Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 2

IPdr flitrtf ilrtss A1IK14MIIA stkamsiu? volun of the British Clerk be authorized SCOTCH STORE! ourth week THE IN WHICH 4 WILT STILL GO DOWN AS WE ARE DETERMINED TO CLEAR OUT or viftuiy at Ji jes Scuta aiT the the vantage the prayer and adopted street and report if in eaid street Re the the r''r 7 GREAT' BARGAIN BRANDIES GINS WlJj' i i' tai it i ft tt it KM Ki'' IUHUUitl UMUltfs IWUtUllIMi Watwh llpv for Citio anti RallrfwoU 3u IucUm lift htcamlwmt and MiHhaflmf SMimrinr Mine ft ftiaitd fin enlton HrXr Loam 'mmI tnit roaaW 4 with our bon omriry ia a fo and iron RMlnie Manufactory wbsi 4111 OV aMM i Ik IkJk A 4 a LtEUT HrstUl The Washington Nar says it turns oat that there is some trouble iu the ac counting branch of the service about the ac conntsof Purser Looker who has jv st returned home in the Eainbridge It seems that under peremptory orders in writing from the com mander of the ship Lieut CkcrlksG Hcntkr he paid to that officer some $4000 more than his pay ve came to on the cruise The Purser al leges that he only made the payment in ques tion under formal and peremptory written orders from Lieut Huntsk his immediate commander who had authority to put him in irons on his re fusal so to do llr Oeevov raw ho put it MI'AHKLE IlB n'! Ixvnr worth Tjmwwrman 4qT fen SO cmm St alias ttarrL A hod A Character lt le oIge Tho Tribune lefuses to publish Mr Jacob if Hu Kcbu's opinion iu favor of tha validity of one of the claims allowed by the late Board of State Auditors which claim the 7i4iw has asserted to be fraudulent unless icv will publish an elec tioneering document of the fuioa legislature The dodge is entirely characteristic and quite in keeping with the eel like habits of that paper did not suppose the Tribune would pub lish Mr How asp's opinion because the docu ment in substantiating one claim substantiates a class of claims out of the allowance of which that paper has attempted to manufacture large amount of thunder Yet if iu object was to fur nish the public with facts if it were inclined to deal fairly instead of seeking to cast odium upon functionaries whose sin is if sin they com mitted that they took the legal advice of the present Attorney it would hasten to lay before the public Str How opinion it Would not hesitate to furnish the antidote for the pbison It has itself scattered abroad If there is doubt about any of the claims allowed bv the late Board near the close of their term the most serious question arises as to that which Mr lljKAin certified to be just and true Should the Tribune persist in the refusal to publish Mr Howard's refutation of its reprecn tatiotis in respect to these claims we may our selves make room for it Cuban iltlbuslerliig On the Sth hist the Captain General of Cuba issued a proclamation respecting the conspiracy in the island against the Government and the expected fillibustering expedition from the Uni ted States With regard to the latter the proc lamation says: the expedition should arrive it will be quickly and completely destroyed and war with out quarter will be made on the foreign adven turer But the authors of the plot being known it is to be hoped that the government of the Union will for the interest of humanity restrain the criminal attempt which is projected within its limits and which violates what is most sacred the tranquility of nations by band of adven turers who recall the memory of the old buc The following are the heretofore referred to by us which were passed by the Legislature of Nebraska on the subject of the Nebraska Kansas act: Resolved That we hereby endorse the prin ciples enunciated in the bill organizing the Ter ritories of Nebra ka and Kansat that we rejoice that the geographical line between the northern and sontlu rn Stales has been erased leaving the people of every State aud Tetrilory free to con trol their domestic institutions and that we coinmeud the firm and patriotic course of the men without dlatinction of party who have aided iu establishing the sound constitutional principles of the Compromise of 1850 and Resolved furthermore That we pledge our selves to oppose any unfair discriminations sneh ns those of the late Missouri Compromise but to protectand defend the rights of the States and the union of the Stites and to ad vance and erpetuate the doctrine of popular Progress of Minnesota Minnesota was or ganized only six years ago Thirty counties have since been laid off and nearly all organized The population has increased from five thousand to thirty thousand or mors' The taxable pro perty of the Territory is estimated for 1855 at $7000000 A wire suspension bridge has been thrown over the Mississippi river above the falls of St Anthony Agricultural societies have been organized and one eouaty liasjrejoiced in a very creditable fair A territorial university is in operation well endowed by Congress aud a system of common schools with efficient super intendence has been established which guaran tiee the future intelligence of the people Stkimtrs Rrvairing The American Steam ers now lying in the Genesee ar Charlotte are being repaired preparatory to the opening of navigation The Northerner and Cataract were laid up last fall with broken engines the former with a broken beam cylinder Ac the latter with only a broken taara The new cylinder for the Northerner arrived here from the east last week and was taken to Charlotte on Thureday The repair to this steamer will be extensive and ex "peus xe and will take several weeks to effect them Capt Childs is here upe riu ten ding the work The repairs on the Cataract will be made in a few days and she with the Ontario and New York will be beady for business before the StaLa wreac opeas We do not learn what ar rangements the Ontario and St Lawrence Com pany have made for the coming season but pre sume their boats will run pretrv much they have for a few seasons past Rochester IwA New Yore Lkgislatcrk On the 17th inL notice was given in the Senate of New York by Mr Brooks that be intended to introduce a bill to in certiorate The Crystal Palace Market Association of the City of New On the same day the following resolution was in trod need in the Assembly by Air Rhoffs a representative from Long Island Resolved (if the Senate concur) That our Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence for the purpose of setting off Long Island as a Congressional Washington eb 20 Senate The Senate went into Executive ses sion to day and the nomination of Hiram Wilson as Judge of the Northern District aud Robinson as Marshal and Jewett aa Di ktricUAttorney for the Southern District of Ohio were unanimously confirmed The treaty with the King of the Netherlands and also with the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies on the principle that free ships make free goods and several minor treaties were sent in House Mr uller said that on the 24th of January last he introduced and had referred to the Committee on Commerce a bill to consoli date the Revenue Laws which contained a clause in relation to carrying passengers The com mittee were ready to report the bill but in view of the late period of the session Ac they had come to the conclusion to report only the bill relating to carrying passengers on steam ships or otherwise In view of the seizure of vessels nnder the construction of the Secretary of the Treasury he thought it was not necessary for the Houe to act immediately After reading the bill was passed Mr Breckenridge fromthe Committee of Con ference on the Texas reditors bill made a re port recommending an appropriation of $7000 000 The senate bill recommended the House $0000000 1 I Know Noililng Victory Westfield eb 21 Both representatives in the Legislature from Cbautauque county are sustained by the people all the towns except three giving large majorities Shingles nn 1I KHINGLEH hnawAndal lb 5 fllqil gttom ii NEW YORK ANDUvI I 4 O'llH HOOK SALE AT NuLb'ft Vurfiou art 0f da A large lot of Wnrirn JiAve vmI lwemUett wU be given The act of the Legislature amendatory ut charter of the city of Detroit is printed on fourth page of this sheet The Russian forces on the frontier of Austria had been ordered to retreat to the interior The Peace Conference has not yet commenced at Vienna ranco has signified her willingness to nego tiate a separate treaty with Russia providing it conveys the same obligations as that of the 22d December The feeling at Constantinople is strongly in favor of peace Holland and Deumaik arc seeking to join the western alliance Austrian merchant ships were fired into by the Russians at Galatz Austria has demanded an explanation ar! Lucan