The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1843, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. ew York, Friday, March 10, 1843. Newspaper and Literary Agents—and the Public generally. The “New Yorx Antusr,” © monthly magazine of literature, fashion, and the fine arts, will be published re- gularly frem this office, on the first of each month. Under its new management, this Magazine will be made equal, if not superior, to any other in the country, n original literature, poetry, engravings, and everything nteresting to the fashionable and intellectual portion ef the public. The number for April will contain a most desutiful engraving, accompanied with a description of the FOUNTAIN IN THE PARK. Other engravings, colored and plain, with anew and erigimal plate of the latest Ladies’ Fashions, will also en- rich this number. 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Important Proceedings—The Somers Case befere the Grand Jury and the United States Court, A full, accurate and comprehensive report of all the speeches, arguments and proceedings that may take place to-day in the United States Court, will be reported in the Herald of to-morrow, such as no other paper in New York can give. It is expected that Charles O’Connorand Ben. F. Butler for the Spencer side, John Duer and G. Gniffin for the McKenzie side, will all appear and argue the point of jurisdiction by the Grand Jury. It ishighly probable that many finished bursts of eloquence may take place. Look out for the Herald to-morrow. Tue Lrsxartes or Evrore.—-The Rey. Dr Baird, a gentleman of great literary attainment, and who has just returned froma very extended tour in Europe, gave a very interesting lecture last evening at Niblo’s soloon, on the “ libraries of Europe.” A numerous and highly respectable audience assem- bled on the occasion. The Doctor did not say much about the libraries of Great Britain, Ireland and France, as they are tolerably generally known. At Copenhagen the library contains the best and most valuable collection of Scandenavian literature in the world. The libraries at Stockholm and Christian- sand were very rich. In the latter was one of the most remarkable volumes in the world—the “codex argentins,” so called from its silver letters. It isa translation of the New Testament, or portions of it, and every letter, with the exception of those in a few lines, is made of silver, that is of silver foil laid on the thin parchment. The royal library of Stock- holm contains 8000 volumes,and is very valuable. It contains the largest book ever made; it is a yard long, eighteen inches wide, and of the same thick- ness. It is a sort of encyclopadia, and its contents were written with a pen by a person condemned to die, and who wished to propitiate his judges by some extraordinary werk. It wassaid that he made this book by the help of Satan, in one mght, and it is therefore styled ‘‘ The Devil’s Bible.” There 1s also in this library a curious collection of letters from Charles XII. to his sister; and likewise the identical Latin Bible which belonged to the great reformer, Luther, and on the margin of which are the numerous notes made by that illustrious man. Tur Lavxcu.—The packet ship Liverpool was launched yesterday afternoon at two o’clock. It was really a magnificent affair. ‘This ship is nearly twelve hundred tons in size, and, therefore, the largest merchant vessel in this country. She dipped into the river most beautifully, | and lays swan-like on the water. Such‘a packet is an honor to our shipwrights. Thousands witnessed the sight. The weather was so fine and spring-like, that all, who had time, were there. Over five thousand were present We understand that the keel of another packet, one hundred tons larger than the Liverpool, will be laid immediately in the same yard—that of Brown % Bell’s. She is to be named the Great Western, will be commanded by Captain Woodhouse, and is 0 be one of the line with the Liverpool, Rochester iad Hottinguer—Woodhull & Minturn, agents. We shall soon have packet ships as large as the ime of battle ship Pennsylvania. Post Orsice at ALBany.— We learn by confiden- tial advices, that a d rate attempt is making to aduece President Tyler to remove General Van Renssalaer, the hero of the last war, from the Post Office at Albany. We sincerely hope the President will seriously reflect upon it before he makes a change. The friends of Van Buren want that office in order to use it to his advantage in the coming contest. American InstiruTs.—The last of the exhibition of the Planetarium at Niblo’s Garden, commencing at 7} o’clock, P.M. This and to.morrow evening closes the exhibition in this city of the most perfect model of the heavenly bodies, extant. In this short space those who wish may obtain a general under- standing of astronomy. Is it not wisdom to aban- don ordinary amusements (only two evenings) fora knowledge of this vast creation? Lectures on As- tronomy, with addresses. Admission 25 cents. Court or Errxors.—The Court has determined by a vote of 18 to 10, to hold the summer session at the City Hall in this city, commencing on the firet saturday of June next. The Chancellor then moved that the calender of writs of error be alone taken up at that session, which was adopted. New Jexsey Ramnoan.—Gentlemen doing bu- siness in this city and living in Elizabethtown and along the line of this railroad are urgent to have an accommodation train leave at six o’clock in the af- ternoon. We should think thatthe company would find it for its interest to send a train at that hour. From Aupany. Last evening we received Alba- ny papers of yesterday morning. This is despatch We are indebted to Pomeroy & Co. for them. They were brought over the Housatonic Railroad i> Mr. Wallace, the distinguished orator, deli- vers a poem called ‘* Apollo Restored,” at Concert Hall to night. There will be splendidjsinging and music. A great house may be expected. Mayors ar tm East —In Salem, Stephen P. Webb has been re-elected Mayor by a large majo rity, and in Lowell, Nathaniel Wright. ts in dirt and filth. filthy condition by Cawr't pe Brat.—Our stre They are kept in their present the new contract ream suip Great Westerns Where leave It is now believed that she did not England nthe Litiult, Haw she not een sold * Tux Somers Tracepy—New Movements IN THE } Casz.