The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1851, Page 2

RETERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. | 0 cskes hc foal departure: The damage dope aapenaoranaee a cipalty by the friction of the Our Wi Correspondence. } ae: etree vf “Redd. woe di Wasnr N, March , wi imo! The Census Returns, and the New Pook Ee’ :851- | one whcel tn motion, andthe shaft turning th iy tres of the other. the Higher Law. apenas pain in Baltimore continues to to tonishing extent. Our large proj eae aera Gonerear at 08 has been ait | ESfete concer thetclver one-third er that 4¢ State of New York, | they were at this time last year, and are raisin, their rents in accordance. On Saturday, the ol mansion house of the late John Donnel, the last of the Exchange palaces, was sold fer the sam of $29,000—to mimediately torn down, and its place supplied three warehouses. Exe! place was formerly the court end of the city; but 7 the old mansions have all now, with one exception, ew ance, that the quid nunes there look for- | given way to warehouses, and a treaty is on foot to wer’ ,,with pleasing auticipations, to an extra session | convert t Exchange Hote! into an immense ware- “Ab A A ps house. bs pagietebens,: tn: see Sen :Btmolary of = The number of vessels, exclusive of bay craft, in answers in the affirmative. If this is the | the port of Baltimore, at the close of last week, was object of the inquiry, it displays great ignorance of | 9 ships, 10 barks, 17 brigs, and 43 schooners— the subject. ‘The last apportionment was to include | *mounting, in the aggregate, to 79; of which num- 32d C .d all members of that Congress | bef» 2 are up for Chagres, 2 for, California, 3 for the tte eo West Indies, 1 for Bremen, 1 for St. Mark’s, and 1 must consequently be elected under the old appor- | for the Spanish Main. tioument. ‘Therefore, if the Secretary were to an- ee nance alt A ls, swer that the ratio had been made, the Legislature Our Philadelphia Correspondence: of New York would not be called upon to act in the Pumapevrnia, March 31, 1851. matter till its next session, at soonest, and if the | The Fircmen—Rowdyism—Bad Fellow Caught— present Legislature, in order to district the State to New York Fire Company, §c. 4 suit itself, was to act now, the next Legislature : Sets aye a eould overturn its work before the members were | The first spring month is going out with a day elected. . __ | that, for warm sunshine and dewy showers, would PR Pocacmmiyns Py Sag gute meneame not be out of place amid the most genial of April's cannot be made till all the returns (including Cali- | Pantlings. y fornia) are received here, and understand that The fire rowdies of Moyamensing have been several States have yet fuiled to make complete re- | arouzed from their wintry torpor by the warm turns. tee ta {are all received, they will be | weather, and resumed their vile incendiary habits. ‘ ons eaten Deere Last night, a stable belonging to two poor men, was destroyed by fire, and a horse and carriage con- sumed. Another incendiary attempt was discover- divided by tion); the number of members under the new ap- ent law, to establish the ratio of represen- ed while this fire was in progress, and promptly ex- ‘to know whether the a h aee Reais rived at ye cope on, so as to determine what umber of reprey ntatives that State is entitled to im the Congre® oF the United States, under the new went, and I perceive by your Albany cor- i“ & Pumavenemta, April 1, 1851. April Foolery—Mint Statistes—The New Three Cent Picce—Fatal Accident—Attemptel Murder of a uly successful hoax for the day was an an- nouncement of the arrival of a slaver, captured off the coast of Africa, by the U.S. schooner Flirt, which carried a large concurse of persons to the wharf where the vessel was reported to be lying, they being green enough to suppose that the slaves would be brought here. Through the politeness of E. C. Dale, Esq., Treasurer of the U. S. Mint, [ am enabled to send the following statistics of that institution:— Couace iy Mancn, 1851 Gold Coinage double eagles. 284.107 . The population of each State will be divided 7 the ratio, and the deficiencies which must exist will be supplied by taking representatives | ¢ Wh! . from as many of the largest remainders as may be | tinguished. The arrest of the directors of certain sas. og hae coma the pring due | companies in Southwark, has engendered a bit- ere is absolutely no necessity for any undue | ,., ‘ a Pe haste being exercised in the matter. In the first terness against the Marshal’s police, and one or place, the enumeration of the population, acting as | two companies have resolved to go out of service. it does as a basis of representation, is a most im- | Some of the firemen, not satisfied with this, ran portant proceeding, and no mistakes should be | out towards the fire, last night, and blocked up the made by which an injustice would be committed | streets so that other companies, willing to help put any State of the Union. In the next place, | out the fire, could not reach the spot. The present information is not required for State action till | hostile feeling between the firemen and Marshal's next year; and besides all this, if it were now police, will, it is feared, lead to something serious, ready, there is no appropriation for Vg rape 3 it. | if a compramise is not effected. ‘The preseut census will be remarkable for the vast | Michael Nulty, one of the most desperate of the amount of correct and valuable information it will | Schuylkill Rangers, against whom a charge of embrace ; and I believe its compilation and arrange- | arson and riot is Sanen was captured yesterday ment could not have fallen into better hands. 1 by some of the Marshal’s police. He was traced Secretary, Mr. Kennedy, is a gentleman of intelli- | to a canal boat, but resisted manfully,until the officer — and information, who has taken a pride in | poised his revolver, when he gave up. He was work entrusted to his charge. The whole ar- Kea ed in prison. = a rangement of the schedules, &., is the result of his he Americus engine company of New York investigation and suggestion, and I have every rea- | reached Walnut street wharf this afternoon, about #0n to believe, from looking at the work, as it pro- | 3 o'clock, where they were re’ ed by the Diligent ceeds in his office, that it will be not only acredi- | hose company, sixty strong, in citizen’s dress, head- table to him, but eminently valuable to the country. | ed by our famous Beck's band. ‘The manly Some complaints have been made in New Yor, deportment and gallant —— of the visiters, of omission on the part of the deputy marshals to | their splendid apparatus, and the music of Dods- upon certain families. Wherever an instance | worth’s celebrated band, were all the subjects of of neglect has