The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1849, Page 2

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NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham Square.—Batcantan— New Yorn As it Is—Love t+ He mnie Lire, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers stroet.—RoMANCE AND Reauiey. MECHANICS' HALL, Broadway, near Broom y's Minst rene. SOCIETY LIBRARY, Broadway—New Onneans SsnE- WADERS. CHINESE SUSEUM, 658 Brosdway.—Cuivese Cuni0 vins. Rien.—M Aare AND PHILO= MINERVA ROOMS—Mons. sorny. New York, Thursdny. May 3, (Nad, The Ocean Steamers, The America and Washington will be due at this port to-morrow. Meanwhile, we may receive the Amcrica’s news over the wores from St. John, N. B. Tho Triennial Council of the Catholic Church. We see it announced that the Bishops of the Catholic church will assemble in regular triennial council, in the city of Baltimore, on next Sunday, although no business will be entered upon before the {cllowing day. The practice of holding such conventions in this country, has existed for about thirty years past; and from a variety of causes, the most prominent and important of which is the rapid growth and increase of that church in the United States, each successive session becomes more im- portant than any previous one. Indeed, so imper- tant has this Ca’hohe council become, that Bishops connected with the church in the United States, and sojourning either on business or pleasure in foreign countries, hasten back in son to partici- pate in the proceedings. We have already a corps of reporters on the ground; and elsewhere will be found their frst report, preliminary to the regular proceedings, giving a brief biography of all the bishops of the United States. The next council will be an extremely important one, and the measures which will be discussed by it will be highly interesting to the whole Catholic community, both clergy and laity. it is understood that itis the intention of this body to erect new archbishopricks inthe United States, and to create several new sees. There 1s one important matter, which we hope will be acted upon by this council, and that is, the propriety of introducing canon law into the tholic church in the United States. From what we have observed of the workings of the present system, it is essential to introduce it, for it is not only impolitic, but unust, that the clergy should longer remain deprived of it. No such law has ever existed in the Catholic church in this country, because the United States have been what is called a missionary country. An effort will be made at the approaching council in Balumore to give to the Catholics of this coun- try, and especiall the interior elergy, the same rights and privilege which are enjoyed by their brethren in other countries, not missionary. We have witnessed the,evils which the inferior clergy suffer under for the wanto such «law, and have frequently commented upon thein in the columas of this journal. In the absence of canon law, a Bishop is vested wit!) a power too arbitrary t» be lodged in the hands of any human being, clerical orlay. Without it, any Bishop of the church can, on amoment’s notice, and without even assigning cause, suspend, during his pleasure, any of his in- ferior clergy, and by the act, whether undeserved or not, degrade him for ever in the estimation of the world ; for a suspended priest, no matter how innocent he may be of the causes or suspicions. which led to his suspension, can never recover the Prosectep Movement or THE ABoliTioNists — While Senator Seward, of this State, is sojourning in South Carolina, searching, probably, for some curious tombstone to take a pattern of, or trying to find out some bishop to be introduced to, or for some other equally delightful purpose, bearing on the future, we find that his associates and organs in this State are busily engaged in preparing a great and important movement in Congress, that will widen the breach still further between the N and the South, and add more d ‘ienity i the administration of the government by General Taylor. Inthe Evening Journal, of Albany, con- ducted by Thurlow Weed, the organ and associate of Mr. Seward, of Monday last, we find the follow- ing artiel TUE SLAVE MARKET. {Correspondence ot the Es ening Post.] Wasuinerox, April 25, 1819, Tam more and more impressed with the importance of having regular distri t trade reports, for the com- d south. We have accurate transactions at the Brighton vipts, prices. and shipments of tobaceo, rice, and ¢ How much more important is it that the community should be kept informed and movements in human beings, at traffic in the commodities of bodi tainly, these chattels” are as important as beeves and swine, who- ther sold upon the hoof, in herds, or by the carcass in the shambles, I regret that I bave not been able to furnish you accurate data of tho state of the market here, where the transactions govern operators to a great extent throughout the country T learn from a gentleman who attended at_ the sham- Dies this mo les were taken, young and likely, at au av hundred dotlara # head for the southern mi ‘They were shipped by the curs this morning, Purchasers would do well to attend here in greater numbors, as no dupotin the United States offers greater advantages. At the seat of the federal government, dealers in this article are protected by its power, and are oxemp3 from many burtl prohibitions that restrict the trafic in the Sta Yemarks of the Albany Zvening Journal, on the above :— This slave market at Washington is a national dis- grace, Its abrogation is demanded by every consido- ration of justice and se spect, Its existence is an insult to the people and their representatives comes within the purview of the municipal author they should be held responsible for the insult. Its con tinuance should be deemed a sufiicient justifietion for withholding all Congressional appropriations from tho Distriet, Not a doilar should be yoted by tho House of Representatives, for any object pertaining to tho Dis- trict of Columbia, solong as tho slave traffic is tolerated within its borders, ‘This course would yery soon purity public centiment at Washington, and lead to such uction as would secure an eternal ‘eradication of these tlave pens from the soil of the District. Meanwhile the duily quotations suggested by the Post would do no harm, Here is the new platform preparing by the ultras and red-mouthed patriots