The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1851, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE, | thirst tor the marvellous. This slakes it. They ITERESTING are all. of the sebool. im se anny Our Washington Correspondence. Wasuinaron, April 15, 1851. Bajustment of the Mexican Claims—The Brazil Claims— Population of Fiortda—Constructive Dhileage. ; "The board to adjust Metican claims wader the reaty, is busily engaged in completing its opera- dions, and will make the awards to-morrow. When eompleted, the list will be sent to the Seeretary of State, and from thence to the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, who has thirty days thereafter allowed him by law to determine in what manner the awards shall be paid. Mr. Evans, the Chairman of the Board, will, it is understood, make the report for Congress, and for this purpose will remain here nome time longer. The other members will at once retire, their duties being ended. ‘The Commissioner to adjust the claims against Brazil appears to have an easy time of it. With @ disregard of pecuniary matters worthy ofall praise in this money-making age, the claimants have been exceedingly negligent, and few of the claims have been brought before the Commissioner. It was to have lasted but one year, but it has already been yenewed, and the term duplicated. The Comm s- siouer, a very worthy gentleman, receives $3,000 a year, and bis clerk $2,000. According to the returns received at the Census office, t | rai of the northern district of Florid as follows: — Free inhabitants 16,762 Bhawet... 2.0. cans 39,593, ‘Total . wesin eee eens Mr. Webster, will not be back till about the first ofthe month. istated at the time the extra session of, nate was held, that the ~ tary of the had declined to pay the con that Messrs. Corcoran and stepped forward and advar statcment was denied by did not observe the denia needful. e. Thew di the EB which the matter was arranged was this :— s directed that the mot suld be paid out oft h fiseal year, The Comp fused to allow an priation. In this em sr. xgs were upplied to, aad with the understand ng, that if it w yuently allowed by the treasury, it should be paid out of the Senate Ringent fund. ‘The ~enate have the right t themselves as much as they please for contin zen: expenses. Great country thi anticipation gency Corce they advance Our Syracuse Correspondence. Synsevse, April 12, 1851. Syracuse, a Wenderfud Little City—Some of the Powmts wheran it is Wonderfud—The Syracuse House not to be excdlet—Carrison’s Abolition Con- weation—George Thompson—Public and Private Schools—~Hotels— Chrerches-— Conventions —Pro- Fessor Bush—Horace Greeley’s Spiritual Knock- wigs-—A Sprritual Knocking Church Contemplated, on the Bron Bread System—Exposure of the Whole Bumiug, by Chauncey and Heman Burr, of Phi- dadelphia, § ec. J often stop in this pen here for a week, at the cuse Ifouse, which I have almost always made my headquarters when stop- Ying here, duiing the past ten years; and I have sity, and have now b: BS Been so well kept and cared for this week, at this | really splendid hotel, that my good nature induces me to drop youu line about matters and thing: in general, and Syracuse in particular. You very well knew the late Philo N. Rust, whose energy and genius gave the Syracuse House a reputation from Quebec to New Orleans, and from Halifax to Council Bluffs, and that was as fur as it was of any wse to have a reputation when he left it; but it now yeaches to the “ gateway of gold,” on the Pacific. ‘That high reputation was richly deserved; yet it je simple justice to the present enterprising pro- prietor to say th respect is the house infe- rior to what it wa- in the hands of Rust, while an expenditure of several thousand dollars has im- proved its elegance and comforts. Gillett’s daily expenditures are always liberal, and I am, there- fore, glad to see that the house, as it did before Ruet’s [otel, now closed, was opened, pretty much monoplizes the fashionable travel. So much for the good old Syracuse House. Now for Syracuse. I suppote you are aware that Syracuse is quite a yemarkable little city. It contains about 24,000 in habitants; in 1840, a little over 6,000. It is now going abead at the same driving pace. A very darge number of new dwellings, and new stores and shops, are put every year. It will-if John Wil- Kinsun lives many years—undoubtedly become the headquarters for railroad machine work. About 5,000,000 bushels of salt are now annually manu- Sactured here. The town has three hotels, (Rust’s now closed, however,) equal to any in the Union— that is, they are tip-top. You find yourself de- in them. It has, by fur, better iy other places in the State, except ork and Buffalo. It has more abolitionists— eward stripe—than te, and haz ichools are New ¥ Imean of the “ higher law apy otber town of its size in the more abolition conventions. Its publie not excecded by any in the State, unless it be at Buffalo; and its private schools are excellent. Education is cared for in Syracuse. And here me pay & word of tribute to the late Amelia Brad- bury—a lady | knew quite well—who died last Sep- tember, almoet literally with her “ harness on,” as she commenced the labors of the term but ten days before her death. She came trom Massachusetts ‘to this city about twelve years ago; and I donot know but it may be to ay, that in that time she did more than all other persons to elevate the wtandard of sound education in racuse. Han- dreds of girl’, who went from under her charg: with well disciplined, active, practieal minds, in sound bodies, will long live to bless her memory. Her career here is a fine illustration of what one strong mind can accom: ions furnished thos come, probably turn the + in ite fe A large public ball will be built soon--much larger than the present City Hall; 0 I hear he next anniversary n Xe wil of the (ay American rge Thorp here, and abuse the full. They say they won't bold it in eity. R 1 J! May, Unitarian clergyman, here, bas just returned from a visit :o the retagees @r runaways, in Canada, with (seorge Thompeon May is ove of the’Garrison jeaders. | don't beliews Gerrit Smith will be bere. He does not agree with them. He believes in voting; they t. Besides, mith a Abby Kelly and her husband hat @o the devil Syracuee ic aleo remarkable fc variety of public exhibitic &o., given here. Yet, strange to vad bardly a demonstration of (ir *nockings. Notwithstanding which. tbe organization of a bere, on the Greeley platform, t changed ev moon, is thought of. Professor Bush is tobe here t Sunday, to open the ball, by expounding the ‘ lations” of Todrew Jackson Davis have the City Hall; andi wish you to say to Creeley, that vow is the time for him to strike. | they the number and leetuce y, they bh Paul, St. Luke, and all the a, have been con- verted to the Davis and Bush school, since they ** shuftled off this mortal coil.” All the spirits that spirits talk are of that school; what i: no less all the pl = thro eshe ich they same school!