The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1849, Page 2

AL OEE OLE LOD OT JABS CURD S BENNE?®?, PROPRILTOR AND EDITOR. Na ts THB DAILY HERALD, 8 eonts per copy—ST per an~ *"Tie WEEKLY HEKALD, for ebrewtation om this Con far tre na star day et Ben sa v ALD, every Menday, 3 Ta WARY Na Above Monday. 8 AR WE: AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, ITALIAN OPERA BOUSB, Astor Place.—Mania vi Ronan. BOWERY THEA’ mmn—Jaox Snerra BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—P. 7.—Riemann Tien » CriLe~ OUR Many ann. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Sunrovus Pa- miuy—O0.d Doren Gevenm NATIONAL THEATRE, C! Gvanv~ KoLamp an OLN ve. OLYMPIC THBATR Loup ov tHE Virson CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE—Erniorias AMERICAN MUSEUM—Amusine Pexvonmamons Byx- MY AFTERNOON AnD Be enine APOLLO BOOMS—Ev®: CBINBSE MUSEUM—Giipvn Mire. z. ery—Tus Tunee Gvaape- sham square—-Pewaie Marriuase Dav or Me The European Steamers. No tidings of either the Hermano or Eurepa when our paper went to press this morning The telegraph wires to Boston are in good order, but they are not working beyond that point. Whe Cullfornia Malls. ‘The steamship Obio is fully due with the Cali- fornia mails. Whe California Cor for Congress— Prosperity the New State. The convention elected by the people of Cali- fornia, for the purpose of framing a State constita- tuon, having concluded their labors, adjourned on the 13th of Oc'ober last. The influence of the New Yorkers in California, is stamped upon the docu- ment of the cenvention, which is evidently framed upon our State constituvon, in its general features. The officers and soldiers —regulars and volunteers —from New York, bore a highly distinguished part in the Mexican war, and they were coaspicu- ous in the conquest and military government of California. We now find the New York politicians giving thape and character to the organic law of the new commonwealth, according to the latest New York fashions—not even excepting the occa sienal doctrines of socialism which are infused into our political charter. Free svil, tree religion, free speech, and a free press, are secured, and a free access to the gold mines is also tobe undis- turbed, as fur asthe State hus any power over Uncle Sam’s property. No duelling, no imprison- ment for debt, no turning a man out of his house for debt, no squandering away ot the wifr’s pro- perty, are tolerated. No banks, except faro and monte bauks, sand banks, snow banks, and gold banks, are allowed. Shinplasters are taboord, and specie and gold dust are not to be displaced by the spurious issues of swindling promises to pay Jown with the dust,” is the motto of California. Governor Kiley had submitted the Constitution to the people of Catifornia, for their rstificstion, oa the 13th of last nonth, on which ozcasion, also, two members to the House of Representatives were to be elected, and a Legislature, which is to meet on the 15th of this month, at San Jose, for the election, among other things, of two Senators to Congress. It will probably, therefore, not be tll toward the latter end of January when the consti- tution of the new State will be laid formally before the two houses, by the President, at which time the new members and senators may also be ex peeted to be knocking for admission iato the House and the Senate chamber at Washington In the meantime, it is probable that no decisive action will be had in Con: ctto the ritories ; but when the members to the House, and Senators, from California, shall present themselves their admission will depend upoa of the new State into the Un month ought to be time the question, and ascer. but the proviso in the coa- tution—-The Elections nd Destiny of at the eapite the udmuissic The interval enorgh to discu rain how the land lie: Stitution is an ugly festure to the extreme Southera men, and may protract the controversy on its ac- eeptance for several months to come. Congress having wlways exercised the right of prescribing the boundaries of a new State, the only difficulty upon that point will be upon the motion to divide California by the compromise line, which it is ua- derstood will be made in the Senate. However just this would be to the Southern States, in con- ceding them the territory fora fature State on the Pacific, we apprenend that such & proposition can q It would vitiate and destroy all that has been done by the people of California, and would reduce them to limits to which they would not subscribe. The true boundaries of the State of California are indicated by the mountains and the Pacific. Within these liaes her territory is in- teet—all of apiece—all tributary to the harbor of Ben Francisco, excepting the narrow slip of jand between the outside bills aad the sea, which, how- ever, is dependent upon the great interior valley The convention, representing every part of this tere ritory, have spoken out eguinst the vatroduction of he part of Congress, u tlavery; and an act on ting their judgment, ond dividiog the valley in two nearly equal parts, between the North aad the South, might lead to serious difliculies w.th the people of that territery We do not anticipate any insuperable obstacles of the new State, with against the admirsion the republican form of goverment rhe has adopted, which is all that the ¢ timation requires, and which Congress is pledged to qvarenty. But, on the other hand, the ba- Jance of power in the Senate is involved, ouse of Counterpoise to and without some the new free State, in the admission at the same time of another