The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1843, Page 2

ew York, Monday, April 3, 1843. Herald Literary Depot. All the pew and cheap literary publications of the day re for sale, wholesale and retail, at the Henaip Orrics, orthwest corner of Nassdu and Fulton street. Povrrical. Movements—Tue Riguts or AMEEI- camEN.—The present week will be full of bust- fing, preliminary movements in view of the election on Tuesday week. Besides the great movements of the two parties—the whigs and democrats—there are at present a variety of minor but no less important movements which add immenselyto the amusement, interest, and philosophy of the whole business. The whigs hold their great meeting to-morrow night, at National Hall, when they will break ground for the election, and issue their general manifesto.~ It is most likely that the whigs will, on this occasion, confine themselyes to the municipal affairs ot the city, and refrain from making their usual savage attacks on Captain Tyler. This is, at all events, their best policy, and as there is quite a number of men of discretion amongst them, our opinion that they will keep cool and sober, will probably prove correct. The democrats are endea- voring, with a praiseworthy regard to the scriptural precept, recommending charity and brotherly love, to pour oil upon the troubled waters, to heal the breaches and settle the difficulties which emist in many of the wards. But they find many obstacles in this work, and may not be able to accomplish it. Their general meeting willj probably be held on Thursday or Friday, when we shall hear what they have got to say for themselves These are the movements of the two great-regu- larly orgaiized parties; but there are various ele- ments at work, which have a diversified and impor- tant bearing on the masses, In the first place, we have the “‘ young democracie,” rather favorable to Tyler, and opposed to Van Buren. They will en- deavor to make »s much noise as possible, and in- deed have already given us a very respectable “spice of their quality.” They will doubtless eflect some organization, so as to check their an- tagonists, and perhaps secure for John Tyler a foot- hold in the democratic ranks. But there is, it seems, a great deal of difference of opinion on this subject. The office holders, wno want to be as quiet as pos- sible, creating no disturbance, but keeping as mum as mice in the bowels of the cheese—-want to ““merge themselves” in the democratic party, and gain the friendly shade of its forest shelter. But it is very possible that the democrats opposed to Van Buren, may unite and take a decisive course. Al- ready s'eps have been taken by Van Buren’s friends to get upa great meeting at Tammany Hall, after the city election, for the purpose of nominating him as the Presidential candidate. If the friends of the other democratic candidates do not look sharp, they will be bound hand and foot and curried into this movement. Bat beside all these, a new element, which pro- mises to exercise tremendous influence, has made its appearance. A strong effort is about to be made to agitate the numerous class of American seamen in relation to the Somers affair. We should not be at all surprised, if this agitation should entirely alter the aspect of political matters in this city, and thronghout the Union. The questions involved in this remarkable agita- tion, are questions whose interest comes home to Tue Sounn Steamers —It is said that the city government really intend to compel the Norwich, New Haven, and Stonington steamers to start from the foot of Pike street instead of from No. 1 North River. We can hardly believe, however, that such a change will be force:| upon us. In concluding to make these steamers stop one mile from the business part of the city, did the Com- mon Council taken into consideration the great in- convenience to which the merchants, the travelling public and the press would be be subjected? We think not, from the faet that the change is to be made. No depot equal to the present one, for the facilities it affords to the public, can be found in the city, and the idea of forcing a new arrangement with so many disadvantages upon the public is too much, and we therefore trust that some steps will be immediately taken to preventit from going into operation. We know of no change that would be so unpopu- lar as this—firstly, with the merchants, because of the increased trouble, time, and expense in sending their goods to Pike street ; secondly, with passen- gers from and for the north and'south, because ot the delay in getting to the new depot, and consequent great loss of time frequently of more than a day, by reaching the pier after the steamer had left for Bos- ton, and vice versa; and thirdly, with the press, be- cause ofthe great inconvenience and loss of time it would experience in receiving and despatching news to and from the east and Europe. And to offset these the change does not offer a single solitary ad- vantage. We therefore look upon the new arrangement as a monstrous one, and we hope that some move will be made in the Common Council to abolish it alto- gether. City Intelligenec, Prrer Esquiro. Nrarty Kintep.—On Saturday evening about the hour of seven o’clock, as Peter Esquirol, Assistant Alderman of the Thirteenth Ward, and the recently appointed Tobacco Inspec- tor of this city, was proceeding up Chnistie street near Walker, on his way to his residence in Suffolk street, he was tripped up by one of a gang of several ruffians who were standing upon the corner, and in attempting to rise was knocked down and then beat and kicked alternately by the brutes,until left nearly insensible. On reaching his dwelling his face was so mutilated that his family did not recognize him, and his injunes were so severe that he could give no account of the transaction furthan than that he was knocked down and beat by several men, with out any cause given or offence offered on his part. Mr. Esquirol is one of the most mild, amiable and peaceable citizens of our city, and the very last per- son whom we should suppose a gang of ruffians would have found cause to assault. Here is another unanswerable argument in favor of the plan of police as recommended by Barnabas Osborn, Esq., Clerk of Police, a plan that ensures a day as well as a night patrol. This assault, like the murder of