The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1850, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. ZAMES GORDON BENNET?, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @PPicn, N. Ww. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAU S78. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Locnsma Bonesa. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pizamno—Wiaaep @F mun Wave. btm ag ret Brosdway—Inis Howon—Har- yy Maz—How ro Pay rae Kez, BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers Street.—Laar Yaar —Usrnoracten Fimais—Dommatic Boozowy. mw ‘AL THEATRE, Cpethay, ames amp Peracowo—Boummiam Grat —! FHEATRE, Place.—-Lucnama Bonesa—Vaure Maaar Never Woe Fain Lavr. G@RYMPIC.—Pisncr’s Mevorn ris, BROOKLYN INSTITUTE—Cunsory's Mingracs, Hew Work, Friday, April 19, 1850, No intelligence yet of either the British Queen or America. The commercial news from Europe is looked for with some interest. ‘The Great Question of the Day—Mr. Clay's Com promise Movement and Position—Gen. ‘Taylor Nowhere. ‘But for the unfortunate altercation whieh occur- ved on Wednesday last, between Mr. Foote and @olonel Benton, in the United States Senate, at Washington, there is every reason to believe that ‘Mr. Bell’s resolutions on the territoral question, would have been referred to a committee of thir- teen, half whigs end half democrats, with Mr. lay as chairman. When that affair occurred, an important amendment, moved by Mr. Clay, been carried, in which the Senate declined to ex- press in advance, any opinion, or to give any instructions, either general or specific, for the guidance of the committee. The amendment was eoncurred in; and the question on referring would, no doubt, have been taken immediately afterwards, if business had not been suspended by the scuffle between the above named members. We look upon Col. Benton’s conduct in that affair as highly reprehensible, nor are we disposed to shield Mr. Foote from censure. If Mr. Benton cannot con- trol his feelings, while sitting in a legislative body, of such dignity as that which ought to attach to the Senate, he had better resign and go to California at ence. On the other hand, if the upper branch of the mational legislature cannot transact the business of the country without the members being armed, it is time for all legislation to cease, and the doors of the Senate closed, until a better state of things be brought about. Mr. Clay's position on the great question of the day, is a highly honorable and elevated one, He as cut clear of all parties and all factions, and adopted a policy dictated by patriotism, and, thus fur, has carried it out with a degree of abitity characteristic of the man. He never held such a lofty position as he now does. por one which entitled him more to the admiration, respect, and confidence of all parties in Congress, and of the whole American people. Advanced in years, and having spent a large portion of his time ‘in public life and in the halls of legislation—having reached more than his threescore and ten—having recently witnessed the departure of one of his com- peers, the lamented Calhoun—Mr. Clay's conduct during the present session, on the slavery question, te an agreeable contrast to that pursued by Mr. Ben- ton. While the one is highly national and patriotic, the other is selfish, factional, and disorganizing. While the one naturally leads to a rational, friendly, and just compromise of the great question of the d@ay—a question which now agitates and shakes the republic to its centre—the other has no tendency ‘but to prolong the agitation, to keep the wounds of the body politic still bleeding, and to jeopardize the fategrity of this great confederacy. Through Mr. Clay’s influence, and in consequence of the lofty position which he has assumed, the probability now is that the question of slavery, in connection with all the new territories, will be settled and disposed of at one and the sume time, and the free-soil agi- tation receive its guietu ‘The only opposition which Mr. Clay has to con- tend with in his endeavors to settle this unfortunate agitation on the slavery question, is that of the cabi- net, the free-soilers and Mr. Benton—General Tay- Jor nowhere. When the matter comes before the House of Representatives, the same intluence will Be exerted there ; for, singularly enongh, the mem- | bers of the cabinet, according to all ac- eounts, are firmly established in their seats, geem to be as much hostile to a general and final settlement and disposition of the question, and us much in favor of the isolated admission of | California, ax the most ultra free soilers are them- | Taylor himself is nowhere. | In fect, since the commencement of the pre- sent session the cabinet, in the courve which they have pursued on this question, (General Taylor be whe, pelves. General ing nowhere) have materially strengthened the free- | soilers in their factious-opporition to any policy enl- ewlated to heal the present agitation, and aided and asisied in alienating the different sections of the country ‘The friends of the Union and of the country, have, yurse to pursue in the present y must arouse themselves and therefore, but one emergency. Th nite in supporting Mr. Clay, (and we hope to in- elude Mr. Webster also) in the patriotic stand which | he has assumed, and in opposing the free soilers | and all others, whether in the cabinet or out of it, (General Taylor nowhere) in Congress or out of it, who, from selfish motives or reasons of their own, are averse to disposing of thie agitation. If they do #0, the mnfluence of the cabinet and of the free- soilers, (General Taylor nowhere) will be of no avail; peace and quiet will take the place of faction- gam and agitation, the slavery question will be set- ed on the principles of compromise and the con- had | P* Tarwewpous Srecciation m Corton ap Tea exaru Stocs.