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WEW YORK HERALD. og a QgrIcE, H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MAaSSAU STS. ¥ HBRALD, 4 cont bor come Eten? Z Al eente LS eo Se aL ee Tpke 2 adper- eens phoresis | aca 'Y CORRESPONDENCE, containing important peer om nv ena af tha wor V weed, will be BS KDTICE taken of communication. We AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery. —Rvs A Wire amp Have A Woe—Witany or ran Wave, BROADWAY THEATRE, Brosdway.—Iaum Howson, om ans Dare 1 176—Bor» ro Goop Lucu—Owrn Many NIBLO'S GARDEN, Br wy--Loonesa Bones. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers Street.—Domsay axv Wow—ALanuine Sacuimee. 71 THEA’ MATIONAL TUBATRE, Chatham Square—-Watssce— ‘THEATRE, Astor Place.—Locrana Boneia—Daar a9 4 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE—Cuniery's Mivereca OLYMPIC.—Prance’s Mireraeis. Manopeow.—Wurre’s Seen auras “DOUBLE SHEBT. ~Wew York, Thureday, April 18, 1850. ~~ European News. ‘We may expect to receive two weeks later news fom Europe at any moment, over Bain's and House's wires. The America has, probably, arrived at Holifax. The British Queen may arrive at this port to-day, from Hamburg, with one week’s later Antelligence. } The Cabinet. ‘The recent numerous rumors predicting a change @ the cabinet, have attracted the attention of the two journals at Washington, which are considered the organs of the present administration. We ex- ‘tract the material passagee:— {From the National Intelligencer. It Is not true that the enemies of the cabinet “have won the President over to them;” nor is it true that “the Prerident bas intimated @ strong disposition” to | “form anew cabinet.” There existe, we have reason | tv know, entire concord between him and his cabinet; and there is not, we verily believe, « single member of Whe cabinet who would not retire from his station in- stantancously on discovering that his presence in the eouneil chainber was not desired by the President. There is not, we are persuaded, one of them who is not Aliectiongtely and deeply attached to the President, ang proud that he enjoye the esteem and confidence of that i minent man. Nor is there in fact any division, ‘er any wantof harmony, between the President and the members of the cabinet. Bincere friends to the President, grateful for the ser- viece which he haa rendered, and those which he is mow performing, for his country, we are rejoiced to be able to ray, ax we now do upon the best authority, that there ie pot a shadow of truth in the rumors respect- Sug the relations between the President and the cabi- Bat to which we have in the preceding paregraph re- [From the Washington Republic.) If there should arise a political necessity for achange of administration; if the condition of parties, the pro- greee of affuirs should indicate such a change, we a) oye that the members of the cabinet would not tohear the firet of it from such @ correspondence az we have been noticing. The members of t bi- wet are gentlemen of character, “able men,” end “hard- working public servant,” and should be approached with candor and kindness. They would not consent to hold office if they imagined themselves & hindrance to the public business, or # blight to the whig party, or 8 burden upon the popularity of « President who haa ‘trusted them with a confidence whieh deserves the re- ital of any pereonal sacrifice. Bhould bee d come to opinion that their resignation was needful to an: of the high objects of government, to euceoseful ad- ministration, or to the renown snd consideration of ‘the President, they would retarn their commissions with alacrity to wchief who bestowed them upon them, particularly moral; and we do not know where the majority of the people—particularly politiciane— will go when they die. Mr. Benton is not alone in having warred upon Mr. Calhoun during his life, in the manner shown, and become a mourner when he died. There ie another Senator, who went still further; he pronounced a splendid and well merited eulogiuin upon Mr. Calhoun in the Senate, after his death. In September last, only six months ago, the same Senator made the following speech at Shelbyville, which is thus reported in a Texas pa- n— Gunrnar Rusn said be had been somewhat blamed for not signing a certain address written by Jno. C. Calhoun. He was not aware that it was for this he was sent to Warhington. Ie did not go there to give dinners or sign addresses, But there were reasons why he did not follow Mr. Calhoun, end be dictated to A him, One was. Mr, Calhoun did not support the war in defence of Texas, He opposed the declaration of war—yeu, he heard him say on the floor of Congress that ‘the war was wrong.and.he would sooner stab a dag- F to bis heart than eupport © measure that he be- fitved to be wrong.” Mr. C. did not support the three million bill, but made speechos ogains it even after war was declared, Moreover, he did not admire Mr. C. asa lender, He would not vote for him for Presi- 4 scarcely if we bad no other democratic candi- date out. He ie rash, often gets agitated and seared. ‘A man that gets roared, won't do for a leader. He might be shrewd in keeping out of difficulty when out, but once in, be rhould then fight out, and not run or get scared. He gave an instance in which Mr. C. Lad evidently allowed himself to get scared.