The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1850, Page 2

NEW YORK HERA LJ). | 202.7202 ony averter, may endeavor to weaken | Hed there been fewer dead egidiers” throwghowt | ‘THE CASE GF PROFESSOR WEBSTER. | >°* P cry oe | the whole of this affair, the ze would have been no the conys ‘sation vault. THE EVk (F THK FOURTH OF JULY. www eer Yhin be toati- dT ought to refer to? yr that Webster told e trouble with Dr. Park ‘We hope that these warnings, emanating as they | publicity given to the “stifle, No eessible man | did from the great Washington, will be pondered | youd ever have thovaght patton popeced inte} \ ¥ y ail kinds of preparations in this eity ter the ccl bration of the Fourth. chaser of every dercription of fireworks gad presmate ‘Pett H18 PETITION 10 TEE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL. | Py” —_ JAMES GORDON BE 4guuTrT, PROPRIBTOR AND ED.t0R. upon. Under the Union, we have become the ; . the | were effected. an« excursions planned for poaceapeapie Nagy firt nation in the world, feared and reapected by | Plist am such ® mescer, and though we can account REMARKS OF THE REV. DR. PUTKAM. not— | day. Put caulerent loyalty to our glorious indepen SFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULtoN amp Nassaw ots, | DIED ig = for it om cer.uin belieis and surmises, we have no From the boston Daily Advertiser, July 8. | ‘de were not literally tri it they were | debce bolleo over lurt evening, and from sunset till sum- all others, And while eur children fire their pis- desire € see gentleme: Fidicul: by At 12 o'clock. yeeterday, the deors being oe jurt ee pear the truth if predicated on the expeetation | rise thir morning. there was one unceasing sattle of CURR, cea Tien 1 sole apdlexplode thettefncbide, let MheacKhnd all.) Gentlemen neade Fidiculous| by aay | oo ie thes the ent was made in publie, Dr. | that he ebould make terms with Parkman, as if pre- | firecrackers, and explorious of every kind of fireormer mar WER ALD '¢ cam serene eee | p {| gratifiertien of morbid vanity or diseased judgment. | Pornem presenten tee : Gated op the expectation that he should silence bis | The sesfolding was ervcted in the Park for THE WRBALY NERD eT SatcMiae deo cen per | VOW that we will hand to them the sacred trust | T¢ age Herbert cheoves to protect her Mujesty | PRT#ION OF DR. WEBSTER, by.murder, In either ease they were predicated | fire works | ‘There will he Sre works, also, in 4 Bopy. or $3 per annum ; the Burepean edition, $1 perannem, committed to us by our fathers, in all its integrity, | Tohis Excellency, the Governor, and te the Honoradle Ea-| ons coutingency, And as they fit one expectation Square and the Bowling Green, and, of there | w Queen Victoria, he should enlist in her service. ecutive Council ef the Commonwealth ef Mascachucelts jurt ue well us the other, they produce nothing either The turn out ef the 1 be pumberlers private ov we ude the toye. TEESE EES Gy matt, for subecrigtions, or wth adver and without spot or blemish There i 4 | . , . ms ES re is rt > ed Jobn White Webster, @ convict, under sentence of | ¥4y military is expreted to be very fine, thermen rh eetgiad Prin or he pociage Wil be deducted Srem sa) of the Europa—The Condition and | nearer — re Pe bad ee ir gg pd — jr deat, in Boston jail, im-bebalt of himself andof-his; Cp the cther band, Dr. Putnem suggested, at some | "No public demonstration will be made ia VOL UXSTR S° CORRESPONDENCE, contaizeing important 7 Be farer than Canada; and in his efforts in behalf Wire gud his ehiidren, reepecttully petitions, that the | length, tbat by adepting Dr. Webster's declaration, | Breoklyn, A salute will be fired im che morning, which, Bews, wolirited from any quarter ef the world; if used, will be Prospects 0 repe. of his sovereign, on American ground, he will lose ; sentence awarded sgainst bim by the law may be com: | thet the bemicide was unpremeditated, some circum- | js paid for by private subscription, the Common Coum- fe! reiurn ryected communici SEM Wberally po id Jor. vawship Europa arrived at this port last ; | muted to such otber less horrible and ignominious ttancee ax opted <therwise almost iaexplica- | oil being too eeoncmical to afford it. A few of the BOUNCE E taken of anonymous communications. We do The ete SR intel a conopeis of Ber meng | 12008 Her Majesty is safe any where, | purtehment a> your honorable bedy may mercifully | ble, uch are the openness cf the appointment, bis | Sulitery®ctmpscion will tusa eat and ‘upon Aa. | evening. e published a synop news | deoree making bo rhow of ability to pay Dr. Parkman, and | thelifown hock The first company Continental Guards ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every morning. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Afternoon—Tue Hostiem a we Baxpit—Jox ix Lowpon—Takixe THE PLEDGE, x K—Dikvxxako—Lonvon Tiown. BROADWAY THEATRE, Hroadway—Narnatia—Tuns Ovr—Tux Gorn Diccers. XIBLO'S GARPEN, Broadway—lsamp or Jewxie— wan Lion—Varexan or 76 BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers stroet—Triu Brexcwes | Poisrictan—Samious Fasiiy-—MysreRious Kxockimos NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham square—tternoon— Vincinia Munmy—Mone im ( Kaia—OmnTBCs. Bi Bing—KocnsstrK Kw CaN AP REPING IN ar Six P.M. ALARMING SACKIFiC CHRISTY'S GPERA RhoUs MIAN MinerkELsY—Altornvon OLYMPIC, Broadway— aad Evening. CASTLE GARDEN—Music, Daxcrwe ayn Firework chanics’ Hall—Ermo- vening. exce’s Minsrruta—Afternoon an AMERICAN MUSEUM—Pearonwances Evaxy Hour so rue Day, New York, Thursday, July 4, 1850, ‘Telegraphic Summary. Im consequence of a thunder storm which oc- eurred at the South, on Tuesday evening last, the | telegraphic wires in that direction were deranged, and we were unable to place before our readers In he Congressional proceedings of that day. | another column we give them what was done in Washington yesterday and the day before. The Senate, it will be perceived, were occupied yesterday aud the day before with the California bill, but without coming to any conclusion. In the House of Representatives, the Galphin | cabinet were severely but not unjustly handled by | several members. No matter what conclusion may be arrived at by the House, as Mr. Carter, of Ohio, | Said yesterday, the people have rendered their ver. dict, that there was corruption in allowing the Gal- phin cluim, that its allowance was monstrous and Tevolting to the dictates ef