—a sort of mesmeric the noble, the lovely dead, ‘kable, talk are of the religion. If the great. the recollection A 3 w softens, elevates; and refines our souls, if they manifest themselves to us, it is through their appropriate “ medium”— thought and emotion. 1 ant ee you a sketch of his able argument. He stated that himself and brother had examined the operations of forty-eight mediums at Bridgeport, Providence, Hartford, and elsewhere in New England, and that in all cases the trick by which the deception was practised, and by which others were deluded, was detected. ‘These exposures have set the mesmeriec Christians in quite a sterm, and if Mrs. Rochester Fox would come here now, she would coin money for a while; and, as she isa widow and has to rely upon her own labor for support, I give her a hint that she woukd do well to comply with the wishes of her friends, admirers and believers here, of the ‘true mesmeric religion.” Your benevolence will lead you to join in giving the notice. Mr. Burr's b: ther has written a small work recounting the his- tory of their investigations and the results; and Jam told that Mr. Philosopher Greeley’s system of humbug is pretty well exposed. He, (Heman) in a manner utterlybeyond the reach of the ob- servers’ ken, will produce rapping: pucioety the Rochester knockings—at least, Bry of the Evening Post, and Ilubbell, Daily Star, who hay irls. like so say Bryant the Syracuse ¢ repeatedly heard the Fox l dropped in, the third night the Burrs were also the first, and was highly amused at a ion whieh 3 ence, (about two hundred) afte: vture, which was upon ghost se One man insisted the exposure by the Messrs. Burr was not satisfactory—others that it was. A debate ensued. i grey haired gentleman, Capt. Teall nvote of the house, when it was almost ninously, amid loud cheering, decided that the sure of the spiritual knockin eoiplete, only three or four rising in the negative. (the burrs) went off to Auburn the next da) pla renown, so far a tual rappin, but | have not from them there. Y reeleyisin Imay drop Our Albany Correspondence. Aceayy, April 12, 1851. The Movements and Tactics of the Day. the session of the Legislature is now drawing to a close, the majority have taken alarm at the many reverses which their party has experienced at the spring elections. A caucus was held oi Thursday evening, with the intention of devising some remedy for the existing difficulties in the whig | ranks, Propositions were made to the silver greys to form committees on resolutions and address, and to present such reports as would tend to harmonize the party previous to the November election. ‘The greys standing firm, very few attended the caucus. Several of them were named, but each and all re- fused to participate in such action. A committee was at length formed, consisting of Messrs. Upham, Cook, and Owen, of the Senate, and Messrs. Ray- mond, of New York; Sherman, of Dutchess; Un- derwood, of Cayuga; Severance, of Erie; and Wheeler, of Franklin, all Seward woolleys. This committee will present an address and resolutions at another caucus previous to adjournment, in which it will be endeavored to convince every whi¢ in the State, that no real toe exists 5 that Seward and Fillmore have buried the hatchet ; that the former will remove no more canal officers, nor the latter any more postmasters or marshals; that Mr. Weoster is not on a tour of president- making contrary to the wish of the President; that General Seott has not been started by the Seward section as a candidate for the presidency in oppo- sition to Mr. Fillmore; that Weed and Fuller are to unite the Journal and Register ; that Greeley is to be sent out of the country for six months; and that the appellation of silver grey and woolly head, is at once to be dropped, and the universal family of the whig party again will sup together. ‘The course determined upon is to keep aloof, and euter into no compromise. ‘The war against their President has proceeded too far, and. the contest become too serious to show the white feather now. Mr. Seward, through his organ, has denounced the President as a second Tyler; andthe Jo has declared open hostility. "The silver greys will there- fore act_only on the defensive. “They will form neither State, county, or town tickets; but when a nomination is made not too transparently woolley, they will hoist the names in the columns of their papers with apparent acquiescence, but with a se- cret determination that defeat shall ensue. The greys are too sagacious to nominate a separate State ticket, kuowing that, at present, their strength lies in their seeret action; and although daily defied to nominate separate tickets, they will not make the attempt, preferring the stiletto to the broad-word in bringing their enemies to terms. No address or resolutions, which may come from the penof Mr. Raymond, willin any measure bri reconciliation to the distracted whig party of this State, especially when i: is announced that he in- tends 'toestablizh a whig free soil paper in the city New York. On the other hand, nothing hastranspired among ocratic leaders that gives any indication of rse which they intend to pursue. A meeti State Central Committee was held the mi dle ofthe week, when it was agreed upon to resist the canal bill at all and every hazard, even to a dissolution of the Senate—an event unprecedented in the annals of New York legislation. The com- mittee called a State Convention to be held on the lth of September, and adjourned seme du. The course adopted by the democratic members, last year, having been so universally approved by the party, it may be that they will again separate without issuing any address or resolutions. This willdepend, however, upon the fate of the canal bil. “The ‘expiring days of the session will pro- duce a mighty conflict on that bill. Should the whigs succeed in bringing their seventeen votes (of which there issearcely a doubt) in favor of the bill, thereby driving the fifteen democrats to a re- signation, then a necessity will exist for the em- ployment of the ablest minds in the party to send forth the reasons why they were induced to cent that method to prevent the passage of the bill. In eueh an event, a caucus will be held, and a plan for the campaign agreed upon. L Our New Orleans Correspondence. New Onteays, April 3, 1851. The Metairte Raris—Crevasse in the River—Siagular Case of Poisoning—Heary Clay--Paroli—Rrwds ~Murder, &. Our delightful spring weather has fairly set in. ‘The country never looked more charming. The lovely groves of orange trees have put forth their flowers, and perfume the air with a most delicious oder. Cur beaatifal gardens are laden with the moet superb roses; the evergreens wear a brighter Luc, and the large fields are covered with a soft velvet