The New York herald., 1862-01-23

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On the arrival of the New York troops at Key West
they Immediately disembarked and selected
camping ground at beautiful location the shore
inner bay, Immediately east Of the Key West Bar
racks. Private John W. Stillwell, of Company l.
Ninetieth regiment, died at sea on the 7th of Janu
ary, and was buried at sea the following day.
! with much solemnity. The regiment is in excel
lent health and spirits.
The Richmond Examiner of the 20th inst. gives
an account of the last hours Of exPresident John
Tyler. He taken suddenly i'll at the breakfast
table, and expired at twelve o'clock at night ON
| the 18th inst. Arrangements were being made in
the rebel Congress for the funeral.
Seven soldiers deserted from the Eighty fourth
British regiment in Canada in December last, and
one of them, Corporal Sullivan has enlisted in
company in Troy.
Three or four of the ringeaders in the strike at
the Portsmouth IN. H.) Navy Yard have been dis
charged, with orders from the government that
they must not be again employed.
The State Of Kentucky has in the field fighting
for the Union five regiments Of cavalry and twen
tyeight of infantry, numbering in all thirty three
thousand men. BY an act of the rebel Congress
| at Richmond Kentucky is one of the Confederate
States.
There is strong feeling among the Unionists of
Missouri against the appointment of Robert Will
son Of the United States Senators from that
State 1t is alleged that he is secessonist and
has decided procvities in favor Of the rebellion
| He took part in and addressed mass meeting Of
| the citizens of AnGrew and Buchanan counties,
Mo-, which was held the latter part of April last,
and at which resolutions were passed condemning
| as inhuman and diabolical the war which the gov
| ernmelt had inaugurated for the purpose of sup.
| pressing the rebellion. The tone of the meeting
| was secession all through Some of the Missouri
| papers ask, "Will Gen. Wilson be permitted to
take his seat?'
| The Provost Marshal of Leavenworth, Kansas,
has declared all persons belonging to military Or
ganizations not authorized by Kansas or the United
States to be outlaws and highwaymen, and that if
caught they will be punished according to the de-
cision of drum head court martial.
John B. Henderson, who was appointed by acting
Gov. Hall to be Judge of the Supreme Court of
Missouri, has declined.
Eight thousand troops in Ohio are under march
ing orders, and will leave for the seat of this
week.
Thomas A. Harris, one of the members elected
by the bogus Legislature of Missouri to the rebe'
Congress- which is to meet on the 18th of February
at Richmond, has been taken prisoner.
James Dunn cut his wife's throat in Utica on the
| 10th inst, and then committed suicide by cutting
his own throat. Both died Immediately. Mrs.
Dunn formerly lived in Harlem, at the upper end of
| New York Island, where she kept grocery and
| boarding house her name being then Mrs. Troy.
She had had three husbands, the first, named Cor
rigan being lost, with some four hundred others,
| while he was on his way from Ireland to Que
| bee. The vessel was wrecked in the Gulf of st.
Lawrence, and Mrs. Corrigan was among the few
who were saved. They leave two orphan children.
| Smallpox, typhoid fever and measles prevail to
such an extent among the soldiers at Plattsburg,
N. Y that the Board of Health of the village have
| forbidden owners of taverns, saloons, barber
shops and other places Of public resort al
lowing any soldier other person attached to the
barracks to enter their premises. The soldiers are
also deprived of the privilege of attending the
| churches.
The icy surface of the lakes in the Central Park
was cleared of snow yesterday early enough to
allow the lower one to be opened for skating by
nine o'clock in the morning. and the upper one by
eleven The ice was good, although little rough;
| therefore, to give our citizens every opportunity
for skating the ball was raised aloft, and the sig
| nal flags down town were also thrown to the
breeze. About 5000 persons visited the Park
pond having failed to perform his contract other
| arrangements have been made Experiments were
successfully tried last night, and If the weather
prove fair the ice will be properly Illuminated
tonight. Should no adverse change take place in
the weather. skating will be allowed to-day from
seven O'Clock A. NJ. to hafpast ten P. M. The
| experiments with the calcium lights the
lakes last night met with a complete sue
cess; and when the ponds were properly lit up,
cheers long and loud were sent forth by the assem-
bled crowd of skaters. In future the pond will be
illuminated every dark night during the season.
In the General Sessions yesterday, William
Griffin, alias William Mcdonald, was tried and con-
victed of bigamy. 1t was shown that on the 25th
| of June 1860 he was married to Ann McAuley by
the rector of st. AIMS church, Brooklyn, and
that on the 18th of December, 1861, he was united
| in wedlock to Ann Cannon his first wife being still
| alive. lie was remanded till Saturday for SEN
tcnce. William Rigby, indicted for a fconi ,us
sault upon Dexter w. Proctor, at Is Walker street.
| on the Sd of January. was convicted of assault
and battery and remanded. Dennis Doyle, who
| was Jointly indicted with others, was tried on
| charge of robbing James Cosgrove of 1897 at a
| drinking saloon in First avenue, on Christmas eve.
At late hour in the afternoon the jury rendered q
| verdict of guilty. Hogan, who was charged with
being confederate, acquitted on Monday.
| No business was transacted by the Commission
ers of Emigration yesterday. From the weekly
statement it appears that the number of emigrants
| who arrived here during the week ending the 22d
inst. was 4so, making total Of Liz during the
present year, against ,ss5 to same date last year.
The Treasurers report shows balance in the
bank of "a O5s 90. The number of inmates remain.
| ing on Wards Island is 1874.
The market for beef cattle was dull and heavy
yesterday, and prices were more irregular and a
shade lower, varying from &c. to SIC &C., but
with only few sales at the outside prices. Mich
cows were dull at s25 a s45 $50. veals were
steady at 4c. 611c. Sheep and Lambs were
renorted shade lower. hut the arotat tions appear