The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1850, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Slortnwest corner of Fulton and Nassau sts: JAMES GORDON BENNEP®, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, Astor Place—Anna Bovena. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tunee Guaansaex— Buve bean. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ion—Foun Sis- FER. Nicopeaus—Raovn. Fa- NIBLO'SGARDEN—Ticny Rore BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers street—Senious MILY—F0OR GENTLEMAN. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham square—Is He Jeacous Kir Van Winkie —Femace Guamn, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway Bis Painoe—Deav Snor-JEsxy CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE—Ermiorian Penron~ MANCES. AMERICAN MUSEUM—Anvsine Peavonsances, Ar- PERSON 450 EVENING, ASTOR PLACE CIRCUS—Equeetnian Exercren ‘Usep Ur—Invisei- AND, nday, January 6, 1850, Last Doings of the Ola Boards, Both Boards of Aldermen met last evening, to take the last pull at the legislative wires, which were put into their hands by the people last spring. Like most legislative bodies, they let their work Jag behind them at the commencement of their terms of office, and have been obliged to call some- thing like half a dozen extra meetings within the past week, to finish up matters which had been begun, some of them, long since What the city fathers did last evening, will be found under the appropriate heads. On Monday the new Common Council will be sworn into office. They will not, at present, change their mode of doing business, but will hold evening sessions as usual. The charter gives them the privilege to do so until 1851, when they must hold only three stated sessions, not exceed- ing one month each, commencing on the first Mon- days of January, May and September. It is not expected that the Aldermen will give up their com- fortable evening sessions until they are obliged to do it. There are many reasons why they should prefer to keep up the present order of things, not the least weighty of which reasons may be found im the temptations of the tea room. Well, Aldermen are but men, after all; and why should they not be tempted by the savory odors which arise trom from the city kitchen. why should they not? American Stock Rising in Europe and Fall- ing at Home, We hear a great deal, and write a great deal, about stocks on change, at home and abroad; and occasionally, by way of variety, we putin a para- graph about La Bourse, in Paris—for it has been pretty well understood that Frenchmen cannet get along without Wall street shavers, to skin their eye-teeth torthem. But there is another kind of stock, of which we wish to speak at the present time, that may be considered rather important at this period of the world, when humanity, its weals and its woes, has become almost as important as the price of cotton, negroes, bananas, cinnamon, and other aromatic productions of the earth, and that is—humanity. This stock rises and falls like all other. The time was, when our Jeffersonian stock was so much below par in Europe, that it would have taken a political Sam Patch to dive deep enough to find it. It is true, that such men as Lord Byron, Napeleon Bonaparte—tosay nothing | about such men as the Earl of Chatham—took our scrip of this kind at par from the beginning; but Europe has been in the habit so long of underrating this country, that whenever we think of that great continent, we picture it with a habitual sneer on its face whenever it looks towards the West.— This sneer is now rather an antiquated affair, it is true, but we can see the traces of it on the Euro- pean face, even in our own times, without the use ef spectacles. There are but few books or journals printed on the other side of the water, that, when we take them up, do not make us think of a man that we met the other day, in one of Kipp & Brown’s omnibuses. He was evidently a young gentlemen, but he had so long indulged in the habit of sticking up his nose, as though something eter- mally eme!t bad under it, that, by the physical eflort, he had, at the age of twenty or thereabouts, fur- rowed a set of the deepest sort of wrinkles under his eyes, which rendered it impossible for a very | sedate looking puir of spectacles to preserve their equanimity. They looked, on the top of these wrinkles, like an ill built sea boatia the midst o1 | the surge; or, what would be still better for our Mlustration, like an old tar taking a ride oa horse. back. But Europe is coming to her senses. The tim® has gone by when the Edinburgh Review gravely asks, “who reads an American book Marshall, Kent, Story, Irving, Cooper, Prescott, Ticknor, and a host of other Americans, have made them answer that question themselves, The last war with England posted up some of their books; but the ledger account was never fairly carried out till old Zack crossed the Kio Grande, and gave fits to | Mexico. Taylor, Scott, Worth, Rin ean, and many thousands of brave men. our military fame on the as of nobly as our great au before them. At last, when Europe finds that, with all ber beasted stability of monarchy, she cannot outride the storm and give security to her own throne ; when even the imperial despot of all the Russias is glaring his ferocious eye upon Kossuth ; when Austria lifts up her imploring voice, to the Northern Bear, for protection against Koseuth, Bem, Dem- binsk:, and Uyhazi; and when ald, Dune dicated Mexico, ors anc turns out that Washington wes no joke; that Thomes Jeflerson was engaged in no school-boy | play when he wrote the Declaration of Indepen- dence; that Madison was oceupied in pretty solemn business when he concocted the Constitu- tion ; and that thirty confederated republics are beginning to become something of an item in the accounts which European states are casting ap, in making their general ca ion about the probabilities of the future. In