The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1851, Page 6

Ce THE NEW YORE JOURNAL as DESCRIBED BY THEMSELVES. ‘THE MISSION TO AUSTRIA. Bia the Home J Dee. ‘The Austrian government, by its ean send no representa: of slaughter. uire that ours, the with al aectis ind the martyrs of free- bloody send an ambassador to bow before this ‘at least be should not be one by whoee selection hero, and trivial bearing the might think his crimes, in wican remembrance, were passed gaily over to it to.ua that if there was ever a diplomatic trust. the appointment of just such a manes Mr. James Watson Wobb is not, it is the ohargeship to Vienna at the present moment. - The risk of his confirmation strikes us as one which @verrulos the ordinary restraints of personal cour- or of literary silence upon such matters, and tate all who pepesuait one —_- rn the voice if opinion to — an na 5 we could not, ourself, noraely avoid express! 2% aa 0} because we chance to be better inform: upoa jase of eubjects than most editors. With adi rt, kindly given us by one of our foreign mi , We had ageess, for five years, to the courts of Europe, and, from the ‘unconspicugus raak J pres BE spae = merely osninal jeeroenenee, we ie possible o; ity (that of the un- Noticed,) to observe. We kno Are well what court stant are, and can » with sufficient precision, the eateein in which the American govern- meat be heid, in the person of this, its new di- pi functionary, and the interpretation that wit! be put upon bis ability to obtain the office. Le us first of the influence Mr. Webb is to exer wm his al r. A court is a smal! society of men; anda foreign envoy, spite of the facts which might correct such au cotimate, is looked upon aa fair exponent of his country’s character aud opinions. In the ordinary ‘ons between governments, a nation’s dignit; guely weighed by the comparative dignity a a of any Lew man sent to represent it; but, when questions of more interest come up, when = sovereign and his ministry have played a part wpoa which the verdict of distant nations is of mo- | ment, then ac! e of eavoys is looked upon as an opportunity, which no government weuld lone, of | expressing its ayeers or disapproval; and even if the wow mit 8 no fo: instructions on the subject, is an eager serutiny to interpret his country’s good or ill will by his manners beur- ing—to know, by the kind of man ehosen to express the feeling of a distant nation, whether that nation | is oitting silently in judgment upon what has been | dove, or is thoughtful of nothing but diptomatic | formalities and unimportant bestowals of office. | | that the editor of the Coursr and | written attack on Mr. Willis, is the most heart- | probably never have rumpled the composure of that Forrest divorce case, th (From the Courier and Roquiner, May } by Forrest, and » full t fo Scnage te arpa, CLs Cerneeings eee | cxTibitTban one otatatent bight poattlt ba his ms explicit than our statement, mi the absence of their husbands, po 4 on axpennre of the party to whee ie alte re- ity, to have either of them for fauholders. | all his Jeremy Diddler sities while abroad.” | -ult to which, of course, we cannot be a party. But the following article, which appeared in the | Farther en, we find Me Willis charged with hay- | When we determined bricfly, yet clearly, to apprise Courier and Serewe of Thursday last, charges | ing obtained accessto the “homes” of table | the London Morning Post, arid the public, of the Mr. Willis with crime of seduction, and that, | fumilies while abroad,only for the p of “selling | cause of Willis’ enmity owards us—which, it must too, unde! matances that tend, if anything can, | to the New York Mirror, tor the benefit of its readers, | be emembered, was cvinced in an article’ bearing te gr ravate the enormity of the othace, their family secrets, and revealing their every-day | his own signature, and published in the Home Jour- The whose death is said to have been | confidential conversations in relation to individuals! | nal, after we had ott the country, without the ex- caused by the ruin of his darling and accomplished | These publications” (continues the Courier) ‘ went | cuse even of & previous diffieulty—it was not until child, was well knewn in this community as a man of unblemished repuiation, and whose precepts and peaetion would have alike tended to rear his child in he paths of purity and religion. Mr. Willis will be able to prove his inmocence in this matter; otherwise he will stand forth one of the vilest and most heartless libertines that any age has seen. If the charge we cioymneed pe lnngnege-enn be strong enough to express the detestation of ev honest man against the false accuser. One ‘bing strange—thas Col. Webb should have quietly sub- mitted so long to what he terms the malicious accu- sations of Mr. Willis, until the recent Forrest affair has shown that Mr. W., hke a |, peace-abiding citizen, preferred to appeal to Revised Statutes for redress rather than to those “ mah y stock” articles that vomit villanous saltpetre forth. WEEB VS. WILLIS. [From the Sunday Courier.) We have once or twice alluded to the “ respoa- sible editor” of the Courier and Enquirer, when having occasion to allude to that person, as the Pa- rolles or Bobadil of the press. But his recent attack on N. P. Willis has caused us to determine never to do anything of the sort again. Colonel Webb, asthe editor ofthe Cowrer und éngujrer is gener- ally, has no right to be called by such namiés, and we beg pardon of Shakspeare and Ben Jonson for such a misapplication of the names of those model poltroons. cotemporary of the week day Courier, with which our own, we are grieved to say, is sometimes confounded by the English press, iz neither a Parolles nor a Bobadil. These poetical poltroons being the creations of men of genius, have some flavor of their origin about them; thereis a redeeming touch of manliness and honor about them, in spite of their poltroonery, which we do not believe x Enquirer has any claims to. His gross, unfair.malignant and absurdly lees piece of scoundrelism that we have ever seen in print. The nonsensical stuff about Mr. Willis not being received into respectable society, because he had visited