The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1852, Page 4

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BOWERY AMPHITHEATRE, Bowory—Baurernian | Pmmroy manors. ek @ERCTY'S MINSTRELS, Meobanice’ Ball. «72 Bromd- | Weer Sr orsay Minerkesay. | FRILOWS' KINSTRELS, Fellows’ Musien) Ball, Mo. 44 Deresdwey—Erniorian Mivergensy, WETROPOLITAN KiLL—Prow: Anpencon'’s Sommnce | Bverenievers | Tre (© PeRvonmanoer Ar- Rew Veru, Tnesday, January 27, 1852, | Summary of News. ‘Our special correspondent at Washington, who reported that evidence had been received which teft no doubt that fraud had been practised in | Fespect to tke Gardiner claim, reitorates the as- | sertion, and states that the proofs of fraudulency were oCotained by our Minister te Mexico, and n of the Secretary of the it ie also intimated that suspicions @re bow in the possess! ‘Tressury. are afloat that some of the members of the Cabinet © are compromised in the aflsir. Very likely. How- ever, Galphinism, and the peculiar method of paying Mexican instaiments, combined with other extraordinary financial operations, seem to have aroused a spirit of inquiry among members of | Congress; and a general overhauling of the trans- actions of government functionaries, from the highest to the lowest, is now the order of the day. The House yeeterday passed a resolution calling fer information concerning the number, nature, end amount of claime paid during the present ad- ministration, which had previously been suspended or set aside, for want of sufficient proof as to their | legality. From present indications, little sar- Prise need be manifested if some astounding dis- elosures aro made before the seseion is over. The Kossuth correspondence on board the Mis- sissippi, ie about being brought to light. A rosolu- { tion, offered by Mr. Smith, oalling for this inte- resting batch ef epistles, passed the House yester- @ay. We shall now be able to get at the whole truth relative to the misunderstanding, or dif- Seulty, or whatever it was, between the Magyar end the officers of the United States Navy. Quite a spirited debate took place in the House of Representatives, yesterday, on a motion to enter jate acontract with Meesrs. Donelson and Arm: strong. ofthe Union newspaper, for the printing ofthe Consus. Mr. Dvans (whig) stated that the matter appertaining to each State, would, preba- bly, sake one large volume, and that, whon finished, the work would number thirty-one volumes, or more. If this eupposition is correct, the expense of printing the Census will amount to an enormous sum of money. It wae contended by some of the members—democrats as well as whige— shat it wae decidedly wrong to mention the namce of Mesere. D & A., in the resolution authorizing | the contract, and that it was an attempt to bolster | ap & part g it a profitable job, in ] order that the editors in quection might have the | means of ‘manufacturing public opinion,” | an press, by and @isecminating the same throughout the country, This, y, is the only reason why ihe politic during the coming Presidential campaiga. ia real os take so much interest in the business of public printing, and we #re pleased to observe that many members have adopted our views with regard to the matter, and are endeavoring to essential reform. f note wa But Jittle business wor transacted A bill to grant land to Iowa, for railroad purposes, having rv. Under unjust, and moved an amendment, n the United States Senate yesterday ood, of Ky., said the provision was by which over fourteen willions of acree of the public domains would be divided between seventeen He kind would be The resolutions | States, scoording to their federal population. ended that a distribution of th’ nothing more than equal justice ef the Ohio Legisiature, approving of Koseuth’s imterverdion policy, were presented, and referred | without having ihe honor of being read The Kossuth fever sppeare to have abated some- The Senate recolutions yorterday, taken up in the Assembly; all were trricken out but the third one, avd thet wae sont @ select committee. If passed in ite prosent orm, Kossuth will simply be welcomed to the oa pitel of the State. Bat little business of impor- tance took place in either branch of the Legieia- ture Koernth is busy at Pittsburg, making speeches, and replying to delegations. A synopsie of hic | address ai the festival given in that city yesterday, will be found in this dey’e paper. it reviews ihe estate of affairs in Europe, and is very similar to His next vieit will what at Albany. were, many of his previo be to Cleveland Gen. Scott has been nominated for the Presiden- ty by the whig members of the Maine Legislature, ue Bpeechee ip connection with other leading whigs of the state ‘The evitcf Mra. Gon. Gainer, for the reoovery efan immense amount of property in Louisiana, the United States Sa- Wae under consideration in preme Court, at Washington, yesterday. The de- ferdants are endeavoring to have he cage @oned for ux A colored wee e held last evenin, Anthony strect Laprises Colored Cha The | prococdings F be found reported in another | soluan Our readers wild find in thie mors a ery of 1 a Uenry lin, at Conandsigza, c biwing murdered his wife ecveral y S'eme very interesting additions eanneme brougitt by the America, ie giv dics dt at Boelon youserdey wwine Tho / r mail pbie aforsovn awh will reasb thin oly & | and Kings oounty alliances. | Secure | cut the entire State.” | utter inadequacy of appeals to the moral sense of | pri of des struggle for the mastery. temptations go gre: First Prou™snciamente--Mase Meeting, and Other Meetings of the Party. We br.ve already published the constitution of the new reform temperance party. Io another ‘part of this day's Hearn will be found their first | promwmciamento, which we regard as 9 political document of greet importance It is an address end $B te any | to the temperance men of New York, from | the exceutive. committees of the New York City and Kings County Temperance Alliances. Wealso publish tho proceedings of @ mass meoting of the Temperance Alliance, held last evening in the Eighteenth Street Methodiet Episcopal Church, and other temperance meetings held in thie city and Brooklyn. This organization wae effected on the first of October last, in this city, by the assembling of the Gelegates of forty differoat temperance aszociations, numbering over twohundred. At the same time, the “Brooklyn Temperance Union” wasformed. These organizations, with their auxiliaries, combined and co-operated togetber at the last election, and the result was the polling of seven thousand vetes, and the partial defeat of the whig party. In the city of New York alone, six thousand votes were polled. Animated by this euceoss, the Brooklyn temperance men extended their organization to the whole of Kings county. The executive committees of the two alliances met in convention on the 26th of December, and organized a State Temperance Al- liance, on the basis adopted by the New York city Tho regult was the calling of a State convention in the city of Al- bany,on Thursday noxt, the 29th instant, to per- feet the organization of the alliances, and ox- tend its ramifications over the whole State. The avowed object of this movement is to permanent universal prohibitory laws against the use of intoxicating drinks, after the model of the Maine Liquor law; and this they propose to effect by ‘ concerted action at the ballot box; the same io plan and purpose through- They have declared ‘tho the community,” and now they will try what Virtue there is in the appliances of legal! co:reion. There can be no doubt that this new organiza tion, possessing a nucleus of seven thousand votes, is destined to become & third party in the | State, whose weight, thrown into the scale of | either one or cther of the two parties, may incline it to victory; or, being merely taken from one, may, though not given to the other, have a@ positive effect, and “kick the beam to heaven.” It is the whig party that will most probably lose by this movement, for the application of the temperance principle to politics has been always a hobby of the whigs, and the organization will en- rot by far a larger number of their party than of the democrats, and thus serve ag a counter- poise to the canal influence in the western part ofthe State. Jt is a curious fact in the history the whig party in the State of New York, that wherever they strengthen themselves in one place, something always arises to weaken them in another. They set on foot and carried the Canal Enlarge- ment project, to give them a preponderance in the west; but now this formidable temperance reform movement looms up from the eastern horizon, to strike terror into their ranks, and will perhaps so far counterbalance the advantage they have gained by the control of the nine millions of dollars, as completely to neutralize its efiects, if not to give the democratic party an absolute majority. There just one thing that will modify the result, and prevent its being so sweeping as it otherwise would. It is the Presidential question, which wil! engross the public mind, and, to acertain extent, absorb all other questions of minor importance. Still, how. ever, the new movement will possess sufficient in- terest to make it highly influential in controlling the destinies of parties, and giving a direction to the moves on the political chess-board. ‘The third parties that have arisen from time to time, upsetting the majority of the party in powor, and then disappearing from the arena, to make yoom, ata longer ora shorter interval, for somo movement equally decisive and equally tom- porery in its duration, constitute a very curious feature in the history of the politics of this State. Nearly thirty years ago “ the people's party” arose, apow the question whether the election of the electors | ' iideeeer hikes 4 bs : {| part of the work, but who was left to whistle for | for President should be held by the Legislature. as formerly, or by the poopls, as then proposed, The people's party succeeded so far as to carry their 4 in one houze, while they lost it in ; but on the following year it passed both Such was the inSusnce of this persy on the that they gave the vote of n Quincy Adams, ting him, while they . WhO Was gupported by Van erwards mixed up with De Witt Clinto stage. Subse ” grew out of ore af that day, ago, by the couree of Bishop ‘ence to the padlic schools. It led efeated, and dragged down : its principal reoruits from their Finatiy, the canal en rend for the whigs. titutionality; but on account of its great utility, ithe violent and unusual mode in which it was oppored by the harnburnors im the Legislature, it was adopted by the people, and the result was to sive great etiength to the whig party throughou the western part of the State. But no sooner ave they gained this ac nof power, than it is d, if not overwholmed, State Temperance Allian movement will derive great strength from the paesage of the liquor law in Maine, and from the simultaneous movement which is now going for- d in Masrachusetts, and which will probably md to other States. Jt isaleo likely to command 6 eupport of a very large uumbor of the electors, who, in recent years, h been driven from the upon the rowdiee, who invariably took pos- the place of meeting, at some grog shop, revented soy true expression of opinion allot box. The people want to get rid of is Outrageous