The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1850, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND BDITOR, OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAUSTS. Lv HER. LD, 2 nde copy—87 annum. ee Oy PN ERALD, coers 8 sity a6 cents per may te ze snnam the Bir opey ein 8 per inom HTL LEU TERS by mail, for subscriptions, or with adver= tne, tobe post pid, or the posta ye will be deducted from the ee ae VOLUN Y4R ¥ CORRESPONDENCE, containing important madly potd for NO Ryirad EB token of onammeme communications, We do ae! return reected communications, ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every morning. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Huxcunack—Cunistine or Swepey. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Roxuxo ann Juuier Love CHASE. NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Romance awn Reaurry —Musican PRromen apy. ambers BStreet—Seriovs Fa- BURTON'S THEAT! eo MiLy—Mysreriovs Knockin NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham Square— Pocurss—Fexace Forty Tiuweves—Forsst Ross. THEATRM, Astor Place — Macueru—Naro.non. CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, Mechanics’ Hall-Breo- man MINSTRELS. OLYMPIC.—Preace’s Movernens, BELODEON.—Wrire’s See ewxapens. CHINESE MUSBUM—Cxuwese Pasi. CHINESE ASSEMBLY ROOMS—Laxcamune Beur~ arwere “DOUBLE SHEET. New kork, Friday, May 24, 1850. News from Cuba, The steamship Obio is expected every moment from Havena. She will bring news from that city to the 20th inst. It is possible that we shall learn by her of the attempted landing of General Lopez's | The news is looked ity. Advices from Callfornla.’ The steamships Crescent City, Philadelphia and Ohio, may arrive at any hour, with two weeks later news from California. It is supposed that one or two steamers left San Francisco on the 1th of April, for Panama. Accounts from California will be of interest to the commercial community. forces on some part of Cub: for with considerable curio From Washington—Telegraphic, Before anything astonishing comes upon the summer carpets at Washington, there are to be a great many more speeches. Meanwhile, the com- promise of Mr. Clay, the Cuba question, and the payment of the Galphin claim, will serve to use up the public time and money. mise, we find that, last night, all the Virginia delegates were in close session, whether for seces- sion, or concession, remains to be seen. With respect to Cuba, the Senate appears to be at sea, not having received the man signers in the ca’ The Galphin cabinet is to have an expedition sent against it, by the New York delegation, to awake the indignation that has slumbered for several days. mise to be faithful to the country in this business, Well, we may soon see whether honesty or the cabinet shall triumph. In the interim, we will live in hope that, with the branches of mint des- tined for this city, this summer, we may have the branch mint, that can only be supplied by the hot- bed at Washington. This is a great country, and if eny one donbdts it, let him read the sketch of the debate in the House, on increasing the rank and On the compro- ests from the con- net. The whigs, too, pro- file of the army for the protection of the frontiers. The difference of opinion on that subject is as remarkable as that upon Mr. Clay’s compromise in the Senate. In what will it end? France and her Poll By the arri yesterday morning early, of the Cunard steamer, from Liverpool, we have been put in possession of our correspondence and journals, from allparts of Europe, the materail passages of which will be found elsewhere in our columns this day, at great length, and commanding much interest. In reference to France and her singular and ever-vary- ing political prospects, the infermation which will be tound in our columns is decidedly interesting and calculated to cause deep reflection with every friend of rational progress and democratic institu- tions. Among other passages, our readers will find the great speech of the French Minister, in the National Assembly, when he developed his new electoral law, proposed in that body, which is intended to curtail and restrict the electoral franchise of the French people to a very extraor- dinary extent, throughout all the Departments. We have, also, furnished to our readers the va- rious English and other comm Great project, all of which tend to throw more or Jees light upon the new position in which the French republic will be placed by the probable pareage of the law in question. ‘The new movement in the National Assembly, to eurtail the electoral franchise over all France seems to command the approbation of the President of the republic, as well as of a great majority in the legislative body. In the expectation of its poss- age in the form in which it has been presented, all sorts of opinions are expressed in relation to the probable effect its provisions may have in the elec- toral list, in the approaching elections. " estimates make the curtailment to be not mo 600,000 votes ; but others say that, positi $,000,000 of votsrs will be excluded under the opera- tion of the law. Probably, the truth lies between the two extremes. Two millions will very likely be struck off from the list of the constituency of the French nation, which numbers eight or nine mil- liens. Thisvingularlaw and daring not aflect the peaceable prog sof the French republic, provided it were probable that the policy which dict ted the law ended with ts enactment. But when we look back for the last twenty or thirty years upon French legislation, we cannot resist the conviction, that if this law should go into successful operation, in a year or two the same policy which prodaced the curtail- ment of one or two millions of voters would bring about another exclusion by other laws, reducing at last the whole electoral list of the French repab- ic to one or two millions. It is well known that he same course marked the policy of the elder dynasty of the Bourbons, as well as et Louis lowest Philippe. The electoral list during the reign of Louis Philippe, for all France, was hardly more than 250,000. Io Great Britain, the entire constituency of the three kingdoms is lees than a million, With such & constituency, the aristocracy have no diffieulty in Maintaining their position, and stopping at once every movement which may look in the least de- gree towards the formation of a republic, of any- thing like it. It is no dowbt the purpose and policy of