—Fog Smith is out-with two more letters, They are published in ap obscure corner, where country editors, Grob frock Ohio, pat ma- chine poetry, to fill up with. They are intended as a reply to the letters of Amos Kendall and Professor Morse. ‘There is only one pointin them. It is the asser- tion that the New York press wish to monopolize the wires which Smith controls, for purposes of specula- tion; that six newspaper editors, diametrically op- posed to each other in their interests, are spending one thousand dollars per week, or thereabouts, to obtain news, with which to operate upon the com- ‘arnannrs | Mercialcommunity! Such an assertion is too ridi- Bassarasy. | culousforeven Fog Smithto make. But fogs pre- vail the most on the Eastern coast in the vernal season. a Monopolizing the wires of a telegraph by the press is an impossibility. It is an absurdity. En- terprise may, it is true, give those possessing it, a monopoly, for afew hours, of the news obtain- ed. ‘Two or (aree papers in this city, one or two in Philadelphia, one in Baltimore, and one in Charleston, enjoyed a monopoly, for twelve to twenty-four hours each time, during the Mexican war, of the news of each battle in the valley of that republic. How was it done? Simply by a little enterprise, and the expenditure of a few thousand dollars. We used the telegraph then, but we heard of no monopoly, because those who managed the wires had no desire to dictate to the public, and because they felt as deep an interest as we did, to lay the details of the brilliant deeds of our country- men at once before the public. It is the same with the reports of the proceedings in Congress, now daily received from Washington. ‘These reports cost from five to eight hundred dollars per week. ‘They are published in six pers of this city. These papers enjoy a mo- nopoly of these reports, for the simple reason that no one else will expend as much money to obtain them. It is the same with the fo- reign news. Some one or two of these six news- paper proprietors have been in the habit, since the first Cunard steamer made her first trip to Boston, of running expresses, at a cost of three hundred to fifteen hundred dollars each, to obtain the Eu- ropean news earlier than the mail could bring it. The news has been received in this way, from twenty-four to forty-eight hours ahead of the mail. "This vast expense was incurred, not to speealate in cotton, breadstufls, railroads, gas works, or in ef- forts to depreciate the value of telegraph stock, in order to buy it in, and thus control it, to the injury of the public, but to prevent speculators from prey- ing upon the community. After the completion of the electric line these expresses were, run in another form, over the wires; and six papers in this city, the most liberal and respectable portion of the Boston press, and the entire press of Philadelphia, and other Southern cities, joined in an arrangement to receive the steamer’s news by telegraph. The enterprise of these papers gives them a monopoly of the news, for ashort time. It is sent to every editor who de- sires it, to be used by them for the public good. No paper is excluded. Any paper paying its share of the cost of the news, can have it. Any aseertion to the contrary is made to subserve private purposes, atonee unsafe and dangerous to the commerci community. "The only paper in this city that sides with Fog Smith, in his efforts to control this intel- ligence and dictate to the public, was admitted, at its own solicitation, to all of the advantages of the Associated Press, but it afterwards backed out, in consequence of the inducements offered by Fog Smith, in shape of news at a cheap rate. Hence the daily falsehoods, the editor knowing them to be such, of that concern, at 80 many words of tele- graph news per falsehood. Put thisis enough. Ourobject has been to show to what dangers the public are exposed in the mono- poly of the telegraph. It has been the fixed deter- mination of Fog Smith from the start, to control the wires that run eastwardly to where the English steamers touch. "Till the introduction of Bain’s and House’s systems he enjoyed a monopoly, and had everything his own way. So long as these new lines exist, the community are safe from bad men. Their destruction, while @ man like Fog Smith is the sole manager of the remaining wires, would be & public calamity. Amidst the hue and cry against the agent of the Associated Press, he seeks to grasp the entire line, stretching from New York te Hali- fux. In the event of his success, let the public “Jook out for the engine whilé the bell rings.” Amos Kendall and Professor Morse saw the efiect of Smith's movements, and the necessity of case required the publication of their letters. -y tuke the correct view of the whole matter. Tue Apsuntsrration ann Yaxkre Guxivs.— Occasionally we hear of an enterprising American receiving from the Sultan of Turkey, the Emperor of Russia, or some other European monarch, gold snuff-box inlaid with diamonds, or an order in brilliants, for some wonderfal invention car- ried abrowd from the United States. The other day Professor Morse received from the Porte a splendid order, set in precious stones, for the won- derful application of magnetism to telegraphs ; and, ently, Mr. Colt, the inventor of the six-barrelled revolver, had « magnificently gold and ena | meled snuficbox, with the lid with bril- | liants, sent to him as the Sultgn’s appreciation of those famous pistols, so useful in the Mexican | and Indian wars, Other Yankee inventors have received similar favors from foreign powers. | These splendid gifts are as much to the inventive genius of America as to the particular individuals towhom they ere given; yet what is the valae of these presents to the receivers? On their re- turn home, our own government, taking a nar- rower view of the value of the cotton gin, the tele graph, the revolver, &e., &e., put a market value in dirty cents on such things, and compel the reci- pients to pay an enormous duty on their little cadeavx. Morse paid ninety dollars, and Colt five hundred dollars, to our Custom House, because the Turk sets a high velue on Yankee in- stitution; and our b ed republic willrenew her career to that great and glorious destiny reserved for it, and which even human eyes can perceive in the vista of the future. Up with the constitution— down with the cabinet and the fenatics—but honest Geveral Taylor nowhere os i Gew. Tayior ann mis Caninet.