The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-07

amount Of business for Monday. Among The new
biIls pending that body are two by Mr.. Leigh,
one regulating the fees Of the New York County
Clerk and the other providing for the cfEectual
suppression Of gambling and the sale ofottery tickets
and lottery policies in this city. The action upon
the latter measure will be looked for with great inter-
est at this tine, when all sorts Of he most stupen-
deus lottery schemes, even superseding in holiness
the famous Art Union affair, daily springing into
existence. This important bill is q tached to the
very interesting despa ch from our special cores
pondent 1t wi be seen that it is quite dissmilar
from a SINH ar proposition brought before the
Senate at week.
Hon. Asa Fowler, the ate aw partner O. Presi.
dent Pierce presided and made speech at an anti
Nebraska meeting at Concord yesterday
Some inter st ng deta of the European news
brought by the Nashv lie are pub shed to-day. We
hkews give ! st of the names of the thirteen
American sailors belonging to the Japan feet who
were lost ina typhoon-with Lieutenant Mathews
in October !, in the Oh nese waite s. We are IN
formed that the Gevernor-Gcneral of Netherlands
India had pardoncd Mr.. G, NJ. Graham, first cfHcer
of the American s hooner Flrt, who had been
sentenced to twelve years Imprisonment FOR high
treason He was concerned with Capt Gibson,
Sumatra now tn ect Of diplomatic ncgotisr
ton. We aearn from Manages Hi, Japan, that TIE
Russ an Admiral had p seated the letter of The
Gear TO the nobles Of the empire much after the
same style in which Commodore Perry handed in
Mr.. FiEmore's and that, on the 18Th Of December,
he, like the Commodore, was quietly waiting for a
reply.
There is despatch from Parn, dated a o'clock
Wednesday afternoon the l5tksllt, stating that La
Psr7e Of that city of that dry gave the following
intelligence:-"We hasten to verify the prodigious
impression which she letter 81 his Majesty the EN-
| peror Napoleon III. to the s,mperor Of Russia has
produced in Paris. France therein recognizes the
assertion of national dignity and the sentiments Of
justice. We axr.it the response Of the Gar II 0cr
/ advicts are correct, it his already reached the
! government we are even assured that it has de-
| ceived the hepes of the friends Of peace. Then
France will be obliged to leave to tie fate OF srms
what might have been decided by reason" II this
be true, the news by the Atlantic, now fully due,
will be Of the highest Importance
news by the Nashville depressed the market
for brcadstsfs. Flour fell off about IL cents per
barrel; common brands of State CLOSED at s775 and
Indian corn, (whitc and yellow Southern) closed at
Sac s5c-, what was quiet without much change,
Though prices favored purchasers.
BY the arrival Of the British bark Stanley have
received Ess of Nassau papers to the I'D ult. They
contain no news Of interest to New York readers
The House of Assembly was engaged in discussing
bill to consolidate the duties imports, the tonnage
duty, and certain other imposts. A petition had
been received, signed by large number Of the Ba-
hama Islanders protesting against the proposed i'm
position of fifteen per cent al clorem al British
manufactured goods
A venerable citizen of Baltimore, Jacob Albert,
died on Sunday night. His estate is ESTIMATED to be
worth two millions Of dollars.
The universal expression Of Indignation at the
sickening condition of the streets, and the
holding of public meeting to devise means for
removing the filth that euabarrasses US at every
footstep seem to have aroused the members of our
municipal legislature to sense of their duty in the
emergency. Exciting, protnicted, and very inter
estng debates took place on the subject among the
Aldermen and Councilmen last evening, as will be
seen by the detailed reports in another column. A
resolution authorizing the Board of Health 10
require the streets to be cleaned immedi-
ately, passed both boards A large amount
of other business was also transacted. In the
Board Of Aldermen, the new ordinance introduced
by Alderman Blunt, in favor of paying the
members of the Fire Department, was laid upon the
table on motion to that effect. A resolution was
carried by which the Board for the future will meet
three times aweek. A variety of other interesting
measures were passed upon, for the particulars Of
which we must refer the reader to our reports in
another column. We publish in our special report
the ordinance for cleaning the streets and that
in relation to the Fire Department already re-
| ferred to.
Twentyfour Of the pews in the church Of the
Messiah, (Unitarian) Broadway, were sold at public
auction yesterday. They realized the ofthrteen
thousand three hundred and ninety six dollars.
.To-day's inside pages contain = report Of the
coroners inquest upon the body Of an unknown
man found murdered under very mysterious circun-
stances; continuation Of the examination concerning
the burning of houses in Brooklyn statement Of
Mr. Busted relative to the Reste case; variety Of
| commercial! and miscellaneous matters an extraor-
binary number of advertisements. &c.
The Gardner Fraud-Co.amittce Of Invcsaiga-
ton Orleretl-Curious Facts.
By reference to the proceedings in the House
of Repres entatives at Washington, yesterday,
it will be seen that that body has promptly Or
dered the appointment Ct a committee of inves-
tigation into the unreveaied mysteries of the
Gardner fraud, with power to send for persons
and papers. This is right Let the movement
be followed up till every recipient from and
participant in this crime-esery one of high or
low degrees known, and his agency in the
fraud or in the spoils.
The closing tragedy of this Gardner trial,
when taken in connection with the gigantic
dimensions Of she fraud perpetrated upon the
Treasury, and the distinguished parties impli-
Gated in it, ignoranty or culpably, has given
to this case a peculiar interest, which naturally
excites the public curiosity to have all the in
formation we can give them upon the subject.
In looking, therefore, over the reports of the
first trial in 1853, ard the evidence submitted,