Daily American organ., 1856-03-06
Correspondence.
NEW YORK, March 5, 1856.

NEW YORK, March 5, 1855
The report which has lately been circulated that
pack mules were to be brought from South Amer.
ica to convey passengers from one end of Broad
way TO the other, over the miniature Andes, Is all
aJoke, no such idea having ever entered the pro.
ifc brain Of our worthy Mayor. But his honor il
not asleep in the matter, the following will show
Proposals viii be received at the Mayor's Office
until the 9th instant for removing the ice snow
&C., from Broadway, which must be done betwcer
the hours Of s r, NJ. and A. Nj, and completed
by the 18th instant. During the hours above spe
cited no vehicles Of any kind are to be allowed ii
Broadway" So you see our great tlloroughfare 4
TO be once more put in q travelling condition.
The New York Historical Society held their reg
ular meeting last evening, Luther .Bradish in the
chair Mr. Hicks, the artist, presented the Society
with portrait OF the president, and likeness az
the Earl of CARLYLE, besides four engrayinrs Of
Coles Voyage OF Life. Col. Shaffner was then IN,
troduced, and presented the Society with the
models OF an invention (said TO bc) Of Robert Full
ton, desgned 70 raise Vessels in canals and related
the circumstances OF his discovering these models
while travelling in Russia. Professor G. w. Green
then read an able paper on the life and works Of
Thomas Cole, after which, the meeting adjourned
Charles q. Hunter, better known perhaps as
"Alvarado Hunter late a lieutenant in the United
States Navy, died In this city Yesterday morning.
1t is singular fact that persons stil continue tu
be yctimised by bogus California steamboat
agents. No less than four young men from New
Hampshire were swtadied out Of 5000 each On
Monday, having purchased what they supposed
were genuine tickets for passage to California
The persons OF whom they purchased these tickets
represented themselves to be regular agents. M
arrests have as yet been mnde.
Hon. Edward Everett is at present in this CITY.
and is quite lion He is to receive his friends this
afternoon in the governors room in the City Hail
rvad oc
viii induce many to call on him who are not his
personal friends.
Another false report, in relation to the missing
steamer Pacific, was started this m rning About
nine o'clock It was announced that the Pacific was
comingpup the bay, in tow of propeller OF
course, this report created an excitement and Mr..
Collnss Office in Wall street was at once besieped
by hundreds who hare friends ON board, or who
are otherwise Interested. 1t was soon ascertained
however that there was no truth in the report !:
and believe If the originator of it had been dis
covered he would hardly have escaped coat of
tar and feathers. 1t was heartless i'm the extreme
Another Of those mysterious disappearances, of
which New York has 30 many, has just come to
light. VIM. Stevens private watchman in the
lower part Of the city, has been missing since Sun
aay. This is said to be the fourth watchman that
mas been missing within year. 1t is said that
this watchman has had some difficulty with emf
grant runners, who said they would be reyenged
for what he had done to them, and II is feared he
has been made away with by them.
Mr.. d. 8. Spier, merchant from Auburn, who
was robbed few days since on the Hudson River
Railroad, of $l6,0 ,00O has offered large reward for
its recovery, but no clue to the robbers has yet
been found. The bills were in different denomina-
tions, from 5's to SOS and upwards
Among the new works in press by HI. Long and
Brother Is one with the title Of " The Wanderer,
by the author of the very popular novel, ..The
Watchman lately published by the same house
and which reached very large sale in this coun.
try, and has been republished in England. It is
thought by those who have seen proofsheeh Of
" The Wanderer," that 1t will exceed " The Watch
m>n" in thrilling interest and ability.
OMICRoE