The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1851, Page 6

ORIGINA ARTICLES turning thom out of the public stables to pastureon | to make some remarks as’ regarde the desire of the common till they got better. the Austrian government to cultivate commercial ‘Taylor's cabinet had the political fever and ague | relations with this country. The activity which from the start. It was a poor, ricketty, sickly, pale | has prevailed in the Austrian Consulate Genoral faced, swelled belly concern. Beor, burnt brandy, nor | hore, ainoe that time, and the steps which have milk punch, did uot help its ailings. We tried to | been taken to establish mercantile agencies in all doctor it, but Mr. Clayton got into a passion, and | the principal trading places of the United States refused to teke our physic. and the adjoining countries, lead ux to suppose Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty- fifth districts. In two or three districts the plan is to run a canal democrat, instead of a whig. The whigs make great calculations on the feeling in the canal counties in favor of the enlargement of the Erie canal. As they have now but seventeon Se- nators, they require to elect three more, to seeure & quorum of three-fifths of the whole Senate. nor to any share or portion of it. The trial of this cause will create great interest, as it is expected that the slavery question, which has divided the Metnodist Episcopal Church, will be thoroughly discussed by the able und distinguished advocates for the South and North—the Hon. Daniel Web- ster, and Reverdy Johnson, Esq., onthe one side, and George Wood, Esq., of New York, and Rufus take away $1 25, they will be seting about right. Th New York companies complain of leakage to the amoun of 20 per ct, ‘The Philadelphia works lose ouly 2 pe cent from that cause. Why should the public have t pay for leakage, owing t>’ be imperfect works of thos companies? The lewkage is their own affair, amd the con sumers have nothing to do with it. There appears to b- no reason under heaven why gas cannot be manufac tured and sold as cheap here as in Philadelphia, Th ‘Who Fillmore Administratio n—Sickness In Cabinets and Deectors in Politics. ‘The signs of the times are unmistakable ;—they @re ominous of a disjunction before longin the stars— ‘of Mr. Fillmore’s cabinet. Any body who will read & whig political slmanscs—the North American, Courier and Emguirer, tho Tribune, the Evening that all their complaint was the *Galphin” iteh; but this ia a sad mistake. All cabinets Some people think that the views wo then entertained on the subject, There will be, also, # special election for a mem- ber of Assembly in one of the districts in Oswego Choate, Esq , of Massachusetts, on the other. Be- sides this church, we believe that the other large outlay on the Philadelphia works 1s fur groater them ov the works in New York—they are the finest in the coun | are about being carried into effect. -Sowrnal, the Natvenal Intelligencer, the Republic, et id gewws—cannot but seo it. The whig party are dis- ‘ased-—the whig organs just named are most partiou- laely diseased—the whig cabinet are diseased, and thediseaso is spreading rapidly. It is becoming Protestant churches—the Presbyterian and the Baptist churches—havo been divided and separated, North and South, onthe same general question— the slavery issues that so disturb the Union. The Protestant (Queen Elizabeth's) Episcopal Church sre more or loss afieted by that disease. Itisan | The appointment of commercial agents identified infectious disorder prevailing at Washington—asort | with the interests represented by them, has proved of official endemio—but rarely proves mortal. In- | highly advantageous at all times, and is likely to be deed, some of the afflicted grow fat onit. Tho | attended with very favorable results in this parti- county, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Moses P. Hatch. He will, it is supposed, be run for Senator by the canal interest, in opposition to Mr. Skinner, the Senator who resigned. Notwith- try. The following is am account of the original expen diture :-— Ovrtay ov Prutapetemta Worxs, Retorts, gay-holders, &e. Street mains... Service pipes and meters Gort of political cholera. ‘Tue patient is threatened disease that was killing Taylor’s cabinet when the | cular case, on aecount of the system adopted by the standing the democratic majorities in all tk “s- with Belirium. The orgaas particularly named | 8°0dold patriot died, was one of # very fatal cha- | enlightened Austrian Minister of Commerce, Mr. | cant districts, except one, it appears they wer ~j-| and the Catholic (Roman) Church, have not yet Public Imps... sees oese +s 4 06 have the political jaundice very bad, and see every | TActer—in fact, it may be classed among the incur- | DeBruck, of conceatrating the whole consular orga | resented in the Assembly by members, a majority | allowed the slavery question to disturb their har- ‘Total... <<. $1073.14 OF ‘Uhing, as Sally Dillard said, “ awiul yaller.” What is to be done? What physic shall be adminis- fered? Shall Brandreth’s pills, Townsend's sarsa- périlla, Kellinger’s liniment, or Swain’s panacea, or Libby’s ointment, be tried, or what? ‘Tbe doctors @ould consult and decide. Cabinets, and organs, and parties very often get Sometimes it is owing to times to low living. Old Hick- ory’s first cabinet was affected wonderfully. Somo of them stoutly denied that they had any complaint in the world, except chastity, morality, and virtue, ‘and « repugnance on the part of certain pious mem- disceand in this country. bigh livin, bors of the cabinet to ussovinte with certain ladies. ‘The old