slave State from Texas, the Odie fornia delegation moy be kept a long while knoek~ Joore of the Senate before they are ad- ng at the mitted. It is not improbable that they may be kept outside, among the lobby ne the whole of the session, without pay and withow amilerge, and, unless well supplied with gold dust, they may wieh to be buck at the “ diggine” before the question is sete But, whatever ¢ mbers, ducing ese miy or may not do, the prosperity of California ie onward, They are al- ready independent of federal legislet Tey have shown themrelver posserred of the fullest ea history of thew pecity of self goverament 7 new State is without @ parallel ia thie respect There is nothing Whe it in the hutory of mankind Many of our Stites have required the slow pro- eens of gradual setilement, and aome years of territerin! education in the acience of government, before they were caysble to take held tor thera. felves. Notso with Califoraia. She eprings ap ike Minerva, full armed from her birth, with the Jecrengih and wiedom of maturity, Her eonatitu- tion and the debater in b avention wonld do eredit to the Congress of the United Stares,and we doubt whether all tne wise heads of Congress ezether, could have shaped our ‘The destiny of California is onward The dream of Columbus is being fulfilled. Our steamers are opening the western passage to the ladies; a peo ple, whose enterprise i# the admiratir a of the world, are building up new States on the Pa Toey | must go forward, whatever Congress may do. Let us hope that the proceedings at Washington will be | sueh as to extend and encourage the prosperity of | California and Oregon, and identity their enter ee prise and succees with the continued glory and prosperity of the Union The French Republic and the English Preews— Working of Republicanism in Kurope, Since the termination of the Russio-Turkish question, the public mind of Europe, and, as a necessary consequence, the public press, are at a loss, the one for a subject on which to think, and the other, to write. That question may be looked upon as the winding up—the last link in the great chain of exciting events which convulsed the continent of Europe for the previous eighteen months or two years, and the developement of which, from day to day, successively astonished and electrified the whole civilized world. There thus being a pause in the world of excite- ment, and France being the only republic in Europe, that nation, ite Legislature, President, and, in fact, every thing connected with it, is the main point of observation and conversation, in the Englieh press, atthe present time. Various are the speculations thet are indulged in; but the more the subject is examined by those political philoso, phers, the more they seem to become confused. The varieus changes which will occur, from day to day, in the practical working of republicanism, create astonishment in England; whereas, ia the United States, they would be looked upon as a matter of course. The great difficulty with the monarehical press, in speculating on these matters, is that they attach too much importance to men, and judge republicanism by a monarchical stand- ard of their own. Teo us, who are used to the workings of republicanism every day, there is no- thing very strange in the position which France at present occupies. Indeed, the scattering of the cumstances in which he is placed, can be parallel- ed exactly in the United States. We refer to the Presiaency of John Tyler, or Captain Tyler, as he was generally known, Captain Tyler, like Louis Napoleon, became President of this republic by | mere accident. But for the decease of General | Harrison, he would never have filled that high office. Jeon has been elevated to the same dignity ia the great French republic. If he had not borne the name of Napoleon, which possesses a talismanic would have been elected President. He, like Captain Tyler, is without a party, and without a ration of the term for which he has been elected, he will have three or more different sets of con tutional advisers around him. The same thing is likely to occur, even at the present time, with Gene- ral Taylor. Rumors are rife and plenty to thag eflect, at present ; but it is not likely that any changes will be mude—for the present, at alleveat As soon as the excitement caused by the Presi- dent’e message, shall have subsided, and the lead ing men of the two great parties shall have confer- red together, and agreed upon a line of policy, we may expect similar scenes herve to those now taking place in France. But they will notexcite any surprise —in fact, if they were not to occur, it would be con- sidered strange. Those events and changes are in- separable from a republic. Ia a nation with such ' ment, constant changing—no rest. And itis this constant changing whichis the prop and guaranty of republicanism. tis absurd, therefore, to indulge in speculation concerning them. It Louis Napoleon chooses to dissolve his cabinet, and form another, he haga perfectly constitutional right to do so, without in- curring the riek of shaking the republic, or endan- germg the satety of its institutions. Louis Na- poleon or General Taylor might reconstruct @ ca- binet every week, if enher of them chooses to do £0; but it does not follow that such a course of ac- weuld endanger the existence of either repub- lic. It might ruin the political prospects or for- tunes of men; but the principles which are at the bottom of the republic in each country, would not be assailed or destroyed. Thatis the great difli- culty which the English press have to contend | with when referring to the French republic, and | epeeulating upon the changes which are taking place there. Spglich press and people will continue to be myrtified by the French republic, until they be- ceme more familiarized with the practical work- ingsof that form of government. ‘Their experience, thus far, has not been long enough to prevent them from being surprised at what really isnot matter ' of surprise or wonder, at all, to those who, like us in the United States, are well acquainted with the constant and ever-varying scenes which are being enacted under our own republic | | Ramnoap ror Broapway.