The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1852, Page 4

EEE es NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘The minority say that the majority would wate with the same readiness hereafter for any man in power, and are very indignant at the means used at the nasi—-would be, in that position, under the influc-ce @ the men, and interests, and feelings, and elements which gave him the victory. It would present, for Tae Liquor Law—Pnoranmrry oF 1x8 Avor- | ary Fzormye Foernvs 8:ave Case—Row m rae | Tae New Stars Univensirr—Prorosmp Awe miox—Wuar THEN ‘From indications in the pro- res CoMMISSIONER’s CovRT.—Wo refer | LIOBATIONS IN 178 PLaN.—Our Legislature at Al~ ceedings of the New York Legislatare, it is v Varese Bras iy our readers to the report of the strange proceedings | bany have had under their deliberation, for some likely that some kind of @ liquor law will be 19. in this State. The whig members seem ¢ prrvbaacasrs to pass it, whatever may be the conse’ quences, oven though it should lose them the Bt" \¢ next fall. In the Assembly, the liquor 18W "ays been ordered to last elections to get Custom House officers appeimd | the first time, the Prosidential controversy in this on the general committecs. Groat was the ¢xcite- country decided entirely as a sectional question, on ment inside; it will be far groater outeide,, among | the ground of irreconcilable hostility in the North- the rank and file, when they come te “know what | ern States to the institutions ofthe South. Themo- in the United States Commissioner’s Court, which | time back, the project of establishing and endowing took place yesterday, on the subject of a fugitive | a State University in that city. The final passage slave case, now pending in the City Hall. After a | of the bill appears almost certain. The scheme, af fight between the lawyers, the Court adjourned, | proposed to be carried out, embraces some peculiar PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. @FFICE MN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. was done in their name, and partiowerly when @ re- | ment that such a contest shall be so decided in this the District Judge was called in, and a fresh start | and important features. A corpe of fifteen professors, ney Santon Ae Ot cen | ‘lution was passed to smother the proceedings, and | country, that moment may be considered asthe knell | its third reading, by # vote’4¢ §1 to 36. Of the 51 | given to the affair. This excitement has been | pre-eminent in their sovoral branches of learning— " is wre keep the whig party ignorant of the doings of their | and doom of this Union. Even many of the anti- | ayes, 41 were whige, and “ly 10 democrats. There | increased by the violence, the abuse, the denuncia- | the languages, medicino, law, theology, and all the fais Prvain, and $5 to any part of | critical representatives. slavery advocates and demagoguesin New England | Were 40 absentees. Thzés vote is indicative of the | Mons, which the Zribune and other anti-slavery | natural scionces—is to be enrolled; and with these, eee eee eee ete, edected eer, | _ We perceive that the Democratic Southern Rights | and New York, are looking forward with eagerness | passage of the bill 4a the House. Out of the 40 ab- Journals have poured out for months upon tho laws, | and 128 pupils, to be selected one from each of the Convention of Georgia, ‘adjourned on Thursday, af- ter endorsing the Belitimore platform of ’44 and °48, and appointing Yerty delegates to the National Convention. The latter were not instructed; but it is understood ‘thet a majority of them favor the claims of Mr. Buchanan. At a meeting of the temperance democrats of New Haven, last evening, they resolved to support the whig candidates who are pledged to the Maine law, in preference to the eandidates of their own MO LOTUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing im- mertont neve, solicited from any quarter of the world; if wacd, welt be iberallye for. Ovk PorKiGN CORREAPONDENTS ARE PARTIOCUARLY REQUESTED TO BEAL ALL Latrens ano Packsexs text v9. Mrs NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. Wede he “SOP ‘PaivtiNe cxccuted with neatness, cheapness, and despatch. TDOVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. seers NO, 03, MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery— Rowvers’ Wire—Pi- RATE oF ne Istes—Mippy ASHORE. BROAPWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Witiuiam Ten.— Lavies Barrie. N1B?.0'S—Yo Penronnance. BURTON'S THEATRE, Chettters street—Tweirre Rieur—Maiw or THE MowNTArn, NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham strest—Wowse— Marcxe Liquor Law-OoLumma's Sows—WaRrLook or wiz GLEN. ane AMERICAN MUSRUM—Arveive Peavornmaxces m Tae AvTERNOON aD Eventva, BOWERY AMIGIITHELTRE, Bewery—Kecmraus Penronuancrs. CURISTY'S MENS TREE. weyBrarorray Marwan! NSTRELS, Woots’ Musical Hall, No. ¢ tiorran MinsTREDSY. Mochenics’ Hell, 3 Broad ¥. : woos’ Broadway! _DOUBLE SHEET. New Yorb, Saturday, April 3, 1852. ‘The News. Our special Washington correspondent, among other interesting items, announces that the Hon. Humphrey Marshall lias written a letter, in which he declares that Mr. Fillmore is decidedly the fa- vorite candidate of the Keutucky whigs—that they honor'Gen. Scott forhie great military eapa- cities, but cannot think of him as the chief civil fanctionary of the land, and that the compromise must be tho; platform of the whigs in their National Convention, else the Southerners will withdraw. This is merely a reiteration of what has been re- peatedly;promulgated in this journal within the last twovyeers. Not only the whigs, but the demo- erats, uf the South, wii demand a full endorse- ment <f the compromise prior to the nomination of anpeandidate for the Presidency. They have too ntzcli at stake—ere too great admirers of this glorious Union—to trust any man who will not openly and candidly impart to them the opi 8 he mey entertain cencerning a matter of vital im- portance to them. Yeo#erday being the regular day set aside for the consideration of private bills, very little business of general interest was transacted in either branch of Gongress. We perceive by a report made in the Senate that four sompetent engineers have, after a carefal examinaiion, decided that the foundation