— Moreover, Mr. Calhoun had not supported the friends of Texas in the laet Presidential canvass—bad told his men to remain neutral, and if any difference; favored the party whose nominee was pledged for the Wilmot roviso, und thus caused Taylor's election, and if the ‘ilmot yroviso is ever passed we may thank Myr. Cal- houn for it. Mr. R. detailed the manner of the forma- tion of that Southern Convention. Mr. Foote, a strange Calhoun man, went around and personally requerted the members to arsemble at the time and place. When Mr. R. cume, he saw that Calhoun had set himself out to be the bead of that body and dictate its movements, He moved that the whole matter be referred to a sub- committee of five, which, of course, made him chair- man ofthat committee, By the partiality of his col- leagues, he (Mr. RK.) was put on that committee. After adjournment, Mr. C. shut himself up in his room and he saw no more of him for ten days, at the end of which time, he (Mr, R.) was called upon to sign that address, The address in itself aeeumed facts that did not exist— contained many improper expressions, &e.. &e.; and should he, the representative of the independent people of Texas, be thus dictated to and led by one who bad 80 opposed the interest of Texas? Should he thus pin his faith to the sleeve of another and blindly follow him? When he did, he would cease to represent the free peo- ple of Texas. These sentiments ure in strange contrast with the eulogium, and should be read with it. They afford a curious comment on consistency, and yet there is no inconsistency. During the lifetime of the illustrious Southerner who has gone from us, it was the manifest interest of every leading man, of every political party, to misrepresent, misconstrue, and assail him end his motives. The ecene chan- ges—Death removes him, and it is now the policy to laud, as good, aman and motives that never altered and never changed. Why is itso? Sim- ply, became the clouds of opposing miads and presses can no longer obscure or darken the path- way of the glorious patriot. He can no longer be called ambitious, or the popular mind be tamed from the glory of a career that has been unsullied and undimmed, from its commencement to its close. His fame, his wisdom, his purity, his pa- triotism, his true and honest love for country, will grow brighter and brighter, and shine clearer and | more clear, as years pase into the past, and as ex- perience terts and endorses as truth, his far-seeiag vision and the wisdom end safety of his counsels. All are now anxious to do justice to Calhoun dead, which they would not do to the living Calhoun. His lofty and patriotic character can no longer in- terfere with their grovelling views of the hour. Thoee eagle eyes, thet glanced scorn and indig- nation upon corrupt and unworthy men, and that frowned on baseness wherever it met their view, are closed for ever. The eyes of those who ever ebunned his gaze may now shed crocadile tears— gud with thema gif, of generous and affectionate trust. The cabinet cught to be treated by the whigs of Con- gress ax brothers embarked in the same cause, And ‘We believe that fthe disratiafaction was euch as tt is wought to have the public beli the whigs of one Branch of the government would commune and con- wult with the whige of the other, as brothers should, in ‘el! kindness, in all candor, in ptneerity of heart and friendliness of purpose, end not whieper their discon- tents to listening cars, to be pleked up and bruited @lread in connexion with injurious suspicions and eo- wort cbargie ogainst the personal integrity of a whig cabinet, ‘These responses are very Delphic. They may ‘be the firet public manifestation at head quarters, of & revolution to have an entire change in the cabi- met—a complete re-construction—or it may be jut the contrary, acccrding to circumstances—the fint storm from which, they may emerge with etrength sufficient for the whole term of the existing Presi- dency. A little time will explain it all. Both these organe areure the public that the cebinet is ready to resign when the honor of the President and the futerests of the country require euch sacrifices. Well, has not a necessity arrived? Is not the leap of Quintius Curtius before them? Don't draw back. | Go with dignity. Whe Morals of Politica—Calhoun Living— | Calboun Dead, During the past few days, there has been circu- } luting very widely, in the newspapers, @ very | @arions ond pregnant letter, written by the Hon. Thomas LH. Benton, in Warhington City, and firet | aeking ite appearance in St. Louis, Missouri—a letter which throws a very original ray of light on the morals of politics, the feelings of politicians, and the difference between a great man dead, and | & great man alive. Here is the document :— LETTER FROM COLONEL BENTON. | Vaswimaron Urry, Mare 8, 1850. ; Daan Sees -T have had @ greet many letters from | Mendes in different parte of the State, in relation to a | ‘union with tue Calhounltes in the enauing elections; wneb letters are mortifying to me—too much 0 | 1 | mouths that opened only to defame and nmlign him, may now praise him—and the presses that teemed with columns of abuse, will now find profit with the masgee, in changing their course of hostility or lukewarmnese into mourning and lauding. We have ever done justice to Mr. Calhoun dur- ing his life, and we have the strongest, as well oa the latest, evidences of that life, that he appreciated it. The Herald was ever open to a full and candid exposition of his views, although we did not always eoncur with him. It was the only Northern press that was eo. We admired the great stateeman; we fully admitted his far-seeing patriotiem, and the honesty, sincerity, and purity of his life and charac- ter; and we did justice to it on all and every occa- sion. Unintluenced, as we have ever been, by any poultry coneideration, to defend him and his views while he lived, we will not now remain silent, and see others in high places perform a mockery over his tomb, before his ashes are cold, to make @ stepping stone for popularity in the section he loved ia life, without exposing the fulse hypocrisy, and | holding it up to well merited contempt. We will countenance no such insult to his memory, from men who weuld have stabbed him had he lived. The century will not close before millions of mankind will class him as one of the greatest of American statesmen, and the purest of men. Posterity will accord him that reverence and reepeet which this generation held back from him while he lived. Tux Caviner ann rue Banss@at Pinates.