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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

REFORMING THE DEMoCRACY-A HERCULEAN
TASK.-A few members of the democratic party
in this city have had the hardihood to impose
upon themselves the desperate task of reforming
and improving the democracy. This band of
bold adventures met at the Westchester House
few evenings since, aud talked over the fearful
delinquencies and backslidings and incapacity Of
the men whom the democracy of the Empire City
have been Of late addicted to placing in Offices
of trust and power. They agreed that if the party
was to be saved from total destruction, this state
of things must be put an end to and they ap-
pointed committees to prepare an address to the
democracy to arrange for mass meeting in
Tammany Hall, and to perfect the organization
of the reformatory movement or their sayings
and doings on the occasion Of this consultative
meeting at the Wcstchcster House we give a
report elsewhere.
We sympatbize with this small band Of demo
cratic reformers, but we have no faith in their
ability to perform the Herculean task which
they have voluntarily undertaken. The cleans
ing out of the Augean stables is trite meta
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

NEWARK, N. j., April 1, 1859.
portion Of large factory at the Of Mechanic
and Lawrence streets, in this city, owned by Crane &
Kbourn, and occupied by Messrs Frazee silver racrs
H. NJ. Curtis, last maker, the Perry Patent Arms Com
pany and Others destroyed by fire O'Clock this
morning. Loss three thousand dollars, and insured for
two thousand.
The journeymen cordwaners have established list o.
prices for employers making advance OF six cents
dollar in their wages.
The jewellers are holding meetings to raise tho prices
Of their labor.
cane made from the tcr of the slave schooner Amis
tad was presented to Hon. j. r. Glddings in this city on
Wednesday evening. IHft
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never reach an end. Til deeper investigation
goes the richer will be III, ri Of the labor.
Meantime, the taxpayers look on with indife-
renee. Capt Lowell asks the Common Council
to take some steps to save hen this last item,
as the warrants do not maturr for three years;
but it is not very likely that they will do So
Obstinate enough in defeating a good work, it
is not their way to take the trouble OF correct
ing an evil one.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

ton and for the defence will reuder the trial Que
of the most intensely interesting and exciting
criminal trials that has ever taken place in this
country In view Of that fact, we shall have full
reports Of h trial sent daily by telegraph
The trial may occupy one, two, or three weeks,
and we have no doubt that during its progress
the public interest in it will be all absorbing.
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pbor, that readily suggests itself by way Of
analogy but that and the other labas of the
fabcd son of Jupiter sink into insissidcance
when compared with the work of purifying the
democracy. We are afraid that ii is fa beyond
all ,rch efforts, and in state of such iecompo-
siton that salt cannot save it Nevertheless,
give the ref0rmers chance.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Advertisers requested to hand in their business
notices az much before nine O'Clock in the evening
possible. is desire accommodate them 30 FAR
We can, but time, in the present pressure upon our
columns of much importance to advertisers to
selves
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

The SICKIEs TRIAL-How 1T rs TO hi
killing of Philip Barton Key has been set down
by the criminal court at Washington for MONDAY
next, the 4th of April. II will be one of the
celebrated causes of the world. The fact of th
killing will be admitted, Or if not will be easik
proved, and will not be contested. The defenc
will be that the homicide was justifable, on TIN
ground that the slain man had inflicted on tlr
slayer the greatest injury that one man, in civil
lied life, can infict on anOther-the seduction d
his wife, The law does not, to be sure, specif,
this as one of the things for which homicide il
justifable, but public opinion does; and wher,
such provocation is shown to have been given
no jury can be found in this country, or perhaps
in any other, to declare that the man who takes
full retribution on him who has thus stabbed him
in his most vital part-his honor murderer
1t seemed 10 have been taken for granted, ct
first that there would have been tacit admis-
sion, on the part of the prosecution, that in the
Sickles case such provocation did exist 1t is
now understood, however, that no such admis-
sion, express or implied, will be made, but that
the defence will be thrown upon its proof and
that the fact will be contested to the utmost.
That course of procedure will place the accused
in peculiarly delicate position; but, delicate
though it be, there can be no shrinking from il
The whole complicated chain of evidence. by
which suspicion of his wife's in6delity ripened
into conviction, and eliminated in that fatal en-
counter on Lafayette square, must be exposed.
link by link, and the perfdy of the false wife
and false friend be unveiled to the world in
detail.
On The other hand the prosecution has
been instituting inquiries into the antecedents
of the parties, with the view, if possible, of over
throwing, or, at least weakening, the fabric of
justification. The District Attorney is under
stood to have received all the information he
expected from New York in that respect. The
friends of the deceased dcprecatc intermeddlinr
on their part with the prosecution but think it
due to the memory Of Mr.. Key that the facts
shall be fully presented on both sides in the
trial. ii the District Attorney should not feel
called upon to employ assistance, on his own
motion they will employ counsel to aid in the
prosecution. They say that while the testimony
will disclose indiscretion, and perhaps crimi-
nality, on the part Of Key, it will also reveal
such mitigating circumstances as will take from
the homicide the basis of justification
The course thus marked out for the prosecu-
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mOIrALr FROM WASHINGTON.

