The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1852, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. sam He GORDON BHANETT. PROPRIBTOR AMD BDITOB. Qrrics K. W. CORNER OF FULTON aND MasSaU STS. Ft weeniy HERA per ope, oF $3 R er a” Biper annum to «ny part ine Comtmmeni, Do: ss POS ONTARY CORRES meiude che te FONDENCK. containing ant new: ered fromany quarter of the world; Pera esti be kderalypaid for. Oun Founson Gonnas- TT ‘TICTLARLY SEQUESTAD FO 6BAB ALL st ous SExy To Us na mail, for Pubreripiions, ev with TT: ements, to be post-paid, oF tke posiage wosil be ted from the money remitted. NOTICE taken of enenymone eommumisations. fe de mol return those vejected JOB PRINTING ewecuted with meainens, cheapness, despatch. “EDPERT ISEMENTS renewed every morning. TER MS. cash in advance Wetmme KVUE oo cecceccecees ns NOs 46, AMUSEMENTS THIS SVENING. ASTOR FLACK OPERA HOUSE-Rossnr ue Disvin. WEEY THEA’ . i BO’ vERy Pag Bowery—Romno 2x0 Jvuiier- BROADWAY THRATRE, Rroatway—Orne110—Man- mar Rane, JTRSON'S FHBATRE. Chambers strecd- Sux Sroors ro Somquaen—Exniove F. athe sireet—Tawnme J40x BATIONAL THEATRE. Ri0ck @F Tae GLENN, —Pavure C1irre AMERICAN MUSBUM—Amveme Peavoamances m me 4rressoom, awn Tur Borris Taw Evexixe, BOWERY AMPHITERATRE, Sewery—-Rqumrnus Mas ronusrcrs, GHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Mosbanics’ Rail, (73 Sroae way—Renrorian Miveraeisy. FRULOWS MINETRALS, Follows’ Kusical Ball, Ro. 444 Reocdway—Bruiorns internat ———— New York, Monday, Feb. 16, 1852. ——— Whe Government Expedition to Japan. Some few weeke ago, one of our Washington cor- wempondents reported to us, by telograph, that the government had determined upon sending a strong mavalexpedition to Japan. This repert, subseq aent- dy, bas so far been etrengthoned by various other re- ports upon the subject, some of them of a somi- official character, that we are dizposed to ireat the yumored expedition as a fixed fact. The first inquiries euggesting themselves are— What is the object of this expedition? who com- mands itt and what ie its strength! We under- stand that the expedition will embrace three steam ships—the Princeton, Susquehanna, and Saranac— and several sloops of war, and that it will be com- maanded by Commodore Perry. The steam frigate Susquehanna was detailed to Japan in the carly part of last summer, with s letter of instructions frem the Secretary of State, by dirsction of the President, defining her “specific duty, which, it is wnderstood, was a demand upon the Japanese for reparation of certain outrages lately committed ‘wpon American seamen. It is also apprehended, from the statements of como of our seamen, o# @aped from imprisonment in Japan, that others may yet be detained in confinement there [f £0, the primary object of this expedition is to effect their release, by such an exhibit of naval etrength as will command the respect of these island bar- Darians. The expedition hae, also, several other e@djecte in view, such az a general commercial re- @onnoisance of the waters of the Indian Cvean ‘and the Chinese Seas, and especially the opening ef a sort of commercial reciprocity with the islands of Japan. A commercial project of this character, including, hewever, all the independent oriental nations, has Dong been the hobby of Mr. Aaron H. Palmer, ately a merchant of thie city. He so farimpressed the impertance of enlarging our commercial opera- tions among those people upon the cabinet of Gen. Taylor, as to induce him to recommend the appoint ment of a special commercial egent to China, Japan, and all the maritime Acistic nations, whose trate might be worth looking after. Tie mission {fell through ; but we doubt not that this expedition te Japan is a similar project, originating among the merchants of New York, with the view of open: | ing new markets for the cotton aud tobacco traie We may also be intended by the administration for Presidential capital Any mevement on tho part of the government, calculated to give employmen’ and honor either to the army or the navy, is good political thunder. In any event, as this expedition will aid very Pitie, if anything, to the ordinary expenses of the RMavy—as it may contribute to extend that respect to our flag among the semi-barbarous nations of the East which is accorded to it by all the nations of the ‘West—as it may do something towards the opening efan important trade with the Japanese and other @riental people, and as it may enlarge our practica) | Bnowiledge, and extend our national influence, among | mations and tribes of people hitherto but little known | @uteide of their own territorice, thers can be no @pposition to the projest. It willvea chohp experi- | tion of Southern fostitutions, and the excitement of civil war, sectional strife, aud the dissolution ef the Union. Southern editors, who have been so frequently thocked and alaymed by the fanatical ravings of Greeley, Fred Douglass, Abby Kelly, Lioyd Gar- rieon, and Lucretia Mott, would do well to tura their attention to the more important eubjoct of the tuocess aud tho influence of the ocntral aboli- tion organ at Wasbingtwou. Curvatren Wikorr Turnep Ur—Gareury Turney Down —We have received, by the lart steamer from Europe, o letter written by Cheva- lier Wikoff to a friend in Paria. It is quite a gem in ite way, and seems to be a sort of reply to Cho valier Greeley’s first statements against hie name, his character, bie piety, Lis morality, &o.:— LETTER FROM CHEVALIER WIKOFF TO A FRIEND IN PARIS. Ganoa, Jan. 17, 1852. My Dean Ma. R * * *:— lam dying to see » ‘New York Henan,” which one heare of occasionally, in this benighted and, but never gets asight of. Pray send wo ail the copies of the * Weekly” whica contain an ac- count of the Forreet, Divorce case. The rest | will read whea | get to Paris, whioh will be io a couple of weeks from this time, perbaps less J bave had a droll aaventure in these pirts, rather more comical than romantic. | will re- ferve the details till 1 soe you, and, depend on it, they will amuse you not @ little, as they bave me. | am anxious to know if you have heard anything of mo since 1 left Paris. sed w few days most pleasantly at Turin, where, deeidedly the best cuisine ] encountered, was that of the Marquis @’Azoglis, the Prime Minister. Since ther | have been thehero of a laughable escupade which will make @ piquant