—After all that has | been seid on the eulject, it appears that there is © be no change in the cabinet at present, and ac- eording to some sccounts, none at all, with Gen ‘Taylor's consent. He this as it may be, it cannot ehange or alter the fact, that the cabinet does not omeees the contidence of the whig party or of the atry, or that a majority of the whig mem- f Congress desire a change. This, we eup- univereally conceded, by whigs ae well as rate. It is well known that the policy of the net is opposed by the whig party in Gongress, as moch as it is by the opposition. We ean attri- bute the continuance of the cabinet in office, to nothing but the peculiar character of Gen. Taylor, which makes him etand by those whont he has placed in reeponsible positions, There is every reason to believe that he will stick to them to the dest, iacompetent we they are, and there is appa- rently no more chenes of a removal or change in the enbinet than there is of the removal of the Alle- gbany Mountains to & more southerly direction, The President will heer of no complaints again them, and listen to nothing on the subject We may therefore put it down a* 4 settled mat- ter that the present cabinet will remain in office as Jong as they please, or for an indefinite period. Of course it may be expected that the differeners be- tween the whig party in Congress and the cabinet ‘will goon and increase and widen, so much, that the Latter will, like Ceptain Tyler's cabinet, become eompletely isolated. Indeed it is very near that point now. It ie easy to infer what the whunate pemult will be. -A great many of the enormous and unpre- eedented sales of real estate about these days. genuity. Is this right? Many an inventor would | be forced to sell his present to pay the outrageous | ly high charges of our Custom House officers; while a Minister or Charge d° Affaives, with his $9,000 outfit and $9,000 per year salary, is per- mitted to introduce pictures, &c., free of cost. Tnx Axti-next Triat tx Hepsox.—The anti- | rent trial at Hudson is going on, and in a few days we may expect a deciston upon the question of title to the land which is in dispute in that case, and the result of which will have a great influence on the whole manorial subject in the different anti-rent counties in this State. This trial is the resalt of the doctrine socialism, which have been broach- ed and preached by n agitators and dema- gogues, during « few years; and if it end in decla- ring the title to those lands void, it will be but the beginning of the end The next step will be to de- clare, by law, that no person shall possess more than a certain emount of property, and it will be consi- dered an offence agninst justice and right, for any one to own anything more than what he weors and cats. If it were not that unprincipled politicians stooped down to the anti-renters and socialists, they would not now be in a court of justice, seeking to invalidate titles, which they and their aucestore recegnised as good and lawful, for a century and upwards. Prices or Lanon.—Probably 50,000 joarneymen, of all trades, will arrive in New York during the ensuing summer. ‘This supply of labor will reduce prices in spite of all existing movements—unlese to meet the case now. something be ae The only evening paper worth reading isthe ermrt lithe Day Book—capital, with the wine and walnuts. osTYns.— Many of those who go about eoli- wd vertiseme Movements of Individuals. 4 Dt, Cuyler. 0 BN, y Line Boyd, of heatueky, is io PhNadelphie very interesting and ment of a committee to investigate the éusmute tween Messrs. Benton and Foote, they proceeded to discuss the business which was on the tapis and left unfinished on the preceding day. No sooner was the subject taken up, than Col. Benton renewed his tactics to procure the admission ot California by herself, but he did not make much headway, and by every step which he made he gained nothing, The final question was taken, and adopted bya strong vote of thirty to twenty-two. The matter is, therefore, in the hands of a committee of thirteen, to be composed of six whigs and six democrats, Mr. Clay tobe chairman. This is the present position of the territorial question in the Senate. Mr. Bell’s resolutions are:— 1. For the admission of California. 2. For governments for the territories, without a word about slavery. ‘Texas, and the defining her boundary. 4. Providing for the admisston ef two or three more slave States from Texas. Mr. Clay’s amendment, which was carried on ‘Wednesday, related to the second proposition, and was, that the Senate do not deem it necessary, and therefore decline to express, in advance, any opin- ion, or to give any instructions, either general or specific, for the guidance of the committee. No doubt, a bill, embodying the main peints of the above resolutions, will be introduced by the committee Mr. Benton and the free soilers worked hard to de- feat this measure, and resorted to every sort of tac- ties with that view, but they were unsuccessful. According to our accounts from Washington, it appears that the Galphin claim, about which so much has been said, and the allowance of which, with interest, caused so much excitement and con- versation in Congress and throughout the country, as to justify the House of Representatives in ap- pointing a