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VOLUME XXII DETROIT MICHIGAN SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 20 1859 NUMBER 238 the trifling jokes that I had noticed a flirtation going 9t) that I bad uttered no charges no facts no of the Dudley players partici will be The Wheat The wheat throughout Es sex county is looking finely and the prospects for a good crop are very encouraging Throughout the several western counties of the Province the same is the case In the neighborhood of Chat ham the farmers speak in glowing terms of the present prospects of a good crop The Chatham Planet believes that as scarce as seed wheat is at present no small amount of seed will le sown this spring Early The Chatham Planet has been informed that on Thursday and riday even ings last several farmers in that vicinity were en gaged in plowing their fields preparatory to put ting in their spring crops Windsor Town Counch At the last meeting of the Windsor Town Council a by law was pass ed compelling the closing of all saloons and bars for the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sab bath The salaries of the town officers were fixed as follows forthe ensuing year: Police Magistrate $400 Clerk $400 Treasurer $200 Town and Li cense Inspectors $100 each Messenger to Coun cil $200 Clerk of Market $150 two Auditors each $20 Some of the steamboats refuse to land st Hawesville Ky until the murderers of Lowe are brought to justice RIGHTUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Prosperity of The population of Sarnia has just been ascertained to be 2002 The Observer referring to the matter says that the actual increase during the past three years has been 700 At that rate Sarnia must be a fast im proving place Walker will open on Monday next at the old Manhattan store corner of Jeft'erson avenue and Bates street a Large and well selected stock consisting of staple and fancy dry goods American English and rench prints American Scotch and reach ginghams Richard son's linens damask table cloths napkins and towels hosiery and gloves a full line of extra quality velvet rib bons small wares usually termed notions and numerous other articles making in all a very perfect assortment These goods have been selected under very favorable circumstances and will be sold either at wholesale or re tail at a very small advance for cash Intending to be come a permanent resident of the city the citizens are respectfully invited to call and examine his stock They will then be able to judge wbethermore intimate acquain tance with him and his goods may not only be pleasant but profitable On my way back 1 called again at the Daltons As I walked by the side of Amy in the wintry garden I asked abruptly: Have you fi gover ness here?" she answered a little surprised is her Mainwaring Here she is coming with the A Distressing A woman was found on Howard street night before last by a citizen who was in a state of insanity and almost without ap parel She was unable to give any account of her self and seemed to be in great fear so much so that it was almost impossible to quiet her suffi ciently to enable him to conduct her home and provide for her wants He took her to his resi dence and kept her over night which was a mat ter of no little difficulty as she was bent on roam ing the streets and tearing her clothes off She was young and apparently respectable and raved constantly about some man who seemed to be nearly connected with her affairs She was de livered up to the proper authorities in the morn ing and either returned to her friends or placed in the hospital Accident A young man was run away with by a horse which he was riding on Woodward avenue yesterday and thrown from the saddle being considerably injured by the fall The ani mal took fright at an uncouth dray load of house hold traps the principal component of which was rattling tin pans and started up the avenue turn ing near the Grand Circus into a cross street and thence into an alley finally bringing up by jump ing a fence into back yard The ri der who had kept his seat with a commendable stick to ativeness was floored by the last feat and hurt by the fall The occurrence was the cause of quite an excitement and as related to us was attended with no little danger to both pedestrians ajnd rider Shot Nashville March 18 Capt Dismukes while returning with his wife from the theatre on Wednesday night was at tacked by four men and shot His wounds will probably prove fatal Mr Explanation of lila Connection with the Slekles Case New York March 12 To th Editor of the Times In issue of your paper there are seve ral very erroneous statements calculated to do my character great injury and therefore 1 take this means of stating the truth A paragraph has been going the rounds of the papers for a fortnight now stating that a Mr of New York was violently in love with Mrs Sickles during the session of Congress a year ago fcc tc which I forbore to notice for seve ral reasons hoping that as only the initial of my name was used it would "attract but little at tention at least in New York and I would be spared the mortification of having my name asso ciated in print with those of the actors in this tragedy and at the same time knowing that my friends in Washington whose good opinion I care to possess would at once pronounce it ridic uteua But since another has appeared Stillmore false and injurious it is my duty to answer it in full i sai cv Among the few acquaintances that I regretted making in Washington was that of a Mr a clerk in the Interior Department with whom I became quite intimate by meeting him frequently with his wife at Mr house ormerly of Albany he knew my parents and apparently took a warm interest in me always but very soon as this sequel discloses I found him to be though a man in years beyond the meridian of life in honor far beyond its faintest twilight He met me one evening at Hotel and took me aside so that he would be un beard by the bystanders and opened the subject of Mr attentions to Mrs Sickles in the most confiden tial tone making several very indelicate remarks about Mrs Sickles and asking my opinion of her on several points Although I talked 4 nitc guardedly even to him friend that I thought he was who had expressed himself very openly and in a manner calculated to injure any lady provided I had given his re marks circulation unluckily I ottered several tri flingjokes about the female sex in general and about her and to my great surprise I was soon in formed by Mr Sickles himself in his own bouse that he had received a written statement of spe cific calumnies against bis wife and Mr Key as circulated by me publicly when the only person that I had ever uttered a'syllable to that could by the liveliest imagination or the most ingenious perversion be construed into anything derogato ry to Mrs Sickles was this man Nor did Mr attention to Mrs Sickles awaken any sus picions of any improper intimacy in my mind until Mr called my attention to the subject and then 1 did not give it scarce a thought As to being at the time this is a gratuitous falsehood originating undoubted ly from no one but an inveterate enemy I bad not been on any spree at all nor was I in the habit of drinking but very moderately and then nearly always in the society of ladies at receptions and parties One evening Mrs Sickles sent me a note desi ring to see me particularly at 7 I called and found Mrs Bagioli and a young man a re porter in the House of Representatives seated in the parlor Mrs Bagioli then informed me for what Mrs Sickles desired to see me Mr Sickles soon made his appearance and asked what I said about his wife in connection with Mr name And I told him as I have stated nothing but The Daily ree rew the TrI Weekly 3 the Weekly 1 per invariably In advance The Daily to city subscribers 12 cent per week WILBUR STOREY 1 TO a RO I Burned to Mrs Rhoda DeVai wife of Allen DeVai of armington Ontario county was burned to death on Thursday She was in delicate health and while sitting near the fire being alone at the time her clothes caught fire and she was horribly burned before assistance reached her At about 12 the same night she gave birth to a little girl and died at about the same hour the next night They were both buried in the same coffin Shall I go on any more little wife? Shall I tell them how hard 1 found it to win you back to me? how I the Grand Seignior did uot get my wife by a mere throwing of the handkerchief but was obliged to go on my knees obliged to out rage all foregone conclusions and determina tions about my matrimonial needs and about the proper view and bearings of matrimony Shall I tell them of your troubles in those Jong years of separation and bow you are changed thereby and yet the graver soberer equa ble and quiet but Daisy still? No do you say 1 have written enough? Then I will write no more Eove Jealousy Attempted Mnrdcr and Sniclde rom the St Ionis Democrat March 17 Only three months ago Jas Hamilton twenty four years of age amiable and prospering was in this city joined in marriage with Mary Coffey a gentle but spirited girl of eighteen Yesterday lorenoon with the most premeditated and mur derous intent be shot her at his