Lady Blessington, and all that, would ‘entleman, nor cansed any remarks from anybody. but the rejected Charge, who, since bis return from Austria, seems to be as savage as Haynau, without having any of his valor, for the sake of doing Mr. Willis an injary, oes out of his way to blast the reputation of a lady and give a fatal stab to the happiness of ber husband, children, brother aud widowed mother. And he does all this pre- tending to be a friend of her father. The amount of the matter is—he accuses Mr. Willis of corrupt- Mr. Webb’s mission to Austria will be recognized as owe man’s gratification of vanity, and one man’s search after new varicties of pleasure, and nothing | Tore. But, with the headsman’s axg quickening | er retarding by the smile or the frown with which other nations look on at the imperial butchery, is | +4 of no importance what America expresses by its | envoy? Would there be no difference, in the effect | oo Austria, between the presence of a man like | Calhoun, for instance—who would look on at that | 'y court, never forgetting fer a moment how its | urderous Emperor stands i before God J the tribupal of nations—and a man like Mr. ob, who would think of nothing—as he has gone thither for nothing—but his own personal aggran- | dizement and pleasure. In the trivial character of tais appointment the Austrian ministry will read that America bas no be gon to express of its | blood-thirsty policy ; and the world will read, that, | lea verush and butcher as he will, the purest | of cepublies will still send a minister te kiss his | band as before, and seek amusement at his court wita uninterrupted internationa! approbation. { While our country’s christian aud moral inde- | peudence is thus puinfully compromised by the | sppolatment of Mr. Webb, there is also the lesser | which of itself would not have induced us | totake up the subject)—of the oft-repeated com- | promise of our national di, ity by an unfitting re- | presentative. As we said before, we speak with | nowledge on this point; and we assure those of our | readers, who have never seen the new envoy to | Austria, that he is of the stamp which, in Europe. least wins respect. Wanting the directness and wn simplicity which would best represent our institutions and our first-class of men, he has, in his social phase, an affectation of superfine man- ners which will convey, to a polished European. just the impression which is given of us in Englas oy caricatures. Inthe refined court circles of the | veat, men are respected whose deportment is | and straightforward, quite as much as those osummate refinement ; but komm g is more ri- diculed and avoided than pompous and poor imita- tion of showy manners, insincere affectation of trenknese, clumsy and fulsome gallantry, and a biindaess of tact which knows neither the time, | place, nor delicacy of anything—than just such a mao, in short, as the new minister sent by our go- vernment to Austria. Mr. Webb's total want of the attainments ne- vy in the discharge of diplomatic duties, it weless to speak, for our government obsti- nate'y refuses to recognise the need of them. We k, either, of the objections t» his appoint- i i Washington. to his intrinsic qua- tious for the office, and, ty all usage of public als, to stop at these is a courtesy of very un- forbearance. The unfitness we baye men- tioned belongs to the natura! s*amp of the man, or | rather to a coarse animal nature out of place in the waiks of imtellect and refinement; but he has ove , ixjualificstion for diplomacy, which, to | degree, is the’ result of his voeation. We | pace ouly to allude to it. Ps one-sidedness of view, w! cal wranglers and partizans, become ; tar Mr. Webb would give a distorted and mis- | leading opinion, either of any public measure, or any public man, in this country. As there are Vag lsh diplomatists at Vienna, lish travellers, sod foreigners who speak Fnglish, and as Mr. Webb's tongue (ns Ai who know him are well oware,) gete beyond his reason with any degree of excitement, he is likely to Lage m4 mulscepresent our country, and broadly to malign three-fourths of the statesmen who most honor it. Those of our cultivated men who bave lived abroad will at once understand ws, when we say that a liveca!l and generalized estimate of political parties, sod a fair, unprejudiced judgment of our public s absolutely necessary to do justice to our ¢ y in conversation with foreigners pe oul tary for one who speaks with diploma‘ic and official ty. o os close wih ove word more upon American rd Austria, and its call for some ex- diplomatic relations Surope exercise over each other's | i b powerfully keeps convirial wece by space and time, root character of our » for call- | ives @ new aod another world, sod med- 1 nothing but what directly concerned our al iat Steam has drawn us near to pe, however. Progress in wealth and popula- tion Gas made us as powerful as any one of these contiquous nations, amd as capable of commanding respect. But, commensurate with these approxi- mations of intercourse and power, let us ask, has here not grown upe national responsibility 1 Since European nation would willingly offend or reck- has not our mere expression of talent” which we cannot jastifi- “wrap in a napkin’ Were ours @ mo- | carchy, even, this responsibility would now rest «poa us. But how immeasurably pe is its weight and pressure, when the enll for our expree- “on of sympathy is from agonized sod trampled freedom boing. freedom’s stronghold, sanctu ory, and home. hy, hundreds thourands of «0 grante, from the very nations trodden in blood, se represented in our Senate chamber now, while ( nited States sends » minister to how, t ustrance, before the murderer of their d convenient reason, in former yea on adsed. It is due to the vast proportion of “ ropeans among —due to Christian pity cod brotherhood—dne to our digoiiy 23 a people, berty,” whom we claim t inhabiting and animating rpirit, that we | 1 withdraw llowsbtp from that ea- \ coed butcher of freedom, or be «0 represented wt | * coert that he will net number us ageng | wod to the “Genius of Lil {'athero no ofa! Tone runeons ft: Mr, Ht mmit his w ho whem If in tis shake wp it ie a evens ow wit de nd vient twe