—It will be seen from our report of the pro- ceedings in the Circuit Court yesterday, that very elaborate arguments will be offered this day relative to the jurisdiction of the Grand Jury in the case of Commander McKenzie. Messrs. Butler and O’Con- nor will appear on the part of the applicants for a bill of indictment, and Messrs. Griffin and Duer for the other party. The high character and distin- guished attainments of these gentlemen, warrant the anticipation that the very important questions which have now risen in the progress of this case, and invested it with new and keenly exciting in. terest, will be discussed with the greatest legal ability, The importance of this remarkable case grows greater every day, From the very first we pre- dicted that it would attain this magnitude, as well from the very nature of the melancholy transaction itself, and the character and pesition in our com- munity of the parties immediately concerned, ag from the very important interests and principles in- volved. In the first place, the case was one alto- gether unprecedented. Never in the whole history of our naval service, had sucha charge been heard of, as that two-thirds of the crew of an American ship of war, had, in time of peace, too, deliberately formed a conspiracy to disgrace their flag and the name of their country, violate the persons of their countrywomen, plunder our merchant ships, and murder their own flesh and blood. Then there was the execution of an officer of the navy and two seamen, manifestly, asis indeed now admitted on all hands, centrary to strict legal requirements ; and sought to be justified only on the grounds of an urgent necessity, of whose existence exceed- ingly slender proofs have as yet been discovered. As soon as the vessel touched the shore, new ele- ments of difficulty and excited coatroversy enter into the case. On the one side, we have the Spencer family, very influential and powerful, and with its extensive connexionsjthreughout the State of New York, and in every department of the General and State Government. On the other side, we have the Slidell and McKenzie families, influential also, and numbering amongst their connexions many of our most respected citizens. The controversy has thus become invested with all that spirit of bitterness and factious feeling which characterized the feuds between the noble families of the Venetian republic. And not only are the reputation of our naval service—the honor$of the nation—and family pride, deeply involved and mixed up with this case, but it has also become a subject of grave discussion in Europe, and promises to occupy the universal atten- tion of the naval and military men of France and England. All these circumstances combined, give to the future proceedings in this case, vast additional in- terest and importance ; and as our object continues to be, the maintenance of perfect impartiality, and the award of even-handed justice to all parties con- cerned, we have deemed it proper and equitable to annex the defence of Commander McKenzie and his officers, as urged with great zeal by two of the Wall street papers, who have very conspicuously appeared amengst his friends. In this defence, it will be seen, therefis a great variety of matter introduced; and amongst the rest, some very hard thrusts at this journal, on account of the course it has adopted in this case. Itis even insinuated that it has been through our agency that the British press has condemned the conduct of Commander McKenzie. This sagacious charge can hardly be deemed werthy of contradiction by people who give themselves the trouble of exercising the reflective faculties with which the Creator has bountifully endowed the human species. This in- sinuation is very much like the imputation cast upon us, that we are directly under the influence of Queen Victoria herself, and that we never utter a word, take any view of the leading questions of the day, from the street contract to the right of visit, without the express orders of her little Majesty, under her sign manual, and dated at Buckingham Palace, and received by us per the last steamship. Again and again we have stated that we have no feelings either one way or the other with respect to Commander McKenzie himself. All we desire is, the maintenance of the reputation of the naval ser- vice, the national honor, and the award of impartial justice to all parties concerned. In the annexed defence, it will be perceived that the Courier exhibits its characteristic bravado and bluster, and perfect contempt of vulgar argument and reason. The defence set up by the American is rather more dignified and calm, and appears to be of a much more effective character. Withthese re- marks we give the articles to our readers, who will of course take them for what they are worth:-— [From the Conrier and Enqnirer.] Tur Court Martial THE] ATROCIOUS ATTEMPTS To INTERFERE wiTH 17 !—Highly reprehensible as it un- doubtedly is, for individuals or for the public press to dis- turb the deliberations of Courts constituted by the laws of the country for the trial of those charged witt. offences, it is quite time forall presses and all persons claiming re- spectability te speak out and to speak loudly in the case of Commander McKenzie and his gallant comrades in the suppression of the mutiny on board the Somers. The re- gulsr press of this city has done enough for decorum and refrained long enough from participation, and it is quite time now, todo something for justice and for the charac- terof the country. A most able and distinguished Court is engaged in the investigation of the case, without the slightest room for doubt that its decision will be in accord- ance with strict justice to the country, to the honor and welfareof the Navy, and tothe officers on trial. This being the case, the city press has preserved an almost wn- broken silence on the subject, except in instances where the most atrocious falsehoods in other places have seemed to render prompt denial imperative. But, it were the grossest dereliction of duty any longer to refrain from meeting, and meeting manfully and tho- roughly , the nefarious instrumentalities that have been put in requisition to poison the feelings of the public, and if possible thoseof the Court Martial, against Captain Mc- Kenzie, We certainly do not propose to make battle very seriously with that portion of the newspapers which are making their daily onslaughts upon the officer on trial, for there is nothing either in their cheracter or their position which calls for it. The moving causes of this movement are too well understood to leave sy necessity for devi- ating from the general disregard with which their mali- cious imbecility and want of character is held. When, however, th officer of this Government, 80 far forgets the proprieties of his staton as to aid in such disgraceful poconstieg’: and uses the authority and proba- bly the patronage of the Government itself in persecuting a meritorious officer of its own, the press is bound to dro} all delicacy, and dismiss all fastidiousness of phrase. If a Cabinet Minister is at liberty to use his official influence and te employ a mercenary and degraded public press, for the conviction of an American officer, whom nine-tenths of the community believe notoniy to be innocent of of- fence, but deserving ef hovor for his acts, we know of no right that we and all others have, not to expose such con- duct, and to stand between the accused and those who persecute him. That John C. Spencer, the present Secretary of the Treasury, has used and is still using his official influence and his most zealous personal efforts to procure the pun- ishment of as good an officer as there is in the United States Navy, there is no room todoubt. That he has em- ployed eminent lawyers to aid him inthe design, and en- deavored, against all precedent and against all the usages ofthe service, to bring sech instrumentality in the Court Martial now in session, we all of us know from the actual facts before us; thathe has done and is now any | much more for the attainment of his end, admits of no doubt.