come to the knowledge of Mr. Ken- | admiration. They visit the Walnut street theatre , he has at once had it remedied. In many in- | and a grand ball of the Hope hose company, this stances, however, it is found that the returns have | evening, besides various other divertisements in been correctly made, and that the omissions com- | the shape of collations and suppers. plained of were purely imaginary. ‘The owners of the swift steamship Prometheus + You may rest assured that the administration | have just concluded a contract here, by which an has commenced in earnest to put down “higher | iron boat of light draught is to be built at the Penn law” doctrines, so far as its officials are concerned. | Works of Reaney, Neatie& Co., for the navigation it is determined to prove by acts as well as words, | of the San Juan and Lake Nicaragua. She is to that it discountenances abdolitionism and disunion in | be 120 feet long, with stern paddle wheel, and two all its shapes. high pressure engines. ‘The contract requires its ~~ -- completion in ninety days. Our Albany Correspondence. Aunavy, April 1, 1851. The Bil pledging Eleven Millions of the Canal Revenues, passed through the Assembly. The most important bill, in truth the only bill of any magnitude, which has engaged the attention of the present Legislature, is the one passed to a third fouse, ‘* to provide for the enlarge- c Erie canal, and the completion of the Black River and Genesee Valley canals.” A scheme originated with Governor Hunt, in his mes- sage at the opening of the preseut session, to en- large the Erie canal more speedily than the method designated by the constitution, by issuing certifi- cates, transferring in advance for a series of years, the surplus revenues of the cana Tlis excellency told the Legislature that they had the right thu to dispose of that portion of the canal tolls, provided the certificates were taken at the risk of the owners. Well, before the canal committee of the House ventured upon this expedi venues, the bill which b ul 534.184 pieces, value. it of pledging the re espera en drawn out in ac- | 128,000 half dimes........ anus ” Vvernor’s views, was submitted Copper Coinage to the inepection of Johu C. Sper Samuel Ste- “ ven, and Daniel Lord, three d guished legal watlemen, for an opinion how those revenues could So piedaed without’ violation of the fisaneial pro- vision of the constitution of 1546. is opinion appeared in print on the Sth day of March, and on the 13th of the same month, the canal com- mittee of the House, Mr. Orlando Allen, of Buf- falo, as chairman, reported the present. bill. This bill is clearly asvonstitational It has here- tofore been alluded to in the columns of the Heruid, but the great wrong which is being inflicted upon the people, we believe will justify ux in again call- ing the attention of twenty thousand daily readers to the subject. The bill proposes that de- posits may be made in the State treasury for the ear ISS], to the amount of two milliens of dollars; in the year 1962, three millions, and during the year 1853, such further «um as shall be found neccessary to complete all the canals—and in return such de- cordance with th 799 cents ieces, value a «$6,208,672 99 the largest coinage ever effected within the same period in this y ‘i ‘The total gold bulli ited for coinage from the Ist to 3l<t March, 1451, inclusive, was From California . . From other sources Total... gbsee . ov The silver bullion deposited in the same time was All tht deposits made at the Mint sinee March 11, have been paid pr tly on the i nt of their value, and a large Supply of coin has mulated on hand, amounting to Dedueting $500,000 for old de undrawn, and $200,000 for depo there ix still a surplus bey payal not ascertained. all demands itors shall receive certificates, signed by the trea- | $1,300,000. ne a veh and onheated by the Secretary of State, under | _ The following is the account of the U. 5. As his official seal. The rate of six per cent interest | Apt Treasure $591,361 40 istobe paid out of the surplus revenues, by the “5 State upon such certificates. $988,004 77 This 1* not all—the bill authorizes the Comptrol- 16.061 95 , Jer to receive thore certificates at par, for the eame 2 Ww $463,048 82 uses ony rg see * as he is now authorized by law to receive the stocks of this State from associations or individuals engaged in the business of banking, and deliver bills to the amount of certificates depo- sited. Notwithstanding the pledging of the revenues, in order to induce capitalists to deposit their means, and bankers to issue bile, still this bill declares in ite cighth section, that depositors shall not be deem- edtohave any claims against the State for the payment of such dey other than an appropria- ns, interest on loan, Ke Balance . * Preparations are asking: for a large issue of the three cent com from the Mint at an early day. By —— from the Treasury a, a great ne tion of the surplus revenu Who is so eredulous | part of t ver bullion fund will be converted im as to believe, fo ment, that the State of New | to these pieces, and after reserving a sufficient sup- York would dare to repudiate a dollar's worth of | ply for the various government offices, the balance thore certificate member, certainly, | will be exchanged for deposits of foreign silver Of the present Legislature coins or bullion, aad also for American gold or silver This bill, obnoxious and unconstitutional as it is, | coin A fund is likewise provided for procuring future supplies of silver bullion for this coinag. that the publie demands may be promptly satisfied. To prevent the accumulation of this kind of coin has been hurried toa third reading in the House, and probably by this time, has been read the third and last time. It then goes to the Senate for eon sideration, and an attempt will be made there to | in ingle hands, not more than $150 worth will be run it through with railroad speed. An important | sold to one applicant. The least amount to be sold election is approaching—on the unfinished portion of | will be @30. The coin will be delivered in distant the Erie canal, and through the line of the Black | cities at the expense of the Mint, as the copper Fiver and Genesee Valley canals, thousands of la- | coin is now distributed. Dorers are wanting to be placed, of a particular | William Duffy, an elderly man employed on the party creed, whose voter will be necessary at the | Columbia Railroad, near the collector's office, West the te (From the National Intelligencer, April 1.) We |, * fewdays since, that Senor Don Fel lina had ited his credentials to the President, and had received as Envoy Ex- traordi and Minister Plenipotentiary of the republic of Costa Rica to the government of the United States. We have since been favored with acopy of his address upon the occasion, and of the Pretilent’s reply, which we insert below :— SENOR MOLINA’S ADDRESS. Mr. Presipenr:—From the moment when, there that time, the streets have ‘atehorganised’ the streets hall ‘tafine wal ; the streets wi 3 anda publigecheol with capacities for ing a thou- sand children, put into operation. Van Vorst town- ship, or Harsimus, contains over five thousand peo- ple.’ This, now conmpriing the Third and Fourth wards, is in its infancy, but is rapidly growing, and has fine capacities for improvement. On the Coles’ property, many fine puddings have erected, and streets laid out. The old Van Vorst pro- perty, bordering Communipaw Cove, is also. ra- idly filling up with fine dwellings. Lots in the city administration for the passes ° us. Dasiat imus divi i ay ring no probability of the Central American Raima Hn ot hs org ngs | tHE ele rea Cat Rie wre under ‘the new charter comes off on Tuesday week. | full exercise of sovereignty as an pendent e community, she became alive to the necessity of strengthe her relations with foreign powers. She larly anxious to do so in regard to the United States—geographical situation and iden- Our taxes are light.es by the charter no more than five mills on the dollar can be raised for city pur- ses, on the actual value. The Sate taxes, you now, are paid by the Camden and Amboy Co., who | # os i, pay the Ente ten conls @ heed fer passengers, and } tty: of political “ les senderin the Leet of tuke about a dollar from each passenger, the ninety The Pe bret Costa cents being for commissions. Our city must go ahead. Nine cheers for the charter! Oar Boston ica accordingly ouptinl ed me, more than two years ago, the Envoy xtra- ordini this government, as it appears by the paberert nd confirmed by subsequent acts, which I do myself the honor to in your Excellency’s hands. N. i a very pressing nature, however, have prevented me from Paying. your Ex- cellency, at an earlier date, the homens ol coun- try ands my ownhumble respects. Such ne, ions, embracing the recognition of our political existence by the mother bores’ the creation of a separate ecclesiastical estab! ent by the Holy See, and treaties with other nations, conferring on none any exclusive sdvantaanay hove; been successfully con- eluded, I am at length enabled to devote myself to the discharge of a duty the more gratifying to me, as, attached to America by the reco! of my early education, I view with Cr eng every thing connected with this land of dom. Allow me, therefore, to assure your Excellency that the government and the people of Costa Rica are ani- mated by the warmest feelings of friendship for this reat nation, and to offer their earnest wishes for the continuance of its frosperity, and for the per- sonal happiness of its illustrious rulers. Costa Kica, Mr. President, is but a rising State. yet she entertains the hope that her geographical, position, her natural resources, the aj population for self improvement, and the stabilit; of her administration, will entitle her to the co sideration of the United States, and that she ma‘ succeed in forming as intimate a connection wit! this country as she has with any other power. We confidently trust in the wisdom and integrity of this magnanimous nation for the preservation of ights in any difficulties which may arise. We find already an evidence of the favorable disposi- tions of this government, in the ship canal conven- tion, lately concluded with Great Britain, conse- crating the principle of the independence and neu- trality of the Central American States, and offerin; the mediation of both powers for the setelement o! conflicting claims in regard to the territories over which the cieiaiaiat route shall pass. 1 congratulate he em being called upon to be instrumental in facilitating that glorious enterprise, and I shall do everything in my power to deserve the approval ef the American government and people in the fulfilment of the different objects of my commission. ‘orrespondence, Boston, March 29, 1851. Reforms in the Legislature—Gen. Scott and the Presi- dency—The U. S. Senatorial Question—Trial of Carey for the Murder of Hayward, §c. §c. Our Legislature is very busy in carrying out the great work of “State reform,” for which, ostensi- bly at least, the coalition was formed. A law pro- viding for the secresy of voting at the polls has passed the Senate, and will now pass the House. ‘The general opinion is that the whigs will suffer by the operation of this law. A proposition is before the Senate providing for a substantial change in the details of eur system of representation, but rather strengthening its spirit. It will take two years to mature the measure. Should it be adopted, the Boston delegation in the House of Representatives will be cut down about one~ third—that is, from 44 to 30—and other large towns anil ci in proportion. No place, whatever may be its size, is to have more than thirty representa- tives; and each town, however small it may be, is to be represented every year. The Senate, too, will be affected toa considerable extent, as it is proposed to cut the State up into forty districts, each to return one Senator. Under the existing sys- tem, county lines are generally observed, and the forty Senators are divided among them according to population. Through single districts, the people will be better represented in the Senate than they have been under the present arrangement. It has often been the case that while the opposition hes been ten thousand ahead of the whigs in the popular vote, it has not had one member of the Senate. This glaring evil had as much to do in bringing about the coalition as any other single point that entered into the affair. The success of this and other reform measures will depend, to a certain ex- tent, upon the disposition that shall be made of the United States Senator question. A law providing for the election of Presidential electors and members of Congress by a plurality of votes has been passed. This was not @ party mea- sure. It was ee gee by men of all partes, but the whigs alone will gain much by it. They will save money and secure Congressmen by its exist- ence. The democrats supported it because they hope that the whigs will quarrel over the nomina- tions for Congress, and themselves profit thereby; but the whigs will not do anything of the kind. There is but asmall chance of seeing democrats in Congress from Massachusetts during the present eneration. Their capacity for governing not een so extraordinarily developed at home as to render their presence at Washington very desirable. The Scott movement increases in boldness every day among our whigs. Almost all the old whig papers in the State are either friendly to it openly, or are ready to adopt the heroic candidate at the first moment they cando so with effect. Alarmed