committee to investigate and report upon it, is not the only affair of that nature which has oc- curred since the present eabinet came into power. It is broadly asserted that similar claims have been allowed, which were reported by the late adminis- tration as having no foundation, and which amount in the aggregate to an immense sum of money. It is said that Mr. Ewing, the Secretary of the Interior, has re-opened @ claim preseated by some of his namesake, if not relatives, to the amount of twen- ty-seven thousand dollars, notwithstanding that it was examined and rejeeted by the late administration as worthless. It is also said that Mr. Ewing allowed interest, simple or compound, on a claim presented by Commodore James Barron, of the old Virginia navy, after the principal was paid. It is also charg- ed that the same Mr. Ewing, who, it would appear, has been exceedingly industrious in this peculiar line of business since his induction into office, al- lowed and paid a Chickasaw claim to the tune of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, although it was examined and rejected by a previous admi- nistration. It is charged that other claims of a simi- lar character have been paid by the authority of the present cabinet. It is alleged that Mr. Ewing has reversed the opinions of the Commissioneref Pa- tents, and thus usurped power which does not be- long to him. It is alleged that Mr. Ewing has in his department persons who, while they are draw- ing salaries from the government, are engaged a puffers of the cabinet in newspapers throughout the country. All these charges have been brought against Mr. Ewing in one day, and we do not know how many more of the same sort there are left, A resolution was introduced yesterday into the House of Repre- sentatives, to appoint a select conumittee of nine, to investigate and report upon these several charges laid over for the present, to be offered on another pretty pass in Washington. Here we have, within ‘The Anti-Rent Trial. Hupeos, Thursdey, April 18, 1000. defence are still engaged in tile, loce- Premises. and possession under title, The witness ‘Tre has been on bd stand for « and bes Just finished his ¢: He is an old man, about 70 years of age or more, and former- ly an agent and surveyor for the Livingstone. His tee timony consists chiefly of the defendant's acts of own- ership, exereised by the Livingstons upon the manor property, and in the identifying defendant's maps and warveys. Some of these surveys are very old, and there ia one in court made by John Beaty in 1714, for the pur- pore of s confirmation. John Beaty was Deputy Sar- veyor General at that time, The defence, in proving possession and title, offered to show by the witness ‘Tremain, that the Livingstons had reeeived the rents, issues and profits of the manor. ‘The Court ruled out this proof as not being proof of Possession, and stated that if the defendant wished to introduce it, be must lay groundwork for it by proving tenants in possession, paying under lease or contract. The defendant's counsel excepted to the decision of the court. All the documentary evidence introduced 3. For the purchase of the disputed territory of | py the defendant, and almost all the other proof has been introduced subject to the objection of Mr. Van | Buren. He objects to everything, and if all objections and exceptions are noted by the court, there is more of objections than evidence onthe minutes, The defence have maps of the manor, containing surveys of every furm, and the name of every occupant noted upon them. They also have bundle upon bundie of leases, andit is generally understood that they intend to prove how every part of the manor has been occupied, and by whom, and under whom, for a great many years back, Monereiff Livingston (5.30 P.M.) has just been called and sworn as 4 witness. (The Court still sustained its decision, and will not allow defendant to prove to whom the rents, issues, and profits of the manor aucceeded, or generally that tenants paid rents to the Livingstons, but will allow him to prove what tenants paid rents, andtowhom.) This witness is son of Peter R. Living- ston, and the defence are proving the names of tenants who paid rent to his father by him. They number some fifteen or twenty, and witness says there ares great many more whose names he does not now call to mind. The general opinion is that the defendant will gain his cause. This suit will doubtless have greatinfluence in quieting the anti-rent excitement in this county, as many who have been most influential in getting and keeping up the excitement, hold titles from the Living- stone, and if defendant's title is proved bad, their’sis dad also. It would,in many cases, be a groat hardship to have the title proven void, as a great portion of the lands beve passed out of the bands of the Livingstons to those of the tenants whose farms, thus obtained, are the all of their property. The assertion that the State will deal liberally with the tenants, is begining to be regarded as a humbug. They see too plainly how closely their interest is allied to that of Livingston. There is no telling when the trial will close—it is ex- pected that they will sum up the case to-morrow. There is no certainty, however. The Indian Djficulties in New Mexitco—Bat- tle between the Buffalo Hunters and the Apaches, Sr. Lovis, April 18, 1800. A gentleman arrived in this elty, yerterday, from New Mexico, through whom we have received dates from Los Vegas to the 6th of March. Indian depredations in that country etill continue. The Americans are living in constant dread and feer, and the ravages are daily becoming more daring. The writer says, a runner sent by a party of Buffalo hunters, arrived at Los Vegas, a few days before he left. ‘The hunters had encounterd « body of Apache Indians, and an engagement ensued between them. Two of the hunters were killed