of the Capitol is-perfectly sound, and that no fear need be apprehended from the building of additional wings. Happy +o hear it, and hope that this re- port will allay the fears of those representatives who favored aremoval of the Capitol to some spot fur- therwest. Col. Weller succeeded in carrying his reso- lution, asking for information concerning the suppos- edmisconduct of a person or persons belonging to the Mexican houndary survey. It will be recollected that the Colonel at one time belonged to the com- mission, but was removed for some cause not yet exactly defined. In the House, the bill granting lands to Towa for railroad purposes, was sent to the Commitice-of the Whole, through the threatenings of certain’ Western representatives, who have given the members from the old States fair warning that they will oppose every measure for the benefit of the Atlantic States, unless the latter agree to give them all the lands they may ask for. The West is cer- tainly getting along very fast, and unless the old fogics loek out for themselves, these youngsters will overtap them. The House passed twenty-one pri- ills, and both bodies adjourned till Monday. observe that the famous Gardiner ease was again.brought up in the United States Court yes- terday, ond that the prosecuting attorney moved for a further postponement. There is something very singularin all this business. Gardiner appears to be anxious to refute the charges on which he has been. arraigned—is willing that the government should bring forth all the testimony it has been able to collect against him—and still his accusers are not ready for trial. Why this procrastination? If guilty, he should be punished; and if innocent, cleared. There is some mystery connected with all | this dillydallying—something more than appears upon the surface. Acoordiag to the advices from Callao, of the 9th ult., an expedition had been organized in that place forthe invasion of Guayaquil, in Eeuador. Two vessels bad sailed, and a steamer had been purchased to aid in the enterprise. The leader's name is not mentioned in the despatch giving this news, but we suppose that Gen. Flores is the mas- ter spirit of the affair. We pnblished, on the 17th ult., the intelligence, which we received by an ar- rival at Punta Avenas, Costo Rica, that such an expedition was on foot; and as Gencral | Urbina, the President of Ecuador, removed the seat of government from Quito to Guayaquil, on the 12th of January, to be prepared for any revolutionary movement, we suppose that the affair was known or suspected by the authorities in Ecuador. Gen. Floros has made several efforts since his banishznent from Ecuador, by Gen. Roca, to overthrow the existing government of that re- public, but has always failed. It was said that he was once aided by Queen Christina, of Spain; but his expedition—then fitting out in Lozdon—was broken up by the British government. After this he proceedsd to South America, whore he was flit- ting about for several years, like a stray star, from the galaxy of revolutionary leaders that overrun the funny side of the Southern section of this Continent. A large number of private billz passed the Legis- lature yesterday. In the Senate, the bill from the Assembly, requiring the Auditor to pay the drafts of the Canal Commissionors, was ordered to a third reading to-day. This measure will undoubtedly party, who cannot swallow that decidedly dry meesure. Kossuth made one of his great speeches to the peorle of New Orleans on Tuesday, in which he de- nied that he ever spoke disrespectfully of Mr. Clay, which is said to have perfectly satisfied the friends of the Kentucky statesman on that score. If the Magyar should succeed in overcoming the antipa- thies of the Southern people, what will his abolition frends and admirers in the North say ? One third of the town of Chillicothe, Ohio, is said to have been destroyed by fire last Thursday morning. The brothers Skupinski were yesterday sentenced to be hung, in Philadelphia, for the murder ef young Lehman, the pedlar. Mathins, the elder, acknowledges that he was concerned in the horrible transaction, but denies that his brother knew any- thing about it at the time. The case of Horace Preston, the alleged fugitive slave, now pending before Mr. Commissioner Mor- ton, elicited a striking instance of ‘higher law,” yesterday, in a personal rencontre between Mr. Busteed, the counsel for the claimant, and Mr. John Jay, Jr., the abolitionist lawyer. It appears thet Mr. Busteed, as atterney in tho ceuse, pes- sessed a power of attorney from Mr. Ress, the owner, and upon that and other knew- ledge obtained by him, made the usual affidavit necessary to obtain the warrant for the ap- prehension of the alleged fugitive. Mr. Busteod was called to the stand by Mr. Jay,and examined. Certain questions he refused to answer, as irrelevant and impertinent to the issue. The Commissioner declined to compel the witness to respond, and Mr. Jay, in the warmth of his philanthropy, designated the affidavit as ‘‘rank perjury;” where- upon Mr. Busteed descended from the stand, and dealt Mr. Jay “a higher law’’ method of retaliation —he gave him a blow in the face. The @ommis- sioner invoked the aid of the Hon. Judge Betts, who was in chambers, and that learned functionary came into court and told the gentlemen what they had to expect from him. Apologies were made, ample and frank, on both sides, and so the matter rests. By reference to our Maritime Intelligence, it will be seen that another large fleet of vessels got up to the city yesterday. They comprise vessels of every class, and from nearly every part of the world. They number 12 ships, 11 barks, 23 brigs, and 16 schooners—making a total of 62. The Baltic will bring us the next news from Eu- rope. She will be due to-night, with four days’ later intelligence. The Presidential Question—Re-Openl the Anti-Slavery Agitation. The selection of Presidential candidates by the various parties, which has been discussed in conven- tions, in the newspapers, and in Congress, for ae- veral monthe past, has disclosed a variety of fea- tures, some of a ludierous and others of a grave es- pect; but one of the most serious and alarming phas has recently sprung up within the ranks of the whig party, in regard to the selection of their candidate at the