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Theatrical and Other An,usements.

BROADWAY TBKAnR.--' Katherine and Pctruchjo', and
lazcppa announced for the afternoon and the laev
and two other good pieces for the night.
Nrlos GARpEy.--Nixon Co.'S equestrian trouoe an
pears 10 have most arceaby surprised the somcwt fas
tidious frcquenters Of this house.
BowERy THEATRE Misses western are Ia aclneaA.
characters in the play Of the Wandering Bogg.n bur
lesquc opera Of Jenny Lind" and drama CALI Yankss
Jack
standing announcements.
LAURA KEKSRsThcre is to be graid fen, de joi, hero
In honor II the comedy q Our Ame<Icnn Tonsn The
aha'r VIII close with grand pictorial display.
CoLoEED 0rKnA The managers of The excellent Ehso-
plan bands Mt the Museum, Woo e Bryans, and Sn,n
bills for TO day,
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COLOSSAL STuPIDlTY.-The New Jersey Legis-
lature has again formally declined to ne
gotiate with the authorities of New York
for the purchase Of Sandy Hook, which
is the most available site for Quarantine
station in our harbor. The argument used by
some of the sapient legislators of New jersey
is, that we desire to rid ourselves of nuisance
by fastening it on them This is utterly absurd
Sandy Hook is desert which can never be popu-
lated, and the people of New Jersey are as deep
ly concerned in the location of the Quarantine
in such spot as we are. Their shores arc
washed by our bay, and their commercial int
rests are intcrmingled with ours. And yet, one
might think from their legislative action that We
were five hundred miles away from them. The
stupidity of the rural legislators of our sister
State passes comprehension.
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Before Joseph Brigham, Esq.
FEB. 4.-7he United States Cdrmina Bidrgi.-Oniccr
Dilks identified the nine half eagles ($45 which he 70
ceived from Mrs. Reilly
Mr. Brdsall, OF tho Assay Office was called as an en-
pert and pronounced the pieces imperfect that Tho
coins had been sawed through the edges and that base
metal had been introduced and that the edges had been
re milcd TO up the defect
Officer Dlks was recalled, and detailed the circum-
stances Of his following the prisoner aod watching her
from store TO store he arrested her, and found her
person s47 in good money he searched her house. bus
found no bad money nor implements for countcreitine
coin.
Mrs. Hewitt, the bakers wife, was called and our-
roborated the testimony OF Katherine Cheney and de
tiled the five dollar coin which she had changed for hcP
two months ago.
Adjourned 10 ten O'clock ON Saturday
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These moneys are 10 be pald Tor WORK TO be done
after the first Of March next, TO secure seven feet
channel.
Details of late and interesting news from Mexico,
received by the steamship Tennessee, a brief tee-
graphic summary of which has already appeared,
is published elsewhere in columns.
BY the arrival of the steamship Cahawba at this
port last evening, we have advices from Havana to
the goth ult II is reported that strong specula-
tive feeling had pervaded the sugar market, while
freights were dull, with large amount of tonnage
in port. Exchange was declining. The general
news is unimportant The brig Nancy had been
formally surrendered to her captain The new
Captain General was expected TO arrive about the
I'd inst.
Intelligence respecting the revolutionary move.
ment in Hayti is published in to-days HERALD.
The latest dates from the principal Haytien ports
are:-Port au Prince 9th, Gonaives 18th, Cape Hay
ten l4th, and Jeremie and Aux Cages 10th ult.
Several of the interior cities have also been heard
from, and the accounts from all points concur in
representing the republican as in the ascen-
dant Soulouque, however was still master of the
capital, with well appointed army at his command
His eventual overthrow and the establishment of
republican form of government, however, were
regarded as beyond doubt.
Accounts from Great Salt Lake City to the 18th
ult. have been received. The District Court had
adjourned but the is not stated, and there il
allusion to the reported difficulty between the
Mormons and Gentes with reference TO cases be.
fore the court. The Legislature had done nothing
of importance.
The steamer Vanderbilt, formerly Of the Stoning
ton line ashore AT Fishers Island was on Thursday
moved seventy feet from her rocky bed, and ere
this, is aaoat The probability is that she can never
be made serviceabe.