item, de plus, for my biography, in case it should ever appear in the racy columns Cf the HeraLp, which has happened to more distinguished individuals than | rank among. Ityou have heard any stories, or rumore, pray let me know; batiflam accused of “ horse-stealing,” pray do me the favor to suspend judgment ti!l you bear the fects that will come to you, and all ins most authentic shape, depend on it. { think you know me well enough to believe that { am old enough in diplomacy to know how to wins game by appearing to lose a little at first. All I havo dno here was after the coolest calculation, and, [ think 1 may say, it was ono ofthe happicet coups lever made My victory is almost complete Bui lam mystifying you, which is not polite, to say the least. When get te dear Parie, the first day, we will ga and eat a good dinner together, whon wo can exchange our budgets of news to our full and mutual satisfac.ion, My old friend, Louis Napoleon, haa ontrun all the predictions I ever made of his taleats and destiny. He made up his miad, at last, to do what I said to him, many atime aud of was the only thing to ke done, namely, to pai him- aclf at the head of the masses, and punch tho hoads of les réactionnaires. And he did it, too, in a man- ver that astonished and delighted all who take an interest in his forgunes. 1 am sorry for some of m; other friends, Girardin and Victor Hugo, who, see, are banished. However, thai will not be en- forced for a long time, | know. Write to mea few lines with eome news, aad you will lay me under obligations. Above all, let me have the Forrest ease. | hope the lady will get the best of it. Forrest, no doubt, de- serves sympathy, but he should never have brought the matter before the public, as his wife was willing to separate. It bad policy to quarrel with the ladies, unless it is your interest to de so, then it is good policy. But then the best policy of all isso to m e yoar quarrel asto show that, under the wget tion, a gentleman difera widely frgm-a bli 5 H. Wrorr. Vory tral Ae the learned C1 , he leaves tho main point etill involl Ty; but, from the intrinsic evidence of his letter, he has been enjoying himeelf amazingly. The affair at whizh he givesa mere pasting hint, we have doubtless heard of be- tore. Some weeks ago, Greeley first gavo us the particulars, which, as we remember, were sabetan- tially these:—Chevalier Wikefi, during the laet summer, having beceme attached to a wealiby American lady in England, and having proposed, and having boen rejected, etil! persevoring!y con tinued his attentions, when the lady, to escape bim, took ajourney over the Continent. She was pur- Ing of his rrrival there, called at the hotel, on the | Fin AnnraiLatons.—Groat effort hes been made, Grand Canal, inquiring for the Honorable Horace | and several certificates published, endeavoring to Greeley. The hotel keeper, or garcon, shook his | prove thet the proposed fire anaihilators will consti- head—“Neo such persen stopping here.” “ He was | tute adesideratum in the putting out of fires, and thay an American gentleman,” said the other. S:ill the | confisgrations will eense hereafter, with all those who hotel keeper shook his head—** No honorable gon- | purchase the article. Wo have seen nothing yet tleman hero at all.” At last he described the | to satisfy any sensible man of the success of thi’ person of the philosopher to the host; and some | project ; the experiments made in Madison square person present recognised in the description given, | or ou’ in the eountry, amount to nothing. If the that of a queer person who had been sent up tosome | fire annibilator is @ useful invention, and will ac- room in the garret. He was brought down—it wai | complish the purpose for w! it is intended, why Greeley himself—and the American, it seems, ro” | don’t they every day uce it in annihilating the fires monatrated with the hotel keeper for sending a ‘rep | that break out in the city? A single successful resentative of the American people” up to the gar- | experiment, applied to a raging conflagration in the ret among the servants; but he excused himsolf by | city, would satisfy every person, and disperse ore- taying that he supposed, from looking at the ap- | dulity as the morning sun does the mists of the pearance of the person, he was s vale out of | night. place, or s courier in search of a master. Fittwor® Stock R1s:no.—The nomination of Had Greeley followed the Chovalicr’s ad | rinmore, by the State Convention of Tennessee, vice, the philosopher might have esoaped being placea him almost on the same level for the suspected for a valet, aud treated a8 ® com" | « sjanghter-house Convention” that the Maine mon fervant, with his moeale any whero and |». ination does Goneral Soott. Scott and Fill- his bed in the garret’ That, however, is matior | or are, therefore, ahoad of Webster thas far. ofsmall importance, the material polnt of com- | Wow, however, wait and sce what the 4th of Plaint being the ingratitude of Greeley for the bro | nya ioh may bring out, for which day the meeting therly advice and good offices of Wikoif. inate Webster is called in thie city. The Chevalier, in his own caso, has him- batarcye eee) Melee ey Maeazing Lrrenature.—Who oan give us a self promised soon to set the matter right. At the date of hia letter he was anticipating a | history of the magazines and magazine literature of thie city for the last twenty-five years? A witty speedy rotumn to Paris—‘‘dear Paris,’ as ho called it—with the same feelings of everflow- | and philosophical history of such a nature would be interesting. ing affection for its gayeties, as Madame Do Evrore ano Cattrorxii.