approaching con- vention, to be held in Philadelphia. This alarming feature is neither more nor less than the re-opening of the anti-slavery question on a new and fresh, and more comprehensive basis of action than has yet characterized any similar election in this country. Intimations of this purpose have been given out by various anti-slavery journals in the North, during the last few months. It was reserved, however, for the present week to witness the spectacle, in Wash- ington, of a grave and formal re-opening, in the Senate of the United States, of the whole question ofanti-slavery, under the auspices of its leader and representative—W illiam H. Seward--aided and as- sisted by several colleagues from the Northern States, both of the whig and democratic sides. Heretofore, the Southern whigs, in various public ways, have indicated their preference either for Mr. Fillmore, the present incumbent of the White House, or Mr. Webster, a8 a Presidential candidate at the ensuing eleetion. William H. Seward and the anti- slavery elements, of various shades, in the North, have pitched upon General Scott as the most eligible candidate, and are determined either to have that personage nominated, with the concurrence of the Southern whigs, or, fuiling in that object, to re- open and re-agitate the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, and the ultimate extinction of slavery and the slave institutions of the South, as soon as possible, and without delay. This is the perilous and alarming position in which | the Presidential election now shows itself, in con- nection with whig candidates and the whig canvass. | As parties in the same game, and following up the | same dangerous plam of operations, we give clse- | where in our columns to-day, several very curious articles and statements, all concurring in the same plan of operations which have been eommenced in Congress by Mr. Seward, on this important and ox- citing subject. One of these articles is the project of a law now pending in the Legislature of Massa- | chusetts, for the purpose of nullifying the Fugitive Slave law of Congress, and of rendering it ontirely | inoperative in that State. Another indication of the same character is an article from the New York Tribune, denouncing the Fugitive Slave law as “an infamous statute,” and holding up the legal insti- tutions established by Congress for carrying it into execution a# equally infamous and atrocious, aad almost appealing to the mob spirit to come forward and violate the laws now in procoss of execution in one of our courts of justice in this city. Another of these articles is the ‘ manifesto” of Wm. H. Seward and the anti-slavery whigs, written at Washington, & pase, and thus an end will be put to all the fuss, and smoke, and vituperation, and fighting, about the canal contracts, so far as our sapient legislators are concerned. But one thing is very evident—this bill | will not hide from the people the undeniable fact that they have been unnecessarily deprived of three millions of dollars, by a corrupt gang of politicians, who have bartered away the vote of this State, for the sake of lining theirown pockets with | geance on the South, and there-opening of the anti- and published in their new penny organ in this city, eketebing their plan of operations, declaring their utter hostility to Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster, on the grownd there set forth, and threatening ven- slavery quection, if their plans and Prosidential epeculations should not be supported and carried out by the whigs of the Southern States. All these matters, articles, projects of law, or money from the people’s treasury. Notwithstanding | motions in the Senate, by Mr. Seward himself, and #21 the schemes to mystify and confuse the people in | editorial notices by hie agents, only indicate the thie matter, the three millions loom up loftily above | foregone conclusion of the anti-slavery whigs of the the fog, as « solemn warning for them to be careful | North in relation to their Presidential candidate, heresfter in whom they put their trust. The As- | and to the principles on which they mean to carry sembly has placed all action on the liquor bill so far | him into the White House, if ie people of these ahead tat it will be almost impossible for it to | States will submit to such a process, Itis the re- to the time when the Union will be utterly and finally dissoived on that ground; so that they may be enabled to gratify their malice by ende: ring to excite servile insurrection and revolution in the South. We call upon the people of this city—the people of this State—the people of the whele North—to re- fiect on the character and bearing of the Presidential controversy, which is now begivning to be exhibited by certain portions of the wbig party, aswell as by certain portions of the @atnocratic party, in Con- gressand out of Congresa—in the halls of legislation at Washington, and in the newspapors, and conven- tioris, and local legislatures of the various States. Under the leaderskip of William H. Seward, of New York, we find six 'whig Senators from the North, and five democratic Senators from the same region, jo’ ing heart and hand in the re-opening of this dangor- ous and fearful controversy. Their journals, their legislatures, their conventions, are beginning to fall in on the same track of agitation. The candi- date whom they put forth submits in silence to the course thoy pursue, thus sanctioning a policy and a platform whieh can only lead to revolution and the disunion of the republic. It is time for the people of thiscountry, who have a firm and abiding faith in the utility of the Union, to wake up from their slumber, and to pursne that course in relation to the approaching exciting Presidential election, which will enable them to put down these revolu- tionary agitators, now brought up from obscurity by William H. Seward and his partisans in the Se- nate and in the North, and to give such direction to the approaching events in relation to the Presidency as will maintain this Union, and this fair fabric of republican goverment, beyond, at least, the present age. The Prosidential question is truly beginning to be alarming in some of its aspects. In the recent attempt made in the United States Senate, by Wm. H. Seward, to