the present goverument of France, as also of the majority of the National Assembly, to reduce the constituency of the French republic to the same pumbere, and same qual: as that which charac- terizes the English nation, with the view and ex- pectation, no deubt,.that such a constituency witl be more manageable for particular purposes than a constituency founded upon universal suffrage, as Dow existing. These movements, however, among such a mer- eurial, inmginative, sensitive restless, «xplosive peo- ple as the French are, ere dangerous fer the dynasty of party which persists in them, of may carry them out. If the French people be not suffered, by ‘universal euffrage, to attain those ultimate reforms and ultimate purposes, in government and society, which they desire, they will seek them in the entaries upon this | streets—in blood, in fire, in murder, in revolution. We are persuaded, also, that the best policy for Louis Napoleon to have followed would have been | companions, have assumed in the perplexing state to have retained the original elective franchise, as laid down by the constitution, and to have shaped his foreign and domestic policy mere in accordance with the French people. The great error of his government, was the unpopular movement against the Roman republic. He was urged to that step by bad advisers and intriguers, partisans @f the fallen dynasties. The present project for the curtailment of the elective franchise of the French people comes from the same in- triguers, and is forced upon the unpractised Presi- dent by the same corrupt partisans Their whole policy is in the end to destroy the popularity of the President with the French people, and lay the foundation of the return of the Bourbons to France. But the attempt to effectuate such a purpose can only bring about a terrible struggle. It seems there is approaching a furious explosion in the French political system, which will far oatstrip the horrible days of the first rovolution under Robe- spierre. Nothing but universal suffrage, and the gradual attainment by the ballot box of the reforms required by the French people, can prevent an out- burst, a terrible explosion, and the recurrence of revolution and bloodshed in France. The present rulers seem to have cast all prudence and all the lessons of past experience and past times to the dogs. Mr. Cray’s Brritiant Sreecu—His Compromise anp its Prosrrcrs.—We publish elsewhere, ia our columns, to-day, the very eloquent and splendid speech pronounced by Mr. Clay in the Senate, on ‘Tuerday last, partly in reply to Mr. Soulé, Senator from Louisiana, and a member of the gxtreme gauche from the South, but principally pronounced in with- ering condemnation of the course of the present cabinet, which has duped, deceived and misled the President of the United States, by involving him in the same policy, leading to the same results, | which has animated the abolition party of the | North for years past. This eloquent and incom- parable speech of one of the greatest and boldest patriots of the age, on this side of the Atlantic, will | be issued in a million of shapes to the people of this country, and must produce its effect on the independent and thinking intellect of the nation at large. We never will blame General Taylor for edepting the policy of the abolitionists, in relation to the anti-slavery movement. He is compara tively a simple-minded old soldier; having lived helf a century on the frontiers of civilization, he knows but little of the tricks and intrigues of po- litical depravity. He has been deceived, and shamefully duped, by his cabinet—a set of men whose corruptions and follies have disgraced the country, and disgraced themselves, dr. one short year of their administration. This speech of Mr. Clay’s presen‘e-a broad fea- ture, and the best prospects of the erisis into which the country has been plunged by the fanatics of the North and the ultraists of the South. The plat- form presented in the compromise, by the Com- mittee of Thirteen, in the Senate, is the only mea- sure, or series of measures, through which the country can reach peace and quiet from the threat- ening agitation caused eriginally by the anti- slavery fanatics. In this movement, all the great spirits, and the most patriotic men of both the old parties, have united—Webster, Clay, Cass, Bell, Mangum, Dickinson, Foote,&c.—every man of note, in eitheir house of Congress, have united and joined. The only real opponents are Benton, Se- ward, Hale, and the abolitionists of the North, and a few Southern ultraists. But principally, and more dangerous than all in this opposition to the settle- ment of the slavery question, is to be found the cabinet of General Taylor, the whole force and ia- fluence of his administration, and all that they can muster inside and outside the houses of Congress. The line is now drawn in this terrible controver- sy between Mr. Clay and the supporters of the compromise, on the one side, and the present cabi- net of General Taylor, the abolitionists of the North and the Southern ultraists, on the other. The real friends of the Union, of a fair compro- mise—of the peace and prosperity of this country— cannot now stand idly by and remain silent, when such momentous issues are presented for their sanc- tion or the expression of their opinions. After a great deal of bush-fighting and wavering for the last six months, they are now presented with para- mount issues, which alone can lead to the set- tlement of the question. We have Mr. Clay on one side, and the cabinet on the other. | It is nowtime for the people—for the independent men, of all parties—for thinking democrats and thinking whigs, in this metropolis, and elsewhere— to take into consideration the present crisis, and to | express what they think of the patriotism and la- bors ot Mr. Clay, and his ent coadjutors, and | what they think of the corruptions, folly, and wickedness of the atrocious cabinet, which has duped and deceived the President, thus far, from preventing the settlement of the controversy, We desire every one to read the impassioned lan- guoge of Mr. Clay. No one can rise from that eloquent harengue without his heart exalting inthe noble stand which Mr. Clay and his patriotic of the country, or without execrating, in the bitterest terms, the miserable, wicked, and atrocious policy now and hitherto pursued by the cabinet—who are nothing but a cabinet of common swindiers upon the public treasury. First Vovaor or tus Atiantic—Cortins’s Line.