—The Canada ie in Stael. He promises to achieve a victory, and we shell loarn what it is after tho victory is achieved. | +. sixtcenth day, with three days’ later news from Europe, and the Eldorado is fully due from Cha He seemsto be in the confidence of Louis Napoleon, and m et be appointed to acsompany him, as é - his ecaaeaial secre tanyiini the tavasion at Bag? in tour or five days’ later intelligence from land. In any event, it is a matter of congratulation i} that Chevalier Wikoff has turned up; that, instead of being imprisoned, he is pushing ferward a delicate and beautiful enterprise, with every prospect of success; and that the world may expect soon to hear of hia return to Paris; and that it is even poesible we may be blessed again with his presence in the United States. Delightful! Police Intelligence, THE LATE DEFALCATION—ARKEST OF ISAAC N. WINN AND WILLET N. HAWKINS, ON AN ALLEGED CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCEE. In Sunday's Henavn, we briefly alluded to an exten- sive defalcation by broker, involving some $60,000, and upwards, Since then, the pclice authorities have taken @ decided action in the matter, and caused the arrest of Meerrs. Hawkins and Winn, the oo-partners of Plin White, who Is the individual mot yet captured, and who is said to have taken with him all the funds, leaving his part- nere and the creditors minus the sums due them. ‘Tt seems, from the facts in the case, thet for the last few months past Messrs. Winn & Hawkins were in copartnerehip, as brokers, at No. 5 John street, and Plin ‘White was the out-door operator im the purohase of gold dust, the capital being furnished principally by Winn & Hawkins for such purposes, which sums of money, as required, were placed in the hands of Plin White, who professed to be purchasing gold dust, at very advantagous prices, The credit of Wirn& Hawkins being of good standing, merchante, as well as meney lenders, were in- duced to invest large sums of money on short joans, for which it appears they received Jarge interest ; and fora time the most punctual payments were made, thereby eetablishing credit and con fidence to avery censiderable extent. Ail went on very weil until about the lst of February, when, in some cases, an extension of Tur Arr Usion INDICTMENT AGAINST THE Hexatp —We publish to-day, # report of the ar- gument before the Court of Sessions on Saturday, upon the motion to quash the indictment of tho Art Union against the New York Herarp. It is very curious and very interesting. The law in the caso is laid down with great par‘icularity and equal research, by Mr. Galbraith, one of our counsel; and the morality of gambling by lotteries, and tho li- berty of the prei re ably discussed by Mr. Sand- ford, his aseosiate. On the side of the indictment, Mr. Blunt exbibited as great humanity towards that instraument—of which he disclaims the pater- nity—as is sometimes observed in private life, by men of generous feelings, who protect stray chil- dren picked up in the street, or poor orphans left at their doors in the darkness of the night. Mr. Blunt deserves great eredit for his philanthropy in throwing all the argument he oould over that nudo and helpless, but interesting, document. He has— like a generous man—proved himself the father of the fatherless, and certainly has clothed the naked. We have no doubt that tho mystorious legal paront of thie strange indictment will fee! gratefal-for the humanity shown to his deserted child—a child that seoms to have sprung from a parentage like that mentioned in one of the beautiful passages of “* Pa- radiso Lost,” describing the progeny of Sin and Death :— Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; ‘The one reem’d woman to the waist, and fair, Bot ended foul in many @ scaly told, Voluminoue and vest—a serpent, armed Woth mortal sting ; about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds, never ceasing, bark’d Witb wide Cerberiam mouths, full loud, and rung A bidecus peal; va they list, would creep, If aught distuzb‘a their nolse, into her womb, sued by Wikoff, and overtaken near Turin, where, in a rather forcible way, he pressed his claims He finally, however, offered to eompromise the afiair, on condition of receiving half of the lady’s fortune. The report went on further to estate that the lady, appealing to the protestion of tho law, had secured Wikoff in prison at Genoa, in which uncomfortable situation the account left hin. This state of anxious suspense of the public mind will be instantly and agreeably relieved by the read- ing of the Chevalier’s pointed and characteristics letter. It was ungenerous, whatever may be the facts in this case—it was very ungenerous in Greeley to publish an ¢x parte statement, the only effect of which could be a snap judgmeat egaicet Wikoff Greeley was under cbligations to Wikofi. When our socialist philosopher entered Paris, it was Wikoff that took him under his care. The Cheva- lier ie a man of society, and understood what was re- quired to make Greeley passable. Wikoff accordingly had Greeley’s hands washed, his face wiped, and his head shampooed and perfumed, his boots black- ed, his pants lengthened, and his old white coat set ment. It can dono harm, and may result in gr practical atility. H HOLITION IN THE | Tre Wasnineton ORGans—A Sovrn.—While the political organs in Washing. ton, whig, democratic, and Southern rights, are weduced to the starving point, from the absence e@: treasury pap, the one thing needful to sust. while active partisans in Congress are webeming, and plotting, end intriguing, to get a division of the Congress printing anong their wespective party organ, it is & remarkable fact that the central organ of the jontete is alone, of all the journals in Washington, supported by popular subscriptions. We say this ise remarkable fact, and indeed it is extraordinary, when we con sider that Washington is wit halding section of the United St laveholding dis triet, and between Maryland a eldest slaveholding Ststee when we consider that Wasbington i te Bu t of the vational government, and le citadel of tue peculiar institutions of the Sou'h, tho fa ab- solutely surprising that an ab organ should alone be capable in that city of sustaining itsel!, without the aid of the treacury This fact ig not only remarkable rdi- | mary, and surprising, but it is sigs the highest degree, and full of 20 warning to South. The comp'e @entral organ of the abvlitioniete i Mtion rentiments are ns’ confined to Dut with their houdquarters on th Mason and Dix are rlealirg into, and rapidly di in the very heart of the South he causes of the feeble support given to, the old party organs fn Washington are various: these papers are w quated, dull, eupid, and uninteresting, behin te times, behind the progress of the ege aud the domands of the public. They profer other ing themeslvos papers, at o less cost ani of r alue, for Américain” (My God, no | the information, the news, snd the indepen’ ‘hat isa roprosentative of the American poopls.) dent opinions which they