belonsing to both of the great factions in this State. The Lvening Post, of this city, and the Evening Journal, of Albany, are thus uniting ani combining together, for the purpose of widening the breach between the North and the South, and of throwing fresh difficulties in the way of the enlightened administration of General Taylor. While Thurlow Weed, is at Washington, and is very busy pouring humbug into the ears of the President and his cabinet, re- lative to the collectorship of New York; and while Senator Seward is engaged in South Caro- lina on some plausible tomb-stone excursion, we see they are preparing here, in Albany, and throughout the State, fora movement in the next cattle market position which he occupied before he got under the ban of his Bishop. Te any one, therefore, who knows anything of the frailty and weakness of human nature, and the fallibility of human judg- ment, it 1s evident that the vesting of such a tre- mendous power as this in the hands of one man, is dangerous and unsafe in the extreme. Unless the Bishops of the Cathol.c church in the United States are blind to the progress of the age, and are care- less of the rights of the inferior clergy, who con- stitute the hard working and benefit conferring portion of the Catholie chureh, they will take this measure in hand, and grant to the inferior clergy the rights, benefits, and privileges of the canon law. In the most despotic countries, the Catholic clergy have the benefit of th ¢, and is it to be denied to the people of this free republic, where the Catholic religion is making such extraordinary progress ? There is another subject connected with the Catholic church in the United States, which we think is worthy of the attention of the Baltimore council, and which we hope wiil be acted upon in its discussions. It is the system of managing church property. As the now stands, all choreh My is under the control of the Bishop of the diocese; or it the laity have any power at al) of controlling it, it is nominal, and no more. This should not be so we Catholic church is Not composed of the clergy ulone, but of both the laity and the clergy; and if the laity contribute the propeity of 1! than reasonel) pre have some control over it witness the discontent which the absence of caused. Llence the necessi ticnlar department. If these changes were carried out by the Council of Bishops, we have no doubt that they would con- duce, ina great degree, to the prosperity of the Catholic church in the United States. That church, in its internal arrangements, seems to be behind the age. While all around it have progressed, it appears to have stood st]. In tact, the system on church, it is certamly no more at the laity should need not go farto Catholic church, in the laity has of reform in this par- nd W in the Congress that will lead to nothing but dissension, uproar, riot and confusion, in the federal capitol, and a terrible and destructive alienation between different sections of the country. Cannot the noble old patriot, now in the White House, and his worthy advisers in the Cabinet, see through the miserable trickery and contempti- ble humbug by which such politicians try to abuse and lead them astray,in relation to the appoint- Since the explosion of the opera under the scientific management of Mr. Fry, and the dead loss of $20,009 to the managers, besides $900 loss to some chorus singers, theatri- cals in this city have experienced quite a revival in almost every department. During the last three weeks, Mr. Forrest has been playing at the Broadavay theatre to remarka- bly good houses, and we understand that his re- ceipts for these three weeks have amounted to more than eight thousand dollars—probably within a handful of dollars to nine thousand. The terms of his engagement are one moiety of the proceeds of the house, he taking the ene half, and the mana- ger, and all the rest of the actors, down to the scene-shifters, dividing the other half among them- selves the best way they can. The Broadway theatre has been very successful and very flourishing of late. The other theatres, we understand, exhibit an equally prosperous con- ditien. The Bowery is always’a money making theatre, cool, steady, and permanent. The mana- ger of this establishment, since the unfortunate conflagration of the old Park, has confined his talents to the Bowery theatre, and is again rapidly accumulating a fortune by a wise and certain pro- cess. The business concerns and receipts of the Bowery theatre are probably the most steady of any other theatre in this city. If Mr. Hamblin sticks to his ship but for a few years more, he may retire with his third or fourth fortune made in the exercise of his profession. The other the- atres—the National and Burton’s—are equally pros- perous. We learn that Burton’s theatre has net- ted quite a large sum, from that very successful piece in which socialism and socialists were held up, in amusing lineaments, to the very acute phi- losophers who frequent that establishment. The character of the New York b’hoy at one of thethe- atres, and Massa Fourier Grisley at the other, have fixed themselves in the public mind, and become part of the public taste in this wide spread, lively, amusing, witty, and sarcastic community. On Monday, the Astor Place Theatre opens with Macready, and the legitimate drama. In fact, the spirit of revival among the theatres has got a fresh start; and we observe that the im- mortal Niblo, who has been a part of our theatrical history for several years past, has commenced an enterprize upon his old ground, at the intersection of Broadway and Prince street, which will take the cream, and make the batter, and furnish the bou- quets, for years to come. He has already laid the indation of a hotel, an opera house, and a beau- tiful grove of trees ; and, singular enough, the trees have grown faster, and outstripped the buildings al- ready. The hotel will be conducted upon the Euro- pean plan,and in the first style of elegance, giving comfort and convenience to that region of the city. The theatig, of which the foundation is already laid, wall be as large, as elegant, and as capacious as the present Astor Place Theatre, and more con- venient in a great many of its arrangements. His shrubbery is already planted, and twelve or fifteen feet from the ground, Niblo having overcome na- ture, and transplanted from his beautiful villa at the garden of Eden, next door to Hell Gate, o site