*We give elsewhere in our columns a fall and interesting account of the first voyage of the Atlantic steamer, the pioneer of Collins's line from New York to Liverpool. The facts, as vivid- ly described by our special correspondent, present ) more intelligible view of the first perform- ance of this steamer, than the account so confusedly conveyed by the telegreph from Halifax. In fact, we are now fully satisfied, in spite of the little ac- cident whieh extended the voyage to thirteen days, that the Atlantic has exhibited a power and capacity which will enable her to beat any steam- ehip which has hitherto crossed the ferry between New York and Liverpool. Whatever Joha Bull | may say or do, we are perfectly’satisfied with this | first trial, and have no doubt she will realize to the | fullest extent all the expectations of the proprietors, builders, and manufacturers, down to the cook and steward. In lees than a year we will show, by this Liverpool line, what Brother Jonathan can do in the way of steamships. Wines axp Free Sorens.—Next Monday there is to be a congressional election in the Fourth dis- trict of Massachusetts. The democratic candidate has retired from the contest, and has left Benjamia Thompeon, of Charlestowa, a whig, and John G Palfrey, of Cambridge, a tree soiler, to light it out The former is a metchant, and the latter a Doctor of Divinity as well as of polities. Whieh will triomph remains to be seen ; but the whigs, it is to be heped, will remember that the result of the election will tell a story for Massachusetts, and care should be taken that that story does not turn out to be, in truth and fact, a lie. The free soilers must be looked after. Sartiwe oF tHe Garwwert Anctie Exrrorrios.—The Advance and the Rescuc, the vessels fitted out by the munificence of Mr. Henry Grinnell, of this city, for the Aretic expedition, in search of Sir John Franklin, sailed yesterday, at noon, for their destination among the leeberge and eternal snows of the North ‘There versels are under the regulations of the nary, in order to ensure discipline and provide against de- fertion. It is hoped, however, that there will be no heerssity for enforcing those laws, for the brave foliows who volunteered upon this harardous service have done ro more for glory than for meaner considerations; and it was a touching sight to behold those ships sail down the bay. with the benevolent object in view of extricating from frozen reas, « and « brother, though of another country and at the riek of sharing s cimimiar fate themecives, May heaven speed the enterprise. | spo Tue Pore avy toe Jews.—The Eternal City is in @ very curious position. ‘The Pope has returned to his ancestral home ; but he has nothing in his pocket, and Rothschild refuses to let him have any more money. A thousand years ago, or even later, the boot would have been on the other leg—the Jew would have been put into prison, have had experience ‘n the tender mercies of the Inquisition, and would have been made to launch out his silver and gold. All the powers of Christendom would have been in the same position. To-day it is very different. The Father of Holiness is the depen- dent of the Jew, and Rothschild is the real Pope and boss of all Europe. Whata revolution! What an awful revolution ! The singular fact of the establishment of a re- public in Rome for a single day, or a single month, shows what a mighty revolution has been wrought throughout Europe, in the last half century. Five hundred years ago, the Pope could not have lost dignity and supremacy, by running away for a single hour; from the Eternal City. All the run- ning would have been on the part of the persecuted Jews. The people would have thought that the day of jadgment had come, that they had heard in the last thunder storm the trump of the archangel, and that he was coming through the clouds, sooner than they would have believed that the sacred Pontiff could leave the home and heaven of his power. A thunder storm at that period, and under such circumstances, would have seemed the roll- ing of the heavens together asa scroll. To-day, however, a different state of mind exists. The i fallibility of the Pope has gone for ever, even in Rome. The great mystery is dissolved, so far as the Eternal City is concerned—and a thunder storm only stops the news over the wires for a few hours. There is one place, however, where the supre- macy and infallibility of the Pope are still respected —where there is more real devotion and whole- ness of the pristine faith than in the old world. It isin St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in this city; and, as the meddling and mischievous Mazzini is de- termined to give the Pope no rest, and as the Peter- pence is now nearly all gone, and Rothschild holds on to his money bags, the best course for the Pope to take is to come at once to this city in the very next steamer. The Rothschilds of Wall street will honor his drafts to any rea- sonable amount, particularly uf they can have complele absolution for their manifold transgres- sions in Erie Railroad and other fancies. Bishop Hughes is also ready. Manuracrvring Orerations Norra axp Sovrn.— Many of the mills in the manufacturing districts of Virginia are stopping, and the Richmond journals are bewailing this curtailment of industry. So far as we can learn, the same causes are operating in Virginia as in Lowell and the manufacturing towns in New England. The manufacturers are continu- ally making experiments with labor, and are chop- ping and changing to make large profits. Deter- mined to get specific duties, if possible, they make every cessation of labor, every discharge of the operatives, the pretext of a necessity for an in- creased tariff. It is a stale game. It has been tried too often to succeed, for all these attempts to give a dark color to the position of the factories in order to influence Congress, will prove abortive. Lowell and Lawrence may send on to Washington any quantity of lobby members, to agitate and to get up an excitement, but the object in view will not be accomplished. It is very evident that the whole distress is a creation of mere selfish designs ; for if the little factories of the South can make money, the grea; ones of the North can, at least, save themselves from loss. In Alabama, Georgia, North Ca- rolina, and Ohio there is go grumbling. Bu- siness is quite flourishing. New cotton mills are built every month; end those in operation throw off their usual amount of fubries. If there were any true cause of complaint, these would suffer equally with the Northern States. No, the whole outcry is raised by those who have com- | bined to furnish facts upon which to make a bold demand for increased duties ; and, during the last winter, the mills have been kept running night and day throughout New England, so that the opera- tives might be discharged, for an effect upon Con- gress, without diminishing the stock of goods ne- cessary to supply the natural demand. There are seme long-headed philosophers in Massachusetts, but they cannot pull the wool over everybody's eyes. We know where they are. Tue Democracy Hanmonrzine.