house aud then fatally shot himself The circumstances connect ed with this latest tragedy of love and jealousy are nearly as follows: Mary bad been for four years employed in the family of Mr Mosely Green engraver and upon her marriage Hamilton rented two upper rooms of Mr Green at the residence of the latter on the west side of Seventh street a few doors north of He was doing a good business at his work shop on ifth street near ranklin avenue and they appeared to be unqualifiedly happy But as we learn his own relatives were opposed to the marriage and retained their hostility after its consummation About a week ago his sisters visited him with a young lady to whom he was formerly attached and apparently with the object of annoying his wife He rather sternly dismissed the young lady Subsequently he became moody suspicious harassed and unmistakably and mis erably jealous So far as we learn he bad not the slightest cause unless it were the intimations of his wife's enemies His demeanor remained re markably kind and affectionate but he appeared excited aud inexplicable and armed himself with two single barreled pistols His peculiar mood and the pistols frightened his wife and she beg ged he would lay aside the weapons To her en treaties he rather ironically renlied that he could in no contingency harm her Mrs thought of secretly removing and concealing the pistols but the reflection that he would find others and might be made the more dangerous if dangerous he were prevented her In the meantime his con duct became trying he was abstracted deeply de jected reproachful sarcastic and at times appa rently demented She met his intimations with a spirit and reserve which probably aggravated his morbidness At about eleven yesterday forenoon Mrs Green was induced by hearing a loud altercation in which Mrs was speaking in tones of alarm to enter their room She found the vexed wife in the act of packing her trunks for a departure! One truuk was packed and another was In hand Mrs asked Mrs to accompany her to the Cathedral The husband said You want to go for a divorce do He added so that you can marry She deigned him no re ply He then stepped to Mr room returned grasped his wife by the right arm and drew a pistol She stood proudly erect folded her arms and looked defiantly in his face He snapped the pistol but it missed fire He then drew It down drew another pistol and fired! The ball took effect in her arm above the wrist and then passed into her right side near the ribs She ran out screaming Save me save me and fled by the rear into the next house northward occupied by Mrs Norton The desperate man followed while Mrs Green ran for aid He was boldly and sharply confronted by Mrs Norton who informed him that he should do no shooting in her house and who despite his drawn pistol summarily ejected him from the room and fastened him out! He then loudly swore he would kill himself and was cooly advised by Mrs to do it in the yard and not in her hall The report of a pistol was instantly heard On opening the room door he was found prostrated and bleeding in the outer and rear doorway Assistance having arrived he was con veyed into an unoccupied front room of Mr residence and laid on a pallet of strafr A most horrible wound had been inflicted for the wretch bad discharged the entire contents of his third pistol in the upper abdominal region near the navel The intestines spleen and liver were shockingly mangled A pool of blood had flowed in the yard and the crimson torrent was still flowing despite the bandages applied Dr Vas tine of ifth and Market streets was summoned and rendered what surgical relief was possible Mrs wounds were dressed by Dr razer In whose excellent custody she remains The coqrse of the ball could not yeetejday be tablished fact to bring to my mind the precise manner in which the news had reached me How ever I succeeded at length in recalling the let ter from my friend and also the confirmation of the former tidings in my mother's letter received in Italy I learned (but not wholly then) what had been the true state of the case When my friend wrote of approaebiug marriage to Daisy Lowther had been willing enough to make that assertion true It was at that time she had refus ed to marry him and consequent upon this re fusal to me to have beeu his marriage with his cousin so soon after Whether in pique or whether in the way of consolation did not clearly appear but at all events the marriage had turned out happily My mother's notifica tion to me was substantially true Lowther was married at that time Daisy then was not dead but the phantom of that night how was it to be explained? I asked for news about her and Lowther told me that be had lost sight of her for some time that after her father's death she had gone out as a governess that he had offered help to her in vain that she was too proud to accept help from an old lover inferences even injurious to Mrs Sickles but merely generalities without the slightest design or malice and these to no one but whom I regarded as a true friend and almost as an inmate of his household so frequently was he there He told me who his informant was but not the charges Excited and engaged beyond control I told Mr Sickles on the impulse of the moment that what I had said I had said and was person ally responsible for and left the house which I never entered afterwards In a day or so a personal friend of mine and Mr Key called on me and banded me a note from Mr Key demanding if I was responsible for the vile calumnies that Mr attributed to me I immediately answered the note stating that they were pure fabrications falsehoods This was all that ever passed between Mr Key and I made no retraction for I had none to make I have a copy of the charges that Mr impu ted to me now in my possession which was liktid ed to me at the same time as the note and they are so serious and euonuous that no one but a lunatic could think of mentioning them let alone giving them public circulation even if lie pos sessed the most undoubted proofs of their truth No one endowed with one grain of forethought could ever be so imprudent especially in Wash ington One evening I met at Hotel and there In the office I pushed towards him with a cane in my hand intending to apply it to him promptly at the same time tiestowing several just but rather harsh epithets upon him but he plead so winningly for me to go out in the street and adjust the matter that 1 went desirous of keeping the affair tor Mr sake as private as pos sible who bad been very kind to me and I there repeated my compliments and again received so many soft entreaties to be calm and he would set tle the matter all satisfactorily I then sent a friend who told Mr that he had grossly wronged me he then said that he would not in jure my character for anything that he must have been beside himself Ac and solemnly promised to retract everything on paper the next day which he did not do nor meet me according to promise Then I sent him a note be answered it making another engagement which be did not keep and so it went on repeatedly promising and as often breaking his promises until I was obliged to re turn suddenly to New York to attend to family af fairs without seeing I would have challenged him but I considered that it would be degrading myself to too low a degree to have it known in Washington society that 1 had condescended to send a challenge to an object (that I ascertained soon to my astonish ment) who was despised by those that 1 did not think fit companions for myself In the meanwhile 1 sent Mr Sickles an ample apology explaining the matter as here stated al though Mr Sickles did not demand it Very respectfully STEPllEN BEEKMAN Jr New York The Washington Tragedy It is reported to be the intention of Mr Sickles in case of his ac quittal to leave this country for extensive travel in foreign lands where he may hope by escaping from all associations with his former state to gradually withdraw his mind from the depressing contemplation of his late terrible misfortune When and where the suit for divorce will take place has not yet transpired A very unequivocal indication of public senti ment here in reference to this matter occurred at the theatre on Tuesday night for when Mrs II Allen in her role of Martha Gibbs launched with thrilling effect her denunciations against the acts of the unprincipled libertine who pursued her the entire house broke into spontaneous and vehement applause which for a moment inter rupted the business of the stage Washington cor Herald Sale of a The Iron Mountain Railroad from Marquette Lake Superior 18 miles inland has been sold to the Bay de Nocquet Company and will be completed to Bay de Noc quet on Lake Michigan a distance of 50 miles The completion of two miles more of the Iron Mountain road will entitle it to 120 sections (76800 acres) of land The new company will push the road along at once and open a route to Lake Superior by rail from the rest of the world The portion of the road already built surmounts the ridge of the peninsula and rises a thousand feet above Lake IM Com Adv Horrible The Natchez ree Trader thus details the fate of Capt Jackson of the steamer Princess who perished with the