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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-11

STATE SrATIoYERY-Not very long since Mr.. A B
DICKINSON introduced resolution, which adopted by
the Senate nquirng from the Controller the condition Of
the Stationery in the Safe House in December last The
oIgn OF the resolution is the the effect that there
was great quantity of stationery amounting in value to
thousands OF dollars actually stolen by certain clerks under
TIE late retiring officials and that the most ven the prem
sssWere near relatives oihoe officials The late State officers
Geateds sort Of sinecure called the Stationery
the duty Of the incumbent of which was to take care Of the
stationery This officer it seems having been informed
by some knowing that the stationery r,om w.s fa
queny robbed took the precsuton on Saturday nights he
fore locking the 6oor to mark several packages b;cb Al
most invariably Monday mornings he would miss ss
also find the room srewn III letter paper fancy enyeoo
&C. but his wits were never sufficiently sharp to detect the
offenders Thus much Of tie stationery was made way
with But appears that just before being ous,ed the in
eumbeAts OF the State House though, advisable to make
clean sweep and it il is said eGch ore helped himself
penfuly in particular, one Of the State Officers who
hsd hundreds OF dollars worth boxed up and directed to
his residence, where ii arrived safe
In connection with this matter il Is also CHARGED that
another State Officer transported to New York maay sets
OF the Natural History of the State where they were sold
oceran booksellers for $50 per set being worth $50 the
proceeds Of which be applied to his private use
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THE CASE OF THE BLACK WARRIOR.

Mr.. Dean, member of the oDuse Of Represents
tyes has proposed to retalate the Spanish suthor
ties of Cuba for their seizure of the Black Warrior by
repeating the neutrality laws and allowing every f-
buster or pirate who may choose to undertake the
conquest Of that island on bis own hook without inter
ference or opposition from the government of this
country. We are happy to say that this very mean
and very absurd proposition has DOT met with encour.
sgement in the House and though its author threatens
to bring il forward with all the formslity of bill we
do BOT believe be will find any sensible man to support
him. II is mean proposition because il contemplates
doing by indir cton and fraud wha: should only be
done openly and sbOvebOard. If we have wrongs to
averge by the conquest Of Cubs it is much more con-
sstent with the dignity of great power 70 take that
vengeance manashion and in the face Of all tae world
than to do it sneskingly and in the names Of third
parties. 1t is absurd, because if we have suffered
injury every consideration of decency and common
sense requires US 10 seek explanation and indemnity
from the gOvernu at Madrid before proceeding 70
right ourselves by the strong hand There is no doubt
material for diplomacy in the matter but 10 cause of
war And never can it decenty be made cause for
such war as the repeal Of the neutrality laws alone
can contemplate
There can be question of doubt bur if the affair
Of the Black Warrior had occurred in an English or
French port instead Of Spanish colony it would not
have been received here with suchwarmth ofndiens,on
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NETWORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE for March IL
TIE NEw.YoRK WEEKLY TRIBUNE for this week

contains the loLOWlng'
IFDITORALs: The Of DR. Gardiner; Foolish Con-
venton Democracy and Dor; Abolition for Cqo4 ~.
Cheever on Bible schools The Children Of the Rch
WASHINGTON: The Job Halt Done Light at Last Blast
ns Record New Hampshire; The Wa at Last Words oil
Waning, &C.
H.BAYARD TAYLoR's LETTERS Calcutta the British En-
piTe in II Ola
H. ST THOMAS. The Island St Thoma .s Character and
condition
~. MONT SCENES IN THE PASSAGE OF THE Ne.
BRAsKA BILL: Letters from Our Correspondents, W.
sdk
v..AFFAIRs ON THE CONTINENT Letter from our Cor
respondent, a. P. c.
VI. THE SENTIMENT OF THE NORTH.
VII REVIEW OF WEEK. Giving in condensed and most
conspicuous form the important events that have &C.
cared in the United States West Indies ard Europe
WILL XXXIId CONGRESS; The Nebraska Bill Passed by the
Senate; The Homestead Bill Passed by the House Debates
on the Nebraska Bill; Mr. Clayton's Speech
TX POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE The Nebraska Bill, Ohio
Iowa
nan AMERICAN WOMAN IN PARIS; Lever from
Correspondent, Au Revor.
NA NIGHTS AMUSEMENT IN PARIS: Letter from ouf
Correspondent w. + J.
MI NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN Letter from or Cores
pendent JOSEPH Dsue.
XIII. THE PERILS OF THE PRAIRIE ~ WINTER
Xlv..THE TRIBUNE AMONG THE PEOPLE Extracts f-om
our Business Correspondence
XV..POETRY Little Bell Fsrmsrs' Girls.
XVI. MARRIAGES and DEATHS.
XVII. REVIEW or THE MARKETS. REPORTS Of the Stock
Grain Provision, and Cattle MArkss Very fully and spe
eially reported for The Tribune.
Single copies In wrappers be obtained the the
Counting Room this morning Price Ct cents
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"Dr. HOOrIAND's German Bitters-manufacturcd By

