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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

TnK ACCIDENT on THE New YoRX CENTRAL
RAILROAD The passengers the train which met with
the at Canasoa yesterday morning arrived here
last evening Among them found one OF citizens,
l. Chaplin, Esq from whom have learned some further
particulars The unfortunate train met with accident
below Utica In consequence Of the breaking oi axle
tree, and detained until a locomotive could 70 from
Utica and bring up the train The train westward
and whom Canastota, just before daylight, il
thrown from the track by the breaking Of rail The
train consisted Of locomotive tender, baggage and
three passenger The locomotive kept the track and
sustained injury, but the carr were thrown oil and
considerably broken Tho train running nj the usual
speed, and the accident occurred embankment
eight feet high The turned over ali
the windows broken, and in the centre in which
Mr.. Chaplin rode, only six seats rema ned fast
though number suffered considerably, and all were
lees bruised shocked. The train contain cd
seventy passengers including only six females Among
those most injured, the foowinR-Mary Keenan, OF
No IL East Sevent cpih street. New York. badly cut ln
the bead she destined for Chicago and taken TO
the Tobey House. CsDastota. William Forbes, OF syria
received -four bad gsshes bis head and other
wise bruised his clothing thoroughly saturated with
blood. John Barrett Of Syracuse in the seat
sides having the OF hand broken James Bran
han OF Scotland bound for Torouto bad his hosd cut and
injured In the back he bad just landed New York,
and much depressed In spirit by the accident that
he declared bis intention 10 return 10 Scotland by
the vessel in which he came out Mr.. Douglass,
Of hadkon, Ohio, burt in the sdeprobably had ribs
broken Col Allen, Of Vincennes, Ia, had cut
10 the forehead the right eye, apd hs bad
ly bruised Mr.. Jackson OF Woodstock, III, had his
less injured hut have other nsmes.-Rocheaer
linton. H.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

The Metallic Tablet strop can he obtained,
genuine at j. AS SAUNDERS store, No. Astor House.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

WASHINGTON, Feb Is, 1858.
The United states Va James Coer.-Ausumcnt com
menced for plaintiffs and continued for defendant
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VALUE or TEE RnAL ESTATE on THE CRY.

Total $3.50 ls7 sos $50 s2l, 9o3 ls,434753 l3ooe5s
The tax rolls open for examination at the Com
missoners rooms No. 80 Chambers street NEW Court
Housed where they will remain open until the st OF May
1853 All persons owning taxable property had better
spec the books prior 10 that time, they will find the
assessments confirmed, and they will be liable for the
taxes whether right wrong and assessments
sonal estate especially necessarily very loosely made
some sslks who are worth q hundred dollars in the
world may discover that they assessed for S. 600 Az
An example Of The way personal property assessed
publish the following notice received by gentleman who
not reside in the city at ALL and who occupied
the house. lived In the street ward set forth In the
circular, and, moreover, who that he
owned personal property To the amount OF 900 his
life -
OrYrcH or rm COMMISSIONERS or TArEs I
AssrssnySTs, 81 CHAMBxRs STREET, jan 4, 1858. I
sR-You hereby notified tina: your personal estate,
TO- 1885, is assessed at 900 and that the same,
Both day OF April next will be confirmed at that
amount, from which there will be no redress Yours,
'''' 4 xs3s5Id5SISSsA4sOS, Commissioner.
Mr.. -, log East Fourteenth street, Seventeenth
ward.
This is pretty fair sample Of the modu operandi,
and ought to be q warning to every one to take
peep Al the tar rolls before next May. As II may
be worth while how the taxpayers grievances
10 be redressed we will the method prescribed by
the law. Application With reference to real estate
be made 70 the Commissioners in writing during the
period In which the books open for inspection stating
the grounds Of objections 10 the assessment, and there
upon the Commissioners will examine into the complaint
and IT, in their Judgment the assessment is erroneous
they shall the TO DO corrected II such app
cation DO made in relation 10 the assessed valuation OF
personal estate, the applicant shall be examined under
cath by the Commissioners, and II In their judgment the
assessment enron sous they shall the 10 be
corrected and declare their decision within thirty days
after such application shall have been made TO them The
provides further that reduction shall be made by
Board OF Supervisors of any assessment real
personal estate unless shall appear under oath air.
nation, that the party aggrieved unable 10 attend
within the period prescribed for the ion OF
By reason OF sickness absence from the city.
All real estate Ia taxable except the property OF the
Corporation church property land belonging TO the state
the United States property devoted 10 benevolent
and literary purposes-a Of which IL exempt. Besides
these, clergymcn OF all denominations entitled TO
exemption OF 81 500 their real estate they any,
provided that their property does not amount 10
that Those who in the militia entitled
also W similar privilege the tcrms:-an infantry
soldier reduction Of $500 his real estate and
cavalry sold or 70 a reduction OF 81 600.
The property exempt from taxation for this year
amounts TO the large sum Of SIS ts2s59 and divided
up follows
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