one of the principal Lendon journals, in an article entitled “The junction of the Atlante and the Pacific, and the growing greatness of America,” we find rather a sober estimate made of the resources of this country, and a somewhat honest account of our progress hitherto, 1n mowing down the formidable crop of obstacles which opposed our advancement with civilization and “all its means to boot,” to- wards the placid bosom of the Pac This od richer far uisitiens, It ted reven ad jatitude to ite Pacific coast, cor hors of the * tains, lies ® ccuntry vas and varied ia Ste resources, It Universal wealt jar to realize the bi Doredo of our aneest: The inert. gece which formeriy characterized the Pacific const has disappeared. A quick impulsive life bat auccerded it, and even already bas the coast in qovetion begun te ai and commer- 4 ry it te yet destined #0 great hae ° ft within the Inst ‘three peart'tn th 1846, it loow nt day. of called v speedy riee of @ galaxy of St most the wh the Pacife tio it. + com preber pe of the eonti- And 80 this wonder-stricked genius goes on to dilate upon the growth of owr empire; and the sappy, who was evidently born avd bred on the island that Julius Cesar, in an acy of pasttime, went to conquer, and made but noliday sport of at shat, seems to think that because the country has grown very big, it never can be governed. It is really funny to see whet Englishmen write about abie country. With a patria, which at best, whea Indeed, ists have done | is LX. cannot, | and dare not attempt to go back to the Vatican—it | potato patch out West, John Bull strains his eyes till they look like a couple of peeled onions in a pan of molasses, and seeing the enormous area of this country, falls at his roast beef and says, “Oh, you cam never govern it, sir.” He forgets that England has governed colonies which begirt the globe. If Great Britain governs a territory on which the sun never sets, if it be ‘That po» er whose flag is never farled, ‘Whose worning drum beats round the world, the joke may at last get to be understood by Bro- ther Jonathan. It is most superabundantly funny to see how Europe has opened her bleared and shortsighted eyes to the rising power of the West. We cannot close these remarks without lament- ing, for the hundredth time, that Mr. Clayton, the chief Secretary of State, and the evil genius to boot of one of the noblest men and heroes we have had since the time of Washington, should have let so glorious an opportunity slip of showing to the despotisms of the old world how deep and universal is the sympathy of the people of this country with the fortunes of liberty all over the globe. There was a time when, by discreet ma- nagement, and a fair display of Americanism, in its noblest sense, without compromising the re- public or diminishing in any manner the dignity of General Taylor, he could have put forth an ine fluence upon the fortunes of Europe, which would probably have decided for ever the fate of its struggling patriots and heroes. Let us euppose acase. If, at the time the repub- he of Rome and the republic of Hungary were pro- claimed, he had bethought himself of the great mis- sion our republic might at the tme have filled, he would have forgotten the meanness of partisanship, and buried every little feeling in the noble ambi- tion of doing something great and honorable for his country and for mankind. Ifhe had sent some of the greatest statesmen of our nation to Europe | in that trying crisis—placing Mr. Webster in | England, Mr. Clay in France, Mr. Calhoun in | Russia, and some other great man in Rome, with | fifty other superior men at the different diplomatic ‘and consular posts of Europe, all bearing with | them the same instructions, and’ all commissioned | to execute the same great business—namely, that of encouraging a liberal policy on the part of the governments of the continent, of recognising re- publics at the time of their birth when they needed help, of proposing reciprocal treaties of commerce, of aiding and maturing the infant democracies around them; itis allidle to say that such a corps diplomatique could not have aggregated and con- solideted a force that would have awed and won mankind. Under such inspiring auspices, Hungary might have held out still longer; Russia might have stayed back her accursed Cossacks; Rome, | with Pius LX., might have been kept on she side of liberty ; the German confederation might have become a solid and irresistible phalanx of free and illuminated states; and France might have inau- | gurated a republic after the model of Washington, | Jetterson and Franklin. With the genius and the fame of such men, we might at that time have come to the rescue of Europe. Itis silly to pretend that we might not have had a very decisive influence in its fortunes. But that golden hour for action and for fame has gone by. Mr. Clayton, who is understood to be, like every other Secretary of State in our republic, the presiding genius i our foreign policy, never thought anything about it. Kossuth could strug- gle, and faint, and sweat drops of blood, and fall, but Mr. Clayton cared nothing about it. Pius IX ,in his new-born treachery of the genus of Romaa li- berty, could send his benediction to the ministry of France, and call for ghstening bayonets to stab the new risen form of Reman liberty; and Mr. Clayton, | perhaps, nay probably, did not even read the news until it was so stale that everybody else turned up their noses in disgust when he began to talk about | at. God save us from such a Secretary of State, | while we, as the model republic, are looked to by | the struggling millions of Europe for aid in the | hour of their adversity! | Baayen Mint in New Yorx.