The Wing General Committee met last night
But few persons were present. A resolution was
passed declaring that inexpedient further To
agitaic the slavery question. committee of five
were appointed to correspond with distinguished
members Of the late wing party, and ascertain their
views upon our foreign relations, the ACQUISITION of
Cuba, he currency, tariff, internal improvements.
trans ontinental railroad, &c.
In the report of Lieutenant Mowry's address be.
fore the Geographical Society on Thursday evening
he was made to say that Tucson was the princn,l
town Of Arizona, and contained but two hundred
Inhabitants. His remark was:-"Tucson, at the
fine Of the Gadsden Purchase had only two hun.
cred inhabitants. When Arizona was a aour.
i-hng Spanish province Il had population Of three
thousand. II now has about one thousand Mesia.
l The head Of the valley Of the same name Is much
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York Observation-Disclosures Edition.

New York observation-disclosures Edition.
The Quilted States mail steamship Illinois, Captain loon
tloGowan, will leave this port this afternoon, at two
o'clock, for Aspnwan.
The mails for California and other parts o. the Pacific
will close at one O'Clock this afternoon.
The Ngw YORK wxEAN HEUAIp-Californa edition
containing the latest intelligence from ali parts o! the
world will be Published al ten O'Clock in the morning
Single copies wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents.
Agents Sl please send in their orders early pos
sible
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gerry, experimenting on The n, man form with a.
much sang foid as if /. were lack Of wood.
When both of these doctcrs get hold OF the
same patient, the result is certain death
Then we have the Academy I'eoate, which
lasts three hours on one occa.N on, and
four on another. 1t results in nothing but
personal squabbles and selfcontradictons AT
one time surgeon gives it his opinion that the
patient died from complication of diseases, ut
another that his death resulted from mal-prac-
tice-fnally, after blackcning the dead mans
character, the Academy proceeds to whiten it,
own by adopting resolution declaring that
there was no NAL treatment by anybody. They
should have added that medical men were IL
ways right, and that obstinate patients died out
of sheer malice.
We say again, in full view of the facts, that
the profession has injured itself with the public,
and lost much of that blind confidence which il
one of the real causes of the fact. While every
thing else progresses, medical science is almost
at stand still. And we believe that when the
public finds out that one half of the doctors are
humbugs, and that nearly all the others are cut
ting away in the dark-when the profession Ia
shorn OF its pretence and brought down to its
real merits-it will be better for the public health
We have used strong language, but not strong
er than the subject demands The medical pro-
fession stands today, self convicted and
stupendous humbug.
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WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS.-We perceive that
one of the hungry Washington journals has set
up howl Of lamentation because it does not re-
ceive what it calls its share Of the public plum
der. The proprietors of the journal aforesaid
have the sublime audacity to send petition to
Congress, asking for little pap to keep the
wolf from the door, Well, when dogs are hun
CRY they will whine and bark until they arc fed,
and Congress may throw these hungry fellows
bone or two to keep them quiet Their action,
however, affords an ample endorsement of the
ground we have always taken with regard to the
Washington press. The fact il, that, for all
newspaper purposes, except reporting the de-
bates, Washington is nothing more than third
rate interior town-the reading public of which,
receiving the New York papers on the day they
are printed, naturally depend upon them for in
formation, not only upon general matters, but
concerning events in their own CITY. One or
two newspapers would be quite enough for Wash
ington, but now there are no less than five. all
quarrelling with each other for the crumbs that
fall from the federal table. None Of them can
live without eleemosynary aid from the govern
ment To be sure there is pretence of doing
some. work for it, but the devices to
avoid actual plumber are too fimsy
to deceive child. These papers are at the head
of all the political jobbing and corruption that
disgrace our government. They engineer the
enormous printing job, and receive among them
not less than million dollars year. They ad-
here 10 the treasury with the tenacity of lceches
upon relations One Washington journal has
been supported by the government for half
century, and the money fobbcd with the same
grand air that Mr.. Dorrit Senior, assumed when
receiving shillings in the Marshalsea. This vete-
nan sucker could net be shaken of, though seve-
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The News.

Yesterday being private bill day in Congress, but
little business of general interest transacted.
