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The Fire Departurent.

A CHALLENGE TO THE FIREMEN OF NEW YORK.
The fremen in rural districts are beginning to
wake up. They really have the tenerity to suppose
that they compete with New Workers in building
and managing ere engine. Washington Engine Com
pany No a. of Iansingburg, New York, wishing to test
their engine built in Waterford, New York, in 1851
challenges all the other engines in this state built prior
to that date, to trial of their skill The following are
the terms of the challenge -
]. To play in tank eight minutes, one stream, open
butt, through 400 feet of hose.
2 To play in tank eight minutes, two streams, open
butts through 100 feet of hose, each stream.
g. To be trial of distance through so feet of hose of
any size, and any sized nozzle.
L. To be trial Of distance with two streams through
50 feet of hose each stream the nozzles to be OF
size.
The number of men TO each engine not restricted
No allowance to be made in OF accident to engine,
hose apparatus. .
Each Of the above named conditions to be considered
as separate match. One all Of said conditions are
open to any fire engine company IN this State for the
sum of 5000 each match.
The trial to OFF in the village OF Iansngburg,
four months from the time Of signing the agreement
For any further information call upon or address
SAMUEL. KING, Lansingburg y. Y.
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the propeller missed his foothold and fell overheard
The steamer instantly stopped and every exerton
was made by the officers and crew TO save him. but
after fruitiess search Of about two hours assisted BY
pilot boat No B all efforts to find HIM proved unavai
ing. lie was about feet 10 inches In height,
red shirt, black pantaIoons, and had small whiskers
under his chin Any Information concerning him left
abovs will be thankfully rewarded by his dsconsolate
family.
WOMAN JUMPING A WISDow.-Mary Jones, a
married woman residing at No s3 Perry street attempt
ed to destroy herself Friday night by jumping from
the story window Oh her house to the street below
She fell heavily breaking both her legs and injuring
herself dreadfuly The is said to have been de-
ranged for some time past. She may recover.
CoREEcnoS.-Malachi Brennan not Matt. T. Brennan,
is captain of the United Guards. The notice we gave
was erroneous
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MARITIME INTELLIGENCE.
ES- An PACKAGE and letters itended for The New York
HERALD should be sealed.
~S~>~>S-~>N
ALMANAC FOR YoRK-TMs DAY.
eUs SETS. As HIGH WATER 3J
ylnxsA s,RN Kx,.l
CLEARED.

CLEARED.
Steamship Cabawba, shufcdt Havana and New Orleans
Steamship Florida, woodruff. saysnpal-sI Mtchin;
Pleas SAINTS
2Ha ss %sss Wss Co.
BARK 5ssa ss Sss
Erie ee Bee se% Sn
R ss ssSss Jacks nbs
srs Nary sryf ss sS Kelly sSbS; Is!sSdJ Gana'
sen o.
s ses I% saTss B M%s
schr Harriet Chase Phiadelpha-J Hand.
scLrF Ladl (Br), johnson, 81 John, Md II DeWod.
schr Humuing Bird Chisholm, $ John, NB-J rekard
ssRr I;sn Louisa IassaPsons New iIayeaYMs..cr
sSr s Niss H o fSs
steamer Piedmont Saunders Portand-Poriland Company.
sloop Thomas Hull, Hull Proyidencc-Maser.
ARRIVED.
; STEAMSHIP George Law Gray APSn oS Aug 10 o PM
masc and as:euScra q spcsor fes,eS Co. ns Sd
sks s ssTs
ship Celestial Palmer Shanghai, April :, wih teas silks,
H sr SSes II y yum 'H
e c MIN ship s sg a Hound % Il.