at this state of things, the Boston Courier, supposed to be Mr. Webster’s organ, threw down the glove to the Adlas, yesterday, which that paper has taken up, and given to the challenger quite as good as he sent. The <Atas has got onthe right side this time. ‘The work of “ reform” is not confined to the legis- lature. It is going on in the Boston custom house, where, on the first of April (appropriate day for the work), a number of hands are te be taken off. I have it from a leading whig, a gentleman whose po- sition enables him to speak “by the card,” that the only reason why Mr. Greely himself has not been removed, is the refusal of the Seeretary of the Treasury to carry out the wishes of both the Pre- sident and Seeretary of State. This seems to be amore probable story than that which represents the President and the Secretary of State as bein at loggerheads on the subject. Mr. Webster is doing himself no good by the small-potato business of taking the printing of the laws from old-fashioned whig papers, the couductors of which stood yw stoutly for him when he was the object of bitter al friendship, nor even ordinary — or decency, among our politicians. Men who are as bad as bad of her E PRESIDENT’S REPLY. Mr. Minister :—I heartily welcome you as the first representative which the republic of Costa Rica has accredited to this government. The United States desires a continuance of those friendly and cordial relations with all the republics former!: composing the federation of Cen:ral America, whicl they cherished with that confederacy throughout its existence. Ilearn from you that, in your opinion, there is no ground for expecting a reunion of those States under a common government. This would be matter of profound regret. Severed as they now are, it is to be apprehended that their pros- perity may not be as uninterrupted, and their pro- ress in the arts of peace as sure and rapid,-as if their foreign relations, at least, were under the direction of a federal chief magistrate. In any question, however, which may be pre- sented to the consideration of this government, touching their relative ig and interests, they may al rely, and Costa Riea not less confidently than any of them, upon our impartiality and good will. Recent events have tended strongly to at- tract the attention of commercial powers towards that part of the American continent. The United States, having territories on that continent washed by both the oceans which encompass it, feel the im- portance of facilitating the intercourse between them, which must be carried on through Central America. Hence, shen have a special interest in cultivating friendly relations with those republics, and your mission may be considered as a proof of a reciprocal disposition on the part of the government of Costa Rica, which is justly appreciated, and will, it may be hoped, lead to the strengthening of the bonds of concord and good understanding between the two governments. I trust that it will be taken in good part, if Itake this oceasion to Ub a the strongest wish that these governments of Central America will not em- broil themselves in mutual wars. If they cannot unite as members of one general government, it must be the earnest desire, nevertheless, of all good men that they should not destroy themselves in wasteful wars with one another. I wish you personally, Mr. Molina, good health and a happy residence in this country. Costa Rica and its Resources. tacks at the handsof many of those with whom he is now #0 thick ; but there is neither honor, nor love, nor can be, are allowed to hold high offices, of the most lucrative character, while poor devils of editors, who hardly ever had a * erust” such as even Bible Butler would have given away, are visited with the full weight ofexecutive punishment. The thing istoo contemptible to be believed on any other ground than that we see it. There is a sort of ludicrous air thrown hing of the laws being on the ground, it is P the gospel should go together. It is rather rich, this resort of Mr. Web- ster, in his old age, to the “ pious dodge.” Judge Allen will be the senior counsel for the defe on the trial of the persons charged with ided in the reseue of Shadrach. Mr. ill lead for the government. The owner hadrach has made a formal demand on the Marshal for the value of his two reports as to the Marshal's PROPOSED CANAL ROUTE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. From the National Intelligencer, April 1.) We have had the pleasure of reading a concise and lucid pamphlet on the history and resources of Costa Kiea, one of the States of the late con- federacy of Nicaragua, &e., in which the value of the iuformation given is enhanced by the impar- tiality which is evident throughout the little work. The country which it describes has of late derived new interest from the various routes suggested and surveyed for an interoceanic communication by water across Central America. Costa Rica, which is situated to the north of the Isthmus of Panama, constituted, as we have said, @ part of the Central American Union; but since the extinction of the federal government—that is, for about thirteen years—it has been independent, and has taken the rank and title of a free an sovereign republic. Its soil is ridh_ and produc- tive, from the number of rivers which water the auswer. One is, that he told the lawyer that he wished he might get it,” and the other, that he said he would “see him d—d first” before he would pay it. P'There bas transpired nothing of consequence con- cerning the Senatorial ques The free soilers have determined to stick to Sumner “ until death shall them part.” Several inembers of the liouse are sick, and very lively hopes are enter- tained by their opponents that they will not get better until after next Wednesday, when another balloting will take place. trial of Carey, who killed Mr. Hayward, aaster at the railroad station in Lincoln, mmmence in a few days. Efforts are making to have the trial held at Concord, where a court for ital offences has not been held for ground of the request is, that eside in the vicinity. There can be no doubt of Carey's guilt. It is understood that his counsel will set up the plea that the ticket- ter had no right to arrest him, and that, there- . he acted legally in resi#ting the attempt. No believes, however, that he will escape convic- . though the prospect is that be will escape the gallows—not through executive clemency, for the — ‘State administration ie much more likely to ang than to pardon, CoLonna. by a@ well-ordered system of irrigation. The ¢li- mate is very rainy for seven months in the year, from April ‘to November, and, though moist and uahesktny on the Atlantic coast, is healthy on the Pacific, while on the table-land of the interior, it is temperate and very healthy. The