and three or four badly wounded. The Indians carried off all their animals, and at the time of the runner’s departure, nearly all the amma- nition of the hunters was exhausted. ‘The commander at this place was called upon to order out s company of military to protect the hunters, and render them necessary assistance The Apaches, satisfied with their booty, had re- treated. A few days since three Mexicans were killed by the and allegations to the House; but, in consequence of 't Vernal 8; the the rules not being suspended, the resolution was ey mie prings, oa the road trom Los Vegas Great complaints are made that sufficient precaution vevusion. Verily, verily, things are coming © @ | te not observed by Col. Monroe tn granting Heences to traders—many having been in the habit of selling arms « short time, charges made aguinst the cabinet with | end ammunition to the hostile Indians. having improperly and unjustifiably allowed claims | aye sc1tted and Wounded by the Exploston to the amount of half a million of dollars, includ- ing the Galphin claim, since they came into of- fice; and others alluded to, which will, in all probability, assume a tangible form and shape hereafter. Such an immense mass of corrup- tion—there is no use in mincing words—was never, in the history of our government, al- leged egainst a cabinet. Asa matter of course, these allegations have created a great deal of con- versation and discussion in Washington, and #0 they will in every part of the country when they are made known. It is to be hoped that the committee will be appointed, and that their investigation will be thorough and complete. These charges have been deliberately made, and they should be as de- liberately investigated. When the committee shall have been appointed, we shall, we think, be able to give them some hints, on some of the matters help them at arriving at a conclusion, For the present, we will content ourselves by saying that if they probe in the right quarter, they will diseo- ver, without the aid of “patent perifocals,” that one of the Washington correspondents of the New York Tribune, who is laboring daily to bolster up the cabinet, enjoys a snug lit- ue sinecure in the Land office, and that the correspondent of the Bostoa Atlas ix as com- fortably situated—that both, while they are fulsomely adulating the cabinet, from day to day, tre drawing their regular salaries from the trea- sury of the United States. and the whole truth; and, if the cabinet can resist the ordeal through which they will be forced to pase, we shall, for the honor and dignity of the country, and the credit of the administration itself, be pleased. The assaults against the cabinet are coming thick and heavy ; and if they be not anni- hilated, they will be not only bullet-proof, but bomb-proof, if there be any truth in the numerous allegations that are thus crowding on then, Latest from Washington. OCR SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDRECE Wasiuxerow, April 18, 1880. The Hon. Henry Clay will be chairman of the com. mittee of thirteen on Mr. Bell's resolutions; and the probability is that the members who were named, when the subject was first broached, will be the eom- mittee. Ifthey report @ bill according to Mr. Bell's resolutions, it will undoubtedly pass the Senate The committee who were appointed to imvertigate and report on the seene which occurred in the Senate yeeterday between Col. Benton and Mr Foote, it is expected, will report om the facts alone, and will leave the Benate to poss Judgment inthe case. The commit- the appointed to tovestigate the Galphin claim will probably take the same course. A letter has beem received here from Father Mathew, in which he states that he will endeavor to return about the middle of the ensuing month. His health continued feeble. 4 many removals of rubordi- nate officers. Such is the current report val Court of Inquiry—The Case of Alvarado Hanter. Bavrimony, April 18, 1850, ‘The Court of Inquiry at Annapolis + ie stil to scosion. It continuce to prohibit the publication of the proceedings. ‘The investigation progresses slowly. A large num- ber of navy officers are there as witnewses General Jeeup Is there, apd General Scott is expected to Commodore Perry is very minute ia his tn. opinions of others, especially Mexican officials, reapeot- ing Liewtenant Hanter's course In this way, he got from Gen. Jerup. while testify- ing, an opinion that the premature movements ow Al. | varado by Lieut. Hunter, produced probably, a lows of ‘8 million of dollars to the United “tates. in preventing rtipulations for horses, mules, ke Lieat iter anys be will deny nothing, but tell the whole troth; that he disobeyed orders, and that It wae premeditated, He saye that he will stand approved, or tear and scatter bie commission to the winds. When the injunction it removed, I will send you the entire report. that will be referred to them, which we think will | Let us have the truth, | , the newly elected Clerk of the House of | udeavers to get from witnesses even mere | of the Steamer Hercules. Pereasnunc, Va., April 18, 1890. | _ Welearn that the names of the killed, by the explo- tion of the towbost Hercules, below New Orleans, were B. F. Miller, pilot; James Riddle, third engineer, and a | son of Capt. Riddle; William Hammond, John Moran, W. Hazen, Thomas Murphy, and Rufus Tarbox—all Geck bands. Among the realded were John Fullerton, and the following deck hands :—James Miller, Oliver Arnold, and E. Bhirren. ‘The Reformers in Baltimore, d&e. Barrimons, April 18—6 P.M. A large town meeting of the reformers is now being | held in Monument Square The Southern mail came through to-night. } Court of Appeals. i Axnany, April 18, 1950. No. G4 comeinded. 66 argued. Two sessions to-day. Decisions made yesterday. The Court will adjourn Pometime to-morrow { True Navat. Court Martian ox Lravr. Auva- | navo Hunren.