Among the private bills passed by the Senate was
one appropriaing 100000 for the relief OF Captain
Reid and the crew of the privateer brig General
Armstrong. The House Homestead bill was re-
ported by the Committee on Public Lanls without
amendment, and Mr.. Johnson gave notice that she
should call up the Senate bill on the same subject
at the earliest opportunity. A resolution
adopted calling on the Secretary of War to COM
municate any report which may have recently been
made on the defences of New York harbor by the
engineers having charge of the works. bill Or
ganizing Dacotah and Arizona Territories was re-
ported. In the House report declaring Bird B.
Chapman entitled to represent the Territory of Ne
braska, instead of Mr.. Ferguson, the sitting mem.
Der, was presented by the Committee on Elections.
A bill establishing national foundry at Alton,
Illinois, was introduced and referred.
The most importaet subject before the Legisla-
ture yesterday was the Introduction into the As
sembly of a couple of bills from the Canal Commit
tee. One provides for levying tax of ive-eighths
of mill upon each dollar of taxable property in
the State for the next fiscal year, the same to be
applied to the improvement of the State canals.
The sum realized by this tax will amount to ss75-
600. The Commissioners of the Canal Fund are au-
thorzed and required if necessary, to invest, from
time to time, any surplus of the moneys of the Ca
nal Debt Sinking Fund, not less in all than the
sum of $500 900, in the tax to be levied under the
first section Of the act-the moneys thus invested to
be applied to meet the appropriations made; and
the moneys arising from the tax shall, when paid
into the treasury, be applied, in the first instance.
to reimburse the Sinking Fund, with interest at
No x IL.
proceeds of the tax TO the enlargement Of the Erie
Oswego and Cayuga and Senaca canals, and to the
completion of the Black River canal. The amount
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

BROADWAY THEATRE srosdwav.- Afternoon SKArnE
pisy ANE PkrRucHIo-MAzErPA. Eyenins-KoaY o MORE
NAzEPrA-DEEps DREADFUL NorE.
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MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC.

Now York, Saturday. February s, 1850.
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sARNUMs AMERICAN MUSEUM. Brosawsy- tel
oon ard Kvening-NEGao ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS So,
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RRvANTS MlHSTRFlS, sEUHANlCs IT AL AZ Bron
way--NEGRo sosss AND BuRIxs auEs-TaE vETsRAS.
sNIrFEy'S CAMPBELL A4NSrSEIS, As Bsoeawsy--
HrIculrs, BusIxsoUEs. &c.-DouBLr bspDEp Rnos
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LAURA EEEsEs TEEATRE, No ssA Dad say %
AusRyoAs COUSIN GRAsp DISPLAY OF FIRE WORKS.
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NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY FEBRUARY S, 1859.

raj attempts to do it were made tbs
Washington journals are at the bottom of all the
jobbing at the capital; and it is they who have
nuIsed the fostering sore that is eating into the
vitals of the country. And still their cry is,
"Give give! give!' The last Oliver, sneaking
up to Congress with his pap bowl and spoon,
would only he subject of ridicule were not the
fact too serious for tri1ing.
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He hoped the Court would not take bail I'M
I'll counsel produced the certificate ofthe attending
hysician. He considered the assault outrageous
and unprovoked; il was of a deviish character; it
seemed to have been committed NEARLY for the
pleasure of seeing blood flow, and every crcum-
stance pointed to them as having done the deed.
When the certificate is produced and the bail is
fix, d, he hoped the court would take no one Sc
curity but most responsible parties.
a. Mr.. Alexander, remarked he did not know any
thing about the character of the assault: but he
differed with the State Ill regard to the evidence
against these men; there was nothing in it, which,
if the was tried before jury, but what would
acauit them. He wanted the Court to fix the bail
in the case, in such an amount would come with
in he means of the friends of the parties.
The Court said it could entertain such motion
as that. The amount of bail was not to be regu-
lated by the means of parties committing offence,
but by the atrocity of the crime. If that practice
would hold good, man worth fifty cents might
commit murder, and then ask the Court to bail him
for fifty cents which was the extent of his means.
The Court, not knowing the condition of the man,
| could not fix the bail 1t has always been the prac-
tice to produce the physicians certificate, and it
must be done in this case. ....t -
| Mr.. Alexander said the certificate could be pro-
cared. He wanted to know if the Court would not
name the amount of bail now. ~.