—We have been quite amused of late, by the movements of the democracy of Tammany Hall. The efforts they have made to produce harmony in that discor- dant locality rivals, almost, the leader of any band of any discordant orehestra in the country. After two committees, both claiming full power and au- thority—the Western and Wood committees, so called—quarrelling with each other for months to- gether, they have, at last, set aside their old instra- ments, and have begun a full sized convention, | organized in Tammany Hall. They have already held the first seesion, and are now in a fair way, | according to all appearances, of settling their fami- | ly quarrels, and dividing and pocketing together the (when they get them,) allowing a due share for each set. The democracy, after all, are a very curious, sen- sible, practical sort of men. families, they quarrel among themselves when there is nothing to be lost, but are always ready to make it up again when a chance occurs to gain something by it. In order to save the honor of the two committees, the old Sachems were called | out merely for a show; and now, under the feint of obeying the voice of the people, they go to work, shake hande, and both parties become united, so as to secure the spoils at the coming elections. One very conspicuous person who figures in all these movements, is the redoubtable Capt. Rynders, who seems to have an oar in every wave, anda finger in every pie. In fact, the renowned Captain is a sort of One-Eyed Thompson among the democ- racy of Tammany Hall; one day, he sets them all at loggetheads, then, next day, he harmonizes all, bringing them together, uniting the discordant bits of wood, and soldering them according to the Latest inventions of chemistry and science. We like the democracy for their fan and philosophy—the whigs are too demure, too earnest, and have too many isms in their breeches’ pockets. Crry Taxation.—The assessment rolls, under the new law, have been completed by the asses sors of the several wards in the city; and if any in- justice has been done, the only way to remedy the evil is to apply to the Tax Commissioners, and that, too, within thirty days. Toke heed, there- fore, all you who wish to pay only your fait share, if fair share it can be called, when there are so many who get off scot free, by concealing their property, by locking up their wealth out of the sight of the law, and skulking from the payment of their proportion of the publie debt. Probably four mil- lions of dollars will be expended daring the eur- rent year; and the people have to foot the bills. Therefore, when a city is s0 monstrously taxed, every man should feel himself personally interested in doing all in his power to make the taxes propor- tionately equal. Assessors are true Yankees, and guess very well; but they make sad mistakes. Let the people look into the matter, and judge for | themselves. Conscience is a commodity much re- quired under the new law. Try and use a little of it. If the assessors put you down for too much, cut them down. If they give you credit for too lit- tle, post them up. Tre Bannicanes i Broanway.—The oweriers have erected barricades in Broadway, and set not only all the carriages and omnibuses at defianes, but even pedestrians. The shop-keepers are euf- fering largely, and it is thought that many of the hops will close, unless General Russ and Col. Per- rine animate their forces to retreat from one Gene- tul Complaint. The battle must end soon, er be- gin regain in earnest. Like all shrewd | Nicaragua Treaty Passep—Wuat Next?—It our intelligence, which we received yesterday, from Washington, be correct, the Nicaragua treaty has passed by a large majority, in the executive depart- ment of the Senate. We have been constantly prepared for this result, whatever may be the cha- racter or the consequences of the provisions of this teaty. The immediate prospect held out by this arrangement possesses too much commercial im- portance, affecting the interests of this country, to be delayed or non-confirmed by the Senate of the United States. This isthe most important treaty, and may lead to the most important change in the commercial centres and currents of the whole world. If a canal large enough for the largest steamers can be exeavated or rendered practicable, through the lakes of Nicaragua, and thus uniting the Pacific with {the Atlantic, steamers from London, Liver- pool and New York, can start from each of these ports and reach, in the most expeditious way, San Francisco, or any other port of the Pacific. The re- olization of such a fact is a revolution, constituting Yew Nork onthe Atlantic seaboard, the centre ofthe commercial world, and Europe and China its right and left wings. A greater revolution than this has not been presented to the world since the first vessel sailed from Tyrus and Sydon, ages ago. Again, if the treaty be confirmed by the United States, there is every probability of its being sanc- tioned by the British government. With such united confirmation, what is the next movement? The proprietors of the charter, constituting eight individuals, held ander the laws of Nicaragua, will atence throw the matter into the shape of stock, divided into shares, and send a large amount to London, there to be negotiated, and raise the capital necessary to carry out their objects, and to construct the canal in question. Sir Henry L. Bulwer, the British ambassador at Washington, has promised to some of the parties engaged in the enterprise, that he could raise two-thirds of the money required among the capitalists of London alone. The probable amount necessary for the construction of the canal, will vary from twenty to twenty-five millions of dollars. If skiifal engineers make a favorable report as to the practicability of the scheme, there will not be the slightest diffi- culty m raising the funds for the accomplishment of such a great and mighty project. In the meantime, we understand that, to hasten the completion of the canal, parties are determined to start a steam line between New York and San Francisco, by way of Nicaragua, crossing the Isth- mus at the point in which it is only sixteen miles in breadth, thus shortening the trip between the two cities, nearly a week less than what is required to pass by the Isthmus of Panama. Matters move rapid- ly in these wonderful days. Men’s minds are elec- tricity in speed. Dererrep Marrer.