chieftain knew be: doctor—and so he fo «+ ‘ene of them a dose oi Javented expressly to from Washington to well, Van Buren he Barry he despatehe: North Carolina, Be bo Doylestown, Bucks Hittlo rest, and restos Young Duane, some t because he wanted t Hickory give bim « of! hand. ‘ryler’s cabinet be weeks. The compli senuwed by a “ fiseality Tuined them for lite ty bank bill, The ps @enounced him as at Lord only knows wha’ @isted that his cab vet with. John Pell was Ty fixed at Washingte ‘Clarke's fine palace, w uliy, and it went aw? dicate Ile and his f nd they never have « Hionce Bell's course sive: Wary as Secretary of U most wofully to give fond ef cutting off tbe tors, but he had got ) + mot care ® great deal « But Ewing and Gravy thought Mr. Clay’ y Slowachs. Badger *s ‘or at loast he did not «> don hated being force three days’ notice, aul thereby hangs ats Danidl Webstor was + 5 once upon a time reached him.” Of his office to please the he wasright. He hau 0 settle with the Brit 4 over that frontier @4—Maine, Massach: were particularly i: whig party were 1 warwas the quest brush with the Bri @ti¢ks end throwin, to pester, and anney the danger, and kev wan in the Union « notito resign unless wishthat be sheuli Cided to back out in: wecrct wlig caucus | The wvening of th and the day before th bad a private offi Tyler, at the Wai ited nnd worried. pects, as there Was been sonfidentially + place, and agrees The ladies will fiua » do discover a secret. | to their friends. W mouse, asto what b pespicious,—he kur fgreement by Bes Grittenden, &e., t ho ded his sily of the “mutincers Offish and curt. W ‘Tylor alluded to + giating what be d do, but talked 7 The “mutineors Check-mate him—t respectable cabs! bo serve init”!—t at fany man that ‘Tylor would be fe his steps, and They were ® human nature ¢ showed. W Bome pilitical t View ebove sta « ler popped the @o you intend Webster celm Conform to the | to retire. “They subject,” sale T Or private web apart from + Country propery * Dhnow of no reno bs found in your ¥> the moment the ovotasy. “You say fearon why you shou: ing Webster by the «+ @naious desire haty few tary of State stay but Bautineors chai about me that he or Che bottom of this ow Hoferc hia domtne:’ body but himesif—be seleetion no of the East. He Zfoil him. | am a ene wo—he hater you beow! makes all the tro or—and he wasa capital wn the throats of each * pills, brated “unit sud the fresh air aad get errand to London; Branch went t a, and ivania,to geta rhervous wards, got the noodles Duane, and old pill that cured him cased ina ver 1 the “ simples,” it pretty nearl; and vetoed the whig fis <7 me uproarious i renegade, and the be party orgaas in- s abandon him fuith- y of War, was saug- is family in St, Clair ked his place wonder- sinst the grain to ab- 1 it all to Mr. Clay, ver will forgive him. m Ewing liked his sa- ary, and he disliked ‘rank Granger was f loco fuco post mas- wrly through, and did t turning over his office. well as Bell, rather F ye too strong for their nite so much affeeted, | bis feelings. Critten- back to Kentueky on blamed Mr. Clay— retary of State, and, and, ** the retary y” of others “ had not soy idea of geimg out lers—no, not be; and \ L. boundary question ° clouds of war lowor- | gland was interest | a New Hampshire, The whig policy and he issue. Pence or ats wanted a the aforesaid lion, him. Webster saw ould avert it, if any So he concluded pressly signified his iis colleagues all de- to the mandate of a x the * crisis plution was taken» did resign, Webster ew on busin Tyler was e seared at his pros- him to be. He hai { wll that bal taken | wer ean go to the World’s Fair. Heshould bo whica acl the “ mut sing; and when kind souls, disclose ere n oy it as mum As i This rle was apprised of the Granger, Barger, aout next day, and noe that he was one therefore some what tuod on his dignity * carefully avoided hat be intended to seneral tering iewed they would ‘could not form a t get a de © would not man 1 any ind (replied Web: « the affairs «f { pense ma i retire, un! sill conform to them al Harr ive. Clay and th will I hav control. Clay is at i the ethers cro joes not onr because he cannot u are the lead ve. I at to ey ed that you cons our foreign difficul- eabine le oer shook hands, took a glass of whiskey , ge, and both retired to bed ty what bad occurred be aciv; and tho next day, afvor -keep ng Webs raid net intend to resiga! gree 34 Some said he stayed ibe EAE G Fevain for itaome whig troath, rye Some sat! be Sapte “Wie. Some <aild Aver bey Rod power £ “ A MONTAL- ent them all off | | pounder were poking | ables. It was a decided case of humbuggitatis. From the signs of the times advertod to in the commencement of these remarks, we foretell that Mr. Filmore will have to call in the doctors ore long, to see what is the matter with his cabinet and hia party, and try to cure their disorders. We discover strong manifestations of disease there and thereabouts. Itis shrewdly opined by some that the acting President, owing, perhaps, to his sleep- ing in the same chamber and bed in which Tyler | and Botts once slept the White House, has caught the complaint which so violently aflectod Mr. Tyler the last two years of his term, and which is certain political death to any ‘‘acting” Pre dent. It is called the “Presidential fever.” It is a tervi- ble complaint—worse than the hydrophobia, and generally sticks toa man through life. We have | never known any one entirely cured of it, if the at- | | tack was at all violent. Almost every one of our | | distinguished politicians has had a touch of it, | and some have been powerfully affected. Cass, Bu- | | chanan, Houston, Woodbury, Scott, all