common honesty. Af the rumors from Texas are to be believed, the boundary dispute between that State and New Mexico is assuming a very important shape, and If such an unfortunate result should take place, the conflict will not be confined to New Mexico and California. The cabinet at Washington will be held to answer | for the consequences. The Southern States will an armed collision is very probable. net witness Texas struggling, without assisting her by all means in their The Nerthern States willtake sides with New Mexico, and then will commence a civil war, the end of With such danger staring us in the face, what can be the power. which will be the destruction of this Union. thought of Congress, the members of which are gassing and gusconading as if they were the rulers of the people, instead of their servants, elected to the places whi-h they fill for the purpose of carry. the det will be yesterday 5 the day before , found im another column of this day’s paper. ‘This is a wonderful age, and an age of wonders. We can travel the ocean by steam, and accomplish as great a distance within a week as was formerly done in rix—we have chained down the lightning, | and can make it beat time or keep time—we can discover gold mines, make state constitutions by patent methods, expend a great deal of sympathy for niggers, without possessing any, and do a va- riety of ether things which our ancestors never dreamed of, and which, if they were to rise from their ashes, they would scarcely believe. Yet there is one thing in which we are sadly de- ficient, in this age. Unlike the period of Moses and the prophets, or tuat of the apostles, we are bad hands in predicting, and make a sorry attempt atthe businees, in a great many cases. We have predicted a great many things which have occur- red. We predicted the revulsions which took place in Europe a couple of years since—we predicted the French revolution, and the elec- tion of General Taylor. All these have been verified, but on the other hand there are many predictions which as yet are unfulfilled. We can- | net, in reason, however, expect to hit the mark always. We do not claim to be infallible as a pro- phet. Even the Rochester spirits are sometimes mistaken, and while endeavoring to knock out the right thing, occasionally do the reverse. We pre- dicted another revolution in France, but it has not yet taken place—we predicted the downfail of Gen. Taylor’s weak and contemptible cabiaet, but it sticks together still by the ‘cohesive power of public plunder,” Galphinism, and Culifernia land speculations, and though last, not least, we predicted a general European war which, up to this time, is unfulf@led. On reviewing all our predictions, how- _ ever, and in balancing the accounts, we find a large balance in our favor, which isnot the case with most prophets, and therefore we are satistied. In ieference to a general European war, it is pro- but le that none will take place during the sojourn of this generation in this sublunary world. We are beginning to think that the nations of Europe are too much afraid of each other to go to war—that, like the two schoolboys, “one’safraid, and another dursen’t.””. We have had several false alarms lute- | ly, but the self-styled mistress of the seas, quietly backed down, and allis repose again. There are but six independent and powerful nations in the world—France, England, Russia, Austria, Prussia, and the United States. Almost any one of these is a match for the other, if the remaining powers did not interfere, but the danger of interference is such #8 to compel them all to keep the peace. Besides this, the horrors of the wars which followed the French revolution, are still vividly remembered,and the present generation are not willing to witness a repetition of them. Again, the recentimprovements in the ait of war are so numerous and so Wonderful, that ewch of the great powers is afraid of encoun- tering them, although they hate each other witha cordial and reciprocal intensity. These are some of the causes that tend to prevent a general Euro- pean wer; but the most important and influential of all, is the irredeemable bankruptcy and financial rottenness of all the great powers. Their very ex- tier, have become very troublesome, having stolea upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of property, committed many murders, and | carried away @ great many women and childret Tue Conression or Weester.—The confes- sion of the wretched man who took the life ef Dr. Parkraan, in the Boston Medical College, has been read with deep interest in this community. Daring , the trial of the prisoner, various theories were set up as tothe probable innecence of the professor, though these wore generally entertained out of the | SUS Uh dia leemeral tacts whioh your petitioner w city of Boston. In that place, the prisoner ae | poudeay, bus the extevuating decile of whieh Sy } convicted, we doubt not, upon testimoay which in your petitioner's situation, can ever possess legal | was taken before the jury of inquest, and which | S1aner teprove, bee detalla your petitioner ey | was suppressed upon the trial. The identification suerte Apetate share 50 your Donsenhle bed vin the | of the remsing found in the Medial College at WESSey Leu gue mate tie ot those of Dr. Parkman, was not a matter of proof, | has made you the dispensers, but of belief from rumors. Ifthe delicacy of the And your petitioner biaemiaen de WEBSTER fa.nily was the cause of the suppression of import- ed , ant evidence, we may respect the feeling, while strict justice condemns the course. No power should be great enough to shut out testimeny af- fecting character or life, particularly when the evi- dence is required to satisfy beyond all doubt,the pub- | icmind. The Boston Jury may have acted accord- ngto the popular belief in the locality of the murder, but we still maintain, as we have from the first, that , they could not reasonably convict Webster upon the testimony brought forward at the trial. Had they been furnished with all the evidence before the jury of inquest, as to the peculiarities of Dr. | Pathman’s body, their verdict would have been more reasonable, and the public would not have indulged in suepicions against Littlefield, which were not warranted. However, we do not intend to enter into this | case more fully. The condemned man is seeking, by confession and penitence, to avert the terrible penalty of the law. His fate