Corlis, it will be seen, was committed at an hour before the watchmen of the cily take their posts, and in the dusk of the evening when it is almost impossible to distinguish one person from another. The watch are not compelled to take their stations at this season of the year, until 8 o’clock, and as the sun sets at half past six, and it is dark about seven, thieves, burglars, highway rob- bers, and murderers have one full hour in which they can commit their depredations with scarcely a chance of being arrested. So in the morning, the the bozom and business of every mariner connected with the navy and merchant service of this coun- try. The rights, liberties, and lives of ourseamen, are the subject matter ‘of this movement. And the truth is, that the interests of this numerous and most useful class of our citizens, have been heretofore quite too little thought of, quite toe much disre- garded. They have been treated rather as pieces of machinery—rather as}the planks and cordage of the ships in which they sail, than as human beings and freemen. Itis time that their rights should be clearly defined, and that they should learn whether they are entitled to all the safeguards and priviliges of American citizenship, or are the slaves of a despo- tie and uncontrolled authority. And the political leaders may depend upon it, that the seamen have now been eflectually aroused to a sense of their duty at this crisis, and that the agitation of these questions will awaken and enlist the sympathiesnot only of those whose liberties and lives are involved in them, but also those of an immense mass of the community, who love universal freedom, and are wisely jealous of the encroachments of any privi- leged order or classes, on the inalienable and well settled rights conferred on the people of the United States by the Constitution. If this agitation be conducted with proper discre- tion and zeal—and there is too muck philanthropy, too much justice, too much hatred of oppression in the community, to doubt that it will be so conduct- ed—results of the; most remarkablescharacter will follow, and the heartlessness and self-interested feelings of trading politicians will meet a chastise- ment of which they little dream. The movement isaneble one. It is one‘in which every true friend of liberty andijustice,and a large and meritorious class of men, to whom the safety of the nation, com- merce and civilization arejsofincalculably indebted, must feel the deepest interest. We shall watch its progress with the greatest concern. Norru-Eastern Bounpary.—The Legislature of Maine have “resolved,” that the terms of the Trea- ty of Washington, so far as they affect that State are not satisfactory to the people thereof. , Texas.—It is said that England offers to procure the acknewledgment of the independence of Texas by Mexico, on condition that slavery be abolish- ed in the republic. Ex@ureg, Nowiuiry 1x Texas.—Captain Rousten, a wealtug’English gentleman, who recently visited New Ogpans in his ten gun yacht, is much pleased with @exas, and has purchased land and erected bald xs there. fax Suv Convers did not leave Boston till peter in consequence of the non-arri- niof the southern mail on Saturday. We give a ‘list of her passengers in another column. Apri. Weatner.—Yesterday was quite a cold raw day—a legitimate January day. It appears that atevery place where,the comet has been seen cold weather has been experienced also. Inpian War.—Extensive preparations have been making by several tribes on the Texian frontier, for asanguinary warfare among themselves. The De- lawares, Caddas, Shawnese, and Keachies are to in vade the Cammanshe country this spring. Evrrcrs or rue Sroxm.—The late storm was the most severe in Rhode Island. More bridges, more mills, more piers were'carried away than any where else. One life, Mr. Coney’s, was lost Deata or Senator McRorerrs.—Hon. Samuel Meltoberis, Senator in Congress from Illinois, died in Cincinnati last Monday. He was forty years of age. Fast Saitinc.—The ship Paul Jones, Capt. N. B. Palmer, sailed from Boston to the equator in twenty sixdays! She is bound to Canton T'wearricaL.—The new play entitled “The Pa- trician’s Daughter,” whieh is attracting such atten tion in London, will be produced at the Chatham to na style of the greatest magnificence. Mr. and Miss Clifton sustain the principal char- We perceive that the announcement of this cele- brated play at the Chatham has induced Mr. Barry to change his tactics. He has engaged old Booth, and the new piece of the “New York Merchant” 48 | ostponed " cera Mr. Russell gives his second concert this evening An immense number of and an immense audience watch leave their posts before it is fairly daylight, and then these villains have the same chanee for upwardsof an hour to run riot in their destruction. How long will these things be? When shall we have a change? Where is the Alderman on Assist- ant who has the {moral and political courage this very evening in the Common Council to move for a change in the ordinance regulating the city watch 80 as to compel them to take their posts at dusk, in order to prevent our citizens from being shot down in our public thoroughfares, or beat to death by gangs of ruffians in the more secluded streets of our city, without any chance of their being brought to justice If we cannot have a day police, give us this much at least, or every man will be compelled te arm himself to protect his life frora such daily outrages. Cuosz or Marcu.