premulgste. Wosides |“, Cr un repréveniant du peuple Américam this, the whig party has been out up into sectional | Vensez vows ywil mat entenda?” reiter and local factions, and the democratic party has t » (Oh, hoavena! a r: been disorganized, especially in the South, upon the to | aside temporarily. Thus equipped, the Chevalier proceeded te take the philosopher the rounds of Parie. Thus Greeley was introduced to the fashionable moblesse and wealthy Awmeri- | cans, celebrated for their splendid entertain- | mente. But though our Fourrierite cotempo- rary bad been provided with a handkerchief, he forgot the use of it, and from ao old babit brought down from Vermont, he continued to wipe hie nose with hie fingers. Wiko® blucbed for his friend, but did not abandon him. He was crude in the waye of polite society; but he was not toe old te learn; and so the travelling companioa ef Fanny Lissler—her financial and litezary travel- ling companion--continued to act as the friend and ctcerone of the wandering philosopher. He took Greeley also to a visit to Girardin’s; but there ear philosopher div not utter a word, bu gazed and stared about the roome with bis usu i in behalf of bie friend, and they dep After seeing him eafely throug Paris Her next eaporintended the packing of two carpet bags, with w he sent our white coated wavellur op bis italian campai, When the pbilo approsched the f ja, be wal who had i ndies, and who was am fi gn travelling. ( i the yousg the ges Bobind the Consul stood Gr ok of bie head, his old wh eas ace, and a carpet bag in cach hand g, and looking li uder ia the pre Page. Th kiag a 1 tho other gentleman, “ Est ce votre Jometigue 2" (la tbat your servant?) “Mon Dieu, wm,” replied the young American, “ c'est un rep mes, Who gendurn lo ésentani du pruple morisan people! Do you think And kennel there—yet there still bark’d aud bowl’d Within, unseen * Ld < 2 * * * * The other shape— If shape it might be ea'l’d that shape hed none Pistingutehable in member, joixt, or imb, Or substance, might be cali‘d, thit shedow seem’d, For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook # dreadful dart. Mr. Blunt, as we have said, has disowned the paternity of the legal monster. But where can we light upon the unknown author himself!—for, till we | can ascertain more about him, we areat a less | whether to call him the ‘‘ great unknown” or the | “little unknown,” the “ cloan unknown,” cr the “unclean unknown,’ or whether we ought to clas- sify him with Lord Bacon, er Lord Dogberry, immortalized in Shakspeare. He has not mado his appearance, though we have offered a re. ward of twenty dollars for his name and | his ‘‘whereaboute.” Probably he is wgiting till | [i we double the reward. To draw him out, if possi- ble, by any means, we are willing to go the length | of fifty dollare; and if we should catch him, we | MK shall turn him ever to our friend Barnum, the great | Fire Annibilator. | What te court may do in the ease we know not. | ‘ time was required by Plin White, in order, as he raid, to carry out some very profitable operation The extension of time asked for was granted, and matters wept on agein until the 7th fostant, when all 28 were to have been paid; and to oarry cut the ixtention, White appointed one o’slosk on that day, to meet Mr Hawkins, and settle up. One O'clock came, but no White made his appearanse ; two o'clock came, yet no Mr. White exhibited himself. Mr Hawkins now began to be suspicious, and went in search of White in all directions, but could oot fiad him ; nor has he since been fuund—at least he had mot up to lust evening. According to the accounts given by Mc. Haw. kins and the euffering creditors, White must have ab: ‘oonded with from sixty to one hundred thousand dol- jars. which amount embraced all the moneys belonging to the concern, and of course they had to stop payment. ‘The creditors not belog able to arrest: White, their atten. tion was directed to Winn and Hawkins, whom they now charge with obtaining money by false pretences; and the folowing is an affidavit made by Mr. Oyras Soofieid, tettiog forth certain facts whereby he was induced to Joan the money :— AFFIDAVIT. Cyrus Scofield being sworn, eays that he resides at No. 36 Pike street: that deponent is acquainted with lesss N. Wi Willet N. Hawkias, lato co-partnera in business, corner ef John street and Broadwa; 2ist day of December last, the inn sud Hawkias ap- Plicd to this deponent for the loan of the sum of $3 50; that, 2 to deponent lo m, ae hereinafter men- 4 that be was worth the sum ; and. fur- ome a momber of the of $20 0W; that he re | the atoox of w! ae ‘and that he owned a house ia Madi- which and olear of all in- 4 d also the furnitare soatained in said house; ey were encaged aying gol ‘ived from Californts in t! hands of ha way” and shat they wero buying ib § 0 it impossible for them t wasa man y tre name of Scott who had agreed to pay thea for all they bought, at the rato $17 6c. por ounce, and that they | would buy mone unless at a erie’, than that, ani Thee wero by this meaua mi eo RN'ne ond id depone ‘kins repres joney to the farther says tht @ samo time, ted to depon that he had boon he had thea besome apartner of the concern, and ny money deponsat might loan th d be perfectly safe; that he w. b $20.00), and from what he krew about the impossible for depoment to loose. And d that a day or two previous to th ‘also tho said Hawking, informed ‘+t thet in oxsd any thing happened to ¢itver of them that deponent could not eID pd thatif one or both shonid dio, the ssouritins that wonld be loft would be ample to pay a: and loxned to them by depowent. And ceponentfarthersays thston the ay the representations were made—sho firat above moation- —he loaned them the sum of $3 40), to be repaid by them in eke thereafter—tnst on tho day is be Fj induced pon farsher, by repeating thi 4n4 doponent farther ince eecertained that each and ever: eof paymen| et re eee to deponen! As a matter of public interest, we would rather that the court refased the motion, and that the case | might come to a trial, in order that wo might have an opportunity of instituting a searching in- vestigation into the doings, for ten years past, of that interesting association called, by a misnomer, | an Art Union, much upon tho same priuciplo as the | echoliaste and commentators derive the Latin word lucus—a