— ‘We charge nothing upon any man that cannot be proved, but we all have the right to say what is universally be- lieved, and if we mistake not, it is universally believed that the father of Philip Spencer is guilty ef a course of conduct on this subject that should consign him to the ex- ecration of theconntry, even after allowing all that can be called for to the feelings of a father and to ftheffnatural sensibility to family disgrace. ‘There is something in the attempt now making {to pr: cure agrandjury sapple enough to find a bill of indict- ment for murder against McKenzie, which in our opinion is one of the most extraordinary Pears ever attempt. edinthe country. While an officer is on trial before the very tribunal provided by the laws of the land tosit in judgment on him, the Grand Inquest of @ United States Court is called upon to place him before a civil forum, him Ny parri passu subjecting him to do me time, putting him in a position from which every American citizen is protected by law—twice in peril of his life for thesame act! It isa known axiom ofthe Common law, not only that Nemo bis puniter pro eodem delicto, shall twice be put in jeopardy of his life for the sameerime. Ifthe Grand Jury of a Civil Court has the right to indict a manin the midet of his trial be. fore acompetent tribunal, the Court bas the right, for aught we see, actually to put him on his trial, and to sentence upon him if convicted, whetherhe be acquitted or found guilty in the other jurisdiction. If this be the law of the United States, we advise the officers of the Navy and of the Army to throw up their commissions as speedi- ly as possible. ‘There is not a moment's salety in remain. ing in either branch of theservice. It is quite clear from the express words of the ‘Act of Congress that they are amenable to Courts Martial, aud ifthe Civil jurisdiction is concurrent —nay, ifit may be exercised regardless of the Military tribunal, every officer, every seaman and every soldier, has two chances to be hanged where the citizen has but one. That js all that con be said aboutit. A doc. trine too monstrous to be admitted for a moment. Gllowever, we will not entertain even » {doubt ato the thus liberated, they and Cieaveland, the relative of Crom- the point where the English press comes in question. tain articles from the London United Service Journal, and from the London Standard, tre execution on boardthe Somers, and characterizing it as “Lynch Law afloat ” course of 6 grand jury in this case. The bill will be refused ; no matter how that grand may have beeu constituted, even if it has been packed (we do not say it has) for the very purpose of indicting the officers of the Somers, they wil never find a true am under such cir cumstances, We will not permit ourselves to believe it possible. With regard to the influences that have been attempted to be ay to bear upon the Court Martial itself, we have very little to say. The distinguished officers who compose that Court are not the men to be affected by them. ‘They know their duty and will discharge it as ecomes them, and as becomés the honor of their noble service, andthe honor of the American character. They will do justice; and we can easily imagine and appseciate the scorn they teel, nat only forthe purchased maliew of a degraded New York press, but for the bullying of foreign pesmearts and calumniators. Not content with abusing the officers of a United States man-of-war themselves, articles have been written, and materials eollected and sent eoroes the Atlantic to be Published in British papers, sent back and quoted here for the purpose of bullying an American Court of Naval Officers! sated The British United Service Journal is even cruel enough to call the execution of the Somers mutineers “Lynch Law,” and to pronounce the gallant fellows who brought the vessel inte port—cowards. they? Test that question from them, down to the Youngest midshipm: Bull, and you will probably reverse that opi Mr. Jobn Cow: cowardice in the Perry’s— has any particular reasons for supposing the Gensevoorts @ very run-away race. Let any En; tastes run that way, try the mettle of Mackenzie with an equal or superior number of men and guns. As to “Lynch Law,” it were as well for British soldiers and British sailors to say but little about it. It was Lynch Law at the Nore, we suppose—Lynch Law when Lord Camelford shot ‘Maj jesty?+ Tivatennin dead, for refusing to obey an order of questionable legality. We have given them Lynch law ourselves at different times. Hull dispensed a little of that code upon the Guertiere on & certain occasion. Bainbridge lynched the Java most abominably, and Biddle and Jones and several others have tish subjects, we acknowledge, and we do not wonder at any little complaisance like that of the British journalists. As to the honor of the American Nav in connexion with the Somers, Stewart, Jones and Dallas have passed upon it, and that answers our Purpose, wi thout any particulor reference to the epinion of the ‘‘ United Service Journal.” (From the New York American.] Tur Cask or Commannen McKenzix.—The interest which we confess ourselves to feel in this case, and the importance to the efficiency and honor of the naval ser- vice, as well as to the security of all commerce on the ocean, of a right decision of the public mind, must be our apology for the remarks we are about to submit. We have been withheld hitherto from plain speech on this subject, because the Court Martial was still sitting; nor should we now depart from this reserve, but for the indications all around us, and to which we cannot shut our eyes, of active, constant, vindictive, and persevering efforts, both to influence public opinion against Mr.McKen- i dto harrass him on his trial for life or death, and di ish his chance of honorable acquittal, by facilitating the evasion of essential witnesses, and by attempts to drag him from the sole tribunal to which he is amenable, be- fore other Courts and other laws. In plain words, Mr. John C. Spencer, one of the high functionaries of the Government—who imposed upon the ion a son, known to him to be unworthy when he ob- ed for him rank and station in an honorable service— is bending all the energies of his character, and allthe influence of his station, to crush the man who, in the dis- charge of a public duty, as solemn and painful as ever de- volved upon a commander, cut shert the career of crime which this youth meditated against the flag ofhis country, the lives of his comrades, and the security of the ocean. It cannot be necessary for us to say that a father’s grief and a father’s feelings, we would unfeignedly respect, and with all tenderness approach ; but a father’s blind reseatments, when he himself with full knowledge of the ‘ward and vicious propensities of his son, placed him in aposition, where honor and fidelity could alone secure respect—and where crime musty. from the necessity of the case, be vigorously dealt with—can claim neither sympa. thy nor forbearance. Mr. Spencer has sought to turn a great public and na- tional inv ation, into a vindictive private prosecution. From the very outset, hethrew down Personal lly the gage of battle ; and while stranger-hearts bled for him, even while they approved the act that bereaved him of a son, he sought relief—for his affliction? Oo! no—but for his purposes of vengeance, formed on the instant, to be aban- loned only with life, in that remarkable communication to the Madisonian, signed S.