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MORTGAGE DEEDS'-Just printed
I'VE al this Office, Mortgage Deeds suitable for
Attorneys TO attach to foreclosures; also, large
Quantity of the same OF the common size
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WANTED, Sheep Pelts. Grain, Butetr, Rags
w and Cheese, for which we will pay the
highest market price.
Nov. IL WILKINS e. KELLEY.
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i to suit
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A LARGE Assortment of TRUNKS, VAL
"A ISES and FANCY HAT and BONNET
BOXES. on hand by -
Nov. i2. WILKINS e. KELLEY
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

TAXATION IN TMIS CirY.--lt Is no new thing
for our readers to learn that the taxes in this
city and county have been growing to vast
proportions year after year, until at length they
have become an enormous burden upon pro-
perry owners. II the increased rate of taxa
ticn could be accepted AS an indication Of the
progress OF the city commercially, there might
be some consolation in knowing that taxable
property had grown so largely il value; but as
it happens that the aggregate Of taxation has
increased in a larger ratio than the property
itself, ii only shows that the city is cruelty mis-
governed, and the taxes squandered by plum
derirs politicians Ten years ago. in ls49, the
taxes were only three millions, while the pro
perty was valued at two hundred and fifty six
millions; this year the taxes amount to nine
millions eight hundred and sixty thousand,
while property is valued at five hundred and
fifty millions. That is to say, tho value Of pro-
perry has not quite doubled in that lime, bit Tie
taSes hare been more than trs1led in amount
The following tabular statement exhibits the
amount of property valued for taxation, the
total annual taxes, and the average rate, with
out fractions, on every hundred dollars, for the
last nineteen years.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07
ArSaEsT SHOWING THE RATES. ETC.. OF TAKES.

This is an interesting table in many respects,
not alone as an exhibit Of the wonderful growth
of property in the city of New York, but as
something for the taxpayers to ponder over
1t would be curious to know the rates of in
crease in the value of property and taxation in
other large cities; and as the Comptroller is on
deavOring to collect such statistical statements
for the purpose of enlightening the public on
this subject in his next annual report, we hope
the authorities of the financial departments OF
other cities throughout the country will furnish
him with such facts as may be useful for that
purpose; and while they are preparing these
important facts for him, let them do us favor
by sending duplicate copy of the same to the
HERALD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

THE CASES OF STEPHENS, SHEPHERD AND
OTHER CONDEMNED CRrxrNars-The dilatori-
ness of the law, in this country particularly,
is proverbial. 1t has been exemplifed very
fully by our court of last resort in the
cases of Stephens, Shepherd, Mrs. Hartung,
and others. 1t will be recollected that after
very considerable delay the two first named
were sentenced in this city to the death penalty
early in June last--Stephens for the murder of
his wife by poison, and Shepherd for setting
fire to his own dwelling house, his wife perish
ing in the flames. Mrs. Hartung was convicted
in Albany last winter for the murder of her
husband by poisoning him with doses Of phos-
phorus The three cases were taken before the
Court Of Appeals on application for new trials.
Arguments were had in June or July, and
since then that Court has been sleeping over
the matter. They have at length awakened
and have announced their decision that the
sentence of Stephens is to be carried into exc
cntion, but that Shepherd is to have new
trial, because the fact of the burned house
having been his own property is supposed to
have bearing on the law Of arson. AS to
Mrs. Hartung's case, the Conrt has not made
up its mind yet In the cases Of Feliz Sanchez
and Quimbo Apo, stays Of execution have
been also granted, and their fate is still in the
balance.
Criminals have by far too many chances to
escape in the loose manner of conducting bust
ness in our inferior criminal courts, where in
nine cases out Of ten they succeed in eluding
justice; but certainly there is no excuse
for unnecessary delay on the part of the
Supreme Court or on the part of the
Court of Appeals. The questions in these
three cases were simple, and might
have been decided within an hour after
argument; but yet the Court Of Appeals took
some three months to sleep over them. If the
whole system of criminal Jurisprudence is moi
to be abandoned as utterly worthless it will
be absolutely necessary to have the practice OF
our courts altered, so as to admit Of the punish
ment of criminal within some reasonable
period Of time.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

