The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1850, Page 7

Our Washington Preston and the Benson Claim—Course of the Claim Attorney’s—Alarm of the Cabinet—Mere- dith Closeted with two Letter Writers, who assail the Whigs in Congress—The Republic’s article. Letter writers who wish to get credit_for relia- bility, should keep truth on their side. Some of “them however, in, their zeal to defend and white- wash the misdeeds and blunders of the cabinet, are in the habit of sending forth falsehood after falsehood, manufactured out of whole cloth. One of these writes the “ Juvenal” letters for the New York Express, and the “ Patuxent” letters for the Baltimore Patriot. One of his statements, in both papers allued to, is that the Richardson investigating committee have been hunting about for witnesses, among those ing up cl 8 against Mr. Ewing soc. tilinghe fina any w ee tes- timony to give, have abandoned the pursuit, and turned to Mr. Ewing and called upon that func- tionary to furnish them with the information they 80) it. ‘ow, the fact is, the Richardson committee have not calledupon a single individual to testify. No one has as yet been summoned before the com- mittee. Of the papers which Mr. Ewing has sent to the eommittee, agreeably to a resolution adopted by the committee, are those relating to the allowance and payment, for the second time, of the Barron ion claim. If these papers alone do not nail . Ewing to the counter, then will I acknowl myself mistaken very much. If those ce terd lo not show that the claim was settled and paid at the treasury, years ago, anda receipt for the money, in full, received in return, then am I tly mistaken, do not also show that the claim was re- and settled upon a diflerent principle from the one first adhered to, then am I much mistaken. If they do not show that Mr. Ewing decided to al- low and the claim the newly adopted principle, Thal month haere, Mr. jt Gen- eneral Johneen (who we three legal wastes, | believe, on the peel g decided that it ought to be allowed, then am I greatly in error. If, finally, eras show that Mr. Ewing allowed ani paid compound interest on the elaim, then lam mistaken. The claim, when first settled, was settled upon the principle, and under the law, of half pay for life. The sum received by the claimants and receipted for, at the time, was a little over ten thousand do] The claim was re-opened by Mr. Ewing, and settled the principle of full pay for five years, and the interest thereon. The sum of ten thou- sand dollars, gs on the first settlement, was de- ducted from the amount of the five years full pay, with the interest thereon, which left the eum o! upwards of thirty-two thousand dollars, paid to Mr. james Lyons, the agent of the claim. vernment, getting alarmed, has commenced a suit, as I learn, to recover back from Mr. Lyons the amount of money overpaid in the shape of com- interest. Tt is ascertained that Mr. Secretary Preston is in the same category with five of the other members of the eabinet if the matter of upsetting the u: ol ernment, and paying claims previously refused. The Benson claim, of some fourteen thousand dollars, for alleged d: 3in the mat- ter of a contract made with the Tyler administra- tion, and vetoed by Mr. George croft, while Secre: of the Navy, has been allowed and paid by Mr. retary Preston, as is understood, upon a legal decision of Mr. Attorney General Johnson, reversing the decision of his predecessor, Mr. Toucy, who had decided against the claim. It is amusing to see with what eagerness the ‘agents and attorneys of the claims allowed and paid by members of the cabinet, are filling the newspapers with such arguments and isolated pre- cedents as they can invent and cull, to justify the conduct of the cabinet. The mind of one of these attorneys who despises the whole cabinet in eve: ing but their allowance of these old claims, is seen in a labored defence, as a communication, in the Baltimore Patriot, and, also, with slight altera- toins, in the New York Express. Is there any fear that the moneys recently paid out on these old claims will have to be returned to the treasury ? The moneys allowed to the Messrs. Ewing have not all been paid as yet. They are to be in instalments. In your paper of yesterda: ou gave an im) it leader from the Republic o! Non: jay last, po some very judicious remarks on the subject. Look at the leader in the Republic of to-day, breathing the same tone, and conveying the same pregnant foreshadowing of what is certain to come to pass. 1 tell you now, for 1 know the fact, that General Bagg sentiments are truly reflected in that ar- ticle. And I tell you, further, that the cabinet will lily be changed. It cannot remain as it is. e members of it are alarmed, each and all of them. Mr. E is the most impervious of the Jot. He consoles himself that he will be yet able to hold on. Messrs. Clayton and Meredith are the weno pe of high standing, inf A member of Congress, ig! jing, informs %. that Mr. Meredith gives uent sntioaces to EN acnneceiae yr ot rae Snot assailing Mr. ara ebster, a other whigsin ind Bos- ton Courier, the Boston pn agres New York Courier and Enquirer, the Philadelphia North American, &c. My informant told me that ‘the two press-men in question were closeted with Mr. Meredith day before yesterday, for two hours, while members of C who called to see the Secretary, were tu ay with the declaration that theSecretary was engaged ! Wasutxatox, May 9, 1950. The News from California and Oregon— Resolu- tions by the Senate—Letters from Los Angeles of @ Movement to Divide California—Effect on the Great Question. ‘The news from California contains matter of the deepest interest to Congress. It appears that there are certain revolutionary movements on foot in that young, unauthorized, and prosperous common- wealth. The two most important points are— 1. A scheme to set up an independent govern- ment in California. 