VVu1SKrRs OR MOUSrACHFS FORCED TO GROW IN
w ain weeks BY my onguent tsix years esabshes with
stain injury c the skin; ~ bottle, any part
The country. r. @ GRAHAM ~ Spruce stree. oe.os WA
liam street. Hayes, rs alon street. BrOoklya
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To Photographic Artists.-Fov Sale, AFTER
March s Grant Alcookes improved Gallery frs, floor
Ilrnah 1aY
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Under the head OF taxable personal property al
household furniture moneys goods chsuels debts due
from solvent Debtors account contract note bond
mortgage stocks In Incorporated companies Out OF the
state, &C."
In making return OF ones personal property, the
owner deduct all his debts, including what he may
happen 10 owe on bond mortgage real estate A
all Incorporated companies obliged 70 pay tar their
capital stocks In the hands OF individuals liable 70
taxation ~ personal pronOy.
with reference 10 saw banks and life insurance com
panies the Law provi that the deposits Of savings
banks which are due epostors and tho accumulatons
in any life insurance Hmpany organized under the laws
Of this state, a. far hch accumuaons held for the
benefit OF the assured, shall not be liable 10 taxation
Railroad companies not required TO 10 pay tsres on
their capital but must make exhibit OF their real estate
and nxtures at their own valuation. Thus while the
capital OF the city railroads Second Third, Sixth and
and Eighth avenues amounted last year 10 over three
millions, they were only taxed on f7o2936
The following table will show how the value Of property
In the city has been since s45 and the rate
and amount oftaxston, Of course, with IT.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

BssehsIor's Hair Dye, Wigs and Toupsss--
m. beet IN world SURPRISING all aAdA Sold and applied
ii The ~annfscsovy rs broadway.
Crfstadoro's Hair Dye, wigs ana Toupees,
hes, the world. sAie and the dye applied At No
House.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

Weather Reports.
By the Northern Eastern, western and Southern Tel
graph Lines.-Ohce Il Wall strsell
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

ID r. R-RADwAYs READY RRITEr FOR HEAD
III. aches, whether sick nervous rheumaassn.
paralysis, lumbaGo govt neuralgia, tookA~
ache smallpox, fevers, swollen joints. kidney
complaints, scarlet fever, pains around tha
liver. pleurisy. measles, heartburn, and pains
OF all kinds Railways ready relief will IN =
few minutes change the miseres you suffer "
Joys Of pleasure
r. R-oace i6l FULTON street New York Sold By drug
sss and merchants everywhere.
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srorn 10 and subscribed before this eighteenth day
January A. u. 1864 SAMUEL NJ. SALrnRs, j. p.
Territory oT Kansas County q JohncnBefore me Samuel
Earers personally appeared Theodore Garrett who, being
sworn the llh day Of January he was arrested
Lesvenvorth county under, a. was said Warrant and
taken by armed party OF ten or eleven aud
while he under arrest proposition was made 70 MIN W
make new poll book by some one Of the free state party
IN lawrence and he thnss by man named Ewinel WINCH
poll book should be made out that General Calhoun would
receive H. which deponen being In durance, told MIN or
Them be supposed would be all right , - ,,,,,vrr
sworn TO and subscribed before this the eighteenth day
q January, 1853 SAMUEL NJ. SAIrERs, j. F.
Theee deposions impressed my mind fully that the re-
surns placed that day In my hands true. enter
canned no particle OF doubt about the result when in the
presence OF Colonel Sarks and Others opened the
turns and found majority Of 3e for the democratic
parry iooncluded, as matter Of course, that the de-
POSITIONS OF the judge and clerks we're made with full
knovedge Of s sc.sts Of the returns then for the first
time In my posssscn. The returns toaether with the
depoetons OF ne jsAgse and clerks sent 10 nv Office
1T Iecompson, BY ~ hooks, Of the clerks in the
surveyor Generals Office. I am informed in letter
from Mr. Brooks, that he placed them in the hands of
General hsccsn the chief clerk the Surveyor Generals
olce on the 9Th day Of January once said 70 my
friends and others who approached me on tho sub
ject, that the democratic party had a ms,or;,v
In the Legislature, and authorized the pubication
az such a statement I came 10 washington with
no particle Of doubt on my mind as 70 the result.
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Tas NJ rlspDn.ir,}c Clerks