dark, shady grove—from “‘{uceo,” to shine. The Art Union is #0 called becauso it has over- | shadowed and obscured art, and obstructed ite progress. | We ehall prove far more than we have | ever alleged, and to an extent that will astonish | the community ; and we shall never quit tho cub- | ject till we chall have succeeded in winding up an association which, in practice, ia every year violat | have, upon various money due to dep they {oformed him th: able to pay him the sam, n inquited of the eaid a gold duct they had + he did not know how t Pretexts, postponed the pa: jonens until the 9h in y were utterly and ‘any part thercot; that deponent Hawking how much of the 8 ry fr ne he was induced te part wish his mo ied, whereby he has boon shoated aud defra m of $3,400, as above mentioned. ‘The above sflidavit was sworn to before Justice Osborn, who, cn the facts therein, iasued his warrant for the ar- rest of Meerrs. Hawkins and Wian. and placed the pro- cers im the bands of efficers Stephens and Crorett, who took the accused parties into oustody yesterday after noon, and conveyed them before the magistrate, at the Tombs. who detained them both fora further hearving. The following named persons are said to be a portion of the sufferers in thiz defalcation :—John P. Scott, $9,000; Jchn W. French, $9000; James W. Barker, $13,000; Teaae Scoficld, $9,000; Dr. Littlefield, $5090; James T. | Europe; and, even at present, the intemperate | | velled thirty miles into Canada, stumping and the disputes growing out of the slavery quos- ‘Von! replied the other, “s'il a catewlu, cela n? tion. Thus the central patronage of the national 2 rien, car tl we connat pas un mot de F whig and domocratic parties has boen scattered «." (No matter if he did bear you, and wasted upon a varioty of organs, both ceatral he dos not understand @ word of Preach.) and sectional. But the abolitionists, of all classes, @ your cola!” (thauk heaven for that) @nstes, colors, and siriper,threughout the whole “newored the gew/arme, and immodiately ap @ountry, concentrate their saffragos upon the oen- Prosched the philesopher, examinod him from top tral organ, and thus give it asclid and enriching | ‘v too, lo ked at hie pas » passed his carpe pupport. Tbe great object of sustaining their egt, and told tho to his fellow | Washington organ ie 2 rimplo military stratagem rm, who looked sumont on It gives them a foothold in the enemy's territery— | ‘he e-coaled traveller, a9 singular spe- @ watked battery, from which thoy may play di- of the representatives of the Amori- | peetly upon the very fortress of uthern #lavery n ye so long ae the diligence was in Theo objects of ihe contra! abolition or an are alj bt t throughout Icaly, the philo- | Girseted to the extinction of slavery in the South Tt keeps alivo, and gives courage, and unity, and energy, to ail the abolition forces of the North. ‘The direct tendencics of ite doctrines, ite cirouls. | thew, fre icoation, and its infivence, a7¢ the dpttrue- pher was generally takeo for @ valet out of place, or & courier in reareh of employment; and | When be arrived at a hotel, be wae uenaily etusk bp io tho garret with the cervante. At Venice he TCH Ve the fem tree ment. Ap Americsn, besr- | number of individuals of literary acquirements, and | | the middle ages. A history of tho profession in this ' | coming in the management of the two rival jour- | Moulton, $7,000; and many others, whose names at pro ing the laws of the S:ate against lotteries, and ex- | rent we have not ascertained, Plin White is a man abcut thirty years of age, stout pending large amounts of money on toolish and filly publizations, instead of aiding poor painters of | full rourd oon hin pyae; ead weece a, teary beer teod genius. | Meustacbe, Any information respecting his where- > | aboutr, forwarded to Mr Baker, pollce reporter for this 3 aND Amenrca.-— | journal, will be duly attended to, Notwithstanding al! the noize and blustering made | | */7¢st ofa Burglar.—-On Saturday night ofloer Kellys : * of he Tenth . to. F - about intemperance in this country, we doubs whe-, | pats ig bog a ume ie tbe qe a a ther it exists in greater enormity than it doos in #214): Grand street. On exemining the door it was found open, having been entered by a false Key. The accom plice of Haggerty was heard to make his escape ont the class bears a smail proportion to the whole popula | rear way. The etore wos ozenpied by Mr. Richard Norris | ae aergar store, Justice Timpson oommitied the accus. tion—coitainly not more than two or three per cent | 64) to prison for (aia 5 | * rd ‘ mH being intemporate in this city. We have not seen | m, it Ment Assault w athe mi aces Finn _ bier ‘eArdie, residing at No. 145 West Twenty-fourth street & drunken manin Broadway for yours; the only | itntire wore arrested on Bawattay, on a ohorge of thorovgbfares where they are met in any numbor | inflicting several dangerous stabs, witha kaife, on tho beirg Chatham stroct aud the Bowery, and thoso | Peron ti Thctuas Kernan, a tabore: in their employ. tt being chiefy Irish laborers, who have beon seeing | # that Kernan, on Saturday, oslled on MoArdis and a Fivn for the emount of wages due him; som words en- their friends, and Dutchmen who have been froely | ted between them when they knocked him down, nad imbibing lager beer. | in the sffrey Kernan received a stad under the righ’ | arm, In the regtoa of the oaillary artory, extending over | an iveh in length, Dr Hardenbrook was called to dress the wWoond, which he prononneed very dangerous, On hiug the person of MoArdle, a knifs was found wich Ennctionfexin@ 1m Tun East.—One of the can: | didatee for the governorthip of Now Hampshire | has recently, on an electioncering trip there, tra- « from a Relation Captain th ward police, Saturday, ph Kissel, ona charges of tpecchifying the whole length of the roate, before | ‘ he knew be was out of his State. Tho Canalians gazed at him with astonishment, and wondered | te what he wae talking wbout all the time. ‘This is | ie ing, 00; also bank book his brother in law. me house with his | the latest manifestation of the powors of steam, \¢ Seepects Phooey Mi rs ~ when arres electricity, and gas, as applied to electionvering. | lice, wasin the net of selling it, Justice Mount po et Bows ~ satay | itted (he accused to answer the charge, Pousric Leorvring.