The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1844, Page 2

Filling up the Cabinet. Now that the remains of Secretary Upshur, and the other unfortunate gentlemen who perished with him, have been deposited in the deep and narrow house at Washington, the public mind begins to be agitated respecting the selection of those persons that may be named by the President to fill up the vacancies created by that lamentable catastrophe. And looking upon the position of the country in re- lation to foreign affairs, comprehending England, Texas, the Oregon, and various other points of the continent. We must say that a more important crisis has seldom presented itself to the country in relation to these selections, particularly the selee- tion of the Secretary of State. Just let us look at the position of the country with respect to the foreign negotiations. A Minister, specially commissioned, has arrived from England, charged with tull instractions on the settlement of an important border question con. cerning the whole territory of the Oregon, from the Rocky Mountains to the shores of the Pacifi ‘This question is surrounded and beset with difficul- ties. A variety of principles may enter into the ne- gotiations with respect to this question,and circum- stances may concur either to produce an estrange- ment of feeling between the two countries as to lead to # lasting and honorable peace. This, of it- self, would be sufficient to command the attenti of the country in relation to the filling up of the State Departments; but there is another deeply interest- ing and important question connected with the sub- ject, and that is the proposal now before the Presi- dent, made by the Texian Government for the an nexation of all that immense country to this repub- lic. We conceive that the Texas question is of more importance—more complicated—surrounded by greater difficulties—than even the Oregon ques- tion itself. It brings us in some degree into collision not only with Mexico, who will be a most violent opponent of such a movement, but also with England, France, and indeed, we may say, all Europe. It is one of the most inte- resting—one of the most delicate questions, which has ever been presented in the negotiations of this country. Here is a large territory, equal in extent to one of the ancient kingdoms of Europe—torn from the empite of Mexico by bands of adven- turers from the United States, organised by them into a separate republic—starting on their own hook—getting into debt—badly managing their affairs, and then coming forward, and asking to be united to the old established Northern republic, in order to receive the benefit of its protecting wgis from internal disorder, and foreign aggression. This is a question which will bring forth not ouly the opposition of Mexico, but may startle the go- vernments of Europe, and may lay the foundations of a policy, that will sooner produce a war than even the Oregon question itself, with all its com- plications and difficulties. Now, in this state of these important foreign questions, the State Department becomes vacant by a casualty unheard of before in the history of the country. Who is to fill the vacant place? Who iscapable of assuming the responsibilities which are crowding around it? Who can bring to that important post the weight of character and influ- ence, the great talent and greater wisdom, which may arrange peacefully and quietly all these ques- tions, so as to preserve the honor of the country and the peace of the nation? These are questions whose solemnity and importance command the interest of the whole land. The President himself it cannot be doubted, does feel their pressing im- portance; and although every one may have full confidence in his integrity, still the selection of his associate in such a negotiation, is all ortant. In the north, and particularly amongst the whig papers and the commercial press, there is a general call for the return of Mr. Webster to that depart- ment; whilst we already begin to perceive in oth- er quarters, towards the south, that the name of John C. Calhoun is connected with the same ime ortant place. Now in relation to Mr. Webster, otwithstanding his success in the Ashburton ne- otiation, we are persuaded that the President him- If is repugnant to such a selection, and that in other popular respects it might be unfortunate for the country. We believe Mr. Webster might be able to settle peaceably the Oregon question, so as to satisfy the east; but whether he could settle itor the Texas question on terms to satisfy the south and west, we are disposed to doubt. We are quite satisfied that the President never will call Mr. Web. ater, under any aspect of the case, to the vacant department. But we are not so sure but there may ve a very good chance for Mr. Calhoun. And in this aspect of the case, it is probable that Mr. Cal- houn would give more satisfaction to the country in relation to these questions thaa any other mau that could be named. We perceive also that the friends of Mr. Calhoun at Washington and other places, are beginning al- ready tomove. And looking at such a selection in every point of view, we are disposed to think that President Tyler would find it very much to the ad- vantage of his administration, and to his ulterior views also. The friends ef Mr. Calhoun in the south and west are numerous. These friends would be attached to the administration and its movements, in case of the selection of their Cory- pheeus for the department of State; and Mr. Cal- houn might, in that position, from his great talents —trom his moderation—from his profound intel- lect—be enabled to settle these questions to the sa- tisfaction of the great mass ot the southern and western States, and eertainly not so muché in hostility to the east. If they could be settled with peace, that is all that the east wants—that is all that the interests of commerce require—and that is all that could be gained, even by the selection of Mr. Webster. Court or Srsstons—Granp Jury.—The pro- ceedings in the Court of Sessions yesterday, will be found reported in another column. They will be found interesting. The charge to the Grand Jury was delivered by Alderman Scoles, and was quite tame, particularly in reference to the broken companies. It require a good deal of moral courage in any court, judge or jury, to stand upright before a clique of financiers who have had the management of nearly $208 000,000, of which hardly $2,000,000 remain. it is even doubtful whether the Grand Jury have the courage to look at the subject. They can easily in- dict a set of poor devils for stealing a few dollars — but it requires nerve to take hold of those who make away with thousands and millions. Perhaps, also, the cases have overrun the statute —but should not the Grand Jury present all the facts of the recent defalcations and robberies, and prove tothe world that there exists yet in New York a remnant of financial honor and vld-fashion- edcommercial integrity? Is it not their duty to brash up the character of this much abased me tropolis ? Tae Penn Yann Lise Surrs acarnst tae Her- ALp.—These are now all abandoned by the several parties—but we owe the wonderful village of Penn Yann and posterity, a full expose of these suits, as developing a chapter in human nature that would make a philosopher grave and a horse Inugh. Mone Puriosopwy.—The Tribune announees the approaching advent of a Doctor Buchanan, who proposes to come here in few days to spread the doc- trine of Mesmerism or Neurology This is als a new philosophic revelation, and is intended to set the world on fire. Who comes next’ Conrrectioy.