state of things, almost at any price; sestion and th and many will, therefore, sustain the temporance t of which is to take the pri- | movement, one obje mary clections from under the eway of the drunken | | Alliance, and wage war also against gambling | Suroty the gentleman has no porsonal interest in | protecting these dens of infamy, and therefore we upon the vigor, energy, and tact of its leaders. Meaatime, it cannot bu! be regarded with deep in- terest, by all who study the various phases ef the political history of thie State. Weehal! watch its Progress, and, from time to time, report its opera- tions to our readers. We are sorry @ find that one of the hired lee- | turera at the tamss meoting, last evening, lost his tempor, in consequence of the suggestions wo mado in yosterday’s paper to extend the platform of the houses, lottery oflices, and houses of ili fame. | do not see that he ought to have takon offence at ‘our obeervations. The Famous Jewels of the Princess of Orange—Mr. Seeley’s Case. Every ono who reads the newspapers will remom- ber the very interesting hubibub which took place in this city, for many months, relative to the recovery of the famous jewels of the Princess of Orange, valued at more than a million of dollars, which had been stolen from the palaco at Lacken, near Brussels, «nd had been brought over to this cova- | try by the burglars. {t teok place over twenty years ago, and created & great deal of conversation | and adventure at the time. In the Kuxpress ! of | yesterday morning, we find the following paragraph, which revives the ciroumstances, with some very | important additional intelligence respecting its | final settlement by the Dutch government: A Hannsowe Laat Fre —Wo earn that th ment of the Netherlands have agreed to pay Mc sum of ten thousand dollars, for his pefeasional gereives in | the case of the recovery of the jowls of tho Princsos of | Crango; and they bave slready other partics who were engaxod in arromtiog the robber and fending him back to Helland. Mr. Seeley is]an Amerinan, apd we think our Chargs de Affsires at Holland. Mr. Fot tomething to do with this handsome foe for pro- rviess.— Daily Express. The view contained in this paragraph, respecting the connection which Mr. Seeloy, an eminent counsellor-at-law of this city, had with the transac- tion, is not altogether correct or full, neither is the allusion to the other parties, who were Custom House officers at the time, perfectly accurate in its representation. We will enlighten our cotempo- rary and the public, from the facts—almost of an | oficial character—which have heretofore been pub- lished in our eolumns. As soon as the Dutch government had asoer- tained that the valuable jewelry had found its way to this city, it gave instruction to its Minister here —Chevalier Huygens—to employ every method by which the property could be recovered and tho robbers arrested. ‘The eharacter of tho Prince bimeelf was somewhat involved in the recovery. Mr. Seeley was the first person applied to by the Dutch Minister. The Dutoh government, besides employing him as a counsel to advise their agents in the contingency, had publicly offered a reward of ten thousand dollars for the recovery of the valua- ble jewelry in question. Under these inducements, Mr. Seeley went to work, and was the first person who laida train by which the robbers were detect- ed and the jewels finally recovered. This process, however, occupied several years in its operations, both on this and the other side of tho Atlantic. In the process set on foot by Mr. Seeley, and under his directions, the Custom House officers of New York, belonging to the general government, be- | came interested, in consequence of the high reward | offered for the discovery. The Custom House | oflicers at that time were Mr. Swartwout, who was Collecto-; the late Major Noah, (Surveyor,) and two others, whose names we do not now recollect; | and the high reward offered gave an energy and | stimulus to all tho officials, lawyers, and police | officers, who were engaged in tho enterprise for | unravelling the mystery. | In due process of time, a part of the jowels was | paid the samo amount to of ten thousand dollars, which had been offered. Mr, Swartwout was paid, we beliove, three thou- sand dollars; Major Noah three thousand ; another officer three thousand; and the fourth, who was cashier in the department, one thousand—thus giving the whole reward, or bonus, or black mail, | or whatever it may be called, away, without pro- | viding at all, in any shape, for the compensation | due to Mr. Seeley, who had performed the greater hisshare. ‘The Dutch government refused to listen | to Mr. Seeley’s representations; he went to Europe | to apply in person to the government of Holland, returned to this country unsuccessful, anid has | failed up to this time to recvive any compensation | at all for the trouble, expense, and anxiety, which | he had undergone in the recovery of those jewels, till | the announcement new made that the government | of the Netherlands has agreed to pay him ton thousand dollara for his professional services; and 2 it wag an ofshootof that | argoment question was | Jt was a one of dowbtfal | assemblies by the operation of intoxicating | bullies who have hitherto “ruled the roast.” Bat | the mov t, cn the other il have to con- tend w & tremendous o; 2 from spirit dealers, wlio have an orga are now holding their eccre teract what so d association, and mectings to coun- none, their voc and inte, teriously ibing money, are subs to sond delegates to Albany, to lobby ag gislature to extinguish them. very One of theso grog chops ie a focus of party p #, and has nu. us friends ta tie The