—Among other city improvements, proposed in various schemes and experiments, a railroad through the whole length of Broadway has been warmly advocated in cer- tain quarters. Recently, in the absence of the editor, a paragraph, advocating the proj was published in the dierald, We are altogether op- posed to the project, and believe that any plan ofa Broadway railioad that could be adopted, would only blockade the street, and lumber it up worse What we want is the Russ pavement, through the whole extent of the street. It is al- moet as emooth asa railroad, and a thousand times superior, for all the practical parposes of Broad- way. If we must have a railroad, let that of Cen- tre street be extended to Broadway, and another be opened through the line of West Broadway to Forty-second street. This would afford euflivent relief to our main thoroughfare. As for the Broad- way railroad, we consider it of a piece with the schemes for the enlargement of the Battery and a bridge over the East Kiver. Some nineteen trectors have jut im for the Battery business, at bids ranging from thirty-eght to fitty-eight, and from fifty-eight to a hundred thousaad dollars, to extend and fill wp the sra-wall. The Battery, which is the most beautiful place in the city, as it ia, seems to be quite large enough for the namber of visiters who go to mhale its refreshing sea breezes. During the last summer, there was ecarcely a single fine morning in which it was pa- tronized by over halfe-dezen antiquated ge men, and a few intoxicated loafers, who had gied in over night, to sleep on the grass, W. then, 16 the use of enlarging the place, when it ia already too large t Why shat up, with a hoe og warehouses, the only lulet for the city, and the only epet to our invalids and children, for the beae= fitot fresh air? But the contractors are ready for the work; and so we suppose it will be with the Broadway railroad. We shall have the cheapest hind.of bids, frem Tem Thamb, John Hambag, and Senmmy Shay but when once voder way, the fifyy thousand will ree to balf a million, and @ a million to three or four mill tor the Battery end raileend together. Gave us the Russ pave- ment for roadway; open the side streets through, then ever. with a ran but let the Battery alone, ead we shall de well. By fleecing our citizens @ little ata ti thal find we are adopting the beat policy ANNEXATION © pmae of our eotem- poraries occasianally throw ont aa idea about the envesation of Brooklen to New York, while othera Jangh et and ridieule the project. It is very diffi- enlt to sey what idee is ridiculous or silly at the present dey. The iesue determines everything. Bat if Broghlyn should be annexed to New York, we do notsee why we should not, at the same time, and while our hand is ia, annex aleo Wil- liemeburgh and Astoria, aad Hoboken and Jersey City, and Commueipaw, wad perhaps a part of Coney Island, with abe clams towne, villages, places, and sand-bars, are quite as accessible to New York a# Brooklyn is; and deed, they might be placed under the same govern- id ferries conld be established between #, with the ty ment, Menhatton island and its dependen rome ease, under a general system of govern as they are now, divided and separated, cabinet by Louis Napoleon, and the peculiar cir. | By the accident of a name, Louis Napo- | influence over the public mind of France, he never | cebinet; for it 18 quite likely that before the expi- a form of government, there is constant move- | nad up West Broadway, if necessary; | All these litte | Fatal Consequences of Pirating the Works of Literary Men. On former occasions, we have spoken of the two-fold wrong inflicted on our own authors, and those of foreign countries, by robbing them of their copyrights. We have shown how the Ame- rican publisher, by pirating the books of European scholars, drives the American author from the field, and how he 19 invariably met with the an- swer, (when offering a new book to the trade): “We have our hands full already. We presume your book is a very good one—but we have more than we can do to reprint the new foreign works now on our list”’ We have shown how the pre- sent system of piracy takes bread from the mouths of our literary men, and forces them to abandon the pureuit of letters. We did not then, nor can we now, detail with minuteness, the mortification and trials of feeling to which our writers are, a3 a necessary consequence, subjected—much less the actual privation and saffering brought upon them and their families, by this atrocious system. Ata future time, however, we shall do this; for mupkind have never been insensible to the wrongs or the sufferings of literary men; much less can the people of this country be, where, in conse- quence of the labors and exertions of scholars and men of science, the means of education have been brought within the reach of the poorest child in the nation, and a career opened to him, on the free road of learning, to influence and fame. For