—We are glad to see that a movement is being made, here and in Washington, for the establishment of a branch | mint in New York—an anstitation which 1s much needed here, and which we must have, sooner or | later. It isa remarkable fact, that the Secretary | of the Treasury made no allusion at all to the sub- | ject in his recent report. He had the fact before | him, that an immense quantity of gold dust is re- | ceived here by every arrival from Califorma, and | independent of that, a vast amount of foreiga coin reaches the same destination every year, as | well im the course of trade as by immigration. | ‘There is no earthly necessity for incurring the risk and expense of transporting all these sums to a distant city to be either coined or recoined. It has recently been shown, from official sources, that one | banking house alone has imported, within two years, the enormous sum of six millons seven hundred and eighty thousand dollars, the greater | portion of which was destined for this city, the re- mainder for Boston, and all ot which required ree comoge. Again—it is estimated that, since July last, the importation of gold dust into this port, | from California, exceeds five millions of dollars in value With these large receipts before us—indepen- dently of the large sums which are carried to this | port by European immigrants—the narrowest com- prehension cannot but perceive the necessity there is fora branch mint in New York. When we take into consideration the expenses attendant apon transporting these large amounts of epecie and gold dust to distant cities for coming and recoining, we cannet help thinking that our mercantile eommu- nity suffera great deal from the tax which this trouble and expense subject them to. Why it is that the great commercial emporium of the new world has been overlooked so long in this respeet, it is hard to tell; but we hope the subject will be setiled and disposed of during the present session, Would it not be well to hold public meetings, and agitate it in that way, from time fo time, until it is accomplished | Our New York delegation 1) Con- grees have a heavy responsibility r gM pon them in this matter, and they will be remembered tor their negleet, if they omit the opportunity to dis- charge it ‘at the mint in Philadelphia 18 0n New York ac- count; and there is no reason why our merchants should be taxed so heavily as they are, in the way of expense which it costs te transport such a large amount ot their property thither for either coinage or recoinage. ial ie ate Testrwoniat. To Merrr.—The Board of Alder+ men, on Friday evening, adopted a series of resolu. tions highly complimentary to Captain David Cook | of the bark Yarmouth, of Nova Seotia, tor his | humane and successful exertions in saving the greater portion of the emugrants in the ship Caleb Grimshaw, which was recently destroyed by fire, while on her passage to this country from Eagland, and resolved that the freedom of the eity be pre- sented to him ina gold box “as a feeble testimo- nial in which he is held by the members of the Common Council, individually and collectively.” We like this idea of presenting a euttable testi | monsal to Captain Cook, but we think the members | of the Common Council might have done a litle betier. They have no right to expend the public money, in providing a testimonial of the estimate * | which they put on Captain Cook's conduct on that occasion, #s individuals. The sum whieh they appropriated, they appropriated in their character as aldermen of the city of New York, and if they wanted to make a little self glory from it, they ought to have contributed a few hundreds more, out of their private funda, so as to give Capta’ Cock a handsome testimonial something worth receiving We understand that our snsarance companies are preparing to present Captain Cook with an evi- cence of their appreetation of his gallant and die interested services on the melancholy occasion re- ferted to hammered out would only make a decent swed | The Cabimet Nominations and the Action We learn that four-fitths of the coinage | | scrupulous attempt to violate the history of the of the Senate. From all appearances, and from the givings out of Mr. Clayton’s own organs in Washington and | law, to which we have devoted some attention Crimunat Juniseropence in New Yorx.—We publish, in another part of our paper, {this day, an important document on the subject of criminal in in New York, it is evident that he cabinet await | recent numbers of the Herald. We allude to the the action of the Senate on the appointments, with | letter of Judge Edmonds, addressed to Gov. Fish, fear and trembling. They are conscious that their whole policy of removals and appointments since they came into office, is about to be reviewed, and | dence, and containing some valuable that they are about to be called upon fora rigid which will be read with general interest, embrac- ing, as it does, the wide field of criminal jurispru- suggestions Tespecting a most desirable change in the present account of their stewardship. Knowing that they | mode of conducting the trial and defence of crumi- stand a poor chance of encountering the ordeal to | nals. The leuer of Judge Edmonds has been which they are compelled to submit, they have commenced manufacturing exceptions to the law under which they will be tried, and which they have most flagrantly violated, inthe face of day | that the subject will engage the early attention of | M°y° and with malice prepense. How stands the case ? Previous to General Taylor’s election, he ex- pressed, in his letters, and after his election, in his inaugural address, sentiments on the subject of re- re movals and appointments, that received the appro- bation of all political parties and of all classes of the community. Nor can it be denied, that those pledzes and promises, expressed in his letters, con. tributed greatly to his election, for the country had become sickened with the proseription for opinion’s sake, which had ch racterized the career of every administration since the first Presidency of Gene- ral Jackson. Those pledges and promises, thus given voluntarily by General Taylor, were sub. mitted