politicians, too, of both par- be primary clections by means oto very adroit, active, and berefore, he # torribie For thie reason, New y ie about the worst place in the Statet riginate a temperance political movement. The Dees 6 » wbo control the rowdics, rate, ‘Thero will, York ¢ , that dram drinking is almost £ univereal prevalence, and the new party will thorefcre have to encountor the opposition of vast re of mon, of all shades of politica! opinion. are, therefore, causos at work both for and cers. hiow far, with such & com- interests, avd partior, make fteooli be felt, wih depend very mach pune There epainet end questions, | diseipation are #0 numerous, and the | nothing more. Mr. Secley claims a much larger amount for his profesrional services, including tho reward—he being, in his opinion, the person by whom the dissovery was first made of the robber { and of the jewelry. Ve undorsiand that Mr. Seeley, in pursuit of this business, wert to Washington a few days ago, in order to bring the mattor before our own govern | ment, and to set on foot measures calculated to | bring the government of the Netkorlands to do jus- tice tohim in the premiscs. ‘Thus, after all the | other pergona who had more or less conne (and some of them very little) with the resovery of these jewe since received their propor- ate reward, Seeley has, for many years . vio im ef tho meanness and niggardli of the Dutch government, to an extent utterly dis- graceful to any respectable governmont of the ci- tired world. He has pursued his rights, | sides of the Atlantic, with &rmr and if our own government wo | to sotien, in #8 governments | the Duteh goveran ice alone. overpmont Nether of the tid of the etain of meanness wh in this affair, dimmed their charaster for th | twenty years. Mr. Socley's reward ought tobe | 1,000 instead of $19,000—not a poony | | Kinnrt. axp Kosevtu.—War has ou’ | the Germans and Mung bis | | Kinkel represents one race; Kossuth is the leader of the other. Tho feud has extended | tothe organaofcach. The Kossuth paporg have | absailod Kinkél, and the Kinkel papers bave aseuilod | ssuth, and threaten an exposure of “ tho trath | and the facts.” They contond that Kinkel is ar | pure a patriot, in every rospect, ac hit y for popula’ A writer in a Pufalo paper upholds | the represontative of the Ger yi be | Magyar, and, no doubt, he Will y the flankeva of tho ¢ umph—-or whethe A others ike the Kilkenny enta—wo can t nt wriling, but we shall inform fi exhibited y rk and , Mr. Forrest, wo should not be surprise yublic dinners wors to be got up on cach vid > tthe Astor House, the clber at the Irvicg Mrs. Forrest intends to make hor ut on stage, Dow is the time Indoed, if the husband | and wife, now separated forever, wore to appear | rempectively at rival theatres, they would make | more mo ey in ® month than would all tho luw- yers, and witnerrer to hoot | _ | t p q } aw Mie Srereert, a doserving actross, with five ema! cLildren to support, takoa a Senott this evening ot the Pyroum. (0, for charity's sake | | wantonnessa, The Amefican Art Union and thy Fine Arts. ‘We are receiving notices every other day, from the 12,000 or 14,000 rubsoribors of the present Art Union, inquiring, with deep pathos, when tho an- pual @fitribationia to take place, as direoted by tho chartér and constitution. Never, sinse art found aresting place in the city of New York, has this institetien, or art in general, beon in so pertlous a pre- dicament as at present. The National Academy of Design has sunk so low a3 to forbid ali hope of re- euscitation, unless come vigorous measures be taken towarda rival institutions. The American Art Union is #0 beavily embarrassed 23 to be compolled to postpone its drawing indefinitely ; nor is there any bopo of fatare success, without a radicalchango In its charter, constitution, by laws, and Board of Managers. The Artista’ Acsociation have closed their eccounts for the year, and will hardly insur the responsibility of another campaign, woless under circumstances much more inviting than those of last year. We do not believe that either tho National A @ilemy of Design or the Artists’ Asso- ciation would exist a year, if a proper, liberal, and eomprehensive art union gallery were founded, | end means taken to bring the works of our artists before the publie without intermediate agency. It is not an ever estimate when we say that the annual expenses for rent, commissions, and losses, of the arets of thia city alone are full fifty thousand dollars more than, under a proper system, they would be. We could give some interesting details on this sub- ject ; bat until there shall bo-a willingness on the part of all the artists to consider this matter, they would be out of place. Sinco the publieation of Mr. Whitley’s appeal to artiste, on the subject of erecting a convenient | temple for the advancement of art, wo have re- ceived many communications on the subject, and among them is one which suggests that the ole- gant rooms which are opened only three months during the year by the national academicians, would, for the present, answer most of the pur- poses specified inthe appeal to which it replies. Anotber is of opinion that the halls of the Amori- can Art Union would bo large enough for the pre. rent; but thie suggestion is idle, ag it ig conjeo- tured that the present Board of Directors will bold on to their offices atthe next clection, and endeavor to maintain their influence and position fo. another year. Cannot thia be remedied by tho election of new directors ? Inlooking over thechartor of the American Art Union, we perceive that it excludes artists from the Board of Managers, but allows frame makers and dealers in prints to participate in