Dispatches from the equadSNn on vera
Crux-Repsrtcd Defeat OF n1arsnns "-Centrai
American Affairs and the Ousclsy Tros'y-
Prepn rations for the Trial OF Mr.. sAckics-
Appointment or . Commission TO Overhaul
tine Navy Yards, &c.
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH.
WASHINGTON, April I, 1855.
the Navy Department received dispatches to-day
from Captain Jarvis, of the friga.e Savannah of Vera
Cruz. He states that engagement had taken place
between Mramon and the opposition forces at a place
called Monkey Pass, In which the former had been re-
pulsed and utterly routed, with the loss of between
eighty and one hundred killed and many wounded The
particulars are not given. It thought this defeat
would retard his movements toward Vera Cruz and DOS
siby compel him TO abandon his contemplated attack on
the latter city.
The Cabinet in session until late this evening. Tho
subject under consideration is understood to have been
Central American affairs. The Northern Light brought
additional advices from General Lamar, but nothing nd
eating that the Ouseey treaty had been ratified. The
administration is dsinclned TO believe that Ousecy in
his operations has played false. His instructions
laid before our government Immediately after his de-
pature for Central America and If he has exceeded
them in any particular he will be called TO rigid
count Therefore, until the next arrival nothing, far
as England Is concerned, will be done.
Mr.. Brady has been engaged today consulting with
in the Sckes and preparing their defence
They will be prepared the day Of trial for any and
every emergency that may arise. II the prosecution
1t alleged they WILL probe the matter TO the bottom,
aud Inquire into the antecedens Of Sckes and OF his
principal witnesses the defence wi be fully prepared for
them for they have subpmnacd large number Of wit
Witnesses, who will be on the ground during the trial
learn oday that eminent counsel has been engaged TO
assist the District Attorney. Their names will not be
known until the day Of trial Chief Justice Taney to-
gether with respectable portion Of Mr. Keys family,
to the employ Of COUNSEL making any un
due effort in the prosecution of this case.
Mr. SOkes, for the last day two, has been much de-
pressed and low spirited He cannot bear the idea Of
going into and listening to the revelations which will
there be made public.
The Secretary of the Navy has appointed Board of
Naval Officers consisting of Commodore Gregory Captain
Blake Commanders Foote and Tucker and Lieut. David D.
Porter to visit the various navy yards, examine into
their condition. and ferret out any changes for their
better and economical organization They will CON-
mence with the New York yard and then visit others
in succession.
The small soops of war the stocks ct the
rious navy yards been named by order of the De-
par tment, as follows
Where Building. Name Of Steamer.
Boston. .Narragansett
Portsmouth. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mohican.
new lork. ....... ....'.'....... .lroquois
Philadelphia wyoming ana fawnce
NorIoik .............-.... l'aVolau.
PeDsacola. .Se nnoe
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