Blackwell's Island, some of his most eleg and shady trees. It is expected that this new theatre will be finished upon or soon after next fourth of July, Its situation is without doubt the beet locality foran opera house, or summer theatre, in that region of the city; and under the unrivalled which it iv conducted is tinctured too mach with the spirit of pastages. It necds to be popularized, and to be made to resen.ble, more thua it does, our political institutions is prosperous, and it will continue to prosper, even if those reforms be not made; but that it would pidly if those necessary ch 48 Lo OF hind ¢ ertain, than one 1 se much more introduced, inere es were At present it numbers more " : ton of communicants, and the add - tion which it receives every year, by e v ear, by emigration and by natural increase, cannot be less thin two hundred thousand. This wonderful; and such astonishing progress indicates, that ut no distant | day the Catholics will be the mot numerous reli- gious sect in the United Stites wir bene BaiLING OF THE SrKa —The steam- ehip Europa, Captain Lott, sailed yo rday noon, for Halifax and Liverpool. She wok outa full pas senget list, which will ¢ ound under its proper head. management and great tact of Niblo himself, we expect to see the Italian opera, with the ballet and acecmpaniments, Hourish there in tae winter season, while in the r it will be filled with the amusements and variety more suitable for that time of the year. Everything is flourishing in New York. Trade is bnsk, industry is productive, the shipping in- terests are going uhead, and theatricals flourish along side all these elements of general prosperity. Laren From Cuacres.—The brig Ann and Julia, Cuptain Hanley, has@rrived at New Orleans from Chagres, which place she left on the 5th of April, but we are unable to find any news by her in the New Orleans papers, Saeamsrur Panama.—The steamship Panama, Capt Porter, hence tor San Francisco, was at Rio Joneiro on the 25th of Mareh, to vail for her desti- tion in a day or two, New Yorx Arromrments.—Rumors, as thick as blackberries in summer, were current here yes- terday, concerning the appointments for this city, authentic from at Washington. It was stated in Wall street generally, that ex-Mayor Brady had been appointed Collector, Hugh Maxwell, Sub- Treasurer, ex-Alderman Davis, as Marshal, and Mr. Bowen, as Consul to Liverpool. We believe that all these rumors of appointments are prema- ture. We have authentic intelligence from Wash- ington, stating that none of these appointments will be made for a week or ten days tocome. Mr Ewing, Secretary of the Interior, has just returned from Ohio, but two of the other members of the cabinet are absent. Our private accounts from Washington, disclosing the movements of the office-beggars and their agents, are quite amusing. Thurlow Weed has been there, moving heaven and earth for the ward influence. The Hon. James Brooks has been there, oppos ng ex-Governor Young and tiie ** ay crest. Half a dozen of the newly members of Congress have been busy with their fin- gersin the pie, Ex-Governor Young also has been there, looking afer his own interests; but a tre- mendous set has been made against him by the Seward men aad all their cliques. The contest 15 et so animating and amusing about the collectorship, that no attention is paid to foreign missions or home alships. ony, We will, therefore, have another lying, intrigue, duplicity, cheating, marsh week of pushing, ng, and abusing, among the vari- ous cliques of office beggars. eu We ann ‘the Government Jewrts— Axorngr Canprpatr ror A Forrranx Mission.— We announced the arrest of Jem Webb, a few days ago, just previous to the conviction of Tom Hand, and his commuttal to prison, on the affidavit of Mr. George Wilkes, or of Mr. Stewart, Clerk ef Police, to whom it was alleged Webb had con- fessed his guilt in the robbery of the goverament ewels. We now learn from Washington, that Mr. Jem Webb has been liberated from custody, on the ground that the acknowledgments made by Webb, of has guilt, to Mr. Stewart, were made under the protection of the government, and that such state- ments of Webb alone, uncorroborated b> oiler testimony, could not be used against him in order to procure his conviction. Therefore, Mr. Webb is us fre in, and, no doubt, will hold himself in readiness, at a short notice, to execute any express business or government secret service that may conveniently come to hand. Hereafter we would advise candidates for the special favor of the government, if they wish for success, to £0 to the Patent Office and steal the jewels. What a moral spectacle! Here is an un- doubted burglar It out of custody a second time, by the influence of the New York police, or some other secret agency not easily understood. What means all this? Emigration To Catironnta.—The increase in *xe emigration to California by sea and via the Isthmus, amounts to some twenty-five thousand persons. According to the Western journals, the number of emigrants goin by the overland route, is over twenty thousand. If we add to this large number, the additional adventurers that may spring up during the next six months, we would not be surprised to see nearly eighty thousand emigrants in California, by the first of January next. Such a pepulation, united to that which the teritory al- ready contains, will entitle them to become a State at once, and send a constitution to Washington before the meeting of the next Congress. No doubt California willebe erected into a State at once. California will then go ahead. Individual distress and ruin may be occasioned by the crowding of emigrants and the rivalry of adventurers, but the new State, and the new great sea-port on the Pa- cific, will make a wonderful progress, out-rivalling and surpassing anything that the history of com- merce can furnish, from its first dawn to th: pre- sent tume. Lives or Engcrric Tee@rapu.—There are be- ing erected two or three new lines of electric tele- graph between Washington, New York and Boston, by different companies and individuals. From the appearance of things, there will, we fear, be a great deal of quarrelling about these new lines. A new enterprise of the same character in the West has been stopped, and is now a sub,ect of litiga- tion; and we much fear that similar proceedings will take place concerning the Atlantic lines, before matters are settled down, and the companies or in- dividuals who are constructing them will be per- mitted to enjoy their own rights or mventions. Professor Morse certainly, thus far, has giyen good evidence of the originality of his invention, and was the first to carry it into practical operation ; and although it might be advantageous to the public to encourage rivalry in this business, still it ouzht to be done with a due regard to the rights of eri- ginal inventors. Larter From Montevipro.