—Owing to the foreign intel- ligence, Mr. Clay’s speech, &c., &c., occupying so much of our space this morning, we are under the necessity of leaving out the interesting procedings of the meeting of the American and Foreign Bible Society ; together with an immense quantity of other highly entertaining reading, all of which isin type, and will be published as soen as there is a cessation in the flood of news by which we are now daily overflowed. Tue Sovruenn OnGan.—There was a great cry at Washington, a couple of weeks since, about a newspaper to be supported by the South. Every- thing was ready, and the compositors were setting up the editorial articles. What has become of it! We must offer a reward for the detection of the types, press, editors and publishers. When will the firet number appear ? Imrrations or New York 1x Brooxtyn.—Twen- ty-four of the leading men of our sister city, Brook- lyn, have displayed their taste by inviting Mr. Wm. Fleming to give a reading of “ Hamlet,” for a com- plimentary benefit. This will probably be on the grand scale of the New York festivals of the same kind, Brooklyn will be our rival soon. When will it establich its Italian Opera ? City Intelligence, diareter identite,— te momen eveuing the puted ers hold a public meeting at Tammany Hall, toset for- ward and maintain their rights as a trade, Desrxverive Fae in Nort Moone Sreeer—rae Wonk or ax Ixcespiany.—At half past 11 o'clock last night, the City Hall bell rang an alarm for the F oarth istrict, and immediately after for the Sixth district. It continued to ring for both districts together, which, with the ringing of the bells of those districts at the same time, led many to believe that there was a gene- | ralalarm.’ The flames shot upwards in the direction | of Canal street, and in a short time it was ascertained in North Moore street, at the rear of | pe establishment foceupied by Mr. La- who resides in the front asa dweiling house, The flames rose rapidly, and ina yery short time the building was lafd in ashes. Mr. Lawail | writing in his office at rueceeded in reusing a family named Kell: cupted the upper part of the building. . their lives, An adjoining building, occupied by Mr. | Nathan Skiff, was also completely gated. Mr, Lawall, Desides the building, lost a large quantity of made-ap work, and his loss, besides the carpenter's tools, whica Were all destroyed, ot be lest than $2,000, for whieh there f+ m0 insui hatever, The fire m the rapid pro todo more than ildings. Mr. Dunham. pro- iding in Franklin his house for the 4 gave them There canbe no dow o save the a prietar of the joining rebimedes Works, street, just opposite the fire, ope firemen to introduce the hove, ing machine mannfacturer. machines manufactured. The Chief of Police w attendance; also Captain Carpenter. of | and his force, who rendered very effective service Fine iv Wear Broanwar.—At noon yesterday, « fire | broke out in a earpenter’s shop. in the upper story of No. 28 West Broadway, The lower part of the baild- ing wee occupied as a clrealating library. by ©. Bovey A large portion of the books were destroyed by water. ‘The fire extended to Mr Heim & Co.'s cigar store, and No. 90, occupied by Mrs. Ralph. A number of poor | families. living in the upper portions of those build. { ingr, bave, by this fire, lost all their farnitare. The | smount of damage is not yet ascertained | Pine—A fire broke out on board the brig Cores | Goneva. lying at Pier 10 North River, at haif-past | tem o'elcck. om Wednesday evening. It was die covered by officer Diego, and soon extinguished. | depen oy Rieenanse ee following vessels have arrived within the last three days, with the number of emigrants attached to each, making a total of upwerds of 6.000 »— Seine, Marre | impression was that his charreter was good; he w be had bought Te seid ©) atbas could expect a gold watch at Pi no matter,” h it was knocked down to me id. and it ought to be gold.’ This elicited anoth a one said the Punks could afford to gi him ao il of such watches the pice of a gol one. and would not care much ut throwing im an additional shovelful. He went away in high dudgeon, saying there was no justice to be got at the police jee, and went to look for a lawyer, swearing. if it cost him $50. he would have satisfaction, It seems. ag the law stands, or, at least,as it is interpreted, that there is no mode of reaching the Funks, and that t! only way is to avoid them, Prayina Batt. avo Brrakinc Wixnows —The boys, in many parts of thecity, are becoming very trouble- some and disorderly, by playing ball in the public streets, Inseveral instances they take up their posi- tion in a quiet street, and to the annoyance of all the neighbors in that vicinity, they muddy the sidewalks, doors and blinds. and very frequently throw the ball through the windows, The police would much improve the quiet of their boo bereag wards. by rectifying this present nuisance, an we hope they will act promptly. Drap Booy or aw Inrant Founn.—At 10 o'clock A.M. esterday, James Davis, employed in the House of iscovered on the corner of Second avenue and nth street, ® small pine coffin, containing the dead body of au infant, It was conveyed to the dead house, Bellevue hospital. Tur Deav Auive.—The three young men who h'red the boat from Mr. Hooper, of Whitehall street. on Sun- day. and were supposed to be drowned, trom the fact of the boat being afterwards found at Fulton ferry, while there was no tidings of them, turned up on Tues cay, having called on Mr. Hooper to say they were not drowned, and “to give an account of themselyes.”” Court of General Seastons, Before the Recorder and Aldermen Griffin and Oakley. TRIAL OF JAMES ARLINGTON BENNET ON A CHARGE OF FORGING A NOTE FoR $9,600. FOURTH bay, May 23.