The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-16

Conrad, requires Of newspaper editor all the light
in his possession. We leave the affair, however, for
the present, to the tender merces of Mess's. Law
and Roberts.
The Young Democracy held festival last even
ing at Tammany Hall, in honor OF the seiamPh
achieved by their party at the recent election. The
dinner was good, the champagne wGs better, oat
the speeches were The bes. OF all the entertain nent
We refer our readers to the graphic report Of the
procee dipgs, elsewhere given. We may advert to
the affair hereafter.
Some twenty laboring men, who were crossing the
river in arow.boat, near st. John, N. B., on the
IIth inst were run over by ste IN ferry boat, and
over half of the number were drowned
Quite destructive Ere occurred a. Dunkirk, last
Sunday morning Among the baiidings burned
was O'Reilly's telegraph efice An iron foundry,
at Troy was damaged to the extent Of twenty thou
sand dollars by FIRE, on Saturday night
According TO the latest returns from Mississippi,
it is probable thai majority of the people have
voted in opposition to paying the Planters Bank
bonds.
The telegraphs furnish the melancholy intelli-
gence that the ste amer Powhatan is supposed to
hare foundered during the recent Storm on Lake
Erie, and that all on board persisted. Her books
and papers have been washed ashore, but no other
vsstiee Of the We sel has been Several sailing
vessels are reported to be ash0 Q, and greatly dam
aged at different placss, and it is feared that many
others which encountered the gale will never again
be heard from
An adjourned session Of the Ohio Legislature
assembled yesterday, but business of Importance
was transacted.
Winter is upon us, and no mistake. The snow
was enc foot deep at Rochester yesterday, and at
Syracuse aud Utica ii showed nearly all day The
reports from all parts Of the country represent the
weather as being very cold and disagreeable Even
from New Orleans we have the announcement Of
frost, consequently no more danger need be appre-
hended from yellow fever.
German girl in Philadelphia, yesterday, shot =
young man for having seduced and borrowed one
hundred dollars from her, he refusing to make re-
paration in both instances; fortunately for himself
he was not killed.
Publicity is given in a New Orleans paper to the
statement of the officers of the ship Kennebec, who
declare that, when near the Grand Banks in May
last, they discovered two vessels frozen together in
an iceberg. The question naturally arises as to
whether these vessels may not have belonged to the
i'll. fated Franklin expedition!
Court Of Oyer and Terminer, for causing the death
of Mrs Connery, in May last. 1t will be recollec.ed
that the prisoner cut the throats of both the deceas
ed and himself, and that upon being taken to the
hospital his victim died and he recovered. A full
report of the testimony adduced by the prosecution
is given on another page.
new institution, called the Corn Exchange
Bank, to be located near Hanover square, is about
e. svk~ IT,. sA-l l. 49,
$500oo0 with the privilege of increasing it to two
million. We learned yesterday that $3.50. 900 were
already subscribed
The proceedings in the Common Council last
evening were marked with unusual interest. In
the Board of Aldermen there was a lengthy and
very exciting debate upon the question of the pro-
posed railroad in Broadway. See the report.
The Board Of Supervisors met yesterday, but no
business ofimportance was transacted. The board
adjourned until next Monday afternoon.
The report Of the City Inspector for the week
ending last Saturday is satisfactory, showing q
decrease of twenty. six deaths from the amount
recorded in the preceding seven days. The total
number Of deaths is three hundred and two, Of
which forty three resulted from consumption, thirty
enc from various fevers and thirty eight from in
fammatory affections. Considering the sudden
change Of weather We have experienced, and the
season of the year, the health Of the city is ex-
cellent.
Owing to tho excessive influx of advertisements
and news we are under the necessity of defcrring
many columns Of local and other reading, among
which are full reports Of the lecture on Womanhoed,
delivered by Mrs E. Cakes Smith, at Hope Chapel,
last evening; the proceedings of the Young Mems
Christian Association, &c.