ALBANY JoBBING AND WASHINGTON HEIGHrs.-
Among the numerous jobs recently introduced
into the Albany Legislature in connection with
New York city-which we have exposed from
time to time in these columns-is that of an at
tempt to appoint a commissioner to lay out the
avenues and streets of Washington Heights, on
this island We had supposed that this job had
been laid aside; but lately it turned up again,
when we took the opportunity of directing pub
lie attention to the maneuvres of the job
bers. The wirepullers have once more put it
in motion, and the newest phase Of is the worst.
II is now proposed to strike out the names of the
commissioners at present inserted in the bill and
substitute others, who are known to be political
hacks and jobbers of the first water We trust
that the honest men of all parties in the Legis-
lature will set their faces against this job, and
let the property owners, who best understand the
matter, take charge of the laying out of this
beautiful region, as they desire to do. No com
missioner whatever is wanted. All that is re-
quired is that the proprietors of the land, from
Manbattanville to Kingsbridge, meet in the
course of the summer, agree upon a plan, and
send that for confirmation to the Legislature.
This will give satisfaction to all parties except
the iobbers.
Among other falsehoods put forward for the
purpose of deception in this case is the state
ment set on foot by bankrupt stock jobbers of
Wall street, that the proprietor of the HERALD
has sold his property at Fort Washington
There is no truth in the assertion, nor any foun-
dalton for it. He does not intend to sell this
homestead, nor any part of the forty acres of
land attached to it, as long as he lives. 1t will
increase every year in value; and he appreciates
its advantages too highly to part with private
residence in the most delightful and healthy
locality on this island-a region which is des-
tined soon to become faubourg Of villas, the
most charming and highly favored in any city of
the Old World or the New.
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The Norfolk Quarantine. Sc.

NOKFUIk, M1FCH idDV.
Our Quarantine regulations 20 into effect tomorrow.
This Ia one month earlier than usual
One hundred and thirty bales OF cotton from the brig
George Washington, ashore on Currituck beach have
reached here.
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KRD BANK, April j, 1903.
The country seat OF DR.. Ieathc OF New York city,
situated about one mile from Rod Bank, entirely de-
stroyed by supposed incendary fire last night Loss
about thu ee thousand dollars no insurance
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-02

+ THE NOMINATION FOR CRY INsPECrOR.-We
publish elsewhere the communication of the
Mayor to the Board of Aldermen relative to the
nomination of Mr.. Purdy as City Inspector,
which that hody "did not reach" before their ad-
journment on Thursday. His Honor assures the
Board that he will exercise all the rights
granted him by the charter to preserve health
and cleanliness in the city, and throws upon the
shoulders of the Aldermen the onus of refusing
The letter contains mild but firm rebuke of
he action of the Board in relation to Mr.. Nor
on's successor. That honorable body held
caucus yesterday probably on this subject.
Personal Intelligence,
The Hon. Richard Cobden Of England, was in Chicago
OF the Beth ut
Hon. John Bell, ex Senator of Tennessee, arrived in
Nashville on the 26th ult.
Hon. John c. Breckenridge is in Philadelphia
frederick A. Mafit son of the late J. Newland Mai,
was recently arrested in Cincinnati charged with getting
money under false pretcnccs.
DEPARTURES.
ussss Dur phia; l. oodmann .. u Mra Bertha lp
Goomsnn Jenny and Henry Goodmsnn, NY Mrs Regina
Rnes' Jsqa,n Cant De Mensrd Surgeon Tsmbv oraner
:ssS nIs' % r. s1;S @
ghry, Galena, III: James Rhofe Y; ELI Robbins lady
and children, u John Davidson. Y; Edgar David
SSn r. M and aDS NJ y
Turl, Y; Herzng VI Oh Hcrpich, Y; VIM Gotstein,
u John Lamb Canada; Wenstein CINCINNATI Mrs Tack
and infant Y; Miss Hesseibarth Y, and others In
the Eeerage--tota1 139. ...
MYSTERIOUS AFrAR-THE Rem AIMS OF A FEMALE
FOUND IN Box.-we mentioned briefly yesterday, VIC
went to press that the remains Of dead body had boon
found the Hudson River Railroad Office In Maiden ane
enclosed in box They proved 70 be those OF female and
the box had been time In the office uncaled and
finally attracted attention by its stencil The box was
shipped the oath Of March from New York. and was
Dean held inquest and the Jury returned verdict OF
death from some unknown. The remains had eyi.
IDENTIFY been bowed eight or ten months and tho opinion Of
the physician attendance that the person had been
murdered On the opposite side Of the card bearing tho
direction Ia the following in prnt:-"from W. s. Baths
1ls and 100 Third avenue, cor Of l4h St. New York;
Albany Stctesman, March 81.
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A Murderer Sentenced 20 Death.