green. April and May are two of our most charming months, and our city continues to be very The week had set in with heavy rains, but « now become settled. This is the third day of the rac ver the Metairie Coarse, the race being two mile heats. Kenner’s b. h. Stock- which he did. Sho thew walt ies she thovaht bet ter of it, and that her ‘got the of her Wi resolution. was arraigned this morning, and pleaded not guilty. She stated that she.guse Mike arsenic a three months ago, w and was at for the purpose of Fats; that on hen i band’s return, he became very desperate, a3 his business failed, and he showed evidences of out of his mind. On the night he took the poison, he complained of opt sick; she immediately sent for a doctor, but all ai proved of no effect. “She remarked, that if a false statement of facts had not been published in one of the papers as to the manner of her husband’s death, which cast suspicion on her, she never would have been arrested. She was committed for further ex- amination, when i: is supposed all th true circum- stances of the case will be made to appear. _ The Hon. Henry Clay is expected to arrive here to-day from Havana, and an effort is being made to give him a publie reception, Too much honor cannot be paid to so noble @ champion of liberty, and so gallant a defender of our national rights. Allour & Senators and Representatives in Congress are now in our city, as well as Col. Jeff. Dave, of Mississippi The 7 oe of M'lle Parodi arrived here yes- terday, for the purpose of making preparations for the exquisite songstress to give a series of concerts, the first of which will take place on the 20th inst. The Ravels are nightly drawing crowded houses at the St. Charles, which almost equal Jenny Lind’s best nights. Many of the planters who have not heen overflowed have commenced visiting cotton, aud corn is finely coming up. ‘The overtiow must cause another short crop, even if no disaster should happen to the present growth. hie S:. Louis Ballroom, which is attached to tl . Louis Hotel, and which has for 5» many been the delight of the creoles of our city, has been demolished of its beauty and decorations e of turning it into sleeping apart- This is a death bow to the ereoles, and y was the sad lament and regret whi from the lips of beaux and belles, on hearing of the destruction of the favorite The place of some of their deare: ini is NO more. could not help laughing the other day, as I watched a young man who stood musing amid’ the wreck of bringing to mind the many delight- he had enjoyed there. the sw ches he had made to beauty, and the over-burthened i nt to, as he suddenly ex- med, mon dieu, quel mate é les Americains And he left the hall with the air of one who had lost his best friend. A murder was committed last night by an Irish le, a Mr. and Mrs. Clark, en the body of one han. They were arraigned this morning, and pleaded not guilty. Mrs. Clarkjsaid the whole thing **grew out of a little bit of wonazieh afr.” RPHEUS. Our Boston Correspondence. Bosrox, April 12, 1351. The Fugitive Slave Casc—The Late Electwon—Remo- vals from the Custom House, §c., §., We have just closed a most exciting week. The whole community has, for some days, been in a sort of stew, or fry, or whatever else may be considered the most unpleasant state of things to which mor- tal man can be subjected. If the old saints, who were grilled, or roasted, or baked, according to the tastes of their respective persecutors, suffered the half of what all our peaceably disposed people have experienced, all I can say is, that martyrdom, how- ever pleasant it may be to read about, is anything but agreeable in the process. Of all the things that are annoying, commend me to an excitement in Boston. Were there to be a revision of the Lita- ny, thousandsof people would go for having some- thing like this inserted in it :—** From all Fugitive Slave law excitements, good Lord deliver us!” It is not that there has been any act of mobism perpe- trated ; quite the contrary, though there have been millions of bloody words uttered ; but it seems as ifwe were living in a sort of wild dream, such as visits one ina fever, or after great fatigue. We shake our heads, in the hope that our half sleep may be thrown off, and that the hideous nightmare will ‘ dislimn and vanish.” But the epell will not work. ‘Lhere are the chains around the Court house, to keep it from running away, I suppose. Every man you mect talks to you shout Sam's case, and the habeas s, and the Commissioner’s conduct, and what the Legisla- ture will do, and what it won’t do, and the “siege of Boston,” and a thousand other things not quite so pleasant as the stories of the thousand-and-one- nights, until you curse the very name of Clarkson, vote Wilberforce a bore, and are ready noe your warmest support to any measure that wil vide comfortable —— for all black people inthe Red Sea, cheek by jowl with Pharaoh and his host; though I are — would a. to any such disposition of themselves, seeing that that respect- able monarch and his warriors were en; in the greatest slave hunting expedition ever \° To adopt a graver tone—there has beena reaction in public sentiment. After Shadrach’s rescue the feeling was very on eee the abolitionists, because, whatever may said to the contrary, we are a law-loving and law-abiding community, with no disposition to set the “higher law” above the eb of the land. But Ph htlemen who a most conspicuous their attempts to vindi- cate the “majesty of the law,” have Sratous the matter—some erroneously sw ing that what was an — rescue of an arrested fugi- tive, was the result of a deep laid conspiracy, and that the sudden action of a scoré of blacks followed from a sort of Guy Faux plot, they have shown their teeth toall persons who do not the Fugitive Slave law—which means nine-tenths of the ople of Massachusetts. New, when men ———, ready to uphold a law that they donot like, simp! it is a law, they are not very unreasonable fa askin, that their feelings may be respected. They woul have an unpleasant thing done as pleasantly as may . Our ultra “law and order” men think differ- oy. and have shown a disposition to ride rough- stud over all those who do not agree with them in sentiment. To what they call a jacobinical spirit, th gong ae 9 ogrnonange irit, quite as sive an likely to prove injurious to the object aimed at. No man, except and there one, who has no influence, seems to so much as think of that golden mean by regarding which men are made happy and States long-lived and powerfal. Everything must be rushed through, whether the law is to be violated or upheld ; and the advocates of law chow themselves to be as lawless as their ud- As the saying is, there ix «a great deal nature ia man. Some of the more vio- politionists, however, have manifested so Lyncb-like a spirit in their words, that the reac- tion has not been so great as it would have been heir