—A mistake was made in a name in the case of the Messrs. Gilbert, yesterday, in our Police Report. [t was onthe younger brother, Ed- mund Gilbert,on which the attempt was made, at 17 Leonard street. Mr. Thomas T. Gilbert lives at | campé ‘Tremendous Gathering of the Whig Forces at the Broadway Tabernacle Last Even- Ang—The Opening of the Campaign forthe Year 1844—General Reynolds with the “Clay Club’=Joe Hoxie with the Ladies, and Horace Greelvy with the Whole Rank and File of the Fourterites, One of the largest assemblages of human beings ever convened inthis city, celleeted in the Broad- way Tabernacle luet evening, in consequence of a summons to the Whigs of the city of New York to attend the celebration of the opening of the Clay gn for the year 1844. Just as the moon in allher majestic fullness had arisen, and was pour- ing het broad effulgenea over this great metropolis, the inspiring music of half a dozen bands burst upon the ear from various quarters of the city, be- tokening the approach of the various ‘Clubs” which fel! into line in Broadway, and marched, with their banners, to the Tabernacle, under the direction of Jamns N. yNoLps, Esq., their Gen- eral-in-Chief. They poured by hundreds into the Tabernacle, and were speedily followed by the whole strength of the Fouriersection of the Whigs, headed by Horace Greeley in person. Afterwards came Joe Moxie, sq. with a most imposing array of most beautiful brothers and lov In a few minutes the whole building was so thronged in every part with the congregated masses, that it was almost impossible for the reporters to reach their places in front of the platform. There we: persons pre e ladies, ladi » about four thousand five hundred it, at least one thousand of whom whom were many of the ever the sun shone on in 3 the right of the platform was the splendid -r of the ‘Pioneer Club. of the Kighth Ward,” with a full length portrait of Hari of the West On the left was the caaally magi cent banner of the Fourteenth Ward Club, wath a large painting of Ashland, the princely residence of Mr. Clay. A full choir was in attendance, and amongst them were several very beautiful girls. Hundreds of persons could not obtain admission, and stood ia crowds about the entrance and in the street. Throughout the whole evening the great- est good order prevailed, and the entire aspeet of the assemblage well betokened the strength, unity, enthusiasm, and respectability or the whig party of this city. The meeting was called to order by Morrts Frankutn, Esq who nominated as Jou L. Laurence, l That gentleman took the chair amid the most enthusiastic applause, and the following gentlemen were then appointed as additional officers :— VICE PRESIDENTS. P. H, Smith, N.S. Bradford, Henry B. Bolster, Richard F. Obadiah Newcombe, John F. Allen, Sheppard Kuapp, Wiliam 8. Johnson, Calvin Balis, C.J. Woodhull, Ellis Potter, Win. Mall, Joba C. Hamilton, Jared L. Moore Mortia Franklin, Wm. iI. Sweet, s, escorted by their husbands, | fifteen or twenty years,threughout which one great work | hi mass hammer and chisel at once. was in pi rose, "t was ane time, with one purpose and not to mould his Ideal in one man. The wonderful and pe: ‘ion of that | Michael Angelo he had his model in his mind or on); man to the | rd par, of that whole time, and thecom | the Clay—as formed by a divine hand. For all that plete identification of the cause of the nution with his life | tinctive, peculiar and eminent in his character, he is re- and character, are a pertect illustration of this general | markable for his perfect Amercanism and nationality, truth, and are best Baecmntreted Saree fact that at this | embodying and combining in a wonderful degree the moment his name need not be utte: In all this assem. | great traits of the whole American mind—; bly there is not a heart that does not thrill with grateful | every side che characteristics of every g) and enthusiastic impressions of that name. And not here | of his countrymen, ‘This is the secret of his power, and alone—not merely where our language ja spoken—not | that strong sympathy and impassioned enthusiasm which merely in those countrivs and places with which we have | he excites in every part of the country. It is ulso the se- frequent and familiar intercourse—but in other lands, that | cret of his genius. He is notonly American, but Ameri- name va itself—the republic personified. He has made his own “(Is still a watchword to the earth.” character the character of the age, as Washington did in Huving finished the his time. Washington left the nation sober, orderly, high | work which was given him to do, Washington departed ; principled and patriotic, but onthe whole rather wath ne- and with him, the pur of that time being accom al jive tommy oe ba theman of our time leet to gis re plished, the age departed. ‘Tbe unity of that great drama | he nauon al traits, of a positive andactive cha- ene complet acd tne Surah ae eee aor | Eacter—to make it while it yet retained all those W ashing- and a greater scene. Jn the Revolutionary age, if what is tonian virtues, still more enterprising, bold, energetic, ar now history had then been prophecy, and if oa had been | dent, enthusiastic, apitiogs sel-improving and sell-pro- commissioned to select the nan who should ia the next i tective. His early Ii verty and adventure fitted generation come forth to be the leader of the ut- | him eminently to appreciate this purpore. He knew the toa in the developement of its purpose,—whi- | Value of credit and enterprise as the elements ot gelfim- ther would he have gone to seck hiin destined | provement in the rising mass of the new democracy grow- to be the man of the people and the man of the age !| 8 Upwith him and alter him. He knew that the Amer! Parhups to the. halls of some school, college or universi- | C20 democracy must be progressive, and that the func: ty, where the favored few were acquiring in studious se- | tions of government were not complete until it had ision the wisdom of antiquity ind arming themselves | $iVen, aided and perfected thatonward and upward move- with the weapons of science ani literature for the coming ment. And this in wubb Dib and with rm Be contests of their time. Perbaps among those who by as: | ois an ailing energy, he went to that wor) tociation with other nations, by jamilarity with foreign | called forth fromfuture time that well.conceived form— countries, were learning the world and thus appreciating, 4 he great American nationality—republicanism in perfect by comparison, the peculiar excellence of our goodly her action, Stand forth to the world—young America! up- itage, aad the peculiar glories of our opening destiny. No; | ght, bold, noble, powerful, jnst—the perfection of po- not there shall he find the man ; though among these there creations—commanding the respect and conciha- wre sume who shalt bear their part ‘and stand in their lot u ting the love of the friends of liberty throughout the in the end of the days.” Shall we seek him then here, world. Stwnd forth to all time, a monument, a glory and growing up amid the refinements of associ wealth | @praise to liberty. Democratic America! go torth—go surrounded by the advautuges of dense, well-organized so. | oaward—in the “beanty of order and harmony as well ciety, among the sons of the rich and the honored ? Io; | % the strength of independence and freedom—with the not here ; though these iufluences are developing mighty | Pavoply of nghteousness, the garniture of justice, the of intellect and moral power which shwli be feit wn of good faith—so that when that consecrated host their time, and in their place. Shall we seek hun then | “shall have dominion from sea to ea and from river to the among those who are looking to military service for the ends ofthe earth,” when they ti JJerness means of adapting themselves to the nutural tastes of » | Shall bow before them, as ‘bx nation boru in war and baptized in blood—whose iudaucy | "pon the mountains” of the fart! ey was fed on the mangled carnage of « thousand battie-fieldd? of old upon the rocks and sands of the east.— No, no !