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BURSTING or THE CRoroN MAIN.

DESTRUCTION OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN
SQUATTERTOWN.
The souatters in the neighbCrhOod Of Fourth
ave. and Fiftyn.nth.st were very much startled about
II o'clock Monday night by noise resembling the ex-
posiOn Of a large quantity Of gunpowder. They soon
discovered the meaning Of the terrific report for in
few seconds they almost overwhelmed by torrent
Of water The main waterpipe, at the intersection Of
Fourth-ave. and Ffy-ninthst had burst, tearing up
railroad tracks and everything before IT, The lots on
each side Of tie Harlem track, for distance
sunken 10 an average depth OF 80 feet Into the
lots each side Of FIfy.ninthst. the water rushed
with tremendous force, and in short time they
flooded TO the depth OF from 20 70 25 feet on these lots
we're about 20 sLane occupied by poor Irish squatters
The widest confusion followed the nundatlon the waller
rising so rapidly that the lives OF the sluatters were
greatly endangered Jerry Curtin, blind man. Who has
has lost everything he Possessed aud is row pennless
aud DESTITUTE, with family depending upon him for sup
completely destroyed, nothing being left but pile OF
boards and these lac eau hardly claim as his own. as tho
Temas ~ two OthSr shaBtles are mingled In tho pile
Of rubbish. "Jerry' states that ho went 10
bed about Il O'Clock. A Few minutes after ms wife
got up 20 secure the door. Immediately upon getting
Of bed che cried out that she was drowning jerry
jumped mp and found his shanty Hooded with water;
@as with the greatest difficulty that he safely rescued
his family His sany stood nn %nL about a m
va il among tue poor creatures, many 0f whom haze
nohing 20 eat and no place to sleep and many OF them
Many OF the sufferers had provisions In their shautes.
which OF entirely destroyed. Old Jerry had
inst laii in" barrel OF -four, and considerable guam
tty OF sugar, tes, &c, but All are totally destroyed
Come aa ~ tue terrible force ~ The food may be con-
ceiyed from the wa y ;2Ie IN the street nu,. '4tDaa
trcE. - =. ..aue j. nearly 20 feet I'm diameter Hi
i deep The rails OF the Belt Road near the corner S
wremched from the ties and thrown quite distance
The ties OF Harlem Road undermined, ana the
rails found at the bottom Of the hole The main ex-
caYaton, near the connection pipe, Il completely de-
moll,hed and large cu!vert moved some feet and
tipped It's side. Traces OF the destruction the
break caused may he oil sides, The officials VI
tho Water Department were Vn hand with large force
daylight Yesterday morning. and at once set To
work 20 repair the damage The Harlem track
put IN running condition. but the track Of the Belt Road
cannot be laid un the pipe repaired. aud so passcn
gers TO the on foot aud take In
waiting for them on the opposite side.
The break was caused by settling ~ the pine and
tho gradual sinking away OF the ground underneath IT,
IT, is also supposed that there flaw the pipe.
Men will he Kept ut work night and day until the pipe
aud street put in order again, which viii probably
take two three days.
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LATEST SHIP NEWS
RRIV ED.