have it. | Clay has had it. Webster has it. Van Buren | | will never get rid of it. It aticks to him as the Old | | Man of the Sea stuck to the shoulders of Sinbad. | He will die of it. The question may be well ask- | ed, what one of the leading politicians of the Uni- | ted States is exempt from it? one. They all have it--little and big, wise men and fools, Ronest men and regues. It is amusing to see how it af- | | fects them. Some eat public dinners voraciously Some decline eating at all ne are talkative, | make speeches all the time, and all sorts of speeches. Some don’t like sfusion,” | and decline speaking. Most fond of | writing letters—some very foolivh, some not so de- | cidedly absurd; some are steadfas: ehureh-goers aud | alms-givers; but all those nifected with this dis- | ease are sure to manifest it in some way or other. | Ono very aingular mark of it is that the patient | always swears he has not the disorder in the elight- | est degree. This affliction makes its victim terri- | | bly jealous—very credulous and suspicioas, and ex- | cessively vindictive against the objects of his jeal- | ousy. We have a sortof friendly regard for the acting President. He is from the Empire State, and was | elected with old Buena Vista. We say to him, prenez garde—you are in peril. Look out for | squalls. | The publie papers apprise us that ex-Seeretary | Clayton is im Washington. He cannet abide Clay | or Webster since General Taylor's demise. I | hated the Herald before that. Fear and envy al- | ways excite hate. He thinks Scott and himeclf are | the “ propesest men” to be President and Vico President im 1852. Oh! what glorious soup and milk punch we should then have st the White House! But this is a digression. We say again to acting Prevident Fillmore, | mind your helm. Watch the wind—keep your ship well trimmed. Certain organs of certain persovs and cliques ia the whig party, are giving out ominous hints of your being inimical in feeling to. the godlike ex- | We published an extreet on Wednesday, | from the Pi deauphia North American, stating pour | intention teoveshoul Webster about the Nicaragua | business, and so forth. Wedo-not think all is as | itshould be in that business, Gy a groat deal, nor | are the matters relating to Central America and Mexico. generally in a satisfactory fix, and we in- | | tend to Beep an eye on all these things. We hope | Mr. Fillmore will take them up as a patriot; but he } must not allow himself to beoome excited personally | on the subject, nor to let the porsomnl hostilities of others mislead bh Frora all we uve learned, wo | would frankly advise Mr’ Webster to go back to | Washington forthwith—instanter—only stopping in this city one day, to eat bis publi r, aod | when he gets into the State Department, to wiad | up all the diplomacy on this continent immediately yne in thirty days, and then Sir H. Bal- e and ¢ It can be careful and not allow Sir H. te cajole aad fool hi like his predecessor. If bo will be firm—b true bold American—and talk to him as he did to Hulseman, and not “ take astep backwards,” there will be no doubt all will be well enongh. All the ca- binet should stay at their post ttend to the public bu and then #e should not he ridiculous humbug excuses as to the great !abor of | the departments, &e., which is all gammoa The | "resident ee ¢ to this | If the acting President, and the Seeretary of State, sod the rest of the cabinet, will read the Merall aggestions, they might get along fur h diffieulty, though it is vory as stated in tho it any and heed its time with nt muck manifest that parks, they are bec the dry rotorthe wet rot Hither will kill a cabinet jd of good doctors is ase gets much fo We shall, ifs of disorder of any kind them according to th t of skill and abilities. Wo are laying in » stock of the Ou free grat No ovre,nopay.” aad ono of gone ry impoasblo, to pat him out of hi ve charity and humanity certainly quite et of th ming alseased ma hat not | mportant Whether th ry tation terme are t me oa when the pat ome jonoral ady decided oases of worse disorder be sompoundad for ed as 4008 Be pro Avatrta pnd the Untecd { States. | tho patriotisnl hae the ont Finug taxod f ir leaden cotemy hes drawn tt a good deal towards Austria. Itia | hat a new tilt ia about to be commenced Mr font roversy rian war, wh liulvemana and t quence of the direction of erpment to restrain the Sultan of | laing Kossuth and some of bis | wishes of our governmont. IH of little consequences atriotic Magyart—the won no Jellachich—the | the other sentimental and rs und events being monopolired ries--the Secretary of Stato in- vit to we but to turn the dis | me sound, practical advantage, per mitting the theoreticnl disputants to go on with ths work in which thoy are ongaged, at their tween T y from yi tioner Hay trag by a} charac ur eotemp 1—nothing clude cuesic ple nsure , Among tho practical and sensible moroments | connected with Austria and the United States, wo | refer to one with extreme pleasure. it is similar to that by which Abdel Meschid, the youthful | uitan of Turkey, bas created so gront an interoet | try young | to send am agent in this ce Vhe Emperor of Austria has decided oontey, on @ similar tour to that of Amin Bab ganerally | to thie atten A abd Rey, and be hae made the compliment still more WY generality 2614 he | remerlo! y selecting his intelligent brothor for ity Wy! 7 TRA Gitende, | thir mision, which will result, we dowbt not, vory af b Snr ably fo: | wited Statos, aa it will lead toa VGurther extension of ovr commercial relations In tho month of Septomber Inst, had eecanon | nization of North America and the West Indies, in | our great