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VOLUME I.
NEW-YORK. FRIDAY. FEB. 26. IfWC.
WAR IN FLORIDA.
The Indian War in Florida is spreading. We have reoeived
late intelligence from every important point in
East Florida, and it appears that the Seminoles occupy
the whole of the peninsula south of St. Augustine.?
They have an army of 3000 uien, partly composed of
runaway negroes. It is with them a war of extermination.
The following are extracts:?
A letter from St. Augustine of tbe 14th inst.. states
that on the night of the 1.1th an alarm was raided by u
party of Indians on the scout. The soldiers assembled
promptly at the signal. No enemy however were seen,
but tlie next morning their traeks were discovered.?
Gen. Scott is hourly and anxiously expected.
The whole of the county south of St. Augustine is
laid waste. There is not a single house standing between
the City and Cape Florida, a distance of 260
miles.
On Sunday a dense smoke was seen in the direction
of Bulowville, and it was afterwards ascertained that the
village and Hernandrz also, had been entirely dostroyed.
On the 11th inst. the Augusta volunteers, composed
of the Richmond Blues and the Richmond Hussars as
infantry, and the Glvn and Catndan volunteer* started
from Jacksonville. They have in their charge a train
of baggage wagons with provisions and stores for Gen.
Clincn. Just before they started, one of the sentinels
discovered an Indian, and a parly immediately set out
and scoured the hammock where he was seen, but he
eaaaped. It was supposed that he was a spy.
Important Decision.?The Jury who sat in the
important ease of Rufus I,. Lord vs. the Corporation,
brought*in their verdict yesterday morning in which
they awarded him $156,000. His damages were laid
at $'1290,000. Mr. Lord, therefore, is minus $134,000.
>:- ?:n ?b? .ko. i;.kL? r?.
A HIS TCIUii. 1 will iiiui\u iiiu v/ui |>ui unuu uuuiu ivi
damages in blowing up houses to stay the fire of 17th
December last, to the amount of half a million.
Good Symptoms.?The Rev. David Hale of the
Journal of Commerce, taking pattern from the Herald,
turns his paper inside out yesterday and begins liis first
.page with the reading matter. Go on?in a short time
you will be worthy to be called a coteuiporary.
Nov York Gas Compact.?During the last year,
innumerable complaints hava been made against the
manner and the managers of this association. Peasessing
by a charter granted in 1823, a capital of $1,000,000,
and an exclusive right for years to light the city below
Grand street, it is very natural t? suppose that tbay
would avail themselves of Utair privilege* to a* great an
extent as permitted, and, if avarir* ahuutd at any rinse
get the belter of justice, snatch a profit beyond even the
bounds of the parchmeat itself. It ia the nature of
monopolies to do so, for this company it will be observed
is a complete monopoly, and alont possesses the privilege
to supply the eity with gas.
As a movement is now on foot to investigate the conduct
of this company, and see if thare ia ?ot cause to
repeal their exclusive privileges, or at least bring in a
rival for the benefit of the public, would .it not be well
in every gas burner to bestir himself, and contribute his
mite to the information of the Corporation and the legislature?
. ...
The par value of this company's stock is $100 per
share?it is now quoted in Wall street at 140 to 160,
being on the whole capital, nearly a profit already of
half a million, which the consumers of gas have to pay,
or have paid. By a communication in the Courier Sc.
Enquirer of yesterday, it appears that the company have
not only availed itself of a piece of quibbling pettifogging
quackery to sustain its pretensions, but it even suppresses
the truth, when that will best sustain ita character.
An isolated erroneous statement having appeared
in the Herald, respecting the burning of the gas in the
City Hotel, the managers of the copipany, jumped at it
line a set 01 drowning men m ?. suo?, (.i.^ujcu
cates of (he error, paraded iIipjji to the world, and
attempt, from this si?glo ctrtumstauce, to convince the
public that they are a set of the very innocents who
escaped the sword of bloody Herod. In the face of
profits, which are equal to an advance of stock of half a
million, this modest concern mourns over tthe loss of
$60,900 by bad debts, forgetting altogether their immense
profits?i heir long monopoly, and the power they
possess over the whole crowded portion of the city.
It is absolutely necessary that the secret management
of this company should be developed. We have
been misinformed in one instance^?We shall proceed
upon better authority ia future. Meantime, we request
every gas eonsumer in the city, who known any facts
in reference to the concern, to furnish us with them at
once. No time is to be lost.
D? The Fire Wardens of the First and Second
Wards, are very respectfully requested to do their duty,
provided they are perfectly at leisure?not otherwise.