has been ecalled from the com mand of the cavalry in the Crimea The Sultan intends to raise a national tary loan Abdel Kader has asked the command African loops in the Crimea A letter from Constantinople savs the army before Suvastopl is only 1 2000 strong The English missionaries in Poland have been ordered to leave Russian territory It is reported that the Emperor of rance will take command or the army operations on the Rhine The Prince Napoleon had arrived at Paris The Latest Queen Victoria lias issued a proclamation forbidding the British at home or abroad aiding the enemy in supplying him with munitions of war The German Diet has decided to place the prin cipal contingent upon a war footing Ju Piedmont the Chamber of Deputies has santioned the treaty of alliance In the House of Commons on the night of the 9tb a discussion arose in regard to Napier's transactions in the Baltic but no new light was thrown on the subject The screw steamer Glasgow from New York arrived in the Clyde on the 10th TJIKHi ISA in 'POKT 1 iMfGit that the tnmf! wntwierrul rurw mad jwriofrw who it 1 rrwaJt tr iiwuinw Died In IhMeuv Wednesday 21m Mrs Bkiirr Mc vwn: a ti years fonilg are invitedtoattAwa the fone xL tun kArlAfAriw a er A A Cuban Expedition Correspondence of the Boston Journal New Oribans eb 9 1855 The expedition which Ims been so long organ izing to take Cuba is ready to leaie The steam ship United States the fastest vessel ever built has been purchased and extensive alterations made to improve her speed She has had 700 persons on her one trip from Navy Bay ami it is calculated site can accommodate twelve hundred nn a trip to t'nba The old Massachusetts is pm down as being very fast aud tho calculation lias been to lake two thousand men on her Her destination from New York was the coast of lorida where the men are to embark The Pampero left here the last of January and will convey troops from the lorida coast in con nection with the Massachusetts The commati der of the Cuban army is Gen A Quitman formerly United States Senator from Mississippi He has the confidence and respect of all li men The Regiment in Mississippi is composed of the first young men of the State and they are welt armed The city is full of rumors and conside rable interest is manifested tn tne anair port says that 2000 men have left here via lakes to take the steamship United States ou Gulf A lecture on the above subject wifi be debvered in the City Hill on Monday eve ning the 3ttb inst at 75 o'clock hr Josv Esq the proceeds of which are to be appropriated to the fund for rhe relief of the poor through the i ounrMen a Benev olent Society and the Sesters of Chanty Jm ssion 2S cents dtd JorNc Men's Benevolent Society A spe cial meeting of th society will take rlace on Thursday evening eb Z2d at seven a clash in the libra ry apartmeaia Young Hall fetec lt ELLIOTT Sec'v Grayson Light QrtMk Constitution requiring a parade of the corps cn tho anmrerAary of the tsrth of Washington the members are hereby notified to appear in full co rzn thia day at the Armory at By order Inti ian Troubles in Team New Orleans eb 17 Later dates from Texas bring the announce ment of numerous Indian depredations on the frontier within the past fortnight Eleven men have been killed and four captured The settlers are greatly excited and have assembled their families for protection Barties are scouring in all directions live companies of troops are organ izing at ort Chadbourne to proceed againstthe Southern Camanches who are endeavoring to join with the northern tribes and a war seems inevitable Burning of a Poor House Bcfkalo eb 2L The Erie county poor house was this morning totally destroyed by fire The six hundred in mates were all removed to a building near by Loss not ascertained The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defect in a chimney Sailing of the Atlantic New Yobk eb 21 The Steamship Atlantic sailed at noon to day for Liverpool with CO passengers including Madame Grisi and feigner Mario and $132GOO in specie Tift A EV1I Eli AT urMI tKgjo ha 14 of Pharmacy and in recent eaws cutr may relict fe bl usion Ajwaulin upon the Treasury Let not the public suppose that we have touch ed bottom in the exposures we have made of the creation of new officer the increase of salaries and the extraordinary expenditures by the late fusion Legislature We hire only commenced the work The one hundred thousand dollars already abown to hare been added to the public expenses is but a small share of the burdens with which the people have been saddled The Trihuue essays to explain some of the mat ters we have laid bare to the public gaze but it makes poor work it or example it says that the reason why a gratuity of Sand hasjjeen provided for the Private Secretary jof the 9pv ernorls that the Governor is an ambulatory indi vidual and that it is nece tary to keep a oecre tiry at Lansing to let people who go there to do business with him know where he may be found 'or Xo quote the own words 't the object is to keep the Executive office constantly open at the seat of government that those having business to transact with the Governor may not be compelled to wander half over the State be fore finding bitn or not find him at The Governor is pin'd for staying at Lansing at all times when bls presence is required there and of course no necessity atany time exists of keep ing his office open unless he is there to stay in it No one can perform Kxecntire actsbuthim aelf All Executive papers In the recess of the Legislature issue from the Secretary of office Adllie Private Secretary of the Governor meanwhile has no official duties to perform whatever But the truth is that this representation of the Tribunes all buinbng The person who bolda the place of Private Secretary of the Governor will not probably stay at Lansing a day during the remainder ol the terra of this fusion adminis tration He is one of the publishers of the Demo crat and Inquirer in thia City and the feaoO set apart lor Ida use Is so much money thrown away The excuse for the appropriation ofSstX) for a clerk to the Attorney General is equally lame Hitherto" Bays the Tribune that office (the Attorney General's office) ba never sbeen kept open Bt Lansing and whenever the services were required the fetal officers were compelled to visit Detroit for that purpose this grammar is tho or pay some other lawyer for doing what that officer was elected to Pray bow does the appointment of a clerk relieve the difficulty Indicated? Is this clerk to reside at Lansing and perform the duties of his master? Wo had supposed the official business of the Attorney General could be performed by no one but himself Tho creation of this clerkship is too palpable an outrage to glossed owr Never vvaa more gross sinecure established The sole purpose of it is to add $400 per year to the salary of the At torney General How much of the time of this clerk does the reader suppose will be employed in the service of the public and how much in the private service of Mr Howakh? and how much of his time does any one imagine will ie spent at the seat of government But these were not the only gratuities voted to hungry ftislnnists These arc not the only leech that have fastened to the treasury Our readers are aware that somewhat ora eoSn test has been going ou in Congress ns to whether i notice of the cancelling of the government con tract with the Collins company for carrying the 1 mails between New York and Liverpool should be given at the present The question i was settled in the Hous on Saturday by the adoption of the subjoined proposition in the ofiice apprnprialion bill: or the transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back $R'R000 and that the proviso contained in the first section of an act entitled act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal ear ending the 3oth ol June 1 di2" approved the 21st day of July 1852 be and'tbe same is hereby re i pealed: I'rovided That I'd ward Collinsand Ills associates shall proceed with all due dili gence to linild another steamship in accordance with the terms of the contract and have lite same teudy lor mail service in two years from and after the passage of this act nud if said steamship is not ready within the time above mentioned by reason of any neglect or want of diligence on their part then the said Edward Collins and his associates shall convey the United States mails between New York and Liv erpool from the expiration ot the said two yearsjcvciy fortnight free of any charge to the government until the new steamship shall have commenced the said mail service" Allf GUARIXG nURSjop irOlftTJXG APTARiTVl