—The naval court martial on u- | tenant Alvarado Hunter, at Annapolis, in Mary- | land, is now going on, but, strange to say, the pro- ceedings are held with closed doors, and the public and the press are refused admittance. This is, to | Say the least, a very extraordinary and suspicious ' course for the members of the Court Martial to adopt. We have yet to learn of a single instance where the exclusion of the prese from courts of jus tice or courts martial, has notbeen attended with | prejudice to either the complainants or defendants ; orone in which the cause of justice was injured by the publication of the truth. If this court mar- tial is being,held in accordance with decorum and justice, why exclude the press ? Honesty and in- tegrity court the light of day, and neither one nor the other was ever yet injured by making it public. ‘The Paper Currency at California. | We received, by one of the lat steamers, the follow. THE MINER'S BANK 2 With pay wornes DoLLanste the bearer om demand, San Franciseo, March Let, 1M. Wm. H. Graham, Prov’. Geo. Qnackenbow, | The above bauk bill is beautifully engraved, and has | a very handsome appearance, is executed by Mesare. Danforth Hefty, No. 1 Wall street, bank note on- gravers, Pupposing this to bes new currency started in the gold region, we made some inquiry respecting | the reeponalbility of the parties tsrutng the bills We, therefore, called on Mr. Danforth, and was very polite- ly informed that such » plate was exeented by him, to | the order of Mesere, Wm, & James Currie, brokers ia | Wall street, and intended for some house in fan Fran- | elseo, Wi called at the office of Mr. Currie, | placed on the counter, for exchange, the above bill | The clerk picked up the bill, examined it, laughed cxclaimed— Look here, Mr. Currie, here is one of those bills, in clreulation. Mr. Currie then Jooked at the bill and pronouneed It | ehumbug. ae none had been ieeued by the firm for whom they got wp the plate. Mr. Currie further ada- ed, that the plate wae engraved by hit order, for Mr Pleether M. Haight, a wealthy firm at Sen Francisco, | put on taking the bills out there the circulation was prohibited, according to the constitutional law of the | State, forbidding the circulation of paper money. | Thue the bille were withdrawn, ond jnetead. Mr. Haight | to facilitate the eurrency of Sen Franciseo, issued gold | tokens, which appeared to answer every purpose, Mr. Currie further dated. thet had the bills been eireulated they would have been filled op with the name of Haight, whe t* amply respor | Wegive publicity to the sbove bank bill, fearing | that, by rome meanr the impressicas might have bees obtained from Mr. Haight, them Slled up with epurious némes, ond the public imposed pon, hy reeciving them af good money BOARD OF ASSISTAKT ALDERMEN. ‘The Board of Assistants met at 5 o’clock on Wednes- Qey afternoon, the P: im the chair, , - : TION. 4 s+ was by sundry persons, adverse to Eight; street. Referred. 4 n Ts COMMITTERA. “The Committee on M. reported in favor of rais- ing the ralary of the Clerk of Clinton Market from $418 . ted. ‘ne Committee on the’ Law Department reported i favor of directing the Corporation Counsel to take ebarge of all suits and proceedings in which the Oorpo- ration is fired, except suits relative to fees of late Counsel. A: . ‘The Committee on Fire Department rej in favor e Company No. 44, in Union of ereeting a house for E: Market Square. Adopte 4 ‘The Committee on Wharves, Piers, and Sli reported in favor of close-piling pier between Mivingtan an Stanton streets, A jact Department re- Committee on Croton Aqued ported in favor of adopting a resolution that Croton water pipes be laidin Twenty-ninth street, between Bixth and Seventh avenues; also, that a fire hydrant be Placed in Twenty-first street, weet of Tenth avenue. dopted, Committee on Streets. reported In favor of flagging sidewalks between te ee) and Ninth avenues; on con- currence, concurred in. Also, to flag avenue A, be- tween Fourteenth and Twenty-third streets; also, in favor of removing awning pode in Fulton street, be- tween Broadway and Nassau streets; also, in favor of =e sidewalk on the southerly side of Twenty- eighth , from the Seeond avenue to the East Hi- ver; regulating Thirty-sixth strect from Se- venth avenue to Y; also, in favor of concurring with the Boardof Alderman in the resolution and or- dinance to regulate and grade the Seventh ayenue from Harlem lane to 120th street, Adopted. Committee on Lamps and Gas, in favor of lighting King street and Cottage place with gas. Adopted. Report of Committee on Repairs and Supplies, in favor of concurring in resolution making an addition- al appropriation of $1,000 for the construction of vaults on itandall's Island. Concurred in. ‘The Committee on Finance reported in favor of re- moving the First district police station house from its present location to No. 50 Trinity place. Adopted. Report of the Committee on the Fire Department, im favor of confirming the recent election of Assistant Engineers of the Fire Department; also, an ordinance roviding for the annual returns of each company be- | made under oath. On concurrence, eone| in. eport of the Committee on Sewers, in favor of build- ing a sewer in Thirty-third street, from the Fifth to the Sixth avenues, with an ordinance therefor; adopt- ed. Also, in fuvor of building a sewer in Tenth street, from opposite Dry Dock street to the sewer in avenue C. On concurrence, concurred in. RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, That a path four feet wide be d from the southwest corner of Gouvencur street, to the Cen- tre of the gates of the Jackson street ferry. Referred. Resolution for lighting Lexington avenue from Twen- ty-eighth to Thirty-third street, with gus. Adopted. Resolution to extend pier at the foot of west Twenty- first street, to the line of Twelfth avenue. Adopted. CHANGE OF LOCATION FOR POLICE. JUSTICES. A resolution cumne from the Board of Aldermen pro- viding for removing police justice Mountfort from the ‘Tombs to the police office at Jefferson market, and sta- tioning Justice Blakely in his place at the Tombs, In this Board a substitute wus adopted, cha the name of Justice Blakely to that of Justice Osborn, now at the Fesex market police office. Adjourned Court of Common Pleas. Before Judge Woodraf. April 18.