population is about one hundred thousand, of whom ten thou- sand are Indians. There are no negroes, and but few mulattoes. We translate a portion of the remarks of the in- telligent author, in relation to the several routes proposed for a canal between the Atlantic and Pa- cific ocean :— “If this great enterprise shall some day be co in operation, the route of Nicaragua will probably be preferred to those of Tehuantepec and Panama, (lor the latter, thirty miles of land to be excavated, with an elevation of 177 feet,) and consequently the larger part if not the whole of the projected canal will ee toy ae of oe a aa a ing a glance att 0) , it is observed that the coktes of the river Sun Junn tothe Lake of ‘Ni caragua (ninety miles) and the waters of that lake, will, 2) any case, form means of commanication up to that point. But, as to the distance from this lake to the Pacific, there are three plans to con- po get ~— cations ogy the Ca- | Philadelphia, was crushed to death this morning no longer.time will be given than can bya t » while cleani of pk pepe ote ooh & Te backing upon him, while cleaning out a = Christian Burkhardt, a German, of dissipated Acoasy, April 1, 1861 habits, attempted to murder his wife last night, in Appropriations Asked for the New York Public In | the Franklin market, Kensington, by cutting her stitutions throat with a razor. ‘T a been living apart Mr. Wheeler, Chai f the F ‘ for some time, but last night he went to her house, ir. Wheeler, Chairman of the Finance Commit- | and after eating supper, invited her to take a walk tee, in the House, has reported a bill making va- | with him. She is dreadfully mangled, and her re- covery is doubtful. Burkhardt has so far eluded rious appropriations, among which are the fol- the palles. Jowing, for the benefit of the ble and bene- volent institutions in the city of York: — Our Jersey City Correspondence. New York Hoepital . $22.09 Jensey Crry, March 28, 1861 Deat and Dumb Institution 25.800 u 4 4 a o 4 7 par bee wy | Th New City Charter—The Vte—The Delt of Prince Street Orphan Asylum Sv0ee or) Josey City, &e. Teetitution for the Blind . sereee 12480 “ Westward the star of empire rolls.” Yesterday Juvenile Delinquents we held the election for the new charter. The poll was a very light one, but it was all one way. In Jersey City, out of some five hundred votes polled: there were but three against the charter. In Van Vorst township, the opposition mastered forty-seven votes, while the charter men polled about four hundred and fifty. There were great re- joicings when the result was known. In Jersey City, or rather the First and Second wards, one gen. tleman raised a fund fer tar barrels, by small loans of fifty cents, and afterwards informed the lenders that it ‘0 bono publico. In Van Vorst, or the Third and Fourth wards, great demonstrations were made—shoutings and ben fires for John Van Vorst,the popular young member of Assembly, from ‘that township, who sided the pamage of the charter ; while demonstrations not quite so com- plunentary were made for the express benefit of another prominent citizen of that place, who led off the glorious band of forty-seven “ no charter men Our city now cont over thirteen thousand people. We have four wards, each electing four al- Military expenses eanaian te mounts will probably be distri ar in the above schedule—they are all en asked for the various objects there- ‘ip contemplated. w. Our Baltimore © . Battimore, March 31, 1851. Reception preparing for the Americus—The Brother Jonathan— Real b tate Manvi— Commerce, &e. It is generally conceded that the turn out of our fire department, to-morrow, to weleome and escort the city the Americus Fire Company, of New York, will far exceed any previous turn out im this city. A number of the companies will have their apparatus drawn by horses, and nearly all have procured new oquipments expecially for the oe- . The; i earion will be met at Ilavre de (race by | dermen; a mayor to be elected by general ticket, a committee of seoupiion, composed of one delegate | Tecorder, to hold office for five years, also ive, from each company; and on reaching Broadway will | The chief engineer is to be elected by the fire de- @ounter-march and fal! in line with the procession. | partment. 1 and t The debt of Jesey Cit: formerly it existed) is pa the Bethe Jnuiha, but wl wt are her | wre eof hewn’ Ane ir oe for sea before Saturday next. It is alvo said rome seattering liabilities of small amount. SEarks vil abe a tel tip down the bey bodes Ne ‘fitancial coudition is highly creditable to the sider. The first would, in leaving the lake, pr> ceed towards the river Tipitapa, fewenty miles,) then towards the little lake Managua, (thirty-five miles,) and thence ascend a certain navigable river, which it would be necessary to unite by an artificial work with an arm of the sea le: to the Pacific, near Realejo. This route would be 277 miles long, but the distance to be dug through would not excee oe gg miles, and elevation to be overcome only 144 t. Posrrion or tur Sexaton Exect rrom Ruope Istaxp.—The following letter from Hon. Charles T. James, U.S. Senator elect from Rhode Ieland, is an avowal of his principles, about which there has been such a diversity of opinion :-— “ Ilaving seen the letters published relating to me, I deem it an act of justice to myself, to my friends andto the public, to say: Ist. That | have never on any occasion, nor to any person, said that | was a whig. 2d. On the contrary, I have 7: be- longed to the old democratic party. Sd. [ am i favor of a judicious tariff—such an one as will effec- tually protect the labor of the country, by taxing, lightly, the necessaries of life, and heavily, the luxu- ries. If there be one measure of government more “ The second route Bont is the one explored by Mr. Bailey, and which, by the great lake, is to be united to the ocean, in opening the isthmus to the port of San Juan del Sur. Here there are aleo fifteen miles to excavate, but the elevation rises to 457 feet. “ Lastly, the third route is that which would pass democratic than another, I consider that which, | in the territory of Costa Rica, and which would re- by such means, compels the rich to give og ire less extent of canal, (twelve miles,) for the ment and rt to the to beruch. 4th. I ver Sapoa might be ured, and the elevation at this am in favor of internal improvements by the gene- point is not above 143 feet, terminating at the port ral ermment—especially on our Southern and Welleon waters, 00 far as the same can be carried out cons! with the constitution—and whieh the true interests of our country demand. These two measures I consider as the only “ leading whig mensures” of the nt day. To these my assent of Salinas. This ee fers the important advan- tage of ending on Pacific at the excellent port of Salinas, while the ethers terminate at no port, that of San Juan being an open bay, and that of Realejo being on one side of the place where the canal ie to terminate. It is to be remarked that country, and which are rendered more available | _ Apology its Central ] ings. a BROTHER JONATHAN. ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. On board the steamer Brother Jonathan, Howe, master, A Washington correspondent of the Herald, | bound for Chagres, four days from New York, latitude writing over the signature of “Jonathan,” makes | 31.deg. 15 min., longitude 72 deg. &min., March 23d, 1851, a long and rather plausible apology for the inactivi- | #t twelve o'clock A.M., onerting of eee: passen- ty of the ruling powers of the United States, onthe | #°™* #04 Lilt bei Hoe bes 2s pePdrogeah: Central American question. The letter, however, ae ee names, ihe bern pop conveys a fulse impression. We are told that the ‘ Pt Clayton and Bulwer treaty was negotiated “for H'Sieken dH: Be peckeat Upae tat the sole purpose of procuring the safe prosecu- | A. s- tion of the proposed canal!” Ah, ha! is that Py ce ve —— a rie a to be the dodge now? Is the Pi gy ba Pee ie by the hey scan A vied 43 rp conforming to Mr. Bulwer’s official declaration - hat her starboard, which in@l- to Mr. Webster, that this treaty “had no ence fimeatee That we are NOW 866 miles from relation, and was intended to have none to the | Kingston Jumalea ; S21 trom the [and iiimtagton Mosquito question”—I say, is the administration | N.¢.. That we believe the run can be made to Norfolk going to take the British ground, and maintain this | {0 shout 100 hours.. that we have 5 oc nea farcical Mosquito kingdom, to the betrayal of Ni- - \erefore. resolved—lIst. That we have full confidence caragua, and the everlasting stultification of the Re er oe ps faith of Captain Howe, and of United States, which has officially declared Sankt it ‘2d. That, aware fully of our present sendition, our best will never assent to the pretensions of any to | course to pursue is to run t for Norfolk. Tegal power upon this continent?” As the Ameri: | gi2hcy cr, temmpen tp, apinn awe to pl the can people understand the Clayton treaty, it was | direct for the port of Norfolk, Va. The report having not intended for the “sole” benefit of a few specu- | been Tead, it was unanimously adopted. The Wi 4th, That we have had every attention and comfort lators in New York, but to put an end, now and for } that could be desired, from Coy in , and the ever, to British aggressions in Central America, | Micers and stewart on WSL Such, we are told by Mr. Clayton, was its design, | Freeman, W. W. McKiernon, §, P. Dupree, H. A. Kidder, and in that conception it must be enforced. It is £ Leptin Ogden, M. MoCaffray, H. A. x, and allt most true that it is, at this hour, openly violated by re peace 4 New Yous, March Fl 1851. Great Britain, its provisions publicly scorned, and e. undersigned, ngers On steam- the honor of the United States, which is involved in | Sh jrether Jonathan, whieh tot oun te the pablie its full and prompt execution, every day grossly in- | the accident which caused this steamship to put back, is sulted. And this is one of the principal grounds of | 0”) eg ae poids Bent complaint, on the part of the New York press, of teat steamships on our waters, as also one of the best which this. treasury fed correspondent affects to | For Site"ant the o@icer, generally, our cordiai spprobe- speak so lightly, but whose power is shown in | (io, of their poser conduct and kindness to yee more clearly than in’ magonfesicon which | (he a passengers. We believe that the s Brother Jona- its vigorous exposés create at Washington. than would have made the we to Chagres in sever: So Ng ge ee gE he sions in the treaty negotiat yy Mr. Squier, wl run. EN. NR. NIC! IN. conflict with those of the Clayton treaty, and that WILLIAM H. DUPEES. rs the delay in adjusting these matters resulted J. A. KANOUSE, and 110 others, from the want of competent persons with whom to | _ Avotner Cuirrrr—Mr. George Raynes, of Portsmouth, pe ey mn its arming This is about the = Es nie al aged fa lasing sa: Selig pre a Od i .000 ‘tons, eases. Oly] of 3 3 Siicth lime this statement has beon made, and per. | si") omy fo vent known a one of the msi aaparipneed ship bullders in the eountry. | Te, the, productng of * . li) el it C |. The sl Oma, lig parang mace ashy ate pe fo thush admired in London, was built by him; also the Sir Henry Bulwer. If, as this person pretends, the | yea Serpent, now on the passage te fornia; and last Clayton treaty recognizes the pa ee and greatest, the Witch of the Wave, which will be here is aconflict, and not otherwise. If | launched in the course of this week. These vessels are tends to hold on to what she has got, and | all of beautiful models, substantially constructed.— contirue her scprections in Central Anierica, as she | Boston Atlas, 31st ult. has recently done in the seizure of the island of = + Roatan, then, too, there is a conflict. The modifi- Tue Lare Fire av Norra Woonsrock, Conn.—~ cAtions which are proposed to Mr. Squier’s treaty, | The West Killingly (Conn.) Télegraph of the Blut are of English instiga' and to suit the ends of | ult., speaking of the late fire and loss of life at North British policy. Does ua ask modifications? | Woodstoek, says:—The house burnt is the aie No. Do the people of the United States want _mo- house on the turnpike between the villages of North difcationst No! But Lord Palmerston, and his | and South Woodstock. About 4 o’clock in the mor- busy representative do, and the administration lis- | ning, Mr. Phillips, the tenant of the house, dis- tens to them, and does their bidding. It is of this | covered everything in flames, and the same impulse that the New York press complains. Jed him and his wife, aye of everything clse,, The rigmarole about the confusion of affairs in | to rush into the street. ‘The thought passed through Central America, only shows “Jonathan’s” igno- | his brain on the instant he had attained safety for rance. ‘There is ne trouble or confusion there, ex- | himself, to see if his children, four in number, who cept of English origin. The boundary disputes are | Slept in the second story, were safe, and with a pa- a parts of Chatfield’s and Palmerston’s policy, | rent’s fondness, he leaped up the stairs, but too late... designed for ulterior objects; and the recent im- | Three of the little ones were past the help of inwny. portation here, of a notorious cat’s paw and tool | and the fourth was so badly burnt as to die in a of Great Britain, under guise of a minister from | short time. Mr. P. was himself so i app concn the British colony of Costa Rica, to be played off | flames as to lose all power of sight. His eyes were by Bulwer; for his own