to the cabinet. Mr. Clayton and his asso- ciates took office under them, and by doing so, bound themselves to adopt them as the rule of their policy, in the matter of removals and ap- pointments, provided even they were not expressly laid before them by General Taylor himself, which we have every reason to believe was done. No sooner, however, were the cabinet in office, than General Taylor’s promises and pledges were cast to the winds, and a career of proscription for opimion’s sake was entered upon, the equal of which was never before seen in this country. Every department of the government was re- volutionized—thousands and thousands of oflice- holders were displaced, and in a great many in- stances their situations were filled by favorites of their own, who were utterly incompetent to per- form the duties assigned to them. Such are the circumstances under which the cabinet appointments are submitted to the Senate. It 18 no wonder, then, that Mr. Clayton and his col- leagues should fear the result, or that they should endeaver as much as possible to evade the law, to discover a flaw in the indictment, to make out as of no secount the pledges and promises of General Taylor, which were placed before them as their guide. Accordingly, we see aa effort made in the cabinet organs, to invalidate those pledges and promises made by General Taylor. This cannot be effected without convicting General Taylor of duplicity, of double dealing, of trifling with the prople of the United States. But the cabiaet have resorted to this trick, and their past policy gives abundant evidence that they would have no hesita. tion in sacrificing the old General, if he stood in the way. Let us read what the cabinet organs say. The Washington correspondent of the Courter and Enquirer, who is known to be the same individual who corresponds with Mr. Clay- yon’s own organ in Philadelphia, and who is the confidential medium of communication be- tween the cabinet and the public, says, in re- ference to the probable action of the Senate on the appointments about to be submitted to them :— “It was never pretended or asserted, except by par- ite having sinister purposes to serve, that re~ movals were made solely pce tee grounds of cause in* volving po eee 4 ter; while the ina’ ad clared that the absence ef je or expressed regar: displaced for opposed te the polkey and principles of the dl Cwm jon.” ‘This is decidedly a most barefaced and un- past two years. If General Taylor meant any- | thing at all in those promises and pledges, he meant that he would not, when elected, adopt the pohey of former administrations, in regard to making in- discriminate removals trom office. Notwithetand- | ing, then, the tenor of those promises, as it was | understood at the time they were given by General Taylor himself, as well as by the public, proscrip- tion has been adopted by the cabinet toa greater | extent than any cabinet ever followed within the same space of time. Now, the case resolves itself into this:—Adopting General Taylor's pledges and promises as a guide and rule of action for the cabi- net, they have either deliberately falsified those pledges, and thereby injured the reputation of | General Taylor to the utmost extent in their | power, or else all of the removals that have taken place were made from goed cause, and because the persons removed lacked the essential qualifica: tions of honesty, fidelity, and capacity. la the Brega correspondence to the New York Herald, which we published the other day, aad in which we showed, to the satisfaction of every candid and disinterested person, that the present cabinet en- deavored to tamper with the independent press, and, in their ignorance ot our individual and public character, attempted to make us puffer in general to the cabinet, “for a consideration” — we say, in that correspondenes, and in the columns | of the Republic, the organ at Washington, it was | expressly and emphatically declared that no renw- | vals had been made, except for good eanse. The opposition journal at Washington, the Union, took advantage of this statement, as soon as it wis made, and clinched the enbinet to a fulfilment of General Taylor's pledges, by saying that al! the democratic office-holdera thus removed must con- sider, of course, that they did not possess the qua- lifieations referred to, and, as soon as the fact was ascertained, they were dismissed. Here, then, we have the cabinet blowing hot and cold in al- most the same breath—for the purpose, in the firet place, of excusing themselves for proseribi the great extent which they have proscribed ; aad in the next—the case before us—for that of convey-| ing the belief that nothing was meant or inteaded | by General Taylor in the pledges to which we Such, then, is the condition ia which the are placed by their own showing, and by pro ting directly from themselves. They d the President, in the first place, by violating dges and proseribing all who disagreed wut vetration; and now they wish to bring him into discredit, by inducing the belief that those, | pledger were never intended to mean anything | | There is an attempt to smooth over the matter, by saying that “ no imputation was intended, made | or expressed, in regard to those who were proper! displaced for being openly opposed to the policy and principles of the administration.” Does thi mend the matter in the least? Take those pro nuses of General Taylor, and place this remart underneath them, and will any candid man sa that any apology has been made, of a character en titled to a moment's consideration, for the pro scriptive poliey of the cabinet in contravention o | those pledges? We apprehend, however, that thy | Senate will not be deceived by such shallow pre | tences. The cabinet have, wilfully, broadly, and! openly, violated General Taylor's pledges—they are now called upon for an account of their doings, but they are afraid to undergo the ordeal. They want now to