26h passed cape Lasuas; July 10 lat oSs lon 25l W,
POKE Senee o Rc same day.
na,ed bark Ellen Morrison crcs bound south; Aug H. st
Cruz for Copenhagen i3h, LAT - So lon g. boarded schr
Gcoreia from Baltimore for DemaraIa I'D, lat % TO- ION
CO as srnslzcd ship II Wharton. bound East from Gal
weston for LIVERPOOL Crosscd the Equator July =.
lOl days guano Barreda Bros vessel Neyns Co.
July lat q s. Ion 20 10 " spoke bark Iucy Maria, rom
Salem Norevdeo July H. la ~ = Ion "a 10 w, sgnazed
Br bark Ann Wood Aug LAT II ~ Ion 56 49, sgnalzed
Ship Anna Schmidt MuTken Cirdf July O. with railroad
rnn and 10 passengers, to schmidt 10 Took pilot
I'D July ~ lat IS q, Ion u 81 John Hardness of froyi-
denco ri, died Of dropsy.
Shin Sen incl Of New Haven soule Cariia July l5 with
railroad IRON master h inst LAT A. Ion 49, iceberg.
last with 10 psssengers, Payenstedi Schumacher Had
death on the passage. - -,
BARK fmee Old la1 Bremen. 4s days, In ballast, with
lis passengers to Hsnninrs Muller Gosing. .
Bark Cobb (of BALTIMORE Nickerson, Cardii 20 Gays,
With railroad iron 10 Adams a 20. - - -, -
bark Piunix Tram. Mayaguez, Pr IL days with sugar
ard coffee, 10 Nzraga del Vaa Go
Prig Pauline yenez) Lawrence, Porto Caboo, - days
with hides and sugar 10 de Agrcda Joyc y 90 :,
with coal 10 order Bret, Go. 9th inst lat H.
Ion 81 smoke brio Franconia from Pcou for NYork
Scr seaman dr. Ayres Cumberland, Ms. ~ days, with
Vrindsiones and flsh, 70 master. 49, i. -
sfhr Echo tonkng - Johns Ef Is days. ~iih lumber 10
7 Holmes. vessel 20 & " fieie0n.
Solr Ballet Pugh, Wilmnrton. Nc
sclr Eagle khodes Roudoui for Por' smou'l.
scbr NInnetta, Dewey. Rondou for Allynis Point.
schr harvest Frisbee Rondoui for Taunton.
Schr Sophronin, Wall, Rondon for Boston.
schr Daniel Webster Day Newbcrg Tor New London.
schr Per.ne, Ingrnliam Portland, CT
schr 4 u Holmes Smith, Providence.
scir Iousn, Chase, Boston.
schr Homer, Parker Boston,
schr Elizabeth Hull, Day, Greenwich.
sAII.LD
Steamships Union, Hsvre csAawSs Havana, Nsshyiue
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Charleston Florida Savannah: JameSQwn, Richmond; Lcba
men (i,r), Liverpool, ship q, DO

Ship Polynesia, San Francisco % days ehc Equator
on the Atlantic days cape Horn of the Rsth 10 days.
weather. crossed the Equator The Paci9t juno
49, Ion l in IS dnys; was becamed days between M y and
N snce then Light Winds has been Is days Oh lat
30 on the Horn carried away foreopmas forcopsa psv
mizen opssiN yard oreepraianmast and flying bbocfA
July H. a 32 r. Ion Us ~ Warren 1oe seaman OF Bust
port, aged Is, was knocked of the rail and drowned.
Ship Sworddsh al do "a days 10 the Equator In the Al
lanc 62 days Cape Horn of the Horn ~ days. In
westward had decks, losing bnnscr
compasses the Equator ~ day from New York
in Ion III W. June got the NE trades light from the NNE,
In lat IA her July h 10 Ion 43 w 50 lon, since
thai time have had light breazes and variable winds with Gains
and fogs has been within 100 miles OF port for the last days
Ship Sh oing star oil do experienced strong NV gales In
the vicinity the River Platte which forced her 10 the east
ward Of the Falkland Islands from whence she was 80 days 70
lat CO IN the Pacific experiencing the usual gales OF Cape
Horn but less and hall than usual crossed the Equator
June 81 IN lon Ia since which time had light WINS and Gains
On the IAN inst nj anchor In company WIN the snip Eaee,
70 miles &c the soihward OF Point lohos.