—We are in receipt of files of the Comercio del Plata to tite 23th February. We do not find much news in them, either from Montevideo or Buenos Ayres. We find a corres- pondence between the Montevidean government and the French Charge, regarding the future pay- ment of the subsidies agreed upon under the go- vernment ot Louis Philippe. M. Devoize, the French Charge expresses himself as follows in his noie :— “An offcial letter from the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs informs me that the government of the French republic has presented the project of a law to the Na- tional Assembly, the object of which is to regulate the payment of the subsidies agreed upon on the 12th June last, between the French authorities in La Plata and the Oriental government, and I am assured that all ob- ligations issued by me for these payments will be mi at maturity, The government, moreover. empower me, until further orders, to modify, or even to cease giving these according to circumstances ; whieh discretionary power is given them by the stipulation of article 2 of'the above mentioned agreement of June ast." Carnival time passed off very quietly at Mente- video ; that is to say, the amusements were by no means slack or limited in extent, but the best of order prevailed. The Comercio makes long extracts from the English papers regarding Califoraia, but does not say anything about it in its editorial eo- lumns. It appears that the French and English negotiators with Rosas, at Buenos Ayres, are both at fault, and can do nothing with hin. Rosas will not enter into any negotiations whatever, unless they are on the busis as those of Hood, and these the commissioners will not listen to. "Thus aflairs stand. M. Guillemet, the French Charge d Affaires to the Brazils, had arrived at Montevideo on a Visit. News rnom Buxxos Aynes.—We have received tho British Packet, of Buenos Ayres, of the 3d of March. On that day, thero were 180 merchant vessels in port, of which 24 were American, ‘The only piece of intelligence in the Packet ia tho following It is now some time since we have given any nows from Montevideo, ‘The fact is, that ouce important city is reduced to the utmost insiguificauce, boing al- Hort entirely abandoned by not only the native but also the foreign. population, except that small portion of the latter who continue to form the only support of the intrusive government, with the delusive hupe of ultimately rendering themselves arbiters of thy tor tunes of the Oriental people, Some facts, however, have tr red latterly, which we must not emit tor: cord. ‘The first is a quarrel between the Jesuits the so-called authority, whieh has issued in the tion of (he former frot the building whioh they osea- pied ‘ihe next is the arrival from Rio Janewto of the redoubted Melehor Pachceo y Obt has " utfor. from his exile in Broil tor ca purpose of evineing. om the part.of the i verbinent, & determination to resist, by f tempt toarriveat neable ar nt ing diffiew) ir ‘Then we have a Conny ew had given him the as bille drawn by him ou the Wh goveraur attor tment of the monthly subsidy guarwutes b, 1 be honored bi. Deveise wimtos atthe same ime, that he is auvhora d to vicuntiite the said subvention ae stances Last of all, w letter mn sentevides toa Col, Lopox initio Grau tis way inte he papers. in whi (ron ab te tran nthe foitowin ve hud hy bawkers in engl with our winter ve buen & a by ba even minions uf e government of sradii daud cae Payment of the dividends)” sum We do not believe t a i We hi from thi A regular meeting of the Historical Society was held on Tuesday OS at the University. A letter was received from Mr. Van Schaick, containing ex- tractsof important ineidents connected with the Re volution, and especially of the treachery of Benedict Amold. ‘The report of the Librarian showed that donations had been received from the Secretary of State of the State of New York, the New Jersey Historical Society, and several others, one or more of which were from London, ‘The donations from the Secretary of State consisted of proof maps of ull the documents connected with the State. A paper was read from a memorandum book of Rebert Fulton, relative to the first steamboats on the North River, and their expenses, the latter of which, from July, 1809, to 1810, was $43,000; and of the steamboats which plied to the points on New Jersey, the receipts from which In the same time was 2,000. ‘The boats on the North River, two in num- ber, receipted from $200 to $400. In 1812, thore were thrve boats, whose average receipts were about the samo asin 1809 and ‘10. The whole expenses at that time for running a boat on the North Rivor was $5,099 peryear, and Mr. Fulton concluded at that time that 10.000 acres of wooded land would furnish fuel fur all the steamboats on the North River perpotually. Tho death of Benjamin F. Thompson, of Hempstuaa, L. ,, a member of the society, on the 2ist ult., was an- nounces, and n general biography of his life given, A half dollar American coin, cast under the sdminis- tration of Washington, which bore on one svi tiv head of Wa-hingtou, with the inse G. Wali ington, Ist, and on the other side an eacle. a «1 the issue of which was suppressed by Washington, and the dies broke after six pieces had been cast, was ex- hibited. Mr. Kneves, of Fishkill, read « paper on “our utch TELEGRAPHIC (Vs 441 NCE. AFFAIRS IN CANADA. | QUIETNESS RESTORED, | FIRST DESPATCH. | Mowrrxat, May 2—6 P.M. There is no‘news of impo an 6 toda. Lp clamation of influential inbab texts ba ing recow- mended peace, here !a@) been uo farther rioting, Nothing parliamentary. SECOND DESYATCH. Monrarat, ‘ay? Every thing has been quiet hore for tho last two da In Parliament there has been nothing done. The | gislutive Council ace hol ling ave fo i ti vestry of ‘Trinitry church, preparing an addreas to the Governor jencral, Lord Elgin. | THIRD DESPATCH. | | PAT Burravo, May 2—8 P. M. ‘There is nothing important from Uppor Cunuta, al- though the excitement stil