rest: Capt Jackson was sitting in a chair on the hurri cane deck leaning back against the skylights when the explosion took place and was blown up and coming down with the timbers of the shattered wreck was caught among them by the neck and shoulders where he remained struggling till the flames gathered around and about him burned the timbers that sustained him and he fell to be seen no more into the raging fire below Probable Suicide Milwaukee March 18 A man who registered his name Jackson Rochester was found dead in bed at the Newhall House this evening having probably committed suicide as laudanum was found on his person A Crevasse Memphis March 18 The water broke through the banks at Taluma five miles above Vicksburg on Wednesday night destroying plantation and flooding the country Peak St Louis March 19 Mr Allison arrived at Independence yesterday from Pike's Peak He reports it a humbug no money there and no probabilities of being any LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH A Dangerous The walk across Campus Martins from the Russell House to the Railroad Hotel corner on the east line of Wood ward avenue is 512 feet in length and foot pas sengers are entirely unprotected from teams for the entire distance A few iron or stone posts connected with chains would afford protection and be appreciated by a very large number of by the ladies who are com pelled to pass over this long open space In other cities much shorter crossings than this are protected in this manner Divine Services To or Church Direc tory gee third page of this sheet our Persons Nine Se surely and Severn! Slightly Injured Novel Iog Suit A novel dog suit canine fore one of the justices yesterday Two Ger mans respectively owned dogs one of which was a large and ferocious bull dog and the other a pug nosed little cur that was as saucy and snap pish as he was insignificant He presumed upon liis small szc to insult every dog great or small Unit came within his reach and was especially impudent to the bull dog whoso master lived xt door A few mornings since he carried the matter to au unusual extent probably having had his temper soured in the matter of breakfast ami the large dog snapped his head off at a single bite He only had time for one yelp which brought his owner to the door in time to see his tail disappear down the throat of the large dog who fairly ate him up and swallowed him His was in a tremendous rage and prosecuted his neighbor for his value in cash The case seated great amusement and was not concluded Jesterday The Correspondence of tho Journal of Commerce Paris ebruary 24 1859 The fetes at court at the Hotel de Ville and at the ministerial palaces in honor of the Royal bride the Princess Clotilde are marked by un unprece dented magnificence by an increase of extrava gance and luxury That ottered by the city of Paris was marvelously superb reminding the spectators ot the fantastic details of the wondrous fetes of the Anu im Nights halls transformed into avenues and gardens the atmosphere laden with the odors of many thousand exotic plants and flowers aud tel resbed with the spray ot cas cadesof living water Eight thousand guests is the number computed as present and nine thou sand applications for invitations were refused Thexolieof the ball was feait'ul then came as all other incidents of life the refers de In medailte the grand staircase aud hall crowded with jaded dancers patiently or impatiently waiting one hour and in many cases two for servants aud carriages the unfortunate lackeys seeking in vain among the dense crowd for masters and mistresses Many a fair lady paddled in satin slippers through greasy mud and under a pleasant Parisian driz zle without wrapping for several squares before the equipage could be found An accident oc curred the night previous to the fete which re quired the labor of many hundred workmen to restore the Hotel de Ville to any degree of dry ness The huge pipe which serves to conduct the water which supplies the cascades burst and the palace was literally inundated But so active were the exertions and so unflagging the labor of the employes that before 9 in the evening the saloons bore no traces of the accident The luxury of the entertainments of this sea son is not reserved to the courts aud diplomatic circles A visit to the brilliant establishment of La Hoche a I'Escalier de Crystal Galerie de Vo tors Palais Royal will give some idea of the sumptuousness which characterizes all the appur tenances of the dinner and the supper tables The beauty of the paiutiugs on the chiua the ex quisite lightness and grace of the filigree gold and silver work in which the crystal dessert ser vices and ornaments are mounted are unequaled as specimens of rench taste In rance art is as it were domesticated we find it among the every day things of life Euler a private bouse or holei in Loudon and the furniture of every room would be as near akiu in shape color and materials as hands could make it But in Paris nearly every article is of a novel design the lead ing idea being to make the household things not only practically useful for the purposes for which they are fashioned but pleasing und grateful to the vision The bonnets most worn (the creations of our favorite miliner Madame Aiphonsine 12 Rue de Helder) are composed either of terry velvet with a trimming of plain velvet or plain velvet and crape decorated with feathers Those of quilted white satin are very elegant when trimmed with a scarf of groseille velvet embroidered in silk or simply edged with a bias fold of the same col ored velvet and having a bow of black lace on the front and a small bow of lace in the cap mixed with small bouquets of groseille primroses Among the number of bonnets we noticed oue or dered by the Empress entirely of black velvet the whole of the decorations of pink satin with the exception of the strings which are of black satin The most graceful and distinguished toi lettes at the late conn festivities were those from the Maison anvet 4 Rue de Menars one of which is a robe of white moire antique sprinkled with bouquets of large pansies worked in the silk The skirt like all others intended for full dress has a short train and is ornamented with tulle puffings forming an aprou and looped up by agrafes of pearls and gold aud Pompadour bows Jwith gold fringe Between each puffing there is a satin roll decorated with gold fringe and blonde The berthe consists of puttings separated in loz enges by a gold fringe and blonde and bows to match those of the skirt are placed on the skirt A second toilette more suitable to young dancers has awhile silk or satin skirt entirely covered by fourteen rows of tulle puffings each row separa ted by white satin rolls The berthe aud sleeves consist of the same style of tulle pullings but are separated with Imperial cordons of blue cineraria and branches of heath The Cambrai laces from the manufacture of erguson ct Jils 40 Rue des Jeuneurs are now not only used as ornaments on bonnets mantles cloaks but also decorate robes for full dress Deep and rich flounces sufficiently elegant to bo worn over a colored satin dress can be purchased for $5 and $6 the metre Chantiliy lace of the same quality costs 100 150 200 francs the yard aud is scarcely to be distinguished from the Cambrai which has the advantage of greaterdu rability the texture of the lace being stronger The firm of erguson are wholesale merchants but the lace can lie procured in all the large magasins of Paris it is the only real all the other fabrics are imitations of the Chan tilly The display of jewelry at court and at an tertainments of the aristocracy is this ear truly magnificent Some of the parures and orna ments for the dress lately mounted at the estab lishment of Baudin Ao 7 Rue de la Raise are ex quisite specimens of the perfection of the jewel art The jeweled buckles and those of wrought gold aud silver are a novel and very pretty ornament In this age of luxury precious gems are not especially reserved for the toilette the numerous trifles which decorate etageres and dressing tables are studded with stones of value Tho beautiful sachets for holding handkerchiefs and gloves to be found at aquer's No 83 Rue de Richelieu are embroidered with pearls and coral Among the in fashionable have occupied the attention lately of the gossip ing world of Parisian society that of the eldest son of the Baron James de Rothschild has excited no little interest Tho trousseaux corbeil and wed ding festivities were marked of course with as much magnificence and luxury as a lavish ex penditure of golden dollars could produce It is stated that on the day of the marriage the Baron de Rothschild presented the bride with a small pocket book On the young lady opening it she found an inscription of rente of 500110 francs (10000 dollars) That said the Baron is quite independent of the allowance which your husband will give you each year for your toilette and private expenses This money will serve for your charities fancies or any use you choose to make of The income of the fortune of all the houses of Rothschild those of London Paris and Vienna is computed at tiro hundred million of dol lars The presentation of the bill to the