is in the hands of the rulers of his native State,tand of his God, and far be it from us to interfere in a cause so sacred and | pga°been of the slightest aud most eusual kind. Buon | delicate. We have been steadfast in protecting | ee ate eet T received from bin6 requess thas him, while the voice of public opinion has twisted | tree eet ae en eee set to be declined every circumstance against him, and only regret 1 bad followed the reports of the trial, and scqui- that his innocence has not justified our course in | ¢eed in cord re peal ga iy [mah ety every particular, for it is lamentable to find, in an ~ intelligent and educated man, a superflux of dan- be, carried into exccution. I did mot make it my ob- Fld to draw @ contession from him esrly, or to lead gereus and malignant passions, uncontrolled by the calm power of reason. Your petitioner fully admits that he was tried before @ fair ond impurtial Uribunal, and under the law as it exisis, his Jury, composed us it was of bonoruble aud | Light ude men, could have returned no verdiet other | than they did. But he respectfully reminds your hon- | orgie body, thet the two great ‘morat ingredients of | the crime of murder, malice aud premeditation, have | never bern found against him by # jury, but have been | Becesteriy interred by the arbitrary rules of the pH Bostow, June, 1860. Dr. Putnam then proceeded to read the following PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The grounds which I um authorized to take in ald of the petition of J. W. Webster, and which I take not | un advocate pledged to # side, but in good faith, | expressing my own personal belief, are as fol- I ‘That the buman remains found in the medieal eol- lege, im November last, were those of the lute George , Parkman, end that he came to bis death by the hauds of Dr. Webster, im ® moment of passion, under great Provocation; that there was no premeditation, mor | Murderous intent; that'there was a homicide, but not | ® murder; or if it could be called ® murder under the Tigid interpretation uf the rules ef common iaw pre- Yailing in this commonweulth, yet that it was not Murder kecording to Lhe moral judgments of our people, , or of menkind, not the crime to which the public sense of justice awards the puniehment of death, or for which that punishment is inflicted under the usual and actual adininistration of the lawin Massa. | ehusetts. 1 sm enabled to present from Dr. Webster's own | lips, @ étater.ent of facts connected with the homi- © cide. ‘The credibility and value of his statement must depend parily on the date of it, and the cireum- stances under which it was made. Before reading it, Uberetore, L will relate those circumstances to the | committee. | My ucquaintance with Dr. Webster before his trial | im to commit himaelt oue way or the ether, on the question of his guilt or innocence. I carefuily avoid- ed every remark and inguiry that might tempt him to —_——___—_— make any false declarution, seemed to under- Great Increase or Tue ARMY From Eranr | *#né me. und neither deued nor declared his guilt. > | dhe would finally be induced to communi- Tuovsanp ro Fourteen Tuovsayo Men.—We | vip pattem naam abans ake disappea publish, in another part of this day’s paper,‘ General of Dr. Parkman, and about the remains found 5 ” whi college, But I wasin no hurry about this, 1 thought | Orders, No. 20,” which were recently issued from | T'ji;cuid be more likely to obtain from him the exact | the War Department in Washington, relative to the | truth, by waiting at pig ge — apeeeeingy, i it et for the firet wee! 0 ‘COME Be increase of the rank and file of the United States _ ccntees Wiciektae aa Gin ts commlenes Gan tna, army, @s authorized by an act @f Congress, passed ment by attention and sympatby, and to endeavor to on the seventeenth of June last. By that act, the | pd = “ pe sap roy eo moral and religious ne- | i os ure, whic: . number of men in each company of the army is in- | jess einful aud certainly dying man. As time passed, y ly dying creased from forty-two to seventy-four, which, in 1 seemed to myself to have succeeded in these objects, the aggregate, will swell the rank and file from | eight ghousand to fourteen thousand men. We learn also, that one-half of the infantry serving on the frontier, are to be mounted, forthe purpose ofpro- | could abruptly and authoritatively demand bis conti- denee. I dia do so, and I was not d: apres in the free ecmmunication point on which updersiaud one ; that the embarrassment | almost beyoua my hopes. ‘At lengib, on the Zid day of May, I had made up | my ming to address bin in # whoily new strain, and | tecting the inhabitants against the incursions of the | Y°hct Oa entering his cell that day, {told bim that Indians, who, of late, especially on!the Texas fron- [was going to broach # new aud iimportal him, sud be must listen te me seriously, | to'demand of him # full statement of facts. I then | Delieved myself to be on such terme with him that L | ly Uli 1 had done. I then said to him, that he rust | ave felt al xlong that was one ‘thi A which attended the avoiding of that point obviously | within the last fifteen months. It is very doubtful, | went far to defeat the satirfaction and prost to hini- | however, whether mounted infantry will secure "ti! hich ought to result views. I | | said that he must certainly have some koowledge re- | Webstir’s statement was confirmed by well known | implied by J | done. ‘ations to the fact that be bad made no chemical pre) ) that Dr. dertroy the body. And, again, he urg tisits in Dr Parkman’s character—exacting, some- Umes-tevere and exasperating. and with @ mania tor meking bis debtors do just right—while Dr, Webster's charecter, on the other band, is sworn to as timid, yet irritable, hasty, wand sometimes parsienste. Dr. Putpum then urged the insufficiency of the al- leged motive for premeditated homicide, the little sam Of $483. to @ man whose property was considerabli though embaerraned. And he added that, it he ha deliberately planned the murder, he must have well considered the vital quertion as to the effect of his having the notes with the marke of cancellation u; them. He followed this suggestion into detail, and then clored this branch of his ergument by admitting that there war something inexplicable about the notes, which Dr. Webster himeelf zeobemy could not make clear. The theory of premeditation certainly had the moral probabilities against