—a communication evincing coolness, deliberation, the full possession of every faculty, and complete mastery over grief and passion. The heart and its sorrows had no share in that paper. ‘The indication thus promptly put forth, has been steadi- 1y followed up— before the Court of Enquiry, the Court jartial, and the Civil Courts. It isto be traced through the political brotherhood of Hope in New York and in Washington—the venal press here, and, as we apprehend, the prejudiced, if not venal, press of England. The Court of Inquiry was hardly formed pefore it was announced that two distinguished lawyersfof New York were retained as counsel for Mr. Spencer. They did not indeed appear before that Court—but they were busy in preparing and advising the various efforts to induce the civil courts to interfere either with Mr. MacKenzie him- self, or with the delinquents brought home for trial. ‘When the Court Martial convened, these gentlemen ap" plied to be received as the counsel'for Mr Spencer—in other words, to thrust the United States on one s ‘0 consider the publie cause as naught—and to sink the dig- nity of a prost a ional question into the littleness of per- sonal and p revenge. This was, of course, refused, Moreover, Spencer, f War, detached one ofthe clerks of his d i Morris,) to New York, ig testimony, stirring up effort, and c ig operations. The Judge Advocate, thought it not foreign from his duty to intro- duce this gentleman before the Court, and to add that through him he expected to be able to cer’s views of the case, or words to t Judge Advocate should in fairness have added, too, that, although then for the first time presented to the Court, af- ter it had been many days in session, yet Mr. Morris had been in communication privately with him from the commencement of the trial. It was with the assistance and advice of this gentleman, and of the counselof Mr. Spencer, that the various ap- prentice boys were from time totime liberated, and when well, were. and we believe are, habitually in consulta- tion ‘with Mr. Morris at the office occupied by him. It is through this same agency, asthere is every reason to believe, that the rules and regulations of the Service have been set aside, and its discipline defeated, by the ab- surd and lawless assumption of the Recorder tod ischarge enlisted apprentic being unduly punished. ofthe Navy, on the pretext of their Of the political brotherhood of Ho} men, from Post Master Graham to his deputy Redwood Fisher, through dercending ranks to that worn out hack Southworth—who make it a point to talk down McKenzie and talk up the virtuous mutineers ? Ofthe veual press here, we need but name the Uniap and Herald; and the mention of this latter brings us to ho cannot name On the 27th of Jast month, the Herald republished cer- ing of the mutiny and hese articles were thus introduced by the editor :— “‘Aswe predicted some time since, the Somers’ case now presents a new and most important aspect, in consequence of the narrative of Commander McKenzie, and the reports of the proceedings before the Court of Enquiry having reached Europe, and been subjected there to the free, im- partial, a nd enlightened examination of the conducters of the public pr «As we predicted!” The phraseology would probably have been more accurate if it had run, “as we prepared,” for we verily believe these articles were prepared on, or suggested from, this side of the water. Of course this cannot be proved, but we offer to our readers the consi- derations which lead us to this conclusion. First, the Herald boasts that it predicted the nature of the English opinion relative to this transaction ; and we are told by some who read that paper, that again and again it made this prediction, with strong intimation ot what the opiaion would be. ‘Secondly, we have reason to believe that the same sort of language was held by round and in the confi- dence of Mr.Spencer before the arrival of the steamer that brought the papers containing these strictures. ‘Thirdly, the Janguage of the articles themselves, which is passionate and vindictive far beyond any thing Ilkely to Be used by distant and disinterested critics. ‘’The idiocy of poltroonery,” “most abject and fetid cowardic: “villanous malice arid exaggeration,” “canting narrative,” “elaborate and disgusting hypociisy,” “atrocious mur- ders,” and other like phrases, savor much more of the per- sonal resentments of injured parties, than of the impartial judgment of foreign spectators. The distortion of facts ‘and the sophistry of statements,have a strong resemblance to like characteristics in articles published on this side; and above all, the expressions, “plegmatic Dutchman,” applied to Mr. Grensevoort, and the rather peculiar and uncommon word “slain,” introduced into one of these articles, seems to stamp them as of domestic origin. There is nothing in the name of Gansevoort so decidedly Dutch as at once to arrest attention. We venture to say that to a great majority of the readers of newspapers in our own country, this name conveyed no such association—a fortio- ri, it was less likely to do so in England. not examined the case—possibly the ar- min a way flattering hy contrast to na- tional pride—possibly through sources in whieh they had confidence—possibly because, throuzh prejudice against us, they did approve such strictures upon a navy that dis- enchanted the world as to British invincibility on the y the publications were paid ion, we only remark, ld which ushers forth these extracts from London papers, as conelusive of the opinion ot the civilized ‘Id against McKenzie, and admonitory to the Court Martial then and now sitting, how they should discharge their duty, we find it said of London Times, the leading journal of Europe, and of Londen Morning Chronicle, also in the first rank of newspapers, that they are both in the pay of the London banking houses, to depreciate the financial eredit of Ame- rica. If such journals can be purchased—which we by no ans affirm—for assailing our honor in one part'cular, it is not difficult to believe that journals of less responsibility and renowm may be purchased to assail it in another. But dismissing alto, topo fin| Mod bani) case, and supposing that the articles from the London papers are spuine S ponents of the feeling there—what then ? Where is the American heart, that would hesitate in such a matter between the hastily formed and py expressed opinion of prejudiced, Irresponsible and self-constituted judges, belonging to a jealous rival—and the deliberate opinion uttered under the sanction of a solemn oath— upon the responsibility of their great names, and after a fall invest n_of the testimony—by Stewart, and Jones, and las? We address not this question to such miserable foreign vagrants and hirelings asthose of the Herald, nor tothe meaner and baser spawn of our own rank soil, who for a price, would defile all that is noble, just and true—but we address it with all confidence, to honest and upright Americans. What say those men whose whitening locks are bound with laurels snatched in the bloody arbitrament of wor from the self-constituted naval supremacy of England- What say they of o transaction go insolently and falsel; Cowards are with any selection you make ards are they 1—ask the survivors of Captain Barciay’s epairon if they are of opinion that there isa great deal ° British soldier if he ih officer, whose been guilty of very “irregular proceedings” towards Bri- aoe, County, rency for the past several years. A bench warrant had been sent to this city for his arrest, and the above named officer, after long and diligent search. traced the gentleman to his hiding place, an handed him over to an officer of Rochester, who left yesterday with his prisoner in custod characterized as “ Lynch law afloat?” Read and