the present, we let this pass. Our business now iy to show that foreign and American authors are not the only victims—that the evil 18 not limited even to their families and frends—the entire nation suffers; for our native authors and our national literature are driven from the field, and our children are educated in Europe- an ideas and foreign principles. Itis a matter of | perfect indifference to the manufacturer ot books ' (asa general rule), what are their contents, so long es he can get them for nothing, and find, for | them a ready sale. Hence, while we have one ro- | mance from Paulding, we have twenty from Paul | de Kock. And yet, what American father would | not prefer to have his children read the “ Dutch- j | man’s Fireside,” the ‘Old Continental,” or the “ Puritan’s Daughter,” filled, as they are, with the spirit of the revolution of °76, and glowing with | pictures of pure hearts and cheerful homes, than to have them revel in the harem scenes of Paul de Kock’s hicentious pen? But we need not multiply illustrations to confirm proposition. The vast proportion of reading books printed in this couatry, are written by Europeans, (because, there being no law against pirating them, our publishers cam do it with impunity,) and they must, a8 a matter of necessity, be totally destitute of the spirit of our government; they are filled with anti-republican sentiments; they are written for privileged classes (the chief patrons of litera- ture in Europe); they are produced under mo- narchical institutions. What American, for in, stance, ever would have filled a history with such pnociples as are found all through Alison’s Europe? Why, all our literary men know that Europe has done, and still continues to do, our thinking. European writers have formed all our opinions about the great characters of hietory on the other side of the water. Un- til very recently, we looked even at Napoleon | through English eyes; and Lamartine was the | first man who disabused us of the false and vulgar notions of Englich monarchists about the first | French Revol Who gave us our opinions of | Cromwell? Hume, the eulogist of kings ; and till | within a few yeare, the great mass of Americans | thought no better of Oliver Cromwell than did | Charles the Second—probably not half so well. | | We confess, that untl Carlyle and Macaulay began to write about the Protector and his Paritans, aud show the other side—or, in other words, tell the truth about him and his heroic compatriots—we never saw a book, nor a brochure, printed in Ame- tiea, which treated Cromwell as anything better then a crop-eared knave, and an outrageous hypo- crite. These were the opinions of his enemies, and we had adopted them; wh le (and it is really laughable) we covered the Puritans of New Eog. land (and justly, too,) with all but divine honors. The Puritans of Plymouth Rock were, in our fancy, the noblest band of men the world had seen. We bad sung their heroism in verse, and embalm= ed their virtues in history. We had placed the embarcation of the Pilgrims side by side with the embarcation of Columbus, ua the Campidoglho of the Republic, and never thought that Cromwell was the friend and compamon of those New Eog- | lend men—sprung trom the same stoek—iaspired with the same spirit—and that he even attempted yo geton board the Mayflower and take up his home in New England. Cromwell had been mis- uoderstood in this country, from the begianiag, Even Plymouth Rock men mentioned his mune with asnecr, till Macaulay, (in his reviews,) aud Care Ile, With vastly greater boldy nd ability, told the truth ebout him, und showed the world jast what he war—the father of all the liberty Eaglaad now has—the first hero-defender of the rights of the people—and vow itis the fashion in this coua- try to eulogise Cromwell. Carlyle’s book eame out, and A sea changed ite opinions ut the canting, erop-eared bypocrite, in a day. Even Sir Welter Scott, the greatest and the purest of all the European novelists, had excited a dinguat among «li hie American readers, agaist th * of the Engloh Puritans (another name for repad- licans then ) We might maltiply illustrations to show how deep an injury this nation has received from the great book piracy, which, by robbing the EBaglish suthor, in orderto starve his American brother, has driven our literary men from the field, and flooded us with a deluge of foreign books, many of which are filled with obscenity and licentiousaess, and poison the voung minds of the nation—many of which are hostile to our country and it tions, and few of which are fived to instruct the riting generation in the spirit and principles of oar fathers, How deep this foreign porwon has gone— how far uth pread—few ean know, except the k monefectarers themselves. Weare told that le firm in this city ells, every year, apwarde of « millon of coptes of the filthy wovels of the low French school, and that they nearly all go into the ntry, and most of therm by mail or express We locked over the list of this house, aed there was hardly a decent book in it. Tt 19 susceptible of proof thet there are not lees than fifty times as mony of these vile foreign books reprinted (where re-printed et all) here, as in France and Bogland, where they are principally written, Aad who are the readers of this enorm mass of obscene beoket Formers’ daughters and taciory girls, chiefly, theo ut the Union The peisou is poured into the very fountains of the nation. It we had Gime, we could show how thi eystem hat given ongin in this country to a race of inte | tore, w ho first attempted success in