2. A echeme to divide the State, and to set up in the southern section, a separate territorial govern- ment. With respect to the latter scheme, Gen. Foote produced several letters from California, by the last steamer, addressed to Dr. Gwin and himself, iving an account of a certain convention lately field at Cindad de los Angeles, or the City of the Angels, (where there are no oy in behalf of a sey te territorial government for Southern Cali- forn' There was such a convention; but from a letter to Dr. Gwin, —. Mr. Chamberlain, at San Diego, it appears that this meeting, or convention, was not participated in by the American settlers, but was exclusively confined to the the native Cah- fornians, or Mexican inhabitants. Thus much for the convention. Ifthe thing, however, is permit- ted to go on, there is no telling were it will stop. The scheme of an a ernment covers, obably, a deeper stroke of policy. It certainly as a bad look about it. The country is rich, and there is no telling what a hundred thousand able bodied men might do, if they should determine that Id lands of California should not fall into the of Congress, for their disposal to a set of mo- ing speculators. ‘The revolutionary state of afte s between Commodore Jones and the State ernment, with regard to the custom house re- not the least momentous cireum- PP ions are entertained, and well may be, that this thi must lead to a revolution, and the raising of the independent flag of the griz- bear, first raised in California by Col. Fremont . With a wew of making an independent California, and before any news had been him of a war between the United States If the controversy between Commo- the State authorities, en the dispo- and Mes dore lees and sition of the revenues, results in a ruptore, there is just ground to presume that general movement for the inde rate nationality of Califor he resotutions by Mr. Yulee, this morning adopted by the Senate, are of some consequence He asks of the President why the government ot the territory of California was surrendered by Gen. Kiley, Gowernor de facto, to the self-constituted State authorities, there having been no authority given by Cong ‘ees for such transfer, the said State government ing wholly unauthorized by Con- gress. The eesolutions call forthe facts and the correspondence relating to the subject. Anether resobation of the same eerice,asks of tne nt if he kas received any information of the government of Oregon being entirely deserted, every federal offieer in the territory having set out for the new gold mines on the Trinidad river, in California, which les very convenient to Ore; ; and asking of Old Zack, also, the very trouble- rome question of what is best to be done in such a case, This a small matter, however, and will late itnelf. the newe from California upon the compromice, it ia impossible 2 soon to tell. It has ated much epeenutation, and in some quarters a very ominons Ld jon that this state of thi in California will tend to defeat the bill of Mr. and operate to defeat any measure for the admission of California, and upen these conside- rations. If California up for herself, she may become the nucleus of a republic on the Pacific, and as such, she will cease to be a bone of conten- tion between the North and South. If, on the other hand, her admission is delayed, the people will expand into a pendence and sepa- that California wii Jim in the Ethiopian melody :— “That you, Sambo ?”” « wat a pr g00d lookin; Bat you can'tcome in. ‘Wasuinator, May 7, 1850. The Patent Office Agricultural Humbug—The Cost of Printing—Wentworth’s Committee on Father Ritchie—Expenses of the Post Office De- partment— General Expenses of the Government— The Tariff Movement and the Pennsylvanians— Counter Position of the New Yorkers—The Downfall of the Whig Party. There was quite a lively debate in the Senate to- day, on the motion to print 30,000 extra copies of the Patent Office Agricultural Report, for the use of the Senate. We have given you some general account of the contents of this report. It consists of visio! lectures and transcendental treatises— the natural history of various bugs and beetles, pa- rasitic fungi, mushrooms, &c., with illustrative plates—copious statistics from the newspapers, and rize essays, and a lot of commercial statistics om a variety of sources—a mere waste of paper and money, when we consider that the document on commerce and navigation will give them all.— In fact, the agricultural magazines, the newspapers of the country, and the document on commerce and ey Ee we take it, would amply supply the place of this Patent Office document, and save the expense to the ponentz: r. Butler, Mr. Jefferson Davis, and Mr. Foote, ably exposed the fallacies of this document. Gen. Foote, particularly, considered it as a ridiculous humbug, associated, as Mr. Ewbank appears to be, with that} prince of humbugs and socialism, Ho- race Greely. But the document carried—it is good for Buncombe—it will amuse the farmers at least, and that is enough. But let us look at the cost : ‘The House have ordered. 100.000 extra copies. The Senate do do. . 30,000 do do Add the ordinary numbe houses, say. . + 2,000 eopies, Botahs so. 00. pen copies. There is good reason to fear that the old Paty press patronage system will be revived, or, at least, the prices of the old party system, under which, with all the plates and the binding, we may expect this report to cost $1 50 per copy, which will bring the cost of this single document to very nearly ,000. Including the first part of this Patent flice report—the part relating to mechanics, steam propellors, patents, &c.