regards operas and charges Of admission, for the
season at ,he Taccn.
The recent election in Georgia has resulted in
the reelection of Gov. Brown by fully fifteen thou
| ,and majority. The delegation to Congress will
! sumo ar brfore-all democrats except the repre-
sentstves from the Third and Seventh districts.
Partial returns Of the election in Mississippi ind
cate increased wajoIities for the democratic cand
dates.
At the meeting Of the Board of Aldermen yestcr
day communication was received from the Mayor
urging the necessity Of completing the Battery en-
largement, and the erection Of suitable sea wall
10 prevent the obstruction Of navigation by the
washing Of earth from the Battery into the channel
Of the river at Governors Island. The Mayor also
sent in veto the resolution authorizing tie City
Inspector TO advertise for bids for removing butch
ers' ofial &C., to Barren Island for period OF five
years. He objects to the naming q special locali-
~, and suggests an amendment accordingly.
We have received Mr.. La Mountains account Of
his recent perilous aerial voyage and suferings in
the great Canada wilderness; but US all the main
facts Of the narrative were mentioned by Mr.. Had
dock in his account, which We published yesterday.
and as our columns occupied with other inte-
resting matter, We are compelled to hold it over.
There was spirited meeting Of the New York
Sanitary Association last evening at the Cooper
Institute. resolution calling upon the Legisla-
ture to adopt stringent sanitary laws was discussed
by DR.. Griscom, DR.. Francis, Rev. DR.. Bellows, Rev
DIR. Hsgue and others. A large number of physir
clans and some twenty clergymen attended the
meeting. snd the public may reasonably expect.
when the doctors of physic and theology pull
together in q cause, that something will be accom-.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

CURIOUS INNOVATIONS IN NOMENCLATURE
A curious indication Of the effect of our mo-
dern boarding school education, AMI the inaoya-
tons in nomenclature 1t has intro duccd among
our young ladies, struck us in hooking over the
marriages and deaths in u single newspaper
yesterday, Among the young women who
were married, snch names occurred as Hattie,
Sallie Fannie, Lizzie, Carrie and Lettic and 80
forth while among the old women who died
were mostly the good old Puritan names, De-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

FASHIONABLE WINTER AMusEMENrs.-A sharp
morning in the middle Of Indian summer gives
us gentle warning that winter is not far off.
The Broadway shopkeepers and the caterers
for the amusement of the fashionable world are
quite alive to the entertaining fact, and the
former are doing o fine business in advance Of
the season of balls, parties, operas, theatricals,
public and private tableous viudnt, &C., to say
nothing of weddings, which have lately come
to be considered in the light of public enter
tainments on large scale.
The fashionable world here and elsewhere
enters into the Opera with special zsst. Tn
fact it is the fashionable amusement of the day.
The theatre, if well conducted, as those of the
metropolis generally are, is an occasional re-
sort; but the Opera is regular engagement
for 80 many nights in the week. Here is sort
Of fashionable exchange, where the Elite Of the
city meet on common ground, enjoying most
agreeable and refined entertainment, paying
and receiving visits, the ladies displaying their
clothes, and the gentlemen airing their stocks
Of compliments. Then, in addition to this
select audience, the taste for the Italian Opera
has become so far extended among the general
public, since the building of the Academy,
that the audience is as popular as tits fashiona-
ble--that is, when the manager presents any
thing new or exciting to draw the outside
public.
We have already had preliminary Opera
season, which presented no special features Of
interest The artists have now gone to Boston,
where on tla they are creating a great .farore
among the solemn denizens Of the Puritan me
tropolis. Evidently the ghost of Cotton Mather
is laid at last.
After this foray upon State street bank notes
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

THE New CoNGREss-THE SPoILs OF THE
HOUSE ORGANrzArIoN.-The scramble for the
fat Offices of the House organization has ac-
lively commenced Various candidates are
already named for Speaker, but the two most
prominent appear to be Galusha A. Grow,
Of Pennsylvania, republican, and Emerson
Etheridge, of Tennessee, who is put forward
as the most available man for an opposition
coalition. His principal capital is the resolu-
ton which he introduced into former Con
gress denouncing, in good round terms, the
Southern agitation for the revival Of the Afri-
can slave trade. But as the real basis of any
coalition for the control of the House will be
the division of the spoils, we cannot calculate
upon the Speaker without including the Clerk
and the Printer in the arrangement
In this view, it appears that the Chevalier
Forney has resolved to abandon Mr. Douglas,
and put in zealously for fusion of the anti
Lecompton democrats with the republicans,
upon the basis Of Forney as the coalition can
didate for Clerk. With an arrangement Of this
sort, the Southern opposition faction could be
dispensed with; and under this idea, we are
informed, Wendell is "bobbing around" here,
there, and everywhere, taking soundings as the
great lobby man for House Printer. He bought
up the two little democratic lobby men, Stead
man and Banks, who secured the printing Of
the last House; but as he had to pay them each
some $4,000 for their lobby title, they really
sold him in the transaction, and left him the
bag to hold. Now, by repeating his clever
game, under which Mr. Banks was elected
Speaker for the Congress Immediately proceed
| ing the last, Master Wendell doubtless expects
| to make up his late losses
But he will have hungry legion of compet
tors to contend with, including all the lobby
gangs Of the starving journals at Washington,
aad. perhaps, Thurlow Weed, the Chevalier
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