ARRIVED.
Steamship lows Heddervk Glasgow via Neville April TO- mds
steamship Huntsville core savannah md.e and
steamship Saratoga; Blaseman Richmond nd's aoi pass
s:s.%.S Empire R rnIe A a n sl' si STG , pass
BhF hiIsaahes, Brown abe!hpot Tor Providence In
Bng MARI L. hsytr Baker Gautsnano DAYS sugar Len
port barks Morning STAR aud Penguin for New lork DAYS
sehr Kate wentworh Adams Csnfasso 70 days sugar Len
port bark Eagle aud brig c4e for SssfGtL IN 2dayS In
port sebrs James oDouAhae for NeSioa days. Jas Warren
~ '''' ,cHooSs AID co.sIws
Nellie bloomfield, EilabethFOrt ontario Eiiabyi9Por; -.
Jas BuChIaan Port johnson MARY SpoGori Johnson
Mary BlIsbstb, Providence. Casper Her, F'l River
Anna sppie MsSnu. Daniel webster Sev.Haren.
P @ F1s, Bridgeport Gen h Ra Ss%i.,en
WIN; Bird, StOunybroOi + NJ Web, ;4 Hartford
J. A. Chamberlain Virginia Hannah Champion virginia
Ioui.i V, pd.. Providence E4..,l wGSlsa rerde0'e
Dadrm. Fai River Geo Tnb.le, Bridgeport,
Bela Pees. Ses.Ion3ob. Maiehill. Providence
Mote PIey'deace hetni pfo,liete r. r,...,
Sa 1 wio 5s Sss s.a s.. FemiuS 6%dsepoT
Ssn Juan Pom johnson. 1. l.. Herr,s Dghton.
Evelyu stamford
SAILED: p..,.p.. p.-
.u s% G iS'i for sa'sS quar- Ss Richmond
DOMESTIC PORTS.
NR"JosDoy April 2Sa .Sh Ss,' Gh9f,I k, 1.n E,
lo4n hmma Rachael jane Eliza ano Empire aud Ellen Barnes
New-tork.
BosroS April 2TAfvel bark Augusa c. Small from Uenngos
bfiss Ontt hon Rio GrAse NeoAa teTA~6deO b. losng Mar
Unique Haze, Baltimore.
PoRrIKss MOyRog April for Baltimore brig Mary
Rice from Boston Passed ship Moonlight for Rotterdam brig
Falcon. for Noy
wLNSeToS n C., April 27Cearei steamship Reheeea clyde
for NrW-lOIk Arrived steamships Fairbanks and Volunteer from
NeN-fork; Lucille. from BIumore.
Apu g7ArrNr, steamships MaBhAttan from
York: MARYLAND. from Baltimore.
S.vNSlH April 2-Avei steamships Montgomery and San
salvador EgEl York; Tpuswsuda Philadelphia;
Cork Ce ,tlmbio yrso Sss iOri hp Jane. Jardiae
Liverpool; bark Laihpli gh,sr Nes.lork
SPOKEN.
sehr SetagawA from Nsw ioIE for BaeoV. Af o. lat D. op u,
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BROOKLYN.-Deaths last week, 144.

The Kings County Board of Supervisors met
yesterday afternoon the Presdent W. j. o. borne in the
khair. Mr.. stwel presented communication request
jng Board TO hire the Military Hall In the Sixteenth
Ward for arnOTy and drill room Supervisor Walsh
presented communication from Company A. Fifty
sixth Regiment, requesting ME Board TO furnish them
win AL ilnuly n a,nhi PctuOh was IHeselited ~
supervisor Cropsy for drill at ths Of Bridge
and Nassau-sts aud at the Of McserOe and SAITH
sts f. D. The Supervisor from FataUds also presented
request from Company +, Twenty-eghth Regiment TO
tkese communications referred 70 the Military Com
mittee FOR report The bills Of C. S. Andrus keeper OF
the Draw" At the Newtown Creek bridge, amounting
1881 81 were presented and referred 10 the Committee
on Accounts for payment The Board adjourned until
the 4th May.
WILLIAMSBURGH-F Nicholas, ma
tive OF France 20 years of has been missing from
home No I3 South Ninthst 4. ID, since Sunday last and
hs friends inform the police hat they lear he has been
fouy dealt sWth Nicholas was employed by the VIII
lssburgn Gas Company and nad ID ss possession when
last seen so IN money and watch aud cham.
SAG HARB0R, l.. 1.-The work OF grading
on the branch railroad from this village 20 Manor
btaton on the Long Island Rulroad is progresssne
rapidly and the contractor expects 70 nave thS oau ~
running order at the commencement OF inc outumel
travel The Commissioners appointed W INC supreme
Court 10 the value Of the land through when tht
road passes we're In the village Monday ana Iuesday
avery instance set lower figure the land than did the
geRular Commissioner
FLUSHING, l.. 1.-The Quarterly Meeting OF
fhe Grand Division OF the Sons Of Temperance for the
Eastern Distr OF the State New-YOrk will be held il
che Town Hall today In the evening addresses will be
gasde by eminent speakers from different parts Of tin
country.
HEMPSTEAD l.. IA Convocation Of the
FplseOpa cleTgy1nen Of the Protestant Epscopa
Of Long leland VIII DO held IN this village day aud 10
iDOrrOw.
HEW-RRIGHT0N, s. LA few evening.
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THE GEEAT BOCLECARDS or HCDSO
COUNTY, ". j.