shrewdness half as remarkable as their epirit The result of our congressional elections, held on Monday last, shows that the freesvil sentiment is far from being extinet among us. Mr. Allen, the very impersonation of that sentiment, was chosen over both the democratic and the whig candidates, by a respectable majority. Hadit been necessary, he might bave had a majority twice large. In the seeond district, Mr. Kantoul, in the face of his strong speech against the Fugitive Slave law, re- ceived about 300 more votes than were east for him in January. ‘The Boston Post caine out against him on the morning of the election day, and Mr. Hallett made, through its columns, a very powerful argument in reply to his speech. An organized op- position to bim was gotup in the distret, but it could not master much above 250 votes, nor prevent his vote being respectably increased. ‘The freesoil ine i Mr. Rantoul’s friends t and latterson’s g. g. Little Blu», are the two contending nags. ‘The chances are so even that but few bets have yet been made. [ presume, however, that on the track there will be a considerable piling up; butas the race does not come off until half-past 2 P.M, | will not be able to give the result by to- day's mail The great trial of Elie Deron, for arson, was bronght to a close yesterday morning at twenty minutes after two o'clock, when the jury returned a verdiet of not guilty was told, by a respectable and influential geutle man, of this city, that he thought a church ba on the Greeley spiritual knocking revela y would, cre long, be organized in the First ward © thiseily, (old Salina.) This humbug, so myste- , (ptil exploded, is making sad work with many good 8 unfortunate in having a supera- bundant endowment of marvellousness. Some go tou natic aeylume; others to eternity by the quuck and sure road of self-destructi The Burrs, of Philadelphia—Chauneey, and ITe- mao—were here, the first of the week, and lectured. Fo pope Se elder the two), isan able lec- a8 well ov er; and demonstrated, most ably, that the pretension that these “ knocks, if we could not a their souree—the ob: mean—were spiritual, iv an arrant humbu # hoa tile to nown laws of ature, us repugnene ton woo. The evidence on which nen und we lieve that the spirits of the dead, of past ages, converse with the livin i” ** thugnping and bumping” abo ~ ii the mort vulgar ‘ mediume,” is not so ood ae would be demanded to bring in a verlict for a claim of debt of 25. Yet this is not surprising. In Sq. jem, Mass., men ewore they saw old women riding on broomsticks a mile in the air and, what w more, the old women, when obarged with i, at mitted it to be #0, and begged the forgivenes of ‘igaven for their awful tin. Why not believe thie of Well ne that! It is quite as mysterious, if not MOF0 005 it, thesefere, equally grat fics theig inzane The river continues at a stand, with the prospect 2 he of a fall re now three crevasses parich of P re, and they are all doin extensive di erevasee has occurred near the large ere- . The town of Bayou Sara is completely under water, and there are from three to six feet of water in the streets. ‘The inundation was caused by some fifty or sixty feet of the back levee sliding off, and in loos than twenty minutes, such was the foree of the current, the town was covered with water. The river and the coast at thie time present a most singular appearance. In some places the river is seven feet above the plan- tations, the levees being generally about ten feet ‘The view presented from n steamboat gives of Heing hal large lake. At Memphis, on the 27th ult., it ie said the river had fallen eight inches. ‘The examination of a singular case of bird came up before our courté to-day, in which a Ma- dame Vietorine Roussel i¢ charged with having din causing the death of her husband, who vrsenie, One story gees, that her hushand, 1<« tailor, had become involved, i that h tol wile he intended to take poison to rid himeeif of hia difficulties. Another tale is, that cuseell diseovered that bis wife had proved false to him, and that he told her che must take poison with bite: that tw@cnpe were prepared, When she vid him to erin Spet, in oner to reauurg her, death, politically speaking, to any democrat; but that paper seems to bave lost its power of charming the democracy. ‘The opinion is expressed by almost every one, that Mr. Kantoul will be chosen at the next trial, After making all possible allowances for both democratic and freesoil bolterre, there is a inajority in No. 2 of 1,500 against the whigs, in » 2 'alfrey will be chosen in No. 4, a8 will vote for him rather than see a saen, a plurality election on the next trial. he chances are about even in the seventh district between the democratic and the whig candidates. ‘Lhe feeling that prevails among opponents of the whigs, is not dissimilar to that which secured Mr. Mann hie election last — fall. In his district the democrats hold — the balance of power, and would have prevenjed his election, had they chosen to do so; but this they lid not choose to do—some three or four hundred of therm voting for hin, One of them told me that had five times the of democratic votes been to his success, he would have received mocrate looking upon his quarre! with the something that should encouraged. nee of a feeling similar to thie in the nt dietriets, may cause the election of two te and one freeseiler from this State at the next trial. You will observe that, in such an event, the delegation in the next Congress fiom Mnssachu- setts will be equally divided, counting Mr. Mann ae a freesoiler; and | enn assure you tht he isa pretty pen of the political animal so called. An equal division of our delegation wou!d neutralize our vote in the House, should the electhon of Presi- dent devolve upon that boly, os it is by no means ile to believe that iL What makes neha way ae whl inju ed on tive in No. 10.) Me. Semlder, the whig elect from that lie trict. wes mene freesoilish than the freesoil ewna- date hinteel?; and for being so, the Webster whige prevented bite in the fret trial, On ie usual trial, the woilors turmed to nnd elected wever, bad he caugh! the feb w 1 becesen them ; him. Na svener, ier ack Rea ea ata ster whig geek freesoilers voted him an artful dodger ot the most artful sort. The whigs only consider him “ smart” and +‘ spicy.” Lam not aware of any democratic Peper except the Post having taken ground against Mr, toul, though some have come out in sup- port. Our ablest democratic journal, the Worcess ter Palladium, speaks very hl of Mr. Rantoul’s speech, as it well may, seeing that it has substan- tially advocated the same views, and with a great deal of foree and tact, ever since the Fugitive Slave law was passed. Other country papers have spoken with much decision in rt of Mr. Rantoul, I may here say, while I think of it, that not a few of our whig merchants would not be inconsolable, were Mr. Rantoul