convince the Senate that there was nothing intended by the pledgesot General Tay. lor, thus gttempting to sacrifice that high-minded man. Mr. Clayton may repove upon either hora o the dilemma he pleases. ye cabinet, therefore, have good reason to throw thenselves on the cle. meney cf the Senate in this marter; and although that body have the best reason for any of the appointments that have ieen made, we do not think they will adopt the proseriptive sye | €f peril, the Hi have referred, and which were, as we said before, Governor and voluntarily made by General Taylor himsrlt | be would take place ou the 22d of not confirming | specially noticed in the Governor’s Message, with en observance commensurate with the importance of its details. The Governor, in expressing a hope the Senate, says :— “It ise subject of not unfrequent complaint, that the due administration of public justice is often im- led in consequence of the present mode of empannel- jurors in criminal cases, and of the exercise of the right of challenge by the traverser, and by the manuer of conducting the trial and def ‘Trials atten with any notoriety, er it te invol t consump ‘Weeks hi “a grea tion of time in the eer y of the jury. been consumed in this effort in a single cause; ans am informed by one of the justices of the Supreme Court, that in @ trial before him, upwards of four thousand persons were examined in a fruitless endeavor toempannel a jury I understand that the Commis- Ct 's to revise the rules and practice of the courts, will submit to your consideration a proposition in- tended to obviate the difficulty which has been experi. enced in this particular.” City Intelligence. ‘Tue Honcanians anv re Mititia,—Last Friday even- ing the officers of the First Division of New York State Militia waited, ina body, upon the Hungarian exiles, at the Astor House. About eight o’clock, the distiaguished strangers arrived at the Astor House, from their resi- dence in Bond street. They came in the railway cars to Chambers street, and walked across the Park. A large crowd had congregated about the door, who re- celved them with loud cheers, as they entered. They were shown into a drawing room, where they remained for some time. The following are the names of those present, and who represented all the exiles now in this city :—Governor Ujbazi, Col. Pragai, Major Fornet, Capt. Farkas Ujbazi, Capt. Theodore Ujhazi (sons of the Governor), Capt. Vaisz, Capt Remenyi and his bre- ther, Ed Remenyi, a highly talented artist, who arrived this week, Count Wass, the ambassador of Kos- suth, Mrs, Ujhazi, the Governor's lady, Miss Ujhazi (his daughter). and Miss Apolonia Jagello, “ the ob- served of all observers.’ The Governor and the other g —— wore the uniform ef the Hungarian army of independence. In the meantime, the New York Militia officers had hind, fing up the space that intervened between t Me: the walla. The room was huvg with flags jantly illuminated with chande- Company, the Light Guard, the occasion, being the ercort of General Sanford. ‘They were drawn up in two lines, in the corridor. between the dining ball and the recom which the Hungarians occupied. About & quarter past 8 o'clock, Mr. Stetson, proprictor of the Astor House announced Major General Sandford and Brigadier General Morris, who shook the exiles warmly by the hand, avd then led them through the Light juard lines, who gave the military salute, the Governor's lady leaning on General Sandford. and Miss Jagello vy rigadier General Morris. The part were greeted, upon their entrance into the ball, wit! the most enthusiastic cbeering. The Light Guard marched the room after them, and formed in the north end of the room. leaving a small guard to keep back yrowd in the corridor, after the tiungarians General Sandford then introduced the exiles to the officers generally. Sui inded by the o! cers of his staff, he then stood in the centre of the room, and addressed the E-x-Governor of Comorn, and the other Hungarians, to the following effect :— The officers of the militia of the county, now assem- died, had witnesred the struggle for Hungarian inde- pendence with great interest, and they met there this evening. not only to express ir own tympathy for the misfortunes of those who had tak part iu that pathy of the militi der their the country at large And this sym- red not only to the Hungarians pre- and Count Wass inter. by the pe the bilef specch that had been just ie. Governor Ujbazy then replied in the Hungatian tongue, and afterwards in German, Count Wass anne as interpreter at the end of every sentence. another wn nc ween ed that devotion to liberty he had heard an read of as ing obaracteristic of Te of the United Stetes. I ‘was to this and bis compavions were in- debdted for such honor more thanto any merit of their own. hoped the day would yet cone Whe (hey WVU Reve an eppursumity of ry for this eame liberty in fatherland (c! 5 officers of the national militis he sew around him, were the descendants of the bra who ed, were erty which they inherited from Greta cas ates eet nies not as of that freedom, for they were not yet citizens; but they would endeavor to become citizens as soon as possible, (cheers) They had spent the last day ot the old year in the very best way they could, in decia their intemtions, and swearing against ce to the enemy of their ‘upon with the deopest feelings of pstrioti«m. and pride is thee neeae fect be ‘ered if the ry ever errived that this ry needed defenders in au hour devotedpers to ir adopted country that the: the land of their birth. He cwaciuded b miki them for their friendly sympathy, and then shoo! bands with the American officers immediately arouad did to General Sandtord then called for three cheers, which | Were responded to , oe New York etyle Loewt. Col © 1 \itord. as secretary of a meeting of the offieers of the Fret Division, held at the Artiller Drill Room re Market, Major Gen Sandford prostate { the meotlog. as ior al Morris, wad omer: + , t the officers of this division hi , rp tense oe, ey it aten, je ungery to regain their pendenee, and deeply sympathize with them ia the | prestration of their recent efforts, by the overwhelming combinations of treachery aod despotiem | Kesoived. at we weleome to our shor ethowe noble spirite, who ace unwilling to live 1 bomdage. aud who exiles would show the same _ ‘ Both % Bester a shenad were destroyed, aud the Governon Usni ‘This distinguished Hungarian exile does not take departure for ull the 9th inetant. ‘The Bate von tH Bewerit or tue Huncartans.