contin ws. however, no fe thor outbr ston, ‘Loront quiet. There are, @ yatches from King- | end oler pla os, report everything Virginia Election, Waaninaton, May 2~10 P. M. ‘The Richmond Enquirer clsima the olwotion of 12 democrats and 1 whig to Congres. There are two dis- Progenitors,” which spoke of the great effect of the Dutch upon the prosperity of the couatry. ‘Tho Auglo- Saxons now spoken of were a body of Dutehine i, aad thongh great credit is now given to the’ mea of New England for improvements and inven- tions, tho greatest inventions were discovered by the early Dutch settlers of the country. The prod- perity of Holland was before that of any nation on the earth, having, in times past, a navy of 80 ships of the line, and even now # navy equal to that of the United States, though only cqual in extent to about half of the Stato of New York. In 1827 it had a population of 270 to the square mile. [twas before the Dutch—about 1,560 years after the Christian era— that the Koman army retreated for the tirst time, One of the most important personages of anciont Holland, was Prince Van Buren—probably a progenitor of ‘New York’s favorite son, (Laughter.) ‘The paper touched generally on the Dutch, from the beginuing of the Christian era up to the present timo—all of which may be found in the various original historical works, ‘A resolution was then passed, tendering the than ke of the Society to Mr. Kneuels for his able and ancient do-ument, ity Intelligence. Tux Weatier.—The weather for several days past has deen perfectly delightful. and it is generally conceded that spring has come at Inst to make his vsual stay. ‘I'he blight upon vegetation by tho cold frosts of April has passed away, and the flowers begin to bloom and throw out their sweet perfume upon the morning breeze. The trecs have already began to put on their summer fo- linge, while the feathered songsters make the surround- ing country merry with their carolings. May, above all months of the year, the one most filled with plea- sure, save the first day, has brought the pleasant omen of gocd and cheering’ spring. It is pleasant to stroll through Broadway and witness the immenso crowd who perambulate that thoroughfare, Fashion in all her gaicty prevails, and the beautiful colors of the new styles of ladies’ apparel vie in point of richness with the butterfly or beauty of the tulip. Of the days past, yesterday was the brightest; but when the weather is most plearant, there are invariably clouds of dust which fill the streets, and render them disagreeable to pedes- triang, especially the ladies. The evening was delight- ful as the day, and the soft rays of the moon lent beauty to its stillness, There was at a late hour every indica- tion of plearant weather, which, should it come, will fully atone for the unpleasantness of early spring. Annivats at THIs Pont, restenpay.—During yester- day and last eveuing, no less than 16 ships, 25 “barks, 13 brigs, and 20 schooners, arrived in the port of New York; and there were 3 ships, 6 barks, and 2 brigs re- ported below. All of those vessela reported as arrived, except 3 barks and 13 schooners, were from foreign ports, Emicranra,—The number of emigrants arrived at this port, from Europe. on Tuesday lust, was 4,174, out of which number, 3.600 were received under commuta- tion, at one dellar each. Imrnovements in THE Bowsry.—Those lots at the northwest corner of Bowery and Broomo street, made vacant seme time since by a conflagration, begin now ssume quite a respectable appearance. On all of good and substantial buildings are in course of erection, which will add very much to that section of the city. Those destroyed by the fire were delapidated wooden houses, and served for little else than to render it a nuisance; while those in course of construction will be an ornanrent. On the opposite side of the street, too—the southeast corner—the work of tearing down several other wooden buildings has been com- menced, and that corner will soon be beautified by sub- stantial and respectable buildings. ‘There are several other sections of the Bowery which might be greatly improved. if the small and miserable looking wooden houses which cover the ground were displaced, and good bulldings put in theirstead. The buildings which will be erected hereafter will be of a different character from those which, for years past, have been run up with such great haste and apparent economy. After the first of June next, the law will be rigidly enforced against all who, inthe building of a house, have the walls of a less thickness than one foot, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. The enforcement of the law will have a most excellent effect; for while the houses will be more valuable, the danger will not be half so great to firemen in case of conflagration. Those build- ings in the Bowery are of the character here spoken of, There are some other improvements in the Bowery, but they are of a trifling character. Fine —A fire broke out yesterday morning in the house No. 3 Hester street, which was put out with tri- fling damage. Mrcnamics’ Institutr.—The tenth annual exhibi- bition of the Mechanics’ Institute will take place at the ‘Tabernacle, in this city, to-morrow evening. The ex- ercises will consist of Fecitations, dialogues, &e., &e., by the boys and girls of the Institute, and the whole will be enlivened by some excellent music. It will, no doubt, be a very entertaining exhibition. Asotiier Virriot Ovtrace.—We learn that aman was arrested last evening, in the act of throwing vitriol on the person of a female walking in Barclay streot. It is raid that this was the third time this outrage had been perpetrated upon the samo female by the person sted. He was taken to the Third Ward station ‘Tus New Jensey Corvens.—A cart load of apparatus, consisting of coiner’s tools, a screw press, and counter. feit money in the rough, was brought to-day from J sey City, and deposited in the United States Marshal's oflice for tafe keeping. United States Circuit Court. Betore Judge Nelson, May 2—Ernest Feidler vs. Edward Curtie.—This cause was taken up. Several defences were set up, but the Court, overruled all, exeept ofe, namely, whether there was any distinction known’ in com merce between Russian hemp and Manilla and Indian hemp, which was the only question submitted to the jury, The jury founda verdict for the plaintiff, for $1,415 63. ‘Leave wasgiven to make up a Dill of excep- tions. Coggill § Co. vs. Cornelius W. Lawrence.