—not there—nol there ; though thence shall come faith was that in which that ieee 4 triot those who shall in their turn receive theirshare of honor, “a that “boy statesinan” begun his work, and in which un- and do their allotted portion of good and evil. ‘The na-| Changed, he Jabored through sforty years. to ite now- tion shall, at one ime, worship the incarnution of Moloch, | begun year of its final triumphant accomplishment! The the demon of lawless tyranny, violence, base vindictive. | geuerationin which he first arose could not bear their part ness, murder and rapine—and, at another time shall bow | it that great scheme; and as he worked on till a new ge. in the dust before the golden image of Mammon, the god of | "eration should arise to take their places, he had to wait selfishness, covetousue.s, avarice, meanness and faud , | r us to be born—us, the democratic Clay boys, who were but at last these abominuble idols shall crumble and | 9 our cradles ten years after he begun his poll umble down upon their besotted adorers, crashing | er. ‘The generation of our fathers could not fully appre- with them their own false prophets who made the peo: | ciate him, but now “ their children rise up and call him ple ‘to sin—men of Belial, who with intrigue and | Dlessed;” and their children’s children shall be a crown of trick perverted the truth, and “loved and made glory to him. The controlling portion of that, perverse the lie” which misled the honest and the simple. generation has passed away. ‘Their carcasses fell in the But, far away from the scenes of violence and crime, and | Wilderness of that (forty years’ wandering. And this iv the monsters that shall engender and nourish these agen. | ‘he great political lesson of patriotic virtue inculcated ov ies of evil—far away from the home of ancestral pride | e¥ery young American politician by that Jong and bri and hereditary honor—away from the ciassic hall—and | liantlife. {It is the lesson of faiih, political faith—faith far from foreign lands and courts—far away, in a humble | the people, corfidence in their ultimate justice and wis- rustic scene, we shall find him who is appointed unto the | 2m. ‘This is one great truth which that life teaches in its ion of the age—to achieve the “purpose” of his “time.” mi forty years of steady courage and public virtue with its ‘There, in that wild woodland, on that rough road leadin, approaching consummation—that the people “will be from the little one story farmhouse to the mill, through | ‘aithfal to those who have been faithful to them”--that roves, and swampa, and fields, the es an old horse, will at last unite to honor him who has honored fideo with bags of grain,on which sits a careless looking, | them by an unshaken confidence that they would fin al, brightened boy, sunburned and barefooted, in his coarse | ‘!0 right, rather than him who has dishonored them by al- homespun dress, evidently an exclusive patron of domes: } Ways acting on the belief that they would tic manufactures, and pledged to retrenchment. ‘That | W0ng Yet remembcr—with all that high respect for the simple rustic scene is oue unassociated with high chieve- he never flattered the people for one moment, ne- ment in history. It is not oneof the fields on which our Ited their better sense by jingling in their ears the fathers fought the murderous savage or the haughty Bri- ‘democracy, liberty and equality,” ‘love for the ton Yet it has associations which shall make it ai dear | People,” and other such ‘cheap professions with which to Americans, as rich in its peculiar glories, a» Kdward T, Prime, SKORETARIES. 1, Daniel H. Miller, J. F. Clarkson, Whittield Case. The choir then sang in good style, accompanied by the organ, the following ode, written by J. G. Percival in 134 John T. Lo THE GATHERING. Tuse—“ Hunters’ Chorus.” From hill and from valley ‘They eagerly sally, Like billows of ocean— ‘The mass is in motion ; ‘Lhe lines are extending O’er mountain and plain ; Like torrents descending, ‘They hurry amain. The gathering! the gathering ! We'll be there! we'll be there ! ‘There! there! there! Kach eye flashes brightly ; Each bosom beats lightly ; ‘The banners are glancing, And merily dancing ; While proudly the standard Of Liberty floats, Aud the music is swelling Inspiriting not ‘The Victory ! the Victory ! ‘That we'll gain ! that we'll gain ! Gain! gain! gain! Again we assemble— ‘The traitor shall t For strong as the A people in motion ! Tne | Nove: The day of bi He long shall remember In sileace and gloom The traitor! the traito He shall fall! he shall fall ! Fall! rane! FALL! Mr. Henry E{ Davies, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, here ‘came forward and said :—It has been assigned to me as part of a most pleasing duty to reud for this meeting some of the letters and communications which have been received from some of the most dis- tinguished men of our great and glorious cause, and I shail commence the pleusing task first by reading for you aletter which has been received by our Committee from that distiigitished senator and friend of our cause, N. P. Lalmadge ‘The reading of the communication which apologized for Mr. Talmadge’s inability to be present, and concurced in the objects of the meeting, elicited marked applause. Apologetic lv ters were also read from the Hons. Messrs Spencer, Jarningan, ‘Tennessee; J. W. Huntington, Connecticn les Hudson, Massachusetts ; Alexand Hi Stevens, Georgia; John M. Botts, of Virginia ; Hami York ; Freeman Smith, of and Joseph Vance, of Ohio. mnouncement of Mr Borts’s name, and the read- ing of his licited the most enthusiastic applause.— At the conclusion of the cheering, a voice from the gallery more for Mr, Botts, which called aloud for thres chi ally given. were very enthusiast Mr. Vance’s letter contained some hard hits at the loco. foco party, which were received amid roars of laughter. At the conclusion of the reading of the communication: the choir sung the following song, which was composed the oceasion : vluld Lang Syne.” ave vain regrets for errors past, Nor cast the ship away ; But nail your colors to the mast, Aud strike for Harry Clay. From him no treason need be feared’ Your cause he'll never betray ; What name to freemen so endeared at of Harry Clay. ctions fill his head, heart astray ; very noble promise made, Is kept by Harry Clay. Then let not treason’s*hated form, Thus fill you with dismay ; But gathering strength to Breast the storm, Stand fast by Harry Clay. Rise bravely for one effort more ; Your motto thus display ; tion for our nati hore! Sustained by Harry Clay. And o’er our gallant Chieftain’s grave, Pledge we our faith this day 5 In weal, or wo, no change to know, ‘Vili triumphs Harry Clay., HORUS, ll triamphs Ty Till triumphs Hurry € In seeal, or wo, io cliange 19 know, ay ! ‘Till triamphs Harry ( The song was follow all quarters of the immense % The Cranwan thea introduced the orator of the even- ing, D. Francis Bacox, Esq, who delivered the following Orat from ery thing there is a se: purpose,” So, tov, there is a pt as the moinent brings ita duti its great duty to perform lems to solve which av me to every 5 and \ world to Know and not left in the inanim ite abst he age, to appreciate ita own obje them vividly represente Jexemplified in that human life in which our temporal sympathies begin and end, Ani, therefore, in the order of Providence, these leading ideas of the age are always concentrated, personified, em: bodied, and i a living form that we admire and revere; and thus we are fondly led to love the truth, which, in its disembo lie i too distant, and too spi Thus we learn the gr Parpose of the Time, in the whose life ities, /and whoee genius illustrates them. We speak of times—seasons—ages—meaning there by distinet portions of time, ‘This distinction is matter of fact, not fancy it is practical, real, not imaginary. Time has its tides—its flow and its ebb—its long high waves With deep tutervals, A glance at the past shows it bro ken by great accumulations of prominent events, divided hy intervals of comparative inaction, We have pi but one such epoch in our national history—and are now approaching the acme of another. ‘The period from the commencement of our Revolutionary War to the organi- zation of the Feleral government was the