—Some | few yenrs ago there existed on the coast of the State of New Jersey, facing the Atlantic ocean, a | Rest of pirates and banditti, who made it their busi- nese to lure veseels to the shore, where they were certain of being wrecked, by exhibiting false lights. Many a “ tempest tossed mariner” has lost his life, and many a fine ship has ere this, fallen a prey to the devignue of the Burne, st pirates, as they were called. to be aurwered. det upon this point last | pen ; S aener, | The manner in which these pirates conducted their an it . to meet and pettl erences, 7! highly honorable ealling, wos as follows: They answered instantiy end truly. that I would sooner it ™ | procured a large lantern, with a brilliant light, and the sue thousand dead, who had died of crolge | eure lan ge into convention with qucha gang af | te Se framys und that is my semiment to dey There is but one principle op end (ait ich the demoerae; vniter can meet in any election, and that dowd of public plunder.’ A his, but it ix wot true of me and mine; | iy it durirg these elections, by standin of all connection with them. 1 wild mot mix wit ner give nor take heip, Let them have their and we Let u# have a clean ticket, ticket-no taint of Calhounism, union, nullifieation in it, Let them ket, and elvet it If they ean, or de- | * point le to defeat them, it; the hwrmony amd the fo require it ne thie year, are a turning potut a ibe drome of Girunion. The alivnnioniste count | upon Nir curl, They br love they have the Binte, and Jens them tn the bighest degree ; {i} confirm that belief; the witheonfirm it; therefore they | ff confined to thelr own ticket, | City and county, #tate and operes all. they should be p heir t. and be made to congregate by Uemsciver. | ours eetion awn te We simil be stronger when they are gone. and what is felfiah caleala- | mcqe, ve hall be clean po tinid or some few Alore moat loring election we may Det Ull dhe great point wit! be gvined ranites | will be pat down, ‘abd evearthe eicett om of will be } im « victory in bebalf of the Uutom, verruling consideration at present. | can have wo effect, upon e—not even a foor of ce. Lam for the | ve Enion ‘ exterminated tion as eons ard 1 nm fe uniter are fox the di Ueto wk me x hen [wae at the bar, Nnevee interrapted the ry counsel wh > he wee proving up my case for op ter ie net for publication. but It ix not for Friends ma J eee it Yourstruly, THOMAS ff. BRNTON The Evening Post, of tins city, calls this effasion | “the chavacterictic letter.” lt is notoriowely fo. | = The e@onecaiment » t be believed, that only @ few duys after | tiie epietic was written, the honorable author of it was epperently one @! the most sin eere mourners at the funeral ef afr. Calhoun “ He followed hie remame to the va nlt even. seemed deeply afiected”—eo" writes one of Weshington correspondente! This ia wre age of hypecriey—of bruase—of bronze-—as well a ofgad BD het a contrast between mageificent, noble, perry 4, pleriows, and gifted Calhoun—she ange, the patrict, end the far-eeeing statseman, whe ie new Lo mote, and the mourner at the tomb! The ene pore, and above euspicion in every act of Die private fe and publie career, and me other— Dut step! \ j ‘Pate would be a very Mrony world, if it was not +, | motion of a ship | Vain and en | hie Tamworth epeech, where Don tied it to the neck of a lame horse. They would then lead the animal, whose irregular steps would make the light bob ap and down, and resemble the ‘The vessel doomed would follow the light, and thus be enticed to some dangerous place, ond be wrecked. Ae soon as ehe was firmly fixed, the Barnegat pirates, like a swarm of flies around a molasses hogsheed, would surround her, and pillage her of every article of value. The present Cebinet revembles the Barnegat pi- | rates very mueb. They are holding out false lights to the country on the slavery question, and | | luring the ship of state towards the rocks of de- #truction. Clayton ie the lame horse who holds the lontern, and the rest of the cabinet lead him. But the Barnegat pirates were routed and broken up, end the eae fete appears to await the Bamegat Cabinet. J iain Tur Vover axp Scnoor or Ixpverry.—Jndge Fadmonde, while presiding at the dinner of the Tramatic Fund Association, gave as a sentiment— “The Ladice--alweys foremost in every good work.” So exclaimed we, on reading the practi- cal, sensible, eamest, and businesslike appeal of ladies of this city, bor the establishment of @ he industry. They have left ae little «@ soy on the eubject. They throw aside all seatinent, and address themselves to the foete and the occasion ; an alluding to the food of pauperiem pouring im vpon us, happily illwetrate it by the Kev. Sydney Smith's story, ia Partiagton is y the Adaatic only a emall ¢ und school ¢ represented as etriving to sweep ew with a broem. However, this i merit of the ress, compared with the bearty direetnese of purpose and the simplicity of the plan which are to establieh the work so well and wisely begun. Let the ladies take courage—never falter, | and they will have the sweet consolation of having | eonielbuted to the immediate ond permanent hap- The Pinees of thousands sad tena of thousands, enter is exerlien', and must muceced Rroreasiarion oF TH Canuer.—Among other on dite, we find thet Mr. Webster vill take the State department, und that he will Lave equally able men If thie should take Nae, avd Mr. Cloy become the lauder of the ad- mietration in-Congte nd heir to the enceeseion, the Whig party may yet be able to get on ite legs, crganie® iteelf permanen'ty, and carry everything put phe country. Something mart he done, ee bie colleagues, or all e gone. A petty latecuy cabinet will never do. | in rpecie en board. ‘Tum Case er Mus, Fornest.