remem. ber. “The Court are of opinion,tthat, throughout all these painful occurrences, so well calculated to disturb the judgment and try the energy of the bravest and most ex- perienced officers, the conduct of Commander McKenzie and hie officers was prudent, calm and firm, and that he and they honorably performed their duty to the Service and their Country.” In opposition i such a record, avouched by such men, what weight attaches to abusive words, such as we have heretofore quoted from the London strictures. We leave them to be enjoyed and believed by their inventors and abettors on either side of the Atlantic. It by this defence Commander McKenzie is to be acquitted at the bar of public opinion, we shall be quite satisfied. It will all be very well We have no hostility to this gentleman. Far from it. We heartily wish him safe out of this uncomfortable scrape. And that our benevolent aspirations are not as valueless as the “ Courier’s” savage bravado, we think we have fully established, by the publica- tion of the whole ef the elaborate defence of Com- mander McKenzie offered by two of his advocates, whose zeal and skill we cannot for a moment call in question. City Intelligence. INDIANS IN THE Crty ArsENaL.—The Chiefs, now ona visit to this city, by invitation of Commissary General Storms, attended a parade of the Inde- pendence Guards, Captain J. T. Carns, yesterday afternoon. A number of ladies and gentlemen had also been invited, among whom we noticed the Recorder, Judge Lynch, District Attorney Whiting, Gen. Morris, Edwin Forrest, &e. &c. After the chiefs had been received in military etiquette by this remarkably well-disciplined and soldier-like corps, they were honored with a salute from seve- ral of the elegant brass field pieces in the Arsenal Yard, which excited their astonishment and wonder ina peculiar manner. But one of them had ever heard the deafening roar {of artillery before ; and, although not a muscle was moved at the discharge of even the heaviest cartridges, yet they looked at the scene with those peculiar expressiens ef asto- nishment that are perceptible only in the Indian face. We asked one old chief, through the inter- preter, what he thought of such implements to fight with? He hesitated, and answered, “ Choo- huck-a-Konk-i”—which, interpreted, means, “It sounds like God Almighty,” alluding, as we sup- posed, to the artillery of heaven, as familiar to him in his foresthome. The principal chief on leaving the Arsenal, after they were shown the implements of warfare in the various departments of the yard and buildings, said to his interpreter :—‘‘ Huk-a na- konk hi-hick ko-chunk-a-hoo po-tot a-he-tot to-hout us,” which, translated, met@is—‘ If Indian fight white man he take the arsenal and all in him, cause nothing but a board fence around it.” What a striking commentary was this reply on the neglect of our State Legislature to appropriate means to en- close the arsenal buildings and yard with a suitable wall, and also to construct suitable edifices inside for the protection of the artillery and other imple- ments, that form the only land defence of our exten- sive city. We hope this reproof of the cunning In- dian will not ‘fall amiss upon our representatives at Albany. Tue Boys or Tue Somers.—Recorder Tall- madge decided yesterday that Edward Galia, Chas. J. Goldenman, Richard Hamilton and Henry Wal- tham, the boys of the Somers, who were brought before him on a writ of habeas’corpus should be discharged from imprisonment, but remanded for general service in the navy department. In the case of William Sullivan, who had previously been brought before Judge Inglis, who refused to dis- charge him from the service, the Recerder stated that such hearing prompted him not to interfere, but that he should also remand Sullivan for general ser- vice. Anti-Miuitia Law Movement.—The commit- tee to whom were entrusted the matter relative to a repeal of the present odious Militia Law, have put in circulation a petition to the Legislature, one of which yesterday received the signature of Mayor Morris and a number oi the members of the Com- mon Council, with hundreds of other citizens. The representatives from this city owe it to their consti- tuents to recommend at once such repeal or altera- tion of the present law as will relieve the commu- nity from the onerous evils that now bear upon them. Tne Mutrer INvEstTIGATION was continued yes- terday afternoon. A woman and her son, who has resided with Charles F. Miller, at Little Falls, were called upon the stand as witnesses, but nothing was elicited of the least interest to the public. Exp1.anatory.—A woman arrested on Wednes- day on a charge of larceny, gave the name of Agnes Gurley, which was published yesterday morning. We since understand that she assumed the name to avoid giving her own, and that no person of that name stands charged with any offence before the police. Arrest oF 4 Fivancrer.—Officer Jehn H. Low arrested John F. Wyckofl, of Monroe nown asone of the inflators of the cur- ly. OsscenE Print Sevier SurrewpERED.—Henry i the great Courtlandt street manufactu- and disgusting prints and engravings, who was arrested some months since and admitted to bail in the sum of ), was surrendered yesor day by his securities, Wm. Bailey,{M. D., and Wm. McKinley, and after being arrested by officer Tap- pan, was safely lodged in the city prison for trial. Boarpine Houss Sxoozers.—Proprietors of board- ing houses whose premises have recently been pil- laged hb fowd' oA beardless animals in the shape of men, with numerous aliases, are requested to call at the lower police this morning, and enquire for officer Baker, who has thn rogues in charge, he having arrested them yesterday. They have recent- ly been in the practice of taking board, and when sufficiently acquainted with the premises then reb it during the night and decamp. Come all ye that know them, and help to send the scoundrels uf. Howarp’s Herer—Prices Repucep.—Under this heading we noticed an editorial article in yester- day’s Commercial Advertiser, to the truth of which we readily assent, and give Mr. Howard the benefit of its circulation in the Herald. Among the many reputable establishments for the ac- lation and convenience of the public which dis- tinguish our city, none has been more exclusively and de- servedly patronized than Howard’s Hotel, and we learn with pleasure that the enterprising and gentlemanly pro- prictors, yielding to the depression of the times, have, with commendable liberality, resolved upon a reduction of prices, which the whole cavaling: public now feel to be required by the depression of the business of the coun- try. This Hotel has been peculiarly conducted, and with deserved success—serving two breakfasts and dinners at different hours to suit the taste and convenience of the gentleman of leisure or the man of business. Having long known the Mesers Howards—even belore the elder brother distinguished himself so reputably on the occasion of the destruction of the ill fated Phasnix upon Lake Champlain, as the associate of our friend Captain R. W. Sherman, and while at Troy, conducting one of the most popular hotels of that city—it is with pleasure we have witnessed their,deserved success in their present establishment—a success almost without parallel among the hotels in our country. The prices are reduced from two dollars to one dollar and seventy-five cents per day for ladies and gentlemen—ladies’ ordinary —and one dollar and fifty cents for single gentlemen, for any term exceed- ing one day. The prices of wines are also reduced twen- ty-five per cent. Norrm River.