THE ALBANY REGENCY DELEGATION TO
CHARIEsToN.-It is insisted upon in some
quarters of the democratic camp that the
Albany Regency delegation to the Charleston
Convention will turn up in that body unit
for Mr.. Douglas. Mr.. Dickinson has been
fattered with the idea that respectable
minority of this delegation are his men; but
as the Regency have taken care to provide in
advance that the majority shall control the
entire vote of the State, it will be seen that
Mr.. Dickinson's respectable minority amounts
to nothing. The Regency, however, will be
confronted with contesting delegation, and as
in 1s48, and as in 1856, the Convention will
be compelled to respect its claims. 1T must be
admitted that Dean Richmond and his shadows,
with the full control of the thirty five votes of
New York, would probably hold the balance Of
power in the matter Of the nomination for Pre-
sident, and be able also to command the nomi-
nation of Horatio Seymour for Vice-President;
but Master Richmond is somewhat too greedy.
He is asking too much, and he will discover
his mistake when they come to count out his
chickens at Charleston. First Of all, however,
the anti Regency democracy of the State will
work faithfully to give Seward his death blow
in our November election; but after that they
will proceed to settle their accounts with the
firm at the Albany Curiosity Shop and their
strikers at Syracuse. And the case will be car
ried down to Charleston.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

Wars AND RUMoRs OF WARs-It seems be-
yond peradventure that there is to be war be.
tween China, France and England Governor
Douglass and General Harvey have done their
best to get up row between the United States
and Great Britain upon the San Juan Island
question there are several wars going on in
Mexico, trouble in Venezuela, the Argentine
Confederation and Costa RIGA, and various other
difficulties of greater or less importance in va
rious parts of the world but they all pale
their Intellectual fires before the threatened war
between this State and New Jersey, better
known as the kingdom of Camden and Amboy.
1t seems that the Jerseymen complain of de-
posts Of refuse matter which are emptied into
the harbor, and which collect upon an island
claimed by them and covered with water thigh
fde. The Governor Of New Jersey has issued
his solemn proclamation warning the State Of
New York ON its peril to refrain from offending
the olfastories of the State of New Jersey in
this manner any more. The Chamber OF Com
merce have had the matter under consideration
and it was announced at meeting Of the Cham.
Der yesterday that the island in question be
longs to New York instead of New Jersey, q,
the latter claims. Here is double difficulty
the boundary question being added to the nui
sance matter. We advise the 6libusters to stay
here if they want to bluster little. We looi
for some sharp correspondence on this unsavo
ry subject, but firmly believe that New Jerse!
will be magnanimous, and New York generous
that no blood will be spilled, and that the Unioi
Is safe for few years longer.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

Bowman and Brown, are out of the question; and
we are not very sanguine concerning poor
Forney.
THE BIBLE IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS
ACTION OF THE BOARD or EDUoArroN.---
The operation of the by law of tho Board of
Education, ordering the Bible to be read in all
the common schools Of tho city, will be tested
to-day when the Board meet to sign the pay
rolls for the month Of September. This is pay.
day, and rs in three Of the wards the order has
not been complied with, it remains 10 be seen
what action the Board will take in the pre-.
misses.
The bylaw in question runs -" All the pub
ic schools Of this city under the jurisdiction Of
The Board OF Education shall be opened by the
reading Of portion Of the Holy Scriptures,
without note or comment Another bylaw
says, 'the situation of teacher shall be for
feiied by wilful violation of any rule or regu-
lation Of this Board" and third bylaw de-
c'ares that mo payment shall be made to .
teacher in whose case the provisions Of this
bylaw have not been complied with" The
returns from the Fourth, the Sixth and the
Fourteenth wards show that the order has been
dislegardedin those wards, the teachers having
acted under the direction of the local trustees,
who appointed them and have the power to
dismiss Now, as there are some two hundred
teachers in the schools Of these three wards,
the cutting off of their salaries, besides
the forfeiture Of their situations, would
create some public indignation against
the Board, and to avoid the difficulty we under
stand they intend to dismiss the sixteen princi-
pals This, however, is equally absurd and I'M
warrantable. The order does not direct the
principals to open the schools by the reading
of the Bible, nor is there any general rule
which makes it obligatory on them to open the
schools at all. Many of the schools are opened
by the trustees, and some of them by the assist
ant teachers. The principal has no control over
the trustees, nor any over the assistant teach
eRs contrary to the express direction of the
trustees To punish the principal, therefore,
for acts over which he has no control, would be
cowardly in the extreme, and still more unjust
than the punishment of the assistant teachers.
The reading ofthe Bible in schools is not cal
culated to inspire reverence for the sacred vo-
lume. but the contrary and 1t Can serve no
good purpose. To enforce it under the color
and pretence of law is atyranny of piece with
the despotism of the Sunday statutes. But the
Board of Education have not even an unconsti-
tutional law nor the shadow Of legal authority
10 support them in their outrageous usurpa-
ton. We await their action to-day.
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we shall have The regular season at the Aoads-
my, of which some particulars are givea
in another column. 1t is refreshing to know
that there will be at least one new opera.
This season will also introduce to the public
seven new artists, including three prime donns,
all of whom are said to be young, handsome
and clever. The manager has made charge
upon the Italian theatres, and public curiosity
will be piqued until the value of his csptlwes
shall be ascertained. 1t was certainly . bold
step to take artists directly from Italy before
they had passed the ordeal of q London o.
Paris audience; but the temerity of the mans-
ger will only be further recommendation to
the attention Of our public, which Graves novel;
ty in Opera matters as well as everything else.
Without doubt the coming Opera season win
be rich in interesting artistic events, and tho
public will be on the tip-toe of excitement IN
til the new artists shall have made their several
debuts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