—This is an action against defendant, as Collector of this port, to recover back $1,220, paid by plaintiifs under protest, duty on certain articles imported by them from Liver- pool. It appears that, in 1547, the plaintiffs imported, at various times, a large quantity of sheep skins, with the wool on, trom Liverpool, which had been imported from Buenos Ayres to Liverpool. The Collector treated them as unmanufactured wool, and charged $30 per ceet ad valorem, the duty to which this article is sub- ject under the tariff law of 1846, and also 6 per cent on the skin or pelt. ‘The plaintiffs ciaim that the articles in question are known in trade and commerce as raw hides or skins, and only subject to a duty of 5 per cent ad val. ‘The defence was, that upon a fair coustruction of all the tariff acts down to 186 the article in question should be considered as unmanufactured wool, and liabie to the duty charged the jury in substance as follows :—He said that a charge of YO per cent was made on the article, whieh was paid by the plaintiffs to government, under protest. insisting at the time that the duty was excessive and not author- ized by the tariff act of 1846, and that a duty of 6 por cent only should have been charged. ‘Tho present w tion is brought for the purpose of recovering the excess, the amount of which, tegether with interest, is $1.3u3 12-100, and which he will be entitled to recover, pro- vided you concur in the views tuken by his cottssel ‘Lhe principal quostion in the case i, what designation ought to be given to the article upen wh.eb this diy ha Lon charged; by what name is it known in traue and commerce; fur, Le then no difficulty to rly chargeable upon it; t principal question will be to determine the name’ by which the article is known amongst those persons who deal in it, On the part cf the government itis insisted chat it i jury, 14 unm ne with a duty of thirty pi rlance, the law has exacted. a the ground taken by the gover the chiet value of the article is the valae of the wool (We skin upon which the wool ix necording to the tes Umony, not ng Worth more than three or four conta whilst the wool is worth from fourteen eonts to thirty cents, it is therefore insisted that phi vali the wool, and is alone regarded by ube tari wet. and chargeable with thix bigh’ duty of thirty per ceat Cn the part of the plainuif it is claimed that the arti- civ in weil known in trade and commerce, and ba . is charge this in fixed nume. and one which is aleogetl with clain set up by the gove H ne UE sheepsk riaiuly cur in raying it iv Kuown by tint uxtion, 1 that the duey le tariff act within that desi ur over. from reference the , ede and 1844, that under those thre hin article was speeifienily charged with this duty in the following words:-—" Provided also, that wool wn. ported on sking should be valued by weight, &o..’! bri ging st within the tarif act, ay claimed by the co umel representing the yoverament fa chia cause ; but that clause has been omitted wltogether in the aot oF 146. probably by an oversight. In looking over the not of 1446 cis some difcully in arriving as the in which to bring this article. 1 e think, if this omission had been ally, some other clause woud have been inserted to bring thls articly wader the taraf jaw. Upon the evidence in tho caudo, it seems that the ariel hws always been known by ® designation that would exeinde it, from manvfacturd wool The question 4, a What clause of the act of 1848 it falls, and that, omy question for you to consider cr lled the attention nectiour Of the wob OF soe, waa wit por His ve Wy tu Sohedule tricts yet to hear from. Flournoy has been beaton by only 8 votes. SECOND Baxtimone, May 2—P. M. The Virginia delega ion will stand fourteen demo- crats to one whig. THIRD DESPATCH. Bavtimonn, Yay 2—6 P.M. In Harrison, Lewla, Doddridge, Woot, Taylor, Wir Ritchie, and Jackson counties, \ cConas, (whiz) gains one hundred votes over the last Presi {ent al election, when ‘Taylor had 252 in 1! @ district. Tho whigs gain amo ber of he ogizta‘ure In Wood and Ritchie counties, and» Senato:in the Wood dis- rict a Robbery of New Yorkers in MexicomRe- ported Burning of a California ®iniyrant Ship, and Loss of Nearly all on Board— The War in Yucatan, é&e., de. Baurimonr, May 2, 1849. The New Orleans Delta contains letter from Acapu- lie, [probably ‘capulco,] Mexico, dated April 1, in | subseription of stock to the Pennsylvania Railroad. | Morton Me Michael, Hon. il. Meeting for the Pennsylv: Railroad, Prftapecema, May 20? o MM, At the request of the Board of Trade, the citizens as sembled in town meeting this evening, at the Chinese Museum, for the purpose of taking mvasures to fill the Joseph R. Ingersoll was called to the chair. He stated the object of the meeting, and the advantages Philadelphia would derive by taking imimediate and energetic measures to ave thia railroad completed. It would be the key to the whole trade of the West. He was assisted by a number of Vice Presidents and Se- ere aries, The meeting was also addressed by Judge Kelley, . Moore, E. A. Penniman, and Mr. Hayward. The Phila elphia Contribution Insurance Company subscribed $20,000 towards the advancement of the work. ‘The following preamble and resolutions were adopted: Whereas, the carly completion of the Ponasyt Railroad is of the highest iusportanee to the eapital, enterprise and labor of Philadelphia, and essential 0 the maintenance of her natural position and impoe- tanca among the manufacturing and comimorcial eom- munities of the Atlantic seaboard; And whereas, the subscriptions heretofore made to tho stock of this company will be exhausted by the completion of the work to’ the ‘Tyrone Forges, & point twenty-four miles cast of the Allegheny Por ago, to whieh place the road will be accomplishod during the coming summer; And whereas, tho stockholders and directors adhore to their original determination to construct the road with the capital of the company only. and to avoid the making of loans, which has proved so disastrous to the commonwealth, and many of her chartered companies; Therefore, resolved, That the completion of tha Pennsylvania Koad to a junction with the Allegheny Portage, before or during the coming spring, would give a great and.immediate impulse to the mercantile and manufacturing interests of Philadeipaia and invite to the road sufficient (rade to remunerate the stockholders on tho