—Last month came in and* went out like a lion. On the last day snow fell in Albany and Boston. Maracaibo, [Correspondence of the Hemld.) Manracaino, March 6, 1843. First Appearance of the Comet—Its effect on the peor, ple—Religion and Millerism—American Consuls and Turtle Soup—Tyade and Turnips. Sir:— I my youthful days I was much pleased and also instructed by reading and studying Addison’s Spec- tator, and now in my more advanced period of life, I derive great satisfaction in reading your spicy Herald; for be assured, dear Bennett, that even in this faraway place, many, very many ef your Heralds find their way, (and where do they not?) you will, therefore, excuse one of your readers for troubling you with this document. First, then, for your information we willstate that the comet was first observed here on the evening of the 2d inst., causing much talk (in all dialects and tongues,) about some serious matters and things pertaining to your new northern fangled Millerismish doctrine. The natives of this country have now the laugh with them—they say how ridiculous for a frat and enlightened people (as our northern neigh- ors have held themselves up to be) to be so easily led astray, and to become such fanatics to such an absurd and outrageous doctrine. It truly is the eighth wonder of the world that such a doctrine can be tolerated in any christian land. The natives here oS that they of the north can no more say of them you ignorant, superstitious, priest-ridden sons of Columbia—and, friend Bennett, how is it that a community wherein your paper so flourishes, that this Millerism can remain extant? Pray enlight- en us in ae? next weekly, for my friend, S. A. Wait, of the Emma, will, on his return from your city, HAG out regular files of papers from New York, and he never forgets your Herald, always bringing with him yours of the latest dates. We are anxiously waiting for news from your region, to give usinstructive information respecting this great comet, and also how the aforesaid doctrine promul- gates, and to what other period of time Bos Miller has postponed the fiaal consummation of all things. Really you have singular grists ground in your eRich, and I'll be bound millers know how to take to _ The people ot this place have been making a gala time here owing to the visit of the Bishop of Merida, of whom they may truly boast, for this man is in fact the greatest church functionary hereabouts, and is strictly religiously inclined, and performs all that pertainsto his duty and also mixes with scciety in a very becoming way, partaking of good dinners, sit- ting in all good fellowship with Protestants (some would say heretics) and exchanging salutes, taking his glass in all due moderation and rendering him- self agreeable and gaining the good will of men be- sides his exclusive church. Now this is the way it should be. I wish that many of your priests of the north had less hypocrisy and more sociability; not but what you kave many good ones, and I wish you had ae more. Religion ought to make a glad pear and a pleasant countenance, according te my ideas. There is no place under the sun that goes ahead of this Maracaibo for turtle soup, and allow me to saythat no man gives better dinners here than your worthy consul’ here, Wm. J. Dubs, Esq. I really wish some of your epicures eould but partake cf one of his turtlefeasts. Alas! for poor Sandy’s repu- tation. By the by, we are daily looking for the arrival, here of a new American consul, Mr, Cockran, of Baltimore, a gentleman wellspoken of. Ourfriend, Col. Dubs, has filled the situation for many years and last fall sent home his resignation, and will soon sail for his native home, Philadelphia,per bark Cora, Capt. Warner. Our good wishes will go with him. . Don’t forget that there is but one paper published in this place, that ought to support two er three if roperly managed and not altogether filled up with local news and domestic debates. Give us different dishes—some ef one country and some of another laud. You would be amused could you pass a few evenings here among us forgigners—mostly old bachelors and real old fashioned sort of children. e, when congregated of an evening, present a motly number ot Yankees, Britons, Scotch, Dutch and Germans, French and Italians; Genoa is also represented and many other portions of the globe. Could not you, through your Herald, persuade some of the good, fair dames of the north to visit this region cate for their health, for this delightful climate would bring health to many a wan cheek, and if it was only known I fancy that many a rosy cheek would be gained by making a visit to this healthy place, with its delightful mornings and love- ly evenings outvieing Italy if possible, and when again I drop you a few lines, probably I may say something of the fairer part of creation in this region, for much, I do assure you, may be said in all truth and justice, and such, I am sure, you would ie to deal, for you are one who never forget the ladies, Eldad Whiting, Esq., of Boston, arrived here a few days since, bringing with him quite a number of your papers, for, ashe justly observed, he was quite sure your paper would be soughvafter, and therefore. before he left St. Thomas he took all due pains to provide himself, in order to gratify his friends in this place, and truly they were gratified. io All mercantile men of this place complain bitterly of dreary looks and hard markets—cultivators wen- dering why you in the north cannot pay them better Gov. Mrrcare reaclied Watertown last Tues- day, en route to Kingston. At the last accounts Gov. Bagot continued very feeble. Navat.—List of officers attached to the U. 8. ship Vandalia, which went out to sea yesterday morn- ing :— Wm J McCluney, Esq. Commander; Harry Ingersoll, Ast Lieutenant; William S Young, 2ddo; James M Lock: ert, 3d do; Henry H Lewis, 4th do; James 8 Williamson, Master; Robert '§ Moore, er; Daniel $ Green, Sur- geon; Thomas M Potter, Ass’t Surgeon; B McGowan, Prof Mathematics; Joseph ED Haven, Midshipman; Alex A Semmes, do;John H Johnsen, do; Edmund Shepherd do; Charles H Baldwin,do; Francis G Clark,do; Charles P Mc- Gary, do; John Owens, Gunner; James P Wood, Sailma- ker; Moses Hall, Act’g Boatswain; William D Cobb, Capt’s Clerk; Frederick A Eaton, Purser’s Stewart. ~ _ Tue Knickerpocxer for April, shining brightly in its clearly printed and smooth pressed pages, was on our table promptly on the Ist, crowded with en- tertaining, instructive and amusing articles, inclu- ding copious literary notices, and an editor's table absolutely overloaded with a variety—grave, gay, humorous, pathetic, and mirth-moving—in short, something for every caste. The “Old Knick,” as it is familiarly called, 1s not only the oldest, but one of the most popular magazines in America. Its praises frequently reach us in the first literary peri- odicals of England and Scotland ; and at home it has won for itself the name,which itsuccessfuily eus- tains, of Bebe the “Blackwood of America.” From Washington ving, Cooper,Bryant, and the “‘lave,” down to the most popular in the “ secondary series,” of writers for magazines, there is not one of any moment in America, who is not numbered among the contributors to the