to be elected. They know that on all subjects connected with commerce he has not his equal in New England. Ifhe should be returned, you will have some free trade speeches in the House such as would do Richard Cobden’s heart good to hear. Whatever may be bei of his speech against the fugitive bill, no one denies his extraor- dinary attainments. kt All'those movements that grow out of the Fugi- tive Slave law are bearing with a terrible weight nthe old whig party, which is wilting before them like the caravan before the withering blast of the simoom. That out of the wrecks and drift wood of all parties there may ultimately be formed a new whig party, which shallrule and control here for a long period, is by no means improbable; but that pay with which Daniel Webster's name is identi- ed, and which used to be as full of life at the pros- pect of battle as the war horse mentioned by Job— that party is dying, dying rapidly, but hard. Its leaders for some time labored under the delusion that they were about to split the whig party into two pieces, at the head of one of which they sup- posed they would be able to form an alliance with the democracy. Time and rough events have mea surably dispelled this delusion; aud the whig party, insteail of being divided into two fa is hikely to be broken up into half a score of political camps. ‘Two removals have been made in our Custom Ko A Mr. Gourgas, one somewhat noted democratic politician, but more recently as a soiler, has been removed from a $ which was co! red Ir. Starbuck, of Nan- tucket, a Webster whig; a Mr. Berry, a pe son who owed his appointinent to Seeretary Kv Walker, has been compelled to make way fora Mr. liobart, of Hingham, also a Webster whig. Both changes are popular, neither of the parties removed being of that class of men in whose personal wel- fare any one but themzelves can @ sup- d to take an interest. Other changes, I under stand, are in contemplation, Mr. Webster's visit to Massachusetts having operated on the fortunes of his fiiends like the rising of the sun on the earth; it has dispersed the mists of the morning, and brought out men’s virtues like a fine varnish. Had something of the kind been done a few months ago, the effect might have been good, but it is now too late to have any other result than as far as it af- fects the fortunes of obscure individuals—a matter of small consequence to the general public. ‘The quiet manner in which Simms was taken away, this morning, is considered by some of our conservative people as a proof that there has been a great deal of fuss about nothing. ‘There was not the slightest disturbance, and an intelligent witness of the whole transaction tells me that two men could have conveyed him on board without the least trouble. It is said that two or three more fugitives are to be arrested to-day. The telegraph will give you the particulars. I have heard some few of the strongest advocates of the ** ce per eh of the laws” eay that, the fact of the ability of the city to suetion the law having been established, it would be as well to let the matter rest; but this is not the general opinion among the conservatives. A committee of the State Senate are engaged in investigating matters connected with this affair, so far as they have affected the action of some of our local officers. It is said that Mr. Hallett was sum- moned, but that on being sought he was “ not to be found.” It would be @ most amusing scene to behold him rage} @ crors-examination by Se- nators Robinson and Keyes—a sort of gladiatorial combat, which would bring out the abilities of all concerned in it in the boldest relief. Mr. Hallett is as sharp as a Damascus blade, and the two Nena- tors named are among the oldest of our public men. CoLonna. Our Minnisota Correspondence. Sr. Parr, March 30, 1851. Officers of the Government—The Governor ant Chicf Justicc—Soil of Minnesota—Land Cheap ant Money Plenty—Government Payments—Produc- tions—Population—Indians—E migration, §. §c. J notice that in the correspondence from all parts of the world with which the columns of your inte- resting and useful journal are enriched, Minnesota, El Dorado of the Northwest, is;seldom represent- ed, This should not be; and, for the purpose of upplying the deficiency, 1 venture to send you a brief communication. ‘The territorial government was organised, as you know, in March, 1849. Alexander Ramsey was ap- pointed Governor; C. K. Smith, Secretary; Aaron Goodrich, Chief Just David Cooper, and Brad- ky B. Meeker, Associate Justices; and Alexander M. Mitchell, Marshal. These officers, with the exception of the Govern- or and Chief Justice, are competent and faithful public agents, and popular with the people. The Governor was, at first, very popular, bat un- fortunately involved himself in tions beyond his means, and allied himself with P. Chouteau, Jr. & Co., wealthy Indian traders, successors of the American Fur Company, an odious monopoly, all of the interests of which are o ‘l to civ and settlement. This alliance has biased cial and private action to such a degree that a com- plete revolution has been effected in his popularity, and it may be truly said that there is not now a more unsatisfactory magistrate in Minnesota than Alexander Ramsey. The Chief Justice is not the object of any serious attention. His utter want of capacity for the ition held by him makes him the subject of cule and merriment, but nothing more. The administration would gladly be rid of him, but it is believed he cannot be legally removed save by the tedious 88 of impeachment. The soil of Minnesota is astonishingly fertile. Wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, ‘row here in reat luxuriance and perfection. ‘The climate is elightful and healthy. No portion of our country offers stronger inducements to farmers than Minne- The large not-producing population—com- posed of military men and Indians, supported by the government and resident in the territory—creates | a demand for agricultural ductions which a half century will hardly enable Minnesota to supply. Land is cheap, and,gwhat is rare in a new eountry, money is plenty. A large amount is annually expended in the ter- ritory by the government. The following aunui- ties are paid yearly to the Indians of Minnesota :— Winneba, $57,110 » G80 » 38,750 Coy ing to the non-payment of the annu last autumn, the above tribes will REP s+ +e oe he United States w For the Legislature In salaries of government officers, of courts, &e., abou For public ‘buildings. . For forts... .. ill expend for rowds. A large sum to be expended among a population numbering only about 6,500 whites! Minnesota is admirably adapted to manufacturing. Its extensive water power, not eacelled in the world; ite ready and cheap access to market by means of that great artery of trade, the Mississippi, commend the territory ftrongly t» the attention of capitaliste, Those most acquainted with