capital expended in its eonstruction, Resolved, That the experience of Boston and othor eastern cities. in the immense inerease of ths taxnbl and market value of their real catate consequent upom the opening of their western und main tines of raceiad should induce the capitalists of Philadelphia to embark in this important work. aud guarantee Uho sulety und value of such investments, Resolved, That prompt and energetic measures should be taken to obtain the requisite subserip.ion 0 25,000 shares. and that we hereby pledge ourselves so use our best excrtions to effect it Resolved, ‘Chat in view of the fact that the benefi Its of this great work will be felt as well in the value of property and labor in the inevrpo- rated districts, as by the city of Philadelphia, and chat the city has made a liberal sub-cription, we mos heurtily recommend tho commissioners of thease! districts, in their corporate capacity, to lend efflvichs aid to the enterprize Resolved, ‘That the President of this meeting appoint which it is stated that threo New Yorkers, (named James, McCarthy, and Whittaker,) had arrived there, who had been 1obbed of $500 on te 10a from slexico. A rumor existed at Acu li , that a ship from Pann. ma, bound to California. and filled with passengers, had been burned at sea, an that all ou board, excopt th:ee or four, | ad perished, ‘The Indian war continues in Yueatan, It is stated that the Indians are whipped in their skirmishes with the whites, but victorious in pitched battles, California Emigrants at Independence, &c. Sr. Lovis, Mo., May 2, 1849. Aletter from Independence states that there are about four thousand five hundred persons in the vi- cinity of tha: jlace, prepared to start over the plains to California. Ther are probably about six thousand emigrants scattered along the frontier, oa theis \ ay to the gold region. ‘A brig, intended to sail hence for California, was launched to-day. Modifications in the Sub-Treasury, Wasninctox, May 2. 1849, It is said that the recommendations of Vice President Fillmore on the subjec of banking corporations while Comptroller, in favor of the receip' of State Bank notes, secured by U.S. stock, for government dues, meets with favor from Mr. Meredith, and it is believed that some such modification of tho Sub-Treasury will be recom- mended to Congress at its next session by the Treasury Department. Solicitor Gillett_Lady Franklin, &c, Wasnixctox, May 2—10 P. M. Solicitor Gillett publishes a defence exhouerating himself from censuro in relation to Moore's defalcation. Lady Franklin respectfully requests President Tay- lor's co-operation in vearch of Sir John Franklin, which he has cheerfuly granted. One Week Later from Buenos Ayres. Bostox, May 2, 1849. We have received the Bri Packet, of the 10th of Maren, by the Danish bark Aladin, Captain Moller, which contains the following article in relation to poli- tical affairs :— Ibis understood that the last packot for England was the bearer of despatches from Mr. Southern, for her Majesty's go- vernment, forwarding a project of convention delivered to hinn by the Argeniine govern nent, with view to the final settlement of the jending difficulties between the two coun- tries. As this project is, we believe, nothing more than the Hood convention, accommoda ed to the present posi- tion of Great Britain in the quostion of La Plata, and is, upon the whole, in perfect unison with repeated de- clarations of her \ajosty's government, in and out of Parliament, wo cannot but cherish the sanguine hope that it will speedily leal to the re-os-ablishmont of those relations of cordial friendship which, in an evil hour, were so recklessly interrupted. ‘The negotiations between this government and the French diplomatic agent, Admiia Lepredour, do not &., car to have been yet brought to a close; but the ge- neral impression is, shat if they do noteventuate in the immedia ¢ arrangement of the question with France, they will effectually pre are the way for tho attain- mont of that result, producing, in the meantime, a for- mal cessation of hostilities on the other side of the river, ‘There were 176 vessels in port at Buenos Ayres, 18 of which were American. Exchange on United States is quoted a 4 por ont, discount. The highest price of doubloons during the week had been 341, the lowest 33634. Business genorally was dull. The ship Corvo, Lay (Gorham?) from Cronstadt, had sailed for New York. On the 17th of February, she as up for the Cape de Verds, and is reported as sailed thitl.er on the 28th of that month, The Patriot Mitchel—Ship Tarolinta, Bosrox, May 2—P. M. ‘The brig Palos, arrived at this port this morning, spoke, April 24th, in lat, 20, lon, 65, tho British ship Neptune. from Bermuda for the Capo of Good Hope, with the patriot Mitchel and family on board, The ship Tarolinta, from New York, bound for Cali- fornia, was spoken March 14th, in lat. 33 8. lon, 48, Later from the Sandwich Islands—Arrival i ie them toray under which of thowe two clauses it wus to fall, Seuled vordict to-morrow (thia) morning, ESSE 'SCATO oer rc a aE eee of $20,000 in Gold Dust, w Haves, May 2, 1849, The ship 8. Robinson arrived at Fair Haven to-day from the Sandw.ch Islands, She brings forty thousand dollars in gold dust, and 3 800 bbls. of oil Whe Frankfort (Ky.) Convention, Lovisvinr®, May 2—P. M, The Frankfort Convention adjourned last night Nothing important was done ‘Tho Cholera at New Orlenns, &o, Bavtimonn, May 2, 1849, ‘There wore 101 deaths by cholera at Now Orleans, during the week ending April 24, (So wo undorstand the despateb, but the matter is rather indistinewly stated.) Deaths St. Louis—The Cholera, deo. Sr. Louis, May 2, 1849, There were 140 deaths at St, Louis, during tito wock ending on the lst of May, forty-six of which wero frem cholera, ‘The cholera appears to be on the in- creuse, although the weather is cold Steamboat Burned at st. Louis, Sr. Louis, Mo, May 2—P, M. The steamboat Highlander, commanded by Capt D.etherron, lying at Uhis place, bound for Now Orivans, with 400 tons of frexght on bowrd, caught tire this committees to solicit aubscriptious to the stoc< of the company, aud a committee from each of the in- corporated Districts and ‘Townships in the County, to invito the attention of the proper authorities of their rerpective municipalities to this important subject. Aerolved, That the first name of each commit! the chairman thereof, and that such chairman quested to convene the respective ¢ mmict practicable, and proceed to the duties assigned then and that each committee have power to add to its num ber. Tn pursuance of the fifth resolution, committecs were appointed to canvass the city, and @om the lively inte. rest manifested, there is but little doubt that tho re quisite number of shares will be subseribed, . Appointments, Wasut Arroivtasxts oF Postmastens.