emporium of commerce, and thereby pro- ducing union of purpose, and giving strength to in- dividual exertions, which might be unavailable witbout tho mutual support of each of the different parties connected together by common interests. The Austrian commorce with tho United States has been steadily increasing during the last eight or ten years, as fur as we are able to judge from the Custom House returns referring to the port of Trieste; but it is impossible to arrive at a correct figure of the actual amount of business transacted between the two countries, as by far the most valu- able articles of merchandize imported and export- ed from and to Austria, are taking the route, via the Hanse Towns, Belgium, Holland and Franoe, ani are, therefore, entered or cleared as goods going and coming from these countries or ports, without regard to their ulterior destination or their actual places of produee. Anothor difficulty in the way of forming a correct estimate of this trade, may bo found in the cireumstsnce of a great many articles of Austrian manufacture being bought at the fairs of Leipzig and Frankfort, by German and other merchants, and shipped on their account to this country, likewise without regard to the place of their origin. Certain it is, however, that our business transactions with Austria are far more considerable than they are generally supposed tobo. ‘The great disadvantages resulting from an imdi- | reet trade, when the goods have to pass throwgh many different hands, each secking his profit bu- fore the article arrives at the market, or the in- creased expenses connected with an indirect system of transportation—as in the case of goods going and coming to and from Austria through the whole of the western part of the Continent of Europe—aro too ob- vieus to require any comment, and it would seem quite natural, therefore, that such serious obstacles to the developement of the trade between the two countries, which has beem kept back more by these diticulties than the want of marketable articles on both sides, must have attracted the attention of Mr. DeBruck, and suggested the expediency of removing them as effectually as possible. ‘Tho establishment of steamers appears to be best calculated, aceording to modern experience, to re- move all these secondary impediments, and to bring into glay the latent resources, capable of de- velopement. within the shortest time possible. We are led to believe thas it is the intention of Mr. De Bruck to facilitate, a» much as lays within his pow- er, the establishment of a line of steamers plying between New York and Trieste, and have no doubt that such an enterprise, if supported by the Austrian government, wiil be sagcessfal en the very start. The lively istercourse earried on already, direct and indirect, between the two eountyies and many, of | the Mediterranean pets, whielk will pour thei treasures of morchandise into the seme channel, andreceive our produce im return, through it, would of itvelf be sufficient to seeure its success. To the United States, however, # line of steamship com- munication ofthis dessription, would be attended with valuable and peenliur advantages, as it would place us in ® position te get the direct news of the overland mail of India andChina, and many of the ports of the great Kast, with which our mercantile connexions have alveady assumed so great au iin- portance, and which would becwune still move oo by the incroased facilities afforded by steam eo munication Tho wanderful resulta which ovr clipper ot! have achieved seem to have likewise attracted the attention. of Mr. DeBruck; and- wo should not be clrprised. to see seme of those graceful s var of naval arobitecture and American ingen sae sci ity tio bringieg thom as close te cach other as any of the wostosn ports of the continent of Iw from New York. Mr. DeBruck’s intimate knowledge of the stato of owe mercantile prosperity and the great benefits ecounoxion with tho United State called upon te man are now likely to produce to tho interest he i nly satisfactory toadministrate, is who identifies himself with the general and wal prosperity of every nation, which, we venturots say, can only be brought about by a more accarate veh other, and by means of ial intercourse knowledge of 1 commer New York Spectal Senatorial Biretions, The clections to fill the vacuucies in the twe vontorial districts where the democratic Senators ave resigned, will be held next month. The fol lowing table exhibits the democratic majorities in these dstriets at the last two clections—18s9 an 15). Those of 18:9 aro the majorities by which ti have A were lye Venstors who awrence and Franklia Hort ier, Fujton and M it oar 1 Delewe i * henange y. Tompkin Th wing ace the votes in 1) hied iw gf Bute how | Gotombis gf Orsoae ) Sullivan 1 5 Bt Law ¢ Fran 6018 985 05 40m owe oy { Jefferson BN awie 65% 1 T00— 1,251 Lue 2100 aM 5472 ed 2065 Ti 7.7 540 . Chemung. 