the higher aad perer weike of lteratare, do were driven from | the field; when they bewan (Ir emnity, if iney must get their bread from their pens) to write | Hlhy books, and edit filchy newspapers, after the rtyle of Ned Bontline and Professor Ingraha | The wth is, these gentlemen were told by pub. | liehers that they could not pay them for books, un- | | lees they were after the “Mystery and Misery” | tehool. And at the present time, we have, at a | rough mate, several hundreds of this class; and moet of them, we kaow, have been driven to this style of writing to gettheic bread, The literary | men of no country are put to #0 many humiliating thifis to get @ by awith us. We have beard of @ literery gentleman of the highest respecta- bility, who has been paid the largest prices by our | best inegazives for bis contributions, and whose | aeme is everywhere known and respected, who | went to one of our large publishers, afew months | Verdict for plaimtifl for $550 ego, with a epleodid work of fiet It was re- | fused, because a novelun a suniler subject had jast this position. No proof is needed of go plain a | been received from London. “ We have received this book, and we can reprint it for nothing. You must be paid for yours. Now, as this is more vo- Juminous than we like, we wish you would take it and cut it down, (a very significant phrase, by the by.) and bring it withia the requisite number of pages, aud we will pay you twen- ty-five dollars. The American author pro- tested—* You have a right, sir, to refuse my book; but you have no ght to cut down a foreign author. I canret do such a piece of work— moral wroug on the writer.” ‘Very well, can’t help the mght or wrong of the thi must be cut down, and if you can’t do it, we must find somebody else who will.” And the au- thor leftin disgust. He went through the trade— nobody would touch his M3. Two weeks went by, and his board bill was ia arrears—it was Fri- day morning. Unless he paid his host by Satar- day night, he and bys wife, and her young child, would be turned into the street. He went to the house already alluded to, and asked them if the novel had been prepared. ‘Prepared? Oh! God bless you, it’s cut down and sold, a week ago. But this steamer has brought us another, and if you will eut it down, you shall have the job.” The author teok the sheets home, and worked all night. It was a night of suffering and shame; for he was honorable man. The next day he got his money —paid his bill, and slept as such a man could sleep after a conscious degradation. But his wife and babe were sleeping sweetly—they kuew nothing about their father’s troubles. And ever since, this generous but unfortunate man, has been trying to find a publisher for his own novel—and every two weeks compelled to cut down an English novel, to keep bis wife and child from the streets. This a peculiar case, you say. We know of many that are fur worse, and at our leisure shall relate them. Now, what do our authors ask or want? Nothing but a law by Congress that the authors of all fe- reign countries shall enjoy the same copyrights to their worke, in the United States, which they have at home; provided the same privi- leges are extended to American authors, oa the other side of the Atlantic. The English govern- ment has repeatedly proposed such a measure, and we have as often rejected it. But publicsentiment is eurred on the subject. The nation is beginning to see how its authors and itself are outraged by the wholesale piracy, and there can be little doubt that something will be done this session. In our next article on this subject, we shall answer the objections which have sometimes veen that there 1s, in reality, no valid objection that can be urged against 20 just, politic, necessary, and Salulary @ measure. A Case 1n Pornt.—Lieut. Maury, of the Navy, is a practical man, a clear-headed thinker, and constantly at work. In his address to the Mem- phis Pacifie Railread Convention, afier pleading the advantages of a ship canal, he contends that | et the proposed railroad will also be very usefyl :-— Teke oneitem: The Obie, seventy four, is now on the tof Califor: and soon to come home, be- times of her crew are about toexpire. She a crew of near 800 Dot leas than 120 days to rege force w eq) expenreof getting that ship home and seni relief, $240 000 Now, if the railrond aoross Panama were in operation. the Ohio could touch there, ment # crew sent from this ride of the isthmus. i send her old crew home by the rame transport from & raving of four or five months of time, $200.00 of money. | The main question, however, is, of what use is the “Ohio” seventy-four, either at home or in California? She can drift about before ahigh wind; but in a calm she must lie as dead as « log on the | water. The beat policy would be to dismiss the mess of the crew at the gold minee, and briog her home, to be sold off at auction to the highest bidder, A litle steamer, with a crew of fifty men, would be worth a dozen of such ocean loafers as the Obio, with their eight hundred beef-eaters on board. This reform is wanted as badly as the ama railroad. Rovaury i New Yorx.