The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-16


The report Of The nonarrival Of the North Star
at Aspinwali up to the 4th inst at which date abe
was fully six days overdue. has naturally caused
considerable anxiety. Persons competent 70 form
au opinion with regard to the cause Of her non.
arrival DO not. however, share In these apprehen.
eicnS. The North Star Is an unusually staunoh yes
sc and il rated at the head OF the under writer's
list Of first class steamers II she has become dis.
abled in her machinery, and has put into port In
the Caribbean Sea. it will be some ume before any
td'nss Of her will reach this port. We publish
elsewhere List Of the names Of the cabin passen.
gers OF the North STAR together with those OF tho
detachment of marines and sailors sent out to re-
heve the crow Of the United States ship Saranac,
and those Of the officers and crew Of the s'sauner
Altogether there were ON board OF her 81S PERSONS
The returns. official and unofficial. of the recent
New York State election. as far received, go to
show that II is impossible to ascertain at this time
which Of The two candidates for Secretary VI State
Is elected We shall perhaps be obliged to wait
until the Official canvass ID completed before tho
question ia definitely decided.
The city politicians were as busy as beavers las
evening. TIE adjourned Mozart Hall Convention
met at the appointed hour, and nominasei Foraan.
do Wood for Mayor, and James Lynch sor Aims
house Governor. The meeting was worry bolster
GUS one, and our reporter has graphically described
the scene that took place. The American General
Committee met last evening. and appointed three
delegates from each ward to form Convention 10
nominate candidates for Mayor, Almshouss dover
nor aud Counsel to the Corporation. This Conven-
ton will meet on Saturday evening. Conventions
to nominate candidates for Aldermen aud Council
men are to be held, and there is every prospect
that full list Of American candidates 70, County
and city officers will be in the field.
Among mass OF matters relating to the Har
pa's Ferry affair which We publish to-day, may
be found letter from DR.. s. G. Howe, the Boston
abo!tionist. whose name has recently been brought
prominently before the public in John Browns and
Colonet Forbes correspondence. DR.. Howe will
not divuge any OF the secrets of the conspirators
nor is he disposed TO run the risk of being taken to
Virginia to answer for his share in the Harpers
Ferry plot, but he intiDates that he viii initiate
The example Of his friend Fred. Douglass, and go
abroad for sympathy and safety.
4 meeting of the Supervisors took place yester-
day forenoon, when very little important business
was transacted The estimate for the school OK.
penses was received frcm the Board of Education,
and showed the amount to be $l,3l4e52. The Su.
pcryiAors net in the afternoon as the Board of
County Canyasscrs, and made some progress to.
wards canyassing the returns Of the recent elcc-
ton
The weekly meeting of the Ten Governors took
pisce yesterday. An application from Hibernia
Engine Company Of Philadelphia to present q ban
ner to the Randall's Island boys was granted, aud
a committee appointed to receive the delegation
for that purpose An appropriation Of 500 to give
Thanksgiving dinner to the boys on Randalrs
Island wat made, and also $50 for the inmates of
the LuDatic Asylum for the same purpose. The
Board decided that in every case where coroner's
inquest is held at Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Hawthorn.
the house surgeon, shall afford all the facilities In
his power for such Investigations The Finance
Committee reported that the amount required to
dciray the expenses Of the institutions next year
VIII be $s3s,l5O, or s25 $50 less than tho amount
for the present year. The report was adopted
after shor. discussion. The number in the insti-
tu.ions now is 7525a decrease Of thirty. three for
the week.
By an arithmetical error In an article published
yesterday, the vote Of Tanmany Hall was in
creased in one district by nearly ten thousand. In
stead Of 3S6S in the Sixth Senatorial district, It
ough; to have been 8 9S7, the former number being
the total of both the Sixth and Fourth districts.
while The vote Of Mozart Hail. for the same district
was 1928. The totals for Tammany Hall, as well
as for Mozart Hall and the republicans, in the
four Senatorial districts or in the whole city, were
correctly stated that the apparent error did not
affect the argument.
The Excise Commissioners held their forty.
seventh seesion for the present year yesterday at
which they granted four licenses on the usual con.
ditons. There are now only three additional meet
ings TO take place, and they will probably be
finished up this week. The Commissioners have
agreed not to settle with any 4uor dealers against
whom suits have been commenced, unless they
shall first obtain license and pay for it, nor win
they in any case make settlement after the Com.
mission has closed In all cases they will eudeavor
to procure judgment for $500.
DR.. Ramsay, the Register Of Records, calls atten-
ton, in connection with the mortality table Of the
week, to the fact that there is small increase in
the mortality this week. compared with the cor
responding week in the years 1857 and 1858; the
increase Of deaths bears much less proportion
than does the increase Of population. In the Seven
teen,h ward there were ff;y-two deaths last week,
eighteen more than in the previous week. In order
to ascertain the cause of this increase he examined
the localities where most Of the deaths occurred
and found, as he anticipated, a large quantity of
them in the newly erected tenement houses, (of
which there is very large number). The inmates
move into them Immediately on completion, be-
fore the walls are dry; hence the increase Of the
mortality. There is, also, double the number Of
deaths from violent causes this week, as compared
with last.
TIL steamship Bavaria sailed from this port yes
terday for Southampton, Havre and Hamburg,
taking out one hundred and twenty Eve passengers
and good freight
The annexed table shows the temperature OF the
atmosphere in this city during the week ending
November IL, the range of the barometer and Their
mometer, the variation Of wind currents and the
state Of the weather, at three periods during each
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