—we suppose the document altogether will at least cost the government $200,- 000, when, for all useful purposes, it might be safely cut down to $20,000. _ We expect something from the Committee on Printing—W entworth’s special committee of nine, on the contract printing. We understand that the work was taken as follows:—The composition at less than they pay to the journeymen; the paper and press work at the cost of the paper; that the young printers thus taking work, do it in the Union office, and upon the materials of Ritchie & Burke. Wentworth is acting uy this idea:—That the contractors took the work upon a speculation with Ritchie & Burke—that the design was to get the work as the lowest bidders, and te let it accu- mulate till raised the compensation. ‘Wentworth cl 8 further, that while the docu- ments that are laid upon the table, which the mem- bers see and have a chance to examine, are printed upon middling Paper, and are tolerab! ly well bound, and that documents which go to the folding room to be put in wrappers for distribution, and which the members do not see, and which con- stitute the mass of the work, are printed upon wretched paper, and that the ing is of the mean- est kind, altogether diflerent from the documents laid upon the tables of the House. are some of the discoveries of Wentworth, and such are the results of a contract system, un- der Wha the work ae at less Kemwihin = a view of securi prices a: ut whatever the poe may have done, they ought to be paid for it, and cannot henestly take advantage of a contract which they accepted with a full knowledge that the work could not be done at such prices. At fair prices, for good work, the printing of this session of Congress will probably ate npees as $500,000. Upon this mass of work, the 2) per cent ‘ofit of the old prices would give a profit of 100,000 to the printers. And this is the measure of reform now before the Senate. But anything is better than the present execrable system, though the government will at last be driven te a printing office of its own. ‘rom a report of the Postmaster General, the ex of his department, for the next fiscal year, will be as follows:— For transportation of the mails, including the service in California and Oregon. . ... 050, Fort: ion of the mails in vee two steamships from N. ork.by Southampton, to Bremen.at $100,- 000 for each ship, under the con- tract with the yn Steam Na- vigation Company of New York. . $200,000 And for transportation by two ships, under same contract, from New York to Hayre,at $75,000each 150,000 380,000 Deduet the amout of former P for the same object, which it is will remain unexpended on the 30th June, iv a eee cere eens m3, Leaving to be appropriated the sum of. 4 ton of mails bere the regulations. and offices, those published in 1847 having nm exhausted some time since. . ose To This expenditure is derived almost entirely from the Post Office rece! and is not generally counted with the expenses of the Treasury. From the ex- travegant manner in which thi are working— from the aj nt recklessness in the squander of the public money all around us, the high tari people will have abundant apology for increased taxation and loans, before this session is through. The Pennsylvanians warring for more pro- tection, and it is even hinted that they are quite willing to go for a compromise of the negro ques- tion, if they can get “ny cent on coal and iron. That is, they are in the market for 70 per cent— = are willing to sell themselves at that price, — some even go so far as to my they will only support a compromise upon such a bargain 4 Wercon hardly believe the Pennsylv: have sunk quite so low as that ; and they mht as well to make the most of the bill of 46, for it is altogether absurd to expect anything better for some considerable time to come. The New Yorkers are on the other tack, anyhow. They are with old Zack, and against Henry Clay. Thirty members, as we understand, of the New York delegation are in favor of the President's policy, and opposed to the compromise. The Southern whigs are for Clay—some few in the North are with him; and thus, the whig ty, be- tween the President and Mr. Clay, is split up into confusion, Llow they are to come out, only knows ; the first consequence will probably be the explosion of the cabinet, and such a state of anar- chy as can only be restored by a revolution. Wassixetos, May 6, 1850. The California, Nicaragua and Territorial Ques tions—The Investigating Committees, §c., §c. The secrets withheld by the administration, of and concerning California, Nicarague, and other matters, will soon cover Clayton and his colleagues of the cabinet, with a mantle of black oblivion. The expose will astonish the people, and reveal the moral turpitude of men high in office, and it will most assaredly prevent any settlement of the vexed question this session. California will be re- manded back, and Utah, Desere' 0, Will have leave to retire “wit! lawyers say. The committee of thirteen, deretood, will be ready to report on Wednesday of this week, and on Monday next the great battle will begin. Benton is loaded and eager for the figth; Foote tas his pistol cocked, and Old Hal looks fierce, as if he could kil All have a belligerent look, except General Llouston, of Texas; he looks good natured, and whittles. Senator Dickineon arrived this morning, and Web- ster will soon follow, so that all will be ready for the fray. The indefetigability of Senators who are Presidential aepigante, on thie, as well as on other questions, is exerugiatingly amusing. Petty polices end party, inetead of ple a trio Jum, feem to govern them ia all things. ‘ebster erees a hin doubt of the committee’s power to do . He will re- in time to teke ground, and let Clay have the | credit ot the failure.” Iles afraid; and who cares? Hevestert, it ie said, leaves in a day or two for New York, where he is invited to deliver a great talk at the Tabernacle, on