And all varit tiraof Iron IVurk HHah Taj Castings of Every Descri 1 'uililin C'aslin lli i i UNDKK THE COI XTEK I HAVE ACCVMIXA tsd aa hmoewM Jot cd Lair brusbra perfumsry bas a4 wrradd sell at esvt fan at I'EnNOVERS' asdfovetiUthMaertMn I lie City Election publish to day calls for a democratic city convention to nominate cam! id a tea for city offi cers and for ward meetings toappoint delegates to the city convention wni nominate candidates for ward officers The election will take place on the flrat Mon day in March The occafoj will be an eminent ly fitting one for the democracy of Detroit to unite in a common Cfiort to redeem the city from ths political thralldom into which it has fallen Great In vnd vtion in Germany A corres pondent of the London Times gives a detail of the inundation at Hamburgh as follows: The inundation commenced on the morning of the 2 1 of January with the flood tide which rose twenty feet and an inch perpendicularly being only three inches less than that which caused so much loss in January 1825 Then the sea rose twenty feet four inches and the damage was estimated at ten millions Marcs Banco (three inillious of dollars) but I can hardly think the destruction now will reach that sum Still it is possible it may if we take into the account the whole Hamburgh territory as three dikes have been broken through by the violence of the gale Without exaggeration we may estimate the loss in the city alone some thing between three and four millions about a million and a half of dollars The rupture of the dikes iu Hanover is said to have been terrible houses families cattle barns filled with hay and grain were swept away and lost the same thing occurred too in the territory of Hamburgh particularly near Wilbelnisburgli between the city and Hamburgh onthe left bank of the river Iu Vierlanden the district beyond Bergedorf immense injury is reported both in property and lives Volcanic Refeatinu Pistol We have seen and fired pistol recently invented and patent ed which bids fair to excel every thing in that line that has yet been offered to the public at tention It seems to combine a'l that could be desired in such a weapon Colt's pistol com pared with it seems like a distortion or a clum sy uncouth and ridiculous affiiir for a fire arm The volcanic pistol carries a Minie or conical ball in a ritle barrel and will put it through a three inch plank ata distance of ninety rods The receiving tube will hold ten ball cartridges hich may be deposited in two seconds of time The pistol may be discharged thirty limes in fif ty seconds It is so contrived that it is not lia ble to accidental discharge There is no pri ming no caps and therefore no danger to the eyes from any ignition near the breech Neither is there any recoil so as to jar the arm or dis turb a sure aim The whole construction is so simple as not get out of order even from long use The powder and ball are enclosed in the same metallic cover so that a person could swim a river with one of these in his belt without in the slightest degree injuring the powder In short the weapon is in all one of thq most perfect things in the shooting line that we ever took intoour hands Haven Palladium Tbikteex Persons Dein in Allegheny Citt ROM ExPOSVKE TO THE COLD ANO STARVATION Onr readers will remember an account we gave some days since of the terrible condition ot several families of Germans who arrived here three eeks ago from Germany We then chron icled the death of three of the children and subsequently added another to the sorrowful list It is now our sad dnty to announce the de cease of nine other members of those families When the party left Germany it consisted of four men four women and fourteen children: in all twenty two persons Two of the women died at sea One child was left in New York io a dy ing condition and has since died Two men one woman and ten children have died iu Alle gheny Perhaps of the latter number eoe died in the Western Pennsylvania HospitaL Ot that however are not certain Thus sixteen out of the twenty two have died Six are now liv ing all of whom are still siek and one child is now in a dying condition neof the children was buried on Thursday (yesterday) and two the day before Nearly every Jay for more than a week past has wit nessed the death of one of these unfortunate Pitlsburr Gazette eb 16 To mi Tlfi: VlKV DHfelHJ th THTkt kV vokt Pormi Poetical Work Morm do Hernan' IT th' do io Wirfowonl TOO JlI PRAt HESl WATED by AtU PARKER A BRO T)K liANXELJS TWILLED THE BEST Xy eaahty CHEAP at IM Jeftmns are DARLING 0 THAYER been vreronted to vour committee that he (Capt wlrd has ehher'a rrested or convicted aMd burglars accordance with reso Intern of the Common Council authorising the Mayor to offer a reward of $200 your committee report ad verse to pavtnent of said amount until satisfac tory evidence shall given in accordance with the above resolution "A Respectfully submitted Charter Election City officr Detroit Erb 21 IxM i IS IliJU ilY CIVKfa THAT AN1 Election will Iw ld on Monday the fifth day of March next for the choice of the tullowuig City uud Ward Officers to wit: (nc Mayor oic Kccotdvr one rk "tie Attorney one TrpHMiir nnc Mnivhil one Justice of the 1 (in platf of ChftrlM VI tier whow rm of ofiico will expire on the fourth dny 4 July next ow 1'hynicmo ope Director of the Poor one Sexiti Clerk of the City Hall Market one Surveyor one Veigbmafdr Hr the Scale one WeighnmNter tor tha Low errt relra three nhjectorM of Eire Wood one Awwir for the Third A BeShinent Dutrirt and one Aldennau one Collertorope School luai'e tor one Saier viaur and one Countable in and for each Ward in xaid City The following jJacop hare leen dejJeUftt'd for holding the poll of the Election in the eeierai Wards to wit: 1M At Commercial Hotel 2d Atthe City Hall 3d Ward At Engine Hou No 3 4lh Ward Al Engine Hot ne No rt 6th At Engine Houne No ft 6lh Wrd At William 7th At Engine Houmi No 7 Sth Ward At Thomae Hanrahan Sixth etrcet hear Michigan Avenue RICHARD ST AKK EY Ied22 td City Clerk THURSDAY MORNING EBRUARY 22 KmoWSKMfcluieM 11 New Au Expotnrt subjoin rich leaf in the history of know nothiugism It is the report of delegate sent by one of the subordinate lodges to the Grand State Council lately held at Syracoi Mr? Eaves the write a member of the New York legislature and is known by gentlemen of this city who inform us that he is a sturdy farmer and reictable man: Albany eb 14 1 55 Dear ib: Yours of the 8th inst containing a certificate of my election as a delegate to the State fl rand Council of the so know noth ing order from my Council No 274 held in Rut land Jefferson Countv was received 'In my re ply you will see how your delegate was received by the Grand Council of the state now ia session in the city of Syracuse I presented my credentials at the place of meeting and was introduced to 8 Biunler of the Order by the District Deputy Mr I was then escorted to the desk of the Grand secretary paid the quarterly dues of my Council you in trusted me with namely two enu for each member of onr Council After this ceremony I was conducted to the main hall where all thedelegates soon aseenibled being about 200 in number The pteaidiug officer Mr Barker of New York Mid: proceeding to busi ness I would ask if there was any opportunity of there being any Being assured on that point the first bndnew as to examine each person in the hall for the purpose of ascertain ing whether they had taken the third degree Those who had not received it were taken into an ante room questioned and instructed further in the mysteries of the Order as the business to be transacted could not with safety le done in the presence of any one who bad not taken the neeareary oaths of a third degree member Before proceeding further they inquired of each member for whom they voted at the last State election All thoe who had not voted the Ullmann ticket (and there were about eight who had not done so according to the instructions ot the Grand Council last fall were required to acknowledge they bad committed an offence against tb Order and ak to be forgiven and promise in all things in future to obey tbeir superiors Upon doing so a vote was taken and the repenting members were reinstated I being a member of the Legislature was in vited upon the platform with the officers of the meeting and introduced by Mr Harker who in formed the Grand Council that I would make ex planations in relation to my vote at the last election While I was proceeding to do so qne of the members asked me for whom I voted for United Mates Senator? When 1 replied William Seward it created a great excitement in all parts of the hall Some