ends, is part only of an | #/most literally burnt out, and he is suffering from. audacious swindle both upon Central America and | other effects of this awful catastrophe. Mr. P. is an the United States, which it will be, in due time, | Englishman, and has been very unfortunate hither- the duty of the troublesome New York press to ex- | to. His wife we do not understand to be materially injured. The family originally consisted of seven children, three of whom died by starvation, and. consequent sickness on the Atlantic voyage, while the other four were reserved for w later and even more horrible death. haps some people really begin to believe it. But who says that there {is a conflict, and who asks Ose. 4 Three of the States of Central America have al- ready confederated ; a happy result due, in great part, to the exertions of our late minister in Central Amerie: Renounce English influence, and the other two States will gladly come into the new re- public. Their people are anxious for that result, and the revolution in Guatamala originated ina pronunctamento on behalf of the liberal Union party, against the English servile, disunion fac- tion. ~The Congress of San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras, is now in session, and nothing stands in the way of their future peace and prosperity; ex- cept the malign influence of Great Britain and its unscrupulous agents, who are now seeking to make the! United States a party to their purposes. We shall see with what success. Panama. The Return of Mr. Cristoval Madan to Cuba, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Sir—-Your Havana correspondence in Saturday’s paper, speaks of a rumor having some currency there, to the effect that Mr. Cristoval Madan’s re- cent return to that place was with a view of obtain- ing indulgence from the government for his own al- leged participation in the late revolutionary attenpt of Gen. Lopez, by betraying his associates. Such a suspicion in regard toa gentleman of Mr. Ma- dan’s high character, and perfect honor, is so atro- ciously calumnious, that, as one of his many friends, I cannot allow even its echo to be thus repeated here, without giving it a full and prompt contradic- tion, founded on my own knowledge of the causes and circumstances of his return to.Cuba. Mr. Ma- dan, after having been condemned provisi nally, in his absence, by a milit: commission, on charges which he knew to be unfounded, simply returned to seek a fair trial, 20 soon as he became assured that a more settled order of things, under an intelligent, liberal, and conciliatory supreme authority in the island made it safe for him so to do. Secure in a double reliance, both upon his innocence of the acts imputed to him, and upon the respectful regard which he had every reason to expect to his rights as an American citizen, he went to Cuba, confident of soon obtaining a legal reversal of his sentence. The provisional sentence under which he lay, re- quired, of course, that he should be a prisoner till its reversal in due course of law; and, accordingly, after a couple of days allowed him for intercourse with the numerous friends who welcomed his arri- val, he was required to take up his residence in the fortress of the Cabana, overlooking theeity and bay of Havana, with the free range of all its vast extent, and permission to enjoy the constant society of his and child, who accompanied his return to the Island. Such is Mr. Madan’s position, as it must remain for a few weeks, when his friends, both there and here, feel confident of his honorable re- lease. Whatever absurd ramors may bave cireu- lated in that city of rumors, no person acquainted with that gentleman could, even for a moment, imagine him capable, under any possible circum: stances, of the conduct attributed to him by the “reports,” reported by your correspondent, or, in- deed, of any conduct Unbeooming to the man of honor, integrity, and self-respect. Ido not subseribe my name, because of my un- willingness to appear in the newspapers, even for such a purpose as that which elicits this note. It is, however, at the service of any gentleman who may desire to apply to you for it. Your obedient servant, R. Lawyers 1x tHe Unirep Srares.—The people of the United States must be fond of law, notwith- standing it is so expensive, for we see by Living- ston’s Law Magazme, that there are twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy nine lawyers in the country, or about one to every eleven hundred inhabitants, male and female, oldand young, black and white, Jew and Gentile, bondand free. Phila- delphia county has four hundred aud forty-seven lawyers, or nearly one.to every nine hundred per- sons. Pennsylvania has over seventeen hundred. If our own State is favored with a large amount, New York is more than doubly blessed, for it hae over four thousand three hundred lawyers. Mr. Livingston estimates that each lawyer in practice has an average income of $1500. is eel make the aggregate cost of law in the Uuited States reach the enormous sum of nearly thirty-three mil- lions of dollars. If this is not paying too dear for the whistle, rally all the client gets after the fees are fobbel, we know not what itis. A year’s war oould searcely cost more money, and probably not prove more ruinous to private fortune. A few year’s back and the expense of the general Tgo- vernment, with all its various officers and retainers, was not so ont as this amount.—Philadelphia Ledger, Mar: Brisror Brii.”—We_ learn that Bristol Bill, confined in the Vermont State prison, at Windsor, is in excellent health, and apparently good spirits. To a person who recently conversed with him in the p » he expressed full resignation to his fate, and, saying that he expected to end his days there, he pointed in a certain direction, remarking, rather jo- cosely, that they had taken his measure for a grave in that quarter. He is employed in a room with many other convicts, engaged in shaving scythe snaths. The warden of the prison says he is “just about the best, the smartest, and most diligent work- man in the prison. A log about the circumference ofa man’s hat, and eighteen inches in length, is attached to his right leg by Bag heavily linked chain, and at one end is a handle by which he takes it up, and carries it along when marching with the gang to and from work. He is the only one in the prison who carries the “log,” and a strict eye is kept on him by the officers. Ite evidently has become aware that it is a very difficult place to escape from. The recent stories of attempts on his part to escape, are wholly unfounded. On hearing of the conviction of Wilkes, he said, “1 wish | had him at work here alongside of me.” Jim Edgerton, he says, is a vile lain.—Boston Daily Times, March 31. Tie Coat Trane or Vinarxts.