106 Qa 26 Steuem 440 © 6.175 649 | 1780— Lot Dy will be obrerved that each of the above d ticts gave democratic majorities last fall, ex copt the Seventeenth, which, om asvount of the anti renters, gave a majority for Ifunt for (rovernor ‘The whigs will make an offort to carry that dis trict now, probably by nominating a canal anti- reot whig ‘They expert also to carry the Bighth, i between the porteof New York and Trieste, | of whom, including a few democrats, voted for the canal bill. The following shows how each county in the vacant districts, was represented in the Assembly by whigs and democrats, v Counties. Whig. Dem. Counties. Whig. Dem. oll. hones eg ae 1-_- z2e- m8 ae are s t a - 3 ak =e i — ae ae ae ie pee 1 t= 1 i i Montgomet Delaware 1 —_ Schobaric, % © Osweg f ‘There will doubtless be a sharp contest in most of these counties. The Methodist Episcopal Church, North and South—The Slavery Quostion in a Re- gious Shape. A tial of a highly important and interesting character—important to the parties concerned, as involving vast wealth, and interesting to the whole community, North and South, from the principles connected with slavery, which it will develope—is likely to occupy the attention of the United States Circuit Court in this city, some portion of tle month of May. It is a suit institeted in the name of Henry B. Bas- com and others, against Georgo Lane and others, but is virtually to try certain rights between two sev- tions of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Uni- ted States of America, the general governmont of which was formerly vested in one body, composed of seven bishops, 4,828 preachers, and embracing in bishops, ministers and members, about 1,109,960 within the limits of the United States; but differen- cos having sprung up between what were called the Northern and the Southern members, upon the ad- ministration of the church government with refer- encete the ownership of slaves by the ministry of the shurch—differences of saech a character as threntened to impair the usefulaess of the establish- ment, aud permanently disturb its harmony—a separetion took pluce, at the instance of the mem- bers of the South, aad the church was divided ac- cordingto geographical boundaries, into the Metho- dist Episoopal Church South and the Methodist Episcopal Church North, at a General Conference of the body held at New York, at which it was re- solved that all the property of the Methodist Episcopel Chureh within the limits of the Southe:m. organization, should be free from the claims of the Methodist Episeopal Church ; that the chureb so formed in the South should have a common right to use all copyrights in possession of the Book Concerns at New York and Cincinnati, at the time of the settlement by the eo:mmissieaers. The complainants will con- tend that by virtue of the proceedings of the year 1544, the Methodist Episcopal Church was divided into twodistinct aud independent powers—North and South—and that the Church South thereby becamo entitled.to its preportion of all the real and personal property, which, upto the time of the separation, had belunged.to the Methodist Episcopal Church 0 the United States, which is si to consist of pos us in various purts of the States, in addition to wooting houses, parsonages, and other estates, real Z oval; and that among other description 1 Scitus of peoperty, there belonged tothe church whe denominated the “ Book Concern, the city of New Y consisting of houses, lots moechinery, printing: presses, bock-bindery, books, paper, debts, cash, and other articles of proporty smounting in all to about the sum of $700,000, th hale of which property and effects, it is alleged, are in the possession of the defendants. At a gone- 101 conference of the Church South, held at Peters irginia, in May, 1846, the complainants. spainted commissioners in accordance with an of Separation,” to estimate the amount the South, and were empowered to carry into be arrangement with regard to the divisian {the property; but the defendants have refused to make any settlement, or pay to the Church South its proportionate share of the funds as pro- vided by the plan of separation. The complainants, ihe dre therefore, a» commissioners, intend, in the approach- ing suit, to assert the right of the South to a division of the pe On bel loot the defendants it will be contended vee diderenees principally grew out of the vo- cunection of @ Bishop with slavery; that of the book of Discipline, and the uniform ¢ the General Conference, have always been ty the system of human slavery, it being ordedava great evil; and that ministers have been allowed to hold slaves, except in in- , under the laws of the slaveholding States, i to b 3 Of ity; that the church i nny law respecting the holding of slaves t the General Conference have ect a slavecholder to that offive action ca that the Rev. James O. Andrew, lps of the Methodist Episcopal since his election to that office, be- ywner of sluves—one by bequest, one by and of others by his intormarriage with s lady in the Stat . Who held a number of claves inher own right, which, by the laws of that State, became the property of her husband and that (he BM p was called vpon to desist from of hy ant office 90 long as the impedtimen ved. The defend voluntary connce f slaves re tend, that th jt af Behop Andrew with slavery was justly con sh i, by & majority of the General Conference as per conduet; and that every Bishop is by a the Book of Discipline, amendable to h reuce, who are declared to have w xpe! Lan for improper conduct. Bu th Jofcndants will contend that the resolu- tion mh i by the committee, called the Man of Separatic were legally passed; that the 11 Conference of 1844 had no compe- tentauthority to adopt th word consequently null and void, and are inconsia- tent with aud sulbversive of the constitutional law atthe church. They will further insist that the Bloth diet Is pal Chureh South, exists asa se- parate ce ticul communion, “solely” by tho result of the sets and doings of the individual bish- ops, ministers and members attached to the South, ir own responsibility ; and they bas ntly vol rily withdrawn them! iseopal Chursh, and have renounced all their rights and privileges in her government, and c resolutions; that they who proceeded upon t that the resolutions of those bishops oan have no in- fluence whateror upon the question of the alleged livision of the church, nor