Knickerbocker, and it has many eminent correspondents abroad. ‘The “ Quod Correspondence,” a second series of which is now Vea ae! in the Knickerbocker,from the pen of an rving, is better than any thing that Dickens ever wrote in his life. Who wrote the admirable picture ot Napoleon at Peris, in 1812, the night before he left for Russia? It has the effect of a painting There are many ot our oldest Knickerbockers who write in the Knickerbocker, merchants, bankers, Xe., whose names would startle their fellows in Wall street, and in the fashionable circles. The Knickerbocker is for sale at the Herald office, cor- ner of Fulton and Nassau streets. The KF astern Steam Boats and Pike Slip. Mr. Bennerr:— The Journal of Commerce appears to think, judg- ing from its urticle of this morning, touching the subject of removing the Eastern steamboats to Pike street, that it is dangerous for the piers to be in the control of the Common Council. Why does notthe erudite Jesuit give some reasons why it is danger- ous for the Council to do what they deem best for the interests of the travelling public? Has the Pre sident or ‘the officers who have their offices near the Battery, “presented the soft impeachment ?” er does he really believe that it is better for the numerous ferry boats, and the vast number of per- sons who are hourly passing across East River, to be in the way of being ran into and sunk by the rapid sound steamers, as they dark among them on their way to the North River. These steamers, in foggy weather, or high winds, every morning come like race horses through the crowd of boats and vessels, only tobe met with in this part of the voyage. Ask the captains of these boats if they think it safe? They will tell you no—but the Com- pany don’t want to Cig any where else. The East iver is the natural starting place of the Eastern boats—what would you say if the North river boats were to sail from the East side? There are no dis- advantages to shippers of freight or to passengers, on the East side. Freight can be put on board as cheap, passengers reach the boats as surely and as cheaply, as at the Battery’; and forsooth, ‘all the advantages must be given up, because a few interested men de- sire not to go where they belong. Let the city au- thorities look to it. Pike Street. Convicrgy.—The trial of Whitney, for robbing the United States mail about three years ago, near Stockton, was concluded yesterday, and a verdict of guilty rendered by the jury. The punishment is death-—Mobile Tribune, March 23 M yseph S. Nelson, S \fatiutry, died at Tampa D&aTH OF AN of the 7th R Bay on the 27th ult prices for their exports; coffee, for instance, gelling here from 6 a 7 cents, and other things in proportion, this low price not paying the agricultural community asufficiency. But, dear sir, we in these diggins are not so much troubled with defaulters as you of Phila- delphia and Wall street, in New York, are. Why, what a precious set you are surrounded by. What sort of a place is that Wall street of yours? If you reside near it allow me to wish you well i lt it. . M. Puerto Cabello, {Correspondence of the flerald.} The Comet again—French Naval Affairs—Mar- kets, §c. &c. Puerto CaBELLo, risa. March 10, 1843. Dear Sir :— 1 believe that Fathar Miller’s doctrines are des- tined to be verified to their full extent,and anticipate of course a dreadful crash in a few weeks.” The Comet that has appeared in the heavens of immense magnitude, first discovered in the clear sky of the evening of the 6th inst. by the eager und keen eye of the inhabitants of this quarter of the world, and the’ earthquakes go to establish firmly—in the ima- gination of the followers of Miller and other super- stitions persons of the same school, that the world ends on the 23d April next. But seriously, the co- met referred to made its appearancé on the evening of the 6th inst. in a southwestwardly direction from this port, and seen at dusk, half-past six P. M.—de- grees from the horizon and extended 33 degrees to the eastward of the ‘“‘vista,’”* was beautiful in the ex- treme, and presented a most charming appearance, much lauded by the beautiful ladies ot this part of the continent. The French corvette ‘ Circe” touched at this port last week, and after exchanging civilities with the French and other Consuls residing atthis place, proceeded on to Santa Martha and Carthagena. here isa contrast between the poliey of the French and United States Governments, regarding their watchful care for the protection of the commerce of the respective nations, not very flattering surely to our government. Business brisk with us, and the land everflowed with paper money; a prosper- ous year we have before us, and the crop of silver and gold abundant in, the Bank vaults; ‘* shinplas ters” in fashion. Coffee selling at 7 a 8c. Ih. ; Ox and Cow Hides 8 a 9c. lb. ; Indigo F. 94 a 10 rs. Ib.; Cotton 9a 9k lb. The following American ves- sels remain in this port:—Schooners Commodore Warrington, of Baltimore, uncertain when she will sail; Florence, of Baltimore, do; brig Ann Eliza, of Baltimore, do. Extraorpinary Verpict.—The Cattaraugus Re- publican reports the trial of Nathaniel A. Lowry, for forgery, at Warren, Pa. The jury, after being ont from 11 at night until 7 the next morning, came in with a verdict of not guilty, but that the defen- dant pay the costs. The story so aptly told by Frank- lin—and what story was not ?—in whictia kind- hearted Frenchman insisted that he should be al- lowed to thrust a heated poker so many inches into the be Nd of hisantagonist, and who, when resisted and foiled, demanded at least that he should pay for heating the poker—seems to have been matched on the present occasion. The ‘ defendant,” imprison- ed, put uyon his trial, and after a labored detence, 1s acquitted, Neverthe ess, because he is “not guil- ty” of the accusation, we presume, and because he has been putto muci: injury already—the jury grave- ly adjudge that he shall pay the costs of provecu- tion. Famine amona THE Swine anp Catrie-—The unprecedented long and severe winter has been the cause of great suflering and-dea‘h among the swine and cattle of this part of the State. It is estimated by well informed ‘persons, that no less than three hundred head of cattle, and six thousand head of swine, in this county alone, have perished of actual starvation. We made a tour through a portion of Van Wert county last week, and the number of dead and dying hogs that met our eye along the route, exceeded anything of the kind we ever saw or heard of. The wild game, deer, turkies, &c., have also suffered with the rest. Our farmers’ stock ot hay and grain is nearly exhausted, and if the pre- sent cold weather continues much longer—and there is no immediate prospect of its abatement— “the garden of Ohio” will be compelled to import ve beef and pork for next year’s use.