such matters say that that they have ever seen. The grasses of the ies are more nutritious than in the South and Minnesota furs command a price twenty-five te. cent in ince of those collected elsewhere. Deer, animale Jar in nature and hab any I have ever seen elsewhere. of the best quality for the manufactare of found in great abundance on the banks of pi, near Xt. Paul. [have seen some artieles made from it at Cincinnati. Taey wre ex- tremely benutiful. The present Fopulation of the territory is eom- yoved, principally, of emigrants from Maine, Ver- mont, and northern York. The people are intelligent, refined, and industrious. Our social circles are small, but in the highest degree plea- sant and cheerful. Although we have been’ iso- Juted from the civilized world for about five monthe by the stoppage navigation, yet time has not bang heavily upon our hands. Balle, parties, soireée, sleighing excursions, and all other re- sources to whieh civilized have abounded. And then, too, we have had oo easionally a visit from our Indian neighbors, who have entertained us with exhibitions of the “ heg- gar’s dance,” or regaled us at a “medicine feast,” ei which i* something far more agreeable than a fenst upon medicine, I assure you We expect the arrival of 't about the Gret week in April, and then the tide of emigration will flow in wpor I have heared of 21 femilies who contemplate coming bither fem one eounty in Indiana. ‘They want to eeapo from the ague and fever to thie healthful north en | region Well, let them come. The more the morrier, Lat all men stay away, however, who live withont manual Ia There are Honest industry w ealth and heppiness in Min ATEAIKICK. $154,190 | this ix the best country for the growth of wool that | to sheep, | F grow to a larger size here and have finer skins, than men resort for fun, | first boat of the | muneration Our Florida Correspondence. Tamra Bay, Eas Fiorina, March 27, 1851. The Movements of the Troops—Billy Bowlegs and his Tribe—The True Policy towards the Indians— The Backward Condition of the People—Not the Americans. lt is mow near thirty years since this place has been first settled by emigrants from other States» and has been near, all that time, the head quarters of the troops engaged in the different troubles with the Indians; and it issurprising that, at the present day, the place presents the miserable appearance it does. The government have been all that time spending money in building houses, &e., and still the place has made but little progress, and I think, only for the stimulus it gets by the presence of the few troops that are stationed here, it would ulti- mately go to the bad. Whether this is cansed by the inactivity of the people, or other causes con- nected with the presence of Indians in the country, 1 will not undertake to say; but one fact is certain, the place does not appear to prosper. A large por- tion of the site of the town is fenced in, and is call- ed the garrison; within it is comprised quarters tor officers and soldiers, stores, stables, & dis by far the best portion of the village. mainder consists of a few scattered buildings gularly built, and has anything but a preps appearance. ‘This place enjoys the reputation of a favorable climate for invalids, but it is not much frequented, as a wantof proper accommodation pre- Vents numbers trom visiting it. ‘The excitement which was raised relative to the Indians some year and a half ago, seems to have all died away. ‘The troops that were sent here atthat time have, with the exception of a few companies, been ordered to other parts of the country, and now that the government found they had no just cause of war with the Indians, a few citizens of Florida, who were instrumental in provokin, done their utmost to keep alive, the bad feeli | tween the whites and them, have petit gress for remuneration for their militar, ‘vices, Which consisted in oceupying a few log forts the fear of the inhabitants obliged them to fly to at the ie. It iv stated here that the last “talk” at the Coo- | loosahatchee, which{Capt. Casey, the Indian agent, had with Billy Bowlegs, he told him that the gov: ernment had resolved to remove them, and that he was authorized to give them some time to delibe- rate on the proposal, at the exy jon of which, i they still refuse to emigrate, force will be resorted to to compel them; but | think a prel| ary step; intheevent of such a contingency arriving would be to increase the present force here, (200 Herymen, acting as infantry) by 1,000 dragoons. It is also rumored that some volunteers have been raised by the State, but I imagine their worth is only appre- ciated by themselves. And if such a thing as a war with the Indians ever ocour, (which is not pro- bable) troops raised in this State would do more harm than good. Capt. Casey, in adopting this new policy towards Bowlegs and his tribe, may be following outa plan to effect their removal through their fears; and in addition to this, it is said he has prokshitad all trade at the military posts with the ndians. This comes hardest on them, as up to this time they have depended for theirsupply of ammu- nition, food, clothes, &c., in return for the pro- duce of the chase, which they disposed of at these posts in return for the above necessaries. A policy similar to this, if strictly carried out from the first disturbance, would have done more to effect their removal than the presence of 1,000 troops, or offers of unlimited sums of money—it would be literally starving them out. A person is struck here with the difference in the manners and appearance of the people to what they are sn hase parts of the country. They are not possessed with that air of life or intelligence you generally see amongst people of the more northern States. A kind of langor or jaundiced look appears always to attend them, and it is something surpri- sing to me how they are able to render the misera- ble oil (a fine, loose, white sand) to afford them a living; but when it is remembered their food con- tists alinost solely of Indian corn, and little atten- tion isrequired to produce its growth, their indus- try is not overtaxed. Florida has cost the United States considerable by its Indian wars, and the political agitations con- nected with these and its admission into the Union; but I believe it were not too much to say, the coun- try could afford to lose it without any loss to itself, were it not for its geographical position with regard to the rest of the Union. Here, after being over thirty years in the possession of the United States, it has only 80,000 population, half negroes, and the rest, through the effect of the climate or other causes, worn down below the ordinary standard of what a man ought to be. Our Irish Correspondence. } Dertiy, March 25, 1851. | Steam Navigation between Ireland and the United States direct--Project of forming a Company witha Capual of £250,000—The