Judge Stump.-"W the use of fixing the
4 bail, don't know the condition of the man"
| MIR. Alexander.-.'F your Honor would fix the
bail the certificate could be procured and the bail
taken, during the recess of the Court"
Mr. Pinkney.-"oh no, hope not, the bail must
be taken in open Court .... ..
''Judge Stump.-"Certainly.
"Mr. Alexapder.-'Will you name the amount?'
Judge Stump.-"Whats the use now? Sharply J
Wei I'll say ten thousand do,lars will that do p
Mr.. Alexander.-"No, sir; we can't procure it. "
Mr.. Pinkney.-"Wel gentlemen, come next Sat
urday." st .... ...
A jury, at the request of VIM Meade Addison
Esq, had been summoned to try the lunacy OF
| Barbara Miller; but when Mr.. Addison appeared
Judge Stump refused to hear the case. He would
have jury trials on Saturday; it was departing
from his practice. and, moreover, he should have
been consulted before the jury brought to
gether. ... -. ID. .r.-4-..
The Court then adjourned until Saturday next al
IL o'clock. ..-.- ,.... : 5.......'- ..
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La w INTELLIGENCE.

CRIMINAL CoURr.-Hon. Henry Stump, Judge
Frederick Pinckney, Esq. Deputy States Attorney,
prosecuting. The following occupied Saturday:
State as Thomas Hopkins and Nary, his wife.
charged with assaulting and resisting Police Officer
Bosman,-Guilty. Imprisoned ten days and fined
so cents and costs Total, SLIGO .a 81. -.aaf q
State rs Sarah Jane Milligan, (negress) charged
with beating Frederick NJ Beekwith, little boy
about wears of age. The evidence for the State
proved that the child was left in the charge of the
negress its during the absence OF its parents,
and that it beaten in an outrageous manner,
the blows being heard by the neighbors in the adj
Joining houses. Declared guilty. The Court re-
marked before passing sentence that it would adj
wise mothers not to leave their children in charge
of servants who they pick up about the streets and
who they know nothing about. The Court thought
mothers should pay more attention to their Children
and not 90 qaddinq abont the streets. The Court
then sentenced the girl to be confined 30 DAYS in
Jail and pay fine of so cents and costs. Total Sl333
State u.s. Caleb Coburn. charged with assauting
police officer Knox Caleb (who is about six feet
four, was lying drunk on the side walk, and when
the officer wanted to take him away, he drew a
jack knife and said if the officer did not clear him
self, he would soon fix him. l.15si. d
The Court asked Caleb, if he had any family, he
answered he had mother and sister,. n ~
Judge Stump.-"Have you got any witnesses"
prisoner;-"l don't know anything about 1t, sir
was drunk"
Judge Stump.-"Caeb the court thinks yuu be-
hayed very badly; this officer wanted to take you
somewhere, so you could get sober and then you
threaten to kill him. The court will put YOU in
jail ten days and fine you fifty cents Never again
put an enemy IN your mouth to steal away your
and cool off," N- ss' 'oDe-
Messrs. Alexander and Leakin here made a mo.
ton to the court to nix the balm the case of Edward
Miller, John Clapp and Roberu alias Fletcher Hpll
charged with shooting john Slime. =,
Mr.. Pnkney stated to the Court that the condition
of the man was NOT now known, he had heard that
perhaps It would be necessary to amputate the leg.
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We are happy to have it in our power to lay
before readers, in this days issue, an accurate
stenographc report of the speech of the Hon.
REvERDY JOHNSON, to the jury, in the of H. R.