enn any effect or virtas be attached to their acts or resolutions tending to divide or dismember the church, or to warrant the allegation of the plaintiff that the Methodist Epis ipal Chrooh over became divided into two distiact Methodist hy piscopal churches. Th , ts to the allegations respecting the property denominated the * Book Concern,” and the other effects and moneys, the Church North will ineict that the Church South is not ontitled at law, or iw equity, 9 have a division of that property, mony, nor is it likely that they ever will. Bishop Onderdonk may annoy the one a little, and Bishop Hughes the other less; but these two churches have too much good sense, and Paul’s practical spirit, to permit the slavery question to enter their holy ; sanctuaries. ‘The New York Gas Companies—Their Post- tion and Prospects—A Comparison with Philadelphia. From time to time there have been various dis- cussions in the newspapers on gas, and the subject would seem almost exhausted, yet much remains to be said. We have mado investigations into the operations of tho two companies which at present enjoy a monopoly of lighting the city, and we have published the results for tho information of our readers. In doing so, we had no private object to | serve—we had no feeling against the gas companies, our only motive was the public good. Last week, the engineers of the two companies, Mr. Mowton, of the old company, and Mr. Roome, of tho Manhattan company, called together at our office, and made the following statement on behalf of their respective companies :— STATEMENT OF ‘THE ENGINEERS OV PANIES. 1, We want to satixfy Mr. Bennett of our sineority, and we want him to satisfy the public, in order that the pub- lic may put faith in we—that we may gain their good will, and that the unkind feeling now existing may be done away 2. All we ask is, that wemay be able to pay our etock- holders ten per cent, for espitalists will not invest their money ina business of sueb risk, at a smaller intemest. Having satisfied them that we can pay them that, we ean get any amount of capital we want. 3. We will reduce the price of gas on the first of Jano- ary next to $3 per 1,000 eubic feet, and the quality will be such aa is produced by two-thirds of cannel coal and one-third of Newcastle; or, if the Corporation will agree | to pay forthe street lamps the same price as the private consumer, we will reduce the price to-morrow to $3, | and will be beiter off than we are now to the extent of several thousand dollars. 4. There ix no coal gas in the United States so good as that whieh is manufactured in New York and Brooklya. 5. Both companies are filling up their districts and en- ieagins their works; ard thus are expending capital in anticipation of increased businces and manufacturing gas at a reduced price. 6: The old company are complained of for not lighting | the streets in whieh the mains are laid, But the Common Council do not order these streets to be lighted with gas, though a ga¢lazry is as cheap a6 an oil lamp, while it shows ut least five times the amount of light. Vine street is, for instance, one of the streets not yet ordered to be lighted with gas. 7. The New Yor’ Gaa Company light 1.800 lamps for 2200: ours amnuatly, (being am average of > hours each.night in the year,) at three feet per hour for each lamp, while the actu) consumption is from four to five feet. Siace the foregoing statement was made, we perceive that the Manhattan: Company have issued an advertise. ment reducing the price fifty cents, from the first of January next. Why don’t the New York Gas Company, who are far richer, have less expense, and @ more profita- ble part of the city to light, make a similar reduction, or rather, a greater one; for they receive, on an average, eighteen cents more per thousand fect for their gas than the other company. It is true, we have a very bad pro- mise of a reduction om the pert of the New York Gas Comaany. We apprebend, however, that it will prove to be as little satisfactory to the public as it isto us. A promise of a seduction of fifty cents per 1,000 cubie feet, is x con- cession to public opinion, as far as it goes; but then it is #0 smaall, and the putting it off till the first of January nextsis very like the sdage—* Live horse, and you will get cats.” Butthen we are told this pwitry reduction ‘wil! be made to-morrow, if the Corporation will only con- sent to pay as much for gaa as private consumers, The prise paid by the Corperation isa matter between that body and the Gas Corapany, with which the pri sumers have nothing to do, except that they have to pay that tax as well as every other. ‘The gas companies have made the contract with their eyes open, and if there be wy hardship in it, have only themselves to biame. ‘hey are in favor of equality of price, #0 are we; but as | the gas companies aannot compel the Corporation to make an advance, would not the uniformity be satisfac- torily attained by bringing down tho price charged to the private customer to the same rate charged the Com- mon Council’ This certainly would come muoh nearer to the demands of jurtiee than the proposition of the gas companies, It is not that the Corporation pay too little, but that the citizens pay too much. The New York Gas Company receive $13 for cach public lamp, | aud the Manhattan Gas Company $15, ‘The companies say they burn from four to five feot per hour, instend of three. We cannot give them any credit for this; fitst, heeause we do not believe it; and, sccoud- ly, if it were true, it would be no reason for making the private comumer pay for it. Let the companies bo just before they are generous, and, instead of giving away