—The two Royal Princes, the sons of his Serene Highness of the Sandwich Islands, who arrived on Saturday, in the Crescent City steamer from California, are now at the Irving House, and are accompanied by Mr. Judd, the Prime Minister of that lawyer from Oteego county, family of Judd. Thete Princes are handso straight, Indien- looking, young men—talking Pretty well and porsesstag the style end m well educated Americans, ‘They bave elegaxt rooms at the Irving House, amd will remain here several days viritirg the theatres, the opera, the Nous, and other curiosities Many of our fashiooable Kterary, and phi- joropbie people hawe called, and left thelr cards upon them at their rooms. ‘Lhe mission of Mr, Judd, with the two youths tn bis charge, einbracea matters of far greater importance then o visit of mere carosity to t betweem the United Sta fornia, and Mr Judd, the Minister of the Sandwich Island King, t# embr & piso, oF oontract, for the establishment of a line of steame: at the Sand. wieh Iclends, which will become the haif way house Torn the Pacife. and complete the steam route be- and Cavtom, by the way of New York party will visit Washington, eee ate Gs leate for Kogined aed Fran Ninw's Graso Bare Roe ~The palace of Me. Nible tee and though we have alresdy the partic theeutire ballding. we ooald eh our readers with the rip tiow of the erend ball room, which may be called the © Gent's Hall of He The best comparizon ee 1 Nibio's halt roe fe thet of the foyer of tha Farin: nad yet Visio'e hell oe aril Larger ne Che dietuues frou the ff tie 45 toot; the long h of the room 10; aad tte Ptert “The arth te whe bare deewrated the olint—have, throagh cance wih simplicity —Inatead dy colors on the walls, they have o ithe sort of gray and pearl. relieved with d Night ‘The ceiling * ornamented with fos thors and exvegules. painted Ho bt blue and white wad adaited by all Pare taste and who appreciate the hean'y of he linearderien Chia snperh hall te lich ed. daring the day time by ten © fanovel form te which tains of erimson atthe time turn in ite proper ertiine if Iver, banging upow These wiodies cold whieh give a good wn is Vignted by rw of Messrs Witehell it alacsme of @ floor of this tmmeo Nt MoOM ap rhage, mod the re y The pt In the contin of the room. elelevn: 804, insted of lessening. It heightens the inermenenble haliroem Next tothe hall i* @ for the Indira which rivals to eptewdor and a ber dotes ot the ine ngvingen’ hones of The foor ie covered with & splendid o dorm t+ furetbed with lounges 6 thee covered ath ort thie roe te the retirt keen medat ed by @il Chose who may ais *hiea will be given ~The foneth sunael Combrian wer the p ble pu ° ata ' i obarha rp Wivedge vs WS Stilwell and wd verdict, aay. ‘or of platotiffs. exoapt the | for the defendants and f aint, $4.000 In om Inquest for the Amount of Account, 3 Pow and we <t Hayley, the Jory find w ver: Gilet forthe piatnthff, $6 20 amd cots Aiteged Libel — At the suit of Philander T Tones va. George Wither for an Alleged Libel on Th being called in ite rege der, andthe | Hing to appear, it was ordered. om motien of + attorney, that the complaint ia the above fe tion he dicintoved with eos te Lewis BO Griffin lames Polling —This was an aa tion for ameonnt of a draft for $600, and there ware mages and coats. Richara Wayne, demoorat, has been elected Mayor Sevannab, Ga. urged against an international copyright, and show j VHZ PRESENTATION OF A GOLD WATCH TO Cart. MAQ@NES, LATK O¥ THE SIXTH WARD POLICE. ‘The members of the Sixth District Poliee, and buwber of invited guests, assembled yesterday after- in the ealoon .f the pd Green. for the eutifal wateb and pes. late captain of that district, ( mor The ostent cor] was no party feel- chelr wee assumed t. e were quite ® number of whigs ceremonies, thus divesting them politteal character, Among the the following: — rate of the ebief city of the obief jp the chief government of the world.” —Drank plause, The Pouce Department of city of New York, ad the bealth of Capt. Magnes, laty Captain of the Bisth ward police ” 1 ne Capt. Meguus responded in proper ave r Woodhull, sn honest man ” hief of Police #t the City of New York,” was t propored and drank with ample “The health of Assistant Alderman Ferris, of the Sixth ward,” belug proposed, and the toast duly honored, Asst Alderman F returned thanks in « short, but neat Fpeech, in which he paid a high compliment to offic “who know their duty, and who do it fear- lesely * (Prolonged applause.) Mr. Andrew Nesbit, being called on, gave— “The Chiets of Police of the sities of New York and San Fravcisco.” (Mr Malachi Fallon it will be reool- lected, is the Chief of Police of San Francisoo) This toart wax drank with all the honors, ‘The press was complimented in a number of forms ; among them, ip the following, by Capt Carpenter:— “The Preva and the Folice—Both of them terrors to evil deort There were quite » number of other toasts—patri- otie, rentimental aud complimentary—all of which were dicusted with the grentert earaestness. Speeches and songs followed, and volunteer sentiments in con- tap who took partie t of any hing like toasts prop ied w © Phe Chiet Magi Sta sideratie numbers were given. Wine flowed in abun- @guce, and, ns wany of the pslicemea lett the saloon to | attend to the duties of their office, their places were | | filled by other friends of Capt M., who had been unable | | tobe present in the afternoon, Quite s number of the | | influential citizens of the ward oalied in to give their | | eounterance to what they deemed # just tribute to » | faithful officer. and as the eventog wore. they joined in the feetivities of the oceasion, which, up to alate hour, | were conducted in & mort decorous manner. In fact, | the whoie affair gave evidenee shac » large portion of | the reepreiable citizeus of the Sixth ward regret the | lors which they sustain in aptain Magnes’s with. drawal from the office which he bas so leng Bled with | erdit to bimerl! and benefit to those whose property and peace be has aided to