—Isaac Dillon, Zanes ville, .; Aaron F. Porry, Columbus, 0.; Wm. Oliver Cincinnati, 0.; G. $. Solleman, Brooklyn, N. ¥.; An drew Mortimer, Pottsville, Pa.; Joseph L, Dunning Brunswick, Me.; Caleb.Clark, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Southern News—Death of General Bailey, Bavrimoar, May 2-10 P. M By the Southern mail, this evening, we have paper from New Orleans to the 25th, by which we learn th destruction by fire of the House of Refuge, in that city Cotton was improving in price, and a fair busine: doing. The Charleston papers announce the death of Ei Attorney General Bailey. News from Charleston. Cwarirston, May 2, 1849, Michael Vergnet, Consulate, shot Limself this mor ing. A fire destroyed sevoral small buildings on Kin, street, above John, on Charleston Neck. We have no rain yet, but it is much wanted, Arrived yesterday, schooner Baltimore, from Balt more. Sailed, brig Susan, Loud, for New York. A Murder in Baltimore. Battimone. May 2—P, M, John Price, better known as “Cutting John,” sh George ( ampbell, a notorious gambler, with a rovolv: in a drinking house, this morning. They had bw gambling all night, and were drinking, whon Pri without provocation threw a tumbler of whiskey in Campbell's face, and then drew a pistol and sh him with two balls, one of which entered his hea: Campbell exclaimed, “{ am killed,” and died in a f minutes. He leaves a wife and several children, Price was arrested. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with the circumstances. Price is suid to have killed two mon before, The Con eth it Legislature, Hantronp, May 2, 1849. The Sena’e was organized by electing Hon. ten Dutton. of New Haven, President. pro. tem., aad Hen B. Graves, Esq., of Plymouth, Clerk—both whigs. In the House on first bullot for Speaker, Hon, W W. Bourdman, 110; John C. Lewis, 108 ; scattering, On second ballot, Lewis had 113 out of 221, and 7 elected. Mr. Lewis is a free soil loco. Mr. Boardman threw « blank vote on the first ball: and by this course lost his election. Calvin W. Phillco. free soil loco, and Geo. C. Woo ruff, loco, Clerks,— Tribune. Markets, Cineinvavi, May 2—10 P.M The market for four is firm. with a fir demand $3.55 a $3.60 Grain trade qv Whiskey is held 14M @147{. Weather pleasa iver rang I o, May 2-6 P.M Receipts within the Iast twor\. four hours—tly 14.000 barrels; wheat, 23 000 busi corn, 3.000 « ‘There is a fair demand tor flour. and we no 1,000 bbls. at $4, In wheat, 2.400 bus, W: hands at 8c. A fair i tales of 3,000 bus. at 440. quiry fur corn, w Freights ure steady Ausayy, May 2-6 P. M Sales of y corn were made, to arrive withit week or tun days, at 65e, On the 500 bus. bar sold at 60e. Poitce Intelligence, _ Seizure of a Counte ferter’s sipparatus.—A few di since we noticed a seizure of an extensive eountert coining apparatus, concisting of prosses, 16 &e., found in New Jersey together with a lai tily of the spur partly execute! i n given to , Mr. Mater, officers Bro nard were deputed to ferret out the whole in ter, which they have done most completely. O2% Brown. after visiting Washington, on’ the business ceived orders fromthe deparimentin the inatte result was, his conveying away ull their tools. mat &e., weighing in all near two tons ‘The loestio: extenoive counterfviters was a small farm at € Star, near Woodbridge, N. J. The y formerty beionged to a man by the name of Sw is ruppered to have exiled for California, with o $100.00 worth of this base coin, to form a currer there, A st. Joveph Kandolph purchased the ti f-cm Sweet, and it was then discovered that the 5 mises had been the bead quarters of au exten ive gan counterfeiters, All their apparatus was brought to t elty yesterday, by officer Brown, and deposited in charge of the United States Marshal, by order of government Made to Pay U ‘The man L, G. Klinck, whose art Wwe nutiecd in yesterday's Herald. having been made Albany, charging him with obtaining $000 from ‘Thowas Pugh under false represwutstions, ye-tor. brought to thie city by ollicers Horrighi aud 5 hens, aud conveyed betore Justice Lothrop, but views to leaving sIbany he b back the $500 dence h ame alarmed, anf pe 7) The mugistre reviewing thee) direharged Klinek fi Sivacing @ Bout. ftievr Cavanagh, ot arrested. yesterday morutug uae of Veter Smith, wiom the which he bad stolen from th belorgmg tu vobn ¥. Berg: the day, offer Hicks came rant for the accused and cor lyn for trint Burgiary.—Two fellows aud Henr Brovkiya sh: valued at var. om Brooklyn with » w eyed hint buck to Bro . lows, calling themselves Ed Tank, Were arrested ye words, w chaige ot bre into & carpenter's slip te toberjumin Veeciand, Lhe justice cur dite both tor examination winother— meu by the ne jan Ray we evening, and was entirely destroyed. Thu boat wad cargo belonged to Gen, Nathan Ranney. ‘The steamer General Jesup, lying alongside the Highlander, was saved with much difficulty Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Seniscrinio, Mass, May 2, 1849, The New Englond Conference of thy Methudist Hpis- copal Church bar been in session here for a woek. and bus jest closed, Tt refue i to consont to the arbitra tion of the que tion of differeuou with tae Soathorn Church, by a vole of yens 30 to unyr 68,9 Arrival of the Northern Cuaaineron, May 1, 1810. ‘Tho steamship Northerner, from Now York, arrived at Charleston easly this morni rerted yesterday, by ard. of the Fit w on w charge of burcla 1g Che preurisea ST Anthony strect, ceaupied by Mieholas byron uco Lothrop locked the aceuseal up for trial, Lishorest Clerk — young man by the na Dyer formerly in the employ of soi Nu. 2h bowery was arcertd yesterday sealing trom time to Uine, now valued in wil at near 9, near HIN), J dtioy him up for # furcher bearing sounitort low Common Piens, Betor May 2.—John M Secor vs tant may abandon the proe: proofs tin t be beard, if olfor be deculed before the appual + fis Court Catendar—This Day, | Cimewrr Cou wi = brome tty bo 4a, Movements of Individaais Hon Alx taueay covernur otf cawsvia, Left rh burg for bis now jue, vm the 26M wit,