re-open the anti- slavery agitation, we merely mentioned that Ham- ilton Fish,-also a Senator from this State, voted with his‘colleague in pretty much the same way that Robinson Crusoe’s man Friday always voted with ‘his master. Now, Hamilton Fish, in social life, ise man of standing, wealth, and high respec- tability. In political life, without being distin- guished, he has been popular, influential, and suc- cessful. A resident of this great metropolis, and identified with its business interests and commer- cial prosperity, it wae generally expected that in the United States Senate he would pursue that line of policy most consistent with his position towards our city, our State, and our countiy at large. There was some difficulty in his election, to be sure—the Union Safety Committee and the silver grays resist- ed it for some time; but they finally gave way to a sort of Kane letter pledge, and Mr. Fish was suc- cessful. The organs of Seward rejoiced; but the community appeared to be satisfied that the new Senator would be a faithful representative of the true interests of New York and the harmony of the Union; that, in any event, he would not become the blind instrament of his wily colleague, and the pestilent abolition coteries that follow in his wake. In these hopes the Union-loving and law-abiding portion of the constituents of Mr. Fish have been sentees, only 14 are necessary to make a majority of the whole hovse in favor of the bill, and there is little doubt that more than that number of the ab- sentees cn easily be procured to vote for it, while there is just as little doubt that the 51 who have already voted will stand firm when the final vote is taken. Greeley is hard at work at Albany, supply- ing the members with ammunition, and is endea- voring to make up in that city, and through tho State, for tho blow he has sustained in having his paper kicked out hy the whole of the business com- munity of New York. Strange enough, the Anti- Maine Liquor Lew Central Aseeciation of this city seems perfectly inert, as if they had got a stroke of | paralysis, though they made such a noiso in the be- ginning. Perhaps they think it the best plan for | the liquor interest, to let the bill pass. If they don’t think so, we do. Let the funatics and Joseph Surfaces try their hand at this blue law, and mark the result. So far from stopping tho grog shops, it will increase them twofold; and in- stead of 10.000 in New York, we shall have 20,000. There are some things that laws cannot prevent, though they may regulate; and spirituous and malt liquers are among such “ necessary ovils.”” Jn Connecticut, also, the anti-liquer men will pro- bably carry the election; and the ecereion law will be passed in that ‘State, as in Maine, because there is no great or important interest affected by it, 80 as ‘to form an effectual opposition te the fanatics. In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, end other States, where there is-a more extensiveinterest at stake, the Maine law, or some similar enactment, may possibly be adopted, because, after all, the liquoris but an iso- lated interest, with, of course, variousramifications; and the other manufacturing interests will take no part in the struggle, not being themselves involved in the issue, either one way or the other, except so far as their individual tastes may be concerned. People who are moderate drinkers, and have no direct pecuniary interest in the liquor business, will net go*much out of their way to oppose the bill, because they do not like to be placed in the position of being on the same side with drunkards and rum holes, and to be called hard names by the organs of the fanatics; and they calculate that even if the bill should be passed, it cannot be carried out, and they will get as much drink as they want, somehow or other. Itis probable, therefore, that in several States the Maine law will be carried, sooner or later, because the liquor interest, being only of limited extent and not joined by the other interests, will fall by its own the judges, the witnesses and the community, be- | Assembly districts of the State, and to be supported cause the constitutional compact in relation to | atthe public expense, a nucleus is to be formed, slavery is attempted to be carried into operation. | round which the institution may increase and An appeal is made to the spirit of insurrection and | flourish. The scholars are to be at liberty to select, the mob, by the anti-slavery journals—and this is | whatever course of study they may prefer, and pro- called patriotism, support of the Compromise, devo- secute it to its utmost limits, having all the aids tion to the Union. Such exhibitions are only the | necessary to acquiring the most thorough and prac- beginning of the revolutionary game begun by Wm. tical knowledge of the subject that can be given H. Seward, to divide and dismember this glorious | by eminent preceptors, fellow studonts, and the requisite apparatus and appliances, to be suppliod and happy Union. Fiona Inrerest Cuamms.—Woe publish to-day the opinion of Chief Justice Taney in the case manu- factured for the Supreme Court, at its recent term. The claims allowed and paid under the acts of 1823 and 1834, and under special laws, amount already to considerably more than a million of dollars. The claimants now claim interest, amounting to upwards of a million more. Senators and ex-Senators, and members of the House of Representatives, attorneys, and agents, have been engaged in proving this inte- rest claim for years. Mr. Corwin was, before he was made Secretary of the Treasury, employed in them, with a contingent interest to the tune, it is said, of seventy or a hundred thousand dollars, which ho transferred when he went into the Treasury. It was sought to get him to pay this intorest, & la Galphin, but he declined, on account of his deli- cate position. It was referred, first, to another member of the cabinet, thon to the Attorney General, and finally the caso was submitted to the Florida Judge, and the matter sought to be brought before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court rather significantly rebuke this course, in the opinion now published; and wo find the views expressed in the Heraxp several months ago, that the decisions of former Secretaries of