twenty or thirty more vehement than the rest rushed forward to the platform hissing stamping their feet gnashing their teeth extending their arms with clenched' fists crying ont with conntenances Unshed with excitement Perjurer 1 and other epithets accompanied with the exclamations him out" 1 with him" "throw him out of the Ac Ac By this time the meeting was in a complete uproar The presiding officer eould not control those present and declared the meeting adjourn ed for one hour There was then a general rush for the platform where I was stauuing Noras oi the foremost seized my collar but by the exer tion of a few personal friends 1 was saved from further violence by being with great haste escorted down a private stairway while others closed the doors and kept back the mob tt ben I reached the street Mr Harker advised me to go to my hoteL and not to show myself about the place but leave the city in the first con veyaiii'e Having no other business to attend to I took his advice and left Syracuse in the first train I know not what you and the Council may think of this but if ever ou desire to send a Il eib li a Pandemonium yon must friend ii'nu fellow rerevrew To the of Council 274 Tas North and the Softs A short time fdbee the Howard Association of New Orleans sent $2000 to New York for the relief of the poor and the Jenemol of Cossunem of Saturday ac knowledges the receipt of $269 from citizens of the arisli of St Mary Louisiana to be devoted to the same purpose This is returning good for evil While the abolitionists of the North are eegaged in the congenial employment of stealing slaves from the citizens of the South the latter are helping to feed the northern poor Canal Navwatiow The water was let into the Delaware and Raritan canal' on tha IGth instant and should the present weather prevailH impedimenta to free navigation will be re moved In a fow dayo Tho amount of coal now dug in Ohio an sually is estimated at 2 4000 WQ bushel There hips hare Gove ninth ervicv etrrv conntruetioii in i ir UtlitU tor dt'UlW unql IMc Of IML'Wac friMn J' cabin in eUu t' i AiceAUtexvMiM Ervin Livoi hh1 YnrKf it A 8 tMtfte' KWti Hit Tvsoaun 11 I Nn berth can curf4 until mi Eurfmeht orjasNiP si Tb own oft hew 11 75 thereof therein rxvraL A Your committee to whom was referred the re port of the Chief Engineer would report that in their opinion the extreme cold weather is about over lor this season aud that it is not nec essary to pack the hydrants Rt present but it should be done before another winter sets in John Patton committee on KA Lansing Den't 11 IL I A Roy urcinpi Accepted and adopted rom same in favor of paying $36 00 to Lyman Baldwin for work1 for Engine Company No in 1852 Releired to Committee on Claims nNINISIlRI' ALL Doyle called up the following resolution: Resolved That the report received from the Boaul of Water Commissioners referred back to said Commissioners and ask that they le re quested to furnish a detailed report of the re ceipts and expenditures of said works for the last year to bo sent in to this Council at its next meeting The question being upon tho passage of tho resolution it was lost Aid Collins Doyle and Ingorsoll'J Navs ALL Barelay Craig Dun illoy Ly on if licuX uuu MiC lt CHA wrnLDENgeBy The notes of the Michigan State Bank India Rubber TN I A RCBW 1 rm nwauGetured ef INVI WhsUdi ami Bruit ty risireV The total consumption of foreign molasses in the United States in 19 54 was 2443IQIS gallons total consumption of foreign aud domestic 34 492010 gallons ive military marches for the piano the com position of tho wife of Omm Pacha fawn foot been published a By tha teanter lialtir which arrived at New Yoik yesterday foreeoon we have intelligence of the formation of a new British Ministry Ixird Paiajebston is Premier and Lord Pan mcrl Minister of All of the old Ministry remain inoflice except Lord Abkrpeen the Duke of Newcastle and Txird John Rvmkll The construction of a new Ministry was it ap pears a difficult undertaking The Earl of Derby the Marquis of Lansdowne Lord John ftrsszi1 and IxrI Clarendon were successive ly intrusted with the task and successively failed As a dernier resort the job was given to Lord Paivzrston and he succeeded el of the Prentb Spoliation Hill Probably no bill before Congress during the present session has excited so much interest in Washington us the rench Spoliation bill while no bill has elicited leas interest In this latitude The bill involved appropriations amounting to some five millions of dollars for the payment of clnimsthat had longsincu passed outof the hands of the origins! holdem and in most cases ot their heirs and become tho property of speculators I and adventurers These speculators and adven turers by themselves or tbeir agents have be sieged Congress year after year and at different times bills for the settlement of the claims have passed one rr the other house At this session Loth houses concurred in a bill which has en countered the Executive veto The claims as our readers know grew out of difficulties with rance prior to IsbO but were not provided for in subsequent treaties with that country Wo prosecuted them with extraordi nary diligence we tried to enforce them by re prisals by war wu pressed them subsequently in negotiations and at last abandoned them be cause rance persisted in refusing to pay them Iu thia respect and in every other respect it is contended that no obligation resta upon this country to Indemnify the claimants All other considerations aside the time which 11M elapsed junce the claims accrued and the i Veen rejected Ohr ot bonth Carolina closed vekyL Kr speech in the House on the subject as follows: or tlfty lwo years those claims have been aiicceaefully aud steadily repudiated by our pre decessors what new lights have dawned upon us to justify 80 large an expenditure of the public treasure? Sir thia is but the initiative to iiiuch heavier appropriations for those same claims 1 stated at the onset of my remark that these claims without interest amounted to upwards ot eleven millions ot dollars Can you pay such a sum with live millions? If eleven niilliona of dollars are due and the liability of the Govern ment is estahlished for any portion as ou do iu this bill how can yon avoid paying the whole sntn? Will you force your citizen after ac knowledging the justness of his demand by a solemn act of Congress to receive only forty centa in every dollar and give you a receipt in full? When was there ever more odious repmli atioil practiced by any Government than this will be? It tho claims be just pay all or plead in your act nuking the appropriation poverty or bankruptcy for tue residue the prospect of the speedy passage of this bill in the Hoose of Representatives gives sue much real pain When it shall go upon your statute book it will be a recorded rebuke of ull the gi eat names nml intellects ho have gone before us in these Halls for their inexorable in justice in denying the citizen his jnt dues Were they niggardly and parsimonious? arewa to lie just nnd generous? Sir they were nctore when these spoliations were committed they knew the facts and they refused to do that which we will soon do charge the Treasury with all these spoliations When we consummate the act I fear that onr conntryiren will not commend our liberality and that they will charge us ith Infidelity in guarding the Treasury with that patriotic vigilance that distinguished tho earlier stateatuen of tho Republic The veto message covers the hole history of these claims aud is certain!) it seems to us a triumphant refutation of their validity We cannot find room for the message nor is it necessary for our readars have no other interest in it than to know that five millions (and proba bly eleven millions) of dollars Iihvo been saved to tho treasury by Executive Interposition A single paragraph shows on what grounds the claims embraced in tho vetoed bill stand: 'J hair justification consists in that which con etltniea the objection to tha present name ly the absence of nny indebtedness on the part of the United States The charge of a denial of justice in this case and a consequent stain upon our national character has not et been endorsed by tho American people Rut if it were other wise this bill so far from relieving the past would only stamp ou the present a more deep and indelible stigma It admits the Justice of the claims concedes that puyineut bus been wrongfully withheld for fifty yeais and then pro poses nor to pay them bntto compound withtbe public creditors by providing that whether theHahns shall Ito presented or not whether the sum appropriated shall pa) much or little of what