first. The time from that point to the pre has been an interval made by the subsidence of the Revolutionary wave and the gradual, prolonged rising of another surge. The inter. mediate objects, questions and interests have been inci. dental, casual, temporary. The mass is now awelling and pointing again. That first greatepoch was, in ‘our Kleto- ry- like the chain of the Alleganies in our chorography. The present brings us to longer, wider, and loftier rany We are sealing the summit of a Rocky Mountain chi whence we look back over the broad valley and turbid rivers wo hava traversed, to the peaks on which our fh thers stood, now brighter with the rays of our late da and beyond ther to the ocean of time past, while before us is the vaster and illimitable of time to come The done atriots of that age kaew when their work was w that the cause of liberty was only half vindica ry sword. ‘That only showed the power to get; the right to keep liberty contd only be vindicated by making good useol it. ‘The Revolution proper was not complete till the national government was organized by Cong cople had felt--and the world hal seen 10% Reade, and was not in the affair at all thr ition of 8 Republican Government That Revolutionary age, therefore, included a period of ave counted on amusing and cheating the people, Bunker Hill, Yorktown or Tippecanoe, It shall be to the as babies are stilled and soothed with a rattle, to take republicans of every age and clime one of the places holy | ‘heir attention from things that they desire, He has al- to liberty, one of ways respected them too much to do it. He has left them to ‘derive their proudest reflections from the silent yet eloquent testimonial to their character whi implied in that whole public life. Why 1 It shall be ‘he source of a nation’s hopes and happiness —| ger on the vast details of that splendid history “the Palestines, “The Meccas of the mind.” their sever the person of one, who with modest pretension an demeano) sition, and by the ‘Administration which anno: contemplating has adde our portion of been built as the sons of Misraim built the everlasting foundation-rock, hollowed it for the sarcop cased the nucleus In stone, leaving a small complete pyre ways do | t soft end kind and affectionate ped angie , the noble apd in that character, and how largely love was ee atae wilh veneration in their Rainey ‘to him.— He wes not thus withdrawn from gency in that cause, till well great remaining measure was in men — determined ‘able to perfect it, though man: Je men were found, active in places, tulfilling their several duties with Spee and courageous devetion, act yet the great scheme tion was not complete, without aman who could act | dat ses of him we devils ; they have no music in their souls (roars of ter), and they have no music in th (Shouts of laughter, “locofoco” to music wi should be joined to ours in the prai- ve and design py ey (Chere) ose name either.— Who would ever think of setting (Great laughter) Who ever for any music in thename of Van Buren? (Roars of laugh in the place of the absent chiel, to realise his purpose, to ter) MA it rhymes with nothing on:cer® but ruin.— conduct the defence, aud head sht, in nd mnie 1, had ever pursued the plain path of public duty without seeking occasions of display, but who, however variously and severely tried, hud slweys proved fully equal to every emergency, always then the occe- sion. Standing as the financial tof the House, between two fires, continually essaulted by the ve 2 lead in the great work, to the charge. Such a man was found as soon as sou; with ‘secret tricks and open attacks, and tekored’ to thwart him and deceive him by false information, while he was toiling to raise the means to carry on the Govern- ment—he still went calmly on, resisting alike assault and temptation, watchful, sagucious, conciliatory but bold, till he triumphed over all, ter, and finally extorting reluctant commendation from his’ most unsertipulous opponents. ‘And not merely in the great Assembly of the National Representatives, where ction in the sight of the world is fame, and makes public story, but in the luborious, yet unsppreciated and ob- scure occupations of the committee room, he toiled long and faithtully, ofien watching while others planning, collecting, comparing, arranging, wi perfecting the details ‘of the great measures which were not presented to the eye of the public till tuese quiet exertions had been lavished almost to exhauston. ‘Thus, and under his hands, aided by faithful associates, the Tariff was framed; andhe, its author, then became its defender, always ready with the solid eloquence of action and of just and Vigorous langtiage. He carri it through that long and harrassing contest, till it tri- umphed at last, at the sacrifice of pride and just resent- ment. Whigs of New York! His fame is our peculiar glory—the glory ofthe Empire State, Which sent forth the leader of that great Congress; and we now call with pride and fame upon the whole Union to recognize in him the cond of our great Chief in that Congress—his lieutenant in that trying struggle, “faithtul unto the faithful”— up that great measure from him, elaborating its de- tails, shaping and defending it We call on thenation to remember that when auch aman was wanted, the State of New York could furnish him, and that Millard Fillmore was the man. d him we now repeat, with our thousands of voices, the words of welcome which we shouted to him and his ‘associates when we metthem in the moment ef that great achievement—" Well done, good nd faithful servant !” and now adding--"Thou hast been faithful in a few things, we will make the ruler over many things !” Behold our glorious work almost com- plete! Each year of that great life which we hi e been something to the vast pile which he has. designed, and to which we all contribute terial and toil. That noble work has pyramids, which were the tombs of their monarchs. pyramid was always commenced at the moment When the sovereign began his career. ‘They walled the hagas, and ther mid at the end ofthe year, ‘The next year, around that they built again, ulways as at first from the topdownward, ‘And during his life the fabric grew by these annual addi- ns, a9 that the longer the King lived the larger was his Pyra ‘At his deuth it ceased, and they then inscribed his name on itin g'guntic character. ‘Thus is it with “the star pointing pyre #id” of out great Champion’s life and labors andfame. .t rose complete on the basal rock of the revolution—perfect and entire in its first conception and execution Had thet life ceased early it would, though complete, have bsen incotispicuous among the monu- ments of ages. But each year has added to it “built from the top downwards,” till it has become a land- mark to the world; and each year will add to it new vastness and’ sublimity until the wondrous monument of his life shall o'er his garnished ashes speak his praise—-when we shall write upon the perfect struc: ture for all nations and all ages to read and hail as the en- Patriots, poets,philosophers and historians shall trace from | {t is ahousehould book Children have made themselves itthe mighty stream of the events of the age, “and pil: | familiar with it; and seges have philosophised upon it.