j. REYNOLDS as. THE MAYOR and City Council of
Baltimore, lately tried in the Superior Court, and
which resulted in verdict of S35, 1883 against
the city The general interest which was felt
in the questions involved, growing out of the
construction of the new Jail, and alleged breach
of contract on the part of the city-and which was
abundantly manifested during the trial of the
cause, is our Justification if any be required, for the
space we have given to the speech in our columns
Without generating Mr. JoHNsoN's clients from
their share of blame in the transaction, the dis
graceful details of which have been heretofore ex-
posed and discussed in these columns we cannot but
call public attention to the scathing review, which
the great advocate gives, of the conduct of the
MAYOR in the matter, as being not less just than
severe. But for the most culpable neglect of duty
on the part of Mr.. SWAMI, this city, certainly, need
never have been involved in one-half of the expen-
diture likely TO be incurred in the construction of
the jail We would not begrudge one dollar of the
sum really required to build Jail such as should
answer every just expectation of the community
and requirement of public justice. But when the
peoples money has been SPENT VIGOROUSLY with
ont authority of law, and in open violation of an
express contract solemnly entered into and as for
mally departed from, we are not sorry to see
chastisement, even though it come but in the
shape of lick from the rough side of a lawyer 5
tongue, oyertaking one of the official personages
through whose fault or connivance the breach was
suffered and the loss sustained
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The news by telegraph in to-day's EXCHANGE
will satisfy all, that NAPOLEON Ill is pre-emlnen'-
" n man of action In about two months he has
organized and marched army of two hundred
thousand men into Italy-gained several brilliant
victories over an enemy superior in numbers-of-
fered an armistice-nade peace-won the prov
ince of Lombardy, and made present OF 1t to his
oily, cnd friend VICTOR EMANUEL In addition to
all this, he is said to have gotten up some sort Oh
an Italian Confederation with the Pope as Pre-
sident. The meagre details brought by the steam
err do not afford sufficient ground for the expires
sion of an opinion as to the nature OF the latter
arrangement, or the probability of the peace thus
hastily concluded proving final settlement OF the
questions which gave rise to the war.
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At length the supremacy Of Law is about to be
restored in our midst. Already check has been
given to the increase of crime and lawessness in
this city. In the arrest Of JAMES OWENS reported
elsewhere charged with "playng the banjo in
" the street on Sunday" and the incarceration of
the criminal in the city Jail, in default of payment
ofthe fine imposed by Justice SHowACRE, we have
positive and gratifying evidence of the determine
ton of the authorities to enforce the laws at every
hazZrd. If in view of the almost daily and
nightly assaults which are committed upon peace
able citizens and of which, except in rare and occa
siona instances, notice is taken, and for which
certainly, no adequate punishment is ordinarily
inflicted, the sentence passed upon JAMES OWENS
should appear, at first blush unnecessarily severe
it should be remembered how long a time has
elapsed in this community since any violation of
law has met with its appropriate reward. Through
the reluctance of the police to arrest and the in
disposition of the States Attorney to prosecute, and
Of the Criminal Court to punish, numerous crimes
and misdemeanors have utterly failed to encounter
the ceusure of the authorities and numerous crimi-
of violence without hindrancc Or restraint. 1t is
not without reason, therefore, that in beginning
the good work of reform, which they have so re-
Gently undertaken, the police have commenced
with that class of offences and offenders which is
least likely to give them serious trouble
in the discharge of their duty. Following
as it does close upon the arrest of CHARLES MCDoN-
AID, charged with cutting feed for cows on Sunday
evening, Imprisonment of JAMES OWENS for play
ing the banjo, cannot but be accepted as an earn
est the intention of the authorities to punish with all
of the pains and penalties of the law the Dissertation
OF the Sabbath The punishment of burglary,
highway robbery, riot and murder will doubtless
come in good season. This is the beginning of
better things and like most beginnings is small
but not, therefore, to be despised After the arrest
and Imprisonment of this musical Sabbath-breaker
we may now expect any day to hear that some of
the more notorious ruffians and outlaws who nfest
our city have met with similar fate There does
not appear TO have been the slightest hesitation on
the part of the police in making the arrest nor does
the magistrate appear to have filtered in the least
in the discharge of his painful but necessary duty
No resistance is reported to have been made by the
prisoner, nor was there any attempt at rescue on
the part of his friends, did the inevitable HINES
LEY intervene, usual, with proffer of bail The
case seems to have been disposed Of with commen-
dable tirmness and despatch, and may reasonably
be regarded as an indication of an early and de-
cided improvement in the condition of our city-at
least so far as the practice of playing the banjo on
Sunday is concerned.
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race, strugg with circumstances fight against adj
verse fortune, which may every now and then await
hin.' But he who enters into the race with that
doeged perseverance which is the peculiar charac-
eriste of the English nation is sure .tn bring out
successfully those talents with which nature may
have endowed him, and whatever the amount Of
his ability, will always be sure to- improve that
ability and apply it successfully circumstances
will allow him