i Jere real wuiliiy (har, | pertape, any eted with ‘be pub! yes ok Lae evualey, Rave contrived ty gaia wore | dueer, a wind! ing the daughter, and thereby causing the death of her father. The ager jnyolved in this most | wicked and scandalous attack on the living and are well known, aud the least inquiry must lead to the developement of their names, and the | publication to the world of a youthful indiscretion | which chould have been forgotten. ‘The editor of | the A’vening Post, who was quite as clove a friend | of the parties as Col. Webb professes to have been, | says :— We omitted ull notice of the attack, both because it | conteined an unpardonable and gratuitous libel upon the | reputation of a lady, and because, if the imputations had | not been, as we Lave no doubt they were, utterly false, we should be none the leas india to countenance a — quarrel which began with an abuse of parental con@- | dence. wad threatened to end in the ruin of a daughter's | - | fai one but a malignant brute, who was destitute | of all charitable sympathies, could bave been guilty | of conduct like this. ‘The lady alluded to 30 | brutally by the editor of the Courier and Engvirer, | was the daughter of au artist who had taken great pains with ber education, and was proud of her ‘auty aud talents. She wrote some little sketches that were published in the Mirror, and praised by that paper while Mr. Willis was ita editor. Her father going to England for the benefit of his health, which had been bad for a long tim daughter with him. While in nd sl | he confees- before leaving home, upon which to ber husband, with whom she has lived from that day to this, and, as Mr. Willis states, is a te able mother of a Hoag On the return of the | father to this country, his complaint—a confirmed case of asthma—terminated in his death; and now, for the first time, Col. Webb accuses Mr. Willis of being the murderer of his deceased friend. | ticle of Col. Webb, containing the wicked attack oa Mr. Willis, is full of grossly absurd contradictions. hasshown, and we are proud to have assi-tad it in | MOrping, afteet whom it may F H Ile first says that be had refused to be introduced to showing, “that the press of the United Statesis not | We bare nothing more to say on this subject, Mr. Willis on account of that geutleman’s immo- | in the liands of reckless anf unprineipled mon and | except to express Our Syeanethy, tee she. respoetn ralities, and would uot speak to bim; and after- tbat its leading press isnot conducte by a coward, | ble married tady in a neighboring State,” ifthere be Wards states that the last time he saw him, bo, Col. a seducer, a sw: or, and @ sentenced felon who | “ch ® person, whom Willis has so recklessly s4- Webb, introduced him to same ladies at a hotel in Saratoga. Mr. Willis has published a card denying explicitly the foul charges of Col. Webb; but be might have saved himself the trouble, for we do not imagine that there it person in the city—noteveu Col. Webb himseli—who believes a word of hisstate- ment. As we bave not published Col. Webb's statement we shall not publish the denial of Mr. Widlis; but as these matters will be likely to make some talk abdut town, we have thought it proper lo say what we think and what we happen to know in reference tothem. Besides, we think it is the duty of the press, whenever its members are attacked, toe the reecue of the oue who is the aggrieved aud inno- cent party. We simoly act inthis case a5 we wish others to act towards us. We have said enough ia re- ference to the innocent parties who will be the gre: est sufferers by the brutality of the Courter and & yuucr, without mentioning names, to iadicale who they are, and enable the friends of Mr. Willis to confidently beli his perfectly temperate and h, | over his victims—over the dea re took his not lees helploss in their feminine innecence e roen car " juvenile dependence.” ‘Feminine inaocence and ed to him that she had been cli inely married juvenile dependence” is a very pretty t her back ‘sense. Now. we learn that Mr. wretched taste to be “vain of his successful frauds and duplicity;” that he is a “bully coavict,” an complished robber,” a “shameless old hypocrite 7 7 beef rH ind bully;” and ia the'end, weare consoled wth the | SePtance. Js i Seok aber the laveriantee which comfurting and astounding fact, that “nove need | We invite, and leaving our office, General fear—the Doy Book will do its work!” Aud very | Morris ehail put in writing his report, and leave : 4 by Mr. Webb, ed letters from oF peetable marrie and childreo ia» neighboring state. child,” says Mr. Willis, “ of « great deal ofisregular genius snd eccentricity of conduct, but withal never seemed tome to have either the iden or the con- | sciousnéss of an ~ ae heard this lady's virtue doudted * uatil ‘ol. In that publi Webb boasts, in bis usual Captain Bobadil eiyle, | Kingston, Ja. that he compelled Mr. Willis to give up tis jetters the gros# calumny of Mr. Webb, that the letters were “courteously a) tarne lady. hada few words of cxplanation wich him in regard to the eecentricities of his daughter, whew | ‘one or two duels were about to | we hud arrived at tho conclusion that we could do consequence of this vile betrayal of | so without tho slighiest risk of the public being able Willis was excluded from gentlomen’s | to conjecture who was the party implicated. We bles, and the press united in citing his | were prepared, of course, for surmises and rumors conduct as a specimen of American breeding, and | of the most ridiewlous character; but we firmly be- the neosssity of excluding, in future, all Americans | lieved that only one person besides Willis could from English homes—tho sanctity and privacy of | ever understand to whom we alluded; and we there- which they would violate and expose for a price.” | fore did not hesitate to state the facts precisely as Against this “condemnation of @ whole nation, in | they occurred. If there be those who, from their uence of the conduct of # mere adventurer, | past familiarity with Willis, arc liable to ry eg who did not even claim to know what belonged to | #nd if, as we are informed, the names of half a the proprieti¢s of social intercourso—who was utterly | cozen of bis female friends arc bandied about as ignorant of the rules of socicty on both sides of the | being the particular victim referred to by us, we tlantic—and whose habits, (Pedheey and connec- | are not responsible for their names being thus ueed. tions were alike at war with the feelings and breed- Whether Willis, in the foregoiag card, intended inge of a gentleman,” the Courier boasts that *¢ wo simply to mislead the public in regard to the party protested,” also that “we peremptorily refused to bo | implicated, by pretending to misunderstand us, introduced to him (Willi oo to recognize hi. effectually to screen the injurod, is more than we gentleman, in consequence of his proverbially bad | can determine. In charity we are willing to consi- conduct everywhere t] out Wurope.” There is | der this as one of his motives for devising and pub- something very Bombastes! furiosoie inthis andinthat which follows: “It hap |.” continues our di f t - went contemporary,**that in the summer of 1841 or | the details of which we are utterly ignorant. Wa *42, at Satatoga, Willis arrived at the United States, | uehesitatingly declare that we Kuew nothing of such about mid-day, and came into the drawing-room | a case as Willis describes; and if it be other than when we were the only gentleman in the room.” | fiction, we advise him in future te abstain from re- {The excitement is ‘working up.) “Ile was o | veeling any of his affairs with “‘young girls” who stranger to all the ladies present ; and coming | have happened to exhibit “ unconcentrated pro- lishing a romance, which, if “founded on fact,” is eno to which we have nover been # party, and with to wa,”” (Achilles in a condition of unbent | mise of genius,” but who have led down into wrath] “we recognized tim an acquaintance” | “reepcotable married ladies.” They will not thank ‘magnificent climax !} “ and nated nui to the | him being pointed at in connéxion with our ies, without any special introduction, aud left gbarge ; and in this relation, his curd isan offence the room.” And all without the aid ofthe balance | agdiut ¢very gentlemanly impulse. Tiven if his publication Were true, and nro a. ¢ upon what we allege, it would be unpardonable fa nng te make it, to eereen himself from public indignation. Ana if his life has been such that the public have scores of names upon whom to fix suspicion, it isno affair of ours. We repeat, that but one person lives, b pole! ‘ Subsequently we spoke in the street, in peasin ; and once, once only, did we ever pauso exchange « solitary observation.” Now comes the most serious, the most terrible — in fact, the only really noticeable part of the Courier’s attack upon Mr. N. P. Willis. It is that Te, C rt of it which accuses him of having seduced the | sides Willis and ourself, who can possibly know to Riagtter ofa “a very-dear friend.” “Her ruin was | Whom we have alluded; and most assuredly, we complete,” says Mr. Mr. Webb, “but her heart- | shall do nothing to point suspicion to its vietia. broken futher still clung to the of hiding from We now reite:ate every word of our charge; and the world her shame. He made but one confidant | Were we writing for the readere of the Courier and of his daughter’s fall, besides ourself; and we pro- | “nguirer only, we should be content to leave the ceeded to compel Willis to surrender certain letiers | matter upon the issue of our respective characters in his possession, which admitted her fall, and | for truth. But this may not be, under existing cir- which he shamefully preserved, from tho basest mo- | cumstances; und we therefore proceed to test the tives.” truth of what we have alleged, ia the only manner Ie was noosedinaly requested to be at the office of the | iu which it can be done without poiating suspicion gentleman refe at acertain hour. We met him | to the party implicated. a whee aos ap nen not Sas ome that he General George P. Morris is the Garg sai was allows wenty-four houre mal surrender illis—1 i 4 ie Oe of te Tetons of his ictim. AC the expiration af that | Sn co-eavor with ite in the cumdict of (ust paper, ech cvet the at areas tear am aim the letters, | Te suffered Willis to publish, in thoir joint paper, (one ponticlo of human fecling, Coe hawk heponped ae | aM Assault on soy private character when 1 was in soon as read; and from that day to this never suffered | Hurope and incapable of defending myself, which is adinitted to be, by those who have read it, one of him to speak to us,evem in the street! Our success in 4 b *, thus hidiz¢ from the world the shame of his dear child, | the most infamous assaults which ever found its way into an American new: Beiag thus, in oe Jonata of = ge hie was pot — nature to survive such a blow. “than thre mani law and in fact, a party to that racefai publica- we followed by to the tomb; and in ba sight of that | ¢iun, (which, however, we have never pope cun- God before whom the seducer of his child must also one | not be suspected of any friendship for us; while it is morally certain, that if practicable, he will relieve day 9} N.P. fey of is as much his murderer as he emer eave bete © Bs BAS pie o grecer to bis heart. | Wittis from the charge we have made. Now, let Willis send General Morris to us, and we will Of course the New Ferk Ftvaid copied this ar- tiele, and one written by Mr. Webb's former asso- - - confront the General with the party who was pre- sent when Willis delivered us the lotters of his vic- tim. We willplace before him the identical pack- age of letters, superscribed, in Willis’ hand writi to Col. Webb.” We will prove their identity; and will place in his hands, for his perusal, the tet- ter written to Willis by his victim, after her seduc- ciate, ia which Mr. Willis was skinned without-te- morse, and it added to them, by way of garnish, a pac wy vy blackguard thing from that psqaib called the Duy Book. In this thing the Courter and Enquirer is accused of *impudence, treachery, and the worst kind ofduplicity,” and that the “Day Book, ithful to its promise as an independent journal, has taken upon itself to send one of its arrows to the vitals of the Courier.” Having fired of this very harmless arrow bang at the vitals of its contem- porary, it