it; and granting that he could bave conceived the plan, still there was a greater morul improbebility that he could, whengthe moment came, beve executed it, Having thus answered the first question as to the “ statement "'—“ is it to be believed! ’—he passed to the second inquiry ° If, from all the facts and, circumstances of the case, credit sball be given to the statement of Dr. Webster, and the committee shall conclude that it is most pro- buble, or equally probable, (for that would be enough.) that the he micide was committed in the beat of blood, and wus unprcmeditated, ought the prayer of the peti- tion to be granted, and the sentence eommuted ? Vere he waive d any with or competency to discuss the legal question that might arise as to malice being and about shifting the burden of proot trcm the Lo: wealth to the prisoner. He ouly al- luded to the known difference of opinion on that point in the Supreme Gourt itself, presuming, however, that the Exceutive Council would not wish to impe all one of its decisions, or that the people could or Dr, Webster's friends ask such interference of fune- tions. He supposed, however, that if Dr. Webster's rtate- ment could have been proved toa jury under admis tuble evidence—the verdict could not have been miur- der. Or if then, the Court, constrained by the rules ef the Common Law, had iXsiructed the jury that ther murt find such a homicide murder, he supposed it would have been regarded everywhere @ cnse for the Executive, The precise duty of the Executive was, to make the graduation of punishment to crime more B any general rules of law can do ¢ punishment of criminal homicide, it seems to be a settled point in the minds of the peo- ple, and in the actual administration of the lew, that the rentence of death, however often the judiciary may be constrained to award it. shall be carried into execution only in cases in which it is proved and be- lieved that the murder is deliberately intended, and that in «li cases in which the deliberate intention is Wanting. or wot made out nor necessarily inferred, an- other puniehment less horrible, but still severe and rufiicient, shail be substituted by the Executive. In this latter ion, said Dr. Putnam.'as [ believe the cace of Dr. We! stands, I believe that the pray- €r of his petition ought to be granted, and have pre- sented in his statement, and in my own name, reasons which think should move theGovernor and Coun- cil to grantit. Tam here out ef my usual and appro- priate epbere, not to win a case. but to assist the com- mitice in their search for the truth of the ease. 1 have no interest in the matter distinct from that of the Commonwealth. My sympathies in the case are, first for truth and J) e, and second for Dr. Webster. Dr. Webster, continued he, does not pray for a full parden from the Executive. His friends cannet claim itior him, He is guilty man. The homicide he has committed is not justifiable. The provocation, though great. Was only in Words and menaces, and did notjus- tity the blow. ” It was the result of « passion, which he admits be ovght to have under control, and for the consequences of which be is justly held responsible, | Hie acknowledged that Dr. “Webster's conduct after the offence. aggravated it—that a man of right moral tone would imetaptly have made public what be had | | Again, the impression made of hischaracter by | the dirporal of the body, could not be removed, though bis ecucation asa medical student aud medi- | eal man rhould be regarded while it was judged. Lis tuking possceslon of the notes has a very bad look, not to be puiliated—a telony indeed; encugh to biast | his ebaracter for probity. But still, allthese bad facts, | puting the worst interpretation on them, would not, | sepurutely or collectively, constitute the crime of morder. 0 to Jamnice at vight o'clock. The Franklin and Warbington Life Guards. we believe, go to Oyster Bay, or Bebylop, Tbe various places of amusement and refreshment will be open for the eccommedation of thoee who lirt. Thr Priapeirnia Finemes.—The h the two companies of Philadelphia fre Hotel. Yesterday, they visited Blac! Island and Brooklyn, with No. 13, aud were highly gratified with their irip. About half pyst seven o’elock the} returned, and Southwark Company brought their beautiful engire im front of the Ci Hall for a trial, They were drested in their form, and twenty having got on the engine, and the hose being attached, the stream was directed towards the mone of the City ye lg precip ewetpotned 2 Lop of the flagstaff, ttle of the ‘uched ity but not the stream iteelf’ 1 very five stream. from a 7% inch ey- li He epg to thie company, (which was of nine ineh Was the best and moet powerful in Philadel) Tueroay evening the tremen dined with No. 13, at Freveh’s Hotel Southwark Engine is at the house of” No. 13. The Humane Lose is at the house of No. 22. Tux City Guan, Capt. MoArdle, will leave the sity’ for Newport to-morrow, by the Full River line. hey: will remnin st Newport until the arrival of Dodworth’s band. who leave bere en the evening of the 5th inst. Upon the arrival of the bund, the corps will proseed'to- Boston, arriving in that city on the 6th inet., at abou’ ll o'clock A.M. A number of the “ Guards’ will §. on with the band on the 6th, and join the corps at New- rt Daag will render their parade in Boston fulland effective. Tue Bowiinc Gnxeex.—The fountain in the Bowling. Green war completed yesterday, and is in full opera- tion, It is exverdingly pretty, though emall. It ia ready just in time tor the Fourth, Tux Weatnex. —The change in the weather for the Inst two days bus been very considerable, the thermo- meter having folien thirken di e6. Last evening” Joreboded raim, but we bope it will not mar the enjoy- went of Independenc Tur Tanning or THe Thexs ix THE Panu.—Yesterday, the trees in the Park were all tarred,to prevent the little boys climbing them to see the exhibit We surpeet it wul not prevent some of perching on the branches, Uxxsown Bor Daownep.