— rims come far to salute the blest spot,” and find in it a | Take it up at any point,you will find him every where on couragement of freemen and the testimonial of practica- righteous freedom, the deathlees name of Henry Cl lesson tothe world. ‘hat scene is ‘the Slashes of Hano- | the side of justice and courage, and against tyranny aud ver;” and that poor tittle orphan child is “the Mill boy o! | wrong. See him contending in the House of Representa- Here in the great congregation we repeat it, while un- seen mi fone respond all rer the Continent. We teach it toartless infancy, we ttter it in song, and blazon it on the the Slashes”—an prreaive whose rade provincial sound | tives against British aggression, and maintaining th shall not hinder it from bi pea more t classical; for | cause of “Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights” before the name with all its harshness it shall make the music of ages and | of Free Trade had been taken in vain and blasphemed and nations; and it shall be the watchword and rallying cry 0! | perverted by pedants and smugglers and smattering parti- millions rushing on to bloodless battle. It shall beshout- | sans, Seo him in the same arena proclaiming liberty to ed inthe assemblies cf the patriotic and faithful, and re- | allthe world—to South America and to Greece, and de- peated with intonations of enthusiasm and rapture in the | iunding for them a place among the nations of the earth. great congregation of the just. ‘The day shall come when | Seehim guarding the national righte, securing our wide the utterance of that name shall raise the awful voice o! | borders and negotiating for privileges to our commerce in ion in tones of thunder from the Lakes to tLe | the treaty of 1815 and in the whole of his administration Gulf,from the Ocean to the mountains,and from the moun- | of our foreign affairs in 1825—1829. And remember who tains to the distant sources of the Father of Rivers; for it ‘erward came into that department and betrayed us by hall associate with that nation’s most inspiring remem- | dishonorable and unpatriotic concessions to British brances and exaltedhopes Itshall be their glory—their| claims, basely declaring himself more friendly to banners of countless embattled hosts. And sec what sweet and holy influences are gathering around that veners- ted and endeared name—not only honored by the honorable, but loved by the lovely! See whose presence now cheers us and hallows, graces and dignifies our great —monument—whose voices min- gle softness and sweetness with the power of ours in the choral peal! Behold the best, and purest and dearest testimonial of the moral beauty of bias princi es and action | It is almost universally conceded that for some reason the vast majority of American women are ‘igs. ‘The reason may never have been given; but it is worth aceking and is easily found. It is in the very nature ofwoman. They act from feeling, impulse, and pride, their boast to the world,—heard throughout Christ- endom, and welcomed everywhere as the sign of republi- can faith vindicated and American houor retrieved. Long shall ring through the Continents and over the Oceans that glorious name, associated with that of Washington, from Peru, La Plata and Oregon, to Sparta, Athens and ebes. ‘These two names shall be heard when nothing else that belongs to America is known,—shull be heard as the exemplification of all that is good and hopeful in the cause of republican principles, popular rights and human | I liberty. 0" * Sn ae » The time is passed when swords subdued.” ‘The tim He was born within one year after the declaration of inde | has come when the eternal principles of wisdom and ju pendence, and was therefore amoug the frst offspring «' | tice, exemplified and realized in our government, shall be our republic, among the first of those who never knew | maintained only by the words cf truth and peace. and by what it was to havea king or a government in which they | the silent hallot box. Give the people time to think, to were not represented ore attaining manhood he lett | feel, and to act ri He had faith in the people still the region of his birth, and went over the mountains to th “patience must have her perfect work.” “ the dark and bloody ground,” away from the influencas | And there. in the very pride of his glory and power, with of comparative refinement. Entering public life he began | the laurels of a whole age of victory still fresh and green his career as a statesman by presenting resolutions in the | upon his noble brow—when that awful gulf opened in ntucky Legislature, in favor of the protection of | that forum, and all that was precious in eloquence and in American labor by — national legislation, At one | reason hnd been thrown in vain into the dark abyss which glance, he saw the duty of government, the duts | still threatened the destruction of the Commonwealt of the ‘people to themselves, the duty to promote the | there, “on the field of his fame,” in the arena of hi cause of liberty throughout the world, by making jonal glory, sacrificin; this the greatest, the best, and the happiest nation on energies, like Curtias mounted and with his earth—an example, an encouragement, and a boast to all | on, he leaped into the gulf and it closed. There was he, who love liberty, ‘It ia remarkable that the idea which | backed by a relentless and imperious tyrant, prepared to Washington, at the close of his career, seemed most sustain him and that measure with a sword that never cially desirous to impress upon the nation, (next tothe | was turned from an enemy, and who was supported b; preservation of the Union) was the necessity of national | an unscrupulous host, that knew no other law or jance, self-protection and independence of the influ: | principle than his will. But, inspired with that un- ence of foreign governments—separation from their pol- | changing faith, he trusted that though thet age might cy and power—not dependent on them for any thin: —particularly not for the manufacture of opinions. He sought to make us a truly independent nation— “a peenliar people, zealous of good works,” the: would demonstrate the excelleace of our institutions by their beneficial results upon ourselves, He left the No tion with a character of quiet independence—with th: disposition and power to supply themselves and develop: their own resources—not to be mere “hewers of woot and drawers of water” to. other Nations, mere producers of raw material for Europeans to shape into the fabrics 0 skill, and then return to us at our double cost. He knew that the American genins and mind, the activity, energy and ingenuity of this tree people, were pre-eminent, av that good Government, with independent self-protectivi National legislation would make us pre-emineut in pov e: prosperity and glory.‘ iginate the idea, to presen itin anew and enlarged form, to make it practical, the great political movement of the man ot oun aj From that time he proceeded steadily in the gradual velopment and modification of the mighty scheme of ne tional measures which the Whig party now uphold» | some who watched him with curions, but not partial ey The life of that man isthe history of the nation for a | those whe had learned to doubt and criticise the claims 0} quarter of acentury. ‘The American who knows not the ] popular favorites and partisan Jeaders, and who, though connection between that life and the beneficent infer 3 by nature and education, and familiar with the his- of Government during that period is sadly ignorant of th ry of that great statesman, were yet cold to the sense of history of his country. It is to be auferred that there i+ | his vast relations to the time and its purpos: no person in this assembly 0 ignorant, and, therefore al\ | clined to rank him only as one among the greatest men details may be omitted as Out from the | of our age and country, und to consiter him as a ma Revolutionary age the Nation came, a mighty mass of] whose time was passed, and who must soon be materials, with ceria general proportions and cepablil | pieced by the new men of new tues. Sach men sat ties, yet without distinct form, without definite outline, | there looking on, determined to make up their own expression or finish, ‘To shape that mass of materiel was | opinions of him and of others, and not disposed to to be the purpose of another time—the work of another | take him on the score of any popular outcry or man. There was once a sculptor who said something | partisan support. ‘They watched him and. note’ down his words and actions, day by dey, week after week, and month after month, criticising style and his words, comparing his eloquence with that of more hed and polished orators and better logicians. With all his great