Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-01-25
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New YoRK, JANUARY %, Is45.

oiAce iooc qudIttr per cent; anu tnere was trI-
hing ian In most OF the other stocks upon the list,
with the exception of Canton Company and Erie
Railroad There is but little doing in cotton. The
| rates OF domestic exchange continue moderate
The Oxford arrived on Monday bringing advices
from Liverpool to the 18th December The intel
ligence in regard to the frmness Of the cotton mar
ket productive of considerable activity in stock
operations at the brokers' board to-day There
was marked advance in nearly all varieties with
the exception of Pennsylvania fves, in which there
was decline of one per cent. and upwards The
demand for specie for export continues undated,
and there has been slight increase in the rates of
domestic exchange, which is partly attributable 10
the fact that large amount Of protested paper has
come back here from the Southern States.
The demand for biuminous coal is annually in
creasing great extent in this city, and the quail
ty Of that brought here from the mines of Maryland
is regarded as quite equal to the Liverpool. The
unwhoesome gas exhaled in the burning Of anthra-
cite coal has induced many families to abandon its
use, and people begin to consider it not only an
unwhoesome but questionable article Of fuel.
In cases of sickness, physicians very generally put
their ban upon it. The consequence is, that soft
coal is getting and more into use, although it
cannot be procured Of good quality i'm this city at
present for less than twelve dollars chadron. 1t
is to be hoped that the facilities Of transportation
from the Cumberland mines will soon be increased
that extent, that shall not be Obliged to look to
Liverpool for our principal supply.
| Some OF our principal physicians likely to be-
come converts at length to belief in the truth of
the much-abused science of Mesmerism. most
convincing evidence Of the power and reality Of the
mesmeric agency exhibited in this city on
Thursday last, 1.-THE 9Th instantly in the presence of
Doctors Morn, FRANCIS, DoANE, DELAFIELD Ro-
| GERS, and others-all of them men acknowledged
to stand in the front rank of their profession.
young lady of responsibility residing in Chambers
| street, while in the somnambulic state induced by
mesmerism, had trmor removed from her neck
near the carotid artery. The mesmerser and sur
| gcal operator was DR.. BERTRoNNiER, young man
of fine abilities, who has recently arrived here from
Paris. The subject submitted to the painful ope-
ration without the slightest manifestation of physical
pain shrinking serene smile PLAYING upon her
lips the knife cut deep into the flesh. After the
operation was ended apparent disposition to AVA
ken from the magnetic trance was Immediately dis
/ PEELED by few passes Of the mesmeriser's hand
The eminent physicians, who were present, nearly
all OF whom came prepared to scof regarded
one another i'll silent amazemeRt at the successful
close of the experiment As one of the most dis
tinguished of them remarked to me, their looks
seemed to say i" have not dsbelieved In these
things too long ~ The case was in all its details
of most convincing character. full description
of it, duly authenticated, will soon be published 1t
is likely TO rival in interest that in which the cele-
DTateu OIL IdTlS was the operator, WHO Tc-
, moved cancer under similar circumstances, but
where the operation not strongly attested as
in the present instance. A profound impression has
undoubtedly been made upon the minds OF our me-
u dcal and scientific men by this extraordinary incl
dent confrmatory it is of the reality OF an agen-
: cy in nature, the existence of which they have hi
thertc denied, md the attempts TO establish the truth
! of which they have denounced as the grossest
quackery.
rLahl sba.p & epda
ton Of day of prayer fasting, and humiliation, in
reference to the proposed annexation of Texas"
appears il some of papers this week. 1t is sign
ed by ARTHUR TAPPAN, WILLIAM JAY, and twelve
Il others, members of committee of the American
Foreign and Anti-Slavery Society,"" and they re-
commend their fellow-citizens to observe the 9TH
: day of February next in the manner proposed.
The object is to avert, by suppcaton and fasting,
the threatened measure of annexation. These men
now have the GOODNESS TO call upon Heaven to avert
calamity which they did their best to bring about
last November at the polls. They expect to undo
by prayers and fasts the mischief which they per-
versely sought to render imminent through the
agency of the ballot-box. Alas for human con-
lsistency!
Our accommodating postmaster, Col. GRAHAM,
has given notice that the post Office in Nassau
street will be ready for occupation the ensuing
week, when that in the Park will be vacated, and
permanent branch opened at the of East
Broadway and Chatham Square. These arrange
ments give complete satisfaction to the greater por
ton Of business population, from whose pockets
of the receipts of post Office The
veniences of the building Of the ample and per-
feet description The number of boxes has been greatly in
creased and tie price reduced and all that ingenuity could
contvc in the interior and exterior arrangements add
the accommodation of the public has been accomplished
II is to be hoped that Congress will reduce the rates Of
postage that extent that nducement will be offered
the private mail establishments proong their existence.
We begin to regard them great nuisances In many in
stances have known important letters entrusted to these
agencies to be kept back until they useless, simply be-
the residence Of the person whom they addressed
unknown, although the time he had box in the
regular Post Office The evils enduring from the
present high rates of postage cali loudly for redress and
tho least Is the confusion and uncertainty caused by these
irresponsible agencies.
The ground has been purchased for a Opera House
adjoining Nblo's Gardens in Broadway building is to
he erected that will for public meetings and concerts
well for theatrical entertainments The Tabernacle though
uninvitng lis well ts Interior considered
good property and hall further up town that will for
operate representations well for lecture and concert
WILL if fortunately constructed prove not Improbable
| undertaking
We have great Locofoco meeting Tammsny Hall
tomorrow evening for the purpose told in the CALL
of "giving impulse to that great national Of the
Democratic party, the remuneration Of Texas to the United
States" This bitter pin for the circular gentle
The probability is that they will be whipped in by tho
| time the Administration comes into power.
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