—The coron held an inquert at the foot of Houston a aretycad body of an unknown bey, who was found floating im the dock without cloth: i, Fupposed to have came to his death while bathing ‘The boy appeared to be ebeut fourteen years Ol age. four teet six inches, middling ftout, randy hair, jull forebead, and freekled face. Verdict, death by drowning. Death ny Disease or tHe Heart-—The coroner held an inqnest. yerterday. at the corper of Ann and Nas- tau Fircets, in the grocery store of O. J. Decker, on the body o Wm Bisir, nged about forty years, a na- tive of South Carolina who died suddenly in the store about one o’cluck ov that day, In the hat of the de- ceased was found eight or ten letters dated at different intervals. trom hir wife, «ho it seems resides in Charles- ton, Scuth Carclina, ‘Tbe deceased, it seems, has beer in very poor bexlth for some time past. Verdict, death: by direare of the heart. Drain nv & Fart.—The Coroner likewise held an inqucst at No. 118 Greenwich street, on the body of a Goaman by the pee of Conrad Ortel, aged 36 year who come to bis death by failing down into the front barement of suid houre over the stoop, a distance of some ten feet, which cuused his death. The deceased, it terme, was intexicated at the time, whieh is be- lieved to be the caure of the fail. He has lefta wife and tour children. Verdict accordingly. Mone Canruine Accrornts —At 8 o'clock, on Tuesday ev ning. another of thove frequent secidents by eam~ phine. cccurred Elizabeth McDermott, residing at No, 125 Muiberry street. was severely burned by the bursting of » cautuphine lap. which she was in the act- of filing. She ess conveyed to the City Hospital. At half past cight o'elwck, # similar aectdent occurred by uarters of ‘rench’s | the boreting of « lemp in the house of Mra Ellen Mo- Faden No 158 Drinuey street. Her clothes eaught fire, und rhe was dangerously burned. The secident ledto wn tlarm of fre being rung by the bell of the district Wacow Accioent.— William Layton, lad nine years of age, was thrown from a wagon, in Suffolk street, ubout 4% o'clock on Tuesday evening. and broke hie: erin, and aleo pustwined severe injury in hishand. He wys taken home to No 224 Divirion street, protection to the people of Texas. There ought to be aregiment equipped for this special service, com- ‘arkman, which I ha epecting the tate of Dr. fod that { be te him an op- Dr. Webster's intellectual and social advantages, he and that the unsbared eecret_ m | said, increased bis moral responsibility. doubtie: istwoce as nations depends upon the maintenance Loek- ASo1neR Accibyni.—At the same hour, Di ing out their will, ‘ nd not to promote sectional quar- Aud this is difference euough against him, without Mick | fully injuring himself, , : i No. 204 Green street, feli from the: and continuance of the paper money system, which ‘i prersive aud intolerable burden; that the ume had | but they increased any punishment—say imprison- sahmas: . of * . - posed of good horsemen, and armed with revolve: 7 * e of @ chimmey, at No. 203 Green rels between different States ofthe confederacy? | would collapse and explode at the first shock of a | Siar to the Texan Rahaite, tie oy tadicee cat | eee es Se en ee | ment, im J0st the same degree. street, Urewbing his collar bone, aud otherwise dread~ We regret that we cannot hold out any hopes of on this point, me od Delieved it wens be tor geveral war in Europe. This system has been inflicting upon him a sentence severer in terms, a excellent horsemen—as good as the Arabs—and | 1 uty forborne hythere only been Frit, on Tinew Henssir prom 4 Winvow.—At twer the immediate passage of the Compromine bill | Pushed and expandedto ite utmost limit, and war | to be kept in check, must he pursued aad over. j that ehought be mart ie 'sbmetinoen rol, to thet reply. that Dr, Wester | ovclock yeeterdny” mirigy oBleete Damen and Glen Delaware, it appears, has come out agamst it by | Panic would drive it out of existence, und send all | taken. | Tae hat ne bend mat fear te tall mee UAE be executed, aecording to bis'sentence, because it Pit, of the Fourth Ward, tvund » woman namod Mrs. resulutions, and Mr. Clay himself, we learn, is afraid that it will not be passed for some time yet. Independence Day. The people of this mighty and powerful repablic, wil) this day celebrote the seventy-fourth anniver- sury of that great day, when the thirteen colonies of America resolved * to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equa to which the laws of nature, and of nature's God, entitle (en- titled) them ;” that day on which they declared to tonished world, as self-evident truth: hatall mon are created equal; that they are endowed with €ertuin inalienable rights; that among these are lite, liberty, and "the pursuit of happiness; that to | the Jew capitalists for the m secure these righta, governments are instituted emong men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ; that Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these enda, it in the right of the people to alter or to abelish it, and to institule a new goverument, laying its | foundation om such principles, and organizing its power euch form, as to them shall seem most likely tocflect their safety and bappines that day on which “the representatives of the Uaited States of America, in general Congress as- | sembled, appesling to the Supreme Judge of the world for the recetitade of theit intentions,” j did, “in the neme, and by the aw ity of the | good people of there colonies solemnly, publish and declare that t ed colonies are, and of right | ought to be, free and independent Staces; that they are (were) ebeolved from all allegiance to the Bri. tich crown; aud thet all eouncection between them and the crowa of Great Britain is (was) and ought to be totally dieolved.” That, therefore, is the day, the wuniversary of which we now celebrate with benfiies, hreworks, and illuminations. Bat while we celebrate it, let us bear in mind, that, throngh the influence of party, formed our geo- yrophiea! distinctions, * these united coloaies ” are io Gunger—that the North is, at the moment, ar- raye t the South; that old purty lines are t n up, that cectional quarrele are being in nd that_onless a better feeling prevails, dalged in, the authors of cur great revolution will have shed their blood to ne purpose, and that degenerate sons of noble vires will throw away the blessings be- queathed to them, and which they ought to cherish ae the le of their eye W bile we ore, therefore, celebrating the anniver. sary of that glorions day on which our father pledged cir lives, their fortunes, and theit snered honor, to eustain the Declaration of Independence, let ue not forget the parting advice of the immortal Washiogton, who, when after having rejected a retied to the shades ef Mount Veron, crown, to spend the rest of hie days in peace and quietness, “to