—Kalida Ven- ure Charleston, 8. C, - {Correspondence of the Herald.] Cuarueston, 8. C., March 27, 1843. Advertising—The Grocers—American Seamen—Our Flag ought to protect them— ‘Trade of the City— The Guard—-The Mayor—The Captain—Mr. Douglass—-Capt, Pinckney—- Mesmerism—-Dr Geddings—Repeal. Dear Sin:— Mesers. Dickson and Mili’sgrocery store is throng- ed from rosy morning to dewy eve with purchasers —another exemplification of the efficacy of adver- tising. MecDonald’s tea may have delicacy and strength, the brandy of Preston, or Paul and Brown, may be as genuine, the aroma of King and Pax- ton's coffee may ascend with as sweet an incense, the tint, the flavor of Walker’s butter may be as ex- quisite—it signifies nought—their advertisements are notas attractive and as continuous, An American seaman is obliged, when going to sea inan American bottom, to provide himself with a.custom-house certificate of citizenship for the spe- cial satisfaction of our English masters. The flags of Russia, Prussia, Austria, France, are protection enough for their sailors. May the smaller powers assert the same immunity. America, with 17 mil- lions of freemen, should, and will, it is apprehend- ed, do the same upon the first convenient occasion. Our trade and commerce is flowing through a nar- row groove. An uncertain tariff is more destructive thana high one. The present has dene much to stop the importation of English woollen and cotton goods, of French brandies, and Spanish molasses, but such asit is, it will continue certain for twelve months, and hence a revival in these articles is looked for. There are those, however, who seeing that America possesses in abundance iron, coal, la- bor, capital, and enterprise, as well as England, ask what can we take from her, by and by, in exchange for the productions of our boundless and teeming soil? and from this draw conclusions of the speedy fall of a mighty empire founded upon the admix- ture of treachery and heroism, of wisdom and wick- edness, of meanness and generosity. _ An effort was made here some time ago to ex- clude all save citizens from eligibility to the city guard; to abandon the civic uniform. The Council prudently reaolved to pass to the order of the day, leaving the matter open to the discretion of the Mayor to select out of the numerous candidates the fittest pergons, and although he is of Germanic ori- gin, we hear of no acts of strong sectional favoritism being laid to his charge. The guard paraded last week over an hundred active looking soldiers. A. portion of them have been trained to the use of great guns. No person could view them without coming to the conviction, that if an emergency should arise, they could be relied on. Col. Lance is Captain of this force, and a better selection could not be made. Tall, active, and energetic, he knows all the whereabouts of his native city; he joins to that courtesy which wins the attachment of the poor and humble, the frank manners that invites con- fidence, and the firm, mind that insures respect. His competitor for this office was Mr. Campbell Douglass, another victim to the fire of 1838, and a native of the land of the heather and the flood. We have a rendezvous for recruiting for the navy established here, under the superintendence of Cap- tain Pinckney. Apprehensions are telt that owing to the popularity ar this officer, and the higher wages given,the merchant vessels may be left with- out navigators. When we consider that we make scarcely any sailors here, and that none of the pub- lic vessels are paid off in this port, the gaestion na- turally recurs from whence will the drainbe sup- plied that flows into the national marine? = | A number of scientific gentleman have, it issaid offered Mr. Johnson, the mesmeriser, $50 if he will consent to exhibit for them in private with a view of testing the truth of his related wonders. Doctors Geddings and Michell are infidels in this regard. The former has applied a snuff to the mesmerized which so tar fills charlatanism with terror. Now Adrien made his wife to disappear, the how has eluded detection, not to talk of the other millions of tricks equally astonishingly performed by battalions of magicians in every age. Are we to conclude from this that the fixed stars are to be unfixed? or that the truths of philosophy or reli : thrown? Infidelity proclaimed a carnival over re- velation, when the discovery of Galileo was an- nounced. The principles of the great savan exists side by side with the oracles of truth, and Condor cet is forgotten. And thus it is, and shall ever be. The contradiction'did not exist. It was our finite view of things that saw g seeming discrepancy in relations suited to the capacities of those for whom they were intended. rhea General Hamilton, it is said, is about to bid adieu to politics and Charleston, and in the midst of his numerous family, at his extensive plantations in Alabama to cultivate the earth; and in this patri- archal and peacetul employment to seek for the lanter’s happinessand reward. Few men have had better opportunities of studying society than the General, and.when we thus see one so gifted and so honored, an¢ so worthy of honor, abandoning the great theatre of ambitien for the tranquil the husbandman, well may we exclaim against the folly of striving for a name to be babbled by one ge- neration to awother, and then call thatiame. Well may the wise man call it vanity and vexation of spirit. . Othe scenes which have occurred in Mobile on the 17th of March are injurious to its reputation None but the stupid or the malignant would take offence at those innocent manifestations of love on the part of Irishmen to fatherland. It is a signifi- cantrebuke to the foreigners who intend to settle amongst us, for neglecting to use the elective fran- chise. The eee ought and could have prevented these disgraceful riets; no public officer would have been so neglectful of duty, if he felt that he was amenable to the influence of the ballot box. The Repeal cause does not flourish here, but judge not by this that it has but few friends; on the con- trary the principle of feeling for the oppressed, and of a willingness to express that feeling, hasa dep abi-, ding place inthe hearts of the gallant sons of Caro- lina, but circumstances may render a thing inexpe- dient at one time, which under a different aspect would be taken up with ardor, but nabaccalish!