The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1852, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOB. OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. @FFICE ¥. W. CORNER RMS, cash in advance. FERN PY HERALD. 2 cente per copy—$7 per annum, FUE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, ot 6M cents ‘copy, er $3 per annum; the Buropean Edition, $4 Ke Continent, bork include the postage. ; SALE LETTERS by mail, for Subscriptions, or with Adver- ta, to be post-paid, or the postage will be deducted from remuted. SSOP PRINTING exccuted with ‘neatness, cheapness, and —Pirnps is BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Rarrar Bouman Foun. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Wirviam Tevn— Tur Kenpezvous. \yrarw ov our Wareu—Cump or tie Re- WIBLO'S omen. : BURTON'S THEATRE, Chambers etreet—Twerrra Mronr—Karnew Exerren, NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street—Magic Wert— Sisce oy Thironi—Barn Bi AMERICAN MUSEUM—Awvsine PexroManome in wae ArrsRNoow AND EVENING, BOWERY AMPHITHEATRE, Pesronmaxces. es CURISTY’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broad | way—Exmoriax MinsTRELEY. WOODS’ YINSTRELS, Woods’ Musical Hall, No, 444 | Broadway—Rrwiorian MinsTRELsy, | Bowery—Equmeraran | New York, Senday, March ‘The News. . The House of Representatives yosterday passed the deficiency appropriation bill, after having agreed to all the amendments, and incorporated a section that no moneys for Indians shall be paid to attor- | neys, agents, or other ps than the Indians them- selves, for whom appropriations havg been made. | [strictly carried out—and the welfare of the red nds that it should be—this clause will pre- | umong the unprineipled | al years grown rich upon | ast deal of ras geamps who have for seve ‘The Art Union Still 'n Trouble—* Lottery a Greater Puszl: than ever. Contrary to our intimations and hopes, the in- junction on the Art Union has been continued by Judge Duer, as will appear by the report of the legal proceedings before himyesterday, inserted elsewhere in our columns. No distribution of the splendid paint- ings of this concern will take place on the day desig- nated in their last bulletin, nor is it possible to tell ex- actly what will take place, or if anything will take place. Judge Duer seems to be more puzzled than ever on the constitution, position, and character of the Art Union, and the great features of its past history— that of a revived species of lottery gambling, mo- nopolized by them under the charter granted by the Legislature. As far as we can understand the report of the legal proceedings, it would appear that Judge Duer had made up his mind to dissolve the injunction, without touching the question of lottery gambling at all, in respect to its constitutionality; but this lottery business is such a puzzle that it throws the best balanced intellect into confusion and disorder. The Judge could not enter on the question of the constitutionality of the Art Union lottery without hearing more argument, and therefore postponed his decision, re-affirmed the injunction, and leaves the matter for future adjudication. In the mean- | time, Mr. Blunt, the District Attorney, steps into the foreground as the principal performer, and will bring the whole question of the lottery and its consti- tutionality before the appropriate Judge on next Sa- Tudeed, we do not see very clearly why the District Attorney did not bring up the question on this motion yesterday, before Judge Roosevelt, without increasing the delay, or keeping the mana- | gers of the Art Union on tenter-hooks ; partieu- larly the ladies, who want the drawing either {to take place, or not to take place. We do not want, as plaintiff in this case, to officiate any longer as volunteer District Attorney for this district, and we should like to see the regularly elected District Attorney boldly step up, take the business out of our hands, and carry it through according to the constitution, and aceording to the Revised Statutes | at large. the appropriations made by the government for the | protection and subsistence of the ignorant and al- most helpless aborigines. The bill passed by a vote of 85 to 76, and appropriates upwards of three mil- ions of dollars, of which $88,200 are for the dry dock ‘A list of the different purposes for which this large amount of money is to be expended will be found under the telegraphic head. | Very little business of general interest was tran- sacted in the Legislature yesterday. A spirited de- bate was carried on in the Assembly, relative to the canal lettings, which will likely result in the pas- sage of Mr. Cushing's bill, declaring the contracts legal, and directing the Auditor to pay the drafts of the Canal Commissioners. There is evidently a de- termination on the part of a majority of the mem- bers of both political parties, to smother with words the abominable manner in which the lettings were awarded. Thus fur, there has been a great deal of ialk and very little work on the subject; in- deed, the only measure that has been brought for- ward to settle the questi ality, is the bill noticed by Mr. Conger; but even this makes no pro- vision for the retention or recovery of the three mil- lions of dollars of which the people are unjustly de- prived by the contracts. Members may as well r jargon on the subject, for the more they worse it appears. Unless they can reme- 1, they had better let ib alone. sembly agreed to appropriate $19,582 for the pur- ing the natural history of the State. morning enabled to give the resolu- y the whigs of Pennsylvania and 8 The o be based on the vd a protective tariff. to be “the 2 of the age,” eulogize and conclud at Brooklyn. cease { of e« conventions. ate hero, by port General Scott The | Lor wise and libe: m of protection to home labor, declare the compromise a final adjustment, and choose Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency—but, in thus making knowa their pre- ference. acknowledge that there are several othcr able and di ved men in their ranks, and that they will support l-irfed patriot who ms be selected by the Nat ion. The action the Pennsylvania whi ly surprise the | memb the came party in several of the South, | es, who have been calculating upon the pos- hat the Keys one might have the casting in the Slaughter-house Convention, and that it would be thrown in favor of Mr. Fillmore. As m opp! n to Gen. Scott, zs of Petersburg, Va., have already made known their determination not to sup- an indication of Southe port any candidate for the Presidency who will not | publicly avow his approval of the compromise. This fecling will become more general as we pre- is our Southern boundary. Gen. Scott will have to come out and fearlessly ; roclaim his approval of the whole of the omnibus laws—clso, 1 shauld constitute the 3 they have been in- be a mutiny in withdraw from balance of power, and vo structed, there will most the camp. The Southe ners will the field, put up a Union candidate of their own, Gen. of se, will * plate and render the defeat of the whigs certain. Scott’s letter, dated before the incorp the Fugitive Slave Jaw into the compro mn not do; the Southern people want another 1 coup The speceh of Mr on of his reception by