the Treasury in these casos were final and conclusive, and could not be opened or reviewed by Mr. Corwin without an act of Con- gress, expressly sustained by the Court. “It cannot afterwards be disturbed by an appeal to this or any other Court, or in any other way, without the authority of an act of Congress,” says tho Chief Justice. The claimants, we notice, have since applied to Congress. Mr. Mallory of Florida presented their petition a few days since, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee, doubtless, will examine inte the claims fully, and this would be a favorable occasion to ebtain and publish a full statement of the claims, amounts paid, and agents employed. Prior to the cession of Flori- da to the United States, the provinces were invaded three several times by United States troops. First, sveakness before the repeated assaults of fanaticism ~-the most persevering and pertinacious of all the isms under the sun. But will this make men temperate? 8 well might laws be passed to make men and women angels. The fate of all such laws will be like that of the gambling act now in operation in this State, which, instead of breaking up gambling helle, has greatly increased them, so that the vice is more ram- pant than ever, What is the cause? It is very obvious—there are too many who indulge in gam- bling—men of all ages, conditions and degrees, not excepting ‘grave and reverend seniors” on the bench, who administer the laws—to permit a pro- hibitory enactment to be carried into execution. It is completely a dead letter, though not yet more deceived. Either from want of political sagacity, or moral courage, or decision of character, or inde- pendence, or principle, he has fallen short of public expectation, and has dwindled down into the pitiful character of a man Friday to the most dangerous demagogue that ever was inflicted on this country. He has failed to represent New York as she deserves tobe represented in the Senate. Her interests are interwoven with the interests of every State in the Union--they are inseparably connected with the inte- rests of the South. Her solemn compacts in the con- stitution and the laws, demand of her a rigid, honest, and scrupulous regard of the rights of the South, and the public reprobation of all proceedings calculated to disturb the safety, the quiet, or the good will of the South. The terms of our association with the Southern States exact ofus not only non-interven- tion in their domestic institutions, "but the condem- nation of all sectional agitators, who perjure them- selves and discredit the State under the shelter of “the higher law.” He who countenanoes the abo- litionists is a party to their treachery, and he who, under cover of the right of petition, or any other dis- guise, plays into their hands, is either deficient in his understanding of his allegiance, or loose in his constructions of principle. We believe that Mr. Fish conscientiously pursues the dictates of his best judgment, and must there- fore conclude that in acting with his colleague in support of the abolition agitators, it is from a do- fective intellect, contracted and warped by a defec- tive education in the genius and obligations of our political system. He does not appear to know that a Senator of the United States is the guardian, not only of the rights and interests of his own State, but of all the States, and that slavery is a constitutional right and inheritance of the South. Nor does he seem to understand that his official oath binds him to protect this right of the South against the abo- litionists. From the ramifications of the late proceedings in the Senate upon certain abolition petitions present- ed by Mr. Seward, there is danger to the South. Let them look to it. Against laying the petition upon the table for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, presented by Mr. Seward on Monday last, the entire representation in the Senate from Massachu- setts, Vermont, New York, and Ohio—four very im- dortant States in the Presidential electien—voted together. New York, with all her vast commercial and national interests, was undivided in favor of the abolition nullifiers. With a majority of hor people in favor of peace, the Union, and the compromises asthey are, the Empire State throws her whole weight in the Senate in support of the incendiaries who openly proclaim their object to be the aboli- tion of slavery or the dissolution of the Union. Such are the consequences of pandering for free soil and abolition votes. Such are the legitimate fruits of eoalitions with unprincipled fanatics. Men, either without independence, or capacity, or prin- ciple, are elected as the highest representatives of the State; and thus partisan schemes are promoted, to the detriment of the commonwealth, and to the discredit of her people; and thus a miserable fao- tion, headed by a miserable demagogue, holds at this day the fate of the whig party of the nation in its hands. The anti-slavery party hold the undivided strength of New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Ohio, in the U. Senate. These four States give an aggregate of seventy-six votes in the Pre- sidential election. This “betrays a formidable balance of power-—an anti-slavery suffrage worth looking after; and it also betrays the game of Seward and the whigs of the North, with Gen. Seott ag their candidate. We apprehend that the whigs become a“aw during the present session. | opening of the anti ry question, on a broader, It will be seen by reference to another column, | wider and more dangerous ground than even we that the progeedings of the Whig Young Men's have seen it in Congrese during the last few years. neral Committes were rather interesting last even- | General Seott, to be sure, i# reprosented in various ing. There war a complete thindy about Hugh | quarters av a friend of the compromice and supporter Maxwell, Collector of the port, who declared, in | of the Union, and a warm advocate of the measure reply toa deputation sent to him todecapitate the de- | whieh recently passed in Congress for the acttle- mocrats in the Custom Howse, that they would allgo | mont of the scetional questions. It is very well for the Fillmore administration, and that no man did | known, however, that on the subject of the “Fugi- or should get his bread from any office in the Custom | tive Slave law,” his opinions are entirely concoaled House who was not a friend of Mr. Fillmore. This | from the public view, and that should he be made led to much excitement, and quite a scene took place. | the exclusive candidate and representative of the | ; ‘The Custom House officers sustained Maxwell and | anti-slavery feeling in the Northern States, General Fillivoro, by w yote of thirty-six agninat twenty. | Sept h mself—a man of no gront intellectual firm: | has “more tan one curious disclosure” to make of Lola Montes, if’ ebe brings # libel suit against him. We understand tha't Lola has placed in the hands of her counsel a much 10re curious disclosure of Mon- sieur Arpin’s affairs, wh.