shall Le found due the law itself shall con stitute perpetual Lar to all future This is not iu my judgment the way to atone for wrongs if they exist nor to meet subsisting Of the action of prior administrations respect ing these claims the remarks: new facts not known or not accessible du ring tha administrations of Mr Jefferson Mr Madison or Mr Monroe had since been brought to light or new sources of information dis covered thia ould greatly relieve the subject of utbsrrassmenL But nothing of this nature ha3 occurred those eminent statesmen had the best means of arriv iug at a correct conclusion no one will deny Thai they never recognized the al leged obligations on the part of the government is shown iy the history of their respective ad ministration Indeed it stands not a a matter of controlling authority but as a fact of history tha: these claims have never since our existence as a nation been deemed by atty President wor thy of recommendation to Congress IRONOBXBD IUIK I KUMGM II AUK I at fhorl notic rK Married BK VrL4 Vf Ar Janu Baser te Him Elctsstth rrXrtLaJl c' DetraiL 7 Mat the Qod of kn crown ail thaw for And Uli tbeir tti with sarU and Coss AtTnaltvCbwcfc Twfesday b29 br the Rr ather ter VmnxDstr to Miss ILiar Avx Borealothof thw rl RESOLUTIONS By Aid Barclay Resolved That the Committee on Taxes to gether with the Auditor and Treasurer ol tha city be and they are lierebj appointed a special committee to examine into the nmtter of the several claims he re to lore presented to this Coun cil lor the refunding or reiuisaiou of tuxes on account of alleged fraudulent or unjust assess ments on the general assessment roll for tho year and that said committee report to this Council what if any ichef ought to Le granted in each particular ease Aid Barclay Resolved That the Recorder and City Attorney be appointed a committee to examine into the claim presented by John Bouley for damages sustained on grand sewer in Woodward Avejiue Ailopted By Aid LcRoy Resolved That tho City Marshal be granted an extension of 15 days for collecting able and cross walk assessments upon the rolls in hand Adop ted By Aid Barclay Resolved That the Committee on Ways and Means be authorized to appoint some suit aide person to arbitrate the matter of diflcicneo tween the city of Detroit and the Detroit Gas Company in case Alexander 1 raser ap pointed declines acting as said arbitrator Adop ted Ahl Craig Resolved That the City Surveyor nnrl City At torney examine and report to this Ciiuiii it at its next regular session the width of Bates street irom ongress to Larned any what obstructions are Adopted By Aid Barclay Resolved That tlie Citv and required to give the requisite notice of the ensuing Charter election and that the polls he held in the different wards as follows: irst Ward Commercial Hotel Second Ward City Hall Third Ward Engine house No 3 ourth Ward Engine house No (I ifth Ward Engine house No 5 Sixth Ward Wm Paton's Gratiot street Seventh Ward Engine house No 7 Eighth Ward Adopted By Ahl Patton Resolved That the Chief Engineer' report sotiw proper means for drying and taking enre of the fire hose of the different engine compa nies Adopted The Council adjourned Richard Starkey City Clerk wgv a a iftti'oir H' Ar now biilMini 1 REIGHT AND PASSER 1C INES 1 1 1 1 1 1 VI It 1 1 It 4 NTH HIM 1 and are ready to raesire onl rv Imw motivi ami tn no ad" troiiK Cfhrttiui NKKKHRKXS It IL IhlOOKS It Ku Nkwhail EaASTi Corvjm A CoAllainr 6Wi I'LOURING JE 8ui LEV WE (IKm OIt HALK THK IIWl known km lb Trunlon Mill Tbi much irnprtul and will In a fa dAY to fa pH inw order pni (jrtpnblr of vrindlnff ki' of the mill in well known mmI llmir (made IhiU Mouton) i well h4 fwHtUf vri in the Mfttftvrn MnrkulH The milt 1 1 mib'N nr Detroit fat navigntrnn wiiharond rfftrit atri vitoril Admit the farKMMt veMein TltiNiN cci twinly Rood chance for lavtoiwti character of the mill fatfrlih time fr mmh inTcMnw ht a Ito" will enA I Jo the (urrhrutjr to vMl Mow adntAc of a Rrwtt aupplr of wheal fittattMto1 out anv ol the leNtrteLmna winch hmtotoa iiHicli axainut the pcoplr of both Uh A real quuitdv of the ttuur au4 feed price nd rdj aide at the milt fg?" rmH made known mi applrlnfto line of NUamlata lttf lt tA EVENINS EDITION TZLSORirazD iv ram tobjc assocutxd i AR RIVA Is THE BALTIC serru Da Boater from toroo lioilolaNew Mrltlsh Miulwtr Nolfo iu 1 ui porta froui Kite Liverpool Tlarkelw Ac Ac New York eb 21 The Baltic arrived up about 1 A Bevf Erifi Ministry has been foriuod It' is composed as follows: Premier Lord Palmer ston ar I ord Panmure formerly ox Maule oreign' Earl Clarendon: Home Sidney Her bert Colonial George Grey Exchequer Gladstone Admiralty Sir James Graham Chancellor Txvrd Cranworth: President of the Council Earl Granville Private secretary Duke of Argyle Public Wdrks Sir Molesworth President of the Board of Control Sir Charles WSoji President Master Lord Cumming Aber deen Newcastle and Russell go out Panmure comes in and the balance are the same as the last Ministry The Vienna Peaea Conference has not yet opened Affairs in the Crimea are unchanged There te reported a battle between the Russians and the Turk on the Danube The Turks were victorious There is also reported a mutiny of the Zouaves in the Crimea Sir Charles Napier has made a savage speech against the government Brown Shiplev ffi Co report the cotton mar ket declining Sales 36000 bales Corn market dull and a limited business but unchanged Old western flour 42s 6d a 46s 6d Ohio 44s a 45s Wheat Ils a 12s 6d Spence Co report provisions generally dull Manchester market dull laird steady at 50s Baring Bros report corn In moderate demand Consols 011 a 9U No pressure for money American standard stocks held firm SKCOND Dlsl The Baltic left Liverpool on the afternoon of the loth and reached here this morning at 10 o'clock She arriy ed out on tho afternoon of the 5th "Hie City of Manchester arrived out on the Same dav7 and was taken up by the British Government to take troops to the Crimea In the construction of the British Cabinet the Earl of Derbv the Marquis of Lansdow ne Lord John russelL and laird Clarendon were sueces sivelv sent for bv the Queeu but all failed to form" a Lord Palmerston was called In the British Parliament explanations Lad been made 4 the statesmen foiling to form the Cabinet Nearly £3000000 sterljgg bad been voted for war purposes The North American fishery bill had been passed Parliament had adjourned tor aweek at the request of Palmerslouand was to re assemble on the 15th Inst The Earl of Aberdeen had been created a Knight of the Garter The laird Mayor of London had given a grand banquet a nd among ttiose present were laird Car digan Sir CL irlts Napier and other notables from the Crimea and Baltic who were received with enthusiasm Sir Charles in a long speech defended himself and biiterly attacked the ad ministration Ths MenscbikolY had gone northward The Russians were making sorties Supplies were reaching the caiup of the Allies in abun dance but the army is still sickly The siege works were steadily progressing ine weather prevails The latest official dispatches are to the 21st from Canrobert aud the 24th from Raglan They both alluded to the improvement in the weather nnd speak hopetally ot future prospects The latter savs We resume our or before the towu with renewed Telegraphic dispatches come down to the 20th rench batteries had received orders to re open fire aud that for some days the Russians had ceased to make sorties It is said the arrangements for the assault are completed 'Ibe Russians are in want of supplies A sortie was made ou the 23d by the garrison of Sevastopol and a great loss was sustained by the rench The Zouaves ho mutinied demanded a re treat from the Crimea The rumor of the muti ny is doubtless incorrect An apology was made to Omar Pacha and he withdrew his resignation There is a report of a battle occurring on an attempt of the Russians to enter the Dobnid JaxV LRY Our officers who are out here exposed to such hardships'rend with indigo tion the letters of Indian officera who fresh from all the luxuries of warfare in the East think that the honest complaints of men in such plights as 1 have described proceed from pusil lanimons grumblers These officers who hive been accustomed to move to battle withmile long trains of elephants pMsnqirin bearers sy ces horses doatoiics marquees and profuse stores of luxuries in the rear ought to come out here aud oxomnie the condiiion of the British officeii inJ the Crernea before they pretend to eriuci or condemn Do these gentlemen know that with snow three feet deep about the lente the men scarce know what fuel is in