—The river remains firmly closed at Poughkeepsie. Thefice is so strong at that place, that teams with heavy loads crossed daily, without danger. Mussisstrr1 River.—This river had] risen about two feet, but wasat a stand at St. Louisfon the 27th ult. There was about nine feet water from that city to the mouth—and the ice has disappeared. Cnarnam Tueatre.—We perceive that Mr. Thorne has effected an engagement with Mr. Charles Eaton, an actor of undoubted merit, and favorably known to the New York public. He appears this evening as Sir Edward Mortimer, in the celebrated play of the “Tron Chest,” in which character he has but few equals. The entertainments to-night are for the benefit of the Kentucky Minstrels, who will appear on this occasion in a series of new und rare extravaganzae, which, in connection with the other attractions, is enfficient to draw an overflowing house. Earruquakes anp Comers 1n ADVANCE—TH Lentum Approacuinc.—This is certainly a most re- markable epoch in the history of the world. We hear of tremendous earthquakes in all quarters of the earth,and even the dominions of the great ocean are shaken. In one single earthquake, at the Island of Martinique, 10,000 lives are said to have been lost. These accounts of earthquakes have been reaching us in the papers almost daily for many months past. And now we have an extraordinary and porten- tous appearance in the heavens, eithera comet with a most unreasonable length of tail, or else a zodia- cal light, or some erratic coruscation ot the Aurora Borealis, we know not what, save that it appears to j setall astronomical and meteorological knowledge at defiance. As to the stars, they have usually all been brought out under the management of the New Haven astrologers. It is proper, therefore, to hear what they have to say in relation to this new celestial vis- iter which is nightly performing in the western hor- izon. ‘The New Haven papers contain the following no- tice of the phenomenon :— ‘Tue Comet.—This remarkable body, which since the 1st instant has been seen in the day time in several plac so distant from each other as to leave no doubt of its being truly a comet, presented itself to us in admirable style last evening about seven o'clock, exhibiting in the southwest long and narrow train, in shape not unlike the repre- entations transmitted to us of the celebrated comet of 168 The following observations, made at the observatory of Yale College, though not sufficiently precise for scientific purposes, may serve as a general guide to those who may be on the look out this evening. ising trom the horizon about 18 deg. south of the west point, at an of 29 deg. it extended for 30 deg. along the s of the constellation Cetus, or the Whale, gr: southern margin the star tau Ceti, ond terminating, so far as visible, at the star tau Eridani. Its light was rendered less strikin, presence of the moon, then 6 days old; but should its course bring it fairly into view in the noc- turnal sky, it promises te be one of the finest comets ever seen. In addition to the above, we have the following fromthe Woodstock (Vt.) Mercury :— ‘Tne Noon-Day Comer.—A comet of unusual size and brilliancy was distinctly visible to the naked eye in this vicinity on Tuesday last at noon-day, at a distanes, ax we should judge, of 5 or 6 degrees east from the sun, or about twice the apace occupied by the three stars in the belt of Orion. It extended over a space in the heavens of nearly three degrees in length,with little more than one in width —and appeared like a very small white cloud, with its nucleus, or densest part, toward the sun, and its luminous train in’ opposition to it. On viewing it threugh a com: mon three feet telescope of moderate power, it presented a ct and most beautiful appearance—exhibiting a very white and bright nucleus, and a tail dividing near the nu- cleus into tv o separate branches, with the outer sides of each branch convex, and of nearly equal length, a rently 8 or 10 degrees. Though viewed several minutes under these favorable circumstances,no coruscations were perceived. The velocity with which comets move in their im- mense elliptical orbits when in their perihelion, or near approach to the sun, is very great—sometimes, as was the case with the comet’ of 1680, passing over a ‘space of 81 degrees, 47 minutes, in one hour ; s0 that, whenever the weather, which has been cloudy since Tuesday at three o’clock, shall permit us to view this comet again, it is not improbable we shall see it, if we see it at all, many de- grees from the position which it occupied on thi The following is from the correspondence ef the United States Gazette, Philadelphia :— New Casqee, March 7, 1843. J. R.Cnaxprer, Esq.—Dear Sir—#A remarkably lumin- ous appearance has been observed fn the heavens for two or three nights past, which has excited the curiosity of all witnessing it. It is observable about seven o’clock in the eveni ing, in the west, extending archwise towards the south-east, beginning near the horizon, Seme have thought omet, some a lunar rainbow, others an aurora or reflection of thesun on the western mountains. Per haps some of your readers may explain the phenomena, if so, it would relieve the apprehensions of some weak minded people. It is expected that the steamboat building at this place will be launched ina few days, perhaps Saturday next. ‘Whatever this “sign in the heavens” may be, it may be seen, asabove stated, by any one who will take the trouble to look for it abeut sundown. Jt has created great alarm in the minds of many people, as may be seen in the letter from our Albany cor- respondent. It reminds one of that passage from the 21st chapter of Luke :— And there shall besigns inthe sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth ‘distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. The bearing of these portentous events upon the grand denouement of this earthly drama, we do not of course pretend to determine. The settlement of sucha grave and difficult question in theological science, we leave to Dr. Brownlee, he being the best authority with which we are acquainted in “these diggins.” Mayor’s Office. Examination of Col. Warp, on the charge of having a large quantity of counterfeit money in his possession, by hishonor, the Mayor. Maxcu 9, 4 P. M.—Before the examination com- menced, Gen. Sanrorp’s associate in this case, Mr. Drinker, said :—I wish to tiarstiae Honor on a point of some importance to Col. Ward, and to the administration of justice. I thought it was under- stood from the outset, that this examination was to be conducted privately. I noticed a gentleman present from the New York Herald, taking notea, and, eontrary to my expectations, a report has been published this morning. I do not complain of the report, forit is certainly sufficiently favorable to Col. Ward? But the Herald hasan extensive circulation, and the publication operates as an advertisement to this Decatur, whem we wish to catch. Mayor Morais, (addreesing Mr. Weeks)—Well, sir, will you be sworn? Mr. Weeks was immediately sworn by the Mayor. Cuauncey R. Werxs.