Ship Eagle do experienced heavy weather of Cape Horn
was 10 days from lat 50 in the Atlantic to Lat " lin the Pacific
Crossed the Equator June 81 Ion 0 since which time had
strong winds from the southwark and east.
Ship John Milton al do 81 days from Cape Horn to Mas
seiura with gales from NV crossed the Equator
Schr Garland al do of Cape Horn In ne weather. lost
the Sc trade IN la, g. thence had e north winds and Gains;
crossed the Equator June II I05 from thence had
tnuation OF head winds up 70 this port
Ship Moses Wheeler Simpson nampon Roads in 100 days
rom laao made the from 10 the Falkland Islands
and becamed 10 days In the horse atu1es. The
has a cargo OF alb out l4tO tons guapo.
IL 6tbs Of ship Barnsabc sold Mt auction Thursday
to David kempon, the Of $1,000 The Barnsiable
command OF Capt Fisher ship Cowper OF New 5ed
ford.
Ship Hudson Mystic, TONS has been purchased In
Fairiayen and "a be continued in the Whaling business.
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EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WESTERN NEW YoRK--pRo.
GREss OF THE CHURCH.
From the Rochester democrat, August 20.
The eighteenth annual convention of this body
met at Binghamton on the 18th inst, "Wednesday
last, Bishop DE Lancey. instead Of the sermon
usual on such occasions delivered u charge to the
clergy, which by the constitution Of the church. he
is required to do once III three years. The charge
was an able, logical and eloquent exposition Of some
OF those avenues through which inGdelity may ap-
proach the church, and the means by which il may
be met and resisted
Rev. DR.. Proal was unanimously reelected secre-
tary, Mr. Mercer treasurer Of the diocese, and Mr..
Hall treasurer of the Christmas fund Christ Church,
in this city. and four Others were admitted to the
diocese. The Bishops annual address contained
the following items OF fact:-The diocesan has Of
fciatcd in one hundred places baptized ten per-
sons; administered the communion sixteen times;
admitted nine new candidates for orders; ordained
two deacors and eight priests; instituted two rec
tors; oficiated at two funerals consecrated three
churches; laid the stone of three churches;
deposed two presbyters; preached one hundred and
thirty-sx times; delivered thirtysiX addresses;
fiimed eight hundred and twelve persons (the lar
gcst number confirmed in one Year,, in seventy
churches; travelled sixtyeight hundred miles.
Whole number of clergymen now in the diocese, one
hundred and twenty. Candidates for orders seven
teen Amount raised for the Christmas fund for dsa-
bled cergymen 81 70404. Amount raised by monthly
collections and donations, Sl0,5l3 co.. Amount ex-
erection and repairs of churches, and erection Of
parscnages. Amount of the permanent Missionary
fund OF the diocese Sll,2ll. Amount of the per-
eona estate OF De vaux College, slo4,sO7 81, and
estimated value of real estate, 500 s45.
The report Of the Treasurer shows for this year,
including last years balance, the receipts of
"a 300 IS, and disbursements Of 81 400 GA. Ofthe
balance remaining So $50 u is loaned at per
cent the security being Central Railroad stock, the
prerent value OF which is $1,000. The incorporation
Of the fund was recommended for its security and
judicious investment. The Secretary reported the
amount of the fund for the support of the Episco-
n III g
and mortgages. long discussion was held upon
the question OF establishing second church in Ca
nandaigua, which had been desired by nine or ten of
The members OF the present church, but consent
denied by the Rector, the ground that the separa
lion would enfeeblc the present church, while the
second would have no vigorous support. The Bishop
being appealed to-, sustained the decision Of the
Rector. Gov. Seymour, E. Darwin Smith, H. E.