temperance. He seems to have no aspirations for the Presidency. The various committees, investigating matters and men, touching the “ Cljang lime" hs ting, &e., are busy, ong wu Darede Egpese ets before Congress, 61 ient to any and everybody but the Attorney General. He will be able to cypher it up, legally and logically. He isa great saving to the country and cabinet, according io the National Intelligencer. No Tombs lawyer was ever pufied, even in the Police Gazette, as poor Reverdy Johneon has been in the fic and cer. It damages him ferribly 3 and he should try to buy them off. Black mail is cheaper and eafer than ruination. The great difficulty with this cabinet is, that half of them get thirsty, and are dry about half of the time, perhaps two-thirds. This is a cold-water secret worth keeping, for it will account for and excuse many t other- wise an enigma, a riddle, or a romance. ac: counts for the letting out secrets of state, to be telegraphed, while they are in that state of un- quenchable thirst. _The committee on the doorkeeper are down on him. He must surrender. There are candidates in the field; but Rathbone, of Ohio, seems to have the best look now, but the sun may not rise on him to-morrow. It is said that the President swears terribly about Clay and the committee; that he has been worked np believe that it 1s all done to dish him, and to dish up Clay for the next Presi- dent. His is a short, ‘talbed kind of swearing, without ease, or elegance, or grace. Simon. ‘Wasuineron, May 5, 1850. The Galphin Claim—The Committee's Report— Laws of Congress relative to Powers of Attorney— Meredith and Johnson—The Ewing Committee— Restrictions on the Chicasaw Claim. The committee on the Galphin claim will be ready to report in a week or ten days. There will probably be two reports, though of this 1am not certain. Key ea of Mr. Burt, chairman of the commit- tee, will be pretty elaborate, and will be confined almost entirely to one branch of the inquiry, to wi whether the claim, andthe interest on it, were a and paid in contormity with law and pree lent. The course of the government, in the matter of allowing claims and the interest on them, has not been strictly uniform, as the report will show ; but for the most part it has been the of the ees not to allow interest on claims, unless y order of Congress moony fer This doc- A rr. r in the Senate. last week, as the doctrine uniformly recognised and practised by the government. Mr. Burt's report will cite the action of the go- vernment on this subject, and leave the House to draw its own inference, as I learn, as to whether the Galphin claim, and the interest thereon, were allowed and paid according to law and precedent, or not. 1 understand the report will not affirm that the claim was or was not just and valid against the A decoy States, but give the facts, and let House ecide. The ha will not touch the question of deli- cacy, or that of morality, both of which have been raised by the newspapers against Mr. Crawford’s conduct. The House did not call upon the com- mittee to go into these questions. the members of the committee undertake to screen or whitewash the conduct, beyond what the testimony will warrant, they will find it ah business to face their constituents and meet their opponents on the subject. He who defends and justifies the allowance of the Galphin claim and the interest thereon, to Mr. Crawford, a member of the cabinet, by Messrs. Johnson and Meredith, two other members of the cabinet, wil: have an jn business of it on the stump, if his opponent should happen to be any sort of a man. There is a law of Congress which requires that an agent of a claim allowed, shall present a power peace vo | to the treasury, executed after the pas- sage of the law allowing the claim, before he can draw the renee When was Mr. Crawford’s power of attorney to draw the money for the principal of the claim exe- cuted? Did it, as required, specify the act ~ which the claim was apersed ? What is its date And what is the date of his power of attorney, to draw the interest on the claim? What is the date of the power of attorney transferred by Mr. Craw- ford to his friend Bryan, by whom the interest, ce ong | to $198.00, was drawn 1 These things should be known. They deserve to be examined. It is asserted that Messrs. Meredith and Johnson both swore before the committee that they knew nothing of the interest which Mr. Crawford had in the Galphin claim, or that he had any interest at all in it. And yet they examined the papers on the subject, before they made up their minds that the interest on the claim ought to be allowed and id; and in those papers there was itive, un le evidence of the fact that Mr. Crawford had interest in claim. How are these things to be recoficiled? But let us wait for the report of the committee, and the testimony. oo Byker 5 Faye ore is Le wey Seg no- note has yet transpired relative to its pro- po | In the ‘ase of the Chicasaw claim of $l it will be well for the committee to in- quire how the money was drawn from the Treasu- to be paid to the claimants. The law is positive, that where a fund raised by Congress for any given purpose, remains two years una roprated, it re- verts back to the surplus fund in ¢ ‘reasury, and cannot from os be en pepe 4 drawn for any except by a ial act of Congress. my hen was this Caleseaw fund created by Con- gress? Was it not more than three 2 If 80, was it, two years after its appropriation, added to the surplus fund in the Treasury? If so, by what unlawful process has it been since drawn out, and 108,000 ef it paid to Dr. William Gwin and others? t the committee look to trine was laid down by The British in Venesucla, British Leaarion, Caracas, March 20, 1850. Six:—In my dispatch No. 21, of the 15th Novem- ber, 1847, I stated that you were fully justified in