The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-08

per cent t. 90 per cent, except Ten tnoossn ""'0
was al par. The best bid was for ten nousano
dollars four per CENTS at par Inc Governor WIN
univ ccep. an amount sufficient to pay off the
ma u six per cents, and probably issue call Tor
new proposals for the balance It would have been
wiser 10 icy to have issued proposals for loan in
smaller sums, instead Of putting he whole amount
in lump upon the market, particu arly when the
whole was not Immediately required 1t is our i'm
preston that the Governor Of Pennsylvania will md
that the terms offered by the bidders, for portion
of the five million loan, favorable as he will
receive at any future time. The five per cents Of
that State, now in the market, are selling below
par.
Gov Hunt has offered reward of Ave thousand
dollars each, for the apprehension and conviction OF
any FIVE of the anti.renters engaged in the recent
attack on the house of Mr., Shaw. The Governor
says that it is high time to bring these offenders to
justice. Other people said the same thing long ago
The letter from our Washington correspondent
confirms the news brought by the Arctic, that the
fishery difficulty has not by any means been settled
The information detailed by the letter is highly in
teres,ing, and may be relied as coming from an
authentic
Utica is said to be overrun with visitors TO the
State Fair. The number of entries Of every de-
scription is very large, the display extremely fine
and the whole promises to be of the greatest az
fairs Of the kind ever held in this country.
The Telegraph is so rapidly becoming q great
medium of communication between the chief towns
ard cities of North America, that the time 20
be not far distant when, in the extent of its ramf
cations and the amount Of it's business operations.
it will be scarcely less important feature in the
country than the Post Office Department itself. Any
radical change, therefore, extension, improve
ment in existing lines, any projection of new
ones, must, necessarily, be subject of great i'm
poItance to all classes, but especially to the
tile and newspaper interests 1t is with pleasure,
therefore, that we learn that the Nova Scotia
Telegraph Line, heretofore owned by the govern
ment of that province, has recently passed.
into the hands of a joint stock company,
at the head of which is the Hon s Cunard,
a gentleman whose worldwide reno.n
business man, is sufficient guaranty that the new
company will be managed with energy aud skill,
and that all its details will be we'll and fairly at
tended 70. The new company, we understand, act.
ing in concert with the New Bruns sick Compang
have commenced their administration by reducing
the tolls on messages of ten words between Halifax
and Calais, in Maine, from 10 to 60 cents; aud
each additional werd from to ) cents, which is
very liberal We also learn tha. the Nova Scotia
line is TO be Immediately placedin the thorough
repair. This it greatly needs, having been ;1r
many months past, in state but i-adspted to
meet the wants of the public. We trust that she
company may meet with abundant success in its
operations, and we have no doubt that the wish
will be fully realized.
Y 1t will be seen, reference to the report, that
the Coroners Jury, in the Of the explosion
| board the steamer Reindeer, finished their nvesti
| CATION and rendered their report We shall speak
| Of this matter hereafter.
| meeting of the citizens of New York opposed
| to the Broadway Railroad scheme, convened .s
night in Layfe Hall, and adoptes remoustrance
against the project to be presented to the Common
Council. There were few property owners present,
and the meeting was by means inhuentially
supported as might have been anticipated. The
chair was filled by a lawyer, and the two principal
| speakers belonged to that profession. The legal
| opinions given by them will be read with much in
| terest and instruction, and would especially
commend them to the attention of the bench aud
| the bar, to see whether or not they are in conso.
nance with the new code. few pous old
| gentlemen deprecated railroads for their i'm.
| moral tendencies, and traced great deal Of the
vice Astounding in the community, to their Sabbath
breaking habits The opponents Of the railroad, in
Broadway, have strong and powerful arguments to
bring against such monopoly scheme as is sought
to be carried through to the detrimen. of that noble
thoroughfars; AID, if they rely che justice of
their cause, they ought to succeed in sitting the
project But they should not descend to such base,
unworthy means, Of carrying out their views, the
endeavor to bride the reporters of the public press
to from their strict line of duty, faithful
chroniclers of events. The attempt to do so is
humiliating to themselves unjust to the public. and
insulting TO the orters. We regret that such an
attempt made last night. If the memoirs of
the Commin Council arc open TO corruption, the
ATTACHES Of our office are gentlemen, and, such,
scorn, despise, and denounce all such insulting
Offers as were impudently made to one of them last
night.
In the Board Of Aldermen last evening, some very
interesting debates TRANSFERRED resolutions for the
special appointment Of proper persons TO inspect
and remove oil buildings that may be considered
unsafe; for the removal of nuisances and obstruc'
tions in the shape Of building materials in the
streets; to prevent the driving of cattle below Four
teenth street, &c. We regret that we cannot make
room for our special sketches Of the proceedings
However. the reader can gain pretty good idea of
what transpired from the official reports elsewhere
given. interesting debate sprung up in the
Board Of Assistant Aldermen upon a proposition to
alter the landing of the Jackson ferry at Brooklyn
The Board accepted the designations of Mr. John
CoDkley, and Mr. Anthony J Blocker, as inspsc-
tors of elections in the Sixth and fifteenth wards.
Messrs. Reuben + Moss and John Lalor sent in
their designations Commissioners of Deeds which
were also accepted The annual report of the Chief
Engineer Of the Fire Department, which is append
ed to the official reports of the proceedings in coun-
Gil, will doubtless attract the attention of all who
are interested in the welfare of the city.
meeting of the land reformers, at which there
were forty-seven individuals present. was held last
evening at Military Hall, Bowery; but up to half
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