‘¢h took place once on a day They will tell some rare secrets Sf each other’s his- of the South will put this into their Presidential pipe and smoke it, before they meet in the Philadel- phia Slanghter-house. In the meantime, we turn over the case of our Senator, Mr. Fish, to the eare of (ue Union Safety Committee. Lora Monxtes aNd usr Law Surrs.—We hear that Mons‘eur Arpin, the French editor, says that he n Paris, Lola and Arpin Will be well matched. than a year old. The Maine law, should it be adopted by the Legislature, vill be a dead letter in its cradle, in this State, and abovo all in this city, for the very same reason. There are too many who drink, from the Governor of the State down te the policeman, and from the sage Senators and As- semblymen, who, a short time since, became glori- ously drunk on Blackwell’s Island, to the lowest rowdy politician who reels out of a three cent grog- gery, ever to give such a law the slightest chance of living. It will be strangled in the very moment of its birth. The judges, the jurors, and the lawyers, all drink, and must have their liquor, in despite of any law to the contrary, notwithstanding. This is a free country, and a whole code of laws can- not prevent a free indulgence in the use of ardent drinks. In fact, the more laws passed against it, and the more stringent they are made, the greater will be the amount of liquor consumed, the more drink- ing dens will spring up, and the more extensively will drunkenness prevail. It is in the very nature of human pagsion to seek with greater avidity that which is prohibited for its gratification, which will be especially the case with this measure, as it is partial in its operation, and gives a monopoly of drinking to the wealthy, who can afford to pur- chase spirituous liquors wholesale; and in ad- dition to this incentive, there will be a sort of feel- ing that resistance to the Maine law is resistance to tyranny, and the most conclusive evidence of patri- otism and devotion to freedom. Such will be the re- sult of the mischievous meddling of fools and fana- tics, knaves and philosophers, black spirits, white spirits, and gray. Tue Virginta Democratic ConvENTION, AND Youxg AMERICA.—Two very significant resolutions were adopted by the late State convention of the democrats of Virginia. In the one, they declare in favor of continuing in force the two-thirds rule at the Baltimore National Convention, which, wo doubt not, will be done. In the other, they protest against squandering the proceeds of the public lands, directly or indirectly, for purposes of internal improvement. Now, the two-thirds rule will ope- Tate to secure a candidate acceptable to the South, as in the case of Polk, in 1844, against Van Buren, when the rule was first adopted, as the only way of defeating ‘the Little Magician.” But the reso- lution against appropriating the public lands to in- ternal improvements is fatal to “‘ Young America,” as far as the vote of Virginia is concerned. We presume that all the Atlantic States, especially of the South, will side with Virginia on this question, against any candidate who will squander away the public domain—t perty ofall the States—among the railroad stock jobbers of the West. This looks bad for ** Young’ America”—bad even for Cass— and is almost tantamount to a positive declaration in favor of Buchanan, by Virginia and the Atlantic States. Stick a pin there. SEWARD VERSUS FILLMORE—QUARRELS AMONG THE WuiGs.--The quarrel between the friends of Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Seward, on the subject of the next Presidency, is spreading throughout the extent of this State, all the newspaper organs, and is beginning to produce a little confusion elaewhore. The Seward faction is particularly savage with Mr. Fillmore at the present moment. This arises from the probability that the Southern States mean to support the nomination of Mr. Fillmore for the Pre- sidency, in the ‘Slaughter-house Convention.” Ken- tucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana have already put Mr. Fillmore before the country, and there is every reason to believe that Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia will follow. Hence the terrible ire of Mr. Seward and his partisans, whose prospects would be entirely destroyed by the nomination of Mr. Fill- more, and the setting aside of General Scott, in the convention. To avert such a calamity to Mr. Seward, his organs and agents are beginning, in various quarters, to threaten th uthern States with the renewal of the slavery agitation, and the defeat of the bie party at the next election, if they do not fall in with his ‘views, and support General Scott without a platform and witiwut a promise. The quarrel is # very pretty one, and will be worth watching. Tae Lave Fire av Portiann, Me.