—The recent lost of four vessels loaded at Baltimore with Cumber- land coal, threatens the coal trade of that city with the most serious injury, and promises, so far as the use of bituminous coal in ocean steam navigation is concerned, to suspend the transportation upon the canal and railroad for that purpose. We do not doubt but that the consumption on ‘um berland coal for domestic and manufacturing purposes will con- tinue to exist; but the fact that any accidental wetting of a cage of this coal, cither in loading of pe leak, results in such terrible consequences, will effectually prevent insurance ; nor will any passen- gers trust themselves on board a vessel loaded, or a steamer propelled, with so dangerous a material. No war or mail steamers will, we suppose, use it. In the meantime, the increasing importance of ma- rine steaming will impel those interested to ki some article free from any danger whatever, possessing the qualities of compactness, lightness, and capacity for making steam; and no better article can found than the anthracite eoal of Pennsylvania, which is now extensively used for that purpose.— Phil. N. American, March 31. Arnrivat or THe Rerormer Rover ty Loxpox. —We understand that Ronge—who created sogreat @ sensation in Germany some years ago, and who, from the boldness with which he advocated a secon: reformation, after leaving the Romish Chureh, in which he was a priest, was the second. Luther—has arrived in London, and is about togive a series of lectures in the same , and on essen - tially the same subject, as Father Gavazzi. Ronge, however, is not likely to excite the same intorest ag Father Gavazzi, because, while the latter is approxi- mating to elical views on religious questions, the former has lapsed into German neology, wlieby is but another name for deism. So long as he was Cheap Trips to Europe. TO TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. While the most liberal arrangements have been made all over the continent of Europe, to convey passengers to and from London, the coming season, ata great reduction on the usual fare, nothing has as yet been done by the proprietors of the several ines of packets that ply between here and Liverpool, to induce the public to make a trip to see the great World's Fair. If one line of packets should adver- & to take passengers to Live 1 and back, for $100, the several other lines would follow their ex- ample; and instead of leaving port with perhaps twenty passengers, they would probably have as th uld accommodate. Seventy-five 100 each, would yield more profit oe be a at a cach—the — re for both ways. getting a passage to Liver- pool and back for $100, a person might e: a plea- t trip to London and Paris for the pay ). ap fares are the means of increasing public travel an hundred fold; and by holdin aut, inducements vst Landon this "preset year the | s°Eraptaaerealy reugious ror, be produged oprieto: v Bnd their benefit by their liberality. Burson | he visited, but when he embraced the inmenty of their benefit by their liberality. neology or rationalism, jost all his inflaenee on the minds of his countrymen, and, if we mistake not, quitted Germany some years ago for America. The same causes, we presume, will prevent his at- tracting the attention in England which Father’ Gayvaazi is now doing.—London ly News. A Veneraste Assewntage.—On Thursday last, & gentleman of this city invited all his surviving brothers and sisters, with their wives and husbands, to dine with him. ‘They all responded to the call but one brother and the husband of one sister. and ew are given, not because of any p) te | the route of Costa Rica has, in common with that that effect, but because adopted by me many years | of Nicaragua, by the Lake Managua, the eminent sinee on This is all I consider to be em- | advantage over the others of being furnished with braced in note to the Hon. William Sprague, and it was somgueted at the time it was written, ‘These measures are, in my estimation, not only whig, but demoerate ; lying at the very foundation of our national and greatness, especially that of protection to our industry. water at the highest point for the support of the canal.” Tur Wearner tx Boston.—Yestorday was the warmest day we have ever observed in March, the ave of the three observations, at eunrise, 3 and y “T regret exceedingly the necessity which compels | 19 P, M., was 68, or three s higher than the me to appear in the public press in my own behalf, t warmest, the in The thermometer, and was indneed to hope I should be left free to po stood henabers 70, for eight hours. It exert what little ability and influence I might poe | hav hy on only three occasions previoasly ob- coe fee the Seeees oe ote oats suc const” Se, served ie this ae hi ey vigvat Hon con nee Wi ™, ~ tl party dictation | aad 1 lf hold the Skea deterak, | (042m ie Ye Ey 4 on the 20th, in . Yesterday was also the sixth day inthe month in which the thermometer rose web @ line of conduct as in m may | above degree, ter beet compart with the true interests ve commen ponting arch within the last” Noreen fot | T have said in oo ae years, Roe when it was the same. Renate ofthe tinted Stats to for iret when — the time may come. nas. T. James. MeCormoich’s wafer , nt Chi Til, wos ee Pueavecinias, March 17, 1842."4 roved gts the ith ions, $80 Seventeen in all were present, and their ages wero as follows:— William, David *f*. A New Onnen or Ne very great, and, it is to th Ls », has taken pla therm dle of the Thai Il known common. To ti —We understand that » hoped, unusual commo- in a convent on the = the vicinity of a © A ? Surprise and eon- A sternation of the sisterhood, a now rr Poly, deceased. °°" Her husband... red among them the other day, Inthe ny ae Ale, aged: i , sister” of infantile age, or, mare Dropery meat ae 3 ‘SS ite we 63 ing of no age at all. What added to the interest Sethi’ 08 His wife... ‘83 | of the circumstance, was the fuct of thes novice™ hn a ‘ ‘i | tot having entered the convent. cither by the door, —” age A ‘3 the window, or the chimney. It ought ‘to be men. Paria, be ‘ tioned that the usual process of tak ing the veil was 4 6 pont pov net hg this occasion. ‘The nun made her without ceremony of any kind, and 4 amidst sounds made by herself, which ill accorded. with the silence of the place. rtien- lars, we must refer. to ‘the medical gentlemen ane of ad priest, assivted in the Introduction « Interesting stranger into the convent—and into: the world nt the same time. It ie diffeult to vay Whether the surprise or the scandal. be the greater, at the institution of ne order of the sister see eeseseeeneseeeseceseesesese «D188 two absent were Charles, aged 71, and Al- mira’s husband, whose age we do not know. Two meinbers of the family have died—one brother and one sister. It is not often such an assemblage is w