—l am Clerk, or Second Captain, on board the South America; my business on board the boat is to take people’s names and their fare ; 1 don’t recollect hearing of any applica- tion*for a trunk contarning lost money being made on board of our boat during last season. [in explanation of this evidence, it should be sta- ted, that sition taken by Gol. Ward is, that he put his trank on board of one boat, to wit: the North America, and in attempting to find the boat again, he missed it, and sought for the trunk on board the steamboat South America.] Cross examined by Gen. Sanrorp.—I think there were some applications for lost trunks, and other ar ticles, made last summer, but I recollect no applica- tion made relative to a trunk containing lost money. ‘We had no man on board our boat 4 the name of Reed ; but we had one of the name of Rhodes, who now resides at Milton, not far from Poughkeepsie. (Col. Ward thinks he inquired of a man by the name of eet with sandy hair, on board the boat, for his trun Capt. L. W. Bratnarp.—I was Captain of the South America, last summer ; I recollect of no ap- plication being made on board our boat for a lost trunk containing money. i Mayor Morris.—Have you any recollection of ever having seen that gentlemanjbefore 7 [Pointing to Col. Ward.] : Capt. Brarwarp.—I think I have, but I cannot recollect when or where. Away bill of the South America was here produced, dated Aug. 17, 1842, with “ Mr, Ward's” name on it. Cross-examined by Gen. Sanronp.—Do'you recol- lect a person applyingto you on the morning after the arrival of the boat at Albany, stating that he had lost his trunk, or could not find it, and upon in- quiring when he brought it on board, stating that he had brought it on board at New York ; and your re- plying, if he had brought it on board at New York, it was probably on board still a Capt. Brarnarp.—I have no recollection of an: thing of the kind, although it may have occurred. Being asked relative to Mr. Rhodes, Capt. Brainard said his whiskers were dark; afterwards,adding they might have a shade of red in them. As to the loss of articlee, 1 don’t think there was lost any article of the nature of a trunk all last season, which was lied for and not tound. . othing further of any importance was elicited, d the examination was, therefore closed, as no more witnesses were in attendance. Cireult Court, Before Judge Kent. Manen 9.—Pomeroy vs, Cornell.—The verdict in this case was brought in this morning for the plaintiff, $300 damages, 6 cents cos's. Court of Common Pleas. Betore Judge Ingral Manon 9.— William Robinson vs. Daniel M, Wilcox and William M. Howell.—An action brought to recover dam- ages against the defendants, for having taken the house- hold furniture of the plaintiff, and selling the same at auc. tion. The defence is that the wifeof the plaintiff being desirousto purchase some carpeting, applied to the de- fendant, Wilcox, who sold her the quantity wanted on the following terms. Mr. Robinson was to execute @ as gage to Wilcox on all his household furniture; for the sum of two hundred and nine dollars and payments of ten, dollars to be paid weekly until the face of the mortgage was satisfied. Default having been made in Li faba the defendant foreclosed his mor CI pc ate ve nd fold the goods mortgaged, the plaintif! contends, thet he had no right ts sel der the taoxtd et te Mor, 19th of January, and having levy hi 4 sold, and damages}for having made D. ererant haps r plaintif’; 1. B. Shep herd for de ircult Court, Marcu 9.—The Somers Tragedy.—The Grand Jury came into Court this morning, and in accor- dance with advice of the Court yesterday, brought in the following question in writing :— “Have the Grand Jury any jurisdiction over, or arethey to make inquiry into any offences committed on board of American ships of war, and whilst en the high seas, af so, is it their province to enquire into the offence alleged to have been committed by Capt. McKenzie or any othor persons on board ofthe bg of war Somers, complaints of which are herewith submitted?” Accompanying this question Alderman Purdy, the foreman, submitted three bills, or complaints, the first charging Com. McKenzie with the murder of Philip Spencer; the second charging the same with manslauguter in the case of Elisha Small; and the third the same in the case of Samuel Cromwell. The bills stated the names of the witnesses, and that they were now in attendance to be examined by the Grand Jury. Junar Betts—lIt is usual in all cases of questions pre- sented to the Court by the Grand Jury, for the Judge to give his views immediately, and without consideration.— On allordinary occasions this course can with propriety be taken, as the questions presented are not attended wit! any difficulties which require consideration. But it must happen at timesthat the questions presented for the con- sideration of the Cowrt will be ef more abstruse and difli- cult character, and require more mature consideration. The jurisdiction of this Court is restrained and limited by the laws ot the United States. And itis by no means easy at all times to decide what is its precise extent. The case now presented to this Court for investigation is one of great magnitude, and some considerable ditticulty ‘The usual course taken by a Grand Jury is to bring in such bills as they may deem proper, and for the Court to con- sider the question ofjurisdiction afterwards. But I shall in this case departfrom theordinary course, and give the advice asked for in advance of action by the Grand Jury. And in consequence of the great importance of the matter now presented for my consideration, I shall call upon the District Attorney to give his views upon the subject, and shall also afford an opportunity tothe other side if any person wishes to be heard. Mr. District Attorney Horrman—I find myself placed, may it please the Court, in a very amomalous predica: ment; I have already expressed my opinions very fully upon the question now submitted to the Coust, denying the right of inquiry to the Grand Jury in the matter now before them. And it would not only be embarrassing, but unreasonable to expect me now to turn round and the other side of the question. I am informed that there are persons in attendance on the Court who are to submit an argument in favor of the right of iction in this matter by the Grand Jury. Mr. Morris can state the facts. Messrs. Butixn & O’Connon—We appear here forthe parties complaining, and are prepared to submit an argu- ment upon the question. Mr. Horrmax—I understend that. Mr. McKenzie has counsel; and itis for the Court to decide whether it will hear an argument exparte or not. Itisa matter of per- fect indifference to myself personally what course is tal in the argument. Messrs. Burien and O’Connor—It is altogether more agreeable to us, and indeed what we wou ik were it proper for us to make tho request, to have present the counsel of Messrs. McKenzie and Gansevoort. It is far from our desire to improve even an accidental advan. tage. Mr. Horrman—lIt is quite indifferentto me whether Mr. McKenzie’s counsel are present or not; I only mention the fact that there are such counsel, andit is for the Court to say when, or under what circumstances, the argument shall be heard. The names of Messrs. Robinson and Duer were men- tioned as Mr. McKenzie’s counsel. Judge Brtts—We will consider this subject, and hear the arguments to-morrow morning; to which time tho question will stand adjourned. The Grand Jury can at- tend and hear the arguments if they see fit. We subjoin from one of the ee papers, what purports to be the opinion of