denying, unequivocally, that there was an foun- dation whatever for the designs which, for insi- dious purposes, were falsely attributed to Her Ma- jesty’s government, in the question of Barima; that I concurred in the propriety of your having de- clined to Spo wo age ae ~ parties in Venezuela respecting their hopes an: wishes upon this subject; and ‘Finally, I directed you, as the preferable course, to decline to be- come, under any pretext, a party, even as a listen- er, to such conversations and suggestions. my dispatch, No. 8, of the 30th of March, 1848, 1 rmed you, that, having transmitted a opy of this correspondence to Viscount Palmer- ston, Mr. J. Bidwell had, by his lordship’s orders, expressed to me his lordship’s entire approval of the answer I had returned to you. In July of last year, a report was made to Vis- count Palmerston, that a project was entertained by a political party in Guayana, to declare that province a free and independent State, u r the nage of Great Britain; his lordship according- ly stated to Mr. J. Riddel, at the time acting Bn- tish Consul General, “for his guidance in such matters, that it would not suit the policy of Her Majesty's government to involve Great Britain in the responsibility which would accrue, if Great Britain were to take any South Ai State under its protection. That Her Majest, vem- ment sincerely desire the prosperity and welfare of all the States of South America; but Her Majesty's government think that those States ought to be able to manage their own affairs.” With reference to this or to some other alleged plan of certain parties to declare the independence of the province of ana, Viscount Palmerston, under the date of the 12th of October of that same year, instructed Mr. J. Riddel, “to take care that it be clearly understood that the British govern- ment will not take any part whatever in the inter- nal differences of the American States; and that therefore none of the contending parties can have any foundation for asserting that their schemes are, or will be, supported by the government of Great Britain.” ‘The purport of these instructions was communi- cated to you in Mr. J. Riddel’s dispatch, N. 38, of the 22d of November of last year, In order to subserve the private interests of acer- tain well-known individual, and the political schemes of a faction, it has, of late, been actively circulated throughout the Kepublic, that either by cession, in part payment of the debt due to the An- glo-Venezuelan bondholders, or as an indemnifica- tien for the losses whieh British subjects have sus tained Ua of the operation of the law of Ee pera, or by purchase from the Venezuelan govern- ment, or by foree, Great Britain is bent upon ac- ag = | posseesion of Venezuelan Guyana, Such a statement is not only utterly and entirely destitute ef any foundation whatever, but is the very reverse of the truth ; and as its currency and belief have produced mischievous eflecte, and are calculated to impair the friendly relations happily subsisting between Great Britain and Venezuela, | have to instruct you to take advantage of every fit- ting opportunity for exposing its wickedness and falsehocd. Should you deem it prudent and advisable, for the attainment of this end, to show to any inflaen- tial individual at Bolivar, this diepateh, or the in- structions therein referred to, you are at liberty to do co; and in now repeating those instructions, tor the guidance of your official conduct in the matter, Ihave to press upon you the necessity of a strict and foith{ul observance of them. ] prepose to read thie dispatch to the Venezuelan Ministcr for Foreign Affaire, and, ehould he desire it, to furnish him with a copy. haves&ey (aigned) Prvrone Hireron Witsor, I. B. M. Charge de Affaires to Venezuel - Kerneth Mothisen, Beq, Britio® Viee-Consal deliver. ce Binet. From the Wi Republic, 9. every schoolboy, that all things are uncertain— that times change, and we c! with them; und, for our own part, We contess there is no gen- Ueman of our acquaintance who can tell distinctly wing forth. We cannot, there- , When we read the confident allegations and tions of a “‘ special corres- poe lent” of the Baltimore American. If we can lieve him, there are some times which can never change, and some men. Horace tells his friend to order wine, ointments, and roses, whilst cpeoriuniiy, and age, and the black threads of the three sisters, permit their enjoyment; for the day will come when he must leave the lawns, and mansion, and villa watered by the yellow Tiber, and his heir will enter into possession of bis piled-up wealth. But if we are to credit our spectal correspondent, there ere men living, on whom such advice would be thrown away. No need exists for them to preserve an equal mind in adverse fortunes, nor in better days a temper free from the insolenee of prosperity. They are insured through. Come what may—physically, morally, intellectually—they are warranted not to die nor change during General Taylor’s administration.— Read and wonder. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasnixcton, May 6, 1850. Since I last had this pleasure, many months have clapeod, and the cabinet of Gen. Taylor, whose disso- lution was predicted with so much certainty last fall— but which geatenes _ may remember, I pro- nounced at the time to be utterly baseless—still eon- tinue in power. Recently, however, renewed and the mort desperate efforts have been made by the oppo- sition ‘ond disappointed partisans, and whose efforts ure by no means abated, to bring about a displacement of the cabinet; but all such exertions, all such at- tempts, have not only proved to be vain, but have recoiled upon the heads of the assailants and dis- contents. Gen. Taylor, in civil life, his opponents have by this time discovered, is no more to be driven from his propriety, or seduced from the per- formance of high duties, when he has taken his posi- tion, than he was in military lite to be turned from his purpose by the presence of an army numbering his own force. And I now tell his oppo- of whatever shade, hue, or character, that where General Taylor is, there ure his cabinet; that wherever he will be, there will they be; and I boldly predict that not only will the present’ and fu- ture efforts to sever the bonds of fidelity and affection between General Taylor and the members of his cabi- net end in discomfiture to the intermeddlers concern- e d all our opponents, but that General Taylor will go on to the end of his administration with the able and uj it statesmen who now Sp his confidence in so high and deserved a eo as his constitutional advisers. And in making this prediction, I know what T ray, because I knew the character and views of the parties of whom I speak. They have but one pur- fe in view, in the administration of public af- rs d that is, the faithful execution of the laws, and the duties assigned to them by the constitution and laws. There is, and there has been, @ perfect harmony between General Taylor and ry member of his cabinet, on all oints of policy; and as the sole purpose of General ‘aylor is to execute his office with — and tothe best of his ability. and his cabinet agree with him upon this point, they will continue to be, as they have been —aunit. There is no one it—I speak what I know —upon which they can differ among themselves or with the President, or he with them; and hence the impossibility of the relations of these faithful counsel- what a day ma: fore, but Be y, & lors and statermen with their illustrious chief bei disturbed or broken by the piper artifice or blin eye or pretended rage of the 0) position, ‘or, by the ev: friendship of he discontents. General Taylor knows that the rigid performance of official Co 4 the only high-road to ultimate success; and hence he heeds not the complaints or denunciations of the politicians, the path of whose interests and ambition the vexy nicip performance of his duty is constantly liable to cross, and does constantly cross. Having done his duty faith- fully, he fears not the verdict of his count , who placed him where he is,in the exercise of their sove- reign will. In these sentiments his cabinet cordially coincid 1d hence, too, a bond of official union that is indissoluble.”” Now, without consulting a member of the cabi- net on the subject, we venture to say that there is not a gentleman connected with it who would not repudiate and condemn this publication. We cannot, therefore, but most deeply and sincerely lament that such paragraphs as the above have been scattered broadcast through the press, by writers whose relations to the cabinet, or particular members of it, have induced the public to believe that the sources of their inspiration were under- stood. The motives of these writers are |, no doubt, and their zeal is laudable; but we fear that oat zeal “geo nen aad my vd discretion. For when such as the foregoing appear in letters which denounce members of Congress for soliciting offices, and then swindling the adminis- tration by not swallowing its measures whole—or which throw out intimations that if a compromise bill is carried through the House of Representa- tives it will be through the influence of bri who can wonder that the patience of men is some- tines severely taxed, and powers of endu- rance, camel-like though YY may be, shonld sink under the accumulated burden ? a Our readers cannot fail to observe the extraordi- my tone and tome ae — we have pored, its assumption to ir member 0} the cabinet. And what is the antary, and effect of the communication, of its verbiage ? Un- veiled, it purports to lose a coml ition or benny pe he the part of the members of the cabi- net, to adhere to President Taylor, under any and all circumstances, reckless of consequences, and without regard to public exigencies or agitations. To him they will be sun-flowers, though they ma) become hemlock and nightshade and cypress to all the rest of the country. “General Taylor having selected his cabinet,” the letter in effect says, ‘it becomes his high duty to keep them in place, (rather than in » if the world comes to an end; and he'll ‘do his high duty. It is scandalum magnatum to say one word against a member of the cabinet; and every one who does, will be de- nounced as a di ted partisan, a soured office- seeker, an inte ler in matters that do not con- cern him, and one of our nents. General Taylor means to do his duty, and his cabinet mean to do the same, it is impossible that they should ever doa wrong thing, or an unwise Ce and quite impossible that they should ever differ on any point under heaven. ‘All the complaints that are circulated are in consequence of General Tay- Jor’s having to disappoint unscrupulous men in the vn 4 performance of duty.” Such is the letter, done into plain English, and ” Ez what we desire to know is, who may be the * who speaks in such arrogant and insolent tone, and who dares thus confidently to predict, and menace, and denounce. Cannot the writer see that such menaces and predictions, made at the moment when, at his own request, the conduct of one cabi- net minister is under the investigation of a commit- tee of Congrese, are in the last degree injurious to President Tircon, and injurious to the wma cause and the country? Can the mouths of men be stopped, or their pens arrested at such a moment, and a manifesto made of “ Love me, love my dog,” ae the condition of loyalty and the test of political aligpianse 1 e idea that General Tayt.or has made enemies by the over “rigid” performance of his official day is amazing. The writer would have us be- lieve that the General is a stern and truculent man, exercising his functions with a “rigidity” that causes complaints, We have never heard the first syllable of complaint against the Prestoevr from a Wnie—never the first syllable. The pretence that any such complaints exist is unfounded, and it is not the rigid, or the very rigid performance of duty, that lea 10 complaints from sensible or honest men. Complaints spring from other causes. If Congress represents public sentiment, and all men have not turned rogues within a twelvemonth, wide-spread discontents among whig friends of the administration have existed, and do exist, which no man, who is not a parasite, a sycophant or a fool, will venture to deny. ‘They who seek to persuade President Taylor that the complaints springing from these discontents are levelled at him, are false counsellors he intimations of those who seek to persw: him that were gentle- men who differ from his inet or himself in mat- ters of policy, are ac personal induce- mente, are scandalous and false. They who pre- tend to be his friends, and seek to cure these dis- contents and differences by such nostrums as they are now administe through certain wnte jour- nals, will find that the disease will —_ fatten on the remedy, or that the remedy will only engender ted die that, a y diselai ng any the 3 ee. an independent whig en Sha authori: T.” who wrote was neither any member of the ea- nal, and ex, th we venture to assert that the letter in the Baltimore American, authorized nor inepired by binet; and that every member of the cabinet is repared to repudiate and repel his assumptions by is conduct, if eventa should occur which would render it their part as statesmen, gentlemen, and patriots to withdraw from the public service. It is in the last degree unjust and ungenerous to charge them with a disposition to solicit in advance con- tempt and execrations, by threatening ‘at all ha- zards, and to the last extremity ”—under any and all circumstances—the infliction which Mr. Can- ning once described, with force and felicity, as the freatest curse chat could befall a free country—a cabinet that was inecnsible to public opinion. Inet, you «tated that “the have no authority tod» crossing the Tath gives American citisens ; but @ passport from the United States State Depart is necessary to one to be an American. i peseme rom inter I, that eports from the Consul of New Granada in New York are not ports. ya bite! you wil do a vervien to all Valted Califern ta Your obedient servant BELPORD & CO Police Intelligence. ba peo eed fellows, calling themselves John — pr) Nelaete, were serrated and con- rnvering the soa tory of W. Jones, No, 260 sixteenth street, and robbing the dexk of several dollars, in pen- nies, They were committed to prison for trial. Stealing Valuable Clothing —A Dut womal the mame of Christians Grockian wee enue ee Wel. nesday, by officer O'Keeffe, ona ¢ of stealing a quantity of y: je ladies’ under clothing, valued in All at near $160, from the possession of Mra. Koof, re- siding at No, 37 Wooster strect. These articles of clothing were the property of diferent ladies, from whom fire, Koof reootved: them to Wash, and this Dutch woman stole them from the wash tub, The clothing was recovered, and the thief committed to prison for trial, by Justice Mountfort. Grand Lerceny.—A fellow called Patrick Burke was caught on Thursday, by Constable Joseph, having in his possession @ piece of drab cloth, valued at $35, the property of David Rockwell & Co., No. 464 Pearl stroot, Jrom whom the rogue had but # short time previous etolen it. The officer meeting or seeing him in the street with the Raa under arm, and knowing him to be a thief, took him into custody, Justice Mountfort committed him to prison for ti Political Inj nee. Vinca Leoista’s urns from the late election in Virgin: ction of 55 whigs and €8 democrats to of Representatives. The Senate returns have not been received. The vote for the convention to receive the eonstitution is about ten for to one against it. Nasnvitte Coxvention.—George A. Trenholm and William Duboze have been chosen delegates to the Nashville convention from the Charleston district of South Carolina. Messrs. Chesnut and Gregg have been oe to represent the Richland district in the same ate. Fount District or Massacnuserrs.—Benjamin Thompson has been re-nominated by the wl of the 4th congressional district of Massachusetts. The elec- tion will take place on the 2lst i Tue Montesquiou Case at Sr. Lovis.—Judge Colt yesterday decided the motion previously made and argued, to it Gonzalve and Raymond de Montesquiou to bail. After citing precedents in which persons charged with criminal offence have been bailed, the Judge decided that Gonzalve be admitted to bail in the sum of $20,000 upon the in- dictment for killing Barnum, and $20,000 upon the indictment for eed Jones ; and that Raymond be admitted to bail in the sum of $10,000 upon the first named indictment, and $10,000 upon the second. ‘The prisoners were brought into the court in the afternoon and gave the required bail—Messrs. James H. Lucas, Charles Chouteau, Thornton Grimsley, Wiley Randolph, 8. I. Sellick, A tus Brewster, John Snyder, Wm. Maffitt and Wm. Fulton severally becoming their sureties. Suitable rooms have been Voighley for them at the St. Louis hospital, under the care of the Sisters of Charity, where they will remain until another trial is had. The court granted a commission to take depositions in Ilinois, New York and Canada, which depo- jonsare to be made evidence in the future trial. —St. Lowis, (Mo.) Republican May 1. Destruction or Corron Factories at THe Easr.