—We ate some- ‘Cuinus ov Vaden amp Guowons Dwa.upes.— whet surprised at the conduct of eertain usually cautious editors in prejudging the testimony, as it ie styled, against Mre. Forrest. Persons who have seen anything of the world, or who have observed closely the amount of credibility to which mere tuggestive evidence is entitled, are not easily to be misled by ex parte statements. Indeed, positive testimony itself to an allegation of faet, ie alwaye to be received with the most scrupulous circum- epection—for there are creatures on the earth, who, fiom a variety of motives, sometimes not wholly ex- plicable, will swear away the eharactor or life of another, and then sit down to dinner with a good appetite, and thank heaven for its bounty. They certainly should retum thanks for euch mercies; for, if they had their deserts, prison fare would be etter food than they merit. Perhaps, however, those who strain public opinion against the charae- ter of un individual, of whose guilt or innocence they have no means of judging with reasonable impartiality, are more dengerous and mischievous than those whose suspicions, doubts, jealousics, envies, hopes, and expectations are the foundation upon which they superstruct, the possibility of fact. There are two ways of perpetrating such mis- chief, and as both have been illustrated in Mrs. Forrest’s case, we shall show how it has been done, both by a profeseed friend and by a stranger. It is a little curious that both should be literary cha- ractera, writers for ladies’ magazines and versifiers. Mr. N. P. Willis is one of these. His very friend- ehip for Mrs. Forreet has done her an injury. The replication to the charges against himself and Mrs. Forrest was one brittle piece of frost work of eva- porating faney. The lady’s shame und fame were exalted in one and the same breath. Instead of manfully meeting the case with the rasp and file of a masterly common sense, he strove hard to polish the whole bar of testimony, leaving the prominent inequalities etill more plain than before, for the brightness put upon them by his fancy. With such a cause, and with so much of justice and truth a he had et his command, he should have hat the courage of a lion and the foot of an ¢l+pnant. These were wanting, however; and in ther place remained nothing but colors or drapery, which covered, but did not conceal, the picture or statue reised to astonish society. Thus it was, and the reeult is mischief, mischief, mischief. For Mrs. Pierson’s dictum upon the evidence, we eennot but feel more sorrow than anger. Mrs. Lydia Jane Piereon conducts a prudish, sentimental, literary gazette, and writes, usually, with a wo- manly elegance, in which the heart shines superior to the intellect. Not so in this case. The cruelty of a conviction falls from her pen with glittering blackness. To make out a case against mankind, ehe consigns womankind—the amiable wife—twelve years a wife—to sudden infamy, unheard, unproved, and, as far as we have any means of knowing, un- soiled and unepotted. Are the innocent visite of sociality to be perverted into evil communications ? Is @ life of purity, of spotless and unreproaehed honor to be made the trifle of a jealous hour, or of a sudden caprice of fashion? Is the light laugh of an innocent heart, gay in its own sunshine of vir- tuous self-reliance, to be tortured into the lascivious freedom of wantonness? Are the merry-makings of a few friends over the festive board to be deemed the necessary orgies of the bacchanals, with Venus and Pan in attendanee’? Is every silly letter of every silly, presumptuous eoxcomb to be considered the gift of a Pallgs er a Callistus to his Meeealina? If so, then we have wrongfully judged the materials of which intelligent society is consti- tuted. Mre. Pierson may rail against a sieter of that “ humanity” which she delights to extol as so sacred, but it will not change our opinion. She may think that such testimony sinka Mrs. Forrest to the “ lowest depths of perdition”—that from such “a burden of infamy” Mr. Forrest is “* justifiable” in releasing himself, by ‘any course’’—that such a “ leprous thing must be east out of society,” but we cannot entertain any such views. Men, we trust, are net so ready to convict as this lady; and leaet of all, for the honor of the epecies, may it be true that any one would heap coals of fire upon a head, when no testimony furnishes us with any evidence of guilt. Mre. Pierson asks, also, for the conderanation of those husbands who have figured in the testimony. With the simplicity of a country education, she seems to tuke every charge as proved, and never stops to reason with hereelf upon the poreibility of innocence. Does Mrs. Pierson really think the city so vile a place tor would she | be willing to have all her gay hours construed into sinful opportunities, on the evidence of domestics 1 We cannot believe it. It is far easier to believe that Mrs. Forreet is an estimable wife and lady. Tx Arromrwents Berone ter Srvate—The Customhouse, and other appointments in the At- | lantic cities, are etill before the Senate, awaiting action for rejeetion or confirmation. Every now and then there is an inquiry made about them, and a fuss created both here and in Washington. ‘With reepect to the nominations of this city, we | have already intimated that some violent attempta have been made to bring against the Collector, | Dietrict Attorney,and, perhaps, others mere private family affaire, which ought by no means to be in- troduced into public matters, or into such a re- epectable body as the Senate of the United States. | Ae private individuals, and members of families, | Hugh Maxwell, J. Prescott Mall, William V. | Brady, Philip Hone, and verious other normina- | tions, etill lingering