The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-11

was Yesterday introduced in the Pennsylvania Sease
Senate, proposing to charter new road nom Enc 70
the Ohio lipe under the dersmiaaHon OF the Grand
Junction Railroad Company. The company offers q
bonus of s25OOOO 1t contempla.es also . discrimi
nation In favor of the Erie Railroad Of twenty per
cent fer all business passing over 1t.
Bishop Bedini, the Pope's Nuncio, was present at
the Catholic festival held in Wheeling las. Sunday
evening. a mob collected on the op,sside Of The
cathedral but permitted everything IT, pa IS or with
comparative quietness till after the dispersion of the
audience, when they broke Dw windows in the
church and retired. despatch published yester
day stated that the Nuncio, having been burned in
efIigy, had left the place.
large number of VIC oden buildings, occupied AZ
stores and shops OF din erent kinds together with the
First Presbyterian Church. were destroyed by fire
at Detroit, yesterday morning. The loss will be
about thirty.fye thousand dollars.
Parks, indicted for robbing and cutting off the
head OF M. Beats0n, at Cuyahoga Falls, last sum
mer, has BEEN found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
DR.. Estener was yesterday morning assasspated
in hs fce situated at the corner Of Broadway and
! Grand street. The deed 1as perpetrated by some
perscn yet unknown, who siIot the Doctor with
pistol, the ball penetrating the base of the skull
passed through the brain and lodged in the oceipita
bone, causing death almost instantly. lawyer,
| named William Rays, aud his wife. have been ar
rested On suspicion Of being the guilty parties
| full account of the case is given elsewhere.
The Universal Democratic Republican Society held
meeting last evening at the Stuyvesant Institute,
at which large amount of Business transacted.
Mr.. John I. Hale sent in letter upon cur neutral
ity laws; an agent of Kossuth report upon the
state of popular feeling in Italy, and the probable
fate of Plus the Ninth; Mr.. Wechel, OF Pearl street,
showed that he had been abused and IMPRISONED
the HERALD before repeatedly the Saxon author.
tiles IN Dresden, for being what they called "a
| Yankee vita one paper;" Mr. Marcy showed, in a
letter from Washington, pointed ont, that first
paper afforded protection whatever to travellers N
| foreign country; and the German Democratic As.
ISOLATION sent in address to their friends in ell
parts OF the world We publish to day report of I'LL
| this important business
The regular monthly meeting Of the American Geo.
graphical and Statistical Society was held last even
| ing in the smaller chapel OF the University. A
report Of the proceedings will be found elsewhere
John Jay, Esq, delivered the fifth anti slavery
lecture last evening, before large audience, at the
| Tabernacle. His subject was" The First Aboliti IN
Society Of New York founded by the trainers of the
federal constitution aud supported by the pillars of
| the church." We give report of the lecture.
| The Board OF Councilmen met last evening, pur
| suant TO adjournment, and sat until 81 o'clock,
debating the merits of the report of the Committee
Rules and Orders for the government of the Board
for the ensuing year. Each rule was taken up and
! adopted separately, and all nearly similar to
those of the last Board of Assistants. The rules not
being q very interesting subject for the public
| generally, we refrain from publishing them, but
hope however, that the Board will pay attent m
and stick to them.
The annexed list embraces portion of the con.
tents OF this days paper Interesting Description
Of the Central Route to the Pacific, by Mr.. Kern,
of the members Of Capt. Gunnisons III fated
veying expedition; Account of the Duels at Madrid;
Count Pulaski's Remains-Re miniscences Of the Re
volution; Details Of the Great Cophagraton at Port
| land; Bermuda Correspondence Trial OF young
| Rosie for robbng the New York Post Office, &c.