informs us that its editor is an “accom- tion. * All this can be done with impunity without Geve- ral Morris’ having the slightest cue t0 the identity of the writer of the letter; who, if living, will re- joice that justice has thus overtaken hor betrayer. bioaing rtation Ha protien * hen thor | Shs els, we doubt not, beyond the reas of suv i % de eitalent icion ; althou, ie may regret that other Te Ete at ne anne Nabe 5a Fofertunates hb e rufered sus isescans her fault, ‘aa unblushing bully, too cowardly to do the deed “thor #he will do us the justice to believe that we never would have broached this matter if we had not kpown that by no possibility could she sufler. Our proposition to Willis’ friend and o0- partner the umpire inthis matter, must be conceded to be libaral, even by those who can palliate his | Worthless assault upon us, if such there be. But | }.we wish it to be distinctly understood that we an- nex one condition, and one condition only, to its ac- himself,” ouly murder, h ever after gloating and the living, too, and iece of non- Webb has tho work it seems to be fond of. with usa cory for publication; which wo pledge ‘The teuriorand Enquirer has dove its work. ourselves to lay before tho public on the following It sailed, and upon whom he has endervore | to’ affix suspicion of dishonor. Let us charitably hope that the whole story is as much the ofl*pring of his ima- ination as ix that part of it which relates to us. od this is more than probable; becauso, were there in existence such a person as he desoribes, ap- prebensivns ot # legal tribunal, aud the wrath of aa outraged husband, would have effeocually pre- vented Willis thus alluding to ber. cseuped the lash.” N. B.—Since the above was typed, appeared Mr. . Wil “correction of the statemont made in which he admits having reeviv- ‘oung school girl, who is now a res- lady, residing with her husband “Sle Was & Arsival of the Steamship Prometheus. The steamship Prometheus, Capt. If. W. Johnn | sor, artived yesterday morning from Chagres, via ‘The I’. left New York April 28th, | avd arrived at Chagres on the morning of the 7th inst., making her outward passage in eight days and ten hours. i She Jeft Clagres the evening of the 10th instant, arrived at Kingston on the morning of the Ith, impropriety.” Mr. Willis says Webb's calumpious publieation of Thursday.” tion, as we have shown above, Mr. a y's Mr. Will's says, in answer (o this part of pplied for, and promptly re- He soon after met the father of the young respectful denial ue gross charge made against 11°. ook hands and parted. We now ask if it ig | 884 again left on the evening of the 1th, arriving him. : likély that # gentleman—that a man of any kind— | at Quarantine, Stuten Island, on the 1%h—running What adds greatly to the scandal of Col. Webb's» attack upon Mr. Willis, are phe very notorious « cumstances of the virtuous Colonel's own marriage, but a little more than « year ago. Everyboty knows that Col. Webb—an old man with gray lair, and a family of grown up #ons and daughters—ea- ticed from hee father's louse » young [ndy, why he clandestinely married, a parents. and ning re he wailed fo could be guilty of such an his zhat guilty of the ofenc ifist the wivhes of her be feet until the mor- urope. Furs man who 4 aa thie to talk about for having been ta, is really about the most stupe p padence we have ever known. Let the ‘< what path of distinction be may. we imagiue Chat he will achicve ® greater success in a) an could possibly have the assurance to & at, than as a lecturor on m@ .@ morality of er drow their ‘ cing 3 (From Sunday Merenry The Cowrier and Enquirer has | us for the facility and abili little consequer xetor of © senntor kn of the interest in thy remult of that from the P It fe unnece which the Mr rush ata article, which s tho America It eqeks to “dew of the United hands of reck leading pre caped the lash And a very sivgular tod showing this, as we hall marhing the Jondew Tires thom, tb: 0 York Hoe the Amer and Fry the Lando Tale oF th ut Wiiks avd Stimson *. The IMy Bout Heise giaph of some dove jines, in whit it iy dw heour t hes f ter? says it is * aaqualifiedly untrue.” the gross nature of the expose made by the Cori and Engraver, We enn conceive of nutuing more un- ab geotiemanly or more mean. the da: timely end he mourn: able, and treacherons. ould shake hands with the seducer of lie daagh- | time Chagres, seven days and twenty-two As to the accusation of seduction, Mr. Willis Pep CORES SO Rat SA PY hours. Annexed is # list of the passengers hy the P. CHAE Rye Steamehl Joha May Lord, Suge btw Cine ¥'d Veenco, ¥ Hezeagter wo shall have something to say about In soeklng for enzo agai Sebb bay not hesitated to blast ¢ ‘ter of luis ** very dear fei If it were true that she w . his eonduet is unchristianlike, uncharit- Ifit be not true that she + ¢ has been wanton, then his conduct is cow irdly and We bepe that her husband has pluck is 'o eal! Mr. Webb toa sharp account a my " pe. 1) Merrett. 1M Appleman HD Choesborouah, James Varman. J A Mo 4 i on, tir ewer David Swill, Daniel As to Sir. Webb's provended aunicty to defond | Chea rovept tider er, *, we regaid it ae all fudge—sotbing but $. = 4 rer s, etriek 4 ye “ou neh f We laugh He | you FP Biri, BC Lathrop, lis um al ca FM Lvtord, wo all the ined | {¥rom the Sunday At Mr. James Watson W ru Nathaniel P. Willis, throng! CAL rn Mr the thee Hull, & Adon he Now York Comrie « a r. | Baily, Chagtes Avg et, we determined no 2 he BO ye EAS BE sarding it, as we d sonal | FT MeCultock, W Hanae, 3 W Baste ot right should be cor epar IW Wh 1 4 Welton, 4 per tosmy that if we had « me of the war ot we mat would have been omitted p do not hesitate to say t ies with it te our mind, a tho trath and honesty. Others may itis story is plain, simple. and vw point. And, if the card be true, then is Webb ' one mout lamentable condition in the eyes of , t, if it be false, we do not perceive that il te render bim an object of net and If Mr. Willie actually © ia young 1 of “greut respectability and beauy,”' who hae ome the virtuous wife of a worthy husband, < now a reputable mother avd ber of on of it « otherwise. W Van Wie = Hiblins, Fareet, 3 rw rence sed honorable