gas for nothing to the corporation, reduce the price to the people at large. We must therefure caleulate the price according to the contract \ At three vet per hour then, for 2200 hours, there aro 6,000 fect consumed annually,ineach lamp. The price, therefore, charged by the New York Gas Company is $1 £5 per 1.000 cubic feet, and by the Manhattan, $2 17 The average ix $2 05. This iy more than the private con- sumers of Philadelphia will have to pay from Jannary THE GAS COM- | pext, and at this moment the Manhattan Gas Company . | lie lights in cevence of 1844, held at New York, | are receiving three cents moro for the gas supplied tothe public lamps than ix charged to the private rin that city. Yet, we are told by the New York companies that it ix the extreme low price paid by the Cor that compels them to charge #0 high a price to the citi- | wens at Large, while the high price charged for the pub- delphia enables tho there to obtain gas at a low price. Thi will show how far this allegation is bs Gas rorsanen iy Prapeieria is 1890 t 4 vt ‘al Public lights. at sl Private lights at pe 1d Spring Garden ) | Southwark. . at$l75 97,670 22 Moyumensing i Total eubic feet, 151 248,00 avg. § Now, it will be seen trom the foregoing, which we take from the report of the trustecs and engineer for 1850, that in Philadelphia, ga is supplicd to the public lamps 0 cents per 1.0€0 feet cheaper than in New York. and about 41 per cent cheaper than to the private eunsumer, so little foundation ia there for the exeuse given by the New York companies for fleecing their eustomers, The Philadelphia advanced price # tothing to do tlightet degree w tothe pri with the city p affect the comparison between Philadelphia and York, Th stire product of the gas works in the fr- wee city ie at the average price of $195 per 10u0 cubic feet, ‘The New York Gas Company charge, on their own showing, an average of Company, an average of $3 16 figures, and make our calculations from them, as ful lows the Manbattan We take their own Gre Ponmsennn ny rie New Yous Gas Cosrmesy 19 1850, Public lights euble ft. 12-42.000 Private lights at $1 88 p2 TT) at 300 } 10T 9x0. foot ....120.000,000 av. price $333 soNSO ny tite Public lights, eubie ft Private lights je feet core inform wx the two conrpanies would be Detter off hy reveral thousand dollars per annum, if the price Was uniform at $3. Tho foreguing figures prove that +o fur from that being the ease, the New Tork Gas Company would lowe $5049 annumily, and the Manhat- npany, $1500, making a lows to both companies Cf £55058, One hing is quite cloar.cither the New York compa are making enormous profits, or their affairs are very Ladly managed, The Phitadelphia gaa works sup. ply gas at an average of $1 05 per 1000 feet, and colnrge is their profit at that rive. that the trustees propos to reduce It 26 conte hy the first of January next, which would bring it down to $1 70, The New York oompa- hice charge an aversge of $3 2%. and they propose to Horo off 26 conte by the first of January moxt. If they | public at $1.50 | the profits can go to the reduction of taxation, instead The outlay on the works of either company in New York cannot be halfthat sum. 1 ‘'tworthy of remark that in Philadelphia the public lamps, amd the sorvice Pipes introducing the gas into private houses, and meters, are all provided gratuitously by the gas estab lishment, Here they are paid for by the citizens and the Corporation. Yet in the last year the Philadelphie works produced the following profits: — Prorits or tHe Pritapenrnia Works in 1850. Paid interest on loans. « Appropriated to sinxing fund. 25.098 38 Balance net increase to contingent fund 67,210 23 ‘The Philadelphia works were put into operation iw February, 1836, at which time they belonged to an awe ciation of private capitalists, In 1841 the city too& posession of the works, in accordance with an agree ment made at thelr origin, repaying to the individual proprietors their original investment, and allowing them | the profits accruing in the five years, amounting to per cent on the capital. The happy result we have seem above. If the New York companies will not do full jus tice, the Common Council. unless they wish to betray the interests of their constitucnts, have no other course open to them than to take the works of thess companies abu fair valuation, and make gus for themselves. This would be better in every way; for the public lamps would thea | be properly attended to, and could be lighted and extin gahed, as iu Philadelphia, under the direction of the police. The Common Council have expital on band that they do not want; andif they invest it im gas works and do not wish to make profit, they caa sey gas to the If they desire to make money, why them of into the pockets of two private companies With regard to the inventions by which speculators propose to give light cheaper than that produced from coal, wo believe most of them aro humnbugs, Oue of them certainty is. Mr. James Crutchett has undertakes to light the Awtor House exclusively with his water gas at $42 per week, It is a notorious fact that he has pal so much as foo $70 to $80 per week to the New York gas works to make up the deficiency of his aupply ; ‘and for the last two weeks the bill from the gas company: has come to $35-per week. Yet strange to say, the pre- prietors of the Astor House have given this man a cer- tiffoate, which he-bas printed ina pamphivt. which now lies before us, stating-that this water gas has been ex- clusively used in their establishment for the last four or five months, and thit the light is superior, and only one - half the expense of'coal gas, Mr. Crutchett must be loging at