Senate de manding for the dotation of the Imperial a supplement of 700000 francs per anuum for the matrimonial establishment of the Prince Napoleon 800000 francs and 200000 francs dower for the Princess Clotilde was effected a few days since No opposition is to be expected or feared from the right royally salaried Senators to the will of the sovereign and the bill will probably pass through the house without a dissenting vote Inundation and lood The heavy rain of yesterday has not only caused a heavy freshet in the river but also an inundation The river con tinued to rise during the day and at 11 o'clock the water reached the first floor of thp warehouses on the pier During the night it continued to rise rapidly and at daylight this morning the water was two feet high in the warehouses The pier is not only inundated but the stores on the dock can only be reached in boats Many of the cellars on Broadway as well as those on the streets east of it leading to the dock are inun Albany Journal 16A New Patents Among the patents issued from the 8 Patent Office for the week ending the loth inst were one to Edwards of ranklin Mich tor improvement in machine for 1 folding wool and one to Upton of Battle Creek Mich for improvement in horse power 1 New Counterfeits Ones on the Internation al Bank ones on the Bank of Montreal twos on the Quebec Bank and two on the Gore all or Canada Asa Hutchinson late bass singer oi the Hutchinson family together with his wife Lizzie Cu have joined the Lies family a troup of negro performers now giving concerts in Ohio rom Washington Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun Washington March 15 Mr Appleton Assistant Secretary of State will ive effect to long entertained inclinations by re signing his position precedent to the meeting of Congress at the regular session Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce Washington March 16 It is quite certain that the administration do ot desire an extra session and will not have one unless it shall become unavoidable Provision was made in the civil appropriation Hill for the preliminary arrangements for taking the sixth census under the existing law The resident will no doubt soon appoint a buperin to ndentfor the work The Secretary of the Inte ri or follow the plan of the last census in rei et enc ill statistics unless Congress order other ise Several persona have been bitten by supposed 1 uad dog in Lowell Mass and the vicinity CANADA ITEMS Public Meeting A meeting of the citizens of Windsor opposed in politics to the present Ca nadian Ministry was held at the Town Hall onThursday evening to discuss the issues before the present Parliament James Don gall Esq Mayor presided A resolution was Introduced by Mr denouncing the tariff views of the government and calling upon the members from Essex county to oppose the bill Speeches were made by Messrs Dougall O'Conner Bartlett and others The action of this meeting seems to have come too late to be effectual as by private advices re ceived at Windsor yesterday we learn that the government has been sustained on the tariff bill and the Essex county members are understood to have voted for it Stolen Two valuable robes one wolf am the other coon fur are at Justice Ens wurtb's office They were taken from the Gru and were undoubtedly stolen Persons who lost such property can imp set them Police Court William Henry Spencer a colored man was accused of trying to steal a piece of brass from a warehouse The witnesses for the prosecution alleged that he was trying to put it in his pocket which was considered doubtful as it weighed ten or fifteen pounds and was too large for any pocket of less size than a pair of old fash ioned saddle bags He was discharged Jane Morrissey was charged by Mrs Henry Newberry with assault and battery A difficulty occurred between the parties in regard to some property Miss boarding mistress absconded with all the effects of her boarder who to indemnify herself seized on a small por tion that was left and while in the act of re moving it on a dray was accosted by the com plainant and another woman Home words pass ed and an assault was committed for which the defendant was fined $25 Henry Young was up for whipping his wife and smashing the furniture The cause of his domes tic difficulties was liquor He was a miserable degraded being who has been in jail for a length of time and was hardly able to stand from the effects of hard drinking His wife convicted him and then went aud gave him a hug before he was taken off to jail He went up for ninety days Jack McCann was convicted of an unprovoked and malicious assault on a girl The case was mentioned yesterday as occurring the night be fore the girl being driven into the street in her night clothes with some severe wounds inflicted by the brutality of the chivalrous young men who kicked her door in She Baid she sewed for a living and resided alone He plead guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or go to jail for ninety days Vincenza was accused byMadalina Arretta of an assault and battery As the names indicate the parties were Italian the latter being a beggar girl and the former a plaster image ma ker The girl alleged that he made an attempt upon her person two years ago The defence maintained that the prosecution was for the pur pose of extorting money and showed that efforts had been made to settle it for payment Jle was fined $20 in default to go to jail for forty days Nelly Green was convicted of the larceny of a pair of pantaloons and a shirt from a clothing store The case came up the 12th inst in a pros ecution against a clerk in the same store for the same offence the court discharging him and arresting the girl She accompanied him to his employer's store and left to go home in the night The clothing was afterwards found in her posses sion she alleging that he gave it to her while he averred that she stole it In the matter of veracity one was as credible as the other She was fined $20 or forty days in jail Michael McCue was caught stealing meat When detected he dropped his plunder and took to his heels He is an old customerinthe Police Court Sent up for ninety days Martin Kalary raised a row among his house hold and caused the neighbors to interfere He pummeled and pounded promiscuously and was convicted for thirty days or a fine of $15 Patrick Holey got drunk and whipped his wife and smashed the furniture His affectionate dem onstrations disgusted his family who had him arrested He was fined $5 Walter Bender a rough nigger was np for steal ing something He said he didn't know 'bout it got no friends nor no place to go to He came from Canada and thoughtSand wich jail was a humbug because they made pris oners saw wood in there He was discharged James Scully aud Mary Murphy' tip for being drunk were discharged The Billiard Hall has been secured for the great billiard match to take place on the 12th of next month The room has been engaged for a week or ten days previous to the day of the match and preparations will be made for the accommodation of a large number ot spectators TUe table will be placed in the centre of the room A space will be allowed sufficient for the use of the players and the re mainder will be filled with chairs To give all an opportunity to see the floor will be gradually raised from the centre to the walls on each side so that each person will overlook the head of the one in front of him ive dollars is charged for admittance and a large number of tickets are already sold The high price will keep out a promiscuous crowd who would otherwise flock in and will not deter any of the class whose presence is desired viz: those who are interest ed in billiards Such an opportunity does not occur often and no gentleman who is a devotee of this very popular game will miss it Mr Phe lan and his friends will be on several days before the time of playing to attend to his interests and sec every thing in proper trim A match of less note will be played on the day previous to the great one This is between Mi chael oley of the Russell House and Cavanagh of New York both excellent but stars of smaller magnitude than the pants in the other match This match looked upon with some interest by connoisseurs as good (flaying is always agreeable to them and will serve to whet appet ites for the more substan tial treat which is to carry with it the champion ship of America Child Desertion Novel uneral A child was found dead in the street yesterday morning near the old Water Works It was apparently but a few hours old and was wrapped in swad dling clothes without any other covering Some vagabond children who were playing near the spot which was on a vacant lot first discovered it These following out the bent of juvenile in stinct appropriated tho little corpse and without saying a word to anybody made preparations for a grand funeral being highly delighted at having a real body to bury The attention of passers by was attracted by their movements and they were discovered gathered around a cigar box in which they had placed the child in the act of saying prayers with folded handsand solemn countenan ces A detachment with shingles were waiting with great eagerness to dig the grave