF mex
month with Bellni's magnificent opera of P,r'
fani, in which the beautiful and unknown Boz
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