reulize without alloy the eweet enjoyment of partaking, inthe midst of his fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws ander a free govern- ment.” Let the parting advice of the sainted Warhington be remembered, and pondered upen, by the people of the North this day ; while they are engeged in the uenal festivities of the occasion, let them 1. call to their recollection what the father of his country said in reference to parties founded on geographical distinctions. In his farewelP address, which ought to be lisped by every child of five years of age, he says :— fous concer ebm of other too much a¢ wh to render alien to ench other thoee who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection The same illustrious patriot aaid:— With eveh powerful motives to anton, of J. @bile experienes | tion against | the world. the European governments toppling to the earth — The financial condition of some of those powers wus clearly developed during the late revolutions. The etruggle with Hungary le a bankrupt of Austria; and Russia herself is this day begging of 8 to continue her power. England is hopelessly gone, and is tied, hend and foot, notwithstanding her bluster. Wit- ness her recent conduct in the Greek affair. France is Likewise insolvent; in fact, eo are all the Euro- pean powers, without a eolitary exception. But, although the European powers will not, ac- eording to present appearances, risk their existefice | in a general war, they will embark ia hostility with any of the smaller nations, on the least pretence, and for the most trifling cause. England will thrash the Chinese, and toree opium dowa their throats at the can annexes their territory, as payment for the powder wnd ball used in killing them, France whips the Alperines, and makes a colony of their territory. Kussia eubduee Hungary, Prussia, Baden, the foot of the list, the United States goes to war with Mexico and compels her to dsspense with half her lands to foot the bill. But the great pow- ers will nct war with each other. Russia, thoug eager for Turkey, refrains, in the sight of a coali- her, England backs out of the Greek question ; Mr. Van Buren tries and acquits Col McNab, to get out of the difficulty growing out of the burning of the Caroline steamer ; and Mr. Polk abandoned the fifty-four foy or fight platform, for fear of a war with England. Such is the present position of Europe and of The peace which has lasied for thirty- five years seems, according to present appearances, not destined to be evon broken. Sill, however, no one knows what a day ora year may bring forth. A combination of events Europe in @ blaze, but the rulers of the European naticne will do their utinost to prevent it. The people, no doubt, are anzious for a general war, bet their rulers will prevent it by all the means in their power, because their own existence is ideati- fied with a tinuance of peace. The present go- vernments of Europe may, therefore, laet until they sink with the weight of their own rotteaness, bank- ruptey and corruption, or until the masses become eufficiently intelligent to arise in their might, and level them te the ground. Tre Carviets ano Monraoves or Paitapeventa. —We are still receiving commanications respect- ing the sap of the cedars of New Jersey, and the scientific researches of Mr. Hirst into this article. Among others, Judge Barton has furnished us with & long reply, the most prominent point of which is his declaration that the words reported as spoken by him against the Queen of England, do not live in his memory. zealous moments of patriotism and virtue, frequeat- | ly eay things which cooler judgment would not sanction. These words form, of course, the moat striking points of their harangues; and though it is easy to charge the skilful reporter with having ex- eggerated expressions to injure a epeaker, there is bot an intelligent man that credits such statements. In former times, men could say what pleased them | for eflects’ eake, and afterwards prepare for the | prese an edition of a different caste | now. The modern reporters are like the ears of contemplating the canses which may distarb oar | It is not eo the great public, and faithfully driak in every word, to reproduce it for the benefit of the community. Thiet makes our public speakers more prudent than formerly, for men cannot speak without being | etrietly represented by the new | Barton, it seeme, has suffered some inconvenience Ja apers. from thie faithfal work on the part of the press, but ne he does not choose to assert that his words have been intentionally garbled for the purpose of iajur- ing him, it is to be hoped that he will now forget the rest of the foolish battle of word* and corres- pondence between the cedars ot New Jersey and the poets of Philadelphia, and #0 terminae host. lities between the modern Capulets and Moutsgaes. who produce nothing, nor add to the wealth of the people, but are supported by means extracted from the substance of the industrious classes. standing armies of Europe number, in the aggre- dred millions of dollars, We are, however, gra- on’s mouth—slaughters the people of India, and | erect, We see our army increased, in one jump, ind at | | ecrupalous cabinet, like that now'in office in Wash. | to use it for furthering their own seltish parposes— | pute between Texas and New Mex y occur which will set | good pareage of twenty-nine days, Capt. Hudson, her Pablic speakers, in the impulse of This great increase of the army,of the United States is rather a startling fact, and one that should be pondered upon deliberately by the people of the United State If it is justifiable, to meet present emergencies, as soen as the necessity for such in- crease is over, a reduction should be made. We should be sorry to see this republic in the position of the nations of the Old World, saddled with the maintenance of large standing armies, for L was not there to reproach him, , but to comfort him in his distress, peace with God and bis if 1 might, tetive while should die, with the bu- mness of aman, and, I nor to judge bi sud to ‘belp him’ in making conscience, and to artist bi true relations between us te anrwer me hastily, not to speak till he was prepared totell the whole and absolute truth; that 1 would endeavor to put 4 favorable eonstruction on his at Iwas in no burry, and that he might \y or two more to ene meg og my advice to him to make @ full disclosure not reasonable — The sermad