and all were thrown into a high state of indignation at having their funeral disturbed hate Io record another startling and disas trous accidents on one of our most central and important railroad linen by which several persons hove lieen suddenly swept into eternity aud a large number seriously or slightly injured The liti ncss of the hour at which we receive our par io iflais forbids very detailed stateincut but we give hastily such facts as we have been able to gather The night express train which left Windsor at a quarter past seven on riday evening when ahout a mile cast of lamboro station was driven horn the track and precipitated down an embank ment of about fifty feet in height making an al most total wreck of the engine the baggage sec ond class aud two first class cars The train consisted of thoengine baggage car one second class and three first class cars and had about the usual complement of passengers It was going at the ordinary rate of speed which for this train was about twenty miles an hour The night was dark the rain pouring in tor rents and the wind blowing a perfect hurricane 1 train left Paris at twenty minutes past one lock yesterday morning and should have run Hu ncc to Hamilton without stopping which re quiresone hour and twenty five minutes Thepas I ligers had therefore composed themselves for leap those in the last car which was a sleeping car hiving ictired to their berths The train had ueen moving steadily on for about an hour and hsd just passed the small station known as lam boro which is teu miles west of Hamilton when a was suddenly and without the least notice or anticipation on the part of any one on board pre ipitnted down the embankment Thescenethat en ued was horrible beyond description The shrieks and groans of the wounded and the cries el those who were so suddenly awakened from limn sleep to find themselves being hurled ilinmgh the air and falling amid wrecks of coachesml the burning steam of the the pitchy darkness of the night the pouring rain nil conspired to render the occurrence ono which no person would ever wish to witness a second time Those who were uninjured at once set to work to relieve the wounded and to osenc those who were buried in the ruins Assistance was also procured speedily from Hamilton The following are known to have been instantly killed: George Morgan the engineer of the train Hamilton William Milne brakeman Alexander Braid of Hamilton late Superintendent of Loco motives ol the Great Western Railway and Jones Hover a German from Ohio 'I he following is a list of the wounded so far as rscertained: Smith Kalamazoo Mich head and leg slightly bruised Henry Post Buffalo 7 leg broken itch Adams Buffalo head lip and legs his wife and two children who were in company with him were uninjured John Anderson brakeman head slightly ent: Hiram Cook Hamilton slightly bruised1 II Smith Brighton Livingston Co Mich side ami leg slightly bruised Mrs Jones Boyer wife Jones Boyer (killed) face cut and upper jaw broken: lier infant boy bad his leg broken 1 here were number more slightly bruised but these we believe are all that were seriously in jured The wounded were taken to Hamilton where everything was done for them that could be devised and tho best medical and surgical aid summoned by the officers of the road The accident was caused by the washing away of the embankment about one mile east of lam loro station At this place the road is on a heavy grade extending from Lynden to Hamil ton by which the road descends from the high I aide lands to the level of Lake Ontario At the point of the accident the road sweeps around a IhuIi bluff and crosses a piece of open plain in onler to accomplish which and to keep the grade ot th road an embankment of several hundred lest in length and from fifty to one hundred feet height has been thrown up This plain was mii'iimlly crossed by a trestle work bridge but has more lately been filled in with earth the tres th wotk maining under the embankment The iiu as is usual in the construction of railways had been lifted from the trestle work when the Hihaiikment was formed and rested upon the'did earth file flood ot water which had i' ii falling during the night had found escape among the timbers composing the tn st le woi and had gradually worn iiibnnkincnt away until just at the mo lueiit of the passing of the fatal train when it was too weak longer to sustain such ft weight and it all wont down The engine was precipita ted to the bottom of the sluice or break and the other cut were tiled up upoff it The last car the sleeping car hung in fearful position over the ehasm being tipped up at an angle of about forty live degrees but prevented from going down only by a fortunate lodgment against some of the tim bers The embankment was found to be washed i vay for a length of one hundred and fifty feet ati point where the track was at a height above the level of the plain of about fifty feet according to eume statements and one hundred to others It does not seem that any blame attaches to uity parties The roadway was sufficiently secure tr nil purposes aud no thoughts of its ever giving way in this fearful and disastrous manner had ever occurred to the managers of the road That it wrs just previous to this time in its usual good iulei is apparent from the fact that a heavy height train had passed over it but forty minutes advance of the fatal train and it hail been sits imcd with no indications of weakness urther than tliis the trackmen had been alongthe eveninguevionand I 'in liilly examined every portion of in' track which was found to be in its usual con inion The accident can therefore be attributed to no other cause than the unprecedented force the elements 1 Im trains have been all disarranged by this "crinrcnce which has rendered a change of trains necessary at this point The train that was due hero yesterday afternoon at half past one lock did not reach Windsor until nearly ten lock last night The telegraph lines being this train brought the first intimation of 'lie accident Tho break will be repaired we are informed by Tuesday when the trains will beignin running with Jbcir accustomed regularity In the meantime passengers aud their baggage will be conveyed around the break by tho com vehicles MY GHOST Daisy came to us at Christmas and that Christmas saw the end of our engage ment It is useless to detail all the petty words and doings which led to this rupture My mother is dead (God rest her soul and the wrong that she did was done for love of me She would have been jealous of any one whom I loved bet ter than for whom I meditated leaving her and to Daisy she had taken a strong dislike before she even saw her They were the opposites of each other and could no more sympathize than fire could mingle with water My mother was of cold temperament precisely bred looking upon surface properties as vital matters never suffering a wave of passion or strong feeling to disturb the visible level of her nature proud of her good blood and of her competent wealth Daisy was what I have sketched her and more over she was poor and neither knew nor cared about her pedigree My orthodoxy was shocked at her rambling speculations it was a sin she thought for any girl to have a deep thought beyond her catechism her creed and the established interpretation thereof She was shocked at her undisguised fondness for me when Daisy on my first arrival ran up to me and hung about my neck my mother blushed scarlet I had dreaded their coming together and the event I soon saw would prove worse than my forebodings The first symptom of my aversion was a rigid silence about Margaret when alone with me then came the old hints about cunning entrapments and in addition allusions to want of modesty and religion then plainer sayings and the issue was hard words between mother and son and consequent quarrel and es trangement mother does not like said my poor little betrothed to me continually and looked io my face with her solemn eyes and read the truth there though my lips evaded it It was soon plain enough Greater familiarity emboldened my mother's tongue and cruel innuendoes and re lentless sarcasms became broader and broader day by day My mother is dead (God rest her soul!) and I will write no more of this for I can not write forgivingly even now One morning my darling came to me and said quietly You shall not marry and then she threw herself into my arms and kissed me passionately and she was gone I stormed aud raged in vain That episode of my life was over Daisy! Daisy! if hearts do do in their agony wring forth bitter tears of then my heart bled when I lost you! Did I cry out No wife you have fall en asleep over your work and dreamed it Do not come to iook over me You snail read story when it is finished I sowed a plentiful crop of wild oats at Cam bridge which bore their mingled produce of good and ill When I came home after degree for a week before I set off for 1 taly I was much more cynical and stoical than in the days of my matric ulation The old heart wounds had cicatrix ed long ago and the heart had become more callous in cicatrization It would have taken much to make me fall in love now and if I had done so I should have stifled the