T-reru Of Kan-rs County Of JohnsonBefore me- Samuel
eaers an acting Justice OF the county
and Territory aforesaid personally appeared Isaac Monday
James Findlay who being deposeh and saith that the
fore eonx true 10 the best Of their knowledge
nnd beiief ISAAC MONDAY,
' THEODORE ". GARRETT,
JAMES g, GRINrER,
VIC. WILSON,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

A portion of the Delegation from our city to the
Legislature profess strong anxiety to get rid of
our present Black Republican Police system
and Commissioners, yet We are inclined to believe
this profession hollow and insincere. For if they
really desired this why should they set to work in
way wherein they must know that success is hardly
possible
Our city has been long enough scOurged by a
partisan Municipality and partisan Police. The
results were bad government, nordinate public
plumber and IMMUNITY to crime. Last Winter, a
very earnest effort was made for Reform, and with
partial success. We have by no means perfect
Charter, Municipality nor Police; but each is a
great and manifest Improvement on what existed
one year ago What the public interest and the
public voice now demand is progress-not the sur
render of what has been accomplished, but the
achievement of still more.
Our Police system is not yet what it should be,
because it is controlled BY men of one party, some
Of them active partisans The remedy is not to be
found in putting il into the hands of another party,
snd of bterer and less scrupulOus partisans, but in
| SO changing it that like onr Public Charities, 1t
thal be entirely beyond the reach of partisan iiu-
ences' We shall be very glad to cooperate in any
rovement honestly and inteligently designed to
''ke the Police Department of our city utterly ard
hnaLy out of the domain of politics, and provide
that every faithful, yiglant, capable policeman
shall be retained so long as his usefulness continues
regardless Of political differences and mutations.
Board of Police Commissioners composed OF
such men as Peatiah PERT Peter Cooper VIM. F..
Hayemeyer and Daniel F. Tiemaun-we think four
would be suficient-with power accorded TO quo
rum 70 fill any vacsncies which might from time to
| time occur in their own body would be decided
! improvement % our present system, especially in
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

In CONGRESS yesterday, the Senate discussed
the Army bill in spirit worthy the better days OF
the Republic. Mr.. Foot Of Vermont come out
squarely against dragooning not only Kansas but
Utah, and especially against butcherng Indians be-
cause white scouadres have robbed and maddened
them. The demonstrations from both sides OF the
chamber against any increase of the Army were
most gratifying. Even Mr. Pugh offered to vote
for bill materially reducing both the Army and
the Navy. Mr.. Secretary Floyd will get no new
regiments this year. Mr.. Mason of Va. undertook
to crack his overseer whip the Senate in oPpo
stion to Mr.. Douglass motion for an investigation
of Kansas frauds, but nobody was much appalled,
The Senate may order or refuse investigation, but
the facts will at all events be officially established.
Mr.. Dixon spoke at length in defense of Freedom
in Kansas. The preceding days work in the House
had wrought manifest and sslutary change in the
atmosphere of the Senate.
In the HOUSE, Mr. Haskn Of this State asked
and obtained al Investigation Committee on the
recent purchase of site on Long Island opposite
ThIOg's Neck for q IT, S. fort, wherein the Govern
ment was chiseled out of about 100000 Should
the investigation be tborough-as We have every
reason toexpect-the developments must be deeply
interesting. The Committee having in charge the
investigation of the late Doorkeepers accounts and
official conduct was authorized to consider charges
affecting the conduct Of the present DoOrkeeper.
An appropriation bill to enable the President to
fulfill treaty ftipulsons with reference to the sboli
ton of the Sound dues was reported. A bill
appropriatiDg $50 900 for the expenses of running
the line between Texas and the Territory of the
United States WAS passed.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