many regiment that they break up the rum barrels and even tire park eize in fact any thing that will burn to cook tbeir or grttb into the earth for roots and slumps to light their fires? I know that during two hard days of frost and snow when if evera full tipplj of runi was to the fepiriu and strength of the men one ine te at lea dhad no rum at nil on one of these days and only half ration oa the other and that in the same regi ment where this occurred the return of men to iler arms fit for duty was about 23Q and that of men sick aud unlit for duty was 3 50! January 12 The usual small arm iractice went on In front of the lines Between the sharp shooter Both parties have now become so ex pert that their greatest pleasure is tu try and each other by getting up and exhibiting device to draw fire so that they msy have a chance of returning it white the marks man is exposed The old dodge of patting up a shako or forager on the end of a stick is univer allv despised and nut a shot will be thrown away on one Moving them alone ith an ir regular motion just above the top of the ram parts or trenches as if a man were walking along is sometimes successful aud the lucky fellow who get ball or two through his head dress in this way is considered veryclever The men now know each other tli it i they ob serve certain gunners in the Russian batteries whom they have seen for some time past and who have" nickname goes or Blackbeard i going to take a shot at us now" and sv on an i there is a story going that pickets occasionally fraternize as they were wont to do in the Peninsula and that they were all agreed as to the Shibboleth ran zig!" Muscov!" Tnrco no bono!" Cor London Times January 5 Twenty men I am tol 1 died lat night in the trenches The line are ou duty every twenty four hours and are without clothes IV are all on short allowance of food It is im possible to keep anything dry in such weather aa this that is the worst of it By taking vio lent exercise you get warm but you also get moist and instead of drying our clothes sim ply freeze them and get wet whenever you take them in from the air 1 am told by the chap lains and doctors (the best authority on the sub ject) that the state of the hospitals is dreadful A sick nun has nothing to lie upon but his regi mental blanket of course a rag in most instan ces now They have no lights for the hospitals unless the surgeon himelt provides them They have few medicines and fewer still of the com monest re quisites of siek diet January 6 The weather is still verycolit snow and frost during the day are not at all agreeable but it is desperate work at night un der canvas ffs Lave no means of transporting our wooden houses and the chance of getting them up before the summer is as far oft as the summer itself I was informed yesterday by two officers who had seen them that there are bait of sheepskin coat to the number of 70oo or Aflno on board the Golden leece at' Balakla va sent from Trieste as a present to the officers of the army The commander of the ship tells us that exceedingly anxious to gel rid of them But the Quartermaster Geaeral Depart ment have received no official letter about them and will not receive them Letter from au ling lish Uficer jANUAnVS We are sinking deeper into the erf ry'Hay'" "i seem to have no notion of what a fix we are get ting into The complicated and cumbrous ma chinery that prevails through every depart uient the ignorance anj helplessness of every respon sible idiot ho ought to assist instead of confu sing matters and the wear and tear of the work ing suffering dying soldiery prove that there is something worse than rotten in the way in which the campaign is carried on Now for in tanee to give yon an idea of how things are managed suppose Sigtuns of flannel drawers arrive in the harbor the natural plan would be for this to be notified to a regiment and then the Colonel might send down 100 men to carry up the 00 pairs of drawers his regiment required But this is much too simple for officialism The drawers are first landed: then they are put into stores (uot any easy business) perhaps the stores are full perhaps men cannot le found to put them there In about a week or more the colonel of a half naked regiment accidentally hears of this He applies for them in the first instance to his general the general after losing a few days forwards the application to the quar ter master general This worthy in course of time siic eeds in getting Lord Raglan's signa ture to a requisition This goes back if it is not lost ou the road to the colonel He applies to fhe commissary The commissary sends him to some one else who sends an order upon the storekeeper aud on the routine goes and if the colonel gets his drawers in a month he does uncommonly well! The harbor of Balak lava is full of ships laden with things which have been sent out for the soldiers but nobody knows what they are nobody knows where they are nobody knows how to get them nobody knows to whom to give them nobody knows any thing about anything that he ought to know and the upshot of the whole is that among them all no one gets anything nor ever will Wooden houses have been lying ut Balaklava for a month and more but there is not a wooden house up yet in the whole Meanwhile healthy men sicken and sick itieu die Here for instance at o'clock in the morning the whole of the men are sent to carry shot or provisions from the harbor to the lines They are away all day and retain at night No one having been left at home they have no fire to dry anil warm them and no dinner to eat Each gets his morsel of fat salt pork and his unroasted ungrouud cotlee lie has to cook before he eats Many a man eats his rations raw He has no chance of warm ing his frost bitten feet or drying his wet boots He lies down in wet and cold in hunger and weariness nnd perhaps he has to go on sentry for the night to be relieved in the morning only a few minutes before he must again turn out Letter out another English Officer January 7 I hardly know Low to begin to give you an idea of onr present sufferings for suffer we do daily from the effect of coli Even novv while I am writing I am perished with cold sitting in the cold teuL God knows what we shall do if the Almighty deserts ns now in the trying time We are np to onr knees in snow and you may depend we feel it going into the trenches for twelve or fourteen hours and if it is your turn for the advanced trenches su have uot a chance of jumping about to keep yourself warm for fear of a 32 pounder ora rifle bail from the skirmishers in their holes under the batteries running after you with a stunning message to halt don't like grumbling but this work is enough to try my patience It would cut yon to the heart to see the remains of our once fine regiment We came out here about lfiOO strong and now we can hardly master 100 men for duty The men try to knock along bnt their strength fails them The other night it snowed terribly and we found about every mao we conld muster at 4j in the evening our ttsnal time of mounting in the trenches and they hardly marched off before news came that half of the party had fallen down quite helpless with pains Oo that the sick at home were compelled to turn out and carry our poor comrades to camp Letter from an English CorpcraL i i 'f Last Survivor op Drfeat Died in Williamstown Mass January 27th Ishmael Titus colored of the extraordinary age of 109 or 110 years He was born a slave in Vir ginia and when Gen Braddock set ont on his ill fated expedition the master of Ishmael wao em ployed by tne commissary to transport subsis tence stores for the and the wagon was heavily loaded an additional horse was added to the team and the boy Ishmael was placed upon this third rider: and in that capacity he followed the army to the scene of its disaster Like mort of the slaves be had no distinct knowl edge of his age: but judging from his recollec tion of the event and his own story he must have been nitio or' ten years old at the time Hi mental faculties were remarkably active for a person of his years and after nearly the lape of a century he was wont to recount the striking impression made upon his young mind bv the reu vusvscH me nritisn soiiliers wmen he sup posed were with unfortunately too true in this instance lie ran away from Lis master and came into this vicinity about the close of the revolution and was then apparently 3 or 40 years of age His story has always been consistent aud no one in thisplare has ever doubled its correctueas Cor prmgfieid Rep Short Credits The New York papers state that a movement ho been made lv the whole sale jobbers of that city to red ace the term of