—John Ashbots vs. The Columbus Insurance Compare “ Lrg 0 _ a action wll na amount of property of the plaintiff, consisting of drugs ic., which wan insured in the Columbus Company, aud damaged by fire in Cliff street, in this city, on 49. The defence is, that there was not Cracert Covnr.—Nor, 510, 625, L on cat 91. Pest 3h a ois, ‘4, 4, eerrd ++ . On, 5 12,14, 16, 20, 22, 24, 26. 28. * ma Se ET a2 to Bio, 858 to 90d, 264 v0 272 : be “84 i v Nos. Bog yoann ented The Charleston 558 to 567. ‘A, vention, in the mirably, and will no doubt be # great saving in the con- sumption of coal:— A telegraphic despatch, received here, states that this fine steamship arrived at an early hour yesterday morn- ing. at Charleston, in 68 hours from wharf to wharf. She made a most gallantrun th the storm of Sun- day, and fully tested the value of her im; nite aud her oe ities as areaboat. The trip demon- strated, also, for the first time, a most im; im- provement for sea steam navigation, in form of « condenser, juvented by Mr. Persson, of New York. It is an American iden altogether, and is greatly superior to those of Hall's and Ericsson's plans. hy it, the steam used in the engine 1s coudensed into water, and this fe again forced back into the boilers, the ordinary bein; ed \- Tense water antl thas 2 frees water ering thie deserip- ter iv tly all possemion of his ‘acuitien, grossed the ferry from Astoria to Hell Gate, Yorkville, om Pye hag ol the 10th inet, at sunset, asking for the ‘way to New York. e frien observed t days the such an 7 pertof Long Island or Menhatian Island, to give informa- Hen te WECKSCURA 46 Seuch street, Sa tains, or 515 Editors of papers in any pari lished tof King’s ¥ county, Lang’ Islend, are. desired ts publish this, nesiee snd the advertisement above referred to, and to send their bills toMr. Heckscher. Wilson's Stone Cutting Machine. Those taking an interest in important inventions cannot fail to be su and gratified by s visit to the Empire « iF, at the four of may be seen, ut powerfully ef- nted by Charles Wilson, is of to the t dressing machines thi of al the mature of this bard- whatever can dress itean dress ns iten in the rough. ere is no hammering, or inten ‘theal two cireular ne-fourth of an inch thiek, and 4 right me: uy, they of true ‘im this country for $3 50 than 13 salt abeuier iat city for any priee. Warnock's Hata-A Plain Story For Ev- erybody to read, So much has been said of late aboot hate, that the wninitiaved wil fur ality, style and finish, that « lower price, we shall giv: th may, with all the latest Smprovementer Ke possible, to pretend to more is absurd. ith this short story, which is “our say” we throw ow: eper peri the “generot may be verified by & WARNOUKS, Hetters. a8 tn Ripe, Ample Red oy e cel eA ol tim x Rocca’ Ne to howtcs Hidak an meaetiege ae bates the five ppaciour show eredulows as to ety! whe study eeoncmy, Jenny Lind’s Concert Tickets, $10, and the » al Police interest. Wait t Langworthy My ste street. Only § toni Plano-Fortes—We would call the atten to the large sevort- WERT & Co. Boston, Tipnc-fortes combine Organ. euperd ithed gentleman was taken for the ( derncete earls ise Broadway, ingutebed Bi sist im Chie country. Tal or Portsnits from Life, on . By recent distoveri¢e of their own the wubeeribers raite with degree ee ake these entoed general of pertestion aed J and Maple Molasses, and Kipe Tom 5 " Nabas HCO 1 Wert erent, Washingt oy Bong ‘4 ELE Rhuis le ee WHE AE Comb intind penn tale a — 14 found the open ehain pattern, #0 mi i made to order, Say design, Combs altered and repaired. Sbaaaics : way. Watts’s fast call and Nervous ata Sreehieasy eres . No. 102 Nassau street. The money returned if not ANew ‘and Large bo: Dr. James W. Powell, Oculist, A; devotes his attention eaclushrely to diseaaen ef the Bye ani Ear, from 9 to 4 o'clock, st 251 Breadway, entranes I; War- Pg Tat aS EXSroauteians’ Rreinetal Eyes rt a ilakin dlacnece,dacoloeations aud Bie Pes. ree eradicating superfluous hair from of pana Loe 4 Tod Callender, B South Third street, Phil Have your Head Thoro' and Luxart-- onsly Shampooed, your bair and whi re neatly, beau~ properiloantly te your soustenmnse tag Ng nce : Ey Hil, the ialunigable hair cutter, 18 Noseau et. 5,000 Wigs and To: at the wig factory of ME! made of ‘Those who have Pimples | Rrnptions or. hould wash ‘many cases, while for whitening, aud elenr~ or billous skin, it is really Bme- teonly 13, the ‘depot for the true Span'si MONEY MARKET. Tuvasvay, April 18—P. M ‘The stock market opened more baoyant this morn- ing than we expected, and there were large sales of most of the fancies at an advance. We notice sales, 0 some extent, of Harlem, seller twelve months, at two per eent below prices ruling for cash. Iarlem appears to - be the weakest fancy im the list, and it evidently in impossible to give it an upward movement, There - is nothing to build speculations apon; the old ma- ebinery has run out, and holders are, mo doubt, dis- posed to let it take its course. Erie bonds, seconds mortgage, took an upward start to-day, and the trans- actions, at the two boards, were very heavy. At the first board Treasury notes fell off +; per eent and Harlem 4. Farmers Loan advanced +4 per eent.; Morris Canal 3; Canton Company }; ; New Haven Rall- road 3;; Long Island 's; Erie Railroad >, ; Erie bonds, new, 1; Reading Railroad X. At the seeond board. Erie bonds, new, went up % per cent.; Erie