the New Jersey with the extraordinary and rejoinder of Com. Stockton, ¥ srable attention The wonderful remarks of the Commodore will be very apt to create a seampering—a sort of political stampede--in the democratic ranks In addition to expressing bis admiration of Mr. Webster, nan of massive capacity and incorruptible virtue, he | stated that he himself (Com. Stockton) was a federalist in grain, and that, had he lived in the days of the federnliets, he would have done as they did. He also acknowledges that he is in favor of a | tariff. The Commodore is the vory first ameng the many aspirants for the next Presideney who has | completely uxbosomed himself, and given vent to his moet inward thoughts. This is honest, and no mistake. Let the other candidates follow bis exam. ple, and then the people will be able to knowingly | decide who is the beet man The coalitionists of the Massachusetts House of | Representatives are in a greet state of excitement about the Maine Liquor law. They are utterly op- | posed to all amendments. | A despatch from Boston announces that it has | already been discovered that Brewer, the teller of the Suffolk Bank, is a defaulter in the sum of neariy twenty-eight thousand dollars; and rumors were current that recent developements rendered it evi- | dent that the deficiency was much larger. The ac- | cused has been held in the sum of twenty-five | ‘thoueand dollars for a further exaraination on Tucs- | day. The brothers &knpineki have been found guilty of the murder of young Lehman, the pedlar, in Phila- delphia Our eolumns this morning contain many articles fa melancholy character. We have the partieu- Jars of the fulling of two buildings in the upper part of the city, by which two men were instantly killed, and several were seriously injured. tis feared that a number of others are still buried in the ruins. M. Maillefert has furnished our reporter with some fur- ther information connected with the premature ex- plosion on Friday, at Hurlgate, which has resulted in the death of three persons. Au account of the wreck of the schooner Reaper, and the drowning of three of her crew, ina gale of wind, on Thurs day, will be found under a proper heading. ‘The rteamship Prometheus, with two weoke’ later hom Collies, s poy about duc. a The As- | , together | Tn the meantime the Art Union, and especially the great question of the day, ‘tis alottery a lottery, or is lottery not a lottery?” are beginning to at- tract the attention of all the journals, far and near. The most of our country cotemporarie:, who have thus far spoken on the subject, scem to think that we have queer judges and very queer lawyers in this great, mighty metropolis, if they cannot read sim- | ply and plainly the provisions of the constitution, | and apply them simply and plainly to to the practi- | eal affairs of life. Many of our country cotempora- | ries will, no donbt, attribute all this mystery and | puzzle about the lottery-gambling Art Union, to the | influence of Wall street on the perceptions of judi- | cial minds; others will think that it is impossible for | the judge of any court in New York to come toa | rational decision on any subject, when there are | so many omnibuzes running, so much noise in | Broadway, swch a number of cheap theatres, and | particularly such a multitudinous quantity of | grogshops as we have in this city. Well! we must acknowledge the effect of all these an- | Royanees on the clear and rapid process of mind, | either on the bench, in the bar, or elsewhere | in this mighty and populouseity. In Judge Daly’s | famous extra-judicial opinion on the constitu- tionality and legality of lottery gambling, there was, indeed, a manifes: want of historical knowledge on the subject, and more particnlar- | ty still, of legal knowledge, even as to the his- | tory of similar institutions in England. But the | errors and forgetfulness of Judge Daly, in his volun- | teer opinion on the legality of lottery gambling, | may be attributed to the noise and confusion, and le work that we always have in New York, and | terrik | net to the natural cle | possesses, were ho drinking from the clear springs ofa country life. As to the other opinion, of Judge Jo: it amounts more in appearance to a | certificate for some new medicine than to an impor- tant legal opinion on the constitutionality of lottery | gambling. The venerable Judge referred to no de- | cisions, quoted no clause of the constitution, spoke of no statutes, seemed to know nothing about the subject ; but merely pronounced an opinion as is an opinion—such as a man would do on the qualities of root beer, or Brandreth’s pils—such as Jack Bunsby does inthe play of ‘* Dombey & Son,” when performed at Burton’s Theatre,—entrance fee, fifty cents. . “Is a lottery a lottery, or is a loitery not a lot- tery 1’ This is still the great question of the day, | and has yet to be decided by the civil judges. It is | true our principal criminal Judge, Recorder Til- lou, whose opinion has yet been untouched by any | other authority worthy of a moment's notice, stands alone, as giving a distinct, clear, and unequivocal perception of what alottery is, and how far it ought to be tolerated under our constitution and laws. | The other judges are yet in thefog. We shall have mess of such a mind as he ng | tocarry itupto the Court of Appeals, for a final | and conclusive judgment—and there we shall find | no difficulty in agcortaining that a lottery isa lot- | tery, and nothing else. Tor Forrest My —In @ newspaper some- | what known in the community, called the Hura.p, | we find the following queer notice | Come ar Last.—In justice to Mr desire to state that his menuseript on the Forrert mys- reached mie last night, It had been misdirected to 120 White street, instead of to $3, and had Inin at wrong place for six days. Unfortunately, it ame to nd too late for my paper of this week. and too late, »,to protect my mind from erroneous impressions of r. Stevens’ actions, It is now my duty to say that he faithfully kept his promise, and that the statemont will appear next week EORGE WILKES. | Editor National Police Gazette. Tn other words, Mr. Forrest requested “to call and settle.” If ever those ‘‘mysteries” are pub- lished, we doubt whether they will not make many startling disclosures. We doubt whether they will give any information ot the Astor Place riot. We doubt whether ‘Rome will bowl; and we doubt | whether Mr. Forrest will call and settle. Andrew Stevens, I THe Viera Democratic Coxventios Tt | appears that the “young fogics” stole a march up- on the ‘‘old fogies’’ at the Virginia Demoeratie State Conventien, by moving a little in advance of | the true time, and putting one of their own men in the chair. According to the secret history of the Baltimore Convention of 1844, as we are informed, the same identical game of taking time by the foro- lock was played on that occasion, which resulted in the nomination of Polk, notwithstanding Van Ba- ren had a decided majority of the delegates. Somebody put the clock forward a quarter of an bour or #0, and when the “old fogies” assemblod, the “young fogies’? had organized tho meeting. Let the old ones bear this in mind when they mect at Baltimore in June, or they may once more be too late. Our Nationa Devexces.