eloquence, Oratory is not a part of that man character. It is but a weapon in his hand; and if there is an enemy to be destroyed, it matters not whether he be scientifically pierced with @ polished blade or crushed with an iron mace, Great orators are commonly very unstealy, weak men in action, practical sense and judg- ment. Demosthenes was—Cicero certainly was—and 80 were some of the greatest of the British Orators —Bolingbroke, Burke, Sheridan, Brougham and others. But when the time brings a great purpose to a great man, capable of appreciating and achieving it,he will not fail to express and vindicate it in the right way if he have energy, enthusiasm, quickness, courage and self possession, Such was the eloquence of our man. It the eloquence of the time and the purpose, a torrent, a de luge that swept away all the fancies of logic and all th ornament of taste, And so these critical observers looked nd noted and marked till the dark honrs came and r criticism was forgotten ; for all felt that they want- ed not a great orator, but a great man—a man for the ‘and a man tothe " purpose” ‘The orisis came. londs were rising. We looked up to the firmament of ir glory, to the lights of onr age, seeking in them their nt lustre. All “saw till certain stars shot madly from their spheres,” and we saw some “fall from ven to earth,’ and some going out in the darkness of death. But there was one great star which still. shone on and brighter through the broken clonda and in deepening gloom till all other lights paled to its sparkling, cheer- ing ray, and it filled the whole sphere with its glory.— it was to the patriot the star of memory of hope” It was the nation’s polar etar—the star of its faith and of ita dustin, hen, in’ those trying days, there were donbts and sudden fears, whispers of treachery, rumors of deser- tions, betokening defeat, when the front of battle waver- ed, and the lines were breaking —then enme forth the champion to retrieve the cause; and his clerion-voice like “ablast from the bugle,” sounded the war-note again. ani cheered our warriors to the charge. ‘They ¢ the ranks which death and desertion had ‘thinned, and battalion, when the time of profitable ally in plastic and perishable material. He saw | contest wi: ssed, began that noble retreat which, it in his own mind, and he struck boldly into the|{ike that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xeno- block itself. He saw that the Revolution quarried the | phon, was more glorious than a hundred victorious. It mighty mass from the mountains, it must have shape, ex: | was a retreat from the corruptions and allurements of pression. He saw—he falt in himself the Ideal, the image | power and gold, all that the monarch and his satraps of American Republicanism, the future nationality , the | could offer from the resources of an empire. They could genius of Democracy, ardent, enet . bold, confident in | not bry the men who then took tp their two years march its own resourc to develope them into ac- | through dry deserte and pathless tangled forosts—over jon and ntility. ing in himself th cold, dreary mountains piled on mountains, till they reach- character of the coming ‘age, he thus conceived the prin- | ed the end of their pilgrimage in their welcome home, ciples and measures that were essential to our nationali- at “the blast from the bngle” cheered them on their ty. He foreshadowed them in his earliest movements, and | toilsome and dangerous way, and inspired them at once roduced, perfected and illustrated them through all his | with the memory of former victories and the hope of new long career, which brightened as it proceeded like ‘the | triumphs on fairer fields. Such were the trials and strug. dawning light which shineth more and more unto the | gles of that band of faithful, incorrnptible patriots—the perfect day.” Ie stood at that early moment in magnifi- | immortal Twenty-Seventh Congress They recognized cent contemplation of the unformed masa produced by | their leader, in an hour when to be without a leader was the Revolution. He gazed at it as Michael Angelo did at | ruin. They rallied under him, sustained him, imitated the half-shaped gigantic block, which, under hie chisel, | him, and clung to him as the nation’s Inst hope. And, at afterward became the colossal statue of David, immortal | length, when the hour came for his departure, and they ant holy as the sacred fame of its seriptucal original. He | thronged to hear him for the last time in that place whose saw in it the glorious undeveloped form, the fair propor: | glory he had been so long, in that saddened moment tions of good government, animated by the majestic, be- | when all the great and thrilling remembrances of that life Britein tha is immediate predecessor who had always resisted and baffled that grasping power. See him in the Senate, when that one great measurc which was the heart of the whole system and scheme of s patriotism was suddenly brought to the verge of a bloody ti ‘Then he, the author, designer and director of that scheme, in new and more exalted devotion stood forth to show that the triumph of that great cause must be the bloodless triumph of peace—that Nor by violence and | murder should that immortal cause he vindicated nd the honors of the cause might never be im, yet the cause, the cause of the Ameri- can Republic must triumph at Inst. Others might gather the records of his long life for it, Its trophies might be reared only ov: but he resolved that the foun- lations of ‘this rity should not be laid in kindred blood. “He that ruleth his own temper is greater than he thattaketh acity.” Give him the civic wreath of oak-leaves which in Rome was given to him who ha? raved the life ofacitizen. He has saved the lives of thon- sands. ‘The first drop of blood has not yet been shed our land for political offences. And now, behold — who comes to hail him? The Carotinus—both the Carolinas ; "and Georgia brings the civic chaplet xt her own living oak to wreathe his honored heal — The time came when the cause triumphed without the nan ; but there was he, still in his place, above all the honors of place—the same man with the same purpose ; und there Were among the throng who looked on through those strange and doughtful scenes of the trial of power yeen the democratic and the monarchical principle— like this—"In every block of marble there is a ‘statue, image of perfect rf which only needs the genius to discover it andthe hand of Our modern artists first’ mould some plas. e imagined, stone-cutter, ing marble touches ” in Italy an artist, great in every thing he undertook—o real genius, who did th things in his own way ; and that was often a little different from other people’s ways The consequence was that he did two or three remark- able things which are likely to be remembered with admi- ration when whole schools and generations of cri have censured him for his violations of rules, are forgot ten. This man is commonly called Micheal Angelo, rude way of pere names, Whether he su enough for ns to know th vast and wonderous dome’ the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, and that he was not only such an architect and painter, ‘but he was eminent as asculptor. And he so far disdained the aids and conveniences of art, that having looked at the block of marble, and having developed in his d the form of beauty to which it was adapted, he struck boldly into it himself, chisel in hand, and worked model or pattern, till he brought ont in the mar ble the form which before existed only in his mind. That was the way hich our man, the man of our age, worket to ach urpose of our times If he had been a scholar, a philosopher, an abstractionist, he would have made a proper model tor some practical genins to perpe- tuate in the never dying reality, If he had been such « one, he would have left 1s an essay on Government which would have ranked above those of Sydney, Locke, Mon- tesque, Bat that wonld not satisfy him. He saw in bis mind’s eye the image of