—Th,* loss by the fire at Portland, Me, Monday night last, ja ‘timat- ed at $40,000, Messrs LD. Hanson & Co., shoe a'ealors, had a very large stock, valued at $18,000 to $20,000, avout one-half of which was saved. ‘They were insured OF 9.000.. Messrs. J, Rt. Corey & Co,, dry-gools dealer% hal a stock of about $14,000, partly raved in a damaged state; insured $4.500 in Etna offi $4,500 in the Protection. Mr. H. P. Storer, dr stock of about $12.00 ; insured for $8,000 in the Hart- ford office, and $5,000 in the Howard. The buildings belonged to John Murrey, Req., oatimated at from ory. So, out with the whole: $6000 to $6,000, invured at the Manufacturers’ offiee Sor $7,000, in 1812-13, by Governor Matthews ; second, in 1814, by General Jackson, and third and lastly, by Gen. Jackson, in 1818, The United States, by the treaty of 1819, agreed to pay the losses sustained by the “late aperations,” &c., and President Adams, (who negotiated the treaty,) always said the damajes of 1812, 1813 and 1814, were not included in the treaty. So Secretaries W. H. Crawford and Richard Rush decided, and so Congress held. Thetrue ground on which the damages should be paid by the United States is a higher principle than the paper treaty. The laws of nations, justice, and decency, demanded that when the Spanish subjects thus wronged be- came citizens of the United States, they should be indemnified, whether in the treaty or not, and this was the ground on which the act of 1834 was passed, as the reports of the committees show. The claimants should be paid fairly, fully, and honestly. The allowance of interest has no- thing to do with the claim. interest. That it is such question, is an idea no statesman or jurist at all conversant with the laws of nations could entertain for a moment. A Wall he minories, may not be able to appreciate the dis- tinction; but every just, and sensible, and impartial mind can see that where there is no liquidated debt, and where the claim is damages for indemnity for a spoliation, interest has no more to do with the claim than with an assault and battery case. Besides, the doctrine of interest on money is not established as urged in mere money cases. It was formerly held to be contrary to the Christian religion, and all usury was denounced as a sin. It is not now allowable except in special cases, and when given by express statute. Government is not bound to pay it in any case. It would encourage State claims. But in this case they should indemnify the Spanish sufferers honestly, fairly, and fully, and we hope they will do £0, provided it is done openly and above board, and no Galphinism encouraged. Wituiam H. Sewarn’s Nigcer Penny Oran‘ AND THE InisH CHAMBERMAIDS.—In speaking of the advertising patronage which the New York HERALD receives from the Irish, German, and American chambermaids generally, of this city, the new penny trumpet of W. H. Seward’s party makes the following allusion to that useful and esti- mable class of the community :—“Drawing a large portion of its (the Heranp’s) revenues from adver- tising the wants and proposals of prostitution,” &e., &e. We cannot find words strong enough to charac- terize the disposition of the man or the organ that would apply such language to a large class of the in- dustrious female population of this city, who are as Virtuous and as correct in their moral and social deportment as any other class of society, however elevated it may be above them in point of wealth and education, or fashion and finery. For some time past the New York Heratp has been made tho principal receptacle of all those advertisements of respectable females in want of places, and respecta- ble families in want of suitable “help.” On some occasions these advertisements have swelled to four or five columns of our space, in the smallest and closest type. The accumulation of this deseription of advertisements has been produced by the large and continually increasing circulation of the Hr- RALD among the highest, most respectable, and best | families of New York and the surrounding country. Chambermaids, housemaids, cooks, washerwomen, | nurses, and geamstresses, who want good situations, have found by experience, or from theirfriends, that the best method of obtaining their desires was by | advertising in this journal; and families of the most respectable standing who want good servants, have found itto their interest to advertise in the samo channel of universal intelligence. Both classes find it to their advantage to avoid the mere political | hacks of the day, possessing only an ephemeral ex! tence, and established for the purpose of advancing | the dogmas of dangerous demagogues and fanatics, | It is not a question of :treet broker, who has no other ideas than those of by the institution. The general plan and purpose of this project have, so far, met with popular approbation. The great. superiority of our common school system over that of every other country in the world, is source of much and justifiable pride; but though perfect in their sphere, they still leave a desideratum in the higher grades of learning, which is intended to be supplied by thenew University. Hitherto, our young men striving to perfect themselves in certain abstruse sciences, wore forced to seek teachers in Europe. Now, they will no longer havo to do s0, as they will be able to procuro the highest instruction in their owncountry. This circumstance alone is sufficient. to insure public approbation to the present project, as the national pride was somewhat offended by the reflection that American youths could not be fully educated at home. The details of the scheme, so far as they could be- compressed into a few clauses, haye met with some disfavor, principally from the whig socialist journals. Our philosophical cotemporary, the Tribune, object, in the first place, to its endowment by the State, and to its location in Albany, or in the vicinity of any other city where the students would be exposed to temptations and evil influences, particularly when the Maino Liquor law is not a law of this State.. He then desires that its internal policy should be framed in accordance with the most approved theo- ries of socialism, so that it might be made the cradle of that system in this country. For this end, he proposes that tho institution be based on some of the theoretical vagaries of Robert Owen, Fourrier, and other philosophers of that school. Ho thinks that the professors and pupils should be compelled to work at manual labor two or three hours each day, the profits of their toil going to defray the ex- penses of their support; and that the students should be at liberty, besides, to labor three or four extra hours for their own individual benefit. This is astrange and novel feature to engraft on a seminary of learning, and its effect would doubt- lees be to frustrate the very objects contemplated in its establishment, superinduce a contempt for learning, and bring back the blessings of primitive barbarism. This result would probably suit the ideas of our would-be social reformers, but is not