in the Senate, are respectable and reputable men, and would be such in any com- | munity. The printed pamphict about Mr. Max- well’s family affaire, and the Boston letters relative to Mr. Preecott Hall’e connexions, now before the Senate, ought to be utterly repudiated, and thrown out of that reepectable body. If any of those gen- tlemen deserve to have theit heads taken off, it should be done on public and political grounds, growing out of public matter, including also their qualification or fitness for the several offices to which they have been appointed. Now, if any of | thore appointments are justly obnoxious to the charge of Sewardiem, or in niding or assisting in the intrigues of Seward and his clique ia this city | or State, we would conceive that to be a proper subject of inquiry by the Senate, and, if the truth should be establidhed, they queht to be rejected. Such demagogues as Seward ehould be marked by | the friends of the Union in the Senate, and eo | should all dhose who toady to his advancement. State AprnormiaTions To Scuoows axp Cor Loers.—Several pregnant inquiries have been made recently among the friends of education, why the last Legielatore refesed to make the vewal annuul | approprietions to collegiate tions, both medi- cal and literary. We underetand there were some very,round reasone for their refueal. For several yea past, thoee grants have beea very Liberal to varion* collegiate institutions of New York, bet rome extraordinary frets have leaked out recently, reepecting the manner ia which tove donations have been applied by thoee into whove haade they were entrusted by the Legislature. The college at Schenectady and it4 management have been par- ticularly noted, end an explosion connected with that institution ie not very far distant. Bishop Doane, of New Jerery, ie not ajone in bis know- ledge of finance «nt financiering, which is equal almost to that of (he valiant brokers of Wall street in their beet deye Farry Veorranies.—A convention of doctors is to be held in Cincinnati early next month. A con- vention ef editere has just been held recently ia Be ltisnore, and a dosen more editorial conventions will be hald during the surnmer ail over the coun- try, to fix the prices of advertising. Sanuve or Te Evrora.—The steamship Bu repo, € in Low, ealled yeeterday noon, for Hae By reference to another part of thie sheet, it will be seen that retune are being made to the City Inepector, of the condition of rear buildings and courte and alleys in the city, and that we publish there retutne ae far as they have come to hand. Imperfect as they are, they rev-al a horrible state ef thinge, The Eleventh, the Seventh, and the Sixth wards are the worst, the Sixth leaving all the rest fur behind, if not in filth, at least in the fright- ful overerowding of the dwellings. The picture it preeents is appalling in the extreme. To think of two or three hundred human beings crammed into one house, of upwards of 4,700 crowded into eixty- three ill-ventilated and filthy rear houses, in a single ward, in the heat of summer, is enough to startle the most apathetic. And these are independent of the eighteen thousand subterraneans who burrow under ground in the cellars, like the wild animals of the forest. With all this filth in the hotbeds of disease staring the Common Council in the fuce, they hesitate about the eppointing of a health warden for each ward, because, forsooth, one for each ward is too much. Penny wise and pound foolish, they are still straining at a gnat, while they gulph a camel. They are scared at a small and a necessary expen- diture for preserving the health of the city, while with the most lavish hand they equander away thousands of dollars upon things uselese, or worse than useless. What do they care for the health of the citizens? Look at their conduct a few even- ings ago. They ordered the City Inspector to pro- secute the parties who were depositing manure in the upper part of the city. He did so, first notifying them to remove it—to which notices they paid so little attention, that they actually inercased the dung heaps till the last moment, and till they were actually arrested. How does the Common Council act? They remit the fines, and thus practically hold out an invitation to all the manure dealers in the city to dump filth wherever they please, as they may fairly calculate upon impunity in the end, no matter what proceedings the City In- spector may adopt against them. We shall see what eteps will be taken to enforce cleanliness in thoee dwellings that have been reported filthy by the health wardens. Oxy Tres Comixo Bacx.—The journals which live upon speculations in fancy wealth, are now and then busy with mining companies of a very curious character—gold mining, silver mining, copper mi- ning. If we are to believe them, fortunes are to be made for little or nothing. Every day brings out some new company, with or without a responsi- ble head,.as is most convenient. The whole talent of these industrious originators and speculators, is directed to mining operations, and if the folly is not stopped, closed, shut up, or exploded, the days of the South Sea bubble in England, or of John Law and the Mississippi scheme in France, will be revived, with like disastrous results to the infatuated victims of the madness. The guid mwnc journals of Wall street and elsewhere are particularly ac- tive in getting up these schemes, and by puffs and promises play the Peter Funks tothe managers, who will be among the miseing when most wanted. The business has for some time been carried on by maps and plane of Lake Superior, of towns in Vir- ginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and other States, but new the nests of wealth are re- presented to be somewhere in California. The firet step in the formation of one of these companies, is to have a large lump of