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MASON BROTHERS No % Psrk-row,

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York complete
STOCK Books STATIosERY. for Cash only -
Goods line purchased by Country Mef
usually quite compared with their Dry Goods Hard
ware other bills and this very absolutely
obbefs Book business who sell time get larger
profits for the losses and nees
Sarly involved credit business Of small We have
adopted business plan Of Small Profits Unyaryng Prices
CASH and invite Country Merchants call on
Judge the saving they make in buying for
Cosb worth while.
the sole publishers of Lumber OF the lie ding and
extensively selling School Books In the well
in oil facilities
location central and easily Stand the Aor
House stem and look across
''''' ''''s ' 's-' MASON BROTHERS
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The Board of Aldermen last night concurred with
the COuOcilmen in asking The Legislature TO hell US
out of the mud by authorizing the Board of Health to e1
pend $4,000 to purify the City. As this appica-
ton has the sanction of the regular authorities fur
ther action regards Amendments to the Charter be-
comes unnecessary. Affairs seem to be in train
that will carry us safely along for the present In the
meantime instead of Amendments let the people
think over the idea of an entirely New Charter ;
bringing back City legislation to the citizens them
selves; simplifying governmental organization;
fixing direct and immediate responsibility in certain
clearly defined quarters; separating the City and
country legislation by making Board Of Supervisors
who are not Aldermen, and doing away with host of
sinecure Offices; and upon such Charter building
brief aud general Ordinances that all eau understand
This is not the work of day it should be done with
care, 5nd only after mature delberttion. 1t may
take months TO do i, rightly but it must fnaly oe
done OF We shall get out of the slough of con-
fictipg and unintelligible laws Further tinkering
Will do no good.
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The price for sdvertne in The WEEKLY TRIuSE will hereafter
be FIFTY CENTS line, each insertion.
TIE circulation Of The Ny alone has reached the lnPr
eedented number Of 100, moo copies
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Adverneu The Tbshe OF Monday ought to be sent il
before O'Clock Saturday evening
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NeW'l}orh Daily Q.riannE
SATURDAY. MARCH II. li54
TO CORRESPONDENCE

no he tskeb Of Whatever
inieDded insertion Re a1fheDiica The ans
address Of the ritter nrcesahy for pUontton bot -
guaranty Of LIS good aib.
retuyt rejected Communication.
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The above scale Of prces apples 70 "'uhsy A1Fuflse
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In the Senate yesterday, Mr. SHEDS eDdeavored
to put upon its final passage the bill providing for
retired lat OF navy officers but failed and the Senate
proceeded to the consideration OF b, upon the pri
yate calendar. After debate, many bills were post
poDed and ten private bills passed. Adjourned over
until Monday
In the House of Representatives 9 resolution
adopted, requesting the President tc communicate to
Congress whatever information be may have re eived
relative TO the seizure and detention of the steamer
Black Warrior at Havana aud the Imprisonment of her
officers. Also any Information he may have ia refer
eDce TO other violations Of right; by the Spanish
authorities Mr.. DEAN of New-YoTk gave notice Of
his intention 10 introduce bill 70 repeal our neutral
ity laws so far as they are applicable to Spain rne
bill authorizing the construction of light house On
COhasset Rocks passed. The consideration OF
the bill granting lands TO Minnesota for railroads aud
other purposes was then resumed and after debate,
was tabled by vote of 100 to 6j. The Committee on
Conference made report on the disagreeing votes of
both Houses to amendments to the bill relieving Of
cer and soldiers who emily suffered By the loss of
the steamship San Francisco, which cOncurrei 10.
The House then proceeded to the consideration of the
bill for the relief of the widow aud heirs of FL jah
Beebe upon which prOtracted aud exciting deb ate
arose. Mr.. STANTON of Ky offered resolution,
which was passed instructiDg the Committee on the
Judiciary, heretofore charged with the duty of in-
quirng into the warrants made by the Commissioners
under The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to George
A. Gardiner aud John X Means TO extend their in
quiry to any awards made by said Commissioners
which may be supposed alleged to have been found
in fraud supported by perjury or forgery, and that
they have power TO send for persons and papers and
report tie result of their investigations, with such
accommodation as they may deem proper in the
premises The House then adjourned until MONDAY.
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SEWING MACRINEs.-The "
kspufacfuf ins Companv have reruoVed n

Company have removed their Office AID
20 No S Broadway where manufacturers and s Others Interested
IN hh time aud borsayns machine respectfully Invited
call and By careful satisfy themselves Of the
greater variety Of work be done sad well done this
cline than any heretofore offered to the pablo.
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uErKLY rRrRUNE.