the control of its affairs. We have hid enough of the wisdom of such a board as these provisions and exceptions provide for, and shall, therefore, urge an applica- tion to the Legislature now in session, for an amendment. Artists and the public havo only to agree in making this requ’st, and the whole pro- petty and destiny of the institution will be imme- diately under their control; and to this complexion it must come at last, or all will be lost, and no in- stitution henceforth, for some years, will be pos- sible. Now, let us consider the obstacles to this plan. We shall take it for granted that the charter would be amended; ifnot,it will be an oasy matter for the “Bulletin of the American Art Union” to state officially that such painters as might be elected to tho management of the affairs of the institution, were ‘no artists,’ and the charter would be inviolate. The next objection is, that the twon- ty-one signors of the card indulge the hope that the institution may yet bo made sub- servient to their own private ends. But this we know is not true. Very many of the signers recovered in this city, the burglar was arrested, | did soat tho urgent solicitation of very influential and, after varicns negotiations, was sent to Holland. | The Custom House officers, under certain arrange- ments and negotiations, received the whole reward | persons; and Mr. Durand, the President of the National Academy, was importuned #0 oarnestly that be could not refuso. Nono of these gentlemen are committed « gainst inquiry and progress, no° would they, but from a feeling of gratitude towards their liberal patrons—Messrs. the Directors—re- main silent or inactive on this matter. We takeit for granted that no opposition to a movement, among the artists, would arise from the managora of the Art Union—nay, we see no reason why they donot compromise and co-ope ats. We have pur- posely abstained from roferring to this subject for several days past, presuming that some steps would be taken by the a'tists thomselves. We now, however, ‘eel bound to state that the jnterests of artists, and the cause of art, demand union and action; and further, that it ie idle for the Artiets’ Association, the American Art Unioz, or the National Academy of Design, to attempt to advance a single ste until existing feuds be al- ayed. We have no idea that the American Art Union will attempt another year’s experiment, after the decline of the last two yoars, unless sa | entire change take plave inthe Buard of Managers. If it shall persist in doing so—to the great dotri- ment of art—wo shall feel called upon to appoal to their 12,000 or 14,000 subsoribersof the ast yoar, to select a new Board—to depose the present one—aud bring about, at the first mocting, such a refora, ina legal and proper way Tur Termination of THE Forrest Div Cask.—The longest trial upon record in this, we believe in th» old country, has terminated. After thirty-two days, the suit of Catharine N. Forrest against Edqin Forrest, for divorce, on tho gioundsof adultery, has been brovwht to a close, by @ verdict, on every issce, in favor of the plaintiil, and an award of an allowance to her of three thou- sand dollars a year. Thisi vealigation hes been a serious task to all concerned. Tho Judge, the jury, the counsel, and tho reporters, have bad, dur ing the protracted inquiry, onerous and arduous | duties to perform; but the lasti—the groatest aad the most important of ali—was that of the rendition y morning, by the trelve to render ‘a trae ver- ding to the evidence.” of imputed infamy, reokicss swearing, porjary, on the living and calumny eatic hearths, and ex. od and porhap: defamed om b—i8 @ task from which wo regoil. gh for us to say that in every public n every bar room, at evory corner of our ate eoviety and in public thorough ‘ice, on the ferry boate, in the cars and in the omoibuses, in the theatres, a} the operas, and in every holo and corner of the city, amongs’ all ki of society, from tho literary coterie rnd codfish aristocracy down to the morest jabberors on tho Five Points—amongat tho saiate and sinaors of this vast community of many ratior he tacts, the ia- cidents, and above ell, the Divorce Case, # finda a host of rightoous at the rect ne fay ition hey wers aurprised the co! dw and whom asunder.” Wo cannot, however, congratnlsto cltuer our selves or the public ona terminntion of this inter+ minable cave. A motion for a new trial will be made this morn'og; pnd aa half Mr. Forron’s for- tune is inthe field to prosecute hie suit, we may expect some further trouble and oxeitemont to this affair, which bas been the topic of universal com- ment for some years pact The demand for (ho pamph wonderin won! whom ‘ we aro ogetier, , published by our | inw reporwor, o review the teetimony—to go over the maz | ao man should put | pat Rarvrnmne Goon Sexse—Five Lise, Svirs Against THE Hexato Wituprawn.—A fow days ego, Mr John M. Smith, the able counsel for Mr, George Wilkee, of this city, formerly well kr gwn in connection with the famous Drary cor, case, called on us, and stated, with erst osimness and fortivude, that, after somo O_asultation with bis client, wished to withitaw certain five or tix libel suits which had heretofore been com- menced by the same Mr. Wilkes, when Mr. John Graham was his counsel, and that his instructions wero to settle at once, and finish these troublesome affuirs. Our reply was very simple. We had no thing to rettle, on our part, in these libel suits. 