—- ‘The ball for t! the Hw exiles, to & by the First Division of New York pom Tend ge yd , is expected to bea an 5 Mason Generan the Militia of the Sandford with a e] Sa Accwest To & wagon of Mr, Sarles on Friday aftern oon, Bear street, the ring bolt e out, thus detaching the fore wheels from the body vehicle, The horse taking fright, ran down Bl yr street to the corner of collision with |. where he @ tree and jeg short off. | Deatn py Arortrxy. Geer held yesterday, at No. 47 y street, on John H. Ryad, aged 73 , born in Ireland, who was found yesterday m in the rear building ef the premises quite dead in e pitting position. On the Co- Toner investigating the vidence shewed con- jusively thet the cam his plexy. Verdict accordingly. One of the operators in the Boston telegraph (this city) has suce: in writing te Halifax, direct. a distance of betw 900 and 1,000 miles, Saturday evening. The thing is quite @ feat in tele- graphing, and has never been before accomplished. Affairs, Lavscn,--The beaut ship Star of the West, was launched yesterday aftergoon, about two o’clock, trom the yard of Messrs, Perrine, Patterson & Stack, at Wil- Mamsburg, She moved from her ways in fine style, and her appearance, when im her element, elicited much commendation from all present. We neglected to mention, yesterday, im our remarks injrelation to this versel, that she was buiJt under the immediate super” intendence of the gentleman who is to command her, Capt. A. B, Lowber, on whom she reflects great credit for his taste and judgment, as also on her builders, for the superior and workmanlike manner in which they have put her together, Axotnex New Sur.—The splendid new ship, Mar- tha’s Vineyard, ym Portland, the $d instant, for New York. She was built for Dunham’s Diamond of New York and w packets, and will take station accordingly. Dedication of the reh of St. Charles Boromeo, in Sydney Place, Brookiyn, This new edifice, de@icated to the public worship of the people in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, residents of Brooklyn, was opened junday Jast, for the purpose of Sts solemn dedication. The cere- mony, which was imposing and striking, was performed by Bishop Hughes. of the city of New York, assisted by a number of clergymen and dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church. The church itself is plain, neat, and simply-constructed building, of Gre- cian form—if to be ranked under any peculiar style of architecture—forming, in its exterior, a fine looking building, of modest, yet some ecclesiastical, pretensions, and in its interfor, a convenient and spacious place for the assembly of Christian worshippers. At the upper end of ,the long parallelogram, which forms the body of the church, isan altar splendidly ornamented and de- corated according to the rites of the Catholic Church. ‘The church is supplied with an organ of a singularly fine, mellow tone and compass, which isin a gallery just over the great entrance doors, above, and facing the altar at the other end of the church. Beneath the body of the church are spacious school rooms in the base! in which are also the large stoves whieh yh apertures in the floor above, of the church. This chaste and has been erected by the ex. ertion, zeal and labers of Dr. Pise, a distinguis clergyman of the Cathclie Church, in this city, former. ly of St. Peter's church, ia Barclay street, and for his puipit talents amiable demeauor of pub'ic character is th ‘gyman who was ately to the United States Senate, at Washington ; and Is, we believe, the Srst instance of a clergy- of the Roman 1 ‘hureh who ever was a9- ited to that distinguished office, in @ country here- lore famous for its Protestant zeal aod exclusive her bristianity. The building has cost,in its erection, $10,000, which, however, Xclusive, of course. of the furuiiure, Us te, the pews, the or; and other ne- of simple rich- ‘hich are on & pace THE CEREMONY. as an early hour Le te a ge gene aisles: and pasrages, were ail deusely congregae tion end attendants on this solemn occasion, notwith- standing the tickets of , foreach individual, were Ofty cents, which circumstance, while it tend to pay a small portion of the expenses incurred tion of the butiding. did not, im the least, di nich the crowd and multitude which flocked together on this occasion. in fact, the building was not able to contain the number of those who desired to enter, but could find no room. Bishop of the djocess of New York, Rish | Hughes, Bavibg put on his splendid pontificlal ruben va | the vestry ad): = fm arch, accompanied by the pastor of thy ureh, Dr. ise, and a crowd of dignided clergy, then proceeded rouva the building to the front doors. where they knocked three times succestion, By, upon which the wide open from wit and they entered | pon their entry, as they stoo: the Uhrerbbold, the prayers of the Chureh usual on | these solemn occasions, were repeated by the Bishop, | | in which the attending clergy joined, and a solemn ia- | | | | vocation was chauated. in the Latin’ language, to all | te Sainte to pray fur the ehurel fewblivg i 4 a the people as- learned Bisbop then to make @ circuit the clergymen present on thi ceeasion. we noticed lately belonging to the ol f Pretestant den’ the vtes‘ant communion, to ta! refage, | to their convictions, ad Dr Huntin r of a religious work which has obtal