protest and guard. ‘The watch which was presented, is & handsome gold lever, Lighiy javelled. atiached to which is # neat, bat massive yunrd chain, slides and clasp, The recipient expresses his determination to wear it for # long time, as & proud memente of the place which he holds ia the hearts of those with whom he has 50 long labored in the police department. Launcn ship Manhattan, 1,500 tons burthen, ended for the * Biack Ball Line” of Liverpool pack- spd built by W fH. Webb, at bis ship baliding Yard at the toot of Fitch street, #ast River. was launeh- ed yesterday, at four o'clock in the afternoon, before a Jarze concourse of people Several carraiges, coutaia- ing ladier. were In attendance, and thongh the snow came down bitterly at the time, yet the euthusiasm of the fair Coes *as 60 great. they persisted in mounting beams of timber, to view the beautiful craft plunge into her destined element She went off wobly, amidst the yooiferous eherra of the crowds that thronged her decks and there who looked on from the wharves She Went off exquisitely from the stocks, aud upon embras- ing ber elemental bride, fv the language of the poet, “ walked the warers like a thing of life ? Fine. A fire was giscovered on Friday night about balf part eight o'elock. in a small anorcupied building in Hudson street near 13th formerly used as a coal office, It was extinguished by ofilver Carpenter with- out material injury to the builtiog, Acciwest ix 4 Vesset At the foot of Eighteenth street, East River, yesterday about ten e’clook A. | .. On board of » vesel hound for Caliform! painfal | ident oveurned A man, pamed William Daly. ri oth «treet, was employed to sbift ballast lv going down below he fell throagh the hatch npon the ballast. and recteved a most awful shock He has been since speechless and it isfesred that the spinal columm is broken He remains in the great- my, at the City Hospital. ay Accipent.— At Fordama, on Thursday |: it three o’el train hed new ly reached that station, » m Mooney. ® lsboreron the line, tog perori son. named Lennis O'Brien. who effects of Hiquor, stop on the track. h Tan over to dreg O'brien of doing #0 the cars pi od either the ‘ine or ears knoe! ttered ft shockingly. | City Horpital, | A laborer, named Frederick | on street, had his right leg bro- yy. about two o'clock in the afteraoon be sok at Thirteenth street, where hi eborer, engaged in exca Deari.—The ooron Arquest at weond Leitorger, « German by bt laborer in the store Ne. 20 his death by recidentally fal of the store, from the re Verdict aecordingly. ton To Pakents.— PI inquest at the corner of treet, on the bedy of ot M | ry 49 years of age 1 atrowt. who ty second * b three of her other children in her room, ighdor. and in order to keep the he locked them im Soon afwe Lildren took a pivon of thi held It near the st y d extingaisbed the fam @ the lite of the unfortunate child was terribly burned. aod died im two hours aft | Verdict sceording to the Dearn or avornen Ot thir city, died some days the Nev, Robert vi. tion of the Commercval vert ome faiiure ta Hight compelled bim to ot avd were inti ber of the Fr 0 for # ‘ta wumber of fon in the elty all of whom occupy evening « Datch- cond story, through the floor of store 200 Water street, thy killed: ning ® man. aparently a seama: the ferry bows Union (plying be teren Whitehall and Hamtiten avenne) fate the river and was drowned Eve 9. taip and bands of the et to axve hia, | but without socee immediately. | } Jans Harlbat Joven deiivered the 1s vs Ovto Kiepoen- | order ta the apselal rer as frivoleus The versed, oF set aside, bat | term, striking Orde? Of the epeoial corm is bout eoste wrmiius Kenows.vs John M Martin —On appeal, | order piel term wae vacated hot pre | ument of writ of error postponed natil | c the e ecisinn of the fseue made by demurrer, end woril shell be ready for hearing upoo the bper tel errora Je nen P Brotie for tT prevention with $10 ee } 1D sap. at the tein Burr. This row the order of speoiat term denyiog ve te make ® ease for matey of proserd- et neide the judgment entered In the on hy an attorney against a elivet for amount ct an aceouutarated The anewer Jn the general iene, and that @ set off to the account wowid be giv videnee The question for thie court wae whether the judy at the apecial te Justifed in irtusiog the motion to ide the ver- dict The eonrt had ow wre Jnetifed and ‘hat the teutial merite fu tie cae by whieh this jadement could he set axide, Appeal d'emisved, and the order of special teri firv ed without conte a wrk Riv pt Grant; Cavaday ; reek, Vel, sot (ll, Hopkins, Tex. do., ©: Springersvilie. Payette, ta doom Vermiiiion, 1. Geo, Biorsom Prairie, Lamar. Texas, Bow Merrimact, Hillehro’ eoanty. Now aie changed to Reed's Ferry ; Stockport, waty, Penneyiennia game changed to fon,’ Delaware county. New York, Cobleat Depot, Alber rurty Virgiola name changed to Cobtam ; Wainut Grauch. Faoquier conaty, Virgiaia, ¥ Stephen, Moont Peasant, Wil. Muson county, Miselstippi, naine ehauged to Holly Retreat, New Youe Port Orrier Arpoierstente, Doo 8, 1849. Fomnovia, Madison Reveselact Jac ; Wiltow Ube ster CF. Buckley ; Bronesiek, Ulster— Wm. U_ Hart; West Creeoteld. Saratopa—Calvia W. Dake; Virgti, Cortland — Angurtus &. Hetard, New OF e¢8 Betabiished —Miedeavitle, Montgomery — * ef Yoren; Fly Monntain, Uleter—w Wegener; South Granby, Oswegs—James Campbell. | Mr. Stewart took his seat Martie. Davidson, N, | Fe | of Penmeyi jority of three a (Levgater) © Order, vw c TELE@RAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, pereee: From Washingto.