human perfectibility, of approx: imate perfection in Government. He it tn the fervid imagination of warm youth, which is so fullof the spirit of heavenly charity that it ‘hopes all things, believes all hings, trusts all things.” He saw it thu 1 fe retained that patriotic “ faith hope, and charity, youthful fervor; for he is one of those who are always young. He did not wait to develope his idea experiment- nign expression of harmony, peace, good will-—and poised | rushed on them, who will wonder that they wept.and that on itself in the heroic, commanding attitnde of inde- | his enemies, his antagonists in the contests of twenty as | sentiment, where men attempt to act from calcu lation, reason and argument; and on all moral subjects—all questions of principle, their feelings and per- ceptions of what is true and pure and noble and beautiful are more just and certain, as they are more prompt than the ambitious reasonings of men. The God of Noture has thus endowed them above us, for the holiest of purposes, The mother waits not to reason of hei ties, Her high instinct e wisdom, most wisely given. Women, too, havea strong natural taste for the heroic in ptinciple, for the noble, the bold and gallant, a an equally strong distaste for the mean, the crafty, the cold and calculating We owe much of that, fe- male influence, no doubt, to the personal qualitie of our leader. His high-toned fecling, his fervor, frankness and covrage are the traits they most seek and mire in men. Still, it is to our prin: ciples and action also that their preferences are rendered. So was it with the mothers and wives and daughters of the Revolution. So must it be with those of our time. We welcome them then with all our hearts. We honor their high pereeption of the moral sublime in our cause, We give them praise Our enterprise would not be complete m its beauty or succes# without their ail, their genth winning influences here, and in th of the home and the fireside; just as our proud choral anthems would lack perect harmony with. out the softening melody of thei And. t fore-—-wiv mothers and ey lightened freemen! we rejoice in your presence ag in evidence of your appreciation of * whatsoever things are honest, pure and of good report,” as a touching manifes- tation of that moral sense diyiner than coid reason, by which yon look to the hopes and joys of that coming age which is committed to yeur care. Tuat “holy maternal love which bears that object of its creation in such a continual anxious watch- fulness, and will not leave it when its infancy ce but clings to its unchanging through life andt: death ‘and beyond death—follows it over the earth and up to Heaven, and bears it near to God,—that love instinctively abhors the public evils of the a instinctively promotes the influences which will avert those evils from that offspring. ‘Although the father may forget this duty, the mother will not; and she may make thefather remember it. ‘Therefore, lovely and true faithful ! we are glad in the light of your countenances and from full hearts we send you our shouts of wel- come. Clay Clubs of New Yerk! Clay men snd Clay boys! Fellow laborers of the man in achiev. ing the purpose of the time! The day reminds us of the shortness of the remainder of that time. One year from this day Henry Clay must be inaugurated ; and in eight months he must be elected. Enongh has been s: Now for action, evergy, zeal, and untiring toil. Go forth tothe work. ‘Be faithful to those that have been ever faithful to you.” “Be just end fear not” Be valiant—for there is no virtue without courage Arm yourselves with and principle, for as there is no faith without works, there can he no works without faith, no successful labor without the confidence of a worthy cause. Act from high views of your reaponsibilities to the world and to coming ages ; ko that when the revolving, eventful yeor bring us to the momentous anniversary of this great day _when “the blast from the bugle” at whose war-note you first started to your arms in a doubtful field, hall sound the triumphant strain of victory—you may point to the ast and the future, in all your relations to both, and chal- lenge the ages to acomparison—and in that enraptured hour may look up to Heaven with gratitude that you have been thence eee to the knowledge of ‘the time, the purpose and the ma ‘shen Mr. Bacon sat down, the assemblage burst into # rolonged shout of enthusiastic applause. On its subsi ence, the choir sung the following Ode. “A BLAST FROM THE BUGLE.” Tune ~" Star Spangled Banner.” BY THE HON. PRANCIS JAMES. «A blast from the bugle,”—say, heard ye the sound, Ax it rolled from the West, over mountain and valley ; Twas a signal for patriots, the country around, To make for the contest a glorious rally 5 Regard then its call, ye Whigs one and all, Prepare for the conflict—to conquer or fall “ A blast from the bugle,” oh ! list to its strain, ‘Aa it echoes in thunders, from Georgia to Maine. Like the trump of a chief—blown to gather his clan, ‘Twill arouse every freeman, though heavy his slumbers ; And urge him to deeds, well befitting the man, Who dererves to be rankil in our army of numbers ; For we want but the true, who will dare and will do ; ‘Whatever to honor and right shall be due ; When “a blast from the bugle” shall stir up our train, In Jowland and highland from Georgia to Maine. No craven we wish to respond to its call, And oh! may its loud notes xo traTors awaken ; But deep be his sleep, as the depths of his fall, Let him breathe on, neglected, degraded, forsnken 5 Let his name fade away from the light of the day, And the henors which once encircled his way ; While ‘a blast from the bugle”—ne’er issued in vain, Shall inspirit each freeman from Georgia to Maine. List! “ blast from the bugle’—hark ! hark! how it To the'resche ye gallant ! fall—fall in forHarry ! "The pride of the West—him whose candor reveals is—t¥en I pray you don’t tarry, id, who has never betrayed But come to hi A friend ! or proved false to the promise he made. List ! “a blast from the bugle”—it rolls o’er the’plain, And startles an echo from Georgia to This was received with tremendous applause. ‘The Parsipent then proposed thatthe meeting should adjourn with twelve cheers for Henry Clav. But the semblage seemed in no humor to depart without some a ditional speechitying, and loud calls arose for "Thayer, Thayer.” It was announced, however, that that gentle- man was notin the room. Then the cry wos “Graham, Graham,” on which Joe Hoxie started ap, and was hailed with great applanse, and loud shouts of “Come, old boy Go it, Hoxie”—"Come in front”—"Give usa song” — “Three cheers for Joe Hoxie.” Mr. Hoxie at length stepped forward m_ front of the platform, and said—I have no words and no voice to thank ‘on as I'would forthe very kind manner in which you ave been pleased to receive me. It cannot be expected that after this elequent oration.