credifotn six an i Mghl months the notes given not being subject to renewal It is urged that dealers generally would consult their own per manent interests by resolving on the shorter credit withont renewals aud those ho do this business only will have the ad vantage over thoe who give tho longer credits A large business of this extended credit need not be envied It requires a larger rate of profit on all the busi ness transacted to make that mrtbnir all afe The best cnstnmers iherenra TOSde to contribute for the risk attending exten ded credit to other customers The chief obsta cle in the way of bringics the new custom into general Use is the difficnity of securing unifor mity not only upon the part of the jobbers of New ork lut those of other cities Ajl I cut sots sfevded Banks On the 14th inst a bill passed both branches of the General As bty which authorizes tbetfetate Auditor to ex change the secu ities of suspended tanks for the notes of tach banks at par The notes muste presented at the Anditor 'suffice iB Springfield its sums not less than $1000 within twenty da of the pass je of the above mentioned set After the expiration of that time the securities will 1 offe red for sale in New York and the proceeds applied pro rata to the redemption of th note Mr Campbell is of the opinion that the bunds ma be sold and the money received at feprinrield er the first of April oexk taut 5 th have g'one HqTUiti4Q lira Union Bank City Bank and Phenix Bank all of Chiearo and the MerchanU and Bank Pr i ret'HK 'tnituiitt tort Wlioiv jn wi till orders for anr woik In thstbna (S tn another rulnmn Coinrr Hltli sn! Woolbrita duuu bliopof Micbiitsu Ceulral Knilnwllta lvin JACKSOXrt IRON RAILING tint PR KPA Hint TO A Il A I LI Xl OR PRIVATE Ill'll OINdS ClnUnTte HtjUARER AXP CKMKTKkYUm1 invite all ini aled to ratnnla ttlnlJ won trt'tntf HiannUrtuHMl aluur ip4 to Hety of Puttcrm to which wo are cwatarthto! Uitiona in now 'Mw for WKOrGHT AMI CANT RAH 1W 1 Btlt ttMHS AMI VKHAMUM BANK VAULTS POORS 1K) NUMBiHj ot iltr Alo Tl hk (( AKDS nujt iroj ohmmw! Outlet from Rbrnad promptly aittenMU Md R4 th Hti'Ml faT Thu Iron KMilior Manufactory fa fa mJ with our Iron tnvl Bimmi uUHilnaora(r4fd tt oonHdh idro Murbinr tatffc iVnDal IMtoih Mitfmu tn nnnthrr rnlutnn) CKWIH Ti WITHOUT ESE ITT BRASS OUNDRY WKAUK KXtttTTK kiers 4f jauj fex Mid CmKhc prnrtptfy OIL GLOHE3 OIL CUI'S VALV4LS JOUKN'Af? WAX GAUGE CT LINDER POCKS STEAM TVTj'LSTLra OR STKtMBOATd LOCO MILLS BKLLS I OK ACTWtlKS STKAMERS A LOCOMOTIVES'nder Hvbt hundred pomsdn rrdr fmm abmvl are juolpdtcd and will fr win eonjanction wUhMrlmn Ewm dry Mxd Iron Haiti drerUesa Lb tn coIudiuk) Censer of ifth and WortdbrWjr rimwlA hme Siwp of Jfaichiran OntnU RawtaM'k Mich febZMyinw JACKSON A WILEY Magnetic liniu pnuy NOTICK Is 1IKKKH1 GIVEN THAT THE Stock of tbe Marwtie i rmbrarad is the folfriwiar eert Gcalew haa fasci fertr Ued for on oai that th um wfil wwhiie awetion nt SatardaT th tbirt fiM day rf rrh at 9rHoHc at the nflW rtf the nf rahl riohanj fa the eit iMtrtMt nafaa previously redermrd SawJ are A fa 1114 IX 15 i lusjiz 342 THAYER faihZg tm ixcrttar and Trtwrer COMMON COUNCIL Tuesday eb 1S55 The Council was called to order by his Honor the Recorder 15 A Cook Aid Barclay Craigi Doyle Duncan Hull Lansing Leroy Lyon PaYton and ilcox rrriTtoss Of Samuel rench lor payment for re laying paving alley in rear of Rotunda building the rolls for which were placed in the hands of the late Marshal aud not returned Referred to ur for wide and crosA walks on ibet aiorth Ale of Minder street from WoodMtai Xvenueao John street Referred to street The following commwaicatioB wa received accepted and ordered pHred on file: Office Dbtkoit as Light Co EeU 20 To Hom Maj or and Common Council of the City of Detroit: Gents Under an arrangement made be tween the Committee on dairas and the undersigned in reference to the claim of the Detroit Ga Light Company presented in Jsnnarytlsat lor setting lamp poet Ac I would respectfully iu fona your honorable txidy that the Hoard et Di rectors have appointed James Campbell hl their attorney io confer with your appointment ia tbe matter of difference between said com mittee and this company and te settle the same Yours very respectfully Dkmill Sec'y Detroit Gas Idght Co REPORT rom the City Auditor the following account audited bv him: Henry Metz roofing for engine bouses $40 Detroit ree I'ress priming and adiertising $3250 Duncan salt to thaw out hydrant snd use of horse and sleigh oung ffi on A Wright expended in cleaning cel lar after overflow iu July last $2013 Con nellv making tires in engine houses $20: James Stewart placing new hydrant iu east end of City Hall $'450 Referred to Committee on Ways and Mean with isiwer To the Hon the Common Council of the City of Detroit At the last session of vour honorable body the undersigned was to transfer one thousand dollars from the Contingent und to the credit of the Poor 1 regret to have to state that the condition of the "Contingent is such that it will not admit of the trans fer leing made there being only a balance to the credit of that fund al that data of 64193 which sum has since been drawn out to pay claims previously allowed Respectfully ub mitted Cha Pkltikr City Auditor eb 20 1955 Accepted To the Hou the Common Council of the city of Detroit: The special committee appointed by your Honorable lxdy to memorialize the legislature of the State for the passage of an act to author ize the Council to examine into the tmitter of claims for the refunding or remission of taxes' Itaeed upon such assessments on the general as sessment roll for the year 1S54 which arc al leged to ta unjust ami fraudulent beg leave to report that they have discharged the duty assign ed to them and have the honor to report here with a bill passed bv the Ix gislaltire nt its re cent session giving the authority desired by the Council which your committee believe is suffi eient for the purpose onr committee embrace: this opportunity to express their acknowledg ments to Hon ells for his aid and as sistance in procuring the passage of the bill in question through the Issgislature and the com mittee would recommend that a special commit tee be appointed to examine into the matter ofhe several claims heretofore presented to the Council asking for remission or refunding of taxes and that thev report tu this Council what if any relief to be granted in each case All which is respectfully submitted Wm A Cook Recorder Knox Gavin City Attorney ripecmt A At'Tto authorize the Common Council of the City of Detroit to refund certain Tures Sec 1 The People of the 'Pale Michigan mart That the Common Council of the City of Detroit be and the same is hereby authorized 1 and empowered to examine into all claims pre sented to said Council prior to tho passage of this act for the remission or refunding of City School nnd Highway taxes based upon any as sessment contained in the assessment rolls (of said city for the year eighteen hundred and fifty four and in all cases in Xvhich tho said Council shall be satisfied after duo examination that any taxes paid on account of such assessments ought in justice to be refunded in consequence of assessments having Leon altered and increas ed unlawfully after the same were made and in consequence of property having been twice as sessed and the taxes thereon paid twice the said Council shall by resolution direct the Auditor of said City to draw his warrant payable out of the general fund of tho said City in favor of the person or persons aggrieved by such wrongful assessments fur the amounts which tha Council shall under the circumstances deem it right and proper to refund or said Council may grant such other relief as shall seem proper in each particular case 1 Sec 2 The examination to be made in pur suance of the foregoing section may Le made by the said Common Council at nny of its sessions or by any Committee that the said Council may appoint to conduct such examination: Provided That the Auditor shall not draw his warrant for the refunding of any taxes except upon a resolu tion passed by said! Council at a regular or special session Sec 3 This act shall take effect immediately Approved ebruary 10th 1855 To the Honoratde the Common Council: The undersigned would report to your Honor able Body that there has been placed in bis hands for collection paving assessments to the amount of $34135 57 of which be has collected $23 H9 5g and paid into the City Treasury and holds the Treasurer's receipt for the same leaving a balance uncollected of $10515 71 and of this amount $1033 OS is chargeable to the city for paving in front of city property which