railroad Morris Canal %; Hudson River Railroad 1, sinee last sale; Canton Company declined \. There was s great deal of carh stock sold to-day, and we cannot Jook upon. the improvement in prices in any other light than as a flurry, a sort of deaperate effort of the bulls to enable- them to realise. The bears understand these galvanic movements thoroughly, and are not intimidated by them. They avail themselves of any advanee to sell, and do not have to wait more than two or three dayr for a change sufficiently large to give them # band- some profit. The fluctuations in Wall street, are fre~ quently enormous. It is amusing, one day, t0 see the: bulls running up and down the street, with head and. tail erect, full of sound and fury, trampling poor bruin. under their feet epparently rushing headlong tc - destruction, an e next to sce them. under full. headway, head and, tail down, making tracks out of the street, while the poor, quiet, sensible, unob- trusive bear, whom every one supposed prostrate, and. defunct,is left in possesssion of ttle Geld. When. the bear gets the bull once fairly his embrace, he generally squeeses every drop of life blood out of him ‘This has been done so often in Wail street, that it is o matter of astonishment to us thet the bulls have the least confidence in thelr powers, or their ability to- contend with their antagoniste. The receipts at the cffice of the Assistent Treasures of this port, to-day, amounted to $110,155 al; pay-- mente, $54,137 71—balance, $1,661,452 26. The following sales of city stock were made at Boston. Yesterday >—$11,000 Boston city 6 per cent stock, pay- able May, 1852 ($1,000 each), 100), a 101 ; $2,000 do. payable May, 1851, 100 ; $1,000 do., payuble Aug., 1853 101 4; ; $1,000 do., payable Nov., 1853, 10135, ‘The Treasurer of the Mint, Philadelphia, is now pre pared to pay certificates of gold deposits up to, imelu- ing, No. 1,046, The following valuable information, relative to eoun- terfelt gold coin, has been furnished Thompson's Bank Note Reporter, by on officer in the Philadelphia Mint :— “The most important class of counterfeits are the imitations of our own coin, and some have been to light worthy of ponte notice The varieties in- clude the eagie, quarter . The die is very perfect, for, al t discover that ¢ bee is not quite *o sharp and decided es the genuine » Yet none but « practi eye can detect the difference. Even when embed shies * microscope, they are found to correspond in the mort minute particular to the genuine coin. This shows that the dies must have been transferred our own coin by some mechanical process not ‘known to poweet workenee, an mort artint in the world eo not take up the ver ke such 6 foc simile, ‘The colne bare’ roi’ e "ball sound in ringing, but not aa if flawed, ny aT are uctually compored of three distinet pieces wont, Where they are full weight, they are necessarily thicker than boo pays but generily the half-eagle rim, ae in the good piece froin bo to thoumeds of'as- inch within the raisedrim. They appear to be made ## follows: A thin planchet of silver, of § wtandard pr nae fd nearly of the right diameter, thet the subsequent overlaying of the goid plate at the edge will make itexact, Two planchets of gold are then of them to correspond with the trae win, the other about one-quarter of am ineb + hese two plates wre soldered upon the silver; the pircvecting rh tho larger is beut up Lo meet the emal- jer 0 ne Lo cover the edge of the coin, and the plese te finan d by # vic~ the eoi The hal: ich are, perhaps, the mort numerous, ta a we 1844, 1545 and 1847. Of the quarter only one dete, 1845, and bearing the 0 for the New Or-. leans Mint mark, hagas yet been detected, but dowbt less there are others in circulxtion. The value of the balf-ragies wenn yed wae from $i to $40, aod the quar- ter do. $12). They are #0 well culruinted to deceive that they have passed undetected thy the hand> of ‘Totgre into the mint. The onty method. of detection i by their wei true standord, their tacvented ite Roun Ra Xo 1d apparent to @ careful examiner.” It is estimated that the deprecietion of railromds t* annually about fourteen per cent. on their eost, aud that the depreciation on a new road is as rapid at om. an cld one. The annual reports of our railroad ¢om panies make no mention of this, end do net provide for it out ot their annaal caruings. or by any sinking fund for « renewal of track. The Legislature of Obie passed a law, at ite late eee sion, authorizing the eitizens of Colnambus -the people of Franklin Co. concurring in #0 muneh as refers to- them separately—to vote om the serond Monday in May, for eubseriptions of stock to the Central Ohic Railroad Company the city, $20.00) sod the eounty $80,000; to the Lancaster Railroad Compony andthe Franklin, Pickaway and Row County Kellroad Com- pany each, the city $15,000 and the eonnty $25,000 - making in all, for both city and county. $10,000. The Legislature of this State, jnst previous to adjournment euthorized cities, towns, villages, ana rallrond com panies to subscribe for the stock of the Hadson River Rail Company, and the Kennebec Portland Rail road Company have been authorized to apply to towne on the line to pledge their corporate credit for the par pore of raising money to compirie the road and pay off ite debt. Thix way of filling op the capital stock of railroad companies te getting to be quite geqeral, and it fe pretty evideut that rallronds must be in a had way when they have to resort to euch mentures to ralve means to construct them The anneaed statement exhibite the total reeeipts of California goid at the Philadelphia aud NewOrleuns mints, up to the 16th of April, 1850 Ri cerrys or Catrponsra Goum—Prr anne pie aso New - $0,708 221 Th Oh” from Ist to 6th of Apel. # by the steamers Cheroker. Kiapire Ae. bringing the Ram Frunciseo #hip- .# up te Fetimeted reecipts Mth. 186, ny