The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-29

fAgor OF pt1priatAg $4,000 for efie ctns various
Improvements in those institutions. They also re-
ported that MEASURES should be Immediately taken
for DISCRIMINATING the rats which iufcst all the
prisons of the city The consideration OF the report
was postponed for fortnight The assistant super.
ntendent Of the erection of the new Island Hospital
was discharged. aftet long discussion. A motion
to discharge the superintendent Of the hospital work
also was tabled. The Board approved the plans of
Thos Little for enlargiag the Lunatic Asylum. The
number in the institutions at present is 1855. au
increase Of % for the week
The stone cutters. numbering hundred work
men, who were employed upon the new Roman
Catholic Cathedral to be erected on Fifth avenue
between Fifty-frst and Fifty-second streets, have
stopped work, owing to q refusal Of the contractor
to increase the rates of their pay We give else
where full account of the causes Of the strike
and all the attendant circumstances. The dsaflect
ed workmen have prepared memorial in the mat
ter for presentation to Arcnbshop Hughes
Rev. DR.. Bellows delivered lecture last evening
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, by invitation of the
Sanitary Association Of Brooklyn, ON the Genesis
of Crime being the first of a series Of twelve lee
| lures the science of society which the Doctor
designs to deliver. Right Rev. DR.. Spaiding, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Louisville, KY. delivered lee.
ture last evening, at the Cooper institute, on the
subject Of European Civilization before the Re-
formation Owing to the press Of matter upon
our columns obliged to defer the publication
Of our reports of these lectures.
The anti slavery meeting held last evening in DR..
| Durchards church was addressed by Rev DR.. Ro-
gers, of Kentucky, and Rev. G. C. Foote, of Cana.
da. Those in attendance were mostly ladies', but
the facts announced of such "thrlling interest"
were not presented.
| The United States steam sioop Brooklyn, which
arrived of Quarantine on Saturday last was order
ed to this port from Pensacola, for the purpose Of
bringing en- several witnesses in the case of Corpo-
raj Charles G. Cooper, formerly of the Brooklyn,
| who was charged with the murder of George Rit-
ter, on board the ship, just previous to her depar.
| ture from New York for the Gulf. The case had,
| however, been brought up in the Richmond Ccun-
I ty Court of Sessions on Thursday last when
| Cooper was discharged from custody, no indict-
ment having been found, and no cause shown for
further detention.
| We have news from the African coast dated at
MonOyia, Liberia, on the 4th Of January. Mr..
| Benson had entered on his duties as President of
the republic, for the third time after reelection
| The thirteenth session of the Legislature com.
menced at Monrovia on the 9th Of December. Hon,
A. W. Gardner was elected Speaker of the House,
being the fourth time he has filed that Office Pre-
sident Benson sent in his message to members. He
observes:--"Our seasons have been favorable The
soil has abundanuy rewarded the hand of
industry Commerce has manifestly increased
With few exceptions among some of the
native clans, peace predominates. Our foreign
relations may be regarded as tranquil The
agricultural interest of the republic is max
ing encouraging progress. There has been
more produced and exported by the America
Liberians during the last year, than in the entire
previous history OF Liberia, comprising period of
nearly forty years. and it is very manifest to all
who have visited the plantations this season, that
there will be large increase this year over the
last At latest date the republic was healthy.
The Message quoted from above was M. Benson's
fifth communication to the Legislature.
letter from ST. Domingo City, dated on the 3Oth |
of January, says:-The warlike rumors which ap-
peared in the papers are, fortunately, unsrue the
country is as peaceable as may be wished for.
The sales Of cotton yesterday embraced about 900
bales the market without further change closing on
the basis Of quotations given another column some bro
kers quoted middlug uplands IL c and others at lie
State and Western brands OF -four active and firm
with fair amount Of Sales Southern flour was In moderate
supply and In good request both for export from the
domestic trade Transactions in wheat were checked BY
the hmness Of holders the only transaction Of moment
was confined TO lot OF Michigan club, q. 81 q.
Corn was heavy, and rather easier, while
| saes were moderate. Pork was less buoy
ant and active. New meas sold at sls 37H, old do
at sl7 70, new prime at slA s7S and old q. $l2 so
| SO &C. Beef Was hIm and In good demand Sugars
were wiihou. change of moment The sales embraced
about 500 hhds. New Orleans and Texas by auction and
about 500 hhds Cuba muscovado to the trade at quota
tons given in another column. Coffee was steady with
aggregate sales OF bags Rio 1876 and ECO do
Ceyon The stock Of Rio was Ia, l67 bags "a 900
Java and $50 bags government d. with total of
all sinds of 65ee bags and Freigh. eugsgemen,s
were moderate, while rates firm.
The Mexican Treaty Before the Senate
It's Relations with the Movement or the
Age.
The Senate has at last taken up the discus.
sion in executive session of the new treaty with
Mexico, and it is said that it will be pressed
from day to day until vote for its ratification
or rejection is obtained.
We are told that there is great opposition to
this treaty, and we are not surprised thereat
It has been negotiated on basis entirely too
national to suit any purely partisan interest
South Carolina opposes it because Mr.. Calhoun
opposed the admission of California just before
he died and this he did on the principle that