1/ we were very glad to hear it, and heped that the same returning good sense would operate on hia client’s affairs all round. We had no il! feeling or revenge toward the personage who commenced the towards friends or foes. It will bo romembered that those five or six libel tuits—we are not sure but there wore more of them-were begun after the first trial of Drury, when he was accused of the torpedo conspiracy against Warner, the lawyer, and that the causo of theso libel euita grew out of the course of tho ent conclusions respecting the progress of this ox- traordinary trial. torpedo business was published in our columns during our absence in the country. On our return to town, we read the article, and disapproved of the report, because it contained language and ¢) theta net fit to be applied to a person who had been merely arrested on the findiog of a grand jury. the controversy till after the firet trial of Drury, diselozed its true stool-pigoon character, and that it had been concocted through the agency of the late One-Lyed Thompson, who committed sui- cide te eecape certain consequences. Wo pursued the even tenor of our way, publishing the truth in re- laticn to all this famous charge against Drury, the Younger and the elder, as woll av that against Arlington Bennot. In the course of these publi- cations, ;emarks wore made and aflidavits given, to which Mr. Wilkes and his counsel, John Graham, took serious exception. They commenced libel suit after libel euit, till they extended in number to five or six. But wo never believed that they intended to prosecute, or that they meant to pursue them at the timo. We understood them to be mere coups d’état—a species of intimidation, to prevent us from publishing the gradual developements of the facts in that extraordinary case of stool- pigeon conspiracy, which was got up by One-Eyed Thomp- son, and his confederates, against the Drurys and Arlington Bennet. Accordingly, we pursued our course unhegitating)y; and the result has shown we wero right in our judgment of those cases, and of the character of the libel suits commenced there- upon. A visit to Europe, a little more knowledge of the world, and a better appreciation of human naturo, have taught Mr. Wilkes—who is a young man of considerable talent—a little more good sense than he had two years ago. He now secs that one m: has rights as well as another; and a returning sense of justice—and, perhaps, other motives, which we shall not scrutinizo—have brought him to the reso- Jution to discontinue all these libel suits, to wipe them out of the dockets, and to begin life again with a clean slate and a clean shirt. We give him some credit for this revolution in his hitherto inconeiderate conduct. Originally, on ‘account of his connection with Mr. Camp, who was formerly in our employment, we had frequently noticed him favorably, and we thought favorably ofhim. This favorable feeling had been interrupted by the im- breglio in the famous cases against Drury and Arlington Bennet That being disposed of, the ether followed, and we trust and hope that here- after he will continue to improve in tho knowledge of human nature, and to estimate more accurately the mctives and purposes of an individual who, as editor of a widely-extendod journal, has no personal feelings to gratify, but meroly the public interests to subserve. Tue Irarian Opera tn Grory ar Lasr.—Tho Bosio- Bettini troupe of Italian opera had a most splendid, brilliant, and crowded house last evening, at Niblo’s Theatre. It was perfectly crammed, j and half the audience were ladies, of the best dressed and most gentcel character—in demi-toilette however, bonnets and opera cloaks, but perfectly at their ease, graceful, elegant, andepjoyable. ‘‘Son- nambula” was the opera. Madame Bosio was ex- auisite, Bettini superb—all good. | will now have a great run, for a fow weeks, among all classes—fashionable and fishy. The Kossuth excitement is a thing of a past age—the sleighing tho last, and dreariest of all, the Forrrest diverco excitement, went off yesterday, on its last logs — value $3,000 a 7 We have, at present, nothing left, in this magnificont metropolis, but the opera— the beautifvi Italian opera—the chaste and classic Italian, at two rival, energetic, first-rate houses— | the Astor Place and Nibic’s. To-night the rival | houre, the Astor Place, under the magnificent Ma- retzok, gives us “I Puritani.” Woe have every rea- | fon to believe it will be a full house, in full dross, Lectures or Rev. Da. Barmy vronw Evrore.— Rev. Dr. Baird will deliver, to-morrow evening, at the Brooklyn Female Academy, the introductory | leoture of a sories of discourses upon the present ia} and religious condition of the European na. tion, with historical sketches of each. ‘This leoe ture will be free. and there can be uo doubt that it will prove highly intorest ng. Boord of Supervisors, The Meara met at 4 PM chair, The minutes of the last meeting approved a Jan PLLA REFERRED, Of 8, Van Nostrand, amounting to $96, for refresh. wents furnished to the Grand Jury on the occasions of their visite to public institutions aad schools. Of George Hi. Frantlin, ex-Alderman of the Seventeenth ward, mountirg to $49 C6). for holding inqueste, at various timver, from December 4th to 28ch, 1854 CORONER GRERF BILL, | The Revenven ctfered the following resolution, yiz:— That the jast bill Of Coroner Geer be referred to the ccromittee op county cflicers, with instructions to inves tigate and examine all bis p erroneous ¢F Wrong charges elt, his rerolntion waa adopted. The Sapervisor of the Stath ward offered the following | Ferolutton, viz — ‘That the Coroner report to this board the number of inquerts held during the years 1860 and 1851, upon emi. herein, and report the re- sioners of Emigration This resolution was adopt Comptro ting a ister from the mont of $950,000 for free achoole throughout the State which tax wag omitted to be raited by the late Beard of supervisors | Recorder Ti: ov moved thet e special committes be | appcinted to investigate the report. The Charman then appointed Supervisors Tdiou, Den- man ard Boyce, such committer, | RePOKTS AporTED, | | | Cfeundry persons for remission of taxsa In favor of eying hls cf Thomas Carnley, Sheriff, smountisg to $1 497 85, for foce, euch as eemmoning petit aud grand Jucier,exeoucing persona convicted of murder, and ex penres ireucred in furnishing rupplies for tha jail for rom October 1 to December 31, 1851, Ameng Hy was the following ¢ NEW YORK, TO THOMAS CARNLYY, SHERIEE Vth CULV AND COUNTY OF NEW Y and Torminer, | Cay ane vo y pr ehtizen Beptember 18, 186 | tifleate of the 6x | tenet yin the New York | Bmw any Daily State Register, a $4 8 00 Priottog (* depaty sheriffs) warrants for the exscation, September 16, 1601, . 