New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-02

TTT L,TE Man RoBgEHiEs.-Nr. Holbrook and Post
m6sig Ilom6s WcIe very busy Saturday in boxing
he LETTERS and other documents found ia the posses
sion &c Sm,s, the mail rsbber ard c"mplee list will he
taken Tor future use. We learn iEa Smith has been fol
wing up lis d-predstious for nearly two months and
thu. he bad been in Tho habit Of burning up at short inter
val, such letters ard papers het cou be Of use to
lim-FO tha- tEe full cXeDt " lis Tsbberos cannot be
known About iVstf iqstt mil OF letters were found
IL BIS deck aud about bis person-heins the accumulation
q ou- yO fo15. II i3 Ctmatcd mat money, drafts,
checks sc 10 the amount Of about $3.50 OOj have been
missing daring TIC Ia six weeks, and we are Informed
that lor we ar two past the Banks in this csy AMI
Hartford have been IN the habit Of sending their letters.
containing dI1fs &c by private hands and 10 such an
extent wCe tao rJbbeies committed that our meI' hins
had lost their confidence IN the Post Office Department
medium 90 core ItLdence Too much Paire cannot De
AWARDED 70 hr BCtIOlk and those who have been con
nected lib BIN in lis plans Tor hs- exerons IN ferreng
out tie author OF tie mischief which have resulted sosGe
,ssfuly.
/; was expected d.; Smith would have preliminary
nLation before luti"e saturday last, 0u. IN n
atfeu' Of Mr Slipman the 1 3 Attorney ior TINS rs
tct hiss been post poned until day this week: We
understand that Smith, al whose quit there c,n be no
doubt has minated that he will attempt defense but
lNes Haven Journal, 27sh
Corr,spcudenc. Of IRE Norfolk Herald
NIcToEiA Hong Kong, S9iurday' Dec TO- 1929.
EAvAL-1he L S steamship P"whatan arrived here
the Sd inst from Canton, after touching at Macao-al
well. On tie 81 inst, about + II the ship Jamestown
OF New lok, was found 10 be flo IA her main hold,
about the main hatch from the combustion OF coal SO
soon 0s the alarm given Capt More m, de il known
10 tie commanders Of the Powhatan AMI Susquehanns
and in little willie their small engines sent board
and acted Ike charm the fire being completely extin.
gusbed in about hour AMI hall, and inc ship Of
LOO formerly Of the Liverpool liners saved
r. III destruction The coal which vas brough, from the
Island of Labuan Borneo Is said t. be- very inAammfble
particularly in wet state, and hence lis liability to spon
toueOus con buson
TERRIBLE ACGDESr At SUSPENSION BRIDGE We are
indebted 10 kss0cks Canada junction Line for dis
patch which states that yesterday afternoon while the
woTkmen engaged in striugng cables for the new
Railroad Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls, car
rage containing four Of the laborers gave way and was
prociIi,atod TO the river below Two Of the number
who're Charles Yearout, Il German, and John
Grady lrishmGn, instantly killed; the other two
saved themselves by cingng to the cables from whence
tloy drawn up 10 the towers Those who remember
the dizzy hight at which the bridge placed above the
river. will beet appreciate the fearful fall. 49,
Buffalo Express 18th.
The Grand Lodge of the I o o. + of Ohio held SEES
sion at GAINESVILLE last week The following gentlemen
elected officers Of that body for the ensuing year
VIM G Mellon Of Cincinnati, Grand Master; James b
McGinIs Chillicothe. Deputy Grand Master Alexander
l.. Glenn, Columbus, X W Grand Secretary William r.
Slater Urbana, Il. w Grand Treasurer and Saml Graig
head, Dayton r. W. Grand Representative.
MELAscHOLY OccURREscI-BOys Drorned.-Three
BOYS, are informed drowned in the Pennypich
near Homesburg. Oh Saturday. Their names gre James
Saul, aged - Francis H. Saul, aged and Joseph r.
Lawtcn, sged 10. Phila. Ledger, 9Th