California gold—the larger the better—then to arrange a board of directors, get out certificates of stock, and offer afew of the latter to such seedy editors as can turn them to accour in the market. Puff, paff, puff go the columns every day, till some poor devils pay down their money for the certificates, which are worth no more than the paper they are printed upon. The whole capital invested in euch schemes isin the big lump and a few clusters of quertz, proudly displayed as the generous yield of nature to unlimited enterprise. Fools are gulled, wise men laugh, the speculators put the money re- ceived for ecrip into their pockets, carry off the big lump under their arm to some other city, and leave the deluded ehareholder to read the result in the certificate which he preserves as an evidence of his credulity. ‘This is the succinct history of every such com- pany. The mechinery is as old a that of the Tu- lip mania in Holland, or in the time of Harley, Earl of Oxford, who was a wonder in “raising the wind;” and if such delusions are perpetuated by the ignorant eelfishnees of editors out at the elbows, or nothing over in bank, we shall be obliged to look fa little deeper into the matter, and make some in- vertigations beyond prettily colored maps, into thoee rich mineral localities which so largely con- tribute to drain the hard earnings of honest labor. Look out for bubbles about these days. Tur Anxy m Orzaon.—The officers of the United States army, etationed in Oregon, have memorielized Congress for an increase of pay. ‘They ground the application upon the fact that the | value of money is much less in that region than on the Atlentic coast, and very curiously give the prices current to prove the anomalous condition of trade. A carpenter gets ten dollars a day, a com- mon laborer four dollare, and washing is set down at three dollare a dozen. Butter is a dollar or more per pound, and onions five dollars per bushel. White engar is bard at forty cents, and common brown will only diesolve at twenty-three. “* The cheese” cennot be had for less than three-fourths of a dollar, and President Taylor's style of egge— we with he would hatch out that cabinet—are eeventy-five cents per dozen. These eggs only cost the President at Washington fifteen cents, and such a luxury cannot be had in Oregon for less than five times that eum. Thus it is not without reason that an increase of pay is sought, for if the army is to be supported with its proper dignity, the pay of privates und officers must conform to the general standard of prices. In California the same policy must be adopted. If not, our soldiers will be rag- ged regiments soon, officers and eutlers included. Officers cannot get @ new cont under sixty-five dol- lars ; end how can they live in a dignified position and command respect, upon ealaries at which a Dutch carpenter would turn up his nose, and with- out conte to their backs? Let the pay be increased, or else recall the detachments in the publie service. Semething must be done. ‘Tre Henoanian Ixsraverions.—We have ab ready publiched the instructions of our government with reepect to Hungary. They were dated on the eighteenth of June last. The inetructions of the Hungurian Minieter to Major Danbourghy are pub lished by us to-day. They bear dates, reepectively, on the fifteenth and seventeenth of June last; and had they been known to our government before the Hungarian canse was defe perhape a very dif ferent fate would have attended that unhappy country. The instructions are of a very Liberal character; and the importance of our giving pro- tection to countries in Eurepe in which the germe of liberty have taken root, eceme to be realized more thoroughly than by our government. That the United States naturally have a deep interest in the cause of republican liberty throughout the world, cannot be doubted; and it cannot be that we can long preeraetinate in doing onr duty Switz- ciland etande, at the present moment, promiacntly before the world af eceking # protective alliance Temaing to be seen what ection we are juet in taking on the question. Someuiing muvet be done. — "mt Prepretios or Gorn any Sriver in 188.—We have it from the beet authority that the mines of Mexico produced forty millions in gold and silver wring the lost year, the mince of South America ab.sut twenty millic theee cf California about thirt¥, and the mines of Durepe about fifty, making altegeQer one hnndred and forty millions of gold end silver added to the specie currency of tie lifex end Liverpool. She took out 196 passengers for Liverpooland 4 for Halifax. A list of their names oan be seen in enother eolomut. She had 31,799 werld in e@e year, and probably next year the achli- tien will be gre handred millions. We are within asbort time ef 8 complete revelation and reval rich in the enrre@ey ef the whele workl | is a true one. | articles of vertu, would, no doubt, produce a for- | Joyce Heath, Tom Thumb, the Belgian giant, and Important Telegraphic Summary. ‘The scenes which.were enacted in the Senete, Yesterday, are enough to make us despair of any settlement of the elavery question of @ quiet and peaceable character. That body, it seems, were engaged, during the principal part of the day, in debating Mr. Foote’s motion te refer Mr. Bell's recolution to a committee of thirteen, and had proceeded very favorably and quietly until Mesers. Benton and Foote got into an altercation, which was near ending rather tragically. On @ personal remark being made by Mr. Foote, Mr. Benton left his seat, and rushed towards that of Mr. Foote. The latter gentleman then de- eeended to the aisle, and drew a pistol from his pocket, which he cocked, and then awaited the attack which he supposed Mr. Benton was about to make upon him. Mr. Benton was prevented from reaching Mr. Foote, and the pistol was taken from Mr. Foote’s hand, and