vociety, what rm, i hase and cowardly ineendiay, wh , WW Thungten to gratily hiv vl to ach ad Th t before the public? Wik ld have been forever bid from th “ difficulties, 19 fay, that throughout a connec. | years ard upWards Wn the prow, we | She loft at Chagres steamer Valo steamer Dee, to sail next dey. 25 v of th Stat etek Welk ender woe ‘The stesmet Gold Henter arrived at Ponams 0” whe, the doughter of @ “wear aud the ith with 10 poseengers, tekad on Lo@el wt j ar fiend j nity is worthy of th Acupol wreteh that ever ed tocrime. Mr. V ‘ amer Labinne greived at Panwga o: Tth inet. with 185 paccemers, wnat $0400 in g dust on treight. Peete wt +e cannot find room 1 sefutes all that Webb av antdid no » “oe yet ww well cale Autos Ky Ene ert, ci ndignation of every father, every guardian |b Pee ‘ ma'e honor and virtue—erery common pro- vt (ov of woman's fem®. The dastard, the coward, Intelligence from Jnmateo. od brite, who can be guilty of the e!rocious deed | Py the Prometheus we hawe ve tiie mec with diegust, can only find an apologiet | maice papers to the ‘ way plead that be wa: cither insane } ‘The Britich mail tengnstin pg hl eg > jurk, when he committed the dastardly net, | maile of April 17, arrived at aan tho 1 dod or, bas found ite w inte ree | inet. Amoog the enna ler i, @ a* cavotw tvation, | Caruiel miners, # sh 6 are preper G altech, oot an 1 ng operation, nuder the Webb hy g He Martin, kuewn we a6 in the Weet lovee The choles tee parish ct Hanae been five dynthe on | secured the wn ion of the whole for the malicinas tivw’ of all lasses wee and dete and ew a“ " ” ntew yt ot eu SoeO [| wee leper tients remained who were not expected to gurvivo. At Cascade there had been two deaths, and at Re- treat one; at Great Valley one case had occurred, which was likely to prove fatal. At Mountain Valley the people were so terrified that they had refused to bury the dead. Governor had directed one of bis medical staf to proceed imme- diately from Spanishtown to the district. Six persons had died on Riley's estate, within the previous two weeks, notwithstanding it is situated in & healtby locality, aud the presence of good medical advice. Tre Customs’ Tonnage Duty bill has passed both branches of the colonial Legislature, and received the assent of the Governor. The bill re-imposes the duty of 2s. 6d. per ton on vessels entering the severa! ports of the island, until the 10th October ensuing, when that rate will be reduced to 2s. per ton. ¢ bill will remain in force for seven years. ‘The duty om cavendish and unmanufactured tobac- co bas been reduced to 1d. per Ib. . ‘The Falmouth papers say that the estates in that vicinity are suffering severely for want of rain, and injury to the crops was feared. On some ot | the properties it was difficult to procure water for the Stocks the pastures were rene pechedy and the cane fields in a deplorable condition. In Fal- mouth, the weather was deplorably hot, and the atmoephere was loaded with crowds of dust and the disugreeablo malaria from surrounding marshes, which, it wa3 feared, would be the cause of discage and death. MALKETS, Kisastom, Ja., May 12. Frovn.—Tho sales have been toa hed imited extent, 100 bbie. Bedtimore and 110 bbia. Phi , out of the jast arrivals, have been moved at 26a. per bbl., but | there ure sellers at 288, The etock, compared with the greatly diminisued demand is of enormous magnitude. | Mra —We have wot a single operation to report as baving been effected in this article, the stock of which is | getting epotied, Rics,~-Carolina is without change. Burs» —Very sbundent and inactive. unimportant. On.,—Cod remains as last quoted. Lavp.—American is dull at 64d. a Td. per Ib. Cops ise.—-We kaye no improvement to notice in prices. Saraton.—The cupply at market is quite equal to the restricted demand for the article. We quote No. lat 72s | Nos, 2 and d are very diticult of aule at G84, and 64s, per bbi., reapcetively, * Ponx —The high prices continue to restrict operations. ly small parcels of mens can be moved, at O08 Now @ and sovr mera bring 70s. and 64s respectively, im ry moderate lots. Hase.—American are very plentiful aud inactive, Soa».—The operations in’ Stecie’* have been confined | exclusively to retail parcels at the usual rates. The soap manufactured here is in much favor with the laundresses, who are the principal consumers, aod other deecrip- tibns are neglected. Caxvirs.—The stock ie enormous, and the article scarcely «nlcable at Gd. per Ib. for a-sorted sizer. Cuersy, —Both English and American are scarce and wanted. Lunvan.—The stock of white pine is sufficiently ample, with a very limited demand. The last sales were at Te The sales are } 239 per 1.000 feet. Cypress shingles are in abundant supply, Cedar are wanted, aod would comamnd 18¢. to 20s. for fair qualities, Pee cee.—The supply is ample, We quote American *furmily”’ ut 486. per half barrel. Cons is excecdingly scarce. Svoar.—We range our quotations at 253. a 18¢, per 100 Tbs, for dark to fair, Freicsits. —There would be ample employment just | now for several veesels, both for Great Britain and fo- reign ports. Tonnage is very scarce, and a rather large quantity of produce is lying hore for want of vessels to carry it away. Go.v.--We quote American at 2a 23 per cont pro- | mium. Doubioons are not procurable. | Mai.7.— Boitled has declined im consequence of the abundant supply at market. We quote ale and porter fogetharnt 6s. Gd. @ Ta. per dozen. Bulk is sinc plenti- |. and in little demand, at 60s. per hogshead. Toracco.—Caverdish is very inactive, at ls. 2d. als. Sd. per lb. ‘The stock is heavy. We haye not beard of any transactions It leaf tobacco. Excnaxcr—On New York bills have been freely offered, but no operations of any moment have occurred. Court of General Session Before Judge Beobe, and Aldermen Grifin and Kell. TRIAL OF ANN MEXALAN FOR MANSLAUGHTER, IN CAUS* ING THE DEATI OF A SERVANT@IRE BY ILL TREAT- MENT. ‘ May 1.—The trial of Ann Mechan. indicted for man- | slaugh degree. in causing the death of Ana | MeGo servant girl, which trial waa commenced in | the first week of the term, was resumed this morning, unotby Gleason, sworn.