—Gen. Totten has re- ported in favor of keeping up strong our seaboard fortifications, against the possibility of a war with England. In the meantime, England is preparing her defences ageinst Louis Napoleon, and all Bu- rope is e¢rming. Will there be war? Will thore be interveotion? Where is Kossuth? Where is <inkel 7 Where is the Central Hangarian Revolu- onary Committee 1 Have they any more muskets at two dollars apiece 7—any rifle@—any artillery 7 We shall want thew all. Our Chief Nngineer of the army recommends ue to arm fora war with Bogland. Tur Minxt--Painaperrxta Mass Mesting.— The Philadelphians hold a maes meeting to-morrow night, on the subject of the Mint. Good! The subject had almost been forgotten, and Congrosa ought to be reminded of it. Agitation is what wo want. We shall be sure of the branch Mint, if our neighbors come to the resoue. Nothing like agi- ation, From Canpenas—Dy the bark William Larrabee, Capt. Gilkey, arrived yesterday, we have dates from Car- denas to the 13th, Since inst adviees businest has been more briek, and Lp a) had improved. Several vessels were taken vp at for ‘ Joy MMB EP At $8.0 96 per hogebead for mgar, aud The lecture season, which is now all but closed, has proved to be a very unproductive one, notwith- standing the great number of laborers in the field. The most popular series was that delivered in Broad- way Tabernacle, under the title of the “ People’s Lectures.” This course, chiefly in consequence of | the small charge for tickets, attracted large audiences, the attendance averaging perhaps fifteen hundred a night; and as the half of the receipts | was paid to the lecturers, it will be seen that these | individuals brought their pigs to a good market. Some few of the productions possessed considerable interest; but the majority of them were the merest trash; having no merit to warrant their being read to an intelligent audience. There was, however, one prominent feature apparent in mostly every one of them, tending to prove that there was a certain unity of design in their preparation, and that all were intended to subserve the same object—that | feature was the sentiment of abolitionism, with which they were deeply tinged. When this course of lectures was announced, at the beginning oféhe winter, the originators of it kept behind the scenes, concealing their names from the public. Some of them were abolition edi- tors, and the rest preachers gnd advocates of anti- slavery; and being well known in the community for the violence of their opinions, and the reckless- ness of their couduct on this subject, they felt con- vineed that, if it was generally known that they were the prominent movers in the scheme of insidious propagandism, it would fail for want of support. Consequently they kept in the background themselves; but they selected as their instruments in this game some of the bil- terest anti-slavery agitators of New Bngland. From this and other circumstances, we foresaw the drift of this plan, which was represented by the abolition journals of this city as being of a most laudable, beneficial, and philanthropic character. We were convinced that, though its avowed purpose was the dissemination of useful knowledge, yet the real motive and design of its manggers was to make it the vehicle for propagating their own dangerous ideas. And we so stated in an editorial article, at that time. Our anticipations in this respect have been fully verified by the lectures since delivered. Though none of them openly took slave institutions as a topic for their discourses, yet all, with one or two exceptions, branched into it, and brought the artillery of their eloquence against the men and things of the South, taking advantage of the large assemblies who had met for amusement or instruc- tion, to introduce this subject, which was entirely foreign to the occasion. Those who have attended this course, and listen- ed to the vague, inflated moralizing of Mr. Mann; the dreamy, speculative ultraisms of the transcen- dental Emerson; the impetuous, revolutionizing ravings of the irreverent Honry Ward Beecher, and the smirking, pharisaical delineations of loaferism by Mr. Patton, and much other stuff, similar in kind but inferior in quality, must have felt thg impres- sion that, though in all these productions thero was nothing valuable in itself—no new fact expounded, or new idea developed in morality, science, or litera- ture—yet they were all deeply imbued with the leaven of abolitionism, which permeated thei all, and made their design and end apparent. Thus, these lectures were the mere cloak used for the purpore of propagating pernicious principles. They were the vehicle through which the poison of disunion might be infused into the community with the greatest effect. Anti-slavery doctrines were artfully inwoven into them, and very few of the lec- turers failed to make use of the opportunity ac- quired, by misrepresentation, to denounce the cha- racter of Southern planters and their institutions. This subject was the ‘ snake in the grass” whose folds their long-winded sermonizings were sure to develope. And in this insidious, designing manner, did the abolitionists in this city seck to spread their doctrines, regardless of the serious conse- quences in which they might and did involve the community. The effect of thus publicly countenancing an agitation which knows no bounds and dreads no consequences, must necessarily be to make the citi- zens of Southern States avoid a city where such things are not only tolerated but encouraged. The patronage and support which our mercantile and trading classes give to journals professedly estab- lished on anti-slavery principles must have the effect of depriving themselves of those benefits which they would derive from Southern traders. The hotels and places of public amusement are, in consequence of the same system, likewise seriously affected by the comparatively small number of Southern visiters who now come to New Y So general is the evil done by thus fomenting dis- sension betweon North and South, that, as we have learned from good authority, the number of visiters from the South, now in New York, is two-thirds less than the average number in former seasons. It would be impossible to estimate the extent of the injuries inflicted on the industrial classos of the city from the causes we have specified; but we have been informed of one incident which will serve aga very good illustration of them. come here from the South to make large mercantile purchases, happened to go into the Tabernacle, to hear one of the people’s lectures. The lecturer, as might have been expected, made a detour, and in- troduced the slavery topic, indulging in some most | abusive and insulting observations on the character ofSouthern planters and their institutions, which elicited much applause and some hisses. Justly in- dignant that this highly improper conduct should be encouraged in a public assembly, these gentle- men met next morning, and, on deliberation, re- solved that they would evince their sense of the insult by declining to deal with the merchants of New York, and, on the same day, they took their departure for Philadelphia, where they transacted that business which they had intended to do here. This incident should demonstrate with sufficient force and clearness the results which must necessa- rily accrue to our citizens from persisting in lending their countenance and support to euch agitating schemes as that of the ‘ People’s Lectures.” The community has alroady suffered much injury from the favor they have shown to a set of unprincipled demagogues, who are actuated by no higher senti- ments than those of vanity and self esteem; and their interests imperatively require that they hence- forth set the mark of public disapprobation on all similar attempts to stir up disunion betweon the Southern and Northern sections of this republic. City Intelligence. ‘Tne Late Acerpext ox tae Haniem Rarnoan.