to be much affected by ‘ll What i raid, and when I paused, he said immediutel; gate, about two millions of men, the cost of whom T'Siy ready to tell you alt, It will be @ Feliet to ume” © cannot be estimated at less than two hun- He then proceeded to relate the tacts which I fince embodied in the statement uow to be presented. I put to him a great number of questions, ali of whieh he wnewered Promptly and with every appearance. it ter mea to me, of an honest purpose to tell the trath, Some of the minor facts and explanations were given by hin on & PUdrequeat day, but the outline of the whole barrative, ang the more important details, were given at the interview of May 2id. It ix important to observe that at the date, the writ of error was pending, and also that De. Webster’ tition for w fuil pardon, with strong declarations of eutire innocence, was in the hands of the Goveraor, If the writ should fail, be cousidered everything as Sisked upon that petition, the declarations it coa- tained aid the documents and affidavits be believed would Le obtained for ite support. Hin immediate family trmiy and sincerely believing him entirely Suncernt, were engaged In seeking lacts and papers torurtam bis pecition, L am comodems that et that time he hed pot the remotest idea of approaching the Executive in avy other way than according to the tener of that petition. nor began to coutempiate the qUertion whether commutation would be & praction- bie. or even a desirable alternative Lils whole thoaght, eived wy hope, Was of ® pardon on e course of his 4 with an ap- it the writ snould be < mighe DOL you be sum- dually approaching European nations in this re- from eight to fourteen thoumnd men, an addivon of seventy-five percent! If we were certain thay there was no danger of the army being used for bad purposes, We might not be so much opposed to en- creasing it temporarily, as the wants or protection of the country required, but we are not. An una, ington, might prevail on a simple minded Presideat as, for instance, in inter rn the bouadary dis- The stailtan Opera, The gorgeous opera, La Semiramido,” will be per- formed to-morrow night for the last time, after which, we believe, the eompany will retire to Castle Garden, there to give @ number of musieslentertainments, ‘This last might of the opera, therefore, will be very ve, he suddenty er of auxiety and » vew irial fol w brilliant, probably. and will attract from this fact, as eat =a. well as om accouut of the beauty of the music, and the roment would not put me iuto bis erll'as hie con- excellent character of the representation by the wtiwl tr wad then try to w that vocalists and orchestra. We shall expect to see very it vould be an outrage not to be $ po or , ae Lwould not tt to be 80 used, whateve: is brilliant and fashionable audience, tn eee Thai - IS thd never reveal hie siau to any Marine A@airs. lived, withoat his consent mat it f furvived him, be must lea to my retion. 1 that it bad not occurred to his mind, that hie i me be view to his advent tude leet I might be ce berm, He © simply bee Tequest, wished to manit at the same time, was glad to ha relieving bis mind of its dreadful I will add bere, that [ did not make any demand of Dr. Webster at the suggestion of eny legal or other friend of bis, nor did any person know of my inten, tion to make it, And netiber Dr, W ‘4 sta the fact that he bad made avy, was comm: me to any person until more thau two had been received by me. Since that ti bave berm taken by me without the concurre: For Evrors.—The R. M. steamship Cambria, Capt. Leiteh, left this port at noon yesterday, for Liverpool, with a fall cargo, and a good list of passengers, Whose names will be found wader the proper head. freamenir Rercotre.—This yveerel arrived at Rio Janeiro, trom this pert, on the 14th ot May, after « s contidence iu me and, ¢ opportunity of peaks in high terms of bis vesse ot her machinery, The engines were not stopped onee during the entare voyage. All well oa board. American, OF Pritannurn Websicr and of Bis reeognired legal advieer. pw 2 ol Yee. ‘Twe or three dayr ‘citer 1 received Dr, Webster's and ut. [ advised the withdrawal (temporary. at I hoped final, of bis first petition to the ©, aud it Was withdrawn jiows the confession of Professor Webster, Hon BD A Starkwenth: Vt; Prof Dwight. Willis full, by telegraph, yesterday Teaee Wright, ant ding the etatement, Dr, Putnam proceeded ise with regard to Dr. Web. fa it to be believed? second, if mitigation ot y the that hae passed. stor Louse b.U 8 Nand fifty-one ook raeme at the Amer to, Dr Lingo, Philad Brown. UB A attention of the eo bich the etateme ana twenty ax Hien, 8.8 Phelps, of Vermont, has consented to de- liver Whe « rety addrest before the Americaa Ia- stitute, in thie city, 1m October meat Kev. the+bald sathew was at Little Rock, Ark. at lest ad riee Gen Houston i expected to deliver @ temperance fpeceh in Baltimore to-day | be id Sapreme Court—General Term, JoLy 8. — Dressers —Alerander Bo Whiving ve. the | 1 Commirconcin af Emigration —Jadginent for Whiting im care proposed. New Fork and aviem Ratiroad Company re Miner C. Storey end there — Bettioment of decision wade pre | vicuwly, Judgment or New York Soperiot Gourt re | verred. With renee dewome Re tO the amount atiored defendents in error for Gamages. in couseg: sof furpending the work of deteudante in error, via: aa tothe sum of $6604 44; ja Bll other respeete at firmed, With eosts to abide event. Hil be cre ae going to thow thas De. Webster aid op Bi sory Sith aay v1 wto the wae that is mow made ot i jt. ment, thongh bpm 9 y 4 ides of epared stor, a rieetly coueietent wih ltael, te of the ease, | nw hile the statement deniee premeditat | homicide. it explains ratiefactorily those etren| which were brought forward at i 4 with ali the Raown of the stanger | every other, must be determined upon its own merits, that the eg f not toshow himany undue aecvunt of it him of some portion of the f corded to criminals of @ differeat ri this should be #0. | the treatment he receives from the officers wi the ew y | row und timid minds, of one roelal elass, or jealous to wey er of al) hearts,” hist show where he was, at several times, al to whic | racy. wurph will not do to relax the rigor of the law im favor of one in bis porition, He must die, whoever else may be spared.” This is a cruel sentiment, and subversive of | every principle of humanity andof right. The magis- | trate