Henry Duval convicted OF the murder Of Christian
Fischer In the western ssction Of this city few months
since, was this morning sentenced 70 death. This
makes five persons Under the death sentence now In the
city ial.
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| THE THREE HUNGRY FRENCHMEN JUBnANT-
The operate skirmishes-the quarrels between
managers here and directors abroad-the jea-
ousies and heartburnings Of artists-the ndif-
ferent result of provincial operations, generally,
fill the souls of the three hungry Frenchmen
with exceeding great joy. 1t is as good to them
as dinner at Dclmonico's. are blanche, with
some one else to meet the bill. They are like the
three witches in Macbeth, who rejoiced over all
sorts of mischief, and sung songs of exultation
over other peoples troubles. To the three hun
cry Frenchmen the rows among the artists and
the singers are exceedingly refreshing, and they
are merry over them in an exceedingly French
and very amusing way. The peculiar tendency
Of the Gallo mind" pleased with rattle,
tickled with straw"-was never displayed in
more lively way than by the famished trio who
pipe their little lays in the Courier. While they
are spinning their tops the managers are not
idle; but we hear on every side Of new combina-
tons for the coming season. The indefatigable
Ullman is off to Philadelphia to arrange for the
lease of the Opera House in that rightangled
village. In Bosten he has sundry weighty
negotiations with Mr. Barry; and the little Napo-
leon hopes to control the opera houses of the
three principal American cities next season, and
to alternate grand dramatic spectacles with
the Opera in each place. Maretzek, who is
ruined for the fftietb time at least and
who would be very uncomfortable if he
should accidentally become entirely free from
all difficulties, pecuniary and otherwise, will
probably join issue with Ullman, with the idea
Of smashing all opposition. The opera mana
gers are a great deal like the politicians, and
both sometimes play for stakes which do not ex-
actly belong to them One by one the scattered
forces of the Opera are dropping into the metro
polls, and we shall soon have them singing away
at the Academy, as cheerily as if nothing had
happened The charming PiccOlomini will re-
main in the South a week or ten days longer,
and then return to renew her metropolitan
triumphs; go that whatever the managers may
do, the public will have plenty Of Opera in the
early summer. If there are rows, why, SO much
the better for the public. The managers don't
mind them the gossips like them, and the public
finds amusement in them. AS for the three hun
cry Frenchmen they are as much delighted as
q boy with bis first boots; and we cannot find
it in eur hearts to take one iota away from their
Innocent pleasures. So, let them rejoice to their
fill
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ALBANY, April l, 1859.
Mr. OWEN ep from the Finance Committee, reported
the bill authorizing loan Of 81 TO pay the float
ing debt, and 1t was ordered to a third reading
Mr.. PRossER (rep) reported favorably the Assembly
bill to provide for the payment interest on tho Canal
Commissioners drafts.
On motion Of Mr. sr1SoIA (dem), the bill was laid
the table and ordered to be printed -
large number Of Assembly bills reported from
the committees
The Central Park Enlargement bill was passed.
The bill to incorporate the New York Bay Steamboat
Company was lost and motion to reconsider laid tho
table.
The bill to protect the liberty Of witnesses was then
taken up and debated.
The bills amending the license law the special
der, but were postponed till Wednesday evening.
The following bills were ordered TO a third readng-
Relative TO the Protestant Episcopal public school, New
York.
To provide payment for the work done and material
furnished on certain part Of the Erie Canal enlarge
mcnt
The bill to close the canal locks Sunday coming up
long skirmish took place upon IT,
Mr. SPINoLA (dem. endeavored to fight of the fusL
vote upon it, and numerous motions made amend
TO postpone the VOTE and 70 lay the bill the table, all
Of which were voted down by decisive majorities.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

BROADWAY THE ATRE, acknowledgements,
AND 'Ltn ArRi. Eyening-ANroHr AND CLHoPArRA-foR
luNEs FkoLIc
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NIBsyO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-An Afternoon and Evening
ClRous PKRFoRxA EDUCATED MuLEs-rRANED HORSES
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BowERY THEATRE bowery.-MIILxR OF new JERsRY
-ScEooLH AsTER-JACoUEs STRoP.
, 1859-10-18
WISELY DONE.

