The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-29

| De nOpeO tnaL congress Will TAKE up tnfe SUD-
ject and consider it. If it is duly deliberated
on, we are confident it will not result in a
reduction Of our present artillery establish.
ment.
THE FIRE MARsHAL's REPORT -INCENDIARY
FmEs-The Fire Marshal's Report for the six
months ending on the 30th November last, was
presented to the Board of Aldermen last even.
ing. 1t is an interesting and suggestive docu-
ment It sets ont with reiteratiou Of the re-
commentator 90 ably enforced in the previous
report, Of the passage Of some enactment for
the safer construction of buildings. It sug-
gests az an efficient check upon owners and
builders that they should be compelled to send
in to the Board OF Fire Wardens specifications,
framed in accordance with the act of the work
to be undertaken, and that aay departure
therefrom should be visited with demolition
of the faulty portions of the building, and
! when occasion called for it, the imprisonment
of the offender. With this Recommendation,
every one but spectators will be disposed to
concur. It is the system carried out with go
much advantage in London, Paris, and other
of the great European cities, and would pre-
vent nine -tenths Of the accidents from fires
and other causes to which we are exposed in
| this city.
Another suggestion of the report, and one
to which attention ought to be paid at once,
is the necessity of providing some means
| of escape in tenement houses, in addi-
ton to the single narrow stairs with which
they are usually furnished. Mr.. Baker
recommends that an iron staircase, with
landings OIL each story, should be erected
outside Of 81 buildings Of this description
As this class # dwellings is rapidly increasing,
it is essential hat some precaution should be
adopted to quad against the extensive loss of
life that would le caused by fire breaking out
in them. With the large number of families
by which they ae inhabited, the conse quences
would be frighthl if such casualty were to
come suddenly lpon them in the dead Of the
night Mr.. Bake's suggestion seems to US cal
culated to effectlally guarantee them against
any personal dagger.
The results exhibited by the tables annexed
to this report ae exceedingly satisfactory. 1t
will be seen tat during the last six months
there were ony dfty-two fires traceable to acts
of incendiarim, OF which twenty three were
clearly shown to have been wilful, whilst dur
ing the corresponding six months of 1854
ninety-four we're traceable to the same cause,
of which thirty four were Enthusiastically will
full. Upon tn. aggregate of fires generally,
the tables shoNa decrease of sixteen in COM
parison with th corresponding six months of
last year. Sine the institution of the office of
Fire Marshal period of eighteen months
the gradual dimnition effected in the number
of incendiary fins has been steady and deter
inmate, and ther{is no doubt that in proper
ton as the police department becomes more
perfectly organizl they will show more IA
pid decrease. Al it is, we have to congratu-
late our fellow-cjizcns on the important re-
suits already exhibited by Mr.. Bakers reports.
Mrs. BIooMETIN NEBRAsKA-CoLD WEATHER
FOR NEGRoEs--ihe Omaha City Nebuskian of
the 9th inst, sas that
Last evening Mn Amelia Bloomer delivered lecture
right Of rschse. The hall Of Representatives in
hch she spoke, Tas crowded to overhewing The lady
think all personsf candor whatever their opinions may
be in relation to he views OF Mrs. Boomer will at least
acknowledge thatheis certainly most pleasing and
logical speaker Cd that she handled her subj with
| great ability.
The subjecl of the fair missionary of wo-
mans rightswas her right to the elective
franchise-th right to vote, both at primary
and regular Elections. After giving synop-
sis of her dscourse, our Nebraska cotempo-
rary says-'Ne will only add, in respect to
Mrs. BloouT, that we think she is very much
Of gentleman"
In the sane paper we find the following &C
count Of theVeatber; and they have had the
same sort in he adjoining Territory Of Kan
sac
CoIp wFArHr-Too cold to thaw too cold to snow TOO
cold for out doorbusiness too cold for enjoyment too
cold to go to bedtoo cold to get up-too cold for any
thing but to free Frozen ears, frozen noses, frozen
complains of thi ecld Everybody sleeps cold-even
married couples dnplan of col iness between them
People 20 trottnAbout the streets with huge shaws
| blankets and bulo robes muiiei closely over thes
heads and should4, and mpleely bundled up
they cannot possibly be recognized The mercury in the
thermometer at ntime during the last week has been
above On thursday morning last 1t stood rs deg
| and yesterday 23kg. below
What loHly climate for "Uncle Tom
And such are the winters Of Nebraska and
Kansas twenty-five degrees below zero. II
the South fai establish slavery in either Of
these Territories, in the face of this imped-
ment, thel will beat the Puritans of Massa-
cbusetts; Sr they tried 1t in the milder eli
mate Of Hston, and failed. 1t didn't pay.
Why, theI all this fuss about slavery n
Kansas AM the "border rufIlans?"
THE MATE DEMOCRACY FOR BUCHANAN-The
Republican lounal, OF Belfast, Me-, informs us
4 49, 81, H.