— the Society of St. Patrick was once a numerous one The Hibernian Society ranks among the first of the country; it has not thought proper to mingle in the struggle. The regular toasts adopted by it are ex cellent, and would do for any occasion. The poiat of nationalism was however redeemed by Mr. Yeadon, of the Courter, a gentleman fearlessas he is honest and independent. He paid a merited compli- ment to the memory of Bishop England, and_pub- lished the celebrated letter of that prelate to Mr. O” Connel, rebuking that gentleman in strong le guage for interfering with a people and with institu- tions about which he knew nothing. There has been noticed of late bene a decisive change in the tone of Mr. O’Connel in relation to his manner and style, when speaking of the slaveholders of Ame- rica. He now sees it, as an institution entailed on us by the British, and he acknowledges that it ex- ists here in a modified shape and least objectionable form, Be that as it pier, the change sought for Ire- land is not to benefit Mr. O’Connel alone. Itis a change which it is believed will confer countless blessings on her whole people. It is for this reason that itis advocated here. Carton. Navy Orpers.—March 22—Midshipman J. J Waddell, sleop Levant, Norfolk; Carpenter J. A. Dickason, detached from St. Louis. 23—Lieut. Elisha Peck, detached from the command of the Lexington, and ordered to the New York yard; Lieut. George M. Bache, order to Macedonian re- voked; Lieut. W. Mm. Glendy, command of store ship Lexington. 24—Lieut George M. Hooe, frigate Macedonian ; Capt. L. Rosseau, Commander H. A. Adams, and Lie Johnson, examination and survey of Memphis harbor. 14—Purser G O. Coo- per, to discharge the duties of Purser of the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, as well asthe yard; Master’s Mare W H. Burns, receiving ship, New York ; Boat- swain J. Morris, detached from Brandywine ; Boat- swatn Thos. G. Bell, frigate Brandywine. 27—Pro- fessor J. T. Huston, receiving ship, Boston ; Midship- man Theedoric Lee, frigate Macedonian; Boat- swain W. Hart, detached trom ship St. Louis. 28— Midshipmen Wm. ‘T. Burwell, Lyman R. Law, Dilleplaine R. Lambert, Wm. A. Murdaugh, Win- gate Pilsbury, and A. H. Waring, frigate Macedo- nian. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has appointed care. Lawrence Rousseau, Commander Heary A. Adams, and Lieut. Stephen Johnson, to make an examina- tion and survey of the harbor of Memphis, Tennes- see, as authorized by the act of Congress of the 3d instant, for the purpose of ascertaining the practica- bility of establishing at that place a naval depot and yard for building and repairingsteam shipsand other vessels of war, These officers will meet at Mem- phis, on the 20th April, to commence their labors. On the Ist of May next, the following changes, by oO transfer, in the stations of Naval Constructors, wil be made:—S. M. Pook, from Portsmouth, N. H., t Boston ; Josiah Barker, from Boston to Portsmouth, N. IL; Foster Rhodes, fram New Yerk to Norfolk ; Francis Grice, from Norfolk to New York. Tur Rep River Fresuxt.—The Natchitoches Herald of the 10th, publishes a letter from Sulphur Fork, Red River county, Texas, which gives some interesting particulars of the late freshet. The wri- ter estimates the number of horses lost in Red Ri- ver and Fannin counties at 500, and of cattle and hogsat 8,000; the number of bales of cotton lost and water-soaked at 1,00), Antimmense quantity of grain and other agricultural products were also lost —four planters, whom he names, having lost not Jess than 3,000 bushels of corn,* In some places, mig: the writer, the river was nine miles wide, and all the bayous, creeks and branches appeared like foaming rivers. Mr. Fitzgerald, of Fannin county, had his distillery carried away by the flood. [Correspondence of the Herald.) Harnissvuran, Oct. 28th, 1843. Political Intrigwes in the old Arch— State Debts— State Roguery—Muhlenberg —Porter and other political asses, Frrenp Bennett :— It being understood distinctly that the Hon. H. A. Muhlenberg will be a candidate for Governor, to succeed the present Executive, and that it is utterly impossible to successfully resist either his nomina- tion by “The Party,” or his election, there 18 among that portion of the leaders, who are here known as “the Porter clique,” a great desire to secure whatever of spoils there is still left, before the care and keeping of them is entrusted to his custody. Hence, asyou {may have observed, there has been got up within the last twelve months, in the Porter papers, a very lively patriotic spint of ho- nest sympathy and charity of the so-called “ poor Domestic Creditors, who have been made Bank- rupts by the sacrifices consequent on the failure of the State Treasury to pay their claims, &c.” ‘Tray, Blanche,and Sweetheart,lobbymembers of the thii House, are at work day and night, in all and every manner of ways, to obtain a law for the sale of the Public Stocks in Banks and other corporations, with the professed object of providing means to retrieve the batch of Relief issues which now con- stitutes the currency of this once great State, and to supply means to pay the domestic creditors—the law to be so framed that certificates of domestic claims worth about 50 per cent. in specie, and Re- lief notes worth over 90 per cent. in specie, are to be equally received at par in payment for purchases of those stocks. ee i This project of law is resisted on this ground, that inasmuch as there has been a large amount of taxes levied to supply means to meet the State interest on loans, paid into the treasury—while none has been paid out for such interest; and inasmuch as the Ca- nal commissioners in their report prove that the receipts {trom the canals, &c., the past year, consi- derably exceed the expenditures; and as the Trea- surer says that he has no money in the treasury to fulfil the law, providing for the burning of $100,000 of Relief notes monthly, it is concluded that the accounts of this administrator are kept too bun glingly to entrust to them the settlement of domestic claims, and that there might be, after the passage of the law, ;a manufacture of domestic claims large enough to swallow up all the stocks, betore the pre- sent holders of Scrip or Relief notes could be reach- ed; or to illustrate, ,this sum, in ciphering, is given : It A. with Scrip worth 50 per cent. could over bid B. with Relief notes worth 90 per cen.