The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-23

to little or no quantity on hand Grinding has com
menced and the crop will produce GO 900 hogsheads
The health Of the island is good and the weather
continues most favorable"
The Board Of Aldermen met last evening. The
report from the Councilman in favor of the sale Of
bread BY weight was adopted unanimously. This
amounts to nothing, however. 30 far as the bakers
and buyers Of bread concerned as il is merelSan
expression Of opinion on the subject. report in
creasing the salary of the Superintendent OF SAM
tary Inspection to $500 per annum was also
adopted. The resolution indcmnifying the Mayor
for expenses incurred in the Police and Street Com
missioner disputes was again laid over The affair
of the Washington Market stands, and the alleged
rascalites connected Herewith. created quite an
animated discussion. The committee appointed to
inquire into the facts of the was directed to
proceed with the investigation. We give elsewhere
a report of the testimony already elected and an
account of the stampede Of all concerned from the
committee room yesterday. There is evidently rat
in somebody's meal tub. but it is by no means GER
tain that it will be caught.
The bark Alnah, Captain Stevens cleared at the
Custom House on Monday for st. Jago de Cuba,
and while proceeding down the lower bay yesterday
morning was oyerhauled by a steamtug having on
board Marshal Rynders. who seized her on sus-
picion, he the Marshal) having cause to believe
she was to be engaged in the slave trade. She was
towed to Jersey City and anchored under the guns
of the United States revenue cutter.
The members q the New England Society and the
guests, numbering in all about two hundred and
fifty gentlemen, celebrated the anniversary of the
| landing of the Pilgrim Fathers by dinner at the
Astor House last evening. We give full report of
the sayinGa and doinps in another column
The prosecution of the Indian war in Florida ap-
pears to he going on vigorously. Several of Billy
Bowlegs' settlements in the Big Cypress Swamp have
recently been discovered, and Number of his wives
and children captured. At another point the savages
had killed Captain Parkhill and wounded five men
of the volunteer force sent against them Bowlegs
who must be well stricken in years, is anxious to
come in" but his braves will not listen to such
ignoble proposition, and persist in carrying the
| war
| The Board Of Ten Governors met yesterday, and
concluded to invite the city members Of the Legisla
ture elect to visit the institutions the island The
Governors, by resolution, established as arue not
/ to employ paupers on the island. From the reports
of the Wardens it appears there are 1909 persons
now in the institutions being greater number than
was ever known to be in them before. 1t is an in
crease of 1873 as compared with last year.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioners met yes
terday afternoon and transacted large amount of
routine business but nothing of exciting public nte
rest took place. Business seems rather dull since
| Mayor Wood ceased meeting with the Board.
| In the Court of General Sessions yesterday James
J. Mooney was acquitted of charge of assault AID
battery, alleged to have been perpetrated on VIM.
! Shultz in lager bier saloon in Eighth avenue.
/ r,,b Del oil nf -
stealing slls worth of clothing the property of
Isadore Bauman, of Iaurens street, on November
2s and sent to the State prison for two years Thos
Delsny and John Bovsl pleaded guilty to attempt
at burglary, and were remanded for sentence
| They broke into the factory of John Wallace
Thirty-sxth street. on the night Of November s,
and stole eight copper rollers. worth $500. which
were recovered. William Ferguson pleaded guilty
to an attempt at burglary in the third degree in
breaking into the stable of A. p. Demarest in ll6th
street, and stealing 1925 worth of dressed rattan
He sent to the penitentiary for one year. Mary
Ryan alias Curling, charged with stealing $50 from
Josiah Rogers, was acquitted. John Stewart and
Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to stealing, on the
18th inst 5000 worth of watches and chains from
MARQUIS Jacobs, 81 Oliver street. Judge Russell
who presided in the afternoon sent each of them to
ward Quinn, alias Thompson, was convicted of steal
ing quantity of clothing from Amos Briggs. and
was sent TO the penitentiary for two years. being
der twenty years Of age.
The cotton market yesterday was still unsettled.
About 200 bales middlng upands, the wharf, from
Charleston sold 10 3loc., and about 100 600
bales sold from store in lots, chiefly 10 spin
ners based mainly upon mddlng uplands and nj idlng
Florida, at 10t.c. 1oAac. Flour without further
change OF Importance Al the close there was slight
rally IN the extreme lower grades, while medium and
extra brands unchanged. Sales Of all kinds how
ever were moderate. The day was almost blank in
wheat The demand limited, and sellers above
the views Of buyors; and with the exception of
small 10, two Of southern, nothing Of moment
done. Corn was dull and lower, with sales Of Jersey
new yellow and white nj 5Tc NJ 0c. Pork easier
With OF inspected and uninspected mess at $i5 SO
SIS IS Sugars embraced about 800 400 hogshcads
Cuba muscovado So heads and 80 bbls Porto Rico
al rates given another column. The market closed
4 firm Coffee quiet, and sales checked by the auo
ton sale 10 come Of to-day. Frcrhs were steady, with
cors 10 Liverpool in bulk a, SIC aud bacon and lard
eos To London, -four taken At -. 81. aud provi
siops at o.. 6d.