locked up. A com- mittee of seven were appointed to investigate the subject, and report on it, and the curtain fell. ‘We cannot command language sufficiently strong to exprees our abhorrence of such scenes as that which occurred yesterday in the Senate. They are positively disgraceful. If their prevention here- after be not secured, there will be an end to legis- lation, and the Senate will be converted into an arena for the settlement of private quarrels. We were in hopes that the worst was over—that Sena- tors would proceed with the important business before them in a calm, rational, and dignified manner. If there has heretofore been any doubt of the course which Mr. Benton was determined to pur- sue in the Senate in relation to the question of slavery, in connection with the new territories, there is no room for any now. In his seat yester- day he defined his position so plainly and clearly that a blind man even can almost eee it. That course is to insist, as fer as his jnfluence extends, upon the admission of California as a State, without reference to the ether terri- tories, notwithetanding that he is aware, as well as any person is, that it will be opposed by the Southern members with all their might, and that it will leave the main question of slavery still open for agitation and difficulty hereafter. As far as we understand the feelings of the Southern members, they will consent to no such legislation. They want the whole subject disposed of at once, and 80 do the sensible and moderate people of all parties in the North. Mr. Benton is, therefore, playing second fiddle to the cabinet in the Senate, and has nnited himeelf with the freesoilers and abolitionists, in the factious and disorganizing policy which they have pursued since the commencement of the ses- sion. We hardly think, however, that he will euc- ceed in effecting his object. The only reeult that will, according to preeent appearances, follow on in- fisting upon admitting California eeparately, will be to prolong theagitation in Congress,and, perhape, of preventing any legislation on the subject at all during the preeent session. Let the country mark the men who are thus betraying ite best interest, and exerting themselves to produce a state of affairs that can tend to nothing but disorganization of the government, and a dissolution of the Union. The House of Representatives eucceeded in electing a Clerk—Mr. Young, democrat, end late Commiesioner of the Land Office, being the suc- ceseful candidate. The House then adjourned. The new Clerk will take his etation to-day, and that body will proceed to the consideration of the business before them, which was interrupted by the death of Mr. Campbell, their late Clerk. The great anti-rent trial at Hudeon, is being pro- ceeded with as expeditiously as possible. The pro- ceedings of yesterday and the day before, will be found in another column. The quantity of land which is covered by thie suit is only one hundred and fifty acres, but the title which is sought to be invalidated covers some one hundred and sixty thousand acres. This is what gives importance to the case Mutiny on Shipboard. Barrmone, April 17—8P. M. ‘The Britieh ship Brant, which sailed a few days since for Paname, has been obliged to return, a mutiny hev- ing broken out on board among the erew. Steamboat Explosion and Loss of Life. New On:eane, April 12, 1850. The steam tow-boat Hercules was blown up, at the Bouthwest Pass, on Wednesday lart, and, sad to relate, the third engineer, plict, and five of the deck hands were killed. The boat is total wreek. U. S. Frigate Raritan. Woxroux, April 16—P. M. Whe U. &. frigate Raritan, Com. Parker, from Havana, Qvesrc, April 17, 1880. Three ships bave arrived at this port, which is sooner by ® fortnight than the ueual time. Slander Suit. Montnosy, Pa., Aprit 17, 1890, In the Court of Common Plena, of Pasquehanna county, in the ease of Elisabeth Ellie against Alexander Dael, for lander, # verdiet for the “platutt of $1,500 was rendered. Steamer Yet. Bostrom, April 18124 A.M. ‘The rteamer was not in right at Halifem last evening Court of Appeals. Avoaxy, April 17—P M. Bor 64 0nd 66 argued. Banevat Bruxy rx Aox.—Littlefield, the great | witness, price three thousand dollare, who was the principal means of convicting Dr. Webster, is ex- hibiting the secret passages of the Medical College near Borton at twenty-five cents a sight—those who forget their purses not trusted. Mrs. Littlefield holds the stakes and sweeps the floors. We would advise the rival of Barnum to add the following curiosities to his show :— The wig worn by Judge Shaw when he delivered his famous charge. An exect copy of the prayer prayed by the jory, inetead of examining the testimony in the case The briefs of the lawyerw on both sides, or ra | ther on one side, for oll the lawyers seemed to be | on one side. The mould eworn to by the dentiet, with an affi- davit sworn to before the Mayor of Boston that it Such « chow as thie, in euch a community as Boston, with eo much fine taste and curiosity for tune for Litdefield a# large as Barnum made out of | what he expects to make out of Jenny Liud when she eomes to this country. Bupertor Court. Befor. Judge Sandford. ELY MOORE, VS. THE PRESIDENT OF THE MECHANICS’ BANKING ASSOCIATION. shcomp Par. Arai 17.