New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-04

or Jury rather-has Just decided tha' the a<.gnecs
are bound 10 receive the notes IN sa'is.action OF
debts due the bank. This verdict has made them
salate at about 80 per cent zen ~ 10 !tose who intend
able and willing to pay up at This rate, the institu-
ton would do well enough. But 80 many of them
have gone into hopeless liqnidstion while so many
others got into debt without ever intending TO
pay that there is no such prospect ahead. Alto
gether the future seems much more disconraglng
to creditors than 1t did some months ago. All the
formidable counts n Allibene's Indictment have
been successfully demurred to, and his trial again
postponed four weeks longer. The lawyers have
t'rned it into farce.
A specimen Of elaborate mechanism has just been
finished here for the CaIrtol extension building al
Washington. Ii is al immense ballstrade, design
ed for the private stairway INSIDE the building, oy
which the members will ascend 90 the halls. 1t
comprises four flights in length equal TO l62 feet
1t is of massive bronze work, extremely ornament
al and will cost the Government $4,000 How
so much money could be spent on such work may
naturally excite surprise ARTISTS may understand
il, but the public cannot even after inspecting IT.
But this balustrade consists OF seven principal
fgures-a boy retreating from a raftesnake about
10 spring upon him; bald headed spread eagle
and a black eagle with raised wings and open
talons in STOPPING posture; noble buck cours-
ing at full speed: tree containing pigeons nest
With young birds therein, with the mother bird ap-
preaching it, and two finely formed Cupids are du-
pcated throughout the scroll work. Besides these
predominatng ornaments, a profusion of finely ex-
ecuted fruits and flowers are scattered over the
wOrk-roses, cotton plants, pine apples, tobacco
plants maize, acaciss, &c. The scroll work is
truly splendid in design and execution, and the
whole naturally attracts the attention of mutudes
WhO thrOng the WarerOOm of the contractors who
furnished it. The artist who produced the mag.
nifceDt designs embodied in the work. and tO
whose taste and skill the contractors are so much
indebted, is a Frenchman residing in this city,
named Baudin. The question comes up at the
close if the mere balustrade il to cost this large
sum- what will be the cost of the stairs
When it was announced that John VI. Read had
been elected TO the Supreme Bench by majority
of y, ,0O0 the incumbent, Porter, resigned and
the Governor forthwith commissioned Gaylord
Church to supply the vacancy until December
next. 1t now seems that this is only the prelim-
mary to an attempt to defeat the popular verdict
and keep Reed of the bench. This much is init
mated in the Democratic papers. But next month
will inform us how far quibble of this kind can
be made to succeed
The tomb of Franklin and his wife il now open
for public observation. An opening has been COM
pleted in the battle-ground wall on Arch street,
and through an iron railing inserted therein you
look directly the plain marble slab which covers
them. A net work Of telegraph wires is suspended
almost Immediately over the grave.
Our city has long been celebrated for the num-
Der and skill Of its chess players. The wonderful
career of Morphy in Europe has given fresh i'm
petus to the study Of the game, and all evening
paper now announces the devotion of column
once week to the publication Of original problems
and games and the inaguraton of regular chess
editor. The type founderes are selling quantities
of chess type, and the makers and importers Of
chessmen cannot supply the demand which the late
excitement has created. Chess tables, too, are
extensively fashionable. What people We are
Two city horrors have been enacted this week
A noisy atheist named Thompson, who has been
for some time engaged in getting up burelsque
prayer meetings to ridcule the revival meetings of
the day. came to an awfully sudden death on Mon
day, being found dead in ditch near the city, hav
ing fallen through bridge the previous night. At
late hour another shocking tragedy occurred at
bawdy house in Shppen street, under crcum
stances singulary horrible. A young named
Dillon went into the house in search of loose girl
whom he kept there suspecting her fidelity to him.
Finding her room door locked, he went on the
roof and let himself down the chimney, intending
to surprise the girl in her chamber. But he got
into the wrong lue, and soon began to sufocate.
His cries of distress brought help but no help |
could extrcate him. At last they broke open the |
chimney aud took him out. He gasped once or |
twice aud was dead. What an end for a Young |
man to come to-died in bawdy- y-house!
IMMENSE CoRs-CRoP IN KESTUcKY.-7he Louis