A fire has been made for several days m the middle ?f
Liberty street, near Nassau, the smoke and sparks from
which incommode and endanger the heiehborhood.
N. B. Has not the Street Inspector any jurisdiction
there?
ILr The Rit*ts are over for the present. The stevedores
are at work on the raised prices, and the laborers
are working away merrily among the ruins. The military,
however, are ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to turn out at an instant's warning.
(Lr Some of the Boston editors are publishing stupid
jests perpetrated by one Bass. The Transcript is
specially guilty of this huge offence.
HE H
NEW-YORK, FRIDAY,
ADDKESS ~~
TO THL JOVE5XTXEN AND WORK I KG PEOPLE OF NEW
York.
You are on the verge of ruin. The business jettr is
just commencing, and unless vou bejjin wiiii good
sense an<l discretion, you will have before you a whole
: summer of agitation and misrule. If riot and illegal
I violence be persisted in, the streets of N*w York will
! flow with blood. The laws must be supported, and riot
| and violence put down. Return to a calm consideration
, of your situation. The causes and remedies of the pre;
sent discontents may be enumerated as follows:?
Fimt?The removal of the Post Office to Chamber
street is one of the principal causes of the present state
of things. This removal has been made the grouud work of
increasing rents from 40 to 30 per cent in every street?
from river to river, as high as Grand street. The remedy
for tkisevilis, to turn it back into Wall street, where the
residents can afford to pay high rents.
Second?The advance of rents by a general combination
among the landlords, and the real estate
speculators. The present members of both boards
of the Common Council, have stimulated this advanee,
by secretly intriguing with certain politicians, to stuff
the Post Office into the Rotunda. The remedy for this
evil, is for mechanicr to remove further up town, or to
Brooklyn and Jersey cities?but the best relief will be
to turn the whole Corporation out of office next election
I as a lesson to their successors.
Third?The combination of forestallers about the
I markets, and particularly those congregating round the
{ Upper Bull's Head, who manage by facilities from the
Butcher's and Drover's Bank, and false reports in the
; Courier & Enquirer, to controul the beef, mutton, and
veal markets, and compel the butchers to pay their own
prices. A remedy for this, we have not been able to
devise. All must eat at any price.
Fourth.?The New York Gas Company monopoly,
which has the entire controul and monopoly of lighting
> the lower part of the city, and thus affecting the general
expenses of trades down town. The remedy for this, is
the creation by the Legislature of a rival company, bej
fore it rises.
Fifth?The next cause of the present evils felt by
' journeymen and laborers, is the combination amun:
' employers, to pay such prices as they deem right, most
j generally, however, taking care to keep the largest half
of the apple to themselves. The remedy ia, a peaceful
1 I AAmKlnatinn e\f uor1tmPB.fi Pfllm tPmntl
| atrance?an appeal to public opinion?and if not sue'
cessful, to form a colony, and emigrate to the fertile
lands of the west, where they can all live, and get rich
' in a few Tears.
The Sixth evil is the Trades Union, and its sattelites
called Asseciations. All these bodies of men are gene!
rally composed of miserable rum-drinking agitators,
, who tax the whole body of journeymen, to support their
I conventicles, under a pretence of advocating their rights.
The remedy for this evil, is for every journeyman to
separate from the Trades Union, and leave it to its own
infamy.
The Serenih and greatest evil, is that pioduced
by political agitators?these hypocrites who cry out
i against banks and insurance companies, as monopolies
injurious to society. The most injurious monopoly to
( the journeymen, is that of master mechanics, who fre
qucntly combine to curtail wages, or refuse a fair increase.
A bank is a real benefit to all?it circulates
capital, and keeps society in motion. The remedy for
this evil, is for all workingmen, all journeymen and
laborers to avoid politics and politicians as they would
theplague, I lie yellow fever, or the Asiatic cholera. They
I cannot sufficiently detest that race of rascals ?^ho are
generally known and are called politicians. They are
! well known by their hungry looks?their canting
language?their political rancour?and virulent tempers.
Let the journeymen mechanics and laborers reflect on
their situation calmly, and adopt the most prudent line
of conduct. More to-morrow.
Liberalitt.?The annexed are the principal contri
butors in making up the $ 14,000 already subscribed to
revive the Methodist Book concern, the sarplus of
which, after paying for paper and print, goes to feed
the hangry and clothe the naked.
