The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-02

cudiD The valuable library Of the Historical Soci'
etv were entirely consumed at Quebec yesterday
mCrnirg. The property was chiefly insured In Liver
rool oces-the buildings Tor $50 ,000a tbs libra
rs for $4,000 We have gwen avery Interesting
description OF the building and its contents in the
proper place.
The Missouri Iron Works a. Wheeling, worth about
sixty thousand dollars, were entirely destroyed by
FIRE on Tuesday.
The sum of ten thousand dollars was collected ia
Philadelphia, and has been distributed amoog the
officers aud crews Of the vessels that instrument
tai in saving the lives OF the persons on board the
San Francisco Captains Creighton and Lowe arriv-
ed in that city yesterday and viii be given public
reception to-day.
Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to the 6ta Of
December inform US that all was quiet, and the peo-
ple were in vary prosperous condition The lands
OF the uat yes were being parceed out to settlers
the troops we're withdrawing from the country,
and ivory copper, aud other rich products we're ar
irving in large quantities from the interior.
The Maryland Legislature has fnally passed the
bill authorizing Baltimore city TO loan five millions
Of dollars TO the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The widow OF Mr. Landreaux, who was killed
by an accident on the New Orleans Railroad, has
obtained verdict against the company of twenty
thousand dollars damages in one of the New Orleans
courts. Let the example be initiated in the various
courts throughout the country where similar suits
are brought, and it would soon have the effect of
materially decreasing the number Of &C ,dents
A New York Deputy Marshal has arrived in Nor
folk, with fugitive slave found secreted board
vessel below this city.
The United States Marshal yesterday received q
communication from the President, ordering Alexan-
der Heibronn to be delivered 10 the British author
ties, in accordance with the treaty of exradtion en-
tered into in 1s42 Counsel for the accused applied
for writ of hsbeas corpus with the view of testing
the question of authority at issue between the State
writ and the Marshal was allowed till this morning
TO tnake bis return.
James Marin, on trial in the Hudson county court,
n for the murder OF bis wife, was yesterday found
guilty Of manslsughter.
or market for breadstuffs was pretty active yes
teTday, but there was no improvement in prices.
Some thirteen Thousand barrels of -four changed
hands, at rates varying from s. so to $40 25 accord
ing 10 quality, Wheat was offered more freely than
The day previous, but purchasers were not forth
coming. Cotton remains steady here but at New
Orleans we observe by the last despatch prices are
rather irregular. The receiots at all the Southern
ports TO this time six hundred aud seventeen
thousand bales less than those of the corresponding
period lest year.
In aodlticn to much other interesting matter,
TO days inside pages contain la'e and important.
news from New Mexico including thrilling mar
ratve of the adventures and suffsrrgs of Mrs. Will
son during the period Of her captivity among the
Cemanche Indians letters from Harrisburg aud
old Point Comfort; the Preach intrigues at st.
Domingo communication relative to obscene litera.
ture and The Ladies' Five Points Mission, &c.