--Delivering public lectures scems to be growing into a profession of late ; a | Supreme Court—Speciat Wate, Decistons by Hon, Judge Ruwarde 8. Charles DP. yas and some without much, havo taken it up, and are prac- Judgment denied, with $10 artost, geanted, with $10 costs - n to etrike out part of the ranted, with $19 costes wll va. J Tugerso!t Motion to arty and attorary granted, without &ncient Greece, or the troubadours and minstrels of country would be interesting cower Who 1s iF Simon Purk}—Wuo 18 tue Reat | 1 Mx. Pickt~This newspaper question, affecting |‘) cortain literary reputation, will ve explained in the lotter of Joseph A. Svoville, our columre vson —Mo- w | war aan inserted elsewhere in |, York to Monroe « Hut the real evidence will be forth: | resid ‘ Roosevelt Koon Judgment f 10 costs of motion wale to beexaminedt as * mination nals--the “ Picayune,” not conducted by Scoville, | aud the ‘ Pick,” that will be edited by Seovil NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, From Washington. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS— BAPTISMS, Wasuinoron, Feb 15, 1852, Arrapgements for expediting the great mail between New York and New Orleans, were clored at the depart. ment yesterday, and will go into operation om the lst of March next. A large number of persons were baptized in the Pot-- mac to dey. Kee and Freshet in Px yivania. GORGE OF ICE IN THE SUSQUEHANNATIDE WATER CANAL BKOKEN AND OVERFLOWING, ETC. Purapecenra, Beb, 15,1952 J The ice in the #usquehanna this morning,formed a gorge st Washington, four miles below Columbia, and backed up to within ten feet of the floor of the bridge, which is thirty feet above low water. This afternoon the water commenced receding, and bas alredy falien Es inches, so that al! fear of damage to ‘he bridge has Tide Water Canal Is covered with ico end water from Columbia to Washinzton, where # breach of fifty yards inthe el back affords ap outlet for the water from the river, which ra hes through with great impetuosy, with Nef tem fort Should there be « sudden thaw, great damege must ensue, ‘The turupike bridge om the enst side of the river, 8) ort distance below Coiumbis. is oar ava At Harrisburg, the river 1 elear of foto Middletown. ‘There bas been a ormals eerie freshet, but it is subsiding clear of ice: as yet, no indi ent fresbet in the Susquehanna does not seem fected the ice at Havre de Grace, and the water hae now fuilen 0 low that the ice bridge is as available asever, | | Interesting from the South. THE RECEPTION (CF THE SPANISH CONST! OKLEANE—GOV. TOOTE—EINKING OF MEDIUM, BTC. —_—- AT NEW IME sup Bartimone, Feb 15, 1852.~ aThe back Southern mail arrived here this morning; but fto-night’s mail brought nothing from beyond Savannah, The Picoywne says that an official order was received in New Orleans, concerning the reception of Senor Laborde, the Spanish Consul, directing a galate to be given to whatever vessel he arrived in, “as a proof,’ writes Secretary Conrad to Gen. Twiggs, “of the rerpect the United States entertains for himself and for | his governmens and in recurn for the grave injustice dene to bim, and for the insult and offence given to his country by an uogovernable mob,” The withdraws! of Gov. Focte, as a candidate for the United States Renate, is corfirmed. In a letter, he sayr, that, being unwilling to participate in the respon- sibility of defeating an election aud thus permitting a vacancy to arise in the Senatorial representation in Congres, which would continue for nearly twelve months, it is his decided wish that his name should be no longer used in connection with the place in qurstion, if it is thought by his friends and the friends of the Union that his withdrawal would in the least degree tend to expedite the election of a Senator. e sbip Rome. which hes arrived at New Orleans from London, reports that, on the Ist of January, abe fell in with the British bark Medium, of Yarmouth, No- ve Scotia. in a sinking condition, and took off officers aud crew, and brought them in. The Medium was from New- port, Wales. and bound to City Point, Virginia, with o cargo of railroad iron. A train of six cars,en the Georgia Central Railroad, tock fire on the 12th inst ,and were destroyed, with ail their contents, consisting of two hundred and fifty bales of cotton. Twoeportsmen from Philadelphia, who were guoning on the Potonnc. vere arrests yesterday for violating the ducking law. The men were fined, and their guns and boat condemned. The cerewocy ot breaking ground on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad took place at Iilinoistown, on the 7th inst. There wee e large attendance, aud the oeremo- ny was very imporing. Negro murderer Arrested. Pot cuxexrsre, Feb 15—4!; P.M. Jonas Seemont, a negro, who committed a rape on hie ttepdaughter, agirlten years cf ge, a short time ago, which oaused her death, was arrested yesterday, near Gesben, Orange county. He was brought to this place, and lodged in jail this afternoon. Markets, Provipencr, Feb. 15, 1852. Since the arrival of the Puovtic, holders of cotton are more firm, and prices are held an eighth bigher. The nalvs have been moderate, to meet the demand for con- fumption We quote Orleans and Mobile fair at 10a 10}5c.; midéling fair, 1c ; upland fair, 924 @ 100 ; mid- dling fair, Y3gc. There is'a steady Aequiry for wool, and prices are fully up to last week's rates ‘The following arethe sales for the jweek :— Fleece, 55 700 Ibs. at prices rangirg from S4\5 to dfc, tly at 373; and die; pulled, 2,100 Ibs. at prices ing from 85 to 4c. foreign. 2,000 Ibs. at 3ic.—total rales of the week, 89 800 lbs. There has been considerable activity in the market for printing cloths, this week, and prices are firm, with an upward tendency. The sales are 61,200 pieces, Cuanrrston, Feb. 14, 1851 Cottonof good quality has advanced an eighth, under the Pacific's edvices. The sales were 1,000 bales, at 73>. aTc. Sales brisk at the latter price. Tre Mint in Paivaven.rnia ann THe Mint Prorrvetive 1s New Yorx —The Savannah Georgian of the 1(th inst. bag the following :—Philadelphia says thet New York ebail not have amint because she is able to supply ali the demand for small coin that commerce may call for, Let us see if this beso, Last month the Phila- delphia concern vurned cut reventy-five thousand cf gold dellars,to three and a half millions of dollars in conble eagles, Thus it is always with their facts. They talk big. boast largely, ewear like our army in Flanders, but their deeds falsi'y all thelr professions ‘They can’t rupply a millionth part of the demand for gold dollars. Pollitical Intelligence. Mx. Firimons in Auten County, la.