weakness before I had con fessed it even to myself That past quarrel was made up between my mother and me but we generally by mutual consent fenced round that ugly pit with a wall of silence I had lost all sight of the Mainwarings I never heard their name never suffered myself to think about them Only in my dreams little Daisy would sometimes rise up her head drooping beneath the weight of brown hair and her solemn eyes fixed always tenderly on mine Lowther had been my fellow collegian but he the rich man did not stay to take his degree as I did to whom the prestige of that ceremony would be serviceable at the bar So of Lowther 1 had lost sight also for a year or more On the last morning of my sojourn at home before my departure I sat reading my letters at the breakfast table reading aloud a scrap here and there which I thought might interest my mother Suddenly I became silent as in a letter from a college friend I came upon this passage: remember old Lowther Did you ever think it possible that the stolid Hercules would find his Omphale? Yet none the less found she is and Hercules is a slave and only all his wealth will ransom him He is going to be married The affair is to come off immediately Omphale is not precisely a queen in fact is a poor little devil of a milliner or a governess or something of that sort her name Mainwaring People talk with horror abont the mesalliance I do not see it in that light A man might do worse than marry a milliner You see I am reading for ordi nation and so getting I turned white and gasped for breath The ok) wound burnt like fire and throbbed as if the cicatrice would break What is the matter said my mother There is bad All my cynicism rose to help me Not at all I said You remember a little person whom you never would call Daisy? Well the said little person is about to be married to a friend of mine It is a good match The pearl is a pearl of great price and has sold itself for fifteen thousand per Shame on me for that sentence but all old jealousy had sprung up within more acrid than it had ever been before who is the asked my mother in a low voice but flushing to her temples The wall of silence was down and the air from the pit was unwholesome with fire damp I read her face As the old love had awakened in my breast so the old fear had awakened in hers She guessed what my pale face meant and I knew the mean ing of the flush on hers She should not read my weakness thus purchaser happy man be his I answered is a Sir Hercules Lowther A certain person and he were riva long ago but what mere mortal man can strive with a Hercules par ticularly when that Hercules has a handle to his name and fifteen thousand a year? said changing my tone I am glad that Miss Mainwaring is about to make so good a match Notwithstanding your antipathy to her my good mother she was a very good girl in her I went to Italy and remained there and about the coast of the Mediterranean for a year Do what I would Daisy still haunted my dreams always the same sometimes even to the small ink stained fingers cramped with long holding of the pen I laughed savagely about the marriage This was constancy Not three years and she was married and to Lowther too who from reminiscences of old days must con stantly remind her of me I confessed now that I still loved her confessed it as a penance to my self pressing it down on my sore heart like a cauterizing iron and writhing under the pain of my own self contempt Still from week to week I was not sure that the marriage had taken place I always hoped that it was not yet consummated Not to day let it be to morrow Some six months after I had left home there was a sentence in one of my mothers letters which settled the matter Your friend Sir she wrote was married last week I have seen the announcement in this Certainty is bet ter thau uncertainty the fall of sword is more bearable than its suspension I need not narrate here how by degrees I regained peace of mind a peace of mind truer and healthier than had been my former cynicism I learned to look on marriage in its true light What right had I (dog in the manger that I was) to dream of monopolizing her who could not marry me whom my kin had injured beyond redemption? Without marriage a life was incomplete in this world Lowther would make her a good and loyal husband better than I should Low ther had never been nearly so wild as I had never so hardened and debased his better nature I forgave forgave Could she have for given me? My mother died before I reached England again Never more could that sad quarrel be renewed Now I felt how that great wrong she did me she had done solely through love My soul hun gered after love and turned and gnawed itself in its desperate craving I can understand hqw friendless people in their loneliness gather dumb animals about them I settled down to my profession and worked hard My miseries passed away and the acuteness of iny feelings became numbed under the influence of close study Ambition awoke within me The more I succeeded the more I wished to succeed: the further I advanced on the road the longer grew the road before me Aided by favorable circumstances my progress was faster than usual at the bar At the age of thirty five my practice was large If ever I looked back to the love dream of my romantic boyhood it was as upon some childish toy I smiled as I recollected the old passion the soreness of heart the bitterness of spirit the weariness of life I scarcely believed it could all have been true I wondered at my former self half regretted that I was so utterly changed I was not sure that I had a heart now If that mys terious organ still existed within me it slept quietly enough To have awakened it for a mo ment to have felt the wild tumultuous struggle of which I had a vague remembrance to have felt even one twinge of the sharp pain this would have been a luxury to me now My pulse was steady and regular: the blood mechanism beat strongly and calmly in my left side my head was cool and clear I had over lived the age for that heart fever We come through those diseases as children through their childish complaints and our moral constitutions were the healthier that we had passed through them and were rid of them About thia time I determined to marry I was rich I had many friends but I had no home 1 felt the lack of those domestic comforts and that social position which only marriage can give This was a very different feeling to that loneliness which had weighed me down after my death It was partly in the form of a duty that I entertained this idea of marriage partly in the form of a sober selfish advantage 'It was desi rable to change my baohelor life which was be coming somewhat wearisome A mansion iu the more civilized quarteof the town would be an improvement on my dusty chambers within Temple Bar' I felt that it was incumbent on me to take my stand in that station of life in which I had been called to do as other men did to ex ercise the duties of hospitality to cultivate the household amenities to obey the laws of nature and society and if it might be o( to roar chil dren around me who should succeed to my name and fortune and till my place after I waa gone So I began to look round for a wife My friends soon learned that I was a marry ing man and rec ommendations came to my cars of So and so's sister and Such an daughter Mammas smiled on me with increased favor and incited their lovely offspring to display for me their virtues and accomplishments Many a faultless filly from model training stables was put through her paces for my behoof Having decided on the i expediency of marrying I had decided too on the I necessary qualifications for my wife Soberly and quietly lie beseemed a sensible man 1 had rea soned out the whole matter Moderate beauty a moderate fortune the conventional accomplish ments a good temper a good manner and per fect good breeding Surely a hundred such girls come from their nurseries into the marriage market every year I Very opposite was this marriage project to the 1 foolish engagement of fifteen years ago Then an 1 insane fancy for a child like myself had nearly i hurried me into the matrimonial condition for which both of ns were yet unripe We were unfit ted for each other It would have been a sacri i fice on both sides How unsatisfactorily would Daisy have filled the office which I now looked fur iu my wife 1 The woman of my search was the very antipodes to her I was wiser since that time aud now judged of the holy institution of marriage by the light of that reason which God had given me I saw the wisdom and the expedi ence of the condition aud sought to adapt that condition to my own particular requirements I Then an impulsive passion for an individual had impelled me towards marriage now having syl logistically proved the desirableness of marriage 1 I made deliberate search for the individual who should be the tit means to the accomplishment of that end It is by the heart only that man is misled let him use his reason and be is safe I had professional business in the north of 1 England and I arranged to stay for a night on my 1 way at the seat of a friend in one of the midland i counties Of course this friend had a daughter i I went