How little reality there is in all the buster served
up in Southern newspapers and legislative resolves,
and rehashed by The Herod of this city, about the
dissolution of the Union was abundantly proved by
the denial on the floor of the Senate by that no.
toriOus fire eater Jefferson Davis, that he had ever
avOwed disunon sentiments.
In addition to all the other reasons for rejecting
the LecOmpton Constitution, abundant ground for
it would be found in the fact alone that one or two
Southern Legislatures and large number Of South
ern politicians have undertaken to make the sane
ton by Congress of that fraudulent instrument the
sole condition of their continuance in the Union.
We have suffered these threats to be repeated
great deal too often. Ever since South Carolina
was allowed, twenty five years ago. to drive Con-
gress by this sort of threat into the abandonment of
that policy of independence of foreign commerce
and protection to domestic manufactures which
had constituted for twenty five years previously
the cardinal policy of the Democratic party, this
threat of dssolviDg the Union has been more and
more resorted to- till at last it has become one of
the ordinary expedients of slaveholdng politics.
Whenever measure in which shareholders have an
interest seems likely to stick forthwith the bottle is
uncorked and this household demon of the South
is evoked to frighten the supplemented laboring
men of the North into acquiescence and submis-
sion The first evOcatiOn of this specter was at
tended with great deal of alarm, but all persons
of sense have long since discovered that instead of
being spirit of power it is mere bottle-imp,
which, perhaps may some day run off to an unmen-
tionable place with those who attempt to jugge by
means of it, but which is utterly powerless to do
harm to anybody else.
BY rejecting the Lecompton Constitution we
shall kill two birds with one stone-nOt birds, to be
sure, good for anything-not game which one need
be very proud of baggng-but rather two owls,
one of which is attempting to rob our hen-roost,
While the other dsturbs our peace with its monoto-
nous scret ches. We shall not only vindicate that
fundamental principle of democracy now for the
first time openly assailed-and that, too, by for
midable conspiracy between the slaveholding Mem
beers of Congress and the President of the Union
of the right of the majority to govern, but We
shall afford an opportunity to other freeaters be-
side Jefferson Davis to swallow down again all the
smoke and flames they have lately beched
up and to demonstrate how firmly they attached
To the Union.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10
PERSONAL.

The Rev. Beverly Waugh, senior Bishop Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at O'Clock yeser-
day morning in Baltimore, at the age of s. years. In
1909 he entered the ministry and in 1886 was elected
10 the Episcopal office. Previous to the latter date
he bad been resident Of this city. The Bishop has
been in feeble health for time; but the imme-
date cause of his death erysipelas which followed
sudden attack of spoplexy. Bishop Thos A. Norris
ofICincinnati is the senior Bishop of the Meth
dist Episcopal Church.
The Hon. Edward Everett has arrived in town,
and is stopping at the Everett House.
The Taunton Gazette has the following para
graph relating to three of the Republican members Of
Congress from Massachusetts,:
The Hon. b. l.. DAVIS of the XIth Congressional
District Mr.. Thayer of the Worcester District and
Mr.. Davis of the Salem District, have all been re.
Gently called home by their wives to take look at
eeent pledges of affection. with which they have
teen favored"
The fremont street Baptist Society has accepted
the Rev. J. S. Kslochs resignation. Mr. Kslloch
will pass the Summer in Kansas and NAV practice
bis new profession of the law there or In New
England
Private accounts received from Mr.. Presoo,t's
physicians he 60 will have immediate relief from the
attack, and be able 10 do most things in life az he
" has done before" He says himself however That
be has had his first warning.
Under the head, Wholesale Plagiarism" The
Boston ITdHserRt of Friday sets forth parallel
Dr. Name before the New. York Grand Lodge Of
Masops, June s. 1861, by the Hon. T.. w. Andrews Of
New'fork City, was in great part papiarized from
discourse delivVed by the Rev. Nathan II. Chamber
lam OF Canton, Mass, April 10, 1857, and published
by Crosby Nichols & Co., Boston.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