—The court room was crowded this morning with spectators, brought together to witness the pro- ceedings in this novel case. Joseph ©. Ashley, who was on the stand when the | court adjourned on Wednesday. resumed his place as witness, and proceeded with his testimony — He said Bennet came to the office on business with Mr. Byrne; I saw him, and understood he wanted to borrow money on bond and mortgage, and [ un- dertook to obtain it for him; I frequently engyg- ed in business of the? kind, id got a commission 30s veqsnaention toe any eurelene, At kak tan toe form of your expression to Bennet when you first men- tioned the subject of the collection of the claim held by some person out West? A.—As near as I can re- collect I said to him, “Thompson tells me that there is a man living at his house, who is interested with another out West in a claim for a pretty large amount against a gentleman in York, and if he could get General Bennet to t an interest in it, he (Bennet) could get the ual commission;”’ I also told him, “as I have been informed, that this mao at Thompson's had not money to fee counsel.” The amount of the claim was net specified. neither was the form nor person mentioned; the watebes L spoke of coy A are in the possession of Mr, Byrne, who redecmed them from pledge; Mr. Bennet never kaew Mr. Drury in the matter; I never saw Bonnet and Drury together; as to what I said in reference to Mr Phillips yesterday, I meant to say that he was my counsellor; I was indebted to him for professional services. and threw all the business that his hands; I acted as an agent, or runner for him, and he generally allowed me ® commission on what busi- ness I procured for him: I acted asa kind of commis- tion merchant, or rather a commissson lawyer. The witness said he had some statements to make, in re- ference to this case, and with the permission of the coust, he would goon and make them; he said. Mr. McKeon and Mr. Graham sent me word that they wanted the whole truth in relation to these matters; now, I know who wrote that note, and who wrote the anonymous letters. The Counsel for the prosecution objected to testi- mony in reference to the anonymous letters, as they had net been offered in evidence. By the Recorder—Q.—Did James Arlington Bennett wriie that letter? (referring to the letter in which the note was enclosed.) A.—No. Q.—Did he know it was written? A.—No. Q.--Did he make that note? A.— No. ‘as ho in any way privy to it? A. of certain concessions of Thompson's in ; there is a certain peculiarity No; I know reference to that not about handwriting; it is the same as a person's face, can seldom be forgotten ; the capitals I recollect perfectly well ; the I's and H's are Thompson's, Cross-examined-—I first saw that note in Mr, Byrno’s hands on the 16th of November; I was not present when the letter was written. Corrella H. Bennet sworn :—I am the prisoner's only daughter; I have one brother. is in court; he is ounger than myself; my mother is not living; she Hoa e yess ens, December; { have resided at the residence of my father,on the Bath road; there is mall house on my father’s place; it was rented on the last of June; Thompson came to it on the 13th of July; leew oe before hy re; that was, when he o: , then; T never saw A: before ‘Thon snd fo Children: he left the e461 ly consisted of his wife, jouse on the 7th ef Decem| ther's Cyn fig consisted of himself, my brother, and myself; we had sometimes two, and sometimes three domestics; I have seen ‘at my father's house several times; I saw him there once, wi ™. father was from home; I saw him coming down stair this was about two weeks after he (Thom, came there; my father usually kept his letters oa his table, or on the floor, in his room; they weve trequently lying open; it was in the morning that I eaw Thomp- son; he was coming down stairs; my father’s room was on the second story; my father became «lar: ed; he told me of some things which Thomp- son had said relating to himself; I did not believe what I heard; I thought Thompson was boasting. Miss Bennet, was Thompson watched? A.—Yos, there was @ hostile feeling between my father and Thompeon; my father began to be afraid of him when — Thompson told him that he and Drury were about to poison him to get his property; there was a state of apprehension and alarm on the part of my father and the family; a watch was kept to see that Thompson did not fire the premises Daniel Embry sworn—1 reside in Brooklyn; I am resident of the Atlantic Bank; I know Mr. Bennet; I ave known him for fifteen or sixteen years; I saw some account of the charges made against him; I never heard anything derogatory to his character; he was generally considered an eccentric man Cross-oxamined—I live in Brooklyn; Mr, Bennot lives at New Utrecht; the accused did not keep an account at the Atlantic Bank, Wm. B, Taylor sworn. am engaged in the post office; I am in the assorting department; (letter shown) I cannot say whether the stamp on this is the many stamps genuine stamp of the Ottawa post off are made in this city for other offices, Robert 0. Curry sworn.—I am the Reformed Protestant Dutch Chureh at U Mr. Bennet held « pew in my church about three years during the first part of my ministry; I have been Eee of the congregration about 15 years; I visited is family. but not often sce him, f never met him but once; I never beard anything against his character up to the time of this charge. Cross examined —I do not recollect the time he went to Illinois; I saw bim just after he returned from the west: I understood he had been ationg the ik he told me he went to Nauvoo. Strong, pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbw ‘a.—I know Mr Bennet; hare known bim for # ity years; have never heard anything against his moral character up to the time ¢ ge. fon OConor, Faq -Iam a member of the bar city; I have met with and known « man called ‘hompron; I met with him in about ‘43 or ‘44; Lam not sure whe'her he had ever occasion to write ; [was acting at the time in hostility to the cause which b: e Prcroged to show by the iar character of Thompesot lace ef business i Ne jennet for twenty years, man of rome eccentricities Cross exam’ 1 attended his lectures some po ter, Antwerp 221 Alber Wate ar} rford Amsterdam rte Rico Mary, Brig Neps Polynen Total number of emigrants... ... ® Store on THe Nonrn Riv } Health Warden of the district eught to be | to the atrocious nuisances in West street | ‘There are hog-pens, d. by which the air is rendered unfit for haman —— ms. N those things abated, before the warm weather comes, and ali the mischief is | done. Euvecuee of Booxs im Newsrarens.