1 600 Printing 100 letters, ciroulers of inv! Judges, citizens and Aldezmen, in case of | Cerne), April 28, 1861 200 Bili of Menere, D, & J. pantaloone, two merino caps, for Henry Carnel 7 Royen and pulliew for gallows + $108 to Vriday afwrnoon, | Mr. Wilkes wished his counsel to withdraw thom, H suits, and never ‘have had any such sentimenis | Heraxp, in publishing different views and differ- | The fi st accoant of this famous | We did not, however, take any part in | when the jury disagreed, and when the evidence | We verily believe that the opera, at both houses, excitement ia entiroly broken up by the weather— | bis honor the | eecounte, sud correct eny | arante who bave been under the charge of the Commie. | ont of Common Bohoole in relation to the ap- | | board the | consi | up this afternoon 1 per cent; Marlein | Railroad, 14; Norwich and Woracster, 1; The State Temperance Convention—The Brooklyn City Intelligence. TNE CONVICT RIRLY. ‘This unhappy man is to expiate his offence on Fridey next, at the Kings county jail, in the city of Breoklyn. ‘The event, beyond the dread importance always attach- ing to the exeoution of a human being by authority of Jaw, has nothing particular in it to call publio attention. ‘The entire history of the culprit was, as nearly as pos- sible, developed on the trial, which was fully reported in the Henary. That bistory, as far as his married life Was contained in it. wea ringular, and such 26 to excite some freee Sy with the unfortunate man. Ever since the c tal of the fatal deed, it appears that he has resiuned himeelf to bis fate, with the utmost reso- lution. | The efforts made hy ovunsel on his behalf, were uneought for, and it was with some difficulty he wae pert tuaded to put ip @ plea of not galls . It ia generally suppored, but most erroneously, % is aman of mo- | rose. sullen. and uneminble disperition Those who have teen him privately under the tragic elreumstances now #0 public, pronounce him to be quite the reverse. It in generally raid and believed that he is peculiarly sen- sitive apd be states bimself, as be has done from the fatal day, that be is prepared for death, and does not wish any respite or cemmatetion. The sheriff ef the | county (Andrew 3 Hodges Esq .) fe at present at Albany, where be has gone to seek au jaterview with the Gov: erpor on the subject: but it is not supposed there will be apy interruption te the course of law, Bo for as matters heve publicly tramspired there seems | to be no sbadew ot pope for a respite; but we | have not been informed as te the grounds on which Mr. | Bacon rested his bopes The prisoner himeelf says that: | be dreads nothing but publicity, aud that he felt his | trial, and the porition he ocouvied in court much more | than he rhall bis execution if ft o# conducted with pri- Yaoy All will be done that is possible to comply with | Bis wirhes; already a worden structure has been erected | at the rear of the jail. by which the view of the popu- | lace will be int but beyond this no actual | preparations have Leen hed for the tragic aceue. | The execution, if it tykes plaoe, will be the first had in Kings county since the days of the revolution; and, wich one exception. it ir the first conviction for a capital of- fence Tbe only previ ns one was that of Samuel Douce. ecnvicted of murder. December, 1841, and rentensed to be executed in February. i512, but whose sentence wae | commuted to ten years inprisonment, on review of the | testimony by the Governor, Tax Sumecr or Reievine tH Necessities oF THe Poou.At a regular ression of the Jommon Council, eld lest evening, & memorial from a committee of citizens, appointed st a mreting bold in the Governor's room, on Friday evening Inet, arking an appropriation of $1000 for ebaritable purpores, was read by the cleric. Several substitutes were offered, and a lengthy discussion en- sued, when, vpon the main question being oventually put, it war lost by a vote ef 5 ayesto 12 nuye. Bo the peor may live on what they can pick up, 0 far as the Common Council is covcerned. Kixcs County Deuockatic Grxnnar Commrrren.—At & | Meeting recently held at Colgan’s Uote!, in Fulton | street, the Derrocratic General Committee, of Kings county, eleeted Tunis G. Bergen, Beq., chairman.and Richerd A Bishop, Esq, tecretary; Hon. Toomas @. Talmadge was chosen corresponding secretary . Camrnene Lame Exrcosioy —A camphene lamp ex- | ploded in a houre corner of Dilzeman and Yan Brunt streets, on Sunday evering, while being Glled with fluid No serious injury resulted in consequence, Bonrau:ty ix Brookiyy,—During the week ending Japuary 24th, the totul pumber of deathshave bean 41), | of which there were males 26, females 23. Adulte 20, | children 29, Marine Affairs. Thy Srxamstir Carscent City, of the California Matl Line, was yesterday taken to her berth at tue foot of Warren street, from the Dry Dock, where she has be-n undergoing very extensive repairs and improvements. She hag had new boilers placed in her, and her accom: modations for passengers have also been greatly in- creased, thus still further inoreasing her already many superior claims on the patronage of those bound to California. 