—full 76 per cent—how much could C. D. &. and the rest of the alphabet overbid A. with their Scrip, manufactured for the occasion, and costing only the value of the ink and paper. Perhaps the Editor of your valuable money articles will give usa solution. I may, here- after, state some of the-facts discovered relative to the creation of many of the present domestic claims —which show very plainly how cheap they can be furnished, and the surety that the supply can be in- creased te meet any possible demand. : It 18 understood that the Porter clique are asking of Mr. Muhlenberg’s friends as a return to them for their cheertul assent to his nomination, this favour, viz. :—That to preserve perfect harmony. in the jar- ty, he shall avoid identifying himself particularly with either Mr. Van Buren, Calhoun, Buchanan, Johnson, Cass or Tyler. This, they secretly repre- sent at Washington, is in their opinion the best course, ‘at this ume, to serve the ‘‘ powers that be” there ; but the fact is, that they have duped John Tyler, and find this course necessary to maintain their deception. a! Mr. Muhlenberg’s friends see very clearly through it, and know that the Porter clique in heart seek only to get their arms around his neck to keep themselves from falling, and being exposed in all their nakedness and defermity; but they do not see their way clear just jnow to identify their favourite with either of the Presidential candidates, and can- not see any other way to enforce on the Porter cligue an exposure of their weakness. uhlenberg’s friends will, however, postpone selling the stocks, at present—for if they let them al away—he will have a pleasant office, to meet a host of claims with a bankrupt treasury, and no available ,assets but,the unpleasant and unpopular remed of taxation. ‘ Shall 1 write you again? Pain Trura. . Pittsburgh, [Correspondeuce of the Herald.) Prrrssureu, March 28, 1843. Curious Dialogwe— Professor ‘Mafit Wanted—In- Santicudc—Amusements— Winter. Dear Bennetri—. “Bless me! bless me!’ said the Captain to me this’morning, with his usual ngmarole. “Bless me! bless me ! but you missed it—one of the best, the greatest, the most ac-ac-accomplished ad ad-addres- ses you-you ever—and you didn’t hear it! most as- as-astonishing. Bless me!” “Hear what, Captain ?” eageriy asked I. “Hear what? hear what ?”’ exclaimed the ranting, self-presuming Napoleon, putting on his best milita- ry air; “hear what ? why my dear fellow, hear Mr. Smily preach last Sunday. It was a-a-great affa So pointed, so classical, dear me! Why the house was crowded. So many sweet d-d-dear young la- dies there to. Ha! ha! So many gentlemen of the highest respectability. There was Mr. Thompson Smith, the-the druggist, from the city—charming singer, he is. Night-owl voice. Got se big lately. Dear me! Ha! ha! Takes two cities to hold him. One for the day, and one for the night. But, ah! what was I going to say? Ex-ex excluding the baby yelling, hate babies. Natural instinct. And coughing, young men with coughs should stay at home. Beautiiul_ribands some of the gals wore— sweet creatures, God bless em! Put mein mind of-of the badge of honor. I'll get married; no I won’t, babies is theresult. I hate children, always did. Burden in war—useless in peace. ’ Daddy, daddy, don’t sound military, no how. _Forwai march. Good morning.” ‘Good morning,” re- iterated as the bachelor soldier walked off with as much apparent dignity as Oliver Cromwell could have appropriated to himself, when he dismissed the long Parliament. Ithink it you ceuld send brother Maffit out to our goodly city, it would add much to his temporal and eternal advantage. The spirit has extended among the people so far, as to open their pockets as well as their eyes. Allthey want is some mighty master orator to breathe upon the coals, and then will be seen the flame of religion burning to the skies.— Some of the old ones augur strange things from such unusual excitement ; but according to my apprehen- sion it is more Ciatia| to the fact that the people have nothing else to do, as business has become like ditch-water ; therefore the christian to his church, and the ungodly to his soul’s salvation. Last week a child was taken froma cart on the Fourth street road, where it had been laid at night by some inhuman wretch, and there left to perish.— The morning snow had drifted on the little sufferer, its limbs were frozen stiff. Thus is it probable that the guilty mother has added another sin upon her head, by barbariously destroying the pledge of her illicit intercourse. The daily and nightly occurrence of such acts of infanticide, among any people,shows how far they are sunk in degradation ahd vice ; and how soon the cruel perpetrators should be drag- ged into the powers of the avenging law. ‘ There has been a Circus stationed here all winter, but to what degree it has failed or prospered, I have notunderstood. Professor Bronson has taken the theatre to lecture in. T understand there isto be a company on shortly. We have nothing but dulness, stupidity and wickedness in and around about our town. Love has become a sigh—virtue adream.— We have had excitement in the moral arena ; the sinner must go to church, or stay at home and bite his finger-nails, see hope in the fire, or build castles in the air, or any other useful and entertaining em- ployment the children of men delight in. Old winter has commenced to gather up the last remnants of her cold labors; and well she may, for her lingering has been long and severe ; too long for many, very many poor and suffering people. Una- ble to work in the rugged winds, with no money in their coflers, no food, no raiment to protect them from the angry blast, they have looked upon life as a curse, and sought repose from the sneers and hate of the world, indeath. Others have dragged along with care worn looksand feeble limbs—not in hope, but with a burden too great to be washed away ; be- yond the reach of smiles, beyond tie reach of mo- ney, beyond the power of man with his “little brief authority,” and that burden a ee cea LP. From Atuaxy—We care indebted to Pullen & Copp and Pomeroy & Co.for Albany papers of Satur- day. The Legislature is still tinkering with the currency and repudiation. Leeistaturs, March 3t.