| should detain you by any remarks, The whole ground has been gone over, and the whole argument exhausted. You will excuse me, therefore, if | only respondto yourcall br gs youan asaurance that I am with you heart and soul on this occa- sion. |(Loud and continned Cheers.) And that alll have, soul and body, I devote to this cause. (Great ee lence and protection. He saw, and under the first | years, wept withthem? The sentiment of the hour was impulse of hiv grand conception, ke stritok {nto the | ‘mpassioned, And thenth= \thow much that was applause.) And { didn’t come here alone. When | came here to-night, | brought my wife, my son and my (Here the fic. friends in thi how they can fix it to Feat LM) campaign in our own wey, snd i tell you we have vi +h authorit: ringiny meh to our aid wes eet 4 MP book, which 1 trust ev good in'the 16th of the frst bol tory of Saul, who himself, it would appear, had become a little indoc! os and wh: evil 3] record—read it when you go hom oming off victor in every encoun- § women, (Renewed cheers.) don’t want to succeet without the wemen. and laughter) And now go on my friends, male and fe- male. months more than ten millions of ireemen al off his old white coat, said in our anticipated houting, cheering and applause were tlemen we ‘accommodate our it. We wont give up ourmusic any (Laughter and applause.) We mean 1 ughter, Lionel in that w avery often, of pha stout the his- ated with lovofocism— (great lau; oye not ? locofocoism is but another name for that rit which got into Saul. fers of laughter.) Well, what did Sauls ‘appeal to the sacred. ay when the devil into Saul, did they not send for David with his herp to ve it out of him. (houts of laughter.) It succeeded too, so we mean to succeed. (Great cheering.) We have talked down the errors of the locofocos—we have argned with them and reasoned with them—and now we mean to sing the devil out of them. cheering for sume minutes.) And there’s no doubt of our success when we've Va) (Shouts of laughter and the women with us. (Cheers) in any good couse without the ‘And for one I say that I (Great cheers No man ever succee ing loud and shout for joy, and this day twelve all join their and that chorus which will extend from the moun- tain to the ocean, and from one extremity of the redeemed land to the othe: deafening applause.) (Here Mr. Hoxie resumed his scat amid Horace Gaeeter then rushed forward, and throwing fy friends, I have but atew words to say in answer to your call; and these are, that ictory in the approaching struggie for es, my 1844, we are not to forget ourselves at home. friends, we must remember the spring election, which 1s now close ut hand. We mu election was won by a succession of eff not forget that the sprinj tefl ts. We bya commenced the whig victory already, which has resulted in a glorious acceasion to the whig cause. (Cheers) You all know how gloriously Maryland has opened the cam. paign of 1844. " (Loud aad reiterated cheering) Connec- tiout is about to follow it next; and then New York must tollow. (Loud cheering) Nothing, my friends, can con- tribute a0 much to the whig cause as our victory in the spring. (Cheering) Let us have men elected whose trinciples will give ‘permanency and stability to our cause here in this great emporium, that always gives @ tone to the entire Union. We must first attend to this paramount dut us not now ‘sik nly about electing Henry Clay’ That's certain; but we should recollect that one hundred thou sand majority is necessary to give us full victory in 1644.. ‘This must be done here by a whi. victory at the spring election. (Immense cheering.) we do this we shal not damp the zeal of our friends in the good cause, but. givea stimulus to the entire Union. I hope, my friends, you will convey this home with you, and let our first vic- tory emanate from this city at the spring election. (Cheers (Cone Mening wis then adjourned, and dispersed amid the cheering of the young whig democracy—the mu of General fleynolts® “ Club”—the smiles of Joe Hoxie’s glorious army of ladies—and the shouts of the entire Fourierite section of the whig party in this great metro: polis, Thus has opened the great Clay campaign of 1944. Crry Marrers.—The General Appropriation Bill was finally adopted in both boards of the Common Council last evening. The select committee of the Board of Alderman presented a report and resolu- tions authorizing the Clerk of the Common Coun- cil to advertise, by contract, for all supplies of sta- tionary and printing of the several departments.— An application was made, by petition, to remove the Post Office to a more central part of the city, and a resolution asking Congress to ereet a Dry Dock on this Island, was introduced by Alderman Purdy, and unanimously adopted. The Police Bill, that has been adopted in the Assistants, was order- ed to be the special business for the next meeting of the Board, which takes place on Wednesday evening, and Alderman Tillou stated that his fa- mous report would also be ready by that time. In conclusion, and the most important business of the evening, was the presentation of the opinion of Judges Brenson and Cowan, of the Supreme Court, in the matter of opening 39th and 37th streets, and also a new street between 4th and Sih Avenue ; also the 11th Avenue between 82d and 47th streets, and 128th street. They decide that they have no constitutional power to act upon this subject, and, therefore, it will appear that the assessments for opening these streets are null and void, and cannot be levied or collected. We understand that this important subject will be re-argued before the Su- preme Court at the next special term. Derarture or Borrsrorp.—Samuel Bottsford, who was recently arrested by officers Stokely and Cockefair, and fully committed on a charge of stealing Treasury notes, left yesterday in charge of the tormer named officer for Cincinnati, where he is to be tried. Gage, who was arrested with him, will be tried this week in the United States Court in this city. These officers, in connexion with Mr. Ogden, the mail contractor, and U. M. Lewades, Esq , are entitled to much credit for the ar'test of these parties, and no doubt will receive full com- pensation from the public authorities. Frvancrat Criticisms —We have received seve- ral articles analysing the recent statement of Mr. Graham. One we shall publish to-morrow. Our correspondent states that Judge Tallmadge drew out the plan of the banking association, and never gotany thing for it. Can it be so? Mysreries or New York—Atperman Tintov’s Porice Revort.—This remarkable report, reveal- ing the mysteries of New York, und the best mode of creating a good municipal government and re- vive a moral age, was presented last night at the Board of Aldermen. It is rich in its revelations— richer than even Eugene Sue. We shall examine it at our leisure. Drinxinc Cives or New Yors.—Several ex- ceedingly well written articles, developing the me- lancholy tendencies of these cluba, are received and will be attended to. Tur Mormon War.—Preparations are making by some portions of the people of Illinois, to drive the Mormons out of that State. If they do, blood will be shed—for the Mormons will fight. Inreciectvan Amusements in New Haven.—A correspondent gives us an account ofa novel species of intellectual amusement which has just been in- troduced into fashionable suciety in New Haven. A regular Yale collegian recently slapped the face and pulled the nose of one of the small lawyers there, The other students called it the solution of a problem in the philosophy of motion. From Beravpa.—We have received the Bermu dianto the 17th ult. Nothing but the elections are taking place there. Granp Cevevration or THe Sons or Temren- ancr.—A. grand celebration by Ashland Division takes place to-morrow evening, at their new and elegant hall, corner of Hudson and Grove streets.— Music—singing—speeches—and a variety of inter- esting exercises are promised. Sunretcat Orenations.—We take pleasure in re- ferring owr readers to the interesting monthly report of the New York Medical and Surgical Institute, 75 Chambers street, which will convey to them a better idea of its success than we can. One thing, however, we will say, to our certain knowledge, the Institute is under the care and management ot a gentleman of no ordinary tact and talent, and sooner ot later he must reap the reward which is due to industry and merit. Grawam’s Macazine continues to be the great reservoir through which the most eminent literary writers of the land pour out their effusions in essay> tale and song. ‘The sterling character of the Maga- zine has won for itself the largest subscription list ever got up inthis country. The engravings are al” ways original and splendid gems of art. Ww. i Graham, Tribune building, Nassau street, is agent for this city. Avormen Mepau—Mr. J. D. Levitt, of No. 1 Courtlandt street, figs issued a very handsome me- dal commemorative of the organization of the American Republican Party. Tur Pann Trteatre opens to-morrow. With | what? to what? for what? under what? by what? a means of achieving victory; but let ;- OO a