The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-02-16
THE CITY.

meeting was convened a. the Aston House, yester
day OF gentlemen whose business requires them 70
TIP Hoboken ferries for the purpose OF concerning
measure to secure greater safety, convenience and
regularly In the management OF those companies The
appointment OF an executive committee provided
Tor, by whom plan OF action will be reported
lengthy investigation the origin OF the recent
IRE on Broadway and Leonard street held by the
fire Commissioners yesterday Captain Jordan Sergeant
Walsh several other members Of the Metropolitan Police
fcyce and the private Waterman Of the firm were
ahmed
wal Of a building in course Of erection on Sixty
second street fell yesterday nurng four workmeD, two
Of them erously Another wall Second avenue also
fell yestersay, but NO one was injured
In our Trnls Sheet this morning We publish ''Trade
" The Prohiblory Tariff"
In the supreAs Court Chambers, yesterday. the case
Of George Olns. captain Of the steamer Washington
Irving, came up an application for his discharge ON
writ Of habeas ospua The petitioners counsel con-
tended that the reusion OF Governor Pierpon was in
valid on the roun that there no such State a. Viz
gnia In the Union recognised by tho federal government
or the Senate such that Governor Pepont had been
appointed Governor b. the President who had no night
to make such appointment that the Governor OF New
York has legal authoy expatrate citizen on the
regulation Of Governor Psrpont and that We have no
treaty with Virginia for 1at purpose He signifed hts
intention OF traversing thu return TO the writ and the
hearing Of the case was sci down this morning At ten
O'Clock.
In the Court Of Oyer andrerminer yesterday Judge
Ingraham sentenced several prisoners derent periods
OF Imprisonment The Grand Juv having laid present
ments before the court in reference to the present sys
tenn OF lotteries and mode Of business pursued the
junk shops the latter being characterized "a nurseries
Of crime" were discharged from further attendance
The fine steamship Guy of Baltimoro, cap~in NC
Guigan, OF the Inman line, will leave pier IS Ns~th
At day for Queenstown and Liverpool The
mails for tho United Kingdom and the Continent will
close at the Post Once at half.past ten A. NJ
The stock market was rather unsettled yesterday.
Gold closed at lS6H after selling at 1885,
Dulnoss continued TO be the prevailing feature In the
markets yesterday. In commodities, however, a
fair business consummatcd but generally al prices
indicating decline Coffee was steady, with fair de-
mand Cotton was decidedly armer and more active
On Change -four ruled dun and heavy. Wheat closed
dull, at decline of 1c &c. Corn 6rmer and ac
tive. Oats were inactive Pork dull and irregular
Beef was steady while lard active at full prices
Whiskey was steady. Freights unchanged Naval
quiet but firmer Petroleum was without decided
change Wool was firm, with more doing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
We have several long and interesting letters from
Mexico TO day, the latest dates being Vera Cruz Feb
ruary 81 Mexico City and Pucba, January 20, and ORR
zaba, January g. They confirm our late telegraphic
dispatches in their main points and furnish details OF the
arrest Of Naximian's chief Of police by Bazane tho
Vera Cruz Custom House affair and other important
matters The French troops serving with Miramon and
Mea had returned to Bazane under his recent order
them IL they took service in a foreign
wivx ;ou In Warn byf v.o
10th Of February, when II believed he would sail
or Miramar in the Dandolo his own yacht Bazaine
8 said to be in fun accord with the liberal
Lew Wallace formerly Major General OF
In the hate civil the United States has
accepted command OF division In Juarezs army. The
organ Of Juarez publishes alleged decrec from that
personaec, forbddng trafc between the republic OF
Mexico and the powers OF Europe which recognized
Maximilian- katamoros dispatches Of the 7th inst
confirm the story Of the occupation by Miramon OF
Zacatecas, and the hurried flight Of Juarex, whose
whereabouts at present unknown, and fears Of his
capture by the imperiaiists entertained.
Our Havana correspondence Ia dated Februarys Six
OF tho crew or the American schooner John lawrence
had been picked up ~ sea- Tho small pox rapidly
decreasing at Matanzaa The sugar market was dull
II. c. RAwson, leading merchant Of Hartford, Conn,
committed suicide yesterday by IeapiDg from window
Of hs residence while 10 at OF temporary insanity,
caused by dsarangomsnt OF business Affairs
The FIRST registry OF voters in Georgetown, d. since
the passage Of the suffrage bill completed yesterday
and foots up eleven hundred whites to about nine hun
drcd negroes
Nine thousand dollars in United States securities
and number OF certificates OF bank stock stolen
rom tho house Of H. p Dur, at Milton, Mass, on |
Wednesday. |
The premature discharge Of cannon at the funeral OF
soldier. In Honesdaie, Penn, yesterday, mortaly
wounded two men and slightly Injured another.
Forty recruits Of the Eighteenth infantry are said 10
have mutinied while on the route 10 Fort Phil Kcarny,
recently and under the lead Of old soldier had shaped
heir for Mexico TO join the army OF Juares.
tenement house In Cincinnati was destroyed by Ore
yesterday, and one woman was burned 70 death
Hanson Baumgarten hanged in Marietta, Ohio,
yesterday for the murder OF John Enbaske in Sep
Iember last
The railway bridge the Genesse river at Roches
ter gave way Thursday night nom tho pressure OF
ice against the piers the Of rsyorville Spencer
county, KY was I'VE feet under water yesterday from
freshst.
President Johnson's Dimculty and His Way
Of Escape.