riety, entitled © Alice, or the Indian Nun.’ j monies of the dedication having been per- formed, with some abbreviation, as we were given to | Understand—otherwt-e their length would mt bare aliow ed time for the sermon — and high mass having been in solemn etyle the rich organ and the ry uniting their rolemm } re ston, | bave left their homes aud country to preserve toeir | of jaunary, at express their ey napath u H fo the anforia to testify their ntry and eadurance in the caure of free t © jem Rerelved, That @ committee of twenty oflovrs of the division by d to make arrangements f in aid now be! ‘ined by ac our fellow citizens for the benefit of the llungarian ex- lies. to be given as soon as arrangements can be made for that purpose. Livutenent Colonel Sandford explained thet the rea- son cf ebanging the from the Sth to that ed Was &" then introdnced eartan Party to each of the officers separately. which apied & considerabie time. Mies Jageilo called them bro- thers, and expre ber delight at meetiog them. Among thore pr jor General's staf, General Mori General Bet tai Bogert, Col. Postley, Col, Mortis. De Peyster, commanding the 224 Datohess county and the officers pany, called Grionel Kifle Rangers, i who bare ¥ Ofganized and joined the Lith regiment One Of theee officers fought in the Mexioas wat * ‘The Governor's Island Band adde: of the cocasion, performing ol ~ Vankee Doodie,” some other wits in that superict style tor whieh i famous troduced to all the ere totrodueed to militia com. i i efPeers mmm be: the Ligh Gaard party | y wonldet Aud were led back to their apart: Sandford, Gen Morris and some Ou Fping the room, the three ladies ere they touched with the wis from the military. Gea Moers, took their leare, “i F®, nod Mise Ujhart ment by Major ther Offers. duret f reer pti y Sandiord then Vestag M a ty of bis mem. kept the door MAF the crowd? Astor 1. OF Cartan Faeson he edjourned rite ‘of the Court Martial in Frepeh was held pro forme and Colonel Sted hom Captain Freneh wished to examine upoo ® iar point, being from home the court adjourned ek Free Dieraretr —A new fire district hae been ined op by the Common Council, It is te is A ef the city lyti orth of Twenty-second Assistant Engineer le to be elected for Nichelas Sergrist, a Tammany Hail candidate and stends a fair chance of with House te prevent the rushing in of tem that has been adopted by the cabinet. ted This new fire distriet wae much needed. The fire Glets tots ere to be re-nombered it t# to be Freevmed greater, shmplictty will be adopted than im the present eompiionte arrengement =At 8 o'clock yesterday morning, « fire was ered n Archbold inthe frame house wewis street, which extended to @ ear- apter of the Geapel the truth. and the life.” cher proceeded to show speaking extemporaneourly—First, that the way to | talvyation was only to be found in the bosom of the | Apestelic and Roman Catholic Church Seoundiy | baving most larpedly and argumentatively e#cablished the first point, he proceeded to show that tae doctrines, | traditions the mysteries and ceremonies of the (« thelie Church were also the truth; and. thirsty preceeded to show that this He ontd that if thare weee . 4, there wight be t it whieh he had otic Chureh e fo impreeive, forcible and argumentative dis te baving beew eoneinded. the biehop then de- | d from the pulpit, which was stesightway whevi | one side tee e de. ¢ Dishop. with the attending priests. then oh . choristers striking tn tie of St. ete Pre 4 listened to with profound interest respectable audienow From Maracaino,-We learn from Capt. Brown. of brig Eleamer, arrived yesterday from Maracaibo ¢ the U.S, steamer Vine, Lieut Commanding James It Ward. arrived ot Maracaibo on the 17th November, | tixtecm daye from Peusscola via Jamacia, Capt B. | ! states that the virit of the Vixen bas been highly ser- Vierable to American interests, not only by affording Prevent protection with her armament, but by ree efling the animorities wbich, for along time, have ex: bted between the authorities aod our countrymen and ae well ae by alleging the discorde existing in Mare. caibo. which, originating in polition, had everywhere ereyt inte the family circle potroming the entire soeiai ordet. There desirable ends have beew acosmpli«hed through on exchange of otintel vite * " mente t pubiie officers otvil, mili judteral. wich their teasiitee which civilities nd of festivities om shore, the first u hare ccourred since the nving of the revoluti t re serving to mix ali parties ine kindiy | d causing @ long cheriehed bitterness in a The commauder of the j it Provincial government | + eotion and favor to Ameri. | . oe ia = a I rey = me to be general throughout Pier attempte bie believed thet there will be no fut: Lot be relied Om ‘volution, although euch an idea o ‘The officers and © pohjoln s let of the tet the Vixen were all well, We Aant( ommanding; Jo: e—James H. Ward, Livute- ecutive Offeer; A N. Beltay, acting Master and |x. Archbold Lat Aneiet Metant Samuel Midshipman: Robe. F Lew Karl Engieh, Pawed Od Ascietant Engineer: Thos. A. do ; Joho W. Parks, Tember, eeptain’s eter! “eon, 3d do, Thos. | started from Petersburg some | 4) | Anniversary Dinne is weual end most recherché on such festive occasions. | After suitable prayers had been offered up, the compa: nytatdown. When the cleth was removed the Presi- dent rote and gave the following toast -— net—May the union of the enthusiaem, to the sound band—the membera Mending, ea eloquent speech in the German adverted. fo glowing terme, tothe seen Jeote proposed by this am: to adopted by this scelety was, © tees and performs righteou find lemgt | noble maxi pam! gd radive the world woul | chings toast after an sbeence of many years on bis returring. midst, a verti TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, Affairs in Washington, OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Wasutnaton Crt: r Saturday, January 5, 1360. i cae