must recognise no castes, and must take care lest | he become too copecious of them, t! yh his strenu- | ous efforts to ignore them. Dr. Webster's case, like — and upon ne other consideration whatever. Some of ie friends bave ali slong believed that his cause has been seriously prejudiced by bis rocial positi as unconsciourly operated Pp hich might be God forbid that I kuow it is not ro with regard to & Dr. Webster certaialy ou mitigated because be 18 what | ertainly bis care ought not to be shut out from ® candid and merciful courideration, because he is that It is neither more nor less necessary or right that he rhould be executed on that account, Cousi- derations of caste, however they may affect a portion of the public untavcrably for most certainly will not affect the deliberations of t way—but De bruched aside, as | alighant minds, o Happily, the Executive has not the bald alternative of executing or of pardoning the prisoner. May L be | in th imprisonment | t answer the public ends of justice? n Dr. Web atement shall have gone out 4 i be believed. a we may expect | thet i will be believed by multitudes, eves by a geeat | Wajortty of the millions wbo have become iuterested | iu the care— believed ou account of its eo ney. ite inherent probabilily, and the circumstances favorable to truth voder which it was first made; and if, thea, the extreme erntence of the iaw should be executed upon him, he will certainly be thought to have been | Grait wih With Unnecessary rigor, sud to have expiated | Lit deeds too severely, Aud then the public sympathies, | by an unalterable law of the mind, must from the side of law and justice tu him as a wronged mer—sronged with that lust wreng. which is imimea- | surable and irreparable. Aud if it should be felt that | the ippcerut and diseonsolate family of the couvict— the met distressed fawily, I think, om earth—had hed their unequalled apguirk inereaced one jot beyoud the br unde of jurtice wad the ryuisitious of the sucial welfare, the pubtie heart could hardly pardea that, Let the puntehment be graduaced to the guilt preved and believed, wud if the exact line of right calnot be certainly found, let the penalty fall a little short #/ it, rather than go a hairs breadth beyond it. If the im- Perfect seals of public justice cannot be exactly ed. let that in which the prisoners Interests are ed be clearly seen to deseend, though by the | cbtert eribie degree of preponderance. Uther. | nd the public feeling aod fal antogoniam against the Let compassion aod cha- his panisument, however jeep all rational sympathies Acminivtration of the | rity follow the erimiual deverved; but take care fast bound on the side of er 80 ence ed. and at the same time #hall aphoid the ita terror to evil-doers corde. ain closed hi that if the committee could repor ebeter was, of course, moet auxious port as soon as possible, Bot b adding © iy. D t, that before they agrees report t the t of the petitioner. they woul others than himself, at an- other sittii bear argum te fron TELEGRAPHIC. Bostrom, July 8, 1860. ‘The firet petition of Professor Webster to Council for pard how withdrawn, appears in the Traveller | In it, bs jemnly asserts before the Search. | St college; and that the evidence of two of the | Chief witnesses for the govermment cxn be greatly Im- | y4 paired The following paragraph «/so appears in the | they ute | petition m the victim of efreumstances, or foul conspi- oF of the attempt of rome 1 ane ion to fail me, influence He does not, however, implicate any one in the mar- dcr, as Was generally reported te be the case last night. MAILS FOR KUROPR, THE WEEKLY HERALD. The steamehip Pacific, Captain Nye, will leave this port at noon, on Aatarday, for Liverpool direst. The mails will lore at half part ten o'clock on that day. tril, as tending 0 | The Weekly Ler old Will be published at nine o'clooke. . our loose social distinctions, a gentleman; | beiween & womber of Lrish avd English d | lot was queiled apd aes OEE | wided with | on the Foon pr long shore tun, that | the mate of the hip and the Buglish ‘Thts the part of fo efe in the vielwity ot th | even pum bers, both inelw Cole, lying in the ores of the corner of Oliver and Cherry ttreets. where ehe had e! r jumped or fallen froma the recond story window. She was earried inte the bouse and medical aid procured, Trip to FivsHine — There is somet! he m. for there is competition for twe new under boat: nm Flushing and ‘ioe daily, at. i b te Ring oe wise enough to take the jul the 0 while proprietors of the boat sqa a enj+y the beautiful garde: Flushing at a email cost. Poilce Itefligence. Riot Between the irish and Enyish Emigrants.—At the foot of Dover street. yesterday, quite a riot took place ta, just arrived, in which bioody mores, cut heads and nuised eyes Was the result. [t seems t! passage herons the Auiantic, in the shi some im yesterday—inerrared by a tittle stimulus ta’ shape of liquer. ip @ regular row or riot, were called to the mpot, ‘The pol d after much trouble the euce restored, by the arrest of tome ten or twelve of the ringleaders, who were loeked up in the Fourth ward statton house by the order of the chief, It reus trom what we e the many stories afloat, that th meneed at rea, caused by & religious differen: between & Catholic priest aud a Presbyterian ministor. The Catholic priest was « eecoud cabin passenger, and the Presbyterian mivister # fret cul that during the pose the priest was pe valk the quarierdeck with the first class It wae in this wey that the two miristers quainied, after Which & dircussion arose on rengious tubjects, which caured «u aniunated and angry feeling toexist, and the priest wae o deck, apd requested to keep to his ow The English pastergers vook part, it With the Frove ulster, and of co st Innding yesterday: wuighted among the iF priest had been insulted by passengers, — g formation & Kindied mustered on t ren , although w tues: im all iis particulars, ut police were tn charge ot the doe! ip, during the day and evening, naseault would be made on the t was expected hip. pon, upon Wilkiam Court Catenda; Comsoy Pieas.—Part k bere, Doth imetust Part Harrah! for the Fo t bateeries, ta a rome auuiaie Uremestr ay wen o rey pefore t= ow mm Pantomimes, description, aya 08 the ven free pulag pestry Three= ly we the famene it, Now towery, titam Andere Angrain Carper; aod Floor Oil HL just mow, Cal mud aoe thems phy Care he All be Frage; bo be fo ¢ Retabire,