Culture of Flax, $e, Se. It isan anomaly, by no means easy of explana- tionfwhy Ireland and America should have so long delayed the establishment of a direct line of communication. DPassing aside the cant of the English press touching Irish apathy and incapaci- ty, and looking at the map—it does seem passing strange that the inalienable natural advantages of Ireland should be overlooked, and the costly and hazardous route of ehannel to Liverpool pursued. ‘The necessity of selecting some other packet sta- tion bas been pressed upon the government by parties anxious to draw the traffic to Galway and thus develope the western coast. But English states- men, true to their traditional policy, slight Ireland and her western harbors, and award Holyhead the coveted honor. It must be self-evident that if American steamers can enter the harbor of Galway and there land their passengers and goods, that they effect a material saving in the time of the voy- age and in the charges levied for lighthouses—aud that they avoid the risks of an intricate naviga- tion up channel, seriously augmented when fogs prevail and the narrow seas are crowded with coast- ing and foreign vessels. On the other hand, steam- ers leaving Galway are iu afew hours away upon the waters of the Atlantic, whereas the steamer leaving Liverpool or Holyhead must waste twenty houre of risky navigation along the coast before she ets to the parallel of departure of the other boat. rhere would be, consequently, a saving of coal, of | time, of rick, and of expenditure; any one of the | reasons should suffice; but when the four are com- | bined, it may be demonstrated with the accuracy of | a mathematical problem that the steam ommuni- | cation between America and Europe must adopt the | harbor of Galway. ‘There wasan abortive attempt by a broker heve | to get up acompany, and he even went the length | of getting up a prospectus; but his name carried with it no influence; and no action seems to have | been had in the matter. His appeal, however, rp it exeited public opinion. uiry, and itr the proprietors They have now | spoken out and their prospectus is to the following effect -— PROSPECTUS OF THE EUROPEAN AND STEAM PACKET COMPANY. The great aud rapidly inereasing intercourse with the | western World renders ita matter of paramount im- | pertaner, that the shortest and safest route for pas: sengers and letters shall be sdopted. Galway berg | the most westerly port in Europe, and possessing the | greatest facilities and conveniencies for a packet sta- | tion, it is proposed to establish a line of first clues steam vesele to ply between Galway and such port or porte in North America a+ may hereafter be veka on. The opening of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, which je te take place on the Let of August w ill complete he railway and telegraphic eommu- my to in, and thence to all the reat Britain. and, through London, unication on the continent of the European port ot about 400 miles in a of the Galway railway to exertion. AMERICAN forty-eight hew perior construction of iron steamer: combining all the established inprovements in speed and safety, a further diminution of time can be flected, which will reduce the fea voyage within an average of sven days, whilet feom Galway to London will be accomplished regularly within vighteen hours Galway to Paris alout 30 hours Ke, It ia proposed to have the vessels constructed chiefly for the passenger and mail service, and to attain the utmost epeed. consistent with comfort and safety: alen, to provide the largest amount of secommodation for second clase passengers, consistent with preserving the Mest superior convenience and comfort for the firet clase passengers. The selection of the port of orrival and America © be the subje rrangement ‘h parties in for the in- preliminary inquiries already grounds for believing that. unde he undertaking Provisions! Come there ef di urpose ollere iu t took The nam his Wester | 11 fr propeoed to raise & capital of 250000, in the fret in stones (000 ohne eof £00 each, on oweh conditions, aif Peyet in veh inetatmants. os may Nereafter be ogre dem, No perven to we diablo byyond the amount eur until the report of the committee shall be made shee et tt. sen A mt to of maul and no er res y wi to be in- had when each sul ion of proceedi: with the Ms) OF h then consider desirable, ‘When we refleet that the traffic would necessarily pase over their railway, that passengers would be Tependent upon them for their safety and comfort— that they could alone enter into those combinations with other lines which would secure the certain transmission of merchandise from the continent and the English manufacturing towns to Galway, it is obvious that the steam line should be - auspices of the railway oem, until all doubt: were removed as to the capabilities of Galway har- bor. 1 have had several interviews with the actin, directors of the railway, ce are giao! project, and can, consequently, speak wi Linty. Wi leading men are Wealthy, and able and wil ng tocarry out the scheme; and the public mind i Ireland is ripe for the undertaking. It is intended. to reserve one-half of the stock for the American and colonial market. The shares, £25; the shareholders empowered to yote by letter. » y don’t contemplate any rivalry with other compa nies, but holding, as they do, the keys in their hands of the Galway Railway, they desire to deve- lope its Liana They wish to prove that the Galway route is the shortest and safest, and having accomplished that mission, the publie are free te buy their stock. They invite menof both nations and all parties. to co-operate in a work ¢o eminently calculated to lessen the objections to ocean trayel- ing, and accelerate the rapid and safe communica tion between Europe and America. ‘They count upon an expression of sympathy and friendship on the part of America towards Ireland, of which se many substantial proofs have already been fernisheds and they enli-t_the interests of your mighty cotton dealers in a project, which, by the aid of the electric telegraph, can ensure twenty hours later intelligence than any other route. ‘The report of the society for the encouragement of the growth of flax in lreland, is not satistactory. Ulster is the only provinee where preparations have been made upon a large scale: but even there only fifty thousand acres are reported az sown, and for th st of Ireland about one- require above five times tha sown, to supply the import nc countries; and as it is only when that st cultivation has been reached that flax can distur» the cotton trade, you may comprehend the sligh: Prospect there is of rivalry. ‘There i proba Dil of the beet-root sugar trade b plish~ ed. “The soil and climate favor the growth of the root, and the patentees of ihe new process consent to establish works in any locality where they ea be secure of one hundred and fifty acres of