to view this daughter as I should have i gone to look at the pointe of a horse which I I thought might suit me if I had wanted a I had seen Miss Dalton in London during the 1 last season She had all the requisite advanta ges which I have mentioned above and to this favored person I the Grand Seignior felt inclined at length to throw the handkerchief I would see her at home aud then make up my mind in the affirmative or the negative On the 1 railway platform I met au old friend no other 1 than Lowther He was in deep mourning and bis 1 black dress together with the change which time bad worked ou him made me at first uncertain of his identity However in a moment we recog nized each other shook hands and took our seats in the same carriage My heart gave one throb and slept again I had not seen Lowther since his marriage He had broadened into a portly country gentleman and in his stolid countenance had gained a gravity which looked not unlike wisdom His deep voice had a majestic roll in it and his low speech a deliberation suggestive of well weighed words I was amused at the form into which his juvenile stolidity had ripened I learned from his conversation that his wife was not long dead Again the throb at my heart had a long quivering tremor ere it subsided to rest Daisy! Her girlish figure rose before me vividly tor a moment and then gradually faded 1 noted on Lowther's finger a memorial ring of brown hair and it imprinted Low ther was bound for an estate of his in the north not far from my ultimate destination He made me promise to come to him for a day before I re turned to London A meeting with an old fellow collegian is always pleasant this sociality of 1 those early days retains its hold upon us through life Lowther and I for this and for other causes were glad to see each other and shook hands heartily and warmly when we separated My receptiou by the Daltons was kindly aud had that domestic charm about it which is wou drously agreeable to the bachelor It is some thing to be received eufamille when one has not a home of own I liked Amy Dalton better in the old fashiouod country house than in the Lon dou ball rooms I liked her kindness to the chil dren when they came down after dinner Chil dren cannot be bribed or scolded into acting love where they do not feel love I liked the hints which I heard of her household handiness and of homely duties diligently performed by her I liked her stories about the village folk showing not in the way of exhibition how she visited their cottages and read to them Above all I liked her because she did not try to captivate me did not parade her accomplishments and her virtues be fore me 1 had seen too much of that lately All these little favorable traits were so much thrown iu over and above the essentials in the bargain which I meditated At night I retired to the library I had wri ting to do which must be done for to post I wrote my letters and then threw myself into an easy chair by the dying tire Instead of Amy thoughts of Daisy rose within thoughts long stifled and dead Those summer days came back the wanderings in Landslip the sketches her childish petulance her wild spirits her fits of melancholy her foolish dreams and speculations i remembered how she used to disappear in the hazel thickets how her little head bad lain upon my knees how at that last parting she laid her self into my arms and passionately kissed me Now that she was dead it seemed as if her mar riage with Lowther was wiped away She waa mine once more The old feelings rushed back in a torrent 1 tried to stem them but in vain My heart awoke from its sleep and proclaimed its om nipotence aud my frigid reason shrunk away be fore its fiery sceptre There waa a sound The handle of the door turned and the door creaked and opened Good God! was I mad? There in the doorway stood a little figure dressed in black the same thin face the same heavy hair The same treble voice uttered my name A moment and she was gone I rushed forward and there was nothing A lamentable weakness this My head was affected My will came into action and beat down the struggiings of my heart and strung my nerves with its iron lingers and brought my wild thoughts under control This I impressed on my mind has been a phantom of my imagina tion I am tired and feverish after my journey and I have suffered old thoughts to get the better of me I will never let such absurdities conquer my reason again I have been a fool I lighted iny candle and went to bed Notwith standing will aud reason there was a ceaseless whisper within saying: was no trick of ima gination You have seen little Daisy to night as undeniably as you ever saw her in old days Do you not remember the promise that whoever died first should come to the Broad sunlight mostly dispels the imaginative lunacies of overnight I had feverish dreams in which Daisy and Amy played fantastic parts in terchanging their identity Amy dead Daisy alive again becoming inextricably confused in each other until they united and mingled into one phantom which I pursued vainly a shad owy something after which I yearned with a pas sion unquenchable and hopeless with a mental determination unconquerable as it was fruitless But all these clouds of darkness melted away at once before the cold light of the morning sun When I descended to breakfast I was the same calm reasonable person I had been the day be fore The vision of the previous night had been a dream like the dreams which succeeded it that was certain I banished the trivial invident from my mind resolutely cheerful fresh quiet face as she presided at the eariy breakfast had a soothing influence over me which I accepted as yet another advantage in the meditated bargain When we were married the constant presence of that quiet face would affect beneficially my daily life make my head clear keep my nerves cool I left the Daltons that morning and proceeded on my journey My business in the north was accomplished and two days after I arrived at Sir Hercules just in time to join him at his solitary dinner He was dull and silent the house had a mournful deserted aspect the ser vants moved abont with mute lips and noiseless feet All brought Daisy to my mind butthistime not so much in connection with my own feelings as iu the character of my friend's dead wife 1 pitied him for his loss As we sat by the fire over our wine he began to talk about his wife speak ing with a rough simple pathos of how good she had been and what a blessing to him Daisy I said using the tender diminu tive involuntarily All you say of her is true I know You were happy in marrying her It is something to have had her to he answered looking at me meditatively But only those who knew her can judge of my loss I feel that you sympathize with me old friend and thank you for it but you did not know Not know her? Do you think I have forgot ten the old IsIe of Wight days? Why Low ther I too once loved this little Daisy of yours I may say so now You will not be jealous of me" my wife! loved my he gasped out syllable by syllable with a slow horror and astonishment Yes you must have known it I I was wild when you married her But all that is past long ago and remembering what shewas I only feel for you the my he still muttered in a stolid sort of wonder my wife! Daisy! What! There is a he said and his face brightened slowly into intelligence There is a mistake You surely know whom I I cried certainly I do Daisy Main You are I stared at him aghast and pointed to the ring which he wore Whose hair is poor wife's I married my cousin Mar garet Lowther not Daisy Mainwaring aa you caliber That was a mere boyish fancy I would have married her at one time but she would not marry me and thank Heaven for it My wife only in all the world could have made me so happy as I have He sighed and went on: Wnw ever I vnn come bv this false notion? Where did you hear it? How on earth did it enter your By slow degrees I recalled and explained how 1 had heard of his marriage It was not easy for me having held th evnnt for so long as an Arrival of the Pacific St Johns March 19 The steamship Pacific arrived last night from Galway with dates to the 4th inst Her advices have been anticipated New Mexican Mail St Lours March 19 The New Mexican mail with dates to the 1st ijist reached Independence this evening The news is unimportant traced but her recovery is deemed quite proba ble While lying in misery npon his pallet Hamiltoji appears to have become sensible of his folly and wickedness He expressed the deepest remorse and inquired constantly and with the utmost ten derness about the wife he had tried to murder! Immediately before shooting himself he had call ed out to her that he wjshed ttTsiSrher once more before he died At about three o'cloclHn the af ternoon he assented to the suggestion that a TtYlfafik fillOYltri A vx fesm pE AAA trv ut 1UI AHU UC3HVU IU SUU IHJ clergyman of the Cathedral who consecrated hi marriage That gentleman could not be found and ather Wheelan was called in The service for the dying man was then performed Subse quently the unhappy victim was removed to the house of his step mother on Eleventh street near Tlie Carnival at New Orleans rom the Crescent March 9 Mardi Gras was