Silas E. Burrows, flOOO Daniel Avers, - - $100
Henrv W. Reese, - 1000 Gilbert Bates, - - 100
George Suckley, - 500 A. B. Marvin, - - 100
Disoswav & Brothers, 550 Wm. B. Skidmore, 100
Staals M. Mead, - - 600 Gilbert Coutant, - 100
Harper & Brothers, 500 James Donaldson, - 100
Joseph Sands, - - 500 S. D. R. Barnes, 100
'ii - r?? < tnn i r> _ inn
j lODOISOn IV Oruiliero, JVU ijritis u. VIIII11U, - JW
Robert Jones, - - 500 Thomas R. Mercein, 100
Richard Parker, - - 300 Sterling Armstrong, 100
, Samuel Ward, - - 250 Benjamin Pollock, 100
I James Roorman, - 250 Francis Hall, - - - 100
' Ralph Mead, - - - 250 Wm. Higeins, - - 100
i Garret Green, - 250 John \V. Hovt, - 100
j C. Butler, .... 250 J. S. Fountain, - - 100
| J. P. Bunting, - - 250 Edwin Mead, - - 100
1 Franklin A: Jenkins, 250 Edward Hilton, - 100
L. & V. Kirby 3c Co. 250 "George Mather, - 100
B. B. Smith," - - - 200 Samuel B. Harper, 100
. Clarkson Dev. - - 200
i We don't encumber the Herald with the fifiy dollar
! contributors.
New Jersey Quaker Law.?We have a copy of the
law recently passed by the Legislature of New Jersey.
Any of our friends among th* broad-brims can see it at
tbe Herald office. To any Quaker lady we shall send
it, because we like them.
In Thompson's Letter to Garrisoa, he says?u Hell
mrut have yitxn nine cheert for Got. AfcDuJfie" when
he delivered bis last Message.
^RAL
FEBRUARY 20, 1836.
r KEMii vjri.MO.>s.?uenerai j lick sou, 11 lor nniniug
else, is entitled to the warmest gratitude of his country men,
for the enviable position in which his conduct in
the negotiation with France has placed the United
States Itelbre Europe and the world. The following i?
p;irt of a debate in the French Chamber of Deputies :?
Speech of 11. BL'hoii, in opposition to the Address
to the King :?
" With regard to foreign policy, there were two questions
to be considered?that of the difference between
Fiance and America, and the question of I'olish nationality.
On the first question, lie admitted that the mediation
of England might l>e accepted by France with
honor, but he considered the American President's
Message as a bitter satiie upon the conduct of the
FreneW Ministry?nay, more?he would call that document
a lesson Irom a free people to a nation that knew
not iu what freedom consisted." [Violent murmurs,
and cries of" Order."]
51. Lbmercier?"Order! Order!! The honorable
deputy has insulted France and the Chamber."
Thk Pkeside.nt?" The honorable deputy has not
i.,,t ko, ,ti
. .,?d uuwnu =
| against ministers, to which they are at liberty t? reply."
M. BigmoN said that iie would modify his phrase,
and merely assert that the American President s Message
was a lessen from a free people to a nation w ho?*
government was incapable of instructing it in the proper
mode of enjoying libei ty. In his opinion the best mode
i of getting rid of all di.Tuuilties with regard to tlio Ai.e!
rican question would be to annul tli<* treaty granting1
the claim made bv thf? United State s, and to enter into
fresh negociations." [" Hear,'" from ti.e ieit; ! No, no,"
from the centre.]
Revivals and CHA.NGts.?Tiio Trustees < f Cednr
! street Church resolved, at a meeting held last Thura:
day evening, to sell their property in that street, and to
purchase a sufficient spacis on tins corner of Crosby and
Grand street, w hereon to erect a splendid new church
for their pastor. Dr. McElrov. Th y will innlif $100,000
by the operation. New store* wd' be erected on the
old locality, an ! all traces <if reli.4i.1n obliterated. The
Rev. Dr Mc E. 11 a g'*?d preacher and a Presbyterian.
but whether or not ho believes in Madcn.oiielle Monk,
we don't kuo*.
The Rev. Jolin Pott*,of .\ itchcz, a native of Piiiiadelphia,
becomes the petninn-iir pastor of Duane street
Church in April. Dr. Breckeijridge, (who fought Mr.
! Hughes, the Pope's Legate, in Philadelphia,) only supplies
his place for a tiiue. Mr. Potts is a clergyman
of great piety and learning, and the wealthy gentlemen
| who purchased pews in that church have not at prej
sent a large stock of either. His salary is only $2,500,
which ought to he increased to $4060, at lea*t, to pay
rents, keep a family,and live like a clergyman. On dit
that the Middle Dutch Church in Nassau street, oppo'
site Doremus. Suydain & Nison, is to be sold, and the
congregation removed to some up-town locality. This
, ground would probably sell for $250,000 or more, and
would enable the Trustees to increase the scanty salaries
of their pastors. What clergyman can live on
$2,500 ? We can do far better selling penny papers.