SELLING Our FINANCIER.-Among the recent
contributions to the ephemeral literature of the
day we have catalogues Nos. 3,517 and 3,5l8,
3517's title, in part, is Catalogue of horses,
carriages, sleighs, harness, fancy blankets,
robes furniture, &C., to be sold at auction, by
order of the President and Directors of the Full
ton Bank" No. 3,518, is pamphlet of four
teen pages, entitled Catalogue of elegant
household furniture, mirrors, bronzes, &C., to
be sold at auction by order of the President and
Directors of the Fulton Bank" Terms cash,
city funds, for both sales, the bank having lost
confidence lately, and being in hurry to
realise on all its fancy property.
We hope that no one will suppose for
moment that solid, respectable, old
fogy concern like the Fulton Bank made
these investments on its own account No,
they axe ostensiby the fruits Of the savings
Of one Of the banks clerks, who has managed,
by an arithmetical feat which beats Daboll out
Of sight, to save in five years, out of salary of
thousand dollars per annum, a sufficient
sum to buy all these fine things which have
been sold at auction for somewhere about ten
times the young gentlemans annual salary.
His other investments, one way and another,
foot up to the snug sum of seventy thou
sand dollars. The bank directors cannot
see how this grand mathematical problem
could have been worked out, and have adopt
cd very common and ordinary method of
diving the matter. They have assumed that
The bank has been robbed; they have locked
the fnancier up in the Tombs, and sold under
the hammer oil bis fast horses their hay, oats,
shorts, wagons, caleche, sleighs, harness, cloth
ing including three plaid Kerry dresses each
for Selim, Boston and Cobb" and "two white
flannel dresses, blankets and hoods, trimmed
with blue silk" probably the evening costume
of the dainty quadrupeds; likewise the muff
wberewith the fnancier's toes were kept warm,
and his fur overcoat, which latter will hereaf.
ter envelope the aristocratic person Of distin-
guished politician. Remorselessly the bank
directors caused the red flag to be displayed
from their fast clerks "other house," which
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

A FINE CHANCE FOR THE PoI.IrrcIANs.-It is
well known that the politicians, like blacklegs
and pickpockets, cake sellers and vendors
OF root beer, are always ready to take
advantage of crowd. Thus, political can
vass, militia muster, balloon ascension,
horse race, but especially an agricultural
county or State fair, is very often smbellished
with some political ratification meeting, like
that, for instance, Of the democracy the other
day at Albany, to the "masses Of the people"
attracted by our annual State fair. Now, the
Episcopal church National Convention at Rich
mond, Virginia, furnishes an opportunity for
tie politicians Of all parties and sections to do
good deal of work in a different way. Among
the lay delegates, for example, at Richmond,
there will be considerable proportion of nc
tive engineering politicians. Let ns take, by
way of illustration, Gov. Wise and Horatio Sey-
mour. They will meet in the twofold charac-
ter of religious and political brethren, barring
the difference between the Albany Regency
and the Wise and Wood faction the New York
democracy. But in spite of this disagreement,
we hold that treaty Of peace, an alliance Of
fensive and defensive, is clearly within the
reach Of two such old campaigners, religious
and political, as Wise and Seymour, over So
ciable dish of Virginia oysters. Let the Albany
Regency, therefore, look well to their anointed
candidate, or they may find him on his return
wearing the colors Of Gov. Wise.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

....rrsf,S On " mum. S,uE, :-.-u wen atvosidS !,
and appeared to give general satisfaction.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07

Webb, and host of candidates Of ne country
newspapers. The final arrangement is exceed
ingiy doubtful, as it must comprehend the
Speaker, the Clerk and the Printer, and coa-
lition competent to carry them all. We fear,
however, that Wendell, and Heiss, and
Rivcs, and the new lobby newspaper firm Of
Bowman and Brown, are out of the question; and
we are not very sanguine concerning poor
Eorney