—The Coroner's jury, empanelied in this case, assembled yester- day (Saturday) morning at the appointed hour, at the New Haven House, corner of Twenty-reventh strect and Fourth avenue; but the witnosses not being in attoud- ance. and several of the subpoenas not having been served, the invertization was adjourned till Monday morning. when it will be proceeded with at the Coroner's office, City Hall Tuy Case of Canxen.—The motion before the Court of Appeals to quash the writ of error in the case of Henry Carnel. was granted on the sole ground that the former decision of the Court in the case of the Poople va. Cor- ning. 2d Comstock, covered the ground. and that the writ of error having been brought before the passage of the law just passed authorizing writs of error in behalf of the People, the latter law could not avail on the pending mo- tion, The motion to quazh was granted without preju- dice to the right of the District Attorney to bring a new writ of error under the new law. It ix understood that a writ of error will accordingly be immediately brought nider the law just parsed, asabove referred to, Mr. Div vt, the District Attorney, will procure another writ on the pa’tt of the people. during the coming week. under the recent 1‘; and the whole matter will be brought up for argument before the Court of Appeals at the May term. Suppex D'ATH ny Tyenvs Peven-——Coroner Ives held an inquest y.“terdoy. nt a houre situated in Fortieth street, on the be &y Of Barbara Keistlor, a native of Ger- many. and 80 yeu, * nee, who was taken suddenly with the typhus fever. wh ‘ch eanred her death ina very short time. The coroner vy called to hold and inquost and make a post mortem exar“mation on the body, in conse- quence of @ rumor in the neighborhood that she had come to her death by poiron, The post motes examination of the body wae made by Dr. Lidell. which exhibited no figne of poiron, and this catiefied the minds of {hose who had circulated the rumor A verdfet woe yendored of denih yauerd by typhus Sever, A few weeks since, eight gentlemen, who had | The Destructive Fir: in Broadway. Early yesterday morning, a very extensive conflagration took place in Broadway, at the eorner of Dey street, involy- ing a destruction of property to the amount of several hun- drei tho.:and dollars, -As officer Hamblin, of the Third ‘ward, was yatrolling . is beat in Broadway, about half-past | 12 \cloch yesterday morning, he discovered smoke issuing from t!« besement of the store at the corner of Broadway and Dey ‘treet, and instantly gave the alarm. Shortly after, the J ost ( fice bell rang the alarm of fire, which wa; muediately responded to by the City Hall bell. A | la-ge number of engines and policemen were promptly on the spot; and as the smoke was reen issuing from below | the door of said store, it was supposed that the fire was confined te that building. The firemen went boldly to work; and | aving broken open the doors, after consider- able > ertion, they discovered that the fire was raging in the buildings Nos, » ami 7, which are adjoining, and | | which, in fact, were but a continuation of the store at the corner of Broadway and Dey street, occupied by Merritt, Bliss & Co, ‘ihe whole available force of the Fire De- partment was then brought to bea: upon the building in Dey street; but the fire, owing to the very combustible na- ture of the goods, had already made such rapid progressin its destruetiv: course, that the building was entirely en- veloped in one sheet of flame, and completely baffled all the efforts of the firemen. About a quarter past one, the flames burst forth with terrible fury from the win- dows and the roofs of those buildings. Fears being en- tertained that the fire would spread and an extensive conflagration ensue, a general alarm was rung, when the engine companies ond policemen of the upper part of the city flocked in large numbers to the scene of destruction. But the devouring element still continued to set at narght their combined force. ‘The flames, as they issued from the roof ofthe fated building, rose to an immense height. and were grand and imposing to behold, ‘The heat was eo intense that the firemen in Dey strect were compelled to leave their posts, The buildings Nos. 2. 4, und 6 Dey street werein imminent danger, and the roofs and framework of the same had caught fire several times, but were immediately extinguished, All the attention of the firemen was now directed to save the adjoining buildings from threatened destruction. About a quarter to two o'clock, the walls of the buildings Nos. Sand 7 in Dey street fell in, with a tremendous crash, carrying with them the rear walls of Nos. 183, 185, and 187 Broadway. ‘The scene which now presented itself to the eye of the spectator was truly magni- ficent. Sparks, cinders, burning embers, flames, and piccos of ‘goods were seen dancing in countless myriads through the sky, and were carried in every di- rection to an immense distance, The falling of the walls instantly checked the progress and spread of the flames, when the many powerful streams directed on the burn. ing ruins now operated with visible success, and the fears of interested parties for the safety of ihe adjoining buildings were greatly relieved. ‘The six story brick buildings, Nos. 5 and 7 Dey street, in which the fire is supposed to have originated from the hot airfurnacesin the cellar below, and which had been only recently erected, were completely consnmed, together with their valuable contents. The first floor was occu- pied asa storage warchouse by Merritt, bliss & Co., wholesale dealers in dry goods. fancy goods, silk, hosiery, &e ; they lost a large stock of goods by the fire—proba- ur bly amounting to $130,000—on which they have an ance of $143,000, as follows :— Franklin, Boston Reliance, Philadel Stuyvesant, New x Philadelphia, do. Manufacturer's,Bost'n 5,000 Norwich, Norwic Washington, Prov Kt 5,000 Springteld, Ma Do. N, York. 1000 Globe, Utica . AI People's, do, . Columbi Aug. In. & Bk.Co.Gsv. 5,000 Neptune 000 National, do, ,000 Ins, Co, N. Am, 5,000 Lorillard, New York, 5,000 5,000 People's, Kingston,N.¥ 5,000 Mercantile, 0,000 — Union, Fort Plain... 6,000 —Total......... $143,000 ‘The upper stories were occupied by Mossrs, Lot- timer & Large, dealers in laces and embroidered goods, whose whole stock, consisting of the richest goods sold in this market, was entirely consumed. The amount of the loss is estimated at $200,000, The insur- ance, which covers the loss, is as follows :— Niagara, New York. .$10,000 National, Boston, re Hartford, . 