The Consistory Raoms of the Dutch Church in Ann
street are intended also to be converted into stores, and
good ones they will make.
The South Dutch Church in Garden street (Dr.
Matthews',) is in a dilemma. They could get $300,000
for the ground, but unfortunately, there is a clause in
the title deeds which compels them to have a building
used as a church on that spot, otherwise it reverts to
the Iwira male <nd female, who are poor. The great
question is, how the Trustees can soil the property and
preserve the title. Suppose they ?rect a miniature
church in a cupola, like a bird house, would it not
it,., litl. a rwi ??ur.o |U? 7
VVr.c. w.^ ..... ">? r1 ?!"- ?* '
These various revolutions and changes in church
property are produced by the rise of real estate. If
new churches are to be built hereafter, let them be
erected on the plan of that of Ouane street; aud, by all
means, when Trustees, Consistories, and Corporations
are getting so rich, they ought to open their pursestrings,
and support their clergymen decently ? The
greasy Infidels in Tammany Hall behave better to
. Orator Often, or Origen Bachelor.
Crockert Ware.?On Wednesday night at the 1
Park Theatre, Mr. Hackett played Nitnrod Wildfire to a
{ crowded and delighted audience. In the enactment of
the dancing scene, where he jostles the black waiter
and upsets a large tray of crockery ware, glaaaes, jellies,
&ic. See., the audience encored most strenuously.?
1 After a lapse of about five minutes, Mr. Clarke came
forward and addressed the audience to the following
effect?' Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Hackett returns his
sincere thanks for your approbation of his performance,
and in accordance with your desire, he would repeat
it, were he not too much fatigued already. And, ladies
and gentlemeu (picking up a piece of the broken crocke- j
ry,) you will allow that it is rather difficult to encore I
creckery."
The speech was encored almost as loud as Mr. Hock- j
ett's performance.
Accident <>s the Rail Ro ad.?The Camden & AmI
boy Rail Road cars came in contact near Burlington, in I
eonsrquence of the thick fog. and b*th locomotives
miirh ininro/l that fhpv uprp iinnKIp fn nrn.
reed, and the passengers had to remain in the cars all
night. A locomotive was despatched yesterday morning
for them, and they arrived about 5 o'clock ia the
afternoon. We have heard of no damage having baen
sustained by the passengers.
O* $100 Reward is offered by the editor of the
American, for a tingle mad dog. Mr. King, look into !
the Kitchen Cabinet and take your choice, particulaaly
I since the U. S. Bank bill passed. What would you
give for a roaring lion ?
1% '
D.
NCMBEK 1*5
| Pf ivate Correftpoiiatrnce.j
Washington, Feb. *23,1836.
The House spent the whole day again in an abolition
debate, and, by nid of the previous question, titinllv
decided that Mr. Pibckney's resolution lias the ertect to
refer the. whole matter, together with all the petitions
that may l>e presented on the subject to the select Committee
oil tin* abolition question. Much of the difficulty
in settling tins black pi.>siion has grown out of the
decisions of .Speaker Pp.*. The House, to put au end
to this question, ictcix u o:ie of his decisions to-davby
a vote ot ruoic than t?.i thirds. The business of the
House drags heavily along, being more than usually
involved and jierplexed by the rules and the Speakers
contradictory decisions uiufcr the rules. The fourth of
July will come and go, before you will see a single
important matter of business disposed of by that House.
The President's Peace Message which was presented
in the Senate yesterday, was read in the Hou?e to-day,
and '25,000 copies ordered to he printed for distribution.
No debate took place upon it. Mr. J. IJ. Adams pointed
to the moral of the conclusion of our controversy
with France, viz : the necessity of being prepared for
war?which the President had so well drawn by quoting
' the alaiost inspired words of the Father of his Country.
The President has determined to give no more
nxciutireg. i ne last one was the most shocking exhibition
of American vulgarity ever seen. The members"
of Congress brought into the Palace troops of
women, and va6t numbers came from every part of the
city and the vicinity, without invitation, on errant, and
pushed their way in. The wnmeu brought in by the
members were not of the third tier, exactly, but they
were but a very few degrees removed from that grade.