—The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the resolution in relation to repudiation and Col. Young. Mr, Sherwood re- sumed and concluded his remarks, and wasfollowed in reply by Mr. Root. Atter this, Mr. Porter of- fered an amendment to the preamble and resolution, which was ordered printed. An attempt was made to hold an afternoon session to dispose of the mat- ter, when the Senate went into Executive sesston, and adjourned. “ im day, the Iv Assemery —This being private claim day, 106 House was occupied exclusively with that o business, and several bills Onto Riven At Wheeling, N . ( Ihio river. had seven fee orl lear of ee, and rising. urgh, day, there were nine t of water in the channe!. on Wedneeday, the (cg The mail south of Philadelphia did not arrive last night—cause unknown. Trial of Singleton Mercer, We have received further intelligence on this ex- traordinary case. The principal evidence closed on Saturday, and to-day will commence the arguments of counsel on both sides. The Judge’s charge to the jury will not probably be given till Wednesday morning, and the verdict of the jury cannot be known here before Thursday morning, at the ear- liest. Our special express will bring the first infor- mation of the result to this city. The developments made in this trial have been most extraordinary. We have never read, even in fiction, of such another case of the villainous seduc- tidn of an innocent girl, as that of poor Sarah Mer- cer by the fiend in human shape—that execrable Heberton. Her character for purity, virtue, and al- most infantile innocence before that vile wretch followed her in the streets, has been established be- yond any doubt. The story of her wrongs as now told to the jury, is even far more atrocious than we ever suspected it would be. The verdict of the jury will be looked for with extraordinary interest. As soon as it shail be re- ceived at this office, it will be announced on our Bulletin. The interest now felt in the case, is most intense throughout this city, and ail the neighboring towns. The agents, carriers, and readers of the Heraup, have increased their cales many thousand copies each day. There is nothing in the whole range of the fictitious literature of the age, that reaches half the pathos, the interest, the heart-rending intensity of this unparalleled trial. Not even a novel of Walter Scott’s in their day of popularity,was half so exciting as the extraordinary developements on trial. What a picture is here presented of the! ia- nocent sister—the fallen fair one—the frensied bro- ther—the broken-hearted mother—the agonized father—the tout ensemble of horror, distress and suf- fering, produced by that atrocious seducer, Hck#r- | ton! If he is not suffering the punishment due to his crimes in the other world, it is full time that he should a ESSA OG The attractions at the American Museum are of the richest kind this week. That Giant Boy created a great excitement in Boston, and no wonder, ferhe is much more of a curiosity than Tom Thumb; in fact, he ig the greatest attraction in these diggins. Then we have the comical Winchell, the pretty Mary Darling, the dexterous Chang Fong, and the sylph like Celeste, and these are but a few ofthe attract . Verily B aroarer, and givesatall quarter’s worth of om NEW WEEKLY NPwsrirer On Saturday, the 29th of A m is ment. first uumber »/ © new weekly Joi dimen sions, calle vHE ANGLO AMERICAN, Devoted (‘1c Subjects of Elegant and Entertaining Lie terature al Intellizence ery quar Public De , T Brief Critical Notices of Books, Mu Drama ; and General Miscell Ie is purposed that THE A contain as large an amount of + United States, and it will b the Proprietors to make its coluin and Useful Arts 5 Lectures, and the AMERICAN shall and worthy the patronage of fan charge has been committed to the har \.D. PA TERSON, who, having been #0 long beivre the Public through his engagements in “Albion,” of this city, as well as throngh others of his literary labors, it is trusted will be sufficient guarantee for the quality of THE ANGLO AMERICAN’S pages. The paper will consist of twenty four 8, of very large imperial quarto size ;it will be printed on superior paper, with a beautiful new type east expressly, the mat. ter carefully read to free it fromty pographical errers,and will be published every Saturday, commencing as above. Terms, Three Dollars per Annum, to be pei invariahly in advance, and no deviation willin any case be m de from the Cash plan of subscription. *,*Agents will be dealt with on the usual terms ; and it is requested that ene diary forward their orders early, as only a limited number of copies will be struck off. All orders, &c., to be addressed, post t paid, to § E. L. GARVIN & CO,, Publishers, F Ne. 6 Ann-street, New York. 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No medicine equals it; being “nature’s own remedy,” time nor science can never surpass it. To the dispairing victim of disease this offer is a wai 3 hope. Dr. Hoffman, Huntington, Pa. upto die aehild of Paul Sweble, who was very sick with asthma. Theagent of Wistar’s Balsam of Wilf Cherry extorted from the Doe- tor the promise of a certificate ifhe should effect a cure withthe Balsam. The Doctor said, however, that it would do no gool—the child must die. But the Balsam was given, a complete cure followed,and the Dector gave the following grudging statement : Hontinoton, Pa., Dec. 15, 1842. Dear Sin: I procured one bvttle of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry from Thomas Reed, Esq. of this place, and tried it in a case of obstinate asthmaon a child of Paul Sweble, in which many other remedies had been tried without success. The Balsam gave sudden relef,andin my opin. ion the child is effectu cured by its use. Yours, &e. 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