Te learn from New York that tie parties
holding tho recent issue Of State bonds
which were received from the State Agent in
exchange for those known as the AcA1lister
and Stabbins bonds, have surrendered the
same without cost to the State, receiving in re-
1,,rn the original bonds Those gentlemen
have acted wisely. It may be that they will
now get what the Legislature lad agreed to pay
them. If they had persisted in not making
the surrender, they would never hive
cot cent This fact IS We have
reason to know, was pressed warmly
upon them by the present State officers
Never compromised to the amount Of dollar
by this transaction, the State is now put in n
position by the return Of these bonds in wllcl,
she may, honorably to herself carry out her
promise to pay so much Of the McAllisteT md
stebb;us claim as is just The Democratic or.
eans aud spouters who havo bawlcd them
selves 1oa.se oyer the matter, havo made moth
ipR Of it. The thing is playsd out
, 1859-10-18

G3kAAs
The telegraph advises US Of tile death Of
John Calhoun. Of Kansas, President Ct tile
famous Lecompton Constitutional Convention.
Ar. Calhoun was formerly citizen Of SPRING
field, III. Hc wns appointed Surveyor Gener-
al Of Kansas and Nebraska by President
Pierce, through the agency Of Mr.. Douglas, Of
whom he was III ardent personal and political
friend. His career in Kansas is too we'll
known to need 10 be repeated here. His
friends, however, always have, and proba-
bly, always will, believe that his
course in the Iccompton Convention, and his
subsequent agency in the fraudulent eIorts to
fasten that Constitution upon an unwilling pco-
pie, wero tie result Of his friendly relations
with Mr. Douglas, and had, up to certain Pc
riod, that gcntlcmau's warm approval It will
be remembered that Mr.. Douglas' home organ,
the Times, originally opposed the submission
Of the Lecompton Constitution, claiming that
the people Of Kansas lad no more right to
vote upon it than the inhabitants Of the Fejee
Islands. This was undoubtedly the position Of
Douglas until frightened into another By the
popular Gro1rd swell If indignation through
out the North, whoa he deserted the man Who
llud sacrificed everything for him, rutlllessly
loaving lin to lis fate. Had Mr.. Calhoun
been less tho friend Of Douglas and free from
an indulgence too common among politicians,
lis carer would have becn widely different,
and Lis fano would l,avo boon as cnyiablc as
it is now ipgl0rious.
, 1859-10-18

POARDING-At No. ~ South
- Franklin STREET between Lake and Rudolph *reeta
= nr1 f1nu1s furutshk1. IT,
, 1859-10-18

4 few recent fsilures-two or three ol pr"
yate bankers, one OF "eli'known commercial
house OF longs'a'drg' aud another ol a real
cs'a'e operato'-''a'e csea'eo III unnecessary
hut1cF On the s1Fee'' anu nave given 1.se ~
nnpAeasant ausus'es 4o' 'A'o eo'''ne "1A.''
months. We nave o'en ~ some ls''''s ~ '"-
Qu,ro into Tie circumstances atteno'ns ''e
m'shaps III ques''on ""o We u''o no'''a'e'
except tie 1acs 'aas uey ha'o con'c
a'ong 20 Close soge'he'' TO c'e'''e "'s
nlaTm- 1t Is true that OWING 70 Inc e1t'aof'
dlnary demand tor money iof moving llc crop
"A demand ''lat was never 50 hecn'' 'e,l w.
fore-bank facilities arc connnea mummy ~
tue leading INTERESTS ahd tfat oo1s'uefs
who have depended upon accommodations ~
carry them through narrow straits arc o'sal'-
pointed where they hoped to borrow. bu' th's
will be of Temporary duration We are nearly nj
the close Of navigation; and MS soon as the
canal and rivers close, or as soon as tue f1se
Of lake fteights knocks down prices, tho de-
mana for currency ieF operations IN gram WILL
cease, aud there will be let up in the present