the rate of from $39 to $10 per week by the contruet ; but then this certificate ix an advertisement for hirm, which may ponsibly enablo him to dispose of hia patent to advantage, while of course the Astor House pre- prietors have no objestion to have their establishmont lighted at half price at Crutchett's expense, But without resorting to any ingenious device, gas cam | be manufactured from coal ascheap by the New York Gas Company, asin Philadelphia, for the following rea. eone:— First, the expenditure in Philadelphia is greater than that of the New York gas companies. ‘The capital em- ployed is about double. Their mains are more than double the length, being 96 miles against 45. In New York there is only a single set of works. In Philadelphia there is edouble set. In New York there are only 4 gas holders containing 800000 fect. In Philadelphia there are 11 holders containing 1,684,000 feet. Secondly, The cost of the materials of which gas is | manufactured in New York is lower than in Philadet- phia. Im New York it is manufactured of Cannel coal and New Castle combined. In Philadelphia of Canned conl and Pittsburgh. Cannel coal is higher in Philadet- phia thaw in New York, tho freight being higher, and th. price of Pittsburgh iw higher than that of Newcastle. Again: the coke (the refuse of the gas) of which one-third # sold ond the other two-thirds used in heating the furna- ces, brings ten cents per bushel in New York, while it only yields linlf that price in Philadelphia, It is thus demonstrated by fucts aud figures which can- not lie, that gas can be manufactured not only as cheap, but cheaper than by our neighbors of the Quaker city; and if the citizens of New York will not insist upon theie righta, they will only have themselves to blame in future when they are mulcted by paying double price for their gas, Wo bave dome our part; let the Common Counol and the people do theirs ‘The Late Storm at the South. (Frem the Columbus (Ga.) inquirer, April 16.) From all aceounts received, the rei ed night, was one of the heaviest and most extenaive that has fallen for a number of years. Everywhere arouad, for hundreds of miles, it seems to have poured down its wrath in something like unbroken. sheets, sw: ing the streams, flooding aod washing away the furma, avd playing sad havoc with the mills, bridg and factories.” We doubt whether, fer the duratim, of the storm, more water ever fell on this city. For three or four hours the elemonts were in a constant Blaze, the thunder rolled in unceasing poals, aod the rain descenried as if it would drive things into the veryearth. ‘The next morning was culin aud cloud ess, and it looked almost wonatural to see the: rw pidly rising river, as itswelled aud rushed vaward tothe bay. But itis allyast now. Our farmers have suffered immensely” in every seotion fom whence we have heard. “Our manufac ring frien Ia have been seriously injaied by breaks in thew water works. Iu short, the culumity has more og loxs af- fected everybody, It is true that our river was noi 80 high by ten or treelvo fect as it was % Le eudde giving little opportu operty edd to loss, has ¢ vu bitherte uukuo (Frem the Cheraw (3. C.) Gaeite, April 16.) > The storm wentioned in our last as ber jug ben | over the lower part of Richy N.C, was, we understand, unprecedente Its gono- ral course was fiom west to gieat that s a tree is lefe iu its track fe fifteen miles. ly "it passed ov ectth mert t damage we have heard of occured pluotation of Mr, Charles Vial- loy, Whose sawimill, cotton house and a negro-ueaso were swept from their fou ons. Me. (iodirey Rachel und a brother of had their vader iown down. There were three person? i: Mer s mill, who uli eseaped uninjured The the tommado was coniued tow very bow space, and its track in i ma, at on the gre where left a mak ‘ strong eur water b as abover i bows. [From the Sarderevile (cin) Georgian, April 16 ‘Trees of all #7¢8 were uprooted, feu arricd entirely away—«e 8 Of which will ve 8 found; fogder stac t soune of iL «ore ried for miles; wud « re pine logs, wir Jan until they were half buried inthe earth, * raised from their beds wnd semoved Provaty tially, no lives were lost, «o fur na we have lear although ma: y hairbre lated. "One young ma he was in going to picees, sp whirled by the wind son 3 to this be clue dv eacapes imight be r vt the House in which vg from it, and was tance into ® peach nt, whon it wae blown Losing his he is, ho was awopt on to anot’ er, to whieh he clung until storia Las passed. 10 isimposs ble to estimate the damage fustaincd by those whe have su'tered most, but itis very heavy Tuk Crevasses 1x rite Missrssivt. Orleans Prevywne, of the 1th inst , says vases at Gourin's plantation, Iberville, Ley immense ams of Injury to the populous aud hitherto Moar New Kiver distriet of country. Two huudred fae lies bave been rendered houseless; at least one thourand persons stand in need of aavivtance ; their stock is drowned; and, in many instances, their houses have been washed away. ‘The dria of the same date crevaese bus been stopped off days, The breach was abo wity feet wide—the old leve age depth of nine t ow levee Jeet month ays: —Tho Lacoste tinily within a fow ne hundred and we all gone, leaving wa tof «a er over the inne; ‘The break took piace on the 25th of Dom Wo are ng the steamboat Keimdeer, for Albany papers of y fy wulvAnce of the mod @ Welsh wud Michnet Sullivan, « dw ernetable fuimed ¢h Y., «ho agtempted to antort t They Leth cvenped ‘Th Fe i raid to be but $20 im the Virginia Treasury ‘The Marytond Reform Cony by roetubion hon hye han S.ate io bie e nuth «flies of Pens of kidnapping, — refusal to dcliver vYeuja on the charge