Rochester ID. s. Dickinson, and others, took part in
the discussion in convention, and the Bishop was
finally sustained by all but two dissenting votes.
The standing committee and delegates to the
General Convention were duly selected by ballot.
The other proceedings were not important.
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Police Intelligence.

AhkEsIs FUR lNlOAltAIlON lESlLhOAls
There were twentyseven arrests FOR drunkenness in
the city on Friday, as follows
Magistrates Commitments.
First district police cou1t.-Justice Connolly
Second DO. do. do. Justice Dawson. .........l ID
Third do. do do. Justice Wood, ........... 6
Total ...............Z1
THE LATE FATAL sTABBING CASE IN WILLIAM
sTREET--ExAM1NATION OF SEWER.
Peter SEWER, the Italian charged with the murder
q John II. Lovely the night of the 4th inst. by
stabbipg him in the abdomen with stiletto was
brought before Coroner oDonnen yesterday, and ex-
amined on the above charge, as iollows:-
Peter SEWER being duly examined before the under
signed according to law on the annexed charge and
being informed that lie was at liberty TO answer or not
all any questions put to him, stated follows, viz
Q. What i your namey A. Peter Sewer.
q. How old your A. Twenty Years
Z. Where were you bornY A. Italy.
9. Where do you liver A. No. 1s Baxter street
q. What is your occupations A. Medallion maker.
y Have you anything to say, and il So what, relative
10 the charge here preferred against you viz: that Of
killing John H. LoveeyS A. am innocent Of the charge
The accused then committed 10 his cell, TO await
tic action Of the Grand Jury.
EXAMINATION on CHARGE OF MURDER.
Yesterday Coroner o'Donnell, agreeable to law ex.
amined Timothy Buliey charged with causing the death
head with club, thereby producing fracture of the
skull. The examination reads follows
Timothy Bukley being July examined before the under
signed according 10 law, the annexed charge and
being informed that he at liberty 10 answer or
not all any questions put to him, stated follows
VIII
o. What Is your name A. Timothy Builcy.
o. How old are yen A. Twenty-Five years.
Q. Where we're you bornS A. Ireland
O. Where do you iivef "A. In Fifty first street between
Third and Lexington avenues.
q What Is your occupationf A. faborer.
q. Have YOU anything to say, aud If So what, relative
t. the charge here preferred against you via that OF
causing the death Of John Burns A. | am innocent Of
the charge.
The prisoner was then committed "a the Tombs.
SUSPICION or GRAND LARCENY.
Yesterday. two men named Dennis Ford and James
Thomson, taken into custody by officer Kealey, OF
he Third ward police suspicion Of grand larceny.
The accused had in their possession roll of carpet.ng
which supposed they stole from Sand I'd indepe nden
lire ~ steamers tor Philadelphia On being asked where
they got tho property they replied that they bought IL
fr,n Mcssrs. Meyers Claehorn 4 Co. Of Philadelphia
ard bad just conveyed from that city to New York The
ire ght agent not believing their story, teogs-
NJ 10 the aOove house inqurng the truth
~ tie prisoner statement when the following answer
WIS returned ---s' We have account Of any such
nsnes en- sal. showing conclusively that the goods
we're obtained where else and probably in disho.
meet osoncr The accused were brought tciorc us,ice
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food, last week, in the northern branch Of Cooks
creek in Rockingham county, Va, near Harrisonburg,
did great damage to property sweeping everything be-
fore it. II also drowned Mrs. Eliza Simmons about Is
wears old.
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StI1Ct OfUtfs ufc given t1ut tIe sCcaM WHICH Sets
in motion the enormous shaft which keeps in opera
ton the machinery shall be constantly supplied
from nine o'clock till five, that no one may be disap-
pointed in witnessing the action Of the different
dels before him. This is under the direction of M.
Trelot, young engineer of great promise.