—I am a policeman; was 40 in | November, 1849; Iknew Mr. Gilman; he called on me on the evening of the 14th of November, and requested mo to go to his house; I wont there and saw n young girl; she was sitting in & ebair, leaning forward; whe looked pale, und her eyes were rather glaswy; 1 had # conversa tion with her; I did not examine a oe particularly; Trained Ler hat, and noticed @ scratch on her chin and some bruises on the right sidé of ber neck; I asked ber at the time what was the matter with her; she complained of being very sore in her ride and her’ head; I asked her some more questions, and she would not answer nie; she appeared quite stnpid; { went then to sec if Leould get « carriage; 1 could pot get one; I returned aud asked Mr. Gilman to beip me take her to the station house; he took hold of her on the left side and L was on her right; I took ber hat im any hand; we had almost to carry her; we raived ber partly from the floor and got as far as the door; she then wanted to sit down, and said she was not able to go; we cerriod her to the station house No. 9 Ook street; she appenred to be very much fitigued; we sented her on a chair when we went in; Captain Wilson | it uve T had better go for Doctor O'Douuell; I weat and criled the Doo bed was prepared for her, but she could not always wanted to rit up; 1 brought Ih © oflice uext morning, iu x car= riage: from the station house she complain {1 got for her four cent-* | worth of eweet crackers two cents worth of milk; | sho wte it all; we isd a complaint was made by be me to take he: to the City Hi her to got into the carriage; justice Lothrop advised i; U did so, and never vow her afterwards; Lerrested the prisouer by virtue of a warrant, om the lth of et; arrested her at the Fourth wand station how be ly boon to 159 Willian street. where I understoud she tired; 1 took her to the Tombs; white ow our way there, we aad | seme conve raetion The counsel for the def Witness to see whether Ube « restraint or indvecment, Witness avexred that } no threats or indmermonts lo get the prisoner ty « uestions ; tat conneel objected to any con ivg admitted. The Court overruled the objoe nd counsel took an exception to Lhe ru iret resumed. the child so, She « here cros+-examiood the eration was held under a w bis thing of thet i Oy the Hide ot her week, whiel w They appemred to be Catharme O'brien pworn dia the Dith of Nerember. 14, Fiived at OM Hast Brod es Mix, Weick, William rieeet. ia Metiownn, rhe ore week of June, with Mes. Meehan, 0; Lene Wer alnont daily, from tive bats t: Lo enw ber with o blak eye, and we her neck; Lrecoileet hewring ot her death; on a her mere than euer; tuey muy hewed herery, Mere het the ni room on the third fisor, swt i nthat and Mire, Welch's room and on the stairs when hvwadd he re than seold by porate hes T have Wave been the « how lene this whipping te« Thnew ef her being whinpedt » i 1 etd Lunt for be here cud g h@ world Ged it; Cheat beard (be child ery; oo Mee, Mec ban tod chopped her: I think f ' fC vep late once, diteetly wttee I beft the room; T hee ace oh atcthet cecarion, heath the sound of Cine Oe ae mh I dow't think, from hee ery 0 with Mire, Mecban Lnever bad any cowerr rela the chelily Loh Ata Ube rome ceoning bature sbe wi pee aiicwdygpes 1 i act Romo be Ww | Meehan once since New Yeur's; she called a | performances thie ¢ condition, 06 I only passed her ou the stairs as I wae Amanda Cummings sworn —Is sister of inet witness; was also boarding at Mrs. Welsh's in November, 1819; have beard nvises in Mrs. Meehan’ apartments; it was on one occasion, when 1 was with my sister in the foursia story; I then board erying in Mrs. Mechan’s room; om another cecasion 1 heard noise and scuffing; 1 was sitting in a beck room, on the floor with Mrs. Meehan’ room; T then heard Aun’s voice, a# if she was erying; T beard no blows or velce but ber own; L beard a noise as if seme one Was pushed sbout. or scuffling together; E saw her about a week before her death; I did not a whether there were upy marks about her when I sew her; I saw her but seldom, Cross examined.-—-The sound of pushing of seufMiag did pot last more then a few minutes; this was ia Mrs. Meehan’s room, front room. third floor; I heard the ery before I heard the sound of seufiling. By a Juror,—The last occasion I ave alluded to was im the evenh artist’ omyalcign ssworn.-t ain-a elster of tho lest witness; I also bonrded with Mrs. Welch; I heard cries, which seemed to proceedfrom Mrs. Meehan’s room; the cries seemed to proceed from a young person; on one oc- yras pasting along the hall, and on another, 1 was iu the back room; the erles continned some fire minutes; T saw her some four days before ber death; £ never noticed bow she was dressed, Wiliam O'Donnell sworn —! ain a physician; 1 reeal- tect having been calid to see ® young girl at the Fourth ward station house; it was in November, 1849, I believe; 1 examined ber, ins hurricd muaaner, in the early part of the evening; I found her in y sige 700m sting on a wing With her shoulders against the wall; a officers told me, T commenced to examine don the lower part of her back the flesh raig- ed avd ins hardeped condition, and discolored; it was of « yellowish «nd blackish tinge; it appeared to be of some standing. and net of recent occurrence; it ap- peared to bo induecd by external bruises; there were some bruises on her bands; she appeared to be im @ des- titute, prostrate condition; pulw fecble; as there was ne accommodation at the station house for her, 1 advised that che be sent to the hospital; the brulses on hor back were low down, rather below the small cf the back; I stipposed this case hud ulready terminated; I was nevee before eaamined in thir ease; 1 had to go to the station house to get the date; notwithstanding this, I now re- coileet the circumstances perfectly; the skin wag nd had Lost Its pilsbility and softness; this hardness, concluded, was coused by inflammation brought on by biows, or some kind ofpruises; I did not examine her lowerglimbs; ber bands were in n sycilen condition; T advised that she be seut to the hosp! Loover saw hee afterwards. Cress cxamined.