THE REPORT or TIE COMMISSION
ROADS TO BE CoNs1EUCTED.
Last Winter the New-JerScy Legislature
passed bill authorizing the construction Of boulevard
or driving road to the entire length Of Hudson
County beginning at Bergen Point and running to the
Commission appointed by the act consisted OF the Hon
Orcstcs Cc' Gland. William Clarke. II. NJ Traphagen Of
jersey City, John r. Nullancy OF Bergen Abraham W.
Duryea OF North Bergen Patrick McNulty Of Hudson
city and j. H. Bonn Oi Weehawken. These gentlemen
the freeholders Thursday next; The following Is
an abstract Of The various ,eports Ihe road VIZ com
the Morris Canal to point IA Curfle woods; theISe
West Line" It will devIao from Currios woods through
Grccnyic to the Bergen Point Plank Road along which
IL viii run 20 the Newark Plank Road and thence In
direc, line Though Bergen TO Grand Hudson CITY,
Road aud aloug that uutl It moers the weavertown
Road when il VII follow along that the Hacker
TURNPIKE thence a2nS We hillside near inc Grove
tho hill aud along the latter road to within 200 feet OF
the county line. The second route will be known the
woo s s tho same ann pcnt as The West ne It viii rnn
along thc Plank Road leading 70 Jersey City 10 point
where Crrk't extended would ntcrsect that road and
through ClerSs extended until strikes Palsadeave
Mt Bowden thence through Pslisade 10 summit. when
for straight line 1t viii cnt through snmmltst. ana
ChcstnutaYe. ard again interscct Palisade ave. at
Newark ave, Hudson City; Palsade-ave will then
be followed to wcehawkcn Common where the
Bulls Ferry Road Will be struck and
followed 20 The county line The third will be known as
tho Middle route" aud VIII lie midway between the
other two It will commence in Hudson CITY, at New
arkuyr above the Court House. striking through near
Cook ST. ~ 10 meet Montsomerynye. aud along the
latter 10 the "A line aud along the "A line TO the north
end Of tho county There Will be three CROSSROADS con
Meeting the main roads al the upper end OF Neehaw
ken at the "a stone" and one near the Paterson
Plank road Tho width OF the roads VIII he from 100 10
80 cethc crossroads the same. The estimated cost Of
mffsS S ssS TEIyp y IL n T Is o. buildings
saS $50 making 81 Gs lO Tho length OF the roads VIII
be iI miles for aud west the middle route being
little shorter The whole roadway constructed Will he
80 miles Tho time limited for the completion OF tho
roads Is I'VE years The maps showing routes ana detail
maps. shaving property TO be taken viii be hed with
tho freehodes on Thursday. Dclos H. Culver IA Engi-
necr 10 the Commissioner rho preliminary surveys were
undo By Bacot. Post IL Camp. Mallory Miller Narck
& shan-r, A. Spenan. and j. v soper.
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dra and that experiencing heavy weather. Capt Somers
her commander sought sonthamPtGn, ior shelter at
IA for New-YOrk, after few days detention
waiting for prOpous weather Gales commenced
tense ferceness until the 2Oth, when the waves
smashed in tho bow plates and the saloon twhere all
had cOngregated and washed the major portion OF the
people ovcrboard-estimaed at 100 me remainder of
tho passengers took to hastily rails without
water provisions. and were picked up oh the Esd by
French bark and landed at Bouogne-in all AZ persons
out of 1914 The captain is said to have perlshed beside
three mates and lis Others but the first officer Mr.
Van Buren, Of those picked up The account also
highly euogises "a young officer OF the United States
Army-cayary branch"-MajOr H. Joy, for his gallantry
I'm rescuing several Of the people who washed
board The account is also very minute in its deails
and rather agonizng in the descriptive portions, but
fortunately for the sake Of veracy steamer or other
vessel OF that traded from this port and Major H.
joys name is not TO be found in the latest United States
Army Register The whole is, before stated stupid
hoax The telegram from B0ulogne denied the arrival
there any shipwrecked unfOrtunates. They and the
ship and the drowning victims existed nowhere but In
the Imagination of the unscrupulous writer.
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Al Notices Of
name aud address.
DIED.
10. Btnlamin D. Bru.h. sssd s. Isars ssd Il