10.000 0 London. ...... 15,000 rpool & Lo icon. . 15,000 hattan. + 10,000 Union Mutual, 10,000 American, Phil 10,000 do 000 25,000, + 10,000 + 10,000 + 10,000 Connecticut . 10,000 Atlantic, rr 10,000 Franklin, Boston.... 6,000 Total, The inside of the building on the corner of Broadway and Dey street, (Merritt, Bliss & Co.) was somewhat scorched, and the stock damaged toa considerable extent by the water. ‘The upper stories of the same were occu- pled by Messrs, White, Bramhall & Lockwood, importers of cloths, cassimeres and vestings, whose stock is da- magced by water to (he umount of §20,0v0; they are fully insured, as follows Howard, of Lo’ Nat, v weil... $5,000 oi Sara” 5,00) . 5000 The occupants of No, 9 Dey stroct— Weaver & Richardson. importers of ‘sil timeres—had their valuable stock damaged by water and the fulling of a portion of the rear wall, to the amount of about $50.000, which is fully covered by insurance, a follo' Mercant! Jeflerson of Albany. Union, Johnsto hiawic Valley . $10,000 A ) Mutual 000 N.Y. Uy tna, Rensselaer, ‘Total pal F American Mutual, A sterdam. 5,000 : $90,000 ‘The upper stories of the building are oecupied by Mosars. Cranes & Thompson. denlers in laces and embro derics, ‘Their loss is comparatively small, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and they are insured §21,000., in the following companies :— Poople's of N. York North Western. Firemen’s.. ‘Total. $21,000 ‘The large free stone building No. 187 Bvowiway,” is slightly injured. It is owned by N. J. Becar, and is in- sured for $5,000 in the Menufacturer’s office, Eoston, and for alike sum in the Providence Washington Insurance Company, and the Franklin Insurance Company, Phila- delphia. ‘It is occupied by IT. Robinson & Co. whose merchandise is considerably damaged. Their insurance which will exceed the lose, 1s us follows :-— N. York Fire & Marine I insurance Co.. 5,000 x Liverpool & London 0) — Pacific. . 000 Total. ... +... «$40,000 Merchants 0 rr occupied in the lower story by J. Milbau, druggist. His premises are_ considerably damaged. He is insured for $5,000 in the Eaglo, and | $5,000 in the Howard Insurance Company. The upper part is occupied by J. H. Brundage. The Chief of Policeand all the captains of the lower wards, with their men, were early on the spot and rendered important services. They were busily engaged in ro- | moving goods, to the other side of the street, which bad | been saved from the fire. By the falling in of the walls one of the membors of Engine Company No. 14, named F.C, Bay, was injured onthe leg. Also. Mr. Weaver, one of the firm at No. 9 Dey street, while endeavoring to save the merchandise in the store, was struck by a portion of the falling wall, and seyercly. but not dangerously hurt. RECAPITULATION OF THE LOSSES AND 13 No, 183 Broadway was URANCES. Loss on stock, estimated $457.000 do, buildings, do. 60,000 Otel SOM ics csvscscnss $517,000 INSURANC! Merrit’, Bliss & Co, $143,000 Mott, Weaver, & Rich- Lottimer & Larze., 200,000 — ardson., 9,000 White, Bramball, Cranes & Thompson, 21,500 Lockwood ‘55,000 J. Milhaa.... ...... 10,000 Robinson & © 40,000 —— Estimate of ++» $880,500 gence from Mexico. We are in receipt of our files of Mexican papers to the 20th of February. We tranrlate, from the last number of the Universal, the following items :— Onthe 28th ultimo, the Senate elected Sr. Beltran for President, and Sr, Herrera for Vice President. On the came day, n communication from the Minister 1f Justice was read in the House of Deputies, in which tis said that when tho Prosident heard of the event yhich the Universal reported. (the assault by a saldier on Sr. Villaneuva,) he wanted to be informed of its partieu- lars, Sr, Villanenva «nid he wished to ascertain whether t was true that the President had been made acquainted with this outrage by the Universal—more, that he knew perfectly well that he (Villancuva) was challenged by his aggressor, and that he had_been informed—but he could not affirm it—that this infamy was perpetrated in tho Plaza. to please the cuprice of His Excellency, who was coking at it from the baleony of hixhoure, ‘The Deputies voted, almost unanimourly, the following resolutions :— That the Minister of War be obliged to take all necessary micasures, in order to punish the axgrossor, Don Angel Buc- nabad. That the Minirter of Justice be immediately called upon to ive some information of what happened to Senor Villa- nd if it isoertain that the aggreseor. having hoon » har boen set at liberty by the Justice of Peace, Aloer- rien, and that if the event had happened so, the Minister of Justice be made responsible forthe act. That the government inform the House, asf third day, Alcerrica. that it keeps on the cause against Buenabad wa The Ministers ef Justice and War appeared in the Tlowse. and informed it that the federal government, the district and the general authorities, did not know any- thing of what the Universal had reported, Senor Arrieta replied that the government should know all. becaure the Jaw of police requires that every morning the Governor of the District be informed of the events Which occur, and the government, of what hap- pom and, answering the Minister of War, he said that, in spite of boing « private affair, he had given various re- ports on the state of things. and it was not exact, for the matter was an outrage against a representative. If he wirhed to finish with the national representation, he was quite mistaken in his pnrpose, because the nation will nover sustain a tyrant, During the discussion. the Hous reocived a note from the Minister of State, in which be accused, inthe name of the President, the deputy ViJanueva of injurious calumny. The President of the House roroived the ap- ointment of concilinters, ax regulated by the rulos, t is seareely to be believed that Senor Rumires, who ought to know the Parliamentary practice in such mat- ters, bas consented to follow this step, when it treated of a perronal complaint of the President, That gentleman could only, by himecif, or through an empowered agent, conduct affair; but in any event, the Minister ot Ke- Jations. who i« only the organ of the official eommunica- tions of tie government, could not interfere in it, ‘The affair has created a good deal of excitement jp the se '§ OS Leased, Melancholy Shipwreck of the Schooner Reaper, off Ncw York—Three Lives Lost. ‘The pilot boat Yankee arrived yesterday afternoon from @ cruise. She brings the particulars of the loss of the schooner Reaper, of Yarmouth, Mass., and three of her crew. She was from Philadelphia, bound to Boston. Annexed is the report of the Yankee :— ‘Thursday, March 25,8 A. M., while lying to, Montauk | Dearing N. N. E. 40 milos, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the W. N. W., eaw a schooner running down for us, with rignals of distress flying, and the erew hailing us for relief; but owing to the violence of the gale, we could not understand their situation. The schooner having no sails set. we supposed them to have been blown away, and con- cluded, therefore, to lay by them until the weather mode- rated, and then take them off; but we soon saw them lower their boat and abandon her; which they had no sooner done, than she capsized and sunk, her