II is impossible to conceive finer school of in
struction. One almost wishes that lecturers would
hold their classes there. BERTHE.
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sung every Sunday at halfpast five in the afternoon.
The pastor, Rev. A. Maraschi speaks the English,
French. Spanish, Italian and German languages.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Most Rev. Archbishop Hughes administered
confirmation in M0rrisiana on Sunday the 18th inst.
to los persons; at Newburg on the 18th ins to 220
persons; at Coldsprng on the 10th inst to 1872 per-
sons. The number previously confirmed Ia this dio.
cese since May LIST, was $3.50. Morrisiana, l08;
Newburg, 22O; Coldspring, 1872; total number to
Aug. 20, 4l40.
The edifce of the Houston street Presbyterian
church in this city, OF which Rev. T. Ralston Smith
is pastor has been sold to church Of the Associate
Reformed Presbytery. The church has been dis
banded, and its members will connect themselves
with adjacent churches.
Ship Chasca, cleared from Boston for Calcutta,
takes out missionaries-Rcv. +. H. Stevenson (wife
and child, OF Hudson, Ohio; Rev. Robert A. Hill
and wife, of Paterson, New Jersey.
VIM. l.. Andrews was deposed from the ministry
by the Angelica Presbytery on the 18th inst.
Rev. J. Martin, late of Lane Seminary. has taken
charge Of the churches Of Addison and Nash
vile, o.
Rev. s. X. Durrck, Of South Coventry, has nc
cepted the appointment Of Professor in Iowa College,
at Davenport, ard will enter upon his duties there
about the middle OF September
METUODIsTS IN CALIFORNIA.
From the proceedings Of the annual conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, we gather
the following interesting statistics of that denomina
ton of Christians in California;
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Foreign News.


The Asia, from Liverpool on the 9Th inst,
arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, at 81
O'Clock, but our regular telegraphic news
agents failed to furnish us with the adyices
by her in time for our edition of yesterday
and eight hours were consumed in transmit
ting the bare announcement Of her arrival:
Rumors Of peace are repeated with the ut
most confidence, and are received with gen
eral credit. Austria and Prussia decidedly
favor a renewal of diplomatic negotiations.
The Car was about making peace proposals
directly to the Emperor of France.
The news from the seat of war possesses no
features Of interest. Some skirmiships had
taken place without any serious loss on either
side, and without important results. The
firing, though weak, is still kept up from the
forts on the north side of Sebastopol
Further fighting had taken place in Asia, in
which the Turks had been successful.
The London journals have but little to say
about the recent difficulties between England
and the United States
The general aspect Of European affairs is of
appetite character. ete
The monetary affairs in France and England
show decided improvement Consols are
quoted at 90!.
Cotton is unchanged, and Breadstuffs have
slightly declined. The Provision market is
dull, with prices tending downward.
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CoURr OF CLAIMS esterday, Hon. Henry
Hubbard, Hon. Nathaniel IL. Baker, and
Horace q. Brown, Esq, of New Hampshire,
and Gogswell X. Brown, Esq of Washington
city, were admitted TO practice as attorneys
and counsellors in this court.
The opinion Of the court in the case of S
p. Todd as. the United States was delivered
by Chief Justice Gilchrist The claim ant In
this case demands from Government remune-
ration for the depreciation Of treasury notes
received at par between the years 1912 and
1915, and by him, as purser of the navy, ne
gotiated at the market rate, and the avails
thereof paid out for the support of the navy.
The amount of depreciation, (s574. 5O,) and
Interest thereon, was claimed. The court dis.
eussed the question of the liability of the Uni
ted states to pay interest on debt ascer-
talnea 70 be due, deciding that the govern.
ment Is not liable for interest.
Inc argument in the case Of Sturgess, Ben
nett Co., vs. the United States was resumed
In behalf Oh the claimants by Mr.. Sargent
who had not concluded his remarks. when The
court remarked,
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ALEXANDRIA CORRESPONDENCE.