BRus-Oa Sunday TO- Benjamin Bush aged 6; ssd IL
The relatives and friends family brchss
Joshua jacob Caleb william respectfully uyd to attend
the funeral from his late residence No. q Nes IHeuty
Wednesday. Jan 49, at o'clock ..
CLARKSON-At Fatbush j. L. Sunday morning Jsu TO- David y
Clarks0n. 10 the 52d year OF his
Relatives friends invited
residence, Flatbush, Tuesday. the 18th inst O'Clock
Cars .eave the Fulton ierrI 10 minutes
CoRNINOn Sunday the 10th inst M MARY Corwu aged
Hes relatives aud friends respectfully invited to attend her funeral
~ T. Church Booue Tuesday.
the lathiust, at O'Clock m.
FORDfn BROOKLYN Sunday tue residence sea
James X. Ford Lauren Ford. sgei - years
HI Will be taken 10 Little Falls n T., for nerment
GRFEBN-At Francisco Cal. Thursday Jan stephen A.
Gaen Of New York late Of the arm Of Patton Co., aged
POsrOn Sunday the 10Th Caroline, wife Of Peter j. Post
aged - 9mOnths, and Is DAYS
The friends Of the family respectfully invited stteaA
funeral from Sitteenh Baptist Church
Tuesday jan H. at o'clock The remains Si be taken 70
Greenwood for interment
THoRN-On Saturday evening Jan o'clock Ilasss
Thorn wife Of Enathsn Thorn, aged 65 months sad
DAYS
relatives
from her ate residence No AWi place New York TUESDAY
Jan u, az ~ IN.
WALSH-on Monday, jan H. oba consumption Thomas WALK
10 the J9ih year ofhisage.
friends those family requested to ssud
his residence No Heupst "wednesday.
Jan " o'clock HIS remains ri. be taken to The Church
AIN
bd the epose his soul and thence Calvary Ceaete tor
wHITIyG-Ia Brooklyn Monday Jan H. after short Illness
qs wife OF john c. Whiting and eldest daughter Of Joha
The relatives invited the funeral FRO her ate
residence No 40 Congresst "Wednesday the 18th inst at
o'clock p
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY JANUARY - 1869

tho State land legislation providing upon
proper adavt Tor the arrest and holding TO bail OF
those intending and preparing TO engage IN such con
tests also ny making felony on the part OF the plin
cfpa5 ana seconds who may engage IN prze-hght ana
high isdemeanOr OH the part OF those who, by their
presence may encourage tho commission or tho oense
After referring TO the repeated Instances or the execu
ton by mob violence of prisoners accused OF crime,
especlaiy NJ seymour, tho Governor says;
L Respectfully submit to whether suitable pecu-
mary rewards ought not to DO authorized To he offered
aud paid for the discovery and arrest OF those who were
engaged IN the preparation OF the recent terrible trag
cdy, ana for the detection and arrest OF all who may
hereafter DO engaged In similar acts 1t should ALSO
In my Judgment. be made felony to join or
become member OF any organization or association
which has for Its object tho usurpaon OF the functions OF
the Judiciary by eondemning and Furnishing others for
real or pretended ohcnses 1t Is also worthy OF consera
ton whether some legislation is not called for providing
Tor the custody and safe keeping OF prisoners accused or
crime AT points IN the State distant from tho scene OF tho
commission OF the alleged Oense, where II Is made to a
pear that there Is reasonable grounds TO apprehend mob
violence, confined for trial at near the place whore
the oiicnse Is charged to have been committed.
The Governor, In compliance with an act OF tho Legts
laure, passed at its last session appointed Commission
to hear and determine losses of property IN consequence
OF the Rebel raid Of John Morgan IN 1861 and from the
report OF ad Commission it appears that the sum total
OF all the claims presented TO the Commission for adludi
cation was s913y9 81 and that tho total or all tho
claims approved aud allowed amounts to the sum OF
$ir35g9 a..
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MINNESOTA.