beet root. Flax is not so exhausting a crop as many people fancy, but it returns no manure; and foreign. manures are little used here, in consequence of their cost, a8 compared with the returns from the land. On the other hand, the debris from the beet root, after the sacharine properties had been extracted, would be serviceable on the farm. There is much to baffle a spectator of the strug- a between free trade and protection, In the ighe-t quarters, and from the mouths of men re- puted statesmen, the veriest twaddle issues. In the ode last week, Grey, the colonial mi er, ar gued that the British millers could not suffer, as in the long run their skill and coal would them i the victory—that just now the French imilte 's might monopolize the trade, but that the high prices they 1 for coal must drive them out of the business. Ww, it is notorious, that the French milling is per- formed by water or wind power—that neither purchase nor burn coals—and that Lord Grey was talking upon a subject of which he was profoundly ignorant. The fact is confessed by all ties, that the French have walked off with the mill- ing business, and you may buy French flour in neat small packages of 35 Ibs.: 2 better and ebeaper article than either Jrish or English millers ean furnish. The large mills for flouring are com- avy idle, and moreover the cultivation of wheat is being gradually relinquished. If the pre- in sent policy a pureued a few years longer, lreland will cease to be a wheat growing country. The speculation does not pay. It is more remunerative to fatten cattle, though that trade is depressed by the foreign competition. There was a cargo of gd covey wheat landed at Dundalk this week. is selling at fifteen shillings the Irish barrel, whieh is equivalent to seventy-five cents the bushel, ship ped from New York, freight paid; or seventy-fiv cents, loss Fives and charges. ‘The lowest price the ris Tarmer ever imagined was twenty shil- lings per barrel, and that price would not pay for the labor, leaving rent out of the question. You may fancy the consternation the import from Egypt ha< » The Dundalk Democrat is farious with free traders, and many other journals con- fest that Ireland has been sacrificed to enrich a few Manchester cotton lords. The work of ruinis ad- vancing steadily: it is creeping into the manufac- turing towns, you were in Leeds and looked at he vacant tenements and lirtened to the language of the workmen, whose wages have been reduced and who cannot command continuous employment, you would doubt the boasts of the T'imes. ‘The cot= ‘on lords have not escaped unhurt. True it is, they get labor on lower terms and dream that they can supplant the American fabric. but their heme cou sumption is declinin, id the home goose was ways better worth i, lu ing than the fureign goo The Vice Royalty of freland is not to be dix cussed this session. — ‘The process of prov inviatizing the country is delayed, while unightier waters en- gage the imperial mind, but in all the detai 4 of government a parsimonious and ungenorous spirit animates the cabinet. Dublin has long been cole- brated for its hospitals, and her medical men enjoy European fame. These hospitals are to be quietly pre poner en At the time of the Union, they re- ved grants of money; and the clear understand- ing then was, that the allowances were ‘0 be con- tinved; but in vielation of the i ied obtigation, ten per cent has been deducted this year from the grant to the hospitals, and the ailment is to pro- ceed year after year, at the rate of ten per cent per annum; thus in ten years they will besome extinet, and then _ students must resort to London fox hospital practice. ‘There Ee river in the suburbs of this tewn, called the river “Dodder;” it flows rapidly from the mountains in the vicinity of Dublin, and, course, furnishes abundance of water power. you trace the banks of the stream you will en- counter twenty vacant and dilapidated buildings, with broken mill dams infront. These were facto- ries of cotton and cloth, which were constantly em- loyed, and furnished work to thousands when the nion was consummated. They are now idle and desolate; the owners ruined; the work people dead, or in foreign lands. Such is the history ot Ireland, everywhere repeated. Dublin was once famous for its cutlery. The trade is suppressey English capitalists combined, and actually sold articles, like the balanced-handle knife, in Dut below the cost price. They pursued this plan mauy years; broke up the local trade—invited the ekilful pe Aes to Lngland, and destroyed their Lrieh rivals, ‘That gified and extraordinary mun, Gavazsi, is pouring forth hie torrents of imlignant eloquene: in London; he startles the idle dreamers by the boldness of hie conceptions, the exquisi his orations, the sublime and culeates. racter of Mazzin' 1 montane school. Mise Talbot divides with him the public attention. The victim of that perverted understanding, Lord Shrewsbury, she he ated the sentiments attributed to her, a the Bishop of Clifton and the Priores+ of their own =. A friend of mine, at school with her, deseribes her as any: hi clever, or sha but circumstances, at life, rapidly alter the el ir. ‘The Glass Palace has proved leaky, marvement of the comm ttee. The Trick tions will include beautiful ies of the — ornaments diseovered at various e) hey have been faithfully re-produced by the well-known goldsmith. are gorgeously worked with The weather hae been warm enou; the pear blossoms Our Philadelphia Correspondence Patapenrisa, April 15, 1951. Adjournment of the Legistatne The Legislature of our State adjourned, to-day, at noon, which joyful event has doubtless been ime duced by the expiration of the period beyond which the per diem ellowance of members ix, by law, re~ duved to twelve shillings instead of there dollars. What has been done, and what left undone, cannot be arrived at without a rigid examination of the om- nibus bil hurried through with «och indices haste that there was no time to ascertain their mul tifeld provieions, Labinet« wer and goid thrends, ne of the gh ty bring eat Be. Freswmrs tt Atapama. ts from all directions of the disastrous heavy rain and storm ef Monday right—ite damage to crops and fences, and destruction of Some thirty miles east of this ye the rain way acoom- nied by heavy wind, whieh effected serivus havoe. he stage connection, in some directions, is ane pended-creeks swimming, and extensive portions of the lower country flooded. Mr. Alles, th tractor on the Mobile mail route, we horses on Tuesday, in attempling to a few miles below this phase. The pa driver eseaped: (he ave since by Nfor ys at t, it h ! 1 Wnpee se r considering it th hours’ storm. ‘The volume of rain mine hav immenre. he Alabam, we learn, hae 5 fret in ae many gente ood, at the time Written, wae still rising We anticipate a of heavy damage to the river i gene y (Ala. ) Jownal, April wants * paamenat ee