compatible with the spirit of our age, which is not retrogressive, and cannot be checked in its career, even by these drag-chains upon it. This is only one of the propositions of our Four- rierite cotemporary to mould the University to the shape of his fantastic ideas. The other ie still more characteristic of his socialist views. He de- sires to convert this seminary of learning inte a mo- del communistic establishment, by annulling and breaking down the distinctions between the sexes; and he therefore insists that women haye an equal right with men to their share of the advan- tages to be derived from it, and that equal opportunities be afforded to the two sexes. We wonder what species of opportunities he alludes to. We are afraid there would be, in such an establishment, more sacrifices at the shrine of Venus than at that of Minerva. But per- haps it is that which constitutes the great value of the system in the eyes of our philosopher; he wishes, perhaps, to exhibit to this incredulows community the beauties, pleasures, and advantages of a phalanx of learning, a /a Fourier, and to show how happily society could exist without such a ridiculous insti- tution as matrimony. Truly a pleasant alma mater would our new State University be; and we doubt not but there would be many applications for ad- mission from all the roués in the community. Perhaps our white-coated friend himself would com- pete for the professorship of ethies or political economy, that he might participate in the pleasures of his beautiful system, rivaling, if not excelling, a similar institution in England, known as thy “© Agapemone,” or abode of love. It is not very likely that any of our cotemporary’s suggestions will be acted on in the carrying out 0° this project of a State University; but we hepe i will be established on such principles as will mos effeetually carry out the popular wish, and rende it an instrument of the highest good. “AIMS AND OpsTacius,” By Mr. G. P. RL. JAMES; AND ‘“‘My Avnt Pontypoou.”—There are mysteries in the science of novel writing and hookjmaking, still to be developed, and of as abstruse a character as the “ spiritual rappings,”” and the “ Rochester Knockings,” “ Joyeo Heth,’ “the Woolly Horse,” ‘the Negro Dwarf,” and the cold water agitation. One fine day, not long since, we stumbled upon a | decently written novel in two volumes, bound to- gether, entitled “My Aunt Pontypool,” published ; anonymously, by Carcy & Hart, of Philadelphia, | in 1886. This romance, the scene of which lice in England and its metropolis, contained in its first volume 207 pages, and in the second 206. The | Principle characters wero Lady Pontypool, Captain Lacy, Colonel Adair and Miss Helen Adair, Mr. Williamson, and Mr. Snipes. It was a work of but ordinary talent, and perhaps, therefore, that was the reason the author suppressed his name; and we be-- lieve it had but a limited sale. A few days since, while casting an cye over our | Teviewer’s table, we took up a new (2) publication by the Harpers, printed on the covers “ Aims and Obstacles, a Romance, by G. P. R. James, Esq., | author of &e.,” and upon turning over its double column 152 pages, the namos of some of the cha- | Tacters were broughé to our recollection as having. appeared in the Philadelphia novel, published soma ixteen years ago, and upon comparing the two pub- lieations, we found “Aims and Obstacles” to be are- print of “My Aunt Pontypool;” it is true that we noticed one alteration, namely, that Lady Ponty- pool had been changed into Lady Malwark, the name Pontypool, no doubt, being too awkward and glaring for the publication. We really eannot forbear expressing our turprise that respectable and reputable publishers, and Who inculeato mischief under the plea of philan- | hrewd men of business, like the Messrs. Harpore,, thropy to the African race. These facts inthe history and character of the adverticing patronage we enjoy, furnish the only plausible pretext for the miserable creatures, with- out one vital spark of manliness in their composi- tion, who conduct the nigger penny organ of W. H. Seward, called the Times, to assail the character of these respectable females, by calling them odious and infamousnames, and coupling them with such characters as appear only on the stage of this or other countries. If these miserable editors and miserable po half the honesty, half the vir- tue, half the uprightness, and half theparity, whieh adorn the lives of the Irish and other cl of New York, they and Meg dah | ed Sad ge On would occupy # higher position in the moral and social scale, andattain aloftier point of elevation in the estimation of the community, than they have ever merited, or ever will he able’ to reach, Ine Frexcn or Boston any Louts NapouwoNn. The Borton Bee rays that the French citizens of Boston are to meet at Dooley’s Merchants’ Exchange Hotel, on the bth inet. to exprees their indignation and contempt for the prefent tyrant of France, Louis Napoleon, ambermaids | | could have been concerned in such a trarnsaction,. | and we ask them for an explanation of the affair. In our publication of Wednesday last, we noticed! the fact under our “Literary Notices,” and asked for some explanation, in the meantime forbeating to | make any further commont; none has been re- ceived, and it would, therefore, appear that thore is. none to be furnished. We can assure all parties in- terested, that the matter really does possess some little importance, and that the publi¢ may possibly feel in- dignant at the perpeteation of such a piece of hum- bug in such a respectabie quarter. Accipent on THR New Jersey Rarnoan.-- | The engine “Jersey City,” attached to the 10 o'clock. | train this morning, to New York, ran off the track against the rocks, when about half way through the Burren cut, ‘The engine was greatly shattered, the front part «f the fire | pasrenger car, containing the baggage room, wax broken in, | and the tender was thrown upon the othor track, ob: structing it so that the opposite train was delayed for a | considerable time. The parengers of subsequent trains exchanged cars, and arrangements have been made to clear the track as speedily as possible, Tho fireman of the engine was bruised. but not materially injured——vone | 99 pb passes gers were bust—eewurk watbees oovel, way he =P