—Yoasterday, the delivery of the foreign papers from the Europa was delayed several hours. in consequence of & publishing honse, in this city, having been found smnggiing books in the newspaper packages, Before, all the packages were delivered without examination ; but in cones. quence of this detection, they were subjected to close inspection. Hence the delay re Artem oF a Convict to Eecare—On cape a second time, by jump he top of the corriage conveying the convicts from the eity prison tothe House of Refuge. He has been since recaptured by officers Hollinger and Molt, of the Seventh ward. Eecare ov Bunotans.—Yesterday morning at one o’elock.officers Brookham and Crawley.of the Eleventh ward, detected two burglars in the act of entering the rucery store of Howard & Butts, corner of Lewis and Houston streets. by forcing the front door open by means of a cart rung. On perceiving their danger, they ran down Lewis street, closely pursued by the police, bat succeeded in escaping —William Bradharet wae arrested h venue. while in a the lives of several ustice MeGrath, and A Gnssenons Dowe Brows ny Peren Powe. —Yester- A fat German greenhorn, named Henry G: a ushed into the peliey ofice ine wonderful splatter Hie asked for the Chief, who happened to be out. He, then told bis business to ome of the men in the offlee. twenty years ° resided there nine years; I know Mr. Bennet's family; I know the house on Rennet's piace where Thompson I never saw Thompson to know him; I ber when he moved into the house; it wae al first of November Mr. x boars and told me that he ery pad roan in the nbighdorhood: | eat histenant, Mr. Thompson; Mr, Bennet ex- ibited hostile feelings towards Mt Thompson; no complaint was made against Thompson to me, as a whenever Mr. Bennet told me anything | believed it; L considered him a man of pro- bity; I should think’ Mr. Bennet’s house was sowe- thing like @ hundred yards from Mr. Thompson's house. ort-oxamined.—The conversation between myself Kennet took place about the lat of November. Thompson left about a month after that. Bennet never gare information to me whereby I could. at a magistrate, take action against him. We said Thomp- fon was engaged in counterfeiting. Me raid Thomp- son showed hima bill. [did not understand Beanet Af meking any epecitic charge against Thompson. I visit Mr. Bennet sometimes, I have seen strangers at Kennet’s house. I do not know Ashley nor Drury. I never saw Thompson to kaow him til I saw him in court at Brooklyn Direct re —T never took a complaint ina erim!- nal casein my life; Mr. Bennet is given to staty | considerable ; he has an observatory on top of his oure ; Tdon'tknow that he haea teleseope; he tol me Thompton had threatened to barn my house, and was afraidthat he would burn hie own, (Mennet Bennet told me that Thompson had id & $59 no id altered one; he «aid Inquire abe mt t ev ade any complaint acainet which I could take action trate ; I sheuld think Mr. Bennet might be © ) ie ‘Thompson. from when complaints are thus made, | could into | last; since my mother's death. my fa- | Tam a Justice of the | corder saidhe @#1 mot hear the expresion, fae bushy engaged iu taking motes eh as When this matter was settled, Mr. Clark The testimovy which I proposed to elicit as tending to rebut the statement of young or rather to account for the seeming intimaes 4 \ Thompson and Bennet. which iswholly to the apprehensions of Bennet. The evidence yefercece to conduct dropped, Witness gresumed—I have | writing; I don’t think [ am well enoug! | with it to say whether acertain note is in writing Cross-examined—It was about the lat of November that Bennet told me of Thompson’s threat to burn my ‘ba him to say so; it was ¢ U bad forbidden his family to pick berries from bushes Which grew in tne lane near my farm; [ want- ed them for my own family, and I said they mnst farther back; when Bennet told me about the $50 bg tered bill. be gave me to understand that it was but a short time before that he had seen it; I should not | think it could bave been so early as August. Matthew Clarkson sworn—I reside at Flatbush; have known Mr Bennet about fifteen years; I never heard anythingpagaiost his repuation prior to the so- r! culled Poster forgery, |~1 have had no business transactions im; I have visited him about three times, and he s returned the visits; his daughter is a communi- cant of the church which I attend. | Wm H Newman peg oo beater prvee 3 ol . | upto about three weeks ago, Metor of the pisespal church there; I have known Mr. Bennet about six. | yeurs; his wife and daughter were communicants in my church; up to the time of this change I never heard wny thing ogeinst the character of the defendant; robity. ir. Bennet when I Thomas Piel sworn—I am a law copyist; Tam fa- milinr with writing: Twas a copyist in Mr months; [ have seen One-Eyed Thomp-- Lalways regarded him es a man of Cro-s-exumined—I seldom met called at bis house. fice about ni: son there; I have seen his hand writing. (Note shown.) From my knowledge of Thompson's writing, and feom | an inspection of the capitals in this, I should gay it was his hond; I have econ bim write two or threo different hands; bis usual hand is @ bold one, but I have seen hiin write a cramped hand; there is a pecu- Nisrity about his capitals which I recognise in this. (Letters shown to witness.) Mr. Clark—Thesw are the anonymous letters. (Some discussion here arose as to tho form of a question, and Mr Clark made use of an expression to whieh the Dis- triet Attorney agsiu took exception, and ealled upon | the court to notice it) | Mr. MeKeon—We intend to hold the Court to ite duty in this matter, ns the Court would hold us to ours. Recorder—The Court will take care to do its duty, and. if possible. hold the counsel to theirs. Witmees reeumed—(Looking at letters presented to | him)—This letter, wdddressed to the Mayor, I should think, ix in the handwriting of Thompson; this one, addressed to Mr Wilkes, Editor of the Police Gazette I should say isin his hand. (Another letter presented: } by counsel for the defence.) ‘This letter, addressed to | Sir. Avhley, ia in Thompson's hand; I know the hand; it is one of his ordinary hands, The following isa copy of the letter which was shown. to the witness; it is addreseed to— J.0. Asnrev,Eeq., Friend A.