masts hardly clearing their boat, In the meantime, we wore round. and prepared to pick them up. ‘Their leaky boat being sormall. and containing five men, it was impossible to pull her, with the tremendous sea running; and when | within 20 yards of the pilot boat, she filled and capsized. | The sehr. was 12 years old—was The captain and one man clung to the boat, whilst the mate and the other two began swimming. We hove out ‘our two yawls as soon as possible, and endeavored to save the poor fellows, but only succeeded in saving the captain: and mate—the other three having sunk before reaching them, It wag freezing at the time, and they were very much exhausted. They have lost everything they pos versed. ‘The echr. proved to be the Reaper, of Yarmouth, Mass., four days from Philadelphia, for Boston, with 4.552 bush, corn, and 50 bbls. flour, to A. Hardy, The captain states that until 4 A.M. ofthe 25th the ves#el was fectly tight, but before 6 A.M. she leaked so much that it was impos- sible to free her laying to, and he kept her before the wind, and whilst seudding he made the Yankee. The schr, was then settling so tast he was fearful she would sink before he reached her—if such had been the case no one would be left to tell the sad st A more heart- rending sight the writer would not again wish to witness, artly insured in Yar- mouth. The following isa list of ber crew, vis : Tra‘ah C. Kelly, of Harwich, captain. saved. Frederick Cobb, of Dennis, mate, raved. Isaish D. Phillips, of Dennis, cook, lost. French, of South Reading. seaman, lost. Jeremigh Kelly, of Dennis, boy. lost. Phillips has left a wife and two or three children in destitute circumstances, The captain and mate, having lost everything, rome aseistance will be required to ena- ble them to purchase clothing and reach their homos, It would be much more to the eredit of the merchants and citizens of this city to relieve with their mite the distresses of these American strangers than give their thourands to foreigners and foreign revolutions. Con- tributions may be left with either of the rescuers, at their residences: John Curtis, 152 South street; John Libby, 7 Hamiiton treet; Wm. J. Murphy, 253 Monroe street; Wm. Champlin, 118 South street. Contributions should be given immediately, as the un- fortunate men wish to leave the city to join their wives and children, now left destitute by this melancholy r. The Boston and Yarmouth papers are requested to copy this account. Affairs of San Salvador. We translate from El Monitor Republicano, published in the city of Mexico, the following correspondence :— San Sarvapor, Jan. 2, 1852. The year 1851 was happily’ terminated for the Salvadori- ans. for it abounded. from its beginning, in grave events for the State, which, by little and little. losing its violent and irregular position, order and public tranquillity re- gained theirempire, "The year 1852 now begins, and ac- cording to all precedents, it appears that the march of order and p: will not be interrupted by any dis- graceful event. The love of duty, the desire of order, the incessant cry for peace, which is heard in every part of the country, and the desire for a general and particu- lar improvement, are clements more than suflicient to (crags a happy future, if we know how to use it with skill. ‘The general and individual disorganization is advanced or retarded in the direct ratio of its longer or shorter duration. The patriotism which loses patience because it does not see the realization of all its projecte—the in- dividual who despairs of his position, because he does not immediately gather the fruit of his vigilance and fatiguos —does not work with prudence. We cannot foce na- ture, and though we may in some circumstances, if we may fay £0, compel events to follow our impulses, it is not given in all cases; and we sce always that all violent and eccentric movements never produce regularly fortu- nate results, ‘We observe in Salvador, in its progressive march, made with a firm step, slow but uninterrupted, that all the events which happen are in favor of order ; all the changes which are made are a loss to the anarchists, and a gain for social well being; with civilization, which is epread and rapidly promoted, the veil of igno- rance is lost, and all of us discover what we are, and what we are worth. The proportions which before appeared gigantic tous, are only, if lookedat by the regenerated society, for the illustration, but gloomy mistakes, which may decide our view, but never our reason. The tri- umphs of theee fe categories are and will be alwaye ephemeral, becauee being not at the lever of society, they cannot walk in a certain direction. and we see them fail- ing inall their enterprires, The world advances évery day. and it goes before a eurprising activity. Salvador, in the force of its opinion, and under the ad- ministration of Sr. Aguilar, knew how to triumph over the military power that a Malssius wanted to impoce upon the men of order and regu ‘The government of Honduras, conducted by D. Juan Lindo, and strong with the invincible force of opinion, punished the mi- litary who wanted with its arms to replace by his own ower the law of the country, The government of Sr, Pineda, in Nicaragua, gave the last lesson that opinion is stronger than arms. triumphing over a military, who wanted, sword in hand, to dispose of the fate of the Ni- caruguans, By what we have said, ang which we repea that all the évents which happer which have taken place in society, our epoch—are for the profit of order and law, loss of anarchists and demagogues. We have also said. that, for working with security. it is necessary to observ the course of causes. because if we take another march. we shall become vietims of our ignorance and our eaprices. Ifany one who wishes to know how we have advanced in the administrative directions and tn the material inca- sures. let him try to compare what we were fifleon or twenty years ago, with what we are just now. Let him examine the commercial movement—the state of our in- comes, Let him look at the men who now occupy the public offices, and compare them to those who were before, and he may be certain to admire and remark the progress which we make from day to day. Our mission is to im- pel the movement—to follow its march—to consult public opinion, and study it, in order not to live in illusions, and to suffer not present deceptions. It is also necessary to study, attentively, the causes, in order not to attribute to other persons’ the evil produced by the want of pru- dence in our ideas, and the want of understanding meu and causes. vy Marine Affairs. Lavxenrs.