—I have practised medicine im this elty eleven yeurs; I practised fifteen years in Albany ye Q st viously; I mever was engaged in any ¢ther business this city; 1 cannot teil how long the bruived appearauce had existed; perhaps a week, more or hss; I ghould not think they had existed & month; did not) prescribe for the girl, but advice that she be sent immediately to the Hospital; 1 did net think ber condition was immediately dangerovs; Ido net receilect whether 1 advised that she be tent that night orthe next morning; I thought that she needed nourisbment more than nicdical ald. Virginia A. Welch sworn —Jn November, 1349, 1 re- sided at 150 Willlain street; Mrs, Mechan oceuzied rooms in the eine house; she hired rooms of my husband; she lived there one year; Aun MeGowan came to the house with Ler; she (Ann McG.) looked about the same whem she come there as when she left, wilh the exception of a black eye; I noticed s rerateh on her neck a short time before her denth; there wasn lump in her car; Z five noticed that lump {n the summer; 1 think I have heard her cry; Leould net «wear to bearing her ery more thamz once; T'think it was at the time she was being chastised by some person in Mrs, Mechan’« room: I think #he waa receiving slaps; Tthink {could bear them; there may have Leer five or six; I'think I have heard her whipped two or three times in the daytime; the sound appeared ke that made by the hand; the last time Lheard hee whipped may have beema week or two before her death; i think Mrs Meeban said, that when she whipped hee, the girl wonid throw herself on ber buck and kick out her fect in a most aggravating way; 1 have seen Mrs. my house; 1 don't think I don't reecllect what we conversed about; we conversed abant this trial; she may have said sho wished the trial would come on; Lsaw the body of Ann Medowan, after her death; 1 recognized it as the body of the sme ebild that had lived im my houxe, Cross-exsmined—A good deal of my time was spent in i ‘4; Lhad » factory there two or three months; Ann's dutits were of a do- meatle character—sweeping. cleaning, &e.; do not re- coklect the circumstance of hor upsetting & furnace fait of coats; Idon't know where she was the before she left the house; she was of rather melancholy babit; I have heurd her sing; she vever was in my room once; that was the night «he took lau, or ether; this was on pee pb pone Giaeont ‘away on Wedneeday; while under the influence of the ether, or gus. she was asked who she liked best, and she raid, Mrs. Meehan. She sang * Nelly was « lady,” m’¢ think she was under the spnqencent Ueelnedping gar, lecaure she acted differently from others who it; | put the gas on a cloth, and she breathed it. ‘Theatrical an@ Musical. Lowrry Tuxarne.—The great exertions of Me. Hamblin, and his active stage manager, Mr. Steveus, in catering well for patrons of the theatre, are seemingly recoguized by the dramatic public, if good houses can be taken as a proof. To- night the performances will commence with the diama of * Walter Tyrrell,” with a fine cast— Messrs. Heddy, Tilton, ‘aud Miss Wemyss in the jrincipal characters. ‘he entertainments will con- clude with the excollent piece, entitled “ el Ko si r. kiddy a8 Guillaume; Tilton as Rollac; 3S. Devin as Henri; and Miss Wemyss as Ma fine. This attractive bill will, no doubt, fill the ‘owory Theatre. Broapwax Tieat called the “ Rough 1 —The very amusing piece oud,” will commence the ca Pilate admirably. UNaLtic Kpec- al piece of net stains the part of ‘ feature will be the gi “*Faustua,” which for seeni ‘urpaseed. Mr. Harris sustains the part of the German Doctor very cleverly. Conway, ax Mo- phistophiles, is excellcnt: and Messrs, Titi, Whi- ting, Shaw, and Keynolds, together with Misa An deston, Miss A. Gougenheim, and Mrs. Abbott, are wll excelient in their respective parts. Placid ter of “Grandfather Whiteh. has no equal. Le will be sup ) ted artists, who wre under the ‘i that able stage mansger and great favorite, Johe Sefton. The entert > will conclude with the w faree called thet iret_ Night,” io whieh Mr. fe uppears #4 Mow. Achille Talaa Duford, feeors. Arvada, Jordan, Conover, Slonn, Bw. flon snd Mrs. a the other characters, Vervon’s ‘THmatrk.-A great bill for this ove i The smuseme: with the excel tent comerdy of the * 3” Me, Lester, wh detor of great cclobrity, #8 Capt. Murphy Mae gira charneter which ho will fill to groat advaa- tage, Jn fhet, we have seldom “een Mr. Lester im any charseter that he did not Ol! with entire satin fuction to the audience, aod with great eredit te himecl—he iv easy, gontiemanly and g . ton, 14 Aminuutub Sleek, hae po equi Charles Ti 1; and Mrs. vel e, in end,” ia ported by rection of iy with M Jobn > st. ‘Lbis favorite place of crowded 10 excess, to withews q the mageif- Natronat. amusement ver been surpaved. Mrs. CG. of the founding Thelaba eth general in the character of ys and Miss hi. racefal.. t will be repeated this evening, with the some ul cast. ‘Lhe amusements will commence the new operati CMPAYAgMLEA, Ome Ued, * Dame aad Pythie, Ve a's Lye; : “Giovanni uM brated exten. was protitcad autiful effects: agnnen of art nigh Ho in foppery. hie, and the mas yucende rawde tae most of Le ‘ 1 did thelr utiaost, I Wes ineviteblo with vcbacwt. It is played thi evening, with the legunt comedietta of * Delicate Ground,” aad ® of the “Sehool for wads with Mr. toot and A im the principal i bes cennnes Selap tor the ent tecasurer, iF fret, wil ¢ ceet whiek unigu ack (orm. widest y meade were greatly encored. umph int a y the eminent “The Young © “ng ) were turned away; every Book and corner wae h old and day, thoy seine pie » give a fair op- ty bo there who we rimnate as mot D vate, | ren ure descevedly "te Uh) extenordinary eum of this truly in more have mot with, us lor this evening as ususl. The eon the vielin and guitar are executed with toes, and the song® are rendered with the uimost harmony. Funtows’ Mixsrrete, ia conjunction with the Now Orleans Serenadors, have won « moat enviable reputation; thelr ball is nightly filled with the most ferhionable audiences, and their performances greeted with ever osstration of favor. New CRO engin (onighs “and the celebrated “Fireman's © _ . Buck.anp's Bexrert.—1 Troscuree of the Lycoum takes bee the ie R wily is very Pp C i spestabic cents and has a large and " Yeeeah vf Scauaintances, we prosume the