is not in session to-day. umors are again afloat, of ayproaching changes in the cabinet, but it is probable they will depend upon the action of Congress. The democrats of the House appear determined to do nothing till the officers are elected. The whigs would be satisfied to go oa with the presens organization. ‘The Southern Senators will push forward the bill providing for the res «raiion of fugitive slaves. By 1ts provision, persons aiding in the escape of a slave are subject toa fine of one thousand dollars. This is an offset to free so |. Next after the'Austrian resolution, on Monday, ir the Senate, Mr. Foote’s, on vrnitories, with Hale’s- proviso, comes up ; and, but for the eleetion, slave- ry would be the subject in the House, on Root’s ine structions, The friends of the New York Branch Mint are quite sanguine of its pass z» this session, end we expect the same bill to provide for a mint im Cali- fornia. Both together cun hardly fail. The President has communicated to the Senate quite a large number of back diplomatic appoint. ments, including the whole of the foreign nominae tions. P. S.—Mr. Clayton gave a diplomatic dinner this evening, at which the whole diplomatic corps wad present, with the exception of Sir Henry Bulwer, whose absence 1s attributed to the death ot the Queen Dowager of England. Several members of Congress were likewise in attendance. United States Senator for Maryland, Bavtimone, January 5, 1850. We learn that a caucus of democrats and reformed whigs will be held at Anpapolis,on Monday ev next, for the purpose of nominating @ United Senator. This, it is suppored, will operate against Mr, Pratt. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE, . Acnany, Saturday, Jan. 5, 1850. Mr. Coox gave votice of a bill to make the District Attorney of toga @ salaried officer, Mr. Moncan gave notice of a bill for changing the day for the assembling of the Legislature, Mr. Moxcay maie a motion requesting the Medica; Committee to report upon the propriety of physicians from jury duty; also directing an inquiry by the Military Committee into the sufliciency of the New York State Arsenal for the purposes for which it ‘was erected. Adjourned. Assembly, The Assembly was not in session to-day, It being ad- journed over to Monday, to give the Speaker time to Ohio Legtsiatures Couvmavs, Jan, 6, 1850, Nothing of interest ocourred in theSenate. In the House, it has been decided to allow the intro. duction of bi'ls, o juently, @ large number were read for the firet time- among them.was one by Mr+ Riddle, to repeal so mueh of the apportionment lawe as divides the county of Hamilton, Mr. Roxpensn introduced # billto extend the cor- porate limits of the oity of Cineinnatt. Acquittal of Hickman, Bavtomone, January 5—P, M, ‘The trial of George H. Hickman, a young member of the Baltimore bar, which has been progressing im the District Court for several days, was concluded thie afternoon, The crime charged against him was obtaia- inggmoney on forged soldiers’ land warrants. The jury, after being out # shcrt time, brought in a verdict of acqaittal. Itis stated that the prosecution of the case was wholly grouadless and malicious, Court of Appeals, Avuany, January 5—P, M, No, 10 bas been concluded, and No. 11 reserved. Twelve cases were distrivuted and ready for argument: on Monday morning nex? The Jadicature Bul, Monrneat, January 5, 1950, ‘The error reported in the Judicature Dill, turns owt» it seems, to be all humbug. Southern Mall Fatted, Batrimene, January 5-9 P.M, ‘The Souther mail has again failed beyond Washe ington, The Accident on the Central Railroad, Hawniecnc, Jaawary 6,1850 ‘The accident on the Central Railroad, on Thursday above Petersburg, was owing to the conductor of the | freight train, going up, having failed to compare hie teh with the standar and, disrecarding the hour, by nsiderably before thistime. ‘The passenger train coming down was runming at ite th the collision was solely owl ent of the freight tate. wer eisley the supervisor of the road, whe wae Billed by thie deplorable soci 1 Tee omeers of the seepage eh ee ne eae John Haha, the con train, al- of dane bedience of orders resulted in thie » been ditcLaryed from the service of the com- Markets, Bavtimons, January 5 Flows has advanced, with sales of ns: pe Lm $4 S14. Cirein, provirions, &e, remain without -——_— the Hebrew Benevo- lent Society Chepra Bikur Cholim and Hadishe, This coctety | portent change brated its annual testival by a publie dinner cf the members at the Colireum Rooms, Broad. | Way, om the evening of Tuesday, the lst instant, The chair wes taken by Joseph Levy, Eeq. President, - | having for View Gombrecht Bermbardt, Esq, Viee verident of the Society, AtT o'clock the guests and “ The President of the United States and his Cabi- py atone oar ave mele Which war dronk with three time three. with areat olumbia by Dr. Mertebacher then addressed the meet! ia similar sooieties. ot days, wealth aw and bea a be if He concluded by cote of the associat E 4 s F ? “ Prosperity and success t other jent institutions and to aii pt. . . promos thele ng. expressing the jay and eatistection it from this ei association like this ite ‘ng under the patronage od Wishes, to carry owt the great fe +0 benutiruliy expressed in the motte the “The Land we live in May the wins Re bert Lyon. eq » never lone a ttther.* Addressed the on to the fact that t majerny of ie neabenat his suciety were foles took o¢easton to comment in@ happy strain upon the asylum afforded in this country te the oppressed of all neti Pole bimeelf by birth. Bis father wa Fit tO be city of Posen He was well aware of the ; ple in the north: ulfered by the p rn parte of Rarope, tere, ip this country. the cates of freedom ate to them—here (bey -btal w thea oded a. 3 nm tefuge, He “Warthington. Lafayette ~ druak with great outhosarm | Ne” WAM wee caith and success to the California adventurers ™ eral other toasts were afterwards Graak, v