—%o Speaker—Mere Trouble, No Speaker yet in the House—more trouble ia Congress. Six ballots were taken yesterday without any result, aod then the motley group of members elect adjourned over, to pray prayers or play eards to-day, and to meet again on Monday.. Mr. Winthrop sticks firm at 102 and 101. The other candidates are legioa im number, and no- thirg in votes. Perhaps gowg to ehurch to-day may bring some of the members to their senses. We are s ill of opinion that Mr, Winthrop has the best chance, and that the democrats of the North and South will let him be elected, by a sort of defoult. It 1s their best policy to do so, because the whig party would then nave to take the respon~ sibility of legislation, so far as the House 1s con- cerned ; and that respousibility, applied to the sete tlement of the slavery question, may save the country, but break dowa the party and the men who assume the act. It was so in the Missouri excitement, and will be so in the present. The cabinet, or the administration, are shown to be in a decided minority ; but the electioa of Winthrop. would throw upon them the responsibility of all regular aanon, witheut any force to sustam it—— most weak and uncomfortable pesition for any party, or any administration. Some begin to think that the voting may go on as it has done, for the next week, or two weeks, or month, or mootts—ia short, till all adjourn sine die. It the various parties and cliques maintain. their prevent pos.tions with obstinacy, it is very easy to keep Congress for ever in a state of disor- ganization, and thus abolish the general govern- ment, by a species of suspended animation. The two ultra parties of the North and South, by re« maining firm to their purposes, can effectually abo- lish the power of Congress, and ihe Executive, too,. til eather one or the other shall have compelled one of the old parties to succumb to their views. In this view of the matter, we see no end tothe present dilemma but compromise or confusion— submission, or fival subversion. In the meantime, is there no possibility of get- ting hold of the Message, or the report of the Se- crewry of the Treasury? Can none of the valua- ble Washington correspondents tap a Secretary, or a printer, and spring a leak somewhere? Mr. Coliamer’s report, without the tal, has been well received all ove: Cry xgain, Mr. Leaky. THIRTY-FIRSC CONGRESS. Fike SESSION. SIX HORE BALLOTINGS FOR SPEAKER. SOME FUN IN THE HOUSE. Scattering of the Democratic Vote. Wastinatos, Dee. 8, 1849, Senate, ‘The Hon Mr. Psance presented the credentials of David Stewart appointe? by the Governor of Maryland, in the place of Mr Benjamin ©. Howard, declined, Nothing else done; wait ing for the orgavization of the House, Hi of Representatives, After the journel was read, the House immediately. proceeded to ballot for Speaker, with the following re- sults :— VOTES FOR SPRAKER. ALLO TTR @B—mmmny Wwe Ly ah Cobb, ary 16 bs | 2 = “a o! 3 oid Wii ris H é Strong 6 — be 3 “ a Mi H ‘ 3 * = 1 2 5 2 L 4 s 5 1 1 : age .2 8 a re 4 i e - - - 1 = i 25 . 3 Highest vote (for Winthrop) 102, *1h des= nteh maell; both, ower After the third (40th) ballot, Mr Huon A. Hamar~ eon, (dem ) of Georgia, moved an adjournment. [It was here reported through the House that Thomas Butler King, of Georgia, had resigord ) ‘Tho motion to adjourn was not agreed to, and the ballotings were resumed — VouRS POR SPRAKER. ath Ballot, ntry, of Tenn., whig, auton, of Tean of Ven) Dioanaad, of Lt re | seplyrof Va, dom Booed, of Conm, fre a Mervin, of Miller, of Oly Total soo ee Necessary tow ehotor. ahest vote, Winth Bir. Coseren Botien, ( this twenty-eiath effort, of Robert © Winthrop be Speaker, and that the Hovee procerd to nawe the Clerk (Laughter, and a voice, © You can't trade off that way.”) Mx, Jaco Tr of Missiseippt suggested: that Mr. Howell Cobb be app sated Clerk of the House, Let us fxit jot Mr bovtenaskea & Hours, If thie be a bergato vate one at all that we baveen orpaclrau Ve te aud lay the ther te the fact thatthe thar be has al he Detweem Warbingt buted throughs th ia) of Penmsyly red @ resolution that Mr mrson, (arm al way “at would be acceptable to the jd he. 1t oxmmot be @ pri- ject of the resolution is thas we may get the Pab- beiore the country; woo. eral has stated expenes (ia keep= all the Railroad depots to have them distrl- bier) a ¢ rdy gone te motive e a Mr J oll) of Caio, would like to pews the P ter “heorral contemplates any exp ther than to the East; whether he in- fends t to the Son'h or the southwest, Dir. Bevin said be eowld not foform mim, Me. Fr von Po Sravrow, (dein) of Tennessee, would ak wheiher there hal bea any eogagement to carry the report of the Poot Master General to Balti. more (Laughter) Mr. Kowent MeLaxe. (dem) of Maryland, moved to strike cut the ne of bobert ©. Winthrop in the Terolution, to that Uhore might be two bleaks for the Houre to fill A motiow was then made and osrried to lay the re- polation on the table. Ouly two vod ia the negative, hich produced some lauguter, 5 The Honge thea proceed: d to ballet again for Speak- YOTRS FOR #rRaneR Ta rmty seventh Holiat, Wine freee jaya, de . 0 m Necemary tea ebotoe .., Higvest (Winthrop) At ten minutes past three, Me Lew Levin ( He, moved (oO adjoarh It wae lost; ma Orles of “Cali th he , bo. ‘The Hours again VoTRs POR SPEAKER, Twenty righth Botlot, rep, Whigs. vos 4 Mewtedem . &. freesoll Mayly dom... Total... Necessary to Highest vote, (W intbro rence of five the aggregate y: ote, the first time, for Pottor, of Obie; te, he was in the Rall ducing the ft. Winthrop was also in the halt,