— Keep in good heart, and excuse me for giving advice. You know where Ll am; but it is no- thing. tor in time it will be weil—eo it will be with you. Your friends will positively do all the; sid you with the Governor—it is Were 1 you, I would plead guilty. State the that you procured the money of Drury. &¢.,& I have positive promises in yeur behalf, and you can de~. pend upon their fulfilment. With all of this ery of conspiracy and pigeoning, &e , &., it would not do to so act as to commit the parties through which the damned scoundrels that are struy Hing against the consequences of their guilt, can obtain tl z It you make up your mind to do as I advise, let it there remain fixed, and exercise your faith, (not. judgment) that all will be right. Ever truly, yours, Ove tHat witt Nor Forcet Your Fortunes, on Faw vo Act a8 He Promisns. ‘The witness ppoonsint on his fet pp tony ome ter tell of telegrap meena reevived from oe while he was at the West. Q.—When ope ed these telegraphic despatches from ‘where was he? A.—Ile was up the count Qe And you recognised the writing as his? A.—Yes, Mr. Clark—Does the witness mean pateher? Mr. Grabam—Mr. Clark, you have examined the wit- now let me examine him. (Several shown; witness could not ‘nise the . Witness.—I was subpooned this morning; I mt court mene: it served the sub oral ree the note till I came into this ‘about ten 0 ke. ters were shown the witness.) I do not preelinay fap tas tee they ara hang ry Biting: I io think the Sere, x Bike om pson' ‘woul Five, testion t cade, ' Order to be certain, I asked rDrecytesber me a letter that I knew to be in writing; which letter I knew (Drury for copied it; I was a witness in he, Gfabemn-—Yors wore called to prevo\au Sunde ir. Grabam —You « to rial fact om the occasion of Drary’s trial Mr Devt Cam pee wet & Me counsel for the rorecution telling 4 witness he was called to prove an: MMaterial fact. . ” sm Mr. Graham—Oh, sit down, and behave 3 Mr. Clark (warmly)—I am not to be told by the pretended attorney-general to sit down, and behave myrelf, He is not the attorney-general, but ia, in | fact, the agent of an infamous prosecution. Il show | what this case is before I have done with it. I firmly | Delieve this old man innocent, and taphave been de- | signed es the victim of as wicked a conspiracy as was | ever set on toot to convict an innocent All the } portico concerned in it ought to st: | ight urbe real criminal stands controlling its movements, and has ew aid of the public authorities to consu mate bis wick edness I now rise to make this objection to the question. It is leading in form; and as it relates to | new matter, called out by the ution. is inadm’ | sible. When private counsel fe brought to ai lic proseention they have fao other or t rights than the counsel, for the defence. This intamous prosecutien is not to be sustained by over-ridi any of the well settled principles of law, I do fer tempt has been made to crowd me. I think deliberate intent to strangle Jas- ein thelr ders to por. air of his head rmed, till he i# proven to be guilty, It notin the power of thore lemen, by menace, by chjeetions. or by braggadocla, to drive me from the po- sition which I haye assumed, and which I believe to- be sustained by the whole truth of the case. The question ether thi tory y hed admisribie, ix ‘hich I have a right to be permit any man living to tell I stand alone, and there are three op- but were they forty. they could not de- acareful and scrutinizing defence of this court must bave heard these re- nded Attorney General,” “ Infa- docio” As tothe first of “ corres Feene, down | posed to me; marks :— The mous proseeuti there. te reagadoclo.” was meant for you; th — t 1 =e ot the enge. - sbosgenas ecorder exevedingly regret that daring trial of this ease ro much titne has toon tenes Ay Perronalities between counsel. The case has been alrvedy too long extended The time of the court and of this jury bas been too long occupied by it. I execedingly that euch terms should be used. I think improper remarks bave been made on both «ides. The terms used were improper; on the other hand, when counsel rose to object to a question, wit de ons ienprepe wlth naeakamebes Mr. Grahem—Now this die matter has been passed over 1 do consider it disgracefal—i rise— Recorder—* Mr. Graham, I do not understand w: you mean by being passed over.” The matter oy dropped. and the witness resumed his testimony -—I was a witness in the Drury trial: I was produced by Drury; Mr. Drury exhibited the letters in Thompson ‘e+ handwriting; there were two or three; one ofthem was in Thompson's regular bandwriting: I have ber ployed by Mr. Drury. T have copied letters for I copied there letters for him, for fear they should be | lost, he carries these letters about his perron tor eafet; Direct resumed { did not mean * tebey dapthen cue eeneetey greet telegraph, I simply meant letters brought by the post- Mr. Clark—I wish to eubmit to the court for - deration, whether, upon the case made by the a cution. be their theory correct, there was any ut- terance of the note? The crime was incomplete, ever upon the case made by the prosecution é a — -We think there is enough to send the-ease to ¢ jury. Mr. Clark Then to the jury we Adjourned for the da: ne On a y The f ig letter was handed by Mr. Bonnet t ~] counsel the opening of the court this morn- D e ies Cake ity Parson, May 28, 1850. Dent Sir: T felt somewhat indignant, yesterday, at your remark in seying. that, from yi you sati-fied that my mind wae Do not what Wilkes wish the raecalit yey ee i my is just what the enemy moment of immersion or emer- rion of one of the satellites of Jbpiter? Can you cal- culate the concavity of a parabolic mirror of three fect in diameter, that will refleet the solar rays tos oy f an excitable person ; I thould think he would be made afraid by a person threatening him The counsel for the defence hers proposed to prove the conduct of Mr. Bennet on the occasion of the death moral and legal responsibility, nor will his defence be rested on that ground. I desire to show his peculiar character It required the peculiar character of Ben- net and the peculiarities of Thompson to get up this prosecution. I am now willing that these anonymous distance of 800 yards, forming « focus of one inch’ You wilt om) presume way. No: you do net o me, Theat our min se be caetsred’ Vow mea be insane. The fact is. in matters of science, I aa far above the common mass of mankind, to all the Inw- yers in New York, as the eloquence of Sits. or Demosthenes of Athens, was above of the slang” Common P: oat 1—Nos. SG me 9 eae a SSE SS