Sixteen hundred persous were computed to have been
present, and, of uourse, the rooms were crowded to
suffocation. The President hamied Mrs. Forsyth to the
upper room, but the mob rushed past him and excluded
him from the table. " Well," said lie, very properly
offended, " this is the first time I was ever shnt out from
my own table, and it shall be the last." The glass and
china were broken, ajid all sons of viands strewed upon
the carpets, and trodden under foot. What tkey could
not devour, they carried off in their pockcts. It was
truly a specimen of trhole hoggitm.
Another Wreck.?The brig Granite, from Campeachy,
bound to this port, is ashore at Long Hranch.
Her cargo, which consists of grass, logwood and ?egars,
will be entirely saved, and it is thought the brig
will be got off without damage, if the sea does not make
too high.
|| r* The Baltimore editors overwhelm us with kindness
and compliments. The following, on our last
j Special Message, is from the Baltimore Patriot.
| u Major Bennett of 'lie New York Herald, since the
departure of Major Jack Downing from the quarters
of Gen. Jackson, supplies l?is place most admirably.?
It will be seen by the following that he has got hold of
; another "original draft" of a "Special Measure" of the
Hero, which certainly will trnuio, if not enlighten the
public mind. Tlie other message, which we publish
to-day. has evidently gone through the crm ibie of the
parlour cabinet, and thus, of course, varies materially
from the unhewn " original."
What return can we make ? How shall we ever be
able to repay their kindness / We believe we must get
a rib from Baltimore. What do you say gentlemen *
Any thing good in that line there ?
Lead and Copper Mines.?There is a rumor abroad
that some valuable discoveries of ore have been recent- ^
ly made in Hamilton and Essex counties in this slate. 1
We have been long satisfied that this part of the state
would some day beeome of great value on account of
its minerals. When will the Legislature cease to be
bliud to its interest,and cause a geological survey to b?
made in the region above mentioned ?
We hope the legislature will not adjourn without
| sotue action on the subject.
i d..? . tl i ?- - 1
. uutt, i numuajr.?in nuaiiiou to me usual number
of assaults and batteries, ilrunken men and women, and
vagrants of every quality, Margaret Learv, one of Erin's
, fair daughters, with a most delightful brogue, wa*
brought up on the charge of stealing from Eliza Hughes,
of No. 41 Catharine street, a quantity of muslin, a couple
of pairs of gloves, and a few etceteras, making a grand
total of about three or four dollars. Poor Margaret waa
most uproarious, when foulsuspicion was first cast upon
her fair fame, but Hardcnbrook was deaf to her protostations
of innocence, and on searching, the articles were
found in her possession. She was fully committed.
Mr A. Jacobs, of the same "place, also made c?mI
plaint that Margaret had abstracted from hi? portion of
the premises some articles which to her were very uae;
less, except inasmuch as by means of" my uncle" she
could transmute them into metal. The articles were
three fur caps of the value of ffi, and these also were
found in her possession.
The banking house of the United States Branch, in
i State street, Boston, was sold on Monday at auction,
and was knocked off to Mr. Henry Wilson for $81,000.
DOCTOR SLEIGH, hatinj now terminated kis discussions
with the Infidels in this city, cannot refrain from public ly presenting
his best thanks to his numerous friends for their kind attentions,
Christian friendship, and noble protect! jb ; and tikes this opportunity
of iuforming tharn that in compliance with their kind rtquesU
he his determined to settle finally amonjst th*-m, and resume hi*
profession as Physician and Surrrnn. - -1
permanent residence, No. 211 Wooster street, within fix h.utes U
Washington Square, whilker h* will retnire (God willing) the first
of May.
N. B. He wi I be at li.>m? fur advice and consultation, till 12
o'clock, daily?and will not keep any accounts, but leave hii remuneration
to the honor and circumstances of hit patients?tt.? coane
adopted by Physicians in London, Dublin, lie. 187 Piince street.
feb 26-lt
MARRIED.
On Wednesday evening, t *. 24th in't. by the Re*. Chat. Kooase,
Mr. William A. B. Clement, ?f the firm of Worcester k. Clement,
of Alban?,to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of lt<v. John Ruilylate, ?f
Grrmantown, Columbia ro. N. V.
DIED.
Yesterday, Ml. George Bird, painter, aged 35. His friends are
invited to attend hii funeral from hii late residence. No. 148 Sullivan
street, at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
Wednesday afternooa, Mr. Simon Van Antwerp, in the 88th yerr
of his ace.
In Philadelphia, Catharine Duane, daughter of the Han. W illiaa
J Duane.
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