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WEST END FASHIONABLE HAT AND CAP EMPO-
-GentIemens spring iop of tho approved id
ready aud for the usual favorable terms
Ato IN unlimited assortment Of beautiful Gaps &c
j. w KELLOGG. No. l23 Canslst.
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SAVING MACHINES Tho unequaled excellence Of

yngers SEWING Machines established fact We sail
Ia perfect right DO aud reasonable prices
TIE reh combination Of the needle and shuttle Sewing
cbne being contested In the eyunAse between
Waiter Hunt and Elias Howe Jr The only machine IA regard
y hich there no shadow controversy The singeresded
chine forming the best possible wkou, shuttle Ma
chimes this Mory Johnsoo have besn In pod
been zsed
validity mschines improved aud adapted
C. every variety OF work sold only BY
L. NJ SINGER & Co. No. 22S Broadway.
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GENERAL PIERCE QUITE WORN OUT.-Tberes not
much glory or pleasure modes mans being President Mr.
Pierce is quite Of 1t already Hundreds suffering from cold
&c find relief by using few OF
BRYANs PULMoMc WATERS Is cents box sold by
G. V CLcZENER K Co.
No 81 barclay General Agents New. vicinity.
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CRIsTADoRO is often questioned as TO the peculiar
properties his Excelsior Hair Dye ard he therefore states for the
information all nquer thai uniform brilliant and
Eve minutes without injufng the subs
he hair staining the scalp Sold and applied privately BY
nnRn M
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ILaNos.-Just what will meet the wants of all.
Psuos Of acknowledged and guaranteed superiority for
kw All Pianos warranted e give onte or
refunded New Pianos
viii without the Gosn At great bArkans some pur.
monthly taken aud mot
ueodsting terms siyoA 70 whoeeale buyers.
HORACE WArENs 30 R-n.d
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MessTs Co. invite especial examination Of their WORK in q
Department They improvements unknowa
ohe busb enabled to execute orders with much great
dispatch equ ed under the former Their pnti
faeres the upper stories Of their bndiu in Broadway
persons DESTROYS OF seeing the process do at all hours oil
aax
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KNOX is himself again Gas he always is) and opens
the campaign presenting all lovers Of neat tasty fash
able the looking and most perfect articles Of that
ko None know better how to ge,
p will the ideas Of New YorkeU and os hiss had
oe ,ueoess IN His will be taxed 20
The supply the demand for his spring styles Call
No fulto
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-11

gooc will be arranged aud ready for sale at 10 o'clock
March 10 and will be sod extremely 1w hges In order
make for fresh importaous constantly arriving
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10000 Families who now occupy crowded ana I'M
beshy IN this city and pay enormous rents thereby
Serrvins families Of Of The nscessss Of ne can po
cure delightful homestead IN the village o R9'-Vae,
rear Lake HonEonkOn which sdns tbs farms on
The selling from gro g 81 pr are me
the building lots between the railroad an the Lake " 20
times their present Ices cary
In wi four o 25 by 100 feet
ann hon to twenty Apply WOOD No zoe Bross-
way, where maps aud psmph'eiscsn be had gratis
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A CLEAN SwEEP-Not only for our strcets-but OF
Hts that have stood the and Tho best
place the old replaced Is at FREE1T the Fa.ooa
abb Halter No 90 Fulton Price SIS aud IS 90 His Spring
81 !. ncx rad
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-05-06
THE WEATHER.