—Ata meeting of the whigs of Allen county, Ia, held at Fort Wayne, on the Sst ult ,a resolution was d, expressing the ut- most ecnfidence in President Fillmore, with a full appro- val of bis foreign and domestic policy. Court Calendar—This Day. Unitry States Disraicr Covnt.—=Nos. a, 92, 23, £4, 26, 27, 28, 30, 52, 33, Burneme Cot General Term —Nos. 110, 16, 18, 19, 21, 26, 23, 29, 40, U2 88, B4, 1, 4, 85, Ci jatudsy. 10R CouRT ~ (Twe branches )—Nos 29. 27, 987, 8g 226, 236, 247, 280, O24, 844, 352 853," 354, 858, $60, 861, 10 to — Dealers bess assortment in city at KELIY & FE«GUSON'S, ab No, 200} Broadway. Store eatending back to Keate stroct. —_—_<—_<_<—_—_—<——___ MONEY MARKET, Buspar. Feb. 16-6 P. M. The stock morket clored yesterday heavy and de Pressed. Quotations were not sustained at either board, and the two speovlative stcoke of the day—Delaware an Reading have doubtless reached their maximum. The movement in Reading has been 9 regular corner; that in Delaware and Hudson was legitimate and upon 6 better Dasix, Prices ruling now for Delaware, are not much above the intrincic value of the stock, while those ruling for Reading are far beyouu its value, even for speculative purpores, It has for some time beom the opinion of ths abrewdost operators in the stleet, that Reading was very gocd stock to buy at fifty and to sell short at siaty. Above that price it was dungerous to hold. Those whe speculate between these points will make a safe thing og it. Exie Railroad has alos! beon lost sight of since the excitement in Reading ecromenced. It, has not varied wuch in market value, and very little is sald about ite reaching par very soon. It no doubt seems strange to these who have such @ igh opinion of that stock, how an eight per cent stock ehculd sell at twenty-two ard three per cent below per. ‘Lo these who have thoroughly investigated the financia! affairs and trafilc operations of the company, it uppeare extraordinary that present prices are sustained. 1: is fortunate thet all speculators do not think alike. Harlem has not varied one per cent for nearly a month, Lately, transactions have been limited, and there ie not the frst indivation of an inflation, The Convertible Extension Bonds of this com- pany occasionally sell in the market at seventy per cent; but three per cent above the curcent value of the stock. In the event of an upward movement being made, and the stock should rua up obove the ruling prices for Ex- tension Bonds, they would bs converted, and the bears would have a source of supply which the bulls could not control. It isthis that keeps the stock 40 mush depressed, and it will, we fear, be along time before the cause is removed. Mortis Canal has for some time past bee, steadily settling down, aud it appears to be the general impression that it will touch points much lower than thore now ruling. The old injunction has been dissolved; but we learn that an application will soon be made for another, We know pot upon what grounds the Chan- cellor dissolved the first injunction; but as the company are illegally transfering the oid stocm, it will not be diffi- cult to place restrictions upon them again. New Jersey is certainly a great place fcr law ead justice. Norwich and Worcester has been }sid on the shelf. The move- ment made in it rome weeks since will last along time, and, perhaps, by keeping the stock perfectly quiet, it may gain encugh strength to stand another inflation, Hud- son Railroad is lower thaa a week since; a few shares are sold daily. Long Island does uot fall off as rapidly as anticipated. Holders appear to be impressed with the belief that it is worth much more than current prices, and exbibit no anxicty toseli. It is our impression that they aresbout right, The company has been doing agocd business during the winter. Tho Zine Stocks have been much neglected lately; very little stock is on the market Buyers have supplied thezseives,and the demand is, therefore, moderate. 80 litile is known about these | etocks that outsiders show no inclination to touch them. Notwithetandivg the large weekly shipments of specie from this port, and the limited receipts from California, the money market ccntinues esey, and loans are easily effected at rates of interest ranging below the legal standard. For all ordinary purposes money ie abundant. As the seston advances we mutt look for @ more active demand; and, if the quotations for foreign exchange do not decline, the probability is that we shall havea more stringent market, and, of course, higher rater of interest, If the large exportation of specie is not arrested in seme way, an easy money market for avy length ef time is utterly cut of the question, This is the most importent point for the conrideratiun of the bankers and financiers of Wall street, and it would be well for them to give it their earliest attention. The Superintendent of the Banking Department ef this State has given notice that all the circulating notes of the Merchants’ Bing, late of Canandaigua. and now of Naples, Ontario county, must be presented at the office of the Superintendent {or payment, within two years, or the funds deposited for the redemption wili be returned to the owner of the bauk. ‘The statement we furnished a day or two since. reapect- ing the Reading Railroad, taxen from ofiizial documents, shows most conclurively, upon @ critical examination, that in the item of expenses there has either been a grose error made, or that a siogular saving of expense has taken place, which at least deserved @ parsing notice. The management Lave suddenly eoonomized expenditures ghd no particulsr depariment is epoken of as showing where thie striking economy bas occurred, It certainly | ooks strange, and we hud almost said suspicious. To make there allusions plsin, it is only necessary to atate thet in 1850, the quantity of coal transported was 1.371,- 507 toms. on which the expenses uf the roadway depart- ment was $154 780; and the dumpage amounted io $89,748 aAbOUAN Ss GESTS 44 64i50 bhai wade bs 958 $244,628 In 1861, the