—Yesterday, at half-past 1 o'clock, Moss ra Perine, Paiterson & Stack launched from their yard, at Williamsburg, the beautiful clipper ship Antelope, owned by Messrs. Harbeck & Co., and intended for the Califor- nia trade. She is a handsome looking craft, of about 1,100 tons burthen, and will be commanded by Capt. Ro- bert Shinn, Her dimensions arc—length, 185 fect; beam, 28 feet; hold, 2134 feet. Immediately after leaving the Pike street, to receive her copper. Simultancous with the above, Mr, William If. Webb, from his yard, foot of Seventh street, immediately oppo- for Capt. Wakeman, and others, of Connecticut. is about 800 tons burthen, is 150 feet long on deck, 2 fect beam, and 19 fect 4 inches deep, She is a very fine speci- men of a freight vocrel, and will be employed in whatever trade will prove most advantageous, Mr. Webb will im- medidtely lay down in her place the keel of a clipper ship for California, of xbout 1,200 tons. He hns also just com- menced a large steamer for My. George Law, of about 2.500 tons, Meters, Westervelt & Mackay will launch from their yard, at the foot of Seventh etrect, E. R.,on Monday, tho steamer Cortes, for Davis, Brooks & Co., and intended to run in conjunction with the steamer Winfield Seott. on the Panama and San Francisco route, This vessel was built under the immediate inspection of Captain Wil- liom Skiddy, who also superintended the construction of her consort, ro successful in her trips between this city and New Orleans, during the past year. Tho Cortes was originally christened the Saratoga, and in- tended to run in conjunction with the Roanoke between New York and Richmond, Va., but her owners have changed both her destination and name. She is expected to be fon on her way to the Pacific. as a great part of her machinery {« already on board, from the works of organ. Erq. Capt. Thos, B. Cropper is to command her. Her burthen js about 1,800 tons, Tue Steamsmir Wasutxoror, Capt, Floyd, left port at noon yesterday, for Bremen, via Southampton. She ear- rics out cighty-two pascongers, and $42.237 in specie, Her contort, the Hermann. js expected to complete her repairs, and gail on the 24th of next month ‘Tus: Steamsnip SourueKNER, Capt. Foster, arrived yer- terday from Charleston, by which we received, through the politeness of Mr. W. C. Rising, the purrer, our uenal ample rupplics of Charleston papers, besides other Southern papers, for which we are indebted to the atten- tion of the Charleeton Courier, ARRIVAL OF CLIPPERS AT RIO DE JANEIRO. U. 8. Suir Portomoutss, Rio px Jaxnmo, Jan, 31, 1852. The frigate St, Lawrence arrived at this port on the 2th inst. .in forty-nine days from New York, and is beaten by the Portsmouth, ten days, ‘The clipper ship Hurricane. of New York. arrived the tame day. The Hurricane sailed from New York en the 17th December, and is beaten by the Portrmouth four days. ‘The Clipper hip Tavincible put into this port on the 26th inst. for water, having made the pasengo from New York in 2635 days. ‘The clipper ship Union put into this port on the doth, in thirty-four days from Baltimore, These ships are bound to San Franeireo, ‘There are now at anchor in this port fifteen American merchantmen, bound to different parts ofthe world, The Portrmouth and St, Lawrence will loave thie in two daye. for Valpuraiso. All well on board hoth ships. Wenster’s CiHances.—The Washington corros- pondent of the Journal of Commerce says:— Tt appears to be considered here, that Mr. Webster's chances for nomination by the Whig Convention have much improved of late. ‘The Scott men think so, for are becoming quite ayainet Webster. qe the of the free sei) pre oe, t ways, she was towed round to the sectional dock, foot of site, launched the no less beautiful chip Annawan, built | 'The Art Union Case. SUPERIOR COURT—SPECIAL TERM. Before J Duer. Mancn 27.—Judge Duerint that he had decided to dissolve the inyunction now in force, the institution from disposing of their und that the plaintiff in this cause aleeein such property, and consequently no right of action, Mr. O'Conor. counsel for the Art Union, that his honor would pass judicially on the chief points im the arguments involving ‘the legality of the institution, A i icial officer had already pronounced the Art egal lottery. and the president and members of the Committee of Management were im with the belief that it would not be decorous on their part to act in the face of that opinion, until they were relieved from all doubt by a different expression of opinion trom some com- petent judicial authority, They consequent not to seek the dissolution of the temporary perceive that it was not necessary that the order for tem- porary relief should be made. Judge Duer said that he doubted very much whether it would be proper for him to give such an opinion, if he were fatisfied that the plaintiff had no right to the action. It could not be permitted that a stranger should file a bill for the mere purposes of the defendant. Suppose that this bill was filed by a person who had no interest whatever real or fancied, in the p: y, and that, he tought the aid of the Court to restrain the defendants from a distribution of their property. on the that it was in effect @ lottery, though the Art Union might come into Court, and request an opinion to be pronounced on the main question. yet he, Judge Duer, be- lieved that the Court would pronounce such an opinion. If it was satisfied that the plaintiff had no right to main- tain the suit, it should dismiss the bill. Therefore, the opinion that he might give in this case, if the parties were not properly before the Court, would be extra judicial. Parties have no right to make a cause for the mere pur- poee of obtaining an adjudication. There were, however, some questions not argued, and he was unwilling to de- pron peontgedigeitcs pe gees ly Mr, Sandford.—I have not learned what difficulty your honor has encountered. Judge Duer.—It can be explained in a very few words. The prinoipal object of this bill is to restrain the distribu- tion by lot, of the pictures and other articles of value now \ elonging to the institution; and the plaintiff eannot, in this or in any other suit, be entitled to an injunction, except it appears on the face of the complaint that he has vome perronal right or interest which would be preju- diced by the distribution. You allege that the plainti(f in this case has an interest in the property by having ob- tained an assignment of an original subscription. and on this supposition that such a right of property exists, he may be prejudiced in some degree by the sale of the Pictures, On tat ground alone itis perfectly clear that the plaintiff, as such assignee, has no personal interest in there pictures, and no right of property that could be affected by the suppored illegal act which he endeavors to rain. The injunction must therefore ef couree be diseolved, I should have great difficulty in saying on the case as originally presented, that the plaintiff has ang interest whatever in this property ; for, waiving the objec- tion that the distribution is by the terms of the constitution confined to eubscribers, and waiving the objection that the shares are not made transferable by the terms of the con- stitution, and that therefore the plaintiff has acquired no right of property by the assigument—waiving these ob- jections, and considering the plaintiff as an original sub- seriber, it may be still he doubted whether an original subscriber has any right of property in the pictures to be distributed. He pays five dollars as an annual sub- rcription, and his interest ceases at the end of the year. He has no right under the constitution of the society, to any portion of the property, except he may be the fortu- nate drawer of a prize. But if the lottery do not take place, and if the distribution bo not made. the pict remain the property of the Art Unicr