Chancellor Kent, as to the question of jurisdiction now at issue. Notwith- standing it is extra judicial, yet it is entitled to great consideration,and will undoubtedly have due weight in the opinion of his Honor, Judge Betts. It is cer- tainly given at an important crisis in the investiga- tion:— Casz, Captain McKenzie is on trial before a Naval Court Mar- tial, upon a charge of murder, committed on the high seas, while acting as Commander of the United States sloop-of-war Somers. The trial is proceeding on board the U. 8 ship North Carolina, and has been penaing for some weeks past. Captain McKenzie had been usly tried before a Naval Court of Enquiry on the like charge, and acquitted. It that a complaint has been pre- ferred inst Captain McKenzie before the Grand Ji in the uit Court of the United States, now sittin; New York, in order that he may be indicted and tried in the same Court, for the same alleget crime, My opinion is requested on the question, whether a District or Circuit Court of the United States can properly take clases of the charge under the above circumstances Orimion. In this same case of — McKenzie, Judge Betts, of the District Court of the United States, some weeks y left it as a doubtful or unsettled question, whether the Cir- cuit or District Courts of the United States had, under the Crimes Act of March 3d, 1925, concurrent jurisdiction with Courts Martial, over offences committed on board ships of war. If they had, he considered that the proviso of the eleventh section of the Act referred to, showed that the powers of Courts Martial were not abrogated or sus- pended ; and that it was doubtful whether the Courts of c jurisdiction were under the necessity of exercising their jurisdiction. First. I consider the better opinion to be, that crimes and offences committed on the high sean by a person in the actual service of the United States, en one of their vessels of war, and duly commissioned and claiming te act under that authority, are not nizable under the juris- diction of the Courts of the United States. The fitting and peculiar cognizance of such crimes and offences iain the Naval Courts Martial, instituted under the act ot Congress of April 23d, 1800, which created a Naval Code of Martial Law, for the trial and punishment of crimes and offences committed in the Naval service of the United States. It has been from the beginning an adjudicated and settled principle in the jurisprudence of the United States, that the Federal Courts have no criminal jurisdiction but what is Nixprenaly conferred upon them y acts of Con- greas. Now there is no statute any where giving express jurisdiction to the Civil Courts ofthe ‘United States over crimes at sea in the United States Navy. The enactments in the Naval Code of 1800 cover the whole ground by the detailed and specific provisions for the punishment of crimes committed in the United States Navy, by Naval Courts Martial, which have jurisdiction to try all crimes and offences whatever, so committed, and to acquit or to convict and award the highest punishments known to the law. If the Crimes Act of 1828 intended to interfere with the Naval Code of discipline, and transfer it to the Civil Courts, the intention of Congress would no doubt been expressly and clearly declared. Such a fatal ii ference as it would even to give concurrent ju- risdiction to the Civil Courts, ought not to be to construction, and to be drawn Y inference mere- he I consider, therefore, the sounder opinion to be, that the jurisdiction of the Naval Courts Martial ie in the case stated exclusive, and that the Courtsof the United States of civil jurisdiction, have no lawful cogniasnce of thecase. Nof ought they to have upon principles of pub- lic policy, nor would they have without totally impairing the authority, character and discipline of the American Navy. Courts Martial ect under a distinct and peculiar code, and which Lord Mansfield termed a sea mi code, which the wisdom of Congress of 234 April, 1800, had ‘ed and adopted that ments for particular code It specified particular pun! crimes, anddeclared further, that all crimes committed persons belonging to the Navy, and not therein should be punished, “according to the laws and custo: in such cases atsez.” This is what Lord Mansfield hi also declared, when he observed that “when a man See with an offence against the articles, or where tho articles are silent, against the usu of the Navy, be could only be tried by a CourtyMar pub- rtial.” In the Navi lic service, Commanders ‘‘must act upon delicate suspi- cions, upon the evidence of their own eyes. They must give desperate commands—they must require instantane- ous obedience.” A Naval tribunal only is co; tappre- ciating all these circumstances, and without that stern discipline and perfect command that the naval code re- quires, an American man-of-war would soon become, 4 use again an expression of Lord Mansfield, ‘a ral dangerous only to their friends, and harmless to the ene- ™: Becond. But if the federal civil courts be admitted to have concurrent jurisdiction in the on. of such officers et they Jose that jurisdiction, if Court Martial hel previously taken cognizance of arge. In the case of concurrent jurisdiction under ame go ment, jurisdiction attaches exclusively to the one that first assumes cognizance of the case—for no man can be tried at the same time in two jurisdictions. It would be equal- ly ungust and absurd. If he be acquitted by a Naval art Martial, that acquittal would be a bar te an indictment and trial for the same offence , for no person, says the constitution of the United States, shall be‘ sul: t, forthe same offence, to be twice put in jeopardy of ifeor limb.” If he be on trial before a Naval Court Mar- tial, that fact would constitute a good plea in abatement of any cri 1 Sevssoution instituted in a National Civil Court of criminal jurisdiction jor the same offence. It may be declared as a settled principle, and founded on the plainest yustice and good sense, that where there are two tribunals under the same government, of concurrent ju- risdiction, th a takes cogniz: clusive, anda ple: fab i de had | Ce s beh net only harrassed, but destroyed in confi the to. jurisdictions, both claiming him and trying him at the same time. )pinior erefore, in either point of view of the queatica aloa, , therefore: Court of the United States for New York, cannot sewnalines’, Ye we ge ery izance , injustice, take cogni cents Medics CENT. New York, March 7, 1843. Arrivals, <Hon. Levi Woodbury and family, from wAttnicon; Hon. R. McLellan and lady. NewYork; Hon. Judge Berrien, U. 8. Senator; Francis if and lad: of Paris, and Lieutenant R. Q. Butler, U. 8. Corps of neers. O@- Barnum gives a Grand Gala of performances to- day, afternoon and evening, upon an occasion of great {interest to the friends and patrons of the American Mu- seum, the anniversary of its foundation, The whole esta- clishment will be in its holiday dress, and what with the splendid Dioramas, the admirable stage performances, the beautiful Melodian, the Indion Chiefe, and innumerable attractions, it will be a scene of rare excitement, og. DODWORTH BALL.—Our readers will bear in mind that this fine Ball comes off this evening atthe Apollo. The Ind hiefs now in this city, are tobe there alao, and remain till after su having ex eons rong desire to be pregent Ball in this city ¢ feel assured they could wot have chosen @ better time.