2 Tnrortant 10 Carirorsia Exicrante.—A notice will be found in our advertising eolumns cautioning per- sons going to California, that mo tickets will be re- cognized by the agent of the Pacific Mai! Steamship Company at Panama, unless signed by an officer of the company, and which are to be procured only at places therein mentioned . AxotueR Steamer ror Cuacres.—By the advertise ment in our columnr, it will be seen that the new avd splendid steamship City of Now York, builé by Mailler & Lord, has been chartered by some enterprising par- ties in the California trade, and placed upon the Chagres route. BSheis certainly a fine looking verse), and will not be long in getting her compliment of pesongers, it ehe has not already donc so. The agents are Palmer & Co., 80 Broadway. and B. 8. Haight,7 Battexy place. The Sreamsnir Winrieiy Scorr, Capt. Couillard, sil- ed yesterdsy for Ban Francisco, via Rio Jeueiro, &c Capt. ©. is bearer cf despatches to the Aintrizan Lega tion at Rio. Religtous Intelligence. The Synod of New York and Now Jorsey have xp- ointed Friday, the 80th instant, as “a day of fasting, umiliation. and prayer, with spesial referense to 4 re- vival of religion. ‘The Genesee Presbytory, at its recent session in Le Roy, passed » mgolution in faror of the Maino Ligucn W Court Caiendar for This Day, Omovrr Court —Nos. 160, 128, 178, 74, 39. 176 to, and including, 185. Svuraxmx Covnr.—Srecrar Trnrt.--Rofore Judge Roose- velt —The Motion Calendar will be continued, viz —Nos 6, 7, 9, 13, 8. . £4, to end of oalwpdur. 1gunit®? Brains Disteicr Corns —Nos. 10, 110, 12, to 38. 8 MON Pi¥as, Genenss Very. —Adjourned to Batur- i) dohvered rM.—(Two branches.) — 48, 17. 62. 94,171 85, 218, 919, 220, 222, 228 L. L=-The Bath House The dining reom bas beon srranged fo A band of tousiv isin ettentance ca Tho siahing on the Bath Rord was ue’ Refre:nments vervod, ISAAC 0, DAV] Half the best die. a days, get their eletlies ing estsblishmen, 07 et. The fact Jochen iz suoh hards*me atyle, of sucit ex: mrteriais, and at such tow prises, conld nom long remain unknown bo poople us proverbisily shrewd as Now Yorkers. Brooks, the © Roots, the finent of Gs w=The beat of sud most worvicoadte of Overshoes, the vie fest Bheev, end ochor arti orsteadisen, | mass be had, ct the lowest poreidio prices, at Bas Brooke a, 160 Fulton street. Mr. I akes (00% goar for all sexes, Irenbeoflite Bis professto repertoi¢ overy huown tanta. Novody of caste f becoming Mr, Brooks's firm and ro astisfied eustomor. j arta | | Blegant Bridet Cards, Envelopes, Cake Boxoa, wud Bridal Wafers. ot +10 lai ble atyor, oan be bad at iV Browdway, cor- | Reref Duane strect. Mr Lverdell hare branch so | No. 13 Wall street, fur the accommodacion of his dowa | town oustomers. Rb. vi | For ch apped Ba Salt Khe 7 | Bo, the India Niy eukscoe a Mitte sre now scknowl- ever discovered. They ave Por anie at Win, Baher's, 299 + Broadway, and at o!l the Kub- | Brondway: Bosc & Uo, | ber atoroa, Halv Dye oh | Dye Ip sho ber y " | whiskers, the meiwow. { | snd certainty with wi ton old vatabliah Unie Dre perierma ji neronieLing. Itie for eale, or a} st DATCHELOK'S Wig Factccy, No. 1 Wall etre the addcees | Outting Hair and Whirkers skiifuity heautifully. and in every case entiroly eonformt | shareand fiz of the Lond. ay welt as tho entire ap) Gf the weatcr, by HILL, ihe inimitable, corner of | Naesau otrocts. Yigs end Toupecsm-satchelor's New style of Wire are pronoun ed the mot perfec nature vet invented. T venting a ghouldonil a: Ba KIS celebrated W ‘A wl found the large | rortment in the py the address, mad best ane sted can now obtain the xby- three patients in consumptio | teken since tho 15 nt many in the very Imat te Of the divense, at Dr. WATTS, 424 Greenwich street. over, | from 9 v0 2, Depot, 112 Neraw Persons inte | Bsmes snd addreeses of Gouraud ye I* without exsept ovor invented; equally celebrated P, for curing plupies, freckles, #, chaps, eh Poud raghnese, & 3. Subtile uprovts hair trom any part of the boty, Kongo, Lily White, and Unit Gloss, at 67 Walker atroct, near Broad Hiender, 83 South Third et,, Philedelpdia, MONEY MARKET. Mornay, Jan, 266 PM ‘The steom is rapldty rising in Wail street. The most active fancy on the list is Reading Railroad, which advanced 2\ percent, Long Isand hes beea in de- mand Iately, and the movemont of prices is upward, £6 Went up to-day !¢ por cent. Harlow iu proved 187}, dy; Income Bouds, '4 lectinga ‘a percent; Hudson iver Roilcoad, 11g, At the seovad market continued buoyant, and thero was erable excitement smong bol The inflation in prices in, we fear, tco rapid to bo Kustained, end we muel look for the usual reactions, Erie iallrogd went Erie Income Bonds, 24. Mudeon River Ralitord fell oct dy por cent, Zinc stocks have lately been nimen moglected ; they are, however in strowg hauds, and wilt oveinthe right way at the proper time There are decided indications in the street of a speculative exoito- ment of considerable iimportanoe, betore the lapse of | many weeks, ‘The recent rapid advance in the stock of the Morria Canal was very unexpeoted, ant is somewhat mysterious, an no change whatever hee ocourred {n the condition or affairs of the company 10 cause any change in the intrin. sic value or prise of the #tovk, This toe’ having Leva long very inactive here, we erstand that « fmm fo Wall street, well known 98 jarge holders and opwratora in jt, made @@ arrangement with verloin indlividusle