property of the corporation, strictly is, and no individuel can have an interest in pt that giv- en by the terms of the eonstituti eneral rule, the property of a corporation is jocation itself, and not in ‘the corporators. No) (ue terms of the charter in this particular case, the property in possession of the Art Union at its dissolution belongs to those who are members of the Society at that time ; and those who have ceased to be subscribers, have no interest in that which is a permanent property of the corporation. But there is an unanswerable objection. founded on the terms of the statute. Plaintiff seeks to restrain the drawing of the Art Union on the ground that it isa lottery ; and if it is so, it is a lottery plainly within the provision of the Revised Statutes, and I have no hesitation in saying now ihat if I were pressed to give a judicial opinion I would found it entirely on the application of these provisions. If I did not even consider them as embracing the present I should have difficulty in saying that the distribu- was an illegal lottery, and therefore [ um prepared to say that my opinion is founded on the provisions of this statute, If the distribution is nota lottery within the meaning of this statute, then I would hold it not to be a. lottery prohibiled by law. But if it is a lottery by this statute, it then seems clear that plaintiff has no personal interest in the property. because the 3ist section declares that “all property so offered for eale. distribution, or dis- position, against the provisions of law. ghull be forfeited to the people of this State. as well beféré as after the de- termination of the Chance on which the sume was depend- ant. And it shall be the duty of the District Attorney to demand, eve for, aud recover in behalf of this State all pro- perty ro forfeited and to maintain the proper actions for the tame after damand made, and to pay the proceeds of the tale of such property. and any moneys that may be col- lected in,any eueh suit, into the county treasury, for the benefit of the poor.” The consequence, therefore, is, that if this property is unlawfully offered for distribution, on the ground that it is « lottery, the title not only of the corperation, but of each individual corporator, has been divested. and the right to it belongs, at this moment, to the people of the State; and the motion of the District Attorney at present is, not to try the question bat to on- force the provisions of the statute. If the plaintiff is right jn saving that this is lottery. then he has no in- tereet at all in it. and has no more right to have an in- junction placed on it than a total stranger wonld have Mr. Sandford, piaintiff’s counsel, replied that he hi prepared what he hed supposed to be a conclusive an- sewer to these obj: cbut asthe point was not made on the other side, he had not, of course, been called on to argue the matter before. It was stated that it would be conceded Mr. Bennett had all the rigit whieh Mr. Hee originally bad, and therefore he had not referred to this matter in the argument, but he would now address to the court his answers to the two suggestions mad and which he supposed to be conclusive on this questi Plaintiff 's answ hat if this association have no au- dispose of this property by means or by any operation of chan for the A the members cannot n of the wnauthorized act of entrusted with the manage nent, Judge Duer.—How enn this be, when the feature of the distrikution is not an una rized act. but provided for in the constitution of the society, aad is nized by the Act of 1844? Mr. Sandford.— lie Art Union is recognized as a compa- having a constitution, but it is also recognized as a sl powcr to change their constitution. ne merely regulating the time when the distribution shovid take place. without saying any- thing as to the mode of this distribution. Of course, if no particular mode was laid down, then the corporation had wright to change the constitution, and in the act of 1947 this right is expr y declared, This ix the first auswer. It is perf and well settled thet the un- | authorized acts of any m do not bind the corporation onswer, Sup- jore a case of putting up of property by the owner, if the caure of forfeit the | owner in the Ujudication on f t the ennse of fortet: ist; and the District Attorney cannot main’ of trover, or replevin, or tréspass, for this property, and action founded on the statute, to that the cause of forfeiture ex- dl point of law. and T refer your tment vy. pe rights and interest of the ti) there i sted no title was vested cited that the ea is, that till to hold property ty till an inquisi her be is an alien —'T hat is a settled law, d—And in this case the principle ix pre- y rt Union acquired this property perfectly Their object. they stated was the promotion of art, On_ their theory this corpora- tion was endowed with power to purchase property for honest and legel purposes; and this distribution i« a mere result of the corporation's setion, and a mere moe of dis- posing of the property which, ex necessitate, could not be divpored of any othe If v0, this in to have their prope our porition is that | there must be judiciai proceeding taken judgment ascertained (hat ihe cause of forefeiture ex! aud the judgment which shovid produce forfeiture must be pro- nounced before the tile of the members can be affected. If this be 80, whatever rights the people of the State of New York moey have to proceed against tlie Property, that dees not affect the rights of the parties who are in- terested Inthe property to prevent the unlawful distribu. tion being made. not certain that the people will prevent the distribution taking place, and that the share. | holders are not to be deprived of their property illegally Vecnure the people may have a right to have it con- demncdand forfeited. ‘The ehareholders, therefore, have aright to it until the adjudication takes place Judge Duer—There are rome decisions oa ihe to which you have not adverted. Ax the deiendant not desire the diseelution of the injunction. t rhall not proceed to give my opinion now; but [co own views ag to ihe construction of the vs tomy duty, remain unchanged. I think however, to explain them more fully, and t give nodecirion to. day Mr, O'Conor—Our desire it, that from so ment of the judiciary we may have a review ion pronounced in the Court of Sessions. » reason I have made the observation which Ih hope that the Conrt may sce with clearness to examine and decide on the question; and we are ready to how to the decision that may be pronounced, forfeited; but Tur Prevmoyta.—This disease has prevailed aw an epidemic, for two monthy, at Petersburg. Va.. and, it with a fatality elmost eurpassing the cholera, Several worthy citizens have fallen victims to it People’s Lectures .—The last lecture of the course will Le given Tuesday evening, Yeh inst. in the Tax hernacle, by the BE. H. Chapin. Subject. t den of Popular Liberty. Sewing Machine will do what no capable of in sewing on eloth, leather, cor- ial, or, in tnct, anything that requires next, han machine profesres to « stwill ¢ Most incredulous fully eonvinced. by lly removed. Mashivos on stitebing. What this ome all—judge and be vais fod. M. SINGER & 60, 9 V Revadway, rty, on tha ~ rs