wonhl leave $9481 73 for me to collect or return and a large portion of the last named amount is due upon assessment rolls placed in my bands during the month of January The extreme stringency of the money market has made it very difficult to collect assessments tho past month bnt I think I shall bo able to collect all that is duo upon the rolls except that portion that will havo to be returned within the next two weeks I would therefore petition your Honorable Body to extend my warrants upon the rolls upon which there is balances still due for fourteen davs1 Eti Laderoot City Marshal Referred to Auditor with power To the lion the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Detroit: The undersigned would report to your Honor able Body that an assessment roll has been pla ced in his hands for collection for repairing planking on Third street between Porter street and Michigan Avenue I find upon examination that no repairs have been made upon that por tion of Third street therefore no collections have been made upon said roll and I hereby re port back the assessment roll to yonr Honorable Body Eli Laderoot City Marshal Referred to Street Commissioner for examina tion rom the City Marshal that he sold the shed used for City Pound for $1725 and received the following amount for licenses for which he en closes Treasurer's receipts: Camphell's Minstrels $1200 Wood's Exhibition 2L0o Railroad Circus 830(T Accepted and referred to Auditor Te the Hon the Common Council: The undersigned to whom was referred sun dry petitions for side and cross walks asks leave to report in favor of ordering new side walks six feet wide on the south side of Lewis street from irst street to Third street a new side walk six feet wide on the north side of Lahross street from ifth to ourth street together with cross walks across ourth and ifth streets on said north side of Labross street John Kino Street Commissioner eb 20 1855 The Committee on Streets to whom was re ferred the resolution of Aiderman Hull of 2d January would beg leave to submit the follow ing report: That although well? aware of the general desire of the eittzena on account of the health of the city as well a the facilities hich the paving of streets affords yet owing to the present stringency of the money market and other causes vour committee deem it advisable to recommend the paving the following streets and alleys which seem to your committee to lie the most important: Bates street from Congress street to Michigan avenue Michigan avenue from Bates street to Ran dolph street Randolph street from Larned street Con gress street Brush street from Jefferson avenue to Congress street Beaubien street from Jefferson avenue toiCon gres street Aud all alleys east of Woodward avenue to Beaubien street between Jefferson avenue and Congress street Larned street from ourth street to Wood bridge street And all cross streets and alleys west of Gris wold street between Jeflereou avenue and Lar ned street Griswold street from Jefferson avenue to Michigan avenne Congress street from Woodward avenue to Griswold street ort street from Woodward avenue to Gris wold street Your committee are in favor of other streets as the majority of the owners oftbe property may petition lor Respectfully submitted Wilcox 1 WmBarclay LeRoy Committee on StreetsAccepted and adopted To the HotuCommon Council: GenUemcn The undersigned Committee on Claims to whom was referred the communica tion of Ward to his Hom the Mayor Hyde relative to Burglars entering bis ware house destroying property and endangering the lives of worthy citizens on or about the 22 of November last and claiming of the city of De troit the sum of $200 for ferreting ont and bringing to justice the culprits of such out rageous acta would respectfully report that from information had your committee ore fully convinced that great credit is duo to Capt Ward for hia energetic perueverance to bring the culprit to justice but aa no evidence has Nkw Mkxico The Legislature of New Mexico a Santa correspondent of the $aa Antonio TZura states i composed almost en tirely ot Mexicans there being but five Ameri can members Jose Antonio Bacv yPino is Presideqt of the Senate Elias Clark Chief Clerk and Nicholas Quin taxa Alaru As sistant Clerk actnoo iso is Speaker of the House Jesus Maria Sena Baca Chief Clerk and Santiago Abreu Assistant Clerk I NewStvee of Promissory Note We find in the last number of Hssrss Drthmts' Jftga vine a commanication from Mr Joseph Mor ton Secretary Of the Boston Locomotive Works in which he recommends the general adoption of a new form for promissory notes He propo ses to make the note payable on a particular day leaving out the words four I1 or six months after and of course doing away with the eartom of allowing three days' grace Jlllilll LitiltOf Idlll AND WILL UK IN ORCE IN A rtM TKI KIHNTA' CO fill ALK AND Inform thir ewrtoiomMi! lhal thin ilelri iMuai LtJturajrtt warranted tioiiaixl not to be aiw ijr aftfa and eqijHb to any In Enitlandnr brwwi or nohl fn faw oatm in 1 iniC jwutartd both Houiu ot lha tii uim by the (iiviQnr the Rfi te nw i rnnirri by all Mfdiral WIJJ of tirt rat tn a toa the atmnrlh alt who frtMkref aliveofidJ tlixraiM'A ngul'ied bv I nil rW umiiuend th4r fui ii'UanU tb public larifeMTirplr er it falon htc cn now had in larnl haM and Hnt bottieH on appliratioa aa or by letUr 1855 fjfevgS tt ROEIXISON i VOKt OltWAR DINO COMl MERCHANT? OOT SECOND STREET ON THE HUMI CAS4L A re prepared to contract for ti ertj I TO ANI EKOn IXCJNMTM LOWEST IMTK tv BGGLKSTON' Clofeonali A GODARD Totela Aavgt 2S To Bellt TI1K LIIU1E HH1 1 juTt a of gYnuoffa ftprH Un of thecity on nrt atreeU John Wateon It in fitted witb modern La all noct anary lu 1mhm Pstew'Mrhtn rira Uinnediately bn juireat tbi offier 8 Epwaru Lrox Accepted and adopted One of your comnvttee to vrboiii referred the matter of exchanging fractional lot of astound uu Cougress and Larned street wllh uuo Peter I'aul lAfovte after due examination and deliberate tags leavq to submit the following report' viz: "'Ye deem it inexpe dient to make such exchange or ti anfer tor the following reasons: tat the ground it conveyed by the citv i much larger than that received therefor 2d Lefevre's ttllo to a portion of the grounds proposed to ta conveyed to the citv is of very questionable character 4tb 1 find on examination that said tafevre ha become possessed of a large amount of ground (whether by purchase supremo dictation or sopbistrv vour committee are not advised I which (property) vonr committee talievc talong to a verv worthy portion of our fellow citizens and should ta ly them ose ej inasmuch as satl Lefevre: is a subject and emissary of a foreign potentate who like the locust of Egypt not only devours the sutatance and productions or the'soil but atultifie and withers the intelligen ces of his subjects and fills the hind itli beg gary and crime Encouragement to such a po tentate would ta reprehensible in a half ized iwople and positively criminal in a body of American citizens The conduct of said Ey'" re has satisfied your committee that clothing on him in the similitude uf man is a monstrosi ty that be is a fit companion only for dragous and devils Your eomuiiUoe would recommend that he do not ask for the usual amount of ground allotted to man viz: two feet by six Lut that he take Ills bodv back from hence it came and there let it remain and enrich the soil it ba impoverished All of which is respectfully submitted and the subscriber nks be dis charged from further consideration of the above subject NV Chau Report accepted and Aid Craig discharged from committee The matter and accompanying papers were re ferred to Recorder and Citv Attorney The Committee uti ire Department to whom was referred sundry petition for the organiza tion of Hose Companies would report that In their opinion the city doe not tequiro any Hose Companies at present as every engine com pany carries about four bundled feet of hose which is about as much as they can use to a I would therefore report adverse io of the petitioners John CommiUe on A IVN'SING irB IL II Lsliov 5 1 're 4 United StaiiejallJi pACtSlC vLrX AR(TTCrKLri 5 SAILING THktH AT CITY CITY OS' CITY WASIIIN'tlTOVaraJta rates or PxiSx'0' rom 1'btldelpbia rewtk Marti Sa ErvrwMrd ftipArJd lacludiur faMv THIRD CLASS A limited of third daw 2 ISjid PhiU'Mphia and UvnMVil Proin philmWrMa O) Certificate of ill ha arWroUfa ufbriuu oat Uir 41 ng rat va MWte Draft on from fl unvanfa An Surewm win AH GmulMannt to thw Arntain p444fa pool wHlbe forward with wnom or uvuM or MUatr apply to '4 17 Walant 1 I'hltefo A'bXS? milliam Tnww Id 5 ihkr 13ITK3il rliipc i.