—The cotton factory occupied by S. Hewitt, in Needham, Mass., was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. There was an insurance for pan on the machinery, at the National and the reemen’s Insurance Company, one half each, ay | $1,200 on stock at Providence, R. 1. Buil! insured. Two large cotton factories, Upper Falls, known as the Ellis F owned by Messrs. Pettes, were des! about half-past 11 o'clock, same n with a large amount of machinery, s is reported that the policy of insu buildings eee but a day or two sin« was caused by an incendiary.—Bosion May 10. Caper Arrorstuests.—The followin ments, from New York and at large, have been made for the year 1850 :—New York—Phillips Phoenix, of the 8d district; Stephen IH. Weed, 6th district; Alexander Annan, 8th district ; Peter ros, Jr, 12th dis- trict; Bamuel Ten Eyck, 2ist district; William De Mott, 27th district; John A. Black, 30th district ; Loomis L. Langdon, 32d district; Lemuel ©. Curtiss, 83d district ; and Fazilo A. Harrington, 34th district. At large—Wm. Croghan Jesup, George W.C. Lee, Jno. R, Smead. Robt. ©. Wood, George A. Gordon, Wm. © Nicholson, Wm. F. Drum, Jno. VU. Long, James G. Montgomery, Thomas J. Wright. ‘The last three are in the places of H. W. Iilliard, deceased, and M, White, and ——- McKee, declined eadet appoint- At Northampton, N. H., from the 3d of December, 1849, to the 20th of April last, snow fell twenty-one tu nd S aggregate depth of snow was five feet inches. MEDICAL. FAPNESS.— USE. Dit. MeNAIN'S ACOUSTIC OI, iangreeable First soothin, pasrer along ( rt indpipe into ehit, and allaying ry irritation, giving comfort to the chest, restoring the on clearness and powers; congealed fluids, and obstructio sehuarged by eary the stomach—a common cold hours, and when resorte’ ields to ite beni to before t popa- ve made thoit mblie iy ‘Heto bey i irvdn aby 4 00 improper bottle; three be advice to the . oh Third av ete, New York, where he ‘and forwarded to the }d speedy eradicator of priva ood, drives out t and medicine forwared if d S SPECIFIC. proprietors are ‘Sold by the imely possresi . hie aareit hee eth important secrota, whieh should iy. Bot permit of an inerease of fa- mether—the one in the decline of in| L. oo can discover the causes, aympvoma, and the most remed and mort certain mode of in every com plas {o'which ber #em is subject mere ir +e in Dayton, (Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman Ohio. Darrow, May’ toa, Py, aM. Besnnpess iy Doar Sir—My hae boom perceptibly sinking for some ‘hres yeara of more, in consequence of her great angnish and refering some monthe before and during her oon avery successive one more and more tated her, putting her life im ima): jent ed t danger, wae ov the last occasion, ‘of, Laupposed that this state ‘of things was inevitable.nnd resigned myself te meet the worst, és, Ne time (now sbeut two monthe), | your book bly spoken of, ne com tome matiare reeehing my enge. On ite recelpt am , | cannot express to you the relief it afforded m: the jay ite parce ex te my wife, o8 learning that the very of .M. Desomenos provided s remedy. 1b 0) . to me, which I little conceived was possible. But for this, ere anne ear would hare 4d ts im all human probabilte: wife wow been areve, and my Shildren left motherlees, Tt (a, of eonree, impracticable to convey more folly the va- rons tuijects treated of, sa they are ef a nature strtouly Ine “*Por sale at tz Broufersy, ond st the Pubiishy Liberty erreety op vere bi Cs., Albany “er ihe receipt of $l, a *y tree of te any part of the ak As os ae FI 22 BOO er ka reeru any ye hy similar fm dose of the mixtnre is gin bettlen, with fall direetions, af! One ck—many are rnre? tn twa dave. Por onle by 0. Broadway; 108 Bayard streey the tw Goscsed iy “trots 0 auoceeding dave, TLa® WOOD, AO 4 Vee H ¥. Ok LIVERVUUL.—UNIILD STATES MAIL ship PACIFIC, Gapt. Ezra N e.—' part from the foot ‘of Caual ttreet, with the matte RP positively on satu it OF passage, hav elegance or comfort = ‘EDW A Positively no berth car \CEAN STEAM Nav via Southampton INGTON, G. W. Floyd, Southar Monday, M atl f to the ship. All Passage or freight, UDrutep 8TaTI | STEAMSHIP COMPANY— The books of uo to the capital stock ¢f the United States M. nip Company, to the amount of one million tive hundred thousand will be 0) om Seep back, hati bt Od Bee in the city of New Vo days, from 12 o'clock pod aie Lid GEOKGE LAW, Mausitald, Ov ROB New York, May 3, 1850. + Ae eae NITED STATES MAIL STEAM RTWEE U York and Liverpool —The chips Seapentae Ge iaeare the ATLANTIC, Caprain West PACIFIC, Capttin DRIATIC ‘These ships, having bee: vernment servi ‘Tho owners of these shi dilver, bultion. unless dills of fad of, therein exp ‘ow about the midd july, September, N gow, in April, June er Glasgow, to the day of the depar UGH LINK £0 caine U Pacific. Savannah, Hav through tlekets to § early application must by remain um A theGeorgia. Thi g7eunmarpasoed by ‘ing must all be salling. Por, tecignt MS, ROBE ER MPIRE CITY LINE FOR SAN FRANCK iP Gq Chagres, di sceaship RM LiCR CTPMS varthen, will leave for ‘Wth, at S o'clock, from noe apply ve R SAN FRANCISCO-FIKSI VBS! DISPATCH Line.—Fi ling ship GREAT BRITAIN, having @ ear e ~ heir interest t to Freights taken at the lo OR SAN FRANCIS cite, via Rio de Jane: leave Philadelphia early in engine steamphip, CONSTI a or fr is, of every Warehoure, 9 and reets, opposite Trinity Broadway, between Wall and Pine Cuureh. Fe SALE, AT COST.—a rte’ tthe 25) street, a ACHT SYBIL, FOR SALE—IMIS FAST-SAILING ‘axd beautiful Schooner Yacht is offered for tale, She del aad supers too sults of oils, and farm THROUGH TICKET IN RO- of May. Inquire at 130 Liberty < heen lately the and fast» Id very DUN nit having comfortable ora-bon tonnage. She will be ae ROLLING linenses and fom M Poe ‘ated cases treated in 0 the newest am sotuall, will strength b permanent; {f timely, = creat deal of suffering reneed ren from one Rrckaleanee Saat mene of diseaen, A perfect care, OF me c cure 4 private diseace e Wiat, Dey nan equal, No no Paris, failed ‘erm pa tence moet enclose @ port ie, $1 and wrunl ew