—-Mr. Cornell (cashier) deposed, for the de fenee, to the effeet that Peek came down to the hank tn the morning. after the kegs were left by Mr ent ware found to Thamprem; the were ope coutain dclare he (Mr Peek) rald they were to to the ere is account as award: withers at fir heen + euggestion, made the alteration in the perk ; he enid it wae then correct, and be rigned it; the pro- eerds of the coins were put o the eredit of W. Hi Peek: A discussion here arore, at to the production of the bunk books, Mr. Cutting, om tebalf of plaintig, oou- tended tbat the Bank books were not evid meueys paid to Mr. Peek, and he chieoted t- & ing preaueed. Mr, ©. pabmiited ‘that the elvek shoud be prodnerd by the defendant ; they vonld show ether the money War paid to the Marebal’s orice, o¢ Whatever evi- whore individoul ute it wae paid. pi be between the the ctjeetion, and we re preeumed © 8 return feener, they were to hare the peat beet evi donee, and he would silow the prodnetion of the books Kir Cornell wns then rote xamined by Mr. Dronent Hat, O & Deseret Actorney gy. Why Od Mr. Thoump. sou ork fore teecipt, if the money was to have gone bo | Dir, Peek tagrount! A. Beomuw he bed wot ire bana | book ¥ huh bite. nity was first nada, §. Sersbali,” ond af. cntry tae made to 5 fl g rence. Be Ee raid hoard bong p m the iment to of th offee from the Int april to he offered to prove. Deen in poesersion of $7.000 up his account, which sum of je U. 8. District Attorney. Plaintiff further offered to lied some of the proceeds of ‘bta of Ely Moore, due to Mr. Pi ence to the office. prior to Ist of April, 1847. Mr, Peck then, in answer to Mr. Moore did nes owe me any money, rowed m: f@om friends of mine, and pay it out ofany money that might jee. I only loaned him $100. on. Mr. Small him $4,000; make ups deficiency existing in the went there first. There was a deficioney altogether; when 1 wae there about three discovered that a check had been received vernment for $10.000, of which there was ne aeknow- ledgment on the books; money was borrowed and re- paid. and so continued from time to time to make up the deficiency; the money of the bark Lawrenee I a) mes 5G all other monies that eame into ee. It wan then agreed both should be entered ph ors & with leave to defendants to ap) and court, on appeal, to dispose of the give ju ent as to amount or 8 new trial, or a referee, if 80 order (The Mechanics Bank was mentioned it " report; it should have been the Mechanics’ Association.) NT TSRURG i E 5 i $4. ne Coxviction anv Sarrxncr or THE —Bix persons. them in the recent strike tried on change of ri sentence of the court condem! page and Bratt, to enti , and the in prieon and age fifty considered exccerive, Our citisens yesterday, afterthe announcement ounced by Judge McClure in card but one opinion expressed, and tion. We regard the sentence of two ilty of an offence without erimo—ee low that has ever been etruek at the eltizens. There is to bea public meeti [sapere a the sentence, and te eo raf prt gine 2 ‘The females are said to be mothers of families.—Pinshurg Post, April 12. i i i i : i i i i i I F ; | ges itt] li ei aq [ rf of Furni will receive it fc at sepacions Anstion Hoorn, S17 sad B10 bvood way, fi Coun about leaving his old friends and ny the diggers and syeettally invites aff hie Treas a ther : Odd Fellows’ Hall.—Perkins &. Co's Mergwens, and Sere Always been patronized to repletion. “ and Dreesing Rooms, Tiree we eyes wre observe thos’ exe nightly sxrving pe ‘allliary nnd eivte snocclatioas of bed a demand the ray igranettlepe i ifn ge ge fer S50 very Soot hate only eliving prof.” rity of the fashionable vaying € four 4 rivals, Bi tre: and others will find the most eterer- ive 4 the Mind im this The Binace ike Mad pale tet tang ewe Tal - Portral . My reece vert: Bo iave here pertrate with qo of leasing effet, w peneral precedented success. A! arte are rerpecifuliy invited to arnt rooms, 301 Broad’ W. G. Saunders’ Paten ae ah Beef av the subscriber’, wholeraie ad Tall Let Broadway, corner of Liberty steeeh, ond gf Inwesiay. Benen on New York Sdeqeeh Res ee idee Be ke tote wheat cedar at th fe aoe trees . Freor l0te'S'e'clock, om Monday, Wednostny, ona’ Bvsday.— }. E. will preserite for the poor after 8 0’ ebore Gouraud’s Italian Medicated Soap, for Sess or srestcatinn supertocus hate Poem ony pare 6 oe 7 body, ily White for the, complexion. M4 Hire accioate Callender, f8 South Third eireet, Ph ‘The rema: ble Chalybeate Restorative: Shee agrees mulecly aperiont, and woaseytally re regu! Rey nt, re 387 Hroadwa: are invited te examine thle rich eolleetion yo $anttied in excert or variety im the city: among whteh witl be the acimired, the seer andthe open shain pattern. v0 ma © order, after any design, matter bow paired. rat , ST Broadway. 3 Combe altered and re) Fi. a Heir Dye—Batchelor’s Genuine Bair Dyp, can only be procured at the mannfactery, ¢ Wall street. The public should guard ngainst imitations. Tarione dipicmas. Persone whoee hair hae serumed chad from the uae of the ‘have It corset SUG; Sieg sd there. “Copy teadine Wigs and Toupees ab taetory of MEDMURST TbAK are made of the beet natoral eu the latest improvemen or. Cat je seen the lest ie ment wretehed nervous dedilit sages = ped | 3 y ene Mie without trying It. Venlsh before tt. $1 a betaley £ tte as All Be der to let worst gout fon at. feek Ko Further i—The «ras Teor! 'A turer positive wna intallione sare. for stork Yon, haw teem weares which terminate ip Conrnmp'ion, “in Spetten's Com Nod. Liver Ont Candy © Te js Spotten’s Compound preparation, the most fect the aly really etieacions piling to contr jm fed ite ordint ative pre nd ll acm arisen, apy oongh reme Te fe prepared by the “a may be bad there, oF of any Of the agents named belew— fou} 2 Cinth b Co, 110 Broadway, ID hmer Mewes, nad ire (Irving Henee) Sammers, 8% Grand street; Coe! eorve h Aires! Herccrean, Mroad wey acd | ton erent, i ‘ Perry; Thomas & Moawell, Wilhem Mon'gomery street, Jersey's ity. _ ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED EVERY SHE TRADES. SFRAL BPRTING OF TH a Neterers of New Veork, will be April 18, wt 7 e'eloek, at 170 Mesben: OBO) é ' wwe Coenen, retary. UE JOURRE YHA reqnes ed te meet — MAKERS ATS Stem Tinsel, 181 Paltow wredny evening the 1th inet. a6 Th e'slosk— By order of se Ceramitter ‘ D H.R. BURNET, TMPOON, Prew't PARTRIDGE, GOULD

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