The fall of rain from Wednesday to Saturday of last
week. according to the New York Hospital guage was
FIVE inches and ten-hundredths and according to the
Flatbush rain guage FIVE inches and ninety-four hun
dredths This is heavy fall of rain as was re-
corded at Fatbush in 1S4S for on the 20th 21st and
22d Of August Of that year nine inches and
dredths of an inch fell
The fall of rain in Philadelphia from Thursday after
noon until noon was nearly 81 inches
terrific hail storm in st. Louis on the 26th ultmo
partially destroyed several stores and dwellings. One
man was killed and another had his thigh broken. The
Republican speaks Of halstones inch and half in
diameter.
There were between four and five inches Of snow at
Burlington (Vt on Thursday last.
The spring is very backward in the Province Of New
Brunswick. The Woodstock N. b. Sentinel says that
in that vicinity the is from four feet deep in
the open fields and FIVE feet in the woods Cattle are
suffering for food.
At Fredericton the people blowing up the ice with
gunpowder. An experiment made on the 22d where
the ice twenytwo inches thick, and it were
four inches Of half-melted hole was cut through
the ice, and tin vessel containing twenty pounds of
powder put down into the hole under the ce and
the charge fred by Of galvanc battery which
resulted in heaying up the water and ice an rregu
lar of at least thirty feet in diameter to height of
nearly sixty feet.
The eastery Storm which has prevailed during the past
week, has been broad it long, and has swept
every part of the country which has been since
from On Wednesday and Thursdaya furious gale swept
over the great lakes capzng and wreckng vessels and
destroying life. At Chicago schooners report
ed wrecked with four lives lost. Disasters arc also
ported at Buffalo and Milwaukee At Detroit the storm
accompanied by rain and hail. and it is reported as
the most gale that has visited that section for sew
era years.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-05-06
FROM CHINA,

1t was stated in paper few days since that the
American Vice Consul at Shanghai had received nsruc-
tons from the American Commissioner to allow vessels
to leave port without requiring Chinese cusomhouse
clearance long other vessels allowed to enter
and leave without paying duties 1t appears from state
in the Friend of China received by the last
land mall that the ship Oneida which sailed the oath
January, was however the only ship which, in confor
nifty with these instructions, sailed without payment of
duties The Chinese Imperiasts, although then only in
possession of the suburbs of the city, the fortified part
being occupied by the rebels, established temporary
the north side of soochow creek where
the transaction of business to commence the 9th
February. The American, French, and English Consuls
officially recognised this custom house, and notified the
merchants of their respective nations of the arrange
ment.
The last advices from Shanghai contain full accounts
of the attempt by the Imperalists to storm the city
through breach caused by the explosion of mine
which had been tunneled the wall This occurrence
took place the morning of January 30. The Impe-
rialiss, with degree of engineering skill which was
highly credtable to them, had dug two tunnels to within
about ten feet of the wall, of them running under
moat eight feet deep, through soil which yields water
at depth ofssx feet. The explosion very violent,
killing forty Imperial soldiers who by mschance
had remained in Of the tunnels and causing breach
in the wall about thirty feet in length. Some thou
sand mperalists Immediately crowded hard upon the
breach where they promptly met by the rebels who
hurled amid the powder-bags and jars Of powder,
with matches attached designed to stroy them by their
explosion and poured upon their heads streams of liquid
fire. that they seemed actually to be wading through
food of the destructive element Their ranks spec
dily dsorderea, and they thrown into panic by
sally of the insurgents who following up their advantage,
captured and destroyed the Wekwe fort and seized twelve
guns and other munitions Of They then rer 2ated
again to their fortress and in short time ha by
of mudbags filed up the breach and rendered the wall
as impregnabe as ever Fourteen rebels were killed in
the fight and others wounded. The loss of the Impe
wallis axva9 mn III
wards of of powder in defending the breach
Boston Journal
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-05-06

Posr orrlcn DrrAarmnsr, MAY 4, 1854.

PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT; MAY 4, 1854
1t having come to the knowledge of the Department
that large numbers of letters have lately passed through
the mails under the forged franks members Congress
and knowing that in many instances persons having the
anking privilege are greatly to their annoyance often
requested to frank letters and packets for Others merely
to avoid the payment Of postage, deem it my duty to
call particular attention to the following provisions Of the
Act of Sd March, 1926, on this subject, viz:
sec. %. And be ii further enacted That if any person
snail frank any letter letters other than those written
oy himself or by his order, the business of his Office
extended by Act of ls March, l847 in the Of mem
oers OF Congress and the Secretary of the Senate and
Cerk OF the house OF Representatives. to include all let
ers and packages sent and received by them weigh
ing over two ounces he SHALL on conviction thereof pay
hne OF ten dollars and 1t shall be the especial duty of
postmasters 10 prosecute for said offence. And
if any person having the right to receive his letters free
Of postage shall receive enclosed to him anv letter or
packet addressed to person having that right it
shall be his duty to return the to the most office
marking thereon the place from whence it came that IL
may be charged with postage And if any person shall
counterfeit the handwriting frank Of any person or
the be done n order to avoid the payment
of postage each person offending shall pay for every
such offence five hundred dollars"
Now, with view to protect all persons having the
fankng privilege in the full enjoyment of their legt-
mate rights in this respect and to prevent the commission
of these offences postmasters special agents. and oil
others in the service Of the Department hereby in
sructed to render all proper aid in seeing that the nen
tons Of the law are faithfully carried out.
JAMES CAMPBELL,
Postmaster General