quantity transported wae 1,650,270 tons, which isan inercuse of about 300,00 toue, and the rcadway department exbibice | $m expense of $100,000; dumpage, $98,844; | total. | ‘208,41% + $23,883 This excers of $20,833 om 260,000 tons, in the roadway department and dumpage,is mot quite eight cents per ton, while the previous reports of the oompany show that | the aversge expense of these two items is twenty two | cents per ton. If this average had been charged on the 800 CCO tone, it would have appeared full $12,000 more than was actually charged. and it probably then would have been cerrect, We find the renewal fand is on the | Wrovg side of the account $18,716 29, which the mane_ 262, 65, ‘260, 151 "1624488, 285, 268, 69, 107, Ci, 310, 3:7) | RETA Fay they bellova © will be repaid by the usual sppro. £88, 363, 364, 966. | Priation of the coming yeer, This fund should be kept = fuil handed for contingencies, and its deficiency shows it cohen Onin ee Fallrond | to ve insufficient to supply the ordinary wea: and teat of pany contix: ot yemmie the road and equipment. No new locomotives have beep im Angusre, | Purchared duing the past year. So says the report ; Sees eae oon | hence the depreciation in the property has exhausted the The Ruprese Fees iw contianoe to leave Charlooton até | Whole fund, ard brought {tim debt to the general fund. P.M. mt ates Bt S noxt moraine rem | From what we can glean from the report, we have n, £ hits an ey Exyrese. dy tho paasongertrein. {| doubt but that the business of the road during the pas, peste ail pointe ie sone | year has been disastrows, although the merchandise trans. 2 and Kispivel, despaton boing given to their goo | ported has been larger in quantity than any previovs Carelina, Georgia, Alabama, Fenne KING, Jr., Excelsior —Becbe & Co., Fashionable Hate 1 B Fospeottully soliei the atten: a of their peter m nibiie generally, to he Spri Fashivy tor Gearis Which they will introduoe os Saturiny, the i4 h day of Fobruary. Co. fool assured Mhat tiisatyle will commend tinsel? to the hat-wosriug oom- munity, ano %i)l inoura the: samo Mboral patronage which they have herotofcre recelved. N. B.—Fate of any style, bo | ae meat issvidious, will be furnished ab tho shortest | Spring Clothing at _wholesnle.—We beg | fears to oni! She attention of Wostern and Southern mee, | ting our eity for apring puxchases, to our si00k of Zummer Clothing, which was never so large nor 8 onr msnnircture of shis sexton, It embraces | every atw rnd able style, manufa with all the taste and elcranee for which our establishment is—we think ma cvlabsated, and our brieee serlotly Jew and ani | Band 38 John, corner of Nasoaa | ener of Nascau street, Juiting tOlean | } Fourteen of the bors Artists if me BH: ressing eatablinn- | ment ip thi abe >a rieeure anwar There sro clen the thoussnd! of a cegal ro fhe ontd of! Now oting! Fourtecs bash the ante-roow Hisir-outting or | Noman feels himself ne nm sored m0; jencics, than over were | r walls of any tonsoriel establish. 2 onrth, Ho sey all who seo it D te cclow ob she ¢ i tising it for pay, all over the country, as parsons t 5 practise preaching. Wandering public lecturers = "97" uirv Ge Som toa aed son's eat | Beem to be very much like the wandering poets of | op ita ie, commencing thie week. Their columns will soon | * a] —Complalat tel) the truth fumodistely without distur. | odor isis applied, or sold, at | n'e Wig and Toupee wanmtactory. | PmueGs OF wold, at | cople find the only Consolation from er trying every im source of happinots— y Invalid aftor ox : : Overy pomsieln imagin= y re finda certain ma De. Watts’ Kloosrical Fluid, or Kervows Antidote, 1s nover has failed yet, and | . enzo Disease nnd Consumption, Depot 102 eb, $1 doitle, $1 a dozen, end Toupecs—-Betcholer’s Mew te are promomnoe: # froliation of | hos B te. bie you ty di flair Dye t# withony f aver ; celebrated Liqetd A tor heir of 0 1 onne | ay + este, or applied inp. 18 is fo Mo, @ Wail wrest Cor | | year. The rhrewd operators in Wall street, who jook et | faots, old the eteck freely, knowing full well it was sell- | ing, some three or four weeks since, above its valve, and at that time fifteen per cort below its present peise, Tho desperate pesition ef the company warranted there con- | clusions; but a moving spirit im Pine street imegined » corner could be carried on, and honee laid bie plans, te hen, for the moment, most essentially Neceed the bears; but the end of all these movomente is the some, The party, or parties, now holding, must ei/her let go or holt au article which cannot be sold but at an enormous saori fice, The game is neazty up, and shortly we shall have the stampede. Home time since we gave the aggregate amcant of the | ending departments of the banks of this city, made 1 from returns published by each institution. The eu nexed is an official statement, furnished the Albany | Evvning Journol, wy the Comptroller of the State :— Nev Youn City Banas. Resources. ‘Sept, 21, "61. Dee, 27,764 opt to di- wees ee «$59,910,253 $58,108,990 Loans and dieeounts oxo Teotors and brokers. . Loans and discounts to directors. 4,202,961 4,121, to" All other linbilltier, absolute or con- tingent to brokers..... 475,737 | 443,081 Al! sums due tom brokers 191260 J.91L Real estatesscsseese 2,897.079 ee. Bonds and mortgages. . 248,827 Blocks ..... seereeases +» 4914879 Promissory notes other than for Wana and discounty.... . 20,052 804,327 41773 6032 403 10,909,135 Bills of nc 1,065,847 Due fromeolvent banks re Due from suepended ba 4,008 Add for cente...,., ‘ aa Total resources... $06,023,107 $01,007 bo babes + $24,008.100 $36,199,640 otes in’ ‘ciroul tA al TOD is eeee . 72 an yieie Registered notes in ci: siosece oars Due Rrearnrer of State of N.Y... | ‘Sat O79 lepositors ondemand...+.... 86, 7 ‘ individuals and corporations, en other than banks and doporitors — 817,253 g Bae banks on demand 10,777,041 10, Due to others not wither of the above Add for conta,...... ‘Total Mabilitior,...... ata Ww aM due vat +e $05,526,107 §:04 067,699 The reports of eeventeon incorporated and twenty-one banking aseociatons, aro iueluded in the above aggre eaten for Beptember; and ot roventeen imoorporated awl twenty three banking oesootations fm the above sagre- eter for December, Fince the September report two parc ciation ce em aeeta§ anit Liatttio ~ eae Ge vusia’