The Governor of Minnesota gives the follow
ing facts and advice concerning the Northern Pacific
Railroad in his inaugural message:
The construction OF the Northern Pacific Railroad from
Lake Superior 10 Puget Sound awaits the action Of Con-
gress on bills before IT, giving aid TO the road similar
10 that given 10 the Union Pacific Road. respectfully
recommend that yOu urge upon Congress by resolution
aud memorial the claims Of this road for tho necessary
aid. It Ia OF great national Importance, afOrding the
shortest lire and easiest grades across tho con
fluent. The distance FROM New-YOrk 10 Pugct's
sound via fhe Northern Pacific Railroad. Is 2.s92
miles from New-Y0rk to san Francisco. via
The Union Pacific Railroad, 3i7 difference OF 52j IN fa
vOr the northern route. From Chicago To san Francis
co.. by the Union Pacific Road the distance Is 2i45 from
west end Of Lake Superior To Pngcts Sound, by Inc
Northern Pacific route, the distance Is 1l5 miles, an
ference In favor Of the Northern route Of GJ miles, or
than oue-fourth while Pugots Sound Is nearer
by from 200 10 1000 miles TO Japan Chinn aud lnda,
than San Francisco Is. hardly nood urge tho great
benefits that would result TO Minnesota from the open
ing Of the Northern route IL would traverse the north
and developments TO that less favored portion
OF tho State other agency will give 1t VIII develop
tile vast interior region month aud west OF Minnesota.
both within tho United States and British America, Tor
speedily lateral lines would he built into the Brltis Pos
sessions. the trade and commerce of which womb now
toward Minnesota vastly augmenng OR commerce ana
manufactures and increasing population ana wealth.
Instead of being the verge ~ population ana wealth
IL would make MS central. n would give us command OF
the trade almost exclusively Of Monan the richest OF
the great minn2 districts OF The continent.
Every effort Of the State should be- u, tolth To secure
this work. in which we have 80 great a stake
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LATEST GENERAL NEws-BY TELEGRAPH.

"A dispatch from Denver, Colorado, re-
ports that men, Cisco and Boarnhees. killed by
Indians tho smoky Hill route Friday.
.... Cen Fitzpatrick was presented with q
guifCcnt silver service worth $1,000 by the soldiers OF
Connecticut, nj Hartford, on Saturday evening.
"A fire broke out in the Ottawa County
Court House at Aymcr yesterday morning. consuming
the entire building All the papers aud records were
saved.
go. NAHUM lIolbro0k, csq.,a prominent citizen
OF Upton Mass, about O. years OF found dead
I'm his mill, yesterday IL Is supposed ho was killed
by a slab ly'rg off suddenly.
800 The Boston Underwriters have presented
$1,000 20 Capt Murphy OF the Cumard steamship Tarifa
testimonial TO his seamanshP in bringing ms vessel
port apparatus OF parS and ropes after
the vessels rudder breaking.
49, The Union Christian Convention COM
meneed s session IN Chicago yesterday evening d. L.
Moody chosen frcsidcut and addresses deiiv
cred by prominent cergynen and layueu OF the city
Tho COuV entOn Will continue until "Wednesday evening"
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TURKEY.
DELAYED REF0RMS-IMPRIsONED AMERICANS
TIE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.

DELAYED REFORMS-IMPRIs0NED AMERICANS
THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
Our correspondent writes from CONSTANT
nOple, under date Dec. 10, as follows;
The budget long expected has not yet appeared The
new laws on Education ditto Indeed, cOuld give st
Of long expected things that still delayed Inc Greek
quarrel swallows up everything The Porte has two pro-
tected Americans rotGg in prison for beng concerned
In the OReilly affair SYRIA and refuses 10 give theh
up. Mr. Morris claims them according 10 the CgPtad-
hOns Unfortunately treaty is one thing Ia the In
gish and another thing in the original Ihe
Senate acted upOn the English Translation ana MI MOT
ris very prOperly stands by that.
The Russian ambassador has been very busy In the
Greek question 1t believed that France urged on
the Turks. 1t Is The Porte fonnd that two
new expeditions being fitted ont quite openly In
Greece and volunteers with arms and money were com
ing forward to revvy the rebellion IN Crete this Winter
1t has been so peed for inactivity and nefciency tn
II determined for with energy and went rather
beyond What England aud France intended ignatlein
has made the question difficult one TO push Tor wara
The Turks now wayer. Their best friends DIANE sic
for rashness Diplomatic relations will be broken on p
most of the embassies protest against sennK htch
Greeks 900 600 So taiors caiPen,efs Isons,
ers bakers boatmen servants OF all KINDS, eHtreey
nsefI to tho country and innocent OF all pOhcal pots
and influence The rich. the real potteTs VII csea
n Turkey drives out all these II VIII DO cfue llnR anu
Injurious to herself No one here believes teie MN oo
war but certainly the situation very delicate auu even
dangerous,