Both from other sources and from our reporters,
who have been attending the examinations during
the past week We have obtained sufficient informa-
ton TO enable us TO form some estimate Of the rela-
ton between the pre.ensions of the Free Academy
and lie real position among institutions of learning
Ii assumes to be College perhaps We should say
University, and as such confers degrees upon its
graduates, and will presently commence the manu-
facture of d. D.s and IL. DIS. Pretending to
rank with other Colleges, it is fair to compare its
merits with theirs and to demand from its profess
ors as thorough instruction as is given at Columbia
or Yale, or Dartmouth. That it yet young must
be admitted but it is well endowed, and its Facul-
~ receive quite as good pa, as the Faculty of any
other College in the country. II would not per-
tsps he altogether fair to expect its earlier gradu
ate, to compare fayoraby in all points, with those
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

II was an opinion of the Jews, and, borrowed
from them, the idea was introduced into the
Christian church, that the same divine oversight
and inspiration which presided over the first com.
initial of the Hebrew Scriptures to writing, had
been present overseeing and assisting at every
subsequent transcription of them, and so guiding
and controlling the trsnscribers that it had been
impossible for them TO fall into any oversight or to
omit ANYTHING interpolate anything, or in any way
change single word or letter of the sacred text
The idea that there could be any various readings
of the text Of the Hebrew Scriptures was long re-
sisted ON this ground, and the proposition of certain
scholars TO coate the Oldest and most authoritative
Of the manuscripts long violently denounced as
DO better than an infde attack on the divine insp
ration of those sacred writings. At last however
the scholars carried the day when the colations of
manuscripts abundantly proved, by the discovery Of
va.t multitude of various readings that the trans
cription of the Hebrew Scriptures had not escaped
that liability 10 error and change to which every
thing IN man is subject, though at the same time it
was made manifest that these various readibgs did
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

Some years ago we suggested the propnesy oil
forming new State out of the mining distnc" Or
upper peninsula of Michigan, taking in, desirable,
some portion of Wisconsin. The plan was DIS
cussed at the time with general appreciation. but
no decisive steps were taken. 1t has recently been
renewed in the Michigan Legislature, where
Senator has introduced resolutions recommending
that that portion of territory lying north OF WE
consin and Lake Michigan shall be ceded back to
the General Government, and that Q new State
shall be created thereirom. The preamble sets
forth that there is no affinity of trade and commerce
or political interest between the upper and lower
penipsulas, and no natural OF artificial connection
available at all seasons, and in consequence thereof
the upper peninsula does not enjoy that sound and
wholesome legislation required by its ocaliHterests.
This territory, however, falls within the provision
of the ordinance of 1857, which declares that no
more than five States shall be formed out Of the
North Western Territory; but if the bred Scott
decision has any force that ordinance is unconsti-
tutional, and 70 the prohibition is OF no effect.
There is no doubt that the forming of a new State
out of the mining territory along Lake Superior
would give an extraordinary impetus to the natural
business and trade of the country indicated, and
develop rapidly its extensive mineral and agricul-
tural resources. The plan meets, as it did when
first preached, with almost universal favor in the
West, where its merits and dement's may be sup
posed to be intimately known.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10

We print elsewhere an essay on Reform in Trade,
by merchant of large experience both in Country
and City. His exposition of the evils and radical
errors of the present Cor recent mercantile system
is 80 plausible and just that are inclined to re-
gard with favor also his plan Of reform, though one
of its features, as presented in his essay strikes US
as embodyiDg the vital error of the past. We
allude, Of course, to the retention Of the credit
system both in buying and selling. We believe
that system would go nigh to break down the con-
Germ in such tornado as that of 1857, in spite of
all the precautions and safeguards connected with
it. But let capital of One Million Dollars be in
vested the management confded to upright and
capable men, and let the goods be bought and sold
inhexibly for cash down, and such an establishment
would make money for its stockholders, while
afordng goods so low that the continuance or rev-
val of the old system would be rendered merely
impossible This is our view of the matter