blessed with bright beautiful weather and as a consequence the city was alive with Mardi Gras masking and mummery the extent and variety of the street masquerading in the afternoon exceeding anything of the kind we have seen for many years All the boys were ont in all sorts of cheap harlequin and clown disguises with bags of flour whitening each other and the negroes and leaving their floury tracks on the banquettes in all parte of the city The grown up jolly boys galloped on horseback up the town and down dressed and painted as Bedouin Arabs Indians Turks Chinese Venetian cavaliers and African negroes Groups of ludicrous maskers of all conceivable descriptions went flying around in cabs buggies furniture wagons and carriages A11 the courtesans in town appeared to be out many in male costume of all kinds from that of the primp Canal street dandy to the rollicking drunken sailor of Gallatin street and the green flat boatman of Perdido street A great many of the more prosperous and stylish females of this class went around in carriages dressed in fancy costumes of exceeding richness and beauty Untold thousands of people lined the principal streets waiting for and laughing at the flying fooleries rom the lower part of the Third Dis trict to far up iu the ourth a distance of five good miles the streets were picturesque with peo ple in Mardi Gras disguise from little children knee high to the largest sized adults It is fair to estimate that not less than twenty thousand people (the great mass of course being children negroes and miscellaneous grown people) took part in street masquerade In Gallitania (the sailor region below Jackson square) all the females were out in men's disguise and most of the men were out in dis guise In the aubourg Treme the spectacles were such as to exceed our powers of description To sum up New Orleans in the afternoon was a Pandemonium of fantastic revelry at which resi dents looked and laughed as of yore and which strangers regarded with the most perfect wonder and astonishment Hundreds of laughable col lisions took place between different parties of maskers and between maskers and the admiring crowds Our face aches now as we write from the constant grin it had to keep up during the spectacles of the afternoon The funniest thing we sasv was at the corner of Royal and Orleans streets A troupe of galloping Arabs came in collision with a furniture wagon loaded with Venetian corsairsand splendid Cir cassian slaves supposed to have been rescued from the bloody Turks who were horsing around through other parts of the city How the fight started we could not discover but it was a short fight and beautiful while it lasted The Arabs dismounted from their horses and clambered into the furniture car There was a cracking of whip handles over skulls a tearing off of masks a jer king around by hair a spilling of Circassian slaves into the street a general rough and tumble all round a frantic interference by the police and a final separation of the combatants leaving an excited crowd of spectators admiring the insaue furniture wagon driver who remained there for half an hour swearing and brandishing his whip handle in an agony of desire for satisfaction from any one or all of the Arabs who to his great grief did not return The morality of the general turn out was un questionably bad But the staid and sober por tion of the community turned out to see and laugh at the ludicrous spectacles doubtless ac cepting the merriment of the mummers as a polite apology for their existence iu the city and not begrudging them their own fashion of enjoy ment for oue day in the year On Royal and 1st Charles streets the crowds remained wailing for the parade of the Mistick Krewe of Comus particulars of which parade and of the subsequent festivities and of the gene ral jollifications everywhere will appear in the next number of this paper The Newaygo County Tragedy rom tbs Grand Rapids Enquirer March 19 Enos Merritt one of the murderers of Eli Brownson in Ensly township Newaygo county has lieen taken Sheriff Mills of Newaygo coun ty offered one hundred and fifty dollars for his conviction He was taken near Big Rapids Me costa county and brought to Newaygo and con fined in jail He acknowledges his alliance with Dopp in the murder but denies being present when the young man was killed or having shot at Mr White It is generally supposed in the vicinity of Ne waygo that Merritt did not take poison but feigned distress in order that he might escape We learn that three men who were in the vicin ity refused to search for the murderers and it is thought they were connected with Merritt and Dopp More arrests will probably be made as it is thought there is an organized gang in the vicinity Oar obliging friend Hill Esq of Neway go sends us a detailed account of the murder but having published the facts in the case we omit ail but the closing paragraph family of Mr White have only resided here a short time having removed from near Ba tavia last fall They are people of sterling worth and wide spread respectability Young Brownson was a son of Mrs White by a former nusnano zi years ot age wen educated ana great The Death ol Mike Walsh rom the Commercial Advertiser Thursday The Hon Mike Walsh was found lying dead with his neck broken this morning abont half past 5 at the foot of the steps leading to No 138 Eighth avenue His neck was dislocated and it was supposed that death was caused by deceased falling while under the influence of liquor Po liceman Courteny of the 16th precinct found the body in this position and had it removed to thestation house Some of friends were of the opinion that Mr Walsh had been robbed and thrown into the area A watch and diamond pin he was accustomed to wear were said to be missing but of this there was no reliable information The coroners were notified to hold an inquest and Coroner went up to the station house to investigate the matter The verdict as we learn by telegraph was that his death was caused by falling in a fit of apoplexy after which he was robbed by some persons Ed ree Press Deceased was a politician of much notoriety 1 and was possessed of extraordinary natural abili 1 ties He was of intemperate habits almost a 1 constant frequenter of bar rooms and other re sorts of politicians He was three times sent to 1 the Legislature and once to Congress His friends 1 ran him again for Congress but he was defeated on that occasion by Mr Kelly Deceased was said to have reformed within the past six months abstaining almost entirely from the use of liquor He leaves a wife and two children ROM WASHINGTON Philadelphia March 19 The Tribune's Washington correspondent says: fillibustering expedition against Nicaragua has beeu organizing for some time and Gen departure for California is directly connected with it as the enterprise will start from the Pacific side His recent profes sion of the Catholic faith is believed to be de signed as a propitiation to Nicaraguan sentiment but will not succeed since he is known and de tected Gen emigration scheme ostensibly for Arizona is supposed to be inspired by a similar purpose with an understanding as to a rendezvous and junction of forces The net balance in the treasury according to the weekly statement is $7000060 but a material portion of this is derived from the recent Washington March 10 All the special mail agencies seventeen in number have just been discontinued and the or der granting extra compensation out of the post ages affecting about eighty postmasters has been revoked owing to the failure of Congress to make the necessary appropriation It is not true as has been reported that Post master General Holt threatens to resign his office unless there shall be an extra session of Congress called There is much reserve in official quarters as to the extra session question aud no satisfactory response has thus far been elicited but to night there is reason to believe it is held in abeyance for the present liable to be taken uj at a future period There is a subject pending which prob ably produces the indecision namely: whether the mail service can be carried on by certificates instead of cash until Congress shall make the necessary appropriation It is a generally ac corded fact that nearly all the members of the Cabinet are opposed to the calling of an extra session of Congress The compensation of post masters and the contingent expenses of their offices amount to two millions per quarter or equal to the revenue leaving nothing forthe mail service It has been estimated that the service which is absolutely necessary to be performed will require about twice as much as the entire receipts to say nothing of the present indebted ness The next month contracts for the southern States are to be made and in view of the bank rupt condition of the Department it is reasonably supposed that the proposals will be far less favor able than if the contractors were to frame their proposals as on a cash basis Arrival of the Asia New York March 19 The steamship Asia arrived this morning with Liverpool dates to the 5th inst' Her datesj have Been anticipated by the steamer Weser arrived last evening The Asia passed on the 14th the steamer Canada effWsCtrher i 1.