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 10, 1855,

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 10, 1855.
The Ladies' Fair continues to draw. On
Monday night several beautiful tableaux were
presented, and tonight another exhibition is
announced.
Kunkel is drawing crowded houses at Lib
erty Hall.
The lighthouse at Jones's Point is nearly
completed. The lantern has recently been
elevated to its place, and will soon be lighted
Mr. Church, the contractor, has made a most
excellent job, and the work will no doubt be
approved by those having the matter in
charge.
Next Friday, the third and last lecture Of
Benjamin Hallowsll before the Alexandria
Library Association, will be delivered at the
Lyceum Hall. d. Funston, Esq will follow
In the course with lecture on the 4th proximo.
A project for plank road from Alexandria
to Mount Vernon is on foot.
Flour 50; wheat-white, S1.95aS2; red
81 %. Corn, 80, ; rye, 95c.aSl; oats, 4Oa
AZ. AMI.
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United States Patent Office,
Washington, Dee. Is, 1855.


on THE PETITION OF FREDERICK E.
~ SICKELS, Of New York, N. z, praying for
the extension Of patent granted to him for an
improvement In ''Valves in Steam Engines - for
seven years from the expiration Of said patent,
which takes place on the 10Th day Of Nav, 1856 (:
1t is ordered that the said petition be heard at
the Patent Office on Monday, the 5th day Of MAY,
1856, at IL O'Clock nj and all persons are notified
to appear and show cause, If any they have WHY
said petition ought not to be granted
Persons opposing the extension are required to
file in the Patent Office their objections special
set forth In writing, at least twenty days before
the day Of hearing; all testimony filed by either
party to be used at the said hearing must be taken
and transmitted In accordance with the rules Of
the office, which will be furnished on application
The testimony In the case will be closed on the
18th day Of April, 1885, dispositions and other pa
pers relied upon as testimony must be filed in the
office on or before the morning Of that dsy the ar
guments, IL any, within ten days thereafter.
Ordered, also, that this notice be published in
the Union, Intelligencer and Evening Star, Wash.
ington, ID. c.; Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa |;
Journal Of Commerce, New York; and Post, Bos.
ton, Mass; nee week for three successive weeks
previous to the sth day Of May next, the day Of
hearing. -
CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner Of Patents
p. S.-Editors Of the above papers win please
copy, and send their bills to the Patent Once,
with paper containing this notice,
dec 19-1aw3w 8
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FTO THE CITIZENS OF WASH

RTO THE CITIZENS OF WASH
49, INGTON.-Rsad and Circulate The
subIoined memorial is published by direction Of
the Union Association, with request that every
good citizen will sign 1t. Active friends Of the
cause can take the petition from these columns,
attach 1t to a sheet Of paper and having obtained
as many signatures as possible, hand 1t to DIR. w.
Jones, President Of the Union Association, and
through the agency Of Committee appointed for
the purpose, 1t win be presented to Congress.
II. X. OFFUTT,
Secretary Of Union Association.
To the Hon. the Senate and House of Represent
atires of che United States Of America in Con-
gresS assembled:
The memorial Of the undersigned, citizens of
Washington, respectfully represents, that at the
last charter election In this city large numbers of
our fellow citizens legally qualified voters, we
deprived Of the exercise Of the elective franchise
owing In part to the limited time US well as the
limited number Of places allowed by law for the
reception Of the ballots, but more particularly to
gross assumptions Of power on the part Of